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Sentinel HASP
Award-winning, out-of-the-box Software Licensing Security Solution
Sentinel HASP enables the use of either software or hardware-based protection keys to enforce software protection and licensing.
With Sentinel HASP, you can increase your profits by protecting against losses from software piracy and intellectual property theft and enable innovative business models to increase value and differentiate your products.
Sentinel HASP fully integrates with your existing software product lifecycle to minimize disruptions to development and business processes. Sentinel HASP features role-based tools and processes that allow your entire staff to focus on their core competencies.
Featuring easy-to-use role-based tools for developers, product managers, order processing and production, Sentinel HASP ensures a short learning curve for the Sentinel dongle reader and optimum use of employee time and core competencies, thus ensuring quick time-to-market and the ability to quickly respond to changing market needs. Increase your operational efficiency, improve your customer satisfaction, gain business insights and capture more revenue opportunities today with our products.
Sentinel HASP provides the industry's strongest, most robust software security solution. For example, Sentinel HASP offers industry-leading support for licensing in virtual environments and is the first and only software licensing and reverse engineering protection tool solution on the market today to support J2EE applications.
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The below article provides information about supported USB devices that have been tested and Certified for passthrough functionality with ESX/ESXi using VMWare:
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Recent trends indicate that in the software industry, pricing and software licensing policies are being made increasingly more flexible in order to improve vendor-customer relationships and grow revenue.
Sentinel HASP features secure software licensing options enabling the offering of attractive software product solutions and pricing models. Sentinel HASP supports multiple software licensing models directly out-of-the-box. Custom or specialized license options are also possible.
All of the above mentioned software licensing models can be locked to a Sentinel HASP HL hardware key or Sentinel HASP SL software key. If the out-of-the box software licenses don't fit your needs, Sentinel HASP also features the flexibility to create custom license models to suit unique business requirements.
Sentinel HASP provides customers with all of the tools necessary to confidently license their applications in virtualized environments. Every customer is unique, which is why Sentinel provides multiple protection schemes for Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) selling their product into a virtualized environment, each with a different level of flexibility.
To ensure you get paid for every software copy being used, Sentinel HASP employs the 128-bit AES encryption algorithm. This creates a robust link between the software application and Sentinel HASP Protection Key – preventing software piracy and ensuring authorized use of the software.
Sentinel HASP maintains your competitive advantage by providing the Intellectual Property Protection for your embedded software applications and application data files.
The Sentinel HASP Envelope is an automatic file wrapper that provides robust intellectual property protection against software reverse engineering through file encryption, code obfuscation, and system-level anti-debugging. This ensures that algorithms, trade secrets, and professional know-how embedded in the software are secured against hackers.
Sentinel HASP 5.1 is the only software licensing solution on the market that provides Method-level protection against reverse engineering of your highly-vulnerable Java2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) applications. Sentinel HASP automatically encrypts and hides your valuable intellectual property from both static code analysis and real-time debugging.
Combining automatic encryption and native code obfuscation, the HASP Envelope technology ensures your Java applications are no longer susceptible to decompiling and run-time modification.
Featuring granular Method-level protection and licensing without the need to implement licensing calls, The HASP Envelope provides superior intellectual property protection that is further hardened by locking to Sentinel's industry-leading HASP HL or HASP SL protection and license enforcement keys.
Sentinel HASP features easy-to-use role-based tools for developers, product managers, order processing and production, ensuring a short learning curve, and optimum use of employee time and core competencies. This provides fast time-to-market and the ability to quickly respond to changing market needs.
Vendor Suite - The Sentinel HASP Vendor Suite is a programmer utility that includes all the tools necessary to protect applications from piracy and Intellectual Property theft.
Business Studio – Sentinel HASP Business Studio is a tool which your product and marketing staff use to prepare their software product for market. It includes all of the tools necessary to appropriately license and lock the application to a Sentinel HASP HL hardware key, or a Sentinel HASP SL software product key AFTER protection is implemented.
Business Studio Server– A component of the Sentinel HASP SRM Business Studio, the Business Studio Server, is used to activate software and perform remote updates, using Product Keys.


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Limerick Unit 1 sets station reliability record of 727 days.
Pottstown, Pennsylvania - Operators safely took Limerick Generating Station Unit 1 off-line for a scheduled refueling and maintenance outage shortly after midnight EDT Monday, March 22. The beginning of this refueling outage completes a successful run of 727 days for Unit 1 and sets a new continuous run record at Limerick. This also represents the second longest continuous run for a boiling water reactor in the United States. "Unit 1 has been online for almost two years, which represents a new record for reliability for Limerick Generating Station," said Chris Mudrick, Limerick site vice president. "The team has been preparing for this outage for more than a year and we are now ready to execute our plan safely and efficiently. A successful refueling outage will help us to safely and reliably operate the unit during the next two years." During the outage, workers will perform approximately 14,000 activities on a variety of plant components and systems. This includes replacing approximately a third of the reactor's fuel and performing a series of extensive inspections. Many of the activities performed during the outage cannot be performed while the plant is running, and all are designed to ensure the safe and reliable production of carbon-free electricity through the 24-month operating cycle. To support this effort, the station will utilize the talents and expertise of close to 1,900 additional workers. These men and women are skilled workers from other Exelon sites, local union halls, travelers from outside the area and specialized vendors. They all provide a temporary benefit for the local economy. Limerick Unit 2 will continue to generate electricity during the Unit 1 outage. Limerick Generating Station is located approximately 21 miles northwest of Philadelphia. With both units at full power, the site can produce enough carbon-free electricity for 2 million homes.

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The set looks even better up close and personal. It's a piece of art.
High rollers choose Hector Saxe because they want nothing left to chance. This luxury backgammon board leaves no doubt you're a serious player.
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LG has launched a new notebook range called Widebook which the South Korean electronics giant claimed offers something for everyone.
LG's Widebook: an odd name for a notebook?
And its claim should hold because the Widebook series consists of five models – the 15.6in R580 and R560, the 14in R480 and R460, and the baby 13.3in R380. All have 16:9 aspect ratio displays with either 1600 x 900 or 1368 x 768 resolutions, depending on your chosen configuration.
LG has installed Intel Core 2 Duo processors into each notebook. Lower ranking models, such as the R380, will presumably ship with the stated 2GB memory, while the 15.6in Widebooks may get the full 4GB memory option.
All five Widebooks feature an Nvidia GeForce graphics chip with up to 1GB of DDR 2 video memory, LG added. The "premium" R580 model is the only Widebook machine to include a Blu-ray drive as standard.
Only the top spec R580 has a Blu-ray drive
All Widebook machines have an integrated 3G modem for wireless web access, and eSata and HDMI ports.
Each Widebook has a 1.3Mp webcam built into the inside of the lid. And, speaking of lids, each notebook has a UV coated top for "enhanced durability".
Low-profile chrome hinges supposedly make the machines "trendy", LG said. But if you really want a super-cool notebook then opt for the R580 or R480, because both include a row of blue backlit quick-access feature buttons.
"Low-profile chrome hinges" make the Widebook machines cool, apparently
The baby R380 is the only notebook of the Widebook series to have a Smart On feature enabling users to boot the machine up in five seconds, LG said. It'll take you to a pared-back Linux distro rather than Windows Vista.
All five Widebook models will be available later this month and in a range of colours, including "shiny white" and "crystal black". Prices haven't been announced. ®


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SAS Taiwan recognized as one of the Best Companies to Work for in Asia 2018
The only Taiwanese software company to receive the award
SAS Taiwan recently received the "Best Companies to Work for in Asia 2018" from the most authoritative human resources management publication, HR Asia. In Taiwan, total of 133 companies, including foreign and local companies, entered the final round and SAS Taiwan was the only software company to receive the award.
