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In a case of ESPN-on-ESPN crime based not on conflicting reports but on conflicting personalities, Jason Taylor has lashed out at Bill Parcells.
Taylor, a former Dolphins defensive end who now serves as an ESPN commentator, and Parcells, a former Dolphins executive who now serves as an ESPN commentator, did not see eye to eye when they were together in Miami and still do not see eye to eye now that they're together in Bristol.
Taylor told the Miami Herald that he is "not the biggest Bill Parcells fan," saying that Parcells did a lousy job running the Dolphins from 2008 to 2010.
And the Herald says that "Taylor blasted Parcells" when discussing the way Parcells did his job as executive V.P. of football operations. Taylor ripped Parcells dealt for his "lack of building for the future, and the lack of commitment on his part."
Taylor had been one of the best and most popular Dolphins for a decade when Parcells arrived, but Parcells traded him to the Redskins shortly after Parcells got the job in Miami. After Taylor was released by the Redskins a year later Parcells signed him to a one-year deal, but after that year ended Parcells wasn't interested in having him back, so Taylor left for the Jets. After Parcells left, Taylor returned for a third stint with the Dolphins in 2011.
When Taylor got the job at ESPN this year, he said he didn't think Parcells would want him there.
"If Bill had anything to do with hiring me, they wouldn't have hired me or they would get rid of me," Taylor told the Herald. "I haven't talked to Bill since he got rid of me a second time."
If Taylor and Parcells bump into each other at the ESPN Christmas party, it won't be pretty.


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West Covina returns to the scene of the crime on Friday night when it takes on La Serna in a rematch of last year's CIF-Southern Section Southeast Division championship game, in which the Bulldogs put an all-time beatdown on the Lancers with an 84-21 win.
The two teams will be back at California High on Friday, but this time there's no championship on the line. Just major revenge for the Lancers and a chance to play in next week's title game for both teams.
Although West Covina is a much different team with a much different roster from last season, they're still the two-time defending division champions and represent the culprit in the most embarrassing loss in La Serna's history.
"I guess I'm trying to downplay that part of it," Maggiore said of last year's 84-21 score. "On the bus going home, I said I wished it was 35-14. I didn't want that to happen, but it's hard to tell the kids not to play."
West Covina jumped all over La Serna in last year's title game behind the likes of Chris Solomon, Jimmy Frazier, Justen Meaders and Dorrin Turner. All of them graduated in June and the Bulldogs now feature a roster of several guys playing out of position due to a season-long injury bug that's caused coaches to shuffle the starting lineups on seemingly a weekly basis
Last week, junior Henry Tarin became the Bulldogs' third quarterback of the season when he stepped in for injured Jon Najera so that back-up quarterback Antonio "Noodles" Hull could remain at running back. Tarin will likely see considerable time under center again this week.
Although several key cogs from last year's La Serna's team have also graduated, there are plenty who still remember the embarrassment on the roster. None more important than junior quarterback Frankie Palmer, who has become arguably the top player in the division.
La Serna has been a force this season. The Lancers are 11-1 and haven't lost since a setback against Norco on Sept. 21. West Covina is 8-4 and riding a four-game win streak that has seen the Bulldogs knock off league champions Paramount and Muir in the first two rounds of the playoffs.
"They're much better than they were last year," Maggiore said of La Sernra. "You can tell they're much more confident. They're a great football team and it's going to be tough."

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((Warning: Violence, Language, Domestic abuse.))
It wasn't a dark and stormy night. Those weren't scary. It was a normal night, and Daddy was home. Mama was scared. He could tell Mama was scared. Daddy was angry, so Mama was scared.
"You ruined the roast," Daddy said. Mama tensed. He could see her spine straighten even as her eyes filled with fear. Her right eye was rimmed with a bruise already. She had refused to go to the market today, instead sending him to get the cut of roast for dinner like Daddy liked. It wasn't the first time. Mama didn't like showing folks that Daddy hit her.
"I-" "Stuff it," Daddy growled. He picked his slab of roast off his plate with his fork, holding it up. "Do you see this? It's under-cooked." Daddy threw it on the ground. He stood and crossed the space in what felt like a heartbeat and dealt a blow across Mama's face so hard she fell to the floor. "You can't do anything right!" he screamed at her as the boy watched.
"I have to go away for weeks at a time to support you and the brat. I have to deal with all sorts of idiots trying to gyp me out of what I am due, all so that you can continue to live comfortably here. I work and struggle while you sit here in the lap of luxury! And how do you thank me? You fuck up the meal that you welcome me home with! Worthless bitch! I should have wedded your sister." Daddy stood over Mama, boots beside her shoulders, as she tried not to cry. His neck was red. The boy wished that they would stop screaming.
"I bet this one isn't even mine. I haven't fucked you in months." Daddy kicked at Mama's swollen stomach. She curled defensively, taking the kick on her side. The boy screamed, drawing Daddy's attention. Daddy grabbed the boy by the collar and hauled him from his seat. "Shut your yap, you little shit. You're worthless. Less than worthless. You cost me money." Daddy punched the boy, releasing his shirt and allowing the blow to drive the boy to the floor. Mama screamed at Daddy and struck him in the head with a hot pan. "He's yours, you monster, but this one isn't."
"He's yours...but this one isn't."
The words echoed in the silence. Daddy stood there, stunned into stillness and silence. When he finally moved again, his face was that of a beast. He roared at Mama, driving her to the floor and punching her face again and again. The boy wouldn't learn the meaning for the words he called her for long to come, but he could understand the intent. The boy's hand collided with the handle of a knife. It had been Daddy's from dinner. The boy stared at the knife. Another sickening thud, Mama stopped moving, and Daddy was still hitting her. The boy grabbed the knife and ran at Daddy, the knife held high.
Daddy spun and grabbed the boy by the throat.
That's not how it happened.
Daddy held the boy by the throat now, only now the boy was a man, and Daddy was taller, stronger. The man had pale skin and bloodshot eyes, but it had been that way since before he had the air taken from him. He was haggard, having worked for hours, days, nights, it didn't matter, he was so close. Mama's body was replaced by hers. She was dead, but still radiant. He had preserved her corpse because he was going to undo her death, but the mob had found out and they had come for him. The flames of the torches flickered off the walls and in through the windows.
Then it wasn't Daddy holding him, but a noose. His feet dangled on open air as he watched them burn her body as was tradition in this backwater town. He tried to scream, but he had no air, and his serum didn't work. He wasn't healing. He wasn't surviving. He was dying.
That's not how it happened.
Now he was in a grave and she was eating him alive. Her golden hair tickled his nose as her teeth ripped his lips from his face. Her perfect face was covered in his blood, and he couldn't scream because the noose was around his neck and his mouth filled with dirt and he couldn't even scream. He couldn't even scream.
That's not how it happened.
Then how did it happen?
You didn't die, for one.
How do you know?
Call it a hunch.
The dreamscape wavered. The grave was replaced with a cobblestone street. Old buildings came into place, their grey stone wet from the rain. In the gutter sat a frail girl with raven black hair and green eyes. Something about the shape of her eyes reminded the boy of himself. He caught a look at his own face in the reflection of a puddle, and realized that the shape was the same, even if the color had never been similar. The girl was pointing a knife at him. She had declared she was going to kill him if he didn't give her his coin purse. She didn't know about the knife under his sleeve, by his wrist. She wasn't worried.
And she couldn't see Daddy behind her.
He moved with an unnatural speed, and yet Daddy was faster. He was atop her in a moment, beating the little girl that could very well have been his sister if the eyes were telling the truth. Daddy was beating her to death like he had done Mama, and the ground had turned to tar and he couldn't save her.
He couldn't save his sister.
He couldn't save Mama.
He couldn't save HER.
Who is this "her"?
It was summer. The man was a teen. He was walking with her hand in his. Her golden hair fell to her waist and blew in the breeze, flowers interlaced. Her dress was white, then it bloomed red. Time stopped for him as she fell to the ground, an arrow sprouting from her back. When she hit the ground, the scene shifted and her head was being held up by Daddy, sitting on a pile of furs. Her dress had been ripped to shreds and she had been beaten, but the arrow was nowhere to be seen. The boy tried to go to her, but he couldn't. His legs and arms were tied to a post and there was fire burning beneath him. The fire leaped up and seared at his flesh, consuming him as Daddy broke her neck and threw her limp body to the wolves he was keeping chained in the corner. He could only watch as they tore her body to shreds, the pain of losing her worse than the pain of the flames eating him alive.
That seems close to the truth, but a lie again.
The dream stopped and a woman appeared. Her hair was long and straight, hanging to the middle of her back like a black shroud. She was naked, her alabaster skin almost as pale as his was in the vision with the girl. Her skin showed evidence of years of fighting, scars from blades and arrows and bolts of magic marring her flesh in so many places it looked like she had been intentionally allowing the wounds to scar. Among the scars were tattoos. Runes in some ancient language, tattooed in black and red and covering many of the scars, some woven into the scars. She looked at him, showing a face that was not typically beautiful, but a work of art in its own right. Intelligence brimmed from her fierce green eyes, eyes that seemed so much like his used to be, and yet still different. "You know we were warned of the risks of a battle in dreams, Inzema," she said, as if scolding. "You should have prepared for this." She gestured and brought back an image of Mama. She gestured again and an image of the girl from the street appeared beside her. She seemed to be studying it.
How...how are you...
"Shush, this is taking a lot of concentration, especially while I am dealing with my own nightmare." The woman gestured, and Mama's face seemed to age ten years in a single second. The woman tapped her finger against her cheek, assessing it, then waved again. Mama's face was rearranged, her jaw malformed, one eye blinded and looking in the wrong direction. An indentation formed above her blind eye. "Well I'll be damned. That's why."
Why what?
