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This is a police interceptors full episode 20 season 21 episode 3 Let's get it see our favorite show Nottingham A VW golf evidently with something to hide has failed to stop in the city center His motives are unclear, but his methods are all too familiar The Sunday traffic may be a light But wet roads and low Sun makes for a treacherous combination Yeah, it looked treacherous behind his dash cam. All I see is slick roads and Nothing in front of me but glare It's high time cops called in the cavalry Dog handler Jen else has also picked up the call Unable to shake the tail the golfs driving becomes increasingly reckless CTA for the other units, please After taking a blind bend is almost 60 He zips across the carriageway with scant regard for other road users The golf is heading for the main road that circles the western fringes of the city He clearly reckons the dual carriageway could offer an escape route, but there's a few things he doesn't know I've got two and a six. Where's the first car, please? There's now two cop cars on his tail a third on route and that's not all Finger an order has been placed for a stinger But the golfers open the taps pushing the pursuer north of 90 miles an hour The speed and in these conditions one false move could spell disaster Cops have got to bring this pursuit to an end Their best shot lies with the stinger unit, which is just half a mile up ahead The team with the metal teeth are in position That's fingers different man. Do y'all not have run flat Run flat and you can hold on my back been hurt. I got it. I can't do this If they can slide the spiky strip into lane two it's game over for the golf Timing is everything Did he get it? I driver clocks the waiting cops and swerves to avoid the stink This must be Laffy in here. It's Laffy from Liverpool driving this joint He evasive denim off Laffy The good news is that a build-up of traffic has brought the interceptors valuable time A third unit has now fallen in behind and the golf reacts with his rashes move yet Desperate bid for freedom is now leading multiple cop cars across county lines That's new seat belts. He's heading for the motorway To a lane of tarmac up ahead the interceptors can begin to hatch a plan Boy has now been joined by a further two tactical units among them Sergeant Jim Carrington Units bringing up the rear interceptors are going for the tea pack But the pursuit is rattling along at more than a hundred miles Attempting a box at these speeds requires the reflexes of a fighter pilot With a quiet stretch of road the lead unit makes its move This lad seems hell-bent on risking it all in nottingham interceptors have been led on a not-so-married down to round town by a Having skipped past the stinger He's high-tailed it to the M1 I don't think I've ever seen police fail so much in this in this show is fail stinger fail teapot Convoy of cop cars go for the box I Get it though because that VW is willing to take risks that these police are not But upwards of 80 miles per hour undirected by Sergeant Jim Carrington the pack of interceptors mobilized the strike to The strike is slick, but it's not over yet Boxed in at a hundred and seven miles an hour. It's crazy Cops and one angry dog are required to extract man from motor With only minor damage to one of the police cars and the suspect safely in cuffs, it's a stunning result for the team A sweet victory in a pursuit that could have ended very differently The driver who decided to have a pursuit for gotcha laughing breakfast Clearly guilty to dangerous driving driving without insurance and without a valid license Failing to stop was withdrawn at court. He is currently awaiting selling a stop was withdrawn It's late on a Friday night Ken and Joel using the inner-city suburbs 1046 p.m. Up ahead they spot two cars razing round an industrial estate The cops have put two and two together and suspect boy racers One motor pulls over, but the beamer puts his boot down Before appearing to have second thoughts Until it finally becomes clear what they're up to Runners from a vehicle runner runner Off in industrial state just off Ken and Joe only have eyes for the driver. It's forward forward make forward Please stop so the change you make stunts do not Set that real calmer I want in full speed with 30 gears of 30 pounds of gear My lifeguard Joe's been making waves since joining the force four years ago He's taser trained, but usually prefers old-school methods of policing. Ah That's how he was able to run and do that so smoothly first of all. He used to be on Baywatch second of all Did he say he was it like Baywatch as in the lifeguard show they say he was an ex-lifeguard, right?   Joe's got him detained The driver may be in cuffs, but ken senses a potential problem Gonna be the crowd going so you get an ace that would be appreciated The arrest has attracted a bit of local interest They're shut up And they're rounding on Joe What's happened? Some sit there like can't drive properly Porn of life So the imminent arrival of a backup unit is most welcome Whoever he is he's certainly keen to put on a show I Stop dragging me to the camera in if I'm standing here. I'm standing here. You get me from you do as you're told Crowd control is all part of the job and it'll take more than a few camera phones to rattle an interceptor And it's still out. This is this is lifelong ambition That's a different type of cop when it's your lifelong ambition to be one There's a vehicle check please and for a chassis check the driver claims the beamer belongs to a mate I thought there'd be something in the car to go with the ridiculous behavior But I don't know it's gonna be I think it's just gonna be driving offences There's no sign of drugs in the motor nothing illegal anyway Shed loads of these But speeding around an industrial estate for kicks is no laughing matter He's literally jumped out of it left it rolling it's rolling to the lamp post Duke here It just goes to show you know, you you you want to turn away Madness, I think for us like we're trying to process. Well, what is it? I've got in front of me here Is this car is this car failing to stop with this car trying to evade us has he even seen us yet? And then The answers kind of put for you when you see the driver jumping out while the car's still moving And obviously it looks like there was two lads in the car. Um, you know, but we've got to go after that driver We know we need to we need to secure him The lad behind the wheels not just being careless. He's also suspected of maybe giving up too much info in this If there's two people in this one cop, if y'all run they go on after the driver So you know who to give everything illegal to They'd be giving up too much secrets in this driving without a license and without insurance Okay, so you don't have to say anything, but it may be offensive if you don't mention now So we'll just later on a court and he do say maybe giving an evidence to understand The beamer is being seized However, because he's been nicked for nothing more than motoring offenses. Yeah, let's get these cuffs off there and we get them on his way The driver is free to make his own way home Unbelievable, this is 2023. This is a brand new episode Bro just took y'all on a police chase around the ends got out footed it And he's free to go. That's crazy. Hey, I'm going to the UK Here I come I'm gonna move I mean when you think about the action like his actions there to bring out the new vehicle you'd almost Prepare that to you know him being on the run for some serious offense for a long period of time But the reality was he ain't got license and he ain't got insurance he Had he left the car to roll into a wall, but it was his mate's car So none of the decisions he made were going to end up well for him And but quite clearly that was a bit of a flash point a bit of a meeting point for For that group. They obviously all knew each other. They're all filming it. They all loved the aftermath of it You know the fact that they could have put people in in danger Doesn't even register to them, you know that where the where the bad guys frowning their thumb and the sooner they Get that out of their head and grow all the better The lad was charged with driving without due care and attention without insurance and without a license That boy got a $10 fine and a bag of hot flaming chips He's currently awaiting his stay in court with the magistrates Hopefully he'll think again before messing with big joe.  They might let you go But no license and no insurance It's over Joe has the extra few you go on the least of the station that make him a fraction quicker than I am So and the extra two inches off his waist as well where he was in the right seat tonight for the right of them I can talk because I'm chubby. It's okay With more than 13,000 a NPR cameras positioned across the uk Each one hooked up to the police national computer Interceptors have a web of information at their fingertips Our access to All of our technology is now a bit of a game changer really because we can do it Out and about real time in front of us. We've got access to laptops smartphones that we carry with us in the cars And it makes our our business a lot easier and makes the The cat and mouse game between us and the and the bag guys and girls more difficult for them to get away And quite often it's the technology and the access we have to it Um that gets us our best results. Why is there three lines on the ground? Why is there three lines? Here, I think it's just one At most two. I ain't never seen three Thursday morning and kens back out on the early ship with dan motishaw We shall see where the wind takes us That next question Ken's got away with words a passion for italy and a ponch on for pizza John week four is coming up next week, but this renaissance man's favorite hobby is nicking drug dealers A car with markers for drugs has triggered an a NPR camera nearby Yeah, just passports us to come in bound. I'm just gonna do a check. I'll go that way then shall I? Yeah Oh Ken's laptop delivers instant results. The motors are white vw registered to an address in darby Should be a car that's linked to the product somebody in darby in the cannabis Markers from there That's the budget The boys are traveling in a marked up Volvo hardly incognito Well in three at juncture mohutes, so we'll be going queens road bordering the meadows Once off the main road dan hits the blues and twos Yeah, it's water train station near the train station car park The driver complies It's ken's job to find out who's behind the wheel Hello, you're okay. I know I have the mirror here.  