It's kind of like the line at the grocery store, the express line, 15 items only. So next up we have another video, this is from Red Hat. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Chris Wright. I just have to say I love seeing open source and community collaboration having that kind of an impact on the industry. I'm Chris Wright, Chief Technologist at Red Hat. And looking at OpenStack and this journey that's not even six years old, we've gone from just an initial nascent technology project to something that's having significant impact on the industry. Two years ago, the Foundation's gathering data from the OpenStack user survey. Two years ago, the respondents said a third of them were putting their OpenStack deployments into production. Fast forward two years to today and we see 65% of the respondents putting their OpenStack deployments into production. Two X improvement in two years. That steady growth is showing OpenStack maturing to production. So here's a little logo eye candy just showing you a small cross-section of our customers who are deploying OpenStack in production today. We're serving hundreds of customers who are putting their deployments into production and what I find most compelling about this collection of examples and our customers is the diverse set of not just companies but industry verticals and specific use cases that they're attacking with OpenStack. It's this diversity that's showing not just kind of the test and dev and non-production workloads that we saw earlier in the adoption phase of OpenStack, but these companies are taking OpenStack to production and solving real business critical problems, putting this infrastructure to use improving their businesses. So let's take a look at one of those, FICO. You may be familiar with FICO, hopefully you got the loan, I don't know my, the credit score company is usually what springs to mind for me when I think of FICO. But FICO is a business analytics company providing software that helps companies make intelligent decisions. For years they've been taking their products to their customers as an on-premise solution, making it accessible really to larger organizations, trying to solve problems about risk, fighting fraud and generally making better business decisions. In order for them to bring this same technology or these same solutions to a broader market, they adopted an as-a-service model and moved their products to being available as a service. And in that transition they've made their software available to SMBs and mid-market organizations using a cloud built together with Red Hat on OpenStack and Ceph. And with that cloud infrastructure, FICO has been able to improve the speed at which they can introduce their analytics solutions, reducing the time to market for them by 50%. In addition to that, this new infrastructure has saved them 30% in cost. On top of this infrastructure they've added a Paz system built on OpenShift and with that Paz system they are enabling their customers to build analytics solutions and deploy them rapidly, reducing their customers time to value by 70%. So this is goodness, right? This is faster, cheaper revenue from new markets. Betfair is one of the largest industries online betting systems as well as the largest betting exchange system. Betfair has recently introduced a cloud to their environment as part of the ITU program enabling their applications or they're trying to enable continuous delivery for their applications including hundreds of microservices. These applications are being built and delivered on top of OpenStack and impacting millions of users a day. So that's us. That's this community right here collaborating delivering real value to users and I guess entertainment, not for investment purposes, entertainment for the world at large. NFV is a fundamental transformation of the network. This is sort of a once in a decade type of opportunity for the industry to retool itself around new technologies. Verizon has started on this process of retooling their infrastructure just about nine months ago where they went from early conception to a rollout of OpenStack cloud deployments across five U.S. data centers and intention to continue to grow. We work together with our partners Dell and Big Switch to build a new next generation network fabric that is simple, high bandwidth, secure, flexible and allowing them to build out their network services and functionality. I'd like to invite Chris Evans on stage with me to tell us a little more about what Verizon is doing with OpenStack. So I gave the thumbnail sketch but what are you really doing? What are you doing at Verizon with OpenStack? Yeah, what we're really doing is laying the foundation for the next generation of Verizon's network. Based on open-source software, commodity-based hardware on top of that, we're automating everything, we're virtualizing all our applications and software defining the network around that with the ultimate goal of making our network 100% programmable so we can drive down cost, increase operational efficiency and really drive time to market. So you're fundamentally changing your business. That's it. So that's what I hear. Yeah. Now why OpenStack? OpenStack and open-source. Well, as I said, one of our foundational concepts here was we wanted open-source to drive innovation, to drive competition, to achieve the goals of the program at large. OpenStack has the maturity today to deploy and satisfy the needs of our infrastructure today and seeing the size of the community here, it has the gravity and the mass and the momentum to really get to where we need it to be to enable the functions of the future. Awesome. Thank you, Chris. Thank you. So all of these production deployments started with upstream development activities, whether it's triple O heat templates or core IPv6 functionality added to OpenStack. This is work that starts upstream. Red Hat as a vendor represents our customers and we work with our partners to define use cases. We bring those to the community in the form of blueprints and code. As community members, we work with our community peers to merge this functionality into the code base and to evolve it and improve it and ultimately deliver this downstream value to customers to make real-world impact on business. If you step back for a moment and look at the few examples that I showed, one thing that strikes me is that diversity that I mentioned earlier, and it's diversity that really matters here in a couple of different dimensions. Again, it's industry verticals, it's use cases. It's helping us sort of grow and stretch what OpenStack is capable of. And it's that pressure on OpenStack that actually gives it the longevity that we're expecting to see with this community that we're building together. The ability to add new functionality requires architectural shifts so that you can ingest these changes and maintain them long-term. Of course, diversity is not just about the code and functionality and use cases, but it's also about the actual community itself. So embracing a diverse set of community members across gender, race, sexuality, age, et cetera, this is really critical to the long-term sustainability of the community itself.  We're building direct individual trust relationships with one another. And it's those relationships. It's that fabric that builds this community and is what will make it strong and make it sustain itself into the future as we're exploring new ways to define what a cloud is. So what is OpenStack? OpenStack today is something that's maturing into a wide variety of production environments. It's a large number of individual projects. It's a huge community collaborating around those projects, defining what is next generation cloud and infrastructure. OpenStack is, the community is always evolving its definition. So we've gone from core to integrated. We've got Defcore. We've got BigTent. We've got TC Badging. All of these efforts to help define what is OpenStack. We have a great opportunity here to work together as a community. Through our collective experience, defining just exactly what OpenStack is through things like triple O heat templates or playbooks or more generally the deployment patterns that we see today and we know today that is OpenStack. OpenStack in the future, OpenStack in the future is whatever we can expand into. It's the communities that we can attract, the users, the developers. It's the external parts of our industry that we're collaborating with. I was just recently at the collaboration summit and it was hard to miss the number of industry peers that are looking to collaborate with us, whether it's OPNFV, bringing us NFV use cases and code, or whether it's a cloud native computing foundation, looking at the world through the eyes of the modern application developer. These are communities that are looking to collaborate with us, help us define what is OpenStack. OpenStack is next generation cloud infrastructure and it's a place for the industry to collaborate. Thank you very much. Thank you, Chris.


