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Pero antes unos pequeños comentarios sobre la publicación.
En primer lugar, World's Science no es una revista científica, como su nombre podría aparentar, sino una revista divulgativa. Y para más inri ni siquiera es una revista de divulgación científica especializada, sino general. No trabaja con fuentes sino haciendo una repesca general de lo que se publica por internet y reinterpretándolo, por lo que no tiene muchas garantías de fidedignidad. No es la revista en la que publicarían sus trabajos investigadores asociados a instituciones científicas, puesto que la bibliometría no incluiría nunca sus índices y si otra persona publicase después un trabajo idéntico en una revista científica a quien se atribuiría siempre la autoría sería a quien la publicó en un medio científico y no en una miscelánea divulgativa como ésta. Ni siquiera muestra un comité científico que vele por la calidad de lo que publican y no hay forma de saber quién está detrás de esta publicación, puesto que no hay un "acerca de" como suele haber en las revistas que tienen alguna seriedad.
Pero en realidad, nada de esto es siquiera importante en comparación con los contenidos del artículo que Nicole nos ha recomendado pero en una versión particular que poco tiene que ver con el artículo publicado en World Science. Como decía, es obvio que es impresentable no ya como artículo científico sino incluso tampoco como artículo divulgativo, puesto que no nos permite verificar de dónde se ha obtenido cada afirmación sostenida en su interior (por o cual parece que nos piden que hagamos profesión de fe y que consideremos que los presuntamente entrevistados son realmente científicos reputados), además de tratarse de una traducción "muy libre" de la versión en inglés. En realidad no es ninguna traducción sino que se trata, una vez más, de un resumen particular bastante amañado, como seguidamente se verá.
Aquí lo tenéis Mis comentarios vendrán más adelante en otro mensaje que espero poder escribiros pronto en cuanto saque un poco de tiempo; pero, por favor, no hace falta que los esperéis para escribir vosotros antes todos los que creáis convenientes, porque será tan obvio el que os dará ganas de ponerlos que seguro que algo diréis

Genes behind transsexualism possibly found
May 11, 2005
Special to World Science
Scientists say they may have found genes that help explain why a tiny percentage of men see themselves as women, cruelly trapped in the wrong body.
The researchers say the findings are very preliminary and should be "interpreted with the utmost caution," due to the small sample size used in their study.
Nonetheless, they say, the results might shed some light on the rare condition, transsexualism. It is estimated to afflict about one in 30,000 men, some of whom follow through on their sense of their correct gender by getting sex-change operations.
More broadly, the research could help clarify one of the most contentious and poorly understood questions in biology: what creates "gender identity"—the sense most people have that they are either a man or a woman.
The feeling is normally rather deep-seated; people don't need to examine their body shapes to confirm it. It is also considered distinct from the issue of whom a person is sexually attracted to.
The question is how genes, culture or both conspire to produce gender identity.
Transsexualism "raises important questions as to how the gender identity is moulded in humans," wrote the researchers, who included Susanne Hennigsson of Göteborg University and Mikael Landén of the the Karolinska Institute in Göteborg and Stockholm, Sweden, respectively.
They describe the research in the August issue of the scientific journal Psychoneuroendocrinology.
If their findings are correct, the risk of becoming a transsexual may depend partly on variations in the length of certain segments of DNA where the genetic code "stutters," that is, a few "letters" of the code repeat themselves in the same order many times.
Notably, scientists found in a study published last December that these repeat sequences may be the sites of some of the most common genetic mutations, and thus may underlie some of the fastest evolutionary changes in life's history. Evolutionary theory holds that mutations produce evolution, because the occasional mutations that are advantageous spread through populations, changing these populations' characteristics, and over time gradually create new species.
In that study of last year, researchers found that the muzzle length of dogs depends on the length of certain repeat sequences.
In the transsexualism study, the researchers examined a repeat sequence in each of three genes known to affect the sexual development of the brain, in hopes that one or more of these might shed light on transsexualism. They studied several common variants affecting the length of these repeats in different people.
These variants "are all much more common than is transsexualism" itself, they wrote. "Hence, the goal of this study was not to reveal the primary cause of transsexualism," but rather to help explain "whether the studied genes may facilitate or prevent" it.
One particular variant seemed significantly associated with the frequency of transsexualism, they found. This variant was in a gene responsible for producing a molecule called ER-Beta. ER-Beta acts as a minuscule gateway that controls the flow of estrogen, a hormone, through the brain during fetal development.
Estrogen is thought to be responsible for wiring the brain in a "masculine" way in males before birth—although, paradoxically, the substance is better known as a female sex hormone. This is because after birth, it influences the development of female sexual characteristics.
The gene that produces the ER-beta receptor contains a section called a CA repeat sequence, so called because C and A are names for two "letters" of the genetic code which, here, are repeated many times in a row.
The researchers found that longer CA repeats were associated with a greater risk of transsexualism in the the study, which included 29 male-to-female transsexuals (men who wish they were women) and 229 healthy males.
It is unknown exactly how this change in the ER-beta gene might contribute to transsexualism, the researchers said. The gene may produce different variants of the molecular gateway, which transmit estrogen more or less easily; but it's unknown whether one of these might be the reason for the effect, or whether the reason is something else.
Moreover, the researchers found that the two other genes that they studied also seem to influence the risk of becoming a transsexual. But neither of these genes on its own predicted that risk, they found. Rather, specific combinations of all three variants seemed to be more common among transsexuals.
The other two genes studied were genes encoding the production of molecules called aromatase and androgen receptor. These genes, too, are believed to help determine how "masculine" the brain becomes.
More masculine, in this context, means that certain brain structures are relatively smaller or larger in males than in females, possibly reflecting the relative importance of those brain structures in each sex.
Researchers have found that parts of the frontal cortex, the seat of many reasoning functions, and the limbic cortex, involved in emotions, are bigger compared to other brain areas in women than in men. Parts of the parietal cortex, which contributes to spatial perception, and the amygdala, which responds to emotionally arousing information, are bigger in men. A part of the hypothalamus, a brain region that regulates reproductive behavior, is also believed to be bigger in males.
At least one brain region has also been found to be different in male heterosexuals and homosexuals, also a part of the hypothalamus. And more recently, gay and straight men have been found to differ in how their brain responds to a scent in male sweat.
But scientists don't know whether homosexuality and transsexualism have anything in common biologically, beyond the fact that some people view both as aberrations—and that now, both are being found to have a possible genetic basis.
The idea that genes underlie transsexualism, at least among men who want to be women, has gained support from reports on twin and non-twin siblings who both have "this very rare condition, and from reports on families with more than one member" having it, Henningsson and colleagues wrote.
Gender identity is typically established by 18 to 24 months of age, when "boys come to know they are boys, and girls come to know they are girls," according to the Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy, 17th Edition.
Some people act in ways typically considered more appropriate for the other sex, but this doesn't make them transsexuals, as long as they're comfortable with their physical gender. Rather, transsexuals "believe that they are victims of a biologic accident," the book says, "and that they are cruelly imprisoned within a body incompatible with their gender identity."
Como véis, hay una sensible diferencia entre lo que pretenden hacernos tragar en nuestros foros y lo que de verdad pone en el sitio referido, mucho más largo y con multitud de matices que han sido escondidos en el resumen que pretendían colarnos.
