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The 2018 Tire Rack ProSolo® season is rolling along with event number five taking place in East Rutherford, New Jersey this past weekend. Despite some challenges throughout the paddock, the weekend ended with three first-time Challenge winners with Danny Kao taking the Super Challenge, Michelle Knoll dominating the Ladies Challenge and Ted Descovich prevailing in the Bonus Challenge.
Cody Hunt's A Street Chevrolet Corvette broke a shock on the way up from Maryland on Friday, splitting into two pieces. Larry Casey, a fellow Corvette driver from SSr drove out to him, almost 2 hours South of the site on the NJ turnpike, so they could install a spare shock in order to continue the drive to MetLife. Once on site, Sam Strano loaned his Konis to Cody for the event. After all that, Cody finished fourth and co-driver Shane Chinonn-Rhoden claimed the last trophy position in sixth.
John Vitamvas' D Street Prepared BMW broke its differential on Saturday morning after only finishing one run. He managed to replace the differential in under 30 minutes and put down times good enough to win S3 and claim his first ever Top Qualifier honors for the Super Challenge on Saturday afternoon. By the Challenges, the new differential was starting to make noises and John was going up to the line with fingers crossed. He was eliminated in the second round by Mark Daddio, with a still-working differential.
The battle in L3 was extremely close with the top four ladies separated by half a tenth after Saturday runs. On the colder Sunday morning, Michelle Knoll found significant time to extend her lead, despite Chris Peterson also finding significant time to jump from fourth to second, just 0.126 second back from Knoll. This was her first ProSolo class win and she went on to win her first Ladies Challenge over Tamra Hunt, L1 winner.
In F Street, Mark Daddio was driving the Dick Rasmussen 2018 Ford Mustang GT previously featured on an SM post Even with the automatic transmission forcing them to use third gear, Mark held on to the lead until the very last run when Austin Don pulled off the 0.096-second win in his BMW M3. Chris Dressler claimed the third and final trophy position in another M3.
Over in B Street, Chris Carris set off on a charge on his final two Sunday morning runs to go from out of the trophies on Saturday to challenging for the win on Sunday. Unfortunately for him, Rachel Baker also found time on her very last run to keep her on top of BS by 0.261 second. Timothy Whalen, Elias Roman and Donour Sizemore rounded out the five trophies.
Ken Houseal finished 2nd in STS in Kevin Donovan's CRX (Kevin was 3rd) because of a late cone call that would have given him in the lead over winner Rich DiMarco. Ken made it to the semi-final round of the Super Challenge up against Eric Simmons. There was a noise coming from the engine, but Kevin told Ken to keep driving. The engine blew about 3/4 of the way through the course on the left side leaving a significant trail of oil. Danny Kao was the first through the oil spill on his semi-final round against GJ Dixon. Danny would win that round and the next to claim his first Super Challenge win.
Complete results from the 2018 Tire Rack New Jersey ProSolo can be found here.
Challenge winners:
Super Challenge – Danny Kao (CAM)
Ladies Challenge – Michelle Knoll (L3)
Bonus Challenge – Ted Descovich (HS)


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GamedayHousing.com necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 93 diseños de 17 diseñadores freelance.
GamedayHousing.com is a sports themed vacation rental concept that celebrates the passion of the American sports fan. We connect diehard fans making the annual pilgrimage to cheer on their favorite athletes and teams with entrepreneurial home owners who own some of the most coveted real estate near sports meccas. While other vacation rental websites focus on cramming their websites with as many homes as possible, GamedayHousing.com feels it can only succeed when our home owners make money hand over fist and renters can enjoy a beer and a burger with their whole family in one of our luxury homes.
We know this model works because before we managed properties, we owned them. As managers today we know that to put W's on the board for our listers we've gotta get them as many rentals for as much money as possible. As property owners, we learned that the W's come pretty effortlessly when you keep renters jacked and pumped about their experience.
The lesson we learned wasn't exactly rocket science. While hotels nickeled and dimed their clients and presented a weak & sterile environment for families and friends, we furnished our homes just for sports fans and we did everything we could to exceed their expectations. 200 cases of beer, 100 bottles of Jameson, and 100's of comfy towels we've created a brand that is worshiped by fanatical sports fans the world over.
We are creating a brand new market. We are targeting diehard sports fans who travel in groups, and don't want to stay in a hotel because they can't keep their group together and they want an *experience*
1. Several generations of Notre Dame football fans who are willing to spend $5,000 on a 4 bedroom house to keep their 10 person group together for the annual rivalry game against Southern Cal in South Bend.
2. Polo enthusiasts - these folks travel to a remote parts of the US to play polo for two months at a time! They have money and don't want to stay in a hotel suite - they CRAVE luxury.
3. March Madness College basketball fanatics - these folks are following their dream team around the country as they make a run for the final four - they want to party in the town they're visiting and have a place that can accommodate everyone that's packing the party bus around the country.
4. Horse Racing Fans - These folks come from all over the country to watch a race that takes less than two minutes down in Kentucky. They're coming for the party and want to live it up in a luxury home instead of a hotel.
5. Fans of the Olympic Games - They're in a major city for nearly a month and want a place to call home. They've assembled their whole family for this big event and want a place that will be forever part of their memories. They want a gameday house.
Our requirements are that we need a simple design to go on our existing website - http://www.gamedayhousing.com. The overall message we want our logo to convey is that we offer housing for sporting events on a very simple and easy to use website.
Logo should fit in a 285px x 55px space / dimension.
We like the use of sporty fonts / images. Athletic, College, etc. but we're not married to these at all.
We like the idea of incorporating the image of a house(or home) with other sports paraphenalia - stadiums, tracks, balls, tickets, etc.
We like where we were going with a house inside of a stadium from the current logo, but it may just need to be more pronounced (bolder) and even more simple.
Colors used -
orange #FDAC26
dark blue #005EA4
Use of a (R) symbol is a must to protect our marks. "Gameday Housing(R)"
Please include space for the word "Beta" that can be removed at a later date.
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Earlier this month, the head of the American Medical Association issued a challenge which should resonate for years to come. At this year's annual meeting, Dr. James Madara argued that many direct-to-consumer digital health products, apps and even EMRs were "the digital snake oil of the early 21st century," and that doctors will need to serve as gatekeepers to the industry.
His comments, which have been controversial, weren't quite as immoderate as some critics have suggested. He argued that some digital health tools were "potentially magnificent," and called on doctors to separate useful products from "so-called advancements that don't have an appropriate evidence base, or that just don't work that well – or that actually impede care, confuse patients, and waste our time."
It certainly makes sense to sort the digital wheat from the chaff. After all, as of late last year there were more than 165,000 mobile health apps on the market, more than double that available in 2013, according to a study by IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics. And despite the increasing proliferation of wearable health trackers, there is little research available to suggest that they offer concrete health benefits or promote sustainable behavior change.
That being said, the term "snake oil" has a loaded historical meaning, and we should hold Dr. Madara accountable for using it. According to Wikipedia, "snake oil" is an expression associated with products that offer questionable or unverifiable quality or benefits – which may or may not be fair. But let's take things a bit further. In the same entry, Wikipedia defines a snake oil salesman "is someone who knowingly sells fraudulent goods or who is themselves a fraud, quack or charlatan." And that's a pretty harsh way to describe digital health entrepreneurs.
Ultimately, though, the issue isn't whether Dr. Madara hurt someone's feelings. What troubles me about his comments is they create conflict where none needs to exist.
Back in the 1850s, when what can charitably be called "entrepreneurs" were selling useless or toxic elixirs, many were doubtless aware that the products they sold had no benefit or might even harm consumers. And if what I've read about that era is true, I doubt they cared.
But today's digital health entrepreneurs, in contrast, desperately want to get it right. These innovators – and digital health product line leaders within firms like Samsung and Apple – are very open to working with clinicians. In fact, most if not all work directly with both staff doctors and clinicians in community practice, and are always open to getting guidance on how to support the practice of medicine.
So while Dr. Madara's comments aren't precisely wrong, they suggest a fear and distrust of technology which doesn't become any 21st century professional organization.
Think I'm wrong? Well, then why didn't the AMA leader announce the formation of an investment fund to back the "potentially magnificent" advances he admits exist? If the AMA did that, it would demonstrate that even a 169-year-old organization can adapt and grow. But otherwise, his words suggest that the venerable trade group still holds disappointingly Luddite views better suited for the dustbin of history.
UPDATE: An AMA representative has informed me that I got some details in the story above wrong, and I'm eager to correct my error. According to Christopher Khoury, vice president of environmental analysis and strategic analytics with the group, the AMA is indeed investing in digital health innovation. He notes that in January, the group announced the formation of San Francisco-based Health2047 (www.health2047.com), for which it serves as lead investor. Health2047 is dedicated to furthering the commercialization of digital tools and solutions that help practicing physicians. It also sponsors Matter, a healthcare incubator based in Chicago.


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Interfirm Linkages and the Vertical Structure and Dynamics of the Danish Trucking and Congress Tourism IndustriesSornn-Friese, Henrik; Jensen, Søren Henning (Frederiksberg, 2006)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This paper questions the overall role of interfirm linkages in industrial dynamics. Studying Danish trucking and congress tourism, the paper addresses a number of particular questions concerning how industry responds to changing conditions. In trucking, the important interfirm linkages are pecuniary and entails nontrivial exchange among multiple dispersed agents, while in congress tourism Inter-organizational linkages are more strategic, with the activities of multiple agents forming together into products, without direct exchange. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7874
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Soviet Baby Boomers – The Noise of a Generation
Soviet baby-boomers were, like their counterparts in the US and Western Europe, what Bernd Weisbrod has termed a 'noisy generation'. In Russia, the term '1970-ers' is probably more familiar. Among those who have proclaimed the importance of their experience (while … Continue reading
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"Yantra Yoga is a profound movement practice that encompasses the coordination of the breath with movement in a way that creates flexibility and harmony within the whole being. Transmitted in an authentic lineage from an ancient tantra, this practice is amazingly beneficial. I highly recommend this book."
