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Naturalism states that we are all completely natural human beings, that there is no immaterial god "out there" and there is no immaterial soul "in here". It also states that freewill is an illusion, that we are as individuals who we are because of our genetics, environment, and culture.
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If it is not possible to determine the position and force of any given particle, as with some popular quantum physics principles, then S(t) is by definition indeterminable and left up to chance, therefore free will is false.
Indeterminability is not the same thing as "left up to chance"—your logic is faulty here.
Glad to explain. I'll choose a classic example—Laplace's Demon. Laplace claimed complete determinism—that the future is completely determined by the past, more or less what you are claiming. He had in mind the movement of astronomical bodies and in particular the solar system.
No one would claim the evolution of the solar system (considered in isolation) is "left to chance" —it follows from the law of gravitation—but neither is it precisely determinable from that law. It is not even known for certain the solar system is stable over the long term. The problem is in part mathematical. Solutions to the n-body problem are approximations and over the long term reality may diverge considerably from calculations.
A system, if we consider the overall system, is said to be determinable if we could predict the outcome with prior knowledge, or indeterminable if we couldn't.
That's fine as a definition, but then you go on to contradict it by saying:
Being indeterminable merely means that we could not deduce an outcome with prior knowledge, making the outcome chance-based.
A good counter-example are Steven Wolfram's finite automata, where a simple set of rules produces, after many iterations, quite complex and unpredictable behavior. Outcomes are indeterminable from the rules, but not at all "chance-based."
Again, it is wrong to equate indeterminable with chance-based. Outcomes may be determined (as pure phenomena) without being determinable (involving an observer and predictability).
That's fine as a definition, but then you go on to contradict it by saying:
To contradict means to say x = not x. x = x would be a restatement. If it is acceptable for the definition of determinable to be:
we could predict the outcome with prior knowledge
...then the definition of indeterminable being:
we could not deduce an outcome with prior knowledge
... is the opposite, as determinable and indeterminable are opposites. This is a practical restatement, not a contradiction.
Outcomes may be determined (as pure phenomena) without being determinable (involving an observer and predictability).
These distinctions are superfluous. All physical phenomena are determined, and so we are only interested in whether the outcome is determinable. If an observer with all pertinent prior knowledge of the phenomena could predict an outcome, then it is determinable, otherwise it is indeterminable.
A good counter-example are Steven Wolfram's finite automata, where a simple set of rules produces, after many iterations, quite complex and unpredictable behavior. Outcomes are indeterminable from the rules, but not at all "chance-based."
Wolfram's seemingly random patterns are indeterminable only if you consider the adjacent cells as a series, but they are totally determinable if you know the rules and parameters used to propagate them. An example is the number π(pi) which has seemingly random and unpredictable digits, yet, since we know it is π, the nth digit could be calculated.
Regardless of Wolfram, if there were such thing as a determined but indeterminable outcome (or that any of a set of possible outcomes could arise from the same conditions), that would by definition require chance, for any outcome depends on some fixed logic would be determinable from that logic (tautology because it's self-evident).
We could draw our little plot of outcome possibilities as such:
These distinctions are superfluous. All physical phenomena are determined,
Come now, you know better than that. Quantum indeterminacy is a fact—you can't dismiss it with a wave of your hand.
Quantum indeterminacy describes an indeterminable outcome. You could take a quote out of context and say, because some value described by QI is indetermined at some given time, then it would seem as if I'm dismissing QI by saying all physical phenomena are "determined". This is disingenuous because, in the context of Wolfram, his cellular automata are determined by his rules, but are indeterminable, as your previous argument went. Determined means, then, "caused by a prior state or function", not "has a definite value." The distinction is superfluous because all physical phenomena have exists from a prior state or function, even if it is not determinable at any given moment.
You seem to be very confused. QI does nothing for the argument of free will, as I have detailed over and over -- because you simply can't deny the fact that QI involves chance and a degree of randomness, and the fact that a value is indetermined at some given time is immaterial to the fact that the outcome still requires chance over possible values.
You have been trying to disprove an argument for the lack of free will by arguing over the semantics of "indetermined", which ultimately has nothing to do with the argument whatsoever.
There's a very simple way to attack the logic itself and that is to show how an indeterminable outcome does not involve chance.
Wolfram, or any imaginary numbers, are very much determined by the rules and parameters that define the initial condition. If you use the same rule twice, you will get the same result, even if future results seem unpredictable against prior results.
Oh, I thought naturalist was someone who liked nude vacations. I myself am a naturalist though not because I'm an exhibitionist or voyeur. I'm just lazy and hate doing a bunch of laundry after vacation.
No, you mean naturist. If you are ever invited to join a group of naturalists on an outing, it would be well to wear clothes.
It is the methodology of science as well which is our most effective knowledge system to date.
If you say that all physical phenomena are determined, you certainly are denying quantum indeterminacy—the motion of an electron is a physical phenomenon and is not completely determined.
Again you assume I am trying to make an argument for free will, when I am merely questioning the faulty "thought experiment" you gave as a proof of determinism.
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Exactly this one? I still have the gimp *.xcf. In case you want to colour it yourself.
Just fill the layers in the color you want.
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It's _not_ impolite, please feel free to correct my english.
Yes this one. *.xcf that's cool, soo if You can upload *.xcf too
sorry for my english. {Arch Linux, Debian} User
Pretty simple... but effective
Your color scheme is really astonishing. Could you share .Xdefaults and theme.lua?
Back to the topic - still very immature setting based on old gutterslob gtk2 theme.
Clean (with never used floating layout - I rarely see background)
Pretty simple... but effective
Hehe never thought someone with that music taste would run Arch Linux with Awesome WM.
# .Xdefaults colors
! --- standard colors ---
! black
*color0: #000000
! bright_black
*color8: #161616
! red
*color1: #be4138
! bright_red
*color9: #be786f
! green
*color2: #50af38
! bright_green
*color10: #87af6f
! yellow
*color3: #beaf38
! bright_yellow
*color11: #beaf6f
! blue
*color4: #5041a6
! bright_blue
*color12: #8778a6
! magenta
*color5: #be41a6
! bright_magenta
*color13: #be78a6
! cyan
*color6: #50afa6
! bright_cyan
*color14: #87afa6
! white
*color7: #d9d9d9
! bright_white
*color15: #ffffff
# theme.lua colors
cred ="#be786f"
theme.font = "Droid Sans 8"
theme.bg_normal = cbackgroud
theme.fg_normal = cred
theme.border_normal = cred
theme.bg_focus = cbackgroud
theme.fg_focus = cforeground
theme.border_focus = cforeground
theme.bg_minimize = cbackgroud
theme.fg_minimize = "#555555"
theme.bg_urgent = cred
theme.fg_urgent = cforeground
theme.border_width = "1"
theme.border_marked = cgreen
theme.border_urgent = cred
theme.taglist_bg_focus = cred
I relly like it too. But I had no time to make a gtk2 theme on my own. If i have it, I will come back and post a fake dirty.
Maybe a hot tip: 4bit Terminal Color Scheme Designer
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It's _not_ impolite, please feel free to correct my english.
Changed my theme to match jellybeans.vim, finally moved away from using Tomorrow Night Eighties for everything. I like the result.
Can you git your .fonts dir, or point me to your 'Liberation Sans'?
Because this is the one I know.
Changed my theme to match jellybeans.vim, finally moved away from using Tomorrow Night Eighties for everything. I like the result.
that's very nice, we are you getting all the widget icons ?
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that's very nice, we are you getting all the widget icons ?
They're "sm4tik icons" which I found on the awesome wm wiki. All the links to download them seem to be down now Here's a zip with all the ones I have though.
can you please share your .Xresources? these colours are quite nice
greetz flexo
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Sure, here you go:
URxvt.transparent: true
URxvt.scrollBar: false
URxvt.shading: 20
URxvt.font: -*-terminus-*-*-*-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-*-u
URxvt.urlLauncher: firefox
URxvt.matcher.button: 1
URxvt.matcher.pattern.1: \\bwww\\.[\\w-]\\.[\\w./?$@#-].[\\w/]
URxvt.saveLines: 1000
URxvt.cursorBlink: false
URxvt.inheritPixmap: true
*background: #000000
*foreground: #ad9d72
*color0: #3b3b3b
*color8: #2a2a29
*color1: #705050
*color9: #dca3a3
*color2: #7aa16a
*color10: #93c783
*color3: #a1926a
*color11: #c7b983
*color4: #506070
*color12: #94bff3
*color5: #8e6a80
*color13: #745568
*color6: #688891
*color14: #758c93
*color7: #989081
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diis looks very nice
can you share your config please ?
