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President Barack Obama left the door open to a new tax on health care benefits Wednesday, and officials said top lawmakers and the White House were seeking $150 billion in concessions from the nation's hospitals as they sought support for legislation struggling to emerge in Congress.
"I don't want to prejudge what they're doing," the president said, referring to proposals in the Senate to tax workers who get expensive insurance policies. Obama, who campaigned against the tax when he ran for president, drew a quick rebuff from organized labor.
Obama also fielded a pointed personal question during an ABC News town hall at the White House on Wednesday. The prime-time program was the latest in a string of events designed to build public support for his plan to slow the rise in health care costs and expand coverage to the nearly 50 million uninsured.
Dr. Orrin Devinsky, a neurologist at the New York University Langone Medical Center, challenged Obama: What if the president's wife and daughters got sick? Would Obama promise that they would get only the services allowed under a new government insurance plan he's proposing. Obama wouldn't bite.
If "it's my family member, if it's my wife, if it's my children, if it's my grandmother, I always want them to get the very best care," Obama said.
The United States is the world's only developed country that lacks universal health care. About 50 million of the U.S. population of 300 million have no health insurance. The poor and elderly receive government care, but most Americans rely on private insurance, usually received through their employers.
Earlier in the day, the administration and its allies pushed for a prominent display of progress in the Senate before Congress begins a weeklong vacation on Friday.
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, a Democrat, labored in a series of meetings to produce at least an outline of legislation that could command bipartisan support. Of the five House of Representatives and Senate committees working on health care, Finance is the only one that appears to have a chance at such an agreement.
For their part, key Republicans pressed the White House for assurances that any concessions made now would not merely lead to additional demands at a later date. "We want to know the president is working in good faith along the way as we are," said Sen. Olympia Snowe after meeting with Nancy-Ann DeParle, the top White House official on the issue.
Baucus appeared especially eager to show progress before the exodus from the Capitol began.
To that end, several officials said he was negotiating with representatives of the nation's hospitals, hoping to conclude an agreement that would build on an $80 billion weekend deal with the pharmaceutical industry.
Hospitals were being asked to accept a reduction of roughly $155 billion over the next decade in fees they are promised under government programs such as Medicare and Medicaid, according to numerous officials.
Officials at the American Hospital Association and the Federation of American Hospitals said they could not comment on any discussions.
Baucus is seeking similar concessions from nursing homes, insurance companies, medical device makers and possibly others, noting that any legislation would create a huge new pool of customers for industry providers.
At its heart, any legislation is expected to require insurance companies to offer coverage to any applicant, without exclusions or higher premiums for pre-existing medical conditions.
Overall, Baucus has said he hopes to hold the size of any legislation to $1 trillion or less, and in private negotiations, there were discussions about further scaling back eligibility for insurance subsidies from the government.
Additionally, Baucus was still searching for ways to cover the cost of his emerging legislation, and numerous officials said he appeared roughly $200 billion shy of achieving that goal. They added that a proposal to make it harder for taxpayers to itemize their medical expenses was drawing renewed interest among key senators as one way to raise revenue.
At the White House, Obama sidestepped when asked if he was open to taxing health care benefits — a proposal he opposed vigorously in the campaign for the White House.
"I have identified the ways that I think we should finance this. I think Congress should adopt them. I'm going to wait and see what ideas ultimately they come up with," he said on ABC's "Good Morning America."
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IVhorseman wrote:Natalya wrote:They're also published for everyone to see, so people can call me out if they think my stuff is OP or whatever.
Where should we call you out? Because I think mimetic armor is absolute horseshit
Sure you're paying CP for it, but extra armor should still slow you down or something, instead of just being awesome-yet-boring. I think your gun stats are way OP too, but they'd kinda have to be to have any chance of killing other assyrians.
In BW 2001, wearing armour would decrease your move by an inch, cost 1 CP, and give you +2 armour for 6 armour total. Mimetic armour was a compromise; same price with no movement penalty, but only 1 point of added protection.
I didn't feel like +1 armour without a move penalty was too bullshit because IRL you can just wear a kevlar vest for like +200 armour and have no movement penalty. If you want to stop more powerful guns though you need to go for the +400 kevlar+ceramic plate armour but that weighs a lot and incurs a movement penalty.
IVhorseman wrote:Do you have your gun stats and shit all assed anywhere on the forum? Maybe in Bonus Material?
I used to have them assed, but I'm trying to move towards a less OP weapon set.

