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THURSDAY, Sept. 19 (HealthDay News) -- Hospitalizations for a deadly heart infection that affects mainly older people have declined in recent years, a new study finds. This was seen even with recommendations for more limited use of antibiotics to prevent the illness, called endocarditis.
Specifically, endocarditis is inflammation of the inside living of the heart valve and chambers, according to the U.S. National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. The risk of endocarditis increases when people have surgery, and it's considered the most serious infection of the cardiovascular system.
There was a significant increase in rates of hospitalization for endocarditis in the 1990s, which led many doctors to prescribe antibiotics before dental procedures and certain types of surgery.
However, the American Heart Association has narrowed the recommended use of antibiotics to prevent endocarditis to only a subgroup of patients undergoing dental procedures.
In this study, Yale School of Medicine researchers looked at the annual rates of endocarditis-related hospitalizations and related outcomes among more than 262,000 Medicare patients 65 and older between 1999 and 2010.
An increase in hospitalizations for endocarditis occurred between 1999 and 2005, but there was a decline between 2006 and 2010, according to the study in the August Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
"We were surprised to see reduced rates of endocarditis hospitalizations during this time period," study first author Dr. Behnood Bikdeli, a postdoctoral associate in cardiovascular medicine, and an internal medicine resident, said in a Yale news release.
"This downward trend was consistent in all major study subgroups, but certain subgroups, including black participants, had higher hospitalization rates and worse outcomes in the study period," he added.
This racial disparity in outcomes, as well as reasons for the overall decline in hospitalizations, require further investigation, Bikdeli said.
"Clinicians should consider the risks and benefits of antibiotic use on a case-by-case basis and should share the information with their patients for appropriate decision making," he concluded.
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Of course, if you live in the right part of the country, you probably also noticed the Snowpocalypse Now event. I was reasonably lucky–my power was only out overnight Tuesday-Wednesday. On Tuesday night my boss was chasing us out the door barely at five, and we already had drifts over the roads. And for once the college wasn't fooling around–we were closed by 9pm for Wednesday. Which was just as well. I wouldn't have gotten out of the driveway on Thursday if it weren't for the kindness of a stranger with a plow on his pickup, let alone Wednesday morning. The barn apparently is fine, with a tractor to plow out the worst of it. Tomorrow, I'm hoping to get down that way. Today I shoveled another inch that fell last night and am staying inside, making American chop suey in the crock-pot (for the uninitiated, it's basically a tomato-sauce-like thing with beef that goes with elbow mac, known to some as goulash in the Midwest) and working on jewelry for my Etsy Store, Steampunk Sweethearts. My lovely coworker Tom helped break down a seven-day clockworks and I've now got plenty of lovely gears to play with.
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College is too expensive, graduates can't find decent jobs and pay off their loans, and students, parents and educators all share in the blame. Now, President Obama proposes to forgive more student debt and that will make a bad situation worse.
More than half of recent graduates are working as waiters, taxi drivers or some other occupation that does not require a college education. The number in minimum wage jobs has doubled since 2007.
Slow growth and a tough jobs market is one reason but, as importantly, too few college students choose tough majors like nursing, engineering and accounting that enjoy a robust demand for graduates. Too many select easier subjects like politics, history and other liberal arts, and emerge with few practical skills.
Good jobs abound for technicians in health care, computers and other fields – often educated at community colleges – and the Labor Department finds most rapidly growing occupations don't require a bachelor's degree. However, parents fear their children, without a four-year diploma, will lack the flexibility to navigate a lifetime of changing conditions.
If students are lazy and parents risk adverse, university professors and presidents are worse.
Professors simply teach less and engage in more research of questionable value than in the past. In the 1950s and 1960s, a significant track record of publications was not required for tenure for most undergraduate faculty – advancing the frontiers of science and the arts was mostly the work of professors engaged in post-graduate education.
Nowadays, professors at all levels must publish to win tenure, but much of what they do adds little value to either the practical world or the advancement of knowledge in a purer sense – but requires lighter teaching loads to enable.
Once tenured, many don't publish much but still keep their light teaching schedules.
University bureaucracies are even worse – presidents and deans often have staffs bigger than CEOs and managers running much larger businesses. And faculties, which make virtually all decisions by consensus, spend endless hours in committees advising presidents and deans, and are supported by mind numbing bureaucracies too.
University presidents are politicians, not business managers. They understand who makes the choices – students, who pay the bills – parents, and who they must please in the Alice-in-Wonderland world of university governance – faculty.
Rational they are – instead of encouraging students to study useful subjects and containing sky-rocketing costs, they focus on fund raising and lobbying government officials to facilitate more student loans.
Tuition jets into the stratosphere, students amass huge debt, and universities produce a lot of high quality unemployment.
President Obama is rational too – parents, students and former students all vote. Instead of radically refocusing national policy on skills acquisition through a dramatic expansion of vocational education in high schools and community colleges, he promises to increase the percentage of Americans with four-year diplomas.
Now he proposes forgiving billions in student debt with federal dollars. Borrowers in the program would make payments equal to 10 percent of their monthly income, after rent and basic living expenses, and after 20 years of ontime payments be forgiven of all debt – regardless of how much they had borrowed.
Debt forgiveness simply encourages young people and parents to continue poor choices and borrow too much, and colleges to push up tuition – things the nation can't afford. It certainly won't help graduates find jobs.
To compete in the global economy and create good jobs at home, America needs workers with the right skills. That means limiting access to college to those who can genuinely profit from a university education, requiring professors to teach more and teach more that is useful, and redirecting more of what the nation spends on education into other channels of vocational training.
Peter Morici is an economist and professor at the University of Maryland.


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DALLAS (AP) - The Big 12 will have three bowl games against SEC teams each postseason.
Big 12 officials Friday announced their future seven-game bowl lineup, which is highlighted by the previously announced 12-year Sugar Bowl partnership for the leagues to match their champions. If one or both champions make it into the new College Football Playoff, other top league teams would be selected for the game in the Superdome.
All of the deals start next year, coinciding with the new playoff. Other than the Sugar Bowl, all the agreements are for the 2014-19 seasons.
A deal with the Russell Athletic Bowl in Orlando gives the Big 12 a game in Florida. There are also new agreements in place with the Liberty Bowl in Memphis and the Armed Forces Bowl in Fort Worth, Texas. There are renewed deals with the Alamo, Texas, Buffalo Wild Wings and Heart of Dallas bowls.
"Our new bowl lineup meets all the benchmarks our member institutions desired," Big 12 Commissioner Bob Bowlsby said. "We have maintained a strong postseason presence in Texas, added a Florida destination, continued our exposure in the West, and added a drivable destination."
The other Big 12 vs. SEC bowl matchups will be in the Texas and Liberty bowls. Pac-12 teams will be the opponents in the Alamo and Buffalo Wild Wings bowls. The ACC will provide the other team for the Russell Athletic Bowl.
A Big 12 team will play in either the Armed Forces Bowl or Heart of Dallas Bowl each season from 2014-19. That is similar to agreements the Big Ten and Conference USA have reached with those two games in the Dallas-Fort Worth market.
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Correale Stevens gets initial OK for Pa. high court
HARRISBURG — A panel of state senators is in favor of Gov. Tom Corbett's nominee, Correale Stevens, to temporarily fill a vacancy on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.
The Senate Judiciary Committee voted unanimously Thursday to send Stevens' nomination to the full Senate. A two-thirds majority of senators is required for Stevens to take a seat on the seven-member bench.
Stevens, a Republican, is currently president judge of state Superior Court. If he's confirmed by the full Senate, the high court will return to a four-to-three Republican majority.
Stevens' career in public service includes time as Luzerne County's district attorney and a state representative.
The opening was created by the May 1 resignation of Joan Orie Melvin after she was convicted of using public employees to help her political campaigns.


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|MLBPA Press Release
Todays grant is part of the players previously announced $1 million, long-term commitment to help Haitians overcome the effects of this devastating disaster.