"You already know. It will make sense when you wake up. Half siblings." She laughed and disappeared. Daddy replaced her, the image of Mama and the girl disappearing like fog. The fire burned at his legs as Daddy started stabbing him in the stomach with a jagged knife. Over. And Over. And Over.
In the forest, Qarosimae woke. Her own dream had been easy to deal with. Had she not been expecting it, she would have fallen for it immediately and as thoroughly as Inzema had, but her awareness broke the captivating spell of the dream as easily as a glass pane upon the cobbles. She stood and brushed her robes off, retrieved her glasses from where they had fallen, and replaced them on the bridge of her nose. She looked down at the thrashing form of Inzema, still trapped in his own dream. "I know your secret. Big brother, how distasteful."
A realization struck her, and she smacked her forehead. "Oh, frost, fire, and arcane. I was supposed to seek out Accalia in the dream!" She sighed and looked around the woods. "I suppose that I can just wait to guard the bodies from beasts..."


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BBC News Wales have reported that 46,000 patients have had to find new Top Doctors in the past five years after GPs practices have shut. Last year's closures were the highest in the five-year period, with the BMA saying the closures put 'extra pressure' on the system. The situation is particularly bad in north Wales, with many patients, including the elderly, having to travel many miles to see a GP. The patients will be on buses as well, not in expensive cars like the Top Docs.
Dr Charlotte Jones, Chair of the BMA's GP Committee Wales, said surgeries were struggling to stay afloat due to problems recruiting and retaining doctors, the 'sheer volume' of workloads, 'under-resourcing' and 'overwhelming bureaucracy'.
Duw it's hard, with the Top Docs being among the highest paid people in Wales, with many of them working a whole three days/week and many now retiring at 55 yrs old .
Charlotte, can I ask if Dr D.G.E. Wood, who facilitated the trafficking gang in north Wales, is still playing a leading role in GP training in north Wales and the Royal College of GPs? In 2017 Dr Eamonn Jessup, a GP from north Wales, Spoke Out About The Crisis. Eamonn is or was a colleague of Wood's, they were both popping over to Cyprus to hold clinics together!
BBC News Wales also reported today that homeless people in Wrexham – Wrexham now has one of the biggest homelessness problems in Wales – will be housed in shipping containers. Not permanently, that would be greedy of them. They will be housed in shipping containers over Christmas. They won't all be able to fit into the shipping containers, because only a few shipping containers will be available and there are more homeless people than shipping containers, but at least a lucky few will have a shipping container over their heads for Christmas.
By the age of 40, D.G.E. Wood was living in the second most expensive house in the expensive (by Anglesey standards) village of Llandegfan. The most expensive house was owned by Top Doctor Terry Maxwell, the Medical Director of Ysbyty Gwynedd. Terry Maxwell presided over slaughter and scandal and was given a performance-related pay award in return for cutting the already terrible mental health services, in the run up to the Waterhouse Inquiry. After Maxwell did his best, many patients became destitute and some died. Maxwell was a heart and lung specialist who trained at Liverpool. Liverpool thought so much of Terry Maxwell that in 1984, Liverpool University rang up Terry Maxwell's daughter Sonia and offered her a place to do medicine, even though she hadn't applied to Liverpool. Sonia continued to turn her nose up at Liverpool and trained at one of the London hospitals instead. She returned to Gwynedd to practice as a GP in Llanberis. Sonia Maxwell is one of the GPs in Llanberis who unlawfully refused to treat a Hergest Unit patient who had complained after being wrongfully imprisoned on the basis of the perjury of Hergest staff. For further details see post 'Maxwell's Silver Hammer'.
Some 20 years ago, a cardiologist from Ysbyty Gwynedd, Dr David Thomas, attempted suicide by driving his car over the edge of a mountain. He was sacked by Ysbyty Gwynedd, publicly denounced, sectioned and admitted to the Hergest Unit where all confidentiality was broken. I always wondered what it was that Dr Thomas had been so frightened of, particularly as it involved Terry Maxwell (see post 'A Mystery From Twenty Years Ago').
Let me remind the dedicated, committed, Top Docs of the wider UK of a few more of their activities.
Readers might remember that after Blair won his electoral landslide in May 1997, the Tories began ripping each others throats out and held a leadership contest. This was the moment that Heseltine had wanted, another chance for him to have a final stab at becoming Tory leader and eventually PM, but Hezza was getting on a bit and had previously experienced a heart attack when he was living it up in Venice in 1993. Hezza had been filmed climbing from a hospital trolley into an ambulance looking like death warmed up and later maintained that this was because he had gout. Hezza's gout caused him to take four months off work and the gout also prevented him from conducting himself as usual ie. waving the Mace around, making weak jokes about the Labour Party, flicking his hairstyle about and generally being a tosser. He did make an appearance at the Party Conference, but what with that gout, he wasn't up and leading them all in a rousing speech, he just entertained the crowd with a few arm movements.
The candidates for the Tory leadership in 1997 were Ken Clarke, Peter Lilley, William Hague, Michael Howard and John Redwood. Hague of course won, among much bad feeling, because the constituency parties had overwhelmingly wanted Ken Clarke, but the Parliamentary Party wanted Hague. The constituency parties were unaware that the Parliamentary Party were eternally grateful to Hague for organising the Waterhouse Inquiry, thus concealing the barrel of shit which was the North Wales Child Abuse Scandal and the key role that Thatcher's personal friend, the Tory MP for Chester, Sir Peter Morrison – who had been found safely dead on 13 July 1995 – played in it. Bing Spear, the corrupt Chief Inspector of the Home Office Drugs Branch who was so accommodating re Dafydd (see post 'Little Things Hitting Each Other'), had died on 9 July 1995. So that was two problems out of the way before the Waterhouse Inquiry.
Heseltine didn't in the end stand in the leadership contest, although he was the stand-out favourite when John Major announced his resignation. Heseltine is someone who knows about the Westminster Paedophile Ring and the role that Dafydd and the gang played in it. Heseltine was the Tory MP for Tavistock in Devon, 1966-74 and knew all about his fellow Devon MP, Jeremy Thorpe. Heseltine then served as the MP for Henley, 1974-2001 and held numerous Ministerial, Shadow Cabinet and Cabinet roles, under Heath, Thatcher and Major. He was in Gov't with Peter Morrison and Norman St John Stevas – another MP whom I was told when I worked in London was known to be abusing boys – and will have known about the rest of the allegations of organised abuse that were concealed until very recently. Heseltine came from Swansea and there was an abuse gang in west Wales with links to Dafydd's crew in north Wales.
Even Heseltine's much trumpeted success at regenerating Liverpool, a cause close to his heart, was achieved – if indeed it was achieved – as a result of his close working relationship with Sir Trevor Jones, the Liberal leader of Liverpool City Council. Trevor Jones was born in north Wales to Welsh parents and he was networked into the empire of Dafydd's gang (see post 'He Knows Where The Bodies Are Buried'). It was Heseltine who arranged for the first of five bi-annual National Garden Festivals to be held in Liverpool in 1984. Trevor Jones arranged for the City Council to delegate the bid to the Merseyside Development Corporation, of which Trevor Jones was a Director. More than 3 million people eventually attended. Two of those people were Brown and me. When Liz Stables, the Angel who worked at the Student Health Centre at Bangor University, was still pretending to be friends with Brown and me and was extracting information from us which she then relayed back to Dr D.G.E. Wood and others in Dafydd's gang, Liz gave us a lift to Liverpool to go to the Garden Festival. Liz knew Liverpool well, she had been a teacher there in the 1960s and used to tell me about the girls in her class whom she knew were working as prostitutes. Liz kept in touch with some of them as their adult lives really hit the pits and they ended up addicted to Class A drugs, in prison etc. At the time I thought that Liz was showing genuine friendship to some people who'd had a terrible time, but now I know that Liz was mates with Dafydd et al and that Dafydd's gang were procuring young people for sex work outside of north Wales, including in Liverpool, I find Liz's interest in the lives of those women rather worrying. Liz left Liverpool and teaching in 1969 to train and then work as an Angel in the old C&A Hospital in Bangor, where Dafydd and the gang were operating…
My post 'Those Who Are Ready To Serve' provided details of Heseltine's role in the future of Westland Helicopters, a small ailing company in Somerset, which employed Janet Mitchell, a girl who was one of my playmates when I was young and who knew what had happened/was happening to me in north Wales, who's career took off like a rocket after Heseltine took a sudden inexplicable interest in Westland.
After deciding not to stand for the Tory leadership in 1997, Heseltine, a very rich man thanks to his property developing and publishing business, devoted himself to his arboretum and 50 acre garden. There is archive footage of Heseltine and his family being interviewed after Heseltine left politics and every one of them ends up in tears at the memory of poor old Hezza never becoming PM, including of course Hezza himself. Is it not touching that as with Thatch, the only time that these people show any emotion is when they are kicked out of high office or indeed don't reach it?
One of the archive clips about Hezza enlightened me as to the reason why Hezza decided not to stand for the Tory leadership in 1997. It was as a result of a conversation that Hezza had with his Top Doctor, the cardiologist Peter Mills, under who's care Hezza was after that nasty attack of gout. After his conversation with Peter Mills resulted in Hezza deciding not to stand himself, Hezza supported Ken Clarke for the leadership.
Peter Mills, like all the best Top Docs, will have known about the Westminster Paedophile Ring, but Mills will have had a particular hotline to and interest in Dafydd and the gang, because Peter Mills, when a young Top Doctor, had worked at St George's Hospital Medical School, which for years concealed Dafydd's gang and a linked paedophile/trafficking gang in south London.
In an interview about his career, Mills was quoted as saying: 'My father was a GP but I was always rather rebellious and so chose to read biochemistry at Oxford. I realised I was wrong and changed to medicine when it became apparent I was more interested in people than science. In contrast to today's young medics, who seem forced to decide at medical school which career path to follow in order to shape their CV, we had much more freedom to choose our speciality relatively later. I believe cardiology chose me, rather than the other way around. An unexpected vacancy arose at St Georges Hospital at Hyde Park Corner where I was a locum and so I was invited to study Cardiology.'
