Tony La Russa made a big imprint on the 2011 World Series by leading the St. Louis Cardinals to an unexpected world title—and this past week at the All-Star Game in Kansas City, the longtime skipper came out of retirement and helped influence the makeup of this year's Fall Classic by establishing home field advantage for the National League after its 8-0 demolition of the AL, its third straight win at the Midsummer Classic.
In selecting San Francisco's Matt Cain as the NL starting pitcher over the New York Mets' R.A. Dickey—who had a better record and ERA—La Russa invited scorn from Met fans already ticked off over aggressive San Francisco voters who helped put three Giant position players into the starting lineup, including Pablo Sandoval at third base over the statistically more deserving David Wright. But Cain proved La Russa right, throwing two sharp innings to help set the pace while backed up by five first-inning runs, followed by three in the fourth.
Cain's Giant All-Star teammates certainly showed that their inclusion in the lineup was justified—and the hubbub over last-minute online stuffing of the ballots wasn't. Sandoval capped the five-run first with the All-Star Game's first-ever bases-clearing triple, and Melky Cabrera—who secured MVP honors—added a two-run laser beam of a home run in the fourth to finish the scoring on the night.
La Russa enjoyed his last moment in the managerial spotlight as the third All-Star Game manager who took the role during retirement. (The other two: John McGraw in the very first All-Star Game in 1933, and Danny Murtaugh in 1972.) After the game, La Russa seemed more pleased that he was able to coast with an 8-0 lead and let his coaches (other NL managers such as the Mets' Terry Collins and Milwaukee's Ron Roenicke) do the dirty work of selecting which players to enter the game.
La Russa shrugged off the importance when asked, but know this: The team with home field advantage in the World Series has won 21 times in the last 26 years—and of the last seven Game Sevens played, the home team has won them all—including La Russa's Cardinals last year against Texas.
In the second All-Star Game played at Royals/Kauffman Stadium, the Giants' Melky Cabrera took MVP honors. In the first game played at the facility (in 1973), the NL similarly trashed the AL, 7-1, with another Giant—Bobby Bonds—being given the MVP after he, like Cabrera, collected two hits including a home run.
The All-Star Game featured a record five rookies: Washington's Bryce Harper, Los Angeles of Anaheim's Mike Trout, Oakland's Ryan Cook, Arizona's Wade Miley and Texas' Yu Darvish.
Not since 1987 has either league had a winning streak in the All-Star Game snapped at one. After the National League triumphed in 13 innings in 1987, 2-0, the American League ran off six straight wins at the Midsummer Classic—followed by a three-game streak for the NL from 1994-96, followed by the AL's long 13-game unbeaten streak (counting in the infamous 7-7 tie in 2002), and now the NL's current three-game streak that included Tuesday's 8-0 trashing of the Americanos.
Besides starting AL pitcher Justin Verlander—who gave up all five first-inning runs to the NL—the only other guy to have a lousy experience during All-Star week at Kansas City was New York Yankee second baseman Robinson Cano. Last year's Home Run Derby champion in charge of selecting the participants for this year's Derby, Cano didn't hit a single long fly in defense of his title this year—and was booed by Kansas City fans for not naming any Royals (specifically Billy Butler) as part of the Derby team. The sour treatment went over the line when fans began taunting Cano's family, seated among the crowd.
Commissioner Bud Selig and union leader Michael Weiner both criticized the fan treatment, yet Selig intimated that future Home Run Derbys might include a "home team" representative to appease the local masses.
Prince Fielder, who did win this year's Home Run Derby, became the second player to twice win the competition; Ken Griffey Jr. was the other.
Speaking to reporters during the all-star break, commissioner Bud Selig flew out a trial balloon: That he's interested in the idea of having the designated hitter used during interleague games played at NL parks—and having pitchers hit in AL parks. The only ulterior motive for such a ploy would be to gauge foreign concepts in foreign lands, an expanded focus group to determine if fans favor the DH everywhere or if they want to abolish it. Other than that, the concept makes no sense whatsoever.
This is your annual cattle-prod reminder to scour through your grandparents' attic in search of memorabilia gold: A man in Defiance, Ohio, checking out what his long-deceased grandparents had hidden away, stumbled upon a box that practically hadn't been opened in almost a century. Inside: Some 700 'rare' baseball cards, highly preserved, never touched, in almost perfect shape. Among the names on the cards are Ty Cobb, Cy Young, Honus Wagner and Christy Mathewson. They're eventually headed for the auction block; the sum total of the loot is expected to fetch as much as $3 million.
Sacramento has let anyone who cares to listen know that it is ready to build a major league ballpark for a new or transplanted MLB team. Eager to stay on the pro sports map with the (apparently) imminent departure of the NBA Kings, Major Kevin Johnson—a former basketball star—formally announced the plan, saying the city has the land and the money to move forward. Sure, Sacramento certainly has the land…but the money? The California State Capitol is currently one of the most economically depressed markets in the country.
We previously suggested a move for the Oakland A's to Sacramento; it could attract fans from the state's Central Valley (with a sizably broad market), wealthy residents in the Sierra foothills, California expatriates in Reno, Nevada and a healthy chunk of the team's current fan base outside of Oakland, which resides roughly an hour or more from Sacramento. But Oakland owner Lou Wolff has made it doubly clear that he wants no part of Sacramento—in part because corporate sponsorship potential pales badly to that within San Jose and Silicon Valley, which remains his sole focus in regards to a new facility.
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Sooner or later, it was going to happen: Digital autographs. Brian Auld, the Senior Vice President of Business Operations for the Tampa Bay Rays and his brother David Auld have created egraphs.com, a Seattle-based company in which you can pick a picture of a major league player, request a personalized note and autograph, and receive it from the player in both the form of a digitally written note (written on an iPad) on the image and a 30-second audio clip embedded in the final product. All of this costs a not-so-pricey $50; some 25 players are currently signed on, including many Tampa Bay players but also David Ortiz, Dustin Pedroia and the now-retired Pedro Martinez and Kerry Wood. The company hopes to have as many as 200 involved by season's end. Memorabilia buffs somewhat frown on the new process, claiming the personal nature of the messages hurt their resale value—but there are people who do collect these things for the sole purpose of keeping it forever.
Two years to the day that he made his last major league appearance, Ben Sheets pitched six shutout innings—allowing just two hits—and picked up the win in the Atlanta Braves' 6-1 victory over the New York Mets on Sunday. The 33-year-old Sheets missed all of 2011 (he also was absent for all of the 2009 campaign) after Tommy John surgery on his elbow; he had pitched a handful of times in the Braves' minor league system after being signed on July 1.
A quiet week on MLB's medical front saw only a handful of players landing on the disabled list. The most significant loss occurred in Baltimore where Jason Hammel, having a terrific year, will be lost up to four weeks after undergoing arthroscopic knee surgery. Also reaching for the shelf was Colorado's Todd Helton (hip, 15 days), Detroit starting pitcher Drew Smyly (ribs, 15 days) and yet another Toronto pitcher out for the season: Reliever Luis Perez, going under the knife for Tommy John surgery. Perez is the eighth pitcher currently on the Blue Jays' disabled list.
Because of the shortened week of regular season owing to the All-Star Game festivities, our Best and Worst of the Week segment and our day-by-day review is taking the week off but return for our next Comebacker.
Under the major league radar hides some eye-opening achievements from players working their way up the minor league ladder. This past week, we decided to look at some of the amazing numbers coming out of the various minor leagues, from Class A to AAA. Whether some of these players make it to the big leagues is still a question mark, but the stats they've put up in half a season's worth of time is certainly worth the talk.
Adam Eaton, Mobile (AA)/Reno (AAA). No, not the former pitcher or a relation, but a 23-year-old outfielder in the Arizona farm system who, for one, certainly wouldn't mind seeing Justin Upton moved from Phoenix (as has been rumored) so a major league spot could open up for him. He certainly deserves the chance based on the numbers he's put together so far; in 89 games split between Mobile and Reno, he's already scored 106 runs, is batting .381 and has stolen 33 bases. In three years of minor league ball, Eaton has hit .355.
Ryan Wheeler, Reno (AAA). It's likely that most of Eaton's runs have come courtesy of teammate Wheeler, who leads all minor leaguers with 90 RBIs—more than one per game. Maybe it's the rare air in Reno (over 4,000 feet above sea level).
Brad Eldred, Toledo (AAA). A career minor leaguer with chronic (and brief) major league experience, the 32-year-old Eldred—no relation to former pitcher Cal Eldred—leads the minors with 24 home runs for the Tigers' top affiliate, giving him 251 jacks for his minor league career. This is Eldred's sixth organization in six years—not including a short stint with Hiroshima of Japan's Pacific League to start this season.
Billy Hamilton, Bakersfield (A)/Pensacola (AA). Could this be the reincarnation of Billy Hamilton, the pre-modern era speed king who four times during the 1890s stole over 100 bases in a year? The current-day Hamilton has, hands down, the most jaw-dropping numbers of any minor leaguer; in 86 games combined between Bakersfield and Pensacola, he's already swiped an astonishing 109 bases, and his exploits are starting to capture the attention of major media outlets writing up feature articles on him. Hamilton needs just 36 more steals to tie the all-time organized baseball record of 145, set by a pre-St. Louis Vince Coleman in 1983. He's 21 and property of the Cincinnati Reds; look for him to be on the parent team in September, likely to be used as a pinch-runner.
Tony Cingrani, Bakersfield (A)/Pensacola (AA). Running up the Reds' pipeline alongside Hamilton (or maybe behind him—Hamilton's a bit faster, you know), the 23-year-old southpaw has a 1.38 earned run average in 31 minor league starts dating back to his graduation from Rice University last year; so far this season, he's 10-2 with a 1.19 ERA and 123 strikeouts in 105.2 innings.
In the most closely watched story of the 2012 amateur draft, the Pittsburgh Pirates failed to sign Stanford pitcher Mark Appel, the Bucs' first-round pick and the eighth selection overall. Working under new MLB rules in which high-end draft picks are "slotted" with a preset signing bonus which could be increased by a team—but not without incurring penalties or loss of future draft picks—the Pirates offered Appel a $3.8 million package that was slightly above the slot. Appel, or more pointedly, his agent Scott Boras, declined, saying he'll return to Stanford for one more year; he thus became the lone first-round selection to not sign.
This was not about Appel or the Pirates as much as it was about Boras. The superagent doesn't like the new system, which suppresses the kind of runaway signing bonuses he used to love negotiating. Perhaps under a different agent, Appel would have signed—but Boras has an ego to bruise and it got pretty sore after Appel, who some projected to be selected first in the entire draft, fell to eighth and a far lower prescribed fee that allowed for little negotiating room. Now Appel has to perform one more year at the college level and hope he can move up the latter to something higher than a no. 8 pick for 2013. Given the risks associated with pitching—injury, mechanical adjustments, etc.—he's taking a mighty big chance. Hopefully, Boras is serving in Appel's best interests—and not his own.
You would think the year 2012 would be the last place you'd see a major league pitcher start three straight games. Okay, so Zack Greinke's accomplishment of that very feat is loaded with asterisks, but he still qualifies as the first major leaguer to take the mound three straight times since Red Faber did it for the Chicago White Sox in 1917.
Greinke start no. 1 came last Saturday at Houston, but he was ejected after facing just two batters and throwing four total pitches, spiking the ball in anger after a close play at first base that incurred the wrath of umpire Sam Holbrook. (Greinke claimed he was angry with himself, not Holbrook's call.) Hardly exhausted, Greinke was sent out by the Brewers for start no. 2 the very next day, faring little better as he only lasted three innings, allowing three runs. Start no. 3 came this past Friday as Greinke, on four days' rest, took the mound for the Brewers' first game after the all-star break; even with the normal rest, Greinke was shaky, allowing six runs (five earned) over five innings in the Brewers 10-7 win at Miller Park over Pittsburgh.
You may ask: Just how did Red Faber do in his three starts 95 years ago? Not much better. He started both ends of a September 3 doubleheader against Detroit, lasting a total of six innings and allowing nine runs. The very next day, Faber was trotted out to start again at St. Louis against the Browns; he went the distance, but gave up six runs on 16 hits in the Chicago White Sox' 13-6 win.
As Ed Attanasio's wonderful TGG interviews with ex-ballplayers have shown, the older they get, the more honestly they speak. Reggie Jackson took that tact a week back when he made comments a lot of us agree on: That steroid users shouldn't be in the Hall of Fame, as shouldn't a bunch of "very good" ballplayers. Jackson named names in talking with Sports Illustrated, which was what put one of his feet in hot water; the other foot stepped in when he mentioned Alex Rodriguez, who plays for the Yankees—for whom Jackson is also employed as a special advisor.
The Yankees, perhaps (or perhaps not) through pressure from Rodriguez, told Jackson this past week to lay low and stay away from the team for a while in light of his comments. The former slugger, who already apologized, said this past week that he regretted naming names. But as we said last week, his honesty is refreshing; we wish there was more of it within baseball.
Why do we get the feeling that Weiner's argument wouldn't fly in most any other industry?
Here's a silver lining to Robinson Cano's week. The Yankee bopper, booed at the Home Run Derby at Kansas City as mentioned above, ends this past week with the majors' longest active hitting streak at 18 games. Cano is hitting .403 during his run with six home runs and 19 RBIs.
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Q: Python Tkinter Button/Entry combination I've been experimenting with Tkinter, and I have a set-up where I have an entry box and then below it two buttons (Close and OK). When close is clicked, the frame is destroyed. I want it to return whatever is in the entry box at the time and then destroy the frame. I am just at a loss for how to do this.
This is a portion of what I have (where f is my frame):
class App:
    def DoThis(self):
        #Earlier code that's not related to the question
        v=StringVar()
        e=Entry(f,textvariable=v)
        buttonA=Button(f,text="Cancel",command=root.destroy)
        buttonB=Button(f,text="OK")

