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Coming up short on your approach to the green can leave you with a few options depending if you're in the rough or on the fairway. March 26, 2010
Two-in-one! Two putting tips that will put your ball in the cup more often.
Struggling with your putting? Maybe you should give the belly putter some thought.
Does your tee shot consistently miss the fairway? Here's a tip: The tee block is your friend.
We've all been there. Our tee shot ends up far from the fairway and in the trees. Here's how to escape the situation.
Next time you find yourself in the rough, get creative with your club selection and you might just save yourself a few strokes.
Plenty of golfers have problems controlling the ball off the tee. The solution could be as easy as adjusting your tee height just a bit.
Watch SCOREGolf TV's countdown of Canada's Greatest 25 Golfers of All Time.
Coach Sean Foley demonstrates how practicing on a downhill lie can teach good swing habits.
Coach Sean Foley introduces a left hand only chipping drill, designed to work on the non-dominant hand.
The Canadian coach highlights four practice tools to help consistently drain that eight-footer.
Teaching you techniques to improve your golf game.
Swing School goes through techniques to help you bring your results from the range, to the course.
Swing School talks putting.
Swing School talks tension in the swing.
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SCOREGolf asks Peter Oliphant, director of instruction at Clublink Academy Muskoka, for some advice on hitting straighter tee shots
No Ken Tarling isn't sitting down on the job, he's stretching it out as a part of a solid warmup.
Your golf game is sound and you're playing well, but not great. Ken Tarling's here to give you the inside goods on fine-tuning your golf clubs for even lower numbers on your next scorecard.
The SCOREGolf Instruction section gives you some advice for the next time you get the urge to offer your playing partner help on making a golf shot
SCOREGolf helps you tee up every golf shot for success from here on in. A properly teed golf ball can make your next round a great one.
You're a long way from the green, but your lie is in the rough and sitting down. Do you go for it with a 6-iron or opt for more loft?
Coming up short on your approach to the green can leave you with a few options depending if you're in the rough or on the fairway.
SCOREGolf has heard a chance of rain is in the forecast for the 71st Masters, so you may want to brush up on your rules of the game when it comes to dealing with a mud ball
Balance is key to a solid golf swing. Here's what you can do to ensure you have a solid foothold on your game.
Henry Brunton shares with you the best thoughts to have when trying to make putts from five feet in.
Play it as it lies is such a popular phrase with golfers, but do you really know the rule?
SCOREGolf answers the question every golfer has faced at one time or another - What do I do when the wind moves my ball on the green? Find out in SCOREGolf TV's Rules of Golf
Being successful on more golf shots starts with a fundamentally sound and consistent setup.
Learn how to hit a consistent knockdown shot and never worry about the wind again.
Iconic Canadian golfer George Knudson was a stickler for balance in the golf swing. Join Isaac Levy and Bob Weeks as they share some tips on bringing balance back to your game.
Golf fitness expert Isaac Levy has some tips that will help you get to the next level in core strength to power up your golf swing in time for next season.
Make sure you know exactly what rule #28-A ,the unplayable ball rule, covers before you pick up and head back to the tee.
We've all been there: face-to-face with a tree. No way to tackle it but to work around it. Peter Oliphant shows you how.
Too many of us hit the range like it's a race - trying to finish our bucket of balls ahead of the next guy. Make the most out of your next session on the range with these tips.
The U.S. Open features some of the most recognized bunkers in the world. So, it's time to fess up: How solid is your sand game?
Every golfer has different game and having the right clubs in your bag to match that game is vital for better scores. It's time to pick the right wedge combination for you.
You've gone and sent your ball to the beach, but before you move those nasty little bunker rocks away from your lie, you might want to check the rule book.
SCOREGolf brings you golf instruction tips to help you with your short game. Watch Sean Casey as he shows you the surefire way to deal with the dreaded 'over the sandtrap' shot
It's time to overcome the fear of chipping.
A practice putt is allowed, but probably not what you want to take advantage of if you're golfing for a low score.
Even if your golf ball is teetering on the edge of the hole, you may want to think twice before putting it with your grip.
Check out these quick tips to improve your game around the green.
Henry Brunton shows you how throwing your golf ball can help make you a better chipper.
The key to driving the golf ball even further depends on clubhead speed and fitting equipment to your game.
Ken Tarling's putting tip and a little discipline will have you draining 'em centre cup in no time.
You've heard it your entire golfing life, 'There's no one way to hit a golf shot.' Henry Brunton demonstrates how true this is when you're in tight around the green.
Want to hit a strong golf shot every time? Check out this one simple teaching aid.
A long mental checklist before every golf swing is fine on the range, but you'll need to narrow it down to a few key thoughts before playing your next 18.
Reaching the green in two on a long par 5 requires hitting the driver twice in a row for many. Make sure you're set up for success and a better shot at eagle.
Ken Tarling shares a tip on how an everyday squeegee can help you swing straighter for more consistent, better shots and a stronger game.
Pros on the PGA Tour aren't focusing on the golf swing, they are focused on what they need to do to get the ball in the hole.
Ever pick a club, feel good about it and then fly the green? Put an end to that cycle with these tips from the SCOREGolf Instruction series and Donalda Golf Club's Ken Tarling
Try the visualize, feel, commit and hit approach for better, more consistent putts.
SCOREGolf Short Game Golf Tips: The dreaded skull shot. It lurks in the back of every golfer's mind when they're around the green. Well not anymore.
Each hole may end on the putting green, but they all start on the tee. Get away straighter off the tee with proper alignment.
Peter Oliphant, director of instruction from the Clublink Academy in Muskoka, has one word for you: impact. Here's Peter with a great tip to help you square things up for your next round.
SCOREGolf's Bob Weeks and Jason Logan discuss the thrilling finale at Royal Montreal where Tim Clark snuck up and stole the title from the palms of Jim Furyk�s hands.
Your 2014 RBC Canadian Open champion Tim Clark talks about getting back into the winner's circle in the country where he experienced his first professional success.
Low Canadian at the RBC Canadian Open, Graham DeLaet talks about his week at Royal Montreal GC.
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Now that Teavana has been Sold to Starbucks for 620 Million How Are You Feeling?
I had never heard of teavana until I joined this site, and I have little use for starbucks. I use a small handful of Tazo teas, most in summer.
Now having heard of teavana, I don't find the product line markets well to my tastes, I am grateful to be able to remain indifferent to the whole deal.
I've been to the Teavana store in Honolulu and their sales tactics are super pushy. Their teas are okay, but I prefer Lupicia and Kusmi (two other tea vendors I've tried).
I have a friend in the coffee business who hates Starbucks and he is defending the heck out of Teavana to me on Facebook….baffling.
