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The latter, knowing of these turbulent times in Lincoln, decided not to hold court.
But mind now, you've got to sleep in this room every time you come to hold court in Ramsey.
And Mademoiselle de Corandeuil settled herself back in her chair with the dignity of a chancellor about to hold court.
Then, three weeks later, if the docket permitted, he went on to Raleigh to hold court there for a few days.
This week we are to hold court here, but I do not imagine anything will be done.
Peter of Russia was right: the sovereigns of England, the sea-rulers, should hold court in Greenwich.
From this time onward, it is said that Inquisitors were never known to hold court with a Virey.
Do you know anything about the new judge who is going to hold court to-day?
A judge could not hold court unless he had a military escort.
It might give jurisdictional privileges: a right to hold court with greater or less franchises.
late 12c., from Old French cort (11c., Modern French cour) "king's court, princely residence," from Latin cortem, accusative of cors (earlier cohors) "enclosed yard," and by extension (and perhaps by association with curia "sovereign's assembly"), "those assembled in the yard; company, cohort," from com- "together" (see com-) + stem hort- related to hortus "garden, plot of ground" (see yard (n.1)). Sporting sense is from 1510s, originally of tennis. Legal meaning is from late 13c. (early assemblies for justice were overseen by the sovereign personally).
"woo, offer homage," as one does at court, 1570s; see court (n.). Related: Courted; courting.
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Nearly 80 minutes into her testimony, Tiffany Paris was asked to identify two people in a photograph.
"My son," she said quietly.
"And?" the defence attorney asked.
"The man who murdered my son," Paris snapped.
Her opinion about the death was confirmed by a Montgomery County, Maryland, judge who ruled this past week that the man, Moussa Sissoko, was guilty in the child-abuse killing of his and Paris's three-month-old son, Shane.
Circuit Court Judge Michael Mason's ruling - after a complicated, two-week trial held in front of the judge, not a jury - came in a case that stretches to Shane's death in 2001.
At that time, Sissoko was a 22-year-old father who, according to testimony, appeared to care about his son.
Behind the scenes, though, he was working to become the sole beneficiary of a $US750,000 ($998,000) life insurance policy on Shane, according to the judge.
"I can't explain human behaviour. Nobody can explain human behaviour," Mason said Thursday in delivering his verdict. "And I think we all know enough, at this age in our lives, that you can't judge by appearances."
Sissoko had been convicted before in the death - in 2002 - and was sentenced to life in prison. He appealed, lost, and later asserted that he'd had ineffective lawyering during the earlier case. Last year, a different Montgomery Circuit judge, Ronald Rubin, agreed that Sissoko deserved a new trial because his original defence lawyer had failed to call a pediatric neuroradiologist as a witness to discuss Shane's injuries or medical condition, and instead relied on a less qualified neuropathologist. Sissoko remained locked up pending the outcome of the new trial.
Rubin's opinion underscored the medical debates at the heart of the case.
In Sissoko's new trial, prosecutors said that he inflicted head trauma on Shane. Defence lawyers said prosecutors could not prove what happened and that Shane died from an accident or natural causes.
"This is a medical mystery," an attorney for Sissoko, Robert Bonsib, told Mason at trial. "Killing his son was not his plan. His son died. He was as devastated as anybody by it, and he's had to spend a long time in jail."
Each side was able to present a case because there were no marks on Shane, or as Mason put it: "The trauma was insufficient to leave external evidence of the point of the impact."
In the end, Mason concluded that medical evidence, along with the life insurance plan, showed Sissoko had planned and willfully killed Shane.
"The defendant inflicted abusive head trauma upon the deceased that was the cause of his death - by either shaking and/or causing soft impact trauma to the child," Mason said.
Sissoko returned to jail and is set to receive a new sentence May 26.
For Shane's mother, Paris, the judge's verdict came as a huge relief. "Like a weight lifted off my shoulders," she said after the hearing.
She is now 34 and has a 9-year-old daughter, Shanna. About three years ago, she said, she began telling Shanna about Shane.
"You have a baby brother," Paris said.
She regularly visits Shane's grave. On his birthday and at holidays, she will leave presents - a teddy bear, a kite, an Easter basket. "Stuff I think he'd like," Paris said.
In 1999, she was still in high school in Montgomery County when she and Sissoko started dating. "My first real boyfriend," she said.
In the fall of 2000, the two learned Paris was pregnant. A short time later, Sissoko went to Florida to attend college. He later asked Paris to terminate the pregnancy. "I don't want you to have it anymore," he said, according to court records.
Sissoko returned to Maryland, and on June 29, 2001, was at Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Spring for Shane's birth.
Sissoko moved in with Paris and Shane, and took a job at a lock and security company, according to court records. It was around this time, Mason said, that Sissoko began pursuing the $US750,000 ($998,000) life insurance policy, naming himself as sole beneficiary.
On August 18, 2001, a representative from State Farm told Sissoko that Shane would have to have a medical evaluation, prosecutors Deborah Feinstein and Sherri Koch wrote in court papers.
Sissoko made the arrangements, telling Paris a doctor would visit their home, but that the visit was related to a health insurance matter. When Paris questioned that, Sissoko told her he would cancel the appointment, but he didn't - and arranged to have the evaluation done while Paris was at work, court files show.
Around that time, as Paris learned of messages left at their home from State Farm. Sissoko said they were related to car insurance and renter's insurance.
In making his ruling, Mason spoke chiefly about medical evidence. But he also homed in on the life insurance.
"Any reasonable person is going to ask: 'Why would you put a $US750,000 policy on a newborn infant?' " Mason said from the bench. "It seems to make no sense, just on its face."
Mason addressed what Sissoko had told an investigator years earlier: That the policy was a form of college savings plan. But the judge noted Sissoko was making $US1,500 a month, yet was signing up for a policy that would cost him $US150 a month.
"It frankly defies logic and reason," Mason said.
In court papers, prosecutors said that on September 15, 2001 - while Paris was at work - Sissoko was caring for Shane. Shortly after lunch, he laid him in a bed. Then, at 2.03pm, he called 911 and said Shane was unresponsive and bleeding.
"He has gone from a healthy, normal fine young baby boy," Mason said, "to all of a sudden what is described as basically a comatose child who is not breathing and with blood coming from his nose."
