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Not wanting to prove anything to anyone: Kohli on South Africa tour
by SC Desk 28th December 2017
Published by SC Desk 28th December 2017
Mumbai: The Indian team is gearing up for one of it's biggest challenges in the past few years-the highly anticipated tour of South Africa and skipper Virat Kohli feels that he and his boys have nothing to prove when they take on the Proteas in the three-match Test series beginning on January 5.
India are yet to win a Test series in South Africa for the past 25 years, with a 1-1 draw being their best finish in the 2010-2011 series.
"We have got rid of all the mental pressures of touring abroad and wanting to prove to people. We are not wanting to prove anything to anyone and our duty is to go out there, give our 100 per cent effort for the country and get the result that we want to," said Kohli, at the pre-departure press conference on Wednesday.
He further stressed on the fact that one needs to be realistic to understand that, "sometimes the team will get results and sometimes it won't".
He said, "We need to be realistic with what we are doing and that the only way we will be staying in the present and execute the things we want to. We are going there to just play cricket and it does not matter whether we are in South Africa, Australia, England or India."
The 29-year-old also said that to be able to perform in challenging conditions gives one more job satisfaction. "When you do things in conditions that are more challenging, that gives you more job satisfaction, that is for sure," Kohli added.
Over all these years, the Indians have found it hard to tackle the bounce on the South African pitches and the fact that they have won just two Test matches in the, 'Rainbow Nation' so far speaks for itself.
But Kohli said that it all depended on the mindset one has as a batsman.
"It all depends on the kind of mindset you get into as batsman. Any place, even Indian conditions can be very difficult if you are not in a good frame of mind, so cricket is played with ball and bat and if you are not there mentally, it does not matter the conditions you are playing in.
"You need to take up challenges mentally and then every conditions seem like home conditions. If you get accustomed to where you are going and you start feeling comfortable embracing the culture, people, it becomes easier," he said.
Kohli had been amongst the runs in India's 2013-2014 tour to South Africa where he had ended up as the second-highest run-getter in the two-match Test series with 272 runs, eight behind Cheteshwar Pujara who topped the list with 280 runs.
Emphasising on the need to maintain that "excitement" as a batsman in order to perform well, Kohli said, "I only played Test cricket once in South Africa but I was looking forward to it. (Cheteshwar) Pujara was as well, so was Jinks (Ajinkya Rahane). So we ended up doing well because we were excited about what we were going to do and that excitement is very important to maintain."
The skipper held that although the Indian team haven't played much cricket outside the sub-continent, his boys are confident of a good show.
He said, "We are talking about a wholly different prospect over here, which we understand as a team and we are looking forward to it. Every tour is a chance, if you look at the teams which have gone to South Africa in the past, I mean you are talking about some of the biggest names in Indian cricket, it's not like that was not like a chance."
"You need to play really good cricket for a very long period of time to win series and that is something that we are pretty excited about and we want to go out there and express ourselves. The most important thing is that we are enjoying each other's company and that's exactly what we are looking to do," he added further.
Kohli admitted the fact that the South African bowling attack in the 2013-2014 series which comprised of Dale Steyn and Morne Morkel was more experienced. Kagiso Rabada, South Africa's latest pace sensation has been performing consistently well and with both Steyn and Morkel returning from injuries, the Proteas bowling would indeed be a threat.
"The bowling attack back then compared to now what South Africa has was more experienced and we did really well against them. We almost won the Test in Jo'burg (Johannesburg), it was a close game, we lost in Durban, but we played some really good Test cricket.
"The bowling and the batting has come a long way, all the guys are much more experienced now, but the hunger remains the same, we still want to go back and try to do what we couldn't do last time around," he said.
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The immediate stench of Marijuana
Thread starter nagomi
"I had only ever been to her apartment a couple of times. She lived with a roommate, so she wanted to try not to disturb her when possible. We got to her door, and when we went inside, I was hit with the immediate stench of marijuana. Eri shut the door and sighed, walking past me and into the common area of the apartment."
What does "immediate" mean here? To think it's "near", the molecular of the smell is already in the speaker's nostril. So it's near obviously. This musn't be it. To think it's "instant", it's off as well. Since the smoking must have happened recently enough, it's still there. This one seems obvious too.
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Imperfect mod
US English, Palestinian Arabic bilingual
It means I immediately smelled it.
heypresto
English - England
I could smell it as soon as I entered the apartment.
manfy
nagomi said:
Immediate expresses a mix of both. The scent of ganja is in immediate vicinity and immediate in a temporal sense.
PS: There is no such thing as a stench of marijuana - the author must be mistaken! Marijuana leaves an alluring scent when smoked or burned in other ways...!!
manfy said:
There is no such thing as a stench of marijuana
I beg to differ. It reeks!
The scent of ganja is in immediate vicinity and immediate in a temporal sense.
For me, it's only temporal.
heypresto said:
Granted, what I called an 'alluring scent' may - for many people - turn into a stench in a closed room.
elroy said:
Yes, that's the dominant meaning, but the spatial idea cannot be excluded. It's a connotation that lingers in the meaning of the word, especially in this context.
PaulQ
I was hit with the immediate stench of marijuana.
"Stench" has been use to indicate that the narrator/speaker is being pejorative about marijuana. There are many other words they could have used: each would have had its own nuance.
ain'ttranslationfun?
I thought it meant "I was immediately hit with ("My nostrils were immediately assailed by") a strong odor of marijuana;"; the speaker doesn't like that smell. (By the way, was "Marijuana" spelled with a capital "M" in the book? It usually isn't.)
Roxxxannne
American English (New England and NYC)
You may be confusing the skunky smell of marijuana with the lovely scent of incense.
To me it seems like it's primarily a reference to the closeness and overwhelming-ness* of it, which, of course, was sudden as they walked through the door.
* my word
In a purely temporal sense, you would just say:
We got to her door, and when we went inside, I was immediately hit with the immediate stench of marijuana.
This is the second definition in the WR dictionary:
having no object or space in between: lives in the immediate vicinity.
I think this is the primary sense in the sentence.
ain'ttranslationfun? said:
It was not really a book, but a web-based novel. So, a little informal.
Linkway
I see the use of 'immediate' in this context as referring to the speed and certainty that he detected the strong smell and what it was.
He didn't hesitate; it didn't take time for him to decide. The strength of the smell was what it was - it was the visitor's perception that was immediate.
In other circumstances, that particular visitor might have been unable to detect a particular smell, or could have become gradually aware of it.


