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Is Alis lean back, or lay back a controversial way of defence?
Im not sure if im mistaken but in the past i have read that Ali was unorthodox in that he would lean back from punches which you are not supposed to do or something like that.
But in the boxing books ive read, a lean back is legitimate way of getting out of the way of punches so im confused?
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As a noob, dont do it. just because It worked for them doesnt mean it will work for you, I see guys trying to do it at my gym, then I throw again and knock them down.
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Ali, Jones, Naz were all incredible athletes and had crazy reflexes. Most people don't and it's a good way to get put on your ass either because you'll get hit clean, or you'll be off balance get knocked over.
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We have a guy at our gym, one of my sparring partners, who does some of that stuff. He is very fast and has good reflexes so he can use it. Still though, Alot of the time me and other guys are able to tag him by doubling up as he leans and drops back.
You should always try conventional means of doing things before trying a different way.
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But the instructional book i read "the art of boxing" by jim burns, advocates its a good defense move which you can use to counter.
You dont move your rear leg, but just keep your stance a little wider, lean back and when you become more upright you can counter with your own punch combination.
But it does say that a step back is probably better.
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Ali was incredibly gifted and the biggest mistake anyone can make is to try and copy him.
Same thing applies to copying Floyd and his Philly Shell.
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nah its a great technique that will only fail you if you dont understand it.
you dont lean back on hooks or swings. thats it. the rest of the time leaning back is fine.
people who lean back alot and dont understand it will get used to allways leaning back and invariably lean back in to a wild haymaker or a hook that the oponet opened up as soon as he saw you going back.
and even people that understand this and lean back alot still tend to lean back into hooks and haymakers just from doing it so much.
so really it should only be a last resort that most beginners should ween them self off using but in mastery of it it can be very useful, of course mastery of it requires a diffrent style closer to that of the old masters then modern boxing with most the weight on the back foot and the back foot pointing to the right.
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it got ali in a lot of trouble plenty of times. got knocked down a bunch of times because of that habit
so yeah just stick with the basics. if ali gets knocked down using that technique then you wont stand a chance being successful at it. you might look good doing that against some idiot in your gym that doesnt know anything about boxing but when you fight somebody who knows what hes doing you will get dropped prety quick id assume
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A rising tide of Republicans who share Ron Paul's philosophy of limited government are flooding into GOP party roles in Iowa.
Like the anti-abortion movement and tea partiers that made in-roads into GOP politics here in recent years, Paul loyalists want to send a message to party leaders, the governor, the state legislature and the nation, they said Saturday.
Six of the new Iowa GOP state central committee members elected Saturday have publicly expressed support for Paul, a libertarian-leaning presidential candidate: Joel Kurtinitis, Kris Thiessen, Dave Cushman, Jeff Shipley, John Kabitzke and Marcus Fedler. Two more have close ties.
"Ron Paul's display of strength is to encourage their followers to say, 'We have the numbers. Join us and we can accomplish even more,'" said Gopal Krishna, a popular longtime central committee member who has declined to reveal his caucus vote. "Because once they're a force to be reckoned with, everybody starts to cater to them."
The Republican delegates at the four GOP district conventions also elected two people who backed Rick Santorum to the 18-member board that governs the Republican Party of Iowa.
Two others were Michele Bachmann campaign workers, and one caucused for Newt Gingrich. Four new state central committee members have kept their presidential candidate preferences private. One didn't caucus because he was tied up with state party business on caucus night.
Two more new central committee members have had close relationships with the Paul movement. Tony Krebsbach was a county coordinator for Campaign for Liberty, a group Paul founded. And when Chad Steenhoek was running for the Iowa House in 2010, the Campaign for Liberty PAC gave him a donation and Paul spoke on his behalf. Steenhoek said Saturday he caucused for Gingrich. He doesn't subscribe to a Ron Paul philosophy so much as a Republican philosophy of limited government and individual rights, he said.
The growing Paul faction in leadership positions at the Republican Party of Iowa – including the new chairman, A.J. Spiker, who was the Paul campaign's Iowa vice chairman and can break ties in central committee votes – has created tension with Iowa Republicans who don't share their affection for the Texas congressman or share some of his views.
Kurtinitis, a Paul backer elected to the central committee Saturday, said he's aware of the nervousness.
"I think it's uncertainty. 'They don't have a long history in politics. They're not predictable,'" said Kurtinitis, 27, a born-again Christian who was homeschooled as a youth.
"I can understand some hesitation," he added. "We don't know what direction this is going to take us as a party. But we need to be careful not to miss this opportunity because of that hesitation, that fear."
Agree or disagree with Paul, he draws fresh faces into political activism in Iowa, including younger people, independents and Democrats.
"Anyone who's followed the Ron Paul movement knows it's about ideals, not a person," Kurtinitis said. "It's free enterprise, individual liberty, a government that's constitutionally limited."
For some, Saturday's push wasn't as much about Iowa as it was about the national effort for Paul.
Several Paul loyalists said they harbor hope for getting Paul nominated at the national convention in Tampa in late August.
In order to do that, Paul must have a majority of support from at least five state delegations. With states like North Dakota, Minnesota and others on track, his supporters could then attempt to nominate him from the floor.
