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The Lancer Link • November 9, 2018 • https://thelancerlink.com/sports/2018/11/09/brief-freshman-girls-make-varsity-cross-country-team/
Freshman makes girls varsity cross country team
Young keeps her lead on the opponents. Staying focused on the race is crucial to be successful. (Photo Courtesy of Morgan Young)
Chad Brooks , Reporter
Cross country is a sport of endurance, where teams and individuals run long courses over different terrains such as dirt, grass, sand or concrete. Those who take part in the sport are individuals that constantly push their limits of stamina. It is a challenge and takes perseverance and dedication. It takes years to construct the strength and energy to be successful in this sport. There are some students who are pushing their limits and finding the highest level early.
Freshman Morgan Young is on varsity girls cross country this year. She has taken the time and worked hard enough to make it to the varsity team in her first year at the high school level. It is challenging enough to make a higher team, but running with some early adults and older teammates is another story. She has worked hard learning how to run at a level some freshman dream of.
"During the summer we started preseason, you have to train and work hard and then you run a time trial," Young said. "I was one of the fastest so I got a spot on varsity."
Most freshmen would normally begin on the freshman team, or possibly JV. Young is able to get a feel for the level of running it takes to be on the varsity team and establish what her own goals are for this season.
"I was really excited because in most sports it's not likely for a freshman to make varsity," Young said. "I was really happy and surprised I was able to make the team."
Throughout the preseason and start of the season, Young had an idea about what team she wanted to make. After knowing that she would make varsity, it pushed her to work even harder than before.
"I was a little bit nervous, but I was going to fine either way," Young said. "I just wanted to run cross country and have fun, but it was in the back of my head that I wanted to make varsity."


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A global association of more than 200 scientists recently released findings from an unprecedented study regarding the genomic of birds, and two University of Texas at Arlington associate professors were part of it.
Biologists Todd Castoe and Matthew Fujita and the rest of the Avian Phylogenomics Consortium released 28 papers earlier this month detailing the genetic codes of nearly 50 birds and three crocodilian species, in the most comprehensive avian family tree to date. The research offers a big-picture understanding of how birds evolved in what is described as the avian "big bang" after the dinosaurs went extinct 66 million years ago.
Castoe says that, in an explosion of evolution, a handful of species created tens of thousands of unique species in a very short amount of time. There were also some discoveries that surprised.
Scientists believe studying how theses species evolved could eventually lead to a better understanding of the human body, in addition to the natural world.
Castoe and Fujita typically study reptilian genomes at UT Arlington, so for their part in the study, they examined three crocodilian species, the closest living relatives to birds, to see why different vertebrate groups — including humans, birds and reptiles — have such similar genetic makeups. One of their papers, "The genomes of three crocodilians provide insight into Archosaur evolution," was published in Science journal.
Castoe says that tackling so many genomes at once helped them to understand how an organism's phenotype, or collection of observable traits, might have previously caused scientists to place it in the wrong branch of the bird family tree.
As the cost of genome sequencing continues to drop, Castoe estimates that the number of species studied will continue to rise into the hundreds — up to 500 in the next five years. Invariably, he sees it as being beneficial to how scientists can work with the human body.


The National Network of Manufacturing Innovation – of which PowerAmerica is a part – has a new name and brand: Manufacturing USA.
The announcement was made by U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker at the annual International Manufacturing Technology Show (IMTS) in Chicago on Sept. 12. Read the full press release here.
Manufacturing USA consists of nine public-private institutes dedicated to securing the nation's future through manufacturing innovation, education, and collaboration.
Watch a video about Manufacturing USA below.


Give suggestion about the applicable sector combination from traffic plan data.
Evaluating the applied sector combination based on real-time data, generating alerts in case of overload of the operators.
Adaptively modify internal parameterization based on actual data.
At the current stage of the research the identification and determination of the relevance of the parameter set was performed by using neutral network model.
The aim of the research is to unify the analysis of the complex systems of human and technical solutions. The goal is to develop a component model, which universally applicable for the technical based system parts and implemented functions by people as well. Further aim is to explore additional development and modifications needs of the Safety Management Systems based on the output information of the safety analysis. We would like to demonstrate the practical applicability of the theoretical approaches through the analysis of the air traffic control.


So you devoured A Homemade Life and loved the prose-filled stylings of Molly Wizenberg's cookbook/memoir. Here are five other text-heavy cookbooks that you might enjoy.
This text-heavy giant is a workhorse in the kitchen. If it was a player on your favorite NFL team, it would be the veteran center. A quiet and stable leader on the field, it knows its job and works hard to protect you, the kitchen quarterback. This book doesn't include stories for each recipe and is instead laden with the steps the masters in the Cooks Illustrated test kitchen took to insure that these recipes really are the best. I've had people tell me that my chocolate chip cookies are "effing delicious." Here is my secret: follow the recipe in this book exactly as printed.
You know you just need to go and buy a copy of a cookbook if you check it out from the library more than five times in one year. I finally picked up a copy and have been cooking a recipe from it about every two weeks. While this book doesn't include a story alongside each recipe, it does come from the author of a successful blog, Heidi Swanson from 101 Cookbooks. Each recipe also has a descriptive paragraph about the ingredients or includes a memory from Swanson's travels or from the time she was creating the recipe. I'm not concerned with eating only organic and I'm definitely not a vegetarian but I love this book. The recipes are flavorful and exciting on their own, but you can always throw in some meat or cheese if you are in to that kind of thing (I know I am).
Jerusalem is a gorgeous cookbook. It has big beautiful photographs of all the recipes. It's closer to a standard cookbook than Wizenberg's book and yet still has great text to attract the reader. Each recipe includes short snippets from the authors' time growing up in Jerusalem and it has information about the fancier ingredients. It's by the guys behind famous London restaurants Ottolenghi. Dudes, if you want to impress some hottie by making them an exotic dinner, look no further.
Tacos are the best food in the world. I write this without hyperbole. I could eat them every day. Since I want to eat them all the time anyway, this selection from Rick Bayless is perfect for me. It is closer to a regular cookbook than the others on the list. Every recipe does include a paragraph about riffing on the recipe which includes substitutions you can make or information about specific chile peppers. The introduction to each chapter also includes a few pages about the ingredients used in that chapter. I find it to be a good introduction to more wordy cookbooks and it has simple recipes that help me meet my goal of eating tacos or Mexican food a few times a week.
I'm including this pick for my mom, who is a huge fan of paperback murder mysteries. She has dubbed these "comic books for adults" and reads a wide-variety of series from different mystery subgenres. If you have a hobby or interest, there is probably a murder-mystery series about it. She reads ones about scrapbooking, home renovation, three different series all set in Florida, one starring a NJ-based P.I., some about Alaska and many about cooking. One of her favorites is the work of Davidson, who writes a series starring a caterer/detective. In addition to the punny titles, the books include recipes that the heroine makes for her events in between solving the murder.
What are your favorite text-heavy cookbooks? Do you know about other books that include recipes and yet aren't about cooking? I'd love to know more.


Whether it's a fundraiser, comedy party or a show…well, we're just funny!
What an easy way to make money while having a blast. I encouraged all of my regions to call The Comedy Room fundraisers.
To raise over $2,500 in one night for my friend Kelly who was going through cancer treatment. Plus have a good time and share the evening with Kelly was a joy. The Comedy Room fundraiser was well worth it.
We have our Dance Avenue fundraiser once a year and each year keeps getting bigger because of the fun and money we raised.
I have done so many of these through Lincoln Park Athletics. It's so much easier than golf outings and bake sales.
We have our hockey fundraiser every January before our season. We always raise a lot of money for the start of the season.
One of our most successful fundraisers for the boat races. EVERYONE had a terrific time!
Also, had a great time celebrating my birthday at a Comedy Party. We laughed until we cried!


