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Exquisiting the Ordinary: Jaydeep Sarangi's Heart Raining the Light
Heart Raining the Light: Poems composed at Jhargram, Kolkata and beyond
Poems by Jaydeep Sarangi
Cyberwit.net, 2019
ISBN (Paperback) 978-81-8253-673-9
Pp 91
Price ₹ 200.00
A Review by Basudhara Roy
"With faint, unsteady light
life moves on, prayers done
the heart opens, somewhere
a story begins and ends. Who has
time enough to ear them?"
(Jaydeep Sarangi, The City of Joy)
Jaydeep Sarangi
To step into the world of Jaydeep Sarangi's poetry is to be admitted into a heightened perception of the ordinary. It is to realize the incalculable virtue of commonplaceness, of what the poet calls 'small things', and to consecrate them in a language that runs fresh with every poem. In his Letters to a Young Poet, Rilke writes:
If your everyday life seems to lack material, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to summon up its riches, for there is no lack for him who creates and no poor, trivial place.
For Sarangi, in the true Rilkean sense, there is no place, idea, or emotion that is untouched by poetic possibilities and one marvels at the ease with which he woos poetry from the most prosaic subjects he comes across. In 'This Game is Life' mark, for instance, the simple, even prosaic play of light and dark; of inevitability and necessity that lends its theme to the single couplet constituting the poem:
I'm sick of the stars, let's go home.
Let's go home and turn off the lights.
Here, the small is not merely beautiful and worthy of attention but also epistemologically and existentially valuable and the building block of the poet's most intimate knowledge. Examine these lines from his poem 'Small Things':
Small things keep happening
in mystery of knowing
a drop of dew
the turns of a river
a sweet girl kissing her father's dry cheeks.
The everyday images of familiarity that feed the poem bespeak the emotive significance of the little, anonymous and unspoken things in our lives and yet, as the poem's finale, in its unassuming shuffling together of the act of losing one's key and that of losing one's vision, indicates, the 'small' things in life may not be veritably small. Across the poetic landscape of Sarangi's eighth collection of poems Heart Raining the Light, one comes across this constant alchemy of the ordinary becoming exquisite; of the quotidian becoming a magic crucible where new truths are sought; of the inconsequential fare of life bring vested gratefully with empathetic attention and understanding. With touches that are reminiscent of both the Romantic poets and their thoroughly unlike contemporary, Jane Austen, Sarangi's poems succeed in conjuring their own six inches of ivory in their rendering of a poetic experience that is as urban as it is rural and as universal as it is local.
That Sarangi's poems are distinctly local is an observation that amply manifests itself from even a cursory glance at his oeuvre. With his very first collection of poems, From Dulong to Beas: Flow of the Soul, Sarangi had leaned heavily towards a poetics of locality, of place and attachment, and his poetic fascination with place has continued over the years deriving greater strength from his academic work in postcolonial, particularly Dalit writing. In an interview with Ruchi Singh, Sarangi states, "My choice is deliberate because as a postcolonial critic, my engagement is with marginal discourse. I like to celebrate the small and local." Dulung, the rivulet of his beloved native village, Jhargram, which has featured perennially and prominently in Sarangi's poetry till date, becomes then for the poet not merely a personal symbol of his creativity, not merely what he describes as "the sap of my energy and tradition" but also as he states in the interview, "the metaphor of the celebration of the local in a global tongue." In his poem 'Dulung Moment', the lap of the river becomes the place where the poet's sleep "grows old with time". Here is both "silence and noise" where the past is benedictively preserved through temporality, for as the poet writes:
…that link
with forefathers lying near the rivulet
Dulung holds them tight.
Local as they are, Sarangi's poems offer readers access to an experience that is distinct, special, and particular. However, this, in no way, diminishes the universal appeal of his poems which remains unarguably intact. To participate in the experience of Sarangi's poetry is to give way to a certain tranquillity, sobriety and restfulness that makes itself felt through the spell of the unhurried flow of earth-time in his poems; of the unconditional commitment to waiting found herein; and the infinite capacity for forgiveness within the human heart that these poems are a testimony to. One is apt to rediscover in these poems the benevolence of faith in nature, humanity, and God despite the inevitable unhingement of the times. Terse, compact, dense, symbolic and unforgettably lyrical, each poem washes over the reader like the fresh, invigorating water from a brook offering a healing and solace that is, perhaps, no different from what the poet himself derives from the Dulung that nourishes both his autobiographical and creative canvases.
The title of the collection itself testifies to the breadth of Sarangi's poetic vision. Here, hope is in abundance; the light 'rains' rather than simply 'falls' or comes' and the source of this philosophical ecstasy is the human heart itself. "For he who creates," writes Rilke, "must be a world of his own and find everything within himself and in the natural world that he has elected to follow." The times are certainly out of joint and the poet is apprehensive of the anxiety of forefathers over the systemic destruction of our world ('Forefathers are Worried'); the virtual world is increasingly threatening everyday human interactions ('All Virtual Now', 'A Menace'); and human relationships grow colder in a self-seeking society ('Growing Lonely', 'Mirror', 'Relationship'). Yet, as long as the heart rains light, there are countless reasons to rejoice.
These poems, as the subtitle informs us, have been "composed at Jhargram, Kolkata and beyond", preparing the reader for a distinct expectation of experience that stems from local attachments and belonging. The expectations are not unjustifiably aroused for each of the seventy-eight poems in this collection lends indisputable affirmation to Sarangi's claim to the title of 'the Bard of Dulung'. This, however, is not only because the rivulet constitutes the cornerstone of the poet's creativity and his thoughts and images are born beside and under the inspiration of its banks. What is more significant in Sarangi's poetry is its assimilation of local knowledges and its invitation to the reader to participate in the same. The poems as fill this volume could not have been engendered by mere accident of location of composition; they are unforgettable inscriptions of the landscape engendered by its long nurturing of a poetic mind. With their dense interrelations to the soil, geography, and philosophy of rural Bengal, Sarangi's poems offer to their readers a wealth of correlations between the particular and the general. In 'Home Bound', this knowledge comes from
these big sal trees
shadows of the early night
the flutter of birds, moving home.
In 'I want to be a River', there is the desire to quietly merge one's identity with the river once the debts to life have been paid:
Long, freak, rising and falling
with the season's rain, powering .
Life's motions, cycles of the green
echoing hearts' tickle, senses alive.
The collection carries poems of place, of relationships, of social empathy, and of many-hued love with every poem travelling via its own subjective route to hope. In 'Growing Lonely', for instance, the poet-speaker's friends "have become friends of others" but still he keeps "always the keys ready". In the volume as a whole, one is struck by the poet's almost Shakespearean consciousness of Time as a destroyer. "Time/ and the super fast train/ have no mouth, only teeth," writes Sarangi in his poem 'Mirror'. In 'Relationships', is echoed the same sense of loss "in the company of distance and days." In 'Blind Solitude', the poet says, "Living is showing/ acting, hour after hour."
The very first poem of Heart Raining the Light is 'Travelling with my Poems' which constitutes a profound statement of the poet's attitude to Art in general and appears to thematically watermark the collection as a whole. His poems, the poet fears, "will be alone" for there will be more glamorous temptations for readers beckoning from "shop windows" and downtown poetry reading sessions on "floors of carpets". This knowledge, however, does not disconcert the poet who exhibits a patient confidence in the worth of his poems. He bids them simply fly high like kites on the limitless horizon of the imagination, the readers, his "kite runners", "soul makers". He writes in the poem:
"My poems are souvenirs of my faith
ghosts of the half moon night,
prayers , hands folded, eyes shut
rain tips it wings.
heart frisking the light in abundance."
This, truly, is a fitting beginning to a collection whose pieces evoke love, faith, hope, and gratitude in numerous ways, bringing me back again to Rilke with whose words one may aptly conclude:
"To be an artist means: not to calculate and count; to grow and ripen like a tree which does not hurry the flow of its sap and stands at ease in the spring gales without fearing that no summer may follow. It will come. But it comes only to those who are patient, who are simply there in their vast, quiet tranquillity, as if eternity lay before them."
Basudhara Roy is the author of two books, a monograph, Migrations of Hope: A Study of the Short Fiction of Three Indian American Writers (New Delhi: Atlantic Publishers, 2019) and a collection of poems, Moon in my Teacup (Kolkata: Writer's Workshop, 2019). Her areas of academic interest are diaspora writing, cultural studies, gender studies and postmodern criticism. Her research articles and book reviews have widely appeared in reputed academic journals across the country and as chapters in books. She teaches English at Karim City College, Jamshedpur and can be reached at basudhara.roy@gmail.com.
Setu, December 2019
Labels: 201912E , Basudhara Roy , Book , English , Jaydeep Sarangi , Poetry , Review


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Bio: Paul D. Brazill's books include Last Year's Man, Guns Of Brixton, A Case Of Noir, and Kill Me Quick. He has had writing published in various magazines and anthologies, including The Mammoth Books of Best British Crime. His blog is here.
This post first appeared at Toe Six Press.


