A fiery horse with a speed of light, a cloud of dust, and a hearty high old silver, the Lone Ranger. He must rather the planes fought for more than law and order in the early days of the Western United States. It was possible for a man to take advantage of his fellow ranchers and stay within the law, but he always ran the danger of making an enemy of the Lone Ranger, and no man could match the courage and resourcefulness of that great champion of justice. Return with us now of those thrilling days when the West was young and eventually at the end of every trail, the Lone Ranger rides again. At one moment, six heavily laden wagons were crawling slowly across the ferry in the direction of the isolated town of Western flats, and in the next they were the center of a howling band of savages that had suddenly dashed out from behind the huge side of the trail. Early the following morning, that freeman whose ranch was just outside Western flats summoned his foreman to the ranch house and was giving him his orders for the day when they were interrupted by a sound at the door. Jake, what was that? Gosh, bad, I don't know. Sounded like somebody stumbling. Come on. Yeah, wonder who it is. Maybe it's... Engines, ambush. Well, I'll be shot the pieces. Get him inside. Here, fella, I'll give you a hand. Killed. All of them. Killed. Put them on that bench there. He's just about out. Handle them easy. Here, put them here. The freighters, engines, ambush. What on thunders are you talking about? All of them killed. Bye, golly. Boss, I've seen this fella before. He works for that freighter outfit, the ship supplies into Western flats. You sure? Uh-huh. It's him all right. Yeah, forget his handle, but that's where I've seen him. Engines got everything. Engines got everything. See, you know what, boss? There was freighters due with more supplies. I'll bet whatever you care to name, engines was laying in wait and clean that freighting party out.  Listen here. Come on, snap out of it. What happened to you, huh? Speak up, can't you? Engines. Killed everybody. Where should you come out of it?  Here you are. Throw it in his face. Don't you think we'd better... I said throw it in his face. Sure, sure. I was only thinking, shot up the way he is. The blaze is the way he's shot up. He's trying to say what I think he is. I've got an idea. He's got to be rousing. Talk sense first. This may be a little bit... All right, you.  How's it... You're all right, fella. What happened? The engines. Engines ambush you? Engines. Yeah. Yeah, I recollect now. It's coming back to me. If I could have water. Talk up and you get all the water you want. You with the freighting party taking supplies to town? Yeah. The engines get them supplies? Got everything. Everything. Killed everybody but me. I've been all night getting here crawling, hiding. Just about out again. Then throw some more water at him. Yeah. Give me water. Just a second. You sure nobody else got away? Engines got everybody. Anybody else know about this? Talk to anybody that could spread the news before you got here? No. It seemed nobody. There he goes. Passed out cold. What's funny? You know what this means, Jake? Well, it'll be some time before there's more supplies brought to town. A month anyhow. But the redskins acting up may be longer. What are you thinking of? Jake, right now it's likely we're the only ones to know there won't be supplies reaching town this trip. Yeah, but I don't say we won't. You will. You and me are riding into town. Yeah? I'm going to every dog-gone store. I'm buying up all the supplies each one's got. I'll let each one think that's the only place I'm buying from. And we're acting fast as we put it across before they get a notion what's up. What in blazes is up? Just this. They'll sell what they got on hand because they're figuring on more to reach them any day now. By the time they find out it'll be at least a month before there'll be any more supplies. I'll own all that's to be had. Huh? What good lad do you? Gosh, we can't use all that stuff here in the ranch. You're still on savvy? Can't say as I do.  They can't live without grub and such. I'll pay whatever price for it they ask, but when they come to me to buy it back, they'll pay me just twice as much. Maybe more. By golly. Slick, eh? Well, boss, with a scheme like that, there's one thing sure. Yeah, what's that? And the folks in town find out what you're done. You're going to be either one or two things. Eh? Either you'll be the richest fella around these parts or the deadest. That was not discouraged by his foreman's doubts, but rode to town at once to put his plan into effect. Later that day, the lone ranger disguised also entered town. He made his way at once to the general store owned by Ezra Hastings. I tell you young fella, if you want supplies, you'll have to get them from Hank Davis or Miss Jones. I'm clean sold out, but I've been there to both places. That's what I've been trying to tell you. They're sold out too. Sure, they can't be. They... Oh, afternoon, stranger. Good afternoon. If you're here for grub, I'll have to tell you the same as I told this young fella. I ain't got none. That's unusual, isn't it? Well, as a matter of fact, it is. But it just happened today that Bat Freeman... Bat Freeman? Yeah, he bought... Dog gone and all. That's the same fella they told me bought out their mother's stores. What's he doing? Getting ready to fill the whole county? Huh? You're saying Bat was at their mother's places? He was? Now, what am I going to do? I'm with a wagon train that's north of here and we're just about out of grub. The engines have been raising trouble and it took us twice as long to get where we are as we figured on. I was going to buy a couple of wagon loads of supplies and have them sent out. But gosh, I can't figure this out. Bat must have gone local. What kind of a fellow is this Bat Freeman? Well, I suppose he's all right. In other words, he isn't. Now, I didn't say that. You would like him, you'd have said so without hesitating. Yes, but I... I see you haven't heard the news. Huh? What news? I believe these people will tell you. Look at the crowd coming here.  Ezra, we've been tricked. What? Ezra, I bet you've sold out to Bat Freeman, too. Well, he's got all the supplies he's in town. We've got to go to him for what we want. The blasted barn was spent up to another one of his slick stunts. Wait, hold on. Maybe Bat has gone local. But what differences make? Are there more supplies coming soon? Fact is, I was looking for them today. Then you can just quit looking for them right now. But I... Ezra, the Redskins jumped them freighters, killed everybody with them, made off of the horses and grubbed. No. That's just what happened, and somehow Bat found out about it. Gosh. He told me he was laying in next to supplier Grubb, figuring that if he bought a lot to once, he'd save a little money. Wasn't saving, he was figuring on. It was making. You mark my words. He's got the grubby nose. It'll be weeks before we can get more. And if he don't try to rob us in the meantime, then Bat Freeman ate the scheme and skunk, I've always known him to be. The Lone Ranger, leaving Western Flats, rejoined Tonto in the small, well-hidden camp they shared. The Lone Ranger knew the situation was dangerous, and he discussed it with the faithful Indian while he removed his disguise. Give me that towel, Tonto. Here, towel. Thanks. You know what came up of me? The worst part of this is the fact that Bat has stayed inside the loft. He had a right to buy that food, has a legal right to demand whatever price he wants for it, and all that it is. A legal right, I say, and not a moral one. What you mean? No matter what the loss is, men are never justified in taking unfair advantage of their fellow men. Oh, that's right. Have I got all the stain from my face, Tonto? And get the mask from my saddlebag, please. Tonto, get him. One thing is sure, Kimosabe. The people in town won't starve without putting up a fight. If Bat wants too much, it's going to be trouble. When I learned about him while in town, that's probably what he'll do. Yeah, mask. I believe I'm going to need this. What you do? I'm returning to town. Oh. There's trouble. The sheriff will have to take Bat's side. His duty requires him to uphold the law, whether it's fair or not. Ah. If Bat demands too high a price, and the people demand those supplies without meeting Bat's price, then it could easily mean bloodshed. Hmm, that'd be he bad. If it comes to that point, I have a message for the townspeople. Here, Silver. What message? Call Scout, Kimosabe. Here's Count. Have a plan in mind that may solve this situation. Now, need your help, though. Tonto, do what you say. And come on. We'll talk it over on the way. Get him up, Scout. Come on, old fellow. Come on. The masked men overestimated the seriousness of the situation. Half the town with the sheriff and the lead rode to Bat's ranch house. There, they dismounted and gathered around the front porch. Bat, an insolent smile on his face, stood on the porch looking down on them. I can guess what you folks are doing here, all right? Yeah, it's like it was something funny. If you think it is, you'll find the thing. Hold on now, hold on. Seems to be like you folks are getting a little ahead of yourselves. I crel all the grub there was, sure. Right now, I got a whole bar and bulging with it. But there wasn't no law saying I couldn't buy. Weren't nobody acted like he didn't want to sell. You ain't even ask me how much I'm charging to sell it back again. All right, then how much are you? Well, I gotta make a profit. Answer my question. I'll tell you what I'll do. I ain't no proper storekeeper, so I wouldn't be up on prices and such. We'll take what I was charged for a starter. Figuring from that, you can hand the stuff back for, well, we'll say three times what I paid. We can't pay you that much and you know it.  What about the folks that ain't well off? What are they gonna do? That ain't none of my affair. They'll have to do their worrying for themselves. You can't get away with that. We'll take that stuff away from you first. I'll rob us and see what happens to you. Jake, Cheryl, keep them folks back. Cheryl, if I demand protection, I'm within the law and you're sworn to uphold it. Stand back, folks. That's not the right of us. There ain't nothing you can do. You sitin' with that polecat?  Have lasers with that. Come on, folks, let's help ourselves. Just what the scum desires. Shoot him if he's fed, by the way. He can't do anything to be wrong. Come on. Hand back. Watch out for his heart. Get back. Get back. Over, over, over. Make sure you better. Don't slap, brother, Cheryl. I'm used to these people. Quiet, everyone. Quiet. Listen to me. Within two days, wagons will reach western flats. Within two days, you'll have all the food you need. Where's it coming from? You'll see when the time comes. Why should we take your word for it? You don't have to. You have enough food in your homes to last several more days. What of it? Wait two or at the most three days. You won't suffer during that time. And if you find I haven't told you the truth, you're still free to take any action you wish. It better do like the mask man says, folks. I'm no on. If you're gonna make trouble, I gotta stand up again, you. But if it can be avoided by waitin', then that's the thing to do. Wow, maybe so. Don't hurt, I reckon. Wait. Mask fellas trickin' you somehow. He can't bring no grub here. You know it. If you want to eat, you'd better buy for me. I didn't say I'd bring supplies here. But you just said only there would be supplies. And at a fair price. Think it over. Hey! How silver! Wait a second! 