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GamesBeat's Dean Takahashi sums up the big news of the gaming world in 2012
I almost forgot about poor Curt.
I know!! Kingdom of Amalur was a great title, sad to see them go
sad indeed.
I almost forgot about Gaikai and Sony, too. Should make the PS4 very interesting!
N4G is a community of gamers posting and discussing the latest game news. It's part of NewsBoiler, a network of social news sites covering today's pop culture.


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On March 11 1990 I made my first visit to Loftus Road.
My dad had taken my brother Dominic a few weeks before and I had the hump. I told my dad in no uncertain terms that girls can like football too (clearly I was always going to be a feminist) and that I wanted to go to watch his team, the team I'd inherited from him, QPR.
He didn't think I would like football but once sat on my seat in what is known to Rangers fans as the "Upper Loft" I also inherited his passion for his football team.
That was to be the day, while watching QPR draw 2-2 with Liverpool in the quarter final of the FA Cup , that would form so many childhood memories for me. And this is why I'm so sad that the club are on the verge of leaving Loftus Road.
I was just eight when I made my first trip there. Roy Wegerle (now a pro-golfer) was my favourite player, my brother opted for Ray Wilkins. We excitedly got shirts with the numbers 10 and 7 respectively.
As the years went by we would look forward to Saturday afternoons so I could cheer my team on. Along with my dad, who would regale me with his own memories of QPR's 1967 League Cup victory, I soon became a season ticket holder. We would make the 60-mile round trip every other Saturday and leave Loftus Road either elated or utterly, utterly depressed. In extenuating circumstances, I would be blubbing my eyes out.
And that's just why it's such a very special place for me. There are so many childhood memories.
There were highs - watching us beat Oldham to go to the Play-Off final in 2003 being my most memorable, as are the bruises caused by the lack of leg room. There were also so many lows - conceding an equaliser to Manchester United after eight minutes of added time (there were tears) and the day we got relegated from the Premiership in 1996 (yep, more tears. Lots of them).
I watched players such as Les Ferdinand (there were tears when he left us for Newcastle, btw), Trevor Sinclair (I fancied him A LOT), Peter Crouch and more recently Adel Taarabt, the lovely Shaun Derry and the ever entertaining Joey Barton.
I've sang songs, none better than the ode to Danny Shittu... "Chim chiminey chim chiminey, chim chim cher-oo, who needs Sol Campbell when you've got Shittu."
And I was a mascot in 1992 against Spurs.
There were horrid times, like when Flavio Briatore and Bernie Ecclestone nearly destroyed the club.
I've made my poor dad waste hours of his life waiting outside the players' exit to grab an autograph, a picture or a kiss. He won't get that time back.
I even met David Beckham there when he was just a teenager.
As I got older I couldn't go as much, I got a Saturday job and then went to university in Norwich. Now I work on Saturdays so can't go anywhere near as often as I'd like to - but when I go it's even more of a treat.
If the brilliant Tony Fernandes does uproot us for a 40,000 stadium I will be upset. Loftus Road has been a happy place for 23 years of my life.
However, things evolve, they move on and change.
But the special memories I have will stay with me forever.


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Reuters has reported that the US Senate anticipates bringing the latest carbon emission bill to the floor next week. Although details are currently sketchy, there are some interesting facets revealed in that article:
– The bill's greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction target is 17% by the year 2020;
– The baseline year for this reduction is 2005;
– Regional and state-specific GHG cap-and-trade programs would be eliminated and replaced by a federal program.
– Cap-and-trade for electric power generators would begin in 2012; for manufacturing, the program would begin in 2016;
– Domestic and international off-sets would be allowable
– Transportation emissions reductions would be achieved through a motor fuel fee that would hopefully spur various forms of innovation, efficiency and reductions
One glaring aspect of these few details is whether/how companies will get "early action credit" for their GHG reduction efforts achieved prior to this bill's 2005 baseline year. Corporations that made major strides in GHG reductions between 2000 and 2005 may find themselves on the wrong end of the "80/20 rule". Those who chose to wait for more certainty could be in an improved competitive situation by spending less money to harvest the "low hanging fruit" to hit the 17% target.


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|NHRA Drag Racing
|6 Aug 2017
|Event Type
|Drag Racing (Cars)
|Irwindale Event Center, USA
|USA - California
|Web Site
|Tel : +1 626 358 1100
|One of the Event Center`s best-kept secrets is that, every year, there are six Sunday`s of very spirited pro-quality NHRA Drag Competition, in addition to over 40 Thursday night "Test & Tune" evenings.
Those six special Sunday events bring the best of the best together for some (very) serious Drag Racing at Irwindale. This is a hard-fought Track Championship series, sponsored by Summit Racing Equipment, where every run counts and every point is important.
Fans who attend Irwindale`s Sunday Summit Series races find a somewhat different atmosphere at these daytime races.
"Series" and "serious" sound a lot alike and (if you`re a real NHRA Drag Racing fan) you`ll know why after just one Sunday in the sun at Irwindale.
As on Thursday nights, the pits and the parking are one big friendly place, and these racers, crews, car owners (and their machines) are just as accessible as ever to the fans. But the racers aren`t "testing or tuning"; they`re going for it every time that they roll up to the starting lights. Every run counts, every run is important first to last.
That said, fans are invited grab their shades and sun block and spend a very fast Sunday (or six!) cheering on the show at the 2017 Summit Series at Irwindale.
The 2017 NHRA-sanctioned series will run on these Sundays:
April 9
May 5
June 25
July 23
August 6
August 27
The Summit series features four divisions of NHRA Drag Racing on the eighth-mile Irwindale track: Super Pro, Pro, Pro Bike, and Sportsman and offers Drag Racing fans a wide variety of racing machines and an even wider variety of racing drivers who will compete for track, regional, and national championships.
Here`s a quick rundown of our terrific 2016 Champs:
SPORTSMAN: John Wise from Mission Viejo is the Summit champ in the Sportsman category for 2016. He had two rough (30-point) races in the short, six-race series, but his first race win and his win in the final event put him 43 points in the lead for his class win. Sixty-one drivers took part in the Sportsman division this year at Irwindale.
PRO CLASS: Willie Hoefer from Yucaipa had the smallest number of points in the "margin of victory" column for the Summit Pro Stock class at the Dragstrip this year, a scant 20 (496 to 476). And, proving that Pro is a tight class, third place clocked in only ONE POINT behind second at 475! All told, some fifty-nine competitors rolled up to the starting line to challenge each other for the 2016 title.
PRO BIKE: Dave Miller from Whittier just rode away with the Summit Series two-wheel championship for 2016. Winning three of the six races (and finishing well in two of the other three races), Miller amassed a 169-point advantage over his next nearest competitor for the 2016 two-wheel Summit crown. Only six bikes were on hand to vie for the Summit Championship this year on the Irwindale eighth-mile, but the racing was VERY fun to watch, with riders leaning out over the handlebars to keep front wheels on the track, and close finishes at the light.
SUPER PRO: Alex George of Huntington Beach prevailed in this year`s edition of the division that regularly makes most of its runs in the 6-second and below range. George`s early season form saw him at season`s end with a 67-point advantage over second place. Twelve different drivers clashed on the Irwindale `strip in this division during the 2016 season.
Fans are, of course, welcome (No ... highly encouraged!) to attend these special Summit Series Sunday events, which start early with gates opening at 8a.m.
There`ll be three exciting qualifying rounds (time permitting) followed immediately by elimination runs at 1 p.m.
Sunday admission is only $10 and parking is FREE.
And, remember, there`s Thursday Night NHRA Street Legal Drag Racing year-round at Irwindale. Always fun, fast, and friendly, you can race your own car for $20, or watch for $10 (and FREE parking either way).


