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I suppose that once upon a time, this novel must have seemed terribly arch or ironic. Perhaps it is simply a function of living in the Decade of Irony, but now it just seems fairly sophomoric.
Billy Pilgrim, a WWII vet & optometrist, has come loose in time. He pops back & forth from Dresden during the fire bombing, to the planet Tralfamadore--where aliens have placed him & film star Montana Wildhack in a zoo, to the future where he is assassinated. This all provides Vonnegut with a hip & trippy way to comment on life, but becomes pretty tedious. Vonnegut is one of those authors, like Robert Ludlum, where the first book of his you read is always your favorite & you gradually realize that every subsequent one you read is identical to the first--we'll call this the Ludlum Factor.
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Read "Cat's Cradle" instead. That book pounds SH5 into meat pulp.
- Dr. Rock
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Your book reviews aren't very good. They don't express what your particular biases are and they don't seem to try and understand what's going on in the works that you're reviewing. Feel free to dislike Slaughterhouse Five, but at least pick up on what Vonnegut is doing in the story and comment on *that*, instead of vaguely brushing off a masterwork of American literature without even a specific gripe.
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I'm sorry, but there is no way you can keep SH-5 off the list of the top 100 books of the century. It captures the peace movement in a unique way that does not preach and does not point fingers and does not claim that war is unnecessary. Vonnegut is a genius...and all his books are not the same. I have read many, and they all have different messages, not to mention they are all very different in plot. And although I read Bluebeard first, Cat's Cradle is my favorite.
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There's so much coverage out there right now about Duke Snider's passing, it's hard to fathom. Rightfully so, of course. He's arguably the greatest offensive player in franchise history and holds so many team records it's almost impossible to list them all.
But what's also somewhat unique is just how long it's been since we lost one of our legendary Dodgers. There are 10 uniforms retired and prior to yesterday, the Dodgers had not lost any of these great figures since Pee Wee Reese back in August of 1999.
Fortunately, we still have a trio of Hall of Fame legends who are with us today – Tommy Lasorda, Sandy Koufax and Don Sutton, along with legendary broadcasters Vin Scully and Jaime Jarrin. Not to mention legends like Don Newcombe, Tommy Davis, Maury Wills, "Sweet" Lou Johnson, Steve Garvey, Ron Cey, Bill Russell, Davey Lopes, Rick Monday, Fernando Valenzuela, Wes Parker, Dr. Frank Jobe, Billy DeLury and of course, all those who played the majority of their careers in the 80s, 90s and 00s. The list of these legends could go on for pages.
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If you see them out and about, be sure to tell them how much they mean to you and the Dodgers.
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All those venerable names, and then there is Frank and Ned – need I say more.
Amen bear. Sell the team, you worthless pile.
I know his uni isn't retired, but seems to me we lost the 3-Dog about this time last year.
RIP, Duke Snider, my Uncle Harry's all-time favorite player.
I've developed a dislike for Bill Plaschke's style lately, but he's usually good at things like the passing of Duke Snider. In his article today, he tells a tale of a couple of years ago:
"The Hall of Fame center fielder's accomplishments ……. are indelibly etched into a Dodgers culture that he was still actively nurturing as recently as two winters ago."
"The team was holding a rookie seminar at Dodger Stadium, and Snider, although ailing and confined to a wheelchair, traveled from San Diego to talk to the kids."
"You have to learn to hate Halloween," he told the wide-eyed youngsters."
One of them had the nerve to ask why.
"Giants colors," he said."
Josh was hesitant to list The Duke's records. Let me, courtesy of WikePedia. These are more than Dodger club records of course. And keep in mind that not only was the majority of his career in the 154-game format, but when the Dodgers played in the Coliseum, right field was 440′. A lot of the names above his in most of these catagories should have asterisks on their names now. No steriod user was he. Duke played only two years in Dodger Stadium. When Snider was sold to the Mets on Opening Day in '64, it is said that that rough-and-tough s.o.b. Don Drysdale, the one who hit Frank Robinson in the back when Walter Alston ordered him walked, cried.
Eight-time All-Star (1950?56, 1963)
Six-time Top 10 MVP
1950: 9th
1952: 8th
1953: 3rd
1954: 4th
1955: 2nd
1956: 10th
.540 slugging percentage (37th all-time)
.919 OPS (50th all-time)
3,865 total bases (87th all-time)
407 home runs (41st all-time)
1,333 RBI (77th all-time)
1,481 runs scored (74th all-time)
850 extra-base hits (65th all-time)
17.6 at-bats per home run (59th all-time)
Dodgers career leader in home runs (389), RBI (1,271), strikeouts (1,123), and extra-base hits (814)
Holds Dodgers single-season record for most intentional walks (26 in 1956)
Only player to hit four home runs (or more) in two different World Series (1952, 1955)
One of only two major leaguers with over 1,000 RBI during the 1950s. The other was his teammate, Gil Hodges.
Hi Everybody
Yesterday with the passing of Duke Snider continuing into my morning newspaper brought back memories of my youth.
Back to the days when it seemed like we won the pennant every year. Back to those grand old world series with the Yankees, where the Duke was a big part of them.
The photographs of those days gone bye, by people all over the word really did it.
My condolences to the Snider family, his relatives, loved ones and friends and may he rest in piece.
And as Josh wrote and reminded us to feel lucky to have more legends still with us.
We are lucky to have so many legends still with us. We are so lucky to have so many legends played with the Dodgers. Duke Snider may he rest in peace.
Good morning all. Just have a couple of questions and I'm hoping that someone here knows the answers.
How many Dodger games have Vin Scully broadcasted?
Does Vin have a Bobble head?
I can answer the Vin Scully Bobblehead question. He does not have a Bobblehead. He has been asked many times, and each time he has been asked, he has graciously declined. I just happened to be listening to a Dodger Talk one day last season, and Bobbleheads happened to be one of the topics they were discussing.
