What's up everybody on the mangos, you are awesome and I'm back to playing some more mid lane with best girl Balika. As you may know, Mega Cosm was changed so that the heroes like Shinbi, Fei, and Gadget can't really exploit it as much. However, Balika with her two tap combo and auto zap her drone, it's even stronger on her with the changes. Mega Cosm applies a health based damage over time burn to targets on ability hit, and the old version of a deal 2.5% of a target's max health has magical damage when you refresh the damage. Heroes that can quickly deal multiple ticks of damage can pretty much just melt anyone with this item because it would just keep reapplying. It was changed though, so now a reapplication of the debuff deals 5% of the target's max health damage over time on an 8 second cooldown. I think you can see why this is strong, particularly on Balika. I would edit out the boring parts of this game and get straight into the action. I was up against the Revenant in the mid lane, which I don't have much experience with fighting ADCs in the mid lane, so I was a little hesitant to go in on him, and you can see it's like 10 minutes, I still don't have any kills. If I had this to do over again, there we get one. If I had this to do over again, I would have been far, far more aggressive. This guy was just free. He was just absolutely free, and I didn't take advantage of it. I should have been pushing a hell of a lot harder. Lesson learned, I'm not going to be afraid of ADCs in the mid lane anymore, even if they're really good. I have the advantage as a mage early, so I should have pressed it, and I didn't. Yeah, it works out for us anyway. Our team wanted to do Fangtooth, and I wanted to get a little bit of pressure on the duo before we went out. But my stuns this game were just not there, my cues. At least at first, I started laying towards the end, but at least we showed our presence. They're probably not going to come in on this out, you would think, but they do anyway. Here they come. Here comes the whole gang. And another cue that just goes into absolutely nothing. I was able to hit that Revenant, but he does ult on somebody, so I don't know what's going on. They're rampages ulting up. Our team's not here. Somebody got taken out by the Revenant. This is a bad situation, so I just left. I know my team was probably angry. I did hit that Revenant with a stun where I can't see him. That's the key. I just have to not be able to see them with the stun. That's the name of the predecessor. Minimizing your losses and maximizing your gains are right there. We needed to minimize our loss. Me dying was not going to help anything, so I just left. I know right here that he is extremely close to death, but rampage hits me with a rock. Revenant steps up like I figured he would. Popped him with the stun. That may have been overkill with the ultimate and the bomb, but luckily our grox comes in to clean up on this rampage. My bomb did not connect there because the grox knocked him up, but that's fine. We scared off the rampage. We got the kill on the Revenant. Rampage is really low. He's probably going to have to back. It's a bomb for no goddamn reasons. We're in a good position here. We can push this tower. I do see that Drongo was over there fighting in the jungle against the steel. I saw that, but there's nothing I can really do to help. I'm not going to go in on that. If your team makes poor decisions, then let them make the poor decisions. Don't contribute to them. I do have Mega Cosm now, so we're online. I did pick up Alchemical Rod, the builder item for Azure Core for extra mana. I've done away with that. I no longer build Azure Core on Bellica, at least. You just good mana management and you just rush the Mega Cosm. You're going to be doing a lot better for yourself. I wish I would have done that this game, but unfortunately we didn't. But we have it now. Bellica is so good with Mega Cosm because the drone and team fights, people just ignore it and they get hit by everything. They just use all their abilities and they keep getting zapped. If they get zapped twice, then they're taking 5% of their max health. It's just so good. The double tap, you're reapplying it. It's so good. I don't know why he stepped up there. He's very low. I almost caught him with a bomb, but we didn't get him. I'm not going to pursue that too much. Here comes Rampage, of course, to help his little Revenant out.  We're going to wrap around and see if we can pick off this Revenant again. No such luck this time. I'm begging for my... There it is. There's my knockup, but... I don't know where he got that little bit of a heal from. He must have activated his health potion. I thought for sure we had that Revenant. That's more of the min-maxing that I was talking about earlier. I committed pretty hardcore to that fight, so if I'm going to die, I want to maximize that death and take at least one with me. Unfortunately, it did not work out for me at that point. It doesn't always work out, but the important thing is that you try. I'm taking Soulbearer this game. I take Soulbearer pretty much every game that I play mid lane. I absolutely love it. I know Stasis is probably better if you're a better player, but I am not, so Soulbearer is the way. You get that extra shielding, the extra movement speed. It accomplishes pretty much the same thing as Stasis, just getting you out of tight situations. Just not nearly as strong. I use it more, it's off cooldown more, and I remember to use it more. I'm a big Soulbearer fan.  He said that at the top that he's pretty new to Richter. I'm going to come over and assist where I can. She does hit me with a stun, but we have our ultimate and she's just going to go down. I wanted to kill her without using the ultimate so that I had it available later. Unfortunately, I had to use it there. She was just going to get away after that knock up, so I just ended the deal. But if I do have any words of advice, don't be hasty with your ultimate. If you can get a kill without using your ultimate, then do it.  You don't have to be flashy and pop people with a neural disruptor every time.  This fight over in the off lane or the solo lane has been going on for quite a while, so I know some shit's about to happen.  I want to look behind and make sure nobody's sneaking up behind me here and see if we can do something. I wanted to catch that bellica. Unfortunately, I did, but I did hit her with the bomb and the ultimate, so we at least took bellica out of the equation, and now our team can safely back up. I hope they back up. That's the time to back up a little bit, because we don't know who's coming besides that Rampage. I made quite the big mistake right here using the stun on Rampage and Steel. I should have just went after the Revenant. It ended up working out. I think Rampage died to the zapper of my drone. Either that or just mega-cosm got him. I don't know what got the Rampage there, but I was not expecting to get that kill. That ended up working out for us, but I still think it was the wrong play for me to throw my stun on the Rampage and Steel. That was just me thirsting after a kill on Steel. No other explanation than that. I should have gone after the Revenant. I should have gone after the Revenant. I know I said earlier that you shouldn't use your ultimate to get a kill if you could do something else, but I was very afraid for that Richter's life. So I went ahead and popped that bellica one real quick just to make sure that Richter didn't die.  You can see the power of that Steel wall. It's so good. It is so good. But my drone was in the middle of that fight, just dealing damage the entire time. I would like to get some more damage on their ADCs, but unfortunately that didn't happen. But they're all going to have to back...   But holy fuck, it did so much. I don't think we could really capitalize on this. They wanted to take the Primal Fangtooth, which would be nice. But our grux is really low. I don't know what Rampage is doing. We don't really have that much damage here. Not a lot of sustained damage. Yes, I'm bellica. Yes, I deal damage. But it's not the kind of sustained damage you need for objectives like that. You need an ADC for something like that. And now bellica is coming over. It's time to just peace out. Rampage is getting chased down a little bit. I threw the void drone just as a distraction, really. They took the bait. Now, we know Revenant's going to try to rotate over in on this. So let's try and catch him out. And we do. We do see him coming over to the blue buff, hitting with the max range stun. And he is going to die pretty easily. Grux is going in, doing what Grux does. Rampage dives into the mix. But now we got their drone in there. And let's see if we can make anything happen. Does it look like it's going to? Now Drongo's here. Not much we could do. Our Grux went down, Rampage went down. Now their Rampage is in my face. Now I'm just fucked. That started out so well. Richter wants to push right lane. And I totally agree. We need to group up and do something. This game, we were just kind of wandering around a lot, not doing any kind of objectives whatsoever. I would really like to hit that Drongo. Nice wall from Steel, but he has taken damage from my drone and the mega-causin. Now, as I said, I would like to hit the Drongo, but the Steel is presenting himself. I might as well deal damage where I can. And Richter tries to land a hook. It's hard to land the hooks on the uphill like that. I feel for him, I really do. And now we're getting pushed back with minions. Drongo stepping up. Steel is fairly low, but it's Steel. He's the support. We don't really have to worry about him. Now our team's going in. We're going to flash in and see what we can do. I got stuck in my ultimate animation here.  I almost got the Drongo, but now our team is getting just absolutely destroyed. It's time to roll out. And here comes the surrender votes. They've been trying to surrender this whole time. I don't know who it was. Not everybody, but at least two people have been trying to surrender this entire match. Once you give up and try to surrender, you're done.  If you get that defeatist attitude so early into a game, it's a self-fulfilling prophecy. Just stop with that shit, man. See, I told you if I can't actually see the person that I'm using my stun one, I'll hit it every time. This is a really good team fight for us to take. We just need our team to push in. And they're being a little too cautious right now, I think. I don't know why the grucks is running back. So I'm going to wrap around. I'm going to wrap around the edge and flank to make sure that they're not flanking us and hopefully flank them and get some picks. And Big bought a boom right there. And Bellica ends up going down. So I used the ultimate on the rampage. Don't know why I did that. Probably not the best idea. But we are hitting him with everything we got. He did activate his razor back, so he was reflecting a lot of the damage.  I'm trying to use the tip of my soul bearer to try to get out of that. And I don't know how our team is losing this. Like I really don't know.  And just that rampage just got to Drago's face and freaked him out, I guess. I don't know, man. Off of the heels of that team fight. Enemy team took prime. They're pushing in. They're going to win this one. They ended up winning. Our team was doing, I thought we were doing fine, but I guess not. But it's fine to lose, guys. It's okay to lose. You don't have to win. Nobody has a 100% win rate. You lose games sometimes. I don't understand all these surrenders and just it's madness right now. It is absolute madness. But yeah, as you can see, I was kind of cooking, but it doesn't look like the rest of our team was. And that's fine. Like I said, our Richter even told us at the top he's not experienced with solo lane. He's not experienced with Richter, but he's got to learn. I'm proud of the guys that played it out. I hate the guys that tried to surrender and got that defeatist attitude early. It's been so hard to get content for either one of these games. And let's take a look at the damage numbers. The Drago, NB Team Drago just barely beat me out on the damage charts.  And that's what it's really all about. You can lose games, but you still got to be top damage. So I lost in two accounts this time. Man, go.


