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Five University of Iowa football players were released from the hospital Friday afternoon, according to a UI release that included a statement from head football coach Kirk Ferentz.
"I am pleased to learn that five of the 13 members of the UI football team are being discharged from UI Hospitals and Clinics throughout this afternoon and evening," Ferentz said in the release. "I am very happy for these student-athletes and their families, and look forward to the release of the remaining student-athletes in the days ahead."
This was the first public statement from Ferentz, who's entering his 13th season as Iowa's coach.
"I have been communicating with each student-athlete and their parents, or guardians, since learning they were admitted into the hospital," Ferentz said. "Members of the football staff have also been communicating daily with this group. This communication will continue until each student-athlete is able to resume their academic and athletic commitments."
A source with knowledge of the situation told The Gazette the NCAA isn't looking into the matter and doesn't foresee that coming.
Ferentz's silence on the matter has caused a storm in college football national media.
ESPN story
An anonymous parent told ESPN.com Friday that a strength coach told players in a meeting that the team didn't finish games this season and "we'll find out who wants to be here." The Hawkeyes, who finished 8-5, collapsed in the fourth quarter of all five of their defeats.
The ESPN.com story shed some light on several questions about the 13 Hawkeye football players who spent nearly five days in the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics because of an outbreak of rhabdomyolysis suffered after winter workouts last week.
– The Sporting News reported Thursday night that the 13 players were tested for illegal drugs and those tests came back negative. ESPN.com cited a parent saying the results were negative.
Possibly because of The Sporting News report, the UIHC sent employees a reminder on HIPAA privacy laws early Friday. By Friday afternoon, hospital officials announced they are conducting an investigation after a proactive screening of the electronic medical records of the 13 University of Iowa football players indicated that some of those records may have been accessed inappropriately.
– Ferentz was at the UIHC on Thursday night after returning from a recruiting trip through Ohio and Michigan, a Gazette source confirmed. ESPN.com quoted a parent saying Ferentz was "blistered" for not returning sooner. This was confirmed Friday by a Gazette source.
"I believe he is devastated by all this. He has been wonderful. But his mistake was not coming off the road right away," the parent told ESPN.com.
A source told The Gazette the general mood of the parents is they want the UI to be straightforward and they want to make sure there are safeguards to make sure this doesn't happen again.
Ferentz's son, James, started at center for the Hawkeyes this season. Ferentz's oldest son, Brian, also played center for the Hawkeyes (2003-05). During his time at Iowa, Brian nearly lost a leg to a staph infection.
"As the parent of both a current and former member of the team, the health and well-being of each student-athlete in our football program is paramount," Ferentz said. "I will work with all of the individuals and groups that contribute to the welfare of our student-athletes to understand what led to this occurrence in order to make certain it does not happen again."
– ESPN.com also reported that a parent said some players had gained "30 to 50 pounds" since entering the hospital because of the amount of fluids that have been forced into their bodies. Another parent told ESPN.com a player had sustained "20 to 30 loss of kidney function."
Jordan Bernstine is one of the players who is in the UIHC. His brother, Keevon Bernstine, posted on his Facebook account Thursday that he was in Iowa City to check on Jordan and "he is fat as hell."
No player has been on dialysis, according to sources.
Kidney dialysis would be a worse-case scenario with this rhabdomyolysis, but Dr. Bryan Becker, the immediate past president of the National Kidney Foundation and a physician at the University of Illinois-Chicago, said he wouldn't anticipate the acute injury injury to be permanent and they likely would recover.
Five players in UIHC
Bernstine, a senior cornerback, is one of four players who've been hospitalized. Freshman linebacker Jim Poggi, sophomore linebacker Shane DiBona and senior cornerback Willie Lowe also were in the hospital. Senior defensive back Tom Donatell also is among the hospitalized, the Gazette has confirmed.
It's not known if these five were among those released Friday.
WBZ-TV, the CBS affiliate out of Boston, reported that DiBona's mother, Faith, arrived in Iowa City on Thursday night.
She told the station that Shane is "doing much better" and might be out of the hospital Saturday night. She also said the parents would meet with Ferentz and staff about what happened.
DiBona helped lead Duxbury High School to a state championship in 2008. WBZ-TV spoke to Duxbury coach Dave Maimaron.
"There's an investigation and we're relying on the physicians and professionals at the university to help understand it a little bit better," Maimaron said. "Obviously, something went wrong and it's unfortunate that 13 kids are in the hospital."
NSAIDS, environment
Becker was asked about the possible role of Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (commonly referred to as NSAIDS) in this episode. Aspirin, ibuprofen and naproxen are prominent NSAIDS.
"Medicines like that are marvellous for reducing muscle aches and pains," Becker said. "In the setting of volume depletion or in the setting of kidney injury, such medications, but virtue of how they change bloodflow to the kidney, can exacerbate kidney injury."
Becker also said, however, that he would have a hard time believing that 13 athletes would develop the same unique response to an NSAID.
Environmental factors, such as heat, also could've contributed to this, Becker said. He cited a study that showed rhabdomyolysis in military personnel in southern states due to excessive exertion under "very warm conditions."
"Is environment a potential factor that can enhance the risk for muscle injury in this context, yes based on such studies," Becker said.
The issue of hydration was covered during Wednesday's news conference. Paul Federici, Iowa's director of football operations, said opportunities for hydration are "limitless and widely available."
The UI and Iowa Board of Regents announced Thursday that an investigation into events that led to the athletes' hospitalization would be conducted over the next 90 days.
As for any commonalities to be drawn out of the weekend between these heavy workouts and the athletes' hospitalization, Becker said "it would be inappropriate for me to speculate."
"Certainly, if all of them were participating in the same activity over the weekend, someone who's looking for a source of illness would focus on that," he said, "given that they would've been both occupied in practice and then all done something similar, but I would defer to the people who have take their medical histories."
The debate
Meanwhile, the national debate over this topic continued to rage.
"As a lawyer, I have to tell, in my opinion, you're probably looking at some guys thinking about filing suit against the university," ESPN college football analyst Rod Gilmore said Friday on ESPN's "College Football Live."
Gilmore went on to say, "He's a good guy, we all like Kirk Ferentz. He's a good coach, there's no question about that, but he made some mistakes." Gilmore listed oversight of the program and being on the road recruiting while 13 players were admitted to the UIHC.
The Iowa debate led the show and lasted nearly six minutes.
Several former Iowa players came to the defense of strength and conditioning coach Chris Doyle, who, according to sources, is shaken over the incident.
"Stand behind Kirk and the program. I did Doyle's workouts for 7 years in the NFL as well," former Iowa defensive back Matt Bowen wrote on his Twitter account Friday.
NFL player agent Jack Bechta, who represents several former Iowa players now in the NFL, also tweeted, "Everyone of my Iowa clients I spoke with [showed] 110% supportive of coach Doyle and his program. they all did the same exact workout more than once."
Bechta also said clients Tony Moeaki (former Hawkeye, now tight end for the Kansas City Chiefs) and Pat Angerer (UI linebacker now with the Indianapolis Colts) still train with Doyle in the offseason.