Today is Day #190 of the Just For Today Challenge. I am also integrating the Live Happy into my daily Challenge. The Live Happy Challenge for today says, speak the truth for a whole day.
Can you go through an entire day without telling the truth and only the truth? Telling the truth, like thinking positive thoughts, is a skill that requires lots of practice.
Many people tell little white lies, half-truths, or useful falsehoods to evade blame, deceive, deny reality, or to feel better about themselves. A little white lie, in some instances, might be motivated by a desire to prevent someone from being hurt.
For example, you know that a co-worker is about to be fired. When she asks you if you've heard anything about her possible termination, you tell her no.
It takes more effort to think about how to answer her truthfully and still not hurt her feelings than to just lie. But if you live and work from a place of truth, others will trust your word and appreciate the honesty.
In the long term, truth may be the most powerful tool you have in your career toolbox.
Just For Today: No Fibs Allowed.


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Q: How can I get SQL Server database properties from C# code? I've a C# 4.0 console application and a SQL Server 2008 database up and running on database server.
Does somebody know if there is a way to get the database properties (like "Database Read-Only" ) from the C# code?
My guess is it should be, but I was not able to find out the accurate solution.
Thanks in advance

A: There are at least two ways to do it. One is to use the Database Metadata tables the other to use SQL Management objects in both cases there's lot of data there so you really need to know what you want. For example this is how you would get the "Database Read-Only" property you mentioned.
Using a SqlCommand against the MetaData
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Engine 125cc
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The Suzuki GSX-R series has defined sportbike performance for over 30 years, with more than a million sold worldwide. So the dedicated Suzuki engineers who have devoted their lives to the GSX-R take their responsibilities very seriously: Every GSX-R must be very light and the best performing in its class, in an unbeatable package. Meet the revolutionary Suzuki GSX-R125, with the best power to weight ratio, torque to weight ratio and acceleration, plus nimble handling and great fuel economy in the 125cc class. It's versatile too, designed to handle city traffic jams while commuting to school or work during the week. And as an exciting sportsbike it's ready for fun rides into the countryside on weekend. The combination of lightweight chassis and smooth power delivery mean this GSX-R is read for the racetrack as well.
New GSX-R Engine
The power plant for the new GSX-R125 is a single cylinder, liquid cooled, DOHC (Double Over Head Cam) with 125cc. It powers the GSX-R to great performance on the track and on the street and a lot more besides. The engineers behind the GSX-R series have been perfecting engines for over 30 years, and this is their latest masterpiece. In the 125cc class the GSX-R125 has the best power to weight ratio, the best torque to weight ratio and the best acceleration. So the rider can enjoy the most fun and excitement, every corner, every straight and every ride. This level of performance is well known for a GSX-R, but beyond the power and acceleration there is even more too, this engine is also extremely fuel efficient as well, so you can travel further on each tank of fuel before its time to re-fill.
The Science of Engine Design
There is a science to building high-performance engines, and the GSX-R125's DOHC engine is a perfect example of how to make a lot of power out of a very efficient and compact power plant. The objective is combustion efficiency, optimal balance of the sporty engine character and fuel economy. There is a connection between the GSX-R125 and the race proven four cylinder GSX-R600 sold around the world, because the GSX-R125's single cylinder is almost one quarter of a GSX-R600. Although Suzuki engineers experimented with different bore and stroke figures to find the most efficient combination for the GSX-R125, the two engines both use an over-square design, with a larger bore and a shorter stroke, and have a similar bore x stroke ratio. The GSX-R125 engine displaces an actual 125cc from a 62mm cylinder bore and a 41.2mm piston stroke. The larger bore makes room for two 24mm intake valves and two 21mm exhaust valves, set upright at narrow angles to improve the shape of the combustion chamber, increasing the compression ratio, performance and fuel economy. The cylinder bore is plated with Suzuki's own race-proven nickel-phosphorus-silicon-carbide bore coating known as SCEM (Suzuki Composite Electrochemical Material). An aluminium cylinder plated with SCEM weighs much less than an aluminium cylinder fitted with a conventional, pressed-in cast-iron liner, while also reducing friction and improving durability, ring seal, heat transfer and the engine's ability to maintain consistent high-power output.
Efficient Liquid Cooling
An effective liquid-cooling system with a large radiator helps keep the engine at the optimum temperature, producing consistent performance and maximising fuel efficiency and mileage. The engine makes its high horsepower and reaches its generous torque, delivering strong, effective power across a broad rpm range. And the GSX-R125 comes with a smooth-shifting 6-speed transmission and an electric starter.
Advanced Electronic Fuel Injection
The GSX-R125 features advanced electronic fuel injection, which delivers fuel based on what the rider is doing with the twist-grip throttle as well as input from sensors monitoring engine rpm, intake air pressure and temperature, exhaust oxygen content and coolant temperature. To improve intake efficiency, throttle response, and engine power throughout the rpm range, the GSX-R125 has a 32mm throttle body. A dual-spray, four-hole injector aims the spray from two holes directly at the intake valves. Ample intake air is supplied by a large-capacity airbox and efficient filter. The accurate electronic fuel injection system contributes to the GSX-R125's outstanding fuel efficiency.
All New Chassis
The chassis design of the GSX-R125 is light and compact, giving the rider ultimate control in the corners for a fun and sporty ride. For a sports bike low weight is key, this helps deliver a bike with responsive and rewarding handling for added confidence on the street and low lap times on the track. The Engineers behind the GSX-R125 have created the lightest bike in the 125cc class, giving the rider the edge over the competition. As well as being the lightest machine in class the GSX-R125 also has the lowest seat height too, making an unbeatable combination for accessibility for all types of rider, while still maintaining a sportsbike stance and riding position. The low seat height means most riders will be able place both feet securely on the floor for added confidence, while the light weight makes the bike easy to manage both on the move and for slow speed manoeuvers.
Light Aluminium Wheels
Contributing to the bikes low weight are the 10 spoke cast aluminium wheels. Having light weight wheels helps ensure great handling, for a ride that's fun and a machine that goes exactly where you want it to. The slim design of the spokes also adds to this GSX-R's great sportsbike looks, along with the sporty petal type brake discs front and rear.
Modern Backbone Frame
The GSX-R125's confidence-inspiring stability, nimble handling in turns comes in part from its steel-tube backbone frame, which combines optimal torsional rigidity with light weight. This helps the GSX-R's impressive chassis specification of; compact 1300mm wheelbase, 134 kg ready to ride kerb weight, and a low seat height of just 785mm.
Lightweight ABS
The Anti-lock Brake System (ABS) is the latest Bosch ABS 10 base unit, which is the lightest and most compact two-channel ABS system on the market. The pro-active system monitors wheel speed and immediately intervenes when imminent wheel lock is detected-before actual lock-up. The compact ABS system as installed on the GSX-R125 weighs just 0.59 kilograms.* The sporty-looking petal-design 290mm front disc works with a dual-piston caliper and the 187mm petal-design rear disc works with a single-piston caliper, both delivering excellent braking performance.
*ABS is not designed to shorten the braking distance. ABS cannot prevent wheel skidding caused by braking while cornering. Please drive carefully and do not overly rely on ABS.
Key-less Ignition System
The GSX-R125 features a convenient key-less ignition system, and the rider can start the engine as long as the compact key is close enough to the motorcycle. Which means the rider doesn't have to fumble to retrieve the compact key from a pocket or backpack. A button on the remote control activates an answer-back function, causing the turn signals to flash and making it easier to find the GSX-R125 in a crowded car park.
Suzuki Easy Start System
The ECM on the GSX-R125 runs the one-touch Suzuki Easy Start system. The convenient Suzuki Easy Start System automatically starts the engine with one touch of the starter button mounted in the switch module on the right handlebar; there's no need to hold the button down until the engine fires. Thanks to the new system, the rider doesn't have to pull the clutch lever in to start the engine, as long as the transmission is in neutral.
Aerodynamic bodywork
To make the best use of every ounce of power from the GSX-R125's class leading engine, the bikes sporty bodywork is also extremely aerodynamically efficient to reduce drag and maximise efficient speed. This design is the result of extensive wind tunnel development, and the sleek bodywork also enhances the GSX-R125's easy handling character. Furthermore, it also has the smallest projected frontal area in the 125cc class helping to achieve that best in class acceleration and supports high levels of fuel efficiency.
Reflecting its GSX-R heritage, the GSX-R125 features vertically stacked LED headlights, with the low beam above the high beam, and position lights on each side of the headlight. The GSX-R125's LED headlights are bright and compact, lighter and longer lasting compared to conventional halogen-bulb headlights seen on competing machines. Because LED headlights use about 15% of the electrical power required by conventional bulbs, less engine power is needed to run the motorcycle's alternator, improving acceleration and fuel economy. The LED license plate light on the rear fender is light and compact and much more durable and vibration resistant than the conventional bulb lights installed on competing 125cc machines.
LCD Instrument Cluster
The Suzuki GSX-R125 has a full LCD instrument panel set in a modern dashboard, framed by turn signal, neutral, hi-beam, coolant temperature, malfunction indicator lamp (MIL), ABS, and programmable engine-RPM indicator lights. The bright LCD panel includes a segmented-bar tachometer across the top; a digital speedometer; a gear position indicator; a digital clock; a digital odometer with dual trip meters; an average fuel consumption meter; a fuel gauge; and an oil change timing indicator.
Overall length: 1975mm (77.8in)
Overall width: 670mm (26.4in)
Overall height: 1070mm (42.1in)
Wheelbase: 1300mm (51.2in)
Seat height: 785mm (30.9in)
Fuel capacity: 11.0litres (2.4 UK gallons)
Ground clearance: 150mm (5.9in)
Engine Specification
Engine: 4-stroke, 1-cylinder, liquid-cooled, DOHC
Bore: 62.0mm x 41.2mm (2.4 in x 1.6 in)
Lubrication: Wet sump
Ignition: Electric
Fuel system: Fuel injection
Transmission: 6-speed, constant mesh
Drive: Chain
Chassis Specification
Front suspension: Telescopic, coil spring, oil damped
Rear suspension: Link type, coil spring, oil damped
Front brakes: Disc (Petal)
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COMMENTS: The trading trend just got reverse against the US dollar this week and the national currency failed to maintain its recovery phase which it has started one week earlier. Throughout, the rupee remained under pressure against the greenback amid its high demand. The rupee once again came under pressure due to increased demand of the currency in the market and therefore, failed to capitalize its gains. The rupee fell to as low as Rs.58/53 this week but made a very fine recovery in the final stages of trading.
COMMENTS: Sterling continued its upward acceleration against rupee and more gains in its price were recorded this week as well. However, in the mid of the week. the rupee also made a come back and recovered some of its grounds which it had lost earlier. The currency standings were mainly affected by the continuous fluctuation in the prlce of sterling against the US dollar in the international market and thus, its direct effects were recorded here in the kerb as well.
COMMENTS: The strong performance of euro in the international market affected the standing of rupee here in the kerb this week. Through out this week, the national currency remained under pressure and rising trend in the price of euro was recorded. Euro started this week at Rs. 71/25 and by showing a gain of 0.60 paisa, was changing hands at Rs. 71/85 at close of markets. A slight increase in the demand of euro was recorded this week.
COMMENTS: A mix trend was observed in the price of yen against the rupee this week and the currency continued to behave under its international market trend. With its subdued performance against the greenback in the international markets, yen lost against the rupee as well here in the kerb. The demand of currency remained within normal range and yen continued to trade at a price level of 0.531-0.534 this week. which was lower than its price at close of last week. Overall, rupee remained in the positive zone.


