I almost never write posts about writing or blogging. My thought is that people do not come to Yes, I Am Cheap to read anything about how I run the blog, but that readers more interested in how I'm improving my finances and how to do the same with their own. In fact, I have a wealth of stories about my lack of money, but every so often something pops up and I have to go off the reservation.
Today is one of those days and it all began with an e-mail that I received from someone at JC Penney. I'll start with the e-mail below that I received from JC Penney.
Your domain has been identified as having links to jcpenney.com/products without J.C. Penney Corporation, Inc.'s authorization. These links must be taken down immediately.
The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that your access is unauthorized, and any review, dissemination, distribution or copying of this message including any attachments is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer.
At first, I thought that someone was spoofing JC Penney. I mean, this had to be B.S. right? Which corporation would ever send a cryptic message like this to someone? Then I realized that it was real since they hadn't contacted me through the contact form on this site, but had gone through the trouble of doing a Who Is search on the site and sending the e-mail through my registrar.
Okay, so the message is real but what the heck were they even talking about? As a rule I almost never link to e-commerce sites unless I am telling you about a deal (which I moved to doing through Twitter months ago) or if the company was a paid advertiser in which case I always disclose the fact. JC Penney is not an advertiser. You might not know it but this website literally has hundreds of pages with thousands of links in them and since this individual hadn't thought it worthy to send the offending URL, it took some Google searching for me to even find the link.
Aha! I do have a link to JC Penney. But wait? What was the offending link to and why was I linking to them? The link was on a Black Friday post way back in NOVEMBER which linked to JC Penney's Black Friday deals.
WTF, I thought? Why are they freaking out about me making a perfectly legitimate link to their site? I don't even say anything about the company or the products, I just provided the link as a service to my readers. Then it hit me. Last week, Google dinged many companies for buying links with smaller websites where the links could potentially inflate the advertisers search engine rank within Google.
If you want your pages indexed by Google and you purchase an advertisement directly with another website, the link per FCC guidelines should be labeled as advertisement and per Google coded as "no follow" where Google knows not to use the advertising link for ranking purposes. Google assumes that those not following those rules are trying to manipulate search rankings and will remove a company from its search index or reduce its search standing. This can mean that you can search for a company on Google and it won't come up.
The problem for JC Penney is that the New York Times did an entire expose piece where it basically said and Google confirmed that it believed that JC Penney was manipulating search results by possibly using paid links and by having websites that have nothing to do with JC Penney or their products linking back to JC Penney using search terms for things that they might not even sell.
The post actually did relate to JC Penney! It was perfectly legitimate since I was talking about Black Friday Deals and linked specifically to JC Penney's Black Friday circular as well as those of their competitors and other companies.
I coded the link "NO FOLLOW" per Google's rules so this did not help JC Penney's standings in any way. In fact, I could have left the link as a followed link and it would have been fine with Google as a legitimate organic link.
If my post showed up when searching for Black Friday and someone clicked over to JC Penney's black friday page, it is completely organic and 100% related to the search term unlike the examples listed in the Times article.
I always disclose advertisers within a post or list advertisers, affiliate companies or affiliate to the left. I have a disclosure on the bottom of every page, a tongue-in-cheek disclosure link up top on every page, and when a post or link ir provided by an advertiser, I say it within the post. I'm always 100% up front since I like to be honest and play by the rules.
Legally, can JC Penney force me to remove a legitimate link? Afterall, what constitutes an "unauthorized link"? Me thinks they need to consult their legal department about this before they bump into someone with time and money to waste.
Now, I understand the position that JC Penney is in. Believe me, my day-time job gives me a front row view of the advertising world of a major company. I know how hard it is for a company to be in this position but having the pendulum swing from one extreme direction to another extreme is not the proper way to address the problem.
Sandy writes the blog Yes, I Am Cheap where she is chronicling her methods of getting out of debt and sharing some stories about her tenant from hell in the process.


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OGC announces the creation of a new Domain Working Group for Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies
Wednesday, 10 July 2019 UTC
New BDLT DWG will build understanding of the importance of, and requirements for, geospatial standardization within these revolutionary, disruptive technologies
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) announces the formation of the Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies Domain Working Group (DWG). Participants in this new OGC DWG will focus on understanding the importance of, and requirements for, geospatial standardization within these revolutionary, disruptive technologies.
At the 111th OGC Technical Committee meeting recently held in Leuven, Belgium, the Technical Committee approved the appointment of Anna Burzykowska and Dr. Andreas Matheus as the founding Co-Chairs of the DWG. Anna Burzykowska is a Projects Specialist at the European Space Agency as well as a leader of the emerging practice on Blockchain, Distributed Ledgers and Earth Observation at the ESA's Directorate of Earth Observations Programmes (D/EOP). Dr. Matheus is the founder and Managing Director of Secure Dimensions GmbH, a geo-security company based in Munich, Germany.
Distributed Ledgers are collections of replicated, shared, and synchronized digital records that are stored across multiple sites. The technologies used to implement such ledgers (Distributed Ledger Technologies aka DLT) include blockchains. Blockchains are a digital ledger of records arranged into linked and cryptologically-validated chunks of data called blocks. By far the most widely cited application of blockchain technology is in the finance sector where it can be used as a cryptocurrency, the two most notable examples being Bitcoin and Ethereum.
However, other applications for DLT and blockchains are now gaining popularity. There is potential use of DLT in, for example, land registration, city services, space, pan-government registries, and justice. Location can play a key role in many of these application areas. For example:
The location of financial transactions can determine what taxes apply;
The location of the boundary of a property forms the basis of its registration and
The location where evidence is discovered at a crime scene can have an impact on judicial proceedings.
At present, there are numerous DLT services and networks available. There is however no standard for how those DLT should encode geospatial information such as location, coordinates, and coordinate reference systems. This situation is likely to lead to a problem of limited interoperability between information held in different DLT networks.
Given the immutable nature of blockchain and DLT, the need for standardization of the information encoded within them is time-critical: any poorly encoded geographic information will remain inherent to a given ledger for as long as it is in use.
In October 2018, OGC published the Discussion Paper Geospatial Standardization of Distributed Ledger Technologies with the purpose of improving the understanding of Blockchain and distributed ledger technologies. One recommendation of the Discussion Paper was to form the OGC BDLT DWG.
OGC members and non-members alike who are actively working within the Blockchain and Distributed Ledger community are invited to participate in the Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies Domain Working Group. Visit the Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies (BDLT) DWG home page for more information on the group, including how to participate.
Visit OGC's Domain Working Group and Standards Working Group pages to learn about other standards activities happening in OGC. There is currently a strong emphasis on topics related to Internet of Things, Smart Cities, Aviation & Unmanned Systems (eg UAVs), Big Data, Linked Data, Disaster Response, Maritime, and more.
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is an international consortium of more than 525 companies, government agencies, research organizations, and universities participating in a consensus process to develop publicly available geospatial standards. OGC standards support interoperable solutions that 'geo-enable' the Web, wireless & location-based services, and mainstream IT. OGC standards empower technology developers to make location information and services accessible and useful within any application that needs to be location-aware. Visit OGC's website at www.opengeospatial.org.

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Oil prices continue to weaken as global glut grows
Oil prices remain under pressure as rising US production pushes back impact of OPEC-led cuts.
International benchmark Brent crude oil futures dropped as low as $45.4 per barrel on Tuesday – their lowest level since November 2016 – and dropped to similar levels early on Wednesday before recovering slightly. The United States benchmark West Texas Intermediate dropped to $42.8/bbl on Tuesday and was trading at around $43/bbl at the time of publication.
OPEC members and a group of 11 non-OPEC producers led by Russia agreed on 25 May to extend their 1.8 million barrels per day (MMb/d) output cut for a further nine months. The original deal was for cuts of 1.2 MMb/d by OPEC members and nearly 600,000 b/d by non-OPEC countries to be made during the first six months of 2017. This was initially extended until the end of June, but now the cuts have been extended until the end of March 2018.
The oil price weakness comes despite heightened geopolitical tensions between the US and Russia over Syria, as well as a rift between Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) members Saudi Arabia and Qatar over the latter's alleged support of terrorist groups. Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt have broken diplomatic ties with Qatar, claiming the country – the world's largest LNG exporter – has supported Sunni and Shia terrorist groups in the Middle East. They also allege that it has been accommodating Iran in a way that the other GCC members deem unacceptable.
The recent weakness in oil prices stems from concerns that rising global production, led by the US, is keeping stocks stubbornly high. Oil-indexed commodities including gas and LNG have also come under pressure, along with others such as gold. The Goldman Sachs Commodities Index, which tracks the most liquid commodity futures markets, has dropped to its lowest level since 11 November 2016. Higher production from Nigeria and Libya – which were exempted from the OPEC/non-OPEC deal because of their history of disrupted production – and weaker demand growth in China have helped depress sentiment in the oil market.
Gloomy outlook for 2018
The weak oil price outlook now looks set to extend into 2018 as the inventory overhang is still not being absorbed by rising demand. Earlier this month, the International Energy Agency (IEA) gave its first outlook on what it expects 2018 might have in store for oil markets. Its analysis suggests that high global oil stocks will continue despite the OPEC/non-OPEC cuts. "Our first outlook for 2018 makes sobering reading for those producers looking to restrain supply," the IEA said. "In 2018, we expect non-OPEC production to grow by 1.5 MMb/d, which is slightly more than the expected increase in global demand."
The IEA estimates that oil stocks have grown by 360,000 b/d so far in 2017 despite OPEC's efforts to restrain production. The US is the main culprit, with crude production there expected to grow by around 400,000 b/d in 2017 and by nearly double that in 2018. US crude production averaged 9.3 MMb/d in the week ending 9 June, an increase of 900,000 b/d from the lows reached nearly a year earlier.
The latest analysis from Interfax Global Gas Analytics suggests that reduced disruption in global oil supplies is also taking its toll.
"The reductions in supply disruptions from Nigeria and Libya have caught the attention of market participants," Interfax Global Gas Analytics said in its latest monthly report, published on Wednesday. The report estimates that production outages in May 2017 averaged 520,000 b/d in Libya and 360,000 b/d in Nigeria – nearly half the level of outages seen at the same time last year in both countries. The publication lowered its forecasts for Brent crude oil in 2017 as a whole and 2018 by around $2/bbl, to $52.0/bbl and $56.1/bbl respectively.
Unsurprisingly, OPEC's own analysis is more optimistic – albeit cautiously so – on when the market will rebalance. OPEC's latest Monthly Oil Market Report says OECD oil stocks will continue to decline in H2 2017. "The decline seen in the overhang in OECD commercial oil inventories in the first four months of the year […] is expected to continue in the second half, supported by production adjustments by OPEC and participating non-OPEC producers," it said. "These trends along with the steady decline in oil in floating storage, indicate that the rebalancing of the market is underway, but at a slower pace, given the changes in fundamentals since December, especially the shift in US supply from an expected contraction to positive growth."