Paramedics took Shane to Holy Cross, and he was later transferred to Children's National Medical Centre. Shane never regained consciousness, according to prosecutors, and remained on a ventilator until it was removed after 10 days.
"He murdered my son," Shane's mother testified this year, "for a life insurance policy."
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If something is not done, two of the city's largest cemeteries could be full within five years, it said.
The 50-year-old crematorium at Thornhill is also in a poor condition and in need of modernisation.
Proposals including upgrading the crematorium and developing new burial areas will go before the council's executive later this week.
The report into council bereavement services is the result of a study by the Community and Adult Services Scrutiny Committee.
The committee concluded that the current situation created a negative impression of Cardiff and the council to the thousands of people attending funerals each year.
It also made the continued delivery of high-quality funeral services difficult for both the staff and the other professionals involved, it said.
It has been estimated that Thornhill cemetery could be full within three to four years, followed by Western cemetery in Ely in five years.
The report, which goes to the council on Thursday, contains recommendations including:
Committee chair councillor Brian Finn, Labour, said: "Providing quality services for the bereaved is critically important but often doesn't get the profile it deserves.
"In an era of huge demands on resources and land, bereavement must not be allowed to slip down our list of priorities. "
Cardiff council deals with over 4,000 funerals each year and more than 700,000 people visit its cemeteries and crematorium. More than 2,500 cremations take place each year.
The city is ranked 22 out of 82 in the Institute of Cemetery and Crematorium Management's league table of authorities providing burial and cremation services.
The report says burial space capacity has "reached a near-critical point" - a situation made worse by the increase in the population of Cardiff by 95,000 since the last cemetery - at Thornhill - was opened in 1953.
It points out that, although the council's Unitary Development Plan (UDP) makes reference to the need for additional cemetery space, it makes no commitment to build one.
At present, Cardiff Council does not allow the re-use of old graves, though other authorities have had to do so to cope with demands.
Conservative councillor Jon Burns said: "It is very clear the current situation is unsustainable as the report has highlighted.
"The council will need to think long and hard about viable alternatives for burial sites."
Plaid councillor Delme Bowen said: "The upgrading at Thornhill is long overdue both in respect of the improvement of quality and capacity."
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Jesper Krogh <jesper(at)krogh(dot)cc> writes: > I have currently hit a problem which I dug into finding the cause for, in > particular, searching in GIN indices seems in some situations to > un-fairly favor Sequential Scans. > Googling a bit I found this page: > http://postgis.refractions.net/docs/ch06.html#id2635817 > Describing the excact problem. > It seemed to be discussed back in the pre 8.1 days and wasn't > solved there, is there a chance someone may address it in 9.2 ? > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-performance/2005-02/msg00041.php Don't hold your breath. There's a huge amount of work to do there, and nobody's even thinking about it. The problem has actually gotten worse since 8.1, because the index access patterns are more complex and the planner has less not more info about them (because we pushed the determination of what's "lossy" to run time). Accumulating stats about how toasty the heap tuples are would be only the first step towards producing better cost estimates here --- you'd also need some way of estimating how lossy an index is, for instance, so you could guess how many heap tuples will be visited. And on top of that, for a lot of these complicated operators even our estimates of the final number of matches are pretty crummy. I'm not sure if having an explicit model of what's happening inside the index would help. Maybe it would, since the condition actually being tested by the index is probably simpler than the operator proper, but right now the planner has no clue that they're different. > Would you coin it a hard task or can a "fairly" naive C-coder, with > a fair amount of PG experience approach it? We're a long way from needing C coding here. The first thing would be to come up with a design for what we're going to model, what statistical estimates have to be made along the way, and how we can compartmentalize the knowledge needed given that we want operator classes and index access methods to be pluggable. regards, tom lane
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2010-11 Season - Split session announced for NCAA Sectional
|Bryant Voiles and the Augustana Vikings will host the NCAA Division III Sectional on Friday, March 11 and Saturday, March 12. Tickets will go on sale Tuesday, March 8 at 2:00 p.m. in the Carver Center.
There will be a split session for the opening night of the NCAA Division III men's basketball sectional tournament this weekend, March 11-12, at the Carver Center. Augustana will be hosting the four-team tournament which will send the winner to the NCAA Division III Final Four in Salem, Virginia the next weekend.
In the first game on Friday, March 11, St. Thomas (26-3) will square off against Wisconsin-Stevens Point (26-3) at 5:00 p.m. The Carver Center will then be cleared completely and the nightcap will feature Mary Hardin-Baylor (23-7) against the host Vikings (26-3). Tip-off for that game is set for 8:00 p.m.
Each game on Friday night will be treated as a separate session and fans purchasing tickets will be only allowed entrance to the game they have tickets for. Mike Zapolski, Augustana's director of athletics, explains the logic behind the split session.
"We are trying to accommodate as many fans as possible who want to see their team this weekend, especially on Friday night," said Zapolski, who recently served a four-year stint on the NCAA Division III men's basketball committee. "The ticket allocation set by the NCAA is fair and equitable and doing split sessions will give more people the opportunity to watch some outstanding basketball."
In a normal one-session format, Augustana, as the host institution, is allowed 50% of the ticket allotment while the other three teams split the other half. Because of the split session, the ticket allocation for each session will only pertain to the schools involved in that game.
Tickets will go on sale at 2:00 p.m. in the Carver Center on Tuesday, March 8. Ticket sales will close on Tuesday at 5:00 p.m. They will go back on sale again on Wednesday, March 9, from 9:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. and those hours will be repeated on Thursday, March 10. On Friday, March 11 the ticket sales will be from 9:00 a.m. until 12:00 noon. Any remaining tickets, for either session, will be put back on sale at 3:30 p.m. on Friday afternoon. All ticket sales are cash only – credit cards and checks will not be accepted. Ticket prices are $7.00 for adults and $4.00 for students (with ID) and seniors (60 and over). Children under the age of two will be admitted free of charge.
Following each game on Friday, fans for the winning team will be able to pur chase tickets for Saturday night's 7:00 p.m. championship game. Those tickets will be sold in the East end of the Carver arena, behind the bleachers. Any remaining tickets will go on sale at 12:00 noon Saturday in the Carver lobby.


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TORONTO: Michael Brantley had never been used as a designated hitter in the big leagues, so why did manager Manny Acta put him there for tonight's game against the Blue Jays?
