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Few musicians can boast that they've been influential and vital since their teens. Now divide that tiny number in half, and you have a small class of songwriters who kept their output steady and consistent, without disappearing for years or changing their name into a symbol.
By first getting his beak wet in New York's hardcore scene in the '80s by founding Gorilla Biscuits, playing with Youth of Today, WarZone and going on to several diverse sounding New York bands, Walter Schreifels has done just that, excelling in whatever genre he lends his talent to because he can write songs–it's that simple, man.
With an already deep CV behind him, it was the reformation of post-hardcore trailblazers Quicksand in 2012, that seemed to throttle his musical career into a new chapter. Quicksand returned sounding even more relevant than when they first mixed the anthemic pounding of Fugazi with the haze of My Bloody Valentine on their debut LP Slip in 1993. Riding the crest of crunchy chords and droning soundscapes, Schreifels kept charging with his solo career, Gorilla Biscuits (who reformed a few years prior), and a slew of other projects including Vanishing Life, who released a single last year.
So when I received a phone call from Schreifels saying he'd be fronting yet another band–this time with members of Cults, Youth of Today, Bold, Into Another, and White Zombie–it didn't shock me when Dead Heavens materialized, fully formed shortly thereafter.
In their short lifespan, Dead Heavens have released a two song single on Thrill Me Records and played several shows, including the final date of their a February residency at St. Vitus in Brooklyn, NY tonight.
Dead Heavens is Schreifels' first exploration into modern psychedelic rock, so why not ask what inspired the trip into the trippy. Here's what he said about about landing in the dead zone with bandmates Drew "Beat" Thomas, Paul Kostabi, and Nathan Aguilar.W
Walter Schreifels: The musical evolution that led to the Dead Heavens sound can be traced back to 1965's Out Of Our Heads by the Rolling Stones. Drew Beat and I became obsessed with this album (the Stones 4th) and the early Stones in general on a tour we did together a couple of years back. We ended up covering "Not Fade Away" and "You better Move On" (songs that The Stones also covered), working them out at sound checks.
With the early Stones you're plugging into the original power source of blues-rock interpretation, the type of guitar music that brings the sexes together.
Nathan joined (what was then) my solo band later that year and introduced me to White Fence. I immediately grabbed onto the 60s songwriting motifs and was blown away by the production techniques. Interestingly, I found out later that Tim from White Fence was in hardcore bands.
On tour we obsessed on mbv, My Bloody Valentine's 2013 critically acclaimed but oft slept on follow up to the classic Loveless. Most conversations would start with "how awesome is it in (insert MBV song title) when they (do some awesome thing)" and it was enough for us. Mostly we wouldn't talk at all.
Before Paul joined the band he was recording us at his house upstate. Paul has one of those old 70's space age bachelor pad reel-to-reel stereos. After a session we'd dig into Paul's treasure trove of tapes, James Gang, Are You Experienced?, Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, Fresh Cream, there is no better format for listening to music than quarter inch analog tape. It's how the artists themselves would have listened to their albums before they were released to the public, there's something incredibly intimate and holy about it.
On our last bunch of shows, the last that we would be billed as "Walter Schreifels and The Dead Heavens" Nathan, who DJ's at Black And White among other places, turned us on to The Damnation Of Adam Blessing. With a foot in garage, psyche and prog, Damnation are the proto type of a "biker rock" band. Heavy riffs with melodic vocals, trippy lyrics that are both sexy and cliché in a good way, plus multiple guitar solos.
The main riff to their 1968 single "Cookbook" played on repeat in the van and in our minds throughout the day like a proto metal Hare Krisna chant, "freeing our minds", informing all actions and decisions.
It's crucial or at least helpful for a band find common musical references in order to create a language of their own. With Dead Heavens we share a lot of favorites and often are turning each other on to new things. I'd say different measures of these five or so musical influences I've listed are sprinkled throughout the songs we have so far but we always keep the door open for new sources of inspiration. Lately it's been Ultimate Spinach and the Five By Five, the internet is far and wide.
