The regional dimensions of Israel's genocidal war on Gaza majorly escalated on Monday when Israel attacked an Iranian consulate in Damascus in Syria. Two commanders of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps were among those killed in the attack. Now diplomatic buildings are afforded protections under the Vienna Convention and the attack has been widely condemned both across the region and internationally, including by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres. On Tuesday, the attack was discussed at a meeting of the UN Security Council. We go to Abdul for more details. Abdul, thank you so much for joining us. So quite a few tense days in West Asia as a whole starting with that attack on the brutal attack on an embassy, a diplomatic head care, a diplomatic office in the Syrian capital Damascus, followed by a chorus of condemnation. Now on Tuesday we had the UN Security Council session as well. Maybe could you first take us to the attack itself, what we know about that and then we'll come to the UN Security Council session. Well Prashant, on Monday Israel carried out an airstrike inside Damascus. You can say the diplomatic area where most of the embassies and other foreign offices are located. And in that attack, Iranian consulate building was hit in which at least seven Iranian officials, including two top generals of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps were killed and six other Syrian citizens were also killed. This is of course, was a part of Israel's, you can say military campaign which is going on for a decade over a decade now, but it has increased post October 7 war in Gaza. Of course, Israel has not claimed the responsibility yet, but various other sources have confirmed that this is Israelis were responsible. And on basis of that attack, there was a special session called, of the UN Security Council called to discuss it, because this amounts to violation of international conventions and international law which basically provides immunity to all the diplomatic buildings and diplomatic enclaves from all such kind of attacks even during the days of the war. And this is a clear violation of all those conventions and laws. Right, Abdul in this context, what are some of the arguments that came up during the Security Council session? Well, during the session which was called by Russians and of course supported by other members like China and Iran, in which primarily two things have been discussed. One of course the UN Security General and other officials expressed condemnation to what Israel did because of course, as I said before, this amounts to violation of the international law and violation of the diplomatic immunity, which most of the diplomats are, all the diplomats are subjected to. But at the same time, there was a criticism on the line that this is basically a provocation carried out by Israel, not only violating the UN Charter and violating the Syrian sovereignty, but also an attempt to basically escalate the war which is going on in Palestine. This can lead to reactions and counter reactions which can spread to the region and which can create a regional war. And that's what the position was taken by Russians. Iranians also said the same thing and they demanded that there should be an action by the United Nations Security Council against Israel's repeated provocative acts inside Syria. Of course, they also linked it with Israel's repeated violation of the United Nations Security Council resolutions, particularly the resolutions related to the ceasefire in Gaza, and they demanded a punitive action against Israel. But of course, if you see the responses from the US claiming that they do not yet know whether the building which was targeted was a diplomatic building or not, if it was a diplomatic building, if it was Iranian consulate, they condemn the act. But since they do not know, they do not want to formally condemn Israel. Similar things were repeated by its allies like UK and France. In fact, they blamed Iranians for inviting attack from Israeli inside Damascus. And that led to a division of, you can say, the members of the United Nations Security Council, but other members condemned the act and demanded punitive actions against Israelis. Right. Abul, and finally, how do you sort of see this latest bombing specifically? What does it mean for the escalating tensions in the region as a whole? We talked about this on various occasions. The fact that the Israeli offensive on Gaza has not stopped with Gaza, despite the catastrophic toll, it has actually escalated to the entire region as a whole. Well Prashan, this is nothing less than a provocation for further escalation. And as we have discussed earlier, Israeli government at this moment wants to escalate the war and does not want to end it, despite the United Nations Security Council resolution for ceasefire and other pressures. Primarily, not only because there is a stake, Netanyahu government's survival is at stake, but also because escalation of war would invite greater involvement from the U.S. and so and so, which is not there so far. And therefore, Israel is using every opportunity to provoke the war. So the attack in Syria, despite the warnings, is basically deliberate. You can link it with the recent attacks on the international aid workers inside Gaza. Despite knowing everything, every detail about involvement of foreign activists in the aid delivery, Israel chose to basically attack those aid workers. So there seems to be a deliberate attempt to basically target multiple centers so that the war escalates and more and more players are involved in the region. And there is no other explanation at this moment, which basically because this cannot be an accident that one after the other international regional centers are being targeted and even international players are being targeted by Israel. Thank you so much, Abdul for that update. Our next segment is about the perennially controversial pandemic treaty. Another round of negotiations failed recently and there are questions about whether a draft will be ready for adoption at the World Health Assembly in May. Now to remind our viewers, this treaty seeks to institutionalize the lessons from the COVID-19 experience so that the world may be ready if a new pandemic breaks out. Now the only problem is that the richer countries and the poorer countries have very different ideas of what lessons we should learn. Richer countries have been reluctant to accept provisions which would ensure better equity and sharing of resources and funding for public health. We go to Jyotsana to see why these negotiations failed and what lies ahead. Jyotsana, every few weeks we seem to come back to the discussions around the pandemic treaty and there seems to be negative news quite often and yet again another round of discussions has failed. So could you give us a bird's eye view of sort of why these negotiations failed and what are the factors that contributed? Yeah, I mean we talk about it often and unfortunately there is nothing new to talk about that is a sad state of affairs. So the recently concluded pandemic treaty negotiations which actually lasted for 10 days. Again this seemed to have failed and I would say failed because we do not see what we have actually seen is that the text has broadened. It has only added more and more numbers of pages. Though I mean if the negotiations proceed in general the pages become leaner and thinner because then you are arriving at consensus and extra text gets goes out of the negotiations. But that is not happening and that is because the developed countries are not letting the negotiations go forward. There are things which developing countries have clarified in as many words that they will not accept or what they want and those issues the developed countries especially the US are just not taking on board. And again I would say the entire thing of access and benefit sharing is something that developed countries are holding on to. They are making it obligatory on everyone especially the developing countries to give data free of cost, put it in public domain about pathogens, newly emerging pathogens etc. But they are not saying that they will share monetary or non-monetary benefits with the developing countries for all of this. And it will cost money because surveillance costs money. So it is not that it is coming free of cost for anyone but then there is no corresponding benefit that the countries seem to be getting developing countries. For example they are also saying that if we actually talk about equity then what we need is and when I say non-monetary compensation or non-monetary benefits that you give us the technology to produce the vaccines and medicines and other tools during a pandemic because we saw that there was definitely lack of all of this which led to a lot of deaths and other sorts of devastation. So the developed countries are not accepting these. There are still concerns about intellectual property and the kind of things that exist in R&D. There is a major concern again throughout the text where a lot of things are still obligatory and sorry where things are voluntary by the people and the developed countries and the pharma companies to give and not mandatory. So till we do not have a language to make it obligatory on people to share information and not impose intellectual property barriers and many other issues. Till it is not obligatory till it is only voluntary it won't work. We saw voluntary mechanisms did not work during COVID they simply did not work. So we are standing in the same place and so that is where we are but if you talk about next steps what are the next steps in the next few months. So because these negotiations failed the WHO has said that based on these negotiations a text will be put in the public domain by 18th of April in English and translated versions later and there will again be negotiations starting end of April which will go till 10th of March before the World Health Assembly which starts late in May. So Joseph in this context I think there's also been a certain set of demands or proposals by civil society groups regarding the financial aspect of this pandemic treaty. What is the money involved? How can it be raised? Or rather how can for instance developing countries benefit in this context? Could you tell us a bit about that? Yeah so there is a group of countries led by Indonesia which is called the group of equity and one of their major demands is about talking about equity in financial aspects during a pandemic also. So they are saying the fund whichever fund is created for the pandemic the WHO's member states should have the control over it and they should monitor it. And they have to say it because at the level of UN they are talking about having a fund which actually be hosted by the World Bank where the member states do not have much of a say. It has a very different structure. WHO is more democratic in that fashion or even the G20 a group of 20 those countries they are also asking about talking about a pandemic fund. But again it is not with the WHO and we know that every country's capacity is not same when we talk about G20 it is extremely I mean the power there is held in our hands of certain countries the developed countries. So to make it more democratic it will be good to have that fund being monitored by the WHO which is led by member states. So that is one but there is also a larger understanding within the civil society when it comes to financial matters. For example what we saw during COVID is that something that could have given more money in the hands of the developing countries especially the LDCs the least developed countries say in Africa and many others. That could have been done by cancelling their debts the World Bank cancelling their debts and the IMF and many other such mechanisms. So that should also become inbuilt when we talk about the pandemic also having a better global text regime could help. The other thing is that even in the pandemic they are talking about some sort of financial mechanism without exactly spelling out what does that mean and how will we go about it. So all of these things should be taken care of and a robust equitable mechanism of funding should be developed which if just we talk about it in very very simple terms it would be a differentiated responsibility. Where the developed countries because of the kind of exploitative system we have across in all aspects and financial aspects the developed countries have more resources. So they should be feeding in more resources taking more responsibility at that front and a lot of the work would come from the developing countries they will share their skills. They will ensure that the production of vaccines etc would happen on their land which will make it cheaper for everybody to access. And not just for developing countries even developed countries poor people and we know about the blacks in US who did not have access to the vaccines and medicines in time. So if the developing countries could produce there would be more products available and even they would have benefited. So in all these terms so the developed countries will pool in money and which can benefit everyone across the world. So those are the proposals that have come again we are nowhere close to talking about it. In fact those people who are on ground in Geneva are monitoring and following the negotiations they say the whispers are right now. Either there will be a 20 page lean text which is quite unlikely or the negotiations will extend beyond May. And I would say yeah one of these two things should happen we should not have a bad treaty because that will be worse than having no treaty at all. Thank you so much Joseph for the update. 