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Here's a despressing thought: people with high blood pressure aren't taking it upon themselves to improve their health by following recommended dietary guidelines.
That's the conclusion of a study in the February 11 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine.
The study analyzed data of adults from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey from 1988 to 1994, and from 1999 to 2004. The researchers determined ideal nutritional targets in nine areas (fat, saturated fat, protein, cholesterol, fiber, magnesium, calcium, sodium, and potassium) that used the DASH diet as a guideline and then looked at how closely those with hypertension were to the targets.
What they found was that in the 1988 to 1994 group, 26.7 percent of those with hypertension were following an appropriate diet. But in the 1999 to 2004 group the number dropped to 19.4 percent.
The DASH diet (which stands for Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) has been recommended for controlling high blood pressure since 1997 along with other lifestyle changes like losing weight. The DASH diet is hardly special or exotic — it emphasizes whole grains, fresh produce, lean meats, and is low in salt and fat.
In 2005, $60 billion in health care spending was attributed to high blood pressure in this country. That's a high price to pay for a disease whose prescription includes fruits and vegetables.


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Dysthymia is a mood or affective disorder. It is a chronic, mild depression that lasts for a long period of time. The word dysthymia comes from Greek roots meaning "ill-humour." Dysthymic disorder has less of the mental and physical symptoms that a person with major depressive disorder experiences.
The condition usually starts in early adulthood, and the disorder can last for years or even decades. Later onset is usually associated with bereavement or obvious stress, and often follows on the heels of a more extreme depressive episode. Women are twice as likely as men to suffer from dysthymia, in a similar ratio to that seen with major depression.
In the past, dysthymia had several other names: depressive neurosis, neurotic depression, depressive personality disorder, and persistent anxiety depression.
The exact cause of dysthymia is not known, but a combination of factors are thought to play a role in its development. Heredity (genetics) can play a role, and people with family members who have depression or dysthymia are more likely to experience dysthymia, especially when it starts early in life (teens to early 20s).
Changes in neurotransmitters (chemical messengers) in the brain may also precipitate dysthymia. Chronic stress or medical illness, social isolation, and thoughts and perceptions about the world, can all influence the development of dysthymia. Other mental health conditions (e.g., borderline personality disorder) can also increase the risk of its development.
About 1 out of 4 people with dysthymia develop the condition in midlife, known as late-onset dysthymia. Symptoms usually follow a particular depressive episode, related to some shock or loss a person has experienced.
Signs that a person may be suffering from dysthymia include:
The severity of these symptoms varies and depends on the individual. Some people can still deal with the basic demands of life, while others undergo significant distress, making it difficult to cope with work, school, or social situations.


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Hi, my name is Graham O'Brien and I'm a drummer, audio engineer, and composer living in St. Paul, MN. I play in some really fun bands around town (including Keston & Westdal!) and specialize in drumming and writing for sequenced music. And having gotten a recording degree, I do some work recording and mixing radio commercials at Marketing Architects ad agency in Mineeapolis. I also am building a drum recording studio in my basement that's coming along really well and I'll be posting plenty of really cool stuff from there. Now, for my first post to Audio Cookbook.
This is a short but pristine recording of me opening a can of Mendota Springs Sparkling Water (Lemon flavor). I recorded it at the radio production studio I work at, and the recording chain is amazing. First we tuned and sound-proofed the recording booth down to -32dB of isolation. Here's the recording chain:
Neumann U87a (cardiod pattern, hi pass off)> Great River Electronics MP-2NV Mercenary Edition Class A Mic Pre > Langevin Electro/Optical Compressor/limiter > Pro Tools HD via 192 i/o interface
This recording was done at 44.1Khz, 16bit. The only processing I used is the Massey L2007 Limiter to make it louder: mendota-springs-can-loud


