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Tina Fey's Bossypants was named Audiobook of the Year and Allan Wolf's The Watch that Ends the Night: Voices from the Titanic won the award for Distinguished Achievement in Production last night at the 17th annual Audies Gala in New York City.
It was the third consecutive year that a Hachette Audio title grabbed the Audie Award's top honor, with Fey's self-narrated Bossypants also winning in the Biography/Memoir category. The Watch that Ends the Night—narrated by Michael Page, Phil Gigante, Christopher Lane, Laural Merlington, and Angela Dawe—was one of three Brilliance Audio titles to take home awards.
"This Audiobook of the Year win was overwhelming for our entire team--we knew going in that the competition was incredibly stiff, so didn't want to bank on the hat trick, no matter how amazing our nominee was," said Megan Fitzpatrick, Associate Director, Marketing & Publicity at Hachette Audio/Hachette Digital. "The creativity and dedication that went into the production, marketing, and sales of all the finalists makes this award even sweeter. Of course, we felt strongly that Tina Fey's Bossypants was clearly Audiobook of the Year, and are so incredibly grateful that the judges agreed with us."
In front of a star-studded crowd, at the New York Historical Society, comedian, actor, writer, and director Michael Showalter, the evening's other presenters, and the Audio Publishers Association honored the industry and the year's best audiobooks.
The award for Narration by the Author or Authors went to Libba Bray for her reading of Beauty Queens (Scholastic Audio), while Rosalyn Landor won in the Solo Narration – Female category for her reading of The Winter Sea (Audible, Inc.), and Simon Vance added to his growing stash of Audies, winning the award for Solo Narration - Male for his performance of The King's Speech (Tantor Media).
"That's a big one and Simon Vance is the best, – I think it's now indisputable," said Allan Hoving, marketing manager at Tantor Media. "We're lucky to have him."
Craig Black, founder and CEO of Blackstone Audio—who got his start in the audio industry in the 1980s when he quite his job and launched Classics on Tape from his country cottage on Oregon—was honored with the Special Achievement Award.
"I am very, very, very humbled by this award and really know that I don't deserve it—I've ignored my kids during their formative years," Black joked.
The rest of the night's winners are as follows:
· Multi-Voiced Performance: A Raisin in the Sun (L.A. Theatre Works)
· Audio Drama: I, Claudius (AudioGO)
· Original Work: Metatropolis: Cascadia (Audible)
· Teens: The Wake of the Lorelei Lee (Listen & Live Audio)
· Children's Titles Ages 8 to 12: Heart and Soul (HarperAudio)
· Children's Titles For Ages Up to 8: Django: World's Greatest Jazz Guitarist (Live Oak Media)
· Package Design: Jane Austen: Classic BBC Radio Productions (AudioGO)
· Thriller/Suspense: The Nightmare Thief (Brilliance Audio)
· Mystery: Feast Day of Fools (Simon & Schuster Audio)
· Paranormal: Hard Magic (Audible)
· Fantasy: Daughter of Smoke and Bone (Hachette Audio)
· Science Fiction: Fuzzy Nation (Audible)
· Inspirational/Faith-Based Fiction: Courageous (Oasis Audio)
· Short Stories/Collections: Selected Shorts: New American Stories (Symphony Space)
· Romance: New York to Dallas: An In Death Novel (Brilliance Audio)
· Classic: The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (Tantor Media)
· Fiction: Alas, Babylon (Audible)
· Humor: Shatner Rules (Penguin Audio)
· Inspirational/Faith-Based Non-Fiction: The Story: The Bible as One Continuing Story of God and his People (Zondervan)
· Business/Educational: The Barefoot Executive (Oasis Audio)
· History: 1861: The Civil War Awakening (Audible)
· Personal Development: Prime Time (Random House Audio/Books on Tape)
· Biography/Memoir: Bossypants (Hachette Audio)
· Non-Fiction: The Murder of the Century (AudioGO)


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Blame (2006 b by Arch x Liable, by Seeking the Gold)
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With his first two mares covered confirmed in foal this week, Blame is continuing his new career with the quiet and untroubled success he demonstrated during his seasons on the track.
Neither a star at 2 nor a Triple Crown colt at 3, Blame did not catch the headlines of many in his age group until his continued victories propelled him to be one of the contenders in the division among older horses last year. Then victory in the Whitney over Quality Road put the bay son of Arch at the top of the tree.
Blame stubbed his toe in the Jockey Club Gold Cup, when Haynesfield got awful brave on the lead, and Blame didn't manage to run down the chestnut son of
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That set the stage for Blame to be almost overlooked in the buildup to the BC Classic, when all eyes and news outlets were focused on Zenyatta. So Blame earned more fame in the last two minutes of his racing career than he found in the preceding two years. No fault of his; that's just how it worked out.
A really handsome horse, Blame is the type to be of great interest to breeders. The son of Arch stands over a lot of ground, has plenty of bone with well-defined tendons, is neither coarse nor gross in body type, and has the scope that made him a natural 10-furlong horse.
In physical type, he shows much more the influence of Buckpasser through his broodmare sire Seeking the Gold, a son of Mr Prospector out of Buckpasser mare Con Game.
I was expecting more evidence of Kris S and Hail to Reason in the horse's physique, judging from the power Blame showed on the racetrack, but he is much more finesse and finely tuned precision in the flesh. He has a very good head with a game, bold eye, and the quality from Seeking the Gold and Buckpasser shines through.
