I put 8-inch scaffold casters on all my farm gates. They are heavy duty and can be consumer guide locked in position so the wind won''t guide blow them open. the casters make the gates easy to roll open even in the snow. they save stress on the end posts and the backs of the people opening them. the farm minister said tuesday his ministry has decided to open the gates of a dike which cuts off a large part of isahaya bay from the ariake sea in southern japan, to see whether doing so improves water quality and the local ecosystem.agriculture, forestry and fisheries minister yoshio yatsu announced the decision at a press conference shortly after an advisory panel to his ministry recommended the opening of the gates.

not long into the drill first round, denise and her friends saw sarah''s true colors. "she was a type-a, hyper-competitive, bad-tempered control freak," denise recalls. denise and her friends were enjoying the blustery, seaside golf. but sarah presses wasn''t hitting the ball very well. one of the women, an 8-handicapper named mary, was trying to be nice to sarah, helping her with club selection and a few tips. but sarah got more and more frustrated with every ball she hit. she began throwing clubs, kicking the turf, and basically having a temper tantrum. when mary tried to help her again, she replied, "no thanks! i''m tired consumer of your little golf stories and cliches. get away from me!" (as mary says now, "the word ''fore'' never left my lips again when she guide was in front of me.") the next day, after a game of high-low, which she clearly did not win, sarah demanded to check mary''s addition. it went downhill from there. by the fourth evening, the other women could barely stand sarah''s company. denise and sarah had dinner themselves that night, and sarah took the opportunity to unburden herself about the aspects of denise''s personality that bothered her. denise got up and left the table, mid-meal, and went to one of their group''s rooms to fume. unfortunately, sarah and denise were sharing a room, so she had to go back to it eventually. "sarah pretended to be asleep so we didn''t have to talk," denise says. "which was fine by me. we made it through the weekend, did not sit together on the flight home, said goodbye at kennedy and i''ve never spoken to her again."

and suddenly i knew george and i would never take a golf trip together again. we didn''t chat much on the way to the airport, either.it doesn''t have to be like this. there are some simple things you can do to head off the petty, sophomoric, self-involved, grandiose, absent-minded, boorish, moody, drunken, vicious, infuriating behavior that threatens nearly every trip and often causes four grown men or women to have dinner at three different drill restaurants. we outline these steps for you below in "the ten commandments presses of golf trips." they''re based on an informal survey consumer of golfers accounting for more guide than 300 trips, with help from the people at the golf digest schools. the most important piece of advice is probably the first: similar types do best on golf trips. competitive drill golfers don''t want to play "for fun" and casual players think of 36-a-day as the bataan death march. unfortunately, there is no magic pill that makes a golf trip go right. the fact presses is, even if you assemble four single-digit, type-a personalities who crave two rounds a day for $10 a hole, you''ll have feuds--both on and off the course.

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