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Pope Benedict XVI steps down
VATICAN CITY: Benedict XVI has become the first pope to resign in more than 700 years, waving a last goodbye to a tearful crowd of faithful and telling them he will be "a simple pilgrim" on life's last journey.
He spent his last day as Pope farewelling the cardinals - pledging ''unconditional reverence and obedience'' to the next pope - then his staff, and finally the villagers at Castel Gandolfo, the papal retreat near Rome.
He urged the cardinals to be like an orchestra harmonising for the good of the church. ''Among you, among the College of Cardinals, is the future Pope to whom I already today pledge unconditional reverence and obedience,'' Pope Benedict said.
In fact, the pope need not be chosen from among the cardinals, and some commentators have speculated that he might not be this time, but the last time a non-cardinal became pope was 1378.
Lobbying among the cardinals, which would have begun within moments of the Pope's resignation announcement on February 13, can now intensify.
They begin meetings called ''general congregations on Monday, at which cardinals older than 80 who cannot vote in the conclave can give their views. It allows cardinals, now drawn from around the world, to get to know each other, discuss priorities, and to lobby for preferred candidates.
The first decision will be the date the conclave begins. Normally it must be 15 to 20 days from the see becoming vacant, to allow cardinals time to gather, but Benedict made provision before he left to allow an earlier date, as most cardinals are already there.
Benedict's final appointment, made hours before his departure, was Joseph Dinh Duc Cao to be an auxiliary bishop in Vietnam. The Vatican also announced his ''prayer intentions'' for March: ''That respect for nature may grow with the awareness that all creation is God's work entrusted to human responsibility.''
Workers put seals on the doors of the Vatican papal apartments and the lift leading up to them, to be broken only by the church's next pope, and the Vatican flag at the palace was lowered in a poignant end to a turbulent eight-year pontificate.
Swiss Guards shut the giant wooden doors of his new temporary residence, the Castel Gandolfo near Rome, and left their posts after completing their mission to protect the Pope.
"Long live the Pope!" a crowd outside sang out as a clock chimed 8pm, the hour that Benedict said he would officially resign in an announcement earlier this month that stunned the world.
"I will no longer be pope but a simple pilgrim who is starting out on the last part of his pilgrimage," Benedict told thousands of supporters after arriving at the Castel Gandolfo palace, where he will live for the next few weeks.
"I am happy to be with you surrounded by the beauty of creation. Thank you for your friendship and affection," said the frail but smiling 85-year-old, dressed in his white papal cassock.
The bells of St Peter's Basilica rang out as Benedict's helicopter flew over his diocese of Rome for the last time in his pontificate, with city residents watching from their windows.
On his hand was the Fisherman's Ring - a personalised gold signet ring bearing the image of the first pope, St Peter, a fisherman by trade.
The ring will be disposed of by the Vatican - a tradition to prevent the official seal being used to issue false documents in a pope's name.
In a last tweet sent from his pontifex Twitter account just as he left the Vatican, Benedict said: "Thank you for your love and support."
"May you always experience the joy that comes from putting Christ at the centre of your lives."
The Twitter account will now be suspended until the election of a new pope in a conclave next month.
Vatican television showed Benedict's farewell, helicopter flight to Castel Gandolfo and last blessing as Pope. From a palace upper window he blessed the locals, and concluded: "Grazie, buona notte" (Thank you, good night).
With those three words ended the pontificate of the Catholic Church's 266th pope.
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FACETIME- Horn born: Locals take Mississippi award
Jack Horn Jr. runs Martin Horn, a homegrown construction company that's built landmarks like the Charlottesville Pavilion, Scott Stadium, and UVA baseball's Davenport Field. So why is he working for free in Mississippi?
Horn points to the persuasive powers of Howard Pape, vice president of Building Goodness Foundation, an organization of skilled construction volunteers who swept into Pearlington, Mississippi, almost as soon as Hurricane Katrina.
"I asked him if there was any way we could participate," recalls Horn. "It didn't take him long to say yes."
Horn made his first foray to Pearlington in July 2006 with a company crew to build sheds for temporary housing. "The heat and humidity in southern Mississippi in July were very memorable," he says.
Since then, he's been down more than a dozen times, working on an even more ambitious project: a new 6,000-square-foot community center to replace one destroyed by the tempest.
When the work required a licensed contractor in Mississippi, "I went to Jackson and sat for the exam," he says. "Now Martin Horn is licensed in Mississippi."
"He's taken the bull by the horn," puns Pape. "He's project manager from a thousand miles away, and he's ahead of schedule."
"I love building," explains Horn. And that enthusiasm will have a Building Goodness Foundation team, including Horn, in Jackson, Mississippi, on April 25 to receive the Governor's Initiative for Volunteer Excellence.
"That's pretty amazing considering there must be hundreds of nonprofits working in Mississippi after Katrina," Horn says, but then he lists the 18,000 man-hours Building Goodness has put in, not including 8,000 from architects led by VMDO and from Martin Horn.
His father started the company in 1979 after working 20 years for R.E. Lee. "My dad and I didn't get along real well because I dropped out of college at 22," says Horn. He worked construction in Florida, then joined his father in 1982. "It was good working for him. We re-established a new relationship," he says.
Horn credits "virtually every contractor in Charlottesville" with taking part in the Pearlington project. "I don't think it requires a whole bunch of inspiration for people to do this," he says.
His own most terrifying moment with near hurricane-force winds took place in Charlottesville, not the Gulf Coast. "I was underneath the canvas [of the Charlottesville Pavilion] when it ripped with the wind coming from the north," he recalls. "The next thing I know, pieces of fabric were blowing past me. It was my worst nightmare."
Martin Horn is finishing the new school of nursing at UVA, and he's worked on Klockner Stadium and the Dave Matthews Band's Haunted Hollow studio. "It's pretty satisfying to drive around Charlottesville and see the things you've done," says the self-described Charlottesville boy.
And he acknowledges, "One of the reasons Building Goodness is so easy to participate in– I realize how lucky I am."


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Wenger's name became synonymous with success during his early years at Arsenal, but the Gunners are no longer considered realistic title challengers and they have not won a trophy of any kind in seven-and-a-half years.
"I saw Tottenham v Manchester United and you think (about) the difference between us and Manchester United when you see them play...," Wenger said. "It was a fantastic opportunity (to win the league) this season. To catch Manchester United now is out of sight at the moment."
The north London club welcome West Ham to the Emirates Stadium on Wednesday knowing defeat will leave them seven points off fourth-place Tottenham and some 22 points behind their former arch rivals and current league leaders United.
