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Willingham's oh-so-Brave Stand Against "Superhero Decadence"
Back in January 2009, comics scripter Bill Willingham offered the world a long grumble about superheroes not being as great as they were when he was a child: "The 'super' is still there, more so than ever, but there seems to be a slow leak in the 'hero' part."
The essay appeared on one of Andrew Breitbart's websites, so it's no surprise that it contained factual omissions and right-wing spin. Willingham's complaint about lesser heroism turned out to really be about fewer explicit links to America, particularly jingoistic America. "Superman…no longer seems to be too proud of America," for example.
Unmentioned was how the Marvel comics that Willingham read in his youth also included grumpy heroes, reluctant heroes, and even a Watergate-era Captain America who took another identity after being disillusioned by a right-wing government conspiracy. He had a lot to say about the unsuccessful movie Superman Returns, but nothing about the successful All Star Superman comic.
As commenters pointed out, Willingham was part of the team that plotted War Games, one of the grimmest Batman crossover sagas. It ended with the apparent death of Stephanie Brown, the fourth Robin. Perhaps that experience helped to sour Willingham on "superhero decadence," but he continued scripting the same series for years afterward.
The essay's only mention of the Dynamic Duo was:
In my run writing the Robin series (of Batman fame), I made sure both Batman and Robin were portrayed as good, steadfast heroes, with unshakable personal codes and a firm grasp of their mission. I even got to do a story where Robin parachuted into Afghanistan with a group of very patriotic military superheroes on a full-scale, C130 gunship-supported combat mission.Willingham thus equated being a "good, steadfast hero" with going on a "combat mission" in a country where US troops were also fighting. The actual purpose of that mission matters less than that it's "gunship-supported." (It involved monsters. Really.)
In my eyes, that stopover in the military, which appears in the collection Robin: Days of Fire and Madness, was:
- not an example of Tim Drake's "firm grasp of [his] mission"; it pivoted on him trying to figure out what his mission should be as he looked ahead to adulthood.
- out of character for Tim, a Gotham-based crime-fighter sworn to a no-killing ethos.
- unnecessary as a way of showing Tim to have old-fashioned heroic values. As Robin, he always showed those. His challenge wasn't morality but capability, given that he was the littlest guy in the fight.
Willingham ended his essay with a peroration that worked up the Breitbart crowd, including some who expressed dislike of how "DC went around 'multiculturizing' much of their characters" or asked, "Is it America's fault Belgium doesn't produce comic books?":
No more superhero decadence for me. Period. From now on, when I write within the superhero genre I intend to do it right. And if I am ever again privileged to be allowed to write Superman, you can bet your sweet bootie that he'll find the opportunity to bring back "and the American way," to his famous credo.Personally, I'd prefer for "the American way" to always align with "truth and justice," and to let other nations make truth and justice their way as well. But some folks have always preferred the simplicity of "my country right or wrong."
Having been told by huge media corporations on the political right that huge media corporations are hostile to right-wing ideas, some commenters expressed worry that Willingham would lose his job in comics publishing. I think that's exactly the wrong way to view this essay.
In January 2009, as Willingham published, he had just started writing Justice Society of America, anchored by DC Comics's older generation of heroes (i.e., white male heroes invented in the 1940s). I see his essay as the equivalent of promotional interviews on comics websites, the sort in which writer and artist discuss how exciting the upcoming stories will be. It simply spun that buy-the-next-issue message for a different audience: right-wing American men who believed that comic books (and everything else) had gone downhill since their youth.
This essay was simply part of the mainstream comics industry's entertainment and marketing efforts—which doesn't mean Willingham wasn't sincere in his statements. He continued to write Justice Society for years, and his Fables remains the star on DC's Vertigo list.
Willingham's abjuration of "superhero decadence" came back to my mind this month as I read some of his latest Fables stories, using characters from the Oz books.
TOMORROW: How is the Fables universe using Oz?


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I'm reading Barbara Tuchman's "The March of Folly" at the moment. The basic point of this book is that nations can be as irrational and dysfunctional at a policy level as individuals are in managing their own affairs. To this end she cites the Trojans (in their war with Greece, and particularly in bringing the horse into their city against the dictates of caution and prophecy), the Renaissance popes, England's handling of her American colonies, and US involvement in Vietnam. The book was written in the context of the arms race with the Soviet Union just prior to Perestroika (I hope I spelled that correctly), with the hardly tacit implication that this was the Great Folly of that time.
Tuchman's definition of Folly is very precise. It's much more specific than simply "a really stupid thing to do".
To qualify as folly for this inquiry, the policy adopted must meet three criteria: it must have been perceived as counter-productive in its own time, not merely by hindsight. … Secondly a feasible alternative course of action must have been available. … third … the policy in question should be that of a group, not an individual leader.
These are quite exacting criteria. The first means that there must have been a reasoned outcry against the policy at the time. The second that reasonable alternatives were put forward. And the last that the whims of individual fools are discounted.
It's easy to look at government policies in today's world of which one might disapprove (I'm sure you can think of several) and, on the assumption that they will fail, mark them as follies, but it seems to me that in any reasonably free or democratic society, there will always be arguments that a policy is "counter-productive", and many "feasible alternatives" (such as doing nothing) tabled. As such, almost any failed policy of a modern democracy will qualify as folly by Tuchman's definition.
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Court rules for no use of police in Parly
In the Western Cape High Court, Judge Andre le Grange has ruled that Parliament cannot allow police into the National Assembly to remove Members of Parliament. The action was brought after a group of men wearing black trousers and white shirts forcibly removed the Economic Freedom Fighters' (EFF) MPs from the National Assembly during President Jacob Zuma's State of the Nation Address (Sona). Their removal came after cell phones had been jammed in Parliament. EWN's Rahima Essop:
Judge le Grange declared Section 11 of the Powers and Privileges in Parliament Act inconsistent with the Constitution and invalid. It also protects them from any arrest for anything MPs may say in Parliament, which also includes chanting and singing in Parliament, which was deemed 'disruptive'. Parliament has been given 12 months to remedy the defects.
Chair of the DA Federal Executive Committee, James Selfe:
There was a very important principle at stake here; even though the police were being used against the EFF, there was nothing to stop the police to act against ourselves or any other MP in the future. The principle of Freedom of Expression and speaking truth to Parliament is a very important principle to us.
Louca death a blow to Jackson investigation implicating Krejcir
Confirmation overnight that George Louca – the man accused of killing Teazers owner Lolly Jackson - has died of lung cancer after losing a bid to be granted medical parole. Louca gave some testimony in court just a few days before he died:
That time Radovan and Lolly, they were touching one another and pushing each other. And Lolly told Radovan, you don't know who I am and he shot him.
EWN's Mandy Wiener:
He was incredibly frail and I got the sense he was ready to do anything to get his story across. He was also ready to do anything so he could go home to die and he seemed very ready to die. They are angry and very distressed with the miscarriage of justice, where he didn't die at home in Cyprus. The law is quite clear that he couldn't be released because that would be tantamount to dropping the charges.
LHR court action over Joburg CBD raids
In the High Court in Joburg at the moment is an application brought by the organisation Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR) to stop what they say would be the illegal deporation of 200 foreign people caught in Operation Fiela – a series of raids in Hillbrow and other parts of Joburg. EWN's Govan Whittles:
Essentially they're saying that the people who have been arrested in the raids shouldn't be deported until they have consulted with attorneys. The LHR have brought an interdict to allow them to meet with the people and are also pursuing contempt of court charges against the police if they don't allow them to meet with those arrested. They have briefly convened a hearing, but we don't know the outcome of this at this stage. There are over 200 people arrested including children but the children are being held at a facility in Mayfair. There was also weapons and drugs seized during the raids.
