I will now move to the next final item of business, and I would ask those members who are leaving the chamber to please do so quickly and quietly, as we are now back in session. Thank you. The final item of business is a member's business debate on motion 10307, in the name of Megan Gallacher, on maternity services in Scotland. This debate will be concluded without any questions being put. I would ask those members who would wish to speak in the debate to please press the request-a-suite button. I call on Megan Gallacher to open the debate around us. I begin by thanking those members and those in the gallery who have stayed on tonight to take part in a wider discussion about maternity services in Scotland. It is greatly appreciated. Although I am shocked not to see Collette Stevenson because she did want more time to debate this issue, and this would have been the ideal opportunity for her to participate in the debate. Having not one but two debates on the same issue shows how strongly MSPs feel about maternity services being removed or scaled back. As I mentioned earlier, the SNP does not have a good track record when it comes to maternity services. Since 2016, this Government has downgraded or closed maternity or neonatal services at Keith Ness General Hospital WIC, Dr Gray's and Murray, University of Wishaw General, Ninewells Dundee and Victoria Hospital Fife. Expectant mums and newborn babies up and down the country have been impacted by those decisions, with many starting-up campaign groups to voice their anger and frustration. That chamber has heard the issues that rural mums face when travelling over 100 miles to give birth in hospital, especially during the harsh winter months. There have been many debates on this exact issue, but we have yet to see maternity services fully reinstated at either Keith Ness or Dr Gray's. What I find staggering is that more than 90 per cent of children born in the Keith Ness area were delivered at Regmore hospital in Inverness, despite there being a maternity ward in Keith Ness general. The process for a mother going into labour in those areas is even more questionable. The general instruction is to get in the car and when you are having contractions that is no easy task with your partner if they happen to be with you at the time, and travel 105 miles down the one and only road to Inverness, the A9. This road is the exact road that this Government has failed to dual, and they seem to think that it is safe for mums to give birth at the side of the road. Once the expecting mother arrives at the hospital, they admit themselves to the maternity ward at Regmore, and that is if it is time to admit that, as mums will understand, contractions do not automatically mean admission to hospital. Any false alarm would result in a 210-mile round trip. Does the Government seriously think that this is a comfortable and acceptable journey for women suspected of being in labour to make? No expecting mum should ever have to face a journey like that, but yet it still happens. Campaign groups in the Highlands have rightly been angered by this, and it appears that they have been given no support by this Government to provide them with better maternity care. They have been forgotten about by this Government, and the SNP should feel ashamed of the journey that rural mums need to make to give birth in a maternity ward. The reason I brought this member's debate to the chamber today is because I am a mum. When the news broke about Worcestershire General Hospital in the NHS being downgraded, I could not sit back and let it happen, because I gave birth to my own daughter just over a year ago. I met the wonderful midwifery team at the hospital. The care and support that they give to families and newborn babies are second to none. I could not understand and still do not understand why Worcestershire General, or any of the other areas were selected for downgrading, but that is part of the problem. This plan to reduce the number of maternity services in Scotland has been shrouded in secrecy, and many questions have been left unanswered. In the case of Wisha Neonatal, babies who need specialised care could be transferred to either Glasgow, Edinburgh or Aberdeen, the three major cities, instead of being closer to home. For the benefit of those saying that Glasgow might be close by to Wisha General, if it was Aberdeen, that is roughly 150 miles away from Wisha. What message is that sending to mums who are already going through an exceptionally stressful time that they will need to make a substantial journey in order to access specialised care when the care that they could receive is actually within the hospital they are due to go to? It makes absolutely no sense. It is Monica Lennon said earlier on, make it, make sense. The minister spoke about a fund earlier on that parents can access to help with costs for travel and food, but I must say eight pounds fifty is not going to get you that far if you have to travel to Aberdeen. It is centralisation for centralisation's sake at the expense of vulnerable mothers and babies. Has the Government thought about how traumatising it could be for a new mum and baby to be put in ambulance and told that she needs to go to another hospital? All because the one that she is currently in can no longer help them. I get the minister said that journeys would happen before Labour started, but babies do not always work that way. As we heard in the case of Mark Griffin in his family, there are cases where it would not be safe to move a mother or baby, and I do thank Mark for sharing his story and I understand why he is not able to take part in the committee's debate this evening. Let us not forget that we are talking about giving support to babies who need it most. Surely that should be delivered as close to home as possible. Then, of course, there are the logistics. Will the midwives be required to work within several different health boards? If a mother and baby need to be transferred, will the midwife have to accompany them, resulting in less resource within a general? When that is already stretched to breaking point, as it already is. Finally, there has been a shocking lack of consultation. The announcement came out of the blue, and that was the reason why a large group of concerned women are here this evening, because they will not stand for it, nor should they. I have enough time left to thank those who contacted MSPs widespread about this issue, especially Lynn, who is at the forefront of the campaign to stop the neonatal department at Wisher General for being downgraded. Lynn has her own story about her son, Ines, and I have loved seeing photos of him since he appeared on a BBC documentary highlighting the wonderful support that he received during his stay at Wisher General while receiving specialised neonatal care. It is because of Ines and other babies that we will fight this decision every step of the way, because Murray Mums fought the downgrade, Kate Ness Mums is still fighting the downgrade. In Lanarkshire Mums, we are the feisty type, and we will fight this decision every step of the way. Thank you, Ms Gallacher. I now call Emma Harper to be followed by Douglas Ross. I welcome that Meghan Gallacher has secured this debate, and I note the degree and the detail in regards to Dr Grace and Kate Ness hospital that she described. I want to remind members that I am still a registered nurse and I was a former clinical educator who provided specific clinical education support for midwives in NHS Dumfries and Galloway. I agree with the member that it is important that I expect that mothers are able to deliver their babies as close to home as possible, but that must also be clinically safe and the right option in each case. As the minister will know, I have a number of challenges when it comes to maternity services in Wictonshire in Dumfries and Galloway, and I will focus on some of those. When mothers have to be transferred further from home to receive the best care for their baby, it is crucial that support is in place to enable parents to be at their baby's cotside as much as possible. I am aware that the Scottish Government is committed to improving maternity and neonatal services in Scotland to ensure that they provide the right care for every woman and baby and give all children the best start in life. We have heard in the previous debate that I sat through as well as tonight's debate. In 2015, maternity services underwent a national review through which the best start grant, a five-year forward plan for maternity and neonatal care in Scotland, was developed. In February 2017, the Scottish Government appointed the chief executive of NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde to lead the implementation programme board that will implement the five-year plan. Implementation of the best start programme was remobilised in May 2022 following a pause due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The plan for maternity and neonatal care in Scotland updates and builds upon neonatal care in Scotland, a quality framework published in March 2013. However, while I welcome this work, my constituents in Wictonshire are not able to deliver their baby locally at Galloway hospital in Stranraer. That means that many expect to mothers who are not able or who do not wish to give birth at home are required to travel 72 miles to Dumfries infirmary in order to deliver their babies. In 2011, the clinic birthing centre at the Galloway community hospital was operational as a community midwifery unit, providing low-risk midwifery-led impetrapartum care as a two-bedded facility. In 2018, due to the sustained and significant staff and pressures, the operational decision to temporarily suspend the birthing centre at clinic was taken by NHS De Fries and Galloway and the centre is still closed. Thanks to the campaigning from expectant mothers, the Galloway community hospital action group and others, NHS De Fries and Galloway commissioned a review of Wictonshire maternity services reported in July this year. The independent review of maternity services in Wictonshire has been published initially and the review has the support of the community maternity hub at Galloway community hospital. They wanted to see the community midwifery maternity hub returned at the hospital. The hub would provide an on-call interpartum midwifery unit. Lots of constituents have long campaigned for the return of a local midwifery service unit in Wictonshire. That includes the Galloway community hospital action group, which I have worked closely with and the previous Minister for Public Health met with the Galloway community hospital action group along with colleagues in Strunrar. I understand that, if the services to be resumed, that changes will be required in the current clinic birthing centre, including an upgrade in the facilities and equipment with projected cost of £103,000. The report says that staff will also require updated education in obstetric emergencies before maternity services can properly resume. Those recommendations are a step forward, and I thank everyone involved in carrying out the review. I acknowledge that the safety of mothers and babies is of paramount importance and that expert clinicians, doctors, midwifers and esotys must be involved not only for their clinical input but for them to be recruited and retained for the service delivery to be achieved safely and returned at Wictonshire. I congratulate my colleague Megan Gallagher for securing this important debate. I