I'm not gonna lie while I do love Saxon. I really don't know if I'm going to continue with the Saxon series Hey, you guys my name is Brittany and welcome back to my youtube channel you guys in today's video I'm going to be sharing my mid-year curriculum review So if any of you guys are new here to my channel again, my name is Brittany I'm a homeschooling mom to three girls ages 11 4 and 2 and I'm in my third year of homeschool So you guys this is actually like one of my favorite videos to make especially when I'm reflecting on Just my first semester that I have completed in our homeschool year It is really nice for me to come back and kind of reflect on All of the curriculum that we have used what has worked and what hasn't I know a lot of you guys say of these videos that I make are so helpful for you in your homeschool So i'm excited yet again to make another video sharing all about our mid-year curriculum review Um, so you guys I have some notes. I'm going to try to make this video as short and concise as I possibly can So, um, let's go ahead and get on into this thing you guys So you guys this year I decided to separate out my curriculum videos for uh, each of my kiddos because now I am actually homeschooling Two of my kiddos. So in this video, I will be talking about all of my uh, fifth graders curriculum And what we have been using what we have switched what we've been loving and then in my next video I will talk about my pre cares curriculum and the things we've been enjoying and loving for her as well So you guys um in no particular order I'm just going to go ahead and grab some of the things that I have on my nugget and we're going to get started So I think I'm going to go ahead and highlight my favorite overall curriculum We have used this homeschooling year It was the priciest curriculum that I purchased this year. Um, it has to go to IEW you guys, um, I know I have so many videos on my channel about IEW And it's just because of how much I really have been enjoying These writing instructions led by Andrew Poudawa. You guys, I really love this curriculum It is allowing Brielle to be independent and it's really helping her become a stronger writer Um, overall this curriculum. I definitely will give it like three thumbs ups Like it's just definitely been amazing If I can add anything to IEW you guys the only thing that I would add to is I wish they had some type of online grading component for, uh, submitting in like your kiddos writing assignment So you can kind of get feedback from someone else about your kiddos writing, but um Maybe IEW might do something like that in the future. Who knows but um, you know, other than that you guys I definitely have been enjoying this video. If you want to know more about IEW I will link down all the videos that I made about IEW So you guys can kind of like follow up if you want to see us doing a lesson with IEW my initial reviews pros cons Um, just all of those things I will go ahead and link those videos down below But IEW has definitely been like one of our favorite pieces of curriculum this homeschooling year Um, along with IEW guys, we have utilized Fixit Grammar So Brielle has completed the Fixit Grammar booktube, which is town mouse and country mouse You guys, uh, we definitely really have been enjoying Fixit Grammar Another book we're on right now is the Fixit Grammar book three, which is from or which is called robin hood You guys like i'm fumbling over my words already, but um, we've been enjoying Fixit Grammar You guys at first like I said before I was not a believer of just only doing one sentence a day to really master and hone in those grammar skills However, after Brielle completing like the nose tree and she's completed the second book, which is town mouse and country mouse I definitely have noticed just overall Her skills when it comes to grammar is definitely has improved tremendously. Um, just the way she's able to identify these parts of speech She's learning about so many different things just by doing that one sentence a day It is very effective and thorough. I am a believer now and um, I definitely have been enjoying using Fixit Grammar in our homeschool this year Something else in a language arts component that Brielle has been doing that doesn't necessarily follow a curriculum has been creative writing And you guys I am going to highlight some of the creative writing stories. She has written This school or this semester so far not school year The first book she completed this school year She wrote a story and it's called the illusions of aunt artica All of these drawings right here that you're seeing Brielle actually illustrated herself on procreate She is really really getting good on that app So this right here is one of her first creative writing stories She made this year the second creative writing stories. She did was lost in disney world, which was so cute I really really enjoyed her reading this one to me and then the last story that she wrote was creative carer um, so brielle really really has been enjoying doing creative writing in our homeschool you guys and um I definitely have noticed an improvement like in her creative writing Especially as we have been doing iew and really focusing on her writing skills. Um, writing is just something she really really enjoys to do So I love uh, just allowing her to be able to have that space to be able to add in creative writing in our homeschool Um, so you guys that is just something I definitely wanted to highlight. Um, since we're talking about language arts Let me go ahead and pull out the rest of the components of language arts that we're doing for her Uh, we are doing 180 days of spelling and word study you guys and this definitely has been a great spelling program Spelling and vocabulary program I really have to say because 180 days of spelling does go over like the latin root words prefixes suffixes synonyms anonyms analogies Filling up links is so many activities that does help the kiddos focus on the spelling and the vocabulary of Just the words so I really really have been enjoying this in the beginning of our school year We was doing both 180 days of spelling and word study and wordly wise However, I felt that briel was retaining the vocabulary words a lot better by using 180 days of spelling and word study Not necessarily through wordly wise. So we stopped using this book fairly early on. It's nothing wrong with wordly wise. It's another, um Great vocabulary program I just find that briel is really mastering and holding in on those vocabulary skills by learning those root words And learning those prefixes and suffixes instead of just memorizing a list of words. So, um, this just has been working out better for us Another thing that has been going really really great in our homeschool has been reading comprehension We have been utilizing reading detective through the critical thinking company And you guys this is definitely a great book for reading comprehension. It goes over figurative languages Inference and skills. Um, I really love having briel actually have to write out some of her answers When she is doing, um, these reading comprehension tests I really like the higher order of thinking that is having her do And I know a lot of times she doesn't like the way that this book presents the questions However, I know is definitely going to help her in the future As she is going to be taking more standardized testing I do live in a state where I do have to test So having books like this is so beneficial For me in my homeschool and it's really allowing briel to be more comfortable in doing a test taken Especially within reading comprehension. So you guys, I really love the critical thinking company And I definitely think I will be buying more things from the company overall because this reading detective book has been just like great in our homeschool Um, another book we've been doing is handwriting without tears you guys Handwriting without tears is actually the only curriculum we have done since our first year of homeschool We started off with the orange cursive book and we went throughout the whole cursive series And this is the last cursive book in the handwriting without sear or handwriting without tears series I do have the yellow book which goes over like a print and it has a teeny bit of cursive in that book However, briel did say she wanted to do more cursive So I do need to pick her up another cursive workbook for next semester since she finished off the last cursive book And handwriting without tears, but overall you guys I definitely have loved this program and it's so crazy that now i'm going through the beginning of this program with my four-year-old it's so crazy how Great they teach the kiddos how to actually form Their letters and I really really have been enjoying Doing the print with leia my younger one and then a sam briel master and finish her cursive book So great handwriting book. I love it. Okay you guys um something else that I was doing at the beginning of our school year when it came to like grammar was using Rotten staff build an english series We use this build an english series in our second year of homeschool and you guys this definitely is a great and thorough English program It is teacher intensive. So you as a teacher you do have to go in and teach your kiddos The english lessons in here. However, um, I really have seen it benefit us in our second year of homeschool Really allowing briel to hone in on those like grammar skills It really focuses on like diagramming of sentences. This curriculum. You guys is the old school midnight curriculum But it's very thorough. It's very concise and briel has definitely learned a lot by completing Rotten staff. However, this year you guys I was really finding that because briel has a heavier writing year doing IEW structure and style. I really had to let some things go So, um, I had to let go rod and staff. Um, it is a great and thorough english program If you guys want to know more about it, I definitely will make a dedicated video to rod and staff because um, I really don't see that many people talking about rod and staff. It definitely is a great program However, I really had to like simplify things in our homeschool and by simplifying I had to take out an extra grammar program that it necessarily wasn't needed Especially since we are doing fix it grammar. It was just something that we were used to and we did in our previous years But uh, yeah, that is something that we have dropped this school year So you guys I still have a pile of stuff. We're gonna go ahead and keep on going with this mid-year curriculum review I guess we'll go ahead and go into history now So for history you guys we have definitely been enjoying history this homeschooling year I think history is another one of our highlights. Um in our first two years of homeschooling We really did focus heavily on geography. So it's really been fun diving into american history So the first history curriculum I'm going to highlight that we have been really enjoying has been our african american history Which has been through heart and soul and this is the heritage path We have been reading the book heart and soul And you guys this book if you just if you just grab this book, it's definitely suffice This is definitely a great book that I feel like every homeschooler should have Especially when going over um american history. It definitely has been a great addition. The illustrations are beautiful One of the chapter books that we have read with the heart and soul pack that has been amazing Was 40 acres and may be a mule if you are in like that reconstruction era, especially after the emancipation proclamation This book right