Hi guys, welcome back to this channel. I want to talk about our sisters and brothers who are working as domestic workers, who are working as maid or nannies or house drivers in those families. Sometime it may not be very easy for you. It may be even tougher than anyone can imagine. Tougher every single day or tougher every small day that someone will talk about. I want to share something with you, especially for those people that have tried to run away from these houses. What we call the runaway cases, which are under what we call the fall and search by this EID. By the way, if it's your first time to come across this channel, I'm mixed from the next question and I always give you that important information. Don't forget to subscribe to this channel and don't forget to give a like. Don't forget to put a comment. I'll always be very grateful to get back to you. Yes, let us look at runaway cases. And I'll look at two situations that I want to share with you regarding runaway cases. We have those runaway cases whereby you ran away from your employer or from that house for nearly even two years or one year. No one is looking for you. You've not even got a message. You've not even got a message in Metras or anyone that someone is following you up. But after some time you get nabbed up by police and to get to check you are automatically in jail for that case. Yes, what are you supposed to do? Yes, most of the times when we tend to run away from this one, we run away with mistakes. It may be because of the ego, it may be because of the misplutment of the employer, or it may be what you call the so much push fire of power or what you call the bandwagon or what you call the advices being given to us by people who are out. Who seemingly in that kind of context say we are doing well off? So you get to share up with that kind of information thinking they are well off outside there, which may not be the case. So you end up being driven by that kind of force, that kind of push, you run away and you get to stay outside. So this employer will get hung down. He will go to Metras and he will defile a case against you. Sometimes some of this employer may even say my items are missing. So that will be questioned by police. So normally what happens is that, for example, I got one situation that I want to share with you. Most of you have gone into these situations, but you run away to go and you cannot help out yourself. Yes, I got a situation of one complaint who ran away as for almost one year. He had a case with Metras for run away, for follow up and search up. He had a case run away for that case. He was taken to court and the court ruling for that person was to deportation to run away, deportation to go home. But before the deportation, remember all the messages when you had to go to court, your employer gets these messages in what you call Metras. He shares the same message because the minister will share the same message. Because the same person that goes to the country was the same person who was under your business position. So this person, he had a court ruling of even deportation. He was to be deported in what you call one week. Even the debt was calculated that he has to exit the country at that time. This is the same time that the employer, before my employer called him and gave him what you call an offer later. And what you call an NOC, I beg your pardon. He gave him an NOC. What does it mean? Your employer has given a waiver for you to go. Remember this is a situation that you have the court ruling that you are supposed to exit the country. But your former company calls you and says please make scum for an NOC. You look for another job. What do you think is in between them? What do you have to do as a person? Yes, you need to stay in the country and you have to stay in the country. What do you do? You run away, you have a file case, you already have a ruling for you as opposed to exit the country the next week. Yes, what normally happens that NOC acts as what you call a waiver. That I no longer have a case against you. You can look for another sponsor to take you up. Why some of these sponsors are doing this? They feel that you've got enough punishment outside there. You are not working, you are not being paid, you are old how old in hiding you don't get what you call a fixed amount of money.  You've got enough punishment outside. You'll give your NOC to some. However, something that you need to understand that NOC acts as what you call proof of appeal in the court. So you can go back to court and appeal with that NOC. Now that NOC is going to act as a waiver. Meaning that your employer now has no problem with you. You can get a new sponsor. So go back to the court and appeal that deportation. When you go to that court and appeal with that deportation they'll ask for proof. The proof will be the NOC which acts as a waiver from your former company. Then you'll not have to deport. The court will tell you we give you 30 days the gross period for you to look for a new sponsor to convert your visa. Your work was a sponsorship visa to a new visa. And once in that period of the 30th gross period I talked about once you get a new employer who can convert you and get you a new visa well and good you'll stay in the country. Which most of you do not know? So that is normally what happens. But remember most of the times some of us will go into even deportation without even first seeking what you call the right information. Hope I've tried to tell you to actually address to you. Yes, even those that think that you've been taken to court they'll ask you, those that have gone to court they'll ask you, do you want to go home or you want to pay overstay charges for you to stay in the country? Or even have attended one court session where they ask you do you have someone can take you up in a week? Say yes. With the proof? Yes, give me 7 days I'll go to the person to get what you called and offer later. Yes, most of the times in the court they are willing to let you go but you are not yet prepared by yourself with mind with the mind or you've not prepared yourself to make sure that you can bathe yourself outside. You can bathe yourself away from exiting the country but staying in the country and getting a new sponsor to save your soul. Hope I've tried to share something for you for people who have really not got this one right. You can come in my inbox, I can try to share with you some of the tips that you can attempt to share and that can lead you to more and can lead you to surface and sometimes you can get out of these cases without even you knowing. Thank you so much. It makes giving you all these updates and giving you all this information.


Well it's that time of year again folks the 94th annual Birchmont golf tournament starts this coming Monday and goes all the way through Saturday the 28th. Qualifying rounds take place Monday and Tuesday but all golfers entered are eligible for match play which starts on Wednesday. Golfers will be grouped into four player tee times. Birchmont draws many players from Minnesota and outside the state as well. We have a lot of regular players that seem to come back year to year but if you looked at our confirmed page or entries we probably have players from a dozen different states. A lot of regional play for sure but anything from the state of Minnesota or just many players that have ties to Bemidji. Love our tournament family whatever it might be but we do get a wide range of players throughout the country. Last year's men's champion Andrew Isrelson will go for the three Pete this year but it looks like there will be a new champ on the women's side as last year's winner Katie Sheets is not on the list for the time being. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland news please consider making a tax deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.