Also, Blame has a great pedigree. On top, the family is the great Helen Alexander/King Ranch female line from Courtly Dee (by Never Bend) through her champion daughter Althea (by Alydar). Seeking the Gold comes from one of the several great Phipps families, this through Broadway, dam also of champion Queen of the Stage and her very high-class brother Reviewer (both by Bold Ruler). And the bottom line is Claiborne's own Rough Shod through Thong, Special, Bound, and Liable.
Since standing Thong's full brother Ridan in the mid-1960s, Claiborne has stood only one stallion from this family: the Northern Dancer horse Topsider from the branch of Rough Shod through her daughter Gambetta.
In selecting mares for Blame, he will move up mares needing quality. He would be assisted by mares with more speed, which never goes out of fashion, and lines complimentary to the families above (say Forty Niner, Northern Dancer, Caro) could add some spark to the resulting offspring.

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Wow, I have never read dissapointment in German before.
Folks at the 'Scum are saying that new X-Wing looks smaller/shorter than the previous mold.I'm not sure.
OH! $100?!?! Easy pass.
Quote from: Nicklab on July 21, 2011, 12:14 AMOH! $100?!?! Easy pass.I'd say more when it hits stores. They've got ARP $29.99 on the TRU Y-Wing
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This weekend's New York Times Magazine contains an article by Adam Goodheart, titled "How Slavery Really Ended in America," adapted from his book, 1861: The Civil War Awakening. It tells the story of how in late May 1861, slaves began fleeing to the Union outpost of Fortress Monroe, Virginia, and how they were given sanctuary by the post's commander, Major General Benjamin Butler.
Newly arrived at Fortress Monroe, on May 23, 1861, Butler was confronted by the arrival of three fugitive slaves from the Confederate defensive works project across Hampton Roads. Faced with the looming prospect of being shipped to North Carolina to work on fortifications, Goodheart writes "the three slaves decided to leave the Confederacy and try their luck, just across the water, with the Union."
As Civil War Emancipation has chronicled, they were not the first slaves to seek sanctuary in a Union military post. Soon after Lincoln's inauguration in early March, slaves in separate incidents had presented themselves at Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor and Fort Pickens near Pensacola, Florida. Consistent with the Fugitive Slave Act the slaves in both instances had been rebuffed and turned over to local authorities. The post commanders at Sumter and Pickens took this action on their own initiative and it was accepted by the Lincoln administration, still hopeful at that point for reconciliation with the slave states.
However, by the end of May the situation was very different. Confederate forces had attacked Fort Sumter on April 12 and forced its surrender. In response, Lincoln called for volunteers to restore federal authority in the South. Lincoln's actions led four of the remaining eight slaves in the Union to secede, including Virginia. On the same day the three slaves appeared at Fortress Monroe, May 23, the Commonwealth's voters had ratified secession.
In this atmosphere of uncertainty, Benjamin Butler had to decide what action to take. His hand was forced by the arrival of a Confederate officer at Fortress Monroe under flag of truce demanding the slaves return. Adam Goodheart relates the encounter between Butler and the Virginian, Major John Baytop Cary.
Cary got down to business. "I am informed," he said, "that three Negroes belonging to Colonel Mallory have escaped within your lines. I am Colonel Mallory's agent and have charge of his property. What do you mean to do with those Negroes?"
"I intend to hold them," Butler said.
"Do you mean, then, to set aside your constitutional obligation to return them?"
Even the dour Butler must have found it hard to suppress a smile. This was, of course, a question he had expected. And he had prepared what he thought was a fairly clever answer.
"I mean to take Virginia at her word," he said. "I am under no constitutional obligations to a foreign country, which Virginia now claims to be."
"But you say we cannot secede," Cary retorted, "and so you cannot consistently detain the Negroes."
"But you say you have seceded," Butler said, "so you cannot consistently claim them. I shall hold these Negroes as contraband of war, since they are engaged in the construction of your battery and are claimed as your property."
If anyone was qualified to devise, on short notice, a solid justification to hold slaves who had escaped Confederate custody, it was Benjamin Butler. A crafty litigator and politician from Massachusetts, Butler was a recently commissioned Major General who owed his appointment to Lincoln's desire to solidify the support of Democrats like him that favored military action against the South. Butler would prove a dismal battlefield commander, but in this incident showed him to be a gifted administrator.
By declaring the three slaves "contraband of war," Benjamin Butler did not challenge their status as property and by extension call into question of slavery's legality. At this stage of the conflict, most political leaders in the North were eager to depict the developing conflict merely as a rebellion against legitimate government authority which had nothing to do with slavery. However, officers on the ground like Butler quickly realized the slaves were a significant military asset to the Confederacy, acting not only as laborers, teamsters, and in other support roles for the army, but also by keeping southern agriculture functioning allowing a much larger portion of the white male population to be available for military service than might otherwise have been the case. Hence, as property being used in support of a rebellion against the government, Butler's "contraband of war" formulation legally justified the seizure of the slaves without immediately undermining their status as property. The Lincoln administration quickly acquiesced to Butler's policy and Congress gave it the force of law in early August through the Confiscation Act of 1861.
