One of these things called the Thanksgiving stock, right, the turkey stock, some stock that starts rallying a week or so before Thanksgiving and really, really goes parabolic. Maybe that stock is Tesla, right? We know here we are looking for some $2 stock is going to nine. You know, here's Tesla, right? 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. Hey, guys. Good evening, everybody. Welcome to another edition of the Access to Trader.com that we wrap up show. Everybody is doing well. So I used to hear on social media for a while now, right? For a while, this one's going to the moon, that one's going to the moon. It's going to the moon. It's going to the moon. I say, well, what the hell is the moon, right?  What price target? What technical book have you read that the moon is an area of interest where a stock can go to? And today, today really did prove, or for the last week, has really proved that apparently there is a moon, right? And not only is there a moon, apparently you can go higher than the moon. And this is what's going on right now in Tesla. And what we're seeing right now, I mean, I've always, you know, if you've been watching this broadcast for even the last two, three, four, five years, you know how much affection I have for Tesla. I love the stock. I trade it long. I trade it short. It doesn't make a difference. This last move was absolutely magical. The gap up we got this morning into the 1130s, into the 1140s, into the 1150s, I felt like this is it.  Matter of fact, as literally the first thing I talked about this morning, you know, this was at, you know, before eight o'clock in the morning, I was like, look, if this is the day you want to consider getting out of all your runners, this is it, right? This is the day. And the most amazing, amazing thing is just when you think the stock is ready to gas out or potentially could put in a blow off top after 400, 450 point move in the last couple of weeks, right? They start coming in again, they start coming in for deep out of the money calls. And I was watching it this morning. I said, Hey guys, in the next day or so, let's keep an eye on this thing for potential blow off top, right? I go eventually one day, it's going to get to 1200. But here's where a 400 point move in a week needs to be taken, better value in other places. Remember, sell when you want to know when you have to. Again, when I said 1200 one day, I didn't mean nine hours after I tweeted this out. So for all you guys who did sell into the 1150s, again, who's really upset, right?  Now the question is how high can this thing go without putting in a blow off top? Matter of fact, I actually thought at one point in the day, it started to putting in a rolling high, right? So I was seeing three candles in a row of lower highs coming on the 60 million. It's like, ah, you know, maybe this thing's maybe it's a day away from coming in and really, you know, pulling in maybe 75, 100 points and to Tesla's amazement, amazement, the stock just absolutely going nuts. It's trading 1220s after the after hours, just an absolute phenomenal run. And not only that, right? Not only that, there's actually other things going up in the market. You know, today even thought the NASDAQ was maybe, you know, had needed a rest. The Q's actually went down and everything got lower. And the market just keeps on going higher and higher and higher. And just when you think the market can go higher, more coal buyers coming in, deeper, more aggressive expiration dates, near terms coming, and they're really, really taking the market higher. This is what, and again, like I said on the weekend video, this is what a bull market is. This is the, you know, this is the reality of all your patients, all your homework, all your training channels of distribution cycles. This is it on steroids, but this is it. So the market continues to go higher. Not everything is moving up higher.   Look actually looked worse than it was on the 60-minute. You still have weakness in Netflix and Apple. And with all that, the NASDAQ 100 was still pretty, pretty big. Speculation money continues to roll in very, very aggressively. I'll show you the pivots in a second. There was a stock, great, great. They're still coming in for 20, 25 point out-of-the-money calls, three weeks into expiration.  You have fuel cells moving up, the alternative energy, the battery plays, even when there's bad news comes out in this group and in this, you know, something to do with some sort of, you know, some sort of government subsidies that, yeah, and this is not the other thing, the market just doesn't care. It's a bull market is very, very strong. The key is again, we kind of want to remind ourselves every single day, again, stay off those high juice, right? Stay off the high juice. Watch for the names that are coming off the bottom. The names that are coming off the bottom are always going to give you the biggest value. So if you look at the indexes, again, you've got the Qs, continue to grinds, upper Bollinger band is $390.70. If you look at the SPYs, again, continue to grind. We're not even above this channel yet, but it continues to grind to all-time highs. And, you know, look at the IWM, right? This is the one that was staying in a channel for a very, very long time, failed to break out, and finally started to breaking out. Again, this represents speculation money. So we're kind of set up. I mean, this, I mean, really that the narrative has not changed in the last, you know, two weeks. We're above the 50 day on the Qs. We've reclaimed big levels this afternoon on the Russell, the Diamond, the SPYs, they all continue to kind of melt up. And now we are, what, two, three weeks away from Thanksgiving. That is a very bullish time, right? The end of the fourth quarter is super bullish. You usually have one of these things called the Thanksgiving stock, right? The Turkey stock, some stock that starts rallying a week or so before Thanksgiving and really, really goes parabolic. Maybe that stock is Tesla, right? We know here we are looking for some $2 stock is going to $9. You know, here's Tesla, right? And here's the most ironic part about Tesla. We'll kind of move forward after this. I don't even think it's gone parabolic yet. That's the craziest part about it. I don't think it's gone parabolic. Eventually it will, and eventually it's going to, you start putting in some heavy topping action, and eventually it's going to have that 100-point day reversal eventually. It might go to $35,000 first.  Elon Musk, a genius, and Elon we trust, long, short sideways, up, down, in and out, all around. And the most important part is, again, bull market continues. So again, now our goal, again, stay away from anything overextended, look for names that are coming out of channels that are either either reclaiming channels coming off the bottom channels or starting to reclaim short-term intervals. So for example, a name like Apple, you know, we're watching, right?  If you guys remember that 145 was the breakout earnings. It came in, reclaimed, now I'm watching the five-day moving average has been rejected there back to back days. If, you know, if Apple starts reclaiming back the five-day moving average again for all you guys who've been watching this, you know how important that five-day moving average is? It's short-term sentiment. So if Apple starts confirming back the five-day moving average, again, that's value. We already know the stock has been rejected off the five-day, two days in a row. So you know, if it gets rejected the third time around tomorrow, you don't want to be in the trade anyway. So that's how important this level is. A name like Airbnb, which was a really, really nice move. We talked about this thing during the weekend update as well. Finally got above the 173 levels after three times of rejection. And now tomorrow this thing is set up. They were coming for the 180 to 50 Coles weeklies coming in on Airbnb. If this thing starts taking out this top of the range here, you know, Airbnb can wake up as well. Even Goldman Sachs, Goldman is actually held up fairly well. If you look at a lot of the financials, you know, they've gotten hit. If you look at Visa, if you look at Mastercard, right, these things got hit. Goldman is, you know, is the pillar of strength here. And look how close Goldman Sachs is here taking out a multi-month range here. So if the financials are strong, and there's a rotation back into the financials, you know, keep an eye on Goldman Sachs. Even a name like Peloton has been having some problems, have had some really good times, you know, even Peloton today, first close over the five-day moving average. Again, I don't think it's going to get back to this high. But look, I mean, if this thing starts confirming the five-day tomorrow's channel, maybe you could get a three, four-dollar move. Remember, not every single trade is Tesla. Not every single stock is going to go up 10, 12, 15, $30 candles. Sometimes a dollar is a good thing, right? Sometimes, sometimes, you know, 50 cents to do $2, $3. It's a wonderful thing. And again, I think a lot of traders have been so spoiled by some of these moves that when you get a dollar in a trade, you're like, shh, you shun you nose to it because, again, you don't want to be bothered. Again, I don't get out of bed for less than $10, right? That can't be your personality. That can't be your trade. It's not an all-or-nothing type of business. You have to grind, you have to grind. And then eventually, you get that Tesla that breaks that, you know, 90-yard touchdown all the way to the house. So let's talk about today's session. Again, we talked about this morning. And congratulations for all you guys who came in from the runners over the weekend.  And I turn around and said, look, this is the day. You want to close out your position. You want to sell in your stock when you can, when you want to, not when you have to.  Blue, not a big move. 750 needs to build. Here is blue, right? Not a big move. It went from 750 to like 765 and then it reversed. Nothing there to talk about. Google never got up to 2965, 2973 level, got rejected, pretty much pre-market. This thing was a really good move.   We were watching this thing pre-market, green, not green, but green Friday, right? The previous Friday had November 1555 calls. The stock's 27 bucks, right? A red to green for experienced traders is not a pivot. There's just momentum needs to build 2870. We'll get to that in a second. Apple, I still like it. QS, not a bad move. QS had a dip earlier, then 2980, 30, went to 3065. I still like it. I don't think it's still, it's still there. It still hasn't really, really reclaimed that 30 dollar level.  They were coming for the weekly 32 calls. We still want to watch this thing for tomorrow. STX, we've been talking about this thing for several sessions. $90 needs to build. Here was STX. Finally took out that 90 and traded all the way up to 93 and changed really, really good move on STX. I and MD, I wasn't watching this thing. I saw it confirm. I just wasn't watching it. I and MD 9630. I should have been watching it. 9630 went to almost 99. Oh, well, just wasn't my thing. So I wasn't watching it. ABBV, I wasn't watching either ABBV 1560, 1560. Looks like it just traded up to 1560s and just kind of died. Roku 303 obviously never got there. FUBU was a big mover, really, really big mover. 