Posted March 7, 2006, 10:41 a.m.
When preparing a space for recording and mixing we enter a potential minefield, as no two areas will sound the same, and therefore no one-solution-fits-all instant fix is available. There are, however, a few systematic processes we can run through to facilitate vastly improving our listening environment.
When putting together a home studio, it is very easy to spend sometimes large sums of money buying equipment, and then to neglect the most important aspect of the sound; namely the environment set up and used for recording. No matter how much we spend on computers, speakers, guitars, keyboards or amps etc., we have to give priority to the space in which they are recorded.
Whether it be a house, apartment, or just a room, the method is still based on our ability to soundproof and apply sound treatment to the area. It is extremely difficult to predict what will happen to sound waves when they leave the speakers. Every room is different and it's not just the dimensions that dictate how a room will sound. Assorted materials which make up walls, floors, ceilings, windows and doors - not to mention furniture - all have an effect on what we hear emanating from our monitors.
Fig 1. A vocal booth with off the shelf acoustic treatment fitted.
Whether we have a large or a small budget to sort out our space, there are a number of off-the-shelf or DIY solutions we can employ to help remedy our problem. It should be pointed out at this stage that a high-end studio and a home project studio are worlds apart. Professional studio design demands far higher specification and uses far narrower criteria as its benchmark, and therefore costs can easily run in to hundreds of thousands!
Why do we use acoustic treatment?
An untreated room - particularly if it is empty - will have inherent defects in its frequency response; this means any decisions we make will be based on the sound being 'coloured'. If you can't hear what is being recorded accurately then how can you hope to make informed decisions when it comes to mixing? Any recordings we make will inherit the qualities of the space in which they are recorded. Fine if it's Abbey Road or Ocean Way, but maybe not so good if it's your bedroom.
No matter how good the gear is, if you want your recordings or mixes to sound good elsewhere when you play them, then you need to pay attention to the acoustic properties of your studio space.
When our shiny new equipment arrives in boxes, our instinct is always to set it up depending on whether it 'looks right', as if we are furnishing our new apartment.
Beware. Your main concern is not to place gear and furniture where they look most aesthetically pleasing, but where they sound best. The most important consideration is to position the one thing that takes up zero space but ironically consumes all the space. It is called the sound-field, or the position in the room where things sound best.
One of the things I have learned is that the most effective and reliable piece of test equipment is - surprise surprise - our ears! Of course we need more advanced test equipment to fine-tune the room but we need to learn to trust our ears first. They are, after all, the medium we use to communicate this dark art of recording.
Before you shift any furniture, try this game.
Ask a friend to hold a loudspeaker, and whilst playing some music you are familiar with, use a piece of string or something which ensures he or she maintains a constant distance from you of say 2-3 metres. Get them to circle around you whilst you stand in the centre of the room listening for the place where the room best supports the 'sound-field'. The bass is usually the area where you will hear the greatest difference. As a guide listen for where the bass sounds most solid or hits you most firmly. Why am I focusing on bass? Because, if you get the bass right, the rest will usually fall into place.
Also, avoid areas where the sound is more stereo (we are after all holding up just one speaker, a mono source); this is usually an indication of phase cancellation. Beware of areas where the sound seems to disappear.
Finally, having marked a few potential positions for speaker placement, listen for where the speaker seems to sound closest at the furthest distance. We are looking for a thick, close, bassy and mono signal. When we add the second speaker this will present us with a different dilemma but we'll talk about speakers later.
Remember: Though you may not have any control over the dimensions of your room, you do have a choice as to where you set up your equipment, and where you place your acoustic treatment. As well as the above techniques there are other things to consider.
It is generally a good idea to set up your speakers across the narrowest wall.
As a rule, acoustic treatment should be as symmetrical as possible in relation to your walls.
Three audio examples demonstrating the different levels of room ambience present on a vocal sample played 0.5 m/2.5m/5m from the speakers in a wooden floored room.
If you are lucky enough to have plenty of space and are able to use a distinct live area the rules we need to observe when treating a listening area don't necessarily apply here. Drums, for example, often benefit from lots of room ambience, particularly if bare wood or stone make up the raw materials of the room. I've also had great results recording guitars in my toilet, so natural space can often be used to create a very individual sound. Indeed, I've often heard incredible drum sounds from rooms you wouldn't think fit to record in.
Fig 2. Reflexion Filter made by SE Electronics.
It is often a good idea to designate a small area for recording vocals or instruments which require relative dead space. It would be unnatural (not to mention almost impossible) to make this an anechoic chamber, devoid of any reflections, but at the same time the area needs to be controllable when we record. Most of us don't have the luxury of having a separate room for this and have to resort to other means of isolating the sound source like the excellent Reflexion Filter made by SE Electronics. This uses a slightly novel concept in that it seeks to prevent the sound getting out into the room and subsequently cause a problem with reflections in the first place. Failing this, a duvet fixed to a wall is often a good stopgap and the favourite of many a musician on a tight budget.
Every room has a natural ambience or reverb, and it should be pointed out at this stage that it is not our aim to destroy or take away all of this. If the control room is made too dry then there is a good chance that your mixes will have too much reverb, the opposite being true if the room is too reverberant.
The purpose of acoustic treatment is to create an even reflection time across all - or as many as possible - frequencies. It obviously helps if the natural decay time of this so called reverb isn't too excessive in the first place.
Higher frequency reflections, particularly from hard surfaces, need to be addressed as they tend to distort the stereo image, while lower frequency echoes, usually caused by standing waves, often accent certain bass notes or make others seem to disappear. High frequency "flutter echoes", as they are known, can often be lessened by damping the areas between parallel walls. A square room is the hardest to treat for this reason, which is why you generally see lots of angles, panels and edges in control room designs. Parallel walls accentuate any problems due to the sound waves bouncing backwards and forwards in a uniform pattern.
Standing, or stationery, waves occur when sound-waves remain in a constant position. They arise when the length of this wave is a multiple of your room dimension. You will hear an increase in volume of sounds where wavelengths match room dimensions and a decrease where they are half, quarter or eighth etc. They tend to affect low end or bass (because of the magnitude of the wavelength). For this reason they are the hardest problem to sort out, and because of the amount of absorption and diffusion needed generally the costliest to sort out. Further explanation is required.
Suppose that the distance between two parallel walls is 4 m. Half the wavelength (2m) of a note of 42.5 Hz (coincidentally around the pitch of the lowest note of a standard bass guitar-an open 'E') will fit exactly between these surfaces. As it reflects back and forth, the high and low pressure between the surfaces will stay constant – high pressure near the surfaces, low pressure halfway between. The room will therefore resonate at this frequency and any note of this frequency will be emphasized.
Smaller rooms sound worse because the frequencies where standing waves are strong are well into the sensitive range of our hearing. Standing waves don't just happen between pairs of parallel surfaces. If you imagine a ball bouncing off all four sides of a pool table and coming back to where it started; a standing wave can easily follow this pattern in a room, or even bounce of all four walls, ceiling and floor too. Wherever there is a standing wave, there might also be a 'flutter echo'.
Next time you find yourself standing between two hard parallel surfaces, clap your hands and listen to the amazing flutter echo where all frequencies bounce repeatedly back and forth. It's not helpful either for speech or music.
Here's an ascending sequence created in Reason using Subtractor set to a basic sinewave. Whilst in the listening position play back at normal listening level. In a good room the levels will be even but if some notes are more pronounced or seem to dissapear this usually indicates a problem at certain frequencies in your room.
Fig 4. A chromatic sequence using Subtractor created in Reason.
Download this as a Reason file and convert the notes in the file to frequency and wave length.
Absorption or Diffusion...that is the question?
The two main approaches when sorting out sound problems are finding the correct balance between absorption and diffusion. While absorbers, as their name suggests, absorb part of the sound; diffusers scatter the sound and prevent uniform reflections bouncing back into the room.
Absorbers tend to be made of materials such as foam or rockwool. Their purpose is to soak up sound energy. Foam panels placed either side of the listening position help with mid or high frequencies or traps positioned in corners help to contain the unwanted dispersion of bass.
Diffusers are more commonly made of wood, plastic or polystyrene. By definition they are any structure which has an irregular surface capable of scattering reflections. Diffusers also tend to work better in larger spaces and are less effective than absorbers in small rooms.
Companies such as Real Traps, Auralex and Primacoustic offer one-stop solutions to sorting out acoustic problems. Some even provide the means for you to type in your room dimensions and then they come back with a suggested treatment package including the best places to put it. These days I think these offer excellent solutions and are comparatively cheap when you look at the solutions they offer. What they won't give you is the sound of a high end studio where huge amounts of measurement and precise room tuning is required but leaving science outside the door they are perfect for most project studios.
The DIY approach can be viewed from two levels. The first, a stopgap, where we might just improvise and see what happens. The second, a more methodical, 'let's build our own acoustic treatment because we can't afford to buy bespoke off the shelf tiles and panels' approach.
This could simply be a case of positioning a sofa at the back of the room to act as a bass trap. Putting up shelves full of books which function admirably as diffusers. Hanging duvets from walls or placing them in corners for use as damping. I even know of one producer who used a parachute above the mixing desk to temporarily contain the sound!
Build your own acoustic treatment. I personally wouldn't favour this as it is very time consuming and also presumes a certain level of abilty in the amateur builder department. The relative cheapness of 'one solution' kits where all the hard work is done for you also makes me question this approach. However, there are numerous online guides for building your own acoustic panels and bass traps which can save you money.
Though speakers aren't directly responsible for acoustic treatment their placement within an acoustic environment is essential. I've already suggested how we might find the optimum location in a room for the speakers; the next critical thing is to determine the distance between them. If they are placed too close together the sounds panned to the centre will appear far louder than they actually are. If they are spaced too far apart then you will instinctively turn things panned in the middle up too loud. The sound is often thin and without real definition.
With only a small amount of cash and a little knowledge it is relatively easy to make vast improvements to the acoustics of a project studio. A science-free DIY approach can work surprisingly well, particularly if you use some of the practical advice available on the websites of the companies offering treatment solutions. Unfortunately, most musicians tend to neglect acoustic treatment and instead spend their money on new instruments or recording gear. When we don't get the results we expect it is easy to blame the gear rather than look at the space in which they were recorded or mixed. Do yourself a favour - don't be frightened, give it a go. Before you know it you'll be hearing what's actually there!