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Drones are priority. Ukraine seeks solutions for advantages over Russia. The development of unmanned systems is currently a priority for the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Oleksandr Siryskiy, according to his Facebook page. Technologies and technological advancements are the key to our advantage over the enemy. Unmanned systems occupy a leading position here. Therefore, the development of unmanned systems is my priority. The Armed Forces of Ukraine, my deputy hero of Ukraine, Colonel Vadim Sukarevsky, is responsible for this direction, writes Siryskiy. As the commander-in-chief emphasises, together with Sukarevsky, they are working on accelerating the implementation of technological innovations and ensuring the institutional resilience and adaptability of the designated bodies of military command of the Defence Forces. Siryskiy stresses that the Armed Forces of Ukraine, in particular, should be equipped with the most effective and modern weapons. A separate focus is on training specialists in electronic warfare, unmanned systems, automated control systems, and so on. We are seeking asymmetric solutions to gain a qualitative advantage over a numerically superior enemy. We take a comprehensive approach to planning our needs, primarily considering the current battlefield experience adds the chief commander of the Armed Forces. However, according to Siryskiy, the most important task that technologies and innovations should fulfil is to save the lives of our military personnel. The Ukrainian army already has dozens of domestically produced drones in its arsenal. This includes not only unmanned aerial vehicles but also surface drones. Earlier, Minister for Strategic Industries Oleksandr Kamyshin announced that Ukraine had established serial production of a domestic counterpart to the Shahed drones. According to him, over the past year, Ukraine's defence industry has grown sixfold. Minister of Digital Transformation Mikhailov Fedorov announced that Ukraine had already caught up with the Russian Federation in terms of the number of long-range Kamikaze drones. He also noted that soon there would be technologies that would allow military personnel to control drones while being far from the front lines. As President Volodymyr Zelensky stated, Ukraine aims to achieve maximum Ukrainian defence production by 2024 in its entire post-independence history. Putin scares world with World War III in the event of conflict between Russia and NATO. Russian President Vladimir Putin has said after the country's elections that should there be a conflict between Russia and NATO, the world would be one step away from World War III. Putin's response to the question of whether a full-scale conflict between Russia and NATO is possible, I think that everything is possible in today's world. However, the Russian President said it is unlikely anyone would be interested in this. It is clear to everyone that Russo-NATO conflict would be just one step away from a full-scale World War III, he added. The Russian President has said that it is no secret that fighters from NATO states are present on the ground in Ukraine, arguing that these service members are facing extremely grim prospects. Speaking to his supporters and the media after his presidential election victory, Putin stressed that Moscow is well aware of calls in the US-led military bloc to potentially deploy troops to Ukraine. We hear both French and English speech there. There is nothing good in this. First of all for them, because they die there and in large numbers, he said. French President Emmanuel Macron suggested last month that the West cannot exclude the possibility of sending soldiers to aid Ukraine. He later described Russia as an adversary, insisting, however, that Paris is not waging war on Moscow. Commenting on Macron's remarks, Putin noted that while NATO troops in Ukraine are expected to act as an auxiliary force, helping Kiev train its military, this is not much different from what mercenaries are doing there now. Russia, he added, wants France not to escalate the conflict but to help find a peaceful solution to hostilities.


Hi and welcome to the session, let's work out the following question. The question says in the given figure find the length of D e. If A e is 15 centimeter, D b is 4 centimeter and C d is 9 centimeter. Now this is a figure given to us. So let us see the solution to this question. We have A e 15 centimeter, D b 4 centimeter that is, this is 15 centimeter, this is 4 centimeter, C d is 9 centimeter and D e is something that we have to determine. First of all, let A d be equal to x. Therefore, D e will be A e minus A d that is 15 minus x. Now we know that C d into B d is equal to A d into D e. This implies 9 into 4 is equal to x into 15 minus x. This implies 36 is equal to 15x minus x square. This implies x square minus 15x plus 36 is equal to 0. This implies x square minus 12x minus 3x plus 36 is equal to 0. This implies x into x minus 12 minus 3 into x minus 12 is equal to 0. This implies x minus 3 into x minus 12 is equal to 0. This implies either x minus 12 is equal to 0 or x minus 3 is equal to 0. This implies that x is equal to 12 and this implies that x is equal to 3. Therefore, D e will be 15 minus 12 that is 3 centimeter or D e will be 15 minus 3 that is 12 centimeter. So this is our answer to this question. I hope that you understood the solution and enjoyed the session. Have a good day.


O say can you see by the dawn's early light, What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming, Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight, O'er the ramparts we watched at the guylight's last gleaming, And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there, O say does that star-spangled banner O say can you see by the dawn's early light, O say does that star-spangled banner As we celebrate the promotion of Major General Christopher Lanieve to the rank of Lieutenant General, this day highlights your grace and your mercy in his life as well as your persistent calling on his life to continue to serve our army and to lead our formation at greater levels of responsibility in the most strategic setting in our world today. We ask that you would faithfully endow Chris with continued wisdom, discernment, and strategic foresight to lead as you have called him to do. We also ask that you would bless Kim as she so ever faithfully stands by his side, being the strength she has always been every single day of their marriage. And we ask that you bless their children, Caitlyn and Nick, not only his children, but soldiers of our great army, as they support their father while serving our great army and our great nation. Lord, this is the day which you have made. Let us be glad and rejoice in it, and may we forever rejoice in the incredible day that this day, as soon to be Lieutenant General Christopher Lanieve, is promoted to lead. Father, we ask this blessing in your Mr. Holy and Precious Name, amen. Well, how was everybody doing today? So it started off a little cloudy, but the good Lord shines on paratroopers. And I do believe we have well in excess of two, three thousand foot ceilings, maybe a four-knot breeze. So, Chris. Cleared hot the jump, sir. Cleared hot. What do you think, Ricky? You ready to go? Well, thanks to everybody for being here today. What a great day and we're going to honor team Lanieve. I know General Ellison is probably en route. Keith Kellogg, we're yet. Sir, thanks for being here. Great to see you again. And for all the other folks that have been here, I do want to recognize our director of the army staff. And for those that haven't figured out, Laura is the finest director that we have on the army staff. She is simply amazing. But for all the other army folks that came out, thanks so much. So promotion to Lieutenant General, I'm going to talk about it here in a little bit, but it's a big deal. It's the first time you actually get an appointment. Your last promotion was to two-star. But here's what I would tell you. The job that you just gave up, and this is why I'm going to thank you up front, the job you just gave up is the best job you'll ever have. So everything you do from here, it's for free. Did he tell you that part of it? He did. I'm well aware. Okay. Well, thank you doubly. Thank you. But it's about service, sacrifice, giving back. And thanks for doing this. You didn't have to. I remember General Murray told me many years ago when you walk off that field at Fort Liberty, Fort Bragg, just keep going, never look back because it'll never get any better. Well, five years later, probably hadn't got any better. But again, thanks for doing this. But I do want to start with Kim. I didn't realize that you guys have been married for 33 years. You met at the University of Arizona. We were just talking about that. It's where I was born. So we have a little bit of, and you were also a 13 Bravo started off as a private. So private to general. Now three starts pretty amazing.  I'm going to have a quote a little so you're going to hear the goat greatest of all time. So that that's going to come out here in a little bit later. But Kim, everything that you have done for on behalf of the army and for Chris and your family, for all the people that you've touched, the lives that you've helped, the volunteering that you've done, the thousands of hours, we can't thank you enough for all of that. I think if I ever write 16 PCS moves, eight deployments, that's probably at least five or six years. And that doesn't count all the time in the field. So all counted of those 33 years, you've probably been with Chris, maybe half of that. And so you've kept the whole household running and doing all the amazing stuff. And we just can't thank you enough for agreeing to stay on agreeing to continue to now go to Korea, which is another almost hardship kind of move. But thanks for all of that. And we're blessed to have you on the team. Also because you know, it's kind of service runs in the in the in the family, but Caitlin and Nick, they're two children, one captain, one lieutenant, Caitlin is assigned to the US space ops in the first multi domain task force, working for burning Harrington and other fellow paratrooper that we all love and adore. Nick is down in the Falcons doing great stuff. He's a company XO and the White Falcons getting after it. We are still going to continue to talk. And when you get to the advanced course, your follow on him, though I know as much as you want to come back and be an all American, we'll continue to stay in touch. But thank you both for your service for raising your hand. We all came in at a time of peace. You came in at a time of war and conflict. And that says a lot about who you are and the family that you grew up in and can't thank you enough for your for your service. Chris also has a couple of his brothers here. We have Dr. Ralph and Carol and Eve from Tennessee and Dr. Matt and Dana Lenny from Pennsylvania, both doctors. So Chris, I'm not sure you and I went off the rails, but is that what it was? Where's the law enforcement guy you were talking about earlier that's been in Arizona, kept you out of jail for four years. Sir, what's your name? What's your name, sir? Well, thanks for being here. Thanks. And you are clearly the reason why Chris is still in uniform today. And if you want to tell us all some stories a little bit later, no, sir, we're all a game. But thanks for everybody else that's here because there's a lot of friends and family that have been part of team Lynn Eve and they did not get here alone. A lot of the mentors and the friends that are here, none of us get here alone. But thanks to everybody else that has done that. Let's talk a little bit about Chris. I've known Chris for a long time, but I'm going to tell a couple of stories in particular one about 6th January and one about Sudan that was just remarkable.  