I periodically provide mind-blowing examples of individuals who have their lives turned upside down by evil bureaucrats.
You may think "evil" is too strong a word, but it sticks in my mind after perusing these examples of abusive actions by the federal government.
A story of vicious IRS persecution.
Two stories of innocent people who were victimized by the idiotic Drug War.
Now we have a George Will column that will get you very angry. At least if you're a good person.
Will starts by describing the federal bureaucracy's attack on an innocent woman for a non-crime.
…our unhinged government, with an obsession like that of Melville's Ahab, has crippled Nancy Black's scientific career, cost her more than $100,000 in legal fees — so far — and might sentence her to 20 years in prison. This Kafkaesque burlesque of law enforcement began when someone whistled. Black, 50, a marine biologist who also captains a whale-watching ship, was with some watchers in Monterey Bay in 2005 when a member of her crew whistled at the humpback that had approached her boat, hoping to entice the whale to linger. Back on land, another of her employees called the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to ask if the whistling constituted "harassment" of a marine mammal, which is an "environmental crime." NOAA requested a video of the episode, which Black sent after editing it slightly to highlight the whistling. NOAA found no harassment — but got her indicted for editing the tape, calling this a "material false statement" to federal investigators, which is a felony under the 1863 False Claims Act, intended to punish suppliers defrauding the government during the Civil War.
But it gets worse, because the federal jack-boots then raided her office (I don't even know what "jack-boots" are, but they signify government thuggery, and that's definitely a good description of what happened).
…after this bizarre charge — that she lied about the interaction with the humpback that produced no charges — more than a dozen federal agents, led by one from NOAA, raided her home. They removed her scientific photos, business files and computers.
This unfortunate woman has also been charged with another non-crime.
She has also been charged with the crime of feeding killer whales when she and two aides were in a dinghy observing them feeding on strips of blubber torn from their prey — a gray whale. To facilitate photographing the killers' feeding habits, she cut a hole in one of the floating slabs of blubber and, through the hole, attached a rope to stabilize the slab while a camera on a pole recorded the whales' underwater eating. So she is charged with "feeding" killer whales that were already feeding on a gray whale they had killed. She could more plausibly be accused of interfering with the feeding.
As an aside, Will notes that the NOAA bureaucrats have little regard for the Constitution.
Most important, he concludes with the key point about how all of us are threatened by Leviathan.
In 1980, federal statutes specified 3,000 criminal offenses; by 2007, 4,450. They continue to multiply. Often, as in Black's case, they are untethered from the common-law tradition ofmens rea, which holds that a crime must involve a criminal intent — a guilty mind. Legions of government lawyers inundate targets like Black with discovery demands, producing financial burdens that compel the innocent to surrender in order to survive. The protracted and pointless tormenting of Black illustrates the thesis of Harvey Silverglate's invaluable 2009 book, "Three Felonies a Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent." Silverglate, a civil liberties lawyer in Boston, chillingly demonstrates how the mad proliferation of federal criminal laws — which often are too vague to give fair notice of what behavior is proscribed or prescribed — means that "our normal daily activities expose us to potential prosecution at the whim of a government official." Such laws, which enable government zealots to accuse almost anyone of committing three felonies in a day, do not just enable government misconduct, they incite prosecutors to intimidate decent people who never had culpable intentions. And to inflict punishments without crimes. …The more Americans learn about their government's abuse of criminal law for capricious bullying, the more likely they are to recoil in a libertarian direction and put Leviathan on a short leash.
Utterly disgusting. As Glenn Reynolds periodically suggests, "tar, feathers" would be an appropriate way of dealing with these hyenas.
By the way, government thuggery is not limited to the crowd in Washington.
If you have a soul, you will be outraged by this example of a local government abusing poor people.
If you have decency, you will be disgusted by this example of a state government persecuting someone who didn't commit a crime.
If you believe in basic rights, you will be horrified by this example of a foreign government seeking to outlaw political dissent and free speech.
P.S. For the second time, I feel compelled to apologize to Hyenas. They're part of the natural ecosystem. Thuggish bureaucrats, by contrast, are a malignant and artificial force.
Why are these despicable government bullies not named in these articles?
A little shame might go a long way towards changing their minds.
And this is why so many federal agencies need to be ELIMINATED or severely restricted in their scope.
There is a crime called undue harassment. In most of these cases, that's just what it is. Where a law is no longer serviceable, it is no longer the law. "Man wasn't made for the law, but law for the man." Where a law no longer benefits society, it can only serve to be of detriment. Frivolous prosecution defeats the purpose of government. Government is not to put burdens on people. It is to take burdens off people. Reputation alone is grounds to terminate any bureau.
What kind of jurisdictional issues are here? You bring up constitutionality and the NOAA is obviously a federal organization, and I realize that they claim some sort of jurisdiction while she is asea. Was it because of the flag her vessel sailed under?
Jackboot: a combat boot designed for marching, rising to at least mid-calf, with no laces, typically a leather sole with hobnails, and heel irons.
My rubber wellingtons would probably qualify if they were made out of leather instead of rubber.
Obtain and read "Unintended Consequences" by author John Ross. Although out-of-print and a little pricey, it is still available on ebay and amazon. It is a good read and offers solutions to our out-of-control government. The book combines fictional characters with accurate historical information and is a how-to book on "getting things done".
Sellers of this book were harassed by ATF and other government agents. It seems that these government agents were not too keen on the book's premise.
The NOAA recently ordered 46,000 rounds of .40-caliber with hollow-point bullets. This follows the order of 450 million rounds of hollow-point ammo by the Department of Homeland Security. That's a lot of firepower.
The Nazis were famous for the Jackboot!!
Rational thinking again falls by the wayside.
Just for your benefit Dan, a "jack" boot is what might be worn by a low ranking member of the military. The type of crude, slip on hobnail boots issued to enlistees of the German army during WWI or WWII would qualify. Not to be confused with a polished fitted gentleman's boot of an officer.
In short, it's the footwear of a brutish thug.
This is happening everywhere at all levels. There was an incident with a woman who bred and kept show rabbits who got persecuted because a local pet rabbit advocacy group called the animal cruelty people on her. Nothing she did was wrong if you keep and breed rabbits as stock animals, but she lost around $25,000-$30,000 in stock by the time she was finally vindicated and the rabbit breeding for 4H and meat and other purposes in her state was extremely damaged by the time it was done. People were intimidated which was, of course, the pet rabbit peoples' purpose.
My husband sees it at the corporate level too. When he started just over a decade ago. The inspectors used to be people who had worked in the industry and had some idea how it worked. Now, government purposefully hires people who have no idea how industry operates and take an automatically adversarial approach. This leads to things that are imposed in an arbitrary and idiotic fashion. A recent inspection took a mere dislike to the aesthetic look of a product and accused it of being caused by something that the company produced on-site data proving it absolutely could not be. Nevertheless, the inspectors refused to believe it and imposed a new course of costly and time consuming testing to prove that the non-issue is really a non-issue.
The same thing goes for Health Care insurance. Doctors order defensive tests to cover their butts against frivilous law suits. See new majorityagenda.com and wordsmatter2012.com.
These unelected beuraweenies have to have somebody to prosecute or it looks like they are not doing their job.
So people like Black are just job security to them.
The more convictions, the more hours logged on a case, all lead to more promotions and advancement in their field.
The guilt or innocence of the victims is not considered for even one second.
Its common knowledge now that IRS agents HAVE to have a quota of audits and convictions or they will not be promoted.
If all you have is a hammer, everything (or everybody) starts to look like a nail.
Anyone else see why the Founders left us with a Second Amendment?
Public hanging; the only thing that will satisfy!
I think that you are not correct. The Administration IS Marxist. They use the 1984 text as an Ops manual. Considering that the DOJ cleared the DOJ in the New lack Panther voter harrassment case, there is no longer any real justice.
Rope. Tree. Bureaucrat. Some assembly required.
Yes this makes me sick. This poor women attacked and her career all but stopped because of this old out dated rule. This is the true Obama trying at every turn to force control on all aspects of everyone's life. This goverment is turning marxist right before our eyes and congress and senate are worthless to do anything about it. Doom comes to mind.


