I'm Brian Sokawa, you're watching He Spoke Style. So on May 3rd, we recorded a video comparing the Common Project's original Achilles Lo with the Coyote Capri triple white that was on May 3rd. And then we published that video just a few days ago on May 12th. So recorded May 3rd published on May 12th. In that time between May 3rd and May 12th, there's another video that went up on YouTube that kind of went viral and also was about the Common Projects that was in comparison with Coyo. This video is by Rose Anvil and I had not heard of it, though I certainly heard about it when we published our video because so many of you were talking about it in the comments. So apparently in this video he rips apart a pair of Common Projects and goes through every single little detail and exposes the brand supposedly as being a fraud not using the highest quality materials and basically just putting it out there for everyone to see right like that. So what I thought I'd do if you haven't seen that video, I'm going to watch it today and react along with it and you guys can watch it along with me. If you've seen it already, let's watch it again together. This should be cool. I've always interested in seeing the inner workings of things. I don't do it myself but this seems really interesting and I'm pretty excited to watch it. So let's get to it. Those look nice. Today I'm cutting open the Common Projects to check out the leather quality and see if they live up to the hype and that steep price tag. I'm guessing not. These have been some of the more requested sneakers in the comment section. So what do you guys want to see next? I've got Birkenstocks on the way and a lot of people have been requesting the Air Force Ones. Which color do you guys want me to do? Just the all white again, kind of like the all white theme we have going here with the sneakers and it's time to announce the winner of the Shattered Backboard Wall. And the winner is... Who is the winner? Who won? Diego197501. Congratulations Diego. The brand is Common Projects. The model is the Achilles Low. The color is white. They're made in Italy and they cost around $4.5 online. Supposedly they don't spend any money on advertising and marketing. I've never seen ads. My initial wear impressions of these, they are definitely narrow as... I don't mind them being narrow. I know a lot of you guys in the comments of the Common Projects Coyote video were mentioning that the last seems narrow. I have a narrow foot so not a problem for me. To be expected from any style like this. They fit true to size and the only thing I was kind of bothered by was my foot is sliding around all over the place in here because of the smooth leather on the lining and on the insole. That's not really something I noticed. The initial impressions when I first got these and opened up the box, the red flags were just going up all over the place. What were those red flags? So let's start dissecting these and start addressing some of those red flags. So the first red flag, when I opened this box I expected to see and smell that Primo Italian vegetable tanned leather but instead I saw these little cross sections and the heel here blue on the inside of the other. And that is a telltale sign of a chrome tanned leather which is faster to produce, cheaper to produce and generally accepted that it's a lower quality than a vegetable tanned leather. It's not always the case but I thought. Interesting I didn't know that. Also let's note the cat one more time. Maybe just these smaller pieces might be just a cheaper chrome tanned leather and these bigger panels are a higher quality Italian veg tanned. So let's cut this toe open and the tongue and see hopefully that's veg tanned. Have you ever wanted to do this? My god. Sound is really good with the disassembly. So it is as I feared it's chrome tanned on the tongue. That's amazing that he could tell that from just the smell and opening it up. Well he also mentioned that it was blue. Now I want to look at mine to see if there's blue on them. And on the liner the tongue is 1.5 millimeters and the liner is 1 millimeter even. When I saw the chrome tanned I was concerned so I called up Rocky Mount Leather down in Salt Lake and asked them to send me their high quality all-white leather samples for me to show you guys the difference between a cheaper chrome tanned leather or just chrome tanned in general and a high quality veg tanned. So they sent me this piece of Italian veg tanned and they sent me this swatch of French goat skin and if you look at the cross section on the goat skin you can see there's no blueing in there and it's just an even color all the way through. And if you look at the Italian cow leather you see there's no blueing in there either and the blue comes from the tanning process. The chromium salts they use to turn the flesh into leather is what turns it blue and chrome tanned leather isn't all bad some of the best some of my favorite leather, Horwien's Chrome XL is a combination tan that's chrome tanned and then re-tanned and vegetable tanning compounds and it works really good for work boots like iron rangers is an oil. I'm wondering if it's not so bad then what what the issue is so I'm sure we're going to find out tan leather which is basically a chrome tanned leather with a lot of oils infused into it it's really durable it's more water resistant and it's kind of a self-conditioning leather so for a work application chrome tanned leather is really good. I think it's not fair to compare like a work boot to a sneaker but I guess we're talking about the differences in the quality of leather and the price so maybe it's fair. For sneakers when you're not needing those properties it's usually a cheaper way of getting around making leather products. So next let's see what's on the side panels and what kind of counter is on the heel. I want to get these tools and get an old pair of sneakers and rip them up like this must be really satisfying to do though like the watch that I took apart you can't put this back together. So it is the same leather that's on the side panels that tongue everything everything's a chrome tanned but the counter is a compressed leather counter I did a quick burn test on it it's self extinguished and smelled like burning flesh so it's a good science leather but it is a compressed leather so it's the extra loose fibers reconstituted into a material for the counter it's not a solid piece of leather and then the one thing is that like a cost saving measure is they flip that last piece at your heel to the flesh out so those that fuzziness is hitting your heel that makes it so your heel doesn't slip as much and makes it easier to break in without getting blisters on your heel. Next we're gonna test to see if this construction on the side here these stitches are the only thing holding the sole on or if there's if it's also glued as well. That's satisfying that's like popping the bubble wrap not a whole lot of glue at least from the sidewall so that's good it looks like there is some glue and the sole I think I like that more though because if you need to re-sole these and it was glued all the way around you would be tearing up this sidewall and it might not look as good afterwards because with the leather have you ever thought about re-soling sneakers I never have like this with a heavy finish on the leather you don't actually pull the glue away from the leather you're pulling the top layer of paint away from the leather and that makes it really ugly it just makes it easier and cheaper to re-sole and actually make a re-sole possible and I also did a durometer test on the sole compared to the converse and the vans because this feels really soft and the results of the test is tell us you will move the converse where 22 to 25 the vans were 18 to 20 ish and the common projects were 12 to 14 never worn vans worn common projects worn converse converse I will say definitely the the sole lasts a very very long time it does feel a lot harder whereas the common projects are definitely softer that wears down much faster but I have to say that converse I don't find to be comfortable at all so significantly softer so this is going to wear out more but it's also going to be a little bit more grippy and a little bit more comfortable so the next question I have is which or what part of the cross section of the height is this leather from is it the best stuff the full grain is it top grain or is it the split portion so this was the thing that I think people were harping on the most in the comments is that the the leather quality so I'm interested to find out what he discovers here the best way to tell usually is just to look at the cross section so if you look at like this veg tan from rocky mountain leather you can see that grain pattern at the very top but I can't really tell on these ones so an even better way to tell is just to bend the leather and take small slices out of it and see what's exposed do it so if we do this on the full grain Italian veg tan leather the first cut I'm just removing that top layer of the pigment and you're exposing a different colored grain and then the next cut we're getting into the grain next cut we're starting to see those pores in the dark spots that's really interesting we finally get to that fibrous layer that's in that split portion contrasted against the cheap aj1 leather that's a split leather with a top layer of plastic on top and take that first cut and remove that plastic and we're immediately to our super fibrous split layer and then if we go to the common projects the first layer we're pulling off that top layer finish and then it looks like we're a little bit into the grain maybe just that cut seems a little deeper than the first one you did on the the first leather a small layer of grain and then we get to the really fibrous layer so my best guess is that this is from the top grain area like a more poorer top grain and maybe this is a younger cow like yearling or calf skin so they don't have a stick of a grain so it's not the best leather it's okay not the best not the worst so not full grain which would be the best now let's check out the insole or the insert and see what's going on in there I love the sound wise doing this I thought this would hurt more but they're not my shoes so it's cool ah there's the cat so the insert is the chrome tan leather on top and then a layer of poron underneath this tail layer poron's just a better foam it's more shop shock absorbent and I also see some little brass nails in here nails cut the rest of it in half now to see what else is going on inside there Simba this wasn't good back to the sneakers okay we got a cut in half let's see what's inside yes that's cool what happens all these after it's strange there's a shank in here a metal shank I have no idea what its purpose is so let's tear the rest of it out and see what's going on I want to know what the purpose of the shank is what else is in here that's interesting I'm trying to remember if I've taken these to the airport and had to take them off would this set the alarm off it's the same seem very satisfying this shoe is very perplexing it's really strange so let's go through the layer starting with the sole you've got the rubber cup sole that was glued on and stitched on then you've got a little layer of foam which they assume acts as a slip sole then you've got the compressed cardboard above that you've got the shank which I don't know why there's a shank in here it's very strange to me is that common for shoes to have shanks in them like that above that you've got the text on fiber board and then we've been through the rest oh and I forgot to mention the brass lasting nails so the heel must be hand lasted it's cool it just seems strange to me that you achieve out on some of the materials on the inside but hand lasted with brass nails yeah what's a common project shoe is it worth the $450 it's a really strange shoe I don't I don't fully understand but like we saw with the Knicks handmade ultimate work boot this is around the same price I have a hard time believing that this takes as much time and money and energy to produce as this totally agree and I that's exactly what I was talking about it being you're paying the luxury tax for this shoe whether or not it's full grain leather or you know better quality of materials on the inside and there weren't some like strange construction issues it's a luxury brand and it's marketed as a luxury brand so you're paying that that luxury price tag whether it's worth it or not I don't think it's the worst that's out there it just kind of