Adam Blalock, the co-director of Performance Sport & Speed in Coralville, part of Performance Therapies, also had high praise for Doyle.
"Other than this one instance, the way he's run his program is ideal," Blalock told The Gazette. "When you want a job in this business, you put Doyle as a reference. If someone on the East Coast calls him about a strength coach and he says 'Hire this guy,' they hire him."
No news conference has been scheduled with Ferentz, Doyle or athletics director Gary Barta, who was out of town this week. Ferentz has annually met with the media on national signing day, which is next Wednesday.
"I will work with all of the individuals and groups that contribute to the welfare of our student-athletes to understand what led to this occurrence in order to make certain it does not happen again," Ferentz said in the statement.
IOWA CITY, IA – The following is statement issued today by University of Iowa Head Football Coach Kirk Ferentz.
"I am pleased to learn that five of the 13 members of the UI football team are being discharged from UI Hospitals and Clinics throughout this afternoon and evening. I am very happy for these student-athletes and their families, and look forward to the release of the remaining student-athletes in the days ahead.
"Our entire staff shares the concern expressed by University of Iowa President Sally Mason and President David Miles of the Iowa Board of Regents and the State of Iowa, for the well-being and continued recovery of every student-athlete treated at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics.
"I have been communicating with each student-athlete and their parents, or guardians, since learning they were admitted into the hospital. Members of the football staff have also been communicating daily with this group. This communication will continue until each student-athlete is able to resume their academic and athletic commitments.
"As the parent of both a current and former member of the team, the health and well-being of each student-athlete in our football program is paramount.
"I will work with all of the individuals and groups that contribute to the welfare of our student-athletes to understand what led to this occurrence in order to make certain it does not happen again."
Hi Marc,
Thanks as always for your intelligent and measured reporting on controversial issues. You've had more opportunity than you wanted recently, I imagine…
Anyway, once this current issue has been resolved, perhaps you would be willing to review the coverage of it by ESPN, CBSsportsline, and others. Pat Forde, among others, has been outrageous in making unsubstantiated claims against the Iowa football program and coaches. He, along with the others, should be called out for that.
Having spent 10 years writing newspaper editorials and opinion columns, I have some knowledge and experience in this area. I do not appreciate the shoot first, ask questions later approach of the bloggers, but for "legitimate" media outlets to engage in such ignorant, unfair and biased coverage is unacceptable.
A recent AP report, for example, suggests that this workout incident is probably nothing more than bad timing. Thirteen kids came back from winter break after doing little to stay in shape and the workout was too much for them. When the inquiry is over, I suspect this will be the finding.
After all about 87 other Iowa players did the same workout with no ill effects… So rational minds might consider that, along with the evidence that Coach Doyle and Coach Ferentz are known to be among the most honest, ethical and caring coaches in the country.
Here's an AP story worth noting:
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) – A doctor says 7 University of South Carolina swimmers came down with the same muscle disorder in 2008 that has led to the hospitalization of 13 Iowa football players and they may have simply been pushing their bodies too hard after a break.
Rupert Galvez says the swimmers were diagnosed with rhabdomyolysis following three days of intense workouts after they returned from summer break in 2008. He says they reported swelling and weakness in their arms and discolored urine.
Galvez was involved in their treatment, and he wrote a 2008 article in the Clinical Journal of Sports Medicine about the case. He says coaches should be cautious about putting athletes through rigorous training after they return from extended breaks.
Iowa players were hospitalized Monday after strenuous workouts following winter break.
Further research indicates that 26,000 such cases were reported last year alone in the military and athletic worlds…including 100 in Oregon high schools…
But offering facts and staying rational doesn't do much for ratings…
Frankly, I hope Coach Doyle, Coach Ferentz and others sue Pat Forde and the other rumor-mongers for defamation of character — and ask for $1 in damages.
If anyone should be fired over all this, it should be people like Pat Forde.
Thanks, Mike.
The fact is the door is open for this kind of criticism. I'm not sure they know how to react. Their reaction has to be measured, likely for legal reasons. Plus, I imagine all energy possible is going into the kids and trying to figure out what happened. There are checkmarks that need to be made before a definitive statement is made. And, who knows, maybe they'll never be able to arrive at a commonality in these cases.
Just as they would with an unexpected Iowa loss, the national writers are going to take this and run with it. Iowa is a flyover team, like it or not. Notice the repeated sentiment among the nationals, save for Columbus' Bruce Hooley. All negative. There is a herd mentality. But — BUT — the door is open.
For everyone who loves Iowa, you're going to hate the next few weeks.
This is the worst type of gallows humor, but OF COURSE Jordan Bernstine was one of the 13. Dear God that kid just can't catch a break.
In all seriousness, there are a lot of questions that demand answers here, but that will take time. I just hope that all of the players affected have a full and quick recovery so that they can get on with their lives and rejoin the team if they so desire.
Jordan had a strong Insight, perhaps his best game in a couple years.
I think he has an inside track to one of the open safety spots.
He's never had a clean run of health at Iowa. Godspeed in his recovery.
Sorry, but for athletes the amount of exercise reported is nothing. Perhaps it was an issue of being dehydrated (from being hung over), not stretching, using caffeine, creatine, ephedrine, (all legal) and sudden intense workout after a long break? Typical leg workout guidance from a weight magazine "4. SET IT UP RIGHT – Don't think that you can go into the gym and train legs for 25 minutes, and 4 to 5 sets total and gain mass. Legs require an almost overtraining mentality. The first few sets should be warm up strictly, so they don't count. Do at least four movements for the legs and do four to five sets per exercise. Precontest, do at least five or six sets per exercise and add an exercise as well as a superset." 4x4x8 =128 of increasing weight. A typical athlete at this level should be squatting between 400 and 500 pounds easily.
Great post.
I'm pretty sure ephedrine is illegal.
In the Oregon case, where several high schoolers succumbed to rhabdo and other exertion injuries, a common thread was never found. All the athletes had something that triggered it. Hydration, IIRC, was a factor.
I sincerely hope all these kids come out OK. The doctor I talked to today said they should recover because they're all young and healthy. Hopefully, they'll be able to continue as FCS football players.
I should have said ma huang which is all kinds of sports drinks and supplements.
Or any of the other ephedra replacements "snake oil" supplement providers have chosen to foist on a uninformed public: green-tea-leaf extracts, citrus aurantium, yerba mate, yohimbe, guarana, kola nut, combined with the herbs cayenne pepper, white willow bark and ginger.
Let's hope they are all okay and they go on to great things. Most of what I've read on the subject seems to suggest that if you don't need dialysis people usually have a quick recovery and no aftereffects. There doesn't seem to be a lot of knowledge on the subject. My suggestion to the program would be to partner with the university and do some research to help ensure that it doesn't happen again, not only at the UOI. It would make a great project for a grad student.
I'm sure that will happen. It almost has to happen.
I imagine no one feels worse about this than the S&C staff and KF. Everything will be examined.
I offer all my best wishes for a speedy and complete recovery for all of these boys, the one truly important thing in this whole incident.
You get it, Paul.
Excellent post! Thank you!
