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If you haven't heard already, MS have back-tracked on their policies that previously blocked used games and required the Xbox 1 to be connected to the internet once every 24 hours. Surely this a good thing you might ask? Well, as it turns out, not necessarily.
If there was some sort of indication that games were cheaper because of drm microsoft could have come off a lot better. imagine what could have been if they said games would be $40 instead of $60.
I know right? They even didn't bother to give much details about the family share plan.
And no, we (gamers) don't want this BS.
turns out the "family share plan" had a limit of one hour before stopping and getting asked to buy the game. that was the catch.
a glorified "demo" plan
And to think some people were willing to give up their rights for that half-assed feature.
That is simply not true. It has been said many times family members can play without any limits as long as they are online. If they go off game is blocked after an hour. Stop quoting guy from neogaff that was SO WRONG about his 100% sure e3 info.
IT WAS CONFIRMED IT'S NOT LIMITED TO 1H so stop spreaidng fanboy crap.
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It appears that shared plan was more of a glorified demo plan. Just found this out myself. Makes me feel better knowing this as I perceived this as a great feature initially, but now not so much of a loss.
I don't think developers would want to take such a loss when it comes to dropping the price of new games.
Especially EA. Call of Duty 4 modern warfare is still 30.00 new.
Actually they didn't. There was one very vague statement they made about it when they revealed there DRM plan. And couple of sentences which they said you could add anyone to it. The rest is just fanboy speculation. Developers would kill them if they did what people thought they were doing then same way they bashed Sony. Also that neogaf link is true. I was sceptical of the leaker at first but then he leaked everything Microsoft did at e3 4 days before it. So yeah credible.
This whole "it was only one hour" argument only proves that people will believe a rumor if it serves their purposes.
The rumor was from an anonymous poster on an anonymous posting board. I could write my own. Anyone could. It doesn't make it true.
It could be true, but the fact that it is unconfirmable should be factored into the equation instead of the peanut gallery repeatedly quoting a rumor.
That was the only strategy I could think of that made DRM palatable.
If they had done that then Sony would be the ones on the back foot.
But they way things are now I get the feeling MS have no idea how to drive their product forward, so I'll sit back and wait until I'm convinced they know what they're doing before I buy one.
I was looking forward to the of drm where youd never have to load your game discs again. Woulda been nice.
there are no way they do that, i read somewhere who did some research said if they lower the game price (40$) their total income will lower by 10% which i think will hurt them more than get rid of DRM and keep the price at 60$
Is this the new trend? To reflect and act like DRM is what we actually needed?
The problem here is that the people who were complaining about DRM have largely said "Good move Microsoft, now get rid of Kinect and drop the price and we'll talk."
On the other hand, people who had pre-ordered based on features included in the Xbox One, now removed, are saying "so now what are we supposed to do?"
From a general standpoint, it seems Microsoft have done a good thing, but I think people are generally unsure if it's had an actual payoff.
I was one of those people, i came back home at night to relax and catch up on the latest gaming news and BAM.....It hit me Microsoft have killed the vision of Xbox One.
Think about it, how can you spend hours on two big conferences during the Xbox reveal on May 21st and the E3 briefing and just totally chicken out of your Philosophy.
I couldnt believe it. Any way i believe that every thing happens for a reason. Surprisng now i took a second look at the PS4 and it is much more exciting to me. My only dissapointment is that Sony dont have many exclusives at launch and Infamous Second Son was pushed back till next year.
Instead of buying 2 Xbox Ones's like i planned, i think i will just get a PS4 instead.
@BelieveinGhosts...don't worry, that is not the TOTAL exclusives list. We still don't know what the European and Japanese have in store for us at launch. Those bits will come at Gamescon and Tokyo Game Show as usual. All in all, there are supposedly 40 exclusive titles to be released in 2014.
It's like the escaped kidnap victim asking to go back.
Seriously? All this back and forth from both Microsoft and people is getting annoying. Can't we just agree this DRM stuff seems pretty crap?
DRM is the consumers worst enemy. Kill DRM.
Kill Steam then.
Steam and home consoles are two different things.
People who choose steam over console already know that they can not resell their games, lend out their games, or own the phyiscal game. THats a given and they accepted that fact. People who own consoles want to own the physical games, lend out their games, and resell their games thats why the console gamers out number steam gamers.
If you go with steam you have accepted DRM and the majority dont want DRM therefore they look towards consoles.
Steam is a subscription service, Xbox One is a console with the features "built in". For most, they knowingly go into the subscription with Steam. For consoles, not so much. If MS had so many issues explaining it's console, then imagine what Suzy Homemaker would have thought once she bought the console for 12 y/o Jimmy? He doesn't really know, she doesn't really know...now back to the store to trade.
steam lets me play offline and lets me install games as many times as i want on top of which it is heavily rumored that valve is checking out ways to properly implement game sharing.
@Kayoss He said consumers, people that use Steam aren't consumers?
@iceman Steam is not subscription based
@Jivah You have to log onto Steam first in order to use it offline
If MS wanted to say "Hey there's DRM now but games are gonna cost 1\4 less!" they would have, but I seriously doubt that was their plan.
You'd have seen unparalleled sales (for consoles, anyway). Reduction of new games isn't going to happen until we go full digital though.
Sorry but price reduction for digital material should have been announced even before the DRM, look at iTunes, do you think they'd get away with it just because it's more comfortable?, no, it's cheaper.
look at Steam, do you think that it would have been popular if the only benefits were that you get to buy games online?,
When you go full digital you completely dodge the whole publishing prices, packaging costs, shipping etc etc, this should have been reflected directly on the price, and should have been hailed from the get-go.
I Know MS, I own a 360, it's the only console I have, they're just greedy. they'd love to set the price on 60$ and just drag the gamers kicking and screaming and soon enough some AAA game is gonna come along and all the gamers that weren't happy with the price before would've paid it anyway, and MS pockets more cash, because they sell a cheaper product.
I don't buy the "no DRM will ruin the industry" argument either, the industry became an industry because people want to play, and are willing to pay, as long as people have interest in games, they will keep developing, restricting the gamer and not catering to his needs is the thing that can ruin an industry.
It's pretty well established by this point that publishers literally can't outprice themselves at retail. When GAME was on the brink of shutting down, several PC-only developers came out of the woodwork accusing them of threatening to not sell games that had Steam DRM because of the ability to drop the price so quickly and easily.
I don't have stats readily at hand, but I'm guessing if that's a problem for a format that is 70% digital, it'll be a problem for a format where people are still fighting to have physical copies of everything they own.