You can find my config files on github
Really love this config. I was trying to understand how the volume widget works - looks like you're calling a custom script? (pavol?). Can you please point me to it if it's available somewhere?
This is my first time using Arch and also my first venture into tiling window managers. It's safe to say that I'm caught in the rabbit hole.
I'm happy with everything but my beautiful/widget themes, mostly the borders and text/icons colors. Once that's polished up I'll be using this setup for a while
Really love this config. I was trying to understand how the volume widget works - looks like you're calling a custom script? (pavol?). Can you please point me to it if it's available somewhere?
I can't remember where i got this script from, but I found the code here: http://lmazy.verrech.net/2011/02/contro … rom-shell/.
I know this is probably not the best place, or maybe it is, but can anyone please help me get my sensors working... I've honestly read the wikis more times than I can remember. I just need cpu, gpu and net sensors running on my status bar.
I think one of the problems I'm having is not being sure exactly where to drop the codes within rc.lua so I restart and get error codes. Anyone interested in taking a stab at it I can share my code and start out with something simple like cpu frequency. If I can get that running I"m sure I'll figure out the rest.
At least post some pretense screenshots
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It's _not_ impolite, please feel free to correct my english.
I know this is probably not the best place, or maybe it is, but can anyone please help me get my sensors working.
Your first inclination was correct, this is not the place to ask. This is a thread where members share how their desktops look. Your post, while inadvertent, is a classic example of thread hijacking
Please, feel free to start a new thread in the Applications and Desktop Environment subforum. The Artwork and Screenshots subforum is not a technical forum. The Application and Desktop Environment is technical.
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*sigh* I guess I should have gone with my first inclination but I'll post in the other forum.
manuelschneid3r here you go:
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@MrQuest: can i have the wall, please?
Some old ones, but still.
MrQuest! I love the mood your theme invokes. It's perfect for a raining day.
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There is a tidal wave coming. It has hit my house and I'm up to my neck! I'm writing to warn you and ask for your prayers. Pray that our attachment to the Foundation will hold. If it hasn't hit your house yet, it probably is headed that way. It certainly has hit your neighbor's house. Be ready. Pray. Fast. Pray.
What tidal wave am I talking about? Here is a clue. Gene Robinson was the first openly homosexual bishop in the Episcopal Church. In his book, God Believes in Love: Straight Talk about Gay Marriage, he describes how this tidal wave wiped out his family about 30 years ago. He didn't hold onto the Foundation and has learned to ride this wave. He is doing all right by earthly standards. Yet I tremble when I think where the wave is taking him and those he influences. I pray for him and I ask you to do the same. I read his book last week and responded with an e-mail. Here is what I sent:
Dear Bishop Robinson,
I just finished your book, God Believes in Love. Thank you for your honesty in sharing your experiences and thoughts surrounding the issue of gay marriage. A friend of mine gave me your book in hope that it would help me process the fact that a woman very dear to me is planning to marry another woman soon. Your book was a help, but that process is ongoing and I wonder if you could help me a bit more.
I have some serious questions. You describe meeting a "wonderful, young woman" after college, getting married, and having two daughters. You say, "the joyful celebratory times (of marriage) made me feel as if I were the luckiest man on earth." You say your marriage was "intrinsic to who I was." You say "we were a deliriously happy couple, and our marriage had been the source of deep joy and happiness." When after 13 years of marriage you decide to divorce, you ask my question. "How could we sacrifice all that... over the issue of sexuality?" Exactly. How could you? You say, "It seemed like a reckless thing to do..." It still does seem so to me. Can you help me see how it wasn't?
OK, you say "there seemed to be no other way to live a life of integrity." What is the lack of integrity in "being drawn to people of the same gender" (or any gender for that matter) while being married? Temptation is absolutely irrelevant to the marriage vows. No one promises not to be tempted. You could have said, "I am a homosexual man married to the woman I love." Why would that have lacked integrity?
"Wasn't I crazy to be doing this?" You said it. "Why would we mess this up?!" Yeah. Why? You describe a "still, small voice of God?" (the question mark is yours) saying "be true to yourself." That may be a spiritual message, but for the life of me, in all that you describe, I cannot recognize it coming from the Holy Spirit. It seems that, even now, you have doubts about its source.
You took a priest to the divorce court and then tried to solemnize the dissolution of your marriage. "There was no liturgy for the ending of a marriage..." You could have taken a clue from that. "So we made it up out of whole cloth..." Yeah. That's what you did.
As it now stands, your book solidifies my opposition to gay marriage. We all face various temptations and we often think that yielding is the only way to make temptations go away. Solemnizing sinful behavior might help to paper over our guilt and make us feel better for a while. But in the end there is only one solution for our guilt.
Thanks again for your honest sharing of your experience. I am still open to any answers or clarifications you might offer.
Sincerely in Christ,
Rev. Ken Berggren
Pastor, United Methodist Church
I haven't received an answer. If I do I'll pass it along. You see, the Bishop has somehow twisted the cross into a kind of surfboard to let him ride this wave. Personally, I think I'd rather drown.


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Author's note: Dolby Labs recently contacted me to inform me that, due to technical trouble, the presentation I had originally viewed was not presented in Dolby Atmos. This article has been updated from the original to reflect my opinion of Dolby Atmos after returning to the theater to audition it a second time.
Dolby Atmos made its public debut in the U.S. and Canada last Friday at 14 theaters scattered about North America (see our list below). Pixar's Brave was the vehicle for the new audio technology, which many are billing as the next big thing in commercial cinema. As luck would have it, nearby Vancouver, WA's Cinetopia theater is home to one auditorium equipped with Atmos technology; so I headed North first thing that morning to catch the 10:00 AM showing and hear for myself what all scuttlebutt is about. But there was a problem.
I was pretty underwhelmed by what I heard that day and my article reflected that opinion. After reading my report, Dolby contacted me to inform me that there was a technical glitch during the show I had seen, which caused the sound system to revert to 7.1. Essentially, Dolby asserted I hadn't yet heard Atmos and requested that I return to the theater to give it a second go. I must admit that I was skeptical, but I obliged and returned to the same theater this morning. I've never been so happy to have been wrong.
How many channels do you need?
If you're not familiar, Dolby Atmos is an audio technology that takes surround sound to an entirely new level. Until now, theaters have been able to reproduce a maximum of eight individual tracks of surround sound, spread out among varying numbers of speakers. With 7.1 surround, you get three channels up front (left, right and center) two side surround channels (left and right), two rear rear channels (left and right) and one subwoofer channel. When designing a film's soundtrack, directors can use these different channels to steer sound effects around the room, providing 360 degrees of audio.
Dolby Atmos, on the other hand, is capable of processing an ear-bending 128 channels of sound, which can be routed to up to 64 individual speakers. But the real magic behind the science of Atmos isn't just about the number of speakers, it is about where the new speakers are placed and how they are used. With Atmos, the ceiling is lined with any number of full-range speakers that work in concert with all of the other speakers in the room so that an "object" of sound can be placed just about anywhere within a virtual hemisphere. Previously, if a sound was sent to the left surround speakers, then all of the surround speakers on the left side of the room would play that sound. With Atmos, that sound can be placed in one speaker and panned around to any of the other speakers in the room. In a way, you can chase the sound with your ears, tracking it and correlating it to the on-screen action. It sounds like it could be truly amazing, doesn't it? That's why I darkened the door of a commercial theater for the first time in over three years to have a listen for myself.
But how does it sound?
