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Posted by Thomas
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Manufacturer: Creative Product:
Blaster GeForce4 Ti4400
for 3d
videocards prices.
hasn't seen Creative branded videocards for a long time,
the European market have steadily had their dose of 3D
Blasters in the last couple of years. Although this might
change in the not so distant future with Creative's recent
acquisition of 3DLabs, that's not what we will be
discussing today.
case it wasn't too obvious, the Creative 3DBlaster Ti4400
is based on NVIDIA's latest GeForce4 chip. The Ti4400
variant can be considered the middle between the hardcore
high-end Ti4600, and the more mainstream Ti4200 chip and
while the later hasn't been released just yet, it should
be available in the next couple of weeks, completing the GF4
Ti chip family.
considered "the sweet spot" for an enthusiast
card, most Ti4400 boards offer all the fancy and speedy
factor of the more expensive 4600 Titanium's but at a lower
price... read on to see how the 3D Blaster performs.
Additionally you can read a head to head comparison between Ti4600
& 4400 boards here.
a look at the board itself reminded me of the 3dfx Voodoo 5
5500 card I used to have a while ago. It makes me wonder
what previous owners of the 3dfx board have to say, usually
mocking of the size of Voodoo boards; the Ti4400 is an
equally massive card with some rather large capacitors.
Fitting the graphics card into the AGP slot of the Abit
NV7-133R was a bit unnerving given the rather awkward
layout of that board (not that that length of this card
helped in any way), though eventually went in smoothly
wise Creative offers you Incoming Forces & e-Racer, both
from Rage Software; that
plus the obligatory drivers and NVIDIA demo CD. A software
DVD decoder is not included – a common bundle these days
found in most graphics cards distributed on the
and even in a few soundcards. This will
probably help keeping the price down anyway, and that's
what people will care about the most, right?
manual that comes with the Creative GeForce 4 Ti 4400 is
actually a rather basic Quickstart guide that covers
installation of the hardware. Creative seemingly have moved
on from the tomes that used to come with earlier products
like their Live! soundcards, for example.
4 Features
of the more important features of the GeForce 4 Ti are Lightspeed
Memory Architecture II, nfiniteFX II & Accuview
Anti-Aliasing, which I'll cover in more detail now.
Memory Architecture II
you can guess by the name, LMA 2 is an updated version of
LMA, as featured in the GeForce 3. LMA 1/2 both work to
reduce memory bandwidth requirements, which will improve
performance by reducing redundant processing and providing
other architectural improvements. The ATI Radeon &
PowerVR Kyro Graphics cards feature similarly themed
technologies – reduce redundant processing, save
bandwidth, improve performance. It does this in several
Crossbar memory controller. Compared
to the GeForce 4 MX, the GeForce 4 Ti uses 4 Crossbar
memory controllers, as opposed to 2. This provides a
more efficient way of accessing the frame buffer as
compared with traditional memory controllers. The net
effect being that it optimises bandwidth use for
improved performance. No application support is required
for this. It's worth noting that the nForce chipset
also utilizes (2) Crossbar memory controllers.
Loseless Z-Compression. The Z-Buffer
contains depth information for every single pixel to be
rendered by the Graphics card. Thus using higher
resolutions not only consume more fill rate, they also
require a larger Z-Buffer as more pixels will be
rendered. The GeForce 4 on-board hardware compression of
Z-Buffer data. Most critically it is loseless, so there
will be no precision loss which could adversely affect
the image. According to NVIDIA this hardware compression
will reduce the Z-Buffer requirements about 25%. Once
again, this saves memory bandwidth. No application
support is required for this.
Z-Occlusion Culling. Traditionally
Graphics cards have performed a lot of redundant
rendering by rendering pixels that will inevitably not
be visible. This redundant rendering is known as
overdraw. The level of overdraw can vary from title to
title with some having an overdraw level of 3 or more,
while others are much lower. Reportedly ID Software Game
engines are excellent in this area. Though clearly with
Games getting more & more visually complex the level
of overdraw is not about to decrease of its own accord.
While many Developers have added in their own software
methods to reduce overdraw others will need to rely on
that provided in Graphics cards themselves, if any, e.g.
PowerVR Kyro cards use a Tile-based deferred rendering
system which is excellent at eliminating overdraw &
are perhaps the most efficient consumer Graphics cards
first part of this process is the Depth test - Z-Buffer
values are compared to determine what is visible in a
scene, i.e. pixels at the front of a scene will obscure
pixels with a greater depth, i.e. behind them. For
example, if your viewpoint is looking at a solid wall,
then any pixels behind that wall won't be visible
through it. As such any non-visible scene elements are
completely disregarded, only visible elements get sent
on to the Framebuffer.
The second is the Occlusion Query. This tests
whether triangles are hidden completely behind other
triangles. As before, non-visible triangles are
disregarded & play no further part in the rendering
process. Z-Occlusion Culling,
unlike the other LMA II features does however require
Application support & will only work with Front to
back order rendering applications.
Auto Pre-Charge. This minimizes
the latency issues involved with accessing a different
area of memory. No application support is required for
Fairly self-explanatory this one. This minimizes
the amount of bandwidth & time needed to clear
Z-Buffer data which will also improve performance
further. No application support is required for this.
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Bruno Mars' mother dies at age 55UPDATED 10:51 PM HST Jun 02, 2013
Bernadette Hernandez, the mother of Grammy-winning pop star Bruno Mars died at Queens Medical Center today. Her co-workers and family said she was a hard worker and a wonderful person.Video Transcript
Grammy-winning pop star Bruno Mars has died. Bernadette Hernandez died today of a brain aneurysm. That's according to a publicist for Mars' label, Atlantic Records, who spoke anonymously to The Associated Press. Hernandez was 55 years old. She reportedly died at Queens Medical Center. Hernandez was a long-time bartender at 8 FAT-FAT 8 in Honolulu. Her Co-workers say she was a hard-worker and a wonderful person. We also spoke to one of Hernandez's daughters tonight... who says the family is praying in memory of Hernandez.
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Dorothy Helen Cokelet died Thursday, December 3, 2009 at age 82. She was born March 21, 1927 in Deer Lodge, MT to Zerah and Evangeline (Rooney) Curtis. She graduated from Bremerton High School in 1945 and attended Olympic College. She was twice married, first to Robert Pettengill and later to Norman Cokelet. Dorothy worked for Forget Me Not Florists for 20 years and as a supervisor for PSNS until her retirement from the Naval Hospital in 1987. She participated with the Eagles, Elks, Sam's Club, Capri Club, and Peninsula Pacers CB Radio Club. She also enjoyed camping, painting, crocheting, gardening, local theater, playing cards, and being with her family and friends. Dorothy is preceded by her loving husband Norman, sister Donna, and mother Eva Young. She is survived by daughters Diane (Ken) Morrill and Cathy (Steve) Maxim; sons Mike (Darlene) Pettengill and Norman Cokelet Jr; grandchildren Lyndsay, Cara, and Jamie; nephews Cary and Curtis; niece Debbie; and Kissy the cat. A memorial service will be held Friday, December 11, 2009, 11:00 AM at Lewis Funeral Chapel. Memorial donations may be made to Bremerton Community Theater. Please view her online memorial at www.lewischapel.com
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SEE THE PHOTOS: 'Rednecks' on parade at 35th Great Dock Canoe Race
With a pregnant belly, bare feet, black teeth, and a poofy, pink 1980's throwback prom dress, Nermin Clark was the epitome a "redneck."
But with the "Rednecks and Royalty" theme at the 35th annual Great Dock Canoe Race she was among thousands.
The race — actually three races and a canoe parade — was held between 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. Saturday at Crayton Cove, the area around the Naples City Dock.
Primarily using items they dug out of the trash, Clark and her friends, Victoria Meyers and Marty Durham, transformed their canoe into a floating limousine, pulling a keg filled with "moonshine," while heading to the "Hee Haw High Prom."
Meyers, the chauffeur, blacked out her teeth and wore a white button-up shirt with beer can tops as buttons. Durham wore overalls with a can of chew tobacco in one pocket and a Budweiser with a straw in another.
They only spent $100 — on beer — and took home the $1,000 prize for best themed canoe for the third year in a row. The theme canoe parade opened up the day of canoe races.
"They did the most effort," said Jerry Valdez, who has been judging the races since they began. "There was a lot of clever thinking that went into it."
Vin DePasquale, the owner of the Dock Restaurant, founded the race in 1976 as an end-of-season celebration of the restaurant's first year. This year, registration was $30 for each two-person team.
"What impressed me is the involvement of everybody," DePasquale said. "Because of all the wonderful support we get, volunteers and contributions, we're motivated to keep it going."
The race is run in three heats. After the theme canoe parade, the first race is the "Tippycanoe VIP Sprint," which features canoes paddled by business and community leaders in a madcap dash through a 700-yard course.
The sprint is followed by two traditional three-mile races. First the "Ambitious Amateurs," who participate for fun, and finally the "Practically Professionals," some of whom train year-round.