Despite their domination of the league, United have looked a pale imitation of Sir Alex Ferguson's former teams while despite their lavish spending, second-place Manchester City have also failed to reproduce the level of form they showed last season.
Wenger added: "We have to get closer to the people in front of us first before we can think that. Man United is far but there is no untouchable team in the country at the moment. That is for sure. It should not be difficult (to get in the top four) but it will be tough."
Key to Wenger's struggles, of course, has been the departure of Robin van Persie, who has had no problem repeating his superb form last season with his new employers at Old Trafford.
Arsenal's inconsistency has also been a major problem. Gunners fans have been put through a roller coaster of a season. The highs of putting seven past Reading and Newcastle have been outweighed by the low points - home defeats to City, Swansea and Chelsea, not to mention the embarrassing Capital One Cup exit to npower League Two side Bradford.
Theo Walcott, who last week put an end to speculation about his future by signing a contract extension, said there is a lack of self-belief in the Arsenal camp and his manager concurs.
"I agree with him," Wenger said. "The players come out and think 'we could have done better'. But when you look at the first half (against Chelsea on Sunday) we lost goals we shouldn't lose, 50/50s you cannot lose in big games."
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Worcester Polytechnic Institute has struck a deal with a fraternity that had objected to the college's effort to ban parking along one side of Boynton Street, from Salisbury Street to Institute Road.
That agreement opened the door Wednesday night for the City Council Traffic and Parking Committee to unanimously approve the parking prohibition.
WPI petitioned the City Council for the parking prohibition last fall because the college believes the street is too narrow to allow parking on both sides of the street while also safely accommodating two lanes of traffic.
But members of Phi Gamma Delta fraternity, located at Salisbury and Boynton streets, opposed the petition, contending it would have a major impact on the approximately 40 residents who live in the fraternity house at 99 Salisbury St.
With the loss of on-street parking on the east side of Boynton Street, fraternity members argued, they would be forced to scramble to find other overnight parking in the neighborhood, where parking availability is already at a premium.
When the three-member Traffic and Parking Committee heard the petition last fall, it urged WPI officials and fraternity representatives to get together to see if a compromise can be worked out.
Stephen Madaus, a lawyer representing the college, informed the Traffic and Parking Committee Wednesday that a deal had been reached with the fraternity in which WPI will allow the residents to purchase resident parking passes at a cost of $100 per year.
The resident student parking passes will enable members of the fraternity to park in any of WPI's five resident student parking lots, Mr. Madaus wrote in an email to the committee members.
Fraternity residents are not allowed to park in the on-campus parking lots because they are restricted to staff and commuting students. Those living in fraternities are not considered commuters, even though they do not live in campus housing.
Mr. Madaus said the number of parking passes that will be made available to the fraternity will be equal to one-third of the number of residents living there each year.
He said that is consistent with the city's off-street parking requirement for student residence halls in an institutional zone: one-third of a parking space per dormitory bed.
It is also the arrangement WPI currently has in place for its on-campus residence halls.
WPI will also make available to the residents of the fraternity parking passes for WPI's 189-space Dean Street garage, at a cost of $350 a year, he added.
The section of Boynton Street between Salisbury Street and Institute Road runs through the eastern part of the WPI campus, including in front of two residence halls and the campus police building.
Mr. Madaus said Boynton Street is only about 30 feet wide in that stretch.
Because of the width, he said, the city does not allow parking on either side of the street from Dec. 1 to April 1.


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NASA robotics engineer Sandeep Yayathi works on Robonaut 2, or R2, a humanoid robot built and designed at Johnson Space Center in Houston. As a robotics engineer, Sandeep Yayathi is developing a battery-based power system that will allow the Robonaut 2, now aboard the International Space Station, to move about freely without having to be plugged into the ISS power grid.
NASA Tech Briefs: What does the R2 look like? What kind of tools are on it? What is it made up of?
Sandeep Yayathi: The Robonaut is a humanoid robot, so it's a robot that looks very much like a person. It has two arms, similar degrees of freedom, and some complex dexterous hands. The hands are also very similar to what we have on our arms. The goal is for the Robonaut to be able to interface with the same interfaces that the crew uses now, and be able to handle the same tools that they use in orbit. Currently we have an (intra-vehicular activity) IVA version of the Robonaut, so it's inside the space station mounted to a stanchion that the crew's been working with. Looking forward to the future, we are currently working on a battery-based power system, as well as a pair of legs. Not so much legs like you and I have, but similar to the arms, with specialized end effectors for grabbing on to fixtures, tracks, and hand rails available on the station. This will set the stage for eventually having a robot that goes EVA [extra-vehicular activity].
NTB: What are its functions? What tasks can it perform?
Yayathi: Right now we are constantly developing new tasks and augmenting his abilities as time goes on. Controls engineers down here on the ground are working on tasks that eventually get tested on orbit. Right now, on orbit, we have a task panel positioned in front of the robot that has a whole host of different switches, buttons, and connectors that are found all around the station. So we're working on vision recognition and the robot's ability to manipulate those objects.
In addition, we've been identifying various other tasks that the crew has to do that are sort of monotonous and take up time that could be otherwise spent doing science. One of which more recently was checking flow out of some of the air filters on the station. That's something that the crew has to go and do with the meter, and we recently had the robot hold that meter in front of the air filters and pipe that video data back to the ground for analysis. So hopefully, eventually, the robot can be doing some of these tasks, moving around the station without the crew in the loop to basically offload those monotonous tasks that are really well suited for a robot.
NTB: Is the team impressed with the robot's ability?
Yayathi: I think that the station program and NASA as a whole are pumped about the potential that the robot has in impacting how we do operations on station and how we utilize crew time appropriately. The astronauts only have so much time during the day, and there's a whole lot of science that we want to be doing up there. The robot is very electromechanically capable. It's a work in progress, but we do have high hopes for it. People that are interfacing with it on the ops side are excited about the potential it has. Every day, people are coming up with new tasks that they would love Robonaut to take over in the future.
NTB: How else can the Robonaut make it easier for the team?
Yayathi: Our goal is eventually to have a robot that goes EVA and can withstand the harsh environment of space, where it can really make a big impact. Astronauts, when they go EVA, usually have some main goals that require a human in the loop to manage these tasks and more complicated procedures and maneuvers. But in order to get to a work site, there are a lot of things that have to happen first. A lot of times, they have to spend a good portion of their EVA setting up foot restraints and fixtures to get out there, before they can actually do the real task that they set out to accomplish. Having a robot out there could be advantageous: you would be able to have it go and do all these setup tasks ahead of time and really optimize the time while the crew members out there. We're blessed with the brains that we have and the abilities that we have as humans, and we want to take advantage of those when we're out there in the dangerous environment of space.


