Hi friends, welcome back to my channel and a very special welcome if you're new here. My name is Jen. I'm a certified weight loss and nutrition coach and today is Monday, so it is meal prep day. I have three amazing recipes for you. I mean, really, really good. This is probably one of my favorite meal preps that I've done in a long time.  Subscribe if you're not. Turn your bell on because we do a meal prep every Monday and I upload five videos every single week. Don't forget to check out the description box down below. I will link my recipe website at the very top. That is where you will find all of my recipes as well as nutrition coaching for personalized macros and calories. Highly recommend and one-on-one coaching as well. Links, discounts to all my favorite things and come join our Facebook group. We'd love to have you. So let's hop on into the kitchen for this amazing meal prep. For breakfast this week, I'm making a loaded hash brown casserole. We're going to pack in the protein, creaminess and goodness. So let me show you what you'll need. You're going to need a bag of Southern style diced hash browns. You could probably use shredded hash browns, but the recipe does call for the diced. It calls for two containers of sour cream. I am going to do half sour cream, half non-fat plain Greek yogurt. That is going to lower the points, lower the calories, lower the fat and still give that creaminess of the recipe. Two cans of low-fat cream of chicken soup, center cut bacon. This is the pre-cooked, ready-to-go bacon, light shredded cheese, an onion, garlic, salt and some pepper. So to make the hash brown casserole, it's actually very, very simple. Everything goes into one bowl. So we're going to add our bag of hash browns. You want the whole 32 ounce bag. I have eight slices of crumbled bacon. I'm going to put three quarters of this in with the hash browns. Go ahead and reserve some to top the casserole. I have one cup of light shredded cheese. Again, I'm going to reserve about a quarter of a cup, garlic, salt, pepper, the diced up onion, two cans of the low-fat cream of chicken soup, one full container of sour cream and then eight ounces of non-fat plain Greek yogurt. And then mix that all together until fully combined. Here is the hash brown mixture. That's going into a nine by 13 sprayed baking dish. And then go ahead and just spread that out in the bottom of the baking dish. Then we're going to top it with the cheese that we reserved as well as the bacon. We're going to put this into a 350 degree oven for about an hour or until it's golden brown. One hour later. The amazing loaded hash browns are out of the oven. They smell so incredibly delicious. Look how good this looks. I'll go ahead and put points, calories, macros and serving size here on the screen for you. But this is going to be the perfect breakfast this week. I think I'll pair it with a side of my favorite fruit. For lunch this week, I'm making spinach orzo chicken salad with feta. You can also sub goat cheese. So let me show you what you'll need. You're going to need a vinegar of your choice. I actually only have this orange dark balsamic vinegar that I bought locally. You can really use any vinegar and any oil of your choice. I have this Italian herb olive oil, honey or maple syrup, Dijon mustard, orzo pasta, roasted red bell peppers in water. You're going to need some fresh basil. Yes, my basil plant is still alive. Really proud of myself for that. Salt and pepper, tomatoes, little cherry or grape tomatoes, baby spinach, chicken of your choice. I'm using the pre-cooked white meat shredded chicken from Sprouts. I'm going to use feta cheese. I am not the biggest goat cheese lover. So I'm going to do feta and some green onion. So I went ahead and cooked one cup of uncooked orzo per package instructions. I did chop up about three cups of baby spinach, chopped up my package of tomatoes, a couple tablespoons of fresh basil, my green onions. I went ahead and did the whole jar of the roasted red peppers. The recipe calls for half a cup. I just did the whole jar. So it's more like a cup. And then I have about a cup and a half of chicken. So first let's put together the salad portion and then we'll make the vinaigrette or the dressing. So I did add my cooked orzo to a large bowl. I'm going to add in my chicken, roasted red peppers, tomatoes, green onion, chopped up baby spinach, fresh basil and two ounces of feta or goat cheese, whatever you're using. And then we're going to mix all of that together. We'll set this aside while we put together the vinaigrette. Now for the vinaigrette for the salad, we're going to do two tablespoons of whatever vinegar you're using, about a tablespoon of Dijon mustard, a tablespoon of honey or maple syrup and a tablespoon of oil. And then lastly, some salt and pepper. And then stir that all together and we'll add it to the salad. And then mix in that vinaigrette really well. This is a cold pasta salad. I will tell you, it smells incredible. I can smell the basil, I can smell that vinaigrette. This is a great way to get in a ton of protein and some really healthy vegetables. And here is the orzo spinach pasta salad. Again, lots of protein, lots of good greens, good vegetables. Now this entire bowl technically makes four servings. I feel like that's a really large portion. So I'm just going to have to see how it goes as I plate this up throughout the week. But I will go ahead and put points, calories, macros here on the screen for four servings. Four sweet treat this week. I'm making blueberry cheesecake cupcakes. I'm super excited for these. So let me show you what you'll need. You're going to need fresh or frozen blueberries, graham cracker crumbs, sweetener of your choice. This is Lakonto granulated. It's my all-time favorite sweetener. I will link Lakonto down below with 15% off for you. Sour cream, you'll need some type of jam. The recipe calls for blueberry jam. I'm going to use chia smash. This is a healthier alternative. I'm out of my blueberry, so we're using raspberry. We're just bringing in all the berries. And then you'll need some vanilla extract, eggs, lemons, and cream cheese. So the first thing I did is add my cream cheese to a bowl. I'm going to mix that with my handheld mixer until creamy. I'm going to zest in a full lemon. Then we want about two tablespoons of lemon juice. And then give that another quick mix. Then we're adding in one half of a cup of Lakonto, one cup of sour cream. And then give that a quick mix. And then we're going to add in two eggs and our vanilla extract. And then one more mix. And then we're stirring in two cups of fresh blueberries. We're going to go ahead and set the filling aside. So I sprayed my cupcake pan with some nonstick cooking spray. I'm going to add a tablespoon of graham cracker crumbs into the bottom. Then we're going to scoop our filling in and we want 12 cheesecakes total. Our cheesecakes are going into a 300 degree oven for 30 to 40 minutes. While the cheesecakes are in the oven, I'm going to mix together the blueberries. This is the topping for the cheesecakes. We're going to mix this together. And then I'm just going to toss it in the fridge until the cheesecakes are cooked and cooled. So I have one cup of fresh blueberries. I'm going to add two tablespoons of jam. Again, you can use whatever jam you want. We're going to stir that together. You want those blueberries to be shiny. I'm going to put some saran wrap on here and again, throw this in the refrigerator. I just pulled the cheesecakes out. You want to make sure the center is still a little bit jiggly and these look perfect. They do need to cool at room temperature for one hour. One hour later. So the cheesecake cupcakes are completely cooled. I just pulled the blueberry mixture out of the fridge. I'm going to top each one of the cupcakes with some of the blueberries. And then we're going to sprinkle a tiny bit of graham cracker crumbs on top. And then lastly, we're going to top each one with a lemon slice. And there the blueberry cheesecake cupcakes. I am so excited to have these all week. Go ahead and put them in the refrigerator until fully cooled, fully set. Then you can put them in the storage container and then keep them in the refrigerator for the week. I will go ahead and put points, calories, macros, per cupcake here on the screen for you. Thank you for joining me for this week's meal prep. I hope you are as excited about these recipes as I am. Don't forget they are all on my recipe website which is linked at the top of the description box for you along with nutrition coaching, links and discounts to my other favorite things. And don't forget to come join my Facebook group. We'd love to have you over there. Happy Monday friends and I'll see you all in Wednesdays. What I eat in a day.


