Waitress Good morning. I would like to welcome everyone to this, the first meeting of the Standards procedures and public appointments committee in 2022. Can I wish everyone a Happy new year? Our first or agenda item is discussing about taking the final item in private. The committee needs to decide whether to take item 6, which is an item for the committee sefydliadau i gyrwau blyg o'r proseddau ar gyfer yr ysglwllau a'r pracadau yn bryfodol, fel y rhan o wybodaeth y bydd. Fy gennym i'r Lywodraeth oedd o gyffredinogol yma. Yn y gydig iawn i gydig iawn i ffartydd fwrdd felol, i ddoch i'r ffartyddion fyddai, a hynny oedd i'r gyrwιαeth hwn cymryd i'r cyfryd felly fwyllfa ar gwestrwag fwyllfa ar gyfer raisedeol The first group that we will consider today is a proposed CPG on beer and pubs. I would like to welcome Craig Hoy MSP, who is the proposed convener of the proposed group to the meeting. Good morning, Craig. I would like to invite you now to make a short statement in relation to the proposed CPG. Good morning, Mr Footfield, and happy new year to you and to the committee members. The cross-party group on beer and pubs held its first inaugural meeting to prepare for this meeting on 7 December 2021. That was in recognition of the fact that there are now over 4,600 pubs and 120 breweries in Scotland. The industry is an emerging sector and there is presently no committee or cross-party group looking after its interests within this parliament. However, we also know that, as well as being an emerging sector, it is also a sector that is presently at risk as a result of the Covid pandemic and the restrictions that were imposed upon the hospitality sector. The purpose of the CPG is to celebrate, to recognise and to enhance the contribution that the brewing and pub-related hospitality industry plays in Scotland. We hope that the CPG will operate through semi-regular meetings, occasional visits and an annual event, where the best of Scotland's beer and pub sector can be showcased. The CPG will aim to develop constituency-level awareness of the contribution of the beer and pub sector and will aim to develop an awards programme to encourage recognition of local pubs and local breweries. I do believe that that is something that the convener is aware of due to the fact that, in his time as a member of parliament, he nominated my local pub in East Lothian, the Tynside Tavern, one of many excellent pubs in East Lothian and across the east south of Scotland for a local pub award. However, the CPG will also provide a forum to discuss the policies that will impact on the beer and pub sector and that will affect beer drinkers and pub-goers across Scotland. We will also obviously look closely and with importance the issues of responsible drinking, the social impact of alcohol and the public health implications too. We understand that beer and pubs play a huge part in each and every region that we represent socially and economically and they are job and wealth creators and that will also be a core focus of the group. With the committee's permission, I would be the convener of the group. Paul Sweeney would be the vice convener. We have a wide range of prospective members from across all parties and the Secretary would be provided by and supported by the all party parliamentary beer group CAMRA, the campaign for real ale, SEBA, the society of independent brewers and will also be supported by the Scottish beer and pub association. With that, I will hand back to you, Mr Woodfield. Thank you very much for that presentation. I was just going to point out before taking the matter further that I see in stark black and white my name as a member and as you may be aware, I have said that because of the role as convener that I will not be joining or associating with any CPGs to provide a distance for this committee to operate. With that slight unfortunate start, if that could be rectified, I would be grateful. However, my question, and I am very supportive obviously of the pub trade and its importance across Scotland, is in relation to the secretariat and the relationship between the CPG, which sits here in the Scottish Parliament and the all party parliamentary beer group, the APPG, which sits in Westminster. Is it the case that the actual secretariat support and work would be provided by both CAMRA and SEBA rather than the actual APPG itself in Westminster? CAMRA and SEBA, but Paul Hegarty from the all party parliamentary beer group attended as a guest and will be supportive in helping us to establish some of those programmes that have been very successful at Westminster, such as the awards programme and also the possibility of getting a guest ale or a guest beer into the parliamentary estate here at that Hollywood. Thank you very much for that clarification. I do not know whether any of the other committee members have any questions of Craig. I am not seeing anything. Thank you for attending this morning, Craig. The committee will consider whether to approve the application for recognition at agenda item 3. The clerks will inform you of that committee's decision in due course, but I thank you for coming along this morning. The next group that we are going to consider this morning is a proposed CPG on maritime and shipbuilding, and I welcome Paul Sweeney MSP, who is the proposed convener of the proposed group. Good morning, Paul, and happy new year. Would you like to give a short presentation to the committee about the intentions of the CPG? Good morning, convener, and thanks for the invitation to address your committee. The proposed establishment of a cross-party group on maritime and shipbuilding is the first time that this is being proposed in the history of the Scottish Parliament, but it is a vital exercise to be undertaking, because Scotland has a longer coastline than the People's Republic of China, which is over 6,000 miles. For centuries, the maritime and shipbuilding sectors have been critical to the prosperity of the country. As we look to the world's future, particularly with the climate emergency, the opportunity economically and socially that the sector provides for Scotland presents to Scotland is very significant indeed. I thought that it was very timely to consider the setup of this cross-party group. Initially, I engaged opinion informally during the COP26 conference in Glasgow, where we were able to secure the support of 15 colleagues, so 16 members in total, supporting the creation of the cross-party group and also secured the agreement of maritime UK to provide the Secretary of State. I am very pleased at the level of cross-party support of the objectives and intent of the CPG to ensure that we have a focal point in our national Parliament to the industry, trade unions and other stakeholders from across the country to come together and create a sounding board for the progress of the development of this industry in Scotland. We can be more responsive as a Parliament to the whole Government to account and what it is doing to help to promote the sector and to give industry a voice in the Parliament as well and also the workforce within the industry. On all those fronts, it makes for a very good and worthwhile exercise for a cross-party group. There is also a similar cross-party group on shipbuilding and ship repair in the House of Commons and House of Parliament in Westminster, which we hope to also have a degree of collaboration with in developing responses to such as the UK Government's national shipbuilding strategy, which is due to publish a new version in the coming weeks. It is also a very timely exercise to set the CPG up at this moment. Thank you very much, Paul. I am now going to just invite Edward Mountain to come in just to make a comment with regard to your CPG, but I do have a couple of questions for you after that. Edward, can I just... Thank you, convener. I am not going to be on any of the glamorous cross-party groups on things like that. I have agreed to be part of this committee because it is very important. Having agreed to be part of it, it is not appropriate. I ask questions or anything in relation to this, but I just wanted that noted. Thank you, convener. Thank you for clarifying that, Edward, and it is on the record. Paul, the organisations that have expressed interest, in particular Maritime UK, are going to act as the secretariat, but although I suppose relatively short in number compared to some CPGs, it covers a substantial part of the shipbuilding industry here in Scotland. Will there be room for, if I can describe them, maybe smaller players? I am looking. I know that you have got Strathclyde University Department of Naval Architecture, and I am aware of other technical courses that relate to shipbuilding. Presumably, the CPG is open to those sorts of groups to approach as well. Absolutely. That is just a starter for 10, hopefully, and as the CPG becomes more well known, we are more than happy to invite a broader cross-section of participation from across the industry. Maritime UK very kindly, proactively agreed to steward the CPG by preventing a secretariat. We have also had interest from BE Systems, which is the biggest shipbuilding company in Scotland, and also the Institute of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland, which is a long-standing professional body for the industry. The Confederation of Shipbuilding Engineering Unions will also have CMAL, which is