'Curiosity': child safety and safeguarding c/o BBC News

'Teacher who killed his adopted son given whole life prison sentence

14:30 18 June

That concludes our live coverage of the sentencing hearing.

To recap what happened at Preston Crown Court earlier: A teacher who sexually abused and murdered the 13-month-old baby boy he adopted with his partner has been told he will spend the rest of his life in prison.

Preston Davey died in July 2023 at the hands of Jamie Varley, 37, who subjected the child to physical, sexual and emotional abuse during the final four months of his life.

Varley, from Blackpool, told police Preston had accidentally drowned in a bath, but a post-mortem examination discovered the child had suffered 40 injuries.'

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	PROFESSIONAL CURIOSITY

Source (Various): BBC Live News https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c4gyrewq8xkt

 Previously: 'curiosity' : 'risk'

Theatres of War and Healing

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Theater of War Productions presents community-specific, theater-based projects that address pressing public health and social issues.	Wounded Ukrainian veterans find healing on stage c/o Reuters

Previously: 'theatre' : 'war' : 'public (mental) health' 

Intelligence - mechanistically speaking^

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Mental Intelligence	We Are Movement - Unlocking Your Physical Intelligence
... ever increasing 'artificial' intelligence   here . . .?	"We?  Yes... We!     We are   a                       MOVEMENT!"

Wayne McGregor (2026) We are Movement: Unlocking Your Physical Intelligence. London: Bloomsbury. (Book cover) https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/we-are-movement-9781526629531/

My source: Nadia Beard, Our bodies, ourselves. Life&Arts, FTWeekend, 17-18 January, 2026. p.9. 

Previously: 'movement' : 'dance' : 'intelligence' : 'art' : 'body' : 'AI'

^. . . help me find (a) the notation? 

When a bomb goes off, ...^

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	.. whatever's     around .. "WHEN A BOMB GOES OFF, .. gets      weaponised"
	donate.redcross.org.uk msf.org.uk ideals.org.uk map.org.uk uk-med.org

Rosanna Dodds, Operation Gaza, HTSI, FTWeekend, December 9th, 2024. p.37-38.

Victoria Rose, Plastic Surgeon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzZjmG791Dk

^anywhere ...

'LA Gun Club' (2016) by Jane Hilton

intent - maximum damage - social/vicarious trauma - policy fatigue(s)

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With thanks to Jane Hilton

https://www.palogallery.com/exhibitions/35-la-gun-club-jane-hilton/overview/

Top left: intra- interpersonal
Target E. Age: 26. Occupation: Architecture student. Gun: Smith & Wesson .44 Magnum revolver.
"I wanted to use the same gun as Clint Eastwood used in the movie Dirty Harry."

Top right: sciences
Target G. Age: 37. Occupation: Range master for a gun club. Gun: Beretta 92 FS 9mm pistol.
"I have the perfect job. I own many guns, I just love looking at them. I'm not bothered about shooting them. My favourite is the Kimber Warrior because it shoots large bullets."

Bottom left: sociology

Target A. Age: 35. Occupation: Federal security. Gun: Glock 22 .40 caliber pistol.
"I cannot believe I shot that hostage's ear on my target. I learnt to shoot when I was in the military Marine Corps infantry."

Bottom right: political
Target H. Age: 32. Occupation: Stay at home Mom. Guns: Smith & Wesson .357 Magnum revolver, Beretta 9mm pistol and Colt 5.56mm rifle (shooter's own).
"I own all 3 guns I used to shoot my target. Me and my husband go to different gun clubs all the time."

My source:
Alexander James, SNAPSHOT: 'LA Gun Club' (2016) by Jane Hilton. FT Weekend, Life&Arts, 17-18 February 2024. p.19.