The first time around, my brother and I walked into a nearly empty theater just seconds before the lights dimmed and the preview reels started spinning. As I entered the room, I looked straight up to count the number of ceiling speakers that had been installed. The total was 16, with 8 running the length of the room on the far left and right hand side. I had hoped for the speakers to be run a little further into the room, but, as I discovered today, the reason they hadn't been run that way is due to the fact that, even though the theater is brand spanking new, it was completed without Atmos technology installed and, thus, had to be retrofitted. It turns out that ventilation ducts and sprinkler system pipes already in place simply made ideal placement impossible.
On my original visit, preview reels began immediately. This time, however, we were treated to a Dolby Atmos teaser/trailer first. Within seconds, it was blatantly apparent that Dolby had been right all along. In fact, I had not heard Atmos yet, and though I had only sampled a small morsel of it so far, I knew straight away that I was going to have to completely rewrite this review. The 15 seconds I had heard hadn't impressed just me, either; gasps from fellow audience members let me know that everyone else in the room was digging it too –big time.
I expected the preview reels to launch next, but Dolby wasn't done with us just yet. An informational video –which is available at Dolby's website— came next, explaining the evolution of surround sound thus far and how Dolby Atmos is different. I'd seen the video before, but only heard it in stereo. While the video content does a great job of explaining how Dolby Atmos is different, it is the accompanying Atmos sound track –which can't be reproduced on a computer, of course– that really brings the message home. But wait! There's more! After the previews were completed, we got one more taste of Atmos exposed, with all of its capabilities proudly displayed, by way of a much longer Dolby Atmos trailer (and a refreshingly original one, I might add).
I almost ran out of the theater right then and there to grab my laptop and get writing. I'd already heard enough to know just how great Atmos could be. But I'm glad I stayed and sat through Brave again because hearing Atmos in context really deepened my understanding of how this technology has changed surround sound and what we can expect from it in the future.
We learned from an on-scene Dolby technician (thanks, Dan!) that programming the Atmos soundtrack for Brave was a little bit rushed due to time constraints. You'd never know it by hearing this movie, though. You can tell that the programmers had some fun steering sounds around the room for some of the scenes –and those were enjoyable moments– but what really impressed me is that the technology wasn't over-used. On a debut like this, it would have been easy to beat the audience's ears to death with sounds flying all around the room. Thankfully, though, the soundtrack never spiraled out of control.
What's so great about it
I believe that we go to the movies to be transported elsewhere. We want to be able to suspend disbelief and and feel like we actually experienced what the characters in the story experienced. We want to walk out of the theater saying, "Wow…what a ride!" Dolby Atmos helps to make that possible.
Dolby Atmos isn't just about hearing a helicopter fly over your head or an arrow wiz past your cheek. It's about placing you in the middle of the action in a way that hasn't been possible before. If the screen sucks you in, then Dolby Atmos helps keep you there. It adds a sense of realism to the movie-going experience that we've been longing for and that theater owners have needed.
Will Atmos start reeling into public theaters A/V exiles who have been hibernating away in their private home theaters for the last few years? It ought to. Even though Dolby is rumored to be developing a version of Atmos that can be licensed to home theater equipment manufacturers, we imagine it is probably a long way off and, while it may be possible to install a really big screen in a smaller room to mimic that theater feel at home, it would take a room of cavernous proportions to be able to accommodate an audio system that could do hold a candle to what Atmos can do in a properly sized auditorium.
Dolby Atmos really is a revolution in theater sound and we think it has the potential to rejuvenate the commercial theater business, but we are a little concerned that passing the cost onto the consumer via a price premium on tickets may be a little off-putting. Consider this: seeing Brave in Atmos at the theater I visited tacks on an additional $2.50 to the price of the ticket. Add that to the premium placed on 3D presentations and you wind up with a $15 ticket –and that's at matinee rates! The experience is great, but is it that great? The movie-going public will be the judge, I suppose.
Brave is currently playing the following Dolby Atmos equipped theaters:
• AMC Burbank 16 (Burbank, CA)
• AMC Century City 15 (Century City, CA)
• Century at Pacific Commons and XD (Fremont, CA)
• El Capitan Theatre (Hollywood, CA)
• AMC Van Ness 14 (San Francisco, CA)
• ArcLight Sherman Oaks (Sherman Oaks, CA)
• AMC Downtown Disney 24 (Lake Buena Vista, FL)
• Kerasotes ShowPlace™ ICON at Roosevelt Collection (Chicago, IL)
• AMC® BarryWoods 24 (Kansas City, MO)
• AMC Garden State 16 (Paramus, NJ)
• Brenden Theatres at the Palms (Las Vegas, NV)
• SilverCity-Yonge Eglington Cinemas (Cineplex) (Toronto, ON)
• Cinemark® West Plano and XD (West Plano, TX)
• Cinetopia Vancouver Mall 23 (Vancouver, WA)


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Vine is a startup that was acquired by Twitter before it even launched.
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Need some inspiration before making your first Vine? Check out 13 interesting ways big brands are getting attention with the app.
Urban Outfitters was the first brand to make a Vine. It was smart and took a video of puppies.
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SatNav warriors invade Somerset village
Rural idyll ruined
A quiet Somerset village has been turned into a rat-run because of satellite navigation systems, residents claim. Locals in Barrow Gurney say up to 10,000 vehicles a day are taking the road through the centre of their village - instead of the main road - in order to get to Bristol Airport.
Signposted routes to Bristol Airport advise cars to follow the A38, but sat-nav users are pointed towards an alternative (and supposedly less congested route) through Barrow Gurney. Parish council chairman Geoff Coombs told the BBC that heavy traffic is destroying village life. "I think there really should be some special dispensation not to route these very high volumes of traffic through small villages close to facilities such as airports," he said.
Car navigation systems, such as TomTom, commonly feature a traffic update report that allows users to plan their route around congestion. TomTom said even with this feature users should still exercise common sense when selecting routes. "If a driver ever feels that they are being directed down an inappropriate road then the TomTom can quickly re-route them," it said. ®
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Soriano goes yard twice but Cubs fall to Reds
Chicago, IL – The Cincinnati Reds used a four-run eighth inning to beat the Chicago Cubs, 6-4, in the middle installment of a three- game series.
Shin-Soo Choo hit a solo homer for the Reds, who have won the first two games of this set to record their first road series victory of the year. Zack Cozart, Jay Bruce, Todd Frazier, Jack Hannahan and Devin Mesoraco added an RBI apiece.
Cincinnati starter Tony Cingrani gave up four runs on three hits while striking out five over six innings for Cincinnati, which has won eight straight at Wrigley Field. Logan Ondrusek (2-0) tossed a scoreless seventh to pick up the win.
Alfonso Soriano hit a pair of two-run homers for the Cubs, who have dropped three in a row.
Jeff Samardzija allowed two runs -- one earned -- on four hits over while striking out five over six innings. Carlos Marmol (2-2) was charged with three runs while failing to record an out in the eighth.
"The definition of a good lineup is that they make you throw a lot of pitches. They're grind you down, foul balls off, especially your out pitches," Samardzija said.
Holding a 4-2 lead, the Cubs brought in Marmol to start the eighth. Cozart and Joey Votto walked before Brandon Phillips was hit by a pitch to load the bases with no outs. Hector Rondon then took over for Marmol.
Bruce greeted Rondon with an RBI single to left-center field and Frazier followed with a sacrifice fly to tie the game. Xavier Paul was intentionally walked to fill the bags again. Pinch-hitter Hannahan worked a walk to force in the go-ahead run and Mesoraco's pinch-hit sac fly made it a 6-4 game.
"We manufactured runs (in the eighth)," Cozart said.
Jonathan Broxton and Aroldis Chapman each tossed a scoreless inning of relief to secure the victory. Chapman picked up his seventh save of the season.
Choo hit the first pitch of the game over the wall in left.
Soriano responded with a homer of his own in the bottom half of the first. With two outs, Anthony Rizzo was hit by a pitch and Soriano then cleared the wall in left to make it 2-1 Cubs.
Cincinnati scored a run in the third to tie the game. Choo walked, moved to second on Samardzija's throwing error and scored on Cozart's single to center.
