Welcome to Access to Trader, the number one community for those who are committed to taking control of their trading in order to achieve success, profitability, and longevity. Thank you for joining us. Here's Dan Shapiro to help you find your edge, master your process, and own your future. Good evening everybody. Welcome to another edition of the Access to Trader.com Nightly Rabbit Show. Everybody is doing okay. You know, I'm getting there. I'm getting there. Still sick as a dog, but I'm getting there. Let's talk about the market, right? Let's talk about the tape. I don't think, well, there's a couple of things that you have to really, really embrace now. The first time you're watching this, just really listen to these words, okay? Premium days only, right guys? Premium days only. You only want to trade the days that you're holding. I've used this analogy before. The days that you're holding jacks are better, right?  And I always talk about this because, you know, 10, 15, even 20 years ago, you traded 10, 15 different stocks. It doesn't work that way anymore. You really need to understand technical analysis, have an incredible process, and just wait for that slow pitch softball. That's the game, okay? When all those factors come together, you know, you'll have a day like we had today, okay? I don't think you could have asked for a more aggressive session, okay? Not only on the short side, but on the long side as well. This was also a day that we talked about last night in the video that if late eager, unresponsible, irresponsible, shorts came in at the bottom of the channel, and the cues were going to reclaim we had a rally. So we had everything. We had the game plan, right? We had the game plan going today. We had the technical view macro that we knew it had a very, very good chance to play out. And the most important part is I don't think we could have asked more, a more aggressive session. It's just the reality. We talked about this area here that needed to hold. We talked about this last night that held and rallied, held and rallied, held and rallied. It held and then we rallied. I don't think, you know, and again, I got, and the guys, thank you very much for all you guys who are not in the live webinar. I've been sick as a dog, as you can see, for like three days now. I'm just getting, you know, I'm just trying fighting and fighting and fighting. So I logged off at around 1130 in the morning. By the time 1130 came, we had about four or five pivots to the downside that just imploded, right? And I just went down imploded and we had about two or three to the upside to just explode. I don't know what happened to the rest of the day. I was literally, I was actually asleep for most of the afternoon. But for the emails that I got when I woke up, great job guys. I mean, absolutely great job. And that's what the dynamics of this new generation of trader. It's the year 2020. Okay. It's going to be the year of the intelligent trader. It always has to be, but this is the year. And I think so many people, especially in the live webinar, have really figured this out. You don't need to trade on days that you don't have an edge. I guess they, for example, we, it was such a big disconnect in the market. Futures were collapsing as these stocks were getting stronger. And we talked about it yesterday. We just, we didn't have a good sense. So we stayed out the way.  And today was just value off the charts.  Can it spill over to tomorrow? Yeah, maybe it can, right? Maybe you can. And, you know, could we have another day that by, I mean, legitimately we could have been done for the day. 30 minutes into the open, right guys?  But again, guys, for all you guys who are in the live webinar, again, there's a monster difference between the Twitter feed and the live webinar. It's night and day. Okay. Again, like I have to say for years now, I can give you pivots till you bloom in the face and they'll work and they'll do really, really well. If you want to be a professional trader and you really want to understand the nuances and the moving parts and really take advantage of what the live webinar has, spend a month with us. I give you my word. If your, if your, if your view of the market doesn't change in a month, then we have nothing, you know, we have nothing really to talk about. So good stuff, guys. So let's talk about it, right? Again, technically market did what we had to do. Again, visualize you guys see it every time we held, we rallied, we held, we rallied. So I do expect another move tomorrow at least to the five, maybe the 10 day moving average. So definitely buy bias for tomorrow. Can you have things like, you know, can you have things like Netflix possibly, Tesla possibly come right back down? Yeah, they could maybe be windy, maybe come back down, maybe they could, but all in all, you could see the sellers got tired, the sellers got trapped. And it was a manslaughter. It was a manslaughter for the longs in the morning. It was a manslaughter for the shorts in the afternoon. So let's talk about, right? Let's talk about it. Again, Tesla shot themselves in the foot. They said with that leaked email a couple of days ago, right?  They never would have said anything that 97 number that came out today would have been fine, but they shot themselves in the foot. So we, you know, we talked about this pre-market. And again, guys, for all you guys who have not watched the new version of the PS60 workshop, even the old version, the 2.0, we talked about sneaky pivots, right? The low of this candle right here was 228.50, right? That was a pre-market low. Here's a sneaky pivot, right? 230, 230, 230. We talked about it. It held three times. It builds below. It can flush. Last night's low, 228.50. If it stretches, you can see 227. Forget about 227. It went to daily support of 225. Just an absolute destruction. I caught this thing pretty aggressively. I think everybody in the room caught this aggressively. Just a phenomenal, phenomenal trade here. Crowd, crowd wasn't a big move. Crowd initially was not a big move. It went later in the day, but crowd was not an initial big move. I think it went up from the initial. We talked about 59.75, 60. It went to like 60 and a half. So it wasn't a big move. You did scalp a good job, but it wasn't a big move.  It never even came close to the second entry here. Again, here's Apple. We talked about, again, the power of the pivot, right? We talked about this pre-market. 217.90, 217.90, 217.90, 217.90, 217.90. So here was Apple. 217.90 just got destroyed, just absolutely destroyed. Went to 215, just a monster, monster move on Apple. Even, you know, BY&E never got there. Even UNFI, right? 780, again. You don't need to trade, you don't need to trade, you don't need to trade Beta. Okay, a pivot is a pivot. UNFI 780, if it builds below, can flush more. Here was the UNFI, right? 780 went all the way down to 750 Roku, and then the market started reclaiming. We started talking about the upside. Roku, 105.80, 106 needs to build. Again, it wanted to go a couple of days ago. It really did, and just never had the opportunity a couple of days ago, but it reclaimed it today. 105.80, 106, the first move was perfect to 107.35. And it was perfect, because I know a lot of people in the room not only sold it there, but they got short there. They went down $2, and later in the day, it kind of reclaimed. So big move there. Big move there as well. Tesla, he talked about Netflix. Man, what a destruction. Congratulations to you guys who caught Netflix. 260.230, 262. We knew the macro number was going to be 260. We talked about that 260 number in nausea for several days. But here was the sneaky pivot. Again, we talk about these sneaky pivots, guys. Non-stop on the 2.0 workshop, the 3.0 workshop. You have to get the workshop. Again, it's the business expense. If you don't have it, you have to get it, guys. It's so crucial to understand why these things are generated with such aggression of certain levels. I can't stress enough that you need to know why. You can't just simply trade these pivots. You need to know why. Again, here was the 262. Here was the 262 pivot. Here was the 260. It just got destroyed when all the way down to 257. Just destroyed. Just absolutely destroyed. And here was the upside, right? Here was the upside as well. On the video of 176.10, 176.20, if it builds, the market gets better. It can go.  Here was the 176.10 just exploded. Just absolutely exploded as well. And I just basically said, ridiculous morning. I mean, what else can you say, right? Ridiculous morning. Everything just exploded, imploded, exploded. So just monster day. Absolutely monster day. 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Hello everyone, welcome to another NARC Survivor Live video, in this one we're going to be talking about how narcissists study you like a PhD, which we all know they do, but we're going to talk about it deeper in this one. So yeah, narcissists study you like a PhD.  They want to know everything about you, everything about your life, even things that haven't in the past. It doesn't matter, it could have been five months ago. They still want to know about it. They have to know everything. And they really know how to home in on it. It's like it's not enough for them to know just a little bit about you. They have to know everything, even things that may be insignificant to you. To the narcissist it's very important. It matters a lot to them. And it just makes you wonder why? Why is it so important? But to them it is. It's a big deal. They do turn molehills into mountains. Things that may seem completely insignificant to you. To them it was a big deal. And that is why inevitably they will end up devaluing you. They will end up seeing you so you're nothing. And then at that point they just want to get rid of you. They don't want anything to do with you after that. You make one little mistake and then you're dead to the narcissist. You're nothing. So yeah, that's just how it is with these narcissists. From the moment they meet you you become the most important thing in their lives. And there is a reason why. The reason why is because they have no real purpose or direction. There's nothing more important in their lives. And it makes sense when you think about it. Because if they did have anything that was more important in their lives they would be focusing on that. But there is nothing else for them to focus on. Because from the moment they meet you you are the most important thing in their lives. Thanks for the donation Donovan. And that's why they study you so deeply. That's why it's so in depth. And you could argue okay if you're studying something whether it's something in school or a hobby or interest that you have. If you're actually getting somewhere with it and you're getting something out of it fair enough. You know you're actually accomplishing something there. But with these narcissists they're not getting anywhere. They just do the same thing every day. They're always hammering on the same thing. And they're not achieving nothing. A normal person would think okay if I'm investing all of my time energy and effort into this. And I'm not getting anywhere. Maybe I should just stop this and do something more productive. A normal person would come to that conclusion pretty early on. But with these narcissists they're just hammering on and on again and again. And they're not getting anywhere but they never come to that conclusion. As Albert Einstein once said the definition of insanity is doing the same thing again and again. Which is exactly what these narcissists do. They repeat the same thing again and again and it never gets them anywhere. But they never figure out why. So that's just what they do. They study their targets and they want to know everything about you. So important to them. When really what they really need to do is take a look in the mirror because that needs more studying than anything else in their lives. They need to study that more than they study you. Because clearly they have a lot of problems. If they didn't have problems they wouldn't be doing that. But no even if you tell them that it still goes on and on. They always have to study you. They always have to know everything. And there's really nothing you can tell them. You can't get through to them. A normal person fine. You can adjust their behaviour. You can show them okay this isn't working. Try and invest your energy into this. Maybe that will work for you. Or the narcissist. No. They're so hell bent on figuring out everything that they need to know. And really the truth is they're actually studying themselves. If you look into it deep enough. When they study you from the moment they meet you. They never actually meet you anyway. Not really. It's just a reflection of them. Which is why when they first meet you they see you as perfect. Ideal.  But then when your qualities and abilities begin to reflect back on them and reveal the flaws that they have. Then it's a problem. Then they project everything they hit themselves onto you. And then actually they're studying. That's the crazy thing about it all. They spend their entire lives studying themselves. Which is the one thing they don't want to be associated with. They don't even want to know anything about themselves. But that's what they're doing. They're studying themselves through you. Anyway that's all I have to say on this topic for today. I do hope that you enjoyed the video. Thank you all for supporting our community. Helping to spread the awareness of this disorder. Just out here at the beach. Again thank you all. And I will talk to you in another video very soon.