I'm ashamed to say I too got my start brewing loose leaf tea from Teavana. I'm no hater, but a small amount of research will reveal many cost effective and fresher alternatives online and often locally.
Though when I heard they had a 75% off sale I dropped everything I was doing and braved the traffic in my local mall's parking lot to buy a half pound of their Gyokuro. At $5/2oz (usually $20), I was happy to stockpile. I like that tea. A fine Gyokuro IMHO. I'm not much of a blend guy, so wasn't t taken in by many of their other offerings. But at such a steep discount I couldn't help but buy a couple/four oz. here and there of white, black and an oolong. I wish they'd let me sample them first. I like that about Bird Pick. I was also pleased to see the employees refresh each of the teas I was choosing from newly opened vacuum sealed bags.
I kinda like Teavana accessories too. I almost got a fancy digital water boiling system, but even at 50% off, I fought the urge. I DID buy one of those clay lined tumblers for cheap. That's some tea paraphernalia that I have a hard time justifying, but the price sucked me in. For what it's worth, nobody sold me hard, they pointed out things, but I succumbed to my own desires.
I'm no Starbucks hater. As a caffeine delivery system, I find they offer a powerful cup of joe. And as decaf goes, I've found I prefer their coffee to others. I hope the two companies are good for each other. I'm curious to see how they are incorporated. I know when I'm traveling in the US, and run out of my supply of travel tea, I can always swing by a local mall and stock up on something palatable at Teavana. If being absorbed into the SB's family means they'll be even more available, I'm all for it. But I'm not terribly hopeful. I'd be more concerned if Teavana was more of a boutique seller and got purchased by SB.
There's no shame in it… the point is that you got your start
And Teavana still has a few things I like. I for one will strive to drink the things I like, and maybe it's not the most prestigious or best quality all the time. I don't care though, all that matters is that I like it.
Tea is supposed to be enjoyed.

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Complete guide to comforters. Tips on picking the right one for you and how to get the best deals.
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Sick of PS4 news yet? No? Good, me neither (even though I'm no longer a true gamer). Last night, on the Jimmy Fallon Show, Guerilla Games' founder Herman Holst appeared alongside the show's host and comedian Anthony Anderson for the first televised live demo of Killzone: Shadow Fall.
If you're interested in reading further – or you can just watch the video and ignore my SEO dribble – Fallon takes a look at the controller, reviews some of the controls (share button, touchpad) we're already familiar with – though I wasn't aware it had a built-in speaker – and then shows a few minute, live demo of the game. I have no clue what level they're on, or really what is happening. Fallon and Anderson both tried their hand at the game and failed miserably.


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TRILL - Transparent Interconnect of Lots of Links
TRILL is short for Transparent Interconnect of Lots of Links.
The Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links (TRILL) is an IETF specification that enables multipathing in the data center. The TRILL protocol provides transparent Layer 2 forwarding using encapsulation with a hop count and IS-IS link state routing.
Recommended Reading: Understanding The Data Link Layer.
The TRILL network protocol was first developed by Radia Perlman (also credited with the invention of the algorithm behind the Spanning Tree Protocol) to "remove deficiencies of bridged Ethernet networks in large Layer 2 campuses" and was then taken up by the IETF to create a new standard.
As defined by the IETF RFC 6326 standard, TRILL provides optimal pair-wise forwarding without configuration, safe forwarding even during periods of temporary loops, and support for multipathing of both unicast and multicast traffic as well as supporting VLANs.
TRILL introduces a new encapsulation layer, a set of associated control plane protocols, and a new network device type called an RBridge (a TRILL device) that sits midway between a router and a bridge.
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Skin Problems & Treatments Health Center
Varicose Veins and Spider Veins
Varicose veins are large, raised, swollen blood vessels that twist and turn. They usually develop in the legs and can be seen through the skin.
Spider veins are smaller, red, purple, and blue vessels that also twist and turn. Spider veins are easily visible through the skin as well. They are also most often seen on the legs and face.
Causes of Varicose Veins and Spider Veins
A number of factors predispose a person to varicose veins and spider veins. These include:
- Heredity.
- Occupations that involve a lot of standing, such as nurses, hair stylists, teachers, and factory workers.
- Obesity.
- Hormonal influences during pregnancy, puberty, and menopause.
- The use of birth control pills.
- Postmenopausal hormonal replacement.
- A history of blood clots.
- Conditions that cause increased pressure in the abdomen including tumors, constipation, and externally worn garments like girdles.
Other reported causes include trauma or injury to the skin, previous vein surgery, and exposure to ultraviolet rays.
Other Risk Factors for Varicose Veins and Spider Veins
Varicose veins and spider veins develop more often in women than in men. They increase in frequency with age. An estimated 30% to 60% of adults have varicose veins or spider veins.
Symptoms of Varicose Veins and Spider Veins
Many patients with varicose veins complain of pain, described as an aching or cramping in the legs. Other common symptoms include tiredness, restlessness, burning, throbbing, tingling, or heaviness in the legs. Pain caused by varicose veins is usually relieved by elevating the legs or by wearing support hose.
In women, symptoms may be worse during certain parts of the menstrual cycle or during pregnancy. Patients also may develop swelling, ulcers (deep sores), and an increase in the pigmentation or darkening of the color of their skin, especially in the ankle region. Occasionally, varicose veins can form a painful blood clot with inflammation of the vein called thrombophlebitis.
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There are seven major forms of treatment for varicose veins and spider veins.
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2. Lifestyle changes. Good skin hygiene, weight loss (if needed), and walking can help treat varicose veins and spider veins.
3. Sclerotherapy. This procedure, which has been available since the 1930s, is another treatment option. This procedure uses a highly concentrated saline (salt) solution or a specially made detergent that is injected directly into the vein, causing the vein to disappear gradually over three to six weeks. The procedure is simple, relatively inexpensive, and can be performed in an outpatient setting.
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Freddie's Bachelor Pad Renovation
Before & After
Name: Freddie & Catherine
Location: Wilmington, North Carolina
Please check out our "before and after" images of Freddie's bachelor pad — done on a major budget. See what can happen when a minimalist moves in!
Light was a major problem so we added a window in the kitchen and mirrors in the living area. We also upgraded bedrooms and bathroom on a budget.
Thanks Freddie & Catherine!
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32 Comments
Nice job! Like the crisp look of the new galley kitchen
Wow-that's quite the transformation-it looks fantastic! And I have to ask about those 3 pendant lights-where did you get those? I love them!
Looks fantastic! I love the upholstery on the dining room chairs. Great job!
Losing that upper cabinet was such a smart decision. It opens up the space so beautifully!
