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Using iOS 5 storyboards, on a button I am performing a segue, what I want is to do validation on my textfield and if validation is failed I have to stop segue and throw an alert. Whats the way to do it?
If your deployment target is iOS 6.0 or later
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You will need to change the way your segue is connected in the storyboard and write a little more code.
First, set up the segue from the button's view controller to the destination view controller, instead of directly from the button to the destination. Give the segue an identifier like
Then, connect the button to an action on its view controller. In the action, perform the validation and either perform the segue or show an alert based on whether the validation succeeded. It will look something like this:
What worked for me and what I believe to be the correct answer is to use UIViewController method found in Apple Developer Guide:
I implemented my method like so:
Worked like a charm!
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Cardinal Kasper's shocking theology of Catholic marriage
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WESTLAKE, OH (March 4, 2014) - Those following the news regarding the upcoming Extraordinary Synod of Bishops on the Family could not have missed the speechgiven by Cardinal Walter Kasper in Rome on February 20. He proposed ways for those in second marriages (while the first spouse is still alive) to receive Holy Eucharist. This raises questions because the Catholic Church teaches that living in a "marital" relationship and having sex with someone besides one's spouse is adultery. This is a grave sin and those in grave sin are not to receive the Holy Eucharist.
Professor Roberto de Mattei, who teaches at the European University of Rome, published "A response to Card. Kasper's proposals to the consistory of cardinals weakening the indissolubility of Christian marriage" in supplement Vaticano Esclusivo.
Mattei writes:
"A shocking example of a cultural revolution proposed in the name of praxis has been offered to us by the report dedicated to 'The Gospel and the Family', which Cardinal Walter Kasper opened the work of the extraordinary consistory for the Family with on February 20, 2014."
"... In the fundamental part of his report, dedicated to the problem of the divorced and remarried, Cardinal Kasper does not express even one word of condemnation on divorce and its disastrous consequences in western society. But hasn't the moment arrived to declare that most of the crisis in the family goes back actually to the introduction of divorce and the facts demonstrate that the Church had been right [all along] in combating it? Who should say this if not a Cardinal of the Holy Roman Church?"
Those responsible for the pastoral care for families in the United States also rarely express even one word of condemnation on divorce. The pastoral care for those with unhappy marital situations appears to be to grant annulments. No mention is made of the canon law regarding separation and restricting divorce (can. 1151-1155, 1692). Catholic canonical law tribunals, which are charged with upholding canon law, require a civil divorce before they will begin an investigation of the nullity of a marriage.
Forty percent of the dioceses in the United States report that they give annulment decrees to virtually every person who asks for one. The Canon Law Society of America published statistics collected from 142 diocesan tribunals for year 2011, wherein annulments were denied zero or one percent of the time in 58 dioceses. Eighty-five percent of the diocese gave annulments to 90% or more of those asking for one. (See here) http://www.marysadvocates.org/annulment/CLSAProceedingsYr2011.htm
Professor Mattei says that Cardinal Kasper is an example of the cultural revolution proposed in the name of praxis (or practice); in the U.S.A., the revolution appears to be well underway, and orchestrated by diocesan tribunals that require civil divorce and don't apply the canon law restricting divorce (c. 1692).
Spero columnist Bai Macfarlane is the founder of Mary's Advocates.
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First impressions were that the staff really couldn't be bothered. It took a while for anyone to take a drinks order and it wasn't obvious whether we were supposed to wait to be brought plates (as in other buffet restaurants) or go straight up. After eventually sorting this out we were greeted by dry chicken, flavourless tomatoes, a slightly sickly...
This used to be my favourite buffet restaurant in Somerset, but alas, it's taken a drastic nosedive.
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Went for dinner before show didn't look very inviting as the windows were grubby but as on main road lots of traffic you would expect that,
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At its meeting Tuesday in the City Hall courtroom, the Starkville Board of Aldermen will consider authorizing in-kind services for three events on the Starkville Convention and Visitors' Bureau's "New South Weekends" series.
Starkville Main Street Manager Jennifer Gregory will make a public appearance at the meeting to request in-kind services valued at a total of $2,323 for both the Sept. 23 Downtown Block Party and the Oct. 14 Pumpkinpalooza. Rhett Hobart, president of the Mississippi State University Student Association, will also appear at the meeting, requesting in-kind services valued at a total of $8,794.94 for Bulldog Bash, an outdoor concert in the Cotton District featuring the Avett Brothers on Nov. 11.
Another public appearance on the agenda is a presentation on the Environmental Protection Agency's Brownfields revitalization grants, presented by John Hargraves, a senior project manager and regional manager with P.M. Environmental, Inc. Pending board approval at the meeting, Starkville will apply for a Brownfields grant to revitalize projects within the city.
The EPA defines "brownfields" as properties having or potentially having pollutants which interfere with expansion, redevelopment or reuse. Through Brownfield grants, the EPA funds assessment, cleanup, loans and job training to restore environmental sustainability on these properties.
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At the board meeting, Mayor Wiseman will announce a town meeting for Tuesday, Sept. 13, from 5-7 p.m. concerning plans for a new police department building and expansions to the City Hall. The meeting will feature tours of the current police department housed in City Hall. A bond issue vote for the new police building is set for Sept. 27.
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Scarce 1858-O Twenty, AU551858-O $20 AU55 NGC. This example has the appearance of a blundered obverse die, but it is not the variety described by Breen with an extra 8 protruding from the lowest hair curl. Instead, a projection extends from a hair strand into the middle of the neck, and it has every appearance of being a bottom serif from a stray digit 1. Another stray projection extends into the field from the upper left curve of the first 8 in the date. Each individual collector will have to determine if this variety is worthy of a premium over the normal market value for this date.
The mintage of this issue was 35,250 coins, and it is similar in overall rarity to the 1857-O double eagle. Examples are readily available in VF and XF grades, but it is seldom seen any nicer. Only eight examples were located among bounty from the S.S. Republic, compared to 64 examples of the 1858-S double eagle. Both sides are highly lustrous with rich orange-gold color. The surfaces are mildly abraded with evidence of a minute obverse rim bruise at star 1. This example has a weak, but clearly visible mintmark. Some prooflike surface is still visible in the protected areas around the devices.
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Aroldis Chapman Rumors
Quick Hits: Chapman, Giants, Stroman
The Reds have announced that they have reinstated closer Aroldis Chapman from the disabled list. He will immediately move back into his usual ninth-inning role, C. Trent Rosecrans of the Cincinnati Enquirer tweets. Chapman had surgery to insert a metal plate into his head after being struck with a line drive in spring training. He made two rehab appearances for Triple-A Louisville this week. Here are more notes from around the big leagues.
