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In this piece we discuss blood management in emergency and elective surgery with Matthew Wiles, an anaesthetist from Sheffield, UK, and editor of the journal Anaesthesia, and Catherine Downs, an anaesthetist from Sydney, Australia. The episode delves into haemorrhage associated with trauma and major surgery, and the benefits of point of care testing. We also took the opportunity to discuss authorship of scholarly work and the need to support emerging researchers and site collaborators. Presented by Andy Cumpstey and Kate Leslie on location at the Annual Scientific Meeting of the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists and Faculty of Pain Medicine in Cairns, Australia, with their guests, Dr Matthew Wiles, Consultant Anaesthetist and Clinical Lead for Major Trauma, Sheffield Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, and Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer, Sheffield University, Sheffield, UK, and Dr Catherine Downs, Consultant Anaesthetist, Prince of Wales Hospital, and Senior Lecturer, Randwick Clinical Campus, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Prav sits down with husband-and-wife team Drs Mumta and Amit Jilka, the owners of Abbey House Dental. From humble beginnings working in corner shops to building a successful multi-practice dental business, the Jilkas share their inspiring journey of entrepreneurship, resilience, and growth. They candidly discuss how their business flourished organically before adopting a more strategic approach, including the challenges they faced during a financial crisis in 2024 that nearly led to bankruptcy, and how they turned it around through team solidarity, data-driven decisions, and improved associate mentorship.In This Episode00:01:40 - Backstory00:26:40 - Path to dentistry and how they both ended up at Sheffield University 00:29:35 - How Mumta and Amit met at dental school and their early relationship 00:41:25 - The purchase of their first practice and the beginning of Abbey House Dental00:45:55 - Balancing practice growth with raising children 00:48:35 - How Covid provided a valuable opportunity to reassess their business strategy 00:51:55 - Financial crisis of 2024 and discovering their business model wasn't working 00:57:45 - Difficult conversations with associates about reducing percentages 01:01:35 - The importance of mentoring associates, especially with consultation skills 01:04:55 - Current state of Abbey House and future growth plans 01:10:55 - Reflections on their journey and thriving in crisis mode01:15:55 - Last days and legacy - advice they would leave for their children 01:19:15 - Fantasy dinner party guestsAbout Mumta and Amit JilkaDr. Mumta and Dr. Amit Jilka own Abbey House Dental, a group of four dental practices known for high-quality private dentistry, Invisalign, and implant treatments. Both raised in entrepreneurial families with corner shop businesses, they met at Sheffield University's dental school and married two years after graduation. Their business journey began with purchasing a single-surgery practice that has now expanded to multiple locations, all while raising three children and navigating the ups and downs of dental practice ownership.

It's time for another trip around the solar system on the BIGGER and BETTER Science Weekly! In this episode of the Fun Kids Science Weekly, we continue our bigger and better podcast where we answer YOUR questions, have scientists battle it out for which science is the best & learn about the atomic clock and how it's revolutionising timekeeping! Dan starts with the latest science news, where we learn about Amazon boss Jeff Bezos' entry into space, how Norway became the first country to go all electric on the roads, and Dr. Vittorio Aita from King's College London joins Dan to explain about a new revelation in timekeeping. We then answer your questions, Etta wants to know all about white holes and Dr. Susan Cartwright from Sheffield University answers Linden's question: if you point a laser at the sky, will it reach space? Dangerous Dan continues, and we’re diving into one of the ocean’s most mysterious creatures—the Black Swallower! In Battle of the Sciences, Dr. Steve Taylor breaks down the science of time and why it sometimes flies by and other times drags on. What do we learn about? · How Jeff Bezos is taking on Elon Musk in the space race · The first nation to go all electric on the roads · The atomic clock and how it's revolutionising timekeeping · Can lasers really reach space? · And in Battle of the Sciences, the science of time! All on this week's episode of Science Weekly!Join Fun Kids Podcasts+: https://funkidslive.com/plusSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Astronomy Daily - The Podcast: S03E242Welcome to Astronomy Daily, where we delve into the latest celestial discoveries and festive celebrations in space. I'm your host, Anna, and today's episode promises a stellar journey through our cosmic neighborhood.Highlights:- Milky Way's Twin Uncovered: Discover the "firefly sparkle," a galaxy mirroring our Milky Way's early days, found by astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope. This remarkable find offers a glimpse into the universe's infancy, with star clusters forming just 600 million years after the Big Bang.- Festive Spirit on the ISS: Join the crew of Expedition 72 as they celebrate Christmas aboard the International Space Station. From floating candy canes to a snowman made of storage bags, see how astronauts maintain holiday cheer in orbit.- Mars' Winter Wonderland: Explore the Martian South Pole's icy landscape, where a layer of frozen carbon dioxide creates a stunning, though frigid, scene. Learn about the dynamic weather patterns shaping Mars' unique environment.- Parker Solar Probe's Record-Breaking Dive: On Christmas Eve, NASA's Parker Solar Probe ventured closer to the sun than ever before, breaking speed records while investigating the mysterious coronal heating problem.- The Mystery of JuMBOS: Unravel the enigma of Jupiter mass binary objects found in the Orion Nebula. Researchers propose these are stellar cores stripped by massive neighbors, offering a new understanding of these puzzling entities.- Jupiter's Colossal Storms: Witness the massive thunderstorms on Jupiter, so large they could engulf Earth. These rare storms, with their ethereal green lightning, have the potential to alter the planet's iconic appearance.For more cosmic updates, visit our website at astronomydaily.io. Sign up for our free Daily newsletter to stay informed on all things space. Join our community on social media by searching for #AstroDailyPod on Facebook, X, Tumblr, YouTubeMusic, and TikTok. Share your thoughts and connect with fellow space enthusiasts.Thank you for tuning in. This is Anna signing off. Until next time, keep looking up and stay curious about the wonders of our universe.00:00 - This episode features fascinating stories from across our cosmic neighborhood00:52 - Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered a new galaxy02:57 - The International Space Station crew is celebrating Christmas in their unique way04:53 - Recent images show frozen carbon dioxide dry ice blanketing the Martian polar regions07:01 - NASA's Parker Solar Probe made history on Christmas Eve with unprecedented close approach08:53 - Scientists propose that Jupiter mass binary objects are stripped down by their massive neighbors11:14 - New observations reveal massive white storms churning within Jupiter's equatorial belt✍️ Episode ReferencesJames Webb Space Telescope[NASA James Webb Space Telescope](https://www.jwst.nasa.gov/)International Space Station[NASA International Space Station](https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/index.html)Mars Express Orbiter[ESA Mars Express](https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Mars_Express)Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter[NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter](https://mars.nasa.gov/mro/)Parker Solar Probe[NASA Parker Solar Probe](https://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/parker-solar-probe)University of Sheffield[University of Sheffield](https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/)Orion Nebula[Orion Nebula](https://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/orion-nebula)Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/astronomy-daily-the-podcast--5648921/support.

