Hey folks, thanks for joining. We'll get started here in just a few minutes Just trying to round up a few more of the maintainers here to get them on the call so that we can do our vote in a little bit here Thanks for standing by. Hey folks to those of you who are just joining. We are We'll get started here in just a couple minutes. I'm still trying to we have a Vote that we are going to do during this community call and I'm trying to round up More of the maintainers to get them on the call here, but I think another call is running long All right, we've got a few more people joining here. Sorry for the delay. I'm just going to take a quick roll count. One, two, three, four, six, seven. That should be a quorum, but nine, right? We have nine total. Yeah, so we have a quorum now. Okay. Thank you everybody for bearing with us while we rounded some people up here. We're going to go ahead and get started. I'm going to share my screen real quick. So today's, that's the wrong screen. Sorry. Okay, today's agenda is a little bit light, but we do have a vote to bring on new maintainers and as well as a demo of Firefly Court of Integration. So Our last community call we wanted to have a vote and there were some questions, great questions that came up about just the process and There were a lot of things that need to be clarified. So since then we have clarified some of those things. There has been a pull request and an update to the maintainers dock in the Firefly Court repo and there's also been some change to the GitHub structure and teams and permissions and things like that. I won't go into all those details, but Essentially, in each of the repos. Now we have a list of the maintainers for that repo and then there's a link to the wiki page, which has the list of all the maintainers of the The Hyperledger Firefly project proper. And if you want to see who all the maintainers are on a per repo basis, you can see that in GitHub now and there is a list of all of the repos And then their respective maintainers on this list here. So that's how things are structured. So we're going to hold a vote today to add two new maintainers Just to clarify. So the questions that came up last time is the vote to to add them to a particular repo. The answer to that is no And you can read about that in the details of the maintainer process here. The specific decision of which GitHub repos and maintainers given responsibility for does not require a vote and is left up to the discretion of the existing maintainers for that repo. And that's just handled through the access to a specific repo is just handled through GitHub teams. So The vote is to add someone to this list here that we have on the screen and that sort of designates them as a Someone who holds a shared responsibility for the project and meets the expectations and requirements of being a maintainer. So does that make sense. Any other any questions before I make the motion to officially vote. Okay. I suppose we should probably do each of them separately. So I will I will motion to add Matt as a maintainer to the Hyperledger Firefly project. Do we have any seconds. I'll second. Thank you, Jim. Jim, how how do we just want to roll call verbally roll call one at a time. Okay, let me just switch. I'm going to stop screen sharing for this so I can see the zoom screen. Maybe good measure to use different orders between the two. Sure. All right, I'm, I'm taking notes and I'm just going to call your name. So the motion here, which has been seconded is to add Matt as a maintainer and say, yeah, your name will start with Andrew. I vote yes. Okay. Hayden. Yeah, Alex. I vote yes. Beno. I vote yes. Jim. I will yes. Peter. I vote yes. I vote yes as well. And I believe that is everyone that we have present and that is a majority. So the motion passes. I'm going to add Chung as a maintainer. Pardon me. Second. Thank you, Peter. All right. Jim. I vote yes. Alex. I vote yes. Andrew. Yes. Beno. I vote yes. Hayden. I vote yes. Peter. I vote yes. I vote yes as well. Did I miss, I think, I think I would try to randomize the word on time. So I think one, two, three, four, five, six, seven yeses. That is unanimous and we have a quorum. So both motions pass. Congrats. Welcome Matt, who I believe is on vacation at the moment and welcome Chung. Glad to have you officially now a maintainer. I will go ahead and get you guys added to the proper group.  So awesome. Thank you. Thank you, everyone. Yeah, yeah. And I just wanted to recognize the amazing contributions that you guys have already made and looking forward to continuing to do more in the future. Thanks everybody. Okay. That is our first agenda item. Thanks everyone for, for going through that. And our next agenda item is a gym is going to talk a little bit about quarter support with firefly and may possibly have a small demo of kind of where things are at today. I don't want to be on the spot if that's not ready to go. No, I think it still works. So we'll give it a try. So this is Jim. I'm part of the collider. I wrote that connect, which is the connector for far fly to talk to fabric. It can all also be used as a standalone component to provide restful capabilities in front of the fabric network and in the past few days I started revisiting quarter to see what would it take to get quarter supported in that as well. So obviously far fly has a standard set of interfaces that all connectors needs to needs to follow. So I've taken a approach initially to write everything in Java so that it'll be a Java program to speak the API is that far fly needs for a connector. So this is Java is necessary because unlike other protocols that either uses standard Jason RPC with HTTP or, you know, pro above or GBC quarter uses a Java specific interface which is JMS. As far as I know it's not available anywhere else in different language so Java is a requirement. So initially my approach was, I'm going to write everything Java just have a speak the same language that so far we've written in Golan for both Ethereum and fabric. From a in the office discussion, you know yesterday with Peter and Hayden, we realized there may be an alternative approach to sort of shrink the footprint of Java in the solution and use a lot of go so that we don't have to solve the same problem again. So you probably have heard this from either Peter or Matt before that the project far fly transaction manager is sort of a toolkit to create new connectors, you know for any opportunity. So far, it's only been proven with Ethereum. We were going to re implement or or refactor fact connect to fit into that toolkit as well. We haven't done that yet. But I'm going to give it a try to see if I can do that for for our corner. The, the idea is, we will just run the absolute necessary pieces of the code on Java, which is, you know, obviously has to be using the SDK from quarter the quarter RPC ops interface to talk to the nodes natively through GMS and all that, but then have had the rest of the code in go talk to that process through either GNI interface, or I heard there's a new approach called go SDK, which Hayden introduced me to. So we'll see how that goes. But today I'm going to show you a quick demo of what I've got so far with a pure Java innovation. So hopefully everything still works. Okay, so make all this first so I can show you how it's launched. This is, this is in the quarter. Me, make it a little bigger. Okay. So this is in the quarter connect repository. And after I build it a long, I launch it, I want to show you the launch because you are giving the list of core depth jars to the class path. And that so far the, the only approach to have this runtime. You can dynamically load your core core that classes, you know, for both the flow side of things, but also the contract side of things. So you are providing those jars to this runtime through this technique so that they are just part of the class path from the very beginning. You can use URL class loader to load them in at runtime, but only could only get it partially working I was able to load all the classes but somehow the annotations were not recognized. So this is kind of a common issue with dynamic loading of classes. So I tried a whole bunch of things that your people online were suggesting that we're working. So, as a result, so far, the approach that works is you have to provide the core depth jars on the class pass when you launch the process. So you do that, and then the application will launch and then you'll go through the configuration connect to the database and then connect to the quarter note, and now it's kind of ready to go. And even restored a bunch of subscriptions for events I'll show you how that works. So now let's look at some API calls. So the things that you can do at the moment is you can send me transactions. Let me go, let me go ahead and do that. So this is a, this is using the I'll you sample from corda. So to trigger a transaction and in this case we're just doing the issue issue of the I'll you note. There's a issuer and there's a borrower. And what you need to specify in the payload is you need you got to tell corda connect what is your class that will trigger the flow. And that is like this English train. Notice the inner class with this index that's that says standard Java x index for inner classes. Jim, I'm still seeing the terminal. Oh, sorry. Let me reshare. I need to reshare the screen. Sorry. Can you see postman. Yes, okay, cool. Yeah, so, as you can see, flow initiator class. The flow initiator class is specified like this with the inner class. And it only takes two parameters to take off the transactor one is how much you like to issue the note for and then what is the, what is the party as the borrower. Who are you issuing this I owe you to. And you just give it a value that is part of the parties distinguished name. So as you know, quarter uses identities uses PKI certificates for identities. You just have to specify a partial string that's unique enough for that for the parties. The court will not be right. Okay, I