What's going on guys, welcome back to the channel and I appreciate you being here. Basically Bungie just dropped a post addressing the issues many people have spoke at about over the past week. Basically since the Curse of Osiris DLC came out, if you didn't know, if you didn't purchase the Curse of Osiris DLC, you were locked out of Trials of the Nine, you were locked out of Heroic Strikes, the Prestige Raids, Faction Rallies and so forth. Now Faction Rallies was supposed to come tomorrow but they've postponed that due to an update which is coming next week which is fixing all of the issues people have spoke up about. Now this post is quite long so bear with me, I'm going to read you through it all and give you my opinions on it. Okay so stay in Bungie here. With the Curse of Osiris now live, it's clear that we've made some mistakes with how we've handled content access. We would like to talk through the reasoning behind our decisions so far and what we can mean to changing moving forward. The Destiny Endgame features a variety of activities and playlists that we want to remain relevant to players as they grow more powerful. In Destiny 1, as your character grew more powerful throughout each expansion, some of our best content like the Waterglass were left behind and it lost its relevance for players, we wanted a better solution for Destiny 2, where all of our Endgame activities could stay relevant as each expansion causes your Guardian to grow more and more powerful. The following were our goals when we separated normal and prestige modes. The normal Leviathan Raid and the normal Nightfall would always stay at a power level that was accessible to all players. Prestige difficulty would always rise to the new power cap, it could be the pinnacle of challenge with the most prestigious rewards but it therefore would require you to earn the latest expansion and be at the new power cap. Additionally the game provides seasonal, time limited PvP playlists, Trials of the Nine and Iron Banner. These activities and their rewards are meant to evolve each season and they utilise new maps so they would require you to earn the latest content. To play the latest season of Iron Banner or Trials and earn new rewards, players would need to earn the Curse of Osiris. We've heard from the community that both of these plans aren't working, the first stage Raid was a novel experience that players value even if they don't own Curse of Osiris and it was a mistake to move their experience at a reach. Throughout the lifetime of the Destiny franchise, Trials is always required that players earn the latest expansion however for Destiny 2, Trials and Nine launch as part of the main game so it's not right for us to move access to it. To make matters worse, our team overlooked the fact that both of these mistakes disabled trophies and achievements for Destiny 2. This was an unacceptable lapse on our part and we can understand the frustration it has Therefore this week we will release a heart fix that will make the following changes. The prestige of life in Raid will be brought back down to a Power 300 and its rewards will drop down to match the new power level. All players will regain access to the prestige Raid. This will allow access to the prestige achievement trophies for all players. This will also allow all players ability to complete the final step of the Legend of Acreus Exotic Shotgun. Trials and Nine will only require Curse of Osiris when it features on a Curse of Osiris map. For all of the weeks it will be available to all players. This will allow access to the least you be judged achievement trophy for all players. Trials and Nine rewards that launch with Destiny 2 will still be accessible to all players. New seasonal rewards that launch with Curse of Osiris such as the new seasonal armor ornaments will require ownership of the Curse of Osiris to require. The prestige nightfall will remain a pinnacle activity at the new 330 power cap. This means prestige nightfall will require ownership of the Curse of Osiris. Because of this we will update the prestige achievement trophies to only reference the prestige raid. Moving forward we are investigating adding a third difficulty to all prestige activities so that we can provide both a challenge that stays relevant with each new expansion and a prestige version that is available to all players. Normal nightfall will only require Curse of Osiris when it features on a Curse of Osiris map. For all of the weeks it will be available to all players. Time limited events iron banner, faction rally and adorning will be made available to all players. We will be postponing tomorrow's faction rally to ensure all of our players can access the activity and the appropriate rewards. Iron banner and faction rally rewards that launch with Destiny 2 will still be accessible to all players. New seasonal rewards that launch with the Curse of Osiris such as the new seasonal armor ornaments will require ownership of the Curse of Osiris to acquire. We expect these changes to go live at the end of the scheduled maintenance to deploy update <IP_ADDRESS>. Moving forward we are also looking to improve and heroic strikes with new challenges new modifiers and free access for all players. Thank you for your patience and feedback as we work to continuously improve the Destiny 2 experience. So what a f-up on their behalf. I mean me personally I was seriously looking forward to faction rallies tomorrow. I didn't know until this actual update that everybody who didn't purchase the DLC was cut from it they wouldn't be able to play it. I knew about heroic strikes and I knew about the first stage raid but even so I mean that is one of the scummiest moves I've ever seen from any and I mean from any game developer ever and I will say it I will straight up say it. Cutting people out of base game content which they purchased is absolutely shocking it really is.  Sitting here recording this video my face is bright red you guys will be glad my webcam is turned off I just don't get it I don't get what were they thinking. It seems to me like they're just turned into a money driven company. I mean obviously yes they want to earn money for their game but put us first put the community first that is definitely not how it feels not in my opinion anyway and as a result of their cock up so many so many things will be changing. I mean it makes sense that the first stage of the raid has been brought back down to our power level 300 as that was a part of base game content which people purchased. Bungie actually taking that away from people who purchased the base game just like Trolls is absolutely shocking so I can understand that decision and to be honest the only way they could actually counter that is like they say looking into adding a third difficulty which will be only accessible to players who do purchase the latest expansion who are able to reach that top level. I just don't agree on them locking people out of the game I mean I just don't get it I don't get what they're thinking. If you don't purchase the DLC you can't play Heroic Strikes something which was part of the base game of Destiny 1. If you don't purchase the DLC you can't play Trials of the Nine something which was available to the base game purchase. If you don't purchase the DLC you can't play the Prestige Nightfall or raid something which was available when you purchase the base game I mean I just don't get what they were thinking here surely and I mean surely they would have known this would cause an uproar. Now another thing which kind of does annoy me here which we will talk about is the Prometheus Lens. Now I've never had more fun in PvP in my entire life I mean it's you know what it is it reminds me of Mayhem because that's what it is it's just absolute carnage and it's super super fun now we knew a nerf was coming this Tuesday that was obviously on the table that already said that but they recently tweeted this as laser tag weekend comes to a close we're making good on our promise to address the fact that the Prometheus Lens is way too powerful sure it's fun but it breaks the crucible for anyone who wants to use a different weapon given a short window we had to make an emergency fix it will be adjusted to be way too weak in January this new exotic will receive a proper play tested design pass now there's a few things that I just don't get here people and it leaves me with questions about the people behind this game so you're telling me they designed an exotic weapon they just threw that or stay through into the game without giving it a proper play test did they actually do that so you're telling me nobody at bungee took this into PvP and tried it out before they allowed everybody to use it is that not like top of a list of something you have to do before you release weapons into the game before you make weapons available in the game I fought for a play test we're in place what is going on people someone explained to me I mean you can't defend this anyone who tries to defend this I just blind they really are I watch skill ups video if you haven't watched it you should definitely check it out you know what I'll link it in the video description he basically reviews destiny 2 and after watching it and reading this and seeing what they released today it's hard not to see destiny 2 from a standpoint of how he views it so yes my one issue with this statement about the Prometheus lens is the fact that they basically admitting that they don't play test weapons properly so yeah but the other issue I've got is isn't there a system in place where they can easily adjust weapons where is the excuse behind not adding random rules to weapons in the game what happened to that I'm pretty sure this is what they stated another great reason for locked parts on individual weapons is the fact that they can go back and adjust one weapon really easy so why can't they do that why can't they do that the Prometheus lens why can't they just copy and paste what the cold heart does to the Prometheus lens why can't they just take down its damage a bit why can't they just reduce its damage by half what happens to this new system this new feature they have in place where they can easily adjust individual weapons without breaking the whole archetype was that just another excuse they put out to us to be lazy in not giving us random laws on weapons who knows but yeah guys I'm slowly slowly losing confidence in bungee as a game developer I really am and on that note people I am out I can't do it no more I'm too tired but let me know what you think about this down below within that comment section thanks as always for stopping by I appreciate you stopping to the end if you have and I will see you on that next one hopefully always in the wrong


This is electricity. Think about all the things you use electricity for every day. We don't have it, but that's about to change. We're installing a 48-volt electrical system with over 10,000 watts of solar to harvest the sun's energy and 28 kilowatt hours of battery storage. And with the help of Adam, our electrician, and his furry companion, Belu, it's time to get started. Right now, we've hooked up lithium battery charger as it's important to charge all your batteries to the correct voltage before you connect them to make sure they're all full. We have 24 batteries we need to charge, and we have no power where we live. So we are going to be running a generator in order to charge these batteries to give us off-grid power. I can't believe I'm saying those words out loud. I'm in shock. I just can't believe this is happening. For 598 days, we've been living without a reliable power source at our cabin in the woods. We constantly run out of power, leaving us in the dark. We just live off-grid and our battery system died. In the middle of dinner. We've been working hard to bring power to our off-grid cabin by taking back the walls to wire the cabin, trenching 500 feet around our land, installing solar array mounts and modules, framing a battery house and mounting off-grid components inside. Everything we've done has led us to this very moment of getting power at our cabin. We hope. As this has been the most complex project yet. Now that almost all of the components are hung on the wall in the battery house, we need to create custom wires to connect all of them. So today we are cutting the wire to size. We are pulling back the wire where we connect the lugs and then we are heat shrinking the connection. This is not our first time dabbling into electricity. Jasmine and I love and take pride in our electrical system in the van. We built it top to bottom and it's going to be awesome. We're excited to share this process with you. It means we're that much closer to connecting the whole thing and really having power. Okay, I'm back in the battery room. We have a lot of batteries to do though. So I'm going to be in here like all day constantly changing those two each batteries all along the wall. Inverters, VE panels, one solar charge controller for the pole mount, a second solar charger for the pole mount, the juice, main panel, and where all the wires come in from outside. Holy, look at all yours. Big, big energy. With all the cables cut and the ring terminals attached, we shift our focus on connecting the negative terminals. I am fairly well now, I am strong, I am goodbye, long way from home. I'm sorry to be bad. I mean, my first connection. I'm really happy right now. I am a mockingbird, I love to sing and I'm on a fly. Looking clean. So now all of the negatives are nicely connected. And what comes after negative? Positives, you guessed it. So now we need to take our eight foot lead positive cables and do the same thing and bring it to the links distributor on the top. Can we talk about this beautiful weather? What a gorgeous March day. It feels like spring is here, the sun is out, the sky is blue. Yeah, we have our mittens on and our hats on. We're out here in some pre-minimal layers and that feels amazing. I can't wait to spend more time outside.  