DePasquale was surprised with the turnout Saturday, saying it was the largest in years.
"We've come a long way in 35 years," he said. "People enjoy it, so we'll keep doing it. It's such a great, fun event."
Several racers donned Price William and Princess Kate wedding outfits, while others just caked on sunscreen and sat on the dock to watch the creativity float below.
Bruce and Judy Alassen attended for the fun of watching a canoe capsize. Learning from the crowd last year, they knew they needed to arrive early enough to scope out prime seating on the dock.
"It's a fun, fun day," Judy Alassen, 71, said as other spectators walked past, holding cups of beer, smelling of sunscreen and looking for their own place to sit. "It gets everyone out."
The race is always meaningful for Patti and Gordan Decker, who met there 30 years ago.
That Saturday Gordan lost his friends in the maze of costumes and people. Asking around for them, he ran into Patti. Soon, the friends were forgotten and Patti's straw hat marked their first conversation.
Patti Decker recalled attending the race with her two children and a friend's daughter, whom she was baby sitting.
"I came to the race with three kids," she said, "and I met the man of my dreams."
Nine months later they married.
Now, the race is more than just a celebration, it's an anniversary for the Deckers.
In addition to the prizes awarded to race and contest winners, a $5,000 grant is awarded to a worthy children's charity each year. This year it is going go the First Book-Collier County.
"This is one event that's just for the fun of it," DePasquale said. "It's a lot of work, but it's very rewarding." .
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What is the 2011 Survey of undergraduate students?
The 2010 Survey of Undergraduates, which ran from February 8-22, 2011, continued the University of Chicago Library's annual survey program which targets, on a rotating basis, graduate students, faculty, and undergraduates.
What does the survey cover?
The 22-question survey, designed by the Assessment Project Team and based on similar surveys run by MIT and the University of Washington, covered:
• Demographic information: division/school, year at the University
• Collections: importance, satisfaction, comments/suggestions
• Spaces/activities: primary library, library satisfaction, frequency of visits (physical/remote) , comments/suggestions, activities when visiting library, all-night study spaces
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• For those identifying with specific division, 30% selected biological or physical sciences, 20% selected humanities, 37% selected social sciences, and 3% selected New Collegiate Division.
• Approximately 31% of respondents said that they were first years; 23% were second years, 22% were third years, and 24% were 4th years or beyond.
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Island Neighbor: Gretchen Johnson
It is always interesting to look at the life behind the artist, in hopes that you might discover what inspires them, what informs their creations. For local painter Gretchen Johnson, it is a compendium of everyday occurrences, familiar icons of beach and family life, and a lifetime of positive feedback from relatives and friends that fires up her imagination.
At the tender age of 87, California native Gretchen trolls her memories with a chuckle, trying to pinpoint when it was in her life that she first started painting. "I guess it was when I was in high school. I took a class with a gentleman who taught oil painting. I think I did two paintings in that class. I didn't paint for years after that, then I took a few classes at the Los Angeles Art Center, but it was more commercial and that wasn't my thing."
More time went by, and Gretchen got married and had her four children - Chris, Sue, Karla and Curt - and husband Stan, to keep her busy. She wasn't painting, but she found a practical outlet for her creativity. "I baked and decorated cakes, and really, I wasn't looking for something new to do." What mother of four would be? But by the time her kids were all in high school, her own mother sent her a set of paints and asked Gretchen why she wasn't painting. "So, I started out with very small paintings of anything that caught my fancy." She began selling her miniatures, mostly florals, at craft fairs. She was painting again, much to her patrons' delight.
When Gretchen's son Chris bought property on Fort Myers Beach, he and his wife Mary invited his parents to come for visits. "They have the Stones Throw Resort on Washington," Gretchen tells us, "and we would stay there for a month or two every year." By 1990, Stan and Gretchen bought their own place on the island and spent the next several years enjoying their new island life together. She made time to volunteer at the hospital, and with the membership to the FMB Art Association given to her by her son Chris and his wife; Gretchen became an active member and a prolific painter. Sadly, Stan passed away in 2001, shortly after the 9/11 tragedy. They say one of the best ways to get over a personal loss is to give to someone else, and whether this was an influence or not, Gretchen began creating original holiday cards for her friends and family.
Sitting at a big wooden table on Johnson's lanai, six floors up, with the expanse of the Back Bay in view, Gretchen arranges a sampling of these very personalized and original cards, most of which have Santa in various scenarios that all feature the Fort Myers Beach Town Pier and the clock in Time Square, in the background. The cards begin as original watercolor paintings inspired by experiences and events in Gretchen's life. "I went zip-lining in the Canadian Rockies one year," which explains Santa zip-lining between palm trees on one of the cards from that year. In celebration of the Town's first anniversary of incorporation, everyone gathered in Time Square on New Years' Eve day, and there is a card that captures that moment. If you look very carefully, you will see Gretchen's husband standing near the group of Boy Scouts who assembled for the occasion, as well as former Mayors Anita Cereceda and Ray Murphy, in the crowd. One of the cards stands out from the rest, capturing perfectly the spectacle of lights created by decorated boats in the Christmas Boat Parade that takes place on the Back Bay every year. The dusky light of winter sunset plays up the colorful lights on the boats and along the shore of the bay. You can see the Sky Bridge over Matanzas Pass, and Bonita Bill's on San Carlos Island.
Gretchen paints new scenes every year to be made into greeting cards. "I started out just giving them to my friends and family. But people began asking for them, so now I do sell them, too." They are for sale at Annette's Book Nook in Santini Marina Plaza, and at Anita Cereceda's store Local Color in Time Square.
When she's not engaged with the FMB Art Association, Gretchen can be found volunteering with Iona Hope Episcopal Church. "I am at the soup kitchen on Martin Luther King Boulevard in downtown Fort Myers two days a week. And I volunteer at the church's thrift shop 'One More Time' in the Big Lots plaza on San Carlos Boulevard." Gretchen was emphatic about the importance of this activity in her life. But truly, it is the Art Association that occupies the lion's share of her interest.
Noting there are currently 200+ members of the Association, past-president Gretchen can't help but crow a bit. "All the work is done by volunteers. All of it. And now there are a lot of young people coming in and stepping up. It's great". Being an octogenarian-plus, Gretchen's idea of 'young people' is quite broad, as suggested by the interviewer, and this makes her chuckle a bit. But she goes on. " We have classes and workshops, special guest artists, juried shows.
In their most recent juried show Gretchen received Honorable Mention for one of her entries; there were about 80 or so entries in that particular show. Gretchen is known for her floral themes, and this special beauty shows that off winningly. When asked what her favorite medium is, Gretchen says, "I am most proficient in oil, but I like to try all the different mediums." To illustrate that point, Gretchen shows examples of work she has done in mixed media, collage, and batik.
The next up for the Art Association is the 'Art Divine' show and sale, opening on November 29th and running until December 13th. Gretchen explains how this annual event, which premiered four years ago, came to be called 'Divine'. "Well, originally, everything was priced at $99 or less, and the slogan was created - Art Divine, Under $99. But this year, it will all be priced under $150." The art is still as divine as ever, but the cost of matting and framing has gone up since the event's inception.
Gretchen says the support of people like Al Durrett and his fellow members of the Friends of the Arts group who help promote the "Paint the Beach" event, and Judy Haataja at Century 21 TriPower and her "Art on the Boulevard" sale, has really brought the Art Association into the spotlight. "Up until very recently, I've had people who live on the island who I have known for many years come up to me and say 'I didn't even know the Art Association existed' or 'I never knew where the gallery was located'. But these events have really changed that. We're really doing well."
Gretchen encourages everyone to visit the FMB Art Association Gallery on the corner of Donora and Shell Mound, just off Estero Boulevard. For more information about classes, workshops and events, call 239-463-3909 or go to their website at fortmyersbeachart.com.
We encourage you to check out the selection of Gretchen's original Fort Myers Beach Christmas scenes available as greeting cards. Your freezing friends and relatives up north will enjoy them as much as you do.
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If you like video games you'd better also start liking touchscreen controls. If current trends continue by the end of this year there will be 200 million gamers on iOS, more than on any other gaming platform in the history of the medium.
And that has more implications than just having even more casual games around.