We turn now to First Minister's questions. suspicious Q 1. Yesterday, the law enforcement truckäl warned this Parliament that scolds teachers on example of grades. They'll need to have lawyers on speed dial badly. With that in mind, does the First Minister have full confidence in the changes that she is making to the policy namedship Same Truth administration? Yes, I do. As Ruth Davidson is aware indeed, as the whole Parliament is aware, the bill that's currently before the Parliament is to make amendments to the previous llawer o ddigon o ddechrau yn te 아이adau Gaelio, mae ar y cyfrifoldau Gaelio a dywedderyddion i chi i gyfrifoldau o dyweddoryddion, yn cael ei ddweud ar diogelio gaelio'r de gripwyr ymarfer ac iddi dod y gyrnas般o. Mae oedd y b되iag cael ei ddweud ar gyfer o'r ddigon, ac mae'n meddwl. A gyfrifoldau yn teuluirio i gaelio erbyn gyda'i ddechrau yn dechrau, ond mae'n angen i gaelio ddechrau ar gyfer elau ffrifoldau, ac mae roedd ddefnyddio i gaelio mi and I quote, unquestionably benign and legitimate. So we will continue, of course, to listen to all views that are expressed in Parliament as this bill proceeds and where a case is made for amendments at later stages of the process that will be fully considered as Parliament would expect. Ruth Davidson It's clear that some of the people who are going to have to implement this don't share the confidence of the First Minister and we know, as she has rightly said, that the Government has had to change its plan because its first attempt was struck down by the Supreme Court. The trouble is that we are now learning that there are significant problems with the proposed remedy, which is going to put professionals in an impossible position, pushing teachers and health workers into a legal minefield and having to weigh up the complex legal arguments about whether sharing information is proportionate or not. As the Faculty of Advocates made clear yesterday, they could end up damned if they do and damned if they don't. Does the First Minister really think that it's fair to put already overburdened teachers and health workers in this position? The First Minister As every member is aware, in the stage 1 consideration of any bill, a range of different views will be expressed and the Government, as is our responsibility, listens carefully to those views and considers them as the bill proceeds through Parliament. That is the normal way in which legislation is taking forward. It is important to say a number of things. The bill provides clarity and consistency by introducing a new requirement for named person service providers to consider whether sharing information could promote, support or safeguard the wellbeing of the child or young person. The bill also provides for, on this part, is particularly important, a binding code of practice, which will ensure that appropriate safeguards are in place to protect the sharing of information. Of course, Parliament will be fully consulted on the code of practice, as it is in terms of the legislation. I appreciate that Ruth Davidson is referring to comments that have been made in the stage 1 consideration. As I say, we listen carefully to all of those comments, but it's worth looking at some of the comments that were made earlier on when the education committee made a call for evidence. The GMC Scotland, for example, we warmly welcome the proposed move away from a mandatory duty-to-share information at Royal College of General Practitioners. We welcome the amended wording of the bill, the nursing and midwivery council. We can currently see no conflict between the draft legislation proposed and our own regulatory approaches. The Law Society of Scotland, the move from a duty-to-share to a power-to-share information, is helpful. Those are just some of the comments that were made. We can all quote backwards and forwards comments about the bill. We have an established legislative process in this Parliament whereby we listen—this is the role of the committee at stage 1—listen to those comments. The committee will then publish a stage 1 report. The Government will fully consider that and we will consider whether any amendments are justified at a later stage of the bill. That is the normal process. It is the one that will be followed here. I would encourage all members to fully take part in it. Ruth Davidson I hear the First Minister's points and, in fact, I have the submissions to the committee here. The problem is that even those in favour of the scheme are warning about how it is going to be done. If you take the Royal College of Nursing, which supports in principle the scheme, it is made clear that it does not support it going ahead without the right resources in place and that it worries that the whole plan could be reduced to, and I quote, a tick box exercise. We have a scheme that has already been barred by the Supreme Court last year and now a replacement plan, which even supporters think is deeply flawed. Again, I have to ask, does the First Minister think that it looks like a success? First, if I can just correct Ruth Davidson and what she said about the Supreme Court judgment. The Supreme Court judgment was specifically about the information sharing provisions and did not say that the whole scheme was illegal. In fact, I just quoted a moment ago the comments of the Supreme Court in terms of the name person scheme overall. Secondly, Ruth Davidson mentioned resources. Obviously, extremely important and additional £1.2 million is being provided to support training and development relating to the changes to information sharing, just as one example of the resource issue. I come back to my central point, and I suppose that I want to make this point to any stakeholders who might be listening, as well as to Ruth Davidson and to the chamber. The reason that we have this legislative process, which involves this in-depth stage 1 consideration by a committee, is to allow stakeholders to put forward the points of view and to argue for any changes that they think are necessary. At the end of that part of the process, the Government will give that due consideration. That is the proper process. Every member in this chamber has now been a member through the legislative process on at least one or more bills. Changes are regularly made to bills, and that is the process that we require to go through. I encourage everybody, as many members will already be doing, to continue to contribute to that. At the end of that, we intend that we will have rectified the issues that are highlighted by the Supreme Court, but we also have in place a system that has as its central purpose. Let none of us ever lose sight of that, the greater protection of vulnerable children, which is one of the most important responsibilities, surely, of all of us. Ruth Davidson. I am not sure how reassured stakeholders will be by that answer. It has been clear to those benches for years that the name person scheme, as designed, simply will not work, but we have a Scottish Government that is still plowing ahead with it. After five years of debating this back and forward, here is where we are at. A second attempt at legislation, that even its supporters say is flawed, that legal experts say is confused and that teachers and health workers warn will be an enormous burden on them. In all good faith, can we not just start again with a blank sheet of paper because all of us in this chamber want to protect vulnerable children, but we need to do it within the law? First Minister. I am glad that, eventually, after all of our questions, Ruth Davidson managed to mention vulnerable children, because they are at the centre of that. What we have here—let me try to deal with this very respectfully—we have a difference of opinion in principle between the benches and the Conservatives. The Conservatives disagree with the name person scheme in principle, and I do not go along with that, but I respect their right to do so. The Supreme Court did not uphold the view of the Scottish Conservatives that the name person scheme in principle was illegal. What it did was point to what it saw as problems in flaws with the information sharing provisions. The bill is about rectifying those flaws. We are at the start of a legislative process and stakeholders make their views known, and we consider their views. That is the process that we should engage in. Of course, we can continue to debate the rights and wrongs of the scheme, but Ruth Davidson should not try to give the impression that the Supreme Court somehow said that the whole scheme was illegal because it did not do that. I think that she knows that. We will continue to proceed here to make sure that all the provisions are, as Ruth Davidson says, clearly within the law. As we do that, we will consider all views that are raised, but we will also continue to go forward with that central purpose firmly in mind. This is about the greater protection of vulnerable children, and that is the most important part of the whole debate. There are 40,000 children in Scotland today more in poverty than there was a year ago. The Scottish Government is introducing legislation to set targets to reduce child poverty, but what actions is it going to take? In other words, what is the First Minister proposing to do to tackle the unacceptable levels of child poverty in Scotland? Riley Fares fairly asked me about actions that we are taking. Let me set out what some of those are. We have the child poverty bill, which, if it is passed by this Parliament, will make us the only administration in the whole of the UK to have statutory binding targets on child poverty. We have just also established the poverty and inequality commission, which will build on the work done by the independent poverty adviser to make sure that the Government is both advised and challenged on the actions that we need to take to tackle child poverty. We have also outlined steps to introduce a new best start grant using one of the new powers of the Parliament to direct additional support to families on low incomes with children to try to give practical help in that regard. Just this week, we were announcing, for example, additional support for young carers, which can often be a particular segment of the population of children living in poverty. Those are just some examples. In addition to extending entitlement to free school meals, our plans to double the provision of free childcare will be of huge assistance to families overall, but particularly to families in poverty. Those are just some of the things that we are doing. We will continue to discuss through the commission and, indeed, with members across the chamber what additional action we can take. Alex Rowley. Presiding Officer, I have welcomed the setting up of the commission. I hope that that will be an independent statutory commission. I have also