I am sure Eric has info on how many games he has broadcasted.
No, seriously. That would be quite the undertaking. I don't know if it's even possible, given the different schedules he's had over the years.
61 x 162 = 9882
That gives you a ballpark figure. But you'd have to factor in the 154-game seasons, find the year he started limiting his travel schedule and add in playoff and World Series games. And do spring training games count? Someone would have to dedicate a little time to this to be accurate about it, but suffice to say, it's a bunch of games. It's interesting because especially if you factor in the spring games, he could be approaching 10,000 games.
That in itself would make it worth the while. Hmmm…….
LOL!!!! ……and you were thinking you would get sleep tonight 🙂
Thank you all. That is a whole-lotta Dodger talk. I was just wondering since the Clippers announcer reached a milestone. It got me thinking about Vin and how many Dodger games he has broadcasted, if he is even near another milestone. He is just awsome. NELLY did he mentioned why he doesn't want a bobble head? I wanted one. But hey, we have to respect his decisions! Thanks Nelly & Eric!
Is the Cardinals trainer Stan Conte #2? First Wainwright than Carpenter and than Boggs.
Speaking of Bobblehead I want to see a Kuo one.
Yes my Dodger breathren, we are very lucky to have a rich history and some exceptional ballplayers to revel in. I am a lifelong Dodger fan as I grew up admiring the Dodgers winning style of class and top notch baseball. Oh, how we have fallen. We are very unlucky to have Frank as an owner and Ned as a GM. It saddens me to see this once proud and premiere franchise now relegated to a back room snicker among the owners and anyone in baseball with two brain cells to rub together. I don't believe our luck will change much until Frank, Ned, and Stan are gone. The Duke, PeeWee, Jackie, Newk, Ersk, Furillo, Garvery, Lopes, Russell, Cey, Hershisher, Valenzuela, etc…. were wonderful and I revere them to this day for their efforts and championships. But they are not winning us ballgames, championships, or fans anymore. This franchise is in a major crisis and nothing short of a new owner and GM will correct the rapid descent to Pirates and Royals territory.
I can't believe I didn't mention Koufax and Drysdale as they are the two biggest reasons I became a Dodger fan in my formative years. I was very lucky to be growing up and playing Little League baseball in the mid 60's. I loved watching Sandy and Don on Saturday game of the week. Back then when you played Little League or sandlot ball, you dreamed of being Koufax, Drysdale, or Mantle.
Mantle transcended team colors for a young kid in the early/mid 60's. Everybody wanted to be #7!!!!!
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Once I saw the movie 61′, I started reading more and more about Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris. That movie was so well done that I didn't think of them as Yankees at all but ballplayers.
We need a Ned bobble head. Just get one of those fake turds, slap a cheesey mustache on it, rip off the head of a Bonds pumpkin head doll, attach said ****, and you've got it!!!! Go with it BeavCo!!!!
LOL!!! I guess t*rd n plural is OK. Fitting as we have Frank, Ned, and Stan!!!
Hi'Ya Nelly!!! :)))
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Well said on all counts, Jhall.
Hello Trumom, good to see you!!! :))) I'm sure he does Nelly!! LOL!!!
Well, at least, no one can literally say that the Dodgers don't have their Sh*t Together!!!
I'm glad to see Sands got 1 of the 2 hits a HR to bad it seem we lost on an error.
I propose a McCourt bobblehead day. This way everyone that attends the game can rip off the head and throw it on the field, then go home.
I could not let another day go by without expressng my sadness at hearing about Duke Snider's passing. He was always my favorite player although I don't know why. By the time I got to see him play he was on the downside of his career due to knee injuries. I did attend a game when the Dodgers played at the Coliseum where they had Duke Snider night. They don't have nights like that anymore but that night they gave him a bunch of gifts and as I recall, he hit a home run that game. I also had the honor of taking batting instructions from him at Dodger adult fantasy camp. My only beef with him was that he was a USC fan but nobody's perfect. The Duke is part of a rich Dodger history and he will be missed.
The horror continues…………
RE: article from Jamie's post:
How were you shocked by that report, Jamie? Anyone who is ACTUALLY invested in the Dodgers knew that Frank had asked FOX for money OVER A MONTH PREVIOUS TO SELIG'S DENIAL.
Just saying. Read a newspaper once in a while. You'll learn stuff 😉
BTW, Shad, this isn't real, but the guy from the http://www.thelfp.com blog made this image of a Kuo bobblehead a while back, complete with batflip: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vMRl1Qa6oTY/TIrAjENnx6I/AAAAAAAAB1I/iQOs4yRoQKg/s1600/Batflip.png
LFP guy also made this Hogan's Heroes inspired image I'm sure much of ITD could appreciate: http://www.thelfp.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/settle.png
… And I just realized that the Hogan's Heroes picture doesn't have the caption with it. The caption to the photo reads "THERE VILL BE NO SETTLEMENT!!!" [sic]
North – that Hogan's picture is classic. Captures (no pun intended) Frank's essence perfectly.
Very clever backhanded slap at Sgt. Ned "I know nothing, NOTHING!!" Colletti also.
Classic guys!!! LMAO!!! I love the Frank bobblehead idea 32!!! That would be a hoot!!! Sounds like Frank is on his way out, now it is just a matter of how long it will take!!! Selig and Jamie and pray for more Frank pain!!!!
It's always nice to see the last posts are from Northstate and Enchanted!
That photo is soooo fake. Anyone would know mccourt would have the most expensive cell phone on the planet.
Seriously, who didn't see this coming. After all, lawyers never let the truth get in the way of a good lawsuit. Witness:
"Frank has consistently and wholly failed to comply," her [Jamie's] lawyers wrote."
"Ryan Kirkpatrick, an attorney for Frank, said that ……… Frank has "fully complied" with his duties."
