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Ban the user above you like so: "I ban _________________."
So... um... yeah, ban me.
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Ban the user above you like so: "I ban _________________."
So... um... yeah, ban me.
This is the best article in the history of the world. Anyway, I'd like to ban bluebelle(whatever the fuck is his/her name!)
Taking this lame game seriously. Nice riviera, nice.
Wait what.
^It's... um... a game.
It's not a very good one.
I ban tvguy347 for inventing this game
How do you figure? Nobody's played it correctly.
I've seen this game around other forums, it's unoriginal, and has no meaning other than "LOLZERZ I BAN YOU CZ ITS A GAEM"
Being as these Off Topic boards lack any sort of OT game, I'd though I'd better start with the basics before doing anything overly flamboyant.
A 'you know what really grinds my gears?' article would have been much better!
(If you want to change your article to that)
You know what really grinds my gears?
The Cleveland Show.
That's even more unoriginal. o.O
Ask anyone, it's better than this
That's not what you said; you were questioning originality.
Honestly, I don't really give a damn about your opinions. Boo hoo.
I'm not the user that criticised its originality, I only criticised how lame it was.
As I said, wasn't really meant to last... really to kickstart these forums. Keep spewing irrelevant posts, I find it amusing.
You find me telling you that your lame article is lame amuses you? Okay then...
WOW, another forum I sometimes post at has this thread.
It has 2,943 replies.
Favorite and least favorite by season
1. Life on the Fast Lane Homers Night Out 2. Bart Gets an F Dead Putting Society 3. Homer at the Bat Like Father, Like Clown 4. Brother From the Same Planet Krusty Gets Kancelled 5. Cape Feare Lady Bouviers Lover 6. Homer Badman Another Simpsons Clip Show 7. King-Size Homer Lisa the Iconoclast 8. Homers Enemy The Simpsons Spin-Off Showcase 9. Bart Carny The Trouble With Trillions 10. Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo Homer Simpson in: Kidney Trouble 11. Guess Whos Coming to Criticize Dinner? Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder 12. HOMЯ Tennis the Menace 13. Tales From the Public Domain She of Little Faith 14. The Dad Who Knew Too Little Helter Shelter 15. I, (Annoyed Grunt)-bot Bart-Mangled Banner 16. A Star is Torn On a Clear Day I Cant See My Sister 17. My Fair Laddy Bonfire of the Manatees 18. The Haw-Hawed Couple You Kent Always Say What You Want 19. Eternal Moonshine of the Simpson Mind All About Lisa 20. Gone Maggie Gone The Good, the Sad and the Drugly 21. The Bob Next Door The Color Yellow 22. Donnie Fatso Love is a Many Strangled Thing 23. The Falcon and the Dohman A Totally Fun Thing That Bart Will Never Do Again 24. Hardly Kirk-ing Moonshine River 25. The War of Art What to Expect When Barts Expecting 26. Sky Police Lets Go Fly a Coot 27. Halloween of Horror Lisa With an S 28. There Will Be Buds Moho House 29. Springfield Splendor Throw Grampa From the Dane 30. Daddicus Finch I Want You (Shes So Heavy) 31. Thanksgiving of Horror Warrin Priests (Part Two)
I'm banning most everyone in this thread for being a bunch of Debbie Downers.
the point of the thread is to come up with silly/inane reasons to 'ban' someone. like "i ban you because of your avatar" or "i ban you because of your custom user title." it might not be the most exciting thread ever, but if you hate it so much, why do you continuously post, just to say how much you hate it?
There. Is. An. Edit. Button. For. Lame. Articles. Such. As. This. One. I. Advise. You. To. Use. It.
ok, i'm just curious, why do you keep calling this thread an 'article'?
True. It's not an article. It's not even a thread in truth.
Not really, with your moronic opinions that are beside the point.
HAHA tell me, what is "moronic" about my opinions? Go on, this should be funny.
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I'm sorry I couldn't join you guys! But to be honest, I'm not sure how I would've reacted to that duck head on the plate...
I'm glad you had a good time Simon, it was great to see everyone and enjoy some good food together.
Olivia and I were trying to decipher the bill when we left too! We decide the $4 was for the additional pancakes and the $6 was for the rice. We could be completely wrong though...
No duck head for me either! The Chinese pancakes look really good though. And I never knew Enfield was next to Strathfield until I googled it.
Looks delicious! Sorry I couldn't make it :(
i love peking duckkk! great review...i like how you're so observant too...haha cheesy poster and cake of soap ><
I see what you mean by the decor but looks not too bad! And it's sooo cheap
delicious looking peking duck! and it's definately cheap for a group of 7! i think the $6 is refering to the rice. :)
hi maria, hopefully we'll catch up next time :-)
hi richard, the extra prices were a bit of a mystery. would have thought it was divisible by 7 in any case for rice.
hi joey, i never knew where it was too :-)
hi john, hope you get to try it one day
hi vivienne, it's all about the details ;-)
hi thang, certainly was a cheap night out of tasty food
hi melissa, the $6 is still a mystery because there was 7 of us :-)
I must say, I went to this place this week based on these reviews and was terribly dissapointed.
The duck of the skin was not crispy and the pancakes were too thick, and the texture of the pancakes were chewy.
We also ordered sweet and sour pork. It is the worst sweet and sour pork I've ever had. The sauce was made from honey and chinese vinegar - not a good combination, and left an awful aftertase in your mouth. A bottle of Kanton sweet & sour sauce from the supermarket would taste much better than what we had.
We were told that their fish was their specialty so we ordered that. Once again, appalling. It was not fresh.
The food at this restaurant is one of the worst places I've been to. My overall experience with their food was very dissapointing and would not recommend this.
hi sheena, i'm so sorry to hear it was a bad dining experience for you. the fish dish we had was quite nice so wondering if you had the same one? in terms of the sweet and sour pork my warning bells go off because i actually don't think that would be a traditional chinese dish to start with. a bit in the same league as lemon chicken, beef in black bean sauce and mongolian lamb — western created dishes i've always thought. in saying that you'd hope that it would be decent anyway but sounds like something to avoid. did you try the chinese pancakes, i thought these were the best of the night when i went :-) ps. did you make sure you separated the pancakes as we noticed two stuck together which if not separated made them seem very thick.


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UK lecturers "warned" to look but don't touch
The BBC News reports (my comments are in the text)
A university leader has caused controversy by saying curvy female students are a "perk of the job".
Terence Kealey, of the University of Buckingham, said lecturers were aware of females who "flaunted their curves".
In a tongue-in-cheek article for Times Higher Education Magazine on the seven deadly sins of academia, he advised academics to "look but not touch".
The National Union of Students condemned the comments as insulting and disrespectful to women.
Dr Kealey, a clinical bio-chemist and vice-chancellor of Buckingham University, likened the classroom to a lap dancing club and said admiring the curves of attractive students could help "spice up" marital sex.
In his article about the sin of lust, Dr Kealey wrote: "Most male lecturers know that, most years, there will be a girl in class who flashes her admiration and who asks for advice on her essays.