feels like a cheap shoe posing or pretending to be an expensive shoe isn't that a lot of luxury stuff though you know there's little aspects of it that you might associate with a premium shoe but all the materials are not great so what would I do to make this a premium shoe worthy of $425 price tag or yes tell us the same price of these Knicks I would just load it up full leather get rid of all these cheap materials I have a leather insole leather midsole get rid of the shank and actually make the upper out of a higher quality leather and then I think you'd have a an expensive premium shoe that would last a long time that makes total sense to me and I am curious as to the thinking of the founders of common projects because they don't market it really it's just kind of become this cult thing based on quality but obviously as we can see here it's not totally the quality that maybe people want to believe let me know what you guys think am I off on this one would you pay $425 for cardboard and cardboard and cheap chrome tan leather I don't think that's quite fair to put it that way but I get what you're doing maybe one day I'll make a premium yeah I'll buy it shoe that's like my dream is to to just do small batch production of like ultra high-end stuff so maybe one day so thanks for your guys support if you haven't subscribed consider subscribing and I like that the cat is a recurring feature of his videos I'm gonna watch more of them so that was very insightful and instructive to me I don't have the depth of knowledge to assess leathers in that way or construction or know what it means I'm really excited to watch some more of his videos to get inside other different other shoes other different shoes that makes a lot of sense but I don't know so the main reason I was curious to see this is well one you guys were all over this video in the comments I don't know that it level sorry I don't know that it maybe warranted the level of I wouldn't say hate that I was getting in the comments but you know I guess some people like to say haha you're you're done for buying that and now I know this and I'm smart and and you're not listen like people buy things for different reasons and if they have the money and they want to spend the money on that you know that's fine it's good to know where things come from and how they're made and this is definitely very eye-opening for me for me though these shoes as I said in the previous video they're the third pair that I've owned and I've always had good luck with them I have a narrow foot so they fit me really well the sole I like he says does wear out a lot quicker than something like a converse but I haven't had that many problems with them they they have lasted three and a half years for me the koios are just as good I think I would like to see him compare the common projects and the koios to see whether they're really all that different on the inside I'm certainly not going to cut up my pair of koios but this was a really interesting video very educational and enlightening and entertaining too so let me know what you guys thought of this down below in the comments if you saw this video before what do you think about it and yeah let's just have a conversation about this because I think we're having a good conversation over in that the video for the koi and common projects but this is definitely very interesting so comments down below thumbs up don't forget to subscribe and hit the bell so you get notified every time we publish a new video let me know if you'd like to see other videos like this I understand that I'm not the best reactor but anyway until next time everyone thanks for watching and stay tailored


I've had about 25% lung function then anyway, so at the time I was feeling good because that was a good day for me. 25% was a good day. Yeah. Wow. So what was a bad day? A bad day was about 17%. Oh, wow. So I was measuring myself. Sorry, what do you have now? 92%. Wow. This time last year, Tor was, he thought he was in the last chapter of his life. The book was about to close and today, he hadn't ridden quite a push bike for just over 10 years. Yep. Today we're on a glorious Melbourne day going for a bike ride.  So I'm at a Mara Cycles Cafe and today I'm going to introduce you to a man who's got quite an unbelievable and inspirational story to share. Before we get into this video, if you've just landed here, this is where I do cycling videos, both inspirational and entertaining. And I do love a deep dive road bike review. So if that sounds up your alley, consider subscribing below. So in this video, I'm introducing you to a man by the name of Tor Bloomfield. Now Tor suffers from a genetic life threatening disorder called cystic fibrosis, which essentially affects the lungs and also the digestive system. Now the average age for somebody that lives with cystic fibrosis is around about 40, but it's constantly increasing thanks to modern medicine.  The book was about to close. In fact, he could barely tie his shoelaces without being completely exhausted. And today we're going to go for a ride together. So Tor has got quite an unbelievable story to share, which I'm going to leave it up to him to do. But just know this, he's just returned from the transplant games, supporting two gold medals, one for cycling.  So I think I'll just see him. Here he comes now. Look at this. How are you mate? Looking good. How are you? What's this? What's going on here? You're wearing the... Oh look at that. Keep under wraps. Oh my goodness. Legendary. Too gold. Too gold. Not one. Two. One for cycling. What was the other one for? This was double tendon bowling. And this one was the Cycling 5K Tom trial event. Yeah, okay. Held at the Australian Transplant Games. Right. So... How does it feel to have been wearing those around your neck? I feel like Mr. T. The white version. So hopefully in a year's time at the World Transplant Games, my cycling is improved. Yeah. And I have my chest. And it's just a massive amount of gold flowing from my chest. Yeah, nice. Going for Australia as well. Nice on that. Well, should we go for a ride and chat about it some more? That'd be good, Ken. Let's go. Oh no. Thank you. Today we're on a glorious Melbourne day going for a bike ride. Tell me what's it like to be riding your bike? Um... I did think about the answer to this question, and it really stuck to put it into words and still express the emotion that it gives me. It always brings me to tears to be able to ride. And to be doing this and feel breathless in a good way instead of panicking that I'm going to die is all that I can put into words.  And sometimes I actually feel like I'm in heaven and I did die on the day. And every day since the operation, it's just been one beautiful day after the next. So it's as pleasant as I can put it for you. That's fantastic, mate.  Love it. Thank you. Sorry, I have to get the sunnies right. So, mate, how good is it to be out there riding? On a scale of 1 to 10, riding on a Friday, beautiful weather, a little cool breeze with a good mate, having a laugh, someone that can push me a little harder. Sorry about that. It's okay, I didn't mind. My legs are feeling it now. But it's been awesome. Yeah, right. That's awesome. I enjoyed it too, mate. And we're going to do it next Friday?  All right, bring it on. Well, affecting me with cystic fibrosis, there's different levels of illnesses within cystic fibrosis. So some people could be partially affected. Other people can be severely affected by cystic fibrosis. And by that, I mean the lungs are degenerating on a much faster rate, in which case they're going to die quicker, obviously. But on a daily basis, the mucus builds up in the lungs. So it's constantly like having... Blocking the airways. Blocking your airways. And basically, it chokes you from the inside. So you suffocate because your lungs are trying to produce oxygen.  And in the hospital, they measure how well you are or how secure you are by what the volume of a cup of sputum you cough up each day. So on a good day for me, it was about this much when I was healthy. And then on a bad day, I was coughing up one to one and a half cups per day.  You're shoving it in the water, but you're sinking faster than you can shovel. And eventually, the ship will sink. So you've got that. Plus, then you can have diabetes on top, which I had diabetes, which was extra regime work and extra monitoring and complications with having low blood sugar to high blood sugar would increase the amount of illness and infection you would have. And then plus asthma on top of that as well. Is that common for cystic fibrosis uppers to have another problem? And also I'm probably unique because I've got one mainstream gene, which is the cystic fibrosis airways condition. But I also have one unique gene, and the unique gene hasn't been diagnosed and they've done a secondary test to try and work out what exactly is this unique gene and how can we track it so we can also help other sufferers with mapping and therefore research and going at that particular gene and trying to expose it and see if we can fix it. But my unique condition is one of... from what I understand, I haven't seen any other people like me, but I don't have a digestive problem where I have to take enzymes. So prior to the transplant, you try and put cystic fibrosis to the back of my mind and work on a daily basis so that the things that I was doing was my work and my family and a bit of my health and stuff. But I wasn't able to do what most people do, go to the gym and have a bit of a workout and come home feeling refreshed. Over the last 10 to 20 years, my health has deteriorated slowly. But then on a bell curve, within the last two years, my health took a severe turn with influenza two years ago and the following winter, which was last year, I got influenza. No, I got pneumonia. Then I went into the Alfred Hospital and was just at the point of recovery. I was down in the cafeteria and just talking away. I'd been in there for three weeks already and then I'd went back to the ward and then a couple of hours later started feeling like I'd got a bit of a temperature and felt good that I'd just left pneumonia. And then within another two hours, sitting on my bed, almost convulsing with a feverish fit, buckets of sweat pouring off me and I was almost in a coma-ish state where I wasn't 100% aware of what was going on around me because my temperature was about 40. And that's pretty unable for someone who already is at a low point anyway, at 25% to then chuck influenza A on top of them, which in the suburban hospitals, they were recording how many people had died from influenza at the same time as I'd got it here. So my doctor put the call through. It was a Saturday night. He was at home. He picked up the phone, Dr. John Wilson, who's been my doctor for the last 20 years at the Alfred Hospital and spoke to the physio, Brenda Barton, who was actually been my head physio for probably 30 years, I'd say. Followed me over from the kids' hospital and I think it was due to them that I didn't end up in ICU in a coma-ish state and basically knocked out because I was unable to hold myself together and they nurtured me through with the nurses who brought all the emergency equipment to my bed and with the heart bumpers and the special emergency team where all the nurses get their met call and they have to come from other wards to come down and help someone who's in an emergency state. That was me. I just remember a lot of nurses around my bed all talking to me at once and it was like watching everything out of focus and that sort of what knocked me to the point of getting back up onto the fifth floor where the respiratory ward is and the first time I'd really seen the transplant doctors and the team came around. So you needed to go to that sort of level to be able to go to a transplant level but almost on the verge of dying? Yeah, so there's like too early and too late and then there's a window and my transplant doctor Glenn said just before that the weekend doctors came around and they were nice and relaxed and very happy and they obviously loved what they do and said, Tall, if you don't get better tomorrow we'll look at putting you on ECMO and I didn't know what ECMO was it just sounded like a cool word I don't know what that is something really cool just have a party ECMO sounds good but when I started to find out about it I thought I think I'd rather stay in fight than go on ECMO because what ECMO means is we'll take you down to intensive care and when you're in intensive care you don't go there for happy reasons or it's not