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A national study has found that earnings over the course of the careers of primary-care physicians averaged as much as $2.8 million less than the earnings of their specialist colleagues, potentially making primary care a less attractive choice for medical school graduates and exacerbating the already significant shortage of medical generalists.
The results, published online in the journal Medical Care, lead the study's authors to recommend reducing disparities in physician pay to ensure adequate access to primary care, which has been shown to improve health and reduce health-care costs.
"The need for primary-care providers is greater than ever before and expected to grow as millions more Americans become insured under the Affordable Care Act," said J. Paul Leigh, lead author of the study, professor of public health sciences and researcher with the UC Davis Center for Healthcare Policy and Research. "Without a better payment structure, there will be extraordinary demands on an already scarce resource."
According to projections by the Association of American Medical Colleges, the nation is likely to face a shortage of more than 65,000 primary-care physicians by 2025.
For the nationwide study, a follow-up to 2010 research by Leigh and his colleagues on differences in annual wages by specialty, the investigators compared lifetime earnings to demonstrate how annual wage differences accumulate over physicians' careers. The earnings data came from the 2004-2005 Community Tracking Study, a periodic evaluation of physician demographic, geographic and market trends.
To ensure valid comparisons, the data were adjusted to account for factors that affect earnings, including age, sex, race, board certification, graduation from a foreign medical school, rural residence, employment by an academic medical school and residency program length.
Incomes were then evaluated for more than 6,000 doctors practicing in 41 specialties. When merged into four broad career categories, lifetime earnings in surgery, internal medicine and pediatric subspecialties, and all other medical specialties averaged from $761,402 to $1,587,722 higher than in primary care:
- Surgery: $4,588,249
- Internal medicine subspecialties and pediatric subspecialties: $4,100,183
- All other medical specialties: $3,761,930
- Primary care (geriatrics, family practice, general practice, general internal medicine and general pediatrics): $3,000,527
The earnings differences were more dramatic when compared as 41 separate specialties. Medical oncologists, for instance, earn up to $7,127,543 during a 35-year career, while family medicine practitioners earn as low as $2,838,637.
Leigh surmised that one reason for the earnings differences is the tendency for Medicare administrators to utilize recommendations from an American Medical Association committee on physician pay that price specialist procedures far higher than primary-care office visits. Private insurance companies, in turn, tend to adopt Medicare pay rates.
The authors noted that efforts are under way to resolve physician pay differences. For example, the Affordable Care Act requires states to pay primary-care physicians no less than 100 percent of Medicare payment rates for primary-care services provided to Medicaid patients. The study's senior author, Richard Kravitz, a UC Davis professor of internal medicine, also serves on an independent commission to assess physician pay.
Kravitz and Leigh suggest that legislators, health-insurance administrators, medical-group directors, health-care plan managers and executives, and health policymakers take action to redesign the payment structure for medical care.
"These huge lifetime pay disparities have to be discouraging for medical students considering primary care as a career," said Kravitz. "If we truly value primary care, we need payment schemes that don't send the opposite message."
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health grants (OH008248-01 and U54OH007550) provided partial support for the study. In addition to Leigh and Kravitz, other study authors were Daniel Tancredi, Anthony Jerant and Patrick Romano, all of the UC Davis School of Medicine.
The study, titled "Lifetime Earnings for Physicians across Specialties," will appear in the December print issue of Medical Care.
UC Davis Health System is improving lives and transforming health care by providing excellent patient care, conducting groundbreaking research, fostering innovative, interprofessional education and creating dynamic, productive community partnerships. The academic health system includes one of the country's best medical schools, a 631-bed acute-care teaching hospital, an 800-member physician's practice group and the new Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing. It is home to a National Cancer Institute-designated cancer center, an international neurodevelopmental institute, a stem cell institute and a comprehensive children's hospital. Other nationally prominent centers focus on advancing telemedicine, improving vascular care, facilitating health policy changes, eliminating health disparities and translating research findings into new treatments for patients. Together, they make UC Davis a hub of innovation that is transforming health for all. For more information, visit https://healthsystem.ucdavis.edu.


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The third step in getting started with Governance is to install Solution Packs and Harvest Targeted Assets into Oracle Enterprise Repository.
This chapter contains the following sections:
An organization can not govern what it can not see. Therefore, the first step of any Governance initiative is to get visibility into the assets that you want to manage.
To that end, a number of Oracle Enterprise Repository Solution Packs are available:
Base Data Pack
Harvester Solution Pack (includes Adapter Solution Pack)
AIA Solution Pack (available with the purchase of Oracle's Application Integration Architecture Foundation Pack and PIPs)
Existing assets can also be harvested into the enterprise repository. The process through which organizations initially gather assets into the Enterprise Repository is called "bootstrapping". Bootstrapping uses a programmatic approach to loading assets and asset metadata into the Enterprise repository. The Enterprise Repository can be bootstrapped from a number of sources:
A service registry
The runtime environment
Artifacts and artifact stores
Excel spreadsheets and other metadata stores
Organizations might also choose to use a manual approach for entering the assets in the portfolio. In addition, manual validation after harvesting ensures that the imported assets were harvested properly, and additional, business-focused metadata can be added.
This section describes the various Oracle Enterprise Repository solution packs available:
The asset types delivered as part of Base Data Pack are templates. They include the business-focused asset metadata that organizations track. The metadata fields in these asset types have been collected from the best practices of organizations worldwide. The Base Data Pack is automatically installed with a new installation of Oracle Enterprise Repository. Base Data types can be copied and customized to suit specific organizational assets.
Harvester Solution Pack (Includes Adapter Solution Pack)
The asset types delivered as part of the Harvester Solution Pack are required by the Harvester tool. The Harvester and Harvester Solution Pack provide metadata about the implementation of an asset and the assets's relationships. Oracle Enterprise Repository harvests artifacts into a pre-specified format defined by the Harvester Solution Pack.
The Oracle Enterprise Repository Harvester Solution Pack includes asset types for Oracle's Application Adapters and Applications. These asset types allow an organization to harvest application integrations into Oracle Enterprise Repository and have end-to-end visibility into the integrations between two or more applications.
