Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, please be seated. Welcome to Naval Air Station North Island and beautiful Coronado, California and the commissioning of USS John L. Canley. I am Commander Michelle Martinez, Executive Officer. It is my privilege to be your master of ceremonies today. Before our ceremony begins, please silence your cell phones. We are here today to celebrate this ship's namesake, United States Marine and Medal of Honor recipient, Gunnery Sergeant John L. Canley, and to commission the first ship named in his honor. 56 years ago, in January and February 1968, during the Battle of Wei, then Gunnery Sergeant John L. Canley displayed the ultimate measure of leadership, courage, and devotion. To quote his Medal of Honor citation, for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty in action against the enemy while serving as Company Gunnery Sergeant, Company Alpha, First Battalion, First Marines, First Marine Division from 31 January to 6 February 1968. In the Republic of Vietnam, Company Alpha fought off multiple vicious attacks as it rapidly moved along the highway toward Wei City to relieve friendly forces that were surrounded by enemy forces. Despite being wounded in these engagements, Gunnery Sergeant Canley repeatedly rushed across fire-suit terrain to carry his wounded Marines to safety. After his commanding officer was severely wounded, Gunnery Sergeant Canley took command and led the company into Wei City. At Wei City, caught in deadly crossfire from enemy machine gun positions, he set up a base of fire and maneuvered with a platoon and a flanking attack that eliminated several enemy positions. Retaining command of the company for three days, he led attacks against multiple enemy fortified positions while routinely braving enemy fire to carry wounded Marines to safety. On 4 February, he led a group of Marines into an enemy-occupied building in Wei City. He moved into the open to draw fire. Located the enemy, eliminated the threat and expanded the company's hold on the building room by room. Gunnery Sergeant Canley then gained position above the enemy's strong point and dropped in a large satchel charge that forced the enemy to withdraw. On 6 February, during a fierce firefight at a hospital compound, Gunnery Sergeant Canley twice scaled a wall in full view of the enemy to carry wounded Marines to safety. By his undaunted courage, selfless sacrifice and unwavering devotion to duty, Gunnery Sergeant Canley reflected great credit upon himself and upheld the highest traditions of the Marine Corps and the United States Naval Service. This crew is proud to serve on the newest warship in the United States Navy and to carry on the courageous legacy of Sergeant Major Canley and of those who have gone before us to repel tyranny and to preserve freedom around the world. We are honored to have two of Sergeant Major Canley's fellow Medal of Honor recipients with us today, Colonel Jay Vargas, United States Marine Corps retired and Colonel Robert J. Mojieski, United States Marine Corps retired. Gentlemen, please stand and be recognized. We are also joined by several of Sergeant Major Canley's brothers in arms who fought beside him at the Battle of Wei. Gentlemen, would you please stand and be recognized? Would all veterans and active duty service members and U.S. merchant mariners please stand? Would all seafaring families please stand? Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for your service. Our ceremony today is a time-honored tradition which began with the commissioning of our first warship, a captured British schooner, the Margaretta in 1775. Since then, thousands of ships have undergone the transformation from silent holes to fully alive warships. Our commissioning crew, hereafter known as plank owners, are in formation among you and ready to bring our ship alive. In just a few moments, we will render honors to the honorable Carlos Del Toro. Will the guests please rise and remain standing for the arrival of our official party, honors the presentation of colors, the national anthem, and the invocation. Ladies and gentlemen, our platform guests, Lieutenant Commander Robert L. Crabb, Chaplain Corps, United States Navy, retired our ceremony chaplain. Lieutenant Commander William C. Messick, United States Navy, Executive Officer, USS John L. Canley, Gold Crew, United States Marine and former Captain, Mr. Robert W. Shaw, our long-glass presenter. Our maid of honor, Ms. Victoria Sargent, escorted by Senior Chief Petty Officer, Ronnie S. Rojas, United States Navy, Command Senior Chief, USS John L. Canley, Gold Crew. Commander Mark A. Uwakiu, United States Navy, Officer in Charge, Supervisor of Shipbuilding, Bath Detachment, San Diego. Commander William Lopper, United States Navy, retired USS John L. Canley, Commissioning Committee, Co-Chairman. Captain Dennis Dubard, United States Navy, retired USS John L. Canley, Commissioning Committee, Co-Chairman. Mr. Timothy J. Roberts, Strategic and Theater Sealift Program Manager. Captain Micah D. Murphy, United States Navy, Commander, Military Sealift Command Pacific. Captain Austin R. Hanbury, United States Merchant Marine, Ship's Master, USS John L. Canley. Mr. David J. Carver, President, General Dynamics, NASCO. Rear Admiral Thomas J. Anderson, United States Navy, Program Executive Officer, Ships. Vice Admiral Brendan McClain, Commander, Naval Surface Forces, and Commander, Naval Surface Force, U.S. Pacific Fleet. Sergeant Major Carlos A. Ruiz, United States Marine Corps, 20th Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps. General Joseph F. Dunford Jr., United States Marine Corps, retired, 19th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and 36th Commodant of the Marine Corps. Ladies and gentlemen, our ship's sponsor, Ms. Patricia A. Sargent, escorted by Senior Chief Petty Officer Julius C. Green, United States Navy, USS John L. Canley, Command Senior Chief Blue Crew. Ladies and gentlemen, the Honorable Carlos Del Toro, the 78th Secretary of the Navy, escorted by Captain Thomas A. Mays, United States Navy, Commanding Officer USS John L. Canley. Ladies and gentlemen, honors to the Honorable Carlos Del Toro. Ready? Platform, ready? To advance the colors. Ladies and gentlemen, Chaplain Crab will now deliver the invocation. God, please hear our prayer today. At this commissioning of the USS John L. Canley, ESB-6, we acknowledge, Lord, that your spirit is unfurled to every breeze from dawn to setting sun and in every climb and place. We acknowledge, too, Lord, that infused within the spirit of these ceremonies today are the echoes of ferocious battles and violent combats of 1968-way city. When Gunnery Sergeant John Canley and the Navy Marine Corps combat team of Alpha-11 stood in full battery against a desperate foe, the ship's motto, Courage Under Fire declares a tradition of things endured and things accomplished such as regiments hand down forever. For these reasons and so many more, God, we ask for your blessings on our proceedings just now. Grant the current and future crews and embark warriors in all ships' company. Grant them strong minds, great hearts, true courage and high competence. And when their time comes, Lord, as it surely must, to enter the crucible of testing and challenge, inspire them with the actions of Gunnery Sergeant Canley under fire. Be not far from them in times of trouble and war. Be their strength in times of fatigue and distraction. Be their fortress, their high tower, their shield in times of combat and violence. Be their hope and vision in times of peace. Please, dear God, bless their families, too. Most of all, holy God, let them always be faithful as you, Lord, are Semper Fidelis. Amen. Thank you, Chaplain Crabb. We would like to thank the Navy Band Southwest, First Marine Division Band, and the 1st Battalion 11th Marine Saluting Battery and the Troy High School NJOTC Color Guard for their support this morning. Will the guests please be seated. Ships Company, parade, rest. Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. David Carver. Good morning, Secretary Del Toro, flag and general officers, distinguished guests, and ladies and gentlemen, it is my honor to represent the 4,800 shipbuilders of General Dynamics NASCO at this commissioning ceremony. To the commissioning committee, thank you very much for your hard work and making this a very special day. The NASCO team consists of some of the most experienced shipbuilders in America, and we are truly honored and humbled to have built this incredible ship. The USS John L. Cannelly's remarkable capabilities will allow our servicemen and women to carry out a wide variety of missions, including, to name a few, mine countermeasures, counterpiracy operations, maritime security operations, humanitarian aid, disaster relief missions, special operations, and Marine Corps crisis response. This ship is designed to support nearly every rotary wing aircraft in the DOD inventory, including H-53 and H-60 helicopters, MV-22 tilt rotor aircraft, as well as Allied aircraft, all while serving off the fleet's third largest flight deck. She's also equipped with upgraded forward accommodations area that can support over 250 embark personnel, the first ship in the class to have this expanded capability. Cannelly has substantial residual space, weight and power to accommodate a wide range of current and future manned and unmanned surface, aerial, and undersea systems across multiple war-fighting functions. In summary, displacing nearly 100,000 tons, this is a massive, capable, flexible warship that gives the fleet commanders the decision space they need throughout their operating theaters. What makes this ship extra special is its namesake, and what it represents as an American and a Marine. Today we are not only commissioned in a ship, but honoring Sergeant Major Cannelly for his lifetime of service and dedication to the United States of America. For those who knew Sergeant Major Cannelly, he lived and breathed the Marine Corps. Nothing made him happier than being around young sailors and Marines hearing their stories and getting to know them. Sergeant Major Cannelly's story demonstrates the American ideas, courage, sacrifice, patriotism, citizenship, integrity, and commitment. Not just for his heroics in Vietnam, it's the way he lived his life. What we are commissioning today is not just a ship, it's an embodiment of the American unity and purpose, a beacon of hope and freedom to those in need around the world. To Captain Hanbury and Captain Mays and the future crew of the USS John L. Cannelly, the men and women of General Dynamics, NASCO, wish you fair wins in following seas. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Carver. Ladies and gentlemen, Sergeant Major Carlos A. Ruiz.  Good morning. That you knew that that was your car alarm is very impressive. That's pretty quick and pretty awesome. I think I'd like to start off with Miss Sergeant. Thank you for allowing me to be here. It's a very special day and to represent the service here today. The Marines that are here and that are watching, just thrilled and thank you. And quickly, Mr. Secretary, thank you, sir. Thank you for bringing this beautiful ship to our beautiful Navy. It's awesome. And just a personal note from me. It's great to speak on behalf of a man, for a man that wore the Chevrolet instead. A lot of us here have worn the decades of service. So thank you, sir. And General Dunford, distinguished guest. Ladies and gentlemen, it's a beautiful morning. Can I get a ura? Yeah, that was pretty close. He thought you were going to get away with it, didn't you? Can I get a ura? I love it. Sergeant Major Cantley, he earned this Medal of Honor over seven days. But he had 15 years of building Marines before these seven days started. 