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. Now to continue our story. The Lone Ranger's message and the sheriff's argument persuaded the crowd to wait for a few days before forcing the issue. They returned to their homes, and when they had gone, the bat shouted to his foreman and the cow hand. Jake, come here. You come here too, Sandy. What do you want, boss? Got orders? You fellas heard what that mask fella said, didn't you? Yeah, I reckon I overlooked something before. I said if you tried this, John, you'd either get rich or drill. Looks like another thing could happen. If the mask fella's right, and there's more grub being brought into town, then you're stuck with what you got on hand. In other words, you're likely to end up flat broke. Yeah? Well, if I do, you're out of a job. Wouldn't surprise me. Only that grub ain't gonna get to town. Got something in mind? Any supplies brought to western flats has to come in from the east. Sure. There's two ways it could come from the east. Either by way of the prairie trail, which is the longest, or through the hills. Yeah, what about it? It ain't likely there'd be anybody's gumption enough to take the hill trail. Not with the Redskins and the Warpath the way they are. And you reckon not? Well, right here and now, Jake, I'm appointing you to ride the prairie trail. Find them wagons with grub. And see if they don't never get here. Kind of a tall order, ain't it? You can pick out as many fellas you want to go with you. You can take Sandy here for one. And just how do I go about keeping the grub from town?  Seems as is. Being foreman, you're supposed to have some savvy. I never had no complaints on that score, I reckon. Well, then figure things out for yourself. Take the men you want. Do what you want. There's just one thing to remember. Yeah?  Jake, following bats' orders without enthusiasm, shows a half dozen men and led them east. They had furnished themselves with vandanas to avoid identification. And upon a day's journey to the east, they saw four wagons approaching. They put them on. Then with drawn weapons, they rode toward the lead wagon. Grain up there, Chance. Oh, I'll forget drill. Hold up, hold up. Get out of there. What did he say, sir? Hold up? Maybe. Tell their motherfellows with it just to stay where they are. Ain't going to get no trouble unless they ask for it. Let's keep it praises, boys. These fellas got the whip hand. Glad you see it that way. Now, then, what do you got in them wagons? Nothing much. Wouldn't be supplies headed for western flats, would it? No. Mister, I kind of like you. You ain't taking this affair in the wrong way.  Wouldn't be the first time folks been wrong about me, Reckon. And seeing as how I don't think you're telling the truth, know how, I guess we'll have to do some investigating for ourselves. Well, suit yourself, friend. Sandy. Yeah? You know, from that coyose, climb this here wagon and see what's in them boxes and barrels. Fred's you and the other fellas do the same by the rest. This here sure is helpful. George, now, you shouldn't be judging so much by appearances. I suppose you have to couple them barrels of boxes, either one. I knew that thing. Finding it in? What's the matter? These are all empty. You weren't lying. Maybe the other wagons are different. It'll be a slick trick to have the first one empty so we think they was all the same. Look here, Jay. Hey, no. Where'd you get that name? Jay, you really figure we wouldn't be expecting your boss to pull something like this? But where'd he? Shucks.  This made the mistake of hiring out to his skunk is all. But you see, the townsfolk have got a fella working on their side that's 20 times slicker than your boss is. And here he comes right now. The mask man. Sandy, get down from there. All right, fellas. Back to your horses. Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. And don't go for a gun. Every man on these wagons is ready for you if you make a move. We ain't done nothing. And we're not holding you. But before you leave, I'll give you a message for your boss. Yeah? Tell him this. Tell him the next time he should remember there are two trails to Western Platte from the east. You mean to say, Jay? We were full proper. These empty wagons came by this trail just to keep us busy. I'll bet the ones with grub took the hill trail. But we figured with the engines wearing war paint... That would have better luck if he stayed away from scheming. You're all right, stranger. And I'm going to take pleasure in telling him so. It's going to be worth my job, but it'll be a downright pleasure just the same. Very well. On your way. Come on, fellas. Better get rid of them supplies he's got as fast as he can. Or he's going to be bust flat in a pancake. Get up, get up there.  All right. Keep on the town with those wagons. Roy! Come on, silverware. When Jake reported to his employer, Bat was unable to control his temper. He stood at the door of the barn which contained the supplies he had bought and pointed inside. Look at there. Just about every dollar in cash I had tied up in that stuff. Because you fools didn't look down the right trail, I'm likely to go bust. Shucks. We just looked where you told us to.  Well, no funnier than it did to you when you figured you was going to get rich because the town folks was going to be hungry. If I thought there was a chance to hit them off on the other trail... Then you'll have to hit them off yourself.  He knew doggone well that you'd try to stop the grub from getting here. And now if it don't, then there ain't nobody but you going to get the blame. It could be done in such a way so as nothing could be proved. Yeah, well try hollering for proof with your Adam's apple getting cramped by a piece of hemp. It don't work so well from what I've heard. The wagons can't be in town yet? Maybe not. And the folks in town don't know for sure whether them wagons are coming or not. All they had was the mass fellow say so. I hope you ain't scheming something new. You'll be losing your ranch along with your cash. All I'm figuring is to sell. What same as what you figured in the first place?   I'm taking them back to town and selling for anything I can get. If I wait till that other grub shows up, maybe I won't get nothing. These supplies were loaded according to Batson's instructions and taken back to town. That went with them himself and when he arrived in western flats went directly to the cafe where most of the townspeople had gathered. He paused for a moment at the door looking toward the hills, saw a wagon train beeping toward the town. Come along, Jake. I'm coming. I wouldn't miss this for anything. Hank, here's Ritz. Hello, Bert. Howdy, Bert. Well, what do you want? Look, fellas, I have decided to be fair about this whole thing. What are you talking about? Well, it's like this. I've been thinking it over and I've decided maybe it was kind of a shabby trick I was trying to play on you. You can bet it was that all right. You changed your mind? I have, gents. That's just what I've done. I'll let you have back all them supplies for just what I paid you for them. Say, you mean that? Of course I do.  Get to talking to the sky pilot? No, no. I just figured things out for myself. With a little help from a Max, fellas.  Look, fellas, let's get this settled right away, huh? You give me your notes for the cash. What about the stuff you bought from Miss Jones? She ain't here. I'll see her too, but let's hurry, huh? Well, I just soon get back in business again. I've had to shut up shop since you bought me out. Me too. Now, let me see.  That's right. How's that sound to you? Where's Ray? Fair enough, I should say, Hank. Mm-hmm. Well, then I... Don't buy it. Put them there. What the... Don't buy him his terms. He tried to cheat you. The law can't punish him. But he'd be fittingly punished if he were to take a loss. Now, wait. Strange you, we got to have supplies. We can do business without them. And folks are beginning to run low on stuff already. Then I think a fair price for what bad has would be half what he paid you. I won't sell for that. Suit yourself. You fellas are giving me what I paid, won't you? You ain't got to try and cheat me, are you? You'd just be fitting if he was cheated. Well, if the trouble is, we got to have them supplies, even worse, and you got to have the cash. Just so. So if you don't meet me halfway... They won't. But I tell you, mister... Hey, Ezra. He's bluffing. He refuses to sell for a half. Tell him you'll wait a half an hour before making up your minds. Well, we got to get together in this right away. I ain't waiting. Say that. What's making you so all-fired anxious all of a sudden to deal on the spot? I just want to get it over with. That's all I... I got work to do back in my ranch. It wouldn't be because the Mask Fellow was right after all, would it? Hmm? Right about what? About other supplies coming to town the day or so. Is that what you're feared of? Are you figuring you'd better sell before them supplies get here or you won't sell at all?  By golly, I'll bet it is so. I never seen the violence who anxious to deal fair and square before. You have your choice, Bat. Except the terms I mentioned? Or none. Well, the Mask Man says is good enough for me. Bat, which is it? I don't know. Hurry. I think I hear some wagons outside. Huh? Wagons? By golly, that's so. And you, let's go outside and see what's coming. No, no, wait. I'll sell. Just give me half. That's all I ask. I'll sell for half. No, if that grubs out there, I don't reckon we care to buy from you at any price. Wait, please. I reckon we'll wait. Wait. There's no use carrying this too far. Buy at that price. You can't lose. And it'll help save Bat something. And still, he'll be suitably punished. Please, fellas, please. Well, uh... I don't know. You got it, fellas. You just got to. You think we should, Mask Man? Take my word for it. I know you should. Then, Bat, as far as I'm concerned, it's a deal. And you as well? Same goes for me. Here comes the sheriff. He can witness this. The deal will also apply to what was purchased from Mrs. Jones. I'll look here, Stranger. Oh, wait, Sheriff. These men are making a bargain and want you for a witness. Bat is selling all he bought for half what he paid. I'll ask you questions later, Stranger. Is this the truth, Bat? Yeah, it's all set. They can't back out now. Look, we don't aim to. There's a red skin. The young fella from the wagon train is with him. Tell them. We get here all right. Where'd you come from, engine? We come with wagons outside. Them are wagons from the immigrant train I'm with, Sheriff. I was here a couple of days ago to get grubbed if you'll wreck legs.  We sure are. Why? That if he was here trying to buy grub a couple of days ago, how come you're in a position where he can be bringing grubbed to town now? Well, who said I was? I'm afraid you misunderstood, Bat. No one told you the wagons would bring supplies. You were told wagons would arrive, not at the same time there would be food to be bought at a fair price. Both things are true. But I was... Wagons came by both trails, but both groups of wagons were empty. Well, I'll be doggone. Then if we stopped the wagons on the hill trail, we'd have found them empty, too. Right. And there ain't no other supplies coming here? Not that I know of. Sheriff, it ain't fair. I'm calling that deal off.  You made a bargain and I witnessed it. You either keep that bargain or set in jail. Yes, sir. The Mask Fellows fixed it, so we made a profit on the whole thing. You ever hear of the like? And I brought these wagons from the immigrant trains so I could take back grub. Of course, I don't expect you to fill all them wagons. Just a couple is enough. The rest was the mask man's idea. He skimmed the whole thing? Yes, sir. Sent the engine to where we're camped and had the Redskins get us to help. And that's all there's to it. Now, I sure would like to ask that fellow some questions, only maybe not the same ones I would ask when I seen that mask of his first. Well, Sheriff, he's on his way, so you ain't going to ask him nothing. But what do you have in mind? It's just one thing. I wanted to ask him if he ain't the Lone Ranger. I don't see him. Sailor Rollboy, this adventure on the trail ahead. I don't see him. You have just heard as a copyrighted feature of the Lone Ranger Incorporated.