In this episode, we explore the importance of patient involvement in shaping rare condition research initiatives. Our guests discuss why it's crucial to involve individuals with lived experiences, including patients and caregivers, in setting research agendas. In doing so, this approach ensures research can be more inclusive, efficient, and impactful, addressing the issues that matter most to those affected. Mel Dixon, Founder Cure DHDDS and member of Genomics England Participant Panel is joined by Jo Balfour, Founder of CamRARE and Dr Rona Smith, Senior Research Associate at the University of Cambridge and Honorary Consultant in Nephrology and Vasculitis. Find out more about the Cambridge Rare Disease Research Network, discussed in the episode, which aims to support the rare condition community in building an online network of partnerships and resources to facilitate new patient-centred research opportunities. "We're really turning research on its head, moving away from it being a researcher-led activity where they decide on the idea and the research concept and bring patients in at different points along that research journey and instead starting with the patient's idea in the first place.  It can only be a better system for all because it improves efficiency, it improves potentially the long term outputs and, most importantly, outcomes for patients." You can download the transcript or read it below. Mel: Welcome to Behind the Genes. Rona: I think it really means that we measure what matters to patients and individuals that are affected.  Often, it's really difficult to capture kind of the real impact of disease and there's a tendency for researchers to measure things that are easy to measure and are reproducible, which of course is important but what's most important is actually being able to truly capture the impact of an intervention on an individual's condition.  So, I think that's another key aspect of having people with lived experience involved right from the start. Mel: My name is Mel Dixon and I'm a member of the Participant Panel at Genomics England and founder of Cure DHDDS, a charity set up to raise awareness, support families and help drive research into the ultra-rare DHDDS gene variant.  On today's episode I'm joined by Jo Balfour, Managing Director of CamRARE, which is the Cambridge Rare Disease Network.  This network unites patients, advocates, experts and leaders to address the challenges faced by people affected by rare conditions.  I'm also joined by Rona Smith, Associate Professor at the University of Cambridge and honorary consultant in nephrology and vasculitis.  Today we'll be discussing the role of patients in setting research agendas and how their involvement can lead to more impactful and patient-centred research.  If you enjoy today's episode we'd love your support.  Please like, share and rate us on wherever you listen to your podcasts. Before we begin the interview I'd like to share a little bit of my story.  In November 2022, following whole genome sequencing, we received the news that two of our three children carried a neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative DHDDS genetic variant.  At the time of our children's diagnosis there was very little information on our gene, minimal research happening into it and no treatment pathway.  Through our charity, Cure DHDDS, we have worked tirelessly to instigate research and create a collaborative scientific research community.  I am a huge advocate for patient-led research and have witnessed first-hand the positive impact it can have on patient lives.  Thanks to the work of the many scientists that we have had the honour of collaborating with, within two years of our children's diagnosis we have a disease-modifying therapy in our sight and an ASO (Antisense oligonucleotides) therapy in development.  We are incredibly grateful for the opportunities genetic testing has given us but I also appreciate how overwhelming a genetic diagnosis can be and how challenging it can be for families to initiate research projects with little to no resources, and that's why initiatives such as CamRARE that we'll be discussing today are so important.   On that note, let's get back to our podcast guests.  I wonder before we dive into today's topic if you could both give a brief introduction, and, Rona, if you could also give the less scientifically-minded of us an explanation about what nephrology is. Rona: Thank you for inviting me today.  So I'm Rona Smith, I work in Cambridge and I'm a nephrologist and that means somebody that looks after individuals who have diseases that affect their kidneys.  My specialist interest is in something called vasculitis which is a rare autoimmune disease that affects all organs in the body but kidneys as well.  Mel: Thank you.  And Jo?  Jo: Hi Mel.  I'm Jo Balfour, the Managing Director and one of the founding members of Cambridge Rare Disease Network, or CamRARE for short.  I think we're often described as the ‘Chief Everything Officers'.  I manage the charity and all of our operations and our wonderful team.    Mel: Lovely.  Thank you very much.  Rona, I wonder also if you could explain to our listeners what is a research agenda?  Rona: So in brief a research agenda is really a strategy that outlines key questions or topics that a research community, and that might be investigators, clinicians, scientists, patients, industry,  and they are the priorities that they want to explore and address over a period of time.  So it's really a direction of travel and identification of areas of importance and where there are gaps in knowledge so that it then leads to the opportunity to form specific research questions that you can then go on and address.  Mel: Why do you both think it's important to involve patients in setting these research agendas?  Jo: Well I think critically one of the things that I've learnt over my time working, not just in the rare disease sector but also earlier in social care and education, is that we should as professionals never assume anything; you know, we have not lived in their shoes and we don't know what the daily life of people living with rare conditions is like.  So gathering that day to day lived experience is really crucial.  And I have a unique opportunity to see into that daily life with our local community of rare disease families who have a range of different rare conditions.  I'm party to their conversations, to their daily trials and tribulations, the things that are difficult, the things that they find joy in but I still will always go back to them and ask their opinion.  I see myself as a spokesperson for them as we're an umbrella organisation but I certainly never really know what it's like to live with their conditions.  I think they bring with them diverse experiences which we really need and value in setting research priorities, they have unique knowledge of their own conditions.  They ethically have a right to be involved from the start and to set that priority and agenda but, equally, it's valuable for us as researchers because if we can involve people early we have definitely more chance of good engagement and later success, better outcomes for everyone.  Mel: Couldn't agree more.  And, Rona, is there anything you'd like to add to that? Rona: I think it really means that we measure what matters to patients and individuals that are affected.  Often it's really difficult to capture kind of the real impact of disease and there's a tendency for researchers to measure things that are easy to measure and are reproducible, which of course is important but what's most important is actually being able to truly capture the impact of an intervention on an individual's condition.  So I think that's another key aspect of having people with lived experience involved right from the start.  Jo: Another thing that's actually quite interesting that I'm going to mention here is that I think when you live day in, day out with a condition your perception of things like pain is different from your average person's so you become almost accepting of your daily norm, and I think that's really critical to understand as well.  And it's only by getting to really know patients and understand. When we say, “What's your pain like on a scale of 1 to 10?” you know, something that I feel as pain because I get it rarely I probably am going to put it at a higher score than somebody who has that every day.  So I think there's subtleties and nuances like that as well which are really critical to get across by conversation with patients.  Mel: That makes absolute sense.  And I see that from the patient perspective myself.  I was out with my friends the other day and they said, “Oh my goodness, you're constantly taking your children to sports activities.”  Because of their physical needs we're constantly,  they go to Pilates, they go to swimming, they go to gym class – we try to keep them fit and healthy – and we, even though they're older, have to take them there and back and that's become our norm but when you're speaking to families whose children don't have those difficulties they have no idea how much time that actually takes up.  And I had no idea how much like time it takes up compared to what other people are doing because that is our norm, that's what we've accepted as the norm.  Patients and patient groups are incredibly driven and invested in their rare disease as well so they make really good rare disease research partners.     And, moving on, what do you see as the challenges and barriers to patient involvement and how do we overcome these? Rona: I think probably the biggest barrier is time.  So, the most important thing is investing time to build relationships, to really understand in-depth perspectives both from the patient's side but also the researcher's side. And, inevitably, we always want to do things faster and actually this is one really, really critical aspect is investing time.  Funding is also a challenge.  Often you have to do a lot of upstream work before you have got funding for a project and that takes time from individuals and that's another challenge.  And I think the third thing for me is individuals that are patient partners in research, they're not just patients, they're people - they have lives, they have work, they have families, they have everything else that goes on in life - and so actually fitting this all in is really challenging.  Mel: Jo, is there anything you'd like to add there?  Jo: Yeah, I think just a word about diversity really and, you know, how do we uncover those hidden families and patients who currently don't really have a voice.  I think we'd all acknowledge that there are key voices within the rare disease community who will share the views of their community and they've become well-oiled machines almost at being great advocates but, as I mentioned earlier, even though I'm perhaps one of those people, you know, I speak for a community, I would never assume anything.  So, I still need to uncover the thoughts and the feelings and the emotions and the needs and the what matters from those people, and, as Rona mentioned, that takes time and it takes building relationships and trust with people.  So, we have a wonderful community in the Eastern region of England which is made up of families affected by all different rare diseases, and undiagnosed.  And some are babies and have been lucky enough to get a very early diagnosis and others are young adults but what we're finding through that is that experience is diverse and experience changes over time as families go through transition periods or they meet a roadblock and they're having to navigate things differently.  So, it's about building those relationships.  That takes times, it takes resources, it takes sometimes a reset in the way that we think things need to be done.  So instead of asking questions all the time and putting surveys out and trying to get response that way it takes a bit of thinking about how do we listen better and how do we give those people who don't have a voice, who are non-verbal or perhaps have a learning disability, how do we ensure that we're capturing their views as well.    And we did a really lovely project actually last year, it was something funded by the NHS called My Story, My Way, where we actually spent three months with our young adults working out what it was they wanted from our community next, how did they want us to follow them into adulthood.  And we knew that there were a number of young people in that group who were non-verbal and had some learning differences and we knew that we couldn't just do it in the normal format, we couldn't just do a focus group and ask their opinion, so we actually did it through photography.  So each of the familiess well, the young person themself was given a simple camera.  They basically had thirty-six shots.  You got thirty-six clicks to capture the things, the people, the places that you love and then to share them with us as a community.  And then we all discuss, you know, how these things might be something we can build into our future plans for them.  And it was such a wonderful activity.  We gave them plenty of time, plenty of opportunities to ask questions.  If the young person themself couldn't physically click the camera their sibling got to help them.  And their sibling or their parent was given another camera in black and white so we had distinctive pictures, pictures that the kid themself had taken, pictures that the family had taken, but all together, you know, it gave this lovely kind of medley, this beautiful visual representations of what mattered to them.  And I think it's about taking the time to be creative with people like that and really get to the bottom of “How do we find out what matters to you?” Mel: Although it takes time to think about those ideas.  That could be translatable across the board really, couldn't it, throughout various conditions.  I think that's fantastic.  Rona, I wonder if you can tell us how has the work that's already been done through the patient-led research hub facilitated addressing research priorities.  Rona: So just a tiny bit about the patient-led research hub.  So, this has been now running for nearly ten years through Cambridge.  It's a partnership between the Cambridge Biomedical Research Campus and we're based within the university and the Trust.  And in essence it kind of was set up because of really a mismatch between what many patients wanted from research and what investigators' views were.  And so really the premise is that we welcome patients to come to us with an idea, a problem, an unmet need in their disease area – and we do focus on rare disease – and we work with them to see “Well actually what do we already know about that?” and then if there is a gap in knowledge we then move to kind of trying to work and develop a question that we can then address.  And that might be a question that's addressed through generating more information through surveys or it may actually be a question of an intervention that we can test.  So, we've had lots of projects come through and we, just an example of a project was from a group of patients with a rare kidney condition called autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease, and that is a condition where over time you accumulate cysts in your kidneys and the kidneys become large, they become very painful and eventually they can fail.  And a question that the patient group had was about whether drinking more water could impact the rate of growth of these cysts, and there's a strong hypothesis behind that that drinking lots of water reduces down the level of a particular hormone.  And we actually worked with the charity behind this group, the Polycystic Kidney Disease Charity, and designed a study to test a very high water intake to a normal water intake to see whether it was possible over a period of eight weeks for patients to actually stick to this.  It's quite difficult to do.  And they recorded how much water they'd drunk, they tested their own urine and actually it showed that this was feasible to do this kind of work.  So, I think the patient-led research hub is kind of taking the research priorities that are important to patients but working in a patient-led way to come right through to a project.  Mel: That sounds great.  And if the patients are engaged from the start of the project and it's led by them they're obviously going to be much more driven to take part in the actual research and see the research through themselves.    So, Jo, I'm very excited to hear about the launch of the Rare Disease Research Network.  Can you please tell me what the research network is and what you hope to achieve with it?  Jo: So the Rare Disease Research Network is first of all a bit of a mouthful so we're going to try and encourage people to call it the RDRN.  It's a co-created project which really the patient-led research hub in Cambridge approached us about in 2022, I think, we started talking about this, approached CamRARE as a partner to apply for an NIHR partnership grant, and we were successful with that to really take the model that the patient-led research hub had already developed and found was successful, and perhaps too successful for its own good – they were receiving more applications and more ideas than they could manage – and to develop that into an online platform.  So taking the same model, making it more accessible to a wider group of people, potentially worldwide, and providing the hand-holding that the patient-led research hub has always done, helping patients really consider their question, formulate that into a research idea, then do the literature search to find out “Is this question already answered, and if it is, great, can we provide that information to our community?  If it's not, how do we then build a team?  Who needs to be in my research team?  How do we then get funding together to take this idea forward?”  So, it's really taking the model, taking the good practice that already existed and creating an online platform to really attempt to replicate that as best we can. So the platform will launch on 23rd November (2024) at CamRARE's Rarefest which is a lovely in-person activity that's going on in Cambridge, and that platform will be open to anyone who has an interest in rare disease research.  But I think, critically, what's different about this is that, you know, we've talked about setting research agendas and we've talked about patients contributing to that, contributing to setting the priorities, what's different here is that the patients decide on the questions; it's what matters to the patients coming from them and their community.  And it's an opportunity for them to showcase those questions and those idea on a platform and almost to have a call to action, “Is there anyone else on this platform who has similar research interests to me?”  The platform will matchmake them together through a series of choosing tags, choosing tags about particular disease areas -  It's linked to the Orphanet database - choosing tags about the type of research that you're interested in.  That matchmaking process will happen, which at the moment is a very serendipitous process but we hope to take it a little bit further on from that.  It's still going to be a little bit of potluck who's on the platform at the time who's got similar interests as you but hopefully it will improve that serendipitous system.  And it will allow them to access resources on the platform, which is the kind of hand-holding bit, and also, critically, some mentoring.  So, there's a real sort of opportunity here for professionals – researchers, industry partners, healthcare professionals – who have particular skills in research to be able to say, “Well I can help.  I might not be able to be part of your team at this point but if you need half an hour on a Zoom call with me to think about your research question I can offer to mentor you on that.”  But, likewise, I think there's going to be lovely opportunities here for patient groups to support each other too because what we've always realised is that patient groups are at different points of their research journey.  You know, we see some organisations that are really well-funded now who are in partnership with industry, you know, they have a group of pharma companies that are supporting the development of treatments and they've kind of reached that point where they're very highly skilled and very well experienced.  And then there's others who are mum and dad who've just had a recent diagnosis for their child, they've gone searching on the internet, they can't find information, they don't have a patient organisation to rely on so they're going to make one themselves.  This happens all the time in the rare disease field.  There are 11,000 different rare conditions and there's not a group for all of them so mum and dad will often start something themselves and then in lots of cases want to do some research, they want to answer some of these questions.  So, you know, they're really starting from a very different beginning stage here where they've going to need some help, and sometimes the best help comes from their peers, it comes from other patient groups.  So that's in a nutshell what it's about; it's about providing opportunity for patient groups to showcase their great ideas, build partnerships and take research forward.   Rona: The only thing just to add there is I think, although rare diseases are individually rare, collectively, as Jo said, they're quite common, there's 11,000 rare diseases, and often, although they all have distinct features, there are common threads through rare diseases in terms of maybe symptoms that patients experience or challenges that their rare disease brings.  So, for example, you may have symptoms of pain or seizures that are common across many conditions, there may be educational needs that are threads going through.   And groups could work together maybe to answer a question that's relevant to a number of conditions and so bringing people together for that.  Or there may be another group that's already tried to answer that question in their condition and you can learn what worked, what didn't work.  I think that's the other thing, is there will be common threads that come through, and I think that would be a real strength of the network to draw those people together. Jo: I think as well, Mel, if we take this back to what we said right at the outset about optimising success for patients by bringing them into the conversation early, I think this platform provides the perfect opportunity to do that.  So we're moving away from, we're really turning research on its head, moving away from it being a researcher-led activity where they decide on the idea and the research concept and bring patients in at different points along that research journey and instead starting with the patient's idea in the first place.  It can only be a better system for all because it improves efficiency, it improves potentially the long-term outputs and, most importantly, outcomes for patients.  Mel: We were that family, that mum and dad setting up the charity a year and a half ago for the ultra-rare disease that our children had.  I think, you know, the match-making opportunities that are here are fantastic because finding yourself in that position is incredibly isolating.  And not only the matchmaking opportunities with the researchers but, as you were saying, Rona, as well with similar diseases; there's so much to learn from other diseases that may have, I don't know, a similar phenotype in the cells or similar symptoms.  That's what we found from connecting with these other rare conditions.  So, for us it's lysosomal storage diseases, we've now got the opportunity potentially to piggyback on drugs better used for their diseases for our own ultra rare condition, you know, where for us to run a full-on clinical trial by ourselves with a new drug, I mean, we just wouldn't have,  there's no funding, there's not enough interest.  So, I think the opportunities that lie in this network are really, really exciting.  Jo, can you tell me a bit more about who can join the research network?  Jo: So anyone with a rare disease research interest. That's everybody from individuals affected themselves, their family members, their caregivers, the patient organisations, that support them, and then, you know, all sorts of rare disease professional researchers.  So, we're looking for PhD students who are looking for their first exciting project to undertake, have they taken a look at the Rare Disease Research Network to see if there's any ideas that might pique their interest.  We're looking for established researchers, medical professionals who are undertaking clinical research but also I think, importantly, companies.   You know, we hear more and more about concepts like drug repurposing for rare diseases where we're looking at the opportunities for taking drugs that already exist and have been proven safe to be redeployed to other rare diseases. It's quicker, it's more efficient, it's cheaper, so does it open up opportunities for companies that are using that technique to get involved.  And also pharma companies.  This platform is not all going to be about finding cures and treatments but it certainly will be a priority for some groups.  So we really are welcoming everyone with an interest in rare disease research to get involved, be part of the network, collaborate, help where you can. Rona: And also, as we've said before, once you've got that level of engagement and the patients leading these initiatives we've found, certainly with our group, the patients are much more willing to, say, find the MRI scans for the scientists, to have a blood sample done, to have skin fibroblasts taken.  If they know and they understand and they're driven and, as you said, the research idea has come from them as a patient group it certainly increases the chance of them being fully involved in the project from the start to the finish.  And all these things are imperative to understanding rare conditions because without researchers having the opportunity to look at these various samples you're not going to stand much of a chance of finding a treatment.  Jo: And we want the opportunity to upskill patients as well.  I think there are many people out there with great ideas who haven't yet found the confidence to promote those ideas because they're not quite sure of what the research journey looks like or what it might entail or whether they've got the right skills.  But I think by joining the platform and almost kind of watching how other people are managing these things and utilising the resources and the mentoring I do really hope that will build that confidence and those skills sets in people so that they can engage.  Rona: Yeah, just to add to that, I don't think it's just upskilling patients and patient groups, I think it's upskilling everybody involved in rare disease research.  This is quite a different way of approaching research, it's something that maybe academics may feel a little bit uncomfortable with, it's not how it's normally done, so I think there's a whole learning process.  And the aim is that this RDR network will evolve and will develop and the direction it goes will be driven by the community that are engaging with it.  So I think it's a really exciting time just as we're coming up to launch to see where this goes.  Jo: Mel, you've been involved in this project, it would be really interesting actually to hear from you. I was just thinking, as part of the co-creation community we had 25 individuals from the rare disease community who built this platform from scratch with us; Rona and I might have set out all the vision for how we wanted the platform to be or what we thought might be a good idea but ultimately it was the community who decided and they literally have fact-checked and cross-referenced every word that's gone on the platform. What has that experience been like for you as a patient representative?  Mel: I think it's been really welcome to see a network that is truly putting patients at the centre of everything.  So, from the very beginning foundations you have the rare disease community involved which is exactly what you're trying to create through your network.  So, I think it's been very welcome to be involved in the project and I also think that hopefully it will sort of be self-perpetuating that this will start to press a reset button on how we think about rare conditions and how it needs to be a more equitable field with patients.  Because I think, as you've both alluded to, while some clinicians and researchers are very onboard with this, for others it's a new concept that they still need to potentially adjust to or get their head round because it is a different way of thinking.  But in rare disease, well, in any condition really but particularly rare disease because there's so few experiences to draw on, I think that patients are vital to moving forward and to making that change so that diseases and conditions that have previously had no treatment, like, hopefully this way of thinking can expedite those treatments because, well, as a rare disease representative myself for our community that's one of our biggest drivers.  We're dealing with a condition that's progressive that affects most of our community's children; that is what we want, we want treatment, we want something that can stabilise the conditions.  You know, you can have researchers doing random projects that would make no difference to the final outcome of patients but if researchers know it's a priority of this particular group, hopefully that can channel in their focus and get the outcomes that the patients want in a more timely collaborative way.  So, I am a huge advocate for what you're doing, I think it's an incredible initiative.  Is there anything either of you would like to add to that? Rona: Rare disease disproportionately affects children and young people.  So, 7 out of 10 rare diseases develop in childhood and at the moment the Rare Disease Research Network hasn't really got a forum for including children and young people, and really that's partly because, and Jo can speak much more eloquently to this with her experience.  Actually, we didn't do that at the start because we feel that this is actually a discreet piece of work that really needs to be done in collaboration with children and young people to make sure that it's done well so that they can engage in the platform. So, Jo, I don't know if you want to talk about how we're hoping to take this forward.  Jo: Yeah, so we're busy developing a project plan at the moment which we're hoping to get funding for to work over eighteen months with a team of young adults with rare conditions, probably from our Unique Feet community and keep it local because we already have a good relationship with them and they have our trust.  But the idea would be to work with lots of other young people's forums.  So there's already ones established in and around our area, such as Pedal, which works with really small children, and there's also groups that are set up for young people with cancer.  So we've already had lots of great conversations with them about how we can work with them, how they can help us sense-check our project, and then in return we can help them better understand research and their ability to be involved in that.  But ultimately by the end we want to run focus groups, we want to develop some peer mentors within our community, so young adults who've, you know, perhaps come out the other end of a period of transition into adulthood who can support other young people with rare diseases to also become researchers, to come up with their own ideas and their own questions, and to sense-check projects that come through the platform.  So it's a really exciting opportunity to truly involve the people who are affected most by rare conditions but we know through our My Story, My Way project that this has to be done gently, carefully, given time and done really thoughtfully.  So that's our next step and we hope to be able to share those learnings with people so that it can be done elsewhere.  Mel: And do you see the network also working with children with learning differences? Jo: Absolutely.  We'll invest a lot of time and energy in ensuring that materials are accessible, inclusive and suitable for the community that we're working with.  Mel: So looking to the future, how do you think, Rona, can patient-led research help to shape the future landscape?  Rona: So I think, Jo used the term earlier, kind of this is really turning research on its head, so it's really putting patients right at the centre of research, so it just makes sure that it's absolutely driven by what matters to them to get the outcomes that matter.  And, again, it's just got all that benefit of efficiency and really answering those questions that matter.  Mel: And, Jo, do you think this could lead to more collaborative partnership, for example, between industry and academia, potentially leading to quicker clinical advancement? Jo: I would absolutely like to think so.  You know, as CamRARE we run a companies forum which is a roundtable meeting for pharma and biotech companies and other organisations like Genomics England who are involved in the rare disease therapeutic space and diagnostics, and I think one thing that I find really heart-warming about those meetings is that, you know, different companies are able to sit around a table as competitors but with a very open mind to addressing the barriers and the bottlenecks that prevent them from getting drugs to patients.  Because of course it's not just the research journey that's a challenge, it's the regulatory side of things at the end of that journey; just because you've created a great drug it doesn't matter in the end if it doesn't get to the patient.  So, you know, access is critical and involving patients at the earliest possible moment to ensure that that treatment gets through to the regulators and gets access to patients is the only way forward.  We had a recent companies forum meeting where we were exploring health-related patient reported outcome measures, or PROMs, and we had a speaker from NICE who's the regulatory body, we had a speaker from Sheffield University who was talking as an academic about developing PROMs for industry and for patient groups and we had Emily Reuben, the CEO of Duchenne UK, and we had an amazing discussion about the importance of involving the patient community from the outset.  And the academic explained that developing a PROM for Duchenne UK had taken them two years and it had taken them that length of time because they'd followed this careful thoughtful pathway of making sure that they didn't assume anything about what matters to patients.  But that of course, as we said earlier, involves time, it involves financial commitment, it involves resources and the right attitude, but I do think that a platform like the Rare Disease Research Network can really try to harness all of those things by bringing the right people together – industry, academia and patients – to work together equitably. Mel: And with the network do you think you'll be getting the regulators in at that initial stage as well so that, like you said, the patients can gain access while we're dealing with their priorities, the regulators are informed at the very earliest stages so that we know the process that's being followed will ultimately lead to patients gaining access to the relevant therapies?  Jo: Yes, I think this is really important, and there's actually, we've got a section on the new platform which really talks to each of the different stakeholders.  ‘What's in this for me?'  ‘Why is it important for you to be here and to join?'  And one part of that is funders and that includes the regulatory bodies.  And at the next companies forum meeting we're actually going to be bringing the Rare Disease Research Network Platform and its potential to the companies forum meeting and we'll have regulators involved in that.  So, you know, we are constantly talking to people about why it's important for them all to be involved and all to see what matters. I think I'd like to advocate for an extra letter at the end of PPIEP - if we could squeeze a D in there at the end too.  So over time that terminology has expanded to be Public Patient Involvement Engagement and Participation, which was added I think this year, but it would be lovely to have the D on the end and to include ‘Driven' because I think what's really important about this platform is that it's not just engagement and involvement, it's not just participation, it's initiated by and driven by patients. Mel: So I think we'll wrap here.  Thank you to our guests, Jo Balfour and Dr Rona Smith, for joining me today as we discuss the role of patients in setting research agendas.  If you'd like to hear more like this, please subscribe to Behind the Genes on your favourite podcast app.  Thank you for listening.  I've been your host, Mel Dixon, and this podcast was edited by Bill Griffin at Ventoux Digital and produced by Naimah Callachand. 