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The Military Judicial Reform Act of 2013 was introduced to Congress last week by Congresswoman Jackie Speir, D-California. This bill will strip the power of a single military commander from reducing or overturning an adjudged sentence of a convicted sex offender.
Current law allows for the convening authority (mostly male) to throw out a sentence handed down from a military court-martial. The accused receive a fair trial with a jury of their peers and are provided qualified defense council at tax payer expense.
It also is important to note that the military justice system already has a robust appellate process in place to protect the accused. If convicted, they receive a sentence similar to our civilian system.
However, the findings of the military criminal proceeding must be forwarded to what is called the Convening Authority for review. The Convening Authority, which has no specialized training in criminal investigation, prosecution, victim advocacy or military law in general, has the right to reduce or simply throw out the sentence handed down by the court, without justification.
There is an effort in Congress to limit this unprecedented power that even the president of the United States is powerless to overturn. The Military Judicial Reform Act of 2013 would abolish article 60 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice and strip the power of the convening authority to be judge, jury and executioner.
As a former military police officer, I have had the misfortune of seeing victims being stripped of justice because of Article 60. We send our sons and daughters into harm's way to protect the liberties and freedoms which make our nation great.
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Bringing together Manchester's visual arts community and the thriving digital design sector in a playful and informal setting Show and Tell invites ten artists and designers to make lightning-quick presentations about a current project, experiment or source of inspiration. The only rule - it mustn't be something from the day job.
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Cherry Tenneson 'Artist-informant-cartographer' of redundant objects and information. Often seen documenting crumbs and plastic at an everyday desk top.
Michael Trainor founder of Pop Empires, Art makers and commissioners of art and events.
Richard Schofield from weareboy, 3D guys in Manchester serving the creative industries with still and animated 3D CGI, video, and all things 'motionified'.
Mark Jermyn and Sally Gilford from one69a, a creative collective who specialise in screen printing, run educational workshops and run live screen printing sessions at events.
Mishka Henner Belgian born photographer whose recent work included No Man's Land and recipient of the world's smallest photography award! which seeks to emphasise the importance of coincidence, grace and humility in photography.
Amanda Bellantara from Kinokokophone, an artist collective that collects and composes sounds, stories and imagery from around the world.
Filmmaker, creator and compere extraordinaire Maria Ruban.
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Following the first event we've responded to your requests to include open spots and there will be two available at this event for anyone who wants to present a cool, interesting project they are working on if you're a designer please remember to focus on personal projects rather than pitching company work.
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Diplomacy Stymied by Divisions Between Washington and its Mideast Allies
TEL AVIV—After six days of exhaustive meetings and stops in Cairo, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Ramallah and Paris, Secretary of State John Kerry came home Sunday with only a few fitful hours of peace in Gaza that proved fleeting.
Israel and the Palestinian territory's Hamas rulers observed a 12-hour humanitarian cease-fire on Saturday. But they couldn't agree to extend the truce on Sunday and the cycle of attacks resumed.


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- Through innovative and cutting-edge writing programs engage students in writing as a process of making form and meaning. Emphasis on the minutia and vagaries of the writing process; writing as a key to critical thinking; the aesthetical and rhetorical dimensions of texts; the development of style, voice and attunement to genre–all elements involved in the creation of high quality imaginative and factual texts.
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Western's writing major has always stressed writing as a process and creative process. This philosophical and pedagogical approach has been highly successful, as the dramatic increase in Professional Writing majors since 2001 attests.
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The Composition program is an integral component of this department with faculty members committed to taking the lead in writing instruction across the university in general and for first-year students in particular. The concentration of remedial and first-year writing courses, professional writing courses, linguistics courses, and graduate-level writing, linguistics, and TESOL courses creates exciting opportunities for collaborations among students, faculty, courses, and departments.
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CTS Electronics Manufacturing Solutions Awarded A Second Contract from a Major Medical Orthopedic Firm
ELKHART, Ind.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- CTS Corporation (NYS: CTS) a leading supplier of electronics manufacturing services, today announced that CTS EMS has been awarded a second production program to provide printed circuit board assemblies for a leading global medical orthopedic firm.
CTS EMS will provide assemblies used in a new orthopedic surgical application. These assemblies will be manufactured in CTS' New Hampshire facility with shipments beginning in the first quarter 2013. CTS is currently in production for high-volume surgical instrumentation, including printed circuit assemblies, testing, certification and final assembly in a clean room environment as a result of the first production award secured from this major medical orthopedic firm in 2011. Annual revenues from both programs are expected to be approximately $10 million.
This business win is a direct result of CTS' success in producing FDA approved medical instruments.
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5 movies to binge-watch that tackled nuclear war
With rhetoric between President Trump and and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un escalating, some people worried about the advent of nuclear war. Filmmakers, long fascinated with nuclear conflict, have tackled the idea of this fallout numerous times, from comedies and dramas to documentaries and teen TV series.
If movies are where you turn for understanding or perspective during world events, here are five films worth watching available to rent or stream that take on the topic.
1. WarGames
On the surface, the 1983 film is about a too-smart-for-his-own-good teen, played by Matthew Broderick, who almost causes World War III by hacking into NORAD, thinking it's a video game company. But it has deeper messages about the pointlessness of nuclear conflict. The heroes of the film prevent catastrophe not through force, but by convincing the computer on the verge of bombing the Soviet Union – to win the "war game" Broderick's character accidentally started – that no one can win in a nuclear war.
Stream it on Cinemax.
2. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
The Stanley Kubrick film is one of the few portrayals of nuclear conflict that successfully offers a comedic and satirical take on the subject, a tricky balancing act. The 1964 movie, starring Peter Sellers and George C. Scott, remains one of Kubrick's best and most incisive films.
Stream it on Starz.
3. Fail Safe (1964)
This film premiered not long after the Cuban Missile Crisis and starred Henry Fonda as a president attempting to avoid nuclear war after a mistake. Directed by Sidney Lumet, it uses the tropes of thrillers of the era to dramatize the tension and anxiety of standing on the brink of conflict. Stephen Frears (Philomena) directed a TV movie remake in 2000 starring George Clooney.
Rent it on Amazon, Google Play, Vudu or YouTube.
4. Thirteen Days
While many films were influenced by the Cuban Missile Crisis during the Cold War, this film from 2000 presents an account of the actual crisis. Kevin Costner and Bruce Greenwood star in the fictionalized drama, portraying what went on in President Kennedy's administration during those tense days.