""He's the only one of our players who has played all four games of the trip on (artificial) turf,'' Acta said. ""None of these guys are going to play every game. So Michael deserves a day off from that.''
Brantley didn't seem to object to getting a day off from playing the outfield, but he wasn't sure what he would do between at-bats.
""I don't know,'' he said. ""I'll have to check with some other people. But I'm excited to do something different.''
Acta didn't give Brantley any advice on the topic.
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Monday, 15 July, 2002, 12:01 GMT 13:01 UK
Pop Idol judge lands BBC deal
Pop Idol judge Nicki Chapman is to host a new daytime TV programme for BBC One.
Chapman will present a live magazine show for the channel every weekday.
She is reported to have been offered a nine-month contract worth £500,000.
Alison Sharman, the BBC's controller of daytime TV, said: "Signing Nicki is a real coup for the BBC. I'm delighted that she is joining us.
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"Nicki is very talented, warm and friendly and she will immediately strike up a great relationship with the daytime audience."
She will also front a travel programme about British ex-pats living in Florida, called Escape to the Sun, as well as hosting City Hospital as a stand-in for Matthew Kelly.
It is believed to be her first straight presenting role after she found fame on ITV1's talent show Pop Idol.
She will continue as creative director of 19 Management, which looks after Pop Idol stars Will Young and Gareth Gates and her contract allows her to continue work with ITV1.
She used to be Billie Piper's manager, as well as working with the Spice Girls and Take That.
Work on the new daytime show will begins later this year.
This Morning is currently being overhauled after ratings fell in the wake of the departure of long-term hosts Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan.
The show will come off air during the summer and then return with a £1m new look and revised format.
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Registration for Artists has closed. Please apply next year.
Artists who live, work or are affiliated with the art community in Lexington please join us for the Eighth Annual Lexington Open Studios. This year's event will take place on April 9 & 10, 2016, 11-5 PM. Building on the past six years of success, Lexington affiliated artists are invited to open their studios. There will be shared community space at the Munroe Center for the Arts and possibly at the new Lexington Community Center for an additional cost. The Lexington Arts and Crafts Society will have public space available for Society members. We encourage artists with their own studios to invite other artists to join with them. (Open Studio visitors often favor clusters of artists in one space for traveling convenience.)
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The 2013 GPU Technology Conference is underway in San Jose this week, and NVIDIA shared how it is taking on the top trends in IT with GPU-powered big data analysis, accelerated virtual desktops, and a visual computing appliance. The event conversation can be followed on Twitter hashtag #GTC13.
Keynoting at the beginning of the conference, NVIDIA (NVDA) CEO Jen-Hsun presented about breakthroughs in computer graphics and the NVIDIA GPU roadmap. He shared GPU computing examples and updated participants on remote graphics and product announcements. Jen-Hsun talked about the next two GPUs coming from NVIDIA: the Maxwell – with unified virtual memory for GPU operations to see the CPU memory and vice versa, and the Volta, which is energy efficient and has a new technology called stacked DRAM. Volta will address the problem of access to memory bandwidth. It will have DRAM on same silica sub-strate, and achieve one terabyte per second of bandwidth.
GPU-Powered Big Data Analytics
NVIDIA demonstrated several case studies for how GPUs are being used to tackle big data analytics and advanced search for both consumer and commercial applications. Companies such as Shazam, Salesforce.com and Cortexica use GPUs to process massive data sets and complex algorithms for audio search, big data analytics and image recognition. Top music application Shazam uses GPU accelerators to rapidly search and identify songs from its 27 million track database. Shazam is growing rapidly, with 10 million song searches a day and 2 million new users joining the service every week and its database doubling over the last year.
"GPUs enable us to handle our tremendous processing needs at a substantial cost savings, delivering twice the performance per dollar compared to a CPU-based system," said Jason Titus, chief technology officer of Shazam Entertainment. "We are adding millions of video and foreign language audio tracks to our existing services, and GPU accelerators give us a way to achieve scalable growth."
Visual Computing Appliance
NVIDIA introduced a visual computing appliance, enabling businesses to deliver ultra-fast GPU performance to any Windows, Linux or Mac client on their network. The GRID Visual Computing Appliance (VCA) is a GPU-based system runs complex applications like those from Adobe and Autodesk, sending their graphics over the network to be displayed on a client computer. With the click of an icon a virtual machine, called a workspace, can be created for a dedicated, high-performance GPU-based system. These workspaces can be added, deleted or reallocated as needed.
"NVIDIA GRID VCA is the first product to provide businesses with convenient, on-demand visual computing," said Jen-Hsun Huang, co-founder and chief executive officer, NVIDIA. "Design firms, film studios and other businesses can now give their creative teams access to graphics-intensive applications with un-compromised performance, flexibility and simplicity."
The 4U GRID VCA appliance houses 16 NVIDIA GPUs and GRID VGX software, providing NVDIA Quadro-class graphics performance for up to 16 concurrent users, with low-latency, high-resolution and maximum interactivity. The appliance will be available in the United States in May.
"We've had enormous success using remote GPU acceleration on our content-creation applications," said James Fox, chief executive officer at Dawnrunner, a San Francisco-based film production company. "Thanks to NVIDIA GRID VCA, we don't spend weeks configuring workstations and transcoding files and projects. Instead, we have more time to deliver a higher quality product for our customers. And we can take on new projects with tighter deadlines."
Companies embrace NVIDIA GRID
NVIDIA announced that enterprises can deliver GPU-accelerated virtual desktops and professional graphics applications from the cloud to any device, anytime, anywhere. Dell, HP and IBM are offering NVIDIA GRID-based servers. Citrix, Microsoft and VMware are offering NVIDIA GRID-enabled software. The Dell PowerEdge R720, HP ProLiant WS460c and SL250, and IBM iDataPlex dx350 MR server contain the NVIDIA GRID K1 and K2 boards.
"Enterprises want to take advantage of the growing trends towards globalization and mobility by virtualizing desktops and applications so users can work from anywhere, anytime on any device — while enabling the company to secure its core IP," said Bob Schultz, group vice president and general manager, Desktops and Apps at Citrix. "By leveraging NVIDIA GRID K1 and K2, combined with Citrix XenDesktop and Citrix XenApp with HDX technology, enterprises can deliver the most graphics-intensive applications to users who require rich, interactive experiences from any device."