also welcome the campaigners from Wyshaw General Hospital, who are here for two important debates today and continue to fight for what they believe and I believe. I think that, hopefully, most of us in this chamber believe is the right outcome for them and the local area. I want to focus my remarks on Dr Gray's hospital and the maternity services there. I was astonished during the debate to hear the minister basically patting herself in the back to see how good things were now in Murray because we have this pledge to reinstate consultant-led maternity services by 2026. Let's just remember that they were first temporarily downgraded in 2018, and the Government want thanked for the fact that they may get back up and running by 2026. Crucially, the minister visited Elgin back in August just a few weeks ago. After the meeting, Kirsty Watson, whom I was in contact with last night and today ahead of this debate, and others in Keep Mum, are frustrated by the lack of progress. We are getting no answers from NHS Grampian. We are getting no answers from NHS Highland about how this consultant-led unit will be introduced. The responses from the minister, both on 24 August and in subsequent letters, is to say that everything is fine. Don't worry, this service will be back up and running. I can say, minister, that we are worried. We are desperately worried in Murray that there is no real progress being made, and it is having an impact. I want to use my time today to articulate in this chamber a very difficult birthing story, because I think that it's really important that the minister hears this, because this is happening to Murray Mums right now. It has been happening since 2018. In the past, in this chamber, I explained my own family's story, but this is one that I think should shock the minister and hopefully shock the Government into action. This mum spoke about her first baby being born in Dr Gray's in 2020, and the downgrade did worry the family about having another child, but they did, and things were going well. However, there were last-minute complications, and I'm just going to read exactly what the mum put into the public domain. I was told that I had to give birth in Aberdeen. On the morning that my contraction started, I phoned Dr Gray's and was advised to make my way through to Aberdeen ASAP as it was a second pregnancy, and because of that, they wouldn't turn me away. We drove through and I was contracting the whole way, which was horrible. When I arrived in Aberdeen and was examined in triage, I was told that I was only two centimetres, so we would need to go home as women labour best at home. The mum explained that she was from Elgin. It was a four-hour round trip, and it wasn't possible just to nip back home for the labour to continue. She then said that they then advised that we would need to book a hotel, as we couldn't stay at the hospital as they didn't have space, so we frantically tried to find a room to book and managed to get one just down the road from the hospital, but check-in wasn't until 3pm. By this point it was only 12pm. We asked if we could stay at the hospital for a few more hours, and we were told no. I was then contracting heavily in the hotel car park. My waters had gone and were leaking everywhere, and I was crying my eyes out, feeling so scared and uncomfortable. I phoned the hospital back around 2pm and explained that the contractions were a lot stronger and closer together and asked if I could come back in, but they said that they didn't have space for me, and I could only come back in at 3pm. So I waited another hour, and by the time I got into triage I was examined, I was 78 centimetres and my baby was born 30 minutes later. She finishes by saying that the whole experience was awful and felt inhumane. I had several panic attacks throughout and afterwards, and I still feel panicked when I think about it now. Minister, this is happening right now in Murray in Scotland, and it is unacceptable. It is inhumane, so we must ensure that consultant-led services are reinstated to Dr Greys as quickly as possible so that no more mothers and no more families have to suffer in the same way as this. Deputy Presiding Officer, can I remind members of my membership of the GMB Trades Union, which organises NHS workers? I suppose that, in the idiom of Douglas Ross, I ought to record that my wife is a serving trade union organiser for NHS workers. Can I also thank Megan Gallacher for bringing this important motion to Parliament? In so doing, she's shown a bright national parliamentary spotlight on a dark plan to centralise and downgrade nationally critical locally-based neonatal services. Like her, I'm especially concerned about the threat hanging over the neonatal intensive care unit at University Hospital Wishaw, which is proposed to be downgraded from level 3 to level 2. One midwife, an experienced one, Elsie Sneddon told me, I quote, and the minister, these are the clinical experts as well. She told me this would not just be a disaster for Lanarkshire but a disaster for Scotland. Greater Glasgow and Lothian patients are often transferred into Wishaw, so why take it away? Four weeks ago, I wrote to the cabinet secretary setting out some of these concerns. At the time, there were 10,000 local signatures on a public petition. There are now over 12,000 signatures on that petition. At that time, there had been no consultation with the public, no consultation with the trade unions, no consultation with anyone based in Lanarkshire and, shockingly, no consultation with families who have direct experience of the neonatal intensive care services at Wishaw. All of these weeks later, I have to report that there has still been no consultation, even though the proposed downgrade could have profound implications for patient safety. Even though every staff member I speak to who delivers these services tells me of their anxiety and concerns, for infection control and risk, for neurodevelopmental care and outcomes, for family-centred care, for staff retention and staff transfers, and for ambulance demand and capacity, there appears to have been no assessment of any of that, no equality impact assessment, no risk assessment, no assessment let alone an independent validation of the data sets used, no assessment of the co-location of specialist paediatric services on site at Wishaw, no assessment of the skills, training and irreplaceable institutional knowledge which is now at risk, no assessment of the impact this is now having on staff morale, no assessment of the human cost, no assessment. We are told to follow the evidence, but this whole exercise has lacked transparency. There is no breakdown of the waiting of the scores in the options appraisal report, widespread concern too that the statistics used are way out of date. Now, it's the Government's job to consider the best available evidence, so I say to the minister tonight, do not rely on the tables in this report, listen to the human stories of the lives which have been saved, the futures which have been won, the hope that has been given and do not extinguish that hope. Finally, there are risks in service redesign, risks in this so-called new model, in overcentralisation, risks in cutting the number of beds because that's what this means, risks in the downgrading of our local NHS services. If we haven't learned that over the last few years, we've learned nothing. It's time, minister, that you stepped in, stopped this plan, finally listened to the voices including those here tonight who need to be heard. This is the right thing to do, it's the only thing to do and that is what we are calling on you to do tonight. Thank you, Mr Leonard. I now call Green Simpson to be followed by Monica Lennon. Thank you very much, Deputy Presiding Officer. I've listened to the previous debate and this debate with interest. The minister was not prepared to take any of my interventions earlier. I will take any of hers if she's prepared to make them because her contribution earlier was, in my view, tin-earred. She wasn't listening. I say to the minister, she has an opportunity, even now, to say that she will reconsider. She will pause this because she's won her vote earlier but it is not binding. She can change her mind. She could say as she closes this debate for the Government that she will reconsider and she will go back to the drawing board and that is exactly what she should do. I have to, of course, congratulate Megan Gallagher for securing this member's debate in the first place. It should not have been necessary. The plan to downgrade the neonatal intensive care unit in Wishaw has managed to provoke the ire of patients and staff and, as we've heard earlier, has attracted 12,000 signatures on a petition that the Government is apparently ignoring. It would see babies requiring specialist care, taking to Glasgow, Edinburgh or Aberdeen, from Scotland's third largest health board. The staff at Wishaw are not just among the best. They are the best. They are the best in the UK. Here's what one of them told me. Wishaw neonatal unit are currently a level 3 unit, successfully managing care for the babies of Lanarkshire, effectively, confidently and to a high standard. Our multi-disciplinary team won UK neonatal team of the year in 2023 and our care and success was evidenced on the tiny lives documentary. We successfully manage our workload with a highly competent and skilled team of staff. It's a concern that downgrading will mean that we should stabilise babies that we are skilled at caring for and transfer them to another hospital to the detriment of staff, babies and families. I query how this is child or family-centred care and propose its financially or politically motivated and based on inaccurate data. This has been a deeply flawed process. The Scottish Government consultation falls short of being fair and inclusive and it was in no way transparent. Decisions were made by the Scottish Government without representation from Lanarkshire on the board. No one from Lanarkshire. Other boards were fully represented. Why was that? Perhaps the minister can tell us that. She can intervene on me now and explain that. She doesn't want to intervene on me. NHS Lanarkshire representation on the perinatal subgroup involved in this was only there until 2019 before the options appraisal process started. There was no local representation after that. Data within the document is no longer relevant and was in fact relevant only in 2015. The scoring system used has been called into question. It weighed heavily on the ability to provide interventional care for rare congenital anomalies but most of these are picked up during pregnancy and plans put in place for delivery. However, Wishaw has specialist fetal medicine expertise for just this purpose. This move could, will have a dental detrimental effect on NHS Lanarkshire who could lose skilled staff to other areas. It's happening already. We heard that in the previous debate. You could see mums move to other hospitals. Having a sick baby is a hugely traumatic situation for any parent. We heard Mark Griffin speak movingly earlier on. It's completely senseless to move them from their local area. The support network of friends and family asked them to leave their other children if they have them when care is appropriate locally as it is. This isn't a plea or a campaign based on just wanting to keep something local for the sake of it. We're not saying this decision should be revisited because it sounds good. It's because it's the right