—Lama Tsultrim Allione, author of Women of Wisdom and Feeding Your Demons
"Chögyal Namkhai Norbu is one of the greatest Tibetan meditation masters and scholars teaching in the West."
—Lama Surya Das, author of Awakening the Buddha Within and Awakening the Buddhist Heart, and the founder of the Dzogchen Foundation in Massachusetts
"Tibetan Yoga of Movement deliberately focuses on the aspects of the practice that are readily accessible to everyone, independent of their views, ideals, aspirations and capacities. The book provides clear instructions for the practical application of all the practices, drawn from four decades of teaching Yantra Yoga in the West."
—New York Journal of Books
"An amazing insight into a practice that is traced back 4000 years… While this book is aimed at being a basic introduction, it gave me a good overview of the core concepts that are the basis for this practice and presented it in a way that is user-friendly and straightforward."
—Dana Gornall, ElephantJournal.com
"This is an educational book that has the potential to entice everyone. Even though Asia is not a stranger to Yoga, yet, a book like this is an extremely valuable addition and should be within reach of everyone everywhere."
—Namta Gupta, BookPleasures.com


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Governor Brown calls his newly released budget proposal "a tough plan for tough times." In fact, it's worth noting that our new Governor is tasked with digging out of the largest financial deficit in the history of our state. That's no small task. We acknowledge these are difficult times for California and the entire nation, and that the road ahead is not easy. But we urge the governor and all legislators to re-examine proposed cuts to programs that are essential to Californians living with or at risk for HIV.
Among the programs targeted for cuts is the AIDS Drug Assistance Program, or ADAP, which provides life-saving medications to more than 37,000 low-income, uninsured, and underinsured Californians living with HIV/AIDS. Since its inception, ADAP has been the cornerstone of our state's HIV/AIDS prevention efforts. The governor's plan would impose cost-sharing on HIV-positive participants in ADAP with incomes over 100% of the federal poverty limit, or about $11,000 per year. Requiring co-payments to receive life-saving HIV medications will have devastating short and long-term consequences for HIV/AIDS prevention and care in California.
Ultimately, the proposed ADAP cuts will result in many HIV-positive people dropping out of the program altogether, in effect denying them the very medication they need to stay healthy. Generating savings for California by creating a system that denies medication to the most vulnerable among us is unjust, and certainly not the most effective way to deal with tough economic times. Balancing a budget on the backs of people with HIV/AIDS has always been bad policy, and it remains bad policy today.
And what happens down the road? Most HIV-positive Californians forced out of the program will inevitably reenter the health care system elsewhere. At that time, they will be less healthy from lack of medication that keeps their virus in check, and their health care needs will have increased. Evidence shows untreated HIV virus leads to higher rates of transmission and more HIV cases. By implementing cost-sharing in ADAP, we will be losing people we've worked very hard to get into the program. We would be taking a step backward in our states efforts to fight HIV/AIDS, while at the same time jeopardizing the health of people who need assistance the most.
The governor's budget also proposes cuts to Medi-Cal, including limiting coverage of services and medications and decreasing provider rates. This would destabilize the program at the very time when it should be preparing for an expansion with the implementation of the federal Affordable Care Act in 2014. This proposal is short-sighted. The whole point of national healthcare reform was to remove barriers that obstruct Americans' access to the healthcare system. Instead, this proposal suggests we fortify and expand the very barriers we purported to want to remove.
For a state in total fiscal crisis, there are no easy answers. But there are likely better answers when it comes to containing costs in our state AIDS programs. We must work collaboratively with state public officials and explore alternative solutions to ensure that the burden of these cuts don't fall on people without the political power to fight them. As the legislature holds budget hearings in the coming weeks and months, San Francisco AIDS Foundation will play a leadership role in voicing the concerns of our clients and HIV-positive people throughout California to ensure everyone has access to proper care and treatment. We're looking forward to an ongoing dialogue and active collaboration with the Brown Administration and legislators.
More than 160,000 Californians currently live with HIV or AIDS, and another 7,000 are newly infected each year. In 2010 we saw significant progress in the fight against a 30-year old foe, including a new national strategy to fight HIV/AIDS within our borders, and exciting breakthroughs in HIV prevention. Indeed the year was a sea change in our efforts to end HIV/AIDS. However, we will never fully realize this potential moving forward if the poorest in our state do not get the critical medications they need to stay healthy and protect others. Now is not the time to stop the momentum.
Courtney Mulhern-Pearson is the Director of State & Local Affairs at San Francisco AIDS Foundation.


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I am not going to concern myself so much with media reports regarding the excesses of the 'services' on this blog any longer because the excesses are such that, as the NHS and other 'services' disintegrate to such an extent that it can no longer be concealed, paedophiles' friends are popping up in the media from all directions screaming loudly that all that is needed is for them to be given many more millions of pounds and then everything will be OK.
The sociologist Loic Wacquant argued some years ago that because neoliberal capitalism had left politicians powerless, all that they could offer was 'solutions' in terms of crime and punishment and that was why so many were banging on about the necessity to build more prisons and get tough on crime and the causes of crime. Loic Wacquant lives in the US so he might not waste his time following what UK politicians are doing, but their latest offering is legislation to imprison anyone – for up to two years – who takes 'up-skirt photos'. I'm unimpressed with this gesture because there is already legislation in place to cover this behaviour. If I can be prosecuted for staring at a social worker in Safeways, one who's colleagues are running a paedophile gang at that and then also prosecuted for telling the secretary of another facilitator of the same paedophile gang that he is a fat idiot, I can only presume that the up-skirt peeping toms have not been prosecuted for reasons other than a lack of legislation. Furthermore, Dafydd illegally imprisoned people in a dungeon and like the up-skirt photographers he was never prosecuted. But as with demanding that Somalis are prosecuted for FGM – even in the absence of evidence – demanding tough sentences for up-skirt photographers is rather easier than tackling organised crime in the welfare services.
One thought occurs to me MPs – to take an up-skirt shot, the photographer would have to be in the vicinity of the woman's feet/ankles. A solution would be for the targeted woman to kick them in the chops, very very hard. Easier, quicker, cheaper and one would not have to take one's chances with an endemically corrupt criminal justice system. Something tells me that Dafydd could have spent 24 hours a day taking up-skirt shots and there would have been no action taken against him. After all, Dafydd's mate at Bart's, Prof Linford Rees, photographed female patients in the bath and showed the photos to students in his lectures (see post 'A Galaxy Of Talent').
Instead I am using this post to name a few more of those who's Big Ideas contributed towards a gang of paedophiles remaining untouchable for many years.
My post 'I Know Nuzzing…' detailed those managing Gwynedd Social Services whilst the paedophile gang operated in the Council's children's homes. For much of that time the Chief Executive of Gwynedd County Council was Ioan Bowen Rees, who has featured in a number of previous blog posts. I have mentioned that despite the havoc in Gwynedd County Council during his years of leadership, Bowen Rees was an intelligent erudite man, an Oxford graduate who was considered one of Europe's leading experts on local democracy.
This might explain why, when Bowen Rees was Chief Exec of Gwynedd County Council, Dr Dafydd Alun Jones was described in the media as 'Europe's leading forensic psychiatrist' and the social workers who ran the paedophile gang were constantly telling people that the 'services' were the best in Europe. Us service users used to shriek with laughter when we read such descriptions of the people who were trying to shag us, who were threatening us, assaulting us, lying about us in court and leaving some of our friends so desperate that they killed themselves. The extraordinary thing is that Bowen Rees really was considered an expert in local gov't at a European level. So we can only wonder why a paedophile gang expanded its operations in Gwynedd County Council when Bowen Rees was Chief Exec and why a paedophile gang expanded its operations in Dyfed when Ioan Bowen Rees was County Secretary of Dyfed County Council prior to relocating to Gwynedd.
Dafydd and the paedophiles were linked with a pan-European paedophile gang. Gwynedd social workers tripped over themselves to become involved with projects that sociologists in Bangor University were running with sociologists and social workers in Europe. The Gwynedd social workers knew bugger all about the academic work involved, but they were there at every workshop, at every buffet and stressed to the visiting European academics that the services in Gwynedd were, of course, leading the way.
Two Bangor lecturers who were particularly keen to climb aboard the European projects bandwagon were John Borland and Aled Griffiths. Borland had retired by the time that I began work as a sociologist at Bangor, but I was interested to discover that Borland had set up a company to supply 'service users' who would provide the legally required 'feedback' on the 'services' in north Wales. I had never met one 'service user' who had heard of John Borland, yet alone worked for his business. Borland's wife was Sandra Betts, an expert on Wimmin in Wales who was rarely seen in the University and who's own work was substantially done by unpaid female PhD students. Aled Griffiths aka the Buffet Slayer is married to Joanna Griffiths, who until her retirement was Director of Conwy Social Services. Joanna was Director when Conwy failed to respond to complaints that residents in Prestwood Homes were being appallingly abused (see post 'A Convenient Arrangement With The Private Sector'). Aled's sister is Gwenan Carrington, who was Director of Gwynedd Social Services after Dafydd's mistress Lucille Hughes 'retired' from that role when the Waterhouse Report was published. Aled Griffiths's brother Huw was a highly incompetent solicitor who was one of those who sat in Bangor Magistrates Court watching Dafydd and the paedophiles fit up their victims. In fact Huw watched Dafydd and the paedophiles fit me up, that's how I knew him, years before I encountered the joys of the Buffet Slayer.
