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It was Palmer who gave golf the modern version of the Grand Slam – winning all four professional majors in one year. He came up with the idea after winning the Masters and U.S. Open in 1960. Palmer was runner-up at the British Open, later calling it one of the biggest disappointments of his career. But his appearance alone invigorated the British Open, which Americans had been ignoring for years.
Palmer never like being referred to as “The King,” but the name stuck.
“It was back in the early ’60s. I was playing pretty good, winning a lot of tournaments, and someone gave a speech and referred to me as ‘The King,’ ” Palmer said in November 2011.
He was equally successful off with golf course design, a wine collection, and apparel that included his famous logo of an umbrella. He bought the Bay Hill Club & Lodge upon making his winter home in Orlando, Fla., and in 2007 the PGA Tour changed the name of the tournament to the Arnold Palmer Invitational.
The combination of iced tea and lemonade is known as an “Arnold Palmer.” Padraig Harrington recalls eating in an Italian restaurant in Miami when he heard a customer order one.
Palmer was born Sept. 10, 1929 in Latrobe, Pa., the oldest of four children.
Only four other players won more PGA Tour events than Palmer – Sam Snead, Nicklaus and Woods.
Palmer’s first wife, Winnie, died in 1999. They had two daughters, and grandson Sam Saunders plays on the PGA Tour. Palmer married Kathleen (Kit) Gawthrop in 2005.
Details on a memorial service and burial will be announced later.
Thanks Arnold for your friendship, counsel and a lot of laughs. Your philanthropy and humility are part of your legend.
Such sad news to hear about passing of #arnoldpalmer. Great memories of him. His legacy in the game & charity will live forever.
Really sad news: The great Arnold Palmer, the "King," has died. There was no-one like him - a true champion! He will be truly missed.
So sad to hear Mr. Palmer has passed away. He touched us all and was an incredible role model. The KING.
RIP Arnold Palmer. Brought golf to blue-collar masses. Played it more like football. Man's man. Female fan fave.. Most popular golfer ever.
Rest in Peace to the legend Arnold Palmer. May God bless his family and friends.
As we approach the Nov. 5 election, we would like to provide our readers with some background information and additional insight on the candidates running this year. This week, we spotlight Bryan A. Marley who is running for Town Commissioner for the Hope Mills Board of Commissioners. Hope Mills is governed by an elected board, which consists of five town commissioners and a mayor. The governing body is elected for a two-year term.
Bryan A. Marley was born in Fayetteville in 1976 and graduated from South View High School in 1994. Marley obtained an associates of applied science degree with a concentration in fire science from Columbia Southern University. He worked full-time for the Town of Hope Mills for 14 years and is currently employed by the Cumberland County Department of Emergency Services. Marley also serves as a volunteer Firefighter with the Pearce's Mill Fire Department and has coached numerous sports in Hope Mills for the past six years. Marley and his wife, Traci, have a 10- year-old son, Ray, who is in the fifth grade at Ed V. Baldwin Elementary School.
"The town of Hope Mills is very important to me, and I thank everyone for their support in November," said Marley.
Q: If elected, what attributes, knowledge and skill-sets will you bring to the town of Hope Mills as an elected official?
A: "As a former employee of the town of Hope Mills I understand how the town operates. My career has been based on the services aspect of communities during both emergency and non-emergency incidents. I understand that Customer Service and Education is the key to success in Emergency Services and feel these skill-sets could be beneficial to the town."
Q: If elected, what are your top three priorities (listed in order of significance) you would like to accomplish while serving in office?
A: "My main priority is to make decisions that will be most beneficial to the town of Hope Mills and its residents. I really have no priorities or personal agendas going into the election. I cannot promise change or that if I am elected this is what I want to happen, but I can tell you popular or not, I will always do my best to make the best decisions I can in the best interest of the town."
Q: How would you like to see the town of Hope Mills developed, grow and prosper over the next few years? Do you believe additional policies or ordinances should be instated to control or regulate commercial and/or residential development?
A: "I feel that growth is vital to the town's success. At this time I really see no need for new policies or ordinances. I will say that the growth needs to be controlled in that the town needs to make sure services grow with the town as well."
Q: If the Town receives a monetary settlement or judgment pertaining to the Hope Mills Lake dam lawsuit, how would you like to see the Town utilize the funds? Do you support the restoration of Hope Mills Lake?