As usual, very good, measured stuff. Lot different than what is out there elsewhere.
Did it take you long to get "real" stuff
Does it not bother you some of the salacious stuff others report almost like fact?!?!
Yes I get I'm an Iowa fan, but this sin't the first time they've made crap up for ANY team?! When do they get in trouble?!
Yes, in answer to the No. 1. And I still don't feel as though I got enough.
The second, I believe the nationals who've written about this have worked from facts.
There is a faction of parents in this who are angry and scared. They are making this known to ESPN, Sporting News.
And that reaction is completely fair. The families have the right to be angry. This is lightning striking for them. This is the call in the night that drops them to the floor. I would be a lunatic. I would be heartsick.
Do all parents feel this way? No. You can gather that from my story. They are concerned. They don't want this to happen again.
And we don't know all the circumstances as to why KF wasn't in IC immediately.
Sounds as though the symptoms showed over the weekend. They didn't land in the hospital until Monday evening or thereabouts.
What was KF being told? What was the communication from IC to KF? What was KF's travel situation? We know he didn't get "beamed" up Star Trek style. Do we even know he was recruiting after Monday's hospitalization?
I'm not defending not being there until Wednesday night, but I don't know enough to render judgment.
Regarding KF's abscence from IC until Wednesday Marc:
I know we don't have enough information yet to accurately judge his absence but it still rankles me that both KF and Barta weren't back in town immediately after they learned what happened. To me that's part of why they get paid the big bucks–to physically be there when and if their athletes need them, even in the off season.
But, as you said, we don't have all the facts yet to effectively render a judgement.
Well Lori, I do get that, but lets just point out it would have been lip service to the scared and frightened. I assure you every person in the world who has had sick personell, Army-"recruits", family etc….rush home to be with parents. We are a funny bunch, us human beings.
True, but would SI, ESPN, etc be heaping as much criticism on the situation had Barta and KF been there and addressed it sooner than they did? Just makes me wonder.
You're right though, as human beings we are a funny bunch.
We don't know what was communicated to KF or Barta.
I imagine there was some fluidity to the situation. And then travel logistics. Don't know that, either.
That's true Marc.
And believe me, I grew up in a house that let's just say didn't recognize Iowa football.
In my 13 years covering Ferentz and Iowa football, I've never doubted KF's perspective.
WoooW Marc,
Good stuff, made my skin raise…..In all honesty I never got the sense anything was wrong here. I really don't get the rush to judgment period. On that note I also could care less what I know about what KF is doing other than are the kids progressing?……The parents need info here and the kids, that's it. We don't need to know, heck I don't read or watch the news, I'm not interested in getting behind the scenes to see what they are screwing up and I personally don't think anyone else needs to know squat either….
I think 90% of humanity wants to know what other people are screwing up so they don't have to deal with their own failings….I get you and I know what your job is and I think you know I admire and respect your efforts greatly.
With that said, I'm anti-media, anti-government, pro stay out of my business and I'll stay out of yours. That's just how I am. With that said I'm also very compassionate, very emotional and quick to forgive and slow to point the finger of blame. Now being honest I am fairly quick to say hey, look at yourself here old pal…..that's pretty rich you standing in judgment without any real background perspective or hey look at that NO transparency on your part.
I expect my Government to do what they say without the media digging crap up, because quite frankly as a rule they are just as agenda driven as the government because they think "they" know best what we they should do or we should know….When the Doyle fails they get fired, period……honestly they are all still more of the same IMO. Which brings me back to I'll do what I do and you do what you do….I don't need to know what you think everyone is doing wrong…..
Not you obviously I got on a tangent sorry…once again "real" article!
PS…….As bad as KF can be info wise I'd be terrible to drag info out of because I'll talk people into circles all day, just for fun, and then just when you lest expect it I'll tell you more than you want to know. That's just how I am….
You take yourself too seriously, in general you are a blowhard, assuming you are an authority on most everything (not only in this post). I find funny how you always suck up to Marc so he will throw you a bone to pump up your chest. You did get it partially correct…you do tell more than I want to know, but it isn't when I least expect it.
oh, hey thanks Pat…I really appreciate it. Just like anything in life, we all have critics. It seems your mine…:)
By the by not sure where Doyle came from above I meant Gov….


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Meeting you where you are
What this means is that you needn't force yourself into bending like a pretzel. Honor your body where it is now and over time, you will begin to see results.
My friend D said the same thing about A Course in Miracles... it meets you where you are.
No matter what your spiritual or religious views are, you can always find something that you will relate to in the Course and over time, you will find that you've uncovered more of Who You Really Are. In doing that, you smile more. You stop taking life so damn seriously. (I can get there. Sometimes.)
Funny, in the past week or so, and with all the mess with Soldier and my trying to force it to be what I want it to be, I've realized:
Love meets you where you are too.
I've read so much in the past year on how to attract my soulmate into my life, how to communicate with and understand men, how to move on from a broken relationship, how to avoid broken men, how to be the perfect woman for any man... its terribly exhausting to try to be any of these things if they are not who I am.
Don't get me wrong, each of those things has helped me in some way to understand a bit more what motivates me. I am actually more aware of my relationship habits than I was previous to reading all of that self-help advice. I still go back to many of them just as a quick pick-me-up when I'm feeling especially lost in my feelings of loneliness.
But no matter what you know, you cannot pretend to be anything other than who you are.
Well, ok, you can try but you won't be honest with yourself nor the person you are trying to impress.
Believe me, I know from experience that trying to impress, does not look very impressive at all.
People will be attracted to you if you are comfortable with who you are. Either this person will fit that picture of you... or they won't. You can't force it to be anything other than what it is.
I don't have to try to be what Soldier may need right now, which is typically what I do when I want someone to like me. I did all of that during his weekend home on leave and you see where that got me!
I've now come to realize that in order for a real relationship to work, it has to be easy. It has to fit, like a perfect puzzle piece. It has to meet me, and accept me, right where I am right now.
And I have to offer that same acceptance to myself.
**After some comments I've realized it sounds like I'm saying that relationships should be easy. Neither yoga, spirituality nor relationships are easy, but they should not be painful. They will be challenging, in order for growth. But pain? Pain means you've pushed too far and you are not honoring who you are.**
When love does fit, it defies all plans, all logic, all choices that we made prior.
Both of you have to be in that same space, recognizing that light in each other. It cannot happen with only one or it does not happen at all.
In recognizing that light, in seeing each other beyond form, true love really shines. Our combined light, shared, can be as blinding as the brightest star.
Shine brightly, my friends. Even if it seems that no one is noticing.
Someone will.
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When I did yoga I was amazed at how one week I could do the poses and the next week it took all my energy just to stand still!
My instructor explained that it is because of what has happened in the week!!
It is usually that someone unsuspecting that notices and it takes a while to realise that you are noticing them too!
Sometimes I think you write posts just for me :)Oh my goodness, T, what a spectacular post. Yes! It's when we deny parts of ourselves that we attract the very people and circumstances that will force us to look at those unloved/unwanted parts of ourselves. It's always when I surrender completely that the best things happen. Love how you talked about how relationships should be easy. They should! Doesn't mean that there's no energy involved, but it doesn't have to be that dance of drama and control. It can just be a dance because dancing feels delightful and there is nothing to prove. Beautiful.