15 years of making warriors, getting him ready for the fight. And then on the back end of the seven days, he's been another decade plus, continuing to serve in uniform. So the seven days is why the name is on this ship. But it's the 30 years of service in a uniform that brings most of us here today. But just like he was just mentioned, that after the 30 years, there are people here who knew John Cantley. Never wore a uniform, but he showed all of us how to move, how to walk, how to show courage, how to do the right thing. If you were listening to the citation earlier this morning, the summary of action speaks of the many times that he would put himself in danger. One, to identify the enemy so his Marines can close with and destroy ura. And then two, he would walk with such calmness to pull his Marines out of danger, those who were wounded, to get them out. But where did he learn this stuff from? Because that's not technically what we teach. We teach cover, we teach maneuver when the conditions are set. You see, there's this generation that keeps building on each other and they do some of the very similar things that John Cantley did. And that's care for each other that it overtakes the procedure what you're supposed to do because Marines' service members are in danger. And so when you think about that, you're like, here is a gunnery sergeant on Marines putting himself in complete and utter danger to get after it. And you fast forward two generations. And not that long ago, you saw Marines being exactly like John Cantley taught them to do. Standing on top of walls, closing in on a long war, doing the same thing that John Cantley did. Looking through a sea of people trying to find anyone else that they can save and pull to the other side of that wall. Where do we find these people? They come from you. They come from these communities, from us. Isn't that awesome? And so, now what? Now what do we do? John Cantley gets to live forever. And that's exactly what it should be because we, people like us, get to spend the rest of our careers trying to live up to that fast, amazing career that he had in a life that he had. And we keep falling short. And although we wore the same chevrons, we were equal but we were not the same. We were not even close. And so to the crew and so to the audience that's here this morning whether you wore a uniform today or you have ever wore a uniform today we all will find ourselves in our own version of John Cantley's Seven Days. But he has taught us how to go through that. That if it's about them, that if it's not about you, that if it means taking care of Marines and sailors, then courage follows. And he shows up at the right place at the right time. So to the crew, to anyone who had anything to do with building this ship, for those of you who would carry this ship forward, the Marines are ready to get on it and do some great stuff from it. Have a great rest of your morning. U-R-A, Semper Fi. Thank you, Sergeant Major Ruiz. Ladies and gentlemen, General Joseph F. Dunford, United States Marine Corps retired. Hey ladies and gentlemen, it's an honor to join you this morning as we commission to USS John Cantley. And I'm particularly humbled to be here with our Medal of Honor recipients.  I'd like to begin by recognizing the workforce here at NASCO and Mr. Carver, thanks to you and the team for building an American-made ship that is worthy of the name John Cantley. I'm here today because of a request that Sergeant Major Cantley made before he passed away. I was the chairman when Sergeant Major Cantley received the Medal of Honor in a White House, and we spent some time together in Washington, D.C. We also crossed paths on a number of other occasions as he continued to go out and visit Marines, inspire Marines, and lead Marines around the Corps. I feel really fortunate to have met a true Marine legend, and I learned more about Sergeant Major Cantley from a good friend, Bob Shaw, who's here today as a member of the official party. In the late 1970s, he served within Sergeant Major Cantley in the Third Marines. In the decade before that, Bob's father served within Staff Sergeant Cantley in an Antos Company. Both Bob and his dad described Sergeant Major Cantley as the epitome of a Marine leader, and that's, of course, the sentiment that is shared by anyone who has ever served with Sergeant Major John Cantley. In our initial engagement, I was struck by Sergeant Major Cantley's sincerity and his humility. I was also struck by his level of fitness and his command presence. At 80 years old, he looked completely ready to deploy with an infantry battalion at that very moment, and I found myself, when he was in my office, looking down at my waistline and wondering, where'd he go, and I was still in uniform. But in time, I gained an appreciation for his commitment to service and his character as well. And I would also learn how he viewed his Medal of Honor. His perspective was captured in an interview after the Medal of Honor ceremony, and the interviewer asked Sergeant Major Cantley about his extraordinary heroism at Way City. The Sergeant Major responded, and I quote, my troops would follow me through their death. So if they might die, what am I supposed to do? From Sergeant Major Cantley's perspective, what he did at Way City in Que Son was in the sticker price of a Marine Gunnery Sergeant. In addition to being understated, Sergeant Major Cantley was uncomfortable being singled out for his actions in Vietnam. And he was also offended by the lack of recognition Vietnam veterans received when they returned home. It's something that we spoke about at length. So today, in addition to recognizing Sergeant Major Cantley's heroism, I'd like to recognize the broader legacy of John Cantley and his fellow Vietnam veterans. If Sergeant Major Cantley was with us today, I know he would deliver a similar message. As everyone knows, our Vietnam veterans fought an unpopular war during a very turbulent time in our nation's history. And when they came home, there were no speeches, there was no ceremonies, and there were no parades. The Hollywood caricature of a Vietnam veteran was of a draftee serving against his will who came home and didn't quite fit in. Of course, the facts tell us something completely different. 75% of Vietnam veterans were volunteers who served simply because they thought it was the right thing to do. In their record of honor, courage, and commitment at places like Way City in Que Son, that record speaks for itself. And when Vietnam veterans came home, they became political leaders, chief executive officers, policemen, firemen, teachers. And for decades, they were our scout leaders, our coaches, and our mentors. In a personal note, I grew up in the shadow of Vietnam veterans. For me, men like John Cantley were the big kids on the corner growing up. In the 1970s, they were my instructors at Officer Candidate School. They were my platoon sergeants when I was a platoon commander. And they were my confidants when I needed leadership advice. Across the Corps, John Cantley and those Marines who stayed in uniform after the war helped us overcome the readiness and social challenges of the 1970s. They assumed positions of leadership and they built the Corps that won the Cold War and Desert Storm. And I'm equally confident that the lessons learned from Way City saved lives in places like Fallujah and Ramadi. Ladies and gentlemen, it took our nation a while to recognize it, but our Vietnam veterans have left us a very proud and rich legacy. John Cantley and his fellow Vietnam veterans guided our military through tough times. They helped our country mature and they reminded us that freedom requires sacrifice and that service to our nation is honorable. There are no points that are good to remember during these challenging times. So to John Cantley and the Alpha-11 Marines that are gathered here today and to all Vietnam veterans, thank you. And I hope that among other things, this ship behind me reminds me that you are in fact welcome home. In closing, I have a simple message for the captain and the crew. We've named this ship to Cantley in honor of Gunnery Sergeant John Cantley's actions from 31 January to 6 February 1968. And I know that you'll ensure future generations of young sailors and Marines are inspired by his selfless and courageous leadership. I have no doubt about that. But don't let Sergeant Major Cantley's life be reduced to one brief period of his service, however heroic. This ship should sustain the memory of Sergeant Major Cantley's nearly three decades of service and uniform in his continued service, leadership and example after taking off the uniform. This ship should sustain the memory of a humble servant leader who left a legacy of Marines some here today that are proud to be called Cantley trained. And this ship should remind us of Sergeant Major Cantley's last message to Captain Mays. Those of you who know him know he was pretty economical in the use of words. And he simply turned to Captain Mays to take care of the troops. And that's what this ship ought to remind us to do to take care of the troops. Once again, thank you so much for the privilege of being here separate for Daelis and to the crew of the USS John L. Cantley and to those that will sail the border fair winds in following seas. Thank you, General Dunford. Ladies and gentlemen, our principal speaker the honorable Carlos Del Toro the 78th Secretary of the Navy. Good morning, San Diego. First, let me start off by thanking the chaplain for providing us all perfect weather. You know, the Sergeant Major thanked me for allowing him to speak today as if somehow that was not going to be an option. But I will assure you that this is the last time that I speak behind the Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps as well as the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Thank you both for your extraordinary impactful words for all of you here today. It is a great honor for me to be your 78th Secretary of the Navy in service to all the men and women who serve in our Navy and our Marine Corps today. Before I begin my speech let me just simply say courage under fire. Every American today here at this ceremony and across this great land that we call America has to be proud of the men and women who serve in our Navy and our Marine Corps. Because if we honor the Sergeant Major for everything he did throughout those seven days and throughout his entire life we have to recognize that he served as an inspiration to the over 40,000 Marines that are deployed today around the globe one third of our fleet is underway and in the Red Sea over the last 90 days our sailors and our Marines have acted bravely with courage under fire the way that I think Sergeant Major would have wanted them to do. So I'm extremely proud of each and every one of them you should be as well and I thank on behalf of the President of the United States and the United States and I thank you for your support and I thank you for your care and defense and myself all of you the American people and I encourage you to continue supporting these brave men and women and I encourage you all to reach out to your own members in the House of Representatives and ask them to pass the supplementals that are necessary over the next few weeks and we are so bravely today fighting for democracy not just for themselves but for all of us around the world so that democracy will always reign free everywhere thank you it's great to be here in Coronado thank you at the commissioning of this our fleet's newest expeditionary sea base USS John Cannelly and I'll tell you that when this ship was first being thought of 20 years ago or so I wasn't necessarily the biggest fan of it and I will tell you that over these past 