A: "Everyone has an opinion about the lake. I personally don't agree with the amount of money that has been spent to restore the lake, however the amount of time and money that has been spent to this point, it's a project that needs to be seen through. Understand that the current and past boards have had to make some tuff decisions regarding the lake. Any monetary settlements should go to repaying the cost of restoring the Lake Dam."
Q: What would you like to see done to the town's infrastructure (roadways, utilities, common areas) that would make Hope Mills more functional and beneficial to residents and the community?
A: "As I said before as the town grows the infrastructure needs to grow with the town. I know this is not always possible but it's something the town needs to think about and study before the decision to grow."
Q: In regards to the town's current budget and taxes, do you feel it is necessary for the town to generate additional revenue? If so, how do you purpose the town creates further revenue?
A: "At this time I do not feel the town needs to create new revenue. I feel there are other ways to cut cost by eliminating duplication of services and cut wasteful spending."
Q: Many cities and towns nationwide are implementing policies to make their local communities more eco-friendly. What regulations or policies, if any, would you like to see the town incorporate to become a more eco-friendly, "greener" community?
A: "This is an area I'll be honest I not up to date on. I would be interested in learning more and entertaining ideas as they come forward."
Madison - The odds of Racine's recall recount winding up in court increased Tuesday, as Republican Sen. Van Wanggaard's campaign said it may challenge canvassers' decision to accept ballots from voters who did not sign the poll book.
The recount is in its second week after Wanggaard's campaign requested canvassers review an 834-vote victory that favored Democratic challenger John Lehman in the June 5 recall.
Republicans' latest contention of voting irregularities in Racine targets election workers who failed to ask voters to sign poll books as required by state law. The Wanggaard campaign also disputes the Government Accountability Board's recommendation that canvassers accept the votes.
Once canvassers certify the recall, the campaign could challenge the recount in court, potentially delaying Democratic control of the state Senate for weeks. The results of the recount will determine whether Republicans keep the majority or if Democrats take control of the Senate between now and the November general election.
Since 2011, a new voting law requires that poll workers have voters sign a poll book.
Accountability Board spokesman Reid Magney said although failing to have voters sign the poll book is a mistake, it does not invalidate a person's vote. Moreover, it is impossible to know which ballot was cast by any voter who did not sign, which will create a hurdle to any potential court challenge.
"Invalidating ballots based on the failure to require a signature would disenfranchise a voter due to an election official's error," Magney said.
The Wanggaard campaign contends the Accountability Board has no basis for its recommendation.
State statutes say all ballots cast in an election and initialed by two election inspectors will be counted for the intended candidate, "so far as the electors' intent can be ascertained from the ballots notwithstanding informality or failure to fully comply with other provisions."
Wanggaard campaign legal counsel Jonathan Strasburg contends that ascertaining voter intent refers to canvassers' conclusions on which candidate the voter meant. Statutes on "voter intent" do not apply to poll workers' mistakes, Strasburg said.
"The statute is clear as to what's required, and it's clear from our review that the proper steps were not taken (by poll workers)," Strasburg said. "The statute is so clear a fifth-grader could understand it."
Magney said, "The statutes require honoring the elector's intent even if formalities of the process are not followed."
The State Senate Democratic Committee's Brad Wojciechowski said in a statement that Republicans' concerns "reveal their true intention - voter disenfranchisement."
"It's a clerical error," Wojciechowski said Tuesday. "It's not voter fraud. It's not voter irregularities."
Wojciechowski contended many voters signed the poll book, but did so after voting rather than before. The signatures are there, he said, just out of order in the poll books. Wojciechowski said his observers only saw around five missing signatures while watching canvassers Monday.
Election inspectors are not supposed to issue a ballot unless voters sign the poll book, according to Magney. Electors should be signing before, not after, they vote.
If the recount bears out a Lehman victory, the Senate switches to a 17-16 Democratic majority. But as of Tuesday, Republicans control the Senate.
Republican Jerry Petrowski was sworn into the Senate Tuesday afternoon after winning an open election to fill former Republican Sen. Pam Galloway's seat. Galloway resigned from her seat after the recall effort against her had been launched.
Once canvassers determine a winner, the Wanggaard campaign has five days to file a challenge in circuit court before the Government Accountability Board can officially certify the vote, allowing Lehman to be sworn in.
