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Jennifer Rabb is the president of TTARA (Texas Taxpayers and Research Association) and joins the show to discuss the tax landscape in Texas - property taxes, school taxes, business taxes, and how Texas is faring under it all. https://ttara.org/

On today's REX Daily Podcast, Dom talks with Poultry Industry Association of NZ Executive Director Michael Brooks about the discovery of H7N6 avian influenza on an egg laying farm in Otago, the shockwaves it's sent throughout the industry and what the next steps are... He talks to Stu Davison from HighGround Dairy about the latest Global Dairy Trade Event (+1.2%), what's driving the current auction prices and what headwinds are on the horizon... He talks with Dr Michael Deighton, Chair of the Forage Technical Committee at the Plant & Breeders Association, about the 2024 National Forage Variety Trials, why its urging farmers to use it in order to make better ryegrass cultivar choices and what gains can be made... And he talks with Charles Miller-Brown about running the recent All Breed Sheep Classes at the Christchurch Show, run by the Canterbury A&P Association. Tune in daily for the latest and greatest REX rural content on your favourite streaming platform, visit rexonline.co.nz and follow us on Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn for more.

This month I have a couple of presentations this month. We've got events in Walnut Grove, MN; Mansfield, MO; and with the Laura Ingalls Wilder Legacy and Research Association. Plus, we have a new book on Rose Wilder Lane. 

This week we discuss the role of RAF bomber aircraft as glider tugs in the Arnhem airlift and airborne operations. We're joined by Matt Yates, the Chief Operations Officer for the Vickers Machine Gun Collection and Research Association, and owner of the Chalk Glider Pilot Regiment Collection.Matt provides insight into the formation of the Glider Pilot Regiment, highlighting the close collaboration between glider pilots, and their tug crews, who were normally seconded from Bomber Squadrons. We debate the challenges and successes of various airborne operations, including Operations Freshman,  Husky, and Tonga.We go on to discuss Operation Market Garden - a complex and ambitious plan to secure a foothold in Germany by capturing key bridges in the Netherlands and paving the way for a rapid advance into Germany. However, the operation faced challenges, including the loss of the element of surprise, intelligence issues, overconfidence, and a shortage of aircraft. The glider pilot regiment and their bomber crew tugs played a crucial role in transporting troops and supplies, but faced heavy anti-aircraft fire and suffered significant casualties. We also discuss the supply role of transport command. The operation ultimately fell short of its objectives, highlighting the difficulties and risks of large-scale airborne operations.Links:Arnhem: Myth & Reality, by Sebastian RitchieJane's article: Bring Up The Piat!Matt's recommendations:Glider Pilots at Arnhem by Mike Peters and Luuk Buist. Arnhem Lift by Louis Hagen (a German Jew who fled Germany and joined the British Army) The History of the Glider Pilot Regiment by Claude Smith. Arnhem by Martin Middlebrook. A Noble Pair of Brothers by Wing Commander DH Wood. Gives a full historySend us a textSupport the showPlease subscribe to Never Mind The Dambusters wherever you get your podcasts. You can support the show, and help us produce great content, by becoming a paid subscriber from just $3 a month here https://www.buzzsprout.com/2327200/support . Supporters receive invitations to participate in our recording sessions as an audience member. Thank you for listening! You can reach out to us on social media at @RAF_BomberPod (X) or @NeverMindTheDambusters (Instagram)You can find out about James' research, articles, lectures and podcasts here .You can read more about Jane's work on her website at https://www.justcuriousjane.com/, and listen to podcasts/media stuff here

Subscriber-only episode* PUBLIC RELEASE ON 11 SEPTEMBER 2024This week we discuss the role of RAF bomber aircraft as glider tugs in the Arnhem airlift and airborne operations. We're joined by Matt Yates, the Chief Operations Officer for the Vickers Machine Gun Collection and Research Association, and owner of the Chalk Glider Pilot Regiment Collection.Matt provides insight into the formation of the Glider Pilot Regiment, highlighting the close collaboration between glider pilots, and their tug crews, who were normally seconded from Bomber Squadrons. We debate the challenges and successes of various airborne operations, including Operations Freshman,  Husky, and Tonga. We go on to discuss Operation Market Garden - a complex and ambitious plan to secure a foothold in Germany by capturing key bridges in the Netherlands and paving the way for a rapid advance into Germany. However, the operation faced challenges, including the loss of the element of surprise, intelligence issues, overconfidence, and a shortage of aircraft. The glider pilot regiment and their bomber crew tugs played a crucial role in transporting troops and supplies, but faced heavy anti-aircraft fire and suffered significant casualties. We also discuss the supply role of transport command. The operation ultimately fell short of its objectives, highlighting the difficulties and risks of large-scale airborne operations.Links: Arnhem: Myth & Reality, by Sebastian Ritchie Jane's article: Bring Up The Piat! Matt's recommendations: Glider Pilots at Arnhem by Mike Peters and Luuk Buist. Arnhem Lift by Louis Hagen (a German Jew who fled Germany and joined the British Army) The History of the Glider Pilot Regiment by Claude Smith. Arnhem by Martin Middlebrook. A Noble Pair of BrotSend us a textPlease subscribe to Never Mind The Dambusters wherever you get your podcasts. You can support the show, and help us produce great content, by becoming a paid subscriber from just $3 a month here https://www.buzzsprout.com/2327200/support . Supporters receive invitations to participate in our recording sessions as an audience member. Thank you for listening! You can reach out to us on social media at @RAF_BomberPod (X) or @NeverMindTheDambusters (Instagram)You can find out about James' research, articles, lectures and podcasts here .You can read more about Jane's work on her website at https://www.justcuriousjane.com/, and listen to podcasts/media stuff here

Este podcast y el resto de contenido de That Game Loop es posible gracias vuestras generosas aportaciones en Patreon. ----- La industria del videojuego tiene una gran cantidad de temas para abarcar y en TGL somos conscientes de ello pero sobretodo nuestro querido César que se trae programas super curiosos que se escuchan poco en el internet. Es por eso que, en este audio entenderemos qué es la Digital Games Research Association (DIGRA) y específicamente el capítulo de España pero que perfectamente sirve para comprender cómo funciona a grandes rasgos. Si te interesan los videojuegos más allá de los blips y blups y te gusta adentrarte en temas sesudos para demostrar que no todo se basa en compra y venta de empresas o quién saca el juego con más muchiflops entonces este es tu programa. ------- LINKS IMPORTANTES ------- SUSCRÍBETE: / DISCORD: https://discord.gg/Axakvk2E9F ------- REDES SOCIALES ------- TIK-TOK: https://www.tiktok.com/@thatgameloop INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/thatgameloop/ TWITTER: @ThatGameLoop ️ IVOOX: https://go.ivoox.com/sq/1761386

We have events this time from The Newberry in Chicago, online with the Laura Ingalls Wilder Legacy and Research Association, Mansfield, MO, Cast Reunions at Non-Homesite Towns of More than 3 Cast Members, and looking ahead to Little House on the Prairie: The Musical.

Polls are coming in thick and fast as we head towards October 14th.  The latest is the New Zealand Herald's Poll of Polls, which combines results from a range of pollsters, specifically Curia, Kantar Public, Talbot Mills, and Reid Research.  According to the Poll of Polls, National and ACT's chances continue to soar.  They have a 95.1% chance of forming a government if the election were held this weekend, and an 87% chance of forming a government for the actual election date.  Research Association's Polling spokesperson Murray Campbell told Kerre Woodham that the accuracy of polls, when measured against the election results, is still in pretty good stead.  He said that discrepancies in the last election can be attributed to polling companies not factoring in early voting.  LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

With all that's happening in the world today, from a political perspective, the upcoming elections taking place around the globe, the recent year we've witnessed in pre-election polling and current perceptions of polls, we were lucky enough to sit in and record a panel discussion on this very topic. It took place after the Research Association of New Zealand's AGM. You'll hear from industry experts on why polling matters in society. There's also a Q&A section that took place at the end of the episode to just before we do crossover. **Please note** We wanted to set an expectation from an audio quality point of view. Unfortunately, it's not quite as clear in some parts as we would have hoped since this was recorded in an external facility. But nevertheless, there is some great food for thought in there, and we highly encourage you to hear the episode out, and I'm sure you will enjoy it, too.  This discussion's genesis came about as a result of a recent opinion piece published in the NZ Herald, where Mike Hosking wrote “…the polls as they currently stand are not particularly accurate.” But as we know, political polls are an essential part of maintaining open democratic systems like ours. They tell us the mood of the electorate at a particular point in time and allow people to vote in that context. Panelists are as below. Representing the pollsters: Founder of Curia Research. Pollster to Prime Ministers and Opposition Leaders… David Farrar Representing Academia: Deputy Director, Healthier Lives National Science Challenge. Associate Professor (Honorary), Department of Statistics | Waipapa Taumata Rau / The University of Auckland. Managing Director iNZight Analytics. And co-author of “Understanding Public Opinion Polling in New Zealand (May 2023)… Andrew Sporle  Representing the Fourth Estate: With NZME, working on the BusinessDesk team's election coverage, focusing on political parties' policies and plans to address issues facing New Zealand… Dileepa Fonseka And representing the Research Association: Founder Baseline Consultancy. RANZ Life Member and RANZ Political Polling Spokesperson. Masters degree in Geography, graduating, in fact, at the same time as me with the same degree but with much better marks… Murray Campbell The episode covers: A response to the claim that the polls as they currently stand are not particularly accurate.Looking at various failures and sources of errors in polling from around the world.The influence certain events can have on polling and electoral results.The changing demographic makeup of the electoral roll.Impact of advanced voting on polling.The role of political polling in society. We hope you enjoy the episode.

In this episode of Now that's Significant, Host Geoff Lowe, Director at Infotools and Chair of the Research Association of New Zealand, was joined by two industry stalwarts, Paul Graham of Waka Kotahi, and Colin Yee of Glasshouse Consulting. Paul and Colin joined us on the show to talk about their sustained market research partnership in the road transport sector, which has spanned 25 years. Fittingly, this episode number shares its number with one of the most famous roads in the world - Route 66. Waka Kotahi, New Zealand's governmental transport agency, has a primary function is to promote an affordable, integrated, safe, responsive and sustainable land transport system. The episode explores all challenges and benefits that come from such a prolonged relationship, the significant team that it took to achieve the results it did, and some of the reflections both parties have had over the past two and a half decades. We hope you enjoy the show.

Conference Chair Michael Rudowski joins Debbie and  Megan talking about the 53rd annual Travel and Tourism Research Association conference kicks off today.

June brings us into Summer and it's a big Laura month. Get the news from Pepin, WI, Independence, KS, Burr Oak, IA, De Smet, SD, and Spring Valley, MN.Then what's going on with the Laura Ingalls Wilder Legacy and Research Association and the South Dakota Historical Society Press. Are you going to an event this June?

Both legend and history speak of an image of Jesus “not made by human hands”, first in Edessa and later in Constantinople. This “Mandylion” or “Image of Edessa” vanished during the Fourth Crusade, but did it turn up again in the form of the mysterious Shroud of Turin? Historian and Shroud researcher Dr. Cheryl White rejoins us to explore this fascinating possibility! LINKS/RESOURCES: – Shroud of Turin Education and Research Association, Inc.:  https://www.shroud.com/stera.htm – Dr. White's publications:  https://www.amazon.com/Cheryl-H.-White/e/B00E5E5WLE – Dr. White's previous interview on “The Gracious Guest Show” (9/30/22): https://youtu.be/ja8SKPOAfn4 ================== To find more faith-enriching content than you'll know what to do with and to contact Mike Creavey, be sure to visit https://thegraciousguest.org

On this episode of Now that's Significant, a Market Research Podcast. Horst Feldhaeuser, Group Services Director at Infotools, hosted John O'Toole, a seasoned Director, CEO, Sales and Marketing Professional, Entrepreneur and Business Growth Consultant. John is the Lead Partner – Marketing & Innovation at Nudge Partners, a managing consultant at Brandbiz Limited and also the Chief judge for the REAWARDS, New Zealand's bi-annual celebration of outstanding market research and insights work. Horst spoke with John spoke about the latter of these involvements, to reflect on the Research Association of New Zealand's Market Research Effectiveness Awards - REAwards. The episode covers: > How market research helps organizations to short cut to consumer wants and needs, understand challenges and opportunities, and make better business decisions faster and with lower risk. And that's what the REAWARDS showcase in particular. > How being a small but highly innovative country gives New Zealand insights professionals an advantage and often also leads to better long-term relationships - a growing trend in the REAWARDS over the last few decades. > How REAWARDS judges can only judge what is put in front of them in the awards entries. We are rewarding research effectiveness, so showing impact from research clearly is crucial. > That to become a master research craftsperson today we need to train people on a much wider toolset, including ResTech, AI etc., but cannot forget our ultimate role of understanding people, brands and relationships. > That New Zealand is of the best test markets in the world to develop and prototype many things including research – so it's great to be here. > That entering awards and conference submissions strengthens client relationships and can grow insights businesses and the NZ Research industry as a whole.  We hope you enjoy the show.

Laura Ingalls Wilder season is really getting started. The Laura Ingalls Wilder sites that haven't opened yet for the season will open at the end of May. There is an event in Pepin and a fundraiser in Burr Oak. There is a Laura Ingalls Wilder Legacy and Research Association homesite updates online program about what's happening with the homesites this year. It's Missouri Cherry Blossom Festival and 3 more events with "Little House on the Prairie" TV show cast members that are close to Iowa. There is even an event at the Gene Autry Museum of the West. Check out this episode and my blog post for more.

Might the Shroud of Turin in fact be the “vessel” with which Joseph of Arimathea caught Christ's blood? Could the Shroud of Turin, the Holy Grail, and Veronica's Veil be telling the same story? Historian Justin Robinson takes us on a whirlwind adventure of discovery that you will not want to miss! LINKS/RESOURCES: - For further details, check out Russ Breault's fascinating interview on this topic with Dr. Dan Scavone - https://youtu.be/HS5rpAKPXlA - Justin's blog The Coins & History Foundation - https://coinsandhistoryfoundation.org/author/justinrobinsonlmo/ - British Society for the Turin Shroud's newsletter - http://www.bstsnewsletter.com/ - Shroud of Turin Education and Research Association, Inc.:  https://www.shroud.com/stera.htm - Coin News magazine: https://www.isubscribe.co.uk/Coin-News-Magazine-Subscription.cfm ================== To find more faith-enriching content than you'll know what to do with and to contact Mike Creavey, be sure to visit https://thegraciousguest.org

I chat with the incredible Mr. Rich Fisher one of the director's of the Vickers MG & Research Association whose goal is to inform and educate the publics knowledge of the Vickers machine gun's role in military history. Join me for this incredible journey into historical research and remembrance.