20 years I have become the biggest fan of these expeditionary sea base ships so to you David and you know that I built a ship of our own and a shipyard down south and lived in a shipyard for a year and a half this is hard work and there's not enough ways to thank your workers here at NASCO for the spectacular job that they've done as shipyard workers thank you so very much I extend again a warm welcome to our ship sponsor and Sergeant Major Cannelly's daughter Miss Patricia Sargent as well as you know according to Navy tradition the ship's sponsor spirit and presence guides the sailors and the Marines and the merchant mariners that live and work and fight on board these great ships and I am confident from all that I know about your father and yourself and your granddaughter that you all his granddaughter that you all will be spectacular sponsors and made of honors for the brave men and women who serve on this ship I also want to welcome the rest of Sergeant Major Cannelly's family including Victoria Sargent who I mentioned but his sister Annie and all of his grandchildren nieces and nephews here with us today it's wonderful to be with you all welcome also to our distinguished guests including Mr. Carver again General Dunford sir your leadership of our military service when you served and our Marine Corps when you served as commandant was truly spectacular thank you sir and to Sergeant Major Cannelly's Marine Corps company during Vietnam Alpha Company who are able to join us today thank you for your presence for your selfless service to our country and protection of the freedoms that we hold most dear Vietnam veterans are particularly important to me I came here as a Cuban American refugee and my first home was in a rat infested tenement building on 42nd street between 11th and 12th avenue in New York City and my first memory of Vietnam when I was only four or five years old actually was this endless line of soldiers who stood across the street on 42nd street and although I was too young to fully comprehend and understood what it was that they were doing there with their satchels they always seemed to be just waiting in line as Marines know how to do sometimes right but it was when I became older and when I became secretary just a couple of months ago I asked my historian to actually look into that why was it that those soldiers were waiting in line they were waiting in line to go to Vietnam on troopships just like this as they had before during Korea and World War II that was my first understanding of what it meant to go to war and throughout my life I have vowed to honor their service first by joining the service myself obviously and I served for 22 years by visiting Hoya twice as well too and seeing firsthand the struggles that they actually went through and not just to pay them tribute to what they do here today but to learn the lessons of what they went through of what you went through and to vow to apply those lessons so that our men and women today in service and uniform whether it be the Navy, the Marine Corps, the Army the Air Force will never again have to struggle in a similar fashion so thank you thank you to all of you who served in Vietnam for your service Commanding Officer Captain Mays and Master Captain Henry you are the two luckiest people on the face of the earth today because you get to command this great ship and I know what that's all about and it's an extraordinary experience as he told you take care of your troops that's what matters most and finally to the crew of USS John Cannelly the rest of our Navy team and our partners and industry is 784 feet of warfighting steel named after an incredible warfighter Sergeant Major Cannelly's philosophy was if today is my day then come get me and as you heard today he certainly embodied that philosophy this ship is a United States ship a warfighting ship which may be called to sail into harm's way one day USS John Cannelly increases the capability of our Navy our Marine Corps our military sea lift team strengthening our maritime dominance in a certain time when the world looks to the United States more so than ever for guidance, strength and leadership and we must deliver that to the rest of the world I want to take this time to talk about the importance of sharing stories as well especially incredible stories of Sergeant Major John Cannelly who represents the very best of America of course is an opportunity to tell those stories and pay tribute to the contribution of African American service members and civilians who selflessly dedicated their lives to this nation courageously so while the legacy of African American service members in the sea services spans centuries their stories often went untold and they did not receive the recognition that they often deserved this is certainly the case with Robert B. Smalls and Charles J. French for whom I named a cruiser and a destroyer this was also the case of Sergeant Major Cannelly who was originally awarded the Navy Cross for his heroic actions at Huey City and thankfully following an Alpha Company reunion many years later his fellow Marines and friend John Legato embarked on a journey to ensure that this humble leader received the credit that he so deserved this process of upgrading his award which seemingly insurmountable administrative hurdles and miles of bureaucratic red tape but in 2018, 50 years after the battle of Huey City Sergeant Major John Cannelly receives the Medal of Honor and he became the first African American service member to receive the Medal of Honor while still living we as Americans have the unique opportunity to tell the stories of Robert B. Smalls, Charles J. French and now John L. Cannelly and an obligation to learn from them because we cannot only grow as a nation as a fighting force by learning from our history ultimately our Navy our Marine Corps and our nation are made stronger by their diversity diversity of background of experience and diversity of thought which ensures that our ability to outthink outpace and outmaneuver our adversaries forever remain strong just as history matters representation matters too and African Americans make up 16% of our Navy and over 10% of our Marine Corps it is imperative that future generations see themselves in RC services that they see a man from Caledonia, Arkansas grow up to become a war hero or a woman from Rochester, New York become the first female chief of naval operations or even an immigrant from Cuba to become the first Cuban American Secretary of the Navy because the next Medal of Honor recipient and our sick nav might be in this audience today as the world's problems grow increasingly more complex and stability more uncertain we need to tap into America's most precious resource all of its people to solve the issues of the future and if any of you who served before want to come back into the service or any of you young men and women want to join the service come see me after the ceremony in fact how about standing up right now in the office would be happy to do so now I know that the spouses of some of you veterans want you to come back into the service too so we can accommodate you as well too now because better technology and more ships will go to waste without the courageous Americans who will answer the call of service to their country the impact of Sergeant Major Cannelly's legacy of course will indeed extend far beyond Black History Month it is my firm belief that Sergeant Major Cannelly will serve as an inspiration to all who follow on her wake and it is my sincere hope that for those who come aboard this ship those in the United States Navy the Marine Corps military civili of command as they cross that bow they are also challenged to live up to the unwavering devotion and duty of this ship's namesake and a special tribute to our merchant mariners more merchant mariners died in World War II than anyone else today I'm proud that our United States Navy Marine Corps is out there protecting not only the life of our own service members but the life of those innocent merchant mariners from all over the world we have a responsibility to protect them I have no doubt that throughout his service USS John Cannelly will display courage under fire ladies and gentlemen today is a historic day John Cannelly is joining the fleet as part of the world's finest Navy the world's most powerful Navy and Marine Corps don't let anybody ever tell you anything differently I wish you all fair wins and following seas especially these courageous men and women who will serve on board this ship may God bless each and every one of you your families and the United States of America thank you thank you Secretary Dottoro sir I'll be honored if you place John L. Cannelly in commission Captain place John L. Cannelly in commission aye aye sir on behalf of the President of the United States and for the Secretary of the Navy I hereby place United States ship John L. Cannelly in commission may God bless and guide this warship and all who should sail in her executive officer hoist the colors a commissioned pennant aye aye ship's company attention the commissioned pennant and professional national Navy's began to take form late in the 17th century all ships at that time were sailing ships and it was often difficult to tell a naval ship from a merchantman Navy's began to adopt long narrow pennants to be flown by their ships at the main mast head to distinguish themselves from merchant ships the commissioned pennant will fly continuously until the ship is decommissioned ladies and gentlemen please rise I direct your attention to the large screens as we hoist the colors and commissioned pennant navigator hoist the colors and commissioned pennant captain the colors and commissioned pennant are flying proudly over USS John L. Cannelly ladies and gentlemen please be seated I will now read my orders from commander naval military personnel command to captain Thomas M.A.'s United States Navy subject Bupers order number 9580 of 01 April 2023 when directed by reporting senior detach from president duty and report to USS John L. Cannelly as commanding officer upon commissioning of USS John L. Cannelly report for duty as commanding officer Hanbury I relieve you sir by selling McLean USS John L. Cannelly is in commission and I am in command officer of the deck set the first watch aye ma'am the officer of the deck is the commanding officer's direct representative and while on watch is responsible for the safe operation of the ship and the crew the long glass the traditional symbol of an officer of the deck's authority in a ship of the line we are honored to have Mr. Robert W. Shaw with us today a Marine Corps veteran former Marine Captain Shaw served with Sergeant Major Cannelly in the first battalion third Marine regiment his father also Robert Shaw served with Sergeant Major Cannelly on Okinawa from 1962 to 1963 Mr. Shaw will pass the long glass to our first officer of the deck Chief Boson's mate Catherine Roschenberg from Wahiwa, Hawaii the petty officer of the watch is Gunners mate third class Sherry Mae Perez from Nazlett, New Jersey the messenger of the watch is aviation support equipment technician second class Bryston Croft from Monroe, Louisiana and the Boson's mate of the watch is Boson's mate first class Daven RC from Ewa Beach, Hawaii set the watch on deck, section 1 ma'am the watch is set very well detail, board mark Captain, the watch is set very well we are delighted today to have our sponsor with us Ms. Patricia A. Sargent she has opened her heart to this crew to imbue the ship with her spirit and devotion Patricia, I would be honored if you would join me up here and give the order to man our ship thank you Captain Mays I would like to bring my daughter Victoria Sargent up to the podium she's the mate