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Brendon S necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 21 diseños de 9 diseñadores freelance.
We need a skilled designer to come up with a theme and design for a new website. We're looking for something simple, but bright and vibrant, using icons where appropriate. The site offers a service that remembers your life insurance policy details, and sells a product to help you find old policies in your name.
Don't let your life insurance disappear with you...
Desired Color Scheme:
Primarily Orange and Gray
Desired Style:
Bright, Energetic
Accepted File Formats:
Layered Formats (.psd or .tiff)
Site Overview
This website will:
- Provide some basic information for visitors, with a goal of promoting signups and sales.
- Members can sign up to the site (Free 6 months, then annual subscription fee)
- Visitors can purchase our kit (or pay us to use the kit on their behalf)This site is all about life insurance. Unclaimed life insurance policies in Australia go to the government after 7 years.
The site will allow members to store a few details about their life insurance policies so that they or their family will have the information in one place. Members subscribe, get the first 6 months free, and then pay an annual subscription fee to remain a member.
Visitors can also purchase a Kit. The Kit is a collection of letters and documents that can be filled out and sent to various insurance companies through Australia to find out if you or a family member has a policy there. The kit can be bought as a package of documents, to be completed and sent out by the customer.
Alternatively, the customer can pay an additional fee for us to fill out the kit and send it out on their behalf. This option requires a letter of authorisation and a question sheet to be filled out and sent back to us.
We're looking for a cheerful and energetic theme. Use bright colours to emphasise this, and leave plenty of empty space. You might try some icons, gradients and shading to help with this.
We currently have a logo from a previous version of the website. We like the design, but not the colors. We're happy to change to a different logo if you feel something else will better brand the service and suit the website.
- Small Version
- Large Version Site Layout and Functionality
We'd like to have a header area, with a horizontal navigation bar underneath. If appropriate, we'll use a dropdown menu here. That will be decided later.
I imagine having a main content area, and a sidebar. We're flexible on this - if you come up with something that works better, we'll consider that.
We'll build a blog into the site, and will need Signup and Login forms for membership. Payment for membership subscriptions and kit purchases will be done through paypal for now.
We'll have a Member Only area where members can update policy details, and an Admin area for the site owner to manage the user database. You do not need to design anything for these areas.
Payment Note: We are offering prize payment via Paypal. If the winner wants to be paid by another method, we may re-open the contest. Or if we agree, any additional charges incurred will be deducted from the prize amount.
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Randy Seaver at GeneaMusing posed a My Genealogical Threes topic for SNGF or weekend genealogical fun. So here we go:
Three genealogical libraries I frequent:
Since I live in Pullman and work full time, my library visits are virtual… but very successful nonetheless:
> Family History Library with resources via my local Family History Center
> America's libraries via Interlibrary loan at WSU Libraries, a helpful, low-cost service for which I am grateful
> GoogleBooks, an extraordinary genealogy "library" [also books at Heritage Quest and Ancestry.com]
Three places I've visited on genealogy trips:
> Benjamin Church House, now in Shorewood, built by my third great-grandfather and Milwaukee pioneer in the 1840s.
> Milwaukee, Wisconsin, my hometown but unappreciated from a genealogy standpoint until recently
> New Holstein, Wisconsin, where my ancestors from Bremen and Schleswig-Holstein settled in the 1850s.
Three ancestral places I want to visit:
> Litchfield & Guilford, Connecticut – Bradley
> Hodnet & Prees, Shropshire, England – Booth, Ebrey
> Wewelsfleth, Holstein, Germany – Tonner, von Thun, Suhr, Witt, Rossman, Stindt, Sommer, other ancestors
Three genealogy societies I belong to (or want to):
I list one historical society because they often offer invaluable assistance to genealogists as well:
> New Holstein Historical Society – Wisconsin
> Ulster County Genealogical Society – New York
> New England Historic Genealogical Society
Three websites that help my research:
> Ancestry.com
> Links to the Past – for Milwaukee County
> Calumet County Genealogy & History – for New Holstein
Three ancestral graves that I've visited (or want to)
> Boie Monument – New Holstein, Wisconsin
> Hachez Monument – New Holstein, Wisconsin
> Church Monument , Forest Home – Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Three brickwall ancestors I want to research more
> Jane Ebrey – my gg-grandmother, b. abt 1839 in Shropshire, need to confirm her parents, said to be Thomas and Anne Ebrey
> Hannah Baker Church, b. 4 March 1773, Ulster County, NY, my fourth great-grandmother who became a Quaker minister, wife of Caleb and mother of 10. Parents unknown.
> Caleb Church, b. abt. 1772, possibly in Dutchess County, NY, my fourth great-grandfather, said to be descended from Richard Church of Plymouth, Mass., but unproven.
Other answers to this fun challenge have been posted by:
> Thomas MacEntee
> Randy Seaver
> and many more here!
This is one in a series of genealogy and family history research articles to help you find your family and ancestors, often for modest or no cost. Please follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/BBPetura


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Wow. I live in New York, so I've seen my fair share of talented sand artists, but I've never seen someone pinch and play with sand the way Silvia Emme does in the video above.