Self-organization is defined as a process by which systems that are in general composed of many parts spontaneously acquire structure or function without specific interference from an agent that is external to the system. Political self-organization then refers to the formation of political patterns through the local interactions of the members only. This can be seen in the formation of public opinion, political movements and political revolutions. In a cultural context, self-organizing processes can be seen in the formation of customs and the development of beliefs. In a socio-economic context, self-organization can be identified in the growth, competition and extinction of companies, national economies and the stock market. When we look at a map of the globe, we find a world divided out into sub-political units of regions, states and provinces. The first thing we might ask in our reasoning about this political system is how was it created? Without prior experience of such a phenomenon, the political organization of the world would look somewhat random. Small countries, big countries, straight lines running through deserts, zigzag lines. One would be puzzled as to who had made such a contraption or at least intrigued as to the underlying logic of such a creation. Of course, the political world looks somewhat bizarre through the lens of this question precisely because no one actually created the system. The socio-cultural and political patterns of organization taken as a whole are a product of a millennia long evolutionary process of self-organization. Thus in understanding our existing socio-political systems of organization, one needs to know something about the dynamics of this process of political self-organization. Political systems represent a type of social institution that provides order or organization that enables a society to function. There are essentially just two major paradigms surrounding the question of how order can be achieved within a system. It can be imposed by some external entity which works to formulate and implement a design pattern within the system. Or it can be generated internally through the interaction between the members as patterns emerge from the bottom up. The former approach that order must be in some way imposed on the system is the foundational assumption behind hierarchical forms of political organization. Traditional socio-cultural systems have typically been based around the idea of the order in the world around us as being exogenously given. That is to say, some supernatural entity created the universe and the socio-political order within human society should reflect that order and in such a way be endorsed by it. The classical example of this being the absolute monarchs of the late Middle Ages whose rule was endorsed by the Catholic Church who gave the leader some mandate from God to rule. A somewhat radical alternative idea gradually formulated over the course of modern political and social theory that the order to a society could in fact emerge out of the distributed interactions between people in a spontaneous fashion as talked about by Adam Smith and later picked up by Friedrich Hayek who both saw in the market system the capacity for organization to form simply through the peer-to-peer interactions between members of a society. The basic theory behind these ideas was later in the 20th century developed by those working in the areas of cybernetics and systems theory. Today with the study of complex systems the theory of self-organizing systems has taken a coherent form. Today this process of self-organization is understood as the evolution of a system into an organized state from local interactions in the absence of external constraints. Such a process involves some initial degree of randomness in the system, dense, non-linear and distributed interactions. Feedback dynamics that create what are called attractors which work to move the system from a large region of possible states to some subset of those possible states. In so doing the degree of freedom to the individual parts is reduced as they become synchronized and some overall pattern emerges. The essence of social systems and political life is the interdependence between members of the community, the fact that they share something in common. In a state of independence there is no organization, no society and no political system. Politics is always formed out of some underlining social interdependence. Interdependence means what one does affects another and vice versa. In such a case no person is an island but all to some extent have to share some dimension of themselves with others. This is the heart of what makes politics such a deeply personal phenomena, the fact that part of our very being is being defined by some other organization and we then have to enter into dialogue about how that combined organization works. Like all forms of organization this order is the result of the coordination between members of the social system, the greater the coordination the greater the order within the system. These interdependencies and correlations can be positive or negative. A positive correlation means that the variables associated with some aspect of each member involved in the organization move in the same direction. For example if one becomes more popular than the other will likewise or if one becomes less popular the same will occur to the other. A negative correlation means that the variables move in the opposite direction. If one person gets richer then the other will get poorer, if one gets promoted then the other gets deep promoted etc. These types of correlation then help us to capture some of the most basic and important factors of social reality that of sameness and difference or in-group and out-group. It tells us where the boundaries of a specific organization lie, they lie wherever positive correlations start to become negative correlations. Wherever people stop seeing the connection between their well-being and that of others. The stronger the positive correlation the more closely knit the community, the more they will identify themselves as one and are incentivized to work cooperatively. In forming relationships in organizations people are required to share part of their being with others and in that sharing become positively correlated with others in the organization. Whether this is a family organization, a sports team, a business or a nation. The stronger the negative correlations the stronger the divide and the stronger the potential for competition and conflict. As each side sees that they can increase their well-being at the expense of the other, what we call a zero sum game. The essence of sociopolitical organization is interdependence and the key parameter is that of positive or negative interdependence which defines whether and where a set of people are unified or divided which is clearly of central importance. Self-organization is defined formally in terms of a decrease in statistical entropy in the system. Entropy is a measure of the number of degrees of freedom a system has on the micro level. Without correlation between the states of the elements within a system, the state of each element is determined independently thus the number of degrees of freedom goes up, the disorder goes up and entropy likewise goes up. Social entropy can then be seen as the lack of constraints on individual elements allowing them to take a wide spectrum of states where they are not bound within some overall pattern of organization. Thus it may be equated to the concept of political anarchy. Anarchy does not mean chaos. Anarchy simply means the absence of overarching structures of political order and in such a context the unconstrained individuals may assume a diversity of states. High social entropy should not be equated to chaos as chaos has negative or destructive connotations. When the entropy in a system goes up it requires more information to describe the state of the system and it will require work to be done in order to configure it back into the original ordered state. As such entropy is a key measure in information theory where it equates to the uncertainty involved in predicting the value of a random variable. As the variables become more independent and random the information goes up and the entropy also goes up. In closed systems energy tends to dissipate over time as the system moves towards an equilibrium state of maximum dispersion of energy at which point the entropy is maximum. Because work in a system is only realized as energy flows from a higher potential state to a lower potential state. As the system approaches equilibrium which equates to maximum dispersion and thus minimum potential energy the capacity to do work goes towards a minimum rendering the system non-functional. An entropic system is thus non-functional. There is no order to the arrangement of the parts and thus no structure to perform ordered processes. No potential energy and work cannot be realized. A non-functional social institution does not mean that it is destructive or conflictual. It simply means that it cannot perform a function. Anarchy and non-functional institutions only equate to chaos when the system has become dependent upon the functioning of the social institutions. Today we equate anarchy with chaos only because we live in advanced political systems that are highly dependent upon the functioning of their complex institutions. If the governments of advanced economies stop working tomorrow the result would be chaos but prior to the advent of advanced civilization people lived in a state of virtual anarchy from Lenya. Social entropy can refer to the decomposition of social structure or of the disappearance of social distinctions. Much of the energy that is consumed by a social organization is spent to maintain its structure counteracting social entropy through the maintenance of legal institutions, education and other cultural activities. As an example of entropy we could think about the term anamy. Anamy is a condition in which society provides little moral guidance to its individuals. It is the breakdown of social bonds between an individual and the community resulting in fragmentation of social identity and the rejection of self-regulate values that maintain order. The sociologist Emil Durkheim used the term anamy to describe the derangement of traditional social cultural bonds with the rise of industrial society as traditional institutions were disintegrating in the presence of large modern sociocultural organizations. Equally social entropy may be equated to what the social contract theorists would describe as the state of nature, a time before people lived with macro level political institutions. Self-organization requires some degree of entropy to initiate the process. Self-organization takes a system from an initially unorganized or heterogeneous state into an ordered state. This essentially means an increase in the number and strength of correlations in the system. Because order and organization are a product of correlations the process of self-organization is going to increase the number and strength of the correlations between the states of the members. It does not matter if they are positive or negative both will decrease the amount of information required to describe the system and thus bring it from disorder into order but in different ways. Positive correlations will define a single organization while negative correlations will define a divided system. The process of self-organization is often understood with reference to the model of a state space in nonlinear systems theory. A state space is simply a two or three dimensional graph that represents all the different states that an element within the system could take. So an initial state of disorder within the system means that its parts are occupying many of the different possible states and are thus spread out across a large section of the state space. Because self-organization is about the creation of order it will work to reduce the number of possible states to a small subset of order them. Thus in this state space model we will see the members become condensed within some subset of the overall space. For example if we take a plaza of people that are unassociated they will likely be performing different activities such as talking, walking, purchasing products, sitting etc. And if there was instead a political protest in the plaza they would all be synchronized in some way, all chanting the same script, all marching together or moving their arms in a synchronized fashion. Such a system is more ordered and structured as it is trying to perform a combined function. Likewise the members now occupy