What's going on guys welcome back to the channel critical overload here So this would be a video specifically talking about Jeepers Creepers 5 this time around More so a theory more than anything not anything official as far as news is concerned just a theory and The reason I'm doing this is because of the fact that I was thinking about the about how Jeepers Creepers has brought up Wheaton Valley several different times now, but The first time we actually got any real glimpse of Wheaton Valley was the let down that was Jeepers Creepers 3 and we know Something very significant took place in Wheaton Valley back in 1978 So I was thinking of how can you have Jeepers Creepers 5? Possibly open in a way that can be very memorable and rival the openings of those first two movies So Jeepers Creepers 5 in my head I could see opening up on a prom night It's maybe the first ten minutes of the movie. We open in Wheaton Valley 1978 we're shown two young teens. They're leaving their prom They've just been named king and queen instead of sticking around for everyone to congratulate them They decided to get out of there to enjoy the night and if you already guessed or picked up on the details Yes, this is us getting to see how Kenny and Darla died back on their prom night in 78 The two discussed wanting to get home to their newborn son while they rushed to the car now the newborn son bit Definitely is a bit of new information From me because there's never a mention of Kenny or Darla having a son in those first couple of movies Especially the first one where they're referenced more so than the second one But they express interest in wanting to get home to their newborn son Kenny drives himself of course and Darla down the infamous East 9 highway and the two are enjoying each other's company Until Kenny looks off to his left and through his driver's side window is able to see what appears to be a man Assaulting a woman Kenny driving past it slams down on his brakes after realizing what he just saw Darla asked what's wrong and Kenny rushing Lee tells her there's a woman back there being assaulted He gets his seatbelt off puts the car in park and runs over to help But the man darts off into the field with the woman and Kenny goes chasing after this Supposant man, but we all know who this is Darla screams at Kenny to come back But jumps into the driver's seat and begins to back the car up in reverse closer to where Kenny just ran off to In the fields where we were refocusing on Kenny He disappears chasing after the creeper, but stops when the creeper is no longer visible Kenny continues to search around but no sign of the woman or the creeper But when Kenny decides to go ahead and leave the creeper is in front of him when he turns around and blocks his mouth to Prevent the scream that would have been coming the creeper signals for Kenny to shh and while Kenny looks at the creeper in terror The creeper snaps his neck Darla is screaming for Kenny and while she's doing that His body drops out of the sky onto the hood of their car and she decides to drive off since Kenny Of course is clearly dead She doesn't get far the creeper takes out her tires with the classic throwing stars She swerves off the highway and into the tree or into a tree Spilling the beer cans that were in the vehicle in the process of this So when Darla is attempting to get out of the car She hears a breathing sound from behind or like a sniffing sound and when she looks behind her to look into the rear I guess look into the rear window of the vehicle She sees the creeper Sniffing the outside of the vehicle which causes Darla to yell in terror Darla is ultimately killed after a game of cat and mouse ensues where she remains uncertain about stepping outside of the vehicle or not Foolishly she ultimately of course decides to step out But has her head chopped off for her efforts by the creeper's battle axe now the creeper ends up abandoning the scene with Darla's body But returns for the head later on while the cops are on the scene Managing to get away with the head while the remain while remaining hidden So only one cop was able to see the head at the time But no one believes his claims about this head wants to creeper takes it So in this opening I tried to include as much that acknowledges you prescribed one detail.  The car is the only thing that the police found at the scene, etc Then after this opening we jumped to 46 years later 2024 so we're in the same year the Jeepers Creepers 2 left us at Where Jeepers Creepers 2 concluded I meant to say and we meet a handful of newbies one of which who are going to lead this story Will be Kenny and Darla's son 46 years old and determined to kill the monster that killed his parents This boy who I'll just name Kyle will narrate the story and we overhear him saying every 23rd spring for 23 days It gets to eat. He's riding down the East 9 highway reminding us of what the creeper is It's history with East 9 and that two days ago It escaped the barn that old man Taggart thought would be its final resting place Kyle will basically be on his way in my mind with his girlfriend who also lost someone to the creeper 23 years ago He's on his way to meet up with a character who we all know and love Trisha Jenner who has a plan on how to stop the creeper once and for all Now Trisha is not going to be the focus of this now I know that's what all of us would want but in my mind in a perfect world This story would be about Kenny and Darla's child That's the first part of a trilogy Then the second part that can be about Trisha if you want to give Trisha's time to breathe air And then the last part of the trilogy can be focused on the perspective from Trisha's son and all of them will come together with the newbies that are here and some refreshing faces like Giselle maybe bringing tubs or some other people like mink see even all of these characters will culminate into a finale movie with the concluding chapter of a trilogy in my head and The creeper will just be put to bed once and for all now the reason I want to try to figure out a ways of in jeepers creepers 5 with a non cliffhanger ending is just to avoid Something like what has left so many people clamoring Since the end of jeepers creepers 2 the end of the first jeepers creepers if you interpreted a certain way Maybe you could argue it is a cliffhanger, but to me the original film is very conclusive as definitive in Obviously the monster is still out there, but it left no crumbs in terms of the sequels are not necessary I would like to see something like that occur in jeepers creepers 5 and If we get it and I think that could be done either of course obviously by having it end in a very similar way to that original movie or Maybe there's just something with the creeper that ultimately makes the people in the town able to Get rid of it from that area, but it's not killed completely But you guys let me know what you think about an opening like that down in the comment section below about Kenny and Darla's child Also being the factor or being the centerpiece of a potential jeepers creepers 5 if you haven't already of course make sure you go ahead and subscribe turn On post notification and miss the video in the description. I'll have links on the social media accounts I'm on Facebook Twitter and Instagram you can message me there of course Let me know if there are any movies news or reviews you'd like me to cover in the future Mostly out just kind of to kind of work into a narrative that isn't too reliant on Gina Phillips or the character of Trisha just in case she's not available and with all that in mind guys I will see you in the next video


Hello, this is Hans van der Klaas Senior Lecturer at IT Delft Institute for Water Education. In this video I am going to show you how to use the white box tools for analysis of LiDAR point clouds. In a previous video I have demonstrated how to install the white box tools and add them to the processing toolbox. White box tools can only work with last files, so I prepared one in a previous video that I am adding here. And when you load a last file to QGIS it starts converting it to another format, therefore you see in the status bar how far it is with processing and meanwhile it shows you the outline of the extent and it cannot read the projection, so I am adding the projection to the project and the file. Now you see it is loaded, so this is our last file and by default it uses the classification of the points that it finds in the file. This data is from AHN3, open data from the Netherlands provided by PDOC and that has this classification. And when you have the PDOC services plugin installed you can get access to open data from the Netherlands and to get a bit of context now for this point cloud let's load the actual aerial photograph with 25 centimeter resolutions through this plugin. So we are looking at the center of Rotterdam, city in the Netherlands, and this is an interesting area because we have a lot of strange shapes here. This is the Markthal, the station black, and the Kubus Votinga or the Kube buildings and that is a good way to test these algorithms and see if we can get these shapes out of point cloud. Let's have a look at the white box tools and there we find LIDAR tools and under LIDAR tools there are a lot of different tools that we can apply to point clouds and we're first going to look at the LIDAR hillshade tool and we need to read the last file, you need to point at it from the disk because it will not read it from the layers panel and we keep the azimuth and the altitude of the sun at the default and the search radius at 1 and we define an output file. It will be another point cloud that we call hillshade and which will have the hillshade values as RGB data in the point cloud in the last file. It's done, so we can now drag from the browser panel the hillshade point cloud and when we load it, it starts converting it meanwhile we can see the extent and I add the projection and you see now in the status bar that it's converting it's almost done and now we can see the hillshade for each point if we zoom in this becomes clearer and now we see nicely the shading of the objects and we can inspect these cube buildings and the pencil tower which has this roof which shows different directions so then we can clearly see the hillshade. We can adjust the point size and the points are visualized here with squares but you can also choose circles so this gives a nice result, it's not interpolated so these are individual points that make up this hillshade image and when I zoom in you can see the points now it would also be nice to see the RGB colors. With the lighter colorize tool we can sample the colors from an image like from this aerial photograph with the RGB colors. Let's save it as a geo-tiff go to project and then export the map to image I leave the default so it will take the map canvas extent I click save and I change the file format to tiff and let's call it RGB we can load it and it's geo-referenced so if I remove the original aerial photograph we still see the picture and we're going to sample the colors from that using the lighter colorize tool so I open the last file the original one and I use the RGB geo-tiff and I'll save it to a new last file that called clipped RGB. The original file does not have the RGB channel the AHM data does not collect the RGB colors. Now I'll drag the new last file to the map canvas and it processes I set the EPSG to the projection that we use here in this project and the files almost converted and here we see our nice dots almost like a painting with all these dots and if I switch off the background then you see that it has voids where we don't have enough points where the point density is low and that's where the water is but we see that it took the colors if I would have saved the aerial photograph at a higher resolution we would probably have a better image here but this gives you an idea of sampling the colors but these voids there where the water is these are all channels in the city they need to be removed in order to do that we need to have polygons that cover the area with water and for that we can use the quick osm plugin and with quick osm plugin we can download features from open street map so the key that we use here is natural and the value is water although not much here is really natural but that's where we have to look for the waterways and we use the polygons here because we want the areas so I run the query and now we get the water polygons from open street map and you see that they cover these areas that have a low point density I think it's better to dissolve it before we proceed so it will be one polygon we can keep it as a temporary layer because we also need to project this to the same projection as the point cloud so I save the features to a shapefile call it water and set the projection to the one of our project click okay for the transformation and here we have the water polygons and now I can use from the white box lighter tools a tool that is called erase polygon from lighter so I use an input which is our original last file and it finds here our water polygon file and then I can define an output last file let's call it clipped without water and in this way it will remove all the points from the point cloud that are in those polygons for water it's done let's drag it to the map canvas it's processing I set the projection and check the mask and see what the result be after processing and here we see the result with very sharp edges where the water is and that looks very nice so our original lidar file has classes but we can improve the classification by