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Ray Bradbury and the Future of Speculative Fiction
Happy 100th birthday, Ray Bradbury! Bring your own dandelion wine to this virtual celebration. Justina Ireland, Michael Swanwick, and Sam Weller will share readings of Bradbury and join in a discussion of his legacy moderated by Sarah Pinsker.
Justina Ireland lives with her husband, kid, cats, and dog in Maryland. She is the author of both full-length books and short fiction and considers words to be her best friends. She has written a number of books, including Star Wars books for children. You can find her books Vengeance Bound and Promise of Shadows, as well as the New York Times best seller Dread Nation and its sequel Deathless Divide, wherever books are sold. You can visit her at her website: justinaireland.com.
Sarah Pinsker's fiction has won the Nebula, Sturgeon, and Philip K. Dick Awards, and her 50-plus published stories include finalists for the Hugo, World Fantasy, and other awards. Her first collection, Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea (Small Beer Press), and her first novel, Song For A New Day (Berkley), were published in 2019. She is also a singer/songwriter with three albums and another forthcoming.
Michael Swanwick is one of the most acclaimed and prolific science fiction and fantasy writers of his generation. He is the recipient of the Nebula, Theodore Sturgeon, and World Fantasy Awards as well as five Hugo Awards. His most recent novel, The Iron Dragon's Mother, completes a trilogy begun 25 years before with The Iron Dragon's Daughter. He lives in Philadelphia with his wife, Marianne Porter. Photo credit: Mikey Mongol.
Sam Weller is the two-time Bram Stoker Award-winning biographer of Ray Bradbury. He worked with the legendary author for 12 years on four books and a graphic novel. Weller's The Bradbury Chronicles: The Life of Ray Bradbury was a national best seller. Weller's latest book, Dark Black, a collection of new American Gothic short fiction, is available now. Weller is a professor in the English and Creative Writing Department at Columbia College Chicago. You can follow him on twitter @Sam__Weller.
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Today in Mormon History
Daily Snippets of what happened on this day in Mormon Church History.
120 years ago today - May 31, 1900
In a meeting of the Twelve Apostles it is decided that Apostle Reed Smoot should try for a seat on the Republican National Committee.
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L2 has the "issue" as not enough cargo and NASA is finding more to send up. No point sending her up light.
I toured several facilities at Wallops last week, including the Cygnus facility, and there was no cargo loading going on. The empty cargo compartment was just sitting in the empty low bay.
The OA-8 mission is Orbital ATK's eighth Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) mission to deliver supplies to the International Space Station, depicted by the shape of the patch being a numeral eight along with the yellow star at the top of the patch. This mission launches on an Antares rocket represented by the red, white and blue trajectory emanating from the Wallops Flight Facility on Virginia's Eastern Shore. The Cygnus spacecraft, with its solar panels deployed, is shown rising into orbit on the top left side of the 8. The space station, where Cygnus will berth and deliver provisions and science experiments to the astronaut crew, is depicted on the top right side of the patch. The Cygnus spacecraft for this mission is named in honor of former astronaut, (TBD), who is represented by the astronaut symbol to the left of the Earth. The name of the program and the customer are featured on the outer ring of the design. This patch was designed by Orbital ATK employees, George Valuikas and Gary Burnside.
The name of the spacecraft will be revealed at a press event in mid-October.
That's a beautiful patch, better than the NASA-made SpaceX CRS ones (to me).
Good to see the NRO octopus is still getting work.
Orbital ATK is targeting no earlier than Nov. 10 for the liftoff of its Cygnus spacecraft on an Antares rocket from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport's Pad-0A.
This will be the eighth planned cargo resupply mission by Orbital ATK for NASA under the agency's $1.9 billion Commercial Resupply Services contract with the company. Cargo resupply from U.S. companies ensures a national capability to deliver critical science research to the space station, significantly increasing NASA's ability to conduct new science investigations to the only laboratory in microgravity.
For questions about accreditation or additional information, contact Keith Koehler by email or at 757-824-1579.
Media are invited to view and photograph Orbital ATK's Cygnus spacecraft, packed with cargo and scientific experiments for its upcoming flight to the International Space Station, at 10:30 a.m. EDT Wednesday, Oct. 18, at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, Virginia.
To attend this event, media must apply for accreditation by contacting Keith Koehler at [email protected] by noon, Tuesday, Oct. 17. Accreditation is open only to media who are U.S. citizens.
Orbital ATK will make its eighth Cygnus cargo delivery to the International Space Station under its commercial resupply services contract with NASA. The resupply mission will launch on the company's Antares rocket from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport's Pad 0A at Wallops.
Following the Cygnus viewing, media will have the opportunity to visit the upgraded Wallops Range Control Center.
Orbital ATK, at NASA's direction, is now targeting November 11 at 7:37 a.m. EST for launch of the OA-8 mission to the International Space Station, based on NASA's revised ISS traffic planning and cargo needs.
Noooo!!!!!!! I can't make it on the 11th!
@NanoRacks' Manber says co to buy/launch 2.8kg, 2u @AsgardiaSpace sat from @NearSpaceLaunch; launch on Orbital ATK Cygnus cargo this fall.
Just been reading about Asgardia in Room magazine (Summer 2017 issue). The satellite is called Asgardia 1 and will be deployed after OA-8 leaves ISS. Asgardia is a "space nation". The cubesat will carry messages and photos from Asgardia citizens. The plan is to create a constellation to help protect against asteroids, solar flares and satellite debris.
We're looking forward to a great launch with a completely full NanoRacks External #Cygnus Deployer!
Do we have info, if EcAMSAT and ISARA fly in the external deployer? Or any info on the other passengers in the deployer (Asgardia-1 will be in it and possibly some Spire Lemurs)?
Anyone know if Arbuckle Neck Road will be open for the launch? Are there any other places us die-hard space fans can go to avoid huge crowds?
Once Cygnus is unberthed, a NanoRacks deployer will release 14 Cubesats, a record number for the spacecraft.