Dead Heavens play St. Vitus in Brooklyn, NY tonight at 8 p.m. with The Golden Grass, Black Black Black, and These People
Walter Schreifels is also participating in a panel discussion tonight before the show, at NYU with NYHC: 1980-1990 author Tony Rettman, Richie Birkenhead (Underdog, Into Another) and New Yorker staff writer Kelefa Sanneh. Details here.


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'The Walking Dead' Season 6 Episode 13 Review: Humanity and Savagery Co-Exist In 'The Same Boat'
Recap and review of The Walking Dead – Season 6 Episode 13 – The Same Boat:
The Walking Dead has often set forth that the primary antagonists of this world aren't the walkers, but other people. "The Same Boat" explores that thesis by showing that maintaining one's humanity often means permitting, or even engaging in, acts of savagery. This was brilliant, savage television, made all the more effective by the quiet moments of soul-searching, and the harrowing moments of faith.
I'll admit that I wasn't expecting much going into this episode, since I didn't have any reasonable expectation that Carol (Melissa McBride) and Maggie (Lauren Cohan) would be rescued by episode's end. Say what you will about how The Walking Dead has cut back to the meandering in recent seasons, but this had the feel of a storyline that would take weeks to resolve. Naturally, part of the episode's effectiveness was the subversion of that expectation, but it was more than that: had this been spread out across several weeks, it's doubtful "The Same Boat" would have been nearly as effective as a single, isolated character study. What we got here was essentially a one-act play centered on power, both its forfeiture and its reclamation. The Carol we see in the first half of this episode is a throwback to the Carol of the first two seasons: frightened, meek, and reticent. Although she's killed roughly 18-20 people (by her own estimation), Carol is opposed to having to kill her captors. It isn't until circumstances largely force her hand that she springs into action, since the alternative is to allow Maggie — and her unborn baby — to come to harm. And so it is that we get an ideological struggle between Carol, who clings to her faith as a means of making sense of her actions and her world, and Paula (Alicia Witt), a member of the Saviors who refuses to cede power to any man, woman or walker. Considering how one-dimensional many of the Saviors we've met so far have been, it's great to finally meet someone who has some semblance of a character, as we learn that Paula is a cold, calculating leader, preventing her squad from killing indiscriminately if there are alternatives that benefit their cause in some way. Although she'd rather kill Carol and Maggie as payback for Rick's group killing so many of their people, Paula sees the wisdom in negotiating a trade: Maggie and Carol for their ally, Primo. And yet, seeing reason doesn't mean Paula doesn't also see the value in killing. In fact, she views killing as a key facet to her humanity, rationalizing that being unafraid to kill or be killed is the reason she's lasted this long in the first place. And perhaps there's something to that, as Paula insists that she's not only still herself, she's her best self now. In a way, Paula is almost a grim mirror of Maggie.
The reason Maggie and Carol are captured in the first place is that, instead of making a run for it after shooting one of Paula's men in the shoulder, Maggie chooses to get in close to finish what they started. This gives Paula and her cohorts the chance to get the drop on the two. Even after she and Carol manage to escape their confines, Maggie insists on seeking out the members of Paula's group, one-by-one, in order to finish the job. In much the same way Paula sees the logic in allowing an enemy to live, Maggie finds logic in killing every single person who poses a threat, regardless of whether or not they can be used as a negotiating tactic down the line. On the one hand, it makes sense to kill Paula's group, whether by setting a walker trap, shooting them in the head, trapping them in a burning room, or impaling them on a piece of rebar, as we see Carol do to Paula at the end (leading to a particularly gruesome death in which Paula is eaten alive by a nearby walker). On the other hand, it might have been wiser to take Paula captive to use as a bargaining chip with Negan. Whether this would have been easier than just slaughtering everyone, we'll never know. But it likely would have taken less of a toll on Carol's sense of humanity, since we're given every indication that Carol really, really didn't want to have to kill Paula. She gives the woman countless opportunities to make a run for it, and when a final brawl becomes inevitable, Carol admits that it isn't death that terrifies her, but this exact moment, having to fight and kill another living person just to survive. It's a character trait that, until the very end of the episode, we don't see reflected in Maggie, who has taken on Rick's scorched earth worldview. And she's taken on that worldview for the same reason Rick has: in much the same way Rick has a son to look out for, so, too, does Maggie have a child to protect. Maggie's repeated insistence to Carol that they have to "finish" this is because, much like Glenn, she doesn't want to have to worry about this down the line. She wants to make the world safe for her baby now, so they can be born into a more peaceful world. Maggie is killing now so, hopefully, she won't ever have to again. It's similar to the sort of pragmatism Paula has, with regards to whether or not to kill, it's simply that Maggie swings in the other direction. She never considers letting Paula's people live, even for a moment. Not even after hearing their life stories about lost babies, dead boyfriends, and late fathers. There's just no way Paula was going to make it out of this episode alive — and honestly, the episode is stronger for letting that story play out in a single hour, because we get to see the stark contrast between Maggie, Carol and Paula.