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Shine on, my friends... Weren't you a writer for the McCain campaign?? I myself suffered through lots of difficult attempts at relationships when I was unhappy with myself & was trying to "be something" for someone else. My only true happiness has come when I realized the worth that God placed in me, then my soulmate fell into my life.
ReplyDelete You have expressed one of the greatest lessons very well. The lesson is that we cannot force anything. Love is or it isn't when it comes to relationships. The more we chase after something, the more we try to conform the more disconnected from self we become and the more disillusioned we become! You have learned much, your wisdom is sharp! You have much to appreciate about yourself! Hugs. Happy V day!
ReplyDeleteThis is really good. The word GRACE comes to mind when meeting us where we are. Grace does that. The challenge is finding those of like mind who accept us exactly where we are...and love us anyway; love us in spite of the imperfect place; love us through it. I believe if we venture toward becoming this person, we will be brought to these people, as well. And we will also help others find their way to it. Unconditional acceptance.
Hugs and Blessings. :O)Sounds like you hit the nail on this one. We're our best when we don't try so hard, when we don't push. Stop thinking about what others thinking looking back, just be yourself. Because, if you think about it, people fall in love with us when we are doing that. You attract like moths to the flame when you let your own light shine.


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Leading medical devices maker, CR Bard Inc. (BCR - Analyst Report) is slated to announce its third quarter 2012 results after the closing bell on Tuesday, October 23. The current Zacks Consensus Estimate for the third quarter is $1.63, representing an estimated year-over-year growth of 0.74%.
Second Quarter Recap
Bard's second-quarter 2012 adjusted earnings per share of $1.62 lagged the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $1.64, but surpassed the year-ago earnings of $1.57 per share. In the reported quarter, profits were $133.9 million (or $1.54 a share) versus a net loss of $47.8 million (or loss of 55 cents) in the year-ago quarter. Moderate revenue growth and lower operating expenses contributed to higher net income.
Revenues increased 2% (up 4% in constant currency) year over year to $742.6 million, but fell short of the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $755 million. Year-over-year growth was driven by balanced growth across the company's Vascular, Urology and Oncology segments.
On a geographic basis, revenues in the U.S. and international markets grew 2% and 3% (up 8% in constant currency) to $490 million and $252.6 million, respectively.
Revenues from the core Vascular segment increased 3% (up 6% in constant currency) year over year to $221.3 million led by the ClearStream acquisition. Within Vascular, endovascular sales grew 9% led by the ClearStream acquisition. Biopsy sales were flat year over year due to prevailing softness in the U.S. economy. Electrophysiology ("EP") revenues dropped 2% due to lower EP LabSystem sales (down 1%) along with declining disposable EP sales (down 2%) and surgical graft sales (down 7%).
Sales from the Urology division increased 3% (up 5% in constant currency) to $188.8 million led by the company's latest targeted temperature management products. The company's Oncology segment reported revenue growth of 3% (up 4% in constant currency) year over year to $198.9 million. Sales from Surgical Specialties business were $111.4 million, flat year over year (up 2% in constant currency).
Estimate Revisions Trend
Estimates for the third quarter did not demonstrate any activity over the past week and month. The past 7 and 30 days have seen none of the 15 estimates change in either direction for the quarter.
The past 7 days have seen one of the 16 estimates fall for the full year 2012, while none moved in the opposite direction. In the past 30 days, only one out of the 16 estimates moved downwards, with no upward revision.
The magnitude of revisions, for the forthcoming quarter, has hit a plateau over the last week and month. The estimate for 2012 has also not moved over the prior week and month.
Surprise History
With respect to earnings surprises, Bard has posted three positive surprises in the preceding four quarters, while it missed the Zacks Consensus Estimate once. The company produced an average positive earnings surprise of 0.94% over the last four quarters, implying that it has surpassed the Zacks Consensus Estimate by that measure. Third quarter earnings are also expected to meet expectations.
Our View
With a market cap of $8.47 billion, C.R. Bard is a well-diversified medical device company, providing a complete line of products to treat medical conditions through less invasive procedures in a cost-effective manner. The company aims to achieve long-term growth by focusing on business development, internal Research and Development (R&D) and strategic investment in higher growth markets.
Bard keeps introducing new products in the market at regular intervals. The company also has a reasonably strong pipeline along with a substantial number of projects in each business segment. Additionally, the company remains committed to delivering incremental returns to investors by leveraging its solid balance sheet, healthy free cash flow and earnings power.
However, increasing competition, fluctuating currency, pricing/volume pressure and an overall tough U.S. and European economy remain areas of concern. C.R. Bard faces strong competition from Boston Scientific Corporation (BSX - Analyst Report), and Johnson & Johnson (JNJ - Analyst Report).
We expect the company to provide some light on the pricing/volume and capital spending trend as well as an update on its pipeline and guidance for the fourth quarter during the call. We currently have a 'Neutral' recommendation on C.R. Bard. The stock currently retains a Zacks #3 Rank, which translates into a short-term "Hold" rating.
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Massive crowds filled the streets of Egyptian cities today after the Army announced it would not fire on demonstrators. President Mubarak's hold on power is increasingly tenuous. We hear from Cairo and look at reaction from the Middle East to Washington. Also, Jordan's King Abdullah II fires his government, and yesterday's ruling that all provisions of healthcare reform are unconstitutional.
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King Abdullah II of Jordan fired his government today, including a Prime Minister who's been the target of protesters because of alleged corruption. Joel Greenberg is a special correspondent for the Washington Post.
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The crowds in Egypt today were bigger than ever, a "remarkable tapestry," a crowd "far bigger and more tumultuous than any in the previous week," according to the New York Times, "from young women with babies to old men with canes." The Army paved the way for the so-called "march of millions" by saying it would not fire on demonstrators and calling their demands "legitimate." The new vice president offered negotiations but, speaking for the protesters, Mohamed ElBaradai said they won't talk until President Hosni Mubarak leaves the country. What else do they want? What's the fallout in other Middle Eastern countries? And, what is the Obama Administration planning to do now?
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It's interesting to look at the state of horror these days. Thankfully it's fairly strong in numbers with releases happening every month. If you'll pardon the digression, my two cents on the state of horror helps to explain my feelings on "Stitches" more accurately.
Event number two for John Carpenter this month! If you haven't yet, check out my last post about the anniversary screening for John Carpenter's "The Thing". He did a round of Q&A then too and surprisingly the questions asked this time were all different than from before.
"Eddie: The Sleepwalking Cannibal" is literally what you think it would be about from the name. A mute man named Eddie has the dark talent of turning cannibalistic once he falls asleep. Throw in a creatively starved artist using Eddie's night attacks as inspiration for paintings and you have the full picture. Let me make it clear that this film is listed as a horror comedy which aided me in examining the purpose behind this plot. If you love "Shaun of the Dead" and the satirical yet bloody good "Cabin in the Woods" then...you'll probably want to avoid this one.