the public sector procurement agent for CalMac ferries, as well as academia. That was just a cross-section of interest. We have also had interest subsequently from Malum Marine, which is another SME operating in the shipbuilding engineering sector in Glasgow. It is going at a fair pace, and we are hoping to continue to elicit support as we go forward. Excellent. I suppose that my slightly cheeky question was a slight surprise that there was not a pre-existing CPG for shipbuilding in Scotland. Well, I suppose that the issue is one of capacity. When you take out Government ministers and members are able to participate in CPGs, the number of people available to participate in a given CPG is quite restricted. I have a personal interest in the industry, having previously worked in the sector. I felt that there was a gap in the market for setting it up, and I am very grateful to colleagues for their support. I hope that his first year will be a successful one. Thank you very much, convener, and welcome this morning to yourself, Paul. It is just a quick question with regard to cross-CPG working that could perhaps happen. I am a member of the Recreational Boarding and Marine Tourism CPG, as is Stuart McMillan, who notices on the membership list for this one. It is just to know whether there are plans to ensure that, where we can dovetail that work and together between CPGs that we do that, is that something that you anticipate? Absolutely. Thanks very much for that comment. I think that that is exactly what we really want to achieve. Even just in conversations that we have had in the initial informal meetings, just to consider setting it up, the amount of opportunity that is suddenly presented itself, where companies are saying that they really want to bring everyone's attention to the level of interest in building boats, building ships in Scotland. There is so much work out there to be done. If we tie all those ideas together, we could seriously increase the number of jobs and employment around the sector. Recreational boats, for example, would be more manufacturing around that, more skills, more apprenticeships. That is just one example, fish farming through to lifeboats, through to offshore support vessels to the bigger ferries and cruise ships, etc. That is a huge area of opportunity for us. I think that tying together adjacent CPGs to make sure that we are making the most of that is absolutely crucial. I am very much excited about that opportunity. Thank you. Thank you, Eleanor. Do any of the committee members have a question that they would like to pose? I will take the general silence. Can I thank you for attending, Paul? The committee will consider whether to approve the application for recognition at agenda item 3. The clubs will inform you of the commission's decision thereafter, but can I thank you for attending today? Thanks very much, convener. The next group that we will hear from is a proposed CPG on poverty. I would like to welcome Beatrice Wishart MSP, who is the deputy convener of the proposed group to this meeting. Good morning. I invite you to make an opening statement setting out the ideas behind the CPG. Thank you, convener. Good morning and good morning to committee members. Yes, the cross-party group on poverty aims to act as a forum for exploring the drivers of and the solutions to poverty in Scotland. It would act to connect MSPs with organisations working to tackle poverty, as well as with people living on low incomes across Scotland in order to better inform anti-poverty policymaking and contribute to the ending of poverty in Scotland, something that I think that everybody in this Parliament wants to see. The group intends to explore the drivers of poverty and different experiences of poverty across Scotland, covering issues such as stigma, rurality, race and disability, as well as looking at the particular risk of poverty experienced by certain groups, such as lone parents. We are keen to explore how we can gain greater consensus on the need to tackle poverty, both across political parties and across Scottish society at large. With over a million people in Scotland living in the grip of poverty, we believe that this group is hugely necessary and one that can make a real contribution towards on-going efforts to prevent and reduce poverty in Scotland's communities. Already, we have been hugely encouraged to see the enormous interest in the group's work with the inaugural meeting and a subsequent informal meeting of the group, attracting a large and diverse group of organisations and individuals. Importantly, many of the organisations are smaller community-based organisations who often struggle to have their voices heard in policymaking processes or in the Parliament. We hope that the group would act as a forum for them to help to shape and influence discussions around poverty in Scotland. Subject to the committee's decision, the convener will be Neil Gray and deputy conveners Pam Duncan-Glancy, Jeremy Balfour and myself. The secretary asked for the group to be provided by the Poverty Alliance, Scotland's national anti-poverty network. We believe that this is the first-ever cross-party group on poverty and consider that it is in the public interest for MSPs of all parties alongside expert stakeholders to work together to tackle poverty in Scotland. Thank you very much, Beatrice. Just before we move on, I know that Bob Dorris would like to put something on the record. I should note in the papers that if the group was to get the approval of this committee, I would be a member of the cross-party group. Indeed, I attended the first meeting that Beatrice Wishart spoke about. Clearly, I may have been a bit prejudicial as to whether the group should go forward or not, in a positive sense. I very much hope, and I am sure that it will do, that Ms Wishart will draw on the lived experience of those who have had to endure poverty, not just currently, but over a number of years. Thank you, Bob. Your interest is noted on the record. You have a very substantial list of organisations, and you rightly pointed out that people working in the field are often small, geographically located in one area but doing extremely good work. I assume that, if the proposed CPG goes ahead, the CPG will be open to other third parties joining in bringing their lived experience and, hopefully, solutions to the appalling problem of poverty across Scotland? Absolutely. If more people want to be involved, the door is open. It all helps everybody's lived experience and groups that are working. Smaller groups in communities are an issue that affects everybody across Scotland, so that would be absolutely essential. Excellent. Thank you for that. Do any of the other committee members have any questions that they would like to raise? No, that is fine. Thank you for attending this morning, Beatrice. The committee will consider whether to approve the application for recognition at agenda item 3. The clerks will inform you of the committee's decision thereafter. I thank you for coming on this morning. The final group that we will consider today is the proposed CPG on sustainable transport, and I would like to invite Graham Simpson, MSP, who is the proposed convener of the proposed group to this meeting. Good morning, Graham. Would you like to make an opening statement about the intentions of the CPG, please? Thanks very much, convener. It is a pleasure to join you this morning. Before I get into my pitch for the CPG, can I just say how much I enjoyed the committee's debate recently in the chamber? I thought that it was excellent, and I appreciated your kind comments afterwards, convener. During that debate, I mentioned that I am being really cheeky here, but it is to inform the committee. I mentioned that I have a proposed member's bill coming up. The consultation for that will go live next Thursday, and I will send that to the committee. Having that out the way, if I can talk about the CPG on sustainable transport, the background to this, convener, is that, in the last session, we had CPGs, so there was one on cycling, walking and buses, and there was a separate CPG on rail. Those of us who were members of one or both got together and decided that it would make sense to merge those two and call it a cross-party group on sustainable transport. It would appear that Mr Simpson's video feed has frozen, and I do not know whether we are going to be able to return to it. I will give him a moment to think from looking at the tendence that we may well have lost, Mr Simpson, and he has dropped offline. Unfortunately, the travails of IT is just to give more evidence to our committee for later discussions. For the record, I thank Mr Simpson for his comments about our debate and the discussions that we had afterwards. In eager anticipation, I look forward to his bill winging its way to us. I am not getting any indication that Mr Simpson is going to be able to rejoin us. What I intend to do is to move on to a gender item 3, which is the formal part of approving the three cross-party groups that we have heard from this morning, on beer and pubs, maritime and ship building and poverty. Do any of the members of the committee have comments or views to express before I formally put the proposal to the committee? Can I formally propose that the three CPGs are recorded recognition? That is the cross-party group on beer and pubs, maritime and ship