Part of what makes Paula an effective villain is that, in different circumstances, she might not be a villain at all. She's simply a woman who's been shaped by circumstances into someone entirely separate from the person she'd been in the pre-walker world. Paula is no longer the demur secretary tasked with bringing endless coffee to her oafish boss. She's the woman who leads her own troop, and the woman who's killed into double digits to stay alive. It makes sense why Paula has no respect for Carol, whom she sees as weak and pathetic, holding onto the image of a God who couldn't possibly exist, if He allowed the world to come to this. This, of course, ignores that it's all a ploy on Carol's part to lure Paula into a false sense of security, but even if it isn't, Paula's system of beliefs isn't any more valid than Carol's if they've both managed to survive to the same point thus far. And Carol picks up on that, recognizing that Paula is really the one who's afraid to die, because her life is the only thing left to be taken from her. Her husband and four daughters are gone, she isn't particularly close with anyone in her troop (not even her cohort-with-benefits whom Carol shoots in the arm at the top of the episode), and she doesn't appear to gain any sense of reward out of anything she's doing. Carol, on the other hand, has an entire community of people she cares about, while Maggie has a husband and a baby on the way. Even though she's lost her daughter, Carol thrives because she's made a choice, as Maggie puts it. She isn't just surviving, she's living, which is more than can be said for Paula. Of course, Carol would rather be able to escape without incident, but circumstances are such that she can't resist the inevitability of what she must do. So the question, then, becomes whether or not Carol can do the horrible things she must, yet still retain her humanity. It's a question that is yet to be answered, although it's clear Carol is trying, judging by how hard she gripped her cross at the end of the episode. And, for her part, while Maggie was pragmatically gung-ho about murdering everyone in Paula's group, it's similarly clear that she's struggling with the savagery of what she's done, telling Glenn that she just can't do this anymore (nearly getting stabbed in the stomach also had a lot to do with it, as Maggie's choices could have cost her the baby). With that said, I doubt this will be the last blood Maggie and Carol must shed, nor will it be the last for Rick's group. When Primo makes the declaration that he is Negan, a declaration that members of Paula's group had made as a mantra of sorts ("We're all Negan"), Rick takes it literally and shoots the man in the head (albeit not before expressing how sorry he is that it's come to this). Although they've neutralized yet another arm of Negan's group, they've still yet to kill the man himself. And it's doubtful that Negan, once he arrives, will show any of the remorse Rick and his group have shown about the deeds they've done. Ultimately, "The Same Boat" is one of the best episodes of The Walking Dead this season from a thematic standpoint, and it bodes well for the rest of the season that remains.
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"In 18th-century Austria, evil Count Cumberland (Herbert Lom) captures young women he deems to be witches, then tortures and kills them with the help of his faithful assistant, Baron Christian Von Mem (Udo Kier)."
Although very similar to "Witchfinder General" (1968), not only because of the subject matter but also because the director, Michael Armstrong, was an assistant to Michael Reeves on the Tigon production, this beautifully shot German film is a lot more brutal in every way.