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This site is designed to help small groups "return to the sources" and study Reformed theology in a systematic way throughout 2010. We'll be using John Calvin's 1541 Institutes as our foundation. A pastor-scholar will introduce each chapter, draw connections to Scripture and the wider Reformed tradition, and point out specific issues for further discussion. More info >>
No doctrine has been more controversial in Calvin's theology than that of predestination. Before delving into his theology of predestination and providence, it is worth recalling that both doctrines were a traditional part of orthodox Western Christianity. The Council of Ephesus (431) condemned Pelagianism and the Council of Orange (529) declared the doctrine of predestination to be orthodox (although it did not affirm double predestination).The doctrine of divine providence had also been affirmed in early Christianity, especially in opposition to early Gnostic sects. The Parisian condemnations of 1270 and 1277 were both a reaction against determinism and a re-affirmation that God knows and governs singular events and people. In short, it was affirmed that God is not a distant divine being who set the world in motion but was too remote to exercise providence over his creation.
Theologians held various understandings regarding the nature of predestination. Consequently, when Calvin articulated his own understanding he did so by arguing against past views that he considered false. Calvin defined predestination and providence in the following passage:
We call "predestination" God's eternal plan by which He has determined what he wanted to do with each person. For he did not create all in like condition, but ordains some to eternal life, others to eternal damnation, so according to the end for which a person is created, we say that he is predestined to death or to life. The practice has been that one calls "providence" the order which God maintains in governing the world and in the conduct of all things.
Immediately, questions arise. What about God's justice and goodness? Why would a just and loving God save some and not others? Does God save some because he foreknows that they will be good and condemn others because he foreknows that they will be evil? Does not a good life count for anything with regard to salvation? Moreover, if God really does govern all things, how do we account for the evil and the catastrophic events in human history?
Calvin discussed predestination first and wrote, "So in accordance with what Scripture clearly shows, we say that the Lord once established in his eternal and immutable counsel whom He would take to salvation and whom He would leave in destruction." Calvin understood predestination to be a biblical doctrine; to deny divine election would be to contradict or ignore biblical passages that demonstrate God's decision to choose some and not others. Like many theologians before him, Calvin simply did not see Scripture as teaching universal salvation. God chose Israel, not Canaan. God favored Jacob, not Esau—two of the biblical passages of particular importance for Calvin with regard to predestination. Ephesians 1:4 states that" God has elected us before the foundation of the world, according to the good pleasure of His will, in order that we might be holy, without stain and irreproachable before His face" (Calvin's translation). Romans 9:11-13 refers to the story of Jacob and Esau: "though they were not yet born and had done nothing either good or bad, in order that God's purpose of election might remain, not because of works but because of his call, [Rebecca] was told, 'the elder shall serve the younger.' As it is written, 'Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.'"
For Calvin, these verses proved that God's predestination was not the result of any good or evil deeds on the part of human beings. "Before the foundation of the world" God chose some to be saved through Christ and others to be damned. Calvin emphasized the fact that predestination takes place only through Christ at the beginning of the section on predestination by saying "Now the covenant of life is not equally preached to the whole world, and even where it is preached, it is not equally received by all: in this diversity there is evident an amazing secret of God's judgment." The reference to God's "secret judgment" is important. Calvin went to great length to deny that predestination can be explained by means of God's foreknowledge of who would merit salvation or damnation in the course of one's life. He made clear that God does not predestine someone because he or she is "justified;" rather, the reverse is true. We are justified by faith because of God's preceding choice to predestinate us to salvation. Therefore, he wrote, "the foundation of predestination does not rest on works." When Scripture tells us that God "hardens or gives mercy according to His pleasure, it is to warn us not to seek any cause outside His will." God's choice is his "secret judgment" which does not correspond to human reason.
Calvin had three answers to the dilemma regarding God's justice. First, he explained that we are all born into the world with a corrupt nature so that, in actuality, we are all worthy of damnation. If God were to act only according to his "equity" or justice, then everyone would be damned. Thus, "Adam's children," born in sin, cannot complain that they are unjustly predestined to death. In fact, this would be our natural condition were it not for God's merciful choice to some people. Secondly, whatever God wills is, by definition, just. No cause can precede God's will as if God had to act according to something higher than His own "good pleasure." As Calvin said, "for God's will is the supreme and sovereign rule of righteousness such that all he wants we must consider righteous because He wants it." Third, the "cause" of God's good pleasure is "hidden in God Himself." This means that Scripture reveals the fact of predestination but not the "secret judgment" or the reason why God chooses as He does. Since we cannot go beyond the bounds of Scripture, we must be content to stop at the answer, "It is God's will."
One of the most controversial issues in the history of the doctrine of predestination is whether Scripture teaches "double predestination." Does God deliberately save some but "permit" others to go on their way to damnation because He does not give them grace? Or does God equally will the salvation of some and the damnation of others? Calvin was a double predestinarian. He refused to say that God simply permits some to be damned. His insistence that God purposely chooses some to be saved and others to be damned is significant both for his view of predestination and his understanding of providence.
According to Calvin, God actively orders and governs every event and every action in the world. As he argued, "Now we must deal with God's providence, which extends to the government of the whole world." God "foreknows" all things only because He wills them to happen: "For as it pertains to His wisdom to have the foreknowledge of all future things, it also pertains to His power to rule and govern everything by His hand." To make this point as clear as possible, Calvin affirmed that God even willed Adam's fall. Why would Calvin be so determined to teach that God wills everything, including the human fall into sin? Calvin explicitly rejected the teaching that ascribes to God a type government that is "confused" and "general" but that does not grant that God "directs the actions of each creature." Calvin admitted that things seem to be fortuitous to us, but that is only because "the order, reason, end, and necessity of the things which happen is most often hidden in God's plan and cannot be grasped by the human view."Although we cannot foresee future happenings and they seem uncertain to us, "Nevertheless let it remain resolved in our heart that nothing will happen which God has not ordained." As creatures we must take account of "secondary causes" which we do understand. We must, however, never grant them any independence from God's will.
Calvin insisted on this strict definition of providence because he sought, above all, for a reliable God. This meant that God had to be powerful enough and caring enough to govern all events. Without this kind of providence or governance, nature and history would fall into chaos and evil. A God who is remote or idle would not be able to protect his creation and his people. Therefore, Calvin perceives this doctrine of providence to be a comforting doctrine in Christianity. God governs all of creation but takes "special care toward us." For Calvin this view of providence provided for "a singular happiness of the faithful." He articulated this by explaining that "human life is surrounded and practically besieged by countless miseries."All things present us with dangers that threaten to overwhelm us. These dangers would, indeed, destroy us if God did not hold all things in his control. To return to the question of Adam's fall we can see that if God did not will the fall, then the major event of human history was out of God's control. This would, for Calvin, leave us in an unbearable world where we would constantly be susceptible to "trembling and anxiety." If God were not governing all things, we would be left to chance or the "capriciousness of fortune." This would mean that God had abandoned us. However, because the divine will does rule over all things, we are able "to dare boldly to entrust ourselves to God." But we can only trust a God who is reliable. Consequently, Calvin asked, "From where does the faithful person get such an assurance which can never be taken away, except that, there where it seems that the world is capriciously turned upside down, he believes that God is working to lead him, God whose works he expects are all salvific and wholesome for him?"
In conclusion, we can see that the same themes and concerns permeate Calvin's teachings on both predestination and providence. Not surprisingly, he connected the two topics in the 1541 Institutes. God's will has to be supreme in all things—including salvation, damnation, and history—in order that the world be secure under God's plan. Without predestination, no one would be saved. Without providence, the world would be unlivable. Calvin rejected any compromise that lessens the sovereignty of God because only that sovereignty enables us to have faith in the promise of God to fulfill His purpose and to secure the faithful.
Susan Schreiner
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1994 Ford Powerstroke concept truck
Dodge? Ranger? Escort? Homebuilt eye fryer? None of the above: Though it looks like it's been through the hands of one capable Barris-type customizer and one 18-year-old kid with a Pep Boys charge account, it's actually a diesel-powered Ford concept truck. Thankfully, Ford didn't go with the kissy-lips design language for the rest of its Ford truck lineup (can you just imagine that bumper/grille in red?). In the pictures, it appears to have held up much better than many other concept vehicles from that era, and is likely a running, driving truck. From the seller's description:
1994 Ford Power Stroke Concept Truck, Ford built this wild concept vehicle to promote their Power Stroke Engine, Featured on the cover of "American Dream Cars, 60 years of the best Concept Vehicles" , also portrayed in Ford Racing video games, own a contemporary piece of Ford History!
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Morton Schindel and Weston Woods
Founded by educator Morton Schindel in 1953, Weston Woods (named after the wooded area outside his home in Weston, Connecticut) specializes in animating children's picture books on film. Schindel's cinematic vision not only included making films of children's picture books, but also interviews of the writers and filmmakers themselves. To our mind, this may be the richest element in Schindel's legacy, an element unfortunately ignored by most people familiar with Weston Woods' body of work.
Schindel's own story is a fascinating one, and explains much about the philosophical approach taken by his company. Mort Schindel was born on January 29, 1918 in Newark, New Jersey and graduated from Columbia Teachers' College in 1947, having taken audio-visual courses on subjects ranging from projection techniques to a Margaret Mead-taught course on propaganda and mass media. In 1948, he began working on films for Teaching Films Inc., which soon would declare bankruptcy. As part of the settlement, Schindel retained the rights to six of the films on which he'd worked, and formed his own company, Key Productions. Godfey Elliott's Young America Films then contracted with Schindel to distribute Key films and make new films on standard topics (e.g. What Makes Things Float, 1951). The filmmaker meanwhile had noticed that children who read books in libraries rarely selected "Dick and Jane", but instead gravitated toward colorful picture books. He approached Elliott with the idea of animated picture book films as a new method of teaching reading, but was rebuffed. Schindel soon left for a two-year stint with the United States Information Service in Turkey, where he made films --- primarily on health and cultural issues --- and traveled by jeep as part of a mobile film presentation unit, equipped with generators to power projectors in the numerous villages without electricity. After returning to the United States, the filmmaker, in 1954, produced the first Weston Woods picture book film, and in 1964, made his first animated film, The Snowy Day. For the next several decades, Weston Woods would produce hundreds of titles, including works by authors such as Robert McCloskey (The Doughnuts from Robert McCloskey's 'Homer Price'), Tomi Ungerer (Beast of M. Racine, 1971, dir. Gene Deitch), and Maurice Sendak (Where the Wild Things Are, 1973, dir. Gene Deitch).
One of Weston Woods' most memorable films was Sorcerer's Apprentice (1962, dir. Edward English), in which artist Lisl Weil, fresh from her performance at Lincoln Center, drew larger-than-life characters in different colored chalks while aggressively dancing to the Dukas score. Perhaps the strongest films produced by Schindel were the 'Signature Series', in which the people involved in creating these films, from artists, to directors, to producers, were shown animating, reading, and discussing their works. In Morton Schindel: From Page to Screen (1981), the producer discusses the painstaking steps of the picture book-to-film process, from selecting artists who stylistically mirror the original artwork, to the spoken aspect, including a scene showing author/illustrator/filmmaker Gerald McDermott narrating his Arrow to the Sun (1973, Texture Films). Possibly the most thought-provoking in all the series was the droll interview done by director Gene Deitch with children's illustrator and author Tomi Ungerer (an exceptionally funny and poignant artist in the adult erotic genre as well) in which the artist conveys the joy children express in being scared, and the value of occasional childhood loneliness (Tomi Ungerer, Storyteller, 1981).
No commentary on Weston Woods can be complete without discussing the contributions of director Gene Deitch, who Schindel had met during the latter's tenure with CBS as creative director of the "Tom Terrific" black and white minimalist cartoon episodes shown on the 'Captain Kangaroo' television series. Both Tom and wonderdog Manfred, were drawn with as little elaboration as possible, their occasionally transparency allowing the few scenic images in the image to show through their bodies. Deitch was never able to acquire the budget needed for producing the cartoon in color, and was unceremoniously dropped in 1958. In 1959, having been hired as an independent animation director for a studio located in Prague, he was hired by Schindel at Weston Woods to direct efforts utilizing Czech animators in the state-run Kratky studio, whose production manager, Zdenka Najmanová, Deitch would eventually marry. In Prague, Deitch fell in love his colleague and the city, and remained there, transforming over twenty picture books into film. Among them were Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are (1973), which took over five years to complete, featured a musique-concrète score by written and performed by Deitch himself.
Morton Schindel sold Weston Woods Films to Scholastic Incorporated in 1996 to devote his time to the non-profit Weston Woods Institute which he founded in 1983 to promote innovative cultural education for children. As of this writing, 16mm films are still being sold from the Scholastic Weston Woods catalogue. Gene Deitch and Zdenka Deitchova continue to work, play, and love, in Prague.
On June 20 and 27, 2002, we at the AFA in San Jose presnted a series of films that, to our mind, represented some of the finest films in Weston Woods' catalogue, and include several of the "artists and filmmakers" films. They were:
'Morton Schindel: From Page to Screen' (1981) 27m, prod. Morton Schindel. Here, Schindel describes how a book is transformed into a film. In addition, we see Gerald McDermott, Caldecott winner and two-time ciné16 guest, reading from his book (and film) 'Arrow to the Sun.'
'Tomi Ungerer: Storyteller' (1981) 21m, dir. Gene Deitch. An engaging and funny man, Ungerer is one of the darkest of all writers of children's books. He takes an absolute joy in being an iconoclast, discusses his fear of the dark, and how children enjoy the terror in his books. He defends children's innate intelligence, and notes the harm in being overly protective. Not a word is mentioned about the fact that he's also one of the world's most ribald adult cartoonists, in this insightful and humorous interview, filmed in his Strasboug home, with cartoonist Gene Deitch.
'Maurice Sendak' (1965) 19m, prod. Morton Schindel. Sendak began his Caldecott-winning book 'Where the Wild Things Are', in 1955, but it wasn't completed until 1963. Upon seeing this film, it's not difficult to see why it took so long. Sendak is a perfectionist, who built elaborate wooden toys as a child (he shows us a few of them, here), and counts Francisco Goya as one of his bigger influences.
'Where the Wild Things Are' (1976) 8m, dir. Gene Deitch. See notes above.
'Gene Deitch: the Picture Book Animated' (1977) 25m, dir. Gene Deitch. Creator of the Mr. Magoo and Tom Terrific animated characters, Deitch has spent the last several decades in Prague, directing films based on children's picture books along with his wife and colleague, Zdenka Deitchova. In tonight's film, the engaging Deitch describes the painstaking process of animating a picture book for film, one of the best examples of films-on-filmmaking-process we've ever seen.
'Patrick' (1973) 7m, dir. Gene Deitch. As he fiddles, magic passes in his wake, as fish fly, and cakes grow on trees.
'Changes, Changes' (1973) 6m, dir. Gene Deitch. Here, two wooden dolls come to live amidst an arsenal of wooden blocks. The wonderful soundtrack is played by Frantisek Belfin and his All Wooden Orchestra.


