long is singularly deserving of this recognition as recipient of the 2012 robert vaughn foia legend award. there is one more thing. as befits the type of legal document that the government has to file in court in freedom of information act cases, the final sentence reads as follows. it is hereby declared under penalty of perjuriry in accordance with 1746 that the foregoing is true and correct. i give you professor long. [ applause ] >> thank you, dan and thank you, alan, for all those kind words. you know, when dan called me to let me know that we were all going to award me this very significant honor and it had the word legend in it, i immediately thought, that means i'm really old to be a legend. at least i'm still a living legend and not a dead legend. sometimes if you live long enough, you, too, could become a legend. it started when i was a student at the university of washington. i thought about, what should i say that might be interesting? i'm a statistician. i knew you did not want to hear about databases and statistics and all of the wonders of that although i get very excited ab