Well done. My only suggestion: either drop the tryptic mirror behind the sofa down a little or better yet, a nice big piece of art.
oh WOW! This looks fabulous! I especially love those 3 kitchen lights and that wild upholstery on the dining room chairs. Great job!
those before shots give me a lot of anxiety..
Nice job Freddie!
What a difference removing that bulkhead made! What was it's original purpose I wonder?
Really smart re-design overall--ditching the U-shape and getting yourself some nice open space below the window to make a tight kitchen feel comfortable.
So many bonuses achieved here. Did you have to install a gas line or was there already a hookup?
Great job!
Excellent job! Do you mind sharing the make/model of the refrigerator?
Looks a million times better. I also appreciate how the couch remained, but it looks so much nicer in its new location and with the chairs complementing it. It is nice to see that there is hope!
Wow! I love the addition of the window. Great job!
What a woman can do ;-)
Good job Freddie! I'm not keen on your furniture, but I definitely like your kitchen.
this really is awesome. lol @ libbysal's comment!
There isn't much point in saying something was done "on a budget" with no explanation. Nearly everyone has "a budget" - whether it is $5000 or $25,000. I know some people are leery of sharing costs but it would really make a big difference, and be so helpful, to those of us who are still trying to figure out how to attach a price range to a photo.
Now for the kitchen itself - I'm saving this for inspiration! The white cabinets and wood countertops look beautiful and the new layout is very clean and inviting. You did a great job updating the living room too - what a transformation! You lost a significant amount of cabinet and counter space, but it actually looks much more usable now. The window was so worth it. Beautiful job. I would love to see more details about the whole house!
libbysal, you're not the only one who experienced anxiety with the Before shots.
And is that a talking fish over the dining table? Yeah, that had to go.
Beautiful job! I love the new window, it really brightens the space. And I like how the cabinets reflect the lights. The whole home looks bigger now.
Wow!! What a difference! It looks so much bigger and comfier now! Love the new kitchen, the new home for the couch, and the matching chairs with different/complementary pillows. I agree, though, I think artwork would look better over the couch. I would also like a number on the budget, at least for the kitchen re-do.
Funny, the kitchen remodel I'm working on is taking a galley to a U shape! I can't stand galley kitchens! So much wasted work space! But then I cook. A lot!
Though his after does look great.
Of course the window made a huge difference, but I can't get over how much better that looks with those cabinets removed from above the sink/counter.
Lizliterarius, I'm not sure how I understand how a galley wastes work space. The after kitchen above looks like a much more functional space than the U-shaped before kitchen, and the owner actually seems to have gained more space in which to move around.
I completely agree with sagekitten85. "Major budget" for some of us can be beyond-our-means or pocket change for others.
Regardless of budget, nice job!
Thanks so much for all of your comments.
The kitchen has made a huge difference -- it works so much better and we cook a lot. Now two of us can actually be in there at the same time. Sylvia Brown at designHouse in San Francisco designed the kitchen for us and helped us do it affordably. If you didn't guess, those are Ikea cabinets and countertops. All the appliances are Kenmore. We added a gas line and tile floors which were a little bit of a splurge.
Sorry to be vague about the "budget" but I know it was well under 15K (probably closer to 10k). Hard to price it exactly as we redid the whole pad.
The pendant lights are from West Elm.
We tried to use as much of our old furniture as possible and yet we wanted to give the place a more updated look. We initially had art over the sofa but the mirrors helped reflect light from the sliding glass doors (the living area is a bit of a cave). But you are right, the mirrors are too high.
Perhaps I'll post some other before and after photos. You'll love the old vertical blinds in the bedrooms!!
Thanks for looking everyone!!
WOW! This looks fabulous!
Great looking place! I have a couple of questions on the kitchen.
Did you cut and finish the butcher block yourself? Was it difficult? Did you use Ikeas product to finish them with?
The cabinets look glossy white to me. Are they the foil finish? They sell a few varieties of white. I just wonder the benefits of using one over the other.
I really like their beech cabinets (Solar I think) with stone countertops, but what you did sure looks great (and for much less $$).
Catsb, thanks for sharing the budget estimate! That is impressive with all the changes that were made. Would love to see more before and after photos!
Yeah, "major budget" implies (to me) that it was big bucks, which this is not.
I think "minimal budget" or "with major budget restriction" is what was intended.
a wonderful redo of the space! so open and minimal
Too much clutter in before, all cleaned up in the after. Makes a huge difference. Our SF apartment actually has a galley kitchen with those old cabinets. I love it. Cooks easier than the U-shaped one in our 70s house.
Stunning job! Talk about being able to breathe in there after all the decluttering. So much lighter and more spaceous as well! Couldn't agree more with the positioning of the sofa now either.
Wow! It felt so cluttered in the "before." The "after" is a place I'd definitely like to hang out!
It seemed very cluttered before, but now, wow what a difference! Good Job!


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Overeen also recaps the movie Warriors so watch out for spoilers it you have not seen it.
first comment! overeem is a bad ass.
Pretty confident guy. Brock is heavy with good wrestling skills, but he's nowhere near Alistair in striking.
1rst rnd ko via knee "the reem"
I bet that he does not knock out Lesnar in the first round.
First comment!
(see what a f***** i sound like)
Overeem 2012 heavyweight champ.Its almost a supergight I dont know why Dana would set up his poster boy against Overeem, I love Brock but hes going to sleep in the 1st.
I would agree with Reem unless Brock can secure the takedown, in that case it will be a long night for the reem.
I'm not sure he's going to be able to handle the first round storm as well as Cain did.
you need to pressure overeem dont let him set up,brock need to bull rush him like he did against cain,overeem is a striker hart i dont think that hes got that good take down defens hes not that flexible hes like a tank or a robot i cant wait,im going with brock
little fun fact for you guys: overeem is not a great striker, he's good, but not at all great. winning in k-1 doesn't mean anything as far as mma is concerned. he won't stop the double and he will be on his back till brock decides he wants to take him out
and mr42069 woke up!
He better be predicting that. If he doesn't put Brock "Not in the Face" Lesnar out in the first, that probably means Brock got him on his back. Although Overeem used to have decent BJJ, I don't know how flexible and active from his back he still is since he started the "horse meat diet" (just joking, no reason to start a discussion about Overroid's natural muscles).
Putting down very simply:
1. Overeem's grappling is better than Brock's striking.
2. Both are extremely strong and I am not sure who would win in the clinch as Overeem has nasty elbows and knees, and Brock is a great wrestler. Different clinching techniques and equivalent strength, although I think Overeem's wrestling might be just enough to keep him standing.
3. Overeem has a week chin. He gets rocked every time he gets hit. Brock has a solid chin, but is chicken s*** (his own words) when he gets hit in the face. Standing up, I don't think Brock can hit Overeem and Overeem can hit Brock any time he chooses. On the ground, Brock can probably KO Alistair before he can pull a submission. However, Overeem used to have a decent ground scramble when he was thin, so that has yet to be determined.