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Bill Cosby accuser takes defamation suit to Supreme Court
About a week before the Bill Cosby verdict came in, accuser Kathy McKee petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to allow her to sue Cosby for defamation of character. McKee contends she was defamed because Cosby, through his lawyers, said she was a liar.
Bill Cosby accuser takes defamation suit to Supreme Court About a week before the Bill Cosby verdict came in, accuser Kathy McKee petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to allow her to sue Cosby for defamation of character. McKee contends she was defamed because Cosby, through his lawyers, said she was a liar. Check out this story on USATODAY.com: https://usat.ly/2HNJ3rn
Patricia Montemurri, Special to the Detroit Free Press Published 7:57 a.m. ET May 4, 2018 | Updated 8:04 a.m. ET May 4, 2018
The organization removed the two for violating its code of conduct. Alicia Powell reports. Newslook
Kathy McKee(Photo: Romain Blanquart Detroit Free Press)
During Kathy McKee's entertainment career, she has been a Hollywood actress, the girlfriend of the late entertainer Sammy Davis Jr., and a casting agency owner.
She is also a rape survivor, she alleges, and the assailant in a Detroit hotel room in 1974 was Bill Cosby.
McKee was casting a reality TV show in Las Vegas last week when she learned the 80-year-old comedian and actor had been convicted of aggravated indecent assault by a Philadelphia jury for drugging and molesting Andrea Costand in 2004.
McKee said she was near tears as she checked in extras on the show set, and was moved to explain why to the crew and the young wannabe-actors and actresses around her.
"I really didn't think he was going to be convicted because of the way the world looks at celebrities and wealthy men," McKee said. "I was afraid the jury was going to buy into that facade, and not understand the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde side of him — the true character.
"The verdict is relief. I'm not happy about it. All of us were raped or attacked by him, held it inside for a long time, terrified to come out."
But for McKee, the fight is not over.
On April 19, about a week before the Cosby verdict came in, McKee petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to allow her to sue Cosby for defamation of character. McKee contends she was defamed because Cosby, through his lawyers, said she was a liar.
More: A complete list of the 60 Bill Cosby accusers and their reactions to the guilty verdict
More: Academy expels Bill Cosby, Roman Polanski
McKee's lawyers argue that women who go public about being victims of sexual misconduct by a well-known person — in order to bring attention to the problem and reveal their assailant — should be able to do so without having their reputations sullied. They contend it shouldn't be harder for them to sue for defamation, as a result.
"All Kathy ever did was to stand up and say MeToo," said her lawyer Dilan Esper. "She hasn't gone on any publicity tour based on this, (or) written a book. … She just said 'He raped me.' ''
McKee's case, and those like it, complicate the road to resolution in the Me Too era.
The case hinges on whether the law views those who allege sexual assault as "public figures" or "private persons." As a public figure, McKee must prove that Cosby acted with "actual malice" and a "reckless disregard for the truth," by knowingly making false statements, to meet the standard for defamation.
A higher burden of proof, McKee's attorneys argue, might discourage other women from publicly coming forward with stories of alleged abuse.
"McKee is seeking to protect the fundamental right of a victim of sexual misconduct to speak out in public without fear of having her reputation and career destroyed," her lawyers said in a statement. "McKee is asking the Supreme Court to protect this right for all victims of sexual misconduct."
More: Is the Bill Cosby guilty verdict the first big legal victory for the Me Too movement?
Hollywood men accused of sexual misconduct
Recent allegations that movie mogul Harvey Weinstein sexually assaulted and harassed women for years have come to light, ushering in a cataclysmic career downfall for him and many more. See the following cultural power players who have been accused of improper behavior. John Carucci, AP
Morgan Freeman, 80, an Oscar-winning actor was accused of sexual harassment, unwanted touching and other inappropriate behavior by eight people, according to a CNN investigation published May 24, 2018. The report details an alleged pattern of making unwanted advances on women while he was on movie sets and at other events. Freeman denied the accusations. Evan Agostini/Invision/AP
R. Kelly, 51, a singer, has been accused of sexual abuse, sexual coercion and physical violence by multiple accusers, who have come forward in the past year, alleging that the singer committed acts of sexual coercion and physical abuse. A 2017 Buzzfeed story reported that Kelly rented homes in Atlanta and Chicago for groups of women who allegedly perform sexual favors for him. He has denied the allegations. FREDERIC J. BROWN, AFP/Getty Images
Luc Besson, 59, a French film director, was accused of rape by an unnamed 27-year-old woman who alleges Besson put something in her tea that left her unconscious, according to a report from The Associated Press on May 19, 2018. She accuses him of touching and penetrating her without her consent at the Hôtel Bristol in Paris. Authorities are investigating the complaint. Besson has denied the allegations. Andy Wong, AP
Junot Díaz, 49, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, was accused of accused of sexual harassment and bullying by female authors including Zinzi Clemmons, Carmen Maria Machado and Monica Byrne on Twitter on May 4, 2018. Clemmons tweeted that when she was a graduate student, she invited Díaz to speak to a workshop, claiming Díaz used it as an opportunity "to corner and forcibly kiss me." Tsar Fedorsky/AP
Nev Schulman, 33, the co-host of MTV's "Catfish" was accused of sexual misconduct by show alum Ayissha Morgan, who alleged in a video posted to YouTube on May 12, 2018, that Schulman made several inappropriate sexual comments to her. MTV suspended the show in order to conduct an investigation, according to an emailed statement from the network to USA TODAY on May 17. Schulman denied the allegations. Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP
Boyd Tinsley, 54, Dave Matthews Band's former violinist, was accused of sexual misconduct by James Frost-Winn, a Seattle-based trumpet player who worked for Tinsley as a member of the band Crystal Garden from about 2015 through 2016, according to a report from online entertainment magazine "Consequence of Sound" on May 17, 2018. Frost-Winn is seeking $9 million in damages against Tinsley, claiming he created a "hostile work environment" by making unwanted advancements and sending explicit texts. DMB denied previously knowing about the allegations. Mike Coppola/Getty Images for Safilo
Ben Affleck issued an apology on Oct. 11, a day after Hilarie Burton said he groped her during a 2003 appearance on 'Total Request Live.' Affleck tweeted, "I acted inappropriately toward Ms. Burton and I sincerely apologize." Robyn Beck, AFP/Getty Images
Nick Carter of the Backstreet Boys says he's shocked and saddened by accusations from a singer who said he raped her about 15 years ago. Melissa Schuman, of the girl group Dream, wrote in a blog post Carter that forced her to engage in a sexual act against her will. Amy Harris, Invision/AP
After years of denying what he called rumors, Louis C.K. finally admitted that he exposed himself, masturbated and masturbated in front of women on multiple occasions. Rich Fury, Getty Images
Actor and comedian Andy Dick has been fired from his role in the film 'Raising Buchanan' after he was accused of "groping people's genitals, unwanted kissing/licking and sexual propositions of at least four members of the production on the set," according to 'The Hollywood Reporter.' Dick denied groping claims, but admitted to licking and propositioning people. Kevork Djansezian, Getty Images
A writer who worked for actor and political activist Richard Dreyfuss said he sexually harassed her for years and exposed himself to her in a studio lot trailer when she worked for him in the '80s. Jessica Teich told the 'New York Magazine' that the actor made continual, overt and lewd comments and invitations after they met at a theater where she worked and Dreyfuss appeared. Dreyfuss denied the actor ever exposed himself to Teich but acknowledged to other encounters he now realizes were inappropriate. Manuel Balce Ceneta, AP
Producer and writer Gary Goddard denies accusations from 'ER's Anthony Edwards of molesting him as a child and raping his best friend. Edwards says the abuse went on for years. Goddard denied the allegations in a statement. Bob Chamberlin, LA Times via Getty Images
David Guillod, a manager, producer and Co-CEO of Primary Wave Entertainment, was accused by actress Jessica Barth of drugging and sexually assaulting her in 2012 when he was working as her manager. Guillod's attorney said the charges were fully investigated at the time, though he has taken a leave of absence. Alberto E. Rodriguez, Getty Images
Anna Graham Hunter alleges that Oscar-winning actor Dustin Hoffman groped her and talked about sex in front of her while she was a 17-year-old intern on the set of his 1985 TV-movie adaptation of 'Death of a Salesman.' Hoffman apologized in a statement to the 'Associated Press,' saying, "I have the utmost respect for women and feel terrible that anything I might have done could have put her in an uncomfortable situation… It is not reflective of who I am." The following day, a second accuser, Wendy Riss Gatsiounis told 'Variety' the actor made verbal advances and tried to convince her to go to a hotel. Jordan Strauss, Invision/AP
Ethan Kath (Claudio Palmieri), 34, a songwriter and producer of Canadian music group Crystal Castles, is accused of rape by former bandmate Alice Glass, in a letter posted on her website. His response: "I am outraged and hurt by the recent statements made by Alice about me and our prior relationship," the statement reads. "Fortunately, there are many witnesses who can and will confirm that I was never abusive to Alice." C Flanigan, FilmMagic
Andrew Kreisberg, 46, executive producer of CW superhero series Arrow, The Flash, Supergirl and Legends of Tomorrow, was fired by Warner Bros., USA TODAY confirmed Nov. 29. Variety published a story in which 15 women and four men alleged sexual harassment and inappropriate physical contact. Frederick M. Brown, Getty Images
John Lasseter, the chief creative officer of Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios, will take a six-month leave of absence following what he called "missteps" in a memo obtained by USA TODAY on Nov. 21. The news broke as The Hollywood Reporter was compiling a report into alleged sexual misconduct. No accuser agreed to be named. Neilson Barnard, Getty Images
Jennifer Lopez' longtime manager Benny Medina is accused of attempted rape by Jason Dottley in an interview published by The Advocate on Nov. 10. A statement from Medina's lawyers Howard Weitzman and Shawn Holley to USA TODAY said Medina "categorically denies the allegation of attempted rape. Johnny Nunez, WireImage
Girls' writer Murray Miller is accused of sexually assaulting actress Aurora Perrineau in 2012 when she was 17. Miller denies the accusation. He's seen here with Audrey Gelman, left, and Girls star Lena Dunham, in this 2012 file photo. Benjamin Lozovsky/BFA/REX/Shutterstock, Benjamin Lozovsky/BFA/REX/Shutterstock
Jeremy Piven faces accusations from several women of sexual misconduct. Although he has denied the allegations, has CBS pulled the plug on freshman series Wisdom of the Crowd, deciding against picking up the back nine episodes of the drama's first season. Evan Agostini, Invision/AP
Hollywood's widening sexual harassment crisis ensnared another prominent film director when six women, Including actress Olivia Munn, accused Ratner of harassment or misconduct in a Los Angeles Times report, on Nov. 1. He is no longer working on any Warner Bros. projects. Willy Sanjuan, Invision/AP
Twiggy Ramirez (Jeordie White) the former bassist and guitarist of the band Marilyn Manson, was accused of rape Oct. 20 by Jack Off Jill singer Jessicka Addams, who shared in a Facebook post that White physically and sexually assaulted her while they were dating. On Oct. 24, Marilyn Manson announced on his Twitter account, he parted with Jeordie White as a member of Marilyn Manson. Amy Harris, Invision/AP
Chris Savino, 46, an animator and writer best known for creating The Loud House, was fired from Nickelodeon after multiple women lodged complaints against him. He's seen here with Producer Karen Malach, left, and writer Karla Sakas Shropshire during "The Loud House" event presented by Nickelodeon during Day Two of aTVfest in this 2016 file photo. Vivien Killilea, Getty Images for SCAD
Mark Schwahn a screenwriter best known for creating the popular TV series One Tree Hill, was accused of "traumatizing" sexual harassment by 18 cast and crew members of the show, including Sophia Bush and Hilarie Burton, in a letter published in Variety on Nov. 13. Neilson Barnard, Getty Images
Actress Portia de Rossi claims, in a Nov. 8 tweet, that actor/producer Steven Seagal, during a private office audition, explained the importance of chemistry off-screen as he sat her down and unzipped his leather pants. The actress says she escaped and called her agent following the incident. Ivan Sekretarev, AP
Music mogul Russell Simmons is accused of assault by Keri Claussen Khalighi, an aspiring model who was 17 when she says Simmons assaulted her and coerced her into perform oral sex while Brett Ratner was present, according to a report from The Los Angeles Times on Nov. 19. Simmons denied the allegations. However on Nov. 30, he announced he's stepping down from all of his companies and foundations. Tibrina Hobson, AFP/Getty Images
An 11-year-old actress on the set of crime thriller Born Killers (shot as Piggy Banks) in 2003, according to a report from The Hollywood Reporter published Nov. 13, alleges that Tom Sizemore touched her genitals during a photo shoot for the film. His agent Stephen Rice, told the industry trade paper, "Our position is 'no comment.'" John Carucci, AP
Actor Anthony Rapp, claims he was 14 when Oscar-winning actor Kevin Spacey made advances towards him in 1986. Spacey apologized to Rapp via Twitter on Oct. 30, blaming drunken behavior and coming out at as gay as well. The latter mention drew huge criticism as a lame shield. Since the Rapp report, several other accusers have come forward against Spacey, including a former House of Cards crew member, filmmaker Tony Montana and actor Rob Cavazos. Angela Weiss, AFP/Getty Images
In the 1980s a police report details an 16-year-old girl consented to having sex with Sylvester Stallone in Las Vegas. However she felt intimidated into having group sex with him and his bodyguard. Stallone's rep says " "This is a ridiculous, categorically false story." Ian Gavan, Getty Images
'Star Trek' original cast member George Takei denies the claim of former model Scott R. Brunton alleging Takei groped him in the actor's Los Angeles condominium in 1981. USA TODAY
Jeffrey Tambor, 73, an actor best known for his role as a trans woman on Transparent, was accused of engaging in inappropriate behavior by his former assistant, a transgender woman named Van Barnes, according to aDeadline report on Nov. 8. Tambor rejected the claims, calling Barnes' allegations "baseless." Tambor was also accused of sexual misconduct by Transparent star Trace Lysette in a Nov. 16 report from The Hollywood Reporter. He has since decided not to return to the show. John Lamparski, WireImage
The accusations of sexual misconduct are numbered in the hundreds against screenwriter and director James Toback (The Pick-up Artist, Two Girls and a Guy) according to reports from the Los Angeles Times on Oct. 27. The Times says 31 of the women spoke on the record about their encounters with Toback, which go back decades, and more than 270 have contacted journalist Glenn Whipp with similar claims. Julianne Moore accused Toback via Twitter on Oct. 24 of luring aspiring actresses to his hotel room for an audition, adding it happened to her in the 1980s. Rachel McAdams and Selma Blair joined the accusers list. Tiziana Fabi, AFP/Getty Images
Bob Weinstein claimed he had no knowledge of the extent of his brother Harvey Weinstein's sexual misdeeds. However, he has an accuser as well. TV producer Amanda Segel says Bob Weinstein sexually harassed her. According to a story published Oct. 17 by Variety, Weinstein invited her to dinner, to his home and to a hotel room during a three-month period in the summer of 2016. Chris Pizello, AP
Executive producer Matthew Weiner known for creating AMC's Mad Men was accused of sexual harassment by Mad Men staff writer Kater Gordon. Allegedly Weiner told her late one night she ''owed it to him to let him see her naked." She says she didn't report the comment officially because she was afraid of losing her job. A year after the incident, Gordon was let go from Mad Men. Weiner doesn't remember making the comment. Alberto E. Rodriguez, Getty Images
Ed Westwick known for his role on Gossip Girl is accused of sexual misconduct by two women. Actress Kristina Cohen accused Westwick in a Facebook post Nov. 6, of raping her at his house three years ago and filed a Hollywood police on Nov. 7. Westwick denied the allegations, tweeting on Nov. 7, "I do not know this woman. I have never forced myself in any manner, on any woman. I certainly have never committed rape." Rachel Eck accused him of groping her and unwanted advances in a Buzzfeed report on Nov. 14. Jeff Spicer, Getty Images
Garrison Keillor, author and retired star of 'A Prairie Home Companion,' says he has been fired by Minnesota Public Radio over allegations of improper behavior. Leila Navidi, AP
NBC fired Matt Lauer, longtime anchor of the 'Today 'show, on Nov. 28 following allegations of sexual misconduct with a colleague. After Lauer's dismissal, more allegations have surfaced. Lauer has admitted that there's enough truth in the allegations to make him feel embarrassed. 'To the people I have hurt, I am truly sorry," he said in a statement. Lauer had been a part of the 'Today' team for more than 20 years. Zach Pagano, NBC
A home in Detroit
McKee lived in metro Detroit for many years as she cared for family here;she moved to the West Coast in 2015 after her mother died. While here, she operated a casting agency when Michigan's film industry was thriving under now-repealed state tax credits. McKee said she now commutes between Hollywood and Las Vegas for her work.
McKee alleges that Cosby raped her about 1974 at the Detroit St. Regis hotel. She said she stayed in town to visit with her family after Sammy Davis Jr. had performed in Detroit. Cosby was in Detroit for a performance and invited her to a boat outing, while also asking her to get him some ribs from a favorite Detroit joint.
McKee said she had known Cosby for several years, and, with Davis, had dined with him and Cosby's wife, Camille. McKee earned her Screen Actors Guild card with a performance on "The Bill Cosby Show," which ran from 1969 to 1971.
Kathy McKee, left, in a 1976 photo, with her sister, actress Lonette McKee. (Photo: Kathy McKee)
This is what happened when McKee arrived at Cosby's hotel room, according to McKee's defamation lawsuit:
"Ms. McKee stepped a few steps into the hotel room when she was immediately set upon and physically attacked by Cosby. Cosby snatched the ribs from her hand and tossed them aside. Cosby was wild and aggressive, and was acting nothing like the man Ms. McKee had known professionally. Cosby violently lifted her dress and pulled down her panties. Cosby intimidated, terrified and terrorized Ms. McKee with pain and overwhelming physical force. Cosby proceeded to forcibly rape Ms. McKee while both were still standing very near the door. The rape was an unprovoked and violent attack. The rape was shocking, scary and horrible."
McKee said she stayed quiet afterward, in fear of what it would mean for her career to go public and for how it would affect Davis.
In late 2014, as a cascade of accusations unfolded against Cosby, McKee told her story to the New York Daily News. She appeared on the cover of New York magazine for its August 2015 issues, along with 34 other women who said they were assaulted by Cosby. She also was interviewed for a July 2015 Free Press article about Cosby's accusers.
Kathy McKee, with then-boyfriend Sammy Davis Jr. at the Las Vegas Sands hotel in the 1970s, says she met Bill Cosby via Davis' friends. (Photo: Kathy McKee)
McKee, the daughter of an African-American father and a Finnish-American mother, said Cosby's case shouldn't be evaluated on the basis of race. Some have said Cosby has been treated more harshly in the media and in the courts because he's black.
"I don't want to make this a black thing, or a white thing, I don't believe it's a color thing. It doesn't make any difference what color Bill Cosby is," said McKee.
"I thought I was a friend of Bill Cosby and he turned on me and became some other creature," said McKee. "It wouldn't make any difference to me what color he was."
Another metro Detroit woman, Angela Leslie, also accused Cosby of sexual misconduct. Leslie is a civilian logistics expert for the U.S. Army in Warren, and she was a model and actress who came to Cosby's attention. She said Cosby forced her to fondle him in a Las Vegas hotel room in the early 1990s, when he offered to help her with acting tips.
Leslie declined to comment for this article, saying she was following the advice of her attorney, Joseph Cammarata, of Washington D.C. Leslie is part of a lawsuit with several other Cosby accusers, also filed in Massachusetts, seeking damages for defamation. That case is on hold. Her lawyer did not return requests for comment. Besides claims by McKee and Leslie, there are other outstanding lawsuits against Cosby by his accusers.
Both McKee and Leslie came forward with their allegations against Cosby in 2014, long after statutes of limitation expired for them to pursue criminal charges.
What the courts say
Lower courts have dismissed McKee's defamation case, ruling that she's a public figure by virtue of giving interviews to the media.
McKee's case first was thrown out by a U.S. District Court judge in Boston in February 2017, and the dismissal upheld by a three-judge panel in October 2017. Cosby has a legal residence in Massachusetts, which makes it possible for him to be sued in that state.
Cosby, through his lawyers, has denied all the accusations of misconduct.
Attorney Alan Greenberg of Los Angeles defended Cosby against McKee's charges of defamation. Greenberg argues that McKee became a "public figure" when she gave an interview to the New York Daily News in December 2014, her first public account about Cosby. McKee says her reputation was damaged because another Cosby lawyer wrote a letter to the newspaper, contending her claims were "wild" and wrongly linking her with other accusers' criminal records.
"She put her credibility on the line by making these terrible accusations in the most public way," Greenberg argued in the appeal, according to Reuters news service.
Greenberg said in a statement for this article: "We remain confident that both the District Court and the Court of Appeals correctly decided that there was no defamation."
Jane Briggs-Bunting, a lawyer, and founder of the Michigan Coalition for Open Government, said McKee's case provides interesting arguments, but is a long shot for consideration by the U.S. Supreme Court.
McKee is a "limited person public figure and she attained that status because she came forward in accusing Cosby of rape," explained Briggs-Bunting, former director of the Michigan State University School of Journalism. "By her own action, she thrust herself into the middle of the vortex. She made herself part of the story."
While McKee's lawyers say such rulings could deter other victims of sexual misconduct from coming forward, Briggs-Bunting points out that the law protects free speech rights, and the media's ability to publish stories on controversial issues and topics
"Otherwise, newspapers couldn't cover controversial issues because they could be sued based on what somebody says," explained Briggs-Bunting.
However, McKee said she wants her day in court. Her petition to the Supreme Court argues that she "should not be victimized twice over" by preventing her defamation lawsuit from going forward.
"I've been taken aback by all this legal stuff," she said, adding that Cosby's team has sought to "slut-shame" her.
"I'm a fighter," she said.
Bill Cosby guilty verdict: Photos from courthouse
Bill Cosby accuser Andrea Constand (center) reacts after the guilty on all counts verdict was delivered in Cosby's sexual-assault retrial at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pa., on April 26, 2018. Sixty women have accused the 80-year-old entertainer of sexual assault. MARK MAKELA/GETTY IMAGES
Bill Cosby accusers Caroline Heldman (left), Lili Bernard (leaning) and Victoria Valentino (far right) react after the guilty on all counts verdict was delivered in the sexual-assault retrial at the Montgomery County Courthouse. MARK MAKELA/GETTY IMAGES
Bill Cosby walks out of the Montgomery County Courthouse after the jury found him guilty on all three counts of molesting Andrea Constand at his Philadelphia-area home in 2004. DOMINICK REUTER/AFP/GETTY IMAGES
Attorney Gloria Allred, surrounded by Cosby accusers and their supporters, speaks outside of the courthouse in Norristown, Pa. TRACIE VAN AUKEN/EPA-EFE
Lili Bernard, who has accused Bill Cosby of raping her, reacts during a news conference with other accusers outside of the Montgomery County Courthouse. TRACIE VAN AUKEN/EPA-EFE
Andrea Constand (left), the main accuser in the Bill Cosby sexual-assault retrial, looks on as Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin Steele speaks to reporters after the retrial of Cosby's sexual assault case. DOMINICK REUTER/AFP/GETTY IMAGES
Kathleen Bliss (in red jacket) and Tom Mesereau (center), lawyers for actor and comedian Bill Cosby, leave after the retrial of Cosby's sexual-assault case. DOMINICK REUTER/AFP/GETTY IMAGES
Attorney Gloria Allred leaves the court after Bill Cosby was found guilty in the retrial of his sexual-assault case at the Montgomery County Courthouse. DOMINICK REUTER/AFP/GETTY IMAGES
Bill Cosby gestures as he leaves the Montgomery County Courthouse. TRACIE VAN AUKEN/EPA-EFE
After hearing the jury had reached a verdict in his aggravated indecent assault retrial, Bill Cosby re-enters the courtroom to learn his fate. The jury, which began deliberations Wednesday, found him guilty on all three counts of molesting Andrea Constand at his Philadelphia-area home in 2004. MARK MAKELA/GETTY IMAGES
Comedian Bill Cosby (right) is escorted to the courtroom by spokesman Andrew Wyatt as they arrive for jury deliberations in Cosby's sexual assault retrial at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pa. MARK MAKELA/AP POOL PHOTO
Bill Cosby's attorney Tom Mesereau arrives at the Montgomery County Courthouse for jury deliberations in Cosby's sexual-assault retrial. MARK MAKELA/AP POOL PHOTO
Defense attorney Kathleen Bliss is seen arriving at the Montgomery County Courthouse. MARK MAKELA/AP POOL PHOTO
Bill Cosby (center) arrives at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pa., for the second day of jury deliberations in his sexual-assault retrial. TRACIE VAN AUKEN/EPA-EFE
Bill Cosby (right) listens as spokesman Andrew Wyatt speaks to the media after arriving for Cosby's sexual-assault retrial. COREY PERRINE/AP
Attorney Gloria Allred talks with members of the media during a lunch break in the Bill Cosby sexual-assault trial. Corey Perrine, AP
Cosby accusers Lili Bernard (left) and Caroline Heldman pose for a selfie while waiting in line before the courtroom opens at the Montgomery County Courthouse for Day 14 of Cosby's sexual assault retrial. Mark Makela, Getty Images
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Armageddon has never been so darkly funny. This 1982 cult classic juxtaposes Cold War history, propaganda, music and culture, seamlessly crafted from government-produced educational and training films, newsreels and advertisements.
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Kevin Gelshenen Rafferty II (May 25, 1947 – July 2, 2020) was an American documentary film cinematographer, director, and producer, best known for his 1982 documentary The Atomic Cafe.
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Jayne Loader
Jayne Loader was born in Weatherford, Texas and grew up in Fort Worth. Following the release of The Atomic Cafe, she wrote a novel, Between Pictures, and a collection of short stories, "Wild America", both published by Grove Press. In 1995, Jayne shifted gears yet again and created a CD-ROM and website, "Public Shelter," featuring "WWWench," one of the first blogs. During the 2000s, Jayne and her husband, the astronomer Robert Kirshner, were Masters of Quincy House at Harvard College. She lives in Portola Valley, California and Friendship, Maine.
Pierce Rafferty
Following the release of The Atomic Cafe in 1982, Pierce Rafferty co-founded Petrified Films, an independent stock footage library located in the Meat Market District, New York City. From 1984 to 1994, Petrified's holdings grew exponentially to include various corporate in-house libraries, including those of Warner Bros. (pre-1951) and Columbia Pictures (pre-1965). In 1994, Petrified Films sold its collection to Image Bank, a company that was subsequently purchased by Getty Images. In 2002, Pierce moved to Fishers Island, NY, where he works as the director of the Henry L. Ferguson Museum, an institution with archaeological, natural history and history collections, that also holds and manages the island's only Land Trust.
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You have been led astray. You have misled yourselves. Each time you focus on the "rules" you attribute to God you are pulling your focus away from the God idea and into the man idea. For the only idea of God is "Love," love pure love, the purest of love, Divine Love, the sacred heart of God, the sacred heart of Christ, all ideas of God who is love. This is to be your focus. This love is what you are to attune your heart and mind to. Think on this: The power of God's love.
Jesus Christ told you this. Above all else, He said, seek the Kingdom of God. Love God with all your heart, soul and mind. To love God is to love the love of God, to desire God's love, to thirst for God's love, to be passionately and innately hungry for God's love. This is the devotion we are to possess, to live with, to contemplate, to ask for blessings of.
This is what is right and true. God is love, the highest and most divine form of love there is. The love Paul spoke about to the Corinthians. The love that is kind, patient and not judgeful. This is the love God already has for us. But wait, there's more. God has made a special offer to all His faithful, the ones so full of faith in the power of His magnificent love that they are devoted to it. They pray for it. They ask on bended knee for the infilling of such love. God's deepest desire is to shower all of mankind with His healing Divine Love, the love that transforms hearts and opens eyes and ears to truth.
Yes, God has always loved, deeply loved each of us. But because of the free will He gave us to create our lives as we desire, He will not and cannot force His will, His love upon anyone. But now God has a new deal for us, an offer, the "Good News" Jesus was telling us about, "His love." God will freely and lavishly gift each repenting heart who so truly desires His love with His love. God's love is the most powerful substance in the universe thus can only be dripped drop by drop like an intravenous line into one's heart. But oh, when you get just a taste and you understand the gift you have received you will want more and you shall ask and you shall receive.
So what is a repenting heart? Is it a perfect pure heart? No, for only God's love purifies hearts. A repenting heart is one that says he has had enough of his own ways, that he chooses the will of God. But most importantly he chooses the love of God. The will of God is just the natural course of action that will come. You see as more and more of God's Divine Love fills and transforms your heart your will is so very naturally and easily and comfortably changed into the will of God.
You will have no choices to make between right and wrong, for God's love will have so transformed your heart you will do no other that "what Jesus would do." The rules man has created and attributed to God are not needed for your thoughts and actions are so ever supernaturally aligned with the highest good for all. Peace, love and joy will prevail in your heart, mind and soul. Your very being will change. You will become a new person. After the man Saul was so filled with the love of God he changed his name to Paul. Remember the wisdom, the wisdom of God which filled him, and the love of Christ of which he spoke? These are the gifts of the Holy Spirit, the gifts of God, which come upon those so devoted to the knowing and receiving of God's love.
So what do you have to do to receive this Love into your own heart? Open it. Open your heart and open your mind. Come unto to the Lord as a little child, full of the wonder and trust of a child. You do not have to understand God to understand God is love. All know some love, but not all know God's love. All can so know God's love if and when they want to. Remember, this is not a one-time thing, it's a process, a continual process of asking, and receiving, a process that flows so naturally and gracefully that nothing is more perfect. The more you get the more you want and all you will truly want is God's love. It's the icing on the cake of life, the tastiest and most beautiful icing that becomes the bread of life allowing full communion with God. Come to my table and eat and drink, says the Lord. My love is the all sustaining bread and wine you have hungered and thirsted for. Come eat, drink and be merry.
Do what you have to do, My word will always be here for you. Many will deny for they do not know My voice, of course this is their choice. My will, I will not impose on any unwilling soul. I so love all my children as they are. But oh so rejoice when they come home to live in the fullness of My heart of love. I have prepared a banquet for the celebration.