The evaluation was conducted by HR Asia from anonymous employee survey of 20 to 50 employees of a company, and companies were scored on "employee engagement", "workplace culture", and "development opportunities". SAS Taiwan scored higher than the average score of all participating companies in all categories. SAS exceeded the average scores by large margins in"Recognition for doing good work", " Included in decision making process", and "Willing to recommend the company to friends and family".
SAS Taiwan Country Manager, Mike Chen stated: "SAS founder Dr. Jim Goodnight believe in that happy and healthy people have a passionate engagement with life – and bring that passion to work. SAS participates in best employer awards in countries across the world each year. We are honored to be added to SAS's global achievements, just as HR Asia comes to Taiwan to conduct the evaluation for the first time!" With regard to the win, Mike Chen added: "The evaluation process has allowed us to learn more about what employees care, discovering that employees attach great importance to independent growth and they are also happy to embrace challenges. It is therefore very important for employees to receive fair feedback and due praise. We shall devote more resources for learning or organize related communities so that this learning organization can continue driving a positive and innovative cycle."
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Wandering Collection – Raccoon Edition [Navy]
$22.00 – $150.00
The Wandering Collection was inspired by the beauty of the backroads and countryside of America. We stumbled upon each of these animals (and so much more!) on our recent cross-country road trip and were richly rewarded by our choice to take the roads less traveled. We found so much joy in taking the slow way – discovering nature and all it has to offer around every bend.
Bring a little wonder to your home with the Wander Collection.
Printed on eco-friendly matte bamboo fiber with archival inks to meet the highest industry standards for lasting color and quality.
Custom sizing is available upon request.
Shipping + Returns
All prints are shipped with great care via wither USPS or UPS (depending on size). Your print will arrive packaged in a protective sleeve and sturdy mailer. Rush shipping options available upon request.
If necessary, additional shipping costs for international orders may be invoiced after sale.
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Hey Everyone! I know a lot of you have been anxiously awaiting my next blog, to find out what is going on, so here goes! So, how much detail do you want? I love to write, so if you have the time, I have the specifics! Pull up a chair and your favorite drink and join me on this journey!
I had come to the conclusion that I would not be able to wait until my regular appt. w/Dr. Yakes after July 4th - so Celia quickly made arrangements for us to head to CO! I believe we headed out on a Wed. - driving from Corpus Christi to San Antonio, TX! The flight would leave San Antonio and get us to Denver in a couple of hours. Soon as we had arrived in San Antonio, I had started working on making sure I would have a humidifier for my trache once I arrived @ the hotel in Denver. Lately, we had been staying @ the Marriott Suites on Monacco that had a kitchen area and a couple of bedrooms. This time though, w/the last minute notice, we ended up having to stay @ the Marriott Tech Center hotel, that Celia ended up liking better. It was a nicer hotel, but no kitchen, darn! Anyway, with all the rushing around, I had forgotten the paper w/the information I needed to get my trache equipment set up, and even though I called the Apria company that I needed to be in touch with, no one seemed to know what I was talking about or what I needed right off! Called Mark for help and there is so much paperwork everywhere that he wasn't able to help me out right away either. Once arriving in Denver though, I tried again and could not believe my luck when I actually reached the SAME GIRL that had been on call the last time I needed the same equipment and she remembered me! What luck! Her name (forgive me if I misspell it) is Shermaleen and she is fantastic! Right away she gave me all the information I would need and I told her what hotel we would be @ and Shermaleen said she would do her best to get me what I needed! By this time it was getting pretty late and I thought there was no way this could be done in time - but you know what? Shermaleen made it happen! Yay! Wow! How do you spell "relief"?! See photos of Shermaleen setting up equipment in hotel room! I'm convinced if it had not been Shermaline on call, my equipment would not have been delivered!
I was to show up @ Swedish the next day (Thursday) by 1:00 p.m I believe to get set up for procedure. I had been told I could have a "light breakfast" @ 5:00 a.m. so I wouldn't go all day w/out eating/drinking - but I didn't want to go there! I know I was added on to the schedule, but do you know what time I was finally taken into surgery? By 8 p.m.! Dr. Yakes himself came to transport me to the surgery area! Can you believe it? To boot, their schedule was just packed and they had only 1 instead of their usual 2 surgery rooms available due to reconstruction or something going on! I remember being concerned that when I get out of surgery that I never have that little cap over my trache tube that allows me to talk or clear my throat and I spoke to Quinn, the Anestheseologist about it. Course first thing I want to do when I wake up is move and all the nurses jumped @ the same time telling me not to bend my leg because of the arteriogram Dr. Yakes had done. So, I start praying for patience to help me through how long the process will take before I'm out of recovery and into a room, etc. One of the male techs/nurses/transporters (?) was trying to make conversation and kept saying to me, "That is such a cute bear, what is her name"? The other nurse kept telling him, "she can't talk right now". He was of course referring to Saba, that I always take w/me on these procedures for love and comfort!
The floor nurse came and introduced herself and I remember her saying something about taking some of the gauze out of my mouth. UGH! No wonder I was feeling all claustrophobic - I had a big wad of gauze inside my mouth! Of course there was more fun to be had - with all the swelling, I would not be able to swallow for a few days! This meant staying in the hospital longer than the usual overnight stay! There is no way I would be released unless I was able to swallow some of my medication in pill form. In some photos, you can see I'm wearing a "hose" like wrap on my arm to keep my IV intact w/out it moving so much. Need to have that for all my meds!
I remember Dr. Yakes saying something about there being a big vein @ the back base of my tongue, and that is where the bleeding had been coming from. So, of course in order to take care of that problem, he had to shoot the area w/16ccs of alcohol, which means swelling and discomfort! I had Dr. Yakes and his P.A. Kelly come by several times during my whole stay to check up on me! I had to laugh @ one point because the nurses were even in awe that Dr. Yakes was actually there in person! They would joke about there being a Dr. Yakes sighting! Celia just missed Dr. Yakes a couple of times, but I grabbed my phone and took a photo, although not a very good one! He had asked if I wanted him to bring me some books, because he saw I was reading and was enjoying myself. Told him that Celia was out doing the very thing for me, so no bother. He even offered to put another blanket on for me because it was a little nippy in the room!
I just have to say how Celia just went above and beyond the call of duty during this trip. I felt so bad for what I was putting her through, but her thoughts were only of how she could make things better for me! Shortly after I was put in a room, I didn't feel like doing much of anything! Celia would ask me if I wanted the TV on or whether I wanted to walk down the hall and my answer was always no. I felt like a zombie and didn't want any added noise, distractions or anything going on! Later, I did take her up on walking down the hall! Saw the bulletin board of photos of some of my favorite nurses! Course there is Dave LaBadie - he is one of the "original dream team" - from the very first procedure I had @ Swedish! To the "original Saba", and others that have become friends like Zufan, Becky, Judi, Nate and Victoria! Victoria always has a smile and remembers me!
Little did I know the fun was just beginning though! Dr. Yakes said for the next couple of weeks that I could only have "soft food" and I wondered what he really meant by that. He mentioned eggs, mashed potatos and pudding. I started figuring out anything I didn't have to chew, like a piece of meat - things like jello and yogurt! You can see where I have a syringe in my mouth - one of the nurses suggested I try that to get some food in my stomach!
I want to get this blog out, so I'm just writing and putting all the photos I have between my phone and what Celia took w/her camera! Would you believe I had a small therapy dog come by? The lady that trains him even gave me his card, but I can't find it right now to tell you his name, but he is a Lasso Apso (sp?). Our dogs Hanz an Bella are often mistaken for this breed! Speaking of our babies - I was happy that Celia was w /me on this trip, since I ended up having to stay longer than expected, @ least Hanz and Bella were home with Mark!
