Um, Mr. President, do you think Elon Musk is a threat to U.S. national security and should the U.S. and with the tools you have investigate his joint acquisition of Twitter with foreign governments, which include the Saudis? There's a lot of ways, uh, all right, Biden's being a pop-up, a pop-up, a pop-up, a pop-up. Biden's being extremist. Good! God!  Well, I don't want to say I told you so, but I told you to ignore that red wave talk and it turned out to be correct. Although, of course, the media are doing their job and spinning it as positively as they can. In usual fashion, the standards have now also changed, with the popular vote no longer being important. In response, Adolf Sniffler stood in front of a podium to incoherently mumble responses to softball questions from pre-picked, friendly Democrat media. Publicans have made it clear that if they do take control of the House that they want to launch a raft of investigations on day one into your handling of Afghanistan, the border, they want to look into some of your cabinet officials, they want to investigate you, they may even want to investigate your son. Lots of luck in your senior year as my coach used to say.  Look, I think the American public want us to move on and get things done for them. Excuse me. Whaaaaa? Ever since you took office, things have only gotten worse. From the economy, energy prices, national division, the border, crime, media corruption, and worst of all, the very real threat of worldwide nuclear war. It's kind of amazing how oblivious the public seems to be about that. We're going to get right back into Roasting Bind, but first take 36 to check out this free coin offer from Noble Gold. 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It was reported, whether it's accurate or not, I'm not sure, but it was reported many times that Republicans were saying, and the former president said, how many times you're going to impeach Biden, you know, the impeachment proceeding against, but I mean, I think the American people will look at all of that for what it is. It's just, I'm almost comedy. It's not funny, it's not funny, it's not funny, it's not funny, it's not funny. And as far as investigations, are you kidding me? We went through four years of nonstop investigations and impeachments of the last president that still continue to rack up, all of it starting with cause to impeach him a week before he even was inaugurated. Biden is telling you what those Democrat investigations were all about when he says that the American people look at investigations of him as almost comedy. Except it demonstrates that he will not take power by, if he does run, making sure he under a legitimate efforts of our constitution does not become the next president again.  But let's put on our thinking caps and use our imaginations. If a Republican president, say Ron DeSantis, went out there and said the exact same thing, but about his Democrat rival, what do you think the response would be? They would lose their minds and democracy would be over. Biden's DOJ is currently trying to indict Trump, and before that, Obama's FBI lied to FISA courts and did other corrupt acts in order to spy on the Trump campaign. Now, Biden says that he'll somehow prevent his political rival from getting power. He'll combine this with the Democrats buying in their media mouthpieces, repeating endlessly for the last few years and unless they have power, then democracy is over and things begin to look increasingly authoritarian.  Oh, here we go. Alright, so we already knew that Joe Biden went to ban assault weapons, but the problem here is that the media refuses to scrutinize him on this and at least ask him to define what an assault weapon is. In reality, the definition of assault weapon can mean any semi-automatic weapon, which most firearms are. The truth is, our media is in on this game to deceive the public because they want us all disarmed. Um, Mr. President, do you think Elon Musk is a threat to U.S. national security and should the U.S. and with the tools you have investigate his joint acquisition of Twitter with foreign governments, which include the Saudis? Elon Musk's cooperation and or technical relationships with other countries is worthy of being looked at. Right, you know what I think it's worth looking into? The national security threat posed by Joe Biden's energy policy, which forces America to be dependent on Saudi Arabia and Russia for our energy. And of course, it's a member of the free press who asks the president to crack down on the free speech and investigate his rivals. Um, and, um, and, uh, that's all I'll say. There's a lot of ways. Uh, all right. Nope, nothing ominous about that. Unpopular leftist president propped up by corrupt media. Criminalization of his opponents. Press becomes state media for one party, his party. Press censorship and suppression of news that's harmful to that puppet. And then last but not least, disarming the public. All of these things adding up to one outcome, authoritarianism ushered in by Joe Biden, Democrats and their willing media accomplices. Because remember, you can't have authoritarianism without an institutional support base. And they are that. All right, folks. That's all I have for that one. I hope you enjoyed it and found it informative. If you did, please hit that like button, share it and subscribe. Make sure to leave a comment to let us all know what you think and vent that frustration. Thanks a lot.


The Festival of Coins is brought to you in partnership with the Numismatic Guarantee Corporation and the Royal Mint Museum. Hello everyone and welcome to your chance to ask the experts where we have asked you to send in your questions that you would like answered from myself, Chris Barker at the Royal Mint Museum and my colleague David Mason. David is the man who is primarily responsible for dealing with questions from the public. So David if you'd like to kick off with what we've had so far and we can run through them line by line. Absolutely, yeah. The first question we've had in from members of the public is if you could take one coin home from the museum's collection to keep which one would you take? It's a very tricky question and obviously let's start by saying we wouldn't take any of them obviously because they're part of the collection but it's a very tricky question because the museum has got such a fantastic wealth of coins particularly great rarities and having sort of given this some thought for a little while probably something maybe like Thomas Simon's Petition Crown which has got a fantastic design. You've got this wonderful depiction of Charles II on there by very gifted engraver Thomas Simon from the restoration after Charles II comes back to the throne and he's in sort of competition with another engraver called Rotier and he produces a Simon that has produced this magnificent portrait of Charles II. It's just a real showcase of the artistry of coin design and the really impressive thing about the Petition Crown has also been horrifically rare and to come across and never get one is the edge inscription. It's this dual edge inscription where he's put his petition to Charles II saying you know look how good an engraver and designer I am please pay attention to me and basically choose me as the mince engraver it's a sort of abbreviated version of what it is but that's what it boils down to. I think this year's skill and artistry and also the technical skill involved in getting that double edge inscription on there is something that always stands out for me and is a real highlight personally of some of the extremely rare material that we have but there's just so many rarities in there for example you know Vigo five guineas yet again another great story even down to coins with a life story in and of themselves yet again touch on the reign of Charles II when the Roman starts making copper hapenis and farthings for the first time we've got no experience of making copper coin at the mint so we buy copper blanks in and we buy them in from Sweden and they're shipped across from Sweden to England and on the way across one of these ships sinks just off the coast of Hall and in our collection we actually have these very sort of worn badly degraded copper blanks which just look nothing particularly special but those were the copper blanks that were coming across from Sweden in the 17th century that sank on that ship and then were found in the 1980s and several centuries later found their way to the Roman somewhat late but they've got a it's an amazing story just this copper blank which sits in in the museum's collection I don't know about you David but I don't know of any things that jump to mind for yourself whether there's anything that's getting just not been here too long but in the short time that you have been here whether there's anything that has really caught your eye I think you've hit the nail on the head there that there are so many wonderfully rare and beautiful pieces in the museum collection and certainly the first of those you were speaking about there really highlights not only the beauty of some of the engraving work and some of the actual coin designs but some of the stories that go into that kind of engraving work and then some of the historical knowledge that is unlocked from these pieces and I think from my perspective that's what I've been finding really fascinating here so it's perhaps a little bit of an obvious answer and perhaps one that other people might go for as well that any of the the specimens that the museum holds of the sort of the proposed coinage of of Edward VIII I think would be absolutely fantastic for the stories that they tell and the way that they directly engage with British history and the history of the British monarchy anything like that that really that really taps into the historical stories I think I find fascinating here and that's that throws here certainly for myself anyway it's it's the stories that behind the pieces that really excite me it's not so much the the shiny gold coins obviously we do have a lot of shiny gold coins but it's not so much that that that really interests me it's that story behind the piece and also what that can tell you about the period or the history of the time we've got some a good collection of pieces from from Cromwell's time in charge it's basically a military dictator and I and I love them because they can see on there you've got Cromwell on