Well, maybe it wasn't that simple… It never is.
Winning K-1 doest mean anything lol best Comment of the post goes to mr42069 who had to add the 420 to his name cause he such a pot smoker lol lame ass dude
i totally forgot the 69 on the end of it lol that makes me laugh so hard reminds of me of a high school kid name for AIM
So is this gonna be clean Reem or PED'd out Reem? Either way, he ain't winning this fight unless Brock didn't recover from the last 3 surgeries. Brock is roided out too, though, so who knows. I predict a lame fight with a great KO.
Just don't punch yourself out by beating on his melon. Be ready for plan B.
Is your handle REALLY "Ligger_Nyncher"???
Why are you rooting for Overeem and why haven't you killed yourself?
Overroid's TD defense is pretty lackluster, so I don't see a first round TKO after he gets hit with a double. I can't believe some of you think he's going to rise through the ranks and be HW champ. If you think this guy gets through Cain or Dos Santos, you are sorely mistaken.
Brock is a wannabe fighter. No hands he just big and strong that's it if he wins while I doubt he will, he will win VIA lay n pray.
The Reem is so over rated. Brock lesnar by ground n pound round 2.
This Dana's way of getting Brock out of the UFC. Brock has served his purpose as a big time marketing machine but now that his chin has been exposed and UFC is about to go "main stream", he's gonna be fed to the lions. Brock will have a couple more fights after this but his time with the UFC is coming to an end. Good run Brock!
i can see this going like carwin/lesnar did
reem burning himself out in the 1st
lesnar finishing him in the 2nd
either way should be a fun fight
Last few fights of Overeem, his striking has been suspect.
Brock is going to grind this guy for 3 rounds easy.
I cant see brock being able to do anything with Overeem i understand brock has a big wrestaling background but overeem has miles more experance and has been a active figter for many years. And cain showed that a much smaller fighter can stuff brocks takedowns now hes up against a man whos probably as strong as him and a hell of alot more athletic. Anyways i think its a total miss match
Nah, I see Brock lasting the first rd. After that, Overeem should pretty much have his way with him.
overrated overeem…and brock..lot of hype,im sure cain would woop bolth
Wow reporter, why not suck his **** too?
mr42069, winning K1 means nothing? Your post is simply ridiculous, winning K1 means everything as far as striking ability is concerned, nobody in mma is on Reem's level when it comes to striking!
Reem would make JDS look like an amateur in the stand up dept, I just can't believe people don't understand what K1 Champion means.
If brock gets Overeem down, Brock wins. If he can't be successful with take downs, he will lose.
Reem is way too slow for Brock. Double leg take down. some ground and pound and finished with hammer fists!
For sure, Overeem will hit Lesnar in the face. Lesnar will bleed, cry and curl up in a ball. Overeem will finish him promptly with punches to Lesnar's big ugly bucket head. The last Werdum fight was an exception. Overeem's recent record shows that he finishes fights. Lesnar will not be an exception. Just thinkin…..on the other hand…..????
Brock via Overeem gassing. Reem won't be able to utilize his knees. He'll get taken down every time he tries. I'm hoping I'm wrong though, I wanna see Overeem as champ in the future. I think Brock is his biggest challenge at heavyweight.
Brock has balls and that's about it, he can't fight for s*** and will retire after this massacre.
"Fact" Brock does have Balls! False > he can't fight and will retire after this. "Fact" If he makes it through the first round he will win
ARE THESE TWO EVEN GOING TO FIT INSIDE THE OCTIGON?, HAHA TOO MUCH ROIDS FOR ONE OCTIGON….good match up tho, thers going to be an atmostsphere of intence ROID RAGE in the air!!!!!!!!!!!! Which of course always makes a good K.O or a good slugfest, beat the sh*t out of one another,fight………. defintly a match to watch, hell I might even throw a ppv party and watch the roaids fly lol!!!!!!!!


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Professor Leslie Mayhew of the City University, London, estimates that male children born in 2000 will grow to live approximately a month over 87 if they make it past their 30th birthday. This is the same age predicted for their female classmates.
The predictions only apply after men reach 30 years of age because statistics show baby boys are still more likely to die in the womb than baby girls. More young men also die from motor and sports-related accidents than young women.
An adviser to the UK Office for National Statistics (ONS) predicts that even younger boys may outlive girls of the same age.
Professor Mayhew attributes the closing gap to men adopting healthier lifestyles.
"There has been a huge decline in the numbers working in heavy industry; far fewer males smoke than before and there is much better treatment for heart disease, which tends to affect more males than females," he told the UK's Sunday Times.
The official ONS long term projections contradict Mayhew's findings, saying that a three-and-a-half year gap will still exist between men and women.
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Originally opened in 1992 by two landscape designers as a gardening shop with a nod to the natural sciences, Paxton Gate has now become a Bay Area institution and destination. In its seventeen years, the scope of the one-of-a-kind store has expanded beyond plants and taxidermy to include architectural elements, vintage furniture, unique home accessories, fossils, lighting and beyond.
Paxton Gate's owner Sean Quigley should issue a warning at the door: "Hours may be lost inside this store." Often described as weird, educational and beautiful all in one, this San Francisco gem is unlike anything we have ever scene. The staff is happy to let you spend your time navigated the thoughtfully curated store, but are at your service should you have a question about those fish fossils or the carnivorous plants.
Although the front half of the store is chock full of curiosities, don't neglect the back of the store where you can find all the tillandsias, succulents and ferns that your heart desires. Should you need some planters or top soil, you can find those here as well. In addition to its retail products, Paxton Gate also provides unique landscape design and construction for both residential gardens and commercial landscapes.
While you are in the neighborhood, be sure to check out their recently opened children's store, Paxton Gate's Curiosities for Kids, at 766 Valencia Street.
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i appreciate the irony of the "no photos" sign in the bottom corner of the unicorn pix. paxton gate is a neighborhood favorite for us as well -- and i can't resist taking photos at times, either... make sure to get your stash of peg-leg oil next door at 826 valencia while you're in the vicinity. this stretch of valencia (from 19th to 17th) has some great stops... some have been lost (den), but there's still plenty to cherish.
Often I see beautiful things on AT the make me happy for hours. This taxidermy horse, however, is like a punch in the stomach. I can't imagine anything more personally painful.
Love, love, love this store. One of my favorite stores in SF. They have an amazing collection of beautiful plants, books, prints, taxidermied creatures, and all sorts of other strange/wonderful delights for the science nerd. I can easily spend many hours and lots of $$ in this store.