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Survival Manual
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Monday, October 24, 2011 · 3:09 AM
Chapter 1978, age 35-36
Themes and Events:
* IBM introduces a 64K bit memory chip.
* Space Invaders brings America into the age of the video game.
* The world's Human population is now 4.4 billion and growing at 200,000 a day.
* The first "test tube" baby is born. The blessed event, following in vitro fertilization, was seen as a breakthrough on the order of the first heart transplant, giving hope to millions of childless couples.
* South Vietnamese and Mung "boat people", refugees are fleeing their homeland in all size boats and rafts after the takeover of South Vietnam by North Vietnam. Many thousands of these once faithful U.S. supporters were being brought to the United States from refugee camps and settled in various parts of the country. Catholic organizations in Minnesota sponsored hundreds, bringing several dozen to St. Cloud alone.
Buttons & bumper stickers:
* Live dangerously: Take a breath.
* I fight poverty, I work.
* Runners make better lovers.
* Don't complain about farmers with your mouth full.
Making the first land payment
Over the winter, Donna and I saved every cent we could from our paychecks in order to make the first land payment ahead of schedule. It was our hope to get ahead on the payments in case anything happened to our income. We also wanted to have money available during the spring and fall to prepare for the utilities that would need to be installed before our mobile home could be moved.
On February 24, we made our first $3,368.56 payment of Principle and Interest to Bobby and Arlene, who we were buying our acreage from; we were invited to stay for supper. Bobby and Arlene were happy to see the money and we were glad to be making the payment well ahead of the due date.
[Looking SW: Our 14 ft. x 70 ft. Marshfield mobile home, lot and garden at Rockwood Estates. Nice park with large lots. We'd recently had a severe thunderstorm destroy our metal storage shed (was on other sided of pine tree at left) so items are set behind mobile home until new wooden shed is built. A field and woods are behind us.]
The property access culvert
On March 19, as early as was reasonable after winter, we had Benton County deliver an eighteen inch diameter by twenty-foot long galvanized culvert and drop it off beside the road where we would gain access to our driveway ad property. When we found that the culvert had been delivered, we hired a local equipment operator named, Ralph Lentner, to bring in 'fill' to cover the culvert. It took sixty yards of Class 5 sand and gravel mix to do the job, at $100 cost.
The next weekend we drove out to inspect the job. We had a feeling of accomplishment being able to driving off the highway and onto our property; it was another step toward our goal.
While at the property, we carried a salt block back in about 1000 feet and set it on a rock pile for the deer and other animals.
Our first microwave oven
During mid March, we purchased a 1.4 cubic foot Litton microwave at J. C. Penny's Department store for $444.00, which at the time was a significant cost. We bought the microwave for several reasons: to speed up the thawing time for foods taken from the freezer, to reduce the cooking heat in the kitchen during the summer, for quickly warming up foods and beverages. Microwave ovens had been sold at the larger department stores for several years, while they slowly and quietly penetrated household kitchens. Not many people understood how they worked or how to use them, but everyone knew of someone who had one and those reports were positive. When we bought our first microwave we were the first of our friends and acquaintances to own one.
The microwave turned out to be indispensable. We came to depend on its ability to quickly thaw soups, steam vegetables, precook meat, reheat leftovers and heat coffee and tea. It saved a lot of time for a busy family, because as soon as we arrived home from work, we could toss in that evening's supper meat entrée and have it thawed in a matter of minutes, while other courses were being prepared.
The microwave fell into a category like the freezer, and the automatic clothes washer and dryer, it was very convenient. Being somewhat more utilitarian than an end table, but less than a refrigerator, the microwave became a permanent fixture in our house.
The Litton microwave lasted thirteen and a half years, until the end of 1991 before breaking down. We bought a comparable, new General Electric model and found prices had declined sixty-six percent to $223.00, despite inflation during the previous decade and a half [2].
My job responsibilities expand at Landy's
As the months passed, I became more involved with the testing of our waste water for discharged contaminants: BOD (Biological Oxygen Demand), TSS (Total Suspended Solids), oils and grease, salt, settleable solids. I filed monthly reports with both the City of St. Cloud and the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, also maintained Landy Packing Company's 'cracks' by-product and water test logs.
• Minnesota Boiler Engineer's License – Fourth Class: Dept. of Labor and Industry Division of Boiler Inspection, License # 0225474
• Minnesota Pollution Control Agency Waste Water Treatment Facility Operator – Class D, Certificate No. #1750.
The black grease bonanza at Landy's
Over a period of several months, during the spring and summer , I experimentally worked out a procedure to extract black grease from the wastewater sludge. This salable by-product grossed the company an extra $11,000 a year, or about two-thirds of my annual wages at the time. After demonstrating a small working model made from fifty gallon drums, the company bought two large,used steam-heated stainless steel cooking tanks. The tanks stood about eight foot high, see picture below.
[Above: Left photograph: Employee Entrance & Black grease storage tank at the waste water treatment plants east end. I worked alone in this large building on day shift. As a byproduct of cleaning the water, grease laden sludge was skimmed off the clarifiers and cooked. The floating black grease was pumped out to this tanker, later sold and loaded onto a tanker truck for shipment. When you walk in the employee door and look up there is a high concrete platform, from which the picture at right was taken.
Right photograph: Main floor. Seen here are two large, light blue 80,000 gallon air flotation water clarifiers and my steam-heated, stainless steel grease rendering/separation tanks. Photo taken from a 16-20 foot high platform looking down and across the waste water plant. My office and the eventual chemistry laboratory are across the plant in a room at the far distant right in this picture. The boiler seen below is out of the picture at right, against the buildings far west wall.]I designed the entire black grease rendering system including: method of precooking the grease bearing sludge in 'grease tank 1', pumping the greasy material into the cooking tanks, piping steam to the tanks, acidifying, pumping off the black grease, pumping the remaining sludge to the truck tanker.
Two plumbers were sent to the water plant where they worked a couple of weeks installing the piping. As time permitted, I cut and threaded pipe, installed valves in the various pipe lines and later made modifications.
Because grease and greasy sludge was being pumped through the piping, I had to valve the lines so that they could be blown out with air and steam after use, particularly during the winter. In the colder months the black grease piping had to be pre heated to prevent freezing when the material was pumped to the out door storage tanker.
[Photograph at right: My low pressure 15 psi, 30 horse power boiler.]
Back tracking a little: During the winter of 1976-77 Landy's enrolled me in a Boiler
Engineers course, a four hour per night, once a week, 3 month class at the
St. Cloud Area Vocational Institute. The class was geared to teach basic
boiler operation and responsibility to employees, who like myself were first
encountering this line of work, and to assist those already in the industry to
upgrading their licenses. I passed the course and the state exam to become a Fourth Class Boiler Engineer, licensed to operate a 15 pressure , 30 horse power boiler (low pressure – low power)[3].
Wastewater flow chart:
Discussion of the wastewater flow, see the preceding diagram. The description starts with the large blue arrow at the bottom left in the chart; follow the arrows up and around to the City Sewer discharge – the large blue arrow at top right.
1) Waste water flowed by gravity through a large underground pipe from the main plant, about 300 feet to the waste water treatment plant, where it poured out into a 20 foot wide by 30 foot long and 8 foot deep, below grade concrete sump pit (with access ladder and cat walk).
2) Sensors in the sump were tied to a Variable Frequency Drive that operated a 15 horse power pump directly above the sump, on the WWT plants ground floor. As the water level increased in the sump, a pump was called for which pumped the sewage to up and over a Hydrosieve screen on a second story platform. The Hydrosieve screen removed most of the bone and coarse material. This material slid down the screen into a screw conveyor and collected in a holding tank until being emptied into a dump truck that backed in below.
3) Leaving the Hydrosieve screen, the sewage water flowed by gravity into the Primary Clarifier where it encountered a fine 'fizz' of bubbles, the fizz floated much of the grease. The fizz was generated by feeding an air-water mix into the carifier from a pressurization tank. Skimmer arms, skimmed the accumulating grease into a trough, and from there it drained into Grease tank #1 for storage.
4) The sludge in Grease tank #1 was heated and pumped into two steam-heated tanks where I acidified the contents and pumped off saleable black grease. The remaining sludge was pumped to a truck tanker and spread on a farmer's field as fertilizer.
5) Water moved from the primary Clarifier, over a weir, into a 13,000 gallon mixing tank where Ferri Floc and a coagulant polymer mixed to form a 'pin floc' [4]. The chemical feed hoppers and coagulant mixing tank required refilling ever hour or two during day shift. An example of the Waste Water Treatment Plant Log was included in Chapter 1977.
6) When the pin floc entered the Secondary Clarifier, it was floated by an injection of fizz, similar to that in the Primary Clarifier. The pin floc floated to the surface where it was skimmed off by the clarifiers rotating arms, into 'Grease' tank #2. The contents of this holding tank were pumped to the truck tanker and disposed of as fertilizer on farm fields.
7) The much cleaner water now passed over a weir and flowed down under ground to a small concrete room which housed the flow meter and water sample port.
8) The water continued on out to intersect with a City of St. Cloud water main.
9) A small amount of sewage water was collected by a flow proportioning device and pumped into a refrigerated sample bucket in the WWT plants electric – control room.
The puppy who became, Griz
By the time we decided to get a dog we'd purchased our 39 rural property and were clearing trees from the future driveway . We figured if we got a puppy he'd be about a year old by the time we moved out onto the property. At the time, we had every intention of moving onto the acreage that fall, which was seven months away. On March 31 we went to the St. Cloud Animal Hospital where we found several pups from a litter that had just been brought in for sale. One large and active pup caught our eye. The veterinarian told us that the litter was half German Shepherd, quarter St. Bernard and quarter Unknown.
The pup we liked was a mottled black and brown, resembling a small bear, at the same time he was so chubby and large that we thought the St. Bernard in him was coming out. We paid the $25 adoption fee for the six-week old pup and took him with us. It was the pup's fur coloration and large size that bought him the name, Grizzly (bear), which was subsequently shortened to Griz and Grizzy.
We made a short barricade across the kitchen-living room entrance to confine the pup to the linoleum floor. For the next couple months, Donna and I went to work on week day mornings and returned home late in the afternoon to clean up "messes" and shredded paper from the kitchen floor. In the evenings and on weekends we had a grand time playing with the little fellow.