Also, please note that I want to RETURN the string to the calling function, not just immediately print it.
I want:
print App().DoThis() #to print what was in the entry box
#at the time of OK being clicked

A: What you ask is, for all intents and purposes, impossible. The function DoThis will return before the GUI even displays on the screen.
That being said, such a thing is possible, though highly unusual. It's a bit like asking how you can haul a bale of hay across a muddy field in a Ferrari.
If you just plan on popping up a window once, you can get by with something like the following:
import Tkinter as tk

class MyApp(tk.Tk):
    def __init__(self):
        tk.Tk.__init__(self)
        self.entry = tk.Entry(self)
        self.entry.pack()
        close_button = tk.Button(self, text="Close", command=self.close)
        close_button.pack()
        self.string = ""

    def close(self):
        global result
        self.string = self.entry.get()
        self.destroy()

    def mainloop(self):
        tk.Tk.mainloop(self)
        return self.string

print "enter a string in the GUI"
app = MyApp()
result = app.mainloop()
print "you entered:", result

If you are going to open the window more than once you're probably not going to have much luck because, again, this just isn't how Tkinter is designed to be used.

A: at the moment you're assigning ButtonA, Cancel, command to root.destroy.  Instead of directly calling the destroy function, create a separate function that reads the value then calls destroy.
I usually wrap this in a Frame class to make it a little easier:
import Tkinter

class Frame(Tkinter.Frame):

def __init__(self, root=None):
    self.root = root
    Tkinter.Frame.__init__(self, root)

    # Create widgets
    self.v = StringVar()
    self.e = Entry(self, textvariable=v)
    self.buttonA = Button(self, text="Cancel", command=cancel)
    self.buttonB = Button(self, text="OK")

def cancel(self):
    print self.v.get()  # handle value here
    self.root.destroy()

A: Basically, you want your callback function from the button to be a bit more complicated.  Rather than simply calling the destroy method, you'll want to call your own function.  Use the get method on the Entry object to retrieve the contents.
Hopefully this is a complete enough example to get you going:
import Tkinter as tk

class App:
    def __init__(self, master):
        self.display_button_entry(master)

    def setup_window(self, master):
        self.f = tk.Frame(master, height=480, width=640, padx=10, pady=12)
        self.f.pack_propagate(0)

    def display_button_entry(self, master):
        self.setup_window(master)
        v = tk.StringVar()
        self.e = tk.Entry(self.f, textvariable=v)
        buttonA = tk.Button(self.f, text="Cancel", command=self.cancelbutton)
        buttonB = tk.Button(self.f, text="OK", command=self.okbutton)
        self.e.pack()
        buttonA.pack()
        buttonB.pack()
        self.f.pack()

    def cancelbutton(self):
        print self.e.get()
        self.f.destroy()

    def okbutton(self):
        print self.e.get()

def main():
    root = tk.Tk()
    root.title('ButtonEntryCombo')
    root.resizable(width=tk.NO, height=tk.NO)
    app = App(root)
    root.mainloop()

main()

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Q: How to delay form submit prestashop i'm developing prestashop carrier module.inside mycarrier i have two radio buttons(now,schedule)
when user select now i,m getting current datetime.when user select schedule i'm prompt calender to pick datetime.
problem :
when user select one of radio button,form will submit immediately.but i want form to wait until user pick date from calendar.
how can i delay my form submission?
<form class="clearfix" id="js-delivery" data-url-update="{url entity='order' params=['ajax' => 1, 'action' => 'selectDeliveryOption']}" method="post">
  <button type="submit" class="continue btn btn-primary pull-xs-right" name="confirmDeliveryOption" value="1">
      {l s='Continue' d='Shop.Theme.Actions'}
  </button>
</form>

A: You need to intercept form submit event and check for the checkbox, then if it needs the timepicker return false to delay form submit, or return true to continue submit.
document.querySelector("#js-delivery").addEventListener("submit", function(e){
    var isValid = "[write your delay clause]"
    if(!isValid){
        e.preventDefault();    //stop form from submitting
        return false;
    }
    return true;
});