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Human Capital, Tacit Knowledge, and the Limits of Intellectual Property
Orly's ambitious and thought-provoking book covers a significant amount of intellectual ground. She deftly navigates covenants not to compete, nondisclosure agreements, trade secrets, and intellectual property assignments to provide a compelling argument for the free flow of talent in the modern economy. Orly's work raises a host of questions that space constraints no doubt prevented her from more fully exploring, and I would encourage her to extend her analyses in subsequent work.
One aspect of Orly's work that I found particularly intriguing is that it reveals a central irony about information. The title of her book is a play on Stewart Brand's famous phrase "information wants to be free." While this statement has a contemporary ring, the observation that information is "slippery" and readily appropriable has a long pedigree and has had significant legal and policy ramifications. As Orly notes, Thomas Jefferson invoked the freely appropriable nature of technical information to help justify exclusive rights on inventions. More formally, economists have long characterized technical knowledge as a public good that is nonrival, nonexcludable, and capable of nearly costless transmission. The "slipperiness" of technical information is now largely taken for granted and provides significant theoretical justification for exclusive rights on knowledge assets. Indeed, IP scholars such as Polk Wagner have argued that information's natural tendency to slip through cracks and build upon itself should alleviate concerns that strict exclusive rights can bottle up knowledge. Information, after all, wants to be free.
Orly's account of the talent wars, however, reveals that much information does not naturally want to be free. As Orly recognizes, much technical information is tacit and personal to a particular creator or inventor. Such tacit knowledge takes the form of intangible know-how that is difficult and sometimes impossible to codify. Importantly, even when an invention is disclosed in a patent, much valuable technical knowledge related to that invention often remains tacit and is not formally shared. The inadequacy of patent disclosure and the difficulty of transmitting tacit knowledge create a need for companies licensing patents to somehow obtain this information. This is evident, for example, in university patenting and technology transfer, a field that Orly addresses. Empirical accounts of academic technology transfer show that private companies, in parallel to licensing university patents, often seek direct interactions with faculty inventors precisely to obtain their patent-related tacit knowledge.
The tacit, sticky nature of technical information relates to another theme that permeates Orly's work: agglomeration economies and the importance of place. In theory, patents adequately disclose the inventions they cover, which has the effect of reducing transaction costs in licensing negotiations. Among other implications, such ex ante disclosure should make licensing negotiations less sensitive to geographic proximity; at least with respect to appropriating technical knowledge, a potential licensee should not have a great need to interact directly with an inventor, for the patent itself discloses the technology. However, empirical studies of academic licensing show that licenses tend to cluster around licensor universities. To be sure, a host of factors helps explain such clustering, from universities' commitment to local economic development to the spatially concentrated nature of professional networks (a theme that Orly also highlights). But the need for faculty inventors to literally sit down with licensee firms to convey patent-related tacit knowledge also contributes to such agglomeration. While some information can be transmitted by reading a patent a thousand miles away, sometimes transferring patent-related technical knowledge requires side-by-side demonstrations of a new technology or that ever-valuable personal conversation over a cup of coffee.
In subtle ways, Orly's work thus offers a cogent exposition of the limits of patent law and formal technology transfer. In theory, the patent system provides a public repository of technical knowledge from which all can draw in their innovative pursuits. At the very least, licensees themselves should be able to rely on the disclosure of patents to adapt licensed inventions for commercial use. However, much information is not freely appropriable. Even when an invention is disclosed, much information remains tacit and personal to the inventor. Thus, patents are inherently limited as a vehicle for disclosing and transferring technologies, thereby creating a need for much costlier, geographically constrained, tacit knowledge transfer between individuals.
In a broader sense, Orly's observations highlight an interesting paradox about the "freedom" of information. In the classic economic account, the ease of appropriating technical information represents a problem. This problem is resolved by subjecting technical information to exclusive rights, thus shoring up incentive to invent. However, Orly's study reveals that much information is subject to a different problem: it is too difficult to appropriate, as it resists formal codification and disclosure. This creates a need for a different type of policy intervention, one that focuses on enhancing the mobility of the underlying sources of information—people—rather than information itself. Paradoxically, the fact that much information is not truly free provides all the more reason that the talent generating that information should be.


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Let's get a few things clear. Hostess didn't fail for any of the reasons you've been fed. It didn't fail because Americans demanded more healthful food than its Twinkies and Ho-Hos snack cakes. It didn't fail because its unions wanted it to die.
It failed because the people that ran it had no idea what they were doing. Every other excuse is just an attempt by the guilty to blame someone else.
Take the notion that Hostess was out of step with America's healthful-food craze. You'd almost think that Hostess failed because it didn't convert its product line into one based on green vegetables. Yet you only have to amble down the cookie aisle at your supermarket or stroll past the Cinnabon kiosk at the airport to know that there are still handsome profits to be made from the sale of highly refined sugary garbage.
It's true that the company had done almost nothing in the last 10 years to modernize or expand its offerings. But as any of the millions of Americans who have succumbed to Twinkie cravings can attest, there has always been something about their greasy denseness and peculiar aftertaste that place them high among the ranks of foodstuffs that can be perfectly satisfying without actually being any good.


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Monday, June 13, 2011
Recipe request: buckwheat and beef liver
A Flickr user emailed me this morning, saying that he/she saw this picture and that he/she would love to make it. Instead of translating and typing in the recipe for him/her, I'm blogging about it. It was a delicious dish, and although not necessarily a summer dish, it's definitely lovely and worth making during the colder times. (Incidentally, I had buckwheat for dinner last night, served with a creamy meatball sauce).
Intrigued by buckwheat? There are plenty of buckwheat recipes here @ Nami-Nami. Note that buckwheat is naturally gluten-free, so it's a suitable and tasty grain alternative to all those who need to avoid gluten.
Buckwheat with beef liver
(Tatrahautis veisemaksaga)
Serves four
Slightly adapted version of Kaie Mei's recipe in Oma Maitse (January 2010)
1 large onion, peeled and finely chopped
2 carrots, scraped and chopped finely
oil for frying
250 g buckwheat kasha, rinsed and drained
500 ml (2 cups) vegetable stock
300 g beef liver
salt and freshly ground black pepper
To serve:
fresh herbs
sour cream
First, you may need to toast the buckwheat. The buckwheat we usually use in Estonia is pre-roasted and darkish brown ('kasha', see photo on top), so this can be skip this stage. If you're using the "light" buckwheat groats, then roast them on a dry hot skillet for about 5-6 minutes, until it's nicely toasty and aromatic.
Heat oil on a deep frying pan, add the onion and sauté for a few minutes. Then add the carrots and fry for a few more minutes.
Add the buckwheat groats, stir-fry for a minute.
Add the stock, season with salt. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat and simmer on a low heat for 15-20 minutes, until buckwheat is cooked.
Meanwhile, cut the beef liver into small dice. Season and sear quickly on a hot frying pan for about 4-5 minutes, until browned all over. Add the cooked liver to the buckwheat and sauté for a few more minutes, until the buckwheat and liver and tender.
Serve, sprinkled with herbs and a dollop of sour cream.
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- Sean said...
Thanks so much for writing a blog post on this recipe. I made it this morning. I've only ever made pancakes or bread with buckwheat. The toasted buckwheat and vegetables was very good.
It was my first bites of liver. In the beginning I wasn't so sure, but it turned out to be alright for me. I'm going to be making this recipe a lot I imagine... 8 pounds of liver to eat!
- 11:54 pm, June 14, 2011
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This strange but awesome little tune off the album Since I Left You wasn't exactly meticulously planned by The Avalanches, but rather the product of them "just fucking around" with old spoken-word records. Even with that lack of planning—or maybe because of it—Frontier Psychiatrist is bizarrely hypnotic, and the video? Oh man the video. Best lip-syncing you will see all day, guaranteed. And if you don't dig it, you're a nut; you're crazy in the coconut. [Spotify, Amazon, iTunes]


