The Nigerian Medical Association has given the federal government 21 days to address the issues of the National Association of Resident Doctors, or else they will maybe also join the strike. We're going to be joined by the Secretary General of the Nigerian Medical Association, Dr. Philips Ikbe, who's joining us now. Good morning, Doc. Thanks for joining us. Good morning. Thank you. Alright, so it's a 21-day ultimatum. Quickly tell us about that and why the NMA has taken this stance. As you know, the Nigerian Medical Association is the umbrella body of all the doctors in this country, and we operate with affiliates. Affiliate means that different bodies. The Nigerian Assignment Resident Doctors, not, is part of the affiliates of the Nigerian Medical Association. And you're aware that before now, they've been negotiating with the government. They've had the memorandum of understanding. They have the memorandum of action. Unfortunately, the government have not met up these demands. Even the ones they managed to meet up, they did that half-hasn't met. As such, I mean, and in all these negotiations, the Nigerian Medical Association sent representatives, sent observers, you know, go with them. I particularly have been going with them. The government did not close its eyes while it was signing these agreements, this memorandum of action. And they actually put it online when they discussed that, okay, after such a time, this is what we're doing. But I'm telling you, since almost we cannot be here more than four or five months now, I mean, we should not be here. And so looking at it properly, I think the action of NMA is legitimate. Because of that, we discussed it in our national advisory council meeting. I realized that it is time probably to give the backing to NMAID. But look, government, you need to sit up if you realize the head case system in the country is currently in shampoo. Because NMAID is a very vital part of the system, of the head case system. If NMAID is not working, especially in public institutions, it is the functioning capacity of those institutions with less than 50%, less than 30%. And the Nigerian people are suffering because they need to be treated, they need to take all their health as such. And then we, you know, feel that, look, let us put our weights behind NMAID in this position. Probably that will help government or make government to sit up and fulfill the demands of NMAID. Thank you. Alright, you said that you had joined in the negotiations over time. Can you share with us what that conversation really is like every time that the doctors meet with the federal government? What vibe do you get from those discussions that has eventually led to failure to adhere to their promises? Well, the truth is that government appeared to be honest and there is usually cordial discretion to say what can be done and what cannot be done. And at the end of the day, they come to an agreement. And they may begin to try to implement. But immediately, not because of their strike, government will relax and nothing is happening again. And that is why today you will have that up to now some doctors are working and they've not been paid. Some doctors worked for three months, four months, six months and they've not been paid and so many other issues. The agreement and of course the demands by NMAID, what would your response be to people who say that they are probably asking for too much? And right now the Nigerian government is pretty tight on funds and cannot necessarily release that amount of money. Would that explanation make sense to you? Nigerian governments have not said that they are tight for money, therefore they cannot meet up with demand. No. They even said they have the money and they can meet up with demands. Let's look at the medical residency training fund. The other ones, the salaries of those workers is already in the project and that's supposed to be paid. So I don't think there is no time that the Nigerian government said, look, we don't have enough money. Remember that there is COVID-19 allowance that was supposed to pay. They told NMAID, we don't have enough money. Let's just discuss how to improve the general hazard allowance in the salary structure. And now the government and NMAID agreed. So it's not about NMAID being very difficult, you know, saying that they don't have the money. No. We are working together. We all agreed with government. They knew what they have before they reached those agreements there. We didn't make phone calls. They reached out to people and they all agreed that this is possible. And so why are you not doing it? I also believe that government has to put its act together. There are problems with bottleneck and logistics. I mean, you see that the means of labour are not about great uncertain issues. Then by the time it comes to implementation, either by one model or the other, it's not been done. And it's taking too long.  Not follow it up to see what is going on. And they see that eventually there is something wrong, especially from the, you know, until they say something not majorly sometimes from the head of service, that is the head of civil service and the federal department, you know. So those are the issues. Okay. And are there things, you know, seeing where we currently stand with this, are there things that the federal government or you would expect that the federal government will be able to suggest that they can immediately implement? It may not be the whole spectrum of demands from the NARD.  You know, as you know, resident doctors and NMAs are very reasonable. We know the one that takes a whole lot of processes and we know the ones that should not take processes, you understand. And with that is why sometimes, from time to time, we review it. For instance, the medical residency training for should be paid. Those doctors who were being paid on give me, I suppose we migrated to what they call IPs, they should be paid. And those remaining house officers, about one and 14 of them, they have several issues. They should be paid. And of course, they should begin to also show commitment in the shortfall of 2014, 2015, and 2016. And then the circular for house officers.  It just went down, it's part of the circular that is going through that upset, that did upset the system. So I think he was able to do these things I mentioned. The enemies were able to prevail on that. So they've done this, they've done this, they've done this.  But as I'm telling you, all these things that I mentioned, I've not been done. Although, they're going to be working on it. But how long is it going to take? How long is it going to take? We need to see evidence of commitment. You know, this is not the first time government have been reneging on their agreement. And that is why now there is no trust. Even if, as I am, I believe they're telling me they're going to pay tomorrow. I won't believe it until I see it. When they tell me they're paying on Wednesday, I won't believe it until I see it. Now, look at it. This strike has been going on for 21 days. And it's not like there are new agreements. This agreement has been signed long time ago for two more, three months. So that means that if not, that call on their strike probably on the 2nd and the 3rd or the 4th, up till now they wouldn't have been able to, to even fulfill this agreement. They can't understand my logic. They understand. You know, this is 20, 20, today's what? Today's 30th or any? Today's 30th. So this is four weeks. And those demands, which, you know, remember last strike started on the 2nd. Right? So those demands by now should have been, you know, maybe before even 15th they should have fulfilled the demand. But unfortunately, even the federal government have not also lived up its expectation. You, at all, always, all the time, you go back to negotiating table. No matter the situation, whether you are in court, whether there is anything, you try to find a way.  All right. I want you to also share from a doctor's perspective, what does it feel like working for months, you know, on end, without getting paid? It is really very terrible. I particularly, I mean, if I have to work in any establishment and within three, four months and not paid, I don't see the reason why I should have met them. But unfortunately, the situation is such that they are in training. They can't walk away.  You can see what's happened with the interview to Saudi Arabia. They all took there and are going to take them. I was going to do doctors, our heart end doctors. It's very, very painful.  They can't even pay their house rent anymore. I mean, it's a bad situation for them. At the same time, they are women. They know that Nigerians are suffering. They wish they can go back to work. They even appeal to government. That is why, I mean, they also reached out to end the base. They please appeal to government for us as an umbrella body. They also reaching out to the, who is in the Nigeria, they reaching out to the different department, different ministers, and they reaching out to house percent, national assembly, the speaker, they reaching out to the head of, not the head of service now, secretary to the government information that look, this is an emergency situation. It's time to intervene. People are dying. You can imagine your security man, whose wife is pregnant, and now there is fitout distress or there is a problem as she misses her answer. It is only government hospital that she can afford, and now she gets there, things cannot be done. That is the truth. All right. I want you to talk about the, I think sometime last week there was news of a court ruling asking the doctors to go back to strike. What's your response to that and will that be enough to take the doctors back to work?  What I know is that the court ruling adjourned till 15th of September and we know, and the court stated that they have to hear from the doctors. It's not just hearing from the government. They have to hear from the doctors so that the justice will be served. And that means they gave an ample latitude for government to renegotiate. So that, I mean, by the time you get back to industrial court, these issues will have been resolved. And it's impossible because the court adjourned till 15th of September as soon as it should be possible. Governments should be able to sit down with NME, negotiate with NME, and then fulfill not demands and means such that all of the strike. Nigerians are suffering. I don't know if they understand the burden of what is going on. For those who are negotiating for the doctors, we can take care of ourselves, not a problem. But we are talking about Nigerians, the population, the Nigerian people, you know, not the elites. We are talking about people who go to the hospital daily. Nigerian women, maternal mortality is going to increase even with this action. Government have to be sensitive. You mentioned Saudi.  