thing to do for staff and crucially for mums, dads and their babies. The Government must think again and don't palm us off as the minister tried to do earlier with focus groups. That doesn't cut it. I thank Megan Gallacher for securing this debate and bringing everyone together tonight. I want to join her in paying tribute to all those campaigners and families in Caithness and Murray and indeed in Lanarkshire, which I will focus on in my remarks. I know that Megan Gallacher feels this very personally as a mum who just gave birth to her baby girl in Wishaw just last year. My daughter was born in the same hospital not last year but 17 years ago. A few years ago, Richard Leonard and I had a really lovely special visit to the hospital so that we could go there and meet staff and listen to them working in maternity and neonatal. On that visit to my surprise, I was reunited with my midwife and she gave me the biggest hug and I was just very humbled that she remembered me with a lovely chat. I mentioned in my speech earlier on that for those families who have had the experience in neonatal, it feels like family. They feel that there is genuine love and compassion and care and that continuity of care is really important. I made the mistake of sitting behind Mark Griffin earlier today. It was very moving. I agree with Graham Simpson and Mark and his family have been so open about their struggles. That has helped other families particularly in relation to the financial support that Mark has campaigned and helped to secure. However, we have heard a lot today about mitigation, the support that people might be able to get if this goes ahead. We can prevent this trauma from happening and that is the whole point here. Mark Griffin has had to leave for this debate. Rosa Niece picked up from rainbows tonight but I think we would all welcome that and we would not encourage her rainbows experience. The minister knows that I chaired the cross-party group on women's health. I am very passionate about women's health. I make no apology for that. However, I think that the points about the impact on women, the birth trauma that Douglas Ross has addressed, there are so many issues here that affect women but also dads, partners and family units. It can have lifelong impact. It does not need to be like that. I am quite jealous of Jenny Minters. She has probably got one of the best jobs in government to be the minister for public health and women's health. However, you are sitting there as a lonely figure tonight, minister, but we do not want you to be alone with this. We do not want you to be burdened with this terrible dilemma. People want to help. The people in the gallery want to help our communities. They know what they are talking about and they want to help. I would quite like Richard Leonard to be the minister that is looking at us because he went through things forensically. Those are the questions that ministers need to ask of civil servants and clinicians. We have to be forensic. We have to get to the bottom of this. I think that Carole Mawkin earlier on was very clear about this. She hit it on the head. Where is the transparency? Where are all the documents? NHS Lanarkshire was not even properly at the table. That is a point that the Royal College of Midwives have made in their briefings. There is not a lot of time left. I hope that they collect Stevenson and ask her business manager to get a proper debate in here. Parents in the gallery tonight have messaged me and said, what does this actually mean? What did that vote actually do? That vote was to endorse the downgrading. That is not what people want. We are going to live to regret this, minister. As we have heard from some of the families that have been mentioned throughout the afternoon, there can be significant long-term complications linked to prematurity and babies who need that neonatal care. Being able to go back to your local hospital and see those familiar faces to have that institutional knowledge that Richard Leonard talked about, money cannot buy that. It is a dark plan. That downgrading will be dangerous, but it is not too late, minister. We cannot stop it. What I wanted to ask when the minister did not take into his identity early on is, when did the minister last go to university hospital wish-show? When will she last visit the neonatal unit and speak to the staff and try to walk in the issues and try to understand because you cannot sit behind a desk or in this Parliament and write them off. Please listen. The award is winning for a reason. As we have already heard today, the Scottish Government appears determined to downgrade or even remove altogether vital maternity services across the whole of Scotland. Their actions, in some cases, is putting expectant mothers unnecessarily at risk, especially those living in rural communities such as my own in Galloway and West Dumfries. They often face lengthy journeys because there are no neonatal services close by. Born in A75 might sound like a dodgy rip-off of the classic kit by Bruce Springsteen, but sadly it is no laughing matter, because on this occasion it has become a reality with women having to give birth and lay-bys along the A75. Indeed, I know one child whose birth certificate lists her arrival as drumflower rodent Dunraget. That is simply unacceptable. I do not want to focus on the risk associated with A75, because I know that the paramedics and the midwives that accompany those mothers left with no option but to make the 70-mile journey provide the highest level of care, no matter where. However, we simply cannot continue to have the situation where one new mum said that she would have to travel 7,500 miles during her pregnancy to get maternity care. There are mothers who have told me that they would not have any more children because they could not face the uncertainty of the possibility of having to make those kind of journeys and the sort of journeys that Douglas Ross has described. The fact of the matter is that increasingly mothers to be are being denied the choice of where they can give birth. A normal natural physiological birth within their own community with their support network around them should not be denied to any women. Whether it be in Dumfries, Srinar or at home, they have the right to make that decision and are not dictated to because of a flawed management decision related to workforce decisions or downgrading maternity or neonatal services. The minister will be aware of the campaign to reinstate the midwife-led clinic birth centre in Srinar, a campaign led by mothers, elected members in the Galloway community hospital action group. It has resulted in an independently led review of maternity services in the west of Dumfries and Galloway. It was led by NHS Ayrshers in Ireland, Crawford at MacGuffey and Jennifer Wilson with the support of midwifery expert Angela Cunningham. The two proposals were drawn up, the existing model of a community maternity hub with home births and a second option, which also included planned on-call birthing for low-risk births at the Galloway community hospital's birth centre. The recommendation from this independent group was option 2, but, bizarrely and frustratingly, the IGB has not, as a matter of urgency, put in place the plans to deliver what this independent inquiry has recommended. I would call on all IGB members to do the right thing. The Scottish Government must support local NHS boards to improve work planning, retention and recruitment, particularly given the huge demands and are much valued midwifes, who now have increased responsibilities and require increased set of skills. That is required particularly in rural areas. Everyone wants the best care for mothers and babies, and the move to ensure that the smallest babies are looked after in centres that will have the right level of care is not disputed. However, the Royal College of Midwifery has voiced concerns surrounding the testing of the Government's model following the publication of the five-year forward plan on neonatal services, but we are in a very different world from 2017 when the best start was published both demographically and financially. The ethos of best start is care close to home and keeping moms and babies together and to individualise care around the needs of women. There are individual circumstances and family circumstances, and that is certainly not what has been offered in the west of my constituency. In conclusion, I want to stress again that fathers and mothers must be given a choice when it comes to giving birth. After all, this should be one of the most, if not the most precious moments in our lives. I thank all the members who have taken part in tonight's debate. The new model of neonatal intensive care recommended by the best start outlined that Scotland should move from the current model of eight neonatal intensive care units to a model of three units supported by the continuation of current NICUs, which is redesignated as local neonatal units. The evidence is clear that the highest-risk babies are more likely to survive when they are cared for in units by clinicians who see more of those babies and with access to specialist support services. The best start report was underpinned by evidence. Eight evidence reviews were and are detailed in the best start report led by Professor Mary Remfrew of the University of Dundee. Evidence is clear and set out in that report. I thank the minister for taking the intervention. She has heard repeatedly that the staff at Wishaw are performing to the highest level. They are the best in the United Kingdom. Her argument does not stack up. Even at this late stage, is she prepared to say that she will pause the decision and have a rethink? I thank the member for that intervention. I have been very clear that the decision was based and has been based on clinical evidence by clinical experts. That is evidence that we need to take account of. The babies who are born at less than 27 weeks gestation weigh less than 800 grams or who need multiple complex intensive care interventions or surgery. It should be understood that no neonatal units were closed and local neonatal units will continue to provide a level of neonatal intensive care for sick babies in their area. The care for the most preterm and sickest babies will receive their specialist complex care in one of our specialist NICUs and, importantly, return to their local area as soon as clinically appropriate. The process of determining which units should be providing neonatal intensive care followed an options appraisal process, which was undertaken by an expert group, including clinical leads and service user representatives. The model is supported by a range of stakeholders and clinicians, including Bliss, the leading charity for babies born, premature or sick, who recognise that the new model of care is based on strong evidence and will improve the safety of services for the smallest and sickest babies. What steps have you taken now that it is on your desk to go back and check that everything is in line the way it should be? You have talked about the importance of clinicians, but what have you done to make sure that there was no one missing from that discussion, because the information in my folder suggests that this process is flawed? I thank Monica Lennon for that intervention. When I came into post, I had a number of meetings with officials talking through this, and there was a review in 2022 of the decision of the outcomes that were made in 2019. As members will be