need for the game request. Okay. I may have broken something. Okay, that works better this time. So, as you can see, it's successfully kicked off a transaction. And this is the resulting state value is this lender borrower, and there's a linear ID generated for that. So the state can continue to evolve. And, you know, the signers and everything is, is here so this is all decentralized from the transaction results returned by the node. And you can see a bunch of locks from the runtime. Okay, so what if I want to listen to, to some events. I want the, the connector to send me a notification whenever there's a successful event. So I'm going to create a event stream. Any event stream requires you to specify. What is the topic so it supports WebSocket as the channel to deliver the event to the client. You have to give it a topic so that, because the WebSocket can be a shared pipe between the server and the client. So you partition that pipe into multiple topics so you can listen to a different events creams. So you give it a topic and then you can create that event. I think I've already created that so you can see that's already here. So you have the, so event stream represents the pipe in the form of WebSocket between the server and the client, but then we also need to tell the connector what types of events we are interested in. So this is where you create a subscription. Based on the same event stream, you can create many subscriptions to deliver different types of events for the client. So in particular one, I'm going to ask it to give me in all the events that are emitted with this date for this, that's part of this flow. Quarta doesn't have a concept of blocks, unlike other DLTs. Every transaction is kind of standalone. So the only thing to kind of signify a, a, a pointing time in backing history to say all the notes, you know, this note may have been running for a while. And my subscription don't always have to start from now to later events. It can start from the historical point. And the only way to specify that is with the timestamp. So that's why I'm doing here. So I already created that, which is like this. So now we're ready to listen for events. So I'm going to create a WebSocket client and I'm going to tell it that, hey, I'm going to listen to this event topic. Okay, you can see as soon as I told the server I'm interested in any events in this topic. I've already got pushed a bunch of events. So once I, once I acknowledge there are more events coming through. So we don't have any more events anymore. So let's see what happens when we push a new transaction. We're going to give a different value, maybe 20, still the same borrower. Let's see what happens. Okay, so you see this new events now got pushed to us. And we've got the new transaction details. So that's as far as I've got. If you use the quarter, you can appreciate why this might be useful to you. So writing a client quarters is not very trivial. You need to use SDK you need to do a lot of quarter specific programming, preparing the transaction and all that. Whereas here, it's just restful cost with Jason payload and using WebSocket to listen for events, all the standard web application techniques so can be a really useful tool to build a performance web applications against quarter. So that's it for today. More to come. So this is just getting started. There's still a lot of work to do. Thanks, Jim. Yeah. Thanks for the demo. I really appreciate that look forward to seeing where this goes. Any questions from anyone else on the demo that Jim just showed or on the topic of quarter with Firefly. Not a lot of fans. There's some out there, we would get a quarter question every now and then at this court. Okay, cool. Well, at this time, can open it up to any other topics. Any other questions that people have or things that people want to discuss related to Firefly the floor is open. Ideally following up with that I'd like to talk about getting us on the agenda for next month we'll walk through the Tesla's connector. We're deploying it this week into production. Absolutely. Yeah, we would love to see it. That would be really cool. I'm sure there are more Tesla's fans in Florida. And do you do you want me is there anyone you want me to invite ahead of time to review codes before we do the demo and have our conversation next time. Yeah, do you want to, so you can follow up with me either on discord or. I know how to get a hold of you. Perfect. Okay. You said you do know how to get a hold of me or you need to. I do. Yeah. Yeah, that would be great. I would be super excited about that. And I something we can chat about as well but is that something that there's a potential to possibly open source or yeah we're contributing it back. Oh, that would be wonderful. That would be, yeah, that's that's really exciting. So we can chat about that and the details around that as well. Yep. And that the intention is to do that sometime next month as well so where the Warner, our Warner media one is going live and they're all doing all of their badges and NFT stuff for their loyalty all on Tesla so this will be running all those. So, that's awesome. Cool. Yeah, I'm super excited about that so let's let's chat on that. So community calls are usually the second Wednesday of the month. Okay. Yeah, thanks for that Eddie. And any other topics that folks want to discuss today. Not like I said the agenda was a bit like today. But if not happy to give folks the rest of the half hour back to get back to other things they need to do. So last call. I'll shut it down. All right, thanks everybody hope you have a great rest of your day and see you next time for an exciting Tesos connector demo looking forward to that. Thanks. Have a great day. Bye bye.


The radical, fundamental principles of freedom, rational self-interest, and individual rocks. This is The Iran Brook Show. All right, everybody. Welcome to Iran Brook Show on this Thursday, the 20th. Hope everybody's having a fantastic week and getting ready for the weekend. All right. Just some quick reminders. Tonight, we're going to have Amesh Aduljah join the show. We're going to talk about kind of lessons learned from COVID. We'll talk about vaccines. Vaccines.  We'll talk about potentially biological weapons, which he's an expert on. So we'll talk about all that. That should be a lot of, that should be really interesting, a lot of fun. Hopefully, you guys will join us and also join us with questions and super chats and support kind of Amesh, who is often received, I think, very unjust responses from, what can we call it, our community. All right. Let's see. What else? Remember, today we have a target $250. Michael has got us off to an amazing start with five questions, $10 each. We also got some sticker from Robert Niso and from anonymous user. So thank you guys all for getting us rolling. And yeah, let's just keep it going. Keep it going. All right. Let's see. We have a, yeah, we have a bunch of stuff to talk about. And I kind of added at the last minute, RFK, you know, just because he was in front of Congress. Let me see if I can find this.  And, you know, testifying in front of Congress, RFK said, he basically said, under oath, under oath, that he has never been an anti-vax and he's never told the public to avoid vaccination. Never told the public to avoid vaccination and never been an anti-vax. That's what he said, right? You know, he said, he selectively wants research, he wants people to evaluate, he wants people to think about it, all this stuff, but he never, he's not anti-vax and he never told people not to take vaccines, right? Here's a quote from him from a podcast a couple of years ago, 2021. He says, our job is to resist and to talk about it to everybody. If you're walking down the street and I do this myself, which is, you know, I don't want to do, I'm not a busy body. I see somebody on a hiking trail carrying a little baby and I say to him, better not get him vaccinated. And he heard that from me if he hears it from 10 other people, maybe he won't do it.  And before we were all quiet because we wanted to get along with our families, we just take endless flak. If you talk about this issue, people are scared. You're going to get marginalized from your community.   And there's probably thousands of quotes where he's clearly anti-vax and clearly telling people not to get vaccinated.  So he's not against our vaccination. Ask him what vaccinations he's for. You'll probably get a blank stare. But you know, just again, the lying, the sheer, bold lying that now is just a part of what we expect of our politicians. They just look at the camera and they state bold lies. They do it with a certain, you know, panache. And nobody cares. And they're forgiven. And everybody moves on. It doesn't matter. So, yeah. I mean, the guys, the guys, as we've said in that case, I'm sure we'll talk about this a bit later tonight. All right. Really powerful piece today in the free press, which I've often recommended to you that is Barry Weiss's publication. It's a substack. Used to be Barry Weiss's substack. Now it's called the free press because it's really expanded well beyond Barry Weiss. And I think she's doing a pretty good job of getting a lot of different people writing and even some reporting. And really this whole alternative media that is really coming about on substack is a very, very positive development. News-wise and commentary-wise, you're getting a wider way of views. You're getting substantive articles. You're getting real content depth. I don't think journalism or commentary plus journalism has been in terms of diversity in a better situation than we have right now. We can complain all we want about the mainstream media, but the mainstream media is very non-dominant. You know, the alternatives to mainstream media, they've never been more. And good ones, not just garbage alternatives that they've always been, but good alternatives is pretty amazing. Anyway, a very powerful piece today in the free press about autism by a mother who has two autistic kids. And this kind of reminds me of RFK. And the piece really deals with the fact that the reality is, according to this, and I have no reason to doubt it, and from the little research I've done, this sounds true, the way to autism is skyrocketing. I mean really skyrocketing in scary, scary ways. It is a non-trivial chance now that a child of yours could have autism. It's something like 3% of all 8-year-olds are being diagnosed by autism. And you can say some of that's diagnosis, inflation, but probably not. Probably not. And, you know, so it really is scary in terms of parents. Now we talk about autism and often the examples that are brought up with people like Elon Musk, right? And yes, there's some high-performing autistic kids, but that's a minority. The majority of autistic kids, some of them have IQs of under 50. They can do anything. Even the ones who can are very, very, very difficult and cannot function completely independently in the world out there. And that is the vast majority of autistic cases. And that's a big number. And it's a scary number. You know, I hate catastrophizing, but when I see a number like that, it is scary.  