That's why PS3 games are £50 digitally and £40 in the shops. It's not a case of "OMG so greedy." It's a case of not being allowed to give themselves an advantage over brick and mortar stores.
A full-digital console, with no disk-based counterpart, would have cheaper games. Until that though, expect full price regardless of where you buy it. With MS's attitude towards retailers with the Xbox One basically being "stick it," I honestly think they'd have tried to make up for the high digital price with great sales.
That last bit is pure speculation, of course, and now we'll never know, but it'd certainly have been possible for them to do.
yup because they had already stated they would still be 60 dollars us. and if their DRM was so great why take it and all those features away from xbox live gold members
Oh look a story from a site called Game One Daily, sure that site isn't biased at all.
It's Game On Daily.
I still hate this article, but I had to let you know.
"Hey Microsoft. We want our Rights Taken Away After all. Please Treat us like Cattle."
That's exactly how I read that title...
The ironic part is people still under the impression that they have rights under the new socialist America movement.
Nothing NEW about this. They only just got CAUGHT recently.
DRM is something that will eventually have to deal with when physical copies become obsolete (whenever that ever happens) and digital downloads are the norm.
I guess Microsoft wanted to go this way with consoles just like steam is for PC but there was no justification from them, if we were told that they would be cheaper I personally would of had no quarrel.
The issue lies in digital vs physical, why buy digitally and not have the ability to resale when you can buy physical for the same price, lend it to a friend and eventually sell it on, Digital should be cheaper because of this.
lol so some people want m$ to do abother 180 after it goes 180 'coz of drm
make sense now we can all call it xb1-360
Guys, this author is ahardcore MS fan and sees good in everything they do. Look at the site name and other articles they've posted. Downvoted.
It's all non-sense. If Microsoft was dedicated to lowering prices they should have shown a gesture of good faith and lowered their prices before the generation even started. Even $5 would have been enough proof.
Well, maybe YOU do. But I don't. And most gamers with any sense in their head don't.
So you go have MS make you a DRM-laden console JUST for you; the rest of us are quite happy without.
Dont care for any of that, Digital games feel "soulless" to me, while a Phisycal copy has a soul and it really give a great sense of owning so this digital future is basically not a future i would like to experience.
And not to mention in my country internet is so slow and erratic that this future would basically doom pretty much most of the population of this hobby here, so screw to that.
Stockholm syndrome....
Oh my God he's beating me...yay I'm free...wait why isn't he still beating me? Excuse me...Mr...umm...could you beat me again...I miss that! LOL +Bubs for the HUMOR!!!
why can't they still give us all these feature am sure their engineers can figure it out for at least digital downloads if you choice... come on Microsoft it you that can make this console and features rock.....
I love how all the perks that Microsoft were talking about are now being lumped together with DRM. This is called muddying the water. Fact. DRM is imposed on you. The second you offer the services as OPTIONS they become features, not DRM. The console manufactures are welcome to offer us any bells and whistles they think will attract us to their products. What is not acceptable is bottlenecking our game OS with DRM that limits functionality for no good reason other than control of our purchases.
Having to keep your disc in to play is a definite backward step. No matter which way you look at it.
Queuing up multiplayer sessions is such a great feature. But having to switch disc negates this.
Why? Just for a glorified demo plan that limits your family members to an hour of gameplay?
I really dont think its worth it due to the horrible conditions of the family plan.
Did people really think that it wouldnt have some sort of limitation?
"The premise is simple and elegant, when you buy your games for Xbox One, you can set any of them to be part of your shared library. Anyone who you deem to be family had access to these games regardless of where they are in the world. There was never any catch to that, they didn't have to share the same billing address or physical address it could be anyone. When your family member accesses any of your games, they're placed into a special demo mode. This demo mode in most cases would be the full game with a 15-45 minute timer and in some cases an hour. This allowed the person to play the game, get familiar with it then make a purchase if they wanted to. When the time limit was up they would automatically be prompted to the Marketplace so that they may order it if liked the game."
@ ballseye, you really think publishers were going to allow one person to purchase one game. Then turn around and let 10 other people play it for free? Publishers would lose about $500 per share plan. No way that was going to happen.
you are right i am sure they where all like whe the [email protected] do you think your doing.
Plz spy on me, render my gamefly account useless, make me check in every hour like I'm in high school, force me to subscribe to gold, pay more for less, trick me with family sharing which is really an hour demo and nowhere near ad good as the actual digital sharing of the whole game like on ps3, plz treat me like a baby and force me to install my disk because you're afraid that I may have borrowed it from my best friend.
Mental illness.
That is the only explanation.
There is a cure though.
It is a little black console made by SONY. There's a 3 and the 4 is coming soon.

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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – C.J. Fair scored 22 points and No. 7 Syracuse closed the regular season with a 74-58 victory in the program's first trip to Florida State.
The Orange, who ended a two-game losing streak, had lost 4 of 5 after starting the season 25-0.
Jerami Grant, who had been bothered by back problems recently, had 16 points and eight rebounds while Tyler Ennis finished with 16 points for Syracuse (27-4, 14-4 Atlantic Coast Conference).
Okaro White led Florida State with 20 points and 10 rebounds. Fellow senior Ian Miller scored 16 points in his last home game while Aaron Thomas chipped in 14.
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There is this understandable review of Brad Lidge's Game 3 save as more luck than design.
I saw it differently.
Lidge pitched to the situation, maybe as well as he has done all season, maybe better. He got struggling Brad Hawpe on two pitches. He never gave in to the red-hot Carlo Gonzalez, finally walking him after the Rockies leadoff hitter – who has eight hits in 13 at-bats so far -- just got some timber on a couple of nasty sliders.
He surprised Jason Giambi with a 1-1 cutter, a pitch he said he had kept in his back pocket all year, and induced a pop-up to third. Two outs. Aware of his numbers against lefthanded Todd Helton (.364 lifetime) and his numbers against the ensuing batter, Troy Tulowitzki (0-for-3 two strikeouts), he tried to bait Helton into bad swings before walking him on five pitches.
He then jammed Tulowitzki with a 1-0 fastball, inducing a soft fly to left to end the game.
``When I've had trouble, I've thrown just tons of sliders over and over and over,'' said Lidge. ``And the hitters start getting onto that. We tried to mix it up a little bit tonight. We ended up getting him out with a fastball in and hopefully I'll have a chance to do something else tomorrow. But I think I'm best when I'm not too predictable out there.''
That's pitching. That's what Lidge meant all September when he said things could and would change for him in October. It doesn't mean he will succeed today or tomorrow, if necessary. It just means that what you get from him is a guy who has been under this pressure before, a guy who will go out there with a plan.
