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Klondike: Quest for Gold is a show that follows four men and one woman as they retrace the steps of the Gold Rush in Dawson City. This four part series is set in modern times and the hardships the Australians face in this series teaches the audience about how difficult times must have been for pioneers and their quest for gold in 1898. This show will appeal to viewers interested in self sufficiency, survival, and gold panning. The history of the Yukon and its rugged terrain were the main focus of this television series.
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Klondike: Quest For Gold Full Episode Guide
- Episode 4 - Dawson
The team manages to get back on course and continues down the Yukon River. Despite food storages, they arrive in Dawson and enjoy their first bath in over 2 months.
- Episode 3 - Quest For Gold: Yukon River
The team arrives at the town site of Bennett and assemble the knockdown canoe they carried over the trail and start their trip up the Yukon River.
- Episode 2 - Quest For Gold: Lake Lindeman
The arduous task of rowing the York boat to the Hudson Bay begins under a searing, hot summer sun. The crew makes a number of bad decisions which jeopardize the quest, but they finally arrive at the top of Lake Winnipeg.
- Episode 1 - Chilkoot Trail
Episode one features a brief history of the Klondike Gold Rush in 1897-98 and an introduction to our team. They arrive in Skagway, Alaska and makes the appropriate final preparations to depart from the trailhead at the historic town site of Dyea.


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Until a few years ago, the stock market was a mystery to me. I understood how it worked but I was always concerned about taxes, not getting ripped off, and the sums of money it seemed to take to "make" anything in the market. This was way before the huge market gyrations of the last few years, especially the pops and drops during the "Great Recession," and I didn't commit myself to learning until a few years into personal finance blogging.
I thought it would be valuable to put together an article on the basics of stock market investing. This won't explain everything about the market, that's just too difficult, but hopefully it's a good start that will be the basis for additional research. Let me know if you see anything missing and I can add it.
Types of Stock
There are several types of "stock" but the general idea behind "stock" is that it represents ownership in a company. Stock is counted, bought, and sold in units of measure called "shares." So you would buy a hundred shares of a stock, or sell a hundred shares of stock.
Stock comes in two main flavors: common stock and preferred stock. When people talk about buying and selling stock on the stock market, they're usually talking about common stock. Common stock usually are voting shares, so you can vote in the annual meetings for major decisions and for the board of directors, but they aren't always voting shares. If the company distributes dividends, common stockholders generally receive those as well. Sometimes a company will have different classes of common stock and it's up to the investor to research what rights each class has.
Preferred stock isn't traded on the open market, typically carries no voting rights, but often has priority over common stock for purposes of dividends and in the event the company goes bankrupt. There are different varieties of preferred stock but biggest difference between these and common stock is that they usually aren't traded on the open market. There are exceptions, usually in utility companies and real estate investment trusts (REITs) areas.
Buying & Selling Stock
Let's limit our discussion to common stock for the purposes of buying and selling. The first thing you will need to invest in the stock market is a stock broker. I've done a quick comparison of some stock brokers [3] on the basis of commissions, fees, minimums, and other important details that may be helpful. Ultimately, who you decide will depend on what you want to do. For now, let's talk about the mechanics.
There are two types of transactions you can do – you can buy shares of a company or you can sell shares of a company. When you've decided on the action you want, the next step is to decide whether you want to place a market order or a limit order. A market order is where you tell the broker you want shares of a company at whatever price the market is selling them at. You lose predictability but you gain speed, because the trade will execute as soon as they find someone willing to sell you shares at the market price.
A limit order is where you tell the broker you want shares of a company at a specified limit price ("I want 100 shares of BRG at $5 a share"). If someone is willing to sell the stock at that price, the trade is made. Otherwise it sits there until someone is willing to sell, the order expires (you can set orders to be active until the end of the day or active until fulfilled), or you cancel it.
In the case of sell orders, there's another rule you can add to the action. You can specific a stop price, which is the price at which the order activates. In the case of a trailing stop loss order [4], you want a market sell order to be executed once the price falls under a specified price.
ETFs and Mutual Funds
If you aren't interested in investing in individual companies, you might want to try a fund. A mutual fund is a basket of different companies that satisfy the fund's stated mission. For example, an index fund is a mutual fund that seeks to mimic a stock market index (these S&P 500 index funds [5] mimic the S&P). A mutual fund can have anything as its goal. The Vice Fund [6] is a mutual fund that invests at least 80% of assets in alcohol, tobacco, gaming, and defense/aerospace companies.
Mutual funds aren't traded in real time. If you place an order before close of business, you get the closing price that day. If you place an order after close of business, you get the closing price the following day. I don't want to get too detailed into mutual funds but I do want to mention that you need to do your research because not all funds are created equal, even if their stated goals are. Do your homework or you may overpay for an underperforming product.
ETFs stands for exchange traded funds and they are mutual funds that are traded in real time, just like stocks. Many were created relatively recently to fulfill a market demand. People wanted to actively trade mutual funds and so companies started offering mutual fund-like products that could be traded in real time.
I don't dabble often in options and I only want to briefly mention them in a primer on stock market investing because you'll likely run into these creatures from time to time. Put and call options are contracts you can purchase (or sell) that give you the right, but not the obligation, to buy or sell a stock at a particular strike price. A put option is a contract that gives you the right to sell the underlying stock at a certain price. A call option is a contract that gives you the right to buy the underlying stock at a certain price.
A dividend is a payment offered by a company to its shareholders of record. Sometimes the dividend is in the form of shares of stock, more often it's a direct cash payment. Dividends are taxed at the long term capital gains tax rate.
Depending on your broker, you can opt to have the dividends reinvested into your position or paid out to you in cash. Reinvesting your dividends can be a powerful way to grow your position cheaply as long as the reinvesting can be done for free. Regardless of whether you reinvest or take the dividends, you still owe taxes on the amount paid out.
Whenever you sell a stock for a profit, you are subject to capital gains tax. Short term capital gains tax is your marginal tax rate [7] and applies to sales of a stock you've owned for less than a year. Long term capital gains tax is a separate rate, based on your tax bracket, and is often lower than your marginal tax rate. It applies to stocks you've owned for over one year. As for reporting taxes, your brokerage will send you a tax form that you can use to fill out your tax return. It's pretty straightforward and since the information is also relayed to the IRS, you better get it right or you can expect a letter in the mail. 🙂
That pretty much covers the basics. Were there any big pieces that I missed?
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Injured WCHS' Hayden Schaumburg to be recognized
Area football teams, fans stepping up to help
High school football games will have an added flavor of caring and sportsmanship tonight (Fri).
The area's teams, their fans, and community have organized several fundraisers to assist the family of Watseka High School's Hayden Schaumburg. The junior suffered a broken neck in last Friday's football game against the Central Comets at Clifton. Hayden remains in intensive care at Loyola Medical Center in Maywood.
The Watseka Warriors host Iroquois West tonight at 7 pm. (It's the Dralle featured game on 94.1 WGFA) The local game and several others have 50/50 raffles organized for respective benefits. Proceeds tonight are going to the Schaumburg family. Donation tables will be set up at respective games.
Manteno, Momence, PBL and other schools have stepped up to accept donations for Hayden's benefit.
On the field, players plan to wear Schaumburg's No. 66 on their helmets.
An account is also set up at the First Trust & Saving Bank in Watseka.


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Q: Do I need to charge both the transmitter and the receiver together?
A: No. The transmitter and the receiver can be charged separately if necessary.
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A: Continue to leave your system on the charger for the full charging time as described in the manual.
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Q: Will another dog that is barking, cause my Deluxe NoBark 18 bark control collar to accidently correct my dog?
A: No the collar requires vibration and sound to activate.
Q: How many hours will my beeper run on the 3-volt lithium battery?
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In Lancaster, the Hotel Brunswick has a new owner and will soon have a new name.
It will reopen in two months. The hotel's nine stories and 221 rooms are under construction.
The new owner, Lancaster developer John Meeder, says he's also considering turning the old lobby into a restaurant.