Hey jhall!! Maybe we can contribute to a prize for the most inventive beheading method!
Hi'Ya Dad!!! Bad part is, when the lawyers get involved, it can drag on for a long time. God knows what will be left by the time it is finally settled. MLB needs to step in aggressively like they did in Texas and get rid of the McCourts. I'm sure this group would come up with some doozies for beheading Frank and Ned!!!!
I meant to compliment you on that post up there @ 1:41. It makes a father proud!
Yeah, the dragging is what I was referring to when I said, "The horror continues." We need that guy-who-doesn't-know-who-his-father-is to sell this team before the end of the season or we'll start watching our guys leave in droves.
As far as the Beheading Contest goes, I'll give those future contestants a clue as to what this judge is looking for: Violence. Pure violence.
Hey, Garret Anderson announced his retirement today!
Funny, I thought he quit hitting last year.
Gee, 4 posts in 30 minutes without submission errors. The times are accurate.
LOL!! Thanks Dad!!! I thought you might be able to relate to that post!!! So far so good on the time warp and submission errors.
Good Morning ITD readers and writers!!!! Fabulous posts yesterday and last night. It appears our submission-error/time warping issues seemed to have disappeared. Thanks to whoever finally figured it out.
I am sure Collie is feeling this more than anybody because he lives amongst the majority of them (along with a few of our other Bay Area bloggers), and I know tru and my sister are feeling like this too. The Giants fans have just been horrible since spring training started (my family excluded – at the moment anyway). Shad mentioned it the other day too about how they were on their own blogs ripping on the Dodgers the day Duke Snider passed away. I am sorry, but if you are a true fan of your favorite team, you should appreciate the sport as a whole too, and respect all the legends that have played the game and even the players that are playing now. It's like Jhall mentioning Mantle yesterday. It's not that we are Yankee fans by any means, but most of us understand a great ballplayer is a great ballplayer, regardless of which team they have/or will play for.
I am so thankful to be around fans who love their team, regardless of the idiot of an owner and GM we have. At least we are talking about "our" team rather than figuring out ways to make other teams feel like crap all the time.
How's that for a soapbox moment enchanted – LOL!!!
BTW – I had a test of my true baseball fandom, for our annual school/county writing festival I had to help one of my students do a poem about the Giants. She needed help coming up with a couple of words to make the poem work right. I told her if I help her, she has to let me write "I love the Dodgers" on her cast, and she said "no". I helped anyway :))
I think they should erect a statue of Frank in the parking lot and surround it with pigeons. They could also put one of Ned there, but it would soon become home to those pigeons because of the hole in the top of the head.
Mattingly's named Blake to be the #2 hitter, going to prove that (A) Paul's being given absolutely no consideration as the LFer (since he's the only qualified #2 hitter) and (B) this team is going to be pitiful offensively.
I also believe Xavier is out of options too so he will be gone to do great things for another team 😦
That's the thing Nells. Instead of giving needless ABs to Gabe Kaplan, Paul should at least be give an opportunity to play in front of teams like KC where maybe, just maybe he gets on a little hot streak and Ned can trade him for something – anything rather than lose him at the end of ST because you know he won't clear waivers (though whoever claims him would HAVE to keep him on their 25 man or lose him.) Still, Ned's a horse's donkey for at least not doing what it takes to even make him attractive to another organization. Its not like if he remains Dodger property that he'll ever be given a chance.
BTW, Juan Castro solidified his place on the 25 man today with a THREE RUN BLAST. Don'tcha just love it when these old guys put up enough numbers in ST to get on the team, then can't do crap against real ML pitching?
E's highly irritated today.
Well, he was yesterday too.
And the day before.
And the week before that.
And the month…
Oh hell, E's always irritated.
EchantedIrritatedBeaver! lol
Well, E – personally I'm all ********** myself! Can't wait for the cutdown day to come and get rid of some of this Ned accumulated garbage. Spring Training should be an opportunity to expose some of the up and coming young guys to a taste of the major leagues. I have no problem with seeing Gibbons and Thames, because they're likely the answer to our LF situation, but Paul should definitely get a reasonable chance, which means F Kapler, and the same to Navarro, Miles, and Castro (even if he gets himself a lucky dinger), plus so many others that are just painful to watch even in a Spring Training setting. I know we don't have much of a farm program left, but at least let's see some new blood instead of the pitiful assembly of PVL's that Ned always rounds up. I know that once in a long while you can find something shiny for a while in a bunch of crap, but I'm getting ********** putting up with this bunch of crap.
Well, they can bleep it all they want, but I'm still PISSSED OFF!
I hear ya Bear!
And Tru trust me, there's nothing worse than an irritated beaver.
I did actually they were pretty good when Snider pass away and what the hell did I see Castro hitting a 3 runs HR's?
Oh man I just went back to that board and someone post this link.
Bear and enchantedbeaver have come out of hibernation and are a tad agitated. Anybody named Frank McCourt or Ned Coletti needs to be advised to stay as far away as possible or risk losing a head. As a matter of fact, anybody named Frank McCourt or Ned Coletti needs to stay away from Dodger fans, period.


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SANTA CLARA, Calif., June 8, 2009
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Global unemployment will hit 202 million this year, or 6.1 per cent, as debt-driven austerity measures hammer job markets and threaten to drive Europe into recession, the UN labour agency predicts.
In a gloomy forecast, the International Labour Organisation (ILO) on Monday predicted unemployment, which stood at 196 million at the end of 2011, would edge up further in 2013, with the long-term unemployed and young people hit particularly hard.
The "narrow focus of many eurozone countries on fiscal austerity is deepening the jobs crisis and could even lead to another recession in Europe", said Raymond Torres, the report's lead author.
"Austerity has not produced more economic growth," he told reporters.