A very cosy arrangement for everyone involved. This bunch were colleagues of Professor Mark Williams and some of them appear on his 'Mindfulness' publications (see post 'The Biggest Expert Of The Lot'). Mark Williams has now taken his pyramid selling Mindfulness scam to China and Hong Kong.
Ioan Bowen Rees, being very keen on Europe and their systems of local democracy, some of which Ioan maintained were far superior to that found in the UK, spent a lot of time in Europe. I have mentioned previously that Max Beloff, the father of Cherie Booth's friend and colleague Michael Beloff, rated one of Bowen Rees's books so highly that he maintained that it was 'essential reading for public servants'. Bowen Rees doubled up as an adviser to Plaid MPs Gwynfor Evans and Dafydd Wigley, both of whom knew that organised child sexual abuse bloomed wherever Ioan was to be found but who said nothing (see posts 'It Wasn't On Our Radar' and 'The Banality Of Evil').
There is however someone else who was a mate of and intellectual traveller with Ioan Bowen Rees whom I have not yet mentioned – Professor Leopold Kohr. Kohr grew up in Oberndorf near Salzburg and it remained his ideal of community. He held a doctorate in law from the University of Innsbruck, Austria and one in political science from the University of Vienna. Kohr also studied at the LSE.
Kohr became a freelance correspondent during the Spanish Civil War where he was impressed by the self-contained governments of Catalonia and Aragon, as well as by the small Spanish anarchist city-states of Alcoy and Caspe. He became a close friend of George Orwell and shared offices with Ernest Hemingway and Andre Malraux.
Kohr fled Austria in 1938 after it was annexed by Nazi Germany and emigrated to the US, later becoming an American citizen.
Kohr taught economics and political philosophy at Ruthers University in New Jersey, 1943-55. From 1955-73, he was Professor of Economics and Public Administration in the University of Puerto Rico in San Juan, except for a period in 1965-66 when he was Professor of Economics at the University of the Americas in Mexico City; during these years Kohr developed his concepts of village renewal and 'lent his advice to local city planning initiatives.' He also advised the independence movement of the of Anguilla.
After many rejections by American and British publishers, Kohr's first book, 'The Breakdown of Nations', was published in 1957 in Britain after a chance meeting with anarchist Sir Herbert Read.
Kohr moved from Puerto Rico to Wales, where he taught political philosophy at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth from 1968-77. So Kohr was there when Carlo spent a brief period at Aber learning Welsh. Kohr worked in the Department of Extra-mural Studies at Aber and was senior tutor, 1973-77.
The project of Welsh independence, founded on the ideal of 'cymdeithas' (community) was dear to Kohr and he became a mentor to Plaid and a close friend of its then leader, Gwynfor Evans.
Yma O Hyd! Sing-a-long-a Dafydd Iwan and a gang of molesters with intellectual aspirations. Which provided a very useful carapace.
After retiring from teaching, Kohr divided his time between Gloucester and Hellbrunn, near Salzburg. He was planning to return to his hometown of Oberndorf to live when he died in 1994.
Kohr described himself as a 'philosophical anarchist'. He protested the 'cult of bigness' and economic growth and promoted the concept of human scale and small community life. Kohr's vision called for a dissolution of centralized political and economic structures in favour of local control, which was pretty much Ioan Bowen Rees's 'vision' for Wales. Ioan's cup brimmed over when the National Assembly for Wales was established – he was an adviser to the Welsh Office civil servants and to Ron 'it was a moment of madness/I was looking for badgers' Davies (see post 'Cottaging At Castle Gate') regarding devolution.
It is not a coincidence that the Welsh Assembly is stuffed full of weak, third-rate AMs who in their previous lives concealed a paedophile gang.
This was the Pretty Straight Kind Of Guy who did his best to ensure that Ron Davies would be Wales's First Minister, until that male prostitute Boogie got in the way:
According to Clarissa Dickson Wright, when Blair was at Oxford he was widely suspected of being gay and was known as Miranda.
I've only ever met one person called Miranda and that was a young patient at Springfield Hospital in 1991. She was relentlessly pursued by a predatory male patient and was actually quite frightened of him. The staff watched this man shout 'Miranda, I'm coming after you' and she fled on a regular basis, yet they did nothing.
Kohr was an important inspiration to the Green, bioregional, Forth World, decentralist and anarchist movements. He contributed often to John Papworth's `Journal for the Fourth World', 'Resurgence'. One of Kohr's students was economist E.F. Schumacher, whose book 'Small Is Beautiful' took its title from one of Kohr's core principles.
In 1983, a student with a sense of humour at Aston University was faced with a finals paper in which one of the questions was 'Small is beautiful. Discuss.' This student did indeed discuss Small Is Beautiful. He wrote a whole essay arguing why he preferred to have sex with women with small boobs. When faced with his essay, the exam board weren't sure what to do, so a meeting was held and it was agreed that for that essay they would simply give him a pass mark. The rest of his work was of a high standard and he emerged with a 2:1.
The VC of Aston University at the time was Sir Freddie Crawford, aka 'Mrs Thatcher's favourite Vice-Chancellor'. At least the student who liked small boobs sat his own exams. There was a problem at Aston at the time – it was discovered that several members of Middle Eastern Royal families had registered for engineering degrees and had sent their servants along to attend the lectures and sit the exams for them. The degrees were issued in the names of their employers, who found themselves in possession of engineering degrees whilst knowing nuzzing. I was told that Ruhi Behi, a former psych nurse from the North Wales Hospital Denbigh, used the services of someone else to acquire his degree in psychology from UCNW in the 1980s. Behi subsequently became Head of the School of Healthcare Sciences at Bangor University. Behi bagged his degree when paedophiles' friend Eric Sunderland was Principal/VC and was appointed Head of Healthcare Sciences when paedophiles' friend Roy Evans was VC.
Leopold Kohr's ideas inspired Kirkpatrick's books 'Human Scale' (1980) and 'Dwellers in the Land: The Bioregional Vision' (1985). Sale arranged the first American publication of 'The Breakdown of Nations' in 1978 and wrote the foreword.
Ioan Bowen Rees also co-authored with Hugh MacDiarmid and Owen Dudley Edwards.
Hugh MacDiarmid was the pen name of Christopher Murray Grieve, a Scottish poet, journalist, essayist and political figure. He is best known for his works written in 'synthetic Scots', a 'literary version of the Scots language that MacDiarmid himself developed'. So he invented his own language. He probably awarded himself a prize for it as well a la the Learned Society of Wales. However, Grieve's earliest work was written in English and from the early 1930s onwards much of the poetry published under MacDiarmid's name was also written in an English.
MacDiarmid was born in the Scottish border town of Langholme, Dumfriesshire. He was educated at Langholm Academy before becoming a teacher for a brief time at Broughton Higher Grade School in Edinburgh. MacDiarmid lived in London, Liverpool and Thakeham in West Sussex. He lived on Whalesay in Shetland, 1933-42 and in Glasgow, 1942-49. MacDiarmid worked as a journalist for a number of local Scottish papers. He spent time living in Ebbw Vale and contributed to the socialist newspaper 'The Merthyr Pioneer', run by Labour Party founder Keir Hardie, before joining the RAMC on the outbreak of WWI. MacDiarmid served in Salonica, Greece and France before developing cerebral malaria and subsequently returning to Scotland in 1918.
Somebody seems to have been having fun with MacDiarmid's wiki entry regarding the first few decades of his life, because the dates provided in that entry do not always correlate with MacDiarmid's activities at the time.
After the war MacDiarmid continued to work as a journalist, living in Montrose, Scotland – which boasts a place called Charleton Road no less – where he became Editor and reporter of the 'Montrose Review', as well as a justice of the peace and a member of the county council. In 1923 his first book, 'Annals of the Five Senses', was published at his own expense, followed by 'Sangschaw' in 1925 and 'Penny Wheep' and 'A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle' in 1926.
On the Shetland island of Whalsay in 1933 with his son Michael and second wife, Valda Trevlyn, MacDiarmid wrote essays and poetry despite being cut off from mainland cultural developments for much of the 1930s. He died at his cottage near Biggar in 1978 at the age of 86.
Norman Lamont – who was a member of the Cambridge Mafia which produced so many of the big beasts of Thatcher's Gov't – held Ministerial positions under Thatch and was Chancellor of the Exchequer under John Major, was born in Shetland; his father was the Island's Top Doctor. Lamont was Chancellor on Black Wednesday.
This man was Norman's special adviser at the time:
MacDiarmid was a supporter of both communism and Scottish nationalism. He was a founding member of the National Party of Scotland, (forerunner of the SNP) and stood as a candidate for the SNP in 1945 and 1950 and for the Communist Party of Great Britain in 1964. So MacDiarmid will have known those other members of the Communist Party of Great Britain who used to spend the summer at Croesor in Merionydd in the 1960s – who knew about Dafydd and the paedophile gang (see post 'The Village').
