So let's graph the solution to minus 29 less than 5x plus 6 less than or equal to 31. So remember that when we write a inequality this way, this actually corresponds to the compound inequality, negative 29 less than 5x plus 6, and also 5x plus 6 less than or equal to 31. So we'll solve this first inequality as an equality. Now, when we solve the equality, like a good math student or a good human being, we acknowledge the existence of the inequality. And since x equals minus 7 solves the equality, minus 29 equals 5x plus 6, but the inequality is strict, then x equals minus 7 is not part of the solution. And so we note that our solution has a critical value at x equals minus 7, which is not included. Now we'll solve the second as an equality, 5x plus 6 equals 31, so solving that gives us. And so that tells us that x equals 5 is a critical value. And again, a good math student or a good human being would recognize that the inequality exists and act accordingly. Now, x equals 5 solves the equality, 5x plus 6 equals 31, and the inequality allows for 5x plus 6 to equal 31, but this is a compound inequality with an AND, so in order for something to be part of the solution, it has to satisfy both of these inequalities. Since this is a compound inequality, we have to check that x equals 5 also solves the other inequality. Is it true that minus 29 is less than 5x plus 6 when x is equal to 5? And we find that minus 29 is in fact less than 31, and so this is true, and so that means that x equals 5 is going to be included. And so our solution has a critical value x equals 5, which is included. Let's go ahead and graph those critical values. So the critical value x equals minus 7, which is not included, we'll want to graph using an open circle. So we'll select our open circle tool and put an open circle at minus 7. The critical value x equals 5 is included, which means we'll use a closed circle, and so we'll select our closed circle tool and put a closed circle at x equals 5. And now we see that the critical values separate the number line into three parts. In the region to the left, we'll test x equals minus, oh, I don't know, how about minus 1000. And so we need to see if x equals minus 1000 satisfies this compound inequality. And remember that since this is an AND inequality, we have to satisfy both to be part of the solution.  But importantly, a large negative number will not be greater than minus 29. And so x equals minus 1000 will not be part of the solution, and we should exclude the region to the left. Now we might see that x equals 0 is in the central region, so we'll use that as our test point. If x equals 0, our left inequality minus 29, is it true that it's less than 5x plus 6? So we'll check it out, and this is true. But since this is a compound inequality, we also have to check out our right inequality is 5x plus 6 less than or equal to 31. And this is also true. And since both inequalities are true, x equals 0 solves a compound inequality, so we should include the central region. So I'll switch to the line tool and drag a line from the starting point of the interval to the ending point of the interval. And finally, in the region to the right, we'll test x equals, oh, I don't know, 1 million. And so we find that 5x plus 6 will be a large positive number, satisfying our first inequality minus 29 less than 5x plus 6, but a large positive number will not be less than or equal to 31. And since both inequalities must be satisfied, x equals 1 million is not a solution, so we exclude the region to the right. And again, it's useful to remember that these cross-outs just indicate that we have checked these outside intervals, so we don't really need them, and they're not really part of our answer. And now we're ready to submit our answer.