here. You guys is a great addition for you to read as far as historical fiction in your homeschool I just love hearing the perspective of these african americans Slaves that were free and their journey through that reconstruction era It really really was a great and beautifully told story Uh, I think briel told me this was one of her favorite historical fictions that we read this whole semester And I definitely have to agree. So if you don't do anything But just get this book right here heart and soul and 40 acres and maybe a mule you guys You will not be disappointed. Um, these books have definitely been great in us doing our african american history Some of the other books that we read with heart and soul the picture books Was the escape of ani judge and this was another great picture book We read brick by brick, which is actually a powerful story of the building of the white house. You guys This was a great picture book Um, another one that we read was only passing through which is the story of sojourner truth Another awesome picture book and the last picture book that we read that concluded the halfway point of our heart and soul Was dave the potter again another great great great picture book So overall, we definitely have been enjoying our african american history Now as far as like our main history We've been using we started off our school year using a beautiful feats early american Intermediate edition, which is a literature based history curriculum You guys I have a separate video all about beautiful feats early american history my review my overall thoughts and opinions of this curriculum I'm just going to be short and sweet with it. I definitely will say this guy. I love it. It's great Um, the literature has been great with beautiful feet The only thing I didn't like about beautiful feet was their main spine that they was using for this overall curriculum I could have made it work However, it would have taken away from the aspect of a curriculum being open and go and with me being a busy mom of three I really need that aspect of being able just to open up a curriculum and for it to tell me like what to do Um, I could have pieced it together and made it work, but I just didn't have the time you guys Overall beautiful feet as a company. Um, I love all their literature studies And I may be using another one in the future, but this one just didn't work out for us in our home school So what we did was we made a switch to Blossom and root a river of voices and I will definitely have to tell you guys I have really really really been loving this curriculum I have a video on my channel all about us doing a lesson from blossom and roots of river voices I love just the overall setup of this curriculum. Um, it's not as structured as beautiful feet schedule So I love how I'm able to take a minimalist approach for that week If I want to and just stick to like the meat or if I want to I can add like the book baskets And we can add in the extra picture books and we can do like a activity or a project or something like that For that week's activity. So I love the Flexibility of a river of voices and how again like I'm able to do it either simple for one week Or I'm able to like add in all the fun extras for another week. So A river of voices has definitely been a great fit in our home school I love the spines that we're reading and again, I love all of the literature Right now we are actually reading alliance guard us which has been a great great great picture book I mean great great great chapter book We've read children of the long house and um, so far the chapter books We've been reading with the weeks has been great as well. So a river of voices great If you want to know more about it, I do have a separate video all about a river of voices Okay, you guys, um, let's go ahead and get into math So we started off our home school year finishing off saxon Six five we did a mid year curriculum switch in our fourth grade year to saxon So we actually started this off in January, so we worked from january until september with this level and briel completed it and you guys overall I mean, I love saxon. It's great. We utilized nicole the math lady Um, I did add in the nicole the math ladies grading when we moved into the saxon seven six level We moved into saxon seven six in october and you guys, um While saxon has definitely been a little bit more challenging for briel going into this level because She is working on the concepts a lot longer. Um I still love this curriculum. It works for briel. Um, wow Since we have been doing the on the line or since we have been doing the nicole the math ladies online grading I'm really able to get a better track of her grades and overall She's she's doing great with this program even though it does take time It's more lengthier at this level. Um, it's still working out for her Um, one thing I definitely will say is that since saxon is a spiral math program, I really feel like I have to um stay consistent and stay close in looking at briel's work Seeing the problems that she's getting wrong versus the problems that she's understanding and getting right because I feel like by Using spiral curriculums, especially at this level some concepts can like fall under the wayside and you can Form gaps if you're not really careful with saxon. I'm not utilizing this curriculum the way it's meant to use by doing Every single uh mix practice problem We're either doing evens or odds and then she's doing the lesson practice with this program To really make it a workout for us in our home school So I really have to make sure I'm honing in and watching and making sure She's mastering all of the skills and I'm not missing anything But I think that's overall uh with math in general So I'm really keeping a close eye, especially since this is the level before she gets to pre-algebra So you guys I'm not going to lie. Um while I do love saxon I really don't know if I'm going to continue with the saxon series for briel for pre-algebra I actually already have eight seven on my shelf for next year. Uh, but you guys I don't know Um, the only thing that I don't like about the program is the lengthiness of it And I don't know if I can take out any problems and briel still get a solid math Program by me taking out more problems and customizing it even more. Um, but overall, um, she's doing great Her test scores uh after using saxon has went up. So I know it's working Um, maybe I'm just not in love with it because of the length of time it is taking her But we're going to stick with it for the rest of the semester and the rest of this year And then we will make a decision going into our, um, next year of homeschool So you guys the last things I'm going to talk about is going to be science in our beauty loop So for science, we have utilized, uh, heaven and earth by god's design and you guys, uh, we used heaven and earth last year using the, uh, life Uh, the life part which went over like the human body animals and plants So this year we have started off using our universe and you guys we have not been as consistent with science this semester We've really been a heavy into writing history. We've been doing way way better with those subjects So I definitely know going into second semester. I do have to make sure I um beef up the science and I make sure We are able to at least complete two of these units in the science curriculum I'm really hoping to start our water and weather in february and finish up our universe in january. So Hopefully we can beef up science and we can be more consistent with it Um, I definitely love the experiments and god's design for life because they're definitely, uh, simpler They're just using household materials and it's nothing I really have had to Go outside of my house to get to do the science experiments Um, I really don't like the worksheets that the teacher's guide has in it And I really have been utilizing a lot of teachers pay teachers Worksheets, especially for briel to do like notebook and things in her science journal So that's another way I am customizing god's design for life But overall, it's uh been going okay. I just really feel like I need to be more consistent with this science program So you guys as far as our beauty loop, it really has been nonexistent Like I have chosen like a music curriculum Our art curriculum and a hem study curriculum Um, and I'm going to tell you guys what we actually have done this semester So we've actually completed the heritage mom's hem study this semester and we did this along with our Just bible and morning time and learning all about these different hems has definitely been a great Added addition in our morning basket. We love listening to the very the variety of genres with this curriculum It's definitely was was great. Um, so we did a little bit of a hem study and you know, we completed this Like I said, so it's definitely was good. Um, something else that we did in a beauty loop was briel She's still working on the piano. She's utilized in hoffman academy. Uh, which is a online Video lessons for piano. She's been doing really really well. She's on unit 10 right now Um, and again, uh, we've been utilizing hoffman academy since our second year foam school So this is briel second year Doing piano now you guys as far as our living art lessons and our living harmonies Which is our music curriculum you guys like these it just it just didn't happen I think we did one lesson of our living art lesson and we haven't done any lessons in our music curriculum And i'm really hoping that this second semester Because I am shaving off some of those like extra things that I did have in language arts that I can really make sure I find time for us to at least do one of these I asked briel if she could choose between art and music Which one she would want to focus on next semester to make sure we are more consistent with it And she told me she wants to try for us to finish Living harmonies in our second semester since we finished Our hymn study. So this year will technically be like more of a music year this year So hopefully by me like eliminating one of our beauty loops and really just focusing on music Hopefully we can add into like some of our enrichment and fun things So you guys this is my mid-year curriculum review for briel my fifth grader I really hope you enjoy hearing all the things that has worked out for us in our home school Some of the things that may not have worked out for our home school So you guys thank you so much for watching today's video and I look forward to seeing everybody in my next one Bye