Strasburg said Tuesday that Wanggaard campaign is "waiting for the process to work itself out," and will decide whether to file a challenge once the canvassing process concludes next week.
Unless canvassers request an extension, the recount is scheduled to conclude by July 2.
FIRST XI (Away v Northop Hall – meet 9.30am): Maxwell, Salt, Foster, Shafi, Campbell, Cragg, Hall, Van der Walt, Robson, Haynes, Butler.
FIRST XI (Away v Northop Hall – meet 9.30am): Maxwell, Salt, Foster, Shafi, Campbell, Cragg, Hall, Van der Walt, Robson, Haynes, Butler. Scorer: Ellie.
SECOND XI (Home v Northop Hall – meet 11.40am): Murphy, Hodge, Halsall, Andrew, Roberti, Hodgson D, Bennet, Gregory, Murray, Hodgson P, Rimmer. Scorer P: Buck.
Beer money? Check. iPad? Check. New futon? Check. Auto, health, property and personal liability insurance policies? If you're a college student, you'd better make sure you have those things too.
You may plan to live the life of a monastic scholar, safely huddled in the library between stacks of books, but accidents happen. But if you have an unexpected mishap, student loans may not be the only debts you'll be carrying after you graduate.
CBSnews.com recently reported how students are paying higher college costs these days. School is expensive enough without facing bills that could have been covered by insurance.
Here are some potential jams you could find yourself in on campus, as well as insurance options to consider before disaster strikes.
College Health Plans: Are Students Fully Insured?
You go overboard at a party and wake up in the hospital. The alcohol poisoning was bad enough, but the belly flop you did onto the lawn from the roof, well that was an epic fail. You are looking at some hefty doctor bills.
If you are faced with a catastrophic injury, the quality of your medical coverage will prove crucial, notes Bob Klein, director of the Center for Risk Management and Insurance Research in Atlanta. Universities frequently offer coverage to students and the low premiums may look like a bargain. But often coverage is capped at $100,000 -- not a lot if you wind up gravely ill or injured.
"If the student contracts a very serious disease or has a very bad car accident, that could blow through that $100,000 very quickly," Klein says. Another option is staying under your parents' health plan, but that isn't necessarily ideal. Your parents' policy may not provide enough protection or, if it's a managed care plan, it may limit you to a network of local doctors at home. A third way is simply to buy your own health plan. Rates can be relatively inexpensive if you're young and healthy, in the neighborhood of $200 to $300 a month, Klein adds.
Here's more about health insurance plans for college students.
Bleary-eyed, you are in the middle of an all-nighter in the campus library when you take a bathroom break. When you get back to your desk, your new laptop is missing.
You may be covered under parents' homeowners insurance, but you should make sure laptops and electronic devices are included and for how much. If you are living off campus, you may need to buy renter's insurance to cover your belongings while you're at college, which could cost $150 to $400 a year, Klein says.
"An on-campus dormitory room is more likely to be covered under [the parents'] homeowners insurance than an off-campus apartment," says Elaine Baisden, vice president at Travelers Personal Insurance.
You and your frat buddies carry the dean's new Smart car into a dormitory courtyard, inadvertently damaging it in the process. Or maybe you never imagined the 19th century statue of the university's first president would come crashing down when all you meant to do was wrap a lot of toilet paper around it.
Sometimes seemingly harmless pranks can go terribly wrong. Here's where personal liability insurance comes into play. Costs vary, but for about $250 to $300 a year, Mom and Dad can get the entire family covered for $1 million in damages - or more -- under umbrella insurance.
An umbrella policy "affords you additional coverage you don't have under a home or a car insurance policy," says Jim Quade of Liberty Mutual.
But there's no excuse for irresponsible behavior. If you blatantly break the law, all of your insurance coverage could prove useless, warns Brad Lemons of Nationwide Insurance.
Your roommate borrowed your new red convertible and wrapped it around a tree, taking out part of a garage and another car in the process. Now what? What type of policy do you need to make sure you're covered for this?
Your auto insurance will cover damage to your car if you have collision coverage and your roommate is a permissive user, meaning he is permitted to drive your car under the terms of your policy, says Penny Gusner, consumer analyst for CarInsurance.com. "Check with your insurance company to see if you need to add your roommate as a driver."
