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In his new book about his grandfather, Rabbi Eliezer Shach, zatzal, Rabbi Asher Bergman tells the story of a question which was put before this great Torah leader by one of his devoted followers:
"I have received a suggestion of a shidduch for my daughter," he said. "My investigations have convinced me that he is a serious, G-d fearing young man of good character. My only concern is that he has made three conditions for considering the match, all of them demanding a rather extreme level of religious observance which may be too much for my daughter."
"Drop the suggestion!" was the categorical response of the sage who went on to thus explain his objection:
"The conditions the young man made for a higher standard of religious life are quite praiseworthy. But if you are looking for an intelligent yeshiva student for your daughter, this one is not very smart at all. The things he would like to see in his marriage can only be achieved through considerate discussion with his soul-mate. Marriage is not a business transaction which requires making such conditions!"


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FIFA's support of football-related social development programmes is by no means restricted to the African continent, with the 20 Centres for 2010 campaign forming just part of the globally active Football for Hope initiative.
Launched by FIFA in 2005, Football for Hope is an initiative contributing to social development around the world. Support is provided to selected programmes run by non-governmental organisations that use football as a tool in their daily work to engage children and young people.
This year, more than 150,000 children and young people are expected to benefit directly from 63 projects whose funding requests have been approved for a total amount of $1.6m USD. All 63 went through a rigorous selection process in which applicants had to demonstrate the long-term sustainability of their projects.
Organisations seeking funding also have to be legally registered and non-discriminatory, and must also have raised funds themselves which are at least equal to the amount being sought from Football for Hope.
Most of the 63 programmes approved for 2013 can be found in South America and Africa (17 projects each), while there are ten each in Asia and in North and Central America and the Caribbean, eight in Europe and one in Oceania.
The vast majority of the projects being funded this year are being operated by long-time Football for Hope collaborators, such as Spirit of Soccer (SoS) – a programme which helps an estimated 35,000 youngsters each year in Iraq, Cambodia and Laos, with a special focus on educating local young people about the dangers of land mines and other unexploded remnants of war.
Three new additions to Football for Hope are also set to receive FIFA's support in 2013, all of them based, coincidentally, in the Americas.
In Costa Rica, the Organización Juvenil Recrearte plans to educate 150 young people under the catchphrase "We play fair on the pitch, in school and my community". The project workers will focus on using football to teach respect for women and to end bullying and violence amongst teenagers in San José and in the northern province of Alajuela, where many have experienced neglect and even abuse from within their own families.
In the USA, the organisation Soccer Without Borders aims to help 942 young people through its use of football as a tool for helping the integration of disadvantaged and refugee children. The programme, which offers a combination of football tournaments, life-skills workshops, cultural exchanges and team-building exercises, is already underway in three US cities, with the extra funds now being used to expand into four more and hire additional staff.
Aiming to help 480 youngsters, Brazil's Instituto Fazer Acontecer (Make it Happen Institute) is a street football charity based in the semi-arid state of Bahia, which helps young people from low-income families to develop values like team work, discipline, solidarity, respect and social commitment and to tackle important issues like drug abuse, violence and sexual equality. It will use the Football for Hope funding to take football events to 18 different cities in Bahia, and to encourage young people to press the state government to include more sport in their education programmes.
Commenting on the latest project approvals, Federico Addiechi, Head of FIFA Corporate Social Responsibility said: "Football is perhaps unique in its ability to touch the life of children and young people across borders, cultures, ethnicities and religions all over the world, and it is encouraging to see the high-quality programmes to which FIFA can lend its support through Football for Hope."

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Kristen Stewart Presents At The Oscars With Daniel Radcliffe
Kristen showed up to the Oscars on Feb. 24 and hobbled onto the stage to present the award for Best Production Design. She had an injured leg, bruise on her arm, and a hoarse voice. We are so proud of her for going, are you shocked she went?
Kristen Stewar presented at the 85th Annual Academy Awards with Robert Pattinson's Harry Potter co-star Daniel Radcliffe, on Feb. 24 and she was a bit of a mess. We are thrilled that she went even though she didn't feel well, but do you think she's pushing herself too far?
Kristen Stewart Presenting At Oscars: Limps on Stage
Kristen presented with Daniel and it was obvious she wasn't feeling well. She limped onto the stage and when she got to the mic, you could clearly see a big bruise on her left arm. Perhaps from a shot since she's sick? Also, when she spoke, her voice was totally hoarse. It's super unfortunate that she had to be in such bad shape on Oscar night but we are proud of her for going.
Do You Think Rob Watched The Academy Awards?
Rob is shooting his new movie The Rover in Australia but maybe he found a way to live stream the show from Down Under? Don't you think he's curious to see Kristen present at the Oscars? We told you that Rob told her that he wanted space. That means no texting or talking. But maybe he still watched her?
Are you surprised that Rob didn't go with Kristen to the show? Even though they are broken up, it might have been nice for him to show his support? Regardless, we are impressed that Kristen still went to the show even though she was sick.
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It is a well-known fact that women tend to outlive men.
I often hear people unscientifically stating that men generally generally die younger because of the higher stress encountered in their work lives. I would personally immediately rule this out, as who's to say that that women's (past) home lives just weren't as stressful? Also, shouldn't we see a narrowing of difference in age with the recent gender equality issues? Since the trend in question still occurs in virtually all countries of the world, I think it's safe to assume that the phenomenon is purely physiological.
I am curious as to the most sound scientific theories or known reasons for why women typically outlive men. Finally, I understand that aging in itself is not a process that's completely understood, and thus am not expecting a "complete list" of factors.


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Currently the Senate is having a heated debate about a mysterious government-run bank that most Americans have never heard about even though it can call on taxpayer money in an emergency. It's the Export-Import Bank, a government authorised institution that is officially run with the purpose of creating and safeguarding American jobs, but really amounts to a loan-guarantor for politically-connected corporations. Every few years Congress reauthorizes its operations, with hardly any debate or argument–until this year.
Currently the Export-Import Bank is run under the assumption that it costs the taxpayer nothing; the bank uses repayments of old loans to guarantee new ones.
But this is partly a fiction. The bank is "self-financing" in the same way housing giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were. If it ever gets in trouble, the taxpayer is going to bail it out.
Ex-Im operates under the instruction that it shouldn't compete with private banks, it only provides financing the market can't or won't provide itself. It also has a lending cap of $100 billion dollars. According to a report from Annie Lowrey of The New York Times, the Bank is getting close to bumping into that limit soon.
The bank's charter is also coming up for renewal, and Democrat Senator Maria Cantwell wants to see it renewed through 2015, and its lending cap raised to $140 billion. She's attached these provisions to the JOBS Act, a bipartisan effort to spur job creation in the Senate.
