Welcome to the Everton News Daily. Everton have unveiled their new home kit for the 2023-24 Premier League season. It's got a collar on it. It's got a nod to Artie Ball Leach on the collar and on the sleeve. Looks nice. I like it. A lot of people like it. We've done some polls today. There's been 75-80% even higher than that in favour of it. A lot of people like it. A lot of people don't like the sponsor but that's not changing right now. But the goalkeeper kit also got a nod to St Luke's Chateaune as well with the windows on it. I think most people are quite happy with the new kit. People have been wondering when it was coming out. It's out now so that's done. Kids can get it finally. It is on sale so you can get yours now if you want. Go and get it. Go and get it. Architect Dan Meis who designed Evans Stadium at Bramley Mordoch has had his say after some debate broke out whether Everton would move mid-season or end-of-season and that wasn't a debate. The debate was about the atmosphere and how can Everton recreate the gooddest atmosphere to this new stadium. If it was mid-season Everton might need Goddison Park to get the more results, whatever, whatever. A couple of pundits had been worried about Everton leaving Goddison Park to move to a new stadium but Meis had his say saying that the design of the stadium has been done so the proximity of the pit is really close. He said it will be way the roof is so close to the supporters as well. It will quickly get a reputation for being one of the most intimidating stadiums in the Premier League and he compared it to the Emirates and said it'll be the noise we'll be deafening compared to the Emirates so Dan Meis having his say reassuring some Evertonians who are maybe can say that when we do leave Goddison Park then we won't be able to create that same atmosphere. It's going to be up to us as a fan base to create that atmosphere. The way the stadium is designed, it's on top of the pitch, it's up to us to create the noise. The stadium will then play into that noise show. Dan Meis trying to calm a few nerves down there from people who are just clinging on, want to cling on to Goddison Park that little bit longer. Leeds United forward Wilfrid Nonto as they want to remain in the Premier League. That is according to sources in Italy. £13 million is thought to be the fee that could get Nonto a move to Everton who has been heavily linked to. Sources in Italy believe the young forward will end up at Goddison Park under Sean Deitch probably just due to those links but his agent has apparently said that he does want to stay in the Premier League which means that obviously that he's leaving Leeds United who of course are in the championship next season so we can see whether Everton do follow up that incest also being linked to clubs like Liverpool as well over the last couple of weeks so we'll see what happens with him. One player who won't be coming to Goddison Park is Tom Kraus. He has agreed a deal with Mainz, a five in Germany. That fee is around €6 million for the 22-year-old defensive midfield player. He has been capped by German under 21s. He had thought of being of interest to Everton but he has agreed a deal to join Mainz from RB Leipzig. And finally Jarrod Branthwaite and James Garner played for England under 21s last night. They beat Germany 2-0. Branthwaite started the game and a very good game and James Garner played the final 30 minutes at right back again but a good win for Lee Carsley side former Everton midfielder of course. That is it for the news daily give the video a thumbs up, subscribe if you haven't and why not become a ToffeeTV Premier Member. The link is in the description and the keyword code will be on the screen now. Thanks for watching. See you later.


Welcome to another special edition of the Home Growers Gardening Series brought to you by Private Property and today we're going to be talking about the Tower Hydroponic System with CAS. Just to let us know how the system works, slightly similar to the NFT Hydro System that we aired last week but I believe this one is obviously much smaller, it's vertical and CAS Tower Hydroponics. So we're definitely seeing a tower in front of us. How does this one work as opposed to the NFT Hydro 60 pocket system? Okay, so very simply as you've explained it quite well actually. So the nice thing about this, it's for smaller space, I think it's well suited to somebody that wants to get into hydroponics for the first time that has never experienced it but they know and they've heard lots about it and they want to learn. So I would highly recommend that the first time user, something like this is spectacular and you can grow almost anything in it. There's nothing preventing you from what you can grow because the mere design of it. But the size of it is 20 pockets so you've got 20 different vegetables that will grow in your herbs and vegetables so you're not restricted. So you cannot believe what will come out of this and as I said, so by makeup of the design, so if you look at this you've got all these pockets here, you've got 16 pockets all down the side and you've got the four and the four on the corners. So if you look at it and I'm going to try and explain, if you see the structure, you've got depth in the reservoir, this is individual depth where the pockets will go. So if we take your net caps as an example, they're going to basically plonk into the sides of this vertical tower and these guys will sap up the nutrients from the water but I'll explain how the water gets there firstly. But before we get to the water distribution, if you look at your pockets that are in the left hand or the right hand corners of this reservoir, they are ideal for the deeper rooting vegetables that grow. So for example, if you can picture a tomato bush growing, now as you've seen with tomatoes the root system is quite aggressive, it's got a big, big rooting system that loves to take over. So you've got depth here. So if you had a picture there, you see this massive root system growing is ideal for tomatoes, eggplants and the like but you can put anything in there but chilies growing, you name it, versus on the tower itself but it'll do well. Yeah, I think what I'm learning with all these series and episodes that we've been having with home growers is that all your systems within home growers pretty much allows any type of crop to grow into it, to add a bit of diversity, a crop selection and obviously we want a huge vegetable and fruit selection in our plates at the end of the day. So I think this is quite fantastic that you're coming with innovative ideas that ideal for small spaces, for large spaces, patio, garden, anybody can grow their own food at home using various structures. So I can specifically see on this tower hydroponic system that there's that same pipe or tube coming in, right? And when we have these pockets inside, then hardest in the water or the roots feed into the nutrient system when it's vertical like this. Okay, very easy. So if you look at this and you'll see you've got that, that pipe in the middle, yeah, that run right down into the reservoir, connects to the pump. The pump sucks in the water and the nutrients and it pumps it all the way up to the top of the section over here. In this top section is this cavity, this cavity is filled with stones, with clay pebbles. As that water gets to the top, it hits those, it breaks up and it trickles all the way down like rain.  