the coinage like a almost Roman Emperor-esque looking very much like a monarch and it tells you that elements of history where Cromwell although he's protector he's king in orbit name and you really do see that by looking at the coinage from the time and so what you can get from coins and the stories you can get from them are the things that really interest me and keep me engaged in the subject matter really absolutely they've they've always seemed to me to be artifact of social history the the way that a coin passes from person to person the way that a coin is produced it can act as a political symbol the way that it functions internationally and it's traded hand to hand country to country I think just leads on an individual piece levels and really fascinating stories but also evidently at a production level as well yeah well I think we've given a plethora of answers there I'm not sure we have to answer this question directly but so we've got we've got a few to go at um what what what else have we had him ah wow we've had uh we've had a really interesting one here about collectors as well uh how non-collectors react to learning about money and coins obviously we we run some VIP tours of the museum we have people here to see the collection occasionally don't we yeah that's correct and um I always see it as a challenge when people come in and say they're not particularly interested in in the coins or coins or the roman for example because one of the things that I think about when people come into the museum is that even if they are saying that to me if I can't find a way to connect to them then I failed and I say that not because I think the coinage is the be all in the end all it's because of what we do here at the minute touches on so many aspects of history also manufacturing the engineering side of things art and design basically there is a way in for anybody with an interest in anything whether that's like I say from engineering engineering rather art and design or from science or from coinage um there's there's so many angles in and even if somebody walks through the door thinking that there'll be nothing in here for them just because you know they see us as a place where coins are made and that's all that's done here then then they are wrong because there's there's so many more aspects to it and that's the thing that really sort of blew my mind initially when I started it was just the sheer depth of what goes on at the Royal Mint it's very rare these days you come across a manufacturing site where pretty much everything is done on site which is certainly the case still at the Royal Mint absolutely there's so much of our collection I think that touches on the places and the people involved in the history of the Royal Mint and even the administration of it as well so much more than just the output and the production so one of the most interesting things that certainly I find is looking up family history inquiries for those relatives of former employees of the Mint those people who necessarily don't have a personal interest in coins or collecting but who have an interest in genealogy or in finding out more about their family tree or just generally living a little bit more about historical manufacture or that sort of thing yeah and that's it and there is a way in for pretty much anybody with and that and we can tailor it to suit what their interests are and I think that's certainly something for people watching this is for them to bear that in mind is that even though you might think that there's might not be something there for you there actually is and that's that is certainly something to take away I think that actually brings us very neatly on to another question we've had which is how can collectors use the museum to find out about coins in their own collection that's a very good question because one of the problems that we have as a museum is that we're based on the raw mint site and the raw mint is obviously a very secure site we do these days have the raw mint experience which is allow public to see some of the collection but by and large this vastly still shut behind two layers of barbed wire fences and that touches in what we've been trying to do over the past few years here in the museum which is to make that collection more accessible and people should look out for what is coming up on the raw mint museum's website because we're certainly starting to digitize an awful lot more of our collection and in the coming months we'll be putting up the raw mint museums the raw mints rather annual reports from 1870 right through until 1976 which are fascinating documents and really give you an in-depth view of what the mint was doing at that time and that is the start of a more broader program of digitalization and putting material out there to the public added to that we've got the collection online where we're starting to go through all of the museum's coin collection and put that online in a way that is accessible to people to look up and see what we've got in the collection and obviously the obvious one in some ways is people can come and ask us you know get in touch through the museum's web form or if you're down in south wales come into the raw mint experience where we try to be as accessible as we can we try to answer questions so if people do have questions and queries then get in touch with us and we'll do what we can we can't always necessarily you know find a way to answer all the questions but we'll do whatever we can to to deal with those that crop up absolutely like you said by the the nature of where we are and who we are we are closed doors but we are trying our best to be as open as possible and day to day certainly you and I are spending a large amount of our time popping down into our library into our archives researching things that people have asked looking up as I've said before family histories examining production records going through all of the different information we have available in order to we assist with research projects don't we and international museum collaboration projects as well recently which has been brilliant yeah and we've got quite a wide wide range of questions that are asked to us so if people do have anything that they want to know about then then get in touch I think that's the that's the message for people to take away when they're listening to this is do get in touch with us and we'll do what we can absolutely and that's right there on the Royal Mint Museum website we have a web form which will allow you to get directly in touch we have well as you've said we get questions of all sorts and we'll we'll gladly do what we can to assist collectors and non collectors alike the one thing we would say however is if you are getting in touch with us do make sure you send us good quality pictures of whatever you want us to know about that is that is one of our little bug bears is that we sometimes get pictures in from people as we're looking at these blurry images and thinking how on earth are we meant to say what that is because we can't even see what it is on the screen let alone you know from the quality of the picture so that's a slight bug bear of mine it's when it comes to some of the inquiries that we do get in absolutely yeah but I mean the pictures can we can often tell a reasonable amount from the pictures can't we if they are reasonable quality if we get pictures of a coin and we can often give at least an initial assessment yeah exactly um so that's that is certainly one thing we would say is good quality photography does help uh what else have we got David we have had another question through asking more generally about the museum here is the Royal Mint Museum only concerned with British coins and the answer to that is definitely no because of what the Royal Mint has done over its past and the Royal Mint has been concerned with international manufacturing for for for many centuries to be honest um and as a result of that we in the museum have got a vast collection of overseas coins because the Mint has made them and we will be in a position to offer advice and expertise on anything that the Royal Mint has made um you know provider that we have made it whether it's British or whatever that might be we will try and do our best to offer a definitive opinion or an expert opinion on any of those questions um you know the sheer breadth that the Royal Mint Museum's international collection is huge and that's not just from a coinage perspective that comes from medals and tooling artwork as well downstairs that we have in the library there's a whole host of material uh that touches on what the Mint has done over the past and that we have in our uh library and in our collection yeah I think you've absolutely hit the nail on the head there we we have a vast collection um a large amount of which is international coins at the Royal Mint has produced previously and we do hold a huge amount of information on that as well be that in our library in reference volumes or in terms of production records as well so exactly the same sort of thing here do get in touch if we can be of assistance about that sort of thing if the Royal Mint has made it then absolutely excellent and um I believe that is all the questions that we've had in isn't it David we've got so far um I believe so yes but the good news is of course if you do have further questions about the Royal Mint Museum or the Royal Mint we as I've said we do have the enquiries web page on our website you can get in touch relatively easily that's it yeah do get in touch that's the that's the takeaway from everyone get in touch with us if you wanted to know any more and if you are in south wales um do come down to the Royal Mint experience because we'll be able to speak to you face to face now that we're reopened thankfully with the COVID restrictions have been eased um although we may be mask to mask most most more to speak but we would be very happy to see you all down there in south wales and do bring anything along if you've got any questions about it as well absolutely well thank you very much chris that was delightfully informative and hopefully we will hear from lots of people soon with uh yet more questions about the museum and the mint well we'll look forward to it thank you everyone thanks very much bye bye