The end result is impressive and quite pretty.
"World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria" - Sand Animation by SILVIA EMME [YouTube via World of Warcraft]


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Salesforce.com Launches Software Program for Wearable Devices
The idea of connecting portable devices like watches to marketing databases has for several years caught the imaginations of companies across a broad spectrum of industries including retail and health care. But there's still a wide gap between the idea and the reality. Salesforce.com, a cloud software maker, is hoping to capitalize on this need with a low-cost approach that could make this technology more accessible.
The company Tuesday launched Salesforce Wear, software and developer tools that companies can use to build business applications for smart glasses, watches and other wearable devices that connect to the Internet. "We want to jumpstart wearable app development," said Daniel Debow, senior vice president of emerging technology at Salesforce.com. He said Salesforce.com is partnering with Google, Samsung Electronics Ltd., Pebble Technology Corp., Fitbit Inc. and several other companies for the project.
So far the business case of wearables has been made in markets such as professional sports, in the military, and at hospitals. Elsewhere, corporate adoption has been hampered by privacy concerns, uncertainty about business cases, and the lack of apps to run on the devices. Salesforce.com, by getting in early, hopes to help develop and shape that business app market.
Salesforce's move could accelerate adoption of wearables in the corporate market, analysts say, but it also allows the company to get a jump on rivals such as General Electric, Cisco Systems and other companies that are interested in mining new revenue streams from wearables and other connected devices. Much like how Salesforce.com approached the customer relationship management market over a decade ago, where it brought a cloud-based application suite to market against established packaged software makers, it appears to be doing the same thing in the nascent business wearable market, positioning itself againstsome Internet of Things heavyweights with a platform and a number of applications it believes are likeliest to serve immediate needs. Salesforce is counting on attracting the attention of other application developers to add to the appeal of its platform, much like the company's current crop of third-party developers have built out its cloud ecosystem.
To help developers visualize the device wearing workforce of the future, Salesforce.com's developer kit includes a number of reference apps. One, a reporting tool, allows a call center manager to check call volume and other details in real time from a smartwatch or some other wearable. Another app lets users view information about potential clients they're about to meet with. There's a hotel check-in app where a customer walks into a hotel and is automatically checked in and notified of their room via the device. Salesforce.com also built an app that enables a worker to access from Google Glass machinery repair history on an oil rig.
Hosted on Salesforce.com's cloud, Wear will enable developers to build, roll out and update apps faster than on-premise software development, in which testing and bug fixing timelines are longer, said Rebecca Wettemann, a Nucleus Research analyst. "What we'll see is much faster time to market and a lot more apps that have potential to deliver value," said Mr. Wettemann. However, she said predicting success is challenging because wearables are still a technology searching for a problem to solve; many devices will fail due to lack of demand.
IHS predicts that roughly 50 million wearable devices will be sold in 2014, with that number rocketing to 180 million by 2018.
Salesforce.com will make money from businesses that connect Wear apps, either reference or custom-built, to licenses for its sales, marketing and other cloud services, said Mr. Debow. He said Salesforce.com will promote Wear at trade events and hackathons.
Mr. Debow said Wear came to fruition over the last eight months after Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff asked him to look into what wearable devices would mean for the company's customers and -- more importantly -- what Salesforce.com should do about it.


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Today, we did a light wash. Not a lot of scrubbing- just making a slight lather and rinsing it out.
While the hair was still wet, I used a loc and twist gel to completely saturate the new growth and the fuzzies that had busted loose on each individual loc. When one loc was saturated I hand twisted each one and used a double pronged clip to hold it in place. I repeated the process for each of his 53 locs. (just as an aside- Miles loves having this done. He sits in the sink and stares at himself while we talk. He rubs cream on the mirror, eats some of it and just generally has a good time. Lord help me if the kid ever starts to grow and no longer fits in the sink.)
Once everything is set, I use a little scalp oil in a pointed squeeze bottle to oil his parts and then rub a little oil down each loc. Voila! Easy peasy- and so much easier on Miles than trying to keep an Afro detangled!
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Great Evenings in the Great Hall
POSTED ON: November 2, 2009
On the pleasant fall evening of September 17, acclaimed journalist Pete Hamill led a notable cast of performers celebrating America's labor movement at a special event in The Cooper Union's Great Hall. This was the third in an eight-part series celebrating the Great Hall's 150th year as an historic site for major political and cultural events. Since 1859, the Great Hall has been a preeminent stage for pioneering individuals whose views reshaped society, from Frederick Douglass and Victoria Woodhull to W.E.B. DuBois. Each of the eight programs in the "Great Evenings in the Great Hall" series focuses on one area of civic responsibility, reform or education. For the September 17 event, Worker's Rights were at issue. The program explored America's labor movement as seen through the eyes of its most ardent advocates, all of whom spoke in the Great Hall: Clara Lemlich, Samuel Gompers, Eugene V. Debs and Mother Jones. Historic photographs and documents complemented the powerful words that advanced a movement and the stirring voices of the New York City Labor Chorus recreated the songs that signaled the changing times.