I'm not going to lie…today I was feeling less than inspired. After work, I found myself in that uncomfortable restlessness in between simultaneously feeling like taking a nap and working out (which meant I was probably leaning more towards taking a nap).
Despite myself, I found myself calling Lydia for a walk along along the Katy Trail, followed by guacamole and an early birthday margarita at Katy Trail Ice House. On beautiful 75 degree days like this and some endorphins later, I have to admit that I kinda see what all the fuss is about Dallas. Seeing my city from along the Katy Trail is a unique vantage point that really made me appreciate Dallas. I love that I can walk two miles on tree-lined paths over busy streets and highways, then sit under the stars and lights surrounded by other people and their pets, just having a great time with good friends, food and drinks.
The warmer weather is getting me excited to spend as much time outdoors as possible, so it's extremely fortunate I happened across these spring-y playlists by Crate & Barrel today. So far, they're just the right mix of new yet nostalgic, light and optimistic – and oh yeah, did I mention free?
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Here's a man who is devoutly religious but who's never been regenerated. And here's a man who is concerned about the law and morality, for his questions to Christ Jesus were about the law and morality. Here was a man who's interested in the law and interested in morality but who has no righteousness and no holiness in the sight of God almighty. He is most religious, but lost.
Now, I need to listen to Christ: "He that hath ears to hear let him hear." And I need to listen to the Master here as He deals with this religious man because I have an interest in the kingdom of God. I have an interest in the law of God. I have a concern about the Scriptures and a concern about understanding the things that are written, don't you? And yet, our Lord said to a man similar to you and to me: "You are not far from the kingdom of heaven." I need to examine myself whether I am in the faith. "I need to give diligence to make my calling and election sure," and my friend, you do too! Don't take for granted this most important thing in all of the world. Don't take for granted your relationship with God, the salvation of your soul.
Now, I have four divisions for this message and this will make it easy for you to understand and to follow and to remember, I hope: First of all: We are going to look at the man himself, the man to whom Christ said: "You are not far from the kingdom of God" Secondly: Then we are going to look at this man's knowledge, what did he know? Did he know as much as you know or as much as I know or did he know more? Thirdly: Then we are going to look at this man's attitude; what was his attitude? Did he have a good attitude or a poor attitude? Fourthly: Then we are going to last of all in closing the message find out where he failed, where did he fail?
First of all: Look at the man; who was the man? Christ said to this man: "Thou art not far from the kingdom of God." Who was this man? This may surprise you; verse 28 says, "This man, was one of the scribes." We don't know a great deal about him but we do know that he was a scribe and we do know something about the scribes. What were the duties of the scribes? Do you know what their duties were, to preserve, to translate, to transcribe, and to interpret the Scriptures. That was the job of the scribes. They were the men who sat down with pen and ink and translated the Scriptures from other languages. They were the men who preserved the Scriptures. They were men who transcribed the Scriptures. They were the men who interpreted the Scriptures, in other words; this man was an authority on the Bible, the Old Testament Scriptures. That's exactly what he was, he was a scribe. We have the Pharisees who came to Christ and the Sadducees and then one of the scribes. He was a man who was an authority on the Bible. He knew by memory much of the Word of God. He could quote the Scriptures from memory. He had written the Scriptures over, and over, and over, and over again. And yet, (they didn't have printing presses) the scribes wrote the Scriptures. And yet, Christ said to this man; "You are not in the kingdom of God but you're not far from it." It's certain that the way of life is to be found in the Bible: "Faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the Word of God: Of his own will begat he us with the Word of truth. The gospel is the power of God unto salvation." If you would know the way of life; turn to the Scriptures. But my friend; you can be a student of the Scriptures and not know the way of life. That's right; our Lord said to the Pharisees, now listen, in John, is it chapter 5:40, He said: "You search the scriptures for in them you think you have eternal life but they are they which testify of me and you will not come to me that you might have life." I've often heard people say: "Well, you know; he sure knows his Bible." This scribe new his Bible too, but he didn't know his Lord. And it's possible to know the doctrines (this man was an authority on the doctrines, and the traditions, and all of these things) but he didn't know the Lord. To know the Word of God is not necessarily to know the living Word of God, the Lord Jesus Christ.
All right, that's the man. He was a student of the Scriptures; he was a scribe. He was an authority on the Bible. He knew the doctrines and traditions and all of these things but he did not know the Master and Christ said: "You are not far from the kingdom of God." Now that's the man.
Secondly: Now, let's look at this man's knowledge! What was the question he asked to begin with? Well, he looked at Christ after the Pharisees and the Sadducees had dealt with their questions and had been put to silence and walked away and he kept standing there. He looked at the Master and he said: "Master; what is the greatest commandment of all?" And the Lord Jesus Christ replied: "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, with all thy mind, with all thy soul, and with all thy strength and the second is like unto it: thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself." Now listen to the man; he said: "Master; thou hast well said the truth, (that's the truth) there is but one God and there's none other but he." Now my friend; I may shock you a little bit but you listen, I'm preaching the Scriptures! Here is a man who was an authority on the Bible. Here was a man who memorized the Scriptures. Here was a man who studied the Scriptures and translated the Scriptures and transcribed the Scriptures and interpreted the Scriptures. But, Christ said to him: "You're not far from the kingdom of God." And here's a man who believed in one God, not just any god, not a false god; he believed in the God of David, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the God of creation. He said: "Master; you've said the truth, there is but one God; there's none other but he." In other words, this man; it's evident he believed in God and yet Christ said to him: "Thou art not far from the kingdom of God." But my friend, to believe in one God; (now listen to me) is not to be saved. James wrote in James 1:19: "You believe that there's one God. The devil believes and trembles." You believe there's one God and you do well but the devil believes there's one God and the devil trembles at the mention of his name. When Christ appeared to those, that man who was demon possessed and cast the demons out of him, do you know what those demons said before they came out of that man? "We know who you are; you are the holy one of Israel. Have you come to torment us before our time?" They believed in one God. They believed in Christ as the Son of God, the holy one of God. They believed in judgment but they certainly were not redeemed.
