Hey everybody, before we start it's one of the say I'm sorry there hasn't been a video in a while. I have been playing Destiny 2 a bunch trying to do the solstice of heroes thing. It is an intense grind. And while a bunch of it was really really good, some of it was really really bad. I'll be doing a video about that very soon. Also coming up I'll be having a video about Star Wars Battlefront 2. Yeah, it's old but I finally got it after my son reminded me I'd agreed to buy it used once they removed the loot boxes. I'll take a look at that campaign and how it's a perfect example of writing by committee being a failure. And I'll talk about why I didn't even like the multiplayer, though I admit that's totally a matter of taste. And up next I'm going to have a video about Warframe and Destiny 2 and what they can learn from each other. But today we're going to take a look not at a whole game or even just a one concept but rather a single quest line from the Witcher 3. We're going to examine the character of the Bloody Baron, the quest line associated with him and why it's probably the best writing you will ever get in a video game. We'll reference a couple of quests from other games that purport to be morally gray and show why they fall short, but mainly we'll just marvel at the courage of the character and story in this one set of quests and missions. If you like what I have to say, I'll have a sound say in it, do me and you a favor, like, share and tell a friend. I didn't say subscribe because the amount of views I get makes me think that everyone watching this is already a subscriber. Alrighty. So writing in video games is held to a lower standard than in other mediums. The interactive nature of games as well as the importance of the gameplay being fun means that less time and resources are generally put into crafting a great story than are put into making a great gameplay experience.  Whatever the reason, game writing is usually bad. In fact, the games that are lauded for their writing often have been games that have gameplay that is at best only fine. The original Mass Effect trilogy didn't even have competent combat until the third game and even there wasn't fantastic or anything.  And then, ironically, the one Mass Effect game that had excellent combat in Andromeda had just a disastrously bad story. Of course, there's the first two Bethesda follow games that had such clunky first person shooting mechanics that the VAT system was an absolute necessity. And then you get Fallout 4 with pretty good combat, but a much weaker story. Hell, writing can often be seen as so unimportant that a game like Destiny can get away with a narrative that's such an incoherent mess it's unfair to stories to call what Destiny had a story. And for the most part, that is as it should be. Gameplay is king, still. Many games have had stories and narratives good enough that we waded through that mediocre gameplay. Mass Effect didn't have any kind of revolutionary narrative. But what it had was at the time, the greatest world building ever in a video game. With deep lore and richly imagined backstory that served as a way to push fully realized characters through a pretty standard save the world story. I finally bought an Xbox One because of the Witcher 3 and Fallout 4. When I got the console, Destiny 1 was in one of its notorious content droughts and I was eager to see what the next gen had. I bought the X1, Fallout 4, and the Witcher 3 all at the same time. After waffling a bit and studiously avoiding any and all reviews, I ultimately decided on playing Fallout 4 first. Fallout New Vegas was probably my favorite single-player game of the 360 era and Fallout 3 was right up there with it. And while I loved the story and characters of the Witcher 2 and overall thought the game was great, the gameplay was more okay than fun. There's a point to this I swear, so bear with me. I installed Fallout 4 and as I have always done with Fallout games, proceeded to slowly meander my way through the game playing every quest, looking in every crevice to loot everything I could. I met every companion and did all their loyalty quests. I went way off the beaten path before finally deciding to make my way through the end of the main story. I was having a great time. At that point it was one of the best games I'd ever played. Even dealing with the grotesquely bad facial models and animations, which is odd that they didn't get dinged for that but BioWare did. Either way, I still really enjoyed the game. As always, it was filled with great, interesting, funny side quests but while the game had good enough writing to keep you always interested and much better combat than expected, it was never particularly moving. And as I made my way to the end of the game, I stopped playing suddenly. When it became clear that in order to finish the story I was going to slaughter every member of the two factions I wasn't supporting, I turned the game off and didn't finish for months. This lack of any real choice or depth almost completely ruined the game for me. What I was hoping for was an interesting choice with somewhat realistic options. I wanted the game to make me understand where the institute was coming from. I wanted to have a tough choice when deciding, kinda like I did in New Vegas. And I didn't want the answer to be, now kill everyone. I found it unforgivably lazy. Maybe it wouldn't have bothered me as much if it actually felt like a legitimate choice. The brotherhood's position was silly. The institute was clearly murdering and replacing innocent people for, I don't know actually, they'd never really tell you why but, well, no particular reason as far as I could tell. Rather than giving me the morally ambiguous difficult choices that New Vegas had and to be fair that Far Harbor had, the game just kinda ran out of steam and decided I had to kill everyone to end it. As if the writers just couldn't think of any good reason not to. So I didn't finish it for several months because the game made me angry. The choice, it was so insistent of giving me felt arbitrary, pointless, and absurdly unrealistic. I decided to play The Witcher 3 to get over it. The Witcher 3 The Witcher 3, like Fallout 4, made major strides in gameplay from the previous version. While the second game had pretty good combat, the third game leaned much more into an action type game with quicker and more fluid combat while still retaining much though not all of the depth of the second game. Unlike Fallout 4, The Witcher 3's writing is nearly flawless. We'll get to the Family Matters questline soon but before we do, I want to focus on one moment very early in the game that happens right after you complete the first small introductory quest. After asking some people in the White Orchard Tavern about Yennefer, you'll be sent by Gunter O'Dimm to the nearby Nilfgaardian army camp where you'll witness this scene. You'll immediately be impressed, if not necessarily by the sincerity, at least by the fairness of the commander, and after accepting a quest to kill Griffin in exchange for information about where Yennefer went, you'll return and witness this scene. These two cutscenes, two of the very first of the game, perfectly set the tone going forward. It's easy to arrive at a pretty simple interpretation.  But if you think a little longer, you can see a lot of depth here actually. Is he a dick? It seems clear the man was probably a farmer. His offer of taking less than the village farmer offered is clearly an effort to minimize the burden his army will place on the inhabitants of the land he's occupying. Maybe it was sincere care for the common people. Or maybe it was practicality, an effort to not cause subversive rebellion. And what about the farmer? Is the grain rotten because that's all they had? Did the commander's generosity lead the villagers to assume he was weak? And how should the commander reasonably react to that? Is he left with any choice other than whipping the farmer? This seemingly simple interaction put before the player in these brief cutscenes are deeply ambiguous and not because the writers weren't sure what they were trying to say. Both of these characters behave believably. They're living, breathing people within the world, reacting to pressures and obligations. And unlike in most video games, you are basically powerless to intervene. I played through this part of the game just to get to the bloody Baron quest. I did not even remember it. It's maybe 40 minutes into a 150 hour game, but it's important. And this moral ambiguity, the complexity of the characters' motives and actions are a perfect introduction to what The Witcher 3 does better than any game ever made.  