aware, we currently have 15 incredible neonatal units in Scotland each providing invaluable care for babies in their area. That will continue under the new model of care. The best start recommended that the new model of neonatal care should be based on the British Association of Perinatal Medicine definitions of levels of care. Neonatal units in Nine Wiles and Dundee, the Princess Royal Maternity in Glasgow, Wishaw General, Victoria hospital in Kirkcaldy and Crosshouse hospital in Kilmarnock will continue to function as local neonatal units. As I said in the previous debate, shifting from a local neonatal unit has got more than a level 2 neonatal unit. I reassure members that, under the new model, the scope of practice that a local neonatal unit can undertake means that the vast majorities of babies who need neonatal care will still receive that locally. Local units will continue to provide a level of intensive care and will be able to care for all local babies born at greater than 27 weeks gestation. As members have highlighted today, the work that these units provide and will continue to provide is incredible, and hearing the words of parents who I have met and written to me detailing their experience has only reassured me that the care that we are providing to the most vulnerable babies is inspirational. I would like to take this second opportunity—I know that I would like to make some progress, thank you. I would like to take this second opportunity to congratulate Wishaw General's neonatal multidisciplinary team in being named the UK neonatal team of the year in 2023. I have also heard reference to Dr Gray's. If I can touch on that, Douglas Ross was correct. I visited Dr Gray's in Elgin in August. I was disappointed that Mr Ross was unable to join me at those meetings, because they were, from my perspective, very helpful, because I heard from Keith Mum and they were very clear in their concerns. As I said in that meeting, I was very clear that five years was too long for this to happen, which is why I am pleased that the plan has now been agreed in March between NHS Highland and NHS Grampian. When I met the boards, we discussed what progress was being made and, as Mr Ross will know, a project manager has been appointed. I would also like to point out that the Scottish Government has put £5 million to the refurbishment of Regmore and also £5 million to Dr Gray's, and I have written to both health boards requesting them to improve the timelines that they have said and to keep giving the Scottish Government more information. Is the minister giving way to Mr Ross? I am grateful to the minister for giving way. I was also disappointed that I could not meet her and I appreciated her officials contacting me and apologising for the late notice of the minister's visit to Elgin. However, we cannot just keep going round and round in circles and get more letters from the Government to the health board. The Government can instruct NHS Highland and NHS Grampian to ramp up their efforts, and there is real frustration that we are seeing little or no progress, and simply writing to them, urging them to do a bit more, is not cutting the mustard. Indeed, Keith Mum has said at the moment that they have little faith that our voices will be heard. Their voices are not being heard by the Government, NHS Grampian or NHS Highland, because, if they were, we would see far more action on the ground right now to reinstate full consultant-led maternity services at Dr Gray's. Minister, I thank Mr Ross for his intervention. As I understand it, there was enough time for you to look at when the meeting was happening. We had given you that notice earlier. I have been listening to Keith Mum, and I have been direct to the health board as to what I expect them to be doing. We are seeing no progress. I would like to make some progress, thank you. Also, Stranraer was mentioned by both Finlay Carson and Emma Harper. That midwife service was temporarily withdrawn because of staffing, and, as has been pointed out, there has been a review by Ayrshire and Arran, and the IGB is considering that at the end of September. I would like to make some progress, thank you. In reference to the petition that has been highlighted today, I appreciate that local people will have concerns about the announced changes. I would like to clarify that those changes will affect a small number of families in Lanarkshire, and I appreciate that any family affected is probably one that is very difficult to cope with. I also wanted to highlight a range of other features of the new model of neonatal care outlined in the best start. The new model of care positions parents firmly as partners in their baby's care. It includes expansion of transitional care, allowing mothers and babies who need some additional neonatal support to stay together in a postnatal ward, improve facilities and support for payments. Parents expanded neonatal community care, allowing babies to get home sooner. Members will be aware that we have begun to address the financial concerns of parents with babies in neonatal care with the expansion of the neonatal expenses fund, now known as the Young Patients Family Fund. The fund continues to help to support many parents with the cost of travel, meals and accommodation, while they are partners in the care of their babies. I suggest to Megan Gallacher that £8.50 is for meals, all travel is compensated in full. We are rolling out transitional care across Scotland and with all units on track to have this in place next year. In addition, all of our units are working towards implementation of the bliss baby charter with almost all units at silver or bronze level, two units having achieved gold standard and four more gold expected Minister, could I please ask you to bring your remarks to close? We will now work with all health boards affected to plan for and implement the service change over the course of the next year, informed by the testing that has been under way over the last few years. I would like to thank everyone who has taken time to speak with us to inform our picture of what more needs to be done to reassure both the parents and the staff within our neonatal community. I would like to thank all those who have worked with us to look at how we can best deliver the changes recommended by the best start report. Their experience is invaluable in forming our approach to date. It will continue to be invaluable as we take forward our work, ensuring that this Government does as much as we possibly can to support those requiring neonatal care in Scotland.


And we're here at IFA and hi, so who are you? Hi there, my name is Rosalind Kelly and I work with Product Marketing for Fitbit. And what are we looking at here? Yes, so we're looking at our newest device which we've just announced. So this is Versa 2, the upgrade to our most loved smartwatch. So what is this OS running? It's on Fitbit OS and it's also got built-in Alexa. It's got improved health and fitness features including sleep and an improved design. So you can see here it's got an AMOLED display with blacker blacks and brighter brights. It's also got a faster chipset for a seamless user experience. And we've also got a huge amount of new features focusing in on sleep, including sleep score, smart wake and a night mode, sleep mode for the display. And it has the sensors inside and stuff? Exactly. So this is a hard rate? Exactly. The pins for charging? Exactly, yes. So how long is the battery life? The battery life is five plus days, which is really great. But if you use the always on display mode, that reduces down to about two days. But you can adjust the brightness of the screen as well. So we're really happy with the battery life we've achieved. Can you show some of the apps and some of the stuff that you have here? Sure, yeah. So Spotify? Spotify Control, exactly. Any other music? You also still have Deezer, so you can save music on board. We've got weather apps, our relax app. We've got a ton of other apps that you can download in the gallery. And how does it look the app on the phone? So there's an app that works together with it? Exactly, the Fitbit app. And can we check it out? Yeah, sure. Hi, I'm Anna, I'm marketing manager for the Dach region, Germany, Austria and Switzerland. And so here you have this iPhone? That's an iPhone? Yes, that's my app. All in German. So this is the dashboard. Those are the most important fitness statistics you have. Your daily statistics. So here you can see sleep for instance. You can see your sleep score. This is from the last two nights. So it tells you the quality of your sleep. Here you can see different sleep stages you've been in. So it's the REM phase or deep sleep or light sleep. So it's recommended to wear it? German night for sure, yes. How do you choose all the apps and stuff like that? Is that through the app? Well, yes, you can download them in the Fitbit app and then you have them on your smartwatch. And there's really hundreds of apps? Could I do stuff like Google Music, Apple Music, all these different things? So for music we partner mostly with Spotify and Deezer and you can also download your own music to be on the watch, on board. But we're always partnering with new partner apps for music as well. And then you have like a specific, what do you call it? When you swipe in a certain way you can control things. Like for example, I'm listening to a podcast, I can control it through the watch. Yes, so we're really excited with this launch that we've got Spotify control on the wrist. So we can actually, you can be out running and you can change the song, you can stop the song, all on the wrist. And you can also have it always on. So for example, your watch. Exactly, which is really useful. So people were feeding back really that in a meeting or whatever, it was kind of tricky to do this action to bring the screen on. So now it's great that we're able to announce that you can actually have the time and date displaying all of the time. But together with this we're also really happy to announce a great new feature, which is sleep mode in terms of the display. So if you have sleep mode activated it basically means that there's no risk during the night when you're asleep of the display coming on to disturb anybody. So we're really excited about that because we've got great new sleep features including sleep score, which Anna just showed you as well on the app, which correlates data about the duration of your sleep, your sleep stages and also your heart rate to determine the quality of your sleep during the night. So that together with our sleep mode and our enhanced insights around sleep are really deepening our expertise in this area. Many years ago I heard that there's science behind waking up at the right time. Do you have this thing where I can say I want to wake up before 8.30? Exactly. Whenever is the right time? Yes, so we've just announced that. It's called smart wake. So basically how that works is if you're about to go to bed and you know that you need to wake up at 8 o'clock you can choose to activate smart wake which means that if you enter into a light sleep stage any time from half past seven up to 8 o'clock the watch will actually wake you during that light sleep stage. So the result of that is you wake up feeling a lot more refreshed better able to tackle your day and it's just giving your body the best start. That's why you're so happy right now and so much energy, right? Exactly. I've been using my smart wake and I've woken up