Allegedly based on three true witchcraft trials during the abominable periods of witchcraft hysteria in Europe, this is all pretty grim stuff full of torture and exploitation at every opportunity. "Mark of the Devil" was once called the "most horrifying film ever made" and with good reason.
Modern audiences might find the story a tad slow in places, but the torture scenes using authentic methods and devices still hold up well 40 years on. You don't even need to ask if "Mark of the Devil" influenced the modern "torture porn" genre as it's actually a lot better than anything Eli Roth could produce nowadays with all his expensive KNB effects. Burnings, whippings, rackings and pokings with bodkins abound so, if you are the slightest bit squeamish, you probably won't see much of this film no matter how historically accurate it may be.
The acting is good enough to make you care about all of the characters whether they are villains or victims in spite of the terrible English overdubbing which was de rigeur for a lot of European movies of this time. In fact, it was mimed in phonetic English by the cast before the dubbing so there's nothing really to be gained from the German language version which some say was dubbed with a lot more emotion.
One thing which really stands out is how beautiful Udo Kier looked when he was younger. As a thoroughly heterosexual male even I can admit it. It's hard to believe that he was such a looker when you are so used to seeing him in films such as "Blade" (1998) without realising that he had quite an illustrious acting career beforehand.
Herbert Lom is also fantastic as the hypocritical Lord Cumberland who is far more the incarnation of the Devil than the imaginations of his victims could ever conjure up in their confessions. Most people will know him as Chief Inspector Charles Dreyfus from the "Pink Panther" movies but he's a very recognisable face from quite a few horror films of this era too.
There are also some incredibly beautiful actresses though the one which both Herbert Lom's character and I like the most is the blonde Ingeborg Schöner. According to the IMDb, she's had an amazing career in Germany which has lasted over 50 years.
Trivia fans may already know that "Mark of the Devil" was rated "V" for violence and ticket buyers were offered "barf bags" before the film started. If you have a weak stomach then you'll probably do well to have something handy to throw up in even now.
The power of the film really comes from the fact that injustice and persecution still exist everywhere today. You really don't have to let your mind wander too far to start equating the powers that be in the film with whichever government you are currently under. The physical tortures might not be so readily used nowadays, but just ask anyone who has ever been falsely accused of a crime that they didn't commit about how frustrated and helpless they felt and you'll soon realise that the legal system is still as corrupt today as it ever was.
Personally, I started to think about all the animal cruelty that I've witnessed and how the perpetrators, otherwise known as "Humane Societies", still get away with it. Their corrupt directors take home huge wages at the expense of innocent canine and feline lives just as the witchfinders also profited from blood money based on nothing but telling lies to the general public. I often drift off into thinking about things like that during the most mean-spirited horror movies but live in hope that one day justice will be served in the most sadistic ways possible too.
"Mark of the Devil" is a very cruel and powerful film with a far from happy ending which will really disturb you if you let it. Similar events to those depicted in this film really did happen, many innocent people were murdered and families were torn apart for no good reason. You don't have to look too far back into history to see how mankind keeps repeating the same mistakes.


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Hard to believe it's been over a month now! It's been great so far in Kearns, Utah and I've met some really cool and...interesting people. But ya, it's been awesome out here and I can't believe it's P Day again! Can't wait to read all of y'all's emails! My Companion, Elder Dunham, is also just simply an awesome dude! Or elder... Last Tuesday he felt promoted in our planning to go by the park and when we went the following evening and we met so many great people. This guy Cameron who we just meet planned to met with us the following day at 6:30 at the park. He doesn't have a solid understanding of what God is or his role in his life so it was great to talk to him. Also everyone is playing Pokemon Go around here. It's really weird. Like their will be just random people at the church because it's a gym in their game. It's cool though and we already got a few people talking to us because of it. Who knew that video game could help preach the gospel. Because now they come to us. ha ha!