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Bet on BYD? Revisiting China's Most Hyped Automaker
By Michael Dunne
"Should I invest in BYD?" a wealthy American entrepreneur on his second visit to China asked me while looking over BYD's E6 electric vehicle on display at Shanghai Auto Show last month. "Buffett's invested, right?"
I was tempted for a variety of reasons to tell him to go ahead and put some money in. But then Facebook and its underwhelming 2012 IPO flitted across my mind.
A globally dominant social network may seem to have little in common with a small Chinese automaker, but the two are similar in some fundamental ways: Like Facebook before it went public, BYD is a young company riding a wave of tremendous hype. And like the social network, it threatens to get knocked into the surf once under tight scrutiny.
Don't get me wrong. There are some very good reasons to believe in the BYD story, especially at first blush. The Shenzhen-based carmaker runs a joint venture with the esteemed Mercedes-Benz that's set to produce electric vehicles under the Denza brand later this year. Warren Buffett, one of the world's most celebrated investors, has remained a steadfast supporter ever since taking a $250 million stake in the fall of 2008. And earlier this week, the city of Long Beach, Calif. signed a $12.1 million contract to purchase assembled-in-America BYD electric buses.
The Long Beach deal marks the first time a Chinese car company will produce vehicles on American soil. It also means BYD will making buses for a market that boasts the strictest emissions standards on the planet – an excellent branding opportunity for a company with dreams of one day leading the climate-friendly car market.
Perhaps most compelling: People who have met BYD Chairman, billionaire Wang Chuanfu, consistently come away calling him a genius. In the early 2000s, Wang built BYD into the world's No. 1 maker of cell phone batteries, stunning incumbent powerhouses like Motorola – and has threatened to pull off a triumphant surprise in car batteries, too. "This guy is a combination of Thomas Edison and Jack Welch," said
Charlie Unger, Buffett's partner at Berkshire Hathaway, told Fortune in 2009. "I have never seen anything like it."
But exceptional brain power alone does not guarantee a successful company. So when it comes to assessing BYD, the key is to separate image from reality, which means taking a closer look at the company's business performance.
And here is where the some of the shine starts to come off.
Profits are the most obvious blemish. BYD's earnings cratered 94% in 2012 due to weak demand for its cars. In the first quarter of 2013, BYD proudly announced that it was back in the black. But in the investment-intensive auto industry, BYD's $18 million profit so far this year is the equivalent of wood chips.
Money woes can sometimes be forgiven when a company is promising to unleash breakthrough technology. BYD was expected to be an electric car champion, blazing a Chinese trail to global leadership. Sadly, BYD's electric car sales have been a flop. In 2012, sales did not even reach 5,000 cars, and most of those were purchases by government agencies and taxi fleets.
BYD has yet to solve the very same limitations that have sent the likes of Fisker A123 Systems (now known as B456) and Coda Automotive to early graves: expensive batteries, limited range and a dearth of charging stations. Basically, the average consumer is not inclined to gamble on a car that costs $35,000 or more and might leave them stranded miles from the next electrical outlet.
And then there are the question marks that always seem to mark Chinese products. BYD ranks "below industry average" in quality, according to a study by J.D. Power and Associates. In 2012, BYD watched in dismay as demand for its once ultra-popular F3 compact sedan dropped like a stone amidst complaints about BYD reliability.
Using standard business metrics, BYD is a risky bet. Many investors have already been burned. The BYD stock traded at $88 a share in 2009, fell to $12 in the darkest days of 2012, and now swings up and down in the $20 range.
And yet, Buffet has said he plans to hold his stake in the company until at least 2020.
Maybe the billionaire figures he can afford to be patient. BYD has been in the business of building cars for less than 10 years. It took famously fastidious Japanese car companies like Toyota much longer to get product quality right -- and many years more before assuming leadership in new car technologies like hybrids.
Or maybe Buffett sees Wang Chuanfu as an older Chinese version of Mark Zuckerberg: a genius with big ideas who is human enough to get carried away by -- and sometimes even feed -- sensational promotion.
BYD is no giant-killer today -- not even close -- even as it readies production in California. But who can resist the temptation to be like Buffet, to bet on a guy with the talents of Edison and Welch?
When the eager American entrepreneur pressed me for a call on BYD, in or out, I paused before asking him a question back: "How does your luck run when at the craps table in Las Vegas?"
A leading expert on China's auto industry, Michael Dunne has been consulting to global and Chinese automakers in China for over two decades. He speaks fluent Mandarin and has lived in China, on and off, since 1986. He is the author of "American Wheels, Chinese Roads: The Story of General Motors in China." Follow him on Twitter @DunneCarsAsia.
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I've seen the videos on repeating sections that show how to build parent-child dependencies through the Data Binding section table builder. In a different thread it was suggested that using MySQl or similar programs is easier/better. First to build out a schema there, and then build a connection string to the data.
From my current viewpoint, both seem quite challenging since there's very little documentation on how best to approach building the relations between tables on the backend of this program. Almost every video starts by importing the Northwind db and then creating "flat" grids or list controls that don't address relations between tables.
This question is to more developers with more experience under their belts. What approach are you using when starting out in AA?


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Rumor: Shakeup in Milwaukee?Monday, June 28th, 2010
The last rumor about a management shakeup in Brooklyn proved to be 100% true. Anyone know anything about this rumor from a Census Bureau employee in Wisconsin:
My FOS told me today that last Thursday-Friday (6-17, 18) at the Milwaukee LCO, about 10 people were taken away in handcuffs and there is now an armed Homeland Security guard on duty at all times. My LCO supervisor has been transferred to that LCO to clean up and a new supervisor is being sent in from Chicago RCC to cover my West Allis area.


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SET 1: The Oh Kee Pa Ceremony, Golgi Apparatus > You Enjoy Myself -> Fee > Divided Sky, I Didn't Know, Wilson > The Lizards, Mike's Song > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove[1]
SET 2: Who Knows Jam > Dinner and a Movie > Who Do? We Do! > AC/DC Bag > Reba > Walk Away > Bathtub Gin > The Sloth > The Chase > Possum, Punch You in the Eye, In a Hole, Gaul Swerves and the Rest is Everything Else, No Dogs Allowed, David Bowie
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Set 1: Llama, Guelah Papyrus, Rift, Stash, Reba, My Friend, My Friend[1], Uncle Pen, Sample in a Jar, I Didn't Know[2], David Bowie[3]
Set 2: Buried Alive > Halley's Comet > It's Ice > Bouncing Around the Room, Chalk Dust Torture, The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday > Avenu Malkenu > The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday > Mike's Song > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove, Hold Your Head Up > Cracklin' Rosie > Hold Your Head Up, Poor Heart > Golgi Apparatus
Encore: The Squirming Coil, Carolina
[1] Beginning featured Trey on acoustic guitar.
[2] Fish on trombone.
[3] All Fall Down signal in intro.
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It's the time of year to break out the cough drops and tissues, and the cast of "Glee" is no exception.
Entertainment Weekly reported that Saturday production for the Fox hit show's big post-Super Bowl episode on was canceled because of an outbreak in tonsillitis.