With 50 million jobs vanished since the 2008-09 global financial crisis, the Geneva-based ILO's report said said, "the global employment situation is alarming and shows no signs of recovery in the near future" despite signs of economic growth in some regions.
"It is unlikely that the world economy will grow at a sufficient pace over the next couple of years to both close the existing jobs deficit and provide employment for the over 80 million people expected to enter the labour market during this period," the report said.
The unemployment rate has risen across nearly two-thirds of European nations since 2010, the ILO said, but the labour market has also "stalled" in the US, Japan and other advanced economies.
In China, the gains are coming slower for a better educated working-age population, and through much of the Middle East and Africa the "jobs deficits remain acute", the ILO report said.


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The Warriors reportedly agreed to a deal with free-agent guard Leandro Barbosa, ESPN.com reported Thursday morning.
Barbosa, 31, will join Golden State on a one-yea contract for the veteran minimum.
Barbosa will likely join Shaun Livingston as a backup point guard behind starter Stephen Curry. Former No. 1 pick Nemanja Nedovic and undrafted rookie Aaron Craft are also in the mix at guard for the Warriors.
Barbosa, who is playing for Brazil when the FIBA World Cup begins this weekend in Spain, played 20 games last season with the Phoenix Suns. Barbosa has also played with Indiana, Toronto and Boston during his career that began in 2003-04.
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Pernetti should keep his job pending an investigation into how he and the President investigated the issue and how they made their decision. I have a hard time calling for someone's head without knowing all the details. We don't know who made the decisions and who was involved. Maybe they had the blessing of the trustees.


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Peacock feathers form basis for reflective displays, could bring color to e-readers soon
Structural color -- that's engineer speak for a reflective display that mimics iridescence. And tech of that very sort could be trickling down into future generations of e-readers, thanks to current research by the University of Michigan. Using the "refined hairline grooves" of a peacock as a template, a research team led by Professor Jay Guo has found success in creating a prototype of one such high-res display by crafting nanoscale metallic grooves on silver-plated glass. Using the CMY color model (cyan, magenta and yellow) as its basis, the team was able to produce blues with a groove measuring 170 x 40 nanometers, reds at 60 nanometers wide and yellows at a width of 90 nanometers -- all with reflected sunlight and unaffected by viewing angles. At the moment, only static images can be reproduced, but Guo and his crew hope to add moving images to the format soon. If and when this reflective display makes it to market, you can surely expect e-reader battery life to go even more of a distance.
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Is the romantic supernatural drama of "The Twilight Saga" just for girls? Not according to series star Ashley Greene.
The second film in the series, "New Moon," "is a little more guy-friendly," she told People. "It's a lot more action packed."
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Appearing at TAO Las Vegas with co-star Kellan Lutz to host the Yelloween party, the star said that the addition of the wolf pack — including Taylor Lautner's Jacob Black — created an element of comedy.
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While the movie may be heavier on the action, she said fans of the series' vampire-wolf love triangle wouldn't be disappointed.
"Edward kind of breaks Bella's heart, so you definitely see Jacob kind of swoop in to rescue her," Ashley said. "You get to see their chemistry and dynamic. It keeps you on the edge of your seat a little bit more than the first one… this one is kind of more about heartbreak and healing."
And though she was proud of the new movie, Ashley — dressed as a peacock — said Halloween was a welcome way to dress as something different for once.
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"Don't get me wrong, I love the costume – but every day for two hours, it wears on you a little bit," she said.
"New Moon" is due in theaters on November 20.
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But for race, someone of Charlie Rangel's stature, very likely would have been a presidential contender by now.
"That's quite plausible", states distinguished scholar, David Levering Lewis, who wrote the groundbreaking history, When
Nevertheless, there's a considerable amount of crap being printed these days. Does anyone know the deal? Just who the hell has it in for Congressman Rangel?
Considering some of what I've written before, one could erroneously reach the conclusion that it might be I who's been orchestrating the Harlem legend's high-profile denunciation. But quite apart from lacking such power, I also lack any appetite to see anyone who's served so long and for much of his tenure, so well, so ill treated.
That's what prompted the following letter.
Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr.
Chairman, The New York Times Company
620 Eighth Avenue
New York, 10018
Dear Mr. Sulzberger,
I'm Michael Henry Adams, an historian who lives in Harlem and a columnist for the Black Star News.
There are numerous issues of public policy, where Congressman Charles B. Rangel and I bitterly disagree. But, as the New York Times' editorial page demands that Harlem's representative for three decades step down from chairing the House's Ways and Means Committee, during a self-initiated ethics investigation, one faces an enormous irony. How would this benefit
Consistently a progressive Democrat, always anxious to cooperatively help facilitate projects that were supposed to foster jobs and economic development, hasn't Charlie Rangel always, loyally, been the Time's man?
Definitely, all the things he's promoted, that I and many of his other constituents who worry about the poor, most object to, are undertakings first endorsed by the paper of record; from the West Side stadium, to
Beyond these and similar miss-steps however, Congressman Rangel has a commendable record.
Moreover, one's convinced, that adding up to a relatively modest amount, over 30 years that the transgressions the Times finds so objectionable, reflect at worst, carelessness on Rangel's part.
So, what motivates your harsh, unusually disproportionate response? By such logic, oughtn't Senator McCain, of the Keating 5, to have been censured, rather than endorsed?
To jog your memory, the Keating 5 were five
You're right; I forgot entirely to mention Rangel's disappointing support of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton over Barack Obama. Yet and still, all his unsatisfactory actions taken into account, I'm with Carolyn Cassidy Kent, who chairs the Landmarks Committee of Community Board 9. When evaluating the attack by big media Ms. Kent insists, "It's preposterous!"
"In light of his estimable service, it's difficult to see such abuse of Congressman Rangel, as other than racially focused.", continued Kent, who is White.
Are we back at race, again? Does nothing else matter?