Here it comes. Crystal's off to see if our missing parts come in, while we still work on connecting the positive terminals. I'm really hoping the package is there. I'm on a fly. I really need this package to continue. Was it there? No. No? And it says it is online? On the lunch menu, rice and beans. I'm on for you and a bubbly for everyone. 13.2. Nice. Crystal, hello. Okay, thank you. Lunch is ready. Burritos. How many burritos have you had since being here? This is number four. Round two. Oh, burrito number five. Burrito number five, it's so good. That's so good, thank you so much. Crystal made such good burritos, you were going back for seconds. Let you know how our nap goes after this.  With our stomachs full and as we await our missing part, we focus on connecting our panel box. And as we head back towards the garage, Crystal goes for round two to the mailbox and we cross our fingers that we got our delivery. Okay, so panel box and the house is wired up. Now we're gonna wire panel box number two, which is this beautiful white one. Good pick. Do y'all remember how many trenches we dug in order to get the wires here? So all of those trenches that we dug and put the conduit in, those are the wires that are now coming up to make the final connections. Was it there? That's goodness. Super excited about that because of, actually just joking, it's just gonna protect their inverters from getting spiked really hard from the well pump. It's a surge limiter. So I wonder if there's anything of high voltage. It goes through that first so that way the inverters don't go. Okay, this beautiful 45 going right up to the panel box is from the cabin. And the other one is to the greenhouse. So today or tomorrow, whenever, all three buildings on the property are going to have power, which is incredible. It's crazy. I can't even think of it. I don't even know what to say. And then when we wired the garage all into this panel box, which then goes into the main system. There's so many parts and pieces. So many parts and pieces. And you live so far out. Yeah. We have been running the generator all day in order to charge these batteries. However, I'm testing them all. They all read 13.3. We need to get them to 14.6. And charging something at 15 amps is slow, very slow. So I think I'm sleeping in here tonight. We've been in that garage all day long. It's completely transformed. Wow. This morning it was just some batteries and some inverters. Now there are so many components and so many wires and everything is looking amazing. And the dogs have been outside all day enjoying the outdoors. But they're getting a little sad because they're missing their human. So they've been at the door scratching and crying. So I thought I might as well come out and take these three for a little stroll. Come on. Let's go for a walk. It's really nice to see that big, beautiful sun above the cabin for the first time this year. Another reminder that summer is just around the corner. Last positive, I'll have to make two more battery cables and that will be it for the links distributors. And then all we have to do is wire up the batteries and we have power. No. In the cabin. So basically the Victron app is telling me that it's at 14.6 but then I'm taking a multimeter to it and it's saying 13.6. Victron app is saying that it's at 14.6? Yeah. Do you want a battery or do you want to do the charger? Charger. Blue's the IP65. I wish I was having a sleepover with the batteries for a good reason but it's not. I'm actually pretty nervous to be honest. I'd be very unfortunate. It's been a long time coming for this week and this day so I just really want to make sure I can do everything I possibly can. The Victron app for the IP65 charger, it's saying that the battery is at 14.8. But then when we test it with the multimeter, the multimeter is reading 13.8, which makes zero sense. And you're probably thinking, just leave the charger on it. However, it's like a smart charger so it just stops charging. Negative, positive. And the multimeter is reading 13.77. However, like you just saw, I'm going to put it back on this battery. It's full. The heck.  I need to figure it out. Hello? Coming for a sleepover? But we can't get them charged. Well, it's probably the charger, Jazz. It can't be the charger. It's not the batteries because not all the batteries are like that. It's got to be the charger. There's nothing. There's got to be something to do with the settings. I will have to check on the battery. 14.5. I think it worked. I would normally celebrate a lot right now, but my eyes look like they're crying because I'm so tired. But I'm so happy. A lot of troubleshooting, a lot of reading. Even took a nap, but it's working. 16 more batteries to go. Hopefully I stay up. If not, tomorrow. 7 in the morning. I wish I could tell you exactly what it was.  And then it worked. I don't really know. But it's working. And that's all that matters in my brain right now. Burritos. Rito number 7, firing the hole. We were in line when we said he was eating so many burritos yesterday. The charge controllers to the servo need two RJ45 ethernet cables. You said I need three B directs. So two. Yeah, there's 24 batteries. It's the first problem. So, and then the else. And it should just drop back down into the bulk. Drop back down to the bulk. L-O-L. We did so much reading everywhere, and nothing told us that. It was definitely too good to be true that we'd get power this week. We are so close. Literally so close. I don't know how much closer we could possibly get. Like as close as your hairs on your head, or the hairs in your nostrils, if you have those. I think everyone does. The reason why we don't have power right now is because we are one missing just a couple fuses, ethernet cables, VE direct cable. Not complicated, but we're missing them. You're leaving? Yeah. Bye, Adam. Thanks for everything. Yeah, I'll just go to any questions you may call. We could have got the batteries charged these last three days. However, this VE smart charger is so smart, it remembers the last battery setting. So this is going to sound so simple, but you have to completely reset the charger every battery. You can't just move your alligator clips to each battery. And that's what we've been doing for the last three days. AKA, it has not been working. Completely reset, attach. Which obviously makes sense in theory now. We called Guy today who runs an electrical store in Halifax, and he taught us. Imagine that. Every system is so different and unique, and this is the way you learn. So here we are. With every obstacle, we have a chance to learn. Although we are facing setbacks, we know that we're so close. We're continuing to charge and monitor our 24 batteries in preparation for the next install day. A few days later, we get a massive snowstorm. Big enough to cancel our installation day and delay delivery of our missing parts. But if you know us by now, we tried to make the most of it. Snowboarded in your life. Twice. It was so fun. It's like the best time of my life. I was like, why, we didn't blow? I'm excited to just make a day of it. Who wants to plow? Sometimes life's just like, no work today. No work today. All fun today. And I said, okay, life. Okay, life. Here we are. Here we are. Just to ride it on the road. I love it. Yeah, I'm not plowing. This is fun. This is great. The storm has finally stopped. Our packages have finally came in the mail. Crystal just went and got them. And Adam just arrived. Woo! I think we're gonna have power today. Adam is putting all the fuses into the links, which fuses every single battery bank here. While I am still charging batteries one year later. Don't know how she got in here, but the Velcro dog is back. She's a legendary little sneaker. She wants to be right here for the show. Come on, beer. I'm plugged. Back, back. Will you hire me as an apprentice? Oh yeah, I've hired both you and Crystal for the heartbeat. Both of us, if you know one scared of electricity. Today in the electrical build series, drama. We don't have some ring terminals, some simple ring terminals. We don't have them here. Liam is off to get the part. We've called in a special friend who's coming down the driveway right now. Actually? And Jasmine's wiring up some plugs in this house and they're looking good. Hello, stranger. We all haven't seen this stranger in so long. I for sure thought we would never see Porter until spring. Even though we've invited him over several times. Snow is flying and Porter's back. See you in a day. I didn't think I'd be here until like after the snow went. If you're all wondering what Porter is he doing here in the middle of winter. We're digging a hole. We need to ground our electrical system. Porter, Porter, hashtag Porter is back in town and we had to move the trailer that was right here so that we can dig a hole, a very small hole, right there. When Porter saw that Adam took 25 whacks with the pickaxe and got nowhere, he's even thinking that his exciter might not even break the ground. The stay, the heck out of the way because he's setting on ice. It is still winter after he stays the day. He's always a phone call away and he's right here. What a gem. That's a good hole. That's a good hole. That's a good hole. Took me a minute to like register that there was a real hole there. Wow. Good job. Look at this plate. Damn. Do a little dance. Hey, how's it going? Did they, did they have it? I've got every steep but copper wall first. Okay, I'm gonna have a look and see where it could, we could find them. And if I find a place, I'll call you back. That hole was attempted to be dug twice and it was a lot of work and it went a lot of nowhere. So calling Porter was a no brainer. The hole is dug. The grounding plate is in the ground and it's covered up in a matter of minutes. And I heard Porter, Porter told you he might not even be able to get in the ground and he never told anyone on the job site that. Oh. I'm very optimistic. What can I say? Well, let's be real. Porter's pretty good at what he's done. That's true. He's got the patience. Wow, Kitty Cat has never came so fast and left so fast in her life. Also, can we talk about how happy Izzy and Bella are? I know to see them, Porter. Thank you, Porter. Out of the 24 batteries, only one battery is not getting past 13.6. It will not move. We have been on the phone with BattleBorne all day. They are amazing. I don't know what we do with them. They have been such a great help answering our 20 million phone calls all the time. And they are sponsoring this entire cabin, electrical system. We have a worst case scenario, which isn't even a worst case scenario. We'll hook up five banks instead of six banks and then we'll commission the system and all that jazz and we'll still have power. So that's amazing. And that's all that matters. We'll still have, we'll still have power. I feel like I should feel all these emotions right now. Why? Why do you feel emotions? Because it's like the most exciting thing that we've been working towards, but my brain is honestly hurting right now. Parts are missing to getting all the batteries charged for like the last five million days, it feels like to getting poor to come out here and everything.  Back to the garage we go. 13.9? No, I'm measuring down 14.08. It just goes so fast and then it just shuts off. I think it's safe to say out of 24 batteries, we have one lemon. Due to one malfunctioning battery, this renders one entire bank of batteries unusable. Until we get a replacement in the future. So instead of going with six banks, we're gonna go with five banks. Time to call Bout of Warrant to commission our system. You ready? Oh yeah. Time to commission the system. As software goes, dot bus, quick configure software from Victron, you know, to Quattros, how did we want to program these and then we would just say. It sounds like there might be, I have a dead short here somewhere. It could be going through the inverter, it could be, what is going on? Crystal's not even in here because she's so scared, slash nervous of this entire system. She's just hanging it in the house. Yeah, so that's what it was. That was my issue. There we go. Oh! Do you want me to turn the second one on? Yes, we did.  I was feeling a little bit down here and now I can't stop smiling. You think we're gonna get it? Yes, yes, yes. All right, we're gonna see if power goes on in the cabin. Oh my goodness. It does not feel real at all. That's a dead light. So if you hit that, this is probably the third game. Whoa! You have power! All there beside you. Yeah! How's that feel? I don't have words. Got power boarder! Got power! She has. It's amazing that you showed up today too because you've been here for the trenching, every single thing, and now you came with the lights! No, it's just crazy, it's been such a process. It's so amazing that we have it. It is emotional. I don't even know how to feel. It's kinda crazy, yeah. 603 days ago, we moved into this abandoned cabin with nothing but each other, our dogs, and a dream. A dream to make this place our home. A space to grow our roots while we embrace the next chapter of our lives. With the countless challenges while living off-grid, we are grateful for the support of our community and all of the devoted tradespeople. Every small step on this journey has led us to this point, to our biggest milestone yet. Thank you! Thanks Adam!