As Griz grew his fur coat became a somewhat mottled three colors which matched the fall woodland coloration. A black mantle covered his muzzle and back; his sides and upper legs blend into a light rust brown; while his chest, abdomen and lower legs are white. At adult weight, our small German Shepherd – St. Bernard cross weighed forty-nine pounds.
[Photo above: Griz at about 1-year-old, pic taken while we were camping on the property in the Fall. Gris was never 'trained' to do anything, but he knew some 20-25 words. He knew to correctly identify from speech whether to "fetch" or 'find' (go and select) a stick, stone, Frisbee, ball, or toy. He knew who to look for when playing hide and go seek-as in "Go Find Mommy" or "Go find, Daddy" or "Go find Jane', Where's Jessie (dog)? Listen up! What's that (while pointing). Sit. Stay. Shake hands. Supper. Dog house, Come., Go home!, Get out-of-the-way!, Daddy no play! Give me Frisbee (stick or toy, in other words-let it go), "Tug-a-dog" (played with an old item of cloth)…]
Our first vineyard and orchard, choked out
During April and May we cut brush, and planted an orchard and vineyard at back east side of the property. By 31 July, the area was so over grown that our plants were choked out. Adding to the injury of seeing our labor swamped by weeds, the mosquitoes were so bad we were driven out of the orchard, and defeated by their bloodthirsty numbers. The following year only a few of our plants remained alive. We gave up on the area and it returned to the wild. As the years passed this approximately 3/4 acre area grew into dense woods.
Party time in our Starcraft, Galaxy 6, folding camper
In May, we bought a new Starcraft Galaxy 6 fold down camper trailer for about $2,400. The camper was ment to be a base of operations while we worked at our property, and for weekend and vacations around the state.
[Images above: Photograph left: Our Starcraft, Galaxy 6 pop up camper, set up at Two Rivers private campground. Two Rivers is located at the confluence of the Platte & Mississippi Rivers, north of Rice, Minnesota. We bought a screened enclosure. Our Weber BBQ and lawn chairs can be seen through the netting.
Photo right: The camper 's overall 21 foot long interior (including slide out end beds); had running water, propane tanks for cooking and interior heat; it had electric lights, refrigerator—literally all the amenities and comforts of a very small home. It brought a lot of enjoyment on weekends while we camped and worked on our property, and out at places like Two Rivers, when partying with friends.]
The camper had a crank which raised the roof and sides, we pulled out the ends which became enclosed beds. The interior consisted of a four person table at one end (see picture above), the seats raised for storage beneath.. On the left was a stove and sink and shelves, with ice chest refrigerator below. We set our camping chest on a shelf top, above a cabinet of drawers. The camping chest is the one I made before we moved to Minnesota. On the right side of the camper were two built-in cabinets with drawers, and small take down clothes closet. The screened windows were made of a clear, heavy-duty plastic film with privacy drapes.
The camper used 30 gallon propane tanks for cooking and interior heating. There was a hand pump to pressurize the water tank so we had running water too. There were no bathroom facilities so we bought a Porta Potty to keep from having to make midnight runs across campgrounds or venture out into the rain to visit the toilet. We had a portable radio, interior lights that operated off a battery…in a word most of the comforts of home. The camper was fun, it was a lot of fun!
Camping at Two Rivers Campground
From late spring through early fall, there were too many mosquitoes out in the woods for us to work on the property, so, we went camping in state and private parks, most of which were sprayed to reduce the mosquito populations.
Several times our neighbor's, Bobby and Arlene, came out to join us for a night of partying. Typically they'd do their farm chores and milk the cows then drive to the campground where we were staying. Supper was ready when they arrived. After our meal we'd make pop corn, and have several drinks while sitting around the table, telling jokes, gossiping, and sharing good company. They'd sleep over in the second bed, have a late breakfast then return home around mid morning to do their morning chores. Several times Bob and Arlene hired a local farm teenager to do the milking; when that happened, they'd spent the better part of the weekend partying with us.
Even back in the late 70s Donna and I saw that something wasn't quite right in Bobby and Arlene's marriage. Several times when we had dinner prepared, they arrive an hour late—whether we were camping or at home in Rockwood Estates. Bobby shrugged their tardiness off saying he had 'unforeseen farm chores', later Arlene would tell Donna privately that 'Bobby was just screwing around' to 'get even' with her over something or other.
Music [midi: The Best That You Can Do]
Initial homesite development plans
For people like Donna and I, who had lived in the city, in apartment building and mobile home parks, we found ourselves practically overwhelmed by the enormous increase in our living space. The thirty-nine acres represented a two to three order of magnitude expansion in the our concept of personal privacy, freedom and control of resources. The purchase of the acreage created a huge mental vacuum, from which the question arose, "Now that we have it, how do we use it?"
[Photograph above: The tools we used to clear our driveway and homesite: Chain saw, bottles of water, pruning shears, an axe, gasoline, chain saw bar oil, thermos, sack lunch, and machetes.]
It was our wish to envelope ourselves into the existing natural order, creating as small a disturbance and as little havoc as possible in the environment and lives of the wild life forms on the property. We did not want to rush right in and tear away at the forest to create a homesite. We wanted to feel where the best spot for our home would be and utilize that spot so it would fit quietly into the environment with as much harmony as possible.
While thinking over our requirements, the idea of a multidimensional matrix began forming. We needed to plan a multitude of intertwining ideas and resources usage ideas together. We had ecological concerns for the flora and fauna. Small areas of the property needed to be manipulated for more optimum human occupation, while most of the property would remain wild.
We decided to design our land use and future construction (buildings, fencing, etc.) plans with consideration to: The wildlife, proposed livestock, carrying capacities, possible future parasitic population growth, local and long-term environmental factors, potential extreme climate variations, limited social and economic upheaval, war, reduction of living costs to increase discretionary income, extended unemployment, retirement, privacy and aesthetics.
With these concepts rather nebulously in mind we began clearing a homesite. The first abortive clearing was only just begun, about three hundred feet east of the County Road in a patch of red raspberry canes. After spending part of a weekend in that location we decided to move farther from the road, deeper back in the woods.
We spent two weekends about five hundred feet in from the county road cutting fallen dead trees and saplings. As we worked we became painfully of the large number of trees that would have to be cut in order to open the area. Finally we quit work and sat down realizing there had to be a better place for the trailer.
During the hours we spent working in these two early locations, we learned to use the lopping shears and brush scythe. We also developed an efficient division of labor. When we first began working in the morning we'd both do the same manual labor, but gradually as we tired we began rotating jobs. When I was snipping, chopping and piling brush, Donna would drag it across the clearing to a central brush pile. Then ever so often we switched and Donna cut brush while I'd haul it away.
Choosing a better situated homesite
The following weekend we moved another one hundred twenty-five feet east (now about seven hundred feet from the county road) into a three-quarter acre or so size patch of wild red raspberries which containing a stand of several large dead Elm trees. The death of the Elms had allowed sunlight to penetrate to the forest floor, whereupon grasses and raspberries had begun to thrive. It didn't take much clearing before we came to realize the potential wind break afforded by the location and that the ground had a gradual southern slope. The new homesite provided an excellent privacy curtain all around, while providing a good view of our beautiful low meadow to the south.
Donna and I spent a year working in this clearing, mostly during the spring and fall weekends, when the mosquitoes weren't out in such force. We cut down eighteen to twenty-four trees, several which were huge, dead Elms.
We cut the limbs off all the felled trees and dragged them to one of several log piles. Smaller trunks and logs were set straddling the wheelbarrow and moved out of the clearing. The larger tree trunks were left for the future when we'd have them removed by heavy machinery.
Quartering Griz at our friend's farm
Griz continued to grow and by July had become too large to keep permanently penned up in the trailer. Here in lied a problem. Rockwood Estates did not allow pet dogs in the trailer park. In the early morning and again after dark, Donna or I would take Griz outdoors behind the trailer to run about briefly and relieve himself.
While we were at work, Griz pottied on newspaper we laid in a specific location on the floor.
During the summer we found temporary boarding for Griz at Bobby and Arlene's farm, where he was chained to an old unused chicken coop with access to its interior. We provided the bagged food, but our friends refused money for feeding and watering the dog. In way of payment, we bought them a large porcelain Weber Kettle barbecue and the associated cooking utensils.
Almost every weekend we picked Griz up where upon he spent the two days with us either camping, loafing, shopping in town or working at the property.
We misjudged how long it would take for us to move out to the property, so Griz spent the winter at Bobby's tethered to the old chicken coop. By spring it was apparent that the year old dog was having troubles at his 'home away from home'. On day while visiting Bob and Arlene, we were standing in front of their mobile home talking when Bobby's four-year old Border Collie, Nemo, came running down the road from the barn. Seeing Nemo approach, Griz tried to run under the car to escape, but Nemo caught him and tore into him with terrible ferocity. Griz didn't fight back, his sole intent was to escape. In a few minutes we had the dogs apart. It was then we found that Nemo often went to where Griz was chained at the chicken coop and "beat him up". That weekend we withdrew Griz from Bobby's.
Griz moves to the Wojtanowich's
Grizzly's next temporary home was at Andy Wojtanowich's rural home, only about four miles from Rockwood Estates. We paid Andy's son Doug, $5 a week to feed and water Griz. Conditions were a lot better for Griz at the Wojtanowich house, as he got a lot of attention from their three younger, near teen age children. Much of the time he was allowed to run free and it was here he learned to catch a
Frisbee. Since there wasn't shelter available at his temporary home, we bought Griz a dog house; built by a retired man in Foley. We continued to pick Griz up Friday evenings, so we could all be together for the weekend. Since Rockwood Estates didn't allow dogs, we developed a method of smuggling him in and Griz learned his part exceptionally well. As we approached the trailer park, Griz would climb down off the car seat and lay on the floor. When we parked in our parking space near the mobile home, I'd get out and open the front door then step inside. Both Donna and I would look around to make sure the 'coast was clear'.
Donna would crack open the car door and quietly say, "Go see Daddy, Griz." In a mad dash, Gris would scramble out of the car and make a rush for the trailer door. At the last moment, I'd swing the screen door open and Griz would come bounding in.
Donna nonchalantly followed a few moments later. d:-)
By the fall of 1978: It was apparent that we weren't going to be living out on our property another winter so made arrangements for Griz to winter at the Wojtanowich's