Iowa's 28 delegates are all "unbound," meaning they can individually decide which presidential candidate to support. To stop Paul supporters from controlling the Iowa delegation, Romney backers in Iowa said they will likely focus on teaming up with Christian conservatives here.
Paul loyalists did well in getting their supporters onto the GOP's "state nomination committee," which will nominate Iowa's 13 at-large national delegates. Another 12 district delegates will be selected June 15. The GOP chairman and Iowa's two Republican National Committee members are also delegates.
Only one woman was elected to the state central committee Saturday. That makes just two women on the board including Iowa's Republican National Committeewoman, Kim Lehman.
Here are the eight people the GOP convention delegates named to the state nominating committee:
1st District:
Roger Kistler, who said in December he was a Ron Paul backer
Carol Johnson, whose Facebook page shows support for Ron Paul
2nd District:
Dusty Juhl, who is listed as an interim state coordinator for Campaign for Liberty, an organization founded by Ron Paul
David Haas
3rd District:
Monte Shaw, a state central committee member who didn't seek re-election Saturday
Nancy Bowery, who was an interim county coordinator for Ron Paul's Campaign for Liberty
4th District:
Karen Fesler, a Rick Santorum backer
Christine Graber
Here are the winners of the races for Iowa GOP state central committee:
1st District:
Dave Cushman of Dubuque County, a Ron Paul backer
Loras Schulte of Benton County, a Rick Santorum backer
Tony Krebsbach of Mitchell County, who was a county coordinator for Ron Paul's Campaign for Liberty
David Chung of Linn County, who isn't publicly revealing his caucus vote
2nd District:
(Two incumbents lost re-election: Trudy Caviness and John Ortega. The third incumbent, Emily Lofgren, did not run again)
Jeff Shipley of Jefferson County, a Ron Paul backer
Marcus Fedler of Washington County, a Ron Paul supporter
Mark Doland of Mahaska County, who worked for Michele Bachmann's campaign
Bob Anderson of Johnson County, who remained neutral in the GOP caucuses because he's the county party chairman
3rd District:
(Incumbents Monte Shaw and David Fischer did not seek re-election.)
Joel Kurtinitis of Polk County, a Ron Paul supporter
John Kabitzke of Warren County, a Ron Paul backer
Gopal Krishna of Polk County, who is a current state central committee member and has declined to say who he caucused for
Wes Enos of Polk County, who is a current committee member and worked for the Bachmann campaign
4th District
(Incumbent Craig Williams and James Mills lost their races for re-election. Drew Ivers didn't seek re-election.)
Kris Thiessen of Clay County, a Ron Paul backer
Tim Moran of Woodbury County, a current central committee member who didn't caucus this year but worked for Mitt Romney campaign in the past
Jamie Johnson of Webster County, a Rick Santorum supporter
Chad Steenhoek of Story County, who caucused for Newt Gingrich.
Campaign for Liberty and Ron Paul
Tags: Bob Anderson, Chad Steenhoek, David Fischer, district conventions, Emily Lofgren, Gopal Krishna, Jamie Johnson, Jeff Shipley, Joel Kurtinitis, John Kabitzke, John Ortegea, Kris Thiessen, Marcus Fedler, Mark Doland, michele bachmann, Monte Shaw, Republican Party of Iowa, state central committee, Tim Moran, Trudy Caviness, Wes Enos


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Approximately 150 federal and state law enforcement agents launched a massive raid on one of the biggest perpetrators of government fraud in America: The Scooter Store. Yes, that's right. The nation's largest provider of single-person electric vehicles and power chairs is the target of a federal investigation, probably because many of the people who ride around their "personal mobility devices" don't actually need them.
In January, CBS This Morning ran a cutting expos� on the company, detailing how it "railroads" doctors into prescribing the chair for their patients, most of whom are on Medicare or Medicaid. That way they can bill the government for their highly dubious medical device, while the patient gets a cool new scooter without paying for it, and The Scooter Store makes a nice profit. Doctors and former employees told CBS that the company would harass physicians with non-stop phone calls and offices drop-ins in order to wear them down. The company even has a special department devoted to getting chairs for patients who had already been ruled ineligible by Medicare. No doubt the pressure comes because their ads guarantee that the chair will be free if they can't get you qualified.
The Scooter Store is so good at getting the chairs that a government audit found that they had overbilled Medicare by over $100 million between 2009-2012. It's no wonder their ads brag that "No other company will work harder to make you mobile."
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Red Hat, opensource.com, and the high road
In my role as Red Hat's brand manager, I am always on the look out for interesting and provocative readings about brands and branding in general. Inside the technology industry, outside the technology industry – it's all good. There's something to be learned from every great case study, thought piece, theory, and brand story.
Typically, I come across various articles on brand positioning and differentiation. Sure, many are great – they provide reminders of the branding basics and can be reassuring that what we're doing is following a good course.
But what really interests me are readings that take traditional brand theory and turn it on its head, pushing the topic of branding for companies that want to stay ahead of the curve – like Red Hat.
I recently came across an article that made me stop and consider how we're approaching our brand strategy – both at Red Hat and here at opensource.com. This post has been in my brain for a couple of weeks now, and that stickiness convinced me that it's something I want to share.
And not just share. I'd also like to hear your thoughts on the topic. It's important, and could influence the future of the opensource.com brand.