Contrasted with White men, much like women, African Americans were once reliably morally superior. This hard to contest fact had less to do with innate purity or goodness, than the lack of opportunity afforded to the oppressed. Indeed, much of such past goodness was in large part, a measure of our inequality.
Conversely, ever increasingly, parity has come to be viewed as the ability to behave badly. Trespassing, where necessary, by all and any means, against those who might trespass against us, is regarded by some as the surest way of empowering heretofore subservient Black folks.
Don't get me wrong; to be Black in
But, no more than excuse or ignore my own occasional bad behavior, am I reflexively willing to overlook the wrongdoing of others, just because they too are African American.
Therefore, for me, Clarence Thomas was never anymore worthy of sitting on the Supreme Court than Sarah Palin is of being Vice-President. Certainly he was not qualified to replace Thurgood Marshall. No one, of any color, ought to have been taken in by Thomas' expedient lament, once his suitability was challenged, loudly claiming that he, of all people, was "the victim of a high-tech lynching".
As for Ms. Rice and Colin Powell, either of whom might easily to have prevented the needless War in
This is all to say that, though very much aware, of how Congressman Rangel's improprieties attest to an unfortunate insensitivity to appearance, they have hardly reach a critical threshold. Franklin Roosevelt, Kennedy, Clinton, W. Bush and many, many others, have each done, far, far worse. Breaking the law, subverting our Constitution, these White leaders, for good or bad, all remained in office.
"The Times has written more about Rangel's minor carelessness," stresses veteran journalist, Peter Hellman, "than they did about the Pentagon Papers! For goodness sake, who there decided to go after Rangel and why?"
"I heard it was the Republicans!" said a
"They were originally after David Patterson. They thought that he was an easy and unvetted target. Discovering how he and Rangel lived in the same complex, that their rent was regulated, and that Rangel had four apartments, they changed course." another source, requesting anonymity, said with an air of authority.
"It was Obama. He doesn't want to be weighed down by Rangel's power when he's elected." This hapless informant, was an Uptown Community Board District Manager, who had previously, vigorously campaigned for Senator Clinton.
Quick to acknowledge the manifold accomplishments of Rangel's long and illustrious career, State Senator Bill Perkins, widely seen as the representative's most likely successor, dismissed most rumors. Otherwise though, he was more than usually cautious, suggesting, "Why don't you make the Times accountable and simply ask them what's motivated their actions?"
To date, there's been no reply to my inquiry of the New York Times' Chairman. When or if there is, you'll be the first to know.
As for Charlie Rangel's, recently appearing out of touch, by favoring high priced condos over the affordable, Federally subsidized Harlem housing he helped to build back in the day, be of good cheer. The harmful trickle down, luxury foremost polices of his friend Michael Bloomberg, have finally flown home to roost!
Rejecting light manufacturing jobs advocated by Community Boards Uptown, putting all the city s eggs, in Wall Street's basket, Bloomberg's helped to create a catastrophe. Come what may, it will be quite a while before
Hey, be pragmatic. After years of constant hard work Congressman Rangel is one of the most powerful people on the planet. We in
The catch is, Obama has to be elected first. If he fails, according to a highly placed source, Charlie Rangel promises to say goodbye to
Understandably, after such a long run, there's a lot that he'll miss out of office. But you can bet it won't be the embattled partisan struggling and mudslinging of recent years. It makes trying to accomplish anything not just unpleasant but all but impossible.
To best help Charlie Rangel and
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Ask.com isn't the most popular search engine online—while getting solid numbers on such things is both difficult and expensive, the search engine metrics firms say that Ask.com gets anywhere from 1.5 to 5.0 percent of the search market any given month—but the company has a new strategy to add a few points to its share: going after kids. AskKids.com has just been relaunched with a major overhaul, and in a time when parents want their kids to be comfortable online while also being surrounded by tales of a dangerous Internet, this is a smart move. The question is, how well does the new search engine serve the needs of children?
The landing page is striking, and very inviting for young eyes. You can visit the Schoolhouse, look up Movies, Games, Videos, or Images. The old Ask Kids had a generic, but bright design; this is begging for clicks to click and explore. Even better is the ability to draw on the page itself with a pencil, pen, or highlighter, and you can also add a few virtual "stickers" to give the look of a well-worn Trapper Keeper. "Studies prove that visual learning improves children's comprehension, retention, critical thinking, and organization," the official information explains. "Additionally, children are better at "mousing" than typing. Ask Kids was built with this in mind, and organizes search results in a graphically vivid three-panel display that includes SmartAnswers and related images, current events, videos and encyclopedia results."
Clicking on "Movies," for example, brings up a screen with the ability, on the left hand side, to limit or expand your search, and the service also helpfully provides the names of some well-known children's actors and singers to get you started. Is there no escape from Miley Cyrus? Featured movies include Wall-E, The Clone Wars, and Fly Me to the Moon, although in the first three links off-site I was surprised to see a listing for Matrix Revolutions, an R-rated film. Doing a search for Disney netted me a list of general, kid-friendly results, and in a refreshing twist, the "sponsored results" are listed at the top, and clearly marked. This is a good opportunity to have a talk to your children about advertising, and how to critically look at information researched. "Ask Kids accepts advertising for products that are appropriate for kids under the age of 13," the site states matter-of-factly, and those paid-for results are easy to recognize.
The sites you can navigate to in your searches have been vetted by Ask.com specifically for children. "Each web site in the Ask Kids core search index was selected by the Ask.com editorial team as child-appropriate or as a relevant and practical site for reference and learning," you're assured. "Ask's proprietary search algorithm then identified communities and collections of web sites linked to the core list, and filtered those to remove adult content." While the site may bill itself as a search engine, the information is given in such a way to encourage free-form exploration and learning. Much as adults lose themselves in Wikipedia, it's easy to see how curious children can start on one subject in their searches and follow the helpful prods of the site onto related topics. This system doesn't seem perfect, however, as a search for "geodes" netted me both information on how the rocks are formed and where to find them, but also "John F. Kennedy" as a related name.