building and poverty. Are we in agreement? Excellent. Thank you. I would now like to formally suspend the meeting to allow for a changeover of witnesses. Can I welcome viewers and audience back? We are now at agenda item 4 to deal with some subordinate legislation. We are going to hear evidence on the Scottish Local Government's elections amendment order 2022. Joining us today are George Adam, Minister for Parliamentary Business and his officials, Lackland Hall and Ian Hockenhull. Can I welcome you all to the committee this morning? I invite you to make a short opening statement. Good morning and I take this opportunity to wish you all a happy new year. I hope that you had a restful and enjoyable festive period. I thank the committee for giving me this opportunity to discuss the proposed changes to the procedures for running local government elections in Scotland. During the productive session on 28 October last year, we had a discussion about a number of other SSIs. Committee members raised a matter of monitoring of election expenses and the guidance that is available to candidates on this issue. Following that session, I reflected on these points with my officials, helped fuller discussions with the Electoral Commission and as a result I'm now proposing the provisions in this order, setting out a statutory role for the commission in producing and policing guidance in this area. I would like to make it clear that the commission already produces guidance on candidates expenditure but this has carried out on a non-statutory informal basis. The commission is welcome to propose to make its role statutory. This move would also bring arrangements in line with those from the Scottish Parliament elections. Overall, I consider these changes will provide greater clarity and oversight of electoral spending. The order will bring forward the date when poll cars can be issued to electors. This change has been made specifically at the request of the convener of the Electoral Management Board for Scotland. I would not normally have made this change at this relatively late stage but the convener has requested it and the change is to the benefit of the voter so I've decided to bring forward this amendment. These changes are, of course, relatively minor, albeit important and will clearly not have a significant effect on candidates, electoral administrators or others in relation to preparing the elections in May. I therefore do not consider the gold principle as relevant in this case and the Electoral Commission has indicated its agreement on that assessment. I hope that you will agree with the provisions that are positive changes that will benefit voters, candidates and administrators and that you will therefore give your support to the order. Once again, I am happily open to any questions that you may have. Thank you minister for that. Just before we come to the questions, I'm going to invite Eleanor to come in on something that she would like to put on the record. Thank you very much convener, and it's just during the consideration of this item to refer to my register of interests that I am Stella Sutton councillor at Eastershire Council. I'm very grateful for that Eleanor and my apologies for not doing it before inviting the minister to present his opening statement. Minister, if I can just hone in on a couple of points, which it may be helpful to get some clarification on, what do you think that the implications are going to be for the transparency of election expenses with regard to local government elections as a result of those proposed changes? I thank you for that convener. I don't believe there will be any impacts. Candidates, expenses, returns and declarations are already available for public inspection for two years following the receipt by the returning officer, and copies can be requested on payment of a fee. The new requirement for returning officers, convener, to send copies of candidates' expenses, returns and declarations to the electoral commission if requested, allows for the commission to request copies without payment of a fee. Thank you for that. I suppose that, just as well, we should formally put on the record that the intention, if this amendment order is agreed to, that it will affect any polling on or after 5 May, which would include the forthcoming local elections, and hence your evidence with regard to the Gould principle of it not affecting it. I've got a question with regard to the policy note that you delivered with regard to paragraph 10. I'm fully aware that the answer to this may not rest with you, Minister, but hopefully it will rest with those who are also here today, which is with regard to the duties of the commission with respect to compliance. I understand when the act came in that the extensions that are being sought in this were specifically excluded from the commissioners monitoring and compliance role. I was just wondering whether you or indeed those around you are aware of why that was specifically excluded at the time? Well, I'll probably ask Ian to give you a more detailed answer than myself and we can take it from there. That's very helpful. Ian. Good morning. Essentially, the preparer act is a UK piece of legislation, and at the time, Scottish Parliament elections were within the control of the UK Government. The change in that preparer provision was made in relation to UK elections and Scottish Parliament elections, but Scottish local government elections were devolved, so it would have required Scottish legislation to make the same change. I'm not sure why no-one has made this change until now. It is probably a reflection of the point that the minister has made that in practice the commission is fulfilling this role already. This is formalising a role that they've been performing since that date. There probably isn't a great pressing need for the commission. We're keen for the role to be made formal in this instrument, so we've responded to that. That's very helpful, Ian. Ironically, convener, it's been a conversation that I've had with officials as well when we were asking the questions because my question was, why hasn't it been done before now? It just appears to be yet another one of the quirks of the local government elections, which we've already experienced in the previous session as well. That was my understanding in reading through the legislative consent at the time. It's nice to be able, after some 22 years, to get this on a more formal statutory setting if it's agreed. That's very helpful. My other question relates to a statement that there are no cost implications in respect of that. Does that extend, as far as the monitoring role, that will become a statutory requirement for the Electoral Commission as well? On discussions that we've had with the Electoral Commission, they've indicated that, since they've already carried out this role on an informal basis, they do not anticipate that any additional expenditure will be incurred. The hope will be that, as they go down this more formal route, it will be business as usual for them. The whole process is just to enable this to be part of the formal process, instead of them being like almost the Electoral Commission being like an afterthought, which is not a place where we want to be. It's just to minimally formalise the whole process. It also helps in that movement away from, in essence, the government having to ask the Electoral Commission to do that, to put it on a statutory footing for the Electoral Commission to be able to pursue it. Indeed, and it also gives us the opportunity, as far as transparency and everything else, that it just looks and feels a lot better. I'm grateful for that. I am aware that a number of committee members have some questions about the polling card situation. Edward, if I could pass over to you. Thank you, convener, and George, I welcome the fact that you bring these issues back to the committee and it's as a result of listening to the committee's earlier evidence session. I would remind you gently that I raise the issue off the level of expenses and hope that you will bring that forward at another committee meeting in the future just telling them the issue of poll cards. Is this another quirk that just seems to have slipped past the thing? It seems to make logical sense to bring it into line with Scottish parliamentary elections. Mr Mountain is probably correct. It is probably another one of those quirks. When we look at the local government elections, they are effectively exactly what they say in the tin. Local government elections are run by the local authorities in each separate of all 32 local authority areas. They are, by the essence, a local election. Many of the changes in this one in particular as well as another one, we have taken another look at it and we have come back to the conclusion of saying that there is a better way of working and that does a better way. Incidentally, I am always happy to listen to you, Mr Mountain, on any of the ideas that you have. We may not agree all the time but I think that over the years you and I have managed to develop a reasonably good friendship and be able to work with one another. At the risk of damaging your political career, I think that this is a good idea to bring polling cards forward. There is a level of agreement. Let us hope that we can reach one on election expenses for candidates. Thank you, convener. Very grateful. Do