Welcome, thank you for joining us. My name is Andrea Matney and we are here for the National Archives Know Your Records program. The goal of the Know Your Records program is to provide educational resources on how to access and do research using U.S. federal government records. Because we are broadcasting live from the National Archives in Washington, D.C. and St. Louis, I have several instructions on how to participate in today's live broadcast. For those of you who are watching online during the live broadcast, you can submit questions by first logging into YouTube on this page. Once you've logged in, you can type in your questions or comments and we will ask those questions of the presenter at the end of his talk. So you will find that link or you can log in and you'll find three links on this web page as well. One will take you to the presentation slides, another to the captioning, and the third one to the event evaluation form. So today's program is Digitizing Records from Pearl Harbor by Eric Kilgore. Mr. Kilgore is a supervisory archive specialist at the National Archives in St. Louis. He has been with the agency since 2010 and currently serves as the research room supervisor for textual and microfilm records. Mr. Kilgore holds a BA and MA in history from the University of Missouri. Since 2015, he has worked with the National Park Service to digitize the records of the casualties at Pearl Harbor, beginning with the U.S.S. Arizona. It is with great pleasure that I would like to turn over the broadcast to Eric Kilgore. Thank you Andrea, thank you for inviting me to be part of the Know Your Records program at the National Archives and allowing me to speak about the partnership between the National Archives and the National Park Service to digitize the official military personnel files of those people who lost their life due to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor December 7th, 1941. In preparation for this presentation, I was asked why or how I became interested in the U.S.S. Arizona or Pearl Harbor and it's an interesting story and it kind of highlights why outreach and programs like this are important. When I was probably about 11 years old, I went to the school book fair and they had these close down the freedoms books and I found one called the story of the U.S.S. Arizona by Arton Redstein. I still have the book but that was kind of like the rabbit hole for me. From that point on I had to read everything I could about Pearl Harbor in the U.S.S. Arizona and I was fortunate enough to be able to meet a young art ranger named Daniel Martillas who came in front of us for a model convention. He was from the U.S.S. Arizona Memorial and after speaking with him and spending some time with him, he went back to Hawaii and pretty much raided the bookshop, sent me books, souvenirs, all kinds of stuff. I still have all of that today. Him taking the time to do that is kind of what set me on this path. I went to school or in my degrees in history. Now I work at the National Archives so in 2015 when Ranger Dan who is now the chief historian of the U.S.S. Arizona Memorial Contact again to participate in this partnership with the National Park Survey. We digitized the crew records starting with the Arizona. I was most definitely surprised and excited to take part in this. So with that I'm going to switch over to my slides. As I stated this project began in 2015 with the immediate goal of reviewing digitizing the official military personnel files of the 1,177 sailors and Marines who perished aboard the U.S.S. Arizona on December 7th, 1941. Soon after the scope of the project expanded to eventually include all of the military casualties sustained on the island of Oahu from the Japanese attack. In 2016 I was honored to be invited by the National Park Service to attend the commemoration of the 74th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor as a representative of the National Archives. I attended ceremonies, spoke with surviving members of the Arizona's crew, gave lectures about our holdings using the official military personnel files to highlight individuals that had historical relevance to certain sites around the island. Most importantly on December 7, 2016 I attended the internment ceremony of John D. Anderson and Clarendon Hettrick U.S.S. Arizona survivors who had passed away in the preceding months. I was able to return this last December for the 78th anniversary of Pearl Harbor and attend another internment for an Arizona crew member who had passed away, Lauren Broomer. I was able to meet Lauren in 2016 at the 75th anniversary. I spent some time talking about his ship at a time on the Arizona and although Lauren didn't like talking about the events of December 7, he was always happy to talk about his ship, his crewmates, and the fond memories that he had prior to that day. So a little bit of background about the Arizona. She was a Pennsylvania class battleship commissioned in October of 1916. She was 608 feet long. For perspective if you're familiar with the Iowa class battleships like the USS Missouri, Arizona was about 280 feet shorter. However for a day she was an impressive hulk of a ship boasting four turrets of three 14-inch main guns, host of five-inch anti-aircraft guns along with an array of smaller caliber multi-aircraft defense weapons. Her displacement was 30,000 tons and in December of 1941 she had a crew of 1,512 men. Arizona was considered by many to be deprived of Pacific food and also served as the flagship of Battle for the Vision 1, which was commanded by Admiral Isaac C. Pid. Arizona was his ship. On the morning of December 7, 1941 at 7.55 a.m. the Japanese commenced their attack on Pearl Harbor. The general quarters alarm sounded aboard Arizona and almost immediately were going through his way in action. Admiral Kidd was on the bridge of the Arizona directing efforts to defend the ship and the harbor as Japanese planes strafed the food. Around 8.06 a.m. a second wave of high altitude bombers flying at around 10,000 feet relieved their bombs over Battleship Row. One armor-piercing bomb struck the Arizona between turrets one and two crashing through the decks before donating in the forward powder magazine. In that instant over a thousand of the Arizona's crew including Admiral Kidd and the ship's skipper captain Franklin Van Balkenburg perished. The heat from the explosion was so intense the only remnants recovered of these two men were Admiral Kidd's Naval Academy ring which was well with the armor steel bulkhead. The Captain Van Balkenburg's ring recovered from Navy divers on the navigation bridge. The crew of the Arizona fought valiantly to defend their ship, their home, and their country. Their terrifying and harrowing fight lasted all of 11 minutes. When the flames cleared and the wreckage of the Arizona settled into the floor of the harbor this was the human cost of the worst naval loss in U.S. history. 1,177 sailors and Marines that constituted almost 30 percent of the crew. Out of the 88 men on the Marine Detachment only 15 survived. A lot of people have heard these stats about the 38 sets of brothers, one set of quen, the father and son. It was a pretty horrific loss of life. Three years after the war ended the families of those lost on the Arizona as well as veteran organizations even Elvis Presley lobbied for the Navy to construct a memorial honoring those entombed in the hull of the Arizona. In 1962 that became a reality with the completion and dedication of the USS Arizona Memorial. The memorial which straddles the ship's hull contains a reflecting pool looking upon the depth of the Arizona and a shrine well constructed from Vermont marble inscribed with the names of the 1177 sailors and Marines who died as a result of the December 7th attack. Later additions were added like the one in the foreground of the photograph to display the names of 44 USS Arizona survivors who chose to have their cremated remains returned to the ship upon their passing. Like tombstones in a cemetery the elements are harsh and the shrine wall from time to time requires routine maintenance and replacement to maintain the beauty and dignity of the memorial. The wall was completely replaced in 1984 and again in 2015. Since the memorial's opening visiting family and friends have commented from time to time there were misspellings or incorrect rates of sailors or ranks of the Marines. National Park Service historians began to question what information was used for the inscription on the original wall and what group and a comparison of subsequent iterations revealed inconsistencies as well. In the lead up to the decision to replace the shrine wall in 2015 and in consideration of the discrepancies in the existing wall chief historian Daniel Martinez lobbied to conduct a review of all 1177 official military personnel files at the National Archives at St. Louis. The goals are simple. First verify that all of the spellings were correct using enlistment documents corroborated with other official documents or correspondence found in the OMPFs. Second ensure that the final rating or rank of the individual listed on the wall was correct. World War II Navy OMPFs are affectionately referred to often St. Louis as bricks either their stolen jacket resembling a red brick consists of two parts. The service booklet which followed the sailor and marine to which ever ship or duty station they were assigned to and the jacket which remained at the Bureau of Navigation which later became the Bureau of Naval Personnel in May of 1942. The idea being that as updates were transcribed into the service booklet a copy would be forwarded to the Bureau to be filed in that jacket. The reason for many of the inconsistencies in the ratings and ranks was due to the fact that at the time of the attack the ships clerks had not forwarded the most recent promotion or demotion documents to the Bureau of Navigation. Most of those records were lost when the ship exploded in the tank. Fortunately over 800 service booklets were recovered during the salvage operation in the weeks following the disaster. However until this project began these recovered service booklets remain sealed inside service records untouched. The Pearl Harbor Casualty Project would be the first comprehensive review of all of the official military personnel files of the Arizona crew ever conducted. This would include long overdue preservation treatment of the salvage service booklets finally making the information accessible. The records involved in this project as stated are the official military personnel files from Record Group 24, the Records of the Bureau of Naval Personnel and Record Group 127 Records of the United States Marine Corps. However is the scope of this project expands to include Army personnel station at Hickam Army Airfield and Skowfield Barracks. Alternative sources will have to be consulted due to the destruction like the majority of the Army and Army Air Corps OMPFs in the 1973 fire at the National Personnel Records Center in St. Louis. While the project goals seem simple enough the National Park Service historians were not prepared for the trove of information contained in the official military personnel files. Besides the enlistment contracts and other administrative documents one would expect in Second Record they did not expect to find personal correspondence from families to their loved ones to the Department of the Navy and to the President in the United States. There were telegrams informing them that their sons, brothers and fathers were missing in action. These started to arrive within a couple weeks after the attack and one can only imagine the anxiety and anguish that these families experienced. Shortly thereafter the telegrams started arriving delivering the crutching news that many of them feared and sometimes felt as expressed in these letters began to arrive declaring that their loved one had lost his life on the surface of his country. It was clear at that point that the scope of the project had changed. The mission was no longer to simply gather data to ensure the accuracy of the names and rates etched into the wall but to use the documents contained in the records to resurrect the stories of the men who died so that they were more than just names on the wall. This partnership has the potential to change the way we remember Pearl Harbor and the way future generations learn about the men who died as a result of the attack. Through these records we remember the human cost and the personal stories that have faded with the passage of time. Although the examples that I'll share with you play