Chicago took the lead back in the bottom half. Rizzo hit a two-out double and scored on Soriano's blast to left.
Game Notes
The Reds went 2-for-7 with runners in scoring position and stranded eight ... Votto had two of Cincinnati's six hits ... Marmol's appearance in the eighth was his 453rd relief appearance with the Cubs, snapping a tie with Lee Smith for the franchise record.


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Date(s) - Sunday, April 5, 2015
1:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Gairloch Gardens
In House & Home & Garden, her first solo museum exhibition, Partheniou presents an installation environment that skews our perception of the materials of everyday life. Providing a unique context and architecture for Partheniou's practice, Oakville Galleries in Gairloch Gardens—formerly a private home—becomes a space in transition. Rooms seemingly undergoing renovation are joined by uncanny sculptural objects that evoke the activities of both residents and contractors. Seamlessly blending actual and fabricated construction materials, and presenting replicas of once-functional objects like light bulbs, candle sticks and toys, Partheniou proffers a scene poised between the order of daily routine and the chaotic upheaval of change.


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I'm going to get called Judianne a lot this week. That's how names were when I was a kid…they were a mash-up of your first and last names. Not necessarily your full names or I would be Judith Anne and I can never EVER once remember being called Judith by any member of my family. Judith is my doctor's office name. My brother was Joeymark and my cousin was Donnypaul…mash-up names.
My beloved uncle passed away yesterday, poetically, on the golf course. He was my mother's brother-in-law and we lived next door to them nearly my whole life. We lived in this Kennedy-esque first generation Italian American suburban grouping of homes built by my uncles. My mother had two sisters – one lived next door to me and the other one, across the street. Their mother, my grandmother, lived next door to me on the other side. My mother also has four brothers, three of whom lived in the neighborhood within a short walk or even shorter bike ride.
One of the best things I can say about our childhood is that we didn't know how lucky we were. If we did then we knew other people didn't live with their relatives and have cousins more like brothers and sisters. I didn't live in a house with a real neighbor (one I wasn't related to) until I was 25 years old!). We were loved, protected and blessed with comforts of life. The in-ground swimming pool was in my back yard. The basketball court was next door and the fort was behind my cousin's house across the street.
My hair was never dry all summer and sometimes we got to swim with the light on late at night (probably 10:00pm!). Every weekend, and I mean EVERY weekend in the summer there were hot dogs and hamburgers eaten in the breezeway with all of my cousins. There were 19 of us and we were together all of the time. We laughed and we fought, we played games and we got in trouble for horsing around. We were in each other's weddings then life happened and we grew apart.
This picture is in the breezeway in 1962. My sister was not born yet and I was the youngest of the "older" cousins. Seven boys and two girls…from top left: Joeymark (my late brother Joe), cousins Donny, Davey and Donnypaul…second row from left: cousins Richard, Michael, me and cousins Sharon and Benjie. Uncle Ben was Davey and Benjie's dad. He was a bricklayer by trade and a contractor by profession. He was loud and soft-hearted (always cried when I sang Ave Maria!) and I loved him with all of my heart!
But, when something like a death or other disaster happens, we sit together at someone's kitchen table, comparing notes about life today then reminisce about those breezeway days long ago.
Uncle Ben – it's Judianne and I want you to know how much I loved you, even when you yelled at me at the pool. You will be missed…
Life is good!
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It's a quirky animated show called "Bee & PuppyCat," about a twentysomething professional who has intergalactic adventures with a mysterious creature she calls PuppyCat.
The man who produced the popular online series on YouTube's Cartoon Hangover is 62-year-old Fred Seibert, who is responsible for some of the most successful animated TV shows of the 1990s.
The former DJ and college dropout, who helped launch MTV and revive Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network, is now reinventing himself as an innovator of online animation.


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Special coverage: Pope Benedict XVI
The most significant act of Benedict's papacy: resigning
Pope Benedict's resignation tells me that he knows his role, both his role as bishop of Rome, and his role as successor to Pope John Paul II. Joseph Ratzinger was elected as a short-term caretaker pope, and eight years (or nearly eight) is a sufficient amount of time to let the aura of Pope John Paul II's too-long papacy dissipate. [Read more.]
Berating Benedict? The surprising frankness of criticism
If anyone was worrying about Joseph Ratzinger's (Benedict XVI-emeritus) influence on the conclave and the church going forward, take a gander at the criticism (and damning with faint praise) arising from all quarters. Off the record, and sometimes on, the criticism of Benedict's nearly 8-year tenure is loud and clear, and it focuses on one big failure: governance. [Read more.]
A pope for peace and justice? Cardinal Turkson a popular, yet unlikely, papal candidate
This morning, on day three of the USCCB's Catholic Social Ministry Gathering in Washington, I was fortunate enough to sit at a breakfast table surrounded by a few bishops' conference staffers. And despite the many interesting topics of conversation going on at the gathering, everyone wanted to talk papal picks. [Read more.]
Note to the New York Times: Timothy Dolan does not have a snowball's chance of being pope
Now that handicapping the papal election is underway (Benedict who?), The New York Times is out of the gate with its short list, upon which, of course, they have put New York's own Cardinal Timothy Dolan, along with fellow North American Marc Ouellet of Quebec. [Read more.]
Why there is no need to worry about having an ex-pope and a new pope
News stories seem to be capturing some anxiety--including some from those who should know better--about the possibility of Pope Benedict XVI getting in the way of the new pope, whoever he is. [Read more.]
Spoiler alert! Pope Benedict chooses his own successor (says my crystal ball)
Manila Archbishop Luis Antonio Tagle joined five others in receiving the red hat, but he is the only one likely to succeed Pope Benedict. [Read more.]
Sex abuse: Benedict succeeds where John Paul II failed
Many faulted Pope John Paul II, rightly I think, for a slow and insufficiently direct response to the U.S. sex abuse crisis. [Read more.]
Veiled to meet the pope?
With all the hoo-ha over the burqa in France, one Vatican tradition I wish they would discard is the requirement that women where mantillas (veils) and black when they meet the pope. [Read more.]
The pope, sexuality, and mainstream media
Pope Benedict XVI has spawned another media tempest related to homosexuality; or at least he threw a bone to a hungry media, who then spawned the tempest. [Read more.]
What the pope should learn from the sex abuse scandals in his home country
These scandals first came to light because German Jesuit officials actively pursued rumors and allegations of sexual abuse by members of their order in Jesuit-run boarding schools. [Read more.]
Pope Benedict five years on
I'd go as far as to say that in these five years the Ratzinger papacy has lurched from catastrophe to catastrophe, beginning with the Regensburg speech of 2006, continuing with the unconditional rehabilitation of the bishops of the Society of St. Pius X, and culminating in the international sex abuse crisis, which is only going to get bigger. [Read more.]
Change we can believe in: The pope, condoms, and church teaching
Using the words "pope" and "condom" in the same sentence is bound to draw attention; when it's the pope himself using the latter word in a sentence of his own, the world takes notice. [Read more.]
Holy Father in the 'hood: Should the pope ditch his palatial digs?
Imagine, for a moment, the following scenario and the powerful witness to Jesus Christ and his God this would proclaim. First, the pope sells the summer residence at Castel Gandolfo, liquidates half of the assets of the Vatican and gives it to the poor, retires the papal robes, donates the popemobile to charity, and abolishes the pomp and circumstance surrounding the papacy. [Read more.]
The pope's letter to Ireland: Two steps forward and one back?
Though its reception has been uneven--with some applauding and some shrugging--the pope's letter to the church of Ireland is definitely worthy of praise--with reservations. [Read more.]
The Pope and the Queen
As the world keeps wondering why Pope Benedict will not directly address the European sex abuse crisis, I find myself thinking back to the 1997 death of Diana, Princess of Wales and specifically to the response of Queen Elizabeth to it. [Read more.]
Pope playing victim
I can only express disappointment with Pope Benedict XVI's letter of explanation regarding the rehabilitation of the bishops of the SSPX. At best, it is a poor-me attempt to lay blame at the feet of others; at worst it's just whiny, with the pope claiming he's been attacked "with hostility." [Read more.]