The Rockies were justifiably proud of their bullpen entering this series. It entered last night's game having surrendered just one run in seven innings. But the Phillies nubbed out two against that pen over the last three innings last night. Pitching out of the stretch, baserunners on: That's what relief pitching is this time of year, more than numbers.
Lidge has failed an incredible number of times this year. Nine of his 11 blown saves were protecting a one-run lead. He kept asking for the ball, for another chance. Credit him for asking. And credit Charlie Manuel for never abandoning him, the way almost every other manager would have if Lidge had floundered all season long like he did for the Phillies.
``Faith will be rewarded,'' Bruce Springsteen croons in ``Land of Hope and Dreams.''For this night at least, it truly was.
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I later learned that those two silver Tatras were on the last leg of a three-ocean tour, dipping tires in the Atlantic, Arctic and Pacific oceans. I quickly found that they were out of my price and skill range, but there was a more simple "sister car," the T600 or Tatraplan. The T600 has an air-cooled four-cylinder boxer engine instead of the rear mounted V8 on the T87. The dorsal fin is smaller and it only has two headlights, but it's still a very unusual looking car.
My obsession grew stronger while traveling in Eastern Europe, during a visit to the Tatra Museum in Kovprinice, Czech Republic. A search was undertaken, and in 2011 my 1951 T600 was found in Illinois and immediately purchased. After a few test drives and follow up repairs, its first road trip was to Monterey where it was shown at the Concours d' LeMons. It won the Koolest Kommunist Kar award, for which I was presented with a bottle of cheap white wine.
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Demo: BMP085 I2C Pressure/Temperature Sensor
The BMP085 is a readily available pressure/temperature sensor using I2C. It is directly supported by the Linux kernel, so all you have to do is ask the kernel to load the driver and then start reading values.
var b = require('bonescript'); var iic = '/sys/class/i2c-adapter/i2c-1/'; //Sensor Locations on the BeagleBone Black var temperature = '/sys/bus/i2c/drivers/bmp085/1-0077/temp0_input'; var pressure = '/sys/bus/i2c/drivers/bmp085/1-0077/pressure0_input'; // We will initialize the driver for the BMP085 sensor located at I2C location 0x77 b.writeTextFile(iic + 'new_device', 'bmp085 0x77'); // Opens,reads, and prints pressure and temperature b.readTextFile(pressure, printPressure); b.readTextFile(temperature, printTemperature); // Prints Pressure function printPressure(x) { console.log("Pressure: ", x.data/100 + " millibar"); } // Prints Temperature function printTemperature(x) { // '\xB0' is the degree symbol in hexademical console.log("Temperature: ", x.data/10 + '\xB0' + " Celcius"); x.data /= 10; x.data *= 1.8; x.data += 32; console.log("or: ", x.data + '\xB0' + " Fahrenheit"); }
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Roulhac Names New Assistant Coach
Nashville, Tenn. – Tennessee State head coach Kathy Roulhac has announced the hiring of assistant coach Alisha Ewing for this year's upcoming season.
Ewing comes to TSU after a successful four-year stint at Notre Dame as the team's Operations Specialist.
During Ewing's tenure, the Fighting Irish held a 93-57 record, had four players selected to the Big East's All-First Team and made two NCAA Tournament appearances.
"I think Alisha will bring a lot of energy and experience, having come from a top-25 program like Notre Dame. She will help our program run smoothly behind the scenes and make my job a whole lot easier," Roulhac said.
Ewing enjoyed a successful collegiate career as she starred for Bethel College (Ind.) in volleyball and track. She was the NCCAA indoor and outdoor high jump champion in 2003-04 and an NAIA All-American in the event from 2002-05. The dual-sport athlete garnered all-conference honors in volleyball from 2002-04 and in track & field from 2002-05.
"Alisha will be working with the team's ball control, specifically our first and second hitters. She will help out our outside hitters and defensive players; and she could help pitch-in with our setters," Roulhac said.
Ewing is no stranger to the volunteer state as she got her first taste of college coaching when she moved on to Trevecca Nazarene University as an assistant coach. While there, she spearheaded efforts for the program's recruiting, promotions, fundraising, game management, strength and conditioning and on-court coaching with an emphasis on defense.
A native of Rochester, Ind., Ewing graduated from Rochester High School after earning four letters in volleyball, basketball and track & field. She earned all-conference honors in each of those three sports during her final three campaigns. Rochester's volleyball and basketball squads earned the sectional championship when Ewing was a senior.
Ewing was inducted into the Rochester High School Hall of Fame in 2011.
--TSU Tigers--


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William F. Buckley Jr. founded National Review magazine in 1955. He was the author of more than 40 books, and was the host for more than 30 years of the television show "Firing Line." His newspaper column, "On the Right," was syndicated to more than 300 newspapers.
Buckley received a B.A. with honors (political science, economics, and history) from Yale University in 1950. In 1965 he ran for mayor of New York City and received 13.4% of the vote on the Conservative party ticket. He received numerous and diverse awards, including Best Columnist of the Year, 1967; Television Emmy for Outstanding Achievement, 1969; The American Book Award for Best Mystery (paperback) for Stained Glass, 1980; the Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Award, 1989; the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1991; the Adam Smith Award, Hillsdale College, 1996; and the Heritage Foundation's Clare Boothe Luce Award, 1999.
Buckley married Patricia Taylor of Vancouver, B.C., in 1950. Together they had one child, Christopher Taylor Buckley.
A year before National Review was founded, I spent an evening with Whittaker Chambers, and he asked me, half provocatively, half seriously, what exactly it was that my prospective journal would seek to save. I trotted out a few platitudes, of the sort one might expect from a twenty-eight-year-old fogy, about the virtues of a free society. He wrestled with me by obtruding the dark historicism for which he had become renowned. Don't you see? he said. The West is doomed, so that any effort to save it is correspondingly doomed to failure. I drop this ink stain on the bridal whiteness of this fleeted evening only to acknowledge soberly that we are still a long way from establishing, for sure, that Whittaker Chambers was wrong. But that night, challenged by his pessimism, I said to him that if it were so that providence had rung up our license on liberty, stamping it as expired, the Republic deserved a journal that would argue the historical and moral case that we ought to have survived: that, weighing the alternative, the culture of liberty deserves to survive. So that even if the worst were to happen, the journal in which I hoped he would collaborate might serve, so to speak, as the diaries of Anne Frank had served, as absolute, dispositive proof that she should have survived, in place of her tormentors — who ultimately perished. In due course that argument prevailed, and Chambers joined the staff.
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– These remarks can be found in Let Us Talk of Many Things: The Collected Speeches, by William F. Buckley Jr. (Forum, 2000).