On behalf of all Major Leaguers, its an honor to award this grant to Physicians for Peace to support their ongoing efforts to help Haitians in need of medical assistance, said Curtis Granderson, MLBPA representative and Yankees outfielder. The effects of the earthquake are still being felt by thousands of Haitians, and we hope this grant helps remind people that our Caribbean neighbors are still in need of our ongoing support.
The grant will assist us as we continue to deliver immediate patient care in Haiti, which is an invaluable gift to the many people waiting for a prosthetic leg and those who need on-going physical therapy and services to maintain or replace a prosthesis, said Brig. Gen. Ron Sconyers (USAF, Ret.), president and CEO of Physicians for Peace. Perhaps even more importantly, the money will help fund a training and certification program for local healthcare professionals, so that Haitian prosthetic experts can one day meet the needs of amputee patients in their own communities.
Physicians for Peace, based in Norfolk, Va., has a history of collaborative partnerships in Haiti. Immediately after that disaster, the group became a founding member of the Haitian Amputee Coalition, a public-private partnership. Through the coalition, Physicians for Peace sends volunteer physical therapists to work with patients and technicians at the Hanger Clinic at Albert Schweitzer Hospital in Deschapelles.
In January 2010, Major Leaguers announced their pledge to provide grants totaling up to $1 million over the next five years to support the efforts of non-profit organizations working to help Haiti recover from the earthquake. In addition to todays $50,000 grant to Physicians for Peace, Esperanza, Medicines for Humanity and Project C.U.R.E. have received grants totaling $210,000 from the Players Trust to help support various programs in Haiti.
The Major Leaguers pledge to Haiti matched the single largest financial contribution ever made by the Players Trust. In 2005, in a demonstration of their commitment to rebuilding the Gulf region following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, the Players Trust presented a gift of $1 million to launch the Volunteers of America Rental Housing Development Fund. That contribution, along with contributions from other organizations, was used to develop affordable rental housing in the Gulf Coast region.
About the Major League Baseball Players Trust
The members of the Major League Baseball Players Association created the Players Trust, a 501(c)(3) charitable foundation, to provide resources of caring to those in need by volunteering in causes close to their hearts and encouraging others to do the same. The foundation became the first of its kind in professional sports established and administered by the players. For additional information, please visit www.MLBPLAYERS.com and visit the Players Trust channel on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/user/MLBPlayersTrust.
About Physicians for Peace
Physicians for Peace is an international non-profit organization that mobilizes volunteer healthcare professionals to assist developing nations with unmet medical needs and scarce resources. Through effective, hands-on medical education and training, clinical care and donated medical supplies, Physicians for Peace develops long-term, sustainable, replicable, and evidence-based programs to help partner nations build medical capability and capacity to help themselves. Since 1989 Volunteers for the 501(c) (3) nonprofit organization have conducted medical missions in more than 60 countries. With its headquarters in Norfolk, Va., Physicians for Peace has programs in 22 countries and offices in Manila, the Philippines and Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
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Wisconsin resident Annette Heitman, the mother of former Oak Ridge Schools business office supervisor Alex Heitman is in Oak Ridge this week trying to obtain more information behind her son's death.
Wisconsin resident Annette Heitman, the mother of former Oak Ridge Schools business office supervisor Alex Heitman is in Oak Ridge this week trying to obtain more information behind her son's death.
She's also asking how the city school system reportedly spent almost $10,000 in responding to her open records requests since she's obtained little of the information she's requested.
Schools Superintendent Bruce Borchers, as reported in a story printed on Monday, said the district has spent almost $10,000 responding to open records requests from Don and Annette Heitman.
The Heitmans' son, Alex, committed suicide in July 2011, according to law enforcement officials in Cocke County, where his body was found. However, Don and Annette do not believe that Alex killed himself and have been waging a three-year investigation to discover issues surrounding their son's death and his employment with the Oak Ridge Schools.
On Wednesday, Annette and Oak Ridge City Council member Trina Baughn met with The Oak Ridger to talk about the information Annette has received from school system officials. The Heitmans were told in a June 27 letter from Chuck Cagle, the school district's attorney, that since they are not Tennessee residents that have no rights to review the records held by the school district. Baughn has volunteered to act as their Tennessee citizen representative, which Cagle said is allowable.
During an interview in The Oak Ridger's offices, Annette said that all she has received from the district is the same audit report made available to the media in June and reported upon by the newspaper.
"That was not even requested by me," she said. "It was requested by the media."
As previously reported, that audit, conducted after Alex's death, for the most part found no issues in the district's business offices. There were, however, some concerns raised over a "business office supervisor," believed to be Heitman, reportedly using his school district credit card to pay for some education expenses, that were being paid back. This unnamed supervisor also reportedly purcharsed an iPad without supervisor approval and allegedly used the signature stamp of his supervisor without permission.
As to the records Annette has requested, she said she has only received Cagle's letter and several emails from Borchers denying her requests.
The schools superintendent has also offered to allow Annette to go through the boxes of printed emails from Alex's school district account. According to Annette and Baughn, those emails were printed and redacted in 2011, after Alex's death.
Baughn said that she has requested, received, and paid for phone records from several school employees for the June and July 2011 time period. The City Council member showed the newspaper those records, which appeared to be usage statements, and all of the phone numbers appeared to have been redacted by blacking out the prefix to all the phone numbers.
On receiving the phone records, Baughn emailed Elisha Hodge, open records counsel for the Tennessee Comptroller's office. During the interview, Hodge responded and Baughn provided that email to The Oak Ridger. In the email Hodge wrote:
"Based upon the information in your email, I am unaware of any provision that would allow the phone numbers to be redacted, unless the calls were being made to the private home or cell phones of other public employees," Hodge wrote.
Baughn also said that she paid $3.60 for the records — obtained through an open records request made to Borchers — and she said she thinks some of them are missing. She said she believes this because some of the records seem out of order in accordance with the page numbers on the statements.
The Oak Ridger attempted to contact Borchers Wednesday afternoon about Hodge's email, but according to his secretary he was in and out of meetings all afternoon.
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Yes we do...its called soccer...
Yes we do...its called soccer...
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If you havent heard of Euro 2004, you dont.
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Yes they do have soccer here...its because I dont follow it...
Even people who dont follow it over here know what Euro 2004 is.
because it is a european thing...Originally Posted by Tom Halsey
Luckily Fox Sports have all the live coverage over here so I'll be able to watch it all.
I wouldn't go too far past Sweden at 28-1, if a top team's off form sweden will beat them. If a top team is playing well they'll simply be outclassed.
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I wouldn't touch Sweden. Don't have enough class to win it.Originally Posted by Cloete
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Exactly the reason why we love America .Originally Posted by Proud Indian
You dont get it, do you?
The Danes lack the class, but they have a good unit, capable of some big results. If they can string it together like they did '92 who knows. But they lack a Schmeichel and a set Laudrups. Thats the only issue.
"Matt Damon"
So only the 3 great players they lack - not many then (!)
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Beware the evils of Kit-Kats - they're immoral apparently.
In other words have no class at all.Originally Posted by nibblet
Rank outsiders for me.
Ok it is a European Football/soccer tournament held every four years with 16 of Europe's best countries compete in a tournament and the winner of it is crowned European Champions.Originally Posted by Proud Indian
Stuff like 'Euro 2000' and 'Euro 2004' is the name of the European Championships with the name of the year it is in.
Hope this helps.
Well at least they have half a chance now with Henrik Larsson coming out of international retirement. And this is the same Sweden that knocked off England 1-0.Originally Posted by Neil Pickup
Friendlies count for absolutely zero.Originally Posted by Craig
No....Originally Posted by Tom Halsey
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hi guys I just wanted to pop on and let you know I am still alive and well. It's been a year since I last posted so I'm gonna just end with this post. For now my life is good. I'm
Busy, I'm happy and I just don't get the time to maintain the blog. Current situation... Nathan is now 6 years old and I just worship him. He has his tough moments like all children do but I wouldn't change him
For the world. I have been in a relationship with grant now for 15 months. I am very happy and in love and very very lucky as he's such a great guy. Nathan also adores him. Grant has a little girl and so we are a nice little team and I'm enjoying our time together. I have just started my second year of studying for my health and social care degree. I passed my first year with distinction so that was a proud moment. I have also started working part time while I continue my studies.