Pope points the way on President Obama
Expect the pope in today's meeting with President Obama to take a different tack than the confrontational approach chosen by many U.S. bishops. [Read more.]
Pope on offensive in UK
Pope Benedict XVI took a swipe at the "atheistic extremism" and "aggressive secularism" of the UK (and modern Europe in general) in his first speech in Scotland. [Read more.]
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Yesterday I had a moment of spontaneous prayer-writing as I prepared the O Clavis David post. The words that came to me were:
We await the dawn, the coming of the Son of Justice, opening the door to lead us out of darkness and into the light!
Today we have the O Antiphon in which that door opens – O Oriens! Or O Rising Sun! This is why I always stand in awe of how the Holy Spirit works. While it was not my intention to connect one day to the next in quite that way, as usual, God has other plans. Better ones than we have.
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GOSHEN — For the fourth year in a row, Dana Distributors will be paying for rides for people who've had a few too many at bars throughout Orange, Sullivan and Rockland counties.
GOSHEN — For the fourth year in a row, Dana Distributors will be paying for rides for people who've had a few too many at bars throughout Orange, Sullivan and Rockland counties.
The program, which Dana offers in conjunction with local taxi companies, has been growing every year — last year, they gave 168 rides, up from 117 in 2010, said Tom Kennedy, general sales manager for the Goshen-based Anheuser-Busch distributors.
Kennedy was flanked by more than a dozen police and county officials and politicians, several of whom spoke to hammer home the message that you should designate a driver or get a cab if you've been drinking.
"We don't want to read about you being in a hospital or morgue come Jan. 1," said state Sen. John Bonacic, R-C-Mount Hope. "We want you to live a long, happy and healthy life."
Drunk driving is still the most common crime in many towns — 17 percent of all arrests in Orange, Ulster and Sullivan counties in 2011 were for DWI, according to Division of Criminal Justice Services statistics — but it has generally been declining over the past few decades, because of stricter enforcement and changing attitudes. Village of Monroe police Chief Dom Giudice said that his officers often make traffic stops and find designated drivers.
"I know, in our end of the county, the program is working," he said.
Drunken-driving deaths nationwide fell by 52 percent from 1982 to 2010; Deputy Orange County Executive James O'Donnell noted that 2011 was the first year with under 10,000.
"There's a lot more work to be done, but I congratulate Dana Distributors for 26 years of doing an excellent job," he said.
Kennedy said the rides are part of Anheuser-Busch's larger programs to encourage responsible drinking, in which Dana has been active — those 168 rides in 2011 represent 10 percent of the rides provided by Anheuser-Busch distributors statewide that year.
The rides are available between 4 p.m. and 2 a.m., and they'll take you home within a 10-mile radius of the bar. To see if the bar takes part, ask the bartender or look around for one of the Alert Cab posters they've been putting up. Dana sponsors the same program Thanksgiving Eve, St. Patrick's Day and for the Super Bowl.


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Megadeth Perform on 'Guitar Center Sessions'
Metal masters Megadeth were the latest band to take part in the television music series 'Guitar Center Sessions.' Megadeth's episode aired this past Friday on July 13.
The show featured conversations with the band hosted by Nic Harcourt in addition to intimate performance segments from the legendary thrashers.
Clips from the episode are starting to emerge online, including Megadeth performing Trust' from their 1997 disc 'Cryptic Writings,' the song 'Angry Again,' included on the soundtrack for the 1993 film 'Last Action Hero' and 'Symphony of Destruction' from 1992's 'Countdown to Extinction.' Excerpts of each song performance can be seen below.
Megadeth also posted a series of photos taken from the recording of the show on March 22 on their Facebook page, check them out here.
Guitar Center Sessions is collaboration between Guitar Center and DirecTV. The show airs on DirecTV's Audience Network (channel 239).
Megadeth wrapped up their latest tour dubbed Gigantour in March and will be heading back out to tour Asia and South America throughout August and September, check out all the upcoming dates here.


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Some of the best places to live in Houston aren't necessarily inside The Loop, according to a city-ranking released by Niche, a neighborhood statistics site. Webster was ranked the second best suburb, based on factors like things to do, ease to commute around the area, quality of schools, and the area residents' involvement in their community. Edgewater in the only new master planned community in Webster and offers an urban experience while still enabling residents to explore the natural environment with nature trails leading to a 35 acre nature preserve. Imagine walking palm tree lined streets, or watching a Texas-sized sunset on Clear Creek. You may feel like you are on vacation, but you are really home. Tucked away in its own private enclave with quick access to major highways, Edgewater is a perfect combination of convenience and seclusion, and is perfect spot for your beautiful Coventry Home.
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CloudVerse simplifies Cloud Management in Cisco's Unified Data Center
On December 6th Cisco announced CloudVerse, an integrated set of capabilities that enables customers to deliver cloud applications and services by uniquely combining the unified data center and cloud intelligent network. Key to this is Cisco's Unified Data Center architecture which is comprised of three technology pillars: Unified Computing, Unified Fabric, and Unified Management.
The following provides a description of CloudVerse, focusing on new cloud management offerings and capabilities that enable customers to build and operate private, public or hybrid clouds… the world of many clouds:
- Cisco CloudVerse uniquely combines the unified data center and cloud intelligent network as the platform to deliver cloud services. CloudVerse brings a unique set of advantages:
- Assured Cloud Experience by uniquely combining the unified data center and cloud intelligent network
- Agile, Dynamic and Efficient Cloud – delivering cost savings and time to market advantages, while simplifying the management and deployment of services
- Accelerated Deployment through pre-tested designs like VMDC, through pre-tested ecosystem integrated solutions such as Flexpod and Vblock
- Simplified management an operation through integrated management of compute, network and storage – for both the DC and the network
- Cisco Unified Data Center provides a complete Data Center infrastructure architecture. It combines compute, storage, network, security and management into a fabric architecture that delivers outstanding performance for physical and virtualized business applications. Created to help companies evolve to cloud computing environments, Unified Data Center embeds automation and simplified operations at the Server, Network and Cloud-Services Layers.
- Unified Management provides automation and lifecycle management frameworks to manage and simplify the deployment and operations of Network-Layer, Compute-Layer and Application/Cloud-Services-Layer within the Data Center. This includes Cisco UCS Manager, Cisco Network Services Manager, and Cisco Intelligent Automation for Cloud, as well as the integration with Cisco's application, virtualization and storage ecosystem partners.
- Cisco Intelligent Automation for Cloud features the newScale self-service portal and service catalog, which has been re-branded as Cisco Cloud Portal, and the Tidal automation software, which has been re-branded as the Cisco Process Orchestrator. Together, we've combined and integrated these software products into a powerful and intelligent management solution for enabling IT-as-a-Service.
- Cisco Network Services Manager automates and provisions network infrastructure services using powerful abstracted models and policies that define and control the characteristics and behavior of the Cloud, and how Cloud services are accessed by end-users.
- Cisco UCS Manager Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) Manager provides unified, embedded management of all software and hardware components in the Cisco UCS. It controls multiple chassis and manages resources for thousands of virtual machines.
To get more information on CloudVerse and Cisco Unified Data Center, please read the following blogs:
- Blog on Cisco Unified Data Center: http://blogs.cisco.com/datacenter/cisco-unified-data-center-changing-the-economics-of-the-data-center/
- Blog on Cisco Unified Management: http://blogs.cisco.com/datacenter/the-secret-is-now-out-you-can-simplify-cloud-deployments-with-cisco-unified-management/
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No, not crunchy as in texture, crunchie.....as in Cadbury's Crunchie.
This buttercream is my own invention. Talking to The Boy Wonder (the Caked Crusader's nephew) we established that his favourite chocolate bar was a Crunchie. I pondered that I'd never seen a recipe using this bar. The key, to me, was to retain that distinctive chocolate and honeycomb combination...so I came up with adding some to the buttercream and then using the rest as a crunchy topping.
