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Harvard Public Health Review
Spring 2006
Health Policy
Show Her the Money
How do you control costs and insure more Americans when the health care system is headed for a meltdown? Ask Nancy Kane.
Nancy Kane learned a hard lesson about the high cost of having no health insurance long ago when, while training as a physical therapist, she grew close to a 17-year-old motorcycle crash victim, helping him adjust to life as a paraplegic. Over the course of the summer, the boy learned to pull himself upright, shift his numbed body from the bed to the wheelchair, and walk, aided by crutches and heavy braces. But within weeks of his return home, Kane heard from a colleague that he was dead. Despondent over burdening his uninsured family with bills for his care, he shot himself.
"It was an early education that finance and health care were directly related: If my patients didn't have insurance, it didn't matter what I did for them," says Kane, who was not much older than her patient back then, in 1971. "It didn't take me long to see that the system was really screwed up."
Kane, professor of health management in the Department of Health Policy and Management, has spent her career worrying about people who aren't getting care or are going broke paying for it. As a professor of management at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), she's using her knowledge of finance (she earned a doctorate in business administration from Harvard in 1980) to force greater financial and charitable accountability from the health system and get health care to more Americans. Recently she's been helping the state of Maine extend health coverage to more low-income families. And as the newest member of the independent, 17-member Medicare Payment Advisory Commission--MedPAC--she advises Congress on how to keep Medicare, the federal health insurance program for retirees, from going bankrupt. Like the Arctic ice cap in an age of global warming, Kane says, Medicare is "melting toward catastrophe."
"Medicare is like an old car that we've been tinkering with--tightening this nut, replacing that radiator hose. But there's this huge crater down the road. People worry about Social Security, but the Medicare Trust Fund is in much worse shape," she says, referring to the pot of funds created with a payroll tax first levied in 1966, the year Medicare was founded.
Using hard numbers gleaned from her financial analyses, Kane works to make health care more equitable, and its institutions more responsive to society's needs. Moreover, she teaches people who aren't accountants--not just HSPH students, but also political leaders, policy makers, and community advocates for the poor, elderly, and disabled--to understand the language of finance, so they can ask smart questions and push for reforms. Is that hospital providing charity care, or avoiding it? Short of cash, or just crying poor?
Because hospitals gobble 30 cents of every health-care dollar spent, they are often the subject of Kane's scrutiny.
"When a hospital claims it doesn't have enough money to take care of poor people, that's when I get mad," says the curly-haired, kinetic Kane, who jokes that she's persona non grata in emergency rooms far and wide. But colleagues say this penny-wise gadfly commands respect for her integrity, her blunt honesty, and her track record in reshaping health policy and legislation.
Swallowing 13 percent of the federal budget, Medicare is a budget buster.The federal health insurance program for people age 65-plus and the disabled pays for everything from angiograms to prescription drugs to obesity surgery through a Byzantine administrative maze. In just a few years, Kane says, more money will be pouring out of Medicare than in, as more and more baby boomers retire and live into their 90s.
Can Medicare become a leader in equity, accountability, and cost control? Kane is working toward that goal as part of MedPAC, a group of experts in health care finance and administration appointed by the U.S. Comptroller General.
To Congress falls the job of shaping Medicare--deciding who is eligible, outlining the benefits, setting payments to hospitals and care providers, and establishing premiums. MedPAC's mandate is to advise Congress on issues of quality and access, as well as make recommendations regarding fees paid to health plans and providers.
MedPAC is also thinking hard about Medicare's future in what Kane calls "blue sky," closed-door brainstorming sessions. At the rate costs are rising, by 2011 Medicare will be draining 45 percent of its outlays not from payroll taxes and premiums but from general tax revenues. Under current law, the "45 percent trigger," as this doomsday turning point is known, will spark an overhaul of Medicare from top to bottom.
Benefits could shrink or take longer to get, Kane warns. "Unless we act soon, we could in theory see Congress telling 65-year-olds, 'Sorry, you're going to have to pay much higher premiums, wait longer for benefits, and pay more to use them.' Meanwhile, the under-65 working population may see a bigger chunk of their paychecks going to the Medicare Trust Fund."
In 1966, people didn't live as long as they do now. Retirees needed insurance mainly for hospitalization, and for physician services for heart attacks, strokes, or other acute illnesses. Today, lives can be prolonged with medicines and outpatient care. "So now we've got a growing chronically ill population, with a huge need for primary care, outpatient disease management, and prescription drugs," Kane says.
To modernize Medicare, the Bush administration introduced coverage this year for prescription drugs, a much-needed but costly benefit. To control Medicare spending, in February the president proposed cuts for 2007 in fees to nursing homes, hospitals, home-health agencies, and other providers totaling roughly $30 billion, in accordance with MedPAC's recommendations. But what news reports didn't mention, Kane says, is that those savings will be erased so long as Congress keeps delaying cuts in physicians' fees that are currently required by law.
Congress is in a pickle, Kane says. Without cuts in doctors' fees, Medicare spending will balloon. Yet the threat of those planned cuts--coupled with a relative decline in the incomes of physicians specializing in primary care--has caused medical students to flee that field, considered vital to managing chronic diseases.
What to do?
One option everyone's talking about, Kane says, is "pay for performance." The idea is to pay providers more if they meet certain quality standards, particularly when managing chronic diseases, such as asthma and diabetes. "When doctors submit claims to Medicare, you can require them to show that they gave appropriate diagnostic tests and achieved good results," Kane says.
Will these strategies make health care better and cheaper? That's the bet. Kane points to evidence from the Veterans Administration health system, where doctors must comply with certain treatment standards. Studies show that, for patients with chronic diseases, care delivered by the VA costs just two-thirds of what comparable care from fee-for-service providers costs.
MedPAC's members are "pretty much in agreement" on how Medicare must change, Kane says. "We need to articulate a clear plan and show a vision of how to get there. It's a matter of whether we can convince Congress to act fast enough."
In an ideal world, she says, Medicare would start keeping people healthy from birth. "We haven't had the imagination to do that yet," she says. "That would be a blue-sky idea."
Health care
for all
Up until last fall, Kane was working to help the rural state of Maine insure more working families. How? By assessing the quality and financial performance of Maine's hospitals, so that policy makers could reform their health system by distributing its wealth more evenly.
For working Americans, health insurance has long been not a right but a perk of the job. But in some parts of the country, including Maine, where the economy is based on small and mid-sized businesses, many employers can't afford to offer insurance. And when they do, many low-wage earners can't afford the premiums.
Kane got tapped to help Mainers after delivering what she laughingly calls her "If I were the Queen of Maine speech" to the Portland Chamber of Commerce. Many of Maine's far-flung hospitals, she told the group, lacked competition, and weren't nearly as efficient as they could be. When Democratic Governor John Baldacci's staff got wind of Kane's talk, they asked her to help them deliver on the promise of a 2002 law called the Dirigo Health Reform Act.
"Dirigo"--the state motto, "I lead"--is revolutionary because it asks state government, private insurers, hospitals, and employers to work together to make the health system leaner. The law asked hospitals to voluntarily curb spending and cap profits; meanwhile, insurers were expected to negotiate with hospitals for lower rates, and then funnel the dollars saved into low-cost, state-subsidized health insurance plans called DirigoChoice and MaineCare Expansion.
As of December 2005, 9,000 Mainers had signed up for these plans, which were launched initially with a one-time contribution of $53 million from the state. To help fund the plans going forward, Kane was asked to estimate savings resulting from the Dirigo legislation--and to defend her methodology, which she did before the state's Superintendent of Insurance at a closely watched public hearing last November.