honor of the ship to be able to give the order I need to give you some information in regards to my father and some insight into his thoughts and how he led my father understood that greatness is not achieved by the individual it is achieved by the courageous acts of the many the marines of alpha company 1-1 are an example of that in what they achieved in the battle of Way City and in that battle my father earned their Medal of Honor which now resides on the USS John L. Canley this ship will achieve greatness but it will only do that by the courageous actions of the many it is in honor of my father my family members of the 1-1 and the great people of the United States that I give the command officers and crew of the USS John L. Canley man our ship and bring her to life USS John L. Canley is man ready reports for duty break your flag sir Secretary of the Navy is flying proudly over USS John L. Ladies and gentlemen Captain Thomas A. Mays United States Navy commanding officer USS John L. Canley I am Captain Tom Mays United States Navy commanding officer of USS John L. Canley thank you so much for the significant representatives of our Navy our community and industry who have joined us here today to the members who have joined me here on the platform Randall Anderson, Commodore Murphy Captain Dubard Commodore Iwakwa Commander Lauper, Mr. Carver and my good friend Tim Roberts thank you to Randall Peck, Commodore Keeler and the Navy Triads and Leadership that have joined us today thank you for witnessing our elevation to your company to the veterans of the Alpha 1-1 I salute you and all you did to keep the gunnies legacy alive to give them the recognition this nation owed him to Captain Brad Coletti Command Master Chief Cruz de los Santos and all those sailors who have been part of our pre-community and moved on the Navy General Dunford Colonel Mojieski Colonel Vargas and Sergeant Major Ruiz your presence here cements our ship's tight and eternal bond to serving the needs of the United States Marine Corps thank you Secretary Dortaro and Vice Admiral McClain I am blown away that we can garner your support your time and your presence on this significant day in the life of our ship to my friends, mentors and family, most especially my lovely wife Kristen my daughters Isabelle and Gabrielle and my son Gunners mate Seaman Apprentice Dylan Mays I would not be here without you and all you've meant to my life I owe you everything, thank you to our sponsors Trisha and Made of Honor Victoria I can hardly express how much you've meant to me to these crews and what you will mean to all the sailors will crew your father's ship in all the years to follow, our thanks will never be enough now with all the niceties taken care of I hope you'll excuse me as I have a personal conversation with my crews please, a little privacy cover your ears, no listener civilian mariners, the military sea lift command and the USS John L. Canley officers chiefs and sailors of blue and gold crews pay he 785 feet by 164 feet that is her vessel's footprint upon the seas it is not the extent of her reach nor the measure of her impact upon this world the length, breadth and endurance of that impact rests solely with you and I with how we back one another and how we handle our charge to care for this vessel and how we approach our sacred duty to defend these United States our hull's legacy was forged in Arkansas in 1937 it was hammered into form alongside a very young, tall and posing but humble John Lee and then shaped by the US Marine Corps and the travails of service that legacy was tempered in fire at way in 1968 it is finally annealed into the form of this ship today with the grace of God our legacy will extend decades into the future with unknowable accomplishments and challenges etched into her hull today you are on the shining precipice of those days to come and I want you to survey all the myriad possibilities and anticipation, hope and eagerness to do what you know is right y'all have just brought this ship to life that's not just a metaphor of me her body is well and strongly built of American steel right here in San Diego her spirit lived upon this earth for 83 years before her first plank was laid imbued with honor courage and selfless sacrifice by her namesake but the life blood that pumps through the veins that makes her move that faces down the threats our nations has confronted by, that life blood is you none of this works without you I want you to take pride from that but also appreciate the weight of that responsibility our story together did not start today for some of us it began more than two years ago so I know I know you now I know how hard you've worked to make this day a reality I know your courage your determination and your resiliency I'm both proud and humbled to be able to count myself among your ranks but I know something you don't I know you're each individually capable of even more and together, like the stalks of bamboo that flank our crest together we can accomplish feats far greater than some of our individual efforts looking back you'll be amazed at what we have done and will do ESB-6 everyone who knows me knows I love a great story we have it in us to add further still to the well-deserved honors heaped upon the name of John L. Canley let us sail from here to serve our embarked forces and excel in our mission to not just do the job but to advance our story into epic history thank you ship's company attention will the guests please rise and remain standing we will tribute to our ship's namesake Sergeant Major John L. Canley followed by the benediction and most holy god and you we trust remind us all, dear lord that none of us got here by accident thank you lord for the high skill and amazing ingenuity of all those dedicated workers and planners and designers and engineers and everyone who contributed to this day and the USS John L. Canley ESB-6 please god bless this ship and all the men and women who now serve and will serve aboard its decks please watch over their families and now to the USS John L. Canley its crew all embarked personnel and to all gathered here today please receive the blessing may the strength of god sustain you may the power of god inspire you may the hands of god protect you may the way of god direct you and may the presence of god go with you this day and forever amen thank you chaplain crab ladies and gentlemen please be seated and remain seated for the departure of our platform guests


Item Number SCP-4530 Object Class Euclid Special Containment Procedures SCP-4530 is to be patrolled and monitored by stationary task force Sigma-2, Lynch Mob, who are to maintain a 5 km radius of exclusion around SCP-4530. Site-10 Communications Unit are to ensure that no tearing civilians explore the Tigard State Forest. All persons found near or within the limits of this border are to be vacated from the premises. All evidence regarding disappearances linked to SCP-4530 is to be taken and documented. Should an irradiate event occur, personnel are to administer C-class amnestics to the parents, families, and friends of children that have undergone the event. No personnel are to obstruct any children undergoing an irradiate event. Foundation web crawler Wiccan is to search and remove any online references, images, and articles pertaining to missing persons and disappearances of children all of Hill. Under no circumstances are personnel allowed to enter SCP-4530. Should any persons or personnel enter SCP-4530, these persons are to be considered lost. Description SCP-4530 designates a wooden area of space located within the Tigard State Forest of Olive Hill, Kentucky. The region exhibits varying degrees of numerous types of anomalies. El Gardner G and Raven Wolf S, 1975 The Signs of Abnormal Locations and the Unexplained First Edition Volume 1, Series 1 Foundation Research Press This list includes, but are not limited to, heavy distortion of video quality, generation loss, and fluctuating electromagnetic interference, sapient organism experiencing paranoia and anxiety. The appearance of animal corpses belonging to that of the domestic pig and the hebriden sheep. Sus, domesticus, and capra agregus hercus. These animals appear across SCP-4530 in various states of the K. Most of these corpses have consisted of skulls decoratively strewn across the ground. Sounds described as shrieking, whispering, and laughter. In some cases, audio recording devices will not pick up on these sounds, save for sapient individuals with an SCP-4530. Disappearances of Persons Entering SCP-4530 The appearance and disappearance of SCP-4530-1 from within the borders of SCP-4530. SCP-4530-1 is an entity that resides within an SCP-4530, with individual eyewitness reports consisting of a young and attractive woman located within the forest. One consistent remark about these accounts claims that the entity wears a black dress or cloak. SCP-4530-1 provokes a fear response in sapient beings obscene. An irradiate event is an event wherein five children, ages between 3-14, are randomly selected across a localized region that prompts them to wake up at a certain time. In some cases, at approximately 3 am, leave their homes and walk to the location of SCP-4530. Intervals between events can range anywhere from weeks to years. Take S, Bolen-A, and Cunningham-S, not dated, documenting extranormal events. Third Edition Volume 1, Foundation Research Press. Addendum 4530.1 First Contact SCP-4530 was discovered in 1984, following the disappearance of a young woman named Megan Faye. According to the Kentucky State Police Department, Mrs. Faye had left her apartment on November 27, 1982, at 3 am. Mrs. Faye had entered the region of SCP-4530 and never returned. eyewitness accounts claim that she walked barefoot all the way to the region. Police led a three-man investigation into the forest the following morning, but never returned. A sampling of the missing persons posters can be found below. Have you seen this woman? Name? Megan L. Faye. Native occurrence, November 27, 1982. Eye color brown, hair color black, height, 177.8 cm, weight, 167 kg, age 27. Report Description Last seen headed towards the Tigard State Forest. If you've seen this woman, please contact her husband, Mr. Faye, at ██████. Her family is worried sick. If you have any information, don't hesitate to call. Missing Name? Clyde O. Harland. Data of occurrence, December 6, 1982. Eye color black, hair color blonde, height, 185.4 cm, weight, 182 kg, age 15. Report Description Clyde was last seen heading to the State Forest. If you have any information on the whereabouts, call ██████. Have you seen this boy? Name? Lucas V. Raymond. Data of occurrence, June 12, 1990. Eye color hazel, hair color black, height, 125 cm, weight, 102 kg, age 12. Report Description Lucas is a young boy with black hair. He wore a Batman t-shirt at the time of his disappearance. He was last seen approaching the State Forest. If you've seen him, please call this number. Lost Girl. Name? Susie L. Faye. Data of occurrence, May 20, 1983. Eye color brown, hair color brown, height, 96 cm, weight, 32.6 kg, age 3. Report Description The exact details of the poster appear to have been torn off at the bottom. Except for the words, please bring her back, and black marker on the top. Addendum 4530.2 Exploration Log Transcripts Exploration Log Transcript Date? December 14, 1995. Personnel Used AI-controlled drone, Grimossi, is utilized to navigate and explore SCP-4530. The drone model used is a standard all-terrain traversal model equipped with a standard camera for exploratory purposes. Begin Log 1 Second The camera turns on as the drone moves further away from the exclusion zone and onto the path and deeper into SCP-4530. 13 Seconds Grimossi continues down the path, occasionally turning the camera on its head to view the terrain. 