NVIDIA GRID enterprise solutions uses NVIDIA GRID VGX software, which unlocks the virtualization and remoting capabilities of NVIDIA GRID GPUs and is licensed by Citrix for use in XenDesktop, XenApp and XenServer; VMware for use in vSphere and Horizon View; and Microsoft for use in RemoteFX. The GRID K1 boards use four Kepler GPUs and 16GB of memory, and K2 boards use two higher-end Kepler GPUs and 8GB of memory.
"Enabling customers to virtualize their multiple workloads is a challenge Dell is committed to, and the NVIDIA GRID technology enables our solutions to be more powerful for design and graphics-intensive applications," said Sally Stevens, vice president of Dell PowerEdge marketing. "Starting with the PowerEdge R720 server this month, and later including Dell Precision workstations and end-to-end Dell Desktop Virtualization Solutions (DVS) Enterprise stacks, Dell will offer a range of robust graphics-virtualized solutions, enabling new customer mobility and data security opportunities that accommodate a wide range of graphics performance requirements."
To keep up with Big Data news, bookmark DCK's Big Data Channel. To stay updated on virtualization, check out our Virtualization Channel.


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Buried in a folder somewhere in my flat is a piece of paper certifying that I am not a sex offender. During university holidays I worked for a charity that tries to help young people with learning disabilities. Before I could start I had to be approved by Disclosure Scotland, an executive agency of the Scottish government that maintains lists of people banned from working with children and disabled people, and advises organisations so they can "make safer and more informed recruitment decisions".
I worked with children who had, inter alia, Down's syndrome, autism and Asperger's syndrome. As well as helping to run a summer school, I worked one-on-one with children in an effort to improve their confidence, learning and health. Giving parents a break was part of the job, as was taking advantage of Edinburgh's cultural and sporting highlights. My work took me all over the capital. Physical contact was unavoidable – for example, when crossing busy roads. Some of the children I worked with liked to go swimming and some would need help getting changed. Parents needed to trust me to take care of their vulnerable children in vulnerable situations. Read more


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In this age of digital everything, presenting someone with an original, hand-drawn piece of art makes a big impression. So it's no wonder sketch cards (trading cards featuring one-of-a-kind artwork) are such a sensation. Packed with cool examples from various artists, Sketch Card Mania shows you how to create your own personal and professional-looking cards with guidance from long-time veteran of the trading card industry Randy Martinez.
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Insane Clown Posse's $10M Per-Year Swag Machine... 'We've got a lot more to say'...
[Jeff Fenster, of Jive Records:] "We just watched these kids at the merch table, buying multiple T-shirts for a band most of us had never heard of," he recounts. "They were ponying up to buy into this culture."
"ICP created this vibrant business outside the mainstream, and they've managed to keep it going," says Fenster. "You look at the longevity of it, and it's quite amazing, actually."
Amid a crummy Michigan economy and a crumbling music industry, ICP's achievement stands out. Enjoying the top revenues of its career, the group now commands an entertainment empire that pulls in up to $10 million annually: Wrestling exhibitions. An annual 20,000-person festival called the Gathering. Comic books. DVDs. A second feature film, "Big Money Rustlas," due in January. A twice-weekly Web radio show.
"The rest of the industry is dying," says Violent J. "And we're still here. We're still putting in lots of hard work."
"We're not done. We've got a lot more to say," he says. "We have a new goal in our career: We want to be an arena band. If we work hard enough, if we get the right breaks, I think this thing could become even more incredible."


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Home sales rise, but prices will be slow to follow
Home sales are rising, but prices won't follow quickly in many markets.
Sales of existing homes increased 4.3% in January from December to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.57 million, the National Association of Realtors reported Wednesday.
While still weak, that was the highest level in 20 months, the third gain in four months and a 0.7% increase over January 2011.
A housing market turnaround "may finally be starting," says Gus Faucher, senior economist at PNC Bank, noting that home builder confidence and new home construction are also up.
Falling inventories may be even more important than stronger sales, says Trulia economist Jed Kolko. In January, the unsold listed inventory was down almost 21% from a year earlier, NAR says.
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As demand tightens, prices typically rise. Yet Kolko and others say that may be far off in many markets.
Almost 3.9 million homeowners are in foreclosure or more than 90 days late on their mortgages, says LPS Applied Analytics.
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As those homes come to market, they'll "keep prices down even as sales pick up and the economy improves," Kolko says.
Getting rid of the excess supply will be a "drawn-out affair" that will take at least two more years, says IHS Global Insight economist Patrick Newport.
IHS predicts home prices will continue to fall this year on a national basis.
Markets without high numbers of foreclosures will see prices stabilize, if they haven't already, Newport says.
Investors, who are buying homes to turn into rentals, drove 23% of January sales, NAR says.
In some markets, such as Phoenix and Las Vegas, demand for distressed homes is especially strong, says Lawrence Yun, NAR chief economist.
He says the government's plan to sell foreclosed homes it owns to investors to turn into rentals may not be needed in some markets: "If the market is working, maybe it should just be left alone."
NAR revised down its December home sales rate to a pace of 4.4 million units. That means sales fell 0.5% instead of rising 5%.
The December numbers were adjusted more than normal as part of an annual recalculation of seasonal effects, such as stronger winter sales in recent years because investor-buyers are active all year.
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There's no better time to collect student assessments than early in the semester — when you can use their input to improve. Early semester feedback uses two-way communication to examine how and what your students are learning, as well as how your teaching methods and strategies influence that learning. You ask your students for feedback, then share your interpretation of their input and your plans for using it.
We've answered some common questions below, and you'll also find links to guidelines, a self-analysis tool and sample feedback forms for a variety of situations. You can adapt the process to fit your needs. If you have questions or need help, just email email@example.com.
Why use early semester feedback?
It's an easy way to monitor the connections between student progress and your performance. By involving students in the process, you demonstrate your respect and concern for their learning. It requires you to take some risks — listening, reacting and making changes — but early feedback can be motivating and rewarding, too. It's a chance to treat your own teaching as a topic of inquiry and may present new intellectual challenges or stimulate discussions with colleagues.
When is the best time to gather early feedback?
It depends. When you're teaching a course for the first time or using new methods or materials, you may want to get feedback as early as two to three weeks after the start of the semester or after you've introduced the new methods or materials. When you're experienced and comfortable teaching a course, you may want to wait five to eight weeks.