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Posted inInside Public Integrity
Weekly Watchdog 1/26/12
by The Center for Public Integrity January 26, 2012 January 28, 2022
Free-for-all in southern Pacific decimates fish stocks
Asian, European and Latin American fleets have devastated fish stocks in the southern Pacific, once among the world's richest waters, a new investigation by the Center's International Consortium of Investigative Journalists has found. Governments with the power to stop the plunder have stalled for years, and no binding rules are in place. The result: Stocks of jack mackerel are down 90 percent to less than 3 million metric tons in just two decades. The oily fish is a staple in Africa, but people elsewhere are unaware that it is in their forkfuls of farmed salmon. Jack mackerel is a vital component of fishmeal for aquaculture. Today, industrial fleets bound only by voluntary restraints compete in what amounts to a free-for-all in open waters from the west coast of South America across much of the southern Pacific. The investigation also found that in Peru, at least 630,000 metric tons of anchoveta have vanished over the past two and a half years between the holds of boats and factory scales. That is more than all the fish British fleets land in a year.
The defense cuts that aren't
Hawks on Capitol Hill are screaming about proposed White House cuts to the defense budget. Here's a secret, says the Center's managing editor for defense Jeffrey Smith: Obama's plan actually calls for increases. Here's the backdrop: Between 2000 and 2009, the average annual growth in national security budget authority was around 6 percent. That made spending go up by around two-thirds, to nearly $720 billion. Before Obama announced his plan, the Pentagon was counting on an annual boost over the next 10 years. While there may be a net decrease in spending over the next year, the budget – in the long term — will soon revert to net increases, administration officials say. They have not said what the average annual increase will be if Congress approves his trims, but sources said the result after 10 years will still be a larger budget, even after inflation is taken into account.
West Africa oil boom overlooks tattered environmental safety net
The Jubilee offshore oil field in Ghana has proven a blessing for investors and curse for locals. Even as the field was in development, environmentalists warned it was moving too fast. To activists, official silence surrounding a November 2011 spill was evidence that Ghana lacked the ability to properly oversee offshore oil operations. Located along Africa's Atlantic Coast, Ghana is slipping down the same unregulated slope as other countries that hug the Gulf of Guinea: Promises of economic development along with a lure of easy money have prompted governments to encourage the rapid growth of an industry in a regulatory vacuum. The oil industry, in effect, is left to monitor itself. The story was produced in cooperation with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.
Sarah Burke and the tragedy of American healthcare
Our healthcare commentator Wendell Potter puts the U.S. insurance system on trial in his latest column. Since the promising Canadian skier Sarah Burke was mortally injured earlier this month in the U.S., her family is pleading for money to help cover the estimated $550,000 they owe for the medical care she received at University of Utah Hospital over nine days. The irony, says Potter, is that had the accident occurred in Canada, her family would not be facing having to come up such a huge sum to pay for her care. Her care would have been covered because, unlike the U.S., Canada has a system of universal coverage. An estimated 700,000 American families file for bankruptcy every year because of medical debt. No one in Canada finds themselves in that predicament, nor do they face losing their homes as many Americans do when they become critically ill or suffer an injury.
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Weekly Watchdog 1/26/12

by The Center for Public Integrity, Center for Public Integrity
January 26, 2012

Free-for-all in southern Pacific decimates fish stocks

Asian, European and Latin American fleets have devastated fish stocks in the southern Pacific, once among the world's richest waters, a new investigation by the Center's International Consortium of Investigative Journalists has found. Governments with the power to stop the plunder have stalled for years, and no binding rules are in place. The result: Stocks of jack mackerel are down 90 percent to less than 3 million metric tons in just two decades. The oily fish is a staple in Africa, but people elsewhere are unaware that it is in their forkfuls of farmed salmon. Jack mackerel is a vital component of fishmeal for aquaculture. Today, industrial fleets bound only by voluntary restraints compete in what amounts to a free-for-all in open waters from the west coast of South America across much of the southern Pacific. The investigation also found that in Peru, at least 630,000 metric tons of anchoveta have vanished over the past two and a half years between the holds of boats and factory scales. That is more than all the fish British fleets land in a year.

The defense cuts that aren't

Hawks on Capitol Hill are screaming about proposed White House cuts to the defense budget. Here's a secret, says the Center's managing editor for defense Jeffrey Smith: Obama's plan actually calls for increases. Here's the backdrop: Between 2000 and 2009, the average annual growth in national security budget authority was around 6 percent. That made spending go up by around two-thirds, to nearly $720 billion. Before Obama announced his plan, the Pentagon was counting on an annual boost over the next 10 years. While there may be a net decrease in spending over the next year, the budget – in the long term — will soon revert to net increases, administration officials say. They have not said what the average annual increase will be if Congress approves his trims, but sources said the result after 10 years will still be a larger budget, even after inflation is taken into account.

West Africa oil boom overlooks tattered environmental safety net

The Jubilee offshore oil field in Ghana has proven a blessing for investors and curse for locals. Even as the field was in development, environmentalists warned it was moving too fast. To activists, official silence surrounding a November 2011 spill was evidence that Ghana lacked the ability to properly oversee offshore oil operations. Located along Africa's Atlantic Coast, Ghana is slipping down the same unregulated slope as other countries that hug the Gulf of Guinea: Promises of economic development along with a lure of easy money have prompted governments to encourage the rapid growth of an industry in a regulatory vacuum. The oil industry, in effect, is left to monitor itself. The story was produced in cooperation with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.

Sarah Burke and the tragedy of American healthcare

Our healthcare commentator Wendell Potter puts the U.S. insurance system on trial in his latest column. Since the promising Canadian skier Sarah Burke was mortally injured earlier this month in the U.S., her family is pleading for money to help cover the estimated $550,000 they owe for the medical care she received at University of Utah Hospital over nine days. The irony, says Potter, is that had the accident occurred in Canada, her family would not be facing having to come up such a huge sum to pay for her care. Her care would have been covered because, unlike the U.S., Canada has a system of universal coverage. An estimated 700,000 American families file for bankruptcy every year because of medical debt. No one in Canada finds themselves in that predicament, nor do they face losing their homes as many Americans do when they become critically ill or suffer an injury.

This article first appeared on Center for Public Integrity and is republished here under a Creative Commons license.


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Q: Cannot Assign Value to Global Variable [C] As you can see in my code below I got some global variables. My Problem is, that the call Ul() ( done by calc() ) does not affect the original Variable, it keeps its value of zero.
Do you have any Ideas?
I am using the C Programming Language!
double Iges;
double Ul;
double Ir6;
double Ur6;
double Ub;

double R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, RL;
double R6;

#include <stdio.h>

#define DEBUG 1

double Iges_ ();
double Ul_();
double Ir6_();
double Ur6_();
double RL_();
double calc();

int main()
{

  Iges=Ul=Ir6=Ur6=Ub=0;
  R1=R2=R3=R4=R5=0;

  Ub=65;
  R1=100;
  R2=100;
  R3=100;
  R4=100;
  R5=200;

  R6=200; // Falls ich es vergesse...

  printf("Starte Hausaufgaben Berechnung\n");
  calc();
  printf("Iges = %.3lf\n", Iges);
  printf("R1=%.3lf; R2=%.3lf; R3=%.3lf; R4=%.3lf; R5=%.3lf\n",R1, R2, R3, R4, R5);
  printf("Rges = %.3lf (RL=%.3lf; R1=%.3lf; R3=%.3lf)\n\n", RL+R1+R3,RL, R1, R3);
  printf("Ul=%.3lf\n",Ul);
  printf("Maximale Leistung (PR6=%.3lf) bei R6=%.3lf\n", Ur6*Ir6, R6);
}

double calc()
{
  RL   = RL_();
  Iges = Iges_();
  Ul   = Ul_();
  Ir6  = Ir6_();