Conservative Republicans in the House and Senate are balking. From Lowrey's report:
"Ex-Im is processing more than 90 per cent of its loan and guarantee applications without conducting a Congressionally required review of any serious adverse effects of the loan," a group of six senators, including Jim DeMint of South Carolina, Rand Paul of Kentucky and Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, wrote in February in a letter.
Many conservatives are calling the Ex-Im a form of corporate welfare, and they have a point.
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The bank does a great deal of business on behalf of Boeing. Here's how it works: A foreign purchaser like the Pakistani government wants aeroplanes for its government-run airline. The government doesn't have the kind of credit rating to finance a purchase like this. So the Export-Import Bank guarantees the financing in order to keep Boeing profitable and employing Americans. Ex-Im loaned out $10.2 billion to finance Boeing deals last year — 66.8 per cent of its portfolio, according to the Washington Examiner's Tim Carney.
No wonder the Club for Growth, a conservative activist group, has dubbed Ex-Im, "The Bank for Boeing."
But that's not all. Carney also points out that last year Ex-Im gave a $10 million loan guarantee to the failed Energy giant Solyndra to sell solar-modules to Belgium.
The possibilities for corruption are ripe. Carney notes that many of Ex-Im's clients stay very close to the White House:
Obama is indeed tight with Ex-Im's corporate clients. Boeing CEO Jim McNerney chairs Obama's exports council. General Electric, famously close to the Obama White House, is another leading recipient of Ex-Im subsidies. Siemens this year won a $638 million direct loan from Ex-Im. The company's VP for federal lobbying, David McIntosh, is an Obama administration alumnus and an Obama donor. (This donation is OK by the Obama campaign because McIntosh is not registered as a lobbyist.)
The debate over the Export-Import Bank is really a debate about the nature of American capitalism. Increasingly a subset of conservatives are turning against the "pro-growth" and "pro-business" politics that dominate both parties and instead are embracing positions that might be called "pro-market" or "pro-failure" depending on your view of them.
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The coffee harvest takes place from December to February each year, but the coffee growers are applying for Kiva loans now, to cover the cost of fertilizer, salaries for workers, and other supplies.
As a Kiva Fellow with MiCredito in Esteli, Nicaragua, I decided to learn as much as I could about coffee. To do that, I followed three different paths:
- One was to visit Leonardo, a coffee grower, who lives up in the mountains near Yali.
- The other was to take a tour of PRODECOOP, a cooperative of 2,000 coffee growing families, in the town of Palacaguina.
- And lastly, I attended a Coffee Fair in Ocotal, the last town before the Honduran border.
Sales of Nicaraguan coffee beans to the U.S., Europe and Venezuela generated $154 million dollars in the first five months of 2010-2011 (October – February). That is double last year's earnings. Nicaragua exported 753 mil quintales (quintal = 100 lbs) of cafe. The average price received for a quintal of coffee was $204 dollars, or $2 a pound.
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Here is a list of Kiva MiCredito borrowers who are coffee growers.
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Stories are often thought to contain just one main character that encounters a problem and somehow solves this problem. Character Perspective Charting is an instructional method designed to reflect the actual complexity of many stories and is a practical instructional alternative to story mapping. This strategy delineates the multiple points of view, goals, and intentions of different characters within the same story. By engaging in Character Perspective Charting, students can better understand, interpret, and appreciate the stories they read.
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Edricarti necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 21 diseños de 5 diseñadores freelance.
We are a modern barbershop located in the heart of Vancouver financial district.
We are looking to achieve the image of an upscale shop with a modern trendy, sexy image.
The shop have high ceilings, wood floors, white and black walls. Chairs are black and styling stations are stainless still... that modern, clean lofty look will be blend with some antique furniture such as desk, chairs and coat hangers.
Accents such as vintage photos of the building where we are located (the old stock exchange building - photo attached) and older photos of Vancouver are going to be added to the space for some texture.
Photos of current premises are attached, business now is called glass hair studio and is currently under renovation, picture the space with oak hardwood floors and reception furniture changed to some heavier antique pieces, styling stations and chair will remain the same.
Male, mid 35 to late 40's, career oriented, high income, "suits" if we need to label them are our main target audience, neighborhood is filled with banks, law firms, insurance and investment companies, etc
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If anybody should be immune to being grossed out by a runny nose, it's a kid, since much of childhood is spent discussing the finer points of boogers and snot.
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You might call it the green monster. Prop 23, an initiative that's designed to bring more jobs to California, could take out some collateral damage -- AB 32, the 2006 law that promotes clean, renewable energy. Which side will voters fall on?
As it's written, Prop 23 isn't out to do away with AB 32, just to postpone it until the state's unemployment rate falls below 5.5% for four consecutive quarters. That could take a while.
People are typically resistant to change. Especially when that change comes in the form of lost jobs. Prop 23 talks about preserving jobs while AB 32 touts job creation. The "Yes on 23" website claims that it will save over 1 million jobs. Question is, how many new jobs would AB 32 create? Enough to get the state's unemployment figure down to 5.5 percent?
Steve Maviglio with the No on 23 campaign likens the employment debate to the advent of the computer.
"When computers came out, everybody was worried about the loss of jobs in the typewriter sector," he said. "But we saw how that turned out."
Both candidates for governor have their opinions. Meg Whitman supports the suspension of most AB 32 for at least a year, although she hasn't officially endorsed Prop 23. Jerry Brown, meanwhile, thinks it just needs a little tweeking.
"Look, there isn't a law that we have that doesn't need changes," Brown said. "But the basic thrust of AB 32 is the direction, it's the future, and we ought to stay the course, while making whatever alterations make sense."
While the debate over how to move toward clean, renewable energy continues, other countries are already moving forward.
According to a new report from Clean Edge, a clean tech research firm, none of the world's top 10 clean tech employers are based in California. AB 32 looks to change that. It sets a goal for the state to increase use of energy from non-fossil fuels to 33% by 2020 -- far above China's best-in-the-world 15%.
In reality, the clean, renewable energy ball is already rolling. In San Diego County, about 1500 charging stations were installed for electric cars to ease the transition to more efficient vehicles.
The problem is, AB 32 includes many mandates that can be costly to California businesses and taxpayers, such as state-mandated tire pressure levels.
I've done a lot of peeling on these two onions and I'm still scratching my head. There are valid arguments on both sides of the issue. Eventually many of the rules of AB 32 will move forward. The question is, when? We'll know a lot more on Nov. 2.
Let us know what you think. Comment below, send us your thoughts via Twitter @PropZero or add your comment to our Facebook page.


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Last time I posted a screenshot of one of my mini spreadsheets, lots of readers asked for it to be available on Google Docs - well I didn't have a clue how to do that then but this time, I managed to work it out! You can access the Enchanting Materials Conversion spreadsheet via Google Docs (or Google Drive, whatever they call it now!) & I hope I've made it freely available to view & download. If not, let me know & I'll see if I can get it sorted out!