Love Canal, a toxic waste dump
On August 4, evacuation of residents of the Love Canal neighborhood in Niagara Falls, New York began. The area where the neighborhood stood was found to have been used as a toxic waste dump from 1947 to 1952 and was found unfit for human habitation.
Mechanical work on the driveway[5] : Part #1
Our first attempt to have tree stumps removed from the driveway found us dealing with an optimistic back hoe operator late in the summer. When we showed him the job he advised us saying, "Oh sure.
I can dig out those stumps." We came out to check on his progress the first afternoon that he worked> He'd spend four hours removing two stumps and left gnarly holes in their place. We fired him.
Music [midi: 2001]
P.A.M.E.L.A.
During September 1978, about a year after personal computer's were first introduced in the retail stores, Donna and I purchased a Processor Technology, SOL computer with 48K RAM. We also bought a Northstar 5-¼ inch external floppy disk drive and a box floppy disks with 96K storage capacity per disk.
The monitor consisted of a nine-inch, black and white (diagonal) Panasonic closed circuit monitor.
The unit cost about $1,850. We named the computer P.A.M.E.L.A which was an acronym for Programmable Auxiliary Machine for Education, Learning and Acquisition. At the time of the purchase we only knew one other family who had a computer and that was my friend, Mike D, who lived in California.
We promptly started a home business called "The Cybernetic Counselor" and used depreciation in
the tax laws to reduce our Federal and State income taxes. Over the next few years the equipment depreciation helped reduce the initial cost of the equipment by reducing the tax bite from our family income. During this time, I was one of the very few people in central Minnesota knowing anything about personal computers' so figured we could help others set up their equipment for a fee (smile at that happy thought) Business was terrible. Sure we got the tax credit, but couldn't make a profit in the business. Within a few years, the IRS pretty much closed the tax benefit provided by the 'home office' and other miniscule computer centric loopholes.
In retrospect, computer ownership figures came to show that until 1980, there were only one million computers in the world. Since we bought the Processor Technology SOL in 1978, we were indeed amongst the world's first one million computer owners.
[1978 Photograph, our 'Processor Technology, SOL' computer; named, PAMELA, an acronym for, Programmable Auxiliary Machine for Entertainment, Learning and Acquisition. This article is being edited for posting on PAMELA -6]
One BASIC program that I wrote analyzed our food consumption for an entire year. Donna had saved our grocery receipts, which I separated into nine categories, including: Bakery, Dairy, Canned goods, Dry goods, Produce, Beverage, Liquor, Meat and Miscellaneous. Every week, I entered each item on the shopping receipt by category, cost and month of purchase. A data run gave either the cash value or percentage of the total for each category by month. With this we were able to see where our food dollar was being spent.
Over the period of twelve months, we found the individual categories accounted for:
Bakery ($171, 7.9%), Dairy ($263,12.1%), Canned goods ($253, 11.6%),
Dry goods ($128, 5.9%), Produce ($238, 10.9%), Beverage ($116, 5.4%),
Liquor ($290, 13.3%), Meat ($516, 23.8%) Misc. ($195, 8.9%).
We planned future gardens with an eye to reduce the Produce, Canned goods and Meat portions of the expense.
Without realizing it at the time, I'd just begun a lifelong personal interest and hobby with computers.
[Our living room furnishings, during the time we lived in Rockwood Estates Mobile Home Park…the old driftwood stereo shelves, a tropical fish aquarium, Pamela computer, 19″ color TV, the re-upholstered antique rocking chair, many ancestor photographs in large picture frame..]
Vacationing on the property
On September 9, we pulled our Starcraft Camper onto the property, about 250 feet in from the County road. We spent our days installing a fence along the property next to the county road and continued clearing the future homesite. Also, during this time we pretty much finished creating a map of the property: a photocopy of the original can be seen at the end of this chapter.
Every night, Donna and I celebrated our vacation, our property, and the days progress. We talked a lot, discussing everything and having a good time together.
None loved camping life more than the Griz. That dynamic, gentleman dog, loved the woods, he loved catching popcorn tossed his way, he loved his Frisbee and ball, he was always close at hand, paying attention – to everything, alert to sounds and the creatures of the woods, if you went for a walk, Griz was there. Griz was always filled with happiness and enthusiasm.[6]
[Donna standing in the driveway by our newly installed fencing. The Snow fencing didn't work as hoped so was removed after the first winter. The Fen Bog seen in the background is all on our property. In the spring migrating cranes and ducks stopped here for a few days to weeks. Blackbirds were plentiful, a flock of pheasants continually nested in the bushes seen behind Donna]
Mechanical work on the driveway: Part #2
In early November, on our second attempt to put in a driveway, we called a fellow who owned a small bulldozer. The operator felt we should remove the top three to six inches of topsoil to expose the hard clay subsoil. He suggested we should have Class 5 added to create the road bed.
We hired him and over the next few days an eight foot wide path about six inches deep was trenched in through the forest. The top soil was dumped in a large pile beside the driveway. The stumps we wanted out were removed and several ten cubic yard loads of Class 5 were brought in to create the road bed.
Then problems developed.
After the first hard rain, we found that the resulting runoff all gathered in the six-inch trench that was cut through the topsoil. Our road became much more muddy than the undisturbed soil had been. Even when most of the driveway dried, there was an eight foot wide impassable area about 300 feet up the driveway, where there was always a small amount of water seeping through from one side to the others. We surmised there was a tiny spring coming out of the side of the hill, there was just enough water oozing out to keep that area wet.
We were sick over the bad advice, poor workmanship, and amount of expenses that were being funneled into the driveway.
We decided to let the driveway sit until the next year, in the meanwhile I would find out what really needed to be done and get the right people to do the job.
My favorite programs in 1978. (Most are situation comedy's with a new episode on once a week. We didn't watch more than about 1 to 2 hours of TV per night.)
• Local Evening News
• National Evening News
• WKRP in Cincinnati
• Happy Days
• Laverne and Shirley
• Three's company
• Eight is Enough
• Mork and Mindy
• Project U.F.O.
• The Rockford Files
• Battlestar Galactica
• Occasional ABC, CBS or NBC evening movies.
• The Muppet Show
• The Incredible Hulk
• The Love Boat
Centennial, a mini series
The Bastard, a mini series
Capricorn One with Elliot Gould, James Brolin, Brenda Vaccaro, Sam Waterston
Coming Home with Jon Voight, Jane Fonda, Bruce Dern
Every Which Way But Loose with Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Geoffrey Lewis
Heaven Can Wait with Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, James Mason, Jack Warden
Invasion of the Body Snatchers with Donald Sutherland, Leonard Nemoy, Brooke Adams
Jaws 2 with Roy Scheider, Lorraine Gary
National Lampoon's Animal House with John Belushi, Tim Matheson, Verna Bloom
Revenge of the Pink Panther with Peter Sellers, Herbert Lom, Dyan Cannon
Superman-The Movie with Christopher Reeve, Gene Hackman, Margot Kidder
The Wild Geese with Richard Burton, Roger Moore, Richard Harris, Hardy Kruger
[Photocopy, Vegetation and topography map of our thirty-nine acre property in rural Foley, MN.]
[1] BASIC is an acronym for Beginners All Purpose Instruction Code, an elementary computer
programming language.
[2] During June 2003, as part of a project I was working on for G&K Services, I bought the most expensive microwave in Sears Department store. The quality machine with many desireable functions, cost $139.99!
[3] The boiler was first used to keep the sludge lines and valves operational during the winter, then additionally to cook the salvageable black grease (picture above right) and finally heat the black
grease storage tanker (above left) before pumping to a truck tanker for shipping.
[4] Particles of grease and soil in the water electrically attached to charged sites along the polymer s molecular chain forming tiny 'brown 'snow flake shaped particles referred to as pin floc. Air saturated water was pumped in to the clarifier with the fin floc. Tiny bubbles of fizz attached to the pin floc carrying it to the surface, where the accumulation was skimmed off by the clarifiers by the rotating skimmer arms.
[5] See also Journal 1, The Gordian Knot, page 17.
[6] And it is with stunned silence that as I reread these entries in the year 2008, that my mind goes down a tunnel that opens to the images and senses of those days, while we camped and worked on the property…and it all happened thirty years earlier, it was a different life time. And in sad resignation to all that has gone before, I miss and lament the passing of such a wonderous time in my life. The strength of body, the surges of vitality and power, the ambition of my middle years, the times of passion, where the future yawned endlessly open. Alas, it was a different life time.
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Why North won't accept second position in 2023- Northern elders
by Akinwande Soji-Ojo
The Northern Elders Forum has said the North was in the process of rebuilding itself and was not prepared to play second fiddle in a nation where it clearly enjoys numerical strength.
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The group's Director of Publicity and Advocacy, Dr. Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, said this while delivering a keynote address at the maiden Maitama Sule Lecture Series organised by the students' wing of the Coalition of Northern Groups, held at Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, over the weekend .
According to Baba-Ahmed, North will lead country, "the way we have led Nigeria before whether we are President or Vice President, we will lead Nigeria. We have the majority of the votes and democracy says vote whom you want."
"Why should we accept a second class position when we know we can buy a form and contest for first class and we will win?
"Why does anybody need to threaten us and intimidate us? We will get that power but be humble because power comes from God. We inherited leadership and being honest is not being stupid.
"The North has pride; we are humble enough to know that we are going to run Nigeria with other people but we are not going to pay a second fiddle to anybody. We may not have the most robust economy, there are people who are trying to strangulate us even more than we are being strangled.
"We are ready for this. We will consider every economic adversity, challenge. We will fix the Northern economy and we are the only one who can fix this Northern economy. For that reason, we are not for sale. We are in the process of rebuilding the North and we will rebuild the North from 2023.
"Whether the North holds power in 2023 or not, anybody who wants to break up in this country will say so, they are just looking for excuses. This is democracy. If they don't like what Nigeria is, they will say they want to break up from this country, we don't pay attention to those people, we are focused on the fact that we are running a democratic system.
"If the majority of Nigerian voters vote for a candidate from the North and he becomes the President and somebody doesn't want to live under the Nigeria President, the person can leave," he said.
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San migrated from Malaysia at 18 years of age and completed his VCE at Templestowe High School. Following VCE he attend the Dental School at Melbourne University where he attained his degree of Bachelor of Dental Science. After graduation he practiced in Lower Plenty, Warburton and Croydon finally settling down in the Frankston area.