This man believed in one God; he said: "Master; you spoke the truth, there is none other but he." He is the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Then he said, "There is no such thing as an idol." This man hated idolatry. Do you take comfort in the fact that you believe there is one God? Do you take comfort in the fact that you do not bow down to idols and you do not serve false Gods? Well this man had a strong feeling about idolatry too; he spoke it very emphatically; he said: "There is but one God and there's none other God but he." Now, let me show you something else in the next verse, verse 33; he went a step further. What did this man know? He knew there was one God. He knew there was no such thing as an idol. Now watch this; he knew that the condition of the heart was more important in the sight of God than all of the outward works and ceremonies of religion. Does that shock you? Now, listen to what he says in the next verse, verse 33. You look at it right there in your Bible. He says, "You spoke the truth Master; there's but one God and there's none other but he. And to love God with all the heart (and with all the understanding, that is the mind), with all the soul and the strength, and to love one's neighbor as himself, is more than all the burnt offerings and sacrifices." That's exactly what he said. Are you with me? And yet, our Lord said to him: "Thou art not far from the kingdom of God." This is astonishing; especially in this man's day, because his day was a day of works, ceremonies, sacrifices, and burn offerings. Most people trusted in these things, he evidently didn't. Most people depended for their salvation on these very things that he is talking about. He was one of the few that understood that salvation was not in these things and yet, the Master said: "You are not far from the kingdom of God." Now, this is interesting isn't it? It's so applicable to this day when we have so much religion and so much presumption, so much carnal assurance and so much easy beliefs.
Fourthly: Wherein did he fail? And I want you to see this whole picture. While I am painting this picture and while we are asking the Spirit of God to speak to us individually that we "might examine ourselves whether we are in the faith, that we might give diligence to make our calling and election sure." That we might answer the question, "What think we of Christ?" Wherein did he fail? Here's a man who perhaps some of you have already put yourself in this man's place, a teacher, a Sunday school teacher maybe, a translator of Scriptures, a believer in one God, always believed in one God, never had any doubt there's only one God. "The heavens declare the glory of God. The firmament showeth his handiwork." A student of the moral law; "I believe in what's right and I hate what's wrong." Here was a man who was a perceptive man, an inquiring man, who knew the truth when he heard it, a man who spoke well of Christ. Well, wherein did he fail? Why was he not in the kingdom of God?
My friend, there are some things missing here! The first one is this; I find no personal confession of sin. Now I hear this man speaking well of the law, talking about the law, conversing about the law, inquiring about the law, and studying the law. But I do not hear any confession from his mouth or any acknowledgment of the fact that he had broken that law, that in any way he had sinned against a holy God or in any way that he had not personally in his heart, in his thoughts, imagination, words and deeds, kept the law of God that he had broken it and was a sinner before God. Do you hear anything like that? Go over his whole conversation and there's not one confession of sin, there's not one acknowledgement of sin.
Secondly: I hear no plea for mercy, not in all of this conversation; I hear no plea for mercy! Oh, when the Publican stood in the temple and cried: "God be merciful to me the sinner;" that's a plea for mercy that was heard. When the thief on the cross hanging there in death's agony looked over at Christ and said: "I'm getting what I deserve; Lord remember me when you come into your kingdom." That's a plea for mercy and it was heard. Every invitation that Christ ever gave in the Bible presupposes guilt; did you know that? "Ho everyone that thirsteth; come to the water, come to the water," that's the invitation, come to the water of life. Who comes to the water of life, a man who's thirsty, a man who needs the water of life? "Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden and I will give you rest." Who comes for rest, the man who's weary and heavy laden by sin? All of these invitations presuppose guilt. I want you to listen to David's confession in Psalm 51 and his plea for mercy, a confession of sin. This is always prerequisite, this is always the condition, and these are God's terms for salvation, repentance and faith. Paul said; "When I preach the gospel I preach repentance toward God and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ." And I see neither of these in this man's conversation.
Have you ever felt it in your own heart and experienced it in your own soul, I mean genuine conviction of sin and sorrow for sin, and repentance over sin, and grief over sin, and faith in Christ as your only hope, a plea for mercy? Listen to David, now Psalm 51: "Have mercy on me O God. According to thy loving kindness, according to the multitude of thy tender mercies O God, blot out my transgressions." Do you hear that? That's a plea for mercy! "Wash me from mine iniquity. Cleanse me from my sin. Purge me with hyssop. Create in me a right spirit. Renew within me a clean heart for I acknowledge my transgressions; my sin is ever before me." The man was heard! It can't be said of David, "thou art not far from the kingdom of God;" he was in the kingdom of God. It cannot be said of the publican in the temple, "thou art not far from the kingdom of God;" he was in the kingdom of God. It cannot be said of the thief on the cross, "thou art not far from the kingdom of God;" Christ said; "Today you will be with me in paradise." I hear no plea for mercy on the part of this scribe, no confession of sin, no acknowledgement of transgression and no plea for mercy.
Thirdly: I hear no confession of the Lord Jesus Christ as his Lord and Saviour! Oh, he speaks well of Christ. He talks about Christ being a Master. He talks about Christ being a teacher. He acknowledges Christ as a moralist. He acknowledges Christ as a man of authority but not as the Redeemer and Lord. "What think ye of Christ? Whose Son is he?" The Scripture does not say; "If thou shalt confess with thy mouth Jesus to be a good man, a prophet, a healer, a moralist?" But rather it says, "If thou shalt confess with thy mouth Jesus to be Lord and believe in thine heart God raised him from the dead, (that he was crucified, buried, and raised from the dead, by the power of God), thou shalt be saved." He was crucified as a substitute, buried as the scapegoat, raised as the justifier, ascended and seated as the Mediator between God and men at God's right hand.
This is the thing that troubles me a great deal about present day religion. They do not follow the Saviour. They look to Christ to receive what they want. They look to Christ to meet their needs and their particular goals, to make them what they already want to be, instead of becoming what He wants them to be, walking in His footsteps. This is what's missing, a confession of sin, a plea for mercy, and a confession of Christ as Lord and Master, Saviour!
A good sermon, far above the capabilities and (eternal) pay grade of today's pulpits jackals.
It's apparent sin is a forbidden word now. How many religious folks are just like the man mentioned in this sermon? How many are convinced they are heaven bound and yet many will hear 'depart from me'? The Jesus most adhere to is a replica of 'self' and nothing more. Praise God for His saving grace, for it is by His grace I am what I am.