Yeah, I thought he was still he's oblivious. He doesn't even know why he's been pulled over Well, it's just yeah, no worries any ID Bank on the driver thinks he's been pulled for having a dodgy wing mirror Thanks, buddy Ken decides to keep up the charade I'm just gonna do some checks mate. Okay. Let's go in the sec But it's just clocked something stashed in the motor He's given me an excuse to stop him because he's talked about his wing mirror straight away But when he's opened his centre console, it's just got a bundle of cash there ready Oh, so I'm gonna pretend to do some checks on the computer for console. It's just got a bundle of cash there ready Oh, so I'm gonna bundle of cash pretend to do some checks on the computer for one of 10 seconds Then we'll just tell him you're fine. Tell him from anywhere. Yeah Carrying large amounts of cash around is obviously not a crime Hey, buddy. All right, but the driver wants to fess up to something else Sam buddy I see you I think I don't have road tax. Yeah, you haven't got road tax. Oh dear Because I decided to sell it mate, yeah, and uh, I think I'm gonna sell it All right, okay He's certainly cooperative. Let's hope that continues when ken reveals the real reason behind the stop I've done some some checks and there's some intelligence saying you're involved in drugs Dean and drugs are something all right cannabis involved in cannabis. I don't know. Is there any any drugs in the car like that? Not really what have you got? You want some cannabis? How much? Not a cannabis major. A lot of cannabis What you got? What's on the babies? Yeah. Oh, you got plants Plants. All right, buddy. Play with shoes Let's take your seatbelts off for us, mate He's got whole plants in the car. He's talking about his only babies Oh, you making it today today is the day Somebody's going to jail The man says he's got some babies in the car a slightly alarming term of phrase Which is actually shorthand for baby cannabis plants. Just jump in there, mate Is it just just a few plants then is it? 50 me 50 plants Time for a quick headcount Not quite the 50 he admitted to but he's not done yet An ounce of cocaine is nothing to be sniffed at it has a potential street value of well over 1500 pounds I suppose at this point then you're under arrest on suspicion of possession with Chicago. That's four bands Intense supply Calibus and cocaine. All right, an ounce of cocaine is a fair old amount, mate He's taking those plants to settle in a property somewhere allegedly where So obviously to make a full-size cannabis grow. So 40 plants matured. It's going to be worth quite a lot of money An ounce worth of cocaine, which is suspected cocaine are worth a lot of money. So it's a nice little stop first stop The stop may be over but the job is far from finished Intake Suspects been booked. You're definitely going to jail. Are you getting some years in back at the nick? The boys can have a proper route around in his motor There's your grand I'd guess. Oh, yeah It's more than a grand. Nice It gives them a clearer picture of who they could be dealing with Got quite a large amount of cash probably All in all from different parts of the vehicle around 2000 pounds cash as well Hey, you got rent money in that All sort of the the marks of uh dealing drugs basically We'll look at do some research on properties that he's linked to or got any control over Oh, I forgot they can do this If they jam you in a car stop in the uk and they find anything they could go to your crib And then see if we'll get any section 18 searches authorized. We'll go and do those searches and hopefully recover some more Drugs cash or anything else that will link him Checks have revealed a property connected to the man in derby and the team have got the keys It's over with will the man with the babies on board have anything bigger stashed away bw pinged an Nottingham city center He was carrying a fare taken to custody while the team headed off to search a property connected That's second commercial police interceptors. They always give you a recap. Like don't nobody mean no recap. We just watch to him in derby Once inside it didn't take too long to get a sense of what might be lurking Nice smell cannabis, but Where's that smell coming from? Oh, hello, what's this? What you got? Was it kind of this kind of this?  Yeah, because it was taken out. Yeah I don't know as well. I could smell it more now Let me go get some bags We're not sure Exactly what it is at the moment.  The only way to find out for sure is to get it tested We've got the phones, we've got the cannabis, we've got the cash So once everything's bagged up the boys transport the goods back to the nick where the mystery white substance is taken straight to the lab for analysis It's just testing cocaine. We're gonna test it and in fact, I mean the more tests crystal meth as well Each test will prove them what it potentially is To the boys surprise the cocaine test comes back negative. So what is it? This at the moment is giving a positive print for well positive indication for amphetamine Steply amphet Disappointing Yes Amphetamine or speed is a class B drug worth significantly less than cocaine Even so this single kilo block could sell on the street for around five grand Not a bad bit of work for ken and the team It's always a good day when you Crazy because most of us know what he was doing with that That's why And you know you you act on you act on a bit of intelligence and it comes up trumps And that's kind of what's happened today, you know, it's a real disruption and potentially a wider investigation to be commenced as part of You know something else that's going on The suspect is currently under investigation for possession with intent to supply a class A and B substance And for the production of cannabis The case is ongoing I swear to god, I should spit in your face Some suspects are gonna do that if you're going to jail For assault a bit like volcanoes At any given moment they can blow their top Do you spit at me mate you spit at me The main reason people turn from calm to aggressive pretty quickly is Substance misuse so whether that be alcohol Jugs or both That tends to make people pretty unpredictable at times and you know, you can go from feeling fairly calm Moving seconds to being a bit of a bit of anvil In Chicago spitting on a spitting spitting on the police is the quickest way to get Meek mack meek they will whoop you into into the car And then also there's the uniform side of it. I mean some people just really don't like the police And our presence alone can sort of Infuriate them a little bit and they become sort of verbally aggressive towards us It's a barmy friday evening in knots Here you see sergeer 30 seconds away Dog handler coops is en route to an emergency on the southern fringes of the county Gotham Wait, what was that to an emergency on the southern G.o.t.h.a.m. That's Gotham Gotham fringes of the county Had a call saying that uh 10 p.m. And this this light outside I would never this is never gonna Not be shocking to me vehicle single vehicle was crashed Just down this country road overturned on its roof Two young lads have got out this car. It's got no insurance He's whipped his top off and they've walked off But now we're going to go and look if we can get hold of him because The car could be stolen So we are nearby now and it just should be around this corner the crash vehicle A familiar flicker of blue and red up ahead draws coops in Oh, yeah Where he's presented with a pretty shocking scene That is nasty It's a miracle anyone survived at all All right, mate, you're all right. Can you see up near the local shop? Apparently they borrowed this gem's phone to make a phone call. There could be a woman coming to pick him up Right, okay. It's dressed all in gray one of them. It's done a rollip. Yeah, okay, mate. Yeah Growing up not spawned coops was desperate to become a cop Developing a strong sense of right and wrong from an early age And he's got little time for unsavory behavior The gentleman in question is relieving himself against a garden fence Coops has seen her more than enough There's children there. There's people down there. There's a car crashed up there There's a car crashed up there You'll stand there now. You'll stand there and you won't go any further. All right. Listen, just have 30 seconds and just relax without speaking She's had a drink and I haven't and we're gonna fall out This bloke isn't one of the suspects from the car crash However, urinating in public can land you with a fine or a charge for a public order offence It's my not send 70th birthday I'm not gonna lie. I feel like this police officer has more pressing matters to attend to than this guy right now. Am I wrong? Like I feel like he should have like Called it in and then continued to do what he was doing Because this in comparison to what he got going on is this big in my mind Guys birthday party right and we're done there. We were doing the car crash up here.  I'm not doing anything incriminating.  I'm telling you don't shout at me. Don't shout me open the red.  What? Well you're the one with your penis, right?  Oh, I'm out of my car.  Turn around now turn around I'm going home. Yeah, I thought so You got a small victory my boy. You just go on and then on top of that. He didn't even do nothing to him The man's becoming increasingly heated Maybe this lady can help cool him down Right You free go relax. He after class a's, that's the least It turns out the woman is the bloke's mom But he's not listening to her either They let you go He let you go I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Listen. I'm sorry. I'm not pertaining I need to I need to tell you listen. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I need to listen Do you think I'm only to rest between condescending so that you don't know who you are, right? I'm sorry, I'm sorry I'm sorry, sorry As he resists arrest the man drags both cops to the tarmac where the sarge's head lands with an almighty crack This bloke's al fresco comfort break has taken a decidedly dark turn and he knows he's bangin Is apologize there's too late You was clean free he let you go, but no no no to his family Listen, I'm so sorry, you know and to the cops I'm not that kind of guy, you know But assaulting a police officer is a serious offense and saying sorry won't cut it Why am I acting like it? Why am I acting like it?  He's fessed up to having a bag of cocaine If he's been on the sniff It could explain why his mood's been swinging like a wrecking ball Might have been not my mood Let's have a phone call But even though he insists he's got some It could have fallen out when we were struggling on floor They find nothing Nevertheless, he's off to the nick Where he'll be able to sober up And make full use of the facilities Weird in the street isn't a major issue However, with the mixture of group of family Drugs and alcohol It almost creates the perfect platform For someone of that nature And what's sad about that is that There's a police officer tonight Who's now in hospital Possibly got concussion It's very disappointing that his behaviour's resulted In someone to be injured This chap ended up spending a heck of a lot more Than a penny It turned out the urinator was telling the truth As a thorough search reveals some cocaine He was cautioned for possession of Plus A and being drunk and disorderly For assaulting a police officer The court ordered him to pay £1,000 in fines The charge made a full recovery Still to come Nicking drug dealers used to be straight forward How much is there mate? It should be about a nine to zero or something A bag of weed, a packet of powder That's literally just dropped out of your pocket And they were in cuffs quicker than you could say P-wits I'm reporting you for possession of Plus A But for the cops A recent phenomenon has been leaving A nasty taste in the mouth The rise of the cannabis edible Maybe I'll definitely come in increasing This is 2023 This is more popular We've had numerous sweets, cakes Oh my god, where am I? How long have I not been on the screen? Y'all just sitting there watching it Not telling me how long was I missing? Cookies Edible cannabis varieties A lot of them They've come in bags Which look like normal sweets So that's the problem When people are buying them Leaving them around And then suddenly kids can get older Which can be fatal The city centre provides a fertile Hunting ground for the knife crime Team's war on drugs Ken Timleys back outing For the knife crime team's war on drugs Why he got on a motorcycle For a bicycle Extra Ken Timleys back out again His partner today is Adam Scottney Their colleagues have spotted A black Ford suspected to be Back in nuttingham Supply of cannabis Hello there, Jen Stay there for us, mate There's three lads in the fiesta Step out for us, mate Adam's gone for the one in the back Just pop your phone on the wall, mate That's a little iffy Well, for the one in the back Is there anything on you that cleared me or you? I don't know No weapons or anything like that? Cool Is that the cannabis you've got? I'm just going to pop that on there Is that all you've got? He says he's got nothing on him Oh, he's so good to you And a sparkling set of false gnashes Cool, come and have a seat in that car We'll start sorting out the cannabis then At times like this, it's always good to chew the fat Jumping pal Is it edibles or? Just a bit of cannabis Yeah, edible cannabis or cannabis you smoke Okay Okay, you've been arrested before Meanwhile, Ken's been having a rummage In the fiesta Whatever these snacks are They're probably not part of your five a day Mate, off your phone I can be on my phone Because you've been arrested, mate You've been arrested on suspicion of possession of cannabis What? What are you on about me? Everyone What? You can't do that though You're in the kitchen Why can't you do that? I thought