Is there a threshold for you, and do you think there should be one for the United States government, and which the U.S. would say, let's hold off for a second in terms of civilian casualties? Is there a point at which you would start to— You just heard Republican Senator Lindsey Graham answer the question that many of us have asked. How many innocent civilians have to die until you call for a ceasefire? And the answer is, as many as it takes, 1,000, 2,000, 10,000, the number doesn't matter. We're unequivocally standing with Israel no matter what. They can bomb refugee camps, administer collective punishment, use white phosphorus. It doesn't matter how many innocents die, we are going to stand with Israel, even if that makes us complicit. Now, that answer is not surprising, coming from a bloodthirsty warmonger like Lindsey Graham, but many liberals might be surprised to learn that this is the same stance as the Biden administration. They've explicitly stated that they're not drawing red lines for Israel, and that's not surprising considering that the White House Press Secretary dismissed calls for a ceasefire as repugnant and compared anti-Israel protesters, who by the way are calling for a ceasefire, to the Nazis who marched in Charlottesville in 2017. And the reason why they're saying this, the reason why it's permissible to just dismiss the suffering and slaughter of innocent Palestinians is because our politicians and media have so thoroughly dehumanized Palestinians that the idea of an innocent Palestinian itself is literally being challenged, and that's not hyperbole. I would encourage the other side to not so lightly throw around the idea of innocent Palestinian civilians as is frequently said. I don't think we would so lightly throw around the term innocent Nazi civilians during World War II. I mean 50% of the people in Gaza are children, but we have to be really careful with our language here so as to not humanize the Palestinians because we don't want to give Americans the impression that Palestinians are innocent in the middle of Israel's genocide, otherwise the public might start to question whether or not it's ethical for us to support them being wiped off the map, or being leveled like a parking lot, as one politician put it. I don't even want to call it the Palestinian flag because they're not a state, they're a territory that's about to probably get eviscerated and go away here shortly as we're going to turn that into a parking lot. Despicable, but completely on brand for Republicans. I mean they don't care about Americans being slaughtered endlessly and countless mass shootings, so of course they're not going to care about innocent civilians in Gaza being massacred as well. But on the subject of gun violence, many democratic politicians have rightfully posed the question to Republicans that is now being asked to them, how many more innocent people have to die until you take action? In the case of gun violence, how many more innocent Americans have to be murdered until Republicans do something? Ban assault weapons, pass a national background check law. And we've never gotten a direct answer to that question, but years of inaction has essentially told us everything that we need to know. And when democratic politicians hammer Republicans for their complicity in gun violence, they're quick to call out the role played by the NRA. And they're correct to point that out. The NRA spends millions of dollars every single election cycle almost exclusively on Republicans to buy their complicity and it works. As Democratic Congressman Richie Torres puts it, no amount of mass murder against children is enough for the Republican Party to let go of the iron grip the NRA has on them. Sickening. And he even courageously called for the abolition of the NRA entirely. And what he's saying here makes sense because when human life is at stake, how can you justify taking money from an organization that is effectively paying you to be complicit in the deaths of innocent people? It's basically blood money. But the same can be said about him as well. Like the NRA, APEC is a far right neo-conservative interest group that spends millions and millions of dollars every single election cycle lobbying politicians to buy their complicity and Israel's oppression of the Palestinian people in West Bank and Gaza. But unlike the NRA, APEC actually gives to both Republicans and Democrats, though both organizations spend close to the same amount lobbying each year, give or take. So if you're wondering why liberal Democrats unequivocally support Israel's right-wing government and refuse to criticize Netanyahu's war crimes, even though he is basically their version of Donald Trump, this is why. It's the same reason why the Republicans won't do anything about gun vines. In the same way that the NRA buys compliance, APEC does the same when it comes to Israel policy. Take Richie Torres, for example, again. His biggest campaign contributor in the last election cycle was APEC. And that money was well spent because Richie Torres has not only shot down the notion of a ceasefire, but he's also criticized people calling for one and also denies the notion altogether that Israel is doing a genocide in Gaza. Now, keep in mind that Israeli Holocaust scholar Raz Siegel says that Israel's assault on Gaza is a textbook case of genocide. And on top of that, the UN's director of human rights was signed over the West's support for what he calls genocide, his words not mine. But if you ask Richie Torres whether or not it's a genocide, well, here's what it'll say. The notion that Israel's committed a death like cleansing and genocide is absurd. And keep in mind that the critics of Israel have been accusing Israel of committing genocide long before the conflict. Israel isn't an enormously complicated situation. If you believe, as I do, that Israel has the right to defend itself. In order to defend itself, it has to drive Hamas out of power. If Israel were to keep Hamas in power, it would run the risk of an even deadlier terrorist attack against its own people in the future. And Israel cannot afford a Hamas that's empowered to perpetrate deadly terrorist attack against its own people. The highest responsibility of any government, whether it's the United States or Israel, is to protect its people. With a straight face, he said the notion that Israel is committing a genocide is absurd. Now, I, for one, I'm more inclined to agree with the Israeli Holocaust scholar and an expert on human rights at the UN. I'm inclined to think that they know a lot more about this than Richie Torres. But I mean, his point is that Israel has the right to defend itself no matter the cost. So this begs the question, again, how many innocent Palestinians have to die in the name of Israel defending itself before Richie Torres says enough is enough. 10,000, 20,000, I mean 3,195 children plus have already been killed in three weeks in the name of self-defense. So the question is, how much is enough for Richie Torres? And as someone who knows the power of lobbying, he knows the answer. So let's put his tweet back up, and you'll notice that I took the liberty to change a couple of words. Quote, no amount of mass murder against children is enough for the Democratic Party to let go of the iron grip A-PAC has on them, sickening.  