along with a few of the 1177 men who died aboard the Arizona, they serve as a reminder that the legacy they left behind is much deeper than the names etched into that wall. Father and son Thomas and William Free served and died together aboard the USS Arizona. At the time of their deaths on December 7th, 1941, machine was making first class Thomas Augusta Free with 50 years old. He was an old salt by every definition of the term. His son William on the other hand was a fledgling seaman having been in the Navy for less than a year. However, the two months between the older Free's arrival in the Arizona and the day they died was probably the longest interrupted period of time they spent together in years. Thomas Free joined the Navy in 1917 at 26 years old while it would be easy for us to assume from his time in the Navy that he was merely an absentee father. The records reveal much more. Thomas Free divorced William's mother in 1929 at the onset of the Depression and while he was at the time he was awarded full custody at William and his younger sister, Mota. However, with the country in dire straits and work hard to come by, Thomas remained in the Navy and moved his children in with his sister. He sent money for their care every month. William, like most children, probably idolized his father as he approached the legal age he wanted to follow in his footsteps. William, Thomas Free was 16 years old, 11 months and 21 days when he pulled out his enlistment papers. And on this enlistment contract is you can also see the consent declaration and oath of parent or guardian. Since Thomas was a minor with a considered a minor enlistment of a minor age, he had to have a parent or guardian and sign a consent form, which his father Thomas did sign on December and December of 1940. On the second page, there's a note stating legal papers of divorce cited and transcribed by me custody of William Thomas Free awarded to father Thomas A. Free signed by H. A. Purcell recruiter. William attended basic training at the Naval Training Station in San Diego before getting his post assignment to U.S.S. Arizona. William reported on board the Arizona April 27, 1941. In this slide, you can see the re-enlistment contract of Thomas Free, who was 50 years old. In order to get state assigned to the Arizona with his son, he extended his enlistment for another four years and forfeited his ability to transfer to the reserves for at least two years. A few things that we can refer about Thomas Free that can be glinged from the details in this document was he was a sailor sailor. Over 20 years in the Navy and he was the machinist made post-class. The woman with this length of shoulders would most likely have made cheap machinists made at some point. He was not lacking in experience. Under the mark, et cetera section, which points out identifying attributes or physical characteristics, we see that Thomas had a tattoo dancing girl right forearm tattoo sailor girl and TA Free on the left lower arm tattoo eagle and shield on the right arm tattoo rose and mother left upper arm. Over occupation, he was Mariner and finally under next of kin, he lists his son William Thomas Free USS Arizona. Two months after re-enlisting, the document on the right shows that Thomas Augusta Free reported to the Arizona Arizona on October 10th, 1941. As mentioned earlier, slightly more than half of the service booklets of the Arizona crew were recovered during salvage operations. William Thomas Free was among them. On the left, you can see the simple envelope that the Navy placed the recovered service books into before filing him inside the service jacket. The note on the envelope reads, original service record salvaged off USS Arizona do not destroy. The thinner document is William's consent signed by Thomas and the service booklet is on the right. It's open for the page showing William's arrival aboard Arizona on April 27th, 1941 with Captain Van Valkenberg's type signature at the bottom. A few things stick out right away. The black specks are actually oil that had seeped into the storage area where these records were being kept. There's rust from steel paper clips and staples throughout, but most obvious are the burn marks on the paper. While these records were not exposed to direct flame, the intense heat of the fires that raged throughout the ship caused the echo fasteners to act as heat conductors sending the records. As these records were provided to the National Park Service, these service booklets were removed from the records, cataloged, and will eventually be digitized for safe keeping. They are now treated as artifacts. In the weeks following the attack on Pearl Harbor, thousands of American families received the gut-wrenching news that they had dreaded since December 7th. For mortal free, that day was especially hard. She received a telegram informing her that both her brother and father were missing in action in the performance of their duties. Shortly thereafter, on January 23rd, 1942, her fears were confirmed when she received another telegram stating that Thomas and William had been officially declared to have lost their lives in the service of their country as of December 7th, 1941. More family on the Arizona. Here we have the Arizona's only set of twins. This was John Delmar Anderson, his brother Delbert Jake Anderson, who went by Jake. Although they were twins, John joined the Navy first with Jake following soon after. Both brothers at the time of the attack held the weight of those who made second class. And John survived the attack, his brother Jake did not. The photographs shown are not from our holdings. They are both family photos. Not all of these records contain photographs, and it was common practice, which we found that during the war, the Navy, the Department of the Navy, would often send photographic negatives from the enlistment photos to the families of those who died in service. So a lot of times you find that survivors have photographs and people who died in action do not have photographs in their records. But while John did not die in service, for some reason at some point, the Navy microfeached his entire World War II Navy record and in the process must have disheartened his enlistment photo. John Delmar Anderson enlisted in the Navy ahead of his brother Jake on March 16, 1937 and attended basic training at U.S. Naval Training Station, Great Lakes, west outside of Chicago. And on July 24, 1937, John arrived at his new assignment, the USS Arizona. And as you can tell, these are a little bit harder to read because these are blowbacks from microfeach on John's records. In this slide, you can see Mike Anderson, he enlisted two months after John on May 18, 1937. He too attended basic training at U.S. Naval Training Station, Great Lakes. The photos of Jake above, he chose him straddling down the street, the first one was Treasure Island, San Francisco. Very well could have been around the time of the World Fair in 1939. The middle image shows the jacket of the container, that's what we've referred to as the brick, that's the outer container that holds the Navy World War II personnel documents. Although it serves as a container for the record contents, it's actually part of the record. There's a snapshot of Jake's naval service, including his known service member, his enlistment duty stations and rates. This portion was generally updated when there was a status change in rate or duty station. At the very bottom, you can see there's a handwritten note of missing, and then the familiar stamp of officially that is as of 12-7-1941, which appears on the records of Pearl Harbor casualties. On the right side is Jensen with the contract and the active duty Navy for a commitment of four years. The document on the left is kind of special, dated August 4, 1937. It's the official request from Jake that upon his graduation from basic training that he be assigned to the USS Arizona. He goes on to say that my reason for the request is that I desire to serve with my brother, John D. Anderson, Seaman Second Class, U.S. Navy, who is serving in that vessel. The officer in charge states that the above name man will be available for transfer on 15th of September, 1937. On that day, newly minted apprentice human, Delbert Jake Anderson, departed Naval Training Station Great Lakes and was received aboard the Arizona four days later on September 19th. Over the next four years, both John and Jake thrived in the Navy reaching a rate of those who've made second class. Both men also re-enlisted in the early months of 1941. Why wouldn't they? By this time, the Arizona had made its home port at Pearl Harbor and both men had achieved respectable ratings. And again, there was Pearl Harbor. Their shipmate, Donald Stratton, described Hawaii in his book as a paradise, a show real on the Pacific, unspoiled by the rest of the world. On that Sunday morning, when the Japanese attack began, a general quarter sounded aboard the Arizona. John and Jake scrambled to their battle stations. Jake and an aircraft gun captain ran to midships near the bridge in formats the man had done. John went to the aft number four turret reporting for duty. John and his gun crew sat there inside the 14 inch turret with little to do. The Arizona's big guns were for knocking out ships and shore bombardment. John remarked to his gun captain that he didn't see any ships and they weren't taking fire from naval guns. He said he much rather go help his brother out on the anti-aircraft guns where he could do some good. He told the officer that if any ships appeared or if they started taking fire, he would return right away. The gun captain agreed. As John made his way forward, the ship erupted as the forward magazine exploded. The force threw him off the ladder he was climbing and back across the deck. When John came to, the ship was aflame and sinking. Red men and body parts were strewn about and his brother was gone and every one of four in midships was dead. Over a month after the attack, John and Jake's parents received word that Jake had been officially declared dead. A few days later, a form of condolence letter from the office Mike Knox, secretary of the Navy arrived. Just two days after the attack on the U.S. fleet at Pearl Harbor, Moses made second class John Anderson was reassigned to the destroyer USS McDonald and headed out to sea. He would remain with the ship throughout the war. He participated in various specific raids and landings at Guadalcanalal as well as the naval battle that ensued days later. He participated in the Aleutian, Gilbert, Marshall Island campaign along with a host of others. The McDonald even sunk a Japanese submarine on April 30th, 1944. John would make a career out of the Navy and live a long and fruitful life before passing away on November 14th, 2015. In May of 1943, while John was still in the Pacific, his parents received Jake's Purple Heart Medal and certificate. They replied with a gracious letter to Randall Jake, chief of naval personnel, saying about Jake, although his death is still a great loss to us, we will never be forgotten. On behalf of Mr. Anderson and myself, again, thank you. John Anderson decided that upon his death, his cremated remains would be returned to his ship to be reunited with his brother and his shipmates. I was fortunate enough to be able to attend this internment ceremony in December 6th or 7th, 2016. Clarendon Clare-Hetrick, another Arizona survivor who had passed away and returned to the same day. It's the only time the two Arizona men returned to the ship on the same day in the same ceremony. Following the service, I was honored to present the Anderson's with digital copies of both John and Jake's official military personnel calls that had been being done during this project, as well as the Hetrick family with a copy of Clare's OMPF. In typical Anderson fashion, John's wife sent me a very nice thank you note a few weeks later, which hanged in my office today. The next individual I'd like to highlight was a young Marine Corps sergeant named Dexter Wilson Fincher. Dexter was one of the Marines killed aboard the Arizona. What makes his record stand out are the letters his mother wrote to the commandant's office in the years after her son's death. The document on this on this slide is the letter Dexter's mother received notifying her that her son had been report who had been reported as missing in action December 7th was now in fact the player dead. In October of 1949, after pleading unsuccessfully with the Department of the Navy to get a grave marker for her son, she wrote a letter expressing her frustrations. She