If you sense a problem in a course, consider asking for feedback right away. Anytime there's a serious issue — like in-classroom discipline or students' inability to grasp an important concept, develop a skill or make sufficient progress — you want to assess and possibly restructure quickly.
How do I gather student feedback?
Questionnaire: Give your students a one-page form that includes 3-12 scaled items specific to your course and 1-3 open-ended questions. It's easy to administer and quick to complete.
Written comment form: Give your students 3-4 open-ended questions that require brief, essay-like responses, or provide questions on 3x5 cards and have students answer them outside of class.
Group interview: Have an educational specialist interview all your students or a representative sample during 10-15 minutes of class. The interviewer will prepare a summary of the comments, identify themes and improvements, and discuss them with you.
Q&A session: Question your students out loud during the first or last 10 minutes of class. Record their comments and reflect on them later (instead of reacting and responding immediately).
What should I ask my students?
Diagnostic, descriptive feedback helps you determine specific areas for improvement. If you want to know students' perceptions of what they're learning and what teaching strategies are effective, ask them to describe their problems, how they're spending time on assignments and what parts of the course are most effective. Regardless of how you collect the information, the most useful information in early feedback is obtained when students are asked to describe:
1. What about the environment, activities, and structure of this course are helping your learning?
2. What specific suggestions do you have for changing the environment, activities, or structure of the course to better help your learning? We don't recommend asking students for a general evaluation.
Their overall opinion of your teaching isn't useful for making mid-semester changes. Plus, that kind of feedback can be difficult to accept, especially if it's unfavorable. Focus on what you can change — assignments, homework, pace or activities.
What do I do with early feedback once I have it?
First, try to interpret your students' feedback objectively — don't be drawn only to the negative comments — to determine what changes you can make. Consider discussing the input with a colleague or one of our consultants, who can help you decide on the best plan of action. Then, share your interpretation of the feedback and your action plan with your students. Doing so indicates that you listened, took their input seriously and care enough to respond. Here are some guidelines for handling that discussion:
- Thank your students for their time and comments.
- Share both a positive and a negative set of comments that are especially relevant.
- Only discuss a few comments. Don't draw out the discussion so long that students lose interest. This isn't a time to preach.
- When discussing a teaching strategy you can't change, explain why.
Remember that your students gave you input in good faith. If you can't maintain a positive, accepting attitude when discussing the results, you may need to reconsider how you use the early feedback process. You can start by just asking students for information — over time, you'll like become more comfortable discussing the results with your classes.
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A dreary 1969 rancher in Hot Springs, Arkansas, caught the attention of Kevin Walsh and Brett Pitts. They had been searching for a weekend home, and with a little work, this 900-square-foot lake cottage would become the perfect place to relax and entertain friends. Because it had a vaulted ceiling and a wall of windows overlooking Lake Hamilton, Kevin knew they could transform the tired house into an airy, sunny space.
The combined living and dining spaces open into the kitchen in the small home. "The whole house is really just one open room," says Kevin. "The challenge was in the space planning."
Gather inspiration from the simple white palette and timeless details of this renovated modern lake cottage in Arkansas.


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text: I figure I might as well put in my two bits. :) First of all, I believe Josh Bernstein when he says that he sees a crash and then, after making changes to the code, the crash goes away. I can't think of any reason he'd lie to us! :) With that said, however, I must agree that it is unclear why the changes Josh is making would prevent a segfault. Like Glen said, there must be something else going on, but fixing the code like this changes behavior slightly or does something to help reduce/eliminate a crash. Maybe it offsets a race condition or something? That seems doubtful. I'm just not sure (haven't had the proper time to look into it). That's why I think we should continue trying to pin down exactly what is going on and fix it in a way that we can better confirm we are fixing an observable behavior leading to the crash. I contacted Josh out of band and got some of the core files from him to try and get more info about the crash. > I agree Michael. Up to this point, I've only experienced a few minor > bugs in TORQUE, but certainly nothing this drastic. I believe that this > particular issue revolves around the workload, many thousands of short, > small jobs. I imagine on a much larger cluster, such as yours, the jobs > run for much longer. > > That all said, I'm surprised that others haven't reported similar > issues. Though, just because nobody has reported it, doesn't mean its > not happening. It may just mean they've switched to something like SGE > or PBSPro. At least thats what I've heard from others. ;-) As to whether others have seen a problem like this, I can say that similar issue *has* been experienced by customers who, like Josh, try to run thousands of very short jobs (1-5 seconds) as fast as possible. Most of the problems we saw, however, were actually in the pbs_server and not the pbs_mom. Basically, the pbs_server would run out of sockets and errors would show up in the log file about not being able to open up other kinds of files. Also, sometimes the socket descriptors themselves would not leak, but the socket handlers inside of TORQUE would leak. These problems, so far, have been addressed by two "workarounds": 1) Making TORQUE so that it can support more than 1024 descriptors at a time. 2) Increasing the size of the socket handler table. Both of these fixes are only currently present in the 2.3-extreme and 2.3-yahoo branches. The problem seemed to occur in our labs in pbs_server when you have a LOT of jobs (thousands) all running at the same time (or close to the same time). I bet if you had a lot of jobs running on one pbs_mom you could have a similar problem happening in the other direction. Anyway, if Josh has a reproducible case, which it sounds like he does, this is a perfect time to fix the problem. We could never easily reproduce the issue. One question remains for me remains: do we wait to release 2.3.6 for this fix, considering that it may take until after the holidays to fully understand and fix? Or do we try and roll out 2.3.6 before Christmas hits? Most sane admins wouldn't upgrade before the holidays anyway ... but who knows. :) --Josh B.


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Improved baserunning contributes to Pirates' success
Which of the following baserunners would you rather have on your team?
• Player A stole 23 bases in 33 attempts, a 70-percent success rate, and was picked off four times over 158 games. While on base, he took an extra bag on a single or two extra on a double 38 percent of the time and scored from second on a single 76 percent of the time.
• Player B stole 20 bases in 25 attempts, an 80-percent clip, and was picked off once over 90 games. His extra-bases-taken percentage was 69, and he crossed home from second on singles 87 percent of time.
Player A is Andrew McCutchen in 2011. Player B is Andrew McCutchen in 2013, and, yeah, he'd rather have Player B, too. That's why the Pirates' center fielder has put time into the subtleties of rounding the diamond to supplement his trademark speed.