31 needs to build. Here was FUBU, FOBO. It took out this whole 31 channel and all the way up to 3345. I still like this thing higher. This thing looks higher. If it can just get above, if it can just get above this 3370, 34 level, you could have your next leg up. So keep an eye on FOBO. Tesla again, here's what we're talking about. I was looking for a reversal. You know, it tested 1114 twice. You know, again, I trade both sides. It doesn't matter to me, but never got back down to 1114 and obviously it's 100 points higher from what's there. So again, just an unbelievable story. FOBO monster size buyer comes in. 62 II VI needs to build. Nice pop on II VI. II VI. Here was 62, right? It took out to 62, traded almost to 64. Nice pop there. And here's where what I was talking about. Grie 27 needs to build. They were coming in for the 50 to $55 calls literally for three weeks of exploration. And look what the stock did. Here was the 37. We talked about 37, 37. It took out 37. Went to 31. I mean, phenomenal move. That was really outside of Tesla. This was definitely the most aggressive move and especially interval of the day. Really, really huge move there on Grie. Here comes II VI QS 33 measured potential take on the way up 30s, keep a runner, break even. And this thing actually came all the way back in. So that's it. That's it. You know, we still have a bull market. We still want to take advantage of the names that are strong that are continued strength, but the most important part is names that are not overextended. Guys have a great night.  And with God's help, I will see you all tomorrow


Now that port was hauled by a putter from Scotty Cameron that cost one and a half thousand pound, yep one and a half grand. We're going to take a closer look at it. I want your opinions on this one. Would you ever spend one and a half thousand pounds on a putter? I'm going to show you two very limited edition putters, one of only a thousand of each model's worldwide. Two of them are at Fourgolf Chester, a little close look at them and I think we need some feedback on this one. Are you fancy's 17 minute rant? And I did say it was last video of the year but it's not so yeah I just been down at Fourgolf Chester, thought I'd done my final video of the year and then walked in to find someone told me that they got two putters that are one and a half thousand pound each from Scotty Cameron. I'll be honest with you I didn't know putters were that expensive, limited edition putters for that. I mentioned on that little clip there that you've seen. Only one thousand of the holiday 18, holiday and 18 refers to the year. They've brought one of these out every, I think there's 18 models of the holiday and then you've got hugs and kisses and again this is 18 versions of this as I understand. 1,250 pieces of the hugs and kisses so you've got a little bit of more accessibility on that one. Only a thousand of their H18. What do you think of them? What do you think of them in terms of looks? I mean my immediate thought is after you get over the wow price thing it's like take a closer look and stunning pieces of engineering. I mean one thing about Scotty Cameron you've got to say is that anyone's took a close look at their mill putters the way they're put together. It's a fine piece of engineering and they are absolutely, they're just like I said a piece of art and it is that what they are because I'm going to show you an absolute bargain at the end of all this when we compare them to the one and a half thousand pound pieces but are they that of their piece of art? Is it something that you stick on your wall? Is it something you put on the locking key for 20 years and hope that the value increases? Are the Scotty Cameron collectors out there that perhaps helped me out on this one? Comment down below and tell me yeah what is the what is the whole idea behind them because you don't put them in the bag surely? Surely you can't game on one and a half thousand pounds worth of putter? I'd be really nervous to leave that unattended while I'm at another pint in the club house. I'd be a little nervous. I'd be a little nervous about getting a scratch or a mark on it albeit like I said they're absolutely lovely. The Holiday 18 if you have a look at the colours that are in it it resembles very much a Porsche design from a motorsport Porsche car from for some years. I don't know what you think of it like I said and then the hugs and kisses one for me. I'm a bit I don't know I'm not fond of that bright pink it's a bit too feminine for me. I thought it was a girl's putter if I'm honest with you very old fashioned attitude I know but I couldn't get put that one in the bag. I wouldn't want it on the wall either. The H18 one I actually really like but have a look at this one that I'm gonna throw up some images for now. This is another putter they've got and this is a Concept X range from Scotty Camlin. These are readily available so don't panic over these you can get all of these pretty much all year round I think. £500 a piece these so absolute bargain. Once again I mean if I if honestly if I had the choice of three putters I'd be choosing this. This is the CX2 there's two models CX1 CX2 this is CX2 I think it's an absolute stunner. What a putter this is and again close up looks at it it's so so nice. I would actually like I said on purely looks I mean like I said this is no means of performance review I've no idea how they help you perform in you'd want that money it's a stick in the hole for you every time I would think or high percentage but not a performance review simply just all about aesthetics and admiring the engineering I think I think that's the way you've got to look at it. Two questions we've got I mentioned at the beginning. A would any of you buy a Scotty Camlin putter as an investment for one and a half thousand pound and then maybe would you buy the £500 putter and perhaps consider gaming it and overall just what you think of these putters what's your opinion what is your feedback as the golfing world gone mad or are we talking about a piece of art a collector's item that is all about investments and you hope that that value increases is that the way that you purchase these kind of things who knows what I am told is that we had to do this video very very quickly because they arrived in a few days ago and I'm told I'll be sold very very quick as well they don't last long these things people are after them they're hot pieces of property and I'll be out of foregolf chest up very very quickly so there you go thought I'd have a little bit of a chat and it is only a very quick chat like I said I thought I'd gone for the holiday season back for a very short short video but gives me another opportunity to say perhaps in a little bit better mood than I will see you the day happy Christmas to everybody as ever thanks for watching have a great great time enjoy yourselves be careful maybe get a bit of golfing over the new year and I'll see you maybe in the new year who knows something else might bring me in front of the camera I just can't resist and I'm gonna chat with everybody as ever thank you for watching thank you for all your comments all your likes all year everyone the dislikes as well thank you for disliking the videos absolutely love that and we'll talk again very very soon have a good time


Hello everyone. In today's session, we are going to learn about V2I i.e. voltage to current and I2V current to voltage converters using operational amplifiers. At the end of this session, students will be able to explain and analyze voltage to current i.e. V2I and current to voltage I2V converters implemented using operational amplifiers. These are the contents of my today's presentation. The voltage to current converter provides output current that is directly proportional to input voltage. Input voltage is converted into proportional output current. So V2I converter that is voltage to current converter can be used in applications such as low AC and DC voltmeters to convert voltage into current and light emitting diode that is LEDs tester and GENER diode testers. To find matching light emitting diodes of equal brightness, this V2I converter can be used. The current to voltage converter that is I2V converter is a special case of inverting amplifier in which input current is converted into output proportional voltage. So I2V converter is commonly used with digital to analog converters whose output is always current. So output of digital to analog converter that is current is converted into a proportional voltage. So at the output of DAC I2V converter is used as well as I2V converter is used in sensing the current from photo detectors such as solar cells, photo diodes, photo cells which is proportional to light intensity. Now let us see the first version of voltage to current converter with floating load that is V2I converter with floating load. So figure shows the circuit diagram for V2I converter with floating load in which load resistor RL is connected in feedback loop of operational amplifier. It is connected in between output terminal and inverting input of operational amplifier in place of feedback resistor RF. The input voltage to be converted into proportional output current is applied to non-inverting input of operational amplifier. So op-amp is working in non-inverting mode and the feedback voltage the voltage appearing across R1 that is feedback voltage that is proportional to output current is applied at inverting input. Whatever current flowing through inverting input of operational amplifier that is a bias current it is approximately 0. So output current flowing through load resistor RL almost all output current flows through R1 and produces a voltage. So voltage producing produced across R1 that is applied to inverting input of operational amplifier that is a feedback voltage. The load resistor RL is floating means it is not connected to ground and input voltage applied at non-inverting input terminal that is the feedback voltage R1 is applied to inverting input terminal. So we can verify the working of this circuit by getting the equation for output that is output current. So let us write Kirchhoff's voltage equation for input loop of this circuit. So VIN is equal to VID plus VF where VIN is applied input voltage and VID is a differential input voltage of operational amplifier and VF is a feedback voltage but VID is approximately 0 volts since the gain of operational amplifier that is basic gain of operational amplifier A is very large ideally infinity. So it tends to infinity means input voltage tends to differential input voltage tends to 0. So therefore VIN is equal to VF. So voltage applied at non-inverting input appears across the