MacDiarmid was a 'controversial figure' during his lifetime. He was expelled from both the SNP and the Communist Party but then the CP let him back in again many years later. MacDiarmid was a member of a secret Scottish Nationalist society Clann Albain.
Between 1931-43, MacDiarmid was kept under surveillance by the security services and when Orwell compiled a list of suspected communist sympathisers, he included MacDiarmid's name on it. Not that it will have done MacDiarmid any harm. After all, MI5 provided Dafydd et al with full protection, it was only the service users who bothered to find out what Dafydd was up to by ringing him up, using the public phone box in the village where Ioan Bowen Rees lived. Ioan didn't suffer as a result, he was never in the queue for that phone box, Ioan the Common Man will have had several land lines and at least one mobile down in his Plas some distance away from the village centre.
In 2010 letters written in the early 1940s by MacDiarmid were discovered, showing that he believed that a Nazi invasion of Britain would benefit Scotland. Marc Horne in the 'Daily Telegraph' commented: 'MacDiarmid flirted with fascism in his early thirties, when he believed it was a doctrine of the left. In two articles written in 1923, 'Plea for a Scottish Fascism' and 'Programme for a Scottish Fascism', he appeared to support Mussolini's regime. By the 1930s however, following Mussolini's lurch to the right, his position had changed and he castigated Neville Chamberlain over his appeasement of Hitler's expansionism.' Deirdre Grieve, MacDiarmid's daughter-in-law and literary executor, noted: 'I think he entertained almost every ideal it was possible to entertain at one point or another.'
MacDiarmid's son Michael Trevlyn became Vice-Chairman of the SNP.
MacDiarmid was considered controversial in his lifetime but is now considered one of the principal forces behind the Scottish Renaissance and has had a lasting impact on Scottish culture and politics. He was accused of plagiarism by supporters of the Welsh poet Glyn Jones but responded with 'the greater the plagiarism, the greater the work of art'. Perhaps Charles Saatchi would like to pay someone a great deal of money for MacDiarmid's plagiarised poetry or indeed the poetry that he wrote in the language which he made up himself and display it in the Saatchi gallery in Chelsea.
In 'Who's Who' MacDiarmid listed Anglophobia as one of his interests. It's a good job that the Englisher Thatcher's mate the Englisher Sir Peter Morrison had a sexual interest in young boys though, because MacDiarmid's mate Ioan Bowen Rees and Dafydd would have been out of business without that and perhaps in prison as well.
Ioan's co-author Owen Dudley Edwards is an Irish historian and former Reader in Commonwealth and American History at the University of Edinburgh. He is the son of Professor Robert Dudley Edwards and brother to the Irish writer, Ruth Dudley Edwards. He is the General Editor of the Oxford Sherlock Holmes series and is a recognised expert on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. There was plenty about his co-author Ioan that he could investigate. Dudley Edwards was also an authority on P.G. Wodehouse.
Wodehouse's first published novel:
It was about the drug squad in North Wales planting illegal substances on the paedophiles' victims. Although Dafydd pronounces it 'mari-jew-ana'.
The following year – 1903 – Wodehouse published this:
Which is worrying when one remembers what was happening to kids in the 'residential schools' and children's homes scattered across Gwynedd when Ioan Bowen Rees was presiding over his own little bit of local democracy.
Owen Dudley Edwards attended Belvedere College, Dublin, University College, Dublin and John Hopkins University in Baltimore.
In 1966 Dudley Edwards married Barbara Balbirnie Lee. They have three children. Dudley Edwards is a practising Catholic and actively involved in the church.
I am reading Jeremy Paxman's book 'Friends In High Places: Who Runs Britain?' at the moment. It was published in 1990 and I wished that I'd read it when it was first published, because it names everyone who was propping up the corrupt regime of which the London medical establishment was an integral part. I've named many of them on this blog, but it would have been helpful to know that they were the powers behind the criminality of which I was on the receiving end at the time. Paxo's done a very good job – I still have more chapters to read, but so far I've come across a few people who had escaped me.
I have mentioned Alan Walters previously, Thatch's economic adviser who's presence concerned a great many people. It is believed that it was Nigel Lawson who managed to elbow Walters out of the way. Lawson certainly did everyone a favour there. I read up about Walters before I discovered the key role that Leicester University had played in concealing organised sexual abuse in Leicestershire, so it took Paxo's book to clobber me with the info that Walters was a Leicester University graduate. Leicester University has played a role in the education or careers of a number of people like Walters who were hailed as gurus by PMs concealing abuse and trafficking. Many of these people very obviously did not have much to offer and their influence on PMs was inexplicable. For example, the man who invented the Third Way for Blair and who explained it all in a short pamphlet which one could read over breakfast:
|Anthony Giddens
Paxo writes about the Institute of Economic Affairs (see post 'The International Language Of Screaming'). He mentions David Green, who was Head of the IEA's Health Policy Group. In 1988, Green argued that inequality of health services is desirable. Green would have been delighted with Bethesda in the 1980s and 90s, it was littered with destitute 'service users' who were being targeted by Dafydd to sell sex to dreadful old politicians and others and the empty shells of those who had already been used in this way and had returned to north Wales, completely drained, traumatised, fragile and refused all 'services'. Furthermore their tales of sex with the rich and famous were so extraordinary that no-one believed them.
BBC News Wales is reporting that the Rolling Stones are coming to Wales. Will they be looking up a few old acquaintances in Bethesda?
If they do, I don't suppose that we'll hear anything about it.
David Green writes for 'The Sunday Times', 'The Times', the 'Daily Mail', the 'Sunday Telegraph' and the 'Daily Telegraph'. Green has taken part in broadcast programmes such as 'Newsnight', the 'Moral Maze' and the 'Today' programme. He has made occasional contributions to the Guardian's 'Comment is Free' site and he has contributed pieces to 'Daily Telegraph' news blogs.
NB: Perhaps Claire Fox, a regular on the 'Moral Maze', could explain why despite her self-styled neocon say-the-unthinkable re the welfare state stance, she has never breathed a word about Dafydd and the paedophile gang. Because Claire certainly knows about them. Claire grew up in Flint, north Wales when Dafydd and the paedophiles were busy. She attended St Richard Gwyn Catholic High School in Flint, went to Warwick University and worked as a mental health social worker, 1981-87. Claire completed a PGCE at Thames Poly in 1992.
Why so silent Claire? I read 'Living Marxism' for years when you and your mates from the Revolutionary Communist Party were publishing it – I even had copies of it in my house when the paedophile gang used to send the police around to arrest me after they had perjured themselves. Then Brown and I followed 'Spiked Online' when you reinvented yourselves as neocons in 2000. One of your lot asked Brown if we'd like to write for you after you read one of our books. Brown said no thanks because we noticed that there were certain things that none of you dared write about. Such as what had happened to us during the 1980s, 90s and was still happening at the very time that we were asked if we wanted to write for 'Spiked'…
What we had Claire were a bunch of twats from the security services bothering us, whilst you built your reputation as Ms Fearless.
Claire's fellow panellist on the 'Moral Maze' Matthew Taylor – Blair's former policy adviser – knows about Dafydd and the paedophiles as well. Matthew's dad Laurie is mates with Prof Dick Hobbs who was a friend of the criminologist Jane Morgan, widow of Lord K.O. Morgan. Jane and Lord Ken were at the scene of the crimes as it were (see post 'A Bit More Paleontology').
David Green was an undergraduate at the University of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, 1970-73 and remained there for his PhD. He was a Labour Councillor in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, 1976-81. So Green knew about the paedophile gang in the north east with links to Dafydd and he knew that the Councils in the north east were sending great numbers of children in care to children's homes in north Wales and continued to do so even after complaints of serious abuse were made.
Green worked as a Research Fellow at the Australian National University in Canberra, 1981-83. He worked at the IEA from 1984 and was Director of its Health and Welfare Unit, 1986-2000.
Green funded the think tank Civitas in 2000 and is also its Chief Executive.
Any more bright ideas to keep a bunch of sex traffickers in business then David?
Green's book, 'Community Without Politics' (London, IEA, 1997) was awarded the Sir Anthony Fisher Memorial Prize in 1997. In 2004 Green was voted one of Britain's top 100 British intellectuals by readers of 'Prospect' magazine and in 2009 he was included on the Evening Standard's list of the 1,000 most influential Londoners. Green's 1993 book 'Reinventing Civil Society' has been translated into Chinese and Russian and probably that language that Ioan Bowen Rees's mate MacDiarmid made up as he went along whilst he was plagiarising poetry.
If anyone knows whether Green is one of the literary figures who takes part in the events organised by the paedophiles' friends who run the charidee Wellbeing of Women, do let me know (see post 'Wimmin's Wellbeing – The Fortnum And Mason Connection'). He's probably been on the guest list for an event at Compton Verney as well.
Health inequalities in action for you David:
A leading forensic psychiatrist at an old boys' public school reunion:
Paxo's book informed me that Keith Joseph's outfit which Joseph founded in 1974, the Centre for Policy Studies, was funded with money from Nigel Vinson. My post 'Include Me Out' detailed a debate in the House which involved a number of politicians defending the appalling suicide rate among the victims of Dafydd et al in Risley Remand Centre. It was mentioned in the record in Hansard that one of those contributing to the debate would be giving a talk to the Centre for Policy Studies.
So who is the man who bank-rolled the 'intellectuals' behind a paedophile gang? Nigel – now Lord – Vinson is the son of Ronald Vinson, a farmer. Vinson was educated at Pangbourne. After school he served in the Queen's Royal Regiment.