I have been panic attack free now for ... 6 years??? And yet the worry that I'll have one still haunts me at times. I feel I've figured my anxiety out and while 90% of the time it's not there, I am able to keep perspective and battle on when it rears its ugly head.
I still have things to work on but it's a massive change from where I used to be and I will always count my blessings. In the meantime if anyone needs to chat just drop me an email as I'm always there when you need support from someone who's been there ✌🏼
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hi guys I just wanted to pop on and let you know I am still alive and well. It's been a year since I last posted so I'm gonna just end with this post. For now my life is good. I'm
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Hi there, I'm really glad I found this blog - there is a way, and I'm glad to hear you are doing well - it gives me hope
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I'm so happy for you Lynn. Your hard work has paid off. You're such an inspiration! Good luck with your studies. Grant and you look like a perfect match. xx
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mojacardave wrote:patzer wrote:I coma for a few newpix and the tower has fallen, another person appeared, the tower fell and about 5 newpages?fhorn wrote:patzer wrote:... another person appeared.....
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I assume that patzer meant to add that as the third thing, rather than commenting on the tower twice. Brainfart - happens to all of us.
Speaking of which (brainfart) - I hadn't noticed the double comment on the tower.
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President Obama invoked the Newtown school massacre Wednesday in tasking Vice President Joe Biden to come up with ideas on fighting gun violence and in urging House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, to make a deal to avoid the fiscal cliff.
Speaking in the Brady briefing room named for President Ronald Reagan's press secretary, James Brady, who was gravely wounded in the 1981 assassination attempt against Reagan, Obama asked for speedy congressional action on the recommendations of the Biden group.
"I would hope that our memories aren't so short that what we saw in Newtown isn't lingering with us, that we don't remain passionate about it only a month later,'' the president said.
In a comment aimed at Boehner and House Republicans, Obama cited the national grieving over the Connecticut massacre and the devastation wrought by Hurricane Sandy and said: "When you think about what we've gone through over the last couple of months. . . the country deserves folks to be willing to compromise on behalf of the greater good.''
Obama said, "If this past week has done anything, it should just give us some perspective. If there's one thing we should have after this week, it should be a sense of perspective about what's important.''
Obama and Boehner are negotiating a package of tax increases and spending cuts against a Jan. 1 deadline — the so-called "fiscal cliff" — when steep spending cuts and tax hikes will go into effect automatically, barring a compromise deal between the administration and Congress.
The president specified that Biden's group — composed of some Cabinet officers, members of Congress and others — was "not some Washington commission'' that takes six months to study an issue and then publishes a report that gets pushed aside.
No, the Biden group will be different, Obama said.
He gave them a tight deadline: One month.
He promised to actively push their recommendations, "without delay.''
And, citing what he said was a growing consensus for some specific policies, Obama outlined what he thought those recommendations might be:
- Banning "military-style assault rifles" such as the Bushmaster AR-15 used by 20-year-old Adam Lanza to murder 20 children and six educators last Friday in Newtown, Conn.
- Banning the sale of high-capacity ammunition clips.
- Criminal background checks on all gun purchases, including those between private individuals at gun shows.
During his 35-minute meeting with reporters, the president also briefly mentioned two non-legislative sectors: Improving access to mental health care and re-examining "a culture that all too often glorifies guns and violence.''
Obama said guns were a "complex issue that stirs deeply held passions and political divides.'' He praised "the vast majority of gun owners" as responsible and law-abiding, and told reporters: "I believe that the Second Amendment guarantees an individual right to bear arms.''
The vast majority of gun owners would "be some of the first to say that we should be able to keep an irresponsible law-breaking few from buying a weapon of war,'' he said
To change, it's going to take a wave of Americans _ including gun owners _ to stand up and say "enough," Obama said.
It also will take courage, he said, citing Dawn Hochsprung, principal at Sandy Hook Elementary School, who was killed in the attack.
"If those of us who were sent here to serve the public trust can summon even one tiny iota of the courage those teachers, that principal in Newton, summoned on Friday,'' steps can be taken to make the nation safer for children, he said.
Jake Tapper, the White House reporter for ABC News, noting that there have been other episodes of horrible gun violence during his administration, asked Obama: "Where have you been?''
Obama replied that he has been busy dealing with the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, the near collapse of the auto industry and wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. "I don't think I've been on vacation.''
The Newtown shootings should be a "wake-up call,'' he said, to focus on ways to keep children safe.
Norman Ornstein, a senior Washington analyst with the American Enterprise Institute, said Obama was motivated to delegate the gun issue to Biden and his group to de-personalize the policy recommendations and reduce any opposition based on anti-Obama sentiment. "He wants to make it appear that these aren't just his ideas,'' Ornstein said.


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"I wasn't faking it," Te'o told ESPN's Jeremy Schaap in an off-camera interview. "I wasn't part of this."
A 22-year-old named Ronaiah Tuiasosopo allegedly preyed upon Te'o in creating a bogus woman named Lennay Kekua who began an online- and telephone-only relationship with Te'o, Notre Dame's bellwether linebacker, only to die in September of leukemia and create a personal back story that propelled Te'o to national renown but ultimately crumbled this week.
Schaap reported after a two and a half hour interview with Te'o that the player wasn't completely sure Kekua did not exist until two days ago -- when Tuiasosopo called Te'o to admit he was behind the hoax and apologize for it.
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And as for the story of meeting Kekua on the field at Stanford in 2009, a tale retold by his father in October, Te'o said: "I kind of tailored my stories to have people think that, yeah, he met her before she passed away."
ESPN reported Friday that Tuiasosopo called a friend from church in early December and admitted he duped Te'o, without the Notre Dame linebacker playing a part in the deception. Deadspin.com, which broke the girlfriend hoax story Wednesday, reported that Te'o might have played a role in the fraud.
Te'o denied that he used the situation to enhance his Heisman Trophy candidacy. He finished second in the voting to Texas A&M's Johnny Manziel.
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blaxploitation (noun) – the exploitation of black people (especially with regard to stereotyped roles in movies)
birdersploitation (noun) – the exploitation of birders (especially with regard to promotion of movies)*
The entire birding world has been abuzz with talk about the upcoming movie The Big Year which will apparently, to judge from the breathless pre-release buzz, bring birding to the mainstream and make birding the best thing since sliced bread. Audubon Magazine had pages of coverage, the bird blogosphere – including 10,000 Birds – has posted YouTube clips of previews and run interviews with everyone from the birders who the characters in the movie are based on to the director of the film. It is a perfect media storm in the birding world. There is only one thing wrong. There has not been a dime of money spent by Fox, the studio releasing The Big Year, on promoting the movie in the birding world. That's right. No ads in birding magazines or birding blogs. No presence at birding festivals. No donations for conservation or birding education. Nothing. Zero. Zilch. Nada. (Please do correct me if I am wrong but I can't find a single example.)
What's worse than Fox's stinginess with the birding world? The fact that birders have done the work for free by promoting the movie in our magazines and online at every opportunity. Even here at 10,000 Birds we were eager to ship out some water bottles and bumper stickers with our logo to the makers of the movie, at our expense, in the hope that they would show up in the film. Even worse than that is the absurd fact that the National Audubon Society, a non-profit organization, is not only not getting paid for advertising in their magazine while pimping The Big Year for free but, according to Variety, is actually funding a marketing campaign for The Big Year due to kick off tomorrow. Yes, you read that right. And it's not chump-change that Audubon is putting into it, either:
In fact, Audubon has sunk six figures into the Fox marketing effort — which includes media kits, private screenings in 20 cities and a massive social media effort that launches Oct. 10 — in a push to attract the 48 million birders in America, as estimated by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
"This movie helps show the new face of birding," says Yarnold of the pic that revolves around three men who compete to spot the greatest number of birds in the span of a year. "Any (bird enthusiast) could go to this movie and think that they're watching themselves. How cool is that?"