"What to do? Enjoy her! She's a perk." …
Dr Kealey recalled the days when sex between student and tutor, in return for academic favours, could go by unchecked.
"Thanks to the accountability imposed by the Quality Assurance Agency [the university watchdog] and other intrusive bodies, the days are gone when a scholar could trade sex for upgrades."
OR to put it more accurately, the days are gone when a scholar and student can have a consensual relationships
Olivia Bailey, womens' officer for the NUS, said: "I am appalled that a university vice-chancellor should display such an astounding lack of respect for women.
The dankprofessor is appalled that Olivia Bailey is not appalled at the lack of respect shown by the university vice-chancellor toward male lecturers. To think that the curves of attractive female students could spice up marital sex, simply outrageous. Of course, the good vice-chancellor neglects female lecturers who may get spiced up when in the vicinity of an attractive male student. The vice-chancellor should be admonished for desexualizing female lecturers.
"Regardless of whether this was an attempt at humour, it is completely unacceptable for someone in Terence Kealey's position to compare a lecture theatre to a lap dancing club, and I expect that many women studying at Buckingham University will be feeling extremely angry and insulted at these comments."
I doubt it. The dankprofessor thinks that Ms. Bailey should also be admonished for stereotyping female students as being "extremely angry and insulted". Ms. Bailey should restrain herself from creating female students in her own image.
His article has prompted a lively debate on the Times Higher Education website.
"I'm amazed that Terence K has a position in any university, and I'll be damn sure never to apply for a job at Buckingham," said one reader.
Another added: "Any scholar, who assumes that female students who show interest in the subject and ask for help because they have a crush on you or hope to manipulate you with their sexual charms, is a reality-challenged idiot.
Oh, please, he did not say all female students. Does the reader really believe that no female student will ever attempt to manipulate a male lecturer with her female charms? Manipulation goes on and on, everywhere, even at UK colleges, even by scholars using their scholarly abilities to manipulate their students and the their colleagues.
"And anyone who thinks that female students are there in the classroom expressly as objects of the instructor's viewing pleasure needs to retire."
But another said: "I'm appalled that everyone's so appalled! – it's just not that important, or offensive."
Ditto from the dankprofessor.
Adding his own voice to the online debate, Dr Kealey said his article was a "moral piece" which used humour to encourage people to exercise self-restraint.
And he told the BBC: "It says that sex between middle-aged academics and young undergraduates is wrong. It also says that academics should enjoy the company of their students. That too is unexceptionable.
OK, for Kealey it's all about age, no problem for the younger academic or for the older female student?
"The Times Higher readership is composed mainly of academics who would be expected to appreciate articles written at more than one level. The crudeness of some of the examples was to underpin the inappropriateness of transgressional sex and that is a conventional literary device.
Oh, God, it's all about the crudeness of transgressional sex. Or maybe its also about the crudeness of pedestrian sex.
"Sex between staff and students is not funny and is not a legitimate source of humour but it is legitimate to use humour to illuminate the ways that people finesse the dissonance between what is publicly acceptable and what is sometimes privately desired."
Or maybe it's about Dr. Kealey trying to finesse himself so he won't lose his job.
A spokesman for the University and College Union said: "Harassment is not something to be taken lightly and I would be surprised, and deeply concerned, if any university, or vice-chancellor, tried to laugh it off."
Isn't this the first mention of harassment. What has harassment got to do with anything? I would hope that just about anyone would laugh off this comment.
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The Non-Prophets
The Non-Prophets is a biweekly, live internet radio program of atheism-related news and discussion that is currently available as a podcast. Originating in Austin, Texas, the show is currently hosted by Denis Loubet with cohost and engineer Matt Dillahunty, and contributor Shilling Cadena; sometimes they are joined by producer Russell Glasser. Longtime host Jeff Dee was on hiatus in 2007 and 2008.
The show airs every other Saturday from 2 to 3:30 p.m. local time (3–4:30 p.m. Eastern Time). Archived MP3 audio files of the last year (or more) of episodes are also available at the website.
New episodes are no longer being produced for the foreseeable future.
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After a minute or two of music and regular introductions (see below), attention usually turns to listener mail and news items. Typically the ensuing discussion is quite informal, but in early 2007 about half of one especially long episode (February 10th) was devoted to a semi-formal debate on free will. In summer 2007 the show started having phone-in guests (but not calls from ordinary listeners — for that, see the Atheist Community of Austin's weekly call-in TV show, The Atheist Experience). The word asshat is used frequently.
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An open letter to illiterate Tanks from a healer.
Dear Tank,
- I realize some of you were at the back of the line when the gods were handing out Intellect.
- I understand that some of you were bending over to tie your plate shoe laces (that can be hard, can't it), and your brains got stuffed in the wrong end.
- I know this letter will be wasted, after all, you are illiterate, but maybe one of your mates will read it out to you.
That all said, I'm sure you understand the term mitigation. You know, like damage mitigation and wipe mitigation.
The 1st one you can look after yourself. A bit of armor here, dodge there, throw in a bit of parry and maybe a bubble or two and you ate all good.
In fact you don't really have to try that hard, blizzard gives you blue and purple shinnies with it, buttons to press and even stuff in your trees (No! Not the one you are cutting down, your talent trees!).
Wipe mitigation will take a little bit more thought on your part, but don't worry, I'm hear to help.
You see we are a team. Actually we are more than that, we are a partnership. You come 1st on my heals list, most of the time, no need to worry about that.
The one time you drop to 2nd on my priority list is when I need a heal. If I am healing myself, I am not healing you. If I am dead, I am healing no one.
Here's a couple of tips for you one wipe mitigation:
If I make a request, consider it an order.
If I go to the trouble of making a request of you, then heed it. I understand your repair bills can be expensive, don't increase your costs in 10% increments.
Mana makes the heals go round.
I need mana to heal you. Many things consume mana, mostly they are heals and chain heals cost more than the others.
If you charge off to the next lot of mobs when I am low on mana or am drinking, then I hope you can self heal. I will tell you what level of mana I want, as a general rule, but it never hurts to ask me if I am ready. Just type:
/w squidly r?
In future you can just press Enter and up arrow to repeat the question.
Comfort Zone
Usually after the 1st couple of pulls I can tell you whether to pick up the pace, or take smaller chunks of mobs.
If I tell you to pull less, it's not because I am lazy, but just that I can't sustain the heals over that period of time.
Totems are expensive
I drop sticks in the ground that help keep the party alive and doing more damage, they help a lot, I mean a truckload.
The trade off for that is they cost a fair bit of mana… About 20% of my mana will go in buffs.
So we have 2 options:
- We all move, I drop new totems and you wait till I am ready, or
- Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: if I already have a perfectly good set of totems, how about you pull the mobs back. Then we will have less downtime.
More Mobs, Less Mana= Bad
I know you are tough and I am an excellent healer, but there are limits. When you body pull there is a good change you will get more than one group of mobs.
Also the reason I pointed out there was a pat was so you could work around it, not invite it to the wipe.
