I'll tell you what when you have when you're a parent, you know at bedtime you need your kids to go to bed Right. Yeah, that's right. When I would come the kind of person I take my sheets off the bed I'd wash them dry them put them right back on the bed But approaching bedtime when I'd come back to the dryer and the sheets were in a wet wad And I had to keep my kids up past their bedtime. It was not my finest parenting moments. That's a fascinating story Yeah, and I guess at that point the pain is the highest because here you are you have a schedule You're trying to get the kids to bed and now you have another 45 minutes of drawing time before I get it. That's amazing


Hello guys, welcome back to laptop media. I'm Venom and today we're going to take a look at the GTX 1060 This is the ASUS Trix model and it looks pretty decent It has three open-styled fans, a very nice backplate and of course RGB lightning. Yeah It's 2017 and now every PC product looks more like a Christmas tree than an actual component for your computer It also has two display ports, two HDMI's and as well a DVI port and before we even start with the benchmarks I just want to point out something important. This GPU is very big. It is almost 30 centimeters long That's what she said But seriously if you want to buy this version of the GTX 1060 You better go get a ruler and try to measure if it will actually fit in your case You can also get the mini version which is with 3 gigabytes memory But the model we're looking at today is the better 1060 with 6 gigabytes of VRAM. It also has 1280 CUDA cores and 192-bit memory interface But hey, I guess you didn't come here just to watch a rant about RGB's and lengths Of course we made some benchmarks and today we're going to pair the 1060 with an i5-6400 and 16 gigabytes of RAM Here take a look at our results As you can see it runs everything at 1080p like a complete beast and even GTA 5 and Rise of the Tomb Raider with maximum NCA aliasing advanced graphics and pretty much every setting you can crank up some maximum This GPU handles that at above 38 FPS and yes I know most of you won't be playing with maximum NCA aliasing But I thought it would be interesting to see these GPU's capabilities. This particular version is pretty cool Literally, I haven't seen the temperatures rise above for 60-ish degrees Celsius and yes It has RGB lightning enough ports to plug in Multiple monitors maybe four or five but the important thing is that it handles the games perfectly I don't believe that there's a game out there that running at 1080p will put this GPU to its knees After all these cool features and amazing benchmarks Why shouldn't you just buy the GTX 1060 and the answer to that is the RX 480 After the updates that AMD did they basically made the RX 480 go head-to-head with the 1060 And my advice is to take the fanboy decision if you're in team red Well buy the RX 480 and if you're in team green just buy the 1060 But now you're thinking that's not a very professional advice. Is it yes? It is not but both cards have similar performance in games and depending on where you live One of them could be quite more expensive and if you're a cheap guy like me just go with the cheaper one What could possibly go wrong? That's about it guys Basically, I didn't give you any useful opinion on the graphics card But I think the 1060 is so amazing that you just have to buy it to have the awesome experience that I personally had with it and Make your own opinion and trust me if you choose to buy it. You definitely won't regret that decision Thank you for watching this video. Don't forget to subscribe to laptop media. See you next time


Hey guys, it's Monica and I'm gonna bring you a a wig review I know it's been a while since I've posted any kind of a wig video, but I'm gonna share this with you. I actually think this is a pretty awesome color and I think I'm more excited about the color because I don't often do browns or have any kind of brown shades I'm usually more the blonde the actually blondes Sometimes even you know brighter blondes, but this is John Renau's alia now alia is an older style So it's not a brand new style, but it is a contemporary Bob So I have a pretty long face Considering my face is nine inches from the temple to my chin and this actually is nine inches in the front So I think that's pretty cool. Now the the crown of this is ten point five and you can see it gives me this little Bump right here, which I really like and then the ends flip up so cute Now you're either gonna like the flip in the end or you're not and I actually like the flip in the end So the ends flip up really nice the nape is five point five and the sides are right about eight I'm gonna do a slow spin I love the maneuver. I mean these are synthetic fibers. They're not heat-friendly, but they're synthetic fibers and they just feel I Just think they feel so nice. So but check out this color. This is FS 10 slash 16 is called walnut syrup So it's an ash brown with I'm sorry. It's a light brown with ash blonde highlights throughout And I think the highlights are just so Pretty, they're so evenly blended. They're just really really nice I'm gonna show you the inside of the cap right now so that you can see what it looks like the cap This is what John Minow calls their smart lace. So it's almost invisible and it is I mean, I'm gonna show you before I superimpose take a look at I mean you really can't even see at all so smart lace Virtually invisible John Minow says and it is a lace front hairline gives you an amazing ability to do off the face You can do all sorts of different styling options with it and it has this take a look beautiful monofilament cap the monofilament cap is It just gives you the ability to be able to part it on any side You have so much versatility in the monofilament cap gives you that natural hair growth look right from the scalp and I just love it. I I mean For me my perfect wig has a lace front and a mono cap. That's my perfect wig I love and I don't it if it's a narrow mono top But I can deal with that But I need to have a lace front and a mono top to feel super comfortable in a wig gives me that versatility This is really pretty John Minow synthetic hair fiber. This is pretty well styled in a very natural look if there is any Permatize in here. I it's very minimal There is a good amount of volume, but it's not over the top and this is right out of the box So I don't not Typically I should say typically when you get synthetic fibers out of the box. They're shiny Now this may be a little shiny in the lights, but looking at it in person There's hardly any shine on this It is such a natural looking fiber and I love the colors look at the colors I'm gonna superimpose a couple of shots that I took outside so you can see it's not a full sunny day, but Why did you to be able to see and you can actually if you want you can comb these down if you really want or you can you know flip them the way they are and Collect the flip now I probably would trim a little bit more of a fringe along the sides Just because I prefer that so I might just shorten up a little bit on the fringe on the sides Or you can just leave it long pull it back. I've done nothing to this. There's no a dry shampoo There's no any kind of hairspray I have got a few little flyaways, but those flyaways can be tamed with a wig hairspray and And if you if you think it's too shiny for you, you can tame that with some Baptiste Just spray that on that's you can buy that anywhere Wal-Mart Walgreens anywhere. I use the Baptiste Baptiste and Thanks to Marlene Fab and glam. This is the one I use and this is divine and dark So I've never tried the divine dark. I have the blonde. I have the light brown as many different flavors Oh color blends or shades flavors But I've never tried this divine dark before because I thought gosh it'd be too dark But it isn't and it's actually perfect and my lean turned me on to this color I've been using the teeth for a while, but never this color like I said or this Shade range But you can spray this on like it and it will just take down some of the shine if you really feel and if you have a Really blonde color wig that you want to take a little bit of the color down you can shine it You can take a little bit of it down Not very much. It's not going to be like and that's what I was afraid of that I was gonna come out and it was gonna be that color brown and it's not So anyways, this is sent to me complimentary from week studio one in exchange for a review and And I love that. I think this is really cute really cute John Renault and this is Aliyah By John Renault and now link all the information below again. Thank you so much to week studio one for sending this to me. I Think it's really cute. What do you guys think? Thanks so much for watching. I'll see you next time


Ieithaf ddybydd. Caetheifftrwydd cael ei ddigon o cwestiynau dwrtoddau mewn gwahodd, ac yn holl bwysig i ddweud, wrth gwrs, quaidwyr hynny freittadau cwestiynau, ac yn holl bwysig i ddweud, dyma'r ddweud. Be gwelir weithio i ddweud o cwestiynau ddweud yr oeddionion sy'n ddweud. Mae'n holl bwysig i ddweud ry分u meddwl. 1. Douglas Ross On 14 December, I asked the First Minister to confirm that vital financial support needed by the businesses affected by her Covid restrictions would be delivered before Christmas. She stood there and promised to do everything possible to deliver that, and the First Minister has failed. Many businesses have contacted us to say that they cannot even apply for that funding yet, let alone receive a single penny. Can the First Minister tell us how many businesses in Scotland have so far received funding and how many are waiting to receive it? That is an important issue for many businesses across the country. Before Christmas, I said and I repeat again today that the Scottish Government is in partnership with local authorities who are responsible for administering the significant bulk of the funding that we have made available and are working to get that money to businesses as quickly as possible. As I am sure everybody will accept, including I hope Douglas Ross, there are some checks that councils have to do to guard against fraud and any businesses, and I am not suggesting that many would try to claim money that they were not entitled to. That process is on-going for the hospitality strand, for example. Businesses who previously got support have been contacted, and the bulk of them will have been contacted. They have been asked to complete a declaration, and then money will start to flow when those declarations have been returned. I know that many councils are in the process now of making the payments, so Adam Bramod Lothian, for example, has started to make payments. Glasgow is starting today on the back of that process. The nightclubs fund, which I know there has been commentary on this week, is open for applications. Nightclubs are being asked to submit an application. As soon as they do, money will be allocated to them within days of that. That is an on-going process, but everybody is working hard to get the money into bank accounts of businesses as quickly as possible. Finally, I remind Douglas Ross that, where the Conservatives are in power—a touchy subject I know today, but where the Conservatives