I now take this opportunity for ICDF sir to welcome you so that you can launch this exercise official. Welcome sir. The Deputy Amir Commander, Assistant Chief of the Defence Forces of Nial and the Precepts, the Director of Medical Services, Defence Headquarters, Deputy Commanders of the Kenyanya Force and the Kenyanya Army, the Chief Recruiting Officer, members of the Forestry, colleagues, ladies and gentlemen, good morning again. On behalf of the Minister of Defence, the Chief of the Defence Forces and the Kenyanya Defence Forces Fraternity, I welcome you to this media briefing that marks the form of launch of Year 2023 and the Defence Forces National Goodman Drive. Today is a culmination of an elaborate process of public participation that began on 30th July when MOD advertised KDF recruitment through various media platforms. To put this exercise into context, recruitment of diverse colours into KDF is necessitated by human resource and capacity gaps in the establishment and the need for continuous alignment with the defence and security environment. In this regard, KDF seeks to recruit qualified Kenyans in three broad categories. These are officer cadets, recruits and the Defence Forces Constabulary. Officer cadets represent those who will ultimately be commissioned as officers of the Kenyanya Defence Forces. These categories comprises General Service Officer Cadets, Graduate General Service Officer Cadets and Specialist Officer Cadets. Under the recruits category, when visioned to recruit, the general duty recruits among them artisans or tradesmen and women, who will be classified as service members upon completion of basic military training. The third category consists of Defence Forces Constables who will be drawn from ex-KDF Service Members and ex-National News Service Uniformed Personnel. Ladies and gentlemen, their advertisement for the ongoing recruitment cycle has to date been in circulation for at least 30 days and hence attained country-wide reach. That's an optimum participation by interested applicants. In this regard, KDF has mapped out 374 recruitment centres across the 47 counties of this country. As such, recruitment teams will interview candidates at designated venues from today, 28 August to 8 September 2023, running from 8 to 5 p.m. Therefore, this media briefing aims to symbolically launch the commencement of in-person interviews at various recruitment centres nationwide beginning this morning. Father, I wish to state that Sunday, 20 August 2023, marked the last day for specialist officer cadets and tradesmen and women to submit applications through the LOD online portal. At the moment, shortlisting of candidates in the two categories is ongoing and those whose applications conform to the specified parameters and are selected will be informed through print media between 17 and 24 September 2023. However, shortlisting is only the first step in the process, considering that physical verification of documents and medical examination based on military benchmarks shall be conducted thereafter. Upon completion of each day's activities, successful candidates at each recruitment centre will be notified immediately and issued with calling letters, which among others inform the date and place where the candidate shall report for further processing. The venues shall be the Kenya Military Academy at Lanets-Lakuni County for the potential cadets and the Kenya Defence Forces Recruits Training School in Elbride was in the issue county for general duty recruits as well as tradesmen and women. To this end, the Ministry of Defence is committed to deliver a transparent and accountable exercise. In this regard, any person purporting to have influence to recruit a potential candidate outside of the designated recruitment centres or mechanisms stated in this briefing must be avoided. Members of the public are advised to assist but from fraud-sensitive violence KBF values more so the value of integrity. In support of this, oversight measures have been put in place encompassing use of intelligence operatives, anti-corruption of field officers and the media. More importantly, we request 1MG in exercise of their patriotic mandate to volunteer information on any suspicious activities by reporting to the recruiting teams on the ground or in the alternative, mobile phone numbers<PHONE_NUMBER> or<PHONE_NUMBER>. To the candidates aspiring to join KBF, please be mindful that this is not a job, it is a calling. Indeed, every single day the men and women in uniform renew their commitment to serve humanity and this is the conscious choice you are just about to make. We assure you, it is a worthwhile undertaking and I welcome all willing potential candidates to present themselves for recruitment. Ladies and gentlemen, with those remarks, it is my honour and duty to declare Year 2023 Can the French forces recruitment drive formally launched a centenary summit? Thank you so much, I think we can take a round of the meeting but our meeting is clear and distant. Yes sir. Very good. Assisting you there. Right. My name is Koizubo, I am an inspector. I have been in the group for three years and I am the second member of the group. I have been in the group for three years and I am the second member of the group. Thank you very much. Thank you sir. One question on the oversight to ensure that there are no cases of irregularities because it is not the first time we have been given the assurance. What specific measures are you going to take this time round to be able to curb this vice? We understand that even before the exercise commenced, these cases, are there any cases that we are investigating or maybe one that involves even military officers, maybe the ones that you are already investigating? My name is Emma Stetscher from the Sky News Group. I am interested to know the Shona communities and those other communities that are recognized as part of Kenyan tribes. Are they going to be incorporated in the reserve group? Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much for those questions. The first point is that I think that number is not disclosed and no military will ever disclose to you for security reasons. So I think that number is left to the leadership to be able to manage. But the recruitment we are going to do. Now the mobile number, the second one, let me say one of them. The first one is<PHONE_NUMBER>. The second one is<PHONE_NUMBER>. The next question is by Mr. Gattete. He is asking about the oversight measures. Yes, we have a raft of them as I have mentioned. And the 192 was a very, very important role apart from the official manager, the oversight officials. But we have had since 2017 around 80 cases of fraud. And many of these have been investigated. On the whole side, we've had 56 cases of being fined and given. Others are still ongoing because you remember how we call this a very complex area. It's a crime. And crime takes a lot of time to be spent. But internally we are as efficient as we could. The other question is about the Shona community. I think the requirements are very, very clear. But you need to come with your ID card. You need to bring with you all those that are not here in your academic credentials. If you come that you have been declared a citizen of Kenya, we are going to be in a problem. Thank you. I'm not around in the agenda yet. I'm going back to corruption. I think before this exercise, the president had already also raised an alarm regarding those who are likely to influence all other types of dealings in the United States. As a military, I know you are one of the plurals. And right now you are breaking on this exercise. Maybe you are able to, can you report if at all there's any case that will be intercepted now that the exercise is beginning today? Because we understand a lot may be happening underground that civilians may not be in the know. So you as the military chief or bosses, are you keen to or have you intercepted any code or anything in relation to this exercise? Like somebody trying to exchange money so that they can stay true to us. Thank you. I think as of now, Mr. Wen, nothing will be reported as of this morning. But in the preceding weeks, we will let people come to the gate that nobody has been recruited but all from. In those cases have been reported to the police when they have been arrested, mostly involving civilians. But as of this morning, not yet. If we do, we are going to work on that very efficiently. Yes, another? Thank you. My name is Mike. Sorry, from TV 47. You said this is a very serious process.  We are leading it to as well. I think that is one final, one final piece. I know that you have to take the two. Good morning. My name is Gabriel. This is a concern by potential hypocrites about them having a challenge of accessing certificate of good conduct from DCI. I think they are going to be considered to many of them who may show up in the printing centers without certificate of good conduct. Thank you. The first question is about disability. I think the criteria is very clear of who is going to be recruited. I must also say that no human being is perfect. We all have certain kinds of disabilities. So if you expect to get a perfect human being, perhaps you will not be able to get them here. The thing is that this process is greatly competitive. I don't understand better than the next one. But I must also say that we are one of the organizations that have a very, very comprehensive hero system for taking care of people who are differently able. And our experience in operations, right from the Schiffer campaign and more recently to what we are doing in terms of counter-terrorism operations just taught us a lot and we have very, very elaborate infrastructure so that everybody can be able to make a contribution depending on their ability to make that contribution. So I think there is room for improvement. Thank you. I think this marks the end of this exercise. President Sark, I thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. We forgot a question about Mr. Kemeny. I'm sorry about that, Mr. Kemeny. We did not mean to annoy you. But he's asked about whether the candidates reporting the recruitment centers and if they don't have the certificate of good conduct, whether or not they will be admitted. I think there's no requirement for that. If you come with it when I'm good, and as I said previously we have a mechanism of knowing whether or not you have been involved in crime. So I don't think that's the issue. If you don't have one, just come. We sought you out in due time. Thank you very much.