City of Joburg intervenes in Soweto's Eskom debts
An announcement from the City of Joburg this morning is that it is in talks with Eskom to try and find solutions around load shedding and the debt collections issues in Soweto. This comes after power cuts in Orlando and other parts of Soweto over the weekend. City of Joburg MMC for Environment and Infrastructure Services, Matshidiso Mfikoe:
We are not necessarily not getting involved with all of them. We needed to get answers from Eskom beyond the load shedding schedules. City Power does communicate, but we are taking the interests of our own communities due to pressure. We'd just like to make sure that people are getting services.
Government to investigate fracking viability
In Pretoria this morning, an announcement has been made that government is going to go ahead with an investigation into what impact fracking would have on the environment in the Karoo – if it was to go ahead. Environmental Affairs Minister Edna Molewa:
We have 5 departments involved in this. Today we've rolled out this investigation to really ensure that if shale gas would be found - we know it's in the Karoo, but we don't know how much - we then proactively get ready to get all information necessary so we can make decisions. We are in this case investigating a scientific issue around how environmental factors could be affected and also from the humanity perspective. This investigation will be done by 3 scientific institutions.
Treasure Karoo Action Group (TKAG) CEO, Jonathan Deal:
We have been well aware of this plan for environmental assessments and we regard this as a very positive move. The economics, the environmental aspects should have been considered before we made a noise about all of this though.
EU takes decisive action on migrant influx
In Europe, a plan is now on the table that would force all members of the EU to take in migrants during what are to be called 'emergency situations'. EWN UK's Gavin Grey:
We don't know precisely but it suggests it's going to involve a military component. There are all sorts of options available including destroying the boats themselves and send the asylum seekers back which is what the Australians are doing. The destroying of boats is going to be difficult because how do you know what is a leisure boat or a boat with migrants, etc?


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Various details about the new Achos 7 Android Tablet have been posted by the Archos fan site. These details include the specifications for a 7 inch colour touchscreen device with an 8 GB of internal storage, capable of storing up to 10 movies.
Even though the device has a larger 7 inch screen resolution still remains the same at 800×480. The main differences between this and its predecessor model the series 5, include a user facing web cam, 7 inch screen, DC charger and slide locking on off switch. The microphone has also been relocated away from the internal speaker for improved clarity.
The fan site has suggested that the Archos 7 Android Tablet could be available as early as March 2010 with a list price of around hundred £150 about $240.
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Question: Frustrated... can anyone help me?
|Cherbear98 - Thu Apr 28, 2005 7:02 pm
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I am not sure of the appropriate place to post this to get a good response. I am a 25-year-old female, and I have a problem. I started having a problem with my stomach hurting badly every time I ate in 1998. This has not yet been solved. Since that time, my weight has skyrocketed; I am heavier than I have ever been. I am 5'2" and weigh 207. I was "diagnosed" with lactose intolerance. For a year I changed my diet to rid myself of all dairy products, even including beets, peas, and beef, which although only have a miniscule amount of lactose, still seemed to bother my stomach. I lost then regained 30 pounds, and kept gaining in this year. I started having migraines in this same year, which weren't diagnosed until 2002. The stomach pain gradually increased even with this lactose-free diet. I started having horrible menstrual cramps and irregular bleeding, and have been living with my husband for over 5 years with NO birth control, and have never gotten pregnant. I went to an OB who diagnosed me with polycystic ovarian syndrome, and basically shook my hand and told me to lose some weight. That same OB office did a breast exam and told me that my breasts were filled with cysts but there were no lumps, then proceeded to ignore it and test nothing, which not only worried and scared me but made me angry because they gave me no answers to that. This year, I finally whined enough to my family doctor to get sent to a gastroenterologist <I think…. A GI Doctor>. He ran a lot of tests and told me that the stomach pain is Irritable Bowel Syndrome, and that I have gallstones but since that isn't where my pain is that I shouldn't worry about it. I am VERY frustrated, and would like a fresh opinion from someone with a clear slate to look at the whole picture. My main concern at this point is that while my doctors have come up with all these diagnoses, no one os doing anything to help me solve the problem. I understand that these are syndromes, and cant be "cured", but I need some help relieving the symptoms, and losing weight, and I would like to be able to get pregnant and have children. My OB told me to get pregnant I need to lose weight, but from everything I have read about PCOS it causes weight gain? I have been on a very restricted lactose free diet, and the stomach pain doesn't go away, and the GI gave me a med for the pain that contains 25% lactose. These pills make the pain way worse than it is if I just plain out drink a glass of 2 % milk.
I guess I am trying to ask, is there anything else that could be causing all these symptoms as a whole picture? And with these things in mind can anyone suggest a good way to lose weight? I am dairy free, and also a vegetarian, except for tuna fish. I do swim and hike regularly, and have tested normal on my blood sugar and thyroid. I'm just very frustrated and would appreciate any input, ideas, suggestions, or anything anyone has to offer! Thanks so much!
|Rhonda P, CEP - Sat Apr 30, 2005 11:22 am
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Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) causes irregular or absent menstrual cycles with evidence of excess male hormones causing facial hair growth, acne and hair thinning. It causing most women to become overweight and effect the egg production in the ovaries. It also causes skin tags and darkened pigment spots. The underlying cause of PCOS is an imbalance of hormones. A hormone you should have checked is insulin. Insulin problems can increase male hormone production by the ovaries. PCOS causes cholesterol levels to be higher putting woman at higher risk of heart disease so have that checked, also have your Thyroid checked, actually, a full bloodwork-up would be a good start if you haven't had that done yet.
What I would recommend is finding an Endocrinologist and go from there. Endocrinologists deal with all the glands that help maintain and control the body's energy levels, reproduction, growth, development, internal balance, response to stress and injury, hormones, etc. You may even find out what is causing your lactose intolerance, you may have a hiatal hernia or something, have you been checked for that?
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What New Mercedes-Benz C-Class Special Editions are Available?By Product Expert | Posted in Mercedes-Benz C-Class, New Models, Powertrain on Wednesday, September 20th, 2017 at 8:00 am
Breakdown of 2018 Mercedes-Benz C-Class Special Editions
This year marks the 50 Years of Driving Performance Anniversary for Mercedes-AMG, and they are pulling out all the stops by offering a number of impressive, powerful, capable and luxurious new Mercedes-Benz C-Class special editions. There are, in fact, four special editions we're incredibly excited about here at Mercedes-Benz of Wilmington in Delaware. So, let's get right down to it and check out this breakdown of the four 2018 Mercedes-Benz C-Class special editions.
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What's the New Mercedes-AMG GT C Roadster Edition 50?
First up is the incredibly powerful and fun-to-drive 2018 Mercedes-AMG GT C Roadster Edition 50. This impressive car is powered by a handcrafted AMG 4.0-liter V8 Biturbo engine paired with an AMG SPEEDSHIFT DCT 7-speed dual-clutch transmission. This powertrain offers up to 550 horsepower and 502 pound-feet of torque with an electronically-limited top speed of 196 miles per hour.
What's the New Mercedes-AMG C63 S Cabriolet Ocean Blue Edition?
The 2018 Mercedes-AMG C63 S Cabriolet Ocean Blue Edition features the new Deep Ocean Blue color on its fabric acoustic soft top, trim strips on the front and rear bumper, trim elements on the wheels' center caps and more. It's also powered by a handcrafted AMG 4.0-liter V8 Biturbo engine, though this time it's paired with an AMG SPEEDSHIFT MCT 7-speed sport transmission. This powertrain offers up to 503 horsepower and 516 pound-feet of torque and has an electronically-limited top speed of 174 miles per hour.