wrote, perhaps I am entirely out of order expressing my wishes for a suitable memorial to show that one Dexter Wilson Fincher did exist. I know the precious body was not recovered. However, I feel that a memorial to them should be erected in a family plot. While Miss Fincher would have to wait another 13 years, she and the other families of the Arizona would get their suitable memorial. Warren Jr. bit of a curious case. His is the last name inscribed on the memorial for the Navy men, but he wasn't actually a member of the Arizona's crew. There seemed to be some confusion as to how he came to die on the Arizona, but the ship's sooner surviving officer, Lieutenant Commander Fuqua, figured it out. Fuqua is the senior surviving officer had the grim past of auditing the ship's multiple roles to provide an accurate counting of the ship's compliment. The digitized muster roles on Anstestry.com contained the handwritten remarks of Lieutenant Commander Fuqua noting survivors from the dead. Thanks to his efforts and attention to detail, the records tell us Warren's story. Seaman 1st class, Michael's Warren was actually assigned to the destroyer USS Alet. Warren was a bit of a troublemaker and at the end of November, he found himself in trouble once again. This time he wasn't simply being reduced in rank or going to Captain's Mass. He was going to be tried by General Court Marshall. However, the Alet was getting ready to go out to sea and didn't have a brig in which to confine Warren, so he was sent to the Arizona. In the brig, as the attack unfolded, at some point, we don't know if it was at the beginning of the attack or after the ship's magazine exploded, but Warren was released from the brig and began attempting to help fight. During the attack, he was shot multiple times and died four days later from his wounds. He was awarded the American Defense Service Medal, World War II Victory Medal, and Purple Heart Medal, possibly. In July of 1942, Michael's sister wrote a letter requesting more details about her brother's death. Up until that point, all the family received was the telegram calling them of his brother's death on December 7th. Her brother's death on December 7th. The Navy omitted all details of his impending trial and confinement from correspondence with the family, simply stating that he was assigned to the Arizona for temporary booty and was on board at the time of the attack. The letter went on to say that he sustained serious wounds and died four days later. These documents are from the record of fire controlman third class, Lauren Faye Greener. Lauren was fortunate enough to survive the attack on Pearl Harbor, but did not escape on the escape. His name might sound familiar. Lauren passed away in September of this year at age 98, and on December 7th, 2019, the 78th anniversary of the attack, Lauren rejoined his shipmates aboard the Arizona. I was fortunate enough to meet Lauren during the 75th commemoration in 2016. We talked about his ship. I even got to have a beer with him at Smith Union Bar in Old Town Honolulu. It's been an operation continuously since 1937. It was the Arizona cruise watering hole when the men came aboard on shore leave. Over the years, I got to help Lauren with some information on his shipmates and his best friend on the ship, Alvin Dvorak, who passed away from his wounds after the attack. He was a great guy and was happy that people wanted to learn about his equipment shipmates. Out of the remaining USS Arizona survivors, Lauren is the last scheduled to have his remains entered in the ship. This is the telegram Lauren's mother received for her after the attack on Pearl Harbor and forming her that her son had been wounded in action in the performance of his duty. Lauren was a fire controlman for the ship's five inch anti-aircraft guns. His duty station was in the ship's port side director, which is a large range finder that calculates direction and altitude of attacking aircraft. The circled object in this image is Lauren's port director, who along with Donald Stratton, another living Arizona survivor, and others were in this director, which is essentially an armored steel box on the full mask when the ship's forward magazine exploded. While it shielded them from the blast, the director became an Alvin. The men inside sustained serious burns over most of their body. If you ever watch film footage of the Arizona explosion, the director is not visible. It's completely involved in flames. Although they survived the blast, they were now trapped 70 feet above the deck of their burning ship. These men would not have lived if it weren't for one sailor on the UFS vessel more along the side of the Arizona. Joe George saw them entrapped on the floor mask. During the sinking, Arizona would pull them down or experience another explosion. George's commanding officer ordered him to cast out from Arizona. He knew Lauren and the others would surely die if he did. He refused that order and threw them in a rope, which then used a cross over the burning cauldron below. In 2017, Joe George's daughter, Joanne Payle, accompanied by Lauren Burner and Donald Stratton visited the White House where President Trump presented Joanne with a bronze star for her father's action 76 years ago. The letter on the right is from Lauren's mother Lucille. Reply an update on her son's condition dated January 8, 1942. Presuming that the Navy wasn't releasing details for fear of information falling into any hands, Lauren's mother attempts to put the rest any fears or questions about the family's patriotism. I will read this letter in its entirety. Dear Sirs, I'm writing you concerning my son, Lauren Fayburner, the old Finder Operator and Fire Control Division aboard the destroyed battleship Arizona. I received a telegram from your division stating, quote, Lauren Fayburner, fire controlman third class U.S. Navy, has been rooted in action in the performance of his duty. And we'll furnish you further information promptly. I've received no information concerning him, Vince. I do feel that I should know something about him and where he is, whether in some hospital or aboard some ship and what one, and why I can't get some letter or word from him. Other mothers have gotten telegrams, letters, and etc. from their sons who live near our town or from their sons at the front. We are all for America. You may sincerely know, a way back through the ages, we have an all American record. This, for example, great-grandfather Mr. Ork, a Civil War veteran, wounded in action and died later some three years from the wound. A grand-uncle, Mr. Frank Smith, veteran of the same war, wounded in action. Grand-father Mr. Burner, also a Civil War veteran. An uncle, Mr. J. Burner, an overseas veteran of World War 1 with one-and-a-half years of overseas duty in the Army. His father, Mr. Roy Burner, was in the Navy and now Lauren is taking his stand for his country. His heart and soul is there, a wonderful character and personality with absolutely no enemies. A letter at hand from Captain Train written aboard ship, Lauren Faye Burner is doing good work aboard ship, an excellent gunner with high grades, a very good record. I don't like to brag about my son while I have the right to do so. I only wish to know that nothing you may say or tell me will reach no enemies of our Grand Country. I want to know some direct address. The old address USS Arizona doesn't seem just right anymore. Sincerely, with Lucille Kellerman. These are photographs from Lauren's internment ceremony on December 7th, 2019. The Navy Honor Guard, as you can see in the lower left hand picture, was positioned on the USS Vesto's mooring quarry, instead of on the memorial, which was usually standard. This was no doubt in tribute to Joe George, the Vesto crewman that saved Lauren's life. Chief historian, Daniel Martina, has escorted Lauren's remains along with Lauren's family to the awaiting divers who would take the year into the opening of the number four after where it would be placed inside. Lauren was never without a smile and he wanted to be in a place where he would get lots of visitors. I'm not one to end on a down note, so to wrap this up, I would like to introduce you to one of my favorite Arizona crewmen, Freeman's second class William McCary, formerly Musician's second class McCary. The Navy photo on the left was taken at Block Arena during the Battle of the Bands on November 22nd, 1941. William McCary is not in this photo because on October 4th, 1941, he found himself in the sort of trouble that sailors only get in in peace. William McCary was charged with disobeying a lawful order when ordered by Musician's first class and charged with the band of the ship to stop playing a trombone and using abusive and threatening language towards his female officer. McCary did not desire counsel and made no statement as punishment he was reduced to the next inferior rank. With anything, Freeman's second class McCary reminds us that sometimes you just gotta play your trombone, you never know what tomorrow brings. I hope you enjoyed this presentation and I am happy to answer any questions at this time. Thank you Eric for your presentation. I'm particularly touched by that you were just recently in Pearl Harbor for that last internment. So I do have some questions for you. I was wondering if you're a researcher and you wanted to find these records, would you go to the National Archives or the Park Service or the Navy? How would you want to find these records? So these records are in the physical and legal custody of the National Archives at St. Louis. Eventually when the digitization project is finished those digital images will be turned over to the National Archives and if it's so desired they can be placed on the catalog. But right now we are the repository and if you want to access those records you can come on the site or you can do a reference request through the mail as well. Thank you so much for that and if you don't mind switching over your screen so we can see you again. Got you. Okay thank you so much. I was also wondering about the who's doing the preservation work. I found that the quality of your images or the digitization quality is really excellent. Is that being done by the National Archives or again with the National Park Service? Any preservation efforts are done by our announced preservation team here in St. Louis. Due to the fire in 1973 we have a fairly extensive preservation operation here so they can handle any of the tasks that we throw at them. As bad as some of the salvage materials from the Arizona are they're not nearly as bad as the burned records from the 1973 fire the Army, Army Air Corps and Air Force records that they deal with on a daily basis so those aren't those aren't very much trouble for them. Thank you. I was also wondering as a researcher can a researcher assume that they would be able to find their veteran if that veteran was at Pearl Harbor? Would their records be with you or and also would they be able to find special things like these photographs? Is there something for every veteran who was at Pearl Harbor that day? Sure for the most part any of anyone who served in the military in the 20th century there's some exceptions to that we have some Spanish American war veterans who were in prior to the beginning of the 20th century but stayed in service past that you know that time period and we'll have a lot of their records but for the most part people who served in the military or civilian service during the 20th century those records are located here in St. Louis. So that includes Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force after 1947, Army of course we have Coast Guard records and then a host of civilian civil servant records as well. If you're looking specifically for a relatives military record World War I, World War II the easiest way to do that is we need depending on a certain factors the more information that you can provide the better. Back then World War I, World War II even in Korea service personnel had service numbers later on like when you get into Vietnam and later periods they switched over to social security numbers so a lot of times people try and provide us a social security number that doesn't really do much good especially if that person's not deceased you don't want to be thrown social security numbers around so if you've got the service number of that individual that makes things a lot easier if you don't there's other things that we can do to help you out to try and get you connected with that information but name, service number, date of birth if you know where they were from that helps