Also, we had Zone Conference last Thursday! Our STL, Sister training leaders, Sister Wendt and Heywood talked to us about the Atonement and it was awesome. Elder Dunham was asked to do the push up atonement thing. Where you did five push-ups per person so that they could have some candy. It's was really a humbling experience and it really put the sacrifice that Christ made more personal to me. Unless your applying the Atonement daily when challenges come you will be stuck there till you develop that virtue and faith. We are fishers of men and are to gather his sheep and draw nearer to Him. The atonement is how we draw back to Him! So ya, it was amazing to see him do what ended up being over 300 push-ups.
On Friday we taught Barbara, a African American from Western Sahara. She has three kids with the oldest being four. She was prepared by the Lord for sure! She came to church last week and said she felt uplifted and free! She has felt God hands in her life so much, and used to be in a homeless shelter and He gave her a job and a family. She is so grateful for her children and her family. She never felt the Spirit at her old church and wanted to feel that Love that God has for us. Not saying that they don't but without that Spirit they can't have a fullness of joy and love. She felt that here at the church and said that she felt it now even while we were teaching her! She was an angel. I recited JSH 1:15-17 without ANY problems and it reads, "I saw a pillar of light exactly over my head, above the brightness of the sun, which descended gradually until it fell upon me. When the light rested upon me I saw two Personages, whose brightness and glory defy all description, standing above me in the air. One of them spake unto me, calling me by name and said, pointing to the other--This is My Beloved Son. Hear Him!" I have been working on that the past two weeks and it was the first time I was gonna use it in a lesson. The Lord helped me so much. I've been having so much trouble trying to memorize that. And I was able to with out a second thought. We both also felt like we should invite her to be baptized. I invited her to do so on August 13th and she said YES! I was so happy for her and my eyes were so watery. I didn't cry though, just inside... But it was awesome! I am so thankful and grateful for the Lord to provide her a way to come closer to Him, and I can't wait to see how she goes. I love this gospel and the church is true. I know that Joseph Smith did see God the Father and His Son Jesus Christ. You can find out through reading and praying about the Book of Mormon and finding out for yourself if it true.
Also besides meeting with Barbara we had a baptism! Jared and Etti our two brothers from the Samoan Ward were baptized at 3pm on Saturday! It was so awesome. I got to say the closing prayer which was cool. He whole service was in Samoan and it was a ton of fun to be at. The spirit was so strong there as I saw these two awesome children of God be baptized! Our Mission President, President and Sister Palmer, were there as well as the Zone Leaders, Elder Whitehead and Leavitt, and they were a huge support! They're awesome, and on the program they misspelled my name so it said Boonie not Bowie, because the Samoans are too good at English. lol It was so funny and the ZL were cracking up about it so now it's my new nickname, and I'll accept my fate for now. I'm just really so proud of Jared and Etti and they came to Church yesterday!! The Gospel is so true!
The rest of our week went well and we went to the family we had been teaching and taught the commandments on Sunday. It went well and the kids took it well even though we weren't very focus. But it was pretty good over all. Rob, a local member, was there and it was great to have him in the lessons. We also taught got to teach Barbara again and taught her the Plan of Salvation. We had the 16th WML, Ward Mission Leader, to come and help teach and he was awesome! It was great to have him bear testimony of the things we were teaching to her. She is still going strong and it's awesome to see her come out to church and to want to be baptized! It's only been two weeks but it is just simply awesome out here! I hope all is well back home! I love you guys! ♥♥♥
Elder Bowie
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PAJAMAS: lives with his wife, Barbara, and three children,
Tommy, Rebecca, and Little Ray. He says, "Behind our home
are three paths leading to the river, where you'll find the Blue
Cottage, where i was raised. Like many places, it evokes many
potent memories. I was the last of my family to live there; at
times, it houses very special guests. Neither Barbara nor I have
been taken over by our work (whatever that happens to be), so
she plans activities with the kids while I roam around, mostly
without purpose. In May, I will be handlining with live herring,
out of my skinboat for large striped bass. I do some wool spinning
and weaving, and on calm days push it in my racing canoe. The
little ones and their Mama swim in the river's deep sections. I lie
on the bank, wondering about stuff. Old Pyjamas
MARK ALAN: reading and writing haiku
since 1981. His first haiku was published in Modern Haiku
in 1986; he is now a regular contributor to Modern Haiku
and Frogpond. Mark's work is also published in many
other haiku journals and anthologies. A frequent
contributor to the Shiki Internet Mailing List, much of
Mark's work is included in various internet haiku web
sites. Mark's first haiku book, "When Glaciers Melt",
will be published in 1998. Currently, Mark is the owner
of a marketing &graphic arts business, and he has just
started a business dedicated to small press publishing
and game design and publishing. As a martial arts
enthusiast, Mark earned his Tae Kwon Ko Black Belt
in 1995. Mark is married and has two teenage children.