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By Patsy R. Brumfield/NEMS Daily Journal
TUPELO – Two well-known liquor store retailers are squaring off in chancery court over one's deal to sell out to the other.
Andrew W. Nash, president of RPS Retail Inc., which operated now-closed Rebel Package Store on North Gloster Street, fired the first shot with a lawsuit against Andy Graf, president of La Vino Inc., situated farther north on Gloster.
Nash claims Graf refuses to "comply" with their May 3, 2010, agreement in which Nash sold to Graf "certain assets," including his store, and agreed not to compete in the liquor business within 50 miles for six years.
In a document filed Feb. 28 but dated May 3, Graf agreed to pay Nash $50,000 per year with two weeks paid vacation, "even if he resigns or is terminated with or without cause."
Graf counter-sued Nash, claiming Nash breached their deal by selling a liquor store register and software package to a liquor store in Baldwyn.
Graf insists he doesn't owe Nash the remainder of their contract, more than $187,500.
He also wants another $50,000 in "incidental and actual damages," plus punitive damages and court and attorney fees. Attorneys for either side declined to comment. No hearing date is listed on the Lee County chancery docket.
In their 2010 agreement with amendment, included as an exhibit with Graf's counter-claims, Graf and Nash agreed to reduce his pay package by $50,000 and change it to four years, then boost the purchase price to $200,000 due on the May 1, 2010, execution date.


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Hair Loss Chemotherapy Remedies For You
Use this oil to massage the scalp. Then put this solution in water and wash the hair thoroughly. Continue this for a month to observe benefits. You must also chew on the dry amalaki fruit several times a day.
Remedy # 5
If your hair is thinning out, then the following remedy can help. Prepare a mixture of the powders of the seeds, leaves and peel of a pomegranate. Add this to mustard oil. Keep it on a flame. The powders will begin to get cooked. When the powders seem cooked enough, then strain the oil through a cloth and collect the filtrate in a bottle. Cork this bottle. Apply this oil twice or thrice on the scalp in a day. Within a few days, hair loss will stop and new hair will begin growing.
Remedy # 6
Grind some green coriander and extract the juices from it. Use these juices to massage onto the scalp. This will make your hair soft and black and stop hair loss. This remedy is simple but it is so effective that it can even make hair grow back on the scalp. Hence it is looked upon as a treatment for alopecia.
Remedy # 7
This is not a specific remedy, but it is a general method to care for your hair to stop hair loss in the future. Collect one tablespoon of powder of shikakai (Acacia concinna, acacia) and ritha (Sapindus mukorossi, soapnut). Add this powder to half pint of water and boil it. When the boiling has taken place properly, then cool it, strain it, and use the filtrate as you would use a regular shampoo. This is the best natural shampoo in the world, and perhaps the world's oldest pH balanced shampoo. Daily using this shampoo will keep all hair loss problems at bay.
Treatment with Special Ayurvedic Methods
Bhringaraja is the drug of choice for hair problems. It is either taken orally or is used for massaging the scalp on a daily basis in the form of Maha Bhringaraja taila or Nilibhringadi taila. The general mode of using it is to massage on the scalp thoroughly and then to have a bath one hour later. But it must be remembered that Bhringaraja will first remove the weak hair from the scalp. Hence it may appear that the hair is thinning more in the beginning. An experienced homeopath's arsenal of remedies comprises natrum mur, selenium, phosphorus, tissue salts, fluoric acid, lycopodium, kali carbonicum, and kali sulphuricum. In fact what a homeopath prescribes depends solely on the problem's nature and harshness.
It is truth that results from the homoeopathic method can take a longer time, but they are very often remarkable. An effective hair loss treatment with homeopathy depends on right dilution ratios. Let's just say that it is not a 'do-it-yourself' alternative.
Today, aromatherapy as a treatment for hair loss is becoming more and more popular, but the basis is not necessarily scientific. Checking out hair loss forums in this area of interest is also immensely informative into the insights of what other people have tried and posted their results will help you determine the best course of action that you feel comfortable with.
Hair Loss Treatment, Hair Loss Remedies, Hair Loss RemediesLosing hair is inevitable for many people, though there are natural remedies out there than can help to prevent such a thing from happening.
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hair thinning remedies Hair loss can be the result of genetics, health issues, hormones, excessive use of hair dye or the natural process of aging. Aromatherapy A blend of six drops each of lavender and bay essential oils in a base of four ounces of either almond, soybean or sesame oil massaged into the scalp and allowed to sit for 20 minutes has been used by aroma therapists to stimulate the scalp. Saw Palmetto Extract There is a definite connection between the prostate and hair loss for men. Saw Palmetto has been found to work in fighting benign prostatic disease by lowering levels of DHT, which is a known cause of androgenetic alopecia. Saw Palmetto extract is an effective anti-androgen and shows promise as an effective treatment for hair loss prevention. More information on Saw Palmetto for Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia Women on oral contraceptives or hormone therapy should not take Saw Palmetto. Nettle Root Extract Nettles are rich in vitamins A and C, several key minerals and lipids that can be beneficial to the hair. Nettle Root Extract has been used successfully in Europe as an inhibitor of 5-alpha reductase in treating BPH. Rosemary and Sage Rosemary and sage are two herbs that have shown benefit traditionally when used externally. Boil together in water rosemary, sage, peach leaf, nettle and burdock. Then strain the loose herbs from the liquid and use the liquid to wash the hair daily. Jojoba Oil If you are predisposed to seborrhea, eczema, psoriasis, or dandruff, you could consider using jojoba oil. Mexicans and southwestern Native American nations have used jojoba oil traditionally for centuries to promote hair growth and the control of dandruff. Jojoba oil is great for hypoallergenic skin because it is a great moisturizer and mimics the scalp's own sebum. Aloe Vera Aloe Vera has been used by Native Americans, Indians and many in the Caribbean to promote healthy hair and prevent hair loss. Aloe's can help the scalp by healing it and balancing the pH level of the scalp while cleansing the pores. A common preparation of Aloe Vera gel with a small amount of wheat germ oil and coconut milk is used as a shampoo and has traditionally shown great benefit. Henna Henna is a traditional Indian herb that acts as a natural conditioner and is excellent for the maintenance of healthy hair. It can help heal the hair shaft by repairing and sealing the cuticle, protecting hair against breakage and loss of shine. Polysorbate-80 Polysorbate-80 is an FDA approved surfactant that is also approved as a food additive. Although not proven, Polysorbate-80 is said to remove deposits of DHT and cholesterol from the scalp. Polysorbate-80 is being recommended by some naturopathic practitioners as an application for the scalp approximately 15 minutes prior to shampooing. Cleansing and Detoxification Cleansing should be a major part of your regimen to maintain and grow hair. Many scalp related diseases are directly the result of toxemia, while toxins in the body adversely affecting the body's systems indirectly affect other conditions. Cleansing can be performed through oral means regularly and occasionally by enema or colonic irrigation. More remedies for detoxification Psyllium husk Fiber is vital to cleansing, and most North American diets are deficient in natural fiber. Psyllium husk is a bulking laxative agent that can be used to safely move waste through the colon.


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How Monty masterminded the winPosted on 06/10/2010
Colin Montgomerie's ability to shut down the inflammatory side of his personality was of massive benefit to Europe at the Ryder Cup, according to Lawrence Donegan in the Guardian:
But what helped the European effort most of all was Montgomerie's achievement in bringing only the best of himself to Wales. All week the world's media was waiting for the voluble Scot to do his best Krakatoa impersonation and, God knows, he had plenty of chances.
Continue reading "How Monty masterminded the win"
Monty's pot of gold just over the rainbowPosted on 04/10/2010
The Ryder Cup is heading into a fourth day after the Welsh weather made itself known over the weekend, but the prize is now within Colin Montgomerie's reach, writes The Sun's Steven Howard.
We've had it all - torrential rain, wind, mist, fog and even a little sunshine. Not to forget mud last seen at the Somme.
Yesterday we got our first rainbow. At the end of it, a pot of gold is now tantalisingly within Colin Montgomerie's reach.