immensely especially if there's a common name because we can use those other pieces of information to kind of cross-examine their you know check off different boxes to locate the individual that we're looking for. Thank you that's very helpful. I appreciate you're going a little into how a researcher would find their bet. Is there anything else that you would like to add? I'm waiting to see if we have any online questions at this point we don't but if you have any other additional tips feel free. As far as tips go you know in the researcher operations I mean we we exist to provide access to the holdings of the national archives and that's what we love to do so if you are interested if you're not sure the military records like the official military personnel files anybody who's been discharged or out of service 62 years or more from today's date it's a rolling date those records are archival they're open to the public and anybody can access them it doesn't have to be any like a next of kin or a family member once it gets past that date and that includes reserve obligations those records become open to the public when during the 75th anniversary I gave talks at various sites around Oahu the USS Missouri the Pearl Harbor visitor center you know Pacific Aviation Museum and what I found were people were amazed that they could access the records you know especially of our world war two generation so as long as they didn't stay in the reserves for a long time which wasn't very common unless they were officers reserve service for enlisted personnel really didn't take off until Korea but generally you know if you're looking for a world war two veteran those records most likely are going to be accessible and available to the public and if you can't make it here to st. Louis we do mailed in reference requests as well there are fees involved with the reproduction services but there's no fees for like searching or finding the records and anything like that but basically if you don't want to come here you can't come here you can go to our website just go to archives.gov and click on the link for researching military records that's going to direct you to us the National Archives of st. Louis you can fill out the request forms right online send it to us we'll do a search if we find your record they'll send you an invoice depending on how big the record is the amount of copies that it has and then you pay the invoice and then we mail you the copies and sometimes we're even doing digital delivery now so you won't get paper copies you'll get nice scanned digital images of the records. 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What's up everybody and welcome back here to the channel car X drift racer to we are here on it for today A lot of people have been saying I should bring car extra for us here to the channel So we are here today. We take a look at what I've been working on We got our little 180 sx up there drift level one and then into your one. We have a you know drift level three Toyota 86 fully done up, but I am enjoying my 240 180 So we're gonna go and rock this today car extra for you to definitely kind of cool If you guys want to keep seeing a channel make sure you comment down below Let me know there's always follow me on all social media looks like we got some stuff to accept Some achievements. We'll take that reward And then we're gonna go drive my little 180 in some single player Maybe do some little bit of tandem and stuff like that. So car extra for you to definitely fun game definitely looks cool, and it's definitely a very Interesting game to play We're just gonna run this one One of the biggest tracks one of the funnest tracks one of the easiest tracks that everybody dressed on first so The reason I haven't been bringing this to the channel too much is because well Before my phone really couldn't handle it, but now the new phone can kind of handle it how I want it to with full graphics Just a little wall grays be good. So you guys are playing this I know a couple people that play torture for also on this game giving it a shot and having some fun with it. I Do like, you know the customization of the game and how it looks and everything like that the gameplay is pretty fun But you guys know I do love torque drift for the FD aspect of it so That's the only game out there that has that style. I am really off those wall points So we're definitely gonna be doing some tandem here today. Oh We need a downshift Not my best run at all for sure Kick it back in drift this gear Kick down the fourth So the game is a lot of fun to play and oh as you can see I do have some cars That's not what I wanted to do So we're definitely gonna go do tandems after this just wanted to run a little 180 here In the basically parking garage. So I do have a track that is basically like Cali banks and stuff like that And it I've been working on it, but the bank is really big and wow apparently I Just decided to wreck my car Well then we're gonna give that another go and see what we can do and hopefully we can not biff it into the wall This time you can in Fourth gear the one thing I don't like is the Rolling starts are very hard sometimes to get the gearing correct where you want to be in gear placement Take this up the fifth following my little Corolla ghost from when it was a Basically a stock Corolla with no mods on it. Oh I thought I was gonna biff it into that wall So we're apparently 694 points behind that Corolla run Which It does not really make sense. I guess but apparently I'm Not as good with this 180 yet settings are not correct Basically double initiate that Bring it up So from the original car X to this one, it's kind of cool about getting close to walls now You get extra credit for being close to walls and you gain more points that way So visually the game all we are about to do that again And again, I keep forgetting to track visually the game is actually very very entertaining to watch and in car cockpit With the bit I have a handbrake and splinter chip 3 actually uses it Which is actually very cool to see in a mobile game Because I mean I'm on a PC games and a lot of times PC people don't even do that So it's definitely crazy to see For sure Try and finish this run out as best as we can. Oh That's that's an ambulance I do so much better when I'm not you know behind the camera. I Swear I'm a better driver than I promise you let's see where we finish off. Definitely not the highest run ever in this car or this track, but unfortunately it's What we got so we're gonna try and run some tandem with ourselves because I don't have anybody online right now that I know Well, he'll get hands with me. I know if I ask Vernon, he's probably on here as well but Maybe I will start doing some tandem sessions and stuff on this as well as well as torque drift So let's go test out the tandem aspect because it is now available to tandem with online people, but I'm gonna basically tandem Buy myself with my own cars and see what I can do. We're gonna go to The parking lot I feel like this is a good section. We're just gonna go in there We're gonna run the 180 vs. 180 and just see how close we can get door-wise in this tandem Battle setup not something that I've done before so So we have auto-acceleration traction Because this was not a thing when I first really started playing this game didn't get out to that. Oh My lord, that's a bad lead Apparently I probably need to be in fifth gear That's probably what we needed to do. We need to be in fifth So we're gonna give that another shot because well We kind of biffed our entry go back to the view I was in That's gear kick it in a little bit way shallow on that Things don't miss, but it's okay You get that one. So we're gonna get the remaining clips except that one Apparently this 180 is not the best Right now definitely need to change up the settings, but we're gonna continue it anyways We got 76 and we're going to try and chase ourselves down Let's see what we can do These cars sound So we're going to try And get as close as we can I forgot that I ran that really short Now we're a bit behind so we have to cut the angle. Don't hit it. Oh Okay, so if you hit you instantly fail Huh interesting so unlike torque drift you can't really door-bang Hmm that's a little bit Interesting Just say the least I run this out wide trying to get that first clip. I think you got it. I think we got that one too with a little wall tap We missed that one Collision and did not finish I don't think oh, I think we did finish maybe Towards the end we kind of biffed the wall so car extra first or two definitely a Interesting game. We're gonna change tracks actually We're gonna try a different course setup that may help this 180 a little bit better Run that one. We'll go to this one We'll go one below because I've done this track before so I know the 180 can handle this course Although I did up the power on it since last time So initiate in Go nice and fluid line gas My We're kind of on way on the inside of that zone But we still managed to get it. We're still kind of holding angle and we're still Managing to get the clipping zones So I will take that getting all the clips on that run So we're gonna chase ourselves down So like I said make sure found me Instagram Twitter all which found the scripture box But if you will keep on to see car extra for sure too on the channel, let me know down in the comment section down below I'm gonna try and get as close to our Possible without hitting it And I'm trying to stay a little bit back I don't want to cause a collision And end the chase run out prematurely. I wish I would have a clutch Oh my lord, we are all kinds of off And all kinds of out of here Managed to bring it back towards the end But I don't think that was good enough I mean we've got some We got some points So we're gonna try that again, but we're gonna switch up cars. I'm gonna go with the Corolla Stage drift three Toyota Corolla I'm not sure what gear I need to be in probably fourth. Oh, wow this car slides a lot more There's a lot less grip As you can tell It's a lot less grip, but You can always chase it down with a 180 and see how that goes So I'm not like chasing down the same car Very slow flowy Not the best, but a 97.28 So we're gonna pick the 180 as a chase car And we're gonna get to chase down our Corolla for the last run here for this episode. So like I said Make sure you guys follow me If you do not already tap that subscribe button, I would appreciate all the support I do appreciate all the comments and everything from all you guys buddy We gotta almost wrecked into that so Luckily we were able to save it and not Smack right into the door Huge brake check there I'm gonna cut cut that angle this way Oh, man At least we got that one down So that was a decent a decent chase. I could drive by looking for my dog but decent chase to make sure You guys come back for all the episodes here on the channel whether it be a set-up torque drift car experience at Forza and everything down below if you haven't Seen them. They should catch up on all the prior videos. And as always, I thank you guys for watching. Ha me vorabbit See you guys on the track


Residents of various communities in the Vian North East local government area of Edo state have commended the local government chairman Honorable Collins Osamedi Obewe over rehabilitation of road across the local government area. The resident noted that with the rehabilitation and clearing of some roads in their communities, they now feel relief using the roads they have been unable to access for a while now. Thanking the council boss for ensuring that more roads in local government area get attention for the grading and rehabilitation exercise across the 13 walls in the local government area. As you can see, this is our road. It's a very tiny road before now. The pretty do happen. Kidnappy, acidate because of the narrow using chip on the road. But when the chairman came, they came to grade the roads for us, open the road. As you can see, you come from here, see up to about 345 poles. There's no more Kidnappy on the road because of the good chip the road has come to. So on behalf of the community, we say thank you to our chairman and the Honorable Councilor. For many years ago, this road, there is a Kidnappy in this road. We're only afraid of this road because the road used to cover. We can thank our neighbor chairman for doing this for us. This is the David Devo democracy. This job with them that the local government chairman agreed to thank him for the work we're doing. And we pray God to replanting him and we go up in the politics.