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National Review is out of place, in the sense that the United Nations and the League of Women Voters and the New York Times and Henry Steele Commager are in place. It is out of place because, in its maturity, literate America rejected conservatism in favor of radical social experimentation. Instead of covetously consolidating its premises, the United States seems tormented by its tradition of fixed postulates having to do with the meaning of existence, with the relationship of the state to the individual, of the individual to his neighbor, so clearly enunciated in the enabling documents of our Republic.
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At work we have a http/https proxy which requires authentication, I would like to access both ssh and a subversion https repository at my server.
The easy solution would be to use two IP addresses. I do not have an additional IP address available.
Using any port other than 443 also has problems, while I do have permission to tunnel these services, past experience have thought that asking the sysadmin to open another port for me would be probably take several months at least.
As a sidenote, you may be wondering why I'm not just using http for my subversion access. The reason is that the HTTP proxy we have doesn't support certain WebDAV extensions that are required.
The solution
Use pf's overload feature to switch between services on a given port.
Using it is simple:
I can use svn whenever I need, if I would like to use ssh I open my browser, go to http://184.108.40.206 three times in 42 seconds and I can use ssh.
After closing ssh and waiting for a minute will remove my work's IP from the rdr_ssh table and I can use svn again.
This solution will work for FreeBSD and OpenBSD. The concept can probably be implemented in most other stateful firewalls too.
Simplified ruleset for demonstration purposes
# Interface to filter if="re0" # My server's IP ip="220.127.116.11" # IP from my work work={"184.108.40.206"} # Table to keep track of who should be redirected from port 443 to port 22 table <rdr_ssh> persist # Redirect everyone in the rdr_ssh table from port 443 to port 22 rdr on $if inet proto tcp from <rdr_ssh> to $ip port https -> $ip port ssh # Default rules block in log pass out quick # Allow traffic on port 443 pass in on $if proto tcp from any to $ip port https # Allow traffic on port 80 for svn/ssh "switching", allow it only from my work. # Most browsers will try to load /favicon.ico so opening a page once are two # connections. pass in log quick proto tcp from $work to $ip port http keep state \ (max-src-conn-rate 6/42, overload <rdr_ssh>)
From pf.conf(5)
For stateful TCP connections, limits on established connections (connec- tions which have completed the TCP 3-way handshake) can also be enforced per source IP. max-src-conn <number> Limits the maximum number of simultaneous TCP connections which have completed the 3-way handshake that a single host can make. max-src-conn-rate <number> / <seconds> Limit the rate of new connections over a time interval. The con- nection rate is an approximation calculated as a moving average.
You can use Python to start a simple "donothing webserver":
#!/usr/bin/env python from BaseHTTPServer import * host = '188.8.131.52' port = 80 HTTPServer((host, port), BaseHTTPRequestHandler).serve_forever()
You can also add a crontab entry to flush the table periodically to switch back to svn when you're done with ssh.
To your /etc/crontab add:
* * * * * root /sbin/pfctl -t rdr_ssh -T expire 60 > /dev/null 2>&1
-T expire number Delete addresses which had their statistics cleared more than number seconds ago. For entries which have never had their statistics cleared, number refers to the time they were added to the table.
Or, if you prefer, you can manually clear the table with:
pfctl -t rdr_ssh -T del <ip>
PF user's guide from the OpenBSD site
FreeBSD handbook: 30.4 The OpenBSD Packet Filter (PF) and ALTQ
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COVER- 'We just want the truth': Connie Hevener's family wants to know why a cop allegedly hid her killer for 40 years
MOUNT SIDNEY– On April 30, 1947, Virgil and LaVerne Smootz became parents to twins: a girl Connie, and a boy Carroll. "From the very beginning," says LaVerne of her inseparable twins, "they were peas in a pod."
"I needed her, too," says Carroll, "she was always the one keeping me out of trouble."
If Carroll missed class, Connie lent him her homework. If Connie joined the high school cheerleading squad, Carroll joined the football team. If one developed a crush, the other would give a thumbs up or thumbs down.
It might have been this way for 62 years. But as the family sits around LaVerne's living room, thumbing through a family photo album, in the Shenandoah Valley town of Mount Sidney, the family consists only of LaVerne (now LaVerne Sowers) and Carroll. Virgil died 28 years ago. Connie died much earlier and much younger, in a crime that continues to plague the Valley.
One spring night in 1967, Connie had been married nearly two years to Larry Hevener, and was working at High's Ice Cream on North Augusta Street in Staunton's Terry Court shopping center. That night, at just after 10pm, Hevener and her co-worker and sister-in-law Carolyn Perry were closing up shop when the moment came that would not only change the Smootz family's life, but the life of a city.
When a passer-by found the two young women, both were bleeding heavily from the head. Someone had shot them both at point blank range with a .25 caliber pistol. They both died that night.
Hevener was 19 years old.
It took nearly 42 years to find out who pulled the trigger. On November 28, 2008, Sharron Diane Crawford Smith, a co-worker at the store at the time of the killing, confessed as she lay dying in a local nursing home, her kidneys failing. She died before ever seeing the inside of a courtroom.
In her confession, Smith said the lead investigator on the case, Staunton police sergeant Davie Bocock, not only knew that she had committed the crime, but had helped her elude justice by burying the murder weapon.
Bocock died in 2006 at the age of 76.
Now, with no hope of either Smith or Bocock ever paying back any debt to the families or to society, Sowers says she and her son want the only thing that can help them bring any closure to their nearly 42-year nightmare: "We just want the truth."
'Something has happened to Connie'
The night that changed both Sowers and Smootz's lives forever began at around 11:30pm on Tuesday, April 11, 1967.
"We were living over in Harrisonburg," says Sowers, "and I got a call from my sister Gwendolyn telling me to come to her house in Staunton."
Her son Smootz got a similar call, and while both understood something serious had occurred, they say they expected to see Connie at the house along with the rest of the family.
"I figured something had happened to [Connie's husband] Larry," says Sowers. "Or Connie had been talking like she might be pregnant, so I thought she might have miscarried."
As Sowers prepared herself to console her daughter, she saw something out of the passenger's side window of her sister-in-law's car.
"We came down Augusta Street," says Sowers, "and outside High's, I saw all these lights, and I looked, and there were more police cars than I'd ever seen."
In an instant, the resolve she had been building to comfort her daughter disappeared into a wave of panic.
"I turned to my sister-in-law," says Sowers, "and said, 'Oh, no, something has happened to Connie.'"
Upon arriving at her sister's house, her worst fears were realized.
"I told her," says Smootz, "'Mama, Connie's been shot, and she's dead.'"