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COPS Monitoring achieves HIPAA compliance with compliancy group Seal of Compliance earned by implementing effective HIPAA compliance program
By SSN Staff
Updated 2:40 PM CST, Tue January 12, 2021
WILLIAMSTOWN, N.J.—COPS Monitoring, the largest provider of wholesale professional alarm monitoring services in North America, announced that it has taken all necessary steps to prove its good faith effort to achieve compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). By doing so, COPS has earned Seal of Compliance, a distinction issued only to organizations that have implemented an effective HIPAA compliance program through the use of Compliancy Group's exclusive program, The Guard.
By completing Compliancy Group's Implementation Program, COPS Monitoring has demonstrated its adherence to the meticulous regulatory standards outlined in the HIPAA Privacy Rule, Security Rule, Breach Notification Rule, Omnibus Rule, and HITECH. Through the use of The Guard, COPS Monitoring can manage its continued compliance.
HIPAA is comprised of a set of regulatory standards governing the security, privacy, and integrity of sensitive healthcare data called protected health information (PHI). PHI is any individually identifiable healthcare-related information. If vendors who service healthcare clients come into contact with PHI in any way, those vendors must be HIPAA compliant.
"We have a profound respect for what it means to be a professional monitoring provider of millions of homes and businesses," explained COPS Monitoring's president Jim McMullen. "Our dealers and customers place a tremendous amount of trust in us; not only for their physical security and wellbeing, but also to keep their data and personal information safe. In addition to protecting their data with state-of-the-art technology, we believe the independent verification of our HIPAA compliance is another step in the right direction to guarding our dealer and customer, and a valuable addition to our SOC 2 attestation."
Founded in 1978 and headquartered in Williamstown, NJ, COPS Monitoring (a Lydia Security Monitoring brand) is the largest provider of professional monitoring services in the United States. Its award-winning network of central stations with locations in New Jersey, Florida, Arizona, Tennessee, Texas, and Maryland, is trusted by 3,500 independent alarm dealers to safeguard more than 3.3 million homes and businesses in the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico. COPS is UL listed, FM approved, IQ certified, TMA Five Diamond certified, and has been named Central Station of the Year by The Monitoring Association. For more information about COPS Monitoring, visit copsmonitoring.com.
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"Great recipe! I used the green chile enchilada sauce instead of the salsa. This was the best!! Everyone went back for thirds!"
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This recipe was fabulous! The only thing I added was half a packet of Old El Paso Taco Seasoning Mix as I cooked the chicken. The kids ate seconds!
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Style Remix: My Beloved Vintage Concert T-Shirt With Jimmy Choos | Fashion. Style. Beauty. | Life is short. Live well.
I'm a true vintage junkie. How do I know? Because I've always been the weird kid that wanted everything to feel like someone had already broken it in for me. There's nothing more satisfying to me than finding a pair of jeans that have already been softened, a t-shirt that's been washed to the point of feeling like a second skin. It's a very male practice of shopping: I don't buy things that itch or don't feel good.
Let's also admit that I have quite the collection of vintage concert t-shirts. Other people are on the lookout for handbags and the perfect designer ashtray when they troll vintage stores and eBay; I'm still on the hunt for the raglan-sleeved Police concert t-shirt from the Synchronicity tour. When I get my hands on that shirt, it'll be my Holy Grail and I WILL put a ring on it.
Clearly, this is a rather liberal interpretation of how to style a vintage t-shirt, but this threadbare Iron Maiden version of my uncle's (I found my grandmother cleaning the house with it and pulled it from her hands almost immediately) is one of my perfect tops to wear with a summer suit. Throw on some gold jewelry, Ray-Ban sunnies and my new favorite Jimmy Choos, and I'm ready for meetings. If you've got t-shirts that are just taking up room, try this look for your next girl's night out or fun function.
Because, in all honesty, I try on a ton of different outfits, but this one feels the most 'at home' for me….kind of like…well, an old, favorite t-shirt.