After getting home from Colorado, I started noticing it was hurting to swallow. I knew I wanted to see my primary care physician again before heading back to work, to make sure I had plenty of refills on all my meds and was taking everything correctly! My tongue also felt like it had been cut many times with a razor blade - ouch! When I went to see my PCP, Dr. Boynton, he diagnosed me as having "thrush" 0r a yeast infection in my mouth from all the steroids I had been taking! Yikes! Dr. Boynton said it would be @ least 48 hours before I would feel better, but it turned out to be more like 4 days! My hands were also pretty dried up from the steroids, causing cuts and bleeding! Ooooh that reminds me, I had a terrible bleed from my mouth a few days ago! I was using a Q-tip to get food away from my gums and boy that bleeding came fast and furious! Had to pack my mouth with gauze to have it finally stop! I'm posting this and will add to it as I remember more!
Those steroids sure are a catch 22! On the one hand, I knew Dr. Boynton wanted me to wean myself off of them, little steps @ a time - but I also felt like I couldn't because they were helping with the swelling on my tongue! Course if I didn't wean off of them, not only does it slow the healing process, but then the next time I would need to take steroids, then they wouldn't work for me because I didn't get off of them like I should! Ugh! Stop the insanity already!
Meanwhile, I'm up @ all hours of the night w/the steroids, keeping Mark up and every time I get up to get a snack, the dogs get up and follow me into the kitchen or wherever I'm headed! I've been getting by on a couple hours sleep a night and I try and make up for it during the day here and there!
Here is a picture Celia took of a rabbit outside the hotel!


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Fewer Americans are living with hepatitis C, because more have died
The number of Americans who are infected with hepatitis C is falling, but that's probably because more people who have been sickened by the virus are dying as a result, government researchers reported Monday.
After analyzing data from thousands of people who participated in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated that about 1% of the population over age 5 have hepatitis C. If so, that would translate to 2.68 million people with the virus, known as HCV.
In addition, the researchers estimated that 900,000 additional people once had the liver disease but no longer have an active infection. Altogether, 1.3% of of the population has a past or current HCV infection, according to a study published in Tuesday's edition of Annals of Internal Medicine.
All of these figures are based on survey data collected between 2003 and 2010. Previous studies have estimated that 1.6% of Americans had a past or current HCV infection in the years 1999 to 2002, along with 1.8% of the population in the years 1988 to 1994.
At first glance, the declining prevalence of HCV might seem like good news. But the authors of the new study in Annals think something else is going on.
If better treatments were curing patients, then the statistics would show a decrease in the number of people with current HCV infections and an increase in the number of people infected with HCV. Instead, the number of people in both groups has been falling in parallel. This "supports the suggestion that mortality among chronically infected persons has increased," they wrote.
Hepatitis C is a dangerous infection of the liver that has become the No. 1 cause of cirrhosis, liver cancer and liver transplants in the U.S., according to the CDC. Some patients who contract HCV recover in a matter of weeks, but at least 75% develop chronic infections that can last for the rest of their lives. The virus can be spread through contact with infected blood, and health experts estimate that hepatitis C now kills more Americans each year than HIV.
The CDC researchers also analyzed the data to identify risk factors associated with HCV infection. Compared with Americans who never had the virus, those with chronic infections were more likely to have received a blood transfusion before 1992 and to have injected illicit drugs. However, 49% of people with chronic infections had neither of these risk factors in their history, the researchers reported. Therefore, "risk-based screening alone is an incomplete approach to identifying chronically infected persons," they wrote.
People with hepatitis C were also more likely to be men; to be between the ages of 40 and 59; to have less education; and to have lower family income, according to the study.
Overall, 81% of all people with chronic hepatitis C were born between 1945 and 1965. This is why the CDC recommends that all people born during that window get tested at least once. Such screening would flag about 800,000 people who otherwise wouldn't know they were infected; if all of them got treatment, an estimated 120,000 deaths due to HCV could be avoided, the researchers wrote.
"The health impact of advances in HCV therapy can be realized only when HCV-infected persons are tested, identified, and linked to appropriate care and treatment," they wrote.
The study authors are from the CDC's National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention in Atlanta and the National Center for Health Statistics in Hyattsville, Md.
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DiS' countdown to Latitude concludes, as the event starts tomorrow... DiS will be there all weekend, recording sessions and interviews, keep an hour on our site, Facebook and Twitter for news updates, photos, and possible news of some pop-up shows.
In an attempt to make the sprawling Latitude Festival line-up a little more digestible, DiS' editor is suggesting 15 acts you should draw a circle around and double-underline in your programme. As an official media for this year's event, we have created a mini-site for the festival, where you can our other must-see picks plus news about this year's event and photos & reviews of previous years. You'll find all of that and more right here: drownedinsound.com/lists/latitude-festival.
Today's list of names which you
can should see at Henham Park near Sothwold in Suffolk between the 12th and 15th July 2012, don't go together, and we're not going to waffle on about them too much, as you read this site and you know your onions, rights?
Bat for Lashes
Natasha Kahn returns with her third album later this year. We can expect the usual mixture of dark-pop and noir-disco-hymns and misty-ballads and yuhknow, all the goodness that she's become known for since releasing her debut single on DiS' label waaaay back when.
I Break Horses
These Scandinavians really know how to turn throbbing electronics into a wall of shoegaze joy. Their live show is intense but uplifting and fans of M83, MBV and things which aren't three letters beginning with M should shimmy on over to catch them.
Speaking of M83...
Those hues of John Hughes movies and sprawling roadtrip anthemics are going to send Latitude's collective limbs into a spin. Will Caroline be dancing?
This Canadian living in Paris is the world's only rap-classical crossover superstar. He can make you laugh up a lung and then play a song that sends you a shiver through your heart. A true genius.
Twin Shadow
His new album has taken the indie-world by storm (although apparently would be being slated if he was a lady, like Lana). Half the empty dark heart of Interpol, counter-balanced by the joyful retro-future soul of Peter Gabriel, The Police and Prince.
Latitude is the award-winning festival which takes at Henham Park on the beautiful Sunrise Coast. Bon Iver, Elbow and Paul Weller are all set to headline the 7th Edition which takes place from 12th 'til the 15th July 2012. latitudefestival.co.uk
Visit: DiS' Latitude Festival mini-site featuring reviews and photos of previous years, and details about this year's event
DiS has put together a Spotify playlist featuring a heap of acts you can watch.
The festival have also put together an official playlist:


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The Community Rating System (CRS) provides credit for a full range of public information activities that inform people about flooding and ways to address potential flood damage to their property, including map information, outreach projects, real estate disclosure, libraries, websites, and providing technical advice and assistance. Research shows that when public information efforts are planned and coordinated, people will take steps to protect themselves from flood damage. The CRS provides additional credit for public outreach efforts that are coordinated through an adopted program for public information.
The multijurisdictional Monroe County Program for Public Information (PPI) is an ongoing local effort to identify, prepare, implement, and monitor a range of public information activities that meet specific local needs. The CRS credits the implementation of public outreach projects identified in a PPI. Through the PPI planning process, projects are monitored, evaluated, and revised to improve their effectiveness. The credit awarded to this plan under the CRS program will help each participating community in Monroe County to move toward a higher discount on flood insurance.
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This article explains the implications of buffer sizes and latency, including how different sample rates have an effect on them.
Buffer Size
When you are recording audio with your interface, you might notice a slight delay in the audio coming back to you. This is because the computer needs time in order to process the audio, and then route it back out of your interface.
The amount of time that this takes is in part controlled by the buffer size, which you can set yourself. You can adjust the buffer size for your current requirements. Using a lower buffer size (and therefore getting less latency) gives your CPU less time to process the audio and therefore the CPU must work much harder to process the audio in that amount of time.
The real objective is to find a buffer size low enough that your CPU can handle before it has to work too hard. You will notice when it's working too hard because there will be problems with the audio, such as crackling, stretching and even dropouts.
