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You can send me a text if you have a comment or questionThis covers most of the colonial wars with the French and Dutch during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.  You get a cumulative effect of seemingly slow British progress, that in the end removes all French influence overseas by 1811.  Then, problems with the Americans predominate.There is a good deal of discussion about Elphinstone's campaign to take Capetown and the Battle at Saldana Bay.  

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THE DOOMED & STONED SHOW ~Season 10, Episode 1~ Here we go! Plunging into another season of The Doomed and Stoned Show, with this episode recapping some of the best albums of 2023. Special guest Steve Howe from Outlaws of the Sun joins Billy Goate (Editor in Chief, Doomed and Stoned) for a countdown of their individual lists, from 10 to 1, focusing on various hybrids of doom metal and stoner rock. Also discussed: albums to look forward to in '24. DIG DEEPER: https://outlawsofthesun.blogspot.com https://doomedandstoned.com PLAYLIST: INTRO (00:00) HOST SEGMENT I - Steve's List (00:31) 1. Bongzilla (no. 10) - "Hippie Stick" (09:28) 2. Howling Giant (no. 9) - "There's Time Now" (15:46) 3. Ritual King (no. 8) - "Worlds Divide" (22:17) 4. Dozer (no. 7) - "Mutation/Transformation" (29:46) 5. Acid King (no. 6) - "Electro Magnetic" (37:17) HOST SEGMENT II - Billy's List (45:33) 6. Wolfnaut (no. 10) - "Brother of the Badlands" (53:00) 7. They Watch Us From The Moon (no. 9) - "On The Fields of The Moon" (57:26) 8. Moon Coven (no. 8) - "Seeing Stone" (1:05:42) 9. Outer Head (no. 7) - "Delirium" (1:10:14) 10. Sativa Root (no. 6) - "Megalobong" (1:16:12) HOST SEGMENT III - Steve's List (1:25:34) 11. Modder (no. 5) - "Belly Ache" (1:35:07) 12. Beastwars (no. 4) - "Waves" (1:43:14) 13. Green Lung (no. 3) - "One For Sorrow" (1:48:17) 14. Slomatics (no. 2) - "Voidians" (1:54:52) HOST SEGMENT IV - Billy's List (2:01:12) 15. Ghorot (no. 5) - "Dredge" (2:09:34) 16. Purification (no. 4) - "Elphinstone" (2:17:09) 17. The Heavy Minds (no. 3) - "Time Flies Pt. II" (2:22:17) 18. Sonic Moon (no. 2) - "Tying Up The Noose" (2:26:41) HOST SEGMENT V - Steve/Billy's Top Picks (2:32:42) 19. Domkraft (no. 1) - "The Big Chill" (2:47:30) 20. Lamassu (no. 1) - "Battle Cry" (2:57:12) OUTRO (3:05:08) CREDITS: Theme Song: Dylan Tucker Incidental Music: Hellvetika (https://akitevlleh.bandcamp.com/) Thumbnail: Artwork by Throne for Modder BECOME A SUPPORTER: https://patreon.com/doomedandstoned

Join Dr Eloise Elphinstone, a GP with a special interest in women's health, as she provides an insightful update on ovarian cancer, focusing on its implications for general practice. In this webinar, Dr Elphinstone, who works in SW London and has extensive experience in menopause and postnatal health, delves into the complexities of diagnosing and managing ovarian cancer from a GP's perspective.Link to slidesThis session covers:The latest statistics and survival rates of ovarian cancer.Risk factors and symptomatology.Challenges in screening and diagnosis.Case studies illustrating practical scenarios in GP practice.NICE guidelines and primary care tips.Dr Elphinstone also shares her experiences working with the Target Ovarian Cancer organization and the Family Planning Association.Connect with Dr. Eloise ElphinstoneInstagramUseful LinksMenopause Care ClinicTarget Ovarian CancerFamily Planning Association:#OvarianCancer #GPUpdate #WomensHealth #GeneralPractice #NASGP #MedicalWebinar #EloiseElphinstone

The return of Laura Elphinstone! So great to welcome back Laura Elphinstone to the show, a fantastic actress whose work includes "Line of Duty", "Chernobyl", "Game of Thrones" and many more. This time we take a look at Laura's latest work in ITV's police drama "Grace" which she has been a part of over the last few years, as well as the other hit show "Line of Duty". Before she became an actor Laura had previously thought about a career in the police and she shares her experiences on what could have been having been a part of two hit police shows. Laura discusses her latest work, what acting means to her, dealing with imposter syndrome and how you have earned the right to be where you are and where you want to go in this business. Don't let anyone else or that voice in your head tell you otherwise. We also have an exclusive revealing of the title of her future autobiography. What a story there is behind that! Always a pleasure Laura, thank you as always for your time and your friendship. Oliver Gower Spotlight Link: https://www.spotlight.com/9097-9058-5261 Instagram: @goweroliver X (Twitter): @GowerCritic For enquiries and requests: olliegower10@gmail.com Please Like, Download and Subscribe! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/oliver-gower/message

This week, Ben takes a look at a handful of histories more unique duels. A decades-long feud between Gen. Francois Fournier and Pierre Dupont, the gentlewomanly disagreement between Lady Almeria and Mrs Elphinstone, and the pub-game gone bad between Melfant and Lenfant: These pairs took their arguments to the extreme (in oft hilarious ways.) Check it out.  Source: 10 Most Bizarre Duels in History (historycollection.com)

In this episode we sit down with the inspirational and warm Dr Natalie Elphinstone. Mother of four and experienced obstetrician, Nat opens up frankly and honestly about her journey into motherhood alongside her obstetric career. She explains to us how her practice has changed over time. Natalie's perspective on birth and obstetric intervention is refreshing and looks at it from a holistic point of view. We also discuss Maternal-Assisted Caesareans as a mode of birth and the benefits of having this option. We couldn't stop talking with the bubbly and deeply knowledgeable Nat, we know you will get A LOT from this episode. Get in touch with Nat via instagram @drnatalieelphinstoneWe apologise that this episode contains glitches.  It was recorded over zoom and the program cut out a few words here and there. We are proud to announce that the episode is sponsored by Holistic Lactation Consulting. Founded by Jessica Kahan, Holistic Lactation Consulting services the Mornington Peninsula and Bayside suburbs. Jess provides breastfeeding support to women from pregnancy all the way through to weaning. Jessica is an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC) and a Registered Midwife and a mother of two. Jess can provide both in person and zoom consultations to families in need. In Addition to her LC work, Jess is trained in gentle sleep and settling supports using the Possums approach (developed by Dr Pamela Douglas). Get in touch with Jess on instagram http://www.instagram.com/holistic_lactation_consultingThe episode discusses the following:Dr Natalie Ephinstone's transition from maiden to mother. What drew Nat to study obstetrics? How has Nat's practice changed over her career span? The cascade of intervention's impact on the physiological process of birth.Backlash from from peers in the industryIs any woman suited to obstetric care or should we keep obstetricians for women with ‘risk'?Maternal-Assisted caesarsThe birth stories shared by Nat to her communityBirth traumaContact Saint Majella Slide into our DMs via insta @saintmajella Email us for collab opportunities hello@saintmajella.com See upcoming events and more on our website www.saintmajella.com Thanks for listening and pls share us with your mother community!Love, Mel and Cel

The Australian art scene has dramatically evolved over the past decade. A place that was once seen as belonging to wealthy collectors has opened up to absolutely anyone who is interested and inspired. ‘Front page news', once dedicated to sport, has recognised the important place of art in our everyday lives.  Kym Elphinstone is the Founder and CEO of Articulate, Australia's leading communications consultancy for culture and the arts. She's represented many of Australia's biggest cultural institutions including the National Gallery of Australia, Carriageworks and the Powerhouse Museum through to more than 12 temporary public art projects for John Kaldor as well as grass-roots festivals and art fairs platforming emerging artists. She's had a major impact on the profile of the arts in this country.  She cites her background in law as a formative experience but one that didn't offer the creativity she yearned for. In London in the early 2000s, she realised she needed to pursue her first love: the arts. After moving to Sydney, she soon took up a role at the MCA, and a few years later found herself starting her own business with the Biennale of Sydney as her first client.  Listen in as Vince and Kym discuss the difference between art and design, why it's important to only work with people and on projects you believe in, and public art as placemaking.  https://articulatepr.com.au/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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International listeners can support TBT here: https://buy.stripe.com/14keVU54r5hQ55S000 Farooq Tirmizi is the Founder and CEO of Elphinstone. #thoughtbehindthings #muzamilhasan #investments Check out the trainings from Sarmaaya Financials: Training List: https://sarmaaya.pk/trainings/?src=tbt Technical Training Masterclass 2.0: https://sarmaaya.pk/trainings/details?tid=1&src=tbt Fundamentals of Capital Market: https://sarmaaya.pk/trainings/details?tid=2&src=tbt Do not forget to subscribe and press the bell icon to catch on to some amazing conversations coming your way! Socials: TBT's Official Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thoughtbehindthings Muzamil's Official Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/muzamilhasan Support our podcast: https://anchor.fm/syed-muzamil-hasan-zaidi3/support Farooq's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/farooqtirmizi/ Podcast Links: • Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3z1cE7F • Google Podcast: https://bit.ly/2S84VEd • Apple Podcast: https://apple.co/3cgIkfI --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/syed-muzamil-hasan-zaidi3/support

We all know babies are expensive but how much does pregnancy, birth and parenthood actually cost? I've joined forces with , a customer-owned ethical bank and a certified B Corp, to make pregnancy finances less overwhelming. In this 5-part mini series I take you from preconception to postpartum with health and finance professionals who outline everything you need to know about fertility treatment, maternity leave, birth options, childcare and budgeting for a baby.  Understanding your care options and working out what you want in pregnancy can be tricky, especially if you're in the first trimester and overwhelmed with fatigue and nausea. In this episode I delve into your private maternity care options by exploring the costs of obstetric care in a private hospital and private midwifery care in either a public hospital, birth centre or in your home. Dr Natalie Elphinstone (along with her Practice Manager and husband, Michael) discusses the often complex health insurance rebates while Liz Wilkes, Managing Director at My Midwives, explains all the options and costs of private midwifery care.