using classify buildings in lidar but then we need a building polygon file and we can also get that from open street map so I use here as a key building and I want all the buildings so I leave value open and for the layer extent I choose the boundary of the point cloud and I want the buildings as polygons I run the query and now I have all the buildings in this area and you can already see that there's some mismatch with the orange red colors for building that we have in the point cloud so what the tool will do the classify buildings in lidar to it will classify the point cloud points that fit in the polygon to building and the others to other classes to no building in fact it will be a boolean layer so this tool I can load our last file but you see that our buildings are still in the wrong projection and need to be exported first not sure if white box tools can deal with that on the fly but it's always good practice to use layers with the same projection in these tools now they are exported and let's go back to the dialogue load our clipped without water last file there is the buildings in the correct projection and save the output and let's go at buildings dot last starts the reclassification process it's done I can drag buildings last to the map canvas and it starts processing I set the projection and that's the result and if we compare it with the original classification we see that there's some differences some sharper borders here you could also filter the lidar classes with the filter lidar classes tool and then you can give the classes that you want to exclude for example you can find the numbers of those classes in the styling panel here you see how they are coded that's standard coding that is used for lidar and there are many interesting things that we can do with these tools and I just want to highlight one which is the lidar rooftop analysis tool and you see that it has quite some parameters and the nice thing about white box is that is very well documented so here on the website whiteboxgeo.com you can find the user manual they've also started just a youtube channel so subscribe if you want to learn more about these tools and here you find all these lidar tools in the menu and there's the lidar rooftop analysis and here you can find what all these parameters mean it gives you an idea about the settings and it gives you the source code and you see there are other lidar tools that are well described here and you can see how you can use these tools also in python for example so here I use the clips without water last file and I use the buildings layer I keep the settings at default you can play around with that to get different results but let's just see what it does with all the defaults the output in this case will be a shapefile with the roof segments so the algorithm tries to find all the roofs within the building footprint and the point cloud and it will save all these roof segments to a shapefile so it's done let's close the dialogue and have a look at our roof file I need to set the projection but here it is it has classified all the segments of roofs in the building footprint and here we have the church the lounge care and we see here that every roof segment here is nicely segmented the same for the library and the cube buildings although there is some noise there maybe that can be reduced by changing some of the settings but it gives quite some good results especially for the church that looks really amazing and if you open the attribute table you'll find that each segment has a maximum elevation a hill shade a slope and an aspect and that's very useful information for all kinds of purposes so we can use that now to do some styling let me also put back the rgb in the background so to have some context and I'm going to use here a graduated symbol and for value I'm going to choose here the hill shade it was one of the fields and I use a grayscale and to just classify it and here we see the result and let's zoom in on the church and here we see the different directions of the the hill shade per segment and we can also see that here for the cube buildings and the library now when we choose aspect we can have the orientation according to the compass and that's also interesting that's in compass degrees so 0 and 360 are north and the native is south and this is useful for example if we want to know the orientation of a roof segment which can be important for solar panels for example and you saw that it also has the slope of the roof so the combination of slope and orientation will give you information about the performance of solar panels you also see the results for the cube buildings and library until now we have been looking at points but it would also be interesting to interpolate it to a digital surface model as a roster so I choose here our clipped without water last file I choose an output grid resolution of 50 centimeters I keep all the defaults here and I'm going to save this then as a geotift that I call DSM let's run it and it's quite a sophisticated algorithm that is optimized to get digital surface models out of point clouds there are other algorithms here provided you can see them here on the right like lidar idw interpolation or lidar nearest neighbor gridding you can also try those things and compare different results in this video we'll just have a look at the result of the lidar digital surface model algorithm so it produced the output but it gives a warning about the projection which we will fix later and let's zoom to the extent and we see here the elevations in grayscale and what is useful here is to render it as a hill shade and QGIS can do it on the fly so in the layer styling panel we can choose here the hill shade renderer and that will just give a very nice hill shade impression and now we can see a lot of details here we also see some artifacts of that interpolation and we can smooth that a bit by changing the resampling to bilinear here you see the result also put the zoomed out to bilinear and now we get a very nice smooth hill shade a roster of our area of interest here and we see a lot of very nice details in the trees and but we also see that it has some issues with the area where there are no points like the the water that we filtered out of the layer let's add some extra shading using the terrain shading plugin it adds some tools to the processing toolbox and i'm going to use here the ambient occlusion tool you can also try the other tools it's really great stuff and here we see that our DSM indeed doesn't have a projection so it's always wise to add that first before proceeding especially a roster analysis of elevation needs a proper projection i'll keep here also the defaults and let's save it as ambient occlusion and the output will be adjunctive we see the result again and we mark about the projection so just set it again and here we see that ambient occlusion because a lot of detailed patterns here and you see the tramway track at the station you can really follow in detail in the trees and what we can do is blend this with the hillshade layer let's do add these details now to the hillshade by using multiply and there we see the result it's a very nice metallic style roster that we get and now we get really a lot of nice details on the roofs here with the church with the church tower the library and the cube buildings very nice results now let's have a look at these point clouds with the 3d view this is the rgb point cloud that we have before and if i use the 3d view i can rotate landscape and there we see it popping out and here we have our nice points with the textures from the rgb and there are the cube buildings the pencil the library the station and the market hall building and the church in the background it will do the same if we will use the the hillshade the one that we generated on the points so this is not the roster so in this video you've learned how to use the lidar tools from whitebox tools and i think that's a great addition to qgs 3.18 with the point cloud support and in combination with the last tools it will give a lot of power to qgs to deal with point cloud data from lidar


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Thank you very much, Hamadun, dear president, dear commissioners. First and foremost, I would like to start by thanking Denis for the wonderful hospitality and very generous hosting us here in Dublin. And yesterday I was thinking that I could hardly think of a better place to hold this ninth meeting of the Broadband Commission than Ireland, a country that combines tradition and modernity, and also that has a deep commitment for human rights and for sustainable development for all. I think that what is emerging is a shared vision. The Broadband Commission has become the global advocate for the deployment of broadband networks and services to spearhead economic growth and sustainable development. And our vision, I believe, is convincing because it goes beyond mere advocacy for broadband-enabled networks and services. It is the vision that broadband can be an accelerator for inclusive and sustainable growth by opening new paths to create and share knowledge, by widening learning opportunities, by enhancing freedom of expression. But this does not happen by itself. It requires will and leadership. And this is why this commission matters. We cannot just invest in technology. We must invest in an ecosystem. Technology by itself does not empower. This use and content does. This is why supporting infrastructure must be accompanied by support to applications and services, with investment in relevant content in local languages, drawing also on indigenous and traditional knowledge. This precise vision guided the Broadband Commission since its inception, and it has inspired the work of all of its working groups. Each working group already has published world-class cutting-edge reports, providing concrete data and analysis on the potential of broadband to pursue key agendas for sustainable development. I am pleased to lead the working group on education, the multilingualism, and I'm determined to take this forward. We are now entering a critical point of taking stock on the second millennium development goal, education for all. And this is also where the role of the Broadband Commission is critical in using everything that is within the possibilities of new technologies to spearhead to the maximum possible education for all by 2015. So in this period, I wish to welcome also our new commissioner. I know that she is not with us, the new executive director of UN Women, Ms. Pumzilem Lambo-Zuka, with whom I spent two weeks ago, much time in New York during the commission on the status of women. And we exchanged ideas also on how to accelerate the implication of the Broadband Commission also in the women's empowerment through broadband. We believe that to provide girls and women with new opportunities for quality learning is vital in this process. Girls and women's education is a breakthrough strategy for progress on all the millennium development goals for poverty eradication, for greater sustainability in development. And if what the president also said, we want to eradicate extreme poverty by 2030, and I think this should be also one of the goals of the Broadband Commission, we have to focus there where we make a difference. And I think the Broadband Commission came out to a difference in health, in education, in education of girls, which is one of the bottlenecks of this process. So I think that millennium development goals and everything that we start in terms of the sustainability for development in the future is vital if we want to reach the unreach and also if we want to enhance the quality of learning. And this was the key message that was sent last month when we at UNESCO hosted the Mobile Learning Week, one of the world's largest gatherings of governments, experts in the private sector to share how mobile technologies can advance quality education. And this was also one of the key topics debated last week at the Dubai Global Education and Skills forums, which was organized by UNESCO, the Dubai Care GEMS Foundation and the Ministry of Education of the United Arab Emirates, where we launched a global campaign, Business Bex Education, and I would like to invite all of you to join this global campaign. And where we also were speaking about the framework for business engagement in education that UNESCO prepared early on with the United Nations Global Compact. So now this is, I believe, a critical meeting that we are having now. We are standing less than a year and a half from the 2015 deadline of the Millennium Development Goal and also when the international community is shaping a new global sustainable development agenda to follow. Later this year, in the end of October, we have chosen to run the Mr. President in order to have our African consultations on the post 2015 agenda for education. And it was not by chance. It's not a secret that we highly value your commitment to education and to sustainable development. And I believe that the Broadband Commission has a major contribution to make to this agenda. But we must continue to make our case. We are not yet there to ensure that this work is reflected in the decisions taken on post 2015 agenda to shape a very ambitious agenda that makes the most of Broadband and new ICTs as accelerators of inclusive and sustainable goals. So in this spirit, I would like to thank all the commissioners, particularly the co-chairs, President Kagame, Carlos Slim. Please transmit our deep appreciation and I know his commitment and also to you, Hamidun, for the leadership. Thank you.