What's going on everyone Sam here with late in sports cards ribbon one box a 22 Panini immaculate baseball hobby for James s so good luck James see we got for you, buddy. That's two honestly. That's two sg Harold Baines 10 out of 15 nice one there and that we've got That's Dylan Carlson nine of ten Two-color patch for the Cardinals Player one on that got nice one here four of five is gonna be Dustin May on the emerald auto 15 out of 61 on hell Zerpa three colored RPA for the Royals Stop we've got That is Kyle Lewis 82 out of 99 this next one's nasty nice one here for the Angels four of eight. We've got a Brandon Marsh with the button congrats on that one James. That's sweet man Great player on that too. Are you here top-loading when we pull the Brandon Marsh and it was just not signed. Yes Yeah, it's like dude. What? This one's nasty right here. We got six of six. It's gonna be a triple laundry tag Abraham Toro There we go, man player worn on that as well For the Mariners it's like player worn from leaves an astro before he got traded Nice one there James very solid break for you buddy. That'll do it. Thanks again James for the support my friend We'll get those right out to you buddy


What's going on everyone? Sam here with late in sports cards have been 23 tops archives, six series baseball, 20 box case break, number 19, written division style. There's a look again at your random results. As always, you can find those on the website under the results tab, as well as a link in chat. So good luck. It's full like nine one-on-ones out of this case. That'd be cool. Forced at that recently. Just imagine pulling like the whole box and just pull one of those. The whole what? The whole bottom of the whole box. I know. It's just a full cage. Here we go. Actually, no. Because you know why? Coal is on the mountain the last day. Right. So there we go. Marcus Simeon going to the AL West of 52 on a 2015 Allen and Ginzer. Good God. It's an old throwback right there. Grats AL West. Marcus Simeon. So you sound like, uh, that's cool. Randy Rosarino, future stars to 92 on a 21 tops AL East. Randy Rosarino. Are you ripping on trip tonight, Kyle? Is that true? Oh yeah. You definitely, because Matt's ripping tomorrow more. Okay. So yeah, never mind. I'm going to go with yes. Exactly what I expected. Got Mitch Hanniger. That is one of one. Nice one there on a tops big league, right? Yeah. 2019 tops big league. Interesting one there. Nice one there. Have a giant. That'll go to the AL West. Mark Hanna. Five of 23 on a 21 tops Chrome. Got an AL West there. He's always good in this, dude. They have all their guys that they get to trade away. It's like, they're all good, but like they're all gone now. This team's really good at this. None of these guys play for this team, but they're good.  Be unstoppable. It's like, oh, they were. Matt Manning, one of 41, 22 tops. I didn't say the same thing about the Pirates too. Yeah, dude. Good God. Imagine they hadn't traded their whole farm for, Chris Archer. Chris Archer, they still had all of those players with what they have now. Nice. Two of five. Jazz Chisholm. That's going to the AL West, as that is still a Diamond Max card. Lawler Davis, because they didn't want to be cheap. 2019, yeah, right. Thank God. Two of nine, Jazz Chisholm. That's a 19 Bowman Chrome. Got an AL West on that one. I see is a Diamond Max still. Just messing around, pulling Aaron Judge in this box right here. Elliot Ramos, that is 63 of 89 on a 2020 Bowman for the AL West. That's an AL West. Yeah, same thing. Same thing. Same guy. Same guy. Same guy, basically. That's cool. Logan Gilbert, 22 tops, future stars, 90 of 94 for the AL West. AL West. Kyle Tucker, nice one there, one of one. 2018 Bowman Tops Holiday. Yeah, interesting. Tops Holiday 2018, one of one. Kyle Tucker, AL West. Take that for sure. AL West with both the 101 so far. Here's Lucas Geolito, 3 of 33 on a 2016 Bowman paper for the NL East. Future Yankee, Lucas Geolito. Maybe. I'm being on that. Is Rodin ever going to start? At the end of this month? Then that's going to turn into, maybe after the All-Star break. And then it'll turn into like, oh, I'll be back for the playoffs. And then it'll turn into, eh, next year. Judge. Yeah. Brandon Woodruff, 9 of 14, 21 tops, Chrome for the NL Central. Brandon Woodruff. Going to be the ace once Corbin Burns inevitably leaves. Is Zach Gallin, nice one there, 91 of 99. He's turning into a freaking stud, dude. Uh, for the NL West, Zach Gallin. Did save, did save. Yeah, I think it's behind the top, leaders. Up there, right there. Yeah, that should, there you go. Took me a minute, too. Shane Buz, 77 of 82 on a 2020 Bowman paper. No, 21 Bowman paper. AL East. Should pick up an Ad Bowman. That's what you should pick up. Yeah, that's for the playoffs. Bobby Dahlbeck, 79 of 85 for the AL East as well. That is a 22 Bowman paper. Bobby Dahlbeck. D.L. Hall, nice one there. That is 83 of 97 on a 21 Bowman paper. It's the AL East again. AL East on a bit of a run here. D.L. Hall. There's Chris Taylor, NL West, 90 of 92, 2020 tops. The way of the Dodgers, nice one there. See how we're looking. I'm assuming we're still at three, but let me double check here. No, we're sold out. Wow, we're sold out at number 28. Matthew sold us out. Thank you, Matthew. Wow, geez, dude. Down to just one break left on the day, guys. We're a full case tiered random team style of Panini Contenders basketball. Five to go on that one. That is going to be a great break, by the way. Five to go. Last break of the day with spots. Five to go. Again, we have pulled some monsters recently, too. Seems like every break, there's like three or four cards we're going to be bagging out of Contenders, which is awesome. It's good numbers there. Jesse Winker, 22 Bowman, five of 29 for the NL Central. Still a red in this. Jesse Winker. We've got Tops Bigley, Brian Reynolds, 45 of 56 for the NL Central as well. That is 21 Tops Bigley. Nice one there, NL Central. It's interesting. Dylan Cease, 7 of 86, still is a cub in this one. That is a 2017 Bowman. So that'll be NL Central with Dylan Cease. Nice. His stuff is on. He's fastballing so fast. Any time he goes out, at least eight plus drag outs. Oh, yeah. Every share, hitting like 102. And last card in the break is going to be 2020 Tops, Adam Frazier. That is 58 of 94 for the NL Central. Adam Frazier, pre-trade as well. All right, guys. That'll do it. No recap on that as everything is a hit. It's a pretty quick break overall. Thanks again for getting that filled on up. Do appreciate it. Next up is basketball.