Yesterday we had Monty as Mr Toad, leading the charge atop his buggy, racing from tee to green, hole to hole, with a wild-eyed fervour. The only thing missing were the goggles.
And Monty as Mr Motivator, on the end of a walkie-talkie that had seen so much use the previous day it had worn out three batteries. Charged up once again, the European skipper had asked his men to give the crowd something to cheer.
But even he must have been stunned by the brilliant kaleidoscope of shots with which his Ryder Cup heroes responded.
The rainbow that spread from one side of the Usk Valley to the other appeared not long after Lee Westwood sunk a six-footer on the 13th to put Europe's first points of the day on the board.
Continue reading "Monty's pot of gold just over the rainbow"October 1, 2010
Monty has more to lose than anybodyPosted on 01/10/2010
They say stars are made in the Ryder Cup, but over the next three days there is one man who stands to lose more than anybody. Colin Montgomerie does not have a major title to define his career, so he falls back on an exceptional Ryder Cup record. However, as Martin Samuel points out in the Daily Mail, that all gets wiped away if he loses as captain...When it came to reading out the achievements of Corey Pavin, the main port of call was Shinnecock Hills, New York, location of the 1995 US Open. Pavin won it by two shots from Greg Norman and in that moment assumed the mantle of the great golfer. He spent 150 weeks in the top 10 between 1986 and 1997, was PGA Player of the Year in 1991 and won tournaments from Milwaukee to Arrowtown, New Zealand. Yet even if those four days in June had been as good as it got, the record would show Pavin as deserving of his place in golf 's firmament.
There was no equivalent reference point for Colin Montgomerie. When his roll of honour was read, he did not have a brief moment in time that could comfortably define his career. Nobody mentioned his place in European tour history as winner of eight Order of Merit titles (seven consecutively). Nobody mentioned his 31 wins in Europe, or the fact he has taken second place at a major tournament on five painful occasions. Montgomerie had the Ryder Cup. Eight appearances and never lost a singles match, the audience was told.
In the United States, spectators may have wished for more but at Celtic Manor, they roared. On the stage, Montgomerie tried to find a third way between self-effacing and proud as punch. Yet, on the eve of his match debut as Ryder Cup captain, this is not in reality such an agreeable place to be.
Montgomerie is loving this week because, right now, he has the optimism of all Ryder Cup captains, but if the next three days do not unfold as planned, no predecessor has had farther to fall. Nick Faldo's performance in Louisville two years ago was almost toecurlingly bad, but asked to name the greatest British golfer of modern times, his name would be out before the sentence was completed.
Pavin forgot to introduce one of his players - Stewart Cink - at the opening ceremony yesterday, but even if the main event goes similarly awry, he can bask in the permanent magnificence of Shinnecock Hills.
For Montgomerie, this is it. He has turned what was once considered an almost ceremonial event in the United States - 'A couple of cocktail parties, we kick their butts and go home,' Tom Kite once said in the days before Europe got serious - into his life's mission. Fail and the Ryder Cup will no longer belong to him; fail and the comedown will be greater than any captain has known.
There have been other Ryder Cup mentors, great ones in fact, without a major to their name: in recent times, Sam Torrance, destroyer of Curtis Strange's United States team in 2002, and Bernard Gallacher, who held the job from 1991 to 1995, winning at the third attempt after two narrow disappointments, were similarly unadorned.
Yet these men were not great golfers, like Montgomerie. Gallacher did not play in the US Open or the PGA Championship, and never made the cut at the Masters. Torrance did not enjoy a top-15 finish at any major tournament outside Great Britain. Ryder Cup captaincy gave them the opportunity to cement a place in history; the wrong outcome and Montgomer ie's is damaged irrevocably.
There has been much talk of his captain's picks, but here Montgomerie is hostage to the simplest logic. If he wins, everything he did will be judged correct, if he loses he will have bungled. Sometimes sport is only black and white. A football manager who picks a weakened team and is eliminated from a cup competition cannot claim to have got the decision right; if his reserve XI wins, however, his critics have no ammunition.
The end justifies the means. There is an awful lot of jaw-jaw before every Ryder Cup - and a foolish amount of war-war, too, when Pavin is involved - but for the next three days Montgomerie is in the results business, nothing more. Win and he will never be asked about Paul Casey again.
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Ryder Cup is not a superpower challengePosted on 30/09/2010
The tension is building as the Ryder Cup is now less than a day away from getting underway at Celtic Manor. It's a huge occasion, massive, but the Telegraph's Brian Moore has moved to play party pooper by attempting to rein the media, of which he is now one.After Europe thumped the US in the 2006 Ryder Cup, captain Ian Woosnam publicly slated the BBC for not awarding his men the Sports Personality Team of the Year award, which went to St Helens rugby league club.
Perhaps he should have noted that, first, it was a vote by the fans that determined that award, and second, Europe that year had a far better team, were expected to win and did so; you should not get awards for doing the expected.
Behind Woosnam's displeasure lay the assumption that the Ryder Cup was such a special event that the winners, provided it is Europe, automatically deserve the accolade. That supposition appears to have evolved along with the purposeful portrayal of the tournament as something akin to war.
The structure of the Ryder Cup creates a number of interesting variables. Chief among these is that the US compete as a country outside their own borders, which is not the case in their three major sports. It is interesting to see how essentially solo performers react when asked to be part of a team. Moreover, the way in which the pairings and singles matches ebb and flow during the four days is fascinating, but let's get one thing straight – this is a golf competition, not some form of superpower challenge with attendant political ramifications.
This 2010 contest has the potential to be memorable, but for the wrong reasons. The choice of Tiger Woods in the US team has given some writers what they wanted: another chance to try to needle Woods into giving an undiplomatic reaction to a plethora of regurgitated and irrelevant questions about his personal life, many of which have the most tenuous connections to golf.
In a press conference on Tuesday one reporter showed not a shred of respect for Woods when he sneeringly put the following question: "You don't win majors any more, you don't win regular tournaments, you're about to be deposed as world No 1… is the Ryder Cup now your most important thing now you're almost an ordinary golfer?"
When Woods was faced with this impertinence he should have left the conference as no sportsman should have to put up with insulting behaviour. He stayed and tried to laugh it off because he knew that had he departed he would have been pilloried.
Had something similar been put to Sir Alex Ferguson about Manchester United the questioner would have got the answer he deserved. Had anyone mockingly asked me something similar in my playing days he would have got a righteous slap.
Nobody is asking for sycophantic toadying, but Woods is entitled to expect the basic courtesy that should be given to any interviewee; it is common decency.
Another reporter tried to generate sensation by asking what reaction Woods had seen from the US team's wives given that they play such a large part in the Ryder Cup. A large part; are they now involved in the planning and playing? And there were we just thinking they dressed smartly and cheered on their men.
There is sufficient rivalry, both on a team and a personal level, without the need to manufacture a personal spat between Woods and Rory McIlroy. The young Ulsterman's original comment, that he would not mind playing against Woods, came after Woods had shot 18 over par at Bridgestone.
When facing the media this week McIlroy was again peppered with questions about Woods and stressed the context of his comments. When pressed, McIlroy said nothing that could justify the claim made by the media that he had continued to stoke the supposed rivalry. What this should make plain to McIlroy is that no matter how neutral he thinks he is being, anything that he says can and will be twisted to suit the ends of those pursuing their own agenda.July 28, 2010
US may benefit from no Tiger at Ryder CupPosted on 28/07/2010
After Corey Pavin revealed at the weekend that he was to seek showdown talks with Tiger Woods over the world No. 1's availability for the Ryder Cup in October, Martin Lipton in the Mirror suggests that the absence of Woods, who has never produced his best form in the biennial tournament, may be to the benefit of America.If Pavin is honest, he might be hoping the answer is a firm and determined "No". Woods did not enjoy the scrutiny he was under at St Andrews.