Hello friends, so welcome to a new session on mathematics and in this the following series of sessions We are going to deal with Exponents of real number what exactly are exponents and why are they required everything will be discussing? So this particular session and the series of the sessions which are going to follow Would be very very important for you to develop good mathematical foundation because going further Exponents and indices will be used a lot many times in multiple areas of mathematics Now to begin with let us consider these two data points now It's given that speed of light, you know light and you must be aware that light travels at a speed of This much right so the number is so big that you know even to Count the zeros will be you know Difficult so if you see how many zeros following three it's around three double zero triple zero triple zero so around 300 million meters per second Right 300 million Isn't it so Yes, so basically it is three lakh kilometers per hour Sorry three lakh kilometers per second or it is 300 million meters per second. Okay. Now similarly radius of the earth is 6400 kilometers which is equivalent to six four double zero triple zero meters Okay, now if you are let's say if you are doing a calculation Related to speed of light in physics and every every time you are to Mention the value it will be too cumbersome to write three followed by eight zeros instead of that if you closely observe three followed by Eight zeros can be written as three into one followed by eight zeros. Isn't it? This is how you can write right three followed by Three into one followed by eight zeros now here this particular value one followed by eight zeros Can be shorthand written as ten to the power of Eight yeah ten to the power eight which is nothing but ten multiplied by Ten how many times? eight times so if you see Isn't it one two three four five six seven so if you see there are eight times ten is being multiplied so whenever such Mathematical calculations are happening. We have a new notation and which is written as ten and there is a superscript over it Which is here in this case. It's eight, which means Then when multiplied by itself eight times can be shot written in shorthand like this, right? This is a new notation Similarly, let us say if I had to write radius of the earth So radius of the earth is 64 or six point four if you are aware of decimal operation It is one followed by six zeros Six zeros if you see this is this is nothing but one million and one million can be written as ten into ten into ten how many times Six times is it it so we take advantage of this repetition and We have now coined a new notation where we write ten and superscript as six so this becomes ten and we read it as ten raised raised to power Six power six. This is how we then raise to power six. This is how we define Indices now. So what is it? So any number? Let us say two when multiplied five times So two into two into two into two into two. This is two multiplied by five times can be written as To raise to the power five now here Two is called the base. What is it called the base and Five has multiple names one. It can be called as exponent Exponent it can also be called as index whose plural is in dices and Third is power So you can call it by any name isn't it now To and the base and the exponent the base and Exponent and Exponent can be can be any real numbers can be any Real Numbers except in few cases where negative bases are not allowed Except in a few cases where negative bases are not allowed Also, there are a few cases where also zero in few cases as base zero as base is Is Not allowed Not allowed and specially the case of zero to the power zero. We'll see this is not allowed in Mathematics, so you hope you understood so now Generalizing I can say a to the power B. So this type of number whenever you encounter so what is a here a is the base and B is the index or the exponent Okay, so now in the next session, we'll be dealing with laws related to bases and exponents


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and welcome all to another excellent edition of the Power Trading Hour. As always it didn't matter where you're at as long as you're here at the appointed time. The following takes place between 2 p.m. and 3 p.m. So what do we have going on today? Well when we last met I said fund buying was probably over at the end of yesterday or the first part of this morning and I think a great deal of what we have now is that one of the reasons is the volume is a vaporous. We had about 7.2 billion shares as we started the show yesterday which wasn't strong but we're doing about 5.8 billion shares now so about 1.2 billion shares lighter. Now volume is on Friday a little bit less but for a 60 point move I would suspect we have a lot more. Does that mean I'm exceedingly bullish? It does mean that I'm really kind of sanguine about higher or lower. You know what most people don't talk about in the stock market? They say markets going higher, markets going lower. How about the markets going sideways? When we met on Tuesday at 2 p.m. I think the market opened at 41.52 or so on that we're at 41.12. I'm going to say that's close enough especially the way we opened up. The whole week on a bigger scale at 30,000 foot view probably not going to look like much in a month or too much from now. Everything seems to be more important on the day that it happens than what it is like months, weeks, years later. But that's just part of it. I don't see that much going on. I do see some bear moves, I mean some bear raids. Most of that's based on very dubious propaganda in the legacy media. When I look at that stuff, I mean there's just a lot of stuff that is incredibly easy to see that their gas lighting is on. And again, I'm wondering a lot of times as a prime example just a ton of gas lighting in micron today.  Well, I don't know. At the highs they weren't telling you to sell it or short it. And kind of around here on the lows they're telling you to sell it. But if I saw one report that seemed rather over the top, this and a handful of other things. I also see the media beating up on Musk and Tesla. For years I brought up all the stuff that was incredibly dubious. And of course only when he starts talking about free speech does anybody actually start changing their mind a little bit on it. He built a one mile underground tunnel in Las Vegas. Because a variety of things, I think a foundation for another hotel, it would have been half a mile. Of course he said that cars were going to move at 600 miles an hour down these things. They move at 30 miles an hour, which is about 29 miles an hour faster than everything moves on the street if you've ever been to Las Vegas, especially on the strip. One mile an hour is fast there. The whole idea that somehow everybody's found religion with Musk is kind of silly to me. Because they missed about 100 things of stuff that he said and were willing to shuffle it off until he decided to buy Twitter. So a lot of hypocrisy in what's going on. He said we were going to be to Mars by 2019. He can say a thousand things and everybody will just glum on like he's all that. But man, talk about giving anybody free speech and you're the pariah of the tech world suddenly. But I do digress. Today, like I said, not much going on out here. Got some questions to ask or that have been asked earlier in the day. I'd answer them on the show. Is there anything to really be had about San? San is a Sandberg from Facebook Metamucil leaving. And I don't think so. We talked about this last. I'm going to say last September or October. I talked about it on the show for a couple of days. And much like in the Soviet Union where we used to get pictures on the May Day parade where they take all their nuclear missiles down Main Street. And everybody would wave and have a parade. They'd look and see who was standing closest to the leader at the time to say, you know, who is doing this or what are the other. But there had been pretty much a constant drum beat across last summer in the last fall that those two, San Berg and and Zuckerberg, were not getting along and didn't even talk to each other anymore. So I think this is just the feta complete, finally complete. Although I don't know Latin or is that French? Feta, it's probably French, isn't it? So don't thank you. There's a whole lot there. I think Metamucil Facebook or fake book. Just chickens are going to come home to roost. He kind of knows that he's going to either be in front of the house or the house in the Senate next year on a kind of like an endless rotating spit. And that's a great deal. She was the one pushing to get into politics. And everybody thought that she was so great. I never thought that anything she did was so great. They were in the right market. They had a CEO with a killer mentality. And sometimes it brings the company down like it has in Facebook when the reality does not match the books. And a lot of what Facebook did was just playing out thievery for the way they charged for ads. We know a lot of it was, you know, just driven up by bots and other things like that now. So, you know, he's going to end up being on a solely roasting spit. And I don't think she wanted to be around much like Jack Dorsey from Twitter before the pandemic hit was running off to hide in Africa so he couldn't get served subpoenas by the by the senator house panel. I can't remember which one it was. And then a pandemic came along and he didn't worry about it too much. He just got really high before he went in front of them. But, you know what, you get these kind of folks in here. They aren't gods. They put their hands on one leg at a time, just like us. They just tend to be a little bit more, what would you say? Vicious about it. We'll be back in a minute. At the time of booming inflation, we are purchasing powers eroded. There's no better place to protect your harder and money than in gold. 