The post I'm referring to is What is Your Brand Against?, a Harvard Business Review article written by Scott Goodson (February 15, 2011). In it, Goodson introduces a new-to-me term: oppositional thinking. It represents a tactic that savvy marketers have employed to effectively communicate what their brand stands for.
The premise is simple: "If you really want to show the world what you believe in and stand for, how about telling us what you stand against?" Goodson argues that by only talking about your brand's beliefs and ideals, your marketing communications may come across as generic, dull, and predictable. And we've all seen plenty of that type of marketing and advertising. A little bit of oppositional thinking might be necessary for a brand to truly and authentically position itself in the minds of its customers.
Goodson talks about his first-hand experience with this theory while working on the smart car brand. Traditional thinking would have focused on the things that differentiate the smart car from its competitors: efficiency, economy, and reduced environmental footprint. But Goodson and his team applied some oppositional thinking to help the smart car really find its voice. This helped the brand define what it's against: over-consumption, excess, and thoughtless behavior. This type of strategy gives the brand messaging a little bit more bite.
The smart car brand's declaration that it's "against dumb" made me think of a similar branding and messaging campaign, method home products' people against dirty initiative. (Interesting side note: In doing my research on both smart car and method home products, I couldn't find a capital letter between them. people against capital letters, perhaps?)
To me, the 'against dumb' and 'against dirty' initiatives seem to be lightweight, somewhat humorous, and media-driven campaigns – appropriate for the consumer audience they're both trying to reach. When I try to apply this strategic thinking to some brands closer to home, the subject matter takes on a bit more gravity. We consider both the Red Hat and opensource.com brands mission-driven brands that stand for much more than selling products.
The Red Hat brand (and the open source movement overall) certainly benefited from some oppositional thinking. In the earliest stages of the company's history, in fact, some might argue that the brand was more well known for what (or who) we stood against than what we stood for.
And company artifacts from that time-period support this theory. Look no further than the Truth Happens video to see Red Hat's oppositional thinking in action.
Did we run the risk of becoming too oppositional? Perhaps. As the company grew, and gained credibility within the industry and on Wall Street, we shifted our focus from boxed products to the enterprise. Red Hat strategy also shifted. We focused on educating the world about the merits of open source software and the leadership position of our brand and products.
This quote from Goodson's article rings particularly true, considering that point in the company's history, and our actions since:
"Don't simply take a stand "against" your competition. You may hate your competitor's guts, but nobody else cares; the outside world is looking for you to take on something more meaningful and interesting."
And that's really what we've tried to do. With few exceptions, we eschew taking pot shots at our competitors and knocking proprietary software down. Instead, we want to tell great stories about our company and our many successes. More importantly, we value when others tell that story for us. In both cases, we focus on the positive aspects of what the Red Hat brand stands for.
Goodson's assertions reassure me that it's not an either-or situation. I think the most effective brands figure out how to marry oppositional thinking with an overarching positive and inspirational message, leveraging the strengths of both:
"Your campaign, or the movement you're trying to lead, should (not) amount to one big gripe-fest. The conversation you have with the public may start by pointing out something wrong, but ought to move beyond that to offer better alternatives, ideas, and actions you can help people take. If you can do that, it's possible to transform negative energy into a positive force — both for your customers and for your brand."
I believe the Red Hat brand is well-positioned for this type of approach.
As we conceived and launched opensource.com over the last year, we've applied a similar branding philosophy. There are so many great stories about how the open source way is being applied in business, law, government, education, healthcare, and life that it's easy to generate daily content promoting all of the things we believe in and their merits.
But, upon reflection, our approach hasn't employed too much oppositional thinking.
So my question to you, dear readers, is this: Are we on the right path? Can we continue to promote the ideals of open source through vehicles like opensource.com, breaking through the clutter and staying the course on the highest of high roads?
Or is it time to take a hard stand and be more aggressive about the alternatives? Will some oppositional thinking spark a more meaningful and broader conversation with the audiences we're trying to reach?
We're curious what you think. Sound off in the comments below.
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The way software patents are abused was a natural thing for anyone who cares about open source to hate, and I've always wished we could make a bigger deal about this issue, and this fight.
It's also a bigger human story, that goes beyond patents, about the use of power and money to stifle sharing and slow the "democratization of information" and it's a pretty black/white, good/bad issue that you can build a lot of good stories around.
We could say clearly that anything that impedes the exchange of ideas is bad, and never run out of ways to show how our company fights and often wins.
The whole patent troll story also sparks other conversations about shared knowledge vs. intellectual property, so it's another natural fit.
However, as a company, our legal team has to decide how we handle and speak about these issues. It's a situation where battling on the specifics in court (actual patent litigation) necessarily limits what we say about the general subject in public arenas. Also, Red Hat holds its own software patents (albeit defensively), so that takes some explaining.
That's the line Red Hat has to walk.
Opensource.com, as a forum, should be a safe place to talk about these issues, and take a strong stand against the abusers of software patents, but it shouldn't be (and can't be) a soapbox exclusively for Red Hat.
Still, if there's one big thing we can take a stand against, it seems to me, it's got to be patent trolling or any abuse of intellectual property law that limits the sharing of knowledge, expertise, information, etc.
There's nothing especially radical about taking this position, but figuring out how our brands interact with these issues is tricky.