- Outfielder Tyler Colvin has been promoted to the Giants, Alex Pavlovic of the Mercury News tweets. Colvin had been hitting .267/.315/.408 in 130 plate appearances for Fresno. Brandon Belt, meanwhile, is headed to the disabled list with a broken thumb, and CSN Bay Area's Andrew Baggarly writes that Belt could be out six weeks. Mike Morse will be the Giants' starting first baseman until Belt returns, ESPN's Jim Bowden tweets. The Giants also activated Matt Cain and optioned pitcher George Kontos to Triple-A Fresno.
- Marcus Stroman of the Blue Jays is appearing as a reliever in his first stint in the big leagues even though he started in the minors, Ben Nicholson-Smith of SportsNet.ca notes. That's a little bit unusual for a promising starting pitcher, but it's not totally without precedent — Earl Weaver favored having rookie pitchers begin their careers in the bullpen, and the Cardinals frequently have top young starters pitch in relief in their first seasons. "We have been a very competitive team for the last ten years and we typically have had strong rotations," says Cards GM John Mozeliak. "Getting pitchers to begin their careers in the bullpen allows them to experience the major league hitters, ballparks, and experience." Mozeliak also adds that having young starters pitch in relief prevents them from becoming overworked. On the flip side, Nicholson-Smith points out, having an excellent young pitcher in the bullpen blunts his impact — having Jose Fernandez start his career in relief would have cost the Marlins wins, for example.
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Central Notes: Chapman, Wong, Weeks, ChiSox, Cubs
On this date 70 years ago, Sportsman's Park in St. Louis (home to the National League's Cardinals and the American League's Browns) became the final MLB stadium to integrate seating for fans. Although there was no official team or municipal policy, African-Americans were restricted to the bleachers before finally being allowed to purchase grandstand tickets.
Here's today's news and notes from MLB's Central divisions:
- Reds closer Aroldis Chapman is expected to rejoin the club this Friday, if his final two rehab appearances go well, reports MLB.com's Andy Call. Chapman, who was struck by a line drive during a Spring Training game and needed a three-inch plate and 12 screws to stabilize the bones around his left eye, is scheduled to pitch in back-to-back Triple-A games beginning Tuesday.
- Last year, the Cardinals sent a highly-touted prospect (Michael Wacha) to the minors after a disappointing start only to become a key player for them late in the season, and they are hoping history repeats itself with Kolten Wong, writes Derrick Goold of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
- The Brewers should consider all alternatives when it comes to Rickie Weeks because his offensive struggles and being limited to only playing second base puts pressure on the organization, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's Todd Rosiak in a recent reader's chat.
- Both Chicago franchises, with the right returns in trades, could accelerate their rebuilding, opines Mark Gonzales of the Chicago Tribune. Gonzales notes shedding Alexei Ramirez's salary would allow the White Sox to address other needs while the Cubs may deal Jason Hammel hoping for results similar to last summer's flip of Scott Feldman.
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NL Central Notes: Grichuk, Hellweg, Chapman
Randal Grichuk will make his first career start tonight for the Cardinals, MLB.com's Jenifer Langosch tweets. Grichuk will start in center field, a position usually occupied by Peter Bourjos. The Cardinals acquired both players this offseason, dealing David Freese and Fernando Salas to the Angels in a bid to upgrade their defense. The Cardinals have gotten little from Bourjos and from right fielder Allen Craig so far this season, while Grichuk and the Cardinals' other Triple-A outfielders have excelled, so the Cardinals promoted Grichuk on Sunday. Here are more notes from around the NL Central.
- Brewers prospect Johnny Hellweg had Tommy John surgery today, the Journal Sentinel's Tom Haudricourt tweets. Baseball America's Prospect Handbook 2014 ranked Hellweg the No. 4 prospect in a weak Brewers system. The 6-foot-9 righty walked 6.8 batters per nine in 126 Triple-A innings in 2013, and struggled badly with his control in 31 big-league innings. When healthy, however, he has an outstanding fastball, and gets plenty of outs on the ground.
- Reds closer Aroldis Chapman could make a rehab appearance in Dayton on Thursday, C. Trent Rosecrans of the Cincinnati Enquirer tweets. Chapman has been out since being hit in the face with a line drive in an ugly injury suffered in spring training.
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NL Notes: Chapman, Turner, Cubs
Reds closer Aroldis Chapman got relatively good news a day after being struck in the face with a ball, as MLB.com's Mark Sheldon notes. He's having surgery today, but he could be out of the hospital by this weekend. He'll likely be out six to eight weeks, and the Reds believe he will definitely pitch this season. Best of all, he had only a mild concussion, and not a serious brain injury. Here are more notes from the National League.
- The Marlins could deal starting pitcher Jacob Turner due to their depth of starting pitching, FOX Sports Jon Morosi tweets. The Mariners and Diamondbacks could be possible trade partners. Turner, who will be 23 in May, posted a 3.74 ERA with 5.9 K/9 and 4.1 BB/9 in 2013. He will be eligible for arbitration after the 2015 season and free agency after the 2018 season.
- The Cubs are currently considering at least 12 players as potential selections with the No. 4 overall pick in this year's draft, Patrick Mooney of CSNChicago.com writes. The draft isn't for another two-plus months, so it's hardly surprising that the Cubs' list would be so long. It includes now-familiar names like NC State pitcher Carlos Rodon (who very likely will be gone by the time the Cubs pick), East Carolina pitcher Jeff Hoffman, Vanderbilt pitcher Tyler Beede, and Texas high school pitcher Tyler Kolek.
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Quick Hits: Pirates, Carp, Blue Jays, Chapman
Aroldis Chapman suffered fractures above his left eye and nose after being hit by a Salvador Perez line drive in a terrifying moment during tonight's Reds/Royals game. Chapman was on the ground for over 10 minutes while medical personnel attended to him, and the closer was eventually taken off the field on a cart and taken to hospital. Reds manager Bryan Price told reporters (including C. Trent Rosencrans of the Cincinnati Enquirer) that Chapman "never lost consciousness. He was able to communicate, he was able to move his hands, his feet, his legs." The Reds' official Twitter feed said that Chapman was staying overnight in hospital for further observation. All of us at MLB Trade Rumors send our best wishes to Chapman in his recovery from that horrific incident.