I guess I'm not going to be wearing this wig for much longer, as you guys have seen. The absolutely awful news about The Witcher. Henry Kevel has said that after season 3 he is no longer going to be a part of the show. He will be giving up his role to one of the discount Hemsworth brothers, Leem Hemsworth. The reaction online must have Netflix shitting their boots. This is, I believe, their third major attempt at trying to find something that has as much of a cult following as a major following as Game of Thrones. Something they've been after ever since Game of Thrones exploded after the first season. And they've tried it with Marco Polo, which didn't even finish. They tried it with Altered Carbon, which also didn't finish. They got Stranger Things, which I don't think they even expected when that show first started. I didn't even think it was going to be as big of a fandom as they have, but that's also now coming to an end. So The Witcher was supposed to be it. They had a seven-season series plan, and Henry Kevel was on top of it, but he had one condition is that they would respect the stories and create great stories and respect what the books were that were written by the author. And it seems that while it hasn't been as widely talked about as most are, the conflictions between Kevel and the lead writer, the showrunner for The Witcher have always cropped up here and there. One of the big examples was in the second season when Roach died and she wanted him to quip. And he's like, Gerald wouldn't quip in this. Just because the memes make a joke about it, he still cares for every horse he's had. Yes, he calls them all Roach, but he still cares about them. And the guy was a constant source of information, knowledge, and actual care for the show while it seems that the writer's room was full of people who actively hated the source material. There's an interview with the X-Men 97 head writer. When he was working on The Witcher, he says that the writer's room was full of people who were actively mocking the source material.  And this guy, apparently when he went in to be hired on to make the X-Men 97 series, every person that has been hired since had to be, it was a requirement that they had to be a fan of the X-Men. And then he started talking about The Witcher and how some of the writers were not actively disliked the books in the games, even mocking the source material. It's a recipe for disaster and bad morale. Fandom as a limitous test checks egos and makes all the long nights worth it. You have to respect the work before you're allowed to add to its legacy. And this is something that has been a prevalent issue with a lot of media in the last little while. If you want a really good example, look at Obi-Wan. It was written by a guy who barely knew Star Wars, didn't even know Star Wars at all. They had to keep on referring to a supposed kind of Star Wars legends encyclopedia, but that guy even has some questionable traits to himself. Truly speaking, are you watching The Witcher for anything else except for Gerald or Geralt and the monsters?  I slightly care about Yennefer's story, but that's because her introduction was so well done. I don't care about the hierarchy. I don't care about the random reveal at the end of season two. I don't care about all the other kingdoms. I don't. Everything feels like a discount version of other fantasy or can be replaced with generic fantasy. Geralt was the only reason why I was watching that show and it was a reason why a lot of other people were watching that show because Henry gave it his all. He loved that show. Now, there are some other speculations that it's not just that. It's also now that he's been rehired as Superman, most likely his money went up. And on top of that, his commitment might have gone up in terms of offers that he's gotten, especially for Superman and other projects. But Kavell just never stopped working. Like this guy was doing a lot of work between going back and forth, doing Mission Impossible, doing the reshoots for Justice League Mustache Included, working on The Witcher. Henry isn't adverse to working on a lot of projects at once. So I think it's because it's a combination of things. But definitely I have a feeling that the strife in the writer's room must have been an issue. Does anyone even remember that there's supposedly a prequel series coming out? There's something that set, what, a thousand years before the events of The Witcher? I have to imagine that Netflix has had no chatter about it whatsoever. The few people that I've talked to, I've said, hey, do you remember that there's this even this prequel series that's coming out that no one cares about? They're like, what prequel series are you talking about? Well, it was the one that was at the end of the last episode of the second season. They previewed it and a lot of people are going, oh, yeah, I forgot about it. And it's got Michelle Yeone in it.  The only thing that I cared about for The Witcher show is Geralt. Because I've listened to the first two books, I've listened to The Last Wish, and I listened to Blood of Elves. And I can admit, because the second season was really based on Blood of Elves, there's a reason why that season suffered is because Blood of Elves is admittedly a very boring book. It is a very dry and a very boring and a very slow moving book. So, but it gets better after that from what I've been told. So, yeah, Netflix has just got to be shitting their boots. The amount of flak that this is getting, no one cares about Liam's Hemsworth. No one cares about the show without Henry there. The numbers are going to fall through the floor. They will not be able to probably finish this show. I'm going to take a guess. They might have enough to do a fifth season, maybe, maybe. But if it gets to five, it's definitely dead. I cannot see them continuing this after, like, we'll have to see how many don't watch three out of spite.  But otherwise, I have no desire to keep watching the show after it's done. I don't think Liam's really that great of an actor, to be honest.  So, I don't know. He is stepping into shoes that I don't even know why he is. He's got to know that he's under some immense pressure. He's not going to be able to live up to it. So, I don't know. We'll see what happens. The show is probably going to go down the hole and Netflix is going to lose out again. They have once again shit the bed in terms of making something that can contend. And then Game of Thrones is coming, gone now. And now there's another one, House of Dragon, which, to be honest, I really enjoyed actually. If you guys haven't seen it, I would very recommend watching it. I watched after I finished Rings of Power. I went through House of Dragon and the storytelling and just the writing went up from great school level to university level. It was incredible to watch. But anyways, guys, those are my thoughts. What do you guys think? Are you even going to bother watching the third season? What do you think is going to happen in terms of the light writer's room? Very, very curious, very, very curious. I really hope that it is the writer's room dispute because if we lost Geralt because Henry's gone back to Superman, I will admit I'm a bit upset about that because while it's great, I'm happy that Henry's back in the blue. But if it was at the cost of the only reason why I liked watching The Witcher, that's a hard pill to swallow. Anyways, guys, that's all from me. I hope you enjoyed this video. If you did, leave a like. And if you're interested in more, subscribe. Otherwise, see you guys next time.