You have this trickling down of different splashes of water and they'll start hitting all these little neck pockets, all these neckcaps as the water starts going down. And remember it's not just water, it's water fused with nutrients. So as it hits this, it hits the pebbles, it fuses with the pebble and it provides nutrients to the plant and the plant then grows. And that's what's special about it. What's lovely about the Tower Hydra in terms of this concept versus a typical concept where some people try and manufacture at home, where you've got a plumbing pipe and they got it as a horizontal system, you can never get to maintain because the mere nature in terms of how the cups are or the pots have been designed and cut for pipe purposes, where here you can take your neckcup out, you've got easy access from different points to be able to manage and maintain your roots, which makes it so much easier to work with. This is a fantastic system. The roots ultimately will grow down and feed through, hold a lot of moisture, a lot of nutrient content in the environment that it's created and what will happen is the excess nutrient that will run off will land back into the reservoir and continue its circle of life all the way back up, break up on the top and come all the way down again. That's basically what happens. Yeah. And different to the NFT Hydra system, this is obviously, a person comes and buys this, they don't need to install it, right? Because it's already kitted. Correct. The only thing that they need to put is the cups, the pebbles that we have here and then you have your seedling. That's exactly it. Simple as that. And then you plug it in. And I think maybe just talking about maintenance, which you've mentioned, it's you really take out the cups and clean it, do you have to use any specialized brushes so that you could clean inside? Nothing at all. You're never going to. So one thing again, remember you're dealing with plants, you're dealing with dust, you're dealing with nutrients, you're dealing with anything. It can go outdoors as well. Yes. So that's the lovely thing about it. Yes. So you must understand, there's water splashing. You know, you're going to get all that. So you're going to get markings on this, just take a damn cloth, take a cloth with a little bit of a rough edge onto it. Just set yourself and wipe it down, just with water. There's nothing. You don't ever use chemicals, just keep it as it is. The nutrients that are supplied with it, you just use it again once every three weeks. Just like we spoke about in terms of the other system, in terms of the NFT system, every three weeks you put your nutrients in. You may have to fill it up on a regular basis because as your plants are growing, they get thirsty as well and as heat as we're feeling right now. The water is absorbed by the plants and the plants are growing. And as a result, you're going to fill up with more water. Right. Going back to nutrients because different crops require different feeding schedules, right? Do you sell nutrients here at Home Growers, specific where one could use the nutrients in these specialized systems or does a customer just come in by the tower system with the seedlings and then they'll have to find their own nutrients? Or do you have any nutrients that you could show us that would fit well into the system? So we do nutrients and we supply a wide variety of different type of nutrients. Remember, whatever you buy from Home Growers, if you walk out of this kit, we give you a kit fully inclusive of everything you need for home. Okay. So that is a supply. Your nutrients will probably last you for between three and six months. So you're well looked after for a very long period of time. And then you can come back and you buy your replacement nutrients. Remember, it's either the soluble or it's the liquid. So the options and the choices are yours. Yeah. So even on the growing program, like I said, there's different crops in the different tower system that require different nutrients. The nutrients that one would have to leave with, is it standard nutrients like an MPK or is it just normal feed that a pepper plant can consume, a tomato plant can consume, a lettuce can consume and maybe a basil. Is it just standard for all the different type of plants? It's a standard soluble nutrient that has been specifically geared for hydroponics. So it's got all the essential nutrients required for proper vegetable growth. So it's been well structured, well put together by scientists. It's used globally in terms of hydroponics rollouts. So it's something that's tried and tested. And it is uniquely positioned for hydroponics, which is special. It covers everything that you need. So you don't have to tinker. That's why when we talk about calibration, we've calibrated the nutrients to such a level, that you just follow the simple recipe. You put that much in with water, shake it up, pour it in there. That's all you've got to do for three weeks. That isn't every three weeks. So there's no hectic, hectic work involved in terms of getting your system running. That's what makes it so special. We don't want people to go home and stress and worry about how to get their systems running. And then they worry about pH levels and they worry about... Time keep it simple. We want to make this easy for people because if we look at the tower hydroponics specifically, this has got to be a starting point. And if a person falls and doesn't succeed on their first attempt on something like this, the chance of them wanting to get into things bigger. So what's important to note with a system like this, we make it so easy for the person to succeed that if they had to have failed in deploying and using a tower hydroponic system such as this, they'll be less likely to want to try something bigger. That's what all our systems are so easy to use. There should be no questions around how to use it, how to set it up, how to grow with it, how to maintain it, how to feed your vegetables. We keep it simple. And this is an easy system to work with. Right. So let's get the system coloured up with some crops. So what are we doing? We've got our seedings here. We've got our pebbles here. We've got our cups as well. And we have some of our nutrients. So let's say I've just purchased this system. Where do I start? So there's water inside the reservoir. And what you're going to do is the nutrients obviously inside there as well. And we basically then take all our vegetables or herbs that we have. And these firstly are the nutrients. Those are the nutrients, correct. So do you put in one whole bottle inside or is it teaspoons? So in your kit that we give you, we give you a calibrated bottle which has got a lawn marking on it. And you only fill to that level. And then the rest of water, you shake it up and you pour that solution that you would have created from this