"The money's there," Kane believes, to sustain the low-cost plans. The Superintendent agreed--and announced that insurers were obligated to pay $43.7 million to fuel Dirigo in 2006, a sum equal to just 2.4 percent of claims they paid in 2005. As Dirigo's low-cost health plans pick up subscribers, insurers, hospitals, and care providers alike should save money, Kane says. That's because more people will seek preventive care and pay their bills instead of relying on emergency-room visits, a high-cost, last-resort option that wastes health-system resources.
"Nothing's easy in health reform," says Dirigo's architect, Trish Riley, director of the Governor's office of Health Policy and Finance. Still, she has high hopes for Dirigo's success. As of March 31 of this year, she reports, Dirigo's health plans had served more than 16,000 subscribers. Also in March, the Dirigo initiative won national recognition as one of 50 "Top Government Innovations" for 2006 by the Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.
Maine's private insurers, the Chamber of Commerce, the Maine Hospital Association, and some self-insured businesses, however, are less impressed. They have brought suit in court to contest the savings methodology and support legislative changes to fundamentally alter the program's financing. Governor Baldacci calls Dirigo a "work in progress." In one scenario now under consideration by the state legislature, Dirigo's health plan subscribers would forge an alliance with enough purchasing power to become self-insured.
"Everyone wants health care, but nobody
wants to pay for it," Kane says, reflecting on Dirigo's uphill climb. "The
health care crisis isn't just about money; it's about values. What kind
of society do we want to be?"
The meaning of charity
Kane is always peering through the lens of social values, even when reviewing reams of hospital balance sheets. Consider her research on nonprofit hospitals. These institutions, which make up 61 percent of hospitals, are supposed to serve the public and act charitably; that's why they're tax-exempt, after all. Yet too many act like cut-throat businesses. "When the economy flags and emergency rooms fill with the uninsured, things can get ugly," Kane says.
In June 2005, Kane testified before Congress to the "raw, mean" lengths to which some nonprofits go to make under- and uninsured patients pay bills. "We've seen instances of unhooking patients from IVs," she says, "forcing them to put charges on credit cards, driving them into bankruptcy."
This kind of behavior has moved Kane to do some of her most high-profile work. Her career started with a bang when she helped the attorney general in Texas sue a Houston nonprofit hospital for denying poor people care, even as it reaped profits from a gourmet restaurant and duck-hunting lodge. The state passed a law requiring nonprofits to raise their charitable standards, Kane says, and today it "still has the highest standards of all 50 states'."
But it was in 1993 that Kane earned a national reputation for taking nonprofits to task. Back then, Boston's commissioner of health and hospitals was urging the city's elite teaching hospitals to do more for disadvantaged patients. Citing the costs of training doctors and doing research, the hospitals' CEOs declined. Having heard them say "'We can't afford to give free care'" too often, the commissioner, Judith Kurland, hired Kane to inspect their bottom lines.
The "Kane Report" sparked a nationwide furor. Boston's teaching hospitals weren't poor after all, Kane showed: They had over $1.1 billion dollars in discretionary funds--represented by cash reserves, investments, parent corporations, and new facilities, many with empty beds. Just what did teaching hospitals owe their communities in exchange for foregone tax payments worth millions?
"It's just spin--smoke and mirrors, pretending they're all poor," Kane remembers, shaking her head. "Come on, be honest: You're sitting on millions in cash."
Kurland says Kane's study was "so well done, it was incontrovertible." Massachusetts' Attorney General Scott Harshbarger agreed, and asked all nonprofit hospitals to make public their charitable activities, such as prenatal care clinics and free cancer screenings, every year. Other states followed suit. Whether such reporting is voluntary, as it is in Massachusetts, or required by law, it has forced hospitals to be more public-spirited. Soon Congress may step in as well. A measure now pending in the House of Representatives would establish federal standards to force nonprofits to deliver on their community-service obligations.
With that study and others since, Kane has won new respect for community-based hospitals. In a six-state study for the Pioneer Institute for Public Policy Research, a conservative think tank, in 2004, Kane showed community hospitals to be as good or better than teaching hospitals when it comes to childbirth, appendectomies, and other routine procedures. Those data are now proving useful to companies and state agencies--including Massachusetts' Group Insurance Commission, which negotiates premiums for 250,000 state employees. The Commission recently introduced a low-cost, high-quality health-plan option that channels employees to community hospitals, which are markedly more affordable because they generally don't invest heavily in teaching, research, and highly specialized facilities.
Kane champions consumers' interests in other ways as well. Consider her work with the Department of Corporations when Blue Cross of California became a for-profit organization. After sponsoring low-cost health plans as a nonprofit for 50 years, the organization converted to for-profit status. But by law, it had to spin off the value of its cumulative tax exemptions to form a charitable foundation.
"The CEO was looking to hand over $150
million," remembers Kane, chuckling. "I was asked by the commissioner
of the Department of Corporations to come up with a real number. Ultimately,
the Department, along with Consumers Union and the state legislature, was
able to step in and say, 'No way--try $3.2 billion.' " In 1996, that
vast sum established the California HealthCare and California Endowment
foundations, two of the largest drivers of health policy research in the
United States.
Passing on expertise
"We need more Nancys" is an oft-heard appeal from health care leaders and advocates. At HSPH, Kane teaches students to decode financial statements in the public's interest. "She's imbued a whole flock of young people with her love of analysis," observes Catherine Dunham, president of the Access Project, a research and advocacy group that helps people with inadequate health insurance get access to care.
Dunham says that in 2003 she asked Kane to examine New Hampshire's tax-exempt hospitals to find out "who was in trouble, and who was only feigning heart pain." Kane enlisted several students, who, deputized as assistant state attorneys general, persuaded guarded hospital CFOs to release their financial statements. Those data are now public--as they should be, Dunham says, helping state agencies "allocate money where it's needed most."
Kane's students have penned what is perhaps the most widely read of all "Kane Reports." A Community Leader's Guide to Hospital Finance: Evaluating How a Hospital Gets and Spends its Money is a Cliff Notes-style primer, used by citizens seeking to hold hospitals accountable to their needs.
Kane's phone rings often. If it's not a grassroots group calling for her expertise, it's a state agency or a health plan CEO. Or it's a student from HSPH's Masters in Healthcare Management program, which Kane directs. This innovative two-year program helps physician-executives master the language of finance and become better managers.
Of Kane, Dunham says: "Ninety-nine percent of health finance experts are humorless, and you can't understand a word they say. To find someone who's not only willing to explain it to you but take a leadership role that's perhaps unpopular is lovely."
Former HSPH Senior Lecturer in Health Policy Nancy Turnbull, who recently was named president of the Blue Cross Blue Shield Foundation of Massachusetts, has traveled with Kane to China, Brazil, England, and Poland to study their health systems. "What makes Nancy effective and powerful," Turnbull says, "is that she shines a light into areas where others fear to tread, but that are at the heart of why systems operate as they do."
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A new study shows that more than one in three college freshmen who graduated from Alabama high schools needed remedial coursework last fall.
The State Board of Education says their numbers reveal that a high amount of high school graduates in our state are academically unprepared for college, but how to best tackle the problem remains unclear.
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Feb 16 2009
Schoolhouse Rock: All That and a Bag of Doughnuts
Are you old enough to remember Schoolhouse Rock?
If you are, you'll understand the magic.
If you aren't, there's still hope for you.
Schoolhouse Rock, in all its glory, is available on DVD.
How can I tell you how much my kids and I love Schoolhouse Rock? How often we've watched it together? How much they've learned?
Do you ever cry when you listen to something that's really creative? I do sometimes when I listen to Broadway soundtracks. They're just so perfectly written and brilliant, I'm sometimes just moved to tears.