He has succeeded. He's done well. He's inspired. He has motivated people. He is just one of those people when you talk inspirational leadership. He is one of those that is the epitome of it. But this is for you, Nick. So he's been light. He's been heavy. He's been airborne. He's been to Fort Hood, Fort Ord, Fort Bragg, Fort Bliss, did an ROTC assignment. So he's been on the institutional side, been on the Army staff, been to Fort Drum, been to Fort Campbell, and that doesn't count all the other schools that are in there. So he's served in just about every one of our military formations. He's served at the enterprise level. He served at the trade-off level. And that is one of the reasons why we're going to promote him to three-star because of his background, what he's done, and his amazing career. But probably what most sets him apart, beyond all the commands that he had, is he wanted probably our Army's premier trainers. We chose him to be the commander of Ops Group at the Joint Readiness Training Center, and we also chose him to command 7th ATC over in Europe. Outside of the National Training Center, now the up-and-coming JPMRC out in the Indo-Pacific, when you have those two back-to-back assignments, there's not anything in the world that's going to make you a better trainer than what he was able to do there. And so for that, when you look at what everything is going on, I'll talk about where he's headed here to Korea, but it absolutely sets him up, not only to be able to train our forces to make sure that they are ready to go, but our partners that are over there in South Korea as well. So we absolutely made the right choice in ensuring that you could be able to do this. So a couple of stories. So for those that want to flash back to 6th January, a couple of years ago, when we had a little bit of chaos here in the Capitol, people forget that over the course of seven days, we brought into the National Capital Region 26,000 National Guardsmen from 50 states and all four territories. You couldn't probably do that with an active duty division. Chris Lanieve was our operations director inside the G357 at the time, and he was at the center of all of that. Him and Abat, would you call him, the band of eight Mary men that were down in the National for that entire time. And we stayed at that 26,000 level for several months to make sure that the Capitol was going to be okay. But he was the one, he was the heart, he was the soul, I was the joint staff at J3 at the time, and so I got to watch it. And he was the one that single-handedly almost made sure that our Capitol was going to be safe during that timeframe. And so well done on that particular endeavor. The other one that comes to mind, again, watching this from afar on the joint staff, when Sudan began to fall apart, I think probably if you count back four or five years, you know, in the history of the 82nd Airborne Division, there's been a lot of close to no notice deployments, but there's been more in the last five or six years now than we've ever seen in the history of the 82nd Airborne Division. So when Chris was in command of the 82nd, Sudan was falling apart. AFRICOM was doing what they needed to do to make sure that that situation was there. But when 18th Airborne Corps, the 82nd and our National Mission Force showed up to be able to deal with that particular problem, that's when we knew everything was going to be okay. Chris and C.D. Donahue and that entire enterprise single-handedly after we got folks out of the embassy, it was planes, trains and automobiles for buses. We had to move them from the center of the country to a port, get on another port or on a boat, get them to another port. And you want to talk about a dog's breakfast, which you guys made it look easy at least from this level.  And I can't thank you enough for everything that you did there. There was a whole bunch of other things that he did while he was in command. In addition to taking, you know, flash forward a little bit prior to that, I think you were the only one to take command in overseas, correct? Even when Ridgway and Gavin swapped out, didn't they? That's the only other time. That's the only other time? Sure. But when he took command, it was right after February-March timeframe of 2022. And we know we surged at the time, we surged the rest of 5th Corps, the 82nd, two-fold divisions, three additional brigades over there. And in that, Chris switched out with Chris Donahue, who then went up and took 18th Airborne Corps. So well done there. So what's up with the Pittsburgh? I know you're from Pittsburgh, but there's a couple of data points in here in terms of those that came in in your year group, a little over 5,000, those that are going to be three stars, something about you probably had a higher chance of becoming a three-star other than the Steelers going to the Super Bowl. Is there any truth to that? Oh, Laura, we got another Steeler fan right here. Hurtful and churrilous, sir. Donahue is not here, you guys would be gang Russian, it would be all over for me. Anyway, but the only reason why I bring that up is kind of going back to the importance of three-star. You really are figuratively and literally going to work for free between now and the rest of the time you're in uniform. The other thing that's significant about it is we don't promote people to three-star unless they have four-star potential. It's not to say that you'll be a four-star, but if you're going to promote somebody to be a three-star on the United States Army, that means that you've got four-star potential. It's also an appointment. If you come out of your job for more than 60 days, guess what?  You have to go through a process at the back end of this thing that says, yes, I have validated this individual, has served successfully and honorably at that rank, and Congress actually gets a vote in terms of whether you're going to be able to retire at that rank. It is a big deal to get to promote it to three-star, and there's only a handful out of any given group of that 5,000 he started with. There's six of them.  As I think about Chris, when we think leaders, we talk competence, character, and commitment, and he has all those, that and many, many more. But the things that always come to me is I think about Chris and all the things that he has done. It's compassion, a genuine love of soldiers and humility. That's the three that really rise to the top as I think about you and who you are as a person and as a leader. So after 34 years, and I don't think that counts your enlisted time, that's probably a little bit on top of that.  You ready? Yes, sir. Okay, let's do it. Publish your orders after we get them up here. Would the Leneve family please join General Mingus and Major General Leneve in front of the flags? Please remain seated during the publishing of the orders. Attention to orders, the President of the United States has proposed special trust and confidence in the patriotism, valor, fidelity, and abilities of Christopher C. Leneve. In view of these qualities and his demonstrated potential for his responsibility as a federal promoter from Major General to Lieutenant General by order of the Secretary of the Army. Replacing the jacket rank is Major General Leneve Spouse, Kim, and General Mingus. Replacing the epaulets are his daughter Captain Caitlyn Leneve and his son, First Lieutenant Nick Leneve. You got it right. Presenting his garrison cap is Caitlyn and Nick. For those that have never seen how stars work, the ones on the epaulet, the stars point towards the head, the ones on the hat, or the head gear they point up. So we probably need to turn that around. I didn't mean to call you out. I apologize Caitlyn. That was not scripted. Just practice for you someday. General Mingus will now present promotion certificate to Lieutenant General Leneve. I think most understand the significance of the oath. We try to, most promotion ceremonies and most events like this to kind of reaffirm the oath and what it stands for. We're one of the few institutions, organizations as a profession that take an oath to an idea. They take an oath to the Constitution of the United States, not an individual, not a person in office, but it is to an idea, and the idea is that which our country is all about. It starts with our profession and what that profession is all about, our values and our ethics. It's about leaders that have, that I talked about, character, competence, and commitment, and organizations that have a climate, culture, and identity that transcends from private to general. And that's what this oath is all about. And so as I reread and Chris reaffirms his oath, I'd ask you to quietly inside reaffirm it yourself, state your name, Army of the United States, Constitution of the United States, against all enemies born and invested, against all enemies born and invested, that I'll bear true faith, I'll bear true faith, and allegiance to the same, and allegiance to the same, that I take this obligation freely, I take this obligation freely without any mental reservation, without any mental reservation, or purpose innovation, or purpose innovation, and that I will well and faithfully, that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties, discharge the duties of the office on which I'm about to enter. I'm the office upon which I'm about to enter. So help me God. So help me God. Right here. All right. Thank you, General Mingus. Ladies and gentlemen, Lieutenant General Christopher C. Laney.  And it's this terrible thing she's given us. But I'll end up looking just like her in a couple of minutes. Thank you all for coming. First and foremost, I want to thank God for being so faithful and truly knowing the path that I'm supposed to go on, even whenever I thought he was absolutely crazy. Many times I thought about doing something else, anything else. And for whatever reason, he's kept me in. And I just really thank him. Sir, I've worked in the building three times. I know how hard and time consuming your job is. As the OD, I spent a lot of time in your office. So one, you're welcome for getting you out of the building. Thank you. Thank you for taking the time today. It's special being promoted by, you know, somebody like General Mingus. But in this audience today we have a grouping of former All-American Sixes. And there's, I know General Nicholson later, but it's just amazing to be part of that club, especially with a Hall of Famer back here, General Kellogg. General Nicholson is a Hall of Fame. And we got a future Hall of Famer. It's our major All-American nine. Lamarque Nules will be inducted this year. So it's just awesome to have just heroes to take part in this. So that, I know how hard it is to get out of going to. Thanks for coming and for for just a team across the board. Just mean so much, Trevor. Remember years ago, we were in CGSC and you said in the light course, you said, you were talking about the division. I was like, hey, what division are you talking about? You were right and I was wrong. So awesome. You and your wife are amazing examples for selfless service. So I've got a former star major of the Army's wife here. He's been such a great friend of Kim. Thanks for coming today. It really means a lot. And I just saw you in Korea. We just passed each other in the hallway. So it's great. Thanks for you and your husband coming. I got a lot of friends here today. A lot of old friends and a lot of new friends and really signifies really the journey. Brian Seastone knew me before I even joined the Army. Thank God I knew him because I probably wouldn't be able to get in the Army without him. I have Barry Jones. We stood right next to each other in the basic course. I got you through Ranger school. Probably not you graduated before me. But you, Keith Pellegrini and it's just awesome to have you here. Pete, always faithful. Just those deep conversations about God in the box and how we ended each rotation has always been a joy to be friends with you and your family. Brian, you've never missed anything. Thanks for coming. Really absolutely appreciate it. LaMarque and your wife. So Sergeant Major Knowles not only getting inducted to the Hall of Fame. He should have been inducted a long time ago because he was my battalion Sergeant Major and got me through that. Just an awesome honor to be friends with you for life and everything. Marty, having you here and the new Dr. Schweitzer just graduated five days ago, six days ago, something like that. It's pretty awesome to have.  