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Seconded! Selling and giving to charity was my first thought when I read the OP. I read the rest of the responses before replying just in case someone else had had the same idea. Great minds ...
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Personally, I would have all three sets appraised. Then either donate or sell then donate the money from the two most expensive sets. If you explain your situation at a local club, they will likely do so for free. Keep the third or at least a bare bones set of clubs for yourself and at the minimum learn a bit in his honor. The clubs might not fit you and might need to be modified for your build, but he obviously respected you and your wife enough to give you some of his prize possessions. It would be a shame not to play a round or two with the gift he gave you.
My younger brother was given my grandfather's set of clubs when he passed on. While my brother doesn't have the time or money to play much in DC, he still keeps them and tries to get out to a driving range for a beer or two and hit a couple buckets worth of balls on the anniversary of our grandfather's death. Just a little thing to honor his memory.
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RJOberg wrote: bare bones set of clubs for yourself and at the minimum learn a bit in his honor
Not an option I'm afraid! His clubs are right-handed and I'm a "lefty". 
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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purhaps he hid something in the bags ?
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I was thinking the same thing...
If this were a movie, there'd be something way cool in the bottom of one of the bags.
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you never know 
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I'll have a look over the weekend. If he stuffed the bags with wads of £20 notes then that becomes a game-changer to use the current expression that's become popular with politicians.
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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Once again our much loved Auntie has this nice report[^] about building a viewing platform on the famous Forth Rail Bridge. If they ever get round to it (assuming it's quicker to paint as well) then I want to go there. It would be an experience. Go, Scotland. Do it.
For those who aren't familiar with the bridge read this[^].
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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That's a real masterpiece..Very nice
The signature is in building process.. Please wait...
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Mrs. Wife and I drove around the east side of Scotland some years back and we stood at one end of the bridge and admired it. It is an engineering masterpiece. Its been said that track maintenance engineers used to turn their backs when trains approached; for no other reason that they didn't want to be exposed to toilet "stuff" flushed when trains passed over the bridge.
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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I used to work at the aquarium (Deep Sea World) underneath the north end of the bridge - it was built in the quarry when the stone for the supporting pillars was hewn.
When they were painting the bridge with the new, super-dooper paint, overspray damaged lots of cars in the aquarium car park, making the job that more expensive than originally planned, as they had to pay for numerous resprays of the damaged cars. I presume they did not use the smae paint on the cars as they did on the bridge.
Luckily, I was not there on that day.
It's well known that if all the cat videos and porn disappeared from the internet there would be only one site left and it would be called whereareallthecatvideosandporn.com
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We didn't view the bridge from the northern side. Somewhere on the south, maybe called Queensferry or something like it.
The bridge itself is beautifully engineered.
I also liked the original Tay bridge whose stumpy remains lie alongside the "new" bridge of the same name.
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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The bridge goes from Noth Queensferry to South Queensferry, on opposite sides of the river.
On the noth side there is an exhibition in the Queensferry Hotel, with lots of photos of the construction
It's well known that if all the cat videos and porn disappeared from the internet there would be only one site left and it would be called whereareallthecatvideosandporn.com
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SeptimusEjj 151576 wrote: then I want to go there.
Me too. I has been a while since my last visit to Scotland.
By the way, that bridge is really a masterpiece.
Veni, vidi, vici.
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I don't know who the principal engineer is who was commissioned for the Forth bridge but there is one thing that Scotland is well known for all over the world and that was its contribution to engineering in general. It's provided some mighty fine engineers.
No wonder then, that Scotty in Star Trek was an engineer as well.
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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Our Government [^] never cease to find new ways to embarrass themselves.
It was revealed by a member of the public here [^] that the billing system for "The City of Johannesburg", a.k.a COJ had a serious security flaw.
A seriously embarrassing[^] security flaw ...
This flaw allowed users to not only view personal account information and statements of other people, but also do so without even having a valid logon, by simply altering the "documentID=" parameter in the URL.
This guy, who attempted to alert COJ of this flaw (being ignored) then went public to create awareness.
The COJ has now opened a criminal case[^] against him for maliciously hacking there website and exposing confidential information.
According to you, does this really constitute hacking? And if it does by some "definition of the law", is it fair for the COJ to prosecute him?
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"Well, someone has to take a fall, and I'm not going to blame ME!"
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Technically, it probably is hacking: "To use one's skill in computer programming to gain illegal or unauthorized access to a file or network"
The dictionary definition doesn't put a limit on just how much skill in computer programming you need (in this case, pretty much none). The legal definition may do, however - depends on how the law was written. Normally, very badly by people who don't understand what they are legislating against, so don;t get your hopes up.
I think he has done the right thing: he tried to alert them, when they ignored him he publicise it. If I was him, I'd start a countersuit that they have been negligent in their protection of his personal data (but that again depends on the law in SA).
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Local municipal authorities are a bit of a scourge maybe the world over. They have huge power but if they make errors it's always someone else's fault usually one of their constituents.
They are made up of individuals whose principal training seems to be covering their backsides.
It is probably unlikely they will succeed in prosecuting this individual but I'll wager that they will try very hard and it will end up costing him money.
Peter Wasser
Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
Frank Zappa
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I kind of feel a mistyped URI does not a hacker make.
Reality is an illusion caused by a lack of alcohol
"Nagy, you have won the internets." - Keith Barrow
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Maybe. The lawyer in me (don't ask) tells me that they could probably defend that definition. Compare: is stealing something that's trivial to steal still stealing?
On the other hand, this is all sorts of stupid. The message here, is "exploiting a security flaw is better than exposing it", or at least that's how people will take this. That can't be a good thing. And besides, this is like not logging out of facebook and then "being hacked" by the next person who uses the computer - they essentially gave access, whether they intended to or not.
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I noticed the site prefix is http:// and not https:// - how secure can one expect it to be.. 
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It's sad that the city opend a criminal case, but I'm not surprised. This kind of reaction is all too common.
I don't think, what the user did was hacking. The data just lay there unprotected. After all even Google indexed the records, if I read the article correctly. So if the city really wanted to make their actions against the user plausible, they would need to sue Google as well. And good luck with that, they'll need it.
The good thing about pessimism is, that you are always either right or pleasently surprised.
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No, hacking in merely writing code very quickly; I think they mean to charge him with cracking.
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MatthysDT wrote: is it fair for the COJ to prosecute him?
Not really sure that the goal of even the better legal systems is to be "fair". It is instead to administer the law.
Although one might claim that prosecutors should be fair since they have discretion.
However this is just another case that demonstrates that should one want to expose a problem like this then one should only do it a way that insures that the reporter remains anonymous.
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