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Title: Eggs Benedict
Topics: disney, leggings, toothless
Here's a kitty worth sharing (SFW). =:9 And for some serious cuteness, Toothless & Stitch, cosplaying each other. ^_^
whitetail just might like to look at this collection of Disney cakes (from Cake Wrecks, but from their Sunday Sweets selection, highlighting exemplary works of cake art - a change of tone from their usual role).
Who'd like a wine tasting? I'm not absolutely certain I can transfer it, but I can specify the venue, time, and date, which seems like much the same thing. I bought it (cheaply =:) at Grillstock last year, but, regrettably, the roomie/landlord's not been forthcoming with any options since. It's good for up to four people. If I recall correctly, they'll supply the glassware, but nibbles are up to you. ^_^ I believe they'll go anywhere in the UK.
A photography thread I found interesting, on unusual assignments - some quite odd, a few rather gruesome. (I'd recommend the site in general, too, if you have any photographic inclinations)
Vinyl Scratch would approve, I feel, of this bass cannon tank. =:D
I see Zero Theorem's pre-release page on the UK iTunes Store has gained an actual release date: 21st July 2014. Still a little way off, but, good to know I'll be able to finally see it then, given how rapidly it departed most screens.
While idly perusing the iTunes Store the other day - sort of digitally window shopping - I noticed one indie film Apple had highlighted, whose poster design caught my eye, and a title that positively beckoned me to take a further look. No reviews there, but IMDb showed it sporting an 8.7: "Neurons to Nirvana: Understanding Psychedelic Medicines". It would appear to be a genuine examination of the utility of psychoactives, as detailed in an interview with the director over on Motherboard, "a look at the history and the future of scientific research into five psychelic substances: LSD, psilocybin, ayahuasca, MDMA, and cannabis. In it, various highly-regarded scientists and experts in the field talk about the medicinal potential of the drugs. The filmmakers are careful in their approach. Each of them notes that scientific studies and vocabulary, presented in a mainstream way, are necessary to educate the public about psychedelic medicine. They realize they are up against a lot of government—not to mention big business—disinformation, and paranoia about psychedelics."
I noticed the other day that not only is/are WeLoveFine offering leggings - I'd previously picked up three pairs from them, and definitely recommended - but cire leggings. =:D Whilst the Loki helmet design was very tempting, the ones I went for this time around were the Miku chromatic. Also finally got around to augmenting the t-shirt stock, too, with Daft Pon3, the wonderfully understated Lazuli Skies, and The Music.
This comic by Immelmann, "Lagomoria", pushed many buttons for me. ^_^ It's actually SFW, too, though you might still have to account for reading about shiny mind-control bunnies from space that transform those around them into more of themselves. Please record or transcribe any such conversations.
Does anyone have an easy solution to remove twitter autoposts from LJ feeds? Perhaps a Safari extension? Though, a proxy filter would be best, as my primary browser remains one that doesn't support plugins, but does sport the best tabs implementation, with scrollable graphical thumbnails. Thinking of which, is there an extension for Safari or Firefox that accomplishes a similar result? Safari's a capable browser these days, but I still just really don't like those text-only tabs butting up against each other.
Has anyone seen the film Ruby Sparks? It's what seems to be an imaginative romantic comedy, of a relatively mellow nature - sounds quite appealing. ^_^ I'm asking as iTunes has it for £7.99, including extras, which feels like a reasonable price. If it's something I'll watch a few times, I'd far sooner pay for it than simply fetch it off the usual venues. (And if it isn't, I'll probably just not see it at all. There are a billion things to do with one's life, and sitting through bad films - as opposed to good bad films =:) - isn't high on my priorities)
Here's what life on minimum wage is like in St Louis, Missouri. It's an earnest account of just how difficult it is - not a matter of making ends meet, but deciding what can't be paid for, be it fuel for a car, a monthly bus pass (of course, daily tickets work out more expensive, but if you don't have the money up front, what choice do you have?), or heating.
The League Against Cruel Sports is running a worthwhile campaign against the use of snares.
Well, that's a bit disappointing. I recently gained another card identical (in rating, at least - SanDisk 90MB/s SDXC. The packaging's slightly different) to my first one, so I thought I'd set the D7100 to simultaneous writing mode, wherein each frame is written to both cards, serving as a backup in case one card goes south. However, I hadn't reckoned on the D7100 evidently having only one SD Card controller - so, rather than writing both simultaneously, it appears to write to one and then the other, halving the continuous shooting speed. That's seldom a problem for me, as I'm almost never running over the D7100's unfortunately bijou buffer, which can hold about six losslessly compressed RAWs before the speed drops to that dictated by cards. That is, when you're taking those first six shots, the shutter rate is the full 6fps (12 bit, DX frame; 14 bit drops by 1fps, "crop" mode raises it by 1fps), after which it's however quickly data can be written to the card(s). Of course, a couple days after changing that setting, I encounter a pair of buns engaged in a furious melée, chasing, leaping, biting - and run headlong into the buffer. The end result is that once the buffer's filled up, in parallel write mode, it's about 600ms between shots, and 250-350ms if using overflow mode, where only one card is used, then the other. So, I suppose it's back to the latter for me. All the same, I'm pleased to report some quite exciting moments were caught. ^_^
So, LJ's rejigged the "post entry" page, along with the preferences. I quite like the appearance, but, it sort of loses in the usability stakes - while trying to post this, OmniWeb wouldn't load the preview's CSS, rendering it useless for previewing the entry's layout (you might not believe the time I spend getting images cropped and sized, then making sure that the text flows around in a reasonably uncluttered manner). The nightly of WebKit shows the preview button, but it's dead. The "mainline" release of Safari is, thankfully, fine. (Regarding Safari, if you want to geek out, check out this WebKit development blog entry on the project's new integration of LLVM into the JavaScript pipeline. Did you realise how multi-layered the approach of modern browsers is when it comes to executing JS?)
Yay! Just picked up (well, booked) tickets for a talk, A British Revolution: 2000 AD and Beyond, featuring Pat Mills and Dave Gibbons, amongst others, at the British Library's ongoing comics exhibition, "Comics Unmasked". Monday, 7th July 2014, 6.30pm.
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you might not believe the time I spend getting images cropped and sized, then making sure that the text flows around in a reasonably uncluttered manner
Well, perhaps I might not believe the number of minutes, but I can certainly believe that massive quantities of time are spent on an activity of highly-questionable value. How many of your readers actually *care* about the text flow?
I generally use "raw HTML" for my LJ posting needs, so I haven't noticed any difference. Sometimes the bare-metal approach has its advantages!
It's too bad that everyfur has moved to FA, whose comment system is not as good as LJ's.
Oh, I dare say not so many mind - but, I still need to do it, just as I ordered proofs of every print for Lapinity, to verify they all looked perfect. Wound up reworking a couple slightly as a result - the roomie noticed nothing wrong, but it wouldn't feel appropriate to sell anything I hadn't personally verified as being excellent. (Consequently, the production costs are relatively significant, but they're damned good prints!)
I use plain HTML - composed over weeks or months in TextEdit, then a fraction of the distillate is drawn off, perfected, and posted. ^_^
People still use FA journals? Wow. How hard do they have to try to alienate everyone? I got pushed away a few years back, when they basically banned SL photography - but, of course, left everyone's selfies of their feet, faces, guns, cars, etc untouched. Since then, I've only seen things stumble further into.. well, we all know the site's ways. No need to rehash all that.
I'm actually fine with current LJ. ^_^ I can easily spend an hour or two a night reading and commenting - more people would mean more skipping of commenting, and I really don't like having to do that. If people have had something to say, and it's something I can offer useful (occasionally witty) comment on, I'd very much like to do so.