After you give the commander the griffin's head and decide whether you want his money or not, I always take the money. You'll be told where to go. And before long, after an amazing performance by Tywin Lannister, you'll end up looking for Philip Stranger, the Bloody Baron. Act 1. Introducing the Baron You'll find the Bloody Baron by asking after him at a local tavern. Before you were able to get the information, two of the Baron's men will come in as the bar clears of patrons. It's obvious that the entire area is scared of these men and they are brutes. What follows is one of the first instances of actual player choice in a questline with a shocking amount of branching paths. Like much of The Witcher 3, the different outcomes that branch out of these small choices are often rather subtle or small, but there are so many of them that the game manages to retain a choose-your-own-venture style storytelling that the best RPGs do, while simultaneously rigidly adhering to telling the story of Geralt of Rivia. You are Geralt and cannot do something he wouldn't do, but life is complex and little decisions can have tangible changes in how the people around you behave. Back to the game. The soldiers will confront you and you'll have the option of fighting them, which might get the bartender in trouble and means you'll have some difficulty getting to the Baron's castle. Or you can bribe the soldiers. Or you can swallow your pride and buy them a drink. The first time I played it, I of course killed them. The second time, I bought them a drink. If you buy them a drink, the bartender will thank you for not causing trouble and tell you about the bloody Baron. The first hint that this man will be a complex character comes if you inquire about his name. The bartender will explain that the Baron isn't actually a Baron, but merely a soldier from the now broken and defeated Tamarian army. After his division was shattered, the Baron coalesced a group of deserters, broken men and robbers into a military unit and took the local castle, before collaborating with the despised, occupying Nilfgaardian army.  The bartender explains that the Baron's men took the mill without any serious fighting, but after drinking, his soldiers spilled barrels of red dye into the river, leading locals to assume that he'd slaughtered everyone there. After you digest this, the Tavernor says that while he's called the bloody Baron for a atrocity he didn't commit, nobody talks about the one he did commit several weeks before. So, before we even meet this guy, what do we know about him? He's a soldier that the broken remnants of the Tamarian army have rallied behind. He has set himself up as a Baron through his own cunning and skill. His men are a terror on the area. He's collaborating with the hated invading army, and he may or may not have committed atrocities in the area. All of this before we even meet the character face to face. Now, I'm sure most players were expecting one of two things. That the man was going to be an obvious villain and a brute, or that he's actually going to be a good guy who's allowed rumors of his monstrosity to spread to keep power. I actually assumed it was going to be the latter. Even after seeing the complexity of the first encounter with the Nilfgaardian commander, complex ambiguous characters are so rare in video games, it's impossible to expect them. When you do get to Crow's Perch, if you're an observant player, as you ride through the gates to the Baron's keep, you'll notice some posters that show the Baron's wife and daughter are missing. And when you finally meet the guy, everything becomes clear. No, actually you just end up with more questions. Everything here conspires to create a character of immense depth. The Baron himself is charismatic and funny. He's overweight but powerfully built. He's gregarious and seemingly generous. He doesn't seem the least bit arrogant. In fact, he seems like a pretty decent guy. A decent guy with a missing wife and child. Seems like. After a good long spell and a long conversation with Philip Stranger himself, you still aren't sure whether you're talking to Philip or the Bloody Baron. This quest is going to have you run through some great dialogue about his history. He'll honestly explain how he came to be the Baron. He'll admit to the truth behind his title of Bloody Baron. He'll confess that he's collaborating with the Black Ones because resistance is futile and he hopes to be confirmed in his title and lands if he helps the invaders. His answers are honest and insightful. He isn't evasive at all. And while his responses will shed light on who he is and how he's gotten here, it won't allow you to make a full judgement about the man. All the information you get here confirms what you've already learned about the man, but his easygoing nature and natural humor and charisma make it hard to form a judgement about him. You still can't decide whether or not this is a good guy or a bad guy. Finally, you can ask about Ciri and the quest gets fully underway. You'll end up playing the first of the game's Ciri sections, which has you leading a girl from the woods and fighting wolves. The girl is in the wilderness because her parents didn't have enough food and had her follow the trail of treats deep into the swamps. You'll fight your way through before getting to Akatsuma Ciri, the little girl, and the Baron. The man who took Ciri to the Baron asks for a reward. The castle is plastered with posters offering a reward for finding the Baron's family, and the man thinks he may have found him. The Baron reacts angrily, threatening to whip him because Ciri and the girl are clearly not his wife and daughter. It's the first tangible hint that the Baron has a cruel streak and a temper, and maybe more than the jovial fat man he seems. It's a jarring shift in his character, but mere seconds after showing that cruel side, we see him treat Ciri and the little girl with genuine kindness and generosity. He feeds them and refuses to even bother talking until they've rested. After the cutscene, you can inquire about the little girl and find that she still lives in the castle and is being well cared for. And if you ask where Ciri is gone, he'll say he knows, but he won't tell you a thing unless you've helped him find his family. Now, you can't find Ciri without this man, so you've got no choice but to help him find them. And that begins the Family Matters questline, one of the best quests you will ever play in a video game. Act 2, Family Secrets The quest begins with the Baron explaining what he remembers of the night his family disappeared. He seemingly has almost no information aside from the fact that they're gone, and nobody heard or saw anything. You'll have to choose a dialogue option that says you need more information and ask to examine his and his daughter's rooms. The Baron does not react well to this request. He blusters and says he won't allow strangers to paw through their belongings before relenting on the condition that he accompanies you. His reaction is somewhat suspicious, and it's in moments like this that the difference between extremely talented voice actors and just average ones really shines through. If you search the Baron's room first, you'll get all the information you need to continue the quest. But if you search his daughter's room first, you'll find some very cryptic and interesting information. In Tamara's room, you'll find a letter that hints at a hidden past and some incense that you can follow to a hidden shrine to the Eternal Fire. We don't have time to get into it now, but the Church of the Eternal Fire is a radical religious group dedicated to killing or removing all non-humans and magic from the world. When you finally get to Novigrad, you'll find them deep in the midst of a murderous pogrom of burnings and torture.   There's a hole in the wall, a broken candlestick, wine spilt on the floor. Eventually, you'll follow a trail to a hidden magical talisman. When confronted with the evidence of a loud struggle in his room, the Baron will be seemingly surprised. He insists he has no idea what happened and that maybe he had too much to drink that night. He says he questioned all of his men in the morning and none heard or saw a thing. This leaves Geralt with no choice but to find out who made the talisman. The Baron points you in the direction of the local peller, basically a witch doctor, and off you go. When you arrive at the peller's house, you'll encounter another one of the small, subtle branching paths the quest line offers up. There are a group of soldiers outside the peller's hut, angrily demanding he come out. When you ask why they're there, they will tell you that one of their friends had gotten treatment from the peller but was still sick.  Or, you can use one of your signs to bewitch them. Or, you can give them money. Or, you can tell them how to make a treatment that will cure their comrade. This time, I told them how to make a potion and they left.  And again, most of these little choices don't have massive narrative altering consequences, but they change things enough to give all of them weight. And every so often, they do have a big consequence, meaning you can't just treat them like flavor texts. It's pretty great. Anyway. After dealing with the soldiers, you'll end up helping the peller find his goat. The goat that the Baron implied the man fucks. And then he'll talk to you about Anna, the Baron's wife. The peller admits to having made Anna the amulet to protect her from evil. The peller believes the amulet was to protect her from the Baron himself, though you'll find out that's not actually true.  He was unceremoniously buried and became a monster called a botchling. And here's where the quest gets really crazy. In order to find Anna, Geralt has two options. He can remove the curse from the fetus by burying it under the family threshold and giving it a name and a ritual.  