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Imagine a Conference and Retreat Centre nestling in woods next to a Stately Home, surrounded by beautiful landscaped gardens and parkland, with an exquisitely beautiful chapel in its midst. The whole place is steeped in peace and tranquillity. No traffic noise, only birdsong! Yet, it is only 12 miles from Bath and is easy of access, with ample free car parking on site.
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Apple's new iPod Shuffle is supposed to be the "world's smallest music player." So what's that mean, really? How do Apple's minuscule measurements size up in real dimensions?
We compared a pack of cards, matchbox, the 2nd gen iPod Shuffle and the new iPod Shuffle (in that order) to give you a better idea. You'll notice that while the new Shuffle is taller than the old Shuffle, repositioning those controls to the headphones bought a lot of space in every other way. We're also guessing that the new clip has been streamlined a bit to make the svelte 46 x 18 x 7.6mm body possible. [Sizeeasy]


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Philip McGinley, born June 6, 1981 in Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK. is an actor based in the UK.
In Game of Thrones he plays Anguy. He was announced as a guest star in the third season at San Diego Comic-Con 2012.[1]
He appeared in the 2012 film Prometheus, which was cast by Game of Thrones casting director Nina Gold. He has also appeared in Falling, Coronation Street, and Nina Argentina.
Guest starring
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|Valar Dohaeris
|Dark Wings, Dark Words
|Walk of Punishment
|And Now His Watch Is Ended
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Foundation and DoD Awards
Fisher House Legacy Award
In 1999, following the passing of Fisher House; Foundation founder Zachary Fisher, the Fisher House; Foundation Board of Trustees approved a resolution to pay tribute to its founder on his birth date, September 26th, each year with appropriate ceremonies at each Fisher House; location, designating the day "Fisher House; Founder's Day." The Board of Trustees also approved the establishment of the Fisher House; Legacy Award to recognize those individuals or organizations that have made a lasting impact on improving the quality of life for members of the Armed Forces or veterans and their families.
Additional info and list of winners
Fisher House Patriot Award
The Fisher House; Patriot Award was established in 2002 as a means of recognition to individuals and/or organizations which have been exceptionally supportive of the Fisher House; program.
Additional info and list of winners
The Zachary & Elizabeth Fisher Distinguished Civilian Humanitarian Award
In 1996, the Secretaries of the Army, Navy, and the Air Force approved the establishment of the Zachary and Elizabeth Award for Distinguished Civilian Humanitarian Service. The award was named in honor of Zachary and Elizabeth Fisher, both of whom had contributed extensively to the support and welfare of members of the U. S. Armed Forces and their families.
Additional info and list of winners
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probe for device existence
DEVICE_PROBE() method should probe to see
if the device is present. It should return 0 if the device exists,
ENXIO if it cannot be found. If some other
error happens during the probe (such as a memory allocation failure), an
appropriate error code should be returned. For cases where more than one
driver matches a device, a priority value can be returned. In this case,
success codes are values less than or equal to zero with the highest value
representing the best match. Failure codes are represented by positive values
and the regular UNIX error codes should be used for
the purpose.
If a driver returns a success code which is less than zero, it must not assume
that it will be the same driver which is attached to the device. In
particular, it must not assume that any values stored in the softc structure
will be available for its attach method and any resources allocated during
probe must be released and re-allocated if the attach method is called. In
addition it is an absolute requirement that the probe routine have no side
effects whatsoever. The probe routine may be called more than once before the
attach routine is called.
If a success code of zero is returned, the driver can assume that it will be the
one attached, but must not hold any resources when the probe routine returns.
A driver may assume that the softc is preserved when it returns a success code
of zero.
RETURN VALUESA value equal to or less than zero indicates success, greater than zero indicates an error (errno). For values equal to or less than zero: zero indicates highest priority, no further probing is done; for a value less than zero, the lower the value the lower the priority, e.g. -100 indicates a lower priority than -50. The following values are used by convention to indicate different strengths of matching in a probe routine. Except as noted, these are just suggested values, and there's nothing magical about them.
SEE ALSOdevice(9), DEVICE_ATTACH(9), DEVICE_DETACH(9), DEVICE_IDENTIFY(9), DEVICE_SHUTDOWN(9)
AUTHORSThis manual page was written by Doug Rabson.
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Since 1810 PEUGEOT has been producing durable products of excellence, since 1858 all are branded with the Lion logo – chosen to demonstrate strength, suppleness and swiftness to personify the durability of its products. As one of the earliest automotive producers, the PEUGEOT brand can trace its roots back to 1889 when it began producing automobiles and since then over 65 million vehicles have been produced, advancing technology with style and efficiency to enhance the customer experience. PEUGEOT is present in 160 countries, has 10,000 franchised Dealerships and is recognised the world over for the quality and design excellence of its products.
The UK is the third largest market for PEUGEOT with its UK Headquarters located in Coventry. The UK car line-up includes the 108, 208, 308, 2008 SUV, 3008 SUV, all-new 5008 SUV and all-new 508 supplemented by people-carriers and a van range that includes the Partner, Expert and Boxer. The standard car and van line-up is supported by Electric Vehicles. The range includes the iOn and the Electric version of their most popular small van, the Partner Electric.