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Something we've been been talking about here on DealerRefresh is more data and posts around process. If you're familuar with Joe and Bill of DealerKnows, these guys are process driven freaks – but in a good way of course.
Jeff: What prompted you to create TaskTeacher?
Joe: Our own laziness! At the heart of DealerKnows, it is our goal to make sure our dealer clients and their Internet teams are maximizing all of their opportunities.
The easiest way to sell more cars is to better communicate with the clients. In other words, if you email customers the right message, say the right things on the phone, and consistently follow-up in an intuitive manner, you'll sell more cars…plain and simple.
For this reason, we were constantly monitoring what their Internet teams were doing in their CRM and that is a time-consuming task. We couldn't be as comprehensive as we wanted to be in our monitoring by doing it manually. We needed to make lead management monitoring more efficient.
Bill: In order to create that efficiency, we realized that we were going to have to create some automation to deliver the higher volume of reports our clients were asking for. Moreover, we wanted to make sure that there wouldn't be shortcuts taken under tighter time constraints.
The quality of information that we deliver to our clients is critical to what we do, and we wanted to make sure that we continue to exceed their expectations. It didn't take long for us to realize that most our clients don't have time to for quality control.
If your Internet department is to run like a well-oiled machine, we need to make sure every piece of that machine is running smoothly.
Since we've implemented the TaskTeacher technology, we've been able to analyze 4-5x as many process logs (historical account on how the lead was handled inside the CRM/ILM) compared to doing it manually.
In a way, we created an "all seeing eye" that Internet teams can't circumvent. Since the teams have given up on taking shortcuts, we can see the results of a process that's consistently executed.
Jeff: You mentioned that much of this was created as a way to speed things up on DealerKnows' end and help you monitor even more than before. What have been a few of the key things TaskTeacher has done for your dealer clients?
Joe: Most simply stated, know what they don't know. It serves executive management, sales managers, and the Internet lead handlers in the store.
We've been consulting dealers nationwide for several years now and one consistent discrepancy we find is that upper management often doesn't know exactly what their Internet and BDC teams are doing with the leads and calls.
They know they "handle" them, but that is the extent of their understanding. Moreover, Sales Managers don't have the time to monitor how well leads are handled inside the CRM, or know what they should be sending and saying either.
Monitoring how well leads are followed up with has traditionally been a responsibility placed on an Internet Director, but we know even they no longer have the time to do this.
This is where TaskTeacher comes into play.
Our team is monitoring their Internet lead handlers and we are automatically alerting their managers as to when their people are "off process" and gives them a new way to measure their people's performance and hold them accountable. It is an entirely new means to actually "manage" their people.
There are very few trainers/consultants/gurus, including us, out there that want to give out their secret sauce in this regard (or even have one at all).
TaskTeacher gives Internet Managers a baseline understanding as to what they should be sending, what they should be saying, and when it's best to say it. In fact, we offer all new TaskTeacher clients a one-hour intensive live training on lead management and email templates to ensure they understand what they are being graded on.
We want to ensure we create the building blocks for quality customer contact, and then monitor them afterwards to ensure they are actually doing the little things that it takes to sell more cars online. In our opinion, it's the responsible thing to do. In the end, we get to see how TaskTeacher saves deals that may have been lost to poor practices. It's pretty rewarding to see.
Jeff: So lay it on us Joe, what exactly is TaskTeacher?
Joe: At its beginning, it is the industry's first lead management coaching software. We have a patent-pending business process where we assign Grades to how well Internet lead handlers are managing and following up with their leads.
As our team randomly selects Internet leads inside our clients' CRM systems, they are reviewing the history of contact (looking at every email sent and every call documented) and using a software we develop that has a set of weighted questions that assign a grade as to how well they managed that lead (ie did their job).
We carry over a screenshot of the lead with all of the customer's info inside an automated alert. This automated alert is actually a report that is sent out immediately to the Internet manager/BDC Agent that handled the lead, along with any sales manager/General Manager/Owner that wants to see how that individual performed.
The sweet science behind it is a perfect combination of automated technology working in stride with a human eye to identify opportunities for improvement with Internet leads.
These alerts include customized, multiple paragraphs explaining what the ISM did and didn't do correctly during lead handling and carries with it a grade.
We then give them their necessary "Next Steps" which tell them the exact course of action they must take to have a higher likelihood of still closing the customer. We are monitoring leads from roughly one week prior so it is important to note that we look for consistent follow-up and not just a "what happened when the lead arrived" recap.
No war is won in the first volley of fire. It often takes waves of communication to win the customers' business. We look at the total approach over the first week, tell them what they forgot, missed, failed to do, as well as congratulated them on what they did well.
We do all this because it allows dealers to finally know what is going on with their Internet leads, how to improve their processes, and how to coach their people to get better, all for a fraction of the cost of training or hiring an in-store person to watch the same elements of leads.
Bill: There is another level to this, actually multiple levels. We have a basic list of benchmark tasks we look for Internet teams to adhere to, and as Joe said, those are weighted. However, when an ISM begins consistently achieving good grades after a series of months, they "graduate" and are placed on a new course of curriculum where the grading guidelines are more stringent.
Essentially, Internet Sales Managers and BD Agents can get their "diploma" after succeeding at the primary level, and can then go on and achieve their "Bachelors" and "Masters" by dominating more strict guidelines of lead management and Internet sales.
In other words, we've created a way to certify Internet sales managers and BD agents as they hone their skills on quality customer follow-up. The only problem is the great majority find it difficult to consistently reach A grades in the primary level. While most dealers use this as a great way to keep an eye on their ISMs and force them to realize someone is watching them, certification can be a goal for them as well. Somebody has to do this. Why not us?
Jeff: What types of results have you seen this TaskTeacher tool deliver?
Bill: When we initially launch with a store, we typically see grades starting in the D to D- range. However, after about a month of graded leads, Internet managers quickly rise to a C (average) grade.
After about sixth months of grading most Internet managers rise to a B average. Although the system is pretty new, we've seen a 33% improvement in sales for B or better grades, so far.
More importantly, we see Internet sales managers changing their habits to handle leads consistently. The real surprise for me was that, after grading, Internet managers starting requesting additional training.
After receiving regular feedback from the grading tool, Internet managers began to understand the mistakes they were repeatedly making, and were actually motivated to get better. We actually have been creating a learning culture!
Joe: We've had a version of TaskTeacher (called DealerKnows GPA) running in our own clients' dealerships for 10 months. Since these are our clients, they have our email templates and processes already in place, but we hold them to a more rigid grading system.
This first version was meant as a means to ensure the Internet teams were doing what we at DealerKnows asks of them. TaskTeacher was created so it can be used by countless dealerships and simply ensure that their people are following the statistically-proven best practices of lead management, as well as helps give them guidance as the best way to follow up and communicate with Internet customers.
We've attached a reporting tool that allows all executive management to go into the back-end and review all of their graded leads for the month, see the individual grades of each Internet team member, and their trends.
Over time, we hope to incorporate live appointment and sales data into the tool, but that involves a significant degree of CRM connectivity.
In the end, we'd rather just focusing on making each person better and ensuring they understand what tasks are recommended to help them sell more cars.
Jeff: Bill, how do dealers get started with TaskTeacher?