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Q: HTML table: modify order using mysql I have a MySQL table:
CREATE TABLE `Questions` (
  `question_id` INT UNSIGNED PRIMARY KEY AUTO_INCREMENT,
  `question` VARCHAR(1024),
  `order` INT
);

When displaying the data in an HTML table, the order of the data is sorted by column 'order'. How would one implement incrementing/decrementing order column using some sort of up/down buttons in each table row?
...

    <?php echo $question['question_id'] ?>
    <?php echo $question['order'] ?>
    <button id="up_<?php echo $question['question_id'] ?>">▲</button>
    <button id="down_<?php echo $question['question_id'] ?>">▼</button>
    <?php echo $question['question'] ?>

...

A: Add this to the end of your MySQL query "(REST OF OLD QUERY HERE) ORDER BY order " . $sort;
You will need to make links labeled up/down (or something similiar probably) that pass an argument to your script in which way to sort your results.
E.g.: Ascending Descending
Then, in your PHP script, before the query:
$sort = ''; // Default order ascending (auto)
if ( isset ( $_GET [ 'sort' ] ) )
{
   if ( $_GET [ 'sort' ] == 'desc' )
   {
      $sort = 'DESC';
   }
}

Explanation:
MySQL orders your results ascending by default, so we have to add nothing to the query normally ($sort='';). However, if the user clicks the Descending link, PHP sets $sort to DESC and MySQL will order your results descending!

A: If you want a manual order, then you will need to add a column to the database to describe that order. Possibly an integer column with a uniqueness constraint (you appear to have that already, sans the constraint).
You can then ORDER BY that column in the SELECT query you issue.
When you want to change the order, you need to swap the values of the rows you want to swap. (You will likely need to set one to a placeholder value, then the other to the old value of the first, then the first to the old value of the second).
This can be achieved with a form for each row containing a hidden input with a row id, and up/down submit buttons. Then in the server side code you can swap row id with row id + 1 or -1 depending on which button was clicked.
You could add JavaScript (and Ajax techniques) to improve the user experience.

A: You could define it in your query in the ORDER BY section like:
ORDER BY first_order,second_order,second_order`

BUT!  If you want to have something like buttons on your tables which you can have a dynamic sorting in your tables you could use some JQUERY plugins you can refer it here: http://tablesorter.com/docs/

A: You can use jQuery + jQuery UI Sortable instead of a order column. See it here: http://jqueryui.com/sortable

A: This snippet should to the trick. Any question, throw it to comment.
<?php

mysql_connect('localhost', 'xxxxxx', 'xxxxxxxxxxxx');

if(isset($_GET['q'])){
  $qid = $_GET['q'];
  $act = $_GET['act'];
  $sql = "SELECT `order` FROM test.questions WHERE question_id = '$qid'";
  $rs = mysql_query($sql);
  $r = mysql_fetch_array($rs);
  $order = $r['order'];
  if($act == 'up'){
    if($order == '1') break;
    $up_order = $order - 1;
    $sql = "SELECT question_id FROM test.questions WHERE `order` = '$up_order'";
    $rs = mysql_query($sql);
    $r = mysql_fetch_array($rs);
    $up_order_id = $r['question_id'];
    $sql = "UPDATE test.questions SET `order` = '$up_order' WHERE question_id = '$qid'";
    mysql_query($sql);
    $sql = "UPDATE test.questions SET `order` = '$order' WHERE question_id = '$up_order_id'";
    mysql_query($sql);
  } else if($act == 'down'){
    $sql = "SELECT MAX(`order`) as `order` FROM test.questions";
    $rs = mysql_query($sql);
    $r = mysql_fetch_array($rs);
    $max_order = $r['order'];
    if($order == $max_order) break;
    $down_order = $order + 1;
    $sql = "SELECT question_id FROM test.questions WHERE `order` = '$down_order'";
    $rs = mysql_query($sql);
    $r = mysql_fetch_array($rs);
    $down_order_id = $r['question_id'];
    $sql = "UPDATE test.questions SET `order` = '$down_order' WHERE question_id = '$qid'";
    mysql_query($sql);
    $sql = "UPDATE test.questions SET `order` = '$order' WHERE question_id = '$down_order_id'";
    mysql_query($sql);
  }
  $sql = "";
}

