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Books of 2023

Book 36 of 2023

Title: Alone in the Valley: A Soldier's Journey in the Vietnam War Authors: George R. 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Description: In 1968, George Lanigan leaves the University of Maryland and sets off on the journey of his life. He volunteers to serve his country in the Vietnam War and enlists in the army where he becomes an elite Special Forces advisor in a top-secret program. The United States is clandestinely training the Cambodian Army, Forces Armees Nationales Khmeres, and Lanigan is at the heart of the mission. In this personal memoir, LTC George R. Lanigan, USA (Retired), adapts his forty-year-old letters and correspondence to his parents into an emotionally compelling and suspenseful narrative that relates his daily life of survival and political tension. It's an inside, firsthand look at a rare, and previously classified, Vietnam War experience. But its scope reaches beyond the war itself and illuminates the realities soldiers face returning home, building a life, and even visiting war zones four decades later. Its openness and honesty will resonate with war veterans, their friends and family members, those suffering post-traumatic stress disorder, and people of all ages who are interested in American history. Readers will learn about war life, a volatile political environment, and how personal experiences weave together to create the person one eventually becomes.

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INDYCAR CHAMPIONSHIP UPDATE: Post-Gateway

Sorry this is so late after Gateway, I've had some stuff going on IRL. I didn't forget! Anyways, now that we're down to the last two races of the season, its time for another update on the various INDYCAR championships. 5 drivers are mathematically in the hunt for the driver's championship as we head to Portland this weekend (my Portland Quick Facts will be up soon, so stay tuned!) As usual, this will be LONG so it is all under the cut.

DRIVER'S CHAMPIONSHIP

Will Power (482 points)

Josef Newgarden (479 points, -3)

Scott Dixon (468 points, -14)

Marcus Ericsson (465 points, -17)

Alex Palou (439 points, -43)

Scott McLaughlin (428 points, -54)

Pato O'Ward (424 points, -58)

Felix Rosenqvist (340 points, -142)

Alexander Rossi (335 points, -147)

Colton Herta (334 points, -148)

Rinus VeeKay (305 points, -177)

Graham Rahal (302 points, -180)

Simon Pagenaud (294 points, -188)

Romain Grosjean (291 points, -191)

Christian Lundgaard (283 points, -199)

David Malukas (272 points, -210)

Conor Daly (256 points, -226)

Takuma Sato (239 points, -243)

Helio Castroneves (239 points, -243)

Jimmie Johnson (194 points, -288)

Callum Ilott (190 points, -292)

Jack Harvey (184 points, -298)

Devlin DeFrancesco (177 points, -305)

Kyle Kirkwood (157 points, -325)

Dalton Kellett (120 points, -362)

Tony Kanaan (78 points, -404)

Ed Carpenter (75 points, -407)

Santino Ferrucci (71 points, -411)

Tatiana Calderon (58 points, -424)

JR Hildebrand (53 points, -429)

Juan Pablo Montoya (44 points, -438)

Simona de Silvestro (26 points, -456)

Marco Andretti (17 points, -465)

Sage Karam (14 points, -468)

Stefan Wilson (10 points, -472)

ENTRANT POINTS CHAMPIONSHIP

Team Penske #12 (482 points)

Team Penske #2 (479 points, -3)

Chip Ganassi Racing #9 (468 points, -14)

Chip Ganassi Racing #8 (465 points, -17)

Chip Ganassi Racing #10 (439 points, -43)

Team Penske #3 (428 points, -54)

Arrow McLaren SP #5 (424 points, -58)

Arrow McLaren SP #7 (340 points, -142)

Andretti Autosport #27 (335 points, -147)

Andretti Autosport #26 (334 points, -148)

Ed Carpenter Racing #21 (305 points, -177)

Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing #15 (302 points, -180)

Meyer Shank Racing #60 (294 points, -188)

Andretti Autosport #28

Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing #30 (283 points, -199)

Dale Coyne Racing #18 (272 points, -210)

Ed Carpenter Racing #20 (256 points, -226)

Dale Coyne Racing #51 (239 points, -243)

Meyer Shank Racing #06 (239 points, -243)

Juncos Hollinger Racing #77 (209 points, -273)

Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing #45 (206 points, -276)

Chip Ganassi Racing #48 (194 points, -288)

Andretti Autosport #29 (177 points, -305)

A.J. Foyt Enterprises #14 (157 points, -325)

A.J. Foyt Enterprises #4 (120 points, -362)

A.J. Foyt Enterprises #11 (111 points, -371)

Chip Ganassi Racing #1 (78 points, -404)

Ed Carpenter Racing #33 (75 points, -407)

Arrow McLaren SP #6 (44 points, -438)