When the Starship Enterprise was built in 1966, it wasn't at a Starfleet base, but in a humble model shop in Burbank next door to America's largest IKEA. Today, the iconic TV prop from the original Star Trek series is the focus of a major restoration effort by conservation scientists at the Smithsonian Institution. The show aired its last episode in 1969 and five years later the ship was sent to the Washington, DC where it went on display in the National Air and Space Museum's Milestones of Flight Hall.
I love it when science fiction meets actual science, and I've heard countless NASA employees talk about the influence Star Trek had on them, so it's wonderful to see the team going to such high-tech lengths (did someone say μ‐FTIR spectroscopy and μ‐XRF spectrometry?) to examine and restore the original Enterprise. The museum plans to have the ship back on display in time for the 50th anniversary of Star Trek in September.


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Q: Use SPServices to Grab Recently Modified DOcuments I'm looking to build a list of files that have recently been modified in my SharePoint Online library.  I am using SPServices to query my SharePoint Library.
Here is my code:
var fieldsToRead ="<ViewFields></ViewFields>";
var query = "<Query><Where><Geq><FieldRef Name='Modified' /><Value Type=\"Date\">"+ $('#in_FromDate').val() +"</Value></Geq></Where></Query>";

$().SPServices({
    operation: "GetListItems",
    async: false,
    webURL: $().SPServices.SPGetCurrentSite(),
    listName: "Documents",
    CAMLViewFields: fieldsToRead,
    CAMLQuery: query,
    completefunc: function (xData, Status) {
        $(xData.responseXML).SPFilterNode("z:row").each(function () {
            var dtModified = $(this).attr("ows_Modified").split(";#")[1];
            var LinkToDoc = $(this).attr("ows_FileRef").split(";#")[1];
            var Type = $(this).attr("ows_FSObjType").split(";#")[1];    //  0 = File | 1 = Folder

            //Process Result
        });
    }
});

This works, but only for the Root of my Document Library.
Can I adjust my query or code to show all documents/folders that have been modified since the supplied date? (in_FromDate in the example above.)