If I have to tell you more than twice not to pull more mobs, the next thing you will read is Squidly has left the party.
When I tell you there are mobs on me, your No.1 job is to fix that.
You come before the DPS for me…
Make sure I come before the DPS for you.
If they pull aggro while you are prancing around the room picking up those casters that are busting my butt, well, hopefully I can heal them through… assuming I am not getting hit any more. The melee mobs are already chewing on your butt, they will follow you where ever you go.. so go get those casters that care more for me than for you.
If I get a melee mob on me, I will bring it to you, but please take out the casters, the only party member with aggro on them is me, and my aggro is skyrocketing.
Boredom = Bad
Sometimes you aren't pulling enough. Never fear I will tell you.
If I don't, feel free to ask.
You see I (and nearly every other healer I expect) am so good at my job that often I am falling asleep at the keyboard while throwing the odd heal.
My experiences in healing so far have shown two distinct periods of healing in instances, plus a third which I prefer.
The catatonic phase: not enough mobs or damage to warrant my presence. I may DPS, but being conscientious I would rather hang onto the mana for the other period.
The OMFG phase: all he'll breaks loose, I am throwing heals around like chimps throw poo at the zoo. Often with as much effectiveness. If this follows the catatonic phase there is a chance I might be, well, catatonic. Thus someone might die before I wake up.
Cruising phase: There is a 3rd period of healing I like. Constant flows of heals. I stay on my toes, don't run out of mana and I am warmed up for the OMFG phase.
Once again, I will tell you when I would like you to relieve my boredom. No need to do any extra pulls before I do so.
Aggro Magnet
One of the great things about being a healer is I don't need to hit mobs, just you. This means that you can invite me to instances I have no right to be in.
The only problem is that I am an aggro magnet. If I have to run up to you, there is a good chance I will pull the other mobs in the room… Probably the next room too.
Unfortunately when they come they will come hit me, not you. Which means no heals for you.
So pull them back away from their mates, back towards me so I can heal you without drawing extra attention.
Best part is I am probably standing near my totems, which means we can keep pulling in small chunks.
/ignore list
I have one and I know how to use it.
If you don't listen I will make sure I can't hear your whispers to group up.
Yes I know tanks are in short supply, but so are healers. Just as your friends list is probably filled with healers, mine is filled with tanks. I'll find another one.
As it is I get a whisper every ten minutes when I am not already in an instance or BG asking me to join a group. Even when I am busy I have people queuing up to use my services.
You aren't that special, especially if you don't listen to me.
/kick or quit
If I'm the party leader and you repeatedly ignore my requests, I will /kick you.
If I am not the party leader, I will clearly state to the party that I can't work with you and promptly drop group. The group can then decide if they want to kick you and get me back, or suffer on through your stupidity.
If you are the party leader… Later… NOT!
Brought to you by the letter S and the stupid noobcake of an illiterate tank in Stratholme on Friday.
Gnomer and Out, Squidly and Stout!
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Thursday, July 17, 2008
Cranky Friday
That being said, I have a few genuine dislikes and pet peeves that I figured I would take the opportunity to air. Having had a grueling month at work, I'm particularly cranky, so I thought it was time to unleash some venom.
Vosges Chocolates.
Okay, first let's discuss the hideous bacon flavored chocolate. I know the trend is to put bacon on everything these days, and I love bacon as much as the next Jew, but ughh...it tastes like bad chocolate with Bac-O Bits...I couldn't even finish the thing and for me and chocolate, that's saying a lot.
The bacon flavor is just putrid icing on the really bad cake though. Vosges dresses their chocolate in gourmet packages and sells it at up-market venues like Whole Foods and Intelligentsia, but the truth is, it's crap. Vosges contains additives, like soy lecithin, that better chocolate makers disdain. These additives are undoubtedly supposed to make it taste creamy, but instead give it a greasy, artificial mouthfeel. They try to cover for this by mixing with strong flavors like chili and salt, but to me, that just makes it worse, and they make the flavors so strong, it creates and unbalanced mess. Yuck!
Celebrity Chefs in LA
Five years ago, you could get into nearly any LA restaurant at any time by calling, at most, a week in advance. Sona, Spago or Melisse for 4 at 7:30? No problem. But then came the celebrity chefs. Bankrolled, book writing, Today show appearing chefs who started noticing that there was life west of Vegas. You know the routine. They show up for the first month to do interviews and cook for the beautiful people after which they speed back to Manhattan. In their wake, they have given us a little bit of New York in LA, and not in a good way. Restaurants that are all but inaccessible if you're not rep'd by William Morris, reservations available before 4:30 pm or after 1:30 am and customers who have more money than taste buds. Is the food good? Who knows? Who gets in? The only good thing, there's more space than ever at Melisse. So thanks for that Mario, Tom and Gordon.
The Back Room of Dim Sum Palaces
There is no more terrible feeling than showing up at your favorite dim sum house in the San Gabriel Valley and being shown to the back room. These overflow rooms, adjacent to the main hall are the places where carts fear to tread. So far afield are they that only chinese broccoli and chicken feet are allowed in. There you sit, hungry, waiting, watching the chicken feet go by for the fifth time, wondering where the rest of the food is, dying for a pork bun, some lotus-wrapped sticky rice or any other mosel. It's a Coleridge like horror: "Dim sum, dim sum everywhere but not a drop to eat."
Boring Scotch
There are a number of Scotches which, while I wouldn't say they are terrible, are overrated and unexciting. Most of these are highly promoted Speysiders which seem to be marketing to an otherwise whiskiphobic crowd. They are fine whiskies which I can drink, but can't get excited about. Among the malts in this category are: The Glenrothes vintage series and the Glenmorangie series of finished whiskies. Yawn! (I would have added Balvenie Doublewood, but given that good ole Doc Whiskey is singing their praises these days, I will give them another chance.)
One of the best sites to learn about Bourbon is straightbourbon.com. It's got a great FAQ, information on distilleries and brands (though it could use some updating) and a great forum with regular posts from distinguished whiskey expert Chuck Cowdery.
What perpetually gets in the way of my enjoyment of this site, though, is that nearly half of the posts seem to have nothing to do with Bourbon whatsoever, but instead are various right wing polemics about the myth of global warming, the right of every man woman and child to sport an uzi and the latest screed they heard on Rush or saw on Fox News.
I'm sorry, I came here to read about Bourbon. If I want to read right wing bullshit, I'll go to some right wing bullshit site...there are only, what, 35 million of those. Post something left of Mussolini on Straightbourbon and you will be called out as the Communist you inevitably are. Now, granted, the right wing posts are generally by a small minority of posters, but it gets in the way of a lot of good Bourbon information, and it's just annoying. In retaliation, I've got a mind to go to redstate.com and make 5,000 posts about the beauty of Elijah Craig 18 year old single barrel!
Michael Ruhlman
I've got no patience for this darling of the food media world. His books are overwritten and boring, as is his blog. His adherence to traditional French food is stodgy and boring. His TV appearances are, well, just boring. Please kick this guy to the curb and bring us Jeffrey Steingarten or someone who at least has a sense of humor.