Not only did many of the staff at St George's conceal organised abuse, but Professor Oliver Brooke was employed as a paediatrician there from the mid-1970s until he was jailed for the possession of child porn in 1986. Brooke was a key figure in a pan-European paedophile gang. After Brooke was jailed, his colleagues and friends remained working at St George's colluding with the gang, some of them being active members. See post 'The Most Dangerous Man In The World – Part III'.
Ken Clarke knew what was going on at St George's when Clarke was Health Minister and subsequently Secretary of State for Health, 1988-90. Furthermore, it was when Clarke was in Health that he and Thatch had to sort out a little local difficulty re St George's. The original St George's Hospital at Hyde Park Corner had been developed as a result of a bequest given by the Duke of Westminster in the 18th century. After St George's had relocated to its new site in Tooting in 1980, the then Duke of Westminster, Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor, told Thatch and Ken Clarke that he wanted the market price for the original site which had been donated by his ancestor. The Hyde Park Corner site was a piece of Knightsbridge real estate worth millions. The Gov't refused the Duke's request, but instead resolved the problem by letting the Duke buy the Hyde Park Corner site for £6000.
The Duke of Westminster was the President of the City of Chester Conservative Party's Constituency Association, the local MP being Sir Peter Morrison. Gyles Brandreth succeeded Morrison as Tory MP for Chester and Gyles has been frank that Morrison 'having sex with little boys' was openly gossiped about by members of the constituency association as well as local people whom Gyles met when he was campaigning. The Duke of Westminster was a close friend of Carlo. Peter Morrison's sister Dame Mary Morrison spent most of her life as Woman of the Bedchamber to Lilibet.
Boys from Bryn Estyn were taken to the Duke's estate for 'work experience' but refused to return there without explaining why.
Peter Mills worked as a consultant cardiologist at the Royal London Hospital and subsequently the London Chest Hospital, which both became part of Bart's Health, for around 35 years. It was Barts who found that they were 'unable to revive' John Smith, the leader of the Labour Party, after his heart attack on 12 May 1994. Matt Arnold, the Head of Bryn Estyn, died from an 'unspecified blood disease' on 9 June 1994. On 13 June 1994 the trial of Arnold's friend and colleague Peter Howarth and Paul Wilson for sexual offences against boys in care began.
Dafydd's mate Professor Linford Rees was a leading light at Barts for many years and provided much protection for Dafydd. Linford Rees was from west Wales and furthermore had extensive showbiz connections via his daughter, the actress Angharad Rees and her husband Christopher Cazenove (see post 'A Galaxy Of Talent'). Barts' concealing of organised abuse was given a further helping hand by the very close connections that Lady Juliet Bingley of MIND had with Bart's – Juliet's father had been a surgeon at Bart's and Juliet worked for a while as a medical almoner (social worker) at Bart's. Juliet's son William continued the collusion with Dafydd et al in William's capacity as Legal Director of MIND and then Chief Exec of the Mental Health Act Commission (see previous posts).
So after the chat with the Top Doc who was formerly of St George's and Barts, old Hezza decided to offer Ken Clarke his support with regard to Clarke's ambitions to lead the Tory Party and ultimately become PM. The Ken who was at the scene when the Duke of Westminster – Britain's richest man – picked up a prime piece of Knightsbridge that the NHS was flogging off for a bit of loose change.
The information concerning Peter Mills's career is provided on the website of Cavendish Medical. Cavendish Medical is a company which provides 'financial planning' services for 'senior medical and NHS professionals'. I don't think that Cavendish Medical simply manage the Top Docs' Post Office savings accounts. Mills talks about his hobbies, which includes medieval art and explains that he has a 'travel fund' which enables him to jet around the globe in pursuit of this interest, the travel fund resulting from his Cavendish investments.
Peter Mills was Chairman of Cardiology SAC for the Royal College of Physicians, 2002-06, which involved Mills taking a leading role in the education of cardiologists. In 2015, the media reported that 'Dr Peter Mills, the Football Association's regional cardiologist for South East England', was found by the High Court to have been negligent with regard to his treatment of Tottenham Hotspur footballer Radwen Hamed, who in 2006, when he was 17, suffered a cardiac arrest in his first game for the club and was left brain damaged. It was believed that the damages could reach £7 million.
The archive film of the interview with Hezza included a camera shot of the name plate of Peter Mills' Harley Street practice, which showed that Mills shared his practice with Top Docs Duncan Empey and Michael Wareing.
I presume that Duncan Empey is Prof Duncan Empey, who has helpfully provided the following details on his LinkedIn profile:
Medical Director, Barts and The London NHS Trust, 1994-01
Professor Emeritus, University of Hertfordshire, March 2009-March 2012;
Group Medical Director, BMI Healthcare, Jan 2008-Dec 2012
Responsible Officer, BMI Healthcare, Dec 2012-Sept 2016
Trustee, National Council for Osteopathic Research, Jan 2018-present
Board Member, The Osteopathic Foundation, Sept 2017-present
Top Doctor Michael Wareing is an ENT specialist who works at The London Clinic. Wareing has his own website '145 ENT', which contains the following information:
'Welcome to the website for Mr Michael Wareing, MBBS BSc, FRCS(ORL-HNS), Consultant Ear, Nose and Throat Surgeon. Michael Wareing is a London based Consultant Ear, Nose & Throat (ENT) Surgeon. He has an NHS practice which is based at St Bartholomew's & The Royal London Hospitals, where he has also been the Head of the ENT Department in 2 separate spells, 2003-9 and 2012-14. His private practice is based at The London Clinic where he has a fully equipped consulting suite at 145 Harley Street. Mr Wareing has over 25 years experience as a doctor and has been a consultant since 2000. He offers expertise in all aspects of General ENT as well as supraspecialist knowledge in Ear & Skull Base Surgery, Voice Disorders, Dizziness & Tinnitus, Sinus Disease and Children's Ear Problems. He has concentrated his private practice in one place to ensure the very best continuity of care for all his patients'.
The 'profile' section on Wareing's website tells us that: 'Michael Wareing was educated at the Haberdasher Aske's School for Boys, Elstree and entered St Bartholomew's Medical School (Barts) in 1982. Following success in his preclinical studies, he took the opportunity to spend a year of further study to complete a BSc in Pharmacology. He returned to his clinical training at Barts in 1985 where he developed an interest in ENT, and won the Sydney Scott Prize for Otorhinolaryngology (ENT) in 1988. He qualified as a doctor in the same year.
He worked in a number of busy posts in Neurosurgery, General Surgery and A&E in southeast England during his general surgical training, before taking up an ENT position at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge. During this time he passed both the General Surgical and ENT Fellowships of The Royal College of Surgeons of England. His specialty ENT training gave him experience and expertise not only in District General Hospitals, but also in tertiary referral centres such as Guys, Kings & St Thomas' Hospitals, and the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children. He also developed a particular subspecialty interest in Otology (diseases of the Ear) and Ear Surgery.'
Michael Wareing worked at Guy's and Tommy's with Ed Miliband's Uncle Harry then! And of course with Dafydd's friend and umbrella Professor Jim Watson the sex therapist (see post 'A Galaxy Of Talent').
'In 1997 the King's Fund awarded him a prestigious TWJ Travelling Fellowship to enable him to spend seven months in the Laboratory of Molecular Otology at the University of California at San Francisco. There he studied inner ear gene therapy and performed new and exciting research on the roles of liposomes and viruses in introducing genetic material to the cochlea.
In 1999 he was awarded the Skull Base Fellowship at Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge, where he was able to refine his interest in Ear, Acoustic Neuroma and Skull Base Surgery.
In 2000, Mr Wareing returned to St Bartholomew's and The Royal London Hospitals as a Consultant ENT Surgeon. This was a high profile position which incorporated the dual role of maintaining a general ENT practice of adult and paediatric patients from the City of London, Islington and East End of London, whilst also being the Lead Clinician in Otology, Ear Surgery, Acoustic Neuroma and Skull Base Surgery. He ran a specialist Voice Clinic, and a Paediatric Ear Disease Clinic.
From 2003-9 Mr Wareing took over the additional role of Lead Clinician for the department of Otorhinolaryngology: Head and Neck Surgery at St Bartholomews and The Royal London Hospitals. This position allowed him to further develop the ENT services offered in both the City of London and the East End of London. He relinquished the role, only to be reappointed as the Lead Clinician in 2012. He enjoys working closely with many allied Health Professionals, where he is known as a helpful, reliable and considerate expert. He is in charge of the appointment and appraisal of ENT Colleagues, both Consultants and Junior Staff alike. He also has wide ranging responsibilities for the education of Medical Students within their ENT attachment, and also for GP Postgraduate ENT Education.
(Company No 09903639-Registered in England & Wales)
Wareing's website helpfully introduces us to his 'team':
'Ms Rebecca Bas is Mr Wareing's Practice Manager, Secretary and PA. She joined the team in early 2014. She has extensive experience as a Medical PA, previously working for a leading OMFS surgeon for 18 years. She ensures the highest standards of administrative care and advice for all Mr Wareing's patients. Rebecca is responsible for the day to day running of the practice and co-ordinates the booking of appointments, organisation of any tests required, and admission for surgical procedures. She is highly dedicated to ensuring that all aspects of your care are dealt with in an efficient and caring manner, easing the path back to full health. Many of Mr Wareing's patients pass comment on her helpful and organised approach to their care. Rebecca works full time for Mr Wareing and can be contacted during normal working hours, five days a week.'
'Mrs Jackie Richards is Mr Wareing's Accounts Manager. Having worked as his PA and Practice Manager for over 10 years, she has reduced her workload but still retains a key role in ensuring efficient practice management in all spheres.' So Jackie ensures that you cough up the money before Mr Wareing is ready to see to your every clinical need.