Going on everyone Sam here with late sports cards. I've been 23 tops inception in chrome black baseball eat box mixture number four random team style Sure random results as always you can find these on the website under the results tab as well as the link in chat Good luck everybody. Let's do it. Yeah, we had I thought once that stunk. Yeah, he stunks. What about what was it?  Just a big heaping pile He just got a check for nothing We had we I mean luckily I've been I've been lucky enough to have one really good head cut I mean I was there for Billix last couple of years to but I've had the same since I've been a fan Basically the same head coach, but we've gone through some stinkers a coordinator, dude We had Dean peas was terrible Marty morning leg Quite possibly, one of my most hated people of all time is Marty Mourningwag. That guy sucked. And then we had God. Mark Tressman was a terrible OC. Roman toward the end. Thank God he's gone. That's Chris Bryant to 50. Nice one there, Rockies. Grats on that. Colorado. Orange. Corey Seeger, 225 for the Rangers. Grats on that. Rangers. And Jonathan India on the base as well. Press Taylor. No, you're right. You're right, Vaughn. You're right. 15 to go. Thank you, everybody. Christopher G. Selling us out on Sapphire and Russell with a spot in Panini 1. So we're halfway sold out. That is Gold Pete Alonso to 50. Kyle is in the building, so there's definitely an Alonso to be hit. Nice one there. Congrats, Metz. Polar Bear. Oh boy, Milan. Oh boy. Vaughn has had some crazy luck. It's easy. Poptron Blast. Is it a purple, mini-diameter, purple speckle of Carol Otto? Oh yeah. Carol, yeah. Fire. Michael Harris to 199. Brian Reynolds. And Trey Turner. I know. I agree with that, Vaughn. The amount of rage that I get produced from either an offensive or defensive coordinator is insane. Roger Clemens. There you go. Blue Jays. Nice one there. Congrats. Good ol' Blue Jays. That'll play. The rocket. Tom, two spots in the select and prism mixer. Appreciate you, buddy. J-Ram to 150. Dominic Fletcher. Purple. Yeah, it was Miguel Amayo. It was a short stint, I want to say, right? With Clemens on the Blue Jays. How long was he there for? I don't know. Once he left the Red Sox, she was dead to me. Trevor Hoffman for the Padres. Nice one there. Congrats on that, San Diego. I don't follow him once they leave me. Fair. It's like a woman. Never a fan of Johnny Damon after he left. Traitor. Women's play. Yeah, he's only there for a year in 97. Yeah, Red Sox, Blue Jays, Yanks, Astros, and Yanks again. Blast. Thank you. Sapphire, Dustin, you know. Good God, man. Full case of TC Black coming up. That a case of definitive. Ready for that? I'm going to start ripping some blasters. Fire blasters. You ready? I'm ready. You ready? I'm glad you're ready. What you want? Salve. What you need? Carlos Correa at a $199? Just chilling. You ready? What you ready for? Gary Preston.  That's what Spencer said he were. What, a hall monitor? Yeah, I said, I said, Sam knows not to go past the doorway. I'm going to come in my room. Gerard and Carnassio into $99. Nice one there for the Marlins. I will, I'll go into your room. I'll go into your room.  Nice one there, Marlins. You actually listen to Spencer? I would block them immediately. No, it does look really weird, to be honest. We're going to the Yankees with just criminal. It kind of was, to be honest. Anybody going to Yankees with just criminal? All right, let's, let's, let's relax. My name is Shadow Clayton Kershaw and Spencer Steer. Thank you. Francisco Alvarez. Got a redemption. I'm going to do the, wow, Christopher Burrell, 21 to 25. Going to the Cubs on the RPA. Is that Vaughn? Vaughn. Vaughn. Vaughn destroying these mixers right now. Congrats, buddy. A little logo patch action on that as well. Vaughn. Let's go Vaughn. And then we've got a redemption that is going to be a face rookie and emerging star autograph of Masataka Yoshida. Going to the Red Sox. Nice one there, Boston. That will be, where is the Red Sox at? Kiam. Congrats, Kai. Now Vaughn had the last break. He had the Cardinals and the, the Cardinals and the Tigers had a gold Riley Green rookie, an Orange Jordan Walker rookie, and then an Orange Jordan Walker rookie Otto as well. And then the Cubs in this one. That is Anthony Rendon, purple to 150, Gabby Moreno, the D-backs and Shintaro Fujinami, Gabby Moreno, and T-swag, 7 to 25. T-swag. Yeah, I think you have to go and say something to Matt real quick. He's in there alone. Trevor Story, that is a Green Seah and Tanner Baby Rookie, Aaron Judge, Juan Soto, Randy Rosarino, and Mackenzie Gorda, 249 for the Nets. Congrats, Washington. Nice one there, Nets. You should give this to this baby. You might not be able to read stuff. Oh, there you go, some class boys. That's true. That's true, Vaughn. That'd be awesome. Carries over to the full case of Black. Jared Walsh, Green. We've got a Green Max Scherzer and Emmanuel Valdes. Got Mike Trout, Kate Cavalli, Shane Bieber, and Brett Beatty. Pink RP-8 is 75 for the Nets. Congrats, Nets. Nets killed it. Lee Won-Y. Good stuff there, buddy. We did have a T-Sim sack this weekend. Yes, we did. He fired out of a rocket on that sack as well. Now, unblocked, straight through the line, just crushed Rudolph. God, it was awesome. So awesome. I could watch that every day of the week. Do a quick recap here, everybody. We had A, Chris Bryant to 50, Orange Corey Seeger, A, Trevor Hoffman, and Roger Clements. Got Mackenzie Gorda to 249, Green Gerard in Karnassi on Gold, Peter Lonzo. Brett Beatty to 75 on the RPA. Christopher Morrell to 25 on the RPA. Logo patch. A T-Swag to 25 and Masataka Yoshida. That will do it for the break, everybody. Thanks again for the fill. Coming up next is the full case of Top Scroll Black.