The Oracle Enterprise Repository Harvester tool provides visibility into the assets generated by many of Oracle's products, including Oracle SOA Suite, Oracle Service Bus, Oracle Enterprise Manager, Oracle BPEL PM, UDDI Registries, and others. The Oracle Enterprise Repository Harvester tool also allows organizations to harvest any standards-based WSDL, BPEL, XSD, and XSLT artifacts generated by third-party tooling. The harvesting process requires the Harvester Solution Pack.
The Harvester is available in 22.214.171.124.0-OER-Harvester-Solution-Pack.zip, which is bundled with the Oracle Enterprise Repository 11g Release 1 (126.96.36.199.0) installation in the following .zip file:
For more information, see Oracle Fusion Middleware Configuration Guide for Oracle Enterprise Repository.
For more information about the AIA Solution Pack, see the Oracle Application Integration Architecture - Foundation Pack: Development Guide, "Configuring and Using Oracle Enterprise Repository as the Oracle AIA SOA Repository," Introduction to Using Oracle Enterprise Repository as the Oracle AIA SOA Repository, available on My Oracle Support .
This section describes the bootstrapping of Oracle Enterprise Repository. It contains the following topics:
Section 3.3.1, "Bootstrapping the Enterprise Repository from a Service Registry"
Section 3.3.2, "Bootstrapping the Enterprise Repository from the Runtime Environment"
Section 3.3.3, "Bootstrapping the Enterprise Repository from Artifacts and Artifact Stores"
Section 3.3.4, "Bootstrapping the Enterprise Repository from Excel spreadsheets and Other Metadata Stores"
Since effective SOA Governance requires an Enterprise Repository working in combination with a Service Registry, it is necessary to synchronize the two tools.
The Oracle Registry Repository Exchange Utility synchronizes Oracle Enterprise Repository and Oracle Service Registry bi-directionally so that the metadata from each of these products can flow in either direction through the utility.
To bootstrap the Oracle Enterprise Repository from a Service Registry, follow these steps:
Configure the Oracle Registry Repository Exchange Utility
Understand how Metadata is Synchronized between Oracle Service Registry and Oracle Enterprise Repository
Review Known Issues
The Enterprise Repository can be bootstrapped from assets that reside in the organization's runtime containers. Oracle Enterprise Repository uses the Harvester tool to access deployed artifacts. The Harvester reads standards-based files including BPEL, WSDL, XSD and XSLT files, as assets generated by Oracle SOA Suite and Oracle Service Bus. The Harvester automatically creates assets, populates asset metadata, and generates relationship links based on the information in the artifact files. Note that the Harvester is not restricted to Oracle products - it can be used to harvest standards-based artifacts generated from any tooling. In the runtime environment, the Harvester can be used from the command line or it can be invoked using an Ant task.
What do we want to say about harvesting BPEL Suitcase files and SAR files?
For more information about harvesting from runtime containers, see "Runtime Harvesting Details" in Oracle Fusion Middleware Configuration Guide for Oracle Enterprise Repository.
The Enterprise Repository can be bootstrapped from production-grade assets that reside in the organization's version control systems or file systems. Oracle Enterprise Repository uses the Harvester to access the artifacts in various artifact stores. The Harvester can be invoked from the command line to harvest from artifact stores.
For more information about harvesting production-grade artifacts from artifact stores, see "Configuring the Harvester for the Command Line" in Oracle Fusion Middleware Configuration Guide for Oracle Enterprise Repository.
Organizations just beginning to explore Governance practices might track asset metadata and dependencies in a spreadsheet, on a wiki, or through some other type of tool. At a certain point, however, this becomes unmanageable and it then makes sense to move the information to an Enterprise Repository.
The Oracle Enterprise Repository includes a Web Services based API called the Repository Extensibility (REX) Framework that can be used to bootstrap Oracle Enterprise Repository from spreadsheets and other metadata stores. This requires customization and coding, and is covered as an advanced topic.
If you are interested in finding out more about the Enterprise Repository's API, see "Developing Custom Integrations" in Oracle Fusion Middleware Integration Guide for Oracle Enterprise Repository.

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And a very Good Day. I'm not in high spirit these days but I'm forcing myself to. And I always end up wondering what should I do to boost my mood. Shopping is not the answer this time....maybe when you gets older, shopping is seen as no more than money wasting stuff!! really???...or sometimes the boredom is so strong that shopping cannot wash it off...:(
I NEVER BELIEVE this so called personality profile or horoscope thingy...only that it is quite fun and funny reading all the things they say about you. And funnier when some of it matches...haha....
Why it boost my spirit?
Because I'm a bit perasan haha!! Since normally all these horoscope thingy have those praises or they make it that way so that you see yourself as this very good person. For example, the horoscope will say something like "Sagittarius has a lively personality and is an optimist. Considered one of the most fun-loving signs of the zodiac, Sagittarians are direct, forthright.."
So reading all these I got a bit cheerful (and perasan) so eventually my mood and spirit will get better laa...Great Isn't it? I get to be cheerful again, without wasting my money buying more shoes...:)
I have here for Sagittarius..copied from here http://voices.yahoo.com/sagittarius-2667730.html?cat=41
Sagittarius: November 23 to December 21
Symbol: Archer
Element: Fire
Quality: Mutable
Colors: Light Blue and Purple
Birthstones: Citrine and Topaz (for November births) Blue Topaz, Turqouise, and/or Zircon (for December births)
Social creatures who often become the center of attention; sympathetic
Amazing energy levels; attention seekers; approachable; adored;
able to see the big picture of things and endure all nighters; abstract thinkers
Great philosophers and entertainers; generate chaos; gaudy sometimes; gifted; gabbers; good hearted
Independent; idealistic; intellectual; into dream exploration
True free spirits and optimists; travelers; temperamental; thrive on high drama
Tend to be extravagant party animals; thinkers; talented
Accomplished musicians; adventurers; authentic drama kings and queens
ambitious when working to reach their goals; anger issues; accident prone
able to collaborate with others; attract abundance; athletic; abundance of enthusiasm
Risk-takers; ruled by Jupiter; restless; really need plenty of personal freedom
rebellious; rushed; reckless; recognized; ritualistic sometimes
Impulsive; indiscreet; impatient; irresponsible; inconsiderate at times
Uninhibited; unlimited potential; unrestrained; unfettered; understanding
Sincere; spontaneous; seekers of pleasure; survivors; self indulgent; sensational;
self centered; superstitious; sports oriented; superficial sometimes; speak freely
And also this one i pickup from here http://birthdaypersonality.tumblr.com/post/6229801419/26-november-the-birthday-of-multi-talented-uniqueness
Your greatest challenge is…
forming close relationships with others
The way forward is…
to understand that the more comfortable you are with yourself, the more comfortable you will be with other people.