But you mentioned Saudi and it's some other thing. It's one thing that also made headlines sometime last week. Doctors immigrated to Saudi Arabia. Share with us, you know, why that is happening and, you know, what the working conditions, you know, seem like from people that you might know in Saudi Arabia. A lot more Nigerian doctors looking at the option of leaving. Well, let's look at it this way. I mean, I'm sure you're aware of the health issues in the world. I went and here I started. And out of about 191 countries, Nigeria is ranking 187. That is to let you know that our health care system is a bit small. Not in rural resources, but in facilities and a working environment and second sciences, but welfare, you know. The doctor is poorly paid. They don't have enough facilities to work. I mean, government, like what is going on now with the strike, with the NAP strike, you know, government is not the living up expectation. And of course, the economy is so bad that, you know, even surviving is a problem. There are a lot of doctors who are also roaming the street of Nigeria. These needed doctors, that government need to employ, get them employed, you know, but they're not being employed. So that is why they're leaving and they're leaving to places where the conditions are better. For any doctor that leaves Nigeria to Saudi Arabia, the salary is going to increase by about 10 to 20 times. So you understand that? That is over 1,000 to 2,000 percent increase. You know, even these salaries are not taxed and they're not taxed, especially for Saudi Arabia, they're given a accommodation, they pay for their vacation and they're working in a decent environment, not just that. You know, the pressure on them will be reduced. Here in Nigeria, the doctor to patient ratio is about 1 doctor to 6,000 patients. And that is why you see that a patient comes in the morning around 8 o'clock, you may not see a doctor to around 4, unless it's a emergency that we don't begin to try to see such a patient. These are not very good conditions to work. And so, is the reason why they're all tripping down to Saudi Arabia? Of course, they will be there, but I mean, I can see that, actually, they're patriotic, they want to bring their country and work. And that is why I say that NAD is looking, look at it, these are the problems. This is why people are living. So these things and let us, I mean, so that people will not live. But the government is not showing good enough commitment because this is months now and they've not filled the demands of NAD or the negotiation that is signed with NAD, the number one of action. So that is it. Dr Ekme, would you encourage a doctor in Nigeria to leave? Well, nobody's happy. I mean, at the level of, you know, it's not just about the doctors, but also about Nigerians. Even if I leave, who's going to treat my mother? Who's going to treat my sister? So it's not like we're encouraging them. But the environment is supposed to start. It's not good enough.  So that's why we are in this impasse. That's why we are discussing whether that's what we're showing this action for government to realize because it seems they're not even aware. So I imagine especially when you think that oh, doctors are surplus. Just don't get me wrong. At no, at any time there will always be migration, you understand? You just like, as it is in other fields, I've told you that sometimes that also people migrate to Nigeria to go and give services. But this, this time around, these in droves, you remember that the, the, the interfere at the hotel over 500 doctors. Do you know what that means? Do you know what it means for Nigeria to lose services? I know their lives have saved. Even in the night, 1 a.m. I tried to maybe to go and do some kind of such to save life and they are letting me go. Tell me, you don't have value for me. And I'm not going to go into the job like that. I discuss with you and I've told you that this is you know, we agree that really these issues are very important. Government have not said that demand of angry with the people in between. I mean the people who are supposed to make sure that the process is done fast for it to be done, you know. So it's not an issue of not as high-handed or enemies high-handed. It's not an issue of their demand. It's not legitimate. It's an issue that government is not living up to their expectation because of bottlenecks. All right. Now, let's now talk about the other levels of you know, this whole story and that is from the chief medical directors to the state level also. What would you want, you know, to be done on that level to make the working conditions for doctors better? Well, first of all, you know, Nigeria should increase its budgets for health. The WTO recommendation is saying 15%. The highest Nigeria has gone is 6%. For this year it's even I mean 4%. And even at that 4%, it is not totally implemented. If you go to a hospital, you see that if we don't have enough pet space, the work is so much, they are not even employing enough. You can imagine that, you know, as these doctors are living, what is going to happen to all the patients? You see a doctor, I mean, I was interacting with a friend who is currently in Saudi. He sees just four to five patients in a day and it takes time. But here a Nigerian doctor may have to see up to 50% every day. Even at that, you know, he will be exhausted and Nigerian doctors are very good at doing their best. And then you find that at one time or the other, there's no equipment that is working enough for them to work with. The facilities are not okay. And then you now add a poor generation to it. And not this demand. This demand is not just about salary. It's also about research. It's also about improving the place. So the part but also the need government support because they see and they don't act on their own. All right. I was, what happens after 21 days? Dr. Phillips, let me Yes, by 21 days the National Health Council of the Nigerian medical session we meet and take a decision. Right. Is there any insights as to what that decision might be? Would the people like enemies optimistic that we are still going to meet the government who are going to discuss with them? Because it's not about whether strike or no strike or dropping tools or no dropping tools. We don't want to get there. We want the demand of not to be fulfilled. And that is why we are pushing. Even as of yesterday if you look at my eyes very well I've not really slept either because of one meeting or the other trying to make sure to put pressure on that look get this thing done and say, oh, this should be happening I believe that we may not really get to that to one day. So I think we shouldn't be discussing to one day we should be discussing how to fulfill not demand. I'm telling you even on Saturday in the night there were meetings of different persons in government functional areas but I think that government have to break some protocols. From minister of health to head of service to project to IPs and back to the general to finance and back on the resident or even if they have to do that they should be briskly I mean so that we pass the stage. One of the things that has been mentioned over time is the hazard allowance for doctors which they have you know asked that it should be improved on. Can you share with us you know what type of hazards doctors have to deal with at their workplace every day? You know it is very very many I mean let's just give an example when this COVID-19 pandemic was at his peak I mean why people were isolating at home doctors were there at the forefront working exposing themselves you know we lost price of doctors I mean even now we tell you we lost price of doctors I can tell you there are some people that I know that I cry today that we lost you know we lost so that is one major hazard with this because there is pandemic I have to know it how about to back losses how about what it is being how many just how about HIV that so many hazards that doctors go through I mean how about accident on the road I mean I told you just now that sometimes one day I was driving back from the National Hospital I missed the road you know there was no light on the road there was no light and you know a bunch of bars you know there is a way it divides almost run into the bush so these are hazards you understand these are still hazards that they go through I mean you are helping HIV patients they don't say no because patients HIV positive a lot we do operate and sometimes we preach ourselves that's why the father would try to take the precautions you know what the hepatitis be that eventually causes cancer of the liver I mean you know if these things you know are a lot of hazard that we go through the infection is coughing and all the rest of that I mean they may not be transmitted you know these are all the hazard they go through but why we are in the office why we are sitting at home we are not going to go through all that hazard so doctor is like in the war front trying to make sure that the head of NGOs are good at the same time risking their home life risking their own health because I mean you know he is like I mean a military man defending the country he may die too so that is what you know I mean of the doctors because of the pressure because of the pressure because of the you know the system one thing that has been mentioned a few times by critics you know for the NAR the NMA is that a lot of doctors have their own private practice you know that keeps them going and you know it may be you know it's a thing of greed that's what makes them continue to make these demands would you have something to say to that thank you very much you know let me put it this way if government is leaving up to his expectation I don't think many doctors want to go into private practice because let's look at Abuja I live in Abuja if you depend on salary alone with what government is paying it's difficult you may not be able to pay your rent you may not be able to view the cost of living so it is part time work they are doing you know you close around the 5 you are not on call you go to work elsewhere just to make ends mix it's not like I mean they have CMDs and they are there they are watching us we work so it is unfortunately that they are bringing up that issue that doctors are being really know it is a private sector that actually treats is treated by 70% 70% of Nigerians because the private sectors are not also not so developed because the environment is most high the economy is bad I mean 1 dollar is about 500 Naira you can imagine what it costs to buy equipment from outside and that is what government have to you know be open about in particular I mentioned about four areas number one is health health and health and health again number two is security security is also important and that is one of the ones I did not mention it's one of the reasons too why some persons you know most of our health workers are living in the country the security challenge is just too much it's just much you know I mean we know doctors have been killed by you know and we also know doctors who have been killed I mean if that should happen to you would you want to say for instance now Nigerians are no longer at the they are having to have been by road now people are not forcefully travelling via air even when they cannot afford it because of insecurity people are just drive from there to Kaduna either you are kidnapped or you are killed you know this is an issue of not feeling safe it's also one of the reasons that I live in but going back to your question I don't think doctors are greedy even the private hospitals how much is even it paid to be targeted because of private hospitals no I mean government hospitals should just it's what the the doctors working there how many of them are trying to work in the private hospitals they only do part time I assure you they only do part time they are always at work I mean going to a national hospital when they without this strike we see the doctors at our places go to each the investment we got you we go to a lawsuit I mean you see them working I mean we have sent patients there and they see them working so I don't think it is true that the issue is about private parties we should the doctors government augmenting the private parties because government does not have enough facility they will handle the Nigerian patients they don't if but sometimes the patient comes to to maybe a a hospital you find that the bed is full you refer to another hospital the bed is full refer to another hospital the bed is full they end up landing the private hospital that is not even affordable government has to be serious on health insurance it should be mandatory I mean the only about less than 5% of Nigerians you know even who are in government I haven't covered they understand the essence look that is the way to go health insurance health insurance all right doctor all right secretary general Nigerian medical association Dr. Phillips thank you so much for your time thanks for speaking with us I wish you a great Monday ahead thank you thank you all right from challenges in the health sector we move to challenges in the power sector we are going to be speaking next on the Nigerian electricity regulatory commission and of course a proposed message to increase electricity tariffs from the 1st of September that comes up next after the short break