Hello friends, welcome back to the channel. This seven-star Hissui in Deciduae Terrorite event is now back for a second time out in Scarlet and Violet. We're gonna go over all of the details as well as the best builds to solo this with in your game. Two in Deciduae returning in Scarlet and Violet for its second time around from the 13th of October as of recording this video until the 15th of October. But do bear in mind if you keep the Hissui in Deciduae in your game by not going online after the 15th, you'll be able to use this raid until you'll finish with it, especially if you're farming it for the high cost items that you can get from running through this raid in your game. It is going to be Terra Grass, it is going to be level 100, it will have its hidden ability Scrappy, meaning it can hit ghost type attacks with its fighting type of moves that would normally be immune to it. Its moves are going to be triple arrows, which is that fighting type signature attack that it does have. Brave Bird, a big flying type coverage attack, it's going to have ghost coverage with Shadowclaw, Leafblade as well as its main grass type attack, it has a high critical hit chance as well. An additional moves is going to have bulk up which boosts its attack and its defense by one stage a day every time it uses it. Swordstands boosts its attack by two stages every time it uses it and does have access to grassy terrain and the Leafstorm attack, which is another grass type attack, but a special based attack, not hitting as hard as Leafblade and will lower Deciduae's special attack whenever this attack is used. It will of course have the mightiest mark, it can never be shiny so this is shiny luck and it has no held item with the adamant nature and can only be catched once per save file as well, so that is something to bear in mind. The item drops are very good as per 7 star Terrarium event, you're going to get a lot of XL and large candies, you're going to get a lot of proteins, calcium vitamins as well as grass Terrashoads, TMs and an ability patch as well as a chance to get ability capsules, bottle caps, PP Ups, adamant mints, nuggets and other high cost items. So like I said the event itself, these are the details running from the 13th until the 15th and this will be the last time that Hissui and Deciduae will be in our games. So to access this event in your games you're going to need to come online and come to your poker portal, come down to mystery gifts and get poker portal news and this will update the dens in the pal dair region. This raid event will not be appearing in the Kitakami region, if you do have the DLC it will only be available in the pal dair region and once you've done that update just open your map and you'll be able to locate the 7 star Terrarium event, find it there and fly over to it. Now we've got a number of builds that we're going to be featuring in today's video, you've gotten a rate of choices that you can go in and solo this raid with pretty easily now we know how it works and the interactions with it. First one I'm going to start off with is a brand new build that we haven't featured here on the channel and it is going to be for that brand new DLC Pokemon Fezendipity. Now I understand that a lot of you might not have the DLCs but if you do Fezendipity are really good Pokemon to take into this raid, it's going to be Poison and Fairy, Terra type is going to be Poison and it is going to have the Shell bell as it's held high to make sure that it is level 100 and you have hyper trained all of its IVs, so bottle cap the IVs to make sure that it has 31 in all of its stats. You're going to want to have the EV spread of 252 HP, 252 defense with a modest nature, the ability is Toxic Chain on this one and the move set is going to be Taunt, Nasty Plot, Acid Spray and Venoshock. We'll get into the raid in a moment to show you exactly how this works, we're going to be a very consistent, very quick way for you to run through the raids for soloing it, for getting those high cost items if you want to farm for those items over the weekend while this event is running. Next Pokemon we are featuring is a Pokemon we've actually covered on the channel, if you want to see how the Gengar interacts within the raid, how you need to approach it and what you need to do when you go up against the Hissuin Decidue, I'll link it down in the description below so you can check that out after the video. But the build itself as always with all the builds that we're featuring in today's video they will be down in the description as well so you can take a closer look after the video. Again, level 100, Poison, Terror Typing on the Gengar and Shellbell as the held item for a line of recovery and then we've got the move set of Nasty Plot, Acid Spray, Taunt and Sludge Bomb and an EV spread of 252 HP and 252 Defense with a modest nature and that cursed body ability. So that is the Gengar build there, basic premise of the Gengar like I say is covered in the other video that we covered solely on the Gengar so do check that out if you want to see how you can easily solo Hissuin Decidue with the Gengar in this raid. The next build we are featuring is going to be Covenite, it is a flying Ana Steel Type Pokemon, the Terror Typing on this bird is