A: Add
CAMLQueryOptions: "<QueryOptions><ViewAttributes Scope='RecursiveAll'  /></QueryOptions>",

to your SPServices code.

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With Lion Brand's Feels Like Butta yarn you can create these beautiful crochet designs in no time at all!
This new yarn from Lion Brand is super soft!
One of the newest yarns from Lion Brand is Feels like Butta and is one of the softest fibers that I have had the pleasure of working with. It is extremely cozy feeling and glides easily on and off a crochet hook. It almost feels like chenille and is so soft to the touch which is perfect for babies and someone like me who prefers non scratchy yarn.
So, if you were looking for an extra cozy yarn for a project this new line from Lion Brand Yarn may be it! It is seriously so soft!
I provided a link below so you can check out all the amazing colors the Feels Like Butta comes in which are quite amazing if you ask me! I love love them all but my top three are Dusty Pink, Royal Blue & Yellow! Which ones are your favorite? Betcha can't pick one!
Want to try try Feels Like Butta Yarn?
Go ahead and try Feels like Butta for yourself and let me know what you think! You won't regret it. Promise! 🙂 As an FYI it is currently only available on the Lion Brand Yarn Website but when it is distributed to stores I will be sure to update this post.
Update: It is NOW available in Michaels!
Go Ahead and Get Some Feels Like Butta Yarn Today!
What will you crochet first with this new yarn?
As you can see there are so many designs to try and I hope you enjoyed this small but pretty awesome list! (If I do say so myself!) There may not be to many crochet patterns using Feels like Butta but these are the few I could find that I thought would be great to try!
Have fun picking from these fun crochet patterns and please let me know what you think of this yarn!


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class SurveySubmissionsController < ApplicationController
  load_and_authorize_resource :course
  load_and_authorize_resource :survey, through: :course
  load_and_authorize_resource :survey_submission, through: :survey

  before_filter :allow_only_one_submission, only: [:new, :create]
  before_filter :load_general_course_data, only: [:show, :edit, :new]

  def new
    if @survey_submission.save
      respond_to do |format|
        format.html { redirect_to edit_course_survey_survey_submission_path(@course, @survey, @survey_submission) }
      end
    end
  end

  def create
    update
  end

  def edit
    @current_qn = @survey_submission.current_qn || 1
    @step = @current_qn

    @editable = !@survey_submission.submitted? ||  @survey.allow_modify?

    if params[:_pos] && params[:_pos].to_i >= 1
      @step = params[:_pos].to_i
    else
      @step = 1
    end
  end

  def update
  end

  def show
    edit
  end

  def submit
    unless !@survey_submission.submitted? ||  @survey.allow_modify?
      respond_to do |format|
        flash[:error] ="No Modification is allowed"
        format.html { redirect_to course_survey_survey_submission_path(@course, @survey, @survey_submission)}
      end
      return
    end

    if @survey.is_contest?
      submit_single_question
    else
      answers = {}
      params[:answers].each do |vals|
        qn = @survey.questions.where(id: vals.first).first
        if qn
          answers[qn] = vals.last
        end
      end
      @survey.questions.each do |qn|
        if qn.is_essay?
          essay =  qn.survey_essay_answers.where(user_course_id:curr_user_course).first || @survey_submission.survey_essay_answers.build({user_course_id: curr_user_course.id, question_id: qn.id})
          if answers.has_key? qn
            essay.text = answers[qn]
            essay.save
          else
            essay.destroy
          end
        else
          #TODO: improve
          selected = qn.survey_mrq_answers.where(user_course_id:curr_user_course)
          selected.each do |ans|
            ans.option.decrease_count
            ans.destroy
          end
          if answers.has_key? qn
            options = SurveyQuestionType.MCQ.first == qn.type ? [answers[qn]] : answers[qn]

            options.each do |option|
              answer = @survey_submission.survey_mrq_answers.build({option_id: option, user_course_id: curr_user_course.id, question_id: qn.id})
              answer.save
              answer.option.increase_count
            end
          end
        end
      end
      is_submit = params[:commit] != 'Save'
      is_finished = false
      answered_qns = answers.keys
      @survey_submission.current_qn = answered_qns.length
      @survey_submission.save

      if is_submit
        required_qns = @survey.questions.select {|qn| qn.is_required? }
        is_finished = (required_qns - answered_qns) == []
      end

      respond_to do |format|
        if is_submit and is_finished
          @survey_submission.set_submitted
          format.html {redirect_to course_surveys_path,
                                   notice: "You have submitted survey: #{@survey.title}"}
        else
          format.html {redirect_to edit_course_survey_survey_submission_path(@course, @survey, @survey_submission),
                                   notice: "Survey status has been saved."}
        end
      end
    end
  end

  private
  def allow_only_one_submission
    sub = @survey.submission_by(curr_user_course.id)
    if sub
      @survey_submission = sub
    else
      @survey_submission.user_course = curr_user_course
    end
    @survey_submission.set_started
  end

  #TODO: potentially, user can choose to render survey in three ways
  def submit_single_page

  end

  def submit_single_question
    step =  params[:step].to_i
    redirect_url = edit_course_survey_survey_submission_path(@course, @survey, @survey_submission)
    unless params[:option]
      respond_to do |format|
        flash[:error] ="No option is selected."
        format.html {redirect_to  redirect_url + "?_pos=#{step}" }
      end
      return
    end

    question = @survey.survey_questions.where(id:params[:question]).first
    options = params[:option].keys.map {|k| k.to_i}
    if question.max_choices < options.count
      flash[:error] = "Max response allowed is #{question.max_choices}, but #{options.count} have been selected."
    else
      answers = question.survey_mrq_answers.where(user_course_id:curr_user_course)

      was_selected = answers.map{|ans| ans.option_id }
      was_selected.each_with_index do |id, index|
        unless options.include? id
          answers[index].option.decrease_count
          answers[index].destroy
        end
      end
      (options - was_selected).each do |id|
        answer = question.survey_mrq_answers.build
        answer.option_id = id
        answer.user_course = curr_user_course
        answer.survey_submission = @survey_submission
        answer.save
        answer.option.increase_count
      end

      step += 1

      if @survey_submission.done?
        @survey_submission.set_submitted
      end
    end
    respond_to do |format|
      format.html {redirect_to redirect_url + "?_pos=#{step}"}
    end
  end

  def submit_single_section

  end
end

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Life is to short to be disorganized! Let us spoil you with the new Organizer Leather Pouch to help you carry a wide variety of accessories such as your mouse, mouse pad, MacBook charger, EarPods and leather jaws. Ideal for TRAVEL and storage and also to fit inside your explorer backpack, city hunter backpack or your Messenger bag.
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Perthshire North MSP John Swinney MSP will visit Royal Mail's Blairgowrie delivery office tomorrow [4TH Dec] to pass on Christmas wishes and thanks to our postmen and women at this their busiest time of the year.
The local MSP will be guided through the sorting process by local Delivery Office Manager, Nicola Sawyers, and will meet the postmen and women who are working hard doing their bit to sort and deliver cards and parcels in the Blairgowrie area this Christmas.
"I enjoy the annual opportunity to catch up with our hard working Royal Mail postmen and women in delivery offices each Christmas and witness first hand just how much effort is put into delivering for people at this time of year.
"Christmas is the busiest time of year for Royal Mail. Our people really do pull out all the stops throughout the year to ensure mail is delivered quickly, but even more so over the busy festive period.