It's like a fetch quest, except with an aborted fetus and blood magic. This transformation is time to return to the Baron. But before we go further, let's go back over how the Baron has been characterised thus far. We learn about him from the behaviour of his men that we see and the disturbing stories of the tavern owner. Then we meet the man and find him to be charismatic and open. Then we see him threatening to whip the guy who brought him Ciri. Then we see him treat Ciri and the little girl with kindness and hospitality. Then we learn his family was afraid of him because he was an abusive drunk. With their opinion and expectations of the character swing from pole to pole, from bad person to decent to bad to decent to bad. With the new information it's beginning to look like perhaps the Baron is just pretending to be decent and is actually a terrible person. When we get back to Crow's Perch, it's time to confront the Baron in what the first time through I assumed was going to be the end of the quest where we discovered that the Baron is an evil bastard who actually killed his family. As you ride up to Crow's Perch when you ask a soldier why nobody is trying to put it out he'll respond that the Baron is drunk and raging and nobody wants to get near him. Further cementing the suspicion you had that the Baron is an irredeemable turd. A stable boy runs up and asks you to save the horses and a man caught in the barn. You can apparently let them all burn to death if you want. I saved them both times because that's how I roll.  The Baron is violently drunk and will attack you. Let's take a look. After punching and dunking him you'll end up in his solar where the Baron will come clean about his constant drinking, his violent outburst against his wife and his terrible guilt at his belief that he had caused the miscarriage by throwing his wife down. He tells a graphic story about finding the bloody fetus on the floor and how the death of the baby was crushing to him because it represented his hope for fixing his marriage by being a chance to start over. Everything about this scene and dialogue is fantastic and the acting is top notch. Especially if you're aware that people in doomed, codependent marriages often actually do try to use pregnancies as a way to repair their marriages. It almost never works. The Baron talks about how Anna knew exactly how to attack his weaknesses to make him angry. How he regrets his drinking and violence. How he never hit his daughter. This is all heavy stuff, man. And it would be very, very dangerous for less talented writers to tackle. If you're gonna make a character who beats his wife and causes her to have a miscarriage you either need to make that character an unambiguous villain or be an extremely talented writer. Can you imagine any other game making this man anything other than a mustache twirling villain? I feel very comfortable saying that in any other game ever made the quest would end here with you realizing the Baron is a monster and either finding his family and helping them escape or killing the Baron. Because doing anything else risks a controversy. But that's not what The Witcher 3 does.  In both playthroughs I decided to perform the ritual to turn the botchling into a spirit because it's just so awesome. The quest for you walk with the Baron down to the grave including includes great dialogue, great cutscenes, fun gameplay and legitimately powerful emotions. I don't think it would have been possible to do 6 years ago. Everything works the way it does because the animations are believable, the facial animations are excellent, the character models lip syncing all of it so good that it never for a second attracts from what the characters are saying. By the end of your walk with the Baron he is on the edge of tears and is creating a monster against himself. So let's pause again before we go any further and examine exactly this series of quests has accomplished and why it's so dangerous in an age where games are so afraid of offending anybody that every story has to be one of perfect heroes against unspeakable evil. We have just agreed to help a man find his family. Only to find out that his family ran away fleeing from his alcoholism and violence. We found out that his violence against his wife caused her to miscarry and we had the choice to either kill his undead miscarried child or to have him form an emotional connection to it in order to get its help.  It's an uncomfortable thing to realize and something we'll be coming back to because ultimately it's that emotional connection that is the real story of the quest. So after you've done this you will follow the spirit of the baby as it leads you to the family that helped the Baron's wife and daughter escape. You'll find out the daughter has gone to Novigrad during the Witch Hunters of the Faith of the Eternal Fire and that his wife was captured by a monster and dragged into a swamp that is run by a group of powerful witches known as the Crones. You go back to the Baron to report these findings and he becomes enraged that you haven't brought his family back and it's at this point that the game really goes out on the limb by trying to humanize a family abusing drunk and again, I cannot stress enough how gutsy this is. Think about the possibility for outrage and controversy if this was handled in a less artful way. During this conversation, after you tell the Baron that you'd held up your end of the bargain and found his family and that it seems they left him of their own free will you can either just leave him and continue the quest or if you want you can hear him try to justify his actions. Let's get something else clear right up front here.  Life is extremely complex and people end up in deeply toxic relationships not because they're captives but because for a variety of reasons they've chosen to be there. People can and do make terrible choices in their relationships. They can and do stay in abusive, codependent relationships and most abusers aren't psychopathic maniacs. The reason abusive relationships continue to exist is because most alcoholics and abusers are charismatic or caring or loving all of the time except when they're abusing. It's this cycle that allows abuse to continue. Very few people will stay if their partner does nothing but abuse them but when 90% of the time you're with someone it's fine it gets very easy to justify the other 10% when it's terrible. Beyond even that truth the Witcher is about to make excuses for the Baron's abuse and amazingly they somewhat work. The Baron finally settles down to tell you exactly why he'd done what he's done and frankly I think it's best if we just watch it play out like it does in the game, to the tape. And after that they sent me to Sidaris. The Warlord had risen against King Athen and Foltests sent help. It was one battle to the next. One conflict after another. It was a life of war. I was sold him home and I found comfort in drink. Grew so fond of Hooch I couldn't part with it when I did get home. All right, what then? I went from front to front battle to battle collecting soldiers' coin while Anna sat along with the babe for months. Later I learned she'd not been so alone after all. For nearly three years she'd found comfort in the arms of one Evan a childhood friend a dog's bunghole. Understand, dammit? One tossle in the hay I'd have waved aside but it out of my mind but the woman cook-holded me for years without a whisker of concern for me, for my love. How'd you find out? Came home one day and Anna was gone the things too found a letter she wrote that she didn't love me that she'd left me for that knob-licker taken to Mara with her felt like I'd been rammed in the ass by a horse I went to find the booger to get the girls back bring them home yet soon as I saw him something turned inside me something dark I slaughtered the shit-eating and fed his carcass to the dogs Imagine Anna wasn't exactly pleased Not the understatement if I've ever heard one she flew into a fit hysteria threw herself at me kicking and clawing finally grabbed a knife it would have been the end of me if I'd not leapt aside it was the first time I hit her I had to calm her felt I had no other means things changed they would never be the same Anna tried to take her own life and mine several times she would prod me gold me taunt me in the hope I would hit her again perhaps she'd scream that I'd robbed her life of love but I'd destroyed the idea for her and so might as well kill her how many times I apologized how many armfuls of blooms and gifts I brought she cared not a bit two years of our anger had turned to indifference broken at times were a bouts of hysteria and more bouts of drunkenness cannot fathom how we survived those years but we did and as you know now not everything was as it might have seemed you're right faults on both sides yours and hers after all these twists there's one other that we end up discovering along the way the Baron didn't cause this miscarriage his wife so deep in her hatred of him and his bullshit made a deal with powerful witches to kill the fetus in exchange for one year of servitude his wife wasn't captured his wife is in voluntary indentured servitude we find out the root cause of the problems here the Baron as a soldier in wartime became an alcoholic as a way to deal with the crippling loneliness depression and brutality of war his only solace at these times was the fact that back home in