}

inline double RL_()
{
  *&RL = (R5*(R2+R6+R4)) / (R5+R2+R6+R4);
  printf("\t[CALC]\t[RL]\t[%.3lf]\n",RL);
}

inline double Iges_()
{
  Iges = Ub/(R1+R3+RL);
  printf("\t[CALC]\t[Iges]\t[%.3lf]\n",Iges);
  return Iges;
}

inline double Ul_()
{
  Ul = Iges * RL;
  printf("\t[CALC]\t[UL]\t[%.3lf]\n",Ul);
  return Ul;
}

inline double Ir6_()
{
  Ir6 = Ul / (RL+R6+R4);
  printf("\t[CALC]\t[IR6]\t[%.3lf]\n",Ir6);
  return 0;
}

inline double Ur6_()
{
  printf("\t[CALC]\t[UR6]\t[%.3lf]\n",Ur6);
  return 0;
}

A: You are not returning anything from RL_(), do return RL; at the end of function RL_

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The former Revel Casino in Atlantic City is now the Ocean Resort Casino.
Mark Wahlberg brought a priest to Ocean Resort Casino and was spotted having dinner in Atlantic City over the weekend in preparation for the new casino's opening on June 28.
Ocean Resort is Wahlberg's latest venture and one of the many high-profile partnerships for the renovated casino that was formerly the Revel, which declared bankruptcy and closed after a string of financial conundrums and labor disputes did it in for good in 2014.
The resort was purchased by Bruce Deifik in January and has been undergoing $175 million in renovations since. Deifik's AC Ocean Walk said the new casino and resort will bring between 2,500 to 3,000 new jobs to Atlantic City.
Wahlberg will open one of his burger restaurants in the casino, as well as a bar called Entourage, the Associated Press reported.
The actor, who is known for being an outspoken Catholic, brought the Rev. Jon Thomas of the Parish of St. Monica to bless the facility with prayer and holy water, Page Six reports.
The 47-story Revel tower, completed in 2012 at a cost of $2.4 billion, closed its doors in 2014 but was purchased by Florida developer Glenn Straub for just $82 million in 2015. There were plans to rebrand it as TEN AC and reopen it earlier this year.
Straub's vision never materialized, mainly due to a legal battle over casino licensing, and the property was sold to Deifik's group for about $200 million.
The resort will be on the northern end of the boardwalk and sits on 20 acres. And apparently many issues with the Revel — a confusing layout, a not-so-welcoming feel, a smoking ban — will all be resolved.


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African content will fast forward connectivity growth
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Johannesburg, 22 Apr 2014
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There's a new wave of growth on the horizon for African Internet companies and it's being driven by an innovative worldwide phenomenon called remote peering. NAPAfrica – Africa's fastest growing neutral Internet exchange point (IXP) – is the first African exchange to offer remote peering and has access to the largest global exchanges such as AMS-IX, LINX and DE-CIX. The service has already been snapped up by the likes of Seacom, Liquid Telecoms and New Telco.
This is according to NAPAfrica's business development manager Michele McCann. McCann describes remote peering as being the same as traditional peering (connecting two entities to share routing and cost benefits), except that it's virtual and remote, saving even more on physical infrastructure and equipment.
This approach, which extends the life of an IXP, makes sense from a financial and performance perspective according to McCann: "Peering provides sufficient benefits such as control over routing, lower latency, lower packet loss, and greater visibility. It also drops the unit price of transit, making it a far more appealing interconnect strategy."
Defined, it is simply to peer without a physical presence at the peering point. By connecting to the peering fabric without colocating a router at the IXP, users do not have the expense of the equipment or the rack. "There is no deployment cost or any other costs to deploy additional peering routers or to turn up circuits," explains McCann.
She says this is a definite growing trend. "According to AMS-IX, its clients have added more than 70 new remote peers. Demonstrating that remote peering is no longer a fringe market and is proving to be very stable and cost effective." Ultimately, remote peering gives users greater control and if the priority is to improve the end-user experience and control costs, then this is the interconnect strategy to choose.
It's no secret that as a relatively poorly developed region, the growth, price and standard of Africa's connectivity access is an interesting one to watch.
By 2025 the number of Internet-enabled phones used on the African continent will rise from 67 million to 360 million,with Internet penetration rising sharply to around 50%, according to a November 2013 report by the McKinsey Global Institute. This means that more than 450 million people could come online in the next fifteen years. In addition to this, Forbes reports that only around 6% of current African traffic is video streaming, but that the continent is predicted to be one of the fastest adopters of video applications globally.
The single barrier remains the cost of bandwidth across the continent.
According to McCann, cost control and improved user experience still dominate the connectivity landscape. "One way in which to reduce costs and improve experience, which is growing in popularity, is through the new interconnect strategy of remote peering."
"If Africa is to finally lose its reputation and image as the dark continent, improve access to local and international content, and offer African consumers access to high-speed connections at a dramatically reduced cost, then it needs to embrace the concept of remote peering.
McCann represents NAPAfrica – a neutral Internet eXchange Point (IXP) in Africa, housed within Teraco, the largest provider of resilient, vendor neutral data centre facilities in Africa: "The need for remote peering is evident in the growth trajectory of NAPAfrica since its launch in 2012. With over 100 members across its exchange locations in Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg, NAPAfrica has a peering throughput of over 9Gbps and is the most diverse Internet eXchange Point (IXP) in Africa.
"We manage over 3 600 interconnects and that number is growing rapidly," says McCann. Currently, NAPAfrica is talking to content providers and carriers in particular. McCann says that the routing of traffic off the continent and back again is what drives the costs so high. "Through interconnects and remote peering, high traffic costs and poor connectivity will be greatly improved. It will also reduce latency and improve overall network quality. All of which is crucial to the successful economic growth of the continent."
Remote peering saves money for all parties involved: consumers, IXPs, ISPs and Internet businesses. "More money stays local, which can be used to improve infrastructure and services for clients. The remote peering model is a win-win approach for everyone," concludes McCann.
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A Tulane University professor's excavation of the site of a mass child sacrifice that took place more than 500 years ago on the northern coast of Peru is featured in the February issue of National Geographic magazine.
The article, titled "An Unthinkable Sacrifice," provides much more detail about the findings than had previously been revealed, including how some of the children were killed, how they were buried and the growing number of skeletons recovered from ongoing excavations.
It features stunning photography, including a headdress of macaw feathers adorning the skull of a sacrificed child and another of archaeology students cleaning and cataloguing remains. The issue is available on newsstands Jan. 29.
Tulane anthropology professor John Verano and Gabriel Prieto of the Universidad Nacional de Trujillo along with a team of students from their respective universities have been working at the Huanchaquito site since 2011 when children playing in the sand dunes found human bones scattered over the surface. Verano joined Prieto to assist with the excavation and analysis of the human remains, which by 2016 comprised more than 140 children and 200 young llamas.
Since then, a second site of mass child killings has been found, this one at Pampa la Cruz, located on a high hill above the town of Huanchaco. The discovery now puts the total number of sacrificed children at 269 and the number of llamas at 466. Included in this new sample are a number of children with rich offerings.
"We're finding children and young adults with fancy headdresses and wrapped in textiles," he said.
Verano also noted gruesome details necessary to gain a full understanding of the ritualized killings, including the fact that some victims died in different ways including strangulation and blunt force trauma.
To date, most children at the two sites were found with an incision across the chest and were buried in plain shrouds. At Pampa La Cruz Prieto uncovered a large copper knife that may have been used to sacrifice the children.
Even before the discovery of the second site, this was one of the largest discoveries of child sacrifice anywhere in the world according to Verano. Archaeological evidence suggests that the region was experiencing devastating floods at the time, and at the first site children were offered as a sacrifice to persuade the gods to stop the rain.
National Geographic's Explorer episode about this discovery will air February 11, 6 p.m. (ET).
Verano recently spent his winter vacation in Peru studying the new finds, and plans to return again in June. His work is supported by the National Geographic Society, along with grants from the Carol Lavin Bernick Family Foundation and the Roger Thayer Stone Center for Latin American Studies at Tulane.
Media interested in photos from the National Geographic article should contact Anna Kukelhaus at Anna.Kukelhaus@natgeo.com.


At the southwest of the island one can find Ayiassos bay with calm waters even when the north winds are howling. Ayiassos was where Marco Sanudo landed on Naxos in 1207; he marched inland and besieged Apaliros, where he encountered stout resistance. The road to Ayiassos is asphalt till Alyko beach and earth road after that for about 2.5km. Local transportation is very poor, so visitors who decide to stay there should also rent a car or motorbike/scooter.


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L'église Saint-Girons (glèisa de Sent Gironç en occitan béarnais) est une église gothique située sur la commune de Monein en Béarn, dans le département des Pyrénées-Atlantiques et dédiée à saint Girons d'Hagetmau. Elle est classée monument historique le . Ses dimensions imposantes en font la plus grande église gothique () de Béarn mais sa particularité vient de sa charpente : réalisée en cœur de chênes, elle a la forme d'une double coque de navire renversée.

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Au , Monein était un village en pleine croissance qui comptait plus de , soit 850 « feux vifs » (hoec vius en dans les textes administratifs béarnais de l'époque) alors qu'à Pau on ne dénombrait que , comme l'indiquent les « dénombrements » (recensement à but fiscal) de Béarn. L'ancienne église Sant-Pée (Sent Pèr en occitan contemporain, c'est-à-dire Saint-Pierre), de style roman, était donc devenue trop petite et on décida d'en construire une plus grande juste à côté de l'abbaye laïque, aujourd'hui disparue.