'Dr Anil Patel is a Consultant Anaesthetist who works privately with Mr Wareing. He has an NHS practice at the Royal National Nose Throat and Ear Hospital, Grays Inn Road – just next door to the lawyers! – and has extensive experience in all aspects of ENT Anaesthesia. He is a particular authority on the difficult airway and the use of the laryngeal mask in ENT Anaesthesia and lectures extensively both nationally and internationally on ENT Anaesthesia'.
'Dr Kamran Ahmad is a Consultant Anaesthetist who works with Mr Wareing at Barts and The London as well as in private practice. He has extensive experience of ENT Anaesthesia and is dedicated to making the ENT journey.'
'Mr Ian Sabin is a Consultant Neurosurgeon who works jointly with Mr Wareing at The Royal London Hospital, where they run a combined Skull Base and Acoustic Neuroma clinic on a monthly basis and receive referrals from around the southeast of England. Mr Sabin has been a Consultant for 16 years. He has particular expertise in the Neurosurgical aspects of Skull Base Surgery and a wealth of experience in the use of Gamma Knife Radiosurgery. His areas of interest include Skull Base Surgery, Cervical Spine Surgery, and the treatment of trigeminal neuralgia and pituitary tumours. Private patients requiring both ENT and Neurosurgical expertise are seen individually by both Mr Wareing and Mr Sabin and are then discussed jointly by the Consultant to ensure optimisation of management, in conjunction with patient desires.'
Mr Sabin is available for those patients whom the Walton Centre have left to die because of their association with those who have challenged the paedophiles' friends in north Wales (see post 'A Vampire at Glyndwr University!'). Or probably not, if a distress flare has been sent up by Dafydd.
Mr Wareing of Very Expensive Private Practice has featured in the media, including in that organ dedicated to the NHS 'The Guardian', as well as the Mirror and the BBC. Not that Mr Wareing bothers to supply a photo of these publications, he prioritised 'Tatler' in that regard.
Mr Wareing works at The London Clinic, a private clinic which sprawls over much of the Harley Street disctrict of London.
John Biffen, the Thatcherite Tory MP who went to school with my father and who knew about the Westminster Paedophile Ring and the lengths to which a great many people were going to conceal it (see post 'A Local Boy Made Good'), was a Trustee of The London Clinic, 1994-2002, which spans the whole period of the Waterhouse Inquiry and the publication of the Waterhouse Report.
In Ian MacGregor's book 'The Story Of The Miners' Strike 1984-5′, MacGregor mentions that when he read that John Paul Getty II had given £100k to the striking miners' Christmas appeal in 1984 which had been launched by Anne Scargill, Arthur Scargill's wife, MacGregor called upon David Hart – the shady right wing figure who was behind many dark matters during Thatcher's years in office – to arrange a meeting between MacGregor and Getty at 'The London Clinic' 'where he was more or less permanently in residence'. At the meeting, Getty gave Hart a cheque for £100k to the National Working Miners.
Scargill's daughter is a Top Doctor. Scargill's friend Michael Mansfield QC who founded the Socialist Labour Party with Scargill knew what was happening to me in north Wales in 1993 because I wrote and told him about it. I wrote to Mansfield and explained that I had been prosecuted under the legislation introduced by Thatcher's Gov't to criminalise picketing miners after I attempted to get answers from the north Wales mental health services when Top Docs and Gwynedd Social Services social workers had broken the law. The much publicised police investigation into a possible paedophile ring in north Wales/Cheshire was underway when I was prosecuted and when I wrote to Mansfield. He wrote me a one line reply thanking me for my letter.
The website of The London Clinic is a source of high quality entertainment. We are told that 'The London Clinic is one of the UK's largest private hospitals, dedicated to providing the best, personalised healthcare with a breadth of surgical and medical expertise. The London Clinic has a number of premises across Harley Street and Devonshire Place…'
The London Clinic may be one of the UK's largest private hospitals, but they're all heart down at The London Clinic: 'The charitable status of The London Clinic means that our surpluses are reinvested back into the hospital and our journey since 1932 has seen significant expansion and development'.
This charidee has been so successful at raising dosh to reinvest back into itself that The London Hospital's Duchess of Devonshire Wing cost ninety million quid and that was a few years ago.
Highlights in the evolution of The London Hospital include:
In 1932, The opening of The London Clinic, which was performed by the Duchess of York, accompanied by the Duke of York (later King George VI) on 18th February 1932.
On 10 May 1949, a visit by Winston Churchill to Anthony Eden (later Lord Avon), presumably when Eden was laid up in The London Clinic.
In 1963 Elizabeth Taylor was spotted leaving The London Clinic with her knee in a splint after falling on a film set.
In 1989 HRH Prince Carlo opened the physiotherapy department at The London Clinic.
In 1991 HRH Princess Margaret, aka Ma'am Darling, who availed herself of the services of a few private Top Docs herself in her quest for chemical recreation (see post 'Little Things Hitting Each Other') opened the MRI unit in the radiology department. Ma'am Darling's husband Lord Snowdon was the bisexual son of a Welsh Top Doc; Lord Snowdon was reputed to have used the services of rent boys and used to visit north Wales. As an elderly man, Lord Snowdon had a relationship with Marjorie Wallace, who's selfless service to Top Docs who were involved with serious organised crime was pretty much unsurpassed (see post 'One Dangerous Fucker').
In 2002, TV star Martine McCutcheon opened the latest development of The London Clinic at 119 Harley Street. Martine was an actress in East Enders. As was Barbara Windsor, who probably would have been a more suitable celeb to have opened a new bit of The London Clinic.
In 2005, Nigel Havers opened the new consulting room suites at 145 Harley Street. Nigel is the son of Sir – later Lord – Michael Havers, the Tory MP for Wimbledon, 1970-87, who had many constituents who doubled up as Top Docs at St George's. Havers was the corrupt Attorney General for England and Wales as well as for N Ireland, 1979-87, who consistently blocked the prosecution of 'VIP paedophiles', as well as the prosecution of nearly all not such VIP paedophiles in north Wales/Cheshire. His sister Lord Elizabeth Butler-Sloss concealed the extent of the Cleveland Child Abuse Scandal (see post 'Twas The Night Before Christmas And The Culprits Were Named') and during the brief few minutes for which she Chaired the IICSA, Butler-Sloss tried to prevent any investigations into the Anglican Church. Butler-Sloss is a high profile Anglican.
In 2007 the Duchess of Devonshire attended the official opening of the new consulting room building at 5 Devonshire Place. The Duchess of Devonshire, who was born Deborah Freeman-Mitford, one of the famous fascist family.
Debo's daughter Emma married Tobias Tennant, son of the 2nd Lord Glenconner. Charlie Tennant, the eldest son of the 3rd Lord Glenconner, was the heroin addict who flogged photos of Princess Margaret in fancy dress at a knees-up to raise money for drugs. Charlie's dad the 3rd Lord Glenconner owned Mustique, the island that Ma'am Darling used to visit to let her hair down with her toyboy Roddy Llewellyn, where she wandered around in a kaftan like a Royal Elizabeth Taylor. Charlie Tennant died in 1996, of either Hep B or HIV, I've forgotten which. Debo's daughter Sophia's second husband was Alastair Morrison, Sir Peter Morrison's nephew.
After David Cameron became PM, Debo gave media interviews stating that Cameron and his drip of a wife 'were rather good for the country'. Debo was mates with Sam the Drip's father, Sir Reginald Sheffield. Sam's mum Annabel later divorced old Reggie and remarried William Waldorf Astor III – the son of Bill Astor who starred in the Profumo Affair – who was the nephew of her own stepfather, Michael Langhorne Astor.I cannot help thinking that if these domestic arrangements were occurring on a council estate in Merthyr Tydfil, they would be the cause of much pompousing and huffing and puffing from Call Me Dave.
2007 was a good year for The London Clinic. As well as Debo opening their new block, members of staff at The London Clinic joined the Xtreme Everest expedition. Lest anyone believes that the staff of The London Clinic just went up Everest to enjoy themselves, the website of The London Clinic reminds us that the Everest expedition was about Research and Helping People. The London Clinic is pursuing 'research' up Everest which will benefit hundreds of thousands of people no less.
In 2010, Joanna Lumley opened the consulting rooms and pathology laboratory at 116 and 120 Harley Street.
In 2010 The London Clinic received another visitor almost as glam as Joanna Lumley. HM the Queen Lilibet opened the new, purpose built, state-of-art cancer facility at 22 Devonshire Place. Debo didn't peg out until 2014, so perhaps she was too busy admiring Cameron and the notepaper which his wife designed for a living to make it to the opening, so Lilibet substituted.
In 2011, HRH Princess Alexandra opened the new Eye Centre at 119 Harley Street and was greeted by Professor Robin Williamson.
In 2011, The London Clinic received the Queen's Award for Enterprise in International Trade. International Trade in what is not made clear.
In 2013, members of staff at The London Clinic were off up Everest again, continuing their investigations of human adaption to hypoxia at high altitude. Definitely not on a jolly.
In 2017 Camilla opened the new state-of-the-art 13 bed ICU at 20 Devonshire Place.
As all good charidees do, The London Clinic has a Patron, a Life President and a Board of Trustees.
The Patron is Camilla:
The Life President is The Duchess of Devonshire. Or was, until she turned her toes up.
The Board of Trustees of The London Clinic acts as its Board of Directors, overseeing and directing the activities of the charidee.