Depending on how much damage was done to other vehicles and property, you'd better hope that you bought enough liability coverage.
Margaret F. Clement, 53, passed away December 26, 2013 in Carson City, NV. “Maggie” was born March 23, 1960 in Burbank, CA to Robert and Mary Clement. She has been a resident of Carson City since 1994. She liked to describe herself as a “Domestic Goddess” during the time that she was raising her son, Adam. Maggie loved the outdoors, she enjoyed camping and fishing.Maggie is loved, remembered and survived by her son, Adam Ginsberg, her mother, four sisters and three brothers, four grandchildren, Christian, Shawn, Mathew and Taylor. Numerous nieces and nephews. She also leaves behind her soulmate, John Monroe. A private service will be held at a later date..Walton’s Chapel of the Valley is in charge of final arrangements.
Craig Ellison Delphi NAV200 Portable GPS Navigation The Delphi NAV200 offers a lot of features at an attractive price, but weak multimedia players and awkward menus keep it from scoring higher.
Sensitive GPS receiver. Turn-by-turn navigation and multimedia players at an affordable price. POI database has 1.6 million entries. Multisegment routing.
Menu system awkward to use. Some common functions take too many screen taps. Multimedia players very basic. No turn list.
The Delphi NAV200 offers a lot of features at an attractive price, but weak multimedia players and awkward menus keep it from scoring higher.
The shirt-pocket GPS market is getting increasingly crowded, and now there's another product joining the crowd. Say hello to the Delphi NAV200. Like the Mio C710 and the Garmin nüvi 350 and nüvi 360, the NAV200 ($360 street) offers much more than turn-by-turn navigation. In fact, it's the first dedicated device (non-PDA) to offer a music, movie, and picture player, along with a built-in game, calculator, world clock, and turn-by-turn navigation and still break the $400 price barrier.
The NAV200 features a 320-by-240 resolution, 3.5-inch screen that's comparable with most of the other screens on GPS machines I recently reviewed. Interestingly, the device runs on the Windows CE.net platform and is powered by a Samsung 2440 400-MHz processor. Like many of its competitors, the NAV200 uses Navteq map data, but Delphi chose to equip the NAV200 with a 1.5GB SD memory card as opposed to the usual 1GB found on competing products. This extra 500MB of memory enables the NAV200 to store 1.6 million points of interest (POIs) in addition to U.S., Canada, and Puerto Rico map data. The disadvantage is that Delphi fills the card almost completely with data, leaving you only about 60MB for your tunes/pictures/movies. If you need more space for your multimedia content, you can pop out the SD card and insert your own. You'll lose your navigation capabilities, but it doesn't really matter, because you can't simultaneously play multimedia content and navigate with the NAV200 anyway.
Measuring 4.6 by 3.2 by 1.1 inches, the NAV200 fits neatly into a shirt pocket. Like most other modern portables, it features the SiRF Star III GPS receiver. Because of this, the NAV200's receiver showed excellent sensitivity and rapid satellite acquisition. A "patch" antenna folds out from the back of the unit. Though the GPS will function, albeit with somewhat reduced sensitivity, if the patch antenna is not extended, you have to extend that antenna to access the mounting bracket holes.
Unlike most portable navigation devices that have a single hardware button for power on/off, the NAV200 has a total of four keys. On the left-hand side is a button to take you to the main menu and one to blank the screen. By the right-hand side of the screen are separate zoom-in/zoom-out buttons. I did find it somewhat annoying that the menu button took you completely out of navigation without asking you if you really wanted to exit. Once you're running the navigation program, which you can set as the default program that launches when you power up the device, there's a menu icon that takes you from the map view into the main menu.
Navigation software on the Delphi NAV200 is essentially Navigon's Mobile Navigator. Navigon is a company, best known in Germany, that produces navigation software meant to run on smartphones, PDAs, and portable navigation devices.
The main menu screen consists of three large icons for Navigation, Route Planning, and Show Map. Route Planning lets you create multisegment tripsa feature not normally found on lower-priced GPS devices. Six smaller icons also populate the screen. They provide access to GPS status, battery level, and a direct way to "Navigate Home" plus the ability to choose map databases and settings and exit a program. Map data is broken down into regions for U.S./Canada, Puerto Rico, Hawaii, and Alaska. To navigate in the last three areas, you have to select the appropriate map. The NAV200 defaults to the U.S./Canada map. It also gives you three speed profiles (Vehicle, Bicycle, and Pedestrian), the shortest or fastest route, and options to permit/avoid/prohibit interstates, ferries, and tollways.