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The human settlements are controlled by certain factors. So those factors are actually not only related to the the human factor, but also on the physical factors. In other words, we can say those are actually controlled by the human environment as well as the physical environment. Now, what is the human environment? In the human environment, the most important thing is the economic condition of the area. If we have the example of the developed country, then the human settlement there will be totally different as compared to the developing economy. So this actually is not only belongs to the economic condition of the area, but also the type of housing, the material used within the dwelling. So those are also controlled by the type of the economy. Now, in the physical factor, we see that in the rainy climate, the style of the roof will be totally different as compared to the areas which are under the drought conditions. So this is actually the physical environment which is actually controlling the human settlements. So, in other words, settlement can range in size from a small number of dwellings to the largest of cities with surrounding urbanized areas. Settlements may include hamlet, village, town and cities. So in this, we see that the human settlement, which we call dwellings, is also different in size. And how is the size different because of the number of the person living within the dwellings? So in that, we see that the economic condition of the area, like if you have the example of the developing world like Pakistan, the size of the village here is more as compared to the USA village. Why? Because the number of people are living, most of the people are living in the rural world in Pakistan, but in USA, about 2% of the total population is living in the village area or the farmlands. So the second important factor is the farm holdings. So the size of the field under a family is smaller than the USA farmland. The holding of the farmers is bigger. So the size also differs. So that's why we are actually dealing with the settlements, types in areas of sizes. So this is one of the areas where we can say the size is different within the economies. But the important, the generalized figure, which we call urban hierarchy, the tiniest or the tiniest population cluster, the smallest size of the population settlement, is called the hamlet. Then we have the village, the town, the city and the hyper city. So in this way, you have the hierarchy of the settlements. So this is one of the size of the settlement also. Here we have a generalized picture of the settlement. Now, when we are talking about the hierarchy of the area, so first of all, we can see that the isolated, we can see some dwellings, which mostly belongs to the developed world. And then we have the hamlet, the size of the cluster increases here. That too, in the developed economy, the size is different. The economy like Pakistan, the size of the hamlet is different. Sometimes about 5,000% are living in hamlet, the developing economies. But in USA, it is not more than 100% within the hamlet area. So hamlet is the tiny cluster of the human population or settlement area. Then we have the village, which has, again, the size is totally different. In Pakistan, the size of the population of the village is about 25,000%. Whereas in Japan, the size of the population is 5,000. So 25,000 out of 5,000. It means that we have a difference between the two villages, but those differences are controlled by the type of the economy. Then we have the small town and the large town. Then the size of the city, which we also call metropolitan area and So, that is actually the cluster of urban agglomeration, where we have 4 to 5 mega city. So that is the largest cluster of the human settlement. Now here we can see the hamlet. Now the single dwelling is actually is also called the isolated dwelling. And you can see, we have one house. So it is perhaps controlled by the large number of farms, meaning the size of the farm is holding here. And that's where the few persons are living here. But it actually belongs to the developed world. Now the right side, we have the number of houses, not more than 5 to 10, but is between 5 to 10 and is called the hamlet. These are the tiny settlements. They are just a collection of houses perhaps centered around a few farms and maybe without even a shop. So services here will be less because of the facilities available at the spot are less, even the repair shop is not available. So that's why people are moving from the hamlet to the side of the area where we have some of the repair workshops. So services are not available here. Only these houses are controlled by the productions. So the sides here are actually the hinterlands. Production is available here. Production is also agriculture, mining can be done here. So those are actually the areas were totally controlled by the production of the region. So here we have an example of the village.  So it again belongs to the developed world and you see here that some of the houses are there, but few facilities and also there. Government has developed some infrastructure here. So that's why they have certain services. It belongs to their social welfare departments. There will be a school, a small health center. We will get some road networks here. But again this type of settlement is controlled by production. The sides of it will be production. There will be agriculture production and mining. Sometimes these villages are closer to the coastal region where fishing has its main source. And sometimes it is closer to the forest area and lumbering there will have economic activity. But all are belongs to the production. Now this is a competitive between the two economies. One of the villages belongs to Pakistan. The right side where we have mud houses. But left side actually belongs to the USA village. So here we have certain things which are better than the developing world. So here we can see the comparative. Why the population in the developing world is more than in a village as compared to the developed world. Because most of the economy of the developing world is controlled by agriculture. So that's why most of the people are living there. So farmland is more than the population. That's why the number of people in the settlement is more. But in the developed world the number of persons is less because the number of rural percentage is less. About 2-3% of persons are living in the farmlands. Now this is the slide belongs to the town which are a medium-sized settlement. Thousands of people live in them and they have a shopping centre and factory. So some of the activities are there. Like repair workshops will be there. Some factories will be there. In which we can say that it is a small scale manufacturing unit. So that's why people are living there. A mining centre can be there. But there will be a high school there. There will be a headquarter or hospital at the district level. So the road network will be there. So the town is better than the village and the facilities are more than the village areas. So it means that we have the type of the economy and the things which are related to the size of the settlements. So both are actually controlled by the area where we have the study of the human settlements. And in this we see that the size of the town is different as compared to the developing world. So the town here in the developing world can have a small hospital. But in the developed world the opportunities there, health facilities can be more. So this is the difference between the two economic conditions and two economies.


We just made this Wednesday Adams fan art using our omtech polar laser and the print and cut feature in light burn And we'll show you how we did it right now What is up welcome back do you like to do it builder make it so do we and we have a new video each week this week I am so excited. We finally get to use the DTF printer and our laser to do exactly what I bought the DTF printer to do We're gonna do a print and cut in light burn using our polar laser We've been planning this type of project for months now We did a little preview of this back in November But the whole point of this DTF on MDF is to be able to sell these make these crafts to sell at our craft shows In our booths So this is an opportunity for us to do that and we're gonna do it using some Wednesday Adams fan art It's gonna be really cool. Okay, it's got a great idea for this one, but this is just a test We're not selling any copy-written materials. This is just a test Step one we're gonna prep our image and by that I mean we're gonna download our image and add some registration marks We're gonna use Adobe Illustrator. I Removed the background from Wednesday We went over how to do that last week and then I made a moon real quick and then I added some registration marks Now the registration marks are easy to make I made a circle and then I'm going to use the line tool to draw a line I'm gonna line these up Actually, let me make the circle a little bit smaller Just gonna scooch this down a smidge And then I want the line to be a half an inch long, so we'll just make this point five All right copy paste now I have two lines I'm gonna turn this on its axis hold shift and I'll go on the 45s Drag this line over to the other line in circles. Select them all I'm gonna make sure they're aligned vertical aligned horizontal and I'll group them That's how you make your registration marks So I made two of them and I placed them on either side of the image Now let's export this as a PNG Step two, we're gonna make our print. We're gonna print our print We printed it on some DTF and we're gonna attach it to some MDF It's a lot of acronyms I mean you can really put this on a board using any method if you have sublimation I got little sticky stuff on the top of that. You could probably sublimate it Yes, you could use sublimation to get your image onto the board. You can use A little, what is it, Mod Podge? You could use that method. We're just using DTF here That's what we have and that's what I think will turn out the best She's looking like a beaut Step three, we're gonna make all of our cuts Now that we have our image on a board I'm gonna take this over to our omtech polar laser and cut it out I'll meet you in lightburn Inside lightburn, we're gonna go get the PNG that we just exported out of Illustrator We'll open it up I'll right-click, do an image trace And we'll just continue to up the threshold until it encapsulates All of the designs. It just gives us an outline. Oh, wow.  