Monein était également un village très riche puisqu'on y payait plus d'impôts qu'à Orthez et Oloron réunis et c'était l'une des communes la plus étendue de Béarn car elle comprenait les villages de Cuqueron et de Cardesse.

Enfin, la population était très impliquée dans la vie religieuse car on dénombrait neuf confréries religieuses et seize prêtres.

Les dimensions de la nouvelle église seraient proportionnelles à la richesse du village ; l'église Saint-Girons de Monein mesure ainsi plus de  de long,  de large et  de hauteur. Elle est plus grande que les deux cathédrales de Béarn, la cathédrale de Lescar et celle d'Oloron-Sainte-Marie.

À Monein, qui comptait en 1385 environ , la construction débuta en 1464 et s'acheva en 1530. Durant , les habitants financèrent les travaux par le biais de nombreuses taxes et bâtirent l'édifice de leurs propres mains. Mais la réalisation de la charpente remarquable de l'imposante église Saint-Girons a été confiée, dès 1464, aux cagots, à ces hommes qui malgré leur extraordinaire savoir-faire, vivaient complètement exclus de la société.

La reine de Navarre Jeanne d'Albret, transforma l'église en temple protestant en la dépouillant de son mobilier et menaça de la détruire face à l'hostilité de la population, demeurée catholique. Elle fut néanmoins épargnée et rendue au culte catholique quand celui-ci fut rétabli par l'Édit d'intégration du Béarn promulgué par le roi Louis XIII de France (qui était encore à ce moment-là également Louis I de Navarre).

L'église par la suite fut à nouveau meublée et conserve encore aujourd'hui un mobilier baroque dont un retable de grande dimension ainsi que des orgues toulousaines du .

L'église Saint-Girons fut restaurée à la fin du  et jusqu'au début du  et sa charpente est aujourd'hui une attraction touristique mise en valeur par une animation de son et de lumière.

Notes et références

Voir aussi

Bibliographie

Articles connexes
 Saint Girons
 Liste des monuments historiques des Pyrénées-Atlantiques

Liens externes

 Office de tourisme Cœur de Béarn à Monein.

Monument historique classé en 1913
Monein
Monein
Patrimoine en Béarn
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1. Look, I want the dubious delights of arseholes-in-the-sky Business Class. I want to strut self-importantly round the Business Lounge at East Midlands airport, snaffling complimentary peanuts and barking into my mobile. It goes with the territory. I accept it; I embrace it. I am ready and waiting to be anointed into the ranks of Euro-Jetset-Business-Trash. So don't palm me off with f***ing cheap-n-cheerful bmibaby, OK? Where you have to flail your arms about desperately in order to have a stewardess in a sweatshirt (I ask you, a sweatshirt) charge you £1.50 for an "instant cappucino" with lumps of dried powder still floating about on top of it. No, no, this won't do at all.
2. I must be more naive than I thought. So many children at the airport, off on holiday with their parents a week before the end of term, simply in order to get the cheap deals. These children should have been in school. What sort of parent would do such a thing? Apparently, this is common practice. I never knew; I was genuinely shocked.
3. The first sign that French offices are different from British offices: people smoking in the corridors. Actually, people smoking almost everywhere. Evidence for the comparative lack of stigma attached to the habit: the health warnings on the fag packets. British packets: massive scary warnings in the largest typeface possible. GO ON DIE THEN YOU SICK F***ERS! French packets: discreet little if-I-might-be-so-bold hints, in the tiniest typeface possible. Pour etre en bonne santé, ne fumez pas. Polite form of "vous" and everything. I'm only surprised they didn't add s'il vous plait.
4. Second big difference: French office workers have the best manners. Everybody shakes hands, all the time. Strangers wander into the office: everybody gets up, shakes hands, exchanges cordial pleasantries. At my previous job, it took three months before anyone would even speak to me.
5. Third big difference: lunch. French office workers still respect the sanctity of the lunch hour. None of this "wolfing a sandwich down at your desk in 30 seconds flat" nonsense. Both the canteens I visited served properly prepared hot meals, with a wide array of choices. (I had cuisses de grenouilles – that's yer actual frogs' legs. Never had them before, and very delicious they were too. Bloody fiddly to eat though – all those little bones – but delicious all the same.) Proper hors d'oeuvres as well…and proper desserts…and even bottles of wine, if you please. Booze and fags in the staff canteen – imagine! In one canteen, you could also repair to a separate "cafeteria" area after your meal, for proper coffee and more cigarettes. Oh, it was just so, so civilised.
7. Next time I go over to Paris, I'll be flying out on the night before. Because getting up at 5:30 to get to the airport did not sit well with me at all. In fact, by the second day I was suffering from full-on jet lag. Which is no good when you're trying to concentrate and make a good impression. To this end, keeping myself alert by repeatedly jabbing biros into my palms proved to be a less than satisfactory coping strategy.
8. I need to learn how to avoid automatically subordinating myself to other people in semi-formal situations (be they professional or social). It benefits nobody, and it only makes me look like an arse.
9. The expected Snotty Parisian Attitude never materialised. Not anywhere. Instead, everybody was uncommonly polite and charming: hotels, cafes, bars, taxis, the lot. Maybe this was partially because we were well away from any of the obvious tourist haunts. Or maybe that Snotty Parisian Attitude isn't quite as prevalent as people seem to think.
10. All things considered, I think I might get to quite like this Travelling Round Europe On Business lark (if it indeed does materialise). At any rate, this was a good start.
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    public class SchemaBatchOperationResult : BatchOperationResult<SchemaDetail>
    {
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            BusinessProcessLifeCycle? lifeCycle,
            IBusinessProcessClient businessProcessClient)
            : base(businessProcessId, lifeCycle, businessProcessClient)
        {
            _schemaClient = schemaClient;
        }

        public static SchemaBatchOperationResult Empty => new SchemaBatchOperationResult(null, null, null, null);

        public async Task<BatchOperationResultDetail<SchemaDetail>> FetchDetail(CancellationToken cancellationToken = default(CancellationToken))
        {
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Alisson (* 25. Juni 1993 in Rio Pomba, MG; voller Name Alisson Euler de Freitas Castro) ist ein brasilianischer Fußballspieler.

Karriere
Seine Profikarriere bei Cruzeiro Belo Horizonte startete Alisson 2012 als Reservespieler. Er kam in seiner ersten Saison nur zu einem Einsatz von der Bank. Daraufhin wurde er Anfang 2013 nach Rio de Janeiro zu CR Vasco da Gama ausgeliehen. Hier kam er in der Hinrunde der brasilianischen Meisterschaft sechsmal zum Einsatz und erzielte sein erstes Tor in der Liga. Zur Rückrunde der Campeonato Brasileiro 2013 kehrte Alisson zu seinem Stammverein zurück. Hier galt wieder als Reservespieler und kam von der Bank aus achtmal zum Einsatz. Am Ende der Saison konnte er mit Cruzeiro seinen ersten Meistertitel feiern. Auch an der erfolgreichen Titelverteidigung 2014 sowie dem Gewinn des Copa do Brasil 2017 war Alisson beteiligt.

Zur Saison 2018 wechselte Alisson zu Grêmio Porto Alegre. Hier erhielt er einen Vertrag über eine Laufzeit von vier Jahren. Beim Gewinn der Recopa Sudamericana 2018 kam Alisson in beiden Spielen zum Einsatz. Nach Auslaufen seines Vertrages mit Grêmio im Dezember 2021, wechselte Alisson zum FC São Paulo. Bei dem Klub erhielt er einen Dreijahresvertrag.

Erfolge
Cruzeiro
 Campeonato Brasileiro: 2013, 2014
 Staatsmeisterschaft von Minas Gerais: 2014
 Copa do Brasil: 2017

Grêmio
 Recopa Sudamericana: 2018
 Staatsmeisterschaft von Rio Grande do Sul: 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021

Nationalmannschaft
 Turnier von Toulon: 2014

Weblinks

Einzelnachweise

Fußballspieler (Cruzeiro Belo Horizonte)
Fußballspieler (CR Vasco da Gama)
Fußballspieler (Grêmio Porto Alegre)
Fußballspieler (FC São Paulo)
Brasilianischer Meister (Fußball)
Copa-do-Brasil-Sieger
Brasilianer
Geboren 1993
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Q: Preserve modified time stamp after edit For files within a specific folder, I would like vim to never touch "modified"
timestamp at all.
The background is that I use Bloxsom for blogging, which uses plain text
files in ~/bloxsom as source of all articles.  The article date (and therefore
order of appearence) is based on modification date of the text file. I don't
want article pop up like if it's new whenever I just fix a typo. (I do lots
of them... :D)
So far, vim changes timestamp and the original stamp is lost forever.  This is
OK and I want to keep it that way for most of files on the system.  But I don't
want that for the blog files - I can always touch the file if I need.
Any ideas on how to tweak vim into this behavior?

A: If you need to have some fun:
file=path; mtime=$(stat -c %y "$file"); vi "$file"; touch -d "$mtime" "$file"

Replace path with your actual file path

A: I found a great solution on  this web page, which creates a vim function to save the current file while preserving the existing modification time, and binds this function to the F4 function key:
However, I found that the original function contains a minor bug, triggering the following warning if F4 is used twice on the same file, because vim gets confused when the modification time changes:
WARNING: The file has been changed since reading it!!!
Do you really want to write to it (y/n)?