It's unclear how many cast member(s) are stuck in bed, but Dianna Agron, who plays cheerleader Quinn, lamented about feeling under the weather in her Tumblr blog Friday.
"Note to self…should have gotten a flute shot. In bed, hoping that medicine, soup, my computer and a marathon of movies will be the cure," Agron wrote.
The cast and crew were set to shoot one of their biggest musical numbers Saturday night, but things will have to resume on Monday and the scenes scheduled for tonight are pushed to January. "Glee" is currently is in off-season and will air again in February 2011.
Leaked photos of the actors on scene are already adding to the hype of the much-anticipated episode. "Glee" star Lea Michele was spotted filming scenes for the show with co-stars Cory Monteith and Chord Overstreet, who all looked healthy and decked out in full football gear (Lea, too), Just Jared posted.
The Super Bowl episode, likely one of the most costly ever produced for television, is expected to keep the night's football team and the cast will be tackling Michael Jackson's "Thriller."
Feel better and get your singing voices back soon, "Glee"!
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yecu2040 necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 180 diseños de 34 diseñadores freelance.
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For 7 years, we have been specializing in Real Estate Property Management in the South East Florida Area. We only used to manage our own properties but in the last couple of years we've been approached by family, friends and clients from other ventures to help them manage their investment properties.
Today, we can say we have developed a full service residential property management company offering our clients services that include:Rent collection, Expense management, Leasing, Evictions, Vacation properties management, Remodeling, Procurement and Disposition among others.
Our main target is the Real Estate Investor who owns income producing residential properties. (Mainly adults 30 years old and up)
Our secondary target is foreign nationals or second home owners that only spend a limited time in South Florida and are in need of a company to take care of their asset while they are away. (Mainly adults 30 years old and up)
Mister PM is now in need of developing a new cool, fun, exciting and attractive logo to create an image that will help us keep increasing our clientele base.
The logo with the help of the wining designer will be exhibited in our business cards, letterheads and printed ads.
Please, try to include the following phrase as part of the design:
"Real Estate Property Management"
A web page design contest will follow
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Kate Walsh at our Blue Hole swimming in Hollywood Conservation Message
Kate Walsh, the famous Doctor Addison Montgomery on the hit series, Grey's Anatomy, was in Belize over the past weekend. But she wasn't here on vacation, she was here as an Oceana activist. Walsh, whose visit was to raise awareness on Belize's Barrier Reef and the fragile ecosystem, met with local journalists for a one day visit to the Blue Hole. Principal among Walsh's messages was a statement on Oceana Belize's call to protect the sea by banning offshore exploration and drilling. News Five's Andrea Polanco joined Walsh in the deep blue.
Andrea Polanco, Reporting
The Belize Barrier Reef boasts healthy populations of diverse flora and fauna. Being one of the most unique ecosystems in the world, it has attracted tourists, researchers, and environmentalists. What many locals have come to know is the pristine splendor of this renowned part of Belize; but the reef serves more than just a staple of aesthetic beauty and it is just as vulnerable as it is visually captivating.
Audrey Matura-Shepherd, President, Oceana Belize
"I think maybe if I can think about one thing that happened already on our way here was when we were behind the reef on our way here the water was calm because the reef was holding back a lot of the pressure and surges that was going on. Once we came out of the reef, we weren't protected anymore and that is the perfect example how Belizeans can see that your reef is like your front yard fence and if you break it down by exposing it to all kinds of dangers and it will deteriorate and you'll remove that front yard barrier. That is one of the things that definitely help us anytime we have bad weather. The other thing that helps us is our mangroves and that is like the burglar bars on your window and we are cutting it down."
But over the years, this captivating part of Belize that so few locals know about has come under threat from over fishing; pollution; equipment damage and offshore development. But very soon, it may become susceptible to an even bigger threat- offshore oil drilling. As a part of its mandate to help protect the world's oceans, Oceana has teamed up with Actress, Kate Walsh.
Kate Walsh, Actress
"It's incredible here. This is some of the best snorkeling that I've ever done in the world and it's so pristine here in Belize and it's so well taken care of and the water is super warm and it's gorgeous."
Andrea Polanco
"I know that in the past few days you have been doing a number of things; tell us about that experience?"
Kate Walsh
"Yeah, yesterday we were out on a boat all day with Seaduced and we went to Hol Chan and then we went to Shark Ray Alley which was incredible. We stayed out all day which was so beautiful and we had lunch out there and kept swimming and anchored and snorkel. We saw so many things and I was super impressed with Hol Chan Reserve and how well taken care of. We saw so many sharks and rays and everything; the species of crab that I've never seen and it was amazing."
Andrea Polanco
Alright. Now, you're here on behalf of Oceana. What is it that you hope to take back when you return?
Kate Walsh
"Honestly, I hope that this bit of publicity actually gives the world a better idea of how pristine and beautiful the waters and the people are. I've had, like I was telling you, the fry jacks and with the culture and how gorgeous it is and I hope that we can keep it in tact and preserved for generations to come. The Belize Barrier Reef Reserve System includes seven marine reserves, four hundred and fifty cayes, and three atolls. It also home to The Blue Hole which is a jaw-dropping natural beauty of Belize that measures one thousand feet across and four hundred and twelve feet deep. This ocean-floor sinkhole is believed to be the deepest in the world. Just eight miles away is the Half Moon Caye Natural Monument."
Shane Young, Marine Protected Manager, Belize Audobon Society
"First and foremost, Half-Moon Caye Natural Monument is unique in its own kind. The main reason why Half-Moon Caye became protected was because of the white phase red-footed boobie birds. Half-Moon Caye has one of the healthiest nesting colonies for that species of birds. What also makes it unique is that just south of us; we have an amazing dive site locally known as the Half-Moon Caye Wall. Also interesting is that Half-Moon Natural Caye Monument and Blue Hole Natural Monument fall under the World Heritage Site status, nuh. It is unique and at the end of the day, it is unique because of its geological features; its cultural value and social value that these two protected areas have for the Belizean people."
Words cannot express the splendor and magnificence of Belize's natural beauty. However, Belizeans must continue to protect nature.
"Let us keep it that way rather than go into oil offshore drilling than just the limited time span that the oil have; it's not a lifetime guarantee that oil will remain there so it is important for us to maintain what we have now for the future and just not think about the short term benefits."
Kate Walsh
"The problem with off-shore oil drilling is that there is always a potential for accidents and no matter how many back up plans or safety measures that are put into place, accidents can happen that eclipse all safety measures. We've seen it in the Gulf and off the Coast of Australia and it is mess and I would hate to see; it is such a beautiful treasure that Belize has and I wouldn't like to see that destroyed this sort of Garden of Eden that you guys have here."
"Her trip here has served many purposes; since she left and came to Belize, she has been tweeting that she is in Belize and that is so good for the tourism industry. Having had that firsthand experience and having had that following, she is then a voice to our reef because our reef can't talk and our fishes can't talk so she is an international voice for them. What she is saying to the rest of the world is that Belize has something wonderful and what she is saying to Belizeans is yeah, you got to protect it and telling the rest of world you need to help them protect it."
Reporting for News Five, I'm Andrea Polanco.