All right, and that's it Now you'll see that it created a trace of the image on top. That's hard to see Let's go ahead and make this a different color. Let's do red because we're gonna cut it anyway All right, and you'll see there is my image trace. We no longer need this image a delete Now I don't want all that moon Gook and stuff all those little crevices so ungroup it I'm just gonna try to select the items that I want. Let's back out I just want the hash marks or the registration marks the moon and Wednesday, let's select all this other stuff and delete it Let's Rotate this 90 degrees So it fits in the bed Put it back in the bed Now let's resize let's reset our image. So We're looking at our whole bed now here are registration marks. Let's change these into a duller color Let's use green and we're not going to output these. We're not going to engrave or cut these so Let's deselect output Now we'll move our laser head To the first way actually let me go ahead and refresh this bed So we can see what the image looks like actually. Let me go put the board in So we can actually see what this looks like One more refresh There we go All right, let's select everything control a Just kind of line it up. Now you'll see that it doesn't actually line up It's because the camera is a fisheye and the further you get from the middle The less aligned they are so we'll just kind of align it, but we're not going to use this to align it We're going to use this to align it. This is a red dot pointer So I went ahead and made a red dot pointer so that we can actually do this print and cut The right way using light burn So it fits right in there and it lines right up So now let's go ahead and move the laser head into place We'll kind of into place Actually, let's uh go ahead and set our focus height too So we're going to use these little buttons over here on the move tab To move the laser head around this will move the z axis And the x y axis. So I'm going to lower it down a bit. Let's check it Oh look at that perfect first try All right, now we're going to use the little arrows To move the laser head around until that red dot is perfectly centered in that x They're just going to tweak it. You know, I set my speed down And my distance down low so Hopefully It just moves a little ever so slightly All right, man. That's looking pretty good. So we'll select the whole thing Then we'll go up to print and cut Wait First I have to uh Yep, first I have to go ahead and group Group the registration marks control g. We'll select everything control g to group it I'll go back up to laser tools print and cut and we're going to set the first position It's all set now. Let's go ahead and move our laser head down to the second position This will move it to wherever I point and click All right, we're going to swap to the other side now And we're going to use these little arrows over here to move that until it's dead center again Just tweak it tweak it Keep tweaking. Let's go up a little bit Oops too far and All right back the other way a little bit All right, that should be it one more Yeah, this could be a little tedious But it's worth it over to the right just a smidge All right, it looks Looks pretty good. All right, I'm thinking that's looking dead on now Yeah, that looks All right, that looks great. So back to light burn and we're going to set the second position We're going to go back to laser tools one more time print and cut and align output to targets Now this will kind of adjust everything that's getting cut to these two marks right here And we'll just go back to layers and cut Check my let's check my speed and power All right, looks good Now do not forget to remove your red dot pointer You don't want to burn that up. So let's get rid of that And we'll go ahead and hit start She turned out we're just going to add some starbomb thick And kind of glue everything together We're going to glue the web. What are you doing that? Can it be useful or just want me to stand here and look pretty? Just stand there and look pretty babe. I don't think you can add glue to her Well, I think you're going to have to add it to her and let it stick to the web where it can It won't really matter because everything behind her won't be visible Yeah Make sure you put a little bit of glue on a plate and rub it around on it and then put it around the web. Yeah, there'll be a lot of places it'll stick Looking awesome Got tight on the painted it and the base a little better. I was worried about that There you go She looks good. She looks amazing Did you know you could get all of our files behind the scene content and even a kim and garret after dark podcast As well as monthly zoom calls access to a secret facebook group And we'll even send you one of these fancy t-shirts all for 20 dollars a month It's the best way to support this channel. So join us over at patreon.com Profit This is looking great and I could probably sell this for 25 and 30 bucks Yeah, this was relatively inexpensive to make so I would say you're about five dollars in wood Or maybe four dollars in wood and about a dollar 50 so five 50 or so In materials it's about a dollar 50 for that transfer the ink and the glue for the dtf printer But again, you can use sublimation or mod podge or anything to get your image down on the board. So You know inexpensive materials Well, I think it really sped up assembly time. There wasn't barely any painting. Yeah I mean there's no way I would have been able to paint this kind of detail Or if I cut up the image and a bunch of little pieces and painted them and glued it all back together I still don't think I'd be able to get this kind of detail Yeah, this detail is exactly why we wanted that dtf printer so that we could do something that we couldn't paint But still make that image pop off plus it also Hopefully if we do enough of these will reduce some of our production time. Yes I'm excited and we are about out of time So if you're not going to join us for the patron after show, we will see you next week We'll do it build it and make it again Tuesdays we go live at 4 p.m. Eastern time and we have new videos every Friday Look, I'm so glad that glue is dry


The LBJ Ranch fall, 1953. The flood has come and gone. There's Linden out in the blue-panic grass with a bull with a delightful name, a friendly mixbord. It's been some mighty dry years.  I was not so sure of my welcome as Linden was. Lindenburg, rather plump, was going to school at Johnson City from September until Christmas. And Lucy Bain, in first grade at Johnson City, there's Beagle, a ham as always, and Lucy's dog, Lattie. And there is Linden, putting the cattle in the pen. A.W., a slimmer A.W., our great advisor in all ranch affairs. The foreman, the lending boy, doctoring one of the calves. There's Ernie Stubbs, the banker from Johnson City. And that's the joy of the whole business, the calves. So there is Melvin Winters, our good friend. At his house, we stayed all the fall of 1951 when we were working on the ranch till we finally moved in. In July of 1952, there is Beagle. That dog always wanted the whole show in Congressman Homer Thornberry. He and Eloise used to come out and he's probably talking about how he painted the side of the house. He's looking up at the side of the house. He was so good at painting his own house that we provided him with a bucket and some paint. And those days, we all did everything around the house. There's Ernest Thompson of the Texas Railroad Commission. He was the father of conservation and Jean Lasseter. Everything that happened in the oil industry about conservation is likely to have originated in the head of Ernest Thompson. There's Herman Brown and Mary Rapper. He used to sit out under the live oak trees and those chairs, which had begun their life in the backyard of Delman. And we had the loveliest morning glories out behind the dining room. We always had, each year from the beginning on, some lovely zinnias, there's Mary and Marjorie and Eloise Thornberry. This is the old part of the house, the field stone. Jean is by the hitching post that Warren Woodward and all the staff gave Linden for his birthday when he first moved into the ranch. And there's a view of the little valley of the Perdon Alice from up at the top by one of the tanks.  There's Homer Thornberry with Linden out in the, what I believe is blue panic. Linden's having a meeting of his district men in the front yard of the ranch. There's Jay Taylor of Amarilla and Adrian Spears. Bob Clark and Milton Potts will be somewhere around in the crowd. And there's Mack DeGarrion and Sherman Birdwell who was his first secretary when he went to Congress. And there's Jake Pickle. In these meetings, he got sort of a sampling of how he was measuring up all around the state and everybody's opinion. There's Blake Gillian on the right, I think. And Elmo Parrish of Wichita Falls is somewhere there. And there's Earl Rutter and Fennel Roth and Doug Singleton will be in the crowd and Hunter McClean, that old reliable from Fort Worth and Cecil Bernie of Corpus Christi. We couldn't have gotten along without him. And there's Venter Bird, she was always around when there was politics being talked. And George Reed right behind her, Sam Houston's there, Doug Singleton, children of Brian and his wife, Lucy. And here's Lucy and there's Beagle. We were having visitors from East Texas. Ricky, his brother. The back seat of the pickup. Tailgate of it was their favorite place for Linda and Lucy and all the children who came to visit. And here it is, Thanksgiving 1953. At the Aspera in the Red Blouse in Montana, I'm getting ready to summer peace for Thanksgiving table. With the windmill in the background. Tony and Martiana and Daddy and Ruth, there they are. And Tommy and Sarah came to spend several days with us and my brothers went hunting and each one got an eight point book and there they are, string up in the backyard. And the very slim little Lucy, age six is watching. And there's my daddy, Thomas Jefferson Taylor, my two brothers. What a big man Tommy was and that ubiquitous cigar, he was never without it. And then they're out in the field with blonde, monathon berry and Lucy. There's what it's all about. The white face happens, the delight of every rancher. Lyndon can tell every one of them from every other one. A cigarette will sell them out of his mouth in those days. This was just the second year we'd own the ranch and the ranch like the children have grown and changed since then. Buffalo grass and KR blue stem with a popular grasses of the day. And one of my main interests was working on the trees in the grove with a tree surgeon and a little experimenting in planting blue bonnet. I remember those, it's very dry years. And there is Linda Bird on peach beauty with her bracken veal clothes on under the big live oak at the front entrance. And there's Lyndon on the Tennessee Walker. Right, I have some Western gentlemen. What a good gate that Tennessee Walker has. That's old Beagle getting out of the way for once. Christmas 1953, our second Christmas at the ranch. Ah, and what pretty doll beds and doll furniture those girls got that near. We always hung the stockings in the big room. Love that fireplace. This must be Christmas morning because they're already emptying the stockings. They've already found everything. Linda nine is already plump. Lucy six is having her first year in school at Johnson City. And there's the tree. That was the spot that it always stayed. Finger paint. One of Lucy's favorite Christmas presents over and over at about that time. Lucy minus the two for two. And there is Aunt Frank whose house it was for 50 years, we bought it from her. Sitting with Aunt Kitty and there is Lyndon's sister Rebecca, his brother Sam Houston, his brother-in-law, Bobbitt. And Mrs. Johnson and always Oreo. And there's Mrs. Johnson with all her grandchildren, little Becky Alexander, Linda Bird in her Christmas present shawl, Rodney in the red hat and Philip in a jacket. And this time we have a new foreman, Lyndon's little cousin, Corky Cox. That was his wife in the white. And here's Aunt Kitty, Uncle Tom's widow. And then sister Rebecca and Bobbitt, her husband.  And there's his sister Lucia in the background. Christmas was always a gathering of the clan. His kin folks in mind. Here's a little more numerous. His two sisters, his brother. And there is Ava Johnson Cox who taught Lyndon and Lucy both when they were at Johnson City. Here we all are, all lined up. Probably just before we go in for the Christmas dinner. We had a scenic wallpaper on in those days.