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The "switching on" or expression of specific genes in the human genome is what makes each human tissue and each human being unique. A new study by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, the Lieber Institute for Brain Development, and the National Institute of Mental Health found that many gene expression changes that occur during fetal development are reversed immediately after birth. Reversals of fetal expression changes are also seen again much later in life during normal aging of the brain. Additionally, the team observed the reversal of fetal expression changes in Alzheimer's disease findings reported in other studies. The research team also found that gene expression change is fastest in human brain tissue during fetal development, slows down through childhood and adolescence, stabilizes in adulthood, and then speeds up again after age 50, with distinct redirection of expression changes prior to birth and in early adulthood. Their findings are published in the Oct. 27, 2011, edition of Nature. All of the data are available to the public as a web-based resource at: http://www.libd.org/braincloud.
Using a number of genomic analysis technologies, the research team conducted genome-wide genetic (DNA) and gene expression (RNA) analyses of brain tissue samples from the prefrontal cortex. Tissue represented the various stages of the human lifespan.
"We think that these coordinated changes in gene expression connecting fetal development with aging and neurodegeneration are central to how the genome constructs the human brain and how the brain ages," said Carlo Colantuoni, PhD, one of the lead authors of the study and a former research associate with the Department of Biostatistics at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Colantuoni recently joined the Lieber Institute for Brain Development on the Johns Hopkins Medical Campus.
The research also
|Contact: Tim Parsons
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ill will, creativity, and pleasure. Following a
summary lecture on the last night, I ask each student to respond
verbally to the following question: "What will you personally take
away from this class?"
In teaching stress management
to the Department of the Army at the Pentagon, my colleagues and I
developed this approach to wrap up a course which taught diverse
cognitive-behavioral skills. We found that this question usually
resulted in a much more relevant and practical summary than lecturing.
People tend to listen to their classmates, who are speaking from their
personal experience, often framing up their life lessons in fresh
ways. It helps to assign students the task of reviewing their notes
ahead of time to prepare for the discussion.
Susan White, Finance
The last week of
classes is difficult for both students and teachers — much too much is
happening on all fronts. Remember the joke about the teacher who
diedand went to hell? When she got there she had a mandatory interview
with the devil. He told her that in hell everyone had to work and that
her job assignment was as a teacher. She said that she would like
that—she had worked as a teacher all her life. The devil said, "yes,
but in hell every week is the last week of classes."
Strategies for a last class can vary widely, depending on the class.
The last class day does not have to be wasted time, but if it can be
made into a fun class, you and
the students will
appreciate it. The last day of classes is a good
day to wrap things up—students could present on their projects or do a
role play exercise. The instructor can use the last class as a review,
and wrap up the main points of the course. If there is a final exam in
the course, the last day can be used as a formal exam review session.
Philip Silvey, School of Music
I have always found endings to be more challenging
than beginnings. Often the end of a semester arrives too quickly, and
in the final class session it's as if everything suddenly grinds to a
halt. There I am, bleary-eyed in the middle of a vacated classroom
asking, "What just happened?" By creating a forum for students to
share their mastery and progress as they negotiate their way through
our degree program, we have set aside a moment in time to appreciate
and reflect upon what has just happened, and to orient ourselves
toward what lies ahead. The success of our own version of "noon
recitals" is an indication that perhaps final classes are best spent
as times to regain perspective, gather our things, and prepare for the
next leg of the journey.
One of the advantages of teaching university
courses in musical performance is that student progress is readily
discernable. If pitches are out of tune, or the technique is flawed,
the instructor immediately perceives this and can determine if a
student has not mastered the challenges of performing a musical
composition. In the School of Music, students
regularly participate
in weekly "noon recitals" to demonstrate
individual progress on their principal instrument for peers and
faculty in a public performance. Along with encouraging the
development of musicianship and performance skills in our students,
the Division of Music Education faculty also endeavors to nurture
students as teachers-in the-making. Unlike the immediate impact of a
well-rehearsed performance, the skills required to be a successful
teacher are less glamorous and rarely seen by a broader audience
outside an individual instructional setting.
A few years ago, in an effort to recognize and
acknowledge student advancements in their "educatorship" (the ability
to teach, an expression used by music education philosopher David
Elliott), the music education faculty decided to implement a "music
education noon recital." This occasion was conceived essentially to
serve as a public forum in which our undergraduates could share with
one another the progress they had made as teachers-in-training both
within and outside of their music education coursework during the
semester. The music education noon recital has now become a regular
feature of end of semester activities. This event includes student
performances on secondary instruments (often never attempted before
the beginning of a particular semester), demonstrations of teaching
success through student led small ensembles or peer teaching, and the
sharing of video clips of practice teaching conducted in field
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Binding sites for E2Fs and other proliferative control activities. The open reading frame of pRB is shown with locations of the A and B parts of the pocket. Regions of contact that have been mapped for E2F transcription factors, chromatin regulators, and protein degradation machinery that are involved in controlling proliferation are diagramed.