With Google's Penguin algorithm slapping sites right and left, it's a good idea to know how to detect incoming links that could harm your standings in the search engine giant's eyes. And your life will get a lot more complicated if you wait until after your rankings plummet, rather than finding problem links yourself, first. Being proactive and never letting your link profile get to the point where you're a target is a relatively simple process, especially if you approach it methodically.
There are several tools out there that will give you a list of your links, but I've found that Google's Webmaster Tools usually supplies the most complete list. You can download them in a .CSV file that can be imported into Excel for sorting.
Once you've done this once, if you continue to keep your finger on the pulse of your website, checking links periodically, it becomes a very simple task. What I'm going to do here is give you some guidelines on determining whether a link is one you might be better off without.
This requires a shift of mindset. Don't look at your inbound links as your property, that you're loathe to part with – look at them from Google's point of view. If you find yourself justifying a link to yourself, that usually means that you realize that Google might not see it in the same light, without your explanation. If that's the case, you need to be rid of it.
The first thing you need to know is if the domain is still in Google's index. If you're using a third party tool, some of them will give you that information in their initial report. If not, you simply run a site: check with Google. Type site:sillyexamplesite.com into the Google search box, and if it returns this message, the site has been de-indexed (be careful of typos, as a non-existent site will return the same message).
If the site has been de-indexed, you definitely don't want to keep the link. They got de-indexed for a reason, and you don't need Google thinking you like to run with the wrong crowd. If they manage to achieve re-inclusion and fall back on old habits, you could suffer for it.
On the other hand, if Google returns pages of the site, then it is present in the index and has passed the first test.
Next, I look for domains that are obviously not the sort I care to have links from. If my site is focused on liability insurance, I certainly don't need inbound links from sites selling pharmaceuticals or gambling. As a rule, I want links only from sites that are relevant to my own and from pages that are relevant to the page to which they've linked.
I now look to see what kind of link is being sent. Site-wide links, as a rule, aren't a good idea. Links from a Links page, I don't want either, except in very special circumstances. I'm a little more forgiving of blogroll links, but again, on a limited basis. In-content links are always preferable, provided they're embedded in content that's relevant to my site.
Now I start looking at the other sites that the linking site is also linking out to – that often tells you a lot. Do those other sites represent the sort of neighborhood you care to be lumped in with? If you see sites that you wouldn't be caught dead linking to, you've probably found a good reason to be rid of the link.
At this point, I start looking at anchor text for diversity. There may well be some decent links that can be made better by changing the anchor text. Excessive use of major keywords is a sure-fire way to get in hot water with Google.
Being conservative in the use of keywords in the anchor text of your inbound links is always a good idea. Some other methods that are more natural and appear to not cause problems are anchors like "more", "read more" and "here", as well as using the title of the target page. Raw links, with no anchor text at all, also appear to be safe.
The key is to maintain diversity in your inbound anchor text. Since you're not buying links, the people that are linking to you presumably are doing so because they respect your content – so they're unlikely to balk at changing an anchor if you approach them politely.
If you have 10,000 inbound links and have never bothered to analyze your link profile… this will be a chore the first time. However, if you receive a slap from the Penguin algo, it's a chore you'll have to face, and a painful one, if you're feeling a dramatic loss of traffic while desperately trying to regain your rankings.
Once you've done it once, you can do it periodically in small bites, so that you're only looking at a handful of new links each time. Knowing you're not vulnerable to a Penguin attack will give you peace of mind, so I strongly suggest you make time to audit your link profile now, before it becomes a mandate.


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Abraham Lincoln Tests ATARI
By Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Josue L. Escobosa USS Abraham Lincoln Public Affairs
ATLANTIC OCEAN (NNS) — USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) was the first kid on the block to get a new ATARI. No, not the iconic gaming system from the 80s, but a system designed to remotely land aircraft on a carrier. Abraham Lincoln's friends, the other carriers, should be jealous.
ATARI, or aircraft terminal approach remote inceptor, was, for the first time ever, successfully demonstrated during a touch-and-go on an aircraft carrier while conducting carrier qualifications and flight testing aboard Abraham Lincoln. ATARI gives Landing Signal Officers (LSOs) the ability to take over and maneuver aircraft during recovery operations.
"I was really impressed with LSO's ability get me to touch down," said Lt. John Marino, a carrier suitability pilot from the "Salty Dogs" of Air test and Evaluation Squadron (VX) 23, and the first pilot to land on a flight deck using ATARI. "The conditions were really varsity (difficult), and it was really impressive the system worked the way it did. On a calm day, it would have been a little bit boring, but this was definitely more challenging."
Developed at Naval Air station Patuxent River, Maryland by Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR), ATARI was originally been tested in a Learjet in 2016, performing shore-based low approaches. In 2017, F/A-18s were fitted with this technology and after extensive testing and quality assurance, VX-23 was confident enough to test their system at-sea.
"There was some nervousness because the sea state was so bad," said Marino. "Back on the airfield, testing was benign."
LSOs are capable of taking over an aircraft from up to five miles away using the ATARI. The system demonstrates a potential method for recovering an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) by using the LSO's ability to observe and fix glideslope and lineup errors. Though not intended to be a primary method for recovering aircraft, it does provide a relatively inexpensive backup system in the case and an LSO needs on to step in and use their expertise and training to safely guide an aircraft. Along with the ATARI, a van outfitted with the ATARI system was brought aboard and setup behind the LSO platform to allow the engineers to watch the approaches in real-time, monitor safety-of-flight data and ensure passes were going smoothly. The van recorded flight data for engineers to analyze later and allowed VX-23 to test their system without having to install it Abraham Lincoln.
"We don't have unmanned carrier-based vehicles in the fleet today, but they are coming soon, said Dan Shafer, a NAVAIR air vehicle engineer. "This is a potential alternative landing method and our system performed well."
Much like its namesake, ATARI uses a joystick to control a UAV, or in this case for testing purposes, an F/A-18 outfitted with the system and a safety pilot sitting in the cockpit. The LSOs use the joysticks to make corrections and safely land the aircraft on the flight deck.
"We took the guy who's flying the aircraft and we moved him to the LSO platform," said Buddy Denham, a senior engineer at NAVAIR and creator of ATARI. "You're effectively using little joystick controllers to guide a 40,000 lbs. airplane, and it's almost like you're playing a video game."
Prior to landing, the aircraft first had to perform three wave-offs to ensure all conditions were safe and the system could indeed take over the aircraft while-at sea. On the fourth approach, the system engineers and LSOs felt comfortable doing touch-and-goes.
"The deck was pitching significantly and yawing and rolling," said Denham. "It was particularly difficult to land that day, and we showed it's possible to use this system even when the conditions aren't ideal."
The ATARI testing was conducted over the course of two days in conjunction with carrier qualifications. Though not currently slated for fleet-wide implementation, yet the successful give it potential for future application. The ATARI engineers will analyze the data collected aboard Abraham Lincoln and make adjustments for further at-sea testing.
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For more news from USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72), visit www.navy.mil/local/cvn72/.
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Patrícia Sampaio Tavares (Brasília, 3 de janeiro de 1972), mais conhecida como Patricia Tavares, é uma regente, pianista, compositora, arranjadora e cantora erudita brasileira. Formada em Regência, Canto Lírico e Piano pela Universidade de Brasília (UnB), ela dirige vários eventos musicais na capital federal, além de se apresentar junto com orquestras, corais e demais grupos musicais em todas as regiões do Brasil.

Biografia
Infância, juventude e formação acadêmica

Patrícia Tavares nasceu em Brasília, Distrito Federal, no dia 3 de janeiro de 1972. De família baiana, recebeu desde cedo influências do pai, que era autodidata no violão. Passava horas ouvindo o pai tocar, dividida entre ouvi-lo e brincar e logo se interessou pela música.

Sempre se destacou por suas múltiplas habilidades. Fez dança, teatro, costura, artesanato e música. É certo que a veia artística sempre esteve muito presente em sua vida, mas chegou a fazer o curso de licenciatura em Educação Física antes de realizar seu curso superior em música.

Patrícia fez curso técnico em Canto Lírico e Piano Popular na Escola de Música de Brasília e formou-se em Regência, Canto Lírico e Piano pela Universidade de Brasília (UnB). Ela participou de diversos espetáculos, entre eles óperas, musicais e espetáculos de dança, além de ter produzido shows e musicais próprios e dos coros que rege.

Apresentações

Em 1984, aos doze anos de idade, Patrícia Tavares integrou como contralto o coral juvenil da Escola de Música de Brasília e se apresentou com o conjunto na ópera "O Guarani", do compositor brasileiro Carlos Gomes, realizada na Sala Villa Lobos do Teatro Nacional Cláudio Santoro, que na época se chamava Teatro Nacional de Brasília. O evento foi promovido pela Secretaria de Educação e Cultura do Governo do Distrito Federal em homenagem aos dez anos de fundação da Escola de Música de Brasília e dava sequência à uma temporada lírica do teatro.

No dia 20 de setembro de 2011, dirigiu o espetáculo "Disney in Love – As Mais Lindas Canções de Amor" no Teatro SESC Garagem, em Brasília. No evento, interpretou músicas românticas que fizeram sucesso em filmes da Disney, como "A Bela e a Fera", "Pocahontas", "O Rei Leão" e "Alladin", juntamente com os cantores Hugo Coelho e Lígia San Romã, acompanhados pela pianista Suzi Magalhães, o contrabaixista Paulo Dantas e o baterista Elias Caires.

Em 2013, compôs uma canção intitulada "O Poetinha" a fim de apresentá-la no evento "Vinícius Entre Amigos", show em homenagem ao poeta, músico e diplomata Vinícius de Moraes realizado no dia 13 de junho daquele ano, também no Teatro SESC Garagem, onde Patrícia se apresentou com Hugo Coelho e a cantora e atriz Carol Senna.