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So I have a question and it's involving how you feel you'll be the third man in a show about the, you know, the divergence he tracks with the neutralized in the gold world. And then your buddy, Tim, shoulders powder could occur. I mean, it could pop and then fail. Gold issue. Well, I'm not exactly sure what time scale. That's Somalia is the last name, right? 325. He's he's talking through 2025. And Tim, you know, I'm much more familiar with, you know, I'm much more familiar with Tim Ward. And I know that, you know, especially around TFNN, if if you're not right in the next 20 minutes, everybody thinks you're wrong.  I mean, that's really his big clientele. So if you want to be in 401ks, that kind of stuff. It's really good to listen to him in the short term. It's like the drunk standing in the middle of the highway. All he has to do is take a we one way or the other is going to get hit. So if you got very tight stops, it's not it's not a great thing to listen to the very long term. So you got to know exactly where you're at, how long you're willing to stay committed, especially in things like bonds and gold, because they tend to be incredibly long term moves.  So are you thinking that kind of long term? No, not really. I wish I I do see the the more I do this, the more I see the merit in Tim Ortt's reasoning and he's wise enough to see a top. So looking longer at these these things, but Shane small, smally is basically saying from 1,800, his target's like 11, 1200. I mean, that's a 40 percent correction. That'll take gold miners to like nothing, you know, I kind of my belief right now. And if the evidence changes, I'll change my view. But at least in the medium and longer term, in the medium term, I think we're in some level of stag flation. And if you look at gold really up until about it, when it really started moving in the 70s, much like now where we have runaway gas prices and the market could easily see a huge drawdown. There wasn't a lot of gold really until about 1980 or 81.  Does it really go lower? I don't think so. But, you know, the question is, I remember Bill Gates and I was at some deal and somebody asked him if he was upset about missing the the internet. I think this is like in 2000, right? He says, I mean, you guys really didn't come along till 1995. He says, we started on that stuff in, you know, 1990. We were five years early, you know, by the time it actually got to something. So there's kind of a theory in technology that you just kind of have to stand there on the railroad tracks until the train comes by and runs you over with, you know, the technology catches to you. And then, you know, you grab hold and hang on for dear life and there's kind of that. I think we have that kind of right now more stagflation. I think that could go into inflation. But I think it may take maybe the rest of the year. So, you know, you don't think we're going to have an outright deflationary event in the economy in your, you know, overall deflationary. Don't think so. Well, OK, I think they'll throw more money at the market if they've got to cause, you know, some inflation. That's easy to do. The, you know, the big thing is that we have a market where 80 percent of all the bad things could go away in one day. And that is if we decided to start actually producing oil here in the United States. And my belief is that 80 percent of all the problems that we see everywhere, high food prices, high fertilizer prices, literally everything is connected to the cost of moving stuff around. And that is by one big policy. And that is no U.S. production of oil to any extent. And I mean, even to the point where. Yeah, what was it yesterday or the day before yesterday? The. The Saudis say that they'll help with production raise. And then, of course, within two hours, the propagandists come out and start trying to stick their thumb in the eye of the Saudis. And so the Saudis pull back almost instantly. They're interested in the headline of more energy production. Not really interested in the in the actual idea or the idea of actual energy production. So I think we have some people pretty much committed to something that's going to make it incredibly tough to go forward. But again, maybe political pressure gets high enough with the coming election that we get a change here in energy production. And I think if you wanted to see gold go back to kind of acting the way it was, I think a lot of people that would normally be in gold are often crude right now. We're going to use it. It's an artificial level of demand because we're making sure that we don't actually pump that much more or create much more here in the United States a policy of less production. And, you know, the rest of the world is just not going to stop. Exploiting that. So the Saudis, even if they say they're going to probably pump more oil, it's just going to be a little. It's not going to be a lot. They're not going to do enough to hurt the prices until we actually get in and start stealing market. Interesting, you know. So yeah, I think I think gold and crude are really linked. If you want to hang on, that's fine. If not, we'll be back in a minute. OK, thank you. If you want to take advantage of this sector now is the time to subscribe to my Gold Report. The Gold Report is a comprehensive look at the metal sector as well as the markets that move gold, which is the currency and bond markets. New subscribers get a 30 day money back guarantee so you have nothing to lose. Every Monday morning, I publish the Gold Report with coverage of gold, silver, bonds, the XAU, HUI, GDX, as well as more than 30 different mining equities. 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And that's where I think it would probably find fairly decent support. In the short term, I'm not that bearish on literally anything. I think we could go, as I said at the very opening of the show, I think we could go sideways, maybe into the 4th of July. And drive everybody nuts, the bulls and the bears. It's been a long time since we've had a sideways market. Options are kind of firming up on that way. I'll know more next week, but there's just not that much out here that says or screams that we're either going that much higher or that much lower. I did talk to Steve yesterday and Tim or today and some other ones. And I thought it was kind of interesting that if you're not a bear, you're getting in the most probably, I think in 20 years, at least Tim said, the most vicious male that he's ever gotten about not being bearish and deciding the market's going lower. Steve and I have got kind of the same gang of people that email us on an ongoing basis. You can normally tell they're fairly, that they're cranks right away and that is because they either type in all lowercase or all uppercase. They don't understand either a caps lock or the shift key. So you can notice, you almost instantly know that they're either drunk or some kind of crank, but generally these guys get very fired up if you're talking about the top of a market and that you're going short or if you're in a market like to now that is probably going down eventually, but it's not going down today and they're gonna like themselves on fire like that monk in Vietnam in the saffron to actually just say that the market is going down today. They'll say it, email me every single day that the market's going lower and by the end of the day or a couple of days later, it's right back to where it's at. So that kind of thing, I've seen it before. It's kind of an adjunct to Tom getting phone calls about gold and is it a bottom yet? Is it a bottom yet? Generally when people quit calling and asking is there a bottom, you're much more likely to find a bottom. I think when these cranks really kind of give up, the market might be able to go lower. We may even see higher. I just don't see evidence, a great deal of evidence for either one options continue to kind of auger in. They have all day long in the newsletter this morning. I said, you know, we were looking at a fairly wide range for options. It had been fairly narrow and I didn't really have a good call other than I thought lower today, but 41.25 to 41.70 was the kind of the what option market makers were looking for today. So I'm not very surprised. The only one that's really missing that almost always hits is Apple. I think it was at, if I go back here and look. What's in that now? 145.48, everybody thought 150 on it, at least option market makers. That is another one of the stocks that I think really had a lot of people coming after it today. So there was probably a bear trap in it, much like in Micron. Maybe a lot of people buying calls and they decided to just thrash Micron and Apple together because both of these things are trying to get pinned at a much lower level. Maybe they sold a lot of calls this week or had short positions on. Hard to say, because again, there's always a lot of arbitrage in those. But the one in Micron seems to be rather blatant beyond the pale. And so I'm thinking that's kind of the same thing I'm seeing in Apple now. But I do digress.