Ross Fisher, MBChB MSc MPhil FRCS RCPS is a Consultant Paediatric Surgeon at Sheffield Children's Hospital, Sheffield England. He trained in Medicine at Sheffield University graduating in 1988. After general surgical training he undertook 7 years of specialist training in Paediatric Surgery training in Sheffield, London, Bristol, Cardiff and Auckland, New Zealand. He took up his first Consultant post in Leicester in 2001, moving in 2011 to his Sheffield where he is the Lead for Surgical Oncology and Trauma. He has a strong background in Medical Education and is an international speaker lecturing principally on paediatric trauma management. He maintains a website http://ffolliet.com where he shares his ideas on #presentationskills.Twitter/X: @ffolliet

My name is Rainetta Jones, I was born in Port of Spain Trinidad and Tobago. I came to theUnited States at the age of 14 with my family. I attended Martin Luther King Jr. HS in Manhattan NYC. I would like to note that I do not have any memories of High School Lunch Break for three years. I graduated at 17 years of age and attended University of Buffalo. My tenure at UB was short lived due to serious neurological anomalies which I later learned was “Brain Scrambling Technologies. While at UB I wanted to pursue a degree in Micro and Molecular Biology; however, that didn't pan out. After Buffalo, I attended Sheffield University in England as a study abroad student. Upon returning to the US, I took time off to Invent, Model, and Dance. In 2000 I had a meeting with a “friend” about my two inventions, the iPod and Kindle and also a novel conceptual hosiery design. All of which were stolen. Later on I learned he had connections to Steve Jobs and was invited by him to the launch of iTunes in Cupertino California. After that meeting I was followed by a Russian Jew who befriended me. He invited me to go to England a couple of days after September 11th, 2001. It wasn't until 2016, I was told that both David and Yuri were Mossad agents and that they had to get me out of the US for the launch of the iPod. I later became a Certified Administrative Professional and worked at the United Nations andseveral other Government agencies in NYC. In 2019 I graduated from Empire State College inBusiness Administration. I have no memories of a Secret Space Program however, I do knowthat my life has been filled with extraterrestrial experiences. After graduation I created the Micro- Business Model using business concepts on a micro-scale for those who would like to start a business with very little money. Today I do spiritual consultations and teach online classes oncea month.