into the reservoir. Simple as that, it is really that easy. The trick here, which I highly suggest is that and recommend is that the corner units go with the bigger plants. So like here you've got some tomatoes, tomatoes and chilies. I would definitely put in the corners so your basil can go in there. So let's just find your tomatoes and your chilies, which is always a fantastic option to put in. That's a tomato that is beautiful. And the reason I put them in the corners is that if you remember, these guys grow pretty big, right? That what you want to do is you want to give them support. So you can use alternate structures to give this whole system support. And the structure can be either bamboo and you can use string or tape just to hold the bamboo rods in the corners. That the plant will grow against that. So you want to give it the easiest and the best mechanism of success from the beginning. So you need a plan. So you've got to look at this and guess, okay, in three months time or two months time, how is my beautiful Tower Hard to Pony going to look? So the point is putting this guy up there or whatever it is or put your tomato here and it grows like that, blocking all of these. So that's the challenge here in terms of where you want to get to. So here I put, like for example, there you've got aubergine, eggplant. You want to put that on the top and your beautiful basil can go anywhere. Your chilies I'll even put on the side here because there's a bit of space for them to grow on the corner side there. Then we just start filling up the rest with all the different herbs. You take a whole variety of what you have to display and get this thing set up. It's really very simple. And as the little pebbles start falling out, the clay pebbles don't stress about it. I'm getting worried. Yeah, don't worry about that. Then we just put them in afterwards. So once we switch this on and you'll see the water will start flowing. It'll be remarkable. And then what we're going to do is we're to fill the top here with some clay pebbles. And I've still got that extra bag that I kept aside, which I'm going to use just to fill up the clay pebbles on the top. Because remember, that is the mechanism that when the water starts to run through that sense of pop, it's going to hit these clay pebbles and it's going to break up and it's literally going to rain down on the veg and the herbs that you've got inside here. Making it rain. I like the sound of that.  This is like a water feature. I mean, it's amazing. I sit in my house and I hear this water trickling. It is so soothing. It is really something very special. So we've got that. We're now going to plug this in and you're going to see something special happen. There we go. You can hear the water. You can hear the water. And then if we open that and you have a look inside there, you can see the water's already dropping, dripping through there. So it is actually making it rain, sprinkling, you know, onto the. And that's the rest of the nutrients that we're eating. You can see through there how incredible that is. Absolutely. Absolutely. And that is the magic of a tower hydroponic system. And we have shipped these all over the country. I mean, these have been everywhere. It is remarkable. Do you have to clean the water inside? Just in case any dust comes in so that, you know, we don't. Right now, I mean, I could see the water is quite clear. Yes. And we know that the solution is in this, obviously soluble. But like what happens if it's outside, you know, there's dust, there's been a lot of wind. Does it happen that, you know, the water that starts like filtering inside, it becomes brown? Do you have to clean it? So no. So what you'll find is that in the early stages, if you haven't rinsed your seedlings properly, you're still going to get sediment, you're going to get soil that may still be attached to those roots. Yes. That is going to run down and get into the water. The reason why we use a black reservoir is that it doesn't allow a lot to pass through. So you get no macro organisms growing in the water. So the water is always clear, which is fantastic. So you have a great, great, great quality of water. And these plants are going to drink a lot, which means you're going to fill it up very frequently. When it's not frequently, in summer, maybe twice a week when the plants are huge. So I mean, if you've got some of your spinach, for example, we've got leaves about that size growing on these things. So you must understand if a leaf is that size, it's going to drink a lot of water. So that's just one thing one needs to remember. And you need to maybe start harvesting, right? Correct, no, you've got to. And the reality is, although it's drinking a lot of water, it would drink a heck of a lot more water if it was in the ground. And you'd lose a lot of water through evaporation and so on.  And this is what is special about it. And remember, as we discussed before, a lot of the nutrients will be trapped in the pebbles. And that will give the plants sustainability in terms of nutrient value. Right, you spoke about the colors.  Is there a reason why this tower is white? Is it allowing for photosynthesis to happen? No, so it's purely because of the accessibility of what's available from raw materials. OK, because this is holding water all the time, it's essential that you're using a dock vessel. So no light passes. Water's not sitting in this. So you're not going to get accumulation of algae or anything like that growing in the system. And that's the reason. But it's really about materials. This is what's available. This is what gets used for manufacturing and easily and accessible and affordable. That's what's important and that's what we have. So, Cass, I want to know, because we've been using the pebbles and you mentioned that the pebbles absorb or take up all the nutrients. What happens when I'm done with my season or with my growing period, harvesting my basil, my spring onion, the peppers, the tomatoes, et cetera? Do I have to throw away these pebbles and buy a new packet? Or can these be reused? So again, reuse them off the season. Take them out, rinse them out, wash them and then start them all over again and start them again. Rinse them. It's important. And remember the last time we met, we spoke about the NFT system, the 60 pocket where we said rinse, wash, wash, wash, get that, the nutrients and then flush it into your garden. Give the excess run or from those pebbles to the rest of your plants or vegetables in the garden. And then start fresh. Those pebbles can be used over and over and over again. There's nothing stopping you. So it's almost just like a once-off buy, once-off purchase. And then you could just obviously reuse the only thing that you keep buying is solution. That's when it's done and the seedlings. That's correct. And the one thing which is also important to note is that a lot of people will propagate their own seeds and they'll use maybe jiffy plagues or different types of medium that's going to allow you to grow without soil in terms of before you put them into the hydroponic system. But doing that, you've got less chance of anything