Buy it on Amazon, Google Play, iTunes, Vudu or YouTube.
5. Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Visions of nuclear apocalypse are weaved in with action, drama and thrills in director James Cameron's sci-fi sequel, in which Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) is driven by her need to prevent humanity's downfall. The 1991 film is an instance of nuclear fears used more for entertainment, but it is an intriguing and inevitably hopeful story.
Rent it on Amazon, Google Play, iTunes, Vudu or YouTube.
Honorable mention: The Day After and The War Game.
The Day After is a 1983 TV movie that imagined the U.S. devastated by nuclear war and had huge cultural impact in the Reagan era. The War Game (1965) is a harrowing documentary-style drama which imagines a U.K. town after a nuclear attack and is shocking in its realism. Neither film is currently available to stream, but DVDs are available to purchase from online retailers.


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Benjamin Franklin nailed it when he said, "Fatigue is the best pillow." True story, Benny. There's nothing like pushing your body so far past exhaustion that you'd willingly, even longingly, take a nap on a concrete slab.
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There's a story behind every horse that walks into the starting gate, but the story of a 2-year-old colt about to debut in Illinois is one of the more unlikely tales you'll ever hear.
It begins on June 6, 2009, when former trainer Gail Vacca and colleagues arrived at the Shipshewana livestock auction in northern Indiana. As Vacca puts it, "Shipshy" is not a place that any caring or passionate horseman would care to visit. The horses that wind up there endure miserable conditions before an almost-certain fate of slaughter in Canada or Mexico.
Vacca had come to Shipshy looking for off-track Thoroughbreds that might have been transported there in violation of Arlington Park's zero-tolerance policy for sending retired racehorses to kill auctions. That day, Vacca only spotted one Thoroughbred.
In the back of a pen filled with horses, Vacca saw an attractive dark bay mare that appeared crippled. She asked the "kill buyer" if she could purchase the horse from him. He said no. She asked if the mare was a Thoroughbred. He said no.
"He went in and flipped her lip, and said, nope, no tattoo," Vacca said. "I knew he was lying."
Vacca managed to get to edge of the pen and flip the mare's lip herself. Just as she surmised, there was a tattoo signifying her registration as a Thoroughbred racehorse.
"I told the kill buyer, I'd really like to buy that mare. She will not make the trip to Canada," Vacca said. "He didn't want to, but eventually he sold her to me for $300."
After a 30-day spell in quarantine, the mare Vacca named "Lulu" was brought to the Illinois Equine Humane Center (ILEHC). Vacca, the center's president, spent hours on the Jockey Club website trying to figure out who Lulu really was. She had no luck.
In the meantime, Vacca and her staff were doing their best to improve Lulu's condition, but they knew she wouldn't be adoptable.
"We had been debating whether it might be more humane to euthanize her because we are a non-profit, and she would be costly to manage with her lameness issues. But in the weeks that followed, my suspicions about Lulu were confirmed."
The mare was pregnant.
After months of nursing Lulu along, on April 15, 2010, the staff of the ILEHC celebrated the birth of a colt they named "Taxi" because it was Tax Day (see photo box above for pictures of mom and foal).
"He was so gorgeous, with classic Thoroughbred looks," Vacca said. "I said this is not a Heinz 57, this is a Thoroughbred colt."
Vacca renewed her search for Lulu's identity. She found the sales ticket from the Shipshewana auction and tried to track down the consignor. Eventually, she found his Facebook page and sent him a message. A couple days later, Vacca received a call from Lulu's owner. The mare's real name was Silver Option.
"He said, 'do you know who that horse is?'" Vacca recalled. "He said, that mare's by Silver Hawk, she's a really well-bred mare. He couldn't believe the mare had a foal. He said the vets told him she had lost the pregnancy."
Vacca said the man begged her to sell the new colt to him, promising to take good care of Taxi.
"I said, 'are you out of your mind?' I said, buddy, there's not enough money on the planet for me to sell this horse to you. You threw his mama away like yesterday's garbage, and I hung up."
Silver Option, a 1997 foal, only raced twice in her career for owner John Amerman and was well-beaten in both starts. She was later sold as a broodmare, and in 2009, she was bred by the man who called Vacca to a new stallion at Darby Dan farm. It turns out Taxi was a son of Magna Graduate, although the farm had no idea Silver Option was in foal.
Technically, the non-profit Illinois Equine Humane Center was now on the hook for Magna Graduate's $5,000 stud fee.
"We thought it'd be great if we could get Taxi registered, but we couldn't afford the stud fee," Vacca said. "I contacted Darby Dan, and the farm and owner of Magna Graduate graciously agreed to reduce the fee to $1,000."
Taxi was then registered with the Jockey Club and named Magna Fortuna (which means "great luck" or "great fortune").
"We got to thinking that it'd be really cool if he could do what he was bred to do," Vacca said. "I thought maybe he could make it to the track and become a "spokeshorse" for the way some of these broodmares are treated. It just defies description that people can do this, throw them away like garbage the minute they can't make money off of them."
Vacca and ILEHC volunteer Laura Donohoe assembled a group of people to form a racing partnership they called Rescue Me Racing. They put their own money in and bought shares of Magna Fortuna.
"The partnership isn't about making money for the partnership, it's about taking care of (Magna Fortuna) and giving him the opportunity to do what he loves to do," Donohoe said. "If he makes it to the track or wins a race, that's a bonus, but all along it was about taking care of him first and foremost."
Magna Fortuna, now a juvenile, is set to make his racing debut Dec. 26 at Hawthorne Race Course in an Illinois-bred Maiden Special Weight race.
"I probably won't sleep the night before," said Donohoe. "All of the partners are just so excited. Whether he wins or not, I just want him to come back safe."
At least five percent of any proceeds from Magna Fortuna's racing career will go to the Illinois Equine Humane Center.
"Really what I want people to think about is what could've been," Vacca said. "He would've been slaughtered with Lulu. I just want people to think about, before they own a horse or broodmare, what they're going to do when they're no longer able to keep the horse. We owe it to the horses to do better than what we're doing now."
Silver Option has a permanent home at the ILEHC, and Vacca said the 15-year-old is doing very well now that her broodmare days are over. The ILEHC welcomes donations to help keep up with the costs of caring for Silver Option.
Jennie Rees at the Louisville Courier-Journal helped launch a blog that is following Magna Fortuna's training. About half of the 15 partners are chipping in to the blog, as well as the colt's trainer, Michele Boyce.