it was normally the driver They get normally in these cells They get the driver for it and then let everybody else go It makes no sense I've walked up to the car and I've been arrested You've got in the car Which is a concierge of drugs you believe that are from Wood Supply And we suspect you were in the car before The lads not best pleased Is this legal? But there's more than enough evidence in the motor To warrant a trip to the nick There's a quantity of cannabis in the boot of that car Because of that All of you are being arrested For possession of cannabis with intent to supply The Flabjacks have been homemade But which one of these three lads is this week's star Baker remains unclear It's like the new craze Is cannabis edible There's alternative ways of taking cannabis Obviously they haven't got this carrier bag In the boot as well Which we can see is full of Not me, not ever I've got drug freers the way to be No at the bulls No no Remember I tried that one time Because it is when I was in Chicago For anybody who's Her majesty's queen police on here When I was in Chicago Which it is legal You know Sam Medical and And You know what I'm saying Just do it in Chicago I tried it And I sit on the edge of my bed For eight hours Never again The same items again Which we all suspect contains cannabis The three people in the car When we've approached it So all three of them are going to be under arrest On suspicion of that offence Whilst we obviously carry out some initial investigation This was wild news Edible cannabis is big business on the street So It comes in Yorkshire sees 300,000 Pounds worth of edibles in a Single raid Today's goodie bag may not be On that scale but it still requires Further investigation So while the three lads are booked in Ken takes a moment to inspect The goods The reality is that it's going to be Cannabis that's been cooked In and amongst the recipe to produce this And it's still classified As a controlled drug and it seems to be What is essentially some homemade baking With the ability to shrink wrap it themselves So given the amount that's there It's going to have been for onward supply So that's where we're at, that's what the aim Of the investigation is now To ascertain who is in possession of this And what their intent was really Meanwhile A further search of the lad Adam as Nate Turned up something else that's piqued The team's curiosity A handful of electronic Key fobs Bathers I'll take it Please Suspect the keys are linked to a housing Block near to where the stop took place Earlier on We're just going to have a look around And see what sort of What sort of gates the fobs work on And see if we can try and locate An address that potentially these lads Have been at just before they've been And then carry out some searches And see what we can find there The technology may be modern But this is good old fashioned Police work Someone just opened And their tenacity has paid off Yeah, press it again It's opened A parking garage across the street The next spot they've got Features a Mercedes logo Said to flash that Mercedes fob to open something Surely not Have you got it? If only all police work was that simple Because he's been arrested Essentially it will be a section 18 Search on the car So we need to wait for someone to make contact With an inspector in custody For the search to be authorised And then as soon as it's authorised we can go in And just make sure everything's legal And then if we find anything in there It's good Look how they follow the chain Of whatever it's called They're doing everything in order To reveal the lad Adam arrested Is the name driver on the Merc's insurance Unfortunately When the team finally get the green light You've been through the middle Yeah They find nothing suspicious However, later that night Searched three properties Connected to all three of the suspects Yeah They find more edibles And a suspiciously weighty piggy bank So they take it back To the nick to crack it open Oh, yeah This lad's a trainee bricklayer With the council And he's got probably what A grand's worth of cash In a box in his bedroom He just doesn't quite add up They've also retrieved several items Of designer gear We got the Rolex But most revealing of all Is what Joe's just found I managed to unlock one of the phones I had a few messages There's quite a few on there When he was stopped He had a blue scoder with him Which is registered in short to him On the messages he's saying that is there Waiting for them in a blue scoder There's photos and videos of him So, yeah, there's quite a lot of evidence on the phone The lads from the fiesta Have been released on the investigation For being concerned in the supply Of class B drugs The investigation into the suspected At what point is it going to become legal It's going to become legal in the UK Like, are they working on it? Cannabis edibles continues Guess that's


Hi everyone I'm Matt Sancing with DAV and I'm here at Arlington National Cemetery at the Military Women's Memorial where Phyllis Wilson a DAV member and a 37 year Army veteran gave us a clinic and a history lesson here about all the contribution service and really sacrifice of women veterans going back to the Civil War before that the Revolutionary War. Phyllis what can you tell us about what's it like to visit the memorial? Well I tell you I've worked here now for three and a half years and after as you said 37 years in the Army which I absolutely loved but I found out in my time here at the Military Women's Memorial I didn't know a lot of our own history not just women's history but our military history from the Revolutionary War till today so every time I get to walk towards this building and come inside I realize that our job is to help tell the story of the three million women that have helped to defend this nation as you said from the Revolutionary War till today and I will tell you that in the last 30 years more women have served and defended this nation than all the women from that time 30 years ago all the way back to the Revolutionary Combined. Wow. It's a huge new number of American women in just the last 30 years. Yeah and I think you know it's women's history month and I think one thing here is people assume it's women's military history but this is really military history we're just shining a light on all the contributions of some people who maybe didn't get their due when they were serving in uniform unfortunately and I know you were a linguist military intelligence and retired as a CW-5 chief warrant officer 5 for non-army veterans out there that's a big deal. What really drew you to the running this memorial? Well I had heard that they had a vacancy and they were doing a search a national search for the next president of the memorial and foundation and I heard about it but I thought I'm a soldier not a woman's soldier for 37 years I was hard proving I was a soldier jumped out of airplanes did everything the army would permit me to do but I thought I don't really get why you have to have a separate place but as fate would have it during that window of opportunity while the application could still be submitted I was thinking about it but yeah not probably not but as fate would have it I parked in a veteran parking space at a grocery store and I hop out and the gentleman in the parking lot goes excuse me that is veteran parking and I said yes I know and then the next one was is your husband with you and we had a conversation turns out we both served at Fort Bragg at the same time we both did many of the same kind of things and I thanked him for a service he did not reciprocate and I thought okay but I went in to pick up my groceries and as it was doing that it wasn't really upset but it caused me to think about it I knew that three million of us have served and I thought when does it stop what what do we have to do to tell America what our contribution has been and I knew that this was the only major national memorial in the entire country to tell that story and I said okay I hear you I felt like it was a God nudge and so I put my put my resume and my application in and went through the vetting process and be careful what you ask for because now here it is three and a half years later but it's a job I absolutely love and I love being able to help tell the stories and even though the Army Museum is just down the road from us it tells a story in a different way and I think this is America's history if you read it and it was being told about a guy you wouldn't think oh it's interesting from a man's perspective but when we tell it from a woman's perspective somehow it has a unusual ring to it but we're getting to the point where hopefully it will just be commonplace if we're telling it from a woman's standard absolutely the rest is history women's history and military history and again this is the Hall of Honor we have all the state flags here behind me there are all of the military flags even the space forces there and this is a very special place here you have the books of consisting women who were killed in the Iraq and Afghanistan war has all of them the Iraq war one is a little longer has more of folks in there and today is actually the 20th anniversary of the Iraq war and Naomi who's on our legislative staff in DC as well as I as well as Phyllis are as well as Kevin our cameraman here are Iraq war veterans now Naomi you serve there you're quoted in the article in the D.A.D. magazine what do you think about today well I want to really make sure that it gets across to people that you know check on your your veteran friends this is a very important week you don't know if you're okay until you know you're not okay and so if you're not a veteran and you have veteran friends check on your veteran friends if you are a veteran check on your battle buddies and also check on the ones that seem to be just so strong and if you are a veteran and you are in crisis I think that it's very important to also get across to please dial 988 and press 1 but you know when we talk about just as Phyllis just mentioned when we talk about women's contribution and just in general I am a veteran period dot point blank I did everything that the that the men were were expected to do as well and we were all in that fight together and continue to be down in the trenches together absolutely and again you're in a legislative staff so I want to take the opportunity to kind of ask you about some legislation that does specifically pertain to women veterans last year we had the Mamo and a service acts become law what would these laws do for the nation and for women veterans well one thing that it'll do is one of them will do is expand the mammogram services for veterans that were exposed to toxic substances and allow it kind of takes away the age requirement for a mammogram also it starts a pilot program for telehealth for mammograms and that is really key when it comes to our rural veterans who really don't have access to the facilities or the facilities are too far away it will also expand mammograms the mammogram facilities within the VA medical centers to include 3d imaging and so that's that's very key we also had other legislative victories such as peer support and you know fixing the process of doing the military sexual trauma claims and and so on so we're very excited with with everything that's passed and the reason these bills came law definitely had to do with engage DAV members sending alerts to their elected representatives they can do so at DAV can dot org the stands for commanders action network where you can go and take action by 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It was fun to see some reactions out of like Pwig and Gary. I mean, it was a big game down there. So I think him just wanted to kind of get in a little bit of groove, get some regular at bats and and kind of work on some of the things that he and Marcus and PJ kind of worked on here in these last month getting ready for winter ball so he can try and take some of those improvements and adjustments into a winter ball setting with some regular at bats. And yeah, so I'm I think in the truncated, shortened season, I'm kind of glad he's down there racking up some more at bats and hopefully some adjustments that will help him in the 2021 season.