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Mount Saint Marys Cemetery
Also known as: Saint Marys Cemetery
- 2201 Cleveland Avenue, Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri, 64127 USA
- (816) 241-7663
- 31,671 Memorials added (57% photographed)
A cemetery named Saint Peter and Paul Catholic Cemetery was abandoned in the 1920's and the interments moved to Saint Mary's Cemetery.
GPS Coordinates: 39.0856, -94.5358
- Added: 2 Jan 2000
- Find A Grave Cemetery: #30373
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The top cover needs some trimming. Here I'm cutting away the piece roughly the size of the filter.
We want to spread the light as evenly as possible. Leds create a pin light and I try to diffuse it by sanding the top cover from both sides. One good way to diffuse the light would be a piece of thin paper inside the top cover but ultimately this would lower the intensity of the light so I decided to sand the piece. For certain types of photos, the separate lights from the leds can make the shot more interesting.
Putting it together
Here I'm soldering the two lights together. They both operate with 12 volts so I'm hooking them up in parallel.
One can use for example a motorcycle battery or something similar that offers 12 volts to power up the lights. I didn't need the mobility so I'm going to use a regulated wall transformer, rated for 12 volts.
Quick and dirty. Perhaps I should try to find some other glue for my projects to make them appear more "professional" but for something like this, the hot glue works just fine.
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Eleven middle schoolers tested their speed and maneuverability in a Juneau pool Friday - but it wasn't a swimming competition.
The kids wrapped up two weeks of atmospheric and marine science exploration through a new science camp at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration lab in Auke Bay with a contest involving remote-operated vehicles, or ROVs, they had built themselves.
In Sun to Sea Science Camp, students in grades six to eight learned about wind, weather, waves, marine life and the interconnectedness of life systems from Floyd Dryden Middle School science teacher Kathleen Galau - as well as experts from NOAA's Ted Stevens Marine Research Institute, the local office of the National Weather Service and two scientists from the U.S. Navy's Naval Undersea Warfare Center in Newport, R.I.
Juneau's Luke Sewell, 12, who said he'll likely take the camp again, will be one of five kids to take a SeaPerch ROV home.
"It was just the thrill of making your own little thing and wiring it, then seeing it work and everything," he said of the SeaPerches, which they worked on for about two hours each day.
Campers completed their ROVs Monday afternoon and tested them Thursday in a large swimming pool at the NOAA Auke Bay lab. They even held a SeaPerch contest Friday, competing in maneuverability and speed.
Galau, who has taught science for the past 10 years, said the students particularly enjoyed using the ROVs.
"We put cameras on them so they could look at the bottom," she said. "We attached other things such as a pH meter and dissolved oxygen, so they can use the SeaPerch to actually do science documentation and observation."
Galau said the kids were pleased with the camp.
"We had one girl who was sick and just was dragging herself in here anyway, because she was having so much fun," Galau said. "I'm really happy the kids seem to be enjoying it. And we're doing science, so it's the best of all worlds."
Camp instruction focused on watersheds and ecosystems; geocaching and GIS mapping; monitoring water, climate, air and water pressure, wind and circulation; and sound collection and analysis.
Although the majority of the camp was held at NOAA's Auke Bay Laboratory, students took field trips to the Mount Roberts Tramway, Aurora Harbor, Auke Lake, Twin Lakes and Sunshine Cove.
This week, students watched humpback whales feeding and breaching near South Shelter Island, and captured their vocalizations with the help of Navy scientists and their hydrophones.
"They could hear the whale vocalizations under water, which is pretty cool," said Mary Hakala, education coordinator of the Juneau Economic Development Council, which sponsored the camp through its SpringBoard program and federal grant money for fostering interest in science, technology, engineering and math. "You don't get to always have that technology around, and it's at our back door, but we don't usually have access to it."
On Friday, students were using sounds collected from the outing in their camp wrap-up movie, Galau said.
On Wednesday, students dug for clams and seined from the beach at Auk Nu Cove, then followed up with testing in the lab for toxins that cause paralytic shellfish poison.
"It's exciting because it's a launch of a NOAA partnership," Hakala said. "NOAA is heavily invested in the science camp, and it's going really well. What I've been hearing from parents is all really good feedback, and what I've seen is a lot of interest and smiling students."
All 11 participants have Juneau connections, with one camper from Minnesota, one from New Mexico and one from the United Kingdom.
Amber Blossom, 13, of Clovis, N.M., said she mostly enjoyed learning how to wire the SeaPerch - as well as the recreational lunchtime fishing.
Sewell, the 12-year-old who gets to take one of the ROVs home, even caught a 30-pound king salmon while fishing in a stream near the NOAA lab.
"But I didn't land it," Sewell said. "It broke my line just as it got on to the shore."
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Mythical Dreams
Piano - Intermediate
Composed by June C. Montgomery. Piano Solo; Solo. Sheet. 4 pages. Published by Alfred Music (AP.22478).
Item Number: AP.22478
This lyrical solo in D minor will transport students to another time and place. The right hand melody uses melodic and rhythmic patterns throughout the piece. These patterns will aid in learning and memorizing. Careful balance between the hands is needed when both hands are in the treble register. In the B section, a change of key to A major and a slightly faster tempo create a change of mood as well. This expressive piece is sure to bring out the best in any performer. Intermediate.