Hello, and welcome back to yet another GCSE revision video. Now, I put up a poll on YouTube and asked you guys, what do you find the most challenging to prepare for in your English GCSEs, okay? And an overwhelming majority of you guys said that creative writing still probably arguably the most challenging part of English and knowing how to start each paragraph within your creative writing story.   That's usually what I suggest all my students to go for the story, use a story mountain structure, your beginning, buildup problem, resolution and ending. I'm now gonna walk you guys through the perfect first sentence to use in the buildup of your story, okay? If you've missed my video where I go over the perfect first sentence to use in your beginning paragraph, make sure you watch that video. However, this is the second video to follow on from that and I'll show you guys the perfect phrase that you can use in your second paragraph which is a buildup in your story, okay? And then what I'm gonna do after I read it, I'm gonna show you guys how it hits both your AO5 and your AO6, which is what's tested in your creative writing story. So let's begin with the buildup phrase, okay? You can use this whether it's in a forest setting, if it's in a beach, if it's in a city, regardless of the gender of your protagonist, just use this phrase in your buildup, okay? And this is the phrase, the wind swalled around me as the air grew crisp, ellipsis. What happens in your buildup paragraph in creative writing? Remember that the beginning, paragraph number one, this is where you establish a setting, okay? And you set up the mood. Your buildup is now where your protagonist and the main person in your story begins their adventure. And what you want to do in your buildup paragraph is to create a sense of anticipation because you're working your way through to the problem paragraph, where there's obviously gonna be an obstacle or something that poses a threat to your main character. And this is a great way to create that buildup. You've got the wind which is swirling around, okay? Obviously the wind can swirl just really nicely, okay?  So now here also what you're doing is being quite tactful and putting in little hints that foreshadow this problem, okay? Now, let me walk you guys through why this is such a perfect buildup paragraph phrase to use and why it would hit your AO5 and your AO6. When I say AO5, it's assessment and objective five and AO6, assessment, objective six. Now, AO5, which is super important, okay? It counts towards 80% of the marks available for creative writing in this part of the exam. Remember, AO5 tests your ability to communicate imaginatively. It tests whether you're using ambitious vocabulary, ambitious language. And equally, AO5 tests your tone style register and structural features. Now, why is this buildup phrase so perfect and why does it hit all the different points of AO5? Number one, in terms of the first aspect of AO5, can you communicate imaginatively? Of course you are.  So the weather is responding, but in this case, it's still a little bit ambiguous. It could be responding positively or negatively, but the wind is just swirling around you, okay? And the air is getting crisp. It's not freezing, but it's not too hot, okay? Also, there's lots of ambitious vocabulary, swirled, crisp, instead of saying, you know, the wind moved around me, okay? That's not very ambitious in terms of vocabulary. You're saying that the wind is swirling around you. Instead of saying, oh, it started getting a little bit chilly, you're saying instead, the air's growing crisp. Equally, tone style register. In terms of tone, you're creating a tone of anticipation. You tone that you're writing in. You know, there's this sense of expectancy that you're creating in your build-up paragraph. Equally, your style is obviously kind of engaging. You're using a complex sentence to engage your reader. And in terms of register, which simply means it's just a fancy way of saying, is it informal? Is it informal? Of course, you're writing formally. Finally, structural features. What that means is your sentence type and also interesting punctuation. Firstly, I wanna draw your attention to the use of ellipsis hair. This is a powerful structural feature that you can use and incorporate. Don't do too much, okay? Use ellipsis maybe once, max twice in your story, but it's a really powerful structural feature you can include, and of course, this is a complex sentence. But let's also talk about why this fulfills AO6. AO6 counts towards 20% of the marks available for this part of the paper, but it's still important, okay? AO6 tests your technical accuracy. Are you spelling correctly, right? Is your spelling and punctuation being used accurately? It is in this phrase. And equally, are you making use of complex grammatical features, okay? So for example, are you using your long and short sentences? Are you using interesting punctuation? Colons, semicolons, and in this case, ellipsis, okay? So literally, this phrase also hits all these three points, okay? So guys, when it comes to your build-up paragraph, paragraph number two in your creative writing story, make sure you use this, and then of course, add onto it, okay? So guys, thank you so much for listening, and of course, make sure you come back for the third phrase that you could use to begin your problem paragraph in any creative writing story.


There are some events in life that are so profound that their impacts never really go away. These moments divide life into before and after categories. One of the most defining tragedies of our lifetimes was the attacks of September 11th, 2001. These attacks not only took the lives of almost 3,000 people and caused millions of dollars worth of damage, also changed us as a nation. It's hard to overstate the impact of these attacks on the United States. They influenced and altered almost all aspects of our lives, and over a decade later we're still living in a shadow. It was a terrible realization of how vulnerable we are as a country. These attacks blanketed the nation in shock, fear, grief, and solidarity. But it also gave way to anger, paranoia, and a startling and frightening level of xenophobia masked as national pride. A dark cloud hung over the nation that forced us to re-examine what mattered. Suddenly, everything we looked at was cast in a different light, where we allowed them to laugh and seek entertainment at a time of such tragedy. Was every flight a possible death sentence? Were there more attacks being planned? Were there possible terrorists living among us? Unfortunately, many people found themselves asking these questions, and as grief gave way to anger, they sought someone to blame.  The attacks affected everything, including the world of entertainment. Box office receipts showed that people weren't ready to go to the movies yet. Bill Mayhee actually found himself without a job for making controversial statements about 9-11. It would be a long while before people were ready to see these events dramatized on the big screen. United 93, directed by Paul Greengrass, was the first Hollywood production to be directly based on the tragedy. It recounts the harrowing of events, with as much accuracy as possible of the United 93 flight. The movie is shot in real time from the flight's takeoff. When the movie was released on April of 2006, less than five years after the attacks, it garnered near-universal acclaim. Even though it was generally accepted that the movie was both respectful to the memory of those who died and a very good movie, it didn't exactly set the box office on fire. It grossed just over $31 million domestically. For many people, like me, it was just too soon. The fact that it was shot in real time and in a documentary style made it that much harder to watch. I actually saw it for the first time before writing this column, and it was still gut wrenching. Unfortunately, it is impossible to completely decide what is or isn't true in this case, because no one on the flight survived. To prepare for their roles, the actors participated in face-to-face interviews with the families of those they'd be portraying. The filmmakers also used the phone calls made by passengers to love ones as a way to recreate the events of the flight. But no matter how thoroughly they researched, some liberties had to be taken. What the movie got right. On September 11th, 2001, United Airlines Flight 93 was scheduled for a domestic flight from Newark International Airport in New Jersey to San Francisco. But there were four hijackers on board the plane. Before takeoff, passengers were told that the flight would be delayed because of the heavy flight traffic. About 46 minutes after takeoff, the hijackers made their move. One of them pulled out a fake bomb, and the four of them took control of the flight. Holding sharp objects, they drove the passengers to the back of the plane to take over the cockpit. One of the hijackers, Ziad Jara, a trained pilot, took over the aircraft and turned around towards Washington, D.C. Amidst the chaos, several passengers began to suspect that the bomb was fake. They were also able to make phone calls and found out that other planes had hijacked. Having learned the fate of the other hijacked planes, they slowly realized that these men had no intention of landing safely. The passengers decided that they had to take matters into their own hands if they were to have any chance of surviving. They attempted to regain control of the airplane. There was a passenger on board who was a pilot. Their plan was to have him land since the original pilots were now dead. Although the passengers were able to successfully stop the hijackers from reaching their target, the plane crashed in a nearby field in Pennsylvania. No one survived. It was later revealed through the recovered flight recorders that the action of the passengers was what prevented the hijackers from succeeding. United Flight 93 was the only plane that did not reach the hijacker's target. United Flight 93 was also accurate in showing some of what happened off the plane. As the Washington Post pointed out, the movie was at times more honest than the government's own account of these events. According to the government's story, the North American Aerospace Defense Command, or NORAD, began tracking United Flight 93 at 9.16 AM. But as it was later revealed, the hijacking didn't occur until 9.28 AM. Another inaccuracy reported was that fighter jets were dispatched to intercept the plane. But as the movie states, military commanders had not been notified that United Flight 93 was hijacked until four minutes after it had gone down, and the nearest fighter jets were 100 miles away. What the movie got wrong or speculated. As I've stated before, the only people who could have confirmed what really happened on board are all gone. It is impossible to know exactly what did or didn't happen. The movie had to indulge in some dramatization. At the outset of the movie, we see the hijackers praying in their hotel room. Although this is not outright false, there is no way the filmmakers could have known exactly what they did that morning. And although there was a lot of research done for United Flight 93, the film was finished before a transcript of the cockpit voice recording was released. This means those scenes had to be, at the very least, somewhat fabricated. In fact, they were mostly improvised by the cast. Another possible inconsistency of the film is that it shows that the pilots were killed immediately after the hijackers took over the plane. But the transcript of the cockpit voice recorder tape, as well as moans heard in the background inside the cockpit, mean they might not have died as early as the movie depicts. There is also evidence that suggests the passengers didn't make it as far into the cockpit as the movie suggests. The movie depicts various passengers physically struggling with the hijacker flying the plane. And this led to the crash. But it's been reported that the hijacker crashed the plane because he knew the passengers were seconds away from reaching the cockpit. The biggest and most confounding concession to drama has to be in the way the movie portrays a German passenger named Christian Adams. Adams, aged 37, was the deputy director of the German Wine Institute and director of its export department. He had a wife and two children and was flying to San Francisco for a wine tasting event to showcase the 2,000 vintages. By all accounts, Adams was just like every other passenger on that flight. But the movie portrays him in a chilling light that seems to be a product or concession to the xenophobia tinged over zealous national pride that rose from the ashes of the 9-11 attacks. For a lot of people, rational and logical commentary took a backseat to the, if you're not with us, you're against us mentality. It was this way of overthinking that got Bill Mayhee fired for making comments that, while insensitive, weren't ridiculous or anti-American, like people took them. The most important thing to take away from this horrible tragedy is not the action of the hijackers, but the fact that passengers were brave enough to fight back. Their actions prevented the hijackers from succeeding because the plane crashed in a field, prevented the loss of more lives and damage to the nation's capital and spirit. By all accounts, those passengers died heroes and there is no reason to believe or evidence that shows Adams was not among them. But United 93, not only portrays him as the only passenger who wanted to appease the hijackers, but if the movie is to be believed, the American passengers had to actually physically restrain them so they could step forward and act heroically for all of the movie's attempts at objectivity. It can't help but add a nationalistic pro-war on terror undertone. It seems very calculated that the movie chose the only non-American passenger to portray in a negative light. Greengrass has stated his intentions to make this movie a metaphor for the world's response to terrorism, do nothing and appease the terrorists or attack them preemptively. And in that light, his portrayal of Adams is even more chilling. Does Adams represent the cowardly European nations that refuse to march into Iraq? It might not have been as big of a deal if Greengrass had included a made-up character to express this idea, but the fact is, Adams is a real person with a real family and loved one said he left behind. Is there grieving not important enough to respect? I also found it kind of odd that the movie portrays the passengers violently killing two of the hijackers. The cause of death of the hijackers was listed as suicide. The choice to include the sight of one of the terrorists getting his neck snapped and being beaten to a bloody pulp seemed unnecessary. Was it intended to satisfy a primal need for revenge? Verdict, United 93 is an extremely powerful and moving film that pays great respect to most of the passengers. It's extremely insightful and powerfully directed. And because of the way it's shot, documentary style, and in real time after takeoff, the movie is that much more poignant and powerful. Even after almost 11 years, it's a hard movie to watch. But the way it portrays Adams is just wrong. Irresponsible and even disrespectful. The fact that it's shot in a documentary style just makes its fabrications all the more powerful and confusing, former 60 minutes two producer, Michael Bronner, who did some of the research for the movie explained in an interview to efilmcritic.com that he told Greengrass that historically based movies can be problematic. But he stated that Greengrass's response was, our goal is just to tell what happened, to show what happened, and not to sentimentalize, not to take any kind of liberties beyond that. Some of his concessions to drama, particularly the movie's portrayal of Adams, seems to contradict that statement. And I found out that the original cut of the film ended with a caption that read, America's war on terror had begun. This seems to further support that argument that the movie, contrary to Greengrass's statements, did have an agenda. Some reviewers argued that within the context, this could push the movie into propaganda territory. In the end, this caption was removed and the final cut ends on a caption that reads, dedicated to the memory of all those who lost their lives on September 11th, 2001. But in spite of its flaws, United 93 is a bold and moving film. It pays respect to most of the passengers, shines a light on the terrible events that happened and reminds us that in the face of tragedy and fear, people can still rise up and be heroes. It's definitely worth seeing, as long as you take Adams portrayal with a grain of salt.


Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States. Please be seated. This is a moment future historians will cite as a landmark, a turning point in the forward march of trade, commerce, and even civilization itself. This is a – that's a dramatic statement I know, but I think everyone here is aware of the historical import of what we do today. Today, September 28, 1988, I'm signing into law the United States-Canada Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act of 1988. This agreement brings down the tariff walls between our two nations, and in so doing creates the world's largest free trade area. Businesses and consumers in both our countries will have unprecedented freedom to choose among a staggering array of goods and services. It will mean lower prices for consumers, jobs galore for workers, and new markets for producers. It will stimulate investment in both economies, which will mean the rapid advancement of new technologies. It means a stronger and freer marketplace for the United States and Canada. There will be a rich flow of agriculture and energy resources from one country to the other in a way that will profit both. We also deal with the service sectors of our economies, providing for the first time an explicit assurance that in such areas as accounting, tourism, insurance, and engineering, our peoples will be free to choose their suppliers. The U.S.-Canada Free Trade Agreement, which recognizes the similarities between our economies and our political systems, also respects our different histories, aspirations, and densities. The reality is that Canada and the United States are two distinct variations of a common theme of freedom, democracy, and human rights. As leaders of the free world, Canada and the United States are pointing the way toward the future. Canada's visionary Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and its able Ambassador Alan Gottlieb understand well that free trade is an idea whose time has come. One of the signs of this change is the very passage of this bill. We must make sure the freedoms we enjoy include the freedom to choose at home and the freedom to be chosen abroad. This nation, which was born to nurture human freedoms, must take the lead in establishing the principle that one of the most important human freedoms is free exchange. That principle was the animating force behind the sterling work of Ambassador Clayton Yider and former Treasury Secretary James Baker. The cooperation among them, the administration, and members of Congress on both sides of the aisle was decisive. The congressional leadership promised and delivered prompt action, and the result was overwhelming approval by both houses. They deserve the nation's thanks for a job well done. This legislation reflects overwhelming support for the elimination of barriers to trade between the United States and Canada. It reflects the sound economic principles of free trade that benefit American businesses and workers. The bill is a hallmark of free trade, in marked contrast to the damaging protectionist textiles bills that I vetoed earlier today. What the United States and Canada are accomplishing on a bilateral basis is an example of what we can and must achieve multilaterally, and that's why we look forward to continuing the midterm review of the Uruguay round negotiations in Montreal later this year. This agreement is a model for those talks to follow. Just as the pessimists were wrong about this agreement, so will the pessimists be wrong about the Uruguay round. Today we not only commemorate this legislation as the happy conclusion of a bilateral pact but pledge our commitment to the successful completion of the Uruguay round by 1990. The midterm review will be the most important trade matter in the last months of this administration, and I urge our trading partners to be ready to do business in December. We sure will be. Let the 5,000-mile border between Canada and the United States stand as a symbol for the future. No soldier stands guard to protect it, barbed wire does not deface it, and no invisible barrier of economic suspicion and fear will extend it. Let it forever be not a point of division, but a meeting place between our great and true friends. This bill is the product, the vision, and the vision of the American and Canadian people who are leading the way toward a new era of freedom. So I thank you, and God bless all of you, and I shall now sign this agreement.


This paper proposes a new dynamic model for hybrid renewable hydrogen energy systems that can be used to size the components and simulate their real-world behavior. The model takes into account the intermittent nature of solar energy production and the electrolyzer's ability to produce hydrogen on demand. It also accounts for the fuel cell's ability to convert hydrogen into electricity. The model was tested using a university campus case study building in Scotland and compared to a generic model without these features. The results showed that the new model more accurately predicted the performance of the system. This article was authored by Ayatollah Dalyah Ali and Nazni Selami.


Hey folks welcome to the podcast so we're doing a special series of podcasts which I'm recording over Google Hangouts so we're doing audio and video because for some unknown reason people don't want to come see me face to face right now but there's always opportunity and the cool thing is I'm able to now podcast with people from all over the world so we're going to get an amazing eclectic mix of people from from different industries different perspectives to share their story and tell us you know their thoughts and feelings on what's going on right now and all of that cool stuff hope you enjoy it please subscribe in all the usual places and enjoy okay it's awesome in my life welcome to the podcast I've got hi Ian how you doing yeah good thank you very good and we've got good and we've got Ali again and both from Neutrotank so thanks coming on last time was face-to-face and now we're doing we're like video different parts of the country it's pretty cool stuff once it works yeah exactly what have you what have you been up to since we last spoke yeah so we spoke to you around December time quite a lot of things have actually happened it's been really exciting for everyone at Neutrotank so we've had the launch of our fantastic new website which we've been working very hard on and it's got an amazing set of functions which Ian can tell you a bit more about because he's the technological one and he poured so much of his time in his final year of medicine into this website working with the developers and yeah he's now Dr Broadley's to take it away nice do you graduated like virtually yes yeah it was quite a surreal experience really surreal how did it work how did it work the night before we got an email from the lead to say oh by the way if you want to create your own graduation attire here's some links to some youtube videos so we graduated in the afternoon two weeks ago on Friday and in the morning I just threw together what I could find I made a graduation attire one of the mortarboards and the ground out of bin bags pot shoestring and yeah we had it had on the sofa with my family and bin bags were quite a theme going through you could say everyone's zoom on zoom they were wearing different things like bin bags and it was quite it was quite nice you know everyone had your whole did you have everyone on the zoom yeah everyone was on zoom so it was on panel and the so everyone had their own little video and you could zoom across you could see everyone on the 220 medical students wow it was it was really good and I think the medical school did a great job in putting it on and organizing it and putting the effort in so I think it was it was better than just an email yeah some medical schools I think but yeah okay crazy and are you on the front line now um I've got the email through to say um starting soon yeah so um crazy since I wasn't able to come on the last podcast with you and Ali sadly because I had my medical school finals um but yeah and so happy now that you know put the effort in and now I'm I'm past and so um I'll be working very soon congrats crazy thank you thank you you're starting in a pandemic it's probably quite good uh good training ground right just getting straight on it yeah no no messing around just get us straight in there so is it going to be like the traditional the traditional um rotations and stuff or are you just going to get straight into like the front line I think it's not a traditional rotation at all they're they're adding us to areas um in the hospital in the wards where maybe there's gap in staffing and because a lot of I think you know foundation doctors um are moving up a level because you know colleagues are needing to isolate and um they're having to spend a lot of time off work so there's um so yeah we're moving in from the bottom basically everyone's being moved up one and we're coming in so it would be um a limited capacity it won't be the full um we won't have to do everything that a normal foundation your doctor does but pretty much everything yeah crazy where you're going to be uh hospital near Brighton and I'm really happy about that because I did my first degree um in uh Sussex Uni which is next to Brighton so I know that Brighton's a cool place to be so yeah being near the sea and um yeah it's a cool city Brighton's nice and we've actually just I just got all my team a subscription to a nice coffee um called white clouds coffee and they're they're based down in Brighton to really nice I'll check them out yeah yeah they think they were supposed to open a coffee shop or two and then and then Covid hit so they've kind of like pivoted to to subscription coffee so they send us a beautiful bag of coffee every month and then it gets sent to all of my team which is quite cool but anyway it's a good part of the world so you're gonna have to move down there yeah yeah um they're supplying accommodation and all of that stuff yeah they will they will do um I'll um I'll check out what it's like and um but beggars can't be choosers so we'll do we'll we'll make what we can of it good and what have neutral tank been up to in response to Covid yeah so um we can tell you that we on our new website we've got an amazing new Covid section so um we launched the website everything went to plan and then Covid happened so we wanted to keep everyone up to date so we've got a section on our website which basically outlines everything we've been doing um so we've been working with food brands to um get uh snacks and other meals to NHS workers and um we've got them all in a whatsapp group and we're trying to collate as many uh NHS workers together so they can benefit from it and we've also been trying to unite other healthcare students so we have a huge Facebook group now that has like 1.5 five thousand members or something um called healthcare students united against Covid-19 and it shows what opportunities be it volunteering, paid work there is um for medical students to help out in their local area or around their medical school and um we also um have been commissioned to be in charge of coordinating the nutrition section on the beat Covid website which is a junior doctor led website that started at the Royal Free and so they're material for being NHS workers and there is like nutrition exercise and fitness um mindfulness because one of the doctors is a mindfulness practitioner and um sleep so we've been getting amazing articles together I um I wrote a survey around foods insecurity um grocery shopping and panic buying like we were discussing earlier yeah and people's attitudes towards that as well as um finding out how people's diets and social eating patterns have changed so um that's been circulating around NHS workers and has made a good article on the website and so all other resources are in this section such as like recipes recipes and everything like that so