are in power—some of that money is not being provided at all to businesses, because this Government has made sure that we are providing financial support to businesses. Many businesses suffering the same impact of Covid south of the border are not getting the money that they will get in Scotland. Let us look at the First Minister's answer. Apparently, this is an important issue, yet she could not tell us how many businesses in Scotland have received the funding and how many businesses are still waiting. She stood in this chamber and promised to do everything possible to deliver the funding before Christmas, and here we are in the middle of January. Businesses are telling us that the process is going at a snail's pace, but the First Minister somehow defends it or blames councils for not acting quickly enough. The responsibility is on the Scottish Government. The SNP in Scotland added these restrictions, which have impacted businesses, but they have not delivered the funding. One business group said yesterday, and I quote, a business group here in Scotland, not a single penny of funding we were promised before Christmas has reached businesses. Now, a month after the funding was announced, John Swinney came forward to say that it is difficult to give a precise timescale on when this money will be paid, a month after it was announced. First Minister, this has happened time and time again during the pandemic. The SNP is quick to demand more funding from the UK Government, but it is very slow to actually get it out to the businesses who need it. So, First Minister, is a month-long wait for this vital funding really good enough for our businesses? First Minister, at least under an SNP Government money is being allocated to businesses and will get to businesses. Under a Tory Government money is not getting to businesses at all. I am sure that if either central government or local government was to disperse money without basic checks to guard against fraud, for example, Douglas Ross would be one of the first to get to his feet and complain about that as well. If we take, for example, the nightclub closure fund that is open for application, businesses who previously received support are being contacted, they are being asked to complete their application and then payment will be made within a matter of days once that application has been received. The hospitality fund, for example, is only being asked to complete a declaration, not a new application. Businesses are being proactively contacted and councils are starting now. Some councils have already started, others are starting today to pay that money. Again, we are doing this. I am not criticising councils. I know how hard councils are working and how quickly councils are working to get this money out of the door. I come back to this point. We all want this to be done as quickly as possible. Businesses in every part of the UK are suffering some of the same impacts of Covid, but in Scotland businesses will be getting financial support that they are not getting where the Conservatives are in government south of the border. Douglas Ross. Businesses in other parts of the United Kingdom were not shut down in the same way they were shut down by Nicola Sturgeon. We all remember her Public Health Scotland telling people not to go to Christmas parties the next day that the First Minister came on to TV to confirm that. That is why funding is required here in Scotland and that is why it was required in December, not the middle of January. The First Minister said that this is because there are basic checks to be made to ensure that money goes to the right people. We cannot make the basic checks if, in some areas, the application process has not even opened. That is a problem that businesses are telling us. This week, here in Scotland, businesses were dealt another blow. Restrictions on them were extended by a further week. Without any clear evidence, the Omicron data is now far more positive. The First Minister herself has accepted that the Government's projections in December were wrong. So why are hospitality businesses still being held back by her Government? Can the First Minister explain to people across Scotland why, on one hand, it is safe for tens of thousands of people to now go to stadiums but it is not safe to walk from your seat to the bar in the local pub? I cannot believe that Douglas Ross must be the only person in the entire country in the run-up to Christmas who did not hear the howls from hospitality businesses south of the border about the collapse in footfall and the loss of revenue and the dire straits that they were in. He is standing here trying to suggest that businesses in every part of the UK have not suffered the Covid impacts. However, the difference in Scotland is that the Scottish Government has responded in a way much greater than the Government has south of the border. I have already said that Douglas Ross might want to listen on hospitality. It is a case of businesses being contacted and asked to complete a declaration. That process is under way and that money has started to flow in terms of the nightclub closure fund. The application process is open and that money will be flowing soon as well. We take our responsibilities seriously to allocate money and then get that money to businesses in a way that the Tory Government is simply not doing to anywhere near the same extent. The projections before Christmas were not wrong. What happened is that we did not just fold our arms and accept those projections as inevitable. We took proportionate, sensible and balanced action. The public responded as they have done throughout the pandemic magnificently and we were able to change the course of those projections.  However, if Douglas Ross had been standing here, is he really saying that he would not have responded to those projections in December? If that had been the case, we would be in a seriously difficult position right now. We took sensible action, and we are now lifting those restrictions, but we are doing so in a phased and responsible way. Finally, had I followed the advice of Douglas Ross over the past months, we would not have face-covering still being used in Scotland. We would not have some of the mitigations that we have in schools. We would not have taken many of the sensible actions that we have taken, and we would be in a much worse position than we are in right now. I will continue to follow a sensible, responsible course to lead this country as safely as possible through the remainder of this pandemic. If the First Minister had listened to me in December, listened to the voices from the Scottish Conservatives, businesses would not be telling her in January that they are not getting the funding that they need. She says that I have to listen to her answers. First Minister, please listen to the businesses that are telling you here in Scotland that you made a promise to them that you failed to deliver, and they are waiting for this vital funding. This is to protect their businesses, this is to protect jobs, and shaking your head and dismissing what they are saying undermines everything that they are trying to do to keep their business alive through the toughest possible time. The First Minister tells us to live with Covid, but she will not trust the public. She imposes restrictions but does not deliver compensation. She says that the data on Omicron and Covid is more promising, and then she threatens businesses with a wider vaccine passport scheme. She demands more money from the UK Government and then does not give it to the businesses here in Scotland. When our economic recovery is so fragile, it simply is not good enough. First Minister, why are Scottish jobs and Scottish businesses always an afterthought for you and your Government? The first time from Douglas Ross is not nonsense. We cannot give more money from the UK Government to Scottish businesses because we did not get the more money from the UK Government. Not just the Scottish Government but the Welsh Government and the Northern Irish Government asked for, we managed to find, within our own resources, additional money so that we can get extra support to Scottish businesses, because we accept how important it is in the face of this on-going challenge to provide as much support as we possibly can for businesses. We are in a process right now, Scottish Government working with local government, to get that money out of the door into the bank accounts of businesses. I come back to a central point. That is money that will get to businesses that counterpart businesses in south of the border will not get, even though they have suffered much of the same impact as businesses in Scotland are suffering. I do not know why. I lose track week on week as to what exactly Douglas Ross thinks we should or should not do to tackle Covid. All I can conclude is that Douglas Ross's approach to tackling a global pandemic is simply to oppose everything that the Scottish Government tries to do. Thank goodness that he has not been responsible for those difficult decisions, because on his display in opposition, the country would be in a sorry mess over Covid had he had anything to do with those decisions. We will continue to take responsible decisions, we will continue to support businesses and we will continue to lead this country as safely as possible through the Covid pandemic. Almost 10 months ago, the First Minister said that her focus was on getting the NHS back to normal, but today, almost two years into the pandemic, things are getting worse and not better. While I accept Omicron and put more pressure on our NHS services, many of the promises that we are facing were avoidable. In September, residents in Lanarkshire were told to expect delayed and cancelled operations as the health board was put into code plaque. This week, they have gone further, introducing a suspension of many GP services for at least the next four weeks. Paces were told that NHS services would be cut, except for the ones that, in the health boards' words, they would never wish to stop. This is an unprecedented situation, affecting the health and wellbeing of over 650,000 Scots. Is it not the case that, for people in Lanarkshire, their entire health service has now effectively been turned into an emergency-only service? No, that is not the case. Let me reflect on the first point that Anna Sarwar made there, which is that, 10 months ago—I stood here and I accept that that will be the case—we were focusing at that point on getting the NHS back to normal and back on track. 