Using preferences, you can decide to set the opening map view as 2D or 3D. You're also able to set the 2D view to track up or north up. The map view is fairly clean. Across the bottom of the display are the name of your current road, speed, compass heading, and altitude. The right-hand side of the screen has small icons for power status, GPS status, the main menu, and the options menu. If you tap the orange icon in the upper-left-hand corner of the screen, more options such as panning on the map, changing views (2D/3D), and zooming become available. During navigation, additional information such as the name of the next street, remaining trip time, time of arrival, and distance to arrival are displayed. There's also a turn preview arrow and a graphic indicator of the distance until your next turn.
Like most GPS systems in this price range, the NAV200 does not have text-to-speech capabilities. There is no choice of languages or voicesthe voice is a female voice faintly reminiscent of Lauren Bacall that announces the turns with instructions such as "In 350 feet, turn left."
Though the NAV200 does offer some features not found in similarly priced products, such as multisegment routes, there were a few disappointments. The menu system is more awkward than on other products I've tested. Although some functions such as canceling a route only took two screen taps, other tasks, such as finding the nearest gas station, took as many as nine. Still, you could search POIs near your current location, nationwide, or in a selected city.
I was also disappointed that the NAV200 doesn't have a way to preview the turns for a route. Often you want to know how the GPS is going to route you before you actually embark on your trip.
Multimedia features are also quite limited. When you plug in an SD card, the NAV200 scans it for all supported media types. For music, the player can handle MP3/WAV; for video, AVI. Unfortunately, playlists are out of the question. Likewise, the picture viewer is very simplistic. You're limited to gif, jpg, and .png file formats, and there's no option for a slide show and no provision for rotating pictures shot in portrait mode. Worse, the NAV200 took close to 25 seconds to downsize and sample some pictures shot on my 7-megapixel camera with file sizes of about 3.5MB. Even so, the video player played back video recorded at 320-by-240 quite well. When I tried to play back a clip recorded at 640-by-480, however, I got an error message that said it couldn't play the file (ErrorLower buffer size).
Overall, the Delphi NAV200 provided good basic navigation. Though I found the menus more difficult to learn and manipulate than those of competing products, the NAV200 did get me to my destinations on my sample routes. Of course, having multimedia players is nice even if they are very basic. Just be sure to check out our slide show to see if you like this device's user interface before the low price tempts you to buy it.
Compare the Delphi NAV200 with several other GPS devices, side by side.
Bottom Line: The Delphi NAV200 offers a lot of features at an attractive price, but weak multimedia players and awkward menus keep it from scoring higher.
Shredding event: City Council member Michael Barnes will host a free shredding event 9 a.m.-noon June 8 at Smokey Bones BBQ and Grill, 8760 J.M. Keynes Road. Residents should limit their material to three banker boxes so the shredder vendor, Cintas, can accommodate everyone. Materials in folders and with staples can be shredded.
Blue Line Extension meeting: The Charlotte Area Transit System will host a public meeting 6 p.m. May 30 at the Sugaw Creek Presbyterian Church, 101 W. Sugar Creek Road. The discussion will cover the Blue Line Extension light rail and the construction that will begin this summer. Demolition and utility relocation will begin in June.
Dance performance: The UNC Charlotte College of Arts and Architecture will present “Deep Water: The Murder Ballads,” a trio of dance pieces, at 8 p.m. May 31 in the Knight Theater at the Levine Center for the Arts, 430 S. Tryon St. The performances are choreographed by UNCC Professor E.E. Balcos and are based on three 19th century North Carolina murder ballads, which are historical narrative folksongs that chronicle true crimes. Tickets are $18 and can be purchased at www.carolinatix.com.
Mast General Stores in Boone and Valle Crucis are hosting their annual “Be a Sweetheart” campaign this Saturday and Sunday, February 9th and 10th.
The campaign raises money to help feed the hungry in the High Country.
For each pound of candy purchased at Mast General Stores during the campaign, $1 will be donated to the Hunger and Health Coalition.

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