Na véspera do Natal de 2018, na Praça da Babilônia em Conceição do Coité, integrou a Orquestra Santo Antônio para apresentar o concerto "Os Óculos do Papai Noel", repertório natalino mesclado à apresentação teatral homônima ao evento, que foi marcado por clássicos como "Jingle Bells", "Natal Todo Dia", da banda Roupa Nova, "Natal Branco" e "Noite Feliz" e reuniu um grande público.

Ainda em dezembro de 2018, fez uma participação especial de canto no "A Bossa É Nossa", evento realizado no Teatro SESI Rio Vermelho, em Salvador, capital da Bahia, em homenagem aos sessenta anos de criação do gênero musical bossa nova pelo músico baiano João Gilberto. Juntamente com a violinista, compositora e cantora baiana Rita Tavares, o guitarrista e compositor amapaense Rudnei Monteiro, o percussionista sueco Sebastian Notini e o grupo vocal Púrpura, Patrícia cantou canções consagradas do estilo, como "Garota de Ipanema" e "Chega de Saudade", de Tom Jobim e Vinícius de Moraes, "Wave", de Tom Jobim, "O Barquinho", de Bôscoli e Roberto Menescal, e "Samba de Verão", de Marcos e Sérgio Valle. Também incluíram nas apresentações algumas músicas menos conhecidas, a exemplo de "Influência do Jazz", de Carlinhos Lyra, "Deixa", de Baden Powell e Vinícius de Moraes, "Sambou Sambou", de João Donato e João Melo, e "O Telefone", de Roberto Menescal e Ronaldo Bôscoli. Além de apresentações musicais, fizeram ainda uma abordagem dos elementos que caracterizam a bossa nova, como a batida ao violão e o jeito intimista de cantar criados por João Gilberto, as harmonias e melodias rebuscadas de Tom Jobim e a poesia de Vinícius de Morais.

Projetos

Desde 2015, promove o "Música Brasileira em Cena", projeto idealizado por ela que traz uma série de atividades para o público, como assistir a shows, participar de oficinas, palestras, master class e teatro infantil e trocar livros, CD's e DVD's. O evento dura cerca de um mês e é realizado na Casa da Cultura Brasília (703 Norte) e no Centro Cultural de Brasília (601 Norte).

Atualidade

Atualmente ela rege o coro infanto-juvenil Viva Voz e o Coro de Câmara do Departamento de Música da UnB e ministra aulas particulares de canto e canta no grupo de música popular Mina do Som.

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Going Linux because of Microsoft
04/06/2008 - by Thomas
Acer recently announced that they'll be pushing Linux aggressively on its laptops and netbooks.
The company is already heavily promoting Linux for its low cost ultra-portable netbook range out later this year, but senior staff have said that Acer will also push Linux on its laptops.
Acer has already started selling Linux in its Media PC business but this should now spread, according to Gianpiero Morbello, vice president of marketing and brand at Acer.
"We have shifted towards Linux because of Microsoft," he said. "Microsoft has a lot of power and it is going to be difficult, but we will be working hard to develop the Linux market."
Acer sees two killer apps with Linux on computers: operation and cost. Its flavour of Linux will boot in 15 seconds compared to minutes for Windows, and the open source operating system can extend battery life from five to seven hours.
At the same time, the company expects that the price differential of Linux will make the offering attractive for consumers at the low-cost end of the market.
"Microsoft's operating system typically costs around £50 per unit," said David Drummond, UK managing director at Acer. "On a £1,000 PC that is peanuts, but on a £199 computer it is a major issue."
Acer is currently the second-largest notebook producer in the world, behind HP.
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This happens when I use Dvd flick. After the encoding and finalizing, Img Burn automatically goes to work. No problem, this is what its supposed to do. What I dont understand is after it is done, the ImgBurn screen pops up again. I dont get it. Am I doing something wrong? What am I supposed to do from here? I was exploring my options and realized that the only mode I can work with from here is build. So I tried doing that, but I dont think Im doing it right because when I put in the .avi I want to use and ask me what my destination is when I click the folder icon it takes me to ImgBurn folder. Is this where I am supposed to save? This is all so confusing to me and any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you! Oh, almost forgot, dont know if this means anything but the Dvdflick is Version 1.3.0.6.
1) Just set the DVD Flick to make you the ISO file only.
Or do the Movie Folder ... which has VIDEO_TS and empty AUDIO_TS folder then use your Favorite Transcoder to make the ISO Image. I like doing it this way ... just a habit.
2) Then start ImgBurn separately and burn the ISO image!
I know with ImgBurn you can use Build Mode to burn the above Movie Folder ... but I like the way I do it.
Cleaner and less chances of screwing up things!
If you are on a 32 bit system you just right click the VIDEO_TS folder and the context menu has a "burn with Imgburn" command.
It seems to work with everything from XP to W7. Even works with Vista64 if you use my Half Shell hotkey gizmo.
Thanks for the Heads up on the ImgBurn goodie addition.
I myself not too crazy about Shell programs ... matter of a fact I hate them ... this happened right after a Stupid Converter program installed a SHELL without asking me on my desktop and after I removed the program I have since been never able to remove the Right-Click remnant of this Shell ... I am not mentioing the Programs name because I do NOT want to promote that Crappy program!
Thanks and keep the Proggy pointers coming ... I will find something that I Like.
You wouldn't happen to have Test Mode checked in ImgBurn itself would you? You could use this if you want to burn manually.
he burn by flick so imgburn write to iso then write to disk?
Long time no see! Do you still have all 4 BenQ burners showing in your Sigline!?!?
What happened to your Sigline ... I liked seeing the waving flag and all!
are there any good transcoders you suggest?
Sorry we can not talk about some of the Transcoders ... See Rule 19 of the Forum.
Other Transcoders "Only" type software ... you can also use "Nero Recode" ... usually comes with OEM Nero 6.6 and above.


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Wednesday 04-11-2020 12:00
Microsoft launches livestreaming ads for Xbox
Tyrone Stewart
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Microsoft has launched an advertising platform to enable retailers around the world to host ads showing real-time Xbox livestreams on their websites.
The ads, which stream content generated by Xbox Interactive Studios, show live gameplay footage and give consumers the ability to interact with gamers in real-time to ask questions about the games they are playing.
The ad platform – developed by Microsoft Global Channel Marketing alongside digital marketing agency Bolser – provides a video carousel that can promote more than 100 gaming titles through video and the ads can be tailored to include retailer-specific calls-to-action and gaming information.
In order to offer the combination of advertising and livestreaming, Microsoft Azure and Video Indexer has been integrated with streaming platforms including Twitch, YouTube, and Facebook Gaming. Azure Speech to Text technology also adds live subtitles to all content for accessibility.
Alongside the ad platform, a new Microsoft content management system delivers location-based video tagging and improved functionality, enabling retailers to post more than 300 videos per quarter.


Founded in 1974 the space presents contemporary art originating in the region of Basel.
Ausstellungsraum Klingental presents contemporary art originating in the region of Basel. Founded in 1974, directed by a periodically renewed team of dedicated artists and guest curators, it is a gallery where the exhibition space is understood as a place for meetings and hospitality between contemporary art and the public.
Ausstellungsraum Klingental temporarily locates at RANK, Kasernenstrasse 34, 4058 Basel due to rebuilding and renovations.


