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And in response to requests from our listeners, he will appear once more in the suspense play by Cornel Woolrich, which starred him on that occasion. And so with the black curtain and with the performance of Cary Grant, we again hope to keep you in suspense. It began, or rather life began again for me. I guess you'd say that day on that street, my head was pounding terribly. I could hear all the noise and the people milling around. Everything was a jumble at first. All right, all right, gangway. Let the duck through. Oh, I'd seen it happen, Mr. Policeman. He was running and boy, he really gave himself a clunk on the bean. Get back there now. Oh, my head. Take it easy, take it easy.  Back everybody back. Give the duck the room. Oh, I'm okay. Never mind, duck. I'm okay. Oh, mm-hmm.  No, I'm all right. I guess I can talk to him now, duck. Yeah, sure. Go ahead, officer. It's just a bad bump on the head, I think. Yeah, you're all right. You're all right. You can walk now, can't you? Sure, sure. Here, here.  Oh, thanks. I'll be fine. Hey, wait a minute. What am I doing with an overcoat on? All right, now, Mr. Just so they got it on the plotter, what's your name and where do you live? Townsend. Frank Townsend, 820 Rutherford Street. Here, have a cigarette. You're still shaking. No, thanks. I don't smoke. Okay, well, I'll be getting back. Drop in at the receiving hospital if you want us to check you out. Yes, I will. All right, here's your hat, Mr. I found it. Thanks, kid. That's all now. Come on. Move along. Move along. This guy's all right. Oh, thanks, un-thanks. Hey, sorry about the fellow that got your wallet. Anyway, here's your cigar case, Mr. Townsend. I found it right alongside of you. But I don't own a case. No, besides, look at the initials. Dn. I don't know. Same initial as in the hat. Dn. Yes, but this isn't my hat. Don't you even know your own hat, Mr. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. I'm trying to think. Where is this? What? This street. You're on Tillerie Street. Tillerie Street? What am I doing on Tillerie Street? He's lost. All right, now, sir.  It's cold. Startin' the snow again. Oh, wait a minute. Wait a minute. Don't leave me. Tell me, what... what happened? Well, you slipped on this icy sidewalk. Well, down hit your head good and hard in the curb. You're up about 20 minutes. Wait. Wait. Ice on the sidewalk. Look at it. That street cleaning department ought to clear away that snow, too. But, but, snow and ice? Sure. Why? Snow and July? July? It's December. December 1944. 1944? You better get on home, son. Good night. 1944? December 1944? The last I remember was July 1941. Three years just gone. Amnesia.   Where'd I been? Who'd I been? I hadn't been Frank Townsend. I'd been someone else. DN. Someone whose initials were DN. I walked on artillery street thinking about it. Those three years. What? Well, I could have been married. I could have been a thief. Something made me turn around on the street for a moment. 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And now it is with pleasure that we bring back to our sound stage Mr. Kerry Grant and the Black Curtain, a story well calculated to keep you in suspense. Why was that man following me with a gun? What did grey eyes want with me? I must have done something. I had to get away to some place to be safe and think. I beat it down into the subway and hid. For two hours I stayed down there. I thought it all out carefully during those two hours. I knew I was on the spot for something. Grey eyes meant business. What could it be?  Well, maybe I've been a gangster when he was one of a mob that wanted to rub me out. I didn't know. No identification, my wallet stolen, nothing in my pockets about help. Just DN in the hat and DN on the cigar case. DN. My head was aching with worry. My stomach had panic in it. I had to find out who I'd been what I had done. But how? Where? Tillery Street. That's where I'd been when I woke up. Tillery Street. Well, maybe grey eyes would go back there too looking for me, but I had to take that chance. Tillery Street. Hello there. Oh, you know me. Sure, couldn't see under that hat at first. What can I do for you? Have you got an evening paper I could look at? No, sorry, never read them. Too much trouble in the world these days anyhow. Say, how you been? You haven't been around two or three weeks. Well, I've been busy. Oh, look, Pop. I made a bet with a friend of mine that even though you see so many customers, you'd walk right up and give me my full name. Oh, well, I'm sorry, I don't know it. I don't think I ever heard your name. But I know your girl. My girl? Oh, you do? Well, now, maybe I can still win my bet. Well, of course. Ruth lives right across the street, the Tillery apartment. Oh, well, that's right. Ruth. Ah, ah, but now, what apartment? A apartment 3C, of course. Don't I take the sandwiches up there every night? 3C? Yeah. Yes, well, thanks. Will you win your bet, mister? Huh? Oh, yes, I think I will. What is your name, sirs? I'll know it next time. I'll tell you tomorrow. I hope. So long. So long, Pop. Obviously. What's the matter? Drop something? No, nothing. Nothing. Just tying my shoe. I'd just been going to walk out when I saw him standing across the street. Grey eyes again. I dug down behind the store window and watched him. He looked over in my direction and then up and down the street. Then he lit a cigarette and slowed down to the corner. The minute he disappeared, I rang the door open, dashed out and ran across the Tillery apartment and went in. It's me. Hello, Ruth. Oh, Danny, why did you come here? He's been around twice today. He may be in the neighborhood right now for all you know. Yes, who? Who? Well, Slattery, of course. Slattery? Oh, has he got grey eyes? What? Did you ever see a detective that didn't? No. Oh, sure, sure. Danny, what's the matter with you? You're acting so strangely. Well, I just want to look at you. You seem so different, so far away. You haven't kissed me. Well, that's easily fixed. Oh, darling, where have you been for three weeks? Oh, all around. Miss me? Oh, you know I did. Danny, Danny, you're supposed... Do you think we could get away tonight? I've got $3,000 saved up. We could go to Mexico or South America, and we could get married. Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Neering, the tour of the world. Daniel Neering. Oh, Mr. and Mrs. Sounds plenty good to me. Yeah, oh, you'll never know how good. And we'll get out of here tonight. I'll call up and tell them I'm quitting my job. I'll say I'm sick. All my stuff's here, nothing's out there, but a couple of uniforms. I'll make Ada and Franklin a present of those. Ada and Franklin?  They weren't glad when it happened. A couple of vultures, by to them. Oh, would you back? Would you back? Just think with my $3,000. Well, do you think you ought to quit your job? Well, absolutely, I think so. I never was cut out to be a nurse anyway. No, you weren't. Any more than I was... Any more than you were meant to be a secretary. Oh, yeah. That's right. I never wanted to be a secretary. Yeah, just drifted into it, I guess. They kind of got him a nurse, especially toward the end. The, uh, the boss was no cinch to work for. He certainly wasn't. He was a rat. Oh, the whole different bunch of mean, rotten, whole family. Yeah, that's right. I'll accept the old man. Oh, the old man? Yes. I sort of liked him, didn't I? Mm-hmm, he loves you too, then. I think he wished you'd been his son. Poor old man. He's the only reason I've stuck around out there this long. Mm-hmm. How are things out there? Oh, they've been questioning all of us. They've laid off lately, though, since you... Oh, don't let's talk any more about it. You're back. That's the main thing. I want to forget New Jericho and I'll hold you. New Jericho, huh? Yes. Oh, Danny. Danny, if only it hadn't happened. What hadn't? You know what? Danny, what's going to become of you and me? I wish I knew. Danny, get away from that window. Leave that shade down. He's down there. Who? Gray eyes.  He's coming in here. In the building. Oh, did he see you? Look, Ruth, will you help me? What are you going to do? Give myself up. No! No! Well, it's better than getting shot at. What can they do to me?  