If you would like to keep up to date with the PEUGEOT UK Press Department activity and be the first to see what exciting new projects we are launching, please follow us on Twitter and Instagram:
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While we may not know exactly what to expect in the final ten episodes of Battlestar Galactica - well, apart from shooting, that is - we now know that we can expect more of it than usual. Talking to reporters at Comic-Con, executive producer David Eick admitted that the final episodes of the show may run slightly longer than usual.How long will these extended episodes run? If Eick isn't exaggerating for effect, now may be the time to get excited:
[We've been] able to convince the network to let us air ... long episodes—[to] take single episodes and make them double episodes, ... [and to take] double episodes and make them quadruple episodes... [T]he story has become so critical in order to realize the arc of the series that we can't just cut stuff out and save it for later or push it 'til next year, the stuff we're used to doing. It's all got to be there.
So does this mean that the final half-season will run more than ten episodes, or that the ten episodes may run twice as long as normal? We'll find out when the show returns at the start of next year. Battlestar Jam-Packs Episodes [SciFi Wire]


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"Probably, the virtual host-only network wasn't set up yet. Here's is how you can fix this:
- From the main menu, select File > Preferences (Ctrl+G) – NOT the settings of a single vm
- Select Network in the list on the left
- You should see an empty white box with "Host-only Networks" at the top. On the right, there are three buttons to manage them. Click the topmost one (with a green plus symbol). A new Host-only network will be created and added to the list.
Normally, the settings of the new network will be ok, but for completeness, I give the default values here. You can access the settings for the host-only network through the screwdriver button on the right.
- Adapter:
- IPv4 address: 192.168.56.1
- IPv4 Network Mask: 255.255.255.0
- DHCP server:
- Enable server: checked
- Server Address: 192.168.56.100
- Server Mask: 255.255.255.0
- Lower Address Bound: 192.168.56.101
- Upper Address Bound: 192.168.56.254
You can change these settings to your liking, as long as they're consistent."


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Sawfish is a window manager that can be extended using a Lisp dialect. See http://sawfish.wikia.com
sawfish.el provides a major mode "sawfish-mode" to edit Sawfish source lisp files. There, you can use `C-x C-e' to run `sawfish-eval-last-sexp', just like `eval-last-sexp' of elisp modes.
From Sawfish-1.7.0, it is included in the Sawfish window manager, and the above link points to the latest version. It was originally written by Dave Pearson, but currently maintained by Sawfish community.
Example ~/.sawfish/rc can be like:
(setq user-apps-menu '(("Terminal" (system "terminal &")) ("Root" (system "root &")) ("Emacs 24.2" (system "emacs-24.2 &")) ("XEmacs 21.5" (system "xemacs-21.5.32 &")) ("Conkeror" (system "conkeror &")) ("Galeon" (system "galeon &")) ("xchat" (system "xchat &")) ("The GIMP" (system "gimp &")) ("XFIG" (system "xfig &"))))
Editing these lines and hitting `C-x C-e' I can change the apps-menu on the fly.
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Those Shameful Frenchmen
by Harry Browne
February 22, 2003
WorldNetDaily recently published a number of outraged letters, blaming the French for every imaginable moral crime because the French wont join George Bushs crusade against Iraq.
This controversy has provided a wonderful opportunity for people to demonstrate their moral superiority. Oh those degenerate Frenchmen! Dilettantes, cowards, opportunists, moral pygmies. We Americans, were the brave ones, the defenders of truth, justice, and the underdog. Look at the way we liberated Afghanistan. And now we want to do the same for Iraq, but the craven, cowardly French are standing in our way. And they have the gall to act as though theyre the moral ones!
Thats the thanks we get for saving France from the Nazis. Those ingrates turn their backs on us after all weve done for them.
Dont they realize that what we (meaning a previous generation) did in World War II makes them indebted to us forever obligating every French President to do whatever any American President commands, no matter how violent, aggressive, or irrational?
This is similar to the mother who has a perpetual trump card: "I went through labor for you, and this is the way you repay me. You owe me." Presumably, for the rest of your natural life.
The poor French. They dont realize that their debt will never be "Paid in full."
Dont Forget the Collaborators
And were not supposed to forget how many of those cowards collaborated with the Nazis.
Of course, Americans are morally superior to the French in that regard mainly because Americans have never been in the same position. Its easy for people in the safety of their American armchairs to decide how courageous other people should be that they should stand up to tyranny, endure torture, sacrifice themselves. Its easy when you've never had to face the same choices.
Of course, many Frenchmen did stand up to the Nazis. Over 100,000 of them died before the U.S. ever got into the war. And speaking of forgetting things, why have the tales of the heroic French resistance gone down the memory hole?
Many of the letter-writers know why the French wont join the American crusade. Its because theyre playing Financial Footsie with the Iraqis. Theyre shamefully selfish unlike Americans, who only want to bring peace to the world through war.
Once again, maybe some memories need to be jogged.