Eric and Todd Brose in command of the mighty Falcon Brigade. Ricky Taylor getting ready to go off here on a joint assignment that will be the cog. Mighty Loose. I can't believe you're still here. If you're OD there's something going on in the world you're supposed to be at. So it's just awesome to have you here. Team Six. Raise your hands. Team Six, you all know who you are. I've been Team Six, you know, prior, present. Thanks for coming up. It really means a hell of a lot to me. My brother is going to miss you. Yeah. So there's a reason we did this here today. There's a stump over here right over there that when my kids would come, when we were stationed here and the kids would come in and out, we'd always end our runs.  And we'd had some great conversations at the stump about life. And we always ended up there. It didn't matter if it was Caitlyn that came in or Nicholas that came in. We always ended up on that stump. Matter of fact, in that stump, real small ceremony during COVID, I got promoted to two star. They couldn't come for that, but they were able to watch it long distance. That stump in this field just is incredible to look over. A city that is so great that sometimes it can prevent so much pain at other times, but it's what we all serve. So that's why if you were all wondering why we would do it out on this beautiful field, that's why. Okay, I'll try to get through this. So Matt and Ralph, Carol, thanks for coming. Means a lot.  It's been, I think we were talking about this last thing, it might be about five years since you and I've seen each other last. You need a haircut. But it's great to have you here. We had a big joke in the family. He's the war hero. He was a doctor dead storm. So he always told me, hey, you don't need to do this. We only need one war hero in the family. So it's great. And thanks for what you two represent to me. It's good to the kids. So I got, it's so kind of, it's pretty cool. I gave you two story about my kids, but just to know just how proud I am. The other day, Caitlin wanted to show me something at her work. I was a visitor in Seattle. And the things she asked me first just kind of took me back by surprise. And I realized, you know, how old I actually am. Before she said, hey, I can take you to this, she wanted me to send her my security clearance to know what level it was. She can see if you know, she can show so proud of what you've done in your career and what you're working on and on the cutting edge of technology that you're at. But more importantly, the leader that you are and the compassion that you show and the love that you have for your soldiers and the love they have for you. They are always talking about you. Everywhere I've gone to visit you, whether it's Alaska or Italy or now in Seattle, your soldiers always talk about you. And it's awesome. Absolutely awesome. Nick, he told me a long time ago, he's never going to join the army. I was like, great, I got one, always have an air and a spare. And he was going to be the air, you know, because I figured he'd make a lot of money to be able to support us. And then he joined the army. You never, you never know pride that you have in kids like I have in these two. But the boss talks about the Sudan mission, the officer that walked me to the plane that was running the operations at Green Ramp that night with my son. Now, what he said to me as we were closing the door was, don't leave me. A couple of months later, I had just an incredible opportunity. He jamped me and then he threw me out of an aircraft. And then we've got to jump together, you know, a little bit after that, which is actually a pretty interesting experience. He told me I fell pretty fast. So I've been on a diet ever since. It's been absolutely awesome, not only to be your father, but to also serve with both of you and to see the passion that you have. The same thing I said about Caitlyn, I've heard firsthand about Nick. And it's not easy being in the same division. We didn't want it to work out that way, but it just did. And every time somebody talked about Nick, he always told me about how great of a leader he was and how much he took care of the paratroopers, which says a hell of a lot about you as a human being. Kim, thanks for saying yes. You didn't have to. The army has been ups and downs for us. This last couple of months have been probably the hardest that we've ever gone through with just the changes and everything. But just the energy that you have for this next assignment and the excitement that you talk about, one more adventure, maybe another adventure we're going to go on, has kept me grounded. You've always been there for the kids. We call her hashtag pit crew because she takes care of everything. You are the most amazing best friend that I could possibly have asked for. So thank you for everything you've done for me. So for everybody else, God bless you. God bless the army, sir. Again, thank you for this. And thank you for the weather holding out. Green light, go. Here we go. Thank you, General Lee. Ladies and gentlemen, please stand and join in the singing of the Army Song led by Staff Sergeant Keaton Webb. The words to the Army Song can be found on the back of your program. March along, sing a song with the army of the free. Count the brave, count the true, who have fought to victory. Proudly proclaim, first to fight for the right and to build the nation's might. And the army goes rolling along. Proud of all we have done fighting till the battle's won. And the army goes rolling along. And it's high, high, hey, the army's on its way. Count off the cadence loud and strong. For where we always know that the army goes rolling along. Ladies and gentlemen, this concludes today's ceremony. We are invited to congratulate Lieutenant General Lanieve and his family in the receiving line. Thank you for attending.


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Today we are opening the first 10 Yu-Gi-Oh sets ever made. What's up guys, we're back with another epic video. Today we are opening the first 10 Yu-Gi-Oh sets ever made. Some of these are actually first edition, including the Invasion of Chaos Magicians Force, but first we have a giveaway. I'll be giving away this box of first edition Phantom Rage. All you have to do is like this video, be subscribed and let me know your favorite pack from the first 10 or favorite card from the first 10 sets. And now a word from our sponsor. This video is sponsored by HelloFresh. If you're like me, you're always trying to find somewhere to eat, but going out to eat or ordering food for delivery can be really expensive. And not to mention time consuming. This is where HelloFresh comes in. HelloFresh offers a wide variety of quick and easy recipes, including 20 minute meals, easy cleanup and low prep options. You can even increase your HelloFresh box serving so you can have leftovers for the next day. 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This should be a decently long opening compared to some of our other videos. So sit back, relax, enjoy it. Let's start off with a grand creators before we get into those top 10. Let's see if we can pull some of those cards that we need for the whatchamacallit engine. Whatever it's called. What is that? What is that thing called? The Brave Engine. That's what we wanna pull. We also have a few ghosts from the past because guess what guys? We are less than two months away from ghosts from the past too.  I cannot wait for it. If you guys are excited about that, let me know in the comments because I am extremely excited. We got Baby Rock, we got Metaphox Counter, Time Thief, what would be better than pulling a ghost just to get ready for ghosts? All right, Dragoonity Knight, that is not a ghost. Let's do one more. Let's do a Battles of Chaos and then let's hop into one of the 10 sets. I don't know what order we're gonna go in actually. I think it'll be fun. Doll Happiness, Silver Vine, Sword Soul Strife, I should say. Dynamorphia Stealth Buttery, yeah, very nice. Which one should we start with? So we have the Dark Crisis Blister. We may actually start with that just cause it takes up a lot of room. We have all of these epic packs to choose from. A lot of them being first edition. So I don't know. I think I'm gonna go with the Dark Crisis first. So we're gonna rip this blister. We only had blisters for this one so we gotta do it. I didn't wanna open blisters but since we need a Dark Crisis, I figured let's go ahead and open it. RIP Blister, let's see what we can do. Dark Crisis, first edition. Make sure everything's recording. We don't miss anything crazy because we could pull the Exodian Necrosis in here. We could pull a lot of really cool stuff. So let's do the pack trick. Let's do it. Let's go like this. We got O'Jama Green. Love to see him. First edition O'Jama Green. Got Token Thanksgiving. Thankful for them tokens. We got a Morale Booster. There's the Warrior Digreffer. Dark Scorpion, check the yellow. Wasn't he in like an OTK or something weird like that? Archfiend's Roar. Thousand Needles. I used this on Auction Series. That might actually be a spoiler for next week. Shadow Knight Archfiend. Keldo and will we pull a foil? No, a Dark Scorpion combination. This was a skill drain. That's like a $40 first edition rare, which is pretty insane. All right, so we are starting off slightly slow, but it is fun anyway to open this stuff up. So I think this is a two packer like this. Let's do that. Armory Call. We've got the Exo Sister. Virtual World Hime Nyan Nyan. Castile Sky Blaster. XC's Universe. Okay, just an XC's Universe. Grand Creators has been rough to us. If you did miss it though, we did pull a collector rare. I think next we're gonna, let's go into Legacy of Darkness. We have opened a lot of Legacy of Darkness. So let's do this one early on, since you guys have seen a bunch of this. Let's save the really epic ones for the end. In here, this is Unlimited, but it's original. So I mean, they never did redo a reprint of this set, which is sort of weird actually that they didn't. But let's see what we can get. Experience Invitation. Can we get that secret rare? Take an unlimited secret rare, be down. We got a Bubble Crash. I don't know, Baltic Knight, very nice. Who's that Stark Soul? Super Rejuvenation. Otahime. Bad reaction to Smoky. Fusion Sword, Merisame Blade. We've pulled this a few times. This is not a lot of packs in terms of numbers, so hopefully we will actually pull something good, but we can't really guarantee it. The Ghost is gonna be in the back every time, right? So we got the Galaxy Eye Cypher Blade. Splashman, Mage, not Magician, Sunsheet Shadow. Galaxy Eye Cypher X Dragon. Wait, that was five cards? That was, wow. Okay, I had no idea what was going on there. I thought we totally had another card and we didn't. So let's go to Battles of Chaos. We're still in that case where I have not pulled something, so we're gonna do this. So that could