And I may have changed some words there in that tweet, but that is effectively the position that Richie Torres, as well as the Biden administration, is taking, which isn't a surprise considering all the money that Biden took as well from the Israel lobby during his tenure as a U.S. Senator. But if you point this out, your anti-Semitic, according to Richie Torres, because he responded to claims that he's bought off by lobbyists saying, there's a false narrative that I am pro-Israel because of quote, the Jewish lobby or quote, Jewish money or whatever anti-Semitic tropes critics wish to invoke. Left unmentioned is the fact that I have been pro-Israel for nearly a decade long before I ever thought of running for Congress. Now, to his latter point, I mean, I guess that's fair. Maybe he was unapologetically pro-Israel before running for Congress, but the same can also be said about Republicans that Richie Torres criticizes. Maybe Jim Jordan, the single biggest individual recipient of NRA money, was also pro-gun before he got into Congress. And he was always really enthusiastic about no gun safety laws in America. I mean, if it's true for Richie Torres, the same can be said for pro-gun Republicans, right? Now, his main point there is that pointing out this corruption is apparently anti-Semitic. Now, if you'll notice, he did a little bit of a switcheroo there and he said the Jewish lobby and Jewish money, which is a straw man because critics who refer to APEC are referring to the Israel lobby. Now, there is a difference and it's important that we don't muddy the waters between these differences and obfuscate. So the difference is that the Israel lobby does not spend money at the behest of the Jewish people. This is not a Jewish human rights organization or Jewish advocacy organization. They spend money at the behest of Israel's right wing government. And this isn't unique to Israel. If you look at the total foreign lobbying done since 2016, Israel is actually ninth out of 10. Number one is China. Is it synophobic to point that out? No, because everyone knows that China is lobbying when it comes to business and trade. Saudi Arabia spends more than Israel. So when we point out that it's wrong to sell them weapons because we know that they're going to use them on innocent Yemenis, is it Islamophobic to point that out? No, because Saudi Arabia represents the Saudi Arabian government when they lobby, not Muslim people. Similarly, when the Israel lobby spends money, they are not advocating for Jewish people. They are promoting the neo-conservative positions that the Israeli government holds when it comes to Iran. And they're trying to buy silence when it comes to the Israeli government's treatment of Palestinians. But all of a sudden, according to Richie Torres, it's anti-Semitic. No, that is such a despicable thing to say, because anti-Semitism is very real and it is rising around the globe. Now, there are conspiracy theories about Jews controlling the governments and the media, and they are deeply harmful and anti-Semitic, and we must defeat them. But what these defenders of Israel are doing is they're trying to muddy the waters and pretend as if criticism of Israel is tantamount to those right-wing conspiracy theories about Jewish people. When that doesn't even make sense because we don't have that same standard for any other government because it's illogical. Of course, you can critique a government without critiquing the people. People are people and governments are governments. But what Richie Torres is paid to do is draw this equivalent specifically to silence critics of Israel. But in doing so, he is effectively smearing Jewish people, a community that he is not a part of. Because Jewish people are not responsible for the actions of Israel's fascist government. And to say that a criticism of Israel is tantamount to a criticism of Jewish people is that not an incitement of hatred, because when we see that Israel is doing war crimes, you're basically saying no, Jewish people are responsible for that too. That's not okay. Countless Jewish peace activists have led protests against Israel's genocide in Gaza. So when you conflate Israel with all Jewish people, you are attaching culpability to them in the same way that Israel's government is attaching culpability to all Palestinians by drawing a false equivalence between them and Hamas. You're no better than the politicians who are saying there are no innocent Palestinians. Again, people are people and governments are governments. Muddying the waters in that regard is downright dangerous. It helps to proliferate hate against these communities that are seeing an increase of hate because of what's happening. And if you can point out the NRA's effects on politicians, you obviously can do the same when it comes to Israel. And spoiler alert, we live in a late-stage capitalist hellscape. Most policy positions of politicians can be explained by simply looking up their donors. Want to know which politicians support Medicare for All? The ones that haven't taken money from the health insurance industry. Want to know which ones are perfectly fine with 68,000 Americans dying every single year due to a lack of health insurance? Well, the ones who took donations from the health industry. Want to know which politicians don't support an increase in the minimum wage? Just look up the donations that they've taken from large multinational corporations who disproportionately employ minimum wage workers, so on and so forth. This is the way that our government functions. And calling that out is important. It's honest. It's not anti-semitic. But those who say that it is anti-semitic are playing a very dangerous game here. And they're inciting hatred against people who have nothing to do with the actions of the Israeli government. But thankfully, lawmakers are starting to call this out. And it's not just progressive, so we're doing that. For example, APAC called out lawmakers who voted against the House resolution standing with Israel, saying, instead of standing with Israel, Republican Thomas Massey is standing with the squad. Now, AOC actually responded to that, pointing out, APAC endorsed scores of January 6th insurrectionists. They are no friend to American democracy. They are one of the more racist and bigoted PACs in Congress as well who disproportionately target members of color. They are an extremist organization that destabilizes US democracy. Now, Corey Bush chimed in, saying, APAC's dark money grift and anti-democracy propping up of insurrectionists are attempts to undermine the will of the people.  Now, Ilhan Omar also jumped in, adding, APAC literally ran ads with my face next to Hamas Rockets, resulting in a string of threats against my life. When Democratic leadership called them out, they refused to apologize and kept the ads up. What they are doing is insulting and Islamophobic. You cannot claim to be progressive while launching a super PAC that exclusively targets progressives and supports Republicans in the general. Now, to my surprise, a Democrat who wasn't even called out by APAC jumped in. Mark Pocan, who echoed what AOC said, saying, gotta admit, this sums up how many feel about what APAC really is about. Insurrectionists, WTF, no friend of democracy.  It's a cynical undemocratic strategy, and since they clearly don't care about dead kids, it's all about backing a conservative Netanyahu position. Now, AOC buttressed Pocan's point, saying, it's past time for us to recognize how toxic of a presence APAC has been in our political system. They actively boost candidates who tried to overthrow the U.S. election and run smear campaigns on members of Congress who stand up for human rights. Enough. Now, on top of that, Justice Democrats chimed in pointing out, APAC endorsed 109 Republican members of Congress that voted to overturn Joe Biden's election, including the current speaker, Mike Johnson. But it gets even better because Thomas Massey, the original target of APAC's tweet, a Republican, by the way, he also jumped in, saying, APAC always gets mad when I put America first. I won't be voting for their $14 billion shakedown of American taxpayers either. Let them know what you think by replying to their post. They are intentionally misrepresenting my intent and the resolution I voted against. Now, in a follow-up tweet, he explained his reasoning for opposing that resolution. Among them, he thought that it was too hawkish and he didn't want to commit to foreign aid that he doesn't support. But most importantly, quote, it contains an open-ended promise of military support that is so broad that it could be interpreted to