a lot smarter today. Do you feel a difference from real? Totally, yeah. Really? Yeah. You really don't feel as groggy when you wake up because basically I mean The whole day is affected. Totally. And I mean we've got teams of scientists and researchers in the US who are specializing in this but basically your body has an optimum time to wake up and what this is doing is it's making sure that you're waking up whenever it's going to suit best. So what else are you showing here at the booth? Sure. So we've got our full lineup of accessories. First thing I might point out to you are core SKUs. So we've got the black carbon pedal copper rows and stone and miss grey. These are our three core SKUs retailing at 199.99 and here's our special edition SKUs which are in 229.99. They come with an additional band in the box. Here's our other range of accessories. This is our woven recycled reflective band. So that's made from recycled ocean plastic and it looks really great on the wrist. It's got that reflective band so if you're running it's really really safe. These are our five sport silicone bands as well great colours really nice pops there. Is it easy to switch the bands? Really easy. Yeah. Just a demo. Pop it over just there then boom you can have... Put it on the spot. Ah sorry. So we can get others change the style every day depending on the outfit right? Absolutely. So obviously some of our bands might be nicer suited to outfits or better suited to a sports type or better suited to the office and some of them can carry right the way through your day but it's all about individual preference. So really we've catered for everybody and the other half of our accessories are just over here. So we've got the two perforated leather bands in massive charcoal our Reco band which is an outdoor rescue band. So basically that is within built in Reco technology to rescue people in case they get lost or buried in the case of an avalanche. How does that work? So basically... Something is sending through the band? Exactly. So it's a sensor that detects the band from afar. It's the Reco technology that they have built into their products and so it's not a chip that's actually built into the band. It's a material. Exactly. It's a sensor that they can actually detect where the band is and these, the final two are also our Kim Shwee leather rubber band. So these are really gorgeous. Kim Shwee is a very famous designer in the US. Around here you're just showing some randomly changing different UI things that happen in the... So these are great units to give you an example or an impression of what it's like to actually use the product. These are set up as demo looped videos so you don't have to press anything. As you can see there, it's running through how you use or produce this. So this is the Today Dashboard which gives you more insight into your stats as your day is going along. You can see everything on the wrist. Here's some of our apps. You were asking about apps. Of course, there's our Spotify. So it enables you to play and control music on the wrist. And there's a text coming in from Nick. So now we've got voice replies to text for Android users. So what's happening now is the user has just pressed the side button and they're speaking, as you can see from these moving dots. So they're answering Nick's text directly in the way that they want. They customize their reply by voice as they're on the go. So they don't need to just pick a custom text reply. And our exercise modes, we've also expanded out in terms of what's on offer here. And as you can see, this is counting. There's nice colors and all the different UIs. Beautiful, yeah. And there's our always on display mode as well. So you're noticing the color because basically we've got a lovely bright screen with this AMOLED screen. The screen size is also larger. We've also removed the logo from the bottom of the screen and we've created an edge-to-edge effect on the screen. So it's really giving the user an excellent display. Very exciting to see the colors pop up. Really easy to use, really visual. And Amazon Alexa. Amazon Alexa built-in, exactly. So we've voice assistant. We've got a microphone built-in to the actual versus to- It's always ready. You just say something? Well, the thing is it's not always listening. So it is always ready. But all you need to do is press in the side button once to activate it and then speak. So you don't need to say, Alexa, can you add bananas to my shopping list? You just push the side button and then you can either give it a command or you can control home devices so you can say, switch on the lights in the living room, start my morning routine, for example. So then Alexa would communicate with your connected home devices to potentially turn on the lights, start your coffee machine, play some music and get you ready for the day. So I think a big part of the Versa 2 is that it's bringing everyday conveniences and really improving how you carry out your day. So right from the moment where you've used smart wake to wake up feeling more refreshed to how you can conveniently control your devices in your home and add things to your shopping list, create to-do lists. Obviously do your workouts and it's waterproof to 50 meters. You can also dress it up with our beautiful accessories that we've just brought you through. So it's really a fabulous product at a great price and we're really happy to be announcing it. So how long has this Fitbit OS been around? Are there developers developing apps for this OS and more and more things happening there? Exactly, yeah. So our team of engineers are working in the US constantly on our Fitbit OS and we're consistently adding more apps to our library. As you can see, Spotify has just- But third-party companies can do too. Exactly, yes. Third-party companies can adapt their apps for this embedded OS that you're doing. Exactly, yeah. And we've got an open software developer kit so it's a great operating system and we're really proud of it.


So the last time we were here, we announced some big news. And tell you what, we're back! Well, actually it was some little news. Why wouldn't we be back? We're back. Okay. It's December. It's the Alien UFO unboxing time for December 2019 and this box is themed Merry Christmas. My name's Jim. And I'm Lindsay. And this is the edge of tech on your face. Anyways, so last month we had some big news on our Alien UFO unboxing video. I mean, it was some little news, really, but it was big news to us and we really appreciate being able to use the UFO box to bring it to you. Now I did have some people saying, hey, how did Josh know? Well, he didn't. We actually put the stuff in and through video magic, it looked like he sent it to us. So thank you so much, Josh, for giving us the outlet to spread the word to everybody and let everybody know that we're expecting a little bundle of Jim. Anyways, it is December and it's time for the Alien UFO unboxing. And this box is awesome. It's actually bulging at the seams. Congratulations to the guy who won the Piapoli Phenom. I was really hoping I would win this month. Josh, you're the man for giving that away. It does not fit in this box, so I guess it's not us. It says Merry Christmas. On this side, it says Alien 3D. And then it's basically a gingerbread house. It's pretty cool. December 2019, happy holidays right there. So I think we should get this thing open. I get to do it again. Safety first. No. All right. Who are you? Yes, no. This kind is okay. So the first thing I see is a pretty sweet Christmas card. Thanks, Josh. Happy holidays, Jim and Lindsay. May all of your holiday wishes come true. Thank you for your support. Josh, Alien 3D, wishing you all the, I'm gonna sneeze. Dang it. She's gonna sneeze. I haven't sneezed yet. Look at me like that. Wishing you all the timeless treasures of the holiday season. Thanks, Josh. We appreciate that. And Merry Christmas and happy holidays to you too. So she already pulled this out and it looks like snow. So we got some Ziltec stickers or a Ziltec sticker. And I learned last night that this is called Ziltec, not Xylotec. So Ziltec. The first filament we have is Ziltec green silk. It's PLA composite with an extrusion temp of 200 to 220. Look at that. That is super sweet. It's like a shiny green silk. It's like shiny green silk. That's what silk does. It's shiny. All right, next. It is Ziltec. Am I saying it right? Yep. Oh, Ziltec. Ziltec. Niko's Hot Rod Red Silk PLA. Nice. The next, ooh. Now that is a sweet blue. Whoa. Ziltec blue silk PLA composite. Oh man. Now I love that color. You always have to make the sound effect. Some more Ziltec. This is gold silk PLA. Really? This is Ziltec gold silk PLA. It looks nice. I really like these Ziltec filaments. I haven't printed with them yet. So I don't know how they print. I'm assuming they print very nice, but the colors are really nice. What else do we got in here? Two Andes candies. Two. Two Andes candies, two Andes candies. One for you and one for the baby. We got a sweet pin. I've been abducted by Alien 3D, it says. I've been abducted by Alien 3D. I probably can't see that in the camera, but it's a pretty cool pin. I will put that where my pins go. On your Rockstar jacket? On my Rockstar jacket. So this is pretty sweet. Now, the 3D printing tool this month is actually 3D Gloop P-E-T. Check it out. If you have P-E-T-G prints, this stuff is super awesome. Just like their standard Gloop with the PLA, they have an ABS as well. Thanks, 3D Gloop. I need to become a Gloopy. You want a Gloopy? Is that a real thing? So that's really cool. The 3D Gloop is some really good stuff. We have some. We're gonna use it to fix some things, but now we have some more, which is even better. Next, we have a fishbowl of some sort, and looks like a battery pack with an on-off switch. Check. And a fan. Just a little guy, little five volt fan. So the project this month is a wind-powered snow globe. We're gonna print a box, run it up, and put a fan in here. We're gonna put the little, we'll call it snow inside, right here, and then it'll blow the snow around in there. It'll be really cool. So this is the perfect time to tell you guys if you have not tried the Alien 3D UFO box, you really should. Just one month, try it. See how it goes if you're looking for something for your significant other. If you have a girlfriend or boyfriend or someone in your family that likes 3D printing, they might really love this box because you get some really good filament right here.  You get a 3D printing tool every month. This month, it's 3D Gloop, the PET version, and you know what, that's pretty cool. So if you haven't tried it, give it a try. Use the code in the description below. We both get $5 off our next box if you use that code. Yeah, we both, like, awesome, you. Check it out, use the link in the description below. I'm really excited to print with some of these silk filaments from Ziltec. They look really cool and we'll get some tests going on. I'm probably gonna jump on and see if he has the downloads ready for the Snow Globe and we're gonna print that, that'd be cool. Well, I hope you learned something today and as always, Keep printing. Yeah. Hey everybody, we hope you liked the video. If you did, give us that thumbs up. Hit that subscribe button below. If you haven't subscribed, it's right here. Hit that bad boy. If you wanna get notifications and next time a great video where a live stream comes out, click that bell right over here. You guys have a great rest of the year.