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For change to trully occur, repetition and a constant flow of information is crucial. So by having a continuous presence in society we aim to do just this, change things for the better.
Each month a COMMA team member,choses a topic, plans and hosts an event surrounding the chosen topic.
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X Infotech developed and implemented operating system drivers for the most commonly used operating systems, such as Windows, Linux, and Mac OS.
In addition to OpenSC drivers, X Infotech developed and implemented a lightweight cross-platform application with graphic interfaces, which provides opportunities to change and unblock PINs, to generate certificate requests, upload new certificates to the card, and manage access permissions for Medical applications.
With new OS drivers and additional smart card software, Health Insurance Cards can be used for storage of digital certificates, authentication, encryption, and signing of electronic documents.
Development and implementation of dedicated OS drivers allows clients to use their cards not only in medical offices, but also from their own PCs at home or elsewhere.
New smart card drivers were implemented as a part of the OpenSC project, which has become a de-facto standard for smart-card based government projects in many countries.
New e-card to provide the possibility for legal residents using the card to authenticate themselves in networks, digitally sign documents, and encrypt documents for safe transfer on all types of personal computers.


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Race horse remains recovered
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The Ohio State University Department of Anthropology, with support from the Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT), assisted in the recovery of the remains of two-time Ohio Horse of the Year Glacial Princess. The recovery, led by Ohio State Anthropology Professor Deanna Grimstead and her team of anthropology students, began Jan. 21 on the site of the former Beulah Park racetrack, in Grove City, Ohio.
Glacial Princess' remains will be transferred to Churchill Downs, Kentucky in the Circle of Champions horse racing cemetery. While the Department of Anthropology normally teaches multiple archaeological techniques on an exhumation, in this situation the burial does not require a full suite of methods.
The exhumation was not open to the public for safety reasons.
A multiple stakes winner, the Ohio-bred Glacial Princess broke down during the Ballerina Stakes in 1987 and was euthanized. The then six-year-old mare was buried in the infield and a memorial was placed at the grave site.
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90 days, dwarf — The plants are a compact, dwarf-type with rugose leaves. The 1909 catalog states, "Owing to its compact, erect habit, the plants can be set quite closely together." They are a suitable choice for container gardening or can be planted about two feet apart in the ground. The fruits of 'Quarter Century' are oblate-shaped, red in color, smooth and crackless, weigh two to ten ounces and are solid with a nice balanced flavor.
It was introduced in 1896 by the horticultural editor of The Rural New Yorker, Dr. Walter Van Fleet of Monmouth County, New Jersey. It was supplied to growers, in trial packets, in 1900 by W. Atlee Burpee & Company. The following year, it was named 'Quarter Century' to celebrate the company's 25th anniversary. The variety appeared as a sport in the third generation from a cross between 'Lorillard', a bright scarlet fruit with ordinary type of foliage, and 'Dwarf Champion', a pinkish-red fruit of dwarf habit. Johnson & Stokes said, "It might be called an improved 'Dwarf Aristocrat'." Each packet contains approximately 20 seeds.
"Burpee's Farm Annual for 1909," W. Atlee Burpee & Co., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
"List of American Varieties of Vegetables for the Years 1901 and 1902," by W. W. Tracy, Jr., USDA, 1903.
"Garden and Farm Manual," Johnson & Stokes Seed Company, 1906.