There aren't many foods I flat-out dislike. In fact, about the only other one I can think of is tripe (no menudo for me thanks). But I just can't deal with hazlenuts. I hate how they grace every chocolate dessert, ruining the taste of fine chocolate with their rancidity. There is nothing worse than the pervasive smell of hazlenut flavored coffee that exudes from every pour of my body if I spend even a minute in my local 7-11. Hazlenuts are evil!! And don't even get me started on Nutella.
Wow, that felt good. I should do that more often.
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Agreed on the bacon bar. It could work, but it's way too greasy and smoky. Couldn't take a second bite. I'm not sure about the soy lecithin issue, though.... It's in a lot of chocolate. I've yet to find an organic chocolate that I like, possibly b/c they don't contain soy lecithin. Not that I'm a fan, per se, but it can help texture a lot. Michael Cluizel is the only one that I know of that doesn't use it and has chocolate that I like. And at least Scharffen Berger and European chocolates use non-GMO.
Yeah, celebrity chefs infiltrating LA... but don't write off Thomas Keller's upcoming LA Bouchon yet... If they get it right, their cheese danish is possibly the best thing on earth.
Balvenie Doublewood makes for good caramels, I swear. :)
I used to hate hazelnuts, too, until I discovered Oregon hazelnuts. They're bigger and sweeter, without that horrid rancid flavor of the small ones from Turkey. If it must be hazelnut, let be Oregonian.
And I used hate Jeffrey Steingarten and his contentious interactions with other Iron Chef judges, but I look forward to him now. He's original, and though I still think he's jerky, now it seems like it's in a good way. Where's his own TV show???
- July 17, 2008 at 9:28 PM
- sku said...
Thanks for your comments Nina.
A lot of the chocolates I have reivewed (Amedei, DeVries, Patric) don't have additives; in fact, I think most of the new artisnal bean to bar producers don't use them. That being said, I can't say for certain that the additives are the reason I dislike Vosges, I just don't like its taste or texture. It's true though, that pure cacao can be gritty if it's not done well.
I'm worried that Keller will just add to the mess. It's not that his food won't be great, or that hte others' aren't great, it just adds to a culture of dining that is more exclusive and seemingly inaccessible to anyone without a high-powered agent (or who doesn't want dinner at either 4:30 pm or 11:00 pm). I've got kids, I can't sit around for three hours hoping that a bar seat opens up.
Hmm, Oregon hazlenuts. I am intrigued. Have you used them in any of your bars?
- July 18, 2008 at 11:17 AM
Yeah, I could see the bean to bar producers not using it. In couverture, it's pretty common. I had a Bread & Chocolate Theo bar yesterday without it yesterday whose texture was awfully crumbly and sandy, so I was feeling slightly pro-it at the time. I didn't realize Amadei didn't use it -- they're much smoother.
Hm, maybe the more celebrity chef restaurants that open, the more the crowd will be spread out, and the more free tables there will be. :) In any case, I'll probably just be in and out of Bouchon for the danish!
I haven't introduced it yet, but my coffee bar has Oregon hazelnuts. I'm not sure where they are on the east side, but the Coop in Santa Monica carries them, unskinned. Trufflebert Farms is one of the top producers, if you ever see them named on a menu.
- July 18, 2008 at 8:03 PM
- sku said...
Thanks for the Hazlenut rec, I'll check it out. And of course, if you use it in a bar, I will definitely try it.
- July 18, 2008 at 8:38 PM


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MLB Network, Part 2
If you missed the first part of this small installment, I am going over the launch and conceptual beginning of the new MLB Network set to debut on New Years' Day all over the cable industry. I want o tell you that you should make a point of trying to view a show with former Rays broadcaster, Joe Magrane, I can guarantee you it will be a fun time to hear this great former player and tongue-in-cheek broadcaster. So, let's pick up where I left off before hitting the confines of a small room with the smell of anxiety and bad oxygen in the air:
With the cable industry agreeing to allow access to the MLB of the previously contracted out-of-market concept, Extra Innings package to drive channel carriage. They used other professional leagues as a starting point for their transformation. The NHL has tied carriage deals to its channel with access to Center Ice. And the NBA is planning to use League Pass to try to persuade cable operators to move NBA TV off sports tiers and into the mind of their subscribers as a optional network.
Its contracts are up at the end of this season. The NFL also is rumored to be considering making Sunday Ticket available to cable operators, in exchange for NFL Network carriage when that contract ends in 2011. It's uncertain whether this strategy will work for other leagues, but it is clear that other leagues are trying to use MLB's strategy on their own properties.
"When we were putting the Oxygen Network together, we thought getting to 30 million homes was a big deal, but now getting to 50 million with the MLB Network, you have a real viable product," said Tom Werner, Boston Red Sox chairman, a board member of MLB Network and longtime TV producer.
After MLB owners approved distribution contracts with DirecTV and cable operators last May, Brosnan and Chris Tully, senior vice president of broadcasting, immediately got to work on finding a home for the network. The process quickly turned from daunting to seemingly impossible, even with the commercial real estate market in the New York market softening and available inventories rising. The key issue was finding something that had high ceilings, open floor plans and modern infrastructure to accommodate a high-end studio set design MLB wants that will rival elaborate build-outs at ESPN and NFL Network, while at the same time was not prohibitively expensive.
Brosnan and Tully looked for months all over the five boroughs of New York City, as well as portions of suburban New Jersey and Connecticut, continuing to run into dead ends. Network partners such as DirecTV Chief Executive Chase Carey, however, continued to press MLB to focus on Manhattan. Not only is the island the country's media focus, but a suburban or outer borough location would all but kill much-discussed plans to have players regularly come on set to appear on the network.
Common thinking was that New York is considered the center of the world to a lot of people in the country and the world. And for this new network to be more than a typical league network, you have to devise multiple ways to create excitement. You really need to be in Manhattan to make it accessible to everyone.
MLB then became connected with Vornado, which needed an anchor tenant to help push forward its plans for the modern, 21-story office tower in Harlem, using the former site of a hotel and retail development that never materialized. Within a matter of weeks, negotiations were well along for the MLB Network to occupy two lower floors for its studio and production operations, two upper floors for administration and sales, and place elaborate electronic signage and video boards facing the high-traffic, adjacent areas along Park Avenue.
Financial terms of the real estate venture have not been disclosed. But industry sources suggest that MLB, even after contributing up front to some of the tower's development costs, will do far better than other city properties investigated that lease for more than $70 per square foot. Further sweetening the situation is that the space will be completely build-to-suit. In the meantime, the MLB Network will operate out of Secaucus, N.J., using the recently vacated MSNBC studios. The tenancy will be temporary, with the move to Harlem projected to occur in mid-2010.