$sql = "SELECT * FROM test.questions ORDER BY `order`;";
$rs = mysql_query($sql);
echo "
";
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   echo "
";
      echo "$r[question_id]	";
      echo "$r[question]	";
      echo "$r[order]	";
      echo "UP - DOWN	";
   echo "
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";
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Western Girls (song)
"Western Girls"
Single by Dragon
from the album Dreams of Ordinary Men
"When I'm Gone"
7" vinyl, 12" vinyl
Rock, pop
Todd Rundgren, Alan Mansfield, Sharon O'Neill, Marc Hunter
Dragon singles chronology
"Dreams of Ordinary Men"
(1986) "Western Girls"
(1986) "Nothing to Lose"
"Western Girls" is a song by New Zealand-Australian rock band Dragon released in November 1986 as the third single from the group's eighth studio album Dreams of Ordinary Men (1986). The song peaked at number 58 on the Australian Kent Music Report and 37 in New Zealand.
"Western Girls" (Alan Mansfield, Doane Perry, Marc Hunter, Sharon O'Neill, Todd Rundgren) - 4:10
"When I'm Gone" (Marc Hunter, Martin Briley) - 3:30
Chart (1986/87)
Australian Kent Music Report[1]
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ)[2]
^ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. St Ives: Australian Chart Book. p. 94. ISBN 0-646-11917-6. N.B. The Kent Report chart was licensed by ARIA between mid-1983 and 19 June 1988..
^ "Charts.nz – Dragon – Western Girls". Top 40 Singles. Retrieved 25 June 2017.
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Bruce Reid
Pete Drummond
Geoff Chunn
Kerry Jacobson
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O Zambezi
Body and the Beat
Dreams of Ordinary Men
Bondi Road
Sunshine to Rain
It's All Too Beautiful
Live One
Dragon's Greatest Hits Vol. 1
Are You Old Enough
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Chase the Sun
"This Time"
"Get that Jive"
"Sunshine"
"April Sun in Cuba"
"Shooting Stars
"Konkaroo"
"Are You Old Enough?"
"Still in Love with You"
"Love's Not Enough"
"Ramona"
"Cry"
"Wilderworld"
"Speak No Evil"
"Celebration"
"River"
"Young Years"
"Here Am I"
"Summer"
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Leave no one behind: A commitment we must continue to make
Eileen A. Bjorkman
An HH-60G Pave Hawk from the 55th Rescue Squadron turns its rotors as part of a pre-flight inspection, Aug. 17, 2020, at Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho. (Airman 1st Class Andrew Kobialka/Air Force)
Given the normal cyclical nature of Department of Defense budgets, it is likely that leaner times are approaching regardless of the outcome of the November election. However, military and civilian leadership must resist the temptation to drastically cut or eliminate budgets for fundamental missions. In particular, combat search and rescue (CSAR) capabilities must be maintained to ensure the U.S. military maintains its promise to "leave no one behind." CSAR is an affordable force multiplier, even in a tight fiscal environment.
The U.S. military has made a sacred commitment to leave no one behind on the battlefield. This ethos is even embedded in the Airman's Creed ("I will never leave an airman behind") and the Soldier's Creed ("I will never leave a fallen comrade"). CSAR capabilities play a large role in that commitment, particularly for rescuing pilots shot down near or behind enemy lines. If a downed pilot isn't rescued within an hour, their chance of survival drops to about 50-50 and plummets rapidly. Personnel trained on the best CSAR equipment available are needed to rescue those pilots and other personnel who are separated from their units.
In addition to helping fulfill our commitment, CSAR capabilities are a true force multiplier. Military members, especially aviators, are expensive to train. After World War I, many countries realized that rescuing downed aviators could save significant money and time to train a replacement. British military forces also recognized the morale-building value of rescue; they found that pilots were more willing to fly into dangerous situations if they knew someone would try to rescue them if they crashed or were shot down. By the beginning of World War II, the British had developed rudimentary rescue capabilities. The U.S. lagged, but by the end of the war had repurposed hundreds of maritime patrol aircraft, bombers, and pursuit aircraft into dedicated rescue forces, many of which were used in Korea a few years later.
Lastly, CSAR capabilities are much more affordable than they might seem at first glance. The approximately $2 billion spent on CSAR personnel, training, and equipment each year is less than one-third of 1 percent of the DoD budget; put another way, it is about the cost of a Subway sandwich for each person in the United States. We have made the mistake of reducing our CSAR capabilities before, with disastrous results. In the first few years of the Vietnam War, the Air Force relied heavily on Army and CIA aircraft for search and rescue, at least in part because the U.S. government didn't want to admit how involved we were in the war. But the Air Force would have been hard-pressed to bring their own SAR aircraft, even if they wanted to. After Korea, SAR crews no longer trained for rescues under combat conditions. Planners believed that with a nuclear war, there would be no one to rescue, so capabilities focused instead on pilots who crashed on a runway or near an Air Force base. The helicopters used for these rescues were woefully inadequate for doing SAR in Vietnam's mountains and jungles. By late 1965, both Air Force and Navy SAR units with improved equipment arrived in Southeast Asia, but not before dozens, if not hundreds, of people had needlessly died or been captured.
Just as after Korea, it would be easy for budgeters to dismiss the CSAR mission as too expensive to maintain, especially given that few rescues have taken place in our current conflicts. But we must prepare for the next war, a war that will likely not allow us years to build CSAR forces back up again as we did during Vietnam. As good stewards of taxpayer dollars, we should always examine our CSAR capabilities to look for more efficient and effective ways to accomplish the mission. But we must never allow budget pressures to reduce CSAR forces to the point where we can no longer maintain our commitment to leave no one behind.
Dr. Eileen A. Bjorkman is a retired Air Force colonel, executive director of the Air Force Test Center at Edwards Air Force Base, California, and author of the forthcoming book Unforgotten in the Gulf of Tonkin: A Story of the U.S. Military's Commitment to Leave No One Behind. Bjorkman's comments reflect only her opinion and not that of the Air Force.
Editor's note: This is an Op-Ed and as such, the opinions expressed are those of the author. If you would like to respond, or have an editorial of your own you would like to submit, please contact Military Times managing editor Howard Altman, haltman@militarytimes.com.
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ELLE WINTER PRESS
"Catchy, upbeat... bubbly pop tune" - Billboard
"Confectionary slice of funky liberation" - MTV News
"Try not to stan this rising star" - Nylon Magazine
"Definitely One to Watch" - Idolator
"Elle Winter is the rising singer you need to know" - HollywoodLife
"Inspiring" - Just Jared Jr.
"Captivating pop songstress" - DuJour Magazine
"The ultimate triple threat" - PopCrave
"Elle Winter's 'Do You' sounds like a serious hit" - Idolator
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"Her songs are massive and bombastic, brimming with authenticity & heartfelt intimacy" - Atwood Magazine
"Cave In' is a gorgeous display of the singer's ability to craft pop music with a personal feel" - HollywoodLife
"Elle Winter is a renaissance woman" - The New Nine
"The danceable single off her upcoming EP is a work of art" - Beyond the Stage Magazine
ARTICLE FEATURES
Variety: https://variety.com/2019/music/news/elle-winter-signs-red-music-1203140825/
Yahoo!: https://news.yahoo.com/actress-elle-winter-signs-sony-044358258.html
Billboard: https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/pop/8511644/elle-winter-sick-of-you-premiere
MTV News: http://www.mtv.com/news/3124426/elle-winter-sick-of-you/
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PopCrave News: https://www.popcravenews.com/elle-winter-cave-in/
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Idolator: https://www.idolator.com/7807926/elle-winter-do-you-listen?chrome=1
Digital Journal: http://www.digitaljournal.com/entertainment/music/review-elle-winter-releases-best-pop-single-to-date-cave-in/article/555510
Just Jared Jr.: http://www.justjaredjr.com/2019/06/22/elle-winter-drops-inspiring-new-song-do-you-listen-now/
Music Connection Magazine: https://www.musicconnection.com/elle-winter-sonys-red-music/