You're drawn to people born on…
December 22 to January 19
You both admire qualities in the other that you lack, and have much to learn and love about each other.
Luck maker
Set the tone
People decide how to treat you and whether or not they want to help you based on their observations of you. So to boost your chances of luck, be the one who sets the tone in your life.
The free-thinking individuals born on November 26 would appear to have the world at their feet. Not only are they charismatic and intelligent, they are also creative, multi-talented and capable of excelling in just about any profession they choose.
Despite their incredible versatility, they may have felt from an early age that they were somehow different or removed from their fellow human begins. Part of the problem is that because they have so many talents and such an inquisitive mind, too many paths are open to them so choosing one becomes a daunting task. They may also struggle to reconcile their practical, logical orientation with the part of them that is highly creative and imaginative. At various points in their life they will lurch between these two extremes, but happiness and fulfillment can only be found when they are able to balance the two.
As success-orientated people, when they are not working toward a goal they can feel restless and unsatisfied, so the sooner they decide on a path in life and set themselves targets to achieve the better. If they don't do this, indecision, anxiety and uncertainty will submerge their huge potential.
Up to the age of twenty-five there may be a lot of experimentation regard ing their career, as they focus on adventure, creativity and opportunity; but after the age of twenty-six they start to become more practical, goal orientated and realistic in their aims. This is a positive development, as long as they make sure they don't lose touch with their imagination and creative fire. Another turning point occurs at the age of fifty-six when expressing their individuality takes center stage. Hopefully, however, they will have realized far earlier in life that the key to their success is to celebrate and make full use of their uniqueness rather than try to hide it. They have been right all along; there is and never will be anybody quite like them with their unique talents, original perspective, and courage and determination to prove everyone wrong by achieving their fantastic aims.
On the dark side
Confused, indecisive, undirected
At your best
Innovative, unique, multi-talented
Love Born free
When it comes to affairs of the heart, people born on November 26 can have problems because they like their own company and are unwilling to sacrifice their freedom. They are capable of forming close relationships but these tend to be with their friends rather than lovers. But when they do find someone who captures their heart, they have it within them to make dutiful and devoted partners.
Health Keep in touch
People born on this day tend to be vigorous and athletic, and they rarely suffer long from illnesses. They can, however, overindulge in food and drink from time to time, and they may also be prone to accidents and injuries resulting from sports or risky activities. From a psychological perspective, the biggest risk to their emotional health is their tendency to withdraw or to isolate themselves from others, and making an effort to stay in touch with friends and family will benefit them enormously. As far as diet is concerned, they need to increase their intake of vegetables and fruit to boost their digestion. Moderate to vigorous exercise is recommended to help keep their weight down and their immune system strong. Wearing, meditating on or surrounding themselves with the color orange will encourage them to be warmer and more spontaneous when in the company of others.
Career Born video game creators
People born on this day have a meticulous approach to their work and will excel in careers that are research-based. Possible work options include education, philosophy, writing, engineering, IT, and the world of video game creation and toy manufacturing or design.
Destiny To make original contributions to society
The life path of people born on this day is to find a way to reconcile the disparate parts of their personality by looking within themselves. Once they are more balanced in their outlook and approach, their destiny is to make an outstanding contribution to humanity.
Power Thought
"The sense of direction, harmony and fulfillment seek already lie within me"
November 26
Signs & symbols
Sun sign: Sagittarius
Ruling planet: Jupiter, the philosopher
Symbol: The Archer
Birth date ruler: Saturn, the teacher
Tarot card: Strength (passion)
Favorable numbers: 1, 8
Lucky days: Thursday and Saturday, especially when these days fall on 1 and 8 of the month
Lucky colors: Purple, maroon, brown
Birthstone: Turquoise
Some of it matches...Just for fun...:)
Like for example, I really work in IT, a bit unwilling to sacrifice my freedom, attention seekers? he..he..but when it says I should increase intake of fruits and veges to help digestion..that is something worthy..
Like for example, I really work in IT, a bit unwilling to sacrifice my freedom, attention seekers? he..he..but when it says I should increase intake of fruits and veges to help digestion..that is something worthy..
But I like purple...really.


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Cardiovascular disease is the No. 1 cause of death in the United States. Each year, more than 2 million Americans suffer a heart attack or stroke – and 800,000 do not survive. And another sobering statistic: the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that of those Americans who died from cardiovascular disease in 2007, 150,000 were under age 65.
A new, national health campaign – The Million Hearts Initiative – hopes to make a significant reduction in these statistics. Its goal: to prevent 1 million heart attacks and strokes, nationwide, over the next five years.
The Million Hearts Initiative is a multidisciplinary partnership among leading federal and state agencies and health organizations, including the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, the American Heart Association (AHA), the CDC, the National Institutes of Health, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the Food and Drug Administration, and the YMCA.
Cardiovascular disease and stroke are largely preventable, according to the AHA, yet in 2008 nearly half of U.S. adults had at least one of the three main risk factors: hypertension, high cholesterol, and smoking. Diabetes and obesity – two conditions that increase the risk of developing cardiovascular disease – continue to rise at alarming rates.
The Million Hearts Initiative targets two areas: clinical interventions and community education. According to a recent article in the New England Journal of Medicine, prevention and education efforts regarding cardiovascular disease contributed to a 50 percent reduction in heart attack deaths between 1980 and 2000, as smoking rates have declined and diet and exercise habits have improved. The Million Hearts Initiative wants to build on this success: the prevention of 1 million heart attacks or strokes in the U.S. over the next five years.