Continue reading "US may benefit from no Tiger at Ryder Cup"July 19, 2010
Tiger who?Posted on 19/07/2010
As a golfer, you know how far you've fallen when Jon Daly's crazily coloured trousers are getting more TV coverage than your round at St Andrews. Which is exactly what happened to Tiger Woods, writes the Daily Mirror's Oliver Holt...It felt strange following Tiger Woods around the Old Course yesterday. He was so far down the field that he teed off nearly two hours before the final pairing. Most last days of The Open in previous years, he hadn't even left his rented house by then. In fact, knowing what we know now, he probably hadn't even left his bedroom by then.
The applause from the crowd as he walked down the first fairway at the Home Of Golf was sympathetic. They knew he didn't have a chance of winning. They knew his life is a mess. They knew that before his fall from grace, he was strongly tipped to win the first three Majors this year. And that he has not won any.
There were a few plaintive cries of 'come on Tiger' from little lads perched on stone walls. It took a while to work out the tone of their voice. Then the penny dropped: they felt sorry for him. No one has ever felt sorry for Tiger Woods before.
The cheers came from the galleries all around him but they were not for him. There were only a handful of journalists following him instead of the hordes that usually trail in his wake. There were roars for the men behind him, the protagonists in the drama, the players battling to try to catch Louis Oosthuizen. Woods was never one of those players. He was too far back to be even close to being part of the shake-up.
He was playing at the margins of the tournament. He was playing for a place. Not for the big prize. The leaderboards positioned all around the course had plenty of names on them but none of them was Woods. After the end of his level-par round, Woods looked up at the scoreboard again. That man Oosthuizen was leading by eight shots, just like Woods had done here in 2000 when he was heading for the Tiger Slam. Those days are long gone now.
This year was supposed to offer Woods the chance of a Grand Slam in a calendar year with Majors at his three favourite courses - Augusta, Pebble Beach and St Andrews. The scandal surrounding his private life that engulfed him last year and forced him to take five months away from the game put paid to that dream.
So if he can't win at Augusta, Pebble Beach or St Andrews, where can he win? And when can he win? There is a possibility that he will never get back to where he was before and there is certainly a possibility that this fallow year has cost him his chance of overhauling Jack Nicklaus's record of 18 Major victories.
When he stood in the marquee next to the clubhouse, talking about where it had all gone wrong and looking at a board that said he had finished in a tie for 23rd spot, alongside Stephen Gallacher, Trevor Immelman and Graeme McDowell, he dismissed the idea he had missed an opportunity by not winning any of the last three Majors.
"That's just the way it goes," Woods said. "I'm not going to win all of them. I've lost a lot more than I've won."
The way things are heading, his ratio isn't going to get any better.
July 17, 2010
McIlroy's love life hits a stumbling block at St AndrewsPosted on 17/07/2010
At 21 years of age, there's a fair chance that Rory McIlroy has never experienced true love. But after his woeful second round at St Andrews on Friday, the Daily Mail's Derek Lawrenson feels sure McIlroy now knows what it feels like to be dumped by a trusted partner...That's the trouble with love affairs, isn't it? Just when you're completely smitten and think it will always run smooth, you run into a little turbulence and it knocks you sideways. For his first nine rounds at St Andrews, Rory McIlroy thought he had found the perfect partner in the Old Course, one who never gave him a moment's bother. The 10th was the day she picked an argument.
What a windbag she proved to be. By the end the pair were having a full-blown row of epic proportions. You remember that stat about McIlroy never having failed to break 70 in those nine rounds, played in an aggregate of 43-under-par? Yesterday the poor lad couldn't break 80, finishing on that mark after a round without a single birdie.
You know what 21-year-olds are like. As he traipsed off the 18th green he looked absolutely crushed. How could his supposed great love be so cruel as to treat him like this? 'I have never experienced anything like that before,' he said. It brought back memories of Colin Montgomerie shooting 64 in the second round of the 2002 Open and coming in like a love-struck teenager, only to follow it with an 84. The wind blew a hoolie that day, too.
What an afternoon this was at St Andrews, with the winds at venomous speeds after lunch. After all the compliments the Royal and Ancient fielded in the build-up, here was an occasion that set player against ruling body. In mid-afternoon, the gusts blew so hard that balls were moving on the greens and a 65-minute suspension in play - the first in 12 years at The Open - was called. Then came the fury. The R&A were damned by players before the suspension for not calling it earlier and damned by the ones who finished afterwards and could trace no discernible difference in the wind speed.
McIlroy, therefore, was just the most spectacular victim of the contrasting fortunes of links golf. On Thursday morning his half of the field had caught the break of their lives, playing in flat calm, and those who took advantage spent the afternoon sniggering over their good fortune. Here the unlucky half got their own back. True, yesterday morning - when they played - was no picnic, with heavy showers making life unpleasant. But every player would take heavy rain any day over the hoolie that blew in after lunch. With players not allowed to leave the course during the delay, it meant those like McIlroy and Tiger Woods spent over seven hours completing their rounds.
Not for nothing has Woods won 14 majors. Some players thrive when there are birdies to be had all over the course. But it is the greats of the game who thrive in tempestuous conditions such as these. Towards the finish it looked as if even Tiger, however, the most fearsome competitor of all, was spoiling a notable day's work by dropping shots. Others were dropping simply through exhaustion. At the end, however, there was one mighty moment for the decent smattering of people who stayed until 9.45pm to witness it, as he drove the 18th green to set up a two-putt birdie.
Poor McIlroy. Smacking gum furiously, he began in the same confident vein as the day before, registering three fine pars to begin. Then came the suspension; then came the unravelling. When play resumed, he just happened to be standing over an approach shot to the fourth, one of the most difficult holes, and he ended up with a bogey-five, his first dropped shot of the championship. At the fifth, a par five reachable in two, the Ulsterman failed to get the birdie on offer and then at the sixth, a pushed drive into some of the heaviest rough on the course led to another bogey.
At the seventh more trouble led to his fourth five in a row. At the short eighth, he had to hole from three feet to stop registering another five, but it was yet another bogey. When he missed a short birdie-putt at the ninth, it meant the man who played the back nine in 30 shots on Thursday had needed 40 to play the front nine a day later. On the agony went. 'I let it all get away from me,' he confessed.
May 7, 2010
Green shoots of recovery for TigerPosted on 07/05/2010
Tiger Woods made a shaky start to the Players Championship, crashing his first tee shot into the trees, but he recovered to put himself in contention and Derek Lawrenson in the Mail feels there were signs of a revival for the world No. 1.Not quite normal service from Tiger Woods at the Players Championship, but normal enough to suggest it won't be too long before those hysterics predicting his best days are behind him look rather silly.
Amazing what some people will read into one bad performance. Seven days on from the worst tournament of his career, Woods showed once again his powers of recovery with an opening round of 70 at Sawgrass.
Harry is Mr Motivator
Harry Redknapp is still basking in the glory of taking Tottenham into the Champions League and the media are still gushing about his efforts. The Daily Telegraph's Henry Winter believes Redknapp's man-management skills played a huge part in Spurs' surge.In pride of place on the wall of Harry Redknapp's old office at West Ham United was a wonderful picture of Bobby Moore in all his elegant, ball-playing pomp. Redknapp was a soulmate and club-mate and also a great admirer because of Moore's central role in England's 1966 World Cup triumph.
Redknapp has always waved the flag of St George, whether in releasing players for national service during his time at West Ham, Portsmouth, Southampton and now Tottenham or in nurturing lion cubs like Frank Lampard, Joe Cole
and Rio Ferdinand at Upton Park.
Even now, aged 63, Redknapp is still playing patriot games by making good English players better. England's plane to South Africa could resemble Noah's Ark, with Spurs players going in two by two, a pair from each department: defenders Michael Dawson and Ledley King, midfielders Tom Huddlestone and Aaron Lennon, strikers Peter Crouch and Jermain Defoe.
Redknapp does the fundamentals of his job so well, encouraging players to sharpen technique, filling them with belief and creating a stage for them to express themselves.
Dawson, Lennon and Defoe have particularly improved under Redknapp, the engaging alchemist of White Hart Lane.