To reiterate, when setting your buffer size, what you are doing in effect is giving the CPU of your computer a designated period of time to process audio, before it is passed to and from the interface and the recording software. A higher buffer size will create a longer latency, a lower buffer size will create a shorter latency.
Latency is measured in milliseconds. Depending on the interface, the buffer size will be set in either samples or milliseconds. A buffer size that is set in samples equates to a certain amount of time, but that amount of time is dependant on the sample rate (amount of samples per second). The higher the sample rate, the less amount of time (milliseconds) that the buffer size equates to. Let's say you have set a buffer size of 512 samples. The amount of time (milliseconds) that 512 samples actually equates to, will depend on how long it takes for 512 samples to occur. At higher sample rates, samples happen more quickly (there are more in one second) and therefore 512 samples is a shorter period of time. At lower sample rates, there are fewer samples in a second and therefore 512 samples is a longer period of time. If you set your buffer size in milliseconds and not samples, then you are controlling the overall latency in time, and the buffer is adjusted accordingly for each sample rate so that you always get the latency that you have set in milliseconds.
On a Mac system, the buffer size is set in your DAW - usually in the Audio section of the Preferences page (DAWs may vary).
On a PC system, the buffer size is set either in MixControl, or the Audio Control Panel.
How much latency is too much?
To get an idea of how long one millisecond is, it's best to give some real-world examples that people are familiar with:
Blinking your eye takes between 300 and 400 milliseconds in total, on average.
The time it takes for the sound of a snare drum to reach a drummer's ears, is about 2.1 milliseconds.*
If two people stand at the opposite ends of a double-decker bus (assuming its maximum length of 15 metres), there is a 43-millisecond delay when they speak (or shout) to each other.*
* These examples assume that the speed of sound in air is 343 m/s.
Why can I still hear latency?
The latency that you set using your buffer size (and sample rate) is not the only latency that eventually impacts the sound by the time it reaches your ears. Software can introduce latency. Some plugins cause latency. Some computers have more, or less, latency than others. When connected via a hub, the latency/performance trade-off is less favourable and you may need a higher buffer size.
Generally, the better a computer is, the less latency that it will incur on its own, but this depends on the condition of the computer, and its load at the time. This is another reason to keep your computer in good order. Have a look at our Windows 7 and Windows XP optimisation guides to help keep your computer running well.
Zero/Ultra-Low Latency Tracking and Direct Monitor
Our interfaces offer Zero or Ultra Low Latency Tracking and Direct Monitor options to further help circumvent the issue of latency as much as possible.
Zero/Ultra-Low Latency Tracking is a Routing Preset in Saffire MixControl and Scarlett MixControl. What this does is assign 'Mix 1' to each of the unit's analogue outputs. By default, 'Mix 1' is a combination of all analogue inputs and DAW 1/2, mixed together. The analogue inputs represent a direct feed from the inputs, and so by assigning Mix 1 to the outputs, this essentially routes the inputs straight to the outputs, meaning that you can monitor your recording source (whatever you have plugged into the inputs) without that audio being passed to the computer first. This means that you can hear yourself without the latency incurred from the computer having to process the audio. Mix 1 also contains DAW 1/2, so that you can hear your backing track.
Direct Monitor, which is available on our interfaces that do not have MixControl software, offers the same essential feature as the above. When using Direct Monitor you hear the audio from your recording source before it is passed to the computer, again negating input latency in the same way as above - you will however still hear audio passed from the computer regardless.
When using these features, it is highly recommended that you mute the channel you are recording into in your recording software. If you do not do this, then you may hear a 'doubling effect' or echo. This is because you hear the direct sound (before it is passed to the computer) and then you hear the same audio that has been processed by the computer afterwards. Muting the track you are recording into prevents this, as you will only hear the recording source directly.
Further information on setting up MixControl can be found in our MixControl tutorials.
As always if you have any questions or concerns, you can get in touch with us through our Support Contact Form and we will be happy to help.


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Submit listings at www.fosters.com/calendar. (Send longer articles, photographs to email@example.com as word files and attached .jpg photo files.)
DOVER — Mosaic - Our Multicultural Neighborhood, Sunday, Mar. 24, from noon to 5 p.m., Children's Museum of New Hampshire, 6 Washington St., Dover; Gallery 6 at the Children's Museum of NH is celebrating the state's growing diversity. Free.
BARRINGTON — Barrington Recreation Senior Adult Card Sessions, Monday, Mar. 25, from 12:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m., Barrington Town Gym, 105 Ramsdell Lane, Barrington; Join other senior adults in the community for an afternoon of playing the card game Whist. $1/$5 Prior registration required. Jenny Johnson, 603-664-5224, email@example.com, barrington.nh.gov/Pages/BarringtonNH_Rec/whist.
NEWMARKET — New Market Historical Society Meeting, Monday, Mar. 25, from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., Stone School Museum, 2 Granite St., Newmarket; New Market Historical Society hosts it's first meeting of 2013. Free. Michael Provost, 603-781-7116, email@example.com, www.newmarketnhhistoricalsociety.org.
GREENLAND — Dissent Among the Puritans, Tuesday, Mar. 26, from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m., Weeks Public Library, 36 Post Road, Greenland; A living history presentation. Free. Denise Grimse, 603-436-8548, firstname.lastname@example.com, www.weekslibrary.org.
MADBURY — Hydrangea Love Affair: Old Favorites and New Varieties, Tuesday, Mar. 26, at 6:30 p.m., Madbury Town Hall, 13 Town Hall Road, Madbury; Jeff O'Donal, O'Donal's Nursery, will share his knowledge about this well-loved flowering shrub. Free. Sheila McCurdy, 603-659-5623, firstname.lastname@example.com.
NORTHFIELD — Homicide Survivor Support Group- Lakes Region Group, Tuesday, Mar. 26, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., Northfield Police Department, 138 Park St., Northfield; This support group is for homicide survivors. Joelle Donnelly, 603-271-3671.
ROCHESTER -- NAMI NH Parents Meeting the Challenge educational series, Tuesday, Mar. 26, from 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., Parents Meeting the Challenge at Frisbie Memorial Hospital, 11 Whitehall Road, Rochester; The National Alliance on Mental Illness NH (NAMI NH) is offering a FREE educational program. Free. Susan Allen-Samuel, 603-225-5359 x 328, email@example.com, www.naminh.org/education/family-education/pmc.
STRATHAM -- Make Sure It's Me/NH: A Community Discussion on Traumatic Brain Injury, Tuesday, Mar. 26, from 6:30 p.m. to 7:45 p.m., Wiggin Memorial Library, 10 Bunker Hill Ave., Stratham; A Discussion of Traumatic Brain Injury Experienced by American Military Service Members. Free. Tricia Ryden, 603-772-4346, library.strathamnh.gov.
PORTSMOUTH -- Senior Luncheon, Thursday, Mar. 28, from noon to 1:30 p.m., Families First Health & Support Center, 100 Campus Dr., Suite 12, Portsmouth; Senior luncheons are held the second Tuesday and fourth Thursday of each month. $4 Families First, 603-422-8208 x 333, www.familiesfirstseacoast.org/calendar2.html.
ROCHESTER -- Bingo, Thursday, Mar. 28, at 6:30 p.m., VFW POST # 1772, 43 Highland St., Rochester; This bingo supports sending care packages to our deployed troops. $15+ Doss, email@example.com, www.wecarepackers.org.
SOUTH BERWICK -- Early New England Church Silver and the First Federated Church Collection, Thursday, Mar. 28, from 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m., Berwick Academy, 31 Academy St., South Berwick, ME; Barbara Ward will discuss the characteristics of early New England church silver. Free. Old Berwick Historical Society, 207-384-0000, email@example.com, www.oldberwick.org.
DURHAM -- Family Program: Draw On!, Saturday, Mar. 30, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Museum of Art, 30 Academic Way, University of New Hampshire, Durham; Join us for this hands-on community event for all ages. Free. Catherine Mazur, 603-862-3712, firstname.lastname@example.com, www.unh.edu/moa/events.html.