For its part, Fox said through a spokesperson that it finds Audubon's efforts "very gratifying," though the studio declined to elaborate on a campaign still in progress. [emphasis mine]
Of course Fox finds Audubon's efforts very gratifying! How could they not? Audubon is doing the studio's work for it and getting what in return? Mention of Audubon in the film? Seriously? And then what? Moviegoers will rush home and send in membership dues to Audubon that will recoup the six-figures that Audubon spent? Well, according to the press release Audubon put out, which does not mention that Audubon is spending six figures to promote the movie, yes!
The film release will heighten interest in Audubon and its activities, providing a great opportunity for people to find out more about this popular organization, which serves to connect people with birds and nature. Audubon members come from every walk of life and demographic, and with nearly 500 Audubon chapters nationwide, it is easy to get into birding.
And what, exactly, does Audubon get in return for its six figure investment? In a PDF found on their website called "General Information and Press Packet" it looks like this is the sum total of what they get:
Audubon has a presence in the film:
- In the beginning of the film, actor John Cleese explains how the concept of a Big Year got started. He says people used to compete to see how many birds they could shoot over the holidays, but Frank Chapman and the Audubon Society decided to count birds instead of shoot them. Chapman made is appeal in Bird Lore magazine, which evolved into Audubon magazine..
- In at least two instances, Owen Wilson (who portrays the defending champion birder) is pictured on the cover of Audubon Magazine.
- Audubon logos and signs appear at several points in the movie.
- In general, birding is treated with remarkable respect throughout the movie. There are many scenes where the wonder of birds and the joy of seeing them are featured.
- The trailer for the movie highlights the "buddy comedy" aspects of the film, which isn't really a bad thing. We understand that the studio has to sell tickets, and that a buddy comedy has a better chance of getting people in the theater than a birding movie. Moreover, this focus on the personal relationships isn't a bad thing at all. We all know that one of the great joys of birding is the human relationships that form around it.
That sure doesn't seem like six figures worth to me, especially considering that it seems likely that most of that would have happened anyway by Audubon giving permission to the filmmakers to use their logo.
The subtitle of the Variety article is "Studio partners up with National Audubon Society." You know what you call a partnership that has one side getting everything and the other side getting nothing or virtually nothing? Exploitation. And the entire birding world, doing the bidding of an already rich movie studio while getting nothing in return and no control over how we are portrayed in the film, is being exploited as well.
And don't get me wrong – I don't want to blame the victim here. I am sure that the National Audubon Society and David Yarnold are doing what they see as the right thing to bring the joys of birds and birding to the wider world. Every effort counts and the more birders that there are in the world and the more people that are interested in conservation the better things will be for the birds. I hope that their efforts to recruit birders through The Big Year succeeds! I just don't think that folks are stepping back and looking at the big picture here, the picture that has a major motion picture studio playing us all for fools while laughing all the way to the bank. The characters in the movie are supposed to be genuine characters, not the bumbling, silly, geeky, stereotypes that birders have had to live with for years. So why are real birders stumbling and bumbling and letting movie makers take advantage of us? We care about birds and they care about cash. They are using our naivete and hope for more birders to fulfill their goal of making more cash.
Will I see The Big Year? I will. I am a birder and I want to see how I am being portrayed in a major motion picture if only so I will understand the jokes that people will be cracking about birders for the next couple of decades. But I will certainly not promote it again nor encourage others to see it until I see Fox start putting money into the birding world. And Audubon had better do some damn good things over the next several years before I have to renew my membership – I don't want to see my membership money going to promoting a movie that already has an advertising budget.
*I am not, by the way, saying in any way that birders are even close to being as exploited by the film industry as African-Americans were (and are). But the play on words is just too tempting.
Interesting. Maybe instead, they should've given us bird bloggers a few of those six figures for promoting birding.
I don't find this strange at all.
The distribution company should spend their advertising dollars in the manner that will maximise the number of people coming to view the film. They are clearly aiming for a mainstream audience and spending their money in line with that. It is probably a safe bet from their point of view to assume that birding folk will already have heard about it, and if not, they'll probably see the same mainstream adverts as everybody else.
As for Audubon, they should provide the kind of content and events that their membership base will most appreciate, and it seems to me that they are also doing a good job at that in this case.
I don't think anybody is being taken advantage of here. I just don't buy into this idea that the film makers have an obligation to invest in the birding community just because they've made a film about birding.
COREY WOW…PLEASE NEVER STOP WRITING…I HAVE BEEN SAYING WHAT YOU JUST WROTE SINCE THAT STUPID FILM SURFACED. i DID NOT, HOWEVER,KNOW OF AUDUBON'S $$$ROLE. FOR SOME REASON,AUDUBON HAS ALWAYS BEEN MY LEAST FAVORITES..SOMETHING THAT I JUST COULD NOT PUT MY FINGER ON. NOTHING ABOUT THEIR PAST BUTCHERY OF BIRDS,THOUGH THAT DOESN'T HELP HERE, BUT SOMETHING….TO ME THIS IS EXPLOITATIVE ,,,AND EVERY NON BIRDER AND "THOSE OTHER" BIRDERS , WILL BE LAUGHING AT WHAT WE DO FOR A LIFE TIME…I HAVE SEEN 2 TRAILERS, AND BOTH ARE SO STUPID, JUST LIKE FART JOKES ARE TO ME IN MOVIES. THIS MOVIE DOES NOT SHOW THE "NEW FACES" IN BIRDING…TO DO THAT ,IT WOULD NEED TO BE A DOCU. DID THE SAY ANYTHING OF 10,000 BIRDS..CORNELL LAB….OPERATION MIGRATION…..HELL KNOW…"THEY NEED MONEY AND DON'T MAKE MONEY…….." I AM GETTING MORE RIPPED AS I WRITE….IF INDEED IT BRINGS MORE BIRDERS GREAT…BUT NOT THE "BIRDERS" THAT BRING 7 SCREAMING KIDS AND 3 DOGS OFF LEASES..PLEASE GOD NO! BUT I HAVE A FEELING WE WILL BUMP INTO MANY BEFORE THEY ARE WEEDED OUT AND FIND SOMETHING ELSE TO DO WITH DOGS AND SCREAMING KIDS…LIKE MUSHROOM PICKERS: THERE ARE THOSE THAT TAKE WHAT THEY WANT TO EAT, AND THOSE THAT WIPE OUT ALL, LEAVING THE SPOT TRASHED AND DEPLETED WITH NO REMAINING SPORES TO CONTINUE ONWARDS..SEE MY POINT? TRAMPLING OF AREAS , LOOKING INTO NESTS, OMG,I BETTER STOP…BUT I DID LOVE THIS ARTICLE..WELL THOUGHT OUT AND IT HIT HOME WITH THIS POLITICAL BIRDER…………….
One of "The Big Year" publicist contacted me and made an invitation to all Utah birders to attend an advanced screening on Monday, Oct 10th FOR FREE!!! Early and free, cool huh! I have heard thru the grapevine that similar advanced screenings are happening in other states…and hopefully the birding community is being invited too.
Interesting about the Audubon campaign. Sounds like they're taking advantage of a great opportunity to spend some money to make some money. I'm with Jeremy though…an investment in bird bloggers making great publicity for the passion of birding would be a great way to go!
From what I do know about the movie world, this sounds bad. Very bad. The fact that Fox has put little into promoting the movie (in the birding world; and they really haven't done much in the non-birding world with it, either) sure makes it sound like Fox is expecting it to flunk right from the beginning. Most distro companies won't spend much money on promoting a film unless they're pretty sure it will be a box office hit.