commit U.S. soldiers to the conflict. U.S. troops should not be engaged in this conflict. And it tends to broaden the conflict to other countries when it would be better to keep the war contained geographically. So APAC thought that they could go after a bunch of lawmakers who opposed them, and these lawmakers would be too afraid to speak out. But they're not. They're fighting back finally. APAC is smearing these lawmakers pretending like they refused to stand with Israel or condemn Hamas when in actuality the resolution that they opposed is much more complex than that. Progressives who opposed it did so because there was no concern for Palestinians. So for Thomas Massey and Progressives to take the gloves off and go after APAC like this in a direct public way, that is huge. It almost feels like a paradigm shift because this is something that politicians avoid because it could be the end of their careers. And what AOC and all of these politicians are doing here is important because it forces Democrats to take APAC money to explain why they're aligned with a far-right organization that contributes to Republicans. And that framing matters because Democratic party voters might not know that APAC is bad because it's law being specifically at the behest of Israel's ultra-nationalist Trumpian government. But if they end up finding out that Democrats are taking money from an organization that also supports insurrectionist Republicans, I mean that could change their perception of this organization as well as Democrats that take money from this organization. Now before you send flowers to Thomas Massey and Mark Pocan, you should probably know that Pocan also does not support a ceasefire despite his denunciation of APAC. And Thomas Massey is basically the inverse of Richie Torres when it comes to the NRA, albeit to a lesser extent. He only admits to taking $2,000 from the NRA, but it's a little bit disingenuous to say that because as Becky Whitehill points out, Citizens United has made it so organizations can give indirectly to politicians through super PACs. So if you look up his donations, you'll see that he's taken thousands more from non-NRA gun interest groups throughout his career. And like the gun lobby, the Israel lobby is comprised of more than just APAC, and campaign contributions alone don't tell us everything. Thomas Massey might not be the most bought-off Republican when it comes to the gun lobby, but he knows that if he suddenly endorsed gun safety legislation, well, the gun lobby could come after him by funding his opponent in the next primary. And knowing this is a possibility has a profound impact on politicians. Take John Federman, for example. As the Intercept reports, quote, during his primary race against Representative Conor Lamb, as the Intercept previously reported, Federman allowed the Democratic majority for Israel, another pro-Israel interest group, to guide his platform on Israel and Palestine. DMFI had spent the campaign season dropping millions of dollars in opposition to progressive Democrats critical of U.S. support for Israel, and Federman succeeded in avoiding their ire. And in order to avoid DMFI and APAC bank rolling his opponent during that primary, he had to make it crystal clear that he would support USA to Israel without any additional conditions.  Well, they could crush you. As Common Dreams explains, APAC and recent U.S. elections have spent millions of dollars to defeat progressive candidates, such as Representative Summer Lee and former Ohio State Senator Nina Turner, both supporters of Palestinian human rights, as well as pro-democracy reforms in the U.S. with mixed success. And the success was mixed there because Summer Lee ended up winning despite all the money from the Israel lobby spent against her. But Nina Turner, however, ended up losing. Now, at one point, there was a poll that showed that Nina Turner had a 35-point lead over her opponent. And her opponent, Chantelle Brown, knew that if she was going to win, she needed more money fast. So what did she do? Well, as the Intercept explains, she low-key pleaded with super PACs to throw her a life vest. In particular, she conspicuously shared quotes on her website about how she was very pro-Israel. And this was a shameless attempt to solicit contributions from the Israel lobby. But guess what? It worked. She got the money and she won. Now, the same thing could happen to Corey Bush. In fact, it's happening right now before our very eyes, because as The Washington Post explains, St. Louis County Prosecutor Wesley Bell announced this week he was dropping his months-long bid to unseat one of the country's most outspoken Republican senators, Josh Hawley, to launch a primary campaign to oust fellow Democrat Representative Corey Bush. When asked to explain his switch, Bell pointed to Bush's criticism of Israel. Now, as Twitter user Sean points out here, this line of attack against Bush is his opening pitch to APAC and DMFI. And he's correct about that. I mean, why try to defeat an insurrectionist Republican when it's easier to raise thousands of dollars automatically by pledging your undying loyalty to Israel? See, him declaring loyalty to Israel isn't going to matter in the Senate race against Josh Hawley because Josh Hawley also pledged his undying loyalty to Israel. But where it could really make a difference is against the progressive deemed the enemy of APAC, Corey Bush. That money could be make or break. Corey Bush is in legitimate danger here. So this is what we're up against. This is why Democrats and Republicans have no red line when it comes to Israel's war crimes in Gaza. Now you can also blame ignorance and cowardice. I think this is the case for some politicians like Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders. But for the most part, I think most politicians who toe the line, they're doing so because they were paid to do so by the Israeli lobby. Palestinians just don't have comparable lobbying power. So this is why politicians in both parties turn a blind eye to their suffering and pretend as if they don't exist. But times are changing and public sentiment is shifting before our very eyes. The majority of Americans who now support a ceasefire, they're going to wonder why our government isn't supporting the common sense position. And they're soon going to learn that it's because money in politics is again the lowest common denominator. And in the same way that the NRA pays Republicans to do nothing about gun violence, APAC pays politicians in both parties to do nothing about Israel's war crimes in Gaza.


Yeah, it comes from, you know, camaraderie, you know, being in the locker room, being around each other, you know, coming out here in the field, and, you know, we're not just coming to work, but we come to enjoy what we're doing and improve as a team and as a defense, you know, it kind of, it kind of builds a bond between everybody, between the secondary linebackers, the D line, even to the offense, you know, it's great.   When it's camp time, you're able to hit the ground and start rolling. You know, last year, we just came in, the first day was camp.  You know, it's good, you know, I'm getting more comfortable at every position, the more and more I compete, the more and more I practice. But, you know, it's good to be able to go from corner to nickel and just move around, you know, do some things to help the defense, you know, just earn my job. You know, I'm loving it.   You just want to keep going and keep going and it's just good to come out here and compete.  So, it's good to come out here, you know, keep improving, you know, keep taking the coaching and keep getting better.   You know, just come out here and get used to it.  So things like that, that he come in and bring to the team, you know, it's just great to have a guy around like him. Uh, I can't tell you specifically exactly what it was, but it was a great technique for me to learn, you know, and to perfect it and using my craft.