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Eric McClure, who was treated for a concussion and mild internal bruising after his car hit the Talladega Superspeedway wall during Saturday's Nationwide Series race, was released Monday evening from University of Alabama at Birmingham Hospital, team spokesman and McClure sister Emily Brandt said in a statement.
The 33-year-old McClure is expected to make a full recovery from the injuries, Brandt said.
The TriStar Motorsports driver's car hit the inside retaining wall—a steel-and-foam barrier designed to absorb some of the impact—head-on after skidding hundreds of feet during a chain-reaction crash on the first lap of a green-white-checkered restart in the Aaron's 312. McClure was airlifted to the hospital following the accident.
Before he races again, McClure will have to be cleared by a NASCAR-approved doctor. The team has not announced if he will be able to race in Friday night's Nationwide event at Darlington Raceway.
McClure has 179 starts in the series with a career best of 15th at Talladega in 2008.


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Wonderful design!
so fun!
Thank you Lisa and Sharon :)
wonderful color variations
Thank you Tex & Biff :)
love this case!
Wow, stunning work!!!
Thanks, I really appreciate it Sylvia, Sharon & Laura!
Gorgeous various patterns with rainbow colors, love this!;)
Thank you very much Syl & HLMM!
Fantastic! : )
Thanks JT!
love the 45 graphic and the musical details !
Thank you Christine, I had a lot of fun with this :)
Cheerful design! ^^
Thank you Enrico!
all your abstract work is so joyful! love it!
love it!
lovely colours
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Yikes I missed a few! no enough hours in the day!
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Arena, Gliwice
Arena Retail Park is a well established retail park located just off one of the main regional roads (E88) in Gliwice. The scheme opened in 2006.
There are 1,350 car parking spaces.
Website: http://www.arena-gliwice.pl/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/arenagliwice
Balmain: Appointed to provide leasing and development services in December 2011 and appointed Asset Manager in 2013.
Balmain Asset Management CEE Sp. z o.o.
ul. Sienna 39, 00 – 121 Warsaw, Poland
Tel: +48 (0) 22 206 4053
Name: Arena Park Handlowy (Retail Park)
Address: Al. Jana Nowaka Jezioranskiego 1, 44-102, Gliwice
Owner: EPISO III managed by Tristan Capital Partners
Area: 12,027 sq.m
Number of shops: 76
Key anchors: Carrefour hypermarket , Reserved, Media Expert, CCC, Carry, Deichmann, Mohito and Rossmann.