10 months ago, if my memory serves me correctly, we had not had the Delta variant, nor had we had the Omicron variant. The pandemic has dealt us two significant additional blows since that period 10 months ago. I accept that that means that what we had hoped would be the case in terms of the—Anna Sarwar is saying that it is after Delta—that may or may not be the case. What I am saying here, and I think that any reasonable person listening to this would accept, is that this pandemic has continued to deal us blows that we were not necessarily anticipating. Yes, that means that our NHS is still struggling with the weight of Covid in a way that we all hoped would not be the case by now, but our NHS boards, those working in the NHS every single day right now, are undertaking that task magnificently. In terms of Lanarkshire, NHS Lanarkshire has operationalised level 2 of their GP escalation framework. That is not the most serious level, there are levels 0, 1, 2 and 3 of that. That is something that they have initially said is for a four-week basis, but we have asked them to review that weekly and report to the Scottish Government on the status of that. They previously had to do that at an earlier stage of the pandemic in 2020, and that ensures that, given the staff absences that are being experienced right now, they can continue to focus on the patients who most need to care. None of us want to be in this position. We hope that we will be out of this position sooner rather than later, but that involves all of us continuing to take the responsible action to get Covid under control so that we can get our NHS fully back to normal. Anna Sarwar The First Minister says that that is not the case in terms of emergency-only services, but the previous guidance did not include primary care. It now does include primary care, and it has said that it is now essentially only protecting what they call never services. It is also important to note that this was after delta to what the First Minister said. We cannot say that that is all due to Omicron, because NHS Lanarkshire was warning of pressure last July. Cold Black was put into place in October. That was long before Omicron arrived in the UK, but by allowing the situation in NHS Lanarkshire to reach crisis levels, the First Minister has let down patients and staff who believed her when she said that there was a recovery plan in place. Across Scotland, more than 650,000 people are now languishing on NHS waiting lists. 60,000 people have been on a waiting list for more than a year. In one month alone, more than 1,600 operations were cancelled just hours before they were due to happen. The number of people and the length of time they are waiting keeps going up. First Minister, you promised a recovery and a catch-up plan. Shouldn't recovery mean that things are getting better, not worse? Shouldn't catch-up mean that waiting lists are coming down, not mounting up? I do not say that to be pedantic, but it is a really important part of the context. Anna Sarwar, on his first question, I think that the official report will bear me out here. Refer to something that I said 10 months ago, and then try to say that that was somehow after Delta. Delta was identified as a variant of concern, I think, in April, May last year. Since Delta, which caused significant additional disruption to the health service and society, we, of course, had Omicron and we have been dealing with that since. None of us want to be in this position, but I think that any reasonable person would realise that that has seriously frustrated the attempts on the part of the NHS, just as it has attempts across wider society to get back to normal. That is the context that we are dealing in. In terms of Lanarkshire, Anna Sarwar is mixing up two different escalation frameworks. There is the Scottish Government board performance escalation framework, which she has cited to me before in the context of the Queen Elizabeth university hospital. At the start of the pandemic, the GP escalation framework was also put in place, which goes from level 0 to level 3. Lanarkshire is currently at level 2, which is the practices that may need to request reduced access to some services in order to focus on the most serious patients. That has been put in place in Lanarkshire for a short period. We have asked for it to be reviewed weekly. In terms of waiting times more generally, we are focusing as much as possible on supporting boards to recover the position in terms of backlogs in waiting times, but the key to doing that is to reduce the pressure that is on boards and in hospitals that is being caused by Covid. Now, hopefully, over the next few weeks, as we start to see that Omicron position ease, that will happen. Those recovery efforts can escalate and accelerate. That is a really difficult position for the NHS, but it is one that we need to support it through. However, the sooner we get Covid back under control, the sooner those efforts can step up again. The First Minister said 10 months ago the first time that we get the NHS back to normal, and the health secretary published the catch-up plan after the election in May after delta 2. What patients would expect—and it is reasonable to expect—is that, after almost two years of the pandemic, they are getting back to normal NHS services, access to basic health services so that we can protect people's lives and livelihoods. Nicola Sturgeon wants to pretend that all the problems in the NHS are because of the pandemic, but she has been in government for 14 years and she has been First Minister for seven years. The NHS was under resource and undervalued by the Government before the pandemic. We had a workforce crisis before the pandemic. There were more than 3,500 nursing and midwifery vacancies, and let us not forget that Nicola Sturgeon, as health secretary, cut the number of training places. The Royal College of Emergency Medicine said that we are at least 1,000 beds short in the NHS. The Government cut double that, and there was a staggering 450,000 of our fellow Scots on NHS waiting lists even before the pandemic. Patients are suffering, staff are burnt out. Is not it the case that we do not just need a recovery plan from Covid, we need a recovery plan from 14 years of the SNP Government? The people of Scotland had the opportunity to make that choice less than a year ago, and they, of course, recorded their verdict on that. On the issue of the pandemic impact, I do not, for a second, suggest that all the challenges faced by the national health service are down to the pandemic. Before the pandemic, the NHS was dealing with changing demographics, with the impact of technology. All of that was putting a pressure on the national health service, and we stood here and had exchanges on that then. I think that it is the case that Anna Sarwar seems to try to deny the significant impact that Covid has had and is having on the national health service. If you take just over the most recent period as it has been dealing with Omicron, there has been a 65 per cent increase in Covid-related staff absences in the national health service. That is the kind of pressure the NHS is dealing with. We need to get that under control, and we need to bring the NHS and the country out of this pandemic and get back to making sure that we are dealing with those other challenges. That is where I come back to the starting point of my answer, because under this Government we have put in place the solid foundations to do that. Health spending is at a record high level in Scotland right now. NHS staffing is at a record high, and since this Government came to office, NHS staffing has increased by 27,000 whole-time equivalent staff. We have put in place those foundations, and we need to get through Covid, and then we will support our NHS to recover in full and to continue to deliver the services that patients across Scotland need and deserve. We will now move to supplementary questions, and I call Audrey Nicolle. To ask the First Minister if she agrees that the unmask to stay in the UK Government has shown in the last 24 hours for their own colleagues in Scotland, dismissing their Scottish leader as a lightweight, makes it crystal clear that Scotland needs to become an independent country so that we can escape the sleazy, corrupt and criminal Westminster system for good? As we have just seen, I have big political differences with Douglas Ross, but even a high—I am not as derogatory about him as his own Tory colleagues—is not a big figure lightweight. Those might be personal insults directed at the leader of the Scottish Conservatives, but they say something much deeper about the Westminster establishment's utter contempt for Scotland. If they can't even show basic respect for their own colleagues, what chance do the rest of us have? The fact is that Westminster thinks that Scotland doesn't need to be listened to, can be ignored, and now we are being told that we have to thall a Prime Minister that his own colleagues think is not fit for office. Independence is fundamentally about empowerment and aspiration, but an added benefit of being independent is that it will no longer have to put up with being treated like something on the soul of Westminster's shoe. I suspect today that even Douglas Ross finds that a really attractive proposition. Thank you, First Minister. We have a number of people in hospital who have missed their vaccination appointments. The First Minister stated in her answer to my colleague Rachel Hamilton that this was due to clinical reasons. Could the First Minister investigate the possibility of reviewing the policy and the protocols in acute hospital settings to give those patients to anyone else who wants an inpatient vaccine? I am happy to ask the health secretary to look at that to see whether any change is required to be made, but I would repeat again and ask the member to take this in good faith. There is no blanket policy in place right now that stops inpatients in hospitals getting a vaccination if their clinician thinks that they should get the vaccination. If we can accept that that is the case, I will absolutely undertake to see if there is anything else in the wider protocols that is leading to a situation where people who could or should be getting the vaccination are not getting it. I will ask the health secretary to look at that and write to the member once he has had the opportunity to do so. I listened to the First Minister's reply to Anna Sarwar. I have to be really blunt here. People in Lanarkshire are very afraid of becoming sick and for those who are already unwell physically and mentally that it break in point, because many have been on waiting times since before that the pandemic. People at Liz Barry who I have mentioned before, the code black situation has been going on now for 12 weeks. I wrote to the cabinet secretary who I think is sitting beside you on 9 December asking for an urgent meeting with all the NSPs in Lanarkshire, because we are all worried, and I did not even get a response. What am I supposed to tell constituents in Lanarkshire who are reaching for the Samaritan Scotland phone number because they cannot get through to GP surgeries? They feel they are not allowed to go to A&E.  