And debunked just somewhat by common sense. You can find other countries in the world which have equal levels of vaccination that have lower levels of autism, although autism is climbing everywhere. Now, autism is a spectrum, but the problem is that a big chunk of the people are at the lower end of the spectrum, at the dysfunctional end of the spectrum. And now it's true that they're redefining other kind of cognitive issues as autism. But even when taking all of that into account, even when you take into account all the redefining that's being done, autism is still rising significantly. It's not true that something like a few percent of people were born in the past with some kind of cognitive problems. So something's causing it. And the challenge, of course, is to figure out why and what. And the problem has been is that autism has become completely politicized. And you have various groups trying to dominate the discussion. And what happens as a consequence, and we'll get into the details, what happens as a consequence is that it's very difficult to do research. It's very difficult to actually have an adult conversation. It's very difficult to actually try to find cures and treatments and ways to deal with it. And the people who really suffer from all this are the parents and, of course, the kids. It's truly horrific. Now, on the left, you have the recent rise of something called neurodiversity. Talk about sick. It's a neurodiversity identity movement. And autism there is considered just a natural difference to be celebrated. We're all individuals. We should all be celebrated, even if we're in a cognitive position where we can't even take care of ourselves. We shouldn't investigate. We shouldn't prevent. We shouldn't treat. We should just accept. I mean, I guess we should accept disease and accept death. That is the logical conclusion. Even though rates rise, what's happening more and more is more and more people want us to just view this as just... This is just the way it is. These are just... These are as normal people as anybody else. There is no such thing as normal. Don't talk about normal. A lot of the research institutions that have a focus on autism have been corrupted by this. You know, they now, instead of doing intense research and funding intense research, they now fund and talk about celebrating neurodiversity. And it's hard for them to... So journals that are publishing articles on this have now said, maybe you shouldn't just have articles treating people with autism as if it's a disadvantage. We need to talk about how we can talk about this without putting these people down. We should avoid terms like disruptive behaviors or challenging behaviors or impairments. We're supposed to see children as disabled only by... Only because society is screwed up, because we don't understand them. They're not disabled, they're just them. It's only by our standard of society standard, by some arbitrary, random, artificial standard, do we view them as bad? Yeah, this is moral relativism gone nuts. The meeting of the Federal Autism Advisory Committee are now becoming social justice theater instead of actually dealing with the issues. And, you know, prevention, for example, is off the table. The worst kind of cases, nobody wants to talk about them.  Ableist is an evil term for you. So, you know, the left has completely corrupted this. And the social warriors, the social justice warriors, the moral relativists, just like they wanted us to embrace deafness. You know, I remember this from the 90s and 2000s, they wanted to embrace blindness.  That's not good. This is how they're born. This is how they are. They want to defend unhealthy obesity. They want to defend anything, any choice, anything that anybody does, except if they don't like it. And this is just, you can see how this cripples the parent's ability to deal with this. It cripples the scientist's ability to do with it, and scientists are condemned. It's just, it's hard to believe that civilization has reached such a low point. And then, of course, on the flip side of this are the RFK and the variety of different conspiracy theories out there blaming vaccines.  And, you know, very few solutions. So I highly recommend subscribing to the free press. Generally, I recommend reading this post. It's very hard to read. It's heart wrenching. I mean, it's written by a mother of two kids with autism, and she tells the kind of problems, the kind of issues that they have to go through. I mean, the big issue regarding vaccines is it looks like the autism is something that happens during development of the fetus. Inside the womb, it looks like it's a problem of, you know, the funnel cortex not developing properly. Not in a way that structurally you can see, but in terms of the way the neurons are connected inside. And instead of focusing on that and focusing on things that can be done about it or things that can be focused on diagnosing it, everybody's obsessed with RFK and with all these other issues. Yeah, I hope they figure this out. All right, a reminder, Michael is alone on the board. Thank you, by the way, Stephen Hopper and David also know for their support. Michael is on the board alone in terms of questions. He has five questions, no other questions. So please consider asking questions in the super chat, $20 questions. In particular, we need $9, $20 questions to get our goal right now. All right, Wuhan lab. So today, the Department of Health and Human Services issued a letter announcing the suspension of Wuhan Institute of Urology's access to U.S. government federal funding, both in the short run and in the long term. Now, the Wuhan lab has not received any federal funding since July of 2020, but it is now suspending all funding. And the reason is that the Wuhan Institute of Urology has disregarded NIH's numerous requests to provide the required materials to back up the research in the grant progress reports. The NIH's conclusion that the WIV research likely violated protocols of the NIH regarding biosafety is undisputed, the memo states. It continues as such, there is risk that WIV, WIV is the one Institute of Urology, not only previously violated, but it's currently violating and will continue to violate protocols of the NIH on biosafety. The WIV, you might know, received NIH funding through its partnership with EcoHealth Alliance, which is a U.S.-based nonprofit, and it collaborated with WIV on coronavirus research, generally, coronaviruses. It hasn't received, as we said, it hasn't received any funding since July of 2020. They have 30 days to respond, although it's unlikely they will respond, but it does look like that relationship is toast, and it's more support, I think, for the idea that the COVID-19 was unleashed by pharma lab, accidentally from a lab, and that the Chinese authorities have engaged in three years now of cover-up of that fact. I think the Chinese authorities know whether it's an animal transmission or a lab leak, they know for a fact which one it is, and they're not disclosing everything that they know about this. So it really is concerning. It would be nice to know from the NIH all the labs that they fund, their locations, and whether they think that these labs are up to the kind of safety standards. The NIH is just another government bureaucracy, and I don't trust who they're giving money to, and I don't trust that they're managing to follow up and making sure that the money is being used the way it should be used and the safety is up to standards. And it's amazing to me it's taken three years for the NIH to cut off WIV given how much they've been stonewalled. Now just as a related story somewhat, another story that hit this week is the fact that it's very likely that official, in spite of what RFK says, that official government data about deaths from COVID in China is probably very, very, very underestimated. That is that the government has purposefully underestimated the number of people who have died from COVID in China in spite of the fact that RFK thinks the Chinese are genetically somehow immune from COVID. During this last week some data was published on a government website that suggested that the number of cremations in an eastern province of Zizhiang rose to 171,000 in the first quarter of this year of 2023. There was 72 more cremations, roughly 70% increase than had been reported in the same time period last year. And this is exactly the same period also that China went off of COVID-zero and opened everything up, right? But yet China's official death toll from the start of the pandemic till today is 83,150. So, you know, an unbelievably remarkable low number. And yet just this one province in one period of time, one quarter, had double the efficient rate for all of China. That these are people who've died from COVID. That tells you something about how much to trust numbers coming out of China and how