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Famous People Who Have Been Cryonically Preserved (Frozen)
The list is short, but could be growing, as there is a new found interest to have your body preserved by turning yourself into a Popsicle. This is done with the hope that the future will be able to not only successfully thaw the deceased person but to cure the ailment that put them into a non breathing state of being.
The most famous person to have himself frozen is not Walt Disney, who has widely been rumored to be an ice cube. That distinction lies with Ted Williams. A baseball player who was one of the greatest of his time.
Williams was a two-time American League Most Valuable Player (MVP) winner, led the league in batting six times, and won the Triple Crown twice. He had a career batting average of .344, with 521 home runs, and was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1966. Source, Wikipedia.
Not to be outdone Ted's son, John Henry Williams also became cryogenically preserved. Maybe with the hopes that the "Field Of Dreams" could come true and they might be able to play catch once again, perhaps when the planet is actually nothing but a large hockey rink or if you believe in other scientists theories of global warming, a desert.
Our third most famous stiff is Dick Clair (November 12, 1931 – December 12, 1988) was an American television producer,actor and television and film writer, best known for the television sitcoms It's a Living, The Facts of Life, and Mama's Family. Thank god the genius behind The Facts of Life, might be able to bring our future inhabitants a revival of Trudy or Mama. Source, Wikipedia.
Unfortunately that is the end of anyone with some type of fame, unless you are a big fan of the Cryonic Movement. The next 7 are either part of ALCOR the largest human makers of frozen tubes to hold these poor icicles or mathematicians who believe that somehow their brain will actually be functional after decades of being in the deep freeze. They are, in no particular order:
Thomas K. Donaldson, a mathematician.
Dr. James Bedford, a psych professor.
FM-2030, Yeah, that was his real name.
Dora Kent, part of the ALCOR team
Jerry Leaf, was Alcor's vice president.
By the way Walt Disney lies in state at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California.
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Sarah McKenna, a third-year law student, was recently awarded a scholarship by the Washington Chapter of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers (AAML).
The Yakima, Wash., native hopes to work in a small firm that focuses in the areas of family law and estate planning.
Family law has held her interest for several years, she says: "Family law combines my love of the law with my psychology background and strong interest in family interactions."
McKenna double-majored in Psychology and Law and Justice at Central Washington University in Ellensburg, Wash. She says her love for the Pacific Northwest and Gonzaga's reputation for preparing students to be skilled attorneys drew her to Gonzaga.
She says law school has taught her "that the law is pervasive in all aspects of life."
About the AAML
The AAML was founded in 1962. Its mission is to "encourage the study, improve the practice, elevate the standards and advance the cause of matrimonial law to the end that the welfare of the family and society be preserved."
AAML is an association of the nation's top matrimonial lawyers, from all 50 states, who specialize in all issues relating to marriage, divorce, annulment, custody, child visitation, property valuation, property distribution, alimony and child support.


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Woodworking Scholarships And Grant Information
As you enter your senior year, and start to make plans regarding which college you will attend, it is doubtful that many of you have woodworking scholarships on your mind. But you may be surprised at the number of scholarships and grants available for those who have a talent for working with wood.
People skilled in the art of woodworking are known as elite craftsmen. Many have spent years honing and perfecting their craft. In recognition of the fact that woodworking requires much intense study and years of practice, many school and other public interest groups have gotten together to offer scholarships to those wishing to study woodworking.
While there are also more traditional forms of financial aid to be considered, loans can often become troublesome to pay back, and grants are specific in their requirements. There is state aid for most colleges and schools, but a good source of financial aid that doesn't need to be paid back is a scholarship. Scholarships are offered by a variety of groups, for a variety of reasons, in a variety of fields related to woodworking. Whether you're a carpenter or a carver of fine wood statues, there is probably some kind of aid out there for you.
In this day and age the fastest way to find information regarding scholarships is to look it up on the Internet. There you will find many sites devoted to information about available scholarships. Many times you will find links to the actual applications themselves should you wish to start now. Many people may be eligible for more than one scholarship. You are encouraged to research thoroughly and apply for anything you feel you might be eligible for. After all every little bit helps.
The Association of Woodworking Furnishers And Suppliers offers a four year scholarship to students who wish to attend a woodworking school or enter that field of study. Interested applicants must be enrolled in a woodworking program, and you are expected to maintain a passing grade.
The Brian Hamill Woodworking award is a smaller privately funded scholarship available for students wishing to pursue a career in woodworking. Students are expected to be enrolled in a woodworking major, and they are also expected to maintain passing grades.
Full woodworking scholarship programs are being offered through the University Of Rio. These four years scholarships are available for students wishing to pursue a career in woodworking. The school has a fine woodworking program under the direction of one of is distinguished graduates. Students are expected to be enrolled in a woodworking program full time at the university. Student must maintain a passing grade to remain in the program.
These are just a few of the many opportunities available to any student who wishes to go to school for woodworking. Turn your hobby into your career. You don't have to be nineteen to go to college. Scholarships while typically offered to high school students may also be available for those who wish to change their career or path in life. All you have to do is find something that fits your situation.


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Courtesy of McQueens
Where to eat: For a one-stop evening, head to McQueens, named in honor of actor Steve McQueen. The space has a rugged, masculine feel with plush leather sofas and plenty of exposed brick. The menu is limited, but with pumpkin ravioli and roast chicken, there's something for everyone. The super-sleek Supperclub also offers dining and dancing. There's one dinner seating: 8 p.m. and the four-course chef's tasting dinner is about $70 (There's no a la carte ordering, but vegetarian options are available). Be sure to reserve a table far in advance. For a more quick and casual meal, stop by one of the outposts of Byron Burger. The owner was so taken with the burger craze here in the States, he started this chain in 2007. The shoestring fries are unforgettable.
Where to party: A favorite of Princes William and Harry, the Mahiki lounge is a must-stop for your hen party. Order the pina colada that comes in a carved-out pineapple or try the Krakatoa, a flaming cocktail that serves four. The Peacock Bar has a burlesque show with men and women dancers, then turns into a club in the wee hours. You can also schedule a private cupcake-making class or champagne tasting for you and your ladies. Karaoke is just as popular in London as it is stateside. Book a private room at Lucky Voice or join in the fun in the main room.
Where to relax: Partake in a traditional English tea with a twist. The Pret-a-Portea at the Berkeley Hotel has all the usual tea accoutrements: canapés and tea sandwiches, plus cookies in the shape of shoes, bags and dresses inspired by the fashions of Christian Louboutin, Paul Smith and more.
Where to brunch: Brunch isn't quite the rage in London that it is in the States, so not every restaurant serves it. One of the most dependable is at Electric Brasserie in Notting Hill. Expect the regular pancakes and eggs, along with more traditional English breakfast fare including porridge, baked beans and grilled tomatoes. On a sunny day, take advantage of the outdoor patio.
Dress code: The fashion in London is similar to New York's, but slightly less flashy when it comes to labels. Think Kate Middleton in a Reiss dress.
No bachelorette party in London is complete without: A pre-party or shopping trip with Butlers in the Buff, handsome gents for hire to fulfill your every (R-rated) desire.
Things to Know: If you are not familiar with London, consider using a bachelorette-party-organizing service such as The Stag and Hen Party or check out Visit Britain, the national tourist board Web site, for ideas.
-- by Anne Fritz
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The main drivers of deforestation worldwide are no longer
subsistence-level farmers trying to put food on their tables, but
corporations, converting massive tracts of land for industrial
agriculture. This offers a rare opportunity for conservation through environmentalists and consumer pressure.
New study conducted among households in Northwest Ethiopia shows that households' participation in collection of different forest
products is significantly determined by a combination of household
demographic characteristics, ownership of oxen and of cows, proximity to
forest, access to health and school infrastructure, resettlement
history and self-reported change in standard of living


