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My name is, John Small. I'm the president of Biovision Veterinary Endoscopy, and our goal has always been to enable less pain, faster recovery, fewer complications for all of our surgical and diagnostic procedures. Myself and few veterinarians in the Denver, Colorado, area teamed up. We were able to use technology combined that with their clinical technique to refine the procedure for dogs, cats, even large animals such as horses. I learned of Advantech through a colleague that recommended Advantech, we didn't want to go with a standard monitor. We wanted to go with a smart monitor. And the Advantech had an all in one PC monitor, the MIT unit, and the UTC units seemed to be a perfect match for what we needed. We have been using the product now for almost ten years and it's been a workhorse for us. And it has enabled us to provide veterinarians exactly what they needed, which is a very crisp display that would be able to capture video and still images and store it as a mini practice management software for the various hospitals. So the monitor has been a great product, a great addition to put out into the marketplace to satisfy the veterinarians who are interested in performing these procedures. The laparoscopic spay procedure was developed here at Deer Creek, and Dr. Markee Kuschel, who's the person who performed the surgery earlier today. She's also one of the co-founders of the Center for the Advancement of Rigid Endoscopy. She was a major contributor to this procedure, and this procedure keeps evolving as people more and more veterinarians adopt it into a standard of care procedure that many veterinarians around the world are performing today. I am the one of the co-founders of the Center for Advancement Rigid Endoscopy, also the co-founder for Deer Creek Animal Hospital. Here at Deer Creek, we've probably done close to 5700 spays. That allowed us then to follow up our pain study with a safety study and showed that in fact, it's a much safer procedure. We've had zero ovarian particles that we've had to go back in that were bleeding from this procedure. Since a lot of the minimally invasive surgeries and people were less painful, we wanted to prove the laporaspopic spay procedure was less painful than a traditional open space. And so back in 2004, we did a study and in fact came to the conclusion that it was a much less painful procedure. Yeah, the monitors improved dramatically. The monitors we had before were so grainy and everything that it made it just very difficult. But when you had the cameras with the monitors, it's incredible. They have instructed 4 to 500 veterinarians around the world. I mean, we have products in Australia, products in Japan, we have products as far as in Scandinavia, Norway, Mexico, in Brazil, places like Colorado State University. They use the MIT unit for the needle scope, and we're able to use this scope to go into the joint of a horse and diagnose the lameness in that horse. I mean, this is unheard of. The software that we use on the UTC and MIT unit actually runs on Windows 7. And we're migrating that right now to Windows 10 and 11 for the future. So having a smart monitor, one where you can actually have a touch screen that would work with the software to capture images. That was something that we needed to solve and the UTC enabled us to solve that problem. What I like about the UTC product, again, it's an all in one PC. It's very rugged. It's perfect for a medical environment. It's can be cleaned very easily. It's easy to operate, it's very user-friendly, and it's affordable. These are the things that attracted me to the product. You know, it's ironic that I ended up in veterinary medicine. I came from the human side and transition into veterinary medicine, which, by the way, in my opinion, is a lot more fun. And the impact that we've made with these pioneer and procedures and adapting technology to it. it's just been an incredible ride. Here it is a kid from Brooklyn that grew up being afraid of animals, afraid of dogs, and now I'm absolutely in love with animals and in love with dogs and will do anything to improve the human animal bond. It's been an incredible journey.