All Access: https://music.allaccess.com/an-interview-with-singer-songwriter-and-actress-elle-winter/
Hits Daily Double: http://hitsdailydouble.com/news&id=315243&title=WINTER-CHILLS-AT-RED
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by buster00 on Fri Oct 06, 2006 5:58 pm
The other day I happened to catch some show dealing with the 1993 murders of Lawrence T. Horn's family. Horn had hired a friend, James Perry, to carry out the slayings. It was on, like, Court TV or something.
Central to the case was a book found in Perry's posession -- Hit Man: A Technical Manual for Independent Contractors.
The victims' families sued the publisher, Paladin Press, claiming that the book was in part responsible for the killings. The victims were murdered in a fashion very similar to methods described in Hit Man.
Paladin settled out of court, agreeing to destroy their remaining copies still in stock. Apparently, though, you can still find it on the net.
by Wolfpack on Sat Dec 02, 2006 11:14 am
I've never understood the furor over The Catcher in the Rye. What do people find so offensive and objectionable about it? Even considering the time it was written, I still can't figure it out.
by RenoNevada2000 on Sun Dec 03, 2006 8:18 pm
Peven wrote:
Bob Poopflingius Maximus wrote:
Peven wrote: hey DJJ, have you seen the news about the woman in your neighborhood, and mine, Gwinnett County Georgia, who is trying to get the Grande Rojo Potter books banned from school libraries?
I love that. Is she giving the same reason that I heard that the books teach children how to do magic? Or just that it contains wizards and witches within its covers. As if these books are the first fantasy books to ever be published...
she is claiming they are a part of the indoctrination of kids into the wiccan religion.
What an extreme LACK of faith this nitwit has. If she truely thought her religion was the true/superior faith, she wouldn't be worried/intimated by another religion trying to convert people? Or does she fear that her god might not be able to beat up someone else's god?
A true conservative would believe in allowing an unrestricted marketplace of (religious) ideas decide what is the true faith...
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Vegeta wrote: Wow, alot of these books seem to have homosexual content.
That's cuz only gays read and reading makes you Dumbledore.
Except reading the Bible, which just makes you vote Republican and drop IQ points.
by brainiac on Sun Dec 03, 2006 9:51 pm
O.J.'s book about killing Nicole and Ron got banned by not being published. Public outrage and pressure on the publishing house made them pull the book.
I believe this to be a moral and ethical decision but was it the correct decision?
Banning books we love strikes us as wrong but banning disgusting books
somehow seems more OK. At least banning this book isn't going to make me lose any sleep pondering his amendment rights.
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by Iconoclastica on Sun Dec 03, 2006 11:52 pm
I almost feel like this book was *banned* because of fear that it would not sell, rather than actual morals on behalf of the publishers . . .
They probably realized that average people would feel ashamed having ownership of that kind of filth attached to their name, narrowing the audience to an unprofitable few.
Though that's just cynical speculation . . . it might not be as logical as it sounds in my head :-p
by darkjedijaina on Sun Dec 03, 2006 11:54 pm
Iconoclastica wrote: I almost feel like this book was *banned* because of fear that it would not sell, rather than actual morals on behalf of the publishers . . .
that's kind of the way i felt about it, too.
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by thebostonlocksmith on Sun Dec 03, 2006 11:57 pm
Wolfpack wrote: I've never understood the furor over The Catcher in the Rye. What do people find so offensive and objectionable about it? Even considering the time it was written, I still can't figure it out.
I know what you mean... Was it because of the prostitute???
I didn't think too much of it either, it was alright, but i expected more(?)...
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by brainiac on Tue Dec 05, 2006 1:03 am
brainiac wrote: O.J.'s book about killing Nicole and Ron got banned by not being published. Public outrage and pressure on the publishing house made them pull the book.
Ok, quoting myself but for clarification purposes.
I don't for one minute believe the publishing house stopped this book because they had morals and ethics. I believe that not printing it was moral and ethical even in the face of my disagreeing with book banning. Book banning is wrong on almost every count but, banning (by not actually publishing this piece of filt) feels right somehow.
And for the record, I think lots of people would have purchased and read the book and maybe that is my cynicism showing.
by Tyrone_Shoelaces on Tue Dec 05, 2006 1:28 am
If it's any consolation the books were printed and right now all couple hundred thousand copies are being fed into a chipper shredder and News Corp. is taking a bit of a financial hit.
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by Eunuch Provocateur on Tue Dec 05, 2006 4:10 am
I think manga should be banned. That's just shit. That and erotica. I'd be totally okay with outlawing those two genres.
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by buster00 on Tue Dec 05, 2006 4:16 am
Eunuch Provocateur wrote: I think manga should be banned. That's just shit. That and erotica. I'd be totally okay with outlawing those two genres.
OJ's book, strangely, was to fall under all three of the aforementioned genres.
by DinoDeLaurentiis on Tue Dec 05, 2006 10:48 am
Anna the Fox, they also pull a the "OJ'S Family Christmas Special," eh? Holy crappa, can a you imagine??
"Merry Christmas, eh kids? Anna the Santa Claus, he bring a you a the special treat, eh? It's a the book that tell a you how I would have a killed a your mother, eh? Iffa I hadda gone anna done it, that is...."
by HollywoodBabylon on Sat Dec 09, 2006 10:44 am
Magical Realism in Brooklyn??
Surely, even by the standards of fiction, that's a pure contradiction in terms
HollywoodBabylon
by unikrunk on Sat Dec 09, 2006 11:03 am
I'm surprised no one has brought up this subtle yet terrifying subliminal monstrosity; Hop on Pop, by one "Dr." Theodore Geisel "Seuss.â€
by Tyrone_Shoelaces on Fri Dec 15, 2006 1:08 am
Potter gets to stay in Georgia. "The kind of stuff in these books — murder and greed and violence." So her Bible has only the happy parts?
by silentbobafett on Fri Dec 15, 2006 4:45 am
I'm confused.... why why oh why why why why
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by Wolfpack on Fri Dec 15, 2006 4:07 pm
Speaking of Dr. Suess being sickening, what about Green Eggs and Ham?. Isn't it unhealthy to eat that stuff when it's green? E. coli and Salmonella are not something children would find fun and endearing.
by darkjedijaina on Wed Jan 31, 2007 6:52 pm
The novel Snow Falling on Cedars has been removed from school library shelves and English class reading lists by an Ontario Catholic school board after a complaint about the book's sexually explicit content.
The Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board is setting up a committee to review the book and determine whether to put it back into circulation.
In the U.S., some schools have removed the book from libraries and curricula because of its sexual content, obscenities and exploration of racial themes.
by Adam Balm on Wed Jan 31, 2007 6:56 pm
darkjedijaina wrote: In the U.S., some schools have removed the book from libraries and curricula because of its sexual content, obscenities and exploration of racial themes.
I can tolerate sexual content and obscenities in the schools, but the exploration of racial themes GOES TOO FAR!
by Chairman Kaga on Thu Feb 01, 2007 12:31 am
So are we talking themes lik Isaac Hayes' Shaft or what?
by Lady Sheridan on Thu Feb 01, 2007 12:41 am
[quote="unikrunk"]I'm surprised no one has brought up this subtle yet terrifying subliminal monstrosity; Hop on Pop, by one "Dr." Theodore Geisel "Seuss.â€
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by Ribbons on Fri Sep 28, 2007 5:53 pm
Bumped! To kick off B4nn3d Books Week, here's the ALA's list of the 100 Greatest Banned Books of the 20th Century
And the 10 Most Banned/Challenged Books of 2006
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by Maui on Fri Sep 28, 2007 5:58 pm
Ribbons wrote: Bumped! To kick off B4nn3d Books Week, here's the ALA's list of the 100 Greatest Banned Books of the 20th Century
Interesting list! Funny, I own most of em.
by The Vicar on Fri Sep 28, 2007 5:58 pm
People who ban books are assholes.