Yn y cydwyr, maen nhw'n ei fawr, mae'r cydwyr yn gallu'r galori. Nid yn gwneud gael i gael i gael i gael, mwy oherwydd yna i gael i gael i gael i gael'r cydwyr. Yn y cydwyr yna, mae'n gweithio yn y cydwyr ar y maen nhw, o'r mwy o'r 8-9-9, yn yny o'r in the name of Jeremy Balfour, on ensuring that Lothian, late diagnosed deaf children, get the support that they need. The debate will be concluded without any questions being put and I would ask those members who would wish to speak in the debate to please press the request to speak buttons. I would also take this opportunity to advise members that there is, for obvious reasons, a lot of interest in members participating in the debate. We will be resuming our business this afternoon in the chamber at 2pm and therefore there is no time in hand and members must stick to the speaking allocation that they have been given in their contributions. Thank you very much indeed and with that I call on Jeremy Balfour to open the debate up to seven minutes please Mr Balfour. Thank you Deputy Presiding Officer. I want to thank colleagues from across the chamber for coming today to make and supporting the motion for members' business. There is often a lot of focus on the areas in which we disagree in this Parliament and it makes for better spectatorsport and grabs more headlines. However, I am encouraged that over the past months a group of cross-party MSPs have managed to come together and find a solution to the issue. I think that our Parliament is the best when we represent work together for the sake of our constituents. In 2021, an order of NHS Lothian Pediatric Audiology Service revealed that a great number of children have been missed in diagnosed and serious hearing problems. This has led to many children under the age of 12 growing up without any support to deal with an auditory disability. Can you imagine how difficult that must be for a parent and a child alike? Presiding Officer, today's debate is significant. We are talking about real families and real lives. The family represented by the flag group have been through a real ordeal and have had to fight hard to be heard. I hope that this debate can be a catalyst for change and prompt for answers. It is good to see a number of the families here in the gallery this afternoon, and I am sure that colleagues across the chamber will join me in working on them. Those families deserve answers, and there are so many questions that are still left unanswered. Looking forward, Presiding Officer, we have to do better. We must ensure that the support that those families get is better, and it has so far been woefully lacking. Time and again, we hear from them about the massive gaps in the care that has been provided, basic things such as British language, and the speech and language purpose are not providing. This is care, not luxury. It is fundamental to the development of those children. It is already the care of those children who should be given top priority. The number of families affected by this issue in Malovians is estimated at around 150. However, the truth is that we do not know the true number, and the audit carried out by the British Academy of Audiology did not include children that were seen later in 2018. There could be a number of additional cases in Malovians that have been missed. It must be a priority to identify all those cases in short order and ensure that they are provided with the top level of support that they require. I pay tribute to the countries that he has made. What he has just highlighted is central to the issue. I think that there is a question whether or not the 800 or so cases that were taken part in that audit are comprehensive. I do not doubt the work that has been undertaken, but there have been a number of triage steps that have meant that only 155 cases were identified of serious concern and that only six additional cases of hearing loss were identified. Does he agree with me that we need to re-examine both that initial sample and the triage steps to ensure that every individual is identified? Ultimately, it is difficult to reconcile what the health board says with the experiences that we have heard from families. Absolutely. I might come on to that and develop that slightly in a moment if that is okay with the member. It is clear that we are not addressing this issue correctly. With the gaps mentioned and the unknown number of unidentified cases, it has become increasingly clear that carrying on as we have will not cut it. We are in desperate need of progress and progress will not come without oversight. Having had a number of meetings, we, as a cross-party group of MSPs of NHS Llorian, are not capable of organising and providing such needed support without some kind of accountability. Therefore, along with a number of my colleagues and the flag families, we are calling the Scottish Government to do two things. First, for the minister to meet with the cross-party group of MSPs to discuss what can be done at the Government level to address the situation. I hope that the minister, in her summon-up, will agree to that meeting as urgently as possible. Secondly, we are calling for the minister to commission a third-party audit to review the whole process over the past number of years and monitor whether families are getting the support that they need. They would have all the necessary powers to investigate and present their findings to the Parliament and to the Government after nine months. Based on those findings, we can move forward and ensure that adequate clear is provided. I hope that the minister will confirm in her rounding up that her willingness to work with us in this way. We have to get this right. The children's families that are represented by the flag cannot afford to continue to be failed. Finally, I want to come to the issue of trust. Trust takes a long time to build up and can be lost in an instant. There has been a breakdown between flag families and the institutions that were supposed to look after them. We need to make every effort to assure them that we do care, we are sorry and we are motivated to rewrite all wrongs that have occurred in this matter. That is not something that will be achieved passively. It will take focused efforts to make amends and allow our families to regain their trust. Once again, that is not an abstract or non-important issue. That is serious, life-watering and those families have experienced something that no family in Scotland should have to experience. We owe it to them to make sure that it is fixed and I hope that today we will be another step in that process. We now move to the open part of the debate, our mind members' contributions of up to four minutes. I call Fiona Hyslop to be followed by Oliver Mundell. I am also one of the cross-party group of Lothian's MSPs pursuing this issue, and I appreciate the minister's new and post, but I hope to reflect on why we have got to where we are and I am impressed that the issue is as much for the education authorities as it is for the health authorities. The seriousness of the issue when it first arose was taken very seriously by the health service and I recall by the then health secretary, Humza Yousaf, when I was First Minister. Clearly, I recognised what NHS did at the time and what the Government did in examining what had come to pass and how we had got to the situation where there were misdiagnosis. At that time, when we were told as a group of MSPs that the families had been identified and were being supported, we perhaps made some assumptions. Those assumptions were not just being told about what had happened in the diagnosis period, but the support that they were getting would be specific, additional and on-going. We might have pursued that more at that time and I think that we can all acknowledge that. The processes to rectify what had happened were very internal to the NHS, to NHS Lothian. They wanted to make sure that they understood what had gone wrong and fixed their services for the future and that lessons that were learned would then be shared and procedures checked nationally. I think that that has happened. However, it leaves us in the situation where we have had some doubts because of the flag families coming to us and saying that some of us, our families and our children, have not been identified. That has begged the question actually, did they ever identify all those affected? Then, pursuing the issue on a cross-party basis, we have had a number of meetings and we have tried to understand what those issues have been. The issues that we think are outstanding is that have all children affected been identified? We know that there are 150 families that have been identified from the 1,007 patients that have been identified as part of the sample, but it was a sample basis. I understand that that will be a common procedure for NHS when issues are trying to be pursued. They take samples, but that does not necessarily identify everybody. Now, there was a lot of high-profile media at that time. People might have thought that my child was affected, but I also think that there was an issue around the transfer of information. What happened when there was an understanding of the problem? Why were not education authorities even told specifically about the 155 children? Why were education authorities not informed specifically about those children? We have also been told by NHS Lothian when we met them that there were confidentiality issues around that. I want to pursue that somewhat, because there is an issue about when does the internal protocols of confidentiality in any institution trump children's welfare? That was an issue that we pursued when I was in opposition and when I was a Cabinet Secretary for Education. There was a real need to ensure that all institutions shared information when a child's welfare was in question. I think that one of the things that the minister should consider with her education and children's cause is why were the education authorities not told about the names of those children affected? Why were not there measures or even letters given to the individual parents so that they could present them saying that my child might have been affected? We need to resolve what happens now. I need to close now. Minister, please take this seriously. We are coming to you from a cross-party basis and we want to get help for these children and we want to make sure that we can identify those that are in need. Please listen to us. I remind all members who wish to speak in the debate that they need to press the request-to-speak button. I call Oliver Mundell to be followed by Jackie Baillie. Clearly, I am not a Lothian's MSP, but I follow the issue. It is something that I do during my time on the education committee and other things that I have seen pop up. It is very interesting listening to Fiona Hyslop in her contribution, not forgetting to congratulate Jeremy Balfour on securing the debate. His contribution, too, was excellent. However, it is that disconnect for people. I cannot believe that we are here in 2023. After the issue came to light, families are still facing difficulties getting the services to work together and to deliver for their young people. It speaks to broader pressures that exist within the system that, even where we know that families have been failed, we still cannot get it right for them. That should concern members right across the chamber. I know that the minister is new in post, but I am sure that she will want to try to help people to move forward. Of course, that is what people want to do. Members who have spoken so far are right. In order to understand the importance of that, we have to recognise the grave injustice that has taken place. It puts it into stark terms when you look at, as was highlighted at