In a special episode recorded live at the British Science Festival, Madeleine Finlay and guests explore the question: will AI make a good companion? AI could give us new ways to tackle difficult problems, from young people's mental health issues to isolation in care homes. It also raises challenging questions about the increasing role of tech in our personal lives. To explore these questions, Madeleine is joined by the Guardian's science editor, Ian Sample; Tony Prescott, a professor of computational robotics at Sheffield University; and Dr Mhairi Aitken, an ethics fellow at the Alan Turing Institute and visiting senior lecturer at Queen Mary University of London.. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/sciencepod

Chris is a former member of the Yorkshire Volunteers, part of Cold War Britain's Territorial reserve Army. This episode is a treasure trove of personal anecdotes, historical insights, and reflections on military life, making it a must-listen for anyone interested in military history and the Cold War era. Chris's journey into the military began with his interest in military subjects and history. He joined the Army Cadet Force before university and later, the Officer Training Corps at Sheffield University. As a reserve unit, training included handling World War II vintage weapons including the venerable Bren gun. Chris's training involved long days and nights of exercises and lectures. He recalls an incident at the School of Infantry in Warminster where he inadvertently came under live fire. Despite his initial lack of physical prowess, Chris's perseverance and dedication saw him through, eventually leading to his decision to pursue a commission as an officer. After training and assessment at Sandhurst, Chris was commissioned as a second lieutenant. The transition from private soldier to officer was challenging, particularly as he had to command men who previously outranked him. However, Chris's determination and growing confidence helped him establish himself as a capable leader. Looking back, Chris reflects on the camaraderie, the challenges, and the humorous moments that defined his military service. He also discusses the reality of PTSD, sharing insights from a friend who served in Iraq.  Episode extras here https://coldwarconversations.com/episode364 Want to hear more military stories of the Cold War? Here are all our military episodes in one convenient playlist https://open.spotify.com/playlist/22Tf4FcjFWQB1Jh4hpYJDg?si=d1cac1f026fb4783 The fight to preserve Cold War history continues and via a simple monthly donation, you will give me the ammunition to continue to preserve Cold War history. You'll become part of our community, get ad-free episodes, and get a sought-after CWC coaster as a thank you and you'll bask in the warm glow of knowing you are helping to preserve Cold War history. Just go to https://coldwarconversations.com/donate/ If a monthly contribution is not your cup of tea, We also welcome one-off donations via the same link. Find the ideal gift for the Cold War enthusiast in your life! Just go to https://coldwarconversations.com/store/ Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/ColdWarPod Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/coldwarpod/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/coldwarconversations/ Youtube https://youtube.com/@ColdWarConversations Love history? Join Intohistory https://intohistory.com/coldwarpod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this weeks episode we explore the folklore that was part of the best years of our lives, or so they say, Playground lore.From marbles and jacks, to tag and skipping, kicking and kissing whilst not forgetting all the ghost and ghouls that roam the back of the design area, we explore it all with the help of the Opie archive and the brilliant and playful Julia Bishop, Yinka Olusoga and Catherine Bannister from Sheffield University.Our readings this week come from the wonderful Matt Horne who tells us everything you will need to know about marbles.Relive those wonderful playground days of having to 'Gull a Plonk' with your best 'dobber'.Good times. Enjoy! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Payman chats with Instagram favourite Teki Sowdani, who shares his journey from his initial work experience to his time at Sheffield University.  He discusses growing up in Essex with Iraqi parents, and how this shaped his perspective. Teki also discusses his meteoric career progression, and rise to prominence on social media, and his journey into practice ownership.  He candidly discusses the professional and personal challenges he faced, including a medical diagnosis that profoundly impacted his life and career outlook. In This Episode 00:01:55 - Backstory 00:05:55 - Study 00:08:15 - Outsider mentality 00:11:35 - Early career 00:15:15 - Social media 00:21:10 - Cancer 00:31:25 - Clear aligners 00:45:20 - Darkest day 00:54:50 - Composite bonding 01:04:35 - Dental monitoring 01:20:45 - Practice ownership and management 01:24:50 - Teki's future plans and potential sale of his practice 01:30:40 - Final questions: fantasy dinner party guests and life advice About Teki Sowdani Teki Sowdani is the founder and owner of London-based Teeth by Tekki clinic and a prominent voice on Instagram under the @teeth_by_teki handle.

Vanwege DE voetbalwedstrijd van afgelopen week staat deze aflevering in het teken van Nederland - Engeland.En dus richtte ik de microfoon op het Nederlands-Engelse gezin van Jet, die hier de afdeling Dutch Studies runt op de Sheffield University.Hoe hebben zij en haar Engelse man Niff elkaar eigenlijk ontmoet? En waarom besloot Jet haar kinderen tweetalig op te voeden?En hoe ziet een tweetalige opvoeding er eigenlijk uit?Van die dingen;-)Probeer Kobo Plus nu tot wel 60 dagen gratis! Ga snel naar bol.com/koboplus en pak die korting met de code KPPC2024.Dit is het Instagram-account van Man met de microfoon.Wil je lid worden of een eenmalige donatie doen via petjeaf.com dan kan dat: hierEenmalig overmaken kan ook naar: NL37 INGB 0006 8785 94 van Stichting Man met de microfoon te Amsterdam.Reacties: manmetdemicrofoon@gmail.comWil je adverteren, dan kun je een mailtje sturen naar: adverteren@dagennacht.nlZie het privacybeleid op https://art19.com/privacy en de privacyverklaring van Californië op https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Dr. Campbell-McBride graduated with Honours as a Medical Doctor in 1984 from Bashkir Medical University in Russia. Following this she gained a Postgraduate Degree in Neurology and completed a second Postgraduate Degree in Human Nutrition at Sheffield University, UK. She has specialized in using nutritional approach as a treatment, and has become recognized as one of the world's leading experts in treating children and adults with learning disabilities and other mental disorders, as well as children and adults with digestive and immune disorders.  In 2004 she published her first book Gut And Psychology Syndrome. Natural Treatment Of Autism, ADHD, Dyslexia, Dyspraxia, Depression And Schizophrenia where she explores the connection between the patient's physical state and brain function. The book gives full details of the GAPS Nutritional Protocol, highly successful in treating patients with chronic diseases. A second edition was published in 2010. The concept of GAPS has become a global phenomenon and the book has been translated into 20 languages. She is also the author of Put Your Heart in Your Mouth (rev ed. 2016), and Vegetarianism Explained published in 2017. She is also a Member of The Society of Authors, The British Society for Environmental Medicine, and a Board Member of the Weston A Price Foundation. She is a regular contributing health editor to a number of journals, magazines, newsletters, and radio programmes around the world. https://gaps.me/ https://gapstraining.com/ http://www.doctor-natasha.com/ https://gapsoncon.com/ nutritionwithconfidence.com

My name is Rainetta Jones, I was born in Port of Spain Trinidad and Tobago. I came to theUnited States at the age of 14 with my family. I attended Martin Luther King Jr. HS in Manhattan NYC. I would like to note that I do not have any memories of High School Lunch Break for three years. I graduated at 17 years of age and attended University of Buffalo. My tenure at UB was short lived due to serious neurological anomalies which I later learned was “Brain Scrambling Technologies. While at UB I wanted to pursue a degree in Micro and Molecular Biology; however, that didn't pan out. After Buffalo, I attended Sheffield University in England as a study abroad student. Upon returning to the US, I took time off to Invent, Model, and Dance. In 2000 I had a meeting with a “friend” about my two inventions, the iPod and Kindle and also a novel conceptual hosiery design. All of which were stolen. Later on I learned he had connections to Steve Jobs and was invited by him to the launch of iTunes in Cupertino California. After that meeting I was followed by a Russian Jew who befriended me. He invited me to go to England a couple of days after September 11th, 2001. It wasn't until 2016, I was told that both David and Yuri were Mossad agents and that they had to get me out of the US for the launch of the iPod. I later became a Certified Administrative Professional and worked at the United Nations andseveral other Government agencies in NYC. In 2019 I graduated from Empire State College inBusiness Administration. I have no memories of a Secret Space Program however, I do knowthat my life has been filled with extraterrestrial experiences. After graduation I created the Micro- Business Model using business concepts on a micro-scale for those who would like to start a business with very little money. Today I do spiritual consultations and teach online classes oncea month.

What does the online election campaign look like? Who are the parties trying to reach and how effective are they? John Curtice and Rachel Wolf are joined by Kate Dommett, professor of digital politics at Sheffield University. Hosts: John Curtice and Rachel WolfGuest: Kate Dommett, professor of digital politics at Sheffield UniversityTo find out more about Tortoise:- Download the Tortoise app - for a listening experience curated by our journalists- Subscribe to Tortoise+ on Apple Podcasts for early access and exclusive content- Become a member and get access to all of Tortoise's premium audio offerings and moreIf you want to get in touch with us directly about a story, or tell us more about the stories you want to hear about contact hello@tortoisemedia.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dr Leah Gilman of Sheffield University is a sociologist working at the intersection of the sociology of personal life, reproduction and digital sociology. She has spent over a decade researching donor conception and exploring how people negotiate family and reproductive relationships in the context of social, legal and technological change. She has contributed to several journals and articles and even written a book along the way, today she is here to share a bit of insight into her current project. Predominantly the majority of Leah's focus is the UK, however, in this episode, we explore and chat about the differences in the law between the UK and Australia, and why the UK's current laws might be more of a hindrance than actually achieving anything beneficial. We chat about the British media and the clinic's current attitudes towards online donation. We analyse the different types of donor clinics, online and those that do both. For more information about this episode and links to contact Leah head to: https://ivfdonationworld.com/episode-75/