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Mozilla Leads the Way on Do Not Track
Commentary by rainey Reitman
Earlier today, Mozilla announced plans to incorporate a Do Not Track feature into their next browser release, Firefox 4.1. Google also announced a new privacy extension today, but we believe that Mozilla is now taking a clear lead and building a practical way forward for people who want privacy when they browse the web.
Why We Need Do Not Track
Privacy advocates have been calling attention to issues of pervasive online tracking for some time. Often intertwined with the issue of behavioral targeting, online tracking refers to the difficult-to-elude mechanisms by which most or all of our reading and other activities on the Web are recorded by third parties, without our knowledge or permission.
The technical details of online tracking are multifarious. They include traditional HTTP cookies as well as flash cookies and many other kinds of supercookies, web bugs, JavaScript trackers, HTTP Referrers, and fingerprinting. And new ways to track browsers will continue to be invented. Even consumers who take steps to delete their cookies or use private browsing mode remain unable to prevent third parties from observing their clickstreams.
Currently, a subset of advertisers offer a mechanism for opting out of behavioral advertising through the Network Advertising Initiative — a project that has been widely criticized for failing to provide consumers with meaningful control. The NAI opt-out suffers from several problems: the biggest is that there is no consistency on what "opt out" means. Some tracking companies recognize that an "opt out" should be an opt out from being tracked, others insist on interpreting the opt out as being an opt out for receiving targeted advertising. In other words, the NAI allows its members to to tell people that they've opted out, when in fact their web browsing is still being observed and recorded indefinitely.
The cookie-based opt-out scheme also suffers from serious technical drawbacks. Some of these are issues of complexity — tracking companies need to opt-in before it can work and new types of cookie need to be created for each of them. There is also the issue of fragility — privacy conscious users delete their cookies regularly, which means the opt-out keeps turning itself off.
The "Keep Your Opt-Outs" Chrome extension announced by Google today is an attempt to address that last problem. In that respect it is similar to the TACO Firefox Extension, though it doesn't set any opt-out cookies for companies that are not NAI members. It also doesn't fix the other fundamental problems with the NAI's approach: complexity, the lack of a clear signal that can be observed and interpreted by any website, and allowing fake opt-outs that only protect you from targeted advertising but don't prevent any tracking.
For these reasons, we believe that the only sensible way forward for privacy opt-outs is a Do Not Track header, and we're very pleased to see Mozilla planning to offer this option in their future browser versions.
How Will Do Not Track Work?
Every time your computer sends or receives information over the Web, the request begins with some short pieces of information called headers. These headers include information like what browser you're using, what language your computer is set to, and other technical details. The Do Not Track proposal is to include a simple, machine-readable header indicating that you don't want to be tracked.
The header-based Do Not Track system appeals because it calls for an armistice in the arms race of online tracking. Currently, advertisers constantly invent new ways of tracking consumers and security researchers work to block this tracking with new technology. A header-based Do Not Track model sends out a signal with every online communication indicating a user's preference not to be tracked. This puts the onus on the tracking companies to comply with Do Not Track mechanisms — rather than on the user to discover and counter every type of possible online tracking.
Some important things to note about this proposal:
There is no "list" that consumers need to sign up for. Early discussion of Do Not Track included proposals about a list-based registry of users, similar to the Do Not Call Registry. This proposal does not collect data on consumers in a central list. (Security and privacy researcher Christopher Soghoian has more about the history of Do Not Track.)
Consumers won't need to update software for Do Not Track regularly. Early versions of Do Not Track proposed installing software on an individual's computer that listed all the known tracking companies. As more companies were identified, the list would need to be updated. The current proposal does not store a list of companies on your computer and so does not need to be repeatedly updated.
You can still clear your cookies without fear of disrupting the header-based Do Not Track.
The header-based Do Not Track model won't threaten ad-supported businesses.
EFF will be submitting formal comments to the Federal Trade Commission responding to questions they raised in their privacy report. In the meantime, users should consider using some of the Mozilla Firefox addons that have already incorporated the header-based advertising opt-out. The Universal Behavioral Advertising Opt-Out is the easiest way to set the header today, though it is also set by development versions of AdBlock Plus and NoScript, and will be in future stable releases of those extensions. Because many advertisers do not yet respect the header, for the time being, we recommend installing it along side beef TACO and AdBlock Plus (with EasyPrivacy) for the time being.
We plan to continue posting articles that will explore and explain Do Not Track. Our next article will discuss the semantics and server side responses that are appropriate in response to a Do Not Track header. In other words, what does the "Track" in Do Not Track mean?
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Bristol Rovers are without striker Ellis Harrison for the home game against MK Dons.
Harrison was booked for the fifth time this season in last weekend's 1-0 defeat at Rochdale and serves a one-game ban.
On-loan Stoke striker Dominic Telford could make his first Sky Bet League One start in Harrison's absence.
Chris Lines and Ryan Sweeney could be recalled after three straight league defeats, while Rovers are hoping top scorer Billy Bodin's return after a hamstring injury is not too far away.
Osman Sow remains out, with MK Dons learning this week that the striker will be sidelined for around six weeks.
The summer signing from Hearts suffered an ankle injury against Walsall nine days ago so Dons boss Robbie Neilson must decide who will partner Chuks Aneke up front.
Kieran Agard got the nod against Oldham last weekend but did not score in the 4-4 draw while Ryan Seager caught the eye after coming off the bench in that game.
Another option is Robbie Muirhead, who looked lively in an Under-23 Central League game against AFC Wimbledon on Wednesday.


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Y'All Get Scared Now, Ya Hear! – debiutancki album szkockiej indie rockowej supergrupy, The Reindeer Section. Został wydany na CD i płycie winylowej 30 października 2001 roku przez wytwórnie Bright Star Recordings oraz Pias America. Płyta była nagrywana przez dziesięć dni na przełomie stycznia i lutego 2001 roku.

Lista utworów
 "Will You Please Be There for Me" – 1:49
 "The Opening Taste" – 2:29
 "12 Hours It Takes Sometimes" – 3:47
 "Deviance" – 1:53
 "If There Is I Haven't Found It Yet" – 4:00
 "Fire Bell" – 1:41
 "If Everything Fell Quiet" – 2:18
 "I've Never Understood" – 2:53
 "Raindrop" – 2:49
 "Sting" – 4:36
 "Billed as Single" – 2:30
 "Tout le Monde" – 4:53
 "Nytol" – 2:41
 "The Day We All Died" – 2:00

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Ravi Shankar, KBE (în bengaleză: রবি শংকর, AFI: [ˈrɔbi ˈʃɔŋkɔr], n. 7 aprilie 1920 - d. 11 decembrie 2012) a fost un muzician și compozitor indian, un virtuoz al sitarului, un instrument muzical indian tradițional cu coarde ciupite. A fost descris ca cel mai cunoscut muzician indian contemporan. Ravi Shankar a contribuit la sporirea popularității muzicii indiene în lume, fiind maestrul lui George Harrison, chitaristul solo al formației Beatles, când acesta a învățat să cânte la sitar.

La rugămintea lui Shankar, George Harrison a organizat Concertul pentru Bangladesh (de fapt două concerte consecutive), primul eveniment caritabil rock de largă anvergură, în care muzicieni precum Harrison, Ringo Starr, Eric Clapton și Bob Dylan au cântat în New York pro bono, pentru a ajuta sinistrații din Bangladesh. Ambele concerte au fost precedate de o parte separată, în cadrul căreia Shankar și acompaniatorii săi au interpretat muzică tradițională indiană. La începutul unuia dintre cele două concerte, după ce acordase sitarul, a primit aplauze, replicând cu umor publicului: "Vă mulțumesc, dacă v-a plăcut acordarea așa de mult, sper că o să vă placă muzica mai mult".

Shankar este tatăl instrumentistei Anoushka Shankar și al cantautoarei Norah Jones.

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Nașteri în 1920
Decese în 2012
Comandori ai Legiunii de onoare
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Nașteri pe 7 aprilie
Decese pe 11 decembrie