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A winner was selected from 47 designs submitted by 6 freelance designers.
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Small online backup company currently operating KnoxVault.com (http://www.knoxvault.com) that targets business customers. Previous contest was done to create the KnoxVault logo. This contest must have a totally different style from the KnoxVault one.
The home tech consumer market, moms, work at home owners, grandparents, and families. Brand will be used in Canada and in the US.
need jpg, pngs (with transparent background) for web & electronic brochures. Need icons in .ico for Windows app and taskbar from 32x32 and larger.
Need duplicate set for both BackMeUp Canada and BackeMeUp America (everything must be identical except for the country names Canada or America).
Would like a logo that has the "BackMeUp" motif so that we can add later suffixes e.g. BackMeUpCanada, BackMeUpAmerica etc. So please focus on the BackMeUp part as distinct from the Canada/America qualifier.
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If you are wondering what to bring: Professional shots are great, but not necessary, pictures taken with your iphone or ipad are great, too. We can look at projects on your laptop or in a formal portfolio book.
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Suffolk commish recants email to lawmakers
Suffolk Police Commissioner Edward Webber has backed away from an email asking county legislators to funnel all information requests through his office after lawmakers lodged a flurry of complaints.
In a memo to the 18 lawmakers Tuesday, Webber called it "imperative to the continuity of the department that information requests and inquiries are handled through my office . . . Should you need statistics, have questions about legislation, have a constituent issue, or any other police matter."
But Webber backtracked Friday after at least three legislators complained to him. In an interview, Webber called the message poorly worded and said, "in no way do we want to restrict communication."
With seven police precincts spread over 18 legislative districts, many legislators called the new policy impractical, saying it likely would hamper their ability to respond to constituent concerns about traffic, crime and other issues. Some noted that when Webber took over the department last year, he promised precinct commanders more authority and flexibility.
"It looks like they're micromanaging precincts. I wouldn't want to think that's what's happening," Legis. Kate Browning (WF-Shirley), Public Safety Committee chairwoman, said before Webber reversed course.
Browning said her district, which includes three precincts, generates daily complaints about issues including traffic dangers and suspected drug houses. "I can't imagine, if you have 18 legislators reaching out to police headquarters and the commissioner's office for things they used to get from their precincts, how it makes things more efficient," she said.
Webber said he never intended to cut off lawmakers from precincts. He said he simply wanted to be aware of their requests so he could follow up should commanders not reply promptly."I want to make sure we get timely, accurate information to the people," Webber said.
Legis. Tom Cilmi (R-Bay Shore) said he expressed his concern to Webber's office and was reassured that he still could contact precincts in most cases. "I'm satisfied it's going to be business as usual," Cilmi said.
Aides to County Executive Steve Bellone said they were unaware of Webber's email.
Legis. John M. Kennedy Jr. (R-Nesconset) said he was willing to cut Webber some slack because, before the email, the department has been run openly.
"Everyone deserves a mulligan," he said.
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Lady Antebellum's Charles Kelley Gives Wedding Music Advice to Hillary Scott
Charles Kelley will make sure his musical preferences are played at Hillary Scott's wedding, whether she likes it or not. After the 2011 CMA Awards on Wednesday, CMT caught up with the Lady Antebellum trio to chat about their award wins — and more importantly, how Scott's wedding planning adventure is going.
When asked what music she and future husband Chris Tyrrell are going to play at the big event, the Lady A frontlady was honest. "That is the one thing I haven't really thought about yet. Chris and I need to sit and talk through that," she said. "We have songs that mean a lot to us as a couple that will probably work their way into the ceremony and definitely the reception. But all the specifics? We haven't even gotten there yet."
Like a college freshman at a football game, Kelley was right there to offer up a suggestion, loudly chanting, "Motown band, Motown band," before Scott even had time to take a breath. We'll have to wait and see whether or not she'll heed his advice, but one thing we know for sure is that Lady Antebellum will not be performing on the singer's big day.
"I'm not asking them to sing or play an instrument," Scott commented in the new issue of Redbook. "I'm not putting anybody I love to work on my wedding day."


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After nearly 20 years of conflict, a new sound is emerging in Kashmir, and it's not the sound of bullets: Young writers, artists, and musicians are emerging across the disputed territory, offering a glimmer of hope in the region.
The Harud (Autumn) Literary Festival, lauded as the first of its kind in Kashmir, was supposed to be held in Srinagar, the capital, in late September. But despite the rising art scene there, the festival was canceled because of popular backlash.
With many Kashmiris still actively seeking justice for disappearances, rapes, and killings of family members they say were suffered at the hands of Indian security forces, the arts festival fell into contention because of its association with the Indian government. The cancellation highlights many Kashmiris' desire for intellectual independence in a disputed region claimed by both India and Pakistan.
"There may well be dozens of excellent literary festivals in India, but in case no one has noticed, there's a firefight going on in Kashmir," says Sanjay Kak, who recently published a book containing a collection of articles about 2010's summer unrest in Kashmir.
Several writers and academics joined prominent Kashmiri writers who spoke out against the event in an open letter on the Internet. The festival might give a false impression of normalization in the region, they said, expressing wariness about organizers' ties to the Indian government.
How could a literature festival be held in a state where people are not allowed to freely speak their minds? they asked.
But will it hurt artists?
For writers such as Feroz Rather, a shaggy-haired, reflective young man just beginning to cut his teeth in the literary world, the cancellation of the festival is not likely to slow him down.
Growing up in one of the most violent villages in Kashmir, Mr. Rather continues to grapple with how to write about the disturbing events he witnessed. One of his most recent short stories was about his neighbor who was forced by the Indian Army to lick antiestablishment graffiti off a brick wall.
"After the Army made him lick the wall, bruising his tongue, they beat him severely, and the next day he left for Pakistan to become a militant," writes Rather.
Though he had few resources growing up in Kashmir during the conflict, he says he found his writing voice through the words of James Joyce's "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man."
"The novel shattered me and made me cry like a little boy," Rather says, who is now earning a master of fine arts in fiction at California State University, Fresno. "It vindicated my belief that I will cease to exist the moment I subscribe to the grand-national narratives of India or Pakistan."
Such experiences, he says, have made it easy for many Kashmiri writers to turn away from supporting the Harud Literary Festival.
More exposure for artists
Still, Vijay Dar, the main organizer of the now-canceled festival and former adviser to the prime minister of India in the mid-1980s, insists that the objective of the event was to give young writers and artists like Rather more exposure.
"There are a lot of youngsters who are into writing and the arts, not only in Kashmir but also in neighboring regions like Jammu and Ladakh," says Mr. Dar, who owns the school where the festival was supposed to be held.
His school is located next to Kashmir's biggest military base – also a point of contention for many Kashmiris who wondered why the festival was being held in a heavily militarized area. "We thought a literary festival could give them a lot of coverage and maybe become an international festival."
Born of conflict
As the Monitor reported earlier this year, MC Kash is Kashmir's first rap singer became popular during the summer of 2010 when more than 100 Kashmiris, mostly young boys, were killed by Indian security forces.
While the conflict may have fueled these young people's artistic pursuits, the environment in the region and lack of resources make it very challenging for them to move forward with their artistic and literary pursuits. MC Kash does not have a sound mixer and has never ventured outside Kashmir. Other young artists struggle to survive, like self-named Apple Kashmir, one of the few female artists in the disputed territory.
"I have not seen much work by artists, and virtually nothing by female artists in Kashmir," says Ms. Apple. "Even though the place is really beautiful, it is a really heavy environment for any kind of artist to work here. There really is no space to show your work or any kind of market for people to buy it."
Apple grew up in a remote village in Kashmir. She moved to Mumbai, where she began working as a model, artist, and singer. She recently moved back to Kashmir and is starting her own brand of hand-designed belts, while trying to sell her paintings to support herself.
On their own terms
These writers, singers, and artists say they would like to have a literary festival in Kashmir and a way to share their work, but they want to do so on their own terms. Mr. Kak, whose book "Until My Freedom Has Come" got its title from a song by MC Kash, thinks that could be possible.
"If a literary festival is what Kashmiris want, surely there will be one. Even if the Harud Literary Festival were to want to reappear from the ashes, I'm certain people would welcome it. Now that the dust has begun to settle, surely its organizers have a better sense of the sensitivities – and the politics – of Kashmir. I'm sure they will not trip over all the wires again, like they did this time around."