Hello and welcome to the Grand Line Review, your source for everything One Piece and today it's time to get action-centric on the channel because adventure, comedy, drama, world building, all of that, yeah it's great but we're going to be focusing on the other area that One Piece absolutely excels at which is combat and quite specifically we are going to be looking at none other than our protagonist Monkey D. Luffy. Now everyone will have their own opinions but I think it's fair to say that Luffy has most of the best fights in One Piece and probably the entirety of the manga medium in general. The straw hat captain is consistently thrown into hostile situations that involve spectacular drama, profound drive and glorious choreography on the part of Etch your order. And there are so many fine examples of this in action that I really had to make this a top 10 list because otherwise far far too much would be neglected. I mean as it is maybe in the future this probably needs to be at least a top 20 list but for now I think that 10 is you know a nice round number. So how are we going to be determining Luffy's best fights? Well first off let's define fight. The fight is an exchange of physical blows fairly simple however what I'm looking for on today's list is something a bit more in-depth. I don't want to be examining simple skirmishes so for example something I would not consider a fight is Luffy punching St. Charles. Even though I guess it does technically fit the dictionary definition because Charles fired bullets at Luffy and you know the outcome was pretty damn awesome I'm just looking for something that's a bit more than a singular awesome moment here today. Other than that this list is probably going to be extremely subjective. Furthermore all fights on this list must be canon because in stark contrast to the longer mandated events filler Luffy fights are probably some of the hottest garbage that the anime has to offer and you know what even if I did decide to consider them I don't think anything would quite make it anywhere near here anyway but with that out of the way let's begin. Welcome to the top 10 Luffy fights in one piece. Number 10 Luffy versus NL. Kicking off this list on a high note we have the conflict that served as the climax of the entire skypier saga. Luffy versus NL is actually a very unique piece of combat and quite unlike most of what we're going to see here today because it's a bit of an odd pairing. On the one hand you have NL who up until this point in the series was more or less completely untouched with the exception being hit by wiper however the one natural counter to his absurd abilities just so happened to be this rubber boy rendering NL unable to truly fight at his maximum potential but at the same time Luffy wasn't able to steamroll NL either because his godlike opponent had access to what is still to this day one of the most potent uses of observation Haki we've ever seen which made it nigh on impossible for Luffy to actually hit NL for quite a bit of the fight so our combatants were at a bit of an odd stalemate until NL finally used his devil fruit in a more creative manner choosing to seal Luffy's hand in a ball of gold and effectively forcefully remove him from the battlefield. However in doing so NL also sealed his own fate and eventually copped his own giant ball of gold straight to the body ending his tenure as a villain but of course my favorite moment is the fact that Luffy used this finishing blow to ring the golden bell of Shandora thus killing three birds with one stone fulfilling wiper's desire cricket's curiosity and NL's much needed defeat all at once. It was a wonderfully conducted battle and something that I very fondly remember to this day. Number nine Luffy versus Gekko Moria traveling to the Florian Triangle now we have the deciding conflict of Thriller Bark in which Luffy solos a rather foolish but incredibly powerful Gekko Moria so of all the fights on today's list this is the one that reminds me most of a video game like boss battle it's a very typical final level boss absorbs incredible power becomes big beast thing and you just have to casually take care of business although I suppose the best part about this fight to me is that it is a race against time I mean it's clear that Luffy is superior to Moria in this form and if it was a battle of attrition then Luffy would take it no contest however he is charged with defeating Moria before the Sun Rises which if he failed would not only kill him but a huge chunk of his crew as well due to Moria having stolen their shadows so as much as we're never quite on the edge of our seats in regards to Moria being a real threat the intensity is there through the time aspect and due to that Luffy also uses some fun techniques designed more to extract shadows and it's just a really nice spin on the typical final fight of an arc. Number eight Luffy versus Arlong stepping even further back into the days of Eastblue this battle is one of the crowning achievements of the era I have to say that I think I find this fight so satisfying largely in part thanks to the dramatic stakes that Oda had set up in terms of Nami it's very difficult to think about this conflict in isolation and whenever my mind wanders to Luffy versus Arlong Nami's pain and suffering always comes with it as a result though every hit Luffy lands on Arlong strikes me just that little bit harder it's more satisfying to watch Luffy beat up the evil shark dude much more so than most opponents because the emotional release is almost euphoric and that final move knocking Arlong through several floors and destroying the entirety of Arlong Park in the process is a marvel of visual storytelling in my opinion what really gets me though is Luffy's speech about not being able to wield swords cook food navigate the ocean or even lie and then his profound resolution that the one thing he can do is beat Arlong that gives me chills every time I think about it plus somehow this fight also contains a whole ton of levity with Luffy doing weird stuff like putting Arlong's teeth in his mouth so it has literally everything action comedy and drama all at the highest levels portrayed in the series at the time this was the beginning of the golden age of one piece and one hell of a fine fight even to this day number seven Luffy versus Doflamingo so what isn't to love about this dress where is a wasn't lawfully long slog but getting to this point in the arc very much made it all worth it as one of my favorite characters in the series watching Doflamingo going up against Luffy at long last was a fantastic treat and plus this was also the very first time we got to see Gear 4th in action which was probably one of the most hype events I can remember in my entire history of reading the series weekly also like the Gekko Moria fight Oda also chose to imbue this clash with a time sensitive element being the point at which the bird cage would close and kill I think literally everyone and after an arc that had taken some pain staking time to introduce us to literally everyone this made the stakes pretty damn high so much so that the end of this conflict had to take place in the air and that King Kong gun was just perfection in the manga anyway I will say that it was a bit disappointing in the anime because they did that thing they do where they artificially extended the clash to the point where it lost all impact because you know it should have been punch break swift defeat kind of like what happened to cheeky in stronghold actually but instead it was like punch block one minute of struggle and then somehow break I don't know that was a toy regardless this battle was still brilliant and matchups like this are undoubtedly a huge reason why I continue to be heavily invested in this world number six Luffy versus Bellamy Jaya Island Edition so here we go one of the most memorable moments in the entire series however before we discuss that what has really compelled