The chair? Well, what do you think happens to a man when he's guilty of murder? Murder? Ruth, listen to me. I'm not a murderer. But the whole world says I committed murder. I say I didn't. The meanest of me says I didn't. I never said you were, Danny. I always said you didn't do it. But they found the body and they... Oh, only you hadn't run away. Oh, so that's it. All right, Nearing. Open up. Oh, why did you come here, Danny? Why? Why? Ruth, quick. We've got to get out of here. How about the fire escape? Shaft, don't wait her. Don't wait her. Oh, in here. I'll take her to the door, quick. Get in. I'll stand on top and work the ropes. I don't think it can hold us both. It's got to. So, can you hear me? Yes, Danny. We're going back there to New Jericho. Jericho? Oh, no, Danny, don't. No, please. For me, don't, don't. I've got to. I've got to find out. We're going together. No, no, Danny, no. I've got the money. We can get out of here and... Now stop it. Oh, Danny, my arm! Ouch! You're hurting me. From here on in, we're sticking together. You're going to take me back there, Ruth. Back where it happened. All right, darling. Crazy, but I'll go wherever you go. I can't lose you again. On the train, Ruth and I said very little to each other. While I had hidden the telephone booth at Pennsylvania Station, she'd bought us a couple of cheap overcoats. And I sat hunched up in mine, thinking. Thinking. Ruth had brought along the newspaper clippings. I looked at what they said for the 20th time, trying to see if there was anything there that would help me. Dietrich Slayer's sort, it said. Secretary wanted him brutal slaying at suburban estate. Police suppressing the search for Daniel Neering, secretary and the employee of the late John Dietrich, 58, member of a well-known local family who was shot and killed in the drawing room of his new Jericho estate on the morning of November the 7th. Neering disappeared November the 7th. On the morning of which date, he is known to have had a bitter quarrel with the deceased. This last was attested to at the inquest by Ada and Franklin Dietrich, widow and brother of the murdered men. Well, I had all the facts now. Wanted for murder. And yet everything that was in me told me that no matter who I'd been, however many memories I'd lost, but I was no killer, and I just couldn't. Good Jericho! Good Jericho! I had to get into the Dietrich house and stand again in that room where it had all happened. Maybe something would come back to me. Maybe there would be something... Good Jericho! Ada and Franklin just left. They're down to the village.  Yeah, Ada made some crack. But I said I had nothing to do in town and came out to write some letters. Let's go then. Danny, I'm scared. Please, let's not stay here. You said you loved me. I do, Danny, I do. That's why I'm scared. They're only going to the village. They'll be back in half an hour at the most. Open the door, Ruth. Hurry. I've got to see the inside. That room, the place where it happened. No, it's wrong, Danny. I'm telling you, you're crazy. They'll find you. Open the door, Ruth. Quickly. Now, let's have a look at that room. Please, Danny, don't talk about it. Please. This is where I'm supposed to have murdered John Dietrich. Please. Where was it? Show me exactly where it was, Ruth. I've got to know. It was there. Right there. It was standing by the grandfather's clock. Are you going crazy, Danny, if they get to your hang? Find the clock.  I believe you, Danny. Wait, Ruth. What's that? Listen. That don't look the old man. He's just leaving that room off there. Don't go in there, Danny. Don't please, you'll wake him. I want to see him. No, he can't help you. You know he's paralyzed and he can't talk. Turn on the light. I want to see him. There, you're walking. It's me, Mr. Dietrich, Ruth. This is Danny. You remember Danny, don't you? Hello, Mr. Dietrich. See how his eyes are shining. Yes. Tell me, was he here when it happened? We didn't know that, Danny. Why do you ask such funny questions? He's been in bed here for five years. Well, that mirror. On the wall here. That clock. Look. You can see the grandfather's clock in the other room. What are you getting at, Danny? Well, he could see it. The old man could see the murder through the mirror. Oh, if he only could talk. But he can't talk. You scare me, Danny. Don't... He saw the man who killed John Dietrich. Look. He understands what I'm saying. He's blinking his eyes. Oh, stop torturing him, Danny. You can't just see what you're doing to him. He's trying to say something. Look. He's going to help me. Go outside and watch, Ruth. Go on. I'll watch out at the entranceway. Be careful, Danny. They'll be back any minute. Leave me alone with him. I hope I hear them coming. Look now. Mr. Dietrich, don't be afraid. I'm going to ask you a question. I'd like you to answer me. Are you trying to tell me something about the murder?  Blink twice if you are. That's it. Once, twice. That's good. Did you see it happen? Here? In your mirror? Blink once if the answer is no. Twice if the answer is yes. Once, twice. You did, huh? You saw it. All right, Mr. Dietrich. Now then, is the murderer in this house? Danny, they're coming. Franklin, Nader. Get out of here and hide. Run, Danny, run. Is the murderer in this house? Blink once for no, twice for yes. Yes. In this house. Danny, Danny, they're coming. Wait, I've almost got it. Mr. Dietrich, was it me? Once for no, twice for yes. Was it me?  Behind the curtains. I'll talk to them. Okay. Thanks, Mr. Dietrich. I'll be back. Is that you and Father's room? Yes, Mrs. Dietrich. Are you here alone? Yes. Why? We thought we heard voices. What are you so jittery about, Ruth? I'm tired, that's all. Can I go to bed now? Father's still awake, Ruth. Well, he'll go to sleep all right. I'm going upstairs, Mrs. Dietrich, now. Good night, Ruth. Good night. She's brought someone back here with her. It's him, I think. Dan? Oh, Franklin. Take it easy, darling. Take it easy. If he's here, we'll get him. Up to the evidence we gave against him at the hearing. Oh, I'm scared. Let's get out of here fast. No, no. Call the police here. I'll do it. Hello? Hello? It's too late. The wires have been cut. Come on, we'll both drive to the village. He may be waiting for us out by the car. Uh... What? Oh. What are you doing there, Franklin? I think I might just need my gun. Come on, let's be on our way. The moment they left the house, I made for the old man's room. I called for Ruth, but she was gone. Maybe Franklin and Ada had called her after she cut the telephone wire, but I couldn't wait. My life was hanging on minutes now. I shot the flashlight on the old man's face again. Now, Mr. Dietrich, you're helping me fine. You know I'm trying to save my life, don't you? Now, the murderer, was it me? Was it me who did it? Me, Danny Neering. Blink once for no. Once. You're sure? You're sure it wasn't me? You're sure it wasn't me? Oh, you're smiling, Mr. Dietrich. Smiling. Now, now, it was somebody in this house. And who was it? Oh, can't you make a sound? Help me, you've got to. Was it Ada? Price for yes, once for no. Once, not Ada. All right then. Was it Franklin? Up with the hands, Danny, or you'll never go to trial. Franklin, wait a minute. You've got to listen. And I've got to.  The murderer returns to the scene of his crime. You know I didn't kill him. Tell it to the police. It'll have him here in a couple of minutes. Where's your girlfriend, Ruth? She's not here. I don't know where she went. Never mind. They'll find her.  You killed my brother and beat it. What did you ever get out of it? That's always puzzled me.  You've got nuts, too.  To get his share of the estate that you can't stop with killing me. Someone else knows the truth. The old man saw it in the mirror. What? Yes.  The old man saw it. How do you know? He told me. You're lying. He can't talk. He can't even move. He can hear, and he can blink his eyes. Come over here. Look. Look here, you are. I had to do it.  Give the gun, Danny. Take it. You'll be all right. Ruth, you shouldn't have done that in another minute. I'm not sure it was Frank, Ruth. Please, please, let's run for it. They'll be here in a second. It's your last chance. They'll all swear you did it. If I can be with the old man another half a minute. Mr. Dietrich. Mr. Dietrich, it's Danny again. Don't, Danny. Don't, don't, don't. Tell me, Mr. Dietrich, was it Franklin?  Blink once if he did. What's the matter, Mr. Dietrich? Don't be afraid. I won't hurt you. Why are you afraid? Oh, he's afraid, Ruth. Oh, it's this gun. Here, take the gun, Ruth. You take it. He's afraid.  What's the matter? Why don't you answer me? Who killed John Dietrich? It wasn't me. It wasn't Ada. It wasn't Franklin. But someone in the house. Was it Ruth? Ruth! You! I told you. I told you not to come. Oh, I love you, Danny. I wanted you. I wouldn't have let them get you. Oh, why? Why, Ruth? Why did you kill John Dietrich? He was always after me. He wouldn't leave me alone. I hated him. And then, at night, he came at me, threatened me.  He couldn't have me. Nobody could. He had a gun, Danny, and I got it away from him. He hit the cloth. He leaned against it. I thought he'd never fall down. Die. It was the day you ran away, and I was crazy. They thought it was you, and they started looking. You? Why was it you? I love you, Danny. I love you. I beg you not to come back here. Ruth, please, put down that gun. No. Stand back, Danny. Stay over there. I just want to look at you. I was hoping we could get away together. But you've been through enough, Danny. I'm all because of you. Now you're clear, Danny. And this is going to clear me. Darling. Ruth. Dear Ruth. Well, that's about all there is to tell. I've tried to put it all behind me to resume my life where it left off three and a half years ago. Sometimes, when it gets toward evening, I go and walk along Tillerie Street. And once in a while, somebody, somebody I don't know, somebody I don't know, will say, hello, Danny. And I just say hello and walk on. I don't want to find out anything more.  And it will. All except Ruth. Because somewhere behind that black curtain, I was loved. And loved someone. We must have known a love that I'll never know again. And so closes the black curtain starring Karen.  