Prevention efforts in the clinical setting will focus on the ABCS of cardiac health, including:
• Aspirin therapy for people at high risk (i.e., a daily aspirin)
• Blood pressure control • Cholesterol management
• Smoking cessation Community education will also focus on the ABCS formula, as well as preventing exposure to secondhand smoke, and the importance of good nutrition (reducing intake of sodium and trans fats), increase in physical activity, and weight reduction.
At the federal level, strategies to build awareness and encourage good habits will include new menu labeling requirements for restaurants, stricter school food standards, increased education for health care professionals and the public about sodium in foods, federal grants for more community health screenings and new education programs, additional quality reporting requirements for health care providers, and expanded health insurance benefits for preventive and wellness services and chronic disease management.
Dr. Patel is a member of the active medical staff at Pottstown Memorial Medical Center, department of medicine, cardiology. He is a graduate of Baroda Medical College, Baroda, India. An internal medicine residency program as well as a cardiology fellowship was completed at Interface Medical Center, Brooklyn, N.Y. Dr. Patel is board certified in internal medicine and cardiology by the American Board of Internal Medicine. He is in practice with Pottstown Medical Specialists, 1591 Medical Drive, Pottstown, 610-326-8005.


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1 cup salted butter
2 cups All-Purpose Flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/3 cup cream
1/4 cup granulated sugar + 1/4 cup all-purpose flour (for dusting)*
½ cup salted butter
1 ¼ cups powdered sugar
1 ½ tablespoon cream
½ tsp vanilla extract
½ tsp almond extract**
food coloring, if desired
Bake at 375°F for 8-11 minutes until lightly browned on the edges. Let cookies cool before frosting.
Beat ½ cup butter until fluffy. Add the powdered sugar and beat until creamy. Beat in the vanilla and the 1 ½ T cream. Adjust cream and powdered sugar until frosting gets to a nice spreading consistency. Add food coloring, if desired. Scoop frosting into a sandwich or quart size zip top bag, and cut about a ¼ inch tip off. Squeeze some frosting onto the bottoms of half of the cookies and place the remaining cookies on top to make sandwich cookies. Makes about 30 cookies.


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Blogfest – Blog, News and Magazine HTML template
BLOGFEST is a HTML responsive template built in special for blog and online magazines, but can fit a more wide business profiles. The template contain 17 pages, 4 home page variations, 3 layouts for portfolio or gallery section, along with the templates used for a blogging platform like WordPress (please keep in mind this is not a WordPress theme): single post page, category page and search results template.
Two kind of layouts for mobile and tablet devices
In a normal template usage, a sidebar contain a less important content (from mobile user point of view). Also, many developers take in consideration the band length used by the mobile visitors. If you want to disable the sidebar for the mobile visitors, then you need to load a different CSS file provided (see more in documentation).
Two kind of menus for mobile devices
For certain reasons you may want to show a more short menu for mobile visitor. At this moment the live demo on the mobile devices show a full custom styled dropdown menu (main and one level submenu). With two simple code touches (uncommenting two css lines) you can have just a main menu for mobile visitor (see more in documentation).
Register and Login forms for mobile usage
Because the login and register forms are placed on the sidebar on mobile devices, those forms are placed bellow the content. For a proper accessibility, just on mobile devices, the template (for instance index4.html) reveal a menu item for Login / register, placed under the "Home" menu item. This menu item contain an anchor to the login / register forms. On tablets or wide screens, this menu item is hidden. At this moment the template contain this feature just for pages with login / register forms in sidebar. If you need to use them on all your website pages, then you need to follow the instructions provided in documentation.
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When the landscape hurtles to the horizon, flat and deep, for a rendezvous with the heavens where they converge to infinity, it's never easy to determine if the clouds are coming in or going away, not in an instant anyway.
There're no trees about for the wind to bend, nor are there leaves in a mood to oblige the nudging breeze. And if you hold your breath in the instant your eyes rove the land before you, it's likely the expanse will root your feet where they first land for, there's nothing to approach, nothing to get close to, and nothing that you'll see better than you already do from where you now stand.
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For a moment I wished for Sunflowers in the field, imagining the sheep grazing in a thousand Suns. It was September, and straggling monsoon clouds were playing catching up, travelling great distances over a land they had never visited before nor would they ever visit again. Come next year, other clouds would take their place, passing over farmers gathered on the steps outside their homes, their eyes to the skies, wondering and waiting for rains so they could plant jowar before the last of the clouds disappeared over the horizon.
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I was wondering how many people are using Accordance in their teaching in a manner that involves more than just showing slides, examples from the text, or doing a grammatical or lexical searches? In other words, who is using Accordance in a manner that is directly integrated with their pedagogical approach and how they are doing that?
In particular I am very interested in how Accordance can be employed for teaching Greek and Hebrew. Perhaps in a manner that is very different from the traditional methods for learning these languages (along the lines of Black or Dana and Mantey) or some of the newer approaches (like Mounce).
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Kentucky farm family goes native to build successful seed business
UPTON — About 20 years ago, Randy Seymour and his son John began collecting and growing native plant seed on their family farm along Raider Hollow Road in Hart County.
They started small, John Seymour says, expanding seed production gradually with the cultivation of locally sourced grasses, forbs, wildflowers and legumes, replacing the 40,000-pound tobacco base and 150 head of beef cattle that had been raised on the farm each year.
The result is Roundstone Native Seeds, which is making a name for itself among gardeners and farmers interested in growing plants native to Kentucky, and to scientists exploring the benefits of plants.
The Seymours were conservationists ahead of the current surge of interest in native plants.
That reflects a family tradition of searching out and using the diverse plant species that for centuries have grown in undisturbed glades, wetlands and prairie in the Big Barrens region in west-central Kentucky, remnants of an estimated 3 million acres of tall grass prairie and savannah that existed before the land was settled.
Seymour says his grandmother Myrtie Seymour knew about and used native plants as part of everyday life on the farm. His father learned from her, and gained expertise as a naturalist. He served on the board of The Nature Conservancy and in 1997 wrote the reference book Wildflowers of Mammoth Cave National Park (University Press of Kentucky, $19.95).
Now, Seymour says, "We deal with them so much that I can't drive down the road without seeing undisturbed prairie remnants."