a social visit this is the ward you go to before you die or before you live so there's only two choices and two ways you come out we're either going to come out on top of the world or you're going to come out in a black box and I saw both while I was down there so ECMO is where they take the blood from the left side of the leg and pump it around a dialysis or oxygen machine oxygenate your blood and stick it back in the other side of your leg and then circulate through your body at the same time you're 100% knocked out so you're just sitting there sleeping and whilst you're sleeping you're waiting for someone to come up as a donor with a set of lungs and it's one of those times in life where your brain is just going into a state of like euphoria and you're not too sure what you're supposed to think or what you're supposed to feel because there's no guidebook for how you're supposed to react or think when someone's about to tell you that you've only got two choices left in life and they're going to happen so quickly that you're not able to make any plans or decisions it's more like when you say goodbye to your wife and go to work you've got that short amount of time to say goodbye to your daughter, your wife your best mate your pet if you've got one and that's the amount of time I've sort of had left in life to be able to wind up and package my whole 40 years on the planet to that little section to say this is all I have left and you know even if I do regret anything it's still too late so I was really in the stressful anxious, scared part of my life the doctors were very very confident that I was going to come out and not only come out, I was going to come out like a bull just fighting and full of energy and they said you know, tour the biggest the biggest risk for you is you know, falling off the bed before you get there but in terms of us doing a successful transplant with you we have no hesitation this is going to be one of our most successful transplants and they look at all these different numbers it's amazing what they actually go through and it's hard to explain to anyone that hasn't done it if I had have recorded it would have been pages the whole but the numbers that they saw your window starts here and if you'd like to go on the list now this is the optimal time for you but we need you to make the decision because you can still maintain yourself and live a normal life the life that you're currently leading and get better but there's a risk that if you get an infection it may throw you back even further than you are now or you can have your operation now and we will see you healthy and fit quite quickly and the risk is that you may not come out with the operation or you may come out with more complications than you went in with or the organs just don't talk to each other or maybe it's a year later that the organs decide that the body is winning the fight against the new set of lungs that I got so I actually got two sets of lungs and then you're back on the table looking for another set of lungs as well so I'll just show you but this is this is the set of lungs that I got so a scar from all the way around there two drainage holes for the lungs to drain the fluid from and then on this side again under there so they open your rib cage like that to about there and I'm bent backwards over a table with my arms over my head for about nine hours and then so in that position then recovering and coming back you're quite sore and your body's muscular is sore as well and having your rib cage split open like that and then squash it back together still and I think probably for most of my life I'll be on nerve pain medication what happened with the false starts was the doctors put you on the transplant waiting list and then they have to wait for someone to be ready to donate their organs which is a precision match for me and they'd been on the transplant waiting list for about three weeks and then the call came through to say we've got some lungs for tour and that happened early in the morning and my wife and I went ballistic and we started calling people and telling them it's on it's on it's on you know he's going to get new lungs he's going to have his operation and we turned up to the hospital and we sat on the bed and they said we'll just do some blood tests to get started and one of the nurses from the transplant unit came back and forth every half an hour and in the first instant she said look we're not too sure if it's going to go ahead and then we thought you know it's only a bit of a hit she said but it still could be on and next she came back about 40-45 minutes later and what they have to do is wait for the person they give them like an hour's grace and within that hour if you get too close to the hour she said that the lungs are perished too much to be able to be put into my body and health healthily connect to my heart so they said look we're really sorry but it's not going to go ahead today so left like we'd gone to Luna Park and we were that deflated that it was closed on the day we turned up I went in the second time and I was there for six hours this time got the build up really thought it was going ahead they made me shave I thought right if they shave my chest it's got to be on for sure you know he don't ask a man to shave if you're not going to do the operation so I'd done the work up spend six hours my best mate was there and my wife and daughter and my parents were there for a bit and it didn't go ahead and left left a bit more you know I'm used to this now I had my first knockback this is my second knockback so I'm pretty confident I can handle a third knockback and there was a phone call 11 o'clock at night and said it's alright I'll get the phone who would call this hour after a beautiful day I hope this is not your parents or my parents wanting to you know they'd forgotten something they wanted a cup of sugar and the hospital had called and spoke to them and said a set of lungs had come in and we're fairly certain that this is definitely going to go ahead we'd like to order come in at one o'clock and I said put the phone down I'm going back to bed, wake me up at quarter to one so she started packing my bag and got excited and called a few people and organised for my daughter to be put somewhere and said okay we're going in and I thought oh god here we go again you know they've woken me from a beautiful sleep and I said I'm going to put an invoice in for my sleep so we went into hospital and the only two people standing in the room that night with me was my wife and my best friend who'd had a transplant 10 years before me and it was a calmest feeling thinking this could potentially kill me well this could potentially send me back to my family and quality time with them and ride bikes and ride awesome bikes not only a bike but that best bike the Ferrari of bikes and I'd I just kind of recalled it things that I've done and bucket listed very quickly just recent experiences like on my 40th birthday I went to Aurora and for me was one of the last things that I wanted to do before having a transplant and going to the point where I was unable to travel overseas and also at a bucket list because at the age of 40 was considered the life expectancy with someone with 60 fibrosis so I thought what can I do that would be a long lasting memory for myself and for my wife and daughter and thought about having a big party in Melbourne inviting all my friends and just crashing it and laying 10 grand on the table but I thought what's that going to give me I'm going to get drunk I'm going to pass out I won't remember a thing so I thought maybe I'll do something that I might remember better and going to watch the sunrise over the beautiful ocean in the Pacific Islands was something that I valued more and then that was my experience so you took those memories as you were going into the Operating Theatre for the 3rd and final 3rd and final call, no more bids wow that's awesome the only other person was the nurse sort of off in the background very quiet and silently waiting who came over and said would you like to see a priest or is there any kind of religion that you would like to attend prior to going in and I said no she said that's okay so we got a photo of myself and my wife and my friend Glenn together and we said goodbye and I said I'll see you in a couple of hours and as I was going being wheeled into the theatre there was a dark room going into a light room which I thought this could be going to heaven I went into that waiting room on the bed and just raised my fist in the air and just thought I don't care what happens I'm going as strong as I can into this fight for the next nine hours and my body's going to be fighting for me and I had the operation and I'd come up to the intensive care unit and I think my wife and mother were quite happy that I was back on the ward and the nurse said that I was losing a lot of blood and they will have to take me back down to theatre and I thought he's just come up what does he need to go back down this is not right so I went back down to theatre and it turns out that as they were operating on me they'd accidentally sliced my diaphragm which was leaking blood so they had to go back in open me up again and then find where they sliced me cut the stitch it back up then stitch up the big part and then get back out and put me back up on the ward just carry on top of the whole experience it's like forgetting to put the muffler back on and you go back in the garage attaching a bit so I remember waking up and the day doctor started at seven o'clock in the morning and takes over so the day doctor had the full responsibility and the night doctor was really there just to carry through until the day and if anything happens and say that there's an issue what should we do but prior to the seven o'clock they said I was talking or trying to communicate and trying to communicate with this stuck down my throat a bit hard so they couldn't hear exactly what I was saying so they gave me a little board and a whiteboard marker and I was like we know you're trying to say something but we can't so write it down and show us and I wrote down very clearly take this out and the doctor was on night who wasn't really supposed to be able to do that because it's not his responsibility he said Tor I was so confident in you because you wrote so clearly that I thought if I take it out you will be able to breathe by yourself and he did take it out half an hour before the other shift started and I took a deep breath which was the first deep breath taken which was not a small breath I could breathe in and hold and I'm still holding and I'm still holding and then I could let it out and it was the most freakiest moment to feel that you're breathing through someone else's body parts and knowing that someone else had passed away and as someone else was being mourned and put in the box or cremated etc I was embracing life and getting excited about living and walking and bike riding and jet skiing and mountain climbing and sky diving and snowboarding I was looking forward to all these things but the other person was not who the other person is under the privacy act you're not allowed to know who the other person is unless I write a letter to the hospital or the organisation to deal with transplants they vet the letter, send it on and if the other party would like to communicate back then they can vet and sort of make sure I think what I would like to do is spend a bit more time with my new lungs and just do a little more experiences and just feel that I've got something to write back to them about why I'm so humbly thankful for these gifts that you've given me so I'm still maintaining myself now on two fronts the transplant front plus the cystic fibrosis and the diabetes front with a little bit of asthma thrown in sprinkling on top it's pretty exciting right coming back from the games and the euphoric state of finishing a five kilometre bike race in the morning in a hot sun in Queensland in Narang which was a circuit course up and down a major hill and then following that within 40 minutes I had to run off to specialised in Narang to get the bike fixed to then come back and compete in the 30K bike race straight afterwards was just absolutely tearing my body apart but I felt so good afterwards what that confidence has given me to think of the future and what I could possibly do has really confirmed that after doing the Australian transplant games and subsequently fighting out at the gala that I'd won a gold medal in the five kilometre time trial has solidified me to go to