pleasure to introduce our speaker today. This is Dr. Elizabeth Newman and the title of her presentation, When Art and Science Collide Towards a Political Philosophy of Humanized Birth. She is a senior lecturer in midwifery at the University of Newcastle. Her 20-year career includes midwifery practice, advocacy, teaching, and research. She has published widely in both academic and practice journals and been invited to speak at conferences and events. She is the lead author of Towards the Humanization of Birth, a study of epidural antigen useal in hospital birth culture, published by Paul Grave McMillan in 2018. Key areas of study are birth culture and environment, midwifery practice to support birth physiology, maternity, policy, politics, and technologies, and care ethics. It is such a great pleasure to learn from you today. Liz, thank you for being here and I'm just gonna hand over the presentation to you. Thanks, Red. And thanks so much too. Thank you. And thanks our Virtual International Day of the Midwifery for having me. Oh, you've gone, Red, completely. Remind me how I do this. I go full screen. Hang on. Full screen applications. Is that what I do? You can. Do you see the arrows there to control your slide? That's good. Yeah. Thanks, Celine, for loving the title. I was quite happy when I came up with that as well. So yeah, the conference this year is about the midwifery art and science. And as I was, you know, putting together the talk, it really kind of came together as I was thinking about what I might talk about when I was invited to come and talk to this conference. So I'm really pleased to be here. And yeah, thanks for having me. And I, so I'll just jump straight into it. I just want to acknowledge that I'm sitting on the lands of the Ghana people and the traditional custodians of the lands on which I'm seated. And I want to pay my respect to Elders Past and Present and pay my respects to any Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander people in the world today in the in the room. So what I'm going to talk about today is why a political philosophy of birth. And I did think it might put some people off, you know, that whole kind of theory thing can be a little bit daunting or some people find it boring even. But I just think it's fascinating and really important. And I'm going to talk about that during the course of this talk. And I'm going to talk about the science of knowledge production and its effect on the art of midwifery practice. So that's where the collision happens. And then talk a little bit about this concept of the paradox of the institution. Then a little bit about this idea of rhetorical informed consent and how that contributes to dehumanised care. And then coming up with a bit of a solution which is to focus on care ethics and relationality. So some of this stuff and lots of you may have seen this already. So that my PhD was published as the book Towards the Humanisation of Birth. And I was also invited to do a series of articles for the practicing midwife to kind of, you know, distill that down a bit and and try and interpret that for practice in a more kind of useful way, I suppose. So they're available anyway. And why am I talking about political philosophy, you know, in a midwifery conference? And I think from this 20 years, you know, and it is actually my 20th year of practice, I realised. So, you know, I've really come to realise that we have to attend to these kinds of knowledges, political and philosophical, as much as we do to other kinds of analyses. And we've gotten really good at some of the other kinds of analyses. You know, we do systematic reviews, we do clinical evaluations, and I'm talking about midwifery here as a field. But we've done less of this other kind of work, generally speaking. I mean, I know it's out there, but it's just not around as much. So I'm going to touch on Fico a little bit as I go through this presentation. And so, you know, Fico kind of talked about philosophy as being a practice of politics. And in essence, it's a truth telling in relation to power. So we don't just kind of talk about what's happening or think about what's happening. You know, if we use philosophy, we can actually shape what's happening around us in the world by questioning, contesting and understanding the kind of truths that we have around us. Why is this important? And I don't really need to say this to probably anyone in this room. We know that birth trauma rates are going up. We know that obstetric violence reports are going up. We know that suicide is a leading cause of maternal mortality.  And at the same time, there have been, you know, mechanisms to try and reduce this kind of behavior. So the the re-huna there on the left is the with the humanization of birth network in Brazil that started, I mean, in the 90s. And, you know, the humanizing birth movement has been growing since then and really that was a kind of antidote to obstetric violence. So and at the same time the World Health Organization is publishing position papers on elimination of disrespect and abuse. We've got human rights and childbirth. We've got reproductive justice movement. And this has been going on at the same time. And yet we're still seeing these increased rates. So, you know, there's something else going on here. And that's where, you know, this kind of idea of the this science and art colliding comes in. Again, I'm just going to talk very quickly about some some simple kind of philosophical building blocks, I suppose, before I go into the the the more interesting bits about how it affects midwifery practice. But just to just to kind of set it up Ficoe talked about power as being a productive force.  It's productive. So and its main area of production is in the gathering and the storing of knowledge. And this is how power is is created and maintained. It's also localized. So he talks about techniques of power in institutions and between individuals. And the good thing about that is that every opportunity then is an opportunity for resistance. You know, every interaction with every person is an opportunity to think about power interactions. But so this gathering and storing of knowledge is a kind of surveillance technique that hospitals and prisons and schools and other social institutions sort of contribute to creating these these kind of techniques of power that then are used to govern behavior of populations. So if you just see that last little quote to structure the possible fields of action of others and this is what governance does. So at some point in this whole process, they don't even really need to govern because people are already busy governing themselves because we know what it means to be a good student or a good patient. And so these ideas about the way we need to behave become self-fulfilling. The other thing, the other point I suppose I want to talk about is genealogy. So Fico disrupted the idea that we're on this kind of path to progress, which was very much the kind of I suppose the ideas that came out of the Enlightenment in the scientific discourse was to say, you know, we're finding our way to this end point where we're going to know everything and it's going to be great. But Fico says, no, you know, we're not on this path to progress. We're actually just sitting in this constant struggle of knowledge and whichever knowledge creates itself as dominant seems self-evident. So it feels like it's just how things are. You know, the status quo, this is what happens. You have a baby, you go to hospital, you're going to be induced, blah, blah, blah, and it becomes less feasible to resist these kind of practices because they become common sense. And in this way, the problem for us is the more self-evident medicalised birth becomes the less other ways of birthing seem possible or acceptable. And I think we're seeing that a little bit now. I mean, it's always been there, but so dominant discourses recreate themselves using this power knowledge kind of paradigm and what that creates is history. It creates thought. It creates action. It creates the truth of our age. For example, it's safe to give birth in a hospital is one of those. And then if you have a radical or a dissenting view then you're not only denied access to the dominant discourse, but you're opposed and you're often discounted as kind of dangerous or foolish often. So medicine is a current dominant discourse. It's part of the general kind of politics of what of the truth of childbirth. You know, it creates norms. It creates rules. It creates ideas about what's safe and what's risky. And part of the reason that medicine could align itself in this way is because, you know, because of the history and again we're going to go back to that kind of patriarchal status driven thing. Because it was educated men mostly, medicine aligned itself with science and technology even though it wasn't particularly scientific, you know, in the 18th century for example. It's also aligned with government. So the government was started to become concerned with the surveillance of populations and so medicine was able to support that. So they supported each other. And as religion declined as a kind of institution of social control or social understanding, medicine came in and replaced that. So you can see the medicalization of sexuality and drug use and the areas that used to be much more under the kind of umbrella of the church. So if we take all this as kind of foundational then Faco would also say we don't need to think about the medicalization of birth as the problem itself but we need to think about what does the medicalization serve, what purpose does it serve, why does it happen, you know, who's interested in it. And to understand that we need to just briefly sort of understand that reproductive power is or reproductive issues are really a powerful piece of knowledge. So midwives would know about live and still births. They would know about who was trying to access abortion. They would know about paternity. They would know which you know kind of identifies property rights and things like that. Really powerful information. Midwifery power has been challenged by the church, the state, medical and nursing professions over the last sort of three or four hundred years in the Western European tradition at least. And again I'll go back to that idea that hospital birth is safe. When hospitals first came, were introduced they were definitely not safer. They had very high mortality rates, they were convenient for doctors, they were convenient for the state and yet we have this ongoing belief that hospitals are the safest place to give birth which is actually not based in any evidence whatsoever. And the brilliant midwifery research that's coming out now is saying actually probably not the safest place to have a baby also in Africa, Latisha, yeah. And a lot of that is colonisation as well. So other influences and there are many other influences but one of the important ones is techno-rationalism which I'll just briefly describe. So