At that moment, reality for Sowers ground to a halt.
"I didn't say anything," says Sowers. "I was just in shock. They asked me, 'Did you hear what he just said?' I didn't say anything for about 15 or 20 minutes."
Then came the sad duty of informing Connie's husband Larry and her father Virgil, both of whom were working as long-haul drivers for a Staunton-based trucking company called Smith's Transfer.
"Larry was in Massachusetts, and Virgil was in South Carolina," says Smootz. "I just told the main dispatcher to tell them what had happened and to get on a plane back here. I didn't want them driving those trucks all the way back, being all alone."
With $138 missing from the register at High's, police suspected robbery. But days after her death, Smootz was going through his sister's belongings when he found a note in her purse and immediately realized her sister was no random victim.
"I found a note on a small piece of paper," says Smootz. "In her handwriting, she had written very neatly, 'Tell Larry I love him.' She knew something was going to happen to her."
40 years of aftermath
With this information, as with all the material he thought might be helpful in solving the crime, Smootz went to Staunton police investigator Davie Bocock.
For three months, Smootz says, he went to Bocock on a regular basis. However, he grew increasingly frustrated with Bocock for not catching his sister's killer. Smootz says this was partly due to his own personal grief, but also to a genuine belief that Bocock was not doing all he could.
"Sure, I was angry," says Smootz, "but even as someone who has no police background, I knew they were dragging their feet. I asked Bocock if they had searched the area around the store for a gun, if they had checked the drains near the store for shells, if they had even asked the people who worked at High's for information. He hadn't done any of it.
"If it had been his daughter," says Smootz, "he would have been all over it. But we were just regular people, so he didn't care."
This anger at the police came to a head one day that summer when Smootz came back to his car, parked on the street in Staunton, to find a ticket on his windshield.
"I walked right into the police station, right over to Bocock," recalls Smootz, "and said, 'Is this how you're spending your time? Writing $50 parking tickets when you should be finding out who killed my sister?'"
Bocock tore up the ticket and told Smootz to be on his way.
Finally, in October, a little more than six months after the night of the murders, Staunton police arrested William "Gus" Thomas, a 24-year-old former high school teacher in nearby Swoope. With the arrest came a meeting between Bocock and Smootz in which Smootz says Bocock applied to him the kind of treatment he wished he'd applied to potential suspects.
"Bocock sat me down," says Smootz, "and said if Thomas so much as fell and broke his neck, if he so much as had a heart attack, he would throw me in jail and throw away the key."
Sowers' impression of Bocock was better than her son's, but she still thought it was strange that in the half-year investigation that led to the arrest, neither Bocock nor any officer had asked her about what she knew about her daughter.
"He was kind and considerate to me," says Sowers, "but he never asked me about anything. I just took his word for it that they knew what they were doing, and when they got Thomas, I thought they had the guy."
A Staunton jury disagreed. In the trial the following year, prosecutors couldn't produce a murder weapon, nor could they place Thomas at the scene of crime. The top evidence they had was testimony from several Staunton residents who claimed Thomas had confessed to the crime in private conversations.
It only took the jury three hours to return a verdict of not guilty.
The outcome was a difficult one to take for Sowers, but ultimately one with which she had made her own personal peace.
"I knew God had a reason," says Sowers, "and I knew God wanted me to forgive him."
Smootz says today he had a harder time summoning any feelings of forgiveness, particularly on one day in the summer of 1968.
'Temporarily blinded'
With the trial finished in March of 1968, nearly a year after his sister's killing, Smootz still lay awake late into each night.
"I had to constantly keep my mind occupied," he says. "When I couldn't get to sleep, I had to train myself to add, subtract, and divide in my head, just to have something to do. Every time my mind stopped racing, all I could see was Connie's blood on that black-and-white tile floor."
Much as he found fault with Bocock's investigation, Smootz felt that police had gotten their man only to let him get away. He knew that Thomas had been tried for only one of the two killings, a gambit townspeople figured left prosecutors with another chance if new evidence appeared.
"I just hated Bill Thomas," says Smootz. "I hated him for making me an only child after 19 years of having that connection only twins have."
Smootz had not seen Thomas since the acquittal when he went out for some groceries on one hot, bright day in the summer.
"As I walked out of the IGA," says Smootz, "I saw him walking out of the ABC Store."
So as he started up his car and put it in drive, Smootz began tailing Thomas, still on foot.
"I was almost touching the back of his legs with my bumper," says Smootz. In his left hand, he held the steering wheel. In his right, he held a knife.
"It was about nine inches long," says Smootz. "When I was out on long hauls, I used to keep it in my truck to cut open watermelons."
As Smootz's pulse quickened, he took a quick look out his window as he pulled up alongside Thomas.
"For a split second," says Smootz, "a voice said to me, 'Maybe it isn't him.'"
With that thought, Smootz continued to drive past the man. Still, a few seconds later, Smootz couldn't resist looking in his rearview mirror to get a look at the face.
"It was Thomas after all," says Smootz. "So I threw it in reverse and went as fast as I could."
But the moment had passed. Thomas was then safely ensconced in his car and leaving the parking lot.
Forty years after that day, Smootz looks back at his former self in horror.
"That day haunts me," says Smootz. "What if I'd gone off the deep end? I'd have ruined my whole life then and there, because if I'd gotten to him, I'd have killed him."
So what made Smootz doubt his eyes for long enough to keep him from making the biggest mistake of his life? Smootz says the only explanation that makes sense to him is divine intervention.
"Either God temporarily blinded me," he says, "or it was Connie keeping me from doing it."
The memory came rushing back last year when he found out that if not for his moment of uncertainty, not only would he have killed a man; he would have killed an innocent man. Thomas, who now lives in Pennsylvania, was finally absolved of any culpability for the crime in December after Smith made her confession.
Deathbed confession
It was late November 2008 when Smootz, Sowers, and the rest of Hevener's family along with the family of Carolyn Perry– Hevener's slain co-worker– learned from Staunton police that they had a new suspect.
In August, Verona resident Joyce Bradshaw told Staunton police of a conversation she'd had 10 days before the murder with co-worker Sharron Diane Crawford.
"Diane was one of my aides at Western State Hospital," says Bradshaw, now 74, "so we had been acquainted at work, and she had always treated me okay."
Bradshaw describes Crawford as having been the ultimate tomboy, even into her late teens.
"If you saw her far away, you probably thought she was a boy," says Bradshaw. "She wore her hair real short, she always wore pants, she hunched her shoulders like a football player."
Bradshaw says she didn't socialize with Crawford outside of work, so she was surprised when she got a call, on or around the night of April 1, 1967.