Those areas are recognizable by their plant diversity, perhaps containing as many as 100 kinds of native plants.
Roundstone Native Seeds has expanded to encompass a collaborative enterprise of about 2,000 acres throughout the area, in which more than 40 farms participate. Seed of more than 200 native plants — including big bluestem and Indian grass, and wildflowers such as Maximilian sunflower, tickseed and starry rosinweed — is grown for wholesale and retail trade. It is cleaned, mixed, stored and packaged on-site at the Seymours' Riders Mill Farms, in a facility the Kentucky Agricultural Development Board helped to fund.
The company's expertise, gained bit by bit with hands-on work, has led to opportunities in growing and consulting with programs in Kentucky and other states. The complexity of managing the collection — planting, harvesting, cleaning, storing and marketing of so many types of seed — is mind- boggling. Specialized equipment is needed for some species, but others must be harvested by hand.
"Everything we do is a daily experiment," says manager Shane Butler, whose adjacent farm was one of the first to join the group. "We want to farm and make good use of our land but also want to be good stewards."
Roundstone's customers are using native plants to improve the environment in many ways. Having seed they know is well-adapted for growing conditions in the Southeast is a plus; previously, much of the seed that was widely available was from sources in the Western United States.
Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill in Mercer County, for instance, has renovated pastures with quail-friendly habitat. Jeremy Hamlington, production manager at Roundstone, says perennial grasses, like little bluestem, grow in clumps that shelter birds with cover but they are easy to run through; native wildflowers are interspersed to attract pollinator insects which also provide a food source for the birds.
Another place where Roundstone has provided native plant seeds is the newly developed Parklands at Floyd's Fork near Louisville.
Customers also include the many private land owners who enroll their acreage in the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Conservation Reserve Program; an annual rental stipend is paid to participants, and they in turn contract to plant and maintain species that will improve environmental health. Roundstone collaborates with programs in Daniel Boone and Cherokee National Forests, as well, to propagate and restore plant species from seeds collected at each location.
A different use of Roundstone's native seed is evidenced by Solidagex, a company launched in 2011 that produces extracts refined from native Kentucky goldenrod.
Solidagex CEO Terry Minton says broad applications exist for extracts from plants grown on 85 acres at Roundstone; they include antioxidant qualities in animal feed, anti- inflammatory properties useful in skin care and cold products, and natural insecticidal and antimicrobial traits that are important in combating food spoilage.
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Augustana College today announced that ecologist Dr. Carter Johnson and theologian Dr. Michelle Bartel have been named speakers for the inaugural Civitas Lecture Series.
Johnson's lecture will begin at 7 p.m. on Monday, March 14. Bartel's lecture is set for 7 p.m. on Monday, March 28. Both events are free and open to the public.
Civitas is Augustana's Honors Program.
Dr. Carter Johnson, class of 1968, a professor of ecology at South Dakota State University, will discuss "South Dakota's Prairie Farm: An Experiment in Ecological and Economic Sustainability," at 7 p.m. on Monday, March 14, in the Gilbert Science Center auditorium. His discussion will detail a new approach to farming being conducted on 650 acres between Sioux Falls and Brookings. The Prairie Farm reduces soil erosion, restores wetlands and enhances native bio-diversity while producing hay, feedstock for cellulosic biofuels, and grass-fed beef. His talk is co-sponsored by the Augustana Biology Department.
Dr. Michelle Bartel, a pastor at Trinity United Presbyterian Church in New Washington, Ind., will discuss "Love, Something a Good Deal More Dangerous: The Power of Subversive Ethics," at 7 p.m. on Monday, March 28, in the Gilbert Science Center auditorium. Her discussion will connect the work of theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer with the significant role of compassion in ethical discernment. Bartel is a former professor of religion at Augustana and previously served as chaplain and director of the Center for Church Leadership at Hanover College in Hanover, Ind. Her talk is co-sponsored by the Stanley L. Olson Chair for Moral Values.
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It took five years for the founder of Imgur to decide he wanted to "conquer the internet". By April this year, when Alan Schaaf took venture capital money for the first time, the photo-sharing platform was already halfway there.
Dominated by memes and gifs, from LOLcats (using pictures of real cats in combination with humorous captions that act as speech-bubbles) to less savoury captioned pictures, Imgur had a user base doubling year-on-year to 130m (or half of Twitter's user base) without any marketing. Unlike most technology start-ups, which often go public before they enter the black, Imgur was profitable from the beginning. It sells some banner adverts and sponsored images including deals for the release of the latest version of Grand Theft Auto, a popular video game.
Mr Schaaf, founder and chief executive, managed this feat by closely coupling the site to Reddit, a news-sharing forum popular with young men. On Reddit, users can vote a link or discussion up or down, giving it more or less prominence, and on imgur, they do the same with images.
The start-up, in which Mr Schaaf invested just the $7 it took to buy the domain name, raised its first funds from Andreessen Horowitz, a Silicon Valley tech investor, which took a minority stake for $40m.
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What do you get when you combine a former US navy SEAL, a creator of internet encryption and a former Apple security expert? A start-up well placed to make the most out of privacy worries in this post-Snowden era.
Mike Janke, Phil Zimmermann and Jon Callas created Silent Circle to sell ways to encrypt smartphone traffic from voice to data but is now starting to manufacture the Blackphone, a handset that promises a privacy-focused operating system and complete suite of privacy apps.
Partnering with Spanish mobile phone developer Geeksphone, the company will ship the Blackphone in June, aiming it at companies and governments worried about being spied upon by hackers working for the opposition and enemies.
Last month, the start-up with offices in Washington DC and London raised $30m from Ross Perot Jr, a property tycoon (and son of the eponymous politician), and Cain Capital. Mr Janke says it would use the money to meet the "overwhelming demand" for the Blackphone.
"With a customer base including consumers in over 130 countries, 23 of the global Fortune 50 enterprises and governments from 11 nations – we now have the resources to meet the demand for our encrypted mobile voice, video, secure file transfer and international secure calling plans," he says.
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Silicon Valley is not doing a very good job at keeping Secret secret. The app for sharing secretly is the latest of a new generation of more private social networks, following in the footsteps of ephemeral messaging app Snapchat.