What neither Butler nor leaders in Washington, D.C., reckoned on was the slaves' response to his contraband policy. Soon other slaves began seeking sanctuary with Union forces, over 500 at Fortress Monroe alone by June 1861. The northern press soon dubbed these escaped slaves as "contraband," a name initially resisted by some black leaders and abolitionists, but which even they eventually accepted.
But if the episode at Fortress Monroe demonstrated anything it was the fierce determination of the slaves to be free. A few slaves seeking sanctuary quickly became hundreds and then even more. As Adam Goodheart writes:
Within weeks after the first contrabands' arrival at Fort Monroe, slaves were reported flocking to the Union lines just about anywhere there were Union lines: in Northern Virginia, on the Mississippi, in Florida. It is unclear how many of these escapees knew of Butler's decision, but probably quite a few did. Edward Pierce, a Union soldier who worked closely with the contrabands, marveled at "the mysterious spiritual telegraph which runs through the slave population," though he most likely exaggerated just a bit when he continued, "Proclaim an edict of emancipation in the hearing of a single slave on the Potomac, and in a few days it will be known by his brethren on the gulf."
Within little more than a year, the stream of a few hundred contrabands at Fort Monroe became a river of tens — probably even hundreds — of thousands. They "flocked in vast numbers — an army in themselves — to the camps of the Yankees," a Union chaplain wrote. "The arrival among us of these hordes was like the oncoming of cities."
So the arrival of Union forces in a locality in the South, or even the prospect of their arrival, quickly began to undermine the institution of slavery, as slaves now had a place to escape from slavery with little fear of recapture. Yet without the initiative of the slaves this situation likely would have never arisen. Certainly, the slaves could not gain freedom on their own, but they determinedly pried at the tiniest fissure in the slave system made by the arrival of northern troops and the peculiar institution began to crumble under the weight of countless individual slaves fleeing it.
As Adam Goodheart relates, Lincoln administration policy about the contrabands quickly began to lag behind the reality on the ground. So much so, that the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, which was announced in September 1862, in many ways was merely playing catch up. Goodheart ends his story with an anecdote that captures that situation well. He writes:
On the September day of Lincoln's edict, a Union colonel ran into William Seward, the president's canny secretary of state, on the street in Washington and took the opportunity to congratulate him on the administration's epochal act.
Seward snorted. "Yes," he said, "we have let off a puff of wind over an accomplished fact."
"What do you mean, Mr. Seward?" the officer asked.
"I mean," the secretary replied, "that the Emancipation Proclamation was uttered in the first gun fired at Sumter, and we have been the last to hear it."


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It's hard not to love Tom Ford if you are a fashion devotee. From his impeccable personal style (hello, gorgeous!) to his stints at Gucci and YSL, Ford has always pushed the envelope in terms of high glamour. Since 2007, gents have been lucky enough to have access to Ford's eponymous menswear line — full of perfectly tailored suits and unusual prints — but women have been pining for his return to ready-to-wear.
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South Korean sensation Psy paid a visit to Harvard University on Thursday to give a talk about his journey to becoming a pop culture phenomenon.
The rapper spoke at length to Ivy League students in Cambridge, Mass., about finding fame around the world with his single "Gangnam Style," which has become the most-viewed video in the history of YouTube.
The 35-year-old, real name Park Jae-sang, told the crowd of 1,000 he was taken aback by his sudden popularity, but put his fame down to the unifying power of music.
He said, "Music makes everyone united. Something beyond language. I'm so proud (at my performances). The crowd doesn't know what the lyrics are about, but they look so happy!"
Psy studied at nearby Boston University in the 1990s but admitted he wasn't the most academic student because he spent his time fantasizing about being onstage.
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I'm writing this with the only things on my body that are currently not stiff and that's the tips of my fingers (and ok yes the other one). This weekends Kino MacGregor yoga workshops in London are responsible and what workshops they were.!
Mrs Ollier and I left home on Friday morning walking to the bus stop and catching a bus into Wells, and then another from Wells to Bristol Temple Meads and on to a train to London Paddington and several tubes before eventually alighting at Covent Garden in torrential rain to then find the hotel on foot.
Covent Garden Underground is the one tube station in the capital that you wouldn't want to alight from, as 193 steps up a pre war curly staircase are the method of alightenment, which includes, from most people, a one word exhalation on reaching the final step, that's if you're fit enough to be able to still utter anything but gasping air, as 193 steps is the equivalent of climbing to the top of a 15-storey building. It was later that we discovered that there were also lifts in place and we'd managed to miss the signs saying so, no doubt obscured by the constant throngs of travellers. Obviously.
We found our hotel and dropped our bags and yoga mats into the room, freshened up and wandered off out again to find the triyoga studio where we were later to attend the first of the three workshops, titled Burn Baby Burn.
The studio was right in the hub of Carnaby Street, the very same Carnaby Street of Beatles and Twiggy fame, which is in Soho and only a 1 mile – 20 minute walk away so rather than spend that 20 minutes descending those steps again, we decided to walk and four miles and two hours later arrived at the triyoga studio. (We had no idea where we went wrong but we managed to repeat that incorrectness twice more in the next 24 hours).