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Towards an Atlantic police state? (10) Militarising repression
This article is a translation of "Naar een Atlantische politiestaat? (10) Militarisering van de repressie"
Already in the 1990s, the problems associated with controlling sprawling slums was brought home to the US military when local militias in Mogadishu (Somalia) inflicted casualties in US forces in 1993, forcing them to withdraw ('Black Hawk Down'); the Iraq occupation taught comparable lessons. Four years later a joint training programme was initiated for the different US armed services to prepare for Third World street fighting. The RAND Corporation at that point warned of an 'urbanisation of insurgency'.
As the surplus population seeks to migrate from conditions of unemployment, civil conflict over resources, and overpopulation/ecological exhaustion, it further complicates issues associated with controlling labour, even organised labour. A respectable French magazine defines the threat to the country as composed of ISIS (the Islamic State) and the CGT, the militant trade union. Riots such as the revolt of the banlieues in the cities of France in 2005, which led the Villepin government to proclaim a state of exception, the comparable explosion in London in August 2011, spreading to 12 other cities and frequent unrest across the United States, usually triggered by police actions perceived as racist, bring 'Mogadishu'-like situations also to the wealthy West.
As a result, besides the external enemy as a concern legitimating defence, the emphasis moves back to the 'internal enemy'. From the early 1990s this has led to the emergence of a new concept of security in which strictly military defence is enlarged by border and riot control, also in metropolitan settings.
Controlling the globe's surplus humanity and establishing what has been called the 'Global Matrix of Control' to deal with the world's poor and marginalised, relies on the US and Israel. These two outclass all others in terms of experience with militarised securitisation: the United States as the world's policeman protecting the global capitalist economy as well as keeping its own black population under control, and Israel, 'the predominant authority on securitization and prolonged pacification'. This applies not only to the actual militants, because in both the cases of US blacks and of the Palestinians, only a tiny fraction is actively resisting ('terrorists'); most people are simply destitute and their desperation is one focused on survival. Indeed an Israeli specialist on population control plays down the priority given to terrorism and stresses instead that criminality and terrorism merge into each other. It is the existence of a restless underclass as such that must be confronted.
The expansion of the security concept and the business opportunities it offers, has brought a range of large corporations on board who would not immediately be recognised as defence firms. SAIC, Booz Allen Hamilton, RAND Corp., Cisco, Human Genome Sciences, eBay, PayPal, IBM, Google, Microsoft, AT&T, the BBC, Disney, General Electric and others are attracted to the surveillance and next-generation security fields. In Europe the new market opportunities accrue to companies like Thalès, Airbus, or Finmeccanica, but also to Israeli corporations like the defence conglomerate, Elbit, which realises 16 percent of its turnover in the EU. In France alone the defence industries have effectively doubled their market by moving into the new security fields.
In the relations between native European populations and the newcomers, the attitudes belonging to the colonial relationship persist. The politics of fear, evoked by the association between the 'illegal immigrant', the 'dangerous classes', and the new surplus population packed together in the slums of the big cities, reproduces this relation, especially since the third generation of immigrants from North Africa, Turkey and elsewhere, no longer can hope to improve their lot. Instead of combating this by creating education and job opportunities, governments often encourage mistrust among the mainstream population instead.
Surveillance is a key asset in controlling the restive suburbs and slums both in the developed and the underdeveloped world. As one aerospace publication puts it, the urban setting creates a 'battlespace environment that is decreasingly knowable'. Incomplete knowledge mixes with the use of double agents and provocation; in the process, the state's opportunistic and authoritarian attitude fosters state terrorism to deal with terrorism. The low-intensity war against domestic enemies undermines state authority to the point where the army degenerates into a collection of armed gangs similar to those in revolt, with the inhabitants becoming exposed to both. Even in the most stable societies, people must expect to have their identity checked and their persons searched at every turn. The real 'War on Terror' is the low-intensity world war of unlimited duration against criminalized segments of the urban poor.
For a complete text with full references see Surveillance Capitalism and Crisis


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Connecticut employers may recall discussions about a minimum wage increase to $10.10. However, we have not yet reached that point, though--that will be the number in 2017.


Crime fans are being invited to meet a best-selling author.
Stuart MacBride, seen as a leading light of the genre, will be meeting his fans next week.
He will be at Whitley Bay Library, in York Road, on Monday, April 24, from 7pm, to talk about his latest novel A Dark So Deadly.
A six-time number one best-seller, Stuart is the author of the critically acclaimed Logan McRae and Ash Henderson series of crime novels.
His work has won several prizes and earned rave reviews from critics and contemporaries and, in 2015, he was awarded an honorary doctorate by Dundee University.
His gripping new novel, described by Val McDermid as 'ferocious and funny', follows DC Callum MacGregor on the trail of a terrifying serial killer, after the discovery of a mummified body.
Tickets are £3. Anyone interested can book a place by calling Whitley Bay Library on (0191) 643 5390.


The Vineyard hotel is a very calming locations with beautiful gardens perfect for an outdoor wedding. The Vineyard is most popular with couples looking for a Just for us wedding where they can get away and enjoy some of the South Africa's famous Safari's and South African Culture.
The Ceremony can be performed in a Garden setting making the most of the African weather as well as being able to host couples bringing big wedding groups with beautiful decorated conference rooms creating the perfect locations for the Wedding Dinner.
The Vineyard hotel is a very calming locations with beautiful gardens perfect for an outdoor wedding. The Vineyard is most popular with couples looking for a "Just for us" wedding where they can get away and enjoy some of the South Africa's famous Safari's and South African Culture.
The award winning 2 storey "Vineyard Hotel & Spa Conference Centre" is one of the finest venues in Cape Town for conferences, wonderful for weddings or special occasions.


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Will the US Tax Court Stay Proceedings If There Is a Potential Criminal Case Pending?
If there is a legitimate fear that a criminal case could be impacted by ongoing civil proceedings, many courts, including the United States Tax Court, may stay the civil case, at least temporarily.
"[A] court may decide in its discretion to stay civil proceedings … when the interests of justice seem[] to require such action." Keating v. Office of Thrift Supervision, 45 F.3d 322, 324 (9th Cir. 1995) (internal quotations removed). The Ninth Circuit, to which appeal would lie for federal courts in California, in Keating v. Office of Thrift Supervision, 45 F.3d 322, 324-325 (9th Cir. 1995), has stated that a deciding court should consider the extent to which fifth amendment rights are implicated and the following factors:
(1) the interest of the other party in proceeding expeditiously with this litigation or any particular aspect of it, and the potential prejudice to the other party of a delay;
(2) the burden which any particular aspect of the proceedings may impose on the party requesting the stay;
(3) the convenience of the court in the management of its cases, and the efficient use of judicial resources;
(4) the interests of persons not parties to the civil litigation; and
(5) the interest of the public in the pending civil and criminal litigation.
The Tax Court may stay its proceedings where one of the principals of a company that has petitioned to Tax Court is potentially a target of a criminal investigation, even where the U.S. Attorney's Office articulates it has no present intention of charges with respect to the particular transactions at issue in the Tax Court case. In Ironbridge Corp. & Subsidiaries v. Commissioner, T.C. Memo. 2012-158, the Tax Court had continued the trial 18 months as a result of criminal proceedings, including a continuance after the U.S. Attorney's Office issued a letter stating it had no present intention of seeking criminal charges against the principal or his companies for the tax shelter at issue in Tax Court. The Tax Court in Ironbridge Corp. & Subsidiaries ultimately declined to grant a fourth stay, relying on the fact that the principal had "not been indicted during a lengthy investigative period," which "makes it much less likely that the integrity of a criminal proceeding will be jeopardized." Id.
Obviously, the Tax Court has to weigh the individual circumstances of each case, including how remote the danger is and how related the cases are. Stays are not generously granted, but judges take the constitutional rights of parties in criminal cases seriously. An experienced attorney should be consulted before making in any major decision in a court case.
The author of this post, Daniel Layton, is a former IRS trial attorney and former federal prosecutor who is the principal of a tax litigation boutique in Newport Beach, California.