the world games the world transplant games and compete for Australia in those games beyond proud I'd be something that I'd seen on TV and think I am really standing in the world games competing for Australia and just the buzz and the excitement of having myself there and my daughter and my wife and all the other competitors around me that we're all on an equal playing field that we've all suffered a severe illness paining ourselves daily on a daily basis with multiple drugs and we're all going through pain, we're all going through could be dialysis with kidney transplants but you just don't know what people are suffering and the people I was there with all of them who had had a transplant no one had ever stopped to complain during the games about the suffering and the pain or problems that they've been going through was just happy to be out there to be around people that would just go I do dialysis every night for the last 10 years and you think okay if you come home from work and you've had a bad day spare a thought for someone else who had just been doing the hard yards and then during the day that they then go to work I had a moment inside me that just snapped after I had my transplant and I'd never felt like I was really in a moment or really able to give back in life to the people that had helped me through life and supported me but after having a transplant it was like something had snapped inside me and all I'd wanted to do was to be vocal about my illness and to be able to tell anyone before so it's like I couldn't stop talking to strangers about having a transplant I just can't help myself and I wanted to help other people because it had such a good experience with the staff at the Alfred Hospital I really felt like what they'd given me and what they actually were able to give me with the equipment and the staff was so grateful that I thought they need more staff they need better equipment and they need to be able to cater for the hundreds of transplant recipients that they're creating because they're having so much success with transplants that I just wanted to help in some way thanks for sharing your story it's a ripper, unbelievable you got your bike here, you got your lycra what's going on, where are you going now to the World Games, Ken where else World Transplant Games that is should we go for another ride I think we should go for another ride together such a cracking day you're halfway there I'll catch you in the next video


Hi, I'm Zor. Welcome to Unisor Education. We continue talking about units of measurements adapted for C, System International, and today we will talk about units used in describing waves. It's very simple concepts. You basically know everything when I was talking about all the properties of waves and that was really a complicated kind of part of the course. Now, this is simple because there are only a few and very, again, very simple measures of the waves. I will be talking only about transverse waves and only about uniform waves, which means they are exactly the same in space and in time. Now, this lecture is part of the course called Physics 14 presented on Unisor.com. As usual, I suggest you to watch this lecture and all other lectures of the course from the website because all the lectures are organized in some kind of a logical sequence, there is a manual, sub-manual, etc. There are exercises, there are problems solved, there are exams and there are certain functionalities of the website, which would help, let's say, supervisors or parents, if they want to supervise students, they can actually do it. So, there is a special functionality. Not necessarily you should use it, obviously, you can just go by yourself through the course without any problems. The site is completely free, there are no advertisements, even signing, not really mandatory, unless, again, you are involved in some kind of functionality related to supervisory studying. Okay, so what kind of units of measurements are used in waves? Okay, very simple. First of all, we are talking about frequency. Now, what is frequency? If you have the wave, so it goes like this, and one particular part of this wave, which basically you can have from peak to peak or from trough to trough, which is actually repeatable. So, this is just one oscillation, basically, from top down and then to top, or from down to top and down again. So, this is one oscillation. So, the frequency is basically how many oscillations this particular wave has per unit of time. Well, number of oscillation is just a number, which means it doesn't have any kind of unit of measurement, it's a number, and the time has the unit of measurement second. So, how many oscillations per second? Well, it can be one oscillation, 10 oscillations, 2500 oscillations, or it can be half of oscillation. So, basically, some number and the unit of measurements is one over second. So, if you have 10 of this, it means 10 oscillations per second. If you have 0.57, it means 0.57 oscillations per second. Per second, that's why second is in denominator. Now, this unit is called Hertz. Obviously, in honor of the scientist by the name Hertz. So, basically, the new units, which I would like basically to introduce right now, and it's not new because I was talking about this before. This is just a recap of all units. So, it's Hertz. Hertz is one over second. Well, that's it. Nothing to talk about. Now, the second unit, which characterizes the wave, is period. And the period, again, what I have to realize in the same picture, period is the time it takes for the wave to go from one peak to another. So, obviously, since it's time, it's measured in seconds. And if it's one second, it means the time from peak to peak when, let's say, it's a wave, it goes up and down, or it's an oscillation of a pendulum. It goes from left to right and back to left. That's one oscillation. So, how much time it takes? That's number of seconds. So, basically, it's not a new unit. It's the same second as a unit, but it just measures certain characteristic of wave, which I wanted to talk in. And it's called period. Now, obviously, if you have a frequency, let's say, using lowercase f, sometimes it's used Greek, new. And period, which is usually capital T, they are related. So, if the time from peak to peak is, let's say, T, then what's the frequency? Well, frequency is, obviously, 1 over T. Now, if it's one second divided by how many oscillations are per second, that gives you, obviously, time. So, they are reversed in each other. Okay, so that's the period. No new unit. It's just the same second. What else? In the gate, I'm wiping something, which I should not, again, the same wave. Now, what's the space distance between these two? Because you see if it's, for example, if it's water waves, let's say, an ocean, and there is basically a wave, and then these waves are at certain distance from each other. So, the distance from peak to peak, that's basically a wavelength, wavelength. Sometimes it's written as one word. Sometimes it's like two words. I prefer two. Now, wavelengths, since it's a length, there are meters actually in C, which are used for the length and for distance. So, basically, again, it's not a new unit of measurements. It's the same meter, but used to measure certain characteristics of a wave. So, it's a distance between peak and peak or between trough and trough. And the last one is wave speed. Wave speed is, now, as you saw on the surface of the water, when the waves are coming, the peak goes, basically, from one spot to another. So, there is certain speed at which the peak is moving. So, that's actually measured, again, in something which you know, meters per second. There is no other special units with this. But, anyway, it's, again, it's something which is used specifically for waves. That's the speed with which the peak or trough or any other particular point on the wave is moving in space. So, we have space-related measures, like wavelengths and speed, and we have time-related measures, like period and frequency. Well, basically, that's it about waves. Not too many different new units, just hurts. But, basically, again, the complexity of the waves is not in the measures, how we measure this thing. It's in all these relationship and equations which were introduced in the corresponding letters of the main part of the course. This, I consider, not to be the main part. It's just kind of a recap, only four units, just for reference kind of things. Well, that's it for this particular lecture. Thank you very much and good luck.


So, let 1 bigger than p less than infinity. Look at Lp. Now, you realize why I was using 1 and 2 and so on. It is all sequences such that sigma mod x i in L1, we just took the sum. In L2, we squared them and now we take the pth power and take the pth root is finite. So, and define for every x belonging to Lp, p to be equal to sigma i equal to 1 to n mod x i to the power p raise to power 1 by p. And then you can define dp x, the distance equal to x y belonging to Lp. Here is something which we would like to prove, claim dp is a metric. So, let us try to prove it is a metric. So, to prove this, the first step will be trying to prove something like Cauchy-Schwarz inequality and then using that prove triangle inequality. The main problem is the triangle inequality. All other two properties are okay, they do not cause any problem. So, only thing is the triangle inequality. Even for 2, p equal to 2, we use Cauchy-Schwarz inequality and then use that to prove that it is a norm, it is a metric on it. So, same root we will follow. So, let us, so step one corresponding, what should be Cauchy-Schwarz inequality? What should be Cauchy-Schwarz inequality? So, that is called, so let me write that is called, it is called Holder's inequality. It is called Holder's inequality. And what does it say? So, Holder's inequality says the following. So, let us first state it in Rn and then do it for general thing.  Then, what is n? For every a equal to say a 1, a 2, a n belong a n. Let us write another part, a vector b is b 1, b 2, b n belonging to Rn. If I look at product a i b i, sigma i equal to 1 to n, that is less than or equal to summation mod a i raise to power p, raise to power 1 by p n tau equal to 1 to n, mod b i raise to power q, raise to power 1 over q. That is what we say that the inequality says. Now, let us see why it is a generalization of Cauchy-Schwarz inequality. If you take p equal to 2, if p is equal to 2, 1 over p plus 1 over q equal to 1 should give you, sorry, p equal to 2. What is q? That also should be 2. So, what is this? 1 to n 2 raise to power 1 over 2, that is precisely Cauchy-Schwarz inequality. So, then for 2 is Cauchy-Schwarz inequality. It is precisely Cauchy-Schwarz inequality. We were able to prove Cauchy-Schwarz inequality very easily by looking at the linear combination of the vector and norm. A more general thing for this, another route of proving this is why I am looking at arithmetic geometric mean, the relation between them. What is the relation between the two numbers a and b? What is the relation between the arithmetic mean and the geometric mean? Arithmetic mean is always bigger than the geometric mean. But you think of in the arithmetic, in the geometric mean, you take the square root kind of. So, instead of square root, if you think of p, 1 over p, you want to generalize that inequality arithmetic mean, geometric mean. So, let me state that and then prove that and then come to this thing. So, here is the generalize. If a and b are positive real numbers and p is bigger than 1 and q is a number such that 1 over p plus 1 over q is equal to 1, then a raised to power 1 over p into b raised to power 1 over q, that is the geometric mean. If p is equal to 2, q is equal to 2 is less than a by p plus b by q. That is the right hand side is the arithmetic mean. So, it is a generalization of that, once you want to go beyond powers of 2. So, we will be, one can prove it. So, very nicely easily. So, probably I think I will go through the proof of this and then using this, one proves Holder's inequality, that is generalization of Cauchy-Schwarz inequality and then we will prove what is called the triangle inequality. So, let us see what is the proof of this. So, here things involved are p, q, a and b. So, the idea of the proof is first step, try to bring it to a equation in one variable kind of a thing. So, here is the, how do you do it? So, here is the idea of the proof. So, this is what you want to, proving everything on one side, you want to show it is less than or equal to 0. Now, write everything in terms of, instead of a, b, write in terms of a by b. a and b are two numbers given, positive. If I write everything in terms of a by b, then one variable only comes, a and b together do not come. So, that is the idea. So, let us write. So, this a raise to power p, b raise to power 1 over q, what is 1 over q? Keep in mind 1 over p plus 1 over q is equal to 1. So, 1 over q is 1 minus. So, write that is less than or equal to 1 and p q is equal to 1. So, this is same as this equation, the given equation is same as this equation in a by b. Now, q is also gone, only p is there. So, only two variables, p is fixed for us. a by b, you can call it as a variable t. So, what is this?  