The people at triyoga studio (https://www.triyoga.co.uk/) were, as you'd expect for anything yogic, lovely and friendly. On peeping into a studio room I observed many yoga mats being laid out by a member of staff which prompted a question from me, 'so you don't need to bring your own yoga mat then?'. 'No', the lovely, smiley lady replied. My yoga mat is, of course, of the eco variety and made of 100% natural rubber and therefore a tad heavy and it had spent the day, unnecessarily it now turns out, with me on two buses, a train, lots of tubes and their attending stairs and lengthy walking tunnels including the 193 steps. 'Oh', I said.
We left, only to return a few hours and two Chai Latte's later, quite knackered, for the intense first class from Kino.
Kino MacGregor is a funny yoga teacher as in she is very comical – at least to anyone on a yoga trip. She is also extremely knowledgable, confident and true to the practice. When she was just 29 she became the youngest woman, and one of only a select group of people, to receive the Certification to teach Ashtanga Yoga by its founder Sri K. Pattabhi Jois in Mysore, India.
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Suffice to say this class did certainly burn, developed to awaken the inner fire by using the Mulabandha, the root lock, and within an hour I was pulling up my anus, lifting my perineum and testicles, squeezing in my lower belly and drawing in the space between my pubic bone and sacrum, all at the same time, and what a heat that created and I felt amazing, we both did. (Please note Mrs Ollier didn't have to raise her testicles, using instead the cervix – just in case you were wondering).
We later left the studio to be enveloped in the crazy, hedonistic, Friday night shenanigans of London as we drifted hazily through Soho, Piccadilly Circus, Leicester Square and Covent Garden. Wall to wall people all the way. Every single pub and bar crammed inside and 30 foot outside. London has seemingly not had a recession.
Another Chai Latte stop and then to bed and up early for yet another Chai Latte before a full primary series talk through in the morning. The Chai, on top of the bottle of water I had for breakfast turned out to be an oversight as I had to pee three times in the half hour before the class and I wanted to go again just as Kino entered the room, but it was clear that nobody was leaving this class until it was over and done and so I began Surya Namaskara A (Sun Salutation A) trying desperately not to think of waterfalls or running taps and when it all finished two hours later I didn't even need to go as I think my urine had evaporated through my head.
This photo, taken by Kino, is the only picture ever taken of me in a yoga class. I am the right foot, ankle and lower leg in the bottom right hand corner.
After a lunch break (we had a Chai Latte) there was a brilliant three-hour afternoon workshop on arm balancing and near the end Kino suggested that when back at home we all do one full minute each day in Bakasana, the crow posture, before she had us all do a full minute right there and then. Well, that worked!
Sadly we had to leave after the class to get the 7pm train back to Bristol and therefore missing a Mysore session in the morning and a back bends workshop in the afternoon which I was a bit done about as I do a weekly Mysore session with my wonderful Glastonbury teacher and it's always my favourite class so to do one with Kino adjusting would have been a great extra dimensional experience – but on waking this morning I was having more than a jot of trouble reaching for my socks – and they were on a shelf!
Kino teaches classes worldwide and particularly at her home in Miami where she is co founder of the Miami Life Center – and if you ever get the chance or opportunity, I would seriously recommend treating yourself.
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Sept. 20, 2013
A student at the Modesto Junior College in California was confronted by campus police Tuesday and told to stop passing out U.S. Constitutions to fellow students. Ironically, Tuesday was also Constitution Day.
"I was really stunned when they told me that I had to ask for permission to pass out Constitutions on campus," Robert Van Tuinen told Storyleak.
Throughout the cell phone recording, Van Tuinen, who also spent six years in the Army, can be seen attempting to get the officer to explain why rules and regulations dictate his first amendment right to free speech on public property. The officer went on to claim that students needed to be registered with the Student Development office to pass out any information at school, including the U.S. Constitution. Van Tuinen agreed to follow the officer inside to learn what requirements were needed to have constitutional rights as a student at MJC.
Once inside, Van Tuinen informed the officer that he planned on starting a student organization called Young Americans for Liberty. The officer unsuccessfully attempted to tie Van Tuinen to the Heritage Foundation, the group that produced his Constitution pamphlets.
"I'm telling you where to go, I'm giving you a solution. I'm not trying to stop you from doing it, I am telling you that there is a process," the officer said.
"Well you are stopping me from doing it…" Van Tuinen answered.
The officer went on to claim that Van Tuinen, who was visibly passionate about the situation, was "not in control of his emotions," showing the officer's lax attitude toward constitutional violations.
After being escorted into the office of administrator Christine Serrano, Van Tuinen was informed that he not only needed to fill out paperwork to gain his first amendment, but if approved, would also need to pass out his Constitutions in a specific "time, place and manner."
Serrano went on to explain that such actions could only be performed in the school's "free speech area," a tiny section of cement in front of the student center. Unfortunately, Van Tuinen would also have to wait several days until the plot of cement had an opening as the area can only be permitted so much free speech per day.
Serrano also asked why Van Tuinen would pass out the Constitution, seemingly finding the action bizarre. Serrano, surprised to learn it was Constitution Day and upset by Van Tuinen's "questioning of authority," referred him to another superior to have the same rules and regulations presented.
In defense of Va Tuinen, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) has now presented the school with a letter, demanding the student's rights be upheld on campus.
A section of the letter reads:
"FIRE is gravely concerned by the threat to free speech presented by Modesto Junior College's (MJC's) repeated violations of the First Amendment rights of students attempting to distribute copies of the United States Constitution on campus. FIRE possesses video evidence of multiple MJC employees informing the students that they were prohibited from distributing copies of the Constitution unless they applied for a permit to do so, and that they were only allowed to distribute them in a small campus "free speech area." MJC must immediately reject its shockingly unconstitutional censorship and reform its policies in compliance with its First Amendment obligations."