Mark Alan Osterhaus
Website: MARK ALAN OSTERHAUS' HAIKU HOMEPAGE
LAURENCE: an actor/director/writer
who has worked on stage, film and television, Laurence
hails from Columbus, OH. A newcomer to haiku, his
poetry has been or will be published in Kimera, The
Penwood Review, Nuthouse, Lynx Eye, Emotions,
Angelflesh, Maelstrom, The Laire, Uprising, Office
Number One, Superior Poetry News, Main Street Rag
Poetry Journal, Children, Churches and Daddies, Short
North Gazette, Nomad's Choir, Improvijazzation Nation,
The Writer's Exchange, Over the Back Fence Magazine,
Niederngasse, Apples and Oranges/Oranges and Apples,
Pegasus, Blind Man's Rainbow, Wings, L'Intrigue,
Mobius, Footprints, Vol. No. Magazine, Some Words:
A Place for Poetry, Shadyvale Magazine, Transcendant
Visions, Art Villa, Bonfire, Unlikely Stories, Webstatic,
Ixion, Barbaric Yawp, Ygdrasil, Aileron, Horsethief's
Journal and others. Larry Overmire
W.F.: a Professor of Communication for 18 years,
Bill is well published in the area of interpersonal interaction
(about 30 academic journal publications). He also has been an
Associate Editor for six academic journals. He has haiku in
print or in press with: acorn, Modern Haiku, frogpond and
Haiku Headlines. He recently won second place in a haiku
contest sponsored by the e-zine Inscriptions. W.F. Owen
ZANE: Email: Zane
Websites: ZANE PARKS' HOMEPAGE
FRANCINE: lives, writes and paints in the Seattle,
Washington area. Former President of the Haiku Society
of America; editor for eight years of Brussels Sprout, an
international journal of haiku and art.There are sixteen
collections of Porad's published work. Her haiku are in
current issues of publications in the U.S., Canada, England,
Croatia, Australia, Romania and Japan; in many
anthologies, including Haiku Moment,Charles E Tuttle,
1993), and Haiku World: An International Poetry
Almanac (Kodansha, 1996). Francine is a frequent guest
lecturer, an award winner, and has juried many national
and international haiku /senryu/ tanka competitions.
Francine Porad
PATRICIA: born in England, Patricia migrated to
New Zealand in 1973. A teacher, she is completing a degree
in English and Education She is a member of The New
Zealand Poetry Society and is New Zealand editor of the
American magazine Slugfest. Her articles, reviews,
poetry and haiku have been published extensively In
the small press and in anthologies, including Catching
the Light, the shortcut home, The World Poetry
Anthology, and others. She has recently contributed an
essay on New Zealand women poets (Pakeha and Maori)
for a special edition of Language Forum India. Currently
she is working on articles on contemporary Indian/English
poets, Australian poetry, and is preparing a book of haiku
with two other poets. Working with women and their
families is the main area of interest.


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Saturday, 22 December 2007
RLAB Servers Running: Networked Services Operational
Thursday, 20 December 2007
Server Shutdown: No Network Facilities On Fri 21 Dec 2007
This will effect all services we provide, and will seriously restrict what your computers can do.
Services effected:
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I hope the majority of you will be off enjoying you vacation but for those of you who will be working that day please come and see me or the team for advice on what you will be able to do and how you will work.
