Life, golf, and etc

I've been staying in a compound right by the beach for the past month or so. Aside from the really good surfer kids I've posted about before, there are also some other kids who I watch over every now and then. I like them. They can be really bratty sometimes, but otherwise they are good, fun kids to be around.

This afternoon, after a very minor incident, I saw the mom of one of the kids drag her son up and start beating him with a stick. I'm not talking about a little stick, it was a big one. I know how much those sticks hurt because they're for martial arts and I've taken those classes on how to use them, etcetera. Anyhow, the poor boy ended up stripped naked, standing naked outside on the road. I went out and put a towel on him and brought him inside. Iced his welts from the stick and put some cream on them so they won't hurt too much, hopefully. I brought him out on the beach with me afterwards. He's all right now and was in good spirits.

I don't know why but I've seen at least a couple other such cases and have had to interfere and try to get things okay with everyone before. It's a heart breaking situation to see another person beating someone else, and what more- hearing and seeing the person being beaten. Both ways it is completely heart breaking.


On the lighter side:

Todd aces same hole on 2 straight days
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ATHENS, Ga. (AP)—Brendon Todd made Nationwide Tour history by making a hole-in-one at the same hole for the second straight day at the Athens Regional Foundation Classic.

The former Georgia All-American aced the 147-yard 17th hole on Friday, using an 8-iron during the second round at the Jennings Mill Country Club course.

“It’s still hard to believe,” Todd said after posting a 1-under 71. “It’s a bit surreal, even now.”

During Thursday’s opening round, Todd used a 7-iron when the hole played 157 yards and he finished with a 4-under 68. He is 5-under for the $550,000 event.

Todd is the first player in the 20-year history of the tour to ace the same hole twice in the same tournament.

“I had just come off a bogey and so I wasn’t in a great mood when I stepped on the tee. I wasn’t even thinking about making it,” he said. “It was a perfect yardage and I flagged it. It looked pretty good in the air and then landed about 4 feet short and left of the hole and rolled in the back of the cup. I guess I played the break perfectly.”

The last player to ace the same hole twice in the same tournament was Graham Marsh in the first and third rounds of the 2004 Senior British Open.

Yusaku Miyazato (2006), Bob Tway (1994), Glen Day (1994), Jack Rule (1964) and Bill Whedon (1955) are the only players in modern PGA Tour history to record two aces in a single event. Miyazato and Whedon are the only ones to do it in the same round.
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Watching TV won't make you happy

These guys just totally missed the whole thing. Happiness doesn't come from TV, these people just watch TV to block out the nagging pains in their heart and minds which tell them that they aren't happy. They just have all the noise of the TV going, etc to block out all the painful thoughts. It's definitely not IT tho.

Unhappy People Watch Lots More TV

Unhappy people glue themselves to the television 30 percent more than happy people.

The finding, announced on Thursday, comes from a survey of nearly 30,000 American adults conducted between 1975 and 2006 as part of the General Social Survey.


While happy people reported watching an average of 19 hours of television per week, unhappy people reported 25 hours a week. The results held even after taking into account education, income, age and marital status.

In addition, happy individuals were more socially active, attended more religious services, voted more and read a newspaper more often than their less-chipper counterparts.

The researchers are not sure, though, whether unhappiness leads to more television-watching or more viewing leads to unhappiness.

In fact, people say they like watching television: Past research has shown that when people watch television they enjoy it. In these studies, participants reported that on a scale from 0 (dislike) to 10 (greatly enjoy), TV-watching was nearly an 8.

But perhaps the high from watching television doesn't last.

"These conflicting data suggest that TV may provide viewers with short-run pleasure, but at the expense of long-term malaise," said researcher John Robinson, a sociologist at the University of Maryland, College Park.

In this scenario, even the happiest campers could turn into Debbie-downers if they continue to stare at the boob-tube. The researchers suggest that over time, television-viewing could push out other activities that do have more lasting benefits. Exercise and sex come to mind, as do parties and other forms of socialization known to have psychological benefits.

Or, maybe television is simply a refuge for people who are already unhappy.

"TV is not judgmental nor difficult, so people with few social skills or resources for other activities can engage in it," Robinson and UM colleague Steven Martin write in the December issue of the journal Social Indicators Research.

They add, "Furthermore, chronic unhappiness can be socially and personally debilitating and can interfere with work and most social and personal activities, but even the unhappiest people can click a remote and be passively entertained by a TV."

The researchers say follow-up studies are needed to tease out the relationship between television and happiness.

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