The MLB-Vornado deal has not nearly been the end of the story. The project has sparked another feisty debate on the merits of gentrification and whether Harlem truly wants or needs an upscale commercial development such as this. Complicating that debate is roughly $20 million in city tax breaks that Vornado and MLB are believed to be seeking as part of the project. The pair of entities have received city planning approval for needed zoning variances to build the full 21 stories as intended, with city council authorization still pending.
While its distribution and headquarters location are under control, the network was pretty slow to find an executive to run the channel, especially when compared with other network launches. The NFL, for example, hired Steve Bornstein about 15 months before NFL Network launched in November 2003. Similarly, Jon Litner came over to work on SportsNet New York's launch 13 months before that RSN launched in March 2006.
The list includes top media executives from various broadcast and cable channels, sources say. The new CEO will report to a board made up of five owners, two MLB executives and representatives from strategic partners DirecTV and Comcast. Tully has been tabbed as a likely COO candidate. The CEO also will "collaborate on a day-to-day basis with Brosnan," according to a document Spencer Stuart sent to prospective candidates.
The Spenser Stuart group finally came down with recommendations for the top spot at MLB Network, and the job was offered to Tony Pettit in April 2008. This gave the highly motivated executive a mire 8 months before signing on for the first time for the network. Pettit's position to manage the daily operations of the MLB Network came with very high references from his former employer, and a key allies in baseball front office.
Petitti resume showed outstanding points of interest for MLB, and a firm background in media. Pettit attended Haverford where he majored in economics before attending Harvard Law. He worked for two years at the law firm of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft before joining ABC Sports in 1988 as general attorney. After being named Vice President of Programming, where he was responsible for acquiring and scheduling ABC Sports programming, he was hired by CBS in 1997 as Senior Vice President of Business Affairs and Programming. In December 2005, Pettiti was named Executive Vice President, CBS Sports and was responsible for all day-to-day operations of CBS Sports, where he was largely responsible for the network's NFL coverage. He basically, was held responsible for everything you see on the Sunday telecasts nationally.
It was announced on January 3, 2008, that Mr. Petitti would be placed in charge of day-to-day operations of CSTV , the college sports network that is being absorbed into CBS sports, effectively replacing network co-founder Brian Bedol , who had been serving as president of CSTV since the network was purchased by CBS Corporation in 2005. CSTV was renamed the CBS College Sports Network on March 16, 2008. Pettit a few weeks later decided to venture into the new frontier with MLB and lead the new network.
So with a high profile CEO now in place of the new network, MLB executives started planning to approach top-tier corporate sponsors such as Chevrolet, Anheuser-Busch and Pepsi to pitch presenting sponsorships that will integrate the company identities deeply into network content.
As for MLB Advanced Media, baseball's interactive arm is barely mentioned in the Spencer Stuart prospectus, and the operation is not expected to be involved significantly in the network. The strategy differs sharply from those at the other major leagues, and in part, is designed to maximize the economic value of both assets.
Also at play is that both MLBAM and the MLB headquarters see the respective media product as very different, with the lean-back and lean-in fan experiences quite separate and distinct. Similarly, there is currently no set deal for MLBAM to operate the network's Web site once it launches.But asked if MLB Network, already on a faster growth curve than even the triumphant MLBAM, will ultimately overtake its Web counterpart in size and scope, Selig demurred. stating, " Only time will tell."


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delegate (C++ Component Extensions)
Declares a type that represents a function pointer.
All Runtimes
Both the Windows Runtime and common language runtime support delegates.
delegate is a context-sensitive keyword. For more information, see Context-Sensitive Keywords (C++ Component Extensions).
To detect at compile time if a type is a delegate, use the __is_delegate() type trait. For more information, see Compiler Support for Type Traits (C++ Component Extensions).
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C++/CX supports delegates with the following syntax.
access delegate return-type delegate-type-identifier ([ parameters ])
(optional) The accessibility of the delegate, which can be public (the default) or private. The function prototype can also be qualified with the const or volatile keywords.
The return type of the function prototype.
The name of the declared delegate type.
(Optional) The types and identifiers of the function prototype.
Use the delegate-type-identifier to declare an event with the same prototype as the delegate. For more information, see Delegates (C++/CX).
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The common language runtime supports delegates with the following syntax.
access delegate function_declaration
(optional) The accessibility of the delegate outside of the assembly can be public or private. The default is private. Inside a class, a delegate can have any accessibility.
The signature of the function that can be bound to the delegate. The return type of a delegate can be any managed type. For interoperability reasons, it is recommended that the return type of a delegate be a CLS type.
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It inherits from System::MulticastDelegate.
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Delegates can be bound or unbound.
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When you instantiate an unbound delegate, the first argument shall either be the address of a method of a managed class object, or a pointer to a method of a value type. The argument must name the method with the full class scope syntax and apply the address-of operator.
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using namespace System;
// declare a delegate
public delegate void MyDel(int i);
ref class A {
void func1(int i) {
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void func2(int i) {
Console::WriteLine("in func2 {0}", i);
static void func3(int i) {
Console::WriteLine("in static func3 {0}", i);
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A ^ a = gcnew A;
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MyDel^ DelInst;
// test if delegate is initialized
if (DelInst)
// assigning to delegate
DelInst = gcnew MyDel(a, &A::func1);
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if (DelInst)
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In an interview with People Magazine, the couple said: "We tried for several years, and we didn't think it was going to happen for us."
According to People, the couple's daughter, Ella Bleu, 10, "reacted with joy" at the news of the pregnancy. The couple lost their son Jett who sufferred a seizure while vacationing in the Bahamas. He was 16 years old. Sources close to the family have said that "they can never replace him" and that they "always wanted to have more kids."
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How and why did you get into comedy?
I got into comedy cause it was always a good feeling when I made people laugh as a kid. I was a bit shy and weird so it was a quick way to be accepted. I certainly did not get into for the money. There is no money in comedy, folks. Anybody got a dolla?
How would you describe your style as a comedian? What influences and factors do you think contribute to that?
I am brash. I like to play old ladies, and funny guys. I am physical. My training has caused me to slow down a bit and not worry so much about getting a laugh. I mostly just try to have a blast on stage and play with the people I work with, and make them laugh.
Do you have a favorite show or venue you like to perform at? What about it makes it fun or special for you?
I love playing in an intimate house where people are close. I love also going out into the crowd if the tenor of the show calls for it, so its always exciting when that is a possibility. Some place like the Shubin is great when it is packed with folks, it feels so cozy and allows for shared experience. Don't get me wrong, I have played on bigger stages and enjoy it too, but that feedback from the audience is so important, as a comedian, and I just get a better sense of it in a smaller theater.
Do you have a single favorite moment in Philly comedy or one that stands out?
Hmm … I remember a scene that Adsit and Gausas did where they playing characters on a date. They were warming up to an awkward kiss, and as they got closer and closer, they kept speaking to each other and they gradually were touching lips and talking at the same time. It was very funny. I would like to see more of that kind of risk taking form Philly teams. I loved it.
Do you have any sort of creative process that you use with your writing or your performance?