feedback resistor R1 input resistor R1 VF. So VIN is equal to R1 into IO that is output current. So IO equal to VIN upon R1. So this equation shows that input voltage VIN is converted into proportional output current. So that is given by VIN upon R1. This means that input voltage VIN appears across resistor R1. If in place of resistor R1 if we are using a precision resistor the output current will be precisely fixed. Now let us go for the second version of V2I converter that is the voltage to current current converter with grounded load. So this figure shows circuit diagram for V2I converter with grounded load. In this the input voltage to be converted into output current is applied to non-inverting input. Opium is working in non-inverting mode and feedback circuit is designed around inverting input. So in place of RF and R1 same value of resistor R is used and operational amplifier is biased with dual DC power supply plus VCC and minus VW and load connected at the output is connected to ground. It is grounded. So one terminal of load is connected to the output terminal through resistor R and another terminal is connected to ground. So input voltage VIN is applied through resistor R. So identical resistors are used and the current resulting due to input voltage is I1 and current resulting due to output of this circuit PO is I2 and the current flowing through load is IL is a summation of I1 and I2 and input bias current of operational amplifier is approximately zero IB is zero as input resistance of op-amp is very high very large ideally infinity. So to verify the working of this circuit we can get the equation for output voltage. So let us analyze this circuit. Load current is controlled by the input voltage. Let us find voltage V1 at non-inverting input terminal then establishing the relation between V1 and load current or the input voltage VIN and the load current IL. So use KCL at node V1 so that is I1 plus I2 is equal to IL. So let us express I1 in terms of potential difference in resistance VIN minus V1 upon R plus VO minus V1 upon R that is equal to IL. So VIN plus VO after simplification VIN plus VO minus 2VN 2VN is equal to IL into R. Therefore V1 is equal to VN plus VO minus ILR divided by 2. Since operational amplifier is working in non-inverting mode the gain of this circuit voltage gain of this circuit is 1 plus RF upon R1 that is here 1 plus R upon R so that is equal to 2. So then output voltage VO is equal to again times the input voltage so that is equal to 2VN V1. So this is equal to 2 to gate cancels so VIN plus VO minus IL into R. So after simplification VIN is equal to IL into R so output load current IL is equal to VIN upon R. This means that the load current depends upon the input voltage VIN and resistance R. Now let us go for I to V converter that is current to voltage converter. This figure shows the circuit diagram for current to voltage converter. It is a special case of inverting amplifier. So in place of VIN and R1 a current source can be shown so that is IN. So IN is the input current resulting due to input voltage that is applied to inverting input and current flowing through inverting input and non-inverting input. So those are bias currents IB1 and IB2 are approximately 0. So the input current is applied to inverting input and current flowing through inverting input is approximately 0 because the input resistance of the amplifier is very large ideally infinity. So all input current flows through feedback resistor RF. RF is connected in between inverting and output terminal of operational amplifier. Operational amplifier is biased with dual DC power supply plus VCCS and minus VW and load resistor IL is connected at the output. So the proportional voltage corresponding to the input current will appear across load resistor IL so that is across RF. The non-inverting input plus input is connected to ground so voltage V1 is 0. So therefore voltage V2 is also 0 because differential input voltage tends to 0 as the basic gain of op-amp tends to infinity. So let us consider ideal voltage gain of inverting amplifier. So a ratio of output voltage to input voltage V1 upon VIN is equal to minus RF upon R1. So that is equal to VA equal to minus for VIN upon R1 into RF. Since V1 is equal to 0 volts therefore V2 is also 0 volts. This is by the concept of virtual ground. Op-amp always tries to equalize voltage at non-inverting and inverting. So non-inverting is 0 volts so inverting is also 0. So inverting input of operational amplifier is acting as a virtual ground. So VIN upon R1 is equal to IN. So output voltage is equal to the input current minus IN into RF. So output voltage is directly proportional to the input current IN as feedback resistor RF is fixed constant. So output voltage becomes proportional to the input current IN. In other words the circuit converts the input current into a proportional voltage. Now a student can pause video here and think over this question and try to write the answer. Identify and justify the type of feedback used in V2i converter with floating load. The current series negative feedback is used since the current flowing through resistor R1 that is proportional to output current that is current flowing through feedback resistor RF. So voltage produced across R1 is feedback voltage it is applied to inverting input of operational amplifier and this feedback voltage depends upon output current. So this feedback voltage it is in series with the input differential voltage or difference voltage VID. So feedback voltage across R1 is coming in series with differential input voltage VID as well as the input voltage applied at non-inverting input. Therefore it is also called as current series negative feedback amplifier. So current series negative feedback amplifier is a voltage to current converter with floating load. This is the reference. Thank you.


함께. I, Phasfervertasarya Department of Philosophy Going to Take a class of semester one Unit 1 Neither Of Formal Logic So, we will study Basics and tips and basic points how it is to combine formal logic the relation between logic and deductive argument explain the concept of symbolic logic and finally describe the relationship of form and matter in logic before going on to this topic NASA of formal logic you have to know that what is logic logic is regarded as the branch of philosophy the term logic is derived from the greek word logos which means thought or reasoning it is a study of reasoning reasoning is a special kind of thinking called inferring in which we arrive at a certain proposition on the basis of certain other propositions the proposition which we arrive at is called the conclusion and the proposition or propositions from which we arrive at the conclusion are called the premise or premises their learners thus reasoning is a kind of thinking in which conclusions are drawn from premises corresponding to every possible inference there is an argument every argument has a structure it consists of premise and conclusion premises provide support for the truth of the conclusion their learners this is the very basic thing you have to know that what is logic their learners now you have to know that what is formal logic formal logic is concerned exclusively with the principles of deductive reasoning and formal logic is concerned with the forms rather than with the content of propositions deductive logic is formal logic as opposed to inductive logic which is non-formal logic or material logic their learners deductive logic is formal logic as the term validity which is applicable to any kind of deductive argument implies only formal validity the concept logical form is central to logic as the validity of an argument is determined by its logical form and not by its content on subject matter their learners Aristotelian logic is a formal logic now their learners you have to know that the relationship between logic and deductive argument deductive argument is characterized as one in which the conclusion follows necessarily from the premises an argument is valid if the conclusion follows which strict necessity from the propositions known as premises in a valid argument it is inconsistent to assert the premises as true and to assert the conclusion as false that is to deny the conclusion logic is the science of reduction their learners its aim is to find out whether inferences or arguments are valid or invalid it aims to provide systematic means for telling whether given conclusion do or do not follow from the given premises their learners logic is primarily concerned with the correctness or incorrectness of arguments the distinction between correct and incorrect argument is the central problem with which logic deals they have developed certain methods and principles of logic primarily to make this distinction clear their learners logic was established as a formal discipline by Aristotel Aristotel systems of logic is a formal logic Aristotelian study of syllogism focused on arguments containing propositions of a special kind called categorical propositions categorical propositions or syllogisms consist of categorical propositions and categorical propositions consist of subject, predicate and recopula in Aristotelian logic the letters S and P represent the subject and the predicate terms respectively thus letters capital S, capital P, capital M etc are used as variables universal affirmative propositions is of the form all as RP and universal negative propositions is of the form no as RP and likewise particular affirmative and particular negative propositions are of the form some as RP and some as are not P respectively different valid moods of different figures like Barbara, Siller and etc of Aristotelian logic are examples of formal validity their learners after going through this previous concept you have to taste yourself and there are some question frame for you like that fill up the blanks the first one the term logic is derived from the Greek word you choose the word or you find out the word what is the answer of this the term logic is derived from the Greek word you find out the word the second one very objective questions that is what is reasoning and what is formal logic and what is deductive argument