Dreyer-Reinbold Racing #23 (40 points, -442)

Paretta Autosport #16 (26 points, -456)

Andretti Autosport #98 (17 points, -465)

Dreyer-Reinbold Racing #24 (14 points, -468)

DragonSpeed #25 (10 points, -472)

ROOKIE OF THE YEAR AWARD

Christian Lundgaard (283 points)

David Malukas (272 points, -11)

Callum Ilott (190 points, -93)

Devlin DeFrancesco (177 points, -106)

Kyle Kirkwood (157 points, -126)

Tatiana Calderon (58 points, -225)

NTT P1 AWARD

Will Power (147 points)

Scott McLaughlin (96 points, -51)

Colton Herta (51 points, -96)

Rinus VeeKay (39 points, -108)

Alexander Rossi (37 points, -110)

Felix Rosenqvist (34 points, -113)

Josef Newgarden (34 points, -113)

Scott Dixon (33 points, -114)

Pato O'Ward (8 points, -139)

MANUFACTURER'S CHAMPIONSHIP

Chevrolet (1310 points)

Honda (1259 points, -51)

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African tech leaders Fope Adelowo, Ken Njoroge, Tayo Oviosu to speak at Disrupt SF

Africa’s startup scene is growing by leaps and bounds and three tech leaders are set to share insights on this vibrant space at Disrupt San Francisco.   

Paga CEO Taya Oviosu, Helios Investment Partners’ Vice President Fope Adelowo, and Cellulant CEO Ken Njoroge will take the stage September 7 to discuss topics such as fintech, Africa’s founder experience, data privacy, VC investment, and the continent’s future unicorn and IPO prospects.

Nearly two decades of improved stability, economic growth and reform have created some bright spots in Africa. Rapid modernization and a growing technology scene are among them.

Africa minted its first billion-dollar unicorn — e-commerce venture Jumia— in 2016 and over the last five years, just about every big-name U.S. tech company, including Facebook, Google and Netflix, has expanded there.

The continent now has 442 active tech hubs, accelerators and innovation spaces across IT hotspots in Ghana, Kenya, South Africa, Nigeria and Rwanda. Thousands of African startups are moving into every imaginable sector: from blockchain, logistics and education to healthcare and agriculture.

And hundreds of millions of dollars in venture capital is flowing to these startups, with the expectation that some of their solutions for Africa’s 1.2 billion people will produce significant ROI.

Two of those ventures are Oviosu’s Paga and Njoroge’s Cellulant. Paga has become one of Nigeria’s leading digital payments providers in a market where many people are just signing on to financial services. Since 2012 the company has processed 57 million transactions worth $3.6 billion, reached 9 million users, and achieved profitability, according to Oviosu.

Cellulant—a Nairobi headquartered Pan-African payment startup—has also posted some impressive fintech stats. The company offers B2B and P2B services to clients that include some of the continent’s largest banks. In 2017 Cellulant’s payment platforms processed $2.7 billion across 33 countries, according to Njoroge. And in 2018 Cellulant raised one of the continent’s largest VC rounds— $47.5 million —led by TPG Growth’s Rise Fund.  

Paga and Cellulant have the potential to become early public African tech companies and both Oviosu and Njoroge mentor younger startups as angel investors in their respective markets.

On IPO prospects, Helios Investment Partners’ Fope Adelowo has been on the forefront of VC into Africa’s breakout startups. She serves a board observer to two of the firm’s high-profile Africa investments, e-commerce site MallforAfrica and payments company Interswitch. MallforAfrica recently launched a global e-commerce site with DHL and Interswitch said its plans to become one of the continent’s first tech IPOs on a major exchange by 2019.  

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Todo sobre Este es el SSD de 8 TB más barato que puedes comprar

Información sobre Este es el SSD de 8 TB más moderado que puedes comprar / Hardware / moderado|Comprar|de|el|es|este|más|puedes|SSD|TB

Los SSD no han parado de desmontar de precio en el postrer año y medio, con precios que han tendido a estabilizarse actualmente en torno a los 100 euros para los SSD de 1 TB, mientras que los de 500 GB se sitúan en torno a los 60 euros. Esto está haciendo que cada vez más clan esté optando por unidades de más capacidad. Encima, ahora puedes tener un SSD que reemplace a tu disco duro de 8 TB; aunque por proporcionado más boleto.

SSD de 8 TB al precio que estaban los de 2 TB hace unos abriles

Los SSD son menos fiables que los discos duros para unificar información, ya que un desidia eléctrico puede dejar inaccesible un SSD. Con un disco duro al menos puedes intentar obtener la información almacenada en el propio disco, pero cada vez más servidores están reemplazando los discos duros por SSD.