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The 2018 Mercedes-AMG C43 Coupe and Cabriolet models each now have an available AMG Performance Studio Package. This package features numerous black details both inside and outside of the models, as well as matte black 19-inch multi-spoke light-alloy wheels and high-sheen rim flanges. Both models are powered by an AMG-enhanced 3.0-liter V6 Biturbo engine paired with an AMG-enhanced 9G-TRONIC 9-speed automatic transmission. This powertrain offers up to 362 horsepower and 384 pound-feet of torque while achieving an electronically-limited top speed of 130 miles per hour.
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One of my ultimate goals has been to find something worthy of the Fail Blog and today I may have done it. (I just submitted it so we shall see if it ever meets their lofty standards for failure.) This is a new feature at the Tinanic Museum of Branson Missouri. Yes it's real. I'm amazed that anything can be so equally hilarious and depressing.
I've had a lot of fun speculating about exactly what it is: animatronics? a drama? a water stunt show? But after a visit to their web site I believe it's just two live dogs in confinement named Molly and Carter. The good news is, you don't have to visit a pricey museum to pay your respect to these breathing representations of Titanic's unfortunate canines — you can just visit their web cam!
Well, I say it's about time! All too often the passing of those pampered yet heroic pets is overshadowed by the fifteen hundred humans who died too. But when will we finally see the much-needed tribute to the cats of the Hindenburg?
July 14, 2010
5 comments:
- Jamey Clayberg said...
Double dog-bow all the way. What does it mean?
- Jul 14, 2010, 8:42:00 AM
- David Wahl said...
Planning my trip to Branson now...
- Jul 14, 2010, 9:51:00 AM
- Monsterforge said...
Oh, that is just too much. Thanks for posting this!
- Jul 14, 2010, 3:58:00 PM
- Kirk D. said...
Jamey- I cried when I saw this too.
David- I will be your personal guide for a nominal fee.
Monsterforge- You're welcome. Cool blog BTW!
- Sep 5, 2010, 10:04:00 PM
- Branson Traveler said...
Gotta love Branson, even if we have our strange quirks, billboards, and marketing strategies :-)
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Ascend to purchase compounding and masterbatch businesses of Poliblend and Esseti Plast
Ascend Performance Materials, the largest fully integrated producer of polyamide 66 resin, announced today it signed an agreement to purchase Poliblend and Esseti Plast GD from D'Ottavio Group. The acquisition includes a manufacturing facility in Mozzate, Italy, the masterbatch portfolio of Esseti Plast GD and the engineering plastics portfolio of Poliblend, which consists of virgin and recycled grades of PA66, PA6, PBT and POM.
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Ascend to showcase biodegradable chelate and solvents for HI&I at SEPAWA
Ascend Performance Materials, a global provider of specialty plastics, fibers and chemicals, will exhibit its biodegradable FlexaTrac™ chelates and solvents at SEPAWA.
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Ascend to showcase sustainability efforts at K 2019
Ascend Performance Materials, the largest fully integrated producer of polyamide 66 resin, will showcase sustainability efforts at K 2019. The company's three-part strategy focuses its people, products and plants toward creating solutions that reduce emissions, waste and water use; providing careers that grow and support families; and fostering vibrant, prosperous communities.
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Ascend to debut new fastener, films and E&E grades at K 2019
Ascend Performance Materials, the largest fully integrated producer of polyamide 66 resin, is showcasing new grades of its Vydyne® PA66 for cable ties and fasteners, films, and electronic and electrical applications at K 2019.
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Ascend to introduce novel odor-fighting and nonwoven textile technologies at K 2019
Ascend Performance Materials will launch new fiber technologies for textiles, apparel and filtration applications at K 2019.
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Ascend to launch new Vydyne® XHT, LCPA and HTPA at K 2019
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Ascend outlines growth initiatives, specialty products
Ascend Performance Materials announced growth plans – including new specialty polymers initiatives, capacity expansions and global developments – at a pre-K 2019 press conference last week in Antwerp, Belgium. Representatives of Ascend, the largest fully integrated producer of polyamide 66 resin, also touted sustainability efforts.
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Ascend to present new high-purity additives for paints and coatings at LACS 2019
Ascend Performance Materials, a global leader in the production of plastics, fibers and chemicals, will present two newly introduced high-purity grades of its Hexatran™ and FlexaTram™-DAM high-performance amines for the paints and coatings industry at the Latin American Coatings Show (LACS) 2019.
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Ascend to showcase high performance chelate and clay stabilizers at the SPE International Conference on Oilfield Chemistry
Ascend Performance Materials, a global leader in the production of plastics, fibers and chemicals, will showcase a number of specialty chemicals that improve oilfield production at the International Conference on Oilfield Chemistry. Among the products the company will feature are FlexaTrac™-NTA, a high-performance biodegradable chelate, and Hexatran™ and FlexaTram™-DAM, two clay stabilization intermediates that outperform typical clay control salts.
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Ascend to showcase latest Vydyne® PA66 innovations for automotive lightweighting, NVH reduction at Plastimagen México
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3-Ingredient Breakfast Cookie
Get a jump on your snacking and nosh on these good-fer-you cookies as start your day. Packed with oats (think oatmeal!), using dates as your sugar and binder, and a kick of allspice will wake you up sleepyhead!
- 15 Medjool dates
- 1 1/2 C Old fashioned rolled oats
- 2 tsp ground allspice
Preheat your oven to 375. In a large bowl, soak the dates in hot-warm water for 20 minutes. As the water cools, fish through the water and begin to pit your dates. Drain the water off and transfer the dates to a food processor. Pulse the dates until they begin to get almost creamy. I'll warn you this may get annoying as you'll be stopping a lot to scrape down the sides.
Add in the oats and the allspice and continue to pulse a few more times. You're just looking to integrate all of the ingredients.
On a baking sheet lined with parchment paper, pick off about 1 1/2"-2" piece, roll in your hands and slightly press to form your cookie. Bake for 10 minutes, flip and continue to bake for another 6-8 minutes.
Allow the cookies to cool and they will become very firm.
Optional add ins:
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This is more of a note-to-self. I had a problem in my recent upgrade to the latest Ubuntu in that my two monitors, when set to 'twinview' meant that the panels and task bars, and maximized windows spanned both monitors. What you really want is for these to be able to be moved from one monitor to the other, but when you maximize them they stay maximized in only one monitor.
The solution that I guessed might work, and it turned out did, was to comment out the 'metamodes' option in the Screen section of my xorg.conf. I.e.:
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Device0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "TwinView" "1"
Option "TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder" "CRT-0"
#Option "metamodes" "CRT-0: 1280x1024 +0+0, CRT-1: 1280x1024 +1280+0"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
That sorted out the problem as soon as I logged back in again.


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Re: st: lpoly predict residuals
Alex Olssen <email@example.com>
Re: st: lpoly predict residuals
Tue, 14 Jun 2011 08:42:56 +1200
I think the option generate may allow you to get residuals.
sysuse auto, clear
lpoly price weight, nograph at(weight) generate(fitted)
gen residuals = fitted - price
Is this what you want?
Kind regards,
Alex Olssen
On 14 June 2011 01:23, Maarten Buis <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 3:12 PM, Stefan Pichler wrote:
>> I have trouble predicting the residuals after the lpoly command. I first run "lpoly y x" on my dataset and then use "predict" to get residuals. However, Stata returns "not sorted", which I don't understand.
> Whether or not -predict- is allowed after a command can be seen by
> looking at -help <command> postestimation- where <command> needs to be
> replaced by whatever command you want to look at. There is no such
> help file for -lpoly-. Another hint that this may be problematic is
> that -predict- is for use after estimation commands, which leave
> things behind in e(), while the helpfile for -lpoly- says it leaves
> things behind in r(). These two things suggest to me that you cannot
> use -predict- after -lpoly-.
> Hope this helps,
> Maarten
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Marvel Comics artist at A&M Festival
Did you know?