Can we get that meeting that I asked comes to you to have thought and can we get sight of a plan that people in Lanarkshire can sleep better at night, please? I understand that not just for patients in Lanarkshire, but for patients across Scotland, and indeed for the wider public. That is a really anxious time because of the on-going challenges of Covid and the impact that that is having on the national health service, secondary care and primary care, but also the impact that is having in many aspects of life that pre-Covid people would have taken for granted as normal. All of us want to get that back to normal as quickly as possible. Key to that is getting and keeping Covid under control, and as we do that, and as we come out of Covid, supporting the NHS to recover. The step that has been taken in NHS Lanarkshire, of course, nobody wants any health board to be in that position, but it is about making sure that they can maintain access to essential GP services at a time of unprecedented demand and also unprecedented staff absences. People, of course, can continue to use GP services where that is essential, wider community pharmacy services, NHS inform, where they have questions or queries that they need answered. That is a short-term measure. Nobody wants or will allow it to be in place for longer than necessary, and we will continue to take steps to support the NHS to get all services back to normal as quickly as possible for all patients across the country. Thanks. This week we have seen tens of thousands of young people successfully apply for the national entitlement cards that will open the door to free bus travel across Scotland at the end of this month. We have also seen some schools and libraries help those who are the hardest to reach to apply for the card. Can I ask the First Minister what more guidance can the Government give to councils to make sure that those who could benefit the most from the scheme successfully get their cards by the end of the month? First Minister. Firstly, I am delighted, as I am sure many people are, that applications are now open for free bus travel for young people under 22. The scheme goes live from 31 January, and it will make public transport so much more affordable for children and young people. Obviously, local authorities are key delivery partners, so we have already provided them with a toolkit to help them to communicate the scheme to local residents, including providing information on the range of ways in which people can apply. As Mark Ruskell has said, in some areas schools are coordinating applications on behalf of pupils. Other councils are using public libraries and all partners are working hard to make the application process as accessible as possible. We know that some people might need additional support, so we are working with delivery partners to make sure that all young people in their families can be reached so that they are aware of the scheme and know what they need to do to make an application. I hope that everyone across Parliament will recognise the substantial social and economic benefits that the scheme will bring for children, young people and families and, crucially, for our climate and environmental policies. I hope that everybody across the Parliament will help to promote it to young people and families in their constituencies. We understand that this weekend new EU health certification rules will come into effect. Has the Scottish Government had any reassurance from the UK Government that Scottish exporters will not be damaged by yet more delays at borders? On an on-going basis, we seek assurances from the UK Government that the implications of Brexit will not cause disruption or continue disruption to Scottish exporters. I do not think that I could say that we have been given adequate assurances because I am not sure that there are adequate assurances that can be given. Brexit, by its very nature, all that it brings in its wake causes disadvantage and disruption. The Scottish Government, for our part, will seek to do everything that we can to support businesses through that, but it does underline again the fact that Brexit is something that is against Scotland's interests and is being done to us against our democratic wishes. At the common select committee this week, we heard that 400 jobs have been lost at Aberdeen airports since the start of the pandemic. Can the First Minister outline what support the Scottish Government will give to our airports or is this industry another industry that the First Minister has turned her back on? We continued, of course, just as one example of the support that we are giving to businesses, aviation businesses, the rates relief that leisure and hospitality and aviation businesses were entitled to. We extended that for another year. If I am getting this wrong, I will stand corrected, but I think that that is more than the UK Government did around aviation. Already, we are providing additional support. Airports, aviation and the travel sector more generally have been very severely hit by the pandemic, not just in Scotland or the UK but across Europe and the world. We will do everything that we can to support the sector as it gets back to normal, as hopefully it does as we come out of the Omicron wave. To ask the First Minister what deadline the Scottish Government has set for making any further changes to this year's examinations process. Given that we are still living through a global pandemic, contingencies are needed in education as in all other aspects of life. Right now, should any of those contingencies be required and there are two key contingencies in education as far as exams are concerned, then we would obviously notify that as soon as possible. However, first of all, I hope that that is not the case. I hope that we do not need to activate those contingencies. As has been clear since August, our firm intention this year is that exams will go ahead. The First Minister is right that contingencies are needed but not the type that her Government proposes. She should be guaranteeing that exams take place this year and does she reflect negatively on the cabinet secretary's confirmation yesterday at the education committee that no additional resources are being put in place to allow that to happen safely? What has happened to suggestions of acquiring larger community spaces? What about putting additional invigilators in place? What about one-to-one support most importantly for those young people who have lost out on their learning? Well, Oliver Mundell says that the contingencies that we have put in place are not the type that should be put in place. I think that that is probably a standard for the Conservatives. Let me say what those contingencies are so that people can judge for themselves. The first contingency is that if education is further disrupted, which we all hope that it will not be because of developments in the pandemic, then additional support will be provided for those studying for exams. I am interested that Oliver Mundell does not think that that is an appropriate contingency. I think that it is indeed an appropriate contingency. The second contingency is that if public health advice says that it was not safe for young people to come together to sit exams in the traditional way, then we would go back to a situation akin to the last two years when we would have teacher judgment coming to bear instead of exams. Again, I think that it is an appropriate contingency. We do not want to have to use either of those contingencies because we want exams to go ahead because we think that that is in the interests of young people. Oliver Mundell asked me to guarantee things. I would really love to be able to guarantee all sorts of things, but we are still living through a global pandemic. In my exchange with Anna Sarwar, we have just been reflecting on that. We have had two new variants of this in the past few months alone. None of us can guarantee the immediate future in the context of this pandemic, but we make plans based on what we hope will be the case. Right now, that is to allow young people to sit their exams this year as normal, but to have sensible and appropriate contingencies in place in case something happens that makes that impossible. Willie Rennie To be frank, the education secretary has made a right mess of this. She issued two conflicting statements within two days, including making a major announcement on Twitter, which is hardly the forum for such a major announcement. There was such confusion that the SQA had to step in to clarify. The First Minister thinks that this is the right way to treat pupils preparing for exams right now. First Minister, I think that that is a complete misrepresentation of the position, if I may say so. The education secretary set out—I am sorry if Willie Rennie missed it, but the education secretary set out, in a statement to the Parliament, in August last year, what the intention was of the Scottish Government in relation to exams this year, that exams would go ahead. However, as she was reflecting—as I have just reflected again—when we are living through a global pandemic, there has to be contingencies in place, but that intention for exams to go ahead has not changed. If he is referring to the same Twitter exchange that I saw, what the education secretary was rightly seeking to do was not make announcements on Twitter, but to deal with some of the confusion that, if I may say so, has been added to by the misrepresentations of opposition politicians, as we have just heard from Willie Rennie. To ask the First Minister what steps the Scottish Government will take to urgently progress the green transition in North Ayrshire following the closure of Hunterston B power station on 7 January. The workers at Hunterston B have made a really valuable contribution to our energy security over very, very many years, and I have no doubt that they will continue to distinguish themselves through the safe decommissioning of the site. While that will rightly take time, we must plan and invest in the green transition of North Ayrshire. We have invested £103 million into the Ayrshire growth deal, and we are working with partners to deliver projects that I know will help to create the good green jobs that are needed in the region. We will also publish a draft energy strategy and just transition plan this year, setting out how we will work with businesses, trade unions and communities to manage the economic and social impacts of a changing energy system. I thank the First Minister for that answer. The closure of Hunterston B is the end of an era for North Ayrshire, regardless of one's view of nuclear power. 