People feel good after even a minute in Redknapp's company. His popularity was highlighted after Wednesday's seismic win over Manchester City, when another Englishman, David Bentley, poured an ice-water bucket over him, doubtless chilling Redknapp to the bare bones.
Not only are Spurs players well managed, they are also well coached. Redknapp has gathered a notable brain trust, including four Englishmen in Kevin Bond, Clive Allen, Les Ferdinand and Tim Sherwood, plus the Scot Joe Jordan, adding to Tottenham's home-grown feel.
Some managers are cautious about talking up their players for England. Not Redknapp. He shouts their qualities from the rooftops.May 4, 2010
McIlroy signals start of post-Woods eraPosted on 04/05/2010
Great players sense the big occasion. They put every ounce of effort into creating it, but when the moment arrives, they make sure they leave a mark so memorable that it has mere mortals discussing it down the local pub. Rory McIlroy provided one such moment at Quail Hollow, and the Daily Mail's Derek Lawrenson believes it signalled the start of a new era in golf...Golf historians, pick up your pens and start a most thrilling debate. Following a seismic series of events, have we just witnessed the most epochal 24 hours in the history of the game? It all began on Sunday morning, UK time, with 18-year-old Ryo Ishikawa shooting 58 - yes, 58 - to win his fourth event on the Japan Tour; continued on Sunday night with Rory McIlroy shooting 62 - yes, 62 - to beat Masters champion Phil Mickelson and win for the first time in America; before ending Monday morning with Italian Matteo Manassero signing on the dotted line to join the professional ranks at the age of only 17.
At Augusta last month many good judges were predicting that Manassero, the youngest player ever to compete in the Masters and who made the halfway cut, would prove a more prolific winner than the other two. But where does that verdict stand now after Ishikawa's dismantling of a tricky layout in Japan that had McIlroy, who has played the course, shaking his head in admiration? Or after the Ulsterman's stunning demolition of a class field in North Carolina?
Who knows who will win the most? But one thing's for sure: at this, the dawning of a new era, the man in front is McIlroy.
Continue reading "McIlroy signals start of post-Woods era"April 14, 2010
The reason why the public love MickelsonPosted on 14/04/2010
It had to take something a bit special to knock Tiger Woods off the headlines at the Masters; Phil Mickelson provided it. Short of form coming into the tournament and understandably distracted by his wife's and mother's battles with cancer, he produced some thrilling golf to win the tournament for the third time. And, according to Matthew Syed in the Times, his go-for-broke shot on the 13th from a seemingly impossible position highlighted exactly why he is so adored by the public.Jack Nicklaus once said that the art of winning tournament golf is to understand when to defend as well as when to attack. It is a strategic insight with which most of us would agree, particularly in the context of Augusta National, a course where mistakes tend to extract penal consequences.
But in the pine needles at the side of the 13th fairway on Sunday, Phil Mickelson, a mild-mannered, gentle, some might almost say anaemic character, offered us a rather different philosophical proposition.
Faced with an aperture only a few feet in width between two encroaching trees, and with the potential for catastrophe staring him squarely in the face, the American went for broke.
It was a 200-yard carry over Rae's Creek, with the pin just a few paces on to the green — the kind of shot that would require scrupulous accuracy even with an obstacle-free trajectory and a perfect lie. In the circumstances, the shot seemed not merely brash but insane. Even when he took his six-iron from his bag, many of us assumed that he was laying up with a low scuttler rather than risking his chance of winning a third Masters by tilting for the green.
It was a shot selection that invited not merely dissent but ridicule. The headlines would have written themselves. Mickelson led by a shot, he had time on his side, the coming holes suited his game, he might still have made his birdie by laying up and Rae's Creek was snaking its way across the trajectory of his ambitions. Everything spoke against the decision he made.
But it is for moments such as this that golf, and sport, have meaning. In the instant he struck the ball, the 2010 Masters, which had already provided thrills and spills aplenty, was elevated into one of the great sporting events of recent times.
It was not just the sweetness of the shot, the soft landing of the ball just inches from the edge of the water and its gentle passage to within a few feet of the hole; it was, even more so, the thrilling audacity of its contemplation.
Mickelson is adored by the American public not simply because he is a decent chap with a nice demeanour, but because he has an affinity with boldness and adventure no less profound than that of Ballesteros, Arnold Palmer and the other swashbuckling legends who illuminated the history of golf.
It is because, when playing shots such as those from the pine needles on the 13th hole at Augusta, he provides a glimpse of the way life could be if we dared to live it beyond the cocoon of safety and certainty.
Has Tiger really changed?
Sorry, we couldn't keep Tiger out of the headlines. Daily Mirror scribe Oliver Holt was left with a nasty taste in his mouth following Tiger Woods' return to competitive golf at the Masters.You want my best guess on Tiger now that he's got a few days of golf out of the way? He's a big game bounty hunter on the booty trail again, bigging it up at the MGM Grand in Vegas with MJ and Charles.
He's tipping 16 per cent at the local Granola Cafe in Isleworth because he figures that will bust all the rumours about him being a 15 per cent tightwad.
He's still a little irritated that Phil Mickelson, of all people, stole his spotlight on Sunday by winning another Green Jacket.
He's still thinking about Phil giving his wife a hug at the back of the 18th green. The emotion looked real but Tiger's sure it wasn't. He calls up his caddie, Steve Williams, and they have a good laugh about how Phil is still such an idiot.
He's heard Phil always tips $50, even at Waffle House. He's guessing that is why people are always writing nice things about him. He's read that Phil took his daughter to the doctor at Augusta on the eve of the final round after she'd broken her wrist rollerskating. He's read that Phil took his kids to a local coffee shop every morning during the tournament for breakfast and a game of chess. He's thinking Phil must have tipped pretty good to get those stories decent space.
He knows it's only a matter of time until he reels Phil back in anyway. He'll put him in his place at the US Open at Pebble Beach in June.
He'll have discarded all the garbage about being a changed man by then. He hasn't changed at all. Change is for wimps.
He's the best and he makes the most. That's all that matters.April 13, 2010
Mickelsons provide Augusta magicPosted on 13/04/2010
After Phil Mickelson won his Masters title on Sunday evening, Richard Williams in the Guardian pays tribute to a devout family man - quite in contrast to Tiger Woods, who dominated headlines prior to the start of the tournament. Mickelson, whose wife and mother both have breast cancer, triumphed despite difficult personal circumstances.As the round approached its climax, Amy Mickelson and her mother in law, Mary, prepared to leave for the course. They arrived in time to see Phil make the final par with which he fended off Lee Westwood's challenge, and the hug that Phil and Amy shared by the side of the 18th green in the last rays of the day's sunlight will live a lot longer in the memory than the 27 seconds it took to complete.
Continue reading "Mickelsons provide Augusta magic"April 11, 2010
Westwood a worthy winnerPosted on 11/04/2010
As Lee Westwood nears his first Major title - and the first won by an Englishman since 1996 - many column inches have been dedicated to the quality of the strokeplay he has displayed at The Masters. David Walsh, writing in the Sunday Times, agrees with this assessment - but also suggests that Westwood would be a worthy winner for another reason. Westwood, writes Walsh, has done tremendously to turn his career around in the past few years:If there's one reason Westwood deserves to be on the list of major winners, it is because it had seemed that for almost a decade he would be one of the game's underachievers. A serial winner in the years after he first turned professional, he rose to No 4 in the world rankings at the age of 26. Perhaps it all came too easily because as quickly as the wins and impressive world ranking came, they disappeared.
Continue reading "Westwood a worthy winner"April 10, 2010
Poulter's cooking up a stormPosted on 10/04/2010
Ian Poulter has earned more headlines for his crazy dress sense than his golf over the years, but there is a different look to the Briton at Augusta, a look that may just lead to a new jacket being added to his wardrobe writes Oliver Brown in the Telegraph...Ian Poulter might be a fully paid-up member of American golf's expat elite, but he toasted his inspired first round of 68 at the Masters with a meal that was quintessentially English and followed that with another four-under-par score.