The given thing less than or equal to 0, I divide by b. So, that everything becomes divided by b and 1 over q write in terms of 1 minus 1 by p. So, that gives me a by b. If you call it as t, t raise to power 1 over p minus 1 over p into t plus 1 over p minus 1 is less than or equal to 0. For every t bigger than a by b, you are called as t. So, if you can show it for every t bigger than 0, this holds, then we are through. What we are saying is, for every value of t, the function f of t, this is the value of the function f of t is less than or equal to 0. That means what? If I want to show f of t is less than or equal to 0, that means what? The minimum value of the function should be 0. So, let us and that calculus now comes to calculus. You have got a function which is differentiable derivative equal to 0. That gives you what is the point of minimum maximum analyze. So, it is a calculus proof. So, let us look at the proof. So, we want to show f of t is less than or equal to f of 1, which is equal to 0. At 1, the value is 0. At 1, what is the value at the point 1? That is 0. So, we want to show f is a function defined by this quantity and this function has the minimum value 0 at the point x t equal to 1. So, calculus problem now. So, how do you solve that problem in calculus? Take the derivative. Derivative equal to 0 and analyze. Either you can analyze the second derivative at that point or just look at left and right. So, you do that. So, one variable calculus. So, let us go back. What happened? So, this is one variable proof calculus only. No problem. Using this, we will prove our holders inequality. So, what is holders inequality? So, let us go to holders inequality. So, that says that if p and q are between 1 and infinity, then the dot product is less than or equal to this p raise to power 1 over p into q raise to power 1 over q. Generalization of the usual Cauchy-Schwarz inequality. For p equal to 2, q equal to 2, it is a usual Cauchy-Schwarz inequality. The proof is very simple. If you look at the idea, the same idea that if all x i's and all y i's are 0, there is a typo here. This q is the power. I will correct it. If all x i and all y i are 0, then both sides are equal, nothing to prove. So, assume that the vector x with component x 1, x 2, x n and the vector y with components y is not 0, divide by that if required. Then you get vectors with components x is equal to 1, y equal to 1 and you have to show that this inequality holds. So, let us look at a proof of that. So, that is the basic idea. So, divide alpha is norm. Here, the norm is to the p raise to power 1 over p. So, divide the vector by each component by alpha, each component by beta, call this as a i, call this as b i. Apply that lemma a raise to power p into b raise to power q is less than or equal to 1. So, apply that with this each alpha i. So, you get, apply for each alpha i, you get this component a raise to power p plus b raise to power q. So, a i raise to power x i to the power p. So, if you apply to each, you get this summation. Now, this is for every i. So, for each component I am applying that previous inequality. Now, sum it both sides over i. So, when you sum it up, i equal to 1 to n, i equal to 1 to n plus i equal to 1 to n. What is sigma x i to the power p? What is this quantity? What is this quantity? That is precisely alpha to the power p. Alpha was the norm and this is beta to the power p. So, they cancel out. So, it is 1 over p plus 1 over q. That is equal to 1. So, it says this is less than or equal to 1. So, that means sigma mod alpha i by i is less than, almost the same proof. Only instead of using that arithmetic mean is less than, is bigger than the geometric mean, we are using generalized inequality. a raise to power p into b raise to power q is less than or equal to a p divided by. So, that, so that is, so now I am going to, I think, let me do some writing also. So, we have got the holders inequality. Using this, we want to prove that what is called Minkowski's inequality. Do not go by, get scared by the name. It precisely says for x and y belonging to L p, norm of x plus norm of y is less than or equal to the pth. That triangle inequality for this, so what was norm? So, that is defined as sigma mod x i to the power p i equal to 1 to n raise to power 1 by p. That is the definition that this is equal to this. That goes by the name Minkowski's inequality. So, let us give a proof of that. So, proof is reasonably simple. So, let us look at the left hand side. So, that is norm of x plus norm of y p. What is that quantity? So, that is equal to sigma mod x i plus y i raise to power p 1 to n. Whole thing raise to power 1 over p. So, let me raise the power p, so that I do not have to write every time. So, left hand side, I have raised the power. So, that is equal to this. Now, here is how one thinks of a proof from this product. This is a product, which is the left hand side. I want to split it into two parts. Some, right hand side is a sum, left hand side is a product. So, I have to split this left hand side into a sum. Somehow, two terms. Otherwise, I cannot reach the target. So, how I can split it? The idea is very simple. So, let us look at that. So, write this equal to summation i equal to 1 to n mod x i plus y i raise to power p minus 1 into, right? Is that okay? Why I am doing that? Because this gives me immediately that this is less than or equal to, if I look at this quantity, that is less than or equal to mod x i plus mod y i. So, let us write that summation i equal to 1 to n x i plus y i raise to power p minus 1 into mod x i plus mod y i, right? Using triangle inequality. So, that is less. Now, let us split the two terms. So, less than or equal to summation i equal to 1 to n x i plus y i raise to power p minus 1 into mod x i plus sigma x i plus y i raise to power p minus 1 into mod of y i. Now, I have got two terms at least. I am nearing the target. Now, idea is somehow make these two each sum, right? What do you want? We want this quantity to be less than or equal to norm of x i plus, right? So, how do we do that? Now, this product, now let us use our holders inequality in this. Remember, improving triangle inequality for two, we use Cauchy Schwarz inequality. Same thing we are doing here. Now, at this step, we will use holders inequality. This is one term. This is another term. Product of these two, sigma mod, should be less than or equal to, what is holders inequality? Here is holders inequality. Product of a i b i is less than a i to the power p raise to power 1 over p into b i raise to power q 1 over q, right? So, here let us use holders inequality. So, less than or equal to. So, sigma i equal to 1 to n x i minus y i raise to power p minus 1. So, this one divided by raise to power p, right? So, this is my a i, that is b i. So, p minus 1 raise to power p raise to power 1 by p. Let me write because x i, I will write q here and instead of p, let me use q for this and p for, because x i belong to 1 power p. So, q raise to power 1 over q, sigma mod x i to the power p i equal to 1 to n raise to power 1 by p. Is it okay? I have called a i b i. So, a i is x i, b i are the other ones. Similarly, plus the second term. So, second term will be sigma i equal to 1 to n x i. Sorry, it is plus or minus, I do not know. So, it was plus, plus y i raise to power p minus 1 raise to power q raise to power 1 over q into b i raise to power 2 mod of summation mod y i raise to power p 1 to n raise to power 1 by p. And what was on the left hand side? Keep in mind, on the left hand side was mod x plus y p raise to power p. So, that is less than or equal to this. Now, one uses the effect that 1 over p plus 1 over q equal to 1. So, use that. So, what is this? So, this is p minus 1. I am just working out roughly here, p minus 1 times q. So, what is that equal to? Using this effect. So, if you want q times, so 1 over q is equal to 1 over q is equal to 1 over q is equal to 1 minus 1 by p. So, that is equal to p minus 1 divided by p. So, if I put q here, is it okay? 1 over p plus 1 over q is 1. So, what is 1 over q? It is 1 minus 1 over p. And that is p minus 1 divided by p. I take it there. So, this quantity is equal to 1. So, this quantity is 1. So, this quantity is q times. So, what is it? Divided by p. So, this is equal to times p. So, this quantity comes out to be. So, the right hand side. So, let me write. It is just an mathematical simplification of this powers. Nothing more than that. x plus mod y p to the power p is less than or equal to this quantity. That is same in both. So, let me write it outside that quantity. So, it is summation x i plus y i summation raise to power 1 over q of p summation of x i plus y i raise to power p i equal to 1 to n. So, that is equal to p raise to power 1 over q into norm of x. And that second term is norm of… Can you see some relation between this and this? This is norm of… So, this quantity is norm of x plus y. p raise to power 1 over p is the norm. So, it is just norm of p raise to power q 1 over q. Now, you can transport it on the left hand side. So, this, shift it on this side. So, what do you get? So, norm of x plus y raise to power p minus 1 over and on this side, divide by both sides by this term. So, when you divide, what you will get? This is less than or equal to… Is that okay? This is to the power p. Yes? This is to the power p. And this is to the power p raise to power p by q. Sorry, not the same. So, this is… This is… So, p minus… Sorry, anyway I will be getting problem with this if I do not write it correctly. p minus p by q. Because this thing is p by q, mod norm of x plus y raise to power p by q. And that is power p. So, shift to the other side. And what is this quantity left hand side? What is p minus p by q? 1 over p plus 1 over q is equal to 1. So, that is the quantity p into 1 minus 1 over q, if you like. So, that is 1 over p p by p that is equal to 1. So, this quantity is just 1. So, you get the required thing that this is less than or equal to p plus norm y. The basic idea is of the proof is going parallel to one variable, parallel to L2 case. You first generalize Cauchy Schwarz inequality to… Instead of p equal to q equal to 2, you generalize it to Cauchy Schwarz inequality called Holder's inequality, where a product is less than or equal to a sum. Basically, that is what the AMGM is. A product is less than or equal to sum. Arithmetic mean is bigger than the geometric mean. So, generalize that quantity. And that gives you Holder's inequality. And the proof from how do you use Holder's inequality in Minkowski's inequality is precisely from the product you want to go to the sum. So, this is a crucial step.  And this gives you less than or equal to norm. So, splits into two terms. And then is only the arithmetic jargon. You simplify the powers and all that. So, that is Minkowski's inequality. So, that says on Rn for every 1 less than p, actually we have got 10 to the power 1 also. You can define on Rn, you look at what is called, because it is finite. So, no problem. So, define norm of x to p to be equal to sigma mod x i, i equal to 1 to n to the power p, raised to the power 1 over p is a norm. So, what does norm mean? It is something like absolute value. We give it as name as norm and dp of xy equal to x minus yp is a metric. This is a metric on Rn. So, on the same set Rn, you have got infinite number of matrix. For every p, p equal to 1 also, we have done it. p equal to infinity also, we have done it.  In the next thing, what we will show is not only a metric on Rn, it is a metric on R infinity also. It is a metric on, but that is a minor step, because these are partial sums already, 1 to n kind of thing, we have it. From there, we will go over to what should be the next step? R infinity, what should be the next thing? R1, Rn, R infinity, what should be the next thing? Anybody has a guess? Is there anything beyond R infinity? R to the power infinity? So, think about it till the next lecture.