Yes, so as you know, here's our course webpage in the schedule you can find where we are now We're at the general introduction, which I have open here In the presentation mode, yes so Welcome everyone to this kickstart course so What's this course so day one is sort of a big picture day we talk about high-performance computing and Some other practical skills. It's mostly lectures and demo. So you're sort of here watching and It's quite generic. So most of what we cover applies to any Any university you'd be working day two and three is More specific. So it's about using a computer cluster so traditionally this would be called the HPC or high-performance computing cluster, but we're not really getting to the high-performance computing part we're getting to the computing part and being able to Say run one thing very many times and so on and we use the altar university cluster tried to as an example But what we say will be actual applicable to others So if you see the examples here and you can probably work through them on your own cluster And then you can be very well equipped to adapt it adapted to your own own sites cluster So who's attending? So we have multiple universities here and we're all using different clusters But like I said We will be very careful about explaining things So You'll be able to know what's specific to us and what's applicable to other people So who's here? So we are ultra scientific computing also officially known as science IT We are running this course and we're running it in collaboration with other universities as part of the finish computing competence infrastructure which used to be known as the finish grid and cloud infrastructure and Before that the finish grid infrastructure Basically, it's the network of universities that do scientific computing and it's The teams that support it and there's one talk in collaboration with csc that's later today So some practicalities So Yeah, we already talked a little bit about how things works, but why are we doing this twitch thing? so Our point is that we have a live stream broadcast like a tv production Which means that anyone can watch which is something that Well, people don't really do with the zoom meetings and we have process for exercises So it's like a commercial break. So then at that time you go to your own groups and you do things So we have a zoom for the people who've registered from finland And in here, there'll be different breakout rooms where you Do the exercises and you can get help depending on your university and with different people and so on So with 260 people registered and more than 200 watching the stream right now It's going to be difficult to get as much of personal interaction as we would otherwise But we'll do the best we can It's better to say things than not and you'll learn about how you can get more one-on-one support later on So within the workshop, there's different things you'll experience. There's talking and demonstrations which are on the Stream here, then there's type along where we'll be doing some task and then you can type and follow There's exercises Which you can do different ways and there's breaks And we'll basically be following along tell you what's going on trying to make it clear And if you ever get lost if you open the hack md and scroll to the bottom You should find information about what we are currently doing Let's see the chat and communication So yeah, please don't use the zoom chat for questions There'll be too many for us to keep track and they'll get lost and even if we answer the Uh, what we write will just go into nowhere and no one can ever see it again. Instead we have hack md So here there's indications of the sections we're on the parts of the sections You write questions in bullet points. There's answers more down There can be multiple answers per questions and To ask new ones at the bottom I think most of you have already found how to switch between edit and view mode Please try to stay in view mode if you're not actually editing. We think that helps makes things a little bit more clear Let's see So it's important to not get overloaded here if this is anything like our previous courses There will be a lot of information In this hack md people will be asking so many questions so Try to leave it open, but Realize the information isn't going away. You can go back and read it later So thank do you want to you need to read the answer to your question right now? Or should you come back later and often it will be come back later um And like I said in dice breaker the hack md is completely public anyone in the world can find it if they know the right thing and It will be There'll be times it will come on the screen here. So don't include any names or anything there ever In other workshops, you would say if you need personal help write a breakout room number and someone can go there So the ice breaker we've already been doing Okay, let's see I've already talked about where do you focus because there's just so much information So the screen share and lecture is the most important thing Um, and then there's your own type long And then there's the hack md, which has things so hack md is more like a passive Watching thing And then of course there's the lesson web page and so on Which you'll be following as needed So the screen arrangement so you may notice we have this really interesting portrait style Stream So that's because we realized that the landscape doesn't really help People that much. I mean you're not watching a movie here. This is a interactive workshop You need a lot of screen space to do your own work so for that we realized to set A vertical share so you can put it on half your screen And the other half we're actually slightly more than half is available for you to work And then after a lot of effort we optimized the right size So you two would not downscale it and so on and so on This example here is using zoom and not twitch But the same thing applies to twitch if you're watching from twitch itself You can put the view into theater mode and it will scale like this a little bit better Or if you're watching via our own Our own other site then It should be ready for you already and then you have plenty of space to share or to have your terminals where you're working The web page maybe hack and de-open in another window so you can follow it and so on So this will get a little bit weird for a few talks today that are based on slides that are landscape style But we will do the best we can Yeah, so there's more than one way to take this course. So first off we have far more material than we can possibly cover So we adjust to the audience so if we don't cover everything or we say, okay We're not going to do this. That's normal Don't panic. Don't think you're missing something all the materials available for self-study later on Also, not everyone needs to take the same path here So some people may want to just watch to figure out how Like how this cluster even works like what what will I be doing in a few months or a few years? And then you're ready later. That's fine Some people may be active and try to do all the exercises and some may be Advanced and want to do even more exercises and go further than we go. All of these are fine You can adjust to how you would like things Oh, I guess I didn't mention here that everything is recorded and will be put on youtube So you can follow along later. So it's fine if you miss anything now um yes So we're a community here So please try to be respectful and helpful to Everyone in the course, especially your fellow learners So there's four little pieces of advice here. I can mention so one everyone's at different levels. That's okay to be expected Everyone will be both teaching and learning Take some time to ask each other how things are going like um You know are Do you need help and so on and when something isn't going right speak up right away If you can't hear us if the screen's too small Whatever, let us know right away Okay, some final notes Okay, here it says recording. So this course will be recorded and put on youtube Um because of the way we're doing it. There's no risk for any of your information to be on youtube It'll just be us the instructors So we don't give you credits for attending this course But there is this online course hands-on scientific computing that covers a lot of the same material And will allow you to get credits And then please join us um We are staff at alto, but anyone here can help us in um Well supporting the computing for the whole university