The Trustees are:
- Mr Hamish Leslie Melville – Chairman
- Lady Otton
- Mr Manish Chande
- Professor John Gribben
- Mr Nicholas Melhuish
Hamish Leslie Melville, the Chairman of this medical charidee, is a banker. Melville is: Chairman, Investment Banking Committee of Royal Bank of Scotland Group plc; Chairman of Mercantile Investment Trust plc (formerly J.P. Morgan Fleming Mercantile Investment Trust plc; was MD of Credit Suisse Securities (Europe) Ltd, 2005-08; Chairman of Mithras Investment plc, 1994-08; Chairman of Old Mutual South Africa Trust plc; Director of Scottish Investment Trust plc, 1996-07; of Northern Recruitment Group, 1997-04; of Persimmon plc, 1995-10; of Jamestown Investments Ltd, 1992-94; Eclipse Film Partners No 1 LLP, 2006-14; 73 Cadogan Square Freehold Ltd, 2007-08; Erlangers Ltd, 2000-06; Scottish Woodlands Ltd, 1992-05; Brechin Castle Centre Ltd, 1996-02; Dunedin Capital Partners Ltd, 1992-95; West Highland Woodlands, April 1992-June 1992; Batsford Estates (1983) Co Ltd, 1991-92.
Melville is also the former Chairman of the National Trust, Scotland.
In Jan 2006, the business diary from The Torygraph reported that 'Credit Suisse First Boston managing director Hamish Leslie Melville has upset his neighbours with plans to build a 43-turbine wind farm on his Lochluichart estate in the Scottish Highlands. Leslie Melville, along with a company formed by Savills and a Dutch wind farm developer, has applied for planning permission to erect the windmills on land the developers describe as "degraded habitat". Local residents disagree. They've set up a protest group called A Wind Farm Too Far, arguing there's plenty of wildlife and that the steel giants would wreck the view and threaten tourism. Apparently, rather than take an annual rent, the estate has opted for a stake in the venture. My Scottish mole estimates that if all goes according to plan, the project could rake in £625 m over the wind farm's 25-year lifetime. Not a bad return for Leslie Melville – a former Chairman of the National Trust for Scotland – who was unavailable for comment.'
Lady Helen Otton is a Lady as a result of being married to a Sir, namely Sir Philip Otton, a former Lord Justice of Appeal, 1995-01. Lady Helen describes herself as a 'conference organiser'. She was a Director of: Everyman Action Against Male Cancer, 2010-13; ICR Enterprises Ltd, 2010-13; The Maytree Respite Centre, 2005-10; Classical Opera, 2002-06; Nottingham Law School Ltd, 199394.
Some years ago Lady Helen Otton's name appeared in a 'Daily Mail' article which named and shamed 'acolytes' who had 'dined at tax-payers expense' with Tony and Cherie Blair.
Manish Chande describes himself thus: 'Manish is a senior partner of Clearbell Capital LLP and has over 30 years of real estate experience and is involved in all aspects of the business. Manish is Chairman of the Investment Committee. Manish co-founded Mountgrange Investment Management in 2007 and was the CEO of Mountgrange Capital, a private property investment and development group from 2002. He was previously a board director at Land Securities plc, CEO of Trillium, a pioneering sale and lease-back property business; and CEO of Imry, a publicly-quoted property investment and development company. Manish originally trained as a chartered accountant at Midgley Snelling & Co. between 1975 and 1980 and worked at Deloitte, Haskins & Sells in London from 1980 to 1985. Manish has been a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales since 1980. In 2008 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. He was a Commissioner of English Heritage between 2003 and 2011. In 2007, Manish was appointed a Trustee of The London Clinic and in 2012 he was appointed a Trustee of the Canal and River Trust.'
The London Clinic's website says of Professor John Gribben: 'Professor John Gribben graduated from the University of Glasgow in 1980. He subsequently trained in Haematology at University College London and in Medical Oncology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, where he remained on the faculty for 17 years before returning to the UK. He specialises in haematological cancers including lymphomas, leukaemias and bone marrow transplantation. His NHS post is as Consultant Haematologist and Medical Oncologist Barts and The London NHS Trust.'
He is the author of more than 300 articles and chapters in peer-reviewed publications and has a global reputation for his work in researching new drugs and forms of cancer treatment. He has grant funding from The National Cancer Institute and Cancer Research UK for pioneering studies in leukaemia and lymphoma. He has sat on and chaired numerous international executive committees dedicated to investigating new approaches to cancer care, and several of the editorial boards for professional publications which are focused on cancer. He has lectured across the world on new therapies for cancer treatment.'
John Gribben features on the website of Barts Cancer Institute, which mentions that he was a Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Fellow 1987-89, at UCL and a Fogarty International Fellowship, 1989-1991, at Harvard.
Nicholas Melhuish is a 'fund manager': 'Nicholas Melhuish joined Amundi in 2013 as head of global equities. He was previously head of global equities at UBS Asset Management (2007-2012), lead portfolio manger for global equity strategies at Nicholas-Applegate Capital Management (2003-2007) at San Diego, California and in London and senior portfolio manager, international core equity, at Putnam Investments, London (1999-2003). Nicholas started his career as an analyst and small cap portfolio manager at Schroder Investment Management (1991-1999). He holds a BA (Hons) degree in Modern History from New College, Oxford and is also a member of the CFA Institute and the CFA Society of the UK.'
Take note: the Top Docs of The London Clinic trained in the NHS and for most of their careers held senior NHS jobs as well as extensive private practices. Now who was looking after their NHS patients when they were busy at that charidee The London Clinic? Just look at how many of those involved in running the charidee are people who work in global capitalism…
Other news:
The Governor of HMP Berwyn, the UK Gov'ts new 'flagship' prison – the biggest prison in the UK – which no English authority wanted in its back yard but was welcomed with open arms by the idiots who represent Wales in both the Senedd and Westminster, has been suspended over unspecified 'allegations'.
Operation Pallial has resulted in another conviction of an elderly sex offender who worked in a children's home in north Wales. Once more the bravery of the victims has been praised. If only someone had listened to them as well as the screams coming from the numerous other victims 30 years ago. I cannot share the police's excitement at their inadequate action decades too late. The elderly paedophile who has just been imprisoned was not convicted until he was 79 yrs old because the full might of the British state was deployed to protect him, not the kids whom he assaulted. Many of them will be dead now anyway, kids in care and Empowered Service Users don't usually make it as far as 79 yrs old.
Dafydd is in his late 80s, as is Lucille.
Sir Norman Bettison, the former senior officer of the South Yorkshire Police, has been told that he will no longer face any charges as a result of the Hillsborough disaster. Bettison had faced four counts of misconduct in a public office. He was accused of telling lies about the 'culpability of fans' and his role in the wake of the tragedy, but the CPS has now said that insufficient evidence meant there was no real prospect of securing a conviction. This is because of 'changes in the evidence of two witnesses' and the death of a third witness. How very convenient.
Sir Norman was accused of untruthfully describing his role in the South Yorkshire Police response to Hillsborough – where over 90 people died – as 'peripheral' in a 1998 comment to then Chief Inspector of Constabulary Sir David O'Dowd, when applying for the job of Chief Constable in Merseyside. He was also accused of lying to Merseyside Police Authority when he said he had never attempted to shift blame for the disaster 'on to the shoulders of Liverpool supporters'. Bettison was alleged to have lied in a statement issued on 13 September 2012 following the publication of the Hillsborough Independent Panel report, when he said he had never offered any interpretation other than that the behaviour of Liverpool fans did not cause the disaster. He was also accused of misconduct over a statement released the following day in which he said he had never 'besmirched' Liverpool fans.
The court heard that the prosecution relied on two witnesses, Mark Ellaby and a woman identified only as Mrs J. It was alleged by Mr Ellaby that, over a pint in a pub while on an MBA course together in 1989, Sir Norman said he had been appointed to a team, the role of which was to blame the fans. Paul Greaney QC, defending Sir Norman, said it took 'repeated requests' from the defence for the other students to be traced by the IPCC. When 'eventually' they were, fifteen other students and a lecturer were contacted and 'not a single one' recalled Sir Norman expressing any 'inappropriate view' about Hillsborough.
Those witnesses with the very bad memories were on an MBA course. They will now be running the NHS, the Social Services, the County Councils, teaching in university business schools and of course like Bettison, some may have achieved high rank in the police.
It's OK Dafydd and Lucille, you have nothing to worry about at all. I've got 10,000 documents, dozens of people were found dead, but you are absolutely safe from any risk of prosecution.
My post 'Additional Security Measures' details the fabrication of documentation by the Home Office and the order to stress the alleged bad behaviour of the fans rather than the inadequacies of the police that Home Office officials gave before the publication of the Report into Hillsborough by Lord Justice Peter Taylor. The Home Office were ably assisting Dafydd and the gang at the same time.
The police officers who fabricated and altered witness statements in the wake of Hillsborough were from the South Yorkshire force. The South Yorkshire force were involved in the brutality towards striking miners in 1984-85 and in the collusion with the paedophile gang in Yorkshire.
Bettison joined the South Yorkshire Police in 1975. In May 1993 he was appointed Assistant Chief Constable of West Yorkshire Police. In 1998 he became Chief Constable of Merseyside Police. Bettison retired from the police in January 2005 to become Chief Executive of Centrex, which provided training and development to police forces in the UK and enforcement agencies throughout the world until it was abolished in March 2007. Bettison rejoined the police service in January 2007 as Chief Constable of West Yorkshire Police. He attempted to secure a package to receive both a retirement pension from Merseyside and a salary from the new post; he threatened legal action but the claim was settled out of court.
Jimmy Savile was on excellent terms with the police right across Yorkshire. The Merseyside Police colluded with Dafydd and his gang.
After the Battle of Orgreave was brought to the UK public by the Great British Press, Liz Stables, the Angel at the Student Health Centre at UCNW/Bangor University, told me that 'those miners should be shot'. Liz was part of the trafficking gang in north Wales. One boy at Bryn Estyn maintained that he'd been sexually assaulted at gunpoint. But then I was followed by a gun wielding policeman before I left Wales, as was someone who made a witness statement about me being threatened by NHS staff and managers from the North West Wales NHS Trust.