SOMERSWORTH -- La Grande Fete - Celebration of French Heritage, Saturday, Mar. 30, from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m., Canal St. Mills, 36 Canal St., Suite 202, Somersworth; A Celebration of French-Canadian Heritage in Somersworth. Alexis Kochka, 603-978-9225, firstname.lastname@example.com, www.friendsofsomersworth.com.
BARRINGTON — TOPS stands for Take Off Pounds Sensibly and its purpose is to help people who want to lose weight to do so wisely and healthily. This chapter meets every Tuesday night basically from 6:30 to 7:45 p.m. at the Restoration Church on Rte. 125 next to the Federal Savings Bank. Both men and women (and children) are welcome to join. Patricia Newhall, Weight Recorder, 664-2816.
DOVER/ROLLINSFORD — Knitting For World Peace is a group of volunteers who knit, crochet, quilt and use fiber to create items for community members in need. They meet at Panera Bread, Dover, on Wednesday, 6:30-8 p.m.; and Sun Moon Stars Herbals, 38 Front St., Rollinsford, Sundays 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Call Lin Richard at 603-337-5124 for more information.
The Seacoast Community Garden Network website can be found at www.SeacoastCommunityGardenNetwork.org and is on Facebook at "Seacoast Community Garden Network." For more information, contact Jenny Isler, firstname.lastname@example.com, 207-809-3102.
DOVER — Create a peaceful world by sustaining our future. For over 5 years a multimedia discussion series has explored building community and sustaining the earth's resources through sessions on renewable/nonrenewable energy, food issues, economic, financial and health issues. Wednesdays, 7 p.m., Dover Friends Meeting, 141 Central Ave, Dover.
DOVER — The GFWC Dover Area Woman's Club meets the second Wednesday of each month at Wentworth-Douglass Hospital, 6:30 p.m. The organization is looking for women 18 and older to join. The club strives to enhance the lives of others through community service. For more information call 603-842-4654.
DOVER — Dover Duplicate Bridge Club games are held on Tuesdays at 6:30 p.m. in the McConnell Center on Locust Street. Games are open to players of all abilities and are stratified. Coffee and desserts are served. The cost is $5 per person. Contact Carl Vancelette at 664-7129 or e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com for more information.
DOVER — The Widowed Support Group of Southern New Hampshire meets at Wentworth-Douglass Hospital, 2nd floor auditorium, second Sundays of the month. For information call Toni, 742-0208.
KENNEBUNK, Maine — The Astronomical Society of Northern New England (ASNNE) meets on the first Friday of the month at the New School, 38 York St. (Route 1) in Kennebunk. Beginning Astronomy classes start at 6:45 pm. Regular meeting at 7:30 pm Please see the club's website for details (asnne.org).
KINGSTON — The Sit 'n' Stitch group meets every first and third Tuesday from 5:30-7 p.m. in the children's room of the Nichols Memorial Library, 169 Main St., Kingston. 603-642-3521.
LEE — The Lee Firemen's Association meets on third Tuesdays monthly at 7 p.m., at the Lee Safety Complex. For more information, call Barbara Gingras at 659-3919.
NOTTINGHAM — Do you love horses? Have you always wanted to learn to ride? Join the 4-H Deerfield Riders Horse Club. The club is open to ages 8 and up and will focus on horses, horse management, and styles of riding. You do not need to own a horse to join! For more information, call Kim Gilman at (603) 509-7366.
OLD ORCHARD BEACH, Maine — The Zonta Club of York County meets the second Thursday of the month, September through June, at 6 p.m. at the Captain's Galley Restaurant in Old Orchard Beach. For more information, contact the club president, KT Snyder, at email@example.com or at www.zontadistrict1.org.
PORTLAND, Maine — The Maine Good Sam RV Club, area chapters throughout Maine focus on family friendly RV fun, as well as activities that "give back to the community." For information go to www.MaineGoodSams.org or firstname.lastname@example.com.
PORTSMOUTH — The Knit-Wits have changed their name to Sit 'n Stitch and now welcome all needle crafters.Meeting every Wednesday from 10-Noon, the Sit 'n Stitch gathering offers an open space to knit, crochet, embroider or work on other lap work.It's a time to pick up tips and share projects.All skill levels and ages welcome!The meeting is held in the Hilton Garden Room on the second floor of the library at 175 Parrott Avenue.
For more information please contact librarian, Lisa Harling at 603-766-1713 or via email, email@example.com.
PORTSMOUTH — The Portsmouth Area NAACP Unit holds its monthly meetings on the first Monday of each month, unless the first Monday falls on a holiday weekend or there is extreme inclement weather in which case the meeting will be held on the second Monday. The general membership meeting begins at 7 pm. The meeting location is: One New Hampshire Avenue Portsmouth, (Pease Tradeport) 03801. Meetings are held in the third floor conference room, take the elevator. For more information contact Fred Purnell at 603-749-6362 or visit www.seacoastnaacp.com.
PORTSMOUTH — The Portsmouth Toastmasters club meets from 7-9 p.m. at the United Methodist Church on Miller Avenue in Portsmouth on the first and third Thursday of every month. Guests are always welcome. Contact bessette. email@example.com. Visit www.toastmasters.org for more information.
PORTSMOUTH — Great Bay Duplicate Bridge Club meets at 10 a.m. every Monday at First United Methodist Church, 129 Miller Avenue in Portsmouth. You may come without a partner. Refreshments available. Short break for lunch. For information visit www.greatbaybridge.com or call (603) 436-8357.
ROCHESTER — Rochester Humane Lodge 21 was constituted March 1810 and Chartered in 1811. It has a long history of chartitable fund raising and local community involvement and islocated at 31 Hanson St in Rocheser. Our meetings are held several times a month. For more information or membership contact Secetary Jeff Brown at 603-320-7010.
ROCHESTER — All are welcome at the monthly Healing Circle in the Community & Education Center next to Frisbie Memorial Hospital in Rochester. We meet the 4th Wednesday of every month from 7 to 8:30 p.m.
WAKEFIELD — Community String Band in Wakefield: Come Join the Fun! Come and learn to play traditional music with others (jigs, reels, hornpipes, waltzes and other tunes) in a very supportive and fun atmosphere! No previous experience needed. All instruments welcome. Thursday evenings at the First Congregational Church of Wakefield, 2718 Wakefield Rd., across from the Wakefield Inn. A group for beginners starts at 6, and a mixed levels group begins at 7. Classes are $10 and are taught by wonderful multi-instrumentalist Seth Austen. Call 522-3189 for more information.


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Drawing City-Block Style Maps
City-block style maps (sometimes referred to as "European-style") are characterized by their use of negative space. Shapes – in the form of city blocks – define the positive space, whereas the road areas are negative space. Ortelius excels at designing modern style road maps, with connectable tracks and built-in symbols, and it also has great tools for creating city-block style maps.
Tutorial Details
Program : Ortelius 1.x+
Difficulty: Intermediate
Topics Covered: Combining Objects
Estimated Completion Time: 45 minutes
Source Map
In this example, we trace city blocks from this 1892 map of Odessa (Ukraine, formerly Russia), Wagner & Debe. Some cartographic sleuthing: the map is undated, but was possibly produced earlier than 1892, as the Protestant Hospital, completed in 1892, is not shown (source: North Dakota State University Library online).
When setting up our drawing file, the source map is placed on its own layer and a new layer is created, called "Blocks," to hold our new drawing objects.
Drawing With the Irregular Polygon Tool
Any of Ortelius' drawing tools can be used when creating city blocks. Your choice of tool will often depend on the layout and orientation of the blocks you are drawing. The Irregular Polygon tool is an extremely flexible choice when blocks are irregular in shape and orientation. Use the Irregular Polygon tool and a color-filled style to draw individual city blocks, clicking on each corner of the shape. When your final point is placed on top of your first point, the polygon will close automatically. Making sure polygons are closed will assure proper display, particularly if blocks are outlined.