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Home Music News Deluxe Edition Of Rory Gallagher's Debut Solo Album To Get 50th Anniversary...
Deluxe Edition Of Rory Gallagher's Debut Solo Album To Get 50th Anniversary Reissue
Fantastic news this week with the announcement of the 50th Anniversary Edition of Rory Gallagher's self-titled, 1971 debut solo album. The master licks of Yakety Sax have been compiled together for this record and will be accompanied by some previously unreleased material, as well as some exciting goodies for his fans.
A new mix of the original album will come as part of the Rory Gallagher; 50th Anniversary Edition, which is due to release September 3rd via UMC/ UMe. According to reports, the special bundle will also be including a whopping 30 previously unreleased outtakes and alternate takes, a six-song 1971 BBC Radio John Peel Sunday Concert, plus four 1971 BBC Radio Sounds of the Seventies session tracks, all mastered at Abbey Road Studios.
Cut-down versions of the deluxe boxset have been split into 2CD and 3LP editions and a special limited-edition Neon Orange (transparent) 1LP. This special LP will feature the John Peel Sunday Concert exclusively available via UMG's online stores uDiscover and Sound of Vinyl.
The bundle is also set to include a previously unreleased 50-minute DVD of Rory's first-ever solo concert, filmed in Paris for the Pop Deux television show. Fans cans also enjoy a very special 32-page hardback book, which is set to include rare and previously unseen photographs from British photographer Barrie Wentzell. The hardback will also share essays and memorabilia from the album recording, including hand-written song lyrics by the Bullfrog Blues musician, and an exclusive limited-edition poster.
With this fantastic boxset, fans can enjoy liner notes written by Gallagher's brother and manager Donal, long-time bass guitarist Gerry McAvoy, and Barrie Wentzell. A full interview conducted by journalist Roy Eldridge from 1971 is also included.
Gallagher's eponymous debut album showcased the Irish guitarist as a multi-faceted interpreter of the blues, from acoustic tracks to heavy blues soul. Although Rory passed away in '95 at the age of 47, his reputation has continued to flourish, with Joe Bonamassa, The Smiths' Johnny Marr, Slash and U2 guitarist The Edge citing him as an influence.
"Rory was one of the hardest working musicians around," Melody Maker journalist, Roy Hollingworth remembers. "The biggest shame about him was that he never really made it in the United States; yet he was one of the best blues guitar players. He had true grit . . . that Irish soul to his playing that the British blues guitarists never had."
A man beloved by many, it is no surprise to hear so many stars have been influenced by the great Yakety Sax. In fact, his popularity has brought incredible success to a book about the legendary guitarist, which has been re-released this year. In Rory Gallagher; The Man Behind the Guitar, author Julian Vignoles uses extensive interviews to cast new light on what inspired Gallagher, and on the complex personality that drove his career.
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Maltego is a popular security research and forensics tool produced by Paterva. Investigators use it as a powerful data mining tool because it allows them to create directed graphs that combine disparate digital forensics, perform a deeper analysis, and gain a more comprehensive perspective. Maltego focuses on providing a library of transforms (a transform is a piece of code that works like an API to link capabilities in different platforms and applications) to combine security data feeds from open source and private intelligence, and then visualising that information in a graph format. A new seamless integration of the of CipherTrace cryptocurrency intelligence platform into Maltego allows users to easily risk-rate and trace tainted bitcoin addresses and transactions.
A free trial is now available on the Maltego transform hub which you can access by logging into Maltego and installing the CipherTrace transforms directly. If you don't have Maltego, you can download free "Community" version here: https://www.paterva.com/web7/downloads.php.
The CipherTrace transforms access advanced CipherTrace blockchain intelligence, which combines millions of new attribution data points through advanced machine learning algorithms to identify a variety of risky locations.
CipherTrace blockchain intelligence identifies risky transaction characteristics and locations, including known criminal, dark market and gambling sites as well as mixers.
Mixing services are money laundering services also known as Mixers, Tumblers, and Foggers. A cryptocurrency tumbler or cryptocurrency mixing service offers users the opportunity to mix potentially identifiable or 'tainted' cryptocurrency funds with others. The intention is obviously to make it difficult to follow the trail back to the funds' original source.
Mixing helps to protect privacy, but it can also be used for money laundering by mixing illegally obtained funds with legitimate funds. Mixing large amounts of money may be illegal—i.e., in violation of anti-money laundering laws.
The combination of Maltego and the CipherTrace platform is an exciting development for investigators. Essentially, it helps to connect the dots by linking disparate elements of the digital evidence involved in money laundering as well as criminal or illicit uses of cryptocurrencies. It also enables cryptocurrency investigation to be tightly coupled and interrelated with different pieces of the digital puzzle.
To install the CipherTrace transforms in Maltego, simply select CipherTrace in the Maltego Transform Hub.
A window will appear giving you the option to install CipherTrace.
After you click Install, a window appears, confirming the installation of 13 CipherTrace transforms.
The transforms operate at three levels—bitcoin address, bitcoin transaction and bitcoin wallets. Bitcoin Address and Bitcoin Transaction transforms enable you to calculate the current state of a coin or transaction: i.e., its risks and attribution details.
A bitcoin address is a public cryptographic key that "owns" bitcoins. This address is used to uniquely identify bitcoins. The person or persons who know the corresponding private key can send those bitcoins to any other address. The cryptographic keys that control an address are typically stored on a users' computers or on their mobile devices in a software app.
Addresses can be explored in the CipherTrace Bitcoin Address transform.
You can also augment these results with additional details gleaned from fetching IP addresses, inbound and outbound transactions, and wallet transaction data.
Selecting the Bitcoin Address transform "To Detail [CipherTrace]" returns a variety of useful details. This is an example of a money mixing, laundering, service.
The "To Inbound transaction [CipherTrace]" and "To outbound Transaction [CipherTrace]" transforms allow you to move back and forth through time in the blockchain forensics data. This capability enables you to trace the addresses to see if they have been tainted and ascertain the risks associated with bitcoin addresses, transaction, and wallets.
For instance, the screen above shows a high-risk transaction with a known dark market.
Alternatively, you can perform a trace based on a transaction.
A transaction is a record in the public bitcoin blockchain that records the movement of bitcoins, or portions of them, from one address to another. Transactions are uniquely identified by a transaction ID. A transaction has one or more outputs, and can be looked up in the CipherTrace Transaction transform screen.
The CipherTrace transaction tracing options include destination addresses, source addresses, and risk scoring. You can gain wallet information by tracing the addresses of the transactions. All of the data provided can easily integrate into other Maltego transforms to make your investigations and research as seamless and intuitive as possible.
A wallet address is a way of grouping bitcoin addresses into one group that is likely to be controlled by a single user or by a service. These groupings may not be 100% accurate. There are a number of ways to compute wallet addresses. One way is the "multi-input clustering" method, which allows you to analyze multi-input transactions and associate them with known patterns.
Wallets can be used to identify exchanges, locations, and other details.
Where does the entity information come from?
The CipherTrace platform uses state-of-the-art tracing and software tools to gain attribution on global entities, allowing you to distinguish risky and tainted addresses and wallets from safe ones.
The blockchain is busy and your query timed out so you must retry it.
What is the difference between low- and high-risk address/transactions?
Transaction risk scores are aggregated based on the input and output addresses. Address risk scores are calculated through deep research into address interactions and past transactions. Low-risk scores are given to addresses and transactions that have no negative attribution or risky behavior. High-risk scores are calculated based on direct association with illegal/high-risk sites or where the entity conducting the transaction has directly interacted with other high-risk addresses.
How do you determine the owner of a wallet?
It is the entity that CipherTrace identifies through attribution and clustering algorithms; it is not an actual individual.
How can you view all properties of an address/wallet/transaction?
You will find all property information in the lower right corner of the Maltego graphing window. Alternatively, you can double-click on any entity within the graph to view properties as well.


Yesterday it was Happy Valentine's Day and today it's Happy Firday!
In yesterday's post I showed you all part I (the front) of this card and am so excited for you to see the inside! Usually the inside of cards are simple and just words, but not this time!
"Can you Bee-lieve… Its almost Spring!". . .
Check out that adorable 3D spring and bumble bee! Just recently, I have come down with a spring fever and am itching for sun and color! The grocery's store being packed with beautiful fresh flowers (especially tulips, my favorite!) for the holidays don't help the situation much either!
A while back I pinned a beautiful spring card photo onto our Craft-e-Corner Cards! Pinterest Board and it was the perfect photo to get me pinspired, I mean inspired, for this card!
Using my Cricut Expression 2 Machine I cut out a solid circle at 2.5″ and hand cut it into a swirl. Using my adhesive runner I adhered down the start of the spring to the bottom of my card (with intentions to cover it up later). I added adhesive to the very center 'end' part of my swirl and let it lay flat. By closing the card and pressing down the swirl attached to just the right spot on the top of my card!
For the inside I cut out a black and white layered rectangle for the sentiment and rounded the corners. I put this just high enough to cover the start of my 'spring'. Of course to add a little yellow SHINE to my card I added just a few pearl dots my SUNNY YELLOW Pearl Pen! This little bottle of sunshine is my most recent crafting addiction, a must-have for spring and summer crafting!
. . .and check out this AWESOME video where Megan Elizabeth shows us how to create your own pearl strands with Pearl Pens!
That fun technique blows me away and is so much fun! Oh the possibilities of these little Viva Decor Pearl Pens! Anyways, back to the card!
So here it is in action. . .well, kind of!
Open the card and see. . .It's Almost Spring!
. . .and open it a little bit further and out springs a little bumble bee! This adorable bumble bee was cut out using my Cricut Expression 2 Machine and the Walk In My Garden Cricut Cartridge! Another great Cricut craft room must-have for spring and summer!
. . .and there you have it! My Bee-tiful card for spring complete and ready to share!
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Lovely card, good idea with the 3D embellishment. Must try it sometime. Beautiful spring colours.
Never have but this is very cute!


CRACKS were found in the concrete supporting Edinburgh's tram lines shortly after last week's test run.
Experts say the cracks could become an ongoing maintenance headache for the controversial and delayed £776 million transport project.
Engineers spotted the cracks in concrete under an elevated section of the track near the Edinburgh Park tram stop. Trams made their maiden voyages along the lines last week, and the project is due to open to the public next year. Professor Lewis Lesley, technical director of light rail company Trampower, warned that expansion joints had not been added to the concrete.
He said: "What will happen is the reinforcement wires will rust and then the concrete will break apart.
"It's clearly going to be a maintenance problem.
"They would need to check for any further cracks and fill them with an epoxy cement grout, but it indicates that this is a bit of a rushed job and they didn't quite get it right."
An Edinburgh-based chartered structural engineer firm, which did not want to be named, said the cracking was "most likely associated with shrinkage after casting the concrete".
A written assessment of the damage said: "I would imagine the contractor should be asked to confirm the cause and provide a solution for remedial work."
A council spokesman said: "Cracking within concrete is common and the majority of cracks, such as this one, have no structural influence on performance. The contractor and the council have a monitoring process in place."