the world he had a loving wife and daughter to return to but when he finally gets back he finds that not only has his wife not been faithful she's been having an affair the entire time he was gone and has taken his daughter and left him completely alone that's tragic and to be fair it is deeply shitty of his wife we can understand that we can understand being angry but here's where we get back to the complexity deep in his totally understandable grief and fury the Baron goes looking for his family and happens upon the man they are now with and he murders him in front of her now they both have nothing and each of them is responsible for the other's loss she stole everything from him and he in turn stole everything right back the Baron is clearly more wrong than his wife but she is hardly blameless and it's fairly obvious that the Baron has become introspective that he regrets his actions and that he desperately wants one last chance to save them both the final act will depend almost entirely upon what you do in the last parts of this quest and it's kinda complex you can end up with several different endings depending on what choices you make after meeting the Crohn's and Anna it becomes obvious that the Baron's wife is in danger and deeply disturbed now she appears to have aged 20 years and she's currently caring for children left with the Crohn's because their parents can no longer feed them unfortunately it also becomes clear that these children like the ones you met earlier with Ciri are going to be eaten by the Crohn's in this final quest you have the choice of either killing or not killing an evil spirit that the Crohn's say is causing murders when you arrive it is clear that this thing is monstrous the tree where it's imprisoned is surrounded by bodies and bones and the spirit itself is terrible looking but all of that is also true of the Crohn's the evil spirit promises to help the Orphans the Crohn's are going to eat but this is the spirit that is causing people to murder each other like everywhere else in the game there's no good answer free the spirit and you will indeed save the 10 Orphans but everyone in the village nearby will kill each other in an orgy of madness and violence kill the spirit and the Orphans will be eaten and the Crohn's will stay in power but they will also continue to protect the villagers though at a hideous cost there's simply no happy ending here and the game doesn't even give you the satisfaction of judging the villagers who are making humans sacrifice to the Crohn's as the village alderman says when you collect a grisly form of payment from him ok after all of this depending upon the choices you've made you'll end up with one of a few outcomes you'll either free Anna from the Crohn's only to have her die broken and tired though she appears to finally forgive the Baron still the Baron's daughter does not forgive him and when you return to Crohn's nest to retrieve your money you will be able to find a way to save the Crohn's and then you will be able to save the Crohn's and you will be able to save the Crohn's and you will be able to save the Crohn's and you will be able to save the Crohn's and when you return to Crohn's nest to retrieve your money you'll come across one of the most arresting ends to a video game quest ever however if you choose differently you can save Anna's life but her time with the Crohn's has driven her mad the Baron will then leave his castle and give up all of his power to care for her while he takes her away to find someone anyone who can cure her and give them another chance your reaction to these two outcomes depends entirely on how much sympathy you have for these characters the ending that has the Baron taking and caring for his broken wife isn't a happy ending but it's a chance whether he cures her or not for atonement it gives him the opportunity to act selflessly and finally attempt to right the wrongs he's done to her or if you're the type who doesn't believe someone can really change so late in life the Baron hanging himself is also strangely satisfying it's a final example that people can and do push their lives to a point beyond redemption there aren't always happy endings and sometimes our actions can never be forgiven none of these endings forgive the Baron but none of them condemn him either CD Projekt Red leaves that up to the player the writers write they made interesting characters with deep complex histories and relationships and then they let the player interact with and observe them and form their own opinions it is absolutely masterful and in lesser hands easily could have been an offensive disaster it's the greatest quest in gaming history in the very rare instance of narrative literary art and video game form despite how I sometimes come off the truth is I am a pure and eternal optimist I believe in 2nd, 3rd, and 40th chances because I needed that many and though my transgressions were nowhere near as bad as the Baron's to many they might seem fairly extreme people can change and they can make amends if chance provides them with a proper angle for introspection and repentance perhaps that's why I found this so deeply powerful because even though I'm not an abuser somehow the writers of The Witcher 3 were able to make me deeply identify with someone who if we read the story in a newspaper column would have been an irredeemable monster that's what art is for alright that's all I got see you next time and thanks for coming


Hello and welcome to the session in which we will discuss the transfer between investment categories for that securities What are the categories for that security? So you need to know a little bit of background before we dive into this transfer between different categories of that securities One we have a category called held to maturity and These cad indeed under these categories we report the investment at amortized cost simply put we ignore fair value fluctuation and And we do have two other categories one is called trading and One is called available for sale for trading and available for sale We report the debt investment using the fair value Now what does it mean? Transfaring between categories simply put the company change change their mind the management change their intent They wanted an investment to be held to maturity now. They want to transfer it to available for sale It was available for sale. They want to transfer it to trading. It was trading. They want to transfer it to available for sale This is what we mean by transfer between different categories So before we before you start you want to make sure HTM is reported at cost fair value is used for trading and available for sale securities once you know this much then you are ready to discuss the Situation where we transfer one from one category to the other now on this slide I have few abbreviation when I say FV means fair value HTM held to maturity TS trading securities AFS available for sale GL gain and loss AOC I is accumulated other comprehensive income. So I'm gonna start with easy Illustration or I believe easy or simple illustration then we follow and here's what I'm gonna do I'm gonna have I'm gonna try to simplify this as much as possible. I'm gonna have three column from To from which category transfer him to which category and here's what I'm gonna tell you The accounting it's gonna follow the category being transfer to so once it's gets transferred to this category The accounting in this category will take place. Let me start with some simple Categories then will will will proceed further. Let's assume we're transferring an investment at that investment From health to maturity health to maturity is reported at amortized cost and we're gonna transfer this category to available for sale Well, what does that mean? So we're going going from amortized cost to available for sale available for sale is reported at fair value Well, what do we have to do? Well, we have to start an available for sale account And we have to report the investment now at fair value and as a result since it's reported at fair value Remember fair value means you have to record any Unrealized holding gain or loss, but we have to know if it's available for sale unrealized holding gain or loss goes into a OCI it sits on the Balance sheet. That's what we need to know. So simply put once it's transferred to available for sale We recognize it's reported at fair value We recognize unrealized holding gain and loss and that unrealized holding gain and loss is reported in OCI Let's work another example. Let's assume we have an HTM Investment at that investment and we're gonna transfer it now to Trading securities trading again trading is reported at fair value. Just like available for sale What do we have to do? 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Welcome to Toffy TV. We continue the season reviews with our player ratings. We stand with defence and a lot of people have been asking for player ratings because they've enjoyed mine, your different player ratings. I think they've enjoyed yours most. I might have been a bit harsher and that will continue in this video but Baz is here to... This season I'm going to say one because everyone will be an eight next year. Nine.  