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- The Pirates are open to dealing right-handed relievers Jeanmar Gomez and Bryan Morris, Ken Davidoff of the New York Post reports, though they'd prefer to keep Gomez since he can also start. Both pitchers are out of options, and with the Pirates facing a crowded bullpen situation, it's no surprise that they're listening to offers for Morris, Gomez and (as reported yesterday) Vin Mazzaro.
- With the Pirates shopping relievers and looking for catching, Davidoff notes that the Yankees match up as trading partners due to their catcher surplus. A rival talent evaluator feels that the bullpen may be the Yankees' "biggest concern" due to a lack of proven arms, though several of those young pitchers have performed well in Spring Training.
- Blue Jays president Paul Beeston and GM Alex Anthopoulos denied that the Jays' lack of offseason spending had anything to do with a new CEO at Rogers Communications, the team's parent company, Sportsnet.ca's Shi Davidi reports. "There's been no suggestion of any type of cutback, there's no suggestion of anything other than support and of everything being positive," Beeston said.
- The Red Sox aren't particularly interested in trading Mike Carp, ESPN's Buster Olney reports (ESPN Insider subscription required). The Sox aren't sure if they "could get something particularly appealing" in a deal involving Carp. The Pirates, Brewers and Tigers have all been linked to Carp in rumors this offseason, and with Grady Sizemore's strong Spring Training, Carp could be an expendable piece on the Boston roster.
- Between Jarrod Parker's Tommy John surgery and injuries to A.J. Griffin and Scott Kazmir, MLB.com's Jane Lee feels the Athletics could be forced to look for external pitching help in the case of any more injuries or if any of their current starters struggle. Lee also addresses several other A's topics as part of her reader mailbag piece, including Hiroyuki Nakajima's status in the club's minor league camp.
- With the Barry Bonds and Melky Cabrera controversies still lingering in the franchise's recent past, Giants president and CEO Larry Baer told Henry Jenkins of the San Francisco Chronicle that his club is more inclined to avoid players with drug suspensions. "We don't have a blanket policy saying we'll never touch a player that has a PED history. But I'd say that for us, it's a larger mountain to climb than others," Baer said. The Giants will look at such players "on a case-by-case basis" (like recent signing Mike Morse, suspended for 10 games in 2005) but players like Nelson Cruz who were coming off PED suspensions and required draft pick compensation to sign seem out of the question. "Qualifying offer and a PED association – that's a bad combination. Brian [Sabean] and I both feel very strongly about that," Baer said.
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Reds Avoid Arbitration With Aroldis Chapman
The Reds have avoided arbitration with All-Star closer Aroldis Chapman by agreeing to a one-year, $5MM contract, according to Joel Sherman of the New York Post (on Twitter).
Chapman, a client of Hendricks Sports, agreed to a deal that is valued at the midpoint of the respective $5.4MM and $4.6MM figures that he and the Reds submitted. The flamethrowing left-hander agreed to a six-year, $30.25MM contract with the Reds back in January 2010, but that contract was unique in its structure. Chapman was paid a $16.25MM signing bonus with guaranteed salaries of $1MM (2010-11), $2MM (2012-13) and $3MM (2014) with a $5MM player option.
However, Chapman's contract contains a clause stating that were he to become arbitration eligible prior to the 2014 season, the $3MM guarantee would be converted to a signing bonus in order for him to head to arbitration. That proved to be the case, as the Cuban hurler has accumulated three years, 34 days of Major League service time.
Following the completion of the 2014 World Series, Chapman will have five days to decide whether or not to exercise his $5MM player option. Given his $5MM salary in 2014, he's a lock to decline that option and seek a significant raise in his second time through arbitration.
Chapman, who turns 26 a month from today, has cemented himself among the ranks of elite closers over the course of the past two seasons. Averaging 98 mph on his fastball and 15.6 strikeouts per nine innings in that time, Chapman has made a pair of All-Star teams and totaled 76 saves while holding opponents to a combined .152/.246/.249 batting line.
As shown in MLBTR's Arbitration Tracker, Chapman and Homer Bailey were the only two Reds players to exchange figures with the team, and Bailey is now the only unresolved case on GM Walt Jocketty's plate.
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Arbitration Filing Numbers
MLBTR's Arbitration Tracker is the place to go to see the arbitration contracts agreed upon thus far, as well as the figures exchanged between teams and players that were not able to reach agreement before today's noon deadline to swap salary positions. Matt Swartz's arbitration projections are available here.
As MLBTR has previously explained, 146 players officially filed for arbitration (after some eligible and tendered players had alread reached agreement). Of those, 40 players will exchange figures with their clubs. Of course, those players can still reach agreements before their hearings (which will take place betwee February 1st and 21st). If the case goes to a hearing, the arbitrator must choose one side's figures, rather than settling on a midpoint.
For the Braves players listed below, however, Atlanta says it will cease negotiations and take all cases to a hearing. Two other teams that have swapped figures with some players — the Nationals and Indians — also have employed variations of the "file and trial" approach with their arbitration cases.
Though a tweet from FOX Sports' Ken Rosenthal indicates that the Reds have joined the list of teams employing "file and trial," GM Walt Jocketty did not seem to echo that position in comments today to MLB.com's Mark Sheldon. It turns out that the team has only taken that position with respect to players whose deals were valued under the $2MM level, tweets Jeff Passan of Yahoo Sports.
We will use this post to keep tabs on the the highest-stakes arbitration situations remaining — those where the player files for at least $4.5MM:
- A.J. Ellis filed at $4.6MM while the Dodgers countered at $3MM, tweets Passan.
- Gerardo Parra filed at $5.2MM while the Diamondbacks countered at $4.3MM, tweets Passan.
- Tyler Clippard filed at $6.35MM while the Nationals countered at $4.45MM, tweets Jeff Passan of Yahoo Sports.
- Alex Avila filed at $5.35MM while the Tigers countered at $3.75MM, tweets Jason Beck of MLB.com.
- David Freese filed at $6MM while the Angels countered at $4.1MM, tweets Mike DiGiovanna of the Los Angeles Times.
- Mark Trumbo filed at $5.85MM while the Diamondbacks countered at $3.4MM, tweets Heyman.
- Kenley Jansen filed at $5.05MM while the Dodgers countered at $3.5MM, tweets Heyman.
- Craig Kimbrel filed at $9MM while the Braves countered at $6.55MM, tweets Bowman.
- Jason Heyward filed at $5.5MM while the Braves countered at $5.2MM, tweets Mark Bowman of MLB.com.
- Doug Fister filed at $8.5MM while the Nationals countered at $5.75MM, tweets Heyman.
- Aroldis Chapman filed at $5.4MM while the Reds countered at $4.6MM, tweets Heyman.