Former President Donald Trump scored a decisive win in the Iowa caucuses on Monday with his rivals languishing far behind, a victory that sent a resounding message that the GOP's 2024 presidential nomination is his to lose to IT was not immediately clear who would emerge as the second-place finisher in the opening contest of the Republican nomination fight, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis or former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley de'Aoyen what was expected to be a low-turnout affair, caucus voters endured life. Threatening cold and dangerous driving conditions to meet in hundreds of schools, churches and community centers across the state. Now for everybody, our country to come together. I want to congratulate Ron and Nikki for having a good time together. We're all having a good time together. I think they both actually did very well. I really do. I think they both did very well. We don't even know what the outcome of second place is. I also want to congratulate Vivek because he did a hell of a job. He came from zero and he's got a big percent, probably eight percent, almost eight percent and that's an amazing job. They all did. They're all very smart, very smart people, very capable people. I think most importantly I want to thank my incredible wife, first lady, I'll say former and maybe future. But more important than Melania, I want to thank her incredible, beautiful mother who passed away a few days ago and she's up there, way up there, she's looking down and she's so proud of us and I just want to say to Amalia, you are special, one of the most special people I've ever known and that was a tough period of time for the family. But she, she's amazing, she was amazing. And I want to thank my family, generally they've worked so hard and they've taken so much abuse for being good people. I mean good people but Eric and Don, they really did, these two have been working so hard and they, you know they have another job also. So they have to do it all but they've been working so hard and I know that Ivanka is home and Tiffany's home, they're watching and I know that Baron's watching, good old Baron.


A fast 14mm lens is a classic for capturing the Milky Way for good reason. It's about as wide as you can go without going fisheye. Because 14mm is so wide, it's also a very creative focal length for combining the Milky Way with foreground elements, as I did in this photo, where I had the arch of the Milky Way hug the outline of that tree. There are many choices for 14mm lenses, but I picked three that I felt covered the gamut when it comes to budget. From this Samyang F2.8, which is currently available at $249 US, to the Rokinon SP F2.4 at $699 US, and finally the Sigma Art F1.8 at $1,599 US. Hi, my name is Nico Carver, I'm a Deep Sky photographer, and with this review, let me start with a few disclosures. The Samyang I bought myself for the purpose of this review with proceeds from my Patreon, the Rokinon SP I rented from LensRentals.com, and the Sigma Art Lens was lent to me by my favorite camera store, Hunts Photo & Video. A huge thank you to Gary Farber and Noah Buchanan at Hunts for supporting this channel. And if you're interested in the Sigma Art Lens, you can reach out to Noah Buchanan at Hunts for special pricing. Just let Noah know that Nico sent you. All three of these lenses feature non-removable tulip style lens hoods. And this is typical of wide angle lenses. It's not my favorite. I should note that you have to be careful when using a dew heater strap with these style of lens hoods, as it's very easy to accidentally block light and add vignetting if the dew heater strip rides up a little bit too much. And so for this reason, when I use a dew heater strip with these lenses, I wrap it around the focus ring, and I find that you still get a little bit of heat on the front glass element that way, and it works to prevent the lens from fogging up. There's not a huge difference in the length of these lenses, but they do get a little bit longer as they go up in price. There's a much bigger difference in weight. They should all still be okay on most star trackers, but the Sigma especially would probably require the use of a counterweight kit to really get the most out of the tracking. In the end, the main thing we're looking for in an astrophotography lens, no matter what the focal length, is how well does it perform on the stars. And stars are called point sources, and they're one of the most challenging performance tests for a lens, as they can show off many flaws of a lens, like chromatic aberration, chromatic aberration, and field distortions away from center. The night sky also really shows vignetting, and modern lenses will often have corrections that you can turn on. You can either turn these on inside the camera, or if you shoot raw afterwards with a raw converter in post-processing, and these corrections will fix some of the problems. I find the automatic corrections help a lot with vignetting. One quick note about vignetting, if you're planning to just do a single shot of the Milky Way, I think the best is just turn on the automatic correction in camera if you have that, or the next best would be turn it, you know, remember to use it in post. If you're planning to stack and do all that work, you might want to look into flat fielding. Now, one reason I don't like the tulip lens hoods is because they're very hard to flat field, because you can't just put something flat on top here, it will never work correctly, so you really have to do sky flats. So the automatic lens corrections for vignetting actually might be a good idea with lenses this wide, and the truth is with lenses this wide, I often don't do full calibration, I just shoot the lights and turn on these auto corrections. Okay, so let's take a look at how these lenses perform on the night sky, and then I'll give a little commentary about what I think. Before we jump into the test images, let me just quickly put up this slide for anyone interested in how I do this lens testing. To summarize it quickly, I use trapped single exposures, and the only setting I change on the camera between the exposures is aperture and exposure time, so that we can see the effect that stopping down the lens has on the stars, while keeping the brightness of the photos fairly consistent between these different exposures. I also try to work in the middle of a moonless night when the sky is darkest and work as fast as possible so that the environmental conditions are roughly the same. Alright, starting with the Samyang 14mm f2.8, this is also sold under the brand name Rokinon. I bought the Samyang version as it was a bit cheaper. It's a fully manual lens with a click stop aperture ring to control the iris. At f2.8 there is a lot of vignetting and no corrections in camera, this is being a fully manual lens, but you can correct it in a raw processor on your computer pretty well. Interestingly, the vignetting is still quite noticeable even at f5.6 without corrections. It's pretty soft, meaning that there's a lot of coma, even in the center of frame at f2.8, that coma is basically sort of everywhere. But as you can see, it sharpens up very nicely at f4. I was actually surprised how well it cleaned up at f4, and it's even better at f5.6, but not quite as big a jump from f2.8 to f4. Camera performance is soft with elongated stars as expected, but I've definitely seen worse and not much chromatic aberration at any aperture. The Rokinon SP 14mm f2.4, just like with the last lens, this lens is also sold as the Samyang, but the Samyang version is called the Samyang XP 14mm f2.4. The lens has an electronically controlled iris, and it can do 3rd and half stops as well as full stops. The focus is still manual only. Vignetting is not quite as bad as the last lens, and it's pretty much gone by f5.6. The lens is just a tad soft, wide open, but I'd say definitely usable. Stopped down just a tiny bit to f2.8. Star shapes in the corners are pretty decent at any aperture, but corner sharpness improves greatly at f4. And lastly we have the Sigma ART 14mm f1.8. This lens has electronic iris control and also has autofocus. It's quite big and heavy. Vignetting is not bad at f1.8 or f2.5, but miraculously gone by f4. You can also use corrections in camera or later on the computer to correct vignetting. The center sharpness is what blew me away about this lens. It's nearly as good wide open as it is at any other aperture. Corner performance though is a different story with pretty bad astigmatism until we get to around f3.5 or f4. While the astigmatism is pretty bad, corner sharpness is still excellent with a lot of really fine small stars. Alright, so now the head to head. Let's first look at center crops. At f2.8 the Rokinon SP is passable, but the Sigma ART is the clear winner. And what's amazing to me about the Sigma ART is that at f1.8 it still wins against any of the others at f2.8. At f4 they all look much closer and I'd say these are all acceptable at f4. But the Rokinon SP is caught up to the Sigma when the Sigma is used wide open. So let that sink in. The Sigma at f1.8 is about as sharp as the Rokinon SP is at f4. With the corner crops I'd say the Rokinon SP wins at f2.8 due to the Sigma's astigmatism. The Sigma still looks a bit sharper and brighter than the competition. And at f4 the Rokinon SP and the Sigma are pretty evenly matched while the Samyang is noticeably softer at f4. Alright, here's a summary slide. Basically the Samyang 14mm f2.8 is a good deal if you're willing to use it at f4. The Rokinon SP 2.4 is quite usable at f2.8 or 3.2. Even the Sigma art only has the flaw of astigmatism in the corners when used faster than f4. But sharpness is amazing even wide open with the Sigma. So if I had to pick one to use without a tracker just using a tripod packing light I'd pick the Sigma and use it at f2 or f2.2. Speaking of which I did just that and shot untracked and came up with this photo with the Sigma. This was 355 8 second photos at f2 just on a tripod. And next week I'm going to share my stack for this photo and post a tutorial where you can process this photo along with me in Photoshop. So look out for that next week. So who do you think won this battle? Is the high price of the Sigma worth it? Well let me know in the comments what you think and until next time this has been Nico Carver from NebulaFotos.com. Clear skies everyone.