After the Court case in which all charges were dropped against Bettison, Bettison talked of the 'loss of loved ones', the 'enduring tragedy', 'a devastating loss', 'all of our sympathies' and then reminded everyone that 'I have been forced to deny, strenuously, that I was guilty of any wrongdoing in the aftermath of the disaster'.
A few weeks after Liz told me that the miners should be shot, she told me that she'd been at an event where dear old Dafydd dropped by in his helicopter and that 'Dr DA was great'.
Never mind a murdering paedophile gang, the boys in blue got their priorities right:


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Noesi to get chance in White Sox bullpen
CHICAGO -- Hector Noesi has had a whirlwind of a season so far. The White Sox are his third team in the month of April alone. He was added to Chicago's 25-man roster before Saturday's game against the Rays after being claimed off waivers from the Rangers.
Noesi made the most of his first opportunity with the White Sox, throwing 1 1/3 scoreless innings in Saturday's 4-0 loss to the Rays.
"He did great," manager Robin Ventura said. "For getting here today and getting right in there ... not ideal conditions to be in there and make your debut with a team, but he did what was asked of him."
Noesi said his transition between the three teams is helped by knowing so many other Latin players in the big leagues. That still doesn't make such frequent change easy, though Noesi said he feels good as a member of the White Sox.
"Well, it's an experience for me, and I learn from that too," Noesi said. "It's really hard. I jump places too, and just to a different team. I just need a role and to keep my role up."
For all intents and purposes, Noesi is a work in progress. The 27-year-old right-hander has a 14.21 ERA this season (10 earned runs in 6 1/3 innings pitched) with the Rangers and Mariners, and a career ERA of 5.81 in 196 2/3 innings. In that sense, he's just Sox pitching coach Don Cooper's latest reclamation project.
"I've been hearing a lot about it him, he is good," Noesi said of Cooper. "So I'm going to trust him with my stuff."
Noesi said Cooper talked to him about correcting his mechanics, in particular his release point. He might not have much time to get any extra work in -- Cooper told Noesi to be ready for Saturday night, because the bullpen tossed 7 1/3 innings in Friday's win.
One thing above all else that will help Noesi stick with the White Sox is the ability to throw strikes. White Sox relievers walked seven in Friday's win and have issued 55 free passes in 81 1/3 innings, an average of more than six walks per nine innings. The bullpen also has the second-worst ERA (5.20) in the American League.
It's not as if Noesi can correct those issues on his own, so what expectations do the Sox have for him?
"I don't know. We're going to find out when he's in there," Ventura said. "With the way it's been going for us, he's going to get a shot to do something. You hope the guy takes advantage of it and makes the most of it."


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The European Commission is working on an energy-policy roadmap for 2050 that energy commissioner Gunther Oettinger said is needed to maintain an effective European strategy regarding the challenges posed by energy and climate change. He added: "We need to keep moving away from the current dependency on CO2-emitting fuels towards a more sustainable energy mix with greater use of renewables and, surely, wind energy is one of the main contributions to our future energy supply."
The wind industry maintains that wind could provide 50% of electricity supply. An average 23% growth rate over the past decade shows this is achievable, given an adequate grid network and the right market structures, said Christian Kjaer, CEO of the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA). "The potential is there and the industry is ready," he added. "All we have to do is maintain current growth rates onshore and offshore."
Kjaer said that last year renewables accounted for 62% of all new installed capacity in Europe - up from 21% in 2000. At that rate, the EU is well on the trajectory for 100% renewables by 2050 in the power sector, he added. Wind provided the lion's share of added renewables capacity in 2009 and comprised 39% of all electricity generation capacity installed during the year - more than any other form of power generation. While the wind industry installed 10.2GW in 2009, 3.2GW of coal generation capacity and 1.4GW of nuclear capacity were decommissioned.
First things first
The first priority for achieving the vision is a pan-European grid structured with the needs of renewables in mind, said Kjaer. A single market for electricity across Europe is a key requirement, he said. "It is astounding that 24 years after establishing free movement of goods, services, capital and labour, the EU has not yet established a fifth freedom: free movement of electricity," Kjaer added.
EWEA is urging politicians to show commitment to changes to the long-term energy mix. EWEA president Arthouros Zervos said: "The decisions we take today will have a big impact on our energy supplies in 40 years' time."
Only through a fully renewable power sector can the G8 and EU achieve their commitments to an 80% cut in CO2 emissions by 2050, said Zervos. "We can't allow the politicians to make grand statements and leave the serious decisions to the next generation. Given the long life of power plants, our vision for 2050 has to be reflected in the construction of new plants from at least 2020 onwards."
Zervos noted that Europe is already on track to meet its existing 20% renewables goal by 2020. "There is a strong belief that we will go beyond the 2020 target," he said, adding that wind is the cheapest option available today.
Europe should be talking about a renewable-energy economy, not a low-carbon one, Zervos stressed. "Renewable energies can provide 100% of Europe's power supplies by 2050 without any further contribution from any so-called low-carbon technologies," he said, dismissing the need for carbon capture and storage and nuclear power. He called on the EU to phase out subsidies for fossil fuels and nuclear energy and introduce EU-wide taxes on energy and carbon emissions. "Auctioning of CO2 certificates will be the big game changer," he predicted.
A zero-carbon power sector would also yield economic benefits for Europe, Zervos said. Investment of about EUR2.8 trillion in renewables would prevent carbon costs of EUR3.7 trillion, according to the EWEA president. It would also provide 2.7 million more jobs in 2020 and another 6 million by 2050. But Zervos warned that Europe can only achieve 100% renewables if big gains are made in energy efficiency.
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The consensus of the panel was that wind will achieve the 2050 vision. An important driver will be the financial markets, said EWEA vice-president Klaus Rave. "Large funds look for long-term safe havens for investments and a guaranteed return for 20 years or more," he told delegates. "The renewable power sector is an ideal investment opportunity in that respect."
Wind turbine technology will also evolve and become more diverse, said Rave. He drew a parallel with the automobile industry. "Today's car technology is far more sophisticated than we would have dreamed of 40 years ago; it's manufactured in an entirely different way."
Andrew Garrad, CEO of wind industry consultants GL Garrad Hassan, echoed that view, saying there will be a huge range of wind turbine sizes installed in a variety of markets to meet diverse needs. "I think you will see a return to smaller turbines in the next decade or so," he said.
Northern Europe, with its high population density and growing scarcity of onshore sites, is creating an offshore market, he noted. This currently represents 10% of the European market but 20% of the investment in the region's wind power. Within six years, the industry will see radically different turbines for offshore use, involving major engineering changes. No longer will wind turbines need to be "socially engineered" to be aesthetically acceptable and emit low noise, but will instead be designed for maximum productivity. "We are working on one 10GW project in China and it is gobsmacking," he said.
Garrad called for the 2050 discussion to be widened beyond a European context, telling listeners not to forget North Africa. That is a huge untapped potential with vast sites yielding wind speeds of 9 to 9.5 metres per second, he said. He also pointed to a study his firm conducted for the International Energy Agency that showed the best place for CO2 mitigation is in the former Soviet countries - particularly Russia, which has lots of space and lots of wind, and where huge wind farms could displace existing power stations fuelled by "filthy brown coal". Russia has a mere 11MW of installed wind power capacity today.
Meantime, it is up to Europe to encourage a global market in renewables. "The bigger issues are elsewhere," said Garrad. "Maybe we're not doing as much as we should be here in Europe, but we are already doing a lot more than many other places. So it should be a broader discussion." By 2050, the debate will have moved on from a single European power market to a regulated world market for electricity, said Rave. Pointing to the large untapped wind resource to the east and in Africa, he said: "There is vast potential to use the energy market as a driver for economic integration, wealth and understanding between nations."
Suppliers market
Turning to the question of who will make the turbines needed in 2050, Garrad predicted the firms building wind turbines will be the same as those building conventional power stations. "Going back 40 years, GE and Siemens were building thermal power plants. In 40 years time, they will be building more power stations, whether wind or thermal," he said. "The wind business has become part of the conventional business; we should dissolve that distinction."
The big power conglomerates will dominate, agreed Steve Sawyer, secretary general of the Global Wind Energy Council. There will still be room for wind-only players, he said, but probably not at the top end of the market: "It's hard to see how they can compete with the GEs, the Alstoms and the Siemens." The Chinese and Koreans will not take over, but they will become significant players on the manufacturing side, he said. "A lot of people underestimate the significance of Samsung, Hyundai and Daewoo diving into this business in 2009," he said, adding that, as three of the world's biggest companies, the South Korean firms will have a big impact. "The most dynamic OECD economy in that part of the world has decided that wind is going to be a big part of their energy future," Sawyer said. "That is hugely significant."
Kjaer said the impact of competition from manufacturers from the Far East or the US should not be overstated. "Seventy per cent of a wind turbine comes in the form of components from sub-suppliers," he said. No matter whose name appears on the turbine, the largest part of the value added comes further down the supply chain, with many of the benefits from jobs and manufacturing either in or close to the market in which the turbines are built, he added.
"That might change in 40 years time," warned Garrad. He pointed to the trend for Far East companies to manufacture more components themselves. Mitsubishi, for example, makes gearboxes, generators and blades. "If it wants to, it can make the whole thing," he said. "And as the emphasis gets bigger and bigger, (Far Eastern companies) are likely to become more vertically integrated."
The competitive edge will go to manufacturers who can prove that each of their wind turbines is identical to all others in the range, commented Rave. "One of the biggest flaws in this industry over the last 20 years was that you really did not know what was in each individual turbine."
By comparison, Sawyer said the US has over the past few years managed to raise domestic content in turbines to 50%, although US market leader GE has just outsourced most of its nacelle manufacturing to Brazil. Recent agonising in the US media about losing the clean-energy race to China misses the point. "In fact, they already lost it to the Europeans a long time ago," Sawyer said. "The question is whether the Europeans are going to lose it to the Chinese."