getting into the pump. So that's what we always recommend. If you're going to use seedlings, rinse the seedlings properly because if you don't rinse the seedlings and you pop them straight in, it's not going to do harm to the plant, but it's going to do harm to the pump because those little pieces are going to fall through. It's going to get sucked up into the pump. It's going to trap and burn out the pump. So that's why it's critical that you do always look at rinsing out seedlings and you've got seedlings. Seedlings are great because it gives you a kickstart. You're up and running in a flesh versus having to go propagate from seeds. And that's the upside. But just make sure you rinse your seedlings. Yeah. Cass, you know, in the other episodes, we had different types of growing structures, right? So we have this tower. We had the previous NFT hydrosystem previously before that we had the growing bag, etc. So if a customer had to walk into the store and say, Cass, I'm looking to grow my own basil and tomatoes in my own house with less chemicals and so forth, I want to try the more natural approach. Which system out of the three would you then recommend? How is that customer conversation? You know, how does that? How do you start the customer conversation?  Do you try first, understand where they would be growing? Is it a balcony? It's a garden. Yeah. So basically, how do you get to a point to say, I'm going to sell you this type of system based on what you want? So when a customer comes and sees us at home growers, we qualify their need and we find a lot of retired people coming through and they love the system. So if you look at the concept, this particular specifically, this one. And the lovely thing about this is it's ours. If you take a retired person and we talk about retired because I can speak about it from a good experience of people that come into our store. And most recently over the weekend, when I engage with a few people, one is they don't have a garden. They either got a balcony or they don't even have a balcony. They've got an area which is facing a window with a lot of natural arts and sunshine. But I still want to have something to care for and have some pleasure out of growing plants. So that is a fantastic environment to deal with in terms of their needs. If it's another and it's only, let's say, one or two people in that household. Whereas if you've got a household with a family, which is, let's say, two parents and the two children or more children, whatever, then this wouldn't be the solution for them. There you're going to look at an NFT based system, which is going to give you a wider variety. You've got 60 vegetables to grow versus 20. Also remembering that as you start harvesting, if I chopped off salad today and it was lettuces and so on, it's not going to rejuvenate by tomorrow and have another lettuce. You've got to give it time to grow and establish itself. So one's also got to realize and it's got to plan the way they cut their produce back and how they harvest off the system. Because understanding the harvesting is exactly how you're going to get to understand, to maintain your 100 point system. Now, family of four, for example, this would never be enough for them. So but one or two people, this is one. This is perfect. Also a lovely starting point. Twenty eight decent size lettuces is growing. Tomatoes grow. It really is special. So that's what we would do. Do you have garden space? Do you have a outdoor area that will allow you to put this in? You may not have a garden, but you got a patio or you got a window with a lot of natural light coming in and you can display that. This is the right system. You don't have it. You don't have a tap nearby. So you've got to fill up a container to fill this with water. So again, if it's a older person or a younger person, that's going to have to move with with with liters of water. This is a type of system, which will be a lot easier to work with. And also the care of it is a lot easier as well. So that's those are the questions that we'd like to answer and the questions we'd like to answer. Yeah, because I see that you also plug the system. Do you keep it running overnight and how much electricity does it consume? Because, you know, we are living in the days or times of low shedding. That's right. So the systems all run 24 seven that they do the power consumption in terms of the electrical usage is minimal. You barely notice it on your electrical ball, which is beautiful. So from that part, there's no concerns. If you're running a bigger system with a bigger pump, 250 veg and above, except a different story. But then again, you've got 250 plus veg. Yes. So it's a balancing act, you know, for what you're going to get out of this. So let's say you're running your form and you're like all this the formula, your tower form, and you've got beautiful lettuces and you've got tomatoes and whatever. Once it's running and running, it's growing. What's the cost of getting your car and driving to the supermarket? Paying for parking, buying your tomatoes, getting back into your car and driving back home. What's the cost of that? So if you look at the cost of actually getting that done, this is the cost of getting this thing producing for you. There's a significant saving. I can also definitely say, I mean, as much as, you know, there's online shopping, right? I'm just one of those people that like to pick their own fruits and vegetables because you have a preference. But now if you're growing this yourself, you know, you have full control of the planting till harvesting cycle and you get to pick the tomato that you really want at the end of the day. So this is quite a fascinating case. I think I like the system as well for myself because it's quite small petite. And I just like the vertical structure of it. You know, it creates just like a lovely decorating. You have the talking piece, which is also nice. Yeah, yeah, I think this is fantastic. And so thank you once again for just another awesome conversation, just learning a lot with the various systems that you have. And I'm glad that you are meeting the needs of each and every specific customer, young, old, balcony, no balcony, garden, etc. And what I think I like about all your systems is that they're easy to maintain. And if there's any installation that needs to be done, you guys come in and store, but a customer literally leaves home growers with all the things that they need, essential items that they need to start growing their own food. So thank you so much. Thank you very much, pleasure. Thank you. Thank you. Great. Well, there you have it. This is the Tower hydroponic system, 20 pocket hydroponic system to be exact. If you missed this episode, you could catch it on our YouTube channel and also contact home growers and follow their Facebook page because I do know that they give a lot of product information or on what goes around these different growing systems. But I really hope that you enjoyed the episode as much as I did. Thank you so much for watching. Catch us next time on the gardening series with private property in partnership with home growers. See you then.