"It's just about studying the game, studying the pitcher," McCutchen said. "It's the biggest key."
McCutchen's growth is part of a team-wide trend of improved baserunning that's seen the Pirates' National League ranking rise from 12th in stolen-base percentage and 14th in extra-bases-taken percentage in 2011 to fourth and third in those categories, respectively, in 2013.
Manager Clint Hurdle said first-base coach Rick Sofield has challenged players to get out of their comfort zones this season.
McCutchen and teammate Starling Marte, who's taken 18 percent more bases and converted 3 percent more steal attempts in higher volume than his rookie year, have been two of the biggest success stories, which Hurdle attributes to focus on the finer points over relying simply on their blazing speed.
"They've both worked very hard on their turns and their cuts around bases," Hurdle said. "They've both worked extremely hard on their first-step quickness and crossover quickness. Secondary leads are just as important, and they've paid great attention to that, so there's a lot of ways (they've improved)."
But the team is better, too, which has translated not only into moving more runners up but getting them home.
The Pirates are scoring from second on singles 65 percent of the time this season compared to 59 percent in 2011. They're also getting home from first on doubles 50 percent of the time compared to 33 percent two years ago.
The improvement hasn't been limited to the times the Pirates have pushed opponents with the running game. They've also scaled back their caught stealing numbers and are on pace to cut down their times picked off by almost a third.
"If you don't get a good jump, don't go," McCutchen said. "You don't always have to go."
That's the type of cool Sofield likes to see. And as the Pirates move forward, his biggest emphasis is on runners seeing the right moves for given situations and not so much being aggressive or conservative for the sake of either.
Whether its studying opposing pitchers' tendencies to see chances to run or knowing when to not run into outs, he thinks it's all part of keeping runners' numbers going in the right direction, even if hitters sometime struggle.
"I think what they're learning more than anything is to relax in those spots," Sofield said. "They recognize opportunities to be aggressive, they recognize opportunities when they've got to play the scoreboard, and we're running the bases well."
Adam Bittner is a staff writer for Trib Total Media. Reach him at email@example.com.


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The morning after split-squad games on Wednesday, the Nationals further trimmed their spring training roster by six players, including left-handed pitching prospect Matt Purke and outfield prospect Michael A. Taylor. Purke and Taylor were optioned to Class AA Harrisburg, and right-handed relievers Daniel Stange, Josh Roenicke, Clay Hensley and left-hander Danny Rosenbaum were assigned to minor league camp.
Purke, 22, allowed seven runs on 10 hits over 5 1/3 innings this spring. The left-hander, whom the Nationals signed to a major-league deal worth $4.15 million in 2011, pitched a full season last year for the first time since shoulder surgery in mid-2012. With a two-plus weeks left in camp, the Nationals wanted Purke to be stretched out into a starter rather than short appearances. The shoulder, he said, is healthy.
"It's tremendous," he said. "This game is just as much mental as it is physical. To be able to not have to worry about how my body is going to react, how it's going to go day-to-day, it's a huge weight off my shoulders. Now, I just got to focus on pitching."
The Nationals want Purke to improve against left-handed batters. His splits in the minor leagues last year, Williams said, weren't good but may be partly an aberration. Pitching coach Steve McCatty has worked with Purke this spring to throw his fastball down and away to left-handed batters or use a new slider.
Taylor, 22, among the Nationals' best outfield prospects, flashed his speed, defensive prowess and improving bat in camp, but still showed room for improvement. He went 3 for 16 with a walk and three RBI in parts of 13 games. Taylor saw action throughout the outfield this spring, but Williams believes Taylor's future is in center field.
"I see Devon White body-wise," Williams said.
Hensley, 33, said the opt-out date in his contract isn't until June but the Nationals are allowing him the chance to consider his future. He will take a day or so to decide if he wants to report to minor-league camp or if he will ask the team for his release, which he said they are willing to do.
Roenicke, 30, the brother-in-law of shortstop Ian Desmond, allowed four runs over 3 1/3 spring innings. Stange, 27, allowed three unearned runs over two innings. Rosenbaum, 25, allowed one run on three hits and three walks over 3 1/3 innings.
Nationals' major league camp is now down to 49 players.
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Prayer by Philip Kerr, Putnam, 432 pages, $31
Prayer is, above all, a thriller, but it is also an examination of prayer. It shows us God's works "though a glass, darkly."
The setting is Houston, Texas, where FBI agent Gil Martins sees evil on a daily basis. Not just the usual murder and misery, but the horrors of terrorist attacks and the demented fantasies of serial killers. One day, in the throes of a deep moral crisis, Martins offers God a prayer. He wants proof of God's existence. What follows is everything but.
As always, Kerr reaches far and doesn't quiet succeed, but Prayer is still well worth the read.
Gold Web: A Klondike Mystery by Vicki Delany, Dundurn, 328 pages, $17.99
It's 1898, in Dawson City, Yukon, and a man drops dead at Fiona MacGillivray's feet. His last works are "MacGillivray. Culloden." Fiona hasn't a clue – but she'll find one. This is Delany's sequel to the excellent Gold Mountain, which introduced readers to Fiona in the midst of the great Alaska Gold Rush. Delany brings back all her previous characters, including Fiona's son and a fine-looking Mountie to save the day. This one is great fun.
Black Rock by John McFetridge, ECW, 424 pages, $14.95
John McFetridge leaves his usual crime scene of Toronto and returns to his roots in this excellent historical procedural set in Montreal in the rough year of 1970. For those not yet born: there were real bombs in the Bourse, riots at Sir George Williams University (now Concordia), kidnapped cabinet ministers, and Canadian Army forces in the streets.
Against this backdrop, McFetridge has written the story of a young beat cop in search of a serial killer. It seems everyone is intent on ferreting out the FLQ while a murderer searches for his next victim. Well done history and a really good plot line.Report Typo/Error
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By Patrick B. McGuigan | CapitolBeatOK
OKLAHOMA CITY — Once upon a time, Oklahoma was among the most reliably Democratic states in America. Democrats controlled all state institutions for more than half a century after Oklahoma's 1907 statehood, and ran the Legislature for nearly 100 years.
As recently as 2006, even as Republicans began to secure legislative control, Democrats actually won a majority of competitive statewide races.
My, how things have changed.