- Greg Holland filed at $5.2MM while the Royals countered at $4.1MM, tweets Heyman.
- Justin Masterson filed at $11.8MM while the Indians countered at $8.05MM, tweets Heyman.
- Freddie Freeman filed for $5.75MM while the Braves countered at $4.5MM, tweets Heyman.
- Matt Wieters filed for $8.75MM while the Orioles countered at $6.5MM, tweets Heyman.
- Homer Bailey filed for $11.6MM while the Reds countered at $8.7MM, tweets Jon Heyman of CBSSports.com.
- Jeff Samardzija filed for $6.2MM while the Cubs countered at $4.4MM, tweets Mark Gonzales of the Chicago Tribune.
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Reds Discussing Long-Term Deal With Homer Bailey
Discussing the team's inability to reach agreement with pitcher Homer Bailey before today's deadline to submit arbitration figures, Reds GM Walt Jocketty indicated that the sides were discussing a long-term extension, reports MLB.com's Mark Sheldon. He further indicated that the club was not concerned with the situations of either of its two prominent remaining arbitration cases, Bailey and closer Aroldis Chapman.
The sides have reportedly had previous discussions on a significant extension. They came close to getting something done today, according to John Fay of the Cincinnati Enquirer, 'We talked a one-year and a multiyear deal," said Jocketty. "We'll keep talking."
In his discussions with Sheldon, Jocketty raised expectations that something would get worked out, saying that he is "optimistic" about reaching a long-term deal. As the GM explained:
"In Bailey's case, we were working on a multi-year [deal]. The agent [Casey Close] has [Clayton] Kersaw and he has [Masahiro] Tanaka also, so he's been tied up with that. We just didn't anticipate getting it done, but we exchanged numbers in the event and we will continue to negotiate and hopefully get something done before the hearing date."
Discussing the terms of the contract, he said:
"I just think it depends on where they feel the market settles in on free-agent pitchers. Hopefully, we're not too far with our estimate and with their estimate about the market going forward. What it will be based on is what market for a guy like Bailey will be in the future."
The recent Clayton Kershaw extension would not be a comparable deal, but would nevertheless play a role, Jocketty explained. "I don't think it affects this one directly with Bailey, but it affects the market as a whole," Jocketty said. "Any time you sign a free agent to a contract, it drags it up a little bit. Kershaw is a special case."
Bailey has been projected by MLBTR contributor Matt Swartz to earn $9.3MM through arbitration in his final run through the process before reaching free agency. He filed at $11.6MM, with the club countering at $8.7MM.
Regarding Chapman, Jocketty said that he had not had much discussion with his representatives at Hendricks Sports. "Actually, this week was the first one we've had," Jocketty said. "I'm not that concerned about it." Swartz projects a $4.6MM tab for the fireballing lefty. That is the exact figure that the team submitted, while Chapman filed at $5.4MM, leaving a modest gap to bridge.
Jocketty's comments indicate that the Reds do not intend to take a "file and trial" approach, at least with these two players. An agent had told FOX Sports' Ken Rosenthal (Twitter link) that Cincinnati was adopting such a policy. It turns out that the team has only taken that position with respect to players whose deals were valued under the $2MM level, tweets Jeff Passan of Yahoo Sports.
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Reds Notes: Phillips, Choo, Chapman, Bailey
The latest on the Reds..
- At a fan event today, Reds GM Walt Jocketty said that he felt the rumor about Brandon Phillips being availble via trade and of interest to the Yankees was a ploy to put pressure on Robinson Cano, according to Mark Sheldon of MLB.com (on Twitter). "It didn't work," the GM said.
- Jocketty also admitted that it would be "very difficult" to re-sign Shin-Soo Choo with the dollar figures that are being floated around, Sheldon tweets. Choo now stands as the top available free agent on Tim Dierkes' Top 50 list for the offseason.
- Prospect Billy Hamilton is Choo's likely replacement, Sheldon writes in an MLB.com article. While Choo's 116 walks will be difficult to replace, Hamilton should bring more speed to the top of the Reds' lineup, as he stole 88 bases between Triple-A and the majors in 2013.
- The Reds have toyed with the idea of moving Aroldis Chapman into the starting rotation and some felt that he might be persuaded to make the move this winter, but he now says that he's not interested in a move, writes C. Trent Rosencrans of the Cincinnati Enquirer. "I'm tired of every year the same thing about me either starting or closing," Chapman said. "What I have in mind is closing games and that's it."
- An AL evaluator tells Andy McCullough of The Star-Ledger (Twitter link) that the Reds should consider dealing Homer Bailey to the Yankees for Brett Gardner and a lower-level prospect. Both players will become free agents following the 2014 season.
Aaron Steen contributed to this post.
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Sherman On Tanaka, Reds, Chapman, Choo
Here's a look at the latest news courtesy of the New York Post's Joel Sherman..
- Sherman senses genuine worry from several teams about the way the Rakuten Golden Eagles used Masahiro Tanaka over the last few years. In five postseason starts, Tanaka threw four complete games, including 160 pitches in Game 6 of the championship series. The next day, he threw 15 more pitches to get the save in the clinching game. An executive from an interested club said that he still expects significant bidding on Tanaka, but says that the pitcher will have to get through "the most thorough physical ever" to get a deal completed.
- The Reds haven't showed their hand one way or another, but one team official believes that the ship has sailed on convincing Aroldis Chapman to pitch as a starter and the time to do it would have been last year. With Bronson Arroyo likely going elsewhere, the Reds may have to think about finding an out-of-house replacement if Chapman won't join the rotation. It's also possible that they could choose to stand pat and roll with a starting five of Homer Bailey, Johnny Cueto, Mat Latos, Mike Leake, and Tony Cingrani.
- Don't count the Reds out in the bidding for Shin-Soo Choo, even though the price tag could exceed $100MM. Cincinnati believes Billy Hamilton is ready to handle center field defensively, but they'd prefer he get more time in the minors to further refine his offense. If they re-sign Choo, they can have him handle center field for one more year and maybe transition him to a corner in 2015, opening up a spot for the speedy Hamilton.
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CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas -- Garland Judkins had a career-high 17 points and Texas A&M-Corpus Christi held on to beat Sam Houston State 70-68 on Saturday night.
Hollis Hill scored all seven of his points down the stretch for the Islanders (7-12, 2/3 Southland). His layup tied the game at 65, and two more baskets and a free throw closed it out.
Demond Watt scored 12 points and Justin Reynolds scored 10, and each had seven rebounds for Texas A&M-Corpus Christi.