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Stevens Institute of Technology Selected to Compete in Department of Energy's Solar Decathlon for Third Consecutive Time
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Stevens Institute of Technology has been selected to compete in the U.S. Department of Energy's prestigious Solar Decathlon for the third consecutive time.
"We are excited and proud to be selected for Solar Decathlon 2015," says Dr. Keith Sheppard, Associate Dean of the Schaefer School of Engineering & Science. "Our home is intended to have impact beyond the competition as our other entries have in the past."
In 2013, Stevens' net-zero energy smart house, "Ecohabit", took second place in architecture and fourth place overall. In 2011, Stevens' collaborative entry "Empowerhouse" tied for first place in two key categories, affordability and hot water, and finished 13th of 19 entries.
The 2013 Ecohabit home was donated to California State University San Marcos for use as a Veterans Center. The 2011 Empowerhouse home was donated to a Washington, D.C. family through Habitat for Humanity.
"The experience gained in the past two events will provide a wealth of experience to build on," says John Nastasi, Lead Faculty for Solar Decathlon & Director of Stevens' Product-Architecture program. "Stevens is well suited for this type of design competition and we have the enthusiasm of the entire campus behind us."
The Solar Decathlon enhances public understanding of cost-efficient clean energy solutions and provides students with training and hands-on experience to prepare them for the clean energy workforce.
The teams now begin a two-year process to design, construct and test their homes before reassembling them at the Solar Decathlon 2015 competition site at the Orange County Great Park in Irvine, California.
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40 Years Ago: Massachusetts Snags a Memorable Snowfall in May Storm | Watts Up With That?
I've posted three times this year on historic snow storms of March and April. By the time May rolls in, it's really tough to get a snowflake in southern New England. However, occasionally New England manages to find a way and outdid itself 40 years ago on May 9th.
A small low pressure system dropped down from Hudson's Bay with a large high pressure system just behind. While the associated cold front pushed down to the Gulf of Mexico, the upper level trough became a cutoff low over southern New England Together, they managed to bring near freezing weather to where I lived in eastern Massachusetts. An offshore surface storm formed, intensified, and backed into New England bringing Atlantic moisture with it. Heavy snow aloft chilled the surface air and changed rain to heavy wet snow. That quickly overwhelmed the warm soil temperatures and brought the region some 8″ (20 cm) of snow on the ground. I measured 3″ (8 cm) of snow on the sides of utility poles.
More significantly, deciduous trees like maples had leafed out and the weight of the wet snow brought limbs and whole trees down, often on power lines. 600,000 customers lost power, some for a week. News anchor Shelby Scott at WBZ-TV begged people to feed the birds as the ground feeders couldn't reach the ground until the snow melted.
While maps show little snow accumulation along the coast, I recall that even there they had tremendous tree damage. Higher elevations to the west, e.g. Worcester, the Berkshires, and the Catskills in New York had 1-2 feet (30-60 cm).
By some measures, this was a 200-300 year storm. "Unprecedented" was heard many times that week. This event, previous events, and subsequent events, fit in well with general handwringing then about an impending ice age. Magazines like Time, Newsweek, and Science News had significant reports citing the evidence of the cooling climate since the 1950s. While people who belittle these concerns point to there being few peer reviewed papers on the subject, climatology had only recently transformed from documenting climatic history to making hypotheses about future climate. People saw a very scary trend, but didn't have a good culprit beyond aerosols caused by air pollution.
David Keeling at Scripps Institution of Oceanography published a paper the year before showing his record of CO2 levels at Mauna Loa. This established both the seasonal oscillation and a monotonic rise in annual CO2 levels. This had been hinted at in a 1960 paper, but now with 14 years of very clean data, his graph was sensational news and his paper helped shift scientists' focus to CO2 levels as a climate driver, especially a few years later as the climate flipped back to a warming mode.
However, before that happened, our impending ice age was clear to everyone in the northeast. Severe cold earlier in the 1976/1977 winter brought a protracted freeze that shut down barge traffic on the Ohio River, froze Lake Erie early, and in January had set the conditions for a paralyzing blizzard in Buffalo. I wish I had written about it in January. This May storm added more fuel to the fire. Or snow to the ice chest. Spring did get back on track after this storm, but eight months later Boston would set, briefly, a new record for the greatest 24 hour snowfall. (Think about what that means!) I expect to write two or three posts about the winter of 1977/1978, as the worst was yet to come before the warming climate of the 1980s and 1990s took hold.
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He built up an extensive and informative web site that I hope will be around for the indefinite future.
I can still recall the flowering fruit trees in Bedford and Concord with partial layers of snow that exposed horizontal patches of pink . It was a reminder that nature can be both very lovely and quite startling in its unexpected combinations.
But the absence of a snow storm in Massachusetts this year must be a proof of man-made-global warming!
Weather Bell Joe Bastardi is forecasting a "nasty" Mother's Day nor'easter for this coming Sunday in New England. Probably too warm for snow, but still cold and nasty.
Nebraska and South Dakota had them a couple of years in a row…we had 7″ and more of May snow in Iowa in 2013. Seems to me that winters are getting longer.
I recall we had about the deepest snowfall in my memory in eastern Oklahoma around that time.
About that time, I recall pulling together materials regarding cold periods, namely, that such times resulted in more storms in the mid-latitudes. I do not recall thinking the climate was changing.
Then, as now, I do not think a small amount of warming or cooling actually changes the climate of a place. My basis for climate includes vegetation boundaries and transitions – ecotones. Early Köppen climate classes were of this sort.
A very good point, that you hardly ever see mentioned. A turning point of sorts.
The people who insist that the scientific community did not have have concerns about a cooling climate base that solely on the published papers. It's almost as though they refused to look at the empirical data. While my connection was largely through my sister's Phd work at the Marine Biological Laboratory on Cape Cod, I suspect Keeling's graph gave people some solid data and was a big relief to them.
That was enough for them to blame the cold on human activity.
"Unprecedented". Now where, oh where, have I heard that term before?
Forty years ago is the new now, meridionally speaking.
It just goes to show that throughout time, there is always outliers in early killer frosts, or late spring snow storms. I learned from my grand parents who were all born in the early 1890's, that by the end of their lifetimes, they too had seen all the wacky weather that we will always probably get. If you were a farmer as many were 100 years ago, expect the worst and hope for the best.
I don't know if anyone watched Fareed Zakaria on his program GPS Sunday morning, but he had two guests of recent import on. The first was Bret Stephens in a political panel and at the end of the segment, Fareed politely asked Bret Stephens about his recent article in the New York Times regarding his 'heretical' article on AGW/climate change. Bret was saying that his fear was 'intellectual hubris' by leading climate scientists may be similar to the political campaign of HRC and that they risked missing the trees for the forest in properly understanding AGW/climate change. To his credit at the end of the segment, Fareed basically said it was a valuable contribution to the climate change debate and immensely enjoyed his NYT article.
The final guest was Neil deGrasse Dyson, pontificating on science and particularly climate change. Near the end of his talking points, NDG said that if anyone even questioned the 'theory' of climate change, that it was the beginning of the end for our democracy and ignorant jackals like us who elected a denier, well you know how the rest of that goes. Fareed also praised him for always being such a knowledgeable guest.
I wonder what Fareed Zakaria really thinks?
And all of this happened with how many ppm of CO2? Let me guess… we were quite under the "safe" limit.
And about 10 months after that we had Michael Dukakis flying around in a helicopter looking at thousand of cars stranded on major roads like 128 because all the exit ramps became blocked at the start of the Blizzard of 1978.