Last Friday, March 10, 2023, Silicon Valley Bank was shut down by bank regulators because the bank suffered great losses after selling the long-term bounce to raise cash. The reason for SVB's great losses was because the Federal Reserve banks raised the Fed funds by 4% in the last 12 months, causing the other interest rates to go up as well. The long-term bounce owned by SVB were generating interest at rates much lower than the current interest rates. Therefore, when SVB sold these bounce, they had to sell them at greatest counts, incurring losses to the bank. As of December 31, 2022, SVB reported a negative $1.911 billion in unrealized losses known as accumulated other comprehensive income. The total equity capital of SVB was reported as $16.295 billion. Therefore, the AOCI to TEC minus AOCI ratio of SVB as of December 31 was negative 10.5%. Let's call this ratio the A over T ratio. An article from MarketWatch quoted data from FactSet listing the following banks with at least $10 billion of assets each and have very negative A over T ratios. All the banks on this list have A over T ratios that are worse than the negative 10.5% reported by Silicon Valley Bank. What happened to SVB, however, will not happen to the other banks unless the customers of the banks start to withdraw vast amounts of money which might force the banks to sell assets at great losses. Let's hope we don't see a lot of bank failures in the next few weeks.


Hello, my name is Jennifer Kozard. I'm a cardiovascular surgeon at Texas Heart Institute. I want to thank Texas Heart Institute and Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center for inviting me to speak today. I'll be speaking about atrial fibrillation and the surgical management options of this common disease. Specifically about new approaches for surgical treatment of refractory or long-standing AFib. I have no disclosures. So atrial fibrillation is the most common cardiac arrhythmia, affecting more than 33 million individuals worldwide and in the U.S. Over three million people have atrial fibrillation. It's associated with increased risk of thromboembolic events like stroke, peripheral ischemia, also increased mortality and reduced quality of life. AFib is known to increase the risk of stroke by an average of five-fold, and it's also linked to an increased risk of sudden death. Persistent atrial fibrillation is often a treatment challenge due to the electrical and anatomic differences among different patients. There can be variability in the scar burden and location of origin and also left atrial enlargement and patients often have other comorbidities as well. This is a busy slide, but just briefly showing that there are many different mechanisms for atrial fibrillation. It's a heterogeneous disease and can have a variety of different electrical abnormalities. There can be single or multiple foci of abnormality, also multiple re-entrant circuits or wavelets. The majority of these abnormalities are found in the left atrium and also near the pulmonary veins, but they can arise in other areas of the heart as well. There are several different types of AFib I want to quickly define. Mostly paroxysmal atrial fibrillation, which is AFib that resolves within seven days of onset and non-paroxysmal atrial fibrillation, which consists of persistent atrial fibrillation, which is continuous AFib, sustained more than seven days, and long-standing persistent AFib. Which is AFib that is continuous for more than 12 months. Now I'll get into the treatments for atrial fibrillation. Medications are typically first-line treatment. I won't go over that, but antiarrhythmics, anticoagulants, and rate-control drug drugs are often used in combination. Most procedures for atrial fibrillation target treatment of the left atrial wall because, as I said earlier, it's a critical part of initiating and maintaining persistent atrial fibrillation. Some procedures also target the right atrium as well. Endocardial ablation is done by electrophysiologists and is somewhat effective, but it can be difficult to treat patients with persistent or long-standing atrial fibrillation with this technique alone. It usually requires repeat ablations for good results and multiple ablations can lead to the dreaded complication of esophageal or phrenic injury. The techniques I'll cover more are surgical in nature. Surgery is obviously invasive treatment, and it does involve prolonged recovery compared to endocardial ablation alone. The Cox-Maze procedure is still the gold standard of surgical treatment for atrial fibrillation. It can be technically challenging and complex. It does require cardiopulmonary bypass, which endocardial treatment alone does not. It can be done through an open sternotomy or through minimal access surgery, and it has a very high success rate quoted from 85 to 95 percent freedom from AFib long-term. Other techniques are the mini-Maze, which is a mix of different approaches and lesions, pulmonary vein isolation, which only treats part of the left atrial wall, and part of the problem in physicians really knowing the real clinical results of AFib surgery is that when a patient does have surgery, the ablation techniques or patterns that are actually used in surgery can be very different going all the way from a full Cox-Maze to just pulmonary vein isolation. The convergent procedure or the hybrid approach is a newer technique, which I'll go over more in depth. It's a multidisciplinary approach that combines both endocardial and epicardial ablation, and it provides maximal treatment of the left atrial tissue. Closure of the left atrial appendage is also very important in the treatment of atrial fibrillation, and this can be done either concomitant with other surgery or even as a standalone procedure. So, when should you call a surgeon for treatment of atrial fibrillation? There are two major categories for consideration of surgical ablation for atrial fibrillation. Number one is if a patient has AFib and other concomitant cardiac abnormalities requiring surgery, like if they have a valve problem requiring valve surgery or coronary bypass, all patients with symptomatic AFib should be considered for surgical ablation at the time of concomitant surgery. Of course, if a patient has a reasonable risk and the ablation doesn't significantly lengthen the time of cardiable pulmonary bypass or increase the risk of the surgery. Number two, if a patient has atrial fibrillation without any other concomitant cardiac problems, a standalone surgical ablation should be considered for patients if they have either filled medical therapy, if they have persistent AFib after filled endocardial ablation, if they have long-standing persistent atrial fibrillation, either with or without a prior ablation, you can consider hybrid ablation or the convergent approach either open or standard open or minimally invasive maze for any of these patients. Okay, so for a patient with atrial fibrillation and endocardial or left atrial appendage thrombus, surgical approach should be considered because endocardial approaches alone, like the watchman, is contraindicated to the high risk of embolization with a known thrombus. Also, if a patient has a contraindication for endocoagulation like a GI bleed, hemorrhagic stroke, or other bleeding problems, a standalone epicardial left atrial appendage closure can be considered as a standalone. Atroclip can be done, and this does give excellent closure of the left atrial appendage and significantly reduces stroke risk. If a patient has a very large left atrium treatment with endocardial ablations alone is known to be minimally effective, and so surgery can be considered in these patients. So, this diagram shows the classic cut-and-sew coxamase 3 procedure, which is the basis of all the ablations for atrial fibrillation, which, and I want to go through this just to kind of give a, kind of lay the groundwork of all the other treatments to come. Surgical treatment of AFib was first performed over 25 years ago by Dr. James Cox in 1987 in St. Louis. Since then the full coxamase lesion set has proved to be highly effective and result in a high cure rate for AFib. The maze pattern of lesions was chosen to prevent multiple erratic impulses from propagating to cause AFib, but also leaving behind the ability of activating both atria and creating a normal sinus rhythm. This technique involved making multiple left and right atrial incisions that, when they were closed, formed a set of scars which isolated the pulmonary veins and posterior left atrium, as well as the right atrium. These lesions are meant to direct the sinus impulse from the SA node to the AV node along a specified route, and in theory allows coordinated electrical activation of the entire atrial myocardium. This coxamase 3 procedure, as I said, is the basis of all subsequent minimally invasive approaches and also endovascular approaches. This shows the lesions for the coxamase 4, which is a later iteration of the coxamase 3. It uses a combination of incisions and alternate energy sources like bipolar