going to be flying, we're going to have the Shellbell once again for a line of recovery. Level 100, Max does IVs out as well by Hyper Training them with an EV spread of 252 HP and 252 Defense with an Adamant Nature this time. The Mirror Armor ability which is a hidden ability so you're going to have to use an ability patch if it doesn't have that ability already. Then the move set is going to be Roost and just bear in mind that Roost is an egg move so you're going to have to teach that either using the Mirror Herb item and finding another Pokemon in your boxes with Roost and then set up a Picnic as long as the Covenite has a spare move slot, Roost will be transferred onto it. We can do the traditional way by just breeding on the egg move in the first place. Then we've got Bulk Up that's going to boost your attack and defense by one stage every time you use it. Reflect as well is going to bolster those defenses even further and a Drill Peck as well. Again the Covenite and the next Pokemon that we're featuring which is Cerreledge are featured in another separate video that go over exactly the steps that you need to take with these Pokemon and how to interact in the raid so you can beat the Hissui and Decidueye very easily. Again that video will be linked in the description below if you want to check that out as well. Now we've already mentioned it Cerreledge is the next Pokemon that we're going to be featuring and it will be a Fire and Ghost type. The Terra typing is going to be Fire and it's going to have the held item of Metronome and it will be set to level 100 just make sure you do max those IVs out as well. The move set is going to be Bulk Up, Willow Wisp, Clear Smog and Bitterblade with an EV spread of 252 in HP, 252 in attack and an Adamant Nature with the ability Flash Fire. Again like the Covenite like I've mentioned the video going over the steps and how to use these Pokemon effectively to beat Hissui and Decidueye will be linked in the description but these are two very solid builds that you can take in as an option to beat this and farm for those items over the weekend. And the final Pokemon we are featuring today is something that we haven't covered on the channel yet but a lot of the creators have featured this Pokemon and it is a solid choice going in so we are using it as an option going into this raid as well and it is going to be Toxricity, is Electric and Poison typing. We have the Terra typing of Poison, held item is the Shell Bell again set to level 100 just make sure you max out those IVs with a move set of Taunt, Acid Spray, Venom Shock and Sludge Bomb and an EV spread of 252 in Special Attack and 252 in Defense with a Bold Nature and make sure that the ability is set to Technician because that will give you the boost on the Acid Spray because it is below 60 so it will give you a 1.5 boost to the Acid Spray meaning that you're hitting a little bit harder and getting a bit more damage off every turn rather than relying on any of the other abilities that the Toxricity has access to at least you're getting some benefit with that Technician ability. The basic premise with the Toxricity is turn 1 go for a Taunt you're going to stop the Decidue Eye on that turn 2 going for a bulk up after it nullifies all the stack boosts on your side of the field then after that you're going to want to go for your Sludge Bombs. Now keep an eye on the Taunt in effect on the Hissuin Decidue Eye on turn 4 you probably want to go for another Taunt because a Taunt should wear off after 3 turns go for another Taunt because this is the turn before it's going to set up a Shield it's going to nullify all the stack boosts on your side of the field and it's also going to try and set up a Sword Stance so that additional Taunt before it sets up the Shield is going to nullify the ability it's going to prevent it from setting up that Sword Stance which is really important for the longevity of Toxricity throughout the raid. You might get knocked out that next turn but before you do try and go for an Acid Spray the next target is going to be getting 3 Acid Sprays off with your Toxricity now you might get knocked out once you might get knocked out twice in the process of this but don't tresselize until you've got those 3 Acid Sprays off and you're in a good position health wise to go for those Sludge Bombs and then you want to just spam Sludge Bombs you're going to be doing good damage recovering a lot of health as well keeping yourself in that healthy position while you're chipping away at its HP and also keep an eye out for if you poison the Hissuin Decidue Eye now if you do poison it like we do in this raid then revert to using the Venoshock. Venoshock will double in power if the Toggle Pokémon is poisoned and Sludge Bombs having a 30% chance to poison the target it does mean that you're going to have an option of a stronger attack going forward in the raid so if you do get the poison then just start clicking the Venoshock button and after that you should be able to close the raid up very quickly it's not the fastest out of the Pokémon that we featured today but it is a very good option nonetheless and something that you can build in your games and have pretty good success with taking on the Hissuin Decidue Eye by yourself