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Golf Rules in Action DVDGolf Rules in Action explains and demonstrates the basic Rules of the game.
Golf Rules IllustratedA clear, detailed, illustrated explanation of the Rules of Golf.
A Guide to the Rules on Clubs and BallsGuidelines to interpret the Rules relating to the design and manufacture of golf clubs and balls.
Birds and Golf CoursesThis book provides guidance on how to support bird populations through effective management of the roughs and out of play areas.
The GolfersThis book examines in detail the historical background to the painting 'The Golfers'.
The Rules of Golf do not place any restriction on who may serve as a caddie, but the Committee may prohibit or restrict caddies in the conditions of competition (see Note to Rule 6-4).
The Committee may prohibit or restrict the use of caddies in a competition.
However, since the Rules specifically permit a player to use a caddie, generally it is not recommended that a Committee introduce a condition prohibiting their use. That having been said, for various reasons, it is common for Committee's organising junior events to prohibit or restrict the use of caddies, e.g. no parents. In addition, in certain competitions it may be considered appropriate to prohibit professional golfers from acting as caddies.


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Craft Beer Festival
The Virginia Beach Craft Beer Festival, having outgrown the 24th Street Park, has moved to a huge tent on the beach! The Virginia Beach Craft Beer Festival, held from 1:00pm-6:00pm each day, has convenient parking at the 31st Street City Garage and is "weather-proof" for the weekend.
Featured Breweries in include: O'Connor, Smartmouth, Back Bay, Young Veterans, St. George, Larry's Lemonade, Ale Werks, Beck's, Spaten, Legend, Devils Backbone, Bold Rock, Sunken City, Starr Hill, New Belgium, Sweetwater, Heavy Seas, Lagunitas, Victory, Oskar Blues, Southern Tier, Weyerbacher, Harpoon, DuClaw, Gordon Biersch, Goose Island, Kona, Lonerider, Natty Greene, Highland, Redhook, Widmer, Shock Top, Johnny Appleseed, Stella Artois, Fransikaner, Van Steenburge, Bavik, Van Ecke, Leffe, Boddington's Hoegaarden, La Trappe, Bosteels, Krombacher, Vermont Hard Cider, WM Magner Cider, Flying Dog, Foothills, Hardywood, Heritage, Lickinghole Creek, Sam Adams, Wild Wolf, and Blue Moon.
Live music sets the stage at the perfect outdoor setting for tasting some of the best craft beers.


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Please spread the word to your friends and family. Search online at http://www.goodsearch.com to raise money for Tarrant Area Food Bank to fight hunger.


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"Shattered Dreams" is a powerful DWI awareness program that involves Houston Fire, Police and EMS in conjunction with the Spring Branch ISD and Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission. The simulated auto accident sent one student through the windshield of one vehicle and one was thrown out of the other. Other passengers inside the vehicles involved were covered in simulated blood.
Houston Fire Captain Ken Loudermilk lead the response to the accident. He says respondents went through their regular procedure after reaching the accident scene.
"This is how most of our young people are injured or killed nowadays with car accidents. It's a very dangerous thing out there today."
Adding to the realism, victims of the accident were placed on stretchers and one was put in a body bag. As part of the program, families were notified and the surviving driver was arrested and booked for driving under the influence.
Contains graphic imagery
One adult responsible for serving alcohol to the teens arrived at the scene and was arrested.
Sheila Henderson coordinates trauma outreach and injury prevention for the Harris County Hospital District.
"We're losing kids all the time to drinking and driving, and one of the number one ways that they're getting the alcohol a lot of times is from parents. So this is one of the ways to get them to understand. It may be a simulation, but it could happen to anybody."
Although the program is nothing new, the realistic nature of the simulation still affected many of the students.
Student: "Yeah, I see a lot of these people's faces and it's just like, distress and sadness brought to them, and it's not even like real, but it's really stressing."
Student: "One of my friends was in the wreck, and I have no idea how to react to this. I'm speechless."
Student: "It shows that you are controlling the machine that can kill somebody, that you need to be smart with your decisions and how you drive."
Christopher Juntti is principal at Stratford High School. He says the simulation is staged before their homecoming festivities.
"Our timeline is to do it approximately two weeks before homecoming, before a big dance, where our students have some possibilities of making some bad choices. The way this is done, there's an entire video that's shot, and will be shown to the students Thursday, before the homecoming dance on Saturday."
PH : "Do you think something like this will leave a lasting impression to the students?"
Juntti : "I would hope so. I think our kids are real visual. We can tell them all we want until we're blue in the face, but when we show them and they really see all that's involved in a drunk driving accident like this, I think that really makes an impression on them. And when they see it, then they live it, they feel it."
According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, alcohol is the cause of 60% of all teen deaths involving car accidents.


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ISLAND POND, VT - The last event during the Island Pond Winter Carnival on Sunday was the cardboard sled race, organized and sponsored by Reno and Jeanne Gervais.
Winners took away trophies for their efforts.
Brendan Jenks of Ferdinand won best decorated sled with his race car theme. First place winner was Mary Odonnel, second was Alison Gray and third went to Ryan Higgins.
The race was sponsored by Reno and Jeanne Gervais of Gervais Plumbing and Heating.
Twenty-eight homemade sleds of all shapes and sizes competed in the event, which included a race for the kids and one for the adults.
NEWPORT CITY – The North Country Union High School Board will be looking for a new director for the North Country Career Center.
Richard Hoffman confirmed Monday that he handed in his resignation at last Tuesday's Resources Committee meeting. Human Resources approved the request with regret. The full board will act on the resignation at tonight's monthly meeting.
HOLLAND - After months of consideration, planning and analyzing, the developers proposing to build two turbines just east of Derby Line are making an offer to the town of Holland.
Although the two turbines will not be located in the town of Holland, the turbines would be located near the town line and visible in many places throughout the town. The turbines planned are more than 400 feet tall at the tip of the blade and are slated for Grandview Farm, owned by the Davis Family, and Smugglers Hill Farm, owned by the Chase family.