A new Jewish deli has finally opened in Philly's famed Reading Terminal Market just a couple blocks from where I live. Watching the guy behind the counter hand-carve the wonderful pastrami was as close as I may ever come to having a religious experience.
On the down side, I'm going to be tempted to go there way more often than any person who cares even remotely about his weight should.
I gather, Barry, that you do not have a high opinion about the new hot pastrami sub at Subway (I found it adequate, and yes I did have it with mustard).
jbuck919 wrote: I gather, Barry, that you do not have a high opinion about the new hot pastrami sub at Subway (I found it adequate, and yes I did have it with mustard).
You're almost certainly right, John. But I'll never know for sure since you couldn't pay me to eat at a Subway or Quiznos in the city of the cheesesteak and hoagie (and now good Jewish deli). Quiznos makes a brisket sandwich that I'll also never be trying.
And I'll wager that Ted and I are of one mind, on this issue at least .
Is the place kosher or can you get a milkshake to go with the pastrami?
Why would you want a milkshake with Pastrami?
Yeah. I'm not sure I can ever recall having a shake with a pastrami or corned beef sandwich. I think the place serves egg creams, but no shakes.
However, it's part of the Reading Terminal, an indoor combination farmer's market and foodcourt that is justly famous. And within the Terminal there are a couple ice cream stands. So it's just a matter of walking over an aisle or two if you want a shake with your sandwich.
Does it make any difference when you can have a Diet Coke?
I went with a diet Dr. Brown's Black Cherry. It accompanied the pastrami perfectly.
Barry Z wrote: I went with a diet Dr. Brown's Black Cherry. It accompanied the pastrami perfectly.
Any place that has diet soda other than cola is my kind of place.
Ain't that the truth! I'm always excited when I can find a good caffine-free diet soda while dining out (root beer, ginger ale, fresca, black cherry.......all good options).
Is that a regional drink?
I'm not sure. It seems to be the soda of Jewish delis, at least on the east coast. Most of them carry it.
Dr. Brown's soda is distributed in major cities but it started in New York and the biggest sales are here. Their most famous flavor is creme soda, available in regular and diet. They also offer regular and diet black cherry soda, a great drink.
Their weirdest flavor, which I doubt is sold outside Jewish delis and kosher restaurants, is Cel-Ray, a soda made with...yep, celery. My son really likes it.
Ralph wrote: Their weirdest flavor, which I doubt is sold outside Jewish delis and kosher restaurants, is Cel-Ray, a soda made with...yep, celery. My son really likes it.
If my memory serves me, the flavoring is not actually celery.
Pair Cel-Ray with a hoagie from philly, and you've got the worst meal imaginable.
Is it my imagination, or was there a drink called "Zippy Cola"?
Stonebraker wrote: For the record, hoagies, or sandwiches of any sort, from philadelphia are generally terrible. Just like the people who inhabit the city of Philadelphia. What a bunch of terrible sports fans and human beings they all are. Obviously, i don't mean 100% of people from philadelphia are trash; the actual percentage is probably closer to 96-98%?
And I suppose you're from an area with superior food and superior people??? Where would that be?


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Frontera Announces Regular and Special Dividend
PR Newswire August 1, 2019
TORONTO, Aug. 1, 2019 /PRNewswire/ - Frontera Energy Corporation (FEC.TO) ("Frontera" or the "Company") announces that its board of directors has declared a regular dividend of C$0.205 per common share and a special dividend of C$0.535.
The special dividend will be paid on or about August 23, 2019 to shareholders of record at the close of business on August 9, 2019. Gabriel de Alba, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Frontera, commented: "The board of directors approved a special dividend to reflect the strong financial and operational results in the first half of 2019 combined with a strong balance sheet and the generation of cash provided by operating activities in excess of capital expenditures. The special and regular dividend declared of $55 million combined with $53 million paid so far in 2019 represents distributions to shareholders of $108 million, representing a yield of over 10%."
The regular dividend will be paid on or about October 16, 2019 to shareholders of record at the close of business on October 2, 2019. As previously announced on May 30, 2019, the Company's board of directors amended its dividend policy to increase the quarterly dividend by 20% from US$12.5 million to approximately US$15.0 million during periods in which Brent oil prices sustain an average price of US$60/bbl or higher. The declaration and payment of any specific dividend, the actual amount, the declaration date, the record date, and the payment of each quarterly dividend will be subject to the discretion of the Company's board of directors.
The dividend is designated as an eligible dividend under the Income Tax Act (Canada).
The dividends are eligible for the Company's Dividend Reinvestment Plan (the "Plan") to provide shareholders of Frontera who are resident in Canada ("Eligible Shareholders") with the option to have the cash dividends declared on their common shares of Frontera ("Shares") reinvested automatically back into additional Shares, without the payment of brokerage commissions or service charges. Participation in the Plan is optional.
About Frontera:
Frontera Energy Corporation is a Canadian public company and a leading explorer and producer of crude oil and natural gas, with operations focused in South America. The Company has a diversified portfolio of assets with interests in more than 40 exploration and production blocks in Colombia, Peru, Ecuador and Guyana. The Company's strategy is focused on sustainable growth in production and reserves. Frontera is committed to conducting business safely, in a socially and environmentally responsible manner. Frontera's common shares trade on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol "FEC".
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Here are some pics of the system. As you can see, with the clear front you can see exactly what's in your case. The hard case has a leather interior and a book bin at the bottom. I've held 5,000pts worth of marines in this case already. I love it.
I've used the tray on the bottom to hold books and gaming supplies or vehicles for my army. The shelf system I have is your typical 18" deep closet shelf. I purchased 2" thick foam and created two tiers, one 12" deep and the next 6" deep. The Table War trays are 6.25" deep so it makes it easy to grab them off the shelf. Look how clean the storage looks.


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Instruments of surgery, predominantly for amputation, and prosthetics. Add'l plate with 2 graphic images of an amputation.
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USAID, JICA and Ajinomoto Signed Memorandum of Understanding on Weaning Child Nutrition Improvement in Ghana
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On May 30, 2012, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and Ajinomoto Co., Inc. (Ajinomoto) signed a memorandum in Accra, the capital of Ghana, confirming collaborative efforts to increase the nutritional well-being of children during the weaning period. The signing of the Memorandum for Collaboration is a historic moment between the Governments of Japan and the United States, as it marks the first time that the Japanese and American Governments have come together with the private sector to improve nutritional status.
This will be the first time for a Japanese company to work collaboratively on the basis of a Global Development Alliance (GDA) scheme with USAID. This is also the first time a memorandum on a public-private partnership has been signed by all three parties, including JICA.This partnership between Japan, JICA, and USAID, which will utilize their combined expertise, will be a platform on which to build future public-private sector activities across numerous stakeholders on nutrition in Ghana.
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USAID West Africa Launches Feed The Future Global Food Security Strategy Plan
Accra, GHANA (via Zoom) – On Monday, June 22, 2020, the USAID West Africa Regional Feed the Future (FtF) team virtually launched their newly published Global Food Security Strategy West Africa&nbspRegional…
President Obama Announces Major Progress Through Feed the Future Initiative
President Obama today announced that Feed the Future, his signature global hunger and food security initiative, is delivering on his promise to reduce hunger and malnutrition through agricultural development.
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USAID and DuPont Announce Commitment to Increase Farmer Productivity and Food and Nutrition Security
The USAID and DuPont MOU builds upon a partnership where in places like Ethiopia and Ghana we are working together to improve the maize value chain to improve the productivity and income of at least 35,000 smallholder farmers in each country through the adoption of new technologies. Additionally, Asia and Latin America are also earmarked for&nbspinitiatives.
Scaling Seeds and Technologies Partnership Will Accelerate Progress to Reduce Hunger, Poverty in Africa
The Partnership will work in four countries within the G8's New Alliance for Food Security—Ethiopia, Ghana, Mozambique, and Tanzania—where it will help governments strengthen their seed sectors and promote the commercialization, distribution and adoption of improved seeds and other key technologies.