me to put this fight on this list so high up is much less the punch that ended everything but more so the wonderful way in which it was set up Bellamy is a perfect example of a classic anime dick he's arrogant dick-headed and powerful enough to be a menace but nowhere near enough to pose an actual threat and a lot of Jaya was spent with the idea that this dude brah was just throwing his weight around with no consequence and he even got to beat up Luffy and Zora directly without them so much as lifting a finger to stop him but eventually Mr Bellamy took it just that one step too far resulting in a light speed fall from the naiical grace as he was put in his place with a single punch although I think that this fight actually ranks quite highly for me in retrospect due to my knowledge of how this encounter changed Bellamy into dare I say it the character that I really like now so it's just such a solid battle in the series and a splendid performance by our captain number five Luffy versus Usopp this is always a painful one to talk about but at the same time this really was a defining event in the series for both contenders crafting a rift in their friendship that culminated in a full on fist fight this bout stands out quite a lot because it's one of the very few battles in which it was not satisfying in any way to see Luffy land a blow on his opponent like this wasn't our long where every punch was this joyous release it was quite the opposite actually every hit that landed courtesy of either Luffy or Usopp only made this situation hurt that much more and that dramatic weight is conveyed so effectively through Luffy at the conclusion of the clash where even though he technically came out on top it was clear that there were no winners in this situation but despite it being one of the more painful events in the series to watch or read through it was still put together masterfully from an aesthetic point of view so oddly enough it was still great to see whilst being simultaneously torturous a truly outstanding Luffy fight without a doubt number four Luffy versus Bluener all right so this fight always takes me back to high school because back in the day I would rewatch this fight over and over and over again and in fact you know what to this day it is probably the fight that I have rewatched the most because the moment this episode aired I was stunned because I was waiting to see how gear second would be animated and it absolutely flawed me the speed in this altercation was like nothing the series had seen before and Luffy's hits felt so incredibly devastating plus narratively this conflict had a lot of substance to it as it was essentially the turn of the tide for the water seven saga which up until this point had been incredibly dark and despairful I mean cp9 where this group of unfathomably powerful figures at the time and watching Luffy rise to their level and bring down the cow man meant everything it signaled that this counterattack was in full swing and that the rest of the straw hats were also going to rise to the occasion plus even though it occurred during any sobby which was a notable period in which the anime started to decline this was still put together phenomenally from start to finish in fact I'd have to say that the only thing this clash has going against it is that it does end somewhat anticlimactically with Bruno just eventually collapsing from the jeppuzuka damage but that really is the only thing I could even come close to calling a flaw in this incredible exchange number three Luffy versus Rob Lucci sticking with any sobby for now we have the main event which brings us everything that the new fresh concept of gear second did in the bluener fight but adds the emotional weight of robin and even usopp behind it as well in much the same way that Arlong was carrying the weight of nami just like on steroids and to this day I think that Luffy versus Lucci is one of the most brutal slugfest we've ever seen in the series this wasn't a fight between weird paramecia powers or having to come up with a creative weight counter a logia user this was almost entirely pure brawn and could only be decided by way of whose endurance gave in first plus in terms of spectacle this was the first properly seen use of gear third in the series which was portrayed superbly and the final attack is easily one of the greatest finishes we've ever been privileged enough to witness jet gattling gun what a way to end everything and full credit to the anime in both the original series and the episode of mary for making this one hell of a moment to remember number two Luffy versus crocodile round three so I'll say this straight up this is the fight that convinced me that I was going to be a lifelong fan of the series everything up until now had been great but the climax of the alabaster saga was a high point in one piece that has been so incredibly hard to replicate going forward not impossible to replicate and not even impossible to surpass but this fight just had everything going for it to begin with it was the first time that Luffy had really been pushed to his limits compared to this fight everything before it looks like a comfortable victory for him but this was crocodile and he'd already lost to this man twice a man who still reigns as one of the most popular villains within the series history with an incredible design and presenting an impossible power to overcome but as always Luffy rose to the occasion confronting him for a third time and even using his own blood as a counter to crocodile zokia powers this fight was brutal it was desperate and it was series defining when after all of this Luffy exclaims that he would surpass crocodile and punched him into absolute infinity through bedrock and beyond saving not only the kingdom of alabaster but also his dream of becoming the pirate king from start to finish this battle is engraved in my mind and yet I should point out that we still haven't quite reached the pinnacle of Luffy combat number one Luffy versus kata curry all right so despite being the number one place this is a bit of a weird one because when I was reading this fight weekly I was a bit hot and cold on it as you can tell if you rewatch my chapter reviews on the one hand I love the artwork and the choreography and in that respect I think this battle stands out as one of the greatest in all of shonen let alone one pieces in individual series what I didn't like at the time was well the time it took an awfully long time to complete reading weekly and there were points where it just didn't feel like it was getting anywhere but in retrospect that was very much the point the idea was to showcase Luffy in an extended bout getting crushed every step of the way in pursuit of acquiring a new skill and eventually trumping his opponent not through strength but through sheer force of will and a lot of people will argue with me about this but to this day I believe that Luffy could not have won this fight with power alone kata curry trumped him in every aspect but what Luffy managed to do was so much more impressive than simply beat an opponent Luffy managed to change kata curry's entire being during this fight and flip his way of life on its head simply by refusing to give up against an opponent who clearly outclassed him and yeah I know it's not quite as simple as that that's why I have a whole video explaining this fight which you should absolutely check out however there has never been anything like this in one piece before and I highly doubt that we'll ever see anything like it again this transcends the concept of a fight by entwining physical and psychological combat physically Luffy lost but psychologically he won and of everything on this list today this display is what makes me truly believe that Luffy will one day against all odds become the pirate king and that pretty much does it for the top 10 Luffy fights in one piece if you enjoyed this video and the content this channel produces in general then please do consider donating to the Grand Line review patreon because the support of all of your amazing people is what continues to make this channel possible and if you'd like to see more videos like this but applied to other anime manga series then please do check out my second channel in your world review for all of your wider needs and if you'd like to join the fun at any time then please do head over to my discord server where a wide array of shenanigan retakes place on a daily basis and finally please do comment with your own favorite Luffy fights in the series this has been the Grand Line review and I'll see you next time