One relatively new Hoboken resident – and Comic Book Artist Reilly Brown will be featuring his artwork at this weekend's Fall Arts & Music Festival!
Reilly works with Marvel Comics, and has been published in works such as Deadpool and Hercules.
Living in Hoboken for the past two years, Reilly will be one of many artists you'll be able to see at the festival. So come say hello and welcome him to the community!


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A challenge I hear from many salespeople and business owners alike is that there is never enough time to keep in touch with all their clients and prospects. This in turn leads to many lost opportunities and indeed lost clients.
There are just two areas salespeople and business owners need to focus their time on as far as sales are concerned.
The first we will look at is retention of existing clients. Our existing clients offer the best opportunity for future growth for a couple of very good reasons.
Firstly we have already earned their trust as an advisor/supplier and are therefore most likely to be offered the first opportunity of further work and secondly in many cases we are only getting a percentage of their work.
Some studies have shown that most of what we might consider to be "A" type clients are only in fact giving us slightly more than 50% of their potential business.
Secondly, and this may come as a surprise to many salespeople, the key reason for this is a lack of account strategies and planning, particularly in smaller businesses who seem to believe if we look after the client we will automatically get all their business.
So to maximize sales to our existing clients we need to develop an account strategy.
The first step in this process is to identify the services and products they are already buying from us then work out what other needs we can fulfill for them and build these into our call objectives.
Another step is to work out a call cycle. This will depend largely on what type of client you are dealing with. A trap for many of us is to categorize by turnover. It is therefore very important to look at a number areas when categorizing accounts, such as
gross profit margin, lifetime value, wallet share, potential growth and so on.
All accounts, including those of prospects and customers, should be categorized to keep their call frequency as productive as possible. You must decide which accounts are most important to your company. Categorizing helps determine this. For every prospect or customer, there is a call frequency that will give you maximum return per call.
It is based on the belief that a greater portion of time should be spent on prospects or customers who offer larger volume potential. Less time should be spent on lower volume prospects or customers.
You will categorize your prospects or customers as A, B, and C accounts. A are major accounts; statistically they number about 15 percent of your accounts and give you 65 percent of your volume. The following 20 percent of your accounts are B, or minor accounts. They give you 20 percent of your total sales. Of the remaining prospects or customers, 65 percent are C, or marginal accounts. They give you 15 percent of your total sales. These percentages apply in most industries and are an excellent rule of thumb for determining account classification and setting sales-call frequency.
In most businesses, this simple analysis is rather startling. You will probably find that a small number of accounts produce the majority of your sales dollars, whereas a majority of your prospects or customers provide you with a small percentage of your sales. The classic statement that "80 percent of your business comes from 20 percent of your customers" is refined somewhat in the three account classification – A.B.C.
A good exercise would be to go through your database of clients and categorise them as
A, B or C. By understanding this you can then manage your time more
effectively and look after the 20% of your clients who are indeed giving you 80% of your income and more importantly retain these very valuable clients through regular call cycles.
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Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Vintage treasures
Today I found several treasures and bargains. The pin cushion shoe is very sweet and I just wanted it to add to my collection.
The little plate is from Devon in the UK and is really pretty. As usual there are delicate doileys and the little round item is a tiny compact complete with mirror.
I couldn't resist these buttons
Or these gorgeous balls of cotton yarn
Or these paints and glue.
You never know what you will find at the op shop but you are sure to find something you "need".
The highlight of the day, though, was a phone call from Linda. It is always so inspiring to share ideas and successes and projects that need some "help". Talking through our ideas seems to provide us with extra motivation. Thanks Linda for your friendship and encouragement.
5 comments:
My fav thing is the little shoe pin cushion! I LOVE pin cushions. Glad you had fruitful shopping trip.
- May 1, 2012 at 9:12 PM
- Gina E. said...
Wow, that was a VERY fruitful opshop expedition!!
- May 1, 2012 at 11:12 PM
- Jensters said...
Loving that shoe Dianne...fancy getting a plate thats from over here...im passing Devon on my hols next week! One day there will be free phone calls and i will be able to talk to both of you x
- May 2, 2012 at 5:54 AM
- Linda said...
Hi again Dian, and thanks for sharing your shopping bargains. I know how much pleasure you get from 'finding' treasure where nobody else can see it. I love the little compact, it's gorgeous.
The phone calls are always great, I look forward to hearing your voice, and nutting our what it is that we are doing or planning at the time. Did you realize it was an hour and a half??????? LOL. Thank you too for always being so willing to share.
- May 2, 2012 at 10:28 AM
- Karyn said...
i do love seeing what treasures you always manage to find at the op-shops. You always seem to find such wonderful things.
- May 2, 2012 at 9:27 PM


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Musicality is the holy grail of lindy hop. I mean, you're not really dancing until you're being musical. Right?
It's also the bane of every dancer's existence, at some point in your dance education. Have you had these thoughts?
- How do I 'be musical'?
- What is musicality?
- Was that thing I just did musical? Or is this more musical?
- Shit, I just figured out how to put 2 moves together, and now there's this thing called 'dancing to the music'?!
Let me take you down a different path for a minute. That path is called, "Screw musicality!"
I've got something better.
Why Musicality Sucks
Musicality is a beautiful, magical thing. But like all magical things, it has a dark side. Here's why you shouldn't lose sleep over learning musicality:
- It's ambiguous. What the hell does it mean, anyways? "Expressing the music through your body"? Lindy hop, by its very design, expresses the music that we dance to. So it must be more than that. But as soon as we get particular, I start hearing arguments about what movements are and are not musical. No one agrees.
- It's impossible to teach. It's like trying to teach someone to 'be artistic.' Think your dance teachers are holding out on you? It's because they can't teach it. If I show you how to express music the way I hear it, you'll just end up looking like a carbon copy of me.
- It's hard to grasp intuitively. It sounds easy to understand, but that feeling is deceptive. If good design means a user can work the thing from the moment he picks it up, then "musicality" is poorly designed.
- The concept doesn't go far enough. I've found that my own thoughts about musicality are circular and limiting. Musicality is just one part of the inner conversation you have with the music and your self.
A More Powerful Concept
This topic has been on my mind a lot lately. I've been bored by many performances and competitions I've seen in the past year. I'm also bored with my own dancing.
I need a far more powerful concept to keep my lindy hop fresh.
What is this concept? It's creative vision.
Why 'Creative Vision' Kicks Musicality's Ass
All human beings are endowed with creativity. You don't need anyone to tell you what creative vision is. You don't need anyone to nod their head in approval that yes, you are creative. You've already got the ingredients inside of you!
Every thought you have can become a part of your creative vision. Nothing needs to be thrown out for not being creative enough; it's all fodder.
Best yet, you start being creative in dancing the moment you try. No more waiting to figure it out, hoping to get some little tidbit out of a weekend workshop.
Yes, you'll still need to work on your dancing skills. Skills help you execute the vision you have in your head.
But you should absolutely not wait until "x" skill level to begin a practice of creativity. Like all habits, creativity requires nurturing to come into full bloom.
Are you scared of dancing creatively? Are you feeling creatively blocked?
Creative support is out there! There are oodles of books and websites at your disposal, filled with exercises to jump start your creativity. I'm currently reading a book by famous choreographer Twyla Tharp. It's called The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life.
A Quick Exercise
If trying to 'get' musicality has your head running around in circles, forget about it for a minute. Instead, try this:
Next time you are about to dance with someone, listen to the song first. Then ask yourself, "What's my creative vision for this dance?"
Or, put another way, "Where do I want to take this song?"
Try to open your brain to the possibility of creative vision for just 3 minutes. See what happens.
Your mind may answer in words or images. Perhaps a set of sensations or feelings will emerge. Allow yourself to think of something, anything, without judging it.