it's this idea that scientific advance is progress and remember Foucault said actually progress isn't real. It's only ever the struggle for knowledge but scientific advance equals progress and progress equals moral good. So there's this real kind of morality involved with science and technology. It also has an implied effectiveness of technological intervention so if there's machinery involved then you then it's got to be better. This is and the perfect example of this is CTG and the same with the next point the complex over the mundane. So the CTG is seen as more effective than a midwife in the room with a doppler or a pinards even though it probably not more effective. I'd say definitely not more effective. The technological imperative means just because the technology is there we think we have to use it and again CTG brings to mind but there are others and the prevention of abstract risk rather than the avoidance of a specific danger and this is quite important to remember because it takes away the focus from the individual and it moves it to the abstract and so the other thing that Foucault says about discourse is that all we really have to do to find out where the dominant discourse of the day is is to look at practice and you know this idea of thought as social practice. So if we look at current maternity practices around the world we can see where the dominant discourse is and this picture on this slide was just I just snapped it from Twitter the other month during the All Island Midwifery forum and that's the brilliant Mary Brosnan there from the National Maternity Hospital presenting you know and you know in a kind of you know a shocked sort of way that more first-time mothers will be induced or have a baby by pre-labour cesarean then will present in spontaneous labour and I mean that's just a snapshot and I pulled it off because you know I saw it but this is happening everywhere and it is a real problem I mean it is a massive issue we have no idea what we're doing and we've never been at this stage before in reproductive history so yeah so plainly we can see the dominant discourse that's operating and just so that you know that I'm not making this up I have got a paper about this which was written some time ago but it was about the Australian government tried to introduce some policy that would give midwives more autonomy and more scope and the medical system vehemently opposed it and they put in submissions about why obstetrics was rational safe and aligned with progress and why midwifery was dangerous dangerous ideological and needing supervision and in their first page of their submission they talked about mothers and babies dying if midwives were given more scope so really interesting there they also use other kinds of language so they talked about the government changes being interventionist which kind of draws on neoliberal you know freedom of the market kind of discourse they appealed to the to the women's right to choose but around epidural and caesarean section and they talked about the pressure they were worried that people would be pressured into a noble birth if midwives were given more scope and they made this whole argument on really minimal out-of-day and poor quality evidence so you can read about that if you want and that leads to this well I'm going to talk about the the science of knowledge production again it's about discourse and the way that we create truth so this is about epidural analgesia and some of you might have seen me talk about various elements of this because what I've done here is kind of pulled together all of the threads of you know what I've been doing the last few years and it kind of makes this story but anyway my apologies if you've seen bits of this before but um there's a little quote there on the front which came from a journal article a scientific journal article about epidural analgesia so that's quite I'm hoping you can all read read it but um it's fairly telling you know this it's very techno-rationalist wouldn't you say it's like you know part of the modern western lifestyle so then um part of this knowledge production thing so this is some of the work from my phd and I did a critical review of epidural analgesia so I didn't focus so much on the outcomes although I reported on them you know I did talk about what the impact was of an epidural but I was mainly looking for that the assumptions behind what they were saying you know so um part of that critical analysis is looking at what's kind of being said while even though they're trying to be unbiased and scientific all of the papers nearly all of them introduced epidural analgesia as a gold standard analgesia which I mean it probably is in the in the sense that it works quite well and it's um safer than a general anesthetic you know um they also talked about labor pain as being the worst pain that women will ever go through in their lives so that was really at the front of you know in the opening paragraph of these scientific papers so then um pain relief was constructed as paramount as as absolutely necessary um as it was kind of like the duty to relieve this dreadful pain and that it was nearly a human right pain relief was also equated to progress so which then meant that if you don't want to relieve pain you're kind of absurd or weird or archaic or some kind of you know living in a cave hippie so um and you can see there the discourse in action um there was an emphasis on the abnormality of labor pain so it um it created that as a kind of yeah this terrible thing that had to be had to kind of rescue people from um but it normalized technological intervention and did not ever talk about the pain of the intervention so there was a really old paper that's got you know the outcomes have got no relevance to today because it was related to a higher caesarean section rate which there doesn't seem to be an equation there anymore um because the blocks are lighter although in practice it's arguable because it looks like it leads to caesarean section a lot more but according to the the evidence it doesn't but anyway what these authors were saying was that the higher rates of caesarean section or instrumental birth were probably acceptable to women because uh at least it got rid of their labor pain so really bizarre ways of looking at pain especially when you think about the pain of caesarean scars or post-op recovery or apesiotomies and and trying to recover from those and it definitely ignored the positive and purposeful aspects of labor pain so when we finally got around to actually asking people what they thought about labor pain um they described it in people describe it in positive terms it's powerful it's joyful potentially you know not everybody but certainly strongly um there's a connection to the baby that um the most important thing in labor is actually support not pain and um that needing pain relief might actually come from fear or lack of control or lack of support rather than pain itself so that's the kind of flip side to to what the epidural literature was saying um okay so i mean we all know why you may not want to have an epidural main reason now i suppose is risk of instrumental birth but also other risks it doesn't necessarily increase birth satisfaction which is interesting because if it actually doesn't do that why would we be kind of saying that this is a good choice to make um we know that satisfaction with birth experience is not necessarily related to pain and it's multifaceted and so really when we think about it like that then the discourse about epidural as human right and a rescue kind of gets turned on its head and it's potentially an unnecessary intervention definitely not well explained to women and birthing people about what the risks are and it may not even relieve their suffering it may give them more suffering and it might decrease joy in birth or the possibility of joy because of the impact on the hormones yes so much for god's sake so then i did this other paper here and um uh this was about the language used in the pamphlets about water birth compared to the information that was given about epidural analgesia thanks to me um and essentially the the language that was talking about water birth in this particular site was all about risk and restriction and danger so it was you must you can't you know this is really dangerous you have to sign this in front of a midwife while you're still pregnant and the epidural information is very much about access safety and uh you could sign it whenever you know potentially after the epidural had gone in in labor so really different ways of framing these two practices even though you can get in a bath at home you know without any aseptic technique or anesthetic support um so when you look at them side by side of course getting in a bath is much less risky than having an epidural but it was not being presented like that so this again is this concept of risk discourse it's much broader than medicine it's part of our social kind of way of being now there's a few key theorists that talk about risk discourse and it's yeah it's bigger than medicine but when we bring it down to to a medical setting it's really abstract and inexact we can't say you know if there's a one in 10 000 charts of this happening we can't tell if the you know if the woman sitting in front of us is that one in 10 000 it really leads to a lack of individualization it leads to blanket policies that encourage over medicalization you know it again it focuses on technology it's quite practitioner centered it's about litigation and therefore it reproduces these power relationships an obstetric risk discourse in particular creates certain practices as risky and others as safe as i've just shown in that last paper medical practices tend not to be seen as creating risk so for example in my research induction was not really seen as a risky practice uh and there's a you know there's an example of that i won't go into it but um we can see it we can see that in the in the stats that i kind of had a few slides ago we are inducing women and birthing people at an alarming rate you know it's going up to 50 percent and over um the other thing about obstetric risk discourse is it's blind to genetic risk so it doesn't see the risks that it present in its own interventions and it's influenced by these other discourses like techno rationalism so rejection of technology is seen as risky even though it might be absolutely justified and the other thing to keep in mind is it's not evidence based at all mostly you know as a as a kind of general rule it's not about evidence it's about creating this kind of power knowledge discourse so then i thought about um you know this hospital system that i was studying and what i want to talk about here and it all links together and i'm hoping this is kind of clear i'm not um you know rambling about too much but essentially if you see on this left hand side organizational technology i've termed it because fico uses the terms uh technologies of power