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Justin Robinson of the Samlerhuset Group joins me to unpack an exciting new discovery–the Shroud of Turin's face on Byzantine coins?! If the Shroud is just a Medieval forgery this should be impossible. Justin is a rare coin historian working with the organization that strikes the Nobel Peace Prize medal, and his lifelong fascination with history, numismatics, and the Shroud have intersected in a profoundly intriguing way. Don't miss this one! LINKS/RESOURCES: - Justin's blog The Coins & History Foundation - https://coinsandhistoryfoundation.org/author/justinrobinsonlmo/ - British Society for the Turin Shroud's newsletter - http://www.bstsnewsletter.com/ - Shroud of Turin Education and Research Association, Inc.:  https://www.shroud.com/stera.htm - “Who Can He Be?” documentary and official website featuring lots of great information and links: https://www.whocanhebe.com - Coin News magazine: https://www.isubscribe.co.uk/Coin-News-Magazine-Subscription.cfm

Dr. Cheryl H. White, professor of history at Louisiana State University, has had a career-long interest in Shroud studies. She currently serves on the board of directors of the Shroud of Turin Education and Research Association (STERA), and has published and presented original research from the Vatican Secret Archives related to the history of the Shroud for international journals and conferences. Dr. White also served as the historical consultant on the Shroud of Turin exhibit developed for the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C. LINKS/RESOURCES: - Shroud of Turin Education and Research Association, Inc.: https://www.shroud.com/stera.htm - Dr. White's publications: https://www.amazon.com/Cheryl-H.-White/e/B00E5E5WLE ================== To find more faith-enriching content than you'll know what to do with and to contact Mike Creavey, be sure to visit https://thegraciousguest.org

Welcome to my interview with Barrie Schwortz. He was the Official Documenting Photographer for the Shroud of Turin Research Project (STURP), the team that conducted the first in-depth scientific examination of the Shroud in 1978. Today, he plays an influential role in Shroud research and education as the editor and founder of the internationally recognized Shroud of Turin Website (www.shroud.com), the oldest, largest and most extensive Shroud resource on the Internet, with more than fifteen million visitors from over 160 countries. In 2009 he founded the Shroud of Turin Education and Research Association, Inc. (STERA, Inc.), a non-profit 501(c)(3) corporation, to which he donated the website and his extensive Shroud photographic collection, as well as many other important Shroud resources, in order to preserve and maintain these materials and make them available for future research and study. He currently serves as the President of STERA, Inc. You can find more of his work by going to www.shroud.com. Subscribe on Spotify or Apple Podcasts to listen to each week. New episodes uploaded every Thursday-Friday. Want to learn more? Check out the socials below: Website: www.guypowell.com Instagram: @guy.r.powell Facebook: @AHistoryOfTheShroudOfTurin Email List: https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbUM1V2xhcjZBZFA1NlRLUEJ1Yi0tRmo1OHdxUXxBQ3Jtc0tuUEJnZ3VoRkFFNHg0UWUyWF9TUnJsWm1yWUo2dnFWcHowTUtfenlldmE4SlhRVlBzWlg1MHhETGFmZVFuQUMtZ2dEV2RiV3djV0hWMDl4QmRTNk9DUDIteENjUHFaUUxkSXVESDlfVDlMZFh3MlowSQ&q=https%3A%2F%2Fguypowell.us6.list-manage.com%2Fsubscribe%3Fu%3D27f4c87d37aa36fffdca695f3%26id%3D6857bf7051&v=BtQYEbXA97g (https://guypowell.us6.list-manage.com...)

In this episode of Now that's Significant, a market research podcast, we welcome on the show Horst Feldhaeuser, Group Services Director at Infotools and Alyona Medelyan, CEO and co-founder of Thematic. Horst and Alyona take the reins of this show, presenting their paper from the 2022 Research Association of New Zealand Conference: AI – friend of foe? Their paper delves into a joint project they were involved in, using AI to find insights from online reviews of Coca-Cola, the world's largest soft drinks manufacturer. Enjoy the show

Today I compare and contrast actual Japanese National Socialism to Japanese ultranationalism by looking at the life and work of Motoyuki Takabatake. Then, I look at the Shōwa Research Association and the Imperial Rule Assistance Association, both of which studied socialism in order to integrate and subvert it. Then I go through Masao Maruyama's framework for fascist development in Japan. After that, I go through the life of Sōgen Ōmori whose life puts on full display several of the themes I've been tracing throughout the Imperial Japan series. Finally, I conclude with a few interesting facts I learned about Toyama and the Black Dragon Society at the end of my research - things which tie into sexpionage honeypot type operations. Song: Song of Shōwa Restoration Merch: https://programmed-to-chill.myshopify.com/

In this episode, Kris and Paul discuss a paper from the International Rock Climbing Research Association that introduces and assesses a battery of ten tests designed specifically to measure climbing performance. Performance Assessment for Rock Climbers: The International Rock Climbing Research Association Sport-Specific Test Battery By: Nick Draper, David Giles, Nicola Taylor, Laurent Vigouroux, Vanesa Espana-Romero, et al. Published in the International Journal of Sports Physiology and Performance, Human Kinetics, 2021.   *Additional studies/resources mentioned in this episode: Flexibility Assessment and the Role of Flexibility as a Determinant of Performance in Rock Climbing By: Nick Draper, Simon Brent, Gavin Blackwell, and Chris Hodgson; published in the International Journal of Performance Analysis in Sport in 2009. Make sure you're subscribed, leave us a review, and share! And please tell all of your friends who are confused and overwhelmed by the amount of jumbled and conflicting training info out there, that you have the perfect podcast for them.   Better Call Paul | Breaking Beta is brought to you by Power Company Climbing and Crux Conditioning, and is a proud member of the Plug Tone Audio Collective. Find full episode transcripts, citations, and more at our website. Follow Kris and Breaking Beta on Instagram  Follow Paul and Crux Conditioning on Instagram  If you have questions, comments, or want to suggest a paper we should cover, find us at our Community + Knowledge Hub. Our music is from legendary South Dakota band Rifflord.

One of the most mysterious artifacts in history is back in the news. An Italian scientist and his team used a new X-ray technique to date the shroud, purported to be the burial cloth of Jesus, to about the time of his crucifixion. This contradicts a 1988 study that used radiocarbon dating to place the shroud's creation in the year 1325, +/- 65 years. This week, we pull excerpts from a pair of interviews Derek conducted in July, 2013 at a Prophecy Watchers conference in Colorado Springs. Russ Breault, president and founder of the Shroud of Turin Education Project (www.shroudencounter.com), and Barrie Schwortz, president of the Shroud of Turin Education and Research Association (www.shroud.com), explain why they believe the shroud is what believers claim it to be—a piece of linen that preserves the image of the pre-resurrected Jesus. Turkey is a land that's full of historic and prophetic significance—the churches of Revelation, Abraham's home city, and the oldest religious community on Earth, Göbekli Tepe. Join us on this adventure! Our tour runs October 18-November 3, 2022. Find out more at www.SkyWatchinTurkey.com. Join us in Israel! For details on the 2023 SkyWatchTV Israel Tour March 19-30, 2023, visit www.SkyWatchInIsrael.com.

This episode of Now that's Significant is a partnership between the Research Association of New Zealand and Infotools, filmed to coincide and celebrate the ESOMAR International Market Research Day. Geoff Lowe, Maria Tyrrell, and Murray Campbell discuss what the world would be like without market research, and in the process show the value and role it plays in our daily lives. This episode uses the 3 of the 17 United Nations Sustainability goals, and explores how market research applies to each one. Enjoy the show

Dawna Mosburg - Being an Elementary School Principal, Changing School Cultures, and Addressing the needs of "At-Risk" Students. This is episode 473 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast. Dawna Mosburg joined Broken Arrow Public Schools in 2007. She has held the positions of Ex. Director of Professional Development, Ex. Director of Ancillary Instructional services and the principal at Rhoades Elementary School. Ms. Mosburg is a graduate of the University of Houston earning a bachelor's degree in elementary education with a minor in special education and a master's degree in administration from Southwestern Oklahoma State University.  She has completed fifteen post Master's degree hours and received her superintendent's certification in 2003. Ms. Mosburg has served as a teacher in Houston, Texas and Clinton, Oklahoma. She was also an assistant principal and a building principal in Clinton for 10 years prior to coming to Broken Arrow Public Schools. Ms. Mosburg was named CCOSA District 10 Administrator of the Year for 2006-2007. Dawna has been a presenter for AERA, American Education and Research Association and is an active member of the International Reading Association.  She also has presented for classes at the Teachers College at Columbia University, St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia and Oklahoma State University Tulsa. Dawna presents locally and throughout Oklahoma on “Brain Compatible Classrooms”.  She also has piloted several programs such as STEM, RTI, PLCs, and enrichment. Ms. Mosburg continually campaigns for “at risk” students and her efforts are chronicled in the book, Living Faithfully, the Transformation of Washington School which was published in 2013. She has also been published in AERA WESIG with her article, “Leading with the Heart”. Connect & Learn More: dawnasellstulsa@gmail.com https://www.amazon.com/Living-Faithfully-Transformation-Washington-School/dp/1617357081 Length - 59:12

ll 11 aprile si celebra la Giornata del mare e della cultura marinara e presso l'ITS Fondazione Giovanni Caboto si terrà una giornata di formazione e approfondimento destinata agli studenti degli ultimi anni delle superiori. Organizzata da Regione Lazio e Blue Planet Economy - Fiera Roma in concerto con MAR – Marine Activities and Research Association, insieme al Direttore Clemente Borrelli parliamo del comparto e dell'indotto del mare.Articolo completo da lunedì 11 aprile ►

PREORDER NOW: A CANLOAN Officer – a VMGCRA Reprint (PRE-ORDER) - The Vickers Machine Gun (vickersmg.blog) In this interview I was joined by Rich Fisher from the Vickers MG Collection & Research Association to talk about the Vickers, how the Association got started, and a new book that is available for pre-order today which is a reprint of a memoir of a CANLOAN officer, Lieutenant Rex Fendick. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to my interview with Barrie Schwortz. He was the Official Documenting Photographer for the Shroud of Turin Research Project (STURP), the team that conducted the first in-depth scientific examination of the Shroud in 1978. Today, he plays an influential role in Shroud research and education as the editor and founder of the internationally recognized Shroud of Turin Website (www.shroud.com), the oldest, largest and most extensive Shroud resource on the Internet, with more than fifteen million visitors from over 160 countries. In 2009 he founded the Shroud of Turin Education and Research Association, Inc. (STERA, Inc.), a non-profit 501(c)(3) corporation, to which he donated the website and his extensive Shroud photographic collection, as well as many other important Shroud resources, in order to preserve and maintain these materials and make them available for future research and study. He currently serves as the President of STERA, Inc. You can find more of his work by going to www.shroud.com. If you would like to see the interview please head to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9RFCXFTb-M