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jim moginie - The I-94 Bar
An elf who won't stay on the shelf
Set Yourself Easy – Kent Steedman (self released)
Adjust your expectations. This is not a collection of Celibate Rifles-styled pyrotechnics -although some (notably, "Lockdown Shuffle" and the title track) could have worked for them.
Anyone who's been paying attention knows that Kent Steedman has never been just about flamethrower rock. His work outside the Rifles has spanned the oblique, avant noise of Crent, the proto-boogie blues of Jim Moginie and the Family Dog, sonic adventurism with the Deniz Tek Group and live shows using Tibetan singing bowls.
BARFLY TOP TEN: Sydney's Celebrity Roadie Peter "Rossy" Ross
It's almost 2019… and the world seems to be going mad. But the big question I ask myself… is rock dead?
I see alternate styles of music like rap, hip-hop and commercial pop dominating youth culture. I wouldn't recognise Drake or Flume if they dropped their USB sticks in front of me. In closeted rock'n'roll enclaves such as the I-94 Bar dirty rock'n'roll seems to be thriving, but one by one icons are dropping off the perch. How much longer can it survive?
The benchmark I've been looking at is guitar sales. Electric guitar sales have slipped 22.7 percent since 2008… the price of guitars is rocketing, yet it appears that the acoustic market is on the up… Something like a 15 percent increase over the same period. Although insipid, whiny vocal sounds have probably been tied to the same trend.
The trend that parallels the increase of Ed Sheeran wannabes is the rise of vinyl sales. I'd guess that pot smoking hippies, listening on their Technics SL1200 to Bob Dylan re-masters trying figure out how to play protest songs while avoiding the dreaded F chord are to blame.
Despite my sense of foreboding I did manage to catch some quality rock'n'roll but I put that down to confirmation bias. My personal faves:
Magnificent show signals that it's Oil over
Hordern Pavillion
Shona Ross photos
Midnight Oil are Australian icons. People are often divided about where the split in their canon lives… that point where they stopped being a pub rock staple and moved into political activists. People of a particular political persuasion love them; they worship the ground they walk on, while their detractors feel equally aggrieved by their preaching. While tonight was one for the true believers, it also had something for everyone.
The Hordern has been the scene of Sydney's greatest rock shows. This was one of them. It was the end of an era, probably where the last doors of an eight-tonne touring truck slammed closed on the glory days of Aussie pub rock. By the looks of the crowd of aged and gnarled surfers, elderly vets of rock days gone by, and the second and third generations of Oils fans, they couldn't have kept up the pace of a five-night-a-week gigging schedule, anyway.
Wandering past the venue on our way to the Captain Cook Hotel pre-gig, the faithful were assembling en masse nearly three hours before kick-off. Hordes of worn T-shirts, black with the familiar yellow cover of their second album, "Head Injuries" adorned every second or third punter… as we neared the end of the Hordern and opened door gave us a glimpse of the Oils sound checking their 2020 staple "Gadigal Land" … and it sounded good. It augured well for the night ahead.


Formed around 627AD by Monk Paulinus, the first Archbishop of York.
Dewsbury derives from Dewi's Burh, meaning "David's fortification".
The town thrived in the Industrial Revolution - making blanket and miliary uniforms from discarded cloth known as "shoddy and mungo".
Dewsbury men Sergeant William Ormsby and Private Horace Walker were awarded the Victoria Cross.
The town is famous for its Wednesday and Saturday markets, with more than 300 stalls.
Greg Rusedski was able to play tennis for Great Britain because his mother was born in Dewsbury.
Actor Patrick Stewart was born in nearby Mirfield. He worked for a very brief period as a journalist for the town's local newspaper the Dewsbury Reporter.
Wallace Hartley, bandmaster on the RMS Titanic when it sank in 1912, lived in Dewsbury.
Dewsbury is referenced in the Beatles' 1967 film Magical Mystery Tour.
The town has the only Minster church in West Yorkshire.
The Reverend Patrick Bronte, the father of Anne, Charlotte and Emily Bronte, was rector of Dewsbury parish church from 1809 to 1811.


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Gangnam-gu (hangul: 강남구; Hanja: 江南區) – jedna z 25 dzielnic (zwanych "gu") Seulu, położona w południowo-wschodniej części miasta. Według spisu z 2010 roku posiada ona 527,641 mieszkańców (czwarta pod względem zaludnienia dzielnica Seulu), a jej powierzchnia wynosi 39,5 km², co pod względem wielkości daje jej trzecią pozycję wśród wszystkich dzielnic stolicy.

Gospodarka
Dzielnica Gangnam znana jest z silnej koncentracji bogactwa oraz wysokiego standardu życia, w związku z czym porównywana jest do Beverly Hills w Kalifornii. Przy średnich cenach mieszkań 5.500 $ za m², wyliczanych dla całego Seulu, w dzielnicy Gangnam wskaźnik ten wynosi 10.000 $ za m², co jest wartością 3,5 razy większą niż wynosi średnia krajowa dla Korei Południowej.

Na terenie dzielnicy swoje siedziby mają firmy takie jak: KEPCO, OKF, GS Group, Hyundai Department, HITEJinro, Hansol, Hankook Tire, GLOVIS, Korea Zinc Corporation, Young Poong Group T`way Airlines, Hankook P&G, Pandora TV czy NC Soft. Na jego terenie działają również międzynarodowe firmy, np. IBM, Google, Toyota i AMI.

Edukacja
Przy wysokim poziomie nauczania dla całego kraju, Gangnam-gu jest jednym z głównych ośrodków naukowych stolicy i całego państwa. W 2010 roku aż 6% nowych studentów przyjętych na najlepszą uczelnię w kraju - Narodowy Uniwersytet Seulski - pochodziło właśnie z dzielnicy Gangnam-gu, której mieszkańcy stanowią zaledwie 1% populacji całego kraju. W 2008 roku 22.7 na 1.000 mieszkańców Gangnam-gu wyjechało na studia za granicę, podczas gdy wskaźnik ten dla całego kraju plasuje się na poziomie 3.6 na 1.000 studentów.

Imprezy masowe
Na terenie dzielnicy odbywa się wiele rozmaitych imprez masowych. Niektóre z nich to:
 International Peace Marathon Festival mający miejsce w październiku
 Gangnam Fashion Festival w październiku
 Sports Festival dla mieszkańców dzielnicy, odbywający się w maju
 Daemosan Festival

Kultura popularna
 Dzielnica Gangnam-gu stała się szczególnie znana na całym świecie poprzez piosenkę pt. "Gangnam Style" w wykonaniu PSY.
 Część stacji metra na terenie dzielnicy Gangnam stało się areną kręcenia hollywoodzkiego filmu Tożsamość Bourne'a z 2002 roku.

Przypisy

Dzielnice Seulu


MKiii are the light bearing versions of the MKii. If you need a RTI compatible holster with a light(HANGER #35 MUST BE PURCHASED FROM GCODE, NOT INCUDED). This is your rig. Want it to work with Bladetech accessories? It can do that too. If you want to run this set up without an annoying drop leg order it with the Proctor Offset drop Mount. It will put the top of the slide relative to the belt line and away from your body about 1/2″.
The MKiii holster can now be ordered with a Level 2 Bladetech WRS Type hood locking mechanism for a secondary retention method.
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Onychogomphus malabarensis är en trollsländeart som först beskrevs av Fraser 1924.  Onychogomphus malabarensis ingår i släktet Onychogomphus och familjen flodtrollsländor. IUCN kategoriserar arten globalt som otillräckligt studerad. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.

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Q: How to make openGL ES2 background transparent I use PowerVR sgx sdk and the hardware platform is a Ti DM8168 chip with linux running on it.I make a openGL ES2 demo and found that the background of openGL demo is always black.I also compile QT lib with openGL sdk and make a Qt demo with QGLWidget, but the background of QGLWidget is also black.
glClearColor(0.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f);deoes not work.
first open fb0,and paint something.
then open GL painting.This will cover the whole screen.
In Qt demo, the QGLWidget always has a background cover the Widget behind it.Qt interface can not affect the openGL showing.
The powerVR demo didnot talk about this.It seems a tough thing on The embedded system.
I want that like this picture, the background is a Qwidget menu, and the square is openGL object in QGLWidget and back ground of QGLWidget is transparent.
Father, the QT always directly rend the openGL screen, so the rending content cover the framebuffer where other under layer widgets show.

A: It is not tough and is possible. An OpenGL(ESx) application, always draws either to a (fullscreen) framebuffer (when using NULL window system and a standalone openGLESx application), or to a Qt window, when using QWS as in your case.
To be able to make this window transparent, you can do below:
(1) Draw whatever you need to be transparent, onto one of the planes in DSS of DM8x
(2) Draw the background (non transparent) frame to the lower plane in DSS
Now you can use global Alpha setting for each plane to manage how the top layer is visible. Refer to below thread for an example of this approach.
http://e2e.ti.com/support/embedded/linux/f/354/t/70597.aspx