It was Donald Rumsfeld, after all, who shook hands with Saddam Hussein in 1983. It was Americans who sold deadly chemicals to Iraq during the 1980s. It was the Reagan administration that provided military intelligence to Iraq in its war with Iran. And it was American ambassador April Glaspie who in 1990 gave Hussein the green light to settle his oil disputes with Kuwait by force if necessary.
One disgruntled Frenchman, writing to WorldNetDaily, complained that French politicians have always been chummy with terrorist nations such as Syria. He neglected to mention, however, that Gulf War members of the coalition that attacked Iraq in 1991 (including the U.S.) gave Syria billions of dollars just to get Syrias name on the Coalition letterhead. Of course, the Syrians didnt actually fight against Iraq. They were too busy occupying Lebanon to be able to help. But they did give moral support.
Whos out of Step?
And rather than call the French out of step today, perhaps we should notice that people all over the world are siding with the French, not the Americans. Understand that I said siding with the French, not with Iraq.
It was the French presentation at the UN that was greeted with applause while Colin Powells accusations provoked stony silence.
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Perhaps the WorldNetDaily letter-writers should understand why the Europeans arent as all-fired eager to go to war as so many Americans are. And the reason has nothing to do with cowardice.
To most Americans, war is impersonal. War is dropping a few harmless bombs on foreign countries, the regrettable-but-heroic deaths of a handful of American soldiers, collateral damage, mopping up, peacekeeping, General Schwarzkopf on TV explaining smart bombs.
But to Europeans, war is personal. Their parents and grandparents and even some of those living today have experienced war first-hand. Theyve seen the destruction of their own homes, the loss of the property they worked a lifetime to accumulate, the murder of relatives and close friends, whole cities flattened, dead bodies decomposing in pools of blood, the brutality of conquering soldiers, damage thats far from collateral, and outcomes far different from what was promised. To them, war is real not a video game.
Maybe the reason they dont talk in macho terms is because they know what theyre talking about.
P.S. I neglected to mention one letter-writer who trotted out the ever-popular coup de grâce. You cant have a discussion about Iraq (or Serbia or Afghanistan or any other Enemy-of-the-Day) without someone mentioning that if only theyd stopped Hitler at Munich, World War II could have been prevented. This assumes, of course, that someone could have stopped Hitler at Munich a fact not in evidence.
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Have any of you ever thought to yourself "I could write a cookbook!" ? Or "I
write a cookbook" ? Or "Someday I WILL write a .."?
Do you think it would be easy? (Be honest!) Anybody ever actually start one--other than in your mind? Anybody finish one? And
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I'd like to have a no-fail bank of out-of-this-world cream soup recipes--that would be my focus if I wanted to write something down for the rest of the world.
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I once compiled a community cookbook for an online group who collected Christmas ornaments. It was our Christmas present to one another. I printed out copies of the collection and mailed them to everyone.
Not the same as authoring a cookbook. But that database that I used to accumulate the submissions became my personal recipe database that has all our favorites for the kids to have.
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The timing of this discussion is perfect for me. For a long time, I've been wanting to compile a collection of family recipes. I managed a small version of "Mom's recipes" for each of my daughters when they went off to college, paying particular attention to those dishes I thought they'd actually attempt under college conditions. However, my grander vision is to be in touch with all of my relatives, mostly female but not exclusively, married/single, by blood or marriage, three adult generations, and invite them to submit any recipes they'd like to share with the rest of us. I'd be the one responsible for coordinating, editing, etc.
How I would actually bring all of this information to fruition is still TBD, but I continue to think it's a good idea. For every recipe that's just so-so, I'm sure there will be a gem that should not be lost. Besides, I once read that it takes three generations after immigration to begin serious loss of a family's culture and traditions (a real issue in the USA if not in your homeland)--starting with loss of the native language. My family is just about there. I'm a big believer in the links between food-culture-tradition, etc. So...one day soon now I'll be writing that letter to my family and getting this project off the mark finally. I think I owe it to my daughters, nieces/nephews, grandchildren. Some of the food traditions passed along in those recipes will be the only connection they'll have to people I knew and loved (maybe even to me some day) and the places and traditions from which they came.
I know there are many ways I could choose to "publish" these. If anyone out there has had any success with a specific method, I'd appreciate the input.
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When I typed the original post in this thread I was thinking of commercial cookbooks (because of Clotilde's current smash hit of course). But Georgia, I think your heartfelt post will inspire everyone who reads it.
Seems like there are 2 parts to the project: contacting relatives,
actually compiling the book. I hope you are shocked and overwhelmed by the big response!
(It would make me so mad if, after completing the thing, Aunt Julia or Uncle Alton belatedly send a few
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georgia- I soooo agree! And even the so-so recipes that don't inspire you may be just what someone else thinks of as comfort food.
Generations will thank you. AND you will have an awesome database.
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I have been working on my own collection for years, but only seriously for the last year or so. I have a small army of recipe testers and a best friend who's an english professor to edit. The next step is to send out proposals. I'm not going to lie, I am procrastinating because this prospect totally freaks me out. I have ripped up so many recipes, gone with different themes and even different recipe formats, I can't help but wonder if I will ever be happy with it. I think my husband would appreciate if I decided I was happy with it.