Support schemes benefit end users, reports Heather O'Brian.
Increasing wind energy's proportion of the power mix not only reduces carbon-dioxide emissions, but also brings down the price of electricity, a review prepared for the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) by independent energy consultants Poyry has shown.
Poyry's assessment of case studies in Germany, Denmark and Belgium showed wholesale spot prices were reduced by between EUR3/MWh and EUR23/MWh, depending on assumptions made on the level of wind power in the system and the overall energy mix, along with other factors.
The positive price effect arises because wind replaces carbon-dioxide-intensive power generation technologies in the power mix with higher marginal costs, bringing down the price of all electricity traded. With a fuel cost of zero, the marginal cost - the added cost of generating additional units of electricity - is extremely low for wind generation.
In the countries examined, wind replaces hard coal during hours of low demand, and gas-fired power plants during high demand periods, Poyry noted. There were even instances of zero spot electricity prices in some of the studies examined, and this was partially attributed to wind generation. The price effect was much greater when wind power was available during peak power periods.
The Poyry review also examined two studies looking at the costs and benefits for end users of renewable energy support schemes such as feed-in tariffs. These studies indicated that support schemes can make economic sense. If both the direct and indirect costs savings from wind generation are accounted for, the net effect of the support scheme would be that consumers pay lower prices, according to Poyry. Apart from savings in fuel costs, additional savings also come from reduced compliance costs for utilities with the European Emissions Trading Scheme mechanism. Since wind emits no carbon dioxide, utilities simply have fewer carbon credits to purchase.
The complete literature review is available on EWEA's website, ewea.org. Poyry says the studies examined historic data and focused on single countries.
In light of the 2020 renewables targets the 27 member states of the EU must reach, Poyry said it would be useful to also study forecasts on the effects of a greater penetration of renewable energy on electricity prices, with data from all wind-producing member states. Poyry, which is led by president and CEO Heikki Meilinen, is preparing such an analysis for EWEA this year.
Lead-time study turns up surprise findings, writes Janice Massy.
Patience is a necessary virtue for many wind developers in Europe, judging by a study of obstacles to wind development in the region. The EU-funded Wind Barriers project finds it is quicker to get consent for an offshore wind project, with an average lead time of 18 months, compared to 42 months for onshore. The time needed for wind farm construction permission applications ranges across the EU from less than ten months to nearly 60.
The project was co-ordinated by the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA). It collected data from 22 countries representing 5.7GW of capacity, most of it connected in 2008. The initial results were revealed at the European Wind Energy Conference in Warsaw, Poland, in April.
No single reason accounts for the wide differences between countries, but acceptance by communities plays an important part. Some 30% of all projects stuck in the consenting process are delayed by public resistance and law suits. The lack of clear guidelines from local authorities for wind developers is also a frequent problem.
Another factor is the many authorities with whom developers must liaise. At five, Denmark has the fewest bodies requiring consultation; Greece tops the list with 41. Yet fewer bodies to consult does not automatically mean faster consent. Spain only has nine parties to consult, but is the second slowest country - after Portugal - taking an average of more than 57 months to secure construction permission.
The study found Italy and the UK to be among the best for gaining consent, which came as a surprise to the countries' wind communities. Developers say it typically takes years to drive a wind project through the Italian permitting process. Economist Sune Strom from the Danish Wind Industry Association, a key contributor to the study, says he, too, was surprised by the findings for Italy and the UK. But he points out that the conclusions had to rely on data from completed wind farms. "We can only calculate the lead times for the projects that have all their consents in hand; therefore these are the successful ones," he says. In the UK, those that gained consent during the period under investigation tended to be smaller wind farms. Many larger, more complex projects are still languishing in the system.
For onshore projects still awaiting consent, the two main stumbling blocks cited are lack of grid capacity and environmental and political issues, each of which is blamed for holding up 60% of projects.
"If Europe is serious about reaching 20% renewables by 2020, some member states need to streamline their consent procedures for wind farms," says Justin Wilkes, EWEA policy director. "There are a number of actions all member states could take: creating a one-stop-shop approach for contacting the different authorities, writing clear guidelines for developers, and introducing better and streamlined spatial planning procedures," he says.


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University Park, Pa. -- Deer hunting is an old tradition worth preserving, and when it comes to preserving venison, according to a food scientist in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences, an old traditional method for preserving meat might be best.
Too often, successful hunters will take their deer carcasses to the butcher and have all but the steaks ground, said Martin Bucknavage, senior extension associate in food science. "For all the effort put into hunting the deer, it's a shame that all we can show for it is hamburger patties that probably were blended with beef or pork," he said.
"One way to better utilize parts of the deer you would normally grind is by canning them. With little effort, you can take the shoulder or the hind quarter and convert it into a product that can be used in many meat dishes."
Canning has a number of advantages, Bucknavage pointed out. For one, the canning process will make the tougher cuts of meat more tender. This process also serves to neutralize some of the strong, gamey flavor that can be associated with deer. Once canned, this venison is ready to be added to most any meat dish.
"You can add it to stew, chili or a meat casserole with little or no preparation of the meat," he said. "Having it in a canning jar also means that less of your freezer will be filled with packaged venison."
When canning venison, it is best to cut the meat into chunks or cubes, Bucknavage explained. Meat first should be trimmed to remove fat and connective tissue and then cut into 1- inch cubes. "There are two basic ways to can -- hot pack or cold pack," he said. "In hot pack, the chunks of meat are seared in a frying pan and then ladled into a jar along with boiling meat juices or broth. In the cold pack method, the chunks are packed loosely into a jar and the jar is sealed without adding any extra broth."
A pressure canner is a must if you are canning venison or any other meat, Bucknavage stressed. Once the jars are prepared, they are placed into the pressure canner, and following established processing procedures, the jars are heated under pressure for a given amount of time.
"Once complete, and the pressure canner is cooled, the jars are removed and stored for future use," he said. "Then, whenever you have a hankering for venison, it is on the shelf and ready to go. There are no worries about thawing out the meat, freezer burn or the venison being too tough to enjoy."
The National Center for Home Food Preservation website lists all of the processing times and temperatures for cubed meat or any other product you wish to preserve. It is important to follow these established processing times to prevent foodborne illness, Bucknavage said.
Bucknavage suggested contacting your county Penn State Cooperative Extension office if you have questions about home canning. A series of online publications, titled "Let's Preserve," also is available for download. To access the publications, go to http://pubs.cas.psu.edu/Publications.asp and type "canning" into the title/description search field.


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Reformation, religious revolution that took place in Western Europe in the 16th cent. It arose from objections to doctrines and practices in the medieval church (see Roman Catholic Church) and ultimately led to the freedom of dissent (see Protestantism).
The preparation for the movement was long. Opponents of orthodox views had asserted themselves over centuries, and in the 14th cent. John Wyclif had led a dissident movement. His ideas were amplified later by John Huss in Bohemia, who was burned (1415) at the stake by order of the Council of Constance. After his death his followers in Bohemia upheld his cause in the long and bitterly fought Hussite Wars. These dwindled into compromise, but Huss's challenge to the orthodox view of the Eucharist and the revolutionary effect of the wars did not disappear.
New forces fanned discontent with the church and the medieval order of society. There had long been outcries against abuses in the church, especially the blatant worldliness of some of the clergy, the emphasis on money, and the oppressiveness, not only intellectual but economic, of members of the church hierarchy. In the 15th cent. the conciliar movement (i.e., the attempt to establish the superiority of the ecumenical council over the pope) heralded the growing internal church dissent. Although the movement failed, the number of those wishing reform nevertheless grew steadily.
The desire for change was increased by the appearance of humanism and the spirit of the Renaissance. Study of the ancient Greek and Hebrew texts concentrated attention on the Bible and evoked a new critical spirit, exemplified in such men as Lorenzo Valla and Johann Reuchlin. The Renaissance also tended to develop an emphasis on the individual. The later humanists were outspoken in their attacks on the abuses in the church; Desiderius Erasmus was, perhaps, the most prominent, but there were many others, including the humanists at Oxford. The intimate connection between the new learning and the Reformation itself is shown in the pursuits of men who were to be prominent in the Reformation in central Europe; Ulrich von Hutten and Philip Melanchthon were outstanding figures in humanism, and Huldreich Zwingli arrived at opposition to the church mainly through the study of Greek and Hebrew. The very founding of the Univ. of Wittenberg, which was to be the center of revolt, was part of the urge to humanism.
The introduction of printing in Western Europe allowed more widespread dissemination of criticism. Printing was to hasten the Reformation, and the Reformation in turn was to spread printing further. In secular matters the opposition between church and state was centuries old, but it had begun to take a new turn with the building of strong nations. In Germany this opposition to the power of the church was coupled in the minds of many princes with opposition to that other supranational body, the Holy Roman Empire, and the princes were to play a decisive part in the ecclesiastical rebellion.
The rise of the cities and of the power of merchants and the middle class generally not only upset the old medieval order of things but created much discontent with the scholastic views on finance and economic affairs that fettered the enterprise of the men in search of wealth. The economy of Europe was expanding and forcing cracks in the more or less rigid walls of the system. Scholars of the 20th cent. have put a great deal of emphasis on the connection between the new modes of religious thought and economic change (i.e., the connection between Protestantism and capitalism) as a major force in the Reformation. There were, however, many influences at work, and the field was well prepared by 1517. Nevertheless, it was with suddenness and surprise that the Reformation began.
The Influence of Martin Luther
Martin Luther, a professor of theology at the Univ. of Wittenberg, had been stirred to action by the campaign for dispensing indulgences being launched under Johann Tetzel in Germany. He protested. On Oct. 31, 1517, he posted on the door of the castle church at Wittenberg his 95 theses, inviting debate on matters of practice and doctrine. Luther's action was not as yet a revolt against the church but a movement for reform within. It was, however, much more than an objection to the money-grabbing and secular policies of the clergy. Luther had already become convinced that in certain matters of doctrine the purity of the ancient church had been perverted by self-seeking popes and clergy.
