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February 5, 2020

February 4, 2020

Humuhumunukunukuapua'a (Hawaiian - triggerfish with a snout like a pig): Adding genes to reverse aging in mice and dogs @GeoChurch - Age Reversal #RealisticVirtualEarthForGenetics How soon could humans reverse the aging process with genetic engineering? #l



Adding genes to reverse aging in mice and dogs @GeoChurch -

Age Reversal #RealisticVirtualEarthForGenetics How soon could humans reverse the aging process with genetic engineering? https://youtu.be/bnCEIPQFNnk #longevity #RealisticVirtualEarthForLongevity > #AgeReversal Think GoogleStreetView/Project Baseline
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Clinical_Trials_at_WUaS_(for_all_languages) /Longevity
Age Reversal #RealisticVirtualEarthForGenetics How soon could humans reverse the aging process with genetic engineering? https://t.co/NV5YQqc5fV #longevity #RealisticVirtualEarthForLongevity > #AgeReversal Think GoogleStreetView/Project Baselinehttps://t.co/48K86jwyEL /Longevity— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) February 4, 2020

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1224786796044677121?s=20
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Adding genes to reverse aging in mice & dogs @GeoChurch #AgeReversal #RealisticVirtualEarthForGenetics 'How soon could humans reverse the aging process with genetic engineering?' https://youtu.be/bnCEIPQFNnk #longevity #RealisticVirtualEarthForLongevity & !> https://youtu.be/yefzqDpJ5Oc ~
Adding genes to reverse aging in mice & dogs @GeoChurch #AgeReversal #RealisticVirtualEarthForGenetics 'How soon could humans reverse the aging process with genetic engineering?' https://t.co/TTMJ2nWw3l #longevity #RealisticVirtualEarthForLongevity & !> https://t.co/wxC5vjc2Yc ~— ScottMacLeod (@scottmacleod) February 4, 2020


https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1224790005345705985?s=20
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George Church '19 Reversing Aging @Harvard
https://youtu.be/yefzqDpJ5Oc
Richard Dawkins on Longevity
https://youtu.be/ASCWjyFvEuQ
Redesigning Longevity-Craig Venter '18
https://youtu.be/3ttt8HMQgAE
Announcement of the mapping of the human genome, a full 3 years ahead https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Venter ~ (which I teach about in my 'Society and Information Technology' course)
George Church '19 Reversing Aging @Harvardhttps://t.co/rvlZRsMhXg
Richard Dawkins on Longevityhttps://t.co/Bz8MkEMPJf
Redesigning Longevity-Craig Venter '18https://t.co/06zWLSVHvw
Announcement of the mapping of the human genome, a full 3 years ahead https://t.co/uIeuCMjwaj ~— Languages-World Univ (@sgkmacleod) February 5, 2020


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Hi M, 
So so many variables between now and Nov election ... getting out the Latino & Black votes ...could be very helpful.
Open Band was good last night, - and I have the sense after seeing Patti that somehow ethical air in group is clearing (where she has an unique CA read on this) ... she and Bruce, Heather & David are heading with their Humus SCD band to Hawaii for 2 weeks. Barbara Salisbury says she's coming back eventually, and Beth Christian is a good new fiddler. Nice to play in this band.
Lovely day here today and yesterday ... thanks for your email. Waiting on edX call back, having sent in shorter cover letter and resume as second application per Jim Spohrer.
Have a great day, and week.
Love, Scott
PS>
The full name of the Humus is ... the "Humuhumunukunukuapua'a & Strathspey Society Band"
Hawaiian-Scottish methinks :)


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what does humuhumunukunukuapua'a mean in english?

The reef triggerfish (Rhinecanthus rectangulus), also known as the rectangular triggerfish or by its Hawaiian name humuhumunukunukuāpuaʻa (pronounced [ˈhumuˈhumuˈnukuˈnukuˈwaːpuˈwɐʔə], meaning 'triggerfish with a snout like a pig'), also spelled humuhumunukunukuapua'a or just humuhumu for short, is one of several ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reef_triggerfish