In terms of obviously not safe for children content, the search engine omits those things entirely. I did searches for "boobs," "masturbation," and "sex," since that's the order that my own sexual awakening happened. Ask Kids spit out a picture of a robot with the caption "BEEP! Your search did not match any web results." Other controversial topics are well-rounded; both evolution and creationism had a solid number of links as results of our searches (giving both sides of that debate something to be angered about, I guess).
Ask Kids is a much better solution than what we found with KidZui, and while you'll still want to be there while your children surf—a search for Manhunt 2 took me to that game's official page, complete with easily-ignored age-gate—this will give you a small amount of peace of mind about what your kids are seeing online. Even better, it encourages an open environment to learn and explore. It's hard to say whether this will be a powerful weapon in the search-engine wars, but it's certainly a well-designed and implemented tool for parents.


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Well yes there really is just one cup, plus various ideas we have about it. Unless.. omg unless the original unseen cup, beyond perception, is multiple. We'd never know if it was!alpha wrote:
there can't be so many cups surely
for me the mind is the "king of all"..
the cup of the senses or the cup of perception still happens within the mind and they are not different cups.
if they were different they should be many when they are not.
and "many" cannot be established when we cannot find the "one"-the one cup as it were.
since we can only negate the ideea of the cup ,the "one" cup cannot be established.and therefore "many" cups has no support-the cup of senses,of perception..and so on.
if this ideea of the cup cannot be found does this mean somehow that we have arrived at the point where the mind can see itself?
According to Shantideva, mind can't see itself. Apparently you are not your mind and can thus observe it.


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Latvian peer-to-peer lender diversifies its offering of consumer loans to investors
TWINO, Europe's fastest growing peer-to-peer (P2P) lending platform, today announces that it has begun listing Russian consumer loans, making it the first P2P lender to offer European investors the chance to invest in the region.
The Russian loans will be offered to investors with bank-beating returns of c.14% per annum. Investors will also be offered TWINO's BuyBack Guarantee, which protects from borrower default risk.
TWINO, which introduced its peer-to-peer lending platform in 2015, provides short-term unsecured consumer loans for private individuals across a number of European countries – Latvia, Poland, Denmark, Georgia and now Russia, following success in Russia's alternative lending market with its short-term product.
The holding group – TWINO Group, which is entirely self-funded to date, has issued more than €350 million of consumer lending since it was founded in 2009. The peer-to-peer lending platform has grown to become one of the largest platforms in Europe, funding a total of €77 million loans in just thirteen months.
Jevgenijs Kazanins, CEO of TWINO, says:
"It's becoming more and more important for investors to diversify their portfolio, and introducing Russian loans on our platform is an important milestone in our offering. We want to give our investors the opportunity to get bank-beating returns and Russia has emerged as one of Europe's most attractive alternative lending markets.
"In today's ever-changing economic and political environment, peer-to-peer lending platforms need to have a strong international presence to stay ahead, and this is something we take very seriously. This is just the beginning for TWINO – we have plans to further diversify our loan offering in the coming months."
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To take the nation's financial pulse, we must go digital
By Pete Bulley, Director of Product, Aire
The last six months have brought the precarious financial situation of many millions across the world into sharper focus than ever before. But while the figures may be unprecedented, the underlying problem is not a new one – and it requires serious attention as well as action from lenders to solve it.
Research commissioned by Aire in February found that eight out of ten adults in the UK would be unable to cover essential monthly spending should their income drop by 20%. Since then, Covid-19 has increased the number without employment by 730,000 people between July and March, and saw 9.6 million furloughed as part of the job retention scheme.
The figures change daily but here are a few of the most significant: one in six mortgage holders had opted to take a payment holiday by June. Lenders had granted almost a million credit card payment deferrals, provided 686,500 payment holidays on personal loans, and offered 27 million interest-free overdrafts.
The pressure is growing for lenders and with no clear return to normal in sight, we are unfortunately likely to see levels of financial distress increase exponentially as we head into winter. Recent changes to the job retention scheme are signalling the start of the withdrawal of government support.
The challenge for lenders
Lenders have been embracing digital channels for years. However, we see it usually prioritised at acquisition, with customer management neglected in favour of getting new customers through the door. Once inside, even the most established of lenders are likely to fall back on manual processes when it comes to managing existing customers.
It's different for fintechs. Unburdened by legacy systems, they've been able to begin with digital to offer a new generation of consumers better, more intuitive service. Most often this is digitised, mobile and seamless, and it's spreading across sectors. While established banks and service providers are catching up — offering mobile payments and on-the-go access to accounts — this part of their service is still lagging. Nowhere is this felt harder than in customer management.
Time for a digital solution in customer management
With digital moving higher up the agenda for lenders as a result of the pandemic, many still haven't got their customer support properly in place to meet demand. Manual outreach is still relied upon which is both heavy on resource and on time.
Lenders are also grappling with regulation. While many recognise the moral responsibility they have for their customers, they are still blind to the new tools available to help them act effectively and at scale.
In 2015, the FCA released its Fair Treatment of Customers regulations requiring that 'consumers are provided with clear information and are kept appropriately informed before, during and after the point of sale'.
But when the individual financial situation of customers is changing daily, never has this sentiment been more important (or more difficult) for lenders to adhere to. The problem is simple: the traditional credit scoring methods relied upon by lenders are no longer dynamic enough to spot sudden financial change.
The answer lies in better, and more scalable, personalised support. But to do this, lenders need rich, real-time insight so that lenders can act effectively, as the regulator demands. It needs to be done at scale and it needs to be done with the consumer experience in mind, with convenience and trust high on the agenda.