Good evening and welcome to SNC tonight. I'm your host Carl Jackson sitting in this evening You can follow me online all things social media at the Carl Jackson show whether that's x Instagram Facebook true social getter Wherever I am the Carl Jackson show and please as well follow my podcast the Carl Jackson show wherever you go to get your podcast guys We've got a lot of topics to cover tonight a bang-up show for you first. We're gonna start with my guest His name is your Ron Brooke. He's a former Israeli intelligence first sergeant Also, he has his own podcast talking about foreign affairs and it is the Iran Brooke show You're on welcome to Salem news channel tonight Thanks for having me on Okay, so you know you were you were a former Israeli Intelligence is that is that correct? That is true military intelligence. Yes. Okay, so military intelligence. I want to talk to you about the latest developments The US drone striking Baghdad that occurred on February 7 killed commander of the Iran back Shiite militia this according to sent come give us your your take on that and Obviously, it was in response to the three American soldiers that were killed in the drone attack in Jordan, do you do you feel like this is a an adequate response by the US military? No, I don't and and I think that that what the US is doing and this is not a military issue It's more strategic political issue What the US is doing is evading the bigger the bigger question the real issue is the fact that all the instability in the Middle East today from what's happening in Israel and both its Northern front and Gaza to what's happening to with the Houthis in in Yemen to what's happening with American troops in In Iraq and Syria. All of it is instigated by one party in the Middle East and that party is Iran Iran has been behind The the terrorist activity against the US has been killing Americans Since really 1979 when they took over our embassy in in Tehran and we continue to ignore the threat That Iran poses to American security we continue to ignore the threat that Iran poses to to the Middle East and and To American interests in the Middle East and as a consequence we do these pinpricks we take out We take out some officer of the of the Iranian Revolutionary guard or we take out somebody from the Shiite militias or all these things But that's just kicking the can down the road ultimately unless we deal in some way with the Iranian regime All we're doing is delaying. They will come after us. They will try to kill American troops again They will stir up the Middle East constantly in order to get us involved and get Americans killed and and we're just delaying Which is a strategy we've engaged in for 40 years and it's failed completely failed. You're on it Biden Relief sanctions on on the mullahs of Iran I mean they've had they have billions and billions tens of billions of dollars as a result of those relief sanctions They're selling oil up the wazoo. We've hindered our own oil our energy independence right here and the United States of America What what do you think the Biden administration is attempting to accomplish with Iran?  This this simply doesn't make sense to me why Why we won't just destroy these people help me help me figure this out Well, I think the whole idea of destroying people is Not politically correct.  I mean During the Trump administration these same-sheet militias attacked US troops constantly killed US troops and And Bush didn't do anything Obama didn't do anything Trump didn't do anything and and Biden's not doing anything Biden in particular is interested in the deal. They were interested in a nuclear weapons deal They're interested in cutting some kind of compromise with the Iranians where they stop refining uranium and they they commit to not building an atomic bomb and In exchange for that, you know, we allow them to sell oil. I You know Biden is still in spite of the fact that they're shooting across the border He's still trying to negotiate a deal with the with the Iranians at the same time the Iranians are refining a uranium They are if they wanted to they're probably months away from an atomic bomb And yet all we can do is talk to them. You're absolutely right The only way to deal with Iran at this point is to destroy this regime It's to destroy the capacity to generate revenue through oil We could do that by destroying their export facilities. They're all in one place. You could do it in a day We should destroy the capacity to build nuclear weapons. We can do that We know where the facilities are and we should destroy the capacity of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard to inflict pain all over the Middle East again. We have the capacity to do that I think we can do all of that without putting any troops on the ground that and without risk any American lives I'm so I'm so thankful that you said that you're on because I know even people on listen my side of the aisle I'm a conservative and often out here. Listen. Well, we don't want this long drawn out forever war with Iran And I'm not convinced that it'll take that and you've absolutely just outlined why it wouldn't take that So it's just a matter of I guess political will to get the job done Here we're in a prolonged extensive war with you. That is great. Yes With you on since 1979 at taking our embassy was an act of war killing the Marines in Beirut 244 Marines died in their barracks in Beirut. That was an Iranian operation. Everybody knows that they've been killing Americans for 40 years. We have done nothing. They know they're at war with us. They chant every Friday in their mosques death to America. We pretend we can cut deals. We pretend we can be at peace. But the reality is that conservatives I mean everybody should realize you know the longer you are is allowed to build weapons to build to move towards nuclear nuclear weapons the more risk you're placing American civilians in the American military. OK. We have just over a minute left. So a couple of questions for you. First off we've hit 85 targets that belong to the IRGC. Also we've killed a couple of a couple of generals if you will that Iran backs from Hezbollah. I can't even pronounce their names. But but do you think this will deter Iran. Any I Oda. No slow them down. Maybe in the short run. So they'll they won't launch any any drones for the next two months against Americans. But ultimately no zero. They'll replace the generals. You know just cutting cutting these groups off on the top never works. They keep replacing them. We saw that originally with ISIS. We saw that some extent with Al Qaeda. They regenerate. And unless you go and actually do kind of the root canal work you actually get to the source of this. You're not doing anything to protect American lives. All right. 10 seconds. 168 times we've been hit since October 17th. America has five five seconds. What do we do. We should take out their well facilities. We should take out the capacity to inflict damage on Americans and we should definitely take out their nuclear program. All right. You're on book. We'll leave it there. Carl Jackson M4 SNC tonight. We'll be back in a few


U.S. and South Korea have started joint military exercises. South Korea and the United States started their 11-day computer simulated freedom shield joint exercise. In response, Pyongyang disclosed its first-ever underwater cruise missile launches on Sunday, raising the curtain on military actions which it had repeatedly warned. Amid North Korea's accelerating military buildup, the freedom shield exercise continues for 11 days without a weekend break to enable South Korea and U.S. troops to enhance their combat readiness and combine defense posture under real-war conditions. Freedom shield presents real-world scenarios in light of ever-changing security environments including North Korea's advanced missile and nuclear capabilities as well as lessons from the war in Ukraine according to South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff. The combined military exercises are staged based on the South Korea-U.S. operation plans in order to defend South Korea from the invasion of North Korea and therefore the exercises are defensive in nature, said the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Joint Chiefs of Staff spokesperson Colonel Lee Sung-jun said the South Korea-U.S. alliance will stage the freedom shield exercise without a hitch even though North Korea seeks to interrupt military exercises by conducting provocations such as missile launches. The freedom shield exercise covers every stage of war on the Korean peninsula including crisis management, transition to war and defending the peninsula from North Korean attacks. South Korean and U.S. troops also practice conducting counter-offensive operations and stabilizing the North Korean situation. North Korea's propaganda outlet Yuri Min-Zokiri said the ongoing freedom shield exercise shows an unprecedented extreme level of belligerence in terms of scale and exercise scenarios.