radiofrequency and cryoablation, which are shown here to the right, to complete the full lesion set instead of all incisions. This makes for an easier, quicker, and safer operation, but with the same end goal of the coxamase 3. The coxamase 4 can be performed through an open chest or also minimally invasive, but it does require cardiopulmonary bypass and cardiac arrest. This can be done alone or with other cardiac procedures as well. The key components of a proper maze procedure is isolation of the pulmonary veins and isolation of the posterior left atrium or the box lesion, excision or closure of the left atrial appendage, and isolation of the right atrium. This shows the coxamase 4 technique, which this represents an open sternotomy approach with bicable cannulation. On the left of the screen, you can see the right atrial lesion sets. This portion can be done with a beating heart. On the right, the left atrial lesion set does require cardiac arrest. This is just a representation of the coxamase 4, which can also be performed minimally invasive with femoral cannulation through a right mini thoracotomy submemory incision. Dr. Damiato et al. did a review of the coxamase 3 and coxamase 4 studies in 2017 comparing both of these treatments for atrial fibrillation. The coxamase 4 has proven to have similar results at one year. However, they did show lower results at five years compared to the coxamase 3. This could be due to different follow-up methods, but overall the coxamase 4 in most literature still has excellent long-term results and is still considered the current gold standard treatment for treatment of atrial fibrillation. I want to mention consideration of atrial fibrillation at the time of concomitant surgery, which is very important and should never be overlooked. In patients undergoing coronary bypass or aortic valve replacement patients with non-peroxysmal AFib, it is still considered the best option to perform a maze procedure at the time of surgery, which can offer close to 90% reduction of atrial fibrillation and it also adds stroke protection. If pulmonary vein isolation is done alone with a left atrial clip, that only provides about 30% improvement of atrial fibrillation and stroke protection at a very minimum in addition to concomitant surgery. A left atrial appendage clip or closure does provide stroke protection and gives about a 10% reduction in atrial fibrillation. Similarly, patients undergoing mitral valve surgery should be considered for a full coxamase procedure. During mitral surgery the atrium is opened anyway and therefore if the patient's unacceptable risk, a full coxamase is still the best way to prevent atrial fibrillation at very minimum again. The left atrial appendage clip is easy to perform, doesn't increase any significant operative time and gives stroke protection. The newest treatment option for refractory atrial fibrillation is the convergent procedure which is a hybrid approach to atrial fibrillation. It's a team effort of both an electrophysiologist and a cardiac surgeon. It consists of two procedures that are staged four to six weeks apart. The first part is a surgical or epicardial ablation and you can include the left atrial appendage closure at the same time. The second part is the endocardial mapping by the electrocardiologist and endocardial ablation at that time. This is a staged approach which is preferred to give the epicardial lesions from surgery time to heal and scar so that leads to a more accurate endocardial mapping and limits the need for extensive endocardial ablation at the second procedure. There are two targeted patient groups for the convergent ablation. Those with longstanding persistent atrial fibrillation or AFib more than a year and those who have persistent atrial fibrillation with recurrence after failed endocardial ablation. The ideal convergent patient would be one with longstanding persistent AFib. Two or less prior endocardial ablations however they can have more. No prior cardiothoracic surgery and low or normal cardiac risk for surgical intervention. Contraindications to the convergent are patients with prior cardiac surgery. If they need concomitant surgery that should be done through a surgical open approach. If they have a history of chest radiation or paracarditis they should not undergo convergent. In the spring of 2021 the episodes device by Atrocure was approved by the FDA for treatment of longstanding persistent AFib with a convergent approach. The converged trial demonstrated superiority of the hybrid AF therapy compared to endocardial catheter ablation alone and I'll discuss this further. But first I'll describe how the convergent approach is performed. Convergent AFib ablation begins with the surgical procedure. Transesophageal echocardiogram is used first to rule out left atrial thrombus. If a thrombus in the left atrial appendage or the atrium is present then the case is aborted due to the risk of embolization and stroke. If the heart's clear then we proceed. A subzyphoid paracardial window is then performed and cannulation with a thoracoscope is placed into the posterior paracardium. This diagram shows the epicent's coagulation device that's used for convergent ablation. It's a radiofrequency device that creates a three centimeter linear ablation line. Vacuum suction is used to pull the tissue into the device for engagement and the field is filled with saline to cool the temperature of the surrounding tissue. This video shows the surgical procedure. The subzyphoid decision is made and the cannula with the camera and epicent's device is inserted into the posterior paracardium. The epicent's device is then used to create multiple linear ablation lines to completely cover the posterior left atrial wall between the pulmonary veins. This recreates the box lesion from the COXME's procedure. One benefit of this epicardial ablation approach is that the ablation energy is directed away from the esophagus and directly toward the heart which further decreases the chance of esophageal injury. For the second stage of the convergent approach, which is usually four to six weeks after surgical ablation, endocardial mapping and catheter ablation is done to treat any gaps in the ablation lines or areas that are not able to be reached with the epicardial approach. This is typically on the roof line or even near the pulmonary veins. This diagram shows a complete lesion set of the convergent approach. The blue epicardial lesions are shown here and the red is the endocardial lesions performed during the second stage. The goal is AFib substrate reduction or debulking of the tissue that causes AFib. The entire posterior left atrial wall should be ablated and the pulmonary veins are completely isolated. The end result is the equivalent to the box lesion set from the COXME's procedure. Complications can include esophageal injury. We do monitor the esophageal temperature throughout the procedure. Pericarditis or pericardial effusion is also something that we try to prevent post-op because it's a known complication and we provide steroids, colchicine, indicin, diuretics and we also do surveillance with an echo prior to discharge and also two to three weeks post-op is recommended. In March of 2021 the converged trial was published and this was a prospective multi-center randomized clinical trial that demonstrated improved effectiveness of the hybrid convergent procedure over endocardial ablation alone. The primary effectiveness was freedom from AFib through 12 months and the hybrid convergent procedure showed superior effectiveness compared to endocardial only ablation in patients with advanced atrial fibrillation. It showed that a heart team approach helps improve outcomes in patients with advanced AFib. The converged trial was conducted at 27 sites in the U.S. and U.K. and studied 153 patients with drug refractory, symptomatic, persistent and long-standing persistent AFib. The patients were randomized two to one into the hybrid convergent arm and endocardial catheter ablation alone. Of note the endocardial ablations were in the study were performed only with radiofrequency catheters and no cryoablation. Also in this study the left atrial appendage was not addressed and was not closed by any technique. So the converged trial imposed no limits on the duration of AFib and also allowed patients with substantial left atrial dilation to be included. So it's the only ablation trial to include these patients. The long-standing persistent atrial fibrillation sub-analysis showed excellent results and led to the FDA label for treatment of long-standing persistent atrial fibrillation with this technique. A total of 42% of patients in the trial had long-standing persistent atrial fibrillation and I'll get to these results. Baseline characteristics were similar in each arm. AFib duration was on average close to six years and the left atrial size was approximately four centimeters or greater. Follow-up for this study was done at six and 12 months with a 24-hour Holter monitor and at 18 months with a seven-day Holter