Kate(NC) could not agree with you more, that is just sickening.
I love Paxton Gate, especially the plants and the loose-leaf tea selection (and they usually have a pot of something delicious brewing for you to sip while browsing). Granted, the taxidermy can be a bit creepy; I could never imagine displaying a stuffed horse in my home. But I'm not sure why it has to necessarily be painful...unless the animal was killed for the explicit purpose of being stuffed, which is not always the case (for instance, people sometimes have their deceased pets stuffed - creepy, yes, but not cruel).
Why is it sickening? Unless the animal was killed specifically to be taxidermied, I don't understand why it's so wrong.
It certainly doesn't seem any weirder than our common practice of embalming the heck out of dead people before sticking them in a box and then sticking them in the ground.
Thanks so much for this post, Jessica!
I'm moving to the Bay Area (soon!), and I'm mapping out all of my new hotspots. This is definitely going to the top of the list :)
I love Paxton's Gate! I think taxidermy is an incredible science and art form and I love everything in there... yes it's a little creepy, but what else are you gonna do with the dead animal once it's dead? I don't think Paxton Gate's people go out and slaughter animals to stuff and put in their shop. Most likely they commission works from taxidermy artists who purchase or trade hides with hunters or ranchers who've eaten/sold the meat or had the animal put down for health reasons and such.
How different is a taxidermy animal from a leather couch? Just cause you can see the animal's likeness still doesn't make it's deadness any more real.
If that animal's likeness is like your own most beloved pet and has an expression of pain and fear and the image ambushes you and for deeply personal reasons causes a very deep emotional response it is as different from a leather couch as two things can possibly be. I would be happy to give old Trigger ( Roy Roger's famous horse, now a taxidermy display in a museum somewhere) a pat and thank him for all the pleasure he provided me in my childhood, but that unicorn is a hideous thing and the shock of seeing it was truly sickening to me. I have put down horses and seen to their disposal. I know the pragmatic duties of farm life and I know the pain of loss that never diminishes.
i love naturalist accents and the sort of museum curios, so happy this place is also online.
i think a personal punch in the stomach is a bit overboard. dead things are dead things; coral and butterflys and fossils and well... uhm... unicorns. if it's not your thing, or your have a personal connection to say, scarab beatles or oversized scorpions as well, there's other places in the neighborhood to shop.
the store is a gorgeous compendium of things that you never see. and to me the taxidermied items aren't morbid, but rather, reminders of mortality.
there is not a thing in that store that seems to take pleasure in the suffering of the animal. it's not a way station for cruelty by any means.
also, it's not a real unicorn by the way - perhaps you're just shocked because it's not embroidered on a pillow, illustrated as a book cover in shades of pastel, or depicted as being held in a pen and yearning for freedom?
It is too a real unicorn!
in bad taste or not aren't you curious about ther person who just has to have a taxidermy horse head/grossly impractical coat rack?
seriously if someone buys that i'd want to see how they pull it off in a room.
I have always found this store to be creepy and their taxidermy selection seems to always change, so people must by that stuff. Sad and disgusting in my opinion. They certainly have some interesting window displays though...
This store is one of the things I miss most about SF. *Sigh.


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Steve Jobs: Master of Innovation
The Apple founder birthed the personal computer, was banished from his empire and then saved it from ruin. Along the way, he changed the way we work, play and communicate.
Originally published May 4, 2010
On a foggy, cool day in January, Steve Jobs and Apple are bidding to change the world again. Jobs sits comfortably in a leather chair in front of a rapt San Francisco auditorium crowd, a large video screen tracking his hand movements on a thin, slate-looking object resting comfortably in his hands. Dressed in his trademark blue jeans, dark turtleneck, and New Balance shoes, the wire-framed Apple co-founder and culture-shaper peppers his speech with "remarkable, awesome" and "amazing" references to his company's latest new wave—a notebook device called the iPad. This "truly magical and revolutionary product" fills a category need between his company's successful laptop and iPhone and iPod business lines, Jobs says.
Sterling Performance
Jobs has established a rock-star-like persona around colossal, innovative successes that dwarf a couple of high-profile failures. The 55-year-old is personal, smooth. He exudes, well, a cool vibe.
Before his product announcement, he ticked off some heady numbers: In January, Apple sold its 250 millionth iPod; Jobs' self-proclaimed "mobile-devices" company now has 284 retail stores that attracted 50 million visitors in the fourth quarter of 2009 alone; its "apps" store offers more than 140,000 software applications for its mobile products (more than 3 billion downloaded in the store's first 18 months of operation); and Apple revenue makes it a more than $50 billion company.
The company's iPod and iTunes store "changed the way we discover, play and purchase music," Jobs says. In February, the company announced that its iTunes store recorded its 10 billionth song download (Johnny Cash's "Guess Things Happen That Way," purchased by a Woodstock, Ga., customer).
Those are staggering numbers for a company started by two smart, scruffy Northern California kids in their 20s who lacked any business training or college degrees—particularly since the company in its best years has captured about 10 percent or less of the personal-computer market (although it has historically dominated the high end).
Pursuit of Perfection
The American business success collective has volumes of examples of visionaries who have met pressing societal needs or created rich new markets. Among those pages, Jobs is a tutelary, a rough-about-the-edges company founder who has rattled the world, was banished from the kingdom he built during tumultuous times, and then returned to rescue and take Apple to loftier heights. During the past 34 years, he has overcome ambitious missteps, competitive obstacles and recent health issues to change the way people work, communicate and entertain themselves. Since rejoining Apple in 1996 after an 11-year exile, he has rescued it from near collapse, introduced meteoric products such as the iPod and iPhone, and cemented his role as the oracle of consumer tech gadgetry.
"Apple and Jobs are uniquely capable of defining the 'whole package' as they approach a new technology," Gadi Amit tells SUCCESS. Amit is founder and principal designer of the San Francisco-based NewDealDesign LLC, a strategic industrial design agency that includes Dell, Fujitsu and Nokia among its clients. "They are building a whole experience and culture around that technology. As such, there is no distinction in their thinking between marketing, sales, branding or product development. It's a coherent offering that has multifaceted value to many."
In naming Jobs "CEO of the Decade" in November 2009, Fortune magazine said history will remember him as "an individual who relentlessly pursued new opportunities," chasing "new possibilities without being deterred by whatever obstacles he encountered." Although he has assembled and trained a formidable management team, his innovative will is deemed tantamount to Apple success. In 2007, Barron's proclaimed him the most valuable chief executive in the world when it estimated that a Jobs' departure from Apple would wipe out about $20 billion of the company's market cap.