Hello friends, I hope you like the first part of the video on Sonosalpingography using Sonoview, showing the normal delineation of the fallopian tubes. In this second part, let us see some abnormal cases and also advantages over X-ray-based salpingography and saline. This is a case with the history of primary infertility of more than two years. The adenic sap here clear and a small cyst seen in the left ovary. Injection of the Sonoview contrast agent showed this cyst in the left ovary which was filled up with a contrast medium. So what we thought of as a cyst was actually a hydrosalping and in fact there is a hydrosalping on the right side as well which was not seen on 2D examination and we can see here bilateral hydrosalpings and with the contrast persisting within the hydrosalpings. This is a delayed post-contrast study after about five minutes which still showed the contrast within the hydrosalpings. This is another case of a left hydrosalpings showing a beaded appearance. This is the terminal fallopian tube and a delayed spill was seen after about five to eight minutes and a delayed pereovirian diffusion. In this case you can see the contrast flowing in the right fallopian tube right up to the fibril end and an immediate spill but on the left side there is no flow of the contrast beyond the conial end suggestive of a left conial block. This is a case with history of three failed IUI and normal bilateral spill was seen in both the adenic which showed that the fallopian tubes were patent. An examination of the endometrial canal after installation of saline showed presence of thick sine decay within it which was the cause of the infertility and the failed IUI. This is another case with thick sine decay within the uterine cavity and this is an endometrial polyp which was not seen on the 2D examination and which was a cause of infertility. So the advantages of sonovu over HSG and also saline are that the fallopian tubes are very well delineated with sonovu. The morphology of the tubes can also be evaluated especially with 3D reconstruction. Bilateral corneal spasm and pain is a limitation but this was much less with sonovu as compared to saline and even HSG because very small quantity of contrast as small as 2CC was enough to evaluate the tubes and also the spill. It is expensive costing about 6,000 rupees for an ampoule but it can be cost effective if 2 to 3 patients can be pulled in at the same time because just 2CC is enough to delineate the fallopian tubes. Large studies have reported that 3D histero contrast salpingography is a safe outpatient procedure, highly accurate with 100% sensitivity, 67% specificity, 89% positive predictive value and 100% negative predictive value for tubal patency and about 91% concordance rate with laparoscopy. So in conclusion SSG with sonovu is an accurate method for determination of fallopian tube patency but is highly operator dependent. It has a high positive and negative predictive value. It is a simple OPD procedure for initial work up of patients with infertility. Invasive diagnostic laparoscopy can be avoided if the tubes are patent and can be used in only selective patients. Mild to moderate pain was seen in some of our patients but well tolerated and there was no vasovagal reaction or any infection in any of our patients. It has a therapeutic effect also as some of our patients conceived after the procedure especially after the flushing of the fallopian tubes. The uterine cavity, the ovaries and the attic sac can be evaluated for other abnormalities as well and it helps in management decisions whether IUI or IVF should be used. Thank you.


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When you want to know what time it is, a quick glance at your watch is all you need. Even though there's only a slight difference in angle, cells in your brain respond differently to the orientation of a clock hand pointing at 3 versus 4. But not all cells care about orientation to the same extent. Why are some cells sensitive to minute changes while others are only roughly aware? Researchers have now found an answer, and in the process discovered a new type of computational power in neurons. Based on the information they receive from the retina, individual neurons in the brain's cerebral cortex respond to stimuli oriented at particular angles. Some prefer vertical edges, some prefer horizontal edges, and others prefer angles in between. But the extent to which neurons care about orientation or their degree of selectivity varies. Some are extremely choosy, distinguishing, say, between 45 and 50 degrees. Others are more lax, responding only to large differences, like between 45 and 90 degrees. The diversity of orientation preference and selectivity among neurons helps the brain build an accurate representation of natural scenes. Scientists know a lot about how orientation preference comes about, but why some cortical neurons are highly selective while others are less so has remained unclear. To uncover the mechanisms responsible for these differences in orientation selectivity, researchers in David Fitzpatrick's lab at the Mox Planck Institute for Neuroscience in Florida used in vivo 2-photon calcium imaging to visualize the responses of individual neurons in the ferret visual cortex. Cortical neurons receive information from earlier in the visual pathway through tree-like extensions called dendrites. The dendrites are covered with tiny bumps called spines, where information is transferred between neurons. Differences in orientation selectivity could simply reflect differences in the range of orientations the neuron receives information about through its spines. To test this possibility, the researchers recorded the calcium responses of many spines of many individual cortical neurons. Individual spines also preferred specific orientations, and the preferred orientation of all of a neuron's spines together reflected the neuron's overall preference. However, the selectivity of the inputs did not explain the selectivity of the neuron. Instead, selectivity was related to how a neuron's output compared with its input. Some neurons fired far fewer action potentials than expected based on the input they received, indicating that the neurons were filtering out some input. In the most extreme cases, this filtering allowed neurons to be even more selective than the sum of their individual inputs. For example, while both the neuron and the spines might prefer 45 degrees, the calcium response from all of its spines might drop only slightly between 45 and 55 degrees, whereas the neuron's firing rate would fall drastically. How was this filtering an additional selectivity created? The researchers found that spines with the same preferred orientation were clustered along the dendrites, and that the orientation preferences of the clustered spines were more likely to match the neuron's preferred orientation. Their responses were also amplified due to differences in calcium signaling within dendrites with clustered spines versus those without. As a result, the properties of the clustered inputs had a much stronger influence on the neuron's overall orientation preference and selectivity. The non-clustered, non-amplified inputs tuned to non-preferred orientations were filtered out. These results suggest dendrites aren't just passive cables faring information in the brain as previously thought. Instead, the branch has taken active role in processing information, shaping it, ultimately influencing how we see.