much China's really been engaged in propaganda to try to hide from its own people. The true cost of COVID and the true cost of what's probably not guaranteed, but probably the leak from a Chinese facility. Rough estimates of the number of people who probably died from COVID in China is somewhere around a minimal of 1 to 1.5 million people. And that's just for when China announced the zero COVID policy, such just in the last six months. Really, in the first quarter of the year, they are estimating that about 1 to 1.5 million people died of COVID during that period. Remember, China did not have a vaccine or to the extent that they had a vaccine, it was a vaccine that was useless and did not work at all. All right, what else do we have? TSMC chip plant. Oh, we'll do this quickly because we don't have a lot of time. Okay, TSMC chip plant. We've been talking a lot about chips, microprocessors. We've been talking a lot about the factories built to build the microprocessors and the CHIP Act was supposed to bring all these factories to the United States. And that was a big push of the Biden administration. Of course, a bunch of Republicans supported it and everybody seems to be very proud of the success of the CHIP Act. Well, I've been saying over and over again that this is not going to go well, that even if they build these plants, they don't have the personnel, they don't have the personnel to run these plants, that there's a huge labor shortage. And somebody yesterday put up, he said, this is nonsense. Of course, we have well-trained people. There's no labor shortage in the United States for people to work in chip plants. As often happens this morning, this is the headline of a story in the newspaper. Apple supplier TSMC delay start of Arizona chip factory. Why, you might ask? Taiwan semiconductor manufacturing company will delay production of its new Arizona-based chip plant to 2025 due to a shortage of skilled labor, the company's chairman said on its second quarter earnings call Thursday. Sometimes I think these people listen to my show and they say, oh, that's what we should say on the earnings call. TSMC chairman said the company is working to send trained technicians from Taiwan to train local workers to help accelerate equipment installation. Now, this is interesting because this is not about running the plant. This is not labor, trained labor who will actually work at the plant once it's open. We haven't even got there. Those problems are in our future because the plant will only open in 2025. But why is the plant being delayed? Because the equipment itself to install it, to literally, I don't know, bolt it into the ground, assemble it, do whatever is needed to actually put together some of this very sophisticated, and this is by the way not the most sophisticated, semiconductor manufacturing equipment. There's nobody in America who knows how to do that, how to put it together and install it. So the Taiwanese are going to have to send technicians from Taiwan to train people in the United States on how to do it and that's going to delay the opening. This is just the beginning. There is a massive shortage of labor, primarily skilled labor, across the board from people who can work in a semiconductor factory who can install equipment all the way to welders and construction workers. There is a massive shortage of labor in this country. And instead, of course, of focusing immigration policy on people who can get jobs here, right now there are 9.8 million open positions, but it's a lot more than that. Those are the 9.8 that are advertised where companies know that there's limited availability. Imagine what we happen once those were filled, companies become more profitable, jobs get done, work happens, and now all of that creates more jobs. There are millions and millions and millions and millions of unfilled jobs in this country, and instead of focusing our immigration policy on that, instead of really making the number one issue today education and how do we fix our educational systems so we have more high skilled laborers, instead of finding ways to incentivize and motivate all the people who don't work today, who are not working today, collecting welfare checks or just sitting in their mother's basement playing video games, how to get them to work. No, I mean, we're much more interested in all these other issues that have, these are the issues that the campaigns should be talking about. These are the issues that really have an impact. Instead, we want to build walls, we want to ban trans, we want to keep women at home if you're on the right. We want to shrink the labor market, not expand it. And no discussion of education, not a zero. All right, talk about innovation. The Fed is finally catching up to countries like China, India, UK, Sweden, and many other countries around the world. They have just launched today something called Fed Now. Do you know that when you send money to somebody, you notice how long it takes, unless you will need to pay a lot of money for a wire transfer, it can take three days. When you deposit a check, it takes days for that check to clear. When you transfer money to somebody using your bank, it can take days, three days usually. It takes three or four days for paywall to clear and actually show up in people's accounts. On the other hand, if I want to transfer one of you money, if you want to transfer me money, we can use Venmo and it just goes like that. Or even some banks, some banks that use Zell, you can use Zell and transfer money to other people. Instantaneously, it appears immediately in their accounts. The reason it takes so long is because the Fed serves as the clearinghouse for all banks. And as a clearinghouse for all banks, it is used old technology where in order to move the money and to credit and debit everybody's accounts and make sure everything's... Even in the world of instantaneous internet, even in the world of instantaneous communication, it's taken us until middle of 2023 to get a system where all of that, very simple stuff that the private sector has already easily done. It's saying that finally the Fed has launched a product that does it all instantaneously between banks. Now, this is not something that's consumer facing, it's something that only banks can use. They will create portals where you will be able to use it. But it does mean that in the future, who knows when, when the banks deploy this, you will now be able to pay payroll instantaneously. You will now be able to send somebody an ACH, money transfer instantaneously. This basically eliminates the need for wire transfers. Everything should be at zero cost, instantaneous, settling of accounts, instantaneous. We'll see how quickly banks roll this feature out, but this is a Fed product. It's completely unnecessary, by the way, because if they just allowed the private sector, the private sector would have had this product available for banks a long time ago. Some banks already have products like this, Zell being one example. But this is the Fed, Federal Reserve basically asserting its monopolistic power and offering a technology solution that is its own, its own technological solution. All right, we are still way short, guys. Michael keeps coming in with more questions, but other than Michael, this is the first ever with all the questions I had from one person, every single one of them. We've got 77 people watching. We had over 80. There's just no excuse not to support the show at least with like a couple of bucks or something. You can use the sticker feature as some of you have already to support the show, but two bucks for everybody watching right now and we've made our numbers. All right, let's see. Last story is about unions. Biden is pushing a strong union focus. He's pushing more unionization. Unions getting involved more in the economy. But here's what happens with unions. I think unions raise costs. They would use productivity. They would use the generally inefficient and unproductive. And indeed one of the costs that they bear and it's a cost that's protected by government is the cost of striking. Right now we see that in Hollywood with both unions, the actors unions and the writers unions striking. But it is anticipated that soon you might see UPS employees strike, auto workers strike and possibly other unions striking as well. UPS in particular strike by UPS workers would really do havoc to all of us who depend on Amazon for everything, right, for everything we consume. So unions are a real challenge and at the Biden administration receives a lot of its votes from unions. 58% of unionized workers voted for Biden in the last election. And he is going to push unions. He's going to encourage them. By the way, again, sadly, people like JD Vance and Josh Hawley and even Trump are quite supportive of unions and have pushed unions as well. What we really need to do is get rid of the laws protecting unions. Get rid of the laws that allow the government to protect them and don't allow, for example, employers to fire them. I'm generally against unions to a large extent because all unions can do is establish a one size fit all solution. Now there's no question in my mind that, for example, in Hollywood there are real issues like with the use of AI instead of actors and how many royalties actors or writers should get from streaming shows and things like that. Absolutely there are real issues that need to be negotiated and settled. But it is also true that we don't know what kind of alternatives are possible because we have one size fit all solutions. If we had either smaller unions or if we had, I don't know what alternatives are, but smaller unions strikes me as a, or just individuals negotiating or different contracts for different studios, different contacts for different streaming services. Maybe we would discover, maybe through the market process of discovery, we would discover different ways to do things. The problem is you get one contract and that contract lasts for many, many years and it is kind of, it is not flexible. It does not adjust to new technologies and new realities, new changes in the world and very difficult to change. And it's a one size fit all. I love experimentation. I love competition. I love to see and why not have competition in contracts? Why not have competitions in royalty payments and different forms of royalty payments for workers, actors, writers in Hollywood, for example. I did make a mistake last time I talked about the strike in Hollywood. I said that these happen often. They don't, there hasn't been a strike of this magnitude where both writers and actors have gone on strikes since 1968. I think it is when Ronald Reagan was, maybe it's even earlier than 1968. I forget now. But when Ronald Reagan kind of was head of the union, there have been strikes of individual unions in Hollywood but not of the two big ones.  