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Waterbike on El Mojón beach in Mazarrón. Murcia
Come and discover Murcia, in southeastern Spain, with your family on routes through the countryside, visiting its towns and cities, or exploring its coastal cliffs. Any time of year is good to enjoy this region with the children. You are sure to find the activities you are looking for.
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Re: st: Counter-intuitive overflow behavior
"William Gould, StataCorp LP" <email@example.com>
Re: st: Counter-intuitive overflow behavior
Tue, 28 Feb 2012 11:14:32 -0600
Roger Newson <email@example.com> wrote,
> I have a query about -c(mindouble)- and -c(maxdouble)- (see -help
> creturn- for more about these). [...] I have noticed some very
> counter-intuitive behavior when I attempt to assign variables of type
> -double- to values outside the range from -c(mindouble)- to
> -c(maxdouble)-, which (according to -help creturn-) are "the largest
> negative number that can be stored in the 8-byte double storage type"
> and "the largest positive number that can be stored in a double",
> respectively.
Roger shows some exmaples and concludes by writing
> Is this counterintuitive behavior a bug or a feature? I have always
> assumed that -c(mindouble)- and -c(maxdouble)- are as advertized, and
> that we can assume that non-missing -double- values can be expected to
> be in the closed interval between these 2 limits. This doesn't seem to
> be the case.
The short answer is,
1. Roger is correct about the counterintuitive behavior.
2. It is a feature.
3. Although we advertize the range of doubles as being
[c(mindouble), c(maxdouble]), in fact the range is
[2*c(mindouble), c(maxdouble)]. We should correct
our documentation.
For those who do not want to immerse themselves in the details,
understand that there is not bug (except for the documentation), and
the counterintuitive behavior will lead to no errors in subsequent
calculation and, in fact, might even make make some calculations come
out as nonmissing (and correct) when, without the counterintuitive
behavior, they would result in missing. That's not the reason why we
allowed the counterintuitive behavior, however; it was allowed for
performance reasons.
That only leaves the question of why the manual is incorrect.
It was, I hate to admit, intentional in a misguided attempt to avoid
giving this long explanation of how it is that that the range of
negative numbers is greater than the range of positive numbers. The
attempt worked for years, but ultimately failed.
We will fix the manual.
What Roger found
1. Roger discovered that he could store numbers below c(mindouble)
and that they work just fine.
2. Roger then worked exceedingly hard to create numbers above
c(maxdouble) in, in some cases, he succeeded! These numbers
sometimes worked, but mostly, coverted themselves back to
missing, or showed that they contained a mssing value that is not
documented in the manual such as .z_, when the official missing
values are ., .a, .b, ..., .z.
Concerning (1), we will fix the manual.
Concerning (2), a longer explanation is required.
We need to step back to the time we at StataCorp designed how missing
values would work.
IEEE 754-2008 Foating-point (double) numbers
Floating point numbers are stored as
a * 2^b
Think of a as normalized to be in the range -2 < a < 2, although I
oversimplify in unimportant ways.
The expontent b, a mathematical integer, is allowed to be in the range
[-1023, +1023].
The numnber line looks like this:
-2^1024 0 2^1024
| | |
By the way, this is a rather odd number line in that it has a finite
number of points on it because a is recorded to a predetermined, fixed
number of digits. Moreover, the number of points on the number line
for each power of 2 is the same as for any other power of two.
IEEE 754-2008 also provides some additional, off the number line
values, the most well known of which is NaN, meaning Not a Number. It
would seem natural that missing values in Stata would be implemented
in terms of NaN but, for historical reasons, they are not. Stata
understands NaNs, and uses NaNs internally, but for storage purposes,
NaNs are not used in the encoding of missing values.
This is because IEEE standard 754 has been under revision since 2000;
IEEE 754-2008 is the most recent revision, made in 2008. IEEE 754 was
first adopted in 1985, the year Stata was first released. In fact,
Stata was completed in 1984 and, even in 1985, it was not clear that
IEEE 754 would catch on. There was a competing IBM floating-point
standard and, for example, Microsoft's then popular Basic used
the IBM standard rather than IEEE 754.
Stata uses IEEE 754 today, at least internally. Nevertheless, Stata
has its own definition of missing values, and not just for historical
reasons. Missing values are stored in datasets, datasets get old, and
users expect Stata to be able to pick up and use any dataset from the
past. Thus, we at StataCorp control how Stata stores missing values.
Said differently, NaNs are fleeting things that arise during
calculations and that the software must deal with. Missing values are
permanent things that need a stable definition and encoding.
How Stata stores missing values
All Stata users know that missing values are larger than any
nonmissing value, which is to say, x<. if x is not missing. Stata
also provides other missing values, namely .a, .b, ..., .z, and they
are ordered .a < .b < ... < .z.
We arranged for all that to be true by taking an entire power of 2 for
missing values, namely 2^1023. The number line now looks like this:
| | |
| | | |
-2^1024 0 2^1023 2^1024 Stata
Although we advertise only 27 missing values, there are lots
more, some 2^52 of them! The standard missing values we advertise are
. = 1 * 2^1023
.a = 1 + 1/4096 * 2^1023
.b = 1 + 2/4096 * 2^1023
.y = 1/ + 25/4096 * 2^1023
.z = 1/ + 26/4096 * 2^1023
The missing valuies between . and .a are known collectively as ._,
between .a and .b as .a_, ..., and above .z and .z_.