Let's deal with the question on everyone's mind right off the top: Would the sequel to 2010's well-regarded horror comedy "Piranha 3D" be able to match the disembodied male sex organ quotient of the original? Happily -- or perhaps unhappily, depending on your feelings -- the answer is yes, sweet lord yes!
Let's just say it, "Gingerclown 3D" is a fantastic name for a film. The cast also looks great, Lance Henriksen, Tim Curry, Michael Winslow... but then I watched the trailer, and there isn't a single "Ginger" in it. I can't help but assume they're using the South Park-ian definition, a pasty redhead with no soul. Otherwise, what the hell is a "Gingerclown"? I feel like I've been lied to here. The trailer's still fun, but I have to admit, if there's no gingers in it I make no promises about watching it. I am not to be trifled with.
If I had to guess, I would assume that nostalgia plays a huge role in a lot of horror fans love of the genre. Personally, I know that when people ask me why I like and write about genre flicks, my go-to answer usually involves growing up watching these films with my father and childhood friends. Given that I grew up as a child of the nineties, anthology horror in particular triggered that nostalgic feeling more than almost anything.
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Saturday, November 9, 2002 was my first Weblog entry, right here on O'Reilly Network. In 2005 I started using my personal Weblog Copia and soon I was posting exclusively there. On Copia I post on everything from music to literature to politics to technology, and I've long wanted to find a way to primarily post my tech writings here on O'Reilly Network, while having this aggregated with my other personae on Copia. This, "personal aggregation" as I call it, is one of the motivations for me to move from the PyBlosxom platform of Copia to a new one I'm building from scratch, with a few other co-developers. Bright Content (I don't yet want to link to it because i think it's not entirely ready for any attention) is a Weblogging system that embodies much of my long-standing interests in technology architecture relating to content.
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wish i had a copy"Here was blue, here was yellow, here was green, sky and river, woods and mountains, all beautiful, all mysterious and enchanting, and in the midst of it, he, Siddhartha, the awakened one, on the way to himself."


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Byerly fans rejoice! The new 2013 Byerly Wakeboards website is live. The redesigned site makes it easier to stay up to date with the latest in wake from the Byerly brand and its athletes
Seattle Water Sports has invited Scott Byerly to join them for their Evening of the Stars event set to go down on November 17th from 6 to 9pm. Scott will also be in Portland, OR with Active Water Sports the evening before on the 16th. Set these dates aside, join Scott for some food and drink and enjoy a fun Wake evening.
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Scott and the crew have updated the Byerly Wakeboards website with the complete product line for 2011. New for 2011 is the Byerly Blunt wakeboard available in both 53" and 55". Another addition to the lineup is a larger Hazard surfboard, now available in a 5.4. Freshly designed boots including the Onset, Byerly Pro and […]
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The 2013-14 season begins with a pair of games in Abbotsford this coming weekend. Here are some milestones and other notes to pay attention to. [more]
Vern Fiddler played parts of four seasons for the Admirals from 2002-2006, and was part of the Calder Cup championship winning team in 2004. An undrafted free agent from Edmonton, Alberta, Fiddler signed the with Predators after splitting the 2001-02 season between the Roanoke Express (ECHL) and Norfolk Admirals (AHL). Fiddler made his NHL debut less than a month into the 2002-03 season, and proceeded split time between the Predators and the Admirals each season except for the NHL lockout year in 2004-05. A center known for being responsible and effective in the defensive zone, Fiddler ranks 15th all-time in AHL Admirals goals scored (38), and 16th in points (97). After winning the Calder Cup in '04, Fiddler was a leader on the Admirals during the NHL lockout season, and finished third on the team in goals (20), and first in plus/minus (19). "Vern was an undrafted player that played in the Coast [ECHL] the year before and was very hungry to show people that he belonged at a higher level", noted former Admirals Head Coach Claude Noel. "He played with great determination and a will to succeed and that was really evident in his play. He was a major contributor to the season that we won the Calder Cup in '04 in Milwaukee and it was very evident that his will carried him not only to a contract with the Nashville Predators but eventually to a career in the NHL." Fiddler played his final game for the Admirals on November 16th, 2005, and has managed to stay healthy in the NHL in the seasons since, playing at least 70 regular season games each year with the Predators, Phoenix Coyotes, and Dallas Stars. |
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I'm about to install Tigase, but I'd like to use Tigase for a private IM server. Can I disable the ability for users to add members of another Jabber server (only allow users@mydomain not users@anotherdomain)? I don't want to be part of the entire Jabber network if that makes sense.
Is there an easy way to configure this in the options, or is it like that by default?
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Well, easiest way to disable federation (i.e. communication with other xmpp servers) is to disable s2s component which can be done by inserting into init.properties following line:
Disabling option for adding contacts from other servers to the roster on the other hand might be a bit tricky...
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nikterry's review of The Civil War Diary Quilt "yarns" and patterns of warby nikterry on October 28, 2008 The thoughts and daily activities of several civil war era women both very young and very old of varring religious beliefs and backgrounds. This book is a nice read on a cold afternoon snuggling up on a couch or as a less time consuming interest book. I was personally surprised and delighted to hear of my old hometown mentioned within it;(Coldwater, Mi). Connections to your own past may be here and you may feel it is so to hear of one writer, a bridesmaid to General Custers wife or of a small child crying for her brother not to go off to war who was then lost, finding a link to her brother so many years later. Read how farmers' of many places were forced to take in soldiers first from one side, then from another to feed them and their animals and put them up for the night. (200 soldiers just popping in at dusk) and of their dangers they faced closer to Virginia that they were. Included in between the diary pages, seperating authors diary entry pages from each other are themed quilt pieces with instructions and templates on how to make them, including a doll dress design at the back. |
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Liam Killeen: Aiming to improve on a fifth place finish in Athens and seventh in Beijing
Liam Killeen is looking to record his best-ever Olympic Games finish in the London 2012 mountain bike event at Hadleigh Farm on Sunday.
Killeen finished fifth in Athens in 2004 and seventh in Beijing four years later and is looking forward to competing in a major event in front of a home crowd following his experience at the Manchester Commonwealth Games in 2002.
The 30-year-old from Malvern believes the home crowd will give him a boost as he seeks is an Olympic best result in Essex as one of 50 riders going for glory.
"I find the home crowd gives me a boost," Killeen said.
"I had the opportunity to race at the Commonwealth Games 10 years ago in Manchester and I can still remember it now - I had goose bumps going up all the big climbs. It lifted me big-time on that day."
Regarding his previous Olympics near-misses, he added: "You think 'what if?' but under the circumstances I think I achieved pretty decent results.
"In Athens, at my first Games, I was fifth after a bit of a hold up on the first corner, and then in Beijing I was in medal-winning shape but unfortunately had a crash.
"I caught one of the marking posts right at the start of the race, so that set me back.
"But every race is different and I'm going to be vigilant at the start. I feel the last five or six weeks' training has gone very well and now I'm just looking forward to it. Hopefully I will achieve a result I'm happy with."
France's Julien Absalon enters the race having won the last two Games, but Nino Schurter of Switzerland and 2011 world champion Jaroslav Kulhavy of the Czech Republic are big threats.
