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Timestamps:(0:00) Introduction(00:38) What do the latest child poverty statistics say?(01:49) What was JRF's reaction to the stats?(03:09) Can we see an impact from Scottish Child Payment?(06:09) How do we achieve the 2030 targets from here?(09:24) Modelling of options to meet 2030 targets(12:57) What about cost?(19:27) How might UK Government proposed benefits changes impact poverty levels?(23:30) How will the changes impact Scotland's finances?(25:41) What happens in Scotland if the work capability assessment is replaced by the PIP assessment?(28:20) What's next for child poverty analysis at the FAI and JRF?

Join Abdul Qayyum Rashid, Raza Ahmed and Danayal Zia for Friday's show from 4-6pm where we will be discussing: “UK Poverty” and “Religions unified against hate” UK Poverty Poverty in the UK is rising, forcing many to choose between eating and heating. In 2022/23, 4.3 million children—30%—lived in low-income households, impacting their education. Larger families are also struggling with the two-child cap on benefits. Should this cap be lifted? Join us as we explore the effects of financial changes on people across Britain. Religions unified against hate Tommy Robinson's recent anti-Islam plans have drawn widespread concern, leading religious leaders from various faiths to unite in condemning his actions. This unified response highlights the importance of interfaith solidarity in countering hate and promoting peace in society. Guests: Peter Matejic - Chief Analyst at JRF, previously spent nearly 20 years in the Civil Service, leading poverty analysis and policy development at the Department of Work and Pensions, including work on persistent and child poverty measures. Rachel Walters - Manager of the End Child Poverty Colaition, a group of over 120 organisations committed to ending child poverty in the UK Ms. Sue Claydon - Chair of the Anglican Pacifist Fellowship and a Committee Member of the Week of Prayer for World Peace. Professor John Wolffe - Professor of Religious History at the Open University and has particular interests in understanding religious conflict and prejudice. Producers: Anila Syed Usman and Dania Nasir

My guest this week is someone who is both right at the edge of the emerging futures and in a position to exert leverage at some of the highest points of the scale at which change happens. Sophia Parker is the Emerging Futures Director at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, a philanthropic organisation with a long history of progressive work, aiming for social and cultural equity.  It is still committed to the research that sheds new light onto the nature and scale of poverty and injustice in the UK. It is still advocating for change and supporting the people who are making it happen - but newly it is supporting those who are at the leading edge of paradigm shift, exploring all the myriad ways we could break out of late stage capitalism and towards that more flourishing future our hearts know is possible. And there are so many ways - one of the many things I took on board from this conversation was the number of people and organisations around the world who are working in and expanding the radical spaces we've touched on recently with Indy Johar and then Alnoor Ladha and Lynn Murphy.  In her role as the Director of the Emerging Futures Programme, Sophia is working at the heart of the change, connecting ideas, exploring how best to support them in ways that will grow us forward and not just keep propping up the old system and the old narratives.  She's delving deeply into ways to change the narrative, the levels at which that happens, where are the tipping points in our culture and how do we support and entire ecosystem of transformation.  Near the top of the hour, we talked about hope and truly, I came away from this conversation a lot more hopeful than when we started. Bio:Sophia Parker was CEO of Little Village, the London-based charity she founded in 2016 that works to tackle child poverty. Now, she is the Emerging Futures Director at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, a philanthropic organisation with a long history of progressive work, aiming for social equity. The Emerging Futures programme was set up to imagine and grow radical new approaches to tackling poverty, in collaboration with partners and people with lived experience of poverty.Previously she has held senior leadership positions in think tanks and charities, as well as working in government locally and nationally, and was a Research Associate at Harvard's Kennedy School). Share your ideas for future Gatherings: https://accidentalgods.life/ideas-for-gatherings/ Sophia's Blog Emerging Futures at JRF - two years in, the story so far | JRFJoseph Rowntree Foundation https://www.jrf.org.uk/JRF Emerging Futures https://www.jrf.org.uk/society/emerging-futures/Little Village https://littlevillagehq.org/Geoff Mulgan Another World is Possible https://www.geoffmulgan.com/another-world-is-possibleMeg Wheatley - Two Loop theory  https://transformationallearningopportunities.com/two-loop-theoryEF/JRF Imagination Infrastructure Event https://www.imaginationinfrastructuring.com/imagination-infrastructure-initiatves/iievent-pw8gjThe Onion Collective: https://www.onioncollective.co.uk/The Onion Collective: Liminal economics paper - https://medium.com/onioncollective/liminal-economics-swimming-at-the-edge-of-the-economy-f16fb476daa4Centre for Public Impact https://www.centreforpublicimpact.org/europeCanopy https://www.canopy.si/Center for Economic Democracy https://www.economicdemocracy.us/York: New Constellations https://newconstellations.co/journey/york/Opus in Sheffield https://weareopus.org/CoLab Dudley https://dudleyhighstreet.uk/colab-dudley/SuperFlux https://superflux.in/Cassie Robinson Emerging Futures, Patterning the Emerging Horizon https://videos.theconference.se/cassie-robinson-emerging-futuresLankelly Chase https://lankellychase.org.ukThirtyPercy https://thirtypercy.org/Dimple Abichandani https://www.ncfp.org/people/dimple-abichandi/Nkem Ndefo https://lumostransforms.com/team/nkem-ndefo/

