Our first caller is Josh from California. What's up, Josh? How can we help you? Oh, hey guys. Thanks for having me. Shout out to Jerry for coordinating. Yeah, Jerry. My question's all around adjusting calories and training while working through an elimination diet. A bit of background, a regular lifter for about 10 years now. The entire time until about 2019, I was a 60 to 80 mile a week runner, as well as seven days a week in the gym. 2007 to 2017, I was also a daily smoker, so throw that in there. The last 12, 18 months, training much more of a bodybuilding style, high reps, low rest periods, chasing the burn, chasing the pump, using a mix of split and aesthetic. I moved in June, made a switch over to power lift shortly after that. Been way too long in that high rep phase, jumping down to lower rep. I'm actually starting week four, phase two right now. Been eating fairly consistently around maintenance, 2,000, 2,500 calories a day. And then for the last year, I've also been dealing with a lot of like gut issues, inflammation, bloating, discomfort, finally hit a breaking point. I reached out to a friend of mine who's a DO, running a lot of tests, did some blood work, did some food insensitivity and tolerance testing. Also did some heavy metal testing based on the history of smoking and the high levels of heavy metals in the water where I used to live. So the first thing she's having me doing is work through an elimination diet. I already eat a diet very heavy in whole foods, lots of fruits and vegetables, lots of animal protein, little to no processed foods. No sugary drinks, water and coffee is pretty much it. So taking all that into consideration, what would you suggest as far as adjusting calories and adjusting training while working through an elimination diet? So I set myself up for the best possible avenue to success. Yeah, thanks for calling in. And by the way, for people watching, Josh also sent his question in and I looked ahead and read some of the stuff. There's some details you didn't explain here and I think they're important. You're also finishing up an MBA at the moment? Oh, yeah. So I work 56 hours a week, my full-time job. Three days of those, three days a week. I commute an hour and a half one way. So those three days, I really just try to move a little bit. Some mobility work, corrective work. The four days I'm home are the days that are my foundational days and I also spend my weekends and kind of downtime working on my MBA program. Wrapping that up, it's one course right now. So it's not a whole lot of work, but it definitely adds to very high level of admittedly self-induced stress that I carry. Yeah, you also commented that you've got brain fog and that your energy is kind of low and you're noticing it's getting worse and worse. Question, have you gone through SIBO testing just for the gut stuff just to get out of that out of the way? I have not yet. I would get tested for SIBO, always see if you can rule that out only because it's relatively treatable and it can cause lots of the gut issues that you're experiencing. But here's what really becomes evident to me right away. Just looking at your question, hearing you explain your past and what you're currently doing. You're doing too much. The inflammation that you're noticing in your gut could also be caused by the fact that you're just chronically over-train and just chronically, not combined with the brain fog and the lack of energy. Now, if you do have SIBO, you could treat that. Typically antibiotics will do it. There's been herbal antimicrobials that have been shown in studies to be just as effective. They just take a little longer. But if that's being ruled out, you get tested for SIBO, you don't have it, or you do have it and you solve it, but then you still have these issues. And even if you didn't have those issues, can you hear me? Oh, there it is. Yep, you're back. Even if you solve it and you still have these issues, whatever, you're doing too much, man. This is a lot of training. Power lift, plus you're running, plus you're trying to complete an MBA. You're working like crazy. Those drives, all the things that you're telling me, your symptoms, scream too much. You're just doing way too much. And this is tough because, especially for those of us that have been working out for a while, we know what our body's done in the past. And we can kind of skate by on this much volume and training and we think that's not the issue. But you would be surprised just how incredible the body responds sometimes when you go from doing too much to doing the right amount. And I would go by cutting your training volume way down, especially with the amount of work that you're doing and the stress that you're under. MAPS Power Lift's already a decent amount of volume. It's a competitive program. Plus the run, it's just too much and you need to cut that down. Well, he didn't even ask that. He was asking a question related to calories and stuff too, which I would actually suggest if you're doing an elimination diet right now, you're not concerned really about eating in a surplus or a deficit. It's more about when you're hungry, feed your body, make whole food choices, stay within the parameters of the elimination diet. Don't add any more restrictions to that. I mean, you've already got enough on your plate. Really, the idea of the elimination diet is to look for these foods that could be causing inflammation or any other issues going on in your gut. So there's no real reason for you to now be trying to eat in some sort of a calorie surplus to gain or build. It would really be eat to be satisfied.  So I would eat when you're hungry and feed your body when it tells you to, just stay within those parameters in regards to talking about your nutrition question. And then I agree with Sal, you've got a ton of stuff on your plate right now that someone like you, I would prefer if you were a client of mine, you were running something like MAPS Anabolic. I think that program is more conducive to the type of a schedule that you have right now. And if you wanted to put some mobility work in there on trigger days, I think that would be fine, but that's more recuperative than it is getting after it.  Would people who know you well, like your wife or your girlfriend or friends that have known you for a long time, if I were to ask them, do you think Josh is a fitness fanatic or overdoes it? What do you think they would say? Absolutely they would. In fact, it was my brother that really convinced me to ditch the bodybuilding six, seven days a week training and drop down to three or four. Yeah, so here's the problem or the challenge with people.  I love exercise so much, especially the mental and psychological aspects. I want to do it all the time. The challenge is whenever something is wrong, what we tend to do is we tend to look everywhere else. So rather than like cutting my workout days down, like, well, maybe it's my diet. Maybe I need this supplement. Maybe I need to do this thing with, you know, for my gut health or maybe I need to do this thing with my sleep.  But just from reading your question and hearing what you're asking, that is like glaring. And I can say this because it's not me I'm talking about. I was talking about someone else. I'm talking about you. And it's, to me, it seems very obvious you are throw, you are too much stress on your body, way too much stress. So you're doing all these things and you're doing an elimination diet at the same time? That's, yeah. What does that look like?  Have you stripped it down to like one thing and then kind of built, you know, reintroduced it back from there? Are you kind of like just taking out an offender, you know, one by one? Just starting it. I hadn't planned that far ahead yet. I was probably going to do just taking one thing out at a time so I'm not taking everything out and then not sure what it is causing the issue but trying to tease out one individual thing or a couple of things that are causing problems. Yeah. I just know that's, I mean, that's a tough thing to compile all those things on top of, you know, just to be able to focus on that alone, it, you know, takes a lot of discipline and to be able to run it long enough for you to really even know the difference when you were reintroduced these types of foods too, to be able to pay attention to that.  I would love to see like a maps anabolic with a carnivore-esque type of diet. So a carnivore diet with maybe a few things that you know aren't going to be a problem like maybe rice and maybe certain vegetables that you know that are well cooked. Like I do that something like that diet wise, eat when I'm hungry, stay fed, and then running something like a maps anabolic. That's the direction. Yeah, I follow the guidance of the person you're working with who's an expert on nutrition, ask them about SIBO testing. But with the workout, I would 100% back what Adam's saying. In fact, I would do the two foundational workouts a week, maps anabolic, not the three. I would go for you. Okay. Two foundational workouts a week. That's it. Full body lifting. You can do your run. That's fine. Keep it run. So now you're working out three days a week. On any other day you want to be active, mobility, or yoga, or stretching, stuff like that. All kind of recovery-based type of stuff. Good walks. And don't be surprised, Josh, if you do this and you get stronger within two weeks. Okay? So that's a good sign. If you do this, you back out, and within two or three weeks, you're like, oh my gosh, I feel so much stronger in the gym. You know that you're on the right track. But I would do that to begin with. There's so much being thrown at your body. And it's sending you a lot of signals saying that you're doing too much. Don't keep going and don't wait for a louder signal because louder signals are coming if I'm indeed right. And I think I am. So I would go. Do you have maps anabolic, by the way? I do. Actually, yeah. Let's go that route. Two foundational workouts a week with your run. And then if you're not in our forum, we'll let you in the private forum. I'd like to just, I'd love for you to give us some updates on how everything's going. No, I am actually. Perfect. I knew I recognized your name. I wasn't calling to get anything. I've got all the programs and in the forum been around for a while. I knew I recognized your name, Josh. I've seen you in the forums. Yeah, when I saw your name. Okay, cool. Perfect. Give us some updates of what's going on. Within two to four weeks of following this protocol, you should start to notice some improvements, at least in how you feel. I will. And if you'll allow me, I got to shout out my brother real quick. No problem. He was actually, he was on a live Q&A in February with you guys. Didn't shout me out and a little turd. I'm the one that got him into my computer first. I just wanted to give him a quick shout out. Hey, Spencer. All right, no problem. Thanks for calling in, Josh. Thanks, Josh. Thanks guys. Hey, y'all have a good day now. Yeah, that's the challenge. It's like, I'll do everything. But work out less, you know, and I know I identify with that. I know exactly what that feels like. I just recently cut my training down from six days a week, which I've done forever down to five and voila, the inflammation ahead of my joints started to go away. But it's like, you don't want to kind of face that. But with, especially with everything he's doing with the work and the, you know, all is fighting so much stress internally. You got to start really like shaving some of that back. And I know it's tough to do when you're so, you get so much benefit from moving around all the time and like having a consistent routine and, you know, to tell somebody that's always a challenge. Well, it seems so counterintuitive when you think about it.  So when people think like, oh, I'm not feeling good. I got issues. Oh, exercise more, do more. It'll help me out. But yeah, when I saw the list of all the things he's got going on, I'm like, oh man. And then on top of that, to do a, to run a quote unquote diet is not ideal at a situation like this too. Like if you're over, you're severely overtraining, you got high levels of stress and then you're thinking about either calorie restricting or major surplus of calories. Just not ideal. Eat when you're hungry and satisfied. I love the idea of elimination diet, but not doing it with the intent of trying to lose weight or gain weight. Yeah. As far as the health is concerned, if people only realize that chronic overtraining is almost as bad for you as not working out. I mean, you look at the studies on people who are chronic, you know that high level athletes like endurance runners, their lifespans are not very good because chronic overtraining, that oxidative stress on the body, not allowing your body to adapt to it, it's like getting out in the sun and getting too much sunburn. You don't let your body get a tan. You burn your skin what you end up with, right? Cancer. So you got to train appropriately. And that's a lesson I also have to constantly teach myself, but it's easier to see in other people.


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Okay, let's start. Hi everyone. I'm Raymond Coutab from the H team, the H&N team. Today I will update you about what we've done and what's coming for us. So first thing, the H team will now be part of the quality department. So one thing to mention is that the team is already actually working on improving the quality of different things like our development workflows, our code base, general and technical dates, and also issue tracker and community contributions. So it's actually makes sense to be in this new department that will be directed by BJ that joined us recently. And that also means that we will focus more on github QA in the coming quarter. So that's a good thing. And BJ will help us identify the most critical things to prioritize on and from a quality point of view. So I'm really excited about that. And I hope it will turn out great. So with that, regarding the community side, we merged 76 merge requests in the 10.1 release. So that's one more than 10.0. So that's great. We still have a lot of new magic requests every release. So that's awesome. And as usual, feel free to help to reaging them and reviewing them as you see them coming. Another cool thing in this magic request that we merged. So one thing really cool is to be able to define custom attributes for users thanks to Marcus Scholler. And he also implemented custom attributes for groups and projects that should be available in 10.2. And yeah, he also provided the documentation. So that's great. And a few other things more. So the first one about new creation services for SSH, GPG and deploy keys thanks to Haseeb. So this was a backstage change, but that's always welcome and the community is always good to work on that. So that's great. And the two other magic requests are about adding versions of GitLab components in the admin dashboard thanks to Travis Miller for the GitLab pages version and to Jacopo Bessie for the Gitali version. And last but not least of the magic requests that I highlighted here, of course, are the, oops, the one, sorry about that, the one that decrease the complexity of our code so that's a continuous effort by Maxim Ritkin for a few months now. And there are still more to come. It's still, we still want to decrease more the complexity of our code. So that's great. And also a continuous effort by Blackstone from the core team about migrating Spinaq to RSpec. And we think we can hope to get rid of Spinaq before the end of the year. So that would be awesome. About testing, the great news is that we are now using high CPU droplets for our runners thanks to Tomash from the CI CD team and thanks to the CI CD team in general for that. So we can see that the pipelines now run approximately two times faster. So that's really great. And also they are more stable because previously we had problems with loud neighbors like where our pipelines could take between one hour and two or more hours. So that was not very stable. So right now it's way better. I think the whole pipeline takes always takes less than an hour and the faster should be around 35 to 40 minutes. And we also had 33 test-related merge requests. So this also is a continuous effort from all the teams. So thanks everyone for having been there. The next topic is about performance. So we will focus, I will talk about that later but we'll focus on performance also for the last quarter. And Jenshin already contributed one great improvement for the branches page and the performance of this page will be greatly reduced, greatly improved. Basically we'll do a lot less calls to Git. And so that will be a lot faster. So you will see that in the coming 10.2 RC. And thanks to Zegalyan, we also have a new, you can categorize your changelog with the performance type. So that's useful. About QA, as I said, we will focus more on QA this quarter. So thanks to Robert, we now run the QA scenarios for, so we create projects in subgroups of a top level QA group basically to not pollute the projects list. And the point of that is that we plan to be able to run QA against staging. So it's better if we can just create all the testing projects under a top level group. And a great iteration from Richel, from the build team is about testing the integration with Mattermost in using pclub QA. So I've leaked there that it's composed of four steps. And as you can see, the steps are one step in the QA project, one step in the C project and so forth. So that's a great example of iteration. And really thank you, Richel, for that. And we've built upon what's been created to create new scenarios, to test backup restores, container registry, et cetera, et cetera. And yeah, we had approximately 10 QA merge requests. So github QA is getting more loved. So that's really great. And we'll make it more useful and more complete in the upcoming months. And also hopefully we can run it on every merge request. True automation, so we know run the automation daily and it's working great. We still have problems, performance problems with our API actually. So we cannot do everything that we need to. But we will try to improve the API so that our TrueAge automation can do its work. And yeah, we plan to make the TrueAge automation a gem to be able to use it for any projects in the future. So yeah, Q4KLs. So for Q3, the problem with that, we had two big, vague objectives, too many big, vague objectives. So now we try to have more precise key results. So we will ship a script, like we will improve our seeder script to be able to populate development databases with a lot of data. And thanks to Zagarian and James, we will make great progress in the next following weeks. So that's great. And then we will, as I just said, we'll make the TrueAge project a gem so that we can use it for any projects. Then we will implement three new scenarios in GitLab QA, so to test the container registry, test the upgrade from CE to EE and test a simple push. So basically this is to test the Q4KLs so basically this is to test that when you push a commit, it triggers some actions, it has some effects in GitLab and it's worth noticing that other teams will also contribute scenarios. So for example, the backup restore that I mentioned before will be contributed by the platform team, if I'm not mistaken. Then we will try to deduplicate at least five redundant feature tests because we have a lot of tests, which is good, but I suspect that we also have a lot of duplicated tests and that's a waste. So we try to identify and remove redundant tests. We'll also improve the top five longest spec files in terms of duration, of course. So we try to improve them by at least 30%. Then we will investigate codes with less than 60% test coverage and add tests for the five most critical files. We'll also investigate a backstage improvement to encapsulate instance variables into a single object, basically to try to stop the madness of having a lot of instance variables passed through the views. So is this really an investigation? And then we will also try to reduce duplication so in the views, in the forms. There is a great work that has been done by Nick already and we will try to build upon that. And we'll also solve at least three outstanding performance issues. So we already solved one for the branches page. So we solved two more at least. And I think that's it for today. So if there is any questions, let me know. So there is a question I said, what do we need to do to get the pipeline under 20 minutes? I see it is under 20 minutes sometimes. What does it take to get it under 10 minutes? So if we take the graph that I showed earlier, this one, this graph is only about the tests. So it doesn't reflect the whole pipelines. But so if we want to get the pipelines, the whole pipelines under 20 minutes, it will be challenging because it will mean that we'll have to also split to basically balance not only the test runs, but also other jobs that are taking more than 20 minutes. I don't think we have a lot right now, but we may have some. But for the test jobs, there are a few solutions, of course. We could increase the prioritization. We could also maybe investigate using even more powerful droplets, but this will have a cost, of course. And, but yeah, I think increasing the prioritization is obviously a good way to reduce the duration. We just have to find a balance between the cost of a pipeline and its duration, but that's totally possible. And yeah, under 10 minutes. Yeah, I think if we want the pipelines to be under 10 minutes, we'll definitely have to improve other jobs and not only the test ones. Five minutes, I don't know, five minutes, I don't know. Can we switch to spot instances? I don't, I'm not aware of, I'm not familiar with spot instances. So I'm sorry, I cannot reply for this one. And the last question from Gabrielle, what are we trying to optimize the pros and cons of our rights? Like in your own data-consistence mechanism? Yeah, there were some proposals in the past. I recall one from Nick. One was to use a file system that is basically using the RAM. So it's a lot faster. But yeah, we could also try to play with Postgres, but we should also keep in mind that we are testing against MySQL also. So it would mean a lot of work also for MySQL. But if we could create an issue, I should have ideas about that. And yeah, thanks for the link. Okay, thanks for the link. I don't think we'll be able to reply right now, but I can create an issue to discuss this possibility. Okay, if there's no other questions, I will give you 13 minutes back. Okay, cool. I will try to follow up on that. Thanks. Okay, have a nice day and see you in the team. Bye.


Good afternoon everybody, I'm Tommy O'Brien, coming to you live from TF9 headquarters in St. Petersburg, Florida, 1 p.m. Eastern time on Tuesday, three hours left to go on the trading day and we have a positive market right now going on. S&Ps up seven points, trading at $29.96, we've got the Dow up 62 points, trading at $27,234, and you have the Nasdaq positive by 11, trading at $82.15. Low contract pulling back a bit off $6 at $14.20, notes and bonds lower price and higher yield, the 10-year negative 4 ticks, $127.15, 30-year negative 16 ticks, $154.14, dollar index with some strength, up 440 ticks, trading at $97.380, let's start off with the Dow 30, and September contract we're off of the lows we made about an hour ago when I was out in the air from the noon Eastern time update, we're sitting about $27,201, talk about a tight trading range, right, 17 points we've moved in the Dow in the last hour. S&P 500, pretty much the same story, early today we're down there at $3,000, you dipped to about $29.92, we're back in the middle of that range, trading at $29.95, Nasdaq 100 with a little bit more volatility from $79.60 down to $79.20, we're up a bit from there, trading $79.31, crude oil hovering right around $56 for most of the trading day, currently trading at $56.08, there's your gold contract backing off a bit into the lows that we made overnight, that low overnight, $14.75, we've backed off from about $14.30 at 10 a.m. this morning, now to $14.21, and the euro-US dollar continuing the slide as we get some dollar strength, you have the euro trading $11.50. In terms of what else you have happening out there, how about Bitcoin hovering under $10,000 as you have Bitcoin, trading at $99.94, and jumping over to rates, the 10-year right now sitting at $2.06, of course, we have a Fed meeting coming next Tuesday, a week from today it begins, we'll get a decision, it's all but assured, the market thinks at least that a cut is on its way, market right now, 10-year trading at 2.06%. Stay tuned folks, we've got a man Steve Rhodes coming up live right now, then of course Dave White at 2 o'clock, excuse me, 2-3 p.m. Eastern time, and Tom O'Brien wraps it up live from three to five, it's earnings, we've got a bunch of good earnings after the bell, and to finish this up, earnings we already know, there's Coca-Cola charging higher, up 5.7% and Harley-Davidson with a little bit of a turnaround as well, open negative, now up 4% for Hogg, Harley-Davidson. Stay tuned folks, Steve Rhodes coming up right now with the Traders Edge, have a great Tuesday.


and Pythagoras to find missing size and missing angles in right-angled triangles. But triangles don't always have a right angle, so we need a plan B. For any triangle we have two special formulae, the sine rule and the cosine rule.  In this video we're going to look at how to use the sine rule to find missing sides or missing angles. As there's no right angle we can't use Sokotoa. We use the sine rule. It can be written like this or like this. The little a, b and c represent the sides and the capital a, b and c are the angles. Notice how angle a is opposite side a. Angle b is opposite side b and angle c is opposite side c. This is really important. The formulae is written in two different ways because this way is best for finding missing sides and this way is best for finding missing angles. So let's jump straight in and look at an example. So start by labelling the sides as a and b and the angles as capital a and capital b. So let's call 1.5 centimeters side a. 55 degrees must be angle a and so then 80 degrees is angle b which means the missing side x is this will be. We need to find a missing side so we'll use this version of the formula. So we just substitute in the numbers and we get 1.5 divided by sine 55 equals b divided by sine 80. So to get b on its own we do some simple rearranging by multiplying both sides by sine 80 and then these ones cancel each other out and we're left with b equals 1.5 divided by sine 55 multiplied by sine 80 which we can enter into our calculator. And this gives us 1.8 meters. So let's now have a look at an example where we're trying to find a missing angle. So we need to use this version of the sine rule the missing angle version. Give this one a go yourself. Pause the video, work out the answer and click play when you're ready to check. Did you get 87.5 degrees? If you did and you want to skip the explanation click here otherwise let's go through it together. So we start by labeling the sides and angles with a's and b's so I'm going to label 1.8 meters as a so therefore 46 degrees must be angle a so then 2.5 is side b and the missing angle x is capital B. Again just substitute the numbers into the formula and we get sine 46 divided by 1.8 equals sine x divided by 2.5. A little bit of rearranging so multiply both sides by 2.5 and they cancel out on this side and we get 2.5 multiplied by sine 46 divided by 1.8 which we can enter into our calculator. So then sine x equals 0.999 and so on. Remember to get x on its own we must use inverse sine. In our calculators type in sine to minus 1 brackets 0.999 etc close brackets enter so that gives us 87.5 degrees and that is all you need to be able to use a sine rule. You can find a missing side using this version and a missing angle using this version. Although there are three parts we only ever use two of them so I just ignore the C and the sine C and stick to A's and B's. In the next video we're going to look at when you can and when you cannot use a sine rule and how the cosine rule works when the sine rule doesn't.


Whitehall, 1-2-1-2 quickly. For the first time, Scotland Yard opens its secret files to bring you the authentic true stories of some of its most baffling cases. These accurate records are drawn from the Scotland Yard file by special permission of Commissioner Sir Harold Scott. They're true in every respect, except for the names of the participants which, for obvious reasons, have been changed. The research has been done by Mr. Percy Hoskins, chief crime reporter for the London Daily Express, and the stories for radio are written and directed by Mr. Willis Cooper. Here are the principal participants in case number 201MR340. Sidney Patterson, builder. Mr. Patterson is absent, sir. Detective Inspector Edmund Whitaker of Scotland Yard. It was quite obvious why Mr. Patterson was absent. There are other participants in our case number 201MR340, but not of the same importance as Mr. Patterson. We shall run across them as we go on. We shall run across a great many interesting things as we reenact case 201MR340. And I should like to warn you, if you have the slightest trace of murder in your heart, that a murdered person's teeth are almost impossible to destroy, and that nothing is ever lost, it will certainly be found sometime, somewhere, by someone. Now, will you come with me? This is Scotland Yard's black museum. Yes? It's Inspector Whitaker, sir, with a friend. Oh, do come in, Whitaker. Thank you, sir. Come along. This is Chief Superintendent John Davidson, the curator of the black museum. Well, how do you do? I'm afraid this place is a little like Chamber of Horrors, although our exhibits taken by themselves are not so starting. But they are souvenirs of the law breakers-out, particularly of the unlovely art of murder. Now, this human bone here brought one man to the hangman's expert hands. And these dried blood stains on this cloth are from a once-loving husband's throat. And this revolver-oh, but you wanted to see the exhibits in our case 201MR340, didn't you, Whitaker? Yes, if you please, sir. Well, these are the only ones we had as a man's tooth, and this badly charred top of an ordinary office tool. That's all we have here of Case 201MR340. The rest is elsewhere. Detective Sergeant Alexander McMurphy and I, we were the murder squad next on call, were sitting peacefully chatting in my office at Scotland Yard that evening of the 16th May, waiting for our relief, who were due in less than half an hour. Oh, you're early, Ann. No such luck, Mac. Oh, hello, Boots. What's up, Boots? Investigation, sir. Why couldn't they wait another half hour? Sorry, sir. It just came in. Oh, we don't live right. Camden Town, sir. There's a fire. What? They want someone from the yard. What are we? A bleeding auxiliary fire brigade, do they think? They seem to have come across someone sitting in the middle of it, sir. What? Sitting in it? Grilled to a turn. What? Here's the address, sir. Your car's waiting. Rehasened at once, of course, to the Camden Town location, about 20 miles away. The fire was a small one. It had partially destroyed an old shed, which had been used as an office by a local builder, a Mr. Sidney Patterson. It was only a smoldering ruin when we arrived and identified ourselves to the magnificently moustached section leader in charge. We followed him into the soggy ruins of the shed. Right here, gentlemen. We wetted him down with the fire roses as soon as we saw him, but it was much too late. Hot farm? Oh, ruddy inferno. He had paints and oils stored in here.  Suicide? Note on the table there. What was a table? Pin to the top with a drawing pin. See? Yes.  Yeah. Good. Goodbye, all. No work, no money. Sidney, our Patterson. That was the poor sod's name. See the sign? I'll telephone the libato to pick up the, uh, remain, shall I, sir? Best use the two-way wireless on the car, I think. All right, sir. What's he, uh, what's he leaning against? Looks like a stool or something. That's what it is, sir, a office stool. See these buckets all around him? He must have surrounded himself with buckets of paint and whatnot, and flipped a match into one of them. You ever hear of a chap committing suicide by setting himself on fire before? No, I wouldn't want to. Is it hurt or horrible? No, don't touch him. Well, I was only trying to pull him away from the stool here. Part of him ain't burned, see? Where he's stuck to it. Don't, don't. The laboratory chap. Oh, blimey. Setting himself on fire didn't hurt him. What do you mean? He shot himself first.  What, it was against the stool? In his back? Well, was the man a contortionist? No, sir, he was a builder, sir. At the Yard's Pathological Laboratories, a relatively small, unburned portion of the body was carefully examined, and it was established that the bullet wound was the probable cause of death. The bullet, which was recovered, proved to be a .38 caliber of vulva bullet, which had been fired into the body from the back, entering just below the left shoulder blade, and ranging downward, presumably through the heart. Experiments by all of us demonstrated to our satisfaction that such a wound could not possibly be self-inflicted. The improbable suicide was definitely murder. I sent two detective constables to search the ruins of the shed. It had been wrote off at our request by the Camden Town Fire Brigade. You'll be looking primarily for a revolver, I told them, but fetch back anything you find that appears useful to us. Whilst they were shifting the ashes, Sergeant McMurphy sifted the affairs of Mr. Sidney Patterson. He reported to me what he had found. From the little I've been able to gather, Patterson wasn't much of a success as a builder, sir. He seems to have been a genius for getting into difficulty. What sort of difficulty? Money. Hmm, how strikingly unusual. Huh? Oh, he had one time been a ship's carton turned on one of the P&O liners, but was discharged when he was unable to account for tools to the value of eight pounds, eleven shillings. It was strongly suspected that he sold them, but the charges couldn't be proved. He served in the Royal Marine Light Infantry as a land's corporal. His record is, shall I say, dubious. How dubious? He was accused of a number of times by his shipmates of cheating, specifically at the game of crown and anchor. He was extremely unpopular in the Royal Marines, it seems, and was finally discharged. I shall have a more detailed report from his former commanding officer tomorrow. Hadn't he any friends at all? I've been able to discover only one with whom he could be said to be reasonably friendly, a man named Duncan Fraser, a rent collector in the city with whom he frequently played billions. I hope he didn't make the mistake of trying to cheat a Scotsman. I'm not so sure, sir. Duncan Fraser has been missing since the night of the fire. The hue and cry was immediately set up throughout all Britain for the missing Duncan Fraser. It's extremely difficult for a British subject to leave our tight little island without record, but the search was to no avail whatever. It apparently dropped off the earth. The constables, applied to the ash sifting at the scene of the fire, found only one thing of note. The twisted remains of an ornate red and black fountain pen which was identified by his wife, a Sydney Patterson's property. Careful examination showed that with the pen with which the farewell note had been written, and comparisons with other known samples of Patterson's handwriting demonstrated that it had been actually written by Patterson himself. Sergeant McMurphy and I were extremely glum as we discussed our progress in my office late one night. Progress, indeed. We've been progressing backwards, sir. Yeah, if we could find the revolver, it'd be quite simple to trace its owner. If the owner is Duncan Fraser, we'll still have to trace him. No luck yet. None at all, at all.  A great many things puzzle me, Mac. If this missing rent collector did murder Patterson, why did he first deposit half the money he'd collected in the bank, I mean? If he was going to kill someone and scram, why didn't he keep it all? He'd need it. How did he get Patterson to write his own suicide note? Had a gun on him, maybe. Well, the handwriting wallows insist there's no indication of stress or strain or emotional upset or whatever. In the handwriting. It's normal, they say. I wonder. What? Ah, I'm thinking.  What? What if Fraser's dead? Maybe he is. We can't find him. The teeth of that deader went destroyed. Patterson's? I'm wondering if it was Patterson's or Duncan Mac. Patterson was a, was our own crook. Could he have been playing games with us? Show me that telephone, oh boy. Good evening, Mrs. Patterson. A detective inspector, Whitaker Scotland Yard here. I wonder, Mrs. Patterson, if you could tell us the name of your late husband's dentist. Thank you very much indeed. No, Mrs. Patterson. I'm afraid there's nothing to report yet. Hit this tooth merchant in here first thing in the morning, will you, Mac? We'll meet him in the laboratory and let him look at our client's fangs. Well, what, Doctor? I never saw these teeth in my life. What? I can assure you they are not Sydney Patterson. You can swear to that, Doctor? Well, I hope you're not impugning my professional judgment, sir. Well, not at all, Doctor. It's a matter of correct legal procedure. I have ample records in my office which you may consult. Charts, impressions. Sydney Patterson had lost three teeth a long time ago. I extracted the left upper canine and the adjacent in size of myself more than a year ago. You'll observe that both teeth are intact in this jaw, sir. Then you're prepared to swear that these teeth are not Sydney Patterson, sir? I most assuredly am. And that this is not Sydney Patterson's body. Since the jaw containing the teeth is attached to the remainder of the body, I'm prepared so to swear, sir. It's often impossible to grow a new head on a body. My fee will be one good day. I will indent for it at once, Doctor. Good day, sir. Now, what did I do with my head? Oh, yeah, good day. Good day, Doctor. I am sincerely glad that teeth are not inflammable, Mac. If more people knew that, there'd be fewer left to be called for corpses around here, sir. Right. Now, have you found Duncan Fraser's dentist yet? I had once caused a thorough investigation to be made throughout London and the vicinity of Perth in Scotland, where Fraser came from, to discover a dentist who had been employed professionally by him. The search was most thorough, although the combined efforts of Scotland Jard and the provincial police were not efficient, sufficient to find the person. In the meantime, we were able to lay our hands on some, or 13 or 15 persons who had known either Paterson or Fraser. Each individually viewed the grisly remains in the Scotland Jard mortuary. And the results? Ivo Young, Esquire, former employer of Duncan Fraser. Oh, it's hard to say, but I believe this to be the body of Fraser. Michael Fish, a former neighbour of Fraser. No, that ain't it. I knowed him well. Edgar Stone, brother-in-law of Paterson. I'm quite sure this is Sydney Paterson's body. And, sir, that's the fountain pen I gave him. Artificer Sergeant Rodney Smith, Royal Marine Light Infantry, a former service acquaintance of Paterson's. No, that ain't him at all. Oh, I wish it was. Bleeding stinker he was. This ain't him. Police Constable Mark Emerson, a former Billiards' companion of Fraser. It's Duncan all right. He looks awful, but then he always did. Hamish Fraser, uncle of Duncan. Oh, no. No, that isn't my nephew, Duncan. Samuel Furness, labourer, sometime employee of Sydney Paterson. Oh, now it's him. What didn't all work for him? Confusion. Confusion confounded. Six said it was Furness. Seven insisted it was Fraser. Paterson's widow herself was not sure, and she and her brother, Edgar Stone, Paterson's brother-in-law, had high words. MacMurphy and I nipped round to the goat and compasses to refresh and sustain ourselves. I was finishing my gin and bitters, and Mac was deep into his second pint of mild and bitter when the proprietor, one Dick Gillespie, came out of the saloon bar and accosted her. Oh, I say it's taken with him. I didn't know you were in here. There was a telephone call for you. Oh, was it? Sergeant Kenneth of the Yard. What do you want? Well, he said they found the dentist. Oh, what's the matter, Inspector? Your teeth hurt you? It was a dentist from Perth. The Scottish police had found him. We brought him at once to Scotland Jard, where he immediately identified the charge remains as those of Duncan Fraser. One of his molars was curiously malformed. It corresponded exactly with the one shown in a clinical photograph of Fraser's mouth the doctor had made a year ago. There was no mistaking it, he said. We returned to my office to marshal the facts that we had accumulated. The labourer, Samuel Furness, who had been so certain of his identification of the body as that of Patterson was waiting. Mac and I listened. Oh, I knew that was Mr. Patterson what burned up to a Skellington chef. Why are you so sure, Pundit? Because I was the last man to see him alive, sir. When? The afternoon of the day was burned up, sir. Go on. Well, it was like this here, you see, sir.  Well, I come into his office, sir, you know, to shed what was all burned up. I was after the 7 and 6 he'd owed me for two months. Oh, he was always putting me off, sir, but... Wait. Well, he always seemed to be stony, sir. Never seemed to ever shill him. He was always putting me off.  Did you get your money? Oh, that I did, sir. Before you could say knife, he had out his purse and he pulled out a great water notes, then he counted me out with 7 and 6, and then he handed me half a crown. And he says, here, buy yourself half a pint, Sammy. Cool, I was fair, took her back, had all Sidney given anybody anything for nothing. It seemed to have plenty of money, did he? Well, he's wallet was fair stuffed. You know, it's the first time I've ever known him to have more than friends in my life. Well, I was so took back, I tried to get up and I fell right on the apple and plum, yes. I kicked me foot against a couple of bags of cement he had under his desk and I fell right down. Did you see the bags of cement? Well, they was under the desk, sir. Did you see them? Well, I, oh, well, no, sir, I didn't. But I know I kicked- Thank you, Furness. Patterson had plenty of money in his wallet for the first time. We found that there was absolutely no identification of the ruins of the burned shed that any cement had ever been stored there. We'll find him. I said that nothing is ever lost. No thing, no person. I will admit, however, that it is sometimes extremely difficult to find a missing thing or a missing person, especially when the objects of the search have few distinguishing characteristics. Sydney Patterson was such a man. Description of Sydney Patterson, broadcast by Scotland Yard. Seven stone four, medium brown hair and strangling moustache same color, which he may have shaved off. Eyes blue. When last seen was dressed in gray tweed, single-breasted suit, white shirt, dark red tie. How many men answering that description do you see in a day? We had reports from every corner of the United Kingdom. Two slightly-adult gentlemen, neither of whom resemble Patterson in the slightest, marched, one at Torquay and one at Flanvar in Wales in debris stations, announcing themselves as the wanted man. Each was promptly committed. Lodging housekeepers by the hundred were interviewed. The manhunt dragged on for eight days before we had our first glimmer of success. Um, let, uh, let Mac Murphy tell it. He was there. There was a largeen house in Regent's Park, a very obscure one which smelt of Brussels sprouts. The proprietor was in the hospital having another baby and, or husband, a very harassed man was in charge. Yes, he said. They had had a larger who seemed to answer to the broadcast description. Had had, I said. Uh, well, he ain't here any more, I mean. What became of him? Well, he opted. He opted the very day that the pipe had come out with the description. Where? I don't know. He just sent us his telegram. Brother Ill must leave. We'll get in touch later. Roger's, eh? At the name he gave? Right here it is in the register book. Here, Sidney Rogers, see? Sidney, eh? That his own writing? Yes, yes. I'd like to have that page, if you please. Oh, I'll return it. You're sure it's his handwriting? Oh, I, I've seen him. I've seen him write it. May I have the page? Well, good. Well, my old lady likes to keep things neat and tidy. Well, I'll return it as soon as we've checked it against a sample of his handwriting. Now, uh, when did he come here? Uh, 60th of May, it says right here. And when did he leave? Well, the day is, his description first come out in the pipe. He leave his luggage? Oh, he hadn't any luggage. He was here all the time without even, without even changing his shirt. That room of his, oh, fair pigish. Must be. Well, we're rid of him and he's paid up to the end of the week. Anyway, so we don't lose nothing here. You, you suppose it, it was him? It'll be in the papers. Comparisons of samples of Patterson's handwriting with the signature of Sidney Rogers showed them to be identical. Peterson's full name was Sidney Roger Patterson. The telegram had been sent from South End. We turned our attention to that muddy little place. He was not to be found, although our search was scrupulous and thorough. We put a postal stop on all letters addressed to his former home, expecting that sooner or later he'd attempt to write to his wife. Thus, all letters addressed to that house would be held out and delivered to us first. We would open and read them, reseal and allow them to return to the house. No letters appeared. We waited. Time was on our side and the searchers at South End plotted along, making no apparent progress. And then, after a week had passed, the post office people sent us a letter. It was addressed to his brother-in-law, Edgar Stone, who had a room there. Letter addressed to Edgar Stone. Dear Edgar, just align to you in the hope that I shall be able to take care of you. I'm sorry. Just align to you in the hope that I shall be able to see a friend before I end it all. Would you come to see me at South End someday, please? Take the 1035 train. It arrives at South End at 12.8. Come out of the station, walk straight across the road and down Whitegate Road on the left side. I shall see you coming. If you come, then short and a comb. Best of luck. Mine is gone, if farmer. Well, so. I withdrew the detective from the area mentioned in the letter, which was resealed and delivered to Edgar Stone. I didn't want for long Mr. Farmer Patterson. The next day, Edgar Stone came to see me. He sat down nervously. What can I do for you, sir? Stone, I asked. What letter, Inspector? Yes. It's from... Are you going to South End on Sunday, Mr. Stone? Huh? Stone had a strong sense of justice. Strengthened perhaps by the shabby way Patterson had treated his sister for so many years. He agreed at once to assist us. We sat in my office and planned it, Mac and Stone and I. You're taking the shirt, of course, Stone, I said. Yes, sir.  He'll be recognised if he goes out to buy one, I expect. He's got plenty of money. We know that. If the banks had been opened that afternoon, he'd have any. He wouldn't have any. Why? Fraser would have deposited his afternoon's collection. Same as he did his morgue. The banks had been opened. Fraser'd still be alive. Shouldn't it be up to some other mystery? Yes. Well, let's get organised, shall we? First, we'll need a good man on this Whitegate Road to see Patterson don't get frightened and do a bunk. You'd better do that, Mac. Well, uh... I've seen too many cinemas, I'm afraid. I don't like false beard. Wait.  What? You could be a street fiddler, couldn't you? Well, I could. That's what you'll be. Complete with tin cup and pathetic look, very touching and very unsuspicious. And I'll have half of what you take in. A man with a fiddle. Simple enough, oh boy. Just play God Save the King. You stand at attention till I get there. We planned it as carefully as we could. This was to be the definitive last act. Stone and I put the same train to South End. But when he got off with me, I stayed inside the station. Far down the street, I could see Sergeant Mac Murphy in an ancient green suit of clothes soaring industriously away on his fiddle. There were a few pedestrians on the street. Church services were just over. There's Whitehead Road and said to Stone, come back at once. The up train is due in a few minutes. Good luck. I wish I didn't have to do this, Inspector, but... Just remember what he's done, Stone. It's the only reason I'm doing it, sir. Good luck. Sydney was my friend once. He turned and crossed the road. Walked slowly down Whitehead Road. I watched him from the station window. He approached Mac Murphy, paused a second. I chuckled as Mac Murphy held out his tin cup and Stone dropped a coin into it. Far away, I could hear his fiddle. I went to the door of the station, stepped outside as he turned the far corner. There is such a thing as trusting a man, but... I waited. The distant street fiddler shambled around the corner, which Stone had turned. I fidgeted. A couple passed on their way home from the church. I waited. A small boy ran past with a hockey stick. I waited. And at last, I saw Mac Murphy in his green suit come slowly round the corner toward me. In a moment, Stone reappeared. He glanced at Mac as he passed, and I thought I saw him nod. I started toward him, sourcing quite casually. We passed without recognition. Mac had halted again and was playing. I stopped alongside him. How much have you made, Mac? I asked. It's a lot of shillings. Good. What happened? Oh, it's all right. Anybody who sees us will think I'm asking you how you fell to this lower state. First house round the corner. There was a cardboard sign in the window. Sydney was printed on it. Door opened. He went in. That's all I saw. Good. I'll nip round to the back.  We'll see what happens. I don't... I can't play, God save the king. I went round to the rear of the second house, which was marked J Huntington. I tried the rear door. It was unlocked. I opened it cautiously and stepped inside. It was empty, apparently. I stepped down the narrow hall. Is that you, Mr. Huntington? I walked toward the voice. Mr. Huntington, is that you? I walked to the door on the left. Mr. Huntington. Mr. Huntington. He stood there in the frosty little room.  Oh, I thought you were Mr. Huntington. I'm Inspector Whitaker of Scotland Yard, Mr. Patterson. Oh, yes. I knew you'd found me eventually. I just wanted to put on a clean shirt before I... before... I detain you on suspicion of being involved in the murder of Duncan Fraser. Poor Duncan. And I warn you that anything you may say will be taken down in writing and used against you. There. I've only one thing to say, sir. I did murder Duncan. This is the revolver I shot him with. Give it here. The one you couldn't find, sir. Give it here. It wasn't lost, sir. Give it here. Oh, no, sir. Patterson! No, Sidney. Nothing is ever lost. I'm afraid. You have just heard the story of case number 201 MR340 from the official files of Scotland Yard. All of the facts related are true with the single exception of the names of the participants, which for obvious reasons have been changed. The research was prepared by Mr. Percy Hoskins of the London Daily Express and the story for radio was written and directed by Mr. Willis Cooper. Next, listen for Tales of the Texas Rangers on NBC.


Governor of Bayosa State has been declared as the People's Democratic Party flag-bearer for the upcoming Gov. election scheduled for November 11, 2023. The announcement was made by Gov. Ademola Adeleke of Oshun State, who served as the chief returning officer for the party's Gov. primaries. Adeleke announced that Deary emerged victorious with 305 votes out of 315 delegates who were present at the Gabriel Okara Cultural Center in Yanagwa, the capital of Bayosa State. The only aspirants are the only candidates. It could only be the understanding within the party that we want our party to go back to its foundational days. In this state, when you convert that nomination of the PDP, it's as good as you have been elected in whichever office. And I think that what you have done today is taking us back to the foundational days of the PDP in Bayosa State. It's therefore with this utmost joy and a very grateful heart to all of us in the People's Democratic Party, the leaders, the followers, and all alike, I do accept your nomination. The candidates.