"Just sat down for my dinner, steak and ale pie, couple of spuds, get in there," he wrote on a Twitter page that has acquired almost a million followers. You can take the boy out of Stevenage...
But then this fast-talking, curry-loving Arsenal supporter has always had a touch of the 'cor blimeys' about him, whatever his peculiar line in pink clothing suggests. Shortly after he propelled himself into the American consciousness by winning this year's World Matchplay in Arizona, he was portrayed by the CBS sports network as "the cockney cockatiel".
Poulter is feted here for the boldness and brashness of his self-exposure. Indeed, sometimes it seems all you have to do in this country to be passed off as an endearing Brit is to feign a few Estuary glottal stops and don a pair of Union Jack trousers. Poulter can assume whatever affectations he likes, though, if he has the game to lead the Masters.
Continue reading "Poulter's cooking up a storm"April 9, 2010
Unfortunately, nothing has changed with WoodsPosted on 09/04/2010
So Tiger Woods breezed back into the public eye on Thursday, hit a couple of killer shots, and everything is forgiven. As Oliver Holt points out in the Daily Mirror, Woods' apparent show of remorse appears to have disappeared rather quickly, other than a rather ill-advised Nike advert...The world got its best golfer back yesterday. Not a broken man. Not someone so tortured by his demons he could not compete. Not a great player suddenly transformed into an ordinary guy who might struggle to make the cut. But a man who looked like he had never been away. A man who looked as though he will reclaim his greatness with relative ease.
A man who has lost none of his charisma and none of his showmanship. He even chucked his club when he flunked an approach shot on the 14th. So much for his new respect for the game.
The suspicion is that for all his expressions of vulnerability and atonement, Woods has not really changed at all. He's served a sentence. And now it's over.
Forget Tiger Woods the philanderer, forget the guy who's so desperate to please his sponsors he will even let them use his dead father for an advertisement.
Continue reading "Unfortunately, nothing has changed with Woods"April 6, 2010
A masterclass in evasionPosted on 06/04/2010
It had to be about Tiger Woods, following his first appearance before the press since. Well, since. There was the odd probing question, he did admit using controversial doctor Tony Galea, but the Times' John Hopkins felt it was the world No. 1 still controlling things.How should we view Tiger Woods after his press conference in Augusta yesterday? With disappointment and with dissatisfaction. Although some questions were answered, too many were left unanswered. This was a frothy, light-as-air souffle when one had been hoping for something more substantial.
Is it too much to expect that if Woods was prepared to be questioned, then we had a right to expect him to answer those questions. And although some of his answers were germane to the question he had been asked, many were not. Overall, it was a masterclass in evasion and avoidance, of speaking without saying much, of being elliptical, of answering questions but often not the questions he was asked.
We know little more this morning than we did yesterday morning about certain important issues. Why, for instance, did Woods become involved with a Canadian doctor who is known to administer human growth hormone and is under investigation by the police?
Another example. Many of those who listened to his stumbling mea culpa in Jacksonville in February got a clear impression then that he would be away from golf for a long time. Yet only eight days later he had returned from his therapy clinic and was hitting balls, raising the question of why Woods had spoken in the week of the Accenture Match Play Championship when he could have waited another ten days.
Woods was asked about this apparent contradiction and again he gave an answer that barely dealt with the question. "When I gave my speech in February, I had no intentions of playing golf in the near future at all," he said. "I just had barely started practising two days prior to that. That was the first time I hit balls. And then I started hitting more balls and more balls and more balls and I started getting the itch again to start playing again. . ."
So his long-term commitment to staying away from golf, to sorting out his marriage, his family, his friends, that all went out of the window because he "started getting the itch again". That is what we are left to conclude from this rambling answer.
To give credit where it is due, while the conference was ended after only 35 minutes, which was rather short, there was no attempt to censor the questions. Woods looked relaxed and composed, much more like the Tiger Woods of old and not at all like the heavily directed, nervous individual who had appeared in front of a hand-picked, sympathetic audience in Florida two months ago.
Yet this is what creates a sense of dissatisfaction. Woods answered nearly fifty questions and he made sure he looked his questioners in the eye when he did so. He declined to say what he was in therapy for and he explained that Elin, his wife, and their children will not be joining him at Augusta.
But did he really convince us that he was genuine in his contrition? Not really. Did he address the key issues? Not really. Does he think that he has played the most difficult shot of this Masters week and that from now on there will be a a lot of players saying, "Welcome back, Tiger". Probably.
Bedser a giant of the game
Sir Alex Bedser passed away at the weekend at the age of 91 and he was a true giant of the game. Derek Pringle pens a fitting tribute in the Telegraph.Few bowlers ever get to be knights of the realm and as Sir Alec Bedser used to point out, not always in jest, he was the first since Sir Francis Drake. The honour was thoroughly deserved, not just for his selfless deeds as a bowler for Surrey and England but for the lifelong loyalty to a game he cherished deeply.
In a sporting era where materialistic rewards were few, his playing career was the very epitome of service, a foreign word to most modern players. His 236 Test wickets were the most ever taken by the time he played the last of his 51 Tests in 1955. His total would have been even greater but for the Second World War denying him the opportunity to take advantage of his physical prime.
big man, 15st and 6ft 3in, his bowling was based on rhythm and economy, being brisk rather than quick. Inswingers and a nagging accuracy were his main weapons, though their effectiveness increased once he learned to bowl the leg-cutter by wrapping his enormous fingers around the seam. It was a leg-cutter that famously dismissed that other cricketing knight, Sir Don Bradman, for a duck at Adelaide in 1947. Bradman, who remained a lifelong friend, maintained it was the best ball that ever got him out.
Set your loved one free
Steven Gerrard looked bewildered when Liverpool took Fernando Torres off against Birmingham with the game still in the balance and Ian Wright, writing in his column in the Sun, feels it was the moment that suggested the time had come for him to move on.It was the moment that may have broken the camel's back as far as Steven Gerrard's Liverpool love affair is concerned. The look of dismay on the skipper's face when Rafa Benitez inexplicably substituted Fernando Torres with 25 minutes to go in Sunday's 1-1 draw at Birmingham said it all.
For the first time since he broke into the first team 11½ years ago, Stevie G looked like he wants out of Liverpool. And, with the way things are at Anfield right now, who could blame him?
With Premier League and Champions League hopes having long disappeared, the consolation prizes of fourth place in the table and the Europa League are now even touch and go.
It appears the only certainties on the horizon at Liverpool this year are more in-fighting and uncertainty.
Gerrard deserves better. Much better. He turns 30 at the end of next month. It's a milestone that is bound to make him take a long, hard look at himself and his career.
It would be totally understandable if he came to the conclusion that he needs a new club. I know the Kop will be up in arms at this view, as they were when their inspirational captain came close to joining Chelsea in 2004.
Gerrard turned down a reported £20million switch to join Jose Mourinho and it proved the right decision. He led Liverpool to a Champions League triumph over Milan 12 months later, an incredible FA Cup final win over West Ham a year after that before another Champions League final appearance in 2007. But things are totally different this time. Gerrard's body language as he trudged off at St Andrew's suggested he needs a new challenge and the Koppites should respect that.
As the old saying goes, if you love somebody set them free. That is how Liverpool fans should be with Gerrard.April 5, 2010
The questions Tiger Woods should answerPosted on 05/04/2010
Tiger Woods is on the brink of a return to competitive golf, but ahead of his opening shot at the Masters he must face the press on Monday. It is believed that there will be a scrum to gain attendance and journalists are likely to be limited to one question. It remains to be seen if the questions will be vetted, but Mark Reason in the Daily Telegraph has put down on paper the questions that need to be answered.
1 You have repeatedly reacted angrily to suggestions of domestic violence. Why then did you not talk to police at the time of the accident and why was Elin not allowed to ride to the hospital with you? If she didn't hit you, what exactly happened? And no, it's not in the police report.
2 It has been reported recently that you paid Rachel Uchitel $10 million for her silence. Have you paid Uchitel or any other woman money to keep quiet?