or techniques of power so it's about how our practice is organized to maintain the status quo in particular institutions so the organizational technology um used institutional surveillance so remember we talked about surveillance as being a part of the power knowledge collection you know that collection of information about people leads to a power knowledge situation so the way that they would do this is to well an example is for our EVs um or the kind of i don't know how many of you have seen like the kind of labor board boards that have got you know everyone's name on it and you know how dilated everybody is and this kind of overarching surveillance which is not really for the benefit of the woman it's for the benefit of the institution and what happens then if you see this other arrow that's going up institutional momentum so then what would happen is okay so that woman's not laboring fast enough let's get the cinto up or the the labor ward's filling up so let's get somebody you know to have a baby so we can get them out and get the next person in so what that actually did that surveillance paradoxically was increased risk for the women by by medicalizing the birth space um thanks Richard i'm just caught that little chat there then the midwifery technology on the other side was again paradoxical and that's why i've called this concept the paradox of the institution because the midwives were kind of like positioned as the people that had to take care of normal birth so um they you know there was kind of this banter about well you're a midwife you know go in there and don't come out to have had a baby i mean whoever's worked in the hospital may have um have i'm getting distracted by the chat may have um i heard that before you know it's like you know we're the experts of normal and that that's not kind of that's incorporated into this process okay midwife if you're a guardian of the normal go in there and get me out a baby this is you know the obstetric banter but then at the same time midwifery practice is constructed as risky this other arrow going up so midwives are tasked with this protecting physiology and yet every single practice that they need to pull out to to support physiology they're not able to do in that system or it's very difficult or there's a great resistance or it's kind of ridiculed and um you know um not really seen as beneficial so oh i've got 10 minutes i'm getting there thank you so there's this paradox whereby um things that are meant to keep women safe increase risk and the things that are meant to guard normal birth are not able to happen um which led me then to to see how and this this paper here was about how midwives talk about epidural use in antenatal classes which was kind of um you it's your body this is great physiological birth is fabulous um but you know and then the caveats would come hospital policy says this um you know it's really hard to get in the water and so on which made me really think about how can we talk about informed consent when everything from the from the main discourse in the scientific literature down through policy down to what the midwives are saying is kind of skewed in this institutional paradox way or this risk safety paradox way where safe practices are described as risky and risky practices are described as safe so then i wrote a paper with mavis kirkham about this where we talked about the problem of informed consent being essentially baseless or rhetorical because it's not actually happening which took us then to care ethics um so care ethics is a really useful way of looking at this problem because it gives primacy to the relationship um that's the main thing i'll say because i'm i need to sort of get through the rest of this but um it does see care as a political practice which is important because care it's then care isn't just about um that some people do for others you know mothers and babies midwives nurses everybody needs care everybody receives care everybody at some point will give care it's a political practice um that we that human beings do um so again the problem with autonomy is because is um the fact that it's kind of coming from this old colonizing kind of patriarchal thing that said you know we're all equal and we're all liberal individual humans but that really was only white men of particular means not everybody else was actually autonomous which means that bodily self-determination in places like hospitals and we see this in birth outcomes with black and brown women in the uk and Aboriginal women here having much worse outcomes because of these prejudices so autonomy is a problematic concept actually so some of us are saying actually obstetric violence is a problem of relationality rather than a problem of autonomy let's move this conversation forward how do we give um a relationship-based care in a system that is standardized and fragmented and again this is coming back to care ethics um and i want to just bring up bring your thoughts back to the the abstractness of the risk discourse abstract theory is a problem for relational care so bioethical principles are abstract we can morally detach ourselves and that's how dehumanizing practices like coercion and non-consent can happen if we put the relationship back in then it's much harder for that to occur so it's a key to providing ethical care and i'm going to focus on attentiveness if i've got time um so attention is an act of knowing and an act of love we need to talk more about love in midwifery we barely talk about it at all um and this act of attention of giving someone your attention enables them according to sererotic to let otherness be we can let or you know we don't let women do anything but we can um we can sit with women and birthing people's decisions when they don't align with care give a protocol or time restriction if we um if we just change our focus to attention to attentiveness and relationality um violence and coercive behaviors can't happen when you're paying attention with knowingness and love so identifying care as a political practice is part of care ethics it's it's as central to human life and it's a mechanism of resistance to dehumanizing systems which rely on abstraction and separation so instead we're bringing it back to complexity contextuality and human connection um and then i was just going to bring this quickly back to research because um you know i suppose back to this idea of a political philosophy we need to be thinking about theory we need to be thinking about qualitative research creativity and you know thinking of research in these deep reflective ways not just systematic kind of quantitative ways i think it's crucial to midwifery and birth especially where we're at oh my god three minutes critical midwifery studies i just want to acknowledge that there's lots of people doing things in this space Inge van Nysselroy is um uh introduced me to that sererotic piece i'm gonna just go to the end this is a crucial issue it's it's absolutely um with it's unprecedented and we think it's the same as climate change and that's my final slide why do we want a political philosophy i'll let you read that there do you want to have we got time for a question we have um thank you Liz we have two minutes um to be out of the room so we can run through um we can run through the chat and see what we have here there was a few questions there was so much resounding love for your presentation and how much you've put everything um together the red threads that you've brought in um thank you so let's start at the bottom here from Annabelle it says so Liz does it come back to genealogy um as Foucault suggests to deconstruct the patriarchal paradigms and reconstruct ethics of care ah yes you've said and then she said ah yeah i mean i think that's part of it i think there's yeah there are lots of kind of threads to this and i suppose what i'm trying to do is bring some of this thinking into the midwifery space and like i saw your question joe about how do we do this without pulling out Foucault all right i think we can do that you know and the um the papers that i wrote for the practicing midwife i really tried to just you know de-philosophize it but i suppose the point i'm trying to make is actually we can bring this in and have those and have those conversations and i think we need to bring the philosophy in actually maybe not with women and people and community but we need to understand how these bigger kind of structures are working so that we can actually resist them in a way that it's going to be effective because we know what the evidence is you know we know that these practices are happening we know that there's there are real problems so how can we address it in a way that is has kind of got a strong foundation and a strong argument so that we can really make change and this is just one way of doing it you know this is one person's thought but i just think we can pull it all together somehow and support each other to change the world really thank you Liz for being and for helping us to change the world i learned so much from you today and i feel like i need to listen to this presentation about five times um and yeah we need you in your work so much in the world so i'm so grateful for you it's been such a great conversation i know that we could we could do another 30 minutes easily another hour really easily and i am going to wrap us up now with