The story of our Movement has been traditionally one of oppositional thinking, and underdoggedness. Fighting proprietary lock-in, predatory intellectual property policy, and monopolistic business and collusion. One of Red Hat's strongest branding messages is a Ghandi Quote seen hanging in various places, both online and physically in the Westford Offices:
"First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win."
This statement really sums up life in Opensource, pre-S&P 500. For the average technologist at this point, Opensource has arrived. The days of oppositional marketing are somewhat passe. Companies now try to "band wagon" and "double speak" their way into the hearts and minds of our community by claiming they are doing it Open, not by decrying themselves as oppositional to Freedom! With the rise in popularity of open web technologies, wikis, new distros, and social coding communities, brand differentiation, for me, really falls to showing the high-road of Software Freedom--and how that particular freedom begets Freedom of Information, Expression, and others--as you move from the bit-level higher up the stack.As a community, we want (and need) to "Be the change we want to see the in the world", to borrow another Ghandi quote. Telling that story is not a slogan campaign, or a marketing appeal, or gimmicky 'don't think of an elephant' messaging: Walking your own talk, is the highest high road.
Stand against problems, not companies or people. After all, it's not the companies or people we dislike; it's what they're doing, and if they were to turn around and change their actions, we'd welcome them as friends.
I think Colin hit on a good theme when pointing out that we're against "anything that impedes the exchange of ideas" - perhaps something like "Every human being in the world should be able to instantly share their ideas with any other human being, without fear. This isn't the case. Let's fix it." (This isn't quite it - it misses aspects of remixability and actually doing something with the ideas instead of just thinking about them, but perhaps it's a start.)
This is actually a nice counterpoint to something like Wikipedia's missoin, actually - they want to give all people access to all human knowledge, we'd like to extend that and give all people the ability to contribute to it. Making. Discovery. Invention.
I'm glad your not run by a billionare-college-dropout!
I have long admired Red Hat for sticking to a set of ideals that promote openness. However, Red Hat's brand took a bit of a beating recently. I am referring to the decision to change the style of source code Red Hat publishes for the kernel. I can completely understand the reasoning behind the decision. However, it is absolutely clear that the decision was made based on a business thought process, with no regard for branding or ideals. I have to wonder if the people who made the decision asked themselves a few simple questions. Is this change in keeping with the ideals of the company? Will this change hurt more people than we intend? Will this change have the actual intended impact that we want? To me at least, the decision seems poorly thought out.
Its kind of hard to promote brand when the company your promoting goes and does something that is completely opposite to their ideals. Is Red Hat still within the terms of the GPL? I guess. But they are surely less open about the kernel than they used to be. Sometimes holding on to one's ideals means taking a hit in other regards. Ghandi was revered because he stuck to his ideals no matter the cost. For a company that has his quotes hanging around, you obviously forgot about that when changing the kernel source code.
I think it's incredibly hard for a company to maintain its public persona as it grows from small to large and it seems inevitable that big brands eventually incur the public's scorn.
When you start up (and my fledgling company is in this space now) your passion, ideals and vision define your brand, yet as a firm grows that founding passion becomes diluted, those ideals cost too much and your vision stops matching your board's.
This is the path every firm wants to avoid, but reading the tech press it seems a well-trodden one. Almost all of the current technology powerhouses (Google, Facebook, Dell, IBM, Microsoft, [insert your fave here]) polarise opinion in a way other industries don't and I think it's because technology fans are more engaged by definition than other consumers.
For open source this is amplified to near zealotry; for example fans shunned Red Hat because they started looking "corporate"; some switched to Ubuntu and are probably now looking around for a new fave because their new desktop looks less geeky than before - you truly can't please all of the people all of the time. We love a plucky scrapper until they do too well then we tend to look for the next one.
Whilst this may sound a little negative and depressing, I believe that our open culture, as it spreads throughout the mainstream, will seed the change. Only a more collaborative, open business world will break this cycle as firms stop squabbling with each other and instead focus fully on finding value for their customers.


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To paraphrase Hemingway, climate change first comes gradually and then all at once.
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To paraphrase a line from the real-estate business, it all comes down to occupation, occupation, occupation.
It is a view that suggests, to paraphrase Mao, that justice grows out of the barrel of a gun.
Chaucer has taken it too literally, but his paraphrase is nearly right.
It was founded on Cædmon's paraphrase of the book of Genesis.
This line, for a wonder, is unaltered by Dryden in his paraphrase.
All the other impressions are—to paraphrase Thnard—embroideries on this.
It is much better to tell the story in your own language than to read it either in the Bible or in a paraphrase.
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Global Inbox
From MozillaZine Knowledge Base
Thunderbird has a optional Global Inbox feature that stores mail from multiple POP accounts in a single Inbox in Local Folders. You can have all, some or none of your POP accounts use the Global Inbox. Each account that does not use the Global Inbox will have its own set of folders, including its own Inbox, displayed in the folders pane. Accounts that use the Global Inbox will not have their own folders displayed in the folders pane; instead, all you will see is the single set of folders in Local Folders.
See Virtual Folder and Unified Folders for some alternatives. They will work with both POP and IMAP accounts.