In this episode I have a candid conversation with Dr Natalie Elphinstone about her work as a private and public Obstetrician in Australia. Her amazing instagram account has shown the world countless incredible videos of the clients she supports who choose to have a maternal assisted caesarean aswell as other birth experiences. Natalie shares information about her training, her own birth choices and what made her decide to go back to basics and learn more about physiological birth. Follow her on Instagram @drnatalieelphinstoneIf you would like to buy a copy of either of the books that accompany this podcast please go to your online bookseller or visit Amazon:-Labour of Love - The Ultimate Guide to Being a Birth Partner - click here:-https://bit.ly/LabourofloveThe Art of Giving Birth - Five Key Physiological Principles - https://amzn.to/3EGh9dfPregnancy Journal for 'The Art of Giving Birth' - Black and White version https://amzn.to/3CvJXmOPregnancy Journal for 'The Art of Giving Birth'- Colour version https://amzn.to/3GknbPFYou can also purchase a copy via my website - www.birthability.co.uk Follow me on Instagram @theultimatebirthpartner @birthabilityBook a 1-2-1 session with Sallyann - https://linktr.ee/SallyannBeresford Please remember that the information shared with you in this episode is solely based on my own personal experiences as a doula and the private opinions of my guests, based on their own experiences. Any recommendations made may not be suitable for all listeners, so you should always do your own research before making decisions.

Programa #537 - Plan de Inmersiones - Briefing 00,04’52” — Luciano Vilchez-Gómez, Dr. en Biología Molecular y Biotecnología, con su espacio “Acuicultura, un mar para comérselo”. 00,29’27” — Mónica Alonso, activista de Planeta Profundo y divulgadora, nos presenta “Protejamos las maravillas del Mar”. 00,46’48” — Román Revilla, Sargento del SEMAR, nos hablará de seguridad en el mar en “Proa al Viento”. 01,06’49” — Inés García, Bióloga marina en la escuela de buceo ZOEA de Madrid, con su espacio, “Mis amigos los peces”. 01,19’44” — Carlos Junquera, Responsable de Formación en España de DAN EUROPE. Y con las habituales micro-secciones, Mi cuaderno de buceo de los oyentes, el repaso a los viejos programas de AOLDE ya emitidos y nuestras sugerencias para pasar tu tiempo en superficie, nos daremos, una noche más, por buceados. La foto de la semana, si te detienes un momento a contemplarla, hará que el azul se cuele por tu retina y te inunde cada célula del cuerpo, hasta el tuétano y más allá. Se trata de una toma en ángulo ‘nadir’, es decir de abajo arriba, de un majestuoso ejemplar de tiburón oceánico, (Carcharhinus longimanus), con tres peces piloto, a modo de cuádriga marina, que parecen tirar del formidable pez con hilos invisibles. En su lomo se adivina, de forma casi imperceptible pero visible al fin, su clásica aleta curvada y rematada de blanco, una delicia para los sentidos vaya. Está tomada en El arrecife Elphinstone (también conocido como Sha'ab Abu Hamra ) en el Mar Rojo, y es cortesía de su autor, Juan Carlos M. Murillo. Listos para la primera zambullida de la noche, repasito al equipo del compi, un Ok, y al agua. Sonaron en este programa: 00,00’09” — David Arkenston - Papillon - Sintonía 00,04’52” — David Byrne & Yo La Tengo - Who Has Seen The Wind 00,29’27” — Pinpilinpussies - Todo saldrá mal 00,46’48” — Yo, Gerard - No tengo nada que decir 01,06’49” — Maryann Camilleri - Look to the Sea 01,18’12” — Angelo Branduardi - La pulga de agua 01,49’42” — Arco y Raiden - Quisiera 01,53’41” — Motley Crue - Wild Side (Live) 01,58’38” — Hay Peores - Bajo El Mar (Cover de Under The Sea de La Sirenita) Sintonía