And that's how I am when I watch Schoolhouse Rock. Yes, I'm a basketcase. But hearing a melange of catchy, clever tunes about everything from the Boston Tea Party to the Industrial Revolution, especially when I remember watching them (and learning from them) as a child, it's just too much for me to take.
And to see my own children watching them (and learning from them) too? Fugghetaboutit.
Here are some excerpts from some of my favorite numbers in Schoolhouse Rock's "Election Collection", which takes you from the founding of America up to the Industrial Revolution, and explains the three branches of government and the legislative process:
No More Kings (The Founding of America)
They knew that now they'd run their own land,
But George the Third still vowed
He'd rule them to the end.
Anything I say, do it my way now.
Anything I say, do it my way.
Don't you get to feeling independent
'Cause I'm gonna force you to obey.
He taxed their property,
He didn't give them any choice,
And back in England
He didn't give them any voice.
(That's called taxation without representation,
And it's not fair!)
But when the Colonies complained
The king said: "I don't care!"
He even has the nerve
To tax our cup of tea.
To put it kindly, King,
We really don't agree.
Gonna show you how we feel.
We're gonna dump this tea
And turn this harbor into
The Preamble
In 1787 I'm told
Our founding fathers did agree
To write a list of principles
For keepin' people free.
The U.S.A. was just startin' out.
A whole brand-new country.
And so our people spelled it out
The things that we should be.
And they put those principles down on
paper and called it the Constitution, and
it's been helping us run our country ever
since then. The first part of the
Constitution is called the preamble and tells
what those founding fathers set out to do.
We the people
In order to form a more perfect union,
Establish justice, insure domestic tranquility,
Provide for the common defense,
Promote the general welfare and
Secure the blessings of liberty
To ourselves and our posterity
Do ordain and establish this Constitution
for the United States of America.
Sufferin' Till Sufferage (Okay, so it's a little militant. But the tune is hilariously catchy.)
Now you have heard of Women's Rights,
And how we've tried to reach new heights.
If we're "all created equal"…
That's us too!
But you will proba…bly not recall
That it's not been too…too long at all.
Since we even had the right to
Cast a vote.
Well, sure, some men bowed down
and called us "Mrs." (Yeah!)
Let us hand the was out and wash the dishes, (Huh!)
But when the time rolled around to elect a president…
What did they say, Sister, (What did they say?)
They said, uh, "See ya later, alligator,
And don't forget my…my mashed potatoes
'Cause I'm going downtown to cast
my vote for president."
Oh, we were suffering until suffrage,
Not a woman here could vote,
no matter what age,
Then the nineteenth amendment struck
down the restrictive rule. (Oh yeah!)
I'm Just a Bill (Forever a favorite. Forever. It's just brilliant.)
I'm just a bill.
Yes, I'm only a bill.
And I'm sitting here on Capitol Hill.
Well, it's a long, long journey
To the capital city.
It's a long, long wait
While I'm sitting in committee,
But I know I'll be a law some day
At least I hope and pray that I will
But today I am still just a bill.
Amazon.com has a great collection of Schoolhouse Rock DVD's. The "Election Collection" is our favorite, and includes the songs I listed above plus many more.
359 Comments
Bethany Lynn On Monday, February 16 at 9:45 am
P.s. There's even a musical that been written using the School house Rock material!!! Looks like they have a kids/ junior version of the musical too- http://www.mtishows.com/show_detail.asp?showid=000190
km On Monday, February 16 at 9:46 am
What's militant about the second song? It's very tame.
km On Monday, February 16 at 9:46 am
I meant this song Sufferin' Till Sufferage
Sheila On Monday, February 16 at 9:47 am
Yep, I had to have it . . . my kids have learned a lot from it. Especially times tables!
Renee On Monday, February 16 at 9:53 am
Yes, another Schoolhouse Rock fan. I just wish they'd put out a DVD or the Time for Timer PSA's as well. Remember those? "Don't Drown Your Food" "You are What you Eat" "Hanker for a Hunka" and so forth? Some are here: http://tinyurl.com/bbxkp9
Also, how about Dr. Henry's Emergency Lessons for People? (also on the site above, but will have to search) Why don't they still have these on TV?
Cindy Z On Monday, February 16 at 9:54 am
I bought the DVD set too. We really like them!
Joelle On Monday, February 16 at 9:55 am
I still know the Preamble by heart thanks to School House Rock. It came in very handy when we were supposed to learn it in high school.
saucymomma On Monday, February 16 at 9:55 am
Everything I know I learned from School House Rock. Which totally rocks.
Kari Callin On Monday, February 16 at 9:56 am
"Conjunction Junction, what's that function?" Yes, loved and still do love, School House Rocks! :]
sarcar On Monday, February 16 at 10:00 am
You can also buy Schoolhouse Rock on Itunes & download it to your Iphone or Ipod. I did this & my daughter walks around w/ my phone watching & singing Schoolhouse Rock.
Rachel in Texas On Monday, February 16 at 10:01 am
I still use those songs to remember things…here's a flashback for ya-Picture Pages from Captain Kangaroo…I actually found the VHS tapes of these to use with son #2 for preschool-10 years ago…sigh…
mary On Monday, February 16 at 10:04 am
i looooove schoolhouse rock!! there is also an album out of famous (or not so famous) musicians covering some of the best songs.
lynn On Monday, February 16 at 10:07 am
SCHOOL HOUSE ROCK – rocks!!!!! I love the Preamble, best… in fact a few of us nuns that were young enough to remember it sang it for the sisters on the last national holiday. They enjoyed it
Southern Gal in SC On Monday, February 16 at 10:07 am
I love Schoolhouse Rock. My favorite from all of them were Conjunction Junction and Three is a Magic Number. I still sing those and my kids know them from that, too.
Valerie On Monday, February 16 at 10:08 am
LOVE Schoolhouse Rock! I can still sing the whole Preamble. It's the only way I could ever remember it! I remember taking a test in Government in high school and singing it under my breath so I could remember all the words!
ForeverFoldingLaundry On Monday, February 16 at 10:09 am
I loved those and totally remember the one about a bill!!
Patty P On Monday, February 16 at 10:09 am
I used to watch this with my kids…who are grown now. ("And no, I don't have any grandchildren", she said somewhat bitterly.)
I had no idea this was available…thanks, Ree! Maybe I'll be hopping on over to the Amazon website and order it for myself. ("And maybe someday I can share it with my grandchildren" she said somewhat hopefully.)
Lori On Monday, February 16 at 10:13 am
I grew up on Schoolhouse Rock – love it! I bought all the VHS tapes when my kids were little and the DVD when it became available.
My new lemming is the Electric Company DVDs. "Easy reader, that's my name…"
Ice Cream On Monday, February 16 at 10:15 am
I think we have all the School House Rock videos and my kids have every song memorized. That's a lot of knowledge.
Oh, and we used a SHR quote to make a Christmas gift for my daughter's teacher (you just have to scroll down to the second picture):
Lyn On Monday, February 16 at 10:17 am
Heh…drove my kiddos nuts by constantly singing 'I'm just a bill…..up on Capital Hill…." when they were little. : )
Rosemary in Colorado On Monday, February 16 at 10:17 am
Google "schoolhouse rock" and you'll find all of the videos online, too, mostly on youtube, but other places, too. We LOVE schoolhouse rock!
Toni On Monday, February 16 at 10:18 am
My dh's name is Bill. Guess what his favorite song is?:)
Amanda On Monday, February 16 at 10:20 am
There ~is~ indeed a show. I was in it a couple of years ago. (It played in your big city, Ree) Ah, good times. You can buy the videos on itunes as well.