P.S. One of my favorite recipes in there is for ratatouille
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Well Erin I would love to add to my collection--of cookbooks written by C&Z members
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I want to write a cookbook for those on bodybuilding diets. I don't think any exist!
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Tomato Soup with Cheese Tortellini
Total TimePrep: 20 min. Cook: 40 min.
Makes8 servings (2 quarts)
- 1 large onion, chopped
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- 3 cups reduced-sodium chicken broth or vegetable broth
- 1 can (8 ounces) tomato sauce
- 1 tablespoon minced fresh basil
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- Dash pepper
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- 1/3 cup shredded Parmesan cheese
- In a large saucepan, saute onion in butter until tender. Add the tomatoes, broth, tomato sauce, basil, salt and pepper. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 30 minutes. Cool slightly.
- Cook tortellini according to package directions; drain well and set aside. In a blender, cover and process soup in batches until smooth. Return to the saucepan; add tortellini and heat through. Garnish with cheese.
Nutrition Facts1-1/3 cups: 114 calories, 4g fat (2g saturated fat), 14mg cholesterol, 609mg sodium, 15g carbohydrate (6g sugars, 2g fiber), 6g protein. Diabetic Exchanges: 1 vegetable, 1/2 starch, 1/2 fat.
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It is January in Minnesota , so Roma tomatoes are expensive and not very good. So, I used canned whole Romas. This soup was great! I will definitely be making this again. It is simple, uses things I usually have in the pantry, and tastes great! What more could you want?
Dec 29, 2011
Very tasty, I had to use cherry tomatoes because roma were not at my grocers. I added a whole container of tortellini, which my kids mostly ate out of the soup and left the the tomato soup.
Dec 9, 2011
I have to admit I was a little skeptical at first when I read the ingredients to this soup. I was thinking it was going to have a very tomato-ey taste which neither my husband or I enjoy. I was pleasantly surprised when I served this delicious soup up!! My husband went back for seconds and thirds! Even my picky daughter enjoyed it. What a wonderful recipe. I didn't have fresh basil, but added a teaspoon of dried basil while the tomatoes simmered. Still tasted fabulous!
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Big hit at our house! We really enjoyed it. I featured it on my blog in the recipe of the week section. http://cynfullywonderful.blogspot.com/p/recipe-of-week.html
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I've made this recipe a few times & we love it. I will be making this again as soon as my plum tomatoes are ready. I'm glad I put it in my recipe box.
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Tasty and fresh! Did add 1/3 cup light sour cream into the soup pot before serving. I think it adds to the texture and taste.
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Marius Gerber
posted on Tuesday, March 06, 2007 - 12:29 am
I have a question concerning the conditional probabilities in LCA. Usually, you assign a person to the latent class with the highest probability and then go on with this categorial variable. However, is it not allowed to go on with the probabilities themselves, meaning that you get and calculate with a score for each person and each class? I know that one requirement of LCA is that latent classes are disjunctive and exhaustive. I calculated my analyses with both the categorial variable (= a person belongs to one and only one latent class) and the (intervall scaled) probabilities (= a person has a value for each class). The results seem to me much more plausible using the scores... And in my case it's reasonnable to assume that a person "has" a bit of different classes.
Thank you so much for your help!
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Tuesday, March 06, 2007 - 8:19 am
Given that the LCA is estimated with individuals in all classes, using most likely class membership would introduce estimation errors. In Mplus one can add covariates or other relationships to the model and estimate it in one step.
Jon Heron
posted on Wednesday, March 07, 2007 - 3:37 am
Hi Marius,
like you, I've recently had the same thoughts that a model using the posterior probabilities themselves is the way to go (e.g. an mlogit model with pweights in Stata).
Unfortunately, any model which starts off by you importing the data into another package will end up treating your derived class variable/probabilities as manifest whereas they are actually still latent.
Two issues here
1) You're going to underestimate SE's if you assume the class-variable is manifest. I guess it's the same as imputing some missing data and then assuming your dataset is complete.
2) To fit the model properly, the other variables which you bring into your model once you've derived the latent classes should at the very least be permitted to affect the posterior probabilities and with a model including covariates these should be allowed to affect the 'curves' themselves and hence potentially the interpretation of the classes.
This second point is currently causing me serious brain-ache.
Check out:
Delucchi, Matzger, Weisner
Drug and Alcohol Dependence 74 (2004) 235�244
Dependent and problem drinking over 5 years: a latent class growth analysis
For quite a clear stats-methods on the way to proceed
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Wednesday, March 07, 2007 - 6:54 pm
Just a comment on using posterior-probability-weighted multinomial regression for exploring "c ON x" relationships. There is no need for going outside Mplus here - you can do multinomial regression and instead of categorical observed dependent variable categories such as 0, 1, 2, 3 use fractional membership in all dependent variable categories.
Marius Gerber
posted on Thursday, March 08, 2007 - 6:26 am
Thank you for your answers. I have to explain in more detail what I did. My aim is to predict work outcomes with the clustered variables. That is, I do not predict membership of classes but instead use the classification variable as IV.