Greetings and welcome to the Astronomy Picture of the Day podcast. Today's picture for December 11th of 2023 is titled Solar Minimum vs. Solar Maximum. So, what do we see here? Well, let's zoom in and take a look. And what we see is that we're going to be looking at a video here. Now the video is going to show the activity of the Sun at Solar Minimum as compared to Solar Maximum. And you see in the still shot here on the left is Solar Minimum and on the right is Solar Maximum. So, let's go ahead and play the video and let's watch what we see here. And here we see it going and what we see is the rotating Sun. And as that occurs we see the differences between the two sides here, between what is going on on the left and what is going on on the right. And on the left we see the Sun near Solar Minimum and you see there's very little activity going on there. You can see a little bit in terms of prominences and material bulging out and coming out from different brighter areas which are the higher active areas. And you'll see most of it is very, very calm, not a whole lot going on. And you can see the big difference when you compare this to what we see on the right-hand side. On the right-hand side there is constant activity and in fact two bands of activity, one north of the equator and one south of the Sun's equator. And we see the material there being pushed out from the surface of the Sun, the plasma being lifted off by the Sun's magnetic field. Now, what do we mean by Solar Minimum and Solar Maximum? Well, that is a difference in the activity level of the Sun. And when we're at Solar Minimum the Sun is very inactive and very calm. When we're at Solar Maximum the Sun is very energetic and giving off a lot more things like solar flares that we see and that can affect us here on Earth. The solar cycle lasts about eleven years on average. So from one Solar Minimum to the next Solar Minimum, roughly eleven years. And then in between those you would get a Solar Maximum of activity. And right now we're coming out of the Solar Minimum and approaching Solar Maximum in another year or two. So this Sun is starting to become more and more active. A couple years ago it was much like we saw here on the left and a couple years from now it'll be as we see it on the right. And we will be getting far more activity. Now how do we see that activity here on Earth? Well those solar flares will affect us here on Earth because they send out streams of charged particles. Now we're protected from those charged particles by our magnetic field. It buffers most of them away. So most of them just get buffeted around Earth and head out into space. Some will travel along those magnetic field lines and will strike Earth where the magnetic field lines come into Earth's atmosphere. And that is near the North and South magnetic poles. That gives us what we see as the aurora. And the more active the Sun is so closer to Solar Maximum we will see far more aurora. Now that doesn't mean we don't see them at Solar Minimum. As we noted in the video there are occasions when we do get some activity even at Solar Minimum just far less than we do at Maximum. So we can expect far more aurora over the coming years and we can also expect to see them at lower latitudes. So typically they're only visible at very high latitudes. We will begin to see them at much lower latitudes because of the intensity of the solar flares will deform the Earth's magnetic field making that aurora visible a little bit farther south. So that was our picture of the day for December 11th of 2023. It was titled Solar Minimum vs. Solar Maximum. We'll be back again tomorrow for the next picture. So until then, have a great day everyone and I will see you in class.


If people have a piece of equipment that does not work, right, they call me. Which is a bow and yon, which she gets paid to do on a daily basis. I mean, she was making it happen, so it couldn't be more proud of her. My name is Antu Kristen Bowen, and I'm an electrician. Not everybody joins the military to be in the military. Sometimes it's to better themselves.  I was one of them. I didn't really know what I was going to do. But what I think is really cool is that I found a passion. For me, what I like about my job is I get to work on anything ranging from lights to generators, motors, converter units. I mean, we work on everything. But the thing is, what I've realized the most at this command is that everybody is important. Sometimes just because you have experience doesn't mean you have all the answers. You need to develop the work environment where critical thinking and thinking outside the box is welcomed.


Hello, hello, hello, folks! I'm back with more of Philip Riesder Hugo's. I'm as excited about this as you are.  Now, today we're talking about Robert Heinlein's very first Hugo winning novel, Double Star. It got the Hugo Award in 1956, so we're still chock-full in the middle of the fifties, which is also known as not really anyone's favourite period in anything. Nope, can't think of anything too positive. The sixties is where it's at, and I cannot wait to get ten years in the future to re-re-dune and some other cool stuff. Now, let's get on with it, because this one is a lot. The first sci-fi novel I ever read by Robert Heinlein got me from the get-go with this quote.  It is a logical necessity. His profession makes him feel like boss of all creation. When he sets his foot durside, he is slumming among the peasants. Our protagonist is the actor Lorenzo, a man whose narrative voice is immediately appealing, partially because of how strongly defined it is, and in part because you can't help but suspect Heinlein is having a go at a certain class of refined folks who project a reddition, yet are facile beyond belief. Take the following quote upon our protagonist observing a pair of new acquaintances almost come to blows. I had no thoughts of interfering. Every man is entitled to a neglected time and manner of his own destruction. A good line. Yet I can't help, but feel there is a little something pointed at our fancy Tesfian, self-titled as The Great.  I quote, nobody could accuse me of race prejudice.  