3 A hospital chart indicated you had taken an "overdose". In the months before the incident had you been taking large quantities of Vicodin, Ambien or any other painkiller or sleeping draught? Were you addicted to pills?
4 Although there are plenty of doctors in Florida who could have administered the blood-spinning treatment allegedly used in your recovery from knee surgery, you chose to use Tony Galea. Why employ a Canadian who is being investigated for drug practices that are illegal in the United States?
5 Last year your behaviour on the golf course was criticised by greats of the game like Tom Watson and Peter Thomson. Do you plan to start signing more autographs and to stop swearing, spitting and throwing golf clubs? In short, do you plan to be more like Phil Mickelson?
6 You have constantly denied that your inner circle knew anything about your sexual activities, but in recent days a couple of women have made allegations that you used a friend to arrange trysts and that Mark Steinberg, your agent, was involved in a cover-up. Do you continue to deny their involvement?
7 Why did you say six weeks ago: "I do plan to return to golf one day, I just don't know when that day will be – I don't rule out that it will be this year." It gave the impression that your return was not imminent. Why did you continue to deceive your fans?
8 In view of everything that has happened why is your inner circle still intact? Steve Williams was justly critical of you – will he keep his job? Is Steinberg fireproof? How will Elin believe you have changed if all the old cronies stay in place? Are there just too many skeletons to fire people?
9 What would be an achievement this week? You say that you never play in a tournament that you don't expect to win. Do you expect to win at Augusta or is a top 20 a good performance? Can you win a major this season? Can you catch Jack Nicklaus's record?
10 If you play in the Ryder Cup in October you are bound to be heckled. It has never been your favourite event, so do you have any ambition to play in this year's Ryder Cup?
March 23, 2010
The eyes of a Tiger tell the storyPosted on 23/03/2010
Tiger Woods gave his first interviews since the allegations of his affairs were made public, with ESPN one of the broadcasters given access to the world No. 1. Woods remained in his comfort zone during the questioning, but Derek Lawrenson in the Mail feels the player's eyes were a giveaway that he is still deeply troubled.Five minutes is how long you get to look for a lost ball. Or how long you have got to turn up following your tee-time before you are disqualified. Now, that brief time span has acquired a further significance in the Royal and Ancient game.
Five minutes is how long Tiger Woods deigned for questions on Sunday night, in his first interviews since Thanksgiving became anything but. As one acerbic American commentator put it, five hours would have been more like it.
There again, watching Woods mumble a few thoughts to the Golf Channel and ESPN in turn, five minutes was about as long as most people would have been able to stomach.
There is not much chance of Woods being a poster boy for rehab, is there? Watching him play humble, falling back at every opportunity on the religious card or the stock rehab cliches like 'stripping away denial' and 'living a lie' made you almost long for the non-communicative womaniser.
Anyone else worried about Woods's state of mind?
I think I've attended every significant event in his professional life since he joined the paid ranks in 1996. They say the eyes are the windows on the soul and the eyes of the Tiger have always been brimful with excitement at another triumph, or raging with fury at another perceived slight. Now they look lifeless, and it is horrible to see.
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You probably know it already, but that Lionel Messi fella is pretty good. A second hat-trick inside a week for Barcelona had the normally effusive Spanish press lost for words, as Sid Lowe in the Guardian reveals.Barcelona's talisman is so sensationally good at the moment that comparisons with football's greatest players are wholly justified.
It's not big and it's not clever but sometimes swearing is the only thing that will do. Sometimes you've used up every other word and nothing else quite hits the spot. You've rummaged round the back of the sofa, rifled through the drawers, turned out your pockets and still come up empty. Pep Guardiola insisted that he was clean out of adjectives and frankly so was everyone else. Spain was suffering a severe shortage of superlatives.
The Catalan newspaper Sport invited readers to send in headlines for what they had just witnessed and there were plenty of super, sensational and sublimes, some magic, magnificent and marvellouses, wows and wonderfuls, plus deities by the dozen, and even a Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, but still there was no way to really do it justice. No polite way anyway. Just wide eyes, a wider mouth and a simple: holy shit!
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You just can't seem to keep some clubs out of the headlines. Newcastle had been making serene progress towards promotion, but the papers are filled with allegations of a bust-up between Steven Taylor and Andy Carroll that has left Taylor with a broken jaw and Carroll a hand injury. There has been no word from the club but if true it would not need a rocket scientist to work out what happened.March 17, 2010
Woods hijacks the MastersPosted on 17/03/2010
After Tiger Woods announced yesterday that he would return to competitive golf at the Masters in April, thereby ending months of speculation, Lawrence Donegan in the Guardian today accuses the world No. 1 of "putting his own narrow interest above those of his fellow competitors" by choosing to return at Augusta, in an easier environment for him to control:Tiger Woods, the man who just cannot stop taking, has done it again, announcing today that he will make his comeback to golf at next month's Masters and, as he did so, a tournament famous for its history and drama became one known for the height of its security fences and the selectivity of its media arrangements.
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Woods launches Brand TigerPosted on 20/02/2010
So, Tiger Woods paused, spoke, paused, spoke some more, and then hugged his mum in a touching public statement on Friday, which was so uncharacteristically unnatural that viewers momentarily forget the God-given grace by which the world No. 1 plays on a golf course. Martin Samuel of the Daily Mail applauds Woods for Friday's appearance, but only for the relaunch of what he calls Brand Tiger...And still we wait to hear from Tiger Woods. Maybe we never will. The thoughts of Brand Tiger we know. He is sorry. We get that. He was selfish, he was irresponsible, he was foolish. Yes, we understand. He let down his wife, his children, his fans, his friends, his family, his business partners. Oh, those poor business partners. Won't nobody think of the business partners?
At the end, he held his old mum tight and moved along the specially selected front row as if receiving condolences at a funeral. For a moment, it was possible to forget that this was, in fact, a happy occasion. Maybe they should have made it clearer with a giant banner that could have fallen in front of the solemn blue drapes at the conclusion.
'COMING SOON: TIGER WOODS - a new TIGER WOODS will be opening here in 2010.'
That was, after all, what this production was really about. Brand Tiger is gearing up to make money again. He might not be ready to hit a golf ball in public yet but he will be primed to get those cash registers ringing soon. The shuffling noise you hear is the sound of executives climbing back in from the window ledges at Nike headquarters.
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Westwood's not in the groovePosted on 23/01/2010
Lee Westwood crashed out of the Abu Dhabi Golf Championship thanks to a shocking round of 78 in the second round. Barely a couple of months ago he had demolished a top-class field to win the Race to Dubai. In the intervening period the pins have been moved, so to speak, as the rulemakers deemed the old U-shaped grooves - relatively wide and with sharp edges - were giving the players too much spin and outlawed them for professionals. Top players are likely to be able to adapt, but it seems Westwood has taken a little longer than anticipated – writes Peter Dixon in the TimesAt the Dubai World Championship at the end of November, Lee Westwood demolished a stellar field with a display so good that it took the breath away. He knew that victory would bring him the inaugural Race to Dubai and he had no intention of playing second fiddle to anybody — and that included his main rival for the title, a young genius by the name of Rory McIlroy.
So when Rick Kulacz, a virtual unknown from Australia, moved to the top of the leaderboard yesterday at the Abu Dhabi Championship at the same time that Westwood was packing his bags after missing the cut, it was inevitable that questions would be asked. In particular, what had happened in the intervening weeks?
Westwood admitted that he was rusty after taking a six-week break from the game but had other thoughts on his mind. Namely that he had become the inadvertent victim of a change in the rules.
The rule in question has been exercising the minds of players and equipment suppliers for much of the past year. With fears that clubs were allowing players to generate too much spin, and thus control, from out of the rough, the R&A and the USGA, the game's rules makers, decided that grooves on the clubs needed to be altered.
The penalty for missing fairways, it was argued, had been neutralised, allowing the long hitters an unfair advantage over shorter hitting, more accurate players. So from January 1, the old U-shaped grooves — relatively wide and with sharp edges — were outlawed for professionals, to be replaced by narrower grooves with rounded edges giving less bite.