When you've ground the Crunchie bars it's a strange sensation because the taste is so distinctive yet the texture is alien. What I loved was that the chocolate taste was still evident and added an element of moisture to the crumb so it incorporated nicely into the buttercream. This is what five bars of Crunchie, blitzed to smithereens in the food processor looks like:
I made a chocolate cupcake but I was toying with making a vanilla sponge and swirling some golden syrup through it; I reckon this would've worked too.
Halloween isn't a big event for my family but I made an (admittedly small) effort to be seasonal and used Halloween paper cases and picks.
For the cupcake sponge:
125g unsalted butter, at room temperature
125g caster sugar
2 eggs
100g self raising flour
25g cocoa powder
2 tablespoons milk
100g chocolate chips (I used milk but use whichever you prefer)
For the crunchie buttercream (warning: if you don't like lashings of buttercream halve this recipe. My photos use the halved amount):
175g unsalted butter, at room temperature
350g icing sugar
3 tablespoons boiling water
5 crunchie bars (standard size), processed to oblivion i.e. fine crumbs
- Preheat the oven to 190°C/fan oven 170°C/375°F/Gas mark 5.
- Line a cupcake pan with paper cases.
- Beat together the butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
- Beat in the eggs, flour, milk and cocoa.
- When the mixture is smooth and well combined stir in the chocolate chips.
- Spoon into the paper cases.
- Bake for 12-15 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the cupcakes comes out clean. Mine took 13 minutes.
- Leave to cool on a wire rack and remove from the tin when cool enough to handle.
- When the cupcakes are cool, you can make the buttercream.
- Beat the butter until soft then beat in the icing sugar and water. The buttercream will go rather slack but keep beating and it will start to firm up as the water cools.
- Beat in approximately half of the crunchie. It's really important to have blitzed them to fine crumbs in the processor so that the buttercream isn't gritty. The crumb is amazing and tastes of both honeycomb and chocolate.
- Spread the buttercream over the cupcakes. I found I had quite a lot of buttercream left over – in fact, it would probably have done a further 12 cupcakes, but I know that we all like different amounts of buttercream.
- Holding the cupcake, dip the buttercream into the remaining crunchie crumbs so that the whole surface is covered.
- Decorate as required.
- Bask in the glory of the wonderful thing you have made.
- Eat.


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Dell Reaches New Deal With Founder
Relenting to pressure from all sides, Michael Dell agrees to personally pay more to take ownership of the company that bears his name. David Benoit reports. Photo: AP.
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"Horse Guts"
August 20 – November 15, 2008
Since 1995, Simon Grennan (UK) and Christopher Sperandio (US) have created comic books and art installations based on their iconic cartoon drawing style. These works often focus attention on specific contexts and communities. HORSE GUTS is a new painted installation, which takes as its starting point artworks by Canton's most famous native, Frederic Remington (1861-1909). Much has been written about Remington's vision of the American West. For this installation, Grennan and Sperandio have isolated Remington's pictorial interest in animals, namely the horse. In many of Remington's works, the horse is a tool of war and often an expendable one at that.
Several of Remington's original paintings, drawings and rare prints from SLU's Permanent Collection will be presented in the context of a new wall painting designed by Grennan and Sperandio. Rather than a heavy-handed critique of Remington as an artist or an indictment of his ruthless advocacy of Western expansion, this installation reveals a new perspective on the wars, great and small, aspects of which Remington championed, albeit via the Kartoon Kings' Looney Tunes approach. The artworks that will be displayed typify 19th-century attitudes regarding the use of animals during times of war. In addition, representations of soldiers, cavalrymen and cowboys which, while not relating directly to the exhibition's main thesis, entertained the artists enough to be included.
Part Guernica, part Saw II, HORSE GUTS is a visceral response to Frederic Remington's glorification of violence.
As part of the artists' efforts to include other people, community members in their installation projects, teams of St. Lawrence University students, regional artists, and Dianne Drayse-Alonso's Ogdensburg Free Academy students will paint the artists' designs on the Gallery walls. The Owen D. Young Library at SLU provided additional support for the exhibition.


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Are we justified and saved by faith 'alone', are we justified and saved by 'faith and works' or are we justified and saved by only 'works'? This is an all important question for which we should the scriptural answer clearly and precisely. Otherwise our salvation itself is in danger.
Jesus, in his conversation with Nicodemus told him that unless a man is born again he will not enter the Kingdom of Heaven. So, if being born again is the way into the Kingdom of God, then it is of utmost importance; in fact, it is the most important aspect of a persons' life, as being born again or not is going to determine his/her eternal destiny.
Real life does not consist in the abundance of our wealth and possessions. It is not about how rich we are, how many friends we have, our social status, what car we own, the good clothes we wear, how famous we are or anything of that sort. All of this will pass away once we die. These all may be needed for this life but there is something more important – something that lasts for eternity: A RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD.
For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. (John 3:16)
For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, 'Be removed and be cast into the sea,' and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says. (Mark 11:23)
Jesus loves you, wants to bless you abundantly and wants to make you a blessing!
Your life on the earth is not a mere accident, a mistake or by chance. God has a plan and purpose for your life on the earth and He desires to have a personal relationship with you! When you come to know God personally and experience His love, when you start focusing on eternal truths and seek His plan and go about fulfilling the purpose for which He created you, then you will have a peace, joy and satisfaction that you would never have otherwise and enjoy His abundant blessings in your everyday life… you will find meaning and purpose in life and start experiencing the FULLNESS of LIFE that Jesus promised.
El Shaddai Tabernacle is our Church based in Bangalore, India, where we focus on glorifying Jesus Christ through our lives, making ready a people prepared for the Lord and help each one receive the life in fullness that the bible promises by growing in Christ Jesus. So, as you go through the material on this website may God give you a deeper knowledge of Himself and the meaning and purpose He has for your life; may you be encouraged and may your faith in Him grow stronger; may you understand eternal realities causing you to trust in Jesus and moving you to become holy like Him… that as a bride is prepared in every way to meet her bridegroom, you also may be prepared to meet Jesus when He comes again.
Some Bible verses that will always help you:
Romans 8:28 : 'And we know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose'
Ephesians 3:20 : 'Now all glory to God, who is able, through His mighty power at work within us, to accomplish infinitely more than we might ask or think'.
To know more on the meaning of El Shaddai please read the article EL SHADDAI.


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Posted By: Harvey Kabaker
The 1924 Bessarabia Jewish Business directory project is complete.
Bessarabia SIG has completed work on extracting names and other data for Jewish businesspeople active in the early 1920s in the eastern counties of Romania that formerly comprised the Bessarabia territory of pre-World War I Imperial Russia.
Files in HTML and .xls format are available on the Bessarabian Databases page are available by clicking here.
They report on grocers, shopkeepers, teachers, local officials, stone carvers, butchers, bakers, innkeepers, lawyers, peddlers, rabbis, and many others who worked in Romania's nine eastern counties and Chisinau (the former Kishinev), and who apparently were Jewish. The 13,056 records represent 705 cities, towns, villages and hamlets.
The information was extracted from the "Socec Annuary of the Great-Roumania," dated 1924-1925, issued by the prominent Romanian publishing house Socec & Co. The Library of Congress calls the two-volume set a historic address book that "stands as the most complete survey of Greater Romania during the interwar period."
A detailed description of the project and notes on the source are available by clicking the title, "Bessarabia Business Directory, 1924-25" at the top of the page referenced above.
Volunteers who extracted the data were
- Ala Gamulka, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Harvey Kabaker, Silver Spring, MD, USA
- Paola Khalili, London, UK
- Ayana Kimron
- Yefim Kogan, Newton, MA USA
- Alison Shein, Arlington, VA, USA
- Flo Wolf, Atlanta, GA, USA
Project Manager, Bessarabia SiG


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Once a map has been awarded a stamp for gameplay, it is time to set about transforming it into a work of art that would sit comfortably alongside other CC maps in the Viewing Gallery. There are fairly few rules and restrictions about graphics development - graphical benchmarks are subjective and it is difficult to legislate for them: the Foundry Team members are the final arbiters of map quality, and will ultimately judge whether or not a map meets the Conquer Club standard. The few rules we do 'enforce' are listed below:
- Graphics Software - You (or your artist) will need some graphics software and a decent understanding of how to use it. Photoshop, Fireworks, and GIMP are the most commonly used platforms by CC mapmakers (though some swear by other programs). Each are good choices because they are layer-based applications, which means that when you alter one element of your image you aren't altering everything else below it, so it is infinitely easier to make the hundreds of updates and changes that will be required. But these programs aren't easy to use - at first you will be taking advantage of only a fraction of their capabilities, and long-time users are still learning new tips and tricks.