I welcome members to the 31st meeting in 2017 of the Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee. We've received apologies from Monica Lennon this morning. Agender item 1 is a decision on taking business in private. It's proposed that the committee takes item 5 in private. That item is a draft report to the Finance and Constitution Committee on the legislative consent memorandum relating to the European Union withdrawal bill. Does the committee agree to take this item in private? The next item of business is consideration of instruments subject to affirmative procedure. No points have been raised by our legal advisers on the draft public bodies, joint working, prescribe local authority functions etc. Scotland amendment number 2, regulations 2017. Is the committee content with this instrument? Agender item 3. This item is consideration of instruments subject to negative procedure. The first instrument is part of a package of instruments relating to tribunals. First tier tribunal for Scotland general regulatory chamber charity appeals procedure regulations 2017 SSI 2017 364. These regulations establish rules of procedure for the first tier tribunal general regulatory chamber when dealing with appeals against decisions of the office of the Scottish charity regulator. The rules set out in the schedule to the instruments are entitled. The first tier tribunal for Scotland general regulatory chamber charity appeals rules of procedure 2018. However, regulation 1 of the instrument provides an error that the rules may be cited as the first tier tribunal for Scotland general regulatory chamber rules of procedure 2018. Does the committee wish to draw the instrument to the attention of the Parliament under the general reporting ground as it contains a drafting error? Does the committee wish to welcome that the Scottish Government has agreed to make an amending instrument correcting this error to come into force at the same time as the instrument? First tier tribunal for Scotland health and education chamber procedure regulations 2017 SSI 2017 366. These regulations establish rules of procedure for the first tier tribunal health and education chamber. Our legal advisers indicate that there are some drafting errors in this instrument. Firstly, rules 32, 2, 33, 4, 78, 2 and 79, 4 in the schedule make provision for citations to call witnesses and for the recovery of documents. The citations must explain that it is an offence under the Scottish tribunal's offences in relation to proceedings regulations 2016 to do certain things as specified in those rules and that a person guilty of such an offence may be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale. There should be an additional reference in those rules to liability on summary conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months. Secondly, the reference in rule 84, 7A, attendance at hearings to the quotes, person to whom the claim relates, where the person is the claimant, should be omitted as it appears to be superfluous. Thirdly, there is a paragraph error in rule 92, restricted reporting orders, the text of paragraphs 2 and 3 should all be in paragraph 2. As a result, paragraphs 2 to 5 should be renumbered 2 to 4. Does the committee agree to draw the regulations to the attention of the Parliament on the general reporting ground as they contain those drafting errors? Does the committee also welcome that the Scottish Government has undertaken to make an amending instrument timersleep for those regulations coming into force on 12 January 2018? No points have been raised by our legal advisers on SSI 2017, 369, 370 and 381. Is the committee content with these instruments? Does the committee welcome that SSI 2017, 369 and 370 implement promptly the Scottish Government's undertaking to correct the errors that we pointed out in last week's meeting? They should be commended, I think, for acting so swiftly because there were, as we heard last week, a number of errors. Gender item 4, instruments not subject to any parliamentary procedure. No points have been raised by our legal advisers on SSI 2017, 354. Is the committee content with this instrument? I'll now move the meeting into private session.


Welcome back to theCUBE's coverage of Ansible Fest 2021 virtual. I'm John Furrier, your host. Got two great guests here. Dave Lindquist, vice president of software engineering at Red Hat and Matthew Jones, chief architect and Ansible engineer, architect of the automation platform. Matthew, great to see you. Dave, great to see you again. Thanks for coming on for this CUBE conversation. Great to see you, John. Thank you. So the big theme here is automation. We've been talking about it for a while, Dave. I think last year we hit this point a couple of times hard. This year it's kind of going mainstream and it's really exciting because like, this is stuff that's been kind of going around. So it's been growing rapidly. So building on the themes from last year throughout this year and cloud-nated with the edge right around the corner, automation is going rapidly, okay? So what arenas do you guys think we're in too hard, too easy, you know, comments like, yeah, repetitive tasks are good, but it's more complicated than that now. Are there areas that your customers think are better for automation than others? Can you guys introduce where the action is? Sure, well, I'll get started, John. We are clearly seeing an acceleration of how to apply automation across full life cycles, across domains. If you step back and think about the journey many customers are on with their development environments, continuous delivery into cloud, hybrid cloud, the challenges are how to accelerate the use of automation across the full life cycle, across your workloads, across security compliance, across networking, across storage, how to remediate situations. So it's just an acceleration of how do you apply automation into all of these different domains? Is there areas specifically you think customers thought, no, we're never going to get there, that they're getting there now. Is there specific things you're seeing low hanging fruit or is there a clear path? What do you guys see about that? Because, you know, this is now, we're seeing things now that certainly with the pandemic, a lot more visibility into automation with cloud scale. Is there areas where your customers are saying, I didn't think I can get that. Now we can get it, now we can automate that. Yeah, I think a couple of areas jumped to mind quickly. One is sometimes referred to as a shift left, but how do you start bringing automation earlier, earlier into the life cycle? One of the things we talked about last year that we've been building on is with advanced cluster management and containers and Kubernetes. And how do you insert automation from Ansible into all the different life cycles, whether it's setting up clusters, it's deploying applications, it's remediating from security events, compliance activities, that's what we're starting to see where customers are really starting to push the envelope on their use automation across those life cycles. Matt, how is Ansible evolving to address the demands we've heard in previous interviews with customers specifically to grow past their traditional management and automation environments because that's the real action here. What are you guys doing to address those demands? Yeah, you're exactly right. Are the way that we're evolving is and you know, right? Like where we've started is with basic command line tools, really basic integration with systems that developers have been familiar with for years, decades. Where we want to grow into is the native automation that makes up the cloud, that makes up the services and infrastructure that not just developers interface with, but administrators, DevOps, SRE, common users, normal people who are just trying to get things done. We want to meet them at the systems and at the footprints that they expect. And that's what we want to do. And the systems and the tools that we're introducing this year, next year that we've been working on through the pandemic, it's about moving the ball forward into those areas. What's been along those lines, what's been the thought around footprint expansion? Cause that's become a big topic, right? I want to expand my automation space. I want to hire more people. Good luck with that. It is hard to hire people in this market. But again, automation is a human machine and software perspective. So you still need humans. So footprint automation and team scale. Can you talk about that? Matthew, what do you think about that? Yeah, absolutely. We've spent a lot of time focusing on automation in the system space and how these tools connect to those systems. And a big theme this year of Ansible Fest has been how do we get back to the tools and the processes that people are using and people are building to do that? We've created a whole developer focus space within the automation platform, a suite of tools that integrate into their development environments, their own automation workflows, making it easier to share and collaborate on automation, building communities within their organizations and among their internal stakeholders. And I think you'll see that represented here at Ansible Fest and the dedication to those tools and the integration of workflows and not just the tools that they've had before but the tools that they're learning and gaining experience with right now, the container based workloads and how do we share automation and verify and validate, feel good about that automation that it's going to work when we go to production with it. Those are the kinds of tools and processes that we're developing and delivering for our customers, for the community and for their stakeholders in their community also. What's the big updates this year at Ansible Fest for those people who want to jump in and have it be easier for teams to use Ansible and experience Ansible and also for the newbies, people coming in who are new to automation, that could be savvy developers. I mean, people are shifting left for security and everyone's bolting on automation and or planning it in from the beginning on architecture. So you're seeing a new user base come into Ansible. That's what I hear. What happens typically that you guys announcing? And those new people, they need to be able to come into an organization's process and get up to speed on what their automation, they're working on and learn the ropes, be able to share and collaborate with people who are automating in the space already. We need to be able to give them access to documentation and tooling. It helps them get started right away rather than having to fumble around the documentation, have meetings and learn the ropes. We want to make this smooth and we want the pipeline of automation to go from the developer and their team into the content publishing and management of Automation Hub using collections and execution environments that we're introducing here. The same things that they work on and build and produce as automation developers or what they'll use in the automation platform to actually run the automation. And that feels really good, right? The things that you're seeing on your developer workspace that you share with your team and your internal community, you can follow it right through your editor, your IDE, through to Automation Hub and improving the content, right out through Automation Controller and the automation platform through running that automation. Yeah, I think this is a huge point. I mean, Matthew nailed it. I think you have to have the ability to go from newbie, accelerate quickly to expert because this is the cloud, this cloud scale, this the lifecycle of software development is changing. It's very agile, it's very integrated and newbies can come in quickly and be awesome fast. It's not, you don't need to go to the training, old school kind of training modules and get ramped up. You could be instantly running hard. So I think that's a huge point and we're hearing that, so congratulations. Dave, I want to bring you in and talk about how other Ansible adjacent systems that you oversee come together with this release of Ansible. So what does it mean for the products that are working together in the management space? Because you now have Ansible, great track record. Now you have a system in these distributed systems now in a surprising cloud environments or systems working together. What's the impact? Yeah, great question, John. Maybe just to start to follow on some of the areas that Matthew was going through, some of the advances in Ansible Automation Platform are really to ease the deployment and then be able to grow that deployment with scale and distribution, putting execution nodes wherever those nodes need to be, the ability to