In this episode, Specialist Sports Physiotherapist, Morten Hoegh, talks about pain and injury management and research. Today, Morten talks about his workshop on pain, the problems in the research around pain and injuries, and embracing the patient as the expert. What is nociplastic pain? Hear about the injury versus pain narrative, treating the perception of injury during pain, the problem of over-treating pain, and get Morten's advice to his younger self, all on today's episode of The Healthy, Wealthy & Smart Podcast.   Key Takeaways “There is a difference between having an injury and being in pain.” “You will have injury and pain on one end, but you will have pain without injury on the other end.” “Just because we know something doesn't mean we know everything.” “Pain prevention is well-intentioned, sometimes unrealistic, and possibly unhelpful.” “All pain is real. It's always experienced as pain.” “People who live their life with pain, they are experts.” “We have different aspects and different competences, and we should bring them together.” “We should definitely try and cure pain from the planet, but maybe not by opioids.” “Things take time to cope with.” “Make sure you stick to good ideas if you think they're good, but also leave them if they're not.”   More about Morten Hoegh After qualifying as a clinical physiotherapist (1999) and completing several clinical exams, Morten was granted the title of specialist physiotherapist in musculoskeletal physiotherapy (2005) and sports physiotherapy (2006). It was not until 2010-12 he made an entry to academia when he joined the multidisciplinary Master-of-Science in Pain: Science & Society at King's College London (UK). From 2015-19 Morten did his PhD in Medicine/pain at Center for Neuroplasticity and Pain (CNAP), Aalborg University. He is now an assistant professor. Having spent more than a decade as clinician, teacher, and business developer, he decided to focus on improving national and international pain education based on the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP). Morten was vice-chair of the European Pain Federation's Educational Committee from 2018-20 and has been involved in the development of the Diploma in Pain Physiotherapy and underlying curriculum, as well as the curricula in nursing and psychology. At a national level, Morten has been appointed to several chairs and committees, including the Danish Medicine and Health Authorities and the Danish Council of Ethics. He has co-authored a textbook on pain, and written several book chapters, clinical commentaries, and peer-reviewed basic science articles on pain and pain modulation. Morten's first book on pain in layman's terms will be published in January 2021. Morten is regarded as a skilled and inspiring speaker, and he has been invited to present in Europe and on the American continent. He is also a prolific debater and advocate of evidence-based and patient-centred approaches to treatment in general. Morten is motivated by his desire to improve management of chronic pain, reduce stigmatisation of people with ‘invisible diseases', and to bridge the gap between clinical practice and neuroscience research in relation to pain.   Suggested Keywords Healthy, Wealthy, Smart, Physiotherapy, Neuroscience, Pain, Injury, Rehabilitation, Research, Experience, Treatment, Management,   Resources: #IOCprev2021 on Twitter.   To learn more, follow Morten at: Website:          http://www.videnomsmerter.dk                         https://p4work.com Twitter:            @MH_DK Instagram:       @mhdk_drmortenhoegh LinkedIn:         Morten Hoegh   Subscribe to Healthy, Wealthy & Smart: Website:                      https://podcast.healthywealthysmart.com Apple Podcasts:          https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/healthy-wealthy-smart/id532717264 Spotify:                        https://open.spotify.com/show/6ELmKwE4mSZXBB8TiQvp73 SoundCloud:               https://soundcloud.com/healthywealthysmart Stitcher:                       https://www.stitcher.com/show/healthy-wealthy-smart iHeart Radio:                https://www.iheart.com/podcast/263-healthy-wealthy-smart-27628927   Read the Full Transcript Here:  00:02 Hi, Morten, welcome to the podcast. I'm very excited to have you on. So thanks so much. Thank you for having me, Karen. It's a pleasure to be here. Yeah. And today, we're going to talk about your really wonderful, wonderful workshop at the IOC conference in Monaco. That was just a couple of weeks ago. And you did a great workshop on pain, which is one of my passions.   00:27 But I would, I think   00:30 the best thing for us to do here is to just throw it over to you. And let you give a little background on the talk. And then we'll dive into the talk itself. So go ahead.   00:43 Thank you. And, you know, I'm really happy that you liked it. It was a great pleasure to present that the IRC was my first time there as well. A lovely place to be and very lovely people. And he really well organized conference as well. Well, back to the background. So the tool was, the workshop, as it were, was actually originally something I planned with Dr. Kieran or Sullivan, who is now in Ireland. Unfortunately, he couldn't come due to turn restrictions and all of that for COVID. So we had to change it slightly. But over the period of the last sort of year or so I've been working with colleagues at all university where I'm affiliated and test Denton and Steven George of Adelaide and, and to university respectively. And together with them, we sort of have written up this idea that there is a difference between having an injury and being in pain. And the reason we came about that was because we wanted to try and look into what is actually the sort of narrative definition of a sports injury. And and some one of my colleagues are actually two of my colleagues Kosta, Luke, and Sabine Avista. We're looking into this and trying to sort of find out what the consensus what they came up with, when they were looking at the last 10 years of of sports related research is that the same articles could use injury and pain for the same thing. So it was being used almost as well, not almost, but as sentiment synonymously throughout the program, or the manuscript, and others will stick to pain and others will stick to injury. But if you then try to go down into the methods and find out what is an injury, really, some would have definitions, but there weren't really anything. And definitely, there wasn't a clear distinction between when is the tissue injured. And when is the athlete suffering from pain that is keeping them from not doing what they want to do.   02:50 So we came up with this idea to write an editorial for the BDSM. We couldn't get it accepted as an editorial, we were under the impression that maybe the topic was a bit too narrow. So it really wouldn't have any impact. But we had a we had some some help from from   03:12 sorry, you can cut that bit out. I was just losing her name. Let me just get it here.   03:21 Oh, that's she was such a great help. I'm really sorry for not being able to I definitely think we should put her name in there.   03:32 Oh, here we go.   03:35 So we wanted to do the editorial first. But we were under the impression that we couldn't get the editorial through because the topic, you know, is probably a bit too narrow. But fortunately, Madeline Thorpe, who is working with TAs in Adelaide, she helped us create this infographic that sort of conveyed the message of the difference between what we call a sports related injury and a sports related pain. So after a few revisions, the BJs took it in as an infographic with a short text to describe what we mean. And and it's been. It's been, you know, quite well cited afterwards. So we're very happy with the the attention that this idea has got. And then of course, what we really are trying to do here is to create two new semantic entities as we say, Where where it's clear when we do research, but also when we talk to athletes, are you really injured? Is the tissue injury that needs healing and where you might need you know, specific treatment for that injury versus Are you having pain as a consequence of an injury or even without an injury, which is what we call sports related pain. So that's sort of the broader concept and and I hope I've I've done right with my co authors.   05:00 because they've Of course, been been a huge part of both the development and the writing of these, these, this infographic.   05:09 Yeah. And can we now sort of dive in a little bit deeper? So, injury versus pain? Right. I think a lot of people will think that every time you have an injury, there's pain. So used a really nice example in your talk. So does tendon tissue damage lead to pain? Yeah. But is the pain in the area of the tendon equal to damage to the tendon?   05:38 Maybe not. Yeah. Right. Oh, so yeah. So let's, let's have you kind of dive into this injury versus pain narrative. And if you want to go into those pain mechanisms that you spoke about, we can dive into that as well, because I know that that people had some questions on that on social media. So let's first talk injury versus pain. Yeah, again, my my perspective on this with my background, being a physio and, and sort of a neuroscientist is that I come from it, I would say from a pain, scientist pain mechanistic approach. And what I try to do is to understand what goes on in the human that could explain why they feel pain. And in some instances, and for instance, in low back pain, we we think, in about maybe 80 to 95% of the cases, we don't know what's going on. So we're pretty sure that the risks are mechanism, perhaps are quite complicated. One there has multiple factors that are interrelated, but there's probably something. So that's really difficult to study. Again, consider consider, you know, if you were tasked to, to come up with a, you know, a model where you could study this model would be, for instance, an animal model. So not that I would encourage people to go out and, you know, do bad things to other animals. But just, you know, for the sake of the example, let's imagine that you wanted to do an animal model of low back pain, or even a herniated sorry, a groin injury, you could say, in sports.   07:20 If you know, the most basic thing to do would be to create an injury. If you don't want to create an injury injury, what you could do is induce inflammation, you know, inject capsaicin, or put something under the skin or down into the tissues, and that makes your immune system go, you know, make inflammation. And that inflammation makes your nervous system respond more powerful. We call it sensitization, I think many people have heard of that word by now.   07:49 And that's a really good way to create that sensation of pain in humans as well. So we can inject capsaicin again, and people will usually feel pain.   08:00 In that case, that's what happens or that's how we understand what happens in the case of a tissue injury. So when there's a tissue injury, there's inflammation, and we understand that pain. So when the tissue hit healing period, is sort of crossing from what you could say, the inflammatory phase, into the prolific face, pain should go down. And in most cases, that's what happened. But what when the pain persists after the inflammatory phase. You know, from the science perspective, we don't know that. But we still know that this person is in pain. So whether that be an athlete or non athletes, they're still in pain. And in this in sort of the pain research world, we have a definition of pain that doesn't necessitate any type of injury, not even any activation of those, we call them nociceptors. But nociceptive system you could say.   08:53 So we acknowledge that people can have pain and not be Do not be damaged, not be injured, not have pathology. And that's sort of the idea that we are trying to bring into sports medicine as well, which has been over the you know, many last decades I've you know, I've been in in sports medicine or as a sports physio, for 20 odd years and sort of dominating belief. And also perhaps, trajectory has always been sort of the orthopedic sports related and to some extent, also pharmacological approach, combined with and that's important, combined with a non pharmacological physio, perhaps approach. So there's been this interrelationship collaboration between doctors and physios and other health professionals, which is quite unique. As I see it in the musculoskeletal system. We don't see that to the same extent, for instance, for low back pain or neck pain, but sports has done that. But maybe there has also kept people within the realms of sort of orthopedic approaches trying to understand what goes on. It's   10:00 tissues, and why did they hurt, and then when you couldn't find out why they hurt, we've just looked deeper into the tissues, which is, of course, a good idea from a scientistic or scientists perspective, because there are definitely things in the tissues that we don't know today, which will, you know, make us become more aware of what goes on, you know, as, as late as in the beginning of October, wasn't it where the Nobel Prizes were given out, there was given a Nobel Prize out for the person, I might do violence to his name, but it's part of Putin, I think he's last name it.   10:36 I didn't, I suppose a Putin or something like that. I do apologize for not being able to pronounce it. But he got the Nobel Prize was shared the Nobel Prize for his work on a peer to two receptors, which is a quite new phenomenon and sort of the longer perspective, but it might learn us over time, why could movement hurt? Which is something we don't know today? So if there's no sensitization, why does it hurt to be moving? And that's really interesting. But again, coming out in the clinic, we don't know enough. So we will have patients in the clinic where we simply do not know why they hurt.   11:14 And you could say that doesn't matter. We can call it anything. But then if you take a clinical look at what goes on what happens again, if you look at the signs, what does it mean, when people are hurting, and they think they're injured? They This is what a percentage again, they seem to be thinking that they're being in pain is the same as being weak. If you're weak, you're not, you know, you're not allowed to be in on the team, you might lose your position. So it has a lot of negative connotations. And I mean, that in itself is wrong. But what if it's based on a misconception that just because you're hurting, you are also injured? And couldn't we help people who are hurting with their pain,   11:59 just as well as we could if they are injured with a tissue injury. So what we are saying is that the two are different. They're both real, they should both be addressed. And they're not, they're not opposite ends of a dichotomy, you will have injury and pain in one end, but you will have pain without injury on the other end. So we need to pay attention to both of them separately. Yeah, it's because sometimes a person has a pain problem   12:29 may not be a specific tissue problem, but they have a pain problem. And so this pain problem may, like you said, cause certainly a an athlete to catastrophize. And to really play out to the point where maybe now they're fearful to get on the pitch or the court or the field. And so where does that leave us as physio therapists when it comes to their care? How do we help manage someone, or I should say, help someone manage their pain in order to play their sport, knowing that their every time they go out and play, they're not compounding, quote, unquote, tissue damage?   13:14 Yeah, and interesting, let's say someone has the perception that their tissues are injured, and every time they move, that's a sign of their tissue injury, or even when they hurt more, the injury is bigger, then that person, I mean, if that's a person like me, I would think that I should do something about that injury so that I don't hurt. But pain is always a symptom of something underlying it. Whereas we know from pain research in for instance, low back pain, that pain can in itself, be the disease, what the ICD 11 is now describing as chronic primary pain. So you can have that in your body, you can have it in your tendons, you can have it all way where your tendons are, you can have it where you know, where the bones are, where the where you feel the muscles are. And it's the pain itself is the problem. So rather than looking specifically at a tissue, which needs strengthening or some sort of treatment, then we can look at the person and say, What is it really that you need? A very, very simple example here, which is unlikely to be, you know, the case for everyone. But let's imagine we have someone with knee pain. And the thing that happens is that when they start running, their knee pain gets worse. But if they've been running for a kilometer, or two kilometer or miles, whatever, you know, whatever metric you use,   14:40 then the pain might be the same. So it sort of comes from nothing to let's say, five in the first mile, and then it stays at five, maybe six, and that person wants to run two miles perhaps. But what's the problem in that? I mean, the problem of course, is if pain in this case is a sign of an injury   15:00 that we should attend to. So we need to understand that it's not an injury.   15:06 Once we've done that, why not help this person, deal with the pain and maybe deal with it when they run, just like we would say to someone, if they have, again, back pain, for instance, and they have pain when they work, but their pain is not necessarily worse when they work, should they not be working? I mean, of course, if, if your pain can go away by two days of rest, and graded exposure, that's fine. But in some cases, and they're not as rare as I think most people believe they are, that we just need to work with that person and help them do what they need or want to do with that pain. And why is that, you know, of course, it's not the optimal it would be much nicer is if we would just kill the pain. Or if they could kill their own pain. But we're not there yet, we are still working to get it. And we're not giving up, there's a lot to do. But currently today, and tomorrow, we need to help people work with their pain, that's the best thing we can do now, and and, you know, giving people that agency to actually manage their pain. So in the case of the runner before, maybe the best thing we can help them do is share with them ideas and make them take agency over their pain by you know, using perhaps a cold pack or heat pack or a rest regime or watching you know, something that takes off their mind of their pain for a minute look at you know, watching dope sick on Disney, whatever they need to do to get their mind off, you know, the pain that they have, so that they can recharge, and they can be as you know, their normal again, before they go out for another run. So all of these things would make absolutely no sense if we didn't acknowledge that pain in itself is the problem, because it's not helping anyone's tissue injury, if there was a such to become better. So again, that's the infographic in its essence is that on one end, you use those inspiration to how to manage pain, what that means and how pain is influenced. And on the other side, you will have tissue injuries, and how to manage that, for instance, loading. In sports medicine loading is a big issue. It's probably the one thing that you know, everyone is doing when you're rehabilitating some someone after an injury or pain. But pain doesn't necessarily necessarily sorry, pain doesn't necessarily respond to loading. So you can have the same pain, whether or not you're loading. But there could be tons of other things such as the way you think about your pain, the way you respond to your pain experiences you've had before the context your work in. So you can run in one context without too many pains or problems. But in a completely different context. For instance, when you do a competition, or if you know, if you need to do something, because that's the bar to get onto the competition you want to do, then pain can be a much, much bigger problem. So we need to understand that context of beliefs and experience really influences pain, whereas loading may not. But it could have caused, but it doesn't have to. So pain is a much larger, much more complex topic of which we still don't know too much. We do know quite a lot. And as long as there's an injury, we understand the pain that goes with it. But when it comes to these pains that are there by themselves, the ICD 11 type chronic primary pain, then that's the type of pain that we you know, we've really, we don't have the sort of blueprints on that. So we can't help everyone. And we can't say this is right for you or wrong for you. We need to do individualized care for all of these people and help them find the best tools to support themselves. Yeah, and I think that was something that people who weren't at the conference and kind of reading through tweets,   19:08 that certainly brought up some questions, one of which was the pay mechanism, no sub plastic pain, where we can't fully explain it. And so then there was a question of, we can't fully explain it, why even bring it up? So I'll throw it over? Yeah. It's, again, it's a good question. And especially if you're a clinician, why would you use it, though, they're basically what they are. They're ways that scientists understand the pain. So again, imagine you're standing at one end of the road and you're looking at the other end by the end of that road, a very long road, you have pain. And then the way the place you're standing at is how you explain how to get to that end point. And if you're standing at a place and you know there's a tissue injury, there's inflammation. We understand that as   20:00 Part of the normal normal nociceptive system. So we would call it nociceptive pain.   20:05 Underneath that there is a range of different changes and modulator modulators of the system that leads to, for instance, peripheral and central sensitization. So they're not unique to anything that is there also in nociceptive pain, but it's induced by, for instance, a tissue injury.   20:24 If you have a different tissue injury, the one that hits your nervous system, we call it a neuropathic pain, so you have a nerve damage, along with pain, we call that a neuropathic pain. So again, you're standing on this long road, but in this case, the road itself is sort of gone wrong. But we still know what's going on. Again, if you want to use the study metaphor, you can, you can design a study, you can just take an animal, and you can compress or do something to the neurons, and you can create this similar pain experience, or at least the behavior that it assimilates this pain experience in animals, other than humans. And then finally, we have this new, we call it a mechanistic descriptor knows a plastic pain, which is much much blurrier. And perhaps it's more like a waste bin. As it is now it's, it's where you would say we acknowledge that people have pain.   21:24 And a lot of things goes into it. So just like in nociceptive, and neuropathic pain, sensitization is definitely part of it. It could also be part of the note of plastic pain. But unlike the other two, you don't have the inflammatory response that could explain it. And you don't have the neuron damage that could explain it. But the person experiencing the pain could have a similar experience. So what is it really? How do we a scientist tried to understand that pain, and that's what most plastic is at the moment. And there is a little bit of debate that whether or not you can actually use algorithms to diagnose or, you know,   22:09 maybe   22:11 justify at least that you yet the person in front of you are experiencing this type of pain mechanism or pain related to this mechanism, we definitely have a very, very, you know, widely embraced algorithm used for neuropathic pain. And some very, you know, high profile researchers has just recently come up with a paper suggesting that the same can be done for noisy plastic, sorry, for noisy plastic pain. But personally, I don't think we should, because unlike so nociceptive and neuropathic pain, they're both well understood by signs and we can separate them, they are different. So you can have both, but you would have different qualities to it, there'll be a nerve damage in one and there wouldn't in the other, for instance.   23:02 But we don't know about most plastic pain. So it could be changes in your nervous system, it could actually be, you know, increased responsiveness of your immune system in interaction with your nervous system. It could all be all of that. So it could be sensitization, but it could be tons of other things as well. So how can we start when we don't know what the mechanism is? How can we start to clinically differentiate? So I don't personally think we're quite there yet. Although I like the idea that maybe we can at some point, what I'm afraid of, if we start to use these clinical descriptors, sorry, these mechanistic descriptors, as clinical guidelines, is that what happens to the people who are now embraced and validated in their pain experience by scientists saying, Well, we know what you have, it's mostly plastic pain. But what if we made up an algorithm? And we used it for people? What about the people who fall out? Do they need, you know, a fourth descriptor? Are they just weird? Do they have unknown pain? Are they back to the psychogenic pain? So we've come quite a lot of way, embracing the clinical aspects of pain into the pain research world. And I think using you know, these three mechanistic describers, as you know, trying to really differentiate them and create perhaps treatments that is directed at either one. At this point, or especially anatomy is specifically directed at most aplastic point pain. Just because we know something doesn't mean we know everything.   24:34 So yeah, that's that's the issue. There was a bit of off topic. I'm sorry. But it's such an interesting topic. And I think that the most important thing about no plastic pain is that it is a construct that researchers use. It's embraced by the IRS, the world pain Association, the pay Research Association, and it validates that all pain is real. And there's, you know, it's still real even though we can   25:00 not understand it from a science perspective. I think that's important. And I would hate to see that we misuse it. To say that some really has it. And some don't. Because that's just, you know, that'll be I'll be sad. Yeah. And and can't one's pain experience?   25:20 Everybody's pain experiences individualized. But one person's nociceptive pain experience may be exactly like someone's neuropathic pain experience or someone's no support plastic pain experience, because it's in so then to categorize the persons Oh, well, my pain is like this. So it means this, so I can't have this. And I think it can get people a little confused. And when you have more long term or chronic pain, it's like, the the pain is there. Pain is pain. Some people need the the label or categorization, but like you said, Is it is it really helpful? And it kind of leads me to the one of the last slides in your presentation, and it was like pain prevention is well intentioned, yay, thumbs up, sometimes unrealistic, and possibly unhelpful? Yeah. So do you want to expand on that a little bit? And what you meant by that slide?   26:23 Yeah, that's slide was. That was actually the whole idea when, when I started to talk with Dr. Kieran Sullivan about workshop is that we see a lot of people, athletes. So both of us are still clinicians. And we see and we hear stories of a lot of athletes who have been treated and treated and treated again, or assessed and assessed and assessed again. And again, because they have a pain that we cannot objective eyes. So we can't find anything on scans or blood samples or clinical tests. So rather than acknowledging that pain can be there, so let's say nosey plastic pain, those are, there's something going on in your nervous system that gives you this pain, and we don't know what it is, we can't see it, that will be the, I would say the proper thing to do. So rather than doing that, we tend to keep sending people off. And it ends up with too many scans and too many assessments and too much worry. And in that process, we know the athlete is unlikely to be performing optimal during that period of time. Partly, of course, due to the pain, but also due to the insecurity to you know, if nothing is found on the first scan and a second scan that at some point, they probably start to wonder whether or not they're completely broken, or if it's a really rare disease or even if it's gonna kill them. And these are things that we might feed into by overtreating. So, of course, we should try and prevent pain. Statistics suggest that that's quite tricky. And we, you know, it would be great if we could or even perhaps what we can do is give people tools so they can take agency over their pain when it flares up. But having this idea that when you are in pain, you are damaged is very unhelpful. We think. So we really wanted to highlight the fact that sometimes pain is is that it is pain is still disabling. It's that feeling of pain, and nobody can feel whether or not their pain is due to an injury or not, it feels just like pain. But we identify all pain as if there was an injury, when in fact, it's it's quite unlikely that the majority of cases would have an injury attached to it. And just coming back to one thing you said before that it was quite subtle, but I think it's a really important point you made there, which is that all pain is real, it's always experienced as pain, whether that be of any of the descriptors or for any reason, it always feels like pain, and the quality that we attached to it, it's a muscle pain, or it's whatever is something we do it's our perception is our belief about what the pain is. And maybe that's what we need to also address in sports medicine is that disbelief about what your pain is caused by is a potential target for treatment, we call it psychotherapy or psychoeducation. Or, you know, and that doesn't have to be paying neurobiology education that's unlikely to be better than any other good education and listening and embracing. So there's a range of different interventions that are combining or embracing the fact that you need to talk to your athlete or your patient and help them make sense of their pain in a way that gives them empowerment will give them agency over their pain.   29:51 And something that came to my mind as you were saying, oh the pain it's it's in the muscles, the tendons, the bone, it's the joint and can't that all   30:00 So be a coping mechanism of the athlete. So they may say, oh, it's, you know, this is just a muscle strain. It's so it's their way of coping of saying it's nothing I can continue to to move forward. Do you know what I mean?   30:16 Yeah, absolutely and, and I think as long as it empowers them, if you know if you have the pain that you again, think about Dom's, or delete onset onset muscle soreness. That's an empowering pain, isn't it? I mean, I have Dom's, I was doing exercise yesterday. And if you really want to, you know, be good at something, then perhaps Dom's is your sort of reward even, even though it's painful, it should be awful, it might actually feel like a reward. So in that case, you interpret the pain that you are experiencing, as a reward or something you want it to happen. And I definitely think that some would say that this is just a minor thing, again, think about general health and male, you know, older men, like myself, tend to not go into, you know, the GP for what we consider to be minor things, but in fact, that might be killing us. Because we say, no, no, that's nothing, no, that little spot, that's not cancer. And I would say I don't, I don't think it's a lump, it's probably just something that's here this week. So we should be much better at listening to it, and giving it you know, you know, the quality or the, you know, the meaning that it should have. So it's on both ends of the spectrum, sometimes we neglect that pain is there for a reason, and we should listen to it. And sometimes we should understand that the pain is there without anyone really knowing what it is. But it doesn't mean just because we don't have a universal tool that can treat all pain, which is what we say when we say there's no treatment for chronic pain. In fact, there's quite a, you know, a variety of well established evidence based treatments, that can reduce pain, but they need to be targeted, and individualized so that each one find their, you know, their way through their pain. And of course, one way to do it is to go to everyone you know, who has a, you know, any background in health and ask them what to do, probably the best thing to do is to talk to someone who knows about pain, and then get advice about what seems to be working for you. Embracing that the one in this case, the athlete with pain, they have perhaps one or two years experience with their pain, they know much more about their pain than I do. But I can act as a consultant, I can listen to them, I can help them structure, I know what you know, patterns out there. So I can listen for that. And then together, we can try a few things. But over a period of maybe weeks, they should know as much as I do about pain generally, but with their focus on it. And and that should give them you know, with a bit of practice the ability to find out what works and what doesn't. And rather than thinking of pain management, in the case of a sports related pain, as an on off thing, so either it works and the pain is not there, or it doesn't work, it only reduces the pain a bit, we probably should be realistic and say that most people can have reductions in their pain, perhaps 2030, perhaps more percent. But the majority of people will experience from some sort of management of pain reduction. But it doesn't mean that the pain is going to go away. And it doesn't mean that thought is going to be absolutely pain free. But we need to find a balance between the two so that we understand when pain is actually a sign of either injury or possible injury. But also understand when pain is something that might just be part of life. And the best way we can do the most evidence based approach to that would be to find your way through it, you know, in perhaps, together with a   33:56 clinician of some sort? Yeah. And my gosh, I was just gonna say as we wrap things up, would you like to put a bow on it on your talk and at at the IOC conference and to this talk today, and I think you've just done it? I think you'd beat me to the punch. But is there anything else that you'd like to add?   34:18 That, that you want the listeners to take away?   34:22 I think the most the thing that I always want to stress is that people who meet or live their life with pain, they're experts. And we as clinicians, and researchers should embrace that much more. So the patient as an expert, is something I feel deeply about.   34:44 And I think we should be able to understand that as you know, as a scientist, you might know, you know a lot about groups.   34:51 As a clinician, you might know a lot about people who come to you with a similar symptoms, but as a person who have pain, you have two or three years   35:00 perhaps have experience with your own pain. And I think the best way to you know to get all of these together is by everyone being aware that we have different aspects and different competencies, and we should bring them together. And I think that's the best we can do right now. But still, don't give up hope we should definitely try and cure all pain from the planet, but maybe not by opioids. Yes, I would agree with that. And now more and where can people find you if they want to learn more about what you do? Read your research, where can they find you?   35:39 I think the easiest way would probably be to either find me on on Facebook, or go on Twitter. My handle is at MH underscore DK. And I'm also on Instagram. It's at MH DK underscore Dr. Moulton. Whoa.   35:57 Excellent. And one last question. It's a question I asked everyone is what advice would you give to your younger self, knowing where you are now in your life and in your career?   36:09 Remember, things take time to cope with sometimes you have a good idea. And you can't imagine, however, too, you know, you hear something and everyone else knows it. And you're like the only one who doesn't get it. But give it a bit of time. And, you know, I we have a saying that Rome wasn't built in one day. I think it goes in English as well. So give things time and and make sure you stick to good ideas if you think they're good, but also leave them if they're not.   36:37 Excellent advice. So Morton, thank you so much. This was a great conversation. And like I said, your talk at IOC was really wonderful. There's if people want to see his slides, there are tons of tons of tweets with all of his slides and great descriptors. You could go to IOC p r e v 2021. That was the hashtag for the conference. And as you look through, you'll see a lot of tweets from his from Morton's workshops. So thank you so much for coming on and expanding on that for us. I appreciate it.   37:13 Amazing. Thank you. It is a huge pleasure and privilege to be here. Thank you, Karen. Thanks so much. And everyone. Thanks so much for listening, have a great couple of days and stay healthy, wealthy and smart.