welcomed the bill coming forward, but the truth is that, without additional resources, we can have all the targets that we like. We are very unlikely to see them as being more than wishful thinking. The plain fact is that the First Minister plans to spend almost 20 times more on a tax cut for frequent flyers than she does on tackling child poverty. The SNP plan to have air departure tax would cost £180 million in each single year, but the First Minister's programme for government only proposes £10 million a year to tackle child poverty. That is simply not good enough. If you are serious about tackling the unacceptable levels of child poverty in our country, will you drop the tax cut to the airlines and use the tax powers of this Parliament to tackle child poverty in Scotland? First Minister. We will, of course, bring forward our budget proposals later this year, and Parliament will have the opportunity to scrutinise them. As part of that, I have made very clear—the finance secretary made clear again in Parliament yesterday—that we think that it is time for a grown-up adult debate about how we progressively and fairly use our tax powers to guard against further Tory austerity and to make sure that we are protecting public services and helping lift people, including children, out of poverty. In all seriousness, I think that Alec Rowley's characterisation of our spending plans is a misrepresentation. I announced in the programme for government that we would set up an additional fund to target innovative approaches to tackling child poverty, but what Alec Rowley did not mention there was the hundreds of millions of pounds that we spend on mitigating welfare cuts, for example, on extending childcare, on making sure that the poorest children have access to free school meals, the money that we will make available for the new best start grant, for example, the £3 billion that we are investing in increasing the supply of affordable housing, something hugely important to those living in poverty. Those are the many actions that we are taking, backed by resources, and the role of the Poverty and Inequality Commission, of course, will be to make suggestions and to challenges where we can to go further, and we look forward to taking part in those debates in Parliament and outside of this Parliament. It is a serious issue. It is an unacceptable issue of the levels of child poverty in Scotland. I say in all sincerity that if every child in Scotland is to get a fair and equal chance to succeed, then you are going to have to address the crisis that is engulfing so many of our public services in Scotland, for it is the poorest that is coming off the worst, the lack of suitable housing, the unacceptable levels of class sizes and the lack of resources for teaching and for learning, the many shortfalls in our national health service, and the failure to fund local community services in every community up and down Scotland. Every single time the SNP has a tax decision to make, it sides with the millionaires rather than with the millions. Another party for the few, not the many, will she finally accept that in order to help the poorest in this country, you have to be prepared to look at taxing the richest in this country? I thought that it was really unfair of Alec Rowley to personalise this debate by bringing Anna Sarwar into it. As Anna Sarwar so clearly illustrates, it is that there is a massive gulf, a gulf as wide as the clides between what Labour says and what Labour does. For a leadership candidate, lecturing others about doing the right thing on pay and yet his own family firm won't pay the living wage voluntarily to house in order, back they mentioned a number of policy areas. Let me take them one by one. On housing, this Government is building social housing at a faster rate than any other part of the UK. We are investing £3 billion to deliver 50,000 extra affordable homes. On education, £120 million extra is going into the hands of headteachers to help to close the attainment gap. Free school meals extended childcare on the NHS and an extra £3 billion going to the NHS under this Government. On local services, we put forward a budget last year that increased the resources available to local services. The only councils across this country who decided not to take the opportunity of bringing in more revenue through the council tax were, guess what, Labour councils. So again, Labour really needs to close that gulf between what they say and what they lecture others and what they do themselves. We are trying to refrain from personal attacks in this chamber. I think that it is only fair. We have a number of constituency supplementaries and we are trying to squeeze in a lot of members who want to get in today. Question number one from Alison Johnstone. Thank you. One of Scotland's first major urban community buy-outs for the Sick Kids hospital site in Edinburgh has been gysumped because the NHS last week sold the site to a developer. The community found out that they were unsuccessful having notified ministers of their interest way back in April. Why has the NHS been allowed to sell off the site when ministers knew of the community interest? If the Scottish Government is serious about community empowerment, urban community empowerment, what more will it do to actively support communities in their applications? They are hugely bureaucratic, very complicated and more support is required. Can I first say that I understand the strength of local feeling around issues like this? It is important to stress that at all stages in this process, NHS Lothian complied with the requirements of the law. At all stages in the community right to buy process, the community land team processed the applications in line with the legislation. The community land team and the Scottish Government were not aware that the site had already been sold by NHS Lothian when processing those applications. However, it is also important to say that NHS Lothian will use the proceeds from the sale of the Sick Kids hospital to reinvest in healthcare services. Of course, that will be of benefit to people across Lothian. As I understand it, the health board is likely to use the proceeds to upgrade oncology services at the western general hospital, which will benefit people not just in Lothian but across the wider region. I understand the strength of feeling on those issues. That is why we passed the legislation to support community right to buy. It is important that all applications are taken forward in line with the legal provisions. Jackie Baillie There are 100 people who are complete with placards and a piper in the public gallery today who have come to the Parliament to protest about proposals to cut their GP out-of-hours service at the Vale of Leven hospital. The service has been closed many times, most recently on Sunday, when local patients were turned away and had to travel to Paisley for the nearest service. That is simply unacceptable, and local clinicians have said that removing this basic service from the Vale represents an unacceptable clinical risk for patients. The chair of the health board said, and I quote, "...we need to stick to the agreed lines which confirm that we're committed to a service without saying what that will be or where it will be delivered from." Hardly a ringing endorsement. Will the First Minister reject the weasel words from the chair and give an assurance to my constituents that the full GP-out-of-hours service will remain at the Vale of Leven hospital? Yes or no? First lady, can I take the opportunity to welcome the campaigners to the public gallery? I'm not sure how the Presiding Officer will respond if they start to use the bagpipes in the gallery, but I'm sure they will do so outside and the health secretary is going out to meet with the campaigners later on this afternoon. I understand that there was a meeting between the chair and chief executive of Greater Glasgow and Clyde health board with the hospital watch campaign on 31 August. The chair of hospital watch Jim Moon said, "...after that meeting we discussed a number of issues and found the meeting to be constructive with a spirit and intention to acknowledge the community's fears with the aim that the model for the future secures their trust and confidence going forward." That's how I would expect these discussions to be taken forward. I would say again, though, that it is this Government that took the action that ended the decade of damaging uncertainty under the previous Labour administration when it approved the vision for the Vale document. We have been consistently clear that we back the Vale of Leven hospital. The health board has been consistently clear on that. Just as illustrations of that backing, let me give a few statistics here. The Vale of Leven day cases have increased by 7 per cent in the last year. There are more than 300 outpatient clinics every month across 20 or more specialities. Emergency attendancies have increased at the Vale's minor injuries unit by nearly 10 per cent. Those are the actions that show our commitment to the Vale. Of course, it was the previous administration when Jackie Baillie was a minister in the previous administration, or she was a minister in the previous administration, and the previous administration closed the A&E at the Vale of Leven. There is no point of order during First Minister's Questions. If you still wish to make it, Ms Baillie, you can make it at the end. Ms Baillie may make the point of order at the end of FMQs. Jamie Greene I am currently assisting a number of constituents in North Ayrshire who are on a lengthy waiting list for funding approval for social care packages and residential care placements. Due to budgetary constraints and pressures on the local health and social partnership, a lack of funding is available and provision of care is extremely limited. Can the First Minister confirm whether or not free personal care is still illegal entitlement in Scotland and, to her knowledge, which other councils are failing to deliver it? In terms of the situation in North Ayrshire, as I understand it, Government officials have already met the partnership there, and the health secretary is going to meet them as well. He will be very happy to correspond with the member after that. It is the obligation of all partnerships across the country to deliver the social care services that people have a right to depend on. It is worth pointing out that overall expenditure in adult social care services per heropopulatio has increased by 13 per cent in real terms. That is after inflation. That has been the increase in recent years. We will continue to take the decisions to support social care services. Of course, we announced a couple of weeks ago that we are also going to introduce Frank's law in order that people who rely on those