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I'm a huge fan of the original army of two games, and let me say this game does not disappoint. I LOVE this game. Sure it's a barebones action shooter but that's what the person buying this game should go into it thinking. There were also a few pleasant surprises in this game. For one the dismemberment. It's crazy. Overkill mode literally leaves a path if dismembered bodies and chaos. I love the environmental damage. A lot of the environments look straight out of battlefield 3. Which is a great thing. I was so happy with this game. The achievements were fun too because they are designed for multiple playthroughs. This game is killer with a buddy. I hope everyone is enjoying this game as much as I am :)
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Tell Us About Yourself (2) - Hazzabee
What's being said in the forum now?Click to join the Vital Chelsea forum!
1 - Your Vital Chelsea user name?
2 - When did you first start supporting Chelsea?
My family are split, my dad's side being Spurs fans and my Mum's side being Chelsea fans. My elder brother became a Spurs fan but for whatever reason, I didn't follow him and my Father. It was in fact my Chelsea supporting cousins (on my Mother's side) who inspired me to become a Chelsea fan. I don't quite remember when that was exactly. 1998 I think. I went to my first Chelsea match in 1999.
3 - How old are you?
I'm 19 years old.
4 - Where do you live?
I currently but temporarily live in the delightful and sunny city of Preston (sarcasm very much intended). I'm not from there though, I've lived all over the place, London, Devon, Nottingham, Newcastle, Chester and Hong Kong. My brother is living literally a stone's throw away from the Bridge so it makes it easy for me to travel down and go to games. In fact, as I write this, I'm sitting in his living room. (Having just seen Chelsea ease past Wigan)
5 - Your occupation is?
I'm a student. Currently at university studying journalism. I started in September. If the course wasn't so appealing there's no way I'd happily be situated anywhere that has both Manchester and Liverpool so bleedin' close! Thank God for the British Rail service.
6 - Your favourite Chelsea memory is?
The 19th of May 2012. The day we made history, the day we became Champions of Europe. 9 months on I still find myself smiling and even welling up just thinking about that incredible night. It was the ultimate culmination to the ultimate 3 months of football. I don't think we'll ever see a better climax to a season than that ever again. But the memory of the night of the Champions League final in particular will be with me forever. Words don't quite do justice to the emotions I experienced that night.
7 - Your worst Chelsea memory is?
I would probably say the Champions League final in 2008 in Moscow. Just for the sheer intensity of sadness and disbelief I experienced that night. I struggled to even be able to think about that night for a good few months. I still shudder when I see JT taking that penalty. I'm just so glad all that (and much more) was avenged in 2012.
8 - Your favourite all-time Chelsea player is?
Super Frank! As I was living out in Hong Kong until 2003, as a boy I saw very little of Chelsea, I followed results but only saw 1 or 2 matches a season. The matches were very rarely on TV and when they were they were on past my bedtime! So I never really saw much of Chelsea until I came back to England in 2003. I was gutted that Zola had left before I had a chance to watch him play (although I did see him in one pre-season game) but Frank stepped in nicely and quickly became my idol. I've grown up with Lampard at the centre of everything that is football in my life. He's guided and propelled Chelsea to their greatest era in their history and he's also been the main-man for England too. This 'end of an era' really saddens me as it's not just the end of a great era for us, it's also the end of the first real era I've experienced and grown up with. As much as I'm looking forward to watching the likes of Luiz, Oscar, Mata, Hazard, Courtois and McEachran, I will shed a tear when the likes of Super Frank, JT, ash and Big Pete no longer roam the grasses of Stamford Bridge. They are legends. And Frank has been my biggest idol throughout.
9 - Your best ever Chelsea goal is?
It's tough to say. I will narrow it down to 3. Fernando Torres' goal v Barcelona. Simply because what that goal meant. We were in the final. We had beaten the best team in the world with 10 men. There was also the sheer relief of the goal too as I'm sure you were all crouched behind your sofas as I was for the entirety of the second half. Then there was Drogba's swiveled volley against Liverpool in 2006/07 at the Bridge. It summed up Didier incredibly well. He demonstrated his power, pace, technique, finesse and never to pull that off. A strike as quick as lightening, on the turn, on the volley with his back to goal with pace to match. Incredible. Then there was Lampard's second goal against Bolton in 2005. After that goal there was this incredible release of 50 years of waiting (me having only experienced 11 of those). it was the realization that we were champions and we were the best in the world.
10 - Your thoughts on Vital Chelsea?
I love this site. I found this site because I was looking for a place to talk football and Chelsea. I found it. But now things are different. You get to know certain members and you build 'friendships', and I find myself coming back to VC everyday not just because it's a place where I can talk about my footballing opinions, but to catch up with my friends and see what their take is on things.
The one negative about the site really is what's happened to the front page (comments-wise) in the last 6-12 months or so. I used to enjoy commenting and writing articles on a regular basis but the audience has changed so much that I find it hard to relate to the fans who are mainstays there. So I tend to stay away these days. But that's fine. The site is run extremely well and I have to give credit to Merlin for that, in particular during times of crisis when the topics of insults and free-speech arise, the site stays in good nick. I thoroughly enjoy it here and so long as my good friends at VC stay on (you know who you are) I'll be inclined to keep coming back every day as I do now.
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Kitsch-Back: What is Kitsch to You?
If you look at your dictionary or Wikipedia, you may find kitsch defined as 'gaudy, cheap, and tacky.' This description does not to justice to the international phenomenon we fondly know as kitsch.
A word borrowed from the German language, its orginal meaning has it associated with tackiness and trashiness. Yet it is also fresh, funky and fabulous.
You can find it all over the world, emboying different media and styles. There is a quirky kind of magic to it, an irrestible charm if you get to know it. What does it mean to you?
Is there even such a thing as 'too kitsch' or 'too much kitsch'? No! Of course not.
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Sevier County (WVLT) - A young mother can barely walk after a fire scalds both her legs. Monday night we told you how Courtney Highley overcame her pain to save her 10-month old baby during a kitchen fire. Now Highley's out of the hospital.
Only Volunteer TV's Mike McCarthy's sat down with the quick-thinking mom.
The fire's left physical and emotional scars. The fire itself was very small. It erupted in a pan while she was cooking french fries. She tried to put out, but dropped the pan, spilling the fire down her legs.
The fire is out, but it's impact still burns. We warn you some of these images are very graphic
"It felt like my skin was melting off. That's how bad it felt at first," Highley said.
Swollen and scarred, the memory of a fire is burned into Courtney Highley's feet.
"It was a nightmare, which I never thought would happen," Highley said.
Monday night she was cooking french fries. Just after 9:00.
"I just totally forgot about it and left it on the stove, walked back in the kitchen and it was on fire," Highley said.
Highley tried to put the pan in the sink, but the grease flames spread fast.
"When it dropped, the whole floor spread with fire, and my legs, I couldn't get my legs out of there fast enough," Highley said.
The pain blistering in her mind.
"It was like one of those horror movies I see when they spill hot oil on their legs and all their skin goes melting away," Highley said.
But that couldn't extinguish her motherly instincts to save her 10-month-old daughter, Cassidy.
"I didn't care about my legs hurting. I didn't feel them at that point," Highley said.
Highley grabbed her baby, then ran downstairs to apartment 304 for help.
"You can save a lot of people in bad situations if you're not afraid to jump in and act quickly," neighbor Carol Anderson said.
"It's terrifying w hen you're 12 hours away from your daughter with none of her own family. You just can't get there fast enough," Highley's mother, Terry Walsh, said.
Now Highley says it's getting to the burn center in Chattanooga that's not happening fast enough.
"We were on our way there and they said there's not point in coming because the doctors won't have time to see me," Highley said.
"So now we have wait till Thursday to take her," Walsh said.
Her feet sacrificed to save...
"The most important thing, more important than my feet," Highley said.
And as Cassidy learns to walk...
"With the help of people like me, she's getting around better than me at this point," Highley said.
It's her mom who to be needs carried...On the road to recovery.
Highley says doctors expect her to make a full recovery. She'll be able to walk again, and at this point will keep both her feet.
The bigger problem is how Highley will pay for her medical bills. She's a single mom and she says her boyfriend works, but she says they already have bills piled high. So that's adding to her anxiety.


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Los Angeles County prosecutors acknowledged Tuesday that they failed to inform a West Covina woman about a plea deal in December that allowed her estranged husband out of jail after he pleaded guilty to threatening her with a stun gun.
The lapse is one of several decisions the district attorney's office is investigating after Curtis Bernard Harris, 34, kidnapped Monica Thomas-Harris, 37, and killed her before taking his own life over the weekend at a Whittier motel.
The prosecutor in the case agreed to Harris' release on his own recognizance so that he could get his affairs in order before reporting to prison for a 16-month sentence. The prosecutor advocated for the release even though Harris had an extensive criminal record and despite a report by the county Probation Department concluding that Harris was "unsuitable for release."
"What I know about this case is that there are elements that concern me given his conduct before his arrest," said Pamela K. Booth, a branch supervisor who oversees the district attorney's office in Pomona. "What I know so far is that he showed a pattern of escalating violence against the victim."


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Everton Linked With Madjid
David Moyes' Everton are the latest club to be linked with the services of highly-rated Wednesday defender Madjid Bougherra according to reports today.
The Algerian international was subject to a £1.3m offer from Premiership strugglers Charlton Athletic last week which was rejected by the Owls, while Reading were also reported to be keen on his signature.
But Wednesday are reluctant to sell for £1.3m, despite only buying Bougherra in the summer for £200,000, and are keen to hold out for a price closer to the £3m mark for their hottest prosepect.
And it wouldn't be the first time the Toffees boss has paid big money for a player from the lower leagues - with former Wolves defender Joleon Lescott making the move to Goodison Park in the summer for £5m.
Bougherra has already spoken of his desire to play in the Premiership 'as quickly as possible' but boss Brian Laws has insisted he would be 'wasting his time' to go and speak to any clubs about a move for £1.3m - insisting a move would cost much more.