I did 2 steps: first I calculated an exploratory latent class analysis and found 4 classes (with PANMARK). In the next step (with SPSS) I used these class-variable as an IV and/or as a moderator in multiple regression analysis to predict work outcomes. Here, I did not use 4 binary IV (for each class) but 4 variables with the response probabilites of the LCA solution. This means that I have a (intervall scaled) number for each person and each class. This is against the idea that a person can only belong to one class, but in my case, I find it very plausible that a person does belong to different classes. Or is latent class analysis simply the wrong method if my assumption is that a person can be member of different classes? Or is it possible to introduce the condition that a person can be member of various classes in LCA? Is my approach described above justifiable?
I'm very grateful for your answers.
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Thursday, March 08, 2007 - 9:24 am
If you want to study
c--> y
for a latent class variable c and an observed outcome variable y, you can do this in one step in Mplus. A one-step analysis avoids errors of estimation for the parameters and their SEs. You don't say "y ON c", but the means/intercepts/thresholds will change by default across the c classes. Ex8.6 in the UG shows how to do this for a categorical outcome in the context of a growth mixture model.
If you prefer to think of a person as belonging to several classes, LCA is not the model to use. LCA assumes that a person belongs to only one class. Although the class probabilities that you get at the end gives a person a probability for each class, that is not a feature of the model. It should rather be viewed in line with factor score estimation where each person gets a posterior distribution (given the model and his/her data) and his/her estimated factor score is taken as the peak of that posterior distribution (like most likely class). If you want the model itself to acknowledge partial class membership you are into modeling such as "Grade of Membership". GoM is discussed in the Mplus framework in section 7 of Asparouhov-Muthen (2006) on our web site under Papers, Multilevel Mixture Modeling.
Marius Gerber
posted on Monday, March 12, 2007 - 10:18 am
Dear Bengt, thanks a lot for your answer.
"Grade of membership" seems to be what I need. Up to now, I used PANMARK and Mplus for LCA. Can I calculate GoM with them or which program instead is required?
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Saturday, March 17, 2007 - 10:48 am
You can use Mplus for Grade of Membership modeling. GoM is discussed in the Mplus framework in section 7 of Asparouhov-Muthen (2006) on our web site under Papers, Multilevel Mixture Modeling.
Marius Gerber
posted on Friday, May 18, 2007 - 5:26 am
Dear Bengt,
Can you please tell me what the mplus command is to calculate a grade of membership model? I have read the Asparouhow/Muthen paper (2006) and went through the user guide, but was not able to find the command for this special type of lca.
Thanks a lot, Marius
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Monday, May 21, 2007 - 3:35 pm
We will put together a brief Mplus Web Note to show the steps of doing GoM as discussed in the Asparouhov-Muthen paper. The note will be available probably tomorrow.
Marius Gerber
posted on Tuesday, June 19, 2007 - 4:56 am
I'm sorry for asking repeatedly. I cannot find an Mplus Web Note showing the steps of GoM. Has it not been published yet?
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Tuesday, June 19, 2007 - 7:12 am
I'm sorry that it has not been put on the website yet. It is done and has been tried out by a tester. We will try to get it up in the next few days. Send me your email address if you need it sooner.
Nick Shryane
posted on Monday, November 24, 2008 - 6:43 am
I'd also really appreciate seeing the web note on Grade of Membership models, but I can't find it on the webnotes page (
Nick Shryane
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Monday, November 24, 2008 - 7:54 am
See Section 7 of the following paper which is available on the website:
Asparouhov, T. & Muthen, B. (2008). Multilevel mixture models. In Hancock, G. R., & Samuelsen, K. M. (Eds.), Advances in latent variable mixture models, pp. 27-51. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing, Inc.
Nick Shryane
posted on Monday, November 24, 2008 - 4:59 pm
Hello Linda,
Thanks for the reference. I must admit I'm struggling to convert the general GoM model specification from the paper into something concrete in the Mplus language. Is it something along the lines of example 10.7 in the user's guide? Can you also tell me how one should properly incorporate the dummy variables for items (Xqij)?
Any advice appreciated,
James Gambrell
posted on Saturday, May 08, 2010 - 1:41 pm
Why has this note still not been published?
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Monday, May 10, 2010 - 8:31 am
This is difficult to do and we had hoped to simplify it. Obviously we have not yet done this. I have a mixture input that I can send you but I can't offer much beyond that.
IYH Boon
posted on Friday, February 24, 2012 - 1:29 pm
Is there any update on this matter? I'd like to estimate GoM models using Mplus, and I would very much benefit from a snippet of example code.
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Saturday, February 25, 2012 - 7:53 am
This is still on our list but we have not gotten to it yet.
Dan Kahan
posted on Friday, June 22, 2012 - 6:23 am
I'd love to use Mplus (or any other application) to do GoM modeling.
Basically, your responses go like this:
3/17/2007: "You can use Mplus for Grade of Membership modeling."
5/21/2007: "We will put together a brief Mplus Web Note to show the steps of doing GoM as discussed in the Asparouhov-Muthen paper. The note will be available probably tomorrow."