His fierce determination and pursuit of product perfection is etched in the company's DNA. "We're on the face of the Earth to make great products," Apple chief operating officer Tim Cook said during a 2009 earnings conference call. Cook, a successor in waiting, ran the company while Jobs was on leave recovering from a liver transplant in early 2009, the latest in a series of medical setbacks that have plagued Jobs since a 2003 cancer diagnosis.
Moving the World Forward
On the same day Jobs announced the details of the iPad, his Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak addressed a smaller, less formal group at the Laxson Auditorium in Chino, Calif. The brilliant engineer spoke about the late 1970s and early '80s, when he embodied a new way of thinking, far removed from the world of mainframes and minicomputers, when he and Jobs helped birth the personal-computer industry.
The name Apple Computer was plucked in part from the fruit in the valley's remaining orchards.
"I was turned on that little guys were going to do something of more value than the big corporations," recalls Wozniak, who retired from Apple in 1985. "My friend Steve Jobs… was always interested in doing things that would change the world. He was a move-the-world-forward kind of guy."
Jobs has always adapted, moved forward. While he dropped out of Reed College in Portland, Ore., because he found the curriculum a poor fit for him, he cites a calligraphy course he audited after dropping out as being instrumental in his career.
"I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great," Jobs told Stanford University graduates during their 2005 commencement. "None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But 10 years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me, and we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, it's likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course, it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backward 10 years later."
Apple Seeds
To fully understand the impact of Apple and Jobs, a bit of time travel is required. Jobs and Wozniak met in 1970; Wozniak was 21 and Jobs 16. Northern California's Santa Clara Valley (pre-Silicon Valley), where Jobs and Wozniak grew up, was a churning place for engineers and their ilk, fueled by Lockheed's booming defense business. Computing power was confined to gigantic, expensive machinery outside the realm of most businesses. The most basic of today's processes—like spreadsheets, inventory control and sales projections, and the basic mathematics used to run all businesses—were time-consuming, paper-and-brain operations.
Wozniak worked for Hewlett-Packard and Jobs at Atari as they scrambled with their groundbreaking work. He and Wozniak met regularly at informal Homebrew Computer Club meetings where locals compared notes and ideas in the bubbling information technology pool, as well as design and production techniques for the nascent computer industry. But they didn't impress the other engineers and hobbyists who didn't think much of Wozniak's initial "cigar box" circuitry that would morph into the Apple I, Michael Moritz explains in his 1984 book Return to the Little Kingdom: Steve Jobs, the Creation of Apple, and How It Changed the World. At that point, not even Wozniak could comprehend where the seeds of his work might lead.
On April Fools' Day in 1976, Wozniak, Jobs and Jobs' former Atari colleague Ron Wayne signed papers forming Apple Computer (the name plucked in part from the fruit in the valley's remaining orchards). Wayne resigned 12 days later because he decided the financial risk was too great. While many other players and backers had a hand in Apple's rise as a player in the technology sector, it was Wozniak's brilliance and Jobs' dogged determination that were the engines. Jobs scavenged for parts and hounded "Woz" to finish the Apple I and then the Apple II, which Wozniak single-handedly designed. It ignited the personal-computer revolution in 1977.
Impact and Timing
"We were in the right place at the time," Wozniak said in his Chino speech. While the Apple II was a leap forward and introduced color and pixels to the computer, Wozniak says Visicalc, which he calls the first "killer app," increased demand for the Apple II. Visicalc, a third-party program developed on a loaned Apple II, for the first time enabled users to do budgeting and projections on a computer.
Fortunate timing helped, but it was Jobs' vision that moved Apple into the vortex of an emerging industry. "What Steve's done is quite phenomenal," Microsoft founder Bill Gates said during a rare joint appearance with Jobs at a D5 industry conference in 2007. "If you look back to 1977, that Apple II computer, the idea that it would be a mass-market machine, the bet that was made there by Apple uniquely—there were other people with products, but the idea that this could be an incredible empowering phenomenon, Apple pursued that dream."
The company's highs—and some lows—are the stuff of Apple legend. "At the time, we certainly had no idea that a personal computer would someday have enough memory to hold a song or a movie," Wozniak says today. The company went public in 1980. It reinvented the personal computer in the 1980s with the introduction of the Macintosh.
Jobs' deftness for impact and timing was never so keen than in his now well-cited pitch in wooing Pepsi executive John Sculley to join Apple as president and chief executive officer in 1983:
"Do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your life or do you want to come with me and change the world?"
Apple's stark, groundbreaking "1984" big brother ad at Super Bowl XVIII, although hated by board members when they previewed it, became the standard for high-dollar impact advertising at the annual sports event.
A Devastating Fallout
In 1985, tensions between Sculley and Jobs about the direction of the company culminated in Jobs trying to oust Sculley in a palace coup. It failed, and Sculley stripped the founder of all his operational responsibilities. By September, Jobs was gone. Litigation ensued when Jobs tried to take some employees with him. Jobs sold his Apple stock. Bloodied but not beaten, Jobs recovered from the very high-profile exit.
"I was lucky—I found what I loved to do early in life," Jobs said during the Stanford commencement address, which is hailed as one of his best and certainly most personal speeches. "Woz and I started Apple in my parents' garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4,000 employees. We had just released our finest creation—the Macintosh—a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I got fired.
"How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our board of directors sided with him. So at 30 I was out. And very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating."
Certainly, founders losing control of their creation is a common and painful endgame in American business. Jobs talked about how he thought about fleeing the valley because of his very public failure, but he slowly realized he still loved what he did. He decided to start over.
A New Day
"I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life."
Jobs started NeXT Computer Inc., which failed in its attempt to sell elegant, expensive black computers to the business market, and by 1993, shifted its focus to the sale and development of its Nextstep operating system (which would evolve into Mac OS X). In 1986, however, Jobs stepped deeply into the entertainment world when he purchased the Pixar computer animation studios from George Lucas for less than $10 million, and then immersed himself in this new work.
In 1991, Pixar and Disney agreed to form a filmmaking partnership under which Pixar made the movies and Disney distributed them.
The same year, Jobs married Laurene Powell, whom he met when he spoke at a class at Stanford business school, where she was getting her MBA. They now live in Palo Alto with three children and Jobs' daughter from a previous relationship.
Meantime, Jobs' work got faster and more furious. By 1993, Sculley resigned from a beleaguered, battered Apple. Disney released Pixar's first movie, Toy Story, in 1995, which was an astounding success and leap forward in animation quality. In December 1996, Apple bought NeXT for $430 million in a move full of intrigue, bringing Jobs back into the fold. In July 1997, former National Semiconductor chairman Gil Amelio, brought in to right a sinking Apple ship, resigned after a rocky 500 days on the job. By September, Jobs became iCEO (interim), and returned the company to profitability by January 1998.