monitor. The results showed freedom from atrial arrhythmia with or without anti-arrhythmic drugs was significantly higher approximately 20% better with the convergent approach versus endocardial ablation alone and these results were sustained at 18 months. Freedom from AFib and at least a 90% AFib burden reduction was significantly higher with a convergent procedure versus endocardial ablation alone. These again were sustained through 18 months. The left diagram shows that 71% of patients in the hybrid group had or had freedom from AFib at 12 months compared to about 51% of patients with catheter ablation. At 18 months these results were sustained. The convergent patients also had a significant improvement of up to 71% of all AFib symptoms and freedom from cardioversion compared to 41% for endocardial ablation patients alone at 12 months. The convergent approach was proven to be safe. There were no deaths and one pericardial effusion one stroke and a temporary fredic nerve injury. These primary safety events were not reported in the endocardial ablation arm. So in conclusion there were superior outcomes with a hybrid convergent procedure compared to endocardial catheter ablation alone and those with drug refractory long-standing persistent AFib and these results were sustained at 18 months. There was an acceptable safety profile and it shows that a collaborative heart team approach improves outcomes in patients that are difficult to treat with long-standing AFib. The convergent plus approach which is what I personally perform at Texas Heart Institute and a lot of centers are now going to produces further optimization of the hybrid treatment to reduce stroke risk by closing the left atrial appendage and it provides more AFib burden reduction. It includes the previously described epicardial ablation and the second endocardial ablation of the conversion approach but it adds a left thoracoscopy and epicardial closure of the left atrial appendage typically within a clip. Division of the ligament of Marshall and additional ablation lines on the roof of the left atrium and also at the anterior to the left pulmonary veins and at the base of the appendage can also be added. These basically just add more improvement of freedom from AFib and stroke. Closure of the left atrial appendage is also important because it's often a trigger site for atrial fibrillation and a source of thrombus formation and stroke. Left atrial appendage closure should be an integral part of any AFib treatment. There are several methods for this. I'll talk about the surgical closure. These pictures show the atroclip which is an epicardial surgical placement of a clip at the base of the appendage for complete closure of the appendage. Over 300,000 atroclip devices have been used and it's very safe, effective and easy to use. These images just show a left thoracoscopic view of the left chest. Here we're looking at the pericardium and you can see we make a pericardial window or opening in the pericardium just posterior to the phrenic nerve. After you get into the pericardium the left atrial appendage is seen and can usually be brought out into the pleural space through the pericardial opening and on the right it shows the atroclip after deployment at the base of the appendage. We also use transesophageal echocardiogram at the time of surgery to ensure that the left atrial appendage is completely closed. Closing the appendage is known to down-regulate the renal angiotensin aldosterone system, also reduce arrhythmia burden and most significantly reducing the risk of stroke and systemic thromboembolization. The Laos III study part of that looked at the left atrial appendage occlusion during cardiac surgery to prevent stroke and it was published in the New England Journal in June of 2021. It was a multi-center randomized controlled trial involving patients with AFib and those that had a CHADS VAS score of at least two. A higher score here indicates a greater risk for stroke. This study looked at over 4,000 patients, over 2,000 were in both the surgical occlusion arm and the other arm were those who did not have occlusion of the left atrial appendage. The patients underwent cardiac surgery for other indications and were randomly assigned to either occlusion of the left atrial appendage or no occlusion. The primary outcome showed occurrence of ischemic stroke and systemic embolization were significantly reduced. At 3.8 years the surgical appendage occlusion arm had about 4.8 percent events compared to 7 percent in the group that had no closure of the appendage. So in conclusion, long-standing persistent atrial fibrillation can be successfully and safely treated with a convergent plus hybrid approach. You should always consider surgical ablation, which the gold standard is the COXMase IV procedure and left atrial appendage closure during concomitant cardiac surgery in patients with AFib or as a standalone procedure when it's indicated. A team approach is an excellent way to optimize the treatment and reduce the complications associated with atrial fibrillation. So when managing your patients with atrial fibrillation, don't forget that surgical treatment remains a vital part of the optimal management of AFib and we're always here to help. I want to sincerely thank the Texas Heart Institute and Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center for the opportunity to speak with you today about surgical treatment for atrial fibrillation. Enjoy the rest of the conference. Thank you.


We all know about small group tactics, or fighting tactics, but what about radio tactics? Hello everyone, Dylan Schumacher, Citadel Defense, and we are back with another edition of Tactical Book Review. Today's book is The Gorilla's Guide to the Bay of Fang Radio by N. C. Scout. I found, I've seen this book in Amazon here and there, and then I saw Mr. Risky-Krisky talking about it a bunch and so I picked up a copy and thought I'd read it and see how it goes here. I tended to notice that the reviews that I like books on, the ones that are favorable, are usually my shortest reviews because there's not that much to say other than you should read it. And this book probably falls into that category. I really liked this book. I like this book for a couple of reasons. First of all, it does give you some helpful, like concrete, scientific data information. Like these are the frequencies that you should do that are MERS frequencies and these are UHF frequencies and these are VHF frequencies and like some helpful kind of concrete data. And then it builds on that and gives you more very pointed ways to use the radio, right? This is a salute report. This is how this works. This is how you build a calm plan. You do this and you do this and then you do this and it's very straightforward, very pretty, idiot-proof, which I appreciate and really just explains it to you. And when I got done with this book, I realized that this book is really a book on radio tactics. That's probably the best way to say it. This book helps you understand the tactics of using a radio. And I'm using that word a little bit loosely here, but what I'm really trying to get after here is this book helps you understand how to use the radio in context, right? It's not just like these are the buttons and these are what they do. I thought it has a little bit of that and has a little bit of like how to build antennas and some encoding deals. But overall it's saying this is the way to use this radio in a context, in a tactical, you know, which is a high threat environment context. That's how you're gonna use this radio in order to accomplish your mission, right? The author assumes you're out to do something. And when you're out to do that something, you need to use a radio to affect what you're doing, to improve the capability of what it is you're trying to accomplish. And he helps you understand how to use a radio in that context. And so for that reason, I find it an extremely helpful book. Does everyone in your crew need to read this? Ah, it wouldn't hurt, it would probably be good. Especially if you, as if you consider yourself some kind of leader, you need to read this. If you're some kind of radio person, you absolutely need to read this, right? And it is the only book of its kind that I know of that again, hits that niche of radio tactics. This isn't just some old ham book to be like, and then you can talk to someone wherever. I don't care, right? What I care about is using the radio in context of trying to accomplish something. And this book will help you do that. So I would highly, highly recommend you read this book, The Grilla's Guide to the Baofeng Radio by Mr. NC Scout. I will put an affiliate link in the description below. Get it if you can. Again, highly recommend this book. So I do want to just say one thing here. You know, I got this book and I also got the Baofeng AR152 radio because Rizky Krusky said that this guy recommended it in this book and I read the book and I didn't see it recommended in here. So you owe me 70 bucks, Rizky. Do brave deeds and endure.