Something is off anytime. There is kind of one solution dictated in the whole industry and that it's, and you can't deviate from it. Yeah, so I, you know, if we didn't protect unions and if there wasn't a mentality of protection unions, one wonders what actually would evolve in a free market, how you would solve these problems in a more creative, innovative, competitive nature. All right. Thank you, Carolina. Thank you, Apollo. Thank you, Fendt Hopper. Michael. So we go into super chat questions, right? Even though intellectuals, Michael says, even though intellectuals perpetuate dangerous and destructive ideas, does the fact that the right is comprised of more unintellectual, uneducated people make them more prone to frustration and collective violence? Hmm. Well, I don't know. I mean, we saw BLM. We saw collective violence there. So we saw communism, of course, is extremely violent. You know, so I don't know. I don't think you can make that argument. I do think it's true. Generally, the right tends to be unintellectual and unsophisticated.  That's the best they can do. They're not very creative. You know, Jordan Peterson is probably among the best on the right in terms of intellectuals who are thinking a little bit outside of the box. I don't agree with him, but at least he's thinking. Most of the others are just traditionalists. And that's the framework from which they see everything. And that's not particularly intellectual. It's not particularly smart. It's not particularly sophisticated. So yeah, the intellectuals on the right, and look, generally on the right, people are just not as smart as people on the left. Just sheer brainpower. It's just, you can, you can look at study after study after study. It's just, that's a reality. Education is just one proxy, but there are many proxies for that. And so, but so you'd expect that intellectual and educated people to be violent. And but there's enough of them on the left as well to be violent. So I'm not sure one side is going to be more violent than the other. I do think that the, the, the whole formulation of the problem on the right is much cruder than it is on the left. Maybe they come to the same conclusions and then maybe they're both racist in the end. But the left has these convoluted, you know, explanation, critical theory for why race is important.  It's a cruder form. So I don't know if that leads to more violence. I mean, it leads to both sides, ultimately to violence. John says, Canada is began recruiting USH1B foreigners and so far has about 10,000 applicants, according to Guardian. Yeah, I mean, good for Canada. Canada, Canada is embracing the idea that people are a net asset. They are value added that, you know, people, particularly smart people contribute enormously to your own economy. And they are, they are increasing immigration at rates that are just unprecedented. And I'd say good for Canada. I mean, Justin Trudeau is a monster in pretty much everything except this one area of immigration where this is amazing what they're doing. And one of the ways they can in a sense free ride off of the screening process that the US has already done is by going after American people who've received H1B visa in the United States. Who fear that they won't be able to convert the H1B visa into a green card. Fear that they won't be able to attain permanent residency in the United States and will be denied renewal for the H1B.  Don't, no problem. We're right here ready to take you. I think it's brilliant. I think it's genius. You know, Canada also opened up to Hong Kong. Canada has taken in a lot of Ukrainians. You know, it's taking on some Ukrainians. We'll talk about US immigration policy, which is actually saying under Biden than it is under Trump. And it is interesting. I'll just mention this. And we'll talk about it more that the crisis at the border has been diffused dramatically. The numbers are way down suddenly. What happened? They increased legal migration. They gave people more legal options. And guess what happened? People who would have tried to sneak in are using legal methodologies, are staying in their countries, going to the embassy or consulates, and coming in legally rather than having to sneak across the border. So the crisis at the border has gone. There's no open borders. That's a joke. It is particularly for skilled workers. It is still unbelievably hard to get into this country. It's just that skilled workers, because they have options, don't tend to try to come here illegally. Or if they do come in illegally, they use other methods other than sneaking across the border. But this country is the opposite of open borders. Canada is far closer to open borders than the United States. If you look at the number of migrants into the United States per capita, and you look at the number of migrants coming into Canada per capita, Canada is way ahead of the United States. And it's doing it in a healthy, productive way, and good for them. And this is something that's going to benefit Canada over the long run. Particularly if, and this is important, if they work on assimilation, and if they work on law enforcement. Edward, you're ignorant. You have no idea what I've been given a stance for, or what he does or what he represents.  I mean, Itamar bin Gviro is as close to fascist as a country like Israel will allow, but he's close.  David Arsenal, and by the way, crime in Israel, the crime that he complained about has not gone down since Itamar bin Gviro is responsible for internal security in Israel. He's done nothing to achieve that. David says, striking actors and writers have a legitimate grievance about Hollywood accounting. It books losses and unrelated projects and eats into legitimate residuals. How is it still around? I don't know. But I'm not sure that the right way, maybe because the whole industry functions by one methodology, maybe because there's no competition in terms of royalties, maybe because it's a one-size-fit-all solution rather than studios actually have to compete among each other in the way they compensate the people they work for them. They all compensate in kind of a standardized way. Maybe you wouldn't have survived an actual competitive hiring process in the way that other markets in other markets, these kind of things don't exist. So I am very, very skeptical, not an expert, don't know a lot about it, but I'm very, very skeptical that the solution to these things is another strike where they get to another agreement. And then because, again, it's a one-size-fit-all, maybe the studios find a different way to manipulate the numbers that wasn't projected by the thing and there's no competitive pressure and there's no way to get rid of that because the unions agreed to it. So everybody has to agree with it. So there's no competition is really, really good at these things. Having different alternatives, competing with one another, seeing what works and what doesn't in labor relations is the way to go. It's the way to discover what the best way to compensate writers and actors, particularly in an era of AI, where whatever agreement they come to now, what AI is going to evolve in five years is going to be completely different than it is today. And the agreement today is not going to take into account those advances. And that kind of flexibility cannot be built into a long-term standardized union contract. You need competition. Michael says, did you watch UofL Harawiri's interview with Lex Friedman? It's mostly hot air, intellectuals and social sciences with no objectives, training are largely useless. Yeah, I did not watch it. I don't intend to watch it. I find Harawiri insufferable. I don't like him. His arguments are, I think they're silly. They don't stand up to simple logic and yet he's almost never challenged. He's never pushed. And so I'm really not interested in watching what he says. And I agree with you. It is mostly hot air. Michael asked, Trump just said, yes, I saw this, Xi Jinping is brilliant. Hey, he runs 1.4 billion people with an iron fist. I mean, this is not the first time Trump has repeatedly expressed admiration for Xi Jinping. Trump has repeatedly expressed admiration for all authoritarians. They like authoritarians. He likes authoritarians. He likes their power. He wishes and he said this. He wishes he had that kind of power. He is at heart and deep down and authoritarian. There's no question about it. He just can't get away with it completely because of the American political system. But he will do whatever he can to undermine that system to gain as much power as he can. But he has complimented other one. He's complimented Putin. And he's several times complimented Xi and all sent it around the power that they have over their people.  