Roger ran into that when he showed the example,
> . tabulate doc, missing
> doc | Freq. Percent Cum.
> ------------+-----------------------------------
> .z_ | 74 100.00 100.00
> ------------+-----------------------------------
> Total | 74 100.00
which, Roger wrote, suggested "that the variable -doc- contains a missing
value that I haven't seen mentioned in -help missing-".
Roger also discovered that he could not use .z_ as an input value.
That is because there is no single value associated with .z_. .z_ is just
an output notation to refer to all the missing values above .z.
A difficult decision at StataCorp
We at StataCorp, having decided how to encode missing values, now faced
the nubmer line
| | |
| | | |
-2^1024 0 2^1023 2^1024 Stata
The range of values in Stata is (-2^1024, 2^1023). There are more
negative than positive values. We then considered the idea of
cutting the number line off at the bottom, too:
| | |
| | | | |
-2^1024 -2^1023 0 2^1023 2^1024 Stata
| | |missing
| | |values
We considered making this the range
We considered cutting the number line at -2^1023 just so that the range
of negative numbers would be the same as the range for positive numbers.
While there is a pleasing symmetry in the range (-2^1023, 2^1023),
there was simply no reason to throw away those numbers (which means to
map them to missing). There might someday be a calculation that
visited that part of the number line. The CPU (actually FPU) was
perfectly capable of making accurate calculations in that range.
Cutting the line off would only result in the odd calculation
resulting in missing when it when it could perfectly well produce a
So we left the range as (-2^1024, 2^1023).
And then we documented the range as (-2^1023, 2^1023) just so I wouldn't
have to write this long explanation.
And I got to write it anyway.
We will change c(mindouble) to be the true smallest double, but we will
not do that immediately. The change will need to be made under version
control. We will fix the manuals, but not immediately. Because we have
gone years without anyone noticing, waiting a little longer should not
matter. We will wait until the next release. And then we'll have to
turn this Statalist posting into a FAQ so that we will have something
to refer to.
-- Bill
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* http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search
* http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq
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The rivers are running awfully low for this time of year. The norm has been for the Animas River through Durango to be peaking around now. It was a warm, dry winter and spring. That alone doesnt mean much; droughts have been occurring forever. Perhaps this is just another hot spell.
Back in 1981, a group of climate scientists led by James Hansen, then working for NASA, published a paper in Science, one of the leading scientific journals then and now. The article, Climate Impact of Increasing Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide, predicted global temperature increases during the coming century because of the huge amounts of carbon dioxide humans were putting into the atmosphere. It laid out a range of predicted increases depending on if and how the worlds societies managed their energy use. The paper, and its predictions, have been the center of a raging debate ever since.
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Like most of you, I'm sure, I already had an idea of what the Paterno family and its accompaniment of "independent analyses" would say in its critique of the Freeh report.
The family has, in unapologetic fashion, defended Joe Paterno's name and legacy over the past year after he was fired from Penn State following decades of success and crucified by the court of public opinion for his actions — or inactions — in the Jerry Sandusky scandal. While the core of the Sandusky story revolves around the utter disbelief that a serial pedophile could go years preying on young boys without ever being stopped, the decision on what to make of Paterno's role in it all has manifested into one of the most — if not the most — polarizing angles.
So when the lengthy report was released Sunday morning, I wasn't surprised to find phrases such as "rush to injustice", while the Freeh report was deemed a solidification of the "false public narrative about Joe Paterno."
But false, honest, or somewhere in between, the multiple narratives about Paterno in this entire mess are as permanent as the mark he left on his former program and university. It's been over a year since the Harrisburg Patriot-News broke the Sandusky story wide open and people's opinions one way or the other are pretty much set. In that regard, the Paterno family's retort to the Freeh report accomplishes nothing.
The arguments range. From Paterno's apparent inability to comprehend sodomy "as a 72-year-old football coach who was untrained in the complicated, counterintuitive dynamics of child sexual victimization and who came from a traditional background where even consensual sex was not discussed", to being straight-up "fooled" by Sandusky, the critique implies that Paterno was prude enough to make Ned Flanders look like a proponent of sex, drugs and rock n' roll.
Yet, in his grand jury testimony, Paterno sounded up to speed on what happened between Sandusky and Victim 2 in 2001 when then-graduate assistant Mike McQueary walked in to the showers of the Lasch building on Penn State's campus. McQueary then relayed what he saw to Paterno.
"He said he had something that he wanted to discuss. I said come on over to the house. He had seen a person, not an older but a mature person who was fondling or whatever you might call it.
"It was a sexual nature."
The question is whether that understanding was the same in 2001 at the time of the conversation. The lack of documentation of any sort for that meeting has created one of the great mysteries of this story.
Even with documentation, the critique battles the theory that Paterno knew of Sandusky's pedophilia and participated in a cover-up. One of the long-standing focal points of Paterno's role in this story has been the email from Athletic Director Tim Curley to Vice President Gary Schultz and President Graham Spanier dated Feb. 27, 2001:
"After giving it some more thought and talking it over with Joe yesterday — I am uncomfortable with what we agreed were the next steps."