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Les marchés antiques. Espaces, pratiques, institutions is an international network of ancient market analysis, created by the CNRS (France) from January 1st, 2009. Associating scholars from 12 laboratories of Europe and of North America, it leads a program of thematic research in economic history and publishes its results.
The study of the ancient economy has been the object of an age-old debate which became particularly lively from the second part of the XIXth century. Since the 1990's one can talk in terms of a renewed interest in economic history at a time when a thorough evaluation of M.I. Finley's conceptions started to be conducted. Consequently, trading activities have been recognised as constituting a core issue in connection with which a large series of difficulties and questions has become focused. This, however, creates some problems. Thus although the market place is obviously central to the debate on ancient economy, it has nonetheless not constituted the central aspect of scholarly reflexion. As a matter of fact, the ancient market has hardly been an object of study as such, but has tended to be pushed aside in the interest of drawing a polemical distinction between opposing sides of the debate. What needs to be done is to produce a joint history of spaces, institutions and behaviours, while avoiding abstract discussion of the 'market', focusing the debate instead on the notion of 'concret' or 'imperfect' markets. K. Polanyi's views, which for a long time have prevailed in economic anthropology, have been marked by a strict dualism between societies without a market economy followed in time by those that are endowed with it. However, such a transition makes its appearance precisely at the time of ancient Greece.
Economic history has first to adopt a historical approach so as to avoid establishing a systematic split between two periods which can only end up putting the psychological aspect on one side and pure economic rationality on the other. Unlike Finley's presuppositions, the cultural structure peculiar to antiquity finds its explanation in specific elements of a market space for which one needs to outline both the implementation and mode of operation. Our aim is to understand ancient economy for itself without preliminary reference to a contemporary historical model: to understand ancient economy as both economy and ancient.
Selected bibliography on the topic :
Rostovzeff, M. I., The Social an Economic History of the Hellenistic World (1941). Traduction française : Histoire économique et sociale du monde hellénistique (1989).
Polanyi, K., Arensberg, C. M., Pearson, H. W., Trade and Market in the Early Empires (1957). Traduction française : Les Systèmes Economiques dans l'histoire et dans la théorie (1975).
Finley, M. I., The Ancient Economy (1973). Traduction française : L'Economie antique (1975).
Garnsey, P., Hopkins, K., Whittaker, C. R. (eds), Trade in the Ancient Economy (1983).
Andreau, J., Briant, P., Descat R. (eds), Les échanges dans l'Antiquité : le rôle de l'Etat (1994).
Andreau, J., Briant, P., Descat R. (éds), Prix et formation des prix dans les économies antiques (1997).
Parkins, H., Smith, C. J. (eds), Trade, Traders and the Ancient City (1998).
Archibald, Z. H., Davies, J., Gabrielsen, V., Oliver G. (eds), Hellenistic Economies (2001).
Archibald, Z. H., Davies, J., Gabrielsen, V., Oliver G. (eds), Making, Moving and Managing. The New World of Ancient Economies, 323-31 BC (2005).
Descat R. (éd.), Approches de l'économie hellénistique (2006).
Morris, I., Saller, R., Scheidel W. (eds), The Cambridge Economic History of the Ancient Graeco-Roman World (2007).


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Asian America may never again see a Division I college baseball team anything like the 2007 Oregon State University nine which captured it's second consecutive College World Series championship Sunday in Omaha. Five players on the star-studded squad are of Asian ancestry—All Pac-10 shortstop Darwin Barney, spectacular second baseman Joey Wong, outfielder Mike Lissman, designated hitter Jason Ogata and defensive specialist Koa Kahalehoa.
The quintet, supported by assistant coach David Wong (yep, he's Joey's dad) and team trainer Keita Shimada, helped lead the Beavers to conquer strong contingents from Arizona State, CSU Fullerton, Louisville, Mississippi State, North Carolina and Rice University on their way to a rare back-to-back college baseball championship.
Barney, a smooth-fielding 5-10, 175 shortstop, was the Pac-10's Player of the Year and a fourth-round pick of the Chicago Cubs. He blasted a two-run homer in the decisive game against the Tar Heels and stroked two RBI singles against UC Irvine.
He also provided the Beavers with steadying leadership on and off the field, contributed offensively and started what will be remembered as the play of the series.
In Game 4 of the CWS against a surging CSU Fullerton with a runner on first and one out, Barney, who was once considered too small to play big-time baseball, scooped up a slow roller, submarined the ball to Wong who, while airborne and perpendicular to the ground, flipped the ball to first baseman Jordan Lennerton to complete an amazing double play. ESPN featured the Barney-to-Wong-to-Lennerton play as one of its Plays of the Week.
Bona fide slugger Lissman, who led the Beavers in round trippers, homered against Fullerton and blasted a three-run shot as OSU destroyed Arizona State in Game 8. He hails from Ontario, Oregon, where his mother Margie Yasuda owns a Japanese restaurant.
Wong and DH Ogata had three hits apiece against ASU.
Along with the Derek Jeter-like Darwin Barney, Wong, Ogata and Lissman are considered legitimate MLB prospects.
- OSU Baseball Homepage
- 2007 College World Series Wrap Up, ESPN
- Joey, David Wong Feature, Salem Statesman Journal
- Darwin Barney Feature, Portland Tribune
- Jason Ogata Feature, Portland Tribune
- Pre-College World Series Feature, Beaverton Valley Times
- Mike Lissman: "I'm here to play baseball."
- For the haters, Mike Lissman Charged, Argus Observer
- NCAA Kicks Blogger Out of CWS Press Box, NPR


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Washington Post blogger Dylan Matthews: "No Western country weathered the 2008-09 financial crisis better than Israel."
Will the mentor replace the student? A Washington Post blogger has fueled rumors that outgoing Bank of Israel Governor Stanley Fischer may replace current Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke, who is slated to step down in 2014. Bernanke was a student of Fischer's at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management.
In his blog on Friday, Dylan Matthews wrote a piece headed, "Stanley Fischer saved Israel's economy. Can he save America's?" He wrote that at the Jackson Hole Economic Policy Symposium, an annual conference hosted by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, that began on Aug. 31, 2012, Bernanke asked, "Do you know what everyone at this table has in common? They all had Stan Fischer as their thesis adviser."
According to Matthews, "No Western country weathered the 2008-09 financial crisis better [than Israel]."
Matthews noted that while it would be unprecedented for the Federal Reserve position to go to a non-U.S. native (in fact, former Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur F. Burns was born in Eastern Europe), the central banking community is a global one, an example of such being Britain's decision in November to appoint current Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney to be the next governor of the Bank of England.
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Coming from the department of "How come nobody has thought of that before," here's Mobile Passport, the app that will help you skip the lines when you enter the United States.
If you ever entered the Unites States, you know how annoying it is to fill out the blue and the white form. You get it in the plane, a couple of hours before you arrive at your destination and probably have to wait for a pen from the stewardess. Some of the questions in there seem stupid, others require your full attention. What happens when you make a mistake? You have to start all over again because the CBP officers will not accept a crossed-out line on your form.
A new iPhone app, spotted by 9to5Mac, aims to fix that problem and make it easier for you to skip the lines. Mobile Passport is Free, but it only works for US and Canada citizens so far.
When you first launch it, you can see a tutorial explaining the basic steps of using it or you can go right ahead and register your profile. You can add a photo take with your iPhone's camera, add your name, date of birth, sex, country of residence, passport number and the expiration date. It should only take less than two minutes to fill everything into the app and then you're good to go.
The developers promise that all your info is encrypted and will only be shared with the CBP. The app replaces the blue and white paper declaration forms required for all travelers entering the US by air.
Mobile Passport works in Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, but more locations will be added soon. As soon as you get into the airport, you can submit your information and the CBP officers will get you a receipt. You can then skip the regular line and follow the signs for Mobile Passport Control, scan your receipt and show your passport and get on your way to the luggage area.
This new app will not replace your Passport and you need to make sure to bring that document with you if you want to go back to the United States. However, it will help you forget about the hassle of filling out the forms. This is also good for B1 or B2 visa holders coming from Canada.
One more nice detail about this app is that, if you cannot open your phone or you do not have cell coverage when you are 10,000 feet (3000 meters) in the air, you can choose to submit your application later (the arrival time, for example) and the app will notify you when you to send your detail.
Make sure to download it and stick it in your iPhone's Travel folder. Mobile Passport is going to be handy some day.