When creating a new account
When you create a new POP mail account in Thunderbird, the Account Wizard may ask if you want to use the Global Inbox for that account. If it does that (and you want a global inbox), check that feature. If it doesn't ask (recent versions don't) then you need to select "Global Inbox (Local Folders account)" in Tools -> Account Settings -> Server Settings -> Advanced. Try to do that before Thunderbird checks for new mail to avoid complications.
If you often create new accounts, you can set the default in the Account Wizard by setting the preference
Changing the Global Inbox setting for an existing account
To change the Global Inbox setting for an existing account, you need to follow three simple steps.
Change the destination Inbox
Go to "Tools -> Account Settings -> Server Settings" and click on the "Advanced" button. A dialog box will then pop open.
To set the account to use the Global Inbox, select "Global Inbox (Local Folders Account)" and click "OK".
To set the account to not use the Global Inbox, select either "Inbox for this server's account" or "Inbox for different account" and click "OK".
Check settings for other folders and filters
After you have changed the account's setting for which Inbox to use, see if any of the following need to be changed:
Exit and restart Thunderbird
Important: exit Thunderbird and restart before downloading mail into any account whose Inbox/Global Inbox setting you've changed. If you do not exit and restart, messages might continue to download into their "old" locations (e.g., into the individual account Inbox rather than the Global Inbox).
How to identify what messages are from which account
The easiest way to identify what account (mailbox) you received a message in is to use separate accounts in Thunderbird. However, you could:
Alternative solutions
Virtual Folder
Saved Searches can be created to combine the inbox folders (or any folder) of several accounts, to give the appearance of something like a global (inbox) folder. Each account's inbox will still be visible in the folder pane and still physically stores the messages, but you can manipulate messages in the virtual folder just as you can do in the physical folder. A virtual folder can include folders from both POP and IMAP accounts, and even a (real) global inbox. You can use File -> New -> Saved Search to create, and :
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Unified Folders (originally named Smart Folders when it was added in 3.0) is a folder pane view which looks like a global inbox account by merging the contents of all inbox folders (both POP, IMAP and local folders) from all accounts. It also shows the inbox of each account as a child folder of the unified Inbox account. Any messages in an inbox shows up in both the root of the unified Inbox, plus the child folder of the unified Inbox for that account.
Each account still displays any child folders of the inbox, only its inbox folder has been "moved" away from the account. This does not, however, change where and how messages are stored. In other words, Unified is just another way to view your folders, similar to what you can do with a saved search (a type of virtual folder).
Use View -> Folders -> Unified Folders to select it. If you don't want to use it, use View -> Folders -> All Folders to select a more traditional display. Thunderbird 10 eliminated the ◄► arrows at the top of the folder pane that you could use to cycle between different views.
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We spent 16 miserable days and nights with no air conditioning or after a move, 6 days out, very little a/c. It was so hot in our room, we set the fire alarm off when we showered. Of course, it went off regularly in the middle of the nite, too. The toilet blew up at 3 am, so then we had someone in to fix that and clean. There we many days with no toilet at all, for hours. Our rooms, both of them were dirty, windows, carpet and moldy bathroom. No cold water, only hot. Carpet loose in hallways, elevators not working, etc, etc. We did not think it too much to ask to have just basic comforts. Guess they did.
Food was mediocre at best, and boring most of the time. Staff in the buffet stood around and looked bored, leaving us to get our own drinks. Even walk past with coffee and ignored us.
The money spent to re-fit this ship was a calculated plan to separate us from our money. This seems to be the only area Princess is concerned with now. All of our cruises have been with Princess, and never have we had a bad one until now. This cruise could be compared to one out of a third world country on their maiden voyage.
I have spent a month trying to get Princess to make this right, need I say that they didn't? I got the same uncaring, patronizing attitude from 'customer relations'.
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Sunday, March 2nd, 2008
From Noel:
We went with the Sorleys this morning to Tigoni Baptist. We expected the service to be in
Swahili, and most of it was. Good music. I was able to catch on to a couple of the phrases if they were repetitive enough. One sounded really familiar and I finally realized it was "Things Already Bettah" that we learned in English from Watoto.
Then when it was sermon time, Pastor Bosco had another man up there with him to translate into English. I think that was an impromptu arrangement because we were visiting. The sermon was from Philippians 1:15-18. He spoke about unity and love, specifically relating it to the recent violence in Kenya. He challenged the church to be different than others.
I have been in services other places where the language is unfamiliar, and God works anyway. Maybe I meditate on the passage I know the pastor is preaching from. Or maybe God brings other things to mind. Or maybe I pray for the people who are worshiping around me.
So I didn't mind when I thought this morning would be all Swahili, but I was glad I could understand more than I expected.
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Well, I guess I was at two churches this morning — First Baptist in Barnesville and also at Togoni Baptist, enjoying the melieu and the music, vicariously –of course!
I am with you in Spirit…smelling the myriad of smeels of the people and cow dung, etc…I am jealous…soke in the experience that Africa affords. Let us know how we can pray…blessings, Tom
Noel, How about another update? Eager to hear more!
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Well, I just finished eating a home made beef burger to break my modified juice fast. I have had added cream in purchased coffee and fresh garden peas (OMG GOOD!!) so far today, otherwise still eating/drinking juice as before. But now I feel satiated with beef - in fact I feel rather heavily overfull on a 5 oz patty! Served with lettuce, onion, relish and ketchup. And eaten in the company of my newly-returned-from-camp son, also first time in a while. I still have my supper serving of juice that I will have later this evening.