Tonight's study in... Suspense. Suspense is produced and directed by William Spear. 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Thank you all so much for turning out for Universal Lunch on the Lawn! The Universal School Meals Act makes it over the finish line this year so kids all over Vermont in every public school and independent schools too can have universal breakfast and lunch every student, every meal, every school next year. So if you think S-100 is a must-pass bill, raise your voices really loud! Champions for S-100 here with us and we are going to get you kicked right off with them right now. So first of all, I'm excited to hear from him. This issue S-100 started in the Ag Committee, a food for our children starting in the Ag Committee. Well, it's been a great run but the people that work for you folks that come and see us like Anor and Bay and the people from Hunger Free Vermont, pushers behind us. I don't know how many years we've been working on getting free lunches into the schoolhouse but it's been quite a few and we settled one year for free breakfast but we got the bill through and now this last year we got the Universal Meals bill through the house and it's back over with us and we aren't about to drop the ball quite yet. But a quick story way back served on a local school board for 21 years and in here at the same time during a lot of those years and we always as a school board chair and member, we had problems with the hot lunch program early on. Kids not being able to pay their bills, parents complaining, hot lunch agent running away with some of the money. And I said you know to the other school board members, the thing that we should do is just let the kids eat. A kid with a full stomach and we found this out 25 years ago. A kid that's well fed, is better behaved, learns better, just does better all the way through the school system and if we can afford to buy them the right book, set up the best library and do all these things have good athletic programs, we can have a good hot lunch program. So we had a free hot lunch program many years ago and it worked great and I think this will be a great improvement for all the public schools and our school systems throughout the state. So I'm glad to be here, glad to be part of this and glad that you better call your reps and your senators because we're going to need your help to get this all done. So thank you and have a good day. Thank you Senator Starr and next up is Senator Chris Pearson. Thank you everybody, nice to see you, finally we got a little rally here. I think before I offer a few thoughts everybody should know this doesn't happen without leadership, right? And in the Senate that's been a consistent wrangling and pushing us along and moving us forward with the pro tem Senator Becca Ballant. Thank you Becca. I served as a vice-chair of Senate AG, we had a busy morning, Bobby keeps us moving and I got out a piece of paper early on and I thought I got to think of some thoughts to offer this crowd. I didn't get very far. I wrote one word down, dignity. That's what we're talking about, right? This is a state we're told all the time. People want to come here, come visit our beautiful landscape, hike in our mountains, see our open fields. We're very proud of agriculture, very proud of the food that our producers make. And we should be proud of that. And our communities do not function if our schools are not strong and our schools do not function if we don't have a sense of community when kids walk through the door and you don't have a sense of community unless you eat together. And it's kind of maybe that simple, right? This is a grandmother moment. Grandmother doesn't have you over and serve you a drink. She has a meal. She has a meal to take care of her family. That's what we're talking about. In the building, the struggle sometimes is about money. And nobody argues that this is a good idea. It's about the money. And then it comes down to this. Why would taxpayers pay for universal meals so some rich people can have free lunch? Rich kids can have free lunch. Now of course we don't ask for your parents' income when we hand out math textbooks. Not at all. That would be ridiculous. Nobody says, well, you don't get to get on the bus because your parents have nice cars in the driveway. That would be ridiculous. If the cost of universal meals, of delivering dignity and providing community, a stronger sense of community in our schools, is free lunch for a few rich kids, that's well worth the price. Well worth the price. This is, we are still in the midst of some of the most challenging times our state and our world has faced. If we can come out of this with a slightly stronger sense of community and a cultural shift around protecting all sorts of kids and making sure that nobody falls through the cracks when they walk into the school building in the morning, that will be a success. And we will not be able to do it without leadership or without the strong voices of you all telling lawmakers the stories. Tell us what this means. Tell us about the drawer full of rich peanut butter crackers for those kids or the two dollars so that you know little Johnny doesn't go hungry at lunch. Tell us those stories because that's what makes the difference. Those stories move big dollar amounts and even modest dollar amounts like we're talking about here. So thank you everybody who being involved in this. It's great to have played a small role and I look forward to getting this across the finish line with you all. Thank you. Thank you, Senator Pearson. And I'm looking around. We have so many members of the House Education Committee here and this session, the House Education Committee has really grappled with this bill and made it so much better and we've got two members of the House Education Committee who are going to talk to us now and first up is Representative Erin Brady. My rep. Thanks. I want to really thank Chair Webb of the House Education Committee who was instrumental in helping us through this process. I'm a new member and she's been a wonderful mentor in the legislative process. And I know that my book, The House Education Committee has so many high-end, and I've read a lot of your social media and I love you guys so much, but then I just wanted to thank you for joining me and the two black people on this panel with you. I'm very proud of this new Web leadership has meant a lot on this. In addition to being a representative, I'm a high school teacher. I've been a high school teacher for 15 years and I'm also a school board member. nutrition staff was busy cooking actual food and loading coolers with packages of meals. Those giant coolers were loaded on school buses that drove around the community to distribute food to students and families. I still get chills when I remember looking out the window with other teachers that day, one of my last days in the building of the year, and tears streamed down our faces. We didn't know when we would see our beloved students again, but that carefully prepared food was not only critical to feed hungry kids, it was a tangible gesture of our school's love and care for our students and our families, despite an unprecedented crisis. As a state, we now have an important opportunity to continue providing universal breakfast and lunch to all students. For the past two years, we know the federal government has provided funding so that schools can offer meals to all students, and school nutrition staff and often bus drivers have gone to extraordinary lengths to have meals ready for families to pick up during school closures, packaging lunches to be eaten in the classroom while maintaining social distancing and responding nimbly to constant changes. But this federal program is set to expire in June, and we know that many Vermont students will once again know what it feels like to go hungry at school if we do not. We know there's unmet need in our schools. The thresholds to qualify for free and reduced price lunch are low and the stigma is real. I know as a teacher that the stigma is real. But the benefits of universal benefits extend beyond the financial benefit. In schools, we use a principle called universal design for learning. When we design ways to make learning accessible to certain students with tools like audio recording of books or graphic organizers to take notes, these tools often benefit far more students than just those they were targeted for. They're like curb cuts on sidewalks. They may have been put in place to help those with physical handicaps, but they end up providing benefits to many more. Parents pushing a stroller, someone with a temporary injury, someone hauling a heavy load. Universal meals are like these curb cuts. There's a ripple effect of benefits for all of us. Students may come to school hungry for many reasons beyond economic need. Family stress is high now more than ever. Parents working multiple jobs. I know my high school students start so early in the morning that the last thing that they think about is breakfast before they leave for school. I'm a teacher and a legislator because I'm hopeful about our future. I am hopeful that