Jane Lo speaks with Dimitris Angelakis, Chief Scientist and Founder (AngelQ Quantum Computing), Principal Investigator, CQT (Centre for Quantum Technologies, Singapore).AngelQ Quantum Computing is a quantum software and consulting company based in Singapore. AngelQ builds architecture-agnostic quantum and quantum inspired software solutions ready for company deployment. Example industries it works with are market and consumer research, finance, energy and sustainability, and supply chain. Angelakis completed his PhD in quantum physics at Imperial College in 2002 and his thesis received the UK Institute of Physics Quantum Electronics Thesis Prize that year. Since then, he has been leading quantum computing research teams in Cambridge, Greece and Singapore. His research awards include the 2018 Google Quantum Innovation Award and the Valerie Myerscough Award from University of London.Dimitris G. Angelakis joined CQT in 2009 as a Principal Investigator after being a regular visitor and collaborator of the quantum group since 2003. He was born and raised in a small farm in Chania, Crete, Greece, where his childhood curiosity for the wonders of nature led him to study physics in the University of Crete in Heraklion. In 1998 he was offered a PhD position in quantum optics to work with Sir Peter Knight FRS at Imperial College London supported by the Greek State Scholarship Foundation. His PhD work in quantum light-matter interactions received the Valerie Myerscough prize in 2000, and also the Institute of Physics UK prize in 2002. In 2001 and at age 25 he was elected college research Fellow at University of Cambridge (St Catharine's JRF) and worked in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics until 2007. A year after his move to Cambridge, the Centre for Quantum Computation in Cambridge was initiated by Artur Ekert, where he joined to work in implementations of quantum simulation and computation. In 2008 he took over a faculty appointment at his hometown Technical University of Crete, where he in now a tenured associate professor of Quantum Physics at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (part time since 2012). He is known among others for his pioneering work in quantum simulators using light-matter systems. He received the Google Quantum Innovation Prize in 2018.In this interview, Dimitris introduces the trends of Quantum Technology, pointing to the developments in 3 rapidly emerging pillars – Quantum Computing, Quantum Networks, Quantum Devices.Focusing on the area of Quantum Computing, Dimitris elaborates on how practical problems that require optimization, simulation and machine learning solutions would benefit from the speedup afforded by quantum technology.Hence, for organisations to be “quantum ready”, Dimitris suggests a key first step for organisations is identifying where there are existing problems relying on optimization – such as routing and navigation. In addition, Dimitris advises that transforming such problems to be “quantum ready” entails working with a quantum technology company to incorporate machine learning, and to co-design the quantum algorithms specific to the organisation's problem.Dimitris also stresses that quantum technology companies are working in partnerships with quantum hardware infrastructure providers to make quantum computing easily accessible to organisations via APIs. Such accessibility removes a major misconception that many have about quantum computing – that adoption requires acquiring specialized hardware.With the disruptive nature of quantum technology, the need to be “quantum ready” is crucial. As such, Dimitris reminds organisations that performance and speedups goals are part of an overall journey that is foremost about learning – and in this, finding the right partner and quantum startup to work with, is one of the keys to success.Recorded 7th June 2023, 2.30pm, Quantum Technology Summit (part of ATxSG), Singapore Expo.

With special guests Harry Clayton-Wright and nana JRF plus a vomiting angel, kissing with your eyes open and dykey weightlifting 

Rounding off this series with potato hatred, mums and emojis, a gorgeous update from Canada and a special chat with our very own nana JRF

From straight, married vicar to out, gay student, finger knitting, carer burnout, JRF gets immortalised and a roasting from Scottee

In this episode I take about my flu shot and my incoming COVID booster, a stressful cinema experience, sex positivity, OnlyFans and I decided to share with you the contents of my messy desk! Massive thank you to my patrons - Andy, Ollie, JRF and Tom - if you want to become a patron and help support my creativity and help me grow, you can do so at https://www.patreon.com/TDYLN

ATT's got talent, oh yes it has - tapdancing, fortune-telling, musical gargling and burps, an original ditty, JRF gets fruity...oh and quite a few poems.

Can you solve the 10 year poo mystery? Grace has a crush, JRF explains body doubling, and we have a few new additions to the pub - one underage!

Talking about my new microphone (made possible with the support of my Patrons), ADHD support, music and rejoining the gym Massive thank you to my patrons - Andy, Ollie, JRF and Tom - if you want to become a patron and help support my creativity and help me grow, you can do so at https://www.patreon.com/TDYLN Song used at the end of the podcast was Snjókorn

Talking about getting PrEP, dating apps and douching and a few other things! Massive thank you to my patrons - Andy, Ollie, JRF and Tom - if you want to become a patron and help support my creativity and help me grow, you can do so at https://www.patreon.com/TDYLN

Square pizza and doughnuts, JoJo's found their mojo, JRF's got 'rona, mental health first aid and a call from down under

Let me introduce myself a little and let you know who I am, what I am and where I am. Massive thank you to my patrons - Andy, Ollie, JRF and Tom - if you want to become a patron and help support my creativity and help me grow, you can do so at https://www.patreon.com/TDYLN

Replacing the concept of high-low vibration to expanded vs. contracted in one's energy field for better, faster results from your consciousness endeavors.  The post JRF podcast #242 An Updated View of High vs Low Vibe That Works So Much Better appeared first on Jill Renee Feeler.

En av gästerna i soffan under Jakt & Fiskemässan Online var Tomas Ekberg. Vi passar på att ta ett snack med Tomas och Anders Lindström, ordförande resp. vice ordförande i Föreningen Sveriges Jägare. Vi benar ut motivationen bakom föreningens bildande, hur man ser sig i relation till SvJF och JRF, vilka frågor man kommer att fokusera på inledningsvis och mycket mer.

A discussion of the writer Brian McClellan. A look at Brian McClellan, author of The Powder Mage trilogy. This talk is presented by Katherine Olley, JRF at Oxford.

A short discussion of the role of faith in fantasy literature A short discussion of the role of faith in fantasy literature looking at the novels of James Islington's Licanius Trilogy, and Tasha Sri's 'Realm of Ash'. The talk is given by Katherine Olley, JRF at Oxford.

The repulsive and destructive aftermath of Sunday's football final A weird message on social media Covid restrictions being lifted whilst cases are rocketing Politicians and media The Sun newspaper Forthcoming birthday Transparency of income from things Patreon - https://patreon.com/tdyln Big thanks to my patrons - Ben, JRF, Andy and Ollie