Placing the consumer at the heart of the response
To better understand a customer, inviting them into a branch or arranging a phone call may seem the most obvious solution. However, health concerns mean few people want to see their providers face-to-face, and fewer staff are in branches, not to mention the cost and time outlay by lenders this would require.
Call centres are not the answer either. Lack of trained capacity, cost and the perceived intrusiveness of calls are all barriers. We know from our own consumer research at Aire that customers are less likely to engage directly with their lenders on the phone when they feel payment demands will be made of them.
If lenders want reliable, actionable insight that serves both their needs (and their customers) they need to look to digital.
Asking the person who knows best – the borrower
So if the opportunity lies in gathering information directly from the consumer – the solution rests with first-party data. The reasons we pioneer this approach at Aire are clear: firstly, it provides a truly holistic view of each customer to the lender, a richer picture that covers areas that traditional credit scoring often misses, including employment status and savings levels. Secondly, it offers consumers the opportunity to engage directly in the process, finally shifting the balance in credit scoring into the hands of the individual.
With the right product behind it, this can be achieved seamlessly and at scale by lenders. Pulse from Aire provides a link delivered by SMS or email to customers, encouraging them to engage with Aire's Interactive Virtual Interview (IVI). The information gathered from the consumer is then validated by Aire to provide the genuinely holistic view of a consumer that lenders require, delivering insights that include risk of financial difficulty, validated disposable income and a measure of engagement.
No lengthy or intrusive phone calls. No manual outreach or large call centre requirements. And best of all, lenders can get started in just days and they save up to £60 a customer.
Too good to be true?
This still leaves questions. How can you trust data provided directly from consumers? What about AI bias – are the results fair? And can lenders and customers alike trust it?
To look at first-party misbehaviour or 'gaming', sophisticated machine-learning algorithms are used to validate responses for accuracy. Essentially, they measure responses against existing contextual data and check its plausibility.
Aire also looks at how the IVI process is completed. By looking at how people complete the interview, not just what they say, we can spot with a high degree of accuracy if people are trying to game the system.
AI bias – the system creating unfair outcomes – is tackled through governance and culture. In working towards our vision of a world where finance is truly free from bias or prejudice, we invest heavily in constructing the best model governance systems we can at Aire to ensure our models are analysed systematically before being put into use.
This process has undergone rigorous improvements to ensure our outputs are compliant by regulatory standards and also align with our own company principles on data and ethics.
That leaves the issue of encouraging consumers to be confident when speaking to financial institutions online. Part of the solution is developing a better customer experience. If the purpose of this digital engagement is to gather more information on a particular borrower, the route the borrower takes should be personal and reactive to the information they submit. The outcome and potential gain should be clear.
The right technology at the right time?
What is clear is that in Covid-19, and the resulting financial shockwaves, lenders face an unprecedented challenge in customer management. In innovative new data in the form of first-party data, harnessed ethically, they may just have an unprecedented solution.
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The Future of Software Supply Chain Security: A focus on open source management
By Emile Monette, Director of Value Chain Security at Synopsys
Software Supply Chain Security: change is needed
Attacks on the Software Supply Chain (SSC) have increased exponentially, fueled at least in part by the widespread adoption of open source software, as well as organisations' insufficient knowledge of their software content and resultant limited ability to conduct robust risk management. As a result, the SSC remains an inviting target for would-be attackers. It has become clear that changes in how we collectively secure our supply chains are required to raise the cost, and lower the impact, of attacks on the SSC.
A report by Atlantic Council found that "115 instances, going back a decade, of publicly reported attacks on the SSC or disclosure of high-impact vulnerabilities likely to be exploited" in cyber-attacks were implemented by affecting aspects of the SSC. The report highlights a number of alarming trends in the security of the SSC, including a rise in the hijacking of software updates, attacks by state actors, and open source compromises.
This article explores the use of open source software – a primary foundation of almost all modern software – due to its growing prominence, and more importantly, its associated security risks. Poorly managed open source software exposes the user to a number of security risks as it provides affordable vectors to potential attackers allowing them to launch attacks on a variety of entities—including governments, multinational corporations, and even the small to medium-sized companies that comprise the global technology supply chain, individual consumers, and every other user of technology.
The risks of open source software for supply chain security
The 2020 Open Source Security and Risk Analysis (OSSRA) report states that "If your organisation builds or simply uses software, you can assume that software will contain open source. Whether you are a member of an IT, development, operations, or security team, if you don't have policies in place for identifying and patching known issues with the open source components you're using, you're not doing your job."
Open source code now creates the basic infrastructure of most commercial software which supports enterprise systems and networks, thus providing the foundation of almost every software application used across all industries worldwide. Therefore, the need to identify, track and manage open source code components and libraries has risen tremendously.
License identification, patching vulnerabilities and introducing policies addressing outdated open source packages are now all crucial for responsible open source use. However, the use of open source software itself is not the issue. Because many software engineers 'reuse' code components when they are creating software (this is in fact a widely acknowledged best practice for software engineering), the risk of those components becoming out of date has grown. It is the use of unpatched and otherwise poorly managed open source software that is really what is putting organizations at risk.
The 2020 OSSRA report also reveals a variety of worrying statistics regarding SSC security. For example, according to the report, it takes organisations an unacceptably long time to mitigate known vulnerabilities, with 2020 being the first year that the Heartbleed vulnerability was not found in any commercial software analyzed for the OSSRA report. This is six years after the first public disclosure of Heartbleed – plenty of time for even the least sophisticated attackers to take advantage of the known and publicly reported vulnerability.