Good morning and welcome to Vermont House Judiciary Committee. It is Friday, March 12th. Right. Did I get that right? Yep. Okay. And we are looking at H183 pertaining to sexual assault and consent and we have attorney Michelle Childs with us to review draft recommendations from House government operations regarding the council that is in this bill. So given time, I'm going to give it right over to Michelle. Thank you so much and committee. Thank you for coming early and addressing your schedules and your flexibility. So welcome Michelle. Good morning. Thanks. Good morning. Evan, can you give me the ability to share my screen? That's not the right version. Sorry. I've been having a little bit of trouble with screen sharing lately. Are we draft 1.1? Yes. We've got it on our computer. Can't we just go with it on our computers for now? Sure. Yeah. Can you see it now? Yes. Okay, great. So it says at the top draft recommendations from House government operations draft 1.1 from this morning. And I'm going to go down to the intercollegiate council and talk about the changes that they're going to discuss today. So they had a committee meeting yesterday and I walked them through the whole bill because they wanted to understand the context. And then they had discussion about some tweaks they wanted but they haven't. I just met with the chair about an hour ago and so they had the committee hasn't seen the changes yet. So you'll see the first one, first changes are in the membership. And you recall the earlier draft, the draft is introduced, had a Title IX coordinator from every institution of higher learning, appointed by the Vermont State Colleges. And their suggestion was and they had all the college folks in the room with them getting their feedback is they wanted to go with a Title IX coordinator and a campus based prevention education coordinator from an institution of higher learning appointed by the chancellor at Vermont State College then the same folks appointed by the University of the same folks appointed by the Association of Independent Colleges so instead of, I think I can't remember the number, but there was something like 11 or 13 there was a lot of people that were encompassed in one and so they've kind of whittled it down. And I believe all the witnesses were good with that. So this is on the top of page seven in subdivision six so you had in there that to college students, students appointed by the Center for Crime and services, and House of Ops wanted to kind of detail that out a little bit more so that of the two college students at least one of whom has lived experience as a sexual violence survivor, and one who represents a campus based racial justice organization. Michelle on the page top page seven amendment there.  What happens to a situation like that when you can't find somebody to, to fill that position. I got to believe that you know, especially at a young age. A lot of people may not be willing to come forward with their experience. You know, go public with it I guess and, but anyway, I could, it could be any other positions what happens if there's nobody to fill it. I haven't really run into that situation where people haven't been able to fill a position that they had authority to appoint to. I can tell you that this language that I that you have I worked on with Sarah Robinson from the network against domestic and sexual violence and she was supportive so I don't think they had any concerns that they would be able to identify. I don't know if they were someone right okay. I don't want to just, is it okay to. I'm just don't know if you can see my hand raised. I can see Selena. Yep. I really it's not a question for you Michelle just to Tom's question I just wanted to I think it's a good question like what happens if you just can't find the person. I think the previous task force finite task force on this issue that I served on we had. I think it called for at least three college age survivors of sexual violence and we had no problem finding folks to step up and come forward and just just for your just to. I was going to say to comfort you but that's probably not really a comforting reality but you know what I'm saying that. Yeah, people that people were there were more than enough people to fill more more roles with that criteria and a previous. Yeah, and just coming from, from, you know, from my world, you know, whatever, whatever that may be, it just seems like it could be a potentially tough spot to fill but. Yeah, again, you know, you use the word comfort and I want to say that it's good that you, but not meaning that it's good that you know that people are stepping up it. Thank you. There are changes in subdivision nine. And so you had in there a prosecutor. And they wanted to clarify that it should be a prosecutor with experience and prosecuting sexual violence cases and, and then they put in the AG is the appointing authority and Rory was in that committee meeting and he was good with that. So that's what their recommendation is. And then the last one is subdivision 10, which is an attorney with experience and sexual violence cases appointed by the defender general. So those are the recommendations for the membership. Subsection C subdivision two. This is just a small word tweak and oppression of highlight the whole thing but before it said an anti review of climate surveys and I had had to move on to another committee so I didn't hear this testimony but I guess some of the colleges said something about all this information and whatever and so the change is just going, going to more like reviewing the data that they have. And if you need more information about that I may have to have you speak with either one of the stairs because I'm sorry I wasn't in the room for that discussion. And then the last change is that the council meets quarterly. And again that was that was recommended by the colleges and the other witnesses supported it. So can you remind us had the, I'm sorry for just jumping in but had had the building silent on that or where they said yes or regular. Okay, thank you. Yeah. Those are the suggestions. Does anybody have anything you want me to take back to them when I go in there later this morning. I mean, I, you know, it, it seems reasonable to me I like the fact that they, you know, have just the, you know, the one representative from UVM and from state colleges I was concerned that it was getting quite large and will unwieldy so I think this does, does make sense. And, and Sarah and I had talked about the Attorney General is the appointing authority that makes sense as well so Tom. Thank you. Yeah, I don't have any, any issues with any of these changes, but I'm going to go back to the kind of the question that I had before, and it doesn't matter any specific. It could be any of the appointees to the, to the panel or study or whatever. And so what happens if it doesn't matter.  I got a, I got to imagine that the study group goes on anyway doesn't it will just remember. Yeah, I mean, I'm not saying it doesn't ever happen but I've been here for 20 plus years and staffed a lot of these committees and I never, never saw this anybody having a hard time finding somebody to appoint. Right, right. And that's kind of what I figured but I would hate to see something come to a screeching halt just because. And that's not no if somebody doesn't do it there's no, there's no enforcement mechanism there's no like you can't move forward, whatever, you know sometimes people are late in appointing people and or people and the person shows up one every four meetings and you know that kind of stuff but just is what it is. Yeah, yeah I guess I just didn't have to make people do this stuff. Right. Yeah, I just didn't have enough experience with it I guess to know, you know, kind of an in the weeds question but. All right, great. Thank you. So I just got a text from the chair of ops, and she says I'm so sorry but I forgot to suggest a sunset for the council. So practices in our committee to trigger a revisitation of councils created to be sure they're still useful. Can please add a sunset after seven years. So, before I do that, I just want to run that by you see if you are okay with that and then I'll draft it up onto their amendment and then they'll review and then once we meet at lunch I can incorporate it in but. So seven years that's interesting so that must be is that I'm assuming they use. That's their standard. Yeah, yeah. I defer to them I mean it's fine with me if that's. It does make sense to make sure that that councils commissions whatever so relevant and seven is their number. That's fine with me if committee members want to join in. Yeah I don't have any problem with that. It seems like a long time to wait to see if a council is working well but I defer to them to. I'm sure you'll be you know one of the primary things that the council supposed to be doing is making recommendations to you for anything so there's I would expect that council is going to be in communication with the general committee and so lots of time, not lots of opportunity to kind of check in with them. So, okay so I'll add the sunset. Yeah, yeah that's fine. Okay. Right. Okay. Great. All right, thanks and so you'll get back to us, you know, during during lunch. Yeah, so do you want to set a time because I also have a bill in the Senate that is trying to get voted out but they're waiting for recommendations from two other committees. And I don't think they're going to finish up so I think they may have to vote a bill over the lunch hour to is there a time that you want to kind of book me for that, so that I can just kind of hold that space for you. Yeah so what's your window is between 12 and 130 you said. Yeah, I guess I'm finishing up in gov ops at 1145 so maybe give me till 1215 to incorporate their changes into your draft. Okay, yeah I was thinking of thinking of later what can folks remind me if there are things going on during the lunch hour like either workshops or caucuses or anything that folks like caucuses from 12 to one and different meetings scheduled at noon but I can be flexible and moving around and prioritize. I was going to say I moved my nine to 12 but I probably, well let's do one o'clock then it sounds like it sounds like one o'clock. Right. Works for me. So Evan will you just send me like a half an hour notice for one o'clock. Great. I'm 183 and yeah and then I'm still planning on coming back 15 minutes after the floor this morning unless it's it. You know like 12 or something like that but I don't think we're going to be on the floor that long. So, okay, great and then so. I'm sorry. Oh, you have a question I'm sorry go ahead Barbara. I knew the network is struggles with resources as a nonprofit. Will they