Can't wait to see what the scale does tomorrow. Other "cleanses" have caused huge weight losses followed by most of it reappearing almost overnight when the "cleanse" is over. Of course, that was in my previous non-primal days, and reintroduced food would usually be grain-based.


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Venue: The Dorfman Centre, St. Peter's College, Oxford
With the support of The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH), The Modern European History Research Centre (MEHRC), and The Society for the Social History of Medicine.
We are delighted to announce that registration is now opened for the second annual conference of the University of Oxford's Interdisciplinary Research Network 'Translations in Transnational Contexts'. The purpose of the meeting is to consider the relevance, role and impact of translations during periods of serious discontinuity and/or rupture such as wars, invasions, imperial crises, mass migration, natural disasters (including epidemics), and revolutions - be they political, social, cultural or technological. The works studied are literary and non-literary texts, images as well as records of verbal and non-verbal communications. There will be panels on: 'Translating constitutions in the Age of Revolutions', 'Translating medical texts during epidemics and imperial crises', 'Interpreting for war and peace in the 19th century', 'Literary translation, radicalism and globalization' and 'Dynastic wars, post-revolutions, and resistance'.
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Man is arrested in roommate assault
Lahaina police arrested a 30-year-old Honokowai man after his roommate reported awakening early Tuesday to find him sexually touching her, police said.
The incident occurred at 1:45 a.m. while the 32-year-old woman was asleep in her bedroom with her children, police said. The roommate, who lived in another part of the apartment, ran outside after the woman awakened, police said.
Police arrested him, then released him pending further investigation of third-degree sexual assault.
Kaluka Maiava's trial set for Oct. 14
An Oct. 14 trial date was set in 2nd Circuit Court for Oakland Raiders linebacker Kaluka Maiava on charges of assaulting two men and damaging property at a Kihei bar.
Attorney Ben Lowenthal entered not-guilty pleas for Maiava, saying he is on the Mainland and waiving his presence for the arraignment Tuesday. Maiava has requested a jury trial on the misdemeanor charge of third-degree assault and petty misdemeanor charge of fourth-degree criminal property damage.
Complaints allege that the assault and property damage occurred March 17 at Life's a Beach in Kihei Kalama Village.
Maiava, 27, of Wailuku was charged along with his brother, Ilima Maiava, 31, of Waipahu, Oahu.
Ilima Maiava's arraignment in Wailuku District Court is scheduled for Aug. 29.
Kaluka Maiava is a 2005 Baldwin High School graduate who played in four Rose Bowls for the University of Southern California. He is the only Maui Interscholastic League athlete to be drafted by a National Football League team.
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A 36-year-old Haliimaile man was arrested Monday after he allegedly hit his landlord, who required stitches for a laceration on his forehead, police said.
Wayne McIntee was charged with second-degree assault and released after posting $1,000 bail.
The assault was reported at 4:55 p.m. at a residence on Olioli Street in Haliimaile, said Lt. Jayson Rego of the Criminal Investigation Division.
He said the 51-year-old victim reported confronting the tenant on his property when he was hit with an unknown object. The victim suffered a 1.5- to 2-inch cut on his forehead and was transported by medics to Maui Memorial Medical Center for treatment, Rego said.
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A Wailuku man was sentenced Tuesday to 18 years and four months in federal prison for being a leader and organizer of a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, according to the U.S. attorney's office in Honolulu.
John Lee Balberdi, 39, was arrested and prosecuted after the Maui Police Department seized more than 550 grams of pure methamphetamine from the Kahului residence of one of Balberdi's co-conspirators in February 2009, said Florence Nakakuni, U.S. attorney for the Hawaii district.
Balberdi admitted to distributing another 40 pounds of methamphetamine between March 2007 and February 2009, according to the U.S. attorney's office.
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February 21, 2000
The first measure is the Maintenance and Operations Levy. This is essential for us to maintain the quality educational programs that the Riverview School District is proud of.
The second measure is the Technology Levy. Our staff members provide superb instruction, yet are held back by archaic equipment and systems that often break down. We want our students to be leaders in the twenty-first century, rather than always trying to catch up with everyone else.
The third measure is the Performing Arts Center. When Cedarcrest was originally conceived, this was included in the proposal and simply has never been completed. With the addition of drapery, storage areas, and a sound system, the entire community can use and enjoy the Performing Arts Center.
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Ron Gohm is starting 2010 with the grand opening of his second Bay City business, Area 51 Cycle and Performance, 1014 Marquette.
Gohm, owner of Gohm & Son Roofing & Home Improvements, believes giving people quality service for less will help his new enterprise to thrive.
The 42-year-old says he will keep a small inventory at the shop and charge about $20 less per hour for motorcycle repairs and maintenance than his competitors.
"Keep the inventory down, keep costs down, that's the best way of saving customers in the long run," Gohm said.
In the short term, Gohm said, he hopes the business increases its $20-per-month heated winter storage. In the long run, he hopes to expand into serving snowmobiles and to open a showroom at the business.
Paul F. Beggs is known in Bay City for his law skills. But he also hopes to expand the flower shop he purchased last spring.