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Hallo Dick, Lucy, Alden and Ma, 
After Iowa primary beginnings, this forecast of Democratic presidential caucus is frozen - "Who Will Win The 2020 Democratic Primary?" ... https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2020-primary-forecast/ - with Biden at the top as having the best odds to win. He seems to me most experienced, skillful - and image-wise too. And while he seems to me to have most potential to win in November, I'm still leaning a bit toward Elizabeth Warren, but am more rooting for the Democrats to win. (The Green Party doesn't seem to be playing much of a role in the Iowa caucuses whatsoever; you can see the caucuses the Green Party will participate in here - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Green_Party_presidential_primaries#Primary_and_caucus_calendar - for a bit of an outsider's perspective:). 
There are so so many variables between now and Nov election ... getting out the Latino - https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/01/31/where-latinos-have-the-most-eligible-voters-in-the-2020-election/ especially re Florida - and Black votes would be very helpful - with machine learning / AI especially.
From "Democracy Now" a few days ago: Law Professor: Trump Could Also Have Been Impeached for War Crimes, Assassinations & CorruptionStory - January 24, 2020
https://www.democracynow.org/2020/1/24/donald_trump_senate_impeachment_trial
Am hoping the world's oldest continuous constitutional democracy votes the b...... out ... :)
What think you?
Have applied for an edX (founded by Harvard and MIT) Director's position, as "Head of Content Strategy and Acquisition." 
Fondly, Scotty- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/history - 
- Scott MacLeod - Founder, President & Professor
- World University and School- http://worlduniversityandschool.org 
- 415 480 4577- http://scottmacleod.com 


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Family History and Genetics


Mark, 

I found this interesting that Venter suggests that we can predict from your genetic code your picture (at 18 minute mark) -

Redesigning Longevity - Craig Venter - 2018
https://youtu.be/3ttt8HMQgAE

Using machine learning, see if we could predict from your genetic code your picture (at 18 minute mark)

... and especially re a Realistic Virtual Earth and with Avatar Bots (which World Univ & SC is heralding) ... and a Realistic Virtual Earth for Genetics - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForGenetics?src=hashtag_click - with more here in this and related Twitter #HashTags which I've posted re Harvard / MIT Prof of Genetics' George Church's remarkable genetics' research that age is reversible, by adding genes! 
Some new finds: WikiTree doesn't do DNA testing, and this is how it thinks of this - 
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Help:DNA_Tests
WikiTree is proving to be a useful source for Sarah Bolles history and marriage to Humphrey Chadbourne, for ex. - https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Bolles-66 .... 
Cheers, Scott

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Mark MacLeod1:33 PM (2 hours ago)to meThanks for this. Very interesting.
I like the wiki advice on DNA tests. I think I was trying to express what they put more eloquently:
"Moreover, your matches can help you do something incredible: scientifically confirm your family tree. You think you know who your ancestors are. Now you can prove it, because your DNA is their DNA"
Mark

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Mark, 
Yay for the science of genetics regarding genealogy, and your paper, "Using DNA to gain insights into our MacLeod family history 1-29-20 by Mark MacLeod draft" !

3 Cheers, Scott

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Family history thread continued (from 7/12/2019 - 2/4/2020)

Scott MacLeod
1:55 PM (2 hours ago)
to Edith, Sandy, Susan, Karen, Alden, Janie, Scott, Ann, catherinemuller57, MacLeod, Pete, Jennifer, Jen, Scott, Susan, Derrick, erica.blanton

Hi All, Edith, Sandy, Alden, Janie, Mark, Browns, MacLeods and related families!

Here is the beginning of a new family genealogy email exchange thread.

Am finding further fascinating DNA developments re family genealogy questions. And am not clear yet whether my mother has sent in her AncestryDNA kit yet, or not, which she got for Christmas. (This email thread is up to 102 emails, so am beginning a new thread soon - 'Family history thread continued (from 7/12/2019 - 2/4/2020)' )

But first, I just connected on Ancestry .com Sarah Bolles to a Humphrey Chadbourne (and my mother's father was Alexander Chadourne Brown, aka Sandy Brown - in this same Chadbourne line) - and found this again: that Sarah Bolles' line can go back in a direct line to King Edward I of England -

Sarah Bolles has a well-established royal descent,  being descended from Edward I, King of England (1272-1307 ) and many earlier Kings of England, Scotland and France, as authenticated in Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists, by Frederick Lewis Weis, 6th Edition [1988] compiled by Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr. Joseph was bpt at Worksop, Nottinghamshire, 29 Feb 1608, son of Thomas, Esq. and Elizabeth (Perkins) Bolles of Oberton  Manor.