Hello, welcome back on my YouTube channel. In today's video we're going to calculate NDVI and Zonal statistics. I'm using the same dataset as last video, so with parcels and aerial photographs for an area in the Netherlands. I installed a stack API browser from the Plugins Manager. Stack stands for Spatial Temporal Asset Catalog. And with this icon I can open the stack API browser dialog that gives us access to different resources stack APIs. And I'm going to use here the Microsoft Planetary Computer stack API. As you see it has access to a lot of datasets and I'm using here Sentinel-2 level 2a. I'm going to filter by date and I'm going to look for a recent image, so for February 2023 and also for a specific extent. And I can use here the extent of the bookmark that we made in the previous video. Then I hit search. Most results here are with a lot of clouds, but this image here of 14 February looks quite okay. So let's load this one. I can click few assets and there I can see which bands are available. I can load them as individual bands and I can add them as a layer or I can download them to a file. Here I just want to calculate NDVI, so I'm simply going to add band 8, which is near infrared and band 4, which is red, and then make the resolutions to our map canvas by clicking add selected assets as layers. And there I see the bands. Now I can easily calculate the NDVI using the raster calculator. Open the raster calculator from the raster menu and there I compose the expression, which is band 8 minus band 4 divided by band 8 plus band 4. And applying the correct brackets, I see expression valid. So I define the output layer and the code NDVI February 2023. Toptif, hit save, and I run the raster calculator. This takes some time. The resulting NDVI layer has a question mark, which means that the CRS, the coordinate reference system, is unknown. So I'm going to set the layer CRS, which should be the same as from the satellite image that we downloaded, and that is, I will show you in a bit, UTM zone 31 north. So I use here the EPS code for zone 31 north, accept the transformation, and I'm going to show you how I know that I just hover my mouse over one of the bands and there I see brackets, the projection. So now the projection is correct and it has been loaded in the correct position. So I can now export also this layer to the correct projection and clip it to the right size. So I call the output now NDVI February 2023 RD for the name of the projection. I change it to the projection of the project and I use the larger study area bookmark. I could also use the map canvas extent and I define the resolution there as 10 by 10 meters, which was also the resolution in UTM, and I define here a no data value just to make sure that it doesn't use zero if there's no data, and there's our result. Let's reorganize the layers a bit. I'm going to hide all the layers and move the parcels to the top, so I only have the parcels over the NDVI data, and let's style the NDVI data. In the layer styling panel I choose single-band pseudo color so I can choose a ramp. This default ramp is not the one I want to use, so I go to all color ramps and I want one that goes from red to green. That's this one, red, yellow, green. So in green we see the parcels with high NDVI and in red with the low ones and yellow in between. This is nice but it's also useful to have statistics per parcels. I go to the processing toolbox and then the raster analysis I find the tool Zonal Statistics, which requires as an input layer a polygon layer, in this case the parcels layer and a raster layer. I use the NDVI in the dash projection. You can see the EPSG code in brackets next to the layer and it's good practice that you use the same projection. If you're not using the same this tool will reproject and re-sample one to the other but it's better to have control on that. Therefore I recommend to reproject to the same projection before running this tool. I gave output prefix for the attributes NDVI underscore and then I choose here the statistics that I want to add which is the mean standard deviation minimum and maximum. I save the result to a geopackage. Here I use an existing one from the previous video and here I use the layer name NDVI stats which will be a copy of the parcels layer but then with the statistics added to it. Then I run and this is the result. Let's have a look at the attribute table. There we see now nicely the different NDVI statistics for each parcel. We can also style that so I use a graduated color and I choose there one of the statistics. Let's have a look at the mean and here I'm going to use let's use a green color ramp to make it easy. Choose classify and the more darker the green and higher the mean NDVI value in that parcel. You can also do that for the other statistics. Maybe you want to see the maximum per parcel. Just click classify to reapply it. Let's look back at mean and here you can also change how we define the classes. You can also manually edit the classes and you can also change the amount of classes that you want to see. So here let's use now natural breaks which gives a different distribution. At the attribute table I want to add now the surface area of each parcel in the perimeter. So I go to the field calculator and I type the name area which should be a decimal number as the output field type and under geometry you can find dollar area which will calculate the surface area in the map units. So in this case that is square meters. Here it's added. Now I repeat this for the perimeter. I go back to the field calculator output field name perimeter decimal number real and under geometry there is a dollar perimeter function and with double click I can edit and with okay it will be calculated. There's the perimeter of each parcel in the data set. It's a bit more intuitive to have the areas in hectares. So I'm going back to the field calculator and output field name area hectares. The type is also decimal number real. I can do it in two ways. I can convert already calculated area field or I go back to the geometry. Let's use that way. Area divided and then to go from square meters to hectometers I go dividing by that thousand. Click okay and now I have the areas of our parcels in hectares. Save the result and this was the video. I hope you've enjoyed it and learned how to download a Sentinel-2 image, calculate NDVI and so on statistics per parcel.


Hello everyone, this is financial author Amit Dan of amitdan.com. On this channel you'll find financial travel and more videos just like the one you're watching right now. If you like what you see, please give it a thumbs up and consider subscribing. Hello everyone, this is Amit Dan of amitdan.com. Today I'll have another episode of unboxing and brief review video and I'll unboxing the dirt devil scorpion quick flip carded handbag and also I'll do a testing after unboxing the vacuum cleaner. Now according to the manufacturer, this one has 7 amp motor and it can actually pick up messes like sand and pebbles. So I don't have sand and pebbles here to test it. However, I'll try to test with sugar, coffee and beans. So we'll see that if it can pick up those and if it can, then most likely it will be able to pick up everyday messes you'd usually have in your home or condo. So we'll do that testing. So let's start with the unboxing. And I would like to mention that this is not a promotional or any affiliated unboxing. I paid this with my own money. So this is just an unboxing to show you how this thing works and how is it. Okay, so start with opening this box. So this is how the box looks like. The box looks pretty big, but I believe once you open it, then this is going to be actually a small vacuum hand vacuum. It shouldn't be this big as the box. So let's take a look here. Okay, so it tells you that practical design for everyday messes. Simple dirt disposal with the quick release dirt cap. So it is bagless. There is no bag to change or back to buy, which is a good thing. And then we have the same things on this side. So we can go ahead with the opening of the box. So we have a manual or instruction manual and then there is the product registration part. I'll set this aside for now. And then the instruction manual just tells you how to set it up and everything. So I'll put it away. Usually whenever I buy anything, the first thing I try not to read the instruction manual. I just try to do it without reading anything. And then if I can't, then I look at the instruction manual. Just put it here. And it looks like we have a card here and this is the suction tip. And we'll take it out here. And then inside the box. Okay, so there's another piece which is attachment, which is to go with the suction tip. And then I'll put it here for now. So the box is empty here. And I'll set it aside. And take this out of here. Okay, it's okay. And okay, so here's the vacuum cleaner. It's actually not that light. It's a little bit heavy, but it's not very heavy, so it's okay. And this is how it looks like up here. Okay, so what I'll do, I'll set up the testing area. And then I'll come back to this video and then I'll show you how this works in terms of cleaning up messes. Okay, just give me a few minutes and I'll be back. Thank you. Hello everyone. So I set up the test environment and I'm back. But before I do the testing, I'd like to show you some of the accessories or features. So this thing right here, which came in the box, this is actually a shoulder strap. So I don't see any use of this because if you are inside a house, then you don't really need to put it on your shoulder. But if you would like, then you have that option. So this came along with the other accessories. And then we have here the suction tube. And you can attach this one right here. And you can use it as a separate attachment. So the way it's going to work, you put it in here and then you can just, you know, do it like this. But I'll not be using that way. I just, you know, would like to use the direct way. So this is just to show you. And then here is the handbag. So the way it works, you can just clean it like this, like this way. Or if you want, it has reverse tool attached to the unit. So what it means that you just open it and then you put it insert inside. And then you can just do it this way as well. So it works this way. If you'd like to do fine cleaning, very tiny stuff, or if you just like to do in the corner or something like that. And then you can use this tool which is attached to the unit. And then you can have to just fold it back here. Now, I'll just turn off the power to show you the, so you can hear the sound of this. It sounds very powerful, for example, right here. So without even testing it, I have a feeling that this is going to be a very powerful one. So I have here coffee beans, and then I have here a little sugar. And I have here just dry beans. And I'll just see if this can pick them up completely without leaving any residue or any leftover. I have a feeling that it will be able to do the job by the noise of it or by the sound of it. But let's try. Okay, it is completely gone. So I believe this really can pick up pebbles or sand or anything. So it's the mess I had here. Coffee beans, sugar, and dry beans, they're completely gone. And there's no leftover, there's no nothing. So this actually works well. Now the thing is to see that, you know, how many years it can last. The reason I prefer corded handbag rather than cordless handbag, because in the past I had a corded cordless handbag. What happens after one year or eight months or 10 months, the battery dies down and then the whole unit becomes inoperable. So you have to just buy another one or it could be that I had bad luck. So I stopped buying anything cordless. The reason I like corded because you don't have to worry about the battery or anything, you will be able to use it as long as this thing lasts. So that concludes our testing and unboxing. Thank you for watching. Please subscribe and like what you see. And there will be more videos coming up, but there will be different types of videos. If you have been watching my channel, you know that I don't do just one type of video all the time. So there will be a variety of videos. And thank you for watching.