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Welcome to Cherry Single
There isn't a whole lot of realistic fiction about crossdressing out there. Mostly there's light fantasy fiction, which can be fun to read, and on the other end, strictly autobiographical accounts by crossdressers themselves.
The compact novel you will find here to read, Cherry Single, fits more into the literary mainstream.
Cherry Single follows David Nunley, a young crossdresser in San Francisco, as he reconciles his delights as "Natalie" with his roles as a son, government worker, and part-time photographer. This novel explores David's relationships with three women and two men, as his female side blossoms and evolves.
Cherry Single was published as a paperback in 1997. A number of copies remain. If you'd like a copy or copies for only the price of postage and a mailer, please go to this page.
It's necessary to say that this is a work of fiction. Any similarity between its characters and actual people, living or dead, is unintentional and coincidental. Cherry Single is copyright © 1997 by Alchemist/Light Publishing. The book may not be reproduced in whole or in part, except for excerpts used in reviews, without permission from Alchemist/Light Publishing. Its International Standard Book Number (ISBN) is 0-9600650-5-9.
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How to Make Chocolate Ganache
Ganache is the standard filling for bonbons and is widely used in all pastry, yet many find it intimidating to make at home. Ganache is actually quite simple to prepare, and can be used in a wide variety of delicious desserts. Here's a step-by-step visual guide to help you along the way. This guide shows you a couple ways to make truffles, but there are also some alternative suggestions at the end if you want to get creative with your ganache.
The Process
For making truffles and most other applications, the chocolate-to-cream ratio is about 2:1 for dark chocolate, 2.5:1 for milk and white.
There are a couple different ways to flavor ganache as well: for spices, tea and other aromatics, you'll want to steep those in the cream first. If you're going that route, your first step will be to gently heat your cream with the flavoring, then let it sit for 10 to 20 minutes (depending on what you're using and how strong you want the flavor to be). Then strain the cream and proceed. If you're adding something, just mix it in after the ganache has come together. Do keep in mind that you want to add liquids slowly and a little bit at a time—too much extra liquid, and you risk "breaking" the ganache.
After following the steps in this slideshow, it's up to you. You can let the balls of ganache set in the fridge and roll them in cocoa powder for a simple but elegant presentation. Or you can temper some chocolate and dip them in that: place a little tempered chocolate in the palm of your hand and roll each chilled ganache ball in it before placing it on another piece of clean wax paper to set.
If you want to get really fancy you can roll it in cocoa powder after it's been dipped in chocolate; and then wow all your friends with your beautiful classic French-style truffles.
Ganache Troubleshooting
If your ganache breaks, you'll know it—it will take on a curdled appearance as the fat and liquid separate. Don't fret! Simply heat a couple tablespoons more cream or milk and add it bit by bit while stirring until it comes back together.
What to Do with Your Ganache
- Use it to fill sandwich cookies
- Heat it and serve it over ice cream or fresh fruit
- Whip it with a hand mixer and use it to frost a cake
- Eat it straight-up with a spoon
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When I was about 13 years old I became a regular customer at Platypus Records on Hollywood Blvd about a half a block east of Vermont in Hollywood. It was all about their inexpensive used records. I still spent a small fortune from money I earned the old fashioned way; recycling cans and bottles, mowing lawns and stealing money from my mom's purse. I found great records for pennies. And one that left an indelible mark on my rookie ears was the Soft Machine album, Volume Two, released in 1969 and featuring Robert Wyatt on drums and vocals, Mike Ratledge on piano and Hammond organ, Brian Hopper on saxophone and Hugh Hopper on bass and guitars. I think I paid 99 cents for the album.
When I bought that record all I knew about Soft Machine was that they were part of some mysterious and legendary English Canterbury music scene, they hung out with Syd Barrett's Pink Floyd and once toured the US as an opening act for Jimi Hendrix. Volume Two is still one of my all time favorite records. Over the years I've worn out more than a few copies.
This past Monday, idiosyncratic composer, art-rock bassist extraordinaire, veteran of some two dozen diverse solo albums and Soft Machine member, Hugh Hopper, succumbed to his year long battle with leukemia. He was 64.
In his years before Soft Machine, Hugh Colin Hopper, born April 29, 1945 in Canterbury, Kent, found himself immersed in the burgeoning Canterbury scene and emerging bands like Gong, Hatfield and the North and Henry Cow. In the mid sixties he was working with Daevid Allen and Robert Wyatt in the Daevid Allen Trio. That band evolved into the Wilde Flowers, an almost mythic pop and soul band consisting of his brother Brian, Robert Wyatt, Kevin Ayers and Richard Sinclair that spun off into two influential progressive rock groups, Caravan and Soft Machine.
Hopper joined Soft Machine in 1968 after their tour with Hendrix, contributed two compositions to their first self titled album, recorded in New York. Their sophomore release saw Hopper not only adding his virtuoso bass work to the mix but also composing half the tracks. He would remain with Soft Machine through 1973 and the album entitled 6. About the time Soft Machine was moving from a psychedelic, progressive rock sound into more of a jazz/fusion outfit, Hopper departed, recording his classic solo record 1984 at about the same time. His first effort was a decidedly non-commercial adventure filled with avant-garde soundscapes, tape loops, and free improvisation.
After his stint with Soft Machine, and in between his own solo projects, Hopper worked with some of the most original musicians of the last thirty years; Carla Bley, Keith Tippett, Robert Wyatt, Elton Dean, Pip Pyle, Stomu Yamashta, Phil Miller, Lol Coxhill, Allan Holdsworth, Chris Cutler, Yumi Hara Cawkwell and bands like Gilgamesh, Isotope and Soft Heap. In 2002 Hopper began a new association with several former Soft Machine members. Originally named Soft Works, they later renamed the reunion Soft Machine Legacy; besides touring extensively throughout Europe and Asia, they've also released four CD's, two studio and two live recordings.
After his diagnoses last summer with leukemia, a benefit concert was held for him at London's 100 Club in December, featuring friends and many of his legendary musical collaborators from all phases of his career.
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Bright Silver YT1005 shows a particle diameter of 10-60µm and consists of mica flakes that are coated with titanium dioxide that come in two different varieties, rutile and anatase mineral forms. Rutile shows better weather resistance than anatase. The pigment has a reflection color that is silver white, with a bright pearl shine. When it is mixed with transparent pigments, the two provide a colorful visual impact and a floral, pearlescent sparkle. Applications include car surface paints, refinished and bicycle paints, interior and exterior wall paints as well as uses in gravure, screen and offset inks.
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Original Trinity Hymnal, #204
Alleluia! Alleluia!
Hearts to heav'n and voices raise;
Sing to God a hymn of gladness,
Sing to God a hymn of praise:
He who on the cross a victim
For the world's salvation bled.
Jesus Christ, the King of Glory,
Now is risen from the dead.
Christ is risen, Christ the firstfruits
Of the holy harvest field,
Which will all its full abundance
At his second coming yield:
Then the golden ears of harvest
Will their heads before him wave,
Ripened by his glorious sunshine
From the furrows of the grave.
Alleluia! Alleluia!
Glory be to God on high;
Alleluia to the Saviour,
Who has won the victory;
Alleluia to the Spirit,
Fount of love and sanctity;
Alleluia! Alleluia!