"She said she wanted to go get a hamburger," says Bradshaw.
Sitting in Crawford's car in the parking lot of the Kenny Burger on Greenville Avenue near Bessie Weller Elementary School, eating dinner, Crawford began a fateful conversation, a conversation that Bradshaw would be unable to forget.
"She told me to open up the glove compartment," says Bradshaw. "So I did, and inside there was a pistol."
Then came the words that Bradshaw couldn't get out of her mind for nearly 42 years.
"Diane says, 'There's two bullets in that gun,'" Bradshaw recalls. "'One of them's for my stepfather. The other is for the Hevener girl on Grubert Avenue.'"
Asked why she had waited 41 years to reveal this truth, Bradshaw said that she hadn't waited at all.
"I went to the police the day after the murders," says Bradshaw. "I went straight to Davie Bocock."
Nearly four months months later, on November 28, 2008, Staunton police investigators were at the bedside of Sharron Diane Crawford Smith, then 60 years old and suffering from the end stages of kidney failure in a nursing home in Harrisonburg. According to transcripts of the interview, Smith told police that Hevener had been "taunting, teasing" her. Said Smith, Hevener had been picking on her "about my lifestyle," confirming to police that this was about her being a lesbian.
Additionally, she said stepfather Emmett Bradshaw had been physically abusing her for years because he disapproved of her sexuality. One day, she decided she just couldn't take it anymore. Crawford's stepfather Emmett Bradshaw died some time in the 1980s of natural causes, according to the Staunton police chief.
On April 11, 1967, after having made sure Hevener would take over her late shift at High's that night, Smith allegedly confronted Hevener with her .25 caliber pistol.
"I was just pushed so far," Smith told police, "so I shot her, and that was it."
To serve and protect
On December 12, 2008, Staunton police chief James Williams held a press conference to announce Smith's arrest for the murder of Connie Hevener and Carolyn Perry.
"This," said Williams, "effectively closes the case."
Smith was to make her first court appearance three weeks later, on January 6, 2009, but that hearing was postponed due to her failing health. Thirteen days later, Smith died from her illnesses.
Staunton police had, however, questioned Smith twice more between her arrest and death. On December 30, 2008, Smith finally told police why she had been able to remain hidden in plain sight for so long: she had help from her "pretty good friend" in the Staunton police department, Davie Bocock.
Bocock and Smith were already familiar with one another through mutual friends, and the 37-year-old Bocock had taught the 19-year-old Smith a new extracurricular activity out at his farm: target shooting.
The two, Smith said, would shoot at pictures of "deer and stuff" typically placed against bales of hay. Asked by police how frequent these training sessions were, Smith said, "I'd say we went right much."
Smith also admitted that several days after the murders, she and Sergeant Bocock met in the Dairy Rite parking lot on Greenville Avenue, where Smith says she showed him her .25 and said, "I had shot the girls."
According to Smith, rather than slap cuffs on her for Staunton's crime of the century or advise her to avail herself of an attorney to come forward to another police officer, the man heading the murder investigation simply took the gun from Smith and helped her hide it on his farm.
"He put it in a box," said Smith. "He said he was digging a hole, and putting it in there and that it was safe."
In January, it briefly seemed possible that Staunton police had found the murder weapon when, hours after a January 28 press conference, the wife of a deceased Staunton cop turned over a .25 caliber pistol she said originally belonged to Bocock. Ballistics tests on that weapon, however, came back negative on February 17.
Smith said that of all the people she had known in her life, including her eventual husband, her three children, and the longtime companion with whom she lived in her later years, Bocock– who died in 2006 at the age of 76– was the only person she told about the murder until 2008.
Risking it all
At this point, with both Smith and Bocock dead, it may be nearly impossible to know for sure what could have motivated Bocock to allegedly cover up Staunton's most infamous crime. None of Bocock's three children, nor his half-brother returned the Hook's repeated calls for comment. However, according to Dr. Bruce Arrigo, a professor of criminal justice at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and expert on the psychology of corrupt police officers, it takes a special sort of relationship for a cop to cover up somebody else's crime.
"It's less a question of corruption and more a question of an ethical dilemma," says Arrigo. "It would have to be the kind of relationship with a deep and compelling history."
A February 1 article in the Richmond Times-Dispatch reported the possibility of "a romantic triangle that involved Bocock." According to Bradshaw, Bocock did have the reputation of being "a ladies' man."
"I never liked talking to him," says Bradshaw. "He had the smirking smile and the dancing eyes that just make a woman feel uncomfortable."
But would a shared interest in firearms really lead an alleged flirt like Bocock to seduce a closeted and allegedly masculine lesbian like Crawford? According to Arrigo, it takes more than romance to lead a cop to risk his career by covering up a homicide.
"This would have to be something like a marriage," says Arrigo, "or a parent-child relationship."
Father figure
Could it be that the reason Davie Bocock protected Sharron Diane Crawford Smith was that Bocock was Smith's father? Evidence is scant, but circumstances don't rule it out.
Smith's obituary in the January 21 edition of the Staunton News Leader states that, "She was born August 21, 1948, in Staunton, a daughter of Delphia "Red" (Crawford) Bradshaw." There's no mention of Smith's father.
There's no publicly known evidence suggesting any out-of-wedlock patrimony for Bocock, but he was living in his native Staunton and had just turned 18 at the time of Smith's birth.
As he had announced at a January 28 press conference, Staunton police chief James Williams says his department continues to work along with the Virginia State Police to investigate Smith's deathbed claims. Williams would neither confirm nor deny that his department is looking into the father-daughter angle.
"We hear rumors just like you guys," says Williams. "Sometimes the talk could have some truth, and sometimes it doesn't. We're just trying to determine what could have been the relationship between the people involved in this case."
The Hook attempted to obtain a copy of Smith's birth certificate from the Virginia Department of Records in Richmond. The request was denied, with a department representative informing that such records were only open to family members.
Additionally, the Hook tried to contact Bocock's three children, Bocock's half-brother, Smith's daughter, and Smith's longtime companion in an attempt to learn more about the relationship between the two. None of them returned the calls for comment.
It turns out, however that Smith's mother lives in Salem. Reached by telephone, "Red" Bradshaw told the Hook of her recently late daughter, "She's been accused of a lot, but I have nothing to say."
A reporter asked who Smith's father was, but Bradshaw hung up the phone.
Searching for closure
Despite the fact that they finally know the name of their loved one's killer, Hevener's mother Sowers and brother Smootz say they won't be satisfied until they know why they had to wait more than four decades for any semblance of closure.
"The police dragged their feet," says Sowers. "I feel like they need to tell us why."