The winter of 1976-77 In Chicago was not so bad. It was the following winter, 1978-79, when 82.3 inches of snow fell and shut down O'Hare Airport and the streets didn't get cleared, period. Cost the Mayor (Bilandic) his job. There've been other nasty winter (1966-67, January storm shut down the entire city), but the worst one ever was the Groundhog Day blizzard (2/2/2011) which not only put 4.5 feet of drifting snow on my front porch, but also shut down Lake Shore Drive, stranding dozens of commuters when a flexbus broke down and couldn't be moved. That was legendary.
Good to see your science is settled, that must be a comfort.
The current PDO warm cycle has so far been obscured by 2 El Nino cycles (2009/10 and 2015/16) and a weird "The Blob" anomaly in the North Pacific, but all these have ended, so global temps will start showing falling trends from 2019, when the AMO also enters its 30-year cool cycle.
Collapsing solar cycles will also add to the coming global cooling.
The bitterness of a refuted warmista.
I feast on your tears.
Yes indeed! This is my thinking as well. In fact I would be surprised if it doesn't. It's what we see in the historical record this oscillation in climate swings. It seems the only way of keeeping honest score is temperature so if the trend stays paused, or drops in real data consistently over time then the spending on trillions for an ill-conceived threat to humanity is over.
I said that long ago. I was rather peed with the science is settled that I said this, all this global warming would be a harbinger of the next glacial age. I remember in the early 70s, worried by the cooling and the next glacial age. I thought we can spread some dark stuff over the ice in the arctic and north Canada. I imagined planes dropping some dark stuff to decrease the albedo.
As you can see, summer temperatures are nearly identical so the lion's share of the difference in heat loss happens in the dark.
buki o sutete, kousan shiro!
Drop you weapons and surrender.
Stop your whinging and give up your silly ( cataclysmic ) climate claims.
Smell the roses before the frosts kill them.
just in case my intension was misunderstood….
my prior comment was meant as agreement with you SAMURAI.
THROW DOWN YOUR WEAPONS AND SURRENDER, A$$+*#>!!!…. LOL!
Towards the end of the last PDO cool cycle (1945~1977), it got so cold some scientists were talking about the "The New Ice Age", and that was during the strongest 63-year string (1933~1996) of solar cycles in 11,400 years…..
The winter of 1947 in UK was the "worst EVAH". The entire country froze up for all of Jan, Feb & March with temperatures staying below freezing for the entire 3 months. Same in the winter of 1963. Fits right in.
Lots of snow in Moscow on their annual VE-Day parade. Apparently, the last time that happened was back in 1922. Lots more snow outside the city centre.
They had a VE day parade in 1922? How prescient of the commies!
I remember that day well, or actually the day before, I believe it was Mother's Day 1977 in Buffalo. The cold winds off Lake Erie put some 8 inches of snow on the ground. I went out cross country skiing in the AM with yellow klistervox on my skis, ended up walking back because the snow was melting so fast. By 1 pm it was green again.
What was your experience with the Blizzard in January? That had the biggest impact because the cold months before had frozen Lake Erie early and all the snow on the ice blew into Buffalo on the high winds.
The massive amount of snow on the ground and on Lake Erie. Before the 1976-77 winter, the National Weather Service's record for snowfall in any month was 54.2 inches in February 1958. That record was crushed two months in a row, with 60.7 inches in December 1976 and 68.3 in January.
The long cold snap. The Buffalo area went 45 days, starting on Dec. 26, 1976, with continuously below-freezing temperatures. The average daily temperatures dipped to 22.0 degrees in December and 13.8 in January, both well below average.
An entirely frozen lake. The eastern end of Lake Erie froze on Dec. 14 that season, roughly a month before normal.
That blowing snow had to land somewhere, and it created massive drifts, one of the signatures of that blizzard.
"There was talk about drifts being so high that in some places it went up to the telephone wires," recalled Richard K. Sheffield, who was on duty in the National Weather Service office for about the storm's first 24 hours. Those drifts, estimated by some at 30 to 40 feet high, blocked many people from opening their homes' entrance doors and allowed some people to walk on packed snowdrifts higher than the roofs of cars.
In May of 1977, I had just moved to Marlboro, MA and was still in a motel when the spring storm hit. The trees were well-leafed, and the snow was wet enough to stick, with attendant treefall causing wide-spread power outages, including my motel. Did I forget to mention that I had 3 kids and a wife in tow? Formerly from Florida. With zero winter wear?
The next January, I was sitting at my desk at The Mill in Maynard when the snow began to fall at around noon, IIRC. I watched it snow for about an hour then clocked out and headed home on the back roads with a car without snow tires. I made it with little problem. Those who failed to leave early were not so lucky. Route 128 quickly became a snowbound parking lot, reminiscent of the photo above. People abandoned cars and walked to the nearest building, where they stayed for a couple of days. The Governor declared the roads in eastern Mass to be closed for almost a week. The National Guard cleared 128 with fork lifts and flat beds, hauling the abandoned cars to a pier in Boston for storage.
Fun Times! A major component of my decision to relocate to the sunbelt.
I live thru the May 10, 1990 blizzard in Milwaukee, that was surreal!
I remember that May snowfall well. We were remiss is taking our studded snow tires off at the end of winter so the day after this historic snow event, I was driving to a friends house and got pulled over. The officer noticed the studded tires because they do make a distinct sound. At any rate, when he informed me of the law, I couldn't resist saying, "you have to admit, I was prepared for yesterday". He was a nice guy, chuckled a bit and reminded me to get them removed and sent me on my way.
almost killed myself slipping on deck.
That Emmylou album was later, actually (1980).
Personally, I'm fond of daffodils dusted with snow. Late enough to be interesting, and the daffodils don't seem to mind.
Down here in the mid latitudes of the Southern Hemisphere (40 South) daffodils can bloom as early as late July in some parts but at my place they pop out in the second week of August, right in the middle of winter, the southern equivalent of Groundhog Day. We rarely ever get snow on the ground at sea level here but back in mid August 2011 we did, & the daffodils were covered. Wish I'd taken a photo of it now!
I remember a cold spell in the mid-1970s in Central Virginia. It blew through with not much snow, but enough wet on the ground to turn streets in the Hampton Roads area into ice rinks. I had to wait until mid-day next day for the interstate to be safe for me to return to Durham, NC, where I lived at the time. The James River froze over up to Richmond for weeks; people rapidly found out how much we depended on river traffic to deliver goods to Richmond. Meanwhile, back in Durham (and in Central Virginia, too), the temperature didn't get UP to freezing for a month. It wasn't in April or May, but it was unusual, even for winter in the "Sunny South." Right in the middle of the "Coming Ice Age" (according to Time Magazine).
So I have a hard time getting exercised about "Global Warming." I'm much more concerned about the present "cue ball" sun. Cold kills.
That was during the infamous late 70s La Nina. At the time we here on the Left Coast were chanting the mantra "if it's yellow let it mellow, if it's brown flush it down." Along with the terrible drought we had a number of cold events during the winters and springs. Only time I ever saw sticking snow in the Bay Area flats was a little over a year prior – Feb 1976. We were all late for school that morning. Too many snowball fights for us tweeners to resist.
The Chesapeake Bay largely froze over the winter of 1976-77. I remember ice skating a mile or so out into the bay from the Annapolis area. Maybe it wasn't quite that far…but in the sheltered coves ice was almost 3 feet thick!
Ric, I don't know if this is the same event, but I remember a savage Ice storm on the 10th of May, 1980 or '81 – I'm pretty sure it was '80 (?). I was living a few miles west of Hanscom Field, Bedford, MA. If it is the same event, I'm getting senile.
I used to worry about Alzheimer's, but I can't remember why.
I tried to share this story on Facebook over the last couple of hours and keep getting a "We are having trouble with the URL you provided, try again later. Still will not let me post it?
Well, this turns out to have been a timely post.
The Concord Monitor reported that Mount Washington (a long way from the town) had 33″ at the summit, nearly three times its average May snowfall.
That storm was on the 13th to the 15th. Tomorrow, the 18th, we may set a record high temperature in Concord NH of over 90F!
Concord NH did set a record of 93° for the 17th that year. Today is the 17th, and we reached at least 92°, likely no record today. However, tomorrow's record is only 90°, set in 1906, and the forecast is for 94°.
I like to say There's nothing like spring in New England.