The partners have agreed Magna Fortuna will never be entered in a claiming race where he could be purchased by someone else, and if the colt doesn't seem to enjoy racing, he'll be retrained for a new career.
"We would try to find a good forever home for him," said Donohoe. "With the partners, we'd probably have to draw straws to see who gets him, so that's not going to be a problem."
Thanks to the generosity of Three Chimneys Farm, the sponsor of Good News Friday, a donation of $100 will be made in support of the Illinois Equine Humane Center. Three Chimneys will be donating $100 each and every week we bring you a story of people or organizations making a positive difference in our world.
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Blueberry Scones with Lemon Glaze
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- Blueberry Scones:
- Ingredients
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 5 tablespoons unsalted butter, cold, cut in chunks
- 1 cup fresh blueberries
- 1 cup heavy cream, plus more for brushing the scones
- Lemon Glaze:
- 1/2 cup freshly squeezed lemon juice
- 2 cups confectioners' sugar, sifted
- 1 tablespoon unsalted butter
- 1 lemon, zest finely grated
Preparation time 20mins
Cooking time 40mins
Step 1
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.
Sift together the dry ingredients; the flour, baking powder, salt, and sugar. Using 2 forks or a pastry blender, cut in the butter to coat the pieces with the flour. The mixture should look like coarse crumbs. Fold the blueberries into the batter. Take care not to mash or bruise the blueberries because their strong color will bleed into the dough. Make a well in the center and pour in the heavy cream. Fold everything together just to incorporate; do not overwork the dough.
Press the dough out on a lightly floured surface into a rectangle about 12 by 3 by 1 1/4 inches. Cut the rectangle in 1/2 then cut the pieces in 1/2 again, giving you 4 (3-inch) squares. Cut the squares in 1/2 on a diagonal to give you the classic triangle shape. Place the scones on an ungreased cookie sheet and brush the tops with a little heavy cream. Bake for 15 to 20 minutes until beautiful and brown. Let the scones cool a bit before you apply the glaze.
You can make the lemon glaze in a double boiler, or for a simpler alternative, you can zap it in the microwave. Mix the lemon juice with the confectioners' until dissolved in a heatproof bowl over a pot of simmering water for the double-boiler method, or in a microwave-safe bowl. Whisk in the butter and lemon zest. Either nuke the glaze for 30 seconds or continue whisking in the double boiler. Whisk the glaze to smooth out any lumps, then drizzle the glaze over the top of the scones. Let it set a minute before serving.
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By Graham Readfearn • Wednesday, June 27, 2012 - 02:06
SHE is the richest woman on the planet with a personal fortune approaching $30 billion thanks to her coal and iron ore businesses.
But when it comes to arguably the planet's most pressing problem - human-caused climate change - the Australian mining magnate Gina Rinehart dismisses out of hand not only the issue, but the expertise of the world's climate science community.
Now, Rinehart, the head and owner of Hancock Prospecting, has revealed that she wants to use her substantial stakes in two leading Australian media companies to be able to promote the views of climate science deniers.
Earlier this week, the publicly-funded Australian Broadcasting Corporation's investigative television documentary Four Corners looked at Ms Rinehart's life story.
Her climate science denial did not appear in the broadcast, but the ABC did ask her about it and has released the answers to questions on the issue of climate change and her promotion of climate scepticism.
The program comes as Rinehart is engaged in a very public fight with the board of Fairfax, the media company which owns the nation's most respected newspapers the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.
As reported by Fairfax, Rinehart told the ABC that she would consider selling her 19 per cent shareholding in the struggling company unless she is given three board seats and the right to influence editorial policy.
In a response to a question on climate change from Four Corners, a company spokesperson wrote:
To lessen the fear the media have caused over these issues, Mrs Rinehart suggests that the media should also permit to be published that climate change has been occurring naturally since the earth began, not just the views of the climate extremists. It is a fact that there have been ice ages, then periods of global warming to end the ice ages, for thousands of years, and these have occurred naturally, including due to the earth's orbit, and not due to mankind at all.
Mrs Rinehart points out that some people received notoriety claiming only a few decades ago that the earth was about to enter an ice age and understands some of those same people are now claiming, global warming instead. Mrs Rinehart admires people like Ian Plimer who have independently chosen on their own accord to stand up against this tidal wave, which has caused fear, and despite substantial attacks by some of the media and extremists for so doing. It is noted Professor Plimer had his own views on climate change long before he knew Mrs Rinehart and had given many such informative speaking tours prior to meeting Mrs Rinehart.
So who is informing Rinehart's misinformed view on the science of human-caused climate change? Certainly on her climate science speed-dial would be Professor Plimer, the geologist, mining company director and author of two climate sceptic books, the latests of which targets school children. The Australian Government's Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency recently published a lengthy analysis of the book, which it described as "misleading" and "inaccurate". Plimer is also on the boards of two of Rinehart's mining companies.
As I reported in Crikey, in July 2010, Rinehart hosted a high-powered lunch at her Perth home in Western Australia and invited the state's Premier Colin Barnett, the state's environment minister Bill Marmion, the Chinese Ambassador to Australia Chen Yuming and a former prime minister of Japan. As the guests nestled in their seats for lunch, Rinehart handed the microphone over to Professor Plimer.
Describing him in her speech as "one of the leading sources of reasoned and factual information in Australia on global warming and climate change" she didn't mention that he has never published a single peer-reviewed paper on human-caused climate change or that genuine climate scientists have repeatedly pointed out his errors.
The activist Lord Christopher Monckton is Rinehart's other favourite denier of the risks of human-caused climate change. In 2010 she co-sponsored his Australian speaking tour and offered a member of her staff to co-ordinate the Perth leg of the tour. In 2011, she invited Lord Monckton back to deliver a lecture at the beginning of another Australia-wide speaking tour.
Australia's most prominent climate "sceptic" is News Ltd columnist Andrew Bolt, who also has his own shown on Channel Ten where Rinehart has a seat on the board and 10 per cent of the company's shares (a shareholding she has recently increased).
When asked by the ABC if she had played a role in securing the show for Bolt, her company dodged the question, stating only that "Mrs Rinehart hopes that should Mr Bolt's time permit, that he would consider longer programmes on Channel 10". Andrew Bolt was one of the media personalities which Lord Monckton has suggested could be given more air-time if the "super rich" could be encouraged to buy into the media.
Close observers of Rinehart will know that her debunked views on climate science are not new. In a column that appeared in the May 2011 issue of Australian Resources and Investments Magazine, Rinehart wrote about her opposition to Australia's carbon price legislation and a proposed tax on mining profits - both of which have now been passed into law. She wrote she was "proud" of Australians who were "not swayed by the global warming fear campaign".