I apologise for any inconvenience this may cause you.
Monday, 19 November 2007
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Wednesday, 7 November 2007
Excel 2007 tables/graphs and Scientific Workplace
Stata 10 and Stat Transfer
1. Use the version command.
If you use this command as standard there won't be a problem of saving to an older version.
version 9.0
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2. or use the saveold command. Instead of using, save filename, replace, use saveold filename, replace (this saves the data as stata7, which can be read in 8, 9 and 10).
Thursday, 6 September 2007
Important: STATA Upgrade: 6th - 7th Sept 2007
We are upgrading our Stata to version 10 and to do this I need to restart the server it is held on. I am going to do this tomorrow morning (Friday 7th Sept.) between 8:30 and 9:00.
Please make sure you quit out of Stata when you leave tonight or it will crash and any data not saved will be lost when I restart the server.
Thanks, and enjoy Stata 10.
Thursday, 16 August 2007
STATA commands: hexdump and filefilter
Brendan McConnell Writes:
Hi there computer people,
I'm emailing as I finally figured out a solution to a problem I was having with a dataset, and I thought I'd tell you in case people have the same problem in the future, and I felt like I was banging my head against a brick wall trying to figure it out.
The problem I had was that someone at the DfES messed up a .txt dataset that I was trying to insheet into Stata; instead of the rows being separated by carriage returns, they were separated by tabs (columns were separated by commas) and Stata didn't like this, as it read it in as a single row. I couldn't rectify the problem with a "replace all" type command in any word editors as the programs couldn't load the dataset fully (it about 85 MB, with all the data on a single line). Stat-transfer wouldn't work either
I finally figured out that I could use the commands hexdump (hexadecimal dump – means nothing to me!) and filefilter from within Stata to alter the dataset before it is opened. It's so simple, but it worked perfectly for my problem. I've attached the relevant bit of my log file for you to see how it works – it just let me replace all tabs with carriage returns, changing the dataset from being 1 line with 87,302,806 characters to 595,377 lines with something like 30 columns. Perfect.
So now I've figured it out in Stata, would there have been a better way? Is there a UNIX version of Stat-transfer? Also, is there a command line in the UNIX editor bit (not sure what it's called) that I could have used to have done the same thing. Irrelevant for this task, but I'd like to know for future reference.
Tanvi Desai Writes:
Hi Brendon,
sounds like you found a very good method.
There are two possible alternatives, but I'm not sure they are an improvement on what you've done. The first method (which I usually use) is to do a find and replace on UNIX...
The other quick and dirty way is to infile into excel first where you can specify your delimiter, and then stat-transfer, but this obviously only works for the smaller datasets because of excel's size limits.
Wednesday, 1 August 2007
Economy mode for printers
From today, 1st August 2007, for testing during August I am setting the main printers to print in EconoMode as standard. This means all printing will use less toner printing out in dark grey as apposed to black. If you need to print out a document that requires the text to be black follow the instructions below.
When the print window comes up select the "properties" button next to the printer.
In the properties window select the "Paper/Quality" tab
Untick the EconoMode option. (See picture below)
Click OK, then print out you document.


text:
Troy Wilde, DPM
Foot & Ankle Hospitalist
As a hospitalist and foot and ankle specialist, Dr. Wilde has extensive podiatry experience. He graduated from Temple University School of Podiatric Medicine and later completed an in-depth, three-year surgical residency at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. His training there consisted of forefoot and rear foot surgery with an emphasis on trauma, diabetic reconstruction, and wound care.
Dr. Wilde is certified by the American Board of Podiatric Surgeons and qualified in foot surgery.
In his role as a hospitalist with OrthoArizona, Dr. Wilde will be involved with acute foot and ankle care within the hospital systems in the East Valley. He treats trauma, sport injuries and diabetic foot and ankle issues that arise. He manages these problems both conservatively and surgically using a multi-team approach to care for his patients.
When he is not seeing patients, Dr. Wilde enjoys golfing, exercising, traveling and spending time with his family.