Ali On Monday, February 16 at 10:22 am
Another great learning idea.
We're really into "Magic Schoolbus" right now, thanks to my Mom for taping them off TV for us.
(WHEN will we get cable again?!).
Sarah On Monday, February 16 at 10:25 am
There's actually a musical too! It's called Schoolhouse Rock Live and my college is doing it right now.
jessica On Monday, February 16 at 10:27 am
it's so funny that you mentioned schoolhouse rock today, because last night, i was going thru the CD's I have in my car & we listened to "The Tale of Mr Morton" or whatever it's called..:) I found this great CD @ a garage sale called "Schoolhouse Rock! Rocks"(check Amazon for a list of songs)-a collection of songs from the show redone by more popular artists. It's kinda fun if you like the show..FYI
naomi On Monday, February 16 at 10:27 am
Great. Now I'm going to be singing the preamble all day.
Our library has these. My kids enjoy them greatly. But not quite as much as I still do.
Sarah C from MS On Monday, February 16 at 10:35 am
We have this! My daughter watches it all the time :). It really helped her learn to count by 3's. ( three, six nine…twelve, fifteen, eighteen…twenty-one, twenty-four, twenty-seven…THIRTY). I love the grammar rock too!
Dana On Monday, February 16 at 10:35 am
I LOVE Schoolhouse Rock!! I bought the 30 year DVD for the kiddos and keep it in the DVD player in the car. They know all the songs. It's all part of my evil plot to make sure they KNOW stuff when they go off into the world. I've given this DVD as birthday presents, too. Back in the day, we couldn't graduate from HS unless you could recite the preamble to the constitution and SHR totally saved me! My daughter's nickname is Lolly–Lolly, Lolly, Lolly get yourb adverbs here–Quickly, quickly, quickly get your adverbs here…
Heather On Monday, February 16 at 10:39 am
Schoolhouse Rock is awesome…except for the song on Manifest Destiny, claiming that we expanded west because we needed more "elbow room." Right. My husband, a Native American, gets really mad at that claim…but he went to school to be an American history teacher and loves all of the other Schoolhouse Rock songs…go figure.
Julie On Monday, February 16 at 10:39 am
I love SHR!!! I wish they showed them in-between cartoons for our kids to see them. I bought the DVD and my daughter loves it!!
inadvertentfarmer On Monday, February 16 at 10:46 am
It seriously rocks!
I've had the I'm a bill song stuck in my head since reading your post earlier…just had to say thanks!!! Kim
Abby On Monday, February 16 at 10:49 am
One other person already mentioned it, but I second the suggestion that a similarly amazingly creative video for children from the same time period is Free To Be You and Me. I am too young to have seen it the first time around, but when I heard about I was intrigued and bought the DVD. I wish I had gotten to see it when I was growing up. It is fun but also made me cry because of how lovingly and earnestly it was done. This does not teach academic subjects; it is about how girls can do do anything a boy can do, and "parents are people" (more talk here about gender equality) and how the football legend Rosy Grier sings a beautiful song called "It's Okay to Cry". I think all of your kids would get something out of it, and you would enjoy it too.
Check it out:
Michelle On Monday, February 16 at 10:51 am
We borrowed a couple of the discs from the library. My 5 year old was unimpressed. I wanted to put him in the naughty spot for it.
Pat On Monday, February 16 at 10:55 am
I LOVE Schoolhouse Rock. They came out right when I graduated but that didn't stop me from loving them – I bought them on VHS when my son was younger. Conjunction juntion, what's your function….
Mary On Monday, February 16 at 11:00 am
I can't remember which class it was, but in one of my classes in school we had to recite the Preamble to the Constitution. We all sang it
Thunja On Monday, February 16 at 11:03 am
I always cry when I see or hear beautiful things. in nature or the in the arts.
"Lolly, Lolly ,Lolly get your adverbs here"
Steph On Monday, February 16 at 11:05 am
wish you were here, Ree, to sit at the piano with me and sing 'em all, as I do on a regular basis. My faves are Elbow Room, We the People, and Figure 8 from the math series always makes me a little weepy.
And what about Grammar Rock?!?! Brilliant stuff. Did you know that Schoolhouse Rock had a stage show that toured for awhile? Sigh….
You're the best, Ree!
Stephanie On Monday, February 16 at 11:06 am
Love love love School House Rock! I was actually in the production we did at our university… Interplanet Janet was my big solo
Charmion On Monday, February 16 at 11:12 am
Yes I always liked these one day I was telling my kids about them so I went to you tube and showed them and then we bought them
Amanda On Monday, February 16 at 11:13 am
When I took the AP history test in High School, one of the questions was: write the preamble to the constitution. I could tell when each and every person got to that question . . . we all started humming the Pramble song! Ahh, good times.
ChristineK On Monday, February 16 at 11:14 am
I find myself singing the Schoolhouse Rock songs as we work on grammar and writing – as well as any other time of day. The ones I sing the most are Conjunction Junction and the Lolly-Lolly adverbs song. My daughter isn't nearly as enamoured of them as I am, but I caught her singing the Figure 8 song while she was doing her math this morning.
Kendahl On Monday, February 16 at 11:15 am
Oh how I love School House Rock! I had to memorize the preamble for an American History class in high school and it would have never been possible without SHR. "I'm just a bill" is the best, hands down.
christina On Monday, February 16 at 11:15 am
ok, so we have had the DVD's for a while now, and the VHS before that, but WHERE did you find the lyrics? I have GOT to have the LYRICS…..
Denise in Seattle On Monday, February 16 at 11:30 am
3, 6, 9… 12, 15, 18… 21, 24, 27… 30
Denise in Seattle On Monday, February 16 at 11:30 am
And you can find a lot of them on You-tube.
Julie On Monday, February 16 at 11:32 am
Ok, I loved Schoolhouse Rocks as a kid. And even though when I homeschooled my kids, they didn't have them on Video, (no DVD's then!) I taught them anyway.
They're generally set apart from a sentence by an exclamation point,
Or by a comma when the feeling's not a strong!! So if you're happy (hurray!) or sad (awww) or excited, or mad……..an interjection starts the sentence right!
More on song memorization lyrics: you HAVE to check out The Animaniacs Nifty Fifty State Capitols, Nations of the World, and parts of the brain. Those are fun and cool and make memorizing boring facts fun. They have a muliplicaiton tables song too!
Heathahlee On Monday, February 16 at 11:34 am
I did NOT know they were on dvd! We've just been looking them up on YouTube as we've needed them. We just memorized The Preamble a couple of weeks ago…I couldn't get that tune out of my head for days. =)
Cher On Monday, February 16 at 11:34 am
No rabbit in the header? hmmmmmmmm?
Carolyn On Monday, February 16 at 11:36 am
School House Rock was a part of the Commander Tom Show that was out of Buffalo, NY in the 70's. I grew up in Toronto and we caught it on channel 29…we knew every word to every song. It was a running joke that we knew much more about the American system of government than our own!
While on vacation in Myrtle Beach last fall I found a 30th anniversary edition which includes every song ever created (46 in all) plus has a geat bonus features disc. My kids (11 and 9) watched it during the entire 16 hour drive home. The song "Interjections!" routinely runs through my head.
What great memories it brings back!
Rhonda in Oklahoma On Monday, February 16 at 11:40 am
I liked these as a kid, and also the grammar ones. Something about an exclamation point and a kid getting a shot at the dr.'s? LOL!
Kristina On Monday, February 16 at 11:40 am
You can also find a lot of their videos on You Tube. We all love them. AND, our local theatre is doing a School House Rock musical. Yay!
Alyson On Monday, February 16 at 11:47 am
I LOVED Schoolhouse Rock! I wish I could get these for my kids – I'll have to check out the free ones on youtube for now.