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This means that Sha Crystals are probably going to remain pretty expensive for the next few weeks at least - once more people have access to epic gear & epic crafted items through dailies & reputation grinds then we may see the supply of Sha Crystals increase. But until then, it's probably worth keeping an eye on this market - I know I'm going to but I'm going to be careful too - I got a little hurt by the maelstrom crystal market at the start of Cataclysm although I was a very new gold maker at the time. Hopefully I've learned quite a few lessons since then!
Oops! Seems Molsan & I share a brain! He did a great post yesterday on almost the same subject so maybe pop over there for a second viewpoint if you have time :)
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There is a bold new player in town — the Texas Performing Arts Society (TPAS). TPAS will present concerts in San Antonio, Austin, Dallas and Houston in their debut 2012-2013 season. TPAS was founded by Rene Sosa, who serves as the Executive Director.
Their San Antonio line up has three recital performances:
JOSHUA BELL: November 8, 2012 at 7:30 p.m. at the Scottish Rite Theater.
JESSYE NORMAN: December 15, 2012 at 8 p.m. at Lila Cockrell.
HILARY HAHN: February 14, 2013 at 8 p.m. at the Scottish Rite Theater.
It is hard not be be impressed with this line-up of stars in TPAS's first season. Joshua Bell and Hilary Hahn are two of the greatest violinist performing today and Jessye Norman is one of the great sopranos of our time. But, presenting Classical music stars in recital is not without risks.
The San Antonio Symphony is also in the presentation game this season with a recital by superstar pianist Lang Lang on October 16 at the Majestic Theatre. Big stars come with big fees and some risk. When the Symphony offers a recital, it has the advantage of an existing subscriber base. In the case of Lang Lang, the Symphony audience heard him last with the orchestra in a full symphony concert. He is doing a recital this time because his busy travel schedule doesn't have room for rehearsals and a recital offers different repertoire than his last performance.
Will TPAS have the marketing muscle to sell tickets to Classical music audiences in the Scottish Rite Theater and Lila Cockrell? The Symphony's experience is that audiences prefer the Majestic Theatre, but that building has so little availability that TPAS and other arts organizations have to explore other venues. Of course, when the Tobin Center opens in September 2014, there will be lots more options and date availability for concerts in San Antonio.
There is another organization presenting a fantastic line-up this season — Arts San Antonio. ASA focuses more on dance, and this year they have Ballet Folklórico de México de Amalia Hernández, The Joffrey Ballet, Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo and Béjart Ballet Lausanne included in their impressive line-up of guest companies.
As the San Antonio arts scene grows there will also be a growing number of conflicts. Audiences won't be able to attend everything. For example, during the week that Hilary Hahn is performing, the Symphony will have three concerts as part of the Brahms Festival and Camerata San Antonio will offer a Brahms concert. The days after Joshua Bell's recital, the Symphony will perform Ravel's Bolero twice. While some worry about too many conflicts, I think this is a good sign.
Will every non-profit performing arts organization thrive or survive? Not necessarily. But, the ones that do will be pushed to even greater artistic and organizational heights. That's the American system. There aren't official State Orchestras. Ultimately, the community "votes" with their ticket purchases and donations on what kind of arts it wants.
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kiwijay brauchte ein neues Website Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
Aus 35 Designs von 8 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
I had a logo designed on Sitepoint that can be found under the Logo's or I can e mail it to you.
We wear the Brazil strip and I suppose the website colors could be based around that, but I am open to new ideas. Personally I have always liked websites with black backgrounds. The team consists of actors, celebrities, etc and we need this site to represent us well. I have seen some cheesy soccer websites out there and we want to stand out for all the right reasons.
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Your 10-year-old daughter comes home crying because the girls she's been friends with are suddenly leaving her out and spreading rumors about her. She's confused because it seemed to happen out of the blue. She doesn't know what she did wrong and is nervous about returning to school, unsure if she has any friends. You're unsure how to help her — you've heard a lot about kids being snubbed or teased at school, but you didn't think it could happen to your outgoing, fun kid.
Given how common cliques are throughout middle and high school, at some point your child is likely to face the prospect of being in one or being excluded from them. There's little you can do to shield kids from cliques, but plenty you can do to help them maintain confidence and self-respect while negotiating cliques and understanding what true friendship is all about.
Friendship is an important part of kids' development. Having friends helps them be independent beyond the family and prepares them for the mutual, trusting relationships we hope they'll establish as adults.
Groups of friends are different from cliques in some important ways. Friendships grow out of shared interests, sports, activities, classes, neighborhoods, or even family connections. In groups of friends, members are free to socialize and hang out with others outside the group without worrying about being cast out. They may not do everything together — and that's OK.
Cliques sometimes form around common interests, but the social dynamics are very different. Cliques are usually tightly controlled by leaders who decide who is "in" and who is "out." The kids in the clique do most things together. Someone who has a friend outside the clique may face rejection or ridicule.
Members of the clique usually follow the leader's rules, whether it's wearing particular clothes or doing certain activities. Cliques usually involve lots of rules — implied or clearly stated — and intense pressure to follow them. Kids in cliques often worry about whether they'll continue to be popular or whether they'll be dropped for doing or saying the wrong thing or for not dressing in a certain way. This can create a lot of pressure, particularly for girls, who might be driven to extreme dieting and eating disorders or even to ask for plastic surgery. Others may be pressured to take risks like steal, pull pranks, or bully other kids in order to stay in the clique. Kids also can be pressured into buying expensive clothing or getting involved in online gossip and teasing.
Cliques are often at their most intense in middle school and junior high, but problems with cliques can start as early as 4th and 5th grades.
For most kids, the pre-teen and teen years are a time to figure out how they want to fit in and how they want to stand out. It's natural for kids to occasionally feel insecure; long to be accepted; and hang out with the kids who seem more attractive, cool, or popular.
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As kids navigate friendships and cliques, there's plenty parents can do to offer support. If your child seems upset, or suddenly spends time alone when usually very social, ask about it.
Here are some tips:
If your child is part of a clique and one of the kids is teasing or rejecting others, it's important to address that right away. With popular TV shows from talent contests to reality series glorifying rude behavior, it's an uphill battle for families to promote kindness, respect, and compassion.
Discuss the role of power and control in friendships and try to get to the heart of why your child feels compelled to be in that position. Discuss who is in and who is out, and what happens when kids are out (are they ignored, shunned, bullied?). Challenge kids to think and talk about whether they're proud of the way they act in school.
Ask teachers, guidance counselors, or other school officials for their perspective on what is going on in and out of class. They might be able to tell you about any programs the school has to address cliques and help kids with differences get along.
Here are some ways to encourage kids to have healthy friendships and not get too caught up in cliques:
Remember to provide the big-picture perspective too. As hard as cliques might be to deal with now, things can change quickly. What's more important is making true friends — people they can confide in, laugh with, and trust. And the real secret to being "popular" — in the truest sense of the word — is for them to be the kind of friend they'd like to have: respectful, fair, supportive, caring, trustworthy, and kind.