To the Triune Majesty.
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Jules de Balincourt's 'Worlds Together, Worlds Apart' opened last Thursday in Paris at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac. I am grateful for the Internet that we are able to find out about interesting shows half way across the world, however, ungrateful for knowing I can't go. The title of the above painting makes me a feel a little bit better though..Dance, Dance Revolution. Love it.
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It Can Happen To You: Volume 1 contains three short stories:
S&M (Sexts & Messaging) – a cautionary tale of what happens when an online friendship turns into obsession.
THE ID – After meeting Chazz, Nya thinks she has found the love of her life until he vanishes with no trace. When she uncovers the truth of his disappearance, she realizes her life will never be the same.
ORGANIZED KARMA – Destinee and Tracy have been friends for years, but as they get older their lives take them on two different paths.
About Phette:
While taking college courses at Henry Ford Community College, she was urged by two instructors to go into writing in some capacity. Not believing enough in herself, she shelved the idea and sat on it for many years.
She started actively pursuing her passion in 2004 and vividly remembers seeing Tyler Perry on the Oprah Winfrey show when she had an "AHA" moment and said to herself that she, too, can write stories for the world to read and see. Learn more about Phette at www.phetteogburn.com.
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Superman is the brainchild of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster who first envisioned the character in 1932 and later had his first appearance in Action Comics #1 in June 1938. What Jerry and Joe did not know at the time was that they had created a character that would become the signature icon of DC Comics and the most universally recognized hero in human history.
Since 1938, the character of Superman/Clark Kent has appeared in every imaginable media form including television, film, novelizations, and even a Broadway show.
Being Superman is the childhood fantasy of every little boy and girl (they of course want to be Supergirl). He is an enduring emblem of the American dream, the young immigrant who comes to the United States, embraces the culture and makes something of himself and enriches his adopted nation. He is a classical hero in the modern age who fights criminals, rescues the helpless and has a sense of morals and justice as strong and unshakeable as he is.
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High Voltage Transformers are insulated and cooled internally with oil. If the moisture content of the oil is too high, this can cause catastrophic failures. Moisture is absorbed into the oil from any air that comes into contact with it. Moisture contamination is a problem for any fluid reservoir that must "breathe", i.e., the fluid expands and contracts during use. This includes transformers, pumps, tanks, turbines, gearboxes etc. Contaminated fluids lose their desired properties, can cause damage to the fluid system, and may become unstable and hazardous. To prevent this moisture contamination, air coming into contact with the fluid is dehydrated. The simplest way of removing the moisture in air is with a hygroscopic agent, such as indicating Silica Gel. This gel will absorb up to 40% of its mass in water, and gradually change colour to show that it is saturated. Once the gel has been consumed, it can be reprocessed, by drying it out, and reused.
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Calculate Net Present Value
The difference between the present value of cash inflows and the present value of cash outflows.
Please fix these errors:
Remember that even though a project offers a positive NPV, the projected cash flows are still estimations. The accuracy of these projected figures depends on the skill and experience of the analyst, and likelihood of these cash flows materializing depends on the financial risk associated with the type of project being pursued.
However, even though your projected capital project returned a negative NPV, it may still be worth pursuing. The valuation of real options in a capital budgeting decision could increase the NPV of a project. For example, research and development projects are risky because the product created is not guaranteed to be successful; however, if it is successful, the potential payoff could be substantial. Alternately, NPV could be negative also because the required rate of return may be unrealistically high, or the cash flows projected may be too conservative.
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Huntington Beach Real Estate Minute - Huntington Beach Market Report
Huntington Beach well known as "Surf City USA" with its excellent surfing has 8.5 miles of beaches and over 200,000 residents with 11 million visitors annually coming to see events such as the US Open of Surfing, the Surf City USA Marathon and AVP Pro Beach Volleyball.
It is also known as one of the 10 safest cities. Huntington Beach Real Estate offers a wide variety of housing from moderately priced condos to multi-million dollar estates.
Below is the current Huntington Beach Homes report:
The real estate market in Huntington Beach has been adding inventory slowly but steadily over the last few months and looks to be moving toward a balanced market, neither a buyers' nor a sellers' market. This may begin to help the competition buyers have been experiencing, especially at the lower price levels.
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Quality Awards II: Surprise Winner--BakBone NetVault is leader of the backup pack
BakBone Software Inc.'s NetVault, which ranked near the bottom in our 2005 survey, is this year's enterprise-class backup and recovery software winner. We'll tell you how BakBone pulled off this stunning turnaround.
Surprise Winner: BakBone NetVault is leader of the backup pack
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BakBone NetVault placed first in the enterprise category, besting better known backup apps such as Symantec Veritas NetBackup, EMC NetWorker and IBM TSM in the latest Diogenes Labs–Storage magazine Quality Awards survey.
Backup and recovery can often seem like eating your vegetables: You know you have to do it, but you don't have to like it. Among all of the product categories surveyed for the Diogenes Labs–Storage magazine Quality Awards, backup and recovery (B/R) has generated the lowest overall scores. User satisfaction apparently remains elusive, as our 2006 survey yielded even lower scores than the 2005 edition. There's also a greater separation between the top and bottom scores, and one out of three respondents wouldn't make the same purchase decision today if they could do it again.
Perhaps the relative antipathy toward B/R is the result of the attention it requires. "There's no backup solution in the world that doesn't require daily intervention," says Lynn Haueter, senior systems engineer at Alliance Coal LLC, Tulsa, OK. "It's not a ship that you can put on autopilot."
But not all of the B/R survey results are bleak, as three products significantly increased their scores compared to last year. BakBone Software Inc.'s NetVault, which came in near the bottom in 2005 with a weak 4.60 overall score, was a surprise enterprise-class winner this year with a strong 5.97 (see the "Overall rankings" section of the "Rankings of enterprise backup and recovery software" chart, below). NetVault's score surpassed last year's winner, CommVault Inc.'s Galaxy, even though Galaxy's score improved from 5.32 to 5.59 (second place). Hewlett-Packard (HP) Co.'s OpenView Storage Data Protector fell from second place to third with a 5.13. IBM Corp.'s Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM), Symantec Corp.'s Veritas NetBackup and EMC Corp.'s NetWorker--which combined control the majority of the B/R software market--all finished in the bottom half of the finalist group. TSM's 5.04, Veritas NetBackup's 4.68 and NetWorker's 4.66 were all slight declines compared to last year's scores. Syncsort Inc.'s Backup Express didn't have enough responses to be statistically valid, but it still wouldn't have been a contender based on the responses it received. CA Inc.'s BrightStor Enterprise Backup was not included in the 2006 survey because the company discontinued new sales of the product a year ago.
In the small- to medium-sized business (SMB) category, Symantec's Veritas Backup Exec placed first (5.14), narrowly edging out last year's winner, EMC Retrospect (5.12) (see the "Overall rankings" section of the "Rankings of SMB backup and recovery software" chart,). In the closest competition of any category thus far, Veritas Backup Exec won three categories while Retrospect snared two. Veritas Backup Exec's overall score in this category improved from a 4.99 in 2005, while Retrospect's fell from a 5.42. CA BrightStor ARCserve Backup fell from a slightly positive rating of 4.58 in 2005 to a negative satisfaction rating of 3.93 in 2006. Arkeia Software's Network Backup, Atempo Inc.'s Time Navigator, BridgeHead Software Inc.'s HT Backup and Yosemite Technologies Inc.'s Backup Standard (formerly TapeWare) were included in the survey, but didn't get enough responses to be statistically valid.