any other members have any questions relating to the polling cards before I invite Eleanor, who has a point that she would like clarified? Eleanor, can I pass over to you, please? Thank you, convener, and good morning, minister. Given the on-going Covid-19 pandemic, are there any plans in place to bring forward the postal voter deadline at the local government elections, as was the case with the Scottish Parliament elections in 2021, bearing in mind that this might affect voter ability to register for an absent vote? So, the earlier that we have this, decided the better? Yes. Thank you, Ms Whitham, for that question. In answer to probably the exceptional circumstances of the world that we currently live in and obviously what happened in the 2021 election, we are driven by the need to ensure adequate time for administrators to process a potential search of postal votes due to the pandemic. Given the increase of postal voters last May, we do not anticipate a similar increase this year, as many who want to vote by postal now already have that in place. I know myself, I have been voted by postal since 2007. Mainly, that was a quirk of my being so busy in my own working life, but I won an election that year. Not being someone who is superstitious, I decided to just remain a postal voter, been winning elections ever since. So, we do not anticipate there to be the same issue. It will still be the people that are already down as postal voters, but bringing forward the deadline would reduce the amount of time for people to apply for a postal vote. So, in the whole, and the way I can answer your question is, we do not anticipate just to summarise it to be any more than last year, but we already have a solid group of individuals who have requested that that is the way that we wish to vote. Thank you very much. Thank you, Eleanor. If I just pursue that point, Minister, because I am aware that there was a significant rise in respective postal votes in the Holyrood election, but I am also aware that there are a number of people who are unclear themselves as to whether or not they registered just for one election or for on-going postal votes. Indeed, I have spoken to members of the public who have been slightly caught out with that over a by-election that I am aware of. Has any analysis been done in relation to the figures of people who signed up for just the Holyrood election rather than on-going postal votes for up to the years that are required? As you will be aware, convener, the actual registration to vote will be as a rolling poll, and we will keep updating our information all the time. From my own perspective and everyone else's perspective, it will say that you are a postal voter and you do, you wish to retain that, and it is up to each individual to ensure that that happens. On the whole, I do not believe, but that is just me saying from here. I will ask Ian to give you some solid facts on that. We have asked electoral registration officers if they could provide us with some updated figures on the levels of postal voting. The drive last year got postal voting registration up to around about 23 per cent of the population. As you have said, some people choose to only register a postal vote for a one-off occurrence, so we would anticipate a bit of drop-off because of that. Hopefully, most people have gone for a continuing one, but we do not know the exact splits. We have asked for that data to see what the current level is. I think that going back to the initial question, that substantial increase that was achieved last year, the concern was that electoral registration officers would not have enough time to process all of those additional applications, which is why we modified the deadline. Speaking to the electoral registration officers, we are not anticipating as big a surge this year because of the work that was done last year, not even though that is the point that all of those requests were for continuing postal voting. That is why we are not suggesting a change to the deadline because we are not. I am grateful. Bob, you wanted to come in. Thank you, convener. Just a very brief question inspired by your own line of questioning. Of course, the minister said that election officers in each local authority area will remind individuals, first of all, in relation to making sure that their voter registration is still valid at the address that they stay at, but also to remind them that they have a postal vote and they wish to retain that. I am just wondering whether there is a uniform approach to that across Scotland. I know that there is an electoral management board for Scotland for each election, but I am just wondering whether there are 32 ways that happens in Scotland per local authority, or whether there is a more standardised approach that is expected to answer your fingertips, minister, but it is just in case the committee works in the future to look at the management of postal votes across Scotland. I am not saying that we will, but I just thought that the convener's question was an interesting one. Actually, it is a very good question, Mr Doris, and I would be interested in answering myself. I would assume that it is a standardised approach through all 32 authorities, but I might be asking him to give us some further information on that. The several ER rows cover more than one local authority, so I am trying to remember. I am desperate to try to remember exactly how many electoral registration officers there are. I think that it is around 12 or 16, but I think that his colleague may be about to tell me, but I cannot remember exactly the number. Yet, I think that they effectively do follow very similar approaches. They have a variety of systems. There are at least two systems, probably three systems that are used, but I think that they follow the same processes that are guided by the electoral management board. I am grateful for that. One final question, I suppose, is more to make sure that it is on the record. Obviously, that was a shortened period because of the urgency and respect of the legislation. With regard to the consultations that took place, there were a relatively small number of groups that were consulted. In the policy document, you said that it was supportive. Was there any disagreement in that consultation with regard to the early issuing of polling cards? Well, just so that I can equally get it on the record, the preferred changes were shared with the Electoral Commission and the Electoral Management Board for Scotland, the Association of Electoral Administrators, the Electoral Registration Committee of the Scottish Assessors Association, the Society of Local Authority Lawyers and Administrators in Scotland, the Society of Local Authority Chief Executives and Senior Managers, COSLA itself, political parties represented in the Scottish Parliament and community groups representing protected characteristics. It is also probably worth stressing that the change was specifically requested by the convener of the Electoral Management Board itself. On the whole, I do not believe that there was something that was actually wanted and it was a way forward. The Electoral Management Board actually asked us to do it, approached us and asked us to do it. When we looked at it, the discussion that we are having at the moment, we actually looked and said, this makes sense to actually do this. We decided to progress with this. Would this be the normal way that I would like to go about business? Probably not. Again, I do not believe that it makes any difference in the election for candidates and administrators. Also, it makes sense, but I will bring Ian in to say if there was anyone in the consultation that might have come up with anything that might have been construed as a negative. That would be helpful. Ian? No, I do not think so. Essentially, we think that these changes only really affect the Electoral Commission and the Electoral Management Board, both of which actively requested the changes. We do not think that the impact on anyone else should be notable. A colleague has highlighted to me that it is 15 electoral registration officers, by the way. Sorry, I am inflating more numbers. Thank you for putting that on the record. Do any other members of the committee have any questions? No response, so I am thankful for that. Thank you, minister, and your officials, as ever, for your evidence today. We will now move to agenda item 5 for which the minister will remain present. On agenda item 5, I would now like to invite the minister to move and speak to motion S6M-02576, that the Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee recommends that the Scottish Local Government Elections Amendment Order 2022 be approved. Minister? Moved formally, convener. Very grateful. Would any committee member like to speak to the motion? Minister, would you like to make any closing remarks? Quite happy at this point, not to, convener? I am grateful. The question is that motion S6M-02576 be agreed. Are we all agreed? I believe that we have agreement for that. The motion is agreed to. Can I confirm that the members are content for me to sign off the committee's report to the Parliament on this instrument? The agreement for that. Thank you, minister, and to your officials for attending this morning. Thank you. Thank you again, if you know. I will now close the public part of this meeting and move into private.