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by DennisMM on Fri Sep 28, 2007 6:12 pm
I am always secretly pleased when lists of frequently banned books include Fahrenheit 451.
by Lord Voldemoo on Fri Sep 28, 2007 6:16 pm
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by darkjedijaina on Fri Sep 28, 2007 6:18 pm
ha. i find this funny.
1984, George Orwell
Challenged in the Jackson County, FL (1981) because Orwell's novel is "pro-communist and contained explicit sexual matter." Source: 2004 Banned Books Resource Guide by Robert P. Doyle.
Fascists thought Nineteen Eighty-Four was anti-communist. Communists thought the book was anti-fascist. Orwell was a proud socialist until his death.
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DennisMM wrote: I am always secretly pleased when lists of frequently banned books include Fahrenheit 451.
Fellow lover of irony, eh?
by minstrel on Fri Sep 28, 2007 7:31 pm
This list contains two books by Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison.
Previously on the list was a book by Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck.
Authors like these are widely regarded as among the best in modern literature. Students should be ENCOURAGED to read them.
Who are these fucking assholes who want to ban books like these?
I know this point is obvious and that's why this thread exists, but I HATE HATE HATE HATE the idea of banning books.
If that means I have to tolerate a book I find disgusting (like OJ's) being in print, then fine, I'll tolerate it. I just won't personally read it.
Fuckers.
by TonyWilson on Fri Sep 28, 2007 7:36 pm
And I thought the "ban Graham Greene" bit in Donnie Darko was totally unbeliavable and really hurt the films credibility. Turns out it was pretty accurate.
minstrel wrote: This list contains two books by Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison.
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by tapehead on Fri Sep 28, 2007 10:12 pm
The Vicar wrote:
yah - but it's not necessarily about censorship, is it? Bradbury was more worried about television and people's apathy than government censure -
http://tinyurl.com/2lrl7k
http://www.raybradbury.com/at_home_clips.html
I love this story, and Truffaut's movie.
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by The Vicar on Fri Sep 28, 2007 10:26 pm
tapehead wrote:
http://tinyurl.com/25ak6m
There's never an end to the list of things to be worried about.
Both the story & the movie are excellant.
by magicmonkey on Fri Sep 28, 2007 10:35 pm
Yeah, Truffaut's movie is great, he embodied everything about the new wave without the pretension of others and made truly captivating, revolutionary stories.
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by DennisMM on Fri Sep 28, 2007 11:14 pm
It may be about how people are entranced by television, but television can't dominate as it does in the story without the active suppression of books. A number of characters and, it's implied, most people in the story are mentally dull, but they have spent their lives without print. Also, if I remember correctly, the television is government-controlled. In Truffaut's film TV programming is deliberately vapid, designed to keep the populace happy and dull.
I'm not arguing with Bradbury's explanation of his own story, but there are other interpretations that remain valid.
Oh sure Dennis, agreed. I do feel like the book gets a bit overlooked because of the obvious implications of 'book-burning", when I think Bradbury's imagining of wall size tv's and whole cultures that consider tv show casts as 'family' is near-visionary.
Bradbury has been complaining about the accepted academic definition of his book since back in the '50's when it was published, and I can see his point. If anything, it's more about self-censorship and emerging political correctness than any sort of 'Big Brother', IMO. You may have a point about government-controlled television - I didn't recall that (andin fact I thought that wasn't the case), which is why I've dug it out of the bookshelf to read it again.
by DennisMM on Sat Sep 29, 2007 3:03 am
My memory is very poor, tapes, so I may be wrong about the government involvement in TV and radio. It's a totalitarian government, so even relative freedom of speech/broadcast seems unlikely. In the film it was rather obvious TV was a soporific that went with the drugs everyone took. I think (guess why) my favorite bit in the film, apart from the spoken credits, is the newspaper we see Guy reading at one point. It's nothing but comics, wordless comics.
A study guide I found online includes a summary of Fire Captain Beatty's discussion with Montag of why books were eliminated.
PinkMonkey.com wrote: Beatty then recalls the time when people read entire books. As time passed, all the books were condensed into short digests. Books slowly disappeared, and all anyone read were comic books and sex magazines. Before long, books had entirely vanished. Beatty claims that the government did not make any formal declaration of censorship; rather, advanced technology simply made books useless. Then it was unanimously decided that men should all be alike and equal in intelligence. Since books were "loaded guns" that could give a person extra knowledge, they were all destroyed.
(It's funny that a step on the path to no books is the existence of comic books and sex magazines, as Bradbury had work published in both during the '50s.)
By eliminating books as a form of entertainment or self-education the government not only limits the ideas communicated to the public but the vocabulary of the language. In time, unwanted words will be forced out of existence and the ideas they once represented will no longer have an easy means of expression. Bradbury is approximating the development of Orwell's newspeak and, if one wishes to stretch the notion far enough, the complete perversion of language seen in Rand's Anthem, where the word "I" and the accompanying concept of the individual no longer exist.
So, in a larger sense, the novel is about censorship, but the censorship of the mind rather than of the media.
by tapehead on Sat Sep 29, 2007 5:31 am
Nice insights Dennis. I still enjoy the way that Bradbury has effectively premeditated the role of television in contemporary society (perhaps more accurately than Orwell, not that either were trying to foretell the future), and that's why I like the way Bradbury seems to describe it as a kind of triumph of the 'tele-visual' (which can show all but tells very little)over the written word. But it's really good to read your interpretation.
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Of course, I could just be talking out my ass.
It's always a possibility, but not this time.
by unikrunk on Sat Sep 29, 2007 6:36 am
thebostonlocksmith wrote:
I think it has something to do with the ratio of serial killers that own Catcher in the Rye - this can be expressed as 1/1.
URBAN LEGEND TIME! Gather round kids, uncle unikrunk is going to jump headlong into uncorroborated waters...
So, the urban legend for today is, OCD sociopaths that buy copies of Catcher in the Rye whenerver they see them.
There is no real hard proof here, but if you click on the link up there, you will see that there are quite a lot of people out there that think that Catcher in the Rye is the book most owned by criminal sociopaths. The legend goes a little deeper than most, and is topped nicely with the 'if you buy a copy, your name goes into a national DB' legend.
unikrunk wrote: There is no real hard proof here
Contrary to popular opinion, JD Salinger is an extroverted attention-whore... who loves the cock
Contrary to popular opinion, JD Salinger was an extroverted attention-whore.
He was the unofficial king of socialites and a cad amongst the ladies. He frequented all events of import, and was known to have a secret love of Piano Bars, wherein he would oft times man the piano himself after a few cordials, typically playing out a roughly hewn version of a song that would one day be known as 'Wild Horses'. He never made it past the first refrain, but clearly he sang the words 'Wild, wild horses, couldn't drag me away', repeatedly upon an evening.
by Ribbons on Mon Jan 28, 2008 1:33 am
Vynson wrote: Robert Cormier was one of the truly great writers of our time. The Chocolate War is a wonderful read, but his best was FADE. Great book.
Fellow author Michael Cart has said: "Robert Cormier is the single most important writer in the whole history of young adult literature."
I concur. But he writes so well that all ages can enjoy his work.
I just got finished reading The Chocolate War meself. I can "understand" why it was banned in the sense that, well, if you're writing a children's novel and the very first chapter has a gem like this in it:
He tried to hold onto the moment, but it was gone, like chasing ecstasy's memory the instant after jacking off and finding only shame and guilt.
...you're not gonna escape the ire of some groups out there. Which makes it kind of awesome!
I thought the book was pretty good too. My biggest complaint was that it was a little hokey in some places, especially Cormier's profile of "The Goob," and I can't seem to figure out why the Vigils even really existed in the first place. But, almost every chapter had a strong, dynamic opening (first paragraph/sentence of the book: "They killed him."), and although several of the plot threads seemed confusing or out of place when first introduced, they all ended up coming together for a pretty powerful wallop of an ending. It's a great Young Adult book, so it's a shame that a lot of them won't even have access to it.
I tried looking for Fade at the bookstore after finishing this one, but strangely enough it seemed to be the only Cormier book they didn't have.
by Ribbons on Tue Jul 29, 2008 11:47 am
I just managed to get a hold of Fade a few weeks ago. I read The Chocolate War a few months ago and dug the way Cormier wrote (which I mentioned above but it must have gotten fubar in the update ...), so when I saw your post I figured I'd try and grab a copy.
Anyway, it was pretty interesting. I'm kind of wondering/hoping someone else has read it, because I'd love to be able to talk about it. The "fade" was sort of about what I figured it would be about, but at the same time not... it was like it represented several different things at once, or maybe I'm wrong on both counts. What was interesting was how the introduction of multiple "faders" to the book created an almost phantom presence, so that the main characters perceive the rest of the world to be a threat or an alien presence just as the rest of the world perceives them. It's kind of slippery, and I'm wondering if the subplot about the writer's manuscript had something to do with the overall theme of the story or if Cormier just wanted to add an autobiographical touch.
Anyway, good book, especially for YA literature. I don't think I would place it above The Chocolate War personally, but I would recommend it.
Re: Banned/Questionable Books
by Maui on Wed Oct 14, 2009 9:30 pm
So the public library has a display this week, "Banned Children's Books". Glaring at me from the shelf is The Fungus that Ate my School. Is it the title alone that makes this a bannable book, because simply leafing through the pages I wasn't able to come across anything horribly offensive - it's not like the science class is growing hallucinogenic mushrooms. Then there is James and The Giant Peach where there is a sexually explicit lip smacking spider, the word a$$ is mentioned numerous times, and the most horrifying of all, James' parents are killed off in the second paragraph by a pissed off rhino.
by magicmonkey on Wed Oct 14, 2009 10:58 pm
Maui wrote: So the public library has a display this week, "Banned Children's Books". Glaring at me from the shelf is The Fungus that Ate my School. Is it the title alone that makes this a bannable book, because simply leafing through the pages I wasn't able to come across anything horribly offensive - it's not like the science class is growing hallucinogenic mushrooms. Then there is James and The Giant Peach where there is a sexually explicit lip smacking spider, the word a$$ is mentioned numerous times, and the most horrifying of all, James' parents are killed off in the second paragraph by a pissed off rhino.
It's the cross-culturalisms... Ass for instance in the UK would have meant Donkey, so an ass becomes someone who is stubborn! Also, in Winnie the Pooh, (not banned in the UK) there is the word fanny which, to any UK'er, would mean VAGINA! Even the fannypack is called a bumbag in the UK. Ah, its the little things...
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Now might be a good time to look at Data Security and what gym businesses need to keep in mind. For example, if you take electronic payments, you have to follow the rules of the Card Payment Industry. Your business needs data about your membership, and that comes with risks.
These days, gym business owners and operators need to be acutely aware of the threats that can materialize out of left field. Now that you can keep track of so much data about your membership, you have to protect it.
Your business depends on information, so it helps if you understand the basic principles that drive privacy legislation like Europe's General Data Protection Regulation or GDPR. Europe based this new regulation on eight sound principles that were agreed almost four decades ago. If you've heard of it, you're probably wondering how it could possibly impact business owners like you in North America.
While this European law probably doesn't impact you directly, membership-based businesses are built on data. After all, what's a membership if you can't keep track of it? If your security is breached, it could lead to harm for your clients which is bad in itself, but that could lead to court actions against you.
Ultimately, your reputation depends on being discreet; people don't like to find that some data breach has compromised them when more could have been done to protect it. Famous data incidents, like the Target Scandal and the Equifax consumer data breach, have put us on alert about the danger.
It can all seem overwhelming, but there are guidelines and examples to look to that will help you do enough to be able to sleep at night. Let's take a look at the principles of data security. There are a lot of thoughtful people contributing to the subject, so you need not feel alone.
A long time ago, the United States and Europe sat down with the thirty-two other OECD member-states and worked out some core principles for protecting personally identifiable information. Since the gym business depends on recruiting and retaining consumers as subscription members, I figure it's good to know these basics.
In 1980, the OECD Privacy Principles defined a framework of eight fundamental principles of handling data about individuals. When you collect, store, or process data you are a Data Controller, which means you are the person or organization that is responsible for it. The person about whom you hold personally identifiable information is the Data Subject. If you follow these eight points about your membership data in mind, you'll have a basic understanding of what's expected.
Is GDPR Something That Gym Owners Should Worry About in America?
The European Union has really set the ball rolling in data security when it put the GDPR into effect in May of 2018. The regulation applies to any organization that controls the data of EU Citizens. You may have read about worries as to what it means for US businesses.
Punishments under the GDPR include fines that could be the higher of 20 million Euros or four percent of your global revenues. While any violation would be prosecuted in European courts, international treaties mean that an American company could, theoretically, be made to pay.
Fortunately, there are limitations; a small gym business that captures protected data occasionally most likely doesn't need to worry. The regulation does apply to all companies with more than 250 full-time employees, and any business that specializes in handling data, not fitness clubs.
In fitness, you're more likely to hand medical and financial data. Complying with Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards is critical if you take electronic payments. However, it's something that your payment processor usually does for you. Gym Insight has all of the payment tools that put you in control of your cash flow and keep you in PCI compliance.
If you handle medical information about customers, HIPAA is on a whole different level of compliance, and that is beyond the scope here. The laws and regulations around data protection are only likely to get more stringent as companies continue to suffer breaches.
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Fung, Brian. Equifax's massive 2017 data breach keeps getting worse. March 1, 2018. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2018/03/01/equifax-keeps-finding-millions-more-people-who-were-affected-by-its-massive-data-breach/?utm_term=.a8526bd032da (accessed July 1, 2018).
Gerber, Ben. OECD Privacy Principles. August 9, 2010. http://oecdprivacy.org/ (accessed July 1, 2018).
Pickard-Whitehead, Gabrielle. What is PCI Compliance and Why MUST Small Business Owners Be Concerned? May 18, 2018. https://smallbiztrends.com/2018/05/what-is-pci-compliance-small-business.html (accessed July 1, 2018).
Scott, Jason. Improving Your Club's Data Security. December 8, 2017. https://clubsolutionsmagazine.com/2017/12/improving-clubs-data-security/.