Hint: To clip blocks neatly to maps edges, temporarily disable Layer > Clip Objects To Map Layer in the main menu and draw shapes slightly beyond the map border. Enable it again when you are finished drawing your blocks.
Drawing With the Bezier Path Tool
People are sometimes (quite pleasantly) surprised at how advanced Ortelius' Bezier Path tool is for drawing shapes with straight lines and curves. Choose the Bezier Path tool and a color-filled style. Although you are drawing a path, it will be represented as a filled object when an area style is applied. Single-click on corner points to trace corners; click and drag curve handles to draw curves; hold the CMND or OPT modifier keys while adjusting the curve handles. Placing your last point on top of the first point automatically ends the path. Optionally, you can formally close the path by choosing Edit > Paths & Tracks > Close from the main menu. Curve handles can be further adjusted as needed.
If you are unfamiliar working with Bezier curves in Ortelius, try your hand with our hands-on exercises.
♥ Hands-on exercise. See Ortelius File > New From Template > Exercises & Demos > 2-Paths Exercise.
Combining Objects
When faced with situations such as this circle with an internal median area (a classic doughnut!), try drawing the circle using the Oval tool and a line symbol then clipping the area out using the Combine > Difference command. Begin this technique by drawing the positive space (the road) and then subtracting it from the background to create your negative space. This technique is described in detail below.
Draw 'Positive Space' In Gridded Areas
Where city blocks are laid out in a regularly gridded pattern you can quickly create blocks using path outlines and a few Combine operations. Begin by drawing the road grid with Paths or Tracks. Note you can draw roads of varying widths. Next, draw the background shape (shown here in green) and send it backward under the roads by choosing Graphic > Send To Back from the main menu. We draw the background shape last so you can see your source map while tracing the roads ;).
Edit > Paths & Tracks > Outline
Next, select the roads and choose Edit > Paths & Tracks > Outline from the main menu to turn the roads from lines into polygons.
Combine > Union
Combine all the new road polygons into a single object by selecting them and choosing Combine > Union from the main menu.
Create 'Negative Space' Combine > Difference
With the background and foreground polygons selected, choose Combine > Difference from the main menu. The roads will be subtracted from the background polygon creating negative space. The blocks are a single object when selected.
Combine > Break Apart
If further editing is desired, select the blocks object and choose Combine > Break Apart from the main menu. Each block is now its own individual shape object. Optionally, even further refinement is achieved by selecting a block and converting it from a shape to a path (chose Graphic > Convert To Path from the main menu). Each individual corner node can then be moved and edited. Path objects can be converted back to shape objects at any time.
Working with all blocks as a single object is the most efficient way to re-color and symbolize the map. Once you are satisfied with the layout of the blocks, select all and choose Combine > Append to combine all blocks into a single object again.
Add Text
Unlike road features drawn with the Track tool, roads in a city-block style map are not objects – they are negative space. Use the Text Box and Text On Path tools to add label text for roads. To label city blocks and other features, right click the objects and choose Add Label.
Some differences between maps with roads as primary feature vs. blocks as primary feature…
neither "right or wrong" it just depends on the style you're looking for > both use in large scale (local scale) mapping good for showing neighborhoods, towns, small cities;
some applications of city block style > tourism maps, land use planning maps, location maps, campus maps, pedistrian maps, etc.
Differences (pros/cons)
1. blocks can be easily attributed, e.g., land use/land cover or districts, and new styles applied; can add style components such as shadows to enhance look; because they are negative space and not repersented with objects, street text must be placed with Text tool rather than labeling function associated with point, line, and polygon features;
blocks as focus can result in a more organic looking map with irregular shaped blocks and streets – show nooks and cranies, etc., tends to feature the city blocks as the most prominent feature so good for applications where this is important
2. road maps (with tracks) are more easily labeled using tracks; similar look can be had using cased line styles and connector tracks (show example) though result is more regular spacing; can have background ploygons behind road network to show land use or districts; tends to feature road network as most prominant feature so good for transportation/navigation purposes
Using the techniques described above, you can create your own fully editable European-style city block map. With Ortelius' slick style swapping, the look of your map is easily updated to create unique versions of this classic map style.


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Banks Make Smartphone Connection
Americans are growing increasingly comfortable using their mobile phones to conduct basic financial transactions, sending banks racing to offer new technology that will cut down on costly customer-service calls and branch visits.
The moves represent a big change from just a few years ago, when customers mostly used their phones to check bank balances or find the nearest branch. Customers now are manipulating their gadgets to deposit checks and move money between accounts.
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TIM SKUBICK: Inconsistent or just plain hypocritical?
At the very least senate Democrats are terribly inconsistent. At the very worse it's a classic example of political hypocrisy.
Roll the tape back to last December. There were 12,000 angry demonstrators on the capitol lawn, kept in check by 500 state troopers and half a dozen mounted police on horse back.
Inside the building, Democrats were just as whipped up because they knew the Right to Work train was chugging along and within hours it would roll over the Democrats and the demonstrators. Republicans would rewrite a chapter in Michigan's historic labor movement book that none of the RTW opponents wanted to read.
Among one of the more vocal protestations that day was that the Republicans were moving this bill without adequate committee hearings. Usually the legislative process is quite deliberative, some would argue too much so, but in this instance,the criticism went, RTW was being jammed down the throat of labor without even giving labor a chance to open its mouth and say ahhhh.
Democrats were beside themselves that the Republicans would do this. Never mind that the Republicans refuted the criticism, the Democrats would not back off their criticism regarding the apparent lack of due process.
Fast forward to June 20th. Gov. Rick Snyder, frazzled from a cross Atlantic flight from Israel, was demanding that the senate GOP take up, right now, his Medicaid expansion bill. Firmly in his corner where those same anti-RTW Democrats but warbling a different tune this time.
"Vote on it today," protested Senate Democratic leader Gretchen Whitmer.
Hold the phone, retorted her GOP counterpart Sen. Randy Richardville. The senate GOP leader's caucus was telling him in no uncertain terms that it wanted more time to study this issue. The governor and Democrats were demanding that he and they run this without a committee hearing. In other words jam it through now.
In what amounts to a classic case of wanting it both ways, Sen. Whitmer et.al. were now willing to conveniently abandoned the time-honored committee process in favor of swift action.
What was the major difference here and the reason for the change of heart?
It's obvious. She and they did not want Right to Work and would do anything to delay it but they wanted health insurance for needy families, many of whom make up the Democratic political base, and to heck with the committee process.
Take your pick, hypocrisy or inconsistency?
And just to tie up a loose end regarding the GOP senate revolt against their own governor on this issue, turns out there was probably more at play than just the desire to go slow.
To be certain there were a handful of senators who were not going to vote for this insurance stuff because it did not mesh with their concept of wanting smaller government.
But there was also a group that had access to some internal polling data that suggested if they sided with the governor, it might hurt the senator's chances of being re-elected.
Can you say self-preservation?
The MIRS newsletter folks discovered that the Glengariff Group had documented what everyone in town knew already: The governor is not very popular back home. His job approval rating is "underwater" in 37 of the state's 38 senate districts. And Republicans reside in 26 of those districts.
You can take it from there.
Why would these potentially at-risk senators want to "win one for the Gipper" if the Gipper was going to cost them their jobs next year?
When it comes to saving your own neck or the governor's, this is not a close call.
The only remaining question is which is worse: Self-preservation at the expense of public policy or inconsistency and hypocrisy trumping the legislative process?
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ITAL (i-tôl) taken from the English word vital to mean pure, natural and unrefined. Can be used to describe clean from unclean or healthy from unhealthy.