the time, by the National Deaf Children's Society, the stark disparity in average identification in Lothians compared to other parts of the country that we could be having people elsewhere in the UK being identified within 109 days on average, but in Lothians it was 4.5 years. Even if it is a small group of families that has been waiting a very long time, something has gone very badly wrong to see that difference. We know that the sad truth is that professional standards were not followed. There were poor management protocols. I just think that that level of carelessness is unacceptable and cannot be tolerated. I am not confident that everything within audiology is working well now. I think that we see across the country, not just in Lothians, audiology services under huge pressure. One of my big concerns is that, because there are no audiology services in the community for adults, obviously children should be seen by the NHS, but because there is community, audiology services do not exist. There are a huge number of people on audiology lists taking up space in our hospitals for routine things around hearing aids, removing earwax, while those who need audiology services and that specialist support are waiting far too long. We know that, even when families and young people get that diagnosis, they are not getting the support. It is hard being deaf or hard of hearing in Scotland today. We have not got it right and for all the technological improvements that I have seen with constituents and also with a member of staff that I had here in this Parliament, things are just not there for them, speech and language, waiting lists far too long, problems with getting BSL interpreters, problems with accessing basic services, people told when they phone up Government services, council services, there is no one there who can speak to them or if they have capacity, someone else can speak to them. There are problems with people every single day and the families that are here have been failed. I cannot believe that we are not able to get it right for them, let alone all those other people who have seen their potential diminished. I just asked the minister to take the calls from across the Parliament very seriously and to do what the Scottish Government can to get things right. I now call Jackie Baillie to be followed by Karen Adam. Let me begin by thanking Jeremy Balfour for securing this debate and for the content of his contribution. The failings that were identified in the 2021 audit of NHS Lothian's paediatric audiology service were both shocking and potentially serious consequences. We might never have known about the scale of the problem, was it not for the determination of those parents and indeed the national deaf children's society who fought tirelessly for answers. Children were prevented from gaining early access to hearing technology and not supported to learn sign language when they needed it. The effect of that on those children could well be profound. There is no doubt that those children have been failed. Do not forget that the audit of the service did not include children who were born post-2018, so there may be many more children who have yet to be diagnosed. For those children who have been diagnosed, their parents are still having to campaign for the support that they need due to the original failings of NHS Lothian. The families failed by Lothian Audiology Action Group have outlined areas where support is needed, including access to BSL tutors, speech and language therapy and remediation for those children affected. Since 2011, there has been a 40 per cent decline in the number of qualified teachers of the deaf across Scotland, with falls also reported for specialist speech and language therapists and communication support workers. There is currently no dedicated in-school resource provision for deaf children in the Lothian and Borders area, such as St Rox in Glasgow. Without access to resources like that, deaf children with complex needs are still being failed. In response to a question that I raised last year on the audiology scandal, Humza Yousaf stated that of the 125 families who had been identified, they had been offered a retest. Only 39 children had actually had it done. That was in May. Can the minister give me an assurance that, a year on, every child that needs one has been given a retest? For all those children who were born after 2018, they too have been properly diagnosed. Every child whose hearing impairment was missed deserves co-ordinated long-term support from health, education and social work. The Scottish Government, I understand, still has not published the national review of audiology that it commissioned and was due in January this year. Maybe I have got that wrong. Can the minister perhaps advise the chamber and, in doing so, tell us why there is a hold-up? With every day of further delay, more children suffer. By failing to first identify these children's deafness and then not providing the support that they need, there is a risk that they will be failed over again. That cannot be allowed to happen. Urgency is the very least that we can offer these children and their families. Action now, not later. I very much agree and associate myself with Fiona Hyslop's comments because it is a cross-party approach that has been taken. That is too important to play about with. We need to ensure that there are no more scandals like that in Lothian or, indeed, anywhere else ever again. Once again, I thank Jeremy Balfour for his contribution and I hope that the minister will respond positively to the debate. I now call Karen Adam to be followed by Sandish Gohani. I am not a Lothian representative, but the issue is incredibly close to my heart, and I want to express my heartfelt gratitude to Jeremy Balfour for bringing this crucial debate to the chamber today. Ensuring that late diagnosed deaf children receive the support that they desperately need, not only in Lothian, but across Scotland, is of utmost importance. As a CODA, which is CODA, a child of a deaf adult, I have witnessed the challenges faced by those living and affected by deafness. Those experiences have deepened my understanding of the immense significance of the motion before us today. As we have heard, the 2021 audit of NHS Lothian's Pediatric Audiology Service, conducted by BAA, has exposed serious failings, and we cannot ignore, as colleagues have said before me, that it does not include children seen after 2018. That is deeply concerning, as we know that the crucial stages for fluent first language development occur in the early years. Shockingly, the BAA report reveals that the average age of identification of deafness in children within the NHS Lothian area is four and a half years, far surpassing figures from other regions in Scotland. By the time of diagnosis, the critical period for language and communication development has often passed, leading to adverse consequences that may affect their entire lives. It is heart-wrenching to think of the missed opportunities and the uphill battles that they will face, and many of those children will require extensive support from health, education, social work and various agencies to address their complex needs. Also, of course, let us take a moment to acknowledge the families failed by Lothian Audiology Action Group flag, and an inspiring collective composed of families directly affected by those failings through their tireless efforts that shine a light on the challenges faced by deaf children and their families. Those challenges include lesser access to British Sign Language tutors, speech and language therapy and appropriately qualified professionals. Without those essential resources, we deny those children the opportunity to develop their language skills and remediate any damage caused by the failures of the Audiology Service. We must recognise that the impact of late diagnosis goes beyond the immediate effects on individual children and the obstacles that they face in education, employment and social integration. It reverberates throughout families, communities and our society as a whole. Without proper support, their potential will be stifled and may limit their opportunities for personal growth and their ability to contribute to society. To address that pressing issue, we must establish robust systems that guarantee timely and accurate diagnosis for all children, regardless of their geographical location or background. We must invest wholeheartedly in early intervention programmes that focus on providing the necessary support from the moment a child's hearing difficulties are diagnosed. By doing so, we can maximise their potential, allowing them to thrive and overcome the barriers that they face. The deaf community offers a committed support network for individuals and families affected by hearing loss, with online communities, local associations and support groups a sense of belonging and understanding flourishes. Such platforms provide a space for sharing experiences, exchanging information and finding solace in the journeys of others. Deaf role models and success stories illuminate the path forward, serving as beacons of hope and inspiration. They demonstrate unequivocally that a late diagnosis does not define one's potential for a fulfilling and successful life, if that support is there. In closing, I hope that those children receive the justice that they deserve, but, above all, I want them to know that their potential for a fulfilling future is limitless. Alongside Jeremy Balfour and others, I will continue to work tirelessly and cross-party lines to ensure that they have every opportunity to thrive. I wish to declare a personal interest as a practising NHS doctor. Today, sadly, we are discussing widespread failings by one of Scotland's largest health boards. Failings that severely impacted families and their vulnerable children. Some of these families are here in the gallery and welcome to you all. The debate is for you. It is often said that trust is important. If lost, it is very hard to regain. In the wake of a scandalous catalogue of failures, there is little confidence in NHS Lothian's paediatric audiology service, even in the Scottish Government's supervision of the service. Let's consider what the health board and the relevant Government Minister are saying. On May 11, I asked eight formal questions to Jenny Minter, Minister for Public Health, to ascertain specific data on a range of unknowns, including the number of children diagnosed with serious hearing difficulties over the previous five years and how many children have been identified as potentially impacted by late diagnosis. The Minister replied on May 25, with specifics. As of the 16th, 725 children were on NHS Lothian's permanent childhood hearing impairment register. This is 92 more than at the time of the 21 British Academy of Audiology audit. On reviewing auditory brainstem response testing undertaken in the previous five years, the BAA reviewed ABRs of all births back to 2017. On its second report, we made public in July 23. The Minister confirmed that 147 children have been identified for clinical review. 