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Somewhat conveniently following the court decision that says the FCC doesn't have the power to enforce net neutrality, FCC Chairman Genananananapackachkowsi is expected to respond that he wants to leave broadband providers just the way are, in terms of regulatory stuff, but at the same time, slyly move to bring broadband services more under the FCC's authority in the future.
So goodbye, government-mandated net neutrality.
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The High Chaparral Classic TV Show
Classic western adventure series. The Cannon family runs the High Chaparral Ranch in the Arizona Territory. Big John wants to establish his cattle empire despite Indian hostility. He's aided by brother Buck and son Billy Blue.
The High Chaparral Fan Tributes11 Senah-Olive from New Zealand: The Greatest Story Ever Told (The greatest Western Series Television have ever made). To this day it brings tears to our eyes and sets our hearts a flutter just to listen to the music theme. Such a Beautiful and Fabulous Show ever. I was only 7 when I first watched it and 50+ years later still hooked on it. It's a Memorable show that will live in our hearts forever.
10 Sean from Banbury: This and The Virginian form a huge part of my childhood. Wonderful , Happy memories. Even now when I hear the HC theme it gives me goosebumps. Does anyone know where I can get DVD's of either of these shows which are compatible with UK viewing??
9 Abdi from Lahijan, Iran: every second and everything about high Chaparral was favorable especially Monolito and his strong play. What Western series it was.
8 steven dwyer from co.waterford rep of ireland: when i was about 10or11 the high chaparral was on a sunday afternoon. it was the highlight of my week just to see the fabalous western series. even watching it today 24 years later it still gives me goose bumbs. it is the high light of my childhood.my hero is henry darrow as cool as they come.A great western series.the location old tucson was just perfect. my brother was out in old tucson a couple of years ago and stood at the front door of the high chapperal ranch set and saw old tucson to.
7 derek hughes from liverpool: just a fantastic series all great actor's like'd bucks word for the injuns (A-patch) this could go on tv again no problem
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5 heleen helsdingen from the netherlands: The high chaparral I will not forget anymore. It is the best western from all westerns. It is a shame that they not made it avaible on dvd and not broadcasting it on tv.
4 alan from coventry england: i loved every episode a great western series,& the location of old tucson was brilliant & gave the series credibility & a grittiness of the old west
3 Garry Herring from Hartlepool, UK: it is years since I last saw a broadcast of this fantastic series. Fine performances from Leif Erickson, Henry Darrow and the strikingly beautiful Linda Christal. I only wish that BBC-2 in England would run repeats again.
2 dave from leeds: I liked the episode stinky flannigan also like the song he sang to tilly his camel any idea of the name of the song
1 tanja from netherlands: The greatest western show ever!
Great actors, great writers.
After 30 years I can still remember entire scenes from certain episodes.
Hope some channel will consider broadcasting it again.
The High Chaparral
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Leif Erickson as Big John Cannon
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Mark Slade as William Billy Blue Cannon
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Clutch Performers: A Look at the Goals that Sent the USA to the World Cup
The FIFA World Cup qualifying process adheres strictly to the old adage "It's a marathon, not a sprint." The path to the World Cup is a slog that encompasses multiple years, a plethora of games and dozens of players; it is very much a group effort. At the same time, an individual moment of brilliance can often be the catalyst for a team's progression to the World Cup finals. On Oct. 10 in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, Landon Donovan became the seventh player to score the goal that clinched a FIFA World Cup berth for the U.S. Men's National Team. Here's a quick look at the goals, and the men that scored them.
1934 – Aldo 'Buff' Donelli
A record four-goal performance by Donelli in a 4-2 win vs. Mexico on May 24, 1934, in Rome qualified the U.S. for the World Cup, which began for the U.S. three days later. Donelli scored the only U.S. goal of Italy '34 in the USA's only game, a 7-1 loss in the opener. Later, Donelli briefly played and coached in the NFL, and was a long time college football coach.
Career totals: 2 caps, 5 goals
1950 -- Pete Matevich
Two goals by Matevich, the third and fourth of the game for the U.S. in a 5-2 win against Cuba, were enough to take second place in the North American Football Confederation Championship and a spot in Brazil '50. Despite the effort, he wasn't included on the World Cup team.
Career totals: 4 caps, 2 goals
1990 – Paul Caligiuri
The 'Shot Heard Round the World' for the U.S. team, Caligiuri's dipping shot from 30 yards put the U.S. in the FIFA World Cup for the first time in 40 years. Like Donelli, he would also score in the World Cup opener for the U.S. in Italy, a 5-1 loss to Czechoslovakia.
Career totals: 110 caps, 5 goals
1998 – Claudio Reyna
Just five minutes into a Nov. 9, 1997, qualifier in Burnaby, British Columbia, Reyna took a pass from Roy Wegerle on a breakaway and slotted it home from nine yards out. The goal was the first in a clinching 3-0 victory versus Canada on the ninth match day of the Final Round. Reyna went on to start all three games in France '98, and has started all but one game for the U.S. in the last three Cups.
Career totals: 112 caps, 8 goals
2002 – Joe-Max Moore
On Oct. 7, 2001 in a pivotal Matchday 9, the U.S. was coming off three consecutive losses and faced a must-win game. Moore scored in the fourth minute on a header, but Jamaica tied the score 10 minutes later. In the 81st minute, Moore converted a penalty drawn by Landon Donovan to get the U.S. a 2-1 win. Moore appeared as a sub in two games during the USA's successful quarterfinal run in Korea.
Career totals: 100 caps, 24 goals
2006 – Steve Ralston
On the seventh matchday of the Final Round before Germany '06, the U.S. faced Mexico at home on Sept. 3, 2005 in Columbus, Ohio. After a scoreless first half, Eddie Lewis curled a free kick that Oguchi Onyewu headed off the post – and Ralston was there to tap in the rebound for the game winner in yet another 2-0 victory against the arch rivals. Ralston played in eight qualifiers in 2005, but, hampered by injuries, was left off the squad for Germany.
Career totals: 36 caps, 4 goals
2010 – Landon Donovan
The U.S. traveled to Honduras for Matchday 9 of the final round of CONCACAF qualifying, and with Costa Rica trouncing Trinidad & Tobago at home, the U.S. team knew by halftime that only a win in San Pedro Sula would be good enough to book a ticket to South Africa. Donovan scored the winner directly on a free kick in the 72nd minute of the 3-2 victory, with two goals from Conor Casey, his first for the national team, helping the U.S. to a win and a place at the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa.
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"Iran, Yesterday and Today"
Iran, Yesterday and Today Showing The Dayton International Peace Museum will present its final program in connection with the current exhibition, Faces of Iran, on Sunday, 26 May at 2:00pm at the museum: A showing of Rick Steves' Reflections on Iran. At the request of the United Nations, Steves made a ground breaking trip to Iran and later producted a video, which has been shown on PBS. In the accompanying video, Steves shares his personal experiences, lessons learned and opinions that were shaped by the trip. Afsaneh Haddadian, a research assistant at the Kettering Foundation, will respond to the video and help us to understand her mystifying country. Born and raised in Iran, Ms. Haddadian received her M.A. from Wright State University. She has studied theories of International Relations and comparative politics and presented her research at many conferences.