a universal school meals program in Vermont, where we have a strong culture of local foods, will help create a culture shift in our schools. It's an opportunity to bring students together to eat healthy, nutritious meals. Food isn't just nutrition. It's about community. It's about identity. And we have a wonderful opportunity here with S-100. Thank you. Thank you, Representative Brady. And now we have Representative Jay Hooper. How's everybody doing this afternoon? Thank you all for making the time today to come to this state's fine capital to help encourage our colleagues to simply support universal school meals. And if we can, and let me tell you we can, doggone it, we should see to it that both lunch and breakfast stay in the underlying bill. Thank you, Hungry Free Vermont and to all the advocates, especially Teddy was Azek, Fay Mack, Inora Horton, Amy Sholenberger, Betsy Rosenbluth for putting this together today. I must say it's been a peculiar legislative session for a myriad of reasons. But one of the oddest observations I've made around here over the past several weeks is how creative my friends in the legislature, particularly in the house, have been in considering and therefore suggesting alternative ways to spend the money that we've supposedly carved out in earnest to bridge fund universal school meals for a third calendar school year. While there are unwavering, there is unwavering consensus amongst those of us enthralled by this specific policy discussion as to how disappointing, unjust and downright inconvenient it would be to signal to school districts this coming fiscal year that in fact those that must will have to reconstruct their old ways of serving food and school cafeterias that they must indeed go back to pre-pandemic infrastructure or lack thereof because we lawmakers were unable to foster the political will to provide resources which are available at this moment in this budget to keep in place a system that has thus far proven itself more efficient and more equitable for all Vermont children, most importantly food insecure Vermont children. Another year of data will iron out our understanding of how best to permanently implement universal school meals. I stand before you today feeling optimistic. It's not a matter of whether or not it's a matter of when now and only now will the state of Vermont be in an optimal position to have an optimal opportunity to deliver on a concept we all claim to support full heartedly. Onward and upward. Thank you. Talking about students, but now we're actually going to get to hear from a student who would be impacted by this policy. So Emma Renaud from Essex High School got involved with the Universal School Meal Bill by connections through our student government. Me and another student graced to hear from the student body and taken their needs, wants and experiences involving school meals. We also personally interviewed fellow classmates and faculty while continuing to spread awareness about the subject. No one had any idea that our free meals could be taken away. When finding out about the bill myself, I was shocked at how a topic this relevant to everyday school life wasn't being discussed. It was unheard of that the plates we pick up might soon be weighed down by financial and social anxiety of buying food. As a student myself, I've seen tremendous improvement in our cafeteria atmosphere with the implementation of free meals. The stigma around eating school food is gone. No one feels judged and everyone has access to healthy meals. That is equality. To countless voices on this lawn fight for improvement. I am proud to be a part of real change. I also urge other young students like myself to fight for what you believe in because there's a good chance you'll make a difference in something bigger than yourself. Lastly, I just wanted to thank everyone for being here in support of USM and let's keep this bill moving forward. Thank you. It's going to be in good hands going forward, I think. But absolutely not least one of the heroes who got that food to our students all around Vermont when schools were shut down and keeps on doing it every single day. Carol Kent representing the School Nutrition Association of Vermont. This formation of a broken unfair system into a culture of equity where no child needs to experience hunger, nourished and prepared to know what stressors family bear the shame and stigma for lunch accounts that go unfunded. This is a choice between ensuring access to education for all kids education. They always have been and it's time we include them in the cost of educating every student. Administrators, teachers and school nurses have all seen the benefits and agree that universal school meals must continue. In Vermont, we educate the whole child. We provide for the social emotional wellness of every student. How can we say that we provide equal access to education if we allow barriers to remain that impede that access? All students deserve to achieve success and that starts with a basic need of food. Our children know this and they're asking us to do something about it. I have a letter here from a Virginia's elementary student named Henry. Henry isn't here by chance, is he? Henry wrote this letter to the Vermont legislators. A copy of it here. This is Henry's handwriting. Dear Vermont State, I think the next year and all the years after lunch should be free. I think this because some families don't have enough money to pay for breakfast and lunch for their family. Also, having good meals makes kids focus better. Henry. Henry is in third grade. Students understand why this is so important. Administrators and teachers understand what is at stake here. We cannot go back. We must act now. Every meal, every student, every day. This is how Vermont cares for kids and this is how we will feed the future. Thank you very, very much. So much for being here. Let's raise one more huge cheer for Universal School Mail.


What's up everybody, Jason here for Jaspy's Case Breaks.com. Happy new release day, guys. 2021 Panini Flawless Football 2 Box Case Break. Picker chain number one just sold out, guys. And this is a big, big release day, guys. So let's get it rolling. So fresh case. Remember, I wasn't really picking good cases. Last week, we ended up sitting with the new release. My wife was, so I had her pick this case. She said, hey, I'm feeling this one. So there we go, that's what I went with. Again, everybody else that bought in Straight Up is on that list. If there's an R&B spot next to a team, that means those teams are in a random number block. There's everybody's names there. So the first one was just three teams, Chicago, New York Jets, and Tampa Bay Bucks. There's the names there. Got that. And the next one had these 13 teams. Chiefs, Cowboys, Texans, Broncos, Packers, Falcons, Colts, Vikings, Lions, Rams, Giants, Seahawks, Raiders. And there's the names. You haven't been saying anything, Tim. I'm just starting to break right now, buddy. These are the numbers you got assigned to in this break right here. So you have six, seven, and then your pack filler spot was eight. You want a pack filler. You want a spot in the pack filler. And then here's the case, guys. So again, I'll probably be able to random number block the next pick your team. If nobody else wants to buy Straight Up spots with the nine remaining teams. I'll probably be able to just do one. I think total is about 6,500 or so for the team. So most likely we'll be able to just random number block all of those teams together. And then of course you guys will still have a chance to get 20% off before four o'clock. So definitely take it down to the second code. Stuck, briefcase mojo, it looks like. And it took forever. Sorry about that, guys. Looks like they went gold cases for Flawless. I think there's three cards in Flawless football, so I have to like block off the middle. And sometimes I don't think the middle card is the best card. It could be on the left side or the right side. So I guess first one we'll have to give it a shot to see what we get. But there are three hits right there.  Sometimes the middle card could be a diamond. So Tim, before you bought into this, I don't know if you read that in the description, but you didn't get any teams. You just have a piece of all of these teams right here. You got an assigned number. So for you, you'd have to pull anything that has a six in front of the serial number. So 16, six, 26, 36. Anything with a six for any of these teams pop out, that's yours, right? Seven, same thing, nine. So basically the serial number on the left side has to be those numbers for you to get something. Yeah, no problem, man. Box, but no problem, man, it's all good. Our first one, look at that. We have a triple relic, triple player, that's 18 out of 20, that has a Giants Jeremy Shockey, Antonio Gates for the Chargers, and Chris Cooley for the Washington Redskins, which are now the commanders. So that'll be a randomizer there. And let's see, Giants is part of the R&B with KC. Chargers were bought straight up by Joshua, and then commanders were bought straight up by David. So we're gonna do a randomizer here, right? If the Washington commanders win, that's gonna go to David straight up. If the Chargers win the randomizer, that's gonna go to Joshua. If the Giants win the randomizer, then it'll go by serial number, and it'll end up being spot eight, which would be Tim Davis. So if the Giants win that randomizer, Tim, this is your card because of the serial number. These are the two teams that win, and it'll go straight to those customers. It is sold number 18 out of 20. Kind of hard to see, but... So we'll put that over here. Yeah, triple tight end. Next one is a very nice Michael Parsons, rookie showcase. That's 15 out of 25 for the Dallas Cowboys. Dallas Cowboys also part of the random number block. Spot five, that is going to Matthew. Next one we have is, how about a little Bernie Kosar? That's eight out of 20 for the Cleveland Browns. That's Joshua with the Browns straight up. Next one. It looks like a glove RPA for the Giants. Cadarius Tony, that's three out of 20. Looks like they have a new font for the numbers. It looks slightly a little bit bigger than normal.  