39 Seconds Grimossi stops moving. It turns its head to the left side to see. There is nothing there. 48 Seconds Grimossi continues forward. The camera finds the skull of a sheep on the ground in front and navigates around it. Grimossi captures the corpse of a pig to its right, impaled on a tree branch. The end trails are visible from the other end of the branch. The corpse appears to have died recently. 1 Minute, 3 Seconds Grimossi's camera experiences a slight decline in video quality. Grimossi picks up what sounds like barely audible whispering from his recorder. This is the first instance of SCP-4530's effect on electronics. 1 Minute, 54 Seconds The corpse of a pig is seen on a tree stump. The pig appears to have been dismembered across the torso from the head. The corpse appears to have been killed recently. Grimossi investigates the corpse for a few minutes before moving on. 3 Minutes, 19 Seconds A large pit is discovered in the middle of the road. The camera pans closer to the hole and turns on its light. At the pit are hundreds of dolls made of wicker and black snake-like organisms moving around the hole. Each of the dolls are identical, having button eyes, yarn for hair, and ragged cloth for clothes. The dolls and snakes are too far out of reach for a closer look. The drone moves away and continues around the hole. 4.28 At this point, distorted whispering can be heard from the left of the drone. Grimossi ceases moving and turns its camera to the direction of the sound, only for the video and audio feed to cut off. 9.29 The camera and audio feeds come back online. Grimossi's camera is looking up at a destroyed tree. Static can be heard from the audio, and the visual feed on the camera is black and white. 9.45 The drone backs away from the tree. It gets darker through the feed. It becomes clear that the path is nowhere to be seen. 9.50 Grimossi continues forward into the trees. The visual feed continues to decline significantly. The surrounding environment continues to get darker. 10.03 Grimossi ceases movement for five seconds before the audio and visual feed cut out. End Log Exploration Log Transcript Date December 18, 1995 Personnel Used DAA-328 DAA-328 is equipped with a standard flashlight, a body camera, two bottles of water, and three camera-mounted tripods used for monitoring anomalous activity while undercover. Begin Log Com links up. Can you hear us DAA-328? Yeah, yeah, I hear ya. Good. Proceed down the path. DAA-328 walks down the pathway to SCP-4530. There is silence for the next ten seconds before its recorder picks up a distorted laughter nearby and he stops. Jesus fuck, did you hear that?   None of your concern. Keep moving.  DAA-328 continues down the path for five minutes. DAA-328's camera captures an oddly shaped bundle of sticks and branches off the path to the left. Alex, do you see that pile of wood to the left? Hey, uh, yeah. Yeah, I think I see it. Don't tell me that I have to go there, please. Approach the object. Fine. DAA-328 walks away from the path and faces the direction of the object. He climbs over a log before slowly approaching the object. It appears to be a mass of sticks and branches bolted and arranged together to form a small shack. So, I'm, uh, here. It looks like, uh, Eor's house or something. Alex, do you think you can fit into the entrance? Got it. Not because I really don't want to go in there, but also because that little rabbit hole is too small for me to go in. DAA-328, use the tripods that were given to you. DAA-328 puts down his backpack and unzips it. Oh no. What? What is it? I, uh, was there always one tripod here? Because I only have one left in my bag. That's impossible. We gave you three of them. How did you lose the rest? I don't know. I just, I swear, if I felt something touch it, I would have known. Forget it. Just make do with the one you have.   All done. Excellent. Now you can come back to the path. Do you remember where it was? Uh, yeah, I think so. DAA-328 stands up and heads over to the log that he passed over a few minutes ago. DAA-328 continues to walk through the wooded area for twenty seconds before pausing. Uh, guys? What is it? I can't find the path anymore. Keep walking forward. You'll find it eventually. Alright, I'm fine. This is fine. I'll find it. I can find it. DAA-328 continues walking into the forest, heading deeper and deeper within, until it starts to get darker. DAA-328? You can stop now. DAA-328 continues to walk deeper within the forest. The surrounding area is starting to become devoid of light from the outside. Alex? DAA-328 starts walking slowly. Soft murmuring can be heard from him. Alex? DAA-328 sees his movement. The visual feed then cuts out completely. However, the audio feed does not. Wet crunching sounds and distorted singing and laughter can be heard through the radio over DAA-328's murmuring. Command attempts to re-establish visual connection with DAA-328. They are successful doing so, but the audio feed is cut out completely. Alex? Can you hear me? The camera's visual feed is now colored a dark gray hue and suffering from generation loss. The feed is shaky, assumed to be DAA-328 running away from something. DAA-328 continues to run before slowing down and stopping completely. Alex? Respond. He leans forward against a tree, presumably to catch his breath. He looks around for a few seconds before he is violently pulled to the ground by an unseen force. When he comes to, a feminine figure is standing across him wearing a black cloak concealing the face. Assumed to be SCP-4530-1. Listen to me, Alex. Alex? The figure raises his hand and makes a gesture with his fingers, urging DAA-328 to come closer. White noise can be heard increasing in frequency as DAA-328 slowly walks to the entity until they are close to each other and stops. The frequency distortion gets louder as the entity appears to take off its hood before the visual and audio feed are cut out again. Further attempts at re-establishing connection yield to no results. End log. Exploration log transcript. Date. December 18, 1995. Personnel used. One standard camera with tripod attachment. Begin log. One second. The camera turns on. DAA-328 is seen fixing the tripod and looking at the camera. DAA-328 leaves the vicinity and walks away from the camera's view of the shack's entrance. One minute, 27 seconds. A sign of movement. A small snake crawls into the entrance of the shack, followed by three more snakes. One minute, 33 seconds. The video resolution declined slightly. Noises emanating from the audio feed start to decline into static and highly distorted screaming. 349. DAA-328 appears in the frame, walking as if in a trance. He stops walking and begins to bend forward, coughing and gagging. The video quality starts to degrade. 355. DAA-328 puts his hand on a nearby tree and vomits what appears to be a common toad. Bufo Bufo. DAA-328 vomits about a dozen of these animals and can be heard crying. The snakes that entered the shack are seen leaving at this time as the feed declined in quality. 401.  It opens his mouth and appears to talk to him. Further review of the footage audio reveals no sound was made by the animal during that time. 432. The visual feed begins to turn to a dark and blue hue. The goat moves to the front of the wooden construct and lies down. A pale human hand then appears out of the shack, grasping the ground in front of it as DAA-328 starts sobbing even louder before the feed deteriorates to heavy static and cuts out. Addendum 4530.3 Recovery Interview Log On March 26, 1997, all video files taking up SCP-4530 have become corrupted. An entire unit was established for the purpose of exploring SCP-4530's inner regions and to recover the original cartridges. Mobile Task Force Nu-10, Radium Hallmarks, was set into SCP-4530. Interview Log Date? September 13, 1997. Interviewer, Dr. Piston. Interviewed? Carly Draken, former member of MTF Nu-10. Begin Log. State your name please. Carly Draken, field agent. Alright, can you describe what you experienced when you and your team were sent into SCP-4530? Subject does not respond. We've given enough time for you. Can you please answer the question? We… we went into the forest. We went in there with the purpose of recovering any data we had on SCP-4530. And how long did it take you to find the missing cartridges? We didn't. Why? We spent hours trying to find the drone and the cameras. It felt like we were going in circles. Wouldn't be surprised if that were the case. Agent Draken shifts in her seat and clears her throat. So um… we spent around an hour before we… we uh… found one of the guys you sent in there. D-88328? Yeah, that guy. When we found him, he was… he was… Agent Draken tilt her head. She then closes her eyes and pinches the bridge of her nose.  He was lying down in the dirt. He had these mushrooms and moss and roots all over him and coming out of his… his… uh… you mean his orifices? Ye… yes. His eyes were gone, couldn't tell if they were too sunken inside or they got removed, but… but the pores sawed with a pale blue color. He had roots entangling his throat and mouth and nearly everywhere over his courts. Some shrooms were sticking out of his ears too. His body cam was gone, however. And that was the point you encountered the entity? Yes. We encountered SCP-4530-1 in there. We didn't know it at first, but she just appeared out of nowhere, like she was behind us the whole time. Agent Draken pauses for a moment to drink water before continuing. She did something to me, to all of us.  We couldn't even lift a finger. Next thing I knew I was… I was just frozen in… in… in fear. Like I could see this… Christ. I don't even know how to describe it, looking at us. Please continue. She pulled out her hand and did these weird gestures and… and Mikey he… he got torn apart. It happened so fast. And then Jake started laughing.  I was… he just wouldn't stop. He just bent over and vomited his frog from his mouth while he was still laughing. What else happened? Jake's skin. His skin started to peel off. It started from the top of his forehead and just went its way down. He… his suit and clothes also peeled off of him too. He was still laughing. He looked at me and wouldn't stop laughing. He just kept staring at me with a skinless grinning face. What else did she do? Did she do anything to you? She… I remember her choking me. She just lifted her hand and then I just couldn't breathe. Agent Draken starts to fidget in her seat. She looks visibly uncomfortable. Look, how long do we have to keep going with this? Just one more question. What? Where did you get the tattoo, Draken? Well, what? There are the tattoo in the shape of an A behind your neck, Draken. Where did you get it? I've… I've always had it. What do you mean? I see. I think we're done here, then. There's… there's something else. That woman in the woods… I can almost feel like… I can feel her thoughts. I know what she wants. Could you elaborate on that? The kids… she takes them with her because she needs them. She's angry. She hates him so… so much. She wants him to stuff. Agent Draken proceeds to stutter and gag for one minute. Hey, are you okay? Do you need any? Agent Draken proceeds to vomit. A small black serpentine creature emerges from the vomitus and slitters away before dissipating outside the door of the room. I'm fine. End log. Note, on September 13, 1997, Field Agent Carly Draken went missing. Agent Draken's disappearance was reported as an internal securities breach and a site-wide investigation would put in place for her. However, there was no evidence of her disappearance, with the only evidence being mounds of soil and a doll made of wicker on top of her bed, located within her quarters. Investigation to the incident is still ongoing.