only a limited subset of the possible states that were previously present. This transition from disorder to order through self-organization is driven by what we call positive feedback which is the type of interaction where the action of one induces others to perform more of that same action. In this example of the political protest if there was only one person performing the act of protesting then others would feel no great external incentive to join. However the more people that join the more inclined others will be to also join in the protest. Or as another example if only one person spoke some given language then others will not be induced to learn that language. But the more people who speak a given language the more people who want to learn it. The most spoken languages in the world such as English, Spanish and Chinese are also the languages that the most amount of people want to learn. This is positive feedback where more begets more. Positive feedback is a powerful force driving change as it works to align elements within the same configuration. This synchronization of activities and states typically reduces transaction costs, improves coordination and creates other efficiencies within the system that makes it more effective than other unorganized systems thus amplifying its capabilities, attractiveness and prominence. The same can be seen more generally in the formation of political regimes and cultures. The more traction that a culture or regime has the larger its value will be for a member to form part of that cultural political institution because of these network effects. In this respect we can note how through increased interconnectivity during the modern era we have greatly consolidated the number of languages, cultures and political systems in the world. Of the thousands or tens of thousands of languages, cultures and political systems at the beginning of the modern era most people in the world today form part of just a handful of social groups speaking a handful of languages such as Chinese, Spanish and English that form part of a handful of large nation state political units and cultures. Forming part of one of these large cultures or political systems offers one greatly more opportunities than forming part of many small indigenous cultures. Thus around the world people continue to flock into cities and to learn English. Positive feedback works to align members into a synchronized state and thus create some subset of organization in the overall system. We call this subset of the whole system an attractor. Because of the positive feedback anyone close to or within the sphere of the pattern of organization will be attracted to it because of its efficiencies of scale and reduced interaction cost. However because this process of self-organization takes place from the bottom up without overall global coordination it often takes hold at various locations within the overall state space of the system. And this is what we see in practice. Many different cultures and sociopolitical organizations have emerged of the millennia at different locations around the planet largely due to the different geographic constraints. For example geographic barriers like the Alps in Europe or the Himalayas in Asia reduced the level of sociopolitical interaction across them. Interaction either side of these geographical divides would have been much greater than between them and thus the process of self-organization would have taken place independently either side resulting in two distinct patterns of organization. Such as the sociocultural groups of India and those of Han China or those of the French and the Italian states. Specific organizations form and endure because of the value that is created through synchronizing the states of the members. Such synchronization makes it possible to rationalize the system and achieve economies of scale which results in turn in the organization having greater capacities and potentially greater payoffs for the members. As a distinct sociopolitical pattern develops a center comes to form with the hierarchy between those of the periphery and those of the center forming. As it becomes more rationalized and achieves larger efficiencies of scale more resources are generated and more resources can flow to the center. This allows for greater stratification within the organization that can be identified by the different levels of access the members have to the resource within that system. This may be economic resources, it may be social or cultural capital or maybe political capital which are often all correlated to create different stratas within the system. For example as large nation state political systems formed those at the center of the political hierarchy come to have more power as they now rule over more people than those in small political units. As the pattern stabilizes hierarchies form within the different sociopolitical organizations and those within the hierarchy who gain the most from them and are most dependent upon their specific pattern work to promote it above that of others. It is inherent in the structure of the hierarchy that those hire up or work to promote the organization. Those who form a central part of the hierarchy for example in the catholic church will have strong structural forces acting on them to promote the system even if it is at the expense of other systems of organization external to it. Eventually as the various local patterns have formed gain more resources and expand the different patterns with their own internal rules and hierarchical structures will inevitably come into contact. As they come into contact they will invariably find they have different protocols, values, expectations, languages, religions etc but will be required to create some form of consensus or common protocol for interaction. In doing this they will either have to compete as one tries to impose their design pattern on others or they may cooperate to create common procedures. Either way this new set of protocols will again create a new level of organization. A new pattern of interaction and rules will be weaved as a new level of organization emerges. If that combined pattern is successful people will come to see its advantages, they will adopt its practices and eventually identify with it above that of any individual part. This process of self-organization leading to the emergence of new levels of organization can be seen for example in the development of Europe over the past centuries where local political organizations were brought into contact often engaging in intensive conflicts before a new set of protocols in the form of the European Union were formed. Now that this transcontinental political organization is formed and people see its benefits many people come to identify themselves more as Europeans. But of course as is always the case with evolution the old structures do not just disappear they become embedded within larger structures. With globalization we can see this same process taking place today at the global level where individual nation states find themselves increasingly interdependent as they have to increasingly form networks of treaties and binding agreements to regulate the global sphere which is one form of global organization that regulates and enables global political processes to take place and thus global systems of organization. In this way we can see how connectivity is really a very fundamental parameter. When we turn up the degree of connectivity this will change the system in very fundamental and often irreversible ways. We can say that in many ways connectivity is the ultimate parameter that we're dealing with because although interdependence is the essence of organization connectivity comes before interdependence. It is only through connectivity that there is the potential for interdependence in self-organization. In the analysis of any sociopolitical system connectivity is a primary parameter for us to identify and analyze. Politics is ultimately a type of management it is the management of the public sphere. Thus because connectivity is such a fundamental metric to sociopolitical organization the type of political system that is viable will always be relative to the degree of interconnectivity within the system and environment. At a low level of complexity and interconnectivity top-down systems will invariably prevail. However as the complexity and connectivity increases this can be harnessed to create self-organizing systems such organizations are better able to deal with rapid and fundamental change. Politics is a form of management the term management has become closely associated with bureaucratic top-down forms of administration. But here we're using the term in its basic sense that is to say the process through which we organize resources and people towards achieving desired ends. The self-organizing paradigm to politics then presents us with one approach to this process that is very much different from the traditional hierarchical model that we're so used to. In all cases in management we're searching for optimal outcomes to the system. We're developing political organizations that attempt to achieve certain desired results such as avoiding conflict, achieving prosperity, justice, equality etc. But there are different ways of approaching this management process. In the hierarchical model we focus on the outcomes we try to directly intervene in the system so as to achieve the outcomes that society desires. In politics we traditionally spend a lot of time discussing what is the best result and trying to adjust the outcome for it to conform to some value that the society holds. For example many see some degree of economic equality as a desirable outcome and to achieve this we monitor the system to identify imbalances and use direct interventions such as taxes and regulation to move money from the wealthy to those less wealthy and thus achieve our desired end. The self-organizing approach would not focus on outcomes though but instead on initial conditions and processes asking how can we create equality in the process. This approach to governance would not search for the means to manipulate the ends through direct intervention but instead search for the best context within which actors can try to achieve their ends. In this example we would search for input equality that everyone has the means to succeed. As a political philosophy the self-organizing paradigm does not search for outcome equality but instead asks what resources people have available to them at inception and how people pursue their ends. Thus focusing more on the context rather than trying to control for specific outcomes. Instead of intervening to prevent people from doing things or making them do other things it asks how can we create attractors towards the outcomes that are desirable. Instead of talking about how we can prevent people in a disadvantaged community from taking drugs and committing crimes we would talk about how we might make more constructive effort within the system. Finally it's important to note the dynamic nature to self-organization. Self-organization as a method for generating order within a system only occurs in the absence of an externally given order. The theory of self-organization recognizes the importance of disorder. The theory ultimately involves a recognition that order is created out of disorder in what we might call a process of creative destruction. Within this paradigm order is not seen to be some inalienable given that simply exists and should always exist in some static and timeless sense. It is instead part of a process that involves entropy and disorder. Order is something that has to be perpetually created through a dynamic process and disorder is an inherent part of that process which cannot be externalized without destroying the process itself. This is quite a different way of looking at things. Self-organization typically does not deliver optimal short-term results. Rich in hierarchies can often achieve greater short-term efficiencies relative to self-organizing systems. However as with all systems the effectiveness of the structure of the system will be contingent on the environment that it is operating within. At low levels of connectivity and interdependence hierarchies will often greatly outperform self-organizing systems at least in the short run. However as the complexity of the environment increases as the connectivity increases and the pace of change likewise increases self-organizing systems become greatly more capable at delivering results both short-term and long-term. And this is a key part to the dynamics of the fundamental political changes that are taking place in our world today.