Gilberto Clavell had a game-high 30 points and eight rebounds for Sam Houston State (9-9, 2-3). He scored the final three points for the Bearkats, but the closest they got was 69-68 with 5.4 seconds left. Hill made 1 of 2 free throws and a final Sam Houston State shot missed.
Marcus Williams had 13 points for the Bearkats. Neither team led by more than six points in the game, which featured 10 ties.


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G R E G P A L A S T AN EXCERPT FROM THE BOOK "THE BEST DEMOCRACY MONEY CAN BUY" SMALL TOWNS, SMALL MINDS ColdType An excerpt from THE BEST DEMOCRACY MONEY CAN BUY The Truth About Corporate Cons, Globalization and High-Finance Fraudsters BY GREG PALAST This excerpt, Chapter 7 of the book, is reprinted by permission of the author Published by Pluto Press (UK), Plume Books (USA) ColdType WRITING WORTH READING FROM AROUND THE WORLD www.coldtype.net Designed by Tony Sutton September 2003 Page 2 GREG PALAST Before taking up the pen for Britain's Observer and Guardian newspa- pers, Los Angeles-born Greg Palast traveled the globe as expert investi- gator of corporate fraud and racketeering. For the Chugach Natives of Alaska, he unearthed the doctored safety records that proved the Exxon Valdez disaster was an inevitability, not an accident. In Chicago, he bar- gained contracts for the United Steelworkers Union in Chicago, in Peru he helped found a consumer rights organization. Years ago, he guided the formation of an alliance linking Enron workers in Brazil and India. In 1988, Palast directed the government's investigation of a US nuclear plant builder in which the jury awarded the largest racketeering penalty in US history. Palast won Britain's highest journalism honors for his 1998 undercover investigation of influence peddling within Tony Blair's cabinet – by Enron and other US corporations. He then turned his sleuthing skills on to the Bush money trail: uncovering for BBC and The Observer the uncomfort- able truths of how the Bush Administration quashed investigations of Saudi financing of terror – and Poppy Bush's extraordinary methods for stuffing his bank account and his son's campaign coffers. Page 3 GREG PALAST I LIVE 100 miles outside NYC, in the sticks. When McDonald's announced it was moving into Southold, NY, my little town in the woods, I had personal reasons, deep in my family history, for wanting to keep them out – my mother was a hypnotist for McDonald's. Really. In 1970, one of the corporation's biggest franchisees, moving millions of burg- ers in Hollywood, California, feared for their crew leaders. Working fifteen-hour shifts scattered over nights and days for $3 an hour, some of these so-called managers took on that look of insomniac spookiness that could end with one of them "going postal," the colloquialism that describes what happens when the California penchant for self-expression meets the American fascination with automatic weapons. That wouldn't do. So my mother taught them self-hypno- sis. "Twenty minute's trance is worth four hours' sleep!" Maybe that's why I don't eat clown meat anymore. I can't stand to look at those grinning, unblink- ing faces asking, "Do you want fries with that?" To my friends in Paris and London, the opening of each new McDonald's Page 4 SMALL TOWNS, SMALL MINDS under the Eiffel Tower or Big Ben heralds the horrid Bozo-headed déclassé Americanization of Europe. But to me, McDonald's represents something far more sinister: the frightening Americanization of America. To understand what I mean, let's begin with this: The United States is ugly. A conspiracy of travel writers have sold the image of America the Beautiful: Georgia O'Keeffe sunsets over New Mexico's plateau, the wide-open vistas of the Grand Canyon. But to get there, you must drive through a numbing repeti- tive vortex of sprawled Pizza Huts, Wal-Marts, Kmarts, the Gap, Jiffy Lubes, Kentucky Fried Chickens, Starbucks and McDonald's up to and leaning over the Canyon wall. From New Orleans jambalaya, to Harlem ham hocks, to New England crab boil, whatever is unique to an American region or town has been hunted down and herded into a few tourist preserves. The oppressive ubiquity of contrived American monoculture has ingested and eliminated any threat of character. The words of McDonald's late CEO Ray Kroc, "We cannot trust some people who are nonconformists," have become our national anthem. Almost. One hundred miles dead east of New York City, a hamlet of farmers called Southold held out. Southold was the last place in New York State where you could look from a rolling road across an open cornfield uninterrupted by Golden Arches. The town board refused McDonald's request to build as "just not part of our rural char- acter." A group of visiting English land-use experts had planted in our village the un-American idea of "stewardship" trumping property rights. In Britain, these battles are common stuff – in 1999, 40 mums and kids in the Shakes- pearean hamlet of Shaftesbury marched against conversion of the local Hungry Horse pub into an Avaricious Clown – but in the USA in 1990, TINY TOWN RESISTS! was national news. The rebellion lasted six years. Then McDonald's huffed and puffed and threat- ened lawsuits, and Southold – my town – bowed down. Today, Southold Page 5 GREG PALAST schools bus students to "instructional" outings at McDonald's. The story of Mom and McDonald's is my contribution to the Great Bubble debate. A whole gaggle of Chicken Littles in the financial press have been cack- ling about the Bubble, the insupportable speculative rise in share prices that had to burst and spew out financial fire, brimstone and bankruptcies. Yes, we've seen dot-coms vanish like backseat vows of eternal love. But stay calm. The sky is not, I repeat not, falling. The Bubble Theorem is the creation of good-hearted souls of the Left made ill by the orgy of monstrous increases in wealth for a few and begging bowls for the many. The world's three hundred richest people are worth more than the world's poorest three billion. The stock market could not rise indefinitely on the promises of dotcoms that sell nothing yet lay claim to a large share of the planet's wealth. From wise economists to complete cranks like Robert Schiller we heard sermons about the coming "Day of Reckoning." Yet the 2001-2002 "collapse" of the stock market barely dimpled the overall rise in equity values seen over the decade. The belief that a Price Must Be Paid is religion, not economics – Calvinism dressed up in Marxist clothing. What the Bubble-heads fail to accept is that the class war, as Messrs. Bush and Clinton have told us, is indeed over – but not because we have reached a happy social entente. Let's face it, the working class has been defeated soundly, convincingly, absolutely. Dr. Edward Wolff, director of the Income Studies Project at the Jerome Levy Institute, New York, tells me that between 1983 and 1997, 85.5 percent of the vaunted increase in America's wealth was captured by the richest 1 percent. In that time, overall U.S. income rocketed – of which 80 percent of America's fam- ilies received zero percent. The market's up, but who is the market? According to Wolff, the Gilded One Percent own $2.9 trillion of the nation's stocks and bonds out of a total $3.5 trillion. Not coincidentally, the rise in the riches of the rich matches quite well with Page 6 SMALL TOWNS, SMALL MINDS the wealth lost by production workers through the shrinking of their share of the production pie. U.S. workers are producing more per hour (up 17 percent since 1983) while keeping less of it (real wages are down 3.1 percent). So there you have it: The market did not