Transformers Series: The Last Knight Sqweeks.
A nice little model. Not too many pieces. And original. I probably like this model more than others due to its originality. Basically was 2 sittings I believe. Not much to say.


> 76% of organizations say they experienced phishing attacks in 2017.
> By the end of 2017, the average user was receiving 16 malicious emails per month.
> 92.4% of malware is delivered via email.
> Fake invoices are the #1 disguise for distributing malware.
> Spam was the most common method for cyber criminals to spread malware in 2018, accounting for 9 out of 10 infection attempts throughout the year.
> Phishing scams accounted for 50% of all fraud attacks in Q3 2018.


U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison, a native Detroiter, is returning to his roots to discuss diversity in America.
Some conservative wags criticized Ellison, who became the first African-American Muslim elected to Congress in November, for doing his ceremonial swearing in using a Quran (and not a Bible).
Ellison, a Democrat who represents Minneapolis, will be honored as he joins civil rights leader the Rev. Jesse Jackson for the Detroit Association of Black Organizations' 28th Annual State of the Race Address and Dinner on Feb. 18.
Jackson, chief executive of Rainbow Push, will be the keynote speaker. The event begins at 4 p.m. at Second Ebenezer Banquet Facility, 2760 E. Grand Blvd., Detroit. For tickets, call 313-491-0003.


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"Everyone loves" Bellsmyre lollipop man who cheers up morning commuters and brightens pupil's days
A lovable lollipop man is brightening up the days of morning commuters and children with his energetic dancing and cheery waving to passers-by.
Jenny Foulds
Nkosana Mdikane has become a Bellsmyre celebrity in just four weeks since taking up his new job helping pupils cross the road safely.
The 73-year-old, nicknamed 'Smiley' by the youngsters, is delighting the young and old with his animated style and infectious smile — and some motorists are even taking detours just so they can drive by him.
Mum Stacey Diamond said: "Aitkenbar Primary School's lollipop man deserves a place in the paper — everyone loves him!
"All passing cars beep their horn and wave to him as he dances away, even when it is pouring with rain.
"My children go to St Patrick's Primary School but we make sure we drive by him every day!"
The Lennox Herald caught up with Nkosana last week whilst children and drivers and passengers in almost every bus, white van and car on Whiteford Avenue responded to his waves with big smiles and thumbs-up.
Nkosana, who moved to Scotland from South Africa in 2003 shortly after wife Zoliswa emigrated here to work as a nurse, said: "I can't be watching TV, that is too dull.
"My neighbour told me about the job and I knew I had to have it straight away! It has taken away the frustration and loneliness of being retired."
He said the best aspect of his job is the people he gets to meet every day, saying: "I like to wave at everybody — I don't like to miss anybody out and dancing is an exercise which keeps me warm when it is cold.
"I am this way because not one day was I made unhappy here in Scotland."
Nkosana added that he had also been touched by reports he had read about how Scotland had played an important role in leading the campaign for the freedom of former South African president Nelson Mandela.
Glasgow signalled support for the campaign to free him in 1986 by renaming St George's Place in the city centre Nelson Mandela Place, much to the annoyance of the South African consulate.
He said: "The Scottish people loved my president when my own people couldn't whilst he was still in prison and I want to thank them for this.
"They have cold hands but they have warm hearts."
Nkosana, who retired at 72, has enjoyed a long working life and has held a number of jobs including running his own business in construction.
Most recently he worked at a bus firm finding mechanical faults on the vehicles.
He credited the Dumbarton motorists as being the most courteous and respectful he had ever seen and doesn't even miss the South African heat, adding: "It is cold here but I like it."
A spokeswoman for West Dunbartonshire Council said: "Nkosana is one of a team of nearly 60 school crossing patrollers in West Dunbartonshire who are valued members of the community and provide an excellent service in all weathers.
"It is great that Nkosana has been highlighted for his cheery nature and brightens up the days of not only the children but also passing motorists."
UK & WorldWoman gives birth to her brother's baby - because adoption is too expensiveChapelle Cooper, from Cumbria, stepped in when her brother Scott and his partner Michael found that adopting a baby was expensive and complex
West DunbartonshireWest Dunbartonshire obesity crisis is bigger threat than smokingThere are more dangerously overweight adults than smokers in the region, according to new figures.


Owner of Weddings in Vieques, a destination-wedding planning company off the coast of Puerto Rico, Sandy Malone has helped countless couples plan their big day since 2007. Here, she reveals the wedding trends she's totally over.
Some brides studiously research the hottest wedding trends before making their own planning and décor decisions. If Pantone Orchid was the 2014 color of the year, we wedding planners saw it in every conceivable shade in bridesmaid dresses, groomsmen neckties, décor and bouquets.
1. Burlap! Burlap! And More Burlap!
I've used it for table runners, around vases, around bouquet stems, streaming off tikis, hanging in bows off ceremony chairs and another whole slew of ways that I prefer not to recall.
I had a client with an ombré wedding gown, which matched the ombré rose petal aisle, ombré-layered blooms in cylinder vases, and ombré-styled wedding cake. Even her hair and nails were ombré.
Proceed with caution when it comes to using flames on your big day. Sparkler tunnels are gorgeous but they don't work if everyone at your wedding has had too much to drink to responsibly hold a sparkler.


I had been wishing for a nice celestial globe for a while, and this gem finally came to me.
They are much more scarce than their terrestrial cousins, and the nice ones (the really, really, really nice ones, illustrated in color & centuries old) are hugely rare & cost a corresponding amount of pennies. This one is from the early mid-century, so no very old, but very beautiful & within my reach.
You probably won't be surprised by the constellation highlighted in the picture -- it is my favorite -- but they are all equally beautifully illustrated. And I've learned some new ones, too, like Lacerta, (the lizard).