All right. So what is this? Technically it is one of the lockdown projects. So you may ask why anybody needs yet another kind of a diary application. My particular use case, I don't mean to say that this is the only use case for the application of this. There might be many, many, many more, but I wanted to track things related to my personal well-being, like literally what I ate, how I slept, what was the outcome the next day, was I productive, was I not. And obviously it is nothing super security critical, right? But still it's lots of details about you personally and you probably don't want Google, any sort of policy application vendors or insurance companies to whom they can resell this data, know about this, right? And also it is a purely personal thing. So you don't want to normally to share such things with your friends and it's not like the weight loss tracking application when you boast about every cage you lost, right? It's all for your eyes only. So I did a little bit of research and found that there is nothing really on the market. And the vast majority of such applications unfortunately are online and online has certain implications that somebody pays for the infrastructure and they somehow put the cost on you either by bothering you with meaningless advertisement or in the worst case by doing some data mining on the data you submit there. And for me in particular because I also do or rather I did and hopefully will do a bit of traveling in parts of the world where mobile coverage is not so good. It was important to be able to work with application entirely of the grid that is you shouldn't need anything other than your mobile. So I didn't find anything suitable. I decided to write my own one again some spare time doing the lockdown etc etc. For the platform or birthday the choice was enjoyed because it is much more friendly to deal with development tools are free and also it would be easier to use for many people around the globe if anybody wants to use it because it requires a basic functionality from your smartphone. It works on anything starting from Android 4.4 which is almost non-existent by now. So yeah that's why I decided to spend some time and make my own one. I apologize I cannot figure out how to maximize my slides here so we probably will have to leave with a small view. So now important statement on any kind of security applications on smartphones. There's no such thing as security on the smartphone. If any data can get you in any kind of serious trouble keep this data in your smartphone as far away from each other as possible and also there's no such thing as social and secure at the same time. It's just as a general warning. So talking about security obviously we cannot protect from everything. We need to be clear about what is our threat model what we are taking seriously and what we just ignore. So what I wanted to protect myself from is most of all indiscriminate data mining but by whoever parties might be in control of my phone that is Google with Android or any other applications installed on the phone or another important case if somebody gets hold of your phone and wants to read what you wrote in your superdupersecret diary. Obviously we are not even trying to protect from any professional actors targeting you specifically. So again as I said there are no real secrets on mobile device just by definition. So the next question obviously is how do we achieve all these things but before in the true spirit of open source software we want everything to be verifiable. So the source is available on GitHub. There is a link in the end and for Android applications specifically it is also a good practice to check what permissions this application is asking for. So this application asks only for location permission and even this is an option which you need to turn on if you want to go tag your records in addition to time stamping them. So it does not have any network permission at all. It allows you to share records from your diary if you want to via the standard Android sharing mechanism but the component which actually will be doing the sharing will be something else. The application does not have any permissions to leak your data anywhere. Now for the technical implementation. For storing the data I chose to use SQLite database which resides in a space which is private for your applications that is provided Android is working normally and does what it should do. No other application ever should be able to access this database on your application and then draw it itself obviously. So since I personally don't trust Google Mesh as well so I want the data to be encrypted at rest and the easiest approach seems to be to encrypt the specific text field in text fields in the database. And the database itself is actually very simple it consists of records and also you can tag records. So there are only two text fields the record itself and the tags these are encrypted. The encryption is an encryption provided by Android by modern standards. Well you probably don't want to expose it to the whole world and use the latest and greatest hardware and try to decipher it but for the threat model described previously this seems to be sufficient. A few more bits and pieces as you know when you have multiple applications running on your mobile device and you swap between the applications you can see the screenshot what your application was showing. Luckily there is a special flag in Android application which is typically used in say online banking applications which does not allow your screenshot to be displayed in this situation and which also prohibits anybody from taking screenshots from your application in general. Another useful feature obviously would be login timeout that is once you enter your password you can read your records and add new records after some time of inactivity times out and you need to explicitly unlock it. Last but not least everybody wants to have some backup copy or maybe you even want to do some analysis on your diary records later so you want to be able to still get out all the data out of your secret diary for further processing and it seems that the most secure way to do this is to assemble it all inside your application in a password protected zip file. Again this is a standard zip encryption which is probably not super duper strong by modern standards but still it's good enough and does the job and then once this zip file is generated you can share it via any mechanism available on your phone and probably one of the more secure ways would be directly share it via bluetooth to your trusted device be it your laptop or whatever else and there on your laptop you will need all obviously to enter the same password to decrypt the zip file and get the content which can be either a text file or a json file for any kind of fancy processing and as I already mentioned any sharing of the data outside of application is only technically possible by users deliberate action by sharing this encrypted zip file with backup or by manually sharing a single record using the android standard sharing mechanism. One other little note is that if you are seriously seriously paranoid you probably don't want to trust on-screen keyboard as well because as we all know it learns from what you type and the exact details about how it learns and where the data goes they are not very well publicized so if you want your diary to be even more secure you might wish to use an external keyboard either USB standard USB keyboard which work with I think any android device now just as normal cable keyboard or slightly less secure bluetooth. So for the demo unfortunately I won't be able to do this because the tiny laptop I'm sitting on now is unable to run the emulator at the same time but there is a link in the end so you can just install the application or build it from source and try it for yourself. So as I said the application is very simple you create the record it is timestamped it is optionally tagged and you can add your arbitrary tags to this record which allows you to have a nice cross section like if this record is related to say sleep quality next time by clicking on this tag you will bring up all records which are related to your sleep quality for instance and last but not least here is a link to the application in google play store and here is the link to the sources and if anybody has any interesting proposals or any other interesting use cases github gives a good way to communicate any such things and whenever I have time I'm happy to bring forward and do something more about it in its current form it pretty much suits most of the needs I developed it for but if it is useful for anybody else for instance I'll just give you a shout and that's pretty much it for my application any questions any feedback anything does this work can stress to the more recent Android thing because 4.4 I have no idea what is the latest but does this actually work the same in the new one uh yeah so it works on anything from 4.4 and above the phone I'm running it on now I believe it runs Android 11 and just let me double check I think it's 11 uh sorry 10 so it definitely runs on Android 10 but there's no super offensive function analysis which I would expect to change from one major release of Android to another so don't think there might be any breaking changes within your versions I try as much as possible to avoid anything non-standard oh actually I have one thing I think I think when you plug in a USB keyboard it also still goes through the uh the keyboard software on Android if I remember correctly this might depend on your particular phone model and settings because some they are still you can enable all these fancy predictions and learning even with a manual keyboard but I believe that by default it is turned off or at least it's definitely turned off on my phone but the more physical it is the less of an application it is the more secure it is from data gathering potential at least this is a hope okay thanks I had a comment on the uh encryption of the zip file yeah you suggested that it wasn't necessarily all that great I think you're perhaps underestimating so the the complication this is a the nice thing about standards is that there are so many choose wrong situation there are at least three possibly four or five encryption systems in use in zip files in particular picaware of winsip uh didn't see i'd arrive a number of years but AES has AES 256 has been standardized for years and is will open on just about everything and so long as you specified at the time you encrypt it as AES 256 you've then got something that is authorized or certified by most governments for anything up to secret level classification so it's pretty bloody solid the problem that you've got as ever is the key management not the encryption algorithm and that then it doesn't matter what software you've got that's the bigger problem yeah well I'm just being uh generally cautious of with such statements uh when quantum computers are somewhere just around the corner and the thing is that in android at least in the library I used for zip there's no way to explicitly specify the encryption parameters and also if you'll try to do something uh uh non-standard there chances are that on your particular machine and your particular version of zip it might be uh unable to decrypt itself so I use the standard option if you can't specify then you of course you have a problem but it's AES 256 is it's been part of the standard for a long time so it's it's something that should work on just about every implementation but sure yeah encryption is a database and the encryption of a zip file are obviously different yes all right any more questions uh if you have any questions you can ask them Alex now um yeah so I just posted the slide deck on Facebook group if you're interested that's great thanks all right thank you I think that'll be it so that's it for all the talks today I think we'll have we have some time to mingle uh so yep this room will remain open