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Q: Dingo API - How to add version number in url? I have just installed Dingo and it appear to work with the following URL:
http://website.dev/api/test
http://website.dev/api/hello
$api = app('Dingo\Api\Routing\Router');
    $api->version('v1', function ($api) {

        $api->get('test', function () {
            return 'Test';
        });

        $api->get('hello', function () {
            return 'Hello';
        });

    });

I would like version v1 to be included in the URL, how do I get this to work?
When I try:
http://website.dev/api/v1/test
I get error:
{
"message": "404 Not Found",
"status_code": 404
}

In the .env file, I have: API_PREFIX=api
According to Dingo Configuration:

Avoid putting a version number as your prefix or subdomain as
  versioning is handled via the Accept header.

A: The version of dingoAPI don't work this way. Because they aren't versioning the API in the URI, you need to define an Accept header to request a specific version. The header is formatted like so:
Accept: application/vnd.YOUR_SUBTYPE.v1+json

For accessing the version you will need a HTTP Client like postman

A: To work around the dingo version scheme, you could use route groups inside the version method and ignore the accept header. Something like this:
<?php

use Illuminate\Http\Request;

$api = app('Dingo\Api\Routing\Router');

$api->version('v1', function ($api) { // Always keep this to v1, and ignore accept header.

    $api->group(['prefix' => 'v1'], function ($api) { // Use this route group for v1

        $api->get('/', function () {
            return 'Look v1!';
        });

    });

    $api->group(['prefix' => 'v2'], function ($api) { // Use this route group for v2

        $api->get('/', function () {
            return 'Look v2!' ;
        });

    });

});