But whereas Snapchat enables one-on-one communication with disappearing photos, Secret is a way of broadcasting something to all your friends, and their friends, without your name attached. If someone "likes" your secret, it spreads further. From rumours of tech deals that throw the industry into a spin to sweet yet slightly disturbing confessions, the app has been used for anything you cannot share on Facebook.
Founded by two ex-Googlers, David Byttow and Chrys Bader-Wechseler, the company is backed by a range of investors from Ashton Kutcher, the actor and tech obsessive, to Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, one of the most-established venture capital firms in Silicon Valley.
In a blog post, the company explained why the app was more than a rumour monger but a platform that will bring "more authenticity, self-awareness and empathy to the world". Secret said always speaking to a mixed audience of family, friends and acquaintances has made it harder to be authentic – and led to people losing real human connections.
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From all-natural ice cream to premium spirits, farmers' markets and local delis are full of small consumer goods companies that lack the funding to reach national or international markets. CircleUp aims to connect entrepreneurs that used to have to rely on financial contributions from friends and families with investors who can help support their growth.
Ryan Caldbeck, who funded larger consumer goods companies when he worked in private equity, and Rory Eakin, who invested in small businesses and social enterprises as director of investments at Humanity United, came together to found CircleUp in 2011. Their team vets potential investments looking for high growth rates and revenues of more than $500,000 a year before putting them on the site.
So far it has helped companies raise more than $30m from accredited investors, who can also offer connections and education to the start-up founders. Little Duck Organics sold fruit snacks to families in Brooklyn raised $890,000 from 24 investors to help them expand, while Kale chipmaker Rhythm Superfoods, got $763,601 as a convertible note from 10 investors.
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Tuesday, December 4, 2012
All you really need to know about this is that there is not a single Roman Catholic anywhere in it.
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What's the problem?
- December 4, 2012 at 8:35 PM
If you don't know what the problem is here, you probably don't get this blog.
- December 4, 2012 at 8:40 PM
- C. Wingate said...
Hey, it isn't one of ours either.
- December 5, 2012 at 5:16 AM
The guy with the flamed mitre showing up around 4:07-4:10 deserves a post by himself...
- December 5, 2012 at 10:19 AM
Wow, this is bizarre. Christ Church in San Antonio is my family's home church in the USA. (Though right now we are also members of Christ Church in Nazareth, which is where we live.) My wife and I were confirmed there, married there, and two of our kids were baptized there. I think on all of those occasions there were way more laity present than at this ordination. The lack of laity was the oddest thing to me. The place fills up on an average Sunday morning--way more people than were at this ordination.
- December 5, 2012 at 11:10 AM
They style themselves Anglican Rite (?) ROMAN CATHOLICS. Can we not take them at their word?
How ecumenically gracious of the Episcopalians to host the consecration.
- December 5, 2012 at 9:57 PM
- goodone121 said...
Ahh, the "guy with the flamed[sic] mitre" looks like President of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops Timothy Michael Cardinal Dolan!
- December 6, 2012 at 1:11 AM
There actually is an Anglican Rite under Anglicanorum Coetibus. They are part of our NO, EF, and Anglican rite parish. They are with the Pope and everything.
- December 7, 2012 at 9:57 AM
This is not the Anglican-Usage of the Roman Catholic Church, but a jurisdiction under the Old Catholics (or at least a splinter group from them). Not to necessearily support them but they explain it on their website: http://www.anglicanritecatholicchurch.org/
- December 7, 2012 at 11:27 AM
- Mark in the Heartland said...
I'm sure Msgr. Steenson, the head of the Anglican Use in the RC church, would not be sanctioning this.
But did anyone else find it a little disconcerting that this "Anglican Rite" video was filled with Gregorian Chant rather than Anglican Chant?
- December 7, 2012 at 6:44 PM
- Mark in the Heartland said...
I should elaborate that Msgr. Steenson is the head of the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St Peter in the United States and Canada, i.e., the Anglican Use RC's. The principle church for this ordinariate is Our Lady of Walsingham in Houston.
- December 7, 2012 at 6:46 PM


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CAMP PENDLETON – Scott Merchant and his 10-year-old son Wyatt climbed into a parked UH-Y1 Venom helicopter just outside the Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron 469 hangar at Camp Pendleton. They both manned the machine gun, moving it left to right as if looking for enemy fighters.
The Merchants, residents of San Clemente, were among hundreds who attended the HMLA-469's Vengeance Warrior Day on Saturday and got a chance to see the squad's helicopters and other equipment up close.
"Everything you get to see, it's really cool," Wyatt said, having just jumped out of the Venom's cockpit. "The helicopters and learning about the buttons and stuff is cool, too."
Everyone at the event, including Marines, their family members and the public, seemingly had a good time despite the news just 36 hours before the event that a big part of the day was canceled because of federal budget cuts known as sequestration.
A helicopter flyover and live-fire demonstration were scrubbed, much to the disappointment of the squad, which instead put together a hangar tour so visitors would be able to see the equipment and helicopters.
"It's just an opportunity for the Marines and their families to get together outside of the work environment," said the squadron's commanding officer, Lt. Col. Richard Joyce.
Joyce sent a letter to scheduled attendees two days before the event to inform them that the Department of Defense had canceled all military flyovers for civilian events.
"It's sad they canceled the flyover, but it's still a good gathering," said HMLA-469 Gunnery Sgt. Roger Taylor.
The large crowd had the chance to see two AH-1W Super Cobra helicopters take off and fly past the hangar as part of a training exercise.
After the hangar tour, the event moved to Lake O'Neill for food, music, games and more. Children were able to climb inside armored personnel carriers and watch the Marines put on an artillery demonstration.
Wayne Eggleston, one of the event's coordinators and executive director of The Heritage of San Clemente Foundation, said he was impressed by how quickly the Marines adapted to the news of the flyover cancellation.
The former San Clemente mayor was one of the people responsible for the city "adopting" the squadron.
San Clemente Councilman Tim Brown, who attended the event with his wife and four daughters, said the city is a big supporter of the Marines.
"Ever since San Clemente's birth, we've been tied to the Marine Corps; we've always been supportive," he said.