Absalon led a French one-two in Beijing and the silver medallist Jean-Christophe Peraud has returned to the dirt track after a 44th-placed finish in the Tour de France on July 22, including second place on stage 12 behind David Millar.
France could dominate, with world Under-23 champion Julie Bresset a contender in the women's race.
Gunn-Rita Dahle Flesjaa of Norway won in Athens in 2004 and should challenge world champion Catharine Pendrel of Canada, but defending Olympic champion Sabine Spitz of Germany is yet to find form this season, placing a best of sixth in the World Cup rounds.
A week into the Games of the XXX Olympiad, Richard Moore brings us his half-way highs and lows
Linford Christie sprinted to 100m gold for Britain at an Olympic Games best remembered for America's basketball dream team.


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For all his huffing and puffing, Anthony Tommasini comes up with one of the most dully conventional lists of "classical" greats that you could imagine, a sophomore Music Appreciation curriculum whose boldest choice is putting Debussy right behind Schubert (Schubert? Really? Really?) and ahead of Brahms. But really, I just want to take this opportunity to say how much Wagner stinks, and how the idea that this cacophonous, overwrought, crackpot German noisemaker is "greater" than Chopin or Monteverdi or Ravel or Dvořák or Berg or even Tommasini's "beloved Puccini" is the worst idea since Wagner himself decided to set nine thousand hours of drivel for a four-hundred-piece orchestra and twenty-nine human bellows under the creaking, drafty, weedy stone edifice of a goofball Norse mythos that makes Marvel Comics read like fucking Homer. And don't even get me started on Parsifal, literally the most boring thing ever created by a human, five pulsing hours of musical Ambien during which a cast of singers wanders as aimlessly as the score, wondering just what they are doing there. The whole of Parsifal and the Ring, supposedly the most titanic artistic achievement in the whole of everything forever, is contained in Mozart's lunatic masterpiece, The Magic Flute, which rather than paying worshipful homage to all that dowdy legend, rather than achieving a transcendently flaccid stridency, if you can imagine, manages to make a marvelous hash of the whole lunatic business of Mystery and myth. I say that a big fat Sarastro intoning "O Isis und Osiris" is a more musically meaningful, and at a mere four minutes by the way, than the whole of Wagner. One day, not long from now, the whole Wagnerian corpus is going to collapse in on itself and form a pure sigularity of undeserved self-importance. Who's that, just beyond the event horizon, finally allowing himself a hearty chuckle? Oh, it's Mahler. Yeah.
Anyway, my exhibits for someone to take Wagner's place on the dumb list are in favor of another modern Frenchie. Here is the great bariton Gerard Souzay singing the opening of Ravel's last composition, the song cycle of Don Quichotte à Dulcinée and then the Beaux Arts trio playing the opening movement of the great, marvelous, extraordinary Piano Trio.
Friday, January 21, 2011
The Last Walkyrie with the Guts of the Last Grail Knight
Herd the Nerd
I guess I will begin by admitting that Leonard Hatred is right. I do like Iain Banks, or Iain M. Banks, or whomever, whose anarchospacetopia, The Culture, is a fun setting for roaring space operas. The most entertaining of these is Excession, a novel whose main plot involves immense, self-aware spaceships trying to figure out what the fuck is up with a totally inscrutable object that appears one day near a star on the outskirts of the galaxy, although the best is Look to Windward, which deals in the morality of war, the nature of loss in a universe where technology makes the dead indelible, and the question of art and human (well, alien, but human-scale) genius where vastly greater and older intelligences exist and interact with we small mortals. For all its whiz-bangery and space-hopping, Windward has an air of Greek myth about it: its gods so much like us, and yet, not. All that said, the more recent Culture novels are dull, overlong, overwrought, shaggy-dog affairs that are fun to skim for geeky invention but succorless as stories.
Banks' best space-opera sort of book is actually the stand-alone novel The Algebraist, a kooky, violent story that admittedly also suffers from its own bloat and authorial indulgence, but whose Dwellers, slow-thinking, nearly immortal creatures of immense antiquity who inhabit vast civilizations in gas giant planets, their odd culture in a state of hilarious and perpetual fusty Edwardian decline, are the funniest and most delightful aliens in recent science fiction, one-part Lovecraftian monsters and one-part Upstairs/Downstairs. But his best novel (better than all the rest of his science fiction and better than all of his "mainstream" books as well) is Transition, a novel about a secret society of agents who "flit" between parallel worlds, a conspiratorial update of Asimov's The End of Eternity that I read twice in a row because I enjoyed it so much.
I like Charlie Stoss and Ken MacLeod. These two are often spoken of in the same breath, and I regret being so lazy as to do the same, but they really are similar in style and substance. MacLeod's Fall Revolution series is his strongest, although my favorite of his novels is Cosmonaut Keep, the first of a trilogy that regrettably grows weaker and more dissipated as it goes on. Keep, however, is a neat book set in a "second sphere" of civilization on the far side of the galaxy, and like Banks' better Culture books, it largely concerns itself with a human society that discovers itself, suddenly, to be a very junior partner in a very ancient civilization. Stross' Accelerando is really a series of linked, speculative pieces about something very much resembling, ugh, Thuh Singularity, and is a little gadgety for my taste, but Glasshouse, set in roughly the same universe but far into its future, is a frightening, sickening story about men and women forced into a an experimental recreation of a 1950s-inspired American town, a recapitulation of gender inequity and the depredations of labor in capitalism that reminds me of The Handmaid's Tale as told by a Kafka with a computer. Stross' Eschaton books, meanwhile, are less rigorous but more fun. Singularity Sky is the more classic of the two, and its The Festival is another great alien, or almost-alien, creation, but for my money Iron Sunrise is the better book--paced quickly, told with real verve, and featuring the best Space Nazis, no, really, ever.
I hated China Miéville's Perdido Street Station, hated The Scar, and hated Iron Council most of all. Steampunk sucks, guys; it smells like a Nine Inch Nails video. It wants to feel you from the inside. So I effectively wrote the guy off, but then I read The City and the City, a book about which reviewers climbed over themselves to haul out the adjective, Borgesian, and about which, for once, it makes sense--a police procedural set in a tatty, imagined, Eastern-European city that occupies the same point in time and space as a parallel city in a world much more like our own, which becomes less and less "science fiction" as the story progresses and much more about what we choose and choose not to see. Speaking of procedurals, there is a really great short story in The Insufferable Gaucho, a recent collection of a number of older Roberto Bolaño stories: "Police Rat," about, literally, a police rat.
Since I mentioned The Handmaid's Tale, and since this list is wanting for a woman, I should say that although I have mixed feelings about Atwood, I often find myself wondering why it is, exactly, that I like her, I did really enjoy The Year of The Flood, surprisingly, since I despised its preceding volume, Oryx and Crake. And I recently read The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi, another post-flood (literally and metaphorically) near-ish future fiction that seems more prescient than anything else in the last ten years.
