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I'm not exactly sure where to start with this, because it is just so tragic and there is so much to it. I could start by ripping into the people who run Hillmorton Hospital, in Christchurch, for not doing more to try to prevent one of their patients murdering a woman at her home in Mt Pleasant – because I want to rip into them. I could start with the thought that ran through my head when more details emerged at Elliot Cameron's sentencing yesterday for the murder of 83-year-old Faye Phelps, but I'll come back to that. Where I'm going to start is with what the cousin of Elliot Cameron said after the sentencing. Because it doesn't just relate to this tragic case, it relates to other tragic cases we've seen too. And it's all to do with how out-of-kilter things have got when it comes to protecting people's privacy versus protecting people from danger. Alan Cameron is the cousin of the killer, and he is saying that people like Faye, and anyone else this guy did garden work for or had dealings with, should have known that he was a mental health patient living at Hillmorton Hospital. Especially given his threats to kill someone if he was forced him to leave the hospital. They should have known that he'd been in mental health care for most of his life. Alan Cameron says: “Just shoving people out into the community isn't good enough, without ensuring that there are supports. I feel if more could have been done it might well have made a difference. "To protect his privacy they won't involve the family, but he wanted my involvement." He says people should have been informed that his cousin was living at Hillmorton because they could've then decided whether they wanted anything to do with him. He says: "It would have put others on alert to observe him and to keep a note.” And I couldn't agree more. Because Faye Phelps had no idea. She was completely in the dark, all in the name of protecting this man's privacy. Just like the probation people couldn't knock on the doors of people living near that guy who was released from prison and ended up murdering the Colombian woman living next door to him. She was in the dark too, because it would have breached that guy's privacy, as well. So when are we going to wake up to the fact that this obsession with privacy is killing people? Because there is no way that Elliot Cameron should have been allowed to come and go from Hillmorton and do gardening work for people without those people whose homes he was going to having any idea about him. You could say that anyone can ask questions but when you hire someone to do gardening, you ask them about things like their availability, price etc. Faye Phelps was never going to ask him if he was mentally unwell, was she? She should have been told. Because, if she had, she might still be alive. But we will never know that. Or more importantly, her family and friends will never know that. Either way, Faye Phelps and the people who loved her were let down big time. As Faye's daughter Karen says: “Our family never thought in a million years something like this would happen. The reality is it could be any member of the public next.” Which brings me to what went through my head when I saw the reports on the sentencing yesterday. Straight away I wondered how many other patients are walking out the gates at Hillmorton, jumping on buses, and none of us have any idea. Faye's daughter Karen is thinking the same, saying: “Public safety must come first and should always have come first. Sadly, it wasn't prioritised, and the result is what happened to my mum.” As for Hillmorton Hospital – you would think, wouldn't you, that the people running the place would have learned a thing or two from that tragic case three years ago when one of their patients stabbed a woman to death in broad daylight. Maybe they have, but it doesn't look like it. And they need to learn pretty quick that protecting people's safety has to come first – even if it means breaching someone's privacy. I think it's outrageous that Hillmorton Hospital thought it was fine for a guy who repeatedly threatened to kill to come and go as he wanted, and not tell innocent people that their gardener living in mental health care and has been for most of his life. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
A Rag-Tag Thanksgiving episode that literally has ,A movie review, tales of a Car Crash by Alan "Cameron from.Ferris Bueller" Ruck,an Intoxicated Trilogy of meeting Keifer Sutherland Three Separate Times. (And me Turing into my 14 year old self) and getting though a Shitty Thanksgiving
Anglicans in Aotearoa & Polynesia celebrate Te Pouhere Sunday, the Sunday when we remember the unique 3-Tikanga Constitution of our Anglican Church. Alan Cameron today explores what being people of the Treaty of Waitangi might mean for the Christian church here.
Regulators and capital markets industry groups worldwide are pushing to shorten settlement cycles in equity trading. Aman Mehta, APAC Sales Director and APAC Digital Assets Lead for Securities Services at BNP Paribas, and Alan Cameron, Head of Financial Intermediaries and Corporates Client Line Advisory for Securities Services at BNP Paribas, spoke with GlobalTrading Editor Terry Flanagan about this long-term trend and its implications for market participants. Discussion points included reasons for shortening the settlement cycle, differences in settlement cycles across geographic regions, and the role of the securities service provider in helping investment firms navigate shortened settlement.
In this episode, Chris Mielke speaks with Alan Cameron, Professor Emeritus at Columbia University, New York. The professor tells about his various books on the Late Antique world and the unexpected interconnections between paganism and Christianity.In the first part, Alan Cameron focuses on the figure of Claudian, a Greek poet at the court of emperor Honorius in Rome. What could a pagan poet write about a Christian emperor? How does the poetry take part in imperial propaganda? Why did so many of his poems survive? And how the Christian world accepted the pagan allusions in the court poetry?In the next part, the professor develops the topic of Greek mythology in the Late Antiquity. His research discovers how the myths were transmitted through generations and how Christians knew about the myths. Alan Cameron also speaks about the key differences between paganism and Christianity, which helped the latter fastly spread across the Mediterranean. The professor shares his thoughts on how the Christians and pagans lived together, when the real paganism died and why Early Christians were afraid of traces of paganism even after that.Past Perfect! is CEU Medieval Radio's show on medieval and early modern history and culture, where various issues from the crusades to archeo-zoology to medieval urine sampling are discussed. The discussions are made with the aim to popularize medieval and early modern studies with the help of experts such as early musicians, historians, philologists and archeologists.This episode was recorded in 2013.
In this episode Kurt Zeimers joins Alan Cameron to discuss digital assets and recent changes in the German regulatory environment and the impact these changes are having on asset managers and asset owners.
Head of Client Engagement for Technology, Stephane Lubenec joins Alan Cameron to discuss the why resiliency is not longer the preserve of BCP teams and how it must reach all corners of an organisation.
Head of Custody Product, Gabriel Sampaio joins Alan Cameron to discuss some of big challenges and opportunities for the UK post-trade industry post-Brexit.
Alan Cameron shares his thoughts on how adaptations made as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic could result in permanent efficiency gains for our industry.
UK COO Mark Daisley joins Alan Cameron to discuss how the industry’s thinking around Operational Resilience has been impacted by Covid-19
Hooligans have been around as long as there have been competitions and young, bored men to watch them. For a time in the Eastern Roman empire, it was a state-paid gig. In Episode 2: Hooligans, I dive into the world of the Byzantine Blues and Greens and examine their transformation from fire-hungry, murdering fanatics to fire-hungry, murdering imperial PR machines. Photo credit: Ediacar.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/badassbyzantium)
In this episode our focus turns to Asia as Alan Cameron discusses Third Party Clearing with our Head of Custody Product APAC, Gary O’Brien. Listen now to discover why banks and brokers are looking to outsource their clearing activity and what’s next for the region.
Alan Cameron welcomes our Global Head of Financial Intermediaries client line, Bruno Campenon into the studio to discuss some of the highlights of Sibos 2019 and delve into some of the topics that will continue to develop well past this year’s conference.
In our Sibos special we look ahead to the world’s largest banking conference which, for the first time, comes to London. Alan Cameron and Graham Ray discuss the conference and what they are looking forward to most.
In this episode, Alan Cameron is joined by our Head of Digital Client Experience, Paud O’Keeffe, to discuss how APIs are being utilised in securities services and how we can go about setting standards to maximize their value to clients.
Number six is in the mix! We hear from a bunch of different personalities in this episode. Natalie switches things up a bit and speaks with a musician, a graphic designer, and her boss?! OH MY! Great conversations provided by:Mike Fritz, On Deck Program in Human Resources at Vineyard Vines & musician Alan Cameron, Freelance Videographer and Graphic Designer J.D. Allen, Afternoon Editor for WSHU Public Radio
In this episode, Alan Cameron, Head of Brokers Market Strategy, is joined by Mariangela Fumagalli, our Head of Asset Servicing, Global Product and Regulatory Solutions. Mariangela shares her insight into what Shareholder Rights Directive 2 (SRD II) means for those in the custody chain, the impact this directive will have for clients and what needs to be done in preparation.
In this episode, Alan Cameron, Head of Brokers Market Strategy, is joined by Andrew Douglas, Managing Director of Government Relations (EMEA & APAC) and CEO of DTCC’s European Trade Repository. Andrew was a key member of the team tasked with analysing the European post-trade landscape, indentifying ways to create a more efficient and resilient cross-border post-trade environment in Europe. The discussion captures fascinating insight into what has been achieved so far and what more still needs to be done.
In this episode of the series, Alan Cameron, Head of Brokers Market Strategy, is joined by our Head of Public Affairs, Haroun Boucheta, for an update on CMU including the progress that has been made and what challenges face us as we look to build more efficient capital markets in Europe.
April 14, 2019 - Alan Cameron by Iain Grant - NewsTalk 1010
In the first episode of the series, Alan Cameron, Head of Brokers Market Strategy, is joined by Graham Ray, our Global Head of Sales and Relationship Management to discuss the issues, challenges and opportunities for our clients in the post-trade world.
March 31, 2019 - Alan Cameron by Iain Grant - NewsTalk 1010
Whooping cough is making a comeback - the latest figures show that there were more confirmed cases in the first 3 months of this year than there were in the whole of 2010. But the condition can only be monitored properly if GPs test for it - and it's estimated that up to 40% of persistent coughs in children could actually be down to whooping cough. Kamran Abassi who's Editor of the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, explains how immunity wears off as we get older. The coughing can last for up to 3 months and is most serious in small babies. Up to 10 deaths are reported each year in the UK and antibiotics can be used to treat it. In the UK all deaths in pregnancy and childbirth are recorded. Just 1 in 10,000 British women currently die - on average one woman every week. The information is held by the Maternal and Newborn Clinical Outcomes Review Programme - known as the Confidential Enquiry. Last year this clinical audit was effectively suspended after the process was put out to tender. Susan Bewley who's Professor of Complex Obstetrics at King's College, London explains why it's so important to keep such detailed information. Blushing can become a vicious cycle - with those severely affected finding it impossible to lead a normal life. Some turn to psychological therapies. Dr Jennifer Wild from the Centre for Anxiety Disorders and Trauma in Oxford says she sees a success rate of 90% in patients who opt for cognitive behavioural therapy. An operation called a sympathectomy - where the nerves are cut - can be carried out by surgeons like Alan Cameron, who works in Ipswich. He sees mixed results - with many experiencing side effects like increased sweating and sensitivity to light and sound. Dr Margaret McCartney doesn't like it when doctors use euphemisms for our genitals. Children often use words like "twinkle" or "pee pee" instead of the correct anatomical terms. But whose blushes are they sparing - theirs or their parents? An Inside Health listener emailed the programme to find out about what happens to the food he he eats - specifically how quickly peas pass through his gut into the loo. Neuro-gastroenterologist Anton Emmanuel from University College Hospital, London, demystifies gut transit times.