This just makes it even worse that Audubon put a lot of money into it when it seems that Fox knows it's not going to do well.
I don't understand the assumption in this post – and in a lot of bird blogosphere talk about this movie – that the makers of The Big Year owe something to birders or the birding community. Though this movie is proving to be a very personal experience for a lot of us in that we're kind of being "exposed" to the world, none of us has any ownership over birding that is required any type of compensation – even if it's just for goodwill purposes.
I think the producers' strategy of not needed to promote the movie within birding is justified by the existence of this very post (and the one on my website, and on tons of others, and the posts on many listservs and all the other media you talk about). As for Audubon's payment, it strikes me as a very sound investment: knowing what we all know about how powerful The Big Year story is, I think it's smart for Audubon to try to position themselves as the "go to" organization for all the new birders inspired by the movie. I'd be very interested to see what kind of membership bump Audubon gets – and what kind of readership bump this blog gets (I'll be looking for waterbottles! – after the movie.
This is an interesting take on the subject Corey.
Two issues come to mind. One is the time worn mantra practically spat out at me over the years….
As a 20 veteran of the TV wars, Fox's non-promotion does not surprise me. Audubon is another story. When Peter Berle long ago abandoned birds and embraced the fact that Audubon was going to become a Conservation organization and birds would not be the driving factor any longer, that fact caused me to abandon my membership.
More recently, Audubon built a brand new huge building in Manhattan and sold the old one. Now they are intent on building new state based organizations which just happen to duplicate the birder based organizations that sprang up on their own to serve birders. Certainly, There is a real benefit to the Nature centers they are also building. But they have really pissed off some birders and caused real rifts with (and within) state organizations.
I may contribute another idea tomorrow to this venue.
Because the actors who star in this film are comedic ones, I can only hope that the movie doesn't make birders look geeky/stupid/weird. I'd be cautious about going to see the movie until I learned how birding and birders were portrayed. A movie that perpetuates the birder stereotype isn't going to do anything positive for birding.
I think it's the same reason that presidential candidates don't spend as much money campaigning in their home states. Of course not everyone in the state will vote for them, but I see the logic in committing resources to those who need more convincing. I understand your disagreement with the strategy, but I don't believe that it's an illogical one.
I think I agree with the Audubon assessment that the "giving back" this movie will give will be in the form of new birders created after being inspired by the film. Just as all the kids (like me) who started taking karate classes after Karate Kid, the after affects of the film are likely to be much greater than any token gestures the film industry would undertake beforehand.
Hollywood cares nothing for giving back or doing the right thing. To even suggest they should is futile. It won't happen. And as for the marketing, if I were in charge of it, and I know a few things about marketing, I'd never spend money on something that was going happen anyway, I'd spend it in places that I needed to. Or better yet, not at all.
I'm not saying any of that is right, it's just how I'd do it if I were in charge of too. Not as a birder, but as a marketer. I'm sure Audobon will get something out of it. Will they get all 6 figures back? Maybe, maybe not. I don't really know how much a membership costs and how many they need to sell to get it back. But as with all marketing strategies, it's only as strong as the person developing it. I hope for their sake they used a good brain to do the planning.
As for the film, it looks like complete shit. I hope I'm wrong but like everything else these days, the people that are interested by it (birding) will get involved and the ones that aren't will forget it even happened a month from now. All I can hope for is that it'll draw enough attention to birding that people will seek out better films about it like Ghost Bird** about Ivory-billed WPs, Opposable Chums* about big day listing and maybe mine*** (if it turns out) about how not all birders are the geeks we are probably about to see in 'The Big Year'.
I should mention that the book, The Big Year, was really amazing and nothing negative I say here about the film reflects how I feel about Mark or his amazing book.
* http://opposablechums.com/about_the_film.html
** http://ghostbirdmovie.com/
*** http://punkrockbigyear.blogspot.com/p/what-is-punk-rock-big-year.html
That's how movie advertising works. They get money for product placement in the film and then they hope the companies will help advertise the film.
It's kind of like blogging. We don't pay for advertising but we hope that other people will like our content enough to spread it around and maybe even send us on a few free trips to cover their area.
FOX knows this isn't a superhero blockbuster so why bother investing in advertising like you would for Thor, X-men, Star Wars, etc.
Excellent point of view Corey. While I can't argue with it, I would also say that the exploitation is mutual. And maybe, therefore, not exploitative as much as symbiotic. We all get something.
For our part, our 200+ member @LakeCookAudubon group in NE Illinois (Chicago-ish), is using the movie as a social event with a movie night followed by nearby dinner. The movie is a catalyst for creating community. Moreover, because it is not a (another) field trip or program, it is attracting our birding community's non-birding friends and significant others. What a great way to engage others. Scheduled for Sunday night 10/16 our RSVPs are at 45 people and may hit 70.
I can't think of any downside to this. Do I feel bad that we'll also drop ~$700+ at the theater and an equivalent amount at the restaurant? Does Fox owe us something because we're promoting their movie? No. Rather we're happy for the kernel around which to build a nice alternative fun event. I'm cool with it. Bring on the birdersploitation. I'm all about Foxploitation.
I think birders are way too worried about this movie: it's going to be funny (at least the Steve Martin parts; the other two actors seem to be pretty bad), and that's that.
Birding doesn't h a v e a public reputation to burnish, and no one is going to go out and buy a field guide just because they see this movie.
Remember the movie about Cords (or Auburns or Duesenbergs or something)? Precisely the same situation: the car clubs marketed it for free, their members went to see it, and then it was gone like the wind.
*Corey, that was one of the most important asterisks you've ever written. Yikes!
While I agree that it's "only right" for Fox to sink some money into a culture they're deriving so much free publicity from, it really is that: ONLY right, not mandatory. However, they surely could have made a lot more friends in the bird community if they had.
And it looks like they're going to need all the friends they can get. As Lindsey points out, Fox has sunk precious little into promoting the film. No one outside of birding folks seem to be aware at all of the film's existence. Given the money they spent on getting the high-watt cast, this likely means that the film has tested poorly with test audiences, and the studio is loathe to throw good money after bad.
If this is the case, the film will quickly sink from sight, having litle or no effect on the greater public's perception of birding. And, thus, Audubon will have wasted their/our money for naught, money that people CONTRIBUTED to them for the purpose of conservation and preservation, NOT for promoting a Steve Maratin movie.
@Corey- What Tim Barksdale is describing, in essence, is the "Take Back Audubon" movement which was essentially a revolt by several Audubon chapters around the nation at the changing priorities of the national organization and its relationships with local chapters.
It was unsuccessful at changing the direction of big Audubon, but there's more than a few of us in chapters across the country whose sympathies still lie there.
From Audubon President David Yarnold —
Like 10,000 Birds, Audubon has also been disappointed that Fox hasn't played up the birding aspects of The Big Year in its marketing. For a movie that is wall-to-wall about birding, it's actually amazing that they found two minutes of clips from the movie that weren't about birding to fill the trailer. But while this is disappointing, this is also understandable. Fox probably think it can attract a wider audience by selling The Big Year as a buddy comedy. We would like to believe otherwise, but it is their investment.
While Fox may indeed by trying to exploit organizations like ours, it should be clear that Audubon is doing its best to exploit their movie. While it's entirely possible that our promotion will help Fox sell tickets, our goal is really to make sure that birding's rare moment in the Hollywood spotlight results in more people connecting to birds and Audubon's conservation mission. That's probably the same reason that 10,000 Birds lent the production those water bottles and bumper stickers.
A few vague facts from the Variety article got seriously jumbled by the time they made it into this post. Audubon has invested most of the six figures cited into an innovative social media campaign that has very little to do with the movie beyond its timing. What we've actually spent to talk about the movie is far, far less. Those screenings you mentioned were actually paid for by Fox, which invited local Audubon chapter leaders for free.