Roger goes to the Octagon Centre for the second time, to cheer on and take snaps of his friends in Cabaret Voltaire, who are promoting their recently released new album 'The Crackdown'.Having signed to Some Bizarre / Virgin Records, the Cabs pull out of the stops to impress their hard-to-please home town audience. Intro and outro music: Simon Elliott-Kemp.Artwork: Rionagh.Editor: Nigel Floyd.Sound FX courtesy of Freesound.org, with particular thanks to:Xserra - Call to prayer.Xhale 303 - TR808 pattern, zap synthDavid Bain - radio sweepSuonho - radio scanResaural - deep ambienceProutlip - industrial ambienceOymal Donaldo - guitar feedbackLogic Motion - electro 808 loop (120 bpm)Snapper 4298 - 808 buzzbeat (120 bpm)DJ Duppy - duppy electro beat, commoditize beat (140 bpm)Walter Odington - reese 1 (mono)Mielitietty -Juno ambient soundscapeSyntheway - synth bassBreo 2012 - tension builder Never miss an episode.Follow me at: https://twitter.com/rogerquailhttps://www.instagram.com/rogerquail/RSS feed - https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/289673.rss

With mice being the latest species to carry the disease, pandemic expert Rick Bright calls for stronger counter measures. “It's like PTSD from February 2020” he says. The authorities in the USA are responding too slow to the spread of H5N1 bird flu through its dairy farms – even mice are carrying the virus now, and not enough is known of how it is evolving and whether humans are threatened. He talks Roland through the complex political and public health issues. Child sacrifices in the Mayan empire a thousand years ago have been confirmed with DNA evidence from bones recovered in the 1960s from an underground pit. Some victims were twins, possibly indicating a brutal ritualistic re-enactment of an ancient myth involving divine twins. Geneticist Rodrigo Barquera describes the analysis. Mature orchids perform a unique form of offspring-care, feeding tiny seedlings with nutrients via networks of thread-like fungal hyphae in the soil, according to experiments conducted at Sheffield University. Mycologist Katie Field has been delving into this underground sustenance network. Geoscientists at the edge of the Arctic ocean are looking for ancient clues to the stability of the Atlantic circulation that brings critical warmth to Europe and the northern hemisphere. Could past changes help unravel the influence of global warming? Roland talks to Renata Lucchi in the control room of Research Vessel JOIDES Resolution. Presenter: Roland Pease Producer: Alex Mansfield Production Co-ordinator: Jana Bennett-Holesworth(Image: Mouse sitting on grain. Credit: SAEED KHAN/Getty Images)

My name is Rainetta Jones, I was born in Port of Spain Trinidad and Tobago. I came to theUnited States at the age of 14 with my family. I attended Martin Luther King Jr. HS in Manhattan NYC. I would like to note that I do not have any memories of High School Lunch Break for three years. I graduated at 17 years of age and attended University of Buffalo. My tenure at UB was short lived due to serious neurological anomalies which I later learned was “Brain Scrambling Technologies. While at UB I wanted to pursue a degree in Micro and Molecular Biology; however, that didn't pan out. After Buffalo, I attended Sheffield University in England as a study abroad student. Upon returning to the US, I took time off to Invent, Model, and Dance. In 2000 I had a meeting with a “friend” about my two inventions, the iPod and Kindle and also a novel conceptual hosiery design. All of which were stolen. Later on I learned he had connections to Steve Jobs and was invited by him to the launch of iTunes in Cupertino California. After that meeting I was followed by a Russian Jew who befriended me. He invited me to go to England a couple of days after September 11th, 2001. It wasn't until 2016, I was told that both David and Yuri were Mossad agents and that they had to get me out of the US for the launch of the iPod. I later became a Certified Administrative Professional and worked at the United Nations andseveral other Government agencies in NYC. In 2019 I graduated from Empire State College inBusiness Administration. I have no memories of a Secret Space Program however, I do knowthat my life has been filled with extraterrestrial experiences. After graduation I created the Micro- Business Model using business concepts on a micro-scale for those who would like to start a business with very little money. Today I do spiritual consultations and teach online classes oncea month.

News report (01:28); Abubaker Abed reports live from Gaza (23:33); Dr. Adel Elsharkawy on treating newborns in Gaza (41:05); Sabiya Ahamed of Palestine Legal and Shahd al-Hadid of Sheffield University talk about university encampments and knowing your legal rights to protest (01:04:50); Jon Elmer analyzes latest resistance videos (01:31:10); Group discussion (01:21:08).

Nick Corbishley discusses the most important issue of our day: the deployment of digital identity programs which by their own admission can "open up" or "close off" the digital and analog world to individuals. The EU is at the forefront of introducing Digital ID and helping other regions around the world do the same. Brussels insists they will be voluntary yet countries like Greece are already making them mandatory. We're talking about a new social contract in which the public has ever decreasing influence over their own lives. The EU is actively anti-democratic in its very essence, which is how it was designed. Multipolarity is a nice idea, but these governments are much further along the road toward killing cash and launching CBDCs. The U.S. and NATO are positioning in Latin America via countries like Argentina to keep regional powerhouses like Brazil in check. Location will be important for surviving the Digital Dictatorship, however, there is some hope because of the hubris and incompetence of the elite. Watch on BitChute / Brighteon / Rokfin / Rumble / Substack Geopolitics & Empire · Nick Corbishley: Digital Identity Can Close Life Off For Individuals #421 *Support Geopolitics & Empire! Become a Member https://geopoliticsandempire.substack.comDonate https://geopoliticsandempire.com/donationsConsult https://geopoliticsandempire.com/consultation **Visit Our Affiliates & Sponsors! Above Phone https://abovephone.com/?above=geopoliticseasyDNS (use code GEOPOLITICS for 15% off!) https://easydns.comEscape The Technocracy course (15% discount using link) https://escapethetechnocracy.com/geopoliticsPassVult https://passvult.comSociatates Civis (CitizenHR, CitizenIT, CitizenPL) https://societates-civis.comWise Wolf Gold https://www.wolfpack.gold/?ref=geopolitics Websites X https://twitter.com/NickCorbishley Website https://nickcorbishley.com Scanned: Why Vaccine Passports and Digital IDs Will Mean the End of Privacy and Personal Freedom http://www.chelseagreen.com/product/scanned Greece Just Gave a Glimpse of How the EU's “Voluntary” Digital ID Wallet Will Gradually Become Mandatory https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/04/greece-just-gave-a-glimpse-of-how-eus-strictly-voluntary-digital-id-wallet-will-gradually-become-mandatory.html About Nick Corbishley Nick Corbishley is a writer, journalist, teacher, and translator based in Barcelona. Formerly a senior contributing editor at the San Francisco–based economics and finance news site Wolf Street, he is currently a regular contributor to the US financial news and analysis blog Naked Capitalism, where he writes about financial, economic, and political trends and developments in Europe and Latin America. He also worked for many years at a well-respected business journal in Spain. Nick is an occasional speaker (in English or Spanish) on economic, political, and geopolitical topics. Nick holds a BA in history from Sheffield University, speaks three languages (English, French, and Spanish) and is a regular visitor to his beloved country-in-law, Mexico. *Podcast intro music is from the song "The Queens Jig" by "Musicke & Mirth" from their album "Music for Two Lyra Viols": http://musicke-mirth.de/en/recordings.html (available on iTunes or Amazon)

MMA Referees and the Deferral of Consent in Combat Sports, by Dr Alex Channon (Brighton University). Presentation given at the July 2023 Martial Arts Studies Conference at Sheffield University

Sheffield welcomes Space-Jazz royalty as the legendary Sun Ra brings his Arkestra to the new University concert space for a mind-blowing night of free-flowing, transcendental music. Artwork by Rionagh.Music by Simon Elliott-Kemp (thank you so much Simon!)Additional FX courtesy of Freesound.org, with particular thanks to:AJ Heels - twinkling stars intro.Therac 25 - starship hum.Rikus246 - audience ambience.Recording Hopkins - applause. Never miss an episode.Follow me at: https://twitter.com/rogerquailhttps://www.instagram.com/rogerquail/RSS feed - https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/289673.rss

A recent study on how to get rid of microplastics in water sparked presenter Marnie Chesterton's curiosity. When she turns on the tap in her kitchen each day, what comes out is drinkable, clean water. But where did it come from, and what's in it? Dr Stewart Husband from Sheffield University answers this and more, including listener questions from around the UK. Is water sterile? Should I use a filter? And why does my water smell like chlorine? Also, new research indicates that bumblebees can show each other how to solve puzzles too complex for them to learn on their own. Professor Lars Chittka put these clever insects to the test and found that they could learn through social interaction. How exactly did the experiment work, and what does this mean for our understanding of social insects? Reporter Hannah Fisher visits the bee lab at Queen Mary University in London. And finally, more than 20 million years ago, our branch of the tree of life lost its tail. At that point in time, apes split from another animal group, monkeys. Now, geneticist Dr Bo Xia at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard thinks he may have found the specific mutation that took our tails. Marnie speaks with evolutionary biologist Dr Tom Stubbs from the Open University about why being tail-less could be beneficial. What would a hypothetical parallel universe look like where humans roam the earth, tails intact? And what would these tails look like? Presenter: Marnie Chesterton Producers: Louise Orchard, Florian Bohr, Jonathan Blackwell, Imaan Moin Editor: Martin Smith Production Co-ordinator: Jana Bennett-Holesworth  BBC Inside Science is produced in collaboration with the Open University.

Coach Sheffield is currently one of the most successful coaches in NCAA Women's Volleyball. He won a National Championship in 2021 and boasts a record of 292-61 at the time of this podcast. He has great insights into what it takes to help individual athletes max out as well as the collective team. Coach appears to have a wonderful mix of love and accountability that allows him to have challenging conversations when necessary. He has embraced the role that mindset training, in particular mindfulness, has in overall performance in sport and life. Enjoy listening to one of the elite coaches in the game today! Max out Mindset for Volleyball book and services here. Instagram: @max_out_mind_Jess and on Twitter: @JessKnecht Instagram:@max_out_mindset Twitter: @Doc_elitemind

There's feverish speculation about the timing of the next election, so in this episode Rachel and John look at how campaigns have changed with the help of Kate Dommett, professor of digital politics at Sheffield University.Guest: Kate Dommett, professor of digital politics at The University of SheffieldHosts: Professor John Curtice and Rachel WolfTo find out more about Tortoise:- Download the Tortoise app - for a listening experience curated by our journalists- Subscribe to Tortoise+ on Apple Podcasts for early access and exclusive content- Become a member and get access to all of Tortoise's premium audio offerings and moreIf you want to get in touch with us directly about a story, or tell us more about the stories you want to hear about contact hello@tortoisemedia.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Two years after the US Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to abortion, lawmakers in France yesterday made history by enshrining this right in their country's constitution - it was a global first. We talk to Stephanie Hennette-Vauchez about the change.Singer songwriter Sarah Jane Morris performs liveWe look at what's behind the cuts to Birmingham City Council's budget - equal pay or a new IT system? with Heather Jameson, editor of the Municipal Journal and Dr James Brackley, lecturer in accounting at Sheffield University .In the next part of our series about porn Ena Miller talks to ‘Sam' who, from an early age, measured herself by the women she saw in pornography.  And Imelda May talks about her new documentary Lilly and Lolly: The Forgotten Yeats Sisters, on Sky Arts. Elizabeth and Susan Yeats (also known as Lolly and Lilly) founded a women-only arts and crafts guild to promote women's economic and cultural independence. Overshadowed by their famous brothers, W.B Yeats and Jack Butler Yeats…until now.Presenter: Emma Barnett Producer: Lisa Jenkinson Studio Manager: Steve Greenwood