26 had a misdiagnosis and 31 had been recalled. I also received a letter from the Minister this week, stressing that NHS Lothian had made significant progress against all actions in the BAA report and that governance and culture has improved. Paediatric audiology now has an additional senior expert, though we do not know what and who that senior expert is from the report I got. The Scottish Government will receive a progress report against the established action plan each month. An independent review of audiology across Scotland will report with recommendations in the summer. On Tuesday this week, I had the opportunity in the Health Committee to question Callum Campbell, the chief executive of NHS Lothian, to his credit, Mr Campbell made a sincere apology. The review he said was a wake-up call in Lothian and of the recommendations made by the independent chair, Jacqueline Taylor, Mr Campbell said that his health board has followed every one of them. His service has tried to contact every single family and is asking people to come forward if they think they've been missed. NHS Lothian has increased his resources of speech and language and he feels there is now no lack of access to British Sign Language tutors for those who want it. If we are to accept without question these responses, it appears that NHS Lothian and the Government are getting to grips with this crisis, but our families both here and elsewhere around Scotland are reassured by the words of those in the dock. We hear that children still face delays in accessing treatment or language support and families on low incomes or those with language barriers are being missed. No family impacted by failures should be left behind. We must ensure that these failures are not happening elsewhere in Scotland to help to restore confidence and trust. A good start would be for the Minister to meet the cross-party group of MSPs for further discussions on issues in their constituencies. Regarding the monthly progress report that NHS Lothian will send to the Scottish Government, will the Minister commit to making this public because transparency, sunlight, is the best disinfectant? I thank Jeremy Balfour for bringing this important debate to the chamber like others, and also to everyone in cross-party. I think that we all agree that we need to work together to make changes here. As we know, the paediatric audiology service at NHS Lothian has failed many people, not just children but their families too. As well as increasing the awareness of the impact of those failures on the children and their continued struggle to get the support that they need, this debate, as well as the meetings with parents and service managers, I hope might help to reassure families that MSPs are identifying steps that we can take to support the affected families and draw the attention of authorities who continue to lack, I think, the urgency required to fix that problem. We had the privilege of meeting some parents here in the Parliament and, as others have said, the families failed by Lothian audiology action group are truly an inspiration to us all and a model for such campaigns in the future. When you encounter determined campaigns like this, you cannot fail to be impressed and listened, and that has helped to cause us to jump into action. We wish that more had been done at the time to help those parents to approach the authorities and get some action from the authorities, tasked with protecting patients and their families. I think that Fiona Hyslop's contribution was excellent in the fact that we recognise that that is the case. During the period of the scandal, the audiology department provided care to more than 22,000 children. In order of some of the children identified that it was almost 34 per cent of cases, there were moderate or significant concerns in the way that they had been treated. Yet, as we have heard, that audit did not include any children seen after 2018, so we can be fairly certain that I agree many more and we have to consider that in the way forward. The parents feel that there has been no acceptance that their original review was a sample, and that is a crucial point. It was a sample for a children out there who may not be identified. I think that we must consider that possibility. We know from other cases that, if treatment opportunities are missed during the key development stage of a child, it can cause difficulty and rarely be corrected later in life, and Karen Adam's contribution to that helped us to understand that point, that we must support the children as they are developing now. It is astounding that there was no more accountability taken of that particular fact that those children had missed an essential part of their development. Although a lot of the political focus has rightly been on NHS Lothian, we must also seriously consider the help and assistance that families need right now, because that is what will make a difference to the children that we are talking about. Families report that a number of those children still require access to BSL tutors. That is a fact. The parents are reporting that to us. In the Government's manifesto, there was a commitment to additional funds to local authorities for free BSL tuition for deaf children from the age of five. It is important that we get some feedback on that. I have spoken to a family member who has explained to me that it is very expensive to get BSL tuition. It is not just about the individual needing to use BSL, it is about the whole family unit and not just about one person being able to get that. If we want children to develop and have the same excitement and learning as other children, we have to have a wide access to free BSL. I am going to stop my contribution there and thank everybody for their contribution to this debate. I now call Ashrygan to be followed by Foyzil Chaujin. I commend Jeremy Balfour for bringing this serious issue to the chamber for debate today. I think that there have been a number of excellent contributions made so far in the debate. We are discussing failures in paediatric audiology in NHS Lothian. As we have discussed so far, the review identified 155 children who were affected seriously. I think that the point that has been raised by others is that it may not because of the time frame have picked up everyone affected. I would also raise that as an urgent issue to the minister to look into this further and see if there is anyone else that has been missed. The root causes that were identified contributing to these failures were listed as a lack of scientific leadership, a lack of knowledge, reflection and inquiry and a lack of robust quality assurance processes. That led to assessments being carried out incorrectly. It is very disappointing that, at this stage, departments are being run in this way. I would like to ask the minister in her contribution, or if she is not able to advise in the chamber today, perhaps she can follow up to myself and perhaps others in writing about what progress has been made on delivering the many recommendations that the review put forward, many of which were, of course, extremely urgent. This week, I have taken the opportunity to speak to two families that have been affected in my constituency. I spoke to Stephanie, who is a mother to Rory. He is 11. Despite repeated testing when he was a baby and a young toddler, he was not unfortunately diagnosed as profoundly deaf until he was four. He then went on to be fitted with a hearing aid and later cochlear implants. Stephanie told me that this represents five years of missed communications. Rory will obviously be starting high school in the not too distant future. His mother is very concerned that the developmental delay that was created by this level of misdiagnosis will not be closed by the time he goes to high school, putting him obviously at a disadvantage then, without significant additional support, which, unfortunately, he is not receiving. The second family that I spoke to was quite a similar story. The daughter was tested repeatedly as a baby and young toddler and was also told at the age of three that she could hear perfectly well, which, of course, was incorrect. Her case was eventually picked up in the audit, and she was finally diagnosed as being deaf from birth. She is now four and a half, and she has been fitted with a hearing aid. Disappointingly, at the family's most recent audiology appointment, the clinical staff there seem to have no notes. They seem to not understand or be aware of the diagnosis. Unfortunately, I feel at this point that this does not fill that family and others with confidence that the culture that had led to the failures in the first place has been addressed and improved upon. The misdiagnosis and mismanagement has caused both the children and their families unnecessary suffering. The issues in NHS Lothian must be addressed, and those who have been affected need support. Fiona Hyslop put it very well when she said that it needed to be specific, additional and on-going. I suggest that maybe this takes the form of a full individualised plan of support for each child but also for their families. I think that Carol Muckin made an excellent point regarding that. I think that this support is essential. To frank, it is the least that can be done to support the children and their families that have been affected. I hope that the minister will take on board what has been raised here today and work with the cross-party group of MSPs to make the progress that is so sorely needed. I advise members that, due to the number of members who wish to speak in this debate, I am minded to accept a motion without notice under rule 8.14.3 to extend the debate by up to 30 minutes. I now invite Jeremy Balfour to move the motion without notice. Mr Balfour, the question is whether the debate will be extended by up to 30 minutes. Are we all agreed? That is agreed, and I now call Fausal Tradry to be followed by Ben Macpherson. Families in Lothian placed their trust in a service that was there to assist and help them. Instead, they were failed by that service. I have read some difficult accounts of children who were eligible for a collier implant. This is a technology that would allow deaf children the ability to hear for the very first time. Due to late diagnosis, some children were too old or no longer eligible for this potential life-alternating technology. Some of these children were also diagnosed incorrectly. This was rectified so late that families have now been told that their children may not ever be able to speak. Other children will face major language and communication difficulties throughout their lives as a result of these late diagnosis. I do not need to express how difficult this must be for all of the families involved. The failing of NHS Lothian between 2009 and 2018 has meant that late diagnosis deaf children have lost out on years of potential support and guidance through the diagnosis. There now needs to be sufficient tailored support in place to help these families through this. The audit that identified the failing ended in 2018. As my colleague Jeremy Belford addressed, there still may be many children who were wrongly or late diagnosed that have not been identified. We must ensure that support is offered to them. There will also be cases of children who were not included in the audit or have not responded to the communication. These children may still be without support and sufficient measures need to be in place to ensure support is offered to every single child affected by this issue. A one-size approach will not fit all. There must be multi-agency tailored support available for those affected. Tailored support means taking each child's case individually and assessing how best to support them and their families. Of course, access to British Sign Language lesson and training should be readily available to the children and families affected. But consideration must also be given to cases where BSL is not the best solution. Some of the children affected come from families where English is not their first language, whose support will be offered to these children who may struggle to communicate with families using BSL. Children with additional support needs may also struggle to learn or communicate with BSL. Additional means of support needs to be offered to families whose children have learning or communication difficulties. That is how we can continue to support