This is a continuation of our lecture on descriptive statistics. Welcome to the lecture. Throughout this course, you'll find references to analyzing data with spreadsheets. The specific tool we're currently using is Microsoft Excel. Why do we care? Well, for one thing, this is what people do in the real world. You don't take a bunch of numbers and analyzing them using pencil and paper and calculators, and you need to know how to work with your data. Even more importantly, if you are an undergraduate student and that's who this course is aimed at, you need such a skill on your resume. You need to be able to tell a potential employer that you are capable of doing work in spreadsheets with Microsoft Excel. That's currently the standard. There are quite a number of our students from both of us who got jobs, who got internships in whatever field didn't even matter, mainly because they had this skill on their resume. So it's important for you to know it for your own career development and also for the content of this course for the subject material of the course. It happens that on our handouts page on the course website, we have very, very simple step-by-step instructions to help you get started using Excel and to help you with the different types of analyses. How do I do regression? How do I do descriptives? How do I get a scatter plot? We have those instructions in print form. We have many of them in video tutorials. And I know you know, I don't have to tell you, you can go on YouTube and find all kinds of tutorials to help you use various intro and advanced features of this software tool. Let's learn how to use Excel, a very powerful tool for statistics. We have 17 student scores on a national calculus exam. Notice a couple got a zero, and the highest grade looks like a 95. We have to open up MS Excel. You go to data analysis, look for analysis tools, and then you look for descriptive statistics. Now if you don't see the data analysis there, that means you have to use the add-in feature, and you can look it up, or we have explanations all over the place, how to put in the add-in feature so that you can do descriptive statistics. Once you're in descriptive statistics, make sure to check the summary statistics box. You need to check that box. Okay, enter your data, and now you run it, and you'll get the output on the next slide. You'll see what it looks like. Okay, now we see the output using MS Excel. Notice you get the mean. By the way, you get the mean the hard way, because it gives you the sum, the sum of the data set, 662. Always look at the count to make sure that you get all 17, in this case n was 17. I've seen students, they type in 20 numbers, and the count is 6. They don't notice, you've got to look. If you do 662 over 17, you'll get that mean of 38.94, etc. The standard error we're going to do a little later in the course, so you don't have to worry about it at this point. It's called the standard error of the mean. It's used in inference. There it is, 30. The mode is 0. Okay, and then we have the standard deviation. Now that's the sample standard deviation. There's no room to write the whole thing out. Bear in mind this is the sample standard deviation, so they divided by n minus 1. So your standard deviation is 33.44. The variance is square that, you can get the sample variance. Here it says sample variance, and it's 1118.43. The ketosis is never used by us in this course, so ignore it. It's a measure of peakedness, skewness, we know what that is. If it's a number very close to 0, then you have symmetric data. Here this seems to be a bit of a positive skew, and that's what happens when the mean and the median are not the same. There's a positive skew. Now we look at the range, the range is the highest value minus the lowest value, and it gives you the minimum, the maximum. You should always look at that to see if that was the actual minimum and maximum. Okay, well the highest value is 95, the lowest is 0, and the range of course is 95 minus 0 or 95. And that's basically how you look at the output. It gives you everything in one shot, it's quick, and you should learn how to use this tool. It's very powerful. What else can we do with a data set to make it interesting and to learn something about it? We can take our numerical data that has a particular sample mean and a particular standard deviation and transform it into a new set of data that's called standardized data. And we denote it as Z, the original data we might call X, and the new set of data has a mean of 0 and a standard deviation of 1. When you standardize data, you know for sure what the mean and standard deviation are. With your original data, they could be anything. In addition, this transformed data set will not have units. If your original data was in dollars or if your original data was in hours, the standardized data are their pure numbers, no units. Take a look at the formula and you'll see why. We take our X's, those are on the right, and we transform them into Z's. The numerator X minus X bar and the denominator is S, the standard deviation. So for every value of X, we transform it into a Z by taking the deviation around the mean X minus X bar and dividing it by S, the standard deviation. That ensures that your standardized data will have a mean of 0 and a standard deviation of 1. You can see how the units cancel because the X and the X bar and the S, they're all in the same units, dollars, dollars, dollars, hours, hours, hours, and so the units cancel. What can we do with this? We'll see pretty soon when we look at an example. But since the transformed data has a mean of 0, any original score that's below the mean will now be negative. It'll be below 0. Anybody who scored, let's say just as an example, exam scores, if you took an exam and your exam was exactly at the mean, your transformed data, the standardized data will show a score of 0. Any score that's above the mean will end up being positive in the standardized data. Let's look at some examples of standardizing data, turning the data into Z scores. Look at the first one, example one. Very simple data, 0, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 6 data values. We have a mean of 5, a standard deviation of 3.74. So for each X value, we can convert it into a Z with the simple transformation of X minus X bar divided by S. And you get the transformed data, the Z scores. If you were to add those up and divide by 6, you know what you will get, right? You'll get a 0 because the mean of the standardized data is 0. And the standard deviation, if you figured that out, would be a 1. Now let's take a look at example 2. Example 2 is exam scores which are usually standardized. When you get a report, if you take a standardized exam like the SAT or the GRE and you get a report, you'll get your standardized score.  It's nice to know what everything means, right? So look at the original data that's all the way to the left. You can imagine this on a timeline from left to right. The first two columns are the original data, first X and then Z, which was the transformation of the original data. X had a mean of 75.57, S, standard deviation of the data set was 23.75. And you have all those Z values. That arrow is highlighting the most unusual Z value, which was negative 2.29, very, very far below the mean. Is that an outlier? Is it a real value? Is it something important that maybe educators should make note of? It's also very likely and very possible that maybe it was a data entry error. There's that seven. Let's take a look and find the seven that caused this problem. Maybe it was really a 97. So moving along the timeline from left to right, we see that that seven was changed to a 97, which changed everything. The mean of this data set, these X's, is 79.86. The standard deviation is 18.24. And you see the Z values. Now, which is the most extreme Z value, negative 3.12, which corresponds to a value of 23. So once we get rid of the seven, the 23 was the next lowest data value. How do we pick it up? Because we found the unusual Z value. That's what standardization does for you. And then we took a look and did this again in a third iteration. But I think by now you will probably get the idea. Let's continue with our discussion of standardizing data or some kind of what we can call the Z scores. Generally, you're looking for an unusual Z score because that very often indicates something to look out for. Why? It could be, as was mentioned, a data entry error. You see a Z score of plus five or more than that, or less than nine is five. That's incredibly unusual. Generally, when data is standardized, about 95.5% of the data should be Z scores between plus two and minus two. Most of the data should be within two standard deviations about the mean, again, if the data is normally distributed. Here are some values and you'll see this on the Z table directly tied to the Z scores. 95% of the data will be between the values of plus 1.96 and minus 1.96. 