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Rainow
Jenkin Chapel
Forest chapel
Local Online Worship Resources
By Lorna Riley | 10/04/2020 | Category Coronavirus, Covid-19, Easter, Forest Chapel, Jenkin Chapel, Rainow, Resources
For those of you that have been missing your usual fellowship, particularly over Easter, here is a list of local online resources that may help during these difficult times. The list has been helpfully collated by Revd Andy Williams.
Holy Trinity Hursdfield
HTH Sunday Live
http://www.hthmacc.com/hth-sunday-live.html – Sunday @ 10:30am:
– a live stream welcome, a bit of online chat, and 'introduction' to our service. (this is the only 'live' bit we do, and it is available after the live time as a recorded piece)
– then on the webpage there are links to pre-recorded sermon, prayer topics, worship songs and activities for kids and teens.
HTH at HOME
http://www.hthmacc.com/hth-at-home.html
This is a 'resource page' that we are building up over time with Easter reflections (some videos others written – online till Easter Monday), prayer resources, interesting reading material, and photos from people who are joining in with stuff…
It is all accessible from our website: www.hthmacc.com
St Peter's Macclesfield
St Peter's Macclesfield is live-streaming Morning Prayer on Facebook Mon-Sat at 9am (https://www.facebook.com/stpetersmacclesfield/ ), with previous days still available online
St Peter's is also holding live Sunday services via Zoom at 9.30am (email teamrector.macc@gmail.com to request the link to join in). We had one of our largest Sunday attendances in my time here last Sunday, including a household each in Edinburgh & Mull.
St Michael's Macclesfield
St Michael's is uploading pre-recorded Sunday services week-by-week to https://www.achurchnearyou.com/church/12802/
St Paul's Macclesfield
St. Paul's uploads video resources (weekly service, talks & reflections, to its YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQMeK5BCanr78m6_FuA0yFQ
and on its new website (note new URL) www.stpaulsmacc.org
and links from our Facebook page www.facebook.com/stpaulsmacclesfield
If anyone is struggling with technology and would like some support, I'll do my best to help.
St Oswald Bollington
We are using Facebook (www.facebook.com/stoswaldbollington)
plus our website (www.stoswaldbollington.org.uk
St Christopher's Pott Shrigley
Our Sunday morning services have been streamed, merging recorded video, slides, live streaming from more than one location, and licensed songs'/hymns (iSing) – it is all mixed together in real time by one of our cleverer members, using something called BeLive: the result is streamed on facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/171605704700/, but also saved after as a video which is hosted on our website http://pottshrigleychurch.org.uk
Peak Parishes
We take live facebook services at 10.30am on Sundays. These are hosted on https://www.facebook.com/Peak-Parishes-465909457536007/ facebook page. They can also be viewed later on youtube by going to peak parishes on youtube search engine (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiSOm7vamOZVfw7PDFpm6JQ). For those who wish we can provide an order of service by email so individuals can participate.
All Saints & St Barnabas Macclesfield
In terms of worship I'm keeping things very simple. I post a reflection each Sunday morning (also one for Good Friday) on our Facebook pages
(https://www.facebook.com/allsaintschurchmacclesfield/ & https://www.facebook.com/stbarnabaschurchmacc/ ). This is also duplicated on All Saints' website
(https://allsaintschurchmacclesfield.weebly.com ) for those who don't have Facebook access. Also posting links to other resources by email and on Facebook.
Services Cancelled for the Foreseeable Future
** UPDATE** Rainow Services in December
Forest Chapel Service Cancellations in December
Gardening Events in Rainow 2021
Carol Singing Update
**No Remembrance Sunday Service**
2021 Rainow Calendars available from October 11th
Events in September
Parish of Rainow (Holy Trinity)
St. John the Baptist, Saltersford, (Jenkin Chapel)
St. Stephens Church, Macclesfield Forest, (Forest Chapel)
Church Fairtrade Forest Chapel Holy Trinity Jenkin Chapel Rainow Saltesford St John the Baptist St Stephen's Village
Garden Safari
Just for Juniors
Lent Group
Police Surgery
Reordering
Rushbearing
Senior Residents' Party
Wildboarclough
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Ariel Shakura Davis, 8-year-old daughter of Sheila Turner and Reginald Davis passed away surrounded by her family and in the arms of her mother on January 31st, 2019 at Mercy Medical Center.
Funeral service will be at 12:00 p.m. Friday February 8th, 2019 at Leonard Funeral Home & Crematory, 2595 Rockdale Road. Family and friends may gather after 10:00 a.m. Friday until time of service. Burial will follow in Linwood Cemetery. Ariel aspired to be a princess fairy, we request that all who attend wear pink and white in honor or Ariel.
Ariel was born on September 6, 2010 at the University of Illinois Hospital in Chicago, IL. She was a 2nd grader at Audubon Elementary School in Dubuque.
Ariel was a girly girl, she loved her tiara's and tutus. She had her way of impacting the lives of every person she came in contact with because of her bold but kind and sweet personality.
Ariel was always creative and once put together and entire play, acted it out and narrated at the same time. She loved to play dress up, acting out a character she made up or dressing like her favorite frozen princess, Elsa. She would jump on the bed and act out the Let It Go scene in the movie word for word, move for move. Ariel is a little angel that will always be loved, never forgotten and forever missed.
Ariel is survived by her parents, Sheila Turner and Reginald Davis; her sister Shalieria and brother Orion. Her aunt Erica and uncle Bernard; her grandmother Jeanette; great grandmother Secless; great aunts Alene, Ida, Sheila, and LaSharon. Great uncles Larry, Darnell, Darryl, Sheroy and Stanley along with several cousins.
Ariel was preceded in death by her grandmother Velma Davis and a brother Reginald Davis Jr.
Memorials in Ariel's name may be sent to Leonard Funeral Home & Crematory, 2595 Rockdale Road, Dubuque, Iowa.
No words can describe how much you meant to me, every moment we shared I will cherish for eternity, you came into our life and filled it with joy. From the time you were born, it was a special day. You came out fighting the doctors and I knew then this world would never stand in your way. As you grew so did your light, and now that your gone you are my angel that helps me sleep throughout the night. You left your mark on everyone you met, with the energy of a star no one will ever forget. This is one of the hardest things I have ever faced in my life and the love that you brought was priceless. So, it will always leave me with the question, WHY??


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Britain Has Lost All Legitimacy
Peter Rabbit - See all 10 of my articles
It may be a harsh statement on my part but I believe that the United Kingdom can no longer call itself a legitimate country in terms of being a relevant world power or relevant to the fight on terror. The fall of the British empire is well documented as the United States took its place as the primary world power a long time ago but this article is more about the legitimacy of the UK as a country to be considered a voice of reason in the world and someone to ally ourselves with when solving world problems.
In case you have not been to London lately you really should make a trip as it does not feel like the London of 10 years ago. While all of the wonderful historical sites are still around the chemical makeup of the city and the country has changed. The UK is now under heavy Muslim influence and in many cases under the influence of Muslim radicals. The concern that many European countries are now having with the influx of Muslim immigrants has already manifested itself in the UK. While most of the European countries have historically had strong religious ties they typically have operated in a similar fashion to the United States in that church and state were separate when making policy decisions. At least in the UK this line is being blurred but the odd thing is the religious beliefs that are blurring them are not the historical religion of the UK but Islam.
The point of attack for the Muslims in the UK has squarely been Israel. Most of this started with the normal rallies and boycotts of Israeli products and while these are obviously damaging they don't necessarily reflect the tone of the government. The event that I believe has now squarely moved this from being just a statement from some radical groups to being a statement of the government is the issuing of arrest warrants for former Israeli Foreign Minister, Tzipi Livni. The Muslim radicals in the UK are leveraging the preposterous report from the UN regarding the last military engagement by Israel to declare Israeli officials as war criminals. This has prompted Israel to cancel trips for its diplomats and even IDF (Israeli Defense Forces) soldiers for fear of being placed under arrest.
For those that have not grasped my point here you have to look at this in perspective. We are discussing the UK which most Americans probably consider closest to us in ideology after Canada. This is not supposed to be a backwards country or a supporter of Muslim terrorists movements but how can you explain the weakness in their government regarding policy toward Israel? I am guessing it can only be explained in the same manner that all crazy political moves can be explained, votes. As the Muslim population sky rockets, growth of 500,000 in the last 4 years as the number of Christians shrunk by 2 million, the politicians have a new voting base they need to appease.
As a final thought, in case you still do not grasp the lunacy of the issuance of this arrest warrant consider how you would feel if the same warrant was issued for US General David Petraeus as many of the things that Israel is accused of are the same things the US is accused. Appeasement of Muslim radicals will be the downfall of society.
Carrots of Wisdom
England, Great Britain, United Kingdom
Peter Rabbit writes a monthly column on politics and world events for The Casual Observer, specializing in the Middle East. His articles can be found in Carrots of Wisdom.
http://www.thesoapboxers.com/britain-has-lost-all-legitimacy/
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