Beggs, president of Sunflowers Enterprise, is now owner of Sandy's Flowers & Plants, 6579 Westside Saginaw, near Delta College. He feels even in a bad economy and a high-tech world, flowers never go out of style.
"I don't care how tough things are ... if anything it's almost countercyclical," he said. "People may not have enough money to go away for a nice trip to Disney World or whatnot, but at least they can bring some of the beauty to them with flowers coming into their home."
Beggs, 49, wants to expand the plant-growing aspect of the business and build more green houses while continuing the more than 60-year-old business.
Barry Rankin, owner of Dirla Photography Studio, is moving his business from 1711 S. Wenona in Bay City to 926 Washington in Bay City's downtown Davison Building.
Rankin said the move from the more than 40-year-old location gives the business more street exposure and could attract new customers.
"I'm constantly looking for ways to improve exposure, improve business," Rankin said. "I'm thinking this is going to be a very positive move for us and I'm just thinking it is going to increase our exposure."
The new storefront, across from the State Theatre, has a lot of foot traffic out front and, with the collaboration of businesses for theater events, Rankin hopes it increases business.
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It's never too late for super-stud-dom. Or so it seems for Howard Keel, 66, who sang his way through Hollywood's golden years in movies like Kiss Me, Kate and Rose Marie only to end up as Clayton Farlow, the gallant friend to the Ewing ladies on Dallas. Back from a concert tour in England, Keel reports he was mobbed by British admirers. "They all wanted to know if I were going to end up with Miss Ellie or Sue Ellen. They were so interested in my romantic entanglements I couldn't believe it. After all, I'm just an old poop!"
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HOLLIDAYSBURG - Carly Burns' return to the Juniata lineup wasn't exactly quiet.
After missing most of Juniata's quarterfinal win over Tyrone with a shoulder injury, the senior scored 14 points on the night and made her presence felt immediately as the Indians defeated Marion Center 50-44 in a girls District 6 Class AA semifinal game Wednesday night at Hollidaysburg High School.
"I couldn't be more proud of these kids," Juniata coach Meghan Geedey said. "You never know who's going to contribute each night. These kids just fight, and they battle and they play so well together."
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Juniata's Maddie Zendt grabs an offensive rebound between Marion Center's Kearsten Brocious, left, and Hanna Jo Beer (23) during their District 6 Class AA semifinal game Wednesday in Hollidaysburg.
Juniata coach Meghan Geedey hugs Alyssa Parson as the rest of the bench celebrates the Indians' victory over Marion Center, which clinched a state berth and a shot at the district title.
Juniata advances to the final, where it will see Bellwood-Antis, a 38-35 winner over top seed Blairsville, Saturday at St. Francis (Pa.)?University in Loretto.
Burns assisted on two of Juniata's first four baskets, added five rebounds on the night and made a critical steal during the first of the Indians' fourth-quarter runs.
The difference for Juniata was two separate fourth quarter runs of six and five, the first of which turned a 38-38 game into a 44-38 Juniata advantage.
Maddie Zendt matched Burns with 14 points of her own and scored four of those to start the 6-0 run that separated the Indians from Marion Center for good.
Just like in its playoff opener, the Juniata offense ran through Joelle Winey early on.
The senior scored six of the Indians' first eight points - all on layups - to give Juniata a quick 8-3 lead with 5:38 left in the opening quarter.
"They went man-to-man at first and we didn't think they had anyone to stop Joelle Winey," Geedey said. "The game plan was to feed her. We fed her and they had to go to the zone."
Marion Center roared back though, snapping off nine straight points to take a 12-8 lead.
The Stingers got a layup from Jennifer Irvin, three free throws from Hanna Beer and two layups from Chantel Glasser.
Zendt stopped the run with two free throws to draw Juniata to 12-10.
After Kearsten Brocious' 3-pointer, Zendt added another free throw to make it 15-11 after the first quarter.
Following another Glasser layup, Cary Burns hit back-to-back jumpers to cut the Marion Center lead back to two points at 17-15.
The Stingers came run back with five straight points though, highlighted by Glasser's 3-pointer, giving them a 22-15 lead, their largest of the night.
Irvin's jumper made the Marion Center lead 26-20 before Burns made a free throw to make the score 26-21 Stingers at the half.
Glasser led all scorers with 14 first-half points while Burns led the way for Juniata with seven.
Juniata quickly erased the halftime deficit when Burns made a layup and Victoria Varner followed with a 3-pointer to make it 26-all with six minutes to go in the third quarter.
Glasser added a leaner to put Marion Center back up 28-26, but Varner answered with another 3-ball to put Juniata ahead.
Glasser answered again for the Stingers with another basket, but that would be the last time she was heard from on the night.
The senior for Marion Center was held to four points in the second half and rarely got into the lane after the break.
"We said no right hand," Geedey said. "We tried to do that in the first half, but give her credit, she gets around the basket and she finishes. We tried to take away her right hand in the second half. Maddie stayed on her the second half, and that's the matchup we wanted."
Mia Oterson scored for Marion Center with two seconds left in the third quarter to make it 34-33 Juniata going to the final stanza.
Beer's drive, layup and the ensuing free throw gave Marion Center a 38-36 lead with 6:46 left in the game.