Luckily, this is easy to fix: I added an "edit" command to the original function to reload the file after restoring the timestamp, so vim knows what modification time to expect the file to have.
Here is the modified vim function with this bug fix, which can be added to ~/.vimrc:
function! WriteSmall()
    let mtime = system("stat -c %.Y ".shellescape(expand('%:p')))
    write
    call system("touch --date='@".mtime."' ".shellescape(expand('%:p')))
    edit
endfunction
map <F4> :call WriteSmall()<CR>

Note: This function relies on GNU versions of date, stat and touch.

A: I wrote a Perl script for that.
It's a wrapper around vim, saved in ~/bin/vim-nomtime.pl and brought into use via alias vim='~/bin/vim-nomtime.pl' in my .bashrc.
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Cwd qw/ abs_path /;

my @dirs = qw( ~/blosxom /srv/relief/blosxom );

s/^~/$ENV{HOME}/ foreach @dirs;

# do we want to preserve stamp on this file?
sub fits {
    my $dir = abs_path($_[0]);
    my $fits = 0;
    foreach (@dirs) {
        my $preserved_dir = abs_path($_);
        $fits++ if $dir =~ m|^$preserved_dir|;
    }
    return $fits != 0;
}

# store original stamps
my $original_stamp;
foreach (@ARGV) {
    if ( -f $_ and fits($_) ) {
        $original_stamp->{$_} = (stat($_))[9];
    }
}

# run vim as you would
my $cmd = join ' ', 'vim', @ARGV;
system($cmd) == 0
    or die "vim failed: $!";

# restore stamps if they have changed
foreach (keys %$original_stamp) {
    next unless -f $_;
    my $current_stamp = (stat($_))[9];
    unless ($current_stamp == $original_stamp->{$_}) {
        utime $original_stamp->{$_}, $original_stamp->{$_}, $_;
    }
}

Some good features:

*

*supports multiple filenames

*supports multiple "watched" dirs

*supports symlinked dir

*can be enhanced with other criteria
most of which could be probably also achieved with pure vim version.  Disadvantages of this solution compared to my desired pure-vim solution are:

*

*it restores stamp only after vim has quit, so if I do a long edit and save
regularly, the file vill "pop-up" as new until I quit vim

*it supports multiple files on command line, but in a quite naive way--it
only checks if the thing on @ARGV is a file.  This probably would not work
with wildcards (e.g. vim note-*.txt) or other funny stuff

*it's not crash proof, probably not even HUP-proof (that could be done)

*...wel, it's a wrapper. (I mean, if we solved everything via wrapper,
how many wrappers would we have before something bad happened?)

A: I don't think vim has this feature. One alternative is to modify a copy and set timestamp appropriately, e.g.:
cp -p post temp
vim temp
touch -r post temp
cp -p temp post

Or even better:
touch -r post timestamp
vim post
touch -r timestamp post

A: Try this bash function (base on Shâu Shắc's answer)
vi-preserve-time () {
    for file in "$@"; do
        local mtime=$(stat -c %y "$file")
        vi "$file"
        touch -d "$mtime" "$file"
    done
}

Now we can edit file and preserve modified time using this
vi-preserve-time file1.txt file2.txt

A: There is an option to copy a timestamp from another file.
touch -m -r file_source file_target

Example:
[oracle@es abc]$ ls -tlr
total 4
-rw-r--r--. 1 oracle oinstall 102 May  8 20:35 aa.txt
[oracle@es abc]$ echo "hi hi" > b
[oracle@es abc]$ ls -ltr
total 4
-rw-r--r--. 1 oracle oinstall 102 May  8 20:35 aa.txt
-rw-r--r--. 1 oracle oinstall   6 May 13 18:58 b
[oracle@es abc]$ touch -m -r aa.txt b
[oracle@es abc]$ ls -tlr
total 8
-rw-r--r--. 1 oracle oinstall   6 May  8 20:35 b
-rw-r--r--. 1 oracle oinstall 102 May  8 20:35 aa.txt
[oracle@es abc]$ cat b
hi hi

A: This short script will preserve the modified time if any parent dir of the file contains a .nomtime file:
#!/bin/bash

dir="${1%/*}"
[ "$dir" = "$1" ] && dir=.
dir=$( readlink -f "$dir" )

nomtime=
while [ -n "$dir" ]; do
    if [ -f "$dir/.nomtime" ]; then
        nomtime=1
        break
    fi
    dir="${dir%/*}"
done

if [ "$nomtime" = 1 ]; then
    T=`tempfile`
    touch -r "$1" $T
fi

vi "$1"

if [ "$nomtime" = 1 ]; then
    touch -r $T "$1"
    rm $T
fi

A: Using some of the concepts described above, here is a very quick and dirty one-liner alias for CSH that makes an "edit" command available for this purpose:
alias edit 'touch -r \!:1 /tmp/~mtime ; vim \!:1 ; touch -r /tmp/~mtime \!:1 ; rm /tmp/~mtime'

You could easily use the $VISUAL or $EDITOR environment variable in place of "vim". This way you can issue the following command to change default editors
setenv VISUAL nano

Now the alias itself doesn't need to be redefined to accommodate different editors, making it somewhat more portable. If you use a shell other than CSH or TCSH, of course, the examples above can be adapted accordingly.