I mean, look what the way he behaved towards the monstrous dictator of North Korea ruled him out in my mind from being president. That 4D chess thing that he did was so disgusting, so despicable that an American president would grovel before such a monster as the barbarous leader of North Korea is really despicable. Michael says, enthusiasm is common, endurance is rare. Thank you, Iran, for your consistency. Don't have to thank me. I don't know how to do it any other way. Michael says, are some psychological problems above the misuse of free will? Some people are just born with certain wires crossed, presenting with the weight philosophy is worthless. Well, again, I don't know if it's worthless, but there's no question that some issues are beyond free will. That is, some things are imbalances in the brain, things that happen, things that are so deeply ingrained in us or things where there's a chemical imbalance that's either caused by own decisions or caused by some defect where we were born. There's all kinds of things that are beyond our free will. That doesn't mean they can't be dealt with with the right kind of psychology. That's why psychology is a different field than philosophy and it doesn't mean people can't overcome certain psychological issues that are not thinking mistakes but much worse than that. But it requires real work and it requires real effort of them and this is why psychology is a field that's so important because psychology is the one field that can help them get over those kind of things. Alright guys, I'm still looking for two bucks from everybody who's listening right now to get us to the target because we're way off right now. So if you guys can do a $2 sticker, $5 sticker, $10 sticker, $20 sticker, $100 would be good to get us to our target for the day. This would be the first day in the week where we haven't met that target and that would be a shame but it looks like it's going to happen. Alright, last question. Michael asked, do both the left and the right yearn for the dark ages in different ways? Yes, I mean suddenly the environmentalists yearn for us to return to the caves, I think, they want us not to use our environment so they were like minimum footprint. So yes, the environmentalists certainly yearn for that. Of course they all think that nobody has to die and that we can still keep our technology but of course they also have to evade to believe that. They all know at the end that that's what they yearn to and of course we saw from Michael Knowles the yearning of the right to some kind of utopian Christian era where we had nothing. But we didn't have woke. We didn't have woke and the hatred of the left makes the right wants, not the caves, wants the dark ages. Everybody's a good Christian in dark ages. Everybody except the popes. The popes weren't very good Christians during the dark ages. If you've read anything about the way the popes behave back then, pretty horrific. All right everybody. Thank you. I appreciate all the superchatters. Thanks for providing value for value. Those of you who are not listening live and cannot use the superchats, you can do it on YouTube. You can press applause and make a contribution that way. You can become a member. 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Hello, everyone. In this video, I am going to be talking about the lessons that I've learned when it comes to painting with gouache. Through multiple practice sessions and some experimentations, I've gathered some tips and techniques that I'm happy to share with you, but mostly I want to share with my future self because I just want to be able to remember these tips and techniques, and I also want to be able to apply them into future gouache paintings. So because of that, the tips and techniques that I will be sharing in this video definitely cater towards a specific painting style. So if you share the same painting goal as me when it comes to gouache, which falls under the category of impressionism, meaning visible brushstrokes, not too much focused on details, so unblended colors, and just trying to paint things as colors in planes and shapes. And if that's something that you have as your art goal, then hopefully this video can be helpful to you as well. The first lesson that I learned I spoke about in my previous gouache painting video as well, and that is working from dark to light. So I come from a watercolor background and I've also used alcohol markers in the past. And those were my two main media a couple years back. And the way that I used them before was I would actually do the opposite. I would go from light to dark. And the reason why I did that was because building up the layers slowly allows me to have more control of the medium. It prevents me from going too dark too quickly or muddying up the colors, especially with watercolors. And it can also happen with alcohol markers. The first couple of painting sessions that I did with gouache, I did the exact same thing. And that's because it was a method that I was very much used to. Unfortunately, it didn't work because gouache is an opaque medium. And I also heavily rely on my pencil sketches to work as my guide for what to color. So for example, I have a pencil sketch right here and it may be rough, but it gives me a guide as to what the face is going to look like, where the hands are going to be, the placement of the flowers, things like that. And as soon as I lay down a layer of gouache paint on top of the pencil sketches, those sketch marks immediately disappear. So working from dark to light allowed me to create almost like an outline. It's as if I was tracing the pencil marks. I was establishing where the face was, where the eyes were, the nose, the lips, the fingers. All details that I really rely on the sketch for. And then after that, I was able to work towards the mid tones and then into the light areas. And once I kind of have the foundation built, I was able to play around and add way more colors, way more layers, and to build it up into what I was eventually happy with. The next lesson that I learned when it comes to using gouache is to utilize the wet on wet technique. Now this can sound a little bit unconventional, especially because a lot of the tutorials on how to use gouache that I watched or that I read talked about how you have to let gouache completely dry before you add a new layer of paint on top of it. Because it can run the risk of making your colors way too muddy. And that definitely happened for me with how I painted the dress. However, there were definitely other factors that contributed to that and I was still able to fix it. But the reason why I want to use the wet on wet technique for future gouache paintings is because it allows me to achieve a variety of colors, and use in shades, especially when I'm painting one area. And you can definitely see that not just the dress, but also on the skin. And there were two factors that led to muddy colors when I was painting the dress. Number one is the fact that I had absolutely no planning for what I was going to do with the dress, which then led to number two, my complete disregard for what I just mentioned at the beginning of this video, which is to go from light to dark. Now take the skin as an example. With the skin, I knew exactly what I wanted my midtones to be. I knew I wanted some purples for the shadow colors, and I knew I wanted some yellow tones for the highlights. With the dress, the only thing I knew was that I knew was going to be orange. And because of that, I ended up laying down the only color that I knew I was going to use, which ended up becoming the midtone. And then I kind of panicked, started adding the dark tones and then adding some highlights on top of that, which resulted in great colors. And even though it resulted in some muddy colors, I think this is still a great initial layer because I was able to map out the shadows and the highlights and all of that. And I was also able to determine the colors that I want to use, like for example, maybe blues, reds, yellows, and those are all going to be colors that I will use once again after this initial layer has dried. And I will go back on top of it to then refine how I painted the dress. With that said, I would still like to use the wet on wet technique, especially for future gouache artworks. Is it beginner friendly? Probably not. It definitely runs the risk of overworking your colors very quickly or resulting in muddy colors. However, my main takeaway isn't to avoid the technique altogether, but my takeaway is to plan ahead. Even if I just flesh out the colors that I want to use, for example, the dark tones, the midtones and the highlights, as long as I kind of have that planned out before I actually start laying down the colors, then I feel like I am good to go. What I like with the wet on wet technique is, for example, when you're laying down a brush stroke is at the beginning of the brush stroke, it's a little bit more opaque because there's more paint. And then towards the end of the brush stroke, it's a little bit more translucent because there's less paint. And if the paint underneath that is still wet, it's almost as if you're mixing it directly onto the canvas or the wooden panel. And so it creates a different color without me having to mix it on my palette, which is something that I actually quite enjoy as a process, which is why I would absolutely love to master it in future gouache paintings. And I would also like to note that this painting that you are seeing on the screen is definitely not a demonstration of all of the techniques that I am talking about in this video. Instead, it is more of a painting that led to those learning lessons. So I may have done things that I am not talking about in this video or is the complete opposite, but that is exactly what has led me into that conclusion. And therefore, I started thinking that this is the technique that I want to move forward with in the future, and this is a technique that I'm happy to leave in the past. And the next lesson that I learned is when to actually use wet on dry with gouache. Whilst I definitely love using the wet on wet technique when I'm painting a specific section, there definitely is a time and place for both. And how I like to use wet on dry is number one with highlights. There are three instances where I like to use the wet on dry technique and one of them I already mentioned a couple of seconds ago, that being refinement. So for example, if I laid down some colors using