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Now I will probably season my turkey with some poultry seasoning to give it a little bit more of that sausage vibe. It is kind of the faux sausage for this recipe. But if you don't have poultry seasoning, you can just use salt and pepper. So let's get started. I have my oven preheating to 450 degrees. I sprayed a nine by 13 baking dish with some nonstick cooking spray. I'm going to add this entire bag of hash browns thawed to the bottom of the baking dish. And then I'm going to season the hash browns with some salt and pepper. We're going to put the hash browns in the 450 degree oven for about 15 minutes while we cook up our sausage and get our eggs together. So for the turkey, I'm going to add my thawed pound of 99% ground turkey to a skillet sprayed with nonstick cooking spray. I'm going to add some salt and pepper. And I'm going to add some poultry seasoning. Like I said, if you don't have this, no big deal. It's just going to bring out the vibes of sausage a little bit more with the sage and the yummy poultry seasoning. So I added about a tablespoon of that. We're going to get this frying up on the stove. We're also going to get our eggs whisked together while the hash browns are in the oven and the turkey is cooking. So I'm going to crack eight eggs into my bowl. I'm going to add some salt and pepper and then whisk that together and set it aside. I just took the hash browns out of the oven. They've gotten a little crispy on top. I'm going to add half of the egg mixture right over the top of the hash browns. And then I'm going to add about half of a cup of cheese. We're going to use two cups of cheese total, which is what is in this bag. So we'll end up using this whole bag of cheese. Then we're going to add the sausage mixture right over the top of the cheese and hash browns. Now the remainder of the eggs and the remainder of the cheese. So here is what the casserole looks like. I'm going to cover this with foil. Make sure your foil doesn't touch your cheese.  I always spray the underside of my foil just in case. This is going into the oven reduced heat to 350 for about 45 minutes. You want to make sure the eggs are cooked all the way through. The sausage and hash brown casserole is out of the oven. Look how cheesy and delicious. This looks, I cannot wait for this all week. Troy already said that he's going to eat some of this. So between the both of us, we'll probably have this gone in less than half of a week, but the entire casserole makes eight servings total. It is five points per serving on blue and purple, six on green because you do have to count extra for the eggs, 282 calories per serving. This is such a perfect breakfast. You have protein carbohydrates.  Again, I cannot wait to have this all week. For lunch this week, I'm making a buffalo chicken tacos with blue cheese coleslaw. I love blue cheese. I love buffalo. I love tacos. I cannot wait for my lunches. Let me show you what's in our recipe. I'm going to be using a cabbage blend. You can also use half of a head of green and half of a head of red cabbage if you prefer. I just did this because it's much easier. And onion, Dijon mustard and whole grain mustard. I'm actually out of whole grain mustard. So I'm just going to use double Dijon, garlic, a powder. The recipe also calls for celery salt, which I do not have. I don't really care for celery salt. So I'm omitting that, but that will be part of the original recipe. You can do Shreya carrot or slice and peel whole carrots, whatever your preference. I'm using the Mission Extra Thin Tortillas, blue cheese, non-fat Greek yogurt, about a pound to two pounds of chicken, salt and pepper. I'm opting for vegetable broth because I have this to use up in my fridge, but you can also use chicken broth, apple cider vinegar, buffalo sauce of your choice and light mayonnaise.  The recipe calls for it to be cooked in a slow cooker. You can really cook your chicken however you want. You can use rotisserie chicken, whatever your preference is, but I'm going to go ahead and put my chicken breast into my instant pot. I did spray the bottom with some non-stick cooking spray.  Next up are my shredded carrots. It's the equivalent of about one full carrot. So I'm just going to eyeball that. Garlic, a powder, salt and pepper. And lastly, two cups of broth, right over the top of the onions, carrots, seasoning and chicken. We're going to pop the lid on this, allow this to cook for the preset time. I think it's 20 minutes in the instant pot. I just hit the chicken button. And then when that is done, we'll go ahead and get that shredded up. In the meantime, let's put together the blue cheese coleslaw. So again, I'm just using pre-made coleslaw. It actually works out great because it has green cabbage, red cabbage and carrots. And the original recipe does want you to add in some carrots as well. So this is just a huge, huge time saver. And then we're adding in one half of a cup of non-fat Greek yogurt. The original recipe wanted one tablespoon of Dijon and one tablespoon of whole grain. I don't have the whole grain. So I'm just going to do two tablespoons of Dijon. Also two tablespoons of light mayo and a tablespoon of apple cider vinegar and one ounce of blue cheese crumbles. I'm also going to add in a little bit of salt and pepper. And then just using my fork, I'm going to blend this together. I wanna make sure that yogurt, apple cider vinegar and mayo and the mustard get mixed really well with the coleslaw. And here is the blue cheese slaw. This looks so good. It smells so good. I am a huge, huge lover of blue cheese. You could eliminate the blue cheese from the recipe if you don't like it. You could also use feta, goat cheese, really any kind of cheese that you want. But what I'm going to do is just put this here in this storage container for the week because we actually are going to top our tacos with this throughout the week.  So I went ahead and shredded up the chicken after I pulled it out of the Instant Pot. And the last step is to add in some buffalo sauce. You can do a third of a cup to a half of a cup, whatever you prefer. I'm just going to add a little at a time until my chicken is covered with the sauce the way that I prefer it. So there is the buffalo chicken that looks really, really good. I do have lots of sauce left. So if I need to add a little more sauce before eating, I can do that. But let's go over the points and calories. I'll show you exactly how I'm putting together the buffalo chicken tacos. So here is everything for the buffalo chicken tacos with blue cheese coleslaw. So first I have the buffalo chicken. I am going to go ahead and transfer it into a glass storage container similar to what I have the blue cheese slaw in. And then we're going to serve that with the Mission Extra Thin Tortillas. It is two tacos or two tortillas per serving. And the entire batch of chicken and slaw makes eight servings total. It is three points on blue and purple, five on green because you do have to count for the chicken. It is 196 calories for two tacos, which is not bad at all. This is going to be such a good lunch. As you know, my husband doesn't like buffalo anything. So whenever I can make it into a meal prep, it makes my heart happy. So this is my lunch for the week. For a sweet treat this week, I'm making chocolate caramel shortbread bars. I'm so excited for these. I love shortbread. Fun fact is one of my favorite, favorite types of cookies. So we are making a WWE calorie friendly version. So let me show you what's in our recipe. I'm going to be using honey in place of corn syrup. I thought I had corn syrup, but I don't. So I'm hoping that using honey will have the overall same effect, but corn syrup is what's called for in the recipe.  This is the Lakonto brown sugar, my very, very favorite. I do have a discount for Lakonto. I'll put it down in the description box for you. This is also the Lakonto monk fruit sweetener. Also one of my very favorites. Some all purpose flour and some light butter. So to get started on the bars, we're going to put together the crust. Get this into the oven while we create the caramel layer. So I'm adding one and a quarter cups of flour to a medium sized bowl. One quarter cup of Lakonto monk fruit sweetener and two thirds of a cup of room temperature light butter. And then I'm just going to work this together until it creates that crumbly texture where that butter gets chopped up and combined with those dry ingredients. I have my oven preheating to 350 degrees. I did spray an eight by eight. You could use a nine by nine baking dish with some non-stick cooking spray. I'm going to add the crust ingredients to the pan. And then I'm just going to take my hand and push this down, creating a crust. The crust or the shortbread layers going in the oven for 20 minutes. And in the meantime, we'll start making that caramel layer. So for the caramel layer, I have a saucepan here. To that I'm going to add one half of a cup of packed brown sugar substitute. One half of a cup of light butter.  And then two tablespoons of honey in place of corn syrup. So I have the caramel layer here in my saucepan on medium high heat. We are going to bring this to a boil. This is a very finicky part of the recipe. We want to make sure we're stirring constantly. We don't want any of the brown sugar to crystallize. Otherwise, it's just not as pretty on the bars now. It'll taste the same, but it's just not going to be as pretty. And then once it is at a boil and it's been boiling for five minutes, we're going to remove it from the heat and vigorously stir it for three minutes to get it nice and combined. And at that point, our shortbread should be out of the oven. And while that's still hot, we're going to pour the caramel sauce right on top. This caramel looks incredible. So I'm immediately, per the recipe, going to pour it over my crust. I just took the shortbread crust out of the oven. I'm going to spread it as evenly as I can over the top. My gosh, this looks so delicious. So I have three ounces of Lilly's chocolate chips. And all I did is melt them down with a little bit of milk just to make it a little bit easier. And then I'm going to do my best to spread this on top of the caramel. It is okay if it kind of swirls together. It actually looks really pretty when it does that. So here are the bars. These look so good. You guys, I smell incredible. I am going to go ahead and pop these into my refrigerator until everything is set. All right, let's go over points and calories of the chocolate caramel shortbread bars. I seriously am so excited for these shortbread speeds right to my heart. You will cut this into 16 servings. Each bar is only four points on all plans and 121 calories. That is not bad at all, less than 150 calories. So I cannot wait to have this little sweet treat all week. Thank you for joining me on this week's WW Meal Prep. I hope you enjoyed seeing all three recipes. Spoiler alert, they're amazing. So definitely check them out. I will link my website that houses all of my recipes down in the description box for you, along with my two recipe eBooks, nutrition coaching, links, discounts to all my favorite things and my Facebook group. Make sure you come join us over there. Give this video a thumbs up if you enjoyed it and of course, if you're new or you're not subscribed, we'd love to have you join our community. 