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Morning Buzz: Why Can't USC Tackle?
I asked a Pac-12 coach who watched the Cotton Bowl why USC is so bad at tackling?
"You can practice it all you want but if guys don't have the heart to do it, it doesn't matter," the coach said. "What you saw (against Tulane) looked like some guys who were trying to protect their futures. They saw what was coming at them and didn't want any part of it.
"I don't know how much you can do about that mindset.
"These aren't the USC teams people grew up watching. You knew you were going to be hurting after playing USC (in those days). These guys think they can play in the NFL and most of them can't. The players run the program."
scott wolf January 4, 2023 featured
73 thoughts on "Morning Buzz: Why Can't USC Tackle?"
BUS62 says:
Precisely, failure to meet the ball carrier head on. Frequently seemed to be
sloughing off a clean head on hit.
The culture of football at all levels has changed institutionally. The prohibition of head butting tackles, interpreted on the field by referees to mean any heavy hit, has made football into a hybrid of flag football and tackle football. This evolved even worse at USC under its former coach who placated players so they would not leave the program while they were under sanctions. But the new creation of a portal also unintentionally creates a soft environment where coaches do not want to be too tough on players who may leave (sometimes immediately). So, spring and fall football camps are no longer more like military basic training and more like players wanting to avoid injuries. Long gone is the culture of the McKeever twin brothers. Long live the memory of Marlin and Mike McKeever.
Somebody told me that Alabama exists within the portal universe too —and is still tough on players in camp….
#Well,That'sWhatSomebodyToldMe,Anyway…
It's been my experience that if players want to leave because the practices are too tough, then help them pack their bags and leave. Because you're not going to win with those players to begin with.
100%!
[And one of Helton's wet kisses on the forehead won't change a thing].
…just checking back to make sure I didn't say foreskin…
The McKeevers, gone but not forgotten. I can't remember which one
broke a good friend of mines sternum in practice one afternoon.
Lincoln Riley's teams don't need to play defense, which is why they don't. they'll just outscore you. It's the Mike Leah philosophy, if an opponent puts up 49 points, the Trojans will score 52. Riley's been coaching that way since his Oklahoma days. So I'm not sure why the delusional ass lick Fanboys are crying, because they knew what they were getting 😂😂
You fucking bastard
Stealing lines from Pope Francis doesn't advance the level of the dialectic…
USC4Life says:
Why so mean Mr. Herbstreit? The worst kind of person who cries "I told you so" in the face of people who are suffering. Us USC fans are suffering through arguably the worst loss in USC football history (not counting the losses to Los Angeles High School in the early 1900s) Don't be that guy. Have a little heart. We need your sympathy not your ridicule at this difficult time.
Heart, sympathy…..
#That'sExactlyWhatClaySaid….
That coach hit it right on the head. The D just doesn't hit. But I will say again that as bad as the D was, the first Utah game was stolen from us and the second was because of the injury to 80% (CW) of our team. If we had a better D we could have won both under the same circumstances. That is how good CW is. In light of the D we saw in the CFP games we may have been able to win one of those games as well.
One of the worst post I've ever read. They know their standing within the NFL because scouts are at USC all the time. Players can ask for an evaluation from the NFL scouting service to see their standing in regards to the upcoming draft.
Guys play crappy because they know they can't be replaced. Best unit on the team are the receivers. Look how hard they play! They block like crazy and avoid penalties. Why? It's the deepest squad on the team. Look at the worst unit on the team and you tell me how hard they work?
And who's in charge of those units? Grinch gotta move on and Riley knows do it now or it's Mike Stoops 2.0.
Agreed, then he has to figure something out in the middle of next season.
Agree…but… there is something extra-specially bad about the tackling that goes WAY deeper than lack of depth and lack of competition. Grinch says all the right things, he seems like he cares…but…. his players don't play hard for him.
Sincere question: I wonder why that is.
So Grinch sees them tackling great in practice but refuses to do something when they can't in a game? Or do both Grinch and Riley see the same thing in practice and tell each other "they can't tackle our guys in practice because our guys are so hard to tackle?" Suuuuure. . . .
last yr defense even worse, why? a hellton practiced team…this year to was a joke…1 practice /wk in full gear to tackle…LR did that.
This World,
I respectfully disagree with you in terms of the best unit. The best unit is the qb for now. However, you are correct about the receivers playing hard because of the competition and SC not having a defense.
Bourbon4me says:
Thoughtful post.
I agree that alot of the issue is roster depth and quality. But the defensive recruiting class of 2023 is horrible outside of 2 great players. How can you turnaround the defense if they are bringing in poor players?
Based on the recruiting issues alone Alex Grinch must go. The biggest problem for Grinch is that there is a perception he is not a good DC and so he is not filling up the roster with great players. You cant build a great defense if you dont get high quality players.
Riley needs to have a replacement lined up so they dont lose the few good recruits/transfers they have coming in.
100% —every recruiter in the Pac 12 is telling star defensive players not to get near Grinch. Whether that's fair or not USC has to change that perception by saying "bye" to him.
You see small DB's hitting big tight ends up high. Complete lack of coaching right there. I played DB and when a guy was really big we were taught to take him at the ankles, like Eddie Meador used to do.
…..eddie Meador! A blast from the past!
USC is too focused on stripping the ball out and creating turnovers. They're not wrapping up and using good form tackling.
Vault91 says:
That has been a pet peeve of mine for the last 15 years. Everyone going for a strip. Maybe the third guy in can try it but #1 makes good solid contact with a wrap up and turn, #2 comes in and cleans it up and finishes #3 an try for a strip. And forget about tackling in space. TCU and Georgia are excellent in space with one on ones and it is noticeable. Then you watch up and its is the keystone cops. It all started with Kiffin and the no hitting in practice and perpetuated ever since.
…AND… it's now such a serious defect in the program that we can't get talent to come aboard….our competition gets to say, "you wanna be part of THAT?!"
Light at the end of the tunnel department:
All this can be turned around in ONE day if Riley bites the bullet and brings in the biggest, bestest d-coordinator out there: Jim Leonhard.
#SignalThatUSCCaresAboutDefense!
Carra Rand says:
Frankly, since the bidding wars for the best players and the players signing with the highest bidder, college football greatly changed. If your reason for being on the team is only $$$ and not team pride, your focus will be different. With portal, you can sell your wares elsewhere if you like…no loyalty. You can see the difference between the TRULY great players of the past and those renting space at USC. Riley talks of culture, it's time he changes his and demands top assistant coaches and have a no excuse zone for Grinch, his buddy. A great leader puts the team first, not his buddy.
He owes it to Caleb, frankly….. who DOES put team first…
#..AndProvedItBigTimeInTheCottonBowl…
#…AGutsy,AmazingPerformance…..
#…ThatRileyWasted
Im not trying to one up anyone or say I was the first, but If y'all ever read my posts, the day Fickel was hired (knowing he would bring his own since there would be a weird chemistry to keep the interim head) (See the forced hire by Folt to keep Dante) I said the target is now freed up and we needed to grab him before someone else did. The only reason he is out of a job is not because he is not good or did't get the job done. Its that Wisconson's offense sucked and Crist got canned. When Jim took over they got better on offense too and the defense stayed great. He was just a victim of circumstance and he is young, energetic, has been there as a player and coach and is great schematically because he played and coached under some master defensive coaches. Why the hell wouldn't you hire Jim Leonard if he was available. If they can poach a head coach, then you sure as hell can hire a DC with all of the credibility and non of the baggage of being fired.
Thank you for your common sense for spotting the EXACT PROBLEM! TOO MUCH HERO PLAYING ON DEFENSE
People keep saying that but what I see in the Tulane game is guys simply out of position, taking poor lines of attack, getting trapped behind blockers and not fighting through blocks and flat out not looking physical enough. The team captain on the defensive side, Shane Lee, is the epitome of all those problems.
I'd like to say "Shane doesn't get it" [which he doesn't]…but…. that's not the source of our problems…..
#….TheProblemIsGrinchSays"ShaneDoesGetIt!"
Ultimately, the problem resides in any organization or institution at the symptom level and every one or thing up the line. I.e. if it is a player or players, they are the symptoms. Then position coaches are responsible for the learning or lack of learning process. The coordinator is responsible for the schematics and the teaching format for the assistants to utilize. The head is responsible for the targeting of the coaching hires, and the schematic oversight, demand of culture, and targeting of recruiting. Admin is responsible for who they choose to place in the head spot, the due diligence to make sure that person is correct and his ability to pull in coaching talent and asses it and recruits, and supply resources to do the jobs necessary. Anyone in a structure who Throws some one below them under the bus or deflects responsibility is not a leader. Especially if it is done in public. You are responsible for everyone under you and you had the chance to improve their situation in someway. You can lay the wood to your assistants or players (or assistants to players) in the office but not in the media or public. You will loose your players and staff so quick and your season will become a shit show. See Bob Toledo. You as a big boy (or girl) and cash the big boy checks are responsible for everything underneath you. Coordinator for assistants and players, head for Coordinators and assistants and player (and even ball boys Lane Kiffin!) Its your program and you cash the checks, so own it!
JUST FIRE GRINCH. Start Recruiting offensive Lineman and Defensive Lineman….for 2024….
Looks like ucla picked up Carson Steele, RB. Guy is like a truck. Was hoping USC would pursue him.
USC & Riley need to start thinking about the post-Caleb world…..
"Without you I'm nothing!"
—-Jack in "Sideways"
You don't think Malachi Nelson is the guy?
Malachi probably will be great….
#…ButCalebIsTheGreatest….
#HateToSeeHisLastYearWastedTheWayThisOneWas
Chip knows the run game and RB know this.
UCLA will become "TB U" under Kelly at UCLA.
Can you post a photo of Grinch with his mouth wide open like you used to do with helton? It will remind of us the pain and agony of not having a defense. Show it every time you talk about the defense.
That's the Helton photo. The Grinch photo cries out for a greased pole…
[Glad the moderators didn't take that remark the wrong way —just meant it as a metaphor for futility]….
Clay Helton was wrongfully terminated says:
You fu@king a$$hole! Why would you bring up an honorable man who just took a 2 win team to a Major Bowl game??!! Let him be! You child molesting, bingo playing sonofabiatch!
Clay, is that you? 😛
Dude, chill. Pasadena didn't say anything bad about Clay. If you've been on this blog for a while, you know which photo to which he's referring. Wolf used it far more often than any of us wanted. Heck, it was such an unflattering photo, I'm sure Clay didn't care for it either.
All Pasadena suggested was posting a similar photo of Grinch.
…"wrongfully terminated's" reply did seem a teeny bit overripe, So Cal…..
#…'SpeciallyThe"BingoMolester"Part….
What's funny is, we all know Clay is an honorable guy (but not great coach).
USC placed such a high value on that, they kept him at least 2 years longer than they should have. Sheeeeeesh!!
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So Cal,
Is there anything that does not go over your head?
We are wanting a final report card for the 2022 USC football team. Please provide one and one for the nd game.
Do you REALLY want or need to see the Cotton Bowl Report Card, Pasadena?
#Hint:Many,Many"F's"
Keep in mind that USC still has alot of players left over from the Helton era and didnt really recruit that well in turning over the defensive players last year.
This is a roster issue and a cultural issue. I would be looking at what is going wrong in recruiting. Why is USC not getting ANY four or five star defensive line players? And why are they getting none of the top cornerbacks or safeties in the country? The players with the most seniority on the team are some of the worst tacklers and overall players on the field. Aside from Tuli, the rest of the leftovers need to go.
I think SC has decent talent in the secondary that is not getting developed enough, but a real lack of talent in the front seven on defense.
I really hope we get that transfer from Texas A&M.
If you fire Grinch ….and make a "statement hire" for Defensive Coordinator…. players will sign up…..
#Otherwise,MoreOfSameIn2023…
I've heard people say "if a particular school's defensive coaches are widely regarded as big fucking jokes that particular school has a hard time getting 5 star defensive players"…..
#…Well,That'sWhatI'veHeardPeopleSay,Anyway……
…replying to gametv…..
Were you talking to a "coach"?
"These guys think they can play in the NFL and most of them can't. The players run the program."
IOW, same as it was with Gomer. Not that he'd do it, but Riley needs to figure out who's already got one foot out the door and "invite" them not to return.
My end of season post (until better bait is dangled by Mr. Wolf)…
At the beginning of the season,
I had us at 9-3 or maybe 10-2 with a miracle vs UCLA or ND.
To be one (egregious–maybe 2 in total) Roughing the passer calls from being 12-0 and playing in Vegas was beyond my wildest dreams in August. Stumbling into the CFB playoff at 12-1 possibly?
What a great season. Better than Pete Carroll's first year, no?
Every single Trojan fan I've listened to who knows anything ABOUT football predicted that the defense would be the problem, and in 13 of 14 games the defense struggled terribly. Impossible to watch them.
(Interestingly, Rice was a pretty good FB team this season with a strong offensive unit all year).
The offense can be expected to put up 42 PPG next year.
Caleb and Co will be spending OTA's building chemistry.
The run game will be fine. Raleek still will not be the every down back.
I suspect that the O-line will be good again.
When one looks at how horrid the USC offense was in 2021 (without London, esp), it is amazing that Riles put together the #1 (or 2) offense in America in a few months.
Here's to "hoping" that Riles can do the same with the Defense in 2023.
There is already some young talent on D–Bullock, Raesjon, (maybe #0), Domani, Bryson, Gentry. Bring in a great DC and some Portalizers.
If not, then USC will not be an 11-1 team next year and you all will have a ton to gripe about. We all know how special a talent is
#13 Caleb W. Can't waste his talent in 2023. I know Riles understands this.
Great season for the Trojans. Fight on!
…and I saved a bunch not drinking my best bourbon.
The good stuff is going down in 2023.
The offense [and Caleb in particular] was WAY better than I thought it'd be, Bourbon.
#ButTheDefenseWasWAYWorse….
#ForSomeMysteriousReasonPlayersDon'tPlayHardForGrinch…
#…AndThat'sNotGonnaChangeIn2023…
#….Riley"Connects"W/TheOffense,GrinchDoesn'tW/TheDefense
Hoping to get my hands on some Blantons this year.
Defense, tackling, and being physical are a mind set. I think the number one problem with Grinch is that he has players that he believes are great players, but they're not. I've seen this before as a player and it can really damage team chemistry, because you get players questioning why certain players are playing and others are still on the bench. You want to motivate a player into playing hard? Threaten their ass with bench time. But then that's hard to do when you don't have any depth.
The other item that I'll call out Grinch on is that this defensive unit really fell off the latter third of the season. If you look back at Pete Carroll's teams were at their best at the end of the season. If this entire debacle is not a wake up call for CLR then USC will never get to the elite level.
AS A FORMER USC LB AND CAPTAIN, I COULD NOT WATCH THE DEFENSE! IT WAS EMBARRESSING AND PITIFUL. THEY NEED A TOTAL REVAMP OF THE DEFENSIVE STAFF AND THE DEFENSIVE PLAYERS. YOU WIN NATIONAL TITLES WITH THE DEFENSE, ALTHOUGH GEORGIA LOOKED POROUS ON DEFENSE AND REALLY LUCKED OUT AGAINST OHIO STATE. I THINK USC'S GAME PLAN WAS TO HAVE A TRACK MEET OUT THERE AT THE COTTON BOWL. THEY LOST IN THE FINAL TURN. BOB JENSEN #51 LB
LOL! I thought I was the only one, Bob.
Like most people, I generally use commercials to hit the head, freshen my drink, grab a snack, etc. But during this game I treated Tulane possessions as commercials. It was hard to bear.
Bob calls 'em as he sees 'em…..
#..And,AsUsual,He'sRight…
#…TotalRevampTime…
#[btw,ShootoutsAreOkayIfYouCanWinThem…ButWeDon't]
btw, BEFORE the season began & after examining the way things shook out in Fall Camp, Scott presciently said "looks like USC is planning to win games 63-62…"
#OurProblemInThePac12ChampionshipGame&CottonBowl?
#WeDidn'tScore63
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Before we continue to smoke hopium that LR knows what the problem is and is addressing it aggressively, it's wise to look at the body of work (scores particularly) of the LR years at Oklahoma. It's a shootout philosophy that unfortunately hasn't and never will result in a championship. Balance, trench work, and an aggressive mindset are always the requirements, regardless of how the rules soften the game. We knew what we were getting, but because CH had buried SC football into the ground, we were elated at getting anybody with some semblance of organization. It's not gonna change. Next year's schedule will open the window further.
Hot off the AP wire, USC Defensive coordinator, Alex Grinch, has formally submitted a "Resignation Letter" effective January 6th.
(my bad, I thought it was April 1st)
I almost jumped out of my chair.
well that is sheer BS…every practice report I read this year, people actually there watching SC take to the practice field stated '1 time / week SC was in full practice gear for full tackling'…the collision stuff; the rest of the time it was helltonesque shorts and shells…no wonder they can't tackle.
I get it. Lincoln Riley needs to understand that Alex Grinch has become Clay Helton and a serious liability. The problem is that he's not going to bring somebody who may do better than him so that the media says "if it weren't for the new defensive coordinator. . ." and that means he will keep Clay/Alex Helton/Grinch. If Grinch would just add more weight and experience to his defense then this would not be so scary but. . .he's struggling to connect with Southern California defenders. . .he's struggling to bring in the best players from the rest of the nation. . .no one else wants to hire him!
Bartender! More alcohol, quickly!!!
The DC needs to go out and bring in great players and then let them compete. First they have to get the players. If SC gets a real good DC, with that offense, they can get to the playoffs almost every year or every other year.
It's important to the defensive players who there DC will be and also their position coach. You get the right DC in there and if they perform well on the field defensively the great players will come because the offense will always be good under LR.
But they won't come if they think that you will have a poor defense even if the offense is great. Once you get the players then you just let them compete. You say that they don't want to get hurt……Fine…..you get enough great players competing and the ones who don't want to get hurt will get a nice seat on the bench where they will be safe.
But if LR decides to keep Grinch, he's sending a signal to the great defensive players. The message is "please come to SC even though we don't care about defense". The defensive players are all thinking…."if he doesn't care about defense, then who is going to be developed and prepared for the next level"?…..only the offensive players.
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Q: Effect of static magnetic field on metal plate What happens when we introduce a static magnetic field perpendicular to a metal plate? I feel that due to presence of free charges in metal plate and since it's at non-zero temperature, the free charges move randomly. Though the magnetic field is static, due to the random fluctuations of motions of electron, I feel there should be small eddy currents everywhere on the plate. Is that what happens?