- which I had seen before, but which now would be interesting to see in a family tree, and which may be easier to see in WikiTree than in Ancestry.com. (Sarah Bolles in Ancestry .com - - https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/162331043/person/252115062505/story - and in WikiTree - https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Bolles-66 .... )


I also found it interesting that geneticist Craig Venter, who first mapped the human genome in 2000 (along with Francis Collins at the NIH - in 2 separate projects, and 3 years ahead of the projected completion date, thanks to computing), suggests that we can predict from your genetic code your picture (at 18 minute mark) -

Redesigning Longevity - Craig Venter - 2018
https://youtu.be/3ttt8HMQgAE

Using machine learning, see if we could predict from your genetic code your picture (at 18 minute mark)

... and especially regarding a Realistic Virtual Earth and with Avatar Bots (which World Univ & Sch is heralding) ... and a Realistic Virtual Earth for Genetics - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForGenetics?src=hashtag_click - with more here in this and related Twitter #HashTags which I've posted re Harvard / MIT Prof of Genetics' George Church's remarkable genetics' research that age is reversible, by adding genes!

Some new finds: WikiTree doesn't do DNA testing, and this is how it thinks of this - https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Help:DNA_Tests  WikiTree is proving to be a useful source for Sarah Bolles history and marriage to Humphrey Chadbourne, for ex. - https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Bolles-66 ....

Am glad too that Erica Blanton, newly in our email group and daughter of Karen Leighty, is doing genealogy in Ancestry. com too - ekleighty - https://www.ancestry.com/account/profile/013a8225-0001-0000-0000-000000000000 - !

And Mark MacLeod has recently shown via DNA evidence that the MacLeod name comes from the Isle of Raasay in the north of Scotland / the Highlands:

"In particular, I show that my great great-grandfather James MacLeod came from the Isle of Raasay in Scotland. His parents were Norman MacLeod and Isobel MacKenzie and the family emigrated to Prince Edward Island, Canada in 1839" (unpublished, still in draft form, 2020 paper).

Fascinating, Mark! - and thank you!

Cheers, Scott
Scott GK MacLeod III - https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/162331043/person/252114291549/facts -
Scott GK MacLeod III - https://www.wikitree.com/index.php?title=MacLeod-2524&public=1 -
- http://scottmacleod.com/family.htm
- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/genes
- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Gordon%20K.%20MacLeod%20MD -
- http://scottmacleod.com/ScottMacLeodFamilyHistory.htm -



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February 3, 2020

Painted turtle: Lego Robotics into Machine/Reinforcement Learning & CC-4 Wiki adding to WUaS, 3 Feb 2020 LiveStream * * Lego Special WeDo 2.0 Scratch BOXER * MIT Lego Robot Competition 1999 * Google Research Football * * * Guest Content for the Website *-



Lego Robotics into Machine/Reinforcement Learning & CC-4 Wiki adding to WUaS, 3 Feb 2020 LiveStream

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WUaS News Q&A #LiveStream FROM http://youtube. com/WorldUnivandSch MONDAY 2/3/20 at 10a PT Topic: WUaS Robotics @WorldUnivAndSch & @WUaSPress ~200 online Univs in lands' Langs https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Robotics @ScottMacLeod >info@ http://worlduniversityandschool.org to join #WorldUnivAndSchNewsQandA ~

WUaS News Q&A #LiveStream FROM http://youtube. com/WorldUnivandSch MONDAY 2/3/20 at 10a PT Topic: WUaS Robotics @WorldUnivAndSch & @WUaSPress ~200 online Univs in lands' Langs https://t.co/a53n3kl75l @ScottMacLeod >info@ https://t.co/N22Ucd0wg2 to join #WorldUnivAndSchNewsQandA ~— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) February 3, 2020


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WUaS News Q&A #LiveStream FROM http://youtube. com/WorldUnivandSch MONDAY 2/3/20 at 10a PT Topic: Your Questions/ideas
@WorldUnivAndSch & @WUaSPress online Univs in ~200 https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States @ScottMacLeod email info@ worlduniversityandschool.org to join #WorldUnivAndSchNewsQandA ~

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Guest Content for the Website

WUaS - World University and School
Sun, Feb 2, 7:30 PM (14 hours ago)
to nicoledgarrison26

Hi Nicole,

Thanks for reaching out. As you may have seen, World Univ and Sch is wiki, so you can openly wiki-add your own posts, writings or testimonials in an open teaching and learning vein (a little like adding to a Wikipedia article). See the main Subjects' page here - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects - for example.