services across the country get them and get them in a timely fashion. When the Paris climate change agreement was reached, the Scottish Government said that its new bill on climate change would reflect the increased scale of ambition that the agreement requires. Yet its proposals for that bill actually represent a slower pace of emission cuts than Scotland has been achieving for the past 10 years. Why is the Government consulting on a slowdown of climate action when an acceleration, an increased ambition is so urgently needed? I do not think that there is anybody—that is undoubtedly not true—there will be many, but nobody who can fairly say that this Government has not been and is not continuing to be a world leader when it comes to tackling climate change. Some of my answers here will be similar to the answers that I was giving Ruth Davidson. We are consulting and we listen to the views that are expressed in that consultation before we make final decisions. I know that a large number of people have taken the opportunity to contact the Scottish Government, asking us to go further in terms of the commitments there, and we will give proper consideration to that. Across a whole range of areas, we are making progress in tackling climate change. The programme of government that I set out two weeks ago sets out where we will make further and even faster progress, which is no doubt why some environmental campaigners described that programme for government as the greenest programme for government in the history of devolution. There has been significant action in the past, but that is only worth celebrating if it is used as an inspiration to go further and faster, not as an excuse to slow down. Other countries in Europe such as Norway and Sweden have already been setting net zero goals for carbon emissions. Our contribution to climate change will be significantly reduced if we do the same. Is not it clear that Scotland, even if we continue to reduce emissions at the rate that we have been doing for the past 10 years, will reach net zero by 2040? Is not that the goal that we should be setting ourselves if the First Minister is serious about making faster progress? First, we are consulting on the specific targets. That is the right and proper thing to do, and we will take final decisions based on the outcome and the views that are expressed in that consultation. I know many people, many environmental campaigners and many people who want to encourage us to go further faster have made their views known, and I very, very much welcome that. Let me reassure not just Patrick Harvie, but everybody. There is no anybody who listened to the programme for government or who has read the programme for government would see that. There is no intention on the part of this government in slowing down when it comes to meeting our climate change obligations. We have a moral responsibility to lead in terms of tackling climate change, and that is what we will continue to do. Whether it is our commitments around renewable energy, whether it is our commitments and our achievements in decarbonising electricity, or whether it is about the new commitments that we have set out around electric vehicles, for example, we are serious about that, and we will continue to make sure that the action that we take is genuinely world-leading. Yesterday, the mask of Ruth Davidson's Conservative party slipped. They said that taxing was pickpocketing, and that is straight from Norman Tebbitt's handbook. Pickpockets do not invest in schools and hospitals to educate children and save people's lives. Responsible Governments do that. That is why this Parliament rejected that right-wing agenda yesterday. Now that the Parliament has endorsed the principle of raising tax, will the First Minister reconsider her opposition to my plan to put a modest penny on income tax for education? I think to be absolutely fair and accurate about it that Ruth Davidson's mask slipped long before yesterday. Yesterday, she just put it beyond any doubt. Will there be any raises and important points? It is one that I have raised previously in the chamber. Each and every day, we hear from the Conservatives calls for additional spending. We heard calls for Frank's law, which the Government is now delighted to be taking forward. We get from the Tories calls for more spending while they want us to cut taxes for the richest in our society. Remember, all at the same time, as the Tory Government is cutting over this decade, Scotland's budget to the tune of £3 billion in real terms. The hypocrisy of the Tories on those issues knows no bounds. On the substantive issue that Willie Rennie raises, and I am glad that he has raised it, we will bring forward, as Governments do, our tax proposals when we publish our draft budget. What we have said that we will do is encourage an open grown-up—which clearly excludes some people in this chamber—to debate on how we properly, progressively and fairly use our tax powers. I have been fairly clear that I think that, given the years of austerity that we have had and the continued austerity that we face, as well as the economic implications of Brexit, it is time now to have that debate. I hope that, certainly from the tenor of his contribution yesterday in the chamber, Willie Rennie and his party will be part of that grown-up debate. Let's have that debate over the next few weeks and then let's come forward as the Government will, with proposals on tax, that Parliament can then scrutinise and decide on. That's the right way to do things. Willie Rennie. The First Minister says that education is her number one priority, but we have heard that thousands may be leaving teaching. We know that Scottish education has slipped down the international rankings. We have seen 150,000 places cut from colleges. We are committed to expanding nursery education. We know that investing in skills and education is important for economic growth. The First Minister is always complaining that Westminster has cut her budget. The case for investment in education is tremendously strong. If she cannot agree that education is the number one priority for investment, what will her priority be? The First Minister. I think that Willie Rennie should perhaps listen to what I am saying here. First, we have to have a debate as a Parliament about whether we want to use tax powers more extensively than we have in the past. Then, of course, we have a debate as a Parliament about how we want to invest at those resources, but there is no doubt that it is about protecting public services, education and the health service, making sure that our public sector workers are properly and fairly rewarded against the backdrop of austerity that leads us to have that debate. On education, I mean obviously I would take issue with much of what Willie Rennie said in his preamble. We are not just extending, we are doubling child care for our youngest children. We are investing £120 million more this year in our schools. We have maintained full-time equivalent places in our colleges and, of course, we are protecting the right of young people to go to university without paying tuition fees. Those are the things that underline the commitment of this Government to education. However, over the next few weeks, let us try and do something as a Parliament. Let us have that proper grown-up debate. We all have our manifestal commitments, but, as I am frequently told by Willie Rennie and others, this Government needs the support of others to get a budget through Parliament. As I go into those discussions with an open mind and with the interests of our public services, our public sector workers, with businesses and the economy firmly at heart, let us have that debate and let us come to a decision, a grown-up decision, as a Parliament. Ivan McKee The First Minister will have seen the shocking scenes in Catalonia, armed police have raided officers and seized ballot papers in an attempt to stop the Catalan people voting on their own future. What is the Scottish Government's view of those appalling events? I think that most people would agree that the situation in Catalonia is of concern. I hope that there will be dialogue between the Catalan and the Spanish Governments to try to resolve the situation. That has got to be preferable to the sight of police officers seizing ballot papers and entering newspaper offices. It is, of course, entirely legitimate for Spain to oppose independence for Catalonia, but what I think is of concern anywhere is for a state to seek to deny the right of a people to democratically express their will. The right of self-determination is an important international principle, and I hope very much that it will be respected in Catalonia and everywhere else. Finally, of course, the Edinburgh agreement is a shining example of two Governments with diametrically opposed views on independence, nevertheless coming together to agree a process that allowed the people to decide. I think that that offers a template that could be used by others elsewhere in the world. The press report that the UK Government has stripped the Scottish Government of responsibility for the roll-out of broadband due to its failure to deliver. Can I ask the First Minister what implications does this have for the roll-out of the R100 programme? It has no implications because it is completely and utterly nonsense to suggest that that is the case. We are making good progress through the Superfast Broadband programme just now, which, of course, is about getting Superfast Broadband to 95 per cent of premises across Scotland. Our additional commitment—let's be very clear about this—goes way beyond the commitment of the UK Government. Our additional commitment is to get Superfast Broadband, not 10 Mbps, as the UK Government is proposing, but Superfast Broadband to 100 per cent of premises across the country. If the UK Government was a bit clearer about how it intends to deliver its commitment, that would certainly be helpful to us in progressing to deliver ours, but that commitment is there and that is a commitment that we are absolutely determined to deliver and we are making good progress towards it later on this year. We are due to go out to procurement for the next stage of that work. 5. Bruce Crawford To ask the First Minister what the Scottish Government's response is to the reported comments of the Secretary of State for Scotland that the UK Government does not plan to devolve all powers returning from the EU following Brexit. David Mundell's comments confirm what not just the Scottish Government but the Welsh Government as well has been saying for months. Far from a powers bonanza, the Secretary of State has promised that the UK Government seems intent on undermining the founding principles of devolution. The UK Government should not be allowed to use