simplify creating content, access to content, collections, so that the automation maturity and the use automation can grow. So that couples very nice with many of the investments we have in the broader space of management around advanced cluster management for Kubernetes with ACM around our insights, around our edge management initiatives across the board. So what I'm seeing, what we're all seeing is how many of the solutions are looking, how you bring many of these disciplines together. For example, how do we start realizing the promise of event-driven architectures? From insights, how can we understand what's happening with workloads or infrastructure or compliance issues? And then from the management systems, we can pick up the inventory and the workload and all the specifics about that workload. And then with Ansible, we can then automate and remediate, either scale that workload, address your service management processes or hook into even remediations they have a compliance issue. So you're basically bringing together insights with policy-driven mechanisms with the automation capabilities of Ansible, which is fascinating and how we start building much more robust automation solutions, which are required for everything's headed in this hybrid cloud environment. I mean, what are some of the challenges that your customers have on that point? There's robust solutions or whatever one wants. It's a natural extension. I mean, you can see what you just laid out. What are some of the customer challenges day that you're seeing there? Because this is a path everyone's going down. I'm hearing people discuss this in the hallways and virtual hallways these days. But for the most part, like, okay, I know what I know, I love what I have. I got to start connecting these other adjacent systems together and make them work and automate together. What's the biggest challenges? Is it cultures, is it blockers, or what's the evolution? You can weigh in too, if you want. This is a key question that everyone's asking. Yeah, it's a key question.  One of the more complex things always in maturing the use of automation is the interaction with a lot of the existing processes that teams use, which are usually focused on particular domains. So many of the areas that we've been talking about, automating the fuller life cycle, is you're actually cutting across the domains and intersecting, integrating with many of the processes. So how do you allow a customer to incrementally evolve the automation of these processes across the domains, which brings in identity and access and authorization. It brings invisibility into the resources and the applications and the dependencies. And then of course, the wealth of automation, the collections and the playbooks, essentially the content. How do you bring the content together? So the challenges are, how do you allow the collaboration across the processes? How do you accelerate access to the content? And then how do you have a level of control to your identity and access and authentication systems? That's awesome. Matthew, what's your reaction on this? You architected the system and you have to envision it working in the future. There's a lot of headroom involved in this area about automation. What's the blockers and what's the customer challenges right now that you see that can be easily turned into opportunities? Yeah, the culture of automation is so different between the different parts of the community. Developers expect something completely different than DevOps and network administrators, systems administrators, they just have different expectations on how automation should work. I've been writing software for a long time and the tension and conflicts between the teams can be extreme sometimes. We wanna build and design automation capability that works in the domains that each of those people work in so that they can meet in the middle with a common set of tools. Dave mentioned identity and event-based automation. We all know that there are common things that are needed but we also know that there are different ways to kind of achieve that depending on the space that you're in. And so a lot of that has to do with these teams being able to meet in the middle, collaborate on the automation, use content in the way that they expect and then still provide that governance and reassurance that it's gonna work and do the things that they wanna do. Everything that we're doing here is about enabling that and supporting that. That's a great point and I would say that now more than ever this cultural, I won't say collision, there's always been tension, as long as I can remember, going back to my career in the 80s when I started coding back in the day in the systems revolution, it was always tension between these groups because they had their own different worlds and they had to lock down. But now with automation, there's almost like a peace treaty evolving where the speed game on cloud development becomes the unifying factor. If you can enable systems that can go faster because what pisses people off when someone's slower than they are? Where's that update? But now we had harmony. This is real, it's not touchy-feely, Matthew. This is kind of what's going on right now and David, love your reaction because this is like state-of-the-art issue. This is state-of-the-art, particularly when we push the envelope on event-driven automation which leads right into AI ops and edge management and fleet management being able to do this automation at scale, at tremendous scale, hundreds of thousands of millions of endpoints. But what's also, what we also have to keep in mind is behind all this is how do you control the environment? How do you really lock down the security? How do you lock down the full supply chain in this automation from the content creation to the execution to what's being authorized to the policies? So these are all the pieces that we're investing in to start pulling together so that we can really push the envelope where automation is taking businesses and their ability to react to change and opportunities and challenges but also in a controlled manner. Give me infrastructure as code, give me network security and transit and all that good stuff that goes on the network layer and let me push code what I want and automate the stuff that pisses people off and we all get along, right Matthew? That's the future. That's right, none of it's optional anymore, right? There's a lot of people out there. We see that with vulnerabilities and security issues that have cropped up over the last year. It's got to be one of the most important things that every organization is thinking about. Yeah, I think this whole unification benefit is one of the most beautiful things that comes out of the technical benefits, the speed and the advantages of the time to value with the enablement there. So I think that this is a really cutting edge issue and thanks for bringing that up and discussing it. We're going to continue to talk more about it because we're seeing very positive outcomes come from this with when you have a lot of these operational things automating away and then enabling more faster development for modernization. So thanks for sharing that. So I just want to close out, Matthew, with you on saying congratulations. I know you've been involved in a lot of history with Ansible. But I got to ask you, what are you looking forward to most with this release? Oh, that's such a good question because the engineering team working on some of the core features that we're bringing this time around. We have something that we've been working on for years now and it's all coming together with this release and we're really excited about it. And we've talked a little bit before about collections and execution environments. That goes back to Ansible Fest last year. It's like, who are we bringing this year? What are we giving you a window into our minds? And we talked about developer tools, but one of the things we've spent the most time on is how can we give you that window into your automation worldwide, planet scale, data centers, clouds, it doesn't matter. You should be able to run automation anywhere that you need automation to run. The Ansible Automation Platforms Automation Mesh lands in this release. And it's the thing I'm most excited about because it gets that automation out to where you need it to run. If you're defining and governing your automation on the East Coast of the US and deploying it on the West Coast in Asia, in Europe, now you can do that and feel really good that it's gonna work, it's survivable, it's reliable and it's fast. And the automation mesh brings that to the production side of Ansible Automation. And it works with the collections and the execution environments and the developer tools that we built around that to make sort of one seamless system for worldwide automation. And we'll spend the next year building on top of these technologies that we've mentioned. The Dave's mentioned event-based automation, compliance, governance. Now we have the foundation that we can build on to really sort of take it into the future next. You feel there's a lot of headroom there for innovation. Funds of heaven. Right. It's something we're really excited about. It's kind of like, it's like, when's the air condition going to come out? I think all these new features coming out, I kind of have a great stuff there. Congratulations, Dave will end it with you. I want to get your thoughts as AnsibleFest continues to have success with the community. The larger cross-domain point you brought up was key. We'll be at KubeCon, open sources continue to be a tailwind for developers and AI ops. Now you got the edge exploding with value, new architectures, distributed computing, Red Hat's in the middle of it at many levels. What's your take on this revolution in software engineering as open source continues to drive and this new agile on automation kicks in? What's the impact? How do you see that this impacting the software careers and outcomes of producing software? Well, the impact of open communities, the ecosystems is incredible. It has been for years and it just continues to accelerate. What I look forward to, John, with Fest and through this year and next year is how we help bring together the wealth and capabilities of automation to enterprises to scale it to the enterprise across all the areas that they're driving towards and you rattled off quite a few of them, including edge and security and how we bring the open communities, the open ecosystems, the content creation together with to deliver this value with customers. The growth has been incredible in this space. I don't see it slowing down. I just see it accelerating as the demands on businesses to really accelerate their delivery of new capabilities into market in new regions with edge in a secure manner. So being able to pull the open communities together and scaling this across enterprises, that's the impact we're having and it's great. It's really like, it's really so almost a pinch me moment where you go, hey, a lot of the stuff we used to worry about is actually being solved. People are getting along. Scale is the new competitive advantage, modern applications driving business value. This is kind of like Nirvana coming around the corner. It's happening. Matthew, this is like what we talked about decades ago, like technology will evolve to a point where it's faster and contributing more to humans. Yes, exactly, exactly. Great stuff. Okay, Matthew, thank you so much for coming on, Dave. Thank you for sharing. Congratulations, great event. Stay right there for more continued coverage of AnsibleFest 2021. I'm John Furrier, thanks for watching.