Lastly, you should edit your post to remove any comparison between lame stereotypes of birders with the struggles of African-Americans in this country. It's offensive and beneath the otherwise noble service of this website.
Although I don't completely agree with you Corey, kudos on a fascinating post and getting the word out. Now I would like 3 solid months of trip reports please.*
* totally kidding, obviously.
What's with the moral melodrama? Fox/Hollywood/Jack Black etc. owes the birding community NOTHING. It's FICTION. Fiction requires characters and institutions. It's our turn. Our 15 minutes. Hooray!
Kudos to the clubs who have sought to utilize this random event for their own good. That's playing it smart. Hey, maybe that's the actual reason for this post? 😉
I can play that game too! See how I *really* feel about this whole topic by watching my latest animated short: Musings on the Big Year.
All – I'm making the call that the glass is half full. Let's face it, Fox could easily have made the same film about the Competitive Eating Circuit, with Jack Black as Joey Chestnutt, etc., etc. You can substitute in ANY pasttime / obsession, but in this case BIRDING got the call. No matter how many (or few) people see the movie and decide to give birding a try, we win. If NAS gets the lion's share of those new birders, kudos for them to make the effort and spending the bucks, and hopefully their costs are recouped.
As for the movie itself, through the efforts of others within the birding world, I got a call from the fellow in charge of procuring property for the filming. We talked for over an hour, and the net result was that we send multiple binoculars and a few spotting scopes out to their studio. They did not charge us to do so, and the products were either returned to us or bought outright (evidently, quite a few of the staff and crew got "hooked" on birding during production). We had no explicit contract for guaranteed product placement, (which would certainly have cost us money) and they never asked us if we wanted such an arrangement.
My REAL interest is this – what's next? If the reviews are good, and the audience (Box Office $$$) meets industry expectations, what movie plot is the next one to involve birding? How about existing birding books like Kingbird Highway? Feather Quest? On the Road With John James Audubon? Maybe they can make a sequel (we know how Hollywood loves sequels) "The Big Year II – Going Global"?
When "A River Runs Through It" came out, the fly-fishing industry went wild with interest and growth. After a few years, everything went back to "normal". I'd like to think that birding can take an infusion of new people and jump to a higher level of existence.
Clay Taylor, Swarovski Optik N.A.
Corey: You know I agree with you on most of the stuff you post, but as a friend, I have to tell you – on this one you sound a bit like a science fiction geek railing on George Lucas or Joss Whedon.
Did Fox handle either the material or the promotions the way I would have liked them to? Not really. Do I admire the cupidity of the studio system in general? Hell no. But as for what they "owe" the birding world, they paid that with the check they signed to Mark Obmascik buying the rights to his book. The rest of us don't really have an ownership stake in it. The fact that the movie would market itself to bird geeks, freeing up some budget, was probably part of their calculation when they wrote that check.
And I have to agree that even if it wasn't your intention, the use of the -sploitation suffix does bring the specter of race into a place it was better left out of. The post would have been better without it, purely from an editing standpoint.
I agree with Carrie and several other people above. Despite the disclaimer, the 'blaxploitation' reference leaves a really bad taste in my mouth.
Now that I return to this, it looks like I'll just never donate a cent to Audubon again, if they can't make decent choices about what to do with money. And I'm young. It's probably not a good idea for them to drive younger people away by making really stupid financial decisions.
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Sunday, November 15, 2009
Seriously... what the hell is he thinking?
Today, USMNT coach Bob Bradley called 23 players for a midweek friendly against Denmark in Aarhus, yet stunningly ignored AGF attacker Jeremiah White. This, my friends, is a bush league maneuver.
Now, nobody is suggesting White should be thrust into the World Cup frame suddenly - but to not even call the guy into camp for a game at his club's home park is an overt slap in the face.
Forget that White has largely been unfairly ignored for a long while now. Forget that 'Nats get a call, a dressing or even a cameo in their home parks all the time. Forget that some of the attacking midfield players brought to Denmark have just finished their MLS seasons, chocked full of additional international duty. Forget the added cold water fact that AGF teammate Benny Feilhaber (who, admittedly, is deeper in the frame than White) will be in Red, White & Blue for the game. Forget even that Bradley has his favorites, as any coach does.
I do not even want to hear how this is a "World Cup prep friendly". The tourney is seven months off and half the stars are unavailable due to injury or club commitments. It doesn't wash.
The simple truth is there is no excuse for not being able to find 5-10 minutes of pitch time for White at NRGi Park on Wednesday, much less excluding him altogether. And if there is a personal grudge angle to this, frankly, that makes it even worse to deny the rare opportunity for a (to date) career American abroad to wear his national shirt in front of his adoring home fans.
Seriously... what in THE hell is Bob Bradley thinking?
- Greg Seltzer
44 comments:
- Denny said...
Wow, good pick up on this.
I definitely understand how this would happen though. Don't you get the feeling that old Bob just doesn't have the scope and depth of understanding to lead the nats? I feel like this is something any national team manager should be on top of, there's no excuse. Which makes me wonder if there is another side to all of this?
- November 15, 2009 at 3:29 PM
- Greg Seltzer said...
I'm not going to pretend I know exactly what's going on here and I'm not going to assume things I do know are relevant. But as I said, any sort of personal angle to this automatically makes it much worse in my book. At the least, I am hoping that it is some other, less appalling type of oversight.
- November 15, 2009 at 3:40 PM
- Denny said...
Complete oversight would be unacceptable, but from Bob I wouldn't put it past him. But if there is a personal angle, if not from him but from his staff who MUST know that White plays alongside Feilhaber, then that makes it so much worse.
So oddly enough, I am hoping Bob is just an incompetent and ignorant manager, instead of a heartless bastard who plays favorites. These are the only two sides I see out of this, regardless of whatever other issues played into this gaff.
- November 15, 2009 at 3:45 PM
- jon said...
The only personal affront I can think of is the rumor that White turned down a Gold Cup invite. Any truth to that, Greg?
- November 15, 2009 at 3:59 PM
- Adam said...
Implying a personal grudge without any shred of proof is poor journalism, and not the standard we've come to expect from you.
- November 15, 2009 at 4:07 PM
- Greg Seltzer said...
I can't say for certain, but I'm somewhat sure that did not happen. White was on the provisional 30-man roster released to CONCACAF before the final squad was picked, but he has mostly just been flat ignored by Bradley over the last three years.
Perhaps some rift did happen before that, but I think this Gold Cup rejection rumour you've mentioned is exactly that.
- November 15, 2009 at 4:08 PM
- Greg Seltzer said...
I don't believe I've implied any such thing, Adam.
I merely said that IF it was a factor, the episode would become even more annoying. These are people, after all - it's certainly in the realm of possibility for people to have a rift.
- November 15, 2009 at 4:10 PM
- Greg Seltzer said...
Besides, I'm not one to go specifically airing player/manager or player/player problems.
I'd need more hands and feet to count the number of backroom snits between people in the game that I've kept quiet.
- November 15, 2009 at 4:13 PM
- Jon E. said...
"The simple truth is there is no excuse for not being able to find 5-10 minutes of pitch time for White at NRGi Park on Wednesday, much less excluding him altogether."
The simple truth is that there are a lot of perfectly good excuses. Maybe White his a minor injury. Maybe White declined a call-up for some reason or requested not to be called up. Maybe Bradley is planning to call him into Camp Cupcake instead.
Or maybe Bradley just doesn't think the guy is good enough to contribute to the World Cup squad in 2010 and wants to use one of the two remaining FIFA dates between now and the World Cup to look at guys who have a more realistic chance to contribute.
I wouldn't have minded seeing White called up at all. If nothing else, it would have been a nice gesture.
But I also think that the job of a national team manager isn't to make nice gestures at the expense of building a team, especially not this close to the World Cup.
- November 15, 2009 at 4:22 PM
- Greg Seltzer said...
I'll take these one at a time, Jon.