Smootz's anger is so palpable that he expresses it as though the object of his ire for four decades is still wearing a badge and walking a beat.
"I want Bocock," says Smootz. "For 42 years, we went through all kinds of pain and suffering because we didn't know. I have no sympathy for him or his family if they have to suffer a little."
Nevertheless, Sowers says that her Christian faith compels her to forgive Bocock.
"Jesus says we have to forgive," says Sowers. "Otherwise, he won't forgive us."
That's not to say she doesn't resent Smith. She refused to meet with her as other family members had after her confession.
"I just couldn't do it," says Sowers. "I didn't want to see her."
Additionally, she disputes Smith's assertion that her daughter teased Smith about her sexuality.
"I think she may have pulled her aside," says Sowers, "and tried to get her to start living right. Or maybe she came on to Connie, and she didn't want any part of it. But my daughter was not the kind to tease people because they were different."
Smootz freely admits that when it comes to the woman who took the life of his "guardian angel" Connie, and those who stood in the way of bringing her to justice, he doesn't have what it takes to turn the other cheek.
"We have all carried this burden differently," he says. "Some of us have been stronger than others."
But even if he does learn the whole truth of what happened in 1967, Smootz says one thing will always remain the same.
"I was her protector," says Smootz, "and I let that happen to Connie."
With these words, Smootz begins to tear up. Sowers turns to Smootz and says, as only a mother can to her son, "You know it's not your fault."
"I know," says Smootz, "but I still blame myself."
Carroll and Connie at age 6.
Mother and daughter smile for the camera on Connie's wedding day, along with father Virgil Smootz and husband Larry.
LaVerne Sowers keeps newspaper clippings about her daughter's murder in the same scrapbook as the pictures of Connie's childhood.
On October 16, 1967, Staunton police investigator Davie Bocock (left) watches while police chief J.M. Boyers announces the arrest of William "Gus" Thomas for Hevener's murder. A jury would later acquit Thomas in three hours in 1968.
More than 41 years later, on December 12, 2008, Staunton Commonwealth's Attorney Ray Robertson and Staunton police chief James Williams announced the arrest of Sharron Diane Crawford Smith. Smith would later say that Bocock helped her bury the murder weapon on his farm.
Sharon Diane Crawford Smith (seen at left in her 1966 high school yearbook picture and at right in her 2008 police mugshot) told Staunton police she killed Connie Hevener because she had been "taunting, teasing" her "about my lifestyle" as a closeted lesbian.
At a recent visit to his mother's house, Carroll Smootz thumbs through a collection of pictures of his twin sister, Connie Hevener, with his mother LaVerne Sowers. Hevener was murdered in 1967, at age 19.
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Connie Hevener's family wants to know why a cop allegedly hid her killer for 40 years? Because that's what crooked corrupt cops do. It's that simple. And every small department nationwide has at least one or two of them aboard. Larger cities... God only knows how many they have!
Lindsay, I would like to see a story and interview of William "Gus" Thomas.
I can't imagine being charged with a murder and going to jail for a crime you didn't commit. Can you imagine the mental anguish this man suffered between the time he was arrested and finally released by a jury?
I often wonder, did he sue the city and Bocock for false arrest and imprisonment?
I've wondered for weeks and weeks if Bocock could have been her father - and you have added credence to my speculation. Only a parent will fight tooth and nail to protect their child from something like this. Wish DNA testing could be done somehow to shed light on this theory.
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B Kelly, I think in the movie version of this story Bocock will be a married cop having an affair with a married woman. This other woman gets pregnant by him. Neither Bocock's wife or the other woman's husband ever know that Smith is actually Bocock's daughter by this woman he was having an affair with. A father could never charge his own daughter with a double murder. :)


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LOUDON — Jeff Rieman came to New Hampshire Motor Speedway's FanFest Thursday to have some words with one of the two drivers scheduled to be there, Clint Bowyer.
Bowyer, who is among the 13 drivers chosen this year to compete in NASCAR's Chase championship, has been at the center of controversy since he allegedly spun his car at a recent race in in Richmond, Va., a move that NASCAR officials said was a deliberate attempt to help a teammmate win points.
Bowyer was the talk of fans waiting for FanFest, which regularly features two drivers meeting with NASCAR follower. But at the last minute, it was announced that Joey Logano was present, but Bowyer couldn't appear. No reason was given.
"I'm mad as hell," said Reimer, who is from Meriden, Conn. "I still respect him as a driver, but he spun his car out on purpose, and he won't admit it."
"He did it on purpose, and that taints the race. I was going to ask him about it here, but he didn't show up."
Benjamin Hunter of Rochester agreed.
"What he did was a load of crap," Hunter said. "The thing that bothers me is that another driver (Martin Truex Jr.) didn't make the Chase because of it."
Most at FanFest said they would still watch the race, and some thought too much was being made of the incident, which caused NASCAR to impose penalties on the drivers and crews involved.
"I don't think what Bowyer did was right, but it's been going on for years in the sport," said Jeff LaPierre of Lee. "It really doesn't spoil anything for me, though."
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Two months ago, LC3 closed the snack bar called Pier 73 to make it a restaurant by installing improved seating, a bar and a 40-inch television screen for patrons not to mention an enhanced menu. The project cost $300,000.
Our goal is for Deuces Wild to give people a chance to relax and have a drink or a bite --to eat with family, friends or business associates before or after a flight, said Anthony Campeggio Jr., the General Manager for LC3 at ACY.
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Deuces Wild will have a gaming theme, Campeggio said. A signature item is its Blackjack Burger, ground beef topped with Cajun spices and cheddar cheese. Patrons can be sure of getting fresh salads, plus ready-made grab 'n go sandwiches. The bar will offer a wide range of mixed drinks and four draft beers plus soft drinks.
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This new venture is part of our commitment to give travelers at ACY an even more pleasant and convenient experience, said Airport Director Thomas Rafter. Other recent improvements include upgraded instrument guided landing, flightline lighting and a new taxiway, and work is under way on an 18-month project to improve baggage handling and security screening. He said the South Jersey Transportation Authority, which owns and operates the airport, plans to build a parking garage this year.


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The spec is based on Whirlwind - "Hurricane" and Sprint - "Run Like the Wind".
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Posted 21 November 2011 - 03:50 PM
I'm delighted that my sister started a tradition at her house. She's cooking turkey etc. and we're all bringing other food. I love it that I don't have to do all that cooking anymore!
Posted 21 November 2011 - 10:38 PM
This year, we are going to stay in a friend's cabin out in the woods - peaceful and calm. I'm going with my inlaws - there will be about ten of us. Should be fun! I definitely have a lot of blessings to be thankful for and will definitely be thinking of that this week!