so that is everything I'm going to feature and I'm going to go into the raid now and I'm going to show you exactly how you can do this with the Fezendipity. Okay once you're in the raid the first turn we're going to go for a taunt that is to prevent the Decidue Eye from going for a bulk up turn 2 so we take a brave turn 1 after the taunt and you'll be able to see before we get an attack off it's going to nullify all the stat changes and abilities on our side of the field and then it will also go for a bulk up which has been prevented so that's good in preventing its stats from getting any further. Turn 2 we're going to go for a Venoshock and then turn 3 we're going to keep an eye on the taunt counter here because we want to try and get a taunt off an additional taunt off before the shield goes up if we can now we'll just go for another Venoshock here and then the next turn is when after this turn now going into turn 4 we will be just checking the taunt counter because it should have worn off so we want to get a taunt off before that shield does go up and you can check the counter on the Decidue Eye here the taunt has worn off so we want to make sure we do go for that taunt just be quick when you're clicking in your Venoshocks you don't really want to be going for the acid sprays until after that shield goes up which will be after this turn so we are able to get the taunt off the Decidue Eye here paralysed as well so if you do get a decent raid partner next to you it will make a big difference and now we see the negative effects removed from its side of the field it will set up that shield as well and it will try and get a sword stance off but it will be prevented because that taunt has been refreshed it's in place again to prevent that sword stance going off now we want to concentrate on going for those acid sprays we want to try and get three acid sprays off now below that special defense by minus six so maximizing our damage and along the way if you get the poison the toxic chain does have a really good chance of activating 30% chance with any attack that you hit onto this Decidue Eye even through the shield that will double the power of the Venoshock now you might get knocked out along the way but it's not going to matter too much early on in this battle we don't really want to commit to thrastalizing until we've got those three acid sprays off and we're in a good healthy position with our HP of course the Decidue Eye going to stay poisoned so our Venoshock when we do come to attack it is going to be hitting for very big damage double in power as long as the target pokemon is poisoned so we do take the knockout but like i said don't worry about that too it's not going to really affect the outcome of the raid it's just going to just slow us down a tiny tiny smidgen of a bit but all part of the process so don't worry here as we see the Decidue Eye try and go for the grassy train not going to be able to set it up and does go for that leaf stone then it normally goes for around that turn seven so we want to get one more acid spray off here what we can do as well is just go for the thrastalization now just go for that because we're pretty safe at this point we can get that final acid spray off we're in no danger of getting knocked out either from this range with the defensive capabilities that pheasant Dippity's got so like i say you just want to thrastalize when you are in a really healthy position and you're not in any danger of getting knocked out at all so this final acid spray will take the his suing Decidue Eye down to minus six special defense meaning that your attacks are going to be hitting as hard as possible and we can then stack on top of this depending on what this brave bird does yeah the critical hits not ideal there but we're still in a safe enough position where we can go for at least one nasty plot now if you don't get a critical hit there you can probably get two nasty plots off before you start attacking but really uh looking at it from our point of view now we'll probably take a brave bird for our troubles we're not going to be in the healthiest position probably take another one but it's not worth risking getting critical hits so we can just launch that venom shock off now and because it's poison like i've said it's going to be double damage and with all the drops and the attack boost that we've done going to be doing huge damage so that puts us in a good position now where we can probably get another nasty plot off before we break the shield and kind of clean this raid up but you can see how quick and the snowball effect is once you kind of get set up with the pheasant Dippity and because it's really good defensively it is going to be able to kind of just take these hits from the Hissuin Decidua as long as you're able to kind of stop the setup of them of course a lot easier throughout the raid so we'll take another brave bird and then we're going to be in a position where we can just absolutely snowball through this raid it is going to go for triple arrows we'll lower our defense but um we don't need to worry about that it doesn't lower our defense at that time but one more venom shock let's see if it is enough with the minus six defense and the not quite not quite not quite if we went