99.7% of the data will fall between plus three and minus three. 99.99% of the data will fall between plus four and minus four. That's actually one way of knowing where the data falls in normal distribution. You determine the Z scores and you see how many of them are, let's say, between plus 1.96 and minus 1.96. Let's say data is not normally distributed. In fact, it's badly skewed. Remember, normal distribution means symmetric. Let's say it's badly skewed. It's not normal. We still know something called Chebyshev's theorem that 75% of your data should be between plus two and minus two standard deviations about the mean. Standard deviations give you an indication where your data should be roughly. Worst case scenario, 75% of your data should be within two standard deviations. If the data is a normally distributed data set, then 95.5% will be between plus two and minus two. And we'll learn more about normally distributed data throughout the course. Okay. How do we summarize data that comes to us in pairs, two variables? Well, it depends on the variables. If you're from our very first lecture, you do different things with data that's nominal and different things with data that's quantitative. And so nominal and categorical are the same. What do we do with categorical data? Well, we can draw pretty pictures. We can do some kind of graphical stuff, which we're not going to look at in this course. And we can use contingency tables, which we will look at and which are important. We're going to be carrying contingency tables forward into another topic as you'll see. But for now, we can use contingency tables for two variables that are both nominal or categorical. We can get frequencies. We can get percentages, but that's about it. I guess we could look at it and get the modes, of course. But in terms of the two variables working together, two-way frequencies and two-way percentages. What can we do with numerical data? Basically, if we have two variables coming to us in pairs and they're numerical, we're looking for some kind of relationship. We're looking to see how they relate to each other. You can do that better with quantitative data than you can with categorical data. We can draw a plot of the data where every point on the plot represents a pair of data, call 1x, call 1y. We can do correlation, which we will do later in the semester. Look at the relationship between the two variables. We can draw a line regression and analyze that line. We'll learn that more in-depth later in this course. Let's look at a contingency table. We're looking at two categorical variables. Remember, that's nominal data. We display it in a contingency table. Suppose there's some kind of election coming up and we ask people to identify by party. Assuming there are very few in any other categories, we just have to deal with Republicans and Democrats. Same with gender. As you know, there's more than male-female, but suppose we're just so few so we couldn't analyze it. We have the columns for male-female, the Republican candidate, and then we have Democrat candidate. Notice the total sample size is 1,000. Let's see what happens. There are 400 men who plan on voting in our sample. 250 said they're going for the Republican, 150 said the Democrat. Among the 600 females in the sample, 250 said they're going for the Republican, and 350 said they're going for the Democrat. If you want to turn this into a percentage table, the table on the right, which is actually helpful, divide all the numbers by 1,000. That's n, the sample size. There are 1,000 people divide everything by 1,000. 250 over 1,000, you get 25%. 150 over 1,015%. You can see that 40% of the sample is male, 60% were female. Notice it adds up to 100%, 1,000 hours, 100%. Looking at these percentages, you can actually determine whether there's a relationship between gender and whether they vote Republican or Democrat. What do we do with two quantitative variables? Remember, these variables come to us in pairs. We graph them and we look at the graph and see if we can come up with any pattern. Here we have 10 students and I asked them, I gave them a test, so I have their exam scores. And I asked them to write down what their height in inches is. So for every one of my 10 students, I have an exam score and I have a height. And you know why? Because I have a theory. And I'm testing my theory here. The theory is that the shorter you are, the better you will do on a test. And anyone who knows me knows I might be a little bit self-interested here, but we won't go into that. And I have something to base it on, right? Because if you're tall, and I feel bad for all those tall people, the oxygen has to get all the way up to your brain. This can't be helpful. I have my theory and I decide to test the theory by collecting data. And I plot the data. And I get the plot that you see. It's called a scatter plot. I did it with Excel. And it's kind of hard to come up with any relationship here, isn't it? What I would like to see is maybe that for the taller people, they should be associated with a lower exam score. No, basically it's not working out. So I'm going to have to do something else. We can also get metrics here, but we're not really going to study these until we do the lectures on correlation and regression. However, it doesn't hurt for you to see it. And there's a correlation coefficient listed of 0.12. The square of that, which is also meaningful, is 0.01. And basically what those numbers, those metrics say to us, unfortunately for my theory, is that they say no relationship. This is example two. We're going to look at the scatter plot. And notice with X is hours studied weekly. Somebody actually studies 15 hours a week. And we have somebody who only spends an hour and a half studying. And we're also looking at the high school averages, which seem to be going from around the 53 all the way up to a 99. So we plot this. We have basically two measurements for each subject. How much they study per week? It's an average. And we know what their high school average was. Look at the scatter plot. And it kind of seems linear. Obviously the points are not all on a line. But one look at this and I'd say, wow, this is a linear with a positive slope, which basically indicates the more you study the higher your high school average. And you can see that. Look at the last point all the way to the right. That represents the point. You can see it's between 14 and 16. That's the 15. That's the person who spent 15 hours studying. And they're almost not quite touching the 100 mark because they had a 99 average. So these points are each point represents an XY combination. And if you when we learn correlation, the correlation actually is going to be significant. And it's a positive 0.7843. We didn't learn how to test this yet for significance. It will be significant showing there's a positive relationship between our studied and high school average, which means you can tell people that generally the more you study, the better you'll do in high school. And I think the same would be true of college. Example three of a scatter plot. We're looking at high school average, same as before. But now we're looking at hours. How much you sleep per day? And we notice we have somebody there sleeping. We're looking at 17 students and somebody sleeps seven 14 hours a day. But of course, he's including sleeping during class. Okay. So if somebody is only sleeping six hours, we want to know is there a relationship to how much time you spend sleeping and your high school average. Again, we have 17 people that we have 17 points on the graph. And through the line through it using Excel, you'll learn how to do that. There's instructions on how to use Excel to get a scatter plot. And it looks very linear, but it looks like it has a negative slope. Right. Look at it carefully. You can see the last point. You can see the point where it's 14. That's all the way to the right. That 14 is the person who had a 50 average. You can see that point. So you see each point represents a pair of observations. And clearly it looks like a negative relationship. That's a negative slope. We're looking at. And again, as you see some points, I fell on the line, most of not on the line, but the line does the best job. It's a regression line. It's the best. No line. There's a better job going through these points. And we'll learn how we get this line and notice the correlation coefficient. It's negative to show negative slope negative point nine one six. That's going to turn out to be significant when you learn about significance tests. And basically we conclude people who sleep a lot are not going to do so well in high school.   And you'll find a lot of problems in the notes and homework assignments. The more you do, the better you'll get at this. And as we keep telling you, this is an important course. We're not indoctrinating you with teaching how to use data. You can come to the right conclusions.