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Less than Twelve Parsecs
Alas, George Lucas only ever destroyed Star Wars. But while Daniel Larison says all that needs to be said about Michael Lind's misapprehensions about the "Middle Ages" and weird affection for centralized bureaucracy, he says not nearly enough about Lind's lousy reading of the classic Stars of science fiction and fantasy:
If there was a moment when the culture of enlightened modernity in the United States gave way to the sickly culture of romantic primitivism, it was when the movie "Star Wars" premiered in 1977. A child of the 1960s, I had grown up with the optimistic vision symbolized by "Star Trek," according to which planets, as they developed technologically and politically, graduated to membership in the United Federation of Planets, a sort of galactic League of Nations or UN. When I first watched "Star Wars," I was deeply shocked. The representatives of the advanced, scientific, galaxy-spanning organization were now the bad guys, and the heroes were positively medieval — hereditary princes and princesses, wizards and ape-men. Aristocracy and tribalism were superior to bureaucracy. Technology was bad. Magic was goodI understand that Gene Roddenberry's retromod vision of the future had Kirk kissing Nichelle Nichols, but even before the stylish sixties gave way to the weird, hierarchical, technocratic dictatorship of The Next Generation, the United Federation of Planets played barely the part of a supernumerary. The governing organization always seemed to be Starfleet, whose motto . . . to boldly go . . . and shoot with lasers . . . Their missions of exploration always seemed to lead to armed conflict, and the bold, interracial, transspecies future had as a model of its money-free, egalitarian, merit-based society something more or less directly descended from the British Admiralty, circa Trafalgar.
Meanwhile, if we must read Star Wars as something other than someone talking that old hack and fraud Joe Campbell a leeeetle bit too seriously, then let me just remind you that the "advanced, scientific, galaxy-spanning organization" was an evil empire run by a cyborg monster and an evil wizard, and that in almost every visual detail its model was not the New goddamn Deal, but the Third fucking Reich.
The Fix Is Win
My friend Dennis may be a sports fan, but he's obviously not a betting man, because if he were, he'd know that the 3 points by which the Steelers are favored is just the home field advantage, and the odds on the game are otherwise even. Are the Steelers loved by the critics? Seems to me they are consistently underrated despite their long-time winning ways, mostly because of that old "grind and win." No, they don't play pretty. They never have. They play football. Anyway, whatever the sports press thinks, TV's gameday announcers hate 'em, especially that fucking Bengal Collinsworth, who deserves to have every swoopy hair tweezed from his oily scalp, one at a time.
Let me throw in with Mike Tomlin. I like Rex Ryan, and I like Jets football. I'm glad they beat the Pats, although I won't be satisfied until someone gets Ray Lewis a bus ticket from Baltimore and a knife with Bill Belichick's name on it. They're a smart team, and they play a banging, gritty game, but they'll suffer from a poorly-manned offense and a defense geared toward quarterbacks. Yes, Santonio Holmes is a great reciever (you're welcome), but Sanchez is a mediocre passer--a talent, yes, but a bad decision-maker with accuracy problems, which is why Holmes is always getting props for tapping both toes inside the line before he bounces into the bleachers. Roethlisberger isn't actually a quarterback, meanwhile; he is a football player, or, alternately, a living sasquatch, a distinction with a difference, frustrating though that may be every time an opposing team runs him over with a truck, fits him for lead sneakers, and tosses him in a river without a yellow flag for miles. The Jets' blitz wasn't very effective against him in the regular season, but even if they manage to overwhelm our still-ragged O-line on Sunday, it won't affect his game. The Ravens sacked him thrice on every offensive down, and he still beat them. Brady used to get credit for being the most unflappable QB in the league, but the smart money says it's Big Ben, who is either too big, too strong, too smart, too dumb, or some impossible combination thereof to feel the effects of injury and single-play failure; who can go through a windshield and come to training camp anyway.
"Keys to the game." Goddamnit, Suisham, keep those kickoffs on the ground.
Every Standardized Test Score Is Infinite; There Is No Difference
Emma Schutzius, an eighth-grader at George Washington Middle School, said educators should focus on keeping kids interested in learning. "We are not just walking, talking test scores," she said.How right you are, Emma. You are marching, struggling, conquering test scores. You are the test scores with which America will vanquish China and Taiwan, France and Japan, Borneo and Mozambique. You are the statistical embodiment of the triumphal national character, the Thelamic dynamo from which emenates the collective national will.
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Horses of a Feather
It is odd to find oneself accused of football provincialism by a goddamn-Jets fan . . . like finding yourself accused of hockey hickdom by an Islanders man. I won't entirely discount Dennis' thesis. Pittsburgh was a bit of a football backwater in the pre-merger days, and Joe Namath's New York Jets did play some killer ball, but Dennis seems to think no one is watching as he lines up on the sideline to trip the next thirty-five years of post-merger football, when Namath could no longer hack it and the team became an embarrassment to everyone except for seventeen contrarian Brooklynite Reform Jews who didn't want to root for the Giants. Rex Ryan has made the Jets fanworthy again over the last couple of years, I'll credit him that, but in a town whose combined Manning-Sanchez quarterback empire looks and plays like something Ben Roethlisberger would brutalize over a couple of Jagerbombs and a urinal, you'll pardon me if I take their teams' good luck and fans' resilience with the same skepticism I bring to the calorie count on a Primanti Bros. sammich. Meanwhile, that "rigid specimen of the Rooney family" has got one more ring than the olympics.
No Steeler fan worth his city's inability to spread road salt is allowed to believe in victory, though. I will cop to that particular provincialism. We are a primitive, superstitious people. We believe ourselves not only to be the most referee-despised team in the league, but also, actually, the worst football team in history, every victory a bizarre gift from an inhuman and incomprehensible gridiron god. I expect the special teams to abandon their lanes, the O-line to collapse, Flozell Adams to come in for an injured Troy Polamalu about forty seconds into the first quarter and subsequently hold every single Jets offensive player simultaneously, for a total aggregate penalty yardage of five touchdowns, a safety, and two hardboiled eggs. Chris Kemoeatu will get pushed into the backfield, trip over his own feet, and actually cause Heinz field to tip up away from the river. Ben Roethlisberger's giant, mutant hands will make a roundhouse fake, holding the ball through a full 270 degrees of motion, at which point it will fly out of his hand and through the uprights behind him, being ruled a field goal. Final score: Jets 40, Steelers 4 and a half.