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Lynda Relph-Knight has been editor of the UK's Design Week since 1989. The role encompasses editing the world's first and only weekly design magazine and its daily website, as well as overseeing the Design WeekAwards and Benchmarks prize scheme for branding.
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In connection with my case (ECHR Reference: 25077/05), I would be very grateful to you if you would please take careful note of the information I have provided below.
Mindful of your organisation's recent investigations relating to the United States "extraordinary rendition program", concerning which the media is referring to the Council of Europe as a "watchdog" for human rights abuse, please note that in spite of the fact I have been charged with a criminal offence in 2002, I still cannot find a lawyer to help me to prepare my legal defence. I feel this is extremely abusive in terms of my rights under human rights law: especially when I am having to live in forced exile in the UK to avoid being corruptly criminalised (and possibly imprisoned) in the Republic of Ireland. In so far as I can establish, my present situation is due to the activities of Justice Minister Michael McDowell TD (Republic of Ireland), and other "public officials" in the Republic of Ireland (and elsewhere) who are supporting him.
As I have mentioned below, Justice Minister McDowell appears to me to be enthusiastically using the United States as a role-model for his "public official" duties in the Republic of Ireland; and, in addition, he also seems to suffer from the delusion that anybody who challenges him in any kind of major way is a "subversive" - who has to be severely punished at all costs, and regardless of whether his punishments are lawful or not. As can easily be seen from a study of Republic of Ireland newspapers of recent days, I am by no means alone in this view of Minister McDowell.
I also believe my well-documented European Court of Human Rights case readily demonstrates the bullying, abusive, and unlawful tendencies of Minister McDowell (and those who support him). In the interests of preventing further major human rights violations of the kind I am being subjected to, I wish you to investigate his very cowardly actions towards me at your earliest convenience please - particularly in relation to the fact I cannot find a lawyer, either in the UK or in the Republic of Ireland - who is willing to help me to legally defend myself. I would ask you to please note very carefully this last fact leaves me feeling that the shocking situation relating to rampant corruption in the United States legal profession, as described by US lawyer Teddy Moore via the Internet link I have provided below, is by no means restricted to the United States jurisdiction.
I do hope the Council of Europe has what it takes to investigate human rights abuses in Western Europe (as well as elsewhere): especially those forms of abuse such as mine which are very obviously being vigorously sustained by rampant corruption in the legal profession here.
Later today, I plan to send a printed and signed copy of this e-mail to you through the registered post. I would be very grateful if you could please send me a written acknowledgement of receipt to the address provided below, which I will ask one of my relatives in County Galway to look out for and forward to me.
In the hope that you will help me in a substantial way, I look forward to hearing from you at your earliest convenience please.
In the hope that it might help funding for "The Centre for Public Inquiry" in Dublin to continue, which is now under very serious threat, an effort has been made to point out to "Atlantic Philanthropies" (and the Media) that Minister McDowell is neglecting a part of his senior "public official" duties in a way which may yet land him in very serious trouble with regard to certain aspects of human rights law.
Part of the e-mail at the above address shows that under Minister McDowell's guidance, the Republic of Ireland's Waste Management Act has been altered in a way which many believe is entirely repugnant to the Constitution of the Republic of Ireland - and consequently completely unlawful of course. How's that for subversion?
The e-mail at the above address also contains a link to an 8 minute video interview with United States lawyer Teddy Moore on corruption in the US legal system - a system he claims is absolutely rotten to the core and completely out of control - and which (to me) Minister Mc Dowell appears to be using as a model for the Republic of Ireland.
Subject: Serious criminal issues relating to United Nations "CONVENTION AGAINST TORTURE and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment"
I am writing to you because I am experiencing serious difficulties in connection with several letters sent to public officials, whereby the contents of the letters in question are not being handled in a responsible or lawful way.
The most recent incidence of this long running problem (of several years standing) involves a letter sent on November 7th 2005 to Justice Michael McDowell TD in the Republic of Ireland, scanned copies of which can be viewed at http://www.constitutionofireland.com/GerardMadden7November2005/Letter.htm .
The nature of the most pressing difficulties for me just now, in connection with the latter shown at the above address, have been outlined in an e-mail I sent earlier today to Mr Gerard Madden (Senior Psychiatric Social Worker), which I have reproduced below under the text of this letter, and which I believe are self-explanatory.
a) I have been trying hard for a number of years to protect certain heritage sites in the Republic of Ireland which I - and indeed many others all over the world - believe are very important to the Nation, and which are now in great danger of being completely destroyed or seriously damaged. One of a number of examples of such heritage sites now under threat (and I could easily provide you with several more please note) involves some of the ancient monuments in and around the Hill of Tara area of County Meath, many of which are believed to be very closely connected with King Ollamh Fodhla and other kings of ancient Ireland. Further information on heritage sites now under threat around the Hill of Tara can be found at http://www.kingollamhfodhla.com/ . As can be seen at this last address, and among many other interesting things, King Ollamh Fodhla is closely linked with the origin of the word "Ulster", and with Brehon Law. By coincidence, please note there is also a direct link between my family name ("Finnerty") and King Ollamh Fodhla's son who was named King Finnachta, and who is believed to have reigned over Ireland for the 20 year period between 1277 to 1257 BC. Hardly surprisingly, knowledge of this family-name connection has heightened my personal interest in this particular set of ancient monuments, and further historical information relating to this connection can be found at http://homepage.eircom.net/~williamfinnerty/name/annals.htm#bm0 .
Much more information relating to my long running set of difficulties with public officials, now heading into its 8th year, can be found via the "Front Page" of the following web site http://www.constitutionofireland.com/ .
I would like to stress that by far the most difficult of all the practical problems I face just now, is that I remain unable to find a lawyer willing to advise me properly on any of the matters I am writing to you about in this letter. As Mr Madden and Dr McCavert will readily confirm to anybody who needs to know I believe, I have discussed this matter with both of them many times since last May; and, despite our combined best efforts, we have so far failed completely to find a lawyer who is willing to act on my behalf and in my best interests.
Consequently, it would be very much appreciated if you could take steps to ensure I am provided with the services of a suitably experienced lawyer who is willing and able to act on my behalf and in my best interests, as soon as you reasonably can please.
I look forward to hearing from you in the hope you will be able to help me.
Finally, I would like to make it entirely clear to all concerned that I personally have no objections whatsoever, now, or at any time in the past, to new infrastructure projects involving such things as new roads and waste-disposal facilities (for example): provided that all such projects are carried out - from start to finish - within the limits of the law.
COPY: Printed copy to Dr Michael McCavert (GP in Omagh, County Tyrone).
Thank you very much for your efforts of yesterday relating to your discussion with Ms Elaine O'Brien in Republic of Ireland Justice Minister Michael McDowell's office (as described in your e-mail to me of yesterday).
Unfortunately, and after waiting patiently for over a month now, I still do not know whether or not Justice Minister Mc Dowell TD is even aware of the contents of your letter (and Dr Michael McCavert's letter) to him dated November 7th 2005 - and it is this fact of not knowing, and not being able to find out for sure, which is causing the huge build up of pressure in my brain.
Allowing for all that has happened to me during my past 12 months of unlawful forced-exile from the Republic of Ireland, particularly the fact I have been diagnosed as having Complex PTSD, and very prone to the "explosive anger" symptom of that particular medical condition, if I was to allow this build-up of negative psychological pressure to keep on growing in the run up to the lengthy Christmas holiday period just ahead, I believe it could have extremely serious consequences for me - and possibly for others as well.
For the purpose of relieving the mental pressure in question, the first thing I feel I need to do now is to abandon all hope of Minister McDowell ever helping me; and, from now on, to think of him strictly as part of the problem, and definitely not as part of the solution: unless and until such time of course that he himself provides me with tangible evidence to the contrary.
The second thing I feel need to do now is to seek assistance from a new potential source of help, without delay - particularly delays of the kind that are based on extremely vague, verbal hopes and promises (via third parties) that Minister McDowell MIGHT help me at some future date - in spite of the fact that he and his senior colleagues have already completely ignored many letters I have sent to them through the registered post over a period of several years. In several cases I have not even received an acknowledgement of receipt for the registered letters in question - which I find extremely degrading, in addition to being cruel and inhuman - plus unlawful I believe.
Consequently, and by way of seeking help from a potential new source, I now feel I must write to Northern Ireland Justice Minister David Hanson MP later today.
Please note that the MAIN purpose of my letter to Minister Hanson (from my viewpoint at this particular time) is to relieve the painful, dangerous, and worrying build up of pressure mentioned above (in a lawful way) - which, and although it might not always have been obvious, is something that I have had to do many, many times in recent years: as a direct result of all of the ongoing "cruel, inhuman, degrading treatment and punishment" I have been receiving at the hands of people such as Minister McDowell and his colleagues.
I will try and get a few hours sleep now, and I then hope to do a draft of the letter I plan to send to Minister Hanson later today - which I hope to be able to let you have an e-mail copy of before 10 am this morning, and which I also hope we will be able to briefly discuss on the phone before deciding on the final version.
Please note that although I only found out a few days ago (after a series of long and difficult Internet searches) that the Republic of Ireland Government had actually ratified the UN Convention Against Torture, Justice Minister McDowell and his lawyer colleagues in Government have no doubt known all about this since it entered into force in the Republic of Ireland on April 11th 2002. I feel these people have got an awful lot to answer for, and that they may yet live to regret the appalling mental torture they have knowingly been subjecting me to for the past several years, and which is ongoing of course: for no good reason whatsoever that I know of.
Please also note that if you think it might help in any way, that I have no objections at all to you forwarding this e-mail to anybody you wish before we discuss the final draft of the letter I plan to send to Minister Hanson later today.


USA Bass to host inaugural Pan-American Kayak Bass Championship with Visit Cookeville Tennessee. Kayak Bass fishing is ready to burst onto the international sport fishing scene. The Pan-American Sportfishing Federation has awarded the bid to host the first ever Pan-Am Kayak Bass Fishing Championship to the Cookeville Putnam County Visitor's Bureau. The championship will be held at Center Hill Lake on May 28 th thru the 31 st.


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8 Interesting Facts About Milton S. Hershey.
FactsKing.com / Historical People / 8 Interesting Facts About Milton S. Hershey
Milton Snavely Hershey was the man who created Hershey's chocolate. He was a manufacturer and a generally good person who used his wealth to help the people around him. He was the only surviving sibling of a rural family. He was born in 1857 in Pennsylvania and raised on a farm. He had an incomplete education and became an apprentice at the age of 15. He went on to the candy business, and eventually popularized milk chocolate candy.
Let's nibble on some facts.
Milton S. Hershey Facts
1. He had companies before Hershey
Hershey had the itch to make candy, and the itch to own his own business. An interesting fact about Milton Hershey is that he borrowed 150 dollars from his aunt and opened up his very first candy shop in Philadelphia. Hershey worked patiently on his shop for five years, but the shop never gained much success. He finally closed the shop and moved to Denver, Colorado to reunite with his dad. There, Hershey discovered caramel, and he liked it so much he switched his focus to caramel production. He attempted to start two new companies, one in Chicago, and one in New York. Neither were successful. Then, he started the Lancaster Caramel Company, and that saw great success! Hershey's caramels were shipped all over the country!
2. Hershey's father was half of a good role model
As a kid, Hershey saw his father as a big role model, and would follow him around everywhere. Hershey's father had big dreams, but he didn't have the work ethic or perseverance needed to make any of those dreams a reality. By 1867, Hershey's mother had effectively separated from his father. She was tired of his lack of follow through. But Hershey's father left his son with a healthy taste for dreaming.
3. Hershey switched from Caramel to Chocolate
In 1893, Hershey went to the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago and got an up close and personal look at the art of making chocolate. He was fascinated by chocolate, so Hershey set out to create a chocolate company, all while his caramel company was still running. In 1900, he sold the caramel company in order to focus on perfecting the chocolate bar. Hershey focused his energy on milk chocolate, which was a rare treat from Switzerland at the time. An interesting fact about Milton Hershey is that he worked on a way to produce milk chocolate on a massive scale and distribute it to the world.
And so, Hershey opened his chocolate factory in 1905, and in 1907, he came up with the famous Hershey's Kisses. It wouldn't be until 1924, however, that the signature foil and little paper tag would be added to this iconic candy.
4. He was almost on the Titanic
Hershey was absolutely planning on going on the Titanic, there's even a record of him paying a three hundred dollar deposit in order to board the ship. However, Hershey was saved from the Titanic tragedy by a business emergency. Last minute, Hershey decided not to follow his travel plans, and that may very well have saved his life.
5. Hershey used his wealth to better his community
Hershey sold his caramel company for one million dollars. With his newfound wealth, he could have done any number of things. He could have built a huge house, or lived in the lap of luxury, but Hershey decided he would use his wealth to give back to his community. He built schools, parks, churches, recreational facilities, housing, and a trolley system in the town surrounding his factory, which came to be known as Hershey, Pennsylvania.
Hershey and his wife could not have a child, so they made sure to help out kids in their community. In 1909, Hershey opened an orphanage and school for boys, which later opened for girls, as well.
During the Great Depression, Hershey had buildings built so that people could have jobs in construction. During World War II, Hershey sent the troops chocolate bars to boost their morale.
6. He was a very humble and thrifty businessman
An interesting fact about Milton Hershey is that he made so much money with his business, but he didn't live as if he had a lot of money. Much of his money and company stock was put into a fund to provide money for the various schools that he founded. He did have a house built, but it was a humble home. It was built within sight of the Hershey Company headquarters, so that Hershey could keep an eye on the business in which he had so much pride.
7. Milton Hershey was very devoted to his wife
In 1915, Hershey's wife, Catherine Sweeny, died suddenly of a mysterious disease. Milton Hershey never remarried. He always kept a picture of his wife in his pocket, so she would be with him, always.
8. He had a superb work ethic
When Hershey's mother left his father, it was because he never followed through on his promises. Hershey's mother wasn't about to let her son go and do the same thing. She taught Hershey to appreciate hard work, and he obviously took that lesson to heart. He kept working well into his 80s, an interesting fact about Milton Hershey.
Milton Hershey is a business leader modern CEOs could look to as an example of great generosity. He spent nearly all of his money supporting his community, and his chocolate continues to bring smiles to the faces of many. He made sure to surround himself with educated people, even though his education was incomplete. He was always open to learning from different areas of the world. He found a way he could do something nobody else was doing, and he earned a lot of money because of it, which he passed to others.
I hope that this article on Milton Hershey facts was helpful. If you are interested, visit the Historical People Facts Page!