Jerry, off the circus! Expert Danny Duggan, and this is the time. Just in a word around it, maybe there ain't going to be no show today. No, well, you don't see that vicious gossip, Dan. Now, if that ain't just what I told the folks, Mars Vandrum. It's a little thing like a cyclone blowing out of circus all over town to stop it, right? As a matter of fact, we gave them a free show this time, and one they will never forget.  A man that can kid after the beating you've just taken deserves a medal. How'd you find things in town, Dan? Bad enough. Fortunately for the towners, though, the twister only hit the east end of the city. Yeah, they're good luck. They're bad luck. We certainly parked on the wrong side of town this trip. Most of the residential sections in the whole business center of town escaped. I'm mighty glad to hear that. Well, I suppose you better get down to business, Mr. Randall. What's the first thing to do? You haven't found out where the main tent finally landed, have you? Of course I have. I forgot to tell you. I'm afraid it won't be any use to us, though, after this. It caught on a church steeple on the far side of town. Naturally, it was torn to shreds. Well, that's that. What happened to the steeple? Knocked it down, of course. Oh, that's a pity. I'm sorry, Dan. So that means we're minus the main tent for the rest of the season. Oh, no, we're not. What do you mean? We've got an old one from two seasons back at winter quarters. And good enough conditions? Certainly. An old one is always reconditioned and ready to be sent out in case of emergency. Good. How soon can it get here? Tomorrow night. I'll get a wire off immediately. Fine. That means we'll only lose two days today and tomorrow. Yep, but two days is more than I've lost in 20 years. Don't say, Mr. Randall. I certainly hate to break my record. Well, at least you know it's not your fault. If it were humanly possible, you'd be putting on a show. You bet I would be. See, look out there, Dan. Certainly a mess. But those restabouts are cleaning up as fast as they can. No, that isn't what I mean. Where? What? I mean all those towners wandering through a lot. It's a shame we can't give them a show, and we won't be able to stay over another day to give them one. We'll just have to jump right to Harper City and make that our next stand. Mr. Randall? No. And now what? I've got an idea. Well, that's good, but there's no reason to scare me to death. But Mr. Randall, listen. It's...it's... Well, as Jerry'd say, it's a knockout. Well, go on. What is it? You can't tell me on it unless I know what it's all about. Listen, the whole circus is in a mess. That's not news. No, but it's exciting to the towners. Look how they're snooping out there. And getting in everybody's way, too. That doesn't matter. You don't know it, but you're going to give this town a show after all. What are you talking about? Just this. We'll paint a couple of big posters announcing, first time in history, the world's greatest show laid waste by a cyclone. Come one, come all. Oh, listen, Danny, you losing your mind? The folks in this town ought to know, but now that there was a cyclone here today, and that wrecked the circus, if they don't, they won't be smart enough to read your posters. But you don't get the idea, Mr. Randall. All right, well, go on. My plan is for you to charge 25 cents for the folks to go through the circus lot and see exactly the mess we're in. Danny Dugan. Why, of course. Why, say, you've hit the bullseye. Bet I have. Say, they'll want to know all about how the animals got by. Let the guards tell what happened.  Get those posters painted, and we'll show this town how a circus can be wrecked and rebuilt in two days. That's the ticket. And make them pay to see it. Here, wait a minute. I'll write this telegram for Bill. Winter quarters about that main time. Yeah? Oh, yes. Say, I guess I... I guess you'd better send on an extra... any extra small tents he's got out there, too. I'll say, all those places along the midway will have to be rebuilt, and that's Menagerie tents are wrecked. Yeah. Well, don't worry. I can't keep the Randall's circus tube down. Here, just a second. Oh, by the way, Mr. Randall... Yeah? Um, well, I was just wondering about... Well, I... Well, out with it, man. What's in your mind? Well, you spoke about a new suit of clothes for every good idea I thought of, and... Yeah, you old rascal.  Why, Mr. Randall, of course not. No kidding, Dan. You deserve a couple of suits for that suggestion. And it's a cheap price to pay, too. Oh, I don't want a suit. No. I only wanted to show you I'm earning my keep as an efficiency expert. Mr. Randall? Uh, Mr. Randall. No, it sounds like that. And they're a few of yours. Mr. Randall, uh... I'll open the door. Oh! There he are, Mr. Randall. Oh, hello, Uncle Dan. What's your hurry, Johnny? Say, Mr. Randall, there's an old farmer out here. Yeah? He wants to see you. It's about Aga. Aga? I thought that chimp got away. She did. That's a trouble. Well, uh, has she been found? Yeah, that's it. But the farmer says he won't talk to anybody, but the manager. Oh, all right. Bring him in, Jerry. Okay. That boy certainly can get excited. Oh, it looks as if you're getting your chimpanzee back anyway. Yeah, I hope so. She's too mischievous to let her round loose. Well, get those signs right out, Mr. Randall.  Okay, Dan. It's up to you. You just leaving, Uncle Dan? Yep, I've got to go to work. Mr. Randall, this is Mr.... Hoffenthaler. Yeah, the man I was telling you about. Oh, and how'd he do, sir? Jerry tells me that you have news of our prized chimpanzee. Yes, sir. I reckon that's what you'd call it.  Well, what happened, Mr.... Hoffenthaler. Well, you see, it was like this. A dead cyclone. I reckon you know all about that cyclone. Well, unfortunately, we do. Yeah, that probably would. Well, friend, I don't mind telling you, it cleaned my farm like a fresh plucked hen. Amy sent me out to see if any of the animals was left. And I don't mind telling you, I hadn't got no further than the end of the barn when she let out a yell that sent goose flesh up and down my spine. But what happened? I thought you said that... I'm getting to it. I'm getting to that now. Well, knowing Amy like I do, I didn't let no grass grow under my feet. No, siry. I let right out for the house. And there stood Amy on the front steps with her apron over her head and hollerin' for all she was worth. Well, the chimpanzee hadn't touched her head. No, and Amy, I figured quick like that she weren't hurtin' on, not with all that there hullabaloo. Well, where was Aga? Well, sir, would you believe it? That there critter was locked in the house and we was locked outside. And Amy had a boiled dinner on the stove all ready to be dished up the minute I come in. Is Aga still locked in your house? She sure is. And Amy fit to be tied. She'll never be comfortable sleepin' in that bed again. Not after that hairy critter's bed. Your bed? You mean, Aga got in your bed? Well, that's just what I'm telling you, son. He pulled that patch quilt, and he made so careful like all last winter, right up over him. And the last icing of him, he snoring to beat the band. Oh, that's a riot. She can imagine that, Mr. Antwon. Now, listen here, young man.  Well, of course it's not, Mr. There you go. Huff and sealer. Yeah, Mr. Huff and sealer. I'm mighty sorry a thing like this should happen.  Yes, sir. Amy's fit to be tied. And she's that upset about her dinner boiling over in her patchwork quilt and the clean sheet. Well, I'm sure of that. And she's perfectly right, too. I'll tell you what, Mr. Huff and sealer. Huff and sealer. Yes. We'll send your wife a few dollars so that she can get someone to clean up after Aga's gone. And, well, maybe that'll make her a little more contented. Now, that's real friendly of you, sir. That's what I'd call it, real neighborly. I reckon a couple of dollars would quiet Amy down more than all the talking I could do in the month of Sunday. Well, that's good.  You bet I will, Mr. That's right. And then you come back here. Your uncle's working on a job and I think he can use you. Sure thing. I'll be back in a jiffy. Come on, Mr. Huff and sealer. Well, now, I reckon if it weren't that Amy was a jittery like, I'd like to stick around and spell it myself. But then you know how we've an arm, Mr. Huff. Yes, yes, yes. I better be getting... Well, thank you for telling us about Aga. She's valuable, but we certainly don't want her to cause trouble for others. Good day, sir. Good day. How are you back, Jerry? You bet. Oh, hello. Mr. Randall in there, young man. Yep, right inside. Thank you. Well, there you are, Mr. Randall. Oh, yes. Come in, Thomas. Take a chair there. Thanks. Well, I'm sorry I had to take you off your regular job for me, but Jim Bennett has so many things to do and just couldn't be helped. Well, that's quite all right, Mr. Randall. There's not much bookkeeping for me to do anyway. At least not until we get rolling again. That's good. Well, I suppose you check things over pretty carefully and know just where we stand. What's the bad news, Thomas? Bad news is right. The main top is ruined, cut on the church steeple. Oh, yes, yes. I've heard about that. I've already wired for a spare top and any others that they have available in winter quarters. Yes. Well, the wardrobe top seems to have disappeared. The cyclones scattered our costumes all over town. What a mess. People are bringing things in pretty fast, though. Most of them can be saved, cleaned up and used. That's lucky. Yes, it is. We've taken an awful beating in the mess tent. I can imagine. I saw that go up. Did you ever see so many plates and silver floating away in all your life? Well, of course, the crockery is a dead loss. I've already put in an order for mess tent equipment. We can get credit enough to cover that. Have you estimated the amount we'll need to rebuild the midway? Approximately. Then, of course, our running expenses were around 5,000 a day. How many days do you figure we'll lose? Only two. I've canceled the engagement in Big Rock, but I've notified Harbor City. We'll pay there or else. Man, that's not giving us much time. No, no. But we can't afford to disappoint those cities, nor can we pay these terrific overheads and without getting in some daily receipts. We'd be bankrupt in no time. All right, Mr. Randall, you give the word and we'll get things ready. That's the spirit. Well, how much do you figure we'll need to borrow to see us through? It's too bad we've no insurance to cover this lot. No, I know. The rates are too high. Yes. You'll have to take out separate clauses for everything, tornadoes, floods, cyclones, lightning, and all that. Yes, I've been pretty lucky over 20 years in show business and this is the first major catastrophe like this I've ever had. I guess you're right, Mr. Randall, as usual. Oh. Well. Here, here I am, Mr. Randall. Oh, so I see. Just a minute, Jerry, till I finish here with Mr. Thomas. Well, what do you figure we'll need, Ben? $25,000. $25,000? What for? Not to help us rebuild the circus and get it in shape to play Harper City. Gee whizzes, that's terrible. Not when you consider that it costs thousands of dollars a day just to move this circus and feed the animals and people. Say that so. Thomas, get down in town and find out what kind of a deal we can make on such a loan, the percentages for 30, 60, or 90 days and so on. All right. I'll have the figures for you tonight. You'll know where to find me. I don't have to if we expect to finish up the season, Jerry. There's a line of people a block long outside what used to be the main entrance. They're letting them in in groups and showing them through the grounds. What's the idea, Mr. Randall? Well, that's an idea of your uncles. That's what I wanted you for. You need your help, I think. Now you go and find him, Jerry. He'll tell you what it's all about.