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Hello everyone, my name is Jaze Delgado. I'm a Corporate Commercial Attorney with specialising structures and tax and property and I'm going to be talking to you guys about a couple of queries that are frequently asked by property investors or persons acquiring residential properties for themselves. First issue we're going to tackle today is what options do I have when I'm looking to acquire property? Do I buy that into my own name? Do I put it in a close corporation? If you can still get one you can't get them anymore. PDY Limited or do I have a trust as an option, which is often a mythical entity that we're also going to debate today. So really it's a question of what are your short term, your medium term, your long term objectives? Are you buying to hold the property for your personal use? Is it a holiday home? Is it a commercial property? Are you an investor? So we could elaborate and spend quite a lot of time on the different options but essentially there are two main points that one needs to think about and if this is a property for you personally, what risk are you exposed to? As far as we're concerned any person who faces any risk should ideally be looking to have this property in an entity other than in their own name. Clearly if you ever get sued or you're in business you have exposure. Buying a property is a major purchase, it's a large acquisition. There's a cost involved so if you are in the wrong structure not really easy to move the property into the appropriate structure if you made the wrong choice. So a lot of effort or time thinking must go into assessing which is the best option for you. So option one is default, most people buy a property into their own name. Very simple, it's in your name, problem is if you run into trouble you could lose your home, that's not ideal. At some point we will die, don't know anyone who's immortal, so yep you're eventually going to snuff it and on your demise you're going to have some serious issues to deal with. Property is caught up in your frozen estate, your spouse, your dependents, other persons, children don't have access to this asset until such time. As your estate is wound up it could take anything from about eight, nine months to one, two, three, four, five years so you're going to be creating serious hardship for whoever's going to be needing to access their property or the rentals or whatever the case is. Pretty expensive exercise to die so try and avoid it at all costs but your death will cost you capital gains tax, the maximum rate at this point is 13.6%. So it's a fairly huge chunk that is going to be coming out of any growth of the property so you want to spare that in mind if the property is in your name, on your demise. On top of that your estate, you will be subjected to executor's fees, also at a maximum legislated rate of 3.9% plus VAT, just under 4%, again a massive chunk and the kicker here is for you to consider that this is a charge on the gross value, not on the net value. Quick example, property is worth 5 million, you have a mortgage of 4 million, your net is 1 million, your executor is taking 4% of the 5 million, not the 1 million so suddenly that's a massive cost but a small percentage just seems pretty harmless. Then of course you are subjected to state duty at a rate of 20% on any assets in excess of 3.5 million, so pretty steep. So if you're buying a property in your own name just know that you have no asset protection, you're subjected to potentially massive costs on your demise and again if you are renting your property are not very tax efficient if you are in the top tax bracket because that rental income will be added to your income further causing you tax issues or more tax to pay. Other options or close corporation if you can still get your hands on one or you have one or PTY limited, a lot of people do consider this as an option because it is a known type of entity and SAAS pretty much has settled the taxation around this so there is some level of comfort. Problem with this is a close corporation or company is not the ideal residential property owning entity because you will eventually pay too much tax as well compared to a trust which we're going to talk about in a minute. So PTY CC your tax rate is 28% to get the cash out of the company or the CC you'll be paying a further dividends tax bringing you effectively to a tax rate of 38.8%. Also a default position is you can have a trust owning a company that in turn owns your property.  Not a great structure a CC or PTY if you are ever selling a property because you can end up with a huge capital gains tax problem in the company of the CC at an effective rate of 18.6% to get your hands on the profits after tax cost you a further dividends tax of 15% bringing your total taxable to just under 31% so that's ouch. So in your personal name the tax is a little bit better but you have exposure to creditors you have got issues on death you have no continuity CC PTY solving some of the problems but not ideal from a tax perspective. Then we come to the mythical trust which there are proponents who absolutely love them or you have the naysayers who absolutely anti them and there's a lot of uncertainty because the taxation tends to be under the spotlight quite often with trust. Default position though is it's an old entity it's been around forever in this country almost 200 years a trust very simply is like a vault I like to have people think of it as a vault you're going to acquire your property into this entity tax is brilliant in the structure because you can move the income out of a trust so even though it is an entity with a highest tax rate at 41% after the new budget a couple of weeks ago the trustees have got the election to push any rental income down to beneficiaries who then pay at their own marginal rates so this is where you have four or five children or you bring in your mom or your in-laws as many beneficiaries as you'd like to obviously then minimise your tax position also capital gains tax wise if you distribute your gain to a beneficiary it's going to be quite tax effective trusts are very handy as an estate planning tool you'll end up in a position where the assets will continue to exist in this entity that your demise will not affect the ownership of the property because the trust doesn't die very simply in our law there's no limitations or limitation on how long a trust can exist so it can continue perpetuity so great estate planning tool all your hard efforts and your legacies will continue to future generations no capital gains tax on death because the trust doesn't die no estate duty on death because the trust doesn't die no executives fees so it's pretty handy so just to wrap up in conclusion the three options available to you or four if you take the CC bind to your own name okay not very tax efficient if you're the top tax bracket assets exposed to creditors on your demise you'll be trouble CC PDWAR but better than personal but still not the ideal vehicle when you look at the massive capital gains tax consequences extra costs etc so for us if you're looking for the whole package that it's a trust that you should buy it into however caveat what is your strategy short term medium term long term okay or is it a residential commercial property so there's no hard and fast rules but hopefully this is giving you a bit of a heads up on different options available to you get you thinking about what's ideal for you


Hey everyone, it's Missy. Thank you for watching. Today's tutorial is this double braided side braid. I posted a picture of this hairstyle on Instagram and many of you asked for a tutorial, so I'm really excited about today's video. If you're new to my channel, make sure to subscribe down below and let's get started! With my part on the right side, I'm going to divide out a section of hair on the heavy side of the part from the part line down to about an inch behind my left ear and clip the forward hair out of the way. Now I'm going to pick up a small section of hair behind this forward section for the first braid and divide it into three sections. I'm creating a French braid, so I'm going to cross the right strand over the middle and then cross the left strand over the middle. Now I'm going to cross the right strand over the middle, pick up a new section of hair and cross it into the middle strand. Then I'm going to cross the left strand over the middle, pick up a new section and cross it into the middle strand. And I'm just going to repeat those steps, continuing the French braid, crossing the side strands over the middle strand while adding in hair to both sides of the braid, and on the right side of the braid, I'm going to bring in all of the hair from the right side of my head, so I'm just sweeping it around the back of my head and adding it into the braid. and I'm just going to continue working down towards the nape of my neck. Since all of the hair from this section is brought into the braid, I'm just going to braid the hair a little further down and tie off the end of the braid with an elastic band. Now I'm going to let down the front section of hair along the hairline and begin a second French braid, so I'm picking up a section near the part, dividing it into three smaller pieces, and crossing the right strand over the middle, then crossing the left strand over the middle. Then I'm going to cross the right strand over the middle, pick up a new section of hair, and cross it into the middle strand. Then I'm crossing the left strand over the middle, picking up a new section, and crossing it into the middle strand. And I'm going to repeat that step once more, crossing the side strands over the middle strand while bringing a new section into the braid. After those two stitches of a French braid, I'm going to stop adding in sections on the right side of the braid, and only bring in hair to the left side of the braid from along the hairline, and just continuing the braid down the left side of my head until I've brought in all of the hair from this section. Now I'm just going to braid the section a little further down and tie off the end with an elastic band. Then I'm going to slide in some bobby pins along the front braid to pin it against my head. Once both braids are done, I'm going to go back pulling on the edges as well as the looped pieces in the braids to make them wider. Then I'm just going to take the end of the first braid, wrap it around the bottom of the back braid, and pin it underneath with a bobby pin. Then I'm going to go back over the bottom of the back braid, and pull on the edges to make it wider and more full. If you're new to my channel or you haven't subscribed yet, make sure to subscribe. You can click my little picture right up here. And if you want to check out older tutorials, then just click right over here. Thank you so very much for watching, and I will see you next time.