the wet on wet technique and I wasn't super happy with it, the next thing I would do is to let that layer completely dry. Once it is dry, I will then add a new set of paint on top of it to try and refine that area. And that is actually something that I'm going to do not just for the dress, but I'm also going to do it for the skin, for the flowers, for the background, for the hair, all of that. The second instance that I like to use the wet on dry is for adding highlights. And I like to do this because when you're adding a light color on top of what is already been painted, it can actually run the risk of reactivating the gouache paint underneath, especially when you're using water. So what I like to do when I'm adding a highlight is not only wait for the layer underneath that to completely dry, I actually try to avoid mixing water with the light color that I'm using. Because if I mix water with it, it makes it a little bit more translucent, less opaque, which means that when it dries, it can become a little bit dull because it'll show through the color underneath. So I like to lay it on thick. And if I'm also waiting for the layer underneath that to be completely dry, then there's less risk for me to reactivate that under layer. However, I only really try to do this when, for example, I just feel like there isn't enough contrast or there isn't enough pop in a specific section. So I will usually do this, for example, for the face, like I could be doing it for the eyes, or for the lips, or for the nose. The third instance of when I like to use the wet on dry technique is when I'm working on a section that is right next to a different section. And I don't know if I explained that properly, but for example, the flower, I would consider that to be its own section because it's all in the color yellow. The leaves would be a different section because it's all colored green. So I guess you could divide it based on different colors and not so much that like different shades, but more like if they're really different areas. Luckily with this painting, I was working on it for a couple days and I was working on it a couple hours on each day. So it allowed the painting to dry. For example, I worked on the skin first and then that dried and then I worked on the dress and then it dried and then I worked on the background and then it dried. So it was great. All of the edges were pretty crisp. When it came to painting the flowers, I worked on the flowers and the leaves all on the same day. And because I was only working on it for a couple hours, I really just wanted to smash out the painting and to finish painting the flowers. So I got a little bit impatient and I started to paint the leaves whilst the flowers were still dry. This kind of led to the edges to not be as crisp. I was also kind of struggling to paint super close to the flowers with the green paint because I didn't want to end up mixing them together, contaminating my brush with yellow. And so I struggled a little bit with that, but eventually what I will do after this is I will literally let this section dry, let both the flowers and the leaves dry, and then I will come back onto it to refine. The next thing that I learned when it comes to using gouache is the importance of underpainting. The artwork that you are seeing on screen, unfortunately, I actually forgot to add an underpainting, which then led me to the conclusion that I actually really prefer to use an underpainting. I think it just completely adds to the finished artwork. In my previous painting, which I will link in the card section of this video, that is when I tried my hand at a translucent solid block of underpainting, and that is definitely what I've seen a lot of tutorials recommend. You either start with the actual watercolors as you're underpainting, or you can use gouache, but you just really, really dilute it with water so that when you're laying that underpainting down, it's not as thick. Therefore, you're not risking the paint getting reactivated, especially when you start layering your colors on top of that. For this painting, when I was adding the flowers and the leaves, that's definitely when I realized how much I would have preferred this painting if it had an underlayer or an underpainting. And that's because there's gaps between the flowers and the leaves, and I feel like instead of it being white, it could have been a nice pop of color or it could have been a color that ties in all of the colors that I'm using in this painting together with either a general warm tone or a cool tone, or it could have been a contrasting color to really either make the colors pop or to desaturate the colors. There are so many things that you can do with an underpainting, and that's what makes me excited to actually use that in future gouache paintings. So because I didn't have an underpainting underneath this, a lot of the white is showing through, and so I had to go in with a darker color, kind of very similar to my background color to try and fill in those gaps. But I've definitely seen a lot of artists, especially who use a solid block of color as their underpainting, that usually leave gaps between sections to let that underpainting shine through. I am yet to use that technique, but I'm definitely a fan. I think it looks great. It really adds a lot of interest and it really makes the colors just pop. So this is definitely something that I would like to bring forward with my future gouache paintings, and I can't wait to use it for the next one that I create. And those are some of the lessons that I've learned. I feel like as I do more gouache paintings, there will definitely be a lot more as this painting has proven. It is not a demonstration of all of the learning lessons that I am mentioning or that I have mentioned in this video in one painting. In fact, it is the opposite of that. I did a lot of the things that are the opposite and I realized that, oh, I actually prefer this method. So I am yet to do way more experiments and way more practice sessions with gouache. And hopefully I can learn a lot more with this particular medium because it is very fun to work with. It can be very forgiving and challenging at the same time, which is pretty exciting. And if you are looking to learn more about gouache, I have actually gathered a lot of the videos and tutorials that I have read and I've watched so you can also practice using gouache for your own paintings. And if you want to watch another gouache painting, that will be the next video.


to have the scholarships and in-state tuition that made that possible. I'm Anthony Spinella. I'm from Chelsea, Vermont, so it's about an hour south from here. I'm in the College of Arts and Sciences majoring in neuroscience and minoring in economics. One thing I would tell Vermont students coming up is that though UVM is in Vermont, maybe it's too close to home, I'm just going to tell you right now it's a totally different world when you come to campus. When you come to campus, you're not just taking classes with other Vermonters, you're taking classes with people from Massachusetts, from Colorado, from California, from across the seas, from China, from India, from Europe. There's just so many new faces and new people coming from so many different places to campus.  You still have great access to those places while also having a social setting that is much different from home if that's what you're looking for. When I came to get involved with clubs and other activities, I think I started right off joining the gymnastics club because I'd never done that. I thought, oh, that'd be interesting. And I found out I am not fit to be a gymnast, but I was glad that I had the opportunity to try that out. I also did salsa, which was kind of fun. Part of the pre-medical and neuroscience clubs are on campus. So there's just a lot of opportunity for you to pick and choose, especially during your first semester, to try to find some things you're interested in, maybe some things you haven't tried before, which is what I did with salsa and gymnastics. But I had a lot of fun with those, and then I ended up getting involved in other ways. I'm currently a resident advisor or RA on campus and reapplying. I was an orientation leader last summer. I've helped out with the Honors College and Mittens doing student panels and things like that. So there's a lot of different ways that even beyond clubs that you can help your university, help your community, and make this campus a lot of fun to be at. I know a lot of Vermonters are worried about the academics when they come to UVM. The other thing, it's going to be too easy or they think it's going to be too hard. And I just want to tell you that it'll be whatever effort you put into it. Professors hold office hours and really love the talk with students. So if you feel like you're struggling, you can go talk with a professor. If you feel like you're not being challenged enough, you can go and talk with the professor and they can give you extra work or ask you more challenging questions. They can point you in the right direction to more challenging classes that are on campus. They can point you towards research. They can point you towards internships. There's so many different ways that the professors themselves and also the academic community make sure everyone is getting met at the level that they need to be met. I'm a neuroscience major, economics minor on the pre-med track. My first semester I got involved with the pre-medical enhancement program or PEP. Basically first years can get, they can apply to this program and it's a three-year commitment where every year they pair you up with a physician or someone in the UVM health network. I'm currently shadowing some Dr. Telleran in the University of Vermont Medical Center who works in internal medicine. So I go and shadow her for four to eight hours, once or twice a month, which is a really great opportunity. You get to see real patients. You get to see real doctors making real diagnoses. It's really, really cool.