Remember when the mainstream media was running frightening commentary about carbon-induced global warming? We read and heard about how oceans would rise, flooding our homes, and how, over years, we'd be scorched due to the increasing heat.
Have you noticed that we don't hear much any more about global warming? The theme has now changed to carbon-dioxide induced 'climate change'.
Rinehart then began to trot out the same tired climate science doubt-spreading talking points.
Let's consider climate change – the world has constantly changed climate and will continue to do so. Even before human civilisation, the world went through ice ages and periods of global warming.
There will always be changes that affect our climate, even if we close down all thermal-fired power stations, steel mills and other manufacturing operations, putting employees out of work and drastically changing our way of life. Furthermore, there will always be geothermal activity that spew out heat and ash and this activity does affect the climate.
I am yet to hear scientific evidence to satisfy me that if the very, very small amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere (approximately 0.38 per cent) was increased, it could lead to significant global warming.
I have never met a geologist or leading scientist who believes adding more carbon dioxide to the atmosphere will have any significant effect on climate change, especially not from a relatively small country like Australia. I have, however, had the benefit of listening to leading scientists and reading their work.
The ABC also asked Rinehart if she had been funding campaigns against the country's carbon legislation and mining tax reforms. She didn't answer the question, but there are clues to where her money is going.
At the end of her article for the mining magazine last year, she asked for anyone who shared her "vision" for an Australia without a price on carbon and with climate science deniers leading the debate, to contact John Roskam, the executive director of the Australian free market think-tank the Institute for Public Affairs.
The IPA, a leading promoter of climate science denial in Australia, refuses to name its funders but is currently in partnership with Rinehart's lobby group Australians for Northern Development and Economic Vision to push for lower mining taxes and low regulation in the country's north to promote mining projects.
Adele Ferguson, a senior business reporter and columnist for The Age, has told Fairfax that Rinehart believes most journalists are "card-carrying communists".
Ferguson, whose unauthorised biography of Rinehart goes on sale in Australia this week, says the West Australian mining magnate is trying to buy Fairfax because she viewed it as a "left wing" organisation and she wants to change it.
The Rupert Murdoch-owned News Ltd already provides a home to climate sceptic commentators such as Andrew Bolt, Tim Blair and Miranda Devine. Rinehart's personal friend John Singleton's radio empire is the home of Australia's leading radio talkback host, Alan Jones - an overt climate science doubt mongerer and patron of the Galileo Movement activist group.
If Rinehart's takeover bid for Fairfax is successful, then the Australian media landscape risks becoming an even more welcoming haven of climate change anti-science.
What is a free press, anyway?
It is becoming more apparent that a free press must be free not only from government control, but from control by oligarchs and plutocrats.
Giving Gina Rinehart editorial control of Fairfax Newspapers would foreshadow the choking of the free press in Oz.
We live...
We live in a Kleptocracy.
(FYI: That's the producer's voice.)
"I have never met a geologist
"I have never met a geologist or leading scientist who believes adding more carbon dioxide to the atmosphere will have any significant effect on climate change"
Yes, thats because her minders identify who she should and should talk to. Climate realists simply don't get an audience. They would be telling her that her product and services are damaging the planet.
"I have, however, had the benefit of listening to leading scientists and reading their work."
Bob Carter & Ian Plimer are not leaders in anything. They are not even bottom feeders on the world stage of climate scientists. Neither have published papers in relation to AGW.
"The Rupert Murdoch-owned News Ltd already provides a home to climate sceptic commentators such as Andrew Bolt, Tim Blair and Miranda Devine"
Don't forget Piers Ackerman. Together, they have 70% of the entire countries newspapers and online papers covered with denier opinion and no opposing view to the MO can be seen anywhere on his papers. Readers of this stable of papers alone and not aware of it's political affiliations, would believe that this is the only view out there.
"If Rinehart's takeover bid for Fairfax is successful, then the Australian media landscape risks becoming an even more welcoming haven of climate change anti-science."
Fortunately, the board denied her a seat yesterday, phew.
Good bye to accurate reporting and investigative journalism in Australia if she has her way. It will be wall to wall attacks on Labor, the Greens, scientists and anyone that supports or agrees with them. While we have daily hero stories about miners.
This woman makes bile taste sweet.
For some fun...
It would be funny to ship every single expert to her facilities to explain it all to her in excruciating detail.
Work it out… What is the cost of a country? How much is the truth worth?


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Family Circle 2009 Fiction Contest: "On the Wire"
Vicki L. Wilson's story, "On the Wire," won second place in the Family Circle 2009 Fiction Contest.
That my mother used to be a trapeze artist comes up in conversation more than you might think.
Like when we're piling wood for the winter and she lifts a piece so big and heavy that even my father stops to watch. And she says, "I can't help it. Fifteen years off the wire, and the muscles stick around."
I am twelve, so she didn't quit the wire to have me. She quit to have my sister, Stella.
I'm not sure what it must be like for Stella, knowing that she caused Mom to give up something she loved.
Mom says she stayed on the trapeze right up to her sixth month of pregnancy. I'm not sure I believe that, but then there is my sister's love of balancing on the porch railing and swinging in the tree swing. "She got a taste for the air before she could breathe it," Mom says.
We live on a road in a town where there are no stoplights and no grocery stores. It is as far away from a circus or a show as you can get. I know most people don't live like this anymore, cutting their own wood for the winter, but we do. I ride the bus for an hour to get to school. Stella is saving for a car.
My dad delivers oil for a living. You're probably wondering how a man who delivers oil married a trapeze artist. That comes up in conversation more than you might think, too. My dad met my mom at the circus. He drove the oil truck there, on an afternoon when he had a break between deliveries. He was leaning against his truck in the circus parking lot eating an egg salad sandwich when my mother walked up to him and said, "Driving an oil truck is dangerous."
My dad, not agreeing, but liking the chance to seem dangerous, said, "I've had a few close calls."
Mom nodded. "I'm with the circus. I'm a trapeze artist."
"Now that's dangerous," my dad said.
"No, that's living. 'Life is being on the wire, everything else is just waiting.'"
That's a quote from the great Karl Wallenda. Mom says it all the time. He was some circus daredevil who did a lot with the tightrope, which Mom did, too.
Neither me nor Stella liked it when Mom quoted Karl. And by the way, my name is Carl, with a C. I guess I'm named after him, but when I was born, my mom didn't know his name was spelled with a K.