While the vast majority of the leading players will be able to adjust to the changes pretty quickly, where Westwood came unstuck was that he had to change all the clubs in his bag and had given himself too little time to familiarise himself with them.
Many of his rivals, Ian Poulter among them, had already been using "conforming" irons towards the end of the year, the exception being their most lofted clubs, the sand irons and lob wedges.
Westwood, who followed up his first round of 69 with one of 78, ended the day on three over par, 15 shots behind Kulacz and 14 adrift of Sergio García, Shane Lowry and Peter Hanson. With four bogeys in the first four holes, he got off to the worst start imaginable and could not get back on track. He reached the turn in 40 and came home in 38. This was not the player we had seen a few weeks earlier.


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If all else fails and you absolutely have to keep the cat off a surface, consider closing the door to keep it out of the room. Where this is not possible, make the surface undesirable. Possible deterrents include vinyl carpet runners with the pointed side up, double-sided sticky tape or a mat that delivers a small static shock. Loud noises, such as party noisemakers or a tin can filled with coins, may also be effective.
Squirting the cat with water when you catch it on a forbidden surface may seem to work but will only keep the cat down when you are around. Aversive techniques must be done consistently to be effective. Remember, to modify climbing behavior, you must take away the motivation for the climbing and provide acceptable alternatives, such as a cat tree.
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WHEN Chadwick Boseman's big movie break finally came, he almost hung up on it.
Brian Helgeland, writer and director of the new Jackie Robinson movie, "42," called to offer Boseman the lead, but all Boseman heard was rejection.
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Priest from India joins Maria Lanakaila Church
A second priest from India has joined Maria Lanakila Church in Lahaina.
Father Kuriakose Nadooparambil arrived recently. He follows Pastor Father Joseph Pathiyil, who has been at Maria Lanakila since August 2010.
Both priests are from the state of Kerala, India, and are members of the Missionaries of Faith Community.
The Congregation of the Missionaries of Faith was founded in Italy in 1982, and seven men were the first Indian priests to be ordained for the congregation in 1988 after their theological formation in Italy.
The congregation's mission in India was started in 1989 in the diocese of Eluru. The congregation has expanded its mission to eight dioceses in the state of Andhra Pradesh and other states in India.
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Allison Allen wants to shatter a few mirrors.
The mirrors don't exist in reality but reflect the images women have of themselves in their minds.
The former Broadway performer will dramatize how these images affect women's lives when she speaks about "Gazing in God's Mirror" at the Ladies Encounter spring event to be held from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. April 21 at the Blair County Convention Center. Praise and worship for the event will be led by Joyful Noise.
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(Courtesy photo) Allison Allen, a dramatist, conference speaker and former Broadway performer will speak about "Gazing in God's Mirror" at the Ladies Encounter event to be held April 21 at the Blair County Convention Center.
"We live with this sense of tyranny that we are not good enough, not smart enough or pretty enough," Allen said.
In addition to a dramatic segment, Allen will conduct two teaching sessions seasoned with humor and story illustrations. Previously a speaker/actress with the Women of Faith organization, Allen also performed in "Grease" on Broadway and had a role as a nanny on "As the World Turns."
Two local women who have seen Allen perform are Jennifer DiAndreth of Hollidaysburg and Ginny Stuby of Altoona. Allen was one of the presenters at a Women of Faith conference they attended in 2009 in Washington, D.C.
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For tickets: Visit ladiesencounter.com. Tickets also available at Roaring Spring Department Store, Thompson Pharmacy, Open Door Books & Gifts, Everett, or by sending check payable to Encounter to Donna Rhodes, 338 Spring Lane, Martinsburg, PA 16662
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"She's fabulous," DiAndreth said. "Her presentations are incredible."
She said Allen's dramas are personal and real. "She taps into your mind," DiAndreth said.
She called Allen's message, which also dealt with women's images of themselves, powerful and thought-provoking.
DiAndreth said at times there was not a dry eye in the auditorium, but Allen also has the ability to make the crowd laugh.
"She really impacts you," she said.
"She's very believable," Stuby said. "She gets into her character so much. I thought she was wonderful."
For her speaking engagements, Allen writes her own dramatic illustrations and said her talks about the mirror seem to resonate with women from teens to seniors. She touches on physical appearance as well as mental and emotional images that women have of themselves.
She said she remembers praying with a tearful woman in her 70s after one of her programs. The woman had been involved in an automobile accident years earlier that resulted in a fatality. She kept playing that tape inside her head, Allen said.
She said people get caught up in what others say and what they say about themselves.
"We don't see ourselves the way God sees us," Allen said.
She said women define themselves with counterfeit images when they need to identify with God's mirror. "Live fully alive in Him, alive in a way the world is waiting for you to be," she said.
Allen often uses common elements, such as the mirror, to illustrate her points.
"I embrace everyday experiences and see the extraordinary in the ordinary," she said.
When preparing for the Ladies Encounter event, she said daffodils kept coming to mind. As a woman who enjoys gardening, she knew that technical name for daffodil is narcissus. It is also the name of a man from Greek mythology.
"Narcissus never stood up straight because then he wouldn't be able to see his reflection in the pool." she said. "We can be bent toward our reflection or look up and see God."
A resident of Franklin, Tenn., Allen said she is excited to be returning to the state where she acquired her dramatic education.
She is a graduate of the acting program at Carnegie Mellon University, a school recommended by her high school teacher in Greensboro, N.C.
Allen credits Carnegie Mellon with teaching her to be observant which helps in her writing of her dramatic vignettes. She said in one of her classes, the students had two minutes to stare at a room and then were asked to recant every single detail in the space.
It was in college that Allen first began writing a fiction piece called "Magdalene."
"It is a fictional story about the tragedy of sexual abuse and the healing that only Christ can bring," she said. It was originally staged as a musical, co-written by Chris Eaton and Michele Pillar, several years ago. The book is expected to be out in spring 2013.
Allison also is the wife of Jonathan, a worship pastor, and the mother of two sons, Levi, 8, and Luke, 3 months. Ladies Encounter will be her first major conference since her second son's birth.
"It's exciting to get back out there," she said of her speaking engagement in Altoona.
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This snuffbox is one of the surviving boxes commissioned by Frederick the Great of Prussia. It was made in Berlin around 1765, possibly by Daniel Baudesson, and is notable for the variety of jewels, hardstones and precious and semi-precious materials used in its construction and decoration.
This oblong-shaped box is made from mother of pearl plaques mounted in gold in three colours, decorated using a hammer and a sharp tool which is called chasing. It is decorated with flowers and scrolls, set with circular cut diamonds, and encrusted with flowers and foliage of citrine, amethyst and quartz, all of which have foil placed behind them to reflect the light . The rim of the cover is set with diamonds, some foiled, including three large cushion-shaped diamonds and one pear-shaped diamond over a pink foil ground and ruby flowers.
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To smack a person, usually in the face, with one's cock. Often used as a disciplinary maneuver.
If you keep playin' like that, I will cock smack you good.
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When someone in a position of authority, particularly at the same place of business, publicly humiliates another of lower status. Makes reference to the direct relationship between one's position on the organization chart and relative size of his (or her) scope of management authority.
Joe tried to give the attractive new receptionist a tour around the office, but his supervisor cock smacked him back to his cubicle, and took over the tour.
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Taking out one's penis and smacking someone in the face with it usually as an act of discipline
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When one person whips out their cock and smacks them in the face with it. OR usually a gay person who loves cock in their face.
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when a male remove his dick from his pants and gets in the posistion to strike someone usually in the face with it . this is used as a sexual domination tactic or a form of athuority .
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I was at the Cocksmack concert and got arrested for "public nudity". AND The people who run Urban Dictionary are a bunch of cocksmackers for not reconizing that Cocksmack (the band) is the greatest ever and refuse to list them on here.
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An idiot, who is the cock which is to be smacked among ones face.
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