125 jobs have been lost with more to follow over the next eight years as the plant defuels and is then decommissioned. Significant investment in bringing 900 jobs is being considered in terms of subsea solar energy cable manufacturing at Henderson Port and Resource Centre. Does the First Minister agree that the efforts of Scottish Government agencies working with North Ayrshire Council must be redoubled and on-going to attract and consider further potential job-creating developments at Hunterston? Yes, I agree very much. Kenny Gibson knows all too well. I grew up in North Ayrshire, not too far from Hunterston B power station, so I know firsthand how important it has been over many years to the local economy there. It is important as it decommissions that we do support that green transition. The Ayrshire growth deal is central to that. The Scottish Government and our agencies are working with regional partners to support the delivery of Hunterston Port and Resource Centre projects, the proposed subsea cable that Kenny Gibson refers to, as well as multiple other projects across Ayrshire that are included within the deal. Those projects, of course, are led and driven by colleagues in North Ayrshire Council on behalf of the wider deal, but it is really important that we fully support that and I can give an assurance that the Scottish Government will continue to do so. Katie Clark. Last month, I raised with the Minister for Business, Trade, Tourism and Enterprise that, although North Ayrshire Council has set up a task force to look at the economic development at Hunterston, its ambition has always been that the Scottish Government be involved with a ministerial task force to look at the development of the Hunterston Park site. Is that something that the First Minister will look at, given how important it is to ensure that good quality trade unionised green jobs are created, but also given that it is an area of environmental importance with a site of special scientific importance, that the biodiversity and environmental concerns are also taken into account? I am happy to give consideration to that wider point. I certainly accept the importance of the environmental considerations for the reasons that the member has set out. Obviously, it is for the Scottish Government to set the wider policy and strategic framework, which we will do through the draft energy strategy, through the just transition plan that I referred to, both of which will be published over the course of this year. Beyond that, it is right that those plans are driven by local councils and local agencies. As I said earlier on, the Scottish Government is contributing over £100 million to the Ayrshire growth deal, so that balance between local leadership and strategic direction from the Scottish Government is always one that we need to be careful to get right, but I will give consideration to the wider point and revert to the member as soon as possible. I thank the workforce at Hunterston, who has been an integral part of the North Ayrshire economy, but also community. However, nowhere in the question by Mr Gibson or indeed the First Minister's answer did I hear an explanation as to how the SNP's current moratorium on exploring new nuclear energy or technology, or even having a sensible debate about it, will support either job creation in North Ayrshire or secure reliable energy for Scotland? Why, therefore, is the Scottish Government simply not interested in exploring Scotland's potential to be a world leader in this field? We will continue to debate those issues, and that is right and proper. I and my party have made clearer views on new nuclear power over many years. In summary, there are two reasons behind that. That new nuclear power is not good value for money for taxpayers to be blunt about it, and there is still the issue of what we do with the nuclear waste that comes from nuclear power that nobody has been able to really satisfactorily resolve. Of course, Scotland has an abundance of renewable energy potential in the not too distant future. We will hear the outcome, for example, of the Scotland leasing round, which is about ensuring that we maximise our offshore wind potential. We are focused on making sure, both for our energy needs, but also for the jobs and economic needs of the country, that we maximise that vast renewable low-carbon potential that we have. That is what we will continue to do. To ask the First Minister what data the Scottish Government has collected on the number of people diagnosed with cancer and the stage at which they are diagnosed since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic and how that compares with pre-pandemic data. Public Health Scotland published latest staging data for breast, lung and colorectal cancers in November last year. That report showed that the number of people diagnosed at the earliest stage is lower than would have been expected had the Covid pandemic not happened. However, more recent data shows that more patients are being treated now on an urgent suspicion of cancer pathway compared to the situation pre-Covid. Also, since the start of the pandemic, we have established the first early cancer diagnostic centres and launched public campaigns, including on lung cancer, to raise awareness of the vital importance of early diagnosis. We have also committed an additional £20 million to the detect cancer early programme. I have a friend who has just been diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer that, unfortunately, has spread to other areas. He was diagnosed at stage 3, having waited six months for his test. The NHS is under severe pressure, as we are all aware, and this kind of story, I am sure, is replicated across the country. Collection of that kind of data for non-Covid conditions is critical in planning for what challenges are coming down the track. Today, in Covid recovery committee, we were told by an adviser that inadequate data is not being collected, so to make these proper informed decisions on these matters. Does the First Minister agree with me that data collection analysis is crucial in forward planning, including for post-Covid planning, and if so, what will the Scottish Government do to support the development of data collection as quickly as possible to help the NHS as it plans its future strategy? Yes, I agree very strongly that data is important in all sorts of areas, but in particular to make sure that we are diagnosing cancer as early as possible and treating cancer as quickly as possible. After that, I spoke in my initial answer about the data on staging that Public Health Scotland does publish, and I will certainly speak to Public Health Scotland about the additional data that it may be possible to gather and to collect. We put a big focus on early diagnosis for reasons that everybody understands and have focused through the detect cancer early programme on some of the most common cancers, but one of the functions and one of the purposes of the new early diagnostic centres is to make sure that symptoms that are perhaps not the ones that people suspect may be cancer and are also treated more urgently, so we are trying to widen that net as much as possible. Staging is really important in anybody's cancer journey to make sure that they are diagnosed as quickly as possible, but so too is access to treatment. Even during the Covid pandemic, once a decision to treat was made, cancer patients waited on average between two to five days for treatment, so all of these different stages are important. Data is vital to understanding performance now and how we improve performance, and I will certainly take the points that are made back and have a further discussion with Public Health Scotland about them. Eleanor Whitham. Whilst Covid-19 has undoubtedly had a challenging impact on the delivery of NHS services, does the First Minister agree with me that the establishment of the three early cancer diagnostic centres that you have just mentioned, including the one in my constituency, are providing a welcome referral route for patients who do not have the standard cancer symptoms, and that that is going to be the way that we can get those patients on the most urgent of pathways, typically where there are unfortunate cases of later stage diagnosis, due to the lack of the traditional presenting symptoms? I agree very much with that, and it is the point that I was seeking to make in response to the previous question. The urgent suspicion of cancer referral route is one that is really important, but it refers to people who have symptoms that are most traditionally and commonly indicative of cancer. What the early cancer diagnostic centres are seeking to do is to add to that so that they are providing primary care with access to a new fast-track diagnostic pathway for patients who have nonspecific symptoms that might be suspicious of cancer, for example weight loss and fatigue, which could be cancer but which may be other things. That is widening the ability of primary care to get people who might have cancer into that fast-track pathway as quickly as possible. I think that the centres really do add something very important, and I hope that they will give additional reassurance to people who may be worried that the symptoms that they are suffering are indicative of a cancer diagnosis. To ask the First Minister what support the Scottish Government can provide to people struggling to pay their electricity bills. First Minister. Powers over the energy market, of course, are reserved. We have written to the UK Government calling for urgent action to support households. That, in our view, should include a reduction to that as one of the simplest short-term measures, as well as action on the warm homes discount and cold weather payment. We have also taken, within our own powers and from our own resources, action through our £41 million winter support fund. That includes a £10 million fuel insecurity fund to help people with heating costs and provides £25 million of funding to local authorities to tackle financial insecurity. In addition, we continue to invest in trying to make people's homes warmer and more affordable to heat, with more than £1 billion allocated to tackling fuel poverty and improving energy efficiency. That £1 billion has been allocated since 2009. I thank the First Minister and note the mitigations, but I did to the misery of skyrocketing energy bills. There is the 5 per cent increase in the cost of living, £20 cut to the universal credit, national insurance like, all pushing more Scots into poverty and desperation, all reserved to Westminster, but the impact on the fallout lands on our devolved public services. Therefore, does the First Minister agree with me that only with independence and full power over our economy could we prevent this economic tsunami? Perhaps, while I am at it, I invite Douglas Ross to join us in this, because I am sure that he will have a better political future in an independent Scotland. Those issues are really important. Sometimes in this chamber we debate them as if they are abstract, but they have real meaning to people's lives. Inflationary pressures are going to be one of the biggest issues that we are dealing with in the months to come and are going to have a really severe impact on household budgets. We have to recognise that we have tried to decide how best to help people where the powers and the resources lie. Right now, levers over energy costs, 85 per cent of welfare spending, powers over the minimum wage and national insurance, they are all held at Westminster. While this Parliament might want to act, it is not able to do. We have also seen a Westminster Government take £20 a week out of the pockets of the poorest families in our country. We see them instead of helping to do things that are making life harder for those who are already struggling. I think that it is the case, not in an abstract sense but in a real, tangible sense, that we take more of the powers that are being misused by Westminster into the hands of this Parliament so that we can use them in the interests of people across the country. Yes, Christine Grahame is right. We can try to do that through increased devolution and we will always try to do that. Fundamentally, the best way of resolving this is for Scotland to become an independent country, so this Parliament can take the decisions that are in the interests of the country and not constantly have to hope that a Prime Minister, who everybody, without exception in this chamber, thinks is unfit for office to take these decisions for us. That concludes First Minister's questions. There will be a brief pause before we move to members' business.