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What's good Josh your boy Ross back again with another video So I just got a chance to check out some of the clips from Smackdown Revolving Roman Reigns Daniel Bryan Edge and Jade Uso and I want to first talk about the Roman Reigns Daniel Bryan Segment of their little interaction they had and I'm not gonna lie to you That promo their little interaction with each other was gold, but they When it comes to them on the mic going back and forth, it's fantastic I like the fact that Daniel Bryan's out there basically saying look man I'm going to tap out Roman Reigns, you know I like the fact that he he called out the situation of the special guest enforcer for their match at Fastlane If Edge wins Edge is the ultimate Opportunist and he only really wants to face Roman at WrestleMania And if Jey Uso wins then he already knows there's gonna be a two on one handicap match So I like that he's already kind of putting that out there like it's not really a win-win It's really not a win-win situation for Daniel Bryan in his eyes And I like the fact that he's like yo, it doesn't really matter.  You can you can tell these white lies. I'm cool with that But sitting up here disrespecting me saying you're gonna tap me out I've never tapped out to anybody and when you think about it, he's one of the few wrestlers that WWE has protected so well that he hasn't really ever tapped out Uh John Cena, I don't think he's ever tapped out in his career not that I can remember I think I think he may have tapped out once but that's when he was a heel. I think I could be wrong and Roman Reigns is the same way. He's never actually tapped out to anybody.   That's a that's a little extreme.  I'm going to break your beliefs and thinking you're the best I'm gonna break your beliefs and thinking that you you know, you can't be beaten like I love that that mental like psychological like Threat I guess you can say because it's different when you make someone tap But it's a whole another level when you break them psychologically to the point where they never thought they would lose or they never thought They were losing that fashion. They always thought they can never be beaten and you break someone like that I think that as that little bit of dynamic in Daniel Bryan's like arsenal like look, bro I'm gonna make sure you understand Not only am I going to tap you out. I'm going to break you mentally.  You've never been destroyed Destroyed before and I love that love that great segment then we you know, I kind of looked at the clips of of edge going against J Uso his first time wrestling on SmackDown in over ten years. I want to say And it was a decent match an enjoyable match. I love the fact that J. Uso He's damn near a main event player, bro His feud Roman Reigns has elevated him to a main event player and he's not just some squash Individual like people that wrestle J. Uso They actually have to try and actually have to put in some work to beat him So I do like that even in even though he's lost to Daniel Bryan recently and now he's lost to edge I still like the fact that edge didn't just come in there and was a cake walk You know I'm saying so I do believe this Roman Reigns.  So I'll Definitely, you know be checking out some of Apollo cruises clips off-camera, you know I'm saying just to kind of catch up to see You know what's been going on with this for you But y'all been saying like I need to check out His story line because this is actually pretty entertaining and I love to see at least smackdown has different story lines Going on that are holding more people's attention On the wrong side of things the only thing I really care about is the Drew McIntyre and Bobby Lashley situation But it's good to see there's more than just the main event story lines that's pulling people's attention. So hey, man I just want to know Honestly, we know Roman Reigns is not losing that fast lane We know that unless they pull one of the most weirdest swerves in WWE history and get rid of Will take the title away from Roman at this pivotal time, which I don't think they will This is actually dub calling me right now. I'm not to call him back as I finish recording, but um I'm definitely thinking obviously Roman Reigns will retain But I think it's gonna be a screwy finish obviously is gonna probably be a screwy finish And I do believe they will find a way to get Daniel Bryan into this match I just I feel like that's it's going to be a triple threat match at WrestleMania between Daniel Bryan edge and Roman Reigns So comment down below. Let me know if y'all think that's going to happen at WrestleMania's this year I'm willing to bet that's gonna happen. This thing is really trying to talk to me real quick I don't know what's going on, but I'm gonna hit him up But I love you guys love you guys so much appreciate all love sport road to 40k and appreciate y'all kicking it with me And I see I can't even do my outro the nigga FaceTime me bro I'm gonna hit him up once I turn the camera off. I love you guys


At long last, we are back. I hope you all had fantastic all-star breaks able to rest a bit from the MLB DFF season and are ready to bounce back for a 14-game slate for tonight and it is a pretty fun one, but I will say there is a lot of potentially bad weather. That will impact a lot of things when it comes to tonight's slate, potentially our top pitcher, potentially our number two stack. So a lot of moving pieces here, we're gonna break down what that means, which spots are in danger, which spots are safe and which pitchers and players we like in those spots that are safe in case we get the worst case scenario when it comes to weather for tonight. Welcome on into the solo shop that's right here on the FanDuel Podcast Network and NumberFire.com. My name is Jim Saunas. I am a senior writer and analyst for NumberFire, here to break down this 14-game main slate with lock set for 7.05 p.m. Eastern for today. Let's start things off by just listing off the bad weather spots for tonight and there are one, two, three, four, seven bullet points here to discuss. So apologies in advance. The first one is in Baltimore for the Marlins and Orioles. They may be able to play after a delay, decently optimistic about that one. In New York for the Mets and Dodgers, looks like a bit tougher to squeeze a game in there. In Atlanta for the White Sox and Braves, I think they'll be able to play. It looks pretty scattered, so maybe a delay, but potentially good to go. In Chicago for the Cubs and Red Sox, kind of dicey. I would not be shocked if they can't go, but if they do go, winds are out to center at 10 miles per hour, so upgrade bats that they do play for the Cubs and the Red Sox. In Kansas City for the Royals and Rays, there is a 66% chance of rain from start to finish, thunderstorms in there too, may clear a bit later, but does not look ideal for right now. In St. Louis for the Cardinals and Nationals, bit better than Kansas City, probably able to go, but we're checking back on later to there. And finally in Colorado for the Yankees and Rockies, it's about 36% chance to rain there, so should be good to go, but biggest weather spots, I would say, are New York for the Mets and Dodgers, Chicago for the Cubs and Red Sox, and Kansas City for the Royals and Rays. I would proceed with caution with players in all of those games. We'll dive into who stands out after potentially wiping out those games here in just one second, but first a reminder to make sure you're subscribed to the Number Fire Daily Fantasy Podcast, see wherever you get your podcast, if you like what you hear, leave us a five-star rating on Apple Podcasts or on Spotify, also do not forget, the solo shot does go up each weekday on the Fandall YouTube page and on Fandall TV Plus, on your Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV, or Roku as well. 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Gambling problem, call 1-800-Gambler or visit fandall.com slash RG in Colorado, Iowa, Michigan, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Tennessee, and Virginia. Call 1-800-NEXT-STEP or text NEXT-STEP to 533-42 in Arizona. 1-888-789-7777 or visit ccpg.org slash chat in Connecticut. 1-800-9 with it in Indiana. Visit mdgamblinghealth.org in Maryland. Visit 1-800-gambler.ed in West Virginia. Call 1-800-522-4700 in Wyoming. Hope is here, visit gamblinghelp.ma.org or call<PHONE_NUMBER> for 24-7 support in Massachusetts. Or call 1-877-HOPENWY or text OPENWY in New York. Pitching preview for this Friday, main slate out of the all-star break at Warner Rodriguez comes in with the highest salary on a fandallous salary is $10,000, followed by Tyler Glassnow in that reigning Kansas City. He's 10 flat, followed by Luis Castillo facing Rodriguez at 97. Corbin Burns checks in at 96 with Michael Kopeck at 96 as well. Charlie Morton 95, JP France 94 facing the Angels. Carlos Rodin at Coors Field 93. We got Justin Verlander 92 with John Gray, Aaron Savalli, Julio Arias, Dean Kramer, Brian Bayo, Kyle Hendricks, Sandiel Contra and Graham Ashcraft as the others at $8,000 or higher. I would note that Shohei Otani is listed as a hitter for a fandall so you cannot use him as a pitcher. Keep that in mind. If you wanna use Otani as a hitter, you definitely can. Not a bad spot for him against JP France but just note that despite the fact he is starting you cannot use him as a pitcher on fandall for tonight. I would rank Glassnow first if weather were to permit. I think that his match with Kansas City is worthy of that. So Glassnow is one as our pitcher for today but because the weather in Kansas City looks pretty dicey especially for a pitcher, I'm gonna skip over him and we'll talk about him in Things to Watch. My top pitcher with non-weather concerns is Luis Castillo. He is at home facing the Tigers and he has had some blips recently for sure but I still think he has to be high on our list with all things considered. The matchup for Castillo is a good one. The Tigers have an 89, a WRC plus against Reides with a 135 ISO and a 24% strikeout rate. Those numbers help jack up both the floor and the ceiling for opposing pitchers. Castillo's final two starts before the break were just okay. He had no walks, just foreign runs which is fine but also just nine strikeouts and we want some strikeouts obviously on fandall. But it's important to know which teams he faced in that time. Castillo went up against the Astros and the Reis and despite that he's still managed to get through those games decently unscathed and now he gets a much tougher or softer spot out of the break. Castillo up to 10 starts since his velocity stabilized. He has a 26% strikeout rate in that time. He's letting up a bit too much hard contact but the matchup does help in that regard. So Castillo is not perfect but his matchup is very nice. He is at home, he has no weather concerns with the roof there. So that's good enough for me. I'm gonna rank Luis Castillo as the top guy outside of weather situations. My number two stud again, if we cross off glass now due to weather is Charlie Morton. So Morton is also in potentially bad weather in Atlanta but I feel better about that game playing than I do about the Kansas City one. So again, it's glass now one, Castillo two. Morton is three among the studs specifically. Morton at home facing the White Sox. They're still trying to find their footing offensively. They have a 91 WRC plus against righties with a 35% fly ball rate. They're not drawn any walks hardly and they're also having pretty short plate appearances as a result despite an average strikeout rate. And what that does is it allows pitchers to go deeper in games because they're not wasting pitches and it doesn't reduce their strikeout rate because again, the White Sox are about average in that regard. Morton could use that because pitch efficiency has not been his strength so far this year. He's gotten better overall after a pretty rough start to the year. Cutback on his sinker usage is 11 starts ago and in that time, he has a 29% strikeout rate. He hasn't gone super deep in games but that's largely due to the issues with pitch efficiency. So I think that he should be more efficient here. That should help quite a bit and that juices Morton's strikeout projection up to 7.3. That's plenty enough for me to check him out here for a salary of $9,500. So Charlie Morton to me, a quality number three option if we get glass now and quality number two option if glass now is not available. Our top value guy tonight is a guy with a very low salary and it's just $7,000. That's Ken Tamayeta and I understand why the salary is so low but the concerns are not enough to push me off of him when the salary is as low as it is. Let's begin things at the downsides on Mayeda because they're legitimate. He's yet to exceed 87 pitches in any game so far this year across three stars since coming off the IL. And the twins tend to be pretty conservative when it comes to pitch counts.  