Laura Ingalls Wilder Legacy and Research Association is dedicated to preserving the legacy and furthering scholarship of Laura Ingalls Wilder. The post Bonnetheads 15: A Discussion with the LIWLRA about Laurapalooza 2022 and more! first appeared on The Little House on the Prairie Podcast: Walnut GroveCast.

Laura Ingalls Wilder Legacy and Research Association is dedicated to preserving the legacy and furthering scholarship of Laura Ingalls Wilder. This is a wonderful discussion I had with the President of the LIWLRA, Sarah Manley! Sarah is a true Bonnethead and loves the television show as well as the books! We had a great conversation about her organization and the plans for LauraPalooza 2022: The Wilder Side in Vermont! You can find out more information about the LIWLRA at their website https://www.liwlra.org Follow the LIWLRA on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/LIWLegacy Special Thanks to John Mapes Music for allowing me to use his excellent cover song in the episode! You can watch his hilarious Little House Tribute here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93Vjps2HriA Please Subscribe to his Channel! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSg9fwvgW1fZltdlVM-9UsQ If you would like to hear more from Mark head over the http://www.stillunsolved.com or subscribe to his other podcast, Unsolved Mysteries Rewind by clicking here Become a Patron!

Laura Ingalls Wilder Legacy and Research Association is dedicated to preserving the legacy and furthering scholarship of Laura Ingalls Wilder. This is a wonderful discussion I had with the President of the LIWLRA, Sarah Manley! Sarah is a true Bonnethead and loves the television show as well as the books! We had a great conversation about her organization and the plans for LauraPalooza 2022: The Wilder Side in Vermont! Special Thanks to John Mapes Music for allowing me to use his excellent cover song in the episode! You can watch his hilarious Little House Tribute here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93Vjps2HriA Please Subscribe to his Channel! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSg9fwvgW1fZltdlVM-9UsQ If you would like to hear more from Mark head over the http://www.stillunsolved.com or subscribe to his other podcast, Unsolved Mysteries Rewind by clicking here Become a Patron!

This is my interview with Barrie Schwortz rom the Shroud of Turin Education and Research Association which runs www.shroud.com. We talk about how Barrie became a member of the first team of scientific researchers to examine the shroud, what their research discovered, and how it changed his life.

Alla Camera di Commercio di Roma si è tenuta la presentazionee di Blue Planet Economy European Maritime Forum 2021, evento organizzato da Fiera Roma e MAR – Marine Activities and Research Association, in collaborazione con HABITAT WORLD e BIENNALE HABITAT e con il sostegno di Regione Lazio, Unioncamere Lazio e della Camera di Commercio di Roma.Nella nostra registrazione le interviste eo esposizioni di: Antonello Testa - Consigliere Delegato all'Economia del Mare di Informare; Grazia Maria Iadarola - Dirigente Area “Economia del Mare” Regione Lazio; Roberto Morabito - Direttore del Dipartimento Sostenibilità dei Sistemi Produttivi e Territoriali ENEA e Laura Castellani – Direttore generale Fondazione ITS Servizi alle Imprese.Articolo completo ► https://www.senzabarcode.it/2021/09/30/blue-planet-economy-european-maritime-forum-2021/

New research has revealed why it's more important than ever to heat our homes.Auckland University has compared temperature and humidity readings from rooms of New Zealand children, with their health records.Nearly half sleep in a bedroom that's too cold -- and 13% sleep in one too warm or humid.Kids sleeping in these environments have a greater likelihood of poorer health.Building Research Association Industry Research Manager Chris Litten told Kate Hawkesby houses need to be built so they're warmer -- but we also need to heat them.“It’s part of New Zealand culture, we need to get over it. We need to start heating things and looking after ourselves.”LISTEN ABOVE 

In this latest Trench Chat, we are joined by Richard Fisher of the Vickers Machinegun Collection & Research Association to talk about the Machine Gun Corps, Graham Seton Hutchison ('Hutchy') and did they make tea from the hot water in their Vickers gun water jackets?! Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/oldfrontline)

As the public continues to focus a critical eye on police departments across the nation, there are at least 10 related bills currently working their way through the California legislature to affect change in policing. Plus, local unions have lobbied lawmakers to grant eligibility to their members, secured separate supplies of vaccines and launched outreach campaigns. And after a year of pandemic lockdown, the Oscars will go ahead this Sunday - this time with a much different format.

Dr. Jeanine Cook-Garard and Gina Peter learn about children's leukemia with their guests, Angela Russo, the Executive Director of the Children’s Leukemia Research Association, along with Tara Coleman, their Senior Director of Patient Aid, who will tell us more about this disease and what her organization is doing to try to fight back against it.