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Equipment will be your biggest hurddle. When you think about doubling every year, that is like buying enough equipment to house all the bees you have now, all over again. It can get to be a daughting task to say the least ;).
My tentative "plan" is to double up (at a minimum) each year by "splitting" existing hives (double stacking/queening) starting next year, over a 10 year period (allowing for "issues), eventually reaching my goal of 250 hives (a number I feel I can maintain on a 3 week to monthly visit basis).
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The 3D printing industry seems to be taking off quite rapidly. More people are looking to design, prototype, iterate, and print their own products from the comfort of their own home or work environment. Though the maker world is thriving, 3D printers remain expensive -- lower-end models cost more than $1,000. While many people wait for printer prices to come down, a maker's expressive, design-oriented mind does not.
If you cannot afford a 3D printer, how can you possibly get access to one to flesh out your latest design? There is a clear and growing demand for an affordable (and preferably local) option, and makexyz may have the solution -- a social network for 3D printers.
Several companies, such as Shapeways and i.materialise, have taken note of the maker's dilemma and have established themselves as 3D printing marketplaces that bring high-quality printing services within the average consumer's reach. You can choose your preferred printing material and receive an instant quote that includes shipping anywhere in the world. However, these services, which are still in the developmental stage, do not meet the needs of designers who must obtain copies of their designs for immediate testing and iteration.
We recently discussed a plan by Staples to partner with Mcor and bring 3D printing services to the retail market. Users upload their design to the Staples website to have it printed, and they receive the results in the mail or at the nearest store. Unfortunately, the Mcor printer offers only glued-paper printing, and, to top it off, the Staples service is available only in Belgium and the Netherlands right now.
If established 3D printing services and an office supply chain can't solve the maker's dilemma, who can? The solution is actually rather simple. Like Airbnb's social service that connects travelers looking for a place to stay with people who have living space to spare, makexyz is connecting designers looking for 3D printing with available printers in their neighborhood.
Nathan Tone and Chad Masso created makexyz this year. Within a month and a half, more than 550 people had signed up for the service. People with 3D printers can create a printer profile, set their price ($/cm3), and wait for orders. Those looking for a printer simply browse by ZIP code, choose a printer that matches their preference (price, material, and color availability), and either pick up the product or have it delivered.
The founders have been careful to keep prices low. They are based on the design's volume and generally range from 25 cents to $1.50 per cubic centimeter. Shapeways' services start at around $0.75/cm3. Makexyz tacks on a 5 percent charge for its services, so most print jobs cost about $15.
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Kate Gosselin and partner Tony Dovolani may have had the lowest judges' score out of all the pairs on Monday night, but once again, the viewers voted to propel the duo into another week of "Dancing with the Stars'" Season 10 competition.
Sexy soap star Aiden Turner, from ABC's "All My Children," and his partner, slinky ballroom babe Edyta Sliwinska, were the pair to say goodbye, and it was an emotional parting.
After learning the news from show co-host Tom Bergeron on Tuesday night, Aiden's face showed that the celebrity reality competition experience in fact meant a great deal to the Brit.
"Each week, I came out here and gave it my all and got less [nervous], you know, dancing in front of a live audience," he said. " And last night I had the best time dancing with Edyta. I wasn't so nervous. I just had a great time — like there was no one here. It was just us."
Aiden, the third member of the "All My Children" cast to dance on "DWTS" (Susan Lucci and Cameron Mathison competed in past seasons) revealed he was saddened that the end of his time on the show meant the end of his time with Edyta.
"She's very talented. I know she's been doing this since she was a very young girl and I just appreciate all the dance moves she's…" he said trailing off for a moment as he choked back tears, "… given to me."
Niecy Nash and her partner, Louis van Amstel, were the other couple in the "DWTS" bottom 2 alongside Aiden and Edyta, but the comedienne and her pro had enough votes to get through to another week.
As for the mom of eight, Kate, she revealed she wants to stay on "DWTS" as long as possible. After Monday night's show, when the judges finally praised her, she said on Tuesday that she's ready to compete again.
"It was the first time that I had total and complete fun," she said of her game time tango with Tony. "I'm addicted and I'm totally gonna cry when it's over."
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If parallel parking and checking your mirrors don't count for much on the driving test, this is the guy you want for an instructor.
He's British race car driver Justin Bell.
Bell, who won the 1998 24 Hours of Le Mans in the GT2 class, is the driving instructor for "Green Car Challenge," a new segment on "The Jay Leno Show."
The "Green Car Challenge" places celebrities in a prototype electric Ford Focus. Serena Williams, Rush Limbaugh and Steve Carell are some of the stars who have turned out times on the compact track in Burbank.
It's not a surprise to Bell that the female tennis star served up the best lap at :55.84. Carell finished in :57.8.
"Driving is actually a very sensitive, balanced, gentle thing." Bell said. "Racing's when we kind of get all manly, but driving is actually very delicate. That's why women have proven, in my experience, to become the better drivers."
Limbaugh crossed the line in 1:29. We should note the track is a road course, meaning the driver must go right and left without rambling way off track.
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"People rush into the corners to fast," Bell said. "The secret to driving is rushing out of them."
Bell said Drew Barrymore was easiest to teach.
"She listened," Bell said.
Bell said the segment and its true star -- the Focus -- make a point about performance.
"It's fast, it's sexy, it's fun," Bell said. "I think it's very important. We're running on maybe a dollar a show on energy consumption.
I think we're proving a point."
The segment resembles the show Top Gear. The BBC program/programme places "a star in a reasonably priced car" -- a Chevrolet Lacetti -- to see what they can do on a test track.
Top Gear's driving instructor, the Stig, wears a crash helmet and racing suit at all times. Some say he was "forged out of steel and fire in the devil's own pit garage."
All we know is Leno appeared on a Top Gear segment that featured Honda's fuel cell electric Clarity. He also got behind the wheel on Top Gear's test track.
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Another new fox species from Malapa
Researchers from Wits University and the University of Johannesburg in South Africa, together with international scientists announced on Tuesday, 22 January 2012, the discovery of a two million year old fossil fox at the now renowned archaeological site of Malapa in the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site.
In an article published in the prestigious journal Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa, the researchers describe the previously unknown species of fox named Vulpes Skinneri - named in honour of the recently deceased world renowned South African mammalogist and ecologist, Prof. John Skinner of the University of Pretoria.
The site of Malapa has, since its discovery in 2008, yielded one of the most extraordinary fossil assemblages in the African record, including skeletons of a new species of human ancestor named Australopithecus sediba, first described in 2010.
The new fox fossils consist of a mandible and parts of the skeleton and can be distinguished from any living or extinct form of fox known to science based on proportions of its teeth and other aspects of its anatomy.
Dr. Brian Kuhn of Wits' Institute for Human Evolution (IHE) and the School of GeoSciences, an author on the paper and head of the Malapa carnivore studies explains: "It's exciting to see a new fossil fox. The ancestry of foxes is perhaps the most poorly known among African carnivores and to see a potential ancestral form of living foxes is wonderful".