Once you have a vision of where the next 3 minutes are going, don't resist the urge to make that vision come to life! If it feels awkward or scary, you're going in the right direction. Says Twyla Tharp, "Who said [it's] supposed to be comfortable?"
Your creative vision doesn't need to be earth-shattering in its uniqueness. It doesn't have to be pretty, or receive other's approval.
All you have to do is start trying, and keep trying. To hell with everyone else's opinions.


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Happy new week to everyone.
We begin today with news that merchandising master Ralph Lauren continues adding to his company's growing collection of labels, he has just debuted another one, Denim and Supply.
The new line launched last Thursday, like Rugby, it has its own dedicated website , Denim & Supply, but may also be found at
Polo Ralph Lauren. (More in a moment about why we are scratching the 'polo' word in the title of Mr. Lauren's company.) The collection is described as being "born out of the warehouse and artistic communities of Brooklyn…" and is clearly aimed at a younger consumer.
More from Haute Living:
"…don't expect to see any pastel polos. The line is an edgier, more downtown take on the brand's celebrated American heritage roots with an added emphasis on creating a rugged, individualized style."
Three more looks.
And here is a snippet of GQ's story:
"Denim & Supply features urban-ready gear like nautical fleece pullovers, richly-knit ragg sweaters and beat-up denim jackets, in a color palette inspired by more natural settings and worn-in flavor….all geared to attract a slightly younger, more rock n' roll set than say, Polo.com."
Prices for the new line range from $39.50 to about $300. There clearly are few (if any) styles that will work for your decrepit, tragically unhip correspondent, is there anything that holds appeal for you?
Our mention above about the word 'polo' in the title of Mr. Lauren's company comes via this story in Women's Wear Daily:
"Say goodbye to the Polo in Polo Ralph Lauren Corp.
At the firm's annual meeting on Thursday, shareholders voted to change the company name to Ralph Lauren Corp. The move is a result of just how much the corporate identity has evolved over the years, with several brands and labels that do not carry the Polo name and logo.
Will it impact anything for average consumers like us? Nope, it just struck your goofy correspondent as moderately interesting. 🙂
Our next tidbit comes via Curbed Hamptons, the blog that focuses on real estate and neighborhood news in the Hamptons. We thought readers might enjoy seeing what a mobile home park looks like in the upscale enclave, courtesy of the blog's "Everything is Better in the Hampton, Even Our Trailer Parks" post.
The site updates a previous post about Montauk Shores Condominiums, a development of mobile homes with a tony zip code and a beachside location. Curbed shared several listings for mobile homes in the trailer park, below we show one of them listed at $650,000.
You can read more about the listing if so inclined, or see the entire post at Curbed.
Speaking of cramped quarters, our final item today takes a look at some rather posh playhouses for the little prince or princess at your palace. The Times recently ran a feature on just this topic, "Playhouse Proud," below we show Harper Hearne and her brother Drake playing in their snappy digs.
Not all of the playhouses offer such modest accommodations, the Times story looks at a more lavish model.
"…the main attraction at parties held at the Houston home of John Schiller, an oil company executive, and his wife, Kristi, a Playboy model turned blogger, is the $50,000 playhouse the couple had custom-built two years ago for their daughter, Sinclair, now 4."
Here we see Ms. Sinclair and her daughter enjoying the
wretched excess playhouse.
More on this particular playhouse from writer Kate Murphy's story:
"The little stainless-steel sink in the kitchen has running water, and the matching stainless-steel mini fridge and freezer are stocked with juice boxes and Popsicles. Upstairs is a sitting area with a child-size sofa and chairs for watching DVDs on the 32-inch flat-screen TV.
How does Sinclair's mother describe her daughter's home away from home?
"I think of it as bling for the yard," said Ms. Schiller, 40."
The piece also shows playhouses from Lilliput, makers of the "Medieval Castle" on the left, and the "Grand Victorian" seen on the right.
Lilliput has a broad range of models, including Mickey's Diner, offered at roughly $10,000. (I'm feeling quite ignorant, I didn't realize Mickey had a diner.)
Of course, if yours truly were going for one of these, here's our choice.
The problem with all of this? Invariable other family members want their own fancy house too.
Some just don't respond well to "no. And then the pouting begins.
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EASTON – Tidewater Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Associates, P.A. unveiled its solar project this week — the largest private healthcare solar installation on Maryland's Eastern Shore – to leaders of the Governor's Office of Maryland and the Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE) as well as business executives, and senior government and elected officials from the Mid-Shore.
Tidewater Physical Therapy is one of the largest physical therapy businesses on DelMar with 16 clinics spread throughout Maryland's Eastern Shore and Delaware. The company's shareholders committed to investing in this project as a way for the administrative headquarters building in Easton to become self-sustaining with its energy creation and consumption thus allowing the organization to meet one of its main goals to establish, use, and maintain green practices within its business.
Further, the project is in line with Maryland's increasing drive to become more economically and environmentally conscious. Maryland has been working on its solar efficiency and is becoming a state leader in the solar field, currently ranking seventh according to the 2015 United States Solar Power Rankings by Solar Power Rocks. In the past eight years, the state's solar capacity has increased from less than 0.1 MW to more than 225 MW by the end of 2014.
Tidewater Physical Therapy worked with Talbot Bank for the project's financing and CNC Solar of Rehoboth, Del. installed the 300-panel solar system, which will produce an estimated 95,000 kWh of electricity per year, providing 100npercent of the expected electrical usage for Tidewater Physical Therapy's Easton location that houses both the Easton physical therapy clinic as well as the administrative operations for the business. Tidewater Physical Therapy is helping Maryland push towards a more environmentally comprehensive method of energy by using solar energy. To weigh in on the subject of green energy, Geoff Oxnam, vice president of operations of Easton Utilities said, "Increasing local solar energy reduces pollution, saves money and strengthens our community. This project celebrates Tidewater Physical Therapy's leadership and the power of partnerships between public power, community banking, and local business."
Almost 50 individuals attended this week's event from state environmental and energy agencies, representatives from Governor Larry Hogan's office, and local business executives, government leaders, and elected staff. In his remarks to attendees, MDE's Senior Advisor, Devon Dodson said, "What an opportunity for us to celebrate the marriage of business and environment and energy and taking control of that energy. And that is really what you are doing with this project. You're controlling your energy costs, you're bringing down your own bottom line, being able to do all of these great services that Tidewater provides to the citizens of the Eastern Shore, but you are also helping a little bit with the greenhouse gases too".
Tidewater Physical Therapy CEO Jim Downs was quoted saying, "Tidewater Physical Therapy represents a growing trend of businesses that see the benefit of adding solar panels to their property as a way to save money in energy costs and as an additional revenue stream for the business while helping to protect the environment. As Maryland is a state leader in solar energy installations and consumption, we knew the support system existed locally in both financing and vendors to help us make this project possible. We would like to acknowledge the local financing, Talbot Bank, as well as state and federal funding which allowed us to become trendsetters in solar energy for private healthcare and medical offices on Maryland's Eastern Shore."
Tidewater Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Associates, PA was founded in 1984 under the guidance of Dr. W. James Downs Jr., PT, DSc, ECS. Downs founded the firm in response to local physicians seeking progressive physical therapy services for patients on the Delmarva Peninsula. Since its foundation, Tidewater Physical Therapy has expanded to 16 locally managed offices. For more information about Tidewater Physical Therapy, visit www.tidewaterpt.com or call 410-822.3891.


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For frequent readers of this blog there's no surprise on the fact that I am a fan of mobile computing: I use a cheap mobile phone (Motorola E1 Rokr) as a modem, SSH client and as a web browser. To do so I use a simple setup: the mobile' stock functionality to work as a modem, MidpSSH as a SSH and telnet client (BTW, if you know of any alternative to this one that lets you choose the port instead of assuming the default ports for this services, I appreciate), and Opera Mini as a mobile web browser.