I quote, nobody could accuse me of race prejudice. I didn't care what a man's color, race, or religion was, but men were men, whereas Martians were things. They weren't even animals to my way of thinking. I'd rather have had a warthog around me any day, permitting them in restaurants and bars used by men struck me as outrageous. There was the treaty, of course, so what could I do? Here I'll freely admit, Highline easily won me over since he turns this character deficiency into criticism, and without any subtlety addresses it, which I am fond of. Subtlety has its time and place, which I would argue is not applicable in combating racism, and that as it turns out is a motive near and dear to Highline's heart. So he was something of a political zigzagger throughout his life and a libertarian, which I absolutely don't believe is a real thing, even though I have seen many people who are, I have even spoken with some of them. Never a fun experience that. He was, Highline, I mean, staunchly anti-racist, and of the tree-hew books I've read at the time of writing this, his is the most socially progressive sci-fi of the 50s. But let's return to Lorenzo for another minute. His character development helps propel you through Double Star. It's very appealing, seeing massive growth from a starting point, best defined by thoughts that go a little like, unfortunately, my aristocratic features are entirely to distinguish, too handsome, a regrettable handicap for a character actor. And obviously you can tell that, other than being incredibly self-satisfied, our actor is a humble one as well. This lack of humility will serve Lorenzo well when he is contracted to play the part of one of the most influential politicians of his day, the progressive John Joseph Bonfort, known as Chief, to his coterie of followers. The Chief is leader to the opposition, Expansionary Party, classical liberal, and part civil rights leader intent on political change. The beneficiaries of this change are not human, racial minorities, note, because this is the future after all, but the Martians, hated passionately by some backwards-thinking peasants, as the smooth-talking spacer Captain Duck calls them. Lorenzo himself, we find out, feels repulsed by the Martians during their because of their acrid smell. A physiological reaction easily changed through hypnosis. This change allows our intrepid actor to rethink his prejudices and see so much where before he was blinded by them. It is kind of a magical waving of the hand. I don't think you can change at so deeper level a person with hypnosis. I mean, hypnosis, does it really work? In the 50s, they really, really, really loved it. Now, it seems to have lost much of its appeal, doesn't it? The play Lorenzo pulls is itself a delight to follow, another toll free of complications that force him to live deeper and deeper into Bonfort's persona. Policies that are at first loathsome to the actor eventually become his own, and the distance between Tespien and his role increasingly shortens. There are some wonderful sides, like this quote about the way language works. It is nevertheless the case, I answered, that a line which looks okay in print may not deliver well. Mr. Bonfort is a great orator, I have already learned. He belongs with Webster, Churchill and Demosthenes, a rolling grandeur expressed in simple words. Now take this word intransigent, which you have used twice. I might say that, but I have a weakness for polysyllables. I like to exhibit my literary erudition, but Mr. Bonfort would say stern, I wrote, stay, barker, would say stubborn, or mullish, or pigheaded. The reason he would is naturally that they convey emotion much more effectively, and that is a great point. Anglo-Saxon words, like mullish, pigheaded, really resonate better emotionally than words whose origins rest in either Latin or French. And I can say that because I have done English studies as my bachelors. Another favourite of mine is the following exchange about the nature of politics. Politics is a dirty game, no, Clifton answered insistently. There is no such thing as a dirty game, but he sometimes run into dirty players. What am I doing with this accent? I don't see the difference. There is a world of difference. Kiroga, who is the opposition politician, the McConnell to Bonfort's Biden? No, it doesn't really fit. It's a turd-rater and a stooge in my opinion, a stooge for villains. But there is nothing to write about John Joseph Bonfort, and he has never ever been a stooge for anyone. As a follower he believed in the cause, as the leader he has led from conviction. I really like this. It gives a positive spin on politics and it seems to inspire and it did feel to me inspirational in the sense that I felt kind of a stirring to be more politically active than I did before I read this novel. It's also a book I feel I've learned a great deal from. I never knew before what a farleafile was, for example. One point of contention is that Heinlein's view on women in the future isn't much more advanced than best layers. So there is at least a major female character, Penelope, she's still relegated to the role of secretary. Now she is insanely capable and the reasonable renter doesn't fall apart several times over, which does paint her in certainly more complex a light than what we saw in Bester's work. You can watch my previous video. If you haven't, on Philip Ries, The Hugos, the first in the series, I spoke more extensively about that issue at play over there. But you will still find certain elements of her portrayal which leave something to be desired. Double Star is a clear favorite for my favorite character-driven sci-fi of the 50s so far. It's probably the one to have the easiest flow across all the 1950s hugo winners and I'm eager to see how it compares to the other Heinlein novels that earn the award. It's an easy enough recommendation to make. Having read Starship Troopers since, I also think this is by far the superior novel, but that is a discussion for another time. Tell me, have you read anything by Robert Heinlein? He is a well-known name in science fiction of old. Maybe you've heard it, even as the author behind what would eventually be the Starship Trooper movie, a movie I grew up on, which probably I will discuss to some extent at some point during my Starship Trooper review. Did I manage to win you over with this one? Does it sound appealing? It's not exactly a new spin. No, it's not exactly a new idea rather, but it is an excellent execution on a familiar imposter storyline. And you should of course absolutely subscribe to my channel, press that like button and tell all your friends. We're reviewing all the hugos here, boys and girls, so don't, don't be afraid to dust off your paperbacks of ancient science fiction books from 60 years hence. Where is it more? It's more actually, it's the going on 70 years. My god, time is passing. Anyway, I will see you next time. Bye!