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Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Should I Owe DHH Money?
Here's something about the economics of show business. It's absolutely superior to the economics of technology, unless you're the founder of a successful startup. Say this woman I know, her show becomes a hit, and it goes into syndication. She will be paid a particular sum of money every time an episode airs. This income is called residuals, because it's residual income from work she's already done. In some cases, that income can add up to a lot of money.
Why doesn't this happen in programming?
Can you imagine the type of money David Heinemeier Hansson or Brian Behlendorf or Matz or Larry Wall would be making, if they received residual income every time somebody used something they made? Obviously, they do receive residual prestige every time this happens, and it happens very frequently.
But every time there's a tech boom, recruiters recite this platitude, that an amazing programmer is 10 or 20 or 100 times more valuable than an average one. Weirdly, however, their estimate of value never translates into a corresponding economic valuation. They tell us our work is 100 times more valuable, and then they offer us 1.25 times as much money. Somewhere in there, the equation gets damped significantly. However, if you got a residual check every time anybody used your code, the work of amazing programmers would be at least 10 times more financially remunerative than the work of average programmers.
The moral of this story is for tech recruiters. We are precise people, and we understand math. Please don't tell us that you think our work is 100 times more valuable than somebody else's unless you plan to give us 100 times as much money. Just don't do it, because we won't believe you. We can multiply in our heads. We don't need calculators to see that you're lying. And we are unbelievably picky about numbers and logic. We're more offended by the sloppy thinking than the missing money!
(I say "us" not just because I think I'm an amazing programmer, but also because I know every other programmer out there thinks that they're an amazing programmer too.)
Anyway, as is often the case, the obvious moral is infinitely less interesting than the puzzling question. Why aren't residuals the norm with code? Or, more accurately, why are the residuals in tech paid in prestige, rather than cash?
It's interesting to imagine what would happen if residuals were the norm in programming. I think the first thing that would happen is that the number of superfluous, silly, bullshit companies that obviously must have been started on a drunken bet would plummet. Except the very reason for this effect, that writing Web sites would suddenly become expensive, not only totally kills the whole dynamic of development on the Web, it also runs head first into a great essay by Clay Shirky explaining why micropayments will never, ever happen. And of course, if people were getting code residuals, those would be B2B micropayments.
Shirky's argument is so persuasive that he ends up wondering if the rise of bloggers means the end of the film industry:
This change in the direction of free content is strongest for the work of individual creators, because an individual can produce material on any schedule they like. It is also strongest for publication of words and images, because these are the techniques most easily mastered by individuals. As creative work in groups creates a good deal of organizational hassle and often requires a particular mix of talents, it remains to be seen how strongly [sic] the movement towards free content will be for endeavors like music or film.
However, the trends are towards easier collaboration, and still more power to the individual. The open source movement has demonstrated that even phenomenally complex systems like Linux can be developed through distributed volunteer labor, and software like Apple's iMovie allows individuals to do work that once required a team. So while we don't know what ultimate effect the economics of free content will [have] on group work, we do know that the barriers to such free content are coming down, as they did with print and images when the Web launched.
I can tell you with certainty this much: Shirky's argument, while brilliant, is incorrect. His logic is flawless, but the thing he describes as impossible already happens every day. Micropayments have been happening regularly for nearly a hundred years. It's just that they don't happen in technology, and people outside tech use a different term for them: residuals. Some people buy swimming pools with their residuals; other people buy half a Nestle Crunch with their residuals, and pay for the rest of it with the money from their day job. So residuals span the gamut, from the micropayment to the megapayment.
By the way, the economics of TV on your iPod, or DVD, or the Internet, or anywhere outside of TV are very different from the economics of TV on TV. The Writers' Guild in Hollywood is amping up for a strike, because the studios give them bullshit residuals on DVDs, and are trying to get an even more one-sided deal on downloads.
I don't really have a conclusion, it's more a question. I know there's an economist who argued that software should be free before he ever heard of the free software movement. He came to the conclusion on purely economic grounds and was quite cheerfully surprised when somebody told him that the thing he had predicted for some day in the future had already started to happen. I forgot the guy's name (sorry), but obviously he would argue against the idea of residuals for software. In practice free software is very frequently superior to licensed software, and the theories of the free software movement explain very cleanly why. So I think I probably don't owe DHH money, but I'm really not sure.
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"I know there's an economist who argued that software should be free before he ever heard of the free software movement."ReplyDelete
I don't think this is who you are talking about, but there is an economist named Stephan Kinsella that is a adjunct scholar of the Mises Institute that argues that intellectual property rights are inconsistent with physical property rights.
Here is a paper about it.
He doesn't argue from a consequentialist view though, so he may not interest you, but I think you should consider his arguments.
I'm reading a book by Brad Cox, called Superdistribution, which sheds some insight on residuals for software. In a previous life, Brad came up with an obscure language called Objective C ;-)ReplyDelete
"I know every other programmer out there thinks that they're an amazing programmer."ReplyDelete
I don't think I'm amazing at coding. I think I'm good.
But I know I have to compete with guys who are amazing.
So I work and play and read and write and talk and listen, and hope that puts me back in the race.
Otherwise I'd be twice as good in my mind and half as good in practice, like I was a few years ago.
Hey, Great minds think alike! Another amazing programmer here who reached the conclusion sometime back that micropayments would lead to code residuals as you describe (although I don't think they will lead to very expensive software, competition will take care of that by bidding prices down). The amount of financial flexibility that easy/frictionless payment systems like micropayments will allow is going to be amazing.ReplyDelete
sprewell - mmmmmmmaybe. I think Shirky's arguments against micropayments are still pretty strong, and certainly the residuals analogy isn't a perfect match. residuals in entertainment have definitely not led to improved flexibility - the entertainment industry is infamous for its litigiousness, which bogs down projects for months and even years during negotiations.ReplyDelete
Shirky's full of shit, all the pieces of his that I've read are invariably wrong, and residuals are not a perfect match because micropayments will be much more flexible, eg no contract negotiations. Of course residuals in entertainment have lead to some increased flexibility, litigiousness is a whole different issue. Are you saying entertainment residuals are the reason for litigiousness or that software micropayments would somehow lead to lawsuits? Of course not, residuals/micropayments have nothing to do with litigiousness. Entertainment residuals increase flexibility because payment is tied to performance and because there are pre-negotiated union contracts that set a baseline for all contracts, meaning parties don't have to start from scratch every time. Micropayments will provide this financial flexibility and amplify it many times over because it's all automated and in software, no written contracts necessary. Once building payment channels like this is extremely cheap because it's automated, the payment network grows very fast, bringing many more people and services to the table. That's the huge value that micropayments will bring. Most people cannot understand the enormity of this transition because it has never been technically feasible before and hence they have nothing to compare it to.ReplyDelete