For these five entrepreneur teams it started with a dream to launch a business After a year of research presentation development and mentorship their dream may become a reality Today they'll have five minutes to pitch their business plan to a panel of experts ready to invest in their futures From the Fairfield University Charles F. Dolan School of Business. This is Fairfield startup Hi, I'm Christian, and I represent the priority route team We focus on route prioritization software for any business with a large fleet of vehicles We started off as a class project and within a couple months it was getting a little bit more serious and now we're here As a Fairfield computer science student There's a large emphasis on being able to go into the business field and be successful even though we're engineers We're taking a class called software design methods. The lab is focusing on entrepreneurship We have five engineers who are working on different aspects of the application So I for one I'm doing the database I have two people working on the Algorithm and then there are two more people working on the application and any user interface We have two business majors who focus on our marketing and our finances and what they brought to the team was their faith in us Which made us want to work even harder on the product as an engineering team We don't know the best way forward and so having the mentors as part of the startup competition is Invaluable they have been helping us all along So what I want people to know is that anybody can take part in this experience Doesn't matter if you're in the business school if you're in the arts and sciences every year in the engineering school Anybody with a good idea can come here and learn how to create a business from scratch Christian Akeem and his team have taken priority route from class project to startup showcase Today he will represent the group and pitch to the startup investor battle Hi, my name is Christian and I represent the priority route team Today waste management companies are facing a problem They waste time money and risk low customer satisfaction because they are not able to see if a dumpster is full without going to the physical location A driver can travel miles across town only to be met with an empty dumpster in the process wasting fuel and man hours This is especially bad for small to medium-sized businesses that rely on good customer relationships and have limited resources Priority route is a two-part solution that enables these businesses to take their services to the next level We provide route optimization and organization for companies to use data and allocate resources more efficiently in The process priority route can help businesses reduce waste Reduce stress and increase customer satisfaction enabling them to save money increase profits and become more sustainable The software that priority route provides allows administrators to allocate pickup locations to each member of their team While every individual member has access to a mobile application with dynamic routing solutions All of this paired with a colorful and friendly user interface saves the driver's time and the company's resources Meanwhile, the hardware is installed in each receptacle periodically relaying the fill level back to the central computer Our hardware is inexpensive to create and maintain easy to install and durable At priority route our main goal is to provide Inficiency and simplicity and the implementation reflects this to enable priority route Businesses need a one-time hardware installation and software setup After that the software will begin producing optimized routes for all users within the system Initial installation will cost five thousand dollars and in round fifty five dollars per sensor Additionally, there will be a monthly subscription fee pending the number of vehicles in a fleet In the United States there are over twelve thousand waste management companies of those Roughly twenty five percent are interested in adapting to newer technology Priority route is interested in those small to medium-sized enterprises with one to twenty vehicles These businesses are oftentimes cash strapped and unable to spend resources on other routing solutions The ideal customer is a small waste management company in the New England area with the goal of branching out into the greater northeast regional area While priority route is optimized for waste management The applications are limitless especially in areas such as dry cleaning package delivery and medical waste Where there are similar routing issues to the waste management industry Priority route provides software as a service plus the added installation charges for the hardware and training for the software After the initial investment customers will be charged a monthly subscription fee so they can continue Research and development as well as maintaining the service In the coming years we plan on expanding our network to more users every year and because of the low maintenance costs Priority route will be able to allocate income towards researching better solutions for our customers As the world continues to grow and develop waste management companies will grow too and so will their problems Smaller businesses will struggle to remain efficient with growing demand and while there are other route optimization solutions on the market They do not provide the same benefits as priority route and are not tailored specifically to their needs Our team consists of a talented group of engineers partnered with experienced business students Together the priority route team is working towards making this software a reality so that companies can begin to benefit and in the next few months We are aiming to establish additional customer relationships for the software launch With the initial demonstration of our software in the coming weeks priority route looks to have a fully developed app ready for deployment by the end of the year The priority route team has established relationships with companies such as Robert Wright disposal and Advantage disposal But we are still in need of potential customers demonstrating interest to make this software a reality Priority route is working towards creating waste management solutions for underserved businesses and together We can provide efficiency sustainability and peace of mind for all of our customers. Thank you With the presentation complete it's time for the startup investor panel discussion Christian must impress the panelists to take priority route to the next level. Thank you very much for being here this morning My name is Michael. This is Joe and Mary Ann. We've reviewed your video multiple times now. We just saw your presentation again By the way Thank you very much. We all have Quite a few questions. We don't have as much time as we would like to answer all the questions We have we have some broad strokes overview and then maybe invite the conversation after the after the entire presentation So it's all right with you Mary and Joe. I'll kick off with just a couple of questions and we'll feed you Very good. We just start my Time right here. So Christian, I reviewed the I do not have a lot of knowledge in the industry I have some fleet and logistics knowledge But my question for you was two things jumped out at me was there seem to be some pretty significant upfront cost There was a five thousand dollars set up fee And I don't know if that's a one time for a business or each dumpster. Then there was a $13,000 Something fee and then there was a $1,200 fee is that per dumpster? I need to understand that a little bit and and and Understand those costs kind of being upfront because they appear to be significant numbers for a smaller targeted medium-sized company that you're targeting. You understand my question Yes, I do and so the the five thousand dollar number that we put That is based on how much it would take for one of our technicians to go and set up each of the hardware devices Around the network and to do the training. So we we estimated an hourly cost of about 60 to 90 dollars per hour for the technician And how long it would take to go to each location and do the initial setup Meanwhile, the hardware cost is based off of our approximate 55 to 60 dollars per sensor and our normal customer having about 250 dumpsters we estimate So that's where we got the numbers for those initial upfront costs So that five thousand was 200 dumpsters for the 60 to 90 dollars in our technician and the 13,000 was 200 dumpsters to have the hardware installed at $60 a pop. Yes So once those are installed It's all done and the maintenance of those pieces of computers or chips are Internet of type things inside the dumpster falls on the company in the 12 in the monthly fee Yes, that would be included in the monthly subscription fee at least that is our goal to provide maintenance as part of the subscription That can of course Eventually change have you done any research to find out whether or not these manufacturers of dumpsters are installing, you know in the compactors maybe a Digital scale in it So it knows our internet of things type cameras embedded in the sides of the actual dumpsters because any type of technology Install in a dumpster, right? I'm sure you've worked with dumpsters and seeing stuff gets broken just by throwing stuff in So I want to know if that's something that's if you've identified a gap, which is great or if you haven't done that research yet well, what we found was that a lot of these companies that offer the dynamic routing and the and the level management a lot of the times you have to buy a completely new dumpster and We've seen that those dumpsters can cost up to five or six hundred dollars each To completely replace the entire network So what we identified as the niche is that we can just put a sensor in there a very discreet small Sensor that will allow us to get the reading without having to replace the entire dumpster and just add on to it Interesting. All right. Thank you. Joe, Marianne. You have any questions? I don't know anything about this business, but I Focused on your financial model. So I have a couple of questions regarding that model at least From a guidance standpoint, you know It seems like from that the cost of the customer Is about thirty thousand dollars a year So it would be good if you Quantified the amount of savings that a Medium-sized company would get and to be able to show You know value that makes this thirty thousand dollars You know a viable alternative You know to the things they're doing The other the other thing I would mention is more guidance than it than than anything else Your financial statements would be We have to take you IPO next week They are you know outrageously wonderful So it seems to me that you don't have all the cost embedded You know in that financial model Such as you're not going to be able to get a hundred 25 sales without any marketing sales people um So anyway, those are just some You know general guides, uh, if If the quantification works then this is really a great Uh concept and a great idea So thanks Thank you so christian christian wondering if you could uh share a little bit about the competitive analysis that you might have done just looking out there, you know the waste management industry Has gone through and continues to go through lots of consolidation. You know the big guys 20 years ago with waste management bfi and and allied waste all of