Brexit as cover to take powers in areas that are clearly devolved such as agriculture, fisheries, justice and the environment. We have made it clear that we are not opposed in principle to UK-wide arrangements where they are necessary and appropriate, but those arrangements must be by agreement and not by imposition. Bruce Crawford I thank the First Minister for her answer. Will the First Minister agree with the comments from stakeholders such as Friends of the Earth Scotland, who have said that any plan to move control to Westminster after Brexit is alarming? Can she outline what clarification the UK Government has provided over the 111 devolved policy areas that could be controlled by the UK Government if the EU withdrawal bill is not amended? I can say, First Minister, that there was some gobsmacked to see at number 78 on the list, onshore hydrocarbons licensing, in other words, fracking, which was one of the core powers for further devolution as recommended by the Smith commission. Is that really acceptable? The First Minister No, it is not acceptable. Firstly, in terms of Friends of the Earth, I share their concern. Devolution has allowed for distinctive and ambitious Scottish approaches to environmental standards, to climate change, which we have just been discussing, to food quality, fisheries, farming support and many other areas. Any threat to that is completely unacceptable. The list of 111 areas that are brought into play by the withdrawal bill, of course, was a list drawn up not by the Scottish Government but by the UK Government, and there are many areas in that that I think would illustrate to people why the Scottish Government is so exercised by that. However, although it might suit the Conservatives to suggest that this is somehow just the SNP expressing concern over this, we have the Welsh Labour Government saying exactly the same. We have a range of constitutional and legal experts saying that this represents the power grab that we have described. The Scottish and Welsh Governments said on Tuesday of this week that we put forward a set of amendments that would prevent the power grab. I hope that the UK Government responds positively to those amendments so that we can get the bill into a state where the Government can recommend legislative consent, but let me repeat that if it stays in the state that it is in just now, there is no way that I or this Government will recommend to this Parliament that it approves this bill. To ask the First Minister what the Scottish Government's response is to reports that the electrification of Glasgow to Edinburgh via Falkirk rail service is subject to further delay. The delay is regrettable. It is a result of two issues. The first is that Network Rail is behind schedule on the energisation of the route. That commenced on 2 September and is scheduled to conclude in October, and that will allow the introduction of electric trains using existing rolling stock from 27 December this year. The second issue, of course, is a slippage in the manufacturing programme of the rolling stock by Hitachi. The Transport Minister has written to the Rural Economy and Connectivity Committee updating them on those issues. I am also due to meet with Hitachi on 4 October to discuss the matter further. Annie Wells Thank you for that answer. That project is at least a year delayed and we still do not have a final completion date. Last year, Phil Vester of ScotRail admitted management failure in the planning of the delivery of the new line. We are told that the new delay is because ScotRail could not test the new trains. Commuter patients are wearing thin, so can the First Minister give a personal guarantee that there will be no further delays after December? The First Minister Of course, Network Rail is not accountable directly to this Parliament. That, frankly, is one of the problems, and perhaps we could find some consensus across this Parliament that would say that we should make the change to make Network Rail directly accountable to this Government and this Parliament in the future. However, if we can focus on the issues that affect passengers, because I, as I think you can probably tell, am deeply unhappy about this further delay. I have talked about the issues with Network Rail's delay around the energisation of the line. As I am sure everybody would agree, it is vital that the line is dealt with properly and the trains are properly tested. However, a large part of the latest delay is down to the slippage in the manufacturing programme on the part of Hitachi. I want to discuss this fully with Hitachi when I meet them earlier next month and I would be happy to report back to Parliament after that meeting. We will do everything in our power as the Scottish Government to make sure that there are no further delays and that passengers get the full benefits of this improved service as quickly as possible. Linda Fabiani The First Minister may be aware that another effect of this delay is that, due to the shortage of diesel carriages, other lines that are not, for example, Edinburgh to Glasgow, get affected. Like in East Kilbride, where consistently there are too few carriages, people are overcrowded on a main commuter line. I am told that one selectrification of Glasgow Edinburgh rail line is complete and that problem will be solved. Will the First Minister please bear in mind any discussions about the effect that this has on other commuter rail lines and make sure that those concerns are always brought to the attention of those who make the decision in relation to the number of carriages on lines? The First Minister Linda Fabiani is absolutely right and she is absolutely correct in her understanding and I can assure her that the impact on other lines will be a feature in all of the discussions that we have on this issue. The provision of additional coaches on other services in East Kilbride included, depending on the introduction of new rolling stock elsewhere within the ScotRail business. ScotRail is working to understand and manage the impact of phased introduction of the new electric trains on the Edinburgh to Glasgow route in the coming months. It is important to stress that £475 million is being invested in the ScotRail fleet during the franchise, delivering 180 more carriages in the next two years, which has a 50 per cent increase since 2007. Mark Griffin To ask the First Minister what financial support the Scottish Government offers to parents of premature babies whose child is in hospital. The First Minister I expect to speak for the whole chamber when I say that I am delighted that Mark Griffin and his wife have now been able to take their baby daughter home from hospital and I am sure that we all wish him, his wife and little baby the very best. Health boards offer a range of support for parents who need additional support while their babies are in care, but the support that is available does vary from board to board. Following a review of maternity and neonatal services, we are working with the neonatal managed clinical networks to take forward a review of the support that is available to ensure consistent support is in place. I can assure Mark Griffin that we will fully consider his proposal for a low-income family fund as part of that work. Mark Griffin I thank the First Minister for that answer and the support that my wife and I have had from across the chamber. In March, my wife and I were told that our unborn daughter would die due to very premature labour. Six months on, baby Rosa, who was not given a chance, is now doing well at home, but those months spent with Rosa in hospital have been the most stressful time that we have ever gone through and we are not alone in that. Other families do not have an MSP salary to cover the costs associated with that hospital stay. The transport, accommodation, food and childcare that on average costs £200 a week. Mothers we spoke to already struggled to cope with the stress of having a very premature sick baby. Having to leave that baby in hospital every night, we are also worrying about how they were going to pay for the taxi to get to hospital the next day. Sometimes they just couldn't. Those mothers had to be there because they had to be there to provide that life-saving breast milk that the premature babies needed because their stomachs just wouldn't tolerate formula. First Minister, you, as a matter of urgency, look at how we can give financial support to low-income parents of premature babies in hospital so that the costs of visiting doesn't stop one more mum from being with their baby. The short but perhaps most helpful answer to Mark Griffin's question there is yes. We will do that work and I am happy to work with him. I am hugely sympathetic to the case, the very powerful case that Mark Griffin has just set out. The review of maternity and neonatal services that I mentioned recognised that point and it recommended a review to be carried out of, and I am quoting from it now, the approach to the expenses for families of babies in neonatal care to develop a nationally agreed policy. That is one of the key parts. There is a range of support that is available to families but it is not as consistent or necessarily as reliable as it needs to be. There needs to be a situation where it does not matter what part of the country a family is in, if they are in the position that Mark Griffin has outlined, there is the basic support necessary to allow them to care for their child. We will be taking forward that work. Given his personal experience, for obvious reasons it would be very useful to have Mark Griffin's input into that and I will ask the health secretary to make contact with him to further that discussion. Thank you very much and that concludes persons of questions, but I point of order from Ms Bailey. Thank you very much, Presiding Officer. I'm afraid the First Minister isn't very good at history. She credits me with being a minister at the time of the cuts to the veil. That is simply not true. Can I advise the Presiding Officer, I actually wrote to Shona Robison on 29 June about exactly this point. She has failed to reply, so I invite the First Minister to retract a statement that she knows is deliberately promoting a falsehood, and rather than using information as a smokescreen, the First Minister would better do respect to my constituents by answering the question about the future of out-of-hours at the Vale of Leven hospital, which she patiently failed to do. I thank Ms Bailey for waiting until the end of FMQ's point of order. She has made a helpful clarification of her ministerial status or lack of it at the time, which I am sure the Government will reflect on. Thank you very much. We move on now to members' business in the name of Stuart McMillan on National iHealth Week. We'll just take a few moments to change seats.


Good afternoon Can I really hear me like this? That's good. Okay. I tend to walk around so just tell me to stay put I hope I realize myself. So welcome. Did you have a good time so far at RuPaul Korn? Good good to hear So this is actually my first RuPaul Korn and I'm already on stage. So I'm a bit nervous. I hope you Can forgive that So I'm here to talk about making RuPaul as easy as Squarespace. It's a very catchy title. I hope Regarding the audience attendance We got that What do you see here is me myself and my two co-founders of the company that I work for We try to keep the hair level about normal between the two of the three of us So, yeah, so about myself There we go first problem There we go. So I'm myself. I'm Philip von Bergen. I live in Switzerland. I've been developing for 15 years or so You can catch me on RuPaul Org and also on Twitter mostly and I'm sorry I'm the CTO and owner of an agency in Switzerland. We're about 25 people ish we have five developers including me and We develop websites of applications for small to medium or even national but, you know, Switzerland still small companies There we go Switzerland that's where I'm from as you can see all the cliches cow Alps watches so well But also a lot of small companies We mostly serve companies in the range of two to hundred people We have some national companies, but even as I said, they're small as well So we were facing a challenge. We decided five years ago to switch from a closed-source system to an open-source system RuPaul and The problem that we face is that our clients couldn't deal with RuPaul the way it was The form-based approach we had existing custom client Christian client base that was used to drag and drop Editing of web pages So we wanted to please them and we also wanted to introduce something new to RuPaul and we decided to build a new model It's called page designer. That's what I'm going to present here today And also talk about all the details behind it One more one more thing that we had in our Preconditions was we wanted to have a low-code approach to maintaining existing websites or small websites So that we we wanted to build that in as well Now I'm in the Netherlands Which is nice and flat by the way So that feels also like a stopover because I we were in the Alps like we had all these mountains to overcome I managed to go to RuPaul come I even got talk and we have a stable ish module ready And it's open source on RuPaul dot org as well And we made also a journey from a closed-source company to an open-source company, which was you know had his own challenges um So what we built um what we built I will show you in a minute in a second actually We built the front end basically for the user to edit its content to Publish pages to basically work Without the complexity of RuPaul And also without the admin UI actually What that looks like you can see I want just to say some more things um Goal was to actually provide a consistent user interface and also to enable the user just to see what he's doing So, um, let's start because that was enough telling Um, what I'm going to show you is a video that I made because 20 minutes is very short So I'm going to show you the video how it's edited how the editing works Um, I did that on this laptop last night Actually, so if there's any checkering mouse movement, that's because of the mousepad Um, and also I will tell you about what's actually behind the whole technology So it's going to be like double input feature right now Um, yeah, so I'll just start and I'll try to keep the microphone because my notes are over there So let's see Does it move? Yeah Okay, as you can see we are still in RuPaul at the moment. I just activated edit mode So you can see the interface changed And what you're going to see is like I'm building a website just with some text And I'm talking about Solid editing so the approach of this module or this idea is to have One page create a page design a page Um, what we're using as a base for the interface is grapestress. Somebody has heard of grapest editor Okay, um, this is an open source module to create HTML templates actually and we repurposed it to create Drupal websites Or Drupal pages. Let's put it away um The elements that you see on the right the rows and stuff that you see there Um, is based on ui patterns. That's a module also a chronic module which allows to Create hmail and ymail based patterns to include them And we also integrated a media library as it just also images that you upload and use here are part of media library on the core So we actually Connect to the media library that you use in the back end and also in the front end It's getting faster than I thought One more thing that distinguishes To other page editors is that all the data that we save so like from the Row to the components to the individual field or entities in Drupal So we don't save log of html. We save the actual entities as a tree So we have a tree page level is the root and we have a tree the whole way down. So each row that we um Sorry each row that we that we put in in there is actually part of the tree also the data that we insert Um, the approach that we use for the different types that we support is a plugin based approach So we have a plugin manager integrated into Drupal or into the module that uses the same Plug-in system that Drupal uses and we try to make the module extendable Um, yeah, right now you see we also integrate. Okay. No, that's just some more fun part What you've seen with the youtube video. We also use the embed module To embed videos as well into into the media library. So we use media core again Um, this is just some some fancy Tweaks that we did we can copy elements which creates copies of the data Not everybody's happy to hear that but that's the approach that we that we use Because our clients Fought that way that if they change the data one and it doesn't change on the other. So we can copy stuff as well Um, by the way, I forgot something about the patterns the patterns are part of the theme So they're not part of the module. So we decoupled that so the theme provides modules that the The patterns that the module uses and displays here And we also try to keep the separation of design and module separate We also integrate with the Drupal block layout and the form so we insert Blocks directly into the page which is very handy, especially when we create headers or footers For for a website because we can reuse the menu blocks that we already have in Drupal So we basically create a menu block insert it at the right place Um, what we also included is what you can see here. We also included some styling properties Those are defined on the pattern itself again Um, but are limited of course to what the module actually can handle We have a way to introduce new CSS properties, but um, we're still working on that So, um, the idea here as you can see is for instance, like in the marketing or in the landing page department to create like visual Anchors here, so we included that which is all but it's all based on the idea that the that an editor doesn't know about um code or html, but only about design Here we see the web form integration Yeah And one thing that follows up next which is kind of a tricky thing for us in in the next few Months is that we have our own layout system So the layout builder is a bit too late for us, but we we try to introduce that as well Just gonna keep the video rolling. It's almost done. Um, we have some other features included like the Like the like the the tablet and smartphone view Which we all which we're gonna see in a minute and also like the idea that we want to support responsive content So you can change the content depending on what Device is accessing the page So I'm just changing the background image here Yeah, it took me less time to explain enough um So maybe some more background about the module itself. So the module itself started off as a first version that is Somewhere under a carpet because I designed the interface and i'm a developer So this version is actually version two. We worked on that three people for a year now about on this version And we started directly in Drupal.org. So every commit every mistake is public Um, but that was a decision that we took because we realized if we don't open source from the beginning, we don't open source That's the thing. So as you can see, so there's a preview function as well um There's Still stuff to integrate. I'm coming back to that as well. Uh, what you can see now is another module It's the page three that we used that is also for our clients very important to see How is the structure of the menu tree directly in the system and navigate we're using that And you also saw I can publish a page directly using that and displayed publicly So there's a simple workflow publishing workflow integrated. It's not integrated with workflow with content moderation yet So that was uh a quick video just to show how it works um, so to repeat to repeat a bit but also to summarize The current state is we got the page designer, which is the base module which has a lot of functionality built in We got some sub modules which are shipped with page designer Um, we have the plugin system. We have the media and block integration We have the web form integration and we have this page tree And we because it's our thing and nobody noticed us on Drupal.org We have about 50 plus installations So for the mostly from us I see some downloads on Drupal.org, but I'm not sure whether they're actually using it. So Yeah, that's the state What's next One of the biggest things that we want to implement and we have time for that. That's good Is revisions because the system is not yet in revision Revisionable in the sense of Drupal. So when you come go back to revision before you edited something We do use revisions, of course for the cost amenities, but it's not integrated into Drupal that you can actually Switch between revisions of a page because that's what's the user thinking of is of using his thinking of a page Um, also what we want to provide is a distribution so to make installation easier Um, that's certainly one of the things That would give us more traction Layout builder is of course big to help it because both on the side that we Want to have the page designer integrated in the layer build but also using the layer builder for our own layouts um, the page designer by the way is Is basically a field that you can insert in a content type And it just opens up Basically the editor it then it inserts the the button to an open edit mode And then you can just insert into that field visually Um, one thing that also gives us more traction is documentation. It's always common last That's the normal thing for developers and we also want to open up the API There's a lot more a lot more stuff that we want to do or could do um, but one thing That i'm asking of you, of course um, it's getting involved because um, as i said, we are free developers. We've worked on that for some time and Even if it's just, you know, just even if it's feedback or ideas or installations and just testing the module seeing how it behaves in different environments because We have our environment and we use it in another environment, but it's not like Tested in a lot of environments. That's one thing that we can use a lot of feedback on Uh, also more use cases. I mean we have our use case We see it happening both mostly for small and medium-sized businesses We have some national businesses as well as clients who use it as well um, but more more More feedback there would be good and of course if you really Into it you can also contribute and pair patch things and also tell us, you know, where we go wrong We built the module while we were learning group also basically I looked the plugin system up for this module So i'm probably gonna have some hacks in there as well. So that would be Also helpful