Trust me. He's never been better. Remember when I said I'd buy a chainsaw? Well, I bought one Just realized it's a gas chainsaw and I don't have a pump in my house, so I can't rev it I'm sorry. So I went on Amazon and I bought an electric chainsaw. It'll be in the next chainsaw man reaction Oh, yeah, look I got a nice little shirt today, too. If you could tell I'm becoming a slut for this show I got pochita. I got a chainsaw. I Got a shirt like I'm ready.  If it is This is definitely New York Name Fell in love with him didn't even know his name yet Where can I find a girl like this? Seriously the episode is called arrival in Tokyo. Do I have to arrive in Tokyo? I'm not gonna make it to this episode. Well, I expect yes or a wolf for answers I don't need a dog that says no Let me repeat that. I expect yes or wolf for answers. I don't need a dog that says no It's his dog. It's her dog.  Oh, I gotta meet this writer We're gonna start the episode like this wolf I'll rough for you. I Have a pretty good wolf Why she's saying this so seductive. What does she do with animals? She's not dead.  I'm not I'm not gonna make it through this episode. This is is this why I got this shirt. Thank God.  I don't trust it I'd be at a full stop. That's all that that's only letters. I know My first date with a girl better look like this Man these fish Can I even finish a word a sentence without something like this happening? What's about to happen? What did I get myself into? Trust me.  Is this a new scene are we gonna get flashbacks the entire show?  I don't I don't know where anime was my entire life But I'm so happy I found it.  I Could relate I could relate with an anime character What has this show become The first episode had me crying Doesn't even know her name. Yeah, he's in love. Oh, I feel you He's a dog Guys, I think this is the last time I could react to the show because I don't think I could wash this on camera I think I'll just be banned. This is too much. I'm into the denji type as the Sun sets on her He's like Denji wait, that's my name Oration Dude, that's me I Be thinking about that until I'm 10 foot feet deep if this is what Japan is like girls walking guys around on leashes I might have to go there sooner Taken him the work is take your dog to work day. That's all he cares about Joe rev you up trust me brother trust me I Can't believe like I finally found a character I could relate to who's her co-worker Is it power my other girlfriend that I haven't met yet? Oh, it's him because a business suit requires a katana on the back Definitely, is he gonna get jealous of him? Is he her dog, too? Oh, no, is he the big dog? What's the point then I want to work with mommy Why am I wearing sweatpants?  Is this his kink? Now he's just smoking a sig Yeah, this is a different anime. This ain't attack on time.  I swear to god dude the only one that treated him with respect is makimov Of course, I would follow her around my whole life I've been shat on pochina my dog is inside of me I love the animation style like the way their heads move the body moves I can't describe it. Y'all probably know Oh Hey Oh, here we go.  Let's go, man. This alleyway is so aesthetic.  I'll bark. I'll I'll lift my leg to pee. I'll do everything.  I thought he's gonna be that You can't beat me Does everyone love her Bro, I would be dead.  It doesn't matter The big guy's texticles were attacked by the nut devil, man Am I watching the right show is this it's the same show as dog and chainsaw. I can't believe it I love it. I love this. Thank god. I I got all this beer Thank god. I got all it is Oh, is this how that friendship's gonna start man.  Maybe I'll have a life like this I don't know if I trust her. I don't know man. There's something about her Those eyes. It's those eyes man. She seems like she's up to something Like there's this this plan deep inside of her Where she lets everybody know that they have a chance of getting inside of her, but they actually have no chance whatsoever She treats everyone like a dog They're gonna be best friends now you want a best friend kick them into nuts What are you gonna do?    Give it up to the animators, bro. The visuals are just something else I wasn't applauding mappa by the way. So she saves your life It makes you believe that she cares about you. That's what I'm going with. I don't trust it. Makima-san. Yeah Pochita would love this It has to be pochita inside of him.  I don't know This this is different them. Am I gay for like wanting to see something else?  Are we actually gonna see a battle now? What? I was a joy in this. I was like, I don't need to see any chainsaws or men or battles Damn man, why did I go to school? I could have had a life like this All right, wait no, no, this isn't one punch man one punch man when I see a screen like this I know when I press play I'm gonna question my life. But what is chainsaw man gonna do when I press play now? He could be a one punch man. Actually, what does he look? Oh my god. Look at the magazines on the floor Oh my god What are you doing to me? Did the writers knew that I would like this?  Yes, he ain't dead. He didn't have to turn into a devil. Oh wait. Did he actually kill him? That's right. He was hunting devils with pochita before he was chainsaw man Hentai boy Why is this guy so aggressive man?    He's selling his Stop Man This show has everything The emotion the comedy The horniness like what else do you need?   What's your dream? Hey man Bro, I relate to this so much.  I'll talk more about it when his video ends, but Damn, I I feel for him. I honestly jokes aside.   What what'd you do man?  I bet she would love that The aesthetic the ost Did they're acting like this is the most serious thing ever him wanting to touch tits Honestly, it is it is the most serious thing That's a serious dream I I need jesus I need religion. Let me know which religion I should react to after this video guys Like are you serious with this shot right now? I what I have never shown the bottom half of me during a chainsaw man reaction Oh, I thought that that was his partner wait his power gonna be his partner.  She says that with a smile.  Thank you Uh knowing this show. I did not want to know what would happen to that pussy It's the it was cops. I love this pairing. It's like the girl version of him I think I've been standing the wrong woman. I think I like power more. I might have to change my shirt I Love when they yawn during a dialogue scene I have some blood Bro the music is dense Her hammer I remember this In the trailer Oh, I love her I am in love With power. I want to explain this. All right Denji I completely feel for him. The dude has had an awful life awful upbringing Pretty much every bad thing you could think of he suffered through parents dead. He had to sell himself. He had to sell his nut Just think about that now not like a sperm donor, but like literally his left testicle. He had to sell That's as hard as it gets. Nothing will come come close to that Pochita his only friend sacrificed himself To to go inside of him so he could become chainsaw man Can you think of a crazier life than that?  Like does he really have to do that? You know what I mean?  I love her attitude. She's crazy. She doesn't care She seems like a female edgier version of denji denji just cares about titties I definitely know what that feels like and the other guy with the sword on his back. I have to learn the names I'm not gonna learn the names right away. I'm bad with names, but he was pretty cool I like his attitude He was a serious dude, but then he got beat up by denji got kicked into nuts twice That was cool to see him vulnerable to see him hurt, but I feel like they're gonna become good friends I like this so far. I got to see more characters, but I love denji I love him. I absolutely love him. Usually when it comes to anime, it's like even with demon slayer I don't like tandoor the most. I like chanpeta the most or or or zhennitsu Like I love the other characters. I don't always love the main character the most but with this I love denji and power. I love all of them so far. Just I have a lot of questions about maki about guys a lot Anyways, this was a good episode. This was nice and chill. This is what I wanted, man It shows the comedic side of it. The first episode was I had its comedy, but it was mostly emotional, man It was barely comedy like 1% the rest of it was emotion.  I'm loving it.  It's so good. I'm really loving it. I'm not even exaggerating I'm really enjoying this. How do you guys feel though? Let me know down below, but other than that. I am gone pochita What'd you do to my man denji?