I use Opera Mini as a web browser for the cellphone since more or less one month after I got it, and I was kindly surprised by it: it obviously surpasses the poor browser that comes stocked with the cellphone. At last years' XTech I talked with an Opera guy working on Mini and talked about some flaws I thought it had, but I was happy with the browser, and, as I told him, I believed Opera Mini would be the mobile browser of choice (Opera Mobile isn't for me, like any other non-free_as_in_beer browser) at least until the Mozilla Foundation didn't start a serious effort in the field. At the time I was using Opera Mini 2, which was quickly replaced by Opera Mini 3: a not-so-major improovement in terms of usability, and with a change that I didn't like: the default search engine (that can't be changed) is Yahoo! Search (which - sorry - I can't get used too, as I also talked about earlier on this blog, regarding to search I'm addicted to Google). But, overall, it was a nice update, and I started using the mobile browser more and more... And relying on it for a great number of things.
Opera Mini 4 promises a cool few number of things. I've tried the first beta but it was too unstable, I've tried the second beta but, while better, was still worse (in terms of stability/usability) than Opera Mini 3. One cool thing Opera guys decided to do was to make Opera Mini 4 another application and not just another version (which lets Opera Mini 3 cohexist with Opera Mini 4 in the same mobile phone), and each time another beta version comes out you'll be prompted to upgrade (I hope they'll do this until the final version is out). I wasn't using Opera Mini 4 much, but...
This past week I started to really need to use a ill designed web application that didn't work on Opera Mini 3. Opera Mini 4 beta 2 was having some issues, but since it prompted me to upgrade to beta 3 I did it, and not only it solved my problem (now I can actually use that application, even if some stuff doesn't work) but it solved most of the problems I had with previous versions.
Opera Mini 4 comes with a really nice set of features, like "web view" vs. "mobile view", landscape view (gives you an horizontal screen instead of a vertical one) and fullscreen, giving you more active area and content displayed. I decided that that's what I really wanted/needed, so I decided to ditch Opera Mini 3 and starting to use Opera Mini 4. Well, now I have a bigger problem: Opera Mini 4 is completely useless for some of the websites I visit the most with Opera Mini 3, I only know it when it is too late, and I'll need to restart the browser if I stumble across one of those websites. What makes it worse is that it happens because Opera Mini 4 misses one Opera Mini 3 critical feature: the division of pages in "mobile view".
Let me explain: when in mobile view we're viewing stuff as Opera Mini 3 did. Opera Mini 3 seems the amount of data to display, and if it is more than a certain value, it breaks that content into several pages. That makes you able to load a webpage with hundreds of Kb's of data, because it will load just the first set, and then when you go to the next page or the previous page it loads that set. That actually means that not only navigation (while in a set) is quickier, but, more importantly, it means that you can load a 1Mb page because it will split it in chunks with certainly less than 100K each and display each one at a time. If you try to load that page in Opera Mini 4 what will happen is that you'll browser will try to load all that 1Mb of data... and make your cellphone run out of memory.
So, dear Opera Mini coders, can you please give me that wonderful feature back? Please? If you don't do it I'll have to keep being a user of both Opera Mini 3 and 4... And pray that you don't decide to take Opera Mini 3 out of air for when I switch to another cellphone.


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"Go God Go" is the 12th episode of the 10th season and the 151st overall episode of the American animated television series South Park. It originally aired on Comedy Central in the United States on November 1, 2006, and is part one of a two-part story. Part two is titled "Go God Go XII", which aired a week later. In "Go God Go", Cartman is unable to wait the three weeks until the Wii video game console is released, and attempts to freeze himself to get closer to the release date, but accidentally ends up much later in the future, in the atheistic world of 2546.
The episode was written and directed by South Park co-creator Trey Parker, and was rated TV-MA in the United States. With religion often forming the subject matter of South Park, this two-parter satirizes atheism, as well as evolutionary biologist and atheist Richard Dawkins, whose bestselling book The God Delusion was published in the months before the episode's broadcast.
Cartman is unable to wait three weeks until the Nintendo Wii console is released, causing him extreme insomnia and other symptoms (like hallucination, looking at the clock). He tries to go into cryonic suspension by sitting in his freezer but his mother catches him. He finally gets Butters to take him to the top of Mount Elbert, where he removes his outerwear and buries himself in the snow.
Concurrently, Mrs. Garrison resists being forced to teach the school's evolution curriculum, and mischaracterizes the theory, stating that man is "the retarded offspring of five monkeys who had butt-sex with a fish-squirrel." In response, the school administrators hire outspoken evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins as an assistant teacher to help Mrs. Garrison present the evolution lesson. After some initial friction between the creationist Garrison and atheist Dawkins, a romantic interest soon develops.
During their date, Dawkins inquires how someone so iconoclastic as Mrs. Garrison could believe in religion. Mrs. Garrison, attracted to Dawkins, begins to concede to impress him. When Dawkins refers to religion as an argument from ignorance, Garrison (with no further serious thought on the subject) announces that there is no great mystery to life, exclaiming that, "Evolution explains everything and God is a spaghetti monster". Later they go back to Mrs. Garrison's house where they have sex. The next day in class, Garrison informs the students of her changed stance on evolution, prompting Stan to argue that one can have faith in both God and evolution. Because of this, he is forced to sit in a corner wearing a dunce cap that says "I Have Faith". Later that night, as Dawkins and Garrison are cuddling in bed (surrounded by various erotic toys), Mrs. Garrison pushes Dawkins to the realization it is his duty to rid the world of religion and bring about peace with its abolition.
By this time, Eric Cartman has become cold enough to enter suspended animation, and a freak avalanche has buried his body. In a montage that spoofs the opening credits of the late-1970s TV series Buck Rogers in the 25th Century,[1] it is revealed that Cartman ultimately remains frozen for over five centuries, until being discovered and thawed out by members of the Unified Atheist League (UAL).
In the year 2546, the entire world is atheistic and dedicated to rationality and science. Atheism is divided into several denominations. These factions are at war with each other over who has the right answer to the Great Question. The UAL explains what happened to Cartman and that his family and friends have been dead for over 500 years, but he does not care about it. However, Cartman is horrified to learn that no one in the future plays video games, including the Wii.
Later they inform a depressed Cartman of the possible presence of a Nintendo Wii at the Museum of Technology in New New Hampshire. However, they mention that before they are willing to take him there, they require some information alluding to a person they believe he knew in his time: the founder of the UAL who helped initiate a great event that made the entire world atheist. Nevertheless, before Cartman can learn the name of this person an alarm sounds as the UAL comes under attack from a rival group, the United Atheist Alliance (UAA), with whom it is explained the UAL are at war. After the fierce battle that ensues, which leaves all the UAL members present dead, Cartman is taken captive aboard a UAA ship.
While aboard the UAA commander contacts yet another faction, the Allied Atheist Alliance (AAA). Made up solely of highly evolved sea otters which possess human-like intelligence, the AAA are at war with both the UAL and UAA over world domination and the answer to the "Great Question". The Commander of the UAA boast to the otters about their possession of the "Time Child" (Cartman) and of how because of this they are now the Atheists in control. This provokes a response from the Otters Leader who informs them of the "dawning of the sea otter" while threatening to smash Cartman's skull "like a clam on my tummy".
The episode ends with the Otters mobilizing to the sounding of "the nafferty" (a large horn), another armed otter turns to the camera ominously saying "so it begins" while a targeting device drops down over his left eye and the text words TO BE CONTINUED appear.