Hey guys, welcome back to my YouTube channel. This is Daniel Rosel here. For today's video, it's going to be a super quick one for my living in Israel playlist and tended to help new karmarists or long karmarists to be successful in life in Israel. So if you're making a domestic bank transfer in Israel or transferring to an account in Israel, you will commonly be asked or you will actually pretty much always be asked for something called the bank code. In Hebrew, it's code habank like I put up on the screen. And there's a few online resources that will help you to find these. You can firstly just type into Google code habank and you'll find actually a bunch of different resources from different websites. So I'm not going to link to the one I've used here because, you know, in the internet, sometimes things disappear. But this link, for instance, says the numbers of the banks in Israel. So basically when you're transferring to an account in Israel, you have the code habank. And I just jumped down the line here. You also have mispar sniff. You have the branch number. That's what mispar sniff means. And you have the mispar hash bone. And commonly it's done like this. So let's say your branch number is 123. And your account number is 123456. So you'll commonly see on letterheaded transfer documentation 123 hyphen 123456. And if your bank number is let's say one, then sometimes you'll see it appearing like this, one hyphen 123 hyphen 123456. So that's just a common kind of format used in Israel. Firstly, the bank number, then the sniff identifier, that's a three-digit number usually for the branch. And finally, your bank account number. Now I'll see the actual numbers of the banks in Israel. All these lookups should give you the same information. And I hope you can see this, but you can see Leomid is Khoda Bank 10. Bank of Holim is 12. Mizrachi Tafakhot is 20. This is actually a number ordered according to the large size of the bank, if I'm not mistaken, because I know that Mizrachi Tafakhot is the third biggest bank in Israel. And Leomid is the first, I think. Discount's 11. Merkantil is 17. Now we're getting to the smaller ones. Bank Merkantil Discount is 68. Ben Leomid is 31. Masad is 46. Otorachayal is 14. Look how many banks are in Israel. You bank. Bank of Ben Leomid is 26. There's two Bank of Ben Leomid. I'm not sure. Let's not get into the whole murky world of how many banks there are in Israel. 52. Bank Igud, which I think has been subsumed into Mizrachi Tafakhot, was 13. Bank Yahav is 4. Bank Ador is 9. Bank Yerushalayim, another one of the small banks, is 54. This is an interesting one. 1-0, the digital bank. It's the first fully digital or online Israeli bank. That is 18. City Bank 22. HSBC, which is used by some overseas financial services in Israel, like when you fund Interactive Brokers accounts, it's through City Bank, sorry, 22. These are the kinds of clients often you'll find in these banks. HSBC, 23. State Bank of India, interesting, 39. Bank Leomid, 34. Bank of Jordan, 37. PCB, 38. Jordan Ahli Bank, 43. Arab Bank, so these are ones used in the Palestinian territories, Palestinian investing banks, so the list goes on and on and on. Finally Bank Israel, which is Israel's central bank, has assigned its bank code of 99, but really the common ones you're going to be using and encountering are probably at the top of this list. Leomid, 10, Apolim, 12, Mizrachi Tafakhot, 20, etc. I will put a link to this page in the description, but if you have trouble finding this, just search Google for Kudai Bank or Mizparai Bank and you'll find your bank number and again this is required typically when you are making transfers, domestic transfers within Israel and sometimes even overseas financial providers that are used to depositing funds in Israeli accounts will have baked into their systems a field for the bank number to assist with the smooth and orderly transfer of money into and out of and between accounts in Israel. Hope this video is useful, thank you guys for watching. More videos from me are coming soon.


Hello and welcome to the session. In this session we will discuss a question which says that solve 2x square minus 11x is greater than or equal to 6 and we will recall it. Now let us start with the solution of the given question. Now here we want to solve this quadratic inequality that is 2x square minus 11x is greater than or equal to 6. Now to find its solution we follow the three steps. In step one we write its related equation that is 2x square minus 11x is equal to 6. Now in second step solve this quadratic equation. For critical value now we have the quadratic equation 2x square minus 11x is equal to 6. Now subtracting 6 from both sides of this equation we have 2x square minus 11x minus 6 is equal to 6 minus 6. This implies 2x square minus 11x minus 6 is equal to 0. Now let us factorize this quadratic equation by splitting the middle term. So this implies 2x square minus 12x plus x minus 6 is equal to 0. This further implies now from these two terms taking 2x common it will be 2x into x minus 6 is equal to 0. And from these two terms taking 1 common it will be plus 1 into x minus 6 is equal to 0. This implies x minus x the whole into 2x plus 1 the whole is equal to 0. Now either x minus 6 is equal to 0 or 2x plus 1 is equal to 0. So we have x is equal to switch or x is equal to minus 1 upon 2. Now we have got the critical values of x and let us start with third step. Now in the third step we will plot these critical values on the number line. Now we have got the critical values as 6 and minus 1 by 2. So here on this number line we have plotted the points minus 1 by 2 and 6. Now since in the given inequality we have the sign of greater than equal to. So here we have put dark circles to represent the points minus 1 by 2 and 6 which shows that we have also included the points minus 1 by 2 and 6. Now the points x is equal to minus 1 by 2 and x is equal to 6 divide the number line in three parts. In first part we have the interval x is less than minus 1 by 2 that is this yellow shaded portion. In the second part we have the interval minus 1 by 2 is less than x is less than 6 that is this green shaded portion. And in the third part we have the interval x is greater than 6 that is this pink shaded portion. Now we check for each interval which satisfies the given inequality. Now the given inequality is 2x square minus 11x is greater than equal to 6. Now subtract 6 from both sides so we have 2x square minus 11x minus 6 is greater than equal to 6 minus 6. Which implies 2x square minus 11x minus 6 is greater than equal to 0. First of all let us consider this interval that is the interval x is less than minus 1 by 2. And we can write this interval as open interval minus infinity to minus 1 by 2. Now let us take every point in this interval. So let us take x is equal to minus 1 that lies in this given interval. Now let us put this value in this inequality. So we have 2 into minus 1 whole square minus 11 into minus 1 minus 6 is greater than equal to 0. This implies now minus 1 whole square is 1 and 2 into 1 is 2 minus 11 into minus 1 is plus 11 minus 6 is greater than equal to 0. Now this implies now 11 plus 2 is 13 and 13 minus 6 is 7. So 7 is greater than equal to 0. This is true thus this interval the solution such of the given inequality. Now let us consider the second interval that is minus 1 by 2 is less than x is less than 6. Open interval minus 1 by 2 to 6. Now let us take every value lying in this interval. So let us take x is equal