for another nasty plot there i think we would have knocked it out but you can see how good the pheasant Dippity can be throughout this raid you just got to time it right with those taunts prevent that sword stance going up but it is another option to use especially if you do like the teal mass poke one that we've got from the DLCs but it is as easy as that and maybe not as quick as the Gengar raid i still say i still put my money on the Gengar raid being the quickest one out of everything that we've covered in today's video but a very good option nonetheless with the pheasant Dippity if you don't want to use any of the other options you fancy just having something to change it up over the weekend if you are farming for these items so that is the pheasant Dippity that is pretty much how you run through it and it's going to be as easy as that so you can farm all the high cost items like you can see here which are very very valuable for building future raid builds or doing competitive or anything like that that you want to be doing in the game and of course once you beat the raid if you want to get another one back on your map because you only get one appearing at a time just open your map come to your home menu down into your system settings then down into system down into date and time just make sure that your synchronized clock where the internet is set to off then come down the date and time and then just toggle through these options click okay and then hit your home menu back into the game and all the dens will respawn and you'll be able to locate that seven star terror raid wherever it is on your map and then fly over to it and do the same thing all again with whichever build you pick from the ones that we've covered in today's video so that is everything for today's video friends the Hissuin Decidueye will be running until the 15th on sunday and on sunday we should get a new seven star terror raid event announced for the coming week which will be the next one which will be very exciting so let me know down the comment section below what you think will be the next seven star raid that we'll see in Scarlet and Violet I think it might be I've heard rumors of Hissuin Samorot Hissuin Typhlosion but I'm hoping we get a curveball and something a little bit different I would love to see the Sinnoh starters in Furnabe in Polyon or even Tortera in the next raid for Scarlet and Violet but whatever it is we'll cover it here on the channel as soon as it is announced have a lot of fun with the raid this weekend or for however long you keep it in your game to form for the items and I hope you found the build useful if you have please drop a like do subscribe to the channel as well if you want to stay up to date with all of our pokemon skull and violet content I'll see you all in another video very soon so until then friends take care of yourselves and bye bye


We're looking at the Dow down 175 to 31,160. Really struggling. Even Friday, where it was a dodgy close, just struggling. And I will see how the 31,000 level holds its support. It really must hold its support. And in fact, by Tuesday or Wednesday, there has to be, just in terms of patent formation, it needs to be a close above Friday's high of 31,511. That's really important, just to get that upside momentum again. And it's kind of stalling, waiting for, I guess, earnings this week. You've got the S&P also down. The S&P at this particular point is down 48, not 45. And 38.54, same thing, taking too much time on the right side of the cup formation. This is not so good. It needs to get to the 38, 78 or higher area, certainly by tomorrow and by Wednesday, maybe making a new recovery high. Looking at the QQQ was holding much better. Now it's down 5.67, at 289.71. These are getting back into 92, 295 area quite soon. Otherwise, this is just stuck going nowhere, looking at the IWM. Same thing, stuck going nowhere, down three and a quarter to 172. What is important is that gold is holding okay, it's down three at 1739, even as the dollar is breaking out to new recovery highs, this is a multi-year highs, at 108.03, up $1.11. This is a really fantastic action. It's done more than a one-to-one now to the upside chapter, we have parallel one-to-one. And you're looking at the Euro, I didn't do that earlier on, I usually do, but I forgot. The Euro is taking out the left side low, and certainly left side low on Friday. Not very good action at all. Looking at the TLT, that's bonds. Bonds, very nice move up 214 at 114.64. If you look at the US, that's the bonds, the actual contract itself. May it peak D at around about 142, pulls back sharp to the 136, and now it's moving. It's attempting to go, at least sideways to hold support so that yields don't really either break down or break out to the upside at this particular point. Crude oil, crude oil is trading down two and a half at 102.19, stuck in the low range. Don't forget, folks, here at TFNN, we start the day off at 9 with Tommy Jr., and Mark Kikov go all the way to Tom Sr. at 3 o'clock before, we've got Arthur, you've got Larry Fezzavento, then Thinkelsperm, then Steve Rose, Dave White, and Tom McBride. Have a wonderful day. Check it out. We'll see you tomorrow. Have a wonderful day. See you tomorrow. Have a wonderful day.