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
You Too Can Become a Rapist Quarterback, in America
N+1 is as good an argument as any for the mass firebombing of American Universities, a full-on Stalinist purge of every degree-holding American as an Enemy of the People. I myself might be consumed on that pyre, but fuck it, it would be worth it to watch that gang of smugly illiterate post-graduate fuckers go up in the same flames. Meritocratic is not the antonym of elitist. Hell, the two terms are partially synonymous. The former names a conceit in which we pretend that the elite are selected through merit, skill, acumen, etc. It's still an elite. I mean, what to do with a statement like:
To the first idea, that cultural vocations are uniquely elitist, there is more truth than is fun to admit. Majoring in literature or art history rather than economics or biology, never mind hotel management or marketing, suggests a certain privileged indifference to material concerns (even when this rests on actual indifference instead of piles of money). And if you've gone into serious debt by attending college, afterward you'll have noted that it's the do-gooding NGO or the progressive magazine that expects you to take an unpaid internship, and the publishing house or academic department that offers you a pittance. Goldman Sachs and Google, which pay real salaries, seem in this sense less addicted to exploitation, and more interested in income redistribution, than the Nation or the Yale English department.Jobs at Goldman and Google are not a fair wage for factory workers, a decent living for grocery clerks. A vanishingly small portion of America works for immensely wealthy technology and finance firms. It is a clever observation that, because these types of jobs "pay real salaries," a few internet engineers and finance-industry made men can quickly pay down educational debts, but it is also entirely a non sequitur. Many middle-class children do work for NGOs. Poor kids struggle through school and then become social workers, English teachers, poets. Rich kids get jobs at Citigroup. The idea that all poetry students are children of privilege, hence elite, whereas biology majors overrepresent struggling, self-funded, kids-of-the-working class just hoping to get hired on by GlaxoSmithBarney or whatever is patently absurd, empirically groundless, and beside the point.
It's the US armed forces, pop stardom, and professional sports that confer prestige and power in the most egalitarian ways. Otherwise it's an elitist society with a meritocratic alibi that we're running.Pop stardom? Professional sports? This is crackpot Rawls at its finest. Because a lot of elite athletes started as poor kids, ergo sports are egalitarian due to some perverted sense of equality of opportunity? Does the writer even know what egalitarian means? On any given Sunday, the NFL fields approximately five ten thousandths of one percent of the population of the United States. Professional sports, better than anything, demonstrate the incoherent opposition of elitism and meritocracy. They are both the most elitist and most meritocratic of institutions. Which is fine for ballgames, but not exactly a model for equality, let alone, ye gods, egalitarianism.
Blood Liberal
As a Jew--ha-ha, boo-yeah, suckas!--okay, uh, as a Jew-ish America, let me just say that the idea that Sarah Palin has commited some unspeakable indecency by using the phrase "blood libel" in the manner that she did is totally unfair and almost completely incorrect. In fact, I propose to you that she used the phrase in a perfectly proper and appropriate fashion.
First of all, the blood libel that I keep hearing people talk about in deploring her comments is not THE blood libel. Indeed, the blood libel against Jews was not that they murdered gentile children and used their blood in religious rituals, which was an occasionally potent folk belief that popped up persistently but intermittently in the middle ages, but rather the Church doctrine that Jews had killed Jesus, that they as a "people" bore collective guilt for his execution.
Anyway, until the phrase was deployed in an Unapproved Manner, it was understood to have a certain plasticity, and while it was never in wide, general usage given its understood significance to Jews, you could still hear it, from time to time, referring to exactly that to which it refers: the libelous manufacture of guilt, often collective guilt, for a crime committed by one's assumed or perceived peers and allies.
Farewell My Son, Farewell from the Machine
I have been asked what I think about this cry from Freddie at L'Hôte, so I have to admit to my bemusement at what seems to me to be the central complaint of the piece:
Many neoliberal bloggers maintain an unspoken but meticulously curated policy of not allowing left-wing criticism to enter their rhetorical space.Is this a plea for belonging? A complaint about link-backs? If you want to get Matthew Yglesias to throw some traffic your way, your best bet is to spend a few posts calling him "an odious, totalitarian, albino squirrel," at which point he will harumph over to twatter and send five thousand liberals nattering off in your direction to tell you that you are a fool, a crank, and a reactionary whose, uh, um, policy preferences will ever come to pass, hosana, eli, hallelujah. Yes, but a very tall and naturally thin reactionary with full and beautiful lips. Anyway, what was I saying? Oh, yes. The inclusion of genuine, authentic, bite-it-like-a-golden-coin leftwardishism in the rhetorical condominium association of the rump American liberal-slash-democratic-socialist faction.
Plainly I come to this particular form of writing from a different non-rhetorical space than Freddie; I certainly don't conceive of this sort of thing as some kind of political activism, and although many of my sympathies are with people of the left, or the far-left, or the far-far-left, or wherever one goes before the sidewalk ends, I do not think of myself as a leftist. So to me, the question of how one gets to be included in the conversation, the discourse, what have you, is essentially meaningless. The reason that a conservative militarist like Matthew Yglesias does not spend a great deal of time acknowledging the socialist critique of redistributive economic policies within the context of global capitalism is that there is no viable socialism within the context of global capitalism. Just ask this Eurozone! The idea that rent-seeking careerists within the media apparatus of the American state are somehow allies in a social and economic struggle is completely absurd. Wondering why Matthew Yglesias ended up writing reliably, banally conservative opinion pieces on his blog when he was once a man of the left is like wondering why Joe Blow, Attorney-at-Law ended up creating corporate tax shelters when he was once an undergraduate student of poetry. He did not find new beliefs. He got a job. I am exquisitely doubtful that Matthew Yglesias has any beliefs so to speak. He has an internalized range of opinions which he repeats and rearranges for publication, just as an assembly-line robotic arm has a programmed range of motions that it repeats and rearranges while putting together the latest light truck.
By the way, there are of course plenty of left-wingers and far-right kooks and privileged anarchist faggots and conspiracy theorists and lawd only knows what else writing on the internet.
Update: Empirical proof, by the way.
Monday, January 17, 2011
The Fork Calling the Chopstick a Utensil
The American government, dba "the Obama administration," and by extension The New York Times, have discovered that large states have multiple centers of power and interest, that titular heads of state do not wield divine and unchecked authority, and that different interests and constituencies exert influence in purportedly communist China, just as they do in allegedly democratic America. This is to be lamented. China cannot "act decisively" to do the things that we want it to do, even if it wanted to. It? Well, it raises the question: what is a China? The whole thing is couched in tones of revelation and surprise. Now of course, no one is surprised that large businesses often act in very similar ways even though their corporate governance structures are different, even though one produces cars and the other produces boner pills. And yet somehow when the institutions in question are large states like China and the US, these same sorts of distinctions are taken to be absolutely fundamental. One major superstate is much like another? China is in many ways just like the US? YOU DON'T SAY!


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Gig Harbor Boy Scouts Community Service
Published March 18, 2010
Boy scouts carry a sailboat mast as part of a service project.
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Ahead of the release of his debut album, professional enigma Kirin J Callinan sets the record straight on a few things, including Scott Walker and Sugar Mountain.
Karen O spits, swirls and humps her way into the hearts of Sydney at the Yeah Yeah Yeah's Big Day Out sideshow.
"I feel like we're not friends anymore"
A concert on Wednesday in Sydney will feature three bands you've probably never heard of, made up of some musicians you probably have.
The Sugar Mountain festival combines musical performances with visual art and its main event will be spread over three stages on one night at The Forum.
Royal Headache, Kirin J Callinan, Straight Arrows, Flume, Dappled Cities, Hermitude, Collarbones, Deep Sea Arcade, Regular John, Catcall are among the 70 nominees in 13 categories for the fifth annual SMAC awards.
Tame Impala win the J Award for their album Lonerism.
Let's call it now: Tame Impala will win their second J Award for album of the year with 'Lonerism'.
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