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Manchester City boss Sven Goran Eriksson hailed skipper Richard Dunne after their 0-0 draw with Liverpool.
"I don't know if it was Richard's best performance for Manchester City but it was an extremely good one," said Eriksson.
"He is a good player and our captain and he showed the way forward."
With Micah Richards providing able assistance to his central defensive partner, Dunne marshalled City towards a point which keeps them just one adrift of Liverpool in the battle for fourth, while leaving the Merseysiders 10 behind new leaders Arsenal.
Unlike former team-mate Joey Barton, who lurches from one crisis to another, Dunne has learned from the mistakes he made under former manager Kevin Keegan and, according to Eriksson, is now a model professional.
"He is a very important member of our dressing room," said the former England manager.
"He has been here for a long time and it is good to have someone like that around the club.
"Not only is he a good footballer, he is a very sensible person, which is what you require from a captain."


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SEPM section hosts Tech professor
The Permian Basin section, SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology) will meet Tuesday, March 15 at Midland Center beginning at 11:30 a.m.
George Asquith, Professor and Pevehouse Chair in Petroleum Geology, Texas Tech University, will present "Log Analysis of Devonian Woodberry Gas-Bearing Shale in Oklahoma."
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Mesut Özil has emerged as a fitness doubt for Arsenal's Premier League game at home to Norwich City on Saturday, after he limped off towards the end of Germany's final World Cup qualifier against Sweden in Stockholm on Tuesday night.
The Arsenal manager Arsène Wenger hopes the damage to Özil's knee is nothing more than bruising, as the initial reports have indicated and that the midfielder will be able to continue the fine start that he has made to his career at the club, following his £42.5m move from Real Madrid last month.
Özil scored in the tie against the Swedes, as Germany came back from 2-0 down to win 5-3 thanks, in large part, to a hat-trick from Chelsea's André Schürrle but he felt his knee after a challenge and he had to be replaced in the 82nd minute. Özil flew to London from Stockholm on Wednesday morning and he will be assessed by Arsenal's medics.
Wenger expects to welcome back Santi Cazorla to the squad after an ankle injury while Theo Walcott is close to a return following abdominal surgery. If Walcott does not make it against Norwich, he ought to be back for next Tuesday's Champions League tie at home to Borussia Dortmund.


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Gregg Allman cancels tour due to respiratory illness
Gregg Allman, the southern rock legend and frontman for The Allman Brothers Band, has canceled a series of summer concerts due to a lingering upper respiratory condition, his representative said on Monday.
On doctor's orders, the 63-year-old veteran bluesman and member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, was forced to cancel tour dates from August 26 - September 15. Some of the dates will be rescheduled for later in the year.
Allman, who battles Hepatitis C and has struggled with drug and alcohol addictions during his life, is recovering from a liver transplant last year. In June, he had to cancel four dates at the end of a four-week European tour.
"His doctor hoped that with rest he'd get better, but unfortunately the issue has persisted," Allman's representative said in a statement. "Treatment is going to involve several days of hospitalization and 4-6 weeks of bed rest at home."
Allman expects to return to touring in the late fall to support of his highly acclaimed "Low Country Blues" album, his first solo work in 14 years, his management said.
The Nashville-born singer, keyboardist and songwriter, who earned a spot in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995, penned the hits "Midnight Rider" and "Whipping Post." The Allman Brothers Band, which was formed with his late brother Duane Allman, is known for its renditions of classic southern rock songs such as "Statesboro Blues" and "Black Hearted Woman."
His most recent tour comes on the heels of a July 27 benefit concert he gave on the eve of World Hepatitis Day. Allman suffers from Hepatitis C and is a spokesman for the Tune into Hep-C campaign.
The benefit, which starred The Allman Brothers Band, included Natalie Cole, the Grateful Dead's Phil Lesh, David Crosby, Graham Nash, and ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons. It raised over a quarter million dollars to support the American Liver Foundation and the National Viral Hepatitis Roundtable.
Allman also struggled with cocaine, heroin and alcohol problems through much of his adult life.


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"Technology companies like Bitposter, who transfer historically cumbersome, labour driven processes into services delivered by technology from 'the cloud' are at the core of a different sort of
industrial revolution. Ultimately automation is critical to bringing new sources of revenue to all markets. In the OoH market it's about empowering creative people to tell a great data-led story to the unique and engaged audiences found 'Out of Home'. Our technology platforms are just a part of that process." Aidan Neill
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Guilds can, of course, build houses and control keeps (which offer the chance at territory control) but housing only offers you a personal bank and personal crafting tables. These personal commodities let you avoid the towns (which are crawling with aforementioned thieves) but do little else to incentivize the creation of houses, or justify the outrageous fees attached to building said houses.
Guild wars have their own issues, as only guilds that own territory are forced to accept guild war declarations. Each guild can only control one territory (for now, this may be changed later), so don't worry about juggling multiple land regions. If your guild doesn't own territory, however, then any war declarations you may send against another guild can be flat-out ignored. Wars need to be accepted by both parties outside of the territory control system, which makes them pretty frivolous at best.
Lastly, there is one of my personal experiences with PvP, where the game glitched out the guy I was trying to kill by sending him, no joke, walking off of a cliff and through the air. To make sure I wasn't lagging, I proceeded to kill a pig and loot it with no problems. Either the server lost track of my opponent, or he was lagging so badly that it caused the movement glitch below. Either way, it sucked in a PvP situation.
Final thoughts
Congratulations, you've made it this far through what has been a largely extended Anti-Aliased and you need to be commended. That or you came down this far to flame me in the comments for saying mean things about your favorite game. One of the two.
But there is one thing that needs to be said about this game at this point in time: it's still not done. After two months of release and an extended beta that resulted in the game's launch being delayed, this game is nowhere close to being a decent sandbox title, and that's completely ignoring all of the hype that surrounded the game.
While some of the game's systems (combat and crafting) are extremely intelligent and deep, that same love does not carry over to the other levels of the game. The end result is a world filled with useless player versus player combat and little else to do that doesn't result in tedious grinding of some kind. (Grinding hitting trees to raise lumberjacking, grinding hitting rocks to raise mining, grinding local wildlife to raise combat skills, etc. I know critics of this article are screaming that all MMOs involve some sort of grind, but the trick is to at least mask the grind with some illusion of fun. AFKing a tree or smacking a pig over and over does not create that illusion in the least.) Sure, the PvP is fun, but it means little else than a persistent deathmatch that ends with you losing your stuff sooner or later.
This is not the heart and soul of sandbox design. Sandbox design is supposed to present various tools to the players that cause multitude of interactions across many levels. (See: EVE Online.) Mortal Online fails to present enough tools to actually create a deep, engaging experience. Often times you will be left sitting in the world, bored out of your mind trying to find someone to PvP or left dealing with an incredibly weak PvE system. Plus, even though the PvP is good, good luck trying to find multiple targets. Even at the game's peak hours, it's pretty hard to find other players across the sprawling world outside of the cities.
"You're literally paying to purchase the alpha version of a game."
That's outright robbery, especially when you pair it against Darkfall, which offers a more feature-complete experience for $30, or EVE Online, which offers an extremely feature-complete experience for $20 (or $5 if you can catch it on sale.)
Finally, sure, Star Vault can turn this game around and make it into a great piece of work. Mortal Online is a game that's hampered by its own potential, because I think the devs really bit off more than they could chew. They put so much work into some systems that it caused them to completely neglect other aspects of the game, resulting in an unbalanced experience that leaves decent highs, gigantic lows, and zero new player experience.
Furthermore, the choice of the Unreal Engine 3 was a bad decision for this title. Even though it can produce great graphics, it's not tuned for this type of experience. Star Vault is currently waiting on a patch from Epic Games before they can fix many of the outstanding issues in the game (such as Speedtree) and that's just not good business. It's left Star Vault spending too much time fixing their client, server, and engine issues and not devoting enough time to fleshing out the title itself -- a veritable "damned if you do, damned if you don't" scenario.
Their upcoming development list is, quite honestly, staggering. But, in all good conscience, I can't talk about a game's "proposed and upcoming features." Development road maps are subject to change, for better and for worse, and I can't recommend a game based on features that don't currently exist.
I understand that making games is hard work. Believe me on that. I also understand that Star Vault had to push this project out the door, otherwise the company would have folded and Mortal Online wouldn't even be online. This game is their labor of love, and they will do anything to keep the game going and to keep the company's bills paid.
I'm sorry to see the game in such a state and I feel for the developers that worked countless hours on this title to make it work, but those things cannot change my final thought on the game at this point in time:
Stay away. Stay far away.
Seraphina Brennan is the weekly writer of Anti-Aliased who is anticipating the hate mail with bated breath. Bring on the "carebear n00b" remarks! When she's not rambling here, she's rambling on her personal blog, The Experience Curve. If you want to message her, send her an email at email@example.com. You can also follow her on Twitter through Massively, or through her personal feed, @sera_brennan.