If the Chinese have any lingering doubts about whether the Trump team remains divided over the trade war, Larry Kudlow just laid them to rest.
President Trump's top economic adviser — an advocate of negotiating economic peace with Beijing — on Tuesday morning blasted recent comments on the matter from Peter Navarro, the president's top trade adviser and a China hawk. Kudlow said Navarro was "way off base," "freelancing," and "not representing the president or the administration," when he warned unnamed financiers to stay away from U.S.-China trade talks.
Navarro, in a fiery Friday speech at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, accused unnamed people of acting as "unpaid foreign agents," trying to put "the imprimatur of Goldman Sachs and Wall Street" on a deal between the superpowers (see the full address here). Kudlow responded in a CNBC interview Tuesday, saying Navarro was "not authorized by anybody" to make those remarks and adding they had done "a great disservice" to the president.
The clash comes as the Trump administration is reengaging with Beijing ahead of a meeting this month between Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping at the G-20 summit in Buenos Aires. That huddle likely provides the last best hope for heading off a dramatic escalation of the trade conflict. Barring a breakthrough, Trump has threatened to levy tariffs on the remaining $267 billion in Chinese imports — and 10 percent duties that are in place on $200 billion of Chinese goods are set to climb to 25 percent at the start of next year.
The big question hanging over the conflict remains what kind of deal Trump will accept. And the Kudlow-Navarro spat appears to offer China watchers some fresh clues.
The U.S. and China last arrived at such a potentially decisive moment in May, when Mnuchin negotiated a deal with Liu that Trump ultimately rejected, heeding his hawks, including Navarro and U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer.
That lobbying has included cameo appearances by former treasury secretary Hank Paulson and former secretary of state Henry Kissinger. Paulson, the former Goldman Sachs CEO, warned in a speech in Singapore last week that an "economic iron curtain" threatens to divide the world if the U.S. and China can't resolve their differences; Kissinger, at the same conference, said "fundamental conflict" between the countries "will destroy hope for the world order." Both have met with Chinese leaders in the past two weeks, the Journal reports.
The divisions aren't new: Navarro and Mnuchin had an "expletive-packed shouting match" in Beijing back in May after Navarro complained he was being excluded from meetings with Chinese leaders, The Post reported at the time.
But the tensions are spilling back into the open at a critical moment. If Trump and Xi can't strike a deal, they may not get another chance to hash one out in person until the next G-20 summit in Osaka, in late June.
— Brexit deal in sight. WSJ's Max Colchester and Laurence Norman: "Negotiators for Britain and the European Union on Tuesday hammered out a draft Brexit deal, setting up a critical endgame in which Prime Minister Theresa May must now try to sell the plan to her skeptical ministers and Parliament. Following more than two years of wrangling over Brexit, Mrs. May is set to put the proposed pact before her deeply divided cabinet on Wednesday. Her political future and that of her Conservative Party could well depend on the outcome. If the prime minister doesn't get the necessary backing, she could face the prospect of being unseated by her party or forced into calling new elections.
— Oil rout rattles markets. WSJ's Georgi Kantchev: "Global stocks dropped Wednesday amid continued concern about volatile oil prices and mounting questions about global growth. The Stoxx Europe 600 was down 0.6% in midmorning trade, as energy and resources stocks dropped despite stabilizing oil prices. Asian markets broadly fell... Oil prices edged up Wednesday after sinking deeper into a bear market Tuesday as concerns about oversupply and weakening demand engulfed the market... The recent drop in crude prices added to a volatile stretch for broader financial markets, already under pressure from international trade frictions, a selloff in the tech sector and problems in the eurozone.
The Federal Reserve is paying close attention to how it might regulate artificial intelligence and machine learning, Fed Gov. Lael Brainard said in a speech Tuesday.
— No auto tariffs, yet. Bloomberg's Jennifer Jacobs and Jenny Leonard: "The Trump administration will hold off for now on imposing new tariffs on automobile imports as top officials weigh revisions to a report on the national security implications, according to two people familiar with the matter. [Trump] met with his top trade advisers on Tuesday at the White House to discuss a draft report on a Commerce Department investigation into the impact of car imports. The people, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the meeting wasn't publicly announced, said the administration wasn't ready to act on tariffs and that the report would be subject to further changes."
EU threatens retaliation. Reuters: "The European Union will respond with countermeasures if the United States imposes tariffs on its cars, the bloc's trade commissioner told Germany's Die Zeit weekly on Wednesday. 'Then we will hit back, we can very quickly put together a long list of countermeasures that conform to World Trade Organisation rules,' Cecilia Malmstrom told the paper, adding the list could include cars, farming products and machinery."
— Soybean farmers could feel trade effects for years. Bloomberg: "A flashback to Richard Nixon's 1973 soybean embargo and Jimmy Carter's 1980 Soviet grain ban suggest that what's already happened this year may lead to permanent changes ahead as China seeks alternatives to the U.S. market. Nixon's move spurred Japan to invest in Brazil's then-nascent soy industry, setting the Latin America giant on a path to become the world's top exporter. Carter's ban was met with trade flow changes that rendered it ineffective and tarnished the U.S.'s reputation as a reliable supplier. 'It's possible that China will never fully trust the U.S. as a reliable trade partner again,' said Ann Berg, an independent consultant and veteran trader who started her career at Louis Dreyfus Co. in 1974."
"Five days of fury: Inside Trump's Paris temper, election woes and staff upheaval." The Post's Josh Dawsey and Phil Rucker.
"DOJ preparing opinion backing Whitaker's AG appointment, source says." Bloomberg News's Chris Strohm.
"U.S. Senator Graham says supports Mueller bill, urges vote." Reuters.
"First lady Melania Trump's office calls for firing of White House national security official." The Post's Felicia Sonmez and Josh Dawsey.
"CNN sues White House to regain access for reporter Jim Acosta." The Post's Paul Farhi.
— Trump's 2020 challenge: A potential recession. The Post's Heather Long: "Most economists are predicting that the economy will be weaker — or even in a recession — by the time voters go to the polls in 2020. For Trump and the GOP, the economy was probably a tail wind in these midterms, but it could turn into a substantial head wind by then... The president will have to decide: Does he take further action to boost growth, or does he blame others for any slowdown? Pessimism is growing on Wall Street about future prospects for earnings and the economy. More than a third of top economic forecasters now predict a U.S. recession in 2020, according to the latest Blue Chip forecast, and 44 percent of fund managers in the latest Bank of America Merrill Lynch survey expect global growth to slow in the next year, the worst outlook for the world economy since November 2008."
— Amazon HQ2 sparks a backlash. The Post's Taylor Telford: "The drawn-out theater of Amazon's decision Tuesday to split its second headquarters between New York's Long Island City and Arlington, Va.'s Crystal City was met with a maelstrom of criticism from local officials and professionals. While Amazon has touted the prosperity the headquarters would bring — pledging to make $5 billion in capital investments and create 50,000 jobs between the two headquarters — politicians voiced concerns that the influx of tech workers would fuel inequality and hurt lower-income populations. . . .
A top regulator recently sent a letter rebuking Wells Fargo's chief administrative officer, Hope Hardison, leading her to take a leave of absence and showing the issues between the lender and its overseers are far from over.
— Deficit stretched to $100 billion in October. WSJ's Kate Davidson: "The U.S. government ran a $100 billion deficit last month, compared with a $63 billion budget gap in October 2017, as spending growth outpaced revenue growth, the U.S. Treasury said Tuesday. The Treasury Department said federal outlays rose 18% in the first month of the 2019 fiscal year compared with the same period a year earlier, in large part because of higher spending on Medicare, national defense and interest payments on the debt... A strong economy typically leads to narrower deficits, as rising household income and corporate profits help boost tax collections, while spending on safety-net programs tends to decline.
Pelosi, who expects to be the speaker of the House when Democrats take power in January, discussed strategy and thanked donors for helping the party triumph last week.
Federal Reserve Vice Chairman for Supervision Randal Quarles appears before the Senate Banking Committee tomorrow.
The National Economists Club holds an event titled "US Outlook: Exploring the Key Debates" tomorrow in Washington.
Senate Banking Committee hearing on "Oversight of pilot programs at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac" on Dec. 5.