Prof. Lee Berger, also of the IHE and School of GeoSciences, author on the paper and Director of the Malapa project notes: "Malapa continues to reveal this extraordinary record of past life and as important as the human ancestors are from the site, the site's contribution to our understanding of the evolution of modern African mammals through wonderful specimens like this fox is of equal import. Who knows what we will find next?".
The entire team has expressed their privilege in naming the new species after "John Skinner, one of the great names in the study of African mammals and particularly carnivores. We (the authors) think that John would be pleased, and it is fitting that this rare little find would carry his name forever."


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PDL::IO::Grib - Grib file utilities for perl
use PDL;
use PDL::IO::Grib;
$gh = new PDL::IO::Grib;
Grib.pm allows the user to read files in the grib FORM FM 92-IX Ext. GRIB Edition 1 - it may not read all possible grib format combinations. The Grib format has 4 sections (PDS, GDS, BMS, BDS), two of which (GDS, BMS) are optional. Each field of a section is described in the definition by an offset in bytes from the beginning of the section and a length. The contents of each field can vary widely according to the center of origin of the data. This decoder reads the entire section into a PDL and only decodes fields on request, it has a default decoding method and allows the user to define methods not known to this decoder. So for example, the first 3 bytes of the PDS section describes the length of that section, each of the next 10 bytes can be decoded as unsigned integers. Bytes 11 and 12 may be two seperate integers or one two-byte integer depending on the value of byte 10. It gets worse from there...
PDL::IO::Grib::new creates a GribHandle, which is a reference to a newly created data structure. If it receives any parameters, they are passed to Grib::readgrib; if readgrib fails, the GribHandle object is destroyed. Otherwise, it is returned to the caller.
Grib::readgrib accepts a Grib Object and a filename. It reads grib header information for all variables in the specified grib file.
Grib::getfield accepts one parameter which is either the 5 field identifier for grib variables (pds octets 9:4:10:11:12 as defined in the grib format definition) or a variable name associated with that identifier as defined in the file .gribtables and returns the name and data field for that variable. Grib::getfield will check to see if the data has already been read into memory and will only read the file when this is not the case. The data field can be returned as a 2 or 3 Dimensional PDL piddle or an array of PDL piddles where the identifier matchs more than one field. If an array or a 3D piddle is returned it is sorted from the largest value to the smallest value of octets 11:12. getfield uses wantarray to return what you ask for.
Grib::showinventory prints a list of variables found in the open file and names associated with them from the .gribtables file.
Returns the initialization date from a grib file in the form yyyymmddhh. Takes either the file name or a valid Grib handle as an input argument.
$gh->anyfield(); returns a reference to an arbitrary field of gh
The .gribtables file is searched for first in the working directory then in the user's home directory. The format is rather simple - anything following a # sign is a comment otherwise a
is expected where name can be anything as long as it begins with an alpha character and does not containb{:} and the pds[#] refers to the octet number in the pds sector of the grib file. Fields 11 and 12 are optional in the file and if not found all of the records which match fields 9 4 10 will be combined into a single 3d dataset by getfield
So suppose the file .gribtables contains the entry
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WASHINGTON — The lawyer representing Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl said Wednesday that his client has been vilified by some people, but the public should not leap to conclusions before the Army finishes its investigation into how and why the soldier left his post in Afghanistan before being captured by the Taliban.
Eugene R. Fidell, a well-known lawyer and military justice expert, told Associated Press Television News that he assumes the probe will be done in several weeks.
"There are people who have vilified Sgt. Bergdahl, there are people who attempted to turn him into a kind of piñata," said Fidell, who teaches at Yale Law School. "On the other hand, there are people of good will who have communicated with me their sympathy for the experience Sgt. Bergdahl has had to undergo, the ordeal really."
Some former members of the unit Bergdahl served with in Afghanistan have labeled him a deserter, asserting that he chose to walk away and saying some service members were wounded or killed looking for him.
At the time of his disappearance, Bergdahl was a member of 1st Battalion, 501st Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, based at Fort Richardson, Alaska. An initial U.S. military investigation in 2009 concluded that Bergdahl deliberately walked away from his unit, based on evidence available at the time.
The Army has not ruled out disciplinary action against Bergdahl, who was promoted during captivity, from private first class to sergeant, as a matter of standard procedure.
"Everybody should just hold the phone. Let the facts unfold a little bit," said Fidell, adding that he has met with Bergdahl as well as the Army officer handling the case, Maj. Gen. Kenneth R. Dahl.
He said Dahl is proceeding in a "methodical and professional way." The Pentagon says Bergdahl has not yet met with Dahl.
Bergdahl has completed his initial reintegration into the Army after his release by the Taliban May 31, when he was turned over to Army special forces in exchange for five detainees at the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, detention center. He is now assigned a desk job at U.S. Army North, at San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston in Texas.
Fidell added that Bergdahl is looking forward to having this entire matter behind him, and that the soldier has a lot of faith in the common sense of the American people. He said Bergdahl also is deeply grateful that President Barack Obama saved his life.
"Let's all be a little patient. We'll know more in due course," said Fidell, in a satellite interview from Yale. "I hope that the matter can be resolved sooner rather than later so that Sgt. Bergdahl can become plain old Bowe Bergdahl and return to private life and get on with his life."
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So, I again had problems with the carbon fiber cantilever brake project. I pulled the carbon out of the mold (material I put in there on Friday)
today in order to shape the other arm and it was just soft and flexy and crap. So I threw that away, and decided to try again. This time I went back to the old resin I was accustomed to, brought it into the back porch, with a heat lamp in the room and in the vacuum bag. I also brought a thermometer into the room so that I would know what temperature it was at. About 75 F is perfect, and I had the room at 78 F so thats close enough. I just pulled the carbon out of the mold, and its hard. So thats good. I'll be able to shape this whenever I get a chance to.
Yeah, so this is a lot of work. And it would be easier to buy the Spooky Carbon Canti's. However, this is relatively cheap (other than my time), and my pair should weigh in significantly lighter than the Spooky pair (around 30 grams saved per pair). Check back for updates.
I'm going to me fabricating my own titanium springs, and at this point it looks like I'll be making the small aluminum nuts for the end of the arms.
Plus One Lap used to be all about cyclocross, now it's my dumping grounds for anything cycling.
Sunday, February 19, 2006
Carbon cantilever update #3
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is this what you are going to do?
Sounds very interesting, sometime I will build my own cx-brakes, too!
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yeahm I had the idea a couple of years ago, but didnt feel empowered until I saw that guy's brakes. An english version is here: http://www.weightweenies.starbike.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11359&highlight=kcnc+post
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Ep 5: Surviving Christmas in Business, Life, and Money
October 04, 2016 - 52:12
The holidays are right around the corner, y'all. I don't want you to be scattered and stressed this season—I want you to be present. In this episode, I'll give you tips on how to survive this crazy season in your business, your life, and your budget.