Neither me nor Stella liked it when Mom quoted Wallenda because it meant that her life was "just waiting." And we knew enough about age to know that Mom would never go back to the circus no matter how many big pieces of wood she could lift.
Stella is fourteen and wants to be a trapeze artist like Mom, but both my mom and dad said no.
So that's how she got in trouble, because she had to do it behind their backs.
Stella told Mom and Dad that she was taking a college-credit English course at Walker Community College. They were proud, because it showed initiative, that she was thinking about her future. But really, every Tuesday and Thursday night that they were dropping her off at the college, she was going to the gym instead of the classroom, and Ivan Mennahoff was teaching her to be an acrobat. She had the body for it. She took ballet and gymnastics until she was my age.
"You're getting so thin," Mom would say to Stella sometimes, because she didn't know the training Stella was going through. And I know Mom was confused because Stella was eating like a horse.
But I knew that Stella was running miles and miles, and lifting weights in the basement when she wasn't at the college. And sometimes I would catch her sitting quietly by the pond with her eyes closed, and when I asked her what she was doing, she would say, "Shut up. I'm visualizing my routine."
Stella's secret training with Ivan served two purposes: She got to do what Mom and Dad didn't want her to, even though she felt it was her destiny deep within her heart, and it got her closer to getting a job as a performer and earning some money to buy a car. I know all this because Stella finally admitted her secret to me one night because she was desperate for me to rub her shoulder and right arm. It was cramping, she said, from overuse, and she needed a massage.
I was excited. I was someone my sister trusted. I was complicit. I never thought that it could be dangerous.
My mother never talked about the times she fell.
Ivan Mennahoff was a frustrated gym teacher. He, too, had been in the circus once, and my mother knew him from friends of friends, and he'd even come to our house once for dinner, although he didn't come back. He was a dark man who drank lots of Jack Daniel's. I don't think my parents ever asked him to dinner again. But he offered private lessons for gymnastics and acrobats and trapezing and tightrope walking. Of course he would take on Stella. She was a natural. And it had been so long since he had a student worth teaching. That's what he told Stella, and she told me. She was pretty sure that Ivan knew the signed parental consent form she'd given him was a fake.
Stella's performance debut was the 6th of April as part of the college's talent show for family weekend. She told our parents she was reading an English essay at the show. Once they were there, she said, she would surprise them with her act and they would see how good she was on the wire and have to let her continue.
The day of the show, I was fidgety.
"What is wrong? Ants in the pants?" my mom said. We were loading ourselves into the car to go to the gymnasium at the college. Dad had dropped Stella off hours before so she could "practice her essay." But I knew she went early because she needed to change into her sequined leotard and warm up her muscles.
I was complicit.
It took my dad a few minutes to figure out what was going on when we walked into the gym, but Mom knew right away. She took one look around and led us to the very front row of the bleachers, closest to the high wire. She was very quiet and said, just once, as she sat, "Oh, Stella."
She was the second act to go on. Stella entered that gym like a kaleidoscope turning. The lights dimmed, and she climbed the ladder to the top of the tightrope. My dad said, "Can we stop her?" but my mother shook her head "no."
There was no music. No sound from the audience. The announcer simply said her name, and Stella stepped out onto the wire.
Seated next to me, my mother tensed up as if someone had stuck a pin in her arm. Ivan stood on the ground at the end of the wire, farthest from where Stella began.
Stella's posture as she walked was impeccable. My dad held his breath.
Stella was halfway across the rope when my mother stood.
"She will fall," she said.
I don't know if it was the way that Stella hesitated, only a second, when she reached the middle of the rope. Or if it was how her shoulders were hunched just a bit as she continued her walk. But somehow Mom knew.
Stella would fall.
I could take my eyes off my sister only for a few seconds at a time to watch my mother move quietly out onto the floor of the gymnasium. I could see she was trying to be invisible, her movements as fluid as a ballerina's. No one from the audience noticed her but me and my dad. He was rooted to his seat, his hand pressing too hard down on my left knee.
Stella would not be able to see our mom out on the gym floor from where she stood on the wire. The gym was too dark, the spotlight nearly blinding her.
And Stella fell.
She didn't scream. She made just a slight noise, an "Oh" noise, the noise that you make when someone startles you from behind, but then you turn quickly enough to see that you know them and your scream is stifled.
The audience gasped.
My mother was right there.
My mother, with her trapeze muscles that stuck around, caught Stella.
The weight of the impact barely bent her knees.
Stella lay across my mother's arms like a wet child pulled from the water.
When Ivan, running to where my mother stood, finally reached them, my mother held Stella out to him and he took her. My mother said something to him, before she sank to the floor, but I couldn't hear what it was.
My parents were never really angry with Ivan because, as they saw it, it was not him who hid Stella's training from them. "But he didn't use a net!" I heard my dad hiss to my mother once, but she shushed him and said, "Neither did I." And after six months of being grounded, Stella was allowed to go back to training with Ivan. It was my mother who talked my father into this.
On Stella's first day back, Dad stood in the gym next to my mother, in front of Ivan, and demanded that they use a net every time Stella was on the wire. My mother shrugged. In the car on the way home, I sat in the back seat, and my mother said to my father, "You know that they won't use the net every time," and Dad said, "I know."
While Stella was grounded, we talked a lot because she was stuck at home and she was bored. She told me about how it felt to be on a tightrope, and how she had just been learning to fly on the trapeze. She liked the trapeze better than the rope, but it was harder. I asked her if she remembered her fall. She did. I asked her what it was like when she was falling. "It was like being on the trapeze," she said, which is why she hadn't screamed.
"And when Mom caught you?" I said. "When Ivan came over? What did she say to him?" I imagined it was something angry. Profane, even.
"She said 'my life was on that wire.'"
I groaned.
"No, Carl." Stella sighed. "She meant me." Then Stella touched me on the face, and went to the window and was quiet.
I'm not sure what it must be like for Stella, knowing she caused Mom to give up something she loved, because that never comes up in conversation. But now, after Stella's fall, when Mom says the Wallenda quote, it occurs to me, and I think it does to Stella, too, that she says it more for us, than for her.
She wants us up on that wire. And when we are, she'll be waiting.
Originally published in the March 2010 issue of Family Circle magazine.


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Florida Firm Recalls Blue Cheese Chicken Dip Products Due to Misbranding and Undeclared Allergen
The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services received information regarding a recall of 12,560 pounds of chicken dip products because of misbranding and an undeclared allergen. The products contain anchovies, a known allergen which is not declared on the label.
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Following A Challenging 2010, Can The PGA Tour Get Out Of The Woods In 2011?