Kim On Monday, February 16 at 11:48 am
We love School House Rock! In fact, we have listened to our CD so many times it is in pretty bad shape. Time to get new ones!
Julie On Monday, February 16 at 11:48 am
This is to the Animaniacs Presidents song. Only go thru Bill and Hill but it's got promise.
Kim On Monday, February 16 at 11:49 am
I was realizing that we have the DVD and a CD. All of these letters are confusing!
Wynnster On Monday, February 16 at 11:55 am
I LIVE for Schoolhouse Rock!! I bought the complete collection on DVD YEARS before I had a kid. In fact, No More Kings is the ring tone on my cell phone right now. Yes I know I am a dork.
lomagirl On Monday, February 16 at 11:58 am
Youtube has a lot of them, too. I use Grammar rock in my ESOL grammar classes.
lyndsay On Monday, February 16 at 11:59 am
I loved school house rock growing up. My school did it throughout grade school. I remember the conjuction junction. What a timeless learning tool.
Kelly in Cali On Monday, February 16 at 12:02 pm
Thanks for this post! LOVE Schoolhouse Rock! I remember all these from my childhood. Didn't realize they're on DVD. Will definitely order some for my girl. I think Amazon will see an uptick in sales thanks to you, PW! (a la Oprah…)
Tracey C. On Monday, February 16 at 12:07 pm
Schoolhouse Rocks….well ROCKS!!! I totally grew up watching these little tunes in between Sat morning cartoons. I'm just a bill…conjunction junction…we have a CD with some re-makes of the songs by more 'contemporary' artists, but not NREALY as good as the real deal. Will have to find this and add it to my collection!!
michele Pew On Monday, February 16 at 12:08 pm
I just love love Schoolhouse Rock. They just don't make them like that anymore. Bill on Capitol Hill is my fav!
Molly On Monday, February 16 at 12:12 pm
Oh, I LOVED Schoolhouse Rock…it's now when I don't have kids and don't get to buy this stuff that I'm feeling like I'm missing a shopping opportunity. Then I remember the 6 nieces and nephews and whip out my credit card…
Laura On Monday, February 16 at 12:16 pm
Schoolhouse Rock is one of the reasons the older generation is so much smarter than the younger generation. Plus we're made of tougher stuff because we didn't have The Internet.
SoCalLynn On Monday, February 16 at 12:18 pm
Schoolhouse Rock is one of the first things I bought when I started homeschooling 2 1/2 years ago. I was surprised at how many lyrics I could still remember!
Ellen F. On Monday, February 16 at 12:18 pm
I love those! I still know most of the Preamble because of the song…Good times.
dana On Monday, February 16 at 12:23 pm
the world would be a sad sad place without Schoolhouse Rock! Zero, You're my HERO!!!!
Lauri On Monday, February 16 at 12:24 pm
OMG!! I LOVE Schoolhouse Rock! It brings back so many memories of watching cartoons on Saturday morning and those playing during the breaks! I bought the 30th anniversary DVD several years ago, and got my kids up to speed on multiplication with it. My oldest son had a constitution test in his 8th grade social studies class last month, and we played the preamble song for several days so he could memorize it. He totally aced the test!! And I've been known to do housework with it on "play the whole enchilada" – those songs gets me moving and grooving!!
And am I the only one who just loves Mr Morton, and get so happy when he and Pearl (and the cat) get together at the end of the song? Yep, I'm pretty pathetic!
Dee Thompson On Monday, February 16 at 12:35 pm
I LOVED Schoolhouse Rock as a kid! I showed some of the Schoolhouse Rock films to my daughter and she was totally bored. I have hopes for my 12 year old son, though…
BTW, we got the game Rush Hour and my kids are now toally obsessed with it! Fabulous suggestion. Thanks!
Emily On Monday, February 16 at 12:36 pm
We LOVE Schoolhouse Rocks! My boys are 6 and 8 and it's one of their favorites to watch. So much fun for rainy/lazy days.
I love how DVDs let you share things from your childhood with your children.
Renee On Monday, February 16 at 12:45 pm
You are freaking me out!! I LOVED Schoolhouse Rock when I was a kid! My kids learned the Preamble from Schoolhouse Rock..
Emily On Monday, February 16 at 12:50 pm
The one I remember besides The Bill is when they're singing about nouns. "A noun is… a person, place or thing." I loved that show when I was younger. Why are most all the current cartoons dumb?
Tanya B On Monday, February 16 at 12:56 pm
My mom and I still sing "I'm Just Bill" and "Conjuction Junction." Love School House Rock, TV today does not compare. Besides a lot of kids' TV programs freaks me out.
Talon On Monday, February 16 at 1:01 pm
My daughter got the complete School House Rock DVD collection a couple of Christmases ago from her Uncle Ian…who is a professer at Southern Illinois University. It has been the single BIGGEST help in our homeschooling, I swear. Not only do her father and I love it, but SHE loves it.
When we began to teach her math…starting when she began counting and recgonizing shapes (before her second birthday) we've always pushed the reasons WHY math works. I had the times tables memorized faster than anyone in my class. But I didn't understand them. Ripley understands multiplication as being a shortcut for addition. And how it relates to fractions and division. I didn't figure that out until it was FAR too late and I was failing Algebra 1!! (Don't worry…we have other math geniuses in the family to teach her advanced maths).
School House Rock is perfect for the way Ripley learns. She has a spectrum disorder; and part of it manifested in echolalia (it's a normal part of child development, except in cases like my daughter's. Even today at age nine sometimes we still have to remind her that we want to hear HER words.) In response to questions she didn't want to answer, she would change the subject and recite verbatim something she had read or watched. I had to work very hard with her on this, and it pays off. On the PLUS side of this, she takes in and retains things much faster and easier than many kids her age. And she retains them and goes over them and over until she UNDERSTANDS them. School House Rock makes that even easier by the rhyming and songs. Visually and auditorally it helps teach her exactly the way she retains things the best. Still using the times tables example, she can SEE the groups of objects being added up, or the numbers themselves as they sing and explain how each set works, and short cuts and…well…it isn't often that you spotlight a homeschool resource I already have and use…I'm just so darned happy to see it!!!
Jennifer On Monday, February 16 at 1:04 pm
When I was in the 9th grade we all had to stand up in front of the class and recite the Preamble. But, none of us could do it without singing it to the tune learned from Schoolhouse Rock. The problem was there were some really bad singers! Why can't Saturday morning cartoons be like this again?
Jenn On Monday, February 16 at 1:07 pm
I loved these….I spent about 2 hours one night on youtube watching them ~ what memories! Saturday morning cartoons and Schoolhouse Rock. Thanks!
Carmen On Monday, February 16 at 1:08 pm
I love Schoolhouse Rock. I still sing the preamble just for kicks. My kids love the Election Set too, My four year old was very excited to watch the Inauguration and kept saying, "look! It's Capital Hill!" I doubt he would have known that without Schoolhouse Rock.
Talon On Monday, February 16 at 1:08 pm
Oh, btw Ree…I'm coming to visit. I want to watch Ripley's face when she gets a whiff of manure for the first real time. *sighs* Some things she misses out as a city girl…on the other hand today we're cleaning the gecko cage, and her birthday party this Sunday will include exotic animals from all over the world. And she'll get to show off to all her friends. Best. BIrthday Party EVER. (It's being given to her free of charge by our local privately owned pet store. She's been "working" in the Reptile and exotics room since she was four and even has her own staff shirt. They do birthday parties…but for Ripley, she gets one after hours, and they're pulling out all the stops…and they refuse to charge us for it. Her "uncle" Jay is co-manager of the reptile room, and they are thick as thieves. People STILL think she's his daughter; I was his wife's doula for the birth of their child, and Ripley was present for the birth too. Jay carries the picture in his wallet of Ripley and Jay…and Jay's new baby Willow just moments after she was born.