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B737 MAX pilot launches class action lawsuit vs Boeing
A Canadian pilot working for an unnamed airline filed a class action lawsuit against Boeing (BOE, Chicago O'Hare) on behalf of over 400 pilots employed by the same carrier for financial and other losses arising from the circumstances and grounding of the B737 MAX fleet.
Two law firms representing the plaintiffs, International Aerospace Law & Policy Group and PMJ PLLC, said that while it was impossible to tally the losses at this point in time, they "are expected to be in the millions of dollars".
The lawyers also said that "pilot income and career certainty have been adversely affected by Boeing's focus on profits over safety".
"Many pilots worldwide have either been laid off, made to relocate bases, or at least suffered significant diminishment to flight opportunities and pay," Principal and Legal Practice Director of IALPG Joseph Wheeler said.
The same pilot also filed an administrative claim with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
"If Pilot X's grievance is ignored or the FAA's response is otherwise inadequate, Pilot X will file a lawsuit against...
Air Zimbabwe looks to restrict foreign operators to Harare
Air Zimbabwe (UM, Harare Int'l) has proposed restricting foreign carriers to Harare Int'l given concerns their use of Victoria Falls and Bulawayo has cannibalised traffic from the Zimbabwean capital, thereby impacting the state-owned carrier.
Speaking to The Sunday Mail newspaper, assistant administrator Tonderayi Mukubvu said restricting Zimbabwe to a single international gateway would force foreign carriers to use Air Zimbabwe for last-leg flights to other cities across the country in particular the tourism-dependent Victoria Falls.
"We are mulling to review our landing rights for all international flights. Our thinking is, as we develop Harare (the RGM International Airport) into a hub, currently we have other airlines flying direct into Victoria Falls, into Bulawayo. We are thinking these should fly into Harare and allow us to distribute all those passengers around Zimbabwe. By so doing we are effectively creating our own hub," he said.
According to the ch-aviation schedules module, Victoria Falls and Bulawayo currently see 37 (19.68%) and 16 (8.51%) weekly international departures against Harare's 135 (71.81%). In total, the...
Ethiopian Airlines Mozambique to open Beira base
Ethiopian Mozambique Airlines (Maputo) will open a base in Beira leveraging the Indian Ocean port city's geographical location to better serve the Mozambican market.
Ethiopian Airlines' Country Manager (Mozambique), Daniel Tsige, told Noticias newspaper last week that the long-term vision is to transform Beira into a regional hub.
"Since Beira is geographically in the centre of Mozambique and has an airport in good condition, it can rapidly develop into a central connecting point," he said.
In line with that objective, Ethiopian Airlines will start 3x weekly flights from Addis Ababa to Beira in late July, Tsige added.
Since commencing operations in November of last year using a trio of Dash 8-400s wet-leased from its parent, Ethiopian Mozambique Airlines has relied on Maputo, located in the extreme south of the country, as its primary base.
According to the ch-aviation schedules module, its Beira operations will see connectivity to Maputo, Lichinga, Nampula, Pemba, Quelimane, Tete, and Vilanculos.
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Matt Targett
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Birthday: December 24, 1985
Hometown: Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia
School: University of Virginia (first year) and Auburn University
2008 Australian Olympian
Three-time NCAA Champion (200 FR, 400 FR)
Nine-time All-American
Three-time SEC Champion (200 FR, 400 FR, 200 MR)
Request Matt for a Swim Clinic
Today, a simple Google search of Matthew Targett yields quite an eclectic combination of results. On one hand, the Aussie native is renowned for his world-championship-worthy performances in the pool, with a Wikipedia page that begs endless scrolling through his list of accomplishments. On the other hand, there's the man behind those pages, the Google executive that spends most days in the bustle of New York City pursuing a coveted, blossoming career. Considering his fast-paced lifestyle and demanding job, it comes as no surprise what Matt identifies as his favorite element of swimming:
"I've found that the pool is the one place you can unplug. Everything slows down; It's free of all the commercialization of daily life, and it's a true escape in a way."
While the pool is inarguably Matt's safe haven, it's also a place he takes very seriously, especially at this stage in his career.
"I get my fulfillment now by giving back to the sport in any way I can. I love watching people progress and get better, but that has to take place incrementally. I like to start with the ultimate basics like body position and head placement. Then we progress to the more advanced techniques and higher-level critiques."
A gifted communicator, Matt credits his expertise to his college career in the United States, where the shift from long course meters to short course yards forced him to become more cognizant and aware during his training.
"I had to really hone in and fine-tune things like my turns and underwaters if I wanted to remain competitive. During my first year at Virginia, I remember seeing someone go sub-20.00 in the 50 free, and I realized I wasn't at that level. I continued to watch the talented people around me even after I transferred, and I came to the conclusion that the training I was doing just wasn't good enough."
Using this self-awareness to his advantage, Matt decided to "crush" his summer training at Auburn while paying attention to the small details. It was then that his dreams came to fruition–in the form of three gold medals at the short course national championships.
"Like anything else, great swimmers aren't made in a day. I encourage younger swimmers to come to weekend clinics and soak in the information, but you have to continually take that newly attained knowledge and practice it every day."
Not only must swimmers come armed with a new goal each time they step on deck, but Matt encourages his participants to vocalize those goals. Urging swimmers to find new ways to hold themselves accountable, Matt believes wholeheartedly in the importance of mental training. Singing the praises of goal-setting and meditation, Matt hopes to help the swimmers develop the mental aspects of swimming whilst analyzing their strokes. Despite having competed at the highest level of competition, Matt is not one to overlook the intangible components of sport. Crediting swimming for its "delayed gratification" aspect, Matt is excited to bestow such a gift on younger swimmers, regardless of talent or skill-level.
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The day is a fast moving experience for a 3 owners only on this date in their cars to introduce the secrets of performance driving. It is designed to be informative, exciting and fun. The group size is purposefully kept small so that the maximum can be obtained from the day in a highly personalised environment.
Thanks. I'm 100% so please send me the payment details when ready. Cheers!
Wonderful ... I'm away today but will be in touch on Monday via PM, or you can email me at info@catdrivertraining.co.uk to make contact.
PM's sent - look forward to receiving your replies and payments asap.
Monies received from Y2k and rhino-man - thank you all.
Joining letters will be with you next week when my lovely assistant Lynne is back.
Thanks Colin & Jo for the day, and nice meeting you John and Rupert.
It's always nice to spend a day with an instructor, learning and also discovering things that I don't do so well. Just need more track time now.
'til next time folks, cheers!
What an enjoyable day, lots of fun and I learnt a lot too. It was a pleasure to meet fellow enthusiast and 911UKers, YK and Rhino-Man.
Colin was an excellent trainer, he spent time building rapport and trust. At the beginning he asked each of us what our objectives were, he managed our expectations and individually tailored his delivery to each of us to achieve them. I particularly enjoyed his delivery and the way he gave us technical explanation for why were using the techniques he taught. I would not hesitate in recommending the course to anyone thinking of tracking their car.
Congratulations to Rhino "faster than 1,000hp" Man for a stunning lap time on the handling circuit and YK for his consistency. I'll console myself with the mints (in the hope that it wasn't some kind of unsubtle hint ).
Thanks to Colin for his skill and patience, Jo for her organising and both for their good humour and professionalism.
Our pleasure to spend the day with you & for Colin, an enjoyable time developing your technique to meet your individual objectives.
Thank you for your enthusiasm & interest in advancing your knowledge & skills ... hope to see you again.
Bit late but wanted to share my thanks to everyone for a great day.
Having done a few track days these year and not being frightened of pushing my car a little harder than most seem to, my main consideration for going was more to see and drive some of the famous bits of Millbrook more than the instruction.
To quote Colin "Faster than 1000HP"