Ital, is a terminology that originated in Jamaica, with the rise of the Rastafarians in the early nineteen thirties, and describes the essence of their culture. It dictates a natural way of life and doesn't make any distinction between, or place less or more value on the lives of animals than on humans. It sees everything and its quality, or lack thereof, for what it is. The Ital way is unpretentious, pragmatic, organic and wholesome in its nature. It applies logics to the mundane, asking real questions about the nature of man's appetite. Do you eat to live, or do you live to eat? Is the question.
It is out of the common practice of Rastas to drop the first syllable of a word and replace it with "i" that brought about a vocabulary that created a language within a language. E.g. create = ireate, universe = iniverse, spirit = irit, meditate = ititate, vital = ital, etc. Ital is to the Rastafarians what Kosher is to the Jews and Halal is to the Muslims. It is the natural way of Rasta and is a consciousness that dictates a discipline that Rastas call livity.
The awareness of self from an organic perspective is the impetus for natural and organic consumerism. But it is the connectedness to non-human animals to the point of their rights and entitlement to life, that more or less makes a vegan vegetarian. Both paradigms are important factors in the context of ital and as such, italist in the strictest sense of the word, follows a code of discipline that cultivates love for life and nature in all it's untouched forms.
By choosing Ital, our motivation is to preserve the natural environment and to protect it's lifeforms from violence. We believe that Ital consciousness in its prorogation, is a valuable asset in promoting health and wellbeing, while restoring balance to the Eco-system. One of the goals of the
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We are a grassroots organization that sees the need to plant seeds and sprout roots, bringing forth the ripest fruits for the future generations.
If you have ever had the experience of holding one of these little chicks in your hand, you will immediately feel the connection. That connection is valuable in our development as human animals. It makes us compassionate and helps us put perspective on how we affect our natural environment's Eco-systems.


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The chances of you existing:
If you go back 10 generations (250 years) the chance of you being born at all is at most 1 divided by 6 x 10100 or
1 in 60000000000000000000000000000000000 00000000000000000000000000 000000000000000000000000000000000000.
In gambling, even a chance of 1 to 100 is not worth a gamble.
Are you ever lucky to be alive!!
If you go back 1 million years or 40 000 generations (each generation is considered 25 years), your chance of being born is at most 1 in 1.8 x 10403167 or
18 with 403,166 zeros after the 1.
In other words your chances of existing is essentially zilch, even if we were considering this possibility only a short 250 years ago.
Right now you do exist, so the actual chance is 100%, but the predicted likelihood in the past of you being born would be essentially zero.
The calculations of these numbers (calculations shown below) tend to overestimate your chances of being.
They only include numbers based on your father's contribution, his father's contribution, his father's contribution, and so on. In other words the calculations are based only on the direct male line.
They do NOT include the following factors that would make the chances of your existence even less:
- your mother's contribution
- the men and women that died in war, famine, disease without or with fewer offspring-- in some generations 50% of humanity.
- the men and women that died from natural causes.
- children that died before reaching the age of reproduction.
- fetuses and fertilized eggs that died.
You are the result of many generations of survivors. One of the people that died prematurely could have been your Dad or your Dad's Dad and so on. Somehow, none of your forefathers died before passing on his genes to the next man in your lineage. Because of the deaths mentioned most human lineages died out, while luckily yours survived. Lo and behold, here you are!
Because of these deaths, your odds of existing were actually much less than the odds given below.


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Raytown's Ray- An Aquatic Cryptid
s8int.com notes that this announcement is put out by the local visitor's bureau whose express goal is: "to develop and implement strategic marketing initiatives, which will result in increased visitation to the region."
Hmmm, sure hope that an announcent about a local "seamonster" doesn't hurt tourism.
Huntingdon County Visitors Bureau
- PRESS RELEASE April 2006
Raystown Ray TM
"We've known it's been in there a while now," admitted Managing Director of Raystown Lake Dwight Beall when he was asked his thoughts on this astonishing discovery.
"It's a private creature, but it comes out around this time of year. Call it Raystown's own Punxatawny Phil."
Call it what you will, but this is no ground hog swimming in the water. It seems that our favorite Pennsylvania lake may now have a mascot.
When asked his professional opinion, Jeff Krause, Wildlife Biologist at Raystown Lake submitted the following statement in writing:
"I believe it must be a vegetarian. We have not seen any evidence of this animal taking fish, geese, otters, or ducks. So I would suggest that our swimmers and boaters are very safe.
It appears this animal's habits are similar to Manatees, which are completely herbivorous and gentle.
The increase of weed beds around the lake is probably providing more food in the shallows for herbivores and that would increase sightings."
Krause concluded with, "Even if a visitor does not get a chance to see 'Ray' while at the lake, there is an excellent chance to see nesting Bald Eagles and recently re-introduced Osprey and River Otters, which were not present just a few years ago."
"Ray" closeup
It is a wonder how "Ray" has managed to stay submersed with nearly 2 million visitors frequenting the lake each year to fulfill their boating and other recreational activity needs.
According to Raystown Lake staff, the lake spans about 30 miles and contains 8,300 acres of water. With depths of the lake being over 185 feet deep, the lake remains over 100 feet deep at Seven Points, which is 10 miles upstream from the dam.
With numerous coves, submerged timber, and other structures there is plenty of room for "Ray" to hide.
Should there be reason for caution though? Beall notes that "Ray has been known to scare off 50 pound striped bass." Hopefully this is not true for the anglers participating in this year's fifth annual Stu Tinney Reunion Striper Tournament hosted by the Raystown Striper Club.
Dates are May 13 and 14 with Mr. Tinney scheduled to be present this year for the event. For more information on the event, "Ray," or the Wildlife at Raystown Lake visit the Raystown Lake Region's Visitor Center.
About Raystown Lake Region
Old photo of "Ray"?
The Raystown Lake Region of The Alleghenies' tourism services are provided by the Huntingdon County Visitors Bureau located in the Raystown Lake Visitor Center. The Center is in the Seven Points Recreation area of Raystown Lake just 8 miles south of Huntingdon.
The mission of the bureau is to develop and implement strategic marketing initiatives, which will result in increased visitation to the region.
Visitor Services specialists can be contacted at 1-888-Raystown or visit www.raystown.org
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Kris Humphries's summer sideshow was entertaining but seemed ultimately irrelevant: his dalliances with Kim Kardashian and with reality TV were in the universe of entertainment and celebrity, not our sports universe. We'd get our jokes, E! gets their ratings, Humphries and the Kardashians make a quick buck, and we all go on with our lives. But if last night's merciless taunting at the hands of Knicks fans is an indication, the Kris Humphries-as-punchline era will culminate, unexpectedly, in a basketball story.
MSG rained boos upon Humphries when he entered the game in the second quarter, and more cruelly, they laughed at him. They spent the entire second half chanting "We Want Humphries" at him on the bench, not because they like him—and the boos weren't because they hate him, despite the inexplicable "most disliked player" award from his peers—but because they were desperate for more chances to heap their scorn.
So let's say this keeps up for 66 games. Will the constant abuse affect Humphries's game? It's legitimate question that has to be asked, because it was certainly asked by every GM considering giving him a contract. It's incredible that a 26-year-old who averaged a double-double last season would only receive a one-year contract, and would only get it four days before the season begins. Very Important Basketball People spent a lot of time wondering if Humphries's offseason antics would follow him on the court.
The question becomes, is Kris Humphries mentally tough? Can he block it all out and just focus on basketball? Yesterday he said yes, though this was before Knicks fans had their crack at him.
"Life just happens," said Humphries, who was not asked directly about Kardashian. "I'm a positive thinker. In life I always look at the things that I can control, which is being ready and working on my game."
I'm not qualified to judge, so I asked someone who eagerly consumes all sorts of Kardashian media. She thinks Humphries will be fine, because on the show he always comes across as a guy who can stand up for himself in the face of constant teasing from his former in-laws. She describes him as "very dumb, but kind of mature."