We have a Terence Marshall Jr., 15 out of 20 for the Carolina Panthers. It's going to Brian Wofford, straight up. Couple more guys. We have Marcus Allen, two out of 20. Looks like a Hall of Fame autograph for the Raiders. Is part of the R&B with Kansas City. So that's spot two going to Matthew. And last one here before the encased cards is a nice Davis Mills, five out of 10 for the Houston Texans. That is also part of the Dallas R&B, spot five going to Matthew S. Wow, look at that little diamond gem and an autograph. Sweet hit. Surprised he wasn't put in encased. And it's awesome. So spot five is going to Matthew. Very nice. So a lot of hits for the R&B right there, man. So again, I think I'm going to go left or right left middle. Yeah, let's go right left middle for the first one. I have no idea how they're going to do these. This looks like a diamond gem potentially, but it could be autographed. And it's a diamond gem of Curtis Martin for the Patriots, 12 out of 20. And that is a Ruby, I believe. Little Ruby gem. Patriots bought straight up Jeremy. Let's go with this side here and then we'll go with the middle. Ooh, that looks like black. Rookie, Ravens. Wow, look at that. Rashad Bateman. That's a one out of three laundry tag for the Ravens. And that's straight up Aaron Billingsley. One out of three. Very nice. The last one should actually be a hit now. Potentially it could be a diamond gem though, but it should be a hit. And it's Aaron Rodgers, nine out of 10 patch autographs. So this is a vet one. Nine out of 10, Aaron Rodgers. Star Swatch signatures. And of course that is going to go to the Green Bay Packers R&B, which is Kansas City. Spot nine is going to Sean. There you go, that was your free spot. Nine out of 10. So R&B with those 13 teams actually did really well on the first spot. Again, thankfully it is a two briefcase break, so we have another briefcase to go around. There you go, that was the first one. Here's the second one. So you got to take to the case. No, I have no idea, man. That happened like a few weeks ago and it just never stopped. It happened a few, actually sorry, it happened a few months ago, then they stopped for like a few weeks and then now they're back again. Someone just scammed us I guess, but they always want us to go to that website because it's better than Tinder they say. I wish we had 120s. They're so good for 120s right now. They're all out. I know, well they've been out forever. All right, first one is eight out of 10, Randall Cunningham, nice three color patch at the top. A lot of those fly, that's Daniel who got them straight up. We have another patch, 17 out of 20, that's Givante Williams. So that's going to go to the Denver Broncos R&B, which seven is Tim Davis. So there you go, Tim, on the board right there with that patch. We have a Cleveland Brown, that's Ozzy Newsom, it looks like, one out of 10 for the Cleveland Browns. Brown's going straight up to Joshua. I've seen it with Joe Turex to be honest. Actually, one time Joe was taking a lunch break and I actually blocked it for him, but yeah, maybe it comes out a little bit more with me, but I've definitely seen it with Joe though. Cadarius Tony, nine out of 25, and that's Giant's R&B potentially, yes, nine. That's going to Sean. We have a penmanship of Sean Alexander for the Seahawks, five of five. Seattle Seahawks part of the R&B as well. Spot five going to Matthew S. Man, this R&B is eating, to be honest. We have a tie law for the Patriots, nine out of 20. Four color patch. Yeah, either that or Rex is on, that's two. Rex is behind this, I already know it. Patriots going to Jeremy. And last one here is for the Minnesota Vikings and it is Chris Carter, 10 of 10. So that's Minnesota Vikings part of the R&B for Kansas City, spot zero going to Matthew. All right guys, here we go. Last three hits of the break. So I'll go left, right, middle. Actually no, let's keep this one. I like the way we did last time. Aaron Donald for the Rams, that's three out of 15. Three out of 15, Aaron Donald. That's for the Rams R&B, spot three. Going to Sean. We have Peyton Manning for the Colts, how about that? That's a 2004 Pro Bowl diamond. And that is two out of 10. But then you have those Colts and that's part of the R&B two going to Matthew. That's pretty nice. All right, this middle card has to be like a rookie, right? I don't think they're gonna give us two vets. All snap. I think I see who it is. Got a number in somewhere. All right, let's just do it effort. Good luck guys. Four out of 20 T-Law RPA. Wow. The most popular serial number too. Four of 20. Two color patch and autograph for the Jacksonville Jaguars. Going to Sean Maddox straight up. There you go. That's gotta be like one of the most popular serial numbers, right? Has to be. There you go. Boom, just like that. T-Law. Awesome guys. Yeah, so we had a vet in the first one, which was Aaron Rodgers and then T-Law. So not too shabby. So there you go guys. That was flawless football. Two box case break. Picker team's number one. No random, oh yeah. Actually we had to do one randomizer, sorry. One randomizer to do here. And again guys, I can probably random number block the second picker team if you guys want. And maybe potentially break it with me if not with Joe for sure. Appreciate it guys. If anybody of course wants to do any flawless personals, I will be having personals at three o'clock as well on Instagram. So maybe see if I can create or hit draft, who knows. Well let's do this random number block really quick for these three teams here. We have flawless in the store, yep. So giants, chargers, and mucho mucho Bryce. The price is on jaspys.com if you want to check it out. I forget what it's at. All right, so here we go. Giants, chargers, commanding number. The chargers are commanders. When this randomizer is gonna go straight to the customers. If it's giants, it's gonna go to random number block spot eight, which is Tim. Here we go guys. Roll it. Two and a two four times. Good luck. One, two, three, and four the final time. Stays with the giants after four times. So giants, that's gonna go to Tim. So congratulations Tim. You're gonna get this triple relic here of shocky Antonio Gates and Chris Cooley. So there you go guys, appreciate it. Next one's gonna be in the store. Random number block stuff if you guys want to try it out. Jaspyscasebreaks.com.


Hello everybody, Andrea here with Dental L Mobile Hygiene. So a day in the life of a mobile dental hygienist. So today I was seeing primarily children. So depending on the day, I might see a family of six. I might see two kids the next day. I might see two adults the next day, three kids the next day. It really does vary on who I see and how many people because I like to be as flexible as possible for my patients. And what I like to do is when I get messages from parents saying they want me to take a quick look at their two year old, three year old or four year old who's never been to the dentist before but they want me to come and have a quick look to make sure that everything's okay, that there's no cavities, there's no concerns, there's not a lot of plaque, tartar, buildup, anything. Those children I refer to as those appointments as dental screenings. So I'm probably not going to do a full polish, full this, full that, it's not going to take me an hour but I like to go in there, talk to the parents whoever's home about how are they brushing? Are they starting to use those floss picks? What toothpaste are they using? What is their diet like? And are they able to brush themselves? Are the parents helping them? And I like to talk to them overall about how they can take care, how they can help their child take care of their mouth and every child is different. So I might walk in, the child might be nervous, shy, not sure, I take it slow. So let me just show you guys a couple of things. So when I see children, I bring, I call him Mr. Rex. It's amazing how many kids love Mr. Rex but a little warning, some two and three year olds are scared of him probably because of his big teeth. So I don't just shove Mr. Rex in their face. I actually come in, say hello because remember, this is the parents and the child's first time meeting me. So I say hello, I, sorry guys, this