these, you know major consolidation buying up all the small mom and pop haulers so um It seems to me that you know from a competitive analysis standpoint these small uh haulers They can't afford a lot and you know to follow on along what joe just said, uh, have you done some understanding um competitive analysis of what's out there who's offering what How you would compare to that and then again your value proposition to the small haulers So I'd like to begin by saying that The the monthly subscription cost is actually based on the number Of trucks that a company has so it it doesn't always need to be up to 1200 dollars per month Which would make it more accommodating to a business that does not necessarily have such a large fleet and in terms of How much they will save we've done we've looked into mostly fuel economics and maintenance and For a given truck that takes about three miles per gallon The cost could be very significant if they don't have to waste time going to unfilled dumpsters so The companies are if they're going to only be picking up lesser number of times The haulers are going to be certainly saving monies. But if some of their pricing is based on their pickups How does it really balance out? I mean, what's the value? I really think you need to look at the value proposition not only from The hauler standpoint, but from the company standpoint as well the company That's having pickups done. So just some advice there Yeah, I'll tell you just we're intrigued. I think there's some issues with the industry that we want to get to know better and understand better Um, I mean, I happen to know trash haulers have The ones that I've dealt with have like a pickup fee whether my dumpsters empty or not and I would Venture to guess that they're thrilled to come by and find out that dumpsters, you know Light or empty and then charge me my $4 pickup fee. 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80% of millionaires, 90% of billionaires, and 95% of Fortune 500 CEOs have a college degree. This is probably the opposite of what all the gurus on YouTube tell you, but the truth is for the average person getting a college degree is worth it. And in this video, we are going to break down which college degrees are more likely to make you a millionaire and which ones aren't. Now I already did a video very similar to this where I talked about very specific college top 10 college degrees that are most likely to make you a millionaire. But in this video, I'm going to be breaking down all the different types of college degrees and we're going to go a little bit more in depth.  Also share the video. I unfortunately don't have millions of dollars in a marketing team like a lot of these universities do to share these videos. So I rely on your contributions to the channel and the way that you can contribute is by liking, sharing, and subscribing if you haven't done it already. So thank you for doing that to help get the word out because I am just one man, I'm just a very small channel going up against hundreds of universities that have millions and millions of dollars of budget. Now on top of that, if you are somebody who's having issues choosing what college major would be your dream college degree, and you want to get the most out of college with the least amount of time and effort possible. And on top of that, figure out how to get your first entry level job after graduating college, then check out my college one on one course down in the description below. Now with that being said, let's jump into it and we are going to break this down into all of the different types of college degrees. And we're going to start from the type of degree that creates the least amount of millionaires to the type of degree that creates the most. And there's basically nine different types of college degrees. So we're going to break them down. It's, you know, social science degrees, art degrees, math degrees, et cetera. And coming in at dead last on the list is going to be art degrees. Unfortunately, art degrees only showed up once on the list of the top 30 degrees. And that was at number 29.  And it still only came in at number 29 on the list. So this is something that you see over and over again throughout history. Unfortunately, artists a lot of the time they're dead broke throughout their entire life. And then after they die, like 100 years after they die, that's when their paintings become extremely valuable. Now it has gotten a little bit better in the modern age. You know, obviously you have musicians, for instance, that make a lot of money, but a lot of the time there are record labels that take a significant amount of their money and also control them as well. Now with that being said, this isn't about art in general. This is about art degrees specifically. And also I have a ton of respect for artists. I think they're amazing. I have quite a few friends who are artists and I really appreciate what they do and what they contribute to the world. But with that being said, it is in my opinion that 99.9% of the time it's not going to be worth it for you to get an art related degree. Unless you are somebody who is truly talented, like you're a world class pianist, and you get an offer to attend Juilliard School of Music or something along those lines, then that would be an exception. But for the average person who's just passionate about art, like playing an instrument or painting or something along those lines, it's not going to be worth it for you to go to college. A much better use of your time and money would just simply be moving to a city where there's a lot of other artists and then learning from them. And also when it comes to art, it's really just about practice, practice, practice. So if you want to get really good at painting, for instance, you need to just make probably like a painting every single day. And after you spend thousands of hours doing that, you're going to get really good. Nice. And another thing to mention here when it comes to making money from art is usually you're not going to be able to get a job where art is your job like doing art as a job. Unfortunately, there's just not that much demand out there on the job market. And so what you have to do is get a little bit creative with it. So for instance, you can start a YouTube channel, you pretty much have to be very entrepreneurial if you are an artist. And like I said, in my opinion, 99% of the time getting an art degree is not going to help you. All right. So next on the list, number eight is going to be social science slash liberal arts degrees. All right. So this one did a little bit better than art. You've got economics, for instance, at number three, you've got political science at number 10 and history came in at number 15. Now, when it comes to the numbers, when you look at the averages here, unfortunately, the pay usually isn't very good. And of course, I've broken down the numbers in so many different videos on the channel. So you can just check out other videos on my channel if you want to see those. But usually there's not much demand when it comes to social science and liberal arts degrees. And on top of that, the few jobs out there that are available, aren't going to be very well paying. But with that being said, I think one of the strengths of liberal arts degrees is they teach you what are known as soft skills. These are going to be things like debating, critical thinking, formulating an argument, communication. And when you think about these things, you might not be able to directly get a job or directly make money after learning these types of skills, because they're not hard skills, right? They're not employable skills. However, they might indirectly help you make money. And on top of that, they probably enrich your life as well. And you do see a lot of people who graduate with liberal arts or social science degrees go into number seven on the list, which is law. So law did come in at number seven on the list, you would go into law to become a lawyer, get your JD, and this is a doctoral level professional degree. So what I'll say about this one is it's great for a certain type of person. So if you are an extremely A type, competitive, entrepreneurial person who doesn't mind working 80 hours a week for basically the first 10 years of your career at least, then this might be a good option for you. This is one of those feast or famine type degrees, it's high risk, but also high reward. You know, if you go into this degree hoping that you're going to have a really good life balance and still make a ton of money. Unfortunately, that's probably not going to happen. The people who make a ton of money in law are those who are at the very top they work for the best law firms, they go to the best law schools, etc. However, this can still be a good option for the right type of person next on the list. Number six is going to be math degrees. Now this one came in at number 12 for mathematics, number 14 for physics, but it goes beyond just the math degrees themselves. A lot of the top ones on this list, like engineering, for instance, have a ton of math in them. So even though math does kind of rank low on this list, you have to take into consideration that the skill of mathematics is extremely valuable. And that's why you find it in so many other degrees. Now, when you look at these statistics for math, usually the types of jobs that you would go into are going to be relatively high paying. A lot of the time they aren't going to have much to do with pure mathematics, though. So you might go into finance, for instance, you might go into computer programming. And that's just because of the fact that math is a little bit impractical, especially the theoretical part of it. It is really valuable. Not that many people can do it, but unfortunately, there aren't many jobs out there for people to do like theoretical mathematics problems. You do have to figure out how to use your mathematics knowledge in a practical way. So it might be a little bit difficult for you to get your first job right after college, but once you get some experience under your belt, it's going to be pretty easy after that. Next one on the list, number five is going to be science degrees. And this one's going to come in pretty heavy in the middle. So for instance, physics, you could label that as a science degree or math degree, that one comes in at number 14. Chemistry comes in at 18, biology comes in at 19, geology comes in at 22. So you see quite a few science degrees that are kind of in the middle range. Now remember, this data is from like the last 40 years or so. So I do think that science degrees were probably a little bit better than math degrees in the past. But in my opinion, this has now flipped, right? So I think math is actually lower on the list as in like better on the list now than it was 40 years ago. And science is going to be a little bit higher or worse on the list than it was at that time. With a lot of science degrees, for instance, biology is a perfect example. People think that they can get a job after going to four years and getting a bachelor's. And unfortunately, they find out that most of the time they're not going to be able to get a job. And if they are able to get it, it's a super basic entry level job. And it's nothing like they thought they would be doing. So if you know you're in for the long haul, you know that you're okay with getting a master's or a doctorate, science degrees can be a great choice. But you do have to realize what you're getting yourself into next on the list. Number four is going to be health related degrees. Now I looked into the methodology on this list. And unfortunately, they kind of grouped health related degrees in with the science related degrees. But there was one that showed up at number 13, which was medicine. And of course, there's a ton of different types of medicine related degrees like becoming a doctor. Everybody knows that doctors make a lot of money. But there are other good health related degrees out there as well. You've got physician assistant, nurse practitioner, nursing, etc. And not only can you make a ton of money with health related degrees, but I also think you have a really good work life balance. And another thing that's great about health degrees is it's very obvious what you're going to do. So for instance, if you get a nursing degree, you're going to become a nurse.  