A fiery horse with a speed of light, a clot of dust, and a hearty hyosilver, the Lone Ranger. With his faithful Indian companion, Toto, the daring and resourceful masked rider of the planes led the fight for law and order in the early western United States. Nowhere in the pages of history can one find a greater champion of justice. Join with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear. From out of the past come the thundering hoofbeats of the great horse, Silver. The Lone Ranger rides again. Come on, Silver! Let's go be close! I am Silver! Bye! It was a commonplace day in Smith's Corners, a typically hot day in mid-summer. There was no hint of the disaster that was to strike the town at noon. Old Cal Stevens had spent most of the morning visiting with his friend the Sheriff. It was Cal who first noticed a large herd of cattle running ahead of a dust cloud and approaching the main street at a fast clip. Hey, Sheriff, look at all their livestock coming this way. And fast! Come on, Cal. Let's get out on the porch. I've posted notices telling ranchers not to drive their stock through town. Dad, Rat, and I'm going to find out who owns those longhorns. Sheriff, look at them lead critters. That's the Bar-J cattle. Jim Blakes. I thought he had lost his cattle to Russellers. He did. Say their stampede in the cattle.  Sheriff! Sheriff, their stampede did a purpose! I have a couple shots! Paging longhorns fill the main street at Smith's Corners, goaded to a frenzy of fear by hard-riding men whose guns filled the air with flying lead, driving everyone to cover. Stampede! Get to cover! In the midst of the wild confusion, half a dozen men whose faces were concealed by bandanas stretched into the bank and started shooting. You boys fill the sacks.  While one group of outlaws looted the bank, four other desperadoes charged into the express office conducted by Mahili. What does this mean? If this isn't wrong, where is it? It is. You. All right, boys. Grab that Wells Fargo cash and make it fast. It all happened within a few minutes.  Mahili had a bullet in the arm and the sheriff's chest had been raked by lead and there were many others. The doctor had more injuries than he could handle and he accepted the welcome help of an unknown Indian who had appeared in town and identified himself as Tato. It was evening when Mahili went to see the sheriff. Come on in, Ma. Good evening, Sheriff. Are you still here? I'm back again, Ma. Sort of talking things over with the sheriff. Ma, how's your wound? Oh, it's nothing. Did you bandage it yourself? Yep. Well, that won't do. Come over here, Tato. Who's the Indian?  That's all I know about him. Except he's downright handy with gun wounds. Me look at wound or arm? Oh, you're the one I heard about. Doc said you've been a big help to him today. Ah. Never mind my arm. I'm all right. Sheriff, what are you going to do about that broken outfit? Ah, no use trying to make a case against Clint Brogan. He's too strong. Say that again, Sheriff. I can't believe I heard you right. It's the truth, Ma. Brogan has organized an outlaw army. He's brought men from half a dozen states and has a stronghold in the Badlands. It's a regular fort. That's right. He's up at the top of a hill in the Badlands. Surrounded by 20-foot rocks. He's got guards posted all along the trail so no one can get near his place. Why, with a dozen men, he could stand off an army. So Brogan's going to sit there laughing at us and we can't do a thing about it. Fine, how do you do? Yes, I know it, Ma, but with every man in town, I wouldn't have enough to tackle Brogan's gang. I hate to say it, but Clint Brogan is bigger than the law. Who's that? Oh, that was Tato, the Indian who was here. He just left. Left sudden and he sure started out fast. There was a prison ranch a few miles from the town, but it was unlike most prisons. The inmates were not vicious men nor were they criminals in the genuinely accepted sense of the word. Their crime had been desertion from the army. Wharton Turnbull and the lone ranger were friends of long standing. They had been talking in the Wharton's home for several hours. It was nearly midnight when the masked man rose from his chair. I think I'd better return to camp. You're worried about Tato? Well, I haven't seen him for over a week. If you didn't reach the camp, I must try to find out why. Well, do whatever you think best. I hate to see you leave. If you could stay until tomorrow, I could show you some more of the boys who were inmates of this place. Well, I've seen enough to realize that most of them are sorry for what they did. They deserve another chance. They proved that by the way they behaved when we had a fire. They could easily have overpowered the guards and escaped, but instead they stayed and helped fight the fire. Yes, I heard about that. Furthermore, I don't blame these boys for deserting. Their commandant was a colonel named Smith, an insufferable officer who treated his men like mangy curves. He stripped them of all self-respect and dignity. Is Smith still in the service? No, he was dishonorably discharged for conduct unbecoming an officer. I don't say these boys imprisoned it right in deserting, but, well, confounded, I think I'd have done the same thing. I'm going to try to get the powers in Washington to act on their behalf. I think... What is it? I thought I heard a horse. Yes, you did. That's Tonto's horse, and Silver knows it. Well, there he comes. Good. You're riding mighty hard. I wonder what delayed him. Oh, Scalopara! Scalopara! Hello! Me plenty late, Kimusabi. Me sorry. Tonto, you remember Warden Turnbull? How? Hello, Tonto. Glad to see you. We come through Smith Corners on way to camp. There's plenty trouble. In Smith Corners? Ah, big band of outlaws come from Hills and Badlands. Clint Brogan's gang. You know him? Everyone around here knows about the Brogan Gang. Well, Brogan Gang starts stampede through town, then start gunplay. In clipped short sentences, Tonto told about his day in town, the attack of the Brogan Gang, and the helplessness of Sheriff Parmilly. The Lone Ranger found it hard to believe that any band of outlaws could so completely overwhelm the law. Tonto, you mean to tell me that the Sheriff admitted Clint Brogan is bigger than the law? That's right. And he speaks the truth. Get him to every man in town, every man in the county if necessary, to attack that stronghold and wipe out Brogan's gang? No, no. If you knew the nature of Brogan's stronghold, you wouldn't ask that question. He has guards all along the trail from the valley to the top of the mountain. His men could fire from behind the protecting rocks and stand off any number of men. Why not hit Brogan when he's out of his stronghold? He comes out only when he's sure of a successful raid. I see. Now that you can stay the night, let's get back to the discussion about my charges here at the ranch. I think I'll leave just as I'd plan to do. But Tonto's here now. You don't have to look for him, yes, I know. You said you'd stay. Well, that was before I'd heard about the Brogan Gang. Now, look, my friend, there's nothing you and or anyone else can do about the Brogan Gang.  He knows enough to admit defeat where Brogan is concerned. I guess the Sheriff knows more than I do, Warden. Huh? Let's get the camera and make some plans. You mean you don't know enough to admit defeat by the Brogan Gang? Not yet, Warden. The lessons are costly. Now please come back here. Don't be foolhardy. We'll meet again. Oh, Garnet. If that masked man is killed by the Brogan Gang, if he moves against them, he certainly will be. In their small well-concealed camp, Balone Ranger and Tonto talked far into the night. They discussed and rejected many plans for bringing the bad land outlaws and their ruthless leader to justice. There was just one plan that held any hope of success and Tonto frowned on this because of the risk involved. This is more dangerous than anything you ever do, Kimu-Sumby. Yes, I know that, Tonto. There's plenty good chance you'd die. Not unless something goes wrong. Well, there's plenty good chance for something to go wrong. Well, it's worth any risk, Tonto. When a good honest sheriff like Jim Parmally says that any gang is bigger than the law, something must be done.  Tonto, when the day comes that Brogan's kind are bigger than the law, life won't be worth living. We liked on my plan. Now Tonto didn't get some sleep. We're going to move at daybreak. Balone Ranger left his camp at daybreak and rode out across the boulder-studded bedlands. After traveling nearly a mile, he started up a long, slow grade toward the craggy mass of rocks that served as a fortress and headquarters for the Brogan gang. As he got its silver up the hill, the trail became more narrow and the rocks that bounded it made a man on horseback. Suddenly, two men leap from behind a rock. Hold it, miss. That's a warning. Hold it or hold, easy. Get off that horse and don't try any sudden moves. Oh, I know better than that. Steady big fella. Mask, eh? Well, that's interesting. Stand right there and keep your hands on top of your head. I came to see your boss. You see him all right after we've taken away your masking guns. You hadn't better try that until you find out why I came here. Charles is why you came here. You wanted to see Brogan. Yes, I have a message for him. It might be better if I left it here where he would find it. Careful.  Very well. The message is in the pocket of my shirt. Help yourself. That trick's too old, mister. I move close to reach into your pocket then you make a fast play. You grab me and use me as a shield while you turn a gun on Pete here. How you really that? We're not afraid of you. Just move your hand slow, pull out that message and drop it on the ground and step back. Very well. He said move your hand slow. Just slowly, please. How's this? That's better. Here's the message. Drop it. Now move back a couple of pieces. Keep them covered, Pete. I'll see what that note says. I'm covering them. His dog going sure of himself. I think many of your gang must have worn masks at one time or another. Isn't that right? Well, of all... Listen to this. It's a dress to Brogan. Read it. This is to let you know that you're not bigger than the law. Some of your men are already in jail at Smith's Corners. You'll get a fair trial before they hang. The same justice is to be meted out to every one of your gang. You're self-included. Why... Who's in jail? No one just yet. But two men will be, but the time Brogan reads that letter. Oh, is that so?  I'll be glad to supply any information you want. Which of the boys do you figure will be in Sheriff Parmalee's jail? You too. You mean me and Pete? Yes. That's big talk for a man that's staring down the barrels of 245. I wonder what Brogan will have to say about that. We'll know soon enough. Start walking, mister. Ahead of us. Right up the trail. And move faster.  