We're going to find out soon, because the Nets play 10 of their first 14 games on the road, and they'll need someone better than Shelden Williams to play alongside Brook Lopez. If Humphries does end up crumbling, it would be a tragedy precisely because he is a genuinely good basketball player. But it might not be a tragedy at all, because no one can say he didn't bring it all on himself in a quixotic grab at riches, crossover fame, and dirty dirty sex.


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Thirty percent of 17-year-olds who have cell phones say they have received "sexting" photos or video messages, according to a new report from the Pew Internet & American Life Project.
Eight percent of 17-year-olds say they have sent such sexually suggestive images. Among teens ages 12 to 17 years old, 15 percent say they have received nude or nearly nude images of someone they know via text messaging on their cell phones, while 4 percent say they have sent such photos. Among 12- and 13-year olds, 6 percent say they have received "sext messages."
"It's an issue that teens grapple with and deal with in their lives, and one that deserves attention," said Amanda Lenhart, Pew senior research specialist who worked on the "Teens and Sexting" report.
"In our focus groups, we heard that plenty of teens had experienced this, either by sending the suggestive images, receiving them or by encountering them second-hand on a passed-around cell phone, hearing about friends doing it, hearing about it in the hallway."
Sexting is gaining national attention, with at least two teen suicides in the past 18 months associated with the problem, and lawmakers and prosecutors around the country grappling with how to handle such cases.
The Pew report, based on focus groups with 800 teens in Denver, Atlanta and New York, mirrors the findings of a recent poll by the Associated Press and MTV of more than 1,200 teens which concluded that more than a quarter of them have been involved in sexting in some form.
Phone is 'major source of content' for teens
"The (cell) phone is such a vital part of these teens' lives that it isn't surprising that it's a major source of content for them — both positive content and content that's more worrisome," Lenhart said.
In a 2004 survey of teens, Pew said, 18 percent of 12-year-olds had a cell phone, compared to 58 percent of 12-year-olds now. Five years ago, 64 percent of 17-year-olds had a cell phone, compared to 83 percent now. In addition, cell phones themselves have changed dramatically since 2004, with many of them now having Internet access.
Teens who pay their own cell phone bills are "more likely to send 'sexts,' " Pew said in the report, with 17 percent saying they have done so, compared to 3 percent of teens "who do not pay for, or only pay a portion of the cost" of their cell phone bills.
Text messaging is an add-on charge for most wireless users, and some parents monitor their children's' wireless use, including text messaging, as well as the content of those messages.
"Just 9 percent of teens who sent sexy images by text had parents who restricted the number of texts or other messages they could send; 28 percent of teens who didn't send these texts had parents who limited their child's texting," the Pew report said.
"One younger high school boy told us that he never sends or receives sexually suggestive images via text because 'my mom goes through my phone.' However, another high school boy described how he password-protected images to keep others from viewing them."
Happens 'far more than any poll can show'
Parry Aftab, executive director of WiredSafety.org, said sexting is much more of a problem than most parents realize.
"It's not 'that kid' who's doing it, it's your kid," she said. "If your kid hasn't taken a (suggestive) picture and shared it with somebody else, in all likelihood they've seen one, they may have possession of one or they may be sending them around.
"And it's happening far more than any poll can show," she said. "Many more kids are sexting at much younger ages than people think.
"They do it at slumber parties, they do it in the gym, in the locker rooms, where they all dance around, and somebody takes out their cell phone camera and take pictures of the others" and then shares the the photos with others by phone or posting them online.
Sometimes the reason for sending suggestive photos is "romantic," in some teens' eyes, to capture the interest of potential boyfriend or girlfriend. Sometimes, the Pew report said, teens view sexting "as a safer alternative to real-life sexual activity."
But too often, sexting messages get forwarded and shared with others, and are used by some teens as a way of bullying and humiliating the person whose image was originally meant for one pair of eyes only.
"Sometimes people will get into fights with their exs (sic), and so they will send the nudes as blackmail," said one high school-aged girl in the Pew report.
Another girl, in middle school, said she has "been asked to send naked pics, but I think that's stupid. You can ruin your reputation."
At least two suicides
At least two teens took their own lives after being harassed and taunted by their peers for such photos that were meant for one person, but then forwarded to many.
In September, Hope Witsell, a 13-year-old Florida girl, committed suicide after she used a cell phone to send a topless photo of herself to a boy she liked, and the photo was shared with those at school as well as with students at a nearby high school.
In July 2008, 18-year-old Jessica Logan of Ohio killed herself after being bullied and called names by female classmates for the nude pictures she had sent to a boyfriend, who sent them around after they broke up.
This month, Logan's parents filed suit against the ex-boyfriend, as well as others who allegedly participated in the harassment, for emotional distress.
Legal, emotional and moral issues
The Pew report noted that legislatures in some states — including Vermont, Utah and Ohio — are "stepping in to consider making laws that downgrade the charges for creating or trading sexually suggestive images of minors by text from felonies to misdemeanors."
That follows a high-profile case earlier this year in Pennsylvania where 17 students involved in distributing photos of nude or scantily clad female classmates could have faced felony child pornography charges. Instead, they accepted a prosecutor's offer to resolve the cases by participating in a five-week after-school program on sexual harassment.
Parents, said Aftab, need to talk to their children about sexting and "separate the moral argument about keeping your clothes on — because the kids won't listen — from the realistic one, which is, you might find yourself charged by a prosecutor who wants to get into the news, or you might find your life ruined if this picture shows up, or you might find yourself subject to horrible harassment."
"We need to explain to them why, when that choice (to send a sext message) seemed like a good idea at the time …why they need to do something else to show the person they love that they love them, and that if you love somebody, you won't ask them to do something like that."


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A few months ago I wrote a post called Virality is all about making your users look awesome in front of their friends. It was promoting the idea that you need to think about what your users get out of talking to others about your product. What was implied in the post was the concept that you need to create a narrative around your business or product that is easy for your users to articulate to others. You need to hand craft a story that is easy to remember, easy to tell and, importantly, makes the person telling it look good. Lately the importance of this point has been growing on me. What you might call "The lacking narrative issue" seems to be a core problem, not just for creating virality but for many other aspects of your business–such as attracting staff, getting investment, and creating clear design briefs–and simply for making it easy for your mum to tell her friends what you do. 🙂
So let's set aside what your users get out of telling others about your product, and just focus on the core narrative of what you do. It's quite amazing how many founders and company leaders are making amazing new technical solutions or products but seem to have difficulty explaining the core narrative of the product themselves. Now, if the person who built the product has a hard time explaining it, then just imagine how hard it is for others to understand it–let alone promote it. The simple question–what does your company do, and how does it help your users?–is really something you should be able to explain without the use of 25 slides or a fancy flash video. I was reminded of the importance of this when I was reading about an interesting term called "The Social Object":
"The Social Object, in a nutshell . . . . Human beings are social animals. We like to socialize. But if [we] think about it, there needs to be a reason for it to happen in the first place. That reason, that "node" in the social network, is what we call the Social Object." (via gapingvoid.com)
Human interaction is widely based on exchanging stories, so if you create a very good narrative of your company or product, it can become just such a social object. A good exercise is to spend some proper time making a good story about your business and try it on a few people. Then wait a few days and ask them to explain to you what your business is doing–and see if you like what you hear. If the story is good, it should become a social object. From there it can be shared easily with everyone from new customers and investors to your mum.
Happy storytelling.
Reprinted from Hello Henrik
Henrik Werdelin was named one of Fast Company's Most Creative People in Business. He is the entrepreneur in Residence at Index Ventures, and adviser at Sunstone Capital. Before that, CCO of Joost & VP of MTV Development–check his bio link for more details. Follow him at twitter.com/werdelin.


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