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• Even if you think you don’t like fruit cake, maybe you should try a Claxton specialty. Look for the cakes with a unique horse and buggy label. They are sold by mail order and in many stores every year during the holidays. They are also used for fundraising by more than 1,000 civic organizations in the U.S. The Civitan Club of Tampa, Florida first started the fundraising tradition in the early 1950s.

• The term “nutty as a fruitcake” was coined in 1935 when some American bakeries with access to cheaper nuts started adding larger quantities of nuts to their cakes. Claxton Fruit Cakes are “approximately 70% choice fruits and nuts.”

• By the way, December 27th is National Fruitcake Day. Also, just so you are aware, there is an internet web presence for “The Society for the Protection and Preservation of Fruitcake!” ■

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Ever since “GCB” was canceled, I’ve scoured the networks to find some of my favorite actors on other series. I haven’t seen Mark Deklin on anything recently, so I wondered if you could tell me what he is up to.

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Mark told me about the film and his character, John Greystoke: “It’s not the Victorian ‘Tarzan’ that we all grew up with. It’s a modern Mark Delkin take on it. My character is almost like a Richard Branson type -- a wealthy but well-intentioned adventurer and entrepreneur. He discovers there’s a serious energy source -- a sort of meteorite, which crashed in Africa -- and he wants to find it.

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I hope you can tell me what the value of my set is.

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It is there that you will be judged. what Bubba Watson was wearing.

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ORNAMENTAL (from page page 3) • Eckhardt and Bill Thompson of the F.W. Woolworth Company worked together to convince the Corning Glass Company of Corning, New York to enter the ornament market. Corning had been making thousands of light bulbs out of very thin glass using a “ribbon” glassblowing machine. The machine T 2,000 ! could produce bulbs per minute!

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• Corning began trials with their equipment and employees, IN making ornaments in various shapes and THE sizes. Soon, it was clear they had the equipment and abilities for the job.

Woolworth’s requested production of over 230,000 glass holiday items for their stores. In 1939 they began selling the American-made ornaments.

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• By 1940, Corning Glass was producing nearly 300,000 decorations per day and shipping them all over the U.S. Corning actually sold most of their ornaments to Shiny Brite, a company owned by Max Eckhardt. Eckhardt’s business was so big, he had four New Jersey locations and his main office and display room in New York City.

• Eckhardt’s Shiny Brite factories continued making glass Christmas balls and decorations throughout World War II. They used innovative solutions when products were rationed. When metal paints and varnish were not available, the company would use lighter paints and cardboard instead of the usual metal tops and • Shaded 9-hole Executive Course heavy paint.

• Walking Course • Club Rentals Driving Range Rentals • In the • post-war era,• Electric ShinyCartBrite began using vibrant hues and used metal tops again for their ornaments. They were stamped to show that Shiny Brite ornaments were U.S.- made! The boxes were even marked “American made.”

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PHOBIAS (continued): • Some phobias relate to what’s up above, such as the sun (heliophobia), the clouds Swing In to Sweeten Your Swingin’! (nephophobia), the moon (selenophobia), SMALL LARGE BUCKET: $ BUCKET: $ and the stars (siderophobia). Some folks are just afraid of looking up – they are called anablephobes.

• Not all phobias seem that abnormal or uncommon. Lots of people might have a fear 1001 So. El Cielo Rd of death, known as necrophobia. But those Book Your Palm Springs Tee Time with an extreme form might be terrified of 12 NOW! (760) 322- 6062 being buried alive. A nosocomephobe has a fear of hospitals, a verminophobe is afraid of germs, and a hydrophobe has an irrational fear of water.

• Individuals suffering from extreme agoraby Rob Stanger phobia rarely leave their homes, due to their fear College Golf Center, Palm Desert, CA of public or open spaces and the inescapable Bel Air situations that may occur there. Only home is Greens Square up your finish with safe. better balance • Some phobias can be a learned behavior that Many golfers have a difficult time finishing their comes from listening to others describe a swings in balance. It’s hard for them to “strike a traumatic event. An individual in one’s life can pose” and hold their finish. This is often a result of trigger a phobia, such as peladophobia, the fear poor body balance throughout their swing. of bald people. Those with nosto-phobia, a fear The key to finding the problems causing imbalance is to study the four pairs of sockets that of returning home, may be able to contribute function in the process of the swing: the shoulders, their panic to a specific incident. hips, knees and ankles. Keeping these sockets in the properly “stacked” relationship to each other • People who are afraid of looking into mirrors results in a naturally smooth swing and a balanced have cataptrophobia, while those with finish. cyberphobia have a fear of working with Notice in the photo how I am computers. A person with an anxiety about in perfect balance as I hold my finish: Shoulders are aligned memories is a mnemophobe. above the hips, the hips above • Don’t confuse levophobia, the fear of objects the knees, and the knees above the feet. Notice, too, that all of to a person’s left, with dextrophobia, the fear these socket points are level. of objects to the right.

The projected image on the screen grid enables me to as• Although some of us fear the possibility of sociate the sensations I feel in cancer, an extreme carcinophobe will convince a balanced swing with what I himself he has cancer because he touched can see my body doing.

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Keeping these sockets stacked in relation to each other is what keeps the body in balance and when the body is in balance it makes it easier to keep the rotation of the swing moving through to a balanced finish.

Notice in the photo how I am in perfect balance as I am holding my finish; my shoulders are balanced on top of my hips, which are balanced on top of my knees and on top of my feet. I also have both shoulders level to each other as well as the hips and knees. As you can see on the screen in the distance, my body is basically on a grid that shows me what perfect balance feels like.

Many times higher handicappers struggle into a balanced finish because their shoulders have rotated off their hips in the forward swing or they have swiveled their knees out from under their hips. As soon as the body feels this loss of balance it will stop the rotation and the arms and hands will need to flip the club through impact resulting in a mishit.

Teaching with Motion Analysis Technology, as seen in the photo with the sensors on my body and image on the screen in the background, gives me the exact data to measure my angles in my swing. I can see on the monitor where perfect balance is as I hold my finish, therefore train my body to repeat perfect balance on a more consistent basis. This exact data gives me and the student greater clarity and precision in making the necessary adjustments to create a faster more effective result. If you would like to experience Motion Analysis Technology to improve your swing, give me a call.

pers swing, they allow their shoulders to rotate off their hips, or the knees to move away from under the Rob Stanger is recognized

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The use of Motion Analysis Technology (MAT), as shown in the photo, uses sensors to show the exact angles of these key body points in the swing motion. This visual method is highly useful in allowing both student and instructor to quickly see where adjustments need to be made. I have found MAT to be one of my most effective teaching methods.

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