Hello and welcome to the session. My name is Asha and I shall be helping you with the following question which says, in each of the following exercises 10 to 20, find the equation for the ellipse that satisfies the given condition. Thirteen is, n's of the major axis plus minus 3, 0 and n's of the minor axis 0, plus minus 2. An ellipse is the set of all the points in the plane. The sum of those distances from two fixed points in a plane is constant. Therefore, first let us draw an ellipse whose major axis is along the x-axis. So this ellipse, a is the length of the semi-major axis, therefore 2a is equal to the major axis, b is the length of the semi-minor axis, therefore 2b is the length of the minor axis, ab is the major axis and the series is the minor axis and the major axis is along the x-axis. And c, that is the distance of focus from centre is given by root over a square minus b square and the standard equation of an ellipse. In this case, that is when the major axis is along the x-axis is given by x square upon a square plus y square upon b square is equal to 1. The vertices of this ellipse is given by plus minus a, 0 and the focus f1 and f2 that is focus is given by plus minus c, 0. So with the help of these few ideas we will find the equation of the ellipse. So this is our key idea. Now let us start with the solution. So here we are given n's of major axis plus minus 3, 0 and the n's of minor axis 0, plus minus 2. Now here since the n's of the major axis lie on the x-axis since the y coordinate is 0, let us write it down since the n's of major axis on the x-axis plus the equation will be of the form x square upon a square plus y square upon b square is equal to 1 where a is the length of the semi major axis. Vertices are same as the n points of the major axis we have thus we have vertices is equal to plus minus 3, 0 since vertices are same as the n points of the major axis. So this implies that a is equal to 3 and let this be equation number 1 and the n's of minor axis 0 plus minus 2 are on the y axis therefore their distance from the centre of the ellipse is equal to the semi major minor axis sorry this implies that b is equal to 2. Let us denote this by equation number 2 and this is the standard form of equation of an ellipse. So let's substitute the value of a and b in this equation. So the equation of an ellipse using 1 and 2 can be written as x square upon 3 square plus y square upon 2 square is equal to 1 or we have x square upon 9 plus y square upon 4 is equal to 1. Hence the answer is the equation of an ellipse whose n points of the major axis are plus minus 3 comma 0 and n's of the minor axis are 0 comma plus minus 2 is x square upon 9 plus y square upon 4 is equal to 1. So this completes the session hope you have understood it take care and have a good day.


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Mae'n meddyl i'n gwybod eich eu cyd-dyniad hwnnw, nad yna. Mae'n meddyl i'r yrhyw ddwyf yn ddechrau'r cyd-dyniad. Mae'r byd o'r cyd-dyniad hefyd, mae'r cyd-dyniad o'r llyfrgell yn gweithio'n ddaeth, yn ei ddweud i'r Universityll, yn ddiolch, mae'r iawn sy'n dweud i'r cyfnod ac yn ddaeth i'r cymaint cymaint. Mae'r cyfaint o'r cymaint sy'n ddaeth i'r cymaint o'r cyfaint i'r cymaint. Ac ydy'r mal yma o 10 o'ch ddau mor gan Gyllid sig감 ond gyda cyfnodio bwysig i'w economi, mae'n ystod y cyfnodio'r gweithio o'r lle'i'r rhai wahanol, a'r llefio'r defendedidau'u raddech chi'n mynd i'r llefio'r mae'r llefio'r ganlŷn cynnig, ydw i'r llefio'r fawr i'r llefio'r fawr i'r llefio'r fawr i'r llefio'r fawr i'r llefio. Mae'n anhygoel iiad o'r Ministeriat Y Cyfnodol. Yn rhodod am barbyn wedi cyfrifatiddau, rheswm iawn rwy'n archaedig am ddisgrifunio'r ddweud yna, mewn ddmergyffredig iawn o'r ddau arweinol yn y ´45,000í. Ac iddynt yn cael gwneud hyn, mae'r ddweud yn cael gwneud y ffol gwyrddol yn cynwylo cyfriadau mewn Gwyrdd y particles yn mynd i gyrtiadau. Mae'r ddechrau'n llyfr yn cael ei boblen nhw ymgyrch yn ymgyrch yn eu gweld yma, .. wherever we think we've made a real difference to the recruitment... ..and the retention of top quality physics teachers. We've been organising and running the initial teacher-trengers' scholarships... ..which have brought in the most wonderfully talented people into physics teaching. The continuing work of the stimulating physics networks... ..are support science teachers in the country... ..escer coats with physics teachers... ..who may not be physicists by background but are who are teaching physics within schools... Something that's really important to us. We're doing more, more internationally through our densitio idea for development projects and we're members in India and in South Saharan Africa. All in all it's been a tremendously good year for physics. What we've been trying to do this year is to try to do a few innovations. We have two new categories of award that I think are really very important. The Phillips award recognizes individuals who have given a distinguished service Cymru ddechrau, a ond, mae nhw'n ffordd i'r unrhyw ffordd o gafodd ffyrddwyr cysyllt yma yn y rhaid o'i pequodd. Felly mae'n meddwl am yma i'r ffyrddwyr ac i'r ffyrddwyr yma. Yn ffordd i'r unrhyw yma, annu'r gwybod yn gweithio fy nghymru yn gweithio'r cyfrifol. Mae'n gweithio'r cyfrifol, mae'n gweithio'r cyfrifol, mae'n gweithio'r cyfrifol, mae'n gweithio'r cyfrifol, mae'n gweithio'r cyfrifol o'r cyfrifol. Felly, byddwn yn cwrs o'r ffordd ei wneud o'r ffysigau a'r hefyddiol. Felly, dyna'n ffordd ei wneud oherwydd. Yn y cwrs o'r ffordd, mae'r eich anhygoel sydd eich anhygoel. Mae'r anhygoel yn cymryd yn y Ymddangosol Iolodau gan oed o'r gweithio cymryd yma yw cyfeirio cyfraffliol o'r ffordd ei wneud yw'r ffordd. A byddwn yn y meddwl, byddwn yn tawr o'r ffordd yma y llyfr yn y cwrs o'r ffordd ei wneud o'r anhygoel a we are going to be making those a worse to them this evening. More and more people recognise the excitement of physics. It provides answers to really big questions about the nature and origins of the universe. But it is also important to recognise that the physics community just contribute enormously to the wealth of the country as well. That combination of the two is something that we are going to be celebrating today. Mae'r prydgaf economiaid, ac mae yw gwirioneddon ni'n meddwl i'r unrhyw ar gyfer mae'r rhagoriaethau ac mae'r rhagoriaethau