<PHONE_NUMBER>. Okay. Question about Apple. Not today. Well, you bounced off the low. You're kind of pulling back here, they're in a lot of volume. What's the fact, let's go back here and look at the spies and the volume on the queues to and see what we have. So you've got 45 million shares on the spies. That's compared to 80 million shares yesterday. So 45, eh. So let's say you end up with 60 against 80. Today is just an inside day. There is no signal as much as I imagine I'm gonna get yet another ton of emails chastising me for not being bearish or being short. I'm neither, in fact, I'm 100% cash right now. So I don't think that there's a lot of reasons. When I see a reason, I'll move it. But at the moment, options, predictions contend to contract on both the put and call side. And that generally predates very narrow trading ranges going forward. And I'm gonna say that if we look at this chart a week from now, we're probably gonna just say this week and maybe even the next week was a week where we just went sideways. Of course, the next Wednesday's Delta Neutral Day. After that, I think the market might open up a great deal more. No one loves to hear sideways market unless you're selling spreads. But you can always do that too. Question about AMD. I think we get a question on this every single day. So we'll just look at it anyway. Not a lot going on here. Take a quick look at NVIDIA, NVDA. Same thing, you just have, these charts look pretty much the same. You got an inside day. You're probably gonna have about the same or a little lighter volume out here. Probably the only thing I find really interesting on either one of these is that you're starting to see ads for, let me get them up here, ads for the video cards. A great deal of them. They were here earlier in the day here. A 3070. I mean, you couldn't find one in stock for two years. Now you can get them. They're basically being sold close to, this is actually an NVIDIA card made by Gigabyte, but they're buying their chips from them. Reference designs. So they're 600 bucks, which is standard retail. It's no big deal other than the fact that this thing was selling for 200 bucks. More than that, just 45, 60 days ago. So there is some movement out here. But again, I think a lot of this is everybody knowing that new video cards are coming out, probably mid July for NVIDIA and AMD. 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But it's really a software driven game and E3, which is the big conference for computer games is generally, I think like in August to get ready for the fall. So again, that's kind of the next big impotence. If someone comes with a game that really drives some kind of card that costs two grand and people are willing to buy it, you get the kind of moves. But again, we're looking at both Nvidia and AMD talking about bringing out new video cards. In the next few months, they're all gonna be able to use massive amounts of power. So they're probably not gonna fit in a lot of existing machines without at least replacing the power supply and probably bolting on four fans to keep the heat down. So this is kind of a big move. Maybe they'll be able to in next versions drop the power demands for these things, but they're gonna be pretty big. So I'm not in the camp that Nvidia and AMD are worth nothing. They've come way off the top. I'm not saying that they're valued at the correct price either. But I don't think, especially with Nvidia, I think Nvidia has a ticket to write Supercomputer dumb. And of course they're working on some other stuff in quantum computing, but these guys have not, AMD's made some smaller mistakes. Nvidia has made almost no mistakes. And I'm gonna say in about two, two and a half years in putting together a business that sells to business and not gamers anymore.  They sold more cards and products and resources and services to business than they did. And we're not talking about crypto folks, we're talking about actual businesses. So their business has changed.  And I think that's just gonna continue. There's a big business in machine learning and they pretty much captured, I'm gonna say 80% of it at the moment. Now there are people working around them that don't wanna pay them the big dollars for their chips but there's nobody really close to what they're building right now. AMD is a distant, distant second. So why Nvidia doesn't build processors, they've kind of toyed with that with trying to buy ARM. That deal fell by the way, my guess is they're not gonna give up and they're gonna get into the same business. So they're gonna have processors and actual graphic processors, processors, a lot of other stuff. And again, the Xilinx Altira deal, you've got Intel actually trying to get into, we haven't looked at that for a while. Intel is actually trying to get into the video card business, the interesting thing is they announced a bunch of video cards and then none of them have become available. So a lot of people, especially that the Tech Glitterate on YouTube are kind of mad at Intel, there were all these cards that were promised and pushed and you can't buy one of them. The only thing you can get for Intel's new video graphics card is built into a laptop and it doesn't quite work as well as Intel said it would. You've got Intel really around support at 43 bucks. That's pretty standard stuff here. Okay. Question about the SMH is here as I go off on a rant. To two, okay. I mean, if you look at this downtrend line from 318 all the way in today, you're right kind of into that now. The big thing that you had was a lower low on lighter volume. You really wanted to see 13 million shares from that March 14th low blown away and you really, I mean, it came close but it was still lighter. And then you got down to the low with about eight million shares. Could you get a little bit of a pullback? You could, but at the present time, I don't see a lot. Again, every one of these is the risk of waking up and finding that Chinese have invaded right now. It's hurricane season or cyclone season over there. They're probably not gonna put a lot of their ships to sea.  And each time a typhoon is whipped up and they've lost all their ships and men. And of course, the Japanese call it the divine wind but I think probably until we get a little farther out of the typhoon season, we're probably not gonna see the Chinese. They remember it a great deal, their big history buffs.  The weather looks a little spotty. They'll continue to keep pressure on the Taiwanese. Taiwanese are starting to arm up though. So it may not be the easy cake walk, especially now that China sees Russia getting bogged down in the Ukraine and why Taiwan doesn't think they have the ability to fend off the Chinese forever. They may just try to nickel and dime them into a Vietnam, Ukraine like Quagmire for a long time. Anyway, there's always that risk. I didn't think it was very big this week or the last couple of weeks, but I'm hoping that sideways action will bring the cost and the premiums down of a great deal of these stocks in the SMH. 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So do not be shocked and wait for it. A lot of stuff may be kind of messed up if they don't include that in right away in the splits for the ETFs and everything else. I would recommend that you might want to take an hour and make sure all the dust has settled because this thing is in everything. And we haven't had one for a long time, but the amount of ETFs and stuff that Amazon is held with and other stuff, there are gonna be some people that haven't done the right math and you may find an opportunity to get in or get out Monday morning before everybody figures out that the numbers quite don't add up on the ETFs surrounding Amazon. I think they'll get the stock right, but generally someone always misses. You know, if it's in just one ETF, the odds are probably not that big that someone's gonna miss it. 