This is stock number 10284. We are here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. You're new and used light-duty truck headquarters. Today we are checking out this super clean 2012 Ford F-150 SuperCrew 5.5 foot short box. This is the Harley Davidson edition and this truck has the 6.2 liter V8 motor. From this HD video you will be able to tell that this truck is extremely clean all the way around inside and out. White platinum tricote metallic is the color we shoot all of our videos in 1080p. So if you have HD capabilities on your computer tablet or smartphone device, turn them on right now because it is like you're right here looking at the truck with me and definitely your best way to check out the vehicle before seeing it in person. This one comes with the 22 inch Harley Davidson painted and polished aluminum rims and they have the Pirelli Scorpion 275 45R 22 tires on them and these tires have probably about 60 to 70 percent of the tread left on them right around there. Get the Harley Davidson logo. Blacked out headlight bezels, factory fog lights. The front bumper is in really nice shape. No major dents or dings on that. Headlight lenses are nice and clear. Passengers side fenders in excellent condition as well and the passengers side rim is in pretty nice condition too. As you go down this side of the truck you can see just how clean the body is, how reflective and mirror like that paint is. We take these HD videos so if you are far away or even if you're close by and just cannot make the trip down you can still see the truck here the truck and have confidence in the vehicle that you're looking at before you even get here. You get the Harley Davidson block lettering. Cab is in really nice condition too and on this side you can see just how clean the body is. Has the power running boards. Lower rockers are absolutely perfect. Speaking of the underbody and frame absolutely no corrosion this truck I believe came out of Texas so the frame and underbody is very very nice. I always tell by those box rails the back tires have just as much tread as the front tires and this back rim is in excellent shape as well. You get the chrome tipped exhaust as we come around to the back of the vehicle. This one has the backup parking sensors the full towing package which includes a receiver hitch four pin and seven pin wiring. The tailgate is in excellent shape. You can really get a good idea of that white tricote metallic paint. It has a spraying bed liner. You get the Harley Davidson bed mat. You get the cargo organizer which also turns into a bed extender. You get the tailgate step assist and it has the raise assist tailgate so even though it has that step assist it's really easy to get that tailgate up and that's where your backup camera is located right under the Ford symbol. Down the driver's side here the box is very very nice and clean. No dents or dings on that. It does have the capitalist fuel fill which is a really nice feature and for full disclosure this back rim is in excellent condition as well. Down the rest of this side of the truck very clean. You do get the door code entry on the door there. We do have that code. Power folding mirrors with the built-in directional signals. They're heated and you do get a driver's side blind spot mirror. You get the power running boards.  Both of these seats are heated. Both of these seats are cooled. You get the Harley logo in the backrest. There's no scuffs, no scrapes on the seats. Memory driver seat. You get the Harley kick plate. Power windows, power locks, power mirrors and like I said those mirrors power fold in and power fold out. Has the Sony sound system. Auto headlamps, power pedals and power tilt and telescopic steering wheel. As you hop inside the truck you can see that this one has 45,639 miles. You get the Harley Davidson instrument cluster. The leather wrapped steering wheel has the kind of gray leather on the top. It's a little bit more textured. Audio and Bluetooth controls on the right. Cruise controls and information center controls on the left. Turned-out four-wheel drive factory brake controller. You get the touchscreen radio. This one has the factory navigation system. Also has the backup camera. You have AM, FM and Sirius XM radio capabilities on this vehicle. This one also has a hard drive that you can store music on. I believe it's up to 2,472 songs or something like that. This one already has some music on it which you can delete and put your own stuff on there. And yes this truck definitely did come out of Texas. Has AM, FM radio and CD player. Heated and cooled seat buttons, dual climate control. You get your sync system for your AUGS and USB jack and Bluetooth cell phone device ambient lighting. Your six-speed automatic transmission. What's cool is it has this Harley emblem right here. It tells you the production number on it. So it's 4,305. You get the VIN stamp there as well as the year. Kind of a cool logo. Factory format. Passengers side seat is in excellent condition. Smells very clean in this truck. Has the power sunroof. The headliner is in excellent shape. You get your map lights and power sliding rear window buttons right there. And your home link buttons for your garage door security systems and lighting systems. We will take a quick look at the back seats and then we will check out under the hood. Back seats are just as clean as the front seats. No rips or tears back here. It does have the latch child safety system. Power sliding rear window with the built-in rear defrost. These seats do fold up for extra storage and it has a nice flat floor back here. Factory floor mats and you do get these Sony 700 watt subwoofer underneath that side. Finally there's a 110 volt, 150 watt plug-in and a 12 volt power point back here as well. We'll take a quick look under the hood. I would personally like to thank you for checking out the video today. Hopefully from this HD video you will have been able to tell just how clean this truck is all the way around inside and out. Under the hood we have the 6.2 liter V8 motor. Engine bay is very clean runs very smooth. This truck has been fully safety and inspected by our service shop has a fresh oil and filter change. All the fluids have been checked and topped off. The truck has been gone through mechanically 100% and is 100% ready to go. To see more pictures of this truck or one of our other 450 new and used cars, trucks, SUVs, minivans, wranglers, half tons, three-quarter tons, one tons, you name it. We got it go to our website www.summitauto.com. Full pictures and descriptions of every single vehicle from two locations all at summitauto.com and if you'd like to check out more HD videos you can go to youtube.com slash summit auto. Remember to like subscribe and share on this video and all the videos that you see there. In fact in a second you will see a link to subscribe to our YouTube channel on your left. A link to more half-ton truck videos like this one on your right if you have not been to our website on the bottom. A link to this vehicle on our website click those check us out and we really look forward to helping with this super clean 2012 Ford F-150 Super Crew 5.5 foot short box Harley Davidson edition. Thanks again.