Whereas with a lot of the degrees on this list, unfortunately, if you get a mathematics degree, for instance, you're probably not going to become a mathematician. So it's not as straightforward, and you have to get a little more creative with it. And that means you have to do more research and look further ahead. Health degrees, on the other hand, are very straightforward. And another great thing about them is you can get into careers at pretty much every level. It's not just bachelor's or master's or doctorate, you can get into careers at like a one to two year level. So kind of an associates level that are really good and get into careers at kind of a three to four year level, like a nurse, for instance, that are also very good. At the six year level, you've got PA, nurse practitioner, that's really great. And then, of course, at the eight year level, you can become an MD. And there's other options out there as well. So pretty much at every single level, you have really good options when it comes to health degrees. But when it comes to purely making the most money, there are some, especially on this list of data that was taken in the last 40 years or so, that are better. So next on the list, number three is going to be technology degrees.  And that one did come in at number eight on the list. However, in my opinion, again, this is a relatively new major. So computer science wasn't really a thing until about 30 years ago or so. And so for that reason, I think it's not a fair thing to kind of compare them to degrees that have been around forever. I can almost promise you that computer science is much higher than number eight on the list at this point. And there's other really good technology degrees out there as well, like information technology management. There's also a ton of kind of two year technology degrees that are pretty good if you don't want to go for the full four years. So this one is great. It's relatively future proof. Big fan of technology degrees. They did come in number three on the list, but maybe 10 years from now, 20 years from now, they might be number one. Number two on the list is going to be engineering degrees in general.  And so engineering did come in as number one. However, I think it probably would have been better to separate all of the different engineering related degrees, like chemical engineering, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, et cetera. But with that being said, we're going to work with the data that we have and engineering degrees are great. They've been good for many, many years. They've been good for like 40 years, very high paying, very good chance you're going to get a job. Some of them are better than others. And of course, I've broken that down in other videos extensively. And even if you don't end up becoming an engineer, you'll likely end up being very highly paid in different industries. Again, I've broken that down extensively as well. Engineering degrees are very flexible. On top of that, engineers do tend to become either high level executives or entrepreneurs. And it makes sense because when you think about it, engineering at its core is just practical problem solving. And that's the same thing that entrepreneurship is. However, there was one type of degree that beat out engineering. And that is business related degrees. So business related degrees came in at number two with MBA, number five, bachelor's of business administration, number six commerce, number seven accounting, number nine finance, number 11 management, number 16 marketing, I mean, they literally made up like half of the top 15. Yeah, they do make up half if you count economics as a business degree. But if you don't count that, they made up over half of the top 11. And this makes a lot of sense to me because not only did they prepare you for certain careers that tend to be high paying and give you a lot of opportunity, but they're also very flexible. And then on top of that, they make a great segue into opening your own business someday. But even if you don't open your own business, even if you just decide to become an employee, you're also more likely to learn things about investing, for instance, and investing and saving at an early age is going to be key to becoming a millionaire. So yeah, engineering and business were very close there. But in terms of just the sheer volume of different degrees that create a ton of millionaires, business did edge engineering out. I think it would be interesting to kind of compare the different sub types of engineering to the different sub types of business though. And honestly, guys, if you haven't done it already, check out my other videos right here. I made them just for you. And if you haven't done it already, go ahead, gently tap the like button, hit the subscribe button, ring the notification bell and comment down below any thoughts, comments, criticisms, etc. that you have on this video. Thank you so much for watching and I'll see you in the next one.


I am Mr Praveen Ellapa Kumbar. Today we want to see the numericals on the orbital parameters. The learning outcome of this topic is at the end of the session student will be able to illustrate the concept of orbital parameters. Here in this topic we want to see the two numerical problems. So out of that one we will start the first numerical problem. Now we want to see the first numerical problem that the question is a satellite is orbiting in a geosynchronous orbit of a radius 41,500 km, find the velocity and time of the orbit. So first of all we want to write the given things. So what are the given things? The given things I want to write the given things that is I called given data. So that is first is radius, the first thing is radius of the orbit that is 41,500 km. So I will write here radius of orbit is equal to 41,500 km that is Re plus H that is Re plus H. So the second thing is the geosynchronous gravitational coefficient. So I will write the gravitational coefficient that is gravitational coefficient G0 is equal to the gravitational coefficient G0 is equal to 398600.5 km cube per square. So this is a formula for the second that is a gravitational coefficient G0. So now I want to calculate the what velocity of the orbit. So write down velocity, the A things I want to calculate velocity of orbit. So what is the formula for the velocity of the orbit? So that is Vs is equal to under root G0 by Re plus H. So we know that what is G0 that is called as a gravitational coefficient. So I will write under square G0 is 398600.5 divided by Re plus H that is 41,500 that is 41,500. So after this division we get under square root 9.604831 and solving this we get is equal to 3.099 km per second. So this is a what this is the velocity of the orbit that is Vs. Now we want to calculate the second thing that is V that is time of the orbit that is also called as period of orbit. So I will write period of orbit. So I want to calculate the period of orbit. So for the period of orbit I will write down formula Ts is equal to 2 pi d raised to 3 by 2 divided by G0. Okay that is gravitational coefficient. Now I want to put the values so 2 pi so d d raised to 3 by 2 that is 41,500 raised to 3 by 2 that is the radius of the orbit and divided by G0. So G0 is what G0 is 398600.5. So now we want to solve this mathematical equation. So I want to write after solving this part I will write 2 pi so 41500 raised to 3 by 2 it gives 845492.746 and when you solve this one so square root of 339000 sorry the square root of 398600 and 0.5 that gives the value of 631.348. So after when you multiply this 2 pi into this equation we get as 53092330.44 divided by 631.348. So after this division I will get the answer as 84093.60676067 second. So that is the period of the orbit. So from this examples now we want to calculate the velocity of the orbit that is velocity of the orbit is 3.099 kilometer per second and also we calculate the period of orbit that is 84093.6067 second. So we calculate the velocity and the time of the orbit. So now we want to solve the second example. In the second example we want to calculate what will be the change in velocity if the radius reduced to 36000 kilometer. Now we solve the first example in that in the second example we prefer the given data from the first one and they will ask the what will be the change in velocity if the radius reduced to 36000 kilometer. So first of all we calculate the velocity in this example and after that one we want to know the what is the change in velocity. So in this case now I want to calculate the velocity. So the velocity here the given data first of all I want to write that is Re plus h what is that Re plus h the Re plus h is 36000 kilometer 36000 kilometer Re plus h that is 36000 kilometer. Now what is the now see now the second thing is now I want to calculate the velocity that is Vs what is the formula of Vs Vs is equal to G0 divided by Re plus h. Now put these values into this above equation what we get so we know that G0 G0 from the previous example what is that G0 G0 is a constant. So I want to put this into this equation that is G0 what is that one the G0 is 398600.5 so I want to put this here so I will write here G0 is what 398600.5 and in this second example what is the Re plus h Re plus h is 36000 kilometer. So after this division what we get my friends we get 11.0722 11.0722 so after this square root of 11.0722 we get 3.3274 kilometer per second so but what is our question our question is what will be the change in velocity so I calculate the change in velocity is equal to change in velocity is equal to so whatever the velocity in the first case whatever we calculate what is that one 3.099 kilometer per second so this is what this is equation number one and this is what equation number two now subtract the equation number one from the two so we get change in velocity so we get change in the velocity so change in velocity become as 3.3274 minus what is in this equation it is 3.099 so 3.099 kilometer per second so after this following this one we get 0.2284 kilometer per second so this is what the change in the velocity that is 0.2284 kilometer per second. So in this way we want to solve the two problems so first one we want to calculate here the satellite is orbiting in a geostation orbit and we want to find out the velocity and the period of orbit and in the second example what will be the change in velocity if the radius reduce to 36000 kilometer so after that one the change in velocity is 0.2284 kilometer per second the references for this topic is