The dimensions and directions of self-care

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Mental capacity Personal autonomy My choice Subjective (lived-) experience Quality of (my) life Mood - mental state (assessment) Psychic pain - trauma Expectations - 'desired outcome' Can't keep a job "If it's all in my head - that's what one of the doctors said - I said, if it's an imaginary pain, how is the swelling there?" Nick	Physical pain - cause not identified Injury - trauma: history - playing football Goalpost collision - snapped - posterior cruciate ligament 28 years ago On feet leg swells Leg amputation 'best' option Twelve operations to date - Still in constant pain Clinical experience specialists, advice Guidance Evidence base Aggregated outcomes
Brown Housebound for days Feels guilty - holding family back Living pain-free ... would be a "New lease of life" Experience & expectations of family, friends .. Holiday, spoke to a veteran four years ago ..	Fundraising Mental Capacity Act Medical accountability Professional opinion - general outcomes NHS - "no" - 'Cosmetic'? Pain management (clinics)? Private operation £18,000 'desired outcome'

Chappell, P. Injured man fundraises for own leg amputation, The Times, August 10, 2022, p.19.

https://thetimes.pressreader.com/article/282080575609624

"Being Horizontal: Vulnerability, Interdependence and Resistance" c/o Confabulations

The title of this event last week struck a cord ...

For those who missed "Being Horizontal: Vulnerability, Interdependence and Resistance" last week - which touched on topics as diverse as austerity, invisibility, repetition and rhythm - a recording of the live event is available until 24th February: https://t.co/WnGFdmkMqF

— Confabulations (@con_fabulations) February 13, 2022

 

From the website with some additions:

 

"Being Horizontal: Vulnerability, Interdependence and Resistance"

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sleep* ('in dreams') (found) un-consciousness (beware - risk?) intent non-verbal psychoanalysis patient personal vulnerability	gravity collapse position - posture horizontal - vertical human body, form 3D mobility, movement above - below look up/down angle - inclination clinical positions 'other' positions - sex birth, rest, deceased reclined nude "recline -
The 'games that people play', especially those seeking / in power. social customs dance - history - culture social hierarchies	is often associated with feminised and/or racialised powerlessness." fallen soldier (civilian?) choice*: of position look up/down to "Deliberately assuming a horizontal position in front of others can also, as the complex works grouped in this project reveal, challenge, subvert, and politicise dynamics of vulnerability and power."

 

By the quarters ... Rugby

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"World Rugby"

Mild head injuries, which often cause concussion, are the most common reported match injury in professional rugby union in England, ALAMY

"Sir Ian McGeechan has led calls for radical change before a rugby union player dies on the pitch, branding the game unnecessarily dangerous and saying that World Rugby would be accused of negligence if it allows the situation to continue. In a strongly worded letter to Bill Beaumont, the World Rugby chairman, McGeechan and other British and Irish Lions greats, have urged the governing body to reduce the number of available replacements from eight to four to limit the impact that fresh players can make by coming off the bench in the final quarter." p.1.

"Almost a quarter of professional rugby players may have brain damage, the first study of its kind suggests.

Scientists used advanced brain imaging and analysis to compare elite rugby players with rowers and other noncontact athletes as well as people who played no sport.

Using methods often applied to the study of patients with neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s,, the team found that rugby players had significant damage to their brain’s white matter, its 'wiring'."
The Times, Thursday July 22 2021.

Hathaway, A., Lions legends: Make rugby safer, Sport, The Times, 14 August, 2021, p.1.

Image source: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/quarter-rugby-players-brain-damage-study-0m8fzrqbg

 

 

Moral injury: Individual - Collective: 'Global'

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	A year ago, #COVID19 emerged & sparked a pandemic. Life-saving vaccines have been developed. What happens next is up to us. If we don't #ACTogether, the 🌍 is on the brink of a catastrophic moral failure & the price will be paid with lives & livelihoods in the poorest countries. pic.twitter.com/QkriFnNfEC — Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (@DrTedros) January 18, 2021

Sources:

Several news sources.

Patient Safety Learning

Mr / Ms X Y: Dementia, Football and Me c/o BBC

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The Spirit of Sport