This is stock number AT192B. We are here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. You're new and used SUV headquarters today. We are checking out this super clean 2016 Nissan Rogue This vehicle has the 2.5 liter four-cylinder motor from this HD video You will be able to tell that this Rogue is in really nice shape all the way around factory fog lights LED running lights projector or a halogen headlamps White pearl is the color we shoot all of our videos in 1080p So if you have HD capabilities on your computer tablet or a smartphone device turn them on now because it's like you're right here Looking at the vehicle with me 18 inch painted alloy rims all the way around in the front We have brand new unoroyal Tiger paw 225 60 r 18 tires These have all the tread left. We put those on in our safety inspection in the front You have HD capabilities on your computer tablet or smartphone device turn them on right now We shoot all of our videos in 1080p, and it's like you're right here looking at the vehicle with me passenger side rim is an excellent condition as well and As we go down this side of the vehicle you can see just how clean the body is How reflective and mirror like that paint is And we take these HD videos So if you are far away or even if you're close by and just cannot make the trip down You can still see the vehicle hear the vehicle and have confidence in what you're looking at before you even get here So that you can make a smart buying decision before you even step foot on our lot that you're getting a high quality vehicle at a great price that you can have the confidence that you're going to be getting exactly what we're advertising and Making a smart trip back tires have probably about 60 to 70 percent of the tread No scuffs or scrapes on that rim four-wheel disc brakes Just a couple little scuffs on that rear bumper, but other than that. That's really all I saw as far as Any major imperfections on the vehicle rear gate is in really nice condition You can really see that metal flake in the paint another nice thing about the HD videos So does have the power lift gate with the SL package here Back storage area is very clean. It's got these really interesting Storage things you can put these down or you can raise them up Pretty neat stuff as well. So you just lift them up like that And then you have a storage tray up high Just put them down like so Pretty easy once you get once you get used to them And to push bring it down you just push that button and she'll come on down As we go around this side of the vehicle just as clean as that passenger side For full disclosure this back rim is in excellent shape as well No scuffs or scrapes and that tire is just as much tried as the other rear tire And they are matching tires all unor oil tiger paws Very clean down this side Inside the SL package gives you the tan leather interior both of these seats are heated No major rips or tears Power driver seat. We got factory floor mats throughout power windows power locks and power mirrors as You can see that this vehicle has 59,207 miles You have a time display as well as an outside temperature display Up here you have your compass display and a homelink system in the mirror for your Garage door security systems and lighting systems Headliners nice and clear. It does have an SOS Emergency system as well. This one comes with the factory navigation. It also comes with the 360 surround view camera, so it's got cameras all the way around it and And of course the backup camera Dual climate control and Augs and USB jack has the smart key with the push button start Passenger seat is very clean as well no rips or tears on that this vehicle smells very clean I don't think it's ever been smoked in And we got factory floor mats throughout We'll take a quick look at the back seats and then we will check out under the hood Back seats are just as clean as those front seats no rips or tears back here It does have the latch child safety system and of course we have factory floor mats back here as well You seats do fold down for extra storage And we'll take a quick look under the hood. Thank you so much for checking out the video We work hard to give you an accurate Representation of the vehicle so you know you're making a good decision with a good company Engine base very clean. This one has been fully safety and inspected by our service shop has a fresh oil and filter change All the fluids have been checked and topped off It's 100% ready to go to see more pictures of this vehicle or one of our other 400 new and used cars trucks SUVs minivans Wranglers, you name it. We got it go to our website www.SummitAuto.com full pictures and descriptions of every single vehicle on our lot Videos of every single used vehicle that we have all at summit auto.com Thank you so much for checking out the video if you want to make this one yours Give us a call right now<PHONE_NUMBER> ask for one of our sales associates to make this Nissan Rogue years today Once again that number is<PHONE_NUMBER> Thanks again, and if you want to check out more videos go to youtube.com Summit auto in fact in a second you will see a link to subscribe to our YouTube channel on your left a Linked more used inventory videos like this one on your right If you have not been to our website on the bottom a link to this vehicle on our website click those check us out And we really look forward to helping with this super clean 2016 Nissan Rogue SL. Thanks again


What I do when I'm teaching about certain time periods in history, or at least events, we'll say events, what I have my students do is deconstruct the event. Give me some of the major things that occurred that led to that event unfolding. Let's name them and let's see what are some of the unintended consequences that came out of these different combinations of factors. Because those things were not anticipated. The fact that Robinson's mother chose to move to California as opposed to Detroit, New York, Cleveland, Kansas City, that gave him a different opportunity that could not be predetermined. No one could imagine the fact that she brought him up in an integrated neighborhood where she herself was the example, was going to be the X factor as it relates to Jackie Robinson in some ways becoming that person. But these other factors had to also play out. He had to go to UCLA. He had to play on integrated teams at Pasadena Junior College. He had to meet Joe Lewis at Fort Riley, and Joe Lewis had to become heavyweight champion and garner the love of a nation with his fights with Maximilian in 38. So all these other things, we couldn't anticipate. Things had to unfold the way they did, and people had to anticipate opportunity and take advantage of it when it came. But there is no way we could ever have guessed Jackie Robinson would become the person he was. And the person we still admire. So, you know, it's hard for me in some ways to teach history in this kind of chronological kind of fashion. Because history, by date, it may work that way by hour by hour, but there are things that precede that moment that kind of set up the opportunity for something to unfold differently than you've maybe anticipated. So what I like to do is draw a timeline. Yes, these things happen and this is the date. But what happened over here, over here, that primed us to take advantage of the moment when it arises, when it arose. So that's kind of the way in which I approach these different historical moments. With Robinson, you know, no one really knows that he was in a little gang when he was a kid. Pepper Street gang.   They stole apples, right? They ran through cherry orchards and pulled cherries off of trees. Things of that nature. But one person in his neighborhood said, you're going down the wrong road, young man. And that one person probably made a big difference in his life. So it really, when we think about how these things unfold, it matters who the people are in our lives. It could be that one thing that changes everything. Robinson has enough people in his life helping him make decisions so that when he has to make choices on his own, he's making them within the context of still moving forward, even though there are challenges and obstacles that will arise. And there's not one way in which to lead people. There are multiple ways to freedom. And I think that both of these individuals juxtapose, you know, against one another. They demonstrate that. That one, of course, does it in baseball. But it's not really about baseball. One, of course, does it in marching. But it's not about marching. There are these demonstrations of one's ability to claim your humanity, your manhood, and your citizenship. You just happen to have an audience watching you. I think Jackie Robinson is underappreciated for his civil rights, not just record, but his significance. And when we think about this idea of him integrating baseball, we've reduced it just to that, just to baseball. In fact, he is such a huge figure in the ability of an individual to stand up not for only what he believes in, but for what he believes other people want him to believe or to represent. Robinson himself is initiating a lot of these conversations about integration through his athletic competition. But what he's doing more than anything else, he's challenging his right to speak up as a human being and as an American citizen. And so when you have Dr. King and Jackie Robinson coming together and you put those two individuals in the same room, who's learning from who? Is King learning about not necessarily civil disobedience, but how to be patient? Is he learning more compassion? Is he learning the techniques? Because Robinson got it from the best of them when he was playing baseball. He received the death threats, which King would receive later on in his life. So at what point can we say that they both learned from one another? And Robinson, in fact, maybe inspired even more because he knew the way he had gone through it. He had run the gauntlet.


Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. On behalf of the Commonwealth of the Marine Corps, General David H. Berger. Welcome to today's change of command ceremony in which Lieutenant General William M. Jury will roll his command up to Marine Expeditionary Force to Lieutenant General David A. I. Long. Today's ceremony is being executed by the Marines and Sailors up to Marine Expeditionary Force. Lieutenant General Jury and the Marines and Sailors of the two Marine Expeditionary Force would like to extend a warm welcome to General David Berger. Sergeant Major Troy Black. General Robert Mattis. Lieutenant General Christopher Coney. Lieutenant General Joseph Osterman. Lieutenant General Frank Pantin. Lieutenant General Gary Matissa. Major General Odd Harold Hyde. Major General Dale Alford. Major General Michael Orson. Major General Frank Donner. Major General Matthew Collier. Major General Scott Bennett. Major General Ronald Rashard. Major General Robert Dickerson. Brigadier General Andrew Neymar. Brigadier General Michael McWilliams. Brigadier General Mark Klinkett. Brigadier General Kevin Stewart. Brigadier General Jordan Cooley. SES Peter DeLorean. Captain Kevin Brown. Colonel Garth Bernanke. Also in attendance are over two of the commanding generals and Sergeant Major Lieutenant General Robert Petlow. Lieutenant General Dave Beichler. Physician Gwen Wallace. Sergeant Major Ron Hinsworth. Would like to welcome Sheriff Hans Miller. Mr. Adam Calvo. Ms. Anita Best. Ms. Lawrence Leighton. The Military Affairs Committees of Jacksonville, Swansboro, and Wilmington. And the November Veterans of America, Chapter 4. Ladies and gentlemen, at this time, we would like to thank the community leaders and the organizations they represent who have generously supported the Marines, sailors, and families of this command. Please rise for the introduction given by Captain Dennis M. Cox, Chaplain