have adequate resources to cover the staffing and expenses they'll fully need to do this. If they get the appropriation. I mean that's that's my understanding. And they're, they're asking for what it will cost them or were they given a number that they could have. They picked the number. What they picked the number. Okay. And Michelle, can you help us understand when our legislative council staffs, you know some commissions and not others and that question has come up and it might come up again as to why let's council is not staffing this one. We have legislative members on the committee on the council, and we are your attorneys. You can't just like farm us out to people who aren't our clients. You know it raises issues around conflict. You know, because if, if I was staffing that and then they are coming to you with recommendations, and it's not coming from any of my clients. Then I'm kind of, I'm proposing something, you know that they're advocating and kind of lobbying you want, essentially, so. Thank you. I think that's helpful. I think it's important for, for us and others to, to understand appropriations is is aware of this and the other appropriation in the bill they do have the language in the sections. So, can I ask a follow up to that so Michelle, if there was, if there was one or two legislators on it. Does that I mean I'm just curious does that affected or would that still be the same situation. I mean if the, if the vast majority of people on there are not our clients I mean it's really, you know I mean you can imagine it said. Right, I just was trying to figure out a lot of committee, a lot of study committees a lot of stuff like that if, if we just became everybody else's lawyers I mean we just were a skeletal staff as it is in terms of serving 180 members and we have plenty of legislative studies that and committees we have to do during the interim so it's just, you know, there's not like a hard line there but it can't just be that you can throw on a couple. Sure, and sometimes I do have to a 14 member pardon. Sometimes the AG's office has sort of offered up people for certain summer things are not that I'm saying they would in this case but that seems like the other resource that's been popped up in my time on judiciary at least for work committees. Right, right. Well, we'll see what appropriation says. And that's cool. And then take it, take it from there. So, okay, great. Thanks. Yeah, thank you and actually so Michelle but everything else in the bill we've got that updated draft right because nothing else is. I haven't changed anything. All right, so same thing. Okay. All right, thank you. Okay, great. Okay, great. All right. Okay, good morning everybody I'm seeing faces that I hadn't seen before. Coach actually just got his, his vaccination so he does it I know. I thought he would have better service where he is but doesn't so that's why he is not with us right now so. Okay, so. So Barbara your hand is up. From before or. Or do you have a question or comment. That's true. All right, Ken, I see your hand up. Okay. Okay. What happened. I'm sorry. Am I messed up again. No, no, no, I just can't hear you. Can you hear me now. Yeah. So the Washington or Rory. Had a big hand in this 183 and I should have jumped on this before is he also is he okay with these changes. Changes meaning what house government operations. Well this amendment. With this amendment or what they're changing. Okay. I did Michelle say whether or not they were in the room. I'm not sure and I'm not sure how, how that piece actually impacts the. The state's attorneys I think the only section that of the study really would be that they're weighing in as the appointing authority there is a section on whether you know somebody. So basically whether the appointed by the AG's office or the state's attorneys and house government operations is sticking with. With the attorney generals but I would think Rory would be okay on this and the rest of the changes that they made really are more relevant to, to higher education. So, I think that the main part that Rory. Right. So I. Go ahead. Good. Go ahead.  I'm just more concerned about. I don't have a call. I'm not sure. I don't have a call. The. I just got all kinds of, of kids up there and, and different types of kids that are. Intermediate. But the university that I'm looking right at right now. I mean, might fall into a different answer. Yeah, that's just some of my concerns. I thought up too late. I'm sorry, but no, no, no, no, no. And that is why I don't have. Yeah, my understanding from what Michelle just said is that that the representatives from the educational educational institutions were there and there is a organization actually Kimberly works right and I'm going to I'm going to mess up the. But anyway, Barbara somebody but but anyway they represent all the independent. Yeah, Vermont Association of Independent Colleges. Right, right. Kimberly work there. Yeah, yeah. And so, so my understanding is that they were in the room. So I think I'm there to think I'm hearing two different concerns one is about the institutions right and then one is about the state's attorneys. So I think in terms of jurisdiction Lee. The institutions that that's where House government operations was looking at at the educational institutions. And, and House government operations and our education committee have been in in contact and decided that house that government operations was the more appropriate committee to look at this council. I don't, I don't know if I'm answering your question or if I'm confusing. No, no, you did I just hope. I can check. Yeah, I can check. Yeah, I can check in with. I can check in with worry. And yeah. I think too. Because there's two appointees of each college type. There's a, the title nine coordinator which is like a very focused role for, you know, when formal complaints come forward and then there's, I can't remember the language but there's the more of the kind of prevention and outreach work on the campus so that for each college or university type there's the possibility of at least two appointees plus the two student spots and so it's it's pretty similar makeup at this point in this way to the task force that I served on, and it did feel like a real mix of like, you know, every college wasn't in the room for sure for all things although there was nothing. There are public meetings and stuff so there was nothing like sometimes people who weren't members of the task force still came and participated in the discussion and gave testimony but it did feel like a really strong mix of folks of a mix of like state colleges and colleges and UBM and students from all over and it seems like constructed this one. Right, thank you and I just note that also Kate noted that worry was, was in house government operations so. Yeah, so I. I think they'll, you know, he will be a met and what house government operations has come up with does look reasonable and I think in terms of the other part of the bill worry certainly was very involved with, and I thought his testimony was very helpful yesterday. So, in terms of this, this bill, I would like to vote it out today. We're not going to do it this morning because we need to hear back from government operations. I did mention before we went on the record and I will mention now on the record that we did receive a letter dated today from mad freedom with signed by will do why we've been working quite a bit with who has asked us to postpone our vote on the bill until she can testify and I guess some some concerns that I do think we addressed yesterday however, what I'm thinking and I will ask committees members to think about this. Given that it's crossover I would like to vote this bill out today. So we can go, you know, to meet one to meet crossover and then because it does have appropriations in it it will, it will go to appropriations and so next week. So we can, we can hear from will do we can look at these concerns and then. And then if we want to make an amendment or whatever. We can do that but at least I very much value her. Her legal expertise and do want to give a consideration so just throwing that out there. I'm seeing Barbara nod. And others yeah, like that approach. Yeah, I mean I would. I would be unable to really support this bill unless you look a little further at this particular issue. I've been reading reading the letter that we received the man freedom and agree that we need to give it some more consideration but the bill is really, I think very important it's very close and we need to pass it out so I think we should go to appropriations and hopefully next week. And I don't think it would just be mad freedom but we probably want to bring in disability rights. Absolutely. Other. Yeah, so have kind of a full vetting of the particular issue and and see what we can do to modify the language and right. Right. Okay, right. That's a. Thank you Barbara. Let's see. So if we do that which sounds great. Is there any way for us to post that so people don't just see that it got voted out and feel like they didn't have to like, how can we make sure will do or others that wanted to weigh in. Don't feel like we didn't. We weren't responsive to them in the short, you know, until next week or whatever. Well, I'm, I'm going to respond to her as soon as I can. Yeah. And I also will share her tests, her testimony is posted if not it will be and I also will share it with Rory and disability rights. As soon as as soon as I, I can assuming my multitasking skills. But, but no absolutely I will. I will let her know and then talk to our colleagues. Yeah. Yeah. Selena. 35 overhead so sorry if I get drowned out. Yeah. So, yeah, we could also just one other thought we could post a draft agenda for next week sooner rather than later, even if it's not all the way filled in and we know it needs to needs to change but that just signals like, you know, that we intend to have some committee time with these with these witnesses. Thank you. You know that's a great idea and gender. We do get the agenda posted on on Friday so yeah I think Tuesday afternoon at 115 we're back in here on on this with with will to Rory, David share disability rights. I'd see if and Donna he wants to know that hopefully things have freed up a little bit for the health care committee to see if and wants to weigh in as well. Okay, great and hopefully Evan you're hearing this and we'll go over this later. Okay. All right well thank you everybody I'm watching the time for the floor, and then we'll make so. So, we'll get back after the floor, and we've got 145, and then we'll have 183 and then forfeiture hopefully will have you talk about that. And see where we are. All right, great. Thank you everybody.