6/19/2007: "It is done ... We will try to get it up in the next few days"
11/24/2008: "see Section 7 of the following paper" (advice that a reader reported was not helpful)
5/10/2010: "this is difficult ... not yet done";
2/25/2012: "still on our list but we have not gotten to it yet..."
Am I right to infer that Mplus really *can't* do GoM?
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Friday, June 22, 2012 - 9:27 am
Yes, Mplus does not do GoM. GoM is best done by Bayesian analysis which Mplus now has. GoM is on our Bayes list but many other important Bayes developments are higher on that list.
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Friday, June 22, 2012 - 10:17 am
Section 7 in
shows how this can be done in Mplus with the ML estimator. It may not be easy, however, as the reader commented.
Chris Harper
posted on Wednesday, January 07, 2015 - 9:40 am
Is there any updated reference for estimating grade of membership models with Bayesian or maximum likelihood estimation in Mplus?
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Wednesday, January 07, 2015 - 5:41 pm
Sorry, not that I am aware of. Erashova has done Bayes work on it, but not using Mplus. Anybody else knows?
Chris Harper
posted on Wednesday, January 14, 2015 - 10:38 am
Can a GoM model be estimated in Mplus with ML? I'm a little confused after reading through this thread. According to Asparouhov and Muthen (2006) GoM models can be estimated in Mplus, but this thread seems to indicate otherwise. If it is possible to estimate a GoM model in Mplus, how should the syntax differ from a LCA?
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Wednesday, January 14, 2015 - 11:33 am
Asparouhov and Muthen (2006) talks about how to do it, but it isn't easy. No improvement has been made since then.
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text: Monday Notes: Spiral Stakes Hopefuls List Overflows Monday, March 18, 2013 12:00 AM Spiral Stakes FLORENCE, Ky., March 18, 2013 – At last count, the list of hopefuls for Saturday's $550,000 Horseshoe Casino Cincinnati Spiral Stakes (G3) at Turfway Park stood at 16. With Kentucky Derby qualifying points on the line, the 12 starters will be determined by earnings in graded stakes, then by earnings in stakes, and finally by career earnings.Breather Has Mac the Man Rested and ReadyMac the Man is safely among the dozen who can make the Spiral gate, standing third with two stakes wins, both coming in Turfway preps. Trained by Jeff Greenhill, Mac the Man won the Turfway Prevue at 6 1/2 furlongs in January and the 96ROCK Stakes at a mile in February. But after reviewing the colt's seven starts, Greenhill decided to sit out the third prep, the John Battaglia Memorial on March 2, and train up to the Spiral. 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"Some have performed well as 2-year-olds, but it's always been my opinion that they're going to be better as 3-year-olds."The Southern California-based Victor Espinoza will ride Giant Finish for the first time on Saturday.Giant Finish currently stands 10th on the Spiral Stakes list by virtue of career earnings of $81,900. Stabled at Keeneland, he will van to Turfway on the morning of the Spiral and be saddled by Mark Hubley, a longtime friend of Dutrow's from their days competing against each other at Delaware Park. Battaglia Winner General Election Proven on Polytrack and DirtTrainer Kellyn Gorder believed that two sub-par performances at Fair Grounds did not tell the truth about General Election, and the colt proved him right in the Battaglia Memorial, closing to win by half a length over Giant Finish and For Greater Glory, both also on track for the Horseshoe Casino Cincinnati Spiral Stakes. "He didn't like the surface at Fair Grounds, but he's already won on dirt, and he's already won at Churchill. He broke his maiden at Churchill, and he trained there last summer. And then he won the Battaglia on the Polytrack," said Gorder. "He came out of the Battaglia in really good shape. We gave him an easy breeze Saturday at Keeneland (four furlongs in :51.80), and we're looking forward to the race on Saturday."Gorder believes as well in his jockey, Albin Jimenez, who was aboard for the Battaglia and will be back up Saturday. Jimenez is currently second in the Turfway standings behind Norberto Arroyo Jr."Albin rode the horse really well," said Gorder. "He's an up-and-coming rider. I was telling someone the other day, this is a kid you're going to hear about in the future."Turfway Park stakes coordinator Tia Murphy has the Spiral hopefuls list in order of preference as follows:Uncaptured (trainer Mark Casse); Balance the Books (Chad Brown); Mac the Man (Greenhill); General Election (Gorder); Capo Bastone (Todd Pletcher); Fear the Kitten (Mike Maker); Channel Isle (D. Wayne Lukas); My Name is Michael (Bill Mott); Black Onyx (Kelly Breen); Giant Finish (Dutrow); Taken by the Storm (McPeek); and For Greater Glory (Steve Hobby). Needing defections are Cerro (IRE) (Graham Motion); Red Wings (Lukas); Divine Ambition (Darrin Miller); and Crop Report (Motion).The Horseshoe Casino Cincinnati Spiral Stakes is the 10th of 12 races carded Saturday. The race offers 50 Kentucky Derby points to the winner, 20 to the runner-up, 10 for third, and five for fourth. First post Saturday is 1:10 p.m. ET.###