Alex speaks with Lori Oschefski, CEO & Founder of the British Home Children Advocacy & Research Association. They talk about how Lori almost didn't get a mammogram that caught a tumour developing, and ultimately saved her life. They talk about how the pandemic has pushed cancer screening to the back burner, and why it needs to be brought back to the front. Let's get talking. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It is always a great pleasure to engage with clinical trial innovator and thought leader Craig Lipset. We asked Craig to join the People Always, Patients Sometimes podcast to share more information about DTRA, which stands for Decentralized Trial and Research Association. As an industry, we have embraced more fully the idea of serving patients better with a decentralized clinical trial. As we bring the corona virus under control, it's important that we don't become complacent and return to business as usual. Give a listen to the podcast and I hope you'll join us in declaring there is no going back.   Janet Kennedy: (00:43) It is always a pleasure to welcome Craig Lipset to the podcast. He is a man that really needs no introduction, but I'm going to give him one anyway. As the former head of clinical innovation and venture partner at Pfizer and on the founding operations committee for TransCelerate Biopharma, Craig is recognized as a leader at the forefront of innovation in clinical research and medicine development. He is a frequent speaker at healthcare and pharmaceutical conferences, and he has also led the call to innovate and recognize that there is #nogoingback to improve clinical trials. Today though, we're talking about DTRA, Decentralized Trials and Research Alliance. Welcome to People Always, Patients Sometimes Craig.   Craig Lipset: (01:29) It is such a pleasure to be back with you, Janet, thank you for everything that you're doing to give so many voices the opportunity to share.   Janet Kennedy: (01:38) Oh my great pleasure. This is always a learning opportunity for me. I am not a journalist, but I do play one on this podcast and I get to ask all the air quotes, dumb questions, that I'm sure a lot of people want to know about, but sometimes they get caught up, that something's already rolling ahead. And they're like, did I miss it? Did I have a fear of missing out what's going on?   Craig Lipset: (02:00) Absolutely. You know, there's so many different ways for people to stay current and stay connected. And you know, sometimes we have to hit a lot of different channels to make sure that everybody gets that opportunity to, to connect and to stay current with what's going on out there.   Janet Kennedy: (02:18) So on the connection aspect, we obviously have been dealing with the pandemic for gosh, a year now, and this time last year we were preparing for the last in-person event, which might've been SCOPE, and then suddenly things spun out of control and we were all sent home. I think things have changed a lot for you as well. So I'm curious, being able to look back a year over how things happened in 2020, what do you think has really impacted clinical trials with folks being sent to their rooms?   Craig Lipset: (02:56) You know, I think a lot of people will expect me to say things telemedicine and remote monitoring and risk-based monitoring. I would say that the thing that's really impacted us is willingness to adopt. And what I mean by that is so many of the things that have been so important for business continuity this year, the things that have kept our trials running weren't solutions that had to be cooked up in a lab in the year 2020. Most of these were solutions that already existed. They were just struggling for adoption, usually struggling for adoption because we operate in a very risk averse environment. But when the risk changed in the environment and all of a sudden, some of these things that might've been viewed as risky, suddenly became risk mitigation, they became the way to maintain business continuity. 2020 became a story about adoption, about so many great solutions that had been at our feet that had been at the doorstep suddenly seeing their moment in the sun when study teams and organizations were able to pick them up and bring them into their studies and bring them into their portfolios. And that's an exciting way for us to now get 2021 going, because now our organizations have seen that we can bring these different things to life, whether it's risk-based monitoring decentralized trials or whatever other solution your listeners were able to bring into their organizations to keep their work going.   Janet Kennedy: (04:23) Well I think that's an interesting point and you've been fortunate in that you've been able to sit a little bit in the cat bird seat because you've had an opportunity to participate in a lot of virtual conferences. You advise a number of companies. So you've been able to get feedback from a lot of different sources, as opposed to, if you were solely ensconced at Pfizer, you might not have access to the kind of information I'm thinking of. So here's my question. Do you believe that all companies, saw that opportunity to innovate and to accept and to accelerate? Or do you see that there's been a, sort of a separation of the wheat from the chaff and there are the companies that already had a innovation growth mindset, and then there are the folks that are just struggling to keep up?   Craig Lipset: (05:11) I think that in that April, May, June timeframe, a lot of organizations were all in the same boat. They were all trying to scramble to keep their portfolio going. They were rushing to introduce whatever countermeasures they could to keep patients being monitored, keep drug supply flowing, and keep capturing data. So that studies didn't wind up futile. But, Janet, I do think that we start to see some separation when we look to the latter half of 2020, because in that latter half of 2020, then we start to see that there are some sponsors out there that are starting to commit to some of these changes they're putting in place, new resources, they're relooking at some of their SOP and processes. They're expanding their vendor and partner lists some really starting to rethink how they write protocols and introduce some new training. These are the companies that are really starting to show commitment. They're really looking at the things that were adopted earlier in the year and being thoughtful about what's needed now to instantiate these and make them a part of our organization going forward. And that's different from some others that just maybe haven't been able to step forward to make those kinds of organizational commitments yet because they're hard.   Janet Kennedy: (06:35) Well, not only, they're hard; you may not even have the environment within your company that can embrace that kind of change and thought process. You really do need leadership that is willing to invest in that kind of information and that kind of structure, those kinds of individuals.   Craig Lipset: (06:53) Absolutely right, Janet. If there's one thing we saw in 2020, it's that these new approaches, well, they don't need special regulatory permission. Yes. The FDA produced some really important guidance for the industry about running clinical trials during the pandemic. But I encourage people to take a close look at that guidance. They didn't lower the bar on what technologies or approaches to introduce. They just said, use them and use them thoughtfully engage with your regulatory reviewers. And so from a regulatory perspective, these solutions were available; from a technical perspective, they were available. What does that leave? Exactly where you're pointing - culture, and our organizations ready in terms of their own internal culture and receptivity and willingness to change, or is it the culture that will ultimately stand in the way of those organizations being able to commit to and adopt these new approaches that were introduced last year?   Janet Kennedy: (07:51) I imagine that's a big part of what you do as a consultant is helping companies revision how they look at the growth of their company and expanding their capabilities through innovation.   Craig Lipset: (08:04) You know, Janet, I can only help organizations that are ready to be helped, but when they call, I'm certainly happy to be there. And mostly what I do professionally, whether with pharma companies, tech companies, or with others, is to help them make their strategies fabulous. And to help them make their implementations resilient. I can't fix the culture on my own. I can't show people solutions that they're not ready for. And so, you know, I can really only come in if leaders are ready to commit to these areas.   Janet Kennedy: (08:39) So you had a lot of time on your hands where you might've been traveling on airplanes, going places, and you obviously found a nice little hobby on the side where you decided to get together with some other thought leaders and launch a new initiative, the DTRA, the Decentralized Trials and Research Alliance. So I'd love to know the backstory. How did that come about?   Craig Lipset: (09:04) With all of that free time? Really Janet. So, it's interesting. DTRA is planning actually preceded the pandemic. It dates back to just prior to the pandemic when a friend and colleague Amir Kalali, who is well known in the industry from his time at Quintiles leading the neurosciences, and his time as the leader for the CNS summit Amir reached out and that he was exploring some different convening opportunities around decentralized. And we both appreciated that the world didn't need another conference on this topic. But when we have talked about decentralized in different meetings and events, there was always something left on the table. There was something that would come up at every one of those conversations about an opportunity to make the field better together. That was then left behind when that conference ended. And so we started to explore together what could be really sustaining and help to change this field.   Craig Lipset: (10:02) And then, the pandemic emerged. Which, in many ways, amplified everyone's attention around decentralized, but also was pretty distracting in terms of people needing to be heads down and keeping their portfolio going. And so while there was a lot of interest from a lot of my network around coming together with the DTRA, we did have to push some of our plans out to later in the year and give people in their organizations time to make the adjustments that they needed to, internally. By the end of 2020, in early December, we were ready to go live. And so made a public launch of DTRA, the Decentralized Trials and Research Alliance. We had over 50 founding organizations as members. These were groups that really took a chance with us believing that there would be a community that came together to try to make adoption of decentralized research, easier and help drive the scale that we know as possible, but it's hard.   Craig Lipset: (11:04) And so with that, we launched DTRA. Now we're at about 85 members. I think we'll probably be at a hundred member organizations and over the next month or so, we keep posting those updates on LinkedIn and Twitter. So what is DTRA? There's really two aspects to the decentralized trials research Alliance that I speak to. One is the work that we're doing together. The initiatives that we're taking on, and the second is the network and the community that we're creating that can support B2B transactions and raising more awareness and activity in the field. For the initiatives, our leadership council, our members, defined four priority areas together. The first is around definitions and how we agree on archetypes and key performance indicators to help reduce some of the tower of Babel in this category and help make sure that we're talking about the same things in our conversations with one another.   Craig Lipset: (12:06) The second area has been around best practices considering that our members, whether pharma, whether CROs, tech companies, site networks, advocacy groups, and the FDA themselves, our members have been involved in most all of the decentralized research studies that have gone out in the last few years. What are the learnings, the best practices that we can identify together to help make implementation easier? The third area for us is themed around education, because so many of us get stuck needing to bring our organizations along or other stakeholders, like investigator sites or patients and their caregivers. What type of educational resources can we begin to aggregate and share, and in particular, use data and evidence to drive that education? As an example, we all talk with enthusiasm about the potential for decentralized research to improve diversity in clinical trials. But where's the data and the evidence to back that up?   Craig Lipset: (13:10) We believe that by having a multi-stakeholder initiative in a nonprofit space like this, we'll have the opportunity to gather the data and evidence across our members. A fourth area, the fourth priority for us is around removing the remaining obstacles that stand in the way to meaningful adoption. And so those might start to include topics like interstate licensing or global regulatory variability, or other priorities. that our members are working together right now to identify and prioritize. Now I know firsthand from my time at Pfizer that we are not the only initiative collaboration consortia operating in this environment. And in fact, we have identified and begun to engage with over a dozen different initiatives, consortia, collaborations that cover a number of different topics, but might have a work stream, a taskforce, a work group that's looking at decentralized trials together and trying to solve a specific problem.   Craig Lipset: (14:12) We've begun to reach out to each one of those organizations and have been really well received in our call for transparency and collaboration. And by that, what we're looking to do is pull together the overall roadmap across the different collaborations in this space, because when it comes to decentralized trials, it's the only thing DTRA cares about. It is our sole priority. And so we're very well positioned to help show our members and others what different work is already happening here. Make sure there's no redundancy. Make sure that there are handoffs when it makes sense. And Janet, I mentioned earlier that there are really these two areas; one around our initiatives, and the second is a bit the leans in more around network. We realized that our members are the buyers, the sellers, the implementers of decentralized research. Our initiatives are very specifically a non-selling zone there to get work done together.   Craig Lipset: (15:09) But people in our community want to know about the capabilities of one another. It might spark business to business collaboration among different tech companies or tech and service providers or opportunities to engage with sponsors that might not have otherwise known of certain capabilities. We're also starting to explore opportunities to help some of the younger companies in this category with access to capital, and what ways we can create showcases for investors that are very interested today in decentralized research, and make sure that the spotlight is shown on those that are growing new capabilities here. And so whether for these initiatives or for these network opportunities, or a little bit of both, that seems to be what's drawing this community together.   Janet Kennedy: (15:53) Gosh, have you said this before?   Craig Lipset: (16:00) Maybe in my sleep. I'm sure my kids are sitting in the other room saying, "Really dad? Again?"   Janet Kennedy: (16:07) Okay. So I have a couple questions. I'm curious about the membership. You said you're hoping to grow to about 85 to a hundred members and maybe beyond that, but that sounds like it's all pretty corporate members. Is there an opportunity for individuals to engage in this?   Craig Lipset: (16:25) That is a fabulous question, Janet. And right now our members are organizations. They can be corporations, they can be nonprofits. We have a number of advocacy groups, and obviously we have the FDA and our opening engagements with other regulatory agencies. The idea of individual members is something that our leadership and our board have been very actively exploring. Individuals might be between gigs. They might be independent contractors. Maybe they're just great advocates for this field, that want to grow their career in this direction, but their current employer isn't a member because it doesn't align to their employer's goals. We are finding ways to engage with these individuals. Today, those might be roles that are based a little bit on sweat equity, where some individuals want to step forward and help to manage and lead some of our initiatives and work streams. Going forward, though, we are going to be looking later this year for other ways, to open our doors for individual members. And so I would encourage those who are individuals whose organizations might not be members today to visit dtra.org and click to sign up for more information, so that you'll be on our email list. And as new opportunities emerge, you'll be right there among the first to see them.   Janet Kennedy: (17:47) Obviously just the concept, a decentralized trial, I would assume, that its foundation is 'because that's what's best for the patient'. How are patient advocates and the patient experience part of the DTRA planning?   Craig Lipset: (18:04) While in 2020, a lot of implementation had to be rushed to try to salvage and maintain studies, in general, our clinical research community is eyes wide open today to actively including patient input and insight from day zero of the earliest plans, whether for a protocol, or if they're smart, for a new technology they're looking to implement. And so for that reason, we wanted to make sure from the very beginning patient voices were an active part of our community. Two of our earliest member organizations, the FasterCures TRAIN Network and the Genetic Alliance joined in many ways, because they're not representing a single disease, but represent a community of different disease specific advocacy groups. And so in each of those instances, while that is a seat of one organization, that one organization is disease agnostic and includes constituents across a broad range of different therapeutic areas. Now, as more patient groups have been reaching in, many of them are actively offering to help serve as a channel for patient input and insights as DTRA initiatives and other priorities start to identify, be they educational needs or other areas to go after. I think we're developing a very nice stakeholder base of patient groups that will be there by our side and help to serve as a fresh channel for getting patient input into our work.   Janet Kennedy: (19:36) Is there a concern at all that if this is primarily fueled by and funded by for-profit organizations, even though DTRA is a nonprofit organization, that there might be an imbalance of the size of the voice?   Craig Lipset: (19:53) It's a very fair question. Right now, every organization, whether for profit, nonprofit, whether service provider, tech provider, sponsor or otherwise, every member has one seat in one voice in our leadership council. But to your point, we do want to maintain fairness and equity and the different voices that are out there. I think that we have enough active leaders in this organization that are keenly aware of thoughtful of, and sensitive to patient voice today, that well, shall I say in most cases when the patient voice is raised, most people are smart enough to take a step back and make sure that voice is being heard. And if they don't, they're probably going to hear about that from their peers today.   Janet Kennedy: (20:41) Excellent. I am curious about how does a company, a member actually engage? Are you having monthly zoom calls? Are you actually working via email? How do you plan and implement some of the programs that you're doing?   Craig Lipset: (20:59) Every member organization has a seat on our leadership council, which has a quarterly business meeting. In these business meetings where we're reviewing the status of the various initiatives and other work that may be happening. We also have a quarterly community meeting for that leadership council. This is a bit softer. It's not covering the hard topics such as what initiatives progress and status is looking like. But in contrast, these are a bit softer topics that our members have flagged to us as being important to them. One great example there is exactly where you started this conversation, Janet, around culture. Are there tactics that different organizations have been able to introduce in their organizations, large or small, that have been particularly successful or unsuccessful that we can use this community to help share and propagate with others? As I mentioned, in addition to our leadership council, we do have several initiatives that are underway and those initiatives will meet much more frequently. As they get going, they're meeting weekly. And as they get moving that cadence may back off a bit. But right now we're very much in the prioritization stage. It's a pretty busy time right now, as these initiatives are getting going. And so the cadence is a bit busier than it probably will be as we move into more of a steady state.   Janet Kennedy: (22:26) So the pandemic has gone on long enough and will continue to go on long enough that anybody who was hoping to wait it out, I'm sure has learned that, to their detriment, that they were slow off the starting blocks. I assume now it's sort of full steam ahead for the concept of decentralized trials, or are you still feeling that there are folks hoping that the good old days will be back again?   Craig Lipset: (22:53) You know, Janet, I think that our community is like any other and we have a distribution of individuals. I think that we have individuals in all of our organizations at the far right of the adoption spectrum; they want to be the first, they want to embrace the new. I think then we have a bolus of colleagues that are receptive to doing the new, if it feels safe, and if it feels supported. we have others that may be a little more indifferent. And then we'll always have that tail of the other end of the continuum who are very comfortable that really don't want their cheese moved, and well, to be honest, are perhaps most likely to trade out, given how dynamic and how much change occurs in all of our organizations every year. You know, I often think about, Janet, the Ted Talk with the video of the dancing man.   Craig Lipset: (23:45) And if folks in your audience haven't seen this one after the podcast, they should go Google this one up because it's a great voiceover of a story of a concert taking place on a hill. And in this video, you start off with a bunch of people that are listening to the music, sitting on their picnic blankets. And then there's a guy who just gets up and starts dancing. Well people are looking at this guy, and he's the only one standing there dancing. And you know what you're probably thinking - he's looking like a nut. But after that, there are two or three other people that start to get up and dance. Once they do, it validates for everyone else on the hill. Now it's not just a story of one nut dancing by himself, but it's a story of a small crowd that is much safer. And once that happens, it's that rapid tipping point. Everyone else on the hill is now off their picnic blankets and up and dancing. And so I think about it that way with so much of our change in this space. There'll be some people that don't want to get up and dance ever, but once it's made to feel safe, once there's just a couple that are getting up and making it happen, the rest of our community does step forward. They will be up there dancing as well.   Janet Kennedy: (25:04) Well, on behalf of a dancing man representative, I believe that that is an exciting place to be - out there, by yourself, trying, doing what feels right, feeling that emotion of just doing the thing that really is right for you. And when other people join you, that just makes it that much sweeter.   Craig Lipset: (25:29) Sometimes it takes time. Sometimes you might feel like you're out there dancing for a while, but I totally agree with you, Janet. We are so fortunate to work in this industry. Our community does amazing work, developing medicines for patients with unmet medical needs. But even within this space, we know there's so much more we can do. And we know that there are things that we can do just because they are the right things to do. And so a lot of us do, you know, get up and dance and take that chance. And sometimes it takes a little while, but if you're doing the right thing, others will get up and dance with you. It just may take a little time.   Janet Kennedy: (26:07) Absolutely. Well, I would love to get more people involved in DTRA and also following the news that you're going to be sharing. So tell folks a little bit about how to find out more about Decentralized Trials and Research Alliance.   Craig Lipset: (26:22) Three ways for folks to do that. For those who are social, the first two ways are LinkedIn and Twitter. We're really committed to keeping content flowing, to helping to serve as a trusted news and resource for folks on LinkedIn and Twitter about activity in the decentralized trial space. And then finally, check out dtra.org. If you're interested in learning more, either about organizations participating or just yourself staying current, go ahead and sign up there to stay connected with DTRA.   Janet Kennedy: (26:55) Thank you so much for sharing that, Craig. I had a lot of questions and you were very patient about answering all of them.   Craig Lipset: (27:02) You're fabulous Janet. Thank you, and thanks to your audience for spending some time this day.   Janet Kennedy: (27:07) So if you want to find the link to the dancing man video, or of course, a lot more information about DTRA, please go to spencerhealthsolutions.com and you will find the post of this podcast on our website, under podcast. And we'll have all the links there as well as the links to find Craig in social media as well. Craig, thank you so much for joining People Always, Patients Sometimes.