Welcome to All Hands Update. Here's what's happening around your Navy. The Navy released Navadmin 020-17, announcing the release and availability of the blended retirement system opt-in course. The decision to stay in the current retirement system, or opt-in to BRS, is an important decision that eligible sailors must make based on their own individual circumstances. This course aims to help eligible service members make that decision. All service members who are opt-in eligible must complete the blended retirement system training, now available on Joint Knowledge Online. Navy Recruiting Command honored the 2016 Recruiters of the Year in our nation's capital city. The ceremony was just one event during a week-long celebration. The 14 awardees and their guests had the opportunity to visit the Pentagon and meet with senior Navy leadership including Chief of Naval Operations Admiral John Richardson and Vice Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Bill Moran. You can read more about what's happening around your Navy at Navy.mil.


My fellow Americans, this week as our thoughts begin to turn toward Easter, the cause of peace among nations is foremost in our minds, a cause that was also at the top of our work agenda here in Washington as I received Soviet Foreign Minister Shevronadze at the White House. My talks with him were cordial, but as you might expect to the point. During Mr. Shevronadze's stay, I announced May 29 through June 2 as the dates for my summit meeting in Moscow with the leader of the Soviet Union, General Secretary Gorbachev. And of course, this was good news. The last U.S. Soviet summit in the USSR was 14 years ago, so this meeting will give me, and in a sense you, the American people, an opportunity to convey the message of peace and freedom to the Soviet people. But let me also say that while lengthy talks held between Secretary Shultz and Mr. Shevronadze at the State Department were useful, they also made clear how difficult the issues are between the United States and the Soviet Union. Now some progress was made here and there in various areas, but there's much more that needs to be done given the importance of the topics discussed. Our agenda with the Soviet Union deals not only with arms reductions, but also regional matters, human rights, and people-to-people exchanges. And as our discussions continue in each of these areas, I can assure you that the United States will sign only those agreements that are in our best interest. Let me also assure you, as negotiations continue on efforts to further reduce U.S. and Soviet strategic nuclear arms, that my administration will carefully review such proposals. Still, we've come a long way in our attempts to deal with the Soviets and to further the cause of peace and freedom around the world. The next summit will help. How much we'll have to see. An important accomplishment of the first few summits, however, will be before the United States Senate Foreign Relations Committee next week for approval. This is the INF Treaty on Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces that Mr. Gorbachev and I signed when he was here for the Washington summit last December. It's an important vote, and I'm hopeful the Senate will as it exercises its constitutional duty. Speedily approve what amounts to the first real nuclear arms reductions ever achieved. Now, some of you have heard me say before that our progress with the Soviets is based on their awareness that we have no illusions about them, and on our determination to deal from a position of strength. Now, that strength means, of course, keeping our defenses ready and second to none. But it also means a strong and vigorous economy and a place for America as the world leader in trade. That's why the other matter that is being considered in the Congress is of critical importance. That is, the Legislative Conference on Trade Legislation. Last year, there was trade legislation coming through the Congress that would have met serious risks to America's prosperity and indeed the world's. Fortunately, working with our administration, Congress has made some progress in producing a sounder bit of legislation. However, the legislation now before a conference committee still contains provisions that would restrict trade, deter investment in the United States, require mandatory retaliation that invites trade wars, and unnecessarily hamper my prerogatives as president. For example, one proposal still very much alive would create an obligation for the government to help each and every company that can't keep up with legal, totally fair imports, in effect an entitlement program for businesses that can't compete. So my hope is that the Congress will stay on course and that we will settle on a bill that avoids the great danger of choking off international trade and slowing down economic growth. I will not sign a bill that imperils our economy and threatens growth. And by the way, that economic growth keeps coming right along. Only this week we heard from the gross national product growth for last year was 4 percent. Now this was higher than our own expectations. Expectations that by the way were criticized as too rosy a scenario when we first made them. Well, the rosy scenario was even rosier than the one the critics were down on. It just shows what can happen when spending and taxes are held down and trade is encouraged. In fact, right now much of our economy is being driven by the growth in exports that bad trade legislation would discourage. So you can see there's much in our minds this week in Washington. And before anyone looks prematurely forward to the arrival of the Easter Bunny, I hope Congress will stay focused on the important matters this week, the INF Treaty and trade legislation. Until next week, thanks for listening and God bless you.