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The following vendors and products were included in the 2006 Diogenes Labs-Storage magazine Quality Award survey for backup and recovery software:
Enterprise backup software
BakBone Software Inc. NetVault
CommVault Inc. Galaxy
EMC Corp. NetWorker
Hewlett-Packard (HP) Co. OpenView Storage Data Protector
IBM Corp. Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM)
Symantec Corp. Veritas NetBackup
Syncsort Inc. Backup Express*
SMB backup software
Arkeia Software Network Backup*
Atempo Inc. Time Navigator*
BridgeHead Software Inc. HT Backup*
CA Inc. BrightStor ARCserve Backup
EMC Corp. Retrospect
Symantec Corp. Veritas Backup Exec
Yosemite Technologies Inc. Backup Standard
(formerly TapeWare)*
*Not enough responses to be included in the results.
How much with how many
For 2006, we also asked how much storage was backed up by respondents and how many administrators they used. Out of the 442 respondents who supplied this information, 131 (30%) use two administrators, while 357 (80.1%) use five or fewer. Of the 25 organizations that use 20 or more administrators, most were in the financial or IT services industries.
We were curious to see which product could lay claim as the "heavy lifter" of the industry. We defined heavy lifting as a workload greater than 20TB backed up. Based on this criterion, IBM's TSM hoists the most bytes, with 54.6% of respondents using it to back up more than 20TB. It's followed by Veritas NetBackup (43.3%), EMC NetWorker (31.4%), HP Data Protector (28.8%), CommVault Galaxy (28.5%) and BakBone NetVault (7.7%). However, Veritas NetBackup had the largest number of respondents (21.4%) using it to back up more than 100TB vs. TSM's 19.6%. NetVault, the enterprise category winner, had no respondents using it to back up more than 50TB. Among SMB products, more than 80% of respondents use the products to back up less than 10TB. Two Veritas Backup Exec respondents and one CA BrightStor ARCserve Backup respondent indicated they use these products to back up more than 100TB; there were no respondents using EMC Retrospect for more than 20TB.
Recent market hype regarding disk-to-disk backup prompted us to ask which B/R applications are used for this function. It came as no surprise that IBM's TSM had the largest number of such users (84.5%), as disk staging is part of its basic architecture. "It does it really well," says Alliance Coal's Haueter of TSM's disk-based backup prowess. But we were surprised that CommVault Galaxy was almost as high (81%), while products like Veritas NetBackup and EMC NetWorker were relatively low (49.7% and 34.3%, respectively). We were also surprised to see EMC Retrospect used for disk backup by 57.1% of its users, a high percentage for the SMB group.
"We were switching from backup to tape, to disk-to-disk-to-tape backup," says Keith Price, system administrator at Johnson & Wales University in Providence, RI. "Since we were doing a significant redesign, we went through and did a full investigation into which product would work best for us." That re-evaluation resulted in replacing Veritas NetBackup with CommVault Galaxy. "They [CommVault] came out better priced and seemed to be a better product," says Price.
Sales-force competence
The majority of backup apps are sold through resellers, so some of the survey results are more a reflection of a conglomeration of resellers rather than the vendor directly. However, the results highlight a vendor's ability to recruit, train, service and support quality resellers.
All winners of our Quality Awards have scored high on sales-force competence. BakBone NetVault did so in style this year, with a very high 6.16. CommVault Galaxy also scored well, but with a relatively distant 5.47. For the statement "My sales rep is flexible," NetVault gained its highest score (6.31). More importantly, it scored 6.15 for the statement "The vendor's licensing formula offers good value." EMC Retrospect had the second highest rating among all products for this statement with a 6.38.
Licensing (how the licenses are counted and what their price is based on: CPU, tape drives or volumes) is one of the key areas of contention in the sales process. "I just really don't like the idea that every time I add a few more servers, I've got to go buy some more licenses," says Cindy Yoho, a systems engineer at a Nashville, TN, publishing house, in reference to CA BrightStor ARCserve Backup. Yoho's company also uses HP Data Protector and she notes that "HP's licensing works a lot better for us. It's just licensed by tape drive." Price thinks CommVault's licensing is much easier vs. Veritas NetBackup. "The system monitors the licenses and you can only use exactly what you have," he says.
Interestingly, Veritas Backup Exec (with a 5.54) didn't win this category among SMB products, while EMC Retrospect had its best category score for sales-force competence (6.03). In fact, this was the only score in any SMB product category that exceeded 6.0. This was CA BrightStor ARCserve Backup's strongest category score (4.86), and the only one in which it posted a positive score.
Product features
You can consider product features to be the category where EMC Retrospect stumbled and lost the award among SMB products. In a significant change, Retrospect's score fell from a generally positive 4.62 in 2005 to a negative 3.97 this year. This category was also Retrospect's lowest rated section in both the 2005 and 2006 surveys. Had the product achieved even a neutral 4.5 rating, it would have handily won the award for the second year in a row. While Veritas Backup Exec's 4.81 was almost a full point higher, it was one of that product's lowest category scores.
EMC Retrospect's score for this section was particularly hurt by a 3.43 rating for the statement "This product is a complete solution." But perhaps more damaging was that the product didn't get a positive rating to any statement in this section, which queried respondents on management functionality, and file-system and database backup features.
Products in the enterprise category fared significantly better in this category. CommVault Galaxy bested BakBone NetVault for product features, the only category in which NetVault didn't achieve the highest score. CommVault respondents rewarded the product with a 6.07, higher than last year's 5.77. Respondents especially liked Galaxy's database backup, giving it a 6.24 for "This product's database backup features meet my needs." NetVault had its best rating (6.23) for "This product is interoperable with other vendors."
Sara Weylman, a SAN engineer at a New York-based payroll processing company, is an IBM TSM advocate in a Veritas NetBackup shop. She says that "there's nothing elegant about it [NetBackup]." Yoho notes that the Nashville publishing house where she works is only using CA BrightStor ARCserve Backup because of a single shortcoming of HP Data Protector. "There is no Mac client," she says. "That's the one thing that Data Protector doesn't do."
Alliance Coal's Haueter, another IBM TSM devotee, particularly likes the product's disaster recovery (DR) features. "It prepares a whole DR plan that tells you exactly, step for step, what process you have to go through to rebuild your TSM environment," he says.
Initial product quality
In the initial product quality section, we asked respondents to tell us about their experiences when first using a product. According to respondents, BakBone NetVault is the easiest product to deploy among enterprise and SMB products. NetVault rated a 6.38 for "This product is easy to install," while CommVault Galaxy placed second with a 5.55. The highest rated SMB product for this statement was EMC Retrospect, which placed third overall with a 5.52.