In 1952 Vinson began a small plastics company in Guildford (Plastic Coatings Ltd), which in 1969 was floated on the Stock Exchange, with over 1,000 employees. The business won the Queen's Award for Industry in 1971. Vinson was Deputy Chairman of the CBI's Smaller Firms Council, 1979-84 and President of the Industrial Participation Association, 1979-89. Vinson was Director of the Sugar Board, 1968-75, Director of the British Airports Authority, 1973-80 and a Director of Barclays Bank, 1982-87. He worked for the Centre for Policy Studies, 1974-80. Vinson was Deputy Chairman of Electra Investment Trust 1990-98. From 1976-78 Vinson was an honorary Director of the Queen's Silver Jubilee Appeal. In the light of how close the Royal Family are to Dafydd's mates, I really am very glad that I've never been the sort to buy Royal mugs or plates with pictures on of yet another couple who have just had a fairy tale wedding.
I have recently discovered that before she came to that sticky end in a tunnel, the heart surgeon with whom Diana was having a fling, Hasnet Khan, later worked at Harefield Hospital with Sir Magdi Yacoub, where I am fairly sure that major research fraud was carried out (see post 'I Don't Believe It!'). Before Hasnet Khan worked at Harefield, Diana had been allowed into his previous place of work to watch heart surgery. People started complaining that it was a security risk. It was also completely unethical but no-one mentioned that.
Vinson was a Member of the Northumbrian National Parks and Countryside Committee, 1977-87 and a member of the Foundation for Science and Technology, 1991-96. Since 2003, he has been a Trustee of Civitas. Vinson is life Vice President of the IEA, where he was Chairman of Trustees 1989-95.
Vinson was also a member of the Design Council, 1973-80 and the unsalaried Chairman of the Rural Development Commission 1980-90. He was founder donor of the Martin Mere Wildfowl Reserve in 1972 and gave a village green to Holbourn, Northumberland, in 2006. Presumably in exchange for domain over the villagers in order to force them into human slavery.
In Feb 1985, Vinson was given a peerage.
We'll drink to that!
Vinson was a council member of St George's House, Windsor Castle, 1990-96. He has been married to Yvonne Collin since 1972; they have three daughters.
Lord Vinson of Health Inequalities is a regular attender at Lords debates, and spoke in the 2007 and 2014 sessions in support of nuclear power. Here's an explosion for him.
In 2012, Lord Vinson threatened to defect to UKIP unless the Conservatives took a more 'Better Out' approach to Europe. He obviously didn't understand the potential markets in Europe, unlike Dafydd and the Gwynedd social workers.
In June 2013 Vinson spoke and voted in the Lords against the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill. Keep it all as illegal as possible Nigel, it enables Dafydd to keep the prices high and blackmail the victims.
Paxo's book also names Professor Brian Griffiths, who ran the Downing Street Policy Unit for Thatch. Griffiths was educated at Dynevor School, Swansea and at the LSE. So Griffiths will have been part of the Heseltine-Lord Brian Flowers-Swansea contingent. The Labour Party Swansea Mafia – Rhodri Morgan, Edwina Hart et al – will have known him as well, but his mates were bigger than theirs and the one thing that none of them were going to do was blow the whistle on the fact that his big mates were running a paedophile ring in west and north Wales, because a Windbag in Islwyn was hoping to become PM on the basis of the votes of the staff of the public services who were colluding with it all.
Brian Griffiths was Dean of the City University Business School, but in 1986 he resigned his Chair to become Thatch's Chief Policy Adviser.
Griffiths was given a peerage in 1991. The year that Peter Morrison was knighted and a number of other paedophiles' friends picked up honours for no good reason. The year that the careers of me as well as of my friend who wanted to make a documentary about the mental health services in north Wales were destroyed.
Brian Griffiths was Chairman of the Centre for Policy Studies, 1991-01. He served on the Board of Directors of the Conservative Christian Fellowship, 2000-02. Griffiths was a member of the European Union Sub-Committee F (Social Affairs, Education and Home Affairs), 1999-03 and the Religious Offences Committee from 2002-03. I expect that Griffiths also Chaired which ever Committee decreed that swearing was an offence so serious that Dafydd was compelled to report me to the police when I said 'bugger'; Bluglass agreed that me calling Dafydd a wanker was one of the many signs that I was Dangerous, had a Homicidal Capacity and that I would 'end in a ward for the criminally insane'. Bluglass has a very sweary daughter called Amanda, who as far as I am aware, has never been consigned to a ward for the criminally insane. But then her father is not in prison, despite colluding with a serious offender. I wonder why not?
Griffiths is a Vice-President of the Nature in Art Trust. He serves as Vice-Chairman of Goldman Sachs International. He said that he was 'not ashamed' of the bank's compensation plans and that the issue of banking compensation should not be thought about solely from a short-term perspective. Griffiths defended the bank's bonuses and said that the general public should 'tolerate the inequality as a way to achieve greater prosperity for all'.
I wish I'd known that when Dafydd and the paedophiles had hounded me out of my job and then tried to set fire to my house while I was living in poverty in Ioan Bowen Rees's local democracy, it would have explained everything. I could have also reminded the staff of St George's of it when they all turned green upon finding out that the foul research assistant Mandy Leigh's brother Charles – who worked as a banker – received more than their annual salaries for his Christmas bonus. It's why they all thought that they were so badly paid. Mandy thought that she was badly paid as well, even though St George's had done a fiddle with her PhD funders to ensure that she was paid more than her colleagues. As Mandy breezily explained to me one day, she was 'a rich bitch funded by Wellcome'. I'd like to have known how that happened – Mandy was thrown off of one degree course for reasons which were never explained, so there wasn't exactly an outstanding academic record there. Perhaps she simply explained on her application that she would be having sex in the lab during working hours with Top Doctors and would be hurling racist abuse at overseas staff?
Brian Griffiths also stated that 'we should not … be ashamed of offering compensation in an internationally competitive market which ensures the bank businesses here and employs British people'. Such as Charles Leigh, obviously.
Paxo's book mentioned a very influential figure in academia with connections to Dafydd et al – Dame Kathleen Mary Kenyon. Kenyon was a leading British archeologist of Neolithic culture in the Fertile Crescent. She is best known for her excavations of Jericho in 1952-58 and is considered to have been one of the most influential archaeologists of the 20th century. Kenyon was Principal of St Hugh's College, Oxford, 1962-73.
Kathleen Kenyon was born in London, England, the eldest daughter of Sir Frederic Kenyon, Biblical scholar and later Director of the British Museum. Her grandfather was the lawyer and Fellow of All Souls College, John Robert Kenyon and her great-great-grandfather was the politician and lawyer Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon.
It was the 4th and 5th Baron Kenyons who were Presidents of UCNW (Bangor University). Lloyd Tyrell-Kenyon, the 5th Baron, was President whilst UCNW was run by Dafydd and the paedophiles and it was the 5th Baron Kenyon's son Thomas Tyrell-Kenyon who was sexually abusing at least one boy in care in Wrexham. Thomas was caught red-handed in 1978 and made a complaint of theft against the boy. The boy was sent to a detention centre and Thomas faced no charges. Thomas died of an HIV related condition in 1993. See previous posts for the details of the many public roles of the 5th Baron Kenyon – he was involved with national museums and art galleries as well as with public life in north Wales – and for details of the occasion on which Thomas was caught in action.
Kathleen grew up in Bloomsbury, London in a house attached to the British Museum, with her mother, Amy Kenyon and sister Nora Kenyon. Known for 'being hard-headed and stubborn', Kathleen 'grew up as a tomboy, fishing, climbing trees and playing a variety of sports'. As did I, but I didn't collude with a sodding paedophile gang, which it seems that Kathleen did.
Kathleen's father 'encouraged wide reading and independent study'. In later years Kenyon would remark that her father's position at the British Museum was particularly helpful with regard to her education. You don't say! Kathleen 'was an excellent student, winning awards at school and particularly excelling in history. She studied first at St Paul's Girls' School where she was Head Girl, before winning an Exhibition to read History at Somerville College, Oxford.While at Oxford, Kathleen became the first female President of the Oxford University Archaeological Society'. Oh put her on the 'Woman's Hour' Power List, she's broken a glass ceiling.
Somerville College, Oxford, was Thatch's college. Although Kathleen was a bit older than Thatch, I'm sure that maximum use was, in subsequent years, made of the alumni network to the benefit of everyone but the victims of Dafydd and the gang.
A career in archaeology was first suggested to Kathleen by Margery Fry, librarian at Somerville. I wonder if Margery had noticed who Kathleen's dad was. After graduation, Kenyon's first field experience was as a photographer for the pioneering excavations at Great Zimbabwe in 1929. Returning to England, Kenyon joined the archaeologists Sir Mortimer Wheeler and his wife Tessa on their excavation of the Romano-British settlement of Verulamium (St Albans). Kenyon worked there each summer between 1930 and 1935 Mortimer Wheeler entrusted her with the direction of the excavation of the Roman Theatre.
Mortimer Wheeler was the Keeper of Archaeology and then Director of the National Museum of Wales and the London Museum, Director-General of the Archeological Survey of India and the founder and Honorary Director of the Institute of Archaeology in London.