Welcome back. Let us look at one more exercise before I leave the field open to you. Let us look at exercise D03. We have a thermally insulated cylinder closed at both ends. That means we have a rigid box and it is fitted with a leak proof frictionless diathermic piston which divides the cylinder into two parts. It is leak proof so whatever is in on one side of the piston cannot move to the other side and vice versa. It is a diathermic piston so it will maintain the temperatures of the two subsystems on either side equal. The two parts are known as A and B. Initially the piston is clamped in the center so the volume of the two parts are the same initially. One liter as well as one liter V1A and V1B and the states of one side and other side are given. Air is the fluid. Notice that the two sides are the same temperature 300 Kelvin but there is a pressure difference. Side A has a pressure of 0.3 megapascal. Side B has a pressure of 0.1 megapascal. The piston is released. Now when the piston is released it will try to move towards the low pressure side. So side A will increase its volume, side B will decrease its volume and after some time when equilibrium is again established it is leak proof frictionless piston so pressure would be the same on either side. It is a diathermic piston so temperature would be the same on either side and let us compute now the final pressure and the final temperature and also the change in entropy which is reversible process has taken place. That is a question I am leaving open to you. I will just hint at the way this problem is going to be solved and I will illustrate here that it will always be a good idea to list the unknowns and then if the number of unknowns is say n, see to it that we are able to set up n equations to solve for these n unknowns. So I am going to illustrate this from that point of view. Let us sketch our system. I will show the piston by means of a thin partition, leak proof and friction there. The whole system is rigid and insulated. So the full system is rigid and insulated. This is side A, this is side B and initially there is a mass mA1 pressure PA1, temperature TA1 and volume VA1 on this side and initially mass mB1 pressure PB1, temperature TB1 and volume VB1 on the other side. All these things are either known or from the equation of state we can determine. The volumes are given, the temperatures are given, the pressures are given. So if we assume air to be an ideal gas we can determine PV equals RT assumes a molecular weight of air say 29 kilogram per kilo mole and you are through. You can determine mA1 and mB1. Now let us list out the parameters in the final state. The final state let the mass on the two sides be mA2 and mB2, let the pressures be PA2 and PB2, let the temperatures be TA2 and TB2 and let the volumes be VA2 and VB. Notice that there are eight unknowns. Now which are the eight equations that we need to obtain or we need to set up? Let us look at those equations. First, although A plus B together is a closed system because the piston is leak proof, mass on side A remains unchanged, mass on side B remains unchanged. So one equation would be mA2 is mA1. Similarly mB2 is mB1, two equations. Then well we have assumed air to be an ideal gas. So even the final state will satisfy PV equals MRT. So we will have PA2 VA2 is mA2 RTA2 and in a similar fashion PB2 VB2 equals mB2 RTB2. Two more equations. Then we are given that the piston is frictionless. Since it is frictionless, pressures on either side would become equal when it finally reaches its stable position. So that means we have one equation which says PA2 is PP2, five equations. Then we are told that the piston is diathermic. So it will not tolerate any temperature differences on either side and hence we will have TA2 equal to TB2, six equations. We need two more and which are the two more? One is the full system is rigid. Consequently the volumes of the individual subsystems may change. VA may undergo a change. VB may undergo a change. But the total volume remains unchanged. So we will have the final volume of the system equals initial volume of the system. So we will have VA2 plus VB2 equals VA1 plus VB1. So these are seven equations. We need one more and that will be the first law of thermodynamics. The first law of thermodynamics would be Q equals delta E plus W. Now first we are given that the complete system to which we are applying this is an insulated system. That means it is an adiabatic system and that is why this will be zero. Why? Because it is an insulated system. Now what about W? W will be expansion work plus other work because the system is rigid, expansion work is zero because the system is rigid. What about the other work? Let us assume it to be zero and that means we can get rid of this W term. That gives us delta E equals zero and if we write this as delta U plus delta E other, then delta U can be related to temperature. But let us assume again that delta E other is zero and then the first law reduces only to this part. The change in the thermal energy of the system does not change through the process.  And delta U A is related to its final temperature and initial temperature. Delta U B is related to its final temperature and initial temperature. Since the initial temperatures are the same, the final temperatures are also the same. You can write a simple expression for this. In fact, the general expression would be M A C V. I am using the same C V. I am making a minor assumption that let us assume C V to be constant. Then delta U A will be Ta2 minus Ta1 plus M B C V T B2 minus T B1 is zero. Now, I have just used M A and M B here. Actually, you could use M A1 or M B1 but since M A1 and M B1 are the same thing as M A2 and M B2, you could use either here 1 or you can put 2 there. Does not matter. This is the 8th equation. So this is equation number 8 that gives us 8 equations and 8 unknowns. That gives us the complete final state. And once you get the complete final state, the change in entropy of the system will be determined as change in entropy of system part A plus change in entropy of the system part B. And since we know the initial and final state of part A, we can determine delta S A and similarly we can determine delta S B. Compute delta S A, compute delta S B, sum them up. You will get delta S of the system. Since the system is an insulated system and actually the way we have assumed that it is an isolated system, delta S system itself will become delta S universe. That would be the amount of entropy produced. That should be greater than 0. Check this out for yourself. Thank you.