Hold up a second, you guys remember Google Stadia?  It crops up every now and then, exclusive demos as an example, we played Immortals Phoenix Rising on it and it ran just fine, it ran as you expected. But Google Stadia is making a little bit of hay right now, and it's making a little bit of hay because the people who actually use Google Stadia, which by the way, in case you didn't know, there are actually people who use Google Stadia are reporting that hey, all these issues that people are having with Cyberpunk 2077 on last-gen hardware or even like PlayStation 5 and some lower-spec PCs, not a problem on Stadia. In fact, the game runs better than it does on the Xbox Series X, which is saying something because the game actually runs pretty well on the Xbox Series X, not as well as it runs on like a super high-end PC, but it still runs very, very well. Of the console versions, it is the one that seems to have the best performance, the least amount of bugs and issues. So yeah, Xbox Series X kind of a win for that. But then Stadia comes along. You don't have to spend $500 on a system. You do have to spend 60 bucks in a game. But the game just works and you can play it on your PC, on your TV, if you have the correct sort of device to stream it to your TV. It can run on your phone, obviously computer monitors, laptops, anything. 1080p, close to max settings, ray tracing on, no problem. Even higher resolutions, depending on your internet connection. This is interesting to me because all we've heard since Google Stadia's pricing announcements is we should be rejecting Google Stadia. Google Stadia is garbage. Google Stadia doesn't work as well as they say it does.  It should be a subscription service. They shouldn't be charging full price AAA. Things for games that you lose access to if Google Stadia goes away. After all, Google has the ability to push one button and just delete Google Stadia. Google has a history, a notorious history of getting rid of products like that. I mean, maybe one of the most well known ones in the YouTube sphere might be something called Google Plus. Remember that, gone. So, Google has a history of starting up these really interesting ideas, never really seeing them to their full potential, and then dropping it. But here's the thing with Google Stadia. While it's a running joke in the industry, at least among gamers, that who plays on Google Stadia. It turns out quite a few people are actually playing on Google Stadia. Quite a few people are actually enjoying their time playing on Google Stadia. Some even saying they're playing Cyberpunk 2077 just fine over 4G LTE on their phones when they're at a coffee shop. Which, should they be at a coffee shop doing that in the middle of a pandemic? I guess a personal choice that they've made. But still. It looks like Google Stadia is turning out to be an extremely viable gaming platform. What I find interesting about this is Google Stadia is not alone in the streaming space. We know about xCloud coming, which has been highly touted as having a very, very successful beta on Android. We've heard, obviously we got GeForce Now is out there as a streaming service. Granted, it's a different type of streaming service. It's sort of like Google Stadia, but different because you buy the games on like Steam or GoTool games or whatever. And then you can stream it through GeForce Now so you can take advantage of a more powerful system. There is a bit of a downfall to it. One, obviously we know a lot of publishers have been pulling their games away from GeForce Now, even though GeForce Now never thought they needed permission to do this in the first place. Because hello, the consumers bought the copy of the game. They can't use GeForce Now.  What's it matter? I still bought the game. That was GeForce Now's argument, but from a legal perspective that wasn't the case. And they've lost a lot of developer support. But the downfall of GeForce Now is that while you could get super high end performance of games, it might even be the best alternative out there from, you know, beyond spending $3,000 plus dollars to build a sick gaming PC with a 3090 and a 5950X and all the best RAM and bells and whistles. Sometimes there's a cue. For Cyberpunk, in particular, there is a cue. It can take up to an hour at times before you're able to play the game, because they give you access through streaming to what amounts to a fully decked out specced top of the line PC. So they only have so many of those in their farm, so they kind of have to, you know, wait for people to stop playing before they can let other people in on those particular PCs for a game such as Cyberpunk. So it is a downfall of GeForce Now. But it is technically a streaming competitor, albeit a different one because you don't buy the games directly from them. Obviously Amazon Luna, we all know like that's a product coming out. I'm in the beta for that. Might do some thoughts on that eventually here. And these are all competitive products. It seems that Luna for sure we know is a subscription model. There's the base subscription and then you can subscribe to like different companies or whatever. Like Ubisoft is going to be on there and under a different subscription. A very interesting way to deliver this. This almost feels like the cable TV route. You have your base package for cable TV, but then you can add like HBO or stars or like set fees. That seems to be maybe what they're doing here on Amazon Luna. XCloud, the big thing that it has is that it is going to be tied in with Game Pass as well. So like if you're, if you want to stream games on XCloud and you have a Game Pass subscription, if those games are available through to stream, you'll be able to not spend any extra money. So it's already sort of through proxy of Game Pass, a Game subscription service. So kind of like a Netflix of games as it were, quite literally on the streaming side. These are vastly different approaches. So full triple A pricing, streaming, but like cable package style with Amazon, where you can like select different packages and in different companies to add in. Kind of pick and choose your poison and how much you want to spend. You also then have Xbox kind of doing the traditional streaming route and then with Google Stadia doing full game pricing. This is interesting. And it's interesting because for the first time, maybe since Google Stadia came out, I can't sit here and tell you you shouldn't use Google Stadia. I've actually had people on Twitter that follow my channel defending Google Stadia, explaining to me the benefits of them, that they don't have the crazy fast internet I do. For those who don't know, my internet isn't crazy fast. I don't have fiber, but I have really fast internet compared to most people. I have a business line cable internet connection at my house. So I get about 30 up, which isn't that much. Some of you guys would just standard home packages from Comcast or whatever can get better than that. But then I also have 500 to one gig down. It kind of varies throughout the day. It's supposed to be a full gig down, which is close to fiber, but I don't quite, to be honest, I think the highest I've ever seen it at any given point was like 912 down, and that was only for a few seconds. Otherwise, it's usually between 500 and 800 balances around based on the traffic on the network at the time. So that's really fast internet. That's way good enough for any sort of streaming service that exists. So streaming services in terms of speed, not an issue at my house. I have a really nice router, a really nice modem. So it's all good, right? I have great internet in my house now. It's just, it feels weird to talk positively about Stadia. Like it's been kind of the butt of jokes for gamers for a long time, but were we too quick to dismiss Stadia as a viable gaming option? I mean, I've seen arguments from people using it that hey, unlike other Google services, Google won't get rid of Stadia, giving some pretty decent arguments as for why they won't, such as most of the products they've gotten rid of in the past were not paid for services. So they weren't subscription based, and they didn't have, you know, purchases tied into it. Remember, Google probably gets 30% of every cut of every game you buy on the product as well. Google Stadia is an alternative in a field that maybe needs to exist. I love Game Pass on Xbox Series X, right? I'm a huge Game Pass fan. I always thought the key for streaming was going to be subscriptions, kind of like what Amazon Luna is doing. The thing is, some people don't like subscription fees because here's what happens with subscriptions. This happens with Game Pass. Games aren't there forever, right? You, on Game Pass, you can't control what games are added and removed. Same's going to be true on Amazon Luna. You can't control what games are available. On Google Stadia, if the game was ever available on the platform and you bought it, you will always have access to play that game. They don't just remove it from the library and you can't play it anymore because you own a license to play that game. So, is Google Stadia potentially the future? Now, maybe not Google Stadia itself, but a service like that, is streaming really that close to being extremely viable?  I can't believe I'm actually saying this. You want to play Cyberpunk, buy it for Google Stadia. It's going to outperform pretty much everything. It's going to like best on it unless you have that top tier PC hardware. Obviously, alternatively, don't have great internet, buy it for one of the other platforms. Something you lose in spending that 60 bucks is resale value, but you lose that with digital purchases on any system. So, I think that this is something to consider. I'm not like super passionate about it. I'm not sitting here touting Stadia as, you know, this big future of gaming, but I will say today, surprisingly, at the end of 2020, Google Stadia is a viable gaming platform. One, I can understand why consumers would actually choose to buy for it, even if they own a different platform. And I didn't think I'd be saying that this far in to Google Stadia launching, which by the way, I had some really weird launch where Pro was first last year. You know, I didn't think we'd be at this point.  We'll have to see how xCloud and Luna can stack up once they go fully public. All right, folks, I entertain your open chance from Nintendo Prime. Thank you so much for tuning in. Let me know your thoughts on Google Stadia down in the comments. I'm sure we're going to see a lot of people hating on it, but hey, my experiences with it every time I try it have been massively positive. So, I can't even say like from personal experience, I think it's a horrible service because it's been pretty good. I actually have no complaints. I couldn't tell you if I was even latency wise. I couldn't tell you if I was playing locally or not. For all I know, I'm playing on my Series X. It doesn't really, it's good.