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110 N.F.L. Brains
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A neuropathologist has examined the brains of 111 N.F.L. players — and 110 were found to have C.T.E., the degenerative disease linked to repeated blows to the head.
By Joe Ward, Josh Williams and Sam Manchester
Dr. Ann McKee, a neuropathologist, has examined the brains of 202 deceased football players. A broad survey of her findings was published on Tuesday in The Journal of the American Medical Association.
Of the 202 players, 111 of them played in the N.F.L. — and 110 of those were found to have chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or C.T.E., the degenerative disease believed to be caused by repeated blows to the head.
C.T.E. causes myriad symptoms, including memory loss, confusion, depression and dementia. The problems can arise years after the blows to the head have stopped.
The brains here are from players who died as young as 23 and as old as 89. And they are from every position on the field — quarterbacks, running backs and linebackers, and even a place-kicker and a punter.
They are from players you have never heard of and players, like Ken Stabler, who are enshrined in the Hall of Fame. Some of the brains cannot be publicly identified, per the families' wishes.
The image above is from the brain of Ronnie Caveness, a linebacker for the Houston Oilers and Kansas City Chiefs. In college, he helped the Arkansas Razorbacks go undefeated in 1964. One of his teammates was Jerry Jones, now the owner of the Dallas Cowboys. Jones has rejected the belief that there is a link between football and C.T.E.
The image above is from the brain of Ollie Matson, who played 14 seasons in the N.F.L. — after winning two medals on the track at the 1952 Helsinki Games. He died in 2011 at age 80 after being mostly bedridden with dementia, his nephew told The Associated Press, adding that Matson hadn't spoken in four years.
Dr. McKee, chief of neuropathology at the VA Boston Healthcare System and director of the CTE Center at Boston University, has amassed the largest C.T.E. brain bank in the world. But the brains of some other players found to have the disease — like Junior Seau, Mike Webster and Andre Waters — were examined elsewhere.
The set of players posthumously tested by Dr. McKee is far from a random sample of N.F.L. retirees. "There's a tremendous selection bias," she has cautioned, noting that many families have donated brains specifically because the former player showed symptoms of C.T.E.
But 110 positives remain significant scientific evidence of an N.F.L. player's risk of developing C.T.E., which can be diagnosed only after death. About 1,300 former players have died since the B.U. group began examining brains. So even if every one of the other 1,200 players had tested negative — which even the heartiest skeptics would agree could not possibly be the case — the minimum C.T.E. prevalence would be close to 9 percent, vastly higher than in the general population.
The N.F.L.'s top health and safety official has acknowledged a link between football and C.T.E., and the league has begun to steer children away from playing the sport in its regular form, encouraging safer tackling methods and promoting flag football.
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Electronic Soundmaker & Computer Music - Oct 1984	Big K
The Siel System
by Chris Everard
A detailed look at Siel's new DK600 keyboard Interface, and Expander.
Siel's new DK600 synthesizer and MIDI Expander make up a crucial combination as Chris Everard discovers.
Name a six-voice polyphonic synthesiser which is a programmable preset, has a noise generator, MIDI and is TOUCH SENSITIVE that you could go out and buy for under a grand?
The Answer: The Siel DK600 Keyboard
The Italian Siel company have seen fit to make some innovative amendments/improvements to the Opera 6 keyboard, which as it stood offered comprehensive features at a very reasonable price. The most notable improvement Siel have made is to the casing and selector switches. This, together with the slightly different colour combination has in their view brought the Opera 6 right up to date with current design trends.
As far as the gubbins are concerned the re-styled keyboard features full Poly Mode on the MIDI connection(s) which enables the user to give subsequent slave keyboards each their own channel numbers, which opens the floodgates when it comes to definable multi-timbral sequencing. There is now a four-way intensity setting on the touch sensitivity side of things which can give amazing control over the ADSR and/or just the Attack of each note. And finally, the third major mode is the floating MIDI key-split function which is designed for when a slave is being used. The player can define where the split comes on the keyboard and what information is then transmitted to the slave. This means that say the top two octaves could be the Opera voicing and the remainder of the keyboard would control the slave keyboard. Thus, if you were using a six-voice slave unit, such as the JX-3P or Siel's own excellent MIDI Expander, you would have six-voice polyphony on the top and bottom of the split point — 12 voice control really makes a huge difference on long, sustained runs and gives the textures more readily associated with the DX keyboards (which are 16-note polyphonics).
At just a mere £999 inc VAT it puts other similarly priced polys in the shade.
But turning the old Opera into the DK600 isn't the only thing Siel have been involved with as they've produced a cunningly clever Computer Interface — the Siel MCI and some very good sequencer orientated software which will run (by the time you read this) with all the major home micros, including the Spectrum 48K, BBC-B, Acorn Electron and Commodore CBM64 and SX64.
Perhaps even more remarkably, the interface is only £99 inc VAT and comes free with a software package called Live Sequencer which if sold on its own should cost £22 retail.
The interface is a simple affair to set up. It has three MIDI out ports, one in, one thru and a 5-pin DIN clock in. Connection to whichever computer you're using is verified — if correct — by a small LED.
Soft Aloft
Centering on the software cassette you get with the interface first, it's basically a straightforward, menu driven Realtime sequencer program with no overdubbing facility but it does have a six-way memory and does remember patch changes and keyboard velocity information all within one track of polyphonic information.
Page one is the menu and it looks like this: 1. — Play, 2. — Playback, 3. — Load from Tape, 4. — Save on Tape, 5. — Correct time, 6. — Refrain.
As can be seen much of the functioning in this software is self-explanatory. PLAY is the menu command that you input when you put a piece of music into the memory. The CORRECT TIME mode is an auto time correct option which when poked into operation runs through the inputted information, works out the amount of memory used and sets this against the amount of time the piece of music lasts for. After doing this, it uses an equation that ultimately gives every step an allocated beat length. I know this sounds a little complicated, but in practice it works beautifully and I came across no time correction glitches that you find on many other pieces of software — even some DDM's of over a thousand pounds have auto-correction faults — and this software comes free with the interface.
The available memory space is displayed on your monitor in the form of a percentage, with 0 being nothing and 100% understandably meaning you've reached full capacity. The memory is very large and at suitable throttle a piece utilising all 100% would last about half an hour!
The REFRAIN mode is just a loop function which you punch in when you want the inputted information to loop around. I would've liked to have seen this particular function a little more versatile with maybe screen definable break points — but it's obvious that this program is designed as a composer's notepad more than anything else and I feel should be looked upon as introductory.
The SIEL Multitrack — Composer package
This is an altogether more versatile and 'professional' package whose main aim is to offer multi-layered/timbral sequencing (overdubbing) to anyone with the right gear. I had the system rigged up to a Commodore SX64 portable computer and the software was on five-and-a-quarter-inch floppy disk.
What it basically offers is a composing package with the capacity to record 9,000 notes or pauses which are divided into six channels of 1,533 steps each. The program will also remember patch changing in mid sequence. You can program each event with a different dynamic value, there are 127 different steps with 1=min and 127=max. All information has to be inputted using the QWERTY keyboard.
As far as signature allocation is concerned, just about any time group can be programmed in. A full note in 4/4 is equal to 96 — and can be divided into any length from one to 96, offering every conceivable differential. The function keys on the Commodore correspond to the following musical values: f1=2/4:48, f3 =1/4:24, f5 = 1/8:12, f7= 1/16:6.
Staccato and Legato can be easily inputted on a QWERTY keyboards using different parameter values. The tempo is variable between 40 and 210 pulses per quarter minute(!). During playback a video clock shows the length of the piece in minutes and seconds.
Similar to the Live Sequencer package, the CMP1.1 software is menu driven with the primary menu offering three modes:
C Composer, M MIDI Control, D Disk Operations.
As the software is also available in cassette form, the last section applies to cassette dump and load operations too. There are basically four major control commands; L=Load, S=Save, R=Rename and S=Scratch. As you can see, it's quite straightforward with the main commands being abbreviated.
Before going further, I feel it's important to point out that although inputting information from a computer's keyboard isn't particularly easy for many musicians after a short while the processes of calling up the channels and allocating each key on the synth's keyboard with a number and its chromatic letter gets ingrained into your brain, and I guarantee after just a short while you'll happily be banging off Czulkayzy's Basque Sonata in B minor within a few minutes.
Vince Hill — Siel's technical consultant and general trouble-shooter-come-operations consultant played a couple of demos — one of which he'd programmed in himself that left me speechless. Like all new technology if you're not willing to invest time and effort into programming you'll get nothing at the end of it. It appeared to me that if using a multi channel/multi Timbral set up, then about 15 minutes slog at the QWERTY would produce about a minute (at average tempo) of music at the other end which is very reasonable.
Returning to the primary menu; the MIDI control offers three levels of MIDI operating.
OMNI mode is for relaying information on channel one of the 16 MIDI channels, to keyboards that are unable to receive on any other such as the DX's. This means that only layering information from one or all of the composer's channels can be transmitted.
Poly Mode: is more or less the opposite of Omni mode, it allows you to give each synth module a designated MIDI channel and thus make each one correspond to one, some, or all of the sequencer channels. This is where the God given amazing multi channel/multi timbral MIDI functions come into the proceedings, enabling the user to produce incredibly complex patterns of music and/or sounds.
Mono Mode: enables the sequencer to make the most from a six voice (or any other poly) synth which has a polytimbric capability, i.e. this means you could have six mono lines each with different presets being run simultaneously from the DK600.
It's impossible to go into all the intricacies of the 'composer language', but it's all based on allocation of sequencer channel and then inputting the information by using the chromatic letter of the required note and its exact position on the keyboard is then shown by a number.
The editing functions are amazingly simple to execute and are mastered in no time at all. To help matters, there's a NEW command that completely wipes the entire memory.
Linking the system to a drum machine for synchronisation in quite simple playback mode the program sends out a sync frequency on 1/24. This is accessed via MIDI out ports on the back of the interface.
So overall the Siel system offers an unparalleled value for money and really should be checked out if you're seriously thinking of making music.
NB: Siel are offering the external updates on all existing Opera 6 keyboards on the market free of charge.
Siel DK600 - Programmable Polysynth
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RotatorSurvey
es una plataforma de software para procesar encuestas, desarrollado por la empresa "Rotator Platform Software Consulting, C.A.", con sede operativa en Caracas, Venezuela. Esta plataforma ofrece herramientas de software para la creación y modelaje de estudios cuantitativos de diversas complejidades que emplean las distintas modalidades de captura de datos: PAPI, CAPI, CATI y CAWI.