Cynthia On Monday, February 16 at 1:11 pm
I love School House Rock! I'm Just a Bill is my favorite. I think it's everyone's favorite (everyone I know that knows SHR).
Cynthia On Monday, February 16 at 1:12 pm
Wait! Conjunction Junction. I love that one too!
Rebel On Monday, February 16 at 1:12 pm
We watch School House Rock everytime it's on t.v.
Megan On Monday, February 16 at 1:12 pm
I LOVE that you posted this!! Just the other day I caught myself singing the conjunction song in the shower. Do you remember it?
Conjuntion, junction, whats your function? Hooking up words and phrases and clauses!
Carrums On Monday, February 16 at 1:16 pm
Where's "vocabulary Gerre, she's a diction girl?"
Taylor On Monday, February 16 at 1:19 pm
OMG — we have these DVD's and love watching them. So fun to here your children walking around singing the songs. My daughter learned to count by 5's and 10's from these, before covering them in school.
Also, helped me win at the board game Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader?
Laura-Belle On Monday, February 16 at 1:23 pm
Oh my word. It's too cool, isn't it? I found the dvd at Target in August, and saved it for a "first day of homeschooling" surprise, among other things. It has been fun to watch my own little brood find their favorites among the many wonderful catchy tunes on that dvd. They went nuts over it. In fact, in honor of President's day today, we're going to pull it out of the closet and watch/listen to them some more. Have a great day!
sue On Monday, February 16 at 1:23 pm
We love school house rock. Our kids have learned all kinds of things, from the pre-amble to how to hook up conjunctions and make them function!
Lindsey On Monday, February 16 at 1:23 pm
My favorite has always been "Interplanet Janet". I am going to have to own those one day, for sure.
Elaine H On Monday, February 16 at 1:24 pm
Both hubby and I grew up w/School House Rock and we love it. I need to buy those DVDs, I did find the Election one at Sam's Club in the fall, so that my kids can enjoy them with me. If I don't tell them it is part of their school work maybe they'll actually learn something!
Paul Metz On Monday, February 16 at 1:27 pm
I still can't recite the preamble to the constitution without singing it!
Julie M. On Monday, February 16 at 1:29 pm
Heck yeah! I've got this one and the Multiplication Rock one….Figure 8 was always such an ethereal little tune….and when I was pregnant with my first I swear "Three's A Magic Number" made me cry…. when the line "A man and a woman had a little baby….yes they did….they had three….they had three-eee in the family….and that's a magic number." came on I was a goner. (and that's the psychotic truth. Can you *handle* the psychotic truth?)
Frisbies Forever On Monday, February 16 at 1:31 pm
I love that video too! We got just around a year ago at Amazon and all my kids have been learning it too and it is quickly becoming one of their favorites for memorizing important facts.
JuliaGulia On Monday, February 16 at 1:33 pm
I'm SO glad you posted on this!!! I was born in 1982, so a little behind the School House Rock heyday (just a little)…but the MINUTE I saw this DVD at Target I bought that sucker right up. My kids totally dig it…and It is inevitable to get them stuck in your head! My fav? Three is the Magic Number.
If you LOVE School House Rock, and you want a modern take on the songs…check out the CD School House Rock Rocks. It came out in the '90s, and has bands like Blind Melon doing covers of the most popular songs.
And yeah…when you said "Do you ever cry when you listen to something that's really creative? I do sometimes when I listen to Broadway soundtracks. They're just so perfectly written and brilliant, I'm sometimes just moved to tears." I'm TOTALLY with you there. And not just music…but even brilliantly acted scenes in movies/tv…any of that.
LIz On Monday, February 16 at 1:34 pm
Oh, the memories! We just recently pulled out the DVD for our kids. They went nuts. We are all still singing..Lolly, Lolly, get your adverbs here…
DonnaE On Monday, February 16 at 1:40 pm
We sang the 3 song today doing our multiplication facts…….
And my all- time favorite is Conjunction junction, what's your function?
Angela On Monday, February 16 at 1:42 pm
I am a middle school chorus teacher, and we did a stage version of School House Rock with all the delightful songs… my kids loved it, and so did their parents!!
Married to an Aussie in OK On Monday, February 16 at 1:48 pm
Ohhhh me wanty! I do believe "Schoolhouse Rock" will now be placed on the "must have" list for next fall. DH is going to wonder why this list never seems to end…
Angela On Monday, February 16 at 1:53 pm
I'm just a bill is by far my favorite. I'll have to get some of these for my daughter.
Carolyn On Monday, February 16 at 1:53 pm
Ahhh yes, the delightful goodness that is School House Rock. I too loved School House Rock as a kid. I bought the Top 20 video years ago even though I didn't have kids (and still don't). It's hard to pick a favorite song when there are so many to choose from. But, I enjoy the "So I unpacked my adjectives" one and the one about punctuation with the line "or by comma when the feelings not as strong." Of course I'm just a Bill and Conjunction Junction are high on my list as well. See I told you it was hard to pick a favorite. Thanks PW for the trip down memory lane.
Amiyrah On Monday, February 16 at 1:54 pm
*gasp* I just had to come over here and comment! I usually run to the cooking section first, but I LOVE school house rock! I swear, this was the way I ended up in the 3rd grade math class when I was in first grade. My mom would let me watch school house rock whenever it came on and I would love the math songs. I'd sing them all the time and start doing math problems just for fun.
I know, I was a geek at an early age….
lily On Monday, February 16 at 1:59 pm
I loved Schoolhouse Rock! We have the DVDs and they are still relevant.
And on CBS, Christopher Glenn's In The News was so awesome. He never talked down to the kids, and his voice was so wonderful and reassuring. I loved that voice.


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I don't understand how KCAL 9 in Los Angeles was allowed to broadcast this game and not KGW in Portland. I thought part of what was being fought for in the lockout was the survival of the small market teams. Also, if TBS and truTV weren't available to broadcast the game until the early game was finished...then why not NBA TV? NBA TV is produced by Turner and they were only showing a 20-year-old classic replay at that time...
I thought TNT had exclusive rights... BUT the game was televised in Los Angeles on KCAL. So why couldn't it be televised in Portland by KGW or CSNNW?
Please post the invoices from Cal and LSU as was previously done on this site for Oregon. We need to see the whole story, not just hear it. Regarding Cal, the words "nearly identical" were used, so I would like to see what's different. Especially since Lyles has stated elsewhere that he only provided Cal a Texas package.
It would appear that a majority of these players went the JUCO route, which is a part of the package the Ducks purchased from Lyles, which would explain 2009. As far as the players that went to other D1 schools, it could simply be a case of the purchasing Lyle's complete package (everything he had since striking out on his own).
Comcast sticking it to Comcast. That says it all...
Not only are athletes getting a full ride, they are getting top-notch coaching. The "athletes being exploited" argument is crap. Most universities athletic departments are in the red.
Glad to see someone fixed it...
That is the worst edited article I've ever seen. There are over 50 errors!
The other CSN RSN's are available on Dish and DirecTV because they are part-owned by the franchises and they obviously want wide distribution. The Blazers are the only CSN franchise that wasn't smart enough to buy a percentage of the network, therefore, giving up any legal say in the matter. Philadelphia is a whole different matter, but that is currently being sorted out with the FCC.