Aunque ya hay discos duros de 18 y hasta 20 TB, ya hay SSD de longevo capacidad en el mercado, aunque con precios mucho más elevados. Un ejemplo claro lo encontramos con un SSD de 8 TB que es el más moderado que podemos comprar. En la presente, un disco duro de 8 TB nos puede costar unos 206 euros, como este Seagate Barracuda. Uno de 12 TB sube hasta 442 euros, mientras que uno de 14 TB alcanza los 491,90 euros. A partir de ahí, la mayoría de discos duros suelen ser para servidores y centros de datos, usando tecnologías como helio para mejorar la velocidad de movimiento del extremidad.

La velocidad de esta mecanismo es mejorable

Sin requisa, Micron está dispuesta a ofrecer la mejor relación de precio por TB en los SSD, donde la compañía está vendiendo el Micron 5210 Ion, un SSD de 7,68 TB por 799 dólares en Amazon USA, lo que equivale a unos 104 dólares por TB, que equivale a unos 94 euros. La mecanismo utiliza memorias QLC NAND, con una velocidad de ciencia de 540 MB/s y de escritura de 360 MB/s.

Normalmente, los SSD suelen costar más conforme longevo es su capacidad; poco que ocurre incluso con memorias USB o tarjetas SD, ya que nos permite transigir más información en un único sitio, y su coste de fabricación es poco más elevado. En este caso, tenemos la superioridad de un SSD que ofrece una gran durabilidad (8.000 TBW), con un gran convexidad, un reducidísimo consumo energético de 1,5 vatios en reposo y 3,6 vatios de anciano en escritura, y un peso vehemente en una mecanismo SATA de 2,5 pulgadas.

Con esto, en circunscripción de tener que comprar ocho unidades SSD de 1 TB, podemos comprar una única mecanismo de 8 TB. El SSD de longevo capacidad que podemos comprar actualmente en Amazon es de 4 TB, como el SanDisk Extremista 3D de 4 TB por 515,99 euros. Un disco duro de 4 TB cuesta 102,10 euros.

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African tech leaders Fope Adelowo, Ken Njoroge, Tayo Oviosu to speak at Disrupt SF

Africa’s startup scene is growing by leaps and bounds and three tech leaders are set to share insights on this vibrant space at Disrupt San Francisco.   

Paga CEO Taya Oviosu, Helios Investment Partners’ Vice President Fope Adelowo, and Cellulant CEO Ken Njoroge will take the stage September 7 to discuss topics such as fintech, Africa’s founder experience, data privacy, VC investment, and the continent’s future unicorn and IPO prospects.

Nearly two decades of improved stability, economic growth and reform have created some bright spots in Africa. Rapid modernization and a growing technology scene are among them.

Africa minted its first billion-dollar unicorn — e-commerce venture Jumia— in 2016 and over the last five years, just about every big-name U.S. tech company, including Facebook, Google and Netflix, has expanded there.

The continent now has 442 active tech hubs, accelerators and innovation spaces across IT hotspots in Ghana, Kenya, South Africa, Nigeria and Rwanda. Thousands of African startups are moving into every imaginable sector: from blockchain, logistics and education to healthcare and agriculture.

And hundreds of millions of dollars in venture capital is flowing to these startups, with the expectation that some of their solutions for Africa’s 1.2 billion people will produce significant ROI.

Two of those ventures are Oviosu’s Paga and Njoroge’s Cellulant. Paga has become one of Nigeria’s leading digital payments providers in a market where many people are just signing on to financial services. Since 2012 the company has processed 57 million transactions worth $3.6 billion, reached 9 million users, and achieved profitability, according to Oviosu.

Cellulant—a Nairobi headquartered Pan-African payment startup—has also posted some impressive fintech stats. The company offers B2B and P2B services to clients that include some of the continent’s largest banks. In 2017 Cellulant’s payment platforms processed $2.7 billion across 33 countries, according to Njoroge. And in 2018 Cellulant raised one of the continent’s largest VC rounds— $47.5 million —led by TPG Growth’s Rise Fund.  

Paga and Cellulant have the potential to become early public African tech companies and both Oviosu and Njoroge mentor younger startups as angel investors in their respective markets.

On IPO prospects, Helios Investment Partners’ Fope Adelowo has been on the forefront of VC into Africa’s breakout startups. She serves a board observer to two of the firm’s high-profile Africa investments, e-commerce site MallforAfrica and payments company Interswitch. MallforAfrica recently launched a global e-commerce site with DHL and Interswitch said its plans to become one of the continent’s first tech IPOs on a major exchange by 2019.  

   Via Jordan Crook https://techcrunch.com

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