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Secretary-General's remarks at Stanford University (as prepared for delivery)
It is a real pleasure to be here at this prestigious university.
Stanford has certainly made its mark on the world.
You dominate the field. You tackle obstacles. You reach your goal.
And that's just your football team!
Congratulations on winning the Rose Bowl.
And while I am at it, let me also salute your outstanding women's basketball team.
Stanford's success on the playing field has been clear for years in the field of international affairs.
I have personally benefitted from the leadership, advice and guidance of so many of Stanford's own.
Secretary of Defense William Perry and Secretary of State George Schultz have helped lead the way on nuclear disarmament – reflecting a consensus for common sense solutions that transcends party lines.
I have also worked closely through the years with Secretary Condoleezza Rice …Ambassador Susan Rice ... Ambassador Michael Armacost …
and many others including a good number of United Nations staff serving around the world.
Our wonderful hosts this afternoon – the Walter Shorenstein Asia Pacific Research Center and the Freeman Spogli Institute of International Studies – have both greatly advanced global understanding and the work of the United Nations.
I am honoured to be here to thank you deeply for all of that.
But I am also here for another reason.
I try my best to travel this country, engage directly with the American people, raise awareness about the United Nations and thank you for your support.
Every day, the United Nations feeds over 90 million people – and assists more than 33 million refugees. We vaccinate almost 60 percent of the world's children. We keep the peace with 115,000 peacekeepers in 15 operations on 4 continents.
We deliver more humanitarian aid than anyone and to the toughest places. We fight poverty and climate change and advance democracy, supporting dozens of elections around the world. And we push for human rights and education everywhere.
The record shows whether in Iraq, Afghanistan, Sudan or beyond, an investment in the UN yields an outsize return. By working with the UN, no country needs to tackle big challenges alone. And no country is alone in footing the bill.
More and more often in our globalized world, good international solutions are in the national interest.
I want to thank you and all of the American people for that vital support.
More specifically, let me say how good it is to be in this great state.
California is a beacon for the world. You spark the global imagination. You are an epicentre of entrepreneurship and innovation.
You are on the frontier of new ways to solve problems and see the world.
The United Nations itself was born in the Bay area with the San Francisco Conference that approved the UN Charter. And in many ways my life as a global citizen also came to life here.
This is the first place I visited outside of Korea.
More than 50 years ago, I came to California as a wide-eyed high school student. I was part of a Red Cross exchange program.
I was a simple country boy. South Korea was a poor country, still devastated by the war less than ten years before.
Our group travelled around the country. We even met President John F. Kennedy in the Rose Garden.
But, for me, it all started about 70 miles from here – in Novato, California to be exact.
That is where I stayed as a guest of the Patterson family for 8 unforgettable days. The Patterson family became my American family and Mrs. Patterson, my American mother.
We have stayed in close touch over the last five decades.
Mrs. Patterson is now 95 years old.
And I am pleased to say that she is with us today.
Please join me in welcoming my American mother, Libba Patterson and my American brothers and sisters, the Patterson family.
My trip here opened my eyes to the world.
I returned to Korea a different person.
First of all, I was a celebrity.
We didn't have YouTube back then, but in my village, I was the 1950's equivalent of Psy!
But on a deeper level, I came back knowing exactly what I wanted to do with my life.
I wanted to serve my country and the world.
It was here in California that I first felt I could grab the stars from the sky.
This is where my dream of public service took flight … in this exhilarating, stimulating, new world.
Today I want to talk about the world we now face and the future we must shape together.
Throughout the ages, people have said that the world is in the midst of big change.
But the level and degree of global change that we face today is far more profound than at any other period in my adult lifetime.
I call this period the Great Transition.
It is economic, as engines of growth and economic power continue to shift with the rise of the Asia Pacific region, and as we move increasingly and irreversibly to a multipolar world.
The transition is developmental, as we seek a more sustainable path for people and our planet.
The transition is political as landmark change in the Arab world and beyond brings new hope to places that have long been deserts of democracy.
I believe we face a unique opportunity. Because the changes we face are so profound – the decisions we make will have a deeper and more lasting impact than perhaps any other set of decisions in recent decades.
We have no time to lose.
Today I want to talk about three essential ways to navigate our way through this Great Transition.
First, by truly advancing sustainable development – second, by helping people meet their aspirations for democracy and dignity – and third, by empowering women and young people.
First, the sustainable development challenge.
I have made sustainable development the leading priority of the United Nations.
Let me tell you why.
In the next twenty years, the world will need at least 50 per cent more food … 45 per cent more energy … and 30 per cent more water.
At the current rate, we will soon need two planet earths.
But we have only one planet.
There can be no Plan B because there is no planet B.
Both science and economics tell us that we need to change course – and soon.
From Manhattan and the Midwest to Mumbai, climate change is threatening lives and livelihoods.
I know you understand. After all, Stanford's mascot is a tree. You get it.
And I know Stanford-educated entrepreneurs and investors are helping to build the clean energy, low-carbon economy of tomorrow, right now. And in the process you are proving that green growth is good for the economy and job creation.
You know we cannot drill or mine our way to growth. We cannot keep burning our way to prosperity.
With the eighth-largest economy in the world, California has a special role. Your state has blazed the trail on clean air legislation – and recently put into effect a first-of-its-kind market-based, cap-and-trade law to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
I am convinced national and state action can spur progress in the global negotiations, creating a virtuous cycle. This will help us reach our goal of a legally binding global agreement by 2015.
This is the path to a more sustainable future.
Living in a wealthy, globally connected country, we might often forget that one out of every five people on the planet still do not have access to modern electricity.
That is why I launched my Sustainable Energy for All initiative. It is a global partnership with governments, the private sector and civil society based on three goals:
Universal access to modern energy services; doubling energy efficiency; and doubling the renewable energy share in the overall global energy mix.
These objectives are challenging, but they can be met
With your help – your entrepreneurial know-how… your innovative technologies…your financing savvy and investments – I am confident we will succeed.
As we work for sustainable development, we need sustainable peace. That leads me to the second key – ensuring that we deliver on people's demands for dignity and democracy.
Let me focus on Syria.
You have seen the tragedy play out on your television screens. Neighborhoods razed. Hospitals destroyed. And this week, a university bombed.
Syria is in a death spiral.
More than 60,000 have tragically lost their lives in bloodshed that will soon enter its third year.
This crisis has several dimensions.
First, humanitarian. Four million people need immediate assistance. Two million have abandoned their homes. 600,000 have fled the country.
The UN is doing its part – providing food, shelter and other life-saving assistance where we can. Last month, I visited the Za'atari refugee camp in Jordan and the Islahiye refugee camp in Turkey.
I met young children – 5, 6 years old – who wanted nothing more than to go home and go to school.
I told them not to lose hope.
But we face two real constraints on our humanitarian work. The first is financial. Our humanitarian appeal is woefully underfunded. That is why I am convening a high-level international pledging conference in Kuwait on January 30 to help raise the $1.5 billion that is needed.
The second challenge is access. We cannot physically reach all people in need. We are working with the Syrian authorities and all parties to help more people, and that is yielding some results. But much more can and must be done.
Beyond the humanitarian, the Syria crisis is obviously political.
Given the deep divisions today, it may be difficult to envision Syrians sitting across the table working out the details of a transition plan that protects citizens and preserves the institutions of a state.
The region is similarly divided between those supporting the government and others supporting the opposition. These divisions are also reflected in the Security Council.
Our diplomatic efforts are aimed at finding the common ground to replace the death and the deadlock.
Last week in Geneva the Joint Special Representative Lakhdar Brahimi helped achieve a Russian-US-UN definition of what powers a transitional governing body would hold.
But we are still a long way from getting the Syrians together to make the key decisions that only they can make.
I call on the Security Council and the international community to help the Syrian people build a new and democratic Syria where the rights of all groups and minorities are fully protected.
I know you join me in sending a clear message to all sides: End the killing. End the violence. End the bloodshed in the name of our common humanity.
I am also closely following developments in Mali which has been the scene of appalling human rights violations and extremist violence.
The international community is responding to the government of Mali's call for help in countering the armed and terrorist groups. I hope these actions will contribute to the overall goal of fully restoring Mali's constitutional order and territorial integrity.
Beyond Syria and the Sahel, we must continue to work for peace, justice and human rights throughout the Arab world and beyond. Hard-won gains must not be reversed – particularly for all those women and young people on the frontlines.
That leads me to the third and final key to advancing our common goals in this world in transition: empowering the world's most underutilized resource, women and young people.
Far too often, I look across conference tables around the world and see the same thing: Men. Only men.
That must change. The world needs more women in the Cabinet. More women in Parliament. More women in board rooms.
At the United Nations, we are striving to lead by example.
I have nearly doubled the number of women in the most senior UN positions.
Our top officials for humanitarian affairs, human rights, development and disarmament are women. So, too, is my chief of staff as well as are our top doctor, top lawyer, even our top cop who leads more than 10,000 United Nations police around the world.
Let me add, that I am pleased that my own country Republic of Korea now has its own first-ever woman President.
At the same time, empowering young people is crucial.
Half the world is under 25 years of age.
Young women and men everywhere want decent jobs. They want dignity. They want a greater say in their own destiny.
We must support them. And for that, we must step up our efforts.
That is why today I appointed Ahmad Alhindawi of Jordan as our first-ever Envoy on Youth.
I strongly believe the priorities of youth should be just as prominent in our meeting space as they are in cyberspace.
Expanding the frontiers of opportunity and human rights also sometimes requires us to broaden our own boundaries of understanding.
I speak about the fight for full equality of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community around the world.
Some say that sexual orientation and gender identity is a sensitive subject. I understand.
I did not grow up in a culture or at a time when we talked about these issues.
But, as Secretary-General, I learned to speak out for one essential reason: lives and fundamental values are at stake.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is clear: All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.
Not some people – all people.
I will continue to stand up and speak out.
As one advocate at the United Nations recently said:
If it is not equality for all – it is not equality at all.
I have put forward a long to-do list this afternoon.
But I am convinced that this time of Great Transition is also a period of great opportunity.
And I believe with your help and support, the United Nations and the international community can and will step up.
In many ways, I still carry the same energy and enthusiasm and sense of wonder that I did when I first landed on Mrs. Patterson's doorstep half a century ago.
Everything my life has taught me points to the power of international solidarity to overcome any obstacle.
Growing up, the UN was a beacon of hope for me and my country.
That hope first brought me to California where I learned to reach for the stars while keeping myself grounded – to dream big dreams – and to be a global citizen.
I urge you to harness that same spirit and make a difference for your country and our world.
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