Matt Judon and the rest of the past rushes on the market right now They probably all in a group chat together Matt Judon, Jadavi and Clowney Clay Matthews Mark is golden Everson Griffin and Clowney He sent a message to the group chat yesterday. He was like hey look Browns offer me all this money, but Nah, I ain't with it And Judon was probably like all of that really? He said you know what let me go get my 16 meal whether it's gonna come from the Ravens It's gonna come from somebody else. I'm getting my 16 meal. So he ran and signed that tag, but anyway Shout out to Matt Judon man Finally this domino in the Ravens offseason has finally fallen Finally this is something that we have been waiting for for a long time This is something that we've talked about for a while Wondering when it was gonna go down wondering when Judon was gonna make this thing official because there's been a lot of Speculation what's gonna happen with Judon are the Ravens gonna keep them all the Ravens gonna trade them What are they gonna do? Are they gonna resend the tag?  So now them resending the tag is out the window and He proceeds to collect his 16 meal and again with Matt Judon signing his franchise tag He accounts for 16 about 16. It's like a tiny bit less than 16 mil But he accounts for about 16 mil on the salary cap because his it's a one-year contract. The franchise tag is a one-year contract 110% guaranteed It is fully guaranteed all the way all the way. So Judon is He's getting paid more than his entire career so far all this season Now this is where things get very interesting This is where things get very very interesting. Oh, maybe they don't we'll see But now an entire new world of possibilities has opened up between Matt Judon and the Ravens Now one of those possibilities is obviously if the two sides can come to an agreement on a contract extension If they came to an agreement with Matt Judon on a contract extension I would expect it to be about three to four years a three to four year deal And that would lower his cap hit by a myth by millions of dollars It would lower his cap hit by a lot and it would also allow him to remain a Raven for the next three to four years and The average per year how much it would be man, honestly, I have no clue I Have no clue because what I was thinking this entire time ever since before Judon signed the tag I was thinking. Okay, Jadavian Clowney. He's gonna set the market That's what I was thinking really going into free agency period I thought Jadavian Clowney was going to be the one that set the market, but He's still a free agent He is still a free agent till this day and again. That's every time I think about it. It's wild So as far as the numbers for Matt Judon, I Honestly have no clue. I Have no clue the average per year that it could be I have no clue like I don't know what If if I if I had to make a guess I Say about 1112 meal per I Think they could get something done for about 11 to 11 12 mil per per year We'll see what happens And then we'll go from there But anyway, that is one of the possibilities with the Ravens and Matt Judon since he has officially signed his Franchise tag now I have forgot the name of it real quick So another possibility Another possibility is that of a trade Matt Judon could be traded and if he was to be traded Ravens would obviously get compensation for him whatever that would be and He would go to his new team And I would assume that it it wouldn't be a necessity But I would assume that him going to a new team It will be contingent on him coming to a contract agreement with that new team Because I don't like with with the franchise tag again. I Know it's For us looking at it as fans from the outside looking in we like oh man That's all that you get all that money and it's all guaranteed and yes That's a beautiful thing Because imagine if you're working a job for about four years You're working a job for four years and then in the fifth year in that fifth year you get to make all the money that you made in the four years Combined and even more and it's all guaranteed You are going to get paid that amount of money.  You're only getting paid for this year You only guaranteed for this year. So after this year, you could get paid nothing From your current employer Or if you came to an a long-term agreement with that employer as a contractor, then it could include benefits It could include even more guaranteed money And it would be over a longer period of time that you will be taking care of So I know in today's society, we all about the right here. We all about the right now But that's why a lot of players they don't like to franchise tag because yeah, it's nice for this year It's nice for right here right now But it doesn't give them any guarantees beyond this season So we'll see what happens with that But anyway, the the second scenario again, it's a possibility that Matt Jude on would be traded now Because now he's officially on the Ravens roster with him signing that franchise tag before he wasn't on the Ravens roster He wasn't on there because he hadn't signed it yet Ravens could not do any the only thing that the Ravens would have been able to do before he signed it was take the tag back Be like, you know what? No, we straight bring it back. That would have been the only thing They would they would have been able to do the only thing but since he signed it they can't take it back anymore and Since they can't take it back if he does get traded like I said I would assume that if he was traded somewhere then it would be contingent on him or coming to terms With whatever team he was dealt to now the third scenario And we've talked about all these scenarios here already But a third scenario that could happen now with him signing his franchise tag is that he plays on it? That he plays on it Now earlier this offseason that wasn't something that I envisioned Heading into this offseason. That wasn't something that I thought was doable. Well, not that it wasn't doable I just didn't think it was likely But now that we're here Ravens they they only got a couple of more couple more draft picks to sign It is a possibility but Something else is gonna happen to Something else is gonna happen to where they they open up some cap room whether that's Ronnie Stanley him getting his extension Whether it's I mean, that's that's really the only place that they can get some cap room They don't need to restructure anybody else's deals. You know stay away from that. Keep away. Keep away But whether they restructure Ronnie's I mean not restructure, but extend Ronnie Stanley's deal my apologies If they give give him a new deal they can get some cap room that way Oh, what they gave Matt Jude on a new deal. They can get some cap room that way But him playing on the franchise tag. It is a real possibility It is something that could it could definitely happen But now it's a wait-and-see approach It's a wait-and-see approach. I don't know what's gonna happen. I Have no clue. This has been something that this whole thing with Matt Jude on man This has been something that I've just been All like all over the place with If I had to choose one I would expect for the Ravens to keep them But at the same time man, you just never know what the cost of got up his sleeve, man You just you just never know But to keep him at 16 mil Again, they can do it. They can do it. They got that option to do it straight up they can do that if they want to but That gives you a little less flexibility Heading into the season and you don't got to go into the season with so much cap space because what are you gonna do with it? But you do want to have that little pocket money Just in case something comes available Just in case somebody comes available, you know, Eric the cost always looking man You know, he always looking and Eric the cost it is not a window shopper He is not a window shopper If he really wants to get it done, then he will really get it done We saw that all last season We saw that during this offseason and he plot stuff too, man. He plot stuff out He flip stuff. The dude is a hustler, man And again, we talked about him getting the executive of the year award But we when talking about Eric the cost you can't forget about Ozzy Newsom now, man You really can't Because again, like somebody mentioned in the comment section of that video Eric the cost of he was Ozzy's protege Ozzy kept him under his wing Ravens held on to Eric the cost of he could have had so many other opportunities as we know But he stuck around He stuck around for a reason because he knew He knew what he was capable of Ravens knew what he was capable of and they knew what they were doing He is a homegrown guy Homegrown and he's been doing a phenomenal job But now the question is what's next What's gonna happen next with the Ravens and Matt Jude on Because the first step in this whole thing was applying the franchise tag to him So he wouldn't just leave as a free agent because if the if he would have just left as a free agent Then you could get a third round pick next year Next year But when you franchise tag him, yeah, it does limit you does restrict you a little bit Because all that money is guaranteed But it does allow you a better opportunity if you plan on trading the player It allows you to get something for them right here right now Or if you plan on keeping the player Then you have them on your roster at least for this year and if you plan on extending the player Then y'all too can begin those contract discussions Now this comes as no surprise Matt Jude on signing the franchise tag Because he said he got all the intentions in the world to play football this year Matt Jude on already let that be known He ain't talking nothing about no holdout He ain't been talking about nothing about no contract He ain't been talking none of that He hasn't been on some high horse like oh Raven though. You want to franchise tag me? Well, let's see you Let's see what happens with that He ain't been doing none of that He's actually been pretty quiet about the whole thing now you look at some players on other teams and you could just tell how Just the level of professionalism that the Ravens have And that's not a shot at other teams got noted with the franchise tag things can get very ugly Things can get so ugly with the franchise tag But with Matt Jude on it's been the most has been this been like the most peaceful franchise tag ever If you still hear this part of comment section just put that in the comment section I mean if you see here this part of the video just put in the comment section the most peaceful franchise tag ever because that's what this has been it ain't been no backing forth between him and The GM or the CEO on Twitter. It ain't been none of that And I mean shout out to my guy. No, he's from the DMV not talking about you don't talk about the other guy But still that that whole situation was just ugly And I mean he's still on that team now. He ain't move And if you know what I'm talking about I know a lot of y'all know who I'm talking about you can go ahead and put it in comment section to But with Matt Jude on this has been the most beautiful franchise tag experience ever Because it's been no bad blood.  Okay franchise tag me cool I'm gonna think about some things. I signed a little bit. Okay, cool. That's fine Matt Jude on take your time Do you think man? Enjoy your vacation. Enjoy your time off. All right EDC. I'll talk to you. I'll catch up with you. All right, Jude on see you That's it. That's it It's been super peaceful And now he signed it So now we just see what happens. I'm sure Judah a judon already told his boys in the in the past rush of group texts Probably all you let already let them know like a I saw my tag All right y'all boys. I'm out that he's he probably told them a this this group this group chat This only for guys that ain't signed yet. So yeah, I'm gonna go ahead and get on up out of here I catch up with y'all So that's that so anyway, same keep it clean. We'll see what happens next We'll be watching we'll be waiting When I know then y'all know y'all know I know y'all let me know I love you all I am happy that things are going good And for anybody that with things aren't going good right now, trust me. They will get better They will They will it sometimes it may not seem like it, but I promise you they will I love y'all so much Thank you all for always being willing and having a willing ear to listen. I appreciate it big time me I love y'all and I'm out


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