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What's good, Josh, you brought us back again with another video. So I got a chance to watch the Falcon and the Winter Soldier, the whole series. And I must say it's fantastic. I enjoy the series from top to bottom. Actually, I must say the one division series they had. I want to say maybe a couple of months back I watched that as well. And I enjoyed that as well. But for me personally, I think this series is better in my personal opinion only because of the certain issues that they bring up when they start talking about Captain America, who should be the next cap and how things have changed since people have been, you know, returned from the blip. So this video will be full of spoilers. So you haven't seen the Falcon and the Winter Soldier series. Go check it out right now on Disney Plus. It's worth a watch and definitely check out One Division. Marvel is killing it right now with the little TV shows that bridge the gap between the movies and what's going to be happening in the future. So definitely check those both out, but definitely check out this one. This one is fantastic in my personal opinion. So spoilers will be throughout the entire video. Also, my voice is a little bit messed up right now because I'm still kind of under the weather, but I definitely wanted to bring this video to you guys so we can have a discussion. I'm not going to go over everything, but there will be spoilers sprinkled throughout this this little series review. So this takes place, I want to say. Right after Infinity War, when Cap comes back and gives the shield to Sam and it deals with Sam's like thought process of how to really be Captain America. And if he can live up to those shoes and honestly, he he's not really feeling it. So he ends up giving the shield to the government. He's like, yeah, I'm just passes on to the government. I don't think I can take on the mantle of being Captain America. So he does that. And of course, there's some people that don't really agree with it. Mainly Bucky, he doesn't agree with Sam giving up the shield. He feels that Cap gave the shield for a reason and you giving it up is like kind of a slap in the face to cap like he chose you for a reason. Why are you giving it to the government? What's wrong with you? So they have this little conflict between them because Sam is trying to fight with the idea of him trying to live up to that to the idea of being Captain America, a black Captain America at that. And Bucky doesn't understand that it's we're in a different time period.  But he still doesn't really understand that times hadn't really changed as much as he think it has. It has, but not in the sense of having a black Captain America. And I've seen some people criticize this show, bringing up race. But you got to keep your balance in some type of realism. Let's be honest here, having a black Captain America for some people would be a problem. But for a lot of people, it would definitely raise an issue of I don't know about this. I don't know how I feel about my Captain America being black. So I like the fact that Disney didn't stray away from that. And they definitely expounded on that. And this is what Sam is fighting with internally. How do I do this? I don't know if I can do this. So they end up giving the shield character in a show called John Walker. He's like this upstanding blue collar American citizen got multiple medals and stuff like that. And they give it to him. And you kind of not really feel in his vibe. He's definitely given off some great value. Captain America looks like he just not really. You just feel like something's off with him. And then you understand as the show goes on that he's not built for this. You know, he's trying to live in the shoes will fill the shoes of Captain America, Steve Rogers, and he's nowhere near accomplishing that. He's trying to be friend, Bucky and Sam is not really working.  And it's one of those things where you can tell he's already on hinge. And then there's some certain things that happen that cause him to really go off the deep end. Now, the main conflict in this series is the Flag Smashers. Basically, they're a group of individuals that came back from the blip. But now they don't have nowhere to live. They don't have any like establishment. They don't they're pretty much screwed because they've been gone for five years. They come back. They don't have no homes. They don't have no jobs. They're just randomly displaced in these little refugee camps and the government's not really assisting them like they should. And I like the fact that they they really deal with the ramifications of people just randomly popping back into the world after five years of being gone. I think that's dope because it would cause some chaos and confusion. Could could the main leader of the Flag Smashers, Carly being a little bit more fleshed out and you could kind of buy into what she's saying in in correlation with her actions. Yes, because I feel like they were on the right track with her painting her as a sympathetic villain villain.  And that's what Sam is trying to get get her to come like understand. And that's why through the show, you can see Sam really transitioning into a good Captain America because he's not trying to go for the kill.  He's not trying to. He's always trying to find a way to reason the same way with Cap. He always was trying to find a way to reason before half before resorting to lethal violence. So I thought that was cool now. Their correlation, the Flag Smashers and Carly and like them being called terrorists, the correlation with John Walker is one of them ends up killing Battlestar ends up killing like, you know, pretty much John Walker's best friend and because of that, John Walker is already on his ends up taking one of the Super Serum vials. He ends up taking one and he goes off on the deep end and he ends up killing one of them, who he thinks killed his friend, which wasn't the case. He ends up killing one of these individuals and everyone sees it as flash all over the world. And it's one of those things where it's like, yeah, he's definitely lost it. He's gone AWOL. He's he's lost it at this point. And you can see he's definitely not a fit for Captain America. You like he's just not a fit to he's not fit to be in that type of pressure situation and represent America in that way. You know what I'm saying? So I like the dynamic of his character, because even then you get it, because he just saw as one of his best friends died. The Serum is also messing with his mind as well. But at the same time, you knew the pressure was going to get to him at some point. So I like how they they don't just make him out of all right villain. After he kills someone, they kind of really go into trying to get you to empathize with him as a character as well. I've kind of all over the place just talking about some noticeable character moments and things that I really was enjoying about the show. Bucky, man, they really died deep into his psyche and what he's been going through. He was with the Wakandans at a point and they basically helped him overcome the the the Hydra mind control. Like when they say a certain few words, it controls his mind. And he he switched back into the Winter Soldier. They were able to help him overcome that. So I thought that was cool. And he's just really trying to right his wrongs for the things he's done in the past. There's a scene that he befriends an old man. But the old man that he befriends, he killed his son. And the old man doesn't know what happened to his son. And he does. And he's literally just trying to do his best to befriend him and, you know, be there for him at the same time.  