Ease of use is another important consideration, especially in a product category not noted for its easy operation. "I think the HP product is a little easier to use," says systems engineer Yoho, comparing CA BrightStor ARCserve Backup and HP Data Protector. "I wouldn't call it as easy to use as Word," Johnson & Wales University's Price says of CommVault Galaxy, "but I don't consider it any more difficult than any other backup product I've worked with."
We also wanted to know how users perceive the financial aspects of B/R products. Often, the cost of media exceeds the cost of the backup software itself. Therefore, we asked respondents to tell us how efficiently the products use tape. In this regard, respondents indicated EMC Retrospect as best overall (6.10). Among enterprise products, CommVault Galaxy was rated the best with a 5.90.
We're always interested to see the responses to the statement "This product offers good value for the money." Here again, BakBone NetVault and Galaxy led the enterprise group with ratings of 5.85 and 5.79, respectively. These are relatively high satisfaction scores for an often contentious issue that involves money. However, the category ranges down to a "Dissatisfied" rating of 4.25 for EMC NetWorker. Among SMB products, Veritas Backup Exec was rated higher than Retrospect--5.01 to 4.62, respectively. Given that CA scored a 3.63 on this statement, it's fair to say that users aren't overwhelmed by the value delivered by any of these SMB products.
Product reliability
"The main thing you want in your backup system is reliability," says Yoho. "They [CA and HP] don't go down, and they don't have to have a lot of patches."
Our product reliability section gauges how well each product meets service-level requirements, how often unplanned patches are required, how easy patches are to apply and so on. For this category, enterprise products had the widest spread among scores of all of the categories. BakBone NetVault achieved its second highest category score with a 6.14. The bellwether score we've detected in all of our surveys is for the statement "Patches/updates can be applied nondisruptively." In this regard, NetVault garnered an exceptionally high 6.77. Veritas NetBackup's 4.43 was the only negative reliability category rating of any enterprise product, and the product was also given a 4.01 for nondisruptive patch management. We've determined that there's a more direct connection between patch management and overall product satisfaction than any other single element.
But given the experiences of Johnson & Wales University's Price, CommVault Galaxy's 5.45 score for upgrade proficiency may be something of an understatement. "To download all the updates, it's a two-click thing," says Price. "To install the updates on every machine, it's another three clicks." He says that he was able to do a service pack upgrade on 150 servers across four campuses in approximately an hour and a half.
The overall reliability ranking for SMB products wasn't particularly inspiring either. Veritas Backup Exec won the category, but with a relatively low 4.81. EMC Retrospect wasn't far behind with a 4.76, while CA BrightStor ARCserve Backup suffered its worst category score with a very negative 3.45.
We also found that the statement "This product's error handling is easy and intuitive" revealed a low level of user satisfaction. Although not all products scored poorly, the responses to this statement were among the lower scores in the category for every vendor.
About the survey
The Diogenes Labs-Storage magazine Quality Awards are designed to identify and recognize products that have proven their quality and reliability in actual use. The results are derived from a survey of qualified Storage readers who assessed products in five main categories: sales-force competence, product features, initial product quality, product reliability and technical support. Our methodology incorporates statistically valid polling that eliminates market share as a factor. Our objective is to identify the most reliable products on the market regardless of vendor name, reputation or size. Products are rated on a 1.0-8.0 scale, where 8.0 is the most favorable score.
Survey respondents
For this year's survey, 500 respondents provided 667 valid system evaluations. This yields a margin of error of +/- 4% with a 95% confidence factor. This pool of respondents was larger than in 2005 (465), but provided fewer system evaluations than last year's 775. Apparently, IT organizations are consolidating backup and recovery (B/R) application operations. In 2005, only 35% of respondents indicated they had a single B/R application. In 2006, that number doubled to 70.8%. In fact, 90.6% of respondents indicate that they have two or fewer B/R products this year. The highest number of products in a single organization was nine, the same as in 2005.
Technical support
The range of scores narrowed for technical support. BakBone's NetVault was again the leader among enterprise products, but its 5.79 rating in this category and for product features were its lowest category scores. EMC's NetWorker trailed the group with a somewhat positive 4.69. Among the SMB products, EMC Retrospect and Veritas Backup Exec had solid technical support scores of 5.70 and 5.35, respectively.
"We don't have to call them that often," says Alliance Coal's Haueter of IBM's support for TSM. "But when we do call them, they pretty much get us what we need."
Of course, everyone would like their tech support issues resolved on the first call, but expeditious problem escalation is equally desirable. "HP has stellar support," says systems engineer Yoho. "They're very willing to escalate the problem quickly--if they can't find a solution, they immediately bump it up to someone else."
While Price hasn't had any serious problems aside from the usual implementation and learning curve issues, he senses that CommVault is trying to strengthen its tech support. "They've been hiring more people, and you can tell that calls are much shorter and resolutions are much faster," he says.
We realize that first-level technical support is often provided by a reseller or company other than the manufacturer. Therefore, we asked respondents to react to the statement "Vendor's third-party partners are knowledgeable." BakBone NetVault received a 6.62 for this statement, well above its category average. EMC Retrospect was also highly rated with a 6.38. No other product was rated above a 6.0 in this regard.
Would you buy again?
We've never found a direct correlation between user satisfaction and a willingness to repurchase the product. Not all organizations use a "best in class" purchase criterion and all of them factor numerous other considerations into their decision. Moreover, organizations can't retool their B/R environment annually and generally need a compelling reason to change.
However, for organizations consolidating operations or considering a change, and for those companies that are still developing their B/R strategy, knowing which products customers would buy all over again is instructive. In the 2006 survey, CommVault Galaxy was highest rated in this regard with 92.9% of its respondents indicating a willingness to repurchase. IBM TSM received such consideration from 82.5% of its respondents followed by HP Data Protector (82.2%), BakBone NetVault (76.9%) and Veritas NetBackup (76.1%). EMC NetWorker was last in the enterprise group with 59.7%. Among SMB products, Veritas Backup Exec had 69.7% positive responses, followed by EMC Retrospect (52.4%) and CA BrightStor ARCserve Backup (39.3%).
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The Colorado Limited Gaming Control Commission today approved a rule change that will allow casinos to lower the payout on blackjacks to 6 to 5, a Colorado Division of Gaming spokesman said.
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shrihari sridhar
posted on Monday, July 16, 2007 - 3:25 pm
I am trying to estimate the following simultaneous system.
R1= a1 + b1* R2 + c1* I1+ c2*I2 +error
R2 = a2 + b2* R1 + c3*I3 + error
R1 and R2 are interdependent,
I1,I2 and I 3 are exogenous
and all are manifest variables.
I want to allow the vector (a1,a2,b1,b2,c1,c2,c3) to vary across classes.
say I use 300 data points to estimate the same and I obtain a 2 class solution.
I know mplus prints the posterior class probabilities for each of the 1000 points.
Can you tell me how to obtain individual level estimates for all the 1000 points?
Can you also tell me why this is so mathematically, i.e. by refering me to the answer as derived from the likelihood function being estimated?