His disagreement with the church on matters of doctrine soon became apparent. In 1519 Luther in a dispute with Johann Eck openly espoused doctrines that were implicit in his theses, and he denied the authority of the church in religious matters. In 1520 the pope issued a bull of excommunication against Luther, and the Holy Roman emperor, Charles V, thundered against the rebel. Luther defied them, publicly burned the bull of excommunication, and issued vigorous pamphlets assailing the papacy and the doctrine of the sacraments. The breach was thus made in 1521, and the meeting of the Diet of Worms (see Worms, Diet of) not only failed to produce a compromise but forced many doubters into the camp of the rebels. Luther was declared an outlaw, but the threat was empty; under the protection of the powerful Frederick III, elector of Saxony, he was spirited off to the safety of the Wartburg.
Economic, Spiritual, and Political Motives
The revolt was spreading with incredible speed over central and N Germany and almost immediately extended beyond the German borders. All the elements of discontent and rebellion coalesced. The learned, such as Luther himself, Melanchthon, and Martin Bucer, saw the opportunity to express and expand their own views. The nobles were enabled to cast off allegiance to the Holy Roman emperor and to enrich themselves by seizing the immense landed estates of the church. Too much can be—and has been—made out of this economic motive, however, for many of the princes belonged to the intellectual group that had been stirred to critical rejection of church doctrines, and they were perhaps better aware than the common people of the venality and money-mindedness of many of the clergy. Many of the pious, increased in number by a spontaneous religious revival in the late 15th cent., drank the doctrine of a new spirituality with pleasure, for Luther's doctrine of justification (i.e., salvation) by faith alone and not by sacraments, good works, and the mediation of the church placed humans in open and direct communication with God. The new insistence on reading the word of God in the Bible placed a greater responsibility on the individual.
Those who were feeling the first and welcome experience of nationalism were anxious to shake off the hand of Rome. Absolutist rulers, particularly in Scandinavia, welcomed the opportunity to end the interference of the church in state affairs; by creating national churches they were able to escape outside influence. Merchants and capitalists found the air of individual freedom exhilarating. The peasants, chafing under the old restrictions of feudalism, lifted up their heads in hope that the new dispensation would take away their burdens.
Ferment, Division, and Warfare
In Zürich, Switzerland, Huldreich Zwingli had developed his own brand of dissent. In 1529 in the Colloquy of Marburg, Luther and Melanchthon on the one side and Zwingli and Johannes Oecolampadius on the other discussed the nature of the sacrament of the Lord's Supper (the Protestant form of the Catholic Eucharist) but failed to come to an agreement. The fundamental principle that every man could arrive at truth by study of the Bible also led many to more radical conclusions than those that Luther adopted. The preacher known as Carlstadt (from the place of his birth) argued for a more thoroughgoing dismissal of old practices and doctrines in Wittenberg itself and caused Luther to emerge from his retirement to halt the progress of radicalism. The Peasants' War (1524–25) showed plainly the rifts within the ranks of the rebels, and Luther, forced to choose between the revolutionary peasants and their opponents, the princes, chose the princes and orderly governance. The lower classes then in large measure followed more revolutionary social leaders, such as the communistic Thomas Münzer and John of Leiden. After their revolution had been brutally put down and the leaders tortured and executed, many of the revolutionary peasants returned to Roman Catholicism, but many continued to foster more radical sects, such as the Anabaptists.
In general the princes were able to dictate what religion should prevail in their territories, and they opposed vigorously the attempt of the Holy Roman emperor to force them back into the old church. The Knights' War (1522–23), led by Franz von Sickingen against the ecclesiastical princes, ended in failure, but the determination of Charles V to extirpate Lutheranism ultimately ended in even more abject failure. The imperial Diet of Speyer in 1526 found no answer to the division of the empire, and when a new Diet of Speyer in 1529 ordered that the emperor's ruling against the heretics should be enforced, the Lutheran princes issued a defiant protest (from which the term Protestant is derived). The Diet of Augsburg in 1530 was equally fruitless in producing a compromise between Catholic and Lutheran princes, but it did produce the Confession of Augsburg (see creed), which was drafted by Melanchthon and became the official statement of Lutheran faith.
The conflict in the empire led the Protestant princes to form a defensive union against the emperor in the Schmalkaldic League, in which the chief figures were Philip of Hesse and John Frederick I of Saxony. The league was put down in the Schmalkaldic War (1546–47), which did not, however, in the least solve the problem. Emperor Charles V, in an effort to prolong the uneasy peace, proposed to the Protestants that there be an interim agreement against change until a general church council could legislate on the dispute. This was the so-called Augsburg Interim (1548), which did not take effect because it was rejected by the Protestant princes. The confusion that political considerations brought to the religious issue is perhaps best seen in the career of Maurice, duke of Saxony, who fought first on one side, then on the other.
A sort of peace of exhaustion and compromise was reached in the Peace of Augsburg (1555; see Augsburg, Peace of). The settlement was at best uneasy and was not to endure except in principle. The conflict was merged with many other issues in the later Thirty Years War (1618–48).
Calvin and the Spread of Protestantism
The message of the Reformation spread quickly throughout Europe (except Russia). The Scandinavian countries became firmly Protestant under Gustavus I of Sweden and Frederick I of Denmark and Norway; later attempts to win them back to Catholicism failed. Geneva had become in 1536 the headquarters of John Calvin, who is considered by many the greatest theologian of Protestantism. His Institutes of the Christian Religion, published at Basel in 1536, marked a new era in thought. He differed from Luther principally in the doctrine of predestination (the foregone choosing by God of the elect to be saved), in the austerity of the life of the godly, and in the emphasis on theocratic government (see Calvinism). His influence was immediate and enormous. France, which had hardly been touched by Lutheranism, was fired by Calvinist doctrine, and the Protestant minority, called the Huguenots, waged fierce battle against the Catholic majority in the Wars of Religion until toleration was won when the Huguenot leader Henry of Navarre turned Catholic, became King Henry IV, and issued (1598) the Edict of Nantes.
Calvinism superseded Lutheranism in the Netherlands, where the religious revolt was coupled with revulsion at the policies of Charles V and his successor, Philip II of Spain. Through bloody wars independence and Calvinism gained the upper hand in the N Low Countries. Calvinism conquered Scotland, too, through the victory of John Knox in his long duel with Mary Queen of Scots. It spread also to Hungary and Poland and took root in parts of Germany.
It proved quite impossible to reconcile the finely wrought theology of Calvinism with Lutheran doctrines, for Lutheranism rejected predestination and clung to part of the sacramental system (see Lord's Supper). Calvinist thought did greatly influence the course of the Reformation in the British Isles and the present United States. There was also a conflict of Lutheranism and Calvinism with the more radical and emotional groups, and the enthusiasm of preachers who interpreted Scripture in their own way met with a cool reception among the Calvinists.
The divisions within Protestantism were from the beginning sharp, and attempts to reconcile Calvinist, Lutheran, and other doctrine had only partial success. Moreover, in England the Reformation went its own course. It was there much more closely connected with the conflict of church and state than was the Reformation on the Continent. The conflict of King Henry VIII with Rome led to the Act of Supremacy (1534), which firmly rejected papal control and created a national church (see England, Church of). Currents of Calvinistic thought were, however, strong in England. The Reformation was begun with the creation of a state church and the dissolution of the monasteries. It was given Calvinist touches under Edward VI, suffered a complete reversal under Mary I, and reached a sort of balance under Elizabeth I with some persecution of both Catholics and Calvinists. The process was to work itself out slowly later in the English civil war, just as the fierce hatreds between Protestant and Protestant as well as between Catholic and Protestant were to be worked out later on the Continent.
The burning of Servetus was a sample of the internal strife within Protestantism itself. The divisions within the churches of the Reformation also served to forward the Counter Reformation within the Roman Catholic Church, which rewon Poland, Hungary, most of Bohemia, and part of Germany. The end of the Thirty Years War in the Peace of Westphalia (see Westphalia, Peace of) in 1648 brought some stabilization, but the force of the Reformation did not end then. It has continued to exert influence to the present day, with its emphasis on personal responsibility and individual freedom, its refusal to take authority for granted, and its ultimate influence in breaking the hold of the church on life and consequent secularization of life and attitudes.
See T. M. Lindsay, History of the Reformation (2 vol., 1906–7; repr. 1971); E. M. Hulme, The Renaissance, the Protestant Revolution, and the Catholic Reformation in Modern Europe (rev. ed. 1917); P. Smith, The Age of the Reformation (1920, repr. 1962); A. Hyma, The Christian Renaissance (1924); R. H. Murray, The Political Consequences of the Reformation (1926, repr. 1960); R. H. Tawney, Religion and the Rise of Capitalism (1926); M. Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (tr. 1930); C. Hopf, Martin Bucer and the English Reformation (1946); R. H. Bainton, The Reformation of the Sixteenth Century (1952, repr. 1965) and Studies on the Reformation (1963); G. G. Coulton, Art and the Reformation (rev. ed. 1958); H. S. Lucas, The Renaissance and the Reformation (2d ed. 1960); O. Chadwick, The Reformation (1964); D. Weinstein, The Renaissance and the Reformation, 1300–1600 (1965); H. J. Grimm, The Reformation Era, 1500–1650 (rev. ed. 1965); G. R. Elton, Reformation Europe, 1517–1559 (1966); A. G. Dickens, Reformation and Society in 16th-Century Europe (1966), The English Reformation (1967), and The Reformation in Historical Thought (1985); N. Sykes, The Crisis of the Reformation (1967); H. J. Hillerbrand, The World of the Reformation (1973); L. W. Spitz, The Protestant Reformation, 1517–1559 (1984); P. Collinson, The Reformation (2004); D. MacCulloch, The Reformation (2004).