Trey Parker and Matt Stone briefly describe one part of the inspiration for "Go God Go" in their director commentaries for the Season 10 DVD. During an appearance by the pair on TV's Nightline, an interviewer had asked, "May I assume you two are atheists, since you make fun of religious beliefs so often?" Surprised by the question, Parker and Stone emphatically said that they did not consider themselves to be atheists—leading to an email shortly thereafter from their friend Penn Jillette, an outspoken advocate for atheism who had seen the interview and was evidently disappointed to learn that the two were not "on the Atheist team." Their subsequent conversations with Jillette about atheism and related topics (e.g., the difference between "atheism" and "agnosticism") gave rise to the idea of satirizing the "militant" or "evangelical" atheism as represented in the episode by Dawkins and Garrison.[2]
"Go God Go" pays homage to Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, a science fiction adventure television series produced by Universal Studios. The series ran for two seasons between 1979 and 1981.
The week of November 5, 2006, a poll on Nintendo.com asked "How bad do you want a Wii?" With the responses being "Bad", "Way Bad", and "Worse than Cartman," with the third choice holding out with 80% of the votes.
At Nintendo's 2007 E3 press conference, a clip of the episode where Cartman tells his mother he must have a Wii was included in a montage of clips about the demand for the Wii.
Also, on the Season 10 DVD commentaries, Parker and Stone mention that, due to this episode, they actually received free Wii systems from Nintendo.[3]
Richard Dawkins reacted to the two-part episode by saying, "I'm buggered if I like being portrayed as a cartoon character buggering a bald transvestite. I wouldn't have minded so much if only it had been in the service of some serious point, but if there was a serious point in there I couldn't discern it."[4] In a Q & A session at the Free Library of Philadelphia Dawkins said: "I would have thought they could at least have got an actor that could do a proper British accent. Now, if only I could be offered a cameo role in The Simpsons, I could show that actor how to do a real British accent."[5] Dawkins later made a cameo in the Simpsons episode "Black-Eyed, Please".[6]
When asked about the episode in a 2012 interview with Playboy magazine, Dawkins, who said it was the only episode of South Park he had seen, thought the future war among the different atheists sects, which he felt had "a certain amount of truth in it", harbored a greater potential for satire, as it reminded him of the Judean People's Front and the People's Front of Judea from the film Monty Python's Life of Brian, but felt that too much of the episode was devoted to ridiculing him by depicting him having sex with Ms. Garrison, commenting, "That isn't satire because it has nothing to do with what I stand for. And the scatological part, where they had somebody throwing shit, which stuck to my forehead—that's not even funny."[7][8]
There was some confusion regarding the episode title. Originally, many cable and satellite providers listed it as "Go, God, Go! Part II," despite the lack of a "Go, God, Go! Part I." When the episode was broadcast, the official South Park website simply listed it with the generic title "TBA". Several days after its initial broadcast, it was officially designated "Go God Go."[9]
The German title of the episode is "Gott ist tot", which translates to "God is dead",[10] a widely quoted statement by German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche.
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Welcome to Cystic Fibrosis Week at the ATS!
It is my pleasure to introduce cystic fibrosis, which is the focus of this installment of "Lung Disease Week at the ATS," and highlight recent advances to treat this disease.
Established in 1955, the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation has long supported a nationwide care center network and patient registry, which has served as a model for effective multidisciplinary treatment of chronic disease and continuous quality improvement in health care. The Foundation has generously funded clinical and basic research to define the pathogenesis of cystic fibrosis lung disease and lead the search for a cure. It created the Therapeutic Development Network; a multicenter clinical trial network that has brought promising treatments to patients with cystic fibrosis. These advances have provided hope to families that their children will have longer and healthier lives. Indeed, early diagnosis, timely interventions, and newer mutation-based treatment options have led to some to consider what was unthinkable only a few years ago—the prevention of CF lung disease. Nevertheless, cystic fibrosis is still a life-shortening disease and more work needs to be done.
The American Thoracic Society and the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation have long advocated for greater federal and local support for research, education, and development of new resources to aid children and their families. We welcome "Cystic Fibrosis Week at the ATS" and our partnership in this awareness campaign. We look forward to sharing information that will help guide families, advance research, and support clinicians and allied health professionals in their efforts to cure cystic fibrosis.
Thomas Ferkol, MD
Beth Sufian, JD
ATS Cystic Fibrosis Partner – Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
A nonprofit, donor-supported organization, the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation is a leader in the search for a cure for cystic fibrosis (CF), in funding lifesaving research and in working to provide access to quality, specialized care and effective treatments for those living with the disease. When the CF Foundation was established in 1955, most children did not live to attend elementary school. Today, people with CF are living into their 30s, 40s and beyond, and research to find a cure is more promising than ever before. Nearly every CF drug available today was made possible because of the CF Foundation's support.
Through its "venture philanthropy" strategy of drug development, the CF Foundation has raised and invested hundreds of millions of dollars to help develop CF therapies and maintains a robust pipeline of potential treatments that target the disease from every angle.
The CF Foundation also supports and accredits a national network of over 110 care centers that provide comprehensive, specialized care to more than 27,000 children and adults with CF. The care center network has been recognized by the National Institutes of Health as a model of care for a chronic disease. In addition, the CF Foundation's patient registry tracks the health and treatment of those receiving care at its care centers, allowing caregivers and researchers to identify new health trends, design CF clinical trials and improve the quality of CF care.


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Title: Colored Floodlights
Author: Frank Drury
Rating: ***
Publisher/Copyright: CreateSpace, 2012
I received my copy of the book through the Goodreads FirstReads program, which I highly recommend! (I think I have to say that for legal reasons) This book, however…I didn't find it all that fascinating. I'll admit that this isn't really the kind of book I usually read (It isn't quite what I expected when I signed up for the giveaway–see below for that explanation), and I'm sure there are those out there who will enjoy it, but it wasn't for me. I go more for adventure in my books–mystery, fantasy, sci-fi, anything with an adventure in it–so this milder fare just didn't really push my buttons. Or at least not the right ones….
I expected that the blurb (go read it if you want, I won't reproduce it here) described the first fifty to a hundred pages, then Roy would have a PTSD attack, First Blood-style, and the rest would be the various characters dealing with that. THAT I would have found interesting. Instead, the incident mentioned (misleadingly, I might add) in the blurb is about twenty pages from the end, if that. I also expected Roy to be the main character, but he was more the secondary protagonist. The result seems a little bit aimless, in that there's no central conflict driving the plot forward. I realize its a character-driven work, and I have to admit that all the characters are well-developed and distinct, but I still just wasn't engaged.
Parker Boyce is a psychologist who specializes in PTSD after dealing with himself after Gulf War I. Roy Calhoun is back in the states after three tours in Afghanistan and having trouble dealing with his PTSD. As he treats Roy, Parker begins to take him on as a special project–getting him into classes at a local community college, hiring him as a gardner/caretaker, etc. This relationship formes most of the plot. In addition, there is Parker's wife Katrina, who is cheating on him with a local detective (that's not a spoiler–that gets off the ground right away); her sister Roberta, who takes instantly both to Roy and to the Occupy movement, leading to the climactic incident; and Parker's mother Virginia or "Ginny," who spends her evenings searching for dates online.
I really liked Ginny most of the way through the book. She's funny and at least moderately conservative in her politics, which makes her stand out from the other characters who all tend left of center. I actually pictured the actress who plays Nathan Fillion's mother on the TV show Castle. She gets abrasive at the end though, and while I don't disagree with much of what she says, she's not very nice about it. Roy is a sympathetic character, and you do get involved with him and his struggles. Parker is also a good guy, and you can tell he's trying to do the right thing most of the time. He's a liberal, but not obnoxious about it. Roberta is nice enough, and you are supposed to sympathize with her, but she dives headlong into the Occupy movement without really knowing anything about it, taking Roy to his doom. Katrina…..well, let's just say that if you are going to have a character cheat on her husband while he is lying in the hospital, you are going to have to work extra hard to make me like this character. The author doesn't, so I rather dislike her character quite a bit.