be Dark Magician, not should, but could be Dark Magician, so we'll do it like that. DDD Head Hunt, Dogmatacobney, Ghost Siren, Neroi. Leaf, leaf play, play, little, little, little, little. I don't know what I'm saying. All right, Diplo. Sorry, that was a disaster of a pack. We do have a couple of Phantom Braids, so if you guys wanna win that booster box, you guys can do that. I wanna pull the Zeus, obviously. Any Starlight is insane, so let's see if we can do that. That would be pretty nuts if we did that. UA Player Manager's in here. Tribe Brigade Rugal's in here. This is a Tribe Brigade card. I'll take that out, I guess. Leaf, you've got Mite and Clash, Raiders Unbreakable Mind. Go out in this Reptilefon Grithis. Okay, I don't know if you say that like that, but that was a long name. Arcana Reading and Virtual World Hime Nyan Nyan. This got a reprint. I think that's a decent card. All right, let's do a Battles of Chaos or a Grand Creator, sorry, and then we are going to open up the next pack. So we'll do this. Can we get a Collector Bear? Maybe, let's go. Injector Hopper. We did pull one out of this case, so that's a great sign. An emergency teleport. Exo Sisters. Man, these Exo Sisters really love me. It's crazy. The struggle has been real to speak today, though, so let's go into next. We're gonna save those. We could do that. How about Labyrinth of Nightmare First Edition? No, yeah, let's do that. Labyrinth of Nightmare First Edition. This was $4.99. Can you believe that at some point? First Edition pack. That is pretty awesome. I wish we could go back into those days, guys. That'd be pretty fun. Okay, Labyrinth of Nightmare, there's a lot of great options here. Let's try and get a Secret Rare, Gemini Elf. Soul Pure, I would love a Magic Cylinder as well, because that's one of my favorite cards as a kid. I have the IOC, I think it's IOC version from the Special Edition. Flying Fish. Crimson Century. Summoner of Illusions. The Bonheimer. Yeah, check that guy out. The Unfriendly Amazon. She's not friendly. Wait, is that a she? Gotta be Amazon, right? They gotta be, I don't know. Swordsman of the Landstar and Spirit Message in it. If it was the L, we might as well have not opened the rest of the packs because you guys know what this does. All right, so far, nothing. But there's a long way to go, ladies and gentlemen. Let's do this. Oh, we didn't do the, oh well. If this is Dark Magician at the front, then we win. Submarine, Diplos, Ice Jade, Brute, Stall Monster, Dimension Conjurer, Fire Opal Head. Oh, a Libro Mansor Geek Boy. That's a secret rare. It's not a great one, but it is a secret rare. We will take that. It's the first actual pull of the video. Next pack, there are kids outside, literally screaming. So it's a good thing we have this mic because I'm pretty sure there's no way you guys will hear that, but I'm literally listening to people just yell outside. So let's hopefully we'll pull something good and we can yell with them. All right, you're gonna do a whirlwind. Okay, that's not very good. We are not gonna be yelling about that one. Let's see what we should open next. I think we're gonna open up Ferranic Guardian first edition. Another one, $4.50. So Ferranic Guardian was even cheaper back then. It was even cheaper than the other ones. Even though it's actually not that bad of a set. Okay, let's go. There's nothing super iconic in it really in terms of like the anime and stuff.  Mommy, he's giant and he's got an axe. We got the vassal from Duel Links. Two ton mask, the time eater. Shape snatch, a classic. Needle sealing, this is a very good card actually. Can we get a metamorphosis or can we get a trapped dust shoe? Those are both really good. Royal Keeper, Pyramid Energy, the energy of the pyramid. And a Grave Keeper's Watcher. That thing is way off center. Check that out, very skinny at the top. Very not skinny at the bottom. Okay, next we have a Spell Ruler Reprint Pack. I was gonna say unlimited, it is unlimited but also it's a reprint pack. So let's do this. So it is gonna be the fourth card theoretically. Let's go like that. Let's see if we can get that right. We have a Dark Witch, Grave Keeper Servant. This has been a slow opening Ryuran. Let's see if we can actually pull something giant turtle. The Slot Machine, his little brother. Tall, very cool. Malevolent, Nozler. Send you the 10,000 and, or the 1,000 and, different card, and Umiruka joining the club of not pulling anything. That's fine, nothing to worry about guys. We have Phantom Rage, which we are gonna pull that Starlight Zeus. Imagine if like the big pull out of the first 10 sets ever was a Starlight Zeus. Like out of a random Phantom Rage pack, that would be pretty awesome. Infernity Suppression, we got a one hour eight. We've got the Phantom Knights of Stained Greaves. Awakening of the Possessed, Ration Raiju. Yue Libero Spiker, the Libero Spiker. Man of the Match, Awakening of the Possessed. Gagagigo Bites, alright. Bank of the Millions, man. This is really testing my ability to read and it's not going well. And we've got a Mayuten ST46. This is not guaranteed. So that actually is an ultra rare. That's nice, we will take that. Okay, next big pack. We're getting down to mostly heavy hitters at this point. I think we're gonna do Magic Ruler Unlimited. Can we pull over Linkwish? Can we pull a Blue-Eyes Tune Dragon, Serpent Knight Dragon? This might be, I think this is a retail pack. So we might not be able to get Blue-Eyes, but we'll see. Two, three, four. Can we pull something good? We've got a Egg, the Eggman. Toll. Reliable Guardian, you can rely on him. Spear Creighton, Red Archery Girl. Malevolence Nuzler, wait, didn't we just see this? I feel like we did, but we haven't. Oh, Spell Ruler, that's where it was. Ancient One of the Deep Forest, Fire Creighton. And a Horn of the Unicorn. Will we eventually hit something? That's not a rare. Ghost from the Past. It has been a slow start, but guess what? All it takes is one big pull. Now let's turn this thing around, guys. Not a ton of packs. So we're not really expecting to pull anything too crazy, but it would be nice. Again, so we've got a Gear Town. That's a decent card. Mindmull. Emergency Teleport, that's a very good one. This is pretty expensive. And a Starry Night Ceremony. Okay, that's a pull. We'll take that. We just have two more of the newer packs. Then we're gonna go with the rest of the old school packs. Let's go into the Grand Creators. Boy, let's do this. Can't we actually pull something? So far, nothing out of Grand Creators in this video. We've got a solemn strike. It's a good card. Gokie Pull. The Injector Sword. Injector Picafelina. All right, this is originally a common in flames of destruction. I learned that from the Mystery Boxes. And finally, Battles of Chaos, guys. Then we have those Epic Packs left. Can we pull something good out of this? We have Groza Tyrant of Thunder. Smile Potion. Might and Mutant. We've got the Laprewell. The Ghostric Siren. The Ghostric Treat. Epsilon. Darden. And an XC's Combine. Just a Super Air. We're onto those old packs. Please bless us with something good. All right, this is what we're down to. We have five more packs. So far, the pulls have not been great. We're gonna go into Ithero Servant here. Can we get Genzo? Unlimited Genzo would still be insane. I would like that. I think OG Unlimited Genzo. Have I pulled that? I've pulled Reverse. Have I pulled a regular one? I don't know. We have a Gamble. Cyber Falcone. Shadow of Eyes. Drill Bug. Earth Shaker. Mr. Volcano. Gradius. The Science Soldier. Where's his brother, the math soldier? And a Light Force. Sword. Wow, this has been pretty rough so far. A few packs left. We're gonna go with Metal Raiders this time. My favorite set. Even if we don't pull a foil, we can still get the Pocainio Mont. The most legendary card in the set. Let's go. And this one was $4.99 as well, I think, yeah? $4.99, yeah. Nice and cheap. That's how much I paid. $4.99 cents. Not really. All right, Mushroom Man. The Blast Juggler. He's juggling. The Rock Ogre Gratu. Labyrinth Tank. Protector of the Throne. Yeah, it's always funny that this came out before the invader of the Throne or whatever it was called in Magic Ruler. Jewry, Gummo, the Spider-Man. Destroyer Golem. Blacklin, Fire Dragon. No Pocainio. But we did get the Starman. The Hoshigen. All right, you love to see it. Still looking for a foil. Okay, I think now we go with Legend of Blue Outs because these are first edition packs. So let's go with a $4.99 Legend of Blue Eyes pack. So far, no foils out of the old packs yet. So we're just hoping for one because there's not, there's only 10. So if you think about it, the ratios, we should get maybe one to two. And right now we have got nothing. So why does this one look different? I'm gonna do this just in case that's a foil. Hopefully it is a foil. Trial of Nightmare. You love to see that one. That's very cool. If this was Trial of Hell Unlimited, that's a very, very rare card. All right, Dissolve Rock. We've got a Wasteland because it was only a certain print that it was in. Larvas. We've got the Red Medicine. Kurama. Terra the Terrible. He's pretty terrible. Dark Grey. All right, he's looking dark. He's looking great. And Dragon S. So it was the rare. That's weird that it was in that spot. Dragon S. The Wicked Knight. Okay, it's not a foil. It's just a rare. The final two packs, guys. Can we get something? Can we get anything? I think I wanna go with Magician's Force first and finish with Invasion of Chaos because we have not opened a lot of first-ed Invasion of Chaos. So it'd be fun to save that for the end. Inside of here, I don't know if this is a retail pack. I didn't check. So if it's not, we could pull Dark Magician Girl, which is insane. That would be pretty crazy. We've got an Amazonus Spellcaster. The Magical Scientist. Ah, he is magical. Okay, we're gonna pull that out. Rivalry of Warlord. It's another really good card. It's probably worth a few bucks. Great Angus. Kaiser calls just, man. A lot of floodgates in here. Amazonus Blowpiper. Gather your mind. That's what we're doing. Gathering our mind so that we can pull something good. Pigeon Holding Book of Spells and... Oh, an XYZ Dragon Cannon, Ultra Rare. We pulled a foil. Oh my goodness. And that's a really cool one. I don't think it's like the most expensive one, but it's definitely awesome. Looks like maybe we have a little ding on that corner up there. Yes, not really even a ding. Just a little bit of whitening. Man, that's a beautiful card. Wow. Ultra Rare out of a first-edition Magician's Force pack. We had all those whiffs just to pull this good one. So there's a little bit of scuffing. That's pretty common for MFC. This could probably maybe get a nine. I might send it in at some point when we have the bulk rate. That's pretty awesome. All right, we did not completely whiff. Can we go back to back to end it with Invasion of Chaos and Magician's Force first-edition? I hope so. If you guys want to see more old-school openings, make sure to like this video and let me know down below. All right. If you guys want to support the channel, make sure to check out TCG Player and eBay affiliate links and of course support the sponsors, et cetera, if you guys are interested in that kind of stuff. So here we go. Ryukoki, Invasion of Chaos, very cool. Gale Lazar, these are very off-center if you guys can see this. Hyper Hammerhead, newfound respect for this card. DD Borderline, it's like a foil version at some pack I was opening recently. Dimension Distortion, we are still recording. Nothing to worry about there. Sylphied, Fiend's Hand Mirror, can we get that Blackluster Soldier? That Chaos Emperor Dragon, can we get the Dark Magician of Chaos? Molden Zombie and final card of the opening. Fuma Shuriken, just a rare on this one, but that's okay. We got an awesome ultra rare out of Magician's Force. What an epic opening. If you guys enjoyed this old school opening, make sure to subscribe to the channel for more of this because we will be doing it in the future. Shout out to TCG Trust to Card Stone, Faux Show, Tomato Juice, Stanley and Mike Nance, Ben Migueco, Daxter, Ian Musa, Junior Marding and Anana Thai Show. Thank you guys for supporting the channel. I'll see you guys next time. Peace.