How do I use the power outlet?
The power outlets can be used to charge electronic devices or plug in any accessory with a 12 V if it runs on less than 10 amps. One power outlet is located on the center display in the auxiliary box. Remove the cover to insert the 12 V cable. Another outlet may be located in the auxiliary box in the center console.
To avoid damage, don't use any accessory that requires more than 10 amps or 12 V.
The outlet only works when the engine is turned on or in the accessory mode.
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Blog/ Is Nature a Far Away Place, Or Just Out Your Front Door?
A growing body of research continues to suggest that children who spend more time in nature are healthier, happier and perform better in school.
How do adults and children differ in their view of Nature?
While adults often view nature as a far away place, Texas children report thinking of nature as their yards, nearby woods or waters, neighborhood parks and open spaces, gardens, and the plants and animals (cats, dogs) where they live. It can even be as simple as watching a butterfly land on a flower. The types of activities they think of include things like playing outside, swimming, biking, visiting zoos or aquariums, and exploring outdoors or nature centers.
As adults we can help children receive their daily does of nature by taking them for a walk in the neighborhood, let them play hide-and-seek outdoors and investigate micro-worlds near you—a puddle on the sidewalk, a tree with a low-hanging branch, and the soils and plants of a green space near you (a yard counts!). Find nearby places to play, explore and connect with near-by nature at NatureRocksTexas.org.


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Number of cooperatives per sector
Employees and members per sector
Bolivia - Key Figures Report.pdf
Informe de Mapeo Cooperativo Bolivia.pdf
Responding to challenges and existing knowledge gaps facing the cooperative movement, this mapping research seeks to provide exhaustive information on cooperatives around the world.
This is achieved through a process jointly conducted by the ICA and its four regional offices – Cooperatives of the Americas, Cooperatives Europe, ICA Africa, and ICA Asia-Pacific – using a common methodology, designed with the support of external experts from the European Research Institute on Cooperative and Social Enterprises (Euricse).
Each office collected the input of ICA members present in the countries within its geographic area, by using a common questionnaire, and completing it with relevant national statistics, in order to obtain a picture of the national situation. As a result, the data above is collected following two strategies: 1) a survey targeting ICA cooperative members 2) collecting national statistics already available in the country. The numbers above provide aggregated data from ICA members on the number of cooperatives, as well as the number of cooperative employees and memberships in the country. More methodological information is available in the full report. In Bolivia, the data is collected for the reference year 2018.
Mapping out cooperatives in each country provides a more precise picture of the cooperative context at national and regional levels, enhances the movement's visibility, networking, partnerships opportunities, as well as advocacy, and empowers cooperators by providing tools for positive change.
This webpage presents a snapshot of the research results for Bolivia. For more information and the full research results, you can download the report by clicking on the links above.
A 2012 ICA and ILO Joint Publication mentions that the genealogy of Andean cooperative work is based on the ayni (reciprocity) and on the ayllu (community site), ancestral pre-Hispanic forms of organization for social production, which preserve the structure of the Tahuantinsuyo empire, based on the economic unit-social cooperative work of the ayllu and its integration into the brand, a collectivist federative form.
As a result of these ancestral manifestations, in the 1930s and early 1940s, different development theses were elaborated on the traditional bases of associated work and pre-cooperative life. It is then when cooperativism begins to be established as a revolutionary and modern form of economic organization and is considered viable, on one hand, due to the easy conversion of indigenous communities into socialist cooperatives and, on the other, as part of the democratic bourgeois revolution.
Bolivia counts 3 ICA member organisations:
- Cooperativa Rural de Electrificación R.L. (CRE), is a full member in the utilities sector.
- Cooperativa de Telecomunicaciones Santa Cruz (COTAS Ltda.), is a full member in the utilities sector.
- Cooperativa Boliviana de Cemento, Industrias y Servicios (COBOCE LTDA.), is a full member in the industry sector.
In Bolivia the research questionnaire was distributed to and completed by 1 ICA member organisation. The data collected was for the reference year 2018.
Informe de Marcos Legales - Bolivia.pdf
Legal Framework Analysis - Bolivia.pdf
LFA Highlights - Bolivia.pdf
Legal research overview
The legal framework analysis aims to provide general knowledge of the national cooperative legislation and of its main characteristics and contents, with particular regard to those aspects of regulation regarding the identity of cooperatives and its distinction from other types of business organisations, notably the for-profit shareholder corporation.
It aims to evaluate whether the national legislation in place supports or hampers the development of cooperatives, and is therefore "cooperative friendly" or not, and the degree to which it may be considered so, also in comparison to the legislation in force in other countries of the ICA region, or at the supranational level.
In addition, the research aims to provide recommendations for eventual renewal of the legal frameworks in place in order to understand what changes in the current legislation would be necessary to improve its degree of "cooperative friendliness", which is to say, to make the legislation more favourable to cooperatives, also in consideration of their specific identity. This webpage presents a snapshot of the legal framework analysis results for Bolivia.
The Bolivian cooperative legislation is contained in national law No. 356 called the General Law on Cooperatives published in the Official Journal of Bolivia on April 11, 2013, and the Regulations of the General Law of Cooperatives put into effect by Decree No. 1995 of May 13, 2014. It should be clarified that, although it is a decentralized country with autonomy, by constitutional mandate on the basis of the residual clause, substantive and adjective legislation on cooperative matters falls within the competence of the central level of the State; providing, as exclusive competence of the central level of the State, basic services policies, that is, that this level of government in this area has legislative, regulatory and executive authority, being able to transfer and delegate the latter two.
Cooperative Friendliness
To obtain approval of resolutions or regulations, there is an exaggerated bureaucracy that, compared to a private company, makes obtaining legal status more complicated. The Political Constitution of the State, Laws and Regulations to the Law, are good, except that they do not contemplate associated work cooperatives.
The State's Political Constitution considers the cooperative sector in 12 articles. There, it promotes the purchase and participation of the cooperative sector, even in sectors where the state closes participation in the particular private sector. Likewise, the law and regulation are very favorable in their drafting, lacking only processes of practical applicability. For the promotion of cooperatives, there is even a state body, which is the Directorate of Public Policy and Cooperative Development. It is important to note that the drafting of the Law on Cooperatives of Bolivia, had the direct participation of the cooperative sectors, who developed proposals in all its articles.
Notwithstanding the above issues, Bolivian legislation is very much in favor of cooperatives.
Key recommendations for improvement
The creation of specific legislation for the sector of associated work cooperatives is necessary.
Special legislation on administrative procedures, where the operational practice is contemplated in order to shorten the response times from the state to the sector's processes, as well as the training of the population and the state within the model.
The insertion of tax incentives, the sector does not differ from others in this aspect and even has double taxes in some cases.
Legislation incorporating Associated Work Cooperatives is required.
It is important that cooperatives also have their own sectoral legislation.
It should be noted that we only have the responses of one ICA member, which is generally consistent with the expert's opinion, so its integration into the report has not had setbacks. In any event, the different declarations and documents drawn up by the cooperative movement in recent times have also been taken into account, whether they are general in nature or referenced particularly to certain sectors.
The legal frameworks analysis is a tool developed under the ICA-EU Partnership #coops4dev. It is an overview of the national legal frameworks at the time of writing. The views expressed within are not necessarily those of the ICA, nor does a reference to any specific content constitute an explicit endorsement or recommendation by the ICA.
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Peter Capaldi is the new Doctor!! He is Scottish, friends with Craig Ferguson (they were in a band together), and is....gasp....55 years old! I am stoked! Nothing against Tennant and Smith, but it's time we had a more "mature" Doctor. Can't wait for the new season!!
And might I say, despite what the teenybopper Who fangirls say, he ain't too bad on the eyes...though personally, I love Peter Davison.
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Singapore Airlines is the most recent airline to reconsider serving nuts on the plane. A recent incident with a toddler going into anaphylactic shock while on board is the reason behind the change.
The child was served a nut-free meal but seemed to have an allergic reaction just from being around other people who were eating nuts on the plane. Current nut-free airline cabins include those of Qantas, Air New Zealand, and British Airways.
The airline handled the situation by removing nuts in his proximity and his family gave him allergy medication while the plane finished its last hour in flight.
Even when an airline doesn't serve nuts it can be challenging to become completely nut-free since people are also allowed to bring their own snacks on board.