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Killer whale defender Chico Chico when digital currency comes into effect Will it be impossible the to decentralize or will black market systems of barter spring up? I black market systems of barter will spring up like mad, right? Like mad Right, they'll try to shut it down, but I don't think central digital currency They're gonna roll it out They're gonna try to bring it out once they collapse the entire system, right? And it's basically collapsed already Will it hold? I don't think so. I don't think so There will be and by the way the way it's gonna roll out they're gonna bring it out, right? Try to bring it out. Let's say bring it out. If they're successful, you're gonna see the economies of the Western world completely just completely collapse Because more and more people are using cash now So what's gonna happen is a lot of small businesses are gonna go completely under and then everyone's gonna become dependent on the state for their livelihood, right and slowly over the years the Lifestyle and the standard of living is just gonna completely plummet, right? basically ussr Right, so it took decades for ussr the centralization of that system to completely collapse and the whole thing just crumble, right? We're in a digital era, right? It's gonna happen a lot faster. We're in a quickening to a certain degree So events that took decades to unfold in the past are just gonna take months to years max to unfold in the present So even if they roll out their digital currencies, it's all gonna be fine It's gonna stabilize and then I Think that's when that's what's gonna happen if they're allowed to roll it out We'll see. I hope it doesn't happen But it's gonna be black market like for me if they roll out this digital central currency I'm gonna go black market. There's gonna be some of it that is gonna be on their currency but basically on paper most people's income is gonna be Showing half of what they were making before, right? That's GDP complete collapse, right? GDP collapses your credit rate like France's credit rating has as a Francis credit. Yeah, Francis credit rating has already been Downgraded by Finch, I believe right they took Francis credit rating from Double a positive to double a negative. So I think they dropped it down to notches, right? This is France first world country credit rating just dropped, right? That's gonna happen to all Western countries If they're allowed to do what it is that they're planning to do Okay So we see we see how it goes. We see how it goes. Oh, I can honestly tell you right now straight up They take everything digital currency My Private students that I have right. I'm gonna talk to their parents and say hey listen We've got to make some other kind of deal right Either they end up You know for payment. I'll tell them to buy me a comic book Grated comic book, right? I'll say okay. I'm gonna teach you this long. This is how much my cost is Here's a comic book that Goes for that price For my payment buy that comic book and send it to me and I'll teach your kids for this many hours Like literally barter system if they want to stay digital they do it if they want to do something else if they're I have I have Have had students where they've had Their family was doing farming. I'll just get food from them, right? That's it. The only thing that will be on the books is rent Okay, that's it as far as I'm concerned if I can manage it if they all if it all goes digital if I can get all my food Through barter then it'll show that we don't eat anything Fuck centralization of power


Looks like we're going to be in a Subaru Forest Hills hazard sprint, but I mean they said off-road vehicles. This is not for a vehicle. I'm going to race this one in cockpit view. Oh, we probably should have stayed in the other car. Just doing some rally racing right now. See the other one was a hazard sprint, but it didn't have any like hazards like this one does. Oh yeah, because we got a jump on this one. Oh jeez. I cannot see where I'm going. Hold that guy down. Oh, my buddy. Definitely water logging our Subaru right now. We're not doing too bad so far and, as I said, we almost missed that. I didn't know I signed up for rally racing today. Plaza R9. Definitely feeling all the feedback right now. Downshift. Getting a workout right now. In this race, you can just see the wheel just shaking. We probably would have blocked the Subaru down on the track. Now we're a little bit smoother right now. We're maxing out the Subaru. We're not going to be able to catch them in this maxed out speed. Dude, it looks so beautiful though. You're not going any faster, so we got a little wobbly. I cannot see where I'm going. Driving first person. Probably not the best option. Did we win? Oh, I don't know how we won. I could not see where we were going. I didn't know I signed up for a rally race for that one, but we managed to finish first in that one. Fingers and Subaru. That was definitely a very interesting race to say the least. First person probably not the best choice for this track for going all over, up and down, and twisting around. Does that mean we can actually pull out some... All the missions associated with your rookie rank grouped into major and minor challenges. Great tip. If you complete all the major missions, you'll earn enough medals to unlock the next qualifier. By the way, you can track specific missions and pin them to your dashboard here. So we have a lot of missions to go. So we are on sport tires in the snow. No rally tires.  Pulling on these guys though. Okay, then I expected them too. That's fine. We got this. Jumps are not the greatest thing when you can't see. That's all ice. Definitely don't want to pull the handbrake. But we're back on the snow. We're good. We're good. The lies.  Too hard to manage here. Then these guys. The snow bank. Oh boy. Not too high on that snow bank. There's a very slippy corner. I don't know where I'm going. Cannot see. We got this. Oh, sorry dude. Bye man. So this is definitely very challenging running this race in first person. Because you cannot see when you go over jumps like we're about to. I have no idea where I'm going. Let's see I missed something. Because I didn't know where I was going. I'm going to use that rewind button because what did I miss? Is it that way? See, what did I just miss? I don't see a checkpoint. Because I'm hitting all of these. I'm so confused. What checkpoint did I miss? Apparently this is like you're going that far in on the track. Okay. All right Forza. Didn't like we going that far in on the track. Third to first. Money gear. That's okay though. Cannot see anything. You guys want to challenge one first person? This is extremely hard to know where you're going. Oh, this is really slippery. And this is probably even more slippery here. Trying to keep some traction. Oh, there was somebody there.  It's good. All good. Best cars are going uphill. We're still pulling on the other cars. So if you guys want to see more here on horizon 5 let's make sure you don't let me know down in the comment section down below. Otherwise I'd like to thank you guys for coming back and watching. I'm your full rabbit. I'll see you guys on the track. Let's hope I can win this race. Man, it's that slippy corner. See you guys later.