that's so that so that website is made it was made by who the one you're contributing to is that a unit um a student um it's a junior doctor led website it's made by um a doctor called James Groves he's a foundation year one doctor um graduated from UCL last year and he um was very big on mindfulness when he was a student and saw how much it benefited him and he wanted to help his NHS colleagues so he asked us to do the nutrition section and then he's got fitness uh people doing videos online as well like putting up a program and hit every day yeah nice so specifically Targ's here like junior doctors who are working in in hospitals and exactly um so really easy quick recipes um a lot of it focusing like of the recipes we've we've got like recipe developers that we um are acquainted with to write recipes for us as well as creating our own and it's really focusing on things that are easy to purchase like tinned vegetables frozen veggies um as well as grains and um long shelf life items chickpeas beans so yeah um nice what do they usually eat they would go down to makides I guess but they're sharp that's a shame that's a shame hey because I know you I know but I know what uber eats I think we're doing a hundred thousands I think they've run out now but they were doing a hundred thousand meals up to like 13 quid or something um prayer I mean everyone's kind of doing something aren't they like the restaurants delivery today actually pitched in and said um that they're doing a meal per person in their NHS or something crazy that's really good yeah that's really good yeah because a lot of them a lot of them on intensive care and stuff are doing like 10 hour shifts or probably more actually 12 hour shifts what they're doing for um I've spoken to a few friends who are foundation year one and two doctors they're doing three 12 hour shifts yeah so three days in a row of 12 hour shifts yeah then three days off three days in a row of 12 hour shifts three days off and that is literally how these people who are working in their NHS are functioning at the moment yeah it's crazy because you can't really have you can't have a nice fresh salad bar there right people are going to cough on it and stuff like that my wife my wife my wife's working at the uh the homitin in hackney and it's just like crap um like sandwiches and and stuff like that you know it's just really bad I mean the food's generally pretty bad in hospital anyway but it's tough and also if you've got all of if you've got all the stuff on I mean you've got to go for like a chunk of time without eating and drinking as well I know it's crazy it's crap like someone delivered some nice drinks to them um and guys like you and like doing deliveries so this is cool like a lot of people like the country are pulling together you know like companies organizations and stuff it's great you know to get to uh to get the food and stuff to where it's needed um but it's crazy times it's crazy times how have you got where are you getting your food from that you're delivering so how you doing that for our conference that we had in March we had a lot of brands uh donate items to us and sponsor us um so we had number one living kombucha who um was founded by Johnny Wilkinson um yeah okay cool big fan and yeah he has kindly agreed um to donate kombucha tins to um the NHS work as we put forward to his team which has been amazing I love a bit of kombucha yeah we started making some today did you he started making them today we're making some today with my our first batch the first batch that I made let me know about those I tried one that was way too vinegary like mine just was too acidic how'd you make it we got sent a pack and um you've got to do in a big it's like almost like brewing beer it's the same kind I obviously the same process but like you get a big glass jar and then it's um you need some tea sugar and then a fermenting liquid I can't remember what it's called um but then you just chuck in all the ingredients and let it work it takes about a week to make it the first batch and um I think it's a trial trial and error kind of thing you get better at it as you yeah yeah things cross so yours will be ready in about a week I need to make some of that yeah I'll let you know you need to get a scoby that's it that's the scoby yeah the scoby it's really interesting we put that in today it's like if you imagine it's like a jelly sachet with the bacteria culture inside the jelly sachet and then you plant that jelly sachet the scoby into the sterilized jar I remember when I made it you have to make sure everything is so sterile because you want the bacteria to only be able to feast on the sugar that you feed it then it eats the sugar and produces calm dioxide and that's what makes it fizzy but it just needs a lot of love and care so I kind of leave it up to professionals it's magic I need to do that it uses yeast from the air it uses natural yeast in the air really yeah yeah you leave it you can't leave in a cupboard because you have to leave it somewhere where um like there's an airflow because it has to use the yeast which is naturally in our air anyway to be able to um get started I thought it had to be airtight I remember doing it that might be really right or really wrong I'm really sorry I'm gonna I'm gonna give it that well I think we have to give it up on the instructions again but this sounds like bro science man it is it's a bit like making it a bit healthier we need to check it out that's crazy so your so your number one living kombucha has donated to us um we've had Kate Percy's energy bites which is a lovely energy ball brand donate to us soho sandwiches who do really nice like gourmet sandwiches um I can't even remember the others to be honest great that's really good and you're doing it just in just in London or London at the moment yeah we still need more brands to get on board because some are saturated some are having financial difficulties and obviously it isn't undertaking to donate um products for free we completely get that but we have to stick to London at the moment because we've not even tackled nearly enough hospitals yet yeah it's cool so you've so since we've spoken last you kind of um not pivoted let's say but added this extra kind of um like work essentially because you were just you were just educating medical students before right and then and then generate yeah and then so if you if you kind of expanded out a little bit now to junior doctors and yeah well on our website um if you have a look at it afterwards you'll see that we've got three uh membership schemes so we've got one for the general public which is four to five pounds one for healthcare professionals which is 35 and one for students oh wait other way around oh sorry other way around so 45 35 and then one for sorry it's later night that's right one for students which is 20 pounds a year and so we've got courses on our website um which basically are applicable to the general public but then we've got more scientific based ones which um are more health professional focus and so our main is to our main aim is to educate um healthcare professionals and the public on greater nutrition and lifestyle medicine to best of their health and obviously their patients health and so we also want them to um have a good kind of graft in their own self-care so we're working with fitness brands um to get discounted fitness membership so if you sign up to be a member on our website you'll get discounted hotpot yoga classes dabs fitness and so many other benefits so we're trying to basically be like the hub for nutrition and lifestyle medicine education as well as well being yeah are you doing any zoom online zoom yoga classes or fitness classes or something like that yeah i am my best friend's a yoga teacher so i do have classes every Tuesday and Thursday on Zoom nice it goes really well to be honest um turn my video off of course but Ian are you doing anything that or exercise wise yeah yeah i just um i had a just had a yoga session outside on um over zoom which was good um nice and i'm doing some hip classes um over zoom as well um but just in front of the house there's a little garden and you can see the sunset so we've we've got a little bit of a nice setup with um we can do yoga in the sunset so that's quite nice that's really cool yeah it's good to have little things during your day that you can look forward to and yeah it's nice to go out yeah 100% i think i'm doing i'm doing more exercise now than i was before i think that's interesting yeah well i do i should do a lot anyway i'm basically before the lockdown i was doing like four days a week three four days a week um i do cross fit which is like weightlifting gymnastics stuff and there's a crossfit gym near near me tough the part and then a little yoga sesh somewhere near work but now i'm doing every day that's like it's awesome yeah yeah yeah like the gym the gyms do online classes so i can basically do them whenever because before i've got like i'm married i've got some kids i'm working so to go to the gym like you've got to like go in the morning or go in the evening and i make time for it i love it and my wife does too but you can only do like a certain number of days otherwise you never see each other whereas now top out in the garden or even in the living room if you haven't got a garden and and just go for it it's pretty cool i loved your t-shirt challenge very impressive oh jesus yeah i'm going to try and do it tomorrow yeah don't look at it is that when you're doing a hand yeah and you have to put a t-shirt on it yeah yeah you'll definitely get to it you're like a monkey i did a hand that it's a bit embarrassing i've got more hair on my chest and i do my head but anyway it's good as every jewish guy does sorry if that wasn't appropriate for the pod no no no definitely it's funny um yeah in you need to go on it we want to see i want to see a little instagram video handstand yeah get your top on a lot a lot of things say go on a lot of them a lot of them have been going around my brother-in-law has challenged me to like the quickest 5k so i kind of have to get out and did that uh depends who you compare me to i've just done i've just done an off-road trail half marathon um actually near brighton um it's in stenning near lewis yeah yeah three years yeah stenning's great and they do um they do the stenning stinger which is a trail run they do the marathon and the half marathon but it's all like mud off-road it's pretty tough so i have done a bunch of marathons but this was just a half um so i yeah so i run a little bit i do run a little bit what day was that that was February that was probably i'm gonna get my diary up i think that was that was like um was it cold yeah it was pretty chilly it was pretty chilly it was um um i think it was end of fair i can't remember now end of fair oh no beginning of march first of march first of march just before this all went down so literally just before yeah i'll be close i'll be in that neck of the woods so i could maybe check it out next year yeah i might just do it do you run or uh yeah yeah yeah yeah it's good it's good stuff i quite like um i quite like a target you know like a like i like quite like hard stuff and say like the trail running is quite hard and you just like you switch off from everything else and you just go for it and it's really cool so i've been doing quite a lot of that um over the last like 15 years or so um but yeah it's good fun it's good fun because i graduated a long time ago and um were you at Birmingham i was a Birmingham uni yeah i did chemistry at Birmingham but i graduated in 2003 so a bit of time ago um and yeah you just like once you start working and you're like doing jobs where whether you sit or you know you've got to like really keep up with the exercise and nutrition because as you get older it gets harder to stay you'd like to get in shape if you're out of shape yeah um and like food in offices is like there's