- Borders and attack routes should be clear (or clearly explained if unconventional borders are used).
- Bonus regions should be indicated clearly; any non-standard groupings, combinations, and permutations should be clearly explained.
- The legend should be clear, concise and consistent; the map itself should be free of unnecessary or cumbersome rules that push it over the line separating complex from confusing.
- The image should be subjected to a Colourblind Pallet Check to ensure that regions, attack routes etc. are colourblind friendly.
- Who are the characters in the map? (backstory .i.e. why is this map significant or a cool story)
- What is your map about?
- Where does it take place?
- When does it take place?
- Why are the events taking place? (again backstory)
- How will the events unfold?
- Anything else?
Map Ownership and Copyright - Up to two cartographers may receive a medal for working on a map, but one person must have "assigned ownership" of the map imagery, as per the Copyright Agreement:
- The author retains copyright on their work, and gives Conquer Club permission to use the imagery free of charge, for as long as Conquer Club sees fit on the Conquer Club website. Conquer Club cannot sell, lease, or lend the right to use the images to anyone else. The author swears that their map is their own work, or a legal derivative work and by submitting it, do hereby claim all responsibility for that being true.
Army Numbers - Army numbers are an essential component of every CC map. Their placement is important - it must be clear which 'territory' each army belongs to, and there must be enough room to fit a three digit number without compromising legibility of borders or labels. You may wish to use CC Army Digit Images to see how the map looks with the addition of army numbers, and to check the placement of 'army circles' if you choose to use them.
Player-Friendliness - The image should present itself as clear and legible. Any information you need to know to play a map should be easy to gather by looking at the map itself:
The Foundry Team members are the final arbiters of map quality, and will ultimately judge whether or not a map meets the Conquer Club standard.
If there is something that you are struggling with, or some effect that you are struggling to achieve, check out the Foundry Tutorials and Guides forum, or feel free to ask any questions in the Foundry Tips and Discussions forum.
A valuable insight into the approach of an experienced CC Mapmaker are contained in the following extracts from WidowMakers' editorial in the Foundry Newsletter Issue #13:


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FY07 Access to Artistic Excellence (part 2)
American Composers Orchestra (consortium), $25,000
To support Orchestra Underground Concerts, New Music Readings, and Laboratory Performance. In collaboration with the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Pennsylvania, the orchestra will perform in concert and schedule orchestral reading sessions for emerging composers in the area.
Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra, $10,000
To support the Generations program. Designed to bring music to individuals at all stages of life, the project includes performances and educational activities for pre-school age children, families, young professionals, and senior citizens.
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, $40,000
To support ASO Around Georgia, a community partnership initiative of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. The tour will include performances and outreach activities as a means to cultivate meaningful partnerships between the orchestra and communities across the state.
Boston Modern Orchestra Project, $25,000
To support CD recordings of works by American composers. The four discs will include premiere releases or new releases of out-of-print recordings of works by composers Reza Vali, George Antheil, Ken Ueno, and Jacob Druckman.
Boston Symphony Orchestra, $50,000
To support Youth and Family Concerts with accompanying online educational tools. Two programs, each performed eight times, will focus on the concept of Theme and Variations.
Cedar Rapids Symphony Orchestra, $7,500
To support Pied Piper, an interactive chamber music concert series for children. Performed at the Cedar Rapids Public Library, the 32 concerts for pre-school age children and special elementary school populations will feature strings, brass, woodwinds, and percussion ensembles.
Charlotte Symphony, $15,000
To support a tour of The Mill Village: A Piedmont Rhapsody and related educational activities. Created by local composer David Crowe, the multimedia work uses photography, video, live narration, and symphonic music to tell the story of the social and economic transitions that occurred in mill communities of the Carolina Piedmont.
Delaware Symphony Orchestra, $10,000
To support the In-School Ensemble program. Designed for third- through sixth-graders, the program will include ensemble visits to eight schools in two four-week sessions culminating in full orchestral Explorer Concerts.
Dubuque Symphony Orchestra, $10,000
To support The Final Four project, a free 50th-anniversary community concert. Patterned after a college basketball tournament, the project will entail audience members voting for their favorite classical music work to be performed at the concert.
Evansville Philharmonic, $10,000
To support In-School Concerts for children and Music for Life Concerts for senior citizens. The school concerts will reach elementary and middle school children in 10 schools, and six concerts for seniors are planned.
Fort Wayne Philharmonic, $10,000
To support Unplugged, an informal classical music concert series. The concerts, hosted by a local celebrity, will feature casually dressed orchestra members under live video images projected on a large screen.
Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, $22,500
To support a touring program. Concerts and educational programs will take place in five rural communities in north central Texas.
Greenville Symphony Orchestra, $10,000
To support concerts and educational activities featuring Scottish percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie. The two performances will be preceded by educational activities for children and adults who, like Glennie, are hearing-impaired.
Hartford Symphony Orchestra, $10,000
To support the Martin Luther King I Have a Dream Celebration Concert and school and community concerts. Plans for the eighth annual concert include school performances, outreach performances in community organizations, and concerts featuring performances and compositions by African American and Latino artists.
Key West Symphony Orchestra, $10,000
To support Bridging the Keys with Music, a tour throughout the Florida Keys. Celebrating its 10th anniversary season, the orchestra will perform 10 concerts conducted by Music Director Sebrina Maria Alfonso in 10 Keys communities.
Knoxville Symphony Orchestra, $10,000
To support a family concert series and related educational activities. Targeting families with children between the ages of three and eight, the series will explore the basic elements of music.
Lancaster Symphony Orchestra, $10,000
To support Sound Discovery, a music education program. The project involves five open rehearsals with Lido©, an animated conductor's baton, that will be presented to adults and students in grades five and above, and Symphonic Concerts for Children, designed for students in the third through fifth grades.
Lexington Philharmonic, $10,000
To support Lexphil On Tour. Plans include eight orchestral and ensemble concerts and educational activities in underserved rural Appalachian towns and in eastern Kentucky.
Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, $15,000
To support Una Festa d'Italia, a concert celebrating Italian and Sicilian heritage. The concert will focus on the long-standing musical connections between New Orleans and its citizens of Italian and Sicilian origin.
Louisville Orchestra, $15,000
To support MakingMUSIC, an education program. Concerts for fourth- through eighth-grade students will take place in concert halls, schools, and community centers in Louisville, Kentucky, and New Albany, Indiana.
Macon Symphony Orchestra, $10,000
To support performances of works by African American composers in observance of Black History Month. The Macon Symphony, under the artistic leadership of Music Director Adrian Gnam, will perform concerts at the Grand Opera House and Ft. Valley State University.
Madison Symphony Orchestra, $10,000
To support HeartStrings, a community outreach project. An ensemble of the orchestra's professional string musicians will perform interactive recitals for underserved and special-needs communities.
Minnesota Orchestra, $25,000
To support a CD recording of To Be Certain of the Dawn by Stephen Paulus for release on BIS Records. The large-scale oratorio received its premiere in 2005 and commemorates the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps.
Nashville Symphony, $20,000
To support free-of-charge and discounted outreach concerts in rural areas of Tennessee and Alabama. In partnership with local community organizations, the orchestra will tour to diverse and underserved communities.
New Mexico Symphony Orchestra, $20,000
To support a statewide tour to small, rural, and underserved communities of New Mexico. The project also will offer educational activities in Albuquerque-area schools.
The New York Pops, $10,000
To support Beyond the Frame, a series of free outdoor concerts in Bryant Park. The orchestra will host guest artists and perform arrangements of their works ranging from Latin and hip-hop to indie rock.