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Part thoughtful tribute, part bittersweet reminder of a missed opportunity, Jodorowsky's Dune offers a fascinating look at a lost sci-fi legend.
Total Count: 118
Jodorowsky's Dune Ratings & Reviews Explanation
Jodorowsky's Dune Photos
Synopsis: In 1975, Chilean director Alejandro Jodorowsky, whose films EL TOPO and THE HOLY MOUNTAIN launched and ultimately defined the midnight movie phenomenon, began work on his most ambitious project yet. Starring his own 12 year old son Brontis alongside Orson Welles, Mick Jagger, David Carradine and Salvador Dali, featuring music by Pink Floyd and art by some of the most provocative talents of the era, including HR Giger and Jean 'Moebius' Giraud, Jodorowsky's adaptation of Frank Herbert's classic sci-fi novel DUNE was poised to change cinema forever. (c) Sony Classics
PG-13 (for some violent and sexual images and drug references)
Documentary, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Special Interest
Frank Pavich
Mar 21, 2014 limited
Michel Seydoux
Brontis Jodorowsky
Richard Stanley
Drew McWeeny
Diane O'Bannon
Jean-Pierre Vignau
Jean-Paul Gibbon
News & Interviews for Jodorowsky's Dune
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Critic Reviews for Jodorowsky's Dune
All Critics (118) | Top Critics (36) | Fresh (115) | Rotten (3)
Pavich makes great use of the legendary and massive Dune flipbook Jodorowsky touted around Hollywood in the mid-'70s.
Feb 13, 2018 | Full Review…
Karl Quinn
The Age (Australia)
Pavich shows us many images from the storyboard, and even treats some to a simple form of animation to suggest how the movie might have looked.
Jan 4, 2015 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
The phantom film is, by its nature, always rich with possibilities.
Sep 12, 2014 | Rating: 3.5.5 | Full Review…
Philippa Hawker
This documentary version of Jodorowsky's "Dune" is probably more entertaining than what Hollywood would have done to it, with a clearer message: Our lives are like sands though an hourglass, so dream the impossible dream.
May 8, 2014 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
A deeply moving testament to single-minded, indefatigable commitment of creative vision and to an almost spiritual ability to let that vision go, thereby allowing it to exist in the world in an entirely unexpected form.
Ann Hornaday
Jodorowsky is a mesmerizing presence in director Frank Pavich's engrossing picture. He was 84 when much of it was shot.
Apr 24, 2014 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…
Soren Andersen
This documentary is at times like taking what is one of the special features from a DVD or Blu-Ray release and just showing that instead of the movie.
Jan 10, 2020 | Rating: 4.5/5 | Full Review…
Julian Lytle
Punch Drunk Critics
For the young filmmaker, Jodorowsky's Dune is both an admonishment to let your imagination roam freely, and a lesson on the nature of success.
Chris McCoy
A hopeful documentary, pointing to the fact that Jodorowsky's unfilmed masterpiece will never be dead in the water.
Apr 2, 2019 | Rating: 7/10 | Full Review…
Bernard Boo
Way Too Indie
Art doesn't have to be a Sisyphean feat in order to mean something ( ... ) a better version of our timeline is not automatically waiting at the other end.
Emily Asher-Perrin
Its leading man is one of the most charming, charismatic figures you'll see in any movie, fact or fiction, all year.
Aug 31, 2018 | Full Review…
Pat Padua
Considering the reaction to the Lynch film, the legend of Jodorowsky's Dune may prove more impressive than a finished film.
Nov 21, 2017 | Full Review…
Josh Terry
Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
Audience Reviews for Jodorowsky's Dune
Frank Pavich's intensely watchable documentary is a window into "the greatest movie never made," an adaptation of "Dune" by Chilean surrealist director Alejandro Jodorowsky which would have starred his 12-year-old son, Salvador Dali, Mick Jagger, and Orson Welles; featured music by Pink Floyd and Magma; and been designed by artists who went on to work on films such as "Alien." Through beautifully animated versions of storyboards and concept art, we get a sense of what this film could have been - a movie light years ahead of its time which would've born less resemblance to Frank Herbert's novel and more to an extended ego trip, but with the gleeful spirit of an inspired madman with ambitions to change the world with his art. Jodorowsky's passion for the project, even at the age of 84, is evident in every moment of his interviews, and Pavich successfully pays tribute to a dream deferred, as well as to a man who was able to let go of his creative vision, allowing it to influence the world of art in ways he couldn't have possibly imagined. It's an entertaining and moving look at how failure isn't really failure after all, provided you shoot for the stars.
Kyle W Super Reviewer
An extremely fascinating, profoundly frustrating yet also surprisingly cheerful account of the greatest adaptation that never was as gloriously envisaged by the mind of an artistic genius obsessed with the idea that he was creating a sacred masterpiece that would change the universe forever.
Carlos M Super Reviewer
Including all the relevant personalities, here is a decent documentary about a great might-have-been of a film some 38 years after the fact. Putting aside the rose colored lenses that come with looking back after many decades, there is also the estimation of the damage failure leaves on the psyches of the people involved. That aspect was most interesting to me at least. And while Jodorosky was denied the opportunity to give his dreams life, many of his ideas were carried on ... without him. That's gotta hurt. It was interesting.
Kevin M. W Super Reviewer
Regardless of whether you have read or are familiar with 'Dune', this fascinating documentary delving deep into the development and effort that went into Alejandro Jodorowsky's planned film that never was. Not only does it detail the people purely involved in the project in which their intentions were to create something great; it also examines what the films could of actually been like. I was amazed at the motivation and effort that was put into this unmade film, but more unusual how much of modern sci-fi films it went on to influence. What we can learn is that creativity can have a really grand soul, and when not used one way can easily be used another way, Jodorowsky's film exists and this film is just a portal or a window into its potential. Clearly this is one of the biggest contestants for the next Best Documentary Feature and is a Must-See for any sci-fi fan.
Luke E Super Reviewer
Jodorowsky's Dune Quotes


In this article you will learn how to upload fares to AeroCRS system.
Fares is one of the 5 steps we need to have in order to get results in the AVL search, therefore it has to be accurate and updated.
You create separate fare for each route and for each class you have in your route-map.
Baggage: Set KG/LB (according to company settings) of baggage allowed for this route. This will override destination default. Put 0 (zero) to ignore.
Charge TAX on return: Decide what legs you want the tax to be charged.
VAT: Add VAT on top of the fare. In percents (For 10%, put 10 without decimal points.
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