the families whose lives have been permanently altered by NHS Lothian's patriotic audiology failure. I thank Jeremy Belford for bringing this important issue to the chamber. I now call Ben Macpherson, who will be the last speaker before I ask the minister to respond. I commend Jeremy Belford for bringing this important debate to the chamber. Although the motion is primarily focused on NHS Lothian audiology services, I would like to highlight the important interconnected issue of language and communications development and access to British Sign Language education, which has been brought to my attention by two constituents in the gallery today, Benedictine and Jaleica. They have given me permission to talk about their family situation in Parliament today. Benedictine and Jaleica's two-year-old son Thomas is deaf and a wonderful child that shows great creativity and resilience. Understandably, Benedictine and Jaleica want Thomas's educational prospects and those of other deaf children to be appropriate and available and delivered as well as possible. His parents have expressed to me that Thomas shows little progress in verbal language. However, it is progressing incredibly well and quickly with one of our key national languages, British Sign Language. Thinking ahead to when he grows up, his parents are aware that there are currently deaf schools in Falkirk, Hamilton and Aberdeen. In Edinburgh, however, there are currently no deaf schools, primary or secondary. Units in schools that teach BSL as its principal language are also not available. That all makes being a pupil learning in a national language very difficult in our capital city. Benedictine and Jaleica understandably believe that deaf schools are incredibly important for deaf children as the curriculum helps them to understand deafness and to tailor learning to the specific needs of the children attending. The education is simply reformatted. Through my constituents, positive discussions have already been taken place on this with the City of Edinburgh Council, which we are very grateful for. I am committed, along with my team, to working with them and others to help to create a school environment in our capital city that guarantees that Thomas and other children like him a solid future and an equal education opportunity. I am keen to see learning potential in deaf children achieved, regardless of their local authority area, and improvement in terms of consistency across council areas. For example, provision in some areas includes weekly BSL instruction and communication support workers qualified at least BSL level 3. In Lothian, Benedictine and Jaleica have informed me that, as children learn 80 per cent of language through incidental listening, listening to adults, the 30 minutes of BSL that Thomas currently receives a week during time in school is not a reasonable comparison to his hearing counterparts. He is not currently receiving the same curriculum as his peers, as he does not hear announcements or story time, and these important things are part of the school experience. I appreciate that the Scottish Government leads with an inclusive ethos, and that is highly commendable and something that we all believe in. However, we must build on that to make it a reality for all our deaf children in Scotland. I appreciate that the Government remains committed to supporting all children and young people and that we have a role in ensuring that that happens in terms of lived experience. While all this is happening, I am sure that the minister will elaborate on those initiatives that the Government is undertaking. Here in Lothian, there are service gaps, and my constituents have already given me and others so much insight and provided so much constructive engagement on how we can improve those matters on behalf of their families and others in the deaf community. I urge the Government and the council to focus on how we can improve the services that are available to Thomas and others. I now call on the minister, Jenny Mintill, to respond on behalf of the Scottish Government up to seven minutes, please. Thank you, Presiding Officer. Let me start by acknowledging the importance of this topic and thanking Jeremy Balfour for bringing forward his motion, and my colleagues from across the chamber for their very considered contributions. A number of points have been raised in the debate, and I would be happy to respond to those in writing after the debate, as I believe that the subject requires considered responses to all of them. However, I would be very happy to meet with the cross-party group of MSPs and I would like to commend the work that they have done. I would also like to welcome the families to the chamber. I am very sorry that it is in those circumstances, but thank you for the very important work that you are doing to raise this issue with Government, with your MSPs and with NHS Lodian. I thank you very much. At the outset, I would like to make it clear that the Scottish Government is committed to ensuring that all of our children, young people and their families get the support that they need at the right time. That is made clear through our getting it right for every child approach. Earlier today, I was at a session with officials talking about children and education and how they can work better together. I will take some of the learning that I have from this debate to my officials with regard to this situation. I would like to take this opportunity to recognise the seriousness of the failings around NHS Lodian's paediatric audiology services, outlined in the British Academy of Audiology's 2021 report, which simply shows that, as others have said, unacceptable levels of failure. As a result, a number of children and young people and their families have endured lasting impacts on their lives. I have no doubt that those who are affected by the situation in NHS Lodian are anxious and rightly angry about what has happened. As Jeremy Balfour said, in his contribution, those are real issues impacting on real families. In December 2021, NHS Lodian was escalated to stage 3 of the board performance escalation framework for audiology performance and service delivery, demonstrating how seriously the Scottish Government took that situation. The step was to ensure that the necessary improvements were made to the service with a formal recovery plan being developed by the board in partnership with Government. I am pleased that work has been taken forward by NHS Lodian and progress has been made, but I am aware of some of the points that have been made and would like to explore that further. I would, however, encourage any family who thinks that their child may have been affected by the situation in Lodian or have any concerns with regard to audiology to contact NHS Lodian's helpline on 0800 800 880. The Scottish Government is clear that families across Scotland should have assurances that their child is getting the best possible audiology support. That is why we introduced a national independent review of audiology services in January last year, which will report on its findings soon, I believe that Jackie Baillie referenced that. Presiding Officer, it is important to reflect on previous failings and the subsequent work done to make improvements. However, that does nothing to help those children and families who have already been affected. That is why it is vital that our public services are joined up and that we ensure that children get the best support that they need. A number of my colleagues referenced the importance of health working with education to ensure that there were focused efforts to support that cross-folio work that Fiona Hyslop referenced and to try to avoid the disconnect that Oliver Mundell referenced in his contribution. Our sea here strategy, which is jointly endorsed by COSLA, provides a strategic framework for action for meeting the needs of people with sensory loss against a background of increasing demand, requirements for greater efficiency and effectiveness and, of course, health and social care integration. Our refreshed sea here strategy will be published in 2025 and in early discussions stakeholders have identified the need to include more on early years children, young people and transitions to adult services. We will listen to those voices, to those with lived experience, as Karen Adam eloquently put, to ensure that we progress that work properly. The Scottish Government's sensory loss and social care advisory group will support and advise officials, as will a group of Scottish Government policy officials with an interest in sensory loss. I would also like to reflect on another point that Karen Adam made with regard to peer groups and the support from third sector partners, and those are a vital element of support. The Children, Young People and Family Early Intervention and Adult Learning and Empowering Communities Fund has provided just over £100 million of funding to 115 organisations since 2016 to deliver support that tackles inequalities, child and family poverty, improved learning and build skills. One of the organisations in receipt of some of that funding is the National Jeff Children's Society, who receives £102,900 annually to support a range of activities. Returning to public service provision in respect of education and learning, access to specific support is critical, which Ben Macpherson and Ash Regan both referenced to. From my perspective, it is very helpful to hear the direct experiences of your constituents, and I thank you for sharing them. I also thank your constituents for allowing them to be shared in the Parliament. I think that, as Jeremy Balfour said, this is where this Parliament works well, is when we have got the cross-collaboration and the honesty and the experience from each of us from our own constituencies. We are committed to supporting the delivery of high-quality early learning and childcare services, which are language-rich environments that provide children with opportunities to play, learn and have social interaction. A number of people reference British Sign Language and, in supporting the provision of sign language, it is our aim to make Scotland the best place in the world for people who sign to live, work, visit and learn. We are developing our British Sign Language national plan 2023-29, due to being published in October this year. As part of that, we have identified key priorities, which include support for deaf children and their families, and how we can better support the BSL workforce. That will be overseen by an implementation governance group, ensuring that we deliver our commitments in a way that addresses the current needs of BSL signers across Scotland, as well as identifying any new needs that arise over the lifetime of the plan. Before concluding, I would like to briefly reflect on the impact that late diagnosis may have not only on learning but mental health. The Scottish Government is committed to improving access to community mental health and wellbeing support through our investment in community mental health services. We are providing local authorities with £15 million per annum to fund community-based mental health support for children, young people and their families. Finally, I would like to thank again Jeremy Balfour for bringing forward this debate. As I said before, the very thoughtful and thought-provoking contributions from my colleagues. I also reaffirm my early commitments around the Scottish Government's commitment to ensuring that all our children and young people have access to the right support when they need it. I am not sure that I look forward to the correct word, but I will ensure that we have a meeting as soon as possible with the cross-party group. That concludes the debate, and I suspend this meeting until 2 pm.