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Keep Pelosi and Lose the House In November--Again
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It painful to say it but Trump's tweet and campaign stop in the much-watched special election in Ohio's 12th District gave GOP candidate Troy Balderson the win. The tweet was vintage Trump. It was blunt, crude, with the usual tinge of name calling. The name he called out was House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi. Trump flatly said, Vote for O'Connor and you're voting for Pelosi. He doubled down on that in his campaign pitch in the district for Balderson.
So, there it is, plain for all to see. In any and every district in the coming November mid-terms where a GOP candidate or incumbent is even remotely in danger of defeat, the scream to GOP voters will be, "Do you want Pelosi."
In Ohio the scream worked, and it will work in the other close run up districts. The ploy of using Pelosi to scare the devil out of GOP voters is not new. She been a made-in-Hollywood casting call political mannequin for that for a while. She's been in the House seemingly forever. She's an unabashed, old line-traditional, California liberal. She has been on the top Democratic watch during an almost unprecedented losing cycle of Democratic incumbents and candidates in too many districts to count. The losses haven't just been for congressional seats. They've been state and local offices that have resulted in state after state now being run by GOP governors and GOP controlled state legislatures. One other thing makes her the perfect political punching bag, she's a she. This was the hidden, not-polite-to-say, but very real factor in Hillary's flame out in 2016.
A big pack of Democratic incumbents and candidates in November know that Pelosi is toxic. They have cut bait from her. They tap dance around any mention of her, and when asked about their party tie to her pretend that she's on the far side of the moon. That hasn't stopped GOP opponents and party leaders from their attack. They still demand that Democratic congressional candidates say whether they will back Pelosi for House Speaker if they win office and the Democrats seize the House in November. This question triggers more panic and sweat attacks among Democratic candidates.
Democratic party leaders have tried to a good face on the Pelosi liability by claiming that they're getting closer and closer in the special elections to edging GOP incumbents and candidates in rock solid red districts. They are but this isn't a game of horse shoes. A congressional race is a winner take all race. The brutal reality is that the GOP continues to rack up the wins in these districts. The even grimmer reality is that Trump's intervention has been a tipping point in some of the races--and he is ever ready to crow that as he did in the Ohio race.
The GOP's waving Pelosi around to rack up wins points to another hard-political truth. An odious name can make a difference--for better or worse. Trump proved that. His name and all the negatives that go with it hurt and helped him at the same time in the initial run-up to the GOP presidential race. He got few endorsements, no big donor contributions, and almost total scorn from the GOP party establishment. This helped him for the exact reasons it hurt him. It made him appear to be the consummate political outlier, the proverbial man on the white horse who will cleanse the corrupt, deal making beltway Washington swamp.
That was a lie. But combined with a big healthy dose of his naked race, immigrant and Muslim baiting it was more than enough to convince just enough disgusted white rural blue collar, less educated voters that he was what he said he was. Pelosi is in the same spot with her name. The difference is that it's not just one office, the presidency, that's at stake, but dozens of offices that the Democrats are desperate to win. There's absolutely no upside to a bad name when the opposition welds that as a hammer against you.
What can be done? Pelosi has tried mightily to push back by bowing to the wishes of many Democrats to stay out of their districts, by low keying her presence in the media, and low keying even more her position as House Minority Leader. What she hasn't done is what more than a few Democrats want her to do. That's make a public pledge that if the Democrats take back the House in November she will not be the party's majority leader.
This is a pledge that Pelosi isn't likely to make. There's absolutely no sign that Democratic Party leaders will demand that she stand down either. The you wash my hand, I wash yours MO, is simply too deeply entrenched in the way the two parties do business. The brute truth is that it will take another notch in November on Pelosi's disastrous losing streak to finally budge the party to demand that she go. But go, she must, or the Democrats risk losing the House in November--Again.
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Student 'Satanists' Planned To Murder & 'Drink Blood' Of 15 Kids At School
October 25, 2018 Jenny Boyd, Opinion Columnist Cops & Criminals
The public school system is not only a danger to a child's ability to develop logic and free thought, but it has also apparently become a place for "Satan-worshipers" to find murder victims.
Bartown Police Chief Joe Hall spoke at a news conference yesterday, explaining that an 11 and 12-year-old pair of students at the local middle school planned to murder "at least 15 people" and "were willing to drink blood, and possibly eat flesh."
Bartown Police Chief Joe Hall (Photo Credit: YouTube)
The horrifying truth was uncovered after the students were caught in the bathroom with various knives and weapons, including a pizza cutter.
Hall stated the two were found waiting in the bathroom for an opportunity to find smaller kids that they could overpower to be their victims.
"As I sat there last night [and] watched these interviews, I do not believe this was a joke," Hall said.
Hall explained that there had been rumors on Monday about "issues" at the public school. One student had warned her teacher that "something bad" was about to occur, so the school added extra officers on Tuesday.
After the 11-year-old did not show up to her second-period class, her mom was sent an automated phone message informing her of the absence, the police chief explained. The child's mother then called the school and told administrators that she believed her daughter was there, which resulted in an immediate search of the campus.
Apparently, one of the assistant principals found the duo in a bathroom, waiting for their first victim, holding a goblet, Hall explained. The woman brought both girls to the principal's office.
Christopher Roberts, the principal, ordered the 11-year-old to empty her pockets. She was carrying a "paring knife and a sharpener." When he asked why she had the weapon, the student allegedly admitted the plan to attack as many other students as possible.
When officials searched the other girl, they found several knives and the pizza cutter.
Hall explained after watching the interviews with detectives, "I believe that these two small children . . . seriously sat down and plotted to do serious bodily harm to another student at school."
After the girls were arrested, police searched the 12-year-old's home and discovered a hand-drawn map of the school stating, "Go to kill in bathroom."
In conversations on the students' phones, the girls discussed committing suicide after leaving their classmates' body parts near the school's entrance.
"Thank Satan we are doing this in a bit," the 12-year-old allegedly wrote in a social media message the day before.
The students' parents were allegedly clueless about the plan. The pair were close friends and had just spent the weekend together.
Many people wonder how two children, at this age, could possibly plan such an attack without their parents' knowledge.
"I don't think either one of them was a ringleader," the police chief said, adding, "I think they were both in it together."
The two students have been charged with conspiracy to commit murder, possession of a weapon on school property and disrupting a school campus. However, local officials have not determined whether they will face justice as adults or minors.
"If you were an adult, you'd be looking at potential life in prison," Hall explained. "In this case, I think the state is going to step in and try to make the best decisions for both the public and the two suspects."
Polk County Schools Superintendent Jacqueline Byrd said during the news conference that the district will be filing for expulsion, causing many parents to sleep a little easier.
The police chief and Byrd both stated that all safety protocols worked, and the phrase, "If you see something, say something," was effective.
However, Byrd did not explain how the girls were able to bring those weapons to the school… that aspect of the incident was ignored.
Although Hall mentioned "mental health issues," oftentimes when evil is exposed, it is generally swept under the rug using the phrase "mental health problems." There is no doubt these children have warped ideas, but they got them from somewhere.
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Q: Speedup virtualenv creation with numpy and pandas I have multiple virtualenvs on a single machine, but all of them need numpy and pandas. I want to have seperated copies for each virtualenv, but creation of those virtualenvs takes quite some time. Is there some well defined way to precompile numpy and pandas on my machine just once and then to do something like:
pip install my_precompiled_numpy

A: You could make use of the wheel package. We do this over at pandas for our continuous integration builds so that we can basically download them and install them extremely fast.
Take a look at ci/speedpack/build.sh. This script essentially builds a bunch of wheels that we use (numpy and scipy included) for CI. They are actually stored on server and then pulled from there when travis-ci runs.
Take a look at ci/install.sh to see how the installation process works.
In your situation a server might be overkill, but you could setup a local repo and install wheels from there.