That blip of success for the party of Jefferson belied a transformation that had began in the 1960s, accelerated in the Reagan years (1980-88) and led to Republican control of the Legislature since 2008.
GOP dominance became complete with the 2010 election, when Republicans comfortably won every statewide race. By 2012, Oklahoma was among the reddest of the red states.
A national website, Ballotpedia, looking at a variety of factors, listed Oklahoma as among four states (the others are Alabama, Mississippi and Tennessee) with net partisan shifts of 20 to 40 percent in the Republican direction over the past 22 years. Only five states (Texas, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina and Missouri) had more dramatic (40 percent plus) shifts toward the GOP.
The bottom line: Oklahoma is among the top nine states in net shift toward the party of Lincoln in the past two decades.
Public policy issues, including cultural or social controversies, national defense policy and arguments over federal power drove the transformation. Of course, the story played itself out through individual campaigns.
Here is the Reader's Digest version of the story before 1992, when the Ballotpedia study commenced.
While some analysts might assign primary credit for the Republican surge to a handful of historic figures – including Reagan and Henry Bellmon, the first Republican governor and U.S. senator in state history – the truth is more subtle and intriguing.
Still, there is no doubt Bellmon got it started.
He shredded Oklahoma's political fabric when he ran a masterful grassroots campaign, defeating Democratic nominee Bill Atkinson. Bellmon would go on to serve two terms as U.S. senator, then a second term as governor from 1987-1991. By the end of his career, the moderate-leaning old school Republican was on many issues to the left of most other elected Republicans.
Dewey Bartlett – a Republican, Bellmon's friend and gubernatorial successor in 1966 as the first Catholic governor in state history – lost his bid for a second term as chief executive in 1970.
In 1972, when he ran for the U.S. senate seat vacated by Fred Harris, Bartlett faced U.S. Rep. Ed Edmondson, a moderate Democrat from one of the state's most storied Democratic families.
Bartlett, an affable foursquare conservative, effectively "nationalized" the campaign, lumping Edmondson with Ted Kennedy, former U.S. Sen. Fred Harris (who had evolved from election as a conservative Democrat to some of the most liberal views of any elected official in America) and presidential nominee George McGovern.
The GOP campaign slogan, two cycles in a row, was effective: "Like Ed, like Ted, like Fred…by George." Bartlett won narrowly. Two years later, Edmondson lost narrowly again – this time against Bellmon, who won a second Senate term.
That same year, 1974, brought another watershed moment in a federal election. Former newspaperman Mickey Edwards ran a strong multi-issue conservative libertarian campaign for the GOP nomination. A "Reaganite" before there were Reaganites, he edged businessman G.T. Blankenship for the nomination, then gave incumbent Democrat Congressman John Jarman the first serious race of his long career.
After narrowly gaining reelection, Jarman switched registration in a White House ceremony with his friend Gerald Ford – and announced he would not run again. In 1976, even while facing bitter denunciations in editorials by The Oklahoman, the state's largest newspaper, Edwards won the party nod, and the general election.
Also in 1976, the state GOP sent a unified pro-Reagan delegation to the national convention, denying even Bellmon a voting seat because he supported Ford.
Later, Democrats in the district nominated a former member of the Ku Klux Klan. Edwards gained more than half of the black vote in Oklahoma City, and sailed to easy re-election. He was not seriously challenged until he got wrapped up in the House banking scandal of 1992, after a sea of Republicans challenged him.
The winner of that 1992 primary battle, Ernest Istook, went on to narrowly defeat a credible Democratic nominee, Laurie Williams. Ever since, Republicans have won every congressional election in central Oklahoma comfortably.
The party has brought forth a series of candidates who came to dominate their elections, including former U.S. Sen. Don Nickles, who took Bellmon's spot in the Senate in 1980, and former corporation commissioner and U.S. Rep J.C. Watts, the first African-American statewide elected official in state history.
The Sooner State steadily transformed into a reliably Republican bastion in presidential races, with the GOP carrying the state's electoral votes every four years since 1968.
The election of 1994, with Jim Inhofe and Frank Keating atop the ticket, might have been the most significant of the modern era.
That's the focus of the next installment.
Contact Patrick B. McGuigan, Oklahoma City bureau chief for the Watchdog.org network, at [email protected] and follow us on Twitter: @capitolbeatok.


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Snooki (Possibly) Joins the Youngest Celebrity Moms Club! (PHOTOS)
While it's not confirmed from the pint-sized Jersey Shore star herself (yet), a number of outlets are confirming that she is expecting her first bundle of joy at the age of 24. Snooks wouldn't be the first celeb to welcome a baby on the younger side.
So, who are some other Hollywood ladies who had their maternal instincts kick in earlier than most?
Britney Spears had her first son Sean Preston at only 23, while her little sis Jamie Lynn Spears was a mere 17-years-old when she welcomed her daughter Maddie in 2008. Also, fellow MTV reality star Kristin Cavallari announced back in January that she and fiance Jay Cutler were expecting their first child later this year.
There are plenty of other ladies who gave birth (or announced they were pregnant) at a pretty young age, so take a look through the gallery to find out who!


text: Hi to all. i currently own an A3 2.0fsi 3dr (07/2004). I recently brought a used set of s3 clocks (8p) from ebay which i had coded last week. The car starts and runs fine. But now have no fuel gauge. I read the post from NHN about the new clocks that was fitted to his a3 and how a new fuel pump/sender was needed along with some additional wiring which maybe required. The problem im having is im not to sure on what part i actualy need. I have checked pin 25 on the multiplug at the clocks and there is no wire present at this pin. Ive also checked the fuel pump and the plug has 4 wires in it. Any help or advise would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks in advance.


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Parker County, Texas – According to reports as of Monday, a man remained incarcerated at Parker County Jail with his bond set at $42,500.
The Parker Parker County Sheriff's Criminal Investigations Division arrested 17-year old, Blake Kenneth Dietrich for multiple charges Thursday afternoon. Parker County Sheriff Larry Fowler said sheriff's deputies initially responded to a burglary of a vehicle call Dec. 10, around 7:30 p.m., where the victim stated unknown suspect(s) entered his vehicle in the 100 block of Deer Creek Drive in Aledo, and stole his wallet with identifying information.