1 - If White has a minor injury, it's news to all three of us.
2 - If White declined, then yes, that's another thing and Bradley is clean. Without getting into specifics, simply by posting this I am saying that I have excluded that scenario from the equation.
Is it possible I am wrong? I suppose it is, but I still posted it. If it does turn out I was wrong, then be sure to come back and watch me eat humble pie. I'll have no problem admitting a mistake... I just don't think there is one here.
3 - A call to January's camp has utterly no bearing on being excluded on Wednesday. Less than none.
4 - Quick question: do you feel that Bradley views Dax McCarty as a viable World Cup 2010 option right now?
I don't either.
5 - How would this gesture work against team building? And what team are we building Wednesday? Most of the stars aren't there for this game.
Sorry, I just don't like it one damn bit. As I said, if I am wrong, I will publicly eat my crow like a good boy.
- November 15, 2009 at 4:34 PM
- Greg Seltzer said...
By the way, a quick check showed that Bradley has used 51 players in 2009 alone. Therefore, he has probably used some number in the 80-90-100 range during his three years as USMNT boss.
Jeremiah White has played nine USMNT minutes in that span. Nine.
- November 15, 2009 at 4:38 PM
- GMC said...
Sorry, this isn't senior day for the varsity soccer team. The fact that the game is being played in Aarhus rightfully has no bearing on who is or isnt called in for the game. Why waste time calling someone up that you dont rate? White has not "right" to be on this roster. This is the big leagues. Leave your sentimentality out of it.
- November 15, 2009 at 4:42 PM
- Connor Walsh said...
he does this for underwhelming MLS players all the time but when this one rolls around only one player from Denmark gets the call (Feilhaber). Jeremiah White, Danny Califf, and Michael Parkhurst are all better players than Conrad, Heydude, and Rogers...its pathetic from Bradley.
- November 15, 2009 at 4:43 PM
- Greg Seltzer said...
Other players receive such gestures, GMC. It's not about sentimental, it;s about right. If no one else received them, fine. But it happens plenty for others.
- November 15, 2009 at 4:44 PM
- GMC said...
Happens for who, exactly?
- November 15, 2009 at 5:01 PM
- Kurt said...
What an idiot. That is horrible.
- November 15, 2009 at 5:32 PM
- Jesse said...
I am projecting that Bob is planning on starting Torres at left mid, and needs the bench role at that position to evaluate Rogers or Castillo. So there really isn't room for White on this roster if Torres is being considered as Donovan's primary backup by this coaching staff rather than as a central midfielder.
- November 15, 2009 at 5:42 PM
- Worm said...
Personally, I think White should have been on that roster too, but in fairness to Bradley (I'm not his biggest fan either), White has started in 6 of 15 games this season and been subbed off in all of them. He has been subbed on in another 5 for a total of 526 minutes. Home field or not, the guy has definitely been in better match form than he is now.
As for the Gold Cup call-up, AGF GM Brian Steen Nielsen wrote to the USSF requesting that both White and Feilhaber be excluded from the final roster.
- November 15, 2009 at 5:45 PM
- Brian said...
I would like to give Bob the benefit of the doubt. But then I see three (3!) left backs called in and now I'm confused.
- November 15, 2009 at 5:47 PM
- Worm said...
Just an edit to my above comment: He has been subbed off in 5 of 6 starts and subbed on in another 6 games.
- November 15, 2009 at 5:49 PM
- Greg Seltzer said...
@ Jesse: White is a natural right-sider. That's also where he's back to starting for AGF.
@ Worm: Thanks for the Gold Cup clarification. I should have thought to ask you.
However, while you are correct that White's season as a whole to date has been less impressive than last season, his very most recent form has been good.
- November 15, 2009 at 5:49 PM
- Greg Seltzer said...
@ Brian: I've said it before, and I'll probably repeat it again: Bornstein (and a couple others like Clark, Holden and Kljestan) should be getting a breather right now. We have enough injuries, there's no need to push guys just ending a long, busy year for these friendlies.
- November 15, 2009 at 5:51 PM
- Evan said...
i cant believe greg is catching so much crap on this. plain and simple: white should have been called in. clearly bradley knows him and rates him (on the provisional gold cup roster). giving the guy a seat on the bench would have been the proper thing to do. lets not forget that bob has a history of giving sentimental call ups to people who dont deserve it. anyone remember that jesse marsch got a call up (and mins)?
beyond that, winger is a position that we are truly thin at. we all saw how injuries made us thin at center back when six months ago we all thought it was one of our strongest areas. god forbid, but what happens if dempsey and holden (or any two or three wingers) go down before the wc? i would have liked to have tried people out than have to have someone like sacha out there.
we will see, and if there is a legit reason behind it, then sure greg will admit he is wrong, but i think there is something else going on here. the guy should have been called in.
- November 15, 2009 at 5:53 PM
- Greg Seltzer said...
Thanks Evan. Now we can both catch crap and I get my workload cut in half. :D
You made an excellent point about the right wing situation that I skipped over in the interest of rant control.
- November 15, 2009 at 5:56 PM
- Greg Seltzer said...
@ GMC: I'm not ignoring you, by the way. I will gather up a few examples for you once I finish this Player Ratings column you guys keep tearing me away from for discussion.
- November 15, 2009 at 6:00 PM
- Greg Seltzer said...
Just off the very top of my head, though, I recall not long ago when many people were complaining how Bradley served up some home cooking WCQ minutes to Beckerman at Rio Tinto (just to clarify: their complaint, not mine).
- November 15, 2009 at 6:02 PM
- Greg Seltzer said...
Okay, GMC. I grabbed a few home cookin' moments from the Bradley era, but really this is a very normal thing for all national team coaches to do, adding local flavor to a squad.
I didn't pick every possible one, just a handful where it seems pretty obvious the site of game altered player usage slightly. I avoided all tourney proper matches. Naturally, there are varying degrees of gesture here. In some cases, I'm not even suggesting the player wasn't at all worthy of inclusion, just that the home factor played some part in usage.
- Beckerman at Rio Tinto in November.
- Evans in Seattle on July 4th... at right back, no less.
- Nov '08, Clark and Mastroeni start a WCQ in Colorado. I include Mastro because he did not appear for four games prior or three after that one.
- Guzan starts WCQ against Barbados at the HDC.
- August '07, Wolff starts v. Brazil in Chicago.
And, finally one of Charlie Davies' first caps (no. 4? 5?) came in Göteburg while he was with Hammarby.
So yeah, this is no odd bird we're talking about. When it happens, one has to wonder what's going on.
- November 15, 2009 at 6:48 PM
- Sean Heffernan said...
In defense of Dax I thought he looked pretty good against Slovakia. I don't know why Bob really needed to call Holden and Clark who've played so much already for the US this year and are just coming off a long MLS season. That's two spots that Bob could've used for players like White or Mix or Pontius whose national team potential are largely unknown.
- November 15, 2009 at 7:34 PM
- DM said...
@ Sean Heffernan:
Good point. White, Diskeruud, and Pontius are unknown quantities on the national stage. But I think it's more Bradley's style to call up unknowns to the January camp to evaluate them in private before he throws them into the bigtime.
In my opinion, the most plausible explanation for Denmark's roster is that Bob's trying to breed some team fraternity and player-coach loyalty with a core group of young players before the World Cup. I think he wants to use the rosters of these two friendlies to demonstrate his commitment to his young regulars("favorites") before the January camp, where he can call in some new boys without perturbing some of the other young guys who have performed solidly for him in the past (i.e., Feilhaber, Clark, Holden, Altidore, Rogers, and Torres).
Basically, I think he's sending the message that, hey, these are guys that have capitalized on the minutes I've given them, and that kind of effort and spirit means something on my team. And if this is this case, well then, so much the better, in my book. I want a guy like that at the helm for WC2010--look at what that kind of ethic and ethos did to turn around the Confed Cup when we had all written ourselves off.