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RUFC - Shearer here for success
Rotherham United Goalkeeper Scott Shearer says that he joined the Millers instead of staying with Crawley in a higher division, because he thinks Millers Boss Steve Evans will bring success to the club.
Speaking to The Advertiser the Glasgow born thirty-one year old said, 'The gaffer is a fiery character, that's one side of him, but there is another side to him that you can relate to while chatting to him as a normal person. He took me in at Crawley and promised success which we got and he's promised the same again and I believe him - in fact we have a lot of belief in each other. It's an adventure and I feel that it's going to be a successful one.'
Talking about last weeks game at the KC Stadium, where Scott brought off some good saves, he said, 'It was the first game of the season and, with it being a new team, we were still learning to play together. But we are taking a lot of positives out of it.'
Having Andy Warrington in direct competition for the number one spot can only be good and Scott insists that there pushing each other every day is what they both want. 'We get on well and work hard together and that's exactly what I want. Whoever isn't playing supports the other which is the way it should be because it's about the team not individuals.'
I don't know about anyone else but I really do think we've got the best two 'keepers in League Two this season. Scott was well thought of at Crawley while Andy has a bagful of experience which can only be good for both of them.
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Dodgy biscuits people!
What a pain in the ass!
Just because i want to sit in the sun all year round with a beer and a laptop! :(
Whats florida like this time of the year! ;)
ALL politicians, Spain or elsewhere, follow the "baffle-em' with BS" approach........and they wind up getting yet another hand in our pockets.
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This is the Spanish State Secretariat of Telecommunications and for the Information Society.
Its the only related government dept i could find, and its in spanish (surprisingly!).
My Spanish is non-existant. Can anyone take a peek and translate any related material?
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-the law reinforces user protection with regards to "unsolicited" emails, ie. spam
-gives validity to electronic contracts without the need of the paper documents
-requires websites providing online services to include visible information to users such as name, address and email, and prices of the products on offer, so that users may know who they're dealing with at all times
-aims to boost online confidence for users with regards to the services and companies they're dealing with
-online service providers will communicate their activity and frequently used domain names to the public register or similar, to keep a record for consumers (again, to boost internet confidence)
-hosting providers and other telecommunications providers will need to keep a record of website visitors in the case that online delinquency or such need to be tracked down (these will not include email content)
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There is a fairly low consumer confidence in online business.
I know a ton of people who would cut off their own legs before using a credit card online, but would happily pay for stuff in a shop, where a nice little bit of paper with your credit card number and signature is kept in box out back where anyone can access it.
I would even be more confident about using online services if i knew that if i was ripped off that the owner could be chased up.
If the legislation stands to protect the consumer, then I say thats better for all our business, but where it restricts information or business, then thats where the problems arise.
my 2c
And that one about ratifying the electronic signature is a great step forward - I know that it's helped me personally here in the US, since they passed similar law re: electronic signatures.
I know for example that in Germany all .de websites must have information about the owner, the company etc. In german language it is called "impressum".
If you try a search on Google for "impressum" you will see what I mean; it is similar to "contacts", but here contacts must be the legal entity of the site and of the represented company, including tax identity number.
(spanish law)
The real problem is the tax they have to pay. That's what causes the protest.
OK: censorship. There are two issues where censorship gets thrown on the table.
One is what the article puts as: "..if Spanish authorities deem something on a foreign-hosted Web site threatening to Spain's national defense, public order, consumer rights or other values, they can order Spanish operators to sever access to that site"
For a background it should be noted Spain has a serious problem with minorities, of which some people are in a guerilla war with the national government.
Other than that I agree that this if it really is as unspecified as in the article leaves much to much room for the government to jump at anything.
Putting this into one league with China however is a somewhat inflammatory and dogmatic point of view. Fact is it's not so much what a law says but what a society and it's institutions make of it.
The second issue where the much overused coin censorship gets tossed is in regard to the requirement of ISPs to store user data up to one year.
Now that is something which is in use in european countries anyway, at least in Germany. Actually it has been put up by the European Union in answer to child porn business. Those data are exclusively available to authorities upon request from a judge.
Now this obviously has the potential of misuse, but I don't see where censorship comes into play here.
I say, good but I'm not 100% informed on this yet.
Now this obviously has the potential of misuse, but I don't see where censorship comes into play here.
This has nothing to do with censorship at all. I is merely a way of supervising/controlling some of the web-based business that is taking place. I peronally welcome this new legislation. :)
PD: Of course I agree with Glyn about the good labour of the cnn transmitting distorted information. It's incredible how can they be so popular...
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It's the Electronic Commerce Directive. It's gradually being rolled out across the EU as national governments pass the legislation to implement it.
The UK did so back in August. Their english-language guide to it is at
That has a pointer to a PDF that contains the Directive itself.
with reference to Germany, the link page is:
Another important information about Germany.
The Hamburg court, recently stated that you have the liability for any links you have in your web site OR you should clearly state that you can not guarantee for the links ( Mit Urteil vom 12. Mai 1998 - Az: 312 O 85/98 - �Haftung f�r Links�).
In Italy we recently had a law regarding "newspaper" online: not everybody can do it now; it is necessary a qualified director; it means that you need an official "journalist"; in Italy to became a journalist is not so easy; they are like a caste.
as national governments pass the legislation
I do believe all member states of the European Community to be democracies. So it would be the states� parliaments that pass the legislation. :)
Directive 2000/31/EC [europa.eu.int]
In English, The new Spanish "Law of Information Society Services and Electronic Commerce" (LSSI) (www.epic.org) [epic.org]
But I would agree that it's better to insist that an actual commercial enterprise show it's name, address, and provide an ID number that implies some sort of government accountability. Asking a foreign business to register with the Spanish government though... if that's what they're really proposing it creates a nightmare. The cost and hassle of registering a business with one government is bad enough, if everyone starts asking for it, what a catastrophe.