to 0 that lies in this interval. Now put x is equal to 0 in the given inequality. So we have 2 into 0 square minus 11 into 0 minus 6 is greater than equal to 0. Which implies now 2 into 0 will be 0 minus 11 into 0 is again 0 minus 6 is greater than equal to 0. Which implies minus 6 is greater than equal to 0 which is false as minus 6 is less than 0. Thus this interval is not the solution such of the given inequality. Now let us consider this interval that is x is greater than 6. Or we can write this interval as open interval 6 to infinity. Now let us take any value lying in this interval. So let us take x is equal to 7. Now put x is equal to 7 in the given inequality. So we have 2 into 7 square minus 11 into 7 minus 6 is greater than equal to 0. Now this implies now 7 square is 49 and 49 into 2 is 98 minus 11 into 7 is 77 minus 6 is greater than equal to 0. Which implies 98 minus 83 is greater than equal to 0 which further implies 15 is greater than equal to 0. Which is true thus this interval is the solution such of the given inequality. Thus we have solution set of the given inequality as x is less than minus 1 by 2 and x is greater than 6. Now we have the solution set as x is less than minus 1 by 2 plus greater than 6. So its solution will be union these two intervals now is 1 by 2 and x is equal to 6. Also satisfy the given inequality because we have greater than equal to sign. So this is the solution of the given inequality and here we have represented it on this number line. Thus the solution set of the given inequality is given interval minus infinity to minus 1 by 2 union 7 plus interval 6 to infinity. And this is the required answer of the given question. So this completes our session. Hope you all have enjoyed the session.


There's build-up in this. There's actual build-up. Oh That's a hot mug guys. Hey guys, this is my review for episode 8 of supernatural season 15 and oh my god We have build-up directed once again by Richard Spite jr. Otherwise known as the trickster or Gabriel This actually is a decently put-together episode.  My god. There is some Dumb stuff too But this is a great build-up to which I thought was the mid-season finale But I'm assuming the next one is going to be the mid-season finale This episode has the brothers trying to find Michael they go down to hell And they see that Rowena is the queen of hell which actually makes a lot of sense we find out the very very obvious thing that Michael escaped and What is actually very well done is we see what has happened to Adam and Michael After the ten years of them being in hell instead of going crazy They just made a pact to help each other survive and they're more so for each other where rather than Michael's obedience to God There's a great conversation at this diner where Adam is having a conversation with Michael And I loved how they did this they use this twice in the episode and the means of him talking with himself But not himself actually does a great means of building these two characters and it's so far down a fuck done Better than it was with alternate universe Michael which was a horribly written aspect of this show But there is some stupid stuff in this episode mainly there's this random woman character who's talking to Eileen Which I'm sorry, but I don't remember this woman at all And I also find it odd how this woman's like hey Eileen you've been dead for three years But for some reason I totally confined you on social media And I know your cell phone number of a woman who's been dead for three years this is a really badly put together part of the episode and The twist that happens with it's kind of like maybe groan, but at least it again is a cliffhanger There's some building here God forbid They also brought down a tello bag because they're trying to think of a way to use a demon tablet to shut God away Which I guess isn't the worst idea. They're just rehashing season 10 or no wait season 8 correct, then God is obviously able to take control of Donatello because He's a prophet of the Lord And then he gives them a warning, but again Donatello is just kind of there like I keep thinking this guy's dead But he keeps coming back. I did enjoy this episode though with the conversations with Adam slash Michael I liked it.   They're really trying to make this absolutely Insanely stupid twist makes sense to this season I'll give them credit for that because they're doing their best the editing for this part was actually really well done And again, I liked how this episode worked.  I'm sorry, but that's not a limiting of power That's a pretty good ability to still have with the cuffs on This is also how they're probably gonna be bringing Benny back because I made the mistake of looking him up when I was Reviewing the bloodlust episode and I see that he's in this season because of course he is either way That's not a bad episode. I like how it's a cliffhanger into the I guess which is going to be the actual mid-season finale next week I do like how they built this up. Yes, there's some stupid stuff But this is actually a well-written story episode a story episode give credit where credits do I'm gonna give this episode a 5 out of 7 oh my god now I just can't wait for Andrew to have to completely screw it up with the mid-season finale anyways guys I hope you liked this review if you did leave a like and if you're interested in more maybe subscribe Otherwise, I'll see you guys next time. Thanks for watching the video My name is Nits and you might remember me from the animated cult classic TV show undergrads It's been a while, but I'm happy to say the click is finally getting back together in an all-new movie Thanks to a successful Kickstarter campaign But we are still asking for your support to see any and all updates about the upcoming undergrads movie Be sure to check out and like the bring back undergrads Facebook page and with any luck. We'll see you guys soon


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Probably the least controversial advice in all nutrition is eat more fruits and vegetables, which is to say, eat more plants, since the term vegetable just basically means all parts of the plants that aren't fruit. Eat more fruits and vegetables if for no other reason than to live longer, but only recently did we learn how much longer. The first study to follow people over time to evaluate a dose response curve between fruit and vegetable consumption and mortality. Compared to those eating five servings of fruits and veggies a day, those only eating four lose a month off their lifespan. Only three servings lose three months. Then we start going off the cliff. Two servings a day, we live seven months shorter. One serving practically a year and a half.  Just a single serving of fruit, just like one apple, could mean a 19-month difference between life and death. And one daily salad could mean years more time on this planet. This study mostly looked at people in their 50s and 60s. Is it too late by our 70s? No. People in their 70s with the most carotenoid phytonutrients in their bloodstream were twice as likely to survive five years than those with the lowest, doubling one's likelihood of survival, just eating some more fruits and vegetables. In this study out of Taiwan, spending just 50 cents a day on fruits or vegetables appears to bias about a 10% drop in mortality. That's quite a bargain. Imagine if there was a drug that, without side effects, could lower a risk of death 10%. How much do you think drug companies would charge? Probably more than 50 cents.