and also just Maybe have the thing that I mostly am interested in is the it's a long-term idea on dupal like dupal is fighting against smaller Uh, different cms's like WordPress. There's a composer um, there's rare spaces wicks and Both with the Gutenberg and the dhx and also our module I would like to combat this problem that we have as a community that people want visual editing and become provided that easily And this is one of One part of the solution. Maybe or not. I'll see But i'm pretty sure that especially the html one html Lobb as a safe to save the data is Not the right approach because that's not using dupal Like it's supposed to be and that's one of the major things that we've decided we want to build our own module using cost amenities Yeah, so before we I tried to make it short And i'm trying to achieve that very good um One more two more things because they told me to do so but I also Do gladly Don't forget the contribution day on first day. So these are the times and topics Also, what do you think Of dupal com end of my session And I actually want to Get some questions discussion going um, you can head over to these two projects or also to website to get the slides um, or catch me on dupal dog or twitter and Yeah, that's I try to keep it short. So we have time to actually interact. So thank you very much Any question any questions? Yeah They don't work with translation in the sense that you basically have to translate the field So the field is just empty on the translated page and then you have to translate The page we have some functionality in there that you can copy the content from one Language to another language or also between sides between nodes. Sorry. I'm always talking about pages because Uh, but you can copy data between nodes and also between languages. So that's already in there. Yeah Um Can you set permissions on certain functionality? Um, we have some permissions in there. So you can decide whether it should work Well, whether users should be able to actually use the page design at all and also we have a distinguished We can distinguish distinguish between certain patterns, but that's in the yaml level That's not on not yet on configurable level, but on the yaml level Yeah I'm also lit. I'm also interested in hearing questions or ideas about the whole idea basically Do we do do we need that? What do you think? Um I guess They're further ahead with the user interface and the functionality The main difference is for me. That's that's the thing is like the cost amenities So you can basically go down to to the individual old text of an image and export that in a structured format Which is for me one of the things that we wanted to have from the from the get go because um a big blob of html I've imported many many web pages like that and I can't you can't use it afterwards So that's one of the parts also like with the api so that we can actually use this to power web apps or apps Like getting the data that we already have displaying it different ways So that's one of the things I can think of. Yeah Thank you We'll we'll hopefully get traction Any other comments Yeah, first of all, I won't say it's really great. Also, um, we are Currently looking at our company to use We can't really decide on layout builder with and bare or paragraphs. So I think it's really relevant this this project Um, and I wanted you you mentioned grape js grapes js. Yeah, that's what you're using Behind the scenes. Yeah, we used grapes js is basically an html editor Which looks and works similar way but produces raw html on css and we high check basically this module to Produce two tweens that are on hooks to actually generate entities on Yeah, we extended it a bit. We haven't yet um the time or the The resources to actually get in contact with grapes to to see how we can collaborate more And the the idea of grapes is actually to produce html. So We don't know whether we can have Common goal there Yeah, thank you. Thank you very much


Welcome to the wide world of eSports, a show devoted to all things eSports. I'm your host, Catherine Norr. Today, our topic is Techie Factory, Building Powerful Minds. With me is Freddie Haustad, the CEO of Techie Factory. Welcome, Freddie. Well, thank you. Glad to be here. That intro made me a little sad to be in Dallas, Texas. It looked beautiful, but yeah, I'm excited to be here. Thanks. All right. Yeah, so Aloha from Hawaii. Anyway, so tell us about Techie Factory. Yeah, Techie Factory is the place where kids go to learn all the exciting eSports and tech that they already love doing. We do a lot of coding, but then we do Roblox experience creation. We do Minecraft. We do DJ. You name it. If it's tech related, we do it. And so we do summer camps and after school, and we are actually a franchise or and hopefully will be in Hawaii soon. Fantastic. So what age groups are you focused on? Majority of our kids are younger. So kind of seven to 12. And that's the majority of our customers. But then we have some older kids, especially for eSports and some of the more robust coding. And so can this be like an after school babysitting program while parents are working? I'll tell you, Catherine, a large percentage of our kids that we see during the summer at camps, they have to work and their kids don't. And so if they can have them learn something cool and the kids have a ball, then they're all for it. So especially during the summer, that's the case. But then after school as well. All right. So is it in person or is some of it like remote? Sure. The vast majority is in person. What we found with this kind of age group of digital natives is that they just assume be at their house on their iPad or their PC. And we want them to be with other kids. We want them to learn some of the social kind of soft skills involved with being around other people. And so we really like to get them in. A lot of what we do is very hands on. And so we very much prefer in person. But then there's some people that that doesn't work, whether it be schedule or proximity. And for those folks, we do offer virtual as well. And so do you also have native technology teachers?  Again, that's one of the really fun things about what we do. And what we tell, you know, potential franchisees is that it's kind of easy to have to find instructors. We have a predominance of high school kids and college kids. And between how we present the material and kind of our platform and then our training, most of them are digitally savvy enough to do it and run with it and do an amazing job. And so what led you to start this? So I was a public school teacher here in Dallas for 14 years. My wife and I nearly 10 years ago now opened a math nasium, which is a math learning franchise. She's actually a math teacher. And we opened our first one here in our neighborhood and then eventually opened another and then acquired third. And so we were math nasium franchisees, and we loved it. We started to notice and really look at, you know, trying to figure out where the future is. And for us, trying to, you know, own more centers in other states wouldn't be a great option. And so we found a place called Techie Factory that was started by former CIO at Pizza Hut and a really successful guy and went to partner with him and eventually bought it from him and started working on franchising right before the pandemic. So how many locations do you have and where are they? Right. So we have two here in DFW and we're about to add nine that are predominantly in the state of Texas. And so, yeah, I mean, we're really young, which is weird to say because it's been two and a half years, but we, and we started franchising in earnest two months before the world shut down. So we're ready to grow now. And it sounds like this would be a great opportunity in any place. Is that true? No doubt about it. I mean, everywhere, kids kind of of this age love what we teach and the parents really see the value in, you know, whether it's coding or eSports or all the digital creation that we do. It's great. And, you know, one of the cool things about what we do is the entrepreneurial aspect, whether it's our content creation or our roadblocks. We really get to hone in with these kids on entrepreneurship and talk about money and talk about how to make money and talk about, you know, the fact that they're probably not going to design a game and become millionaires at 10, but there are examples of kids who are making money at 10 and 11. And it's just nuts. And it really opens up the kid's mind to the possibilities and it's a lot of fun. And to your point, yes. I think the eSports is a little head of the curve in some places as opposed to others, but the digital creation, the coding we do, kids love it everywhere. Okay. So a lot of people have this image of kids playing video games is not a healthy thing. However, your your business is basically kids working with gaming and computers after school instead of doing sports. What do you tell parents who may have an issue with what you do? Sure, the dreaded screen time. You know, it's a fairly easy conversation for a growing number of parents. We get calls all the time from parents who say, my kid's not interested in traditional sports. I really want them to find their niche. I want them to find their people. Can you help? Yes, yeah, we definitely can. And then for those kids who aren't necessarily as introverted or who do want to play traditional sports, great. The reality is, and you know this, Catherine, that the vast, vast majority of these kids are playing video games anyway. And they get home and they play for an hour and then they go to baseball practice and they come home and they play for an hour and they eat and they, if their parents let them, they pay for another hour and then go to bed. And why not put that in kind of a traditional sports setting where they're working on teamwork and they're working on how to win and lose properly. Where they're working on, you know, healthy competitiveness. And we talk about the importance of nutrition and exercise and sleep because very few of these professional esports folks or even really successful streamers don't worry about their health at all. I mean, it's the human body. It needs exercise, it needs sleep, it needs good nutrition. And so we have the opportunity to talk to the parents about that. Sure. And one of my guests from an esports team two weeks ago, he mentioned, they mentioned that he got like five hours or less of sleep, sleep even in a week. I mean, he was streaming all the time. So it sounds like a good thing that you combine those kind of life lessons with what you do. Yeah, because and streaming to a lesser extent, but professional gamers, their career is going to be really short if they're getting the five hours of sleep a week. It just is. And so, yeah, we really want to focus on that. Sure.  