Mark Jordan

Two good friends who work at a moribund television station under a tyranical boss, are pleased to find out they are being sent to work a calendar girl photo session at a giant shopping mall. Once they get to the mall, they find that a time warp in the mall has introduced several T-Rexes plus Josef Stalin, Leon Trotsky and a band of deadly Bolsheviks into the situation.The dinosaurs are bent on lunch and Stalin is planning to take over the mall and use the time warp to conquer history. With the help of the scantily clad calendar girls the duo battles the dinosaurs and use the time warp to draft some famous people from American history to fight Stalin. In the end Stalin is confronted, the boss is humiliated and the two heroes each meet a girl. Mark Jordan lives in his hometown of Henryville, Indiana and has long worked in television production. He currently is a camera operator for two horse racetracks in Kentucky. The idea for Time Mall came from a dream Mark had about 20 years ago. He originally wrote it up as a screenplay. After the script sat around for years it was decided to turn it into a novel.

Enhance your SAS data-wrangling skills with high-precision and parallel data manipulation using the DS2 programming language. Now in its second edition, this book addresses the DS2 programming language from SAS, which combines the precise procedural power and control of the Base SAS DATA step language with the simplicity and flexibility of SQL. DS2 provides simple, safe syntax for performing complex data transformations in parallel and enables manipulation of native database data types at full precision. It also covers PROC FEDSQL, a modernized SQL language that blends perfectly with DS2. You will learn to harness the power of parallel processing to speed up CPU-intensive computing processes in Base SAS and how to achieve even more speed by processing DS2 programs on massively parallel database systems. Techniques for leveraging internet APIs to acquire data, avoiding large data movements when working with data from disparate sources, and leveraging DS2's new data types for full-precision numeric calculations are presented, with examples of why these techniques are essential for the modern data wrangler. Here's what's new in this edition: how to significantly improve performance by using the new SAS Viya architecture with its SAS Cloud Analytic Services (CAS) how to declare private variables and methods in a package the new PROC DSTODS2 the PCRXFIND and PCRXREPLACE packages While working though the code samples provided with this book, you will build a library of custom, reusable, and easily shareable DS2 program modules, execute parallelized DATA step programs to speed up a CPU-intensive process, and conduct advanced data transformations using hash objects and matrix math operations.

Winner of a 1990 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Men's Science Fiction and bestselling novel, Secret Matter returns in a revised edition for the 21st century. With an Afterword by gay theologian, social commentator Mark Jordan. Kevin Anderson is finishing up college, and getting ready to leave New York for an internship rebuilding San Francisco after an immense earthquake. Then the Visitors arrive; a race of human-like aliens touch down in several cities around the globe, including San Francisco, and nothing will ever be the same. When Kevin's company is given a contract to build a facility for the Visitors, he forms a friendship with 'Bel, one of their number. But is 'Bel so alien after all? They seem so human, but they possess some odd characteristics and seem to be hiding something. What secrets do they carry, and where, exactly, are they from? This edition includes a Bonus of Toby Johnson's whimsical, but profound, story "Adam & Steve."

Enhance your SAS data-wrangling skills with high-precision and parallel data manipulation using the DS2 programming language. Now in its second edition, this book addresses the DS2 programming language from SAS, which combines the precise procedural power and control of the Base SAS DATA step language with the simplicity and flexibility of SQL. DS2 provides simple, safe syntax for performing complex data transformations in parallel and enables manipulation of native database data types at full precision. It also covers PROC FEDSQL, a modernized SQL language that blends perfectly with DS2. You will learn to harness the power of parallel processing to speed up CPU-intensive computing processes in Base SAS and how to achieve even more speed by processing DS2 programs on massively parallel database systems. Techniques for leveraging internet APIs to acquire data, avoiding large data movements when working with data from disparate sources, and leveraging DS2's new data types for full-precision numeric calculations are presented, with examples of why these techniques are essential for the modern data wrangler. Here's what's new in this edition: how to significantly improve performance by using the new SAS Viya architecture with its SAS Cloud Analytic Services (CAS) how to declare private variables and methods in a package the new PROC DSTODS2 the PCRXFIND and PCRXREPLACE packages While working though the code samples provided with this book, you will build a library of custom, reusable, and easily shareable DS2 program modules, execute parallelized DATA step programs to speed up a CPU-intensive process, and conduct advanced data transformations using hash objects and matrix math operations. This book is part of the SAS Press Series.

This book focuses on practical, standards-based approaches to planning, executing and managing projects in which libraries and other cultural institutions digitize material and make it available on the web (or make collections of born-digital material available). Topics include evaluating material for digitization, intellectual property issues, metadata standards, digital library content management systems, search and retrieval considerations, project management, project operations, proposal writing, and libraries’ emerging role as publishers.