Welcome to the Rich TV Live podcast. We are looking at the price of Bitcoin live and interactive. And we hope you're all having a great trading day. We are four days away from Bitcoin halving. This is a very, very exciting time for anyone investing in Bitcoin. This is the biggest catalyst always for Bitcoin is the Bitcoin halving. And this is exactly what we've been waiting for. This is absolutely exactly what we've been waiting for is Bitcoin to do its halving. And we are now there. We're officially there. Bitcoin is doing its halving. It's four days away. And what we're doing right now is we're just looking at the price of Bitcoin. And there's a lot of people panicking right now. But the thing they have to really realize is like Bitcoin has come up a long way. A really long way. And it's never been able to trade at all time highs and the all time highs for Bitcoin is 73,000. We're at 63,000. And a lot of things have really kind of started to position Bitcoin properly for the next leg up. First of all, the fear and greed index was really high. It's really come down now a lot, which means that now we went from being in a position where Bitcoin was everyone was greedy on Bitcoin. Where now people are in fear. That's really good because you want to buy in the fear and you want to sell in the greed and we're back in the fear. So that's exactly where we want to be for anyone that's invested in Bitcoin is we want to be at a point where the fear and greed index is at a point of fear, not greed. Because we were in extensive intense greed. Also, the RSI was also trading over 70 as you can see over here when we're hitting over 70. RSI was trading over 70 was trading in some points over 85, which is a cell zone. And now the RSI has come all the way back down to where it's a decent buy again. So everything is kind of setting up for Bitcoin to have a nice big move up. But will people be doing the buy the, you know, buy the news, buy the rumor, sell the news. This is always very, very typical for Wall Street. And as Bitcoin is starting to marry institutions in this and marry Wall Street, you have to assume there's going to be a buy the rumor, sell the news event. Because that's typically what happens in these markets, especially on Wall Street in America. So we're four days away from the Bitcoin having so will there be a buy the rumor, sell the news event that remains to be seen. We don't know. Here's the exact breakdown of the Bitcoin having were four days, three hours, 42 minutes and 10 seconds away. So that is right around the corner. Bitcoin having is happening this week. And historically, this has always been a massive catalyst for Bitcoin, a massive, massive catalyst for Bitcoin. And we believe it will be again. So keep that on your radar. Keep that on your watch list. We are watching this very, very closely. We believe this is going to be a massive, massive catalyst like it has been in the past for Bitcoin. So that still remains to be seen. But definitely, I don't think now's the time to panic for Bitcoin, because when you look at the chart, you can clearly see Bitcoin's gone up a lot. Even since the beginning of this year, if you look in the last year, you could see how much Bitcoin has gone up. So it has been on a serious trend. This pullback is a very normal pullback that Bitcoin will do because it's created a lot of volatility with price discovery happening with prices going to all-time highs. Bitcoin is trading right now higher than the last time it was trading at all-time highs. Because at the last all-time highs during the last bull market, Bitcoin hit 69,000 and immediately came down. The fact that we're even trading over 60 shows the sheer power of what's happening right now with Bitcoin because it means there's a lot of people buying at these prices. Otherwise, the price would be going right down. But the reality is it's holding over 60,000 because there's a lot of people buying at these prices. That's why it's holding over 60,000. So you need to know that. You need to be aware of that when you're trading Bitcoin. So you have a clear understanding of what's happening here. You wouldn't be able to hold these prices if investors and institutions weren't buying Bitcoin.  They're buying billions of dollars of Bitcoin. And they're buying at these prices. That's why it's holding at these prices. Or we'd be trading at lower prices. That's the reality. So I don't think now is the time to panic on Bitcoin. In fact, I actually think now is the time for everyone to be very bullish on Bitcoin because with the Bitcoin having coming, we're setting up for the perfect storm where we're having a pullback. It's not at all time highs because if it was at all time highs, we just assume it's going to come right back down. But the fact that we're having this pullback is good. I think it's good for Bitcoin because it gives investors the opportunity to buy the dip. So I think it's very, very important with Bitcoin having literally right around the corner, four days, three hours, 40 minutes and 37 seconds away. I think now is the time for investors to really consider their plan. Now, I don't think it's possible to have a perfect entry on Bitcoin right now. But I think we all believe that based on history that Bitcoin is going to be going higher from these levels. The question is how much during the last Bitcoin having Bitcoin went up 700% from the price of the having 700%. So if Bitcoin goes up 700% from today's levels and obviously Bitcoin having is still four days away. But if Bitcoin was to go up 700% from today's levels, that would put us at about 400,000. That would put Bitcoin at a $400,000 price. Now, I'm not suggesting it's going to go up 700 times from today's prices, but it could. So that's why a lot of people are positioning themselves. I don't necessarily think they're positioning themselves for the short term. There's a lot of people that are positioning themselves for the long term because Bitcoin's always been a long term game investment. So if you're investing for the long term and when I say long term, I mean six to 18 months where I believe that in the fall of this year, we're going to see Bitcoin go to all-time highs and probably see Bitcoin break 100,000. I really believe that's going to happen this fall. But we're going into sell in May, go away. We're mid-April. Then we go into May, which is sell in May, go away. Then it's summertime. I think we're going to see a lot of volatility in Bitcoin. I think we'll probably see a trade anywhere from 50,000 to 75,000 over the next few months. And then we'll see a new price discovery with Bitcoin going to all-time highs in October, in November, December of this year. That's what I foresee happening in Bitcoin. I might be wrong. I might be right.  I've invested in Bitcoin-related stocks, Bitcoin-related assets. So I'm fully, heavily believing and trusting in this move in Bitcoin and invested in it and believing that it's going to go higher. Now, is it going to be volatile? Is it going to be difficult to continue to trade at 60,000 to 70,000? Of course, because that's where everybody wants to sell. Everybody wants to sell at the top. Is this the top? Nobody knows. That remains to be seen. But that is what is happening right now in Bitcoin, in the price of Bitcoin. We are at 63,372. And if you look at the all-time highs, you can see Bitcoin is literally trading right now higher than where it's ever traded before. Because like I said, it's gone to 69,000, but came right back down. The fact that we're trading at these levels proves that there's new buyers coming in at 63,000. If the buyers continue to come in at 63,000, it doesn't really make any difference because eventually the sellers will get exhausted and the price will go higher. The problem is, is if we stop having buyers at 63,000 and 64,000, 65,000, 66,000, 67,000, 70,000, 71,000. If we stop having buyers coming in at these prices, then we're going to have a problem and the price is going to go down and it'll go down fast. But as long as we can continue to have buyers at these prices, the sellers will eventually get exhausted. The Bitcoin will exchange hands and then eventually the exhaustors will get exhausted because the sellers will get exhausted because Bitcoin having will start to really kick in. And the price will start to have to go up because there will be a shock in supply. There won't be any sellers to sell and the price will go up with all the investors buying. So we'll keep you updated on everything that's happening. I'm your host of The Most Your Boy, Richard Rich TV, bringing you all the analysis on Bitcoin as it happens with Bitcoin having literally four days away. And right around the corner, we are going to keep you updated on everything as it happens. Like I said, 24 hours a day, seven days a week right here on the Rich TV Lab podcast. Hope you're having a great day. I know it's a big red day out there for Bitcoin and cryptos and stocks.  That's the only way you can look at it. I don't believe there's any need to panic. I think now is the time to buy on dips, position yourself in great assets, and remember the strategy to buy the red, sell the green, buy the dips, buy the fear. And when the market explodes and it's at all time highs again, that's when you need to be selling, thinking about taking profits, buy the dips, sell the rips. So your boy, Richard Rich TV, and I'm out. Peace.