You are. You are. You can, it doesn't always have to be defined. You can have a difference of opinion as well. Let's start with Jordan Pickford. What is your player rating for? My overall player rating for Jordan is eight. I give him an eight out of ten for this season. I think he's coming for big money and into a team.  And I think, yeah, listen, he's a young goalkeeper. He's made a few mistakes along the way. But I think the way he's conducted himself, I think he gets out bollocks players and he's a leader, I think. And we haven't had one of them in goal for a while, I don't think. I think he's been brilliant for us in a team that had the defence chop and change. We played big portions of the season with our best fullbacks, centrebacks were getting changed all the time in the field. So in a tabulent season, I think he's been a constant. He was a consistent member of the defence that we needed. Listen, he hasn't been perfect. He's conceded the goals that he should have conceded, but I don't think he's cost us a match as such. I think maybe the FA Cup at Anfield, maybe he should have stayed on his line. Well, he should have. Not maybe. But I think for his second season in the Premier League, I think he's done really, really well. One hell of a lot of points. Big saves like the one against Bournemouth. The only real shot that he had in the last minute. And I think just as all round presence in the defence, while everything else was going to pot, right-backs out, left-backs out, centre-backs out, everything gets swapped. It was important that he was consistent. I agree with an eight of the eight. Sheamus Coleman, the returning Sheamus Coleman. I want to give him a seven, because even though he had some poor games when he came back and he did, I think overall he's been very good considering the injury was horrific. But the way he came back in, the less the game he was out of this world, that first game. It was adrenaline. And it was the crowd and it was just everything. But I think in general he's been very good. For a player that has been out for so long, you don't look at him. The way you look at Balasi. And it's quite obvious he was out for a long time. Sheamus I think is almost, almost picked it back up. Mentally it doesn't seem to have gotten to at all. And that first game proved I get through it in his runs in the last minute. And I know after that he did miss a couple of weeks of games because of probably because of everything he put into that game. But that was more physical and that's fine. Mentally he was over it straight away. And I agree, I'd say a seven as well. I think he came back in and he was solid. Vocal in people's faces. Like a leader straight away. And I think the challenge on being is calm and let him know. But he came back and he just, you know, he helped the last few months of the season by being the player that you expect. A consistent player. Got into jags a few times as well in some games. You know why you've given away passes there when you can just give the easy ball. He's a leader. He really is a leader. He's developed a leader. I think that the fact of the injury has made him more of a leader. You know we've seen him when James McCarty got injured. He was like, should I, should I? And he was like, his gut took over and you can see him straight down. I think he loves the club. I think he gets the club. I think the crowd loving me knows that. And I think it matters too. Mistakes make mistake against Swansea away. Really shitty mistake. That led to a goal. But overall everyone on making mistakes. But overall his levels have been quite good since he came back. And it's just good to have him back. So yeah, I'll agree. A seven. John Joe Kenny. Obviously last season playing with the under-23s. Captain under-23s went to the under-20 World Cup. Lot was expected of him. Early on in the season we were very critical of Ronald Coonman for not giving him more game time. Cos for us he was a Seamus Coleman Mark II. He preferred other players ahead of him. Finally got his chance. Didn't initially take it, I don't think. And ultimately didn't find the consistency that you would say for a lot of people. Well there's a player who will go and take that chair off Seamus Coleman in years to come. But in some games showed a lot of heart, a lot of leadership in some games as well. Some real desire like the Maisie side Derby, the first one. But I think he just fell short of where I thought he was going to be coming to the end of the season. And I'd give him a five personally. Cos I expected more from him. I really did. I don't want to be harsh on the lad, but I just expected a bit more. I'd give him a six cos I think Ian Nilly don't very well. I think he had some really good games and he had other games. You could tell he was, I wouldn't say out of his depth but some games he just wasn't at the races. But I think that's a young player getting his chance. I think Cuman put him in almost begrudginly. Because at that time he was getting a bit of, people were asking the question. And other people were asking the questions. I still remember him coming on against Bournemouth after 70 minutes and we were one down. And the next minute he just took us up and down a pit and brought the game in. In fact, Calderlun should have scored off his cross to make it three when he put it over. And I think he had some really good games, the Derby, like you said. But then there was games like Bournemouth away when he didn't track the Francis for their first goal and things like that and some games he'd give the ball away. And then I think what happened was, I think he had a resurgence when Ondsworth took over. And Sam Allardyce, don't forget, Sam Allardyce praised him massively when he came in. The whole game up on Newcastle, he was good. He just wasn't great. But that's a young player development. I'm all David, that's Sam. I think the biggest part of John Joe's game is his attacking. He likes attacking on all that, but it is forward play. And he's towards the end before Colman got in. And I don't know whether it probably was Sam Allardyce. He started not going forward. And when he stops doing what the best part of his game is, other things get shown up, I think. Because I don't think he's great at the minute in terms of defending. I think he's a good defender, but there's areas of it that he needs to pick up. But his real strength, a bit like Seamus when Seamus came in, the big strength of Seamus is his attacking qualities. Do you know what I mean? I think once John Joe stopped crossing the halfway line, there wasn't enough room. I just think I expected more from him. I really did, I expected more from him. Because what I've seen of him, I really... Yeah, yeah. But what I'm saying is that... Again, a kid coming into his side, that struggle. A kid coming into his side where he, the manager, didn't seem to believe in him. We all thought he'd start the season. We had no shame's calm on Mason Hallgate's centre back, Cucar Martina. What I would say is... What I would say is... In the last season, we were at the end of the 23 game, and I watched him, and I watched him turn to Alexander Arnold. And I looked at both of them, and I thought both of these could make the step up. Now I know it's different circumstances. Now I know it's different circumstances, I know it is. But one of them's going to a Champions League final, and one of them's going to a World Cup as well. And I know they are, one leads to the other. I understand that. And we've got, with teamers coming, we've got a better right back. But I just think one's gone on a little bit more than the other. Now he's been given more opportunities, I appreciate that as well, because Liverpool... Have more games. Have had, not only more games, but have had clients being off amongst the season. And Gomez, Gomez was there, at Alexander Arnold, was back up the straight. Gomez got injured, he got back in. So I just think he could have pushed himself a little bit more. But from within, I think it's, but what I mean is, seeing the kind of player he is, I know that you can see that within him, to do that, and I just think that. I think it's all, I don't know what it is, I just think that. And I might be being too harsh on him, I can only say what I'm saying, like Catrice. But I just think that, I just think he's stopped himself. But I think it was monitored instruction as well. And I think if you're a young lad getting in, and the manatee then puts you in, praises you. You just do what he tells you to do. Give him a contact. And I think if you get, I think, say it's Marco Silva, he likes to attack. I think he'd encourage him, like under it, to get forward, because that's a big part of his game. And I think you'd see that. There's a different circumstances. And again, he's a kid. You know, if he'd have come in, if he'd have come in and everything was settled. Say, last season and we were settled and playing well. I think he'd have got more of them. But I think he's done very well. I think he's done all right. I just think he could have done better. I really do. Listen, let me say that about mum. Cucko Martina, what are you giving him? I'm giving him a two. Right. I'm giving him a two. Garbage. He's absolutely garbage. Right. I'm going to say he's garbage. All right. He was thrown into the deep end at left back. But the lad is garbage. Right. At right back he was garbage. And at left back he was garbage. He's garbage. He's not good enough to play for everyone. Pardon? I'm not saying he's not. I'm not saying he doesn't try. Or he hasn't tried or whatever. I just think he's not good enough. For that reason, I'm giving him a two. I just don't think he's anywhere near the level. And I should have thought of him ever playing for ever and ever again. Okay. I'm going to give him a three.  