I'd like to introduce Camille Houston, a member of the Haydashbury community for many years, also my good friend and known by a lot of people, I'll have her explain as Camille Colorado. My name is Rebecca Nichols and I'm moderating this oral history for the Haydashbury Library. Camille, can you tell me a little bit about your nickname I've heard, Camille Houston? Camille? I mean Camille Colorado, excuse me. Camille Colorado was my a.k.a. when I was working in a lot of alternative organizations, when I first began doing textile work in the 70s and I was working for a lot of organizations that even though I come from a very liberal family, I wanted to be independent of them and I had a name that was based on a talent that I had which was face painting and it means Colorado, it means painted, as in Palo Colorado which is also the name of a redwood tree and a canyon in Big Sur where I have some land that's very special to me and so I went by Camille Colorado because I was doing banners for Coyote, the prostitutes rights organization and I was doing banners for Proposition W, the marijuana initiative and the Libertarian Party, enough said, and liberal and sometimes radical organizations and so I wanted to name separate from my identity as a private person. Exactly. Well it's a very sweet name but it suits you. Thank you. I want to ask you some questions about your beginnings. Your parents, your parents' names, where did they migrate from or their parents, where did they migrate from, originally, where were they from and how did you find yourself here and where were you born and did you have any brothers or sisters and children? All right. Okay. Well my father came from Austria and my mother came from then Czechoslovakia, the Czech Republic now when they were very young. Probably shortly after World War I and they met in Southern California which is where I was born and my brother, I had a brother who was two and a half years younger than me named Gilbert after his father and we lived in Southern California until I married and then I married you. What's your husband's name? My husband's name is Tom Houston and he was my childhood sweetheart. We met in the seventh grade and we married when we graduated from college. So at that point we moved to Madison, Wisconsin on a three-year National Defense Education Act fellowship and it was there that I met the San Francisco Mime Troop when they came to town with their show Oden Watermelons and the minstrel show. We were expecting one of the Mime Troop to come to our house because he had been a schoolmate of my husband's at Harvard and instead we ended up getting the entire Mime Troop because what had been planned as a lecture on the campus by Ron Davis on Barilla Theater turned into the first Dow demonstration in the country and we went to hear the lecture and it was canceled because there had been tear gassing and a riot and the band was wanted for inciting a riot and so we happened to live at the end of a dead-end street near a lake and it was a perfect place to hide out. So I ended up with the whole Mime Troop there and they gave me some beautiful posters, psychedelic posters from Wes Wilson promoting bands at the Fillmore and they told me there was an incredible art form coming across in the Haydash Berry and to visit them when we came to town and they'd give us more posters. So that was my introduction to the San Francisco psychedelic scene and then later on we moved to Baltimore to Johns Hopkins University where my husband was an associate professor and I had my only child who is a beautiful young artist named Tara Clare Houston and at that point we decided we wanted to get serious and come to California so my husband could pursue his photography and we moved to Berkeley and then very quickly into a family home in the Haydash Berry in 1971 right after my daughter's first birthday. Now this family home was in your husband's family for a while? My husband's grandmother had rented it in the thirties and they had always been renting it until we moved in and even when we moved in it had been abandoned because the neighborhood had gotten very, very dangerous and most of the relatives had died or married and moved somewhere else. And so there was this enormous beautiful flat absolutely available, it was on Page Street it still is, I still live there between Baker and Lion Street. So we moved into that house and the lady who owned the house lived upstairs in two floors we lived downstairs in two floors and the rent at that time was $125 we had 18 rooms but it was just a wonderful place. So you're telling me this was a Victorian and it was not split like many of the Victorians in the Haydash Berry. No there had only been two owners at that point. So it still is not split it is still it was built as a duplex and it's still not split. We're the third owners we bought it in 1975 when the lady who owned it who was a very close friend of my husband's family all that time finally moved out into the avenues where it was more convenient for her for her health and then we moved upstairs to that duplex. I just think that it's just so amazing historical that to find in San Francisco and in the Haydash Berry a Victorian that has not been split into four floors you know private entrances and the original design of the building to be a family home with an attic with a study with a library it still has that feeling its original stained glass turn banisters and moldings and things. It's an amazing historical building here in Haydash Berry because very few have not been split through the years because of monetary reasons or whatever. I know but the families have been very constant and many families have lived in it during that time but they have all been our personal friends so it's been like an extended family. Amazing. So you mentioned your daughter about how old is she now? She is in her 30s and she is an artist? Yes she is an artist she is in the UNICEF Permanent Children's Collection in New York City and she was she had a six person show when she was about 11 at the D Young Museum. Wow. A psychiatrist was studying talented people and the growth spectrum from children from a very early age till seven and she was one of the six students in that study. Wow. And so she had a show at the D Young Museum that was very pivotal for me because it opened up several categories that led to my future work here in the Haydash. Wow. So I'd like to ask you about some of your, I would like to ask you about some of your experience. I know you've done some work with the D Young yourself, you've had some creative inspiration and you've been around creative people and kind of what happened here in the 60s that continued through the 70s somewhat. There was a lot of the inspiration and what was going on. Some of the storefronts were empty on Hayd Street because it was such a transition but yet here we are in 2005 and children are still coming from all over the world looking for something and a lot of the people on the interviews we've done said they hoped that maybe we could make peace in our lifetime. They hoped that by loving their community and their neighbor they would show on a small scale that we could really work together and find things we agree on on common ground. And some people have told us that they've been inspired by the music. Some people were inspired by the posters on and on. You lived here and you still live here as part of the community in the Haydash area. What makes you feel comfortable to be in this community as a creative person and maybe a little bit about your walk down Hayd Street that one day inspired this idea to get more creative and actually interact with the public on a business. I'd love to hear a little bit about that on any level. Well at that point we had many people coming to our house all of the time. We had artists we were involved with a lot of music festivals and people would come and visit us and it got very hectic for me and a friend invited me to go out for coffee one day and I went up to Hayd Street and walked into a coffee house that had been an empty space a few months before when I had looked at it and tried to imagine what business I might be able to do with it. Where was this? It is in the very center of Hayd Street on the 1500 block between Ashbury and Clayton Street in the middle of the block and it had been developed with an infrastructure from recycled old pier pilings into several small shops leading on to a coffee house that had a moat around it with goldfish and a bridge. It was very romantic and imaginative and fantastic. So the time you saw this before it was empty? It had been empty. There were piles of rags. The people who were clearing it out were taking things to flea markets. Right. And it was a vast cavernous space and now there were these individual little shops, tiny shops and it all led down to this beautiful coffee house. And there was a rent sign there. And so finding my home very hectic I decided this would be a fantastic experience to have my own place to get away just a few blocks away. And I rented it from these three men who had been to India to follow the Maharishi Ji and had taken the name Haranya Loka Limited for their business operation. And they ran the cafe which was called the United States Cafe and there still is a very famous restaurant that had been there for decades called the United States Cafe in North Beach. But this was a more metaphysical concept, the United States of consciousness and love rather than the United States of America. Right. Even though it was a reference. Right. Gradually people began playing guitar there in the afternoons and one thing evolved into another until it began to be a regular nightclub. And through that I met many musicians and began doing stage clothes for them. Tourists were beginning to come back into the hate at that point. And people would come from all around the world. And so the denim jacket that I did for the denim art contest that I refer to in Levi's denim art book to a Swiss psychologist. And people came saying they'd seen my hats in Paris in London and in Hawaii because we made denim hats with pieces of recycled fabric from gowns and curtains and crochet and lace, anything we could find. We beaded them. We made beaded bracelets like this with Indian looms. That's wonderful. Now they're just coming back. Is this one of your bracelets? No. This is one that I bought last week on 24th Street. Which reminiscent of them. Totally. This was just what we were selling except we were selling ones that we made personally with designs from Indian rugs and Afghan rugs, tribal rugs and Art Nouveau designs. Do you think that a lot of your artwork that came from vintage curtains, lace, you name it, somehow had some kind of idea behind it of we're saving our environment, you know, let's use up what we have rather than cut what is not used yet. Let's use all the stuff not being used. Let's save our earth and our resources somehow. Well, Rebecca, it wasn't exactly that because it was more an act of preserving the culture in whatever pieces