always someone's birthday it's just like cakes so it's the same in hospitals it's always coming first over there if every like institution has the same food culture honestly yeah yeah unless you're at Jamie Oliver's yeah yeah or Otolenghi i mean if you're working at Otolenghi that must be cool um in fact there's a there's a great there's a great girl um at my gym um and she's she develops the menus for Otolenghi and her instagram yeah yeah yeah oh my god what's that instagram nor i'm gonna here you go i'm actually gonna get her on the podcast if you're listening you're coming on my podcast um right Otolenghi's my number one he's my number one um and her oh yes it's it's uh it's norish so n-double-o-r-i-s-h-b-y-n-o-o-r and her food's awesome so yeah check that out but yeah so you've just got to keep up with the fitness the how like the good nutrition the fitness the sleep right like those two things um i'm sleeping a lot better um in the covid time than i am than i usually do how come um i feel like probably you haven't gone to get out of the house i think everything's like in my control let's think it's a rush around yeah let's think it's a rush around yeah i'm a bit of a rush i'm always like on the run doing something or other and i think i'm just really chilled and at peace so my sleep's quite good maybe just needed like a little bit of a like a break just to decompress a little bit reset stop all the busyness and no covid there've been parts of covid on an individual basis but overall wish it never happened yeah yeah yeah no definitely but a lot of people a lot of people you spoke about earlier like um the work from home thing like working from home has been a big thing in um a big thing that's been talked about like all over in the city and stuff i did a talk on working from home like a few days before the lockdown yeah yeah and now it's like everyone's immersed in working from home and it's really interesting you speak to some people who are like massive advocates and they're like they were like oh yeah we don't want to spend more time with my family and my kids and i'm like how's it going and they're like oh like i can't wait to go out to work the kids are a nightmare yeah so it's quite it's interesting like we've had a big submersive experience in work from home and yeah i mean work's completely going to change now but um it will be interesting you know i mean for me i'm i enjoy going to the office and i like i like your meeting it's a good thinking time i get to listen to a few podcasts and stuff like that yeah that's a thing i think for me i don't mind this time but i couldn't do it forever i quite like having structure external structures in place to allow me to plan things around it and i always find that you know the saying like i'm not going to say it well because my brain's a bit foggy but you know the saying that's like give a busy person things to do oh it's something like yeah something like that you know what i'm talking about being busy for the sake of it or something no no like as in the busy you are the more productive you are is what the saying oh i see right right um um what's the saying do you know it was something along those lines yeah anyways so i just feel that when i find external structures in place i almost do more because like you said if i'm dying to read a book or dying to um listen to a podcast i will factor it into my day when i've got walking time or a quick lunch break or whatever whereas if you've got endless time and endless choice then i think you become less productive because you've got so much decision fatigue like i could go on a run now but also go on a run in an hour and so i've read a lot of blogs and things of people saying that they are finding it way less motivating but then you hear from people who are exercising more like yourself so just depends on the individual really i think but it's interesting also depends on your scenario like there's a lot of like have you seen a lot of um there's a lot of stuff on instagram uh tiktok linkeding like you've got to use this time to learn something right yeah like a lot of the same many there's so many posts it's like learn something um or if you don't learn something you've wasted your time um which is quite interesting there's a lot of pressure because like for like for like me i'm like um i wish i had time to learn something yeah you have to still stick with your day job like i've got to work well i've got three jobs now well i had had like two jobs right i have like running a company and being a dad but now also got to be a teacher um oh yeah i forgot yeah home teaching nightmare nightmare for you well agree on to your belt yeah i didn't say i was good at science i just said i did it and that was 2003 um but um but kids don't listen to their parents let's be honest yeah you can't you can't i mean my mum's a pilates teacher i didn't do pilates for years because she was a pilates teacher like you just don't i mean trying to get a five-year-old to read when they'd rather be running around doing something else yeah um but yeah so it's tough and then obviously my wife so when most parents a lot of my friends where both parents are working at home then the general thing is is one works in the morning one works in the afternoon it's a lot of co's i speak to um they're expecting their parents to work four hours a day roughly something like that you know so you just can't do it otherwise and then for me because my wife works in hospital um then the schools will take my kids after Easter so because otherwise i can't work at all because i've got to like look after them the whole time so yeah so it's just like managing that kind of stuff it's crazy yeah so anyway back to the learning i haven't got time to learn anything like you got from podcasts you do that but you know like to learn Spanish or i wanted to learn jiu jitsu before this was shut down you could do it online but like yeah you've got to balance it take it as it comes um yeah because you're kind of like people you feel a bit of pressure you've got all this extra time you need to use it for something yeah but you know people are just a lot of people are just trying to get by you know and yeah a lot of people have got like financial or family health issues so it's just an unnecessary amount of pressure to put on individuals to say useless time wisely um there's definitely an argument for that but at the same time you know to look after yourself yeah yeah yeah good food exercise and good sleep right yeah three three cornerstones i think it's a really fun time to be experimenting with food and like fun dishes because it doesn't really matter if it i mean for me in my case in the evenings like evenings are very free and like you said we're not going anywhere to socialize or have dinner so you can make an extra a meal that takes an extra longer an extra period of time that we wouldn't necessarily be able to make on a busy weekday night yeah yeah but that's always an excuse most people can't be bothered to make food it's not even the time i know and i was listening to this really interesting podcast that Ian told me to listen to this morning um machine i didn't on the food program about delivery services and how they're skyrocketing at the moment and yeah dark kitchen okay very bizarre concept what is what is it so a dark kitchen is basically a kitchen that only works to serve um costs um businesses that do food deliveries so um it only works to basically support businesses that don't have existing restaurants with customer facing duties because what it basically does it eradicates the contact that the chef has with the kind of social side of having to um give it to the waiter and then the fights and the bickers they have with the waiters sometimes and then the waiter giving it to the um the customer so these chefs basically work in these um kind of warehouse kitchens and they're in very like reclaimed spaces yeah yeah like they're in very strange places like the one Sheila did and was in um was one that was under it was in bethna green underneath the tube station so it was very noisy and they literally work for the purpose of producing a high quality meal that can be delivered amazing focuses on the food but then is there's yeah there's bad sides to it because they're trying to make delivery services so high ends and accessible for everyone that there's the argument that some people will stop like you know having kitchen supplies and having anything in their kitchen or having a kitchen at all for that matter is that a problem well I love cooking and I think I'd love my kids to learn how to cook I think it's a really important like mankind skill because it connects your mind body and so on it's the only thing that really connects with the outside environment really I can I completely I completely agree Ali you know cooking is so so important having that skill under our belts as humans is you know something we should definitely be promoting and we did through Nutri Tank you know um getting um medical students into schools to teach about um cooking and also healthy food um and but going back to cloud kitchens um I suppose it's the argument could be said for restaurants you know people going to restaurants they're not cooking themselves um and I guess I feel like you don't go to a restaurant every single night every single meal it's some people do you know some people do it just depends on what your lifestyle is like I mean I guess I guess this is you could argue that the way maybe this is just a natural follow-on from delivery now um delivery is becoming you know it's innovating it's becoming better um I mean the food they they create the food um so that it even cooks to the perfection on on route to the customer yeah yeah that's the end yeah they're not they're not messing about no and I like if it's yeah I think it's do you know what the the ultimate thing I mean the idea you want to eat well right like that's the aim right you want to have good nutrition now I mean some people can cook and enjoy it like you guys I really like cooking too um so does my wife so all of our meals really are cooked but I mean there's a lot of people they don't have time or they don't like cooking um and if they can get great nutritious foods delivered to their doorstep then that's great oh I'm definitely not a good delivery I wouldn't get McDonald's what's that McDonald's delivery I'm saying it's if it's more accessible then it's better than yeah if it makes nutritious yeah exactly that's great but if it increases fast food and yeah diabetes and obesity not so much keen on that no no no that's not cool yeah you know not not fast food but like quality foods yeah it sounds like yeah yeah but it sounds like there's more there's more delivery companies that are delivering quality foods which is great yeah I actually got an amazing I mean this is not quality food but there's a there's a guy in my area in Islington that delivers cocktails to your doorstep no way no it's absolutely brilliant yeah yeah yeah it's great he was like doing a gin brand I'm going to try and find the photo and hold it up because we're doing a video class so basically I think he was he was selling a gin brand just to pubs in in Islington and obviously like it all kind of shut down so um he's pivoted and he does he makes these cocktails I think hopefully everyone can see that um so I got a grony so N19 is my postcode no one come stalk me please N19 and then um it's like a whisky based cocktail but the guy came like drove up and you could get four four glasses of cocktail it's amazing you're having a house party no way I'm just well I was I was actually on house party app um with my cocktails things about house parties by the way apparently they can hack you I don't know if that's legit but I mean if they want to listen into my random conversations they are welcome to it I've heard it's free to use house party I haven't got any card details in there might be rumors yeah