By Barry Janoff, Executive Editor
December 10, 2010: Even though the most visible golfer in the world, Tiger Woods, struggled in 2010 and did not win a tournament for the first time in his career, PGA Tour commissioner Tim Finchem not only said that he was happy with the overall performance of players and marketing support but that there were numerous dynamics in place that would make 2011 a strong year.
Although the challenges of the current economy are still a major concern, Finchem said during a media conference on Dec. 9 that six new sponsors have been added on the PGA Tour level with "seven or eight renewals and several more on the horizon. We now have over 30% of PGA Tour title sponsorships extended beyond 2012. And so we made solid progress." (Full list of corporate partners here.)
Going into 2011 the commissioner said that just two of 45 tournaments for next season lacked a corporate sponsor — the Bob Hope and The Heritage — but that all of the tournaments are "fully funded."
Among recent marketing activity, the PGA Tour signed a deal under which United Airlines would replace long-time partner Delta as the official company in the category and another signaling General Motors' return after two years off the circuit due to financial problems. Among other sponsorship activation, GM's Cadillac will be back to sponsor the World Golf Championship this March in Miami via a six-year deal under which the event is being renamed the Cadillac Championship. GM dropped its alliance not only with the event but with Woods, the Academy Awards and the Super Bowl in 2008 and 2009.
A sign of the improving times is that GM was part of World Series marketing when it unveiled a Chevrolet campaign during the Fox telecasts featuring the San Francisco Giants and Texas Rangers, and also will be part of Super Bowl XVL in February, also on Fox.
"We are partnering with a company that has demonstrated, over a long, long period of time, a tremendous knowledge for marketing," Finchem said at the end of November regarding the automaker, which had previously been aligned with the PGA Tour for 50 years. "The problems that befell this company were not about selling cars. Cadillac is a brand that has always been strong. It is getting stronger now and to be a part of that upswing is a great opportunity for us."
Regarding Woods' situation, Finchem spun some positive aspects out of the fact that the man who lost his world No. 1 ranking had not been playing up to par.
"We like the way virtually all of our partners are trying to get the story lines out about players," said Finchem during the media conference on Dec. 9. "[That's] tougher to do when Tiger is playing really well, because he does eat up a lot of the interest and time. But in this last year when he didn't play early in the year and then in '08, it opened up the opportunity to get some of these other stories told, which is important to our future."
Finchem said he foresees a stronger Woods playing in 2011 but could not predict where and how often he would compete. "I'd ask you to ask Tiger that. I do have a feeling that in a sense from talking to a wide range of players that there's going to be . . . an extensive effort by players to shake up their schedule a little bit. I don't want to characterize any one particular player, but I think you're going to see that pretty much across the board.
"With Tiger, you know, Tiger has not had a lot of movement in his schedule for about ten years. But his overall presence as a player who is chasing big records and a perennial No. 1 player, now No. 2, is that he increases interest across the board in the sport, whether he's playing or not, actually. And that's a positive thing."
Finchem addressed the ratings of PGA Tour events on TV in 2010 and how other sports contributed to soft ratings. "I think that it is appealing on television. I think that the challenges we have are promoting what we have effectively. And we have had more challenges this past year on what's up against us than we have had in a while: The Winter Olympics performed significantly higher than anybody would have anticipated, and that hurt us three weeks early in the year, three weekends . . . In the first quarter, the NFL ratings were at an all-time high. That hurt us. And we have had four or five other instances later in the season where there were just uniquely popular programming up against us."
Looking forward, Finchem said "that would not necessarily play out again this year. I don't think it's at all a function of the quality of the telecast.All three of our partners have done a much better job as the years have gone by, and I think they have got it down. I think if you want to watch golf, they do a great job. We particularly like the technological aspect, the high-tech aspects that have been added the last three or four years.
"So we like the way that our television partners focused on that," Finchem continued. "I think we have to do a better job of bringing it home to our overall fan base, which is over 100 million people [who] pay attention to golf on television on a regular basis. We have got to reach them with some compelling stories, and that's what we are really focused on."
"[Tiger Woods] increases interest across the board in the sport, whether he's playing or not, actually. And that's a positive thing."
According to Finchem, the performances of rookies and younger players "has led us to conclude that we really need to focus on that dynamic as we go into 2011. It will be our primary promotional focus to get people to pay attention to how well the veterans continue to play, and the young stars, the competition between the newer generation and the more experienced and older players. We think [this made] for good theater this year, and we are excited about that development."
Finchem specifically singled out such young players as PGA Tour Rookie of the Year Rickie Fowler and Dustin Johnson, as well as FedExCup winner Jim Furyk, Bernhard Langer (Charles Schwab Cup champion) and Jamie Lovemark (Nationwide Tour Player of the Year) as proof that it was not only Woods and Phil Mickelson who garnered the fan, media and marketing attention. "I've never in my tenure seen so much buzz and interest about rookies and young players creating exciting performances," Finchem said.
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The ADDF held its 4th Annual Fall Luncheon & Symposium: Hope on the Horizon: New Drugs for Alzheimer's Disease at The Pierre in New York City on September 17, 2013. The luncheon raised more than $759,000 for Alzheimer's drug research and related programs.
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Grover Glenn Norquist (born October 19, 1956) is president of a taxpayer advocacy group, Americans for Tax Reform. He has been described as "the driving force in pushing the Republican Party toward an ever-more rigid position of opposing any tax increase, of any kind, at any time."
Norquist grew up in Weston, Massachusetts, the son of Carol (Lutz) and Warren Elliott Norquist. He attended Weston High School. His father served as vice president of Polaroid Corporation. He became involved with politics at an early age and in his early teenage years Norquist volunteered for the 1968 Nixon campaign, assisting with get out the vote efforts. He enrolled at Harvard University in 1974, where he would obtain both a BA and MBA. While in school, Norquist was an editor at the Harvard Crimson and helped to publish the libertarian-leaning Harvard Chronicle. Norquist has said: "When I became 21, I decided that nobody learned anything about politics after the age of 21." He attended the Leadership Institute in Arlington, Virginia, an organization that teaches conservative Americans how to influence public policy through activism and leadership.
Norquist is best known for founding Americans for Tax Reform in 1985, which he did at the request of President Ronald Reagan. The primary policy goal of Americans for Tax Reform is to reduce the percentage of the GDP consumed by the federal government. ATR states that it "opposes all tax increases as a matter of principle." Americans for Tax Reform seeks to curtail government spending by supporting Taxpayer Bill of Rights (TABOR) legislation and transparency initiatives, and opposing cap-and-trade legislation and Democratic efforts to overhaul health care.