Shane Dawson just released his final conspiracy theory video from his series and I was with Brittany Louise Taylor. But it has a lot of people asking, what are their true motives? Was Shane really just doing this to get more views and get more money? What is Brittany Louise Taylor really doing? Is she just trying to peddle some more books, make some more money as well? Well in this video, we're gonna figure that out. What is up everybody? This is Chris from The Rewired Soul where we talk about the problem, but focus on the solution. And if you're new to my channel, my channel is all about mental health. What I like to do is pull different topics from the YouTube community to try to teach you how to improve your mental and emotional well-being. So if you're into that stuff, make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell. And I know a lot of you have heard already but I've been an affiliate of BetterHelp for a long time now. I am now using their service and today we're going to be talking about kind of our own thought processes and trust issues and things like that. It's actually something that I've been working on with my therapist. So if you're interested in checking out BetterHelp, go ahead and click the link down below. What it does is that it helps support the channel and you get some awesome affordable online therapy. Alright? But anyways, I wanted to make this video questioning the motives of Shane Dawson and Brittany Louise Taylor because looking at various tweets and comments on my own videos and comments on their videos, everything, this seems to be like a topic that's really keeping people up at night. Alright? So basically for those of you who are like the five people who haven't watched the Shane Dawson series with his conspiracy theories. So Brittany Louise Taylor is an old friend of Shane Dawson. He brought her on. She basically fell in love with the guy and had a baby with this man who eventually became both emotionally as well as physically abusive. There's, you know, signs of potential human trafficking and things like that, which wasn't proven, but a lot of people think it's geared towards that way. But I'm not going to touch on that. But anyways, I want to talk about this because a subject that keeps coming up and it kind of I guess it kind of surprises me, but it kind of doesn't. Is that people are saying, oh, they're just trying to sell more books. They're just trying to get more views and sell more books because after the series or like after the premiere, Shane Dawson went on Twitter and, you know, he was saying, hey, check out Brittany Louise Taylor's book, check out this, right? And something that I've noticed, especially in my own personal experience, which I'll touch on soon, is that people are questioning the motives, the intentions of Shane Dawson and Brittany Louise Taylor, right? Like, why did they do this? Do they just want views? Do they just want money? So like, when I made some of my last videos, I was talking about how like I'm very glad that Shane and Brittany brought this subject to light. Maybe it made more people feel comfortable with talking about their own trauma, their own abusive relationships. Maybe encourage people to go get help. I think her book is a phenomenal thing.   So something that I've dealt with for a very long time is that I'm always questioning people's intentions and motives, right? And I think part of it, some of it might be because I didn't have good intentions, I didn't have good motives and I kept a lot of people around who didn't either.  But I surrounded myself with people as well who I could get something from, right? And this is kind of learned behavior, if you will, from people I saw in my life, like the adults that were around in my life. I kind of saw this kind of give and take, give and take, give and take type of deal. And that's what I thought, you know, friendships or relationships were, which is not a good thing.  So whenever I'm watching something on YouTube even, I'm sitting there, I'm like, what's their motive? What's their intention? What do they want, right? Like something that really freaked me out was when I first got sober through 12 step programs, was like people kept like giving me hugs and wanting to talk to me and hang out with me. They kept telling me to come back to meetings. I'm like, well, what do you want from me? And it's like, what could you want from me? I was a newly sober addict. The most I had was like three pairs of clothes and oxygen tank. I'm like $10 to my entire name.  So it didn't make sense why people wanted to befriend me, why these, you know, wanted to like, you know, have me around, right? But it all goes back to trust issues. Having trust issues and checking or not even checking, questioning everybody's motives and intentions.  That's this wall that we put up and we do that to try not to get hurt, right? And it's just interesting because a lot of people you included might be doing this constantly questioning everything you see and why are they doing this? Oh, this person just wants money. This person just wants views. This is this, right? And think about like, is that really a way that you want to live? Is that how you want to live your life? Like I, I, when I realized that I was doing that and questioning everybody's motives and intentions, like it was draining. It is emotionally draining when we're questioning everything. Like I've mentioned in the past, like, have a healthy anxiety, right? Don't just bull, I'm not telling anybody to believe everything they see all willy-nilly. Don't believe everybody has the best intentions or best motives. But like for me, it's typically innocent until proven guilty, right? Because everybody I used to interact with or even see online, they were all guilty until proven otherwise. Like they had to prove to me that they were a pure, genuine person, right? But now I choose to look at it in an optimistic way. The glass is half full, right? When I see Brittany Louise Taylor and Shane Dawson doing this, I see it as a way of good, right? They're creating awareness. They're talking about this, millions upon millions upon millions of people have seen two friends have an honest dialogue about her abusive relationship, right? Like, isn't that a good thing? Isn't that what we're trying to do? But no, you got to have people on the internet just come around and muck it all up and say, oh, she's just trying to sell books. Like think about it. Like at the end of the day, isn't her book getting out there a good thing, right? For people to read it to be aware of these things? Like some of the awful things that I've seen is like questioning her and is she a liar? And that's a whole different video about how brutal that is. You know, I even had a comment that said like, well, Shane, Shane should have interviewed Miloche too. Like, I think the authorities did that. All right? Like, come on, everybody. But anyways, one of the reasons I was talking with my therapist about this is because this is something that bugs me. So I've worked really hard, really, really hard for the last six and a half years to be just, you know, as moral as I can, as ethical as I can, to always check my motives to make sure that what I'm doing is the right thing or it's trying to help or benefit others. And it's something where like I, by making this video and talking about it and even talking with my beautiful girlfriend Tristan about it, like it's helped me have more empathy, right? Because I have people, I have detractors all the time coming here and saying, you know, leaving nasty comments or other creators making videos about me saying, I only want views.  And I sit there, I'm like, wow, right? Like, wow, they're questioning my motives. And it can upset me because I work so hard to be a good person. But at the end of the day, I get it. I get it. I totally understand I used to be those people. So now I have a more empathetic view towards them and understand where they're coming from. Because that's how I used to be.  But like, is it, is it something that's consuming a lot of your emotional energy? Is it, is it something that's keeping your walls up from other people? Right? Is it something where you are neglecting yourself from potentially getting help, because you're wondering about somebody else's motives, like working in the drug and alcohol treatment center, like, trust me, this ain't my first rodeo. I've had so many clients just accuse like the staff members of only doing this for the money. And if any of you work in the mental health field, you know, you know that the money's not that great. All right. But people question that. And I have to wonder if the people leaving those comments are someone who's been hurt, someone who's had their trust violated. And now they have this wall up this barrier up. But I want you to look at it, right? But when we get down to it, it's actually kind of silly. It is kind of silly. So there's two alternatives. All right. This is a very black and white thing. There's there's two alternatives here. Like on one hand, you know, we can sit there and just, you know, hope for the best that Shane Dawson and Brittany Louise Taylor are trying to share a message of hope and inspire other people to go out and share their story of abusive relationships. We can hope that. Or on the other hand, we can assume that we're mind readers and we just automatically know what somebody's intentions and motives are with absolutely no evidence, right? Like think about that for a second.   But isn't that silly? How we just think we assume we know everybody's thoughts and motives and all these other things like, come on everybody, like this is affecting our mental health. Think about how it's affecting the other aspects of real life. Alright, anyways, let me know down in the comments below. Do you have trust issues? Are you constantly questioning everybody's motives and and answer this down in the in the comments below?  Alright, but anyways, that's all I got for this video. If you liked this video, please give it a thumbs up. If you're new, make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell because I make a ton of videos and a huge, huge thank you to everybody supporting the channel over on Patreon. You're all amazing and I will be posting the Patreon Q&A next week. And if you would like to get involved with Patreon Q&A and other perks and stuff like that, click the top right there. Alright, thanks again so so much for watching. I'll see you next time.