is live unedited. I say hello and I introduce myself and then I put Mr. Rex down. So I don't just shove it to the kids, shove it to the parents. I say, this is Mr. Rex. He was so excited to see you. He does have a big toothbrush too but they're actually being sanitized at the moment. But, and then I just kind of leave the toothbrush down here. I put him down and then I let the parent know that I will be right back. I'm just going to make another trip where I bring in my patient chair, stool. I bring in my cart here. I call it a cart because sometimes I do attach it to a larger attachment if I need more stuff. And then I also bring in this, okay? So what this has is if I'm bringing my cart, I don't normally need this because I can put all of this stuff in my cart. But I find when I'm seeing children it's just kind of easier to just carry two different things. Sorry, I was trying to lift that up but I lost my strings there. So I just come in carrying this. Super simple for screenings. So if I'm doing a full cleaning, there's going to be more. So this is just for kids. And what I have in there is my mobile dental bag advertising where I have my loops in there, my disinfectant, my gloves, I have the intraoral camera in there, my laptop, my hair caps, that kind of thing. Of course, as I had shown you guys, I bring in Mr. Rex. But what do I have in here, do you ask? So for children, I might do nothing. So if the child is super nervous, I'm going to just say, okay, let's count Mr. Rex's teeth together. We count his teeth together. And if I can tell that the child is still nervous, that's okay. I'm going to try again though. I'm going to say he has, I don't know, 20 teeth, how many teeth do you have? Can I count them? Let me just check here if I have my plastic tooth mirror. I like to bring out my plastic tooth mirror. I think they're all being sanitized right now too. Sorry guys, I don't even have that to show you. But for kids, I like to bring out the plastic tooth mirror. This is obviously stainless steel. I don't want the child to hold this and possibly hurt themselves. Well, what they like to do is go to the parents and shove this in the parents' mouth right away. If it's plastic, it doesn't cause as much damage. Of course, if you're going to shove it in there, that's not good either, but plastic is better. So I let kids hold the plastic tooth mirrors, plus they come in different colors. So I'll say to them, would you like a purple one or an orange one? They go, ooh, orange, I go, here you go. I'm going to use this cool one, this super shiny one to count as well. So then we count Mr. Rex's teeth together. And then I'm going to say, awesome, can I count your teeth now? And then you can have a toy. And hopefully they open for me to count their teeth. And then I have a toy box as well. So I just have five or six toys in there at a time. I find if you add in too many toys, the kids take like an hour and a half to choose, right? So I just have a couple little toys. Amazon purchases you guys, super easy. So I let them pick a toy. And then if I see something, so let's say I'm looking in the child's mouth and I see a little suspicious area, I'm going to want to apply silver diamine fluoride, otherwise known as SDF. That is like a liquid medicine. I tell the parents, it's a liquid medicine that I put on the tooth to kill the cavity. So then if I notice a little spot, I'm going to let the parents know. And then what I do next is, so for silver diamine fluoride, I use very tiny micro brushes. Notice how the yellow one is longer, the blue one is tinier. So I take the tinier one, so it's more localized to the area.   I'm going to put something on the teeth to make them super shiny. They don't make the teeth shiny, it's killing the cavity.  It's gonna taste horrible. They're not gonna do it, right? So I say, okay, I'm gonna put something super shiny on your teeth. Here, you can hold this one. I give it to the child. And then I go, okay. Let's put it on Mr. Rex's tooth right here. I rub it in. I count to three and done. Isn't his tooth so shiny? And they go, wow. So then, I mean, hopefully that's the plan. So then what I'm going to do is I shake this up really, really well, keep it away from the kids. It stains like crazy. I shake, shake, shake. I put it in a little dish. I dap it in there. And I say, okay, now I'm going to put this on your tooth to make it really, really shiny. And then, which I forgot to mention earlier, you guys, I like to put on a fluoride varnish. Salted caramel is everything. So I have the salted caramel one. And then I'm gonna put on something that tastes like candy to make it really, really show. I'm doing it again. Sorry, guys. I can't stop talking so much. Or I need some water. So then with the yellow brush, this stuff tastes like candy. I'm gonna put it all over the teeth. I pay special attention to that tooth because it's going to taste bad. And then you're done. If I can do that, if I can make the teeth shiny, you get two stickers afterwards. That usually helps. So then I do that. The child is usually at this point like, ew, that tastes horrible. I go, really, I love that taste. But if you don't like it, you can have some water.  And then they're done and they can pick two stickers. So that's what I do for my child's screening. But if they have a cavity, then that's where the SDF comes in. But I like to talk to parents too. So it's not just simply, hi, I'm Andrea, count the teeth, teeth look good, see you later. Because then they're gonna wonder, why am I paying for this? Like that took two seconds. I like to talk to the parents as well. I talked to them about the diet. I talked to them about xylitol and why that's so important. I'm going to recommend a toothpaste for their child. So I have a couple of different ones that I like that include xylitol. That's just the best prevention. And then I let the parents know, keep an eye out for any black spots, brown spots or anything that doesn't look normal. If you see something you're concerned about, take a photo of it, send it to me. And I can let you know if it's something to be concerned about or if I'm not sure, then I can come over and have another look. So I talk to the parents too. The point of a dental screening, even if the teeth look fantastic, there's no cavities, that's okay. That's a good thing, right? But it helps to get the child used to you coming over and looking in their mouth. If for some reason the child just isn't into it, I don't force things. Some dental professionals don't agree with me on this. They say, well, you're there, you're the authority figure, the child has to listen to you. But I do not force things.  So I let them pick a toy anyway. I say, okay, can I count maybe one tooth? If I can do something, then I'll say, okay, you did great. You can pick a toy now.  You can have another toy. Do you want another toy today? And then that might help to move things along. If it doesn't work, that's okay. They at least know who you are. And when you come back, they're not going to remember she shoved something in my mouth. I didn't like her. They're going to remember, she let me pick a toy. Even when I was kind of, you know, I wasn't very happy, but she let me pick a toy anyway. They remember that and slowly but surely they get better and better. If I can't look in the child's mouth at all, I tell the parents, I still talk to them about proper brushing habits, diet, xylitol, all of that. And I'm going to recommend especially a certain toothpaste that has xylitol in it because I couldn't look inside the mouth today. There might be a suspected cavity. There might not be, I don't know, but using this toothpaste really makes a big difference in prevention. So we're doing everything we possibly can. So for a screening, I'd say it takes me approximately 45 minutes. And that includes bringing my stuff in from the car, sitting down, talking to the parents, all of that, sometimes half an hour. That's it though. It doesn't take long, but it also doesn't take 10 minutes either because I like to talk to the child, the parents, and all of that. And I like to see kids every six months, mainly because if they get a little suspected lesion, I like to take care of that before it's this big hole.  So these are the types of things that I talk about with parents. So let me know you guys if you have any questions. When I do dental screenings, by the way, for children, I like to book a bunch of children in that day. So that way I don't just have one 45-minute appointment. That's not really going to be worth it to me. Or I like to book those dental screenings after I see a couple adult patients, maybe a family of six. It doesn't matter. But I don't just book children's screenings like one patient a day. So I kind of manage my schedule that way too. So if you are a mobile dental hygienist and you would like to start seeing more children or maybe you need help in your mobile dental hygiene practice, I can help you. I do have a course called Mobile RDH Academy where I give you guys step-by-step everything on how I run my successful mobile dental hygiene practice. So comment below if you have any questions. Thank you guys so much for watching and I'll see you guys in the next one.