“Let's make every birth the best possible version of that birth that it can be.”Dr. Natalie Elphinstone is a true trailblazer! When one of her patients asked about the possibility of a maternal-assisted Cesarean, she listened intently, took the idea to heart, and advocated for change by creating a new hospital policy to allow this beautiful procedure. Dr. Elphinstone is creating a whole new experience for Cesarean moms as they get to deliver their babies, hold them first, have uninterrupted skin-to-skin time, and feel like birthing women instead of patients on an operating table. Dr. Elphinstone shares how she was able to make this change, how we can implement this procedure in our areas, and even offers some VBAC tips as she is a big VBAC advocate as well! We are SO honored to have her with us today.Additional LinksDr. Elphinstone's InstagramDr. Elphinstone's Introduction PostHow to VBAC: The Ultimate Prep Course for ParentsFull Transcript under Episode DetailsFull TranscriptMeagan: Welcome to The VBAC Link, you guys. This is Meagan, your host, and I am so excited to be here with you today. Today's guest is an amazing OBGYN in Australia. She has caught over 1500 babies and believes in supporting women and families to make individual choices that feel right for them. You guys, she is making such a big impact in Australia and I am just so excited to pick her brain and hear more of her journey about how she has been changing the norm in Australia. Review of the Week We have a Review of the Week so of course, I'm going to jump into that before we start with Dr. Natalie. Okay, so today's review is actually pretty short. It's from Dr. Steven Roushar who is amazing. We actually have him on a podcast probably back in the early one-hundreds. He is a chiropractor and his wife has also had a VBAC. He said, “The VBAC Link is phenomenal. Great podcast content and training for birth workers.” Thank you, Dr. Roushar. We are so happy that you love The VBAC Link. We love you and believe in chiropractic care so much. As usual, if you have not had an opportunity to leave The VBAC Link a review, we would love that. I love getting these reviews. It makes me smile and we love reading them on the podcast. So push pause right now, and head over to Apple on iTunes. You can leave us a review. A 5-star review would be awesome along with a written review. You can do it on Google. You can do it on Facebook or you can email us. Wherever it may be, we would love your reviews. Dr. Natalie ElphinstoneMeagan: Okay, Dr. Elphinstone, we are so excited to have you. We are so grateful for you. I know your time is precious in OB-land. You are obviously seeing a ton of births. So grateful to have you. Again, thank you so much for being here. In the birth world, we get these comments sometimes, “You're The VBAC Link, I have a girl crush on you.” I am girl-crushing on Dr. Natalie Elphinstone. She is the freaking coolest. You are so cool. I am so honored to have you on the show today and I'm so honored for her to share with you her knowledge because you guys, you are going to fall in love with her too. If you don't follow her Instagram, right now, press pause and go check her Instagram. Do you have a Facebook too? I think we just follow you on Instagram. Dr. Natalie: Yeah, sadly I just do the Instagram thing. Meagan: That is okay. You are @drnatalieelphinstone, right? Dr. Natalie: Yep, all one word. One really long word. Meagan: One really long word, but you guys, it's amazing. I want to do a little bit of a background. This is how I found her. I actually found her off a video. You may have seen these going around of a maternal-assisted Cesarean delivery. It brought me chills. It made me cry. I was just like, “Oh my gosh. I want to do this. I want to have this option here in the U.S.” She is in Australia too, so not here in the U.S. I don't even know. Your page just started blowing up and this video started going viral. I shared it and I think I wrote you. I think I just wrote you and was like, “Wow, this is amazing,” or something. Crazy enough, we had some crazy emails coming through like, “That's fake. That's not real. It's a simulation.” I was like, “What? No.” Anyway, so I wrote Dr. Elphinstone and I just said, “Hey, I would love to have you on the podcast.” She is so gracious and said yes, so we are going to dive right in. I always say “dive right in” but we are diving right in to learn more about what she does and how she is truly changing the birth world in Australia. Okay. Dr. Natalie: Thank you, thank you, thank you so much for even thinking of having me come and talk on a podcast that of course, tends to be concentrating on VBACs, yet yes. I am getting known for this maternal or parent-assisted Cesarean. And so to be honest, it took me a little bit by surprise that you thought maybe I would be somebody to talk to. I mean, the whole thing took me by surprise. When I started off just sharing some of the videos of my maternal-assisted Cesareans, it was not with any kind of intention of trying to be this game changer. I actually just wanted to show something that we did that was really, really awesome and maybe with it, that idea of, “Well, if we can do it here, then maybe it can inspire other people to open up their mind to this possibility as well.” And then, it kind of just blew up as you said. It started getting reshared. I started getting contacted by people all around the world asking for my help and my advice on how they could possibly do it in their country. I'm super, super honored to be able to share my journey and my knowledge. To date now, I can say that– I was just contacted today by another country over the weekend who contacted me to say, “Thank you very much for the information that you shared. It was able to allow me this opportunity to do a maternal-assisted Cesarean for possibly the first time in my country.”  This was Ireland, so I'm pleased to say that Ireland is the sixth country that I'm aware of that I've been able to help impact at least one individual person. This is just mind-blowing to me and I feel so privileged to be able to not do anything special. I don't think I'm doing anything special. I'm just open to changing my practice and then sharing it so that it is seen that it is something that is possible. When you then get people that say, “That's fake,” I mean, oh. That actually just makes me really sad. It makes me really sad that this idea of what I'm showing, a maternal-assisted Cesarean, is so far removed from what they believe to be reality and what they know in their world that they think it must be fake. That's actually sad to me. Meagan: I'm with you. Me too. It does. It breaks my heart that this world has come to the point where we are so blinded, we are so closed-minded, and just looking down this tunnel that we can't see the possibilities outside of the norm. Dr. Natalie: Yeah, yeah. That's what it is for me. This is just me thinking with an open mind, “Can we do something different?” If the answer is yes, then why don't we? Why can't we and how do we make that happen? So that's how I started. Meagan: Right, I know. That's what I love. It's going to take someone to get it started for it to happen. Here you are. You're doing it. You are doing it and you are changing it. It's hopefully just going to trickle on down and spread throughout the world to see that Cesarean birth can be different. It can be different. Each video, they are all different. Sometimes, I have seen that you've got videographers or someone in the OR even on the other side. You've got two different views of baby coming out. You have mom reaching down and pulling baby out, and then we have the other side where the amniotic fluid is pouring out. It's just so dang cool. It's so dang cool. I love it. For my second Cesarean, I watched it in a mirror. I wasn't able to be a part of my birth in the way that you are creating people to be a part of their birth, but I saw it in the mirror and it was really cool and really special. That right there, that and the skin-to-skin that I was able to get made the difference and created the healing for an undesired Cesarean birth that I had. It truly created that healing aspect. I'm just going to shoot it out there. How? You're seeing it in your head and you're like, “We're going to do this.” What kind of flack or backlash did you get or pushback did you get in your space there in Australia? What did you get there and how did you personally push back? Dr. Natalie: Yeah. It's a really good question because I think everybody who has wanted to pursue this journey comes back and says, “But I'm getting met with these challenges and I'm getting met with these accusations. I'm just getting shut down.” I think that probably everybody will meet some of those challenges. And yes, I've met those challenges too. My journey of how this happened to me, and I always tell this story because I think it's a really important part of this story. This wasn't on my radar. To be honest, I didn't think of it myself. I had a single patient come to me who I was looking after for her antenatal course. It was her first baby. She had decided for various reasons that a Cesarean birth was the way that she was going to go. She came to me and said, “I've seen on somebody else's social media this idea of a dad-assisted Cesarean, a partner-assisted Cesarean.” She said, “Can we do that?” I said, “Well, I've never seen that happen before in real life. It's definitely never been done at this hospital. I don't know that it's ever been done anywhere in my area before,” and so one easy spot to stop there would be for me to say, “So no, we can't do that,” and that would have been a really easy answer. But instead, I went, “Well, maybe. Why not? Why can't we do that? That does seem pretty cool. That does seem like it might be a really valuable thing if that's something that you want to do. So how do we make that happen?” So my point is, number one, this whole thing started with one person, one patient herself coming to me saying, “Can we do this?” It can start really, really small. I was in a privileged position where I had the opportunity to go basically straight to the top of the hospital. So I'm talking about working in a private hospital in Australia for this scenario, so I literally just went to the CEO of the hospital. I asked her, I said, “I don't know how to make a new procedure happen. Tell me what I need to do to be able to make this happen.” I mean, number one I asked her, “Are you on board? Can I make this happen?”To be fair, I was expecting to be shut down at that point, but my gosh, she said yes. She said, “That sounds like, yeah. Why not?” A very quick answer would be that when it always comes down to new procedures, is there a value in it? Is there an importance? Does it achieve something so to speak? And then the second thing, is it dangerous or are there risks or are there concerns about that? If you can tick off those two boxes, then yeah. We can do a new procedure. But there are some hoops to jump through. She told me what those hoops to jump through were. I had to write a policy. Hospitals always want to know this very streamlined checklist of how you do this new procedure. And then I had to get that policy approved by the various levels of boards if you like at the hospital, so I had to present this to a couple of different meetings. That's where things got really interesting. I can write a policy. I can write a protocol. That's just me sitting at the desk and talking stuff out, but then presenting this idea to boards of people to get a general consensus that this seems like a good thing to do, I guess I was really naive going into that. I guess I believed that this was a really important thing to do, so I probably expected that everybody else would as well, but clearly not. That was definitely my naivety at play there. I then got met with challenges from the people hearing it. Everything they just laughed off like, “That sounds like the most ridiculous thing in the world.” I guess when you are talking to surgeons for example, surgeons, yes. We operate. People are asleep and we cut them open and we do a procedure. There are a lot of these rules around that to keep it sterile and to keep it clean and to keep it safe. To be fair, here I am suggesting that this woman who is awake and having her operation is going to literally reach down into her own open wound and pull out her baby. So yeah, okay. I get why it might sound ridiculous if you don't have the understanding of the fact that this is birth rather than it being an operation. I think that's a really important part to remember. I hope that none of us ever forget when we are doing any kind of Cesarean or any kind of instrumental birth or whatever that this is not just a procedure that we are performing on somebody. This is their birth. This is the thing that they are going to remember forever. So even if this is the 5th Cesearean I've done this morning and I'm getting a bit hungry or I'm a bit bored or whatever, oh my gosh. That's not the point. The point is to remember that this is the most astounding thing that has ever happened in this woman's life and in this family's life so let's make it really, really special. Anyway, I digress. I digress. Meagan: Absolutely. You digress in a good direction though because it's so true. I'm sure. I'm not a provider. I don't know. I'm sure it just gets repetitive, right? Dr. Natalie: Yeah, it can. Meagan: Walk in. Catch a baby. Walk in. Have a Cesarean. But if you can, if you can walk in. If you are a birth worker and you are listening, and that goes for all birth workers, walk in and truly hold space for that person and be there for that person because it is something that they are going to remember forever. You probably aren't going to remember two months down the road, but they will. Dr. Natalie: I think that's something that hopefully every provider continues to keep in the forefront of their mind. I think I've certainly had the times where let's be honest, sometimes I haven't honored the birth experience, or perhaps it's a Cesarean and often we then think that the woman's really distracted now. The baby's out. She's focusing on the baby and we're just getting on with the rest of the operation and closing her up, and often, let's be fair, I am just having a conversation with my colleagues around me. I've had that not come back to bite me because I don't think I've ever said anything inappropriate in that situation, but the women and the partners have come back and said, “Oh yeah. We heard you chatting about other things.” Actually, a lot of the time when they are telling me that, they are telling me that they were kind of reassured by that because they knew that if I was just perhaps having this general chitchat then clearly I wasn't worried about anything in their operation. Meagan: Yeah, I can see that. It is interesting though because, with my first baby, that's what I remember. I don't remember my baby's cry. I don't remember seeing my baby. I remember the doctor and the assistant on the other side of the curtain talking about how terrible the storm was outside and how one just got back from Hawaii and was so depressed. That's what I remember about my birth. Dr. Natalie: Yeah, yeah. I don't quite know what the answer to that is because it is going to be this balance between definitely wanting to honor that birth space, but yes at the same time, we are humans too and it is our job. We love our job, but sometimes yes. Part of that job is bonding with our colleagues as well. Meagan: Talking on the job. Yeah, talking on the job. That's what you do. Dr. Natalie: That's always a wake-up call for us to always be really mindful of even just what that general chitchat might be that, okay yeah. Let's talk about our holidays. That's a good memory, but maybe let's not complain about something else like another colleague down the road. Let's keep that somewhere else. Meagan: Yes. Dr. Natalie: Oh gosh. So yeah, I did definitely meet with some criticisms as I said. Just that general not understanding of the importance of birth and this incredulity of the ridiculousness of the things that I was asking for. And then there was the stuff you would expect like the actual medical concerns that the other people might have like, is this a danger to the woman? Does it increase her infection rate? Is it a danger to the baby? The baby might get too cold and the pediatricians can't get access to the baby quickly. There were those sorts of concerns actually coming from a genuine place of still wanting to do the absolute very best for our families but of course, there is an answer to all of those questions. And then there were the people who I'm not sure what their motivation is. Maybe it was a threat to them. Perhaps other providers have always done things a certain way, so anytime you're wanting to change a procedure, number one you've got to realize why it's important to change the procedure. So with a Cesarean for example, we've been doing a fairly stock-standard way of doing this Cesarean for who knows how long. Certainly, for as long as I've been training, it's always been done a certain way and possibly I imagine, it's been done pretty much in the same way for many decades, so why would I change something that I can't see a problem with? In most providers' eyes, there's no problem with this. There's no danger in this. There's nothing going wrong apart from all of the things we know certainly can be a danger and can go wrong, but we accept those risks. But why would I change and certainly why would I change into a direction that might become more complicated, especially more complicated for me as the provider having to change the whole way I do things? Because let's be honest, we're people. We might not really like change especially if we've been doing something the same way for a really long period of time. So I definitely also got this pushback from maybe the people who felt challenged by that and who came back to me with even some threats. I don't even know. It was sort of ridiculous and if you weren't in a really serious board meeting, I would have laughed at these people who were coming to me claiming wildly with no evidence behind it things like, “You're going to kill women doing this.” What? What? Where is that coming from? And then the other really one that did actually make me laugh out loud, I certainly got one threat if you like or they thought it was a threat. They said, “But once you do it once, that woman is going to tell her friends and she's going to put it on her Facebook and you're going to get other people asking for this.” I went, “But that's the point.” That is why I want to do it. Meagan: You want to make this change. That is what we are doing. Dr. Natalie: So yeah, I thought that was funny, but that's definitely not where they were coming from with that. Anyway, that is what happened so they were right. Meagan: They were totally right. Here we are. All of us are totally in here loving it and wanting to talk to you about it because you are willing to. Like we were saying earlier, it's sad to know that so many people are so closed-minded. “Oh, well if you do this, then it's going to get it.” It's like, well yeah. We're not doing this as a secret. I'm not going through all of this to keep it a secret. We want to make this change. We want to make Cesarean birth better. My slogan is “Make Birth After Cesarean Better”, but to be really honest, sometimes our VBACs don't end up going exactly as planned, or maybe we decide in the end that we want a scheduled Cesarean, so let's have a healing experience, a beautiful experience and let's incorporate these moms as you are doing because it's truly going to make a difference. I don't know how many of these you have done, but I would be so curious to start learning what it does for the postpartum period, where it's taking us in postpartum, and how we are viewing these births. So many of these people that I talk to, and you can only imagine, have had very traumatic Cesareans, very terrible experiences, ones that they truly have to process and work through before they can even fall pregnant again. It makes me wonder with this even if it is a Cesarean and even if it wasn't desired, in what ways would it change our view? Have you had a lot of people talking about their experience of how they are viewing this? What are your patients saying?Dr. Natalie: I would really love to be able to do, if I had time in the world, to do an in-depth study basically of what the feedback was from all of the families that so far have had this procedure, this maternal or paternal or whatever you want to call it assisted Cesarean. Certainly, one thing I know for a fact is that I definitely have never had anybody come back to me after they have done this and complained or actually had any concerns. I have not had anybody ever come back saying, “Oh, yeah. Well, maybe next time I won't do that” or “I wish I hadn't done that.” Nobody has ever said that. It has definitely always been a really positive experience for them. Some families and mothers are only having their first baby and doing it this way, so perhaps they don't have anything to compare it to but that doesn't matter. What they know from this experience has been that it was really empowering for them and that it achieved a lot of the things that they would be imagining from a vaginal birth anyway. And then I've had all the way up to somebody having her fifth Cesarean and her four previous Cesareans had been with other providers and had not been any kind of maternal-assisted Cesarean. In particular, her fourth Cesarean before she came to me was a really difficult, traumatic experience for her because of things that happened at that time. This was an unplanned pregnancy, so this wasn't meant to happen in the first place, but happy about it and accepting it for sure. She was acknowledging that certainly she was going to have a fifth Cesarean. So she came to me and we performed this maternal-assisted Cesarean. We had spent an extensive period of time talking about what all of the very specific things that had been difficult for her in her previous Cesareans and how we could overcome that and what we could do differently this time around. She has this fifth Cesarean which she then says is so dramatically different from all of the other experiences that she had and so healing for her that she could now say in retrospect she hadn't even processed perhaps how difficult the other Cesareans had been until she had this experience where she could now see the difference. She's like, “Now, I can actually rest happy that this was my final baby now. The fifth one, we're done. We're taking permanent measures.” But this then was so healing for her that she can rest on the knowledge that this is her lasting impression of what birth is now, that it was this rather than the previous one in particular that had actually been really, really difficult. She had the insight to say that even the postpartum bonding period with her baby was so impacted by the difference in her Cesarean experiences that yes, she knew this baby from the very beginning. She got to be the first person to put hands on her baby. She got to have that immediate skin-to-skin with her baby and that uninterrupted bonding time. It often takes the women by surprise, perhaps they haven't thought about these details but they often will say things like, “Whoa. This baby's warm and slippery and wet.” I'm like, “Yes, of course, it is warm and slippery and wet. I don't know what you were imagining otherwise.” But that hadn't been their experience before because previously, the first way that they had experienced their baby was only after the providers had dried off the baby and wrapped it up in a blanket and maybe now given it to them, so they've only got the view of this little face and all they've gotten is “I can touch your cheek” kind of deal. So yeah, it has taken them by surprise that it turns out when you first lay hands on your baby, it's warm and wet and slippery. Meagan: It's kind of crazy though. I had the same thought. With my VBAC, I pulled him up from my vagina and pulled him onto my chest and he was. I was like, “Am I going to drop him because he's so slippery?” Before, I was strapped to the table and didn't really get that. So it is. It's such a different feeling and you wouldn't think about those little details being dramatic, but they are going to leave an impression. So how can we as listeners and people who are going for a VBAC, or maybe just a scheduled Cesarean, maybe going for a VBAC which ends in Cesarean, are there any tips you can give, or is there anything that we can start doing, especially if the hospital is not doing what yours is doing, to try and get this going like your patient did? If any providers are out there listening, do you have any tips for anybody?Dr. Natalie: I think it definitely can be achievable to make a change in the space of your own pregnancy, but perhaps start that early. So perhaps if you knew that a Cesarean was the way that you were going to go, start that conversation early with your care provider to say, “Okay, well if it's a Cesarean, can we make it look like this?” Perhaps it's not necessarily going to be to that extent of the maternal-assisted Cesarean because that does take all sorts of hoops to jump through and it will take time. I was incredibly– I don't know if luck is the right word, but in a privileged position to make those changes in the space of only a few months in my hospital to introduce this new policy and to be able to achieve it for that one woman who had asked for it. But I know that for a lot of hospital workers trying to change policy usually takes much, much, much longer than that. But it's got to start somewhere. So if you as a mother are wanting to make that change, it is possible, but if it's not going to work in your pregnancy journey, you could still be a voice for future mothers if you start the process at some point. It's got to start somewhere. The really easy first start is to start talking to your care provider. Just say, “This is what I want it to look like in whichever way it may be a maternal-assisted Cesarean, or let's lower the curtain down so I can see the baby emerging from my uterus.” Perhaps because I think a lot of care providers are going to take the easy way out and say, “No, you can't do that because we don't do that here.”The next step in that conversation to ask gently is, “Why can't we do that?” I say gently and I don't mean that you should be pleading or begging, but confrontation often doesn't achieve what you want it to achieve, so just have an actual, sensible conversation with your care provider. So if they come back and they say, “No, you can't do that,” then perhaps you can say, “Why can't we do that?” to actually find out what the legitimate reasons are if there is a legitimate reason because if the answer is, “Well, we don't have a policy for that,” then you can ask the next one.Meagan: How do we create one?Dr. Natalie: Exactly. How do we go about creating a policy? If the answer is something like, “My belief is that it's going to increase maternal infection,” then you can come back and say, “Is there evidence for that? Can you show me the evidence for that?” because I actually don't believe that there is any evidence for that. Whatsoever the answer might be, just keep the conversation rolling so that hopefully at some point, there might be this little click in the care provider's mind that says, “Oh, well maybe you're right. Maybe this is a legitimate question to ask and possibly I could maybe even be that change in this woman's life.” Maybe again, perhaps not. Maybe that care provider is still just not going to be open to change and not willing to make that personal effort that it takes, so if you're in the position of having different care providers or you have the ability to request a different care provider, then go to the next person and ask the same question. Maybe again, this is not perhaps going to achieve it in your pregnancy journey so to speak, but if then I as a care provider have multiple people coming to ask me the same thing, I would think that at some point, there's going to be a realization where I say, “Huh.”Meagan: This is desired. This is desired.Dr. Natalie: Exactly. Because if there is that desire, then maybe it is worthwhile actually making that effort to make a change. If I also believe this because I think it does take this understanding on the care provider's behalf to have that insight to say, “Actually, this is an important thing to do for our women and their families.” It takes an open mind for that, so maybe you're not going to get that with the first care provider, but ask for another one and just keep going. Meagan: And just keep going. Yeah, because the more that it is asked like you said, the more it's going to be in our heads as a provider and then maybe a provider one day is going to say, “Okay. Let's look into this.” Dr. Natalie: Yeah. You can always ask to go up that chain of command so to speak as well. If the obstetricians themselves are perhaps not able to change, then you can ask that question of, “Can I get the contact details of who the clinical director would be?” or perhaps what the titles are of the people in the hospital who are in charge of making that change. So just go up the pipeline. You can do that as a consumer. You can directly approach the director or in my case at the private hospital, the CEO. Just write them an email. Don't knock on their door, but gently ask in an email, “Perhaps is this something that we can work on?” And it is happening. All of those countries that I've said have come back to me and said, “We were able to achieve this for the first time in our country,” a lot of the time, that started with the patient herself asking her care provider and then hopefully meeting a care provider who is amendable to that challenge and who will take up with that in themselves. They're going to be more powerful going up that pipeline to make change happen. It's possible. It is possible. It is happening. Meagan: It is. It is happening. Your page has all of the proof. Dr. Natalie: Yeah. They're not fake videos. I don't have time for that. Meagan: Fake videos, I know. Like I said, it just makes me sad that people would even question that they are fake. Okay, we've talked about your journey of how this happened and now this is how we as consumers– I love how you said that we are consumers. We are really in a place where we can implement this. We can get things going and that's simply just by putting the idea in a provider's mind. I love that so much. You recently posted an introduction of yourself and something that stood out to me is in your post, you talked about, “What if we do nothing? What if we change the care and stop intervening and do nothing?” Then you prefaced it with, “I don't mean literally doing nothing, but I'm meaning continuously supporting, loving, educating, and empowering.” It really resonates with me. I love that so much. I love your words in that post. In fact, we will link it in the show notes so everyone can find it really easily. It's just beautiful and I love what you're doing. I really love it so much. I can't even tell you how grateful I am. Like you said, we are a VBAC podcast. I am doing these Cesarean episodes. Yes. I would like to see the Cesarean rates go down substantially. That is a huge goal of mine in my personal life. I would love to see Cesarean birth percentages going down, but at the same time, I do understand that they are needed. They are desired and there is that to be said. One of the questions I was going to ask you before I let you go is a lot of these videos look very calm and very planned. Sometimes Cesareans aren't calm or planned. Are there restrictions there, pre-restrictions that have to come into play before a maternal-assisted Cesarean delivery could happen? Dr. Natalie: Yeah. One thing I always definitely want to say because I've had this crisis myself as well going, “Am I getting known as a Cesarean doctor?” I don't want to. Meagan: I can see that. Dr. Natalie: I don't want to be that. I certainly don't want to become that person who then only does Cesareans and maternal-assisted Cesareans, but if a Cesarean is the right choice for the woman in her situation, then yes. Let's make it the best possible version of a Cesarean that it can be. That's the internal catchphrase that I say. Let's make every birth the best possible version of that birth that it can be. Whether or not that's a vaginal birth or whether or not that's a Cesarean or whether or not that's anything, a forceps, let's make it the best possible forceps that it can be. Okay, that's not on the top of the list of whatever you want to plan for, but if it's going to be that, then let's make it the best possible version of that that we can be. So yes. In a Cesarean situation, how can we make that calm– I mean not even calm, right? It's about that connection. It's about the instant connection of the mother and her baby, so how can we try to achieve that where she can be this integral part of her own birth rather than it being that she is a patient having an operation? It's about changing that viewpoint. I think that there are then so many little elements of that that we can achieve that even if it's not necessarily straight up to the maternal-assisted part, that there are so many other steps that can be important that we can do without necessarily having her scrubbed and putting gloves on and putting her hands in her belly. Let's lower the curtain. Let's do direct skin-to-skin. Let's do delayed cord clamping. Let's not take the baby away from the mother. All of those things can still be achieved as well perhaps even and mostly still very achievable in an emergency Cesarean situation. We use the word emergency Cesarean a little bit willy-nilly because it's not often an actual emergency. Meagan: Yes. I love that you pointed that out. But sometimes when we use that emergency word, it triggers people and they think that it was a life-saving thing, so I love that you said that. We have a lot of people say, “Oh, we had an emergency C-section.” I'm like, “Oh, what was the reason for your C-section?” “I didn't dilate past a 3 for a few hours, so we walked down to the OR.” That wasn't an emergency C-section. Dr. Natalie: I think in our hospital, and I know most other hospitals in Australia have a very similar classification system, but we either call it an elective Cesarean meaning that it's planned and booked well in advance, or if it's an unplanned Cesarean, it gets called an emergency Cesarean. But we have then six different categories of how we classify how urgent that emergency Cesarean is, but they all then come under the banner of an emergency Cesarean. A category 5 is that it just needs to be done within the next 24 hours. It's still called an emergency Cesarean, but clearly, if we're happy to wait 23 and a half hours, it's clearly not that urgent. But it still gets called an emergency C-section. Yeah. There's a very wide degree of how urgent an emergency Cesarean might be. So yes. At my hospital where I am able to do maternal-assisted Cesareans because I'm not at all of the hospitals that I work at, but at the one where I am able to do it at, at the moment, our policy is written in such a way that it is only for these planned, elective Cesareans. That's got to do with a whole range of factors. It's got to do with me being able to prepare the woman and her family ahead of time to know what this is going to look like. We go through all of those nuances of how she is, for example, going to become sterile because it is still an operation, so we do need to actually play by those rules to make sure that it is safe. I often get questions or comments on my maternal-assisted Cesarean videos saying, “Oh, isn't it a shame that she's got gloves on? If it was truly a bonding experience, she would touch her baby without gloves.” I go, “Yes, absolutely. That would be really, really nice.” Of course, it would be preferable to be able to grab her baby with her bare hands, but we have to keep in mind that this is still actually an operation, so from that perspective of we need to keep it safe for her, yes. She needs to have gloves on. I can't see a way around that at this point in time. Once the baby is out of her, once the baby is on her chest, once the baby is not in that sterile field so to speak, then of course, take the gloves off. She can touch her baby straightaway. That's what you'll see in those videos is that I often then lower her gown down so that she can put her baby directly onto her skin, onto her chest and then I'd be very happy for her to take her gloves off. They often just don't in that instant because they are holding their baby and they don't want to move from that moment. Part of the reason why it's currently only getting performed in an elective Cesarean situation is that pre-preparation where I've told her all of these rules of maintaining sterility so that she doesn't inadvertently break any of those rules. She has to follow the same rules that I as the operating surgeon have to. We go through the same handwashing process. There is a little technique to putting on the gowns and the gloves and whatnot. Meagan: Yep. I've seen it. Dr. Natalie: Yeah, you'll see it. Hands up in the air. Meagan: They get their hands up in the air and everything goes on. The gloves go on. Yeah. Dr. Natalie: Exactly. She can't then touch anything after that point that's not sterile. It's all of that pre-preparation and it's the pre-preparation of what it is going to look like and what it's going to feel like for her to put her hands on that wet, warm, slippery baby and to be able to lift it out of her. I get that if she starts to lift and she's like, “I can't do it. It's stuck.” You have to be reasonably firm because I try to make hopefully only a small enough hole that you can get the baby out, but it's not hip to hip so it's a little bit of a squeeze. But yep, pop it out. Meagan: That was a question I wanted to ask you. Since you've been doing this, have you seen any special scar situations with a mother assisting meaning any extensions, J's, or anything like that?Dr. Natalie: No, I haven't. I really haven't. Again, that's a question that we get. I get the question from people. I think this comes from their previous expectations of what they're being told perhaps in previous Cesareans that isn't it going to damage her abdominal muscles if she sits up like that? If she's reaching and grabbing? She's lifting her head up. People have told me before that in their previous Cesareans, they've been very much guided to not lift their heads up. In fact, I've had people tell me from other countries in particular that not only were their arms strapped down to the table but their head was strapped to the table as well. Meagan: I've heard that as well. Dr. Natalie: So they can't move their head and they have a system where they have to lie down flat for six hours after a Cesarean so that they still can't lift their head up or sit up for hours after the Cesarean because of this idea of things like a spinal puncture headache. I don't even know what those rules are because they don't make any sense to me. But if that's what people's experiences have been, then, of course, that's why they are questioning the validity or the safety when they see then what I'm doing that they themselves might think that this is dangerous. But no, there's no abdominal muscle trauma in excess of what a Cesarean does anyway. No, there's no risk to women of lifting their heads up off of the table. There's no risk to women of bending so to speak and lifting their baby up at the same time as a Cesarean. Yes, it can be a little bit more difficult because of course, they are anesthetized, but we are there still. She is not going to drop this baby. I'm still very much within catching range, supporting range and you might see on some of these that yes, I do still give her that helping hand to pop its bottom out, but once she's got that baby, you can just then watch their faces. You watch those videos and sometimes blur out the rest of the stuff that's going on, and just watch her face. It's really powerful to watch her have this, first of all, maybe this anxiety that's building. That would be an obvious response. Here she is lying down for this operation and then we lower those curtains and there's this wonderment of what this is going to be and then she touches her baby, and then she lifts it up. There's that moment of pure joy on her face every single time. Often, you'll see the tears that come with that too. It's just powerful. That's what birth should be like every single time. Just because it's now in an operating theater, that doesn't mean that we can't achieve all of those same things. Meagan: Right, yeah. Dr. Natalie: We might as well stop after that, right? Meagan: I love that. I love that. One day, I'm thinking, okay. I totally get that. You have to pre-prep and talk about this in a planned situation. I hope that maybe one day the conversation can be had in prenatal appointments where it's like, “Hey if you don't have a vaginal birth or if you don't have a VBAC or are a first-time mom, there are these options. Here, sign this form if you would like to be educated on this, and let's educate. Assuming it's all calm and it's not a true emergent baby out in seconds, but a very calm decision where everyone is making their way to the OR, maybe we can start implementing it there too because I do know for sure it would be so healing in so many ways for all of these moms that maybe wanted a VBAC and didn't have their VBAC.”Dr. Natalie: For sure. I think that's so true. I am definitely like that where I'm constantly pushing the boundaries at my hospital. That's where I next want to take it because as I said in my policy, it's written that this can only be performed on elective C-sections and I wrote that policy. That's a shame. If I could go back, I would take that out. I mean, it's got to be that way to start off with because we did want to do this in a really controlled way because we were introducing a new technique, but now that we've seen it and all of the reasons that we believed we would need all of this extra time to be able to plan for this, now that we've done enough of them that we're all practiced and experienced at them, it literally maybe takes an extra five minutes to the time of the operation just to get it ready.So there's no particular reason that I can see that we then couldn't achieve that same sort of thing for the vast majority of unplanned Cesareans as well. That would be a game changer because obviously, the unplanned Cesarean is in particular where the woman might come out traumatized at the other end if she's not getting what she was aiming for. Meagan: Yeah, absolutely. Dr. Natalie: Wouldn't that be powerful if we could still make it then the best possible version of the emergency Cesarean that we could do?Meagan: Absolutely. Well, I want to be conscious of your time. I know that you've been up all night for multiple nights on call doing the amazing things you do. I would love to leave with– since it is a VBAC podcast, is there anything that you would like to share about VBAC or anything cool that you've seen or anything that you've been implementing with VBAC or any tips or anything as a provider who is making a change in birth in general? I do want to focus on that. I don't personally see you as the Cesarean birth provider. Dr. Natalie: Great. Meagan: That's one of the reasons why I just think that you are amazing. I do think that is an amazing thing that you have done because you have started something that is really tricky. It's a really tricky thing and you've started it. That's where we start making changes just to start but I see all of your other posts too. I see all of your beautiful, amazing posts. I mean, I'm pretty sure you just shared a home birth after a Cesarean video. Dr. Natalie: The HBAC, right?Meagan: Yes, the HBAC. A lot of providers even in a hospital setting would be like, “Nope. Big no-no. That is terrible,” and you're still out there sharing it. You're still out there educating. Is there anything else you'd like to share for VBAC?Dr. Natalie: Yeah. I think that's right. I definitely am still very, very much in support of basically every woman being able to be empowered and informed to make the best possible choices for her in the situation that she's facing because whilst yes, aiming for a VBAC is a really lofty goal, sometimes that isn't going to be the best possible choice for her in whatever situation for whatever reason that might be. So yeah, number one is always having enough information being given to you or that you're finding out yourself that you are equipped to make a decision and probably multiple decisions that feel right for you. That's difficult sometimes, I think, to know where to go for that information, so thank goodness for places like The VBAC Link that can actually give you appropriate medical advice, research, and the studies and the actual, accurate information so that it's not just fear-based information that's getting thrown your way. Meagan: Yes. Dr. Natalie: And then it's about always advocating for yourself which is unfortunate that it has to become that way, but the hospital system, in particular, is a fear-driven,  litigation, consent place so you're often not necessarily going to get that unbiased opinion on what your choices are. You probably are going to have to go to external places to get that information, but then you just have to be really careful about where you're going for that information. Trust your sources. Also, my other tip is always going to be about looking at that whole birth mapping thing. So, okay yes. We are going to aim for a VBAC. For example, that might be your choice, but what if X happens? Then what's going to be my choice in that situation? If Y happens, then where am I going to diverge now and what's going to be my choice in that situation? We know that a lot of birth trauma comes from a situation that wasn't prepared for. The woman comes back at the other side and says, “Well, I just didn't consider that that could have happened to me,” so the unexpected or unplanned thing that happened is perhaps where a lot of birth trauma can come from. Having that fine line between considering all possibilities but not needing to dwell on those scary ones. There are fear-based ones, but knowing what if you then need a hospital transfer? What if you need a Cesarean? What are your choices going to be in that situation? So that you can continue to make it the best possible version of that now that you can possibly make it. Meagan: Yeah. I love that. It's something that a lot of our followers will say when they had their initial Cesarean. “It was traumatic because it wasn't even in my mind. It wasn't even a thought that that was a possibility” or “I was so focused on this birth plan, this one route that I wanted to go and then it did diverge and it diverged completely over here and it threw me for a loop and now I'm processing.” I love that just in general for anyone going in to have a baby. Even with a planned Cesarean, we want to have an open mind because birth takes weird turns sometimes. Having an open mind and having all of your ducks in a row and having the education because you may not ever get there, but if it's there, it's going to help you if it comes. So I love that. I love that tip. Thank you. Dr. Natalie: Yeah. Meagan: Okay, well thank you so much for sharing how you have got this implemented and how it started, and how we as people can try to implement it in our lives and in our cities, states, and countries because we have people listening from all over the world. I love hearing that it is slowly creeping out there and having it put in place. Thank you for all that you do, for your hard work, and for your support in all types of birth that you support. I really do. I just appreciate your time so much. Dr. Natalie: You are very, very welcome. I am always keen and passionate to of course continue to advocate for change wherever we can. I'll always give a little shoutout and say if you are a pregnant woman or a provider considering this as a change and you need a place to start, you can very much reach out to me via Instagram. You can send me a DM and I can email you information like the policy and some information that I've generated that may be able to help you along in your journey as well. I'm very open to that. Meagan: Awesome. Thank you so much. Dr. Natalie: You're welcome. Thanks, guys. ClosingWould you like to be a guest on the podcast? Tell us about your experience at thevbaclink.com/share. For more information on all things VBAC including online and in-person VBAC classes, The VBAC Link blog, and Meagan's bio, head over to thevbaclink.com. Congratulations on starting your journey of learning and discovery with The VBAC Link.  Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-vbac-link/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

In this episode I talk to obstetrician Dr Natalie Elphinstone. Dr Elphinstone is an Obstetrician working on the south coast of Australia. She has witnessed the birth of over 1500 babies and believes in supporting women and families to make individual choices that feel right for them. And if that choice involves a caesarean section, then she's a keen advocate for making that the best possible version of a caesarean birth it can be! Her videos of Maternal and Partner Assisted Caesareans have gone viral on Instagram, prompting discussions with healthcare providers all around the world, and inspiring no less than at least 5 other countries to follow her lead so far. We talk about what a maternal assisted caesarean is and why you may want one, how they're done and how to advocate with your obstetrician to have one if they haven't done one before. You can find Dr Natalie on instagram at @drnatalieelphinestone where you can find lots of amazing videos of her caesareans. Disclaimer: The information and provided on this podcast does not, and is not intended to, constitute medical or legal advice; instead, all information available on this site are for general informational purposes only. We reserve the right to supplement, change or delete any information at any time. The information and materials on the podcast is provided "as is"; no representations are made that the content is error-free. Whilst we have tried to ensure the accuracy and completeness of the information we do not warrant or guarantee the accurateness. All liability with respect to actions taken or not taken based on the content of the podcast are hereby expressly disclaimed. Your use of content contained in or linked to this podcast is entirely at your own risk. The Better Birth podcast accepts no liability for any loss or damage howsoever arising out of the use or reliance on the content.

Dr Eloise Elphinstone is the GP we all wish we'd had at our six-week check. A mum of two and a specialist in women's health, she's passionate about improving the quality of postnatal healthcare mothers receive. In this episode, she speaks to journalist Rosie Taylor about why her own birth experiences fuelled her interest in this field, how women can make the most of their six-week checks - and what needs to change to improve the health service for mums everywhere. You can follow Dr Elphinstone on Instagram: @the_womenshealth_gp and on Twitter: @EloiseElphinst1. You can also book a private appointment with her in person via the Menopause Care clinic in London. The postnatal health information leaflet that she wrote for the Family Planning Association is available here (you may need to register first but it's free to download).On the Mother Bodies podcast, Rosie is on a mission to find out why postnatal health is still so overlooked and to uncover the biases and inequalities which mean women so often don't get the care, support or treatment they need after having a baby. She speaks to fascinating guests about their personal stories of recovery after birth, how the politics of postnatal health affects us all - and the big ideas which could change mothers' lives for the better.www.motherbodies.comInsta: @motherbodiesTwitter: @motherbodies Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Leigh Elphinstone, Chair of the TFGA Simplot Potato Grower Committee

We asked for a response, and we got it. Energy, intensity, pressure were all there as we threw everything, including the Sinc (get it?!) to knock off the Blues on their home deck. Plus we're joined by 80's stalwart Robert Elphinstone to talk though his 157-game St Kilda Football Club career in a period of really dark times for the club. Catch all our video interviews on the https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgturW0AMoA-biMrEEiabdg (Unpluggered YouTube) and make sure to follow Unpluggered on https://twitter.com/unpluggered (Twitter), https://facebook.com/unpluggered (Facebook), and https://instagram.com/unpluggeredpodcast (Instagram) to stay connected with the podcast and all things St Kilda Football Club. Special thanks to Lloyd Spiegel for the use of his track as our theme song!

For our 1st ever episode I'm talking to Dr Natalie Elphinstone, a mother and 'mother centred' obstetrician & gynaecologist. Natalie is well known on Instagram for her maternal centred approach to her care, which is particularly unique when it comes to caesarean births.Dr Natalie practices in Australia, in  the Mornington Peninsula area. She grew up on a farm in rural Victoria before moving to the city to study medicine.Since graduating in 2005, Natalie has played an active role in teaching and mentoring the next generation of medical students, specialist trainees and obstetric GP's. She also enjoys supporting patients privately where she feels she can offer an even greater level of personalised care.Natalie is passionate about empowerment. She believes in offering an individualised care plan alongside each person and their support team. Today we get to know Natalie as a doctor and as a mum, what she's learned and what she is proud of. This episode is dedicated to my lovely doula client Zoe who birthed her baby abdominally on the day we recorded this show. It was a bit touch and go as to whether the recording would go ahead, but we managed to squeeze it in early morning for the Oz time difference too!Dr Natalie's website: https://www.drnatalieelphinstone.com.au/---This show is sponsored by The Mindful Birth Group® who provide birth, baby and postnatal preparation courses for expectant parents in-person and online. The unique courses are designed to bring calm and confidence to your experience by educating you on your options, what to expect and how to navigate unexpected turns. While sharing practical mindfulness tools and techniques to use for pregnancy, birth and beyond.Parents say that the group and private courses were everything they needed to prepare for this new chapter in their lives.You can see all of the course options and book a group, private or online self learning course here.

Photo:  The last stand of the 44th Foot, during the Massacre of Elphinstone's Army @Batchelorshow 4/4: #ClassicAnatolLieven: End of the Fourth Anglo-Afghan War. Anatol Lieven @QuincyInstitute. (Originally aired August 19, 2021.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Anglo-Afghan_War

Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: December 13th, 2021The Pragmatism of HubrisWe've been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour. Even though it's not (yet?) a feature of Twitter Spaces, we have been recording them all; here is the recording for our Twitter Space for December 13th, 2021.In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, speakers on December 13th included special guests Cliff Biffle and Steve Klabnik as well as Laura Abbott, Rick Altherr, James Tucker, Simeon Miteff and MattSci. (Did we miss your name and/or get it wrong? Drop a PR!)Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them: Hubris and Humility context tweet Cliff's written version of his Hubris talk Hubris Fervently Anticipated Questions FAQ [@8:07](https://youtu.be/cypmufnPfLw?t=487) Prehistory of Hubris, Cliff's story Project Loon wiki [@14:23](https://youtu.be/cypmufnPfLw?t=863) Did Cliff know what he wanted to build at Oxide? Tock embedded OS QNX Unix-like real-time OS [@17:55](https://youtu.be/cypmufnPfLw?t=1075) Laura on evaluating existing OS options [@22:03](https://youtu.be/cypmufnPfLw?t=1323) Alignment of values and goals with other projects Bryan's 2017 Platform as a Reflection of Values video ~30mins [@25:00](https://youtu.be/cypmufnPfLw?t=1500) Steve: convincing low-level people that they are allowed to have nice things RISC-V ROPI/RWPI Specification (Embedded PIC)Position-independent code wiki [@28:59](https://youtu.be/cypmufnPfLw?t=1739) Secure FPGAs? Laura Abbott's Exploiting Undocumented Hardware Blocks in the LPC55S69 write-upAnd DEF CON talk with Rick Altherr [@32:20](https://youtu.be/cypmufnPfLw?t=1940) Early implementation, journal club Jonathan Shapiro 2003 Vulnerabilities in synchronous IPC designs paper Heiser and Elphinstone's L4 Microkernels: The Lessons from 20 Years of Research and Deployment paper [@37:20](https://youtu.be/cypmufnPfLw?t=2240) Microkernels. Mach L4 microkernel family wiki Jochen Liedtke Bryan decides not to go to graduate school Fuchsia OS [@51:09](https://youtu.be/cypmufnPfLw?t=3069) Origin of Humility. Debugging  Tockilator Semihosting [@1:03:15](https://youtu.be/cypmufnPfLw?t=3795) Archive files, self-descriptive binaries, debugging [@1:10:33](https://youtu.be/cypmufnPfLw?t=4233) CORRECTION Windows does have a package manager: Windows Package Manager was released May 13, 2020 [@1:14:15](https://youtu.be/cypmufnPfLw?t=4455) Build tools and build systems cargo xtask [@1:18:59](https://youtu.be/cypmufnPfLw?t=4739) DWARF  Ada language [@1:25:01](https://youtu.be/cypmufnPfLw?t=5101) Tock: Rust kernel, C userspace  IDL Ozymandias [@1:32:28](https://youtu.be/cypmufnPfLw?t=5548) build.rs build scripts  Simeon's story, code generation Software-hardware codesign [@1:52:14](https://youtu.be/cypmufnPfLw?t=6734) Conway's law [@1:54:30](https://youtu.be/cypmufnPfLw?t=6870) Diagnosing problems, failing tasks, formatting error messages Joe Rozner and Rick Altherr getting Hubris and Humility running on a STM32, tweet from Dec 1, and video ~2hrs If we got something wrong or missed something, please file a PR! Our next Twitter space will likely be on Monday at 5p Pacific Time; stay tuned to our Twitter feeds for details. We'd love to have you join us, as we always love to hear from new speakers!

Have you been feeling like your life is on auto-pilot? Then consider this conversation a stop sign. Or if you've ever struggled with FOMO, then be sure to listen to this episode as Dr. Brad Elphinstone shares how his brain surgery at the age of 18 helped him appreciate the risks we all face of feeling like we missed out on our own lives.  Based in Melbourne, Dr. Brad Elphinstone shares his insights that will help you better understand how varied our interpretation of human experiences can be no matter how common they are. Our discussion today focuses on three main topics – self-determination, equanimity, and non-attachment, which all can have life-long implications that will allow you to stop living on auto-pilot and never miss out on the things that truly matter to you.  Be sure to take this episode to heart and get some actionable guidance by picking up your free copy of my Courage Makerspace (™) Playbook on www.melissallarena.com/courage. It will help you boost your courage in 7 days' time. If you currently find yourself in a rut then take the plunge. I've paired up some of my best podcast episodes with personal development tools to help you reflect on your intrinsic ambitions. You have the personal autonomy necessary to change your life! Share this with someone who could use more self-compassion.  Whilst many of us are portraying an Instagram life, the reality is that a lot of us have similar insecurities that may have surfaced, particularly during this pandemic.   About Dr. Brad Elphinstone  Dr. Brad Elphinstone is a lecturer in Psychology at the Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia. Since 2018, his research has focused on mindfulness and related concepts such as nonattachment and equanimity. This research fits within and extends on the rapidly growing psychological literature on mindfulness, showing that being able to ‘let go' and maintain a balanced approach to all things in life – whether good or bad – is an important part of being adaptable, and supports the psychological conditions needed for optimal motivation and wellbeing.  Highlights Creativity: Applying the notion of equanimity to your life, be creative and think beyond possible reasons for someone's actions or words. What else might that person be grappling with? Could there be other ways of looking at a particular statement that was said to you?  Curiosity: Bringing in the concept of non-attachment, be curious about your intentions. Are you just being driven by your ego in pursuit of some end goal? What happens if you don't meet an end goal? How might you define success in another way?  Courage: By becoming more mindful, you will feel more secure about yourself. But it requires bravery to be vulnerable enough to confront your insecurities. Self-determination: This theory suggests there are three basic psychological needs: autonomy, competence, and relatedness with others. When these are satisfied, we feel motivated and we're at an optimal level of well-being. Autonomy: Autonomy means having a certain level of freedom. But living in civilization, we can't always be free to do whatever we want whenever we feel like it. There are rules, laws, and social norms that dictate civil behavior.  Relatedness: We've lost that freedom that provides autonomy because we were stuck at home in front of computers all the time.  Nature: People just across the board have really been struggling. But there's research showing that being out in nature helps people score higher on these three basic needs.  Aspire: Focus more on intrinsic aspirations, self-acceptance, and what you think is important, rather than getting caught up with extrinsic aspirations and the materialistic stuff such as image, wealth status. Internal shift: We can help support autonomy, competence, and relatedness just by shifting what you choose to focus on and why you choose to focus on it.  Harm: Social media is notorious and part of the problem, especially with young people. There's a big increase in hospitalizations for self-harm and suicide attempts that correspond with this increase in social media use, partly out of the insecurity it can create.  Insecurity: People are cultivating this ideal life that they're projecting through social media, and people look at it and think they're missing out or something is wrong with them. Social connection: Get yourself embedded in a community, a family, a group of friends, or whatever feels right for you. Freedom: There's no one way to say to someone what you have to do to be more autonomous. But that general principle of autonomy is that at the surface level, it's about having freedom of choice. Authenticity: You might think you have to do something because other people will approve of you more if you do it. But if it doesn't speak to you, just get rid of it.  Motivation: The deeper level of autonomy is trying to find meaning in things. At one end of the spectrum, there's motivation, where there's nothing driving what you're doing. The other end is intrinsic motivation, where things are just inherently motivating. Meditation: Meditation is a microcosm for this ever-changing, uncontrollable flow of life. When you're meditating, your mind could wander off and you think about work or what needs to be done. But don't judge yourself negatively for it or criticize yourself.  Non-attachment: This is a related skill where you're not trying to cling to or push away any aspect of your experience. That could be ideas, memories, objects, relationships. And you're not putting an undue level of emotional weight onto anything. Insecurity: People who are more mindful and more non-attached are less materialistic because the they are less insecure. Insecurity is it's low self-esteem. It's the fear of missing out and judging yourself negatively. Detachment: If you're not clinging on to certain goals and you're not aspiring to certain things, then what's the point of doing anything? Then you get into that nihilistic abyss of nothing matters and nothing's important. This is a fine line to walk. Suffering: The Buddhist theory suggeststs that attachments lead to suffering, when what we want fails to align with what actually happens.  Failure: When you're non-attached, failure is not a bad thing. It doesn't mean you're giving up or that nothing matters. It's just that you don't have to cling so tightly to a particular outcome that it becomes the only thing that matters. Equanimity: It's a balanced reaction to anything that happens, whether it's positive, negative, or neutral. Equanimity is measured in terms of experiential acceptance.  Mindfulness: Everyone has the capacity to be mindful. Different people just require more training than others. The first step is to just be in the present moment. Links to continue to learn from: Website: https://www.swinburne.edu.au/research/our-research/access-our-research/find-a-researcher-or-supervisor/researcher-profile/?id=belphinstone Twitter: @bradelphinstone FREE DOWNLOAD Want to grab your free copy of the Courage Makerspace (™) Playbook? Download the Courage Makerspace(™) here www.melissallarena.com/courage   Boost your courage in 7-days using the exact courage design tools that have worked for both me and my clients. Grab your free playbook instantly so that you can discover how to:   Figure out what makes you tick Be more accountable and not procrastinate Overcome imposter syndrome Stop caring about what others think Progress despite self-doubt Manage anxiety Ask for help You will have a step-by-step playbook to help you finally fulfill your life purpose! Do not miss out on this free opportunity as it will not be available for long. Love An Interview With Melissa Llarena podcast?  You can now support my time in producing the show with Patreon. If you find that the podcast inspires you and you'd like to help support this labor of love, please consider supporting me on Patreon for a couple of dollars per month. You'll get early access to my video-recorded episodes featuring unreleased guest insights; your name and/or business will be mentioned during an episode.  You'll also see how I have connected with powerful world leaders so that you can network more effectively in any field or help you pitch hard-to-reach guests on your own platform. Then if you are feeling extra generous for only $10/a month, you'll get everything previously mentioned plus be invited to my monthly LIVE 30-Minute “Ball Juggling” Group Calls where I'll field your business or work-life questions, podcast/guest questions, and share with you courage hacks and imaginative tips so you can feel sane, level-headed, and stay on track pertaining to your upcoming goals. Want to continue the conversation? Find me on Instagram! You can read my daily mini-blogs centered on the same three topics that my podcast features: creativity, courage, and curiosity. I believe that without all three it would be impossible to solve the challenges we were each uniquely made to solve. Wouldn't you agree? I'm easy to find on Instagram @melissallarena Rather keep it professional? Let's connect on LinkedIn. I encourage every single podcast listener to connect with me.

Contos folclóricos africanos são histórias coletadas por exploradores, governantes e missionários europeus, contadas por nativos. Elas revelam o folclore, crenças e códigos africanos. O conto “O rei e a árvore Juju” (1910) é um desses exemplos. Neste texto, o literato e folclorista nigeriano Elphinstone Dayrell (1869-1910) desenhou um conto de fadas que explora a moça bonita carregada para a terra dos mortos, por seu amado fantasma. Neste enredo, costuma aparecer a recompensa pela cortesia, que pode ser compreendido pelas oferendas em determinados momentos. Outra característica típica das lendas africanas é a repetição de um mesmo incidente, diante de personagens que agem com condutas diferentes. Assim como nas camadas do conto, na tradição religiosa e mística afro-brasileira, a árvore é um símbolo de conectividade entre os mundos imanente e transcendente. Neste caso, fazemos a leitura da árvore Ju Ju como o Baobá, a árvore símbolo das culturas africanas. Nesta país, a fitolatria (adoração por plantas) também faz parte das crenças e reflete nas lendas. Boa leitura! Apoie o Leitura de Ouvido: https://apoia.se/leituradeouvido Entre em contato: leituradeouvido@gmail.com Instagram e Facebook: @leituradeouvido Direção e narração: @daianapasquim Direção, edição, trilha de abertura e arte de capa: @lucaspiaceski Uma produção @rockastudios #contodefadas #africa #audiobook #audiolivro #podcastliterario #literatura

Welcome to episode one of Table Talk, a new series for On The Back Bar where we invite industry professionals to join us on the show and to chat about their roles and other various topics.  This episode we have Philip Augustin the Spirits Sales Director for Italasia, Gabriel Gliga the Beverage Manager for Soho Hospitality and Daniel Elphinstone the SEA Whisky Ambassador at Bacardi. Enjoy! Bottles: Se Busca Reposado Aberfeldy 12 & 20 Dewar's Illegal Smooth Mezcal Finish Links Philip Augustin Instagram  Daniel Elphinstone Instagram  Gabriel Gliga Instagram    ***** Join our community on Facebook! Beverage Network This podcast relies on our listeners to keep the show going! If you could support us by joining our Patreon it would really help this podcast grow. Patreon is a platform where you can support the podcast with a small monthly donation. This funding will help with all manner of things to equipment costs, editing and even getting some hard to reach people to sit down with me. Or you can just buy me a coffee to say thanks with the link below! :)  https://www.patreon.com/onthebackbar buymeacoffee.com/chrismenning                 ***** If you love our show would you please consider leaving us a review on iTunes or giving us 5 stars? It will really make a difference and help the podcast in the future. Head over to our website gastronomerlifestyle.com Contact me at christopher@gastronomerlifestyle.com

With 2 goals in 4 Scottish Cup appearances , Gavin Elphinstone has put in some impressive performances in the national competition for the club. We spoke to the former Turriff player following Saturday's three-nil first round win over Hill of Beath Hawthorn as he now finds himself tied with Angus Grant as the club's top scorer this season on 4 goals.

Super sub Gavin Elphinstone cut through the Lossiemouth defence in stoppage time to earn the applause from team mates and supporters alike with his first league goal for the club. We spoke to the 28 year old former Turriff United player as we bring you another exclusive audio interview.

Our 14th waterfowl featured guest, on our 30th episode, Donna McMahon explains to me that Gibson's and Sechelt are the main communities in her regional district. We chat about unrealistic expectations, those who move into rural areas for retirement and about the importance of asking questions with regards to available services. Water restriction, hospitals and the closest bus route being 1.5 km away to acess the handy dart. Many folks have driveways that these specialized buses cant turn around in, thus negating service delivery. I learned about highway 101, Pender harbour and the user groups of the BC transit bus or Langdale ferry system. We discussed hairy passes, steep stairs and areas with no shoulder, inaccessible bus stop due to deep ditches. Fire service and water supply come into play as part of a rural checklist because what might look suburban upon first glance can often be ripe with suprises of septic fields, private wells that dry out seasonally, no garbage pickup and deceiving mailing addresses. Small municipalities with dense populations on small footprints can often struggle with issues of adequately trained staff. We discuss our privileges, why training single mothers to be techicians for waste water treatment plants could lead to longer retention. Or how effective restorative justice projects are in small towns where things can get incredibly loud and too close to home. Also how 220 graduates could be insufficient to make post secondary education sustainable. Its an uphill battle to think about how to be invisible, avoid difficult, dangerous or frightening situations. How to best leaverage knowledge and negotiate safely. A delicate balance between citizen complaints, being tapped into non profit agencies and how diversity on the government level helps us not all make the same assumptions. Something she said that really stuck with me was that legislative requirements keep increasing and local governments are responsible without being in control.

This is a very special episode for me to share. Laura and I worked together on the National Theatre's "My Country; a work in progress" and I feel proud to call her a friend as well as a fellow actor. Laura has vast experiences in theatre, TV, and film, since our time at the National, she has worked on BBC's "Des", "Line of Duty", and HBO's "Chernobyl", and "Game of Thrones". She's also worked at the Bridge Theatre, and another production at the National, "Jane Eyre", in collaboration with the Bristol Old Vic. That's just a small handful of her incredible career to date! Laura talks about the experience of filming Chernobyl, her inspiration to become an actress, her experiences of making theatre from scratch, and how to keep going in such a tough industry. It was an utter privilege to listen to her and I'm so excited to share this with you! Instagram: goweroliver Spotlight Pin: 9097-9058-5261 Twitter: @GowerCritic --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/oliver-gower/message

Mr Dale Elphinstone is a true mining legend.  Mr Elphinstone talks to Michael Worthington about life, sharing wisdoms on running a business and thoughts on the success of the Mining Legends Project, An initiative driven by Worthington as Managing Director of Worthy Parts, which raised over $700,000 for charities that support the mining community. The project auctioned off a completely re-built CAT R2900G which is a machine Dale originally designed. Michael actually conducted this interview too which was fantastic, giving our resident host Glenney, a chance to sit back and enjoy Dale's amazing stories! Do yourselves a favour and go watch the full extended version too on our YouTube channel, you won't be disappointed. Dale is an incredibly interesting and inspiring man!  SUBSCRIBE to The Crib Room podcast on Apple, Spotify and Google Podcasts An Industry Link Media Production.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

As the Martians are going, quite frankly, feral, across the South West of England towards London, we continue with the account of the Narrator's Brother (still no name) and his escape from London.We also take a look at revolvers and the UK gun laws, how come so many folks in the book have 'em willy AND nilly?Joining us this week is the fantastic Bennet Kavanagh and Jen Ives.Bennet recently won the Audience Choice award at the Amused Moose New Comedy Award, and has created an ace song inspired by the chapter. He's also voicing the Narrator's Brother for this week.Jen Ives is a Leicester Mercury Nominated Comedian and is performed Mrs and Ms. Elphinstone.Follow Edy Hurst & The Podcast on Twitter, Instagram and FacebookFollow Bennet on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and Subscribe to his Podcast Character Building ExperienceFollow Jen Ives on Twitter, Instagram and Subscribe to her Podcast Peak Trans

This episode of Infamous Minds we take a look at another man in charge of a military regime that leads them to...death. Many followers were killed, and several others froze, or simply committed suicide! Tune in, and hear much more! Join the Patreon.com/Podculture for Exclusive Content! Thanks for listening! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

This week on Coast Reporter Radio: We meet an Elphinstone grad who’s working on her PhD and blogging about viruses, microbes and the science behind her research. BC Ferries is starting to resume some of the sailings that have been cut during the pandemic, and a resulting change in the Langdale schedule is not sitting well with Coasters. And, speaking of BC Ferries, the company continues to bleed red ink and it’s hoping for federal help. Show Notes: You can read Alex Cloherty’s Microbial Mondays blog, here: https://www.microbialmondays.com Look for our story about Alex online and in print in the coming days. Here’s our story on the pitch to have BC Ferries made eligible for the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy: https://www.coastreporter.net/news/local-news/ferry-association-makes-pitch-for-bc-ferries-to-get-wage-subsidies-1.24142645 Check out Coast Reporter’s COVID-19 news page: https://www.coastreporter.net/covid-19 The provincial government website for COVID-19 information and related services and supports: http://www.gov.bc.ca/covid Our local governments have also launched dedicated pages: Sechelt: https://sechelt.ca/Live/COVID-19-Municipal-Updates Gibsons: https://gibsons.ca/community/community-resources/covid-19/ Sunshine Coast Regional District: https://www.scrd.ca/covid-19-updates The BC Centre for Disease Control’s COVID-19 resources page: http://www.bccdc.ca/health-info/diseases-conditions/covid-19?utm_campaign=20200311_GCPE_AM_COVID_2_NOTIFICATION_BCGOV_BCGOV_EN_BC__NOTIFICATION

Managing Director Elphinstone Group Aust, Adam Elphinstone joined Glenney in the Crib Room, although there is a little surprise around the 10 minute mark.  This chat is about William Adams and what being part of the Cat brand means. We hear Adam talk about the future and also a bit more on Built to be Rebuilt strategy.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week on Coast Reporter Radio: Mayor Darnelda Siegers on how Sechelt is helping a new community effort to cope with COVID-19 and an Elphinstone grad climbs stairs to raise funds for health care after the pandemic puts his university studies on hold Show Notes: You can reach the Sunshine Coast Community Task Force via email at: scctaskforce@gmail.com Sophie Woodrooffe’s story about Patrick Swadden’s Denali climb: https://www.coastreporter.net/news/local-news/elphi-grad-climbs-stairway-to-denali-for-health-care-workers-1.24105193 And, a link to the charity it supported: https://www.canadahelps.org/en/pages/denali-in-a-day/ Coast Reporter’s COVID-19 news page: https://www.coastreporter.net/covid-19 The BC Centre for Disease Control’s COVID-19 resources page: http://www.bccdc.ca/health-info/diseases-conditions/covid-19?utm_campaign=20200311_GCPE_AM_COVID_2_NOTIFICATION_BCGOV_BCGOV_EN_BC__NOTIFICATION The provincial website for non-health related information and services: https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/safety/emergency-preparedness-response-recovery/covid-19-provincial-support Our local governments have also launched dedicated pages: Sechelt: https://sechelt.ca/Live/COVID-19-Municipal-Updates Gibsons: https://gibsons.ca/community/community-resources/covid-19/ Sunshine Coast Regional District: https://www.scrd.ca/covid-19-updates

Ep. 119 of Piffles Podcast presented by Dairy Queen on Elphinstone and Sask Drive is here! (We recorded BEFORE the Simoni Lawrence suspension, so bear with us). We share our thoughts on suspensions, the Riders QB situation, hear from Riders DE AC Leonard and Jeannine of the Mouchoir Podcast tees up the Redblacks game!

Episode 115 presented by Dairy Queen on Elphinstone and Sask Drive is out! Greg and Alex talk the latest Rider news from Training Camp, share thoughts on the CBA and rip on a REALLY bad take from a member of the media.

Hundreds of metres of fencing forms a sanctuary for some of Australia’s most vulnerable and critically endangered species. Yet how can we save Australia’s Greater Bilby, Regent Honeyeater and Plains-Wanderer from behind a fence? Andrew Elphinstone sheds light on ‘re-wilding’ and his most important conservation project yet as Taronga’s Manager of Conservation and Recovery Programs.

Trolling Bomber fans, Alex shares disgust over the WWE Hall of Fame, no more Johnny Football PLUS all the latest Riders news and a chat with CFL Commissioner Randy Ambrosie. Episode 110 presented by Dairy Queen on Elphinstone and Sask Drive in Regina is out!

Episode 99 is out! Presented by Dairy Queen on Elphinstone and Sask Drive in Regina, we recap the Riders win over the BC Lions 35-16 and sound off on the CFL, the refs and even trainers over the Zach Collaros situation.

Coast Reporter Radio episode 113: Sean, John and Sophie take a look at how the local elections are shaping up on the eve of the nomination period. And, we have interviews with five candidates: Brenda Rowe, who's running for a council seat in Sechelt. Terry Knight who's running in the SCRD's Halfmoon Bay. Lori Pratt, who's also running in Halfmoon Bay. Cathrine Fuller, the first candidate to come forward in Roberts Creek. And, Donna McMahon who is, so far, the only candidate for Area E - Elphinstone. Show Notes: Our story on Sechelt council candidate Brenda Rowe: https://www.coastreporter.net/news/local-news/brenda-rowe-to-run-in-sechelt-1.23409504 Our story on Terry Knight entering the race in Halfmoon Bay: https://www.coastreporter.net/news/local-news/terry-knight-to-run-in-halfmoon-bay-1.23409512 Our story on Halfmoon Bay candidate Lori Pratt: https://www.coastreporter.net/news/local-news/pratt-rules-out-school-board-run-focused-on-scrd-1.23414346 Our story on Roberts Creek candidate Cathrine Fuller: https://www.coastreporter.net/news/local-news/roberts-creek-gets-first-scrd-candidate-1.23414356 Our story on Donna McMahon’s decision to run in Elphinstone: https://www.coastreporter.net/news/local-news/donna-mcmahon-announces-candidacy-for-elphinstone-director-1.23408201

NL Hafta has gone behind the paywall, but we love our listeners. So, here's a little sneak peek into the complete episode where the Hafta gang discusses a range of issues including the stampede at Mumbai’s Elphinstone station, Left vs RSS battle in Kerala and Modi's speech about the Indian economy.Want more? Here's the full Hafta. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Taking the critiques of the Indian economy to task, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently said that the country’s economy was on track. In this episode of Hafta, Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande, Madhu Trehan, Atul Chaurasia and Raman Kirpal discuss Modi's address and ascertain whether there was something new to it or not. They also talk about the stampede at Mumbai’s Elphinstone station and fake news that published soon after the incident. They discuss Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath’s and BJP chief Amit Shah's visit to Kerala. The Hafta gang also discusses the truth behind the whole "Left Vs RSS" battle as well as Newslaundry's exclusive report on the intelligence documents that were leaked from Subhash Chandra's office. Also, listen up for the song dedication right at the end! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In the seventh of our new Glasgow Women’s Library podcasts, Margaret Elphinstone reads her work, We Thought We Would Change the World, and talks about the inspiration behind the work.