A: Old question, but thought I could add some recent insight. I work on both OSX and Windows on the same project.   I have had numerous delays (mostly just getting the correct files etc) on Windows side in trying to get binary installs for numpy etc.   Have switched to using Anaconda Distribution recently and it does a wonderful job of simplifying life.   It has its own flavour of virtual environments baked in and simplifies life considerably.
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On Friday I made my fiftieth post and also got my fiftieth follower! This post makes 51, with 52 followers. It's been fun and diverting having this blog to work on and I'm glad people are also enjoying reading it–thanks for following along with me!
In other news I've been exercising and getting a lot stronger lately. I can very nearly get up from the floor and can get up from pretty much any low thing which means I can drive my own car. Most important I can now pick up this extremely dense slice of cat and have been trying to remember to pick it up every time I see it wander by, just for the workout.
I also finally ordered The Paleo Approach: Reverse Autoimmune Disease and Heal Your Body by Sarah Ballantyne, the book that pretty much defines the Paleo Autoimmune Protocol, and I'm super glad I did. It's laid out like a textbook and provides a really in-depth intro-Bio-like explanation of the immune system and the digestive system and how they interact with one another. After doing the AIP for several months I feel ready to get into the science of it and figure out how exactly food affects one's immune system. For instance, instead of just avoiding gluten, it's interesting to read about the functioning of the epithelial cell lining of the gut, to learn that a protein in gluten triggers the production of zonulin in these cells which causes them to be more permeable… It's all fascinating to break it down and get inside the actual mechanics of it.
Of course right now my immune system is pretty much in off mode, so the healing aspect of the diet is most important, but eventually I will want to try eating some of the eliminated foods again and then there will be the real test in a year or so when I stop taking drugs and hope my immune system turns back on in a more functional way.


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Wil Alston, Executive Director, Five Points Business District
In mid 2010, Governor Ritter signed an Executive Order naming Five Points as one of four pilot communities of a newly created Sustainable Main Streets Initiative. That rollout is well underway.
A recent Denver Post article points out that the history of Five Points is long and storied. In the 1870s, Five Points was one of Denver's most fashionable neighborhoods. But as the elite moved to Capitol Hill, Eastern European immigrants, African Americans and Latinos moved to Five Points in great number. The community and its businesses thrived. In fact, in the 1920s and 1930s, Five Points became known as the "Harlem of the West." Jazz greats such as Duke Ellington and Billie Holliday performed in its many bars and restaurants.
Beginning in the 1960s, Five Points suffered the same demise as many American cities as many moved to the suburbs. Although Five Points experienced a 49% population growth in the period 2000-2006, business has languished.
Against some initially substantial opposition from residents and business owners, the Five Points Welton Street Marketplace Revitalization is well underway. The Plan attempts to remain true to the neighborhood's African American and jazz culture and heritage. Wil Alston is the point person for this effort. Join us to hear details of the plan and progress to date.
About Wil Alston
Wil is currently the executive director of the Five Points Business District, an economic and cultural development organization dedicated to revitalizing Denver's historic Welton Street Corridor in Five Points. In that position, Wil is responsible for the overall development and implementation of the strategies to revitalize Colorado's only African American and jazz "village square."
Prior to taking on his current role in November 2009, Wil served as a key member of Gov. Bill Ritter's administration as his deputy communications director. In that role, he was responsible for helping to craft and deliver the administration's many messages and was responsible for the day-to-day operations of the Press Office.
Wil has more than 25 years of work experience in state and federal government, higher education, the non-profit sector, and as an entrepreneur. Wil is a resident of Park Hill in Denver where he resides with his wife, Roz.
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Former Mayor Schmoke to Address Cristo Rey Jesuit Graduates
By Editor | 7.10.20
Baltimore, Md., July 6, 2020 – Kurt Schmoke, President of the University of Baltimore and former Mayor of Baltimore, will address Cristo Rey Jesuit High School graduates at the school's July 19 commencement. Cristo Rey Jesuit is a private school that partners with Baltimore City families to provide students with a college preparatory education and unique, four-year corporate work experience. One-hundred percent of the school's graduates have applied and earned acceptance to two and four-year colleges.
In anticipation of his address, Schmoke shared, "I am honored to be invited, and I look forward to speaking to these future leaders at such a crucial moment in their lives."
Schmoke's career is steeped in civic service and education. At present, he serves as the President of the University of Baltimore. Prior to leading UB, Schmoke served as Dean of the Howard University School of Law for nine years and as the university's General Counsel and Interim Provost. Schmoke's tenure as Dean was marked by his focus on increasing bar passage rates, and expanding the clinical law program to emphasize matters of environmental justice, fair housing and civil rights. Schmoke served as Mayor of Baltimore for three terms from 1987 to 1999. During his service as mayor, Schmoke was awarded the National Literacy Award by President George H.W. Bush for his efforts to promote adult literacy, and Baltimore was named as one of six cities by the Clinton Administration to receive the Empowerment Zone designation in 1994. Schmoke earned his undergraduate degree in history from Yale University, then went on to pursue graduate studies on a Rhodes scholarship at Oxford University. Schmoke earned his Juris Doctor degree from Harvard Law School. Prior to his service as Mayor, Schmoke was the State's Attorney for Baltimore City from 1982 to 1987.
The Cristo Rey Jesuit High School graduation ceremony will take place on Sunday, June 19 at 4 p.m. at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in Baltimore in a socially distanced ceremony. Guests will include 72 graduates, their families, and their teachers. The school's valedictorian, who has earned the highest grade-point average, and salutatorian, who has earned distinction as the best intern in the school's hallmark corporate work program, will join Schmoke in addressing the Class of 2020. Previous graduation speakers have included Wes Moore, Alicia Wilson and Freeman Hrabowski III, among others.
About Cristo Rey Jesuit High School: Founded in Baltimore in 2007, CRJ is a private, Catholic, co-educational high school, sponsored by the Maryland Province Jesuits, empowering students to succeed in college, work, and life. The school partners with students from economically disadvantaged families of racial, religious, and ethnic diversity in Baltimore City to provide a rigorous education and corporate work experience. Through CRJ's hallmark Corporate Internship Program, students earn a portion of their tuition and, moreover, access the social capital and work experience they will need to succeed in the twenty-first century job market. For more information, visit www.cristoreybalt.org.