Some banks in Switzerland offer total anonymity for their customers, and will even deny that they know who those customers are. I guess that ignorance is Swiss. So if you're watching a YouTube show called Thunk, it's probably a pretty safe bet that you value knowing things. Knowledge is power. That's why we evolved this thing and not, like, laser eyeblasts. By understanding the universe and how it works, human beings are able to harness its operating principles in truly staggering ways. I've maintained that truth is only valuable because of what you can do with it. However, some people believe that truth and knowledge are valuable in and of themselves, that given a choice between knowing and not knowing, you should always choose to know.  Although that is a very interesting question, and I'm sure that I'll talk about it at some point in the future. However, I see some clear problems with saying that it's always better to know. I mean, just superficially, there's trivia, knowledge that is, by definition, without practical application. I think that even the most staunch advocates of learning for its own sake have to admit that what you choose to learn is just as important as the learning itself. Of course, trivia is harmless and people enjoy it, but I think that there are three cases in which it's pretty inarguably better to not know. First, knowledge shapes people's behavior, and sometimes you'll get better results behaving ignorantly than you would if you knew exactly what was going on. The most obvious example of this is the double-blind experimental setup in scientific research. In order to make sure that nobody's expectations are skewering results, it's better for both the researchers and the subjects to be ignorant of who's getting real medication and who's getting sugar pills. You might argue that double-blind studies are temporary ignorance for the sake of greater understanding, or that it's the change in behavior that's the problem, not the knowing. But the fact remains that if you're rock climbing, it still might be a very bad idea to look down. Second, knowledge shapes perception, which can actually make your life worse. The sort of Damocles is sort of the classic metaphor for this, that it's much harder to have a good time when you're facing your impending doom. That's why there's a lot of debate in medicine about whether or not doctors should inform their patients of uncurable terminal illnesses. You might do any number of things with that data, but it's inevitably going to cast certain life events in a substantially different light. But there are more pedestrian examples, too. Knowing exactly what hot dogs are made out of, and exactly how they're made, might just make that summer barbecue a little bit less delicious and a little bit more nauseating. Third, sometimes the fewer people that know something, the better. Information about pre-release movie spoilers or cutting-edge corporate research is frequently on a need-to-know basis. Not because it would be horrendous if somebody who wasn't directly involved knew some more about it, but because the more people who do have that information, the harder it is for everybody to keep it a surprise. Of course, we can keep a secret, so it's not like we shouldn't know what's going on behind closed doors. And even if we did blab, it's not like John knowing that we're throwing him a surprise birthday party is the end of the world. If you're watching, sorry, John. Happy birthday. But what about information that's legitimately dangerous? Military operations frequently require a degree of secrecy to be effective and to keep the soldiers involved safe. Would you really want people's lives dependent on your ability not to say anything after a couple of drinks? Or even scarier, what about something potentially apocalyptic? Some researchers at the University of Wisconsin in the Erasmus Medical Center figured out how to engineer a strain of H5N1 virus, a super virulent disease with a greater than 50% mortality rate to be transmitted to mammals, like humans. They were about to publish a paper detailing their experimental methodology when the U.S. National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity stepped in and said, hmm, maybe it would be better if people didn't know how to make this stuff. Of course, it's a good thing that researchers know about this dangerous potential for the disease, because it's not like evolution is going to wait around for us to be ready. But it's a point well taken that there are technologies and information that would be nothing but disastrous in the wrong hands, and that it might be better for everybody if very few people or even zero people knew about them. So it's clear that there are situations where not knowing certain things is preferable to knowing them, that someone's life might be better, happier, or longer in exchange for a little ignorance. But there's a problem with this idea of mindfully choosing what to learn, a sort of inherent paradox. In order for us to figure out whether we would be better or worse off knowing something, somebody's got to learn it. We might be able to see the approximate shape of what lies beyond the barrier of our ignorance, but more often than not, there are important details that we can't know until we've broken through it for better or worse. And it's simply not practical to refuse to learn anything until checking to see if the people who know it are better off on average than the people who don't. Hey, Beth, you took that class on Chinese history in college, right? Great. Would you say that you feel fulfilled and self-actualized in your decisions in life? I was thinking of reading this Wikipedia article... Hello? It's possible that, with advances in neuroscience, we'll eventually have access to a machine, like in paycheck or eternal sunshine for the spotless mind, that will allow us to unlearn things that we don't want in our brains. But until then, the balance of probability is overwhelmingly in favor of knowing things being beneficial. Knowledge really is power. And speaking as an engineer, most of the time, more power is better. Do you know anything that you wish you didn't? When is it okay to tell somebody something that might hurt them? Please leave a comment and let me know what you think. Thank you very much for watching. Don't forget to blah, blah, subscribe, blah, share. And I'll see you next week.


Hey there internet and welcome back to the lab. In this video I will present to you my ingenious idea on how we can combine artificial intelligence and self-replicating machines to bring us all one step closer to the robot uprising. I'll even let some AI generated code run on my 3D printer as a treat. This idea of mine started on November 30th on the release date of ChatGPT. ChatGPT is a state-of-the-art chatbot developed by OpenAI that allows users to generate human-like text based on a given prompt. One of the unique things about ChatGPT is its ability to generate code. By using this feature developers can input natural language descriptions of the code they want and ChatGPT will generate the corresponding code in the desired programming language. The idea is we'll use OpenASCAD, a popular open-source software tool for creating 3D models with this. It allows for users to define geometry of a 3D object using a scripting language which can then be exported as a STL file for 3D printing. My brilliant idea is, with ChatGPT you can simply describe the 3D object you want to create in natural language. ChatGPT will generate the corresponding OpenASCAD code and OpenASCAD will generate the 3D model for printing. Zero modeling experience required. But of course, not just humans could benefit from this. The AI could build upon the experience of the RatBrap project and design its own physical form, which I would find very adorable. What you're about to see is a first and blind attempt at this, lightly edited to conform to modern day attention spans. If you only want to see the results, feel free to skip to the end, but I have found this process very interesting. What would stop me from using this ChatBot to generate OpenASCAD code for decorating my Christmas tree? We will see what kind of results I'll find. Let us start by asking it for a Christmas tree ball. And just like that it starts generating the code. Another fun thing about this, it also generates some small pieces of documentation or explanation what the code actually does and of the two parameters we can influence here, which is very fun. Ooh, would you look at that? This somewhat looks like some decoration, maybe this won't print that well. But hey, it's a start. I wrote zero lines of code. I just asked the machine to give me some data and I'd call this very impressive. But we would need to add a cylinder through the middle to connect these two. And the fun thing about this thing being a ChatBot is we can just ask it for that. And just like that, we have some new code and it even documented the changes it made, which is very nice. That still doesn't look right. So I think I'll ask it to make the cylinders way bigger. Whatever we got now. Oh, would you look at that? I would say in just three requests, we have ourselves a nice little Christmas tree decoration. The first one is set. Let's reset this thread and start a new, perhaps this time with a snowflake would be nice. That's a lot of variables. And it seems like this time around we are getting an error. The code it generated did not use proper syntax. That can always occur. We didn't get lucky this time, but I will just copy exactly the same prompt. And ask it again, because every time it gives a different answer. Oh, that's even more code. And it even explains to me that I need to use OpenASCAD, which is a free and open source 3D modeling program. For those of you that are programmers, I can really recommend using this tool. It seems like this iteration also doesn't really make any sense.  The machine wasn't thinking. It was just doing. So we'll just try again. Hmm, interesting. This is not even properly formatted or anything. Well, I'll copy it anyways and try out. Oh, look at that. Very promising, I think, except for the height, which is a bit too much. This thing is very nice. Can you add use the extrusion height? I think we have ourselves a snowflake. Last of all, we can't really hang this. I might have to add a hole manually for tying a string. But first I'll just ask it if it can add the hole for me. This time around it added these circles all around. Those would be cool, but it used the circle command instead of the cylinder command. So I'll just ask it. You should use the cylinder command instead of circle. And we have our response. And it even added the height parameter correctly, which is very cool. Oh, it seems like I was mistaken. We are mixing 2D and 3D objects. The circle command was the right way to go. And instead, this translate command was the issue. So we can just edit this prompt. You should leave out the mistake command for the circle. So we can copy this. And we have a circle in the middle. We can tie a string through this thing. That looks like a very nice slow flake to me. Second decoration. Done, bada bing bada boom. Reset thread. What should we do next? We have a snowflake. We have a Christmas tree ball. I'd say next off, we try to do a Christmas tree topper. Generate open escut code for a Christmas tree topper. Oh, it seems to be stuck. No, it just needed to calculate some more. The servers are quite overloaded at the moment. So I can understand that. Wow, that's some... That's some...  That is not correct open escut syntax. As you can see, if I paste this, it is not proper syntax. It throws errors everywhere, warning, warning, warning. That doesn't work. So we'll just tell it that is not proper open escut syntax. Try again. And it's doing it again. That is not the proper syntax. Since it's not getting it, I'll tell it that that is not how open escut syntax work, and it should try starting over. No, no, no, no, no. This is not how the programming language works. They need to put in some more work if they want to decorate my tree with this. I think we'll have to try again, resetting this thread and asking it for a different prompt. Generate a Christmas tree chopper in open escut. That looks like good syntax. We copy it. Paste it. Ooh, cone. Look at that, it thinks open escut has a cone module. We'll just tell it that. And I'll even give it a hint at how it could replace this cone command. Open escut does not have a cone object. You could use cylinder with d1, d2, and height to approximate a cone. Let's see if it understands this. OK, it seems to have understood this concept. I'll have to ask it to apply this knowledge that it has just gained to the code it has written up here. So I now ask it if it can replace the cone line and the Christmas tree topper code up here with this new knowledge. It seems like it understood. So what do we get? Hmm, a quite interesting piece of geometry. I have a hard time believing that this would fit well onto the Christmas tree, I must admit. But it managed to fix the programming error after I told it how it's done. So I'm very impressed. I must admit, maybe the Christmas tree topper wasn't the best idea. I think I'll wrap up trying to generate decorations and talk about the limitation of this tech. Because right here we can see pretty clearly the AI doesn't really understand open escut. Now just to be clear, this is a specific limitation with the language of open escut because we are creating 3D models here for more well-known languages such as Python at C++. These problems occur way more infrequently. Let's reset this thread and I'll ask it a really genuinely hard question. I'll ask it to generate open escut code for a NEMA 17 motor bracket. And this will show the approach the AI takes on generating these pieces of code quite well. Look how cute. Here we can see a big problem with the code these things generate. It doesn't really have an understanding of the geometry it is creating. It's just piecing together various snippets of code it found in its training data set. But the AI was trained for very different purposes than 3D geometry generation. I would not be able to mount a motor to something with this geometry. Or if I ask it for a somewhat complex model, like a 3D printer hotend, I don't think it'll be able to generate this. This code will generate a 3D model of a hotend with a diameter of 20 millimeters and a length of 50 millimeters. The hotend will be mounted on a base with a diameter six millimeters larger than the hotend itself and a height of 10 millimeter. Let's see what kind of geometry this spits out. Last time I checked, my hotends aren't just cylinders. As you just saw, 3D modeling is a complex process that requires a high level of technical expertise and specialized software. And while the results were impressive, unfortunately, chat GPT is not really capable of generating 3D models yet. We'll have to wait some more for the next Voron 2 bed probe fork to be AI generated. There are several reasons for this. Firstly, OpenSQL is a specialized programming language that is designed specifically for creating 3D models. Its commands and syntax are not easily understood by a general purpose language model like chat GPT. Secondly, 3D modeling requires a deep understanding of spatial relationships and geometry, which is beyond current natural language processing technology. Chat GPT is good at generating text, but it is not yet good enough to understand and manipulate complex 3D shapes. You'd have to integrate geometric feedback into the learning function of the AI. Instead of language, the focus of the learning would be 3D modeling. You'd have to imply something like geometric deep learning, but I don't know, I'm no AI expert. But the fact that a chatbot optimized for human-like text can generate results, this impresses shows the potential of this workflow. I have high hopes for the future. Thanks for staying with me to the end. If you have thoughts on this topic or want to motivate me to make more videos, leave a comment below. We'll see when I find the motivation to edit the next one. Until then, all hail to the machine spirits.