Come on, Blade!  It's not killing. It did... Geneva's... I don't know why it adds up a little bit of damage at the end, but far be it for me to complain. Watch this read. Hey, eat this! How's it going, everybody? Dato Dui here, back with some more Dragon Ball fighters with Geneva. Before we hop into the ranked games, I realized I didn't do it the past two days, so I kind of wanted to just throw a whole bunch of Geneva tech at you. If you want to skip it, you can go to this timecode. But if you want to learn a little bit more about Geneva and understand what I'll be going for in these ranked matches, then this is the place to be. Up first, we have Geneva's B&B in the corner solo. I don't want to add any assist onto this because obviously your team's going to change, but this is pretty much the tech I've been seeing going around Twitter. You get two bars from this setup. It utilizes the fact that on the ground you can get two rotations of Geneva's Key Blast, and you still get a sliding in the corner with this. So for no assist, you build two bars, which is absolutely crazy, and you get around 4,000 damage with a very common starter in real matches. I don't know, guys, this combo is going to be your go-to whenever you don't want to use any assist. After that, we also have some funky post-level 3 stuff with Geneva. This is such a little cheap mix-up. Basically, you get a level 3 and then instantly teleport either exactly where you're standing or behind them and click lights from there just to try to get ahead on them. For my understanding, this is technically reactable, but online and for the first week at least. This is really going to catch people, and honestly, I think this is something that's going to catch people even further down the line. So yeah, if you were looking for a really basic post-level 3 oaky setup with Geneva, this is the one that I by far had the most fun with. After that, the last piece of tech I wanted to show you today also involves how much bar Geneva is able to generate, only this time, it's a Geneva-specific thing you can do after hitting a raw Super Dash. This is a scenario that's very common in fighters. After you land a hit like this, usually you go into an assist to try to carry them, but overall, it's just a very awkward scenario to be in, and you're trying to set something up after it. With Geneva specifically, though, if you hit a raw Super Dash, you can go into that down heavy, teleport up so you don't have to waste an air action to chase them, and do a little bit of combos here, super basic, just light, medium, jump, light, medium, down heavy, throw the key blast out, and then get to 2M. Obviously, if you want better oaky, you probably shouldn't throw in that last down heavy, because that pushes them way far back. But if you want more meter and slightly more damage, that's definitely the option to go for. Other than that, that's about all the Geneva tech I go for in this video. Hopefully you guys can enjoy it, and I will see you in the comments section below. Alright, now that we got all that tech out of the way, let's go ahead and try to apply some of that here on our match at Geneva coming in. We got to let the intro play out for at least a couple days, make sure everybody gets to see it. Slap that tail on the ground, and ooh, the boys are looking ready to go. I had them all match Geneva. I definitely wasn't changing Geneva's, but North American BP ranking. Guys, it throws me off every time. I'm fighting the... No! There's the Dragon Rush. I was very afraid of it. 2006? Alright. Come on, let me... Let me do something to you real quick. Let me talk to him down here real quick. Oh, you want to throw another one of those? Okay, you did. The answer to that was, you did it! Sweep the leg! Ah! I'm still getting used to that auto combo. I'm trying to catch him. Oh, that was close. Okay. Alright, we're going to get out of here. Oh God, why didn't he punish? He froze up. Oh, Dragon Rush. I said, yeah, there it is. I clicked a button. I clicked a light in fear. I should have gone with the full 2M. That at least would have been sick if I hit it. I'll take it. Oh, I could have gone for something a little more spicy, but whatever. Oh, dude, I love that move. You know what? Change of plans. I said, everything about Geneva is really good except for his assist. Nah, dude, the assist is good. Dude. Like, am I supposed to say this isn't sick? Talk to him, Geneva. Oh, I should have done his level 3 tech. Oh, that would have been sick. Alright, we'll get him next time. He switched again. Alright, he really wants his Vegeta out for some reason. That's fine. He could have Vegeta out. Don't mind that too much. Let me switch though. Okay, okay. It was a little obvious when I did it. It was a little obvious the second time. Oh no! Hard knockdown. What's the mix? I hate to ask it again, but what is the mix, my good? No dragon rush, eh? You're holding back? Let me match. Okay, I won't match. Oh, before choice. Alright, I tried to set up them. I tried to set up something. That was the first time I've done any Yonka stuff with him. Oh, I'll take it. Okay, this should be a two-bar kill at most. Hit him with the... I don't even know how to pronounce it. Blame! Somebody wrote it in the comments and I read that and I was like, okay, that's how you pronounce it. Immediately forgot. It was... It was not even... Oh, get that out of here, the counter! Oh, dude, it's so slow.  Janemba. Dude, I love this character so much. I actually kind of want to main Janemba. And I know that's a joke. Whenever I say I want to main a character after I'm really hyped to play them, but... Oh, dude, the normal. Nice. That was crazy. Catch him? Oh, no scaled starter. Oh, no re-jump either. That's fine. Throw out another one. I can't believe... Drop it, please. Oh, sick! Ah, he did it. He's super dead. I thought a key blast would come in my way. I was trying to make the big brain read. That's fine. Janemba did a lot that match. And we still got plenty more to test out. Dragon... You know what? Let me hit you with a little bit. You know, you were Dragon rushing at the beginning there. Let me go ahead and speak your language.  That was a good game. So how do I... Is that like something you have to activate? A VP not high enough that... I get a little card. Still not a fan of this UI, by the way. I don't know how you guys are feeling about that. I haven't gotten a chance to read the comments. As of yet, but... Re-jumps! Alright, well... Wow, dude! That was kind of sick. He went like on three different sides. I guess that's still the Bardock King for you. Swapped me out, okay. I went down heavy to punish my action. You were asking for this one, dude. You were asking for this one. Oh! That's fine. Where's the DP? No DP. You're just gonna take it, okay. Alright, if he wants to take it, that's totally fine with me. I got no qualms with that. But I do have a problem with this read. Okay, the read was incorrect. The beam assist made sure that... Oh! Dude, it's too slow. Alright, let's keep him right here. We gotta get him to the corner. Re-jumps. I'm gonna keep doing it till it works. Dude. Oh, that's death. I can play neutral. Neutral. Neutral.  You gotta respect the post-Vandish game. Okay, he didn't think that was my turn, I guess. Alright, now can we get this man down? Take seven. Oh, it dropped! No! No! Oh! Take that, take that. I should've done having that. I didn't expect it. Oh, god. No, he didn't fear it. He's just reacting to the grab. That's really bad. Or maybe I'm just giving him... Alright, dude, here it comes.  He's probably gonna spark. What the hell, dude? It still technically works. Oh, that's probably death. There's the dragon. Okay, okay. Nice, I gotta give it up. Whenever somebody is at that much of a disadvantage, I never expect them to give up pressure to go for a dragon rush. Alright, I guess that's... Kind of a huge flaw in my part.  Alright, maybe not. Talk to me, okay? And that's pretty much death. Oh, I thought I dropped that for a split second. I was like, why did I EX that? Okay, still managed to go through. Totally, totally fine. Game two, we're up. I don't even know when we got knocked down to Living Legend, by the way. Everything pre-Evo kind of left my mind. What? I did not ask for that. I did not mean to level one. I did not mean to level... I mean, it's still good damage. But jeez, did I not mean to level one? Ah, Genemba was putting on the finest. He was practically selling chocolates in school, dude. World's finest? I'm adding on to the reference to try to make sure as many people would get it as possible. I'm gonna... Oh, no! I can't believe the Super Dash didn't work. All right, getting rushed. Got him with the air 2M. Feeling good. By the way, can I say I'm just glad we got a match this late at night? Dude, every time. I don't even think that one was a reaction. I just... Whoa! Slow your roll. We're gonna do it this time. I told you, but then did I drop it? That is such a good... I don't care what anybody says. Please calm, though, please calm. I'm trying to serve up a little mix. What can we get you, sir? Welcome to Denny's How May I Mix You. Ba, ba, la... Genemba, Genemba. Let's go, dude. By the way, I know subtitles versus dubs in anime is a very... polarizing topic within the community, but I really love... I mean, I love the dub. I'm not leaving, dude. I want one more. I love the dub in most areas, and that's totally because that's how I experienced the show first. Plus, I think everybody does a great job. But Genemba, for me, is just like... He's the only one that I would say, dude, I gotta have English dub Genemba. Because I get the... I don't know why the... Because this version of Genemba is also very high-pitched. We almost died in Japanese. I like him to sound a bit more like... Hold on, hold on, hold on. I know I was talking about something else, but let me focus here. Mix them. Okay. I have not hit the corner B&B once this game. Wow, he blocked it. He was just mashing. I was like, damn, he almost got me. Can this kill? Come on, Blade.  Damage. It's not killing. Genemba's... I don't know why it adds up a little bit of damage at the end, but far be it for me to complain. Watch this read. Hey, eat this. I tried to bardock him. I tried to bardock a bardock, dude. With Genemba's LL, it just feels so powerful. Why would you not go for it? Dude, come on. Oh, he's getting mixed. This is actually mixed territory. If you do it correctly, if you do it... I don't know why I have such trouble with that input. Oh, dude, come on. Oh, no, I tried to vain. I tried to teleport. Why did I do it? Oh, man, a lot of mistakes on that one, but it's hard to say Genemba wasn't pulling his way. You have to watch the Super Dash Yoncha. It's the age-old story. Wow, I was trying to do a little bit of that as well. Okay. It's caught by the beam. It didn't actually combo, so... probably just got caught off guard with that one. Okay. I don't mind getting hit there. Tech that. We're new players. I was teching grabs at Evo and everything. That's fine. I think we go for the level three here. Just for the light mix. Probably go for a 2M just to keep him honest in case he messes up on Sparking. I don't think he will, but in case he does, we should be there for him one. There we go. Okay. Down to Yoncha. Oh, no. That's fine. We kill. We kill right here. Hurry. It was enough. No more beams. Watch the vanish. Boo! Oh, he didn't vanish, but he Super Dash. That's gonna wrap us up. Oh, man. That was only 13 minutes. Why does time fly when playing Genemba? Anyway, I'm gonna wrap it up here. Hopefully you guys enjoyed that little tech session at the beginning. And I don't know, enjoyed the match. If you did, go down below. Let me know your thoughts on Genemba and the week of Genemba down there. Also, make sure to leave a like and subscribe if you're enjoying the channel and want to support it. If you want to watch even more videos, there should be some up on your screen, so make sure to give those a watch. That also helps the channel out a ton. I have been Dr. Doya, and I will see you in the next video.