The city allocates thousands of dollars toward events for its adopted Marines every year, he said. "This is the easiest check to write."
Some residents of San Clemente attended the event to show their support and teach their children about the Marines.
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Delavan is two steps closer to being the home of one of 21 medical marijuana cultivation centers in the state.
Zoning Board members voted Monday to recommend that the City Council approve a zoning change and special-use zoning variance for the land on the eastern border of the city where the center would be built.
The votes were 5-1 for the zoning change from agricultural to industrial and 6-0 for the variance.
Nobody in the crowd of about three dozen that packed a small meeting room at City Hall spoke against the center.
The City Council will vote Tuesday on the zoning change and variance and on annexing the targeted parcel, which is bounded by State Route 122 on the north and Springfield Road on the west.
With those approvals in his pocket, developer Tim McGraw of Joliet-based ICC Holdings said he would apply for a state cultivation center license in August.
Licenses are expected to be issued in November.
If ICC Holdings is granted a license, "we'll break ground immediately and be open within four months," McGraw said.
Paul Adair, who called himself a "new" Delavan resident even though he's lived there 50 years, spoke in favor of the center because of the jobs it would create, and the spinoff businesses that could come to the city of less than 1,700.
"We need all the employers we can get," he said. "If they hire 25 people, they'll be the second-biggest employer in town, and that's kind of sad. If Delavan dies, we'll all lose the investment in our homes."
McGraw said the $5.8 million, 70,000-square-foot state-of-the-art center would create 50 full-time jobs and more than 10 part-time jobs.
He promised to hold job fairs, provide employment for Delavan residents and "we want to hire as many veterans as possible, especially for our security team."
The center would have 24-hour armed security, McGraw said. There also would be around-the-clock state police video surveillance, a 10-foot exterior fence topped by razor wire, and a secure entrance.
Marijuana would be grown only inside in laboratory-quality conditions, McGraw said.
No sales would be done at the site. Medical marijuana transactions will take place at 60 state-licensed dispensaries in the state, most north of Interstate 80.
One cultivation center for each state police district is being allowed by the state.
McGraw said a revenue-sharing agreement that hasn't been finalized would send more than $100,000 annually to the city of Delavan and Delavan District 703. He also said drug prevention programs would be fully funded by the center.
"We want to be a huge benefit to Delavan — an ally," he said.
"We appreciate the encouragement we've received from the mayor (Elizabeth Skinner) and city administrator (Joe Woith). They're doing what's best for their city."
Skinner supports the center, which would have its own water and sewer system.
"There is a very clear distinction in my mind between pharmaceutical drugs, which are produced for people with chronic medical conditions, and someone using recreational and illegal drugs," she said recently. "The center will be built somewhere in our (state police) district. Why not Delavan?"
Last month, the City Council created a fund for a Tax Increment Financing district at the center site that includes $35,000 in seed money from ICC Holdings.


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Following a welcome by Sweetwater Mayor Greg Wortham, the first speaker of the event was introduced. Ben Shepperd, the president of the Permian Basin Petroleum Association (PBPA) discussed the opportunities and innovations within the oil and natural gas industry.
Since 1961, the PBPA has worked on the legislation and regulation issues within the industry while working cooperatively and educating others on technology along with networking opportunities.
The Permian Basin oil activity spans 53 counties which includes four counties in New Mexico. Various shales and plays are present in the area--in which Sweetwater is part of the Cline Shale on the eastern shelf--with peak production rapidly approaching.
The activity within Permian Basin provides around 17% of United States' oil production with around 140,000 active wells. With over 500 drilling rigs, three different plays (Sprayberry, Wolfcamp and Bone Springs) have increased production by 50% since 2007, with the Midland Basin boasting over 1,400 wells drilled in 2012.
Furthermore, half of the rigs in America are currently being run in Texas. Of that number, half are running in the Permian Basin, proof of the state's leadership in activity and production.
In 2011, the Permian Basin saw an average of 458 rigs; last year, the number of rigs came to an average of 430. While the number is lower, Shepperd stated that with horizontal drilling, production has increased.
Shepperd also discussed the Cline Shale, which consists of 1,628,500 acres. Counties in this play include Scurry, Fisher, Howard, Mitchell, Nolan, Glasscock, Sterling, Reagan, Irion, Tom Green and Coke.
The top acreage holders in the Cline Shale are Devon, Apache and Laredo companies. Around 30 billion barrels of oil are being projected from the Cline Shale.
As a result, questions will arise, such as economic access. Infrastructure concerns will also begin to emerge.
Currently, the top holders are optimistic with their findings. Shepperd noted that while "something will happen" through the Cline Shale, he urged industry leaders to also be cautious.
From 2010 to 2011, approved permits have risen about 44%, with another 14% increase through 2012. The most active counties at the time are Glasscock and Sterling.
Potential barriers of the industry were discussed as well, such as endangered species, federal legislation and regulations, water supply shortage, emission regulation and transportation.
While work continues between the oil industry and the Texas Parks and Wildlife to ensure safety of all animals, the use of some lands are being limited. And between the current administration and the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency), federal politics could play a role.
Furthermore, water recyclers are becoming available to assist with the shortage of water, while the debate on emissions from industry equipment is a worldwide topic. But while the smaller cities within the area compete with large communities, safety issues are also a concern regarding transportation.
In the meantime, companies are working to "crack the code" of the Cline Shale, but Shepperd said that everyone will benefit from the activity when the codes are cracked. The presentation concluded with a question-and-answer session on topics discussed and the industry as a whole.


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Returning to work after the birth of a new baby can be a trying time for new mothers attempting to do their best for their child. The American Academy of Pediatrics and the World Health Organization suggest that infants be exclusively breast fed (exclusively means without supplementation of formula or solid foods) for [Ed note: at least] the first six months of life. A working mother who decides to abide by these recommendations, as I have done with each of my sons, is often left no choice but to express breast milk while working away from her child.
An increasing number of businesses are providing employees with designated lactation rooms, however, these numbers remain low. If fears of expressing breast milk in a bathroom stall or storing milk in a public refrigerator leave you feeling squeamish about pumping at work, take comfort in a few simple ways you can make breastfeeding at work more comfortable and sustainable.
