A Select Few of Us Earthlings ...
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Apr 9, 2016
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#21
Apr 10, 2016
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#22
"US 'Masters' " {golf}, Envy! ..{2016 'prize Fund' Distribution}
Winner: $1.8 million
Runner-up: $1.08 million
3rd: $680,000
4th: $480,000
5th: $400,000
6th: $360,000
7th: $335,000
8th: $310,000
9th: $290,000
10th: $270,000
11th: $250,000
12th: $230,000
13th: $210,000
14th: $190,000
15th: $180,000
16th: $170,000
17th: $160,000
18th: $150,000
19th: $140,000
20th: $130,000
21st: $120,000
22nd: $112,000
23rd: $104,000
24th: $96,000
25th: $88,000
26th: $80,000
27th: $77,000
28th: $74,000
29th: $71,000
30th: $68,000
31st: $65,000
32nd: $62,000
33rd: $59,000
34th: $56,500
35th: $54,000
36th: $51,500
37th: $49,000
38th: $47,000
39th: $45,000
40th: $43,000
41st: $41,000
42nd: $39,000
43rd: $37,000
44th: $35,000
45th: $33,000
46th: $31,000
47th: $29,000
48th: $27,400
49th: $26,000
50th: $25,200
According to the Masters, the remainder of the professionals in the field will receive cash prizes "ranging downward from $24,600, depending on their scores."
Apr 11, 2016
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#23
If 2 guys are tied for 4th, for example, then they'll split the 4th & 5th place money.
Apr 11, 2016
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#24
A small turnout in 'DC' yesterday, for "Money-Out-of-Politics" ] ;
Apr 13, 2016
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#25
Unless, your in your 'mid-60s' ..lol ..{among other reasons}.
Apr 15, 2016
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#29
The impression I took away from perusing this link..{see below}; Is that, any prizes awarded, {which was Not mentioned 'sfaik'}; Will be virtual 'chump change'! .. But, otherwise; As a 'public service' announcement ...
http://www.usamemorychampionship.com/
Apr 16, 2016
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#31
Apr 16, 2016
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#33
Philip Yancey; Chess Master
God Brings Victory Even from Our Bad Moves
By Philip Yancey/ May 22, 2000 ..{"Christianity Today"}
From my own experience in trying to make stories 'work'; I have discovered that what is needed is an action that is totally unexpected, yet totally believable; And I have found that, for me.. this is always an action which indicates that grace has been offered.
And frequently it is an action in which the devil has been the unwilling instrument of grace. This is not a piece of knowledge that I consciously put into my stories; It is a discovery that I get out of them.
My own life story contains details that I regret and may even resent; Pain from childhood .. illness and injury.. times of poverty.. wrong choices.. broken relationships.. missed opportunities; And, disappointment in my own failures.
Can I trust, truly trust, that God can weave these redemptively into my overall story, as "unwilling instruments of grace"?
I think of God's style as ironic. A more straightforward approach would respond to each new problem with an immediate solution.
A woman gets sick; God heals her. A man is falsely imprisoned; God releases him. Rarely does God use such an approach, however.
An author of great subtlety, will let the plot line play out in perilous ways; Then ingeniously incorporates those apparent detours, into the route home.
Thus Paul gives thanks for his "thorn in the flesh" because it advances, rather than impedes, God's work through him; And, Joseph can look back on his harrowing life and say to his cruel brothers: "You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good."
In high school, I took pride in my ability to play chess. I joined the chess club, and during lunch hour could be found sitting at a table with other nerds poring over books with titles like, Classic King Pawn Openings.
I studied techniques, won most of my matches, and put the game aside for 20 years. Then, in Chicago, I met a truly fine chess player who had been perfecting his skills long since high school.
When we played a few matches, I learned what it is like to play against a master. Any classic offense I tried, he countered with a classic defense.
If I turned to more risky, unorthodox techniques, he incorporated my bold forays into his winning strategies.
Although I had complete freedom to make any move I wished, I soon reached the conclusion that none of my strategies mattered very much.
His superior skill, guaranteed that my purposes inevitably ended up serving his own ends!
Perhaps God engages our universe, his own creation, in much the same way.
He grants us freedom to rebel against its original design; But even as we do so; We end up ironically serving his eventual goal of restoration.
If I accept that blueprint-- a Huge step of faith, I confess; It transforms how I view, both the good and bad things that happen.
Good things, such as health, talent, and money, I can present to God as offerings to serve his purposes. And bad things, too—disability, poverty, family dysfunction, failures—can be redeemed as the very instruments that drive me to God.
A skeptic might accuse me of flagrant rationalization, arguing backwards to make evidence fit a prior conclusion. Yes, exactly!
A Christian begins with the conclusion that a good God will restore creation to its original design, and sees all history as proceeding toward that end.
When a Grand Master plays a chess amateur; Victory is assured, no matter how the board may look at any given moment.
In a miracle of grace, even our personal failures can become tools in God's hands.
Many people find that a persistent temptation, even an addiction, is the very wound that causes them to turn in desperation to God, so that the wound forms a beginning point for new creation.
Paul Tournier, summed up the pattern well:
The most wonderful thing in this world is not the good that we accomplish, but the fact that good can come out of the evil that we do.
I have been struck, for example, by the numbers of people who have been brought back to God under the influence of a person to whom they had some imperfect attachment
.. Our vocation is, I believe, to build good out of evil. For if we try to build good out of good; We are in danger of running out of raw material !
I am certain Tournier, would prefer for people never to commit evil in the 1st place. -- Unfortunately, that is an unattainable state in this fallen world. Here the ironic response works best; For it never runs out of raw material ! ..{fini}
Apr 19, 2016
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#37
Another facet of the 'Different strokes'/'de gustibus'.. aspect of Life - "Many are called; But few are Chosen."
Apr 19, 2016
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#38
.. Never knew the man - You don't suppose, it was because I was born in '51, and 4,000 miles away!? ..lol
Apr 20, 2016
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#39
Totally unrelated thought -- My own 'sense' is that a 'Perfect' state-of-being, {as embodied in 'Heaven'}; Could well serve as a future glorified 'watering' station, {including the present}.. Since, history has tended to show; That without Some conflict and problems; The human personality's 'growth development' might well become 'soft' and stagnate.
Ie. Our 'multiverse' is a 'H-U-G-E' place.. with presumably many civilizations, and degrees of 'advancement; Of which 'Heaven'.. in scale to Everywhere; Conceivably, would be 'tucked away' in the far reaches of our *'northern' spatial dimensions. ..{* 'He resideth, on-the-sides of-the-north'.. Scripture passage}.