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What's up navigation traders welcome to this week's video update today is Friday September 27th I hope everybody had a great week of trading before we jump into the alerts. Just want to remind you We've got our iron duck web class Starting this coming Tuesday October 1st at 4 p.m. Central time. So There's a lot of information in this strategy class, which is why we broke it up into three different parts So part one you don't want to miss it October 1st this Tuesday at 4 p.m. Central If you haven't registered yet make sure you go to navigation trading comm slash iron duck registration and And get signed up. It's gonna be amazing. Of course, it will be recorded We will edit it and you know cut it down into bite-sized sections like we do all our other courses That will be available for pro members, but there's gonna be a lot of cool stuff going on at the live event So if at all possible make sure you are there Let's see who got caught being hot this week in the community goes to Joe Rabena. I hope I'm saying that right Joe Joe is a newer member, but he's jumped in right away answering other people's questions helping other members love it That's what this community is all about. So congrats Joe. You got caught being hot And let's go to the alerts starting with 23rd was Monday and our first alert was an opening trade in Ford slash 6b So I had been watching the British pound for about a week and implied volatile Implied volatility kept creeping up and so we went ahead and entered with a short strangle in 6b So if we take a look I could see it's come down a little bit since we put that on but still well within our range We've got some profit here. I was actually hoping to take this off earlier this week We're almost at 30% of max profit and then a implied volatility went up a little bit Anyway, we didn't we didn't we never got filled in fact. I don't think I even put an order in but I was close to it But if we if we get 30% of max profit next week, we'll we'll go ahead and book this one So that's in Ford slash 6b Next trade opening adjusting trade in ZW in wheat So we opened up a new iron condor in wheat and we did this when the cycle had 60 days to expiration and Then the very next trade alert was closing Adjusting trade where we closed out our previous iron condor Booked over 50% of max profit on that piece of the trade. So working our way back to profitability in wheat Let's go. Let's take a look at the current one that we have on Excuse me Dead centered got a little bit of profit there not enough to take off yet. So just playing the waiting game in wheat Next trade closing adjusting trade in gold. So we closed out our short call vertical that we had in gold This was part of a previous iron condor. We were down to only having two days left to expiration Unfortunately gold never got back into that range. So we just closed out that piece We do have another piece on in gold Which is a full iron condor and you can see prices hanging out right here So we could use a little bit of up movement in gold and if price does continue lower We'll add another iron condor centered around the current price and And continue to keep that dream alive Next trade alert opening trade in spx. So we opened up a new weekly double calendar in SPX we did this starting in the front week with eight days back. We had 22 days to expiration and So let's take a look at that Prices have come down in the s&p but we can We're still we're still in this one We take a look here. This is our current position. It's just outside of our range Obviously if price makes a big gap down over the weekend that's gonna hurt But of course if it comes back in the range, we'll be in good shape So we're down a few hundred bucks about four shekels on that one at this point So just holding this over the weekend and we've got Five days to expiration. So we'll be closing this out on Tuesday or Wednesday So look for that in spx Next trade opening trade in oil For slash cl so we entered a new short strangle in cl Prices down been pretty volatile in oil But even with all that volatility, you know, right when we put this on implied volatility spiked So we're down right away on the trade excuse me, but Come back nicely. We're down a tiny bit, but still well within our range, you know implied volatility is so high I mean if you look at this we've got a $1,700 max profit on one contract. So big Big product with oil make sure you're only trading this in a sizable account I always tell people you want to have at least 25k in your account if you're gonna be making a trade like this because yes It does have a great max profit, but that comes with risk as well So make sure you are minding your position management correctly So here's here's what oils look like we had that big spike after the Saudi oil refineries got bombed and then They came out and said no problem We're gonna have our production back up within a couple weeks and so the price of oil went back down Which really surprised me.  So It looked like it was gonna bounce a couple days ago then bounce yesterday and now it's looking it was down It looks like it's bouncing again. So who knows what's happening in oil But we're in we're in good shape on our position Rolling adjusting trade in QQQ so we had one set of our short call verticals in the queues Was in October with 24 days to expiration We got to a point with the market moving down where we were well over 50% of max profit on that piece of the trade So we went ahead and rolled that out to November. So now we have both sets in November so let's take a look at the queues and Here's here's both of them. So here is the 193 198 I'll take that off. So here's one of them pretty close to right where we rolled it to and then our other one here It's got a little bit of profit just holding these for that short Delta exposure Speaking of short Delta our ratio is about two to one on our short Delta versus our theta ratio We'd like to keep a little bit of a short bias for those volatile down moves that we can see and So we're in good shape there Compared to our overall theta position about two to one Next position or next trade closing adjusting trade in four slash ZB So we closed out one set of our short strangles in ZB This was an adjusted strangle booked over 30% of max profit on that piece still trying to work our way back to profits in bonds Let's see was there another one No, yeah, so that's the only bond trade this week So now we've got just the one piece on so let's go to the platform and look at that It's that it's right here. So bonds coming down a tiny bit today We could use a little bit more down movement in bonds back to center But if price does continue higher up into this range We will look to add another short strangle on continue to collect that credit Extend duration and get back to profits in bonds. This piece still has 28 days So late next week or early the following week We will we'll be looking to to roll that out or close it depending on where we are and You know, I'd like to add another one out in the December cycle currently at 56 days to expiration but I don't want to I Don't want to overlap when price is still well within range on this one So if it if it jumps out higher, we'll definitely do that Applied volatility still continues to stay high in the notes and bonds. So we want to be premium sellers in there for sure Next trade opening adjusting trade in SPY So what we did is we opened up a new SPY Iron condor or we open we added to our current position I should say and so price is dead-centered pretty much where we put it on got a tiny bit of profit and then the very next Alert the next day was we closed out our other SPY iron condor as price moved down came back into Profits for us. So we booked over 50% of max profit on that piece of the trade And so then we're still just holding that one iron condor in SPY and Lastly today's only trade on Friday was a rolling adjusting trade in KRE So we've got 21 days left to expiration in the October cycle So once we get down to that range, we like to roll out to the next cycle in this case We rolled our puts up from 48 to 52 kept our calls at 53 So now we have the short 52 puts short 53 calls And then we've got another piece which is a short strangle in November with with the 50 puts and 57 calls So we've got two pieces on here in KRE I was hoping for a little down movement today and I was just gonna close this one And then just have the one out in November, but Price moved higher. So we rolled the puts up rolled it out to November Collected some more credit and you can see prices hanging out right here So nice decent range to play around in and collect some more theta And then our other piece is the 50 57 This one has not been adjusted or anything. So we've got some profit there just waiting for some more time to pass Before we do anything in KRE All right Oh, wow s&p's are moving down. By the way, uh, let me just show you something in spx. I've got a an iron duck So give you another little sneak peek and what's going on here I've got one that I put on a couple weeks ago And if price moves a little bit lower today, this position actually expires today If we can get down to in this range here Book max profit of over 1600 bucks on one contract But just need price to get a little bit lower if it stays right here or for some reason blasts higher We'll still make a profit But our max profit is right in this range. And so we just need a little bit more down movement Maybe a tweet from trump. Come on, buddy You know tell china that you're mad at him or something. I don't know just get this down a little bit. Anyway Um, you're gonna love this iron duck stuff. It is awesome And I can't wait to share it with you So let's go over some of the other positions. We've got I mentioned 6b. I mentioned oil. Yes We've got a long put vertical that we've just been holding for that Short delta exposure prices come down nicely here. Just holding this for some more downside potentially In gold I already mentioned that we've got that iron condor and gold natty gas Natty gas has been on a little bit of a mini slide Down but still well within range In our two sets of short strangles here could use a little bit of up movement a little bit of a bounce And we've got what do we have left here 31 days? So we got plenty of time in this cycle before we move on to the next I mentioned zb. I mentioned z w. Yeah, we got the iron condor apple We've got this long put vertical that we've been holding for some short delta exposure prices just inside of our range here So looking for some more downside there to help that one de john deere Uh similar price just inside of our range holding this for some more downside to benefit that trade DIA we've got two different sets of short call verticals One of which is in november. You can see prices hanging out right here The other one is in october And we're we're we're just about 50 of max profit there Actually just a little above as the market's moving down as we're recording this So if price continues lower in the next week, we'll definitely roll our strikes down as well as roll this out to november So that's the plan in di a E w z So this was this is another one that's down to 21 days to expiration So early next week probably monday, you know, if we can get some follow through to the downside We'll just close this and book a profit. If not, we may look to roll out to november The only thing that I would be more inclined to close it is implied volatility is super low So yeah, I would probably just close that even if it were not at 50 of max profit Probably just book whatever we have Of course, we hope it doesn't rip higher because that's gonna Take away that profit, but we'll look to do that next week Hopefully get just a little bit of follow through to the downside here And uh and book a profit in e w z Goldman Goldman sacks. We've got a long put vertical on here. That's out of our range So just waiting for some more downside to get back in I y r we've got a uh an iron condor here dead centered. No pit. No profit or loss yet Just waiting on that one. I mentioned kre. I mentioned the cues smh. So this is our one other Undefined risk trade that is in october. So we've got 21 days to expiration Just wanted to again give this till monday So if we get a little bit more follow through to the downside before we roll this collect some more credit On that roll out to november Uh, I mentioned spx. Oh no, no, I didn't oh, yeah. Yeah, I did. Um Yeah, just just outside of our range need need to bounce here Uh to get back in early next week SPY I mentioned and lastly xl k. So this is another one if we get a little bit more continuation to the downside We will address early next week. I just been holding this for that short delta exposure This is a long put vertical And so we will look to roll this out to november roll those strikes a little bit closer Collect another credit and keep that position going So I hope that was helpful everybody look forward to a great next week of trading. Have a great weekend. Talk to you then


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