Welcome to the Equal Opportunities Committee, the fourth meeting of 2016. Please set any electronic devices to flight mode or switch off, please. I'd like to start with introductions. We're supported at the table by clerkin and research staff, official reporters and broadcasting services and around the room by the security office and also welcome to observers in the public gallery. My name's Margaret McCulloch and I'm the committee's convener and members will now introduce themselves and turn starting here on my right. Good morning. Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Kelvin. John Mason, MSP for Glasgow, Shetleston. Annabelle Gold, MSP for West of Scotland. Good morning, Christian. I'm the MSP for North East Scotland. Good morning, John Finnie, MSP Highlands and Islands. Drew Smith, member for Glasgow region. The first agenda item today is a decision on taking business in private. You're asked to create a paper on your review of the budget considerations at agenda item 4 in private. Are we all agreed? Yes. Agenda item 2, we are taking evidence from the cabinet secretary for social justice, communities and pensioners rights on an affirmative instrument, namely the Equality Act 2010, specific duties Scotland, amendment regulations 2016 draft. That instrument is laid under the affirmative procedure, which means that the Parliament must approve it before provisions may come into force. Following this evidence taken, the committee will be invited to consider a motion to approve the instrument under agenda item 3. I welcome the cabinet secretary and his accompanying officials. I invite the cabinet secretary to make any opening remarks, please. Thank you very much indeed, convener. I introduce Eileen Flanagan from the Equalities Unit from the Policy side. I'm Stuart Fubyster, who is a Government solicitor and advises us on legal matters. If required, both of them are available to answer questions as well. I'm pleased to be here today to move the Equality Act 2010, specific duties Scotland, amendment regulations 2016 and to answer members' questions. I will keep these remarks brief to allow maximum time for questions and answers. These draft regulations propose to do two things. First, to require listed public authorities to publish the gender composition of their boards and to produce succession plans to increase the diversity of their boards and to lower the threshold for listed public authorities to publish information on their gender pay gap and equal pay statements from those authorities with more than 150 employees to those with more than 20 employees. Our intention is that the new requirement to publish the gender composition of their board and to produce diversity succession plans will give added impetus and drive to how public bodies think about and plan their board recruitment processes, including how they can bring greater diversity to their board if that is what the evidence tells them is needed. We want our bodies to reflect Scotland's diversity and to make the most of the talent that is out there in our communities. The lowering of the threshold for authorities to publish their gender pay gap and equal pay statements is intended to bring a greater transparency and accountability in respect of pay. It is regrettable that, 45 years after the Equal Pay Act, we continue to see women bringing equal pay cases to the employment tribunal. While the full-time gender pay gap in Scotland narrowed last year to 7.3 per cent, the gap remains persistent and significant, more than doubles when you factor in part-time work. We have plenty of work ahead and challenges still to overcome. However, I believe that public bodies in Scotland have a central role to play in helping to promote equality and diversity and tackle inequality and discrimination. In fact, I would like to see a public sector in Scotland leading the way and setting a benchmark for others to aspire to. I believe that they are up to that challenge and I hope that the committee will approve the draft regulations to that effect. Cabinet Secretary, there are three pretty simple questions. First of all, how many additional listed authorities will now be brought under the provisions of the Equality Act? There will be 30 additional authorities. I will read out some of them to you. We will send you the full list. We can also send you a list of 20 or so organisations that will not be covered because they will get fewer than 20 employees. However, there are quite a number of valuation joint boards that will now come into the legislation. Others include the Accountant in Bank Rupsates, a Cossford School, Creative Scotland, Donaldson School, East Park School, 4th Estuary Transport Authority, Hermony School, Jordan Hills School, Lewis Castle College, Newbattle Abbey College, Orkney College, Royal Blind School, Bordna Gallach, South West of Scotland Transport Partnership, Stanmore House School, T-Bridge Joint Board, the Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland, West Highland College is a sample. We will send you the full list. I know that, during the consultation, some concerns were raised about data protection issues because of the smaller size now of some of the listed authorities. I just wondered, Cabinet Secretary, how those concerns are going to be addressed. The main concern was where should we set the lower number, and it has been set at 20, and that is on the advice of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, because their advice was to go below 20, you are in danger then of basically, de facto, giving data protected information about employees and putting it into the public domain. Therefore, we have adhered to the advice of the Equality and Human Rights Commission. We actually within the Scottish Government have an organisation called ScotXZ, and that basically keeps a day-to-day eye on making sure that anything that we do across the Government does not in any way endanger the data protection rights of any employee of the Government or any of its agencies. Again, their advice was sought in this, and the advice is to go below 20, you are in danger of crossing the data protection legislation. For the smaller listed authorities, there will now be an additional financial and administrative obligation. Has any attempt been made to quantify what that means for the smaller listed authorities? Before we decided to introduce the secondary legislation, we looked at whether there were other administrative ways of fulfilling the requirement without additional secondary legislation. For example, we looked at whether the public appointment system that we now have in Scotland was robust enough to provide that information without requiring additional secondary legislation. We came to the conclusion that we needed the additional secondary legislation, and we have discussed it with the relevant bodies. The additional administrative cost is very marginal indeed and does not require any supplement to anyone's budget to be able to do it effectively. They really have the information. It is simply a case of correlating it perhaps in a way that they have not done before. In terms of the computer systems and the HR systems, it is a bit of a one-off exercise, because once you have set up the computers to collate the information, it churns it out on a regular basis. Do you anticipate them having to take on extra staff? No, not at all. Thank you very much, cabinet secretary. I was looking at the amendment and I said that on new regulations 6A1, the Scottish ministers must from time to time take steps 2 and a whole range of steps to take, which are quite interesting. Is it the way in which we draft regulations that we must from time to time? I am trying to understand what means must from time to time. I will bring Stuart in here, but I have to say that 17 years in here, time to time, appears on a regular basis. But must before it? Absolutely. It seems very strange. I think that the answer is that it gives you a degree of flexibility. If you are too prescriptive, let's say that you have to do it. If it is said every three months, every six months, every 12 months, then you could create a bit of a bureaucratic nightmare in terms of requiring things that are way over the top or indeed you could be underreporting if you are too prescriptive. So I think that it is about leaving it to the judgment of ministers as to when these matters need to be reported on a regular basis. But it is a fairly standard piece of phrasology in legislation. Craig, if it was silent, then without any reference from time to time, then it might be suggested that it was only an obligation to do it once, but from time to time it just produces a sense that we have to keep doing it over time picking up this information. But without set timescales, as the cabinet secretary says. I give us the intention of the Scottish ministers to do it from what would be any idea when you will be. Once this is enforced, then it's about doing it as quickly as possible. But the idea is that once some information is picked up, it doesn't just stop there, you know, wait a bit, refresh the information, so it's from time to time. I just clarify timetables. Everybody covered, the additional bodies covered the 30 bodies. Effectively, that becomes operational from April 2017, and therefore, after that, we'll obviously be monitoring the situation to make sure that they are taking the necessary steps to ensure diversity in the succession plans and in terms of recruitment of new members and new employees and so on. Because some board members are also employees, obviously, in some cases. To make sure that in the recruitment processes they are fulfilling the requirements of the legislation. John Finnie 1, please. All right, okay, okay, supplementary, okay, Annabelle? Cabinet secretary, given the delightfully flexible nature of the draftsmanship, I suppose time to time can mean now and again when it comes up that the ministers have to do it. What I'd like to know is, whatever the phrasing is, what is the sanction of the Scottish minister does not take steps to gather this information? Well, I think the Parliament then would, led by this committee, would take a very dim view of that, and the Parliament no doubt would decide what to do in respect of the minister failing to carry out their duties, as would be the normal case. I don't think we're including provisions that I can go to Barlinnie if I fail to carry out my duty. But there are other things short of Barlinnie that you can do to me. Thank you. John Finnie, please. Thank you. We'll discuss these sanctions in private, as I suspect the Cabinet secretary. Cabinet secretary, it wasn't my intention to ask you how many listed public authorities with less than 20 employees there were, but if, and I would still like to ask that, but can I supplement that? I can well understand that you seek advice from the Equality and Human Rights Commission, but people may well be surprised that there are data protection issues relating to what effectively are the salaries of public officials. Would you hope that that would expand at some point in the future? We should be open and transparent about the expenditure of public money. Your salary, my salary, are known to the public. I don't see why it should be an issue. The issue under 20 is in relation to the diversity requirements. For example, it may well be that somebody doesn't want it to be known that they are disabled. And if you go below 20, the advice of the Equality and Human Rights Commission is that you could be effectively putting that information in the public domain and thereby betraying the data protection rights of that individual. Sorry, I should have clarified it. I really have a couple of questions exclusively about pay matters. I would like to clearly wish to disadvantage anyone at all on that. Sorry, the pay, in terms of the pay. Obviously, the pay, if you are on a board, everybody knows what your pay is, because we publish the information for every board member, irrespective of whether the chair, the vice chair or an ordinary member of the board, all that information is already in the public domain. I might be slowing the pickup. Are there public authorities where it isn't an individual, isn't a board member but an employee? How many are you able to say how many are there? Well, it varies across the board. For example, if you take a body like Scottish Enterprise, which is already covered by the legislation, the chief executive of Scottish Enterprise is automatically a member of the board. If you look at the health boards in Scotland, the chief executive of the health board is automatically also made a member of the board. However, there are other organisations where the chief executive is not a member of the board. There would be an attendance at the board meeting, but they are not actually in law a member of the board. In those cases, we would still publish the salary information of the chief executive, obviously. We are going to be as open as we possibly can. Even if somebody is the most senior manager, their remuneration is still in the public domain, even if they are not actually also a board member. Okay, thank you very much for that. There is an aspiration among some people, which I have included, that we address the issue of wage ratios more publicly. I think that there can be a gender element to that. Would you imagine that something that the public sector would address? Would you support that being addressed? I am very empathetic. I mean, we had the report by Will Hutton, who suggested that within private sector organisations, as well, if I remember correctly, but certainly within the public sector, that new organisations should have a pay ratio in excess of the lowest paid ratio to the highest paid ratio. I think that it was 1 to 13. If you look at what we do pay, particularly given our commitment to the living wage, I cannot think of a case where, because as a minister in every job that I have been in, I have asked for this information. I cannot think of a case where in the Scottish Government, or any of our organisations, we have a ratio of where the top paid person is getting 13 times more than the lowest paid person. I can just say that it is absolutely exact. The number of organisations that are not covered by the legislation because they employ fewer than 20 is 17, and we will send you that full list as well, John. Before we move on to agenda item 3, does anyone have any other questions that they would like to ask? Agenda item 3 calls for the committee to formally consider and recommend approval of the motion, namely S4M-15553, that the Equal Opportunities Committee recommends that the Equality Act 2010, specific duties Scotland, amendment regulations 2016, draft be approved. I would like to invite the cabinet secretary to speak to and move motion S4M-15553. I am happy to formally move the motion. Thank you to any members of any other questions. The question is that motion S4M-15553, in the name of Alex Neil, be approved. Are we all agreed? Thank you. Much indeed, once again. Thank you very much. That concludes the affirmative instrument. We will report the outcome of our consideration to the Parliament. I thank the cabinet secretary for his participation. That concludes the public part of today's meeting. Our next meeting will take place on Thursday, 24 February. I will now suspend the meeting for the committee to move into private session.