The Boring Revolution. The matter of this Better Worlds episode is far from mundane. As advocated by Indy Johar, co-founder of Dark Matter Labs, who visited with Green Planet Blue Planet Host Julian Guderley for this podcast episode, a boring revolution is a fundamental shift in how we as humans perceive ourselves, our relationships, and the institutional frameworks that reinforce those perceptions. The old world view created over time, positions humans as dominion over everything instead of recognizing the agency and aliveness of everything, including objects. This episode explores multiple facets of this paradigm shift challenges us to fundamentally rethink what it means to be human and how we relate to each other and the planet. Indy suggests our current worldview and societal structures are extractive, guided by externalities, and they put humanity at risk of self-termination. In other words, we have constructed a language of humans being in dominion over the world, in control of the world through theories constructed in various ways, including by religions. Next, Indy says, we constructed perspective, which put distance between us and put control into bureaucracy, governance, kings etc. Humans then separated themselves from the world, turned things into objects rather than perceiving them as entanglements in relationship with humans. That led to classifications and language shifts from verb - action oriented terms - to nouns, and finally moved into a thesis of property as a universal means of organizing. The worldview became one of control over, and property - ownership - became an enslavement of things. To hear more about these fascinating and complex theories, tune in now, let us know what you think, like it and share, and then visit us at betterworlds.com for more shows and podcast subjects.  About Indy Johar Indy Johar is focused on the strategic design of new super scale civic assets for transition - specifically at the intersection of financing, contracting and governance for deeply democratic futures. Indy is co-founder of darkmatterlabs.org and of the RIBA award winning architecture and urban practice Architecture00 - https://www.architecture00.net, a founding director of open systems lab - https://www.opensystemslab.io (digitising planning), seeded WikiHouse (open source housing) - https://www.wikihouse.cc  and Open Desk (open source furniture company) https://www.opendesk.cc. Indy is a non-executive international Director of the BloxHub https://bloxhub.org (Denmark Copenhagen) - the Nordic Hub for sustainable urbanization and was 2016-17 Graham Willis Visiting Professorship at Sheffield University.  He was also Studio Master at the Architectural Association - 2019-2020, UNDP Innovation Facility Advisory Board Member  2016-20 and RIBA Trustee 2017-20. He has taught & lectured at various institutions from the University of Bath, TU-Berlin; University College London, Princeton, Harvard, MIT and New School.  Most recently, he was awarded the London Design Medal for Innovation in 2022. About Dark Matter Labs  Dark Matter Labs is not-for-profit designing and building the underlying infrastructure to support this new civic economy, exploring how ownership, legal systems, governance, accountancy and insurance might begin to change.  The boring revolution︎ is designed propel wider societal transition. The team is establishing toolkits and blueprints, pilots, and case studies, supporting communities and institutions with applications, digital products and civic technologies that challenge established thought and demonstrate that an alternative is possible. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/julian-guderley/support

Internet culture has changed a lot since the last general election – so the way politicians use it will have to evolve too. Facebook may no longer be the king of social media, but have Sunak and Starmer mastered Tiktok, Instagram or YouTube? Today in The Bunker, Ros Taylor speaks with professor of digital politics at Sheffield University, Kate Dommett, about the tricks politicians will be using to win your votes. • "Political parties are trying to reach out to younger voters and they aren't using Facebook anymore.” – Kate Dommett • “A code of conduct on digital campaigning among major parties isn't going to stop campaign groups using underhand tactics online." – Kate Dommett • “No politician in the UK has successfully mastered TikTok yet." – Kate Dommett www.patreon.com/bunkercast Written and Presented by Ros Taylor. Producer: Liam Tait. Art by James Parrett. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production by Simon Williams. Group Editor Andrew Harrison. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production Instagram | Twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Reflecting on Authority and Power in and through Martial arts, by Dr Jamie Coates (Sheffield University). A talk given at the 2023 Martial Arts Studies Conference.

My name is Rainetta Jones, I was born in Port of Spain Trinidad and Tobago. I came to the United States at the age of 14 with my family. I attended Martin Luther King Jr. HS in Manhattan NYC. I would like to note that I do not have any memories of High School Lunch Break for three years. I graduated at 17 years of age and attended University of Buffalo. My tenure at UB was short lived due to serious neurological anomalies which I later learned was “Brain Scrambling Technologies. While at UB I wanted to pursue a degree in Micro and Molecular Biology; however, that didn't pan out. After Buffalo, I attended Sheffield University in England as a study abroad student. Upon returning to the US, I took time off to Invent, Model, and Dance. In 2000 I had a meeting with a “friend” about my two inventions, the iPod and Kindle and also a novel conceptual hosiery design. All of which were stolen. Later on I learned he had connections to Steve Jobs and was invited by him to the launch of iTunes in Cupertino California. After that meeting I was followed by a Russian Jew who befriended me. He invited me to go to England a couple of days after September 11th, 2001. It wasn't until 2016, I was told that both David and Yuri were Mossad agents and that they had to get me out of the US for the launch of the iPod. I later became a Certified Administrative Professional and worked at the United Nations and several other Government agencies in NYC. In 2019 I graduated from Empire State College in Business Administration. I have no memories of a Secret Space Program however, I do know that my life has been filled with extraterrestrial experiences. After graduation I created the Micro- Business Model using business concepts on a micro-scale for those who would like to start a business with very little money. Today I do spiritual consultations and teach online classes oncea month. My website is

Support Independent Media! Please support The Red Pill Buddhas Podcast by donating below: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=GNE2TRVRDJJUG Phil's Linktree for private consults, The Big Fat Challenge and Tribe, Red Pill Revolution books and others, courses, Bon Charge blueblocking product discounts and much more…https://linktr.ee/philescott To join Phil and Ben's Big Fat Challenge: ⁠⁠https://www.thebigfatchallenge.com ⁠⁠ Natasha Campbell-McBride  M.D. MMedSci (neurology), MMedSci (nutrition) Dr. Campbell-McBride graduated with Honours as a Medical Doctor in 1984 from Bashkir Medical University in Russia. In the following years she gained a Postgraduate Degree in Neurology. After practicing for five years as a Neurologist and three years as a Neurosurgeon, she started a family and moved to the UK.  It was during this time that Dr. Campbell-McBride developed her theories on the relationship between neurological disorders and nutrition, and completed a second Postgraduate Degree in Human Nutrition at Sheffield University, UK. She has specialized in using nutritional approach as a treatment, and has become recognized as one of the world's leading experts in treating children and adults with learning disabilities and other mental disorders, as well as children and adults with digestive and immune disorders. In 2004 she published her first book Gut And Psychology Syndrome. Natural Treatment Of Autism, ADHD, Dyslexia, Dyspraxia, Depression And Schizophreniawhere she explores the connection between the patient's physical state and brain function. The book gives full details of the GAPS Nutritional Protocol, highly successful in treating patients with chronic diseases. A second edition was published in 2010. The concept of GAPS has become a global phenomenon and the book has been translated into 20 languages. In her clinic Dr Campbell-McBride works with many patients with heart disease, high blood pressure, arrhythmia, stroke and other complications of atherosclerosis. She has become acutely aware of the existing confusion about nutrition and these conditions, which spurred an intensive study into this subject. The result of this study is her book Put Your Heart in Your Mouth! What really is Heart Disease and what can we do to Prevent and even Reverse it. The book was published in 2007 and a second addition in 2016. Dr Campbell-McBride has been working with many young people who have chosen a plant-based life style and, as a result, became very ill. This led to an intense study into the value of plant foods versus animal foods, summarised in her next book Vegetarianism Explained. Making and informed decision, published in 2017. In 2020 new book came out: Gut And Physiology Syndrome. This second GAPS book completes the GAPS concept, focussing on chronic physical health problems, from allergies, eczema and asthma to autoimmune illness, chronic fatigue and digestive problems, neurological and hormonal illnesses, and chronic infections. Dr Natasha is an organic regenerative farmer. In 2012 she and her family purchased a piece of land in East Anglia in the UK, which was commercially farmed for a long time. For The Red Pill Revolution book and subsequent publications:  https://theredpillrevolution.com/ Music courtesy of Linda Campbell – “Mercury in Your Veins” from her “My Geography” album. Hear more, including some of Phil's drumming at: https://soundcloud.com/linda-campbell-798541920 MAIN RSS FEED:https://anchor.fm/s/6d24ce7c/podcast/rss APPLE PODCASTS:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-red-pill-revolution/id1611066722 GOOGLE:https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy82ZDI0Y2U3Yy9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw SPOTIFY:https://open.spotify.com/show/2QvuNsUvIfhREUyLI61LLQ STITCHER:https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-red-pill-revolution ANCHOR:https://anchor.fm/theredpillrevolution Red Pill Podcast Feeds:

My name is Rainetta Jones, I was born in Port of Spain Trinidad and Tobago. I came to theUnited States at the age of 14 with my family. I attended Martin Luther King Jr. HS in ManhattanNYC. I would like to note that I do not have any memories of High School Lunch Break for threeyears. I graduated at 17 years of age and attended University of Buffalo. My tenure at UB wasshort lived due to serious neurological anomalies which I later learned was “Brain ScramblingTechnologies. While at UB I wanted to pursue a degree in Micro and Molecular Biology;however, that didn't pan out. After Buffalo, I attended Sheffield University in England as a studyabroad student. Upon returning to the US, I took time off to Invent, Model, and Dance. In 2000 Ihad a meeting with a “friend” about my two inventions, the iPod and Kindle and also a novelconceptual hosiery design. All of which were stolen. Later on I learned he had connections toSteve Jobs and was invited by him to the launch of iTunes in Cupertino California. After thatmeeting I was followed by a Russian Jew who befriended me. He invited me to go to England acouple of days after September 11th, 2001. It wasn't until 2016, I was told that both David andYuri were Mossad agents and that they had to get me out of the US for the launch of the iPod. Ilater became a Certified Administrative Professional and worked at the United Nations andseveral other Government agencies in NYC. In 2019 I graduated from Empire State College inBusiness Administration. I have no memories of a Secret Space Program however, I do knowthat my life has been filled with extraterrestrial experiences. After graduation I created the Micro-Business Model using business concepts on a micro-scale for those who would like to start abusiness with very little money. Today I do spiritual consultations and teach online classes oncea month.