You know what I'm saying? Not because he wanted to because he was under control of Hydra. So it was just one of those things. The sun was at the wrong place at the wrong time. So I like the dynamic of him just trying to overcome that. I think that is that is also just fantastic to see. Like it gives war character development and you care more about these characters. You for more than you did before, because they're really diving into what what their problems is and what they're trying to overcome. Let's see. Zemo, you guys remember Zemo. He was one of he was the main villain for Civil War. And he caused that friction between the Avengers and they bring him back. And he's honestly one of the best characters in the film or in the series. Like he's so he's you didn't know he had so much personality. I do feel like the kind of Rick Khan, Zemo in this in this series, because I don't remember him having that much personality in the film in Civil War, granted, you know, he was just on a mission, you know, on the mission to take down the Avengers. And in this situation, he's more on the mission. Well, Bucky is enlisted as help because he knows all about the Super Serum, Super Soldier Serum and how that entails. And, you know, he's he's kind of well versed in that. And he's not a big fan of the the the super strong, the Super Serum taking individuals. He's not into that. He he doesn't he doesn't like the superhuman individuals. So I love him in the show. I would not trip if there was a mini series of him, you know, you know, on his little adventures, you know, like just more or more like tailor into what he does. You know what I'm saying? And at the end of the show, of course, he gets locked up again, but I'm sure they could definitely, you know, strike a deal with him. He's able to get out if he does something for the government or whatever. I'm not sure, but definitely he was fantastic in the show for the episodes that he is in. So definitely they know how to make a villain. He's technically still a villain, but they make him a likable character, which I thought was very interesting and actually quite a surprise. So shout out to Disney and everyone that's involved that was involved in the show for somehow, you know, really, you know, making these characters more than just one dimensional human beings, you know what I'm saying? Sharon Carter, she makes a return. She's been on the run for the past few years from the government and stuff like that. But you ultimately ultimately find out she's the power broker. She is the one that gave Carly and the Flag Smashers their super soldier, Serum. She's behind it all. She's the mastermind behind it all. I thought that's dope. She went from someone that was good-hearted, was in love, like, you know, was had this affection and love for Captain Captain America Steve Rogers to now this, like, I guess you could say like a villain, in a sense, who's only there to make monetary gain off of weapons and and and powerful super soldiers, Serums, to distribute throughout the world. She doesn't care how many people there are. She's just trying to make her money. Like, that's she's the power broker. She's dishing out power to whoever has the money to pay for it. So I thought that was a nice character switch. A lot of people kind of peep that it was her, but it was still cool to see how she has fallen so far from where she was in the movies to now just as an individual, like, I don't really care. I'm doing what I want to do. And if you like it, cool, if you don't, that's cool, too. I'm out here to make some money. I want to say the one character that I really enjoyed that I felt really had a lot of emotional weight to. And he was a minor character, but he plays a part into Bucky's not Bucky. He plays a part into Sam's psyche on being the next Captain America. And that is Isaiah Bradley. Isaiah Bradley used to take the dessert to Super Soldier Serum back in the day. And he was one of the like one of the very first black Super Soldier Serum takers, like, you know what I'm saying? And he basically was doing things for the government. But he pretty much didn't get the same type of treatment that Steve got, and it was one of those things where they really dive deep into his hatred for the government in America because they pretty much locked him up and they tested on him for like 30 years, 30 plus years or something like that, where they just tested on him to see why the serum works so well with him and not other people. Like it was it was really heartbreaking and powerful at the same time, because he's also saying, yo, if you have any right mind, you would not be the next Captain America. And that's what he's telling the sale. And it's just one of those things where they really do a good job of painting a picture of multiple perspectives and why someone would feel the way they feel compared to someone else. And I love that. I love that. And I think the way they end off, his story was beautiful as well. Sam finally was able to give him the recognition he deserved by putting his name in a statue in the hall where you see all the Captain America mirror like information and stuff like that. And they put his name in there. And so he could get that recognition that he deserved, which I think was dope and amazing and very it was a heartfelt moment there. Definitely a tearjerker. So I definitely love that aspect. And of course, I got to talk about this, the suit, the armor when he finally takes on the mantle of Captain America and he gets the new suit. That is pretty much gifted to him by Bucky Bucky, causing the favor to the condoms because he gets a new suit. His suit ends up getting destroyed previously. Like his suit gets destroyed by by Walker or whatnot by John Walker when John Bucky and Sam are fighting to get the shield from John after he murdered someone in front of people.  So he ends up getting a new suit and it goes well with the armor. It's dope. I love it, bro. And I like the fact that he's he's conveying that I don't need the super soldier serum to be a hero. All I got is my wits, this tech and who I am. You know, saying the heart and the courage. And that's what also made Steve different because he always had that hero type vibe and essence before the serum and the same way with Sam. He's always had it before the wings and he never needed the serum to be a true hero and I like that. It was it was very dope to see the suit and the armor come together. It looks very clean. I'm looking forward to seeing what they do. You know, in future films with him being a new Captain America. They also. Instead of, you know, saying just kind of writing off John Walker, he ultimately ends up turning into the US agent or what not. He's basically like he's more under the radar because they kind of the government is like, we don't want nothing to do with you. You know, say we're going to put you in jail, but we're going to take away all your, you know, your honors and stuff like that. So he's kind of working. Like with the government, but like on a under like a underground level type situation, like it's it's not publicly known that he's working with the government. But he's more behind the scenes.  So he'll, you know, he's now going to be known as the US agent. He also has a nice little mini redemption.  And I thought that was nice for him to let go of that anger for just that second to actually be a hero. And I thought that was cool. Like I said, it doesn't it doesn't the show doesn't paint one person. He has to be this archetype or she has to be this archetype. They kind of give you layers into people's psyche and how they operate. And it's not just one side of the fare. So, honestly, I love this show. This was a very fantastic show. In my opinion, I know a lot of people, you know, feel that it's a little bit too preachy and it is involved in race.  You have to bring up race because it's not just going to be no smooth transition. So, but comment down below. Let me know if you guys enjoyed this series. And if you're looking forward to any of the future future Marvel TV shows that they will be having. And if you guys are OK with Sam being Captain America in the upcoming films and future projects, I know I am. I think they Anthony Mackie killed it in his role. He's one of the best actors in the show. Everyone really killed it acting wise. And I just enjoyed it for me personally. So comment down below. Let me know. I appreciate all the love and support. Road to 40k. Appreciate y'all getting with me. See y'all in the next one. Peace.