rise on a bubble of fictions but on the rock-hard foundation of the spoils of the class war. What's going on here? Let's start with computers. Forget Robert Reich's sweet notion that computers can make work more meaningful and worthwhile. The purpose of every industrial revolution, from the steam-powered loom to the assembly line, is to make craft and skills obsolete, and thereby make people interchangeable and cheap. And now, computerization is speeding the indus- trialization of service work. That brings us back to "Mickey D's." While Ray Kroc gets all the kudos for building the company, it was the genius of the brothers McDonald, Richard and Maurice, in 1948, to divide the production of restaurant food into discrete, skill- less tasks. McDonald's ruthlessly and methodically applied to the corner greasy spoon, the workingman's café, the techniques of Taylorism, the time-and motion paradigm that rules factory assembly lines. No more cooks. Any clown can make a hamburger for McDonald's. Their machines are designed so that unskilled employees hired off the street can reach full speed within minutes. Politicians mesmerized by the modern are selling us on the wonders of the Knowledge Economy. Oh, yeah. At McD's, you can spend all day punching machine portioned glops of ketchup onto burger buns. In one of the Observer's undercover investigations, I learned that McDonald's retained the notorious union-busting law firm Jackson Lewis of New York to take their search-and-destroy operations against union organizers to Europe. But why should McDonald's bother? Fast food operators report employee turnover averaging 300 percent per year – and, despite what the industry says, they love it. Workers out the door in four months don't demand pensions, pro- Page 7 GREG PALAST motions, training or unions. In 1996, a British civil court found McDonald's sys- tematically exploited young workers, but that is a temporary situation. It won't be long before the majority of workers of all ages in every land will need no more experience than any seventeen-year-old slacker-and will be paid like one. The real story of the "Bubble" is this: The stock market went up because the human market went down. Here, in the 21st Century, Blake's Dark Satanic Mills have been replaced by Bright Demonic Happy Meals as the factory for decon- structing work into a cheap commodity. It is estimated that one in eight American adults has worked at a McDonald's. This acts as a kind of moral instruction for the working class, as jail time does for ghetto residents. It is one reason behind America's low unemployment rate. As my old professor Milton Friedman taught me, unemployment falls when workers give up hope of higher pay. How fitting that the Corcord Green of globalization, the 1999 Battle of Seattle, began when crazies threw a garbage can through the window of a McDonald's. The question is: Will it break the trance? Things Like That Don't Happen Here A COUPLE of autumns back, one of my neighbors, Kenneth Payne, fortified by the courage available at one of our local bars, loaded his shotgun, walked across the road to the trailer home of his best buddy, Curtis Cook, and emptied both barrels into Cook's stomach. While his friend bled to death, Kenneth sat down on his porch and telephoned a local family to say, "No one's going to bother your little girl anymore." Kenneth claimed Curtis had earlier in the evening confessed to molesting the neighbor's eight-year-old child. The next day, our town's burghers ran out to tell curious metropolitan reporters, "Things like that don't happen here." Really? None of my neighbors mentioned the story of our school principal's daughter, who hid her pregnancy Page 8 SMALL TOWNS, SMALL MINDS from her parents then drowned her child right after its birth. I thought it worth reporting, so I did, in the London Observer and the New York Times. "Here," by the way, is an archipelago of farm fields and hamlets of antique clapboard houses called the North Fork. While few Americans have heard of it, it is quite well known in Britain as Peconic, the congenial, rural town lionized on BBC radio's "Letter from America," broadcast by Alistair Cooke, one of our few unarmed residents. Like Alistair, I've made shameless use of the cartoon imagery of this convenient exemplar of unspoiled, small-town America. I just told you about our town's heroic struggle to block McDonald's from opening a restaurant, a threat to our quaint rural character. The way I wrote it, we were gloriously defeated by the corporation's McLawyers, who bullied us into bend- ing our preservation laws. I left out of the story of the part about our defense being sabotaged from within by that fifth column of small businessmen found in every American town – the local real estate agents, shopkeepers and farm- ers hoping to turn a quick buck on their properties once the planning rules are breached and broken. I've written scores of bad-tempered columns about the brutish ways of America's biggest businesses. That viewpoint is admittedly a bit unbalanced. To be fair, we must recognize that for sheer narrow-minded, cor- rosive greed nothing can beat the grasping, whining, small businessmen. And within that avaricious little pack, none is so poisonously self-centered and incorrigible as the small-town businessman of rural America. During the presidential debates, Al Gore opened the bidding to win this pam- pered demographic by promising to slash inheritance taxes, "to save our fami- ly farms and businesses." Until President Bush took office, if you inherited a farm or business worth up to $2.6 million you paid no tax at all. But that's just not enough for what the fawning candidates call "local entrepreneurs." Gore promised to raise the exemption to $4 million – only to be trumped by George W. Bush, who promised to wipe away inheritance taxes altogether (one of the Page 9 GREG PALAST few promises he kept). This group of small businessmen and farmers, so deserving of protection of their tax-free millions, is the same that defeated Bill and Hillary Clinton's 1993 proposal to require all businesses to provide bare-bones health insurance for their employees, an expenditure of only thirty-five cents per hour. Fortune 500 corporations expressed few qualms about the mandatory insurance plan, as most big firms already provide some health care coverage for their workforce. It was the swarm of Lilliputian entrepreneurs – those friendly local Fat Fritters franchisees, Gas'N'Chew owners and Mom's Hammer Drop Hardware Store operators, joined under the aegis of their National Federation of Independent Businesses – who blocked the Clintons' modest attempt to end medical care apartheid in America. You name it-maternity leave, minimum wage, even health and safety inspec- tions and rules barring racism in hiring – any meager proposal to protect the lives and families of working people, and the NFIB's small businesses legions have their swords out to kill it. But we must never say so. Al Gore can shoot at big tobacco and big oil, Bush can vilify teachers and union workers, but any politician who breathes a word against rural businesses, farmers or the NFIB's Scrooge battalions ends up as electoral roadkill. Ten years ago, our town con- vinced a charitable foundation with more money than wisdom to pay for experts from Britain to tell us how to preserve our area's rural character. We held meetings, referenda, elections. It was that active small-town American democracy that makes foreign writers like Tocqueville gaga with admiration. At the end, the town voted overwhelmingly to adopt what became known as the "U.K. Stewardship Plan" to protect our green