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The college football season is going to improve considerably on what we saw last night. With any luck, there won't be any more nationally televised games on blue fields. Teams will be sharp and organized, as opposed to the sloppy and nearly unwatchable performances of Oregon and Boise State. With any luck, players will leave the field with their dignity intact, instead of throwing punches and making a scene.
However. There's a whole lot of September nonsense to come, a sorry prelude to the NCAA's real thing. This is the Bully Month, when a bunch of powerhouses beat up on obscure schools that shouldn't be anywhere near their schedule.
Admittedly, it's great stuff if you're the obscure school, both financially and in the realm of exposure. The students at Toledo probably can't believe they open with Purdue, Colorado and Ohio State. But it's a disgraceful, elitist look for the big schools, who should be playing each other before conference play begins in earnest, not Pick State or You Gotta Be Kiddin' A&M. Nobody's that impressed by a horribly lopsided win, and if for some reason you lose that game — as No. 5 Michigan did to tiny Appalachian State two years ago — it's really a bad look.
Perusing the nationwide schedules, here's some of the preposterous stuff being trotted out in the month of September:
Alabama: Plays Florida International and North Texas at home.
Arizona: Opens with Central Michigan, then Northern Arizona.
Cal: Game 2 is Eastern Washington (not a bad team, actually, but please).
Florida: Opens with Charleston Southern, then Troy.
Kansas: Opens with Northern Colorado.
Michigan: Opens with Western Michigan, then plays Eastern Michigan two weeks later.
Michigan State: Opens with Montana State, then Central Michigan.
Notre Dame: Nevada isn't a hopeless team, but this is the season opener?
Texas: Opens with Louisiana-Monroe, then Wyoming.
Texas Tech: Opens with North Dakota.
A few teams get after it for real. Brigham Young has non-conference September games against Oklahoma and Florida State. There are no stiffs on Georgia's schedule. Miami opens with Florida State, Georgia Tech, Virginia Tech and Oklahoma. Nevada gets not only Notre Dame, but Missouri. There's nothing at all wrong with Oregon's schedule, and you have to like Washington playing LSU (the opener) and Notre Dame (first week of October).
In general, though, too many teams are loading up on cupcakes. Welcome to the bully season. Come lunchtime on game days, meet me at the 63-0 Cafe.


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Players Championship 2014: Tee Times, Date, TV Schedule and Prize MoneyMay 7, 2014
The 2014 Players Championship is going to be filled with thrilling golf theatre at the TPC Sawgrass Stadium Course. Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, offers an electric atmosphere and plays host to one of the most prestigious tournaments on the planet.
Things won't be quite the same without two-time champion Tiger Woods teeing it up as he continues to recuperate from back surgery, but the event's headliners offer some compelling storylines. Rory McIlroy is the 12-1 odds-on favorite, with Adam Scott, winner of the 2004 Players Championship, at 14-1, per OddsShark.com.
McIlroy tees off with reigning U.S. Open champion Justin Rose and another young gun in Harris English for the first two rounds, while Scott is with Rickie Fowler and Steve Stricker. Just about every group has the potential to be entertaining, though, because this field is among the deepest in pro golf.
The stakes are high here—a $10 million purse and 600 FedEx Cup points go to the champion, as opposed to 500 at most other PGA Tour stops.
Here is an overview of the basic tournament information, along with a closer look at the top storylines ahead of the tournament, often referred to golf's fifth major.
Note: Statistics are courtesy of PGATour.com.
When: Thursday, May 8, through Sunday, April 11
Where: The Players Stadium Course (TPC Sawgrass) in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida
Tee Times: For a complete list of tee times for the first two rounds, visit PGATOUR.com.
Purse: $10,000,000; Winner's Share: $1,800,000
FedEx Cup Points: 600
|2014 Players Championship TV Schedule
|Time (ET)
|Thursday, May 8
|1-7 p.m.
|Golf Channel
|Friday, May 9
|1-7 p.m.
|Golf Channel
|Saturday, May 10
|12:30-2 p.m., 2-7 p.m.
|Golf Channel, NBC
|Sunday, May 11
|12:30-2 p.m., 2-7 p.m.
|Golf Channel, NBC
|Source: PGA.com
Analyzing Marquee Storylines
Is It Time For Another Rory Romp?
Being consistent is far easier said than done in golf, especially when dealing with such immense expectations and hype. More has been expected of Rory McIlroy ever since his monster 2012 campaign, which confirmed his status as the game's premier young talent and that his runaway win at the 2011 U.S. Open wasn't a fluke.
Jason Sobel of Golf Channel reminded the Twitterverse about McIlroy's greatness as he recently hit the age of 25:
Frustration has followed one of the most dominant stretches this side of Woods in modern golf. Although McIlroy did pick up a win going head-to-head with Scott in the Australian Open this last December, he still hasn't won in quite some time on the PGA Tour—the 2012 BMW Championship, to be exact.
This could be the week that changes. The oddsmakers certainly believe so. After Players struggles past, McIlroy figured something out last year in finishing tied for eighth at TPC Sawgrass.
The good news is that McIlroy appears to be close, registering top 10s in each of his last three starts and finishing no worse than 25th all season. Now it's a matter of stringing together four solid rounds and getting into more realistic contention.
One noticeable flaw in McIlroy's game is his play on and around the greens, as he ranks 160th on tour in scrambling and 127th in strokes gained putting. Those numbers suggest that McIlroy is locked and loaded when he's putting for birdie but can't quite get the critical par saves he needs to keep borderline rounds in the red figures.
But after ranking 100th in bounce-back percentage in 2013, McIlroy now ranks 12th and is third in birdie average. McIlroy has ubiquitous firepower, yet he needs to hone in a bit more on his short game to produce the desired results. Should he do that, perhaps he will run away from the field as he's done in many of his previous victories.
World No. 1 Ranking Up For Grabs
Adam Scott was just 23 years of age when he won the Players approximately a decade ago, and he rose to as high as No. 3 in the world in that phase of his career before suffering a significant decline.
Similar to McIlroy in some ways, he struggled to handle the early success. The big breakthrough didn't lead to greater accomplishments—at least not right away—as Scott discussed before the tournament, per PGATour.com's Brian Wacker:
I wish it did more for me. And I mean that only as a fault of my own. It put me on the edge to becoming a great player at the time, but I didn't use the momentum and confidence in the right way. When looking at the biggest and best events, the results weren't there. What it did, it exposed me to that level and made me work that much harder.
With a green jacket in tow and Woods' former caddie in Steve Williams on the bag, Scott has a great shot to take over the top spot in the Official World Golf Ranking. But he isn't the only one, as Sobel points out:
Granted, if anyone ascends to first, it won't be quite as sweet since Woods isn't healthy enough to play and therefore has seen his points in the rankings decline. However, something about reigning atop the golf world will feel good no matter what, because this is a sport that comes down to the individual holding the club after all.
It is worth noting that although Bubba Watson just won the Masters in his last start, he doesn't have a great track record at the Players. Golf Central recorded a humorous comment Watson made to the press:
Kuchar overcame a series of close calls to claim the top prize at the RBC Heritage in his last event, and he always seems to be around the top of the leaderboard. That Players win in 2012 is great to draw on.
Stenson was brilliant last season and was playing as good as anyone. His story would be a nice one to see, but he must get out of a relative slump that's seen him fail to break 70 in each of his last eight competitive rounds.
Phil Mickelson Gathering Momentum?
Injuries and erratic play had led Mickelson to a disappointing start to 2013-14. That was remedied in part at last week's Wells Fargo Championship, where a third-round 63 vaulted him into the hunt, only to become undone by a 76 on Sunday to fall out of the top 10.
It would have been Mickelson's first such result of the year. Lefty is too decorated to carry on like this, so returning to a place he's won at before should offer at least some encouragement. Mickelson must focus on the positives and the high points of last week in Charlotte rather than the dejection he had to have felt amid his final-round slide.
Kelly Tilghman of Golf Channel highlighted the apex of Mickelson's performance at Quail Hollow:
Seizing victory at the 2007 Players Championship provides a source of confidence for the ever-optimistic Mickelson. What is key for him in Ponte Vedra Beach is to set up success off the tee, because he ranks 158th on tour in driving accuracy.
It's all about shot making at Sawgrass, and Mickelson is evidently unafraid to carry the big stick in the bag:
Mickelson has proven to have the chops to win just about anywhere, but he must tame his aggressive style of play when necessary before his chances at securing a second Players win slip away. There is hope on the horizon.
Looking forward, all of these previously analyzed players need something to build on ahead of the season's second major in the U.S. Open, which begins on June 12. McIlroy has been just a hair off, so sealing the deal at the Players would do wonders for him in his bid to win major No. 3.
If Scott wants to really assert himself as a force in the game, a second win at Sawgrass would go a long way in doing just that. So would a triumph at Pinehurst No. 2, but first he must redeem a poor Masters weekend.
Watson is in danger of a letdown after picking up his second green jacket at Augusta National. Jumping back into competition in such an intense arena is going to be difficult, but as long as his improved short game stays sharp, he shouldn't have much to worry about in terms of U.S. Open form.
With Kuchar running hot, Stenson bound for a low number and Mickelson figuring to at least crack the top 10, the 2014 Players Championship is an exciting preview of what to expect for the U.S. Open. It's perhaps most vital for Mickelson to do well, since he's painfully one major short of the career Grand Slam thanks to six U.S. Open runner-up finishes.