My favourite Indian dish, Roan fish curry rice. My favourite Hindi movie, KMSA KM, and my favourite hero, Amir Khan. My favourite hero in Juhi Chawla. My name is Zuse Siddhi. I'm from Siddhi community from Karwar. That's the place called Hali Al. Nobody exactly knows from where we have come. During my playing days also, I never thought that I'll play for the country. But because of my hard work, so I am able to do it. So I played for around 18 years football. So whatever I gained from football now, that same knowledge, I can share it to some other new players now. I can speak six languages. Canada, Hong Kong, Marathi, Hindi, English, and Tamil. I really like playing football.


He presented with 300, and I was the same officer, he was my colleague, and he examined him and I found he had a two-leaf of the left side of the face, lower face, that's all. So immediately I went to the hospital because I suspected an upper motor aero lesion, I suspected a stroke, and then after I did, Let's go to the case, I've written the findings here, but I'm going to show you a short video clip. Okay everybody, these are the first three days we call the Equal Acquisition Trivandrum CDs of brain MRIs. These are exosections of the brain, showing diffuse body electrophy, opposite brain hypertrophy of the lateral reticules, multiple lacular subordinate fonts on the right side, and evidences of brain ventricular ischemia. These are normal sections, which also show subordinate fonts from the right side, and these are cellular sections going from left to the middle, and they also show subordinate electrophy, brain ventricular ischemia. Thank you very much for watching, it's a gentleman, Dr. Sanjay Sanyal. So let's go to the next one. So these are some screenshots to show you basically what I do need to see now, so that you can see more clearly. You can see that there was a patient who was just 26 years old, but he has got his proportionate body electrophy, he has got obviously three hematropic electromentricles, he has got multiple lacular 3 to 4 millimeters of cortical infarcts, and I will show you the more of them, and yet more periventricular ischemia. These are fast, radiant, record, equal acquisition images, F-G-R-E. So we had to investigate further, so therefore I did a few more investigations. Three-dimensional and two-dimensional time of flight, spot radiant recall, equal acquisition, brain, magnetic resonance, angiograms of both the vertebral arteries and the carotid arteries. So these are the five dates, but let me show you another quick video clip. Take a very good look at the right vertebral artery. The next video series of three-dimensional time of flight spot radiant recall, MRA series of the brain. We have to imagine that the head is slowly spinning in a clockwise direction. We know this, the right vertebral artery is distinctly narrow compared to the left vertebral artery. The rest that we know is what appears to be an accessory right vertebral artery on the right side. The accessory right vertebral artery seems to have an abnormal communication with the narrow right vertebral artery, which itself appears to be bifid. As you can see clearly here, the association has a communication with the right vertebral artery, and it seems to have an abnormal distribution on the right side of the brain, which is not matched by a corresponding distribution on the left side of the brain. Thank you very much for watching. So now let's come to the final segment. So these are the screenshots. Now take a good look. This is the accessory right vertebral artery. This is the narrow right vertebral artery. And as you can see the next, this is a bifid narrow right vertebral artery. An accessory vertebral artery right side is having a communication with the bifid narrow right vertebral artery. And it also seems to have a communication with the right common internal carotid as well as it seems to have an abnormal distribution on the right side of the brain, which is not matched by a corresponding distribution on the left side of the brain. You have to imagine, when you saw the video, you have to imagine that the patient's head is slowly spinning in a clockwise direction. So these are some screenshots. Now this is the same thing shown to you in a two-dimensional time of light. Small gradient recall, equi-position MRE. Please take a close look. Remember that this is the right side and this is the left side. So this is the right vertebral artery. And as you can see, the right vertebral artery is a gentleman with up to a third demonstration, two-dimensional narrow right spot gradient recall equi-position. Straight away you can notice that the right vertebral artery is distinctly narrow compared to the vertebral artery. And as the slices move up, we notice that there's an accessory vertebral artery on the right side, which is separate from the narrow right vertebral artery. And as the slices move even further up, and as the right narrow vertebral artery is moving towards the left vertebral artery, we will notice that the narrow right vertebral artery has now become a biped right vertebral artery. And as the slices move even further up, we will notice that the biped portion is united with the accessory vertebral artery, while the right vertebral artery divides the narrow right vertebral artery. And here we see the beginning of the grounded circulation. Okay. So these are, again, the screenshots. Now, what I'm trying to focus is what was the cause, what was the diagnostic problem. This patient, remember, he had presented with a left-sided lower motor neuron and his lower face palsy. So we are trying to establish that. Okay, so these are screenshots of what I showed you just now. As you can see, this is the narrow right vertebral artery. This is the narrow right vertebral artery. And you can see that it is an accessory right vertebral artery here. So we did a two-dimensional time of flight. Spot-brain-required acquisition of the heriotic circulation also. Just to make sure what was the problem. Take a quick look at this video. This is the fourth week of the series, two-dimensional time of flight, spot-brain-required acquisition. Focus on what we showed you just now. So I think the right side is still narrow, as we mentioned earlier. And now we can see that they've been right in front of the visor artery, and the grounded side is in the grounded gap. The beef is part of the femoral bone. Now the grounded side is entering the military near Fossa. The grounded side is in the camera's side. Here's the grounded side. This is the community we've been in. Now the grounded side is in the center part. We can see the posterior vertebral artery is pointing out the circular peduncles. And the grounded artery is dividing into the middle circular artery. It's dividing the lateral fissure of the cilgis and the anterior circular artery in the nostril fissure of the brain. Here we can see the negative joint anterior, middle and posterior circular arteries, which are novel. Thank you very much for watching. So basically what we did was we traced even the grounded circulation and we found that the entire grounded circulation is novel. The middle circular artery, the anterior circular artery, or A1, A2, A3, M1, M2, M3, M4, and the P1, P2, P2A2B and P3, P4 were novel. And so the basic problem was what was the diagnostic problem? How did the patient develop this left-sided, low-motor neuron fissure pass? So anyway, we put the patient on ICU, we put the patient on statin, and his vision truly improved in the next 24 hours. And we discharged him and we advised him to take a lifestyle and modify the lifestyle. And what we did was he was free from neurological deficit. You see, isolated vertebral artery stenosis is a well-documented entity and the literature is full of them. Subcortical infarcts with transient ischemic attacks is also very well known. Multifarct dementia is also well-documented. But this was a case of a narrow, a biphen, right-vertical artery, an accessory right-vertical artery. He had multiple subcortical lacuna infarcts, lacuna these less than 5mm, 3-4mm more on the right side, and he had corticotrophy without dementia. He was a 46-year-old man and he had a fresh episode of left-sided facial weakness. So from what we have established now, we found that he did not have any large result disease. His parotids were all right, his ACA, his MCA, his PCAs were all right, all the four parts of MCA, four parts of PCA, three parts of ACA. But he did have accurate infarcts, so he did have small result disease and he did have more of them on the right side. As we saw in the first pictures, there's a fast gradient recall echo-equisition images. Now what we postulated was that perhaps the normal right-vertical circulation, right-vertebral artery, biphen right-vertical artery, accessory right-vertical artery with its abnormal communication may have been a cause of this more problem on the right side and this fresh episode may have been an episode of a fresh episode of small muscle disease. And that may explain the left-sided patient's findings. He obviously did not have any evidence of embolism or averaging strokes. So these are my extra reviews and thank you very much for watching and if you have any questions or comments, I'll be happy to answer them. Thank you very much.


Hey everyone my name is Angelica with Smoke Cartel and today we are going to be talking about the Dip Devices Every vaporizer. So this is a vaporizer that is really cool in that it has different attachments. As we all know the cannabis industry is a very fast growing industry, there's lots of new technologies being made every single day and it can be frustrating to keep up with them. That's why Dip Devices made the every. This is a device that can do every thing. Whatever kinds of new ways of vaping that people are coming up with you'll be able to use this. Currently the starter kit comes with three attachments. One is the vapor tip attachment right here that allows you to sip up your concentrates directly from the source. It also comes with an attachment that can be used with 5-10 threaded cartridges and those little rectangular heat juice pods that everyone seems to love nowadays. You turn the device on by pressing this button five times fast and then to change the temperature you just press three times fast. Once you attach an attachment to the battery like so it will show the current battery level. When you heat it up you just simply press and hold and you can see the tip there get red hot. All in all the every is a cool little device that will evolve as the industry evolves. Check it out on our website SmokeCartel.com.


A major El Nino may give us a taste of a 1.5 degree Celsius world. Global temperatures are expected to rise, and extreme weather events are more likely. This could have a serious impact on our health, including malnutrition, heat-related deaths, infectious diseases and worsening mental health. We need to take action. Early prediction of the El Nino has given us time. We can limit these catastrophic health effects if we put health at the center of El Nino preparedness and response.