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Back from vacation and we're obviously behind, nevertheless here's a look back on the offseason practives.
Nothing is supposed to happen in OTA's, but this year, the 49ers off-season practices were significant. Particularly that one in May when wide receiver Dominique Zeigler tangled with veteran cornerback Walt Harris. The resulting torn anterior cruciate knee ligament for Harris will likely end his season maybe even his career (he turns 35 on Aug. 10th).
It forced the 49ers to sign a Dre Bly, a cocky, gambling type of player who might be just what the 49ers need at right cornerback. It sets up possibly a more intriguing battle for the starter's role come training camp between Bly and Tarell Brown, who seems to be a younger version of Bly himself. Brown also likes taking chances and he can match Bly with his abundant confidence.
The other development was the development of Alex Smith. Early in the practices, Shaun Hill, even though he's not known as a practice player, was getting the ball off quickly and fairly accurately. Meanwhile, everything about Smith's body language indicated in flashing red lights: I JUST WANT TO BE THE BACK UP.
But Smith emerged during the team's final minicamp and finished OTA's strong enough to get labeled "All-Tasman." That's the street the runs along Centennial where the team facility sits. Former coach Steve Mariucci came up with the name somewhat mockingly to calm those who got a little over eager about players who excel running around in shorts and helmets.
Nevertheless, Smith's rebound was significant because he easily could have faded and made the decision on the starter relatively easy on new offensive coordinator Jimmy Raye. But instead Smith threw the ball with stunning accuracy and led the team to touchdowns and field goals in red zone drills while Hill floundered.
So the competition is on in training camp and likely won't be settled until both quarterbacks perform in exhibitions. It also brings up a quandary. Hill can look awful at times. He did so a year ago, and he did in training camp. But he's an undeniable gamer with his 7-3 record as a starter, multiple fourth-quarter comebacks and impressive 90.7 passer rating in those starts.
But throughout his eight seasons in the league, Hill's started each season on the bench, which has allowed him extra time to learn the offense. Last year, offensive coordinator Mike Martz admitted he was startled Hill had progressed so quickly in the offense after Mike Singletary forced Martz to bench his struggling favorite, J.T. O'Sullivan.
Even when Hill was winning games for the team last year, he would often struggle mightily in Wednesday's practice and then pull things together in Friday's session. It leaves the 49ers coaching staff with a tricky decision if Smith continues to be the better quarterback when training camp opens.