Join us for as we examine the Carol Reed-directed 1944 British classic 'The Way Ahead' starring David Niven, Stanley Holloway, William Hartnell, Peter Ustinov and John Laurie. We're joined by special guest Richard Fisher of the Vickers MG Collection and Research Association. The film follows a platoon of men through their call up, training and up to their first experience of battle!   Don't forget to leave a comment/review/rating and let us know what you thought of the film via twitter @FightingOnFilm

In our country there is a huge deficit of financial education! In today's Better Wealth, I had the privilege of interviewing Harry Stout who has worked over 25 years in the financial services industry all around the world. Harry is also an author of the https://www.financialverse.com/purchase (“Financial Verse Series”) which covers topics on money, life savings, annuities, life insurance, and more. Listen as Harry shares his desire for personal finances making it understandable for people of all ages.  Harry discusses with us the importance of financial education as our societies are changing and why people are now realizing how precious money as a resource really is. I ask Harry to explain two most important “Must DO” items from his book 1.) Have A Budget and 2.) Spend To, as well as, two points from his 8 Key Risks being 1.) Longevity Risk and 2.) Mortality Risk. Listen as he shares the reason why these are extremely important to him. I also ask Harry to dive into topics like inflation, adulting, the cost of learning, college tuition, up scaling, striving stage, credit cards, and long term care planning. Harry gives an incredible answer to the legacy question on humility and I am so honored to have had him on our show. Be sure to check out his books! https://www.financialverse.com/purchase (“Financial Verse Series”) #BETTERWEALTH For more information on BetterWealth or the content you hear on the Podcast visit us at http://www.betterwealth.com/podcast (www.betterwealth.com/podcast). Guest Bio:  Harry N. Stout is a published author and founder of the FinancialVerse organization.  The FinancialVerse books and content are dedicated to improving America’s personal financial literacy. He is an acknowledged senior thought leader in the global financial services business with over two decades experience in all aspects of financial services.  He has held marketing, sales, product innovation, and distribution roles over his successful career.  He has over 25 years of financial services industry experience in the U.S. and abroad, working in Europe, Northern Asia, Africa, New Zealand and Australia. He is a past director of the National Association for Fixed Annuities, the Financial Services Council of Australia, the Insurance Marketplace Standards Association, and the Life Insurance Marketing and Research Association. He has been a governance fellow of the National Association of Corporate Directors. Harry is a nationally known speaker, podcast guest and author covering annuities, life insurance and personal finance.  Guest Links:  https://www.financialverse.com/ (The Financial Verse) https://www.financialverse.com/purchase (The Financial Verse Book Series)

This week's guest on the High Caliber History podcast is Rich Fisher of the Vickers MG Collection and Research Association. For more information on the museum, visit https://www.vickersmg.blog. Support the channel on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/highcaliberhistoryllc Snag some HCH merch - https://teespring.com/stores/high-caliber-history HCH patches & stickers - https://www.highcaliberhistory.com/store Be sure to follow us: Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/highcaliberhistory Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/highcaliberhistoryllc/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/HighCaliberHist YouTube - https://youtube.com/c/HighCaliberHistoryLLC --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/highcaliberhistory/support

Sarah Karlinsky, Senior Policy Advisor at SPUR, presents, "From Copenhagen to Tokyo: Learning from International Housing Delivery Systems".

In this episode of Causes or Cures, Dr. Erin Stair discusses the scientific evidence for The Shroud of Turin with Barrie Schwortz. The Shroud of Turin is a cloth that has an image of a man ( a negative image) that some people believe was the burial shroud of Jesus of Nazareth. Of course, others do not believe that. To this day, no one can explain how the image was created. In this podcast, Dr. Stair and Barrie Schwortz discuss the evidence base for the Shroud, possible theories that could explain the characteristics of the image, the 1988 Carbon dating, as well as eye-opening, new details that emerged related to it, why he believes it is authentic and the future of Shroud research.Barrie Schwortz was the Official Documenting Photographer for the Shroud of Turin Research Project (STURP), the team that conducted the first in-depth scientific examination of the Shroud in 1978. Today, he plays an influential role in Shroud research and education as the editor and founder of the internationally recognized Shroud of Turin Website, the oldest, largest and most extensive Shroud resource on the Internet, with more than fifteen million visitors from over 160 countries. In 2009 he founded the Shroud of Turin Education and Research Association, Inc. (STERA, Inc.), a non-profit corporation, to which he donated the website and his extensive Shroud photographic collection, as well as many other important Shroud resources, in order to preserve and maintain these materials and make them available for future research and study. He currently serves as the President of STERA, IncThanks for listening! To get in touch with Erin Stair, MD, MPH, please visit her website, Blooming Wellness.To follow her on Instagram, click here.To find her on Twitter, click here.To follow her health page on Facebook, click here.To read or listen to her new comedic parody on the wellness industry, Yours in Wellness, Krystal Heeling, click here.Or you can listen to it from Google Play or Walmart!To read Manic Kingdom, click here.

Indoin Business Group presents "Stars of Pantnagar"       Our Host Dr. Shreesh Gautam takes you through the journey of Dr. P K Joshi,Id No 4077, Batch 1969 Agriculture, He is presently the President of the Agricultural Economics Research Association; and the Secretary of the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences. Dr P K Joshi superannuated as the Senior Advisor to the Director-General and the Director-South Asia, International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington DC. He did his graduation, masters and doctorate degrees from the G B Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar.Dr Joshi has received the following awards: 1.       Dr M S Randhawa Memorial Award of the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (2009–11), 2.       Dr RC Agarwal Life Time Achievement Award of the Indian Society of Agricultural Economics (2012-13) for his outstanding contribution in social science and agricultural economics research and management; and 3.       The Life Time Achievement Award of the Pantnagar Alumni Almamater Advancement Association. He has more than 40 years of research experience in the areas of impact assessment, technology policy, natural resource management, markets, and institutional economics. He was extensively working in South and Southeast Asian countries. Prior to this he was holding the positions of the Director, National Academy of Agricultural Research Management, and the Director of the National Centre of Agricultural Economics and Policy Research.Dr Joshi has also served as the chairman of the SAARC Agricultural Centre's governing board in Dhaka, Bangladesh (2006–08); chairman of the UN-CAPSA governing board in Bogor (2007); member of the BRICS-Agriculture group; and member of the intergovernmental panel on the World Bank's International Assessment of Agricultural Science and Technology for Development (2007–08). He served as a member of the International Steering Committee for the Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security Challenge Program, led by the ESSP Science Community and the CGIAR (2009–11). He was also a member of the core group of the Indian government's “Right to Food” National Human Rights Commission.He is the Fellow of the (1) National Academy of Agricultural Sciences, (2) Indian Society of Agricultural Economics, (3) Indian Society of Agricultural Engineering, and (4) International Society of Noni Research.Discover his journey, passion, dreams, university days and his Pantnagar..!!      Indoin Business Group is the Title Sponsor for "Stars of Pantnagar" podcast.Official Website of Title Sponsor- Indoin Business Group- http://www.indoingroup.com/ The episode also premiers on Alumni Almamater Advancement Association website-https://www.pantnagar4a.in/page/Stars-of-Pantnagar.dz   Official Podcast Website- www.starsofpantnagar.com   The Indoin-Stars of Pantnagar is also available on Spotify, iTunes, JioSaavn, Google Podcast, Stitcher, Amazon TuneIn, Podcast addict, Youtube and our Official FB Page - "starzofpantnagar"Support the show (https://www.facebook.com/Starzofpantnagar)

Jimmy Barrett and Shara Fryer take you through the stories that matter on the morning of 08/12/2020.Michael Johns a former WH speech writer and health care executive calls in to talk about how a third of Americans would say 'no' to a COVID vaccine - even if it was free. If Teachers Unions really cared about kids, they’d be demanding schools open. Politicizing public school instruction marks a disturbing new development that jeopardizes the welfare of kids. Our children need to go to school. Joining us to talk about this ongoing issue is Paula Rinehart, who wrote the article for the Federalist. Harris County to consider disaster declaration “Loophole” to raise property tax rate above SB 2 Limit. The Harris County Commissioners Court did not make a final decision on next year's property tax rate, but are considering four options — three of which will raise taxes. Dale Craymer with the Texas Taxpayers and Research Association calls in to give his opinion on the topic.

Today’s guest was the Official Documenting Photographer for the Shroud of Turin Research Project (STURP), the team that conducted the first in-depth scientific examination of the Shroud in 1978. Today, he plays an influential role in Shroud research and education as the editor and founder of the internationally recognized Shroud of Turin Website, Shroud dot-com, the oldest, largest and most extensive Shroud resource on the Internet, with more than fifteen million visitors from over 160 countries.In 2009 he founded the Shroud of Turin Education and Research Association, Inc. (STERA, Inc.), a non-profit 501(c)(3) corporation, to which he donated the website and his extensive Shroud photographic collection, as well as many other important Shroud resources, in order to preserve and maintain these materials and make them available for future research and study. He currently serves as the President of STERA, Inc.Today, we’ll walk through the pages of history, both recent (1978) and ancient (possibly as far back as the 1st century AD). Barrie M. Schwortz is our tour guide…

Today’s guest was the Official Documenting Photographer for the Shroud of Turin Research Project (STURP), the team that conducted the first in-depth scientific examination of the Shroud in 1978. Today, he plays an influential role in Shroud research and education as the editor and founder of the internationally recognized Shroud of Turin Website, Shroud dot-com, the oldest, largest and most extensive Shroud resource on the Internet, with more than fifteen million visitors from over 160 countries.In 2009 he founded the Shroud of Turin Education and Research Association, Inc. (STERA, Inc.), a non-profit 501(c)(3) corporation, to which he donated the website and his extensive Shroud photographic collection, as well as many other important Shroud resources, in order to preserve and maintain these materials and make them available for future research and study. He currently serves as the President of STERA, Inc.Today, we’ll walk through the pages of history, both recent (1978) and ancient (possibly as far back as the 1st century AD). Barrie M. Schwortz is our tour guide…

Today’s guest was the Official Documenting Photographer for the Shroud of Turin Research Project (STURP), the team that conducted the first in-depth scientific examination of the Shroud in 1978. Today, he plays an influential role in Shroud research and education as the editor and founder of the internationally recognized Shroud of Turin Website, Shroud dot-com, the oldest, largest and most extensive Shroud resource on the Internet, with more than fifteen million visitors from over 160 countries. In 2009 he founded the Shroud of Turin Education and Research Association, Inc. (STERA, Inc.), a non-profit 501(c)(3) corporation, to which he donated the website and his extensive Shroud photographic collection, as well as many other important Shroud resources, in order to preserve and maintain these materials and make them available for future research and study. He currently serves as the President of STERA, Inc. Today, we’ll walk through the pages of history, both recent (1978) and ancient (possibly as far back as the 1st century AD). Barrie M. Schwortz is our tour guide…

Í þættinum segja Jóhanna Einarsdóttir og Kristín Karlsdóttir okkur frá samtökunum European Early Childhood Education Research Association, og hvaða hlutverkum þær gegna innan samtakanna. Einnig tölum við um árlega ráðstefnu á vegum samtakanna sem haldin erí Þessalóníku á Grikklandi að þessu sinni. Jóhanna Einarsdóttir, Kristín Karlsdóttir, Hrönn Pálmadóttir og Sara Margrét Ólafsdóttir sögðu okkur stuttlega frá því sem þær ætla að kynna á ráðstefnunni.