Plus, Etsy expert Melissa Kaiserman is a friend of Business Boutique and pays us a visit on this week's podcast. She'll share some wonderful, practical tips on how to prepare for the holidays if you're a product-based business.
And my dear friend Rachel Cruze is here to talk about one of the biggest things that steals our joy, not just during the holidays, but all year round: comparisons. She'll walk us through how to quit those comparisons. She'll also share with us how she and her husband work through their budget together, and some funny stories about how it goes when they don't see eye to eye.
1:40 Surviving Christmas in Business, Life, and Money
16:00 Interview with Melissa Kaiserman
35:51 Interview with Rachel Cruze
50:56 Homework
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Morenci has a new all-state athlete following Saturday's state cross country meet.
Zach Phillips turned in a top-30 performance—the requirement for all-state honors in the sport—while running his career best in the Div. IV race at Michigan International Speedway.
The junior crossed the line at 16:37 to place 21st out of a field of 150 qualifiers. His stamina in the final stretch assured the all-state honors.
"I must have passed at least 10 people in the last part," Phillips said after the run.
He had no complaints from coach Brad Brown.
"That was an excellent run," he told Phillips afterward. "To make all-state your first time here.…"
Brown noted that the competition was stiffer this time around, also. Phillips' 16:37 would have been good for 10th place a year ago.
Nineteen runners crossed the finish line within 10 seconds in a crowded finish. Phillips was just five seconds out of 13th place.
Defending state champion Tim Jagielski was topped by a pair of runners this year, despite improving from the 2006 race. The senior finished at 16:02, behind winner Kevin Oblinger of Mt. Pleasant Sacred Heart (15:49) and Kyle Stacks of Concord (15:56).
In team competition, Potterville finished first with an average team time of 17:03.
In the Div. IV girls race, Lindsay Neal of North Muskegon won with a time of 18:29, topping second-place Cayla Nousain of Concord (18:44), winner of the regional where Morenci competed.


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The AMD QuadFX platform hasn't made too much noise since it was launched a couple months ago, but the reasons are obvious to all. It's expensive to build, consumes energy like a muscle car and there is only one motherboard to pick from for those thinking of building a QuadFX system. When the QuadFX processors came out on November 29, 2006 they were expensive and not a great value for the level of performance they produced. Now over a month later and after rumors of slow sales on QuadFX systems, one would think that prices would go down on the parts, but they have actually gone up! Looking at an online retailer like Newegg it's obvious that each pair of QuadFX processors has gone up ~$100 across the board.
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|Current Price
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AMD Athlon 64 FX-74
$101 (10%)
AMD Athlon 64 FX-72
$101 (13%)
AMD Athlon 64 FX-70
$101 (17%)
When we posted our original article we were told by AMD that the QuadFX series of processors would be paired together and that it wouldn't be possible to buy them individually. What really happened is the opposite of this. Retailers are selling them individually as they never shipped together in a single box. When pricing these Socket F processors remember to multiply the price by two! Regardless of the price increase, we got our hands on a pair of FX-70 processors to see how they would perform. Legit Reviews has already done an in depth article on the FX-74 processors the day they came out so be sure to read that review before going any further if you haven't already.
The pair of FX-70 processors look no different than the FX-74 processors and to be honest there is no difference at all between the parts other than what tests they passed before they were labeled. The FX-74 was able to run at a higher frequency at a lower voltage and was binned the flagship processor at the factory. The processors that didn't make the cut were again tested at lower speeds and if the passed that is what they get named. Since all AMD FX series processors are factory unlocked with a little luck, or more voltage, we should be able to get our FX-70 processors running at FX-74 clock speeds in a matter of seconds, but before we talk about that another minor QuadFX update that needs to be brought to light.
Since our original article published a new BIOS has come out that will enable the Asus L1N64-SLI WS motherboard to support 4-pin CPU heatsinks like the Ajigo MF091-097 that AMD just recently sent out. These Ajigos heatsinks replace the pre-production heatsinks that came with our "4×4" system in its original configuration. The new Ajigo heat sink (pictured on the right) is a bit smaller than the original ones that we were sent and feature a 4-pin fan versus the 3-pin fan design. After we updated the BIOS and install the new heatsinks, the machine runs much quieter as the fans now properly modulate their speed based on thermal feedback from the CPU to the motherboard. The result is a system with an acceptable noise level for what we consider a workstation-class machine. No significant difference in temperature was noted between the two sets of heatsinks.
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Hello. It's me, BUB. I wrote a book. It's amazing.
Lil BUB's Lil BOOK is finally out. The process of making this book was challenging, rewarding, and incredibly positive, as are all things involving BUB. I wanted to make sure this book was as magical and incredible as BUB. So I asked some of my closest and most talented pals to help me build big sets and take stunning photos. We spent a whole week building sets of spaceships and ancient ruins, followed by months of going through thousands of brilliant BUB photos. And with BUB's magical powers we wound up with this book. The best part of making this book was realizing how fortunate I am to have so many incredibly talented, open-minded and generous friends. I'm sure you know who you are, and I hope you know how much I love you.


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"Stitched in Fantasy - From Pieces to Paradise" exhibit
- Date: May 31, 2019 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
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Stitched in Fantasy - From Pieces to Paradise
Solo art exhibit by Kris McCurley
May 18 - June 15
Explore Stitched in Fantasy – From Pieces to Paradise. Fabric collage artist Kris McCurley features works of distant alien landscapes and the fantasy realm of Hozienwald. Each piece is full of bright colors, rich textures, and at least a little "sparkle."
The exhibit will be on view in the North Corridor of the MCL Grand Tuesday-Saturday 10 a.m.- 5 p.m. and evenings when there are other programs going on at the MCL Grand.
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"Papa" Jack Laine is often credited with being the first White Jazz musician. He was a drummer and saxophonist. He formed his first brass band in 1888. The band performed Ragtime and marching music. He went on to lead the Reliance Brass Band, which became popular enough for him to have several units playing under that name.
Many of the early New Orleans White Jazz musicians such as Tom Brown, Johnny Stein, Albert and George Brunies, Tony Parenti, Nick La Rocca and all of the other members of the Original Dixleland Jass Band played in the Reliance Brass Band at one time or the other. In 1917, Laine quit music and worked as a blacksmith, and later managed a garage. He never recorded.


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It's one of our favorite topics every year – and every year, the answers get better and better.
One of the great joys of golf is that you never know who you're going to meet on the golf course. Some of the biggest names in sports, news and entertainment love golf just like you. And weeks like this, at the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am, the "Am" is often a bigger name than the "Pro" in the group. So that has us thinking, if you could fill out your foursome with any celebrity (bonus if they are actual golfers), who would you pick? We asked our Facebook nation and, of course, you didn't disappoint. Here are your top responses.