British house prices leaped by an annual 10.9%, the most in almost seven years, and they look set to rise further as people search new homes after the pandemic, one of the country's largest mortgage lender the Nationwide said. Almost 70% homeowners considering a move said they would still go ahead even without the unlikely extension of a tax incentive by Chancellor Rishi Sunak, Nationwide said, according to a survey it conducted in late April. The latest figures demonstrate the scale of the surge in house prices which hit a new record high at an average of £242,832, according to Nationwide, which whilst not the official Land Registry data is widely respected by the industry. Nationwide added that house prices were 1.8% higher than in April. Nationwide said there was scope for annual house price growth to accelerate further in the coming months, given how weak the housing market was in early stages of the pandemic. However, if unemployment rises sharply later in 2021 - when Sunak's jobs protection programme is due to expire - there was scope for activity to slow, perhaps sharply, it said. Official data from the Office for National Statistics has shown that house prices in March jumped by just over 10%, the largest annual rise by that measure in nearly 14 years – prior to the 2007 peak and later property and stock market crash. Not all areas are booming and parts of London are seeing sharp price reductions on flats. Coastal hotspots - in Devon, Cornwall and Dorset - have seen house prices rise by as much as 48% in a year as people ‘escape to the country'! One million Britons fear losing homes when eviction ban ends - as up to 400,000 tenants have already been served notice or told to expect it due to unpaid rent over pandemic, The Daily Mail reports. The tenant eviction ban expired on 1 June, which could see thousands of people with rent arrears evicted by bailiffs. · Ban lifted meaning bailiff-enforced evictions can take place from now · Government introduced ban to support renters through the Covid-19 pandemic · Charity says that 400,000 renters have already been served with eviction notice · A further 450,000 households are in rent arrears according to research The Joseph Rowntree Foundation said 400,000 have already been served with an eviction notice or told they may be evicted and a further 450,000 households are in arrears with rent, JRF said. In practice, possession claims leading to eventual eviction could take 6-12 months to go get through the county court system, which is already overloaded with all manner of legal cases. Over 60% of buy-to-let landlords own just one property and many of whom are paying mortgages with little or no chance of recovering thousands of pounds of rent arrears built up during the lockdown. Other news The UK is likely to further restrict overseas travel taking Portugal OFF the ‘green list' Apple wants staff back in the office by September. If you enjoyed this and found it helpful, please like and share with your friends and follow me on social media to give more people free value. I'm offering free strategy coaching calls to three people this week. If you're interested, email charles@charleskelly.net

Small boob privilege, confession of the season? Scottee holds a wee in and JRF's chippy order

Join us as we dip our toes into the budget, get our teeth into a potential nurses strike, and pick a bone with the Labour Party relationship with class.     Buy our merch     Second Row Socialists on Twitter     Comradio on Twitter     Declan Clune fund   Carole Cadwalladr giving Farage money to say non-incriminating words    BBC news website on the budget with just the  positives!!    Corbyn article on the budget    Support for the Nurses    Ford & Goodwin, Different Class? UKIP's Social Base and Political Impact (2015)    June 2020 report by JRF    Evans & Tolley, How Parties Shape Class Politics (2011)    Blairism: The "Professionalisation of Labour"    Sabrina Huck review of Paul Embery book    Steven Beackon's paper, Labour Party Politics and the Working Class (2009) identifies Labour as starting to move away from its working class base in the 1960s

Check out this thought provoking interview with Helen Barnard, Director at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. Helen is responsible for driving forward JRF's strategy to inspire action to solve UK poverty. In this interview we talk 'poverty'

Andy McClenaghan and guests Karl Handscomb, Senior Economist with the Resolution Foundation, Louise Woodruff, Policy and Partnerships Manager at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, and Kerri Prince, BASW’s Public and Political Affairs Lead discuss what the Chancellor’s announcement on 3 March means for people who use social work and social care services, and people who receive support from the social security system, as well as the wider implications for society. Organisational responses to the Budget: - BASW: https://www.basw.co.uk/media/news/2021/mar/basw-responds-budget-2021 - JRF: https://www.jrf.org.uk/report/jrf-spring-budget-2021-analysis - Resolution Foundation: https://www.resolutionfoundation.org/app/uploads/2021/03/Spending-fast-taxing-slow.pdf

The boys get giggly with a random assortment of topics, ranging from saving money on gas to school memories. The mayor continues his campaign for hot bodies and Jimmy the gentleman guy James is STILL missing in action.

The group is devoid of 'Jimmy the guy gentleman James' but push on regardless to talk about the Mayor's new weight-loss scheme. After that they take a trip down memory lane talking about their favorite games in each console generation. Needless to say hilarity ensues. 

JRF does a turn, pigs in blankets, shagging neighbours and a real queen's speech

This podcast was recorded on the 15th December and makes reference to the Fraser of Allander Economic Commentary and annual Budget Report published that morning.https://fraserofallander.org/fai-publications/economic-commentary-december-2020/https://fraserofallander.org/scottish-economy/budget/scotlands-budget-report-2020/More information on the budget work of the Scottish Human Rights Commission can be found here: https://www.scottishhumanrights.com/projects-and-programmes/human-rights-budget-work/Latest work from JRF in Scotland can be found here: https://www.jrf.org.uk/our-work/scotlandChair:Graeme Roy (FAI)Guests:Emma Congreve (FAI), Ali Hosie (Scottish Human Rights Commission), Chris Birt (JRF in Scotland)Timestamps: (01:37) What does the FAI budget report say about these issues? (EC)(04:14) What is a human rights based approach to budgeting? (AH)(08:33) What are the key principles that the Scottish Government should be adhering to? (AH)(11:40) How well is Scotland performing compared to other countries on these principles? (AH)(14:25) How important is the overall budget process for addressing poverty? (CB)(16:30) How could more be done to allow for better participation of people who's lives are impacted by budget decisions? (CB)(18:53) How can we get better at producing policy across portfolios, and avoid working in silos? (CB)(21:38) What structures could help with doing this? (EC)(25:50) What should be the top priorities for the Scottish Budget? (AH, CB, EC)(34:42) What should economists and commentators focus on in reporting changes in the budget? (AH, CB)

You can find more information on the new research published by JRF, which included a survey of 2000 Scottish households here: https://www.jrf.org.uk/press/almost-third-scots%E2%80%99-incomes-have-reduced-lockdown-half-affected-renters-worried-about-payingChairEmma Congreve, Fraser of Allander InstituteGuestsJim McCormick, JRF in ScotlandDeborah Hay, JRF in ScotlandTimestamps(1:51) How was progress on tackling child poverty in particular looking pre-Covid, Jim(5:40) What do we know about the impact of Covid on those on low incomes, Deborah(13:14) In terms of social security, what has happened and what needs to happen to cope with the fallout of Covid-19, Jim(20:49) How has housing policy developed over the past decade, and what opportunities are there now, Deborah(29:00) Priorities for the Scottish election and cross UK action, Jim and Deborah Source

The crisis isn't just forcing us to think differently but behave differently. On March 31st, Compass recorded conversations with members and guest speakers which included: Julia Unwin has been CEO of the Joseph Rowntree Trust, ran the Civil Societies Future project & recently wrote a short book On Kindness. David Robinson helped found & run Community Links & now directs The Relationships Project, Jennifer Nadel is co-director of Compassion in Politics.  It's Bloody Complicated is a new podcast series that features thinkers, politicians, journalists, and community activists from across the progressive spectrum, created by Compass which campaigns for a Good Society, now available on The Real Agenda Network.