fields and prevent ugly urban sprawl. Come by my town today and count the pustules of strip malls and fluorescent signs directing you to Bagels Hot! Cars Like New – No Down Payment! Dog Page 10 SMALL TOWNS, SMALL MINDS Burger! where cornfields once grew. Sensible British designs and a preserva- tion-minded electorate could not overcome the me-first obstructionism of a hard core of small businessmen and farmers lusting to sell off their land to McDonald's, Wal-Mart and housing speculators. In October, folks from the metropolis crowd our roads to buy Halloween pumpkins and gawk at farmers in overalls. In glossy magazine supplements, the North Fork is portrayed as a Norman Rockwell painting come to life, with Lake Woebegone characters and barbershop quartets. But look closely at the canvas and you'll get your first clue that something may be wrong: Our fire trucks are very clean. They stay clean because our firemen rarely put out fires. Yet the volunteer fire departments are quite busy. Rather than douse burning houses, firemen are more likely to be called out to stop Jimmy from beating in his wife's head again; to yank Fred from his wreck after a three-day bender, or, on occasion, to dissuade another grinning citizen from hanging himself from the porch awning. You will not read this in the tourist guidebooks. A couple years ago, one of the firemen ran for town council. At a civic meet- ing, he won big applause for the usual speech about "preserving our unique way of life." Then he added, "And I think it's time we addressed another matter publicly. I intend to make domestic abuse a key issue in this campaign." The audience went dead, cold silent. Live here long enough and you discover that, at the heart of small-town life, there is a special form of communal cowardice. The enforced silence, this small-town omerta, is called "being neighborly." I don't equate rural shotgun murders or child molesting to the small-town businessman's penchant for despoiling the rural landscape. But they are cov- ered over by that same cowering silence. No politician, local or national, has the guts to break through the mythology, the legend of the struggling local businessman who cares and sacrifices for his community. This folkloric inven- tion approaches saintliness when the discussion turns to rural, small-town Page 11 GREG PALAST America with its treacly images of barbershop quartets, Farmer Brown on his tractor and the Main Street parade after the strawberry harvest. What makes this myth of happy small-town America off-limits to challenge is that it provides pleasant code words for the ugliest corner of the American psy- che. When politicians talk about "small-town American values," "family values" and the "hardworking small businessman" everyone knows the color of that town, that family and that businessman – white. Pleasantville, USA, is implic- itly placed against the urban jungle populated at the bottom by dark-skinned muggers and pregnant teenagers on the dole, and at the top by Jewish finan- ciers of Hollywood pornography. It would dangerously undermine this political- ly useful imagery if the public were reminded that small towns like mine are filled with pale-faced citizens as despairing and dangerous as any in the inner cities. Nor could the NFIB win those special exemptions from taxes and plan- ning regulations for small businesses and farms if they were seen not as strug- gling defenders of local communities, but as dollar-crazed and duplicitous operators who wouldn't care if McDonald's put a drive-through in the Lincoln Memorial. Every landscape we build, wrote psychologist Norman O. Brown, is our re- creation of the interior of our mothers' bodies. What does it say about Americans when we look out over a natural vista and we are seized with psy- chic anguish if we cannot locate a throbbing neon sign flashing PIZZA HOT!? In our little town, it was George, the owner of the local lumberyard, who proudly organized successful business opposition to the U.K. Stewardship Plan. With dollar signs in his eyes, he welcomed McDonald's and the boxy shopping mall that replaced several hundred acres of raspberry fields. But small-town Georges forget that, when they break down government reg- ulations, it is big business that gleefully rushes through the breach. Last time I saw him, George the lumberman was stunned by the announcement that Home Page 12 SMALL TOWNS, SMALL MINDS Depot, the Wal-Mart of do-it-yourself stores, would replace a nearby cornfield. And that means George is out of business. In a small-town, neighborly manner, I expressed my sympathy to George. If I were a better person, I would have meant it. When I published a version of these stories in the New York Times, my village's Pennysaver printed an editorial, for the second time, suggesting that I pack up and get the hell out of town. I did. Insane About Asylum NEVERTHELESS, I surprised myself by wanting to write something nice about my town, after reading this report: Near midnight on May 12, 2000, twelve Mexicans crossed the Rio Grande on the first leg of their journey to Farmingville, New York, where my town's tradesmen pick up their laborers. Abandoned in the Arizona desert, the twelve died of dehydration. So here's me, using one of the lowest tricks in journalism – back in London, asking a cab driv- er to give his salt-of-the-earth opinion on one of the great issues of the day. He couldn't wait. "Well, it's like you're ashamed to be English today! You're not supposed to be English!" He was talking about the hot, hot topic of "asylum seekers" – refugees from the Bosnian wars, the Afghanistan wars, and the nearly-as-brutal economic wars of the Darker Continents. I had good reason to ask the cabby. As an American, I could not get my head around this whole issue of "asylum seek- ing"– which had seized the political stage in Europe. In Britain, France, Ger- many and even liberal Holland, candidates of parties whether right or left seemed to be running for the post of Great White Hunter, stalking "bogus" asy- lum seekers among the herd of "legitimate" ones. In America, we don't have asylum seekers; we have immigrants. Lots of them – 29 million by the lowball official census, with 1.2 million more coming in each year. U.S. cities compete Page 13 GREG PALAST for prime-pick foreign workers as they would for a foreign auto plant. America certainly has had anti-immigrant politicians. In the nineteenth cen- tury we had the appropriately named Know-Nothing Party, and, in 1992 the New-Nothing candidate Pat Buchanan. And then there was Mike Huffington. In 1988, Huffington's wife, Arianna, famously convinced her overly-rich husband to run for the U.S. Senate on a rabid anti-immigration platform. It was a per- plexing campaign for California, where whites are the minority race and the only true non-immigrants are, if you think about it, a handful of Shoshone Indians.