Hello friends, myself Dr. Narendra Kartikar, Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Valachandra Institute of Technology, Solapur. Now we are going to present and discuss about the study of gating system. At the end of this lecture or the session, student will be able to understand the gating system, its different types and also know where to apply it. The content flow for this presentation, introduction, elements of gating system, gating, then types of gating system, the riser, why risers are required and different type of risers. Let us have a look on the schematic diagram of casting mold. This is the schematic diagram which explains the typical components of two parts sand casting. You can see the cove half, drag half where the particular elements of molds are there like a sporing cup, sprue, gating system, mold cavity, core, core print and riser. The section diagram of casting molds typically is shown on the screen where once again you can have a look across sectional details of that particular casting mold. The cove half, drag half, open riser as well as the vents are shown over there. The pouring basin rather cup is shown, the material poured through the pouring basin flows through the sprue where it passes through the gate and choke, further moves from runner to the mold cavity. There are different type of risers shown over there, open riser, blind riser. The flask is also shown over there, the parting line and sand is also present over there. When we discuss about the casted part, the casting which is solidified and taken from the mold box is looking like this. The pouring cup, the sprue, runner, gate, side riser, casting and top riser. This particular figure shows a one integral solidify element present over there when we broke down the particular sand mold box. Now after visualizing and understanding the cross section of molding box solidified gating system interconnected singular solidified casted part, let us move with the elements of gating system. The particular figure shown on the screen elaborates the gating system itself. The elements of gating systems are pouring basin, drown sprue, sprue base, runner, extention, gates. The dotted portion shows over there is nothing but a casting geometry. The particular elements interlinked one with the other are shown in a three dimensional isometric figure over there. Now exactly what the meaning of gating, gating are the flow passes to run and feel the molten metal in the mold cavity. Gating system include distribution of clean metal with the proper rates and velocities at specific location in the mold. Let us have a look on the types of gating system. Top gate, bottom gate, branch gate, horn gate and parting type. Let us see one by one the different type of gate. Initially the top gate, the figure shown on the screen is self-explanatory will deliver the more elaboration for the top gate itself. The cope half drag half parting line cavity is seen over there. Typically sand and pouring cup ladles are also shown over there. Molten metal from pouring basin is fed directly into the mold cavity. The hottest metal remain at the top of casting. This promotes directional solidification from the casting towards the gate. Second type, bottom gate, the molten metal enters from the bottom to the mold cavity. It is more clarified with the figure shown on the screen. The molten metal runs through the sprue, further runner, further ingate and then it ends entered with the cavity itself. The sand, sprue, cavity, runner, ingate, cope half drag half are the elements shown in the figure. It minimizes the turbulence and erosion in the mold cavity, provides unfavorable temperature gradient that do not promote directional solidification. Horn gate, you can see over here the particularly section of horn gate. This type of gate which is a part of pattern with a smooth curves and progressive change in dimension is designed to minimize mold erosion and oxidation of molten metal. You can see over here the particularly more self-explanatory diagram shown on the screen. Parting type, it is the most commonly used gate and it is a compromise between top and bottom gate. The gate is provided at the parting line of the mold that is very clearly visible with the means of diagram shown on the screen. The particular parting line is present over there where the gate is going to be generated and it interlinks the sprue and particularly mold cavity itself. Typically, the cope, drag and sprue as well as riser along with the core elements are shown in the diagram. This is one of the real-time image which explains more elaborate on the visualization of riser being a present over there for casted element. You can see the left side element is a solidified element which is taken out from the particular mold box and after finishing the ready part is looking like on the right side of the image. At this stage of this session, are you able to recall, share some of about effect of shrinkage in a journey of molten metal till it solidified with reference to your earlier gained knowledge just enlist few of the points. Now let us move further why the risers are required. The shrinkage occurs in three stages over there while solidifying the molten metal. When temperature of liquid metal drops from pouring to freezing temperature. When the metal changes from liquid to solid state and when the temperature of solid phase drops from freezing to room temperature. The shrinkage for stage 3 is compensated by providing shrinkage allowance on the pattern while the shrinkage during the stage 1 and 2 are compensated by providing riser. Now let us see about the riser. During solidification metal experience shrinkage which results in void formation. This can be avoided by feeding hot spot during solidification. Risers are used to feed casting during solidification. So few of the images just to get the aware about the riser. Type of risers. Open riser. The top surface of the riser will be open to the atmosphere. The open riser is usually placed on the top of the casting. Gravity and atmospheric pressure causes the liquid metal in the riser to flow into the solidifying casting. The image is self-explanatory more elaborative for the type of riser, open riser. Blind riser called as blinder riser also. It is completely enclosed in the mold and not exposed to the atmosphere. The metal cools lower and stay longer promoting directional solidification. The liquid metal is fed to the solidifying casting under the force of gravity alone. Here once again the image is more self-explanatory with the presence of all the number of varieties of elements over there. It is about the blinder riser. References for these presentations are Introduction to Basic Manufacturing Processes and Workshop Technology by Rajendra Singh. A textbook of Workshop Technology Manufacturing Processes by Khurmi Gupta. And few more references are as follows. Thank you.


The Assembly will now hear an address by His Excellency Philippe Joseph Pierre. Prime Minister, Honourable Philippe J. Pierre addressed the general debate of the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly on September 22. An incisive appeal for justice and due attention was hurtled toward the global leaders seated in the General Assembly Hall. Mr. President, St. Lucia has come to this same session to say there must be justice in the relations between developed and developing countries and that we are no longer willing to come to this annual parade merely to lend our voice to support of this or that global conflict or to condemn whoever from year to year is the new global enemy. No powerful nation's global agenda is more important than our own and we insist that our legitimate concerns be listened and be acted upon. The Prime Minister's address touched on numerous areas of concern for St. Lucia. Mr. President, there are many amongst us the small and marginalised islands of our globe surrounded by rising seas and scorched by rising temperatures who are beginning to question this annual parade of flowery speeches and public pretense of brotherhood otherwise known as the UN Annual General Assembly. What is the point we are beginning to ask of meeting here every year when every time the international community is called upon to take their grid collective actions on the critical issues affecting the poor and the powerless, there is always some hesitation, some delay, once we forget this historic building. The Karakoram region developed countries behave as though they are blameless and not responsible to repair and compensate for the damage they have inflicted on our planet. Have they not understood that climate change is a danger not only to the existence of small island states but to the survival of all countries today and not tomorrow. And the diplomatic frustrations endured by St. Lucia's global allies. If trust and global solidarity for sustainable development are to be rebuilt the unjust, unilateral and inhumane economic embargo against the people of Cuba must be immediately withdrawn. The unmerited and cruel sanctions against the government and people of Venezuela should cease. The Palestinian people should have their own state alongside Israel in accordance with relevant United Nations resolutions. The people of the Republic of China on Taiwan should be allowed the continued enjoyment of their right to self-determination and the exercise of their democratic freedoms without threats to the autonomy and with a place in the national fora. St. Lucia and the UN are staring down the fast approaching deadline for Agenda 2030. Failure to reach the targets enveloped in Agenda 2030 compounded further by lingering global conflicts looms large over the fate of St. Lucia. Is there the political will to place these financial resources instead into the productive action of responding to the climate crisis? Is there the political will to use these trillions of dollars to end starvation on and on the development in the world and provide justice for reparations? Is there the political will to put people first and not weapons first? Is there the political will to develop trust and build a lasting peace that will rekindle our sustainable development goals and lead towards prosperity, progress, and sustainability for all? For the sake of us all and for future generations we must find it. Office of the Prime Minister