Juniata answered with two quick baskets from Winey and Zendt to put them back up 40-38 with 5:45 remaining.
Zendt added two free throws and Winey made a layup to finish Juniata's 6-0 run.
Beer stopped the bleeding with a bucket to make it 44-40 before Juniata went a game-sealing 5-0 run over a 20-second span.
Burns drained two free throws then got a steal on the inbounds pass. She was fouled again and made another freebie.
Following a Marion Center foul, Janelle Swartz scored her only points of the night from the foul line to make it 49-40 with 37.2 seconds to go.
Karlie Snyder's last-second drive concluded the game at 50-44 in favor of Juniata.
"We got home and watch this game and see what we've got," Geedey said. "We watch video and work like crazy and try to find a way to beat them."
Notes: Juniata (21-2) had four players in double figures with Varner and Winey each adding 10 points. ... The Indians have not played for a district title since moving into District 6. In fact, Juniata has not been in a district championship since at least 1976, which is as far as available District 3 records go. ... The championship game will pit the third seed (Juniata) against the No. 5 team. Marion Center was No. 7; it ousted No. 2 Westmont Hilltop in the quarters. The Stingers will play Blairsville in a consolation game with the winner getting the district's third state bracket spot.


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Process bottlenecks in high-throughput screening (HTS) can significantly diminish the productivity of a drug discovery program. One major and costly bottleneck within the drug discovery process is the creation of the modified cells needed for HTS cell-based assays for screening drug candidate libraries. A related bottleneck is the inability to transfect certain cells types and to load relevant agents such as mRNA, proteins, and small molecules.
Cells for HTS cell-based assays are commonly modified to express genes that produce proteins for drug targets. Traditionally, cell lines are modified for stable integration and expression of the target gene; this process can be long and time-consuming, often taking several months to create a stable clone. Another option is to transfect cells with the target genes to produce a transient response of several days. Drug discovery groups are increasingly using transiently transfected cells because of the savings in time and other resources versus the creation of stable cell lines.
Among commonly used transient transfection techniques are transfection with lipid-based reagents and cell transduction with viral vectors. Both methods have significant limitations. Reagents for transfecting cells on the multibillion cell scale required for HTS campaigns are expensive, and not appropriate for all cell types and loading agents. Limitations of viral vector-based transductions include the time and cost of vector production and scale-up, cell defense responses to viral vectors, and a limited range of transducible cell types.
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In this article, I discuss some of the business and legal issues posed by creating a virtual world-based business. In Part One, I start by briefly discussing some of the relevant lingo and terminology associated with virtual world use. In Part Two, I explore whether there is a real opportunity for success and profit-making potential in a virtual world-based business and some of the preliminary considerations when generating a business plan and strategy. In Part Three, I review the legal issues posed by operating a business in the virtual world, Second Life.
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That's me, sitting in Starbucks enjoying a nice Trenta Unsweetened Passion Tea while sitting on my laptop. Why? Necessity.
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Three Cumberland County municipalities will be receiving a combined $2.2 million in PennDOT grants to install bicycle paths and otherwise improve their streetscapes.
Lemoyne is the biggest recipient, getting $1.5 million to extend its streetscape project along Market Street to the Wormleysburg line in one direction and Lemoyne Middle School in the other. The project will include signed and striped bike paths on the shoulders, improved sidewalks, street lights and bump outs to slow traffic.
Carlisle will receive $539,643 to construct on-road bicycle lanes and off-road trails within the borough and three surrounding municipalities.
Lower Allen Township will receive $185,000 to create a bicycle and pedestrian linkage between residential, educational and recreational facilities separated by Interstate 83.
The grants are part of $24.7 million in "Smart Transportation" projects in 41 communities across the state. It's the second round of the Pennsylvania Community Transportation Initiative grants, PennDOT Secretary Allen D. Biehler announced Thursday.
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CHARLESTON (AP) – Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin plans to restore funding to some West Virginia social services programs that he previously cut.
Tomblin wrote to state Senate President Jeff Kessler and House Speaker Tim Miley on Wednesday that the restored funding includes $150,000 for an in-home family education program, $80,000 for child abuse prevention and $30,000 for a domestic violence legal services fund.
Tomblin had cut several other social services programs in a line-item veto in March. Tomblin says he had received many requests to reconsider the reductions.
The budget shifts won't require any action from state lawmakers, Tomblin wrote.
Tomblin said Revenue Secretary Robert Kiss and Department of Health and Human Resources Secretary Karen Bowling recommended the three funding restorations. The governor says restored funds will be used to ensure the programs maintain current funding levels in the next fiscal year.
Restoring funding for in-home family education, a program that provides information for parents on pregnancy, child development and other topics, would preserve federal matching money for the program. Tomblin said the cuts originally were necessary heading into a few projected dismal budget years.
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A few years ago, Gretchen Carlson was faced with a very important question from her 3-year-old daughter: "Mom, when can I chew gum – and when can I get a dog?"
Thinking fast on her feet, the Fox and Friends host replied, "How about [when you're] 10?"
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Bella has been a "wonderful addition to the family," Carlson says. "Except when she cries on Saturday morning at 5:30 a.m. That wouldn't be so bad if I didn't get up at 3:45 a.m. Monday through Friday to host Fox and Friends."
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