The report also found that 91% of the investigated codebases contained components that were over four years out of date or had no developments made in the last two years, putting these components at a higher risk of vulnerabilities. Additionally, vulnerabilities found in the audited codebases had an average age of almost 4 ½ years, with 19% of vulnerabilities being over 10 years old, and the oldest vulnerability being a whopping 22 years old. Therefore, it is clear that open source users are not adequately defending themselves against open source enabled cyberattacks. This is especially concerning as 99% of the codebases analyzed in the OSSRA report contained open source software, with 75% of these containing at least one vulnerability, and 49% containing high-risk vulnerabilities.
Mitigating open source security risks
In order to mitigate security risks when using open source components, one must know what software you're using, and which exploits impact its vulnerabilities. One way to do this is to obtain a comprehensive bill of materials from your suppliers (also known as a "build list" or a "software bill of materials" or "SBOM"). Ideally, the SBOM should contain all the open source components, as well as the versions used, the download locations for all projects and dependencies, the libraries which the code calls to, and the libraries that those dependencies link to.
Creating and communicating policies
Modern applications contain an abundance of open source components with possible security, code quality and licensing issues. Over time, even the best of these open source components will age (and newly discovered vulnerabilities will be identified in the codebase), which will result in them at best losing intended functionality, and at worst exposing the user to cyber exploitation.
Organizations should ensure their policies address updating, licensing, vulnerability management and other risks that the use of open source can create. Clear policies outlining introduction and documentation of new open source components can improve the control of what enters the codebase and that it complies with the policies.
Prioritizing open source security efforts
Organisations should prioritise open source vulnerability mitigation efforts in relation to CVSS (Common Vulnerability Scoring System) scores and CWE (Common Weakness Enumeration) information, along with information about the availability of exploits, paying careful attention to the full life cycle of the open source component, instead of only focusing on what happens on "day zero." Patch priorities should also be in-line with the business importance of the asset patched, the risk of exploitation and the criticality of the asset. Similarly, organizations must consider using sources outside of the CVSS and CWE information, many of which provide early notification of vulnerabilities, and in particular, choosing one that delivers technical details, upgrade and patch guidance, as well as security insights. Lastly, it is important for organisations to monitor for new threats for the entire time their applications remain in service.
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On the Frontlines of Fraud: Tactics for Merchants to Protect Their Businesses
By Nicole Jass, Senior Vice President of Small Business and Fraud Products at FIS
Fraud isn't new, but the new realities brought by COVID-19 for merchants, and the rising tide of attacks have changed the way we need to approach the fight. Even before the pandemic broke out earlier this year, the transition to digital payments was well underway, which means fighting fraud needs a multilayered, multi-channel approach. Not only do you want to increase approval rates, you want to protect your revenue and stop fraud before it happens.
A great place to start is working with your payment partners to refresh your company's fraud strategies with emerging top three best practices:
- AI-based machine learning fraud solutions helps your business stay ahead of fraud trends. Leveraging data profiles to model both "good" and "bad" behavior helps find and reduce fraud. AI-based machine learning will be increasingly essential to stay ahead of the explosive and sophisticated eCommerce fraud.
- Increasing capabilities around device fingerprinting and behavioral data are essential to detect fraud before it happens. While much of the user-input values can be easily manipulated to look more authentic, device fingerprinting and behavioral data are captured in the background to derive unique details from the user's device and behavior. Bringing in more unique elements into decisioning, can help authenticate the users and determine the validity of the transactions.
- Prioritize user authentication. User authentication is a vital linchpin in any fraud defense and should receive even greater priority today. Setting strong password requirements and implementing multi-factor authentication helps curb fraud attacks from account takeover.
As well as working with your payment partners it's more critical than ever to protect online transactions while not jeopardizing legitimate purchases. Fortunately, there are a few things you can do right now to address these concerns:
- Monitor warning signs
Payment verification is an important part of protecting your business. There are a variety of strategies to employ including implementing technology utilizing artificial intelligence and machine learning to help catch certain patterns. In addition to technology, here are a few other tips that may serve as warning signs. These are not a guarantee fraud is occurring, but they are flags to investigate.
o The shipping address and billing address differ
o Multiple orders of the same item
o Unusually large orders
o Multiple orders to the same address with different cards
o Unexpected international orders
- Require identity verification
Finding a balance between protection and ease of purchase will ultimately help you protect your customers and your business. The following tactics can make it more difficult for fraudsters to be successful:
o For customers that have a login, require a minimum of eight characters as well as the use of special characters in your customers' passwords
o Set up Two-Factor Authentication that requires a One-time Passcode (OTP) via SMS or email
o Use biometric authentication for mobile purchases or logins
- Monitor chargebacks
Keeping good records is essential for eCommerce. If a customer initiates a dispute, your only available recourse is to provide proof that the order was fulfilled. Be prepared to provide all the supporting information about a disputed transaction. Worldpay's Disputes solutions can connect to your CRM and provide you dual-layer protection against friendly fraud, first deflecting them before they arise and then fully managing chargeback defenses on your behalf.
- Monitor declines
Credit card issuers mitigate fraud by automatically declining payments that look suspicious, based on unusual card activity such as drastic changes in spending patterns or uncommon geolocations of spending. You can check your own declined payment history to help spot a potential problem. When volumes increase, the help of a payments fraud management partner is beneficial.
- Protect your own wallet
While you take the steps to protect your business, it's also important to be mindful of your own protection—it's incumbent on all responsible consumers to be vigilant about their data. Whether it's simple awareness of how the fraudsters are operating today, sticking to trusted brands when shopping online, and thinking twice about what data you share and who you share it with, you'll soon see how often you are sharing personal information about yourself.
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How To Choose The Best Glasses For Driving
A small mistake can have serious consequences, especially when you're behind the wheel of your car. A healthy vision is a must to ensure a safe journey.
When you are driving, there are so many things you need to look out for. Not only do you have to be consistently sharp-focused to make sure you are aware of all the objects and obstacles around you, but you also have to watch out for dark signs and bright lights that can be difficult to see, or that can affect your vision.
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