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Or should we be worried about stopping the moisture from getting into the attic? The moisture in the attic is a root cause. So how do we deal with that? Attic mold is almost always caused by moisture from inside the house Typically an attic got insulated and What that does that reduces the temperature in the attic cold air can't hold as much moisture So the warm moist air that sneaks up into the attic from inside the house Condenses on the roof deck and then it becomes mold So in this case, this is a home that was recently insulated didn't have an attic moisture problem before But now the temperature is lower in the attic and there's a mold problem Here's the deal if you just get insulation and you don't worry about air sealing That is very likely an eight to ten thousand dollar mistake by the time you're done So you have to do remediation. That's anywhere between two five thousand dollars You need to remove the insulation on that could be worse for the radiation too. That's typical numbers Removing the insulation routinely costs about double what putting it in the first place does Air sealing needs to be done and good air sealing is not super cheap And then of course you have to reinstall The insulation and then the thing that really stinks is we see people do this again They'll remediate the mold not solve the root problem in five years down the road Have another moldy roof deck possibly need to replace the roof, which is a very expensive That's another ten thousand dollars routinely or more That's a it's another very expensive mistake all because you didn't hold the root cause That was failure to plan It's also a failure to understand Interactions, there's a lot of different things going out on the house and it's moisture from inside the house That's causing a problem like old in the attic Let's talk about another failure fixing a cold room So typically this is done with either insulation or a new furnace. So we'll talk about both Now say you want to warm up the house by adding insulation. This seems logical So this is like putting a thicker coat on your house So if you put a thicker coat on your body doesn't have to work as hard to keep you warm The same thing happens to your furnace now This is a very bad thing when you're talking about rooms that are further from the furnace Because now that furnace isn't for the run is long and then those rooms that are typically cold and at the end of the run Are not going to get as much heat as they did before and they're likely to actually get colder We actually wrote about this in April of 2014 With a case study on insulation failure. So take a look at that post Oops Now here's another typical thing that happens You put a new furnace in trying to fix that cold room Routinely those things are too big when those are too big You get big temp swings and the same problem that I just mentioned the rooms at the end of the runs never warm up and quite often HVAC contractor will put a larger furnace in that what was there before and typically furnaces that are in homes or anywhere Between two and three times larger than they need to be so there's always going to be cold room problems Let's take a look at what that looks like because we like to measure. We like to track. We like to see what's going on So sadly, this is actually my house. In fact, this is my daughter's room Take a look at the temperature go up down up up down up down up down When there's swings this big our bodies can feel it and we feel uncomfortable This is a bad thing you want it to be very very even in temperature and that requires some planning Here is an actual client home. In fact, this is a heat pump Which is typically not considered something that works well in cold climates Well, I beg the differ take a look at how even the temperature is in here now this particular clients The lady of the house always always wore a coat inside the house in the winter And she said for the first time she took the coat off because their home is comfortable So they don't have any cold rooms in their house anymore And also take a look at the date on this report This is January in Cleveland, Ohio. It is not warm outside So here's the curse you just bought a new furnace and air conditioner that's an eight to ten thousand dollar mistake to replace those correctly and If you insulated your attic in the process and you caused a mold problem That's another eight to ten thousand dollar mistake So you could be talking twenty thousand dollars in the stakes by not doing some diagnosis So how do you fix it? Said it a few times already you plan Now here's how we need to look at this our bodies are a system of systems all kinds of stuff going on So we have laws heart brains to eyesight skin. There's all kinds of things that are interacting This is only a handful of the systems But if you go to the doctor and he prescribes you something the odds are it's going to have a side effect It's going to affect one of these other systems the same thing happens in our homes because they are a system of systems So you've got your walls. There's the roof. There's the insulation. There's how tight the house is There's the plumbing The electric system the duct work the furnace and the air conditioner and there's more beyond this All of these systems work together and if you change one you change something else So who considers the interactions they're going on between all these things. Is it the heating and air guy? Is it the insulation guy? Is it the electrician? Is it the plumber? Is it your mason or maybe is it the rougher? Nope, it is none of those guys. Nobody considers interactions. So who does? We do At EnergySmart, we are building scientists. This is what we do We consider interactions. We ask questions. We measure. We consider your wants We consider your home's needs as every house is different and every client is different. We consider your health We develop tailored plans to solve the problems that you want solved We tell you how and why those plans will work. Oh And we can deliver our solutions to although that's an extra cost So how do we do this? Every problem has the same process and we found that if you skip a step and miss something you fail So we apply the same process to everything and It's the same one that we discussed earlier. So we define the problem. We diagnose the causes We develop plans and we deliver solutions Here's how that actually happens There's three steps to our process. So the first step is an initial consultation This is where we define the problem The second step is our comprehensive planning process. This includes an energy audit, but it's far more than that We diagnose the house and we develop plans in this stage The third step is the project management. It's the actual execution This is where we deliver the results that we promised So there you are we define diagnose develop and deliver By the way, we're not contractors in case you're wondering if everyone does we used to be insulation contractors We're not anymore. We are your consultants. We work for your interests We are completely independent and we remain Independence and run your project so that the results that you are looking for actually show up and we track after the fact to see What's going on as you just saw earlier with a client picture there So that is why in the world you should hire energy smart performance and pay for diagnosis and fix your problems So what do I do now? If you're still here, either you're stunned by the rapidity of my speech or you're actually interested So what do you do next? Please? Don't pick up the phone. It's not that time yet What you want to do is go watch some more videos or Do a bunch of reading on the website start with the main tabs Try the science and problems we can help with or go play around on the block If you aren't willing to read at least five pages on this website, you're not gonna stick with us We aren't the ones for you. That's okay This is a relationship Our clients we keep in touch with we want to know what's going on. This is not a one-hit-wonder thing You will hear from us again. So do some homework up front So when you're ready and you're sure that we're the one to help you solve all of your problems except for the ones Of course that require a couch Fill out our questionnaire We'll talk more about that in a second but here's the two paths that you can choose as far as actually moving forward and The questionnaire I'll show you these so you can go straight to the comprehensive planning process. So Just skip straightforward This is faster and it costs a little bit less doing it this way So by doing this we are going to define diagnose and develop So we're going to get the first three steps out of the way Simultaneously and this is really the better way to go because you're going to be much more engaged in the questions that we ask you Now the other way you can go though if you are just a little unsure and you want to try this out We offer initial consultations. So this is where we define the problem We will ask you a whole bunch of questions trying to understand what it is in your house You are trying to solve we will take a look at your energy bills and see if they are Unreasonably high and give you an idea of where you stand on that We'll educate you about the process that we do and the science that's underneath everything that we do and Most importantly, we will run a blower door test which finds out how much your house leaks and air leakage is Absolutely critical. 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The minimization is with respect to the state space cell occupation frequencies f i and the Lagrange multipliers alpha and beta.  For a given i, we need to minimize the corresponding term in the sum. Thinking of this as a function g of f i, we want to find where the curve bottoms out, at which point the slope is zero. This means that an infinitesimal change in f i will produce no change in the function. For the log of f i, if we change f i by delta, the log changes by delta over f i plus terms with factors of delta squared, etc. For very small delta, those terms are negligible.  