Omaha Symphony, $10,000
To support outreach and education programs in the greater metropolitan Omaha area. The orchestra will perform concerts and provide educational experiences for adults and children.
Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra, $10,000
To support the performance of Hannibal Lokumbe's African Portraits and related educational workshops for high schoolers. The concert will take place at the Bob Carr Centre for the Performing Arts in Orlando.
Peoria Symphony Orchestra, $10,000
To support community outreach concerts. The orchestra will perform family and youth concerts as well as a free outdoor concert at the Peoria Park District's amphitheater.
The Philadelphia Orchestra (consortium), $40,000
To support Neighborhood Concerts. In partnership with the Cooper Health System, the orchestra will perform free concerts with educational activities targeted to non-traditional and underserved audiences in Philadelphia and Camden, New Jersey.
Philadelphia Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra, $7,500
To support outreach concerts for underserved communities in the Delaware Valley. The orchestra will perform concerts in community centers in Philadelphia and Chester, Pennsylvania, and Trenton, New Jersey.
The Phoenix Symphony, $15,000
To support One Nation, an educational program targeted to the local Native American community. The Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community Schools in Scottsdale will collaborate with the orchestra to expand outreach efforts and increase the number of private music lessons offered.
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (consortium), $25,000
To support A Celebration of Wilkinsburg. In partnership with the Wilkinsburg School District, the orchestra will perform a community outreach concert at the Wilkinsburg High School.
Post-Classical Ensemble, $17,500
To support the presentation of the classic 1939 documentary film The City, scored by Aaron Copland, with live orchestra and narration. The event will take place at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at the University of Maryland-College Park, and will be supplemented with discussion and commentary by artists and scholars.
ProMusica Chamber Orchestra, $10,000
To support the commissioning and premiere of a concerto for chamber orchestra and string quartet by Lera Auerbach. The project will feature the Borromeo String Quartet with the orchestra and will include a free master class for high school musicians and open rehearsals for the public.
Reno Chamber Orchestra, $25,000
To support the first phase of the second round of Made in America, a collaborative commissioning, performance, and outreach project. A new work by composer Joseph Schwantner will be commissioned for future performances by as many as 60 small-budget orchestras in all 50 states.
Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, $12,500
To support Symphony 101, an outreach project of community concerts for underserved and low-income residents. Host and Music Director Christopher Seaman and the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra will offer a symphonic repertoire and informal lectures designed for first-time concertgoers.
San Diego Symphony, $10,000
To support an educational outreach program for schoolchildren and their families. The orchestra will perform concerts for fourth graders in the San Diego City Schools and offer coaching, side-by-side rehearsals, and an instrument "petting zoo."
Santa Cecilia Orchestra, $10,000
To support Discovering Music, an educational outreach program in underserved communities of Los Angeles. Led by Artistic Director Sonia Marie De Leon, the project will provide orchestral performances and educational activities in venues ranging from elementary schools to community centers.
Santa Monica Symphony, $7,500
To support community outreach concerts. The orchestra will perform chamber concerts in schools and orchestral concerts for families at the Civic Auditorium.
Seattle Symphony, $25,000
To support a CD recording of Peter Ibbetson, an opera by composer Deems Taylor (1882-1966). The CD recording also will include symphonies and other works by composer William Schuman (1910-92) for distribution by Naxos of America as part of its American Classics series.
Seattle Symphony (consortium), $25,000
To support ACCESS, outreach performances and educational events for underserved communities. In partnership with the Associated Recreation Council, the orchestra will engage children and families in diverse neighborhoods of Seattle.
Spokane Symphony, $10,000
To support engagement concerts and educational outreach in underserved communities. The Spokane Symphony will perform orchestral concerts for the Spokane Indian Tribe-Wellpinit community.
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra, $20,000
To support a concert tour to New York's North Country. The orchestra, under the direction of Music Director Daniel Hege, will perform concerts for adults and schoolchildren in rural and underserved communities.
Tucson Symphony Orchestra (consortium), $10,000
To support the Southern Arizona Residency. A collaboration with the Bisbee Community Chorus, the project will consist of an educational component and a public concert in rural communities in southern Arizona.
Vermont Symphony Orchestra, $10,000
To support the Made in Vermont Music Festival Tour, a series of concert programs in underserved rural communities. The project will present orchestral programs and educational outreach activities, and include a premiere of a commissioned work by Vermont composer Sara Doncaster.
Virtuosi of Houston, $7,500
To support chamber music performed by young, emerging artists. Concerts will be held in Zilkha Hall of the Hobby Center for the Performing Arts in Houston.
West Virginia Symphony Orchestra, $12,500
To support a statewide tour to underserved rural communities. The orchestra, under the leadership of Music Director Grant Cooper, will introduce orchestral music to new audiences throughout West Virginia.
Wheeling Symphony, $10,000
To support young people's concerts throughout the state of West Virginia, with accompanying educational materials. The touring outreach project will reach youth in eight counties of the state.
Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra, $7,000
To support Concerts on the Square, free summer outdoor community outreach concerts. The orchestra will perform the concerts on the steps of the Capitol Square in downtown Madison.
York Symphony Orchestra, $7,500
To support free community outreach concerts. The orchestra will perform summer concerts at the historic band shell in Farquhar Park in York.
RELATED ACCESS TO ARTISTIC EXCELLENCE GRANTS (Part Two)
American Symphony Orchestra League (consortium), $25,000
To support research, communications, and the development of a self-assessment tool for improving an orchestra's understanding of community dynamics and strengthening community relationships. The National Assembly of State Arts Agencies, as a partnering organization, will provide information and expertise in assessing levels of public engagement and community inclusiveness in arts programs.
Bardavon 1869 Opera House, $10,000
To support an educational artist residency program for high school students. Plans include workshops, master classes, and performances by the Hudson Valley Philharmonic, Playback Theater NYC, and the Tony Corbiscello Band.
Children's Concert Society (consortium), $10,000
To support concerts for school children and related educational activities. Consortium partner Akron Symphony Orchestra will perform concerts at the E. J. Thomas Performing Arts Hall for all Summit County area second- and third-graders.
Future of Music Coalition, $10,000
To support the annual Policy Summit. The three-day conference will engage speakers and panelists to discuss and examine key issues impacting independent professional musicians including digital technology, artists' rights, and the current state of the music industry.
Los Angeles Brotherhood Crusade, $10,000
To support an outreach concert presented in the Neighborhood Concert Series. Hosted by a local celebrity and performed by the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra and the KIPP (Knowledge is Power Program) Academy of Opportunity Youth Choir, the free concert will be presented in an underserved community in South Los Angeles.
Meet The Composer (consortium), $25,000
To support Creative Connections, a nationwide effort that brings composers and audiences together around new musical works. Through a partnership with the Association of Performing Arts Presenters, the project will provide opportunities for composers to attend performances of their music and take part in pre- or post-concert discussions, open rehearsals, workshops, lecture-demonstrations, and interviews.
Ravinia Festival, $12,500
To support community outreach and educational programs. The festival will continue its partnership with the Lawndale community to bring music performances and education to Westside Chicago.


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John and Martha King, co-chairmen of King Schools, have updated the King Online Flight Instructor Refresher Course (FIRC) to include a new lesson on scenario-based training (SBT).
"Scenario-based training is now part of the FAA Practical Test Standards, but most CFIs have not had training on how to incorporate scenarios in their lesson plans," commented John. "The King Online FIRC now gives instructors tools and insights on how to implement scenarios that will teach their customers to effectively manage the risks associated with each flight."
"Our goal is to provide relevant and important content with every lesson," remarked Martha. "That's why the King Online FIRC includes topics like SBT, conducting an effective flight review and identifying and changing at-risk behaviors."
King Schools released the first version of the online FIRC course in May 2012. It provides an entirely paperless online renewal process with nothing to notarize and nothing to send in.
The King Schools FIRC program has been designed to run on the iPad and on all Windows and Mac Web browsers. It sells for $99 without CFI renewal processing or $124.95 with processing included.
For more information: KingSchools.com/FIRC or 800-854-1001