The victim's neighbor later notified the victim he found a wallet containing the victim's identification about a block away from his residence. When the victim went to retrieve the wallet, he discovered it was not his and it contained numerous identification including credit/debit cards. The items were turned over to deputies. A second burglary of a vehicle also was reported the same evening and the victim's identifying information was also discovered inside the wallet, among others.
The wallet was then found belonging to Dietrich, a man in Aledo, as Sheriff's investigators conducted an investigation. Dietrich gave a false location to investigators of his whereabouts on the night of the vehicle burglaries and through the investigation; Dietrich was connected to three additional vehicle burglaries, resulting in several warrants issued for his arrest.
Weatherford-Parker County Fugitive Apprehension Unit members served the warrants at Aledo High School Thursday afternoon and arrested Dietrich. He was found in possession of Xanax and marijuana at the time of his arrest. Deitrich was charged with two counts of fraud use possession of identifying information and two counts of credit card/debit card abuse. Additional charges of possession of a controlled substance in a drug-free zone and possession of a controlled substance in a correctional facility are pending.
Sheriff's investigators said the case is still under investigation. Fowler said the case will be referred to the Parker County District Attorney's Office for consideration of prosecution.
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Jimmy Eat World Announces New Album
Jimmy Eat World has announced a new ablum to be released June 11th.
The album 'Damage' will include the following tracks: Appreciation, Damage, Lean, Book of Love, I Will Steal You Back, Please Say No, How'd You Have Me, No, Never, Byebyelove, You Were Good.
New Full Length AlbumDamage // June 11, 2013jimmyeatworld.com #Damage twitter.com/jimmyeatworld/…— Jimmy Eat World (@jimmyeatworld) April 3, 2013


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Sanitary authority debt remains an issue
Elizabeth Township Sanitary Authority officials say $7 million will be lost to refinancing costs if the township takes over all of the authority's debt.
At an authority meeting on Wednesday, sanitation officials said the township's intended termination of the authority will add unnecessary costs to the operation of the system that will be passed on to customers through sewage bills.
Attorney Wayne D. Gerhold, who was hired to represent the authority in matters pertaining to debt as they relate to the township's efforts to dissolve the authority, told board members that it will cost the township $3.6 million to refinance authority debt because of added taxes and higher interest rates.
Gerhold, who had with him a plan he said township lawyers gave him addressing the debt, said the township also would "squander" some $1.8 million the authority had saved by recently refinancing its debt. Gerhold said the township hopes to use that money to refinance authority debt, rather than put it toward capital projects as the authority had planned to do.
Authority members said the cost of refinancing the debt also would consume $1.7 million the authority has in its debt reserve fund, concluding the total cost of refinancing would be around $7 million.
The township has to assume all authority debt and responsibilities by Oct. 24 in order to comply with a recent agreement signed by the township and the authority.
The agreement also requires the authority to "take all necessary actions to dissolve and wind up its affairs" and prohibits it from taking on debt in excess of $300,000 before then without consent from the township.
Township commissioners took action in April to dissolve the sanitary authority.
Authority solicitor Thomas Barry noted on Wednesday that the township has yet to state a reason for the termination, even in court documents.
"They're supposed to tell you what we did wrong," he remarked at the meeting.
Barry said he had to sign the agreement with the township in order to comply with the Municipal Authority Act, but he still doesn't want to see the authority dissolved.
"This is something we don't want to have happen," Barry said, but "we're going to do what the law requires us to do."
The board discussed whether the township, which has an annual operating budget of about $4.5 million, can afford to refinance the authority debt, which is around $32 million.
By paying off and assuming that debt, the township would add about $150,000 annually onto its debt service costs.
Gerhold said the township does not have the option of extending the debts, which will last until 2041.
Eric Slagle is a staff writer for Trib Total Media. He can be reached at 412-664-9161, ext. 1966, or email@example.com.


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Re: st: Creating Dummys from a variable with 5 categories
Nick Cox <email@example.com>
Re: st: Creating Dummys from a variable with 5 categories
Sun, 2 Dec 2012 16:49:26 +0000
As Daniel Klein's posting also indicated, this procedure is a little
risky and may give incorrect results if you have missing values.
Usually you want missing values to be reflected by missing values in
the indicator.
A more general definition, which allows a one-line Stata solution, is
gen <dummy> = cond(missing(<varname>), ., <expression>)
when you want the <dummy> to be 1 if <expression> is true and 0 if it is false.
For example
gen flatfee = cond(missing(myvar), ., myvar == 1)
gen nonflatfee = cond(missing(myvar), ., myvar == 0)
As said, you may know that you want missing values to imply 1 or 0 for
your indicator, in which case you can supply the appropriate answer in
place of . (system missing).
Here and elsewhere, I recommend the term "indicator" over "dummy". I
have heard too many stories in which "dummy" was misinterpreted as
implying disparagement, insult or offence, but no such stories about
On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 3:53 PM, JVerkuilen (Gmail)
<email@example.com> wrote:
> Your question isn't quite specified to be answerable but here's a
> quick way to make a dummy variable that has value 1 for flat fee and 0
> for any other value of myvar:
> generate flatfee = 1
> replace flatfee = 0 if myvar != 1
> What this syntax does is (a) make a variable flatfee that has 1
> everywhere and (b) change all values for which myvar does not indicate
> a flat fee to 0. You could also
> generate flatfee = 0
> replace flatfee = 1 if myvar = 1
> which is the opposite process, as it changes the 0s to 1s where flat
> fee is applicable. This seems more natural than coding flat fee the 0
> and all other methods 1, but if you want the other way around
> generate nonflatfee = 1 - flatfee
> Try these and then check your work by
> tabulate flatfee myvar
> which is always a good idea whenever you're recoding variables. You
> should see a 2x5 table that has the counts all in the right place.
> On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 3:27 AM, Sharon Brody <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote:
>> I have a variable with 5 answers and need to make a dummy variable from it
>> The question asked - How are you charged for your waste:
>> 1. Flat Fee
>> 2. Weight or Volume
>> 3. Frequency
>> 4. Not Charged
>> 5. Dont Know
>> If I want to create a dummy variable that uses Flat Fee as a reference point
>> 1. How do I create a dummy (I have tried the basic way - gen XXXX =1 replace XXXX=0 if YYYY=>2) but I believe this is incorrect as it doesnt incorporate all the variables.
>> 2. How do I get Stata 12 to use "Flat Fee" as the reference base point
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