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Item number SPC-169 Object Class Megalodon Shark Punching Contingencies Due to its immense size, direct punching of SPC-169 will prove impractical. As such, Project Ahab has been established for the full-scale pudgelization of SPC-169. Project Ahab consists of simultaneous dreadnought class punchery from five separate sources in the Southern Atlantic Ocean. Item number 1 – Fist of Neptune Fifty satellites currently located in stationary orbit over critical points of SPC-169's anatomy. These satellites are capable of releasing 100 kg tungsten and osvium sculptures of fists in the Earth's atmosphere, which will use the natural acceleration of Earth's gravity to punch SPC-169 at terminal velocity. Item number 2 – Fist of Triton Ten volleys of twenty intercontinental ballistic missiles modified for shark-punching purposes with kaiju-grade dune fist tips. Item number 3 – Fist of Calypso Two-stage operation in which Megara-277EA-92R, a van-sized asteroid in an L4 orbit around the Earth, is one, implanted with several boxing gloves, and two, magnetized directly into SPC-169. Item number 4 – Fist of Cthulhu Five hundred modified drilling rigs will be installed on the exterior of SPC-169 for the purpose of applying continuous punching action over the course of several years. Item number 5 – Fist of Nemo We'll be trained in bare-knuckle boxing techniques and summon the challenge SPC-169 to fist-a-cups. SPC-169 is the largest shark ever encountered by the Shark Punching Center, believed to be between 2,000 and 8,000 kilometers in length. Radar analysis has detected a hardened outer carapace, indications of a state of dormancy, and unfortunately, a complete lack of exterior indications of punching. SPC-169 is believed to have existed since the Pre-Cambrian Era. Due to the ethical ramifications of a shark having remained unpunched for that long, Project Ahabs will be executed as soon as possible. Addendum 1 – Shark Identification Discrepancies Begin Log Dr. Swayze, sir, we have reason to believe that SPC-169 is not a shark. Administrator, explain. SPC-169 has an exoskeleton, as well as multiple set of limbs and feelers. In truth, I believe SPC-169 to be a very large arthropod. Interesting. Tell me, is SPC-169 located in the ocean? Yes? Is it larger than a dolphin? Yes. Does it have lots of pointy parts that could potentially be dangerous? Then it's a shark. This is entry-level shark-spotting. You really shouldn't know better at this point. Sir, with all due respect by that logic, sperm-wills, orcas, and nar-wills could also be called sharks? Oh, god. No! End Log Following this meeting, an emergency initiative was established for the investigation and immediate punching of SPC-170, Moby Dick Sharks, SPC-171, Free Willy Sharks, and SPC-172. Swords sharks? Addendum 2 – Ethics Committee Review Begin Log Dr. Balboa We've been going over the agenda for Project AHAB and I think we need a step of the lethality. On what grounds? If we were to punch this shark and we did not kill it, I'm fairly certain it would get enraged with it and it would potentially cause irreversible damage to human civilization. But would it be punched? The human race would go extinct, but yes, SPC-169 would be punched.  Forgive me if I fail to see how the most punchable shark in our organization's history is generating so much nitpicking. End Log


h benefits of a more active lifestyle. The order provides for those benefits to continue for a further year on a basis that it is fair to operators. Therefore, I commend the order to the committee and I am happy to answer any questions. There are a few members who wish to ask questions. Can I just make an observation? There are a few members of the committee, and I am not going to name them, who may be eligible for concessory bus travel. There is no need for them all to make a declaration so that I will therefore spare their blushes by saying that. There are some questions, and I think that the first question is from Richard Lam. I want to ask a question, but I also want to make a comment. I welcome that the proposal extends the scheme for a further year and makes no change to who is eligible for the scheme or what benefits it confers. That is contrary to what comments by certain political parties made in this place when the system was going to be reviewed. I welcome, in fact, that the Government is not raising the age criteria or changing the system, and that was because of a public consultation. On record, in August 2018, the Scottish Government confirmed that there would be no change to the age of eligibility of the scheme. That would remain at 60. The Scottish Government also confirmed that it would make a minor amendment, which is welcome to make disabled children aged under five eligible for a companion card under the scheme. I have to ask that only for a year. What future discussions are you implementing with quite a number of bus companies in Scotland? I think that someone in my paper says that there are over 220 bus companies. That surprised me—bus companies in Scotland. What future discussions are you having with each of them to ensure that this excellent scheme for people who use it remains the way it is? Can you remember correctly that we have not changed the eligibility? We have extended it to include children and disabled children under the age of five, and that is taken account of in this particular order. This is an annual process that we go through with the industry. The process that we have is one that was agreed with them, so there is a consistency of approach. That is exactly what we will do in the coming year with them. We work with them in a collaborative way around coming to this particular figure. The process that we have gone through and leading up to agreement in December was a collaborative one, which was welcomed by the industry at the time and how we went about that. That is how we will conduct it in the year ahead.  The cap for the existing financial year was £202.1 million. For the coming financial year, the figure is going up to £213.65 million, which we invest in this scheme. I am sure that you appreciate that comment, Richard Stewart. In the last year, was the cap reached and, if it was reached, at what point in the calendar year were the claims that were received, when did they reach the cap? I will ask Pete to give you some details on that. In the last year, the cap was not breached. How far short of it were we then? Can I just be clear on what you were talking about? Last year's cap—I temporarily forgot what the figure is—was 200 points, so the actual expenditure under the scheme, I am asking what was that. In terms of the year that we are currently in, that has not been resolved yet. That is why I was asking for clarification. If you are talking about 2017-18, the cap was £196.16 and the actual scheme payments were £194.8. If it helps the committee, we can send details of the past several years in terms of cap and payment. I accept that the Government and the bus companies have come to a shared view of what the cap should be. That tells us quite a lot, but is there an expectation that the current year's cap will be reached? Yes, it is fair to say. We have communicated very openly with the Confederation for Passionate Transport and individual bus operators. There is the expectation that the cap will be reached in this year, and we have taken actions accordingly. Does that reflect an increased number of journeys that are being made using the scheme, or other factors? I think that it is fair to say that there are a range of factors that influence things. What I would say is that when we look at the year going past, one of the things is that we had quite a clement summer and winter, which has had an influence on journey numbers and therefore on expenditure on the scheme. Again, we have had open dialogue with the industry on that aspect, looking back at how we forecasted and what has come to pass, and we are as open as possible on that. Can I just ask some questions around what is being reported in the media today, which you can clarify is accurate or inaccurate information, and if it is accurate, it is of concern to me. We are hearing reports that operators have been told that what will be available to them in the last four weeks of the current financial year, the reimbursement right, has been cut substantially to them because the budget is close to being used up, as Mr Grant confirmed. Can you give me some numbers around this? How much do you think that we are close to the budget being used up? What reduced grants are being offered to bus operators? The reason I mention it is that we are getting feedback from some of the large operators, including McGill and my region, who say that they simply do not have the revenue to deliver any potential reductions in subsidy and are looking to make savings, which could include fair reviews and cutting services. Is that true? What McGills are looking to do, you need to ask them. If it is true, is it not of great