Or a sort of method that you use to develop comedic material? I do not write, but I do direct some. I think it is important to be very aware of the source. I like starting with the performer, and going from there. A line coming from one stand-up or actor / improviser will go over much differently that from another. I think it is important to know how you are seen as a comedian in just about any genre of comedy.
What is it about improv that draws you to it?
The collaborative spirit and the instant gratification is what draws me to improv. The empty space to create that it provides is thrilling and terrifying at the same time. I love the freedom involved in non-scripted work and as the challenges it poses to me as a director, a writer, and actor, choreographer, lyricists, and composer of my own work.
Do you have any favorite performers in the Philly scene? Why are they your favorites?
I like to watch Marc Reber, Jess Ross, Matt Holmes, AJ Horan, Ralph Andraccio, Nathan Edmondson, Amie Roe, Emily Davis, Brandon Libby and pretty much anyone who gets up there to have fun.
Do you have any bad experiences doing comedy that you can share? A particularly bad bombing or even an entire show gone haywire?
Ugh, yes. Plenty of bad shows. An improv troupe I was part of did an improv show at the Happy Rooster once. No one wanted to see us. They wanted to have dinner. We were being rude. Ugh. Terrible.
What do you think the Philly comedy scene needs to continue to grow?
The comedy scene needs to continue to invest in its own development by seeing the shows that are doing it right, be there in other cities or our own. Also a permanent home for comedy would be a great help to developing and audience for the scene, which in turn, will develop the scene.
Do you have any personal goals for the future as you continue to perform comedy?
My goal is to take bigger chances as an artist, to be more comfortable with not knowing what comes next. Any who knows me also knows I want to push for performers to get paid more for what they do. I eventually want to make a living at this stuff.
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RENTAL - the act of paying for the use of something (as an apartment or house or car)
As the City of Estherville's code enforcement officer defines it. You own property you do not live in it.
It could be rental so must be registered.
I recently received a threat letter from the city offices as I am sure others have in town of being fined $100 a day for not registering rental property per code section 234-6.
Now I do own properties in Estherville that I do not live in, (my family does) when trying to explain this to said offices I was told well it doesn't matter if you collect rent or not it COULD BE. So in my way of looking at that definition, if you move your parents to a retirement home and you live in the house to take care of it, the house must be now classified as RENTAL PROPERTY and must be registered or face an imposing fine of $100 a day.
So grandparents that go south for the winter you're not exempt if your grandson or daughter moves in with you to go to collage, even though you receive no monetary return for your kindness you COULD BE rental property. And thus must abide by the rental standards that the city console are trying to imagine and enforce.
Most all houses in Estherville according to tax records are considered single family residents, except for the noted condos, retirement homes, apartment buildings, etc. Is this just an attempt by the city administrators to inject their standards on all the people? Sure there are land lords that abuse the system putting 4 -5 or more collage students in a single family dwelling, charging them $200 or more a head as well as put multi families in a single family dwellings.
If you're going to come out with a code to enforce the industry you should look into defining that industry first.
I have properties my sons and daughters live in them, there is no act of paying, no monetary exchange, they are my children and I think everybody knows in most cases they are a monetary drain.
I suggest the city council get the definitions and think about their actions before trying to retrofit building codes to every home, for as it is now every home COULD BE rental property
I have a cemetery plot that I do not currently occupy I guess that could be rental property too. Should I put that my registration form also???
Wayne Chrestiansen, Estherville


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Microsoft and Novell have reached a US$536 million settlement over Novell NetWare. In addition to resolving the NT-NetWare case in the US, the agreement means that Novell will no longer support the antitrust investigation undertaken by the European Union. The dispute dates back to the mid 1990s. Novell claimed that Microsoft made a practice of degrading the performance of rival server operating systems and withholding key technical information needed for its servers to achieve full interoperability with Windows in corporate environments. In exchange for dropping the claims, Novell gets over a half-billion dollars to settle claims on a product that's not only dying, but is no longer its centerpiece product, as it has turned its attention squarely towards Linux.
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In addition to closing the book on some long-running disputes with Novell, Sun, and many other companies that have engaged in legal battles with Microsoft, the software company is also hoping that the agreements will have a positive impact as it continues through the appeal process in the EU. In that vein, Microsoft announced an agreement with the Computer and Communications Industry Association, an IT industry group that had sought to have the US Supreme Court review the Department of Justice's antitrust settlement and supports the EU's antitrust action against Microsoft.
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'A couple go into a room and will not come out until something—everything—is finished. A man sees in a famous painting something the artist has tried to erase, and which he pursues, like a clue to his own being, from gallery to gallery, story to story. David Brooks's previous books have established him as one of Australia's finest, most challenging writers. The imagination and eroticism of those books are here at new levels. From the haunting encounters of a sea captain in the eighteenth century to a vast Map Room in the twentieth, or the strange encodings in an asylum in the south of France, these are his most polished, elegant, and at times most disturbing stories so far.' (Publication summary)


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A Case of Infected Mitral-Aortic Intervalvular Fibrosa Pseudoaneurysm
Malahfji M, Chamsi-Pasha M, Chang SM. A Case of Infected Mitral-Aortic Intervalvular Fibrosa Pseudoaneurysm. Methodist DeBakey Cardiovasc J. 2018;14(2):151-152.doi: 10.14797/mdcj-14-2-151
intervalvular fibrosa pseudoaneurysm , prosthetic valve infection
An 81-year-old woman presented with fever and shortness of breath. She had an aortic valve replacement in 2012 (a 19-mm St. Jude Trifecta bioprosthetic valve) as well as coronary artery bypass grafting. Blood cultures were positive for vancomycin-intermediate Staphylococcus aureus. Transthoracic echocardiography showed degeneration of the aortic valve prosthesis with severe aortic insufficiency and a tricuspid valve vegetation.
Transesophageal echocardiography demonstrated pseudoaneurysm formation in the mitral-aortic intervalvular fibrosa (MAIVF) (Figures 1, 3). Color Doppler showed systolic and diastolic flow into the pseudoaneurysm (Figure 2). Cardiac computed tomography showed that the ruptured abscess cavity extended from the aortic root to the proximal ascending aorta (Figure 4, red arrow).
The patient underwent debridement of the aortic annulus as well as aortic root and ascending aorta replacement using a CryoLife allograft (CryoLife, Inc.). The tricuspid valve vegetation was removed, and intravenous antibiotic therapy was continued for 8 weeks with daptomycin and ceftaroline followed by lifelong doxycycline therapy. She was discharged to rehabilitation 2 weeks later.
The MAIVF is a fibrous structure located at the junction of the anterior mitral leaflet and the noncoronary cusp of the aortic valve. It is relatively avascular, which makes it prone to infection and injury resulting in pseudoaneurysm formation. When making the diagnosis, it is important to visualize the echo-free space with systolic expansion and diastolic collapse of the pseudoaneurysm.1 Patients with ring abscesses in the MAIVF region, prosthetic aortic valves, or histories of endocarditis are at higher risk for developing pseudoaneurysm of the MAIVF. Transesophageal echocardiography is critical to make the diagnosis.2
- Afridi I, Apostolidou MA, Saad RM, Zoghbi WA. Pseudoaneurysms of the mitral-aortic intervalvular fibrosa: dynamic characterization using transesophageal echocardiographic and Doppler techniques. J Am Coll Cardiol 1995 Jan;25(1):137-45.