We asked and you answered! Listeners sent in their audio to let us know what's going on in the diabetes community right now.  It's a tough and stressful time, but you're not alone. Listen to stories and thoughts from people from the US, Saudi Arabia(!) and of all different ages. Truly a time for Diabetes Connections. Want to send in your audio? Here's how - blog post  Check out Stacey's new book: The World's Worst Diabetes Mom! Join the Diabetes Connections Facebook Group! Sign up for our newsletter here ----- Use this link to get one free download and one free month of Audible, available to Diabetes Connections listeners! ----- Get the App and listen to Diabetes Connections wherever you go! Click here for iPhone      Click here for Android Episode Transcript: Stacey Simms  0:00 Diabetes Connections is brought to you by One Drop created for people with diabetes five people who have diabetes by Real Good Foods, real food you feel good about eating, and by Dexcom take control of your diabetes and live life to the fullest with Dexcom.   Unknown Speaker  0:20 This is diabetes connections with Stacey Sims.   Stacey Simms  0:26 How is everybody doing? I'm not exactly sure how to even start these episodes anymore. We're not really doing regular episodes, full episodes of Diabetes Connections. But I didn't want to wait until I'm doing a full episode or a regular episode to let you hear what is in this one. So hi, I'm your host Stacey Simms. You know that and just like probably the vast majority of you almost everybody listening. I'm home. I'm very, very grateful to be home with my family. My daughter came home from college and you know, my son's at home. school my husband often works at home. In fact, he almost always works from home unless he is traveling for business. So he's either on the road or in the house. And I'm so grateful that he hadn't been traveling a lot this year already. And you know, we're very fortunate that he can work from home. So what have we been doing? Well, I will share with you I may have mentioned this on a previous episode, we moved recently, just across town, not the best timing because I do have a house to sell now, but we will be fine. We will figure that out. But in the meantime we have a house just set up we have lots of things to unpack. We have lots to keep us busy. We spent yesterday cleaning the house we've been in for about 10 days. And we just did the regular type cleaning that you would do you know dusting laundry, that kind of stuff. I can't say it was a lot of fun, but it was certainly something to do and we realized we were missing a few things including a broom. Apparently our broom did not make it my husband said it was trashed on the way out of the old house. So add broom to the list of things that we are picked up at the grocery store when we had to go out the next time, it's kind of a weird thing to have in your grocery store list. But you know, we don't want to be running around town to different places. I don't even know what's open right now. Got our broom. So my husband who is the much more fastidious cleaner in the family was very happy with that. Our dog is very happy that we're all home. I think like most dogs right now, she's pretty confused as to why the heck everybody is in the house all the time and why we are walking her and living with her. My daughter and I have started doing yoga. we're grabbing a YouTube channel and just trying out some different yoga classes online. I've been taking yoga in person for about a year and a half. But I'm certainly not very good at it. But it's fun to do with my daughter. But our dog is super confused and she's coming in there with us and wondering why we're on the floor and was very concerned. But now she's calmed down. She just kind of lays there with us while we do yoga. And Benny I think like most 15 year old has been keeping really busy on his phone, facetiming all his friends. He was taking these long bike rides. Before everything got shut down, he was by himself. You know, he wasn't with other people. But he's staying home now. And I think that's why. So that's our situation. But I wanted to share more of your situation. And that's what this episode is all about. A few days ago, I put out a call I, you might have seen the graphic, I put it out on social media, and it said, stuck at home, share your voice. And I really wasn't sure if anybody would respond, right? I was trying to make it easy. Just use your phone and tell me what's going on in your world. I did put out a few prompts. I'll talk about that in a moment. But a bunch of people sent in their audio and that's what this episode is going to be just a short episode to share some other voices from the diabetes community. And then in a couple of days, I will be putting out another episode our next full regular episode, whatever I'm calling them these days. I'm excited about that because I was able to talk to just a great guy, a chef with a child with type one he's an adult child is type one now, but he was diagnosed very young and Mark Been a chef his whole career. And we talked about what are we cooking now that we're stuck at home? It was a really fun interview. And I'll be sharing that in just a couple of days. I don't know if you can hear it, but I feel like my voice is not that great right now. It is allergy season here. I mean, it's always terrible. And then, you know, I feel like if I'm coughing or sniffling, gosh, you know, I mean, I'm just home, there's nobody to look at me, give me a nasty look or worry about me, but it really is just just allergies right now. So I apologize if you're hearing any of that in my voice. And if you're going through it, you know exactly what I mean. We're just you know, we're all worried we're all on a bit of an edge. So rather than hear from me the whole time, let's get to the people who sent the audio in. Let me just set this up a little bit. Some of the audio here is great. Some of some of the audio here is as you would expect, you know, people just talking into their phones. There's some homes and some buzzing, that we were not able to take out and that's okay. I was just hoping for some real voices and some real feedback. back. So I do hope you'll listen. None of these clips are especially long, but I think they give really good insight into what we're all going through at the moment. So we are starting with Molly Johannes she was diagnosed 22 years ago. She lives in Massachusetts. I'm smiling because I have met Molly. I've been fortunate enough to be at events with her. She has a blog called hugging the cactus. And I mentioned I had put out some prompts and some questions. One of which was, what is it like knowing that so many people with diabetes are stuck at home right now? Here is Molly answering that question and more.   Molly  5:37 And I have to say that I'm finding it a lot more unifying than isolating. What I mean by that is, it's really nice to go on to all of my social media channels. And for the most part, I'm seeing a lot more positivity than negativity. A lot of people are coming up with different ways to stay entertained at home, whether that's going outdoors and enjoying nice weather when it's around. Or if it's staying inside and pursuing hobbies or spending more time as families, it makes a big difference. I think in my mindset just to see something other than the news, you know, certain social media sites, you kind of log on to them. And it's nothing but a barrage of like what's going on in the world right now. And while it is super important to stay informed, it's also important to focus on mental health. And I think that distractions are one way to kind of make sure that mental health is not ignored. It's really nice to just be able to talk to others and know that we're all feeling the same way right now. So with that said, I'd like to share some of the things that I'm doing to stay busy. So when I'm not working, I am lucky enough to work a job remotely. So that's something I'm very grateful for. So when I'm not working, I am watching TV, watching movies, you know, typical things like that, but then I'm also pursuing hobbies that I don't normally have enough time for, whether that's knitting or reading some new books or you know, just spending some more time I'm working on my blog, which is important to me. And I find that a lot of the times Monday through Friday, it's really hard for me to focus on certain aspects of managing my blog. But now that I'm, you know, spending a lot more time at home, I don't have a commute, things like that, it is nice to be able to work on it a little bit more. But besides that, I am just spending time with my dog making sure that I'm connecting with my friends, you know, all of my group chats, we're just kind of checking in with each other on a daily basis. And I'm thinking of doing a couple of other things to really just promote the feeling of togetherness. So with some of my friend groups, that's probably going to be a couple of virtual sleep overs that we've talked about. We're discussing certain movies that like we can watch together as a group. So that would be really fun. But I'm also thinking for the diabetes community. Like it might be really cool to do a virtual meetup slash Hangout, and I don't know I think I'm gonna look into that and hopefully come up with some dates that might work for people get a whole bunch of people on camera and maybe we can just get to know one another and play games you know, just things that will keep us going. That will Keep conversations going and reassure people that they're not alone right now. That's the big message that I think it's important to bear in mind. So yeah, with that said, Everyone, just stay healthy be well and don't forget to take care of yourselves and keep mental health a priority.   Stacey Simms  8:16 Thank you so much, Molly. It is great to hear from you. I really appreciate it. Okay, next is Doug. He is from Florida. He was diagnosed when he was 15 years old. He says he's 27 years into it. Now. He is currently finishing his dissertation he sent in his audio and this you'll understand why I'm saying this one. You hear him on March 17, which was the day of the Florida primary. So he talked a little bit about that. I did not include it all because it was very important to that date, but that's what he's talking about voting by mail. So thank you, Doug. And here's what he had to say.   Doug  8:52 I am doing fine. It just so happens that I am a bit of a socially awkward introvert Bert, and the kind of self isolation and social distancing policies that have been recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. These are things that come quite naturally to me. I don't spend a lot of time in crowded environments and I'm not a touchy feely person. I hope you all will continue to stay safe, wash your hands, don't touch your face or other people in the future. And consider using some social distancing practices in your ordinary life outside of this type of pandemic situation. For example, mail your vote, mail your ballots, and I hope everyone out there is taking care of themselves. Stacey Simms  9:53 The next bit of audio came from Saudi Arabia. I was so surprised and really Just pleased to get this. So Sarah, who lives in Riyadh city, thank you so much for sending it in. She was diagnosed in 2004. And she makes a really good point about how everything around us seems to have changed except for diabetes,   Sarah  10:15 to all type one D nation. I'm so happy today that everyone can hear me through this podcast. I'm sada. I have been living with Type One Diabetes since 2004. And from Saudi Arabia, I live in Riyadh city. And currently we're living in a very, extremely and exceptional situation. The whole world literally is facing the same problem of a smooth, tiny virus that changes all our meanings of life. I've been questioning myself the last two days. What are the essential things in our life? What do I really want to do? If I don't have any plan today to go to, to study, or to go to visit, what's add stress to me is living with type one D has no No, no break. So I kept saying to myself, everything has stopped. We stopped education. And we have been learning now not really stopped education. I mean, we have stopped going to schools or universities, but we're learning now through virtually and everything we're doing now is virtual, except diabetes. Nothing has changed about it. Every day. I check my BG every day I monitor my CGM every day or every three days I changed my pump site. So everything has changed except my type one D So I looked at myself and I questioned myself, the way we deal with type one D really shapes big Big, big part of our lives and really need to make sure that the way we approach and you will type windy, really healthy, and guide us toward better control. And I'm so happy to share my thoughts with you guys. I was trying to be as much as continious. Thank you Stacy for this amazing opportunity. And I want to say thank you, everyone, and hope you stay safe and healthy. And thank you very much. Thank you, Sarah.   Stacey Simms  12:37 All right. This is Michael and a lot of you regular listeners who are also on Twitter probably know Michael without really knowing him because he's very active on Twitter. He's MTL 613 and when I heard him say that I was really excited because I we've been following each other for a long time now, but of course I've never heard him. He was diagnosed with type one at the age of 420 years. ago, he starts out by answering that question about knowing that the diabetes community is out there right now, even as we feel very much alone.   Michael  13:12 And I think that's a very important thing. Generally, for me even without, you know, this whole situation, to know that there are people out there who are going through the same or similar things that you're going through is very important to that you don't feel alone. And it's even more important now with this whole virus situation and, and a lot of people, myself included, are trying to stay home and avoid direct contact with other people. So being able to connect over social media and in different ways and to see that other people are doing the same things you're doing even now is even more important than usual.   Maddie  13:54 Hi, my name is Maddy. I'm from Arizona, and I'm 14 years old.   Mandy  13:59 Hi I'm Mandy from also Arizona. My daughter was diagnosed about a year and a half ago. So Maddie, what is one good thing about being home right now? I think   Maddie: 14:11 one good thing about being home right now is that it's easier to control my height a little bit better, and catch my lows. Because when you're at school, you're mainly focused on your work. And then you always hear though, beeps and alarms and then it freaks everyone out and embarrasses you while me. And so it's sort of nice to have it at home and we can control it and yeah, okay. What is one thing your parents do that actually helps you with diabetes? Well, um, they do of course, everything and I love them so much, but my main thing I guess is that my mom especially makes food that is easier on my blood sugar and dinners that coordinate with like, how Having good blood sugars, and it also helps our family in general because she has celiac. And that's hard to have, as you know, eating too and just keeping family healthy.   Mandy  15:13 Yeah, we are watching our carbs a little, a little bit. It helps both of us. Yeah, for sure, was a diabetes or community event canceled that you plan to attend. Tell us about it and what you were looking forward to.   Unknown Speaker  15:27 So one event that was cancelled was the jdrf walk. And I was diagnosed a year and a half ago. And one of the first things we did was go to the JRF talk. And it was just really nice to see that there are so many other people that you know, we're going through the same things as you and that I always love to see and I made a lot of friends and camp diabetes camp has really helped that and so I would be really missing out on seeing more of that, I guess.   Unknown Speaker  15:56 Yeah, but it hasn't been canceled, right? It's just it's a Virtual walk now.   Unknown Speaker  16:01 Yeah. So it was still having virtual walk and of course will still   Unknown Speaker  16:05 attend,   Unknown Speaker  16:06 but it's just different than, you know   Unknown Speaker  16:08 in person and we're waiting to hear about camp or keeping our fingers crossed cross cross capsule on. We'll see that was one of my favorite ever things and   Unknown Speaker  16:20 of course when you're newly diagnosed it's you get a first step in but it was just one of my amazing most amazing things that have ever experienced. So Absolutely.   Stacey Simms  16:32 Okay, thank you. Big thanks to Maddie and Mandy, I appreciate you sending that in. I am thrilled to hear that you are still cooking healthy and doing what you need to do. I'll be honest with you. We have a talk in my house the other day about eating and it was basically about how well we don't have a house full of junk food. But how we're not going to police each other because there's enough stress right now and if somebody wants to eat a big cheese knows, you can go ahead and eat a bag of Cheetos. I will say that Benny is probably eating the best out of all of us right now. He has some wrestling goals that he is still keeping an eye on and he's doing great. But the rest of us might be a little bit on the track to game the unknown about the freshman 15. But the quarantine with what goes with that. quarantine? 15? I don't know. I'll keep you posted on that. Big thanks to everybody who sent in their audio. I know that's not easy to do. You know, even if you're bored, and you think, Oh, this is gonna be a way to pass the time. It's still hard to open up your phone and press record and then just talk and share your thoughts and then hit send. You know, I get butterflies every time I do a podcast episode. So I can't imagine what it's like for everybody just kind of talking and sending their audio in big, big, big thank you. If you'd like to do this again, let me know I'll put out some different prompts. Because I'm so thrilled to always hear more stories in the diabetes community. Everybody's story deserves to be told. Everybody has something to say we can all learn from your experiences. So stuck at home, share your story. We'll keep doing this if you'd like. I really enjoy hearing from you. You can refer back to the original blog post for how to do this. It really is as easy as opening the voice memo app on your phone. Every phone has something like this, recording something quick and sending it in. As you listen. I know you've heard some different backgrounds there it is better to go to a quiet background if you possibly can. some suggestions, a closet is great. Your car is a great little studio, a bathroom, you know any place in your house that is kind of small and quiet. But we will take as you here, we will take what we get because to me the message is so much more important. And yeah, I cleaned all those up. I can edit those out and things like that. And john Buchanan, of course, my editor really does the magic there. So we want to hear from you. Maybe it's even just an activity With the kids for a few minutes, thank you so much for joining me for listening regular episodes different episodes more Facebook Lives Who the heck knows what we're going to do is we're all stuck here at home. But thanks for sharing your story. I'm Stacey Simms, and I'll see you back here for our next episode.   Benny  19:20 Diabetes Connections is a production of Stacey Sims media. All rights reserved. All rounds avenged   Transcribed by https://otter.ai

ERICA TAYLOR HASKINS is a Founding Partner of New York City-based event production company Tinsel Experiential Design -- formerly known as Tinsel & Twine. She is passionate about attending Broadway shows, enjoying naptime with her french bulldog (Mayhem, May for short), writing to Congress daily -- and travel to soak in blue waters, blue skies, red meat, and red wine. Her business, Tinsel, is committed to redefining luxury events through the execution of imaginative, immersive experiences for private clients and for brands like Mercedes-Benz, Spotify, L'Oreal, and Condé Nast. Tinsel has proudly produced events at iconic institutions like The New York Public Library, The Guggenheim Museum, The Rainbow Room, and One World Observatory. The team’s work has been featured in Vogue, WWD, Forbes, and Town & Country, with the company named recently as one of the Top 50 Event Designers in North America. Her experience has given her a deep understanding of how to leverage authentic relationships to reach target audiences. And if that isn't enough, beyond Tinsel, Erica is the Northeast Regional Coordinator for The Jackie Robinson Foundation, a national non-profit organization founded to perpetuate the icon’s legacy through scholarship, leadership, and service. She was honored as one of JRF’s “42 Under 40” distinguished alumni. She is committed to sharing her business journey with other aspiring entrepreneurs. "A company's culture is the foundation for future innovation.  An entrepreneur's job is to build the foundation." - Brian Chesky, Airbnb What we talk about: Discussion about establishing and maintaining business culture How to build and manage an inclusive environment Managing Judgement in the face of honesty How Tinsel manages employees vs the culture Managing how to have diversity of experience and perspectives What it was being a "weirdo" kid growing up Her Parents embracing her for who she is The use of the word bossy Transition from Corporate to Entrepreneurship References: Tinsel Experiential Design Jackie Robinson Foundation Fashion Week   Credits: Lead editor + Producer: Ruf Holmes Music: Main Theme: "Eaze Does It" by Shye Eaze and DJ Rufbeats, a More In Common Podcast Exclusive. Guest theme:  " Yiddish plate" by DJ Rufbeats created as a More In Common Podcast Exclusive.

Throughout 2019, CapX has been working with the anti-poverty charity the Joseph Rowntree Foundation on a project about rebalancing Britain - looking at how to tackle the longstanding issues in the British economy such as the gap between towns and cities, rural and urban areas and the different regions of the UK.A big focus of that project has been how to improve the lot of low-income voters. So to discuss that this week, we brought together JRF’s Executive Director Claire Ainsley; pollster extraordinaire James Kanagasooriam; and CapX's Deputy Editor Frank Lawton. I began by asking Claire about just how important low-income voters will be in the coming election. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This is a composition of field recordings taken at various wind turbine farms over the last year. They are recordings taken as part of a sound project I’m working on which looks at infrastructure; a sonic exploration into the unseen mechanics which underpin our daily lives: Power, transport, sewer systems, communications and supply logistics. The recordings presented here are in a fairly raw state and will be developed and augmented within the wider body of work. However, I think they hold different value in their 'solo' and raw form - and may be of particular interest to listeners of TouchRadio. The modern wind turbine is an awe inspiring machine - gracefully benign from two miles away, yet from within their shadow they assault an image of improbable violence on the senses. Designed to perform modern day alchemy through a screamed slicing of the troposphere, they detune the very skies which hang overhead and broadcast infrasonic resonances into the ground which i was able to record through a geophone from over half a mile away. Within the setting of ‘nature', these machines are the very definition of unnatural; up close, their rotating violations of nature's laws feel viscerally threatening.But then these locations too are, by necessity, raw and unforgiving environments. Bleak moorland at raised altitude or wide unsheltered flatlands; horizon to horizon, exposed, desolate, dystopian. The wind howls across these plains, transforming the totally inert into the wildly volatile at an instant; bracken, heather, gorse, singing fence wires dissecting arbitrary shingle boundaries for mile upon mile. The source material was recorded in multichannel spatial format using various ambisonic and stereo air mics, geophone and contact microphones matrixed to 5 channel surround. Equipment: Sonosax SX R4+ Ambeo / DPA 4060 / MK-416 / Telinga Mk2 JRF contact mics matrixed to 5ch / JRF prototype geophone Thanks to Jez Riley French for the geophone loan, Rudi at Helix Branch and Emily Mary Barnett for her photography/patience.

Without sales, you don't have a business, but what are some new, creative strategies for building your business and getting more sales? In this week's episode of This Week In Weddings, we're chatting about  ways to think outside the box when it comes to sales and expanding your network that are often overlooked. About our guest: Erica Taylor Haskins is a Founding Partner of New York City-based event production company Tinsel Experiential Design, formerly known as Tinsel & Twine.  Tinsel is committed to redefining luxury events through the execution of imaginative, immersive experiences for private clients and for brands like Mercedes-Benz, Spotify, L'Oreal, and Condé Nast. Tinsel has proudly produced events at iconic institutions like The New York Public Library, The Guggenheim Museum, The Rainbow Room, and One World Observatory. The team’s work has been featured in Vogue, WWD, Forbes, and Town & Country, with the company named recently as one of the Top 50 Event Designers in North America. Before Tinsel, Erica worked in account management and business development on a number of advertising agency teams across consumer, technology, and media verticals. With this professional experience, Erica’s expertise lies in her ability to manage in-house and vendor teams throughout the lifecycle of any project. Her experience has also given her a deep understanding of how to leverage authentic relationships to reach target audiences. She brings an intimate knowledge of the creative process, a practiced degree of diplomacy, grace under fire, and an instinct for mutually beneficial business partnerships to Tinsel. Beyond Tinsel, Erica is the Northeast Regional Coordinator for The Jackie Robinson Foundation, a national non-profit organization founded to perpetuate the icon’s legacy through scholarship, leadership, and service. She was honored as one of JRF’s “42 Under 40” distinguished alumni. Erica is committed to sharing her business journey with other aspiring entrepreneurs. She is also extremely passionate about attending Broadway shows, enjoying naptime with her french bulldog (Mayhem, May for short), writing to Congress daily, travel to soak in blue waters, blue skies, red meat, and red wine. In this episode, listeners will hear about: Erica's background in the event industry Ways to expand your network using some of your favorite past clients Finding the connectors in your network for expanding your circle Asking for introductions to key people How LinkedIn can be an under utilized resource for networking Personalized gifting for wooing potential clients Want to connect with Erica? Online: http://tinseldesign.com/ Instagram: @tinseldesignnyc   This episode of This Week In Weddings is sponsored by the OFD Collective.

Poverty in the UK is increasing for the first time in two decades. We are seeing more people struggling to make ends meet. Does television set out accurately the complexities of living in poverty, or too crudely as either a deserving economic victim or undeserving ‘scrounger’? How can we tell more accurate stories of poverty to skeptical audiences, for a fuller debate and actions? A panel from Sheffield Doc/Fest 2018 debate these questions and more. Chaired by Poppy Noor (The Guardian) with the writer Jack Monroe, the filmmakers Mark Raphael and Daisy-May Hudson and Chief Executive of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Campbell Robb. Supported by JRF and Guardian

This episode focuses on the new film on Guardian Films and supported by JRF, Fighting Shame, featuring women from the film plus Director Sally Ogden. The film focuses on a group of women from Leeds sharing their stories of poverty through eight everyday objects and the community initiatives they’ve launched to fight the shame that surrounds it, in a bid to start a dialogue with policymakers.

In this episode I am joined by Sarah Taylor Ph.D (https://uk.linkedin.com/in/sarahholiday) where we explore her research and practice into the ways we can enrich workplaces by humaising it and how we can also bureaucratise it too.  Our focus is her research in an elderly care setting and what employees and care workers in that setting really enjoy about their work, and how it is not necessarily what lines up with any set of 'professional standards'.  We begin with setting a philospohical and sociological backdrop and then dive into a lot of detail as to what her research has found.  We close by learning more about how Sarah is taking her research into a more corporate setting and looking at how her findings can inform ways that her organisation manages performance.  A really great conversation and as always... the references: Rupert Sheldrake - https://www.sheldrake.org   Theory U - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_U - Scharmer, C. O. (2009). Theory U: Leading from the Future as it Emerges. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler.   The 5th wave of public health - http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(13)62341-7/abstract Non paywalled/access limited article -  http://blog.policy.manchester.ac.uk/featured/2014/05/will-new-wave-bring-a-tide-of-progress-for-public-health/ Hanlon, P., Carlisle, S., Hannah, M., Reilly, D., & Lyon, A. (2011). Making the  case for a ―fifth wave‖ in public Health. Public Health, 125(1), 30–36.    Atul Gawande - Being Mortal: Medicene and what matters in the end https://www.amazon.co.uk/Being-Mortal-Medicine-What-Matters/dp/0805095152 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mviU9OeufA0 Martin Buber: I - Thou relationship https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_and_Thou   - Andrews, N. (2014). We Need to Talk about Love‘. Co-production Walves.  Available from:  https://allinthistogetherwales.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/who-is-helping-who.pdf   - Kitwood, T. (2012). Dementia Reconsidered: The Person Comes First. Berkshire: Open University Press.   Loss of practical wisdom  https://www.ted.com/talks/barry_schwartz_on_our_loss_of_wisdom/up-next   Owen & Mayer - beautiful moments of connection http://www.myhomelife.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/JRF-report-on-care-home-quality-of-life-full.pdf