Are you clear on how to position yourself as a thought leader in your industry on LinkedIn?Have you ever wondered how to stand out on LinkedIn and boost your visibility?How can we optimize our LinkedIn profile strategically for business success?Today, we discuss How to leverage LinkedIn and social media to grow your business online.Watch it on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_LiIuN9jG4.LinkedIn, often referred to as the professional networking platform, holds a treasure trove of opportunities for business growth. Beyond its conventional usage, there exist intriguing features and strategies that are bound to transform your online presence. LinkedIn boasts over 774 million users worldwide, making it a colossal hub for networking and business interactions. Interestingly, studies show that profiles with professional headshots receive 14 times more profile views, which underscores the significance of visual appeal on the platform.A common misconception about LinkedIn is that it's solely a platform for job seekers. However, as emphasized by our guest speaker, Dorothy, it's a goldmine for entrepreneurs and businesses aiming to connect and grow. Therefore, we must harness the power of captivating content, clear messaging, and strategic networking so we can unlock a world of opportunities. Remember, it's not just about what you offer, but how you offer it, and who you offer it to.Show Highlights:How to optimize your LinkedIn pageOrganic visibility in LinkedInThe production of powerful content marketing in LinkedInCreating landing pages for email list growthOffer small sales tips by presenting the price mid-pitchOnline course tailored for coaches and consultants on LinkedIn.How to make an impact on your audience. The “What? Why? How?” We need to know to position ourselves as thought leaders in our industry.How to implant BIGVU in content creationAbout our Speaker:Dorothy graduated from Sheffield University with a Masters Degree in Marketing, Advertising and PR. She is passionate about helping entrepreneurs build businesses online. Her expertise is Social Media Strategy and e-mail marketing for businesses in Europe and USA. She also just graduated B-School with Marie Forleo and she will teach you what your business needs and how to grow and position online to create the fundamentals of a healthy long-lasting strategy.Working in the International Financial market in companies like KPMG and Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary plus being a lifelong learner and trained by the world`s leading online business coaches, she owns an arsenal of knowledge and expertise to share with like-minded people who want to work with her and grow their businesses.   Find out more about Dorothy:YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@lekbello/BIGVU, the powerful Video, Captioning & Teleprompter App:BIGVU 7 days Trial: https://desk.bigvu.tv/register?utm_so...iOS:  https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bigvu-v...Android:  https://play.google.com/store/apps/de...Website:   https://bigvu.tv/-------------------Made Possible by BIGVU - a TV studio pro in your pocket. BIGVU transforms photos, video shoots, and tweets into stunning sequences that captivate your audience.Learn more about BIGVU:Website: https://bigvu.tvTeleprompter: https://bigvu.tv/teleprompter-app.htmlCaptions: https://bigvu.tv/create/auto-captionsGreen Screen: https://bigvu.tv/create/replace-green-screenConnect with us via:https://thevideopresentershow.bigvu.tvhttps://www.instagram.com/bigvu.makerhttps://www.facebook.com/socialvideocreatorhttps://www.linkedin.com/company/bigvuhttps://twitter.com/videoinspire

My name is Rainetta Jones, I was born in Port of Spain Trinidad and Tobago. I came to theUnited States at the age of 14 with my family. I attended Martin Luther King Jr. HS in Manhattan NYC. I would like to note that I do not have any memories of High School Lunch Break for three years. I graduated at 17 years of age and attended University of Buffalo. My tenure at UB was short lived due to serious neurological anomalies which I later learned was “Brain Scrambling Technologies. While at UB I wanted to pursue a degree in Micro and Molecular Biology; however, that didn't pan out. After Buffalo, I attended Sheffield University in England as a study abroad student. Upon returning to the US, I took time off to Invent, Model, and Dance. In 2000 I had a meeting with a “friend” about my two inventions, the iPod and Kindle and also a novel conceptual hosiery design. All of which were stolen. Later on I learned he had connections to Steve Jobs and was invited by him to the launch of iTunes in Cupertino California. After that meeting I was followed by a Russian Jew who befriended me. He invited me to go to England a couple of days after September 11th, 2001. It wasn't until 2016, I was told that both David and Yuri were Mossad agents and that they had to get me out of the US for the launch of the iPod. I later became a Certified Administrative Professional and worked at the United Nations andseveral other Government agencies in NYC. In 2019 I graduated from Empire State College inBusiness Administration. I have no memories of a Secret Space Program however, I do knowthat my life has been filled with extraterrestrial experiences. After graduation I created the Micro- Business Model using business concepts on a micro-scale for those who would like to start a business with very little money. Today I do spiritual consultations and teach online classes oncea month.

In this episode, Matthew and Cindy celebrate World Standards Day 2023. This year's theme is ‘Standards for the SDGs'. And SDG3 in particular: ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages.They look at how the standard BS 30416 – menstrual and menopausal health in the workplace – supports organizations to do the right thing regarding SDG3.Matthew speaks to Dr Maria Tomlinson of Sheffield University about the difference the standard will make to wellbeing and gender inclusivity in the workplace.He also speaks to Kirsteen Sommerville from OVO Energy and Abi Lasebikan from the Welsh Parliament. With plenty of practical examples, they describe the difference BS 30416 is already making to their organizations.Find out moreWorld Standards DayBS 30416 | Executive briefingThe Standards Show | BS 30416 launch Dr Maria TomlinsonGet involved with standardsFind and follow The Standards Show on social mediaTwitter/X @standardsshowInstagram @thestandardsshow Get in touch with The Standards ShowSend a voice messageeducation@bsigroup.comSubscribe wherever you get your podcastsSubscribe to The Standards ShowCheck out the websitethe-standards-show

My name is Rainetta Jones, I was born in Port of Spain Trinidad and Tobago. I came to theUnited States at the age of 14 with my family. I attended Martin Luther King Jr. HS in ManhattanNYC. I would like to note that I do not have any memories of High School Lunch Break for threeyears. I graduated at 17 years of age and attended University of Buffalo. My tenure at UB wasshort lived due to serious neurological anomalies which I later learned was “Brain ScramblingTechnologies. While at UB I wanted to pursue a degree in Micro and Molecular Biology;however, that didn't pan out. After Buffalo, I attended Sheffield University in England as a studyabroad student. Upon returning to the US, I took time off to Invent, Model, and Dance. In 2000 Ihad a meeting with a “friend” about my two inventions, the iPod and Kindle and also a novelconceptual hosiery design. All of which were stolen. Later on I learned he had connections toSteve Jobs and was invited by him to the launch of iTunes in Cupertino California. After thatmeeting I was followed by a Russian Jew who befriended me. He invited me to go to England acouple of days after September 11th, 2001. It wasn't until 2016, I was told that both David andYuri were Mossad agents and that they had to get me out of the US for the launch of the iPod. Ilater became a Certified Administrative Professional and worked at the United Nations andseveral other Government agencies in NYC. In 2019 I graduated from Empire State College inBusiness Administration. I have no memories of a Secret Space Program however, I do knowthat my life has been filled with extraterrestrial experiences. After graduation I created the Micro-Business Model using business concepts on a micro-scale for those who would like to start abusiness with very little money. Today I do spiritual consultations and teach online classes oncea month.

My name is Rainetta Jones, I was born in Port of Spain Trinidad and Tobago. I came to theUnited States at the age of 14 with my family. I attended Martin Luther King Jr. HS in ManhattanNYC. I would like to note that I do not have any memories of High School Lunch Break for threeyears. I graduated at 17 years of age and attended University of Buffalo. My tenure at UB wasshort lived due to serious neurological anomalies which I later learned was “Brain ScramblingTechnologies. While at UB I wanted to pursue a degree in Micro and Molecular Biology;however, that didn't pan out. After Buffalo, I attended Sheffield University in England as a studyabroad student. Upon returning to the US, I took time off to Invent, Model, and Dance. In 2000 Ihad a meeting with a “friend” about my two inventions, the iPod and Kindle and also a novelconceptual hosiery design. All of which were stolen. Later on I learned he had connections toSteve Jobs and was invited by him to the launch of iTunes in Cupertino California. After thatmeeting I was followed by a Russian Jew who befriended me. He invited me to go to England acouple of days after September 11th, 2001. It wasn't until 2016, I was told that both David andYuri were Mossad agents and that they had to get me out of the US for the launch of the iPod. Ilater became a Certified Administrative Professional and worked at the United Nations andseveral other Government agencies in NYC. In 2019 I graduated from Empire State College inBusiness Administration. I have no memories of a Secret Space Program however, I do knowthat my life has been filled with extraterrestrial experiences. After graduation I created the Micro-Business Model using business concepts on a micro-scale for those who would like to start abusiness with very little money. Today I do spiritual consultations and teach online classes oncea month.

S06E09 The SchoolMeals Service with Heather Ellis: shownotesNeil's guest today is Heather Ellis from Sheffield University. Helen is a historian of Education and she, along with academics from the University of Wolverhampton and UCL, have just embarked on an ambitious project looking at people's experiences and memories of their school dinners in all four UK Home Nations. School dinners have been supplied by the School Meals Service – i.e. by the Government – since 1908.They talked about the project, the origins of the School Meals Service in the first decade of the 20th century, the foods served up over the next 100 years or so including pink sponge and custard, liver with the tubes attached and the now infamous turkey twizzlers, Maggie Thatcher – milk snatcher, the fall in the quality of school dinners, as well as Jamie Oliver's campaign to get them sorted out, and many other things. The School Meals Project wants your food memories if you have had experience with school meals in the UK, however old you may be and whatever the interaction may be.School Meals Project website: https://www.theschoolmealsproject.co.uk/Find Heather on Twitter @HeatherLWEllisFind The School Meals Project on Twitter: @ESRCSchoolMealsJamie Oliver's school meals campaign clip: https://youtu.be/DG66rKiNkw4When published, Neil's blog post with a recipe for sago pudding, will be found at www.britishfoodhistory.com Other past blog post recipes for school dinner-style foods:Rice pudding: https://britishfoodhistory.com/2015/01/14/rice-pudding/How to make a steamed sponge pudding: https://britishfoodhistory.com/2023/01/13/how-to-make-a-steamed-sponge-pudding-a-step-by-step-guide/Jam roly-poly: https://britishfoodhistory.com/2011/11/26/jam-roly-poly/Proper custard: https://britishfoodhistory.com/2012/03/02/proper-custard/Eton Mess: https://britishfoodhistory.com/2011/08/11/eton-mess/Other bits:The Elizabeth Raffald Manchester Central Library event at 6pm on 13 September: https://librarylive.co.uk/event/elizabeth-raffald-englands-most-influential-housekeeper/Neil will be speaking at the Ludlow Food Festival on Sunday 10 September at 2.30pm, talking all things Elizabeth Raffald: https://www.ludlowfoodfestival.co.uk/He is also talking at Chelsea History Festival on Friday 29 September 2023, at 6pm about the history of sugar: https://chelseahistoryfestival.com/events/dark-history-sugar/Neil's blogs:‘British Food: a History'

This episode takes the form of a 'dress rehearsal' of the conference presentation, 'The Sublime Object of Martial Arts Studies', by Professor Paul Bowman (Cardiff University). This is a talk written for the 8th annual Martial Arts Studies Conference, 19-21 July 2023, at Sheffield University.