Hey there friends, thanks for checking in. This is my Smith & Wesson M&P Shield. Bought it in 2012. It's been a good gun. If you recall back in 2012, this was the hottest gun in the market. By far. It was right in the midst of the single-stack 9mm handguns that became so popular. This and the Springfield Armory XC-S and 45. Those two guns were huge. $600 people were paying for this. You know, I mean that's a lot of money for this handgun. Especially after the years had passed and we saw that it went down to maybe like $350.  But now it's time for me to say bye-bye. I need to make room in the safe because a lot of great guns are coming out these days and I've got more than a couple saves and they're filling up pretty quick. But the draw that this had above some of the other single stacks was that not only did it have a 7 round mag but it had this 8 round mag and that was a big deal. You know, 3 inch barrel performed great throughout the years. Never had a problem with it. I had a holster made immediately when I got it. Back in 2012 was a tough time for guns and when Smith came out with this it was a huge deal. You can see I have shield on there. It's a multi holster. I have several multi holsters so I have to label them. But I remember I called my local gun store. I said, do you have the MMP shield? They said, we've got one left. I said, take it out of the case. I'm on my way now. Take it out of your showcase. I am coming. They said, you got 20 minutes. I said, I'll be there in 10 and I picked this up for four and a quarter and at that time it was a steal. Actually, I think it was 450. But you may be asking, why are you getting rid of that? You know, it's a good gun. You already said it's a good gun to perform well. It's got the 8 and 7 round magazine. Why are you getting rid of that? Well, it might be obvious. I don't know. Perhaps it is. But I got the shield plus also a 9mm. Now this was available in 9 and 40. Right now this is only available in 9. But this is the shield plus right here. I've got the 13 round mag. This is not a review, just an overview. And then it also comes with a 10 round mag. Now the draw here is that here's that same holster. It does share the exact same holster because if we look at the slide, we can see that they are pretty identical. Not a great difference at all. So that's good and bad. Say, well, why is it bad? Well, you know, if you look at the SIG P365, by the way, thank you SIG for starting this whole double stack higher capacity 9mm handgun in a subcompact size. That SIG started it. But SIG came out, they designed a brand new gun. You know, that's Springfield Armory with the Hellcat brand new gun. Ruger Max 9 brand new gun. Now the Taurus GX4 brand new gun. This is not so much a brand new gun. So it's exciting because of the mag capacity. You know, it's got that 2.0 grip on there. Okay, the stippling is more textured. And they improve the trigger. And of course, the magazine capacity 13 and 10. So it's not, it's not a new gun. It doesn't carry that same type of excitement, I guess is a good way to say it. But it does align well. Now I've had so many people say, hey, you know, the Ruger Max 9, I want to see how it aligns with the SHIELD Plus. The Hellcat, you name it, P365. Now the GX4, how does that align with the SHIELD Plus? Well, that's what I did. I got the SHIELD Plus. So we could check some of that out. Now, many people are probably wondering, what did you pay for that?  That's what happens. It's not, I'm not worried about it getting demonetized for the monetary purposes. I don't like it that the video gets squandered in the mix because it's demonetized. And that's what happens. But I ended up picking this up as is. Now this is not a performance center. Okay, you can see it has the three inch barrel, not the four inch barrel, which the performance center four inch barrel has the optic ready choice on there or slide cutter should say, fiber optic sights and all that. Those are mid to upper 600s. I picked this up before 79. And I'm not going to say where I got it from, but I might post a or pin a comment so that you can see they're sold out. I checked today, they're sold out at that price for 79 was a steal much like this was for 450 back in 2012. But all things considered, it was a pretty good deal considering that you check gun broken, you check everywhere, you know, you're looking at between 550 and three or 550 and $600. And that's what the shield plus is going for. Then the performance center models are going for about $150 to $200 more, especially if you want the four inch barrel one and the optic slide cut. But anyways, that's what that's how I got around to this. It does have a flat trigger there. Okay, I said I wasn't going to review it, but I guess I'll show a little bit does have the flat trigger, does have trigger bar safety opposed to the hinged trigger that does not have that. But they did a nice job with it. It just doesn't carry that same amount of flair. But I'm still looking forward to doing some comparisons primarily. And I think it's a pretty decent gun, all things considered. If you like videos like this, please subscribe and share. I always appreciate thumbs up button. Thanks for watching and you guys be safe.


Awesome. Hi everyone and welcome to this webinar. Today we're going to be talking through EZCLA and specifically we're going to be introducing you to some of the new features and capabilities that will be coming out in the next V2 version of this release. So really talking through how this can help you even more to streamline your development workflows. And just a quick disclaimer, this webinar will be recorded. This is really geared towards the ASWF project community. But you know if you have any questions around this project or if you have any other questions around EZCLA in general, we are here to help. Again, this will be recorded so you'll be able to reference this in future and we'll be sharing out links to this as well as other resources to help you with using EZCLA V2 in follow up. Quick intros before we really jump into things. I'm going to be kind of leading here in terms of controlling slides as well as giving a bit of context around EZCLA in general. Before I jump into that, my counterpart Steve Winslow here will give us a bit more context around CLA's and contributor license agreements in general. And then we will be going through a demo of the tool with Pranab in just a little bit. We also have David on the line to help address any questions that might come up and be able to answer, you know, live through the chat feature here on Zoom. So just a little bit of housekeeping. You have any questions at all. And we want to make this as engaging and relevant to you as possible. So please do feel free to use the Q&A feature here on the Zoom webinar. Or even just drop your questions or comments into the chat and we'll be responding there. We'll also have plenty of time at the end for any Q&A that we want to talk through on the line. So with that, Steve, I'm going to go ahead and let you start us off here. Sounds good. Thank you, Stephanie. And thanks everyone for your time today. Happy to talk through this with you. Stephanie, if you want to go on to the next slide. So just as background, before we get into the specifics of what EZCLA does, just background on contributor license agreements. One key piece of this is that just noting that not all projects, not all open source projects use CLAs. There's a significant number of projects that use other mechanisms such as the developer certificate of origin or the DCO. But at the LF we support projects including the ASWF projects that where the project community has decided that they want to use CLAs as part of their contribution mechanisms in this part of ensuring that there's a common understanding of what the licenses are that are being granted with contributions to the project. So for projects that do use CLAs like ASWF, once they've made that decision to use CLAs, they kind of run into the question of, okay, what's the process for actually managing them. And kind of over years of working with us what we found and what I think a lot of open source projects have found is that managing CLAs can be something that's time consuming for the project maintainers to handle. And then on the contributor side it can be something that becomes something of a logistical blocker for new contributions to a project. And so on the easy CLA side what the goal really is is for projects that have made that decision that yes we're going to use CLAs. Then with easy CLA with the tool we try to help ensure first that the right processes are in place, the right workflows are in place to ensure that CLAs are correctly managed. And at the same time try to streamline those workflows so that they are as light touches can really be done. So try to streamline the process of getting CLAs signed and of managing who's authorized under those CLAs. And next slide. So the reason why this is a hard question is really because there's two different kinds of CLAs. There's individual CLAs which are for somebody who is contributing code that they've written on their own behalf something they've written on their own time, not related to their work. That'll get contributed under an individual CLA. And for something that somebody does write as part of their job or as on behalf of their employer, that's those are going to get contributed under a corporate CLA. And for the former for individual CLAs this is a sim this is really a pretty simple process it's just make sure the person has signed it. If they've signed the individual CLA. They're good. So that's as far what we found when we looked at other CLA management tools that were out there is that they they're really built with that as the model for everything. They're built with the assumption that the person who's contributing the code is contributing it under an individual CLA, or at least if they're they're contributing it under a CLA that they the contributors can themselves sign. And the problem with that with that model is that that that's not really what it looks like in practice. And particularly when you get into kind of the wide variety of organizations and companies that are out there. In some companies typically smaller companies, it might be the case that you know if there's only a couple employees it might be the case that the person who's actually writing the code submitting the PR is themselves able also authorized to sign contracts on behalf of their company. But for a lot of companies that's not going to be the case person who submitting the code is different from the person who's signing the CLA person signing the CLA might be someone that the contributor doesn't even know. A lot of companies similarly will want to have some sort of process for having their legal department or somebody else review a CLA. Similarly, other large other companies in particularly larger ones may have different models for how they want to manage who's authorized to contribute under the CLA. Some companies are perfectly fine saying yep we signed the CLA anybody who works here can now contribute under it that's fine. Other companies are going to say we've signed the CLA and only these three specific people are authorized to contribute. And so whatever tool is managing this really needs to be able to handle kind of the variety of different models in between there. And then you can see there's some other the list goes much longer than what I've got on here but there's just it there's a lot of complexity that comes into this because of the way that companies are organized differently and want to have different levels of control and visibility into this. So next slide. So as we're as we're going through this and as we start getting into the demo a little bit later on. They just wanted to give you some definitions up front so that we're all kind of on the same page for we're talking about so what we're when we say an ICLA that's going to be an individual CLA so again that's something that the person. Kind of disconnected from work somebody on their own time rights code and contributes it to a project. They contribute that under an ICLA somebody who's doing it on behalf of their work they contributed under a CLA corporate CLA. And then in easy CLA in the tool, there's three different really three