The curtain falls on the first act of our lone ranger story. Before the next exciting scenes, please permit us to pause for just a few moments to continue our story. After being challenged by two of Brogan's gang on the rocky trail that then uphill to the outlaw stronghold, the lone ranger stalled for time as long as possible to give his faithful Indian companion, Tonto, a chance to reach a position close at hand. Tonto had moved on foot and had made no more noise than a shadow. He had used all his Indian cunning and had taken advantage of every sheltering rock. He could hear the outlaws and he knew that matters had neared a showdown. You might get going, mister. You heard what Pete said. You got a message for Brogan, you're gonna deliver it in person. But my horse...  But I can't do that. Thunder, I never saw the like of you. Why can't you do it? I told you I planned to put you two in jail in Smith's corners. Now I have to do that, or the message to Brogan will be untrue.  You're not jailing anybody. Now for the last time, get going. For the last time? No. Brogan told us not to shoot except as a last resort. Well, this is it. Someone back there! Why are you... When Tonto fired from behind the rock, his bullets smashed against the gun of the outlaw who was about to shoot the Lone Ranger. The other man turned. It was the move the Lone Ranger was waiting for. He leaped ahead and shot his fist out hard. Pete saw his friends staggering from the impact of the masked man's blow. Though Pete's right hand was limp, his left brought a second gun into play. Not today. No more shooting, Tonto. We want these men alive. Take that one. You won't get me. Take another one for you. And another. No, wait, wait, listen. No, it's too brave now. That fixin'. The horses are behind that rock. Hide them and get them on board. Got to get away from here before the rest of the gang comes to see about the shooting. He's heavy. Here's a rope for this one. No, no, no. Haven't you had enough? Oh, oh. Here. This will hold you too for the time being. No. Pete, I'll keep my promise and take you and your pal to jail. It was a long way on the dangerous trail from the point at which the guards had challenged the Lone Ranger to the fortress on the top. The shooting had been heard by Brogan and he dispatched several of his men to investigate. They returned with a message in the Lone Ranger's handwriting. Jake and Pete were gone, boss, and so were their horses. Gone where? Maybe that message will tell ya. We found it on the trail. The ground all around was scuffed like there'd been a fight. Wait. They're all a downright cuss at nerve. You read this, Loomis? Yeah. Two of my boys in jail in Smith's corners. That's the law's answer to that raid we made yesterday. That raid was nothing compared to what's coming next. If they think they can threaten me and get away with it, they better think again. We gotta get those two out of jail. We'll get them out. And after that, there won't be no jail standing in Smith's corners. Call the boys together for a meeting right away. Sheriff Parmalay was in his office with his old friend, Cal Stevens. The two had spent the morning discussing the raid of the preceding day. This time yesterday, Cal, we were sitting here just like this. And five minutes later, things had busted wide open. That's right. Just about 24 hours ago to the minutes. Sheriff, I hear hoof beats. Oh, sit down, Cal. That's not another stampede. It's just a couple of horses. I'm going to see for myself. I tell you, Sheriff, I'm done. I'm nervous since yesterday. What do you see? Great day. Sheriff, come over here to the window. Look outside. What is it? Four men, one masked and two prisoners. That Indian named Tato. He's leading the way. Coming in here. You're too crook. You'll be sorry for this. Wait, what's that mask mean? These two crooks are more important. You better cut these ropes and turn us loose. I know you. You're the pole cat that fired at us. Lock these men up and hold them for trial. Two of Brogan's gang. Oh, hold on. Lock us up and our pals will burn down the whole town. They think they're bigger than the law. Who are you? Why did you bring these men in here? Because they're crooks, Sheriff. They're killers. Dale's a place for them. But I... You'll have no trouble finding men who can identify them. I can. And so can Mahili. Me too. Well, Sheriff, what are you waiting for? I... He don't dare to tell us. He knows what'll happen. Sheriff, if you know what's good for you and for this town, you'll cut these ropes and let us get back to Brogan before he starts. If Brogan starts an attack, you'll find more trouble than he can handle. Oh, that's big talk. I don't know what to do about this. I got the safety of the town to consider. You have more than that to consider. Just who are you? Me tell. Oh, turn away. No, King Sabi. Me tell who you are. Then maybe Sheriff, listen. This masked farmer, loan rangers on our side. You hear that, Sheriff? The loan rangers on our side. Jail these men. If Brogan starts an attack, I'll help you meet them. That'll be swell. Brogan will be glad to get you along with a few others in town. Go on, Sheriff. Put us in jail. See what happens. Even with you and Tonto on our side and with every man in town geared to a fight, we'd be outnumbered by Brogan's men. And you're afraid of odds? Well... When your father came here, he found mighty heavy odds against him. And so did his friends who settled this part of the West. Maybe he should have turned back and returned to the East. I don't know. I don't know. Maybe he should have turned back and returned to the East. I... Then you wouldn't have been born a Westerner. You wouldn't have inherited the responsibility of fighting against odds to make this country what your father hoped it would be. Now, listen. Go on, Sheriff. Turn these men loose and go to your father's grave. Get down on your knees and explain that you were afraid of odds. Who's afraid of odds? Come here, you... Hey! Open that iron door, Cal. We're holding these coyotes for trial. The charge is murder. That's the ticket. Our pal will be here. We'll be waiting for him. Bear! Now, Cal, spread the word to get ready for another attack with a broken gang. Say, where's that mask man? Him just leaves. There he is. Mountain is hoarse out in front. Him got plenty hard ride. Where's he going? I thought he'd stay and help us fight when broken comes. The Lone Ranger rode at breakneck speed across the plains to the prison ranch and the warden who was his friend. The warden came from the house as the mask man drew his mighty stallion to a house. How are you coming? You were riding hard. Easy, big fella. Yes, and I must talk fast. Yesterday you told me that none of the men in your charge were hardened criminals. Desertion from the army was their only crime. For that, they've all served more than a year. The war is over. And I think these men have been punished enough. They should be starting farms and ranches of their own. They should be building homes and developing the West instead of wasting their lives. That's why I wanted your help and securing pardons from Washington. Warden, how far would you trust your prisoners? All the way. You said they were sorry for their desertion. They are. Then let them prove it. How? Give them another chance to fight. What? Rogan's gang is going to attack Smith's Corners again. Turn the prisoners loose to fight that gang on their word of honor to return here if they survive. I don't know about that. The authorities give you a lot of leeway.  They have a lot of confidence in your good judgment. I'm releasing the prisoners from custody. Rogan must be shown that there's law and order in the West. It's not bigger than this country. This is a chance for those boys who ran out on the army to fight again for their country. Get them together, talk to them, see what they say. Ranger talked rapidly and convincingly. Then the warden called the prisoners together and spoke with a masked man at his side. It'll be dangerous work, boys. You may go or not as you choose. We can equip you with horses and I think there are enough firearms to go around. I'm going to give it to you. But remember this, every man who goes and survives is on his honor to return. You mean to say our word of honor has some meaning? Of course it has. That's why this masked man wants you with him. Your leader will be the lone ranger. Hey! Help me in.  Let's get the horses. Come on, boys. Follow me. We'll break out the rifle. Rogan and his men armed to the teeth and bristling with hatred rode into town at sunset. The sheriff had spread the word and the townsmen were prepared, but their number was pettibly small and they were inexperienced in battle. They had set up a barricade of wagons, boards and barrels at each end of the main street, but these defenses proved of little value. The gunman swept into the town from all sides, coming through the rear doors of the stores and houses like a tidal wave. The barricades were torn down so more of Rogan's men could charge in with horses. In the street and on verandas, on balconies and even inside buildings, there was hand-to-hand fighting and, generally, each one of the townsmen found himself facing two or three of Rogan's men. The sheriff's heart was filled with bitterness as he crossed with Tuttle back of an overturned wagon. I brought this on myself. If I hadn't listened to that friend of yours, this would never have happened. Keep tongue going, Sheriff. I'm not letting her get cold. Dad rutted crooks. It's a case of get as many of them as we can before they get us. What shall do sooner or later? That mask man let us down. That's what he did. He said he'd stay with us and fight. Nothing would help us much. There's another. Sheriff, you look that way. Here come mask man. Sure enough, a lot of men are riding with him. It's a bugle. Tuttle. Tuttle, those are soldiers. All right, here's your chance, boys. Here's the fight you wanted. Fighting was a game those soldiers had learned well. They pitched in eagerly, and every man seemed determined to make a men for the crime that had sent him to the prison camp. The odds were now against the Brogan Gang, and soon there were shouts and yells of... Don't shoot! I quit! Don't shoot! You hear that, Sheriff? That's the Brogan Gang that's quitting. We showed them by thunder. We showed them how to handle out lords. It was one month later when the warden once again called all the prisoners together. Boys, the work you did in helping capture Brogan and his men has not gone unnoticed. I have here a letter from Washington. It's official and it's long. It applies to every one of you. I'll read the line that really counts. Each man in your charge is given a full and complete partner. You mean we're not prisoners any longer? We're free. Now go on and build those homes you've all been dreaming of and give thanks to the Lone Ranger. This is a feature of the Lone Ranger Incorporated, created and produced by George W. Trendle and directed by Charles D. Livingston. Tonight's story was written by Fran Stryker. The part of the Lone Ranger is played by Brace Beemer.