- November 15, 2009 at 9:37 PM
- Anonymous said...
I agree 100% You call up Dax fucking McCarty but can't give the hometown kid a run out? Complete BS.
- November 15, 2009 at 11:12 PM
- Jon E. said...
First, I want to repeat that I wouldn't have minded seeing White called up. Especially since we're not exactly deep when it comes to true wingers. I guess I'm just not as upset as you are since I feel that, at this point in the cycle, Bradley's job is to do whatever he feels will help him begin to select a World Cup squad. If calling up White would help him do that, great. If it wouldn't, well, I'm not too bothered.
"1 - If White has a minor injury, it's news to all three of us."
Yeah, I'm not saying he does. But I seem to remember a half-dozen or so occasions during this cycle when people have been surprised (or infuriated) that Bradley didn't call somebody up only for us to discover that the player had a knock of some kind. You may well have better info, though.
"2 - If White declined, then yes, that's another thing and Bradley is clean. Without getting into specifics, simply by posting this I am saying that I have excluded that scenario from the equation."
Fair enough. I was just remembering that over the summer White's coach negotiated him (and mostly Feilhaber) out of the Gold Cup, and I wondered if somebody—White or manager—might have said no for similar reasons, especially since Feilhaber is already getting called up. Again, you'd almost surely have better info.
"3 - A call to January's camp has utterly no bearing on being excluded on Wednesday. Less than none."
Unless you see this friendly's camp as one about match-time talent evaluation and general team integration. It's possible that, at this point in the cycle, Bradley feels that White is far enough down on the depth chart that he can't afford to call White for an important friendly only as a gesture of respect. In which case, a Camp Cupcake call-up would let Bradley evaluate White without using a valuable roster spot for one of the rare full-strength friendlies between now and South Africa. (If there were no Camp Cupcake, Bradley might have been more tempted to call up White.)
"4 - Quick question: do you feel that Bradley views Dax McCarty as a viable World Cup 2010 option right now?"
Probably not. But, unlike White, McCarthy has become a crucial regular starter for his team. And at least for the Slovakia game, McCarthy plays a spot where all the guys clearly ahead of him (Clark, Edu, and Jones) were unavailable or on the field first.
"5 - How would this gesture work against team building? And what team are we building Wednesday? Most of the stars aren't there for this game."
I mean team-building in the sense of starting to get the guys who have a real shot to play in South Africa familiar with each other. I'm not saying it would've hurt morale or anything along those lines.
- November 15, 2009 at 11:36 PM
- Jon E. said...
Looks like Torres has asked to be excused from the camp. Maybe White will get his shot after all.
- November 15, 2009 at 11:38 PM
- Will Lytle said...
Not sure why so many are coming to Bob's defence here.
Unless White turned down the offer, this was a clear low blow on Bob's part. White has played well enough from the times I've seen him to get a local call up. Whether you think locals should be called in and played or not is not the point. The fact is that Bob does this for players he gets on with, and White is certainly a good enough player to merit the call.
I'm hoping that Torres exclusion now leads to White getting called up, but I doubt it will.
- November 16, 2009 at 2:22 AM
- Charley said...
i think this is just a reason to complain about bradley. haters will attack him, and lovers will defend.
it's just like so many other debates and useless arguing about the state of the national team.
it is not a big deal.
- November 16, 2009 at 2:36 AM
- Greg Seltzer said...
@ Sean: I had no problem with the Dax call-up. In fact, I suggested he be called up before the Slovakia roster came out.
@ DM: A few quick bits on your reply...
#3 - This really is not an important friendly. It is, however, certainly the only time the USMNT will play at NRGi Park in the foreseeable future.
#4 - White fits both of these criteria as well.
#5 - As I said, most of the stars aren't even available. Thus, this won't qualify as "World Cup squad building" with or without White.
@ Jon E: I sure hope so.
@ Charley: I don;t and haven;t in three years simply looked for reasons to criticize Bradley. When he does well, I compliment him - enough so that some readers find fault with my compliments of him.
Right or wrong, this genuinely ticked me off.
- November 16, 2009 at 2:53 AM
- Denny said...
I was there when Brad Evans came on late in the Gold Cup in front of his home crowd. I can tell you, it really is something special for the supporters and team to have some hometown talent and support out there in colors. Even if it's away, it's a show of support for the entire US program and American players everywhere. White has been called up before. He has paid his dues, playing solidly overseas for some time now. He more than deserves it.
This isn't about sentimentality, it's a credit to the viability of the USMNT and the strength of the program to show this sort of accountability, to remind players that it means something to wear the red, white, and blue.
- November 16, 2009 at 4:00 AM
- Anonymous said...
Merely adding here that Jeremiah White was in the January 2008 camp that Bradley ran and that Bradley used him in as a sub against Sweden that same January.
Coach Bob has an impeccable record at getting players run in front of their home squad or even just selecting them.
In WCQfing he got Findley in the roster at least at Rio Tinto and T&T--classy.
My guess--and only a guess--is that especially with BF on the team if there was an opportunity to get White involved as a legitimate candidate for a roster spot it was probably investigated. This is just a guess.
Also, and I'm not calling out the authors of this blog I'm merely making a point, we should commend Bradley on continuing serious trials with the World Cup shortly around the corner.
Finally, no shame in Coach Bob getting run to MLS players who are in shape now and seeing how they perform.
Since J-White was in the 2008 camp and not the 2009 camp, it would seem that he's outside of the plans at this point.
- November 16, 2009 at 4:42 AM
- Anonymous said...
Love the blog by the way.
- November 16, 2009 at 4:46 AM
- Greg Seltzer said...
Thanks for the kind words ShinG. A couple of reply notes to your remarks:
- Coach Bob haD an impeccable record of this til now - which is precisely why it ticked me off so badly.
Well, that and the fact that his teammate Benny will be in U.S. uniform and he won't. Everyone in Aarhus is noticing this, let me assure you. And they can't for the life of them figure out why. People there are upset about this, too.
- I can now report (via multiple close sources) that there was no effort made to call in White for this game.
- Those MLS players that just finished the season last weekend need a breather like anyone else.
- November 16, 2009 at 5:10 AM
- Anonymous said...
Disagree that the MLS folks need a breather -- they get one after Wednesday for at least a month. :>
On the multiple reports on not being invited, good info. I would defer to my last statement that if the JW is probably outside BB's plans right now in that case.
I would have also expected Johann Smith to get a cup of coffee in Bratislava as he plays 4 hours away -- not home fans, but still good opp there for a player who hasn't been in the mix in awhile either.
Seems solely a "WC Selection Process" situation in that regard as we used and probably will use on Wednesday all our mid/str players.
- November 16, 2009 at 10:07 AM
- Greg Seltzer said...
Yes, they get a breather after toying with increased injury risk in a meaningless friendly with the B+ team. I do not see the point.
As for Smith, he is not a capped USMNT international and he has not been a standout in his league for the better part of the last three seasons.
Finally, like I said, this can't be treated like some strict World Cup squad prep week. It just isn't one.
What's more, with Dempsey and Torres now gone, BB has exactly one natural wide player in camp.
For me, it just gets weirder and more irksome.
- November 16, 2009 at 10:17 AM
- Greg Seltzer said...
Obviously, by "wide player" I mean wide attacker.
- November 16, 2009 at 10:18 AM
- Patrick said...
Maybe Michael Bradley doesn't get along with him?
American USMNT coaches have a history of starting to go insane between qualifiers and World Cups. Maybe Bradley is considering cutting the team captain and going to a 3-6-1 formation? ;)
I like Bradley, but there is no good reason not to invite Wright.
- November 16, 2009 at 10:52 AM
- Greg Seltzer said...
A quick added note for those who scoffed at my suggestion that the MLS guys needed physical rest: Chad Marshall was dropped from the roster for aggravating a knee injury.
Like I said, human beings need rest. And when they don't properly get it, bad things occur.
- November 17, 2009 at 11:22 AM


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