That said, WUaS in general is MIT OpenCourseWare-centric - https://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm - and is heading, like CC-4 licensed MIT OCW, in the direction of CC-4 licensing for people adding their own content to WUaS, and here's an example - https://opencontent.org/blog/archives/307. By adding CC-4 licensing to one's writings, it's like ownership for sharing, and in brief, it says that anyone can a) share, b) adapt, but c) non-commercially (like MIT OCW itself). So it would allow you, Nicole, to post your writings - https://liveinspiredmag.com/about/ - with this kind of licensing.

If you wanted to add an article you wrote, Nicole, you could pick a wiki subject page, and cite them something like this ...

Miguel, Marie. 2018. [https://themighty.com/2018/05/i-didnt-choose-depression/ Depression is not a choice]. May 30. The Mighty: A Digital Health Community.

to /Psychotherapy at WUaS ?

Miguel, Marie. 2018. [https://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/talking-out-your-problems-with-a-psychologist-vs-a-psychiatrist-bh/ Talking Out Your Problems with a Psychologist vs. a Psychiatrist Who you’re revealing your mental health issues to matters]. May 28. The Good Men Project.

to /Psychology and /Psychiatry at WUaS ?

(In a related vein, someone recently asked WUaS:

"Would you be open to us collaborating and working together in some capacity?"

And I replied: Yes, and am seeking to think through what would be helpful for WUaS matriculating students in the autumn ...  Have blogged about our conversation and a related conversation here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/01/owl-online-psychoanalysis.html).

So you're welcome to add an article, Nicole, especially if it's CC-4 licensed.

Best, Scott

- https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch



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Published on February 03, 2020 15:18

February 2, 2020

February 1, 2020

Panthera: Stanford Law School CodeX Mtg (1/30 @1.30p PT): LawPilots * * Re cryptocurrencies - Brainstorming-wise, how would Law Pilot courses re GDPR and EU 'money laundering' directive work to regulate a post-Euro, coded-by-Stanford graduates, cryptocurre


[codex_group_meetings] TODAY! CodeX Mtg (1/30 @1.30p PT): LawPilots; SLS N102 (or via Zoom)
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Roland Vogl
Thu, Jan 30, 7:32 AM (2 days ago)
Hi Everyone, Our next CodeX meeting is today (Jan 30), from 1.30p to 2.30p PT, in Room N102 of the Neukom Building of SLS (or via Zoom link below). Our guest wi

Scott MacLeod
Thu, Jan 30, 2:18 PM (2 days ago)
Thanks so much, Philipp! Thanks for your great talk just now. Here's one of the questions I asked in your excellent Stanford Law CodeX presentation - What’s the

"Philipp v. Bülow"
Fri, Jan 31, 7:40 PM (15 hours ago)
Hi Scott, Thanks for your questions and interest. I answered the questions in the text below. Best regards, Philipp ___ Philipp von Bülow lawpilots — Managing D



Scott MacLeod
10:43 AM (53 minutes ago)
to Philipp, Roland, maevemacglinchey

Philipp, and Roland,

Thanks so much again for your timely and topical Law Pilot courses' CodeX presentation. Perhaps since Stanford just became a member in edX (Harvard and MIT founded educational platform based in the US and in Cambridge, MA), collaboration potential between Stanford Law, edX and LawPilot re platform will emerge. Both Law Pilots' lawyers in various countries, and regarding translation / tweaking, might be able to develop in this multilingual platform (& probably with developing machine learning).

Re crypto, yes it could be great to schedule a call. Brainstorming-wise, how would Law Pilot courses re GDPR and EU 'money laundering' directive work to regulate a post-Euro, coded-by-Stanford graduates, cryptocurrency called 'Pi' - which is mineable with algorithms? (Cryptocurrencies in general - eg Bitcoin, Etherium, Ripple, etc. +1000s - are potentially mineable, but Pi was coded specifically for end user mineability, by hitting the 'lightning' button). Could 'Pi' come after the Euro and the dollar in all ~200 countries' official languages - and how would this be regulated, and what would courses on an edX platform or a LawPilot platform look like? More about Pi here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/01/ligers-and-tiligers-and-panthera-leo-x.html - and in the 'UBI' label in my blog here.

And how would the trajectory of money laundering directives in Europe, brainstorming-wise, affect regulation of, and courses about, the 'Pi' cryptocurrency, planned to come after the Euro in 19 out of 28 nation states, (and after the dollar), via regulation - as well?

https://www.acams.org/aml-resources/eu-fourth-aml-directive/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/vishalmarria/2018/09/13/eu-5th-anti-money-laundering-directive-what-does-it-mean/#2121098ea5d3

https://ec.europa.eu/info/policies/justice-and-fundamental-rights/criminal-justice/anti-money-laundering-and-counter-terrorist-financing_en

I'm also writing to wish you a happy new year, and including my New Year's letter - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/12/wild-pomegranate-burchellia-bubalina.html - with its 5 initial reasons WUaS seeks to code, brainstorming-wise, for all 7.5 billion people on the planet, and much more.