At first glance, it would appear Paterno altered a course of action in dealing with Sandusky that originally included informing the Department of Public Welfare. The critique says that email was misrepresented, that a plan to inform proper authorities was still in place, just delayed.
Those are just two examples of many, but does that change your mind about Paterno for better or worse? It doesn't for me. For example, the exact date and time Paterno met with Curley so as to not "ruin his weekend" to relay what he heard from McQueary doesn't change the fact that, by the critique's own admission on the second page, Paterno appeared to wash his hands of a situation he shouldn't have.
(1) Joe Paterno never asked or told anyone not to investigate fully the allegations in 2001, (2) Joe Paterno never asked or told anyone, including Dr. Spanier and Messrs. Curley and Schultz, not to report the 2001 incident, and (3) Joe Paterno never asked or told anyone not to discuss or to hide in any way the information reported by Mr. McQueary.
Paterno's involvement in any degree is a paradox. On one hand, he is not the center of the Sandusky story; rather, he is a link in a chain of key individuals who are accused of doing less than we as a society claim we would have done if placed in a similar situation. On the other hand, Paterno was not just a football coach. Few, if any, individuals in college athletics have become the face of an institution like Paterno was. To suggest that he did not have power or influence beyond the typical head coach is nothing short of naive.
In addition to his spot atop Penn State's chain of command, the other thing Paterno never lost was his mind. Though his body deteriorated with age, and his battle with cancer was eventually lost in early 2012, his grey matter was as sharp toward the end of his life as it was in his prime. This was universally known and witnessed.
With that power and brilliance comes accountability for what happens while you're in charge, whether or not it's in your area of expertise. It's admittedly a unique situation. The Sandusky scandal is not about Paterno, yet it sort of is. The family's response to the Freeh report mirrors that assessment even though it dismisses any sort of accountability Paterno should have had.
While the critique doesn't do anything to persuasively change the public's opinion about Paterno — it's certainly not for a lack of effort — it does reasonably poke holes in the Freeh report's strategy in coming up with its findings. Of the hundreds of people interviewed for the report, neither Curley nor Schultz, who are facing perjury charges and clearly among the most important people in this case, were. Paterno passed away early last year after a battle with lung cancer. His voice, the most important in this topic, is forever silenced.
The portion of the report written by Dick Thornburgh does a good job of dissecting the documentation used by the Freeh report to uncover holes in logic. The portion written by Jim Clemente offers compelling, psychology-based counterarguments to the perception that someone had to have known about Sandusky's pedophilia.
The Freeh report was never entirely conclusive, and it certainly wasn't intended to be used as a resource for the NCAA to levy punishment on Penn State's football program, but in the end, the Paterno family's response just doesn't do much other than expose the Freeh's blemishes while trying to hide Paterno's.
The thing is, you can't. Joe Paterno was a human being capable of doing great things for others, as well as doing wrong. He had a statue outside Beaver Stadium and a mural with, at one point, a halo painted over his head. But Paterno was not a god, nor was he a saint. The critique transparently attempts to restore Paterno's image as such, and it's bogus.
Paterno is just like you and me. To believe otherwise is only setting yourself up for massive disappointment.


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text: Jeff Gogué: Tattoo Expo Napoli, What An Experience... By Jeff Gogué When I first agreed to attend the tattoo expo in Napoli, Italy... Honestly, I had doubts I would make it. It would be my third trip to Italy in less than a year. I, of course, am honored and grateful to be invited anywhere and would continuously be on the road if it wasn't for my responsibilities at home. I love adventure and with an ever-present awareness of my own mortality, I want to experience as much as I can before the bell tolls. I wouldn't call myself a thrill seeker. I hardly call myself a traveler, but I do what I can to make new friends and see new places. Napoli was a new place. Different than the places I've been before in so many ways... It was like stepping into the backdrop of an independent film where the characters are endearing and generous on one hand and will rob you blind if they had to on the other, and not because they are shady, mean, or inconsiderate, simply because they would if they had to. I guess that's how most people are at the core. Survivalists. I saw, in the streets of Napoli, people surviving, not needy, and not scary. I saw strong people who live by their own rules, which from my perspective seemed to be missing. No rules, or at the very most, subtle rules that you'd have to be brought up in to know. Things moved fast, people moved fast and if you weren't careful, you'd get run over, and not just by the cars, by scooters, trains or personalities. The show itself was set up by pros for sure. The booths were perfect. The floor layout flowed from aisle to aisle, into the paint room where they were working on everything from canvas to cars, even painting people to parade around the venue. The art gallery was intimidating and impressive. I wanted to participate and hang some pieces (after I went home and practiced for a year). The food and drinks were great, I didn't get many since the people were so demanding of my time, tattoos and attention, and in the most flattering way I can say it. I couldn't walk to the bathroom without getting stopped three or four times to be told I was "the best" or how much they loved me, or "Take a photo please?" Italians are tough for sure, they're direct and I would say pushy at times… They cut in line, crowd the booth, and interrupt your work or conversations, but I liked it all, because it was contrasted by the most caring, generous, encouraging scene in any culture so far. The one thing that really left an impression on me is the fact that the artists attending, and the Neapolitans especially, really gave their all. They tried to out do each other and themselves. The competitive spirit was strong, they want to make every piece they did better than the last, it was obvious, and I didn't take it as ego at all, not in the term we generally would use. I loved seeing them encourage each other and talk about the work from the heart, not blowing smoke or stroking each other and not in any way flippantly or disingenuous. It very much came across as real. Real interaction, real critique, real love and I loved that! I feel changed by this show. It was hot as hell; I've never sweated so much in my life. It was hot, humid and there was no relief, but it was so worth it. The 27 hours of travel each way, the humid, hot conditions, the crazy pace of the city... all so worth it. This was a real show with real artists, literally sweating over their work. This is how it's supposed to be. We aren't rock stars having people cater to us and wipe our asses. We are tattooers, we should be sweating, and getting into it with people. We should be tired and have to keep going anyway. That's what adventure is, isn't it? When you don't know what's around the corner? When you don't know if you're going to make it back in one piece? If you get a chance to attend this show in the future, do it. The city is nuts, it's a bit chaotic, but the food is unbelievable and the people are full of passion, soul, and spice! The after party boat ride to Sorrento for crazy karaoke lunch, swimming in the warm blue water with the rock cliff backdrop, the dancing, singing and sweating... all of it was amazing. Hide your money down your pants and sneak photos so your camera doesn't get snatched by a passing moped.... but go to Naples next year if you can! You might be scared, but you won't be sorry! Plus... where else can you compete in a beer drinking triathlon??? I didn't see it, but I heard about it... Much thanks to Antonio of Micromutazioni and all of his amazing staff and Alex de Pase for being awesome! Jeff Gogué is a tattooer and contributing blogger for Tattoo Artist Magazine. Jeff can be found at: http://www.gogueart.com/. Read more articles about Jeff: Jeff's TAM Video Download Jeff Gogue: Calvaria Book Preview (VIDEO) Artist Profile: Jeff Gogué (VIDEO) Tattoo Industry's Leading Talents Design Shirts to Support Japanese Relief Efforts


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In the wake of Tuesday's school shooting at Gardena High School – deemed accidental but leading to the hospitalization of two 15-year-olds – parents and school officials are asking questions about how best to keep guns out of schools.
The Los Angeles Unified School District – the nation's second largest – says it is reviewing both its own policies and their enforcement by schools. The LAUSD has required random weapons searches since 1993 but has left the details to principals about where and when to conduct them, so they don't become predictable. Police have arrested two more students, who were being held on suspicion of helping the boy bring the gun into the school .
Metal detectors at school entrances are one option, but educators and school-safety experts are split on their effectiveness, as well as the message they send to students. In some districts, they have worked. But others say the only real answer is vigilance, by teachers, parents, and other students.
"More than just machines with an uninvolved attendant standing in front of it, we need principals and parents and teachers and mentors who are engaged with the students all the time so when they have issues about safety, or isolation, we know about them," says Teny Oded Gross, executive director at Institute for the Study & Practice of Nonviolence in Providence, R.I.
'Communication is the key'
In news reports since the Gardena High School shooting, friends of the 17-year-old who carried the gun to school said he carried the gun for protection because of past run-ins with other students, but not with the intent of hurting anyone.
"Circumstances are changing for students all the time," says Mr. Gross. "A gang member may be just getting out of prison and setting up new crews, and a perfectly nice kid feels vulnerable because of it."
"Metal detectors are an OK supplement if you have the money, but what is more important is adults on the ground knowing all the time what happened at the rec center and last night's ball game," he adds. "Communication is the key. There are no quick fixes."
Moreover, the money for metal detectors and surveillance cameras might come at the expense of educational programs. "Considering the current crisis in US education, it seems particularly important to ensure that education is not compromised in the name of preventing extremely rare instances of school violence that are nearly impossible to predict," says Kelly Welch, a criminologist at Villanova University in Pennsylvania.
Others agree.
"Fundamentally, thinking only about the dangerous kids might cause us to lose sight of the ones who are just there for an education," says Joel Jacobsen, an assistant attorney general for the state of New Mexico. Metal detectors "are telling students that they are right to be frightened to be in their school. That can't be conducive to learning."
For Philadelphia, metal detectors have worked
Yet for Harris Lewin, a regional superintendent in Philadelphia right after Columbine in 1999, the decision to go with metal detectors and security guards with scanning wands was not all negative. It was a tradeoff.
"I realize this does seem to send a negative message: that we are checking everyone just for the few aberrant ones, but that seems to be part of our world," says Dr. Lewin, who is now director of graduate education at La Salle University in Philadelphia. "It's now like an airport with scanners and security guards, but we have not had an in-school event ever since."
Lewin says his classroom management programs are moving away from a curriculum of physical control to get teachers, administrators, and staff to be more reflective and caring. "That's our thinking at the moment," he says.
For his part, New Mexico's Mr. Jacobsen suggests that metal detectors can only be as good as the guards who run them.
"Will the guards remain more loyal to the administration than to the students they see every day?" he asks. "We know that jail guards are frequently bribed or scared or seduced. Why wouldn't school guards be at least as susceptible?"
A Nebraska state senator has proposed allowing teachers to bring weapons to class to defend themselves. But others suggest that expansive gun rights are part of the problem.
"The [Supreme] Court's current interpretation of the Second Amendment means that relatively few gun restrictions are permissible," says Jessica Levinson, adjunct professor of law at LoyolaLaw School in Los Angeles.