different key roles that we talk about so different personas for people who are using it. The first is the contributor the person who's actually submitting the PR who wrote the code. And then there's the CLA manager which is what we call the person who within easy CLA manages the list of authorized authorized contributors from their company. And then finally there's the CLA signatory which as it sounds like is the person at the company who actually signs the CLA. And the key thing here is I was saying before is that of those three roles they might all be the same person they might all be different people just depending on the company. A lot of the complexity that you end up seeing an easy CLA comes out of the fact that we try to hand we're handling the different possible workflows depending on whether those are the same person of different people. So, and actually Stephanie before you go on to the next slide one thing I'll just note here is when we do come to the model the demo a little bit later on. The example project that we show in the demo is one where where it's been configured for both for for contributors to need to be authorized under both a CCLA and an ICLA. I'll say that's a pretty uncommon scenario and it's not one that is the case for the ASWF projects. So there's one when you're looking at the video there's going to be one when you're looking at the demo there's going to be one step in there where it won't be the same for the demo as for what you'll see in ASWF. There's one step in there where the, it looks like a contributor additionally has to sign an ICLA after they've signed the CCLA. And that will be different from what you're seeing an ASWF so apologies for any confusion there but just wanted to highlight that upfront that for that one part of the demo it'll be a bit different but for everything else for the process of signing the CCLA and getting authorized under it. That'll be the same as what you normally will see in ASWF. So, next slide please. Great. And then just a very quick roadmap for what you'll see as we get into the easy silly demo is. Like I was saying before for an individual contributor it's just a it's really just a docusign point and click it's just a the individual signs the CLA on their own behalf. For a corporate contributor. The process looks like this, the contributing companies CLA signatory will sign the CLA.  The CLA manager will go into easy CLA and do exactly that they'll manage who is who's authorized to contribute, and possibly who are other CLA managers from their company to also manage that list. So, so that's kind of the very the, you know, 20,000 foot overview of what's happening in easy CLA and then the details are just in how, how we get those steps completed. With that, so I will keep an eye on the questions in the Q&A if there are any but Stephanie I will go ahead and turn it back over to you. Awesome, thank you for that Steve. So, before we jump into the easy CLA demo, I just want to share a little bit of context on what, you know, the other tools that we have under this LFX umbrella, and then share a little bit about what is kind of current and what is new in easy CLA that you are aware of. And then we will jump into a demo. So, what is LFX? Well, here at the Linux Foundation, you know we recognize that the world runs on open source. We also know that projects need more than a version or source control system to build and scale. So, we've evolved a proven methodology to help projects and supporting them, transforming from, you know, small individual projects to category leaders. And this is really where LFX comes in. So, LFX is really, you know, it's a platform designed for, you know, operationalizing this approach that's been developed here at the Linux Foundation, and it provides a suite of tools built to help facilitate really every aspect of open source development. Today we're focusing on easy CLA, but there's other tools including tools that support insights, security for your projects, and much more. So, soon we're going to have a tool called organization dashboard, which will really help, you know, especially from the corporate side and manage all of your activities within open source projects here at the Linux Foundation. If you're interested in, you know, any of these, you know, feel free to check it out to visit our website, or, you know, feel free to follow up with us. And, you know, today we wanted to give you that context of easy CLA sits within this larger toolkit. And there's a lot of different ways that we're working to kind of operationalize support of your projects. So, let's look at easy CLA. A high level view, you know, what we're working to accomplish here, as Steve kind of walked us through a really trying to make the, you know, process of contributing to open source projects easier without sacrificing compliance. We do this by streamlining the process workflow management execution of the CLA's, but also automating, you know, what's typically a manual back and forth process. So, I also want to point out here, as Steve alluded to, that easy CLA is the only tool that supports both individual and corporate CLA workflows for open source projects. And so that because that makes it a really powerful tool to, you know, to support projects such as as WF, and, you know, all of the different contributors and all of the different companies workflows that you might have. With that, you know, those are impressive numbers. And we have supported trying to make this process easier for everybody so that at the end of the day it really comes down to just wanting to contribute code faster, you know, and be able to have more visibility and manage your corporate CLA's and kind of manage all of your authorized contributors. And, you know, this is really between current version and the upcoming V2 release. This really hasn't changed. If anything, we're working to make this process even easier and even more intuitive for you. At the end of the day. So, quickly going through this so we can, you know, get to the important stuff in the demo, you know, some of the features that are supported here within easy CLA. Again, incorporate as well as individual CLA support, giving you visibility into your CLA's and managing those, being able to approve CLA's one time, and have that be relevant across the board, providing multiple ways to authorize CLA's and, you know, the ability to work with both GitHub and Garrett. Additionally, you know, with the release of V2, you know, we're really working to improve the usability and user experience with role based workflow support ability to have auto discovery for new repositories, as well as branch protection. So, what's new. This is a deeper breakdown of kind of what that looks like. So relevant for all users, you know, we have improved user experience and user usability, which you'll see, especially in kind of how the UI improvements in streamline workflows in the demo. We also have additional support, whether that is support links and tool tips or just contextualize help within within the tool. We're also integrated with platform CRM. So here this is kind of, you know, the behind the scenes connecting the dots, making sure everything is centralized for accounting purposes. Also, we have introduced audit logs. So, being able to record and track kind of key events or changes within your CLA group and with authorizations. So you'll be able to have a full history of kind of what's happening there. And especially relevant for corporate CLA workflows. We have improved searching and filtering of your authorized users. We also have provided the ability to export your authorized users list as a CSV, as well as download signed PDFs. So you'll be able to download those directly from the easy CLA tool. And finally for project manager workflows, we've got things such as auto enabled repositories. So you're able to, you know, new repositories under the get hub org, and also auto setup of branch protection for default repository branches. And what that means to you what you need to know.  So if you're a new contributor. You'll follow the same processes before, contributing on your own you'll sign in an individual CLA, if you're contributing for your company, you'll get a corporate CLA signed or contact your CLA manager to be added to that approved list. As a CLA manager, again, your workflow will essentially be the same, but you'll have improved UI and functionality. So you'll be able to manage your CLA is easier. What that means is, you know, streamlined workflows for adding authorized contributors, which you'll be able to see in the demo walkthrough in a second, as well as the abilities, as I mentioned to search filter download your contributor lists. And again, we've added the feature for being able to download the CLA PDFs as well. So with that, I'm going to jump into a demo. Now this demo is recorded. But we are here to answer any questions as well. So I'm just going to go ahead and get this started for us. I've seen some questions coming in already, which is great. And feel free to keep those going as we get this demo going. I'm going to pause here for one second and see Steve or Pranab was there anything else you wanted to add before I jump into the demo. No, I'm good. Awesome. Let's go ahead and start this. And again, as you said, this walks through kind of a fuller workflow that includes the ICLA workflows might not be as relevant to everyone here but it's still helpful context and we will be providing plenty of resources and support that you can reference including this video in follow up if you get, if you have any questions along the way. So let me just clarify that it's the demo is talking about contributor signing CCLA and ICLA in ASWF you don't sign ICLA you just signed CCLA. So you would not see the last step, but instead of last step, you will see a company association dialogue box which is not shown in the demo. So that's the that's the only difference otherwise the demo is very relevant to ASWF. Thank you for that to do a demo of how contributor console works in in V2 version of easy CLA. But before I give that demo I want to give you some context. So we are going to use this CLA group. I am this screen is the the PCC project control center, the project admin console for the project console for easy CLA. And here we have a CLA group called February 23 2021 demo. That CLA group is enforcing CLA on on a project group and it's child test project group and test project it's child and it is enforcing corporate CLA individual CLA and corporate users have to sign individual CLA's. So right now these are the templates ICLA and CCLA that have been assigned to this CLA group. And yeah, so one person is has already signed the CLA. There is a CLA manager associated with this group. You can see download the sign PDFs, you can export the sign information as a CSV, you can also search for people's names and all that. Sign CCLA sign ICLA is all of those. Okay, you can see the approved contributor. So let's see if there are any so approved contributor is the same person who is the CLA manager approval criteria. Yeah, so we have added two people as approval criteria for this company. Okay. And so forth. So now I am going to take I'm going to take a new user, a test contributor. So this user is called test contributor December 2020.  The PR is stuck and this user is now going to try to commit that PR. And we will take the scenario where the user is coming from a company that is not there in the database in the CRM database. And this user will become a CLA manager at themselves in the approval list and then commit the PR. Okay, so let's get started. So we click on the LFX easy CLA takes us to the contributor console.  