- Sudhakar S, Sewani A, Agrawal M, Uretsky BF. Pseudoaneurysm of the mitral-aortic intervalvular fibrosa (MAIVF): A comprehensive review. J Am Soc Echocardiogr. 2010 Oct;23(10):1009-18.


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It is well known that ice shelves on the Antarctic Peninsula have collapsed on several occasions in the last couple of decades, that ice shelves in West Antarctica are thinning rapidly, and that the large outlet glaciers that drain the West Antarctic ice sheet (WAIS) are accelerating. The rapid drainage of the WAIS into the ocean is a major contributor to sea level rise (around 10% of the total, at the moment).
All of these observations match the response, predicted in the late 1970s by glaciologist John Mercer, of the Antarctic to anthropogenic global warming. As such, they are frequently taken as harbingers of greater future sea level rise to come. Are they?
Two papers published this week in Nature Geoscience provide new information that helps to address this question. One of the studies (led by me) says "probably", while another (Abram et al.) gives a more definitive "yes". More »


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Brad Pitt's breathtaking wife is captivating Connecticut. You will soon see Angelina Jolie in breastfeeding not one, but two of her children!
A bronze statue of the American actress was born in an art studio in Moosup. Connecticut sculptor Daniel Edwards created the piece and has been showing off the unfinished clay and bronze statue. Edwards says the statue, called "Landmark for Breastfeeding," is nearly life-sized and shows a nude Jolie holding two of her children in a "football hold," Reuters reports.
And it came right on time for World Breastfeeding week last month.
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He was partly inspired by the fact that breastfeeding in public is a touchy topic for some, Edwards said.
"It was a highly charged issue, and I was kind of stumped because I didn't realize people were so much against public breastfeeding. I thought, 'How much more wholesome can you get than breastfeeding," Edwards said.
This isn't the first of his unusual pieces. Two years ago, he sculpted socialite Paris Hilton -- dead, naked and with her legs spread apart. Edwards called the work "Paris Hilton Autopsy," Reuters reports.
And in 2006, he unveiled a lifelike statue of pop star Britney Spears giving birth on a bear skin rug.
Two years later, Angelina Jolie's W magazine cover, which showed her breastfeeding, helped spark his sculpture idea.
"I felt Angelina Jolie, even then, was the best representative of such an idea, a statement, a symbol," he said. "So
it just had all the components that I thought were good for an interesting sculpture and social commentary."
The Angelina Jolie breastfeeding statue will make its public debut on Friday, Sept. 11. in Norman, Oklahoma, near the birthplace of Brad Pitt, before landing in London this fall.


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Christian Counseling Center Celebrates 50th Anniversary in Scotland
A Church of Scotland counseling center will celebrate its 50th anniversary this Friday with a special service in Glasgow.
The Tom Allan Centre is run by CrossReach, the social care arm of the Church of Scotland.
It first opened its doors in 1961 as a rehabilitation service for people with alcohol problems and it was formally dedicated on June 8, 1962.
The founding vision was to provide people with an opportunity to recover their self-esteem and self-respect by sharing their problems with others in the same situation.
The center shifted its focus to counseling during the 1970s and 1980s, and this forms the core of its work to this day.
The center was named after its founder, a popular Church of Scotland minister who served in North Kelvinside in Glasgow, who was involved in numerous community-related projects in the city.
His efforts pioneering church social work were rewarded in 1964 when he received Glasgow's highest honors, the St Mungo Medal and Prize.
The service at Renfield St Stephen's Church will be joined by the Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, the Rt Rev Albert Bogle.
Guests will include many people who have been involved with the facility over the years.
Anne Goldie, Service Manager at the Tom Allan Centre, said: "Today we welcome back many people who have had a connection with the centre from its very early days to those who work with us now.
"We want today to be a celebration of all the lives that have been changed and enhanced by God's grace through the people he has inspired to offer their love and skill to those in need over the last 50 years.
"I would also like to take this opportunity to thank the 100 or so volunteers that we depend on, and without whom the Tom Allan Centre could not operate. These include counselors and other volunteers such as those who support the administration team, work in the crèche and fundraise for us."
Bogle added: "It is an honor to be invited to the 50th birthday of the Tom Allan Centre, which has provided crucial help and support for thousands of people over the years. Tom Allan was an inspirational figure and it is reassuring to see that his legacy is still going strong. I hope it will continue to thrive for many years to come."


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Victor Jara's murderers finally indicted -- 30 years after September 11, 1973 coup d'etat against the elected socialist government of Chile began creating the so-called 'free market' military dictatorship in Chile
"The bodes of both men [Victor Jara and Littre Quiroga] and three other victims were later found dumped near a railroad track outside a cemetary; one of the victims remains unidentified. According to the autopsy report, Mr. [Victor] Jara was badly beaten and was shot 44 times." (New York Times, December 12, 2012).
The election of Salvador Allende President of Chile in 1970 led to the organized work under the cooperation of the Nixon administration to overthrow the government and establish a military dictatorship under Augusto Pinochet. Above, Allende celebrating his victory in the election which was undone by the U.S. government and Chilean traitors, with the help of cadre from the U.S. labor movement.According to The New York Times and Chilean media, the government of Chile has finally indicted the alleged murderers of Chilean folk singer and revolutionary leader Victor Jara. "Eight retired Army officers were charged on Friday with the murder of a popular songwriter and theater director, Victor Jara, who was tortured and killed days after the 1973 military coup in a stadium that had been turned into a detention center," the Times reported in a December 29, 2012 story.
Despite the work in recent years to expose the murderous onset of the "free market" economy that grew with Chicago help in Chile after the coup d'etat that destroyed the government of Salvador Allende on September 11, 1973, the 30th anniversary of the CIA-organized coup in September 2013 will only allow part of the story to be told.
An untold part of the story will be the role played by American unions, led by AFL-CIO President George Meany, in the anti-communist attacks on truly free unions and socialists around the world. Although it was still in its early stages at the time of the overthrow of the Allende government, the work of the American Federation of Teachers in that project had begun, with at least one AFT staffer in Chile at the time, using access to school and community organizations to create the lists of people who were rounded up by the military in the days following September 11, 1973. Allende himself was dead by then, supposedly a "suicide."
Between 20,000 and 30,000 Chilean citizens, from government officials to leaders of local unions, including teachers, were murdered by the Pinochet dictatorship during the year after the coup. The ability of the military to identify and locate those who led the community in its struggles was facilitated by American unionists who had been working in cooperation with the CIA abroad.