When Mortimer Wheeler was appointed as the Keeper of Archaeology at the National Museum of Wales, the job also entailed becoming a lecturer in archaeology at the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire (later Cardiff University). He moved to Cardiff with his family in 1920. The museum was in disarray; prior to the war, construction had begun on a new purpose-built building to house the collections. This had ceased during the conflict and the edifice was left abandoned during Cardiff's post-war economic slump. Wheeler recognised that Wales was very divided regionally, with many Welsh people having little loyalty to Cardiff; thus, he made a point of touring the country, lecturing to local societies about archaeology. According to the later archaeologist Lydia C. Carr, the Wheelers' work for the cause of the National Museum was part of a wider 'cultural-nationalist movement' linked to growing Welsh nationalism during this period. Plaid Cymru, was founded in 1925 by Saunders Lewis and others. Lewis was a lecturer at Swansea University – he taught Rhodri Morgan's parents. When Dafydd was a young Plaid activist he hung out with Saunders Lewis.
In 1924-25 Wheeler excavated the Roman fort – Y Caer – near Brecon and also Isca Augusta at Caerleon. Intent on attracting press attention to both raise public awareness of archaeology and attract new sources of funding, Wheeler contacted the press and organised a sponsorship of the excavation by the 'Daily Mail'. In doing so, he emphasised the folkloric and legendary associations that the Caerleon site had with King Arthur. In 1925, Oxford University Press published Wheeler's first book for a general audience, 'Prehistoric and Roman Wales'; he later expressed the opinion that it was not a good book.
Whilst Director of the National Museum of Wales – a position he obtained in 1924 substantially via influential friends – Wheeler succeeded in obtaining funding from the Treasury to build up the National Museum and link it with regional museums throughout Wales. A new building was completed and King George V opened it in 1927.
The 5th Baron Kenyon was President of the National Museum of Wales, 1952-57.
Upon the retirement of the Keeper of the London Museum, Wheeler was invited to fill the vacancy, which he did. He had been considering a return to London for some time and eagerly agreed, taking on the post, which was based at Lancaster House in the St James's area in July 1926. In Wales, many felt that Wheeler had simply taken the directorship of the National Museum to advance his own career prospects and that he had abandoned Wales when a better offer came along.
In 1934 Kathleen Kenyon assisted Mortimer and his wife Tess in the foundation of the Institute of Archaeology of University College London. UCL often seems to be at the scene of the crime. The first premises that Mortimer Wheeler secured for the Institute of Archaeology was St John's Lodge in Regent's Park, the Portakabin below:
St John's Lodge had been left empty since its use as a hospital during WWI. The building was owned by the Crown and was controlled by the First Commissioner of Works, William Ormsby-Gore, who was very sympathetic to archaeology and leased the building to the Institute at a low rent. William Ormsby-Gore was the 4th Baron Harlech and the father of David, the 5th Baron Harlech. Lord David Harlech was the British Ambassador to the US when J.F. Kennedy was President. David Ormsby-Gore and his descendants have a penchant for dying in unpleasant ways, often when young. The family show every sign of having been under attack by the paedophile gang and their associates (see post '95 Glorious Years!').
Mortimer Wheeler continued with an incredibly high profile career, leading famous excavations, such as that of Maiden Castle in Dorset. He served in WWII, led extensive digs in Asia, held key roles in UNESCO and in the British Academy and in the 1950s broadcast for BBC TV.
Wheeler married three times. Tessa died in 1936 – their only child, Michael Mortimer Wheeler, became a barrister. Following Tessa's death, in 1939 Wheeler married Mavis de Vere Cole, widow of the prankster Horace de Vere Cole. Cole's diaries revealed that Wheeler physically hit her when she annoyed him. In 1945 Mortimer Wheeler married Margaret 'Kim' Collingridge. They became estranged in 1956, but Collingridge's Catholicism prevented divorce. Wheeler was well known for his promiscuity and for favouring young women for one night stands, many of whom were his students. He was known for having casual sex in public places. Archaeologist Gabriel Moshenska informed a 'Daily Mail' reporter that Wheeler had developed a reputation as 'a bit of a groper and a sex pest and an incredible bully as well'.
The Dafydd of archaeology.
From 1936-39 Kathleen Kenyon carried out important excavations at the Jewry Wall in the city of Leicester. These were published in the 'Illustrated London News' in 1937 with pioneering reconstruction drawings by the artist Alan Sorrell whom Kathleen had just happened 'to notice sketching her dig'.
Alan Sorrell was Senior Assistant Instructor of Drawing at the Royal College of Art, 1931–39 and 1946–48. According to Kathleen's wiki entry, Sorrell was passing the time of day hanging around her dig in Leicester. According to Sorrell's wiki entry 'He began his archaeological reconstruction drawings after a chance meeting in 1936 with Kathleen Kenyon on a dig of a Roman site in Leicester, who asked him to produce illustrations for her article for 'The Illustrated London News'. More commissions then followed at Maiden Castle, in collaboration with Mortimer Wheeler and at Roman Caerwent and Carleon, in collaboration with Cyril Fox and V. E. Nash-Williams of the National Museum of Wales.'
Alan Sorrell was best known for his archaeological sketches, so clearly the arrangement between him and Kenyon in Leicester was fruitful for everyone.
I haven't looked up who owned or edited the 'Illustrated London News', but it would not be that much of a surprise to find out that they were a mate of Kathleen's dad or someone senior in UCL or Leicester University.
In WWII Alan Sorrell worked for the intelligence services. Here is his 1945 work 'FIDO In Operation'.
And here is Fido himself:
|Alan Sorrell
|Here's Fido's trainer supervising a dig in 1977 – so it was probably one on the turf of the paedophiles' friends at Chester:
During the Second World War, Kathleen Kenyon served as Divisional Commander of the Red Cross in Hammersmith, London and later as Acting Director and Secretary of the Institute of Archaeology of the University of London.
Kathleen Kenyon retired in 1973 to Erbistock near Wrexham. She never married, perhaps having seen quite enough action whilst she worked with Mortimer Wheeler. From 1974, Kenyon was the Honorary Vice President of the Chester Archaeological Society. She died at Wrexham in 1978.
So Kathleen was in the Wrexham/Chester area whilst Dafydd and the paedophile gang were operating there and whilst the 5th Baron Kenyon allowed them free reign in UCNW – whilst his son Thomas was partaking of the services that the paedophile gang provided.
The British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem amalgamated within the Council for British Research in the Levant in 1998, was officially renamed the Kenyon Institute in July 2003 in honour of Kathleen Kenyon. The Kathleen Kenyon Archaeology Collection, a collection of Kenyon's books and papers purchased from her estate in 1984, is housed at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. The finds from her excavations are held in a number of collections, including the British Museum and the UCL Institute of Archaeology, while the bulk of archive is located at the Manchester Museum.
So there's the myth of a few more outstanding careers built upon pure talent busted.
Paxo's book details big wigs who exerted control over 'the establishment' at the time that I was working at St George's Hospital Medical School, 1989-91. The institution was, as described in previous posts, colluding with organised child sexual abuse and trafficking, class A drugs offences, research fraud and much other wrongdoing which was resulting in patient harm.
My post 'BMA Calling, BMA Calling' mentions some very odd happenings when I shared a house with Dr Andrew Aldridge, a junior surgeon at St George's and his wife Di, who worked for a City firm. I don't know how much Andrew knew about the appalling corruption at St George's, but I do remember that his family lived at Alderley Edge in Cheshire and were Tories. Andrew's father's business was I think a carpentry/furniture business. His family were definitely not Top Doctors, they were business people.
Alderley Edge is a very wealthy area and it was where many of the professional people who concealed the activities of Dafydd et al lived. The crooked barrister George Carman QC lived near there and the area was crawling with senior police officers, Top Docs, financiers, lawyers etc. Sir Peter Morrison was just down the road at Chester molesting children.
I cannot imagine that Andrew and his family would ever find the conduct of Dafydd et al acceptable, but I do wonder if they were duped or whether their political allegiances blinded them. Andrew and Di considered me a real old leftie and I remember that once I tried to tell Andrew what I had been told about Jimmy Savile. Andrew just wouldn't have it and told me that Savile was 'a Samaritan'.
|An 'NHS volunteer'
|No Andrew, he was a very serious sex offender, which is what I had been told by the time that I shared a house with you. Peter Morrison was a very serious sex offender as well – Thatcher knew about it and Professor Geoffrey Chamberlain, with whom your mum and dad drank champagne at graduation, was concealing the crimes of Savile, Morrison and many more.
At the time that I was living with Andrew and Di and was under attack from Dafydd and the paedophiles' friends, the constituency MP for Alderley Edge was the illustrious Neil Hamilton. Hamilton has of course featured previously on this blog and used to socialise with Peter Morrison. However, Hamilton's constituency – Tatton – was created in 1983. Peter Morrison was elected as the MP for Chester in 1974 – and was one of those who supported Thatcher to succeed Ted Heath as leader of the Tory Party – but there had been organised abuse of young people in the region long before 1974. Dafydd and Gwynne had been in business for decades and things really got going in 1968 when John Allen opened the Bryn Alyn Community and was rapidly followed by many other abusive people with money to spare who suddenly decided to open a children's home or school in north Wales.
Before the constituency of Tatton existed, Alderley Edge and neighbouring Wilmslow were in the constituency of Knutsford. Knutsford had been held by the Tories since the pre-Cambrian. Between 1945-70, the MP was Walter Bromley-Davonport – so he was there when Dafydd and John Allen put their Big Business Plan into action. The Bromley-Davonports were friends of Sir Ronnie Waterhouse.
In 1970, John Davies was elected MP for Knutsford – he resigned in Nov 1978, after developing a brain tumour. Davies was the MP when Sir Peter Morrison decided that Chester was the constituency for him – although his family seat was in Wiltshire and his house was in London – and as business boomed for Dafydd et al.