Corps, United States Navy. Let us pray for your presence in this changed command. Certainly in short, the words of few, but the lasting impact of command and the authority of command is possible. Lieutenant General Jordan and Lieutenant General Hanifano are about to pass between them a flag of the two-methe expedition of course. Simple gesture, but an extremely important gesture nonetheless. So as a Passage Board, strengthen them both in the tasks to which you have called them. Go with Lieutenant General Jordan and assume as they prepare before the commandment. As they go off to Hawaii, let them rest in your grace. Be blessed when they come here, in their service, to everyone who is standing before you this moment. The day behind work with Lieutenant General Hanifano and his family, as he leads the battle, some of you might as well exercise it. May he have the wisdom of solving the decisions that he must make. May he have the courage of David when he faces the giants of the land. Let him have the strength of the saints to endure the daily running. The patience of Job to deal with the ever-changing demands placed upon him. From all of us who are in that encounter with compassion for our Lord himself, indeed with those over his care. Give all of us here that have committed to serve for a new behavior, honor, and distinction. Pray especially for his name, for his face is for strength, that he should be blessed in this transition. So thank you, Lord, for never ending love, strength, courage, and guidance, all of them keys to unlocking the full potential of his life. Pray this in the name of the one who was called to it, that he should be such a creation. Now taking his position on the radio is a commander of troops for today's ceremony, Colonel David R. Eberlin. Praise the Marine Corps at their basis in both history and tradition. The mass formation of troops on one long line at close interval made possible by massive firemower from muscle and muscles of yesterday. In those over days, the line of battle was just that. A line of two or three ranks and looked much like the great formation you will see today. The adjutant warms the line for battle. The adjutant for today's ceremony is Major James Simpson. Projects for the marching on of their colors and the ready-saving women playing on our national anthem. Ladies and gentlemen, please be seated. To present when troops volunteered for different states on fire to their location, they were brought on the line, on one volunteers, the band struck with chords of the present day in San Francisco. On another truce, cheer through time. Preparation reached out to the ancient times when commanders would drill their truce in preparation for battle. These repeated trills ensured vulnerability and confidence in the handling of weapons. They also instilled automatic and immediate response to commandments, vital to the success on the battlefield, as well as physically conditioned them to handle heavy weapons of that time. Since the launch, commanders were able to insolute the commandment of troops. This approach was asked for from the parade today. In the review here is the commandant of the workforce, General David H. Herb. He brought his command to General David H. Herb and arranged standing for honors to the commandant general of two Marine Expeditionary Force. Now taking this position in the reviewing area is the commandant general of two Marine Expeditionary Force, Lieutenant General William M. Jerry. Now joining the Lieutenant General Jerry in the reviewing area to assume command of two Marine Expeditionary Force is Lieutenant General David A. Ivey. To the ceremony's most solemn duty, the actual passing of command. The battle close of the Marine Corps unit symbolized the afford and accountability of command. Transferring the colors during the ceremony symbolizes the well-intentioned command by Lieutenant General Jerry. And by accepting the colors, Lieutenant General Ivey accepts command and confirms his total commitment to the Marines and sailors that he will command. Delivering the colors to the commanding general is Sergeant Major Blimey Travis, the two Marine Expeditionary Force Sergeant Major. Ladies and gentlemen, please rise for the passing of the colors. At 0900, 18 August, 2022, throw our leader duties as the commanding general to Marine Expeditionary Force. It are the right to report to Marine Corps Forces Pacific for duty as the commanding general of Marine Corps Forces Pacific. Signed, David H. Berger, general of the 96 Marine Corps, commandant of the Marine Corps. From commandant of the Marine Corps to Lieutenant General David A. Ivey, subject assumption on command. Effected, 0900, 18 August, 2022, you are directed to assume the duties as the commanding general to Marine Expeditionary Force. Signed, David H. Berger, general of the United States Marine Corps, commandant of the Marine Corps. Please be seated. Now taking his position in the reviewing area is the commanding general to Marine Expeditionary Force. The command is to Lieutenant General David A. Ivey. Please be seated. Ladies and gentlemen, the command of the Marine Corps. Good morning to everybody. As the commanding generals, both of them, they would give me permission to place them at rest because standing in at attention in Carolina in August is a chore. We don't want to put the Marines out any more than they need to. For those of you who are regulars at Camp La Jolla in Jacksonville, thank you for allowing me and Donna to come back and to start the major in space. For us, this is close to home as we have. This is where we raised our family. And I was listening to the chaplain's words about the wisdom of Solomon. All I could think of was when we were majors in Lieutenant Colonel, the captain's probably, we didn't have anywhere near the wisdom of Solomon living on St. Mary's Drive. But it's great to see they do have now the wisdom of Solomon. This happens automatically. There's rehearsals. A lot of people that you and I can see in some that we don't see. From the left, coming through Color Guard, all the Marines that's given them parts to us that provide security, all the Marines that are marching in front of us start major Travis who organized all this. Can you join me just please to thank and all the Marines that organized may be the hardest job of all. But thanks to everybody who organized this. The ceremony, first just a word or two about the ceremony goes along. You and I were listening and the flag gets passed from one leader to another. Pretty amazing for you and me just to watch because in this moment, in that second that one leader lets go of that guidance and the other one has it in their hands that all of the authorities, all of the responsibilities have been no less than a second. That transfer just like that. Amazing for us to watch. And now we have a new commanding general. That's of course the change of command. But it's good for you and me to also thank that although the two leaders are changing, the Color Guard, all those Marines, all the Marines across the entire meth North and South Carolina, all them were here last week. They'll all be here next week. They are, the Marines are the continuity. We're here for a change of command but really the mission, the Marines, the unit always more important than any two leaders. I'm incredibly proud of Don and me to be here. It's a fantastic ceremony. This Marine Expeditionary Force, I think if you were here 10 years ago and some of us were, or maybe even one year ago, amazing to see the speed at which this meth is learning, it's changing, it's adapting. Like years time, just amazing to watch. And it's not, I don't think it's about equipment. I don't think it's about aircraft, it's about vehicles. It's a climate of learning. It's an atmosphere that the journey's put into this place that we can figure this out, we can learn fast, we can adapt, and from the commanding crew all the way down to four crews and lieutenants, I think they are moving at 100 miles an hour to solve problems, but it's always been about two methods, a place right now where learning is happening. I don't think there's, from my watching it, where I am privileged to be now, it's amazing. I think probably the most visible example for me is Task Force 61-2, although there's 100 of them, probably the most visible for me to watch happen. And from the outside, you see something like Task Force 61-2 do all kind of amazing things in Europe. And you think, wow, they really figured it out when they got there. Task Force 61-2, General Cardi, and all of his leaders beforehand know that it didn't start when they got to Europe, because the relationship that he built with Sixth Fleet, that his commanders built with their counterparts in Europe, all the prep by the Marines, all that was done before they ever got to Europe. And yeah, they did amazing things. They're still there. But the magic of it, I think, was General Journey's leadership long before they ever deployed. But that is just one example of this map moving way in front of the Marine Corps, pulling the rest of the Marine Corps forward, figuring out where we need to be in the future. All because of a loud, his supporters, the room to make decisions, the room to grow, the room to make mistakes, and I give all that credit to General Journey. But it's not a surprise if you know General Journey, if you knew Captain Journey, or Lieutenant Colonel Journey, it's not a surprise.  He approaches every job that I've ever known you in as I took over a good fighting position, I will try to make it there. Every place that you have been, the two of you have been. And he inherited a good fighting position from General Kudra, and the next day you and Sue started making it there, because it's you now, your fighting position, and we'll make it there. And you have it. I, Don and I, the rest of the Marine Corps are so grateful for the both of you. Given this, this map, a room to move, and the guidance that they need and the support that they need. And Sue, I have watched you since he was a company commander. And what you, what you do with a map level is the same thing that you did at a company level, which is put your arms around somehow around all 47,000 Marines in the map, love them, care about them, even when they have tough days, you support them. And for every day, since Bill took command, we'll never be able to paint a eternally great map, everything that you have poured yourself into. There's no possible way we can, we can retain it. But I don't think you're after them. I think you love the people in this map, not expecting anything in return. It's an amazing example. They're going to the largest command that we have in the Marine Corps, the largest operational commander. There's no, you're gonna put your arms around 80,000 Marines somehow and love them all, and love them all. Same way you did when there was 150. Up the street from the burners on St. Mary's Drive were the hot ignites. Neither one of us had the wisdom of Solomon back then, but me and Donna and our family were privileged to learn the hot ignites on St. Mary's Drive here. During one of our three tours here, and it was magical to watch. Then I was lucky to watch him work alongside of him in one map, amazing leadership there. And then the last job, which is not the job that he asked for, but the job he was cut out for, which is taking care of all the people in the Marine Corps. He talks about, if you listen to General Lottagnani, he talks about the business of people, because he believes in, I think, here at Tumev, you want your primary focus, you and Diane will all be about your inheritance of great fighting mission. You're gonna make a better mark. And the two of you are exactly the right pair at just the right time. And if the rest of us won't be pretty excited to watch you take command and lead this battle, from where Bill is handing it off to you in suit to where you're going to take it. You have the Commandant's 100% support.  Thank you, gentlemen, you're forward, man in general, it's gonna be a general bill journey.  Thank you for recognizing that the great work, hard work of the whole team here this morning, of course, and for the most. And certainly thank you as well for the opportunity for us to come back here and compare on the map. So now, I know most of you came here to see Sue and not me, and I'm used to that. I'm over it, all right? I get it, I know how this works. I've come clean on that sentence a long time ago, but sincerely, we do appreciate each and every one of you sharing this very special day with Sue and I, the Commandant, Diane and Dave. And it means a great deal to us, much like Commandant, you know, by the great hard work pointed into this thing, Sergeant Major Travis and the whole team put this thing together. You know, it's been about two years since we rolled out, marched out, all of our formation, all of our colors, and bringing the cannons forward and representing the additions of the United States Command Floor. These guys and gals are certainly making us proud, so I do, if you would, please join me in a big round of applause for you guys. Hey, look, with every changed man, it is always bitter sweet, as you know, and today is certainly no different for us, because Camp Lejeune is one. You know, it's whole, much like Commandant, in regards to, this is where I was raised as a Marine. This is where we raised our family. Being raised here as a Marine professionally, there are so many people sitting in this audience today that took such a tremendous role in showing me what Wright looks like, that I just can't even go down the whole list for you today, and what they have meant. And they had their hands full, because I was quite the project, I have to leave, but you know, likewise, personally, it's home to us, because this is where we raised our family. And they're just down those individuals here today who have shared in our lives in so many ways. Stone Street Elementary School, double clubs at Camp Lejeune, you know, the White Oak Vikings, our extended Marine Corps family, and the community and friends here from the West, and Sherry Hambrite, and Dave, Katherine Coots, Carlos, and Teresa, I mean, the list goes on and on, it is a very tight community indeed. It is one of which the conditions and the legacy of the Command, Camp Lejeune, and this community are such that they are inextricably linked and rallied together, and tough times are required, and good times, you know, from tragic events in Beirut, the full mobilization of Desert Shield and Desert Storm, the Iraq, Afghanistan, and hurricanes, and everything between. It is one team, one fight, and it is unique and special here, like I have never seen nowhere else, but it is special because of the people in need. And I would just say that Sue and I both are forever grateful for the opportunity to be able to have shared in that and calling Camp Lejeune home to us. So it was one of my mentors here kicked me left and right a long time ago, and told me Steve Davis to keep the main thing, the main thing, and we hit the ground here at Camp Lejeune, the main thing has always been about everything that will improve or enhance our operational capabilities. That's always the main thing. Dave, for the leaders here, as you go back to your formations, I would ask you to take back the main thing of the day and that's a simple message, and that's just simply to say thank you. Thank you to all our Marines and sailors for all that they have done, specifically thank them for their dedication and their professionalism. A little bit of a comment I'll refer to, you know, kind of had this idea or approach on life in general, or as an individual, or as a unit, that you either get better or you get worse. You can never stay the same, all right? I wake up every day, put my boots on, and I try and brace that as an individual, as a person, and I try to bring that to the command. And I say that because if you think you're staying the same, let me tell you, there's a warfighting business we're in right now. There's a thinking, breathing enemy that gets a vote, and they're working real hard every day, and by the fall, you're gonna be getting worse. You ain't working on getting better. There is no status quo in the business we're in. And I gotta tell you, that each and every one of these Marines, they gripped that, it was a tall ask, and from the junior Marine to the senior experienced leadership around here, those are the things, is it's game of inches that moves the needle and to get better, get worse approach in the business world. So some of those results that we talked about already, as the Marine Corps remains our premier, 9-1-1 force of our nation, and we do, we here at 2-man, we consider ourselves a force of choice, that's 9-1-1 force. And over the course of this year, I can just tell you, it's not some experimental game or a mythical theoretical discussion. It's been boots on the ground and five different GCCs all across the geographic and back demands over the course of this year, some of which he just named. Price's response in Haiti and the earthquake, putting together a MAGTAP, task-organized team, tailored to go do what we always do here at Campos U, to take care of business, to pushing out folks to help Afghan refugees and OAW here in Quantico, to turn around the 6-1-2 partner with our naval forces and partners in Europe and the Ukraine crisis is supporting that. We're pushing out tack here at SEMCOM. The flight line and the barracks have been emptied more than once around here. And that's just the business of the business, and that's who we are, and that's what we do. And I'm telling you, that has not changed one bit. But we can walk and shoot them at the same time, and while we're doing that, we can also continue to get better, right? And I think you expect us to be doing that. And so we have to continue to modernize and become more lethal each and every day. Much of that, we have employed over the course of this year, and we've looked at be using that a whole lot more going forward. So that part of the recoil that you all know and love, I'm here to tell you, has not changed. We still shoot, move, and communicate with the best of them. We're getting better each and every day, and that's what you expect from a boy. So, whether we keep it a main thing, the main thing, or we're getting better or getting worse, you know, I got another journey is, when you remain flexible and you remain balanced so that you can respond in every climbing place, I say, hey, you got to give yourself two ways of winning, three's even better. You know, I ain't going to put all my eggs in one basket. And I had a gunner that worked for me out in the division there, and he said, hey, sir, you know what? I think I figured out what's your second way of winning. I'm like, yeah, what's that? He said, it's shooting.  Truth be told, right? And it's kind of pointed out, she jumps right in in the same vein to get better, get worse, puts her arms around everybody, continues to advocate, find ways, move the initiatives. I mean, she was working on here with Sarah, B.J., George Intel, Barbara Dozier down over here, Melissa, Theresa, I mean, these are household names, right? Here at campus, you're shaking your heads because you know exactly what I'm talking about, right? So she brings her own come to fight, come to win attitude, I love you, court, I appreciate it. I recognize that it is a one, two punch all the way. And it continues to the same point for it. So thank you very much. You're welcome. We also have both of our kids here today, although clearly they're not kids anymore. And so Troy and his fiance, Cassie, we're booking in the continental United States from San Diego, the Outer Banks. So they're in here from San Diego and Madison in from Kate Matters today. So we're glad to have you home. We don't all get together all the time. So it is indeed a special day for that. We are so proud of each and every one of you. But I got to tell you, at this age of our life, now on the 22nd PCS move, I am missing my working party, right? So that's the team that's going to be here, right? So for Dave and Diane, you know, comment on that, say welcome back. You know, Lieutenant General Ottingdon is no stranger to Matt and Campbell's Union. He's certainly no stranger to it, to the MAGTAP operations business. And we are absolutely so excited for both of you. You know, proud, legacy, reputation, traditions to Matt, all the criticality that it means to bring more to our nation. I know you understand that and you're just going to take a full 30 going forward. So if you're going to Diane, we're going to be happy to help you. We should take you through today. So ladies and gentlemen, again, it has been an absolute honor and privilege to be able to come back here home to the Carolina MAGTAP. It is indeed the highlight of the career to be able to come back here and to be able to come back home. So for those of you that know me, it changes the command. You know, I'm always telling the incoming guy, hey, look at here, congratulations. But you know, anything you find wrong in that command, you can blame the old guy. So soon goes down. But after that, I don't want to hear his name again, you won't. You got that? So now, unfortunately for me today, I had to schedule this thing pretty early in the morning. So I gave Dave a lot of time to work with, so I would very much appreciate it if y'all all join us at the club after this. He's been tied up for as long as he can. So brother, congratulations. Ladies and gentlemen, the commanding general, we have the commanding general, Dave, on now. The leaders, senior sergeant majors, symmetric army sergeants, family training. I mean, be very brief this morning. Just a quick way to say thank you. Thank you very much for your hospitality to be here this morning with us and chair with the secretary, Greedex Fisher, just how special this community is. I would like to just recognize the community leaders that are here at the state as well as federal leaders that are here, representatives. I can't thank you enough for over the years the support that you've provided to Marines and sailors and families of Camp Lejeune and three different counties that surround. Thank you very much for all you do. It's truly wonderful to be back. Comin' on, thank you for the opportunity. I'm very humbled by it. I appreciate your trust and confidence in me. I will not let you down. Bill, just want to say one thing. You have put this myth on course. And it's your leadership and your direction that has had a tremendous impact. I can see it. I can feel it. And I know that the position that you took and the position that I now assume is in great place. Your transition points, I appreciate it. And it's really amazing to be a part of and be around you again. You and Sue are very close friends of ours. I've been through years. And I know that everyone in here, you have their admiration and their respect. And as I whispered in the ear yesterday morning, I was sitting out there and I just put my head down and I said, Bill, I'm really sorry that you have to leave for Carolina. Because I know how much you love this area, this community, these groups. But Diane and I wish you the very best. Aloha. I know there's a big challenge out there. And I do believe you're the right guy to write the place, the right time to go out there and make us proud.  Just so I can look at these young women out there, the Marines of the Met. You know, a lot has changed in Camp Lejeune. You come onto the base and General Neville's got his hands around it. But I need a map to recognize where I am again. I've gotten lost already twice in Wall Street. But there is one constant that I noticed right away. It hasn't changed in Camp Lejeune. And that's the grit, the warfighting competence, the tenacity and just that little secret sauce that comes from being in Carolina and being a warfighter from Carolina. It's there. It is evident, Cominon. Every place I've been thus far, the energy is there. And it is just humbling to be back, to be accounted amongst your ranks, to be a part of those ranks with you. And I look forward to serving with you. I know that come to fight, come to win is the motto here at Carolina Magda has always been. And you were right. And I also know that when the nation falls, two men will be very anxious though. So I look forward to the challenges with you. Again, as Bill said, I look forward to seeing you all at the club this afternoon. And I'll personally shake hands and thank you personally. So thank you very much for your attendance. We'll see you there. Simplify. 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Hello and welcome to International Daily Roundup by People's Dispatch, where we bring you some of the major news developments from across the globe. Our main story is, China seems to effectively contain the coronavirus outbreak even as the total number of cases crosses 340,000 worldwide. Gaza reports its first COVID-19 infections, putting authorities and international bodies on high alert. Guinea goes to head with elections despite a coronavirus outbreak and boycott calls. Amazon workers win crucial fights for paid time off amid the coronavirus outbreak. In our first story, with over 340,000 cases reported so far, the coronavirus continues to spread across the world. China, where the outbreak originated, has reported only one new infection in the past five days in the local level, with increasing indications that the country has been able to successfully contain mass infections. On the other side of the world, Italy has for the first time in days reported a slowing down of deaths caused by COVID-19. Italy recently replaced China as one of the epicenters of the outbreak, as it reported the highest number of active cases and deaths in the past week. The US is now the country with the third highest number of cases after China and Italy at over 35,000, with over 15,000 cases being reported in New York alone. President Donald Trump is coming at a heavy criticism as the federal government comes across as slow in responding amid a major shortage in protective equipment. In India, authorities are on high alert with many lockdowns being announced in over 80 districts until March 31. India so far reported over 425 cases with eight deaths. The Gaza Strip has reported its first two confirmed cases of coronavirus infections. The Ministry of Health in Gaza announced on Sunday that two Palestinians found to be infected with a virus had recently travelled to Pakistan, they are in a stable condition. The Health Ministry also added that the two have been quarantined near the Egyptian border since their arrival. The Gaza administration led by Hamas has been on high alert ever since the infection broke out across the world. The authorities have taken measures to prevent large gatherings including closing down all restaurants, cafes, reception halls and even suspended Friday prayer congregations in mosques. The administration requested the residents of Gaza to exercise caution and begin social distancing. Following the news of the COVID-19 cases in Gaza, a delegation from the World Health Organization reached the region to assess and monitor the situation. The United Nations had earlier warned that the spread of the deadly disease to the Gaza Strip would be catastrophic. Gaza has been under a criminal blockade by Israel that prevents nearly 2 million people from accessing essential goods including medical supplies. Gaza also faced routine bombardment and attacks from the Israeli military which has absolutely devastated and diminished its public health infrastructure. The West African country of Guinea conducted a general election to vote for a new parliament on Sunday, March 22nd. The election happened despite a boycott called threats of violence and the global coronavirus pandemic. The election was held across along with the referendum to decide certain crucial amendments in the constitution. The National Assembly, which is the parliament of Guinea, has 114 seats for which more than 43 parties are contesting. President Al-Faqani's rally for the Guinean people had won the last elections in 2013 with 53 seats. The crucial amendments that are part of the referendum include an increase in the presidential term from the present five years to seven years. This also means that though the current two term limit will remain in the constitution, if the proposed amendment gets through, the incumbent president Kondak can contest again for two terms. His present term is set to end in December. Other crucial amendments proposed include a ban on female genital mutilation, underage marriage, and equal rights of divorce for women. Major opposition parties, the United Democratic Forces of Guinea, headed by former Prime Minister Selao Diallo, and the Union of Republican Forces had given calls for boycott, objecting to the proposed extension of terms for the president. They also accused President Kondak of electoral fraud and authoritarian tendencies. The vote was originally scheduled on March 1st. It was postponed due to allegations of fraud in the voter list. The regional group, the economic community of West African states, or the Echo Wars, had intervened and asked for the removal of around 2.4 million names, which are allegedly fake. The next story, in a major victory for workers' rights in the United States, Amazon workers have secured the rightful paid time off. Workers at different Amazon's delivery stations, led by Amazonians United, have been campaigning for paid time off or PTOs for more than a year. The victory comes as the Chicago delivery station workers got the management to finally grant PTOs as per company policy, making it technically applicable for all.  Workers in California began the campaign for PTO, which spread across the US and was taken up in multiple delivery stations. In July 19, workers at Amazon's DCH-1 delivery station in Chicago had taken up the campaign as part of the Amazonians United for PTOs. The workers there found that Amazon had a policy for vacations and paid personal time off on paper, but did not reflect it in practice. The excuse given then was that the policy was only applicable for full-time workers. But in most delivery stations, almost all associates are hired as part-time workers. But company policy nonetheless grants time-offs and vacations to all associates that contribute at least 20 hours a week, which is pretty much all of them. At a time when the US is dealing with the coronavirus outbreak, paid leave and time off have become crucial national issues. This is especially so for the delivery workers who will be the backbone of the country's fight against the pandemic. That's all we have in this episode of the International Daily Roundup. To read more about these stories, visit our website peoplesdispatch.org and follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.


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What the heck was that all about explaining me how do clover G's end up getting to be a part of this? What is that? Um, what happened is, you know, we was covering, I've been covering dog, you know, I got the idea to, um, I did the, uh, the raven interview that we had nothing to do with it. He knows this, but y'all still going at it. Yeah, we on boss talk one on one. Just just a little bit about that whole case because I seen what later on it seemed like one of your affiliates was on that show was on that the, the, the detectives was investigating him or arrested him.  What the heck was that all about explaining to me how do clover G's end up getting to be a part of this? What is that? Um, what happened is, you know, we was covering dog, you know, I got the idea to, um, I did the, uh, the raven interview that we had nothing to do with it. He knows this, but y'all still going at it. You know what I mean? I did the raven interview and, um, from that point on, bro, a lot of bloggers and niggas thought kind of gunning at me saying that cookie shot got something to do with it. Right? Yeah. So I think we kind of showed that that ain't, that ain't real.  Well, while doing this, I also got to, you know, my own Makita's cookie. You know what I mean? Salute to, uh, you know, uh, to Raven and them to get my own cookie called a Skullberry cookie. Hey, we do it. We're doing a lot. We just, we grind and we turn it up with Memphis. So meanwhile, you know, um, a lot of cash desktop, you know, I mean, a lot of cash desktop gets murdered in Houston.  I remember that. Yeah. Her father is, uh, is, uh, is a Clova G was a Clova G member of ours.   Somebody killed his daughter. We all reach out, give our condolences to him and then me and him start chopping up. You know what I mean?  This is just straight.  Shit and then like that is going on, on, on no ends. You know, besides what we're covering on the, uh, show and the cookie shop and all that, but far as what's going on in Memphis with all the niggas and living Nick, I don't know. So, uh, I talked to him, fam. I'm talking to him every day for about two weeks and he decided he going to come on the show. Bet now because of that chat, we're not going to do it live. We don't, we're going to pre-record it. Yeah. He didn't make the interview, my nigga. And I went to Houston and go see takeoff. You know, we go see takeoff where he got killed and all that. I talked to him. I tell him that we're going to do the interview tomorrow. We didn't, I'm getting ready for the interview. I hit him up. He not answering. You know what I mean? Like, damn, we got to talk about this though. You know what I mean? R.I.P. I look at the news and he didn't make the interview because he was getting arrested for the murder of Dolph. You know what I mean? So yeah, yeah, I looked at the news. He getting arrested for the murder of Dolph.  You know what I mean? I've been hearing these little rumors and you know what I mean about shit, but I don't know what's real and what's not. So yeah, but that's most deputy a dude who used to be. Is he still locked up now? Yeah, bro.  I'm not for show yet. Right now he just, I mean, he's one of the last ones to rest. Yeah, I think like four or five. Didn't I heard that? Well, I ain't going to go with it. I've seen in the blogs and I don't know how really it was that they arrested your guy, his brother.  No, that wasn't real. That was not real. Yeah, big joke has not been arrested. Why did they say that? Because people on cloud. Yeah, bro, cloud chasing conspiracy. Bro, yeah, you know what I mean? A salute to big joke. So you know what I mean? Salute to your guy. Yeah, I don't know. Yeah, I don't know why somebody would say that he was arrested. You know what I mean? They just kept throwing them rooms out there. But there was a lot of rumors going around that whole situation because of Makita cookies and because of Raven, what she said online. I even asked her on here about it. I was like, you the last play, you know, I say you did a video and she told me about why she did it. They are in Memphis, man. If you you can rock with both, you know what I mean? Like most people do, bro. And if you from Memphis, you most definitely got man, you rock with Gotti. You rock with Money Bag. Yeah, I mean, all them niggas in Memphis is the hottest in the South right now. For sure. For sure. In gorilla, you feel me? So sure. Yeah, you in Memphis, man. You gonna rock paper rock, paper rock and, you know, CMG, bro. You a real Memphis. You know what I mean? They ain't about choosing those sides, bro.  They both jam. They both jam. So it is what it is.  I don't give up you for they got to choose a side, man. Jam what you jam.