Expanding the product and grouping terms by factors of delta, we first get our original function plus a term proportional to delta and a term proportional to delta squared. We can neglect the delta squared term. Then the condition for a minimum is that the delta term must vanish. For nonzero delta, this requires that log f i plus alpha plus beta epsilon i plus one vanishes. This condition tells us log f i equals minus quantity one plus alpha plus beta epsilon i. Taking the exponential function of both sides, we have f i equals e to the minus one plus alpha plus beta epsilon i. We separate this into factors e to the minus one plus alpha times e to the minus beta epsilon i, and we call the first factor one over z. The sum over i of f i has the equal one, so one over z times the sum over i e to the minus beta epsilon i equals one, and z equals sum over i e to the minus beta epsilon i. This result in which the occupation frequency of a phase space cell, which is the probability for an atom to be in that cell, decreases exponentially with the cell energy is called a Boltzmann distribution. It's one of the most fundamental and important results in all of statistical mechanics. The normalizing factor z is called the partition function. We will see its physical significance in relation to entropy later. For some insight into the Boltzmann distribution, let's look at a simple simulation. We have n boxes, each with initially m balls. We randomly select two boxes. If the first box is not empty, we transfer a ball from it to the second box, and we do this repeatedly. Our question is, what can we say about the eventual distribution of the balls among the boxes? Let's look at a simulation in which 1,000 boxes each initially contain 10 balls. As the simulation runs, many thousands of ball transfers occur, resulting in the number of balls in different boxes varying widely. Looking at this plot, it's not easy to see what the probability is that a box will contain a given number of balls. Let's instead view the simulation's effect in terms of a histogram showing the fraction of boxes that contain a given number of balls. The horizontal axis shows the number of balls in a box. The vertical axis shows the fraction of boxes containing that many balls. Initially, 100% of the boxes contain 10 balls. As the simulation progresses, the distribution rapidly spreads out, and eventually fluctuates about the decreasing exponential curve shown as red dots. This curve is fn equals 1 over z e to the minus n over 10, where the normalizing factor 1 over z makes sum over n of fn equal to 1. And 10 is the average number of balls per box. This shows how a decreasing exponential distribution naturally arises when a set of containers randomly exchange their contents. We can think of the n atoms in our gas as energy containers. Through their collisions, they randomly exchange energy. Not surprisingly, therefore, the distribution of energy among the atoms is a decreasing exponential function. Now, let's look at the partition function. z equals sum over i e to the minus beta epsilon i. Mathematically, this is the normalizing factor for the Boltzmann distribution that makes the occupation frequencies sum to 1. Consider the case where epsilon i equals 0 for all i, corresponding to stationary atoms with no kinetic energy. Then z is the sum over all cells of 1, since e to the 0 equals 1. Since only a single point p equals 0 is available in momentum space, different cells simply correspond to different elementary volumes v0 in coordinate space. And z is just the number of these, called m, equals v over v0. In this simple case, the partition function is just the number of available phase space cells. For atoms with kinetic energy, epsilon i equals pi squared over 2m. The terms in the partition function are no longer simply 1. Instead, they are exponential functions of energy. But, let's assume z still represents the number of phase space cells available to an atom. Each cell has volume h cubed, so we can think of zh cubed as the volume of phase space available to atoms. Graphically, we have x, y, z coordinate space, and px, py, pz momentum space. A phase space cell corresponds to a tiny cube in coordinate space paired with a tiny cube in momentum space. To get a simple estimate of the partition function, let's assume that atoms are confined to a spherical region of momentum space with radius pmax. And each phase space cell has the same probability of being occupied. Let's take pmax as pmax squared over 2m equals the average kinetic energy of an atom, 3 halves kt, from which pmax equals 3m kt to the one-half power. The total phase space volume, zh cubed, is then v from coordinate space times 4pi over 3 pmax cubed from momentum space. Dividing by h cubed, we get z equals v 4pi over 3 3m kt over h squared to the three-halves power. Here, we've expressed h cubed as h squared to the three-halves. For a rigorous calculation, there is effectively no limit to the momentum of an atom. In principle, all kinetic energy could be concentrated in a single atom, giving it an astronomically large momentum value. So, we will sum over momentum space all the way to infinity. But this will not result in an infinite value for z. The summation includes the Boltzmann factor, e to the minus beta over 2m pi squared. This rapidly decreases with increasing momentum and effectively creates a soft limit on the number of phase space cells available to an atom. For small h, the discrete summation over phase space cells is very well approximated by a continuous summation over phase space volume in the form of an integral. For x, y, z coordinate space, this simply gives us a factor of v. For momentum space, we consider a sphere of radius p. This is area 4 pi p squared. If p increases by dp, this creates a shell of volume 4 pi p squared dp. So, zh cubed equals v times the integral from 0 to infinity of e to the minus beta over 2m p squared 4 pi p squared dp. This equals v times the three-halves power of 2 pi m over beta. This non-trivial integral can easily be done using a computer algebra tool. Dividing by h cubed, we have z equals v over h cubed times the three-halves power of 2 pi m over beta. Or, using h cubed equals h squared to the three-halves power, we can move h into the parentheses. This result accounts for the first constraint that the sum over i of fi equals 1. The second constraint is that the average energy of an atom, the sum over i of fi epsilon i equals three-halves kt. So, 1 over z sum over i e to the minus beta epsilon i times epsilon i equals three-halves kt. We multiply by h cubed so that the summation over cells becomes a summation over elementary volumes. Then we use the previous integral approximation. The only change is the factor of 1 over z and the additional energy factor of epsilon, which introduces a factor of p squared over 2m into the integral. This evaluates to v over z 3 square root 2 over beta times the three-halves power of pi m over beta. Again, a computer algebra tool comes in handy for working out the details. Here's that result again. And our expression for z. When we divide by z on the right, this will bring a factor of h cubed into the numerator, which cancels the h cubed on the left. The v factors cancel, as do factors of pi m to the three-halves and beta to the three-halves. This leaves the average energy of an atom equals 3 square root 2 over 2 to the three-halves power times 1 over beta. This reduces to three-halves 1 over beta. Setting this equal to three-halves kt, we find beta equals 1 over kt. This gives us our final version of the Boltzmann distribution. fi equals 1 over z e to the minus epsilon i over kt. The probability an atom will have a kinetic energy epsilon decreases exponentially with energy. The decrease is more rapid at lower temperatures and less rapid at higher temperatures. Substituting for beta in our partition function expression, we arrive at z equals v times the three-halves power of 2 pi mkt over h squared. Compared to our approximate formula, which was based on a simple volume calculation, we see that they have the same dependence on all parameters, v, m, k, t, and h. They differ only in the constants, with the approximate formula being about 38% larger than the precise formula. This justifies our interpretation of the partition function as the effective number of phase space cells available to an atom.


Enter pilot name S-Van. Oh, here we go. Game's starting That looks sick. Activating combat mode. Okay, let's see how this works Okay, dude. I'm a Mac. Hell. Yeah. Oh wait, hold on Felipe. Thanks for reminding me Max graphics on the Star Wars PC. Good point. Good point. Tell me lies. Tell me sweet. Okay, so left L2 L2 has that big slice The game is telling me PC controls. I can a oh I can fly Dude, look you can fly. Do I take fall damage? My legs broke and died Dude imagine a fall damage Okay Missiles are one for missiles. Oh My oh dude rolling around at this beat up Sam has a lock on like souls Okay Target assist keeps your AC oriented toward the target when enabled your AC will automatically lock its orientation towards enemies Is your approach it? Okay, so I hold it I hold it and then I let it go. Who are you gonna romance in this game guys? This isn't Baldur's Gate. Okay, we'll play Baldur's Gate another time combat looks sick It feels pretty cool use repair kits repair AC and recover AP armor points repair kits can be used up to three times Permission, okay repair kits remaining. Okay up. Okay, so it's a lot like Dark Souls like you it The game is capped at 120 FPS Time to fly Seven seven, but I'm cruising at capped FPS like the whole time. Damn. Look at that ray tracing That even ray tracing you just the lights look really good. It's all right. She's right. Oh, damn Yeah, I think that good at the ray tracing. Oh, so that's what we figured out earlier Let's go to the closest one obtain a mercenary license You know what this reminds me of right here. It reminds me of the the skybox and Final Fantasy 7 remake whenever you're uh Coming out of the sector seven slums and you can see the plate. Yeah, I love I actually love the remake. Wait. What is that? Red is this a zone wall Yes, I can't go here. The objective is there. Okay Hello. Oh frick you're shooting at me. I thought yeah those friendly enemy mech stands still, but we're zooming dude because we're athletes We're an athletic mech Stop all the downloading license code Thomas Kirk. You know what? I'll be honest with you. I took a look at that mech and I was like that guy looks like a Thomas doesn't it look like a Thomas, okay? What is that? Okay, thank you for responding to me. I Literally just shot missiles at it. Why are you telling me now to keep a low profile? Analyzing analyzing analyzing license code extract from a C wreck in the contaminated city G7 Hacra Ballum industry license expires in 12 hours. We need a license. We got a license Okay, dude the combat is very uh, it's very slidey because when you start doing this and you're just flying all over the place And you're kind of holding down the right trigger There's a lot they Dude going from Baldur's Gate streams to this Where it's like? The audio is amazing. Where's the audio? No, the audio is pretty freaking good.  