The user chooses to proceed as corporate contributor. And okay. So now here, this user's organization is not there. Let's say 0223 2021 this organization does not show up. So user clicks here organization not listed. They create a website. Then here they give the name of the org. Okay, click next. Now the system is asking if you want to become a CLA manager. So if suppose the user said no, then you can you can identify somebody else in your company to be a CLA manager. You can give their name and email address, right? But otherwise you can just go back and you can say yes. Here you're going to choose yes. So it's going to assign me as a CLA manager in the background. And now it is saying that you will have to log into Linux foundation LF login the SSO account. So you should have you might have to create one. Okay, so this user does not have a SSO account. So let's proceed. Okay, so since the user does not have SSO account, the user chooses to continue with its Gmail account and they say test. So we logged in using our Gmail account. And we will give us a new username for the LF account. So now the system is taking us to the corporate console is configuring initial CLA manager settings. Click on proceed. You will be redirected to the organization dashboard, which is the corporate console. Okay, so you can always go back, but I'm choosing to proceed. The GitHub session has been preserved in current tab and new tab is opened with corporate console. Okay, so you see that the new company that I created got assigned to my user, right? Test.contributor.december 2020. Okay, so now for this company for this project, there is no CLA sign. I will start the CLA signing process. I'll say proceed with signing. Are you authorized to sign CLA on your company's behalf? If you choose no, it will you can again identify authorized signatory. Okay, give a name and email address and email will go to that person and they can sign it. But let's say yes. So now you review and sign CCLA, corporate CLA. Put in some values. Now here a neat feature is that if you have some corporations have got separate entities, legal entities that are responsible for their intellectual property. So you can always edit this name and you can put the name of that intellectual property unit, which is signing the CLA if you want to. That is so like I could I could put IP unit or some whatever, right? But I'm not doing that. So I'll just type in some values. Finish. Okay. So once the CLA signing is done, the CLA manager page is what will be seen. So it'll take some time for this page to refresh. Let us give it a few minutes or a minute or so. The page should refresh on its own because there is a delay between DocuSign and the database. I guess we'll have to refresh the page. Okay. So now this is the CLA manager page. We see that the CLA has been signed, project, project, projects that are part of that project group. The name of the CLA group, status sign, sign-on, signatory, and you can download the sign PDF. Okay. Now this test contributor user has been assigned as a CLA manager for this organization, 0223-2021. And this person can now add anybody else as a CLA manager and give them the same rights so that they can also view this page. Okay. And make edit updates to this page. Now the other thing that this person test contributor needs to do is to add themselves so that they can commit their PR, right? So they need to add themselves to the approved list of contributors. Okay. And then let's do that. So add. So let's add them like this. Let's say test.com. Save. Okay. Okay. So what that message was, was that the test contributor needs to do another step with CLA where they need to acknowledge their association with this company. And then once they have done that, then easy CLA check will be over for them forever. Okay. So we also have the CLA manager can see events, audit log, who has done what, and they can see statistics for their organization, what is going on. Okay. All right. So now we go back to GitHub. We are still stuck. Right. But we have been added as an approved contributor. So let's see what happens. So we proceed as corporate contributor. We select our organization. So it was 0 to 23. 2021. Right. This one proceed. Okay. We had set up the CLA group where it requires corporate CLA users to also sign individual CLA. So we need to sign the individual CLA. So if you can pause here one minute. So if you guys saw that here the user was asked to sign ICLA in ASWF case, what will happen is once you associate your company once you select your company from the dropdown and that's it. Once you do that association, it will say good. You are good. And now write awesome code and then you can exit CLA at that point. So this step, you won't see the signing the ICLA for corporate contributors. Go ahead. Awesome. So at this point the system has done the requirements that the CLA group was set with ICLA signed CCLA signed. So this is what the contributor's association with the corporation has been completed. So the page should refresh and we should see the CLA check is no longer blocking us. Yeah. So you see that it is turned green. Now we can commit our PR. Okay. So this is what this is what the contributor console looks like now for most people. On version V1 and moving to version V2. All of this will be migrated from V1 to V2. So if you are already a contributor on V1, then you would be in the approved list in V2 also. And you won't have to go through the CLA block, but a new user from your company who comes in can be added. So let's say let's do a let's do another test. Let's go here and let me show you what happens. New contributor. Test PM December 2020. And this contributor is not in the approved list. So let's see what happens. So if I go to report to I see, okay, let's go to read me and make a change. Create a pull request, create a pull request. Okay. Easy CLA block. Now at this point, this contributor clicks on easy CLA. Now this contributor is from your company. So it's a corporate contributor. So let's say authorize a left engineering. Okay. Proceed as corporate contributor. The organization was 0223. Let's see. The search found it. Proceed. Okay. So now the system tells us that there is a CLA manager for your organization. So you can select the name of the CLA manager that you want to approach and then you can click on request authorization. Will be notified to authorize of your request to be authorized for contributions. You will be notified via email when status has been approved or rejected. Okay. So you exit CLA. Now I have the email open. So here I got an email approval request for contributor test. Okay. So it is saying approval can be done here. Okay. Let's click. No, I need to log in as my user. I'm logged in as close this. Okay. So then here I come to the corporate console landing page. I see my project test project group ID. I will take me to the CLA manager page. All right. So here I can add this other user as a contributor. So I can say test.pm.december2020 at gmail.com. Save. Okay. So now I have added this user. Let's see what happens. So now the user is test.pm. Yeah. All right. So we go here. Okay. Proceed as corporate contributor. Organization name. 23 proceed. Now it gives us the same message that you have to sign ICLA also proceed. Sign ICLA. Start. Sign. Okay. So now the CLH should be lifted. And we should be able to commit our code. Let's see. There you go. And that's how it will work. Awesome. So that was walk through. And I'm sure we've got a bunch of questions. I'm going to actually open up for questions now. And so I'm actually going to open up since we've got kind of a nice, nice end of an audience here. I'm going to allow everyone of our attendees to talk as well. So let me just do that real quickly manually. You're all defaulted as muted, but feel free if you do have any questions to go ahead and jump in. I'm going to land here on this next slide. Steve Pernop or David, would you like to walk us through just to kind of a high level? And then I'm going to go ahead and talk about what's coming up for easy CLA this year. I can take that. Sure. Yep. So I think the, the first step we're going to be doing is for ASWF. The ASWF projects are going to be moving over to the new V2 interface that you just saw. We're going to be doing them first and then moving the other LF projects over to easy CLA after that. Other things we're looking at adding on our Git lab support. Easy CLA works with Github repos as well as Garrett repos. So we're looking at adding Git lab is another source code management solution it can integrate with. And then also adding, let's say here is enhanced handling of bots, but basically there's some nuances in the ways that approvals work when it comes to PRs that are authored by bots such as dependabot or things that bots that will automatically bump version numbers or do small changes like that. There's some nuances in the way that that gets handled. So we're looking and improving the way that that works. And then later on in the year there's going to be the kind of company view that you saw as part of the demo just now is one part of the larger organizational dashboard that Stephanie had mentioned earlier on for other parts of LFX. So this is kind of one piece of the larger dashboard that will be the school. Awesome. Thank you. So leaving room here for any other questions I see a number of questions have come through and been responded to, which is great. So one kind of general question I'm sure will come up is, you know, when do you get access, right? So we're walking through the version two release that we were talking about. And the big question there is when you have, when will you get access to that? So we will, we will be getting you like again kind of hinted on that roadmap. ASWS will be part of the pilot here. So we're going to get you access before the rest other projects are migrated in. And that will be coming really soon. We will be sending an email ahead of that. So you'll have all the resources that you need to get started and kind of know when that's coming. But that'll be happening, you know, kind of very soon from from now we just have a couple of points that we want to finalize before sharing that kind of cutting, cutting everyone over. One question that I'm going to read out that we've received from Joshua. And, you know, Steve, you responded to on the chat thread, but it'd be great to capture here in the audio recording as well. Joshua's question was, you know, some computer contributors have asked for us for guidance about which CLA design, ICLA or CCLA when there's some ambiguity about how close their contribution is to their job. Is there some standard guidance we can point people to about how to make that choice? Yeah. And Stephanie, I can respond to that live too. I know I did in the chat. But yes, so the starting point I think is always going to be, you know, our recommendation is first to guide people to be talking to their own company counsel, their own legal counsel for guidance on those sort of questions. Just, you know, their legal department should be the first ones to be guiding people towards which ones they should be signing depending on what the situation is with their, whether it's in the context of their particular employment or not. But I think there was, you did also, there was also a question about, you know, what are their reviews done of whether somebody has picked the right CLA to sign. And yeah, I think the key thing there is that we do, you know, kind of like any other project that is using CLA's, we do look to the contributors to be, you know, as when they are signing the CLA and submitting it, they're typically asserting that they are in fact contributing under the right one. But I think one of the things we're looking at for easy CLA will be to make it more visible to the project maintainers when they're contracting PRs about what CLA's have been signed for their, for the people who are contributing there. So I think we'll be looking at what, what of that can be visible and how, how that would work, but yeah, understood on the questions there. Awesome. Any other final questions here? Great. Well, we will definitely have, you know, plenty of more opportunity to ask your questions, either directly to us. If you have any questions, we can, we can field those through LFX.dev or slash questions. Or as we send email communications out about the cutover for the version two release, you'll have opportunity to, you know, to reach out to us through, through that communication as well. Again, we will be getting in touch very soon to, you know, provide more details on when that will happen and kind of give you other helpful resources and including the, this recording to, to help you, you know, kind of make this a smooth transition. Awesome. Well, thank you all for attending. I'm going to go ahead and stop the recording now and we will be in touch very soon. Thank you. Thanks everyone. Thank you.