John Davies was the first Director of the CBI, 1965-69. He was Minister of Technology in 1970 in Ted Heath's Gov't; then Secretary of State for Trade and Industry and President of the Board of Trade, 1970-72; Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster with special responsibilities for the co-ordination of British policy towards the European communities, 1972-74; and then Shadow Foreign Secretary under Margaret Thatcher, 1976-78.
Davies was born in Blackheath, London in 1916, the second son of Arnold Davies, a Chartered Accountant and his wife Edith Harding. Davies went to Windlesham House School in Sussex and St Edward's School, Oxford. He followed his father into accountancy and served in the Royal Army Service Corps in WWII. Davies spent most of the war in the Combined Operations headquarters. From 1945 he worked for Combined Operations Experimental Establishment (COXE). In 1943, he married Vera Bates, only child of George William Bates, Managing Director of Barratts Shoes and his wife Elvina Taylor. They had two children; a daughter, Rosamond Ann and a son, Francis William Harding Davies.
Davies joined the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company as an accountant in the marketing division and worked for the company in London, Stockholm and Paris; the company was renamed as British Petroleum in 1954. In 1956, Davies was promoted to be General Manager (Markets) for BP and in 1960 he was Director of BP Trading.
In 1961, Davies was appointed as Vice-Chairman and Managing Director of Shell-Mex and BP Ltd. He also became a Director of Hill Samuel Group. Due to his position he was made a member of the Grand Council of the Federation of British Industry and Chaired a committee on technical legislation.
Davies supported initiatives such as the National Economic Development Council, where Gov't, employers and trades unions met to discuss the economy and set up a joint CBI-TUC joint committee. He was supportive of British entry into the European Community when the Gov't applied in 1967.
Davies surprised some, such as Enoch Powell in May 1967, when he made a speech in California in which he observed that the Labour government's measures to keep pay and prices down were working; Powell considered this not only untrue but an example of collaboration in which 'the very spokesmen of capitalism' were doing the work of the socialists. As CBI chief, Davies had some quango appointments as a member of the British Productivity Council, the British National Export Council and the Council of Industrial Design. He was briefly a member of the Public Schools Commission.
After the devaluation of the pound in Nov 1967, Davies became much more critical of the Gov't. Increasingly he would lambast Labour ministers on television, although he continued to work together with Ministers in private.
In 1969, Davies was recruited by Heath to join his Gov't once he won the next election. Heath was looking to lead a 'businesslike' Gov't and believed that senior business figures serving in senior posts would provide more expert management. Davies began to be more quotably critical, describing the 'solemn and binding' accord between the Gov't and the TUC (after the failure of 'In Place Of Strife') as useful only in the lavatory.
Davies failed to win the selection for the Conservative nomination at the Louth by election of 1969 and for Cities of London and Westminster for the General Election. However, with Conservative Central Office support, Davies was found the seat at Knutsford, which was solid Tory country. He won the seat in the General Election in June 1970.
The Chairman of the Tory Party who would have worked so hard to get John Davies into the constituency of Knutsford was barrister Lord Anthony Barber, who was Chancellor of the Exchequer under Heath. Barber had been the MP for Doncaster, 1951-64 and then was MP for the Cheshire constituency of Altrincham and Sale, 1965-74. He had been PPS to Harold Macmillan, 1957-59 and was Minister of Health in 1963 – not long after Enoch Powell had stated that he would not allow things to continue at the North Wales Hospital, but then inexplicably backed off from his vow to close the place down but never explained why. Barber served in the RAF during WWII and was almost certainly a member of the security services.
In his capacity as Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, John Davies reiterated Heath's pre-election policy of refusing to intervene in industry. In the House of Commons on 4 November, Davies said:
"We believe that the essential need of the country is to gear its policies to the great majority of people, who are not 'lame ducks', who do not need a hand, who are quite capable of looking after their own interests and only demand to be allowed to do so." (Hansard 5th Series, volume 805, column 1211)
The term 'lame ducks' became associated with Davies. However, when Rolls Royce (a vital defence contractor) ran into financial difficulties early in 1971, it was decided that the Gov't should help by bailing it out. When nugatory efforts did not help, the company was nationalised to prevent it from going bankrupt.
In June 1971, the Upper Clyde Shipbuilders went into receivership after the Gov't refused it a £6 million loan. The workers at the yard, led by Communist shop stewards, decided to hold a 'work-in' when they occupied the yard and continued production. This industrial action tended to refute claims that trade unions were work-shy and was therefore embarrassing to the Gov't. Davies' London home was firebombed by the Angry Brigade on 31 July 1971. In February 1972, the Gov't changed its policy and decided to retain three of the four shipyards at a cost of £35 million, although Davies knew they would never operate on a commercial basis.
Davies moved sideways to become Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster in November 1972. Davies' role was predominantly behind the scenes in making sure British law was in compliance with European law. In Cabinet discussions, Davies advocated a confrontational approach to the trade unions, although he feared for the future.
In 1979 Davies was to be made a life peer as Baron Harding-Davies, but died before the creation of the peerage passed the Great Seal. Peerage history was made when, by Royal Warrant bearing the date 27 February 1980, Queen Elizabeth II granted his widow Vera Georgina the title of Lady Harding-Davies; his children The Hon. Frank Davies and The Hon. Rosamond Ann Metherell were given the rank of children of a life peer.
So someone somewhere was very grateful to John Davies for something. It was only equalled when in 1983 Thatch made the child molesting Speaker of the House George Thomas Viscount Tonypandy, although as a gay paedophile George Thomas had produced no heirs who could inherit the title.
It did mean that he could dress up though:
John Davies's son Frank Davies is an Anglo-Canadian record producer. Davies has been a major contributor to the growth of Canada's music industry and its creative community for more than four decades. He is credited with discovering, producing, publishing, and developing the careers of many celebrated artists and songwriters, as well as being an advocate for their status. Davies received the Juno Awards 2014 Walt Grealis Special Achievement Award, recognizing individuals who have made a significant impact on the Canadian music industry.
Davies was educated at Windlesham House School near Brighton, Pangbourne College and Strasbourg University in north-east France. In 1972 he married the Canadian pop singer Lynda Squires. The marriage produced three children, Meghan Mae Harding Davies, now Ehrensperger, Emily Gwyneth Emerson Davies-Cohen, and Kate Theresa Georgina Davies.
Davies started his music career in 1964 as a French correspondent to Billboard magazine. He later worked for both EMI Records and Liberty Records in London until the late 1960s, before migrating to Canada in 1970. There, he co-founded the independent record label Daffodil (named after the national emblem of Wales and as a symbol of hope and new beginnings), which became the first Canadian label to be distributed by a 'major' in that country, in the shape of Capitol/EMI.
In 1978, alongside Daffodil, Frank Davies formed Partisan Music, a production and publishing company that entered into an exclusive deal with a U.S record company (Capitol) to develop talent for that label worldwide – a Canadian first.
In early 1982 Davies put his label and production company on hold to become President of ATV Music Canada. At ATV, he developed the songwriting careers, of Eddie Schwartz, David Tyson, Aldo Nova, the Pukka Orchestra, Headpins, Chilliwack and Toronto, and became a full-time music publisher.
In 1986, as a result of ATV's purchase by Michael Jackson, Davies formed The Music Publisher (TMP) and built it into Canada's largest and most successful independent music publisher over the next 14 years. Frank Davies sold TMP to Alliance Communications Corporation and A&F Music in 1994, staying on as its President/CEO until the end of 1999, at which time he founded the music consultancy firm he currently operates – Let Me Be Frank Inc.
TMP secured over 1,500 cover recordings, of the 5,000 Canadian songs Davies published, by artists as diverse as Joe Cocker, Bonnie Raitt, Alice Cooper, The Doobie Brothers, Tom Cochrane, Cher, Don Henley & Sheryl Crow, kd Lang, Tanya Tucker, Alannah Myles, Loverboy, Terri Clark, Emmylou Harris, Wynonna, George Jones, Bette Midler, The Carpenters, Blue Oyster Cult, Amanda Marshall and The Guess Who. Indeed, I can guess who:
'Do ewe mean mari-jew-ana?'
During the TMP years Frank Davies signed and published the songs of many more songwriters and artists. TMP opened a Nashville office in the mid-90s.
Since founding Let Me Be Frank Inc, Davies has been the executive producer for albums by Serena Ryder – whom he brought to EMI Music – The Rankin Family and The Treasures whose debut was released by Universal in the spring. He is currently working on the solo debut for Heather Rankin. LMBF also publishes the works of longtime client and record producer David Tyson, is a consultant to corporate client Ole Media Management, and has consulted to Microsoft/XBox, as well as the Dept of Canadian Heritage, the Neighbouring Rights Collective of Canada and to a variety of songwriters, artists and music publishers with respect to the sale and acquisition of their copyright catalogues.
Davies has served as a director on industry boards including CARAS (Vice President/Trustee), CMRRA (Chair), FACTOR, PROCAN, Canadian Music Publishers Association (CMPA), OMDC, SOCAN and the Socan Foundation (Chair).
In 1998 Frank Davies founded the non-profit Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame/Le panthéon des auteurs et compositeurs Canadiens (CSHF/PACC) serving as its Chairman until 2004. The Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame has inducted Canadian songwriters such as Gordon Lightfoot, Leonard Cohen, RUSH, Robbie Robertson, Joni Mitchell and Oscar Peterson.