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What a life. TV Tommy Ivo went from youth actor in the early television age (Margie, starring Cynthia Pepper, although Tommy's even earlier cinema co-stars included Boris Karloff and Jerry Lewis) to an unstoppably wild drag-strip entertainer, an actor almost cyborg-melded with a race car.
It was, therefore, perhaps inevitable that TV Tommy was going to get together with automotive and hot rodding historian Tom Cotter at some juncture. TV Tommy Ivo: Drag Racing's Master Showman is a showpiece of a book, 240 pages with nearly an art-volume layout and more than 250 photos. Above is one of them, showing the 1960 twin-Buick dragster that launched Ivo to national stardom. It used a Kent Fuller chassis with a wheelbase chopped to 88 inches. The nailhead V-8s were tied together by their starter ring gears. During an exhibition stop at a primitive strip in Concord, North Carolina, TV Tommy ran it down an embankment when the parachute failed. His crewman, Don Prudhomme, now our esteemed columnist at Hemmings Muscle Machines, towed the twice-engine car out with a 1957 Cadillac. The book is $28, go to www.motorbooks.com or call 800-458-0454.
As a teenager, I recall watching Ivo's injected single and twin-engined cars set records at San Fernando dragstrip. Some "scientists" were declaring in those days that it was impossible for an object to accelerate to more than 160 mph in a standing quarter-mile, and Ivo was among the first to prove them wrong. Later, his quad-engined "Showboat" was great fun to see and hear (Lord, it was loud!), even while it contributed to LA's air pollution problem!
Quite a "showman"!!
The very first Hot Rod Magazine(HRM) I ever bought featured Ivo's 4 engined beast on the cover. From memory, and that's fading, think it was 1961. Saw the twin engined car in the Garlits museum in Florida when I visited the US in 2007. All the best from Down-under!
My freind,Rich McCaig bought tommy's twin engine buick dragster back in the 60's. He pasted way a couple years ago and I don't know what happen to the car, Rich's younger brother may know where it went. I know a few years ago they wanted to put in a museum somewhere.
There may be a chance the car may be somewhere to be found.The picture of the car is the one I saw in Rich's garage.
As a student of, and participant in drag racing for most of my teens to late 20's, when I had my first son and he reached the age
that he appreciated that beautiful V-8 music, I introduced him to drag racing. We made many trips to the various midwest strips and, of course. I subscribed to Hot Rod all the while and still do. As a result of all of this he became infatuated with Ivo's 4-nailhead
Buick dragster and it remains his favorite today. We were fotunate enough to be at Indianapolis Raceway Park at a Goodguys event and got to see Ivo make his last full pass in the car, and it was, as usual, a four wheel burnout for the entire 1/4 mile. Afterwards we went to the pits and I took my son's picture standing beside the car. To this day that experience ranks as his number one!
Ozstatman from downunder was fortunate enough to visit "Big Daddy's" museum in Florida. I lost myself there for an entire afternoon a few years ago. Anyone coming up from Tampa past Gainesville – do yourself a favor and stop in. Especially appropriate for us over 60ers who were active in drag racing back before "Christmas trees".
" Big Daddy's" is in Ocala Fla. Been there – Worth
The Time .
I Remember how Popular TV Tommy Ivo was and
I just love those Old Style Dragsters , Saw a Few
In Orange County Ca. in the Mid 80's . The average
guy could build one in his garage .