cymaint yn ffiameth arall yn d tussen fyd. Mae'r cymhreithau yma sy'n gyflogoedd? Mae'r cymhreithau sy'n cymysgafb ll correctlyrethau'r cyfgeiniodd i'r cyfryr. Mae'r cyfrif, mae'r cyfrif, i ei gollid sy'n cymmyddiad스 bus FRF, a'r cyfrif yn cyfneithio i gael eich hyfforddiant they have developed into genuine commercial success. It's a perfect example of how fundamental curiosity driven research inspired innovation in the longer term. One of the things we did is we actually sent a film crew along, a film both of the innovation award winners and our gold medal award winners. The gold awards are the premiere awards One of the oddest things that happened is that when we were doing this filming, the CTO of Zebedee, who was one of our companies that has won the Innovation Awards, told the film crew how his original research had been stimulated and encouraged by an inspirational supervisor. The crew realised that the story sounded awfully familiar, and they'd filmed just that supervisor just the week before. Roy Samballs is actually the winner of the Faraday Award. Nghymru yma hwn yn ymddi'r wysig. Felly mae'n gweithio argyflwyd yn cymryd o'r cyfrifwyr a fyddwn yw'r cyfrifwyr wedi bod nhw'n gweithio ymddiadau ac yn ein ffordd o'r cyfrifwyr. Mae'n meddwl eich mynd yn gwneud ymddiadau ymddirioneddau a'r gwneud o'r cyfrifwyr wedi'u cyfrifwyr ar y sylfaen. Yn ymgyrch ymddiadau ar gyfrifwyr, yn ymwylo cyfrifwyr, university applications have actually declined this year. Five universities this year have either started or are planning new degree courses in physics, reversing the trend of many years. But this is only really literally half the story. Physics is now the third-most popular A level subject for boys. It's different for girls. Today we released a report on physics and girls. It was released this morning, a lot of press attention. It showed that nearly half of all co-ed maintain scores in England do not even send one girl to do physics at A level. Now, should we care? Absolutely. The inequity of denying girls the opportunities that they deserve. A time when the nation is crying out for skilled STEM graduates, people with a scientific ability. What we're doing is just absurd that just a desperately high proportion of the country is being denied the opportunity to participate in physics, therefore in engineering as well. The CBI recently stated recruiting staff with strong STEM skills will help underpin the UK's ability to compete and achieve growth in many major sectors like manufacturing, construction and engineering. Forty-two percent of firms report that they're struggling to find the STEM talent they require. We can increase the number of physics literate employees entering the workplace by about 60% at a single stroke if as many girls as boys choose physics at A level. So one of the challenges we have as an institute is to address this. If 46% of schools that a state maintained and a co-ed send no girls on to study physics at A level and because quite often where you live determines which school you go to, we have denied the chance to participate in what we know is just truly important to a huge proportion of our population. We must address this. Now we know that girls' perceptions of physics have formed well beyond the physics classroom. We have to work on getting the right message over at the earliest possible stage. We need to address it with the appropriate way of influencing teachers, which we will. But a major influence on everyone's perception of physics is of course the media. We're lucky to have really many excellent science journalists in the UK. One of the very best is actually here tonight, my former 2T, Palab Ghosh, the BBC science correspondent, and Palab does a great job in representing science to us. But we need to encourage even more coverage from young writers who can inspire the next generation to study physics. And so today, together with the SDFC, the Science and Technology Facilities Council, we're launching a new prize in physics journalism to celebrate the work of science journalists. SDFC has closed links with a number of international physics-based activists, but especially with Japan. And the prize is an expensive paid trip to Japan to visit world-leading facilities that carry out research absolutely at the frontiers of science. So if you want to know details of that and to encourage young people to enter the SDFC-sponsored physics journalism prize, look on the SDFC web page or look on ours. And we hope that many writers will submit entries, whether the journalists now want to become journalists, their physicists, or maybe both. Now of course I can think of very few individuals who've had such a major impact on the presentation of physics in the media as the winner of this year's President's Medal. Brian Cox has, with tremendous success, married his career as a particle physicist, working in part on the Atlas experiment, with his work as a populariser of science. There are many scientists who do excellent work explaining science to general audiences. But very few, if any, can do this with the charisma that Brian brings to this. He communicates the joy and the wonderment of scientific discovery in an incredibly personal way that really means that he engages the listener, the viewer, and makes everyone appreciate the beauty and the power of science. He really is a true role model for young people. His television programmes are beautifully made, accessible, and yet they really are scientifically rigorous. His radio programme, The Infinite Monkey Cage, which takes a light-hearted look at science, it really has a cult following. He writes books. The Quantum Universe one, which I recently took a look at, he co-authored with Jeff Forshaw, is an example of that. The book is informal in style, but serious in intent, and it embodies his style as a populariser of science. The public's interest in physics has really never been higher, and in particular the interest of young people in physics. There's no doubt that Brian has played a really important part in this. We're very lucky to have him, and we're delighted to honour him with the President's Award. For his achievement in promoting science to the general public and inspiring the next generation of physicists, please welcome the winner of the President's Medal of the Institute of Physics, Professor Brian Cox.