Knowing how the city of Portland functions it was obvious that the Beavers were to be no more once the relocation decision was made. The rest is just window dressing to give the appearance that an effort was being made. It's sad seeing all the partisan bickering here (a sign of the times) as I feel both teams could be successful in the city. But if a new stadium was to be built for the Beavers, it needs to be expandable to a major league park, something the earlier MC proposal wasn't. Portland continues to be a small-time sports market due to its lack of vision and commitment.
Newamerica, you obviously don't understand the system or the going rate for RSN's. Directv would love to have this station, buy they're not going to pay over twice the going rate of the other 50+ RSN's they carry for a multitude of reasons. Don't you find it strange that they carry virtually every other significant RSN?
Comcast is using this channel to drive people to its cable service where available. They are hoping that those outside of its service area will cave and overpay to get this network, and are forcing those that do to offer it to all customers, not just those in a certain tier. It's a brilliant scam on their part, but the Blazers should have never gave them the power to do this. No other teams have a bad TV deal like this that gives all the power to the provider.
Had the Blazers sold its broadcast rights to a RSN that isn't owned by a cable/satellite company (Fox Sports for example), the goal of that RSN would be to sell the channel to all cable and satellite companies to maximize profits. In the case of Comcast, if they force you to buy its cable service for $75-125 a month, that beats selling the channel to another provider for $1 per customer (fair market value), per month. The Blazers should have kept 51% control of the network, or had better leverage written into its contract. It's just baffling they signed a deal that would screw them for the next decade, regardless of what it paid. It's no accident that virtually all of Allen's businesses are epic failures. Oh, and the cable co. he owns (Charter) doesn't even carry CSN NW. Brilliant!
The Blazers still have seven more years on this horrible contract, perhaps the worst of its scope ever signed. That means a whole generation of kids will miss out on Blazers games (for the first time in the 40-year history) and very likely be following other teams, like the Lakers, that are on TV more. They will pass this on to their kids, etc. So after a decade of not being on TV in several markets, or on satellite in the region, the Blazers will have lost a large chunk of its fan base. The lack of branding hasn't even kicked in yet. Why anyone would sign a 10-year contract in a time where technology is changing by the minute is beyond comprehension. I doubt the Blazers have a legal leg to stand on so let's meet back for the 2016-2017 season and see how harmful this deal was to the franchise and its fan base.
You know what they say about people that criticize other people's gifts...
The no. 2 pick was a default pick. If Durant went no. 1 then Oden would have gone no. 2. All of the pressure was on the franchise with the no. 1 pick. All of the credit or scrutiny was going to be on the franchise with the no. 1 pick. Having the no. 2 pick was the easy gig with no pressure.
Looks like most of the people commenting on this hire wouldn't qualify to work at 7-Eleven.
If the Civil War was at Oregon and the only tickets available were Club-level seats for $350, you can bet the price would be factored into the equation.
gilman...CSN NW is owned 100% by Comcast. The other CSN RSN's are partially owned by the teams in its markets so they have a say in negotiations. Only Allen's business people would be dumb enough to partner with a network and give them all the power (for a decade, no less). Only seven more years to go before the contract expires. This era will be over at that point and who knows what kind of team the Blazers will be in 2017-18.
Bust pledges to help USC fight the NCAA sanctions, yet he and his family stonewalled the investigation by not cooperating. Plus everybody knows how much he owed his college agent since he stiffed the guy when he was drafted and was sued. Even if he decided to go in a different direction, he could have at least paid back the money that he was forwarded by said agent. Bush is not a man of honor on many levels and he can do nothing to help USC at this point, so it's just all spin to make it look like he's a good guy.
It looks like it's going to be:
Oregon State
Washington State
Look for the Pac-12 to break its conference up into two divisions using the "zipper" scheme (split down regional rivals) so all states stay in play on a yearly basis.


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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – University of New Mexico junior golfer Victor Perez has moved up to 10th in the Team Europe standings in the latest Palmer Cup rankings released Wednesday.
Perez, who tied for 12th at the Lone Star Invitational in San Antonio, Texas, on March 24-25, was 19th in the initial rankings and moved up to 14th in the second poll on March 19. The rankings are the next-to-last set before the teams are announced on April 17.
The top six golfers in the final ranking from both the United States and Europe shall be among the 10 individuals selected to compete in the Palmer Cup at Walton Heath Golf Club June 26-28.
Using Golfstat's NCAA Player Ranking as a base, the Palmer Cup Ranking awards bonus points for wins and high finishes and a negative bonus for poor finishes. The ranking also contains a strength of schedule component.
For the United States, the remaining four players will be selected using three committee picks and one coaches pick. The selections by the committee may take into account a number of factors including the current college season, results in amateur events since the last Palmer Cup, match play record and performance in previous international team events. One of the US committee picks must be a non-Division I golfer.
The final four spots on Team Europe shall consist of the champion of The R&A Foundation Scholars Tournament, two committee picks and one coaches pick. European Palmer Cup Selection Committee and coaches picks will use the same criteria as their US counterparts and may select college golfers competing both in the United States and Europe.
UNM's James Erkenbeck represented the U.S. last summer in the squad's win over Team Europe.


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Virgil Williams, 77, of Krypton, died Saturday, Oct. 20 at the hospice care center in Hazard.
He was a veteran of the U.S. Navy and a retired self-employed diesel mechanic.
He was the son of the late Lonnie Williams and the late Madella Taulbee Williams, and was also precede in death by sisters Geneva Longsworth and Norma Dean Kennedy, and brothers Leonard, Darvin, and Roy Williams.
He is survived by his wife, June Williams; daughters Penelope Williams of Krypton and Charlotte Rae Williams of Krypton; sons Larry Wayne Williams of Lexington, Paul Douglas Williams of Hyden, and James Edward Williams of Krypton; brothers Edison Williams of Bonnyman; sister-in-law Joyce Baker; grandchildren Janelle, Savannah, Ashley, Larry, Brittany, and Donovan; eight great-grandchildren and a host of nieces, nephews, family, and friends.
Arrangements are being handled by Maggard Brothers Funeral Home of Hazard. The visitation will be held at the Krypton Brethren Church, where the family will receive friends after 5 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 22, with an additional service at 7 p.m. Funeral services will begin at noon on Tuesday, Oct. 23 with Rev. Jim Sluss officiating. Interment will be at Longsworth-Williams Cemetery in Krypton.
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Dear Heritage Foods USA Supporter,
We hope you enjoyed reading last week's email where we presented our marvelous new Gift Catalog. Please look to us for your gift ideas for family, friends and clients! If you would like your delivery on a future ship date or if you would like to send a free gift card with your purchase, make a note for us in the Comment Box upon checkout or call us at 718-389-0985.
Remember you save when you make the best use of our shipping tiers. Stuff you cart and pay less per pound! Our shipping tiers are as follows. If your order is between: $1 - $99 = $19, $100 - $199 = $26, $200 - $299 = $33, $300 - $399 = $38, and $400 or more = $44. Note: Some of our products have special shipping costs associated with them like our Heritage Turkeys and some of our larger Gift Packages.
So, for example, if you order a Filet of Beef - $133. Add $26 shipping. A Filet of Beef - $133 and a St Louis Rib pack - $53. Add $26 shipping. Check out our Under $50 section to stock your cart!
5 — 5lbs of salmon filets - $85
4 filets
This salmon ships FedEx overnight.
Heritage Foods USA is proud to offer wild caught salmon from The Iliamna Fish Company in Alaska. Though aquaculture has come a long way, it's very hard to identify who is growing farmed salmon, under what conditions, or how long it has been stored. Our salmon is fully traceable; we know exactly where it comes from and who is catching it. The catch is Marine Stewardship Council Certified.