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Thank you so much, Juliana, for inviting me to do this residency at the library, Virgi, for the introduction. And Mason, thank you so much for the sources that you provided me with. So while in residence in May, I didn't know what I was going to do necessarily, but I knew that I had to write a choreopoam for the National Choir Arts Festival. And so basically, I had a blank page and went into those archives, hoping to find the content, the voice, the something to help me just begin. And so Mason sort of led me to the Black Lesbian newsletter, ONIX, and I just sort of fell in love with it. In it, I found just some incredible voices and that sense of like, just like this self, like radical self-possession, which gave me just inspiration for characters, gave me inspiration for setting. And so I'm just going to go through some of the things that I gathered, and then I'm going to read different excerpts and scenes from the choreopoam, which is called Beautiful Being. So I started not necessarily in this order, but the June-July issue of the Black Lesbian newsletter was really kind of fascinating. I happened upon Yasmin Sayed's response to Audrey Lord's essay, Eye to Eye, Black Women, Hatred and Anger. And in it, she's just really kind of reflecting on her relationship to other Black women, her sisters included. And she says something in it that actually gave me like this really cool idea for an abstract setting. And she said, my younger sister and I set upon a path to learn some things about self-nurturance and unconditional mutual acceptance. We are learning to hone a new mirror image of ourselves. And so from there I was imagining, hmm, what if this choreopoam happened at the intersections of the path of self-nurturance and mutual acceptance? And so that became like the place where the choreopoam takes place. And so then 1983, there is Cheryl Clark, who I so love. And so in this, she's basically talking about new notes on lesbianism and just essentially like, what is the big deal? And why are we so like Black women, Black lesbians, are not willing to embrace this identity? And so in this kind of, I guess, I don't know how to describe it, but basically in this, she's talking about if Black, if lesbianism offends Black folks, then why not call ourselves Black azaleas? Since, you know, Black women like pretty names and everything. So that's a pretty name.  And so essentially thinking about lesbianism as a political standing, as a way to stand in the world and attend to other women. So I essentially, for one of the characters in the choreopoam, she comes into her beauty through a Black azalea. So, and also Cheryl Clark in this repeats, you know, I call myself lesbian because I call myself lesbian because and so I take that refrain later and use that as a sort of like affirmation. And so I also there's the jewel Gomez papers and what I found really exciting about this and really just being in the archives is being able to see people's handwritings, their edits, the sort of like rawness of things even though this is at a different stage in the editing process. So this is a letter from Jules Publisher for the collection Oral Traditions. And from there I was just like reading through it, reading through the edits and pulling out different lines from poems so that essentially what winds up happening is I'm collaging some of Jules' words for the choreopoam. And then there was the Pat Parker papers and in it very small folder but in it there is this untitled poem from Pat Parker in her handwriting and it was just, I don't know, it's just like that level of intimacy just makes everything so real when people have passed away.  I wanted those voices to be woven in and to essentially serve as like the backstory and back body of the work. And so Pat Parker's piece comes at the end of my choreopoam where I take the refrain I have seen your hands. And I'm just going to read this just because it's really beautiful. I have seen your hands old cracked with creation. I have seen you honest, drawn with creation. I have seen you mold life from clay. Why? Why is it so hard to mold yourself? Mold yourself, take your old cracked clay hands and mold or free you. Mold out fears and doubts. Take cracked with clay senses and mold a creation and artistic creation. Mold become a person of art, a free person. So I'm going to begin reading some of the sections from my choreopoam and so this is the description of location for the choreopoam. Where are we? Both in where we are and where we want to be. We are where we want to be, present in the beauty of colors that inspire us, colors that breathe into the range in rainbows of feeling alive and worthy, feeling welcome. Where we let our look linger, the light gives us the pleasure of pie. There is home, there is strange and then familiar. Where textures say welcome and we touch and touch a part of ourselves who haven't been touched in a while. Here is where we stay a while, where we smell a while, listen to our breath coming and going and we are here in the presence of we. Where your back is got front and sides too. Our feet in each of our crowns make a path of self-nurturance above of mutual acceptance below and hone a new mirror image of ourselves. Where when we wake up to our two parts love and one part gratitude a beautiful thing happens. So this is one of the opening scenes where the character Trace is introducing herself. Can you feel it? How breath sensitizes you to the spell of words resilient, evasive, hush and silent words. This body's metrics and grammar accent accents the spirit with symbols to unlock what all of them say. Tender remembrance, activating creative energy, I story tell.  Facility for talk, story telling and advice giving.  With she solemn eyes seeing my soul, black azalea said you are beautiful. In my tears salted my food. Each bite altered the revolution of my helixes. This pain was not mine alone. Felt faint drops on my spine and knew my mother's tears. She mother too. Greats, greats, greats, grandmothers they shed water too. To nurture to truth that you are beautiful. Because no one spoke of this before, didn't want to spoil the child with it. Get she hopes high for a ceiling she could not cross. They tossed it over the horizon, kept it as a silent trace. Said if there were to be a child with a brave thirst who found this message deep and she may she carry it well and keep us from running dry. I was born thirsty. Beautiful beings reclaim your right to be. I am a beautiful being. I am a beautiful being and we identify ourselves as such so that if there is another beautiful being in the reach of our voices in the field of our energy we want them to know you are beauty. And so this one is pulling lines from Joel Gomez's oral traditions. The particular poems are Gilda Sings, Dreaming Awake, and Tanya Renzi. I think I'm pronouncing it correctly. Okay so and this sort of the conclusion of the choreo poem is sort of like this moment of kind of being in gratitude and being in love and then being in beauty. I was reading about water and water crystals and I'm forgetting the scientist's name but he would study the crystals and sort of say different words to them like hate and love and whatever like negative things and positive things. And so what he found was that the water crystal for beauty was a combination of both love and gratitude. And so at the closing section of the choreo poem it breaks into a moment of like thinking about gratitude and love and so this poem in particular situates that sentiment of gratitude. Thank you for another day for breath, this beauty I breathe, this body that has gotten me through and here. For this body thank you for getting me here. Thank you for the people who've nurtured me fierce, given me home, let me step from shells into a brand new knowing. Thank you for the shoulders to lean on, to cry on, the backs who've given me bridge and strength to rely on. Thank you for the hands holding and held wala and applauding open and closed octagonal and welcoming. Thank you for your prayers. Thank you guides guardians and ancestors you make my presence belong. Be long my arms who lift the sky for you. Be long the space I make for your remembering. Be long the fire I fan to its fullest degrees. I am a tightly wrapped package of everything we need to know. Thank you black, red, purple songs that insist upon being sung. Be long my breath and gratitude for this dream in my heart for this love that is my true. And so the final closing section of the choreo poem is on the theme of beauty and those are pulling lines from Pat Parker's piece and it's pretty short. I have seen you cracked with creation. I have seen you drawn with creation. I have seen you an artistic creation. What will you do for the beauty of our collective liberation? Thank you.