"Apple was in very serious trouble," Jobs has said about the period when he returned. "Apple had to remember who Apple was because they'd forgotten who Apple was."
The Comeback
Part of that remembering included clearing out some of the storied past. One of the first things Jobs did upon his return was to pack up the internal Apple museum—all the company's papers and old machines—and send the materials to Stanford University for archiving.
"[We] cleared out the cobwebs and said, 'Let's stop looking backward here,' " Jobs explained at the 2007 conference. "It's all about what happens tomorrow. Because you can't look back and say, 'Well, gosh, you know, I wish I hadn't gotten fired, I wish I was there, I wish this, I wish that.' It doesn't matter. Let's go invent tomorrow rather than worrying about what happened yesterday."
When Apple launched its first iMac in 2001, its personal-computer market share had dwindled to 2 percent (the company began using "i" before its product in 1998 to represent its visionary shift to the Internet and personal devices, the individual). In 2001, Apple introduced the landscape-changing iPod, iTunes and its OS X 10.0 operating system, signifying its return as a champion innovator. Apple, once again, proved that reports of its demise were greatly exaggerated. In a strategy shift, Apple also opened its first retail store in Maclean, Va.
"Steve gave a speech once, which is one of my favorites, where he talked about, in a certain sense, 'We [Apple] build the products that we want to use ourselves,' " Microsoft's Gates said in 2007. "He's really pursued that with incredible taste and elegance that has had a huge impact on the industry. And his ability to always come around and figure out where that next bet should be has been phenomenal. Apple literally was failing when Steve went back and re-infused the innovation and risk-taking that have been phenomenal."
Jobs returned to the top of the business world, but life held another challenge for him. His diagnosis, treatment and recovery from pancreatic cancer in 2004 reinforced his will to be, in co-founder Wozniak's words, a "move-the-world forward" visionary.
'Follow Your Heart'
"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life," Jobs recounted in the Stanford address in 2005.
"Don't be trapped by dogma—which is living with the results of other people's thinking.
Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And, most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary." Since his return to Apple, Jobs has enforced more company information control and limited his interviews (Apple did not participate in this story). "There used to be a saying at Apple, 'Isn't it funny, a ship that leaks from the top,' " he has said. "That was what they used to say about me when I was in my 20s."
In 2005, Apple introduced the iPod Nano, the Video iPod and the iPod Shuffle. In January 2006, Jobs sold the award-winning Pixar group to the Walt Disney Co. for about $7.4 billion in Disney stock, making him its largest shareholder and earning him a spot on its board. In 2007, Apple launched the iPhone, followed by its Apps store in 2008. Those products vaulted Apple from turmoil into one of the world's largest and most respected companies. For the third year in a row, Apple topped Fortune's 2010 "Most Admired Companies" list, based on annual businesspeople surveys.
"Steve Jobs is a singular persona in our culture," says NewDealDesign's Amit, who writes an industrial design-focused blog. "He, more than anyone else, made utilitarian digital technology merge into a rich cultural experience. Without him, most of the tech world would have relegated culture to a decorative role, rather than a substantive element of product and service innovation. His impact is so profound on our culture, our way of thinking and our approach to smart technology, that I would consider him one of the most influential cultural creators of the past century."
Redrawing Boundaries
Entrepreneur and author Guy Kawasaki, whose latest venture is the Internet aggregator Alltop, had two stints with Apple (1983-87, 1995-1997) as a company "evangelist" or product super-advocate. Though no longer connected to the company, he remains a product loyalist and observer. Kawasaki maintains it is Jobs' extraordinary vision that allows Apple to keep redrawing industry—and modern culture's—boundaries.
"He sees what should be before others," Kawasaki tells SUCCESS. "And now, he has such a track record that even if he sees wrong, he'll be right. It's an upward spiral."
In presentations, Jobs is skilled at helping the audience see the world his way. He sets out what's wrong with the status quo before introducing his solution.
"Jobs is a magnetic pitchman who sells his ideas with a flair that turns prospects into customers and customers into evangelists," writes Carmine Gallo, a communication skills coach who wrote The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs—How to be Insanely Great in Front of Any Audience, published this year by McGraw Hill.
"Over and over again he has turned his eye and his energy—and at times, it has seemed, his entire being—to what might be gained by creating a new offering or taking an unorthodox strategic path," Harvard Business School professor and author Nancy F. Koehn wrote in Fortune in 2009. "That puts him in the company of other great entrepreneurs of the past two centuries, men and women such as Josiah Wedgwood, John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, Henry Ford and Estée Lauder."
A Large Dose of Cool
The art of the deal seems as important to Jobs as the product itself. "Design is the fundamental soul of a human-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service," he has said in differentiating his approach to product design. In other words, he seeks a large dose of cool to accompany ease of use.
"We've always tried to be at the intersection of technology and liberal arts," Jobs said during the iPad announcement. He credited this combination for Apple's ability to create intuitive and magical products. When Apple can find partners who do what it's seeking to incorporate into its products—think map search engines—the company joins forces with them. If it sees a need that no one can fill better than Apple, then the company develops that business itself. "If you look at the reason that the iPod exists, and Apple's in themarketplace, it's because these really great Japanese consumer electronics companies who kind of own the portable music market... couldn't do the appropriate software, couldn't conceive of and implement the appropriate software," Jobs has said. "Because an iPod's really just software. It's software in the iPod itself, it's software on the PC or the Mac, and it's software in the cloud for the store. It's in a beautiful box, but it's software."
Whether the iPad will provide another big splash or be just a ripple in Apple's pool of innovation is almost irrelevant at this point. You can be sure that Jobs and Apple are already working on the next thing. It's hot-wired into their genetics.
"When Bill and I first met each other and worked together in the early days, generally, we were both the youngest guys in the room," he said during that 2007 joint appearance with Gates. "And now, I'm the oldest guy in the room most of the time. And that's why I love being here."
Three years later, Jobs hasn't gotten any younger, but arguably the biggest innovator of his generation clearly plans to keep stirring the pot.
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The National Hockey League Players' Association has filed an official grievance over what it believes was improper filing of qualifying offers by the Nashville Predators to seven restricted free agents.
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The NHLPA will ask independent arbitrator George Nicholau for an expedited ruling so players can have their status determined as quickly as possible with the free agency period starting at Noon ET on Friday.
The league issued a statement earlier Wednesday maintaining that their procedures were followed.
"We are not aware of any defects relating to qualifying offers tendered by the Nashville Predators to certain of the team's players as several media outlets are reporting. Those players, having timely received qualifying offers, will be restricted free agents as of July 1, and both the players and the team will be accorded the various rights and benefits of restricted free agency as are set forth in CBA."