Prepare yourself for success
- Start by purchasing a good breast pump. This is one purchase where you definitely get what you pay for and a good pump may cost upwards of $300. However, this initial investment will allow you to pump longer and with more ease ensuring a savings over the cost of formula feeding your child.[Ed Note: Some hospitals will rent pumps like this, which can help offset the cost of a large purchase like this, though if you plan to have more than one child, buying a pump will probably be more cost effective in the long run.]
- While still at home with your baby, pump enough milk to cover your first week back to work. Pump first thing in the morning when your milk supply is greatest or pump through those few days of engorgement right after your milk comes in.
- Gather all the supplies you will need when returning to work including extra bottles and breast pads in case of an emergency. Also, pictures of your baby and soothing music can make pumping at work easier.
- Before returning to work, consider when and where you will pump throughout the day. Begin to adopt that schedule in your last week at home.
- Easy, open communication with your boss will ensure you get what you need as a breastfeeding mom. Express the importance to you and your baby of continuing to breastfeed after returning to work. Further, stress that breastfeeding provides benefits to the company. Breastfed babies require fewer doctor's visits and breastfeeding moms have lower rates of postpartum depression. Both of which mean fewer absences from work.
- Make sure your boss knows when you will be taking breaks to express milk and if necessary, who will be covering your responsibilities during those times. Pumping should take only as long as it takes for your infant to breastfeed, less time if you have a double pump.


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The budget, OK'd on the first reading during a special meeting Friday, May 3, shows $10.85 million in appropriations balanced by the same amount in estimated receipts for the year, as required by state law.
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Now is the time to get out in front of budget cuts.
Do you hear that tick, tick, tick? That's the sound of the budget clock ticking down to the next deadline. It's a constant reminder that spending cuts are coming.
Incremental belt-tightening used to be sufficient, but not now, given the enormity of cuts on the table as lawmakers struggle to reduce the federal deficit. A wait-and-see approach will only amplify the impact of not making decisions-or worse, making the wrong ones.
Now is the time for agencies to get out in front of the budget ax to capture cost savings in the short term and help shape their future over the long term. It is critical that executives make a plan for prioritizing investments and launching new initiatives. It takes time to identify the right opportunities to cut costs and help reduce the deficit.
There are concrete steps that agencies should consider to gain control of the situation, focus their precious resources on driving real value for citizens, and prepare for more budget reductions in fiscal 2012 and beyond.
Step 1: Find hidden savings
Survey a wide range of cost areas that could deliver a big impact without gutting the mission-from improper payments, procurement, technology and human capital to real estate, taxes and energy consumption. Savings from these costs areas can be surprising. In contracting, for example, instead of pay and chase, agencies could reduce improper payments by employing new tools and technologies. The Housing and Urban Development Department has reduced erroneous payments by more than 70 percent, from an estimated $3.43 billion in fiscal 2000 to $925 million in fiscal 2009-an average annual reduction of more than $278 million.
Step 2: Invest in efficiency
Data analysis, technology and visualization tools can help reduce costs and enhance performance. The Transportation Security Administration, for example, is moving to a risk-based security approach by using data intelligence to designate high- and low-risk passengers before they enter a checkpoint-one of the largest transformation initiatives undertaken since TSA's inception.
Step 3: Look at new delivery models
Take advantage of this budget environment to consider ways to restructure how the agency does business and identify duplicative or lower-priority programs. Be bold. Consider adopting shared services using telework or the like. The Agriculture Department's Forest Service is on track to save $100 million over five years and cut indirect costs by 40 percent through business process reengineering, consolidation and a shared services initiative. The General Services Administration has created a new business model that is projected to cut its Global Supply unit's operating costs by 20 percent.
Managers must start taking control now to create more options in the future. If they wait, they might not like the choices left on the table. A dedicated team of leaders can see a strategy all the way through, take advantage of synergies and make the cost savings stick. By taking pre-emptive steps now, agencies can help their organizations emerge as leaner, more agile and responsive organizations.
Janet Hale has more than 25 years of experience in government, public policy and corporate management and is a director with Deloitte Services LLP.
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Six-time All-Star Joe Mauer and Hall of Famer Dave Winfield, both Minnesota natives, are joining forces with the Major League Baseball Players Trust to raise funds for area children's charities when they co-host the second annual Players Trust All Star Golf Tournament at Windsong Farm Golf Club in Independence, Minn., on Wednesday, July 16.
During a week in which the Twin Cities will become the center of the baseball universe, golfers and baseball fans alike will be able to combine two of America's greatest passions for an unforgettable day on one of the area's most prestigious golf courses. Already scheduled to join Mauer and Winfield in their efforts to help children in need are former big leaguers (Hall of Famer) Paul Molitor, Al Newman, Bobby Bonilla, Steve Rogers, Jose Cruz Jr. and Rick Helling. Additional players joining the cause will be announced on an ongoing basis.
"Co-hosting the Players Trust All Star Golf Tournament with Dave Winfield is an honor, and I look forward to working with Dave and other members of the baseball player fraternity to raise funds to support child-related causes," stated Mauer. "I encourage our fellow Minnesotans to join us for what's sure to be a fun and memorable day at Windsong Farm Golf Club."
"I'm thrilled to be coming home to the Twin Cities to celebrate the game of baseball, and to team with Joe Mauer in hosting the Players Trust's second annual All Star Golf Tournament," said Winfield. "The tournament is going to be the perfect way to wind down the week's festivities, as we gather for a great day of golf, storytelling and, of course, a chance to help improve the lives of children in need."
The Players Trust All Star Golf Tournament is part of the non-profit's fundraising programming efforts. Each offseason for the past 10 years, the Trust has hosted a tournament on some of the country's most exclusive golf courses, such as Torrey Pines in La Jolla, Calif., and Scottsdale TPC and Grayhawk Golf Club in Arizona. Last season, the Trust hosted its first All Star Golf Tournament, when Ike Davis, then of the New York Mets, and David Robertson of the NY Yankees co-hosted a star-studded event on the notorious Black Course in Bethpage, Long Island, to benefit Superstorm Sandy victims. To date, the Trust has raised more than $1 million for various causes through its golf events.
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