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Posted 21 November 2011 - 11:43 PM
I tried to gently suggest that we bring the whole mess to my house this year but she wouldn't hear of it. 'Lil sister is one strong cookie!
You're so right. Autumnbelle, about the blessings to be thankful for. To tell the truth, none of us LOVES turkey! But just being together and remembering to be thankful always, (not just that day) is what the day is all about. It's a tradition worth keeping.
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My cooking is done now today. I feel like I got out easy. Ham, fresh apple cake, yams, and tonight I'll make the banana pudding. Hope I don't take a chunk out of something before we get there tomorrow!
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Still keeping you in my thoughts and prayers. All will be well. :-)
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Having Thanksgiving at my aunts again (she lives across the street from us)
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Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be.Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.
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Back home now from my sister's. I almost needed the garden cart to make it to the porch because of the eating! The nice thing about everyone bringing certain food is that no one does that much cooking. But when it's all on the table... you'd better take a little of everything because they notice if you don't eat what they brought! So I did.
After dinner my sister and I cleared the table together and ended up sitting at the table as the others went outside. Beautiful weather today.
We started talking about things from our childhood and realizing how much we appreciated our parents and loved our siblings, and all in all we were so thankful for our family. Every part of it.
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Why the Anchor-Putt Debate Is Back
The USGA Expected Some Blowback When It Moved to Change the Rule. It Got a Lot
The U.S. Golf Association has a brewing revolt on its hands. When it announced in November a proposal to ban anchored putting, effective in 2016, there was predictably a lot of grumbling. "Over my dead body!" was the sentiment of many practitioners, among them former yippers and golfers with bad backs, who have grown dependent on the anchored stroke and the long belly or broomstick putters that go with it.
In the last few weeks, as the USGA's three-month comment period about the proposal winds toward its Feb. 28 conclusion, that grumbling has become more full-throated. Mark King, the chief executive of equipment maker TaylorMade, called the ban "idiotic" and predicted that the USGA could be "obsolete" within five years. PGA Tour Commissioner Tim Finchem has talked openly for the first time about the possibility of bifurcation, or two sets of rules in golf, one for recreational players and another for the pros.
With all the heat, there is also confusion and misperception. Herewith, some answers to questions readers may have:
Aren't these comment periods pro forma? Is there any chance the USGA will actually change its mind?
Never before has the USGA, and its sister international rules-making body, the R&A, opened up a comment period for a proposed "playing rule." The rules makers commonly do so for equipment regulations. In at least five cases since 2001, they have modified a rule in response to comments. Playing rules, however, are typically so minor and "inside baseball"—an example from last year is the tweak that eliminates the penalty if the wind moves a ball after a player has addressed it—that the rules makers felt comment periods were not necessary. This case is unique because the ban would take away a stroke that tens of thousands of people world-wide already use. And yes, it is at least conceivable that the USGA might modify the proposal (see below).
Is there one core reason why so many are up in arms?
Most who oppose the ban argue that it simply wasn't necessary. In recreational play, no more than 10% to 20% of players use an anchored stroke, and no hard evidence exists that the stroke is an inherent advantage, as opposed to merely a personal preference. Some manufacturers, such as King at TaylorMade and John Solheim, the boss at Ping, have said they fear the ban will drive customers from the game; they would also like to sell more long putters. Many club pros see the ban as a nuisance. They believe many committed anchor putters will ignore the ban, creating problems at club tournaments and in running a fair handicap system. In a survey of PGA club and teaching pros, 63% were against the ban.
Remind me again why the USGA wants to ban anchored putting.
Officially because it does not consider a stroke with the butt end of the club pressed against the chest or belly, creating a fulcrum, to be a genuine golf stroke. The USGA argues that, as an independent body without vested financial interests, it wants to preserve the traditional golf stroke in the long-term interests of the game. When he announced the proposal in November, Mike Davis, the USGA's executive director, said regulators do not buy into the claim that significant numbers of golfers will leave the game, or fail to take it up, if they can't anchor-putt. Skill and challenge are what draw people to golf, Davis said; time and expense, not difficulty, are the main reasons they leave. Many golfers (including me) agree. A survey of 1,766 committed golfers by Golf Datatech found that, of those with an opinion, 2 to 1 favor the ban.
Anchored putting is decades old. Why ban it now?
Because it's catching on. Three of the last five major winners (Keegan Bradley, Webb Simpson and Ernie Els) putted anchor-style, and amateurs are following suit. "The difference now is we are seeing golfers who no longer see this as a stroke of last resort," Davis said. The possibility, claimed by some, that anchoring is more efficient and might someday supplant traditional putting spurred the regulators to act against a stroke that it never felt was entirely cricket but chose to ignore when it was used by so few. "This is all about the future of the game. It's about us defining the game, defining a stroke, clarifying a very controversial and divisive situation," Davis said.
Speaking of the Tour, where does it stand, given that so many of its stars anchor-putt?
"Make it go away" probably best describes Commissioner Finchem's attitude. The players themselves are divided. Tiger Woods and Brandt Snedeker, among others, strongly support the ban. Longtime anchor putters like Tim Clark and Carl Pettersson, among others, are strongly opposed. Finchem hates the divisiveness and distraction the proposal has stirred up, and reportedly prevailed on the Tour's player policy board, which met Monday, to write a letter to the USGA expressing the Tour's opposition. Should the USGA finalize the ban, the Tour might go along, perhaps even moving up compliance to the start of next season to put the distraction behind it. But it could take the unprecedented step of breaking with USGA rules and allowing anchored putting at its events. That would usher in a royal mess. First, because amateurs would have even more reason to defy the ban, further undermining the USGA's authority. Second, because the Tour's anchorers would almost certainly not be allowed to putt that way in the U.S. Open and the British Open, sponsored by the USGA and the R&A, respectively, and the Masters, which usually follows the USGA's lead.
How will this end?
A spokesman for the USGA said that it and the R&A will ponder the comments and take "final action" sometime this spring. If the ban is approved without change, the Tour, the PGA of America and everyday players will have to decide, individually, whether to continue anchored putting after Jan. 1, 2016. Given the uproar, however, regulators could come up with creative modifications. For instance, it could provide for a "condition of competition" that allows clubs or local tournaments the option of allowing anchored putting, perhaps for a specified number of years, like 10, or somehow grandfathering in current practitioners. Such a condition has never been provided to circumvent a playing rule, only for such things as limiting equipment in elite competitions and as a response to weather (lift, clean and place). But extraordinary times sometimes call for extraordinary measures.
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