concern to you? It would always be a concern if they were looking to reduce services, but you would have to ask them if that is what they are intending to do. So they have not approached you with any concerns over this? No operator has expressed concerns over reaching the cap early? I have not received any correspondence from McGills. It may be in the system if they have written to me about it, but I have not received a letter from them. Why does the policy document that comes with this today say that the cap is not welcomed by the bus industry? From the very outset, they have never accepted the idea of a cap on the concessionary fair scheme, which has been in place since it was established. I believe so, yes. So they have never accepted the idea of there being a cap, which is put there to protect taxpayer. Sure, I understand that they are protecting the taxpayer. However, if we are reaching the cap and if we are running out of budget before the end of the financial year, then surely next year's budget would need to reflect that, because what that obviously means is that bus operators throughout the country will not be receiving any subsidy or a reduced subsidy in grant on providing services for that end part of the financial year. Surely that would have an effect on what you foresee would be required next year. So, go back to the point. The figures for the year ahead are forecasts. So in the economic model that was agreed with the industry is to try to help to give as accurate a picture around that as possible. There will be variances from one year to the next. If you look over the course of the last 10 years, I think that there have been a couple of occasions when the cap may have been reached. From what I can see here, there are other years where the cap has not been reached. There is a forecasting exercise getting into the next year. We have amended the model in the past couple of years to try to take account of some of the changes that are taking place. We will continue to work with the industry on how we can improve that model going forward. However, it is a forecasting exercise to establish the cap. The mechanism for doing that was one that was agreed with the industry, although I recognise the fact that, from the very outset, the industry has never accepted the idea of a cap. Colin Smyth, you said that the order covers the extension of the scheme to care us with with disabled children. I am a bit confused by that, because I keep reading what I have read so far and I cannot see what it actually says. Does it cover care us with disabled children? If so, how much of the £213.65 million is to cover that? I was incorrect. It does not include that, because that has not been rolled into the scheme yet. What is the target date to extend eligibility to care us? We are looking to undertake that work in the course of this coming year of the scheme, and I would hope that we would be in a position to be introduced into the scheme in the following year. Not until the following year? In terms of the roll-out to modern apprentices, the Government has indicated that you support that principle, but when is that going to happen? There is a bit of work that we have to do around that to understand some of the details and the figures around it, and I would hope that that would be undertaken over the course of this year's programme as well. Therefore, the view would be to introduce it to modern apprentices the next financial year as well? If we choose to do that, yes. Maureen Watt, did you have a question? In the past, we have had constituents contact us to say that they were going from A to B, but their ticket showed that they were being charged from A to C or D or E. How far have we managed to curtail that practice from the bus operators? I think that John is probably in a better place to tell you about some of the anti-fraud work that is undertaken around those things, because I have had it from constituents as well. There is a range of work that is undertaken as part of the Transport Scotland's fraud strategy to deal with those issues and to engage directly with operators on those matters. Do you want to mention a wee bit about the work that we are doing in that area? Yes, we do. We have a fraud strategy at the moment, which is being refreshed with different measures that we can take with the bus operators. We have a fraud and analysis team that will look into constituents' complaints. While there may be some journeys that are overstaged, a lot of it, in some cases, is confusion from car tolders, because with some bus operators, customers do not understand the fair stages. If a customer says, I am going to Asda, they might expect the ticket to say Asda, but the ticket would cover the next fair stage, because it is not fair bans. However, any inquiries that we get from car tolders always respond to them. We have mystery shoppers that go out on the buses and do various exercises on different routes that the constituents have highlighted. We had received a few inquiries about First Glasgow. My colleagues went to meet First Glasgow, and a lot of it was because First Glasgow has recently changed its fair structure. For a lot of the services, they have just looked to fairs. Similar to what car tolders think, when they are being overstaged, when they look at the analysis, they are not really, it is just the way that First Glasgow records the journeys. We have engaged with the First Glasgow communications team, who are going to refresh the driver train and hopefully provide additional information to car tolders, whether it is posters on the bus or through social media, but certainly in the meantime, when we receive any inquiries, we always investigate it. We also have a free phone line that car tolders can phone if they have any inquiries or if they want to report any instance where they think that they are being overstaged. Is it reducing, increasing or staying the same? Cabinet Secretary, would you still encourage our constituents to get in touch with us if they have reason to believe or would like to query it? Absolutely. Anyone who has concerns has a process there for them to raise those concerns with us, and they will be investigated. Whether there is a pattern of concerns being raised, very often the approach that we will take is to use the different mechanisms that we have to check how that operator is behaving, whether it is on a particular route or whether it is an operator as a whole to assess that. If necessary, and we believe that it is appropriate, it will be reported to the Procurator Fiscal if we believe that criminal activity fraud has taken place. That has happened in the past, and there have been successful prosecutions on that basis as well. Does any other member of the committee have a question? Cabinet Secretary, I have been asked to raise a question by a lady who has a long-term disability who is entitled to a concessionary travel pass. She is concerned that every two to three years she has to go to a library to prove her disability, and she has recently received correspondence in the past that states that her disability entitlement needs to be viewed because circumstances can improve. However, in her case, she has a long-term disability that will not improve and therefore would like long-term conditions to be recognised so that she does not have to keep proving her disability. Is this something that you would be able to look at for the future so that this situation can be resolved? More than happy if you want to pass on the details of the matter and more than happy for us to look into the matter. I will ask the clerks to pass that on. Thank you. Cabinet Secretary, do you wish to make any closing remarks? Yes. Thank you very much. Therefore, we will move on to agenda item 3, which is the formal consideration of motion S5M-157-54 in the name of the Cabinet Secretary for Transport, Infrastructure and Connectivity, calling on the committee to recommend that the bus travel concession scheme for older and disabled persons Scotland amendment order 2019 be approved. I would like to invite the Cabinet Secretary for Transport, Infrastructure and Connectivity to move the motion. Do you have any further comments that you wish to make? Are there any comments that the members would wish to make? Richard? I think that that is option 2. I believe that this is good news, but, as usual, certain parties in this place wished to debase what is being done, a system that costs senior citizens nothing, but we have to remember that senior citizens previously were taxpayers, so they are entitled to this service. I have to remind people that this costs the Government over £200 million. It is a system and I support the motion. Thank you. Does anyone else have any comments from members? The question therefore is that motion S5M-157-54 be agreed to. Are we all agreed? Yes. That is agreed, and that concludes our consideration of agenda item 3. I would now like to move the committee into private session. I close this part of the meeting.