I think he's done some games. He's done all right at left back of thought. I thought he defended all right at times. But I can't give him much more than that. I think he's the fourth to his right back at the club. He'll have to shout over that. And I think he's about the sixth to his left back. Really. He should be. Now listen, he's a Ronald Cumin sign. And he's coming. Without being really harsh on him, I don't understand why we got him. But I think he was free in Cumin. He's obviously a very good train and he tries hard and stuff. Cumin probably just wanted another body in there. But yeah, three. Listen, he went in there and he did a job for a few months when we really needed someone to do a job. So fair enough. Could someone else have done that job? Probably. But that someone else wasn't registered to play. So I suppose he did save our bacon and maybe I would be willing to put it up to a three. Because of that. But when Bain's come back in it was night and day, wasn't it? All of a sudden the pitch opened up. We had no left hand side when he played. It was as simple as that. He didn't even try. He didn't even try. And let's not forget the amount of times. I've just gone all nice and now I'm going to go back to being reality. How many times did he go up the field and just drop back while stuff was going on behind him and just go and then go. But occasionally he crossed the ball and he's gone for me. Occasionally. Very occasionally did his job. So. So there you go. Let's move on from him. Michael Keane. First season at the club. I think he's had an absolute horrific season. Horrific. I'm not sure it could have gone any worse for him. Between his performances. His injury. Losing his place in the England squad. It's been an absolutely horrific. And the team he left finishing above us. It's been a horrendous season for him. For the money he cost us. He was absolutely shite. Honestly I'll give the kid all. I'll give the kid all the leeway. I want him to stay and I want him to prove me wrong and have a better second season.  Really, really disappointing. Really disappointing. And for that he gets a three from me. Because he's been absolutely garbage. There's no way of adding it. So he's been the same as Cucamartina? No Cucamartina got a two for me. They're but that new upgrade. And then we thought in and thought how many times he didn't get back. He got a two for me. Stick with your face number. That's how I got these things going. He's been garbage. He's been garbage. We paid £30m for him mate. 25. He's been garbage for what we've paid for him. He's come in. He was in England International. And he's just gone. At times it was like having a child playing at the back. The way he played. Not like a normal child.  He was just at times you felt like if he had a shovel he would have dug a hole for himself and escaped at times. He was just without Jags next to him at times. If you buy a play for £25m I expect the same level of football. And he just felt so short of it. He was so bad. Now there are reasons. One is not a very good defender. No the changing of the plays around him. Didn't help. Whether it be right back left back or the centre back partnership. Why was he played left side of centre back? When there was other plays he could do that. Confidence. Zero confidence. In himself or anyone else in here. But now that comes into it. Now it's got any confidence in you. Fans. I knew the thing as well. I knew the thing as well. How many times did we have corners that he had big chances from and never hit the target? He should have scored a few goals there. He scored one early on against. Was it split? He scored against. He scored the first against. Had he splitted? Wafford. Chelsea. That was it. Dave Watson would have put that in. He would have done that. Why keep it as pass it? It's not given me five. I think he started off quite well. I think he started off quite well. I think the injury could tell them. Then he just got worse after that. The confidence we were going to see. He was horrific. He had a horrific brand. He shows everybody. When he got back in. He had some good games and some bad games. It was as simple as that. But he looked like a player devoid of a lot of confidence. When he got put, and when he was with Williams. The pair of them was just terrible. But I think when he was with Jagielcar he looked a lot better. He still wasn't great towards the end of the season. But he did have some good games. He can't rewrite history. I think overall for a face he was disappointing. He came in and I thought he come in and I thought he settled in quite well. Stubbing your toes disappointing. You've got yours, your opinion. I've got mine. Five disappointed with them. But I still think he can be a good defender for us. Because he was very good the year before. Fair enough. I'm not going to argue. I'm going to let the people decide. That's five. Mason Hallgate. I think early on in the season he was paired with Ashley Williams a lot. When he started off at right back and went to Man City and when he played against Man City he was his mistake that cost us the goal. Although he played all like that game defensively. It was just when he was going forward he was a bit kept on giving the ball away. But ultimately he gave them the goal. I thought he got better as the season went on saying they have to come and left. I think he showed that he can be he's a young player. He's got the attributes to be a top player. It's just whether it's a difficult balancing act now.  I don't know. But certainly I like him in a three. I think in a three he's a good player. I think he's got some about him. I think he showed in the derby that he's not one to be messed with. But then also does he let that play on his mind or does that go as soon as it's happened? So I'd give him a I'd give him a six. I think he's had he's had injury problems as in stuff like that. He's been in and out the side. He's played it right back. I think there's been games I think the Europa League game against Leon. Leon and now the other one Limosol. I think he was especially the first goal and also the penalty against Leon. But I think there's there's more positive signs there. But it was a stop start season for him as well which doesn't help. In and out the side. I think with a bit of guidance and with Jags if he did Jag Nixon I think he would have been a lot a lot better. He suffered from having Ashley Williams next to him or the season which is never good. I'd give him a six as well. I think he's matured this season. I think he looks like a very good centre back. Problem he has sometimes his concentration levels. It's where he's brought my own spares away just switched off for goals. You can't. Stepped out against West Brom when Rodriguez with the level with him and things. Things like that. But then again you look at the performances at Amfield and he was excellent. Very good on the ball. You're right he is a leader. He's got those qualities he doesn't mind having a goal people and stuff. Gotta know when to play and when not to. But I think he's got to know when to do the basics of defending as well though. I mean there's stones he'd overplay for the sake of it. But I think he just switches off when and not doesn't do the basic defending like you just said concentrating. Don't step up if there's a danger and you're not 100% sure you play to what the game is. And other things like the game that's born for he jumped in and allowed the player to go round them and score. You stay on your feet there and you're trying to push them wide or you're trying to push them into somewhere they don't want to go. Things like that. I think he jumps in too much and he did it against Man United at home as well. He allows the forward to take the forward to dictate where he's going to go rather than him dictating where trying to send them down the line and push them to the next defender. I think he's a very good player and I'm in a little bit of guidance and a little bit of maturity but he can be a top class defender. So I think he's 6 over all. Yeah. Fair right. I think it's fair. Yeah okay I'll go with that then. Layton Baines. 