Continuing our series on Bruce Lee during this 50th anniversary year, and in the run-up to our annual conference (this year at Sheffield University in July), we present 'Bruce Lee and the invention of martial arts', with Dr George Jennings (Cardiff Met)

My name is Rainetta Jones, I was born in Port of Spain Trinidad and Tobago. I came to the United States at the age of 14 with my family. I attended Martin Luther King Jr. HS in Manhattan NYC. I would like to note that I do not have any memories of High School Lunch Break for three years. I graduated at 17 years of age and attended University of Buffalo. My tenure at UB was short lived due to serious neurological anomalies which I later learned was “Brain Scrambling Technologies. While at UB I wanted to pursue a degree in Micro and Molecular Biology; however, that didn't pan out. After Buffalo, I attended Sheffield University in England as a study abroad student. Upon returning to the US, I took time off to Invent, Model, and Dance. In 2000 I had a meeting with a “friend” about my two inventions, the iPod and Kindle and also a novel conceptual hosiery design. All of which were stolen. Later on I learned he had connections to Steve Jobs and was invited by him to the launch of iTunes in Cupertino California. After that meeting I was followed by a Russian Jew who befriended me. He invited me to go to England a couple of days after September 11th, 2001. It wasn't until 2016, I was told that both David and Yuri were Mossad agents and that they had to get me out of the US for the launch of the iPod. I later became a Certified Administrative Professional and worked at the United Nations and several other Government agencies in NYC. In 2019 I graduated from Empire State College in Business Administration. I have no memories of a Secret Space Program however, I do know that my life has been filled with extraterrestrial experiences. After graduation I created the Micro- Business Model using business concepts on a micro-scale for those who would like to start a business with very little money. Today I do spiritual consultations and teach online classes once a month. My website is Blacksonrise.com https://www.youtube.com/@blacksonrisenews3530 for more typical skeptic podcast interviews go to: youtube.com/@typicalskeptic anchor.fm/typical-skeptic rokfin.com/typicalskeptic rumble.com/typicalskeptic https://odysee.com/@typicalskeptic:3 if you found this content beneficial please consider donating: buymeacoffee.com/typicalskeptic Paypal me @typicalskepticmedia Or maybe Join the Patreon for bonus content New Unreleased shows every week for less than a cup of coffee: Help me keep making videos! patreon.com/typicalskeptic Affiliates: Tachyon Living - tachyonliving.com/rob.html and use code skeptic free gift for a free gift -Book a reading with Debra Moffit Intuitive readings:Use Code TSP2023 https://www.debramoffitt.com?cc=STP2023 -Natural Shilajit and Monoatomic Gold from Healthy Nutrition LLC.use code: ROB And my affiliate link to share: https://glnk.io/77v6/3 -Starseed Activators https://www.indigoangel222.com/starse... Coupon Code TypicalSkepticP #ancient #mysteries #HollowEarth #Ufology #uap #podcast #typical_skeptic #youtubelive #voodoo #hoodoo #cryptid --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/typical-skeptic/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/typical-skeptic/support

What happens when a woman famous for her razor sharp wit is left stranded on a desert island with just her own company and a hermit crab called Spartacus? Author, broadcaster and mental health campaigner Ruby Wax joins Anita to explain why she decided to spend 10 days completely cut off from the modern world and other humans. The Prime Minister's mother-in-law, Sudha Murty, has claimed that her daughter is the reason Rishi Sunak is in Number 10. She says she herself succeeded in making her husband a businessman, and now her daughter has done the same. To find out more about this claim and the Murty women, journalist and Executive Editor of Politico Anne McElvoy speaks to Anita. What are all the ruffles doing in summer clothes? Why are baggy dresses back? And how do you go about doing your summer shopping without buying the same dress as eight other people at the party? Grazia journalist Hannah Banks Walker and columnist Martha Alexander join Anita to chat all things summer fashion. The NHS Maternity services are in crisis. But how did we get to this point? What was it like to give birth at the very beginning of the NHS? Dr Emily Baughan, Senior Lecturer at Sheffield University, tells Anita how a forgotten book called National Baby can help us understand our current situation. The book was written by Sarah Campion, who had one of the very first truly ‘national babies', cared for not just from cradle to grave, but in utero by the newly set up health service. Where are all the female choreographers? Liv Lorent is an award-winning choreographer who has spent her career going against the tide in a male dominated arena. 30 years on, she says not much has changed. She speaks to Anita about how women are rare in the industry, which is still lagging behind in putting women behind as well as centre stage. Presenter: Anita Rani Producer: Lottie Garton

Iain Dale talks to Sheffield University's Caoimhe Nic Dhaibheid about the life and career of Ireland's third Taoiseach, John Costello. Costelloserved as Taoiseach for two terms, 1948-51 and 1954-57.Hear episodes of the Irish Taoiseach Podcast a month earlier on the Irish Taoiseach Podcast channel.

Our guest today is the prolific scholar and Arsenal supporter Gary D. Sheffield. Gary is Visiting Professor at the Humanities Research Institute of the University of Buckingham and Professor Emeritus at the University of Wolverhampton, where he set up the First World War Programme. He was previously Chair of War Studies at the University of Birmingham and Professor of Modern History at King's College London. He also served as Land Warfare Historian on the Higher Command and Staff Course at the Joint Services Command and Staff College. Gary earned his undergraduate and MA degrees in History at the University of Leeds and went on to take his PhD at King's College, London. Gary's list of publications is extensive. He is the author or editor of more than 15 books. His book Forgotten Victory: The First World War – Myths and Realities was a bestseller. Gary's contribution to The British General Staff: Innovation and Reform earned him a share of the Templer Medal in 2003. The Chief: Douglas Haig and the British Army was selected as a military book of the year by The Times and shortlisted for the Duke of Westminster's Medal for Military Literature. Among Gary's numerous other books are Leadership in the Trenches: Officer-Man Relations, Morale and Discipline in The British Army in the Era of the First World War, The Somme: A New History, A Short History of the First World War, and The First World War in 100 Objects. He is currently completing a project titled Civilian Armies: British and Dominions Soldiers' Experience in the Two World Wars, which will be published by Yale University Press. Gary is a member of the Royal Historical Society and the Royal Society of Arts, he sits on the Advisory Boards of the Journal of the Royal United Service Institution, the Academic Advisory Panel of the National Army Museum, and the Academic Advisory Board of the Soldiers of Oxfordshire Trust. He also served as the President of the International Guild of Battlefield Guides and the Honorary President of the Western Front Association. Finally, Gary frequently appears on television and documentaries, writes for the press, and speaks to podcasters like us. We can't thank Gary enough for taking the time with us. Join us for a delightful chat about reading military history as a kid, Tony Adams, battlefield tours, curries, and Bob Dylan. You'll enjoy this one. Check out the @MHPTPodcast Swag Store! Rec.: 03/03/2023

My name is Rainetta Jones, I was born in Port of Spain Trinidad and Tobago. I came to the United States at the age of 14 with my family. I attended Martin Luther King Jr. HS in Manhattan NYC. I would like to note that I do not have any memories of High School Lunch Break for three years. I graduated at 17 years of age and attended University of Buffalo. My tenure at UB was short lived due to serious neurological anomalies which I later learned was “Brain Scrambling Technologies. While at UB I wanted to pursue a degree in Micro and Molecular Biology; however, that didn't pan out. After Buffalo, I attended Sheffield University in England as a study abroad student. Upon returning to the US, I took time off to Invent, Model, and Dance. In 2000 I had a meeting with a “friend” about my two inventions, the iPod and Kindle and also a novel conceptual hosiery design. All of which were stolen. Later on I learned he had connections to Steve Jobs and was invited by him to the launch of iTunes in Cupertino California. After that meeting I was followed by a Russian Jew who befriended me. He invited me to go to England a couple of days after September 11th, 2001. It wasn't until 2016, I was told that both David and Yuri were Mossad agents and that they had to get me out of the US for the launch of the iPod. I later became a Certified Administrative Professional and worked at the United Nations and several other Government agencies in NYC. In 2019 I graduated from Empire State College in Business Administration. I have no memories of a Secret Space Program however, I do know that my life has been filled with extraterrestrial experiences. After graduation I created the Micro- Business Model using business concepts on a micro-scale for those who would like to start a business with very little money. Today I do spiritual consultations and teach online classes once a month. My website is Blacksonrise.com if you found this content beneficial please consider donating: buymeacoffee.com/typicalskeptic Or maybe Join the Patreon for bonus content New Unreleased shows every week for less than a cup of coffee: Help me keep making videos! patreon.com/typicalskeptic Check out the Swag: Typical skeptic podcast t shirts: https://merc.li/KmGQPE9Nb?sv=0 For more typical skeptic podcast interviews go to: www.youtube.com/c/typicalskeptic www.anchor.fm/typical-skeptic www.rokfin.com/typicalskeptic www.rumble.com/typicalskeptic Affiliates: Tachyon Living - tachyonliving.com/rob.html and use code skeptic free gift for a free gift -Book a reading with Debra Moffit Intuitive readings:Use Code TSP2023 https://www.debramoffitt.com?cc=STP2023 -Natural Shilajit and Monoatomic Gold from Healthy Nutrition LLC.use code: ROB And my affiliate link to share: https://glnk.io/77v6/3 -Starseed Activators https://www.indigoangel222.com/starseed-activators?ref=GdvC0VibCoupon Code TypicalSkepticP --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/typical-skeptic/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/typical-skeptic/support

This lecture was given at Harvard University on October 27, 2022. For more information, visit thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Professor Thomas Pink read history and philosophy at Cambridge, where he also received his PhD. After working for four years in London and New York for a City merchant bank, he returned to philosophy in 1990 as a Research Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge. He then lectured at Sheffield University prior to moving to King's in 1996. Professor Pink's main interests are in ethics, philosophy of mind and action, philosophy of law, and in medieval and early modern philosophy. He is currently writing on the free will problem - his Free Will: A Very Short Introduction is published by Oxford University Press in June 2004. He is also working on the nature of moral normativity. Forthcoming on this topic, also from Oxford University Press, is his two volume The Ethics of Action. He is an editor of London Studies in the History of Philosophy, and is also editing The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity and Chance, containing the Hobbes-Bramhall controversy on free will, for the Clarendon Edition of the works of Hobbes.

Motor Neuron Disease (MND) is a degenerative disease that relentlessly attacks the human nervous system, deteriorating muscle function to the point where patients can no longer move, talk, eat, or even breathe. To date there's no cure, and until fairly recently there were only minimal treatments to ease the symptoms. Pam Shaw has dedicated her career to changing that. A Professor of Neurology at Sheffield University and Founding Director of the Sheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience, she recently led clinical trials into a drug that delivered unprecedented results: showing that it could slow the progression of MND in certain patients, and even improve symptoms for some. It's just one small step – but with a new tranche of research funding and a national institute to study the disease on the cards, Pamela believes this could be the start of real progress in understanding and treating Motor Neuron Disease. Producer: Lucy Taylor

Base editing is a technique for substituting the building blocks of DNA. It has only been around for a few years, so its use to apparently cure cancer was all the more remarkable, as BBC Health Correspondent James Gallagher tells us. We take a trip down the river Wye with ecologist Steve Ormerod who tells us why the river is a microcosm for some of the global issues being discussed at the UN Biodiversity summit in Montreal. BBC Environment Correspondent Victoria Gill gives us the latest on the state of negotiations there. And the current surge in infections associated with the streptococcus bacteria has led to deaths in a few cases. It is usually a seasonal infection, worse in the spring. We ask microbiologist Dr Claire Turner from Sheffield University why we seem to be seeing a surge of infections now and her research on strep vaccine targets. BBC Inside Science is produced in collaboration with the Open University.

In the subgenre of analog horror, there's something sinister or supernatural lurking in the horizontal lines and vertical holds in those old VHS tapes. Filmmaker Chris LaMartina explains why he wanted his movies WNUF Halloween Special and Out There Halloween Mega Tape to seem like live broadcasts taped off local TV news in the ‘80s and ‘90s. I talk with podcasters Perry Carpenter and Mason Amadeus from the show Digital Folklore about how The Internet became our new campfire to tell spooky stories. Plus, we hear from Alex Hera, director of the documentary The History of Analog Horror, and folk horror lecturer Diane A. Rodgers of Sheffield University about why people born in the digital age want to tell horror stories set in the distant yet familiar era of VCRs. In this episode we also discuss The Mandela Catalog, Local 58, and The Backrooms. This episode is sponsored by Birds of Empire, and Brilliant. Our ad partner is Multitude. If you're interested in advertising on Imaginary Worlds, you can contact them here. Visit brilliant.org/imaginaryworlds to get 20% off Brilliant's annual premium subscription. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices