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Michael Strong and New Education
June 23, 2014 By Chuck Robison
Michael Strong is a pioneer in education and independent learning. He is the founder of innovative Socratic, Montessori, and Paideia schools and programs in Alaska, Florida, California, Texas, and New Mexico. Michael is co-founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer and Chief Visionary Officer of FLOW.
As Chief Visionary Officer of FLOW, Michael is responsible for articulating the FLOW vision and for applying it in various domains. Fortunately for FLOW, Michael is a prolific thinker and writer. His work is increasingly receiving significant recognition and support. Current articles by Michael are regularly posted at FreeLiberal.com and Tech Central Station, as well as on the FLOW web site.
Michael Strong co-founded FLOW with John Mackey in 2003. Radical Social Entrepreneurs, launched in 2012, is one of three "descendants" of FLOW, along with its siblings Conscious Capitalism and Peace through Commerce.
He is lead author of Be the Solution: How Entrepreneurs and Conscious Capitalists Can Solve All the World's Problems, co-authored with Whole Foods CEO John Mackey, 2006 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Muhammad Yunus, U.N. Commission on the Legal Empowerment of the Poor Co-Chair Hernando de Soto, and others.
Michael's work is featured in academic journals (including The Journal of Business Ethics, Economic Affairs, and Critical Review), specialty publications (including Microfinance Insights, Policy Innovations, and Carnegie Ethics) and in media reaching popular audiences (including The New York Times, Bloomberg, The Huffington Post, RealClearPolitics, and Barron's).
He serves on the board of Conscious Capitalism, Inc., The Free Cities Institute, The Seasteading Institute, and the Advisory Boards of The Lifeboat Foundation, Trilinc Global, The Moorfield Storey Institute, and is a mentor for developing world entrepreneurs for the MIT Legatum Center for Entrepreneurship and Development.
He has long been a radical social entrepreneur, for decades focused on the "creation of conscious culture through educational innovation," now focused on the entrepreneurial creation of legal systems. He is author of The Habit of Thought: From Socratic Seminars to Socratic Practice.
Michael spent fifteen years innovating in education, creating several high-performance private and charter schools, including one named the 36th best public school in the U.S. on the Washington Post's Challenge Index. Michael was educated at Harvard, St. John's College, and the University of Chicago.
Filed Under: 2014 Interviews, Future Focus, New Science Tagged With: Austin, Chuck Robison, consciousness, evolutionary shift, Karen Robison, New Science, predictions, Unified Field Theory
Jeff Simpson and the New Oceans
What New Oceans? Jeff Simpson has been immersed in his ocean adventures and discoveries for the past quarter century. During this time, all of the global oceans have changed and been degraded. Here, Jeff talks about what has happened in just his lifetime to the oceans, what that means personally to him and how this trend is going to affect all of us.
Jeff is an old friend and we are delighted to present him to you in this challenging interview. Jeff gives a review of his life and especially his involvement in the SCUBA business.
In bringing Jeff to our viewers, he allows us to see many of the complex talents that make up this accomplished artist, musician and adventurer. In the last two minutes of the interview, you will see a wonderful wit as he observes the human drama in today's light.
June 17, 2014. Jeff sent the following note: "This just stuns me. I have been wondering ever since you asked the question of me about the size of the plastic trash gyre in the Pacific Ocean so I looked it up. I keep finding estimates that say it is "much larger than the State of Texas, almost twice the size of the State of Texas."
June 19, 2014 National Geographic ran this article:
"With Millions of Tons of Plastic in Oceans, More Scientists Studying Impact
A surprising amount of our garbage ends up in the sea. Can it ever be cleaned up?
Photo of a boat in the trash-filled waters of Manila Bay.
Fishermen set out amid floating garbage off the shore of Manila Bay in the Philippines on June 8, 2013.
Consider this: The amount of global trash is expected to rise every year for the rest of the century. With no intervention, the growing garbage heap won't even peak by 2021.
Since most marine debris originates on land, that grim prognosis, say researchers at the University of Georgia, could spell disaster for the oceans, creating an environmental hazard often compared in scope with climate change.
"We estimate we're going to have millions of tons of plastic going into the ocean with, so far, unknown consequences," says Jenna Jambeck, an environmental engineer at the university, who is among a group of scientists pursuing a new phase of research on ocean trash and measuring its impact on the environment and marine life. The University of Georgia group works as part of the University of California at Santa Barbara's National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis.
But while climate change is still mired in politics and is a target of naysayers, the trouble in the oceans is an easier issue to address because it is so visible. "The one thing this issue has going for it over climate change is that you can see the garbage," Jambeck says.
Ocean debris grabbed the international spotlight this spring during the search for the missing Malaysian jet, when multiple satellite images of floating debris repeatedly turned out to be garbage instead of pieces of the Boeing 777. (See "Plane Search Shows World's Oceans Are Full of Trash.")
Secretary of State John Kerry hopes to highlight the issue again next week by making marine trash one of the main topics at a two-day oceans conference that begins Monday. Kerry hopes to frame the challenges that lie ahead, including climate change-related ocean acidification and the threat of overfishing.
But the dilemma caused by the growing tonnage of mostly plastic debris is so complex, it has created a new interdisciplinary field of study. Scientists like Jambeck are examining a litany of new issues that range from the toxicity of plastics ingested by marine animals to the politics and economics of solid waste management in developing nations.
New Questions for an Old Problem
Seafarers have known for decades that the oceans are trash dumps, the ultimate sinkholes for all global garbage. So far, 136 species of marine animals have been found entangled in debris. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the first such discovery was made in 1944, when northern fur seals turned up trapped in rubber "collars" that were the remains of Japanese food-drop bags from the Aleutian campaign in World War II.
But scientific research into marine garbage is only a decade or so old. NOAA, for example, launched its Marine Debris Program only in 2006, after Congress passed the Marine Debris Act at the urging of Senator Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii).
The defining moment of ocean debris research, says Jambeck, was when scientists discovered that ocean debris was no longer an assemblage of cloth, wood, and ceramics, but was composed almost entirely of plastic. Most of that is micro-plastic, meaning it has decayed and broken down into microscopic pieces that float in the water column. Richard Thompson, a British scientist scheduled to speak at Kerry's conference, first highlighted the problem in 2004 in a paper titled "Lost at Sea: Where Is All the Plastic?"
"Once micro-plastics entered the picture and it was being ingested by marine life, it was a whole new ballgame," Jambeck says. "That's when the alarms started going off."
Jambeck and her team's research, to be published later this year, will provide new estimates of how much garbage is produced globally every year, how much garbage comes from developing countries lacking garbage collection systems, and how much litter is produced by developed countries. All trash has the potential to reach the oceans.
Yet despite the new burst of scientific study, solving the problem in the face of an increasing volume of ocean trash seems an almost insurmountable task.
An alliance of 48 plastic manufacturers from 25 countries—all members of the Global Plastics Associations for Solutions on Marine Litter—has pledged to help prevent marine debris and encourage recycling. Several manufacturers are now marketing products made partly from recycled ocean plastics and abandoned fishing gear.
But the consensus among many scientists, including NOAA's, is that cleaning up the oceans can potentially cause more harm than good. Cleaning up micro-plastics could also inadvertently sweep up plankton, which provides the basis for the marine food chain and half of the photosynthesis on Earth.
Ocean trash is driven by currents into loosely formed garbage "patches" that Dianna Parker, a NOAA spokesperson, says are more accurately described as "peppery soup" filled with grain-size plastic bits. The word "patch" suggests a defined size and location, when in fact floating debris is constantly moving, shifting with seasonal weather, and changing in shape and size.
Cleaning up even one of these areas seems impossible. Not surprisingly, the largest patch is in the largest ocean—the Pacific, which covers a third of the planet. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, as it is known, is often said to be twice the size of Texas. It actually extends, at times, from Japan to San Francisco, and varies in shape and density. According to NOAA, cleaning up less than one percent of the North Pacific would take 68 ships working 10 hours a day for a year.
Beach cleanups help, but are costly and ineffective. The Ocean Conservancy, the international leader in coastal cleanups, has collected some 180 million tons in three decades of work. "We have now created the world's best database for what actually happens on our beaches," says Andreas Merkl, the group's CEO. "We are the largest end-of-the-pipe, ocean-specific trash entity."
San Francisco spends $6 million a year cleaning up cigarette butts alone, according to NOAA figures in a report called the "The Honolulu Strategy: A Global Framework for Prevention and Management of Marine Debris." The Honolulu Strategy, developed at a NOAA conference in 2011, notes that a more effective solution is to prevent debris from being swept into the oceans in the first place.
But as long as some countries lack the ability to efficiently collect garbage from its citizens, that garbage will continue to end up in the ocean.
Plastic-Making Technology Spreads
Ted Siegler, a partner at DSM Environmental Services, a waste management firm in Windsor, Vermont, has spent a career helping developing countries set up garbage collection systems.
"In many ways, this is really simple. This is putting trucks on the road and picking up the garbage and bringing it to a proper place," he says. "But none of that is occurring in almost all of the places that I've been working in the last 20 years."
The complication, Siegler says, is the speed with which plastic manufacturing technology has spread globally.
"I could walk into a guy's garage in Jordan and he would be blowing film to create plastic bags. Or walk into an industrial shop in Vietnam and a guy would have a brand-new Chinese knockoff of a Frito-Lay packaging machine," he says.
"There is no end in sight to how much plastic we are going to be producing and how much we are going to be using, and that's the scary part. If it's important now, it's going to be much more important ten years from now."
2014-07-05: This just in from Jeff: "I read an article not long ago that was the summary of a 3 years study of sea and sea-shore birds that were found dead. The idea was to try to draw a common thread for cause of death if one existed. It did. Over 90% of the birds were found to have so much plastic in their stomachs and craws, that they cold not process out of their bodies, that they essentially starved to death because there was no room for food.
Doesn't that make you proud?"
Filed Under: 2014 Interviews, Future Focus, New Science, Spirituality Tagged With: Chuck Robison, consciouness, evolutionary shift, Karen Robison, New Science, PADI Master Diver, Quantum Biology, SCUBA Adventure, spirituality
Marcus Borg and 21st Century Christianity
April 6, 2014 By Chuck Robison
Here is the story of the man we interviewed on April 4, 2014 in Austin, Texas. You will find this highly acclaimed theologian to be real, funny, relaxed and brilliant…….and so did we !
Here is Marcus Borg's official bio:
Marcus J. Borg is Canon Theologian at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Portland, Oregon. Internationally known in both academic and church circles as a biblical and Jesus scholar, he was Hundere Chair of Religion and Culture in the Philosophy Department at Oregon State University until his retirement in 2007.
He is the author of nineteen books, including Jesus: A New Vision (1987) and the best-seller Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time (1994); The God We Never Knew (1997); The Meaning of Jesus: Two Visions (1999); Reading the Bible Again for the First Time (2001), and The Heart of Christianity (2003), both best-sellers.
His newest books are Jesus: Uncovering the Life, Teachings and Relevance of a Religious Revolutionary (2006), a New York Times Best-Seller; Conversations with Scripture: Mark (2009), and three books co-authored with John Dominic Crossan, The Last Week (2006), The First Christmas (2007), and The First Paul (2009).
His novel, Putting Away Childish Things, was published in April, 2010.
Described by The New York Times as "a leading figure in his generation of Jesus scholars," he has appeared on NBC's "Today Show" and "Dateline," PBS's "Newshour," ABC's "Evening News" and "Prime Time" with Peter Jennings, NPR's "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, and several National Geographic programs. A Fellow of the Jesus Seminar, he has been national chair of the Historical Jesus Section of the Society of Biblical Literature and co-chair of its International New Testament Program Committee, and is past president of the Anglican Association of Biblical Scholars.
His work has been translated into eleven languages: German, Dutch, Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Indonesian, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, and French. His doctor's degree is from Oxford University, and he has lectured widely overseas (England, Scotland, Austria, Germany, Belgium, Hungary, Israel and South Africa) and in North America, including the Chautauqua and Smithsonian Institutions.
In addition to the nineteen books he has authored or co-authored, he is the editor or co-editor of: The Lost Gospel Q (1996) Jesus and Buddha: The Parallel Sayings (1997) God at 2000, co-edited with Ross Mackenzie (2000).
Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time (1994) is the single best-selling book by a contemporary Jesus scholar.
The God We Never Knew was named "one of the ten best books in religion in 1997″ by Publishers Weekly.
The Meaning of Jesus: Two Visions, co-authored with N. Thomas Wright, a well-known British New Testament scholar from the conservative side of the spectrum. It won the "Best General Interest Book of 1999" award from the Association of Theological Booksellers.
Reading The Bible Again for the First Time (2001) has made Publishers Weekly "ten best selling books in religion."
The Heart of Christianity (2003) has been a group study book in hundreds of churches.
Jesus: Uncovering the Life, Teachings and Relevance of a Religious Revolutionary is a New York Times best-selling book.
A very useful study guide for The Heart of Christianity is published by HarperOne and authored by Tim Scorer. 160 pages long, it teaches "Heart" in twelve sessions, with suggestions for small group formation and activities, a DVD that includes handouts, visuals, and some video. Similar study guides for Reading the Bible Again for the First Time and Jesus are also available from Wood Lake Books.
Filed Under: 2014 Interviews, Future Focus, Spirituality, Uncategorized Tagged With: Austin, Christology, Chuck Robison, consciousness, evolutionary shift, Jesus, Liberal Theology, Masters Class, spirituality
Lo Anne Mayer and Celestial Conversations
Lo Anne Mayer is a long time student of healing and spirituality. After her mother's death, as Lo Anne describes in this interview, she wanted to deal with much unfinished business with her mother. She found a way to communicate with her mother and this book is about that and it will also lead you to similar solutions if you have a questions about a loved one who has made his or her transition.
This is an opportunity to see first hand what you have long suspected. There is not only life after death, there is relationship on both sides of the veil.
Lo Anne and her book will move you to action.
Filed Under: 2014 Interviews, Spirituality Tagged With: Austin, Chuck Robison, consciouness, distance healing, evolutionary shift, Karen Robison, Remote Viewing
Dr. Gladys McGarey
March 22, 2014 By Chuck Robison
Dr. Gladys Taylor McGarey has been a family physician for more than 60 years and is board certified in holistic and integrative medicine. Born in India to medical missionaries, she is internationally known for her pioneering work in holistic medicine, natural birthing and the physician-patient partnership.
Dr. Gladys (as she likes to be called) helped co-found the American Holistic Medical Association in 1978, and is widely known as the "Mother of Holistic Medicine." Her work through her foundation, The Gladys Taylor McGarey Medical Foundation has helped expand the knowledge and application of holistic principles through scientific research and education, and is helping bridge the gap between traditional and holistic medicine. Currently, she and her Foundation are actively involved in healthcare reform. The Foundation's recently published position papers articulate a new vision for healthcare and have been widely distributed. Dr. Gladys is also the author of three books, "The Physician Within You," "Born to Live," and "Living Medicine." Among her other pioneering accomplishments:
-Successfully championed fathers in the delivery room
-Co-founded the Academy of Parapsychology and Medicine
-Created the only ARE Clinic based on the work of Edgar Cayce
-First to utilize acupuncture in the U.S. and trained other physicians to use it
-The International Academy of Clinical Hypnosis started in her living room
-Taught safer birthing practices to rural women in Afghanistan, resulting in a 47% decrease in infant and young child mortality
-Created a task force comprised of more than 100 holistic physicians and other professional healthcare providers to envision a new medical model in response to the need for healthcare reform.
The Following Video is the Presentation D. McGarey Gave to the Austin community of March 22, 2014.
This next video is the question and answer period and it starts off with a great exchange.
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'Are we all equal under the law, Dave?'
In June 2013, when David Graham Jones took charge of North Yorkshire Police for the first time, he probably thought that he had 'landed on his feet' as we say oop t'North. A rambling, old country hall as HQ, miles from anywhere, it truly is far from the madding crowd
lfordPolicing the genteel and largely rural acres of Harrogate, Ripon and York (the latter two the only cities on his patch) would also be a far cry from his previous career postings in the rough, tough gun-toting, knife-wielding districts of Salford and Belfast.
Add to that a charming, equable and unchallenging employer, in the form of Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) Julia Mulligan, and a Command Team deeply committed to self congratulation and backslapping, and it all must have seemed very agreeable
Top all that off with a largely tame local and regional media and what could possibly go wrong for the Jones boy?
Much has been written elsewhere about the Jimmy Savile and Peter Jaconelli child abuse scandal in the seaside town of Scarborough. In brief, the investigative efforts of two citizen journalists – Tim Hicks and Nigel Ward – led to a BBC Inside Out programme aired in April 2014. It showed NYP in a poor light and Jones didn't put either himself, or any of his officers, up for interview.
The bottom line is, that without the sterling efforts of Messrs Hicks and Ward, the many victims of the two, now notorious, child sex offenders would have received no recognition, apology or closure. Their reward by North Yorkshire Police? To be hounded through the civil courts for eighteen months.
A Google search of 'Operation Rome' and 'Operation Hyson' will link to a number of forensic articles I have written about these two disastrous, and very costly, NYP investigations that now span almost five years. They have brought significant reputational damage to both Jones, and his police force .
Much worse publicity is yet to come as Hyson, a civil harassment claim against the two journalists responsible for the exposure of the Savile and Jaconelli scandal, lurches towards a trial at Leeds County Court on 20th July, 2016. Eighteen months to the day since proceedings were issued. The press benches will, no doubt, be overflowing to report on the unfolding proceedings.