(The lovely Ms. Huffington says I have her all wrong. Noted. Mrs. Huffington herself delivered the most virulent anti-foreigner speeches . . . in her thick Greek accent.) After his demolition at the polls, the demoralized Mr. Huffington announced he could remain neither a Republican nor a heterosexual. Huffington's defeat also allowed George W. Bush to convince his party to adopt hug-an-immigrant slogans. Bush would hold open the Golden Door for immigrants, but not out of a weepy compassion for the "huddled masses yearning to breathe free." Immigration is simply good business. In fact, it's the deal of the millennium, says Dr. Stephen Moore of the Cato Institute, a think tank founded by big-name Republicans. "It's a form of reverse foreign aid. We give less than $20 billion in direct aid to Third World nations and we get back $30 billion a year in capital assets." By "assets" he means workers raised, fed, inoculated and educated by poorer countries, then shipped at the beginning of their productive lives to the United States. (The average age of immigrants is twenty-eight.) The Cato Institute reckons that the United States "imports" about $25 billion a year in human "goods." "It is the lubricant to our capitalistic economy," said Moore (as I eschewed thoughts of the film Modern Times, in which Charlie Chaplin gets squeezed through giant gears), "giving U.S. companies a big edge over European competitors." Page 14 SMALL TOWNS, SMALL MINDS American industry saves a bundle due to its access to an army of low-skill, low-wage foreign workers who can be hired, then dumped, in a snap. U.S. industry also siphons off other nations' best and brightest, trained at poor nations' expense. The habit of brain-napping other countries' high-skilled work- ers, let me note, permits America's moneyed classes to shirk the costly burden of educating America's own underclass. So far, this system hums along smoothly: Bangalore-born programmers in Silicon Valley design numberless cash registers for fast-food restaurants so they can be operated by illiterate Texans. To get a closer understanding of the Cato Institute studies, I talked with a piece of imported human capital. His name is Mino (I can't disclose his last name). Mino first tried to get into the United States from Guatemala eleven years ago. He paid thousands of dollars to a gusano (a "worm") to sneak him across the border. The cash bought Mino a spot in a sealed truck with one hundred other men. Mino felt lucky: He didn't die. But he did spend three days in jail when La Migra (the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service) grabbed him. Back in Guatemala, Mino next bought a plane ticket to JFK Airport – and a false visa. This time, no problems. Within days, Mino had a job washing dishes in the local café in my town here on the North Fork of Long Island. I asked the chief plan- ner for our region, Dr. Lee Koppelman, about the role of "illegal" workers like Mino in our local economy. Koppelman laughed: "There wouldn't be an econo- my without the illegals." He estimates there are more than 100,000 "undocu- mented" workers in our county alone. Nationwide, undocumented workers total between 7 million and 11 million. Our local businesses, says Koppelman, "turn a blind eye" to the suspect sta- tus of the workers stooping in our strawberry fields and clearing our construc- tion sites. One local farmer tells me he gets his field hands from El Salvador- Page 15 GREG PALAST though I know this guest worker program ended more than twenty years ago. Our business community's "blindness" goes beyond ignoring someone's coun- terfeit "green card." The local shop paid Mino the legal minimum wage, but worked him twice the legal number of hours. And that's another advantage to U.S.-style immigration. "The workforce is flexible," says the expert from Cato. "Flexible" means millions of workers too scared of La Migra to blow the whistle on illegal working hours, or to join unions or make a fuss when, at the end of the harvest season (or tourist season or pro- duction run) they are told to get lost. By keeping the Golden Door only slightly ajar, with a third of all immigrants fearful of deportation, America's employers profit from something that works quite a bit like the old South African system of migrant workers. "Workers just materialize," says Koppelman, then are expected to vanish, leaving neither businesses nor communities with any responsibility for their survival or their families' when work ends. So why do Europeans fear this gloriously profitable scheme of importing valu- able worker-assets? The politicians' claim that immigrants drain government resources is a laugh. The U.S. Senate immigration subcommittee tells me the government turns a nice profit on immigration, efficiently collecting in taxes from migrants roughly double what they get back in services. But what about my cabby's fear of losing his English identity? Face it, Shakespeare's dead. England's cultural exports are now limited to soccer hooli- gans, Princess Di knickknacks and Hugh Grant. Today, European pols from Blair to Berlusconi are kowtowing to the hysteria of brown-shirted antiforeign elec- toral mobs. Yet, despite the Know-Nothingtons and hooded crossburners infect- ing the U.S. body politic, despite a system so bent it is profitable to leave Mexicans to die in the border deserts, America's core decency, and the engine of our success, is in this: the United States approves 2.5 million applications to Page 16 SMALL TOWNS, SMALL MINDS stay a year; Britain lets in a paltry 129,000. Now for the happy American ending. Today, Mino owns a landscaping busi- ness, drives a flashy pickup truck, plans to buy a home, get rid of his accent and finish a degree in accounting. No one here resents Mino's success. His story is every American's story. It's my story. Anna Palast stole across the bor- der in 1920. Luckily, La Migra didn't catch her until a few days before her one hundredth birthday. And that's what Pat Buchanan and the Aryans-über-alles crowd on both sides of the Atlantic don't understand. It's not where you come from that counts. It's where you're going. Page 17 IF YOU WANT TO READ MORE, BUY THE BOOK GET IT ONLINE AT: Canada – www.pagesbooks.ca; www.amazon.ca UK – www.bookmarks.uk.com; www.amazon.co.uk USA – www.powells.com; www.amazon.com or at www.gregpalast.com Page 18 Reviews "Funnier and better written than Moore, more accessible than Chomsky, Palast has made a fine contribution to the honourable tradition of leftist belly- aching. And I mean that as a compliment." – Sunday Business Post, Dublin. "Palast styles himself as the dogged outsider, a former working-class gumshoe from L.A. now reporting on corporate America for the BBC and The Guardian, unable to secure a regular gig from U.S. media firms wary of his impolitic exposés. Hence his book, which strings together his award-winning reports on everything from the Florida election debacle to the role of the IMF in crashing Argentina's economy, is as much a portrait of how our profit- addicted American media ignores hard news." – Village Voice, New York "Because he is unimpressed by the worldliness commonplace in journalism, Palast's capacity for outrage is undiminished, and with it his tenacity in unearthing facts. With a foot on either side of the Atlantic, he is able to flush out some absurdities of US and British polities." – The Independent, London. "Palast, who rails against corporate greed and economic inequality, displays an activist's passion for social justice. But his assertions are usually backed up with solid investigative reporting. And somehow, whether it be secret World Trade Organization documents or Monsanto's internal files, the smok- ing gun often seems to mysteriously land on his desk." – Bay Guardian, San Francisco "The book doesn't offer conspiracy theories; it offers page after page of links between wealthy corporate players and elected (or not-so-elected) representa- tives. According to Palast, those connections extend beyond our borders into such institutions as the IMF, the WTO and the World Bank – each of which is joined at the hip and ready to tie a "golden straitjacket" tight around any third world country foolish enough to need a loan. " – Alternet.org, New York "Fucking brilliant, brilliant" – New Statesman, London. Page 19 WRITING WORTH READING FROM AROUND THE WORLD EMBEDDED . 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