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We are now discussing pi molecular systems. We have completed our discussion of polyatomic molecules with sigma bonds only like methane and we have discussed the first molecule which has pi bonds that is ethylene. Today we extend the discussion to butadiene. So butadiene of course is little more complicated than ethylene you can think it is like two ethylene moieties that are joined together. So we will see how we get there and how we can build a Huckel theoretical description of a molecule like this. So before that just a small recap in ethylene we have worked out wave functions and energy we had expressed the molecular orbital pi molecular orbital as a linear combination of the two p orbitals on the two carbon atoms and we have obtained this kind of expressions psi plus the bonding orbital was 1 divided by root over 2 into 1 plus s multiplied by chi 1 plus chi 2 and psi minus the antibonding orbital turned out to be 1 divided by root over 2 into 1 minus s multiplied by chi 1 minus chi 2 and the associated energies where E plus equal to alpha plus beta divided by 1 plus s and E minus is alpha minus beta divided by 1 minus s and here the interesting thing is that you do not need to know the Hamiltonian for a Huckel theory. You actually work it out in terms of the integrals where Hamiltonian is just written as H. What do we do there? For equivalent carbon atoms we remember that H11 has to be equal to H22 we call this the Coulomb integral alpha and then we set it to 0 right because all measurements are with respect to alpha and H12 and H21 we said they are equal to each other and they are called the resonance integral this is what gives us the stabilization because of pi bond formation. Of course, S12 and S21 are our familiar overlap integral and S11 and S21 are just 1 because their atomic orbitals are normalized. So, we have set alpha to be equal to 0 because that essentially is the energy of a pz orbital in the sigma framework of the ethylene. So, that is your starting point and beta as you said is delocalization energy and we had told you the value is minus 75 kilojoule per mole no need to remember this value what is important to remember is beta is a negative quantity and we discussed very briefly what we do with S with that background let us go over to Buterain we have just added 2 carbon atoms and we have brought in 2 more p orbitals perpendicular to this molecular plane. What happens now is that everything remains the same is just that the secular determinant becomes larger earlier you had a 2 by 2 determinant now you have a 4 by 4 determinant. So, since the problem is a little more complicated it would help if you could bring in some more simplifying factors and that is provided by Huckel theory. We have said already that we set Coulomb integral to 0 what we now say is that this Hij equal to Hji we said that to be resonance integral beta only for adjacent atoms and we consider them to be 0 for others because resonance integral basically gives us the energy for delocalization of the electron over 2 atoms. Well the electrons are actually delocalized over the entire atom but remember these integrals have 2 wave functions right integral psi i H psi j that kind of an integral what we are saying is that if i and j are adjacent to each other then that integral has some value beta if you take 1 and 3 for example then the value is as good as 0 we are neglecting it because after all these integrals are all worked out numerically. So, in locations where say chi 1 has not too much of value it does not matter what the value of h chi 3 is you are going to get a 0 and vice versa. So, only for adjacent atoms we said that this Hij and Hji are equal to beta for everything else it is just 0 right it is an approximation but it is an approximation that works to a very large extent and there is some logic to it the logic is that we have to consider we do not have to consider atoms that are too far apart from each other when we build these pair wise terms like this where we have 2 orbitals 2 atomic orbitals from 2 atoms and the Hamiltonian operator operating on one of them. So, that is the justification put in very very simple terms. Now, let us see what we have another thing that we need to worry about is overlap integral even overlap integral in Huckel theory it is considered that by similar logic overlap integral can have some nonzero value only for adjacent atoms chi 1 and chi 3 is not going to have too much of overlap anyway because the distance is already fixed by the sigma bonding network they cannot come any closer. So, as we have studied for say H2 or H2 plus when they come close together then only the overlap integral increases from 0 to some determinable value. So, since 1 and 3 are far apart from each other anyway we can set that overlap integral to be equal to 0. In fact, in the simplest version of Huckel theory that we are going to use we are going to set all overlap integrals to be equal to 0. This might sound to be very arbitrary but then let us think what kind of overlap we are talking about we are talking about pi overlap like this not sigma overlap like this. So, the distances between the 2 at centers is already fixed they cannot come closer than this and p orbital are sort of held like this. So, how much will the overlap not much that is why it is approximately said to be equal to 0. Of course, if you want more precise results you cannot set them to be equal to 0 at least for nearest neighbors but for our purpose it is okay if you go with the simplest version of Huckel theory set overlap integral to be 0 as well Coulomb integral of course is set to 0 as we said earlier. So, now this determinant becomes very simple. So, for all these H11, H22, H33, H44 I can write alpha and then I can happily set them to be equal to 0. H11, H12 all that is happily equal to 0 we do not have to worry about them. So, what am I left with? I am left with wherever we have beta. So, H12 would be equal to beta right and H12 occurs in 2 places H21 is equal to H21 as we said earlier. What about H13? H13 is going to be 0 because 1 and 3 are not adjacent to each other do not have to bother about it. Similarly, H14 the distance is even bigger there is no way we can we have to worry about those but what about say H23? H23 is not equal to 0. H23 actually is equal to beta because 2 and 3 are adjacent to each other and H23 appears in 2 terms. Similarly, H34 also appears in 2 terms and they can be replaced as beta. So, what do I have now? What is the first term here? 0 minus 0 second term is beta then 0 0 then we have beta well this is beta minus ES12 right. So, that is equal to 0 ES11 remember this is not equal to 0 I think I made a mistake there ES11 is just S that is equal to 1. So, here I have minus E then I have this is beta. So, this way we can keep on writing and this is what we are left with alpha minus E beta 0 0 beta alpha minus E beta 0 0 beta alpha minus E beta 0 0 beta alpha minus E right. This is where we are started from we said that we are going to set H11, H22, H33, H44 those are actually alpha we are going to set it to 0 later on then we said S11, S22, S33, S44 these are all equal to 1. So, the first the diagonal terms become something like alpha minus E everywhere then H12 is beta and this minus ES12 that becomes 0 because S12 is equal to 0. So, here H13 minus ES13 that is 0 anyway. So, we get alpha minus E beta 0 0 beta alpha minus E beta 0 0 beta alpha minus E beta 0 0 beta alpha minus E. So, this determinant is equal to 0 all right. Now, we will simplify this a little further before going ahead. So, how can I simplify what happens if I divide say alpha minus E divided by B if I take some quantity X where X is alpha minus E divided by beta not B I keep on saying B for beta inadvertently please do not get confused when I see B in this context I actually mean beta. So, alpha minus E divided by beta I put it as X and now we have a nice determinant here X 1 0 0 1 X 1 1 0 1 X 1 0 0 1 X that determinant equal to 0 what is the next step we should expand it when we expand I leave it to you to do the expansion by yourself it is not difficult just show you the answer X to the power 4 minus 3 X square plus 1 equal to 0. Now, please do not get daunted seeing X to the power 4 X to the power 4 is just X square square. So, this is really a quadratic equation in X square is not it. So, we know how to solve quadratic equations we are going to proceed in the same way we just going to write this as X square square of that minus 3 multiplied by X square plus 1 equal to 0. So, what is X square going to be then X square will be minus B plus minus root over B square minus 4ac B square is 9 minus 4ac is 5 plus minus root over B square minus 4ac divided by 2 alpha that is 2 this is your answer X square is equal to 3 plus minus root over 5 by 2 and fortunately root over 5 is less than 3.  So, if you take square root of this now you are going to get 4 roots for X and they are I leave it to you to calculate it plus minus 1.61804 plus minus 0.61804 I find this to be particularly amusing because the characteristics is the only thing that changes 1 and 0 after decimal point it is 61804 in both the when all four terms actually that is what it is we have found the values of X. What is X by the way X essentially is this if I said alpha to be equal to 0 X is what minus C divided by beta. So, can I say that X is E in units of beta? So, if it is 1.61804 that is the energy in units of beta keeping in mind that beta is a negative quantity. Now, with that understanding we can draw the energy levels you have not drawn the wave functions yet we will get there but we have drawn the energy levels the center here is alpha equal to 0 we start calculations from here 0.61804 is really this separation do not forget because after all the expression does have alpha minus E kind of thing. So, and then this is 1.61804 even though I said it several times please remember plus 1.61804 beta actually means a negative quantity because beta is negative that is why it is lower. Now these are the energy levels what can I do now I can fill in the electrons like we always do what how many pi electrons are there in butadiene 4 right. So, I can just put in like this I will draw in the conventional manner not worrying too much about those spin wave functions just draw like this this is the configuration see for these 2 orbitals lower energy orbitals the energy is actually negative these are bonding orbitals for the higher 2 these are the anti-bonding orbitals their energies are positive. So, what we see here is that for butadiene the pi electrons reside in bonding orbitals only right and you can calculate what the bond order is pi bond order is 2 and if this was a valence bond theoretical treatment you would be able to draw these resonating structures very easily right I will draw 1 because it is easy 1 resonating structure is something like this and this is the structure that I can draw without much hassle let us see if I can draw the second one I think this is how you push the arrows. So, this is your second picture here the double bond is between atoms 2 and 3 carbon atoms 2 and 3 here I have minus sign here I have plus sign and if you go exactly the same way then the other thing that you could draw is just push the arrows in the opposite direction you can have minus plus please do not get confused we are discussing molecular orbital theory and now what I am drawing is really a valence bond description with resonance built in okay I am just trying to do a comparison we are going to come to this very soon from the molecular orbital picture. So, see which one of these 3 is going to contribute more naturally whenever there is charge separation we know that contribution is less. So, these 2 structures where you have the double bond in the middle that they are going to contribute less and the central one where you have double bond between 1 and 2 and 2 and 3 that is going to be the major contributor remember this and let us see whether we get something similar at least qualitatively from the molecular orbital picture. But before we do that we need to talk about wave functions then only can we think about insights that we can get from the wave functions.