I don't know rumors I still use it but I just thought I'd like I think it's all right Zoom's Zoom's definitely had some issues yes yeah yeah I think the American one of the American someone or other told them to sort themselves out but they've gone from they've like their user base has grown exponentially I mean they've just struggling to keep up this is Google Hangouts which is cool um I mean they're all similar yeah yeah Wi-Fi connections key yeah like it's like a basic resource it's like gas electricity you need decent internet connection 100% you do we we're actually starting our own podcast I know a member of our team's been contacting you yes yeah yeah so tell me about it what you're gonna do we've got the Google Hangout actually because we really like it so that's how we'll be doing it as well not on not on video though I don't think maybe but essentially it's a podcast showcasing what Neutrotank's done so far in the intro episode and then the other episodes will get speakers in to talk about food nutrition lifestyle medicine and other areas of health so um first up on our podcast I'm doing it on Monday um is a dietician Elaine she spoke at our conference and she sits on the medical faculty at Brighton and Sussex Medical School so she actually has an important one of two dieticians in the country who do this so it's actually amazing um yeah I'll show you our our artwork for it's pretty cool we've designed a little cover that's serious stuff no a nice nice nice not messing about it's good podcasting is great podcasting is great I mean interestingly um I think in the US the podcasting listeners have gone down since the lockdown because most people listen to a podcast on their commute that makes so much sense you can use so you listen on your commute to and from work or you listen when you don't want to speak to your partner you stick your headphones in and like stick a podcast on um so but yeah it's interesting so but I mean we'll you know we'll come out of this soon anyway and but it's a great thing to do podcasting is great um so you're gonna get a bunch of nutritionists yeah but we're also gonna open it up to mental health and we want to get a lot of innovators on the show so we were actually invited to speak at Royal Society of Medicine's innovation summit last March and we met so many incredible healthcare innovators there who were doing like the coolest things around well-being around mental health so we want to get them on the show as well because we became friendly with some of them get them on everyone wants to come on a podcast it's great fun I know it's just great fun to have a chat yes have a little chat and then with hangouts I mean you don't have to I mean I quite like the face to face like live um because you get a different slightly different um like chemistry when someone's in front of you but this I mean this is great I mean we've done a three way four five I mean you can have like um as many as you want but I mean one two to three is good and you can have a nice like a nice chat um and you don't have to be in the same room and you guys can be in different places and uh it's pretty good so I've got I'm gonna do the first five episodes I've got um the mic in the flat now and then um we're gonna order more mics for the team so different team members can host it as well and we can be in different places oh so you've gone geeky on the equipment nice sorry you've gone geeky on the equipment oh yeah I did my research did my research I'm missing my mics I've got these great road mics in the office like yeah they're cool um in fact I'm actually gonna upgrade my camera on my laptop now it's like a proper camera to get more video because I've done quite a lot of video now since the lockdown um something a little video cast series and then everything's released as podcasts as well um it's cool it's good content it's good content um but this has been the first kind of time that I've done virtual like recordings like this so it's pretty good you can get some really great people from all over the world I mean you don't have to limit it to the UK exactly yeah so it's cool awesome we're good to chat to you both next time face to face hopefully yeah for sure that'd be great once all this is over um predictions on when the lockdown's gonna end um I prefer any things like my my grandpa my grandma was 85 year old GP and he said to me on the phone today he's in isolation he's like doing phone calls with his patients and he was like to me his prediction is that in three weeks time officers will start getting youngsters back in because they can and I don't really think that will happen but that was just kind of something especially today I don't think it will happen because they'd have to go on transport they'd affect the NHS workers on the transport systems so no I don't think so I don't know I literally what time is at the moment what do you think I reckon um well I hoping because I don't really know obviously but I'm hoping um well schools need to go back first so parents and stuff can go back to work so the first thing schools need to reopen I reckon they might reopen for the summer half term so that's kind of towards the end of May um then if schools reopen then people can start going back over like a period of time right so we'll have like testing um if you've had it maybe you go back they'll probably still have so some degree of social distancing I guess um and then when you have um a vaccine then more will start and you've definitely got to get t-shirts printed I'm a survivor or pardon me I've had corona or something like that um because I don't think I don't think you can get it again afterwards correct me if I'm wrong but once you've had it I don't think you can get it again I'm not sure there were Korean Korean people being reinfected really don't tell me that don't tell me that um hold off getting the t-shirt until we're 90 percent sure yeah well I've heard different stories we'll see I'm sure we'll find that out for certain soon um but hey this is Covid-19 I mean there's been 18 other Covid's and they've all gone I just want this one to bite the dust so yeah I don't know long answer somewhere between end of May and September but the big problem is which I think it will probably be earlier is the economic impacts crazy um and it will cause a lot of deaths um unemployment you know all of that kind of stuff so very difficult decisions the government have to make I'm happy I don't have to make them I saw the New Zealand Prime Minister she's so amazing um she's taking like 20 percent um car payment car and has commissioned that all other ministers do the same in New Zealand um which was so good that's good there's also quite a few there's quite a few um big organizations their execs have taken pay cuts um you know a lot of a lot of leaders are behaving really well um you know Trump's not funding WHO I saw that I saw that I saw that he wasn't too happy with how they've managed or what did he say mismanaged um I don't know I mean I think you know I think most I mean most governments almost all of them have the interests of their people at heart I mean people are trying to do the best they can yeah ultimately so well let's hope we're back soon yeah and it all goes over could you get us some n19 cocktails when we come to your show we'll do an n19 definitely we'll do n19 cocktail we'll do a little virtual thing people can tune in we'll do it live definitely that's true cool all right have a good one see you


Hello and welcome to the session. Today I will help you with this question. The question says given here are some figures, classify each of them on the basis of the following. Simple curve, simple closed curve, polygon, convex polygon and concave polygon. Now let's see the solution. Now we will consider each figure one by one. First let's see the figure one. We know that simple curve is a curve that does not cross itself. Now as you can see in the figure one no line is crossing itself therefore this figure can be considered as a simple curve. So we have one is a simple curve. Now simple closed curve is the one in which its ends are joined. Now since in figure one all the ends are joined so this can be regarded as a simple closed curve.  Now if we look at figure one we can see that there are five line segments in this figure. That means it is made up of only line segments therefore this can be regarded as a polygon. Now a convex polygon is the one in which there are no portions of the diagonals in their exterior. Now in the figure one as we can see that if we join these two points then we get a diagonal in the exterior of this polygon therefore this is not a convex polygon. Whereas a concave polygon is the one in which some of their diagonals lie in the exterior. Now as in the figure one I told you that this point and this point is joined. They have their diagonal in the exterior of their polygon therefore this can be regarded as a concave polygon. Now same is the case with figure two. If we look at the figure two we can see that no line is crossing itself. Hence this figure two can be regarded as a simple curve. Now it's a closed curve also because all its ends are joined therefore it is a simple closed curve. Now it's a polygon because it's made up of four line segments. Now since no diagonals lie in the exterior of this polygon therefore this figure two is the convex polygon and hence it's not a concave polygon. Now let's consider the third figure. In this figure as you can see one curve is inside the other curve therefore this is not a simple curve. Now its ends are also not joined hence this cannot be regarded as a simple closed curve. Now there are no line segments in this curve therefore it's not a polygon either. Now it's not a polygon therefore it's not a convex neither a concave polygon. Now let's see the fourth figure. Now in this figure all the lines are crossing each other therefore this is not a simple curve and hence it's not a simple closed curve. Now it is a polygon because it is made up of line segments therefore this can be regarded as a polygon. Now if we join these points we get their diagonals in the exterior therefore this can be regarded as a concave polygon. Now next we observe the figure five. Now in this figure as we can see that no lines are crossing itself therefore this can be regarded as a simple curve. Now this figure is also a simple closed curve since all its ends are joined. Now this is not a polygon hence it's not a concave or convex polygon because there is no line segment in this figure. Now let's observe the figure six. In figure six as you can see that no line is crossing itself it's a simple curve and since all its ends are joined therefore this is regarded as a simple closed curve and since there are no line segments in this figure therefore this is not a polygon hence it's not a concave or convex polygon. Now looking at figure seven we can see that it is a simple curve because no line is crossing itself and since all its ends are joined therefore this can be regarded as a simple closed curve. Now it's not just made up of only line segments there is a curve also in this figure therefore this cannot be regarded as a polygon and hence it's neither a convex polygon nor a concave polygon. Now lastly we observe the figure eight. In this figure the one line is crossing the other two small curves out there and therefore this cannot be regarded as a simple curve and hence it's not a simple closed curve. Now this is not a polygon because it's just not made up of only the line segments we have two small curves on the outside also and therefore this is not a polygon and hence it's neither a convex nor a concave polygon. Hence the final answer in this case is for a simple curve we have figure one two five six and seven for simple closed curve we have one two five six and seven for polygon we have one two four for convex polygon two for concave polygon it's one and four. Hope you enjoyed the session have a good day.