Professor Jo Richardson is a Professor of Housing and Social Research and Director of the Centre for Comparative Housing Research at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. Jo is currently a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Urban Transitions at Swinburne University of Technology. In this lecture Jo will reflect on findings from her CIH Frontline Futures research, combined with lessons from her JRF project on conflict resolution on Traveller site delivery and management. She will consider whether an increasing march towards ‘mainstreaming’ management approaches can improve service delivery whilst still making diverse groups of residents with different cultural, social and economic backgrounds, still feel valued and ‘at home’.

Housing Justice Roadshow, Hull, 7/6/2016. Angela Dearing, of JRF, outlines the national picture of homelessness, housing, housing policy, and sector research. #homelessness #church #housing

This composition features unprocessed recordings from Krafla Geothermal Power Station and the nearby mudpools and steam vents of Hverir in Northern Iceland. The recordings were made in June 2014, on the Wildeye sound recording course led by Chris Watson and Jez Riley French, using a SoundField SPS200 and JrF contact microphones. The composition draws upon the spatial experiences of recording at these sites, journeying from the booming, all-encompassing drone emitting from the boreholes; through the uncontained, explosive energy of steam vents and bubbling mud-pools; and into the inner sonic worlds of the metal pipes and geodesic structures that punctuated the lava field.

Prof David Herman (Durham) on ‘Narrative and/as Heterophenomenology: Modelling Nonhuman Experiences in Storyworlds’ with responses from Dr Emily Troscianko (MML) and Dr James Carney (Social and Evolutionary Science Research Group) followed by refreshments Wednesday 20th November, 4-6.30pm, The Seminar Room, TORCH, Radcliffe Humanities Building with Prof David Herman (Durham) on ‘Narrative and/as Heterophenomenology: Modelling Nonhuman Experiences in Storyworlds’ with responses from Dr Emily Troscianko (MML) and Dr James Carney (Social and Evolutionary Science Research Group) followed by refreshments and discussion. David Herman is Professor of the Engaged Humanities in the Department of English Studies at Durham University. He is author of Storytelling and the Sciences of Mind (MIT Press, 2013) and many other books and articles working at the intersection of literary study and cognitive science. Emily Troscianko is a JRF in Modern Languages at St John’s College, Oxford. Her study of Kafka, Kafka’s Cognitive Realism, will be published early next year by Routledge. James Carney is a post-doctoral researcher in the Social and Evolutionary Science Research Group in Oxford. He is co-editor of Beckett Re-Membered: After the Centenary (2012) and is currently working on a monograph entitled: Life Stories: Towards a Biosemiotic Model of Narrative Signification to be published by de Gruyter. The seminar is the first organized as part of a new project with the working title: “Cultures of Mindreading: The novel and other minds” Report from Cultures of Mind-Reading: The Novel and Other Minds The session inaugurated a new thread in the Comparative Criticism and Translation Programme which will be investigating ways in which the novel as a form reflects on and contributes to a flexible understanding of how human beings interact with, understand and make sense of each other. David Herman’s presentation focused on the limit case: interacting with and understanding non-human animals, asking where and why we draw the limits of mutual understanding, and looking at the ways in which narratives which focus on animal consciousness can reflect on, expand and explore the limits of human self-understanding. Emily Troscianko, in her response, asked whether there was a lingering commitment in Herman’s otherwise very innovative approach to a model of consciousness as a representation of the world (agent-makes-representation-of-environment-in-its-mind). This is a crucial point. If we want to escape from the idea that literature ‘mirrors’ the world, it is probably helpful to give up the parallel trope that the mind ‘mirrors’ reality and to look to models, like that of Alva Noë, on whom David Herman drew in his presentation, which understand the mind not as a mirror or inner state but as a form of shared practice: a product of things people do together in a shared environment. James Carney emphasized the importance of checking the models of narrative we develop with what can be observed of the way people actually behave. He reminded us of the variety of narrative forms, not all of which we treat in the same way, and not all of which we have the same expectations of. Finally, he issued a caveat about anthropomorphism. However circumspect we are when approaching and trying to understand animal minds, it is all too easy to construct them in the end as nothing more than attenuated human minds. An element which strongly emerged from the discussion was the strength of the assumption that there will be one uniform human mind or one uniform animal mind. But the more we include culture and shared practices of interaction in our approach, the less tenable this will appear. Human beings and dogs learn to interact with each other in specific contexts, so there will be as many varieties of canine minds as there are cultures of dog-handling. The session opened the way for further study of the different cultures through which we learn to engage with other minded beings. (BM) Participants: Ben Morgan, James Carney, Emily Troscianko, David Herman, Céline Sabiron, K. Earnshaw, Yin Yin Zu, Laura Marcus, John Cook, Kirsten Shepherd-Barr, Laurence Mann, Matthew Reynolds, Stephen Harrison, Mohamed-Salah Omri, Simon Kemp, Xiaofan Amy Li, Lianjiang Yu, Kaitlin Standt, Foranzisha Kohlt, Ian Klinke, Anne Sommer, Rey Conquer, Lia Raitt Kaitt, Barry Murname, Christopher Cheung, San Verhauert, E. Cykoswke, L. Braddork, Alicia Gaj, Brooke Berdtson, Joanna Raisbeck, Benedict Morrison, Harriet Wragg. Prof David Herman (Durham) on ‘Narrative and/as Heterophenomenology: Modelling Nonhuman Experiences in Storyworlds’ with responses from Dr Emily Troscianko (MML) and Dr James Carney (Social and Evolutionary Science Research Group).

An explanation of Merton College's Junior Research Fellowship selection committee and application process. If you are thinking of applying for a Junior Research Fellowship at Merton College, this will explain how to apply, the sorts of things you need to emphasise when applying, and how the process of selection operates.