Jammu and Kashmir. I really don't know how much you are aware of our country, its history. When we got independence, it was not independence of just one country divided into two. Some 580 countries were created or restored, so to say. Restoration is a proper word. India was not one like today. You had many, many princely states. These princely states had signed a treaty with the British. Under that treaty, they had surrendered their sovereignty. They had accepted the British resident in their territories. They had agreed that they will not maintain their independent army. They will not enter into war or peace with anyone without the permission of the British. Independence Act of 1947 or 15th August of 1947 did not bring independence for all of us. There were already states in India where the local ruler was working in most matters. Except these matters which I told you, where the British permission was needed. So you had Nizam, you had Trevancore, you have so many Rajas and Maharajas. Indian Independence Act passed by the British Parliament restored the sovereignty of these states. So all these states were given an option. Either join India or join Pakistan or remain independent. Of course, due to the geography, most of these states did not have real freedom. Legal freedom was there but it was impossible for a small state of Rampur for instance to say that I will be independent. So they had to join India. Kashmir due to its geographical location said we are not going to join India, we are not going to join Pakistan. In the meanwhile, there was an attack from tribesmen or army people in plain clothes from Pakistan. And since they were aggressively reaching Srinagar, Raja Hari Singh asked our help. Help us to push back these Pakistani invaders. We said we won't. Why should we interfere? It is between you and them. We are a third party. If you want our help, you join us. That's how Raja Hari Singh signed our instrument of accession. In that instrument of accession, he said that in X, Y, Z matters, I accept whatever laws parliament makes. In other matters, I will have autonomy. We said okay. This instrument of accession, terms and conditions were subsequently reflected in Article 370, which was drafted after due deliberations and consultations between Srinagar and New Delhi and it became Article 370. Before I proceed further, let me make a very basic statement. Whenever any country drafts a constitution, it would like to have a unitary form of government. It is always better that we have a strong center, all powers are with the center, whatever law center passes, they should be implemented in the states. So federalism, which means that there is a coordination, cooperation between center and state, there are two kinds of government, there is autonomy with the states, is never a preferred choice of any frame or of the constitution in the world. Federalism is always out of compulsion.  You have to have a federal form of government. You have to give units autonomy. Allow me to say this evening, countries which do not accept federalism get partitioned. When you do not concede autonomy, then those groups of people will have a sense of dissatisfaction and will go their own way. Had we accepted autonomy and the cabinet mission, the partition would have been avoided. If we try to impose our will on people who want autonomy, then of course they will go their own way. The best remedy to control secession is giving autonomy. Just like that myth and false narrative of lax and lax of illegal infiltrators crossing border in Assam, we created a false narrative that Kashmir is having great autonomy. This is absolutely absurd. Article 3 of Jammu and Kashmir's constitution itself, we have now scrapped this. It itself says Kashmir is and shall be an integral part of India. It was not a question of integration. Newspapers writing, political leadership telling illiterate masses. Kashmir has been fully integrated. It was already fully integrated. Their own constitution said it. You want to see how nations deal with questions, questions of autonomy. I can give you some examples. Look at Scotland. UK has a prime minister. Scotland has a first minister. Have you heard of any cries of treason when Scotland demanded secession through a referendum? A referendum was held in 2014. The union of Scotland and England was created by a treaty in 1707. They had shared a king since 1603, but each had their own parliament. 1997, British Prime Minister Tony Blair declared Scotland a proud historic nation. Sweden and Finland's accord on autonomy on island islands. 1991, they even have their provisional citizenship. A right to fly their own flag, to issue stamps and passports bearing the word Elend. And this Elend has a right to veto the laws passed by Finnish parliament. It never created any question there. I have been myself in South Tyrol, Bolzano, the accord between Italy and Austria in South Tyrol. It's a German majority region. With all the autonomy given to them, no threat to integrity of Italy. Quebec Act in Canada, 1774. Recognize French law and language and Catholic faith. Canada is secular. But for Quebec, they recognize the Catholic faith. No one raised question of uniform civil code in Canada. Article 3 of Indian Constitution says parliament can change the name of their states. It can change the boundaries of their state. It can create new states. It can bifurcate states. Right. But then it also says that before any such law is enacted by the parliament, the assembly of the state must express its opinion on that. When article 3 was extended to Jammu and Kashmir under 370, this condition was made more stringent and it was laid down. Any change in the boundaries of the state, names of the state, would not require mere expression of views of the state assembly. It will require concurrence. Look at our morality. When we imposed president's rule in Kashmir last year, we suspended this provision expression of views. Look at our planning. It did not happen overnight on 5th of August. Lok Sabha elections are held in Kashmir. Number of times you have seen you will have Lok Sabha election, you will also have assembly elections. This time also in Tamil Nadu, you had Lok Sabha elections and you have few assembly by elections. If conditions were conducive to hold Lok Sabha elections, how come you didn't hold the assembly elections? Because we didn't want assembly to be there. Had assembly been there on 5th of August, this matter would have been referred to them. Of course you can ignore the opinion. We are told by great constitutional lawyers now. You have to understand constitutional law is all about politics. Constitutions are only ostensibly about rights and limitations. Indeed they are all about power. It's a game of naked power. We say when there is a precedent rule in a state, the powers of the state assembly will be exercised by the parliament. Therefore under article 3, instead of state assembly, parliament will express the view. Expression of opinion by the assembly is not power. It is freedom of speech because parliament can ignore that opinion. Because that opinion does not change anything. When Telangana was created in 2014, the bill was referred to Andhra Pradesh assembly. The bill was rejected by Andhra Pradesh assembly. 9000 amendments were suggested to the centre's bill of creating Telangana. The centre completely, and if I can say not morally but legally, was within its right to ignore all this. And the state of Telangana was created. When in 1956 we had reorganization of the states, the states were given a right to express their opinion. Even a first year law student knows there is something called legislative privileges. So parliament and state assemblies have a privilege of freedom of speech and expression. A right which is superior to citizens' right of free speech. How can parliament express the opinion? It is not entitled to express that opinion because expression of opinion is not power. Parliament can exercise power. When parliament exercises power, what kind of power? If you look at article 356, 357, if there is a precedent rule, a state cannot come to a standstill. Somebody has to approve salary bill. You cannot draw money from the treasury if there is no legislative approval and assembly is not there. Precedent rule is there. Somebody has to approve the budget. Therefore parliament during precedent rule has to act as a night watchman. That's it. Do the routine business. Give financial approvals. Can you in exercise of that power, when assembly is not in existence, bring my existence to an end? Government of India needs six weeks to justify its stand in the Supreme Court. And therefore Supreme Court will hear this matter on 14th November. 