6 6 and tempted to give him a 7 because I was that excited to see a left back in the side. Do you know what? I'd say 6 as well because yes he ended the season okay but before his injury he wasn't really pulling up any trees either but what I will say caveat no back up played nearly every game before he got injured you know you've got to manage older players you've got to you know give someone else a go give them a rest so they don't get those injuries that ended up costing them nearly 4 months of the season listen clearly he's got it all there and it's not all how it should be all how it was but he's still a reassured player top at left back he still can pop the ball quickly get it back move nicely into space finish the season okay but I think 6 is probably about right doesn't go hard big penalty against Wofford when we really need him to you know to we won as the game didn't we ultimately didn't go missing on that one it's just also very very cool yeah it's just a very good footballer okay some of his the ability to get up and down is weighing on them you don't know whether well he would invigorate him because when he come back in the side when he been out for a while he had that best again of being able to get up and down you've got to manage those plays he's not getting any younger so to play him every week I know we won a high energy team but you don't know whether you manage any plays he played three at the back and played it properly Bains could then play 15 yards higher up the pitch which would then get him in the half but you still need another left back because you needed I think Bains are days of playing back over well I will say but he's still a competent defender he's still a good defender but ultimately his legs are which happens to everybody so it's just the way it is but he's been a fantastic player for us and he's had still be happy to have him in the squad without the shadow but I think six is probably about right he's had much better seasons he could come back and have a stormer of a season next season but I think this season he's been up and down but he finished the season quite well but overall six Phil Jagielke I think for me I'd say it was a seven because on in the season he was swapping and changing actually Williams quite a lot when he's out the side it's very noticeable that he's not in the side and the way he finished the season was fantastic really as I said with Keane there he kept Keane ticking over for a lot of the games he's still got loads of energy he's still got it funny enough a a tee in a pace he's still quick covering the ground he anticipates a lot when he got back was probably a fast a fast he got back I think it's leadership skills now when I say leadership I don't mean being a captain and running round the point fingers I mean being a leader of how on the pitch defensively a defensive leader I think that's really really important and I still think there's nobody else really they in the centre box they say it isn't anyway doesn't when he plays a game he's not looking at himself he's looking at who's next to him and helping them get through the games and talking to them where there's other people don't do that and look more at themselves and just care about getting themselves to a game and I think the last couple of months of the season when he got back in you know the defence really showed up and really it was night and day you know to the next next game when the game's following that the defence was just the defence against Baylor was so wicked and yeah he comes in a week later and it looks alright again and we start getting clean sheets and look them defensively a lot more solid so yeah I give him a 7 yeah I think I had 10 to agree with that I think he finished the season easily a best defender we got good results or decent results because of him defending and defending the way he did he reads the game really well makes mistakes but the older you know in the season where they've all made mistakes but I think it's general like you said before you notice when he's not there the canons are miss we need a new defender and we need one in the same mould as Phil this is the thing isn't it I'll probably give him a 7 because this time last year we were like he let him go to Sheffield United you know we were still ooing an ar about him at least finished the season as our best defender and I think because of that I think the fact that he decided to stay given another year is aint him another year and I think we've still got all the same problems we had last season in the terms of bringing players in but I think because of that and because the standards didn't slip too much I mean we're not sitting here going you know we just threw up Bains some of Bains maybe you're leaning a little bit off and a little bit jaded maybe Jagielker has benefited from not playing every single game where his Bains has suffered for playing every single game but I think the other thing as well you can't get to these players too quickly they don't have to Jagielker doesn't have to play every week next season but having him around a place keeps camaraderie and everything else going he's a leader he trusts in the dressing room he's the face around the club he's been here for 11 years as well so it's the face around the club that everyone knows the players he's evident isn't he when you come in so it's going to be very pretty new man as well coming in because you need a couple of people who can build the bridges so to speak you need content, you need good people you need people you can trust to keep other people in order that's a big deal and let them know what it's about but I think listen he's finished the season really like he did last year to be fair he got in last year in about I'll tell you what he'll come back for pre-season with that talent and he'll be looking at it with the slightly bleached hair a bit of a ffind on it he'll be looking a million dollars look right on the bench and cool about these things look good on the calendar finally last no, necessarily least but you know Ashley Williams Ashley Williams what did I give Cuckill Matina? two Ashley Williams again a two as well I'd give him a three talk about being disappointed you going on about Michael Keane and all that Ashley Williams come last year and I thought we were getting this man mountaineer cos I'd seen him have a few good games for Swansea and he'd have made me one you're making me one you've turned into Ashley Williams blaming everyone else it was your only shot at that it was your only shot at that but he was alright I thought he'd done okay last year and we'd been that poor as the year before that he'd come in and we were alright last year defensively we were okay and he was quite solid but this season has been such a such a drop off it's been unbelievable I just don't think I get the feeling and I don't know the lad and all that I just get the feeling he's just not really that that's what I mean and it's like when your heart's not in it and you're not playing well in the Premier League you get punished but I think the difference between him and Jack Ylker is Jack Ylker will still try to cover for this partner and he'll still throw himself in it Ashley Williams no show that over the season he's not interested in just self-preservation it was in and out of the beginning of the season the way they rotated it listen that didn't help anyone he'd come back looking a little bit well he'd come back looking like a little fat bastard that's what he came back looking like let's get it on the table but he'd come back looking like looking like he'd had a couple of begs a fat bastard is what he'd come back as I don't give a shit I'll say it as it is he'd come back looking tubby as and you can't tell me that when literally we were having like a two week pre-season into games you can't tell me that that's unprofessional for the start that he looked at and I know he'll probably go look at Dersham put the abs but he looked like he was overweight and that means he's got to work hard to get that off which is lowering his lowering him you know that's like you're going to get fitter but that's going to sap your energy isn't it and you know he's going into games and you've got someone like he next year you've got you're having to show through games and you've got your light is hiding and it's always and it's not come on lads let's come on let's get you know it's all captain of his country and he's giving it all and he's bearing himself and he's trying to go missing and it all like it's all box it's all for show oh and all and I'm sorry ultimately he just looked like a plet and I know listen the grief he's fighting in the Leon game and they're starting the other and I just think at times show that kind of energy on the pitch it's not it's not worth a carrot to us if you're doing that and you're not putting it out there on the pitch and the waff the barely game is just horrendous he just well the waff again the week before giving 3dini 5 yards to 10 2dini needs at least 10 it's like a cool line he needs a bleeding tug boat pulling him as well can't hear 3 words like that and then the week after at barely he was in absolute disgrace he was horrendous and then to get himself sent off when we needed him he only got down with the last few minutes to do what he did and the fact that he never made it back on the pitch suggest to me that well I thought you meant that he would come back on to the pitch and I was thinking when so the fact that he never came back on the pitch suggest to me that Sam Allardyche also knew what he'd done and suggest and did make a big deal out of it but knew what he'd done maybe he thought if he'd made a big deal out of it the I don't know maybe he thought the dressing room was too fragile to deal with something like that I don't know but for him to come get to spend the comeback and not get near the pitch suggested that the manager had seen enough of him to say you're not in the fight and for me that was the end of him as an event player and should be the end of him as an event player the club should try to seem try and replace me as fast as possible and let him go to Swansea or something or whatever I don't really care I don't because he just he just no