This is a novel very rooted in current events, especially the Occupy movement. I have no problem with that, per se, but as someone who identifies somewhere between the mainline GOP and the Tea Party I was annoyed by the pro-Occupy slant. I'm not saying that this in any way diminishes the quality of the book, but it did diminish my enjoyment of it. Its well-written, but its not a book for me. I'll see if I can pass my copy on to someone who will enjoy it more…..
Content-wise, I'm calling this PG-13 to R. Language was not over the top, but there were a few F-bombs. There was some sexual material, not too explicit. Some violence, especially in flashbacks. Not too gory, aside from one flashback to an IED explosion.


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Lahore, November 21, 2014 (PPI-OT): Chambers of Commerce and Industry in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and all FPCCI member associations have announced their support for Businessman Panel. The decision was taken at 4-hour long meeting chaired by former FPCCI President and Senator Haji Ghulam Ali here Friday.
The participants of the meeting were one voice in support of Mian Anjum Nisar, the Businessmen Panel presidential candidate. They also announced to arrange a grand reception in honour of Businessmen Panel in the city of Peshawar in a week's time.
The Chambers of Commerce and Industry and associations to announce their support include Tribal Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Haripur Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Attock Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Mardan Chamber of Commerce and Industry, D.I. Khan Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Commercial Exporters Association, Pakistan Flour Mills Association and Marbel Association.
Former FPCCI Chief Senator Ghulam Ali said that at present, some elements are using FPCCI for their vested interests. He said that business community believes that Mian Anjum Nisar has all abilities to turn FPCCI businessmen representative body in true sense of word.
President DI Khan Chamber of Commerce and Industry Zafar Jalil, EC Members of Haripur CCI Safdar Shah Zaman, Malik Farid, Fakher Alam, Dr. Amjad, Members of Exporter Association Mushtaq Ahmed, General Body Member Minjaj Bacha, Naeem Butt of Flour Mills Association, Shahid-ur-Rehman of Marble Association, FPCCI General Body Members Iffat Ikram, Usman Ghani, Rahatullah, President Mardan CCI Shah Jahan, EC member Sultan Mehmand and Member General Body Zahir Shah in their respective speaches said that FPCCI member Chambers and Associations have unanimously decided to support Mian Anjum Nisar in the presidential elections of the Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry.
They said that some elements have occupied FPCCI for their own interests but a new journey would start after selection of Mian Anjum Nisar as President of FPCCI. In his address, Mian Anjum Nisar said that he would utilize his best abilities to make Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FPCCI) a true platform for the business community.
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A Selection of Recent Research into the Impact of Diet and Exercise on Aging
It is undeniably the case that both diet and exercise influence the course of aging, though the size of the beneficial effect, even in the case of optimal lifestyle choices, is nowhere near as large as we'd all like it to be. Animal studies show calorie restriction extending maximum life span in mice by up to 40%, as well as lesser effects from various other forms of dietary strategy. Exercise meanwhile doesn't extend life span in mice, but does postpone age-related dysfunction and disease. Unfortunately, the effects on life span due to any of the strategies that are based on the metabolic effects of exercise and reduced calorie intake scale down as species life span scales up. These lifestyle choices upregulate stress response mechanisms, such as the cellular housekeeping systems of autophagy, resulting in more functional, less damaged cells. Yet calorie restriction, while extending mouse life span significantly, adds no more than a few years at most to human life spans.
That said, the beneficial effects of a good diet and regular moderate exercise are highly reliable, and they cost nothing beyond the time and willpower needed to introduce them into one's lifestyle. Modest, reliable, and free effects can be worth the effort. Just recognize that, at the end of the day, much more will be needed to avoid the same fate as every other human who has ever lived, aged, and died. We need the development of new biotechnologies capable of addressing the root causes of aging in order to live longer and in better health than can be provided via a good lifestyle. Only technology can purchase us additional decades of healthy life, or extend the human life span by more than a few years beyond its present limits.
The largest study to date of cardiorespiratory fitness in healthy people found that moving more is linked to living longer, regardless of age, sex, and starting fitness level. "People think they have to start going to the gym and exercising hard to get fitter. But it doesn't have to be that complicated. For most people, just being more active in daily life - taking the stairs, exiting the metro a station early, cycling to work - is enough to benefit health since levels are so low to start with. The more you do, the better."
The study included 316,137 adults aged 18-74 years who had their first occupational health screening between 1995 and 2015 in Sweden. Cardiorespiratory fitness was measured using a submaximal cycle test and expressed as maximal oxygen uptake (VO2 max) in ml/minute/kg body weight. This is the maximum amount of oxygen the heart and lungs can provide the muscles during exercise. You can estimate your VO2 max using either submaximal cycle tests, treadmill tests, or walking tests. Swedish national registries were used to obtain data on all-cause mortality and first-time cardiovascular events (fatal and non-fatal myocardial infarction, angina pectoris, or ischaemic stroke) during 1995-2015. The risk of all-cause mortality and cardiovascular events fell by 2.8% and 3.2%, respectively, with each millilitre increase in VO2 max.
Ability to lift weights quickly can mean a longer life
Power depends on the ability to generate force and velocity, and to coordinate movement. In other words, it is the measure of the work performed per unit time (force times distance); more power is produced when the same amount of work is completed in a shorter period or when more work is performed during the same period. Climbing stairs requires power - the faster you climb, the more power you need. Muscle power gradually decreases after 40 years of age. "We now show that power is strongly related to all-cause mortality. But the good news is that you only need to be above the median for your sex to have the best survival, with no further benefit in becoming even more powerful."
The study enrolled 3,878 non-athletes aged 41-85 years who underwent a maximal muscle power test using the upright row exercise between 2001 and 2016. The average age of participants was 59 years, 5% were over 80, and 68% were men. During a median 6.5-year follow-up, 247 men (10%) and 75 women (6%) died. Median power values were 2.5 watts/kg for men and 1.4 watts/kg for women. Participants with a maximal muscle power above the median for their sex (i.e. in quartiles three and four) had the best survival. Those in quartiles two and one had, respectively, a 4-5 and 10-13 times higher risk of dying as compared to those above the median in maximal muscle power.
Healthy diet helps older men maintain physical function
Researchers examined data from a total of 12,658 men from the Health Professionals Follow-Up Study, tracking them from 2008 to 2012. The team used criteria from the Alternate Healthy Eating Index-2010 to assess the quality of each of the men's diets and assign an individual score. These criteria included six food categories for which higher intake is better (vegetables, fruit, whole grains, nuts and legumes, long-chain omega-3 fatty acids and polyunsaturated fatty acids); one food category for which moderate intake is better (alcohol), and four categories for which lower intake is better (sugar-sweetened beverages and fruit juice, red and processed meats, trans fatty acids and sodium).
Researchers found that higher diet scores (meaning better diet quality) were strongly associated with decreased odds of physical impairment, including a 25 percent lower likelihood of developing impairment in physical function with aging. An overall healthy diet pattern was more strongly associated with better physical function than an individual component or food. But the team did see that greater intake of vegetables, nuts, and lower intake of red or processed meats and sugar-sweetened beverages each modestly lowered risk of impairment.


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What he hadn't counted on were the two amazing men who would change his life. After entering college, he meets Tate, his fun-loving roommate. While years later, with Tate now just a memory, Wes, a handsome, rugged ex-marine who runs his own security firm enters his life.
Both men lead Grif through a twisted mesh of pleasure, pain, and denial, as they force him to see his value, despite his size and insecurities.
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