A: The magnet induces a magnetic field in the plate, which protrudes out the other side of the plate. For thin plates, the resulting field lines with the plate look pretty much like the original field lines without the plate.

A: In a metal plate (in the absence of a field) the free electrons move randomly in straight lines.
In a static magnetic field, they move randomly along curves. There is no resultant current, and no change in the average kinetic energy. In an alternating magnetic field eddy currents can form and heat the metal.


The Orioles bolstered their infield depth Friday by acquiring infielder Engelb Vielma from the Giants in exchange for a player to be named or cash considerations, the club announced.
Vielma, 23, spent the past six seasons in the Twins' organization, playing 543 games in the Minors. He was designated for assignment and claimed by the Giants in September. He's since been claimed and designated for assignment by the Phillies, Pirates and Giants.
Vielma split 2017 between Double-A Chattanooga and Triple-A Rochester, batting .229/.273/.280 with 17 doubles and 35 RBIs in 121 games. Known more for his defensive skills than his bat, Vielma could serve as a utility infielder with the O's in 2018. He's primarily played shortstop in the Minors, but has also logged time at second and third.


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Sirio Speaks Out on That Guy From the 'Times' … What Did You Say His Name Was?
The scent of a lost star was still in Sirio's nostrils when interviewed.
There's an entertaining and incisive interview with Le Cirque's Sirio Maccioni at Portfolio today. Lloyd Grove presses the great man on his feelings about the New York Times critic ("Frank Bruni, if that's his name"), the firing of chef Pierre Schaedelin ("Pierre could have stayed"), and what it takes to make a restaurant work on that level in New York ("Here you need to do a minimum of $12 million a year. Otherwise we are broke"). The interview was done before the Times restored the restaurant's third star, so there's a lot of fire there. Things seem to be better now: We stopped in the other night, and Sirio's son Mario told us that after the review, "My father didn't yell at anybody for four days."
World According To…Sirio Maccioni [Portfolio via Gawker]
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Sirio Speaks Out on That Guy From the 'Times' … What Did You


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Cooper si diplomò alla Bronx High School of Science nel 1947 e conseguì il Bachelor of Arts nel 1951, il Master's degree nel 1953 e il Ph.D. nel 1954 presso la Columbia University. Trascorse un anno all'Institute for Advanced Study di Princeton e insegnò presso l'Università dell'Illinois e l'Ohio State University, prima di giungere, nel 1958, alla Brown University. Ricopre il ruolo di Professore Thomas J. Watson di Scienze alla Brown e di direttore dell'Institute for Brain and Neural Systems.

Socio dell'American Physical Society, dell'American Academy of Arts and Sciences, membro della United States National Academy of Sciences, dell'American Philosophical Society e dell'American Association for the Advancement of Science, è stato Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow dal 1959 al 1966 e Guggenheim Fellow tra il 1965 e il 1966.  Ha condotto diverse ricerche presso istituzioni come il già citato Institute for Advanced Study e il CERN di Ginevra.

Curiosità
Nella serie televisiva The Big Bang Theory i produttori  hanno utilizzato il suo cognome per l'omonimo personaggio chiave Sheldon Cooper, anch'egli fisico.