When shall we schedule a call? (And I have in mind possible courses too taught in the ~200 planned Law Schools at World University and School - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Law_School - and see beginning Law Schools in other countries' languages below too, in these regards).

Vielen Dank, und Alles Gute.

Friendly regards, Scott

And in this blog post - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/01/ligers-and-tiligers-and-panthera-leo-x.html - you'll see this to explain a little further about Pi: that it still doesn't work on my Android smartphone fully, but last night the "Mine Pi" App newly opened on its own on my smart phone with one or two message indicators with Chinese or Asian names, but then the App couldn't open the next web link (which has happened before when I've tried 'driving' the App). Perhaps it's the welcome security architecture on Android.

I'm glad though the 'Mine Pi' App is 'off the shelf' in the Google Play Store and it's nearly 'there' and has the lightning button coded in, so one can mine this digital cryptocurrency. Am seeking at WUaS to explore UBI experiments for all 7.5 billion people (each a Wikidata PIN#) on the planet eventually to alleviate poverty - as well as to distribute a single cryptocurrency backed by some number of ~200 countries' central banks (probably via regulation, and compliance courses) and coming after the dollar, and the euro (in 19 out of 28 EU countries) currencies.



Law Schools at World University and School (planned in main languages in them)

Afghanistan Law School at WUaS: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Afghanistan_Law_School_at_WUaS

Brazil Law School at WUaS: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Brazil_Law_School_at_WUaS

China Law School at WUaS: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/China_Law_School_at_WUaS

Egypt Law School at WUaS: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Egypt_Law_School_at_WUaS

India Law School at WUaS: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/India_Law_School_at_WUaS

Jamaica Law School at WUaS: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Jamaica_Law_School_at_WUaS

Mexico Law School at WUaS: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Mexico_Law_School_at_WUaS

World University Law School: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Law_School




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Hi M, Ed and Larry, 

After communicating further with Bill, and thinking it would help to have an actor in this situation re all these agencies and their agents, I just sent this email via - https://sd07.senate.ca.gov/contact/email -  to Senator Glazor of Contra Costa county, and may head in to the nearby Orinda office on Monday as a followup (since I haven't yet got a confirmation email that his received this).

Senator Glazer:
Greetings. I'm writing about a Covered California to Medi-Cal health insurance issue. (I've lived in Contra Costa County for about 12 years now). Is there an ombudsman for this inquiry please? I just had $768.31 removed from my bank account yesterday by auto-payment to Kaiser Permanente, having had the same thing happen on 12/31/19 for the first time. How please do I stop this from happening again on 28 Feb., and also, please, get a refund of these 2 withdrawals of $768 from my bank accounts back into my bank account? Would this come from Kaiser or from Medi-Cal?
Prior to this in Nov. and Dec. 2019, I was told by Covered California in emails that my coverage would stay the same. And I saw no indication whatsoever about this transfer to Medi-Cal, let alone about an increase in KP premiums - that is, an increase of 38,400% (from $1.69 auto-payment withdrawal on Nov 30, 2019 under Covered California, - to $768 auto-payment withdrawal from my bank account to Kaiser on 12/31/19, and then $768.31 again on 1/31/2020.
Searching online, I learned this:http://mcap.dhcs.ca.gov/My_MCAP/CCA_to_MCAP_Switch_Process.aspx
Having received 2 Covered California letters about this in early January, and then gone in to the Pleasant Hill Contra Costa Social Services' office a week ago, I got the name of an 'eligibility worker,' J.Y., and a case # 1B4RL66, - and not hearing back from Ms. Y. within 24 hours per her message machine after calling on Th. 1/30/20, I’m writing to you.
I had asked on Ms. Y's message machine some of these Qs:* my February cost* whether January was overpaid* if a January overpayment can be credited to February and future months* if I or the state controls my bank’s automatic deduction
On what basis does my bank continue to send money to Kaiser? Can I pay by check? If so, what happens if I don’t pay?
Is there an ombudsman for this process please? Thank you very much for your assistance in this matter.
Scott GK MacLeod


Thanks so much to Bill R. for his and my conversation about this thus far! 






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