9. Charles Barkley: The NBA legend and current NBA on TNT analyst has also made a name for himself on the golf course. Not necessarily the type of name you want – but it's doubtful anyone loves the game more than he does. What a great time he would be for a day on the links.
Zack Potts - Charles Barkley... and body armor.
Jim Fathead Elkin - Barkley?!!! I'd feel great bout my game..... Lol
Watch: Barkley's game improvement
8. Peyton Manning: The Denver Broncos quarterback can take some solace after the Super Bowl by knowing his name came up a few times for this list. Manning sports a 4.6 index out of Castle Pines, so he's definitely going to help the group play better.
Keegan Schaal - peyton manning
Paul Ollis - Peyton Manning
Golf Buzz: Peyton Manning joins the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am field
7. Holly Sonders: The Golf Channel broadcaster is a popular pick because of her accurate drives, deft short game and a putting stroke that never misses inside 10 feet. Or maybe other reasons.
Jim Curley - Holly Sonders...not even close.
Frank Woolf - Depends what Holly Sonders is wearing
Mark Jancze - It would have to be Holly Saunders! (*sp)
6. Kate Upton - See Sonders, Holly.
Jason Newsome - Kate Upton: She plays, gets lessons from the King
Bradley Smith - Kate Upton
5. Donald Trump: The billionaire businesman has a pretty sharp golf game and owns a few of the best courses in the world to boot. Yeah, he'd be a welcome addition to the group (just don't bet him, he probably has more money than you.)
Henry Klein - Donald Trump
Art Pollard - The Donald or Clint Eastwood would be on the short list
4. Alice Cooper: The heavy metal rocker, who makes no secret of his devotion to the game, has a legion of fans devoted to him and that would love to tee it up with him some time.
Terry Eklund - Alice Cooper
Brian Caulfield - Alice Cooper
Jim Ward - Alice Cooper
Watch: Celebrities reveal THEIR dream foursomes
3. Rice (Jerry, Condoleeza): Perhaps cheating here by including two people (same name, though, right?). But both proved to be popular picks – and why not? Jerry Rice is not only the greatest wide receiver of all time, but he's a scratch golfer who has competed in professional tour events. (He also won "Big Break: NFL" in 2013). Condoleeza Rice is the former Secretary of State, current faculty member at Stanford, good golfer – and happens to have a membership at Augusta National. (And she could invite you ... could.)
Sean Claycamp - Condoleeza Rice
Nancy B. Ayers - Jerry rice
Sean Lamb - Jerry Rice.
Billy Sica - Jerry Rice!!
Art Pollard - Condeleeza Rice, because she could get me on to Augusta National as her guest.
2. Bob Barker: The famed host of The Price is Right, is an avid golfer and may have made his mark on the game with one unforgettable fight scene in the movie "Happy Gilmore". He showed his natural sense of humor and love of golf – hard to beat that in a playing partner.
Spencer Smith BOB BARKER!
Scott Sandberg The price is wrong b*@ch...... Gotta go w Bob Barker!!
1. Bill Murray: Really, Facebook nation? Carl Spackler gets the most votes? No points for originality. But honestly, who can argue this pick? For the upteenth year in a row, congrats to the most famous greenskeeper of all time. Again, he's the people's choice for "most wanted to join in their foursome." Nice work Mr. Murray. Oh, there's no prize. But when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness. So you got that goin' for you, which is nice.
Bob Bransdon - Bill Murray. Not sure the golf would be great but it would be real hoot !!
Michael Adams - Bill Murray, no question
Scot McConnor - Bill Murray. Chive On
Phillip Werner - BILL MURRAY FOR SURE
Paul Priebe - Got to have Bill Murray ... guard your flower beds
See: Photo gallery of Bill Murray on the links
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A haphazard (no to say random) check of the uses of 'pilin' in the corpus at tokipona.net yields these results. Far and away most uses are as a verb (immediately after 'li'). The noun uses are mainly as objects of 'jo' and are mainly of the 'pilin pona' form, though several 'pilin ni:' cases also occur. In the verb position, over half the cases are of the 'pilin pona' type (though more 'ike's than 'pona's, with a few 'nasa's and 'sama's -- from so long ago that it still took 'e'). Almost all of the remainder are 'pilin e ni:', with an occasional 'pilin e kon' "smell" and 'pilin e uta kepeken uta' "kiss" as well as other body parts and the odd physical object like 'kiwen' or 'telo'.
Based on this, it seems clear that by 2009, when the corpus was compiled, 'pilin' operated in at least three ways (from an English point of view, at least, but clearly distinct even in tp). The least significant of these is, roughly, "touch", getting sensation by contact or even just the contact alone. This is tructurally similar to the much larger class, roughly "think that, believe", which take, in effect, a propositional object, indicated by 'ni:'. The sample turned up no clear cases of 'pilin' for thinking in a process sense, unless the two specimens of 'pilin pi x' are cases of "thinking about", as was possible early on. At least possbly related to this are some cases of the noun 'pilin pona', which could be (in the limited context given) good ideas as well as good feelings (in either sense). But for the most part, 'pilin' here matches English "feel" pretty closely and touches only accidentally on English "think".
So, 'pilin pona' matches ''feel good" perfectly, right up to (it turns out) the difficulty in figuring out how it works grammatically. In English, the obvious answer is that "good" is the object of "feel", but the story of of the man who had to fish an oject out of the back of a pretty woman's jeans and in embarassment remarked "I feel a perfect ass" shows this is probably wrong for the case we are considering. The second possibility is that "good" is an adverb modifying "feel". The fact that "good" is usually an adjective with "well" as the corresponding adverb does not discount this suggestion, since "well" can be used in this same construction in exactly the same way -- as well as in the "normal" way of evaluation performance at feeling (odd as that may seem). So, if it is an adverb, it is a different kind from the usual evaluative one, but what kind? At this point we need to consider the differences that the subject makes: "I feel good" is pretty straightforward, but "He feels good" goes in at least two directions (skipping the evaluative): a report about that he would say "I feel good" and a report of the speaker's response to contact with him. In short a to-him/ to me contrast. The latter is clearer with a different term: "This stone feels cold" clearly does not mean that the stone has feelings; rather I have feelings about the stone: that it is cold (whether it is or not is beside the point). And this brings us back to "I feel good", since again whether I am good or not (in the appropriate sense) is not strictly relevant. That is, "I feel good" amounts to "I feel that I am good". The grammar of the collapse is messy, though not unprecedented. The motivation is the usual one of caution. If I say"I am good" (in the understood sense) then I can be easily proven wrong by things like crying, going into a rage and so on. But If I only feel that I am OK, then I am at worst misguided.