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Catalina Island Family Travel
Catalina is fun for the entire family. We have adventures and tours suitable for every age. We've put together a sample 3 day itinerary perfect for family travel.
Day One:
Catch a ferry boat from Long Beach, San Pedro, Dana Point or Newport Beach to Avalon. Stay at the beautiful oceanfront Pavilion Hotel. Upon arriving in Avalon, you'll be greeted by a hotel representative who will accompany you to the property and assist with your luggage.
Experience the Undersea Expedition, learn fascinating facts about the underwater gardens while viewing Catalina's unique marine world from a semi-submersible vessel. When you return, parents can enjoy a complimentary afternoon wine & cheese pairing offered at the Pavilion Hotel, and the kids can enjoy some juice and cheese or play on the adjacent beach. Step next door to enjoy an early dinner at the family friendly Avalon Grille. Stroll along the waterfront towards the Casino on your way to catch a first fun movie at the famous Casino Theatre. End the night around the Pavilion Hotel's Catalina Fire Ring before retiring to your room for a great night's sleep.
Day Two:
Enjoy the Pavilion Hotel's complimentary deluxe continental breakfast before setting out on the Scenic Avalon Tour, or rent a Golf Cart and explore Avalon on your own. Later, relax and take in all that Descanso Beach Club has to offer including oceanfront private cabanas, kayak and snorkeling equipment rentals, along with great food and drinks. You might also be interested in trying out our Zip Line Eco Tour or climbing Wall. (Minimum age for the Zip Line is 5 years old for tandem and 10 years old of solo) In the afternoon, it's off on another adventure as you set off to spot dolphins on our exciting Ocean Runner Dolphin Tour. Dinner is at Avalon's newest restaurant, the Bluewater Avalon, where you'll relax and reflect on your day of adventures. After dinner, venture down the front street for a special ice cream treat.
Day Three:
Start the day off with our complimentary continental breakfast in one of the Pavilion Hotel's courtyard lanais. Stop at the Catalina Island Museum and get a glimpse into Catalina's unique history. Enjoy a casual game of miniature golf with the whole family at the Miniature Golf Gardens. Prior to lunch at the Avalon Grille, stop and shop along Avalon's front street for special mementos of your island vacation. If traveling back on the ferry through Long Beach, make sure to stop at the Aquarium of the Pacific prior to heading home.
Call our Reservations team today. We can put together a package, complete with hotel and tours, that's perfect for your family adventure to Catalina Island.
*Sample itinerary – tours, activities and dining are not included with your hotel stay.


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Zeid needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 100 designs submitted by 26 freelance designers.
Capital Search Group
Capital Search Group is an executive search firm based in Tyson's Corner, VA. We serve the Washington DC Metro market and have been in business for 20+ years. Our areas of specialty include IT, Accounting, Finance and Human Resources.
Attached is our current logo which we are not thrilled about.
Business professionals and C Level executives aging between 25 and 70 years old.
On our current logo we have written "connecting people to positions" so that people will know we are a search firm and not a financial services company. We are willing to keep this phrase but are also open to other ideas. We are not married to it.
This logo will be used on top of resumes that we send to clients and eventually on business cards and marketing matterials.
Open to any color scheme.
We welcome creative ideas, we are looking for something new.
Find out how a design contest works or learn more about our logo design services.


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'Carl K wrote:While beef is still my meat of preference, we eaat so much chicken here I sometimes wonder why I haven't grown feathers yet . One thing I have noticed though is that people seem to have gotten stuck in a rut where chicken is concerned. At a church sponcered supper club function last year I made a version of Chicken Cacciatore and was very surprised at how many people told me that they could never make something like that because it was "too difficult". Suggestions for "easy versions" of some dishes (not a 30 Minute Meals or Semi-Homemade but rather a "this gets excellent results and is much easier than you'd think" type thing) might help things along for some of these people.
Carl, I can't believe how many 'grownups' I run into who have never cut a whole chicken thenmselves. There's not much one can do to help someone who isn't curious enough to venture out of the Hamburger Helper stage by themselves.


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ThinkGeek has put out a new device for your iPhone 4S. The IRIS 9000 dock with remote.
So you are at home. You plug in your iPhone 4S to charge and sit down to relax. You forget that you need to schedule that appointment in your phone, however, the phone is way over there. What do you do?
The new item, slated for Q1 2012, is a remote system that lets you shout at your phone for answers. You press the remote and ask Siri a question, the speaker system will broadcast the answer to you.
The remote does not have a microphone in it. The "built-in mic" says it can pick up your voice from a distance. So you may have to yell at the top of your lungs if you are in the other room.
Hey Siri! Where's my wrench?
It's a great way to keep your schedule set. It might also be a great alarm clock when you have the phone plugged in, and not lying on the bed next to you. This is only for 4S models. Price: $59.99


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Internship with Representative Juan Vargas
Monday, April 15, 2013
Unpaid internships are available throughout the year, on either a full-time or part-time basis, in the 51st District (Chula Vista and Imperial Valley) and Washington D.C. offices of Rep. Juan Vargas.
Duties vary widely and include, but are not limited to: working with legislative staff drafting responses to constituent mail, monitoring hearings, and legislative research; working with district aides to help constituents resolve problems with government agencies; working with district staff to seek sources of grants funding for constituents; outreach events; legislative correspondence; working with press staff on press outreach and information gathering projects; providing support work for schedulers and office managers; processing mail, answering phones and other various staff support work.
Contact Eddie Meyer at (619) 422-5963 or firstname.lastname@example.com for information on District office internships. Contact Aaron Allen at (202) 225-8045 or email@example.com for more information on Washington D.C. based internships.
Applicants typically will be asked to provide a resume and a short writing sample.
* Paid and unpaid internship opportunities are posted for informational purposes only. The postings do not constitute an endorsement by the University of the opinions or activities of the iternship provider.
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Greenville Downtown Airport (GMU) in South Carolina will host a fundraising run on Saturday, May 18, 2013. The money raised will go towards completing the new community aviation park. Race organizers have launched a contest to name the race, as well as create a logo for the race T-shirts.
"Since we are in the airport business, not running business, we have pulled in a very experienced race planner, Joe Lanahan," said Joe Frasher, airport director. "Joe currently oversees the very successful TD Bank Reedy River Run and we are grateful that he has volunteered his time to help us."
"Several airports in the country have this type event and they can be very successful. It's a unique and fun project to take on," said Lanahan, a Program Manager for the Greenville County Recreation District. "Many of these events use the same names, like 'Runway Run', '5K on the Runway' and 'Race the Runways'. We may use one of those, but thought why not have a name our event contest and see what people come up with, An event logo is also needed for our marketing and will be on the run T-shirts. We hope that some creative people out there will help us out," stated Lanahan.
To enter: Creative event names and original logo contest submissions, along with the submitters contact information, should be emailed to Lara Kaufmann at email@example.com. Entries must be received by Jan. 15, 2013. The winner(s) will receive a free Discovery Flight donated by the Greenville Jet Center, plus free entrance into the 2013 race for themselves and a guest. Prizes are not transferable. If the chosen name is submitted by more than one party, the first one received will be the winner.
"The park is now open as a free-to-use public open green space where people can have fun and watch aviation while children have space to run around. People can have blanket picnics, schools can go on class trips, and everyone can get exercise. Next spring, the walking 'runways' and exercise 'perimeter taxiway' will be painted to look like real ones. We are now raising money and seeking donations so we can add two aviation themed playground equipment sets (one for younger children and one for older kids), a picnic pavilion, as well as a "Control Tower" climbing structure. We are also raising funds to transport and convert a fuselage into a unique and handicap accessible park entrance. We are looking for a naming rights sponsor and all donations are tax deductible," Frasher added.
"The park project was conceived since over 10,000 kids a year used to visit our commercial airport (GSP) before 9/11. They can no longer do that," noted Frasher. The park is located next to the Runway Cafe at 21 Airport Road Extension, Greenville, SC 29607.
GMU is the busiest general aviation airport in South Carolina and is a self-sufficient entity with financial strength that doesn't rely on local taxpayers for funding. GMU is home to Greenville Jet Center, the largest FBO in the state, as well as more than 25 other aviation-related businesses creating 453 jobs that annually contribute more than $35.2 million to the local economy. For more information: GreenvilleDowntownAirport.com or 864-242-4777