31st October is the date on which this state will disappear. It will become a union territory. Rules of business of our parliament say you will circulate legislative business few days in advance so that members can have an opportunity to look at the legislative proposal. What kind of bill you are bringing in? 5th of August, 11.30. You suddenly circulate the bill. You say you have to pass it today. Then it was passed. Next day it was passed. In the other house also, this is going Indra Gandhi way. You see so much of criticism of Nehru but hardly any of Indra. Because some people idealize in Indra. They want to emulate Indra. Passed by Rajya Sabha next day. Since it was an election matter, it required ratification of half of the states. Introduced in half of the assembly's third day. Passed by them. Fourth day signed by the president. Exactly same thing happened with 370. I will stop here but to say two more things. In my opinion, 370 was not a special autonomy the way it was used. Wrongly used. By the center, it was no more the special autonomy of Kashmir. It was a special right of center. Since we want to play to illiterate emotional voters. Since we have been making some narrative. We said something very great has happened. I have written even though Kashmiris are feeling very bad. Even though it is wrong to keep them under curfew and detention. And courts not hearing habeas corpus petitions. Absolutely wrong negation of rule of law. Yet they have not got something very very big. And similarly I will tell center has not got something very very substantial. We were probably had more power under 370 than we have today. I give you one or two examples. If you want to amend the constitution. You want to get support of two third majority in the house. For some amendments just like I told you 39th amendment in ragandhi period. You need ratification of half of state. So no change in constitution is possible unless you do this cumbersome amending exercise. You could under 370 amend any provision of the constitution just by a presidential order. It was your power. You can change any provision of the constitution just by presidential order. As many as 45 such presidential orders were made. And the more you look into those orders. The more you get convinced that this whole exercise was unnecessary. And maybe just like an RC we will realize that this narrative will fail. I give you one or two examples. If you want to curtail my freedom of speech and expression. I live in Hyderabad. You can do it only through reasonable restrictions. And who will test the reasonableness of the restriction codes. There is a judicial review. If you deny me freedom of speech and expression. There are grounds on which you can deny me. Those grounds are mentioned in article 19 clause 2. So unless I do something against the sovereignty and integrity of India. Something against the friendly relations with foreign state. Something against the public order. Something obscene. Something which is defamatory. Something which is contempt of court. You can't be curtailing my freedom of speech. But in Jammu and Kashmir the same article 19 clause 2. Restrictions on freedom of speech and expression. We modified. Abundant constitution for them. And what did we say? Freedom of speech and expression can be curtailed. Through restrictions which appropriate government considers necessary. No reasonableness. No judicial review. If you want to impose precedent rule in any state. You cannot take that precedent rule to more than one year. Unless there is national emergency. Or unless the election commission certifies that the situation is so bad. That elections cannot be held. In Kashmir you can continue to have precedent rule for 5 years. If you want to impose national emergency. National emergency can also be imposed in one city in one state. Say we want to impose national emergency in Tamil Nadu. Article 352 says you can impose national emergency in Tamil Nadu. Only if there is an external aggression or armed rebellion. That's it. But in Kashmir I can impose national emergency. Because I changed 352 in its application to Jammu and Kashmir. If there is quote unquote internal disturbance. I reduce the bar. On almost every constitutional provision. We had reduced the bar. We say it was temporary. It was temporary for a reason. When we drafted 370 by that time. Kashmir's Constraint Assembly has not met. The final say was given to them. Exercising that say. They drafted their constitution. Keeping in view 370. 90% of our constitution had already been extended to Jammu and Kashmir. For 10% their own constitution was there. But it had identical provisions with our constitution. We have lost our special power as a center. And we were conscious of this fact. That's why we converted state into a union territory. So that we can continue to exercise that kind of control. Now my last point. Hasty decisions are never right. Kashmir as part of India is listed there. In article 1 not directly. Through 370. That is why 370 has not been scrapped. It is there. But we have taken soul out of it. We could do this aggressive surgery on Kashmir. Through 370. On 5th of August the presidential order also used 370. So 370 was de-operationalized through 370 only. Territories of all Indian states are mentioned in article 1. Kamil Nadu consists of this. Punjab consists of this. Haryana consists of this. On Jammu and Kashmir, entry number 15. It says just one line. Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. We use word Indian here. Because when we are adopting our constitution on 26th of November 1949. By that time one third of Kashmir is not with us. It is with Pakistan. It is Park Akopait Kashmir. In my constitution I cannot include something which is not under my physical occupation. My claim to Park Akopait Kashmir therefore is not mentioned in my constitution because it cannot be mentioned in my constitution. Where was that claim mentioned? That claim was mentioned in the Jammu and Kashmir's constitution. Article 4. That the territory of the state means the territory which was under Raja Hari Singh on 15th August 1947. Therefore entire Park Akopait Kashmir I included in my territory under article 4 of Jammu and Kashmir constitution which we scrapped on 5th of August. We have given up our claim to Park Akopait Kashmir because we wanted to play to certain optics. We wanted to satisfy certain sections of our voters. This is not possible. For every inch of Kashmir India has a claim and must have a claim. We undermine that claim in haste. My last point. Article 1 declares India what? India that is Bharat shall be Union of States. It does not say India that is Bharat shall be Union of Union Territories. The principle of law is what can be done in respect of X can also be done in respect of Y. Can we convert all Indian states into Union territories? We never did. We should never do. The real constitutional issue is this. Centre has to simply impose precedent rule. 356. Ambedkar has said article 356 shall remain a dead letter. Look at our hypocrisy. There is no constitution in the world. I say it with full sincerity. In the world which had this kind of a provision where centre can dismiss a democratically elected government except one country. Pakistan. Because both India and Pakistan borrowed it from Government of India Act 1935. We protested so much against this section 93 of the Government of India Act that Britishers suspended 93. Some law which in my freedom struggle we protested against the British. No, don't do it. You will dismiss our governments. When we ourselves drafted the constitution we included that very article and Ambedkar assured the nation no, no, no, it will remain a dead letter. We have seen successive governments has abused and misused their power under 3756. Beta Congress government, BJP government. BJP governments invocation of 356 both in Uttarakhand and Arunachal Pradesh was stuck down by the Supreme Court. Congress governments Indira Gandhi was a unique leader. She not only dismissed opposition government she also dismissed her own governments. She was a dictator for excellence. What centre has to do now? Impose 356 in our state suspend article 3 which says expression of the views by the state assembly and convert state into a union territory. If all states becomes union territories what can be done to one can be done to all this is the principle in law if x can be done y can also be done then we are not a federation. That's why no state was ever converted into a union territory. A union territory can be elevated to a state. It was a state of Jammu and Kashmir. It were people of Jammu and Kashmir who had joined us on certain conditions. We have violated those terms of Solomon Pact. In international law we say the principle is Pactas and Sarvanda. Plighted words are to be respected. Who will trust us? We have proved ourselves to be people who don't keep our promises. It is not only a great danger to federalism it's a great danger to constitutionalism. The whole idea of constitutionalism is the idea of limitations of powers. Is the idea of respecting the autonomy of others. Kashmir was not an issue of integration. Their integration was complete and final as their own constitution said that they are and shall be an integral part of India. It was a question of autonomy. Thank you very much.