heart there he just showed all the heart and showed what it means to be an event player and really embodied that Williams didn't show any Williams just and yet you see him putting performances for Wales where he was you know fighting and and working hard and doing all the things giving the goal away that cost him but he didn't know as well didn't he get sent off in that games though no I will not be sorry to see him go no really disappointing like I said I put the person who I thought would be a leader you know coming as a captain and we talked about having captains and trying to get the drop off this season has been startling performances not good enough the reaction anyone can make a mistake no one's perfect and you can have bad games that it happens no one goes out of a bad game you won't have gone out editor to have a bad game but it wasn't happening and the hiding you'd like the hiding and then it became self-preservation and it became and not leaving my position to try and help you because then I'll get blamed for it it was just saw dancing away it was just disgusting to perform by letting Charlie Austin out running out jumping and not picking players it was just really poor and I know it got a bit better when Sam coming but then it went again and that discipline a bit but I will say for those for maybe those four to six weeks when the initial sort of honeymoon period of ice it did play well I will say that that defence looked really solid him and all gates he looked really solid but when push come to shove I don't know whether he just didn't like playing alongside Key or something but when push come to shove his attitude never mind his defending his attitude was horrendous it was horrendous I won't be I won't be I won't be sad sad to see him leave to be honest and I think for himself he needs to go somewhere else and have a fresh start cos he's 34 now he's probably only got a couple of years left playing he may as well go somewhere and enjoy it cos he's not enjoying the 11 quite obviously definitely so there you have it that's been the defence there are our ratings let us know your thoughts have I been too harsh has Bas been too generous has Bas been too generous have I been too generous let us know your thoughts in the comments what would you have for these players let us know in the comments make sure to look out for the other videos all the season review videos and also these player ratings we will be looking forward to the midfield and the attackers so off your TV we'll see you later


Regional cooperation in the Asian region is critical to the work that we do, particularly migrant smuggling. And the reason for that is because it's cross-border and it's cross-regional and it's international. And we have to be able to understand the flows and trends to be able to properly combat the issue. Working together with agencies like Interpol is critical because you bring that regional perspective that we need. So we're not just talking about flows within Asia. We're talking about flows to the European Union, to Australia, to North America. And you have that international perspective and it's been a great relationship that we've had with you in terms of building that knowledge base, sharing information, and supporting each other in the work that we do around training and capacity building in the region.


Am I sitting in this chair? PNW. Heck yeah. Check one, two. My name is Kenan. Do you want me looking at the camera or looking at you? Okay. My name is Kenan Garnett. My name is Mason Brozovich. My name is Olivia Dusenberg and I'm from Orange City, Iowa. Southern California. Rochester, Minnesota. My name is Chandler Collin and I'm from Amarillo, Texas. My experience here has been so awesome. I've loved the classes. I've loved the relationships I've formed. CCU is a great place where you can learn about the Bible and learn about God and learn about people and how that impacts your faith and how you want to take that out into the world. Having professors pray before class was a super new, super cool. And I've loved getting to know my professors and everyone who also shares the same faith as me because I didn't have that in high school. This year has been incredibly transformative for me already. I learned the importance of hard work to do it to the best of my ability. I have definitely grown since my dive here. They have the perfect blend of faith and academics. You don't have to choose between one and the other. I was pretty astounded at the way they taught business from a perspective of the kingdom and I actually ended up really, really enjoying business classes and I never thought I would be one to like do something entrepreneurial and like start my own business and like chase after stuff like that but there's just a lot of empowerment through what we learned in class and seeing our professors actively working in their fields. CCU is very unique in how they just care for people. There's so much to do whether it's intramurals or the clubs or just events that the school puts on. It really gets students out and like getting to know one another. Grace and Truth is seriously what drives a school and your relationship with Jesus Christ is the most important thing. I definitely have grown so crazily in my own faith just being here and taking like classes like Old Testament, New Testament and kind of feeling like I'm relearning the Bible. I've been challenged daily to think about God in different ways. I would not be who I am now without my experience at CCU. It's something that's invaluable and yeah, I'm very thankful for my experience here.


Welcome back to the MedSmarter question of the week. Let's jump right into that question. As always, we like to start with the last sentence of the vignette so that we know what this question is asking us. Which of the following measures should she take to decrease similar problems in the future? A 40-year-old Caucasian female presents to the physician with a two-week history of aching pain in her left calf that is made worse by dorsiflexion of her foot. On physical exam, her right calf is found to be erythematous, warm, and swollen. Which of the following measures should she take to decrease similar problems in the future? Take a minute, read the question, and answer choices. Come up with your answer and write it in the comment box below. Okay, so what things are we going to be looking for in this question? Well, we've got a 40-year-old Caucasian female. She's at aching pain in the left calf, made worse by dorsiflexion of the foot. And that calf is swollen, warm, and red. So automatically, I'm thinking we could be possibly dealing with a deep vein thrombosis or a DVT. It's classic when you dorsiflex the foot, you're stretching those calf muscles, and if there is a clot within those calf muscles in the veins, it's going to rub and cause that deep aching pain in the calf. So which of these possible answer choices could play a part with a deep vein thrombosis? A. Begin taking a bile acid resin. Bile acid resins are going to have more effect on vasculature and triglycerides and cholesterol, but not so much in decreasing our risk of a DVT. So I'm going to mark that one out. Begin taking a statin. While it is important to have low cholesterol levels to help decrease risk of arterial blockage in the heart especially, statins won't affect DVT formations. So B is not the correct answer. Begin taking low dose oral contraceptives. We know oral contraceptives actually increase our risk for having clots, so we will make C not a correct answer. Exercise 30 minutes 3 times per week. Wow, this is a great thing to do. It's not specifically going to decrease our risk of having a DVT unless our DVT was due to stasis, which this vignette does not give us that possibility. So D does not seem to fit in my answer choice realm. E. Quit smoking. I think this is most definitely a good thing to do because smoking does have a huge, huge increase in risk of us having a DVT, so we are going to leave C as a possible answer. And then F. Reduce alcohol consumption to one or two glasses of red wine per week. This does not have anything to do with a DVT, while alcohol moderation is good for our cardiovascular health. It does not have anything to do with DVTs, so we will mark that out. Which leaves E as our only possible answer. Quit smoking could decrease our risk of DVT. And E is the correct answer. So this is a deep vein thrombosis. So what increases our risk of DVT? We have what's known as the Virchow's Triad. Stasis is the first portion of the Virchow's Triad, so anytime you have immobility or obesity problems, we can have some stasis of the blood. Number two in the Virchow's Triad is endothelial injury. So if you've ever had trauma or surgery or even a previous DVT, that does potentially cause injury to the endovascular that can increase our risk for another DVT. And then three is our hypercoagulable state, and our hypercoagulable state is, examples of that is pregnancy or contraceptive use, cancers, malignancies, and then smoking is another risk factor for hypercoagulable state. So in this question, the answer choice is the best one that matches with our Virchow's Triad is our hypercoagulable state. It is worthwhile to note that the aching pain in our left calf that's made worse by dorsiflexion, that is what is known as a positive Hohmann sign.