Everybody's confused. I'm confused. The devs are confused. The next guy is confused There's a lot to talk about today And I hope you guys haven't spent no VC on your bill because you might want to change a couple things after hearing what I have to Say you guys are new to the channel drop a subscribe Drop a like also subscribe. I drop 2k19 content daily Well, no, not I do every other day, but I will go back to daily. All right besides the point All right before we get into things I have to say this for say guys Stop linking me your prelude clips on Twitter and telling me yo agent. I can't believe this happened I thought they fixed it guys. All right. I don't know how to put this well I do Prelude is on rookie difficulty my guys if you're making bill decisions because you made yourself a 5-7 post defender and he was killing it in the prelude and you want to make it in the real game You're gonna make a mistake the prelude they purposefully make it easy Just think about it the prelude is free So a lot of people that don't end up getting the game still download it and because it's a lot of casuals Downloading it 2k can't give you a 60 overall then put you on Superstar or Hall of Fame sliders So they put people on rookie and people start to bang their shots hit contested shits Shove people out the way like whatever it is. So the second you start to see your player doing some cool things You're like, yo, this is the bill based on prelude gameplay. Well, go You know what just do it anyway, and then let me know how bad your mistake turned out All right, we got that out the way. Don't make bill decisions based on the prelude Okay, well, here's where the confusion starts ladies and gentlemen if you guys remember a few days ago Zach put out this post producer for NBA 2k and he basically telling us which builds can reach a 86 ball control and which builds can reach 90 ball control and that helped us out a lot of course because it can tell us Which builds can speed boost and which builds can get the elite animations or so we thought turns out That's not what they're for apparently like this is how it was for the last two or three 2k So everybody just assumed it'd be the same Apparently not.  Okay, right? Let's add 92 and 93 while we're at it. Hey, don't stop there Let's add all the attributes. There was supposed to be a purpose of having it there So now we're finding out if you made like a peer playmaker so you can get to 90 to do the special animations There was no point. So you might be then wondering. Alright, so do you get the animations and speed boost at 86? So brutal sin put out this video and shout out to him I'll leave his link in the description. He drops really dope 2k videos And there was a person who sent an act to both me and him on Twitter And it was a video of his 82 ball control pure shot creator Speed boosting and you might be wondering agent. I thought we just talked about how we needed 86 ball control to speed boost That changes everything. Mm-hmm. I didn't actually catch this tweet My Twitter has been insane the last few days. So it's even tough to keep up on my mentions But I'm glad he did this is the clip of the player and you see he got a three Under his name, right? You see he got a three and he's doing that momentum to speed boost right there So the three is significant past few 2k is the way it worked was if you see this three by your name You're either one a sharp shooter or a shock crater So it's not like he's a playmaker primary or something like that and then pretending Right and even to show us a little bit more proof later on in the video in a separate link The guy showed us his attributes. Alright, so here it is his ball handing attributes Shot crater primary shot crater secondary ball handling and it's a little pixelated But it says 82 if you scroll up a little bit to the three-pointer It shows that he has a 70 open shot 3 which is already alright But you can upgrade that to like a 75 or a 76 then it gets pretty damn good And on top of the shooting badges and you can speed boost apparently now nobody knew about this I don't know a pure shot quit is looking like a pretty good bill Brutal sin went on to say that he wasn't surprised that this was the case and a lot of people were making assumptions Based on previous years, but uh now just to keep you updated on where we are so far No longer do we not know what it takes to speed boost now What attribute it is because we just seen an 82 ball control player do it But now we just found out not only is there no purpose of the reaching a 90 ball control But all you need to do is reach a 86 ball control to get those elite fancy animations So a few videos ago when I put the six ten pure point forward in the worst build because it fell off So dramatically if if you could speed boost with that build if that's what we're finding out now that changes things It's still not a good build, but I'll put it in the middle It'll no longer be the worst, but that's not the only time we were told wrong information by the devs So there's this Twitter page called 2k Intel and they were breaking the news on the rep reward that they called born again They literally got all the facts wrong. I was reading it like that's not what I remember hearing How are we hearing two different things?  What is happening right now because if you remember about a week ago when I was breaking down all the stuff I learned at the 2k event. I was telling you guys exactly what I heard and in that video I got a fact wrong, but it was what I was told from a dev who apparently also got the fact wrong I was told this I was told once you reach born again You can create a second build and it'll accelerate him to 90 overall So you don't have to do all that grinding and on top of that you get a million VC. That's what I was told Apparently the actual fact was that you would get 1.5 million my points Which is like a currency used to upgrade your player So he was told the one thing the source and then the source told 2k Intel and 2k Intel posted the wrong thing Then Ronnie 2k was like where'd you hear that and then I was told something else and then I even I got it wrong So literally nobody got it right even though we all got our information from the same dev All right, so at that point I was like bro. I don't even know to believe anymore I was perplexed ladies and gentlemen I know a few people who have mba 2k 19 early and they've been like finding the attributes and looking in there and there just to find out some More information because Mike Wang said that although we can't see the attributes for builds now in the prelude because we can't go backwards Right in the actual game you can sift through and see the attributes So it'll be easier for you to determine whether you want to make your build or not So this is basically what I wanted to tell you guys this entire video if you haven't spent VC yet I would wait to find out what your build is gonna be because although you can go on mba 2k Live and check out and compare badges and stuff like that without all the information on the attributes and without that being Comparable you're kind of just guessing and if you want to be a casual player and have like a mid tier build or a low tier build Or just guess do whatever you want to do at the end of the day You don't have to listen to me But I assume most of you guys want a really good build one that can dominate and you can have a lot of fun with And if so then you want all the information possible before you make your decision and in the past Although we thought we had a lot of that information. It seems like we don't all right So that's kind of where we're at all hope isn't lost some people have been posting like really exciting or fun dribbling clips on Twitter of Them in like 2k you or playing in the prelude who was a cold man put this Dribbling exhibition out check it out ladies and gentlemen.  I'm thinking about dropping out as a youtuber to do Twitter video full-time All right, we should get it Cold man brings the ball up the court. Look at all this.  I even heard from somebody that all you needed to do was one Momentum boost and it would take away all your all your stamina and I talked about that in the video And I was like in my experience when I played with Kawai at the event it wasn't like that at all But anyway, it seems like if you're a dribbler, you may not have had as much stamina as last year But you'd be alright man You'll be able to do your dribble cheese burn the whole clock and infuriate the defender all the time Don't worry about it. So for all the exciting clips we seen on the prelude We also saw some very cheesy ones badge plug put out this video and We'll just let it play. All right So much later that the old narrator got tired of waiting and they had to hire a new one Safe to say that if you have a large wingspan, and you know how to dribble cheese in the a2k 19 You're gonna go pretty far pump the brakes guys If you haven't spent any VC yet Just wait wait to see what you want to do if you really want to create a build then go for a safe build like a Six five pierced sharp with minimum wingspan minimum weight everybody's gonna need shooters go with a pure glass cleaner max wingspan Everybody's gonna need rebounders and looking at the badges and the attributes pure glass cleaners looking like a W glass cleaner primary Slash your secondary no no all the way around slash your primary glass cleaner secondary also looks like a very very good build Especially if you get to 99 overall and you get all those gold badges to Hall of Fame deadly So try and go for the very safe builds if you plan on creating multiple builds because if you're gonna make that build Anyway, just start with the safe one these other builds you got to experiment to get all the right details Last thing you want to do is grind to 95 overall spend all that time and money on your player only to find out that There's a better player around and you might still play with your player But when you come across the better player you can be like I wish I had that better player All right, so that's about it. If you guys enjoyed the video drop a like subscribe to the channel a guys I hope this helped you there's a lot of confusion in the air and I'm just gonna stop reporting on stuff as Fact because even if I hear it from an official source, I don't know if it's true or not anymore So we'll just leave it like that click on one of these two videos here and I'm gonna catch you guys in the next one. I'm out peace