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Sony Pulls PS4 Ustream Support
Sony has announced that PlayStation 4 support for video streaming platform Ustream, which has been a staple of Live from PlayStation since its launch three years ago, will end at the start of August.
The official statement from Sony reads:
On August 1, 2016 (timing of termination may shift behind depending on the region), Sony Interactive Entertainment will terminate the following Ustream features available on the PlayStation®4 (PS4™) system and Live from PlayStation®:
Broadcasting gameplay to Ustream.
Viewing Ustream broadcasts from "Live from PlayStation" on the PS4 system, PlayStation®App (PS App) and PlayStation®Vita (PS Vita).
Players can broadcast gameplay via YouTube, Twitch and DailyMotion and enjoy viewing these broadcasts via Live from PlayStation.
We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and we appreciate your understanding.
Ustream had become popular as one of the more eccentric online video streaming platforms available, and will be sorely missed by its cult audience.
"Ustream has probably been my favourite little corner of the PlayStation 4 since it launched," Martin Robinson of Eurogamer wrote, "offering an eccentric and often unpoliced window into people's lives via the PlayStation Camera and The Playroom. I've think I've spent as much time idly browsing broadcasts as I have in Destiny, so it's a feature that's going to be sorely missed."
Other video services, such as YouTube, Twitch, and DailyMotion remain available through Live from PlayStation, with Sony giving no indication that they are at risk.
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The T13 is the perfect solution for lone workers or elder people as a belt mountable device that has a builtin panic button, GSM/GPRS communications and GPS module that will send the persons GPS coordinates real time.
The tracker will scan the nearby WiFi router signal and get the address from the Google database. This tracking mode works even indoor and accuracy is around 10-100 meters.
User can setup specific WiFi hotspot coverage as a fence, alert will be triggered when device enter or exit the fence. WiFi fence comparably smaller coverage, better accuracy and more stable than the regular geo-fence.
All location data will be uploaded to the server via WiFi channel instead of GPRS channel, when the tracker is set to WiFi upload mode. It is free of GSM charge when the tracker is set to WiFi upload mode.


Machine learning and AI guided by Computational Linguistics and Organizational Psychology for unbiased, predictive decision making.
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Candidates selected by the smart, data-driven algorithm showed a significantly better culture fit and had higher job satisfaction with an improved retention rate. Retentions rates are improved across high to low turnover industries.
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"What we are really looking for in students is raw talent. You want people that are a better fit to your company culture, a better fit to the competencies that you are looking for."
"By asking open-ended questions, the computer is able to use your answer to evaluate your potential... Whether you have a difficult surname, if your CV is perfect or which gender you are, these are no longer important factors."


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Уинчестер () — город, расположенный в округе Дру (штат Арканзас, США) с населением в 191 человек по статистическим данным переписи 2000 года.

География
По данным Бюро переписи населения США город Уинчестер имеет общую площадь в 1,29 квадратных километров, водных ресурсов в черте населённого пункта не имеется.

Город Уинчестер расположен на высоте 47 метров над уровнем моря.

Демография
По данным переписи населения 2000 года в Уинчестере проживал 191 человек, 52 семьи, насчитывалось 69 домашних хозяйств и 78 жилых домов. Средняя плотность населения составляла около 146,9 человек на один квадратный километр. Расовый состав Уинчестера по данным переписи распределился следующим образом: 29,32 % белых, 64,92 % — чёрных или афроамериканцев, 1,05 % — коренных американцев, 1,05 % — представителей смешанных рас, 3,66 % — других народностей. Испаноговорящие составили 3,66 % от всех жителей города.

Из 69 домашних хозяйств в 37,7 % — воспитывали детей в возрасте до 18 лет, 53,6 % представляли собой совместно проживающие супружеские пары, в 20,3 % семей женщины проживали без мужей, 23,2 % не имели семей. 23,2 % от общего числа семей на момент переписи жили самостоятельно, при этом 13,0 % составили одинокие пожилые люди в возрасте 65 лет и старше. Средний размер домашнего хозяйства составил 2,77 человек, а средний размер семьи — 3,25 человек.

Население города по возрастному диапазону по данным переписи 2000 года распределилось следующим образом: 31,9 % — жители младше 18 лет, 6,3 % — между 18 и 24 годами, 24,6 % — от 25 до 44 лет, 23,6 % — от 45 до 64 лет и 13,6 % — в возрасте 65 лет и старше. Средний возраст жителей составил 36 лет. На каждые 100 женщин в Уинчестере приходилось 96,9 мужчин, при этом на каждые сто женщин 18 лет и старше приходилось 91,2 мужчин также старше 18 лет.

Средний доход на одно домашнее хозяйство в городе составил 24 375 долларов США, а средний доход на одну семью — 29 750 долларов. При этом мужчины имели средний доход в 29 583 доллара США в год против 11 250 долларов среднегодового дохода у женщин. Доход на душу населения в городе составил 10 397 долларов в год. 12,8 % от всего числа семей в округе и 17,0 % от всей численности населения находилось на момент переписи населения за чертой бедности, при этом 27,8 % из них были моложе 18 лет и 28,0 % — в возрасте 65 лет и старше.

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Police fire tear gas to break up protest by BJP in Kolkata
Supporters of India's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) break barricades during a protest against what they call violence against their party workers in the state of West Bengal, in Kolkata, India, June 12, 2019 Reuters
Clashes between supporters of the Hindu nationalist BJP and a regional party that governs West Bengal where Kolkata is located erupted during elections this year and have not stopped since
Indian police fired tear gas in the eastern city of Kolkata on Wednesday to disperse thousands of members of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party protesting over rising political violence, party leaders and witnesses said.
Clashes between supporters of the Hindu nationalist BJP and a regional party that governs West Bengal where Kolkata is located erupted during elections this year and have not stopped since.
At least 15 people have died in the political violence involving the BJP and the regional Trinamool Congress since election results were announced on May 23, police say.
The saffron party workers, along with 18 newly elected MPs in the state, including BJP state president Dilip Ghosh, were marching towards the Kolkata Police headquarters in Lalbazar from the Wellington area of the city.https://t.co/jHMdIK8Ogx
— The Indian Express (@IndianExpress) June 12, 2019
About 10,000 BJP workers gathered in the heart of Kolkata, waving the party's flags, saying they were being targeted by the ruling state government, and pelted stones at police.
Police used water cannon and tear gas to break up the crowd and an officer said 50 supporters were detained to prevent unrest from spreading through the city. They were later released on personal bonds.
The police cordoned off streets leading to the state police headquarters where the protest march was headed and put up barricades.
West Bengal sends the third-largest number of members to the lower house of parliament and was a battleground state in the election, where the BJP pushed hard to make major gains.
With Prime Minister Narendra Modi's BJP winning by a resounding majority, the party is now focussing on upcoming state elections, including one in West Bengal scheduled for 2021 when it hopes to unseat the government led by firebrand local leader Mamata Banerjee.
Infographic: Dozens dead in India, Bangladesh, Nepal floods
Infographic: India's ongoing water crisis
Floods worsen in India's northeast; rare rhinos in danger
10 dead, several feared trapped after building collapses in Mumbai
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To Be a Machine: Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death is a 2017 nonfiction book by Slate columnist and literary journalist Mark O'Connell. The book is a breezy, but skeptical, gonzo-journalistic tour of transhumanism and radical life extension. It chronicles O'Connell's travels around the world to interview prominent transhumanists.

Description
Interviewees range from mainstream figures, such as computer scientist Stuart J. Russell, to more colorful individuals, such as Zoltan Istvan, who ran for the American Presidency on the "Immortality Ticket". Much of the book focuses on radical life extension (the desire to engineer immortality); in addition, O'Connell visits a group of "grinders" in Pittsburgh who surgically implant sensors into themselves. O'Connell makes it clear that he personally chooses to reject transhumanist philosophy, stating that his child playing horsy with his wife could not be "rendered in code... Their beauty was bodily, in the most profound sense, in the saddest and most wonderful sense." The book also examines existential risk from artificial general intelligence, the fear that superintelligent machines will destroy the human race. An oversimplified example would be a machine that is asked to eliminate human cancer, and does so by eliminating all humans. In the book's conclusion, O'Connell declines to offer any predictions about whether the hopes or fears of the transhumanists will come to pass, instead stating: "I have seen the present, and the present is strange enough to be getting along with: filled with strange people, strange ideas, strange machines."

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Seattle's electronic music scene is one that's been focused on bass music throughout its history, and for good reason. Safe in Sound has packed WaMu with sell-outs in consecutive years, Excision sold out Foundation Nightclub in minutes, and bass stages across every local festival are consistently crowded for every act. Even so, it's left a large swathe of the scene unrepresented, especially in light of the recent Bass Academy announcement. Trance fans across the Northwest have steadily been patient nonetheless, and now, it appears as though it's all have paid off. Enter Bliss: The Awakening, courtesy of USC Events.
More Reading: Is Trance Making Its Long-Awaited Comeback?
Led by genre heavyweight Paul van Dyk Paul Oakenfold, Bliss represents the first large-scale trance event Seattle's ever hosted. It's a announcement so massive, that the second the smallest bit of information leaked out, enterprising fans already had created their own event page, and pushed out upwards of 500 invites within the first hour.
As for the rest of the lineup? It's nothing short of a dream for trance fans. John O'Callaghan, MaRLo, Giuseppe Ottaviani, Photographer, Coming Soon, and locals Eddie Pitzul and Johnny Monsoon will all be in attendance; needless to say, USC's composed a powerhouse slate of artists to make even a Dreamstate crowd jealous.
Now THAT's a trance lineup.
Tickets go on sale at 10AM sharp on Monday, March 14 (link here). If Ticketmaster is to be believed, prices will sit around $47 (not counting fees), with the event itself taking place at WaMu Theater. This probably goes without saying, but we can't stress it enough: This is your chance to show everyone that Seattle can be a hub for the global trance community. A Bliss: The Awakening sell-out only means more events just like this one in the future, so set those alarms now!
Learn More: Visit the official Bliss: The Awakening Facebook event page!
UPDATE: Due to health concerns, Paul van Dyk will no longer be able to play at Bliss: The Awakening. That being said, USC already has a replacement lined up in Paul Oakenfold, who will be bringing us a rare "Full On Fluoro" set.