From a recent Wall Street Journal article October 21st:
Frozen fish earned its bad reputation at sea. A catch pulled from the water can bake in the sun, even if on ice, often for a day or more before it sees a freezer. Fish are also seldom live bled, essential to preservation. "You have to rip off the gills as soon as you get the fish in the boat. It's gruesome, but it makes for better flesh," says Paul Greenberg, author of "Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food."
Moments past the summer solstice, Bristol Bay has long crystalline hours and mornings curled with dove-gray mist. Yearly people flock to this large marine ecosystem in southwest Alaska, swaddled in coveralls and rubber. They wait for the tide to rush in, and then, jumping aboard small boats, men and women head for the chase. The feisty quarry in this case is crimson-tinged sockeye salmon, and it's on its final run home. Christopher Nicolson has also arrived for the six-week run, along with cousins and siblings, bound together by love of the sea, fish and ritual.
Nicolson is part of the family-owned Iliamna Fish Co., catching salmon with short nets since 1948. Lately, the company has set up two CSAs (Community Supported Agriculture, a sort of hybrid farmer's market—stock market in which clients receive shares in produce) —one in Portland, Ore., the other in New York City—and delivery of their slapping-fresh fish requires freezing. Even in the face of the current locally sourced mania, Iliamna doesn't apologize for the F-word.
"Wild sockeye are just that: wild food," says Nicolson, whose native Alaskan mother raised him with a net. "If they're well frozen—and properly thawed—they're good food. If not well frozen, they're not good food."
Greenberg agrees: "The reality is, if you want wild and you want it out of season, you need to get over the fear of frozen."
Another problem common in the fish business, according to Greenberg, is that fillets are often frozen twice: first before being sent to China, where they are thawed for pin-bone removal, and then once more before they are shipped out again. Given such horrors—twice-defrosted flesh tweezed by workers earning a low wage—chefs recoil at the suggestion they try frozen fish. But "I have no problem with flash-frozen salmon," says Melissa Clark, author of "In the Kitchen with a Good Appetite," who has collaborated with everyone from Eric Ripert to Tom Colicchio. "Most sushi we get comes from frozen! Done right, the flavor can be extremely pure."
Our salmon is coming to you flash frozen, so you have the option of thawing and eating it right away, or stowing it in the freezer for a future meal. Broiled, poached, grilled, or sautéed, this is great fish at the peak of its flavor. For holidays or events, you can try curing it for gravlax, for a special treat to share at a party.
One thing we guarantee, if you love salmon, you will be back for more. There is nothing like the taste of wild caught salmon. That's a Heritage promise.
5 — 5lbs of salmon filets - $85
4 filets
This salmon ships FedEx overnight.
2010 Heritage Turkeys for Sale!
Heritage Turkey 2010 - 8-10 lbs $74
Heritage Turkey 2010 - 10.1 -12 lbs $84
Heritage Turkey 2010 - 12.1 -14 lbs $94
Heritage Turkey 2010 - 14.1 -16 lbs $104
Turkeys will arrive to you Tuesday November 23rd via FedEx Standard Overnight and your tracking number will arrive to your inbox a few days before.
Turkeys come with neck and gizzards. Calculate one pound per person.
Our Heritage Turkeys are raised by Good Shepherd Ranch in Kansas and Leaping Waters Farm in Virginia. If you would like a kosher turkey from Leaping Waters Farm, please make a note in the Comment Box upon checkout.
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Any views expressed in this article are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation.
Like many people, the reaction of the ALNAP Secretariat to the unfolding events in Japan has been, along with shock, an urge to find ways to provide help. As with any sudden-onset emergency, our immediate response was to check whether ALNAP research would be helpful to those mounting the emergency response.
For ALNAP to act in this way is established practice. We have a range of Lessons Papers and other material based on learning from our Members, and our networked structure allows us to get the appropriate information into the hands of those responding on the ground.
Most of the learning from past emergencies was from situations where the host government has been overwhelmed by the magnitude of the disaster and had requested international assistance. Looking at the material we had, and what we were hearing about the emergency, we quickly realised that much of what we had was of limited relevance. As the week has gone on it has become obvious operational agencies were also struggling with the urge to do something.
The difficulty is that the situation in Japan, although undoubtedly an immense human tragedy, is very different to the less developed country contexts in which most of us are used to operating in. Specifically:
- Japan is the world's third largest economy, and has at its disposable immense resources for response and recovery.
- Japan is one of the most advanced nations when it comes to dealing with earthquakes, and they have excellent state capacity to respond, and has not appealed for international assistance.
- The Japanese Red Cross alone has already mobilised over 100 response teams, and in total has over two million trained volunteers in the country.
In the UK, the Disaster Emergency Committee (DEC), which coordinates funding appeals across 13 major NGOs, has laid out clearly why it is not appealing for funds for its members to respond:
The collective expertise of the DEC's member agencies is primarily in responding to disasters in poorer developing countries where the kind of help required after a disaster is quite different from in a developed country. In poorer countries, infrastructure is usually weak, government agencies often have limited capacity and many people are already extremely vulnerable even before a disaster due to chronic poverty.
Some agencies are now implementing limited relief activities based on their specific expertise, for instance Save the Children and WFP appear to have small scale responses, while the Tzu Chi Foundation is also responding. Other agencies with partners in the country are mobilising resources to support them, or fundraising for their unrestricted humanitarian funds.
As the tragic events in Japan continue to unfold, with the spectre of a large-scale nuclear disaster, the focus is and should be on finding sensible and useful ways to assist Japan and its people. Beyond this however, there may be important lessons for humanitarian agencies about the need to evolve in order to keep pace with the changing contexts in which they now find themselves operating.
Firstly, recent events in Japan and elsewhere have demonstrated that the mechanisms in place to facilitate appeals for international assistance need to become more sophisticated. While there is still a fundamental difference in the ability of rich and poor countries to deal with disasters (think Japan vs. Haiti), the distinction is becoming increasing blurred in the middle. This was discussed at the 26th ALNAP Meeting in Malaysia last November, and seen as the need to move from a model of top-down 'humanitarian assistance', to a more collaborative model of 'humanitarian cooperation' where the capacities of national governments are supported and enabled to respond as effectively as possible.
Secondly, as global vulnerability shifts and grows, agencies must develop their ability to respond in a relevant and appropriate way to humanitarian needs wherever they may be. The system must invest in developing the adaptive capacity needed to remain responsive and relevant in a world of rapidly shifting risks and vulnerabilities. The DEC only last week was calling for agencies to prepare for the next 3-5 big urban disasters that will almost definitely occur over the next ten years. Work by the Humanitarian Futures Programme and others, has stressed the need for agencies to think strategically about the changing drivers of crises and disasters, whether they be political, economic, ecological or demographic.
As it becomes apparent that the public increasingly looks to humanitarian agencies to provide leadership and action during times of uncertainty and crisis, these challenges are becoming more pressing than ever. What other lessons can be learnt from the recent history of large scale disasters in more developed countries, such as Japan, New Zealand and Chile?


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Discussion in 'Soccer Boots' started by kiongsm, Apr 7, 2005.
Any guides to determine the above?
look at them???
try on vapors or f50s, if they fit then you have a narrow foot- if they dont then you have a wide fot
lol funny post
my foot width is 10 cm anyone know if thats good enough for vapors?
My foot width is 7.5 in a size 9 in gold vapors. When I put on my gold vapors they are snug and as light as a feather with a perfect fit. I even have cm of extra space.
Urmm because your boots will be tight?! this ones worse than how do you clean your boots! Hahaha
But seriously, if you have wide feet then your feet tend to look rather square. Thats how you can tell most of the time.
did u use a ruler or measuring tape lol
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