And that's kind of like people talk about that being like the metaverse. How do you, you know, if we're looking at the future of essentially the metaverse and of gaming, how does the metaverse factor into what you're doing? Yeah, so initially in kind of the current state of the metaverse, a lot of what we do is it relates to roblox is teaching the kids how to make experiences, teaching them how to be safe on the platform. And the cool thing about roblox is there's something called Roblox Studio and you can go in there and create your own experiences. You can use a coding language called Lua to build just about anything on the platform you want. And so instead of trying to go to a 10 year old kid who maybe just doesn't gravitate towards this and say, hey, let's learn Java or let's learn C++ or Python, we can go to them and say, hey, let's go into Roblox and build this cool stuff. Well, then they hit a wall as far as what they want to create. And so then we got to learn Lua. And so that's how we kind of introduce them to Roblox and get involved. And then, you know, the metaverse, Catherine and this and kind of youth esports in general are a big really important to me. And I think us as entrepreneurs, us as adults, it's really important for us to help guide some of these companies or create them to make safe places online. The reality is that the FTC is going to continue to change and update these laws to protect kids. And why not be on the front foot of that really and create safe places now and cool places and fun places, because that's the key with kids. If they'll sniff it out, if it's not cool, and they won't be interested, whether it's great or not. And so, yeah, for us creating those safe places is really important. You know, it seems to me that if a kid is eight years old, 10 years old, 12 years old now, that when they're an adult, when they're a young adult, that will be when the metaverse becomes more part of our lives. And I would think that it would be very important for a potential career in a world where the metaverse is super big, that they would have this kind of skill and experience at these young ages. What do you think about that? You know, it's really, it's really funny you mentioned that. And I think a lot of the listeners of Think Tech Hawaii will appreciate this. Someone will. The reality is that these six, seven, eight year olds, whose parents want them to learn the code, I think it's great because I think there's an abundance of soft skills that are really important that can be learned through coding. But the reality is when they're old enough to have a job, AI is going to be doing a lot of it. But to your point, they're still going to be all these new jobs created. And all of them are great for these digital natives, where they're going to be doing things as a related metaverse. And so I think teaching them now, again, to your very smart point is really, really important. And so yeah, so giving them the opportunity to do that, whether it's Minecraft or Roblox, Lego is about to come out with a metaverse. I mean, I think a lot of these children focused companies are creating stuff that will be able to utilize. Sure. And so you kind of alluded to the pandemic a little bit. How did that impact Techie Factory? So by all rights, we should be dead. I mean, Techie Factory shouldn't exist in reality. A lot of our peers didn't make it. A lot of the folks doing similar things, their franchisees in particular didn't make it. We were very fortunate to be in Dallas, where we had less parents that were significantly worried about COVID and they were satisfied with the precautions that we took.  They were much, much smaller and with social distancing and everything else. It wasn't easy, but we were able to keep some kind of revenue stream to get us through. So it was, yeah, it was really tough on our business. But kind of since last spring, we started trending back to normal. And this summer, we've had the best summer we've ever had, whether I owned it or someone else. And so it's been great. And we're kind of fully back on track. I would think that there would be pent up demand for getting together in person. There definitely was. And we look for that to really fuel the youth esports component of our business. And so yeah, I mean, that's going to be an exciting part of, I think of this fall in particular. And what is your website? techiefactory.com. And from there, you can go to either of the locations. You can see the different different things we teach. You can learn more about franchising and kind of what we do in general. And here pretty soon again to esports, you'll find a lot more information. We're going to have tournaments all over the country. We're partnering with a company that does competitions all over the country. And so we're going to have stuff all over our app, which is called E-Turney. Is that safe place for kids to go on and compete and create content and keep the creeps away? And so we'll be utilizing that. But yeah. So this is something that could go outside of the US into other countries as well. Is that right? It could. In fact, we recently spoke with a company that is based overseas about possibly partnering and working together. So no, this is definitely something that could go overseas in the app in and of itself. Definitely. I mean, we anticipate having kids from all over the world again competing and uploading their streams so that we can make sure they're okay and uses VODs and they can be in that safe space. And what kind of, you know, clearly what you're doing is providing education for children at young ages in technology. What kind of jobs would this translate to them having in the future? I mean, I realize that the job situation may be quite different when they grow up. But I'm wondering what you foresee right now. Sure. The neat thing about us, and I think one of the big differentiators between some of the folks that are doing something similar to us in this space is that we do have that digital creation aspect. And I think anything from coding to entertainment to music. I mean, we touch all of those. And so I think kids, we don't feel like the eight-year-old that's in our place needs to leave and be able to be ready to be a professional coder, DJ, Roblox designer. We want them to be able to understand kind of what these jobs are or what these skills are and be able to choose for themselves. And we have a lot of kids who will come and do Roblox for, you know, two semesters and then switch over to something else. But that's what we want. We want to give them a taste. We want to get them excited about it. And then if that leads to them really finding a passion for it and going on to do something in the space, great. But really, yeah, anything from coding to entertainment, we do chess, eSports. So I mean, the potential careers down the road for these kids is limitless. You know what's interesting? We're both members of eSports Trade Association. And I noticed that other members are not necessarily in the eSports industry, but they're insurance, the insurance industry. They're lawyers or accountants. They're all, you know, in all sorts of different industries. So I think that, you know, it definitely touches, eSports and gaming touches so much, right? Definitely. And I think all you need to do is look at, so our business in the fall, the youth eSports tournaments, by the time that gets fully going, we're going to have marketing people, PR people, attorneys, all the people involved, the eSports, the live entertainment, the convention folks in whatever city. The list of businesses that will be, yeah, the list of businesses that will have financial gain from these events is certainly more than 20 or 30 for each event, and possibly way, way higher. So yeah, it's amazing the amount of different folks that have kind of nothing to do with eSports, but they'll be making some money from it, certainly down the road. You know, I always think with Hawaii that we should do eSports tourism because, you know, we have a robust tourism industry here, but, you know, certainly when you're talking about a tropical location, eSports tourism would be an option. And we even have, like at University of Hawaii, we have like tourism programs, you know, so that that people can major in tourism. So I could even see that being something like eSports tourism someday. And, you know, so it kind of even goes broader. It goes very broad. Yeah. And I think that's one of the great things about eSports as kind of a revenue generating device. So you could have a fairly large few hundred kid youth tournament or series that culminates with an event in Hawaii. Well, then that gets the local kids more interested. That gets adults more interested who really see the value. And then suddenly you have teams and clubs there in Hawaii. And then someone contender belong whoever comes in opens an arena and another and then yeah, then you're having multiple tournaments.  But yeah, all it takes is getting someone to kind of start it and do a great job. Sure. And, you know, when do you have sponsors within your company? Like are there any, are there any companies that are sponsoring like you techie factory and providing you with gear and stuff? There aren't yet. We were not big enough to be completely honest. One of the really exciting things we're doing, Catherine, is we've created a nonprofit. So our franchisees, once they're all over the country, can run these camps for underprivileged kids and run these after school labs for underprivileged kids that wouldn't otherwise be able to necessarily afford what we do. And we will raise the money here in Dallas and to be able to send it to them. So these new entrepreneurs don't have to flip the bill, but they can really get out in their community and help a lot of kids. And we have some great donors. There's a company called a lot here in Dallas, a great software company that has really been helpful in that regard. But I think once we grow that business, once we grow the youth esports, then I do think we'll be able to go to sponsors. And if nothing else, have the opportunity to offer our franchisees a chance to get discounted stuff and things like that. So we don't now, but I definitely think we will. Now, what are you looking for in franchisees? What attributes would someone have to have in order to open a franchise? Yeah, I think the love for kids is paramount. Again, my wife and I, school teachers, a lot of the people that work for us have been in education or kid-related franchises. And so love for kids, I think an entrepreneurial spirit is really important. And then it kind of depends from there. I mean, I think we'll have successful franchisees who are teachers and have someone who helps them run the joint. And then during the summer, they go full bore into it. I think we'll have obviously business people, folks that own other franchises. But you know, some of the people in the pipeline were CPAs a week ago and decided they wanted to do something different. Some of them will be esports folks who realize that, you know, like everything in our culture, it starts with adults and then kind of goes downhill and eventually gets to kids and they want to be able to take advantage of that and kind of shepherd those kids. So it's a variety of folks. Sure. And could you foresee partnering with something like the YMCA or some other kind of program like that? Yeah, I think the nonprofit really gives us the opportunity to do things like that.  And so I think we want to do a lot of stuff like that. And a lot of the YMCA options are for older kids, kind of high school and middle and we want to give the opportunity for, you know, elementary school kids. Again, pushing the fact that we want them to be out there getting exercise and getting sleep and not flipping out when mom or dad says turn your game off. But they're playing anyway. So let's get it in a really healthy positive setting. All right. So, Freddie, I'll let you tell people how they can reach you and connect with you if they're interested in either having their child be part of your program or if they're interested in becoming a franchisee. Yeah. Well, I'm excited to hear from all the potential franchisees there in Hawaii and I will be happy to come visit. But yeah, takingfactory.com and then our app is called E-Turney. It's in the app store now. You can download it. It's completely free. Our nonprofit is TF Promise and all of those have a presence on LinkedIn. And then it's kind of a hodgepodge to be honest with you on Facebook and Instagram and Twitter and everywhere else. But yeah, if you type in Freddie Halstead, you'll find me and all the cool stuff we're working on. Fantastic. Well, Freddie, thank you so much for being my guest today. Thank you, Catherine. It was a pleasure. All right. So thank you to our viewers for joining us today next week. Actually, in two weeks, my guest will be Leilani Ferenes of True Esports. See you then.