Log 6-6-2-37 Interviewer Dr. S. Sumesh Interviewed SCP-662-1 Mr. Deeds Forward, during a review of objects found among the effects of SCP-1867, a journal was found in which SCP-1867 made several references to employing an individual named Deeds at the valet. In light of SCP-1867's apparent knowledge of and interactions with several known SCP objects, an interview was conducted to determine whether SCP-662-1 was the same individual referred to by SCP-1867, and what knowledge, if any, it had of that individual and the veracity of its claims. Begin Log 12-53pm Dr. Sumesh enters the interview room, seats himself at the table, and rings SCP-662-1 After a period of thirty-eight seconds, the door to the interview room opens and Mr. Deeds enters. Good afternoon, Dr. Sumesh. How may I be of service? Please have a seat, Mr. Deeds. I would like to ask you some questions. Very well, sir. Mr. Deeds seats himself. Have you at any time in your recollection been the service of a man named Theodore Thomas Blackwood? Yes, sir. I was employed by Mr. Blackwood for a considerable period of time. Good. We would like to ask or change certain facts relating to Mr. Blackwood. Forgive me, sir, but as a gentleman's gentleman, I am obligated not to discuss the private lives of my past employers. I do not intend to pry, Mr. Deeds. An individual claiming to be Mr. Blackwood is currently in our custody, and for his own good we need to determine the veracity of his claims. Indeed, sir? That seems most unlikely. I had heard that Mr. Blackwood perished during the unpleasantness in Patagonia in 1893. I see. When were you first hired by Mr. Blackwood? The 28th of June, 1837, sir. And for how long were you employed by him? Intermittently for the following sixty years or so, sir. Intermittently? Mr. Blackwood was frequently out of the country, and had no need for a gentleman's gentleman. As the household staff was easily capable of handling the affairs of his estate, I was temporarily engaged by other individuals during his absence. When did you leave his employment for the last time? I do not recall the exact date, sir, but I believe it was shortly after the turn of the century. Mr. Deeds, are you aware you previously told me that Mr. Blackwood died in 1893? Yes, sir. How is it you continued to work for him until after the turn of the century? Mr. Deeds is momentarily silent. I am not certain, sir. I see. What were your primary duties as Mr. Blackwood's valet? I was principally responsible for the upkeep of Mr. Blackwood's estates and the management of the household staff. I additionally managed his finances and appointments, received and forwarded his mail while he was away, did his shopping, and handled the acquisition and maintenance of his armaments and expeditionary equipment. Did you possess your current abilities at the time Mr. Blackwood employed you? I do not recall, sir. How old was Mr. Blackwood when you first met him? As a gentleman, sir, I did not ask. Very well. How old did you believe him to be? Based on his physical appearance, I would have judged him to be a man of no more than forty. And when you last saw him? No more than forty, sir. Are you saying he did not age in sixty years? I… I cannot say, sir. Did Mr. Blackwood ever discuss his family or his childhood with you? I do not recall him ever mentioning family. I recall his state that he lived in the West Country as a child and attended school in Netton, that he had received a sizable inheritance and that his title was a hereditary one. What was that title? I believe he was a miscounter, sir, but I do not recall of what locale. Was he ever married? I do not recall ever seeing him in the company of a woman, sir. You mentioned armaments before. What sort of armaments were those? Mainly pistols and rifles, sir. He also possessed several atomic rifles and destabilizing muskets manufactured by Mr. Moss of Manchester. I handled the purchase of those myself. They were fine weapons indeed. I recalled that he returned from one expedition with an electric rifle that he found most fascinating. He tested it on me once and was most effective. Did Mr. Blackwood tested his weapons on you? I expect the agency would have been most upset had they learned of it, sir, but I was only doing as requested. In any event, as you can see, I suffered no lasting harm. Did Mr. Blackwood ever talk to you about his voyages? Quite often, sir. He would often revise his journals in a study and ask me for opinions of his word choice. I enjoyed hearing his stories very much. I would like you to read one of the journals we acquired recently, Mr. Deeds. Very well, sir. Dr. Samish hands Mr. Deeds a copy of the excerpts from Journal No. 23 relating to the events of May, June, 1883. Mr. Deeds spent the following twelve minutes reading silently. Finished, sir. To the best of your knowledge, are the events described in this journal true? I was not present for the events in France, sir, but the account of the events in London is completely true to the best of my recollection. Do you have any second-hand knowledge of the events in France? The description in this journal conforms to what Mr. Blackwood told me upon his return, sir. I recall the deal with a great deal of speculation about the nature of the disaster in the newspapers at the time. The telegraph was certain that the world itself was coming to an end. Are you certain, Mr. Deeds? Completely, sir. Mr. Deeds, we have been unable to locate any newspaper reports from 1883, or French government documents of any sort, referring to a monster or to a nuclear explosion. Diaries in second-hand accounts relating to the life of Theodore Roosevelt indicate that he was living in New York the entirety of 1883 and did not leave the U.S. during that time. Testing has determined that there is no significant background radiation in province, and we have found no evidence that any pre-1883 buildings in Abagnon or the surrounding areas were ever damaged by an explosion. Nor are there any indications that an unusually large number of people died in that year. We can locate no evidence to prove that any of this is true. I don't suppose that you would, sir. Why is that, Mr. Deeds? Mr. Deeds winces. I cannot say, sir. Very well, we're almost done. One more question. At any time in any of your interactions with Mr. Blackwood was he, or did he appear to be, a sea slug? I beg your pardon, sir? A variable neon slug, Mr. Deeds. Nimbrata Kubernjana. At any point in the time you knew him, was he won? No, sir. Thank you, Mr. Deeds. That would be all. Thank you, sir. Mr. Deeds stands up and walks to the door. Before leaving a room, he turns around. Actually, sir? Yes, Mr. Deeds? I do not recall if he was relevant, but your question reminds me of the most unusual dream I had many years ago. What was that? Mr. Blackwood had summoned me to a study. When I arrived, there was a small slug sitting on his Davenport. I heard him greet me and request a scotch and soda, and his voice seemed to emanate from the slug. I asked if he was in any way feeling distressed or unusual, and he was asserted that nothing was amiss and he felt as healthy as he ever had. I… do not recall what happened after that. Thank you, Mr. Deeds. End log. 1.17pm