Jones, as lead claimant in that civil case, felt it necessary to award himself free legal fees, courtesy of the public purse, before approving the launch of the claim. At a figure currently estimated at £40,000, come the end of the trial. He also authorised two of his very senior officers, Deputy Chief Constable Timothy Madgwick and C/Supt Lisa Winward (pictured below) to access the same legal fees benefit.
On top of that estimated £120,000 diminution of the public purse by three serving police officers, Jones – in a grand gesture of munificence – also granted free access to the public purse to one of his retired police officers, ex Superintendent Heather Pearson and former Police Authority Chair, Jane Kenyon. That leap of faith then takes the bill up to an estimated £200,000.
But Jones didn't stop there. In the best traditions of past North Yorkshire Police ACPO officers such as Della Cannings, Grahame Maxwell, Dave Collins and Adam Briggs, and their liberal approach to the spending of police funds, he awarded the same amount of free legal fees to four members of the public. Taking the total estimated bill to the North Yorkshire precept payer for the private court claim up to around £350,000.
Curiously, Jones is a leading light in the Chief Police Officers Staff Association (CPOSA) who might, reasonably, have been expected to provide support for one of their members pursuing legal action, rather than Jones using police funds as a personal piggy bank. Jones' Deputy, Tim Madgwick, is also a CPOSA member. A copy of the CPOSA legal expenses policy can be viewed here. Similarly, Lisa Winward and Heather Pearson are covered by legal expenses insurance as members of the Police Superintendents' Association of England and Wales (PSAEW). Whilst the insurance is more regularly used as an aid to defending claims against officers, Hyson was grounded, allegedly, in health, safety and welfare issues connected to the police officers.
Even more curiously, Mrs Mulligan (supported by Jones) contemplated embarking on legal action to recover monies from Maxwell and Briggs but abandoned the idea, because it might have cost too much in legal fees (and the Maxwell and Briggs personnel files had reportedly and mysteriously 'disappeared'). In the context of the huge sum of public money spent on Hyson, and what is likely to be achieved, letting the errant chiefs off the hook looks a very poor judgement call indeed, by comparison.
Put shortly, it was "inappropriate" according to Jones and Mrs Mulligan to chase two former NYP Command Team officers for £100,000 they owe (read more here), but no problem at all to spend around £350,000 of public money hunting down two journalists.
Which makes this joint statement of Chief Constable Jones and PCC Mulligan in the wake of the Maxwell, Briggs farrago sound very hollow indeed: "The commissioner and the chief constable are determined that issues of this kind shall never be allowed to occur again".
But an issue of exactly that kind has occurred, just over a year after that solemn pronouncement was made – and the two people at the very heart of the scandal – and some of the attempts to conceal it from the public, are the very same Dave Jones and Julia Mulligan.
The unauthorised removal (or theft if you like) of the Briggs and Maxwell personnel files also has a troubling ring to it. Are NYP saying to the wider world that sensitive materials stolen from their own police HQ go completely undetected? This has shades of the Sir Norman Bettison scandal, when renewed allegations of platinum wire theft against the former Merseyside and West Yorkshire Police chief constable (pictured below) could not be progressed, as the original criminal and disciplinary files has 'disappeared' from South Yorkshire Police HQ by the time outside investigators were appointed.
Returning to Chief Constable Jones, he made one of his rare public, questions from the floor, appearances in October 2013, alongside Julia Mulligan, at St Joseph's Theatre in Scarborough. He fielded this polite and seemingly innocuous query from Nigel Ward, who was in the audience:
The response was reported as: 'I bloody well hope so'.
But what Chief Constable Jones didn't share with Nigel Ward, or the rest of the Scarborough audience that day, is that he runs a police force that recklessly, relentlessly and calculatingly breaks the law almost every single day. I have spent over a year peering into some of the dark corners of North Yorkshire Police and the issues upon which I can now shine light make for bleak reading:
Freedom of Information Act (FOIA):
Chief Constable Jones is registered with the Information Commissioner's Office as the data controller for North Yorkshire Police. One of the key requirements in that role is to lawfully dispose of information requests within 20 working days. They catastrophically fail to do so, as the image below graphically depicts.
The situation was unacceptable when Jones arrived at NYP, early in the 2013/14 financial year, but it has plainly got WORSE under his leadership. The Information Commissioner's office has, allegedly, been 'monitoring' the situation for the past five years as a York Evening Press article from 2011 discloses (read in full here).
On NYP's own website they claim that their philosophy is one of an 'open and transparent' approach to disposal of FOIA requests. They further claim that they follow the processes and guidelines set out in the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) FOIA manual. A weblink to the manual is helpfully provided by NYP. Except, I have had to write to NYP's civil disclosure unit and point out that their link is defective. They have been provided with the correct one (click here). However, my email has not drawn a response at the time of publication and the link has not been repaired.
More crucially, I have read the ACPO guidance and I can find very little corrrelation between how North Yorkshire Police deal with information requests (I have made 19 in the last two years) and what the manual directs them to do. So, not only is the law routinely broken, Jones sticks up two fingers to his fellow chief constables.
The dishonesty doesn't stop there, either. NYP publish a disclosure log on their website but its usefulness is, actually, very limited because it is apparent that some of the FOIA outcomes that damage the police force's reputation do not make it onto that log. A classic example being the one revealing the numbers of out of time requests over the past three years. So much then for the 'open and transparent' philosophy.
As with information requests, so it is with data subject access requests. The Act provides for all personal information to be disclosed from the force's files.
In the case of my own two subject access requests (SAR's), NYP have broken the law by failing to dispose of one of them appropriately within the stipulated 40 day period. Even after being given the generous option of a simplified form of response (a schedule of documents held, rather than full disclosure of all of them) what was provided was a deeply unsatisfactory shambles that looks as though it has been put together over a disclosure officer's lunch break. The schedule arrived on the fortieth day, precluding any possibility of the contemplated inspection of the documents within the statutory period.
The other SAR, concerning my data held by Mrs Mulligan's PCC office, has still not even been acknowledged, let alone determined. It fell due on 31st May, 2015. NYP are responsible, under a joint corporate services arrangement, for dealing with SAR's and FOIA requests on behalf of the PCC's office.
Following this latest breach of the law, a further FOIA request has been submitted to NYP requesting details of how many SAR's the force have dealt with over the past three years, and how many were properly determined to the requester's satisfaction within the statutory 40 day period. Full details here.
Many may say, and justifiably so, that catching murderers and organised criminals – and keeping the streets clear of drugs, guns and knives is much more important to the public, and its police force, than keeping journalists happy with a stream of information requests. But the principle of operating within the law is exactly the same: Cutting corners with sloppy detective work, outside the recognised investigative framework, will lead to some perpetrators either not being caught (the mistakes by NYP at the outset of the Claudia Lawrence case is a classic and most tragic example), or being acquitted at court if they are arrested and charged.
Police Reform Act (PRA)
Enshrined in the Act at Section 22 is the Independent Police Complaint Commission's Statututory Guidance. Which is, effectively, a comprehensive manual setting out how complaints against police officers should be handled by the forces by whom they are employed. The person ultimately responsible for ensuring NYP compliance with the law, guidance and police regulations is Chief Constable Jones. In the terms of the Act and Guidance he is known as the 'Appropriate Authority'. He is, quite rightly, allowed to delegate some of his powers as it would be impossible for a police chief to be embroiled in the day to day minutiae of hundreds of complaints against his officers at any one time.
But here's the rub: Jones has selected as his delegate an officer who has shown clearly that he is not at all familiar with Statutory Guidance and, even if he was, would not feel at all bound by it. Former Leeds Drug Squad 'hard man' DI Steve Fincham's view, on all the evidence I have seen, is that the Police Reform Act and Statutory Guidance might apply to other forces when dealing with the public, but not to NYP. Why should it? It's just another law, amongst many, to flout as and when it suits.
Jones has been subject to thirteen complaints since he took up the post in 2013. Only two were recorded and investigated. The outcomes, in both cases, were that the complaints were not substantiated. NYP did not fully comply with a FOIA request in terms of disclosing the nature of the complaints (read here). Two of the complaints have been made against Jones since the publication of the FOIA outcome. They are both, presently, subject to non-recording appeals to the IPCC.
Civil Court Procedure Rules (CPR) are taken very seriously by the courts and, generally, most of the lawyers practising there. So they should. High Court judges, with greater powers than a chief constable, take a very dim view of breaches of the precisely laid out legal framework – and sanction accordingly. But Jones' North Yorkshire Police appear unconcerned by such issues and appear to regard CPR as merely a rough guide to civil litigation that applies to everyone else but not to them. Why should it? They are above the law.
Accounts and Audit (England) Regulations
The procedure for public inspection of accounts for a larger relevant body, mentioned in Regulation 22, is that it must make the documents mentioned in that regulation available for public inspection for 20 working days. North Yorkshire Police are such a body, but do not feel bound by the Regulations.
Not just unbound, but prepared to go to extraordinary lengths to avoid compliance. In August, 2015 it was agreed, in writing, with NYP's Chief Financial Officer, Jane Palmer, that certain invoices would be disclosed to me via pdf files carried by email, rather than visit NYP HQ in person (a 140 mile, 3 hour round trip) and pay for them to be photocopied. Almost a year later – and amidst much correspondence and two formal complaints I am still waiting. Those invoices that are being unlawfully withheld unsurprisingly concern Operations Rome and Hyson.
Police Act (Code of Ethics)
In 2014, and pursuant to S39A (5) of the Police Act 1996 (amended by S124 of the Anti Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act, 2014), the College of Policing introduced a Code of Ethics.
The public relations narrative from NYP is they they are taking every reasonable step to embed the Code Of Ethics into all operations within the force. Indeed, every email received from NYP includes the message "Committed to the Code of Ethics".
But, setting apart the lengthy, routine and serious breaches of statute, guidance and regulations, NYP have, on the face of the extensive evidence I have collected, no interest whatsoever in complying with either the Ethics Code, or Nolan Priciples, or Standards of Professional Behaviour. This is a police force that has had all its own way, without any form of worthwhile scrutiny or oversight, since time immemorial.
Here are just some examples that involve four very senior officers, and their complete disregard for any standards that one might associate with those in public life, let alone a Policing Code of Ethics.
(i) Many more emails than not remain unacknowledged, let alone answered. The two worst offenders in my own experience are Head of NYP's Professional Standards Department, Superintendent Maria Taylor and Press/Communications Officer, Greig Tindall. Which, by any measure, is extraordinary: The department head charged with upholding high ethical standards of all other officers in the force – and a Communications Officer who doesn't communicate very well, if at all – both routinely place themselves outside the Code of Ethics.
(ii) There is a strong likelihood that if a response is eventually received from a senior officer, after being prompted, then it may be sent simply with the intention to obfuscate or deceive. That is the documented experience of my direct contact with the aforementioned Jane Palmer and Force Solicitor, Jane Wintermeyer. That may well be how they view their respective roles or, indeed, how they are instructed to respond by their masters, but it doesn't sit well within an ethical or professional framework.
The two Janes are both, presently, the subject of ongoing misconduct complaints. Apologies have been received from both of them, but that is not the remedy now sought. The issues at stake require much stronger action from the force. But instead of dealing with the core issues and moving on, the drive to cover up misdemeanours of senior officers in North Yorkshire Police is all-pervading and very much extends to Mrs Mulligan's own PCC office.
David Jones has recently been seconded to the equally shambolic South Yorkshire Police: Ostensibly, to temporarily replace his former Greater Manchester Police colleague, David Crompton, as a pair of 'clean hands'.
Now, the Police and Crime Commissioner for South Yorkshire, Dr Alan Billings, must decide whether he has simply replaced one David, albeit on an interim basis, with another David who is a copper out of the same flawed mould.
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RUSTY RETURNS with Now is When
By Jacqueline Howell, DISARM editor
The early 1990s renaissance continues as even our personal wish list is coming true here in Toronto.
Rusty, whose 1995 debut album, Fluke, was one of Toronto's best entries into the burgeoning early 1990s innovative Alternative boom, recently announced their new album, Now is When, their first in 20 years, is nearing completion.
Fluke, an album still cherished by Rusty fans worldwide, is full of blistering rock music that bleeds originality and feels spontaneous, urgent and empowering. Sharp, young, musicians that came of age in 1990 were steeped in rock, punk, glam, eighties post-punk, and indie. These self-taught marvels brimmed with energy and were capable of creating new music forms. Most have been overlooked and overshadowed by the reductive corporate-strangled labels nobody wanted, (such as "grunge"). The 90s was full of good music of the last real youth movement that has sharply failed to flourish in the (corporate-strangled) new age. Rusty was among the best of this music made anywhere in the world.
Rusty's debut has a song called "Misogyny". This word is more common today but was not a common conversational or musical topic then. The band's ideas were grand, theoretical and important – but if you didn't feel like intellectualizing, they also rocked really hard. This casually-brainy, effective rock music is a mark of the greatest Canadian bands. Rusty were also fused with a then-new snowboarding culture, worked with cutting edge video director Bruce La Bruce, and were a bright part of a cool new Canadiana. But like other iconic (underrated) artists, Rusty's ideas are translatable, global, universal:
"She moved down to L.A.
She met a dude, okay.
He sawed her head off with a knife,
Now she's gone away.
California's nice.
It snowed there once or twice.
Bullets fly across the sky.
The path is smooth and tight.
I caught one at the bus stop.
I said: "Hey man, I've been shot."
I felt the warm blood rolling down,
Now it's gone away." – California
As the world cascaded open with social media's borderlessness and lack of filters, brave people who risk their hearts for true engagement and connection face daily stories like the ones simply, bluntly, told in the song "California". Every day. Are faced with what to do with this knowledge. How to live, how to cope. How to help? What to do? There's a laugh but no catharsis from a meme. That's what music is for.
And in 1995, a song like "California" (and "Wake Me", and "Groovy Dead") was more than what social media is today. It was a young person's newspaper. It blew away 60 Minutes with decibels; it drowned out stale TV and radio debate with something clean and true. "California" was a beacon of a generation waking up to the world, to hard truths, to an unsanitized version of terrible events as they happen. Women were attacked, and killed, brutally, by men who they loved and trusted, or men they met through bad luck. Women still are. Regularly. Innocents catch bullets at bus stops, not just in L.A. anymore, amid a local gang war in a particular cross-street but anywhere, in the wrong-place-wrong-time reality of U.S. out of control gun violence. At school, attacked by fellow students, in a pandemic of violence now. Reportedly there are more guns than people in the U.S.A. today. Are we safe yet?
"California" is also a dichotomy: it is stunningly beautiful. Like all of Fluke, it emotes the rage of a generation who inherited this world and were not going to sit idly by listening to people reminisce about the 1960s. Corporatized nostalgia is a handy way to keep us from action and resistance to whatever we are told is "now". Now is forever. Singer Ken MacNeil's throat stripping delivery is relentless, sincere, empathetic; his vocals full of anger, fear and love. "California" speaks about disconnection, of indifference as true horror: "Hey man, I've been shot." This line sounds like a gunshot victim is being ignored, in public, unseen, hit with a smooth tight path of darkness that is possible not just in public but in private. There are no safe spaces. We knew that, once. Were galvanized, organizing against the darkness. It is a Canadian perspective of negotiating our frail border and the world; of travel; of meeting interesting, beautiful people and seeing them leave and face awful fates beyond our reach. It is post-modernity that we are stuck in, lost in now.
Will you wake me up? Will you pull my cuff? – Wake Me
That's what the era's music captures, and one reason why it will not be cast aside, is still needed, and why our greatest bands are returning to us to fill a void in the very heart of culture and music in 2018. Despite label help or support. We were supposed to have jetpacks, not emojis. We're backsliding, overwhelmed by the rapid changes of tech and communication and the disappearance in leadership in both things, so we make our own. New records. Raise funds. Mount tours. Rebuild community. The next era of Rusty is going to be a hell of a party.
In the 1990s, we all raged and rioted inside and in our music-loving way in the crowd, believing our intelligence and enthusiasm could change the world, who certainly must be led by the young people as it always is. The music changed everything then and had limitless potential to continue to. What happened in the back half of the 90s and post – "Y2K" was a deliberate and destructive assault from a dying, exploitative music industry against everything indie: from Kurt Cobain's regularly misunderstood truly subversive and revolutionary (good) ideas: against homophobia, sexism and hatred; to the many bands who promoted and created a world of gender equality in music on world stages that made everyone money and made everyone who believed in this progress happy. The music labels, that had contempt for their artists, customers, and tech innovation itself, pivoted whiplash – fast to belly buttons and boy bands, machine music & artists they could control totally. It's been a cold war ever since. And not just an indifferent war on underexposed bands; Canadian bands who've always struggled to traverse and be heard and seen in a vast country, (never mind beyond it) and the Indie world that, at the moment, has no choice but to stay underground. It's been a long cold war on real music itself. Innovation, new ideas, big ideas, pauses to question violence, misogyny, purpose, survival and new sounds made by instruments have lately been labeled as unimportant, even dying. But real, challenging ideas rarely, if ever, come from puppets owned by dominant music brands, the "music" which dominates public space and most entertainment now. This corporate backlash happened precisely because 80s & early 90s emerging bands were so important, so innovative, and so grown up. So independent and unreliant on the actually dying industry that ate itself. Alternative music by its very nature is wild and cannot be broken.
We link Rusty to this argument because they are a perfect example of this entire story and the "trends" around what has gone down in the last two decades. Because we've loved them for 20 years and have never stopped listening to them. Because they've stepped back to the fore since 2011 with occasional gigs and tours losing not an ounce of fire, life and passion. Because they've worked quietly for two years putting together demos while juggling regular lives and families. Rusty deserved more and better, even at their height. They were and are important whether you've heard of them or not, whether you are nostalgic about them (and then) or not, whether you may even be a real music fan who understands there is nothing nostalgic about art because art is timeless. Hey, we all pine for our youthful energy, but what has happened to music and the chances of independent artists to break through and to grow and to stay and earn their way is way more painful than nostalgia. The truth is very different. And darker. All this great music must be heard out loud and in full and sat with and listened to from track (song) one to ten to really get or know. Slow down. Think about what is missed. What was denied. What is owed to our generation. And what can still be.
Rusty has an ongoing PledgeMusic campaign in support of their upcoming album: Now is When with some highly original and gift-worthy offerings. From the usual T-Shirt & CD/ Vinyl bundles to the chance to name a song on the new album, to rare collectibles or even going snowboarding or drinking with band members, there's something for every fan who can say "I contributed to new music being made by a great band." It's also a great way to stay up with the project's progress. Rusty just finished a mini-tour and we'll follow and announce new tour information and album news as it happens.
Rusty during their 2011 reformation show in Toronto. Photos by Dave MacIntyre
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AceShowbiz -The back and forth between former couple Kid Buu and Blac Chyna has yet to be over. Following their alleged massive fight in Hawaii, the exes have been at each other's throats on social media.
This arrives after Tokyo suggested that Dream Kardashian, Blac's daughter whom she shares with ex-fiance Rob Kardashian, should be in the custody of Rob instead, considering the wild news surrounding Chyna lately. "I don't think nothing is wrong with children going with their dad 'til their mothers get, you know, better," Tokyo said to TMZ on February 7.
"I don't know if they should keep them, but I do believe that [they should] for a little while 'til she pulls her thing together. Because it's clear — very clear, doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure it out — that something is terribly wrong," she continued saying.


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December 13, 2008 at 12:00 a.m.
State budget is `shameful'
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger called the state Legislature's failure to act on the budget crisis a "shameful performance." I couldn't agree more. But he is just as much to blame as those at whom he now points his finger.
Our entire state government is on the verge of financial collapse because of the failure of the governor and the legislators to reverse the mistakes of the past. Namely, cutting the generous benefits that our state government has showered upon millions of illegal immigrants who have invaded the state over the past few decades. Instead, their answer is to raise taxes.
The time has come for real leadership in Sacramento. The governor should be recalled, and any lawmaker who refuses to go through the budget and begin making these necessary cuts should be replaced as well. Citizens and legal immigrants should no longer be forced to shoulder this heavy financial burden. We simply can no longer afford it. Wake up, California, and demand action from your representatives.
– DAVE WINNETT
Prager correct on Mumbai
On Dec. 3, the Daily Breeze published an insightful column by Dennis Prager ("The rabbi and the terrorists"). On Monday, in response, the Breeze published a confusing and misleading letter by Andre Ouellet.
By now, much is known concerning the terrorist attack. The terrorists came from Pakistan. The decision to target the Mumbai Jewish center and to torture and murder Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg, his pregnant wife, Rivka, and all other Jews who they might find there, was a key part of the terrorists' original plans. Americans, Britons and Jews were to be killed upon contact.
Mass murder and social disruption were the attackers' main objectives.
Also, the attack was intended to increase Pakistani-Indian hostility in the hope that armed conflict would follow.
The Wall Street Journal and Los Angeles Times (among others) have provided extensive, detailed coverage of this massacre and its background. Both are closely following the developing investigations.
Personally, I thank the Daily Breeze for bringing us Prager's words of wisdom.
– HOWARD LAITIN
Keep Constitution in mind
"A small leak can sink a great ship." – Benjamin Franklin.
U.S. citizens deserve law-abiding public officials. The Constitution is clear that government officials and their subordinates are accountable to the laws of our land.
The Congressional Oath is to defend and protect the Constitution. Be a patriot, please.
"On every question of construction (of the Constitution), let us carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates, and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or invented against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed." – Thomas Jefferson. It is not just your job and oath binding you to this course, but your patriotic duty to our country to ensure the compliance with our Constitution and the laws of our land are equally enforced.
– LAURA SEE-TAYLOR
Ethics vital to capitalism
Unless you are one of the 300,000 people in this country who account for about half of its monetary wealth, I think you might go way out on a limb and say that capitalism isn't working so well.
I have tried to make the point before that this is mainly due to a lack of ethics in the business and the political arena. A strong moral doctrine was obviously prescribed by our founders, judging by the content of the Declaration of Independence (morals, by the way, not religion). Illustration: "History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest ridden people maintaining a free civil government." – Thomas Jefferson. Since an overnight about-face of character for our citizens is highly unlikely, I would like to propose an alternative solution.
I know the word "socialism" is an anathema to many people, but how about a fusion of profit and nonprofit ventures in America that will keep everyone out of poverty but still allow those with the entrepreneurial spirit to continue to dedicate their lives to materialism?
To do so, if an industry is necessary to the welfare of humanity (education, health care, decent lodging, food, energy), make it nonprofit. Everything else continues in for-profit mode.
– JEFF JORDAN
Carolers were holiday treat
On Wednesday, I was honored to be a guest at the Lion's Club breakfast where we were entertained by the outstanding West High choral group, Aristocracy. These young men and women put on a wonderful show, signing many Christmas carols (yes, I said Christmas carols, imagine that) like "Silent Night," "Hark the Herald Angels Sing" and "The First Noel."
They ended the performance with a rousing rendition of "The Twelve Days of Christmas." They will be performing at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at West High School. I urge everyone who enjoys hearing Christmas songs to go. It was so refreshing!
– DONNA KELLER


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Rockin The Red Carpet with the Washington Capitals
Posted on October 11, 2015 by Jon Sorensen
Saturday afternoon the Washington Capitals went a little Hollywood for their opening game as they rolled out the red carpet to welcome the players with style. The Caps began arriving around 320 in their chauffeured Lexus's on F Street. Wes Johnson announced each player's arrival and then a pre-selected fan was given the treat of escorting them down the carpet where they stopped and took pictures with the throng of waiting fans.
There were large contingencies of police up and down E and F streets as DC hosted not only the Caps opener but also the "Justice or Else—Million Man March" and the "Taste of DC." Passersby were a bit overwhelmed as they walked by the thousands of fans Rocking the Red.
Devoted followers started lining up outside of Verizon around 1:30 pm and it wasn't long before a few thousand crowded the blocked of F Street to welcome the Caps and play some street hockey. A DJ kept the excitement and anticipation going as fans celebrated the start of hockey.
Even SlapShot was decked out in a tux for the night.While we stood and waited fans debated the summer trades of Ward and Brower, what Oshie brings, and whether Ovechkin will score another 50 goals this year. And of course there were the standard comments ranging from "This is our year" to "This better be our year."
There was a party atmosphere all around as the first limo pulled up with Jason Chimera. It must have been a sign of good things to come because Jason would also win the Star of the Night with his short-hand goal and assist.
The cars initially were a little slow arriving with a break of nearly 15 minutes between each player which gave them plenty of time to stop for selfies and to sign shirts and hats. In one of the funnier exchanges my daughter, Brittney, asked Jay Beagle to stop for a selfie. He said, "Sure, but I don't know what that is." Behind him came Taylor Chorney and when she told him what Beagle had said he laughed and said, "Beags phone probably doesn't even have a camera!"
The crowd went crazy cheering for each player as they arrived but clearly the favorites were T.J. Oshie, Alex Ovechkin, Evengy Kuznetsov, Braden Holtby and just like we saw at the Caps Member Party—the crowd went wild for Tom Wilson and his roommate Michael Latta.
Elliot, from DC 101 was on-hand to interview players as they neared the door to Verizon. Some of the players, like newcomer Justin Williams, were escorted by younger smiling fans. The players, especially Nate Schmidt, were excited to be there and it seemed as if they signed everything they were handed and posed for pictures with anyone who asked. A lady and her daughter from Sweden had an upper hand as she yelled out to Marcus Johansson, Andre Burakovsky, and Nicklas Backstrom in Swedish for photos.—which they of course stopped to take!
By far, the cutest couple of carpet was Alex Ovechkin and his special girlfriend, Ann Schaab. He was protective of her as they walked the carpet and she clung to him during his interview with Elliott. As he finished the interview, Ovi whisked around, holding her hand and running to the door to keep her from the crowds yelling his and her name.
By the time the game started the crowd was pumped and cheering about as loud as they would at the playoffs. Horn Guy and Loud Goat were back keeping the fans and team energized.
During the warmup fans were literally jumping up and down when the players took to the ice. And they did not disappoint with a great first win. It was hard to tell who was more excited—the fans or the players! Everyone we talked to thought it was a great evening including the escorts who said it was an "unreal experience" and the mother-daughter team who came out to celebrate the opener.
And ever gracious, Chimera gave a nod out to the fans after the 5-3 win saying, "There's no cooler place than here, besides being at home. And this is the best place on earth, for sure. These fans are unreal and unleash the fury is the coolest thing in the world." We agree Chimer, we agree.
By Maggie Marcum. Photos by Brittney Marcum
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Thanks for the recap! It was such a fun day!
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Federal Court asked to rule against use of Royal Prerogative to call unnecessary elections
Democracy Watch and Integrity B.C. have applied to the Federal Court for a ruling on the legality of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's 2021 early election call. The case was filed on September 15 and asks for a ruling that would stop such calls going forward.
The Federal Court is being asked to interpret the fixed-date election provision in the Canada Elections Act in a manner that would not allow a prime minister to call an election without a non-confidence motion having been adopted by the House of Commons. In the absence of a non-confidence motion, the applicants suggest, the Governor General would have to respect the desired Federal Court ruling and decline a request for an early election as illegal.
The case argues that there was no evidence of Justin Trudeau's government having lost its ability to govern. In a statement, Democracy Watch says, "Opposition parties clearly supported the Liberals continuing to govern, and the Trudeau government had the confidence of Parliament, when Trudeau called the election."
Democracy Watch filed a similar case after former Prime Minister Stephen Harper's snap election call in September 2008. The Federal Court and the Federal Court of Appeal both ruled that the law was not specific enough to enforce fixed-dates and that a constitutional convention upholding regular elections had not been established.
Court cases have also been filed against the snap election calls in British Columbia and in New Brunswick. Both provinces also have fixed-date election laws.
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Perhaps it was when Hellboy (David Harbour) chased a pig baby changeling in a diaper up a chimney that it fully hit me. I couldn't help but wonder: What on earth am I watching? The insanity was almost incomprehensible, though it's par for the course in the world of "Hellboy." In this new reboot, Harbour takes over the brawny red-faced role from Ron Perlman; splatter maximalist Neil Marshall takes the reins behind the camera from Mexican monster maven Guillermo del Toro. Released from the confines of Westeros, where he's been toiling as the resident battle auteur on "Game of Thrones," Marshall tears into the gothic fantasy comic book property "Hellboy" with a startling zeal, and a bloodthirsty zest for grime and gore.
With this noisy, fast, chaotic "Hellboy," Marshall is at his most cheeky and most unhinged. It's certainly … a lot. Harbour is an ideal choice to sport the crown of sawed-off horns as the demon with a heart of gold, an investigator working for his father (Ian McShane) at the Bureau of Paranormal Research and Defense. Harbour has a warmth and humor that shines through all the prosthetics, and an ease with sarcastic wisecracks too. The snarky asides, which permeate even the solemn voice-over that opens the film (which starts in yes, the 5th century, with yes, King Arthur), let us know everyone here is in on the joke. It's OK to laugh with the movie, even if it feels like we're laughing at it.
Describing the plot of this truly crazy monster mash is a fool's errand. The gist is monster hunter Hellboy has to confront his own origins and existence as half-man, half-monster while battling to save the world from the greatest monster of all, the Blood Queen witch Vivian Nimue (Milla Jovovich), who was dismembered by King Arthur and locked in separate coffins to keep her from running roughshod over the earth with her monster gang.
But within that general framework, writer Andrew Cosby has stuffed a rogue's gallery of ghoulish characters, subplots and flashbacks. To crib that old chestnut from "Saturday Night Live," this movie has EVERYTHING: giants, witches, lucha libre wrestlers, cheetah werewolves, Nazi occult rituals featuring cameos by both Rasputin and Leni Riefenstahl, Sasha Lane as a psychic who pukes up slimy spiritual apparitions, a boar-man with a Scottish accent and an iron jockstrap, Winston Churchill's desk, an amusing appearance from Merlin, mystical secret societies and of course, Baba Yaga.
All this comes straight from the comic, so fans should be pleased at the depth and breadth of the lore in the film. Those who are less familiar with the Hellboy canon might be overwhelmed, as this all hurtles at a relentless, unforgiving pace, glued together with many, many crunchy guitar licks. You don't so much as watch this movie as submit to being pummeled by it. That might be exactly the time you want at the movies, sitting directly in the proverbial splash zone of a geyser of giant blood while Hellboy cracks wise about the giant's bad breath. And that's OK. Go get your "Hellboy" fix, because despite its epic ambitions, this movie is so bananas it remains to be seen if Big Red will ever grace the silver screen again.


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Carlson has over 19 years of investment experience including senior level experience at EnnisKnupp where he was a Principal. He previously served as Chief Investment Officer and Treasury Director for Marshfield Clinic in Marshfield Wisconsin. Prior to that he was the Chief Investment Officer for the West Virginia Investment Management Board and was a Senior Investment Officer at the Iowa Public Employees Retirement System (IPERS).
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Kinesio taping is as named as K taping, this particular technique has been used for many years. You can see this on the bodies of advanced athletes. Have you ever wondered that what this is and for what it is used?
Basically, this tape can be seen on the body of Olympic players as it helps them deal with different injuries in order to stay physically powerful throughout the game.
What Benefits you can get from K taping..
Kinesiology term is related to the study of mechanics of how human body moves. Knowing the muscles and how these influence the whole body including body temperature, blood circulation, and much more, these can direct to improve all other parts of the body and also reduction in the painful symptoms. Kinesiology tape is very similar to human skin in elasticity and thickness and allows the patients to wear it without restriction, binding and constricting their movement.
This particular technique develops on own therapeutic mechanism of the body by enabling it to perform its job effectively. The main benefit of the tape is to offer support and stability for joints and muscles without any restraint on blood flow and movement which usually braces or some other techniques cause.
For knowing more about this taping, you can ask us during your visit or you can also request an appointment.


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J.G. Wentworth review
J.G. Wentworth has put a lot of effort into making the digital structured settlement process as seamless and accessible as possible.
By Tamsin Oxford 30 October 2019
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Overall J.G. Wentworth is a very solid choice for anyone looking to find a reliable partner for their structured settlement annuities.
Accessible, fast and easy to understand application process
Digital systems make application easy
Fast and engaging customer service
Payment terms are slow
Mixed customer reviews
J.G. Wentworth has sold in excess of eight billion in future payments since its inception which makes it one of the most prolific and well-known structured settlement annuity companies on the market. It also puts a lot of effort into making the settlement process visible and offers you three different types of sale and payout option. From the moment you arrive on the site, you're provided with information around how structured settlement annuities work, what you will need to do while working with J.G. Wentworth, the types of payment solution on offer, and even insights into how to manage these payments for minors.
Compared with Peachtree Financial Solutions, a subsidiary of J.G. Wentworth, and Fairfield Funding, J.G. Wentworth feels a lot faster and easier to work with. By that, we mean that you can get hold of a representative really quickly, the live chat is bristling with enthusiasm, and it didn't take long for the system to send through a quote. We also like the fact that there are three sale and payout options – these may be available on competitor sites but not as clearly explained – which include: to sell a period of payments, to sell a portion of each payment, or to sell all your payments. This breakdown gives you a lot more wriggle room if you're not entirely sure whether or not structured settlements are the way you want to go, or if you want to commit everything all at once.
J.G. Wentworth includes a structured settlement calculator section on its site that helpfully tells you that there is no calculator. The fees and the costs can realistically only be determined once you've ticked the boxes, filled in the forms and the costs are accurately assessed. However, they do include information around taxation, which is very helpful, along with detailed sections around quotes, life after selling, and second sale options.
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J.G. Wentworth review: How does the process work?
Application process: Visible, plenty of information, managed by calls and emails
Costs: Fees are provided upon application
Purchase options: structured settlements, various annuities such as pension and medical, lottery, different types of structured settlement payment plan, home mortgages
Calculators, service and support: Live online chat, contact number, fast digital quotation process
Fees are a mystery until you get started
Seamless application process
J.G. Wentworth offers a solid quotation process that assures you that a representative will contact you within minutes of your filling out the form. This is, you'll be pleased to know, absolutely true. Once you've clicked on the giant Get a Quote button and filled in your details, you will be put in touch with a human being who will talk you through the process and answer any extra questions you may have around your structured settlement and your plans for its use. It's a good idea to visit the dedicated section that focuses on the settlement payment process first as this will answer a lot of your questions upfront, and help you frame any further questions more effectively.
Of all the sites, J.G. Wentworth has the most detailed outline of its sales process. There is a breakdown on its landing page and there's an entire walkthrough on its Process page. The banner allows you to even click on the relevant button for each step so if you're ahead of the game, you can skip ahead to where you need to be. The same site also includes a lot of information about the myths that surround these sales, common questions people ask, and videos around what structured settlement annuities are.
J.G. Wentworth review: Information and support
Extensive information, help and support
Dedicating an entire page to a calculator is an irritating misnomer
There can be few things as annoying as seeing something on a website entitled, 'Structured Settlements Calculator' only to discover that it tells you there is no such magical being. Well, competitors such as Fairfield Funding have managed to make one without any issues so that's awkward. It's a strangely smug addition to a site that's very focused on giving people as much information as possible and does make you feel as if fees are a hidden mystery that you can only unlock once you've committed.
J.G. Wentworth: Customer reviews
A+ rating on Better Business Bureau
4.5 star rating on Consumer Affairs
This feeling is carried through customer reviews on BBB which are not glowing. While it achieves as A+ rating from BBB, many reviews claim that the payment terms were low, customer service poor, and payment slow. Some customers have also complained about ongoing calls and emails even after they've moved on from the process or opted to use another company.
These complaints are echoed on the Consumer Affairs site – spam, poor service, slow payments. That said, there are also numerous positive reviews on the site that expound the virtues of J.G Wentworth which has an overall review of 4.5 stars out of 87 ratings in the past year.
Should you choose J.G Wentworth?
J.G. Wentworth has sat at the top of our best structured settlement annuities guide over the past few years for a reason. There are mixed customer reviews, but the company has sold so many of these settlements that it would be impossible to have pleased all the people. The lack of visibility into fees is, to a certain extent, understandable – the company wants to provide an accurate quote that reflects current rates – but it does feel like you have to jump into an ocean to get your toe wet. Overall, however, it's a solid start for anyone looking to find a reliable partner for their structured settlement annuities.
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Football: National Stadium sells out for first time for Brazil-Japan clash
The new National Stadium will have its first sell-out crowd when five-time football world champions Brazil take on Japan in their friendly match on Tuesday. -- ST PHOTO: SEAH KWANG PENG
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The new National Stadium will have its first sell-out crowd when five-time football world champions Brazil take on Japan in their friendly match on Tuesday.
Event promoter World Sport Group (WSG) said in a statement on Sunday that all 55,000 tickets have been snapped up ahead of match day.
"We are thrilled to be bringing world-class football action to Singapore, making this the first sold-out event at the new National Stadium," said Malcolm Thorpe, WSG's vice-president of sports development and events
"With some of the world's top football players in town for this exciting Japan v Brazil match, football fans are definitely in for a treat."
In lieu of the crowd numbers, fans are advised to arrive early - stadium gates will open at 5pm, an hour and 45 minutes ahead of the 6.45pm kick-off time - and take public transport to the stadium. Pre-sold parking lots have also sold out.
For fans without a ticket, they can tune in to the match on cable television broadcaster StarHub's SuperSports Arena (Channels 112 or 205 and 76.25MHz).


Psoriatic arthritis is a chronic inflammatory, seronegative arthritis that develops in patients of psoriasis. About 5% people with psoriasis have psoriatic arthritis.
Most common type is oligoarthritis [involves few joints].
Distal joint involvement and arthritis mutilans are characteristic features of psoriatic arthritis but less common.
About half of the patients of psoriatic arthritis have often human leukocyte antigen HLA B27 associated spondyloarthropathy. Psoriatic arthritis has also been classified among the seronegative spondyloarthropathies.
Peripheral joint disease occurs in 95% of patients with psoriatic arthritis, and the spine is involved in 5%.
Psoriatic arthritis is more frequent in patients with severe psoriasis. However, the severity does not relate to the pattern of joint involvement.
Usually, fewer than 5 joints are affected at any one time. The digits of the hands and feet are affected first. Inflammation of the flexor tendon and synovium occur at the same time. A large joint, such as the knee, is also commonly involved.
In this type, the involvement is similar to rheumatoid arthritis. It is the most common types of psoriatic arthritis. The hands, wrists, ankles, and feet may be involved.
The condition is milder than rheumatoid arthritis and is differentiated from it by the involvement of distal interphalangeal joint, absence of subcutaneous nodules and a negative test result for rheumatoid factor [ It must be noted that tests could be negative in some cases of rheumatoid arthritis]. The deformity is less than rheumatoid arthritis.
Distal interphalangeal joint involvement occurs in only 5-10% of patients and is more common in men than women.
Nail involvement in form of paronychia and swelling of the digital tuft may be prominent.
It is rare presentation of psoriatic arthritis and is found in 1-5% of patients. In arthritis mutilans, there is a bone resorption and destruction of joint giving them a pencil in cup appearance in radiographs. It is also called pencil in cup deformity or pencil cup deformity.
Over the joint skin becomes redundant and a telescoping motion of the digit can be possible.
This is mostly found in males and affects about 5% of cases. It can occur in conjunction with other types of psoriatic arthritis.
Spondylitis may also occur without sacroiliitis also.
Involvement of vertebra is asymmetrical [It is symmetrical in ankylosing spondylitis]. The atlantoaxial joint may be involved.
Nonmarginal asymmetrical syndesmophytes are a characteristic feature of spine involvement in psoriatic arthritis]. Other features which may be present are paravertebral ossification, and, vertebral fusion with disc calcification.
Overall, juvenile psoriatic arthritis is 8-20% of childhood arthritis and affects females more than males.
Girls are affected earlier than boys. While the median age of onset is 4.5 years in girls, it is 10 years in boys.
Arthritis affects single joint in about half of the cases. The nail changes are found in about 70% cases and tenosynovitis in 30%.
Sacroiliitis occurs in about 30% of children and is usually associated with positive HLA-B27.
Presence of HLA-B8 is said to cause a severe disease whereas HLA-B17 is usually associated with a mild form of psoriatic arthritis.
Children have a higher frequency of simultaneous onset of psoriasis and arthritis than adults. In almost half of these cases, symptoms of arthritis precede.
The CASPAR criteria consist of established inflammatory articular disease with at least 3 points from the following features. A score of each feature is indicated in the bracket.
The exact cause of psoriatic arthritis is not known. Genetic, environmental and immunological factors are said to be involved.
40% of patients with psoriasis or psoriatic arthritis have a positive family history. HLA-B7, HLA-B27, HLA-DR4, HLA-38, and HLA-DR7 ae identified as genetic susceptibility loci for psoriatic arthritis whereas HLA-Cw6, HLA-B13, HLA-B17, HLA-B57, and HLA-B39 are for both psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis.
HLA-B39, HLA-B27 in the presence of HLA-DR7 and HLA-DQ3 in the absence of HLA-DR7 are said to be predictors of progression of the disease whereas HLA-B22 is said to be protective.
The exact mechanism of the association between HLA and psoriatic arthritis is not clear.
The following are also thought to be associated with psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis.
Serum IgG A and IgG levels are higher in patients of psoriatic arthritis. In comparison, IgM levels may be normal or decreased.
Autoantibodies against nuclear antigens, cytokeratins, epidermal keratins, and heat-shock proteins have been reported CD4 cells are said to reduce in number.
Dendritic cells have been found in the synovial fluid of patients with psoriatic arthritis. These are believed to be antigen presenting cells to CD4+ cells within the joints leading to T-cell activation in patients of psoriatic arthritis.
A possible role of viral and bacterial infections have been suggested but the exact mechanism is not.
There are reports of psoriatic arthritis occurring in patients of psoriasis after trauma.
Again the pathway is not clear.
1-40% of the people America have psoriatic arthritis and as many as 40% of patients may develop erosive and deforming arthritis.
Psoriatic arthritis has been found to be associated with greater risk of hypertension, obesity, hyperlipidemia, type 2 diabetes mellitus, and cardiovascular events compared with psoriasis without arthritis.
Both the genders are equally affected but a preponderance of males has been noted in the spondylitis form of psoriatic arthritis.
Most common age involved is between 35-55 years, but it can occur in persons of almost any age.
Pain, swelling or stiffness in the joints is the most common factor for consultation. Pain and swelling in fingers [dactylis], pain in back and ankles could also be the presentation.
In 60-80% of patients, psoriasis occurs before the onset of psoriatic arthritis and in 15-20% of patients, arthritis appears before psoriasis. The latter usually occurs in patients with a family history hereditary pattern.
Simultaneous appearance is also known.
In most of the cases, the onset is insidious but acute presentation is also known.
Eye symptoms are present in about one-third of patients.
Enthesopathy or enthesitis means inflammation at tendon or ligament insertions into bone and it may be seen in psoriatic arthritis [occurs in other spondyloarthropathies]. Achilles tendon is most commonly involved.
Dactylitis with sausage digits [swollen fingers] is seen in as many as 35% of patients.
Asymmetrical joint involvement, dactylitis, negative rheumatoid arthritis and involvement of distal interphalangeal joint suggest a strong diagnosis of psoriatic arthritis.
Skin and nail changes may be present. Examination hidden sites, such as the scalp, perineum, intergluteal cleft, and umbilicus is done to find psoriatic changes.
Nails are involved in 80% of patients with psoriatic arthritis. Beau lines, leukonychia [white nails], onycholysis [nail destruction] oil spots, subungual hyperkeratosis, splinter hemorrhages, spotted lunulae, transverse ridging, cracking of the free edge of the nail are presentations of nail involvement.
Subcutaneous nodules, a frequent finding in rheumatoid arthritis is a rare finding in psoriatic arthritis.
The eye is involved in about 30% of the cases. Conjunctivitis is found in about in 20% and acute anterior uveitis occurs in 7%.
43% of the cases with uveitis have sacroiliitis and about 40% are positive for HLA-B27. Iritis may also be found.
Inflammation of the aortic valve root and secondary amyloidosis has also been reported.
Gout, osteoarthritis, reactive arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, septic arthritis, lupus erythematosus, secondary syphilis, ankylosing spondylitis are known conditions which can mimic psoriatic arthritis.
Diagnosis of the disease is made based on clinical and radiologic criteria in a patient with psoriasis.
There is no particular diagnostic test for psoriasis. Routine lab investigations are within normal limits.
Erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) and C-reactive protein level are elevated in these patients.
Most of the cases are negative for rheumatoid factor although about 10% of cases might be positive as well.
Serum IgA levels [a type of circulating antibody] are increased in about two-thirds of patients with psoriatic arthritis.
Synovial fluid aspiration reveals inflammation. Cell counts range from 5000-15,000/µL. More than half of the cells are polymorphonuclear leukocytes.
Radiography shows a combination of erosion and bone growth in affected joints. The following radiographic abnormalities are suggestive of psoriatic arthritis. Joints mostly involved are distal interphalangeal, proximal interphalangeal, metatarsophalangeal, and metacarpophalangeal joints.
Changes of arthritis. Joint space narrowing is the earliest change visible change. Joint erosions can progress to complete dissolution of the bone.
Pencil-in-cup deformity may be seen.
Juxta-articular osteopenia[Decrease in bone density near the joint], an important finding of rheumatoid arthritis is minimum in persons with psoriatic arthritis.
These may be useful for detecting early signs of joint synovitis, sacroiliitis, enthesitis, and erosions. MRI may also help differentiate inflammation in the small joints of the hands, involving the collateral ligaments and soft tissues around the joint capsule, a finding not found in persons with RA.
The goal of treatment in psoriatic arthritis is control of the inflammatory process, pain relief and treatment of deformities.
Disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs)-methotrexate, sulfasalazine, cyclosporine, and leflunomide, anti–TNF-alpha medications.
Retinoic-acid derivatives, and psoralen plus ultraviolet light in patients with severe skin disease.
Intralesional corticosteroid injections in the joints or enthesopathy sites.
These drugs are the initial treatment for joint disease and prescribed in both oral and topical form.
It brings fast relief in patients of psoriasis but studies have shown that the relief is the same at 3 months with nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and methotrexate.
These drugs also control the acute inflammation but do not control the damage of the disease. Cyclosporine is its toxic for kidney and causes a rise in blood pressure.
Combination therapy of methotrexate and these drugs is reported to be more effective.
Etanercept is an anti-tumor necrosis factor drug which is effective in inhibiting the progression of structural damage associated with psoriatic arthritis.
Infliximab is a monoclonal antibody against tumor necrosis factor alpha and is effective in reducing signs and symptoms of psoriatic arthritis.
Golimumab is also TNF-alpha antibody has been shown to have a significant effect.
New studies have also reported the effectiveness of ustekinumab, interleukin-12, and interleukin-23 antagonist, in symptom reduction of psoriatic arthritis.
Severe, chronic, monoarticular synovitis may need arthroscopic synovectomy followed by physical therapy.
Arthrodesis of small joints or arthroplasty of large joints may be needed.
A patient with psoriasis should know about the disease and its effects. Patient instructions for joint protection are part of the treatment.
Depending upon the phase of the disease, a patient should be instructed about rest, exercise and other treatment adjuncts. Use of orthotics for limbs and spine, gait assistance devices, modification of home and possible readjustment of vocation should be considered as well.
Rest and splints may be used for pain relief, especially for the hands, wrists, knees, or ankles. Cold fomentation decreases inflammation and provides pain relief.
Isometric exercises are started in after acute phase has been subsided. Active movements are encouraged. Heat modalities like heat packs, paraffin wax, diathermy, and ultrasound can be used to decrease pain and used before starting a range of motion exercises.
Gait activities with or without a device should be begun. Gradual gentle stretching should be done. If the condition worsens with therapy, it should be further delayed.
Physical therapy should also be instituted after a surgery.
Lithium and withdrawal from systemic corticosteroids are well known to cause disease flare-ups and should be watched for. Beta blockers and some nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs can also worsen psoriasis. These drugs are also used in the treatment of psoriatic arthritis. In case a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug leads to worsening of the condition, another drug should be tried.
Prevention includes rest and exercise. Joint protection and splinting with braces, and other supports, may be helpful.
There is no definitive prevention yet.


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Q: Deriving a basis from a generating subset and a free subset
Let $K$ be a field and $E$ a $K$-vector space. Let $S$ be a generating
system $E$ and $L$ a free subset of $E$ such that $L\subset S$. Then
there exists a basis of $E$ such that $L\subset B\subset S$.

Let $\mathcal{L}$ be the set of free subsets of $E$ contained in $S$. This set is inductive. Then the set $\mathcal{M}$ of free subsets of $E$ containing $L$ and contained in $S$ is also inductive. By Zorn's lemma, there exists a maximal $B$ in $\mathcal{M}$. We want to show that $E\subset\text{span}(B)$. Suppose not: let $y\in E$ such that $y\not\in\text{span}(B)$. Then $B\cup\{y\}$ is a free subset of $E$ and $L\subset B\cup\{y\}$. I still need to show that $B\cup\{y\}\subset S$ in order to get a contradiction. But why should $y\in S$?

A: It doesn't have to be true. But instead of taking some $y\in E$ such that $y\notin\operatorname{span}(B)$, take $y\in S$ such that $y\notin\operatorname{span}(B)$. Such a $y$ must exist, because otherwise $S\subset\operatorname{span}(B)$, and therefore $\operatorname{span}(B)$ would be the whole space.

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LANCASTER/PALMDALE – In observance of the Thanksgiving holiday, all city of Lancaster offices will be closed Thursday and Friday, November 22 and 23.
City of Lancaster offices will reopen Monday, November 26 at 8 a.m., and resume normal business hours.
Lancaster City Hall's regular hours are 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Thursday and 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Fridays.
City of Palmdale administrative and business offices, the Palmdale Playhouse box office and Palmdale City Library will be closed on Thursday and Friday, November 22 and 23 in observance of Thanksgiving.
Palmdale's administrative and business offices will reopen Monday, November 26 at 7:30 a.m. The Palmdale Playhouse box office will reopen Monday, November 26 at 4 p.m. Tickets may be purchased 24 hours a day online at www.cityofpalmdale.org/playhouse.
The Palmdale City Library will reopen on Saturday, November 24 at 10 a.m.
Customers may register for parks and recreation classes 24 hours a day, every day at www.cityofpalmdale.org. Tickets for Palmdale Playhouse shows may be purchased 24 hours a day, every day at www.cityofpalmdale.org/playhouse. Library materials may be renewed, fines paid, and online services such as Homework Help, and eLibrary may be accessed 24 hours a day, every day at www.cityofpalmdale.org/library. Parking and administrative citations may also be paid online, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week at www.cityofpalmdale.org.
To report emergencies after hours, weekend or on holidays, residents may call 661-266-3195. Emergencies include sewer overflows, roadway/right of way hazards including downed tree limbs, downed signs and potholes, or broken sprinkler lines in City parks and landscaped areas.


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2. Lauren Miller: 5-9 senior power forward/center who Perkins also expects to be a team leader.
3. Carolyn Nsimpasi: 5-5 junior guard who Perkins calls an "excellent defender."
Others to watch: Desirae Brown (5-9, junior) is a power forward who should provide good scoring from the post. Perkins noted that Brown has a "great work ethic." Shania Taylor (5-5, freshman) and Kira Turner (5-5, senior) are both guards who can score and defend.
Games you gotta see: The Commodores travel to Lexington Christian on Dec. 8 then host the Eagles on Feb. 9. LCA was the only Lexington team Tates Creek scored a win against last season, knocking off the Eagles on the road 52-41 before dropping the rematch by one point in the 43rd District Tournament.
View the Commodores' schedule and roster.
On what she first noticed when taking over the team: "The girls work really hard, their effort is phenomenal. That's the first thing that impressed me when I first came on board. ... They're willing to learn and they're flexible."
On what would constitute a successful season: "I think we'll be in the hunt for a district championship, I really do. I'm new and they're new to me but if there's buy-in, if I'm flexible and I coach the way I'm supposed to I think we can go far in the district and hopefully make the region. I'm hoping for a winning season, I'd love that."
On her system: "We're gonna be fast. We want to be man-to-man, a lot of pressing, get the ball ahead as quickly as possible. We should be fun to watch."
Bench talk
Shay Wilson: On how the team is acclimating to a new head coach: "It's tough, you've got to buy into a whole new system. You've got to forget everything you learned last year. But Coach is doing really good, we're hanging in there."
"It feels like we all want to win, where last year I felt like only a couple of people wanted to win. Now I feel like we're all on the same page, reading the same book at least."
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