Perhaps readers want less on what Trump is saying and more on what his administration is doing. CHRISTIAN HARTMANN / POOL/EPAToday we’re taking a look back at some of the biggest issues of 2018 with special guest Kath Viner, editor-in-chief of The Guardian. As the media grappled this year with how to cover Donald Trump and his “alternative facts”, Viner says it may be time for the media to pay less attention to what he says. “Surely the thing to do is report on what is actually happening. So less on what Trump is saying but actually what his administration is doing,” Viner said. “We don’t hear about what he’s doing because we’re too busy commenting on what he’s saying.” We also talked about how newsrooms are funding journalism and particularly investigative journalism, in an era when journalists are increasingly vilified and even physically attacked or killed. Viner also identified what she saw as the major challenges ahead. “I think the other big challenge for next year is how we deal with the rise of the far right and how we report on it without inflaming it or over-exaggerating it,” she said. Read more: Media Files: On the Serena Williams cartoon -- and how the UK phone hacking scandal led to a media crackdown in South Africa Media Files is produced by a team of academics who have spent decades working in and reporting on the media industry. They’re passionate about sharing their understanding of the media landscape, especially how journalists operate, how media policy is changing, and how commercial manoeuvres and digital disruption are affecting the kinds of media and journalism we consume. Media Files will be out every month, with occasional off-schedule episodes released when we’ve got fresh analysis we can’t wait to share with you. To make sure you don’t miss an episode, find us and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, in Pocket Casts or wherever you find your podcasts. And while you’re there, please rate and review us - it really helps others to find us. You can find more podcast episodes from The Conversation here. Read more: Media Files: What does the future newsroom look like? Recorded at the University of Melbourne’s Centre for Advancing Journalism. Producer: Andy Hazel. Production assistance Gavin Nebauer. Additional audio Theme music by Susie Wilkins. Andrew Dodd receives funding from the Australian Research Council.Matthew Ricketson receives funding from the Australian Research Council for two projects on which he is a chief investigator. He is president of the Journalism Education and Research Association of Australia (JERAA) and is the Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance's (MEAA) representative on the Australian Press Council.Andrea Carson does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.

Brandon Alvis has always had interests and questions about the paranormal after tragically losing two brothers, one to cancer and the other to suicide. Starting with a few friends using standard tools and procedures, he realized the many mistakes "commonly found" when investigating the paranormal. This motivated him to propagate a team specializing in many fields and to develop new methods not only reliable but convincing, introducing the "scientific approach" and naming this team: "American Paranormal Research Association" aka A.P.R.A. This new approach along with his leadership and entrepreneurial skills has propelled A.P.R.A., becoming a highly recognized name. His hard work, dedication and passion to this science are greatly respected, often allowing A.P.R.A. to investigate in areas normally closed-off to others. Pioneering fundraisers and special events, he along with his team, provide participants an insight into the paranormal wherein proceeds go to the preservation of the historical structure. His determination to find "cold hard facts, to prove or disprove" makes A.P.R.A. what it is today.

The advent of the internet has changed how politics and the media influence each other - and not always in a good way. AAP Image/Lukas CochToday on Media Files, a podcast about the major issues in the media, we’re taking a close look at the role of the news media in politics. As the Wentworth by-election looms, we’re asking: is digital disruption changing the rules of journalism and politics in Australia? It is easy to miss how disorienting it can be to work in the always-on-at-fire-hydrant-strength world of political journalism these days, as Guardian Australia’s political editor Katharine Murphy recounts in her recent essay-book On Disruption. Matthew Ricketson speaks with her to understand the media’s role (if any) in the political turmoil that cost Malcolm Turnbull the prime ministership, triggering this month’s hotly contested by-election. Read more: Media Files: Spotlight's Walter V. Robinson and the Newcastle Herald's Chad Watson on covering clergy abuse - and the threats that followed Long time Labor Member for Batman, David Feeney, announced his resignation early in 2018. DAVID CROSLING/AAP One person who’s seen up close the sometimes difficult relationship between reporters and politicians is former federal Labor MP David Feeney. Speaking to Andrea Carson about falling media trust and increased political polarisation, he asks: “In today’s Australia, where do you have a public conversation? Because there are so many different filter bubbles, there are no agreed facts… we are losing the capacity to build a consensus.” Read more: Media Files: What does the Nine Fairfax merger mean for diversity and quality journalism? Media Files is produced by a team of journalists and academics who have spent decades working in and reporting on the media industry. They’re passionate about sharing their understanding of the media landscape, especially how journalists operate, how media policy is changing, and how commercial manoeuvres and digital disruption are affecting the kinds of media and journalism we consume. Media Files will be out every month, with occasional off-schedule episodes released when we’ve got fresh analysis we can’t wait to share with you. To make sure you don’t miss an episode, find us and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, in Pocket Casts or wherever you find your podcasts. And while you’re there, please rate and review us - it really helps others to find us. You can find more podcast episodes from The Conversation here. Recorded at the University of Melbourne’s Centre for Advancing Journalism. Producer: Andy Hazel. Additional audio Theme music by Susie Wilkins. Andrea Carson is part of a research group that receives funding from the Australian Research Council where she is a chief investigator using big data to study public policy making in Australia.Matthew Ricketson receives funding from the Australian Research Council for two projects on which he is a chief investigator. He is president of the Journalism Education and Research Association of Australia (JERAA) and is the Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance's (MEAA) representative on the Australian Press Council.

Ann talks about the extensive research she did for this WWII novel (including reading the seven volumes of Winston Churchill’s series TWICE), how her best marketing successes have been old-fashioned face-to-face contacts and using super-fans to spread the word, and how she’s working on a two-part video series to share what she learned about self-publishing with others considering this route. Ann comes from a family of adventurous women. An immigrant twice herself (to Canada and to the USA,) she understands from personal experience the challenges of being uprooted, either by choice or not, and remaking a life in a new place. She writes historical fiction, flash fiction, and short non-fiction. She has published three fictional articles in the news magazine of the British Home Child Advocacy and Research Association, and is a guest blogger for the award winning writers' blog,  Writers in the Storm.  A dual Canadian-US citizen, she resides in Mesa, Arizona with her husband, Art, and their Old English Sheepdog. She spends summers in Toronto, Canada, with family. When not writing, she can be found at the golf course, or making music with her church choir. To learn more about Ann, click here.

Former ABC Managing Director Michelle Guthrie looking toward a different future earlier this year at the ABC's first Annual Public Meeting. JOEL CARRETT/AAPThe major question following the sacking of ABC managing director Michelle Guthrie is why? Why did the ABC board move so decisively and why now? Was it just about tension between her and the corporation chair, Justin Milne, or was it about strategic direction for the national broadcaster? In this special edition of Media Files, Monash University’s Margaret Simons and former ABC staff-elected director Matt Peacock talk to Matthew Ricketson and Andrew Dodd about what it might mean for the ABC - particularly in the lead up to a federal election. Read more: Constant attacks on the ABC will come back to haunt the Coalition government Media Files is produced by a team of journalists and academics who have spent decades working in and reporting on the media industry. It’s about how journalists operate, how media policy is changing, and how commercial manoeuvres and digital disruption are affecting the kinds of media and journalism we consume. Media Files will be out every month, with occasional off-schedule episodes released when we’ve got fresh analysis we can’t wait to share with you. To make sure you don’t miss an episode, find us and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, in Pocket Casts or wherever you find your podcasts. And while you’re there, please rate and review us - it really helps others to find us. You can find more podcast episodes from The Conversation here. Producer: Andy Hazel. Additional audio Theme music by Susie Wilkins. Read more: Media Files: What does the Nine Fairfax merger mean for diversity and quality journalism? Andrew Dodd receives funding from the Australian Research Council. He is a former ABC employee.Margaret Simons is working on a book about the ABC. She is a member of the Public Interest Journalism Foundation, a not for profit that advocates on journalism-related issues. She received industry and philanthropic funding for research into journalism futures. It was not from the ABC. Matthew Ricketson receives funding from the Australian Research Council as a chief investigator on two projects. He was appointed by the federal government in 2011 to assist Ray Finkelstein QC in an Independent Inquiry into the Media and Media Regulation, which reported in 2012. Since 2016 he has been the Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance's representative on the Australian Press Council. He is president of the Journalism Education and Research Association of Australia.

Serena Williams and Brian Earley at the US Open Grand Slam, 2018. AAP/Daniel Murphy Mark Knight’s cartoon in The Herald Sun has become a global topic of condemnation and debate because of its negative portrayal of American tennis player Serena Williams. It was widely described as racist. The news of the cartoon broke last week while we were both at a conference in South Africa. We decided to show the cartoon to some local academics with expertise in the study of media, race and gender to gauge their reactions because few places have dealt with issues of racism more comprehensively than South Africa. Listen in to this episode to hear the responses of Dr Shepherd Mpofu of the University of Limpopo and Dr Julie Reid and Dr Rofhiwa Mukhudwana of the Department of Communication Science at the University of South Africa. Read more: Media Files: Spotlight's Walter V. Robinson and the Newcastle Herald's Chad Watson on covering clergy abuse - and the threats that followed And Associate Professor Glenda Daniels of the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa speaks with Matthew Ricketson about how the African National Congress government reacted to the phone hacking scandal in the United Kingdom. Erupting in 2011, the phone hacking scandal had many ramifications, for the victims of course but also for publisher of the newspaper at the centre of it – News Corporation, whose reputation was heavily tarnished. The UK government set up a wide-ranging inquiry led by Justice Brian Leveson. In Australia the then federal Labor government followed suit, setting up its own inquiry. It was headed by former federal court judge, Ray Finkelstein QC and assisted by Professor Matthew Ricketson, then at the University of Canberra, now at Deakin University, and a contributor to the Media Files podcast. The recommendations of the Finkelstein inquiry were rejected by the news media industry even though they were nowhere near as draconian as the news media reported them to the general public. In England, the central recommendations of the Leveson report were rejected by prime minister David Cameron within hours of the 2000 page report being tabled in parliament. What is less well known is how in South Africa the African National Congress government used the phone hacking scandal to initiate its own efforts to tighten control of the press, as Glenda Daniels, a prominent journalist and academic, recounts in this interview recorded in Johannesburg last week. Media Files is produced by a team of journalists and academics who have spent decades working in and reporting on the media industry. They’re passionate about sharing their understanding of the media landscape, especially how journalists operate, how media policy is changing, and how commercial manoeuvres and digital disruption are affecting the kinds of media and journalism we consume. Media Files will be out every month, with occasional off-schedule episodes released when we’ve got fresh analysis we can’t wait to share with you. To make sure you don’t miss an episode, find us and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, in Pocket Casts or wherever you find your podcasts. And while you’re there, please rate and review us - it really helps others to find us. You can find more podcast episodes from The Conversation here. Producer: Andy Hazel. Additional audio Theme music by Susie Wilkins. Read more: Media Files: What does the Nine Fairfax merger mean for diversity and quality journalism? Andrew Dodd receives funding from the Australian Research CouncilMatthew Ricketson receives funding from the Australian Research Council as a chief investigator on two projects. He was appointed by the federal government in 2011 to assist Ray Finkelstein QC in an Independent Inquiry into the Media and Media Regulation, which reported in 2012. Since 2016 he has been the Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance's representative on the Australian Press Council. He is president of the Journalism Education and Research Association of Australia.

Øyvind Ihlen, dr. art., er professor ved Institutt for medier og kommunikasjon, Universitetet i Oslo. Sammen med Eli Skogerbø leder han POLKOM – Senter for studier av politisk kommunikasjon, og han er også President i EUPRERA, European Public Relations Education and Research Association, regionredaktør av Public Relations Inquiry; og norsk redaktør for Rhetorica Scandinavica. Ihlens forskning er særlig konsentrert rundt strategisk kommunikasjon om politiske tema. Han er forfatter eller medforfatter av over 60 tidsskriftsartikler og bokkapitler, samt ni bøker, og har fått en rekke internasjonale priser for sin forskning.

Theatre director Emma Rice talks about her final production as Artistic Director of Shakespeare's Globe, The Little Matchgirl and Other Happier Tales. She discusses the inspiration for the show as well as her reasons for leaving her post after only two seasons in the job. Children's writer Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House on the Prairie novels have been much loved since they were first published in America during the Great Depression. Caroline Fraser, the author of a new biography Prairie Fires, and Eddie Higgins, a British member of the Laura Ingalls Wilder Legacy and Research Association, examine Wilder's life and popularity, 150 years since her birth. South London-born actor John Boyega discusses improvising on the set of his latest film, the sci-fi behemoth Star Wars: The Last Jedi and why he likes to mix Hollywood blockbusters with theatre. Presenter: Samira Ahmed Producer: Jerome Weatherald.

Episode 4 of Columbus Cares with Travis Kendall and Katie Thomas, a podcast sharing the stories of Columbus, Ohio non-profits. The Batten Disease Support And Research Association 12/6/2017 Show how much Columbus Cares by supporting The Batten Disease Support And Research Association: Christina Clark: cclark@bdsra.org Webpage: https://bdsra.org/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bdsra/

Share ERA COP as our Files for major decisions on our agreements while forming our future in the present online. We share that we are authors, consultants, organizers, and share in radio shows to share our communication and speechcraft. We are co-creators and work to share our opinions, views, and ideas we use in synchronicity.  Ascension Center Organization for Cyberspace Cultural Community who believe Alien Civilizations Exist! Archivists and Researchers who share as AUTHORS, Storytellers, and Role Playing with games both live and in archetypes based on the tarot. Past, present, and future role models. We are members and mentors who share life in cyberpsace and have an annual convention meet up group at the Mid-South Con in Memphis, Tennessee. We are based on the fact that "Alien Civilizations Exist!: ACE. We share the ACE Metaphysical Institute for metaphysicians.- Support AlienContact.org .