Who needs him at this point? That was cheap! How's it going everybody? Datu Doi here back with some more Dragon Ball Fighters rank matches and today we are playing a Broly team. This is actually a pretty specific Broly team as well. I believe it is Verdane's team. I hope I'm pronouncing that correctly. But basically he is a very good Broly player that competes at like the top level and this dude is a beast. So I just wanted to try out his team and see what it kind of feels like to play with Broly. Oh I dropped that.  Also we're on PC because uh oh I dropped that too. We're on PC because I want to hit Super Saiyan Rose on both my accounts. No! So we can't afford to be getting hit like that. All right let me back that up. Oh wow that was kind of cheap. That was kind of cheap. Went behind that. Is he gonna snap me out? Okay. Big bang attack actually caused me to miss. Oh this dude is a living legend so there's not too much points on the line since we're not exact same rank. He just took off for the hills. My boy started sprinting. Empty jump low.  The PC is a bit advanced. Got him all down. Is this death? If he wants it to be, wait now that's still kill. That was kind of crazy. No way dude. I can't. No I can't accept that. Let me get this work. Oh I missed time. The media and everything. I just got the classics dude. Oh he drops it. Nice use of the big bang. Is that death for Broly? It be not.  But it don't be like that all the time. Only some of the time baby. Is that my turn? I'm dead. Oh I'm not dead. Dude he thought I was gonna go for the command grab. The classic Broly 50-50. And it definitely is a 50. You can't react to the grab. It's too fast. All right he's got the air coming on me honestly. Oh smack that fly out of the air.  This team is good. I can feel it dude. My cell is a little rusty. We lost Goku early but the cell assist is just so good for Broly. Yup. Let me call that out real quick. Call out the reflect with it. Now we actually have the lead here. He can go back to Broly anytime we want and he'll come back out and play the neutral for us. Oh this is intense. Big hit but we don't get the hit we want. The conversion we want. That's fine. Y'all know Cell's pretty busted. Let me hit you with this real quick. I hit the wrong direction. That was good. That was good. Waited just long enough to avoid it. Now we're catching the sweep. Oh do that again. Never mind. I got a little too big dude. I was like I wanted that to see the Super Dash again. My dude put the pressure on instead. All right we have sparking though. So we just wait for him to spark and then pop it. Oh no. Wow. Okay. He wants a hard knock that instantly. He wants this win. Do I deserve to be alive? Nah. We win. I'm not dropping it there baby. We win. Oh that was intense. How many points does he lose for that? Because we might be looking at the age old speedrun tech. If we get two wins does he have to bounce by law? For those of you that are unaware if you rank up or rank down in this game ArcSys made it so that you instantly leave the lobby. No more no more rematches.  Okay. We meet again. 2000. I think he thought I was gonna leave but I genuinely could not see the screen. All right well we got our second match here. Let's see if this goes any better for us than the first one. Overhead.  My dude just cut in. It's nicely done dude. Guide me with the 6M. The deadliest weapon in anybody's toolkit. Level three for the hard knockdown already. Is it sparking time? We've gotten mixed one too many times in neutral here. So I'm gonna go ahead and pop that. Let's get it. Big call out. Oh he called me out again. Nice. See this is a good match dude. Mediums. You can't use the medium version there. 6M. This guy is good. Like genuinely his stagger pressure is really good. That's so dangerous. Yeah that was so bad. I thought that would be a bit quicker. Broly would hold him off for a little longer but that was one of those things where you think about it.  That just does not go how you want. Knock him down. Oh sparking early. Oh nice punish but that's not gonna get him very far. Block that. Thank you. Thank you very much for actually blocking that. I can't tell you how much I appreciate it. Let's go ahead and get Goku back in because he does not have an air level three. Send him. One two one two three. Oh it was risky. That was the first blocks into the game for Broly. Oh put the pressure on. Cross up. Broly's too tall. This is what I'm talking about when I say the ranks on PC are more varied because there's less players overall. This guy would not be super saying god rank on PS4. Well I guess that depends on how much he plays. I don't know how to do the Broly rejump combo. And that sucks because that's a pretty impactful part of Broly's game. We are dead here if he wants to spend three bars he totally can and he will get the kill. I think he knows it. Yeah he knows. Three bars gets the kill there. A good way to tell is if he drops below that sparking line then you're safe to spend the meter. All right nice we actually we've managed to clock him there. We need Goku back. No we're dead. All out. Nice. Good defense as well. He does try to optimize it and he hits it too. Okay. Okay. I tried jumping.  I wanted to try to jump back instant air dash in and get him with that overhead. Didn't really work out for me at all. Don't extend off that. Thank you. Didn't delay it enough. Oh thank goodness. Oh and I crouched. Jump jumped in his face and crouched. Great game to that guy. This guy's good. You can't let the you can't let the rank look at it like that. A network error prevented the data from being updated. Okay. I don't really care about what I don't really care about the data being updated. I do care about is this guy staggering in my face like this six M backward. Oh I love games like this. I love Bardock's stagger. I love Bardock's normals. Something about it just looked great. I like him. The pressure is real too. You know you don't get the same feeling. I guess cell kind of gives off the same vibe. He doesn't want to see any big stuff optimal. Oh I thought I was far enough to get another crouching light. We're dead. We're actually dead. That early our Broly team doesn't have Broly.  Oh come on. Then there's my stagger pressure where I just let stuff slide. Oh no I got hit by a 2M. I try to go for a crouching light and he just blew it up. This is big damage. I would level 3. Yeah I mean that works. He didn't get a lot of damage off the beam. But we're sparking here anyway. Kind of cheap. Kind of cheap. We like that. The beam got a hurry up dude. Sacrifices 3 bars. He would rather have the corner and the blades of judgment set up. But I think we just oh we don't even get to we don't even get to tag Zamasu's bus. Zamasu's talking. Super Dash comes out just in the next time. Oh try that again. Oh if you're testing my offense I'm gonna have to test that defense. No vanish used either. So we save all that bar. Give me all that 5 bar. I'm saving up. I'm gonna buy something nice for Christmas this year. Oh he wasn't on the ground. Oh we got that. Give me all of this dude. Give me all of this. Oh I couldn't clash. Key blast. Not good enough. I'm gonna have to double vanish here. Double up on the vanish. I know it's scrubby but no the big punish and Goku just dies for that one mistake. It was a mistake I shouldn't have made. That was great. All right just pop this dude. All right vanish again. We wasted a lot of bar here. Dude I just made a call out post on twitter.com. I knew he was gonna try to cross me up there. I just felt it in my bone. Um I'm getting on it for that. Dragon rush. He didn't see it coming though. Sorry if I'm going silent but this is uh this requires attention. What are you doing in my airspace? Let's go. Why is this like one of the best matches I've had in weeks? Connect me back to the server please. I'm trying to get this full set. One to one right now. One to one. And people said it wasn't possible to have a good match on PC baby. This is the good stuff. Wow I almost got bar docked. Yeah we did. I messed up but whatever. Oh he called it out. Nice vanish. Guard cancels. Oh what if I just no come on stop dropping it. Oh let's go Super Dash at the last second. Dude we're good. Yeah that felt good. That felt pretty broly.  Let's go I might have dropped 16 combos but he couldn't handle the broly. In the corner he knew that command grab wasn't coming but the secret was it never truly was coming. Oh that was a quick jab. Quick jab in the corner he didn't let me get my fresher started. That was probably the best decision because I was gonna jab into a single command grab. That's it that's it that's a dead that's a dead bar dock. Broly let's go. Oh my god I'm not even doing the re-jump combos but who needs them at this point. That was cheap. Hold on a minute can we talk about how cheap that was. Oh this character is cheap. This character is cheap. I love cheap characters dude and this guy is cheap. Oh wow we've got the data downloaded. Hopefully he doesn't download my my my update pack as well because I really can't handle it. Yeah we're back. Just in time for the it rematch. You thought it was over so did I. No dragon ball please. It was a joke. I didn't think it was over.  All right well I'm gonna have to call it there as you can see I think the servers are down for good for me. We didn't get any lag in the game though I can at least appreciate that. Hopefully you guys enjoyed this if you want to see the return of the Broly team just let me know or hey if you have any other team recommendations that you want me to try out make sure you leave them down below in the comment section. 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