Historia

La plataforma de software "Rotator Survey" comenzó a ser desarrollada el 15 de junio de 2003 por Abraham Barrientos (Actual CEO de Rotator Software) a partir de sus experiencias laborales como desarrollador de software y consultor en diversas empresas de investigación de mercados. Desde entonces la empresa ha crecido sostenidamente, logrando mantener, actualizar y ampliar las capacidades de la idea original. Rotator cuenta con usuarios pequeños, medianos y grandes ubicados en todos los países de América Latina incluyendo Brasil, algunos en Europa, Africa y Estados Unidos, teniendo amplia aceptación por las firmas de investigación de mercados de la región y una crítica muy favorable por parte de las principales Universidades de América Latina tales como UNAM, UBB, UCAB, UACJ, UTALCA, entre otras. Rotator está disponible en español, portugués, francés e inglés.

La Empresa
Rotator Software C.A. cuenta con una base de 10 empleados fijos y más de 15 programadores free-lance quienes trabajan remotamente. La compañía se maneja bajo un modelo de negocios basado en descargas para la auto-experimentación y uso básico, el cual permite que los usuarios puedan evaluar la funcionalidad del software, así como realizar pequeños estudios que luego pueden escalar hasta satisfacer las distintas necesidades de modelaje y análisis. La compra del software se realiza a través de una suscripción anual. Se ofrece la versión ACADÉMICA para ser usadas por estudiantes y profesores, así como las versiones INDIVIDUALS, RESARCH TEAMS y ENTERPRISES, pensadas para empresas que se dedican a la actividad de investigación de mercados, opinión pública e investigación social.

Referencias

1. Indriago, Luis (agosto de 2009)."Datos que rotan". Revista Producto Latin America.

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