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Monday, July 16, 2007 - 6:39 pm
Posterior class probabilities are given for each of the 300 data points (I assume n=300 individuals) for each of the 2 classes. The posterior probability is computed by equation (161) of Appendix 8 (from Version 2) which is on the web site. Here, the RHS numerator is the likelihood contribution for individual i.
shrihari sridhar
posted on Tuesday, July 17, 2007 - 6:04 am
Thank you for that.
however, i was wondering how to get individual level paramater estimates from the posterior probabilities of my model
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Tuesday, July 17, 2007 - 6:17 pm
I don't know what you mean by "individual-level parameter estimates" - can you please clarify? This is not a multilevel model where the parameters vary across individuals.
shrihari sridhar
posted on Wednesday, July 18, 2007 - 4:17 pm
My goal is to obtain parameter estimates for each of the subjects in my sample using the posterior probabilities of the latent class model.
For example, Mantrala et al (Journal of Marketing Research, November 2006) estimate a latent class multinomial logit model for a few hunded stores. Then they obtain store specific paramater estimates, using this pocedure.
" Estimation of Store-Specific Demand Parameters
We use the estimated parameters of the heterogeneous MNL model ({K, �1k, �2k, �3k, �k, �k}; k = 1, �, K) in an
empirical Bayes procedure to estimate store-specific demand parameters for store s, as we show subsequently
(e.g., Kamakura and Russell 1989; Rossi and Allenby 1993).
Step 1. We compute the store�s conditional likelihood function Ls (�k), given that the store belongs to support k: We repeat this calculation for each segment to obtain Ls(�1),�, Ls(�K).
Step 2. We use Bayes� rule to obtain the store�s posterior support membership probability for support k. Again, the priors are equal to the probability masses, �sk, estimated in the maximum likelihood routine. We repeat this calculation for each supportto obtain �s1
post, �, �sK post (appropriately renormalizing them to sum to 1). The store-specific demand parameters
are now ({�1k, �2k, �3k, �k, �sk
post}; k = 1, �, K)"
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Wednesday, July 18, 2007 - 6:55 pm
Can you please send me a copy of Mantrala's article so can see what you mean?
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Thursday, July 26, 2007 - 7:55 am
I read the Mantrala et al. (2007) article in Journal of Marketing Research that you referred to. They consider 2-level data with shoppers making choices within stores. They discuss a 2-level random effect multinomial logistic regression model where the coefficients vary across stores. They point out that Kamakura & Russel (1989) use a semi-parametric approach to this, where is sounds like they replace normality assumptions on the random effects with a non-parametric approach via mixtures. Both approaches can be done in Mplus - the mixture approach is done by using a level 2 latent class variable in line with the Version 4.2 addendum examples.
shrihari sridhar
posted on Thursday, July 26, 2007 - 9:30 am
Thanks a lot! Can i do it for a moel where i have 300 data points on aggregate cross-sectional data, i.e. the model i highlight in message 1 in this thread?
R1= a1 + b1* R2 + c1* I1+ c2*I2 +error
R2 = a2 + b2* R1 + c3*I3 + error
R1 and R2 are interdependent,
I1,I2 and I 3 are exogenous
and all are manifest variables.
I want to allow the vector (a1,a2,b1,b2,c1,c2,c3) to vary across classes.
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Thursday, July 26, 2007 - 8:37 pm
Well, I don't see that your situation has a multilevel multinomial feature which was the key issue in Mantrala et al. But if you are asking if you can do a mixture version of your single-level simultaneous equation system for continuous outcomes the answer is yes. And yes, you can get posterior probabilities for each data point in those mixture classes.
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The total number of participants invested in a professionally managed allocation has more than doubled from 17% at the end of 2007, according to Vanguard's recently released "How America Saves" 2013 report. By 2017, Vanguard estimates that 55% of all participants will be entirely invested in a professionally managed investment option.
The annual report notes that in 2012, 36% of all participants in 401(k) retirement plans at Vanguard invested their plan assets in a professionally managed investment option, "dramatically improving their portfolio diversification and potentially making them more financially prepared for retirement compared with participants making investment choices on their own."
Jean Young, co-author of "How America Saves," said in a statement that "the number of participants completely turning their portfolio construction over to a professional, or obtaining advice from professionals, is an important trend in the potential future financial security of retirees."
The study also notes that 27% of all participants in 2012 were invested in a single target-date fund, 6% held a single traditional balanced fund, and 3% used a managed account advisory program. Also, 14% of participants who were offered an investment advice service through their plan adopted one.
In addition, the report points out that average plan account balances rose by 10% in 2012, to $86,212, which reflects "the effect of both ongoing contributions and market returns," Vanguard says.
For participants with a balance at both the end of 2007 and the end of 2012—the worst five-year period in the markets in most people's lifetimes—the median account balance grew 67% for the same reasons, Vanguard notes. "Nearly 90% of participants in this group saw their balances rise during this time."
Indeed, Vanguard says that many participants are "strong savers" in their plan. One-fifth of them saved 10% or more, 11% saved the maximum allowed, and 15% of participants over age 50 made catch-up contributions in 2012. "Taking into account both contributions made by participants and those made by employers to participants' accounts, the average total savings rate was 10.5% in 2012," the report notes.
Other highlights of the report are:
- Fifty-one percent of all participants were invested in one or more target-date funds.
- Thirty-two percent of Vanguard plans had adopted automatic enrollment, up three percentage points from 2011; more than half of all contributing participants in 2012 were in plans with automatic enrollment; seven in 10 such plans had implemented automatic annual deferral-rate increases; and 97% of automatic enrollment plans defaulted their participants into a balanced investment strategy, with nine in 10 choosing a target-date fund as the default.
- The Roth 401(k) feature was adopted by 49% of Vanguard plans, and 11% of participants within these plans had elected the option.
- More participants had access to low-cost index funds. Factoring in index target-date funds, 82% of participants held equity index investments.
- The percentage of plan assets invested in equities, which stood at 73% in 2007 just after the peak of global stock prices, declined to 66%.
- Only 12% of plan participants traded within their accounts. On a net basis, participants who traded shifted 1.7% of assets to fixed income, representing small changes to their overall portfolios. Only 1% of all participants abandoned equities altogether.
- About 30% of all participants could have taken their account as a distribution because they left their employer in 2012 or prior years. The majority of them (82%) preserved their plan assets for retirement by remaining in their employer's plan or rolling over their savings to an IRA or to a new employer's plan.
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Along with the popularity of Twitter has come one of it biggest problems - its instability. More and more people are using the service every day and some are leaving when they encounter the frustration of too much downtime. Enter a project that Graham Christensen is getting started - Stablr, a PHP-based version of the popular web service.
Stablr, the proposed name, will be the main gateway for it's users. People will post to Stablr, which will then (when it can) forward it to Twitter. If a Stablr users posts to Twitter directly, the message will be retrieved and replicated on Stablr. Responses to posts, direct messages, and tweets from friends of Stablr users would also be replicated.
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There are some problems with Breezy's reports and the status of his community service. He is on probation due to the 2009 incident where he beat the crap out of his then-girlfriend Rihanna. They have since gotten back together, and now she is supporting him while he deals with this drama which stems back to the first go-round of their relationship.
The judge asked for more reports and another hearing is slated to take place in two months. The prosecutors want to revoke the singer's probation because they claim there is no proof that he completed his community service. Breezy's lawyer filed an opposition, stating that he wants the prosecutors held in contempt for filing the documents that claimed Breezy falsified community service hours. The new hearing is slated for April 5.
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