we were using, preserving patterns, textures, crafts that were becoming hard to find. They were almost becoming extinct. It wasn't that they were cheaper. It was that they were rarer. Right. They were more beautiful. Sometimes we would go to thrift stores in Salinas, go way out into the country to thrift stores to places where veterans from the different wars had brought back Japanese kimonos from World War II and things like that. We picked those things up. It was more of a sense of preservation and beauty. Then, of course, it was the challenge to create something beautiful from it and something that worked and clicked like you're making a painting. Textile art is an art. You then saw this sign for rent. Was it history? Did you rent the place? Yes, I rented it right there. Did you give it a name? I named it Vexilla, which is Latin for banners. I've always had a Latin classics background, so has my husband. Places on Hick Street had outrageous names. It had a history of that. I like the esoteric reference, but it also seemed heraldic that it was maybe a spearhead of the culture in some way. I did end up making banners. Ultimately, it developed into my primary work, which has been banner work. Did you bring anything with you? This is one of four banners that we were hanging from the loft at the United States Cafe. We used to project light shows, and we had these hanging from the loft, and I did four of these. Usually, the work that I did was much larger than this, but this was actually meant to be hanging this way. This set of four banners was used at one of the very early Hick Street fares. Then I had a larger banner that was stretched across the street, and that was really exciting because the wind comes down Hick Street. We had people at the tops of buildings risking their lives to try to get the lines across. That was my work at the United States Cafe, which turned then into Shady Grove. Those people began producing concerts in the park. Also, we had an interview with Joe Buck, well, Marty Ballant's father. He talked about his times of going to Shady Grove and Marty playing there and the involvement of it, and now I'm seeing through this oral history project we're getting to know what was there before and what it was. I see you brought some other pieces that you made. These pieces made for friends are pieces that are similar to what you sold in your shop. Any stories behind these? The pieces that I made, I made them custom for people. I also just explored textures and color, and they were just the available inventory at the store. Some pieces of yours were used in a display from the 66 exhibit or read in your credits. You had done some internship with the Museum of Modern Art, and that it was on your notes? The D'Yam Museum. I worked on the rainbow show at the D'Yam Museum. We basically used the skills that I incorporated into decorating the clothing and doing the inventory. The only things we sold that we didn't make ourselves were leotards and tights, and at that point it was very difficult. Clothing didn't involve leotards unless you were a dancer, and so I had to get a special contract with Danskin to be able to have the leotards, and that was pretty interesting because now you see stretched clothing all over the place, but it wasn't around in the early 70s. Right, it was all cotton. But through working on the rainbow show, I worked with women from the Rhode Island School of Design and the College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, and we did everything. We made at that point the largest quilt in the world, and all the panels we would treat differently. We would dye them, we would stud them, we would fringe them so some of them loose, some of them very tight, and we made an enormous quilt of a water lily pond that took up an entire room, and then we would make rocks and wall hangings, and it was two entire rooms of the Deion Museum. It took one season that those rooms were closed to the public to produce. What you have on right now? This is a dress that I made from a tablecloth, and this is the kind of thing that we did. We found these pieces in stores that were considered old fashioned, and you've kept the integrity of the piece because that's what you can head your arm down. That's the complete circle. The other part is that it's easy. Amazing. They were angel dresses. Angel dresses. I saw many different fabrics in the 60s and 70s. The style, it's beautiful, and you still have it. That's amazing. And these styles are still coming back. Oh, it's all retro and the best of the past, hopefully. You have some other pieces that you made? I would love to see them. Well, this is one of our hats, which is basically denim, but sometimes only a brim would be denim, and we would use different materials. Now they make them in different materials, solid, but we were playing with color and texture. This is silk screen. This is the name of my shop that still I made. This is a promotional hat. Very. It's amazing. You still have it. This is an applique from an evening gown. All different textures. This is a pull-stream material. All different textures. This is a embroidery applique. This is an old princess dress. Wow. See, that's what patchwork is. Each piece of fabric tells a story. And that's what you've done there. Another version of patchwork quilt. I would love to see something else. Have you seen this jacket yet? No, I'd love to see it. This is a jacket from my boutique. Military insignia, cords from stage curtains. The two sleeves have different cuffs. It's beautiful. Things aren't matching, but they go together. And then the cotton-venuated collar. The collar is a fur collar. A sheet skin. It's a warm jacket. Like the Air Force jackets used to have. It's beautiful. Yeah. Well, you need a warm jacket on Haight Street after five. It's beautiful. I still fit you. It's wonderful. Whoops. Here we go. Really, really beautiful. That's a beautiful jacket. Thank you. It's a museum piece. It should be in a display case. Wonderful. Wonderful. Well, the jackets were in the museum. They were in the Deion Museum. The jackets that we made for the Dan and Mark contest. Me and my partner, Martha Coleman. And they went on tour across the United States. And those are the jackets that are in the book. Levi's Dan and Mark. So it's probably not enough time to mention all the things you've made and been involved with. But I understand that you were also beyond the early 70s here and your arts and carried you in this community, worked on a lot of events in Golden Gate Park. That's part of the Haight Ashbury Golden Gate Park. And work backstage, whether you were making articles of clothing for entertainers or whether you were designing the look and putting a backdrop. Well, actually, I made the backdrops for quite a few shows with Billy McCarthy and Unity Foundation. I did the Unity Foundation banners, which would be up at every show. Often I would work with organizations like Chet Helms and Margo St. James who would do repeated concerts. And so the same banners would be used in different locations and for different events. Do you remember where the location or any of these events were or what any of the bands were that played or any of the names of the events? Well, I did banners for the Hooker's Ball, starting with the second Hooker's Ball. I did actually a custom jacket for a bail bondsman for the first Hooker's Ball. And as I was finishing it up for him to wear, I did a tuxedo jacket out of pieces of recycled denim. And as I finished the piece, he invited me to the ball. So that was my introduction to the Hooker's Ball. And I didn't have anything to wear. The ball was that night. So I used the cutout pieces that were left over from the jeans that I had cut to make his jacket, to make a very brief screen, but it worked for a Hooker's Ball. It was perfect. And that was at Longshoreman's Hall. And then the next year I did the Coyote Banner, which is a charming design done by David Wills here in the Ashbury. And he has worked with Margo for several designs. And I have interpreted his designs with actually interviewed David for the Masquerade Corporation. Compliment what he said. I did the Coyote Banner. I did the Masquerade Corporation Banner for another Hooker's Ball. And I did the most ambitious of them all, the Victoria Woodhull Foundation Banner, which is based on the design of the Great Seal of the United States. And that's an 11 by 11. And I believe that was at the Cow Palace. We had them at the San Francisco Hilton at the Cow Palace. They were very large venues. And they got bigger every year until Margo finally decided to retire them. And then the tribal stomps, Chet Helms gave what was, I think, dedicated to the first tribal stump in the 60s here in the Haight-Ashbury in the Panhandle. And he gave that at the Greek Theater in Berkeley. And I did the banners for the two sides of the Greek Theater stage, which were used again at the Monterey County Fairgrounds for the second tribal stump. And they were borrowed by several other music producers for their shows. And family FLOG Productions was Chet's company. And Family FLOG Productions, Doug Green's company up north, used them for several shows. Wonderful. Wonderful.  And through the 60s and now, do you still feel comfortable here?  Always. As a matter of fact, I can never, I can never promise when I'll be home if I go up to Haight Street for anything. You know, I might be an hour later. I always run into people, I know. And it's really come around to being as beautiful as it ever was.  Where do you see life going in creativity? Where would you like to focus your future on, on the work you do? Well, I've always followed the trail of consciousness and people I feel at home with who have similar ideals and similar aesthetics. And everything I've done has, has been led to me by, by another person. So I think it's communication. I think it's communication and appreciating everyone that you know and how briefly we may have the opportunity to know them, to realize what their skills are and to make everyone feel a part of it. Exactly. So you would like to continue that journey in your life? Absolutely. Absolutely. I, I continued working with Maritime Hall doing more concerts. And there are more coming up that I hope to be involved with. But what I enjoy most is seeing large numbers of people getting together, feeling really good, really happy, being with their friends and meeting new friends. Well, this, well, this is very inspiring and I'm hoping that when this video is shown, we will invite you back again. We can add to your life's history and your contribution to the Haight Ashbury and beyond. I'm just, I just know when this video is pulled in 50 years and some young person watches it, they might find themselves there and might be inspired by the works that you've done. I want to thank you so much for being here and I took pleasure and to document what has happened, helps inspire when one person sees one person can do it, they can try themselves. So thank you so much for being here. Thank you, Rebecca.


I'm with Misa Meng in the BrainPort booth and she promises they've got a product that can let you see with your tongue. Come on Misa, what are you talking about here? Alright, so the BrainPort is a sensory substitution device for people who are totally linked. So instead of using the eyes to see, the device actually allows you to use your tongue to feel what it is that you're looking at. So you're looking at it and you're not convinced. So the way it works is it's a pair of sunglasses with the camera mounted on it. Whatever the camera picks up, we do have a mug here. Whatever the camera is picking up is processed through our controller and it's actually displayed electrically on this tongue display which we call the intraoral device. So what she's got again is a pair of sunglasses with a camera on it. She's got to point it at the mug.  And what does that do? So you feel vibrations or electrical stimulus on the tongue in the shape of whatever it was that you were looking at. So in this particular case, you would actually feel the shape of this mug including where the handle is. Is it on the left side versus the right side? You actually receive all that information on your tongue and the brain is actually smart enough to process that information and you start to understand, oh, this is what I'm looking at or this is where the handle is so I need to reach on the left side versus the right side. I don't know. You're saying that my tongue has the dexterity to tell the difference between all those different dots. I mean this is obviously low resolution but you can tell it's a cup with a handle. Come on. My tongue can figure that out? Absolutely. My tongue is not really the smart part. It's actually the brain. So they're kind of a team. So the tongue brings in the information and the brain actually processes the information the same way it does our vision. So does it take a while to learn this? It can. So depending on the individual, it can take an hour. It can take 10 hours but 10 hours is actually our normal training protocol. So during that time, you learn how to use the device, you learn to interpret the information and then you kind of build skills so that when you go out into the real world, you're able to work yourself through any possibility or any process. So I would imagine it's also difficult because you'd have to learn if you were always blind that that's what a cup looks like. I mean I guess you can feel what a cup looks like but a tree or there's a lot of things you can't just go up and touch or people get mad at you if you do. Exactly. So that is definitely something that we work on as well. So if you're congenitally blind, the training process is a little bit different than someone who has acquired blindness. But it's not a barrier and you can still use the device. I'm really glad you're not letting people demonstrate this. Yeah, we do have people that come in and they are begging us. They're like, I don't care if it's dirty, I still want to put it in my mouth. And we're like, no, trust me, you don't want to put that thing in your mouth.  So is the BrainPort available yet? It is. So we received FDA approval last summer. So it is available in the United States. We also have training sites across the United States. So if someone is interested, they would actually go to one of these training sites and they can actually demo the device for free. Oh, OK. And that way they can find out whether it would actually work for them? Exactly. And what's the price point on this? The price is currently $10,000. And so we are working on reimbursement. It's not a quick process. So we're kind of chipping away one day at a time. But hopefully... So that's working with the government, Medicaid and all those insurance things? Exactly, yes. OK. Well, that's a stiff price, but what would you give to be able to see? Right. So we can drop that a little bit as time goes on. Sure. And how would people find BrainPort? So you could go to our website, wcabwicab.com, and you can find all the information on there in terms of where is it available, where are the training sites, what is it, what is this tongue, weird tongue thing. And there are also some videos on YouTube as well. All right. And are you expanding beyond the U.S. or just U.S. only for now? We are also available in China, and I believe different parts of Europe. OK. Great. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye.


We're here in the village of Sardar in the province of Kandahar in Afghanistan. We've just had a fantastic meeting with a group of village elders, farmers, and a farmers' association to talk about some of the many challenges they're facing in this country, which has been facing now over 35 years of war for. What is really interesting with these farmers is to discover how aware they are of the challenges they're facing. We've talked a lot about water, water scarcity. We've talked about crops. We've talked about the soil problems, markets. But what's most amazing to me is their awareness of the fact that their agricultural systems need to change, to evolve, to adapt to what they're facing. Climate change. Here we've just finished looking at a check dam, which will help them to prevent too much water flow in their land, to prevent erosion. And we'll also recharge groundwater. This is an important project that was funded by the World Bank and implemented through FAO, one of almost 7,000 check dams that FAO has done in the country. They want to move into horticultural crops. They realize that farming systems must evolve. But for us as FAO, the most precious part here is the fact that they already know what these challenges are, and we can support them. We can help them with so many ways, but we're pushing on an open door. They already know so much of what it's about.


Hey everyone! Welcome to Path to Nowhere! So we're here to discuss the five free-to-play core breakers plus one honorable mention. Okay, so to start off with the first one with the obvious one of course, I think you've seen her in my, what do you call this, in my thumbnail. So it's going to be Hikate, free, especially if you're starting just now after a month. More or less this, you know, this core breaker has one of the best ones. Okay, before we, you know, move further in terms of Hikate, why go with your free-to-play, what do you call this, free-to-play core breakers. Most of them actually have a low cost for their ultimate, that's one. Let's see, let's see the average. So it ranges from 20 up to 230 while your, while your S rank core breakers usually have around 30 to 40 in terms of cost. So they're very cost effective, they have, they can really cycle their core breaking abilities as fast as you can because of the low cost. So again, going back to Hikate, so unleash the power of Nightmare, dealing total damage of 819, which is a big damage for an ultimate magic damage and one core damage to all enemies in the target grid. So for all enemies within one grid that have multiple, for example, you have four enemies in that grid, which has cores or five or three, then each and every one would be dealt core damages. Okay, so that is how good Hikate's core damage is. And usually Hikate is going to be at the back of your front line, which is very good. She could be safe from harm. And you can actually add to her energy consumption reduction by three, once you get more copies of her here. I'm not going to talk about the other, you know, the other parts of her skills. Most of the ones that I've been talking, I'm going to be talking for all of the core breakers right now is related to their core damage only. Okay, top would be Hikate. The next one that I will be discussing would be EMP. Sad to say, I haven't really, I haven't really leveled up EMP. I do need her for core breaking. I need one who has a fast, what do you call this, fast cycle time in terms of core breaking in terms of their ultimate? For her, her cost is around 28. Core damage is one, but take note, she can cycle, she can have a fast cycle for her ultimate because of double arrow. So the charge of ultra EMR is refreshed. When it scores a kill, the effect has a 42 second cooldown. So again, this makes her very potent. The problem with EMP is that if you have several in one area in one square, she will target the one that is in the front. So take note of that when you unleash her ultimate, make sure that your target is in the front because again, if you just target blindly and if you miss your priority target in the back, definitely she won't hit the back. If you have multiple enemies in one square, definitely she'll target the first one with a core. So again, be mindful of that one when you use, when you unleash her ultimate. But again, she is one of the fastest cycling ultimates with core damage that we have. Okay, so she has 28, Hikati has 30. We'll go next to another one that I wasn't able to really appreciate until now and it's Prakasi. So for Prakasi herself, so it makes a strong graduation dealing 100% of her attack, magic damage and one core damage to all enemies within the skill range. So this is going to be the skill range. It's going to be all around her one core damage to all enemies. So if you have multiple enemies in multiple squares, there is going to be one core damage for all of them. So not only one. Okay, so take note that each of your core breakers have different styles of core, you know, core breaking. So you have to take into consideration your playstyle as well. So moving on to the fourth one, which is going to be, which is going to be Labyrinth. Labyrinth has a similar similar, I'm not saying they're the same, similar style to Bayi. So for those who don't have Bayi yet, she is going to be your next best thing. Also, she is the lowest, lowest cost in terms of her ultimate for core damage. She only costs 20 for her ultimate. So again, you could, she's easily spammable in terms of core damage. So Labyrinth receives a purge order and moves to the target grid and deals attack 120% physical damage to all enemies five times. The first hit also deals one core damage and the purge order can charge up to two times. So again, she is going to be nimble, but limited, a limited version of Bayi, so to say. But again, her cost is half that of Bayi's ultimate cost. But take note of that as well. You might consider bringing both Bayi and her in a team. Again, they are going to be, she is going to be your, you know, your cheap version or your, or your budget version for Bayi. So again, that is four. And the last one for my top five would definitely be Che. So for Che, Che is a B rarity, but one of our top, her class is Fury, one of our top Fury class here. So for her, no, no, for his, for his ultimate, this is going to be your range. It's a wide range. So Che declares the start of the hunt, throwing his axe and dagger, beating front at attack damage, physical and one core damage to all enemies within range is to start to track them for 11 seconds. So again, it's going to be a wide range. Che is going, definitely going to be in the front. So if she, if he is placed in the middle, then there is a big wave of core damage, only one, but to all enemies within range. So that, you know, rounds out our top five special mention. I have to say this because I think she has also, you know, a potential inner core breaking. This is going to be Sumire. So again, core breaking, she has two core damage, by the way. Sumire blinks to the target grid dealing 250 over attack damage to all enemies in the four grids ahead for two times. To take note that she blinks to that location, two core damages to each of the four here. Okay. All enemies in the grid ahead for two times with one core damage each. Again, that's also a big factor. She's going to be your special, you know, special mention, so to say. So again, it's really up to you guys on who you're going to be choosing. By the way, Sumire's cost is going to be at around 31. So Che is at 28. Your lowest is Labyrinth at 20. Hikati is at 30. Hikasi is at 29. EMP is at 28. So they are very low cost in terms of your ultimate in terms of ability to, you know, to cycle their core breaking ability. So Labyrinth, Hikati, Hikasi, EMP, Che, and Sumire for your honorable mention. So that is it guys. Next up for my core breaking series is going to be making a video probably tonight or tomorrow on how many core breakers do we need in your team. So we'll discuss that in the next video. For now, take care. I'll see you in the next one.