Oh, that was sick, dude That was sick. We already got the license. I need another one. Why is it tell me it's still come here? License expires in 15 days. Okay, it's still valid, but the pilot's rank is no good Oh Vertical catapult while standing on a vertical catapult perform a jump to quickly reach higher places. Oh My gosh, dude. I got railed That actually I actually took a big hit there vertical catapults Ready aim. Oh look a random objective with With nothing else coming for us. I don't know what's going on here This is a completely uncontested objective. It's like Dark Souls the robots not really some of the controls are like you can tell it's the same company made The game with like just the control layout But it doesn't play the same It's a different day. Oh brick did I just cut back right into those rockets? It was their first international game Apparently people are stuck on this boss. Okay. I dodged them. I dodged them that time So strat work my idea work. Okay, my strats working, but I'm still thinking a lot of damn core a sublime substance Discovered on Rubicon Tutorial over frontier of developed space For a time coral was a revolutionary energy resource and data conduit poise to transform human society by leaps and bounds War War never changes. They called it the fires of ibis a Storm of flame that tore through the stars Leaving lethal contamination in its wake Coral the kindling was thought to have been utterly consumed forever lost However On Rubicon the embers continued to burn Humanity would inevitably return to stoke the fire right now registration number Rb 23 call sign Raven Authentication complete removing MIA status restoring access privileges Wait, I was that my grade The Yeah, hi, apparently it's it's not so far as pretty good How much to pay To support its mercenaries But what's hostess was in a suspended state perhaps you may need a refresher Centive completion of the exercises will be rewarded with AC parts You stand to benefit regardless Falling features now very little sore tied AC design, okay Emblem acquired 13 Tenderfoot G 13 Raven. Oh Nick would love this game G 13 classified AC design, okay, you guys ready for the menu simulator assembly customize AC assemblies using the parts you have available at the assembly menu Here we go RF tuner, okay. Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh.  So that's the L2 swing R2 swing is Machine gun missile launcher is R1. I don't have anything on my L1 But I can later maybe my head unit my okay So I have these two for my body My core so I can get another body so lighter weight a heavier weight heavier load But I have more AP More out wait altitude or attitude stability. What is attitude stability quarterback speed? Dude, this game is gonna be Oh These numbers I'm just gonna guess. There's a lot of blue here. There's some red, but the reds not that much lower You see that like boost speed is a little lower. I'm just gonna I'm just gonna use that the thing that we got I think assembled an AC hardware engineer Look at how different it looks oh Like these arms look cooler to no unit upgrades paint Okay, see now we get to choose the style Penis size I heard that a big football coach uses penis Performance of his players maybe you can do the same to get the best Mac McDonald's Mac. It's not McDonald's. It's it's it's my colors. Oh, man.   Look at this combined preset images. Wait, what? Oh My gosh chat we have to try and make a Star Forge logo There we go. Let's see if we can make a Star Forge logo chat. Yes. Okay. Okay. Let's see It's not a penis. What it look what looks like guys It's literally a hammer The the this is a base this the Shaft the hilt of the hammer and then the stone head of the hammer and then this is like a I don't know what this is Let's start with This okay confirmed. Okay. Yes looking good looking good so far. Okay looking good looking good looking good It is coming together. It looks good chat work. We're doing it guys. We're doing it. We're doing it guys We're doing it We did Star Force logo Dude, that's actually amazing dude dude. Look at that.  It's not perfect But it's pretty damn good isn't it?  I'm noticing too many differences. Okay. Hold on Brain oh Yeah, oh Yeah, look at that Look at that man. I'm invoking the liquor measures act of 1940 for sighing by Dwight D. Eisenhower and Jack Daniels. We're taking this up a notch to zero point tall Esfen Esfen you'll never guess what happened him back on the liquid, but and soon you will dude a star Dude at the Star Forge Mac dude Guys guys, it's not too big. Okay I'm like 12 years old. This is sick. Okay. There's one there. You know what? Okay, here we go. Anyway, is it return to base sick That was actually kind of tough Sick. Oh look how scuffed I got. Okay. We get the part shop. Okay. Let's see Part shop by oh here we go another 30 minutes of menus. I'm just kidding but a little bit Right arm unit left arm unit. Okay, so right now so you could have two guns. Maybe we wait I currently have nothing on my left back unit I could get another missile launcher dual missile launcher missile launcher compact to sell dual missile launcher I mean, these are basically the same Tack power one on three times four standard pulse shield developed. Oh This is a shield. Oh wait. Maybe I should get the shield. Yeah, I'm gonna get the shield Dude, I love them like I have our voice logo Okay, so this is my pole shield look I added this shield my name. I'm shooting. I'm shooting. I wish I wish we got more boss fights so far like I'm feeling like I kind of I kind of wish we got more boss fights like I like building the Mac in the customization That's super cool But I do feel like there's a lot of like It's like a lot of cannon fodder that you're working for, you know, like the missions are really short and it's like cannon fodder 50% the guy that's a cut up. Oh my gosh. Okay, so here's the guy. Oh my This is the cut above those are dark souls. Gosh, dude. I'm getting a rail Okay, so I think what you have to do is yeah, I think I think you just have to ignore it I wanted to see if I could kill it, but it's just too tanky I wonder if you get anything for killing it the game good. Yeah, it's pretty fun It's very like fast-paced. Okay lesson learned chat lesson learned Lesson learned. It's not a McDonald's mech. Okay. Okay. Good. So we just leave this next target Okay, yeah, I bet it's the boss fight So we're a corporate henchmen opposite. We are the we're a mercenary. Yeah, we're like a we're like a hired Mech pilot activating combat mode Okay, here we go. I think it's the boss fight. That's destroy the tester AC. It's the boss fight Pilots a trainee. This is sick. This is actually sick. What did you get for training? First J on the job rip bozo Yeah, dude the mech battles are actually kind of sick. Well, I mean, that's a little dude that gun looks sick. Oh look at that a bazooka Bazooka developed by Defend core industries, but I think having like the machine gun is good. Wait, I can do duo I kind of like having the sword. Let's buy the burst rifle dual missile launcher I feel like the missile launcher we shouldn't upgrade yet. Like it's it's not a big enough upgrade to Justify upgrading it dude. You can make so many cool mechs, dude This is actually kind of sick man. Look at all these cool different like all the other types of cool mix You can make so this is like a big like this is your big boy health But man, that's a lot of weight as somebody who's never played before I think the Building your own Mac like a lot of the building in this game seems really really interesting Am I right into it? Oh ally I feel like I haven't played enough to have a really good opinion But the combat feels really good. I guess like it's like fun to fly around Okay, I got a new gun. I got my this is my first gun upgrade. So let's see if it feels significant Okay, so we're going with these guys that break these things Do this sound settings It's what master volume up to sound effects down one It's there You're at your bolsters all targets destroyed all How's the game? It's pretty good so far That calzano So so my pulse blade the L2 default has a really big impact. This request comes from Here you go chap big boss fight chat Okay, here we go.  Okay, good.  There it is. There's the shot. Okay. We're gonna take that. We got it We got a break next year. Gosh really did be it wait. What's that? Dude, how am I on here? Okay? Hold on. Hold on. Don't fall. Don't fall boost.  Okay one damage at a time boys Wait It's just my bulls joke. Wait, how am I doing with the damage this time?  It's always I feel like like the difficulty like it keeps doing this It gets like a random boss fight will be like really difficult And there's like a bunch of like trash mobs, but like I don't feel like it's like this I feel like it's like It's kind of like a wow raid except like you're solo instead of with a raid group But I feel like in most single-player games most single-player games are like this You know is that good or bad? I don't know But like I feel like physical exhaustion like I feel like a like it's like an adrenaline spike or something You know what I mean? I don't know if it's good or bad. I have no idea, but I just feel that you literally just through drew three dicks No, I did not okay. What did you guys think? About armored core cool, but not my genre decent 10 out of 10 I Think I think it's pretty good. I'm probably I would probably give it like an eight ish so far I think one of the problems with It's not go for stream. I think one of the problems of stream It's it's way too dank kind of like Final Fantasy 16. I would say so far my my first impressions With all that being said, I think the building is amazing I love the feeling of getting to go through and getting getting to build the mix and okay like This weapon is good in this situation and also you can change your weapons out If you go to the back to the checkpoint You can change your weapons out which gives you reason to want to buy more stuff I think they it's fun to like choose the colors and actually build out the Mac and stuff. It's it's very comprehensive I love that. I was able to put the Star Forge logo on the character on the on the Mac Just by having like different symbols and stuff and you put it together and you can share it online You can make a gun not a gun to the Mac. Sorry. I do kind of agree Maybe maybe the level design could be a little bit better. I don't think it's bad I think it's because it's also like kind of like what do you expect right? You're going to like military bases and stuff. I won't say always but most times people complaining about graphics It's kind of done because graphics are just not gonna get that much better Graphics are really not gonna get that much better anymore Or not anymore, but for a long time because it's like how much texture wise like how much higher resolution can the textures get I think it looks gorgeous. I think it looks great The gameplay is what's important and I think for the most part the gameplay feels are really really good I would say so far the story isn't super captivating. Yeah, I would say it probably give it something in the eight range Probably close to an eight so far. That's my first impressions of the game. I'd give it probably close to an eight So What do you guys think?   Let me know what you thought about the video Let me know what you think about the game so far Like the video subscribe turn on your notifications.  Thanks to a chat YouTube Instagram discord reddit twitch Twitter threads X Now tick tock whatever it is everything is S-Fan TV. Join the discord download the S-Fan updates Browser extension. You can always know what's going on always get the newest videos right there The stream schedule and everything is is all right there and I'll see you guys later Bye YouTube