During his time as president of the AFL-CIO, George Meany devoted more organizing energy and resources to working with the American CIA on anti-communist crusades across the planet, while the American unions who whose dollars went to the AFL-CIO national office continued to lose ground. The corporate agenda that was launched during the 1970s and now is hegemonic would have been thwarted at birth if the AFL-CIO were organizing workers both in the USA and across the globe, instead of working to destabilize unions and governments, like the one in Chile. Following the destruction of the socialist infrastructure of Chile and its leadership, the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet brought about what was called a "free market" economy. The Pinochet dictatorship had economic advice from University of Chicago economist Milton Friedman. The students and graduate students who worked with Friedman in Chile became known, infamously around the world, as the "Chicago Boys." Their program, implemented behind bayonets, brought about the privatization of one of the best public school systems in Latin America. Other public programs under attack included social security and health care. Charter schools and other private schooling was promoted by the government.
Some have begun to call the new generation of privatization zealots now working for the federal government in the U.S. Department of Education under Secretary Arne Duncan the "New Chicago Boys," since they are pushing the same programs that their forebears from the same place pushed under the military dictatorship in Chile from 1973 through the early 1990s. Despite enormous pressure to revise the history of Chile by The Wall Street Journal and others, the truth has been coming out more and more in recent years, and many of those responsible for the atrocities have been indicted, including Augusto Pinochet, now deceased.
One of the reasons why the union movement in the USA declined during the final days of the Cold War was that the leaders of the AFL-CIO promoted an anti-communist agenda around the world, spending millions of dollars on activities such as the Chilean coup rather than on organizing workers in the USA.
Eight Are Charged With Chilean Singer's 1973 Murder After Military Coup, By PASCALE BONNEFOY. Published: December 28, 2012
SANTIAGO, Chile — Eight retired army officers were charged on Friday with the murder of a popular songwriter and theater director, Víctor Jara, who was tortured and killed days after the 1973 military coup in a stadium that had been turned into a detention center.
Judge Miguel Vásquez charged two of the former officers, Pedro Barrientos and Hugo Sánchez, with committing the murder and six others as accomplices. Mr. Sánchez, a lieutenant colonel, was second in command at the stadium. Mr. Barrientos, a lieutenant from a Tejas Verdes army unit, currently lives in Deltona, a city southwest of Daytona Beach, Fla., and was interrogated by the F.B.I. earlier this year at the request of a Chilean court. Attempts to reach Mr. Barrientos for comment were unsuccessful; his two listed telephone numbers had been disconnected.
Judge Vásquez issued an international arrest warrant against Mr. Barrientos through Interpol Santiago and ordered the arrest of the other seven, who were in Chile. Those charged as accomplices are Roberto Souper, Raúl Jofré, Edwin Dimter, Nelson Hasse, Luis Bethke and Jorge Smith.
Víctor Jara, then 40, was a member of the Communist Party and a leading folk singer in the late 1960s and early '70s. A day after the American-supported Sept. 11 coup that ousted the socialist president, Salvador Allende, Mr. Jara was arrested by the military at the Santiago Technical University, where he was a professor and researcher, along with hundreds of students, teachers and staff members.
The detainees were bused to Chile Stadium, since then renamed Víctor Jara Stadium, and held in the bleachers for days with thousands of other prisoners, in the custody of army units brought in from various parts of the country.
Chilean songwriter and singer Victor Jara was one of the most famous artists in Chile by the time of the socialist government. Before he was murdered in 1973, the military tortured him, including, reportedly, cutting off his fingers and then mocking him to play his guitar.Judge Vásquez established that Mr. Jara was recognized by military officers, separated from the rest of the detainees and taken to the basement dressing rooms, which were being used to question prisoners. There, he was interrogated, beaten and tortured by several officers, according to the court.
During the Cold War, Irving Brown (above center) was the CIA's labor man in Europe, working against the unions of France and Italy especially. In 1978, Brown was invited by AFT president Albert Shanker to deliver the "International Labor Lecture" to the AFT convention in Boston. Brown died in 1989, and recently American reactionaries have created an "irving Brown Lecture Series" on Wall Street. In 2010, the lecturer was Karl Rove. Brown's work has been well documented in recent years, although it was little know at the time he was invited to address the American Federation of Teachers. On Sept. 16, 1973, when the stadium was evacuated and the prisoners transferred to the larger, open-air National Stadium in the capital, Víctor Jara and a former prison service director, Littré Quiroga, who was also detained there, were taken to the basement and killed. The bodies of both men and three other victims were later found dumped near a railroad track outside a cemetery; one of the victims remains unidentified. According to the autopsy report, Mr. Jara was badly beaten and was shot 44 times.
Mr. Jara's widow, Joan Turner, a British dancer and a resident of Santiago, was unavailable for comment.
A version of this article appeared in print on December 29, 2012, on page A6 of the New York edition with the headline: Eight Are Charged With Chilean Singer's 1973 Murder After Military Coup.
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Much "fear and loathing" was going on here stateside also with the end of the Viet Nam war in sight, to borrow a term Hunter S. Thompson used in Rollingstone Magazine to title a series of articles to expose what was happening to Americans who refused to be part of the war machine. Since communism couldn't be stopped in Viet Nam, the CIA with the support of others, as articulated above, were determined to squash dissent in this hemisphere, this is what seemed to be the mind set. If it weren't for the VVAW, Viet Nam Vets Against the War, and their free speech movement, the peace movement would not have become what it became, as many threw their medals away publicly, as you all know. Some of us dropped out of society and traveled the country penniless, while others led the fight against the war machine by being active in SDS, Students for a Democratic Society, and of course civil rights organizations flourished with SNCC, The Student Non-violent Co-ordinating Committee, SCLC, Southern Christian Leadership Conference, CORE, Congress on Racial Equality and countless others. Though the Black Panthers had been systemactically targeted with "Cointelpro"
and for example Chicago's "Red Squad" spied on organization after organization, justice seemed to prevail in the end with the SWP, Socialist Workers Party(Militant Newspaper, etc.) effectively filed suit, and winning a court case, etc.
Music, needless to say was part of the movement here, as it was in Victor Jara's Chile. Even after the Woodstock Music and Art Fair in upstate New York, there were enormous outdoor concerts held elsewhere, like the 2nd Atlanta International Pop Festival, in Macon, Georgia. I would like to thank all of you that put up the good fight back then. I was in Santa Barbara, Califronia picking lemons at a migrant fruit picker's camp, when I was informed that I was to report back to the midwest to take a physical, as there was he draft back then.
I told the caller that I had no funds to make it back, and was instructed to go to Salvation Army, who gave me $15. Somehow I made it back to Denver, Colorado, hitch hiking. After washing dishes a while in Golden, selling "Chinook" on the streets, flirting with "Denver Free University", and working on a ranch in Eastern Colorado,I mustered up enough cash to buy a 1960 English Ford. Instead of reporting for my physical however, I decided to drive down to Macon, Georgia. What a beautiful cross-country trip. Upon returning home, I found that the office that the selective service office that housed my papers had been burned down. They kept sending me these papers to fill out to re-classify me, and they made for good practice pitching them into the waste basket. Forgive the ranting, and peace to all you Substance readers. !Victor Jara presente!