So if I'm looking at expectations for Mayeda in the second half I would not expect that pitch count to go way up just because of the injuries and the staff. But we did still see Mayeda go seven innings last time out and he racked up nine strikeouts in that game. He also had eight in another as well. The velocity for Mayeda has been much better since he came back and he's converting that Velo into strikeouts. Match appears very good too facing the A's in Oakland easily the coldest temperature on the slate that's good for pitching. The A's have a 94 WRC plus against righties with a 25% strikeout rate. So I understand why Mayeda's salary is low and I have his pitch count low in my projections but he still pops in terms of strikeout projections due to the matchup due to how good he's been since coming back and I feel like we can feel good about Mayeda especially with his salary at just $7,000. If we are able to stack the raise we're probably gonna wanna say some salary somewhere and to me, Kent and Mayeda is the obvious route for doing so. So among the values, Kent and Mayeda is my favorite guy and of all pitchers considering salary Mayeda definitely worthy of being in your player pools for tonight. So again, top starter, Luis Castillo, top starter of weather allows Tyler Glass now, top value Kent and Mayeda. We got a lot of tops for today but Mayeda, I feel good about putting him. As a top value, we'll talk about another value play in things to watch just in case you're a bit more skittish about Mayeda due to his pitch count. Let's talk about stacks first though and part of the reason why I initially thought I wanted to check out a value play was because the Yankees are in Coorsfield but then you look at the salaries in the Yankees and I don't need to say to stack them. It's more so if I wanna stack the raise where the lower salaries very much come into play. You can stack the Yankees with Glass now you can stack the Yankees with Castillo and I very much would like to do so. The Yankees facing Austin Gomber in Coorsfield tonight and there are much better offense right now against the lefties than righties and Gomber is a lefty who is still struggling. I think we should load up on the Yankees here. Gomber has tried a lot of things try to write the shift this year. He's tried more sliders, fewer sliders and those things have not worked. I'd expect some kind of new tweak for him coming out of the break because he's, you know, he's tinkered he's had success in the past and I think that he wants to unlock that again and maybe he will. But so far at 18 starts Gomber has a 5.07 skill interactive ERA his expected ERA is 6.33 and that number is as high as it is due largely to hard contact. Gomber is letting up a 46% mark in that column and that's bad news in most situations but it's especially bad here. Even without judge on the active roster the Yankees have a 122 WRC plus against lefties and their ISO is 224. Both those numbers are the best on the slate again with the judge taken out of the equation and they get jacked up here at Coorsfield. So we would stack this one even if it were on a neutral in a neutral park putting it at Coorsfields makes it a true no-brainer. The Yankees even with their issues they've had are the top stack on the main slate for me. And again, don't need to break the bank to get there. You can stack them with Castillo pretty easily. Harrison Bader, John Carlos Stanton, Josh Donaldson have all obliterated lefties in a very small sample so far this year. Anthony Volpe probably lower in the order now but he's been good against lefties too hitting for power and will steal as well. And of course, Claver Torres has been dependable against lefties and puts the ball in the air a ton. So if I were finding nits to pick with the Yankees I can't really find any in popularity obviously is the main one, but like outside of that that's pretty much it. There are a really good high quality stack for today and MLB DFS. My second ranked stack would be where I'd spend the extra salary from my Aida would be the raise if not for weather but again, I can't feel great about talking up that game given the way the forecast looks. We'll talk about the raise and things to watch just in case things clear up in Kansas City but I would note the raise are number two mentally log that mentally in case we get the all clear on them. If we don't get to use the raise number two for me would be the Toronto Blue Jays they're facing Ryan Nelson. He gets the first star for the second half for Arizona and he's got some troubling bad at ball data going against Toronto tonight and the offense has been fine so far this year but I think a bit underrated potentially I do think they could look pretty good for tonight. Nelson, his most relevant sample is 13 starts with more change ups and fewer sliders which is a pretty large sample and when it's a larger sample it puts more stock in the bad at ball data and that bad at ball data over the span is pretty dicey. He's led up a 46% hard hit rate with a 43% fly ball rate which means a lot of dangerous contact and it's led to a 5.13 ERA. Nelson led up seven earned runs last time out. He's had four blow up games in this stretch. It's 13 starts so a pretty large sample but four is still not ideal. The Jays active roster hasn't been a standout against righties but their WRC plus is still 109. I think that could go up in the second half based on the guys they've got on this team and I wouldn't be shocked if that increase starts tonight. So I'm very on board with stacking the Jays here they're not just like a consolation stack with no raise. I think they are actually legitimately pretty good stack. So the Jays to me, solid number two behind the Yankees if we cannot stack the raise. As far as Ryan Nelson's rightie leftie splits they're not too concerning. I think you can kind of use your favorite guys here. One note I would make is that Arizona has been pretty good at limiting base stealers. So this year I've been trying to put a bigger emphasis on finding both speed and power and that's still largely true but I think you can put a slightly smaller emphasis on running here due to the ability the Diamondbacks have to limit opposing base runners. So would still factor it in but we can skew more towards power in this one matchup as a result of how good Arizona is at limiting opposing base runners. As far as the number three stack, assuming again we can't stack the raise I'd likely wind up on the Brewers but there is a pretty big fall off for me after the raise, the Yankees and the Jays down to the Brewers at number four. Brewers are facing Graham Ashcraft. Ashcraft, two really good starts for him going into the break and he's not quite convinced yet that he's fully back. Ashcraft spends some time on the shelf in June and right before he got hurt he started to go back to his sinker pretty heavily. Those two starts pre-injury did not go well. He went on the IL, came back, struggled in his first start as well but he's kept the same approach where he's been using that sinker more and it started to click in the two starts since then he's gone 13 and two-thirds innings let up just two earned runs and he got a lot of whiffs against the pod rates in one of those games but in that game still a lot of hard contact. Overall, since going back to his sinker more often Ashcraft is letting up a 48% hard hit rate. That doesn't matter as much with his ground ball rate hard contact not as damning there but it probably means the poor results he's had in this time aren't all fluky and we may wanna be skeptical of those two really good starts. So Ashcraft may be trending back up but I wanna see a bit more before I fully act on that. He's facing the Brewers here, 94 WRC plus against righties. So it's still pretty rough the offense but it has been improving a bit. So it's not a perfect spot for stacking that's why I prefer to go to the Yankees, Rays and Jays but the Brewers are the next place I would turn if forced to do so. Ashcraft does have some interesting reverse split tendencies where in his career which is a still a small sample but he has a 56% ground ball rate against lefties versus 48% against righties. That's great for the Brewers because we want Lillia Domes we want William Contreras the two righties there. I would still rank the lefty Christian Yelich higher than those two guys because he's gonna be the guy with some power and some speed but a Domes is a great number two. So if you're really good about Yelich really good about a Domes if you need a one off I think both those guys great out well because despite the Brewers offense being pretty bad they've shown upside themselves. So their exceptions to the I don't really wanna go here rule they're fine and would be willing to use them. Let's go now to things to watch if we get the all clearing hand sitting let's talk about Glassnow and the Rays. Glassnow he should be over the cramping he had in his most recent starts and I've gotten projected for 8.7 strikeouts. He's there both due to himself and due to the high strikeout matchup with the Royals. So if the weather clears up I would love Glassnow. I've been above Castillo the weather is fully, fully good and we can use him while stacking the Yankees and stacking the Jays as well. So to me Glassnow is a rock solid option if we get the all clear. Rays would be my second favorite stack behind the Yankees if we could use them they're facing Alec Marsh to climb the ladder pretty quickly from double A to the majors and he will get some strikeouts for sure but he will also walk some guys doesn't seem restrictive with the bad at ball data. So I think there is enough here to justify stacking the Rays. Again, I ranked the second behind the Yankees and then I ranked Glassnow first at pitcher if we were to get the all clear with those. Finally, if we're gonna pitch gonna for Kenseth Maeda which is a fair concern I would say Dean Kramer is the top alternative value play. He's at home against the Marlins. They have a 93 WRC plus against Rides. Kramer 25% strikeout rate in 10 starts more cutters. So that's why I'm on Kramer. The Marlins don't strike out much though and that's why I prefer Kenseth Maeda over Dean Kramer but Kramer fully in play if we get the all clear on weather in Baltimore as well. So I prefer Kenseth Maeda personally but if you don't wanna deal with the low pitch count I get it you can go to Kramer as your alternative. Let's finish up here at the Dinger calls for today mentioned before Glaber Torres facing lefty at Coorsfield. What else could you want? Good power numbers for Torres against lefties so far this year puts the ball in the air a ton. Gotta love that. So the boring one will be Glaber Torres. The fun one, this one is not based on data. Typically I try to do that.  This one if you look at the hard hit rate and fly ball rate heading to the all star break you're gonna close the tab. It's Dalton Varshow. He had a really rough first half in general but also end of his first half. But to me, I'm doing the all star break as a reset for Varshow or maybe he can get back to being the hitter that he was last year. That's my hope. I have faith in him as a batter and my hope is that a break can get him back locked in. So this is not based on data. This is based on me liking Dalton Varshow primarily. So we'll go with Glaber Torres and Dalton Varshow as our Dinger calls for this Friday night. But overall it is fantastic to have baseball back when they full slate. Wish it weren't riddled with weather but literally half the games impacted by weather but should still be a fun one either way. 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