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Theresa J Morris, Founder Director of the ACO - ACE Folklife - Education Research Association Community Online People! (ERA COP.com) TJ Shares a transmission and download. Bill M Tracer VP of ACE and ERA joins TJ and Janet Lessin - Pres of Ascension Center Network in Maui Hawaii and Alien Contact Organization joins TJ - Founder/Director of our ACO. John Drockton-California Area always joins in the chat room to anchor the energy for us all!Lightworkers and Truthseekers join. We will welcome those who want to share their wonderful time together with "US". We are about sharing that which we call SYNCHRONICITY!  What makes us who we are and how we spend our time as body-mind-spirits sharing the birth-life-death process. We are a support group for our friends who have the life time for our family. We are a group of souls who handle their happinesshttp://theresajmorris.com/2015/11/ufo-alien-contact-intel-diplomatic-relations/

TJ Morris dba ACIR. ACE Metaphysicians share ACE Nonprofit Inc.Love and purpose of this is to raise awareness of who we are as the humanoid sentient intelligent being species. We share commentary now on our blog talk radio shows as podcasts which is live and leave streaming and archiving.  The purpose of our lives is to find our truth we can trust to take with us when while we live and when we leave this planet, this realm of existence. We desire to highlight some of the more compelling ethical principles of the humanoid sentient intelligent being species. We are here not only to educate, explore, and analyze but to participate for the greater good of the overall critical mass mind which we are now defining as the source of all energy creation. There are now issues and questions in our own minds as to whom we desire to share our lives with and will continue shaping the future. We as the Planning Committee for the future meet and greets of humanoids on earth must consider who we shall desire to join in on our ACE Spiritual Community as associates, lightworkers and truthseekers. There will be future issues to consider in spirituality and psychology integration with both students and teachers. I suggest we focus on the action we shall take as the planning committee with emphasis on the mysteries of life that make people look for their own desires and passion which drive them as an individual and allow them to ask how they desire to participate in the whole. Many of the people interested in the future are educators or people in the human social philosophy fields including those in neuro science with emphasis in a focus on psychotherapy. The Following WE WILL USE for our ways of sharing in our cyberspace culture that which we know is content for information sharing in our ACE Education and Research Association papers. We review and update ACIR Information/Requirements

Love and purpose of this is to raise awareness of who we are as the humanoid sentient intelligent being species. We share commentary now on our blog talk radio shows as podcasts which is live and leave streaming and archiving.  The purpose of our lives is to find our truth we can trust to take with us when we live this planet, this realm of existence. We desire to highlight some of the more compelling ethical principles of the humanoid sentient intelligent being species. We are here not only to educate, explore, and analyze but to participate for the greater good of the overall critical mass mind which we are now defining as the source of all energy creation. There are now issues and questions in our own minds as to whom we desire to share our lives with and will continue shaping the future. We as the Planning Committee for the future meet and greets of humanoids on earth must consider who we shall desire to join in on our ACE Spiritual Community as associates, lightworkers and truthseekers. There will be future issues to consider in spirituality and psychology integration with both students and teachers. I suggest we focus on the action we shall take as the planning committee with emphasis on the mysteries of life that make people look for their own desires and passion which drive them as an individual and allow them to ask how they desire to participate in the whole. Many of the people interested in the future are educators or people in the human social philosophy fields including those in neuro science with emphasis in a focus on psychotherapy. The Following WE WILL USE for our ways of sharing in our cyberspace culture that which we know is content for information sharing in our ACE Education and Research Association papers. We review and update ACO Information/Requirements.

ACO w/TJ Morris & Friends-http://aliecontact.org with Phil Laing-Amad Painter- Tommy Hawksblood.The purpose of this is to raise awareness of who we are as the humanoid sentient intelligent being species. We share commentary now on our blog talk radio shows as podcasts which is live streaming and archiving.  The purpose of our lives is to find our truth we can trust to take with us when we live this planet, this realm of existence. We desire to highlight some of the more compelling ethical principles of the humanoid sentient intelligent being species. We are here not only to educate, explore, and analyze but to participate for the greater good of the overall critical mass mind which we are now defining as the source of all energy creation. There are now issues and questions in our own minds as to whom we desire to share our lives with and will continue shaping the future. We as the Planning Committee for the future meet and greets of humanoids on earth must consider who we shall desire to join in on our ACE Spiritual Community as associates, lightworkers and truthseekers. There will be future issues to consider in spirituality and psychology integration with both students and teachers. I suggest we focus on the action we shall take as the planning committee with emphasis on the mysteries of life that make people look for their own desires and passion which drive them as an individual and allow them to ask how they desire to participate in the whole. Many of the people interested in the future are educators or people in the human social philosophy fields including those in neuro science with emphasis in a focus on psychotherapy. The Following WE WILL USE for our ways of sharing in our cyberspace culture that which we know is content for information sharing in our ACE Education and Research Association papers. We review and update ACO Information/Requirements.

Theresa J Morris has ERA COP as Education Research Association CommmunityOnline People on TJ Morris Radio Network. Thomas Becker, Tommy Hawksblood, Bill M Tracer, and Theresa J Morris Panel. TJ Morris ET Readings – Register on Paypal with email account TJMorrisET@gmail.com. TJ Morris dba ACIR-ACO-Tarot Readings and Educational Research Association (ERA) Community Online People (COP), ACO Ascension Center Organization, ACE as both Ace Folklife Historical Association and ACENonprofitInc.com. Fostering educational excellence in spiritual fellowship growth, education, and continued research for the communication of truth. To promote student achievement in preparation of global competitiveness in communication online practicing skills. We specialize in art, culture, education, and research. We provide a spiritual gathering place online for private and group counseling, classes, seminars, publications, video tapes, and media of spiritual education, research, in products and services. Classes, events, radio shows, seminars, are formed to discuss workshop materials, revelations, teachings, and experiences of transformation. Share healing love and light in a trusting environment continually supported in a spiritual journey path of enlightenment. A community online Internet spiritual educational self-growth, self-improvement, communication skills, speechcraft, and leadership abilities. Students and teachers for world peace. Donations are welcomed and accepted as we are set up as a nonprofit education and research organization called ACE Nonprofit Inc. for Art, Culture, Education and Research. Theresa Janette Thurmond, Monroe, Louisiana, USA, December 26, 1951 married, had four daughters all born in Texas. Became a private investigator, legal investigator, then worked for DOD, Ascension Center Psychic Network, USACDL-OTR 7 yrs, Newspaper Reporter, Author, Radio Host, Life Coach, Social Entrepreneur, Agent, Consultant, Organizer.

Visit us at www.paranormalunderground.net to subscribe to Paranormal Underground magazine! In this episode of Paranormal Underground Radio, we talk with Matt Goldman of American Paranormal Research Association (APRA) and Dr. Harry Kloor, writer, scientist, educator, researcher, inventor, story editor and producer, National Technology Policy Advisor, and a Chief Technology Officer.Having lived in a haunted home in early childhood, Matt Goldman has always had an appreciation for the extraordinary. He has spent his life investigating the spiritual and supernatural. Wandering into old dwellings and haunted locations, walking miles drumming with Buddhist monks, meditating, and recording dreams, he has sat in Native American sweat ceremonies, fasted, and gone to great lengths to have first-hand experiences. Surprisingly, because of his experience, he has a healthy skeptical side. Not everything you think is true, so repeat verification and analysis is imperative to any conclusion in this area. His experience in this field, his skepticism, and his desire to uncover the mysteries that surround us are indispensable assets to APRA. He brings genuine curiosity, humor, and passion into a living science. The pursuit and discovery of the dark and undiscovered. Dr. Harry Kloor is a writer, scientist, educator, researcher, inventor, story editor and producer, National Technology Policy Advisor, and a Chief Technology Officer with over 25 years experience in science & technology consulting and commercial and military product development. According to the council of graduate schools, the national research council, and US department of education, Dr. Kloor is the only person to earn two Ph.D.s simultaneously in any discipline. He holds Ph.D.s in Physics and in Chemistry. In his position as chief science consultant for Universal Consultants, a company he also co-founded, he has provided classified work for various think tanks, and Energy companies, and has also provided extensive guidance to clients in the development of new technological products, patents, and policy positions. These clients include NASA, the National Security Agency, the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, Rocket Plane, the US Senate, American Medical Association, Jet Propulsion Laboratories, Heavy Mental Interactive, Mousetrap Solutions, RealPlayer, and Next Computers. Both his Ph.D.s were earned at Purdue University - West Lafayette. Air Date: September 18, 2014 Topic: Paranormal Theory, Paranormal Investigation Guests: Matt Goldman and Dr. Harry Kloor Host: Rick Hale Producer: Cheryl Knight

Read the full story with photos at: https://www.otsuka.co.jp/en/company/globalnews/2014/0716_01.html In 1983, Dr. Youichi Yabuuchi was appointed head of research and development for new drugs at Otsuka Pharmaceutical. During that same period, researchers from South Korea’s Dong-A Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. were first welcomed as interns at Otsuka under the guidance of president Akihiko Otsuka. Importance of Japan/South Korean relationship Five researchers studied at Otsuka up to 1991 including Mr. Won-Bae Kim, who is now the therapeutic division vice chairman of Dong-A, and also Mr. Young-Moon Choi, who is now with the US FDA. This was the beginning of Otsuka’s association with Korean pharmaceutical companies. A total of 27 researchers studied in Japan over five years from 1991, honing the drug-development capabilities of Korean companies through the introduction of Korea Drug Research Association (KDRA). Almost all KDRA members are company presidents or lab directors who are at the forefront of wide-ranging new drug development initiatives in South Korea. In addition to providing advanced technological tutelage for promoting new drug development in South Korea, Otsuka also strived to encourage cultural exchanges for building stronger ties between the two countries. Otsuka’s efforts helped lay the foundations for active new drug research and development in South Korea. The presentation of the appreciation plaque to Dr. Yabuuchi is based on this background. We hope that this ongoing relationship will contribute even more strongly to the advancement of pharmaceuticals research and the industry as a whole in both countries. “In the long run, it is vital that a company expands at a steady pace in keeping with the realities it must contend with,” said Dr. Yoichi Yabuuchi when he accepted the appreciation plaque.

Visit us at www.paranormalunderground.net to read Paranormal Underground magazine or post in our forum! Or get Paranormal Underground magazine on Apple's Newsstand today for iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch or in Google Play's App Store for Android devices, or via our Website! In this episode of Paranormal Underground Radio, we talk with David Scott and John Stephens of Illinois Paranormal Research Association (IPRA). David is a full-time videographer and filmmaker in the Chicagoland area. He joined forces with John Stephens, and together they produce the hit online series Believe: An Online Paranormal Experience. Believe has had over a million and a half lifetime viewers and is growing everyday. The show is streamed on their Youtube channel: youtube.com/EclipseProductions89. David and John travel the country and release new videos almost every week. They try and discover and utilize new methods of capturing paranormal phenomena. David aims to change the way the world views ghost hunting by opening its eyes. He also strives to give his viewers an “experience” rather than simply watching a video. David’s fascination with the paranormal began at a young age when witnessing a full-bodied apparition in his bedroom. He caught his first piece of evidence on accident while filming late at night inside Bachelor’s Grove Cemetery in Midlothian, Illinois. He witnessed a spirit walk between two tombstones with his own eyes. Upon reviewing footage, he found that he had recorded it on video. He became completely obsessed with documenting spirits. In just one year of capturing his first piece of evidence, he performed over 100 hundred investigations at different locations. Eventually, he began incorporating his knowledge of film with his passion for ghost hunting and created Believe. John works for the city of Chicago. A city boy at heart, he is a strong, unmovable force. He is known for his fearless attitude and strong will. John is also a professional photographer. His passion is abstract street photography and apocalyptic themed photos. John met David while shooting at Manteno State Hospital late one evening. The two instantly bonded, sharing their love for abandoned art and things that go bump into the night. The two of them together serve as a perfect combination of brains and muscle … light and darkness. Air Date: April 10, 2014 Topic: Paranormal Investigation, Paranormal Theory, EVP, Paranormal Research Guests: David Scott and John Stephens Hosts: Karen Frazier and Rick hale Producer: Cheryl Knight

In 2011, the Academy for International Communication of Chinese Culture (AICCC) conducted a survey of international views toward Chinese cinema. The AICCC concluded that foreign audiences simply don't understand Chinese films and culture. To discuss this, AICCC selected five films that provided popular in China. At USC five AICCC scholars will discuss these films and other issues with American specialists. About AICCC Jointly established by Beijing Normal University and International Data Group (IDG) , the Academy for International Communication of Chinese Culture aims to introduce and disseminate Chinese culture worldwide more effectively and contribute to a harmonious world culture through solid, in-depth research and art works with Chinese characteristics by effectively integrating resources from Beijing Normal University, IDG, relevant government departments, enterprises, non-profit organizations and communities. Huilin Huang is the foundinng director of AICCC. She was the Director of the Film, Television and Theater Research Center of Beijing Normal University, a standing member of the Arts Education Committee of the Chinese Ministry of Education, chairperson of the Film and Television Education Committee of the Chinese Association of Higher Education, and Vice Chairperson of the Research Association of the History and Theory of Chinese Drama. As a senior professor at Beijing Normal University, Huilin Huang is the founder of the first Film Ph.D. program in China and the founding Chairperson of the School of Art and Communication of Beijing Normal University.

In 2011, the Academy for International Communication of Chinese Culture (AICCC) conducted a survey of international views toward Chinese cinema. The AICCC concluded that foreign audiences simply don't understand Chinese films and culture. To discuss this, AICCC selected five films that provided popular in China. At USC five AICCC scholars will discuss these films and other issues with American specialists. About AICCC Jointly established by Beijing Normal University and International Data Group (IDG) , the Academy for International Communication of Chinese Culture aims to introduce and disseminate Chinese culture worldwide more effectively and contribute to a harmonious world culture through solid, in-depth research and art works with Chinese characteristics by effectively integrating resources from Beijing Normal University, IDG, relevant government departments, enterprises, non-profit organizations and communities. Huilin Huang is the foundinng director of AICCC. She was the Director of the Film, Television and Theater Research Center of Beijing Normal University, a standing member of the Arts Education Committee of the Chinese Ministry of Education, chairperson of the Film and Television Education Committee of the Chinese Association of Higher Education, and Vice Chairperson of the Research Association of the History and Theory of Chinese Drama. As a senior professor at Beijing Normal University, Huilin Huang is the founder of the first Film Ph.D. program in China and the founding Chairperson of the School of Art and Communication of Beijing Normal University.

This is the roving report that I didn't get to make from LauraPalooza, the national conference of the Laura Ingalls Wilder Legacy and Research Association. I'll take you through the conference and what it was like for me to attend. I hope it will make you feel like you have a front room seat.