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For one day, let's forget about the challenges in our community and give thanks for what makes this a wonderful place to live, work and play — people.
There are plenty of people in the Rock River Valley who are more concerned for others this holiday season than they are for themselves.
We can be thankful for the kind of generosity they have displayed in contributing to the funds for the victims of natural disaster. On Monday, we mentioned that the East High School wrestling team was sending a contingent to Washington, Ill., to help victims of the tornadoes that devastated the area. Thirty-five students, three coaches and eight employees from Liebovich Steel and Aluminum Co. in Rockford made the 2½-hour drive south. Liebovich also donated work gloves.
Twenty volunteers from Rockford First church also were in the tornado-ravaged area, as were volunteers from the American Red Cross Rock River Chapter.
It's not unusual for people around here to travel great distances to help. Others help out with timely donations. We've seen that after typhoons, hurricanes and other natural disasters. People around here will find a way to help.
And it's not just for natural disasters. Neighbors help neighbors and residents donate their time and talent to their churches, to United Way, to whatever cause that needs assistance.
Kids are getting involved, too — a good sign for the future. We mentioned the East wrestlers, but how about the 12 Auburn High School football players and seven Jefferson High School volleyball players who are collecting money to buy a Thanksgiving feast for two Rockford Public School families?
Guilford High School football players and East High School volleyball players will collect toys for two families in need this Christmas.
There are others. Most schools have students who help out those who are less fortunate around the holidays. We are thankful for all of them.
We're also thankful for Transform Rockford as the group seeks community input on how to make this a better place to live. About 1,400 people showed up for a meeting at the Coronado Performing Arts Center earlier this month. People are eager to be involved, another thing we're thankful for.
Thanksgiving Day is the oldest American holiday and one of the oldest nonsectarian holidays in the world. Its national observance dates to 1863, when President Abraham Lincoln first proclaimed Thanksgiving, but its origins are in 1621, when colonists celebrated the first Thanksgiving in Plymouth, Mass.
Thanksgiving Day is typically American in tradition and meaning, although days of thanks were not unknown among all races and in all periods. Many families have adopted their own traditions over the years. Here's a suggestion if you would like to start a Thanksgiving tradition of your own.
Have everyone share one thing they are thankful for. It can be as simple as standing in a circle and talking about something good in your life, or you can have family members write their thanks and pass the notes around for others to read aloud. If you're more ambitious, you can shoot video of your thanks and save the video to be replayed year after year.
But whatever your tradition, before you sit down to eat some turkey or to watch the Green Bay Packers play the Detroit Lions in the annual football game, take a few moments to reflect on what's precious in your life.


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Honoring Richard Ruiz and his Work on Language Planning and Bilingual Education Edited by: Nancy H. Hornberger
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Richard Ruiz has inspired generations of scholars in language planning and multilingual education with his unique orientations to language as a problem, a right and a resource. This volume attests to the far-reaching impact of his thinking and teaching, bringing together a selection of his published and unpublished writings on language planning orientations, bilingual and language minority education, language threat and endangerment, voice and empowerment, and even language fun, accompanied by contributions from colleagues and former students reflecting and expanding on Ruiz ground-breaking work. This book will be of great interest to both undergraduate and postgraduate students in language planning and multilingual education, Indigenous and minority education, as well as to junior and senior researchers in those fields.
Expertly and affectionately choreographed by Nancy Hornberger and other colleagues and former students, Richard Ruiz emerges from these pages not only as a brilliantly original scholar but also as a passionate advocate for equity and an inspirational, warm, and funny friend and mentor.- Jim Cummins, University of Toronto, Canada
Richard Ruiz's influence on the fields of language policy and language education has been immense. His scholarship was always especially elegant and insightful. It was also, crucially, always grounded in social justice and a related commitment to effecting positive change for bilingual and minoritized students. His untimely death has robbed us of not only a great academic but also a remarkable person. But this is all the more reason why this collection is so important, because in reading it we can still clearly hear his voice, see his vision, and understand the significance, reach and influence of his work.- Stephen May, University of Auckland, New Zealand
This book is both a tribute to a remarkable man and a passionate call for social and educational change. Richard Ruiz was a quiet and persistent leader in education research and theory. The volume advances his theories through the reproduction of his own pieces and the publication of those who studied and worked with Richard over many years. The volume is his legacy to the field and will be a treat and an education for all who read it.- Elizabeth Birr Moje, University of Michigan, USA
Nancy H. Hornberger is Professor of Education and Chair of Educational Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. She is a three-time recipient of the Fulbright Senior Specialist Award, which has taken her to Paraguay, New Zealand and South Africa respectively, and she teaches, lectures and advises on multilingualism and education throughout the world. Her research interests include educational linguistics and sociolinguistics, educational ethnography and anthropology, bilingualism and biliteracy, multilingualism and language education policy, Indigenous education and language revitalization. She has authored or edited over two dozen books, including Sociolinguistics and Language Education (Multilingual Matters, 2010).