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According to the group gathered Friday morning at Lakewood Cemetery in Jackson, it's never too late to do the right thing.
"He was just a quiet man, almost humble," says Barbara Hoeppner, niece of Charles Clinton Ewing.
Ewing entered the military at a very young age. He served in the Navy, the Coast Guard, and the Army during his 30 year career.
"He joined the Navy, he was injured on a ship, got a plate in his head," says Hoeppner. "He was shot in the knee, had a knee replacement, he was bayonetted, his medals are so numerous."
The Purple Heart and Bronze Star recipient passed away in 1991. But when his wife, Josephine Ewing of Jackson, died last year, a dear friend of hers discovered that Charles had never been laid to rest as he should have been.
"When we came to inter her ashes, there was no marker. It broke my heart," says family friend Mary Wilson.
Ewing was buried in the cemetery, but there was nothing at all to mark where he was buried up until this week, when a marker was put in.
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A direct family member had to be notified. That's where Hoeppner stepped in. 21 years later, Ewing received a funeral with military honors.
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Theatrical Release Date: July 19, 2013 (limited)
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Genre: Comedy/Drama
Run Time: 103 min.
Directors: Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini
Cast: Kristen Wiig, Annette Bening, Matt Dillon, Darren Criss, Christopher Fitzgerald, June Diane Raphael, Natasha Lyonne, Julia Stiles, Mickey Sumner, Brian Petsos
Like her fellow Saturday Night Live alum Will Ferrell, Kristen Wiig is quickly becoming known for a particular brand of humor. So after successfully portraying a series of scene-stealing trainwrecks, most notably the disgruntled Maid of Honor in Bridesmaids, it's not surprising that someone buying a ticket for Girl Most Likely might be a little disappointed by the lack of obvious laughs.
But as Ferrell performed so memorably as a lonely IRS auditor in 2006's Stranger Than Fiction, Girl Most Likely also gives Wiig a welcome opportunity to showcase her range by playing against type. Before Wiig takes the stage as a once-promising playwright named Imogene, however, we meet her equally snarky younger self first.
Cast as Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz, young Imogene is quite vocal about her character's desire to not return to dusty ol' Kansas after experiencing the splendor of Oz. Not surprisingly, Imogene's teacher doesn't have the patience to deal with Imogene's petty objections ("it's a classic," she reminds her) and threatens to reassign her role if she doesn't click her heels immediately. While Imogene reluctantly obliges, it clear this disillusionment about reality will show up again.
At first blush, Imogene, now a thirty-something, seems to be living a pretty charmed existence. In the manner of a Sex and the City character, she's stylish, living in Manhattan and getting ready to meet her handsome and successful boyfriend at a fancy charity soirée. But one immediately senses that beneath the glamorous facade, trouble is brewing. Not only do Imogene's shamelessly superficial "friends" seem to look down on her, but her man doesn't seem to be picking up his phone. And when Peter (Brian Petsos, MacGruber) finally does show up for the event? Well, it's to break up with her, naturally.
If that's not terrible enough, Imogene also loses her job at the magazine she's been writing for. Once the toast of New York Magazine for playwriting and awarded a prestigious fellowship to do just that, Imogene was kept from reaching her dream - we eventually learn - by writer's block. Desperately in search of inspiration but finding none, Imogene hoped to fill the void by using the fellowship funds to travel and shop. Of course, all that did was deplete her bank account. Now unsure about her future prospects and unable to pay her sky-high rent, Imogene makes it her mission to win Peter back.
Trouble is, Imogene isn't having much luck with that either. Seemingly out of options, Imogene decides the best way to get her ex's attention is with her patented flair for the dramatic. But even convincingly faking her own suicide doesn't earn her much sympathy or good will. When one of her pals finds Imogene passed out on her bed, she calls 911 but doesn't seem all that concerned. Worse yet, when Imogene wakes up in the hospital, she discovers she'd been placed in the custody of her estranged mother, Zelda (Annette Bening, Ruby Sparks).
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What to Look for in an Instant Oatmeal
Written on January 4, 2012 at 8:30 am , by Diets in Review
By Kati Mora, RD for DietsInReview.com
It's undeniable that oatmeal is one of the healthiest breakfast option. However, not all oatmeal varieties share the same nutritional benefits. Of all the varieties, instant oatmeal probably takes the hardest hit since many are either loaded with sugar or fail to incorporate whole grains. Nevertheless, instant oatmeal can be a wonderful addition to your day if you know what to look for when choosing your brand at the grocery store.
Look for whole grains.
The first ingredient you find on your nutritional label should be a whole grain. Look for terms like "oats," "instant oats," or "whole grain rolled oats" to be listed as the first ingredient. This ensures that you will receive the same heart health benefits from your favorite instant oatmeal that you would from regular or quick-cooking oatmeal.
Look for fiber.
Choosing an instant oatmeal variety with at least 3 grams of fiber can also be beneficial. The fiber will help you feel fuller longer because of slower digestion time. This is important because instant oatmeal has been processed to cook more quickly and usually digests more quickly in the body. By slowing down the rate in which your body breaks down the oatmeal, the more likely blood sugars will remain stabilized. Bonus tip: Adding a little lean protein or healthy fat to this meal can also help slow digestion and keep blood sugar levels more even (try a few almonds on top).
Look (out) for sugar.
The amount of added sugar we see in some flavored varieties of instant oatmeal is where we start to see the dark side of instant hot cereal. Six grams or less is ideal, but you may be hard pressed to find something under this amount in a flavored variety. Instead, choose an unsweetened or original flavor and add your own fruit, honey or cinnamon to the mix.
Look (out) for sodium.
Although it may seem slightly out of place, most instant hot cereals add sodium for flavor and preservative purposes. Try to choose a cereal with less than 200 milligrams of sodium per serving.
In reality, instant oatmeal and regular oatmeal are quite similar nutritionally. The only main difference is how fast they are absorbed and digested by the body. Of course, added sugar and sodium has the potential to make instant oatmeal a less nutritious choice than the traditional; however, by sticking to plain or original flavors, incorporating instant oatmeal into your day can be a great way to eat well and stay full.
Looking for a few instant oatmeals that meet our nutrition criteria? Check out these three top picks:
- Quaker Instant Oatmeal – Original Oatmeal – 100 cals, 2 grams of fat, 0 grams of sugar, 75 mg of sodium, and 3 grams of fiber per serving
- Walmart's Great Value – Original Oatmeal – 100 calories, 2 grams of fat, 0 grams of sugar, 80 mg of sodium, and 3 grams of fiber per serving
- Nature's Path Organic – Original Oatmeal: 210 calories, 3.5 grams of fat, 0 grams of sugar, 160 mg of sodium, and 6 grams of fiber per serving
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