This excursion into English need not have a direct effect on the case in tp. However, it does suggest some issues. Taking 'pona' as an adverb to 'pilin' has the usual result of giving an evaluation of performance, which is clearly not intended. Taking it as a direct object also doesn't seem to fit as there is no external object to be felt. (The grammar of this move is carefully not discussed in the textbooks, which are trying to do the rudiments. Once those are mastered, the other tricks, like incorporation -- assumed here -- can be deployed carefully. After all, at some point we do get 'jan pi alasa waso' from 'jan li alasa e waso'.) . As in English, the move from 'mi pilin e ni: mi pona' to 'mi pilin pona' would be complex, but does seem to provide an explanation for the behavior of the expression and a place to put some of the occasionally needed but missing information. It also unifies the various fields of 'pilin' (except the bit about touch)
One thing that this show that is hidden in both the English and the tp is that the good/pona is ultimately a property of the subject, not of the feeling. This appears in the English in a reanalysis "I am feeling-good" (not an impossible -- though an implausible -- reading). This could derive (rather more simply, in fact) from the same underlying sentences as the above reading. And the tp version of that (under the usual rules) would be 'pona pilin'. Indeed, 'pilin pona' as a translation of "feel good" was always odd unless 'pona' was an object, given the shift from AN to NA. Which looks like the 'pilin pona' form is actually an unthinking calque of the English and, so, to be avoided.
The obvious problem with all this is that, under this analysis, 'pilin pona' has nothing to do with my emotions or the like, but only with my beliefs. It does not refer to an internal non-cognitive state, but only to a cognitive one. It is only a cautious claim about some objective truth, not a strong assertion of a subjective one. And that may be unfair to what 'pilin pona' actually does: I may feel good despite all the contrary evidence, even as known to me. But then again, this is a special kind of good, then, as 'pona pilin' and 'feeling-good' suggest.
[This has been an exercise is Humean reasoing. I intuited my conclusion and worked overtime to build a case for it. Now to face the court of common sense.]


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Print version ISSN 0041-4751
MEYER, Susan. Voices from behind the farm gate: The people-nature "conversation" in Dwaalpoort by Alexander Strachan. Tydskr. geesteswet. [online]. 2012, vol.52, n.2, pp.290-306. ISSN 2224-7912.
Alexander Strachan's latest novel ties in with the tradition of the farm novel. Dwaalpoort brings about an enrichment ofthis genre through the intertwining of magical-realist elements and qualities of the modern farm novel, but especially through the unique narrative style and its implications. The novelistic background involves the new socio-political dispensation in South Africa. The ending of the older dispensation manifests itself in issues such as farm dispossession, land reform and the transfer of ownership. On Dwaalpoort cattle farming has made way for game capturing and hunting safaris, and the events cover the weekend during which Judge Jurgens van der Beul comes to bag a game trophy. The power of the novel lies in the division of voices between man and animal. The story is told from the perspectives of six different characters: five human beings and Mhlophe, leader of the troupe of white hartebeest, which in the novel represents the primal spirit of nature. Mhlophe speaks the first and the final word in the novel, an authoritative addition to the voices that speak in between. Through varying perspectives shape is given to the idea centring on man and animal living together consciously within the shared natural environment lying behind the gate. This article focuses on the analysis of the human-nature "conversation" in Dwaalpoort. This leads to the identification of aspects of ecological discourse in Strachan's novel, and also to a reconnaissance of the ways of manifestation of the underlying principles thereof, which Matthew Teorey deduces from the work of the writer on nature, Craig Childs. According to Teorey (2010:35) ecological discourse relates to a physical/sensory, intellectual and psychical effort to achieve a deeper form of respect and communion with other species in the greater context of the cosmos. This in turn is linked to the challenge to listen "actively", attentively and with an open mind to the silences and voices of nature. In Dwaalpoort there are, to a differing extent, indications in the different characters of their level of participation in "conversation" with nature. Through this expression is given to a more encompassing form of contact with and understanding of animals, and to a more profound reflection about the place of and the link between man and animal within the great biotic sphere. An absorbing given emerges from the study of the nature of the communication between man and other species in Dwaalpoort. This involves the way in which "conversation" of this nature can be advantageous where man overcomes the communicative limitations with nature, which cultural systems seem to impose, through acting outside specific culturo-ideological systems. Rentia acts outside the pattern ofpatriarchal domination, maintained by her father (Mafika), in order to have the opportunity to experience the finer nuances of ecological discourse. She resists a system where man's voice and purse call the shots, as a result of which veld and animal have to bend the knee before environmentally destructive farming practices. Her sharing attitude and her desire to maintain a balance motivate her obsessive protection of the white hartebeest in the gorge on the farm against commercial hunting practices. She finds much to read in the sounds and movements of the animals on the farm and she demonstrates close attention to the processes of sensory, intellectual and psychical formations of links with the surrounding natural community, in line with the principles of ecological discourse. Bullet is a hunter functioning from the intellectual framework of acquisition and control. Still the bond with his dogs does create for him the "ear" through which snatches of the voices of nature can penetrate. Guided by the ghost of his dead dog, stripped of the role of hunter and decision-maker, a nightly exodus for him becomes an initiation into a world of barely decipherable messages through the "voice " and eyes ofthe dog. He also hears the condemnatory "accusations" from nature. In this situation, where Bullet steps outside the dominating thought pattern of the hunter, something of a conversation comes into being in the reflection about what the animal has to say to the human being. Jurgens van der Beul is a power-mad judge, decision-maker about the lives of the animals whose stuffed headsfill his trophy room, and ofpeople about whom he makes judgements in court. The episode during which his wife, his ultimate "trophy", becomes the sexual prey of another man leads to a sense of loss of control. Jurgens, too, relinquishes the established intellectual frameworks built around the power roles of hunter and judge during a magical encounter with Mhlophe at the end of the novel. On the way to a section of burnt, ruined veld on the farm - the result of Mafika's farming practices - Jurgens, in a process of magical-realist transformation, becomes the landowner who waits for the leading antelope. He accepts that vengeance is being exacted through the greater power of nature, and a remarkable form of "conversation" comes into existence between man and animal. Traces of which can be found through investigating the parallels between this meeting and an earlier hunting trip involving a kudu cow, with a clear allusion to the way in which the roles of man and animal have been switched. Something of the struggle of the animal emerges within the experiential field of man in this quiet communication occurring through the exchange of experience between man and animal. The novel reveals, in both the hunter-figures, something of the achievement of a deeper form of respect and communion with other species, which after all is the objective of an ecological discourse. It also emphasizes, in the closing sections, an altered perspective in man about a relationship, even equality, between hunter and animal. The form and intensity of the "conversation" between human characters and animals in the novel vary. What is clear, however, from the analysis of the man/nature discourse in Dwaalpoort, is the much greater openness to contact which accompanies the situations in which man moves outside culturally-determined systems of dominant thought and action.
Keywords : Dwaalpoort; Alexander Strachan; farm novel; magical realism; narrative technique; man/nature discourse; ecological discourse; voice of nature; relinquishing of limiting cultural systems; co-existence of man and nature.