Frank Davies has sat on the following Canadian Boards:
- CHAIRMAN – Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame, 2000-04
- Ontario Media Development Corporation, 2001-02
- FOUNDING MEMBER – Canadian Independent Record Production Association, 1970
- VICE-PRESIDENT & TRUSTEE – Canadian Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences, 1983-90
- CHAIRMAN – The SOCAN Foundation, 1990-97
- Foundation to Assist Canadian Talent on Record (FACTOR) 1985-88
- Society of Composers, Authors & Music Publishers (SOCAN) 1990-99
- Performing Rights Organization of Canada (PROCAN) 1983-89
- Music Promotion Foundation (MPF) 1985-90
- EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE – Canadian Music Publishers Association, 1982-2000
- CHAIRMAN – Canadian Musical Reproduction Rights Agency, 1982-2000
Frank Davies has bagged the following awards:
- Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame, Special Achievement Award (2005)
- Society of Composers, Authors & Music Publishers of Canada Special Achievement Award (2004)
- Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences Dedicated Service Award (1993)
- Juno Award Dedicated Service Award (1990)
- MARQUEE MAGAZINE FRANK DAVIES named one of the 'Top 30: Canadian Music's Power Brokers'
- PROCAN AWARD Dedicated Service Award (1990)
- THE RECORD 'Music Publisher of the Year' (1990)
- THE RECORD 'Music Publisher of the Year' (1989)
- RECORD WORLD MAGAZINE (US) Gold Label Award (1977)
At the time that my life was made deliberately unbearable by people at St George's and when Tony and Sadie Francis were busy perjuring themselves in order to try and have me imprisoned – with the full knowledge of the BMA, the MDU and the MDU solicitors Hempsons – the Tories were determined to force Thatch out.
This man – a lawyer from south Wales and a lifelong friend of Ronnie Waterhouse – who undoubtedly knew about the crimes of Dafydd and the paedophiles, stuck the first knife in:
Most of the bestest friends of Dafydd and the paedophiles backed this man – originally from Swansea – when he challenged Thatch for the leadership, Thatch's campaign being run by Peter Morrison:
This man also stood against Thatch – he had been Home Secretary throughout many of the years when the crimes of Dafydd and the paedophiles were simply ignored and their victims died in prison:
This was the eventual lucky winner:
The following people all held leading roles in Gov't Depts which were directly responsible for concealing the paedophile rings active in north Wales and in London while I worked at St George's:
Politics being what it is, some of those in this Hall of Lame will have been working for the security services and will protest that they were gathering info and working behind the scenes without breaking cover. Whatever it was that they thought they were doing, it absolutely was not enough. They were frightened to touch the Top Doctors and they shouldn't have been. They should have admitted to the public what was going on, admitted that the NHS was not safe and gone in there and arrested Dafydd et al. They didn't and people died.
Up in Bangor University, this man was in camouflage as he kept the paedophile gang in business:
After Eric Sunderland died, his widow fulfilled her lifelong ambition and purchased herself a Porsche. A few years previously the body of one of the Hergest Unit patients who had died as a result of serious clinical negligence was kept in cold storage for months because he hadn't left enough money to pay for his burial and none of his three surviving relatives – two of whom were also near-destitute mental health patients – could afford to pay for his funeral either. The dead man had grown up 'in care'. Eventually after much wrangling, the local authority agreed to pay for a pauper's funeral. No members of mental health staff went, but a few Hergest patients did.
The nearest Porsche dealers to Mrs Sunderland's house at Beaumaris are in Ellesmere Port and Cheshire – Knutsford and Warrington, just down the road from Risley Remand Centre.
Happy motoring Mrs S, one hopes that it is not a case of CRASH, as it was for my house mate and a few other witnesses to the wrongdoing of the paedophiles and their friends. And if you develop a brain tumour, for God's sake don't go to the Walton Centre.
The man ensuring that things continued to run smoothly at the hands of Eric was of course the Chancellor of UCNW:
Carlo's Private Secretary who told people that Carlo couldn't get involved when people wrote to Carlo informing him that children were being abused in north Wales was Edward Adeane:
Read about the slippery character Adeane in my post '95 Glorious Years'.
|Sir Peter Morrison – the child molester
His supplier:
The woman who died in the Ritz, alone, except for a paid Angel who was in attendance. As opposed to being murdered by the screws in Risley Remand Centre or somehow ending up buried in the grounds of the North Wales Hospital Denbigh:


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Toppers: Tile over vinyl problematic
Bradley Burditt, Old Dominion Tile
Q: Can I put tile down over the vinyl flooring in my kitchen? Or should the vinyl be removed? What's the best way to prepare the floor surface?
A: About two years ago, I got a call from a lady who was noticeably upset. As I listened to her talk, I could hear her husband in the background saying, "I don't need an expert, so hang up!" The lady asked if I could look at the floor in her kitchen, and I agreed. The whole time I kept thinking, "How can I get out of this, and who can I take with me as a witness?"
When I arrived at the house, the husband immediately showed me where he had read that he could install tile over a vinyl floor. I looked at the article and reassured him that it was correct. He was happy to hear this, calmed down, and the scowl on his face was replaced with a smile.
However, when I walked into the kitchen, I noticed that his tile floor was cracked and grout was missing in the joints. I removed the air duct in the floor and stuck my knife between the vinyl and the sub-floor. The whole floor had been laid on top of sheet vinyl with perimeter flex, which means it is glued only around the edges.
Although the husband had done a good job on the installation, he did not know which vinyl you can install over. Gritting my teeth, I recommended to the husband that he replace the entire floor.
How can homeowners determine what they can install tile over? I recommend that all loose, weakened, rotted, or any other unsuitable material be removed. Also, perimeter glue and any cushioned vinyl that allows for movement should be removed.
How do you determine this? Take a utility knife and cut a section of the floor in an inconspicuous area. If it comes up easily and has no cushion or paper product, it's suitable for installation. Prior to installation, the flooring should be sound, clean, and dry. Also, you'll need to roughen glossy, painted, or loose surfaces by sanding or scarifying.
It might be a good idea to install cement backer-board in areas with minor movement. Of course, every case is different, and you may want to consult a tile company that specializes in renovation. Finally, make sure you check the manufacturer's recommendation for installing over any surface.
In the end, calling in an expert earlier would have saved the husband considerable time and energy, not to mention some embarrassment. Needless to say, the husband was not smiling when I left, and I was happy to get out of there alive!
Bradley Burditt


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At a house party for Ami Bera's congressional campaign, attendees peppered the candidate, a doctor, with questions about education and health care. His voice raspy from constant campaigning, Dr. Bera answered gamely, but he really hit his stride when the questioners mentioned his opponent.
"We have to take the reins back and make government understand that it serves the will of the people," Bera said, his voice rising.
In this year of dissatisfaction with government, that rhetoric seems normal, even boilerplate. But this instance is notable because Bera is a Democrat.
Though Democrats are all but certain House seats in November, the party has developed a plan to go on the offensive in particular places this November – and Bera is a key part of it. The Democrats are targeting 17 districts where they believe the Republican incumbent is vulnerable, including California's Third Congressional District, where Rep. Dan Lungren (R) won in 2008 with less than 50 percent of the vote.
At the core of the Democrats' strategy is demographics. The 17 districts are largely places that have been transformed by infusions of young people and immigrants, changing their character and – Democrats hope – making them ripe for a switch from red to blue on the congressional map. In this way, California's Third District is a window into one of the rare places where Democrats are not on the defensive, but instead are seeking to turn the antiestablishment mood of this election cycle to their advantage.
While Republicans across the country are targeting Democrats for supporting an unloved legislative agenda that has failed to prompt strong economic growth, Democrats like Bera are trying to turn that message on its head. They paint Republican incumbents as agents of Washington gridlock for their near-lock-step opposition to President Obama's initiatives. In areas trending less conservative, the message could resonate.
For instance, Bera argues that Mr. Lungren no longer fits his changing district, which has seen the gap between registered Republicans and Democrats shrink from 7.8 percent in 2004 to 2.8 percent this year. Lungren, he notes, has voted against every major Democratic policy proposal in this Congress.
"There's been a shift demographically," Bera says. "Congressman Lungren thought he'd get elected and he would just cruise as long as he wanted to, and I think he's been representing that way by being absent while this district has changed."
The Lungren campaign did not respond before deadline to requests for comment. But Lungren has been dismissive of Democratic chances in his district. "We're better organized, we're better funded, we're better scheduled, we're better prepared than I have been in all of my congressional races," Lungren told the Elk Grove Citizen in August.
In his campaign against Lungren, Bera is trying to mobilize not just new residents but voters like Mary Beth Kropp. An administrator with the Elk Grove School District and a lifelong Republican, Ms. Kropp split her ticket between the parties in 2008, voting for Mr. Obama and Lungren. She is supporting Bera in 2010.
"I don't feel that Lungren has done anything for what I believe in as part of my community," Kropp says.
Her comments point to attitudes that Democrats hope are becoming more common in the Third District – and upon which they hope to capitalize. Kropp generally supports Obama's agenda – not completely, but mostly.
"I think the president's agenda is a good one because it deals with being real and helping people out," Kropp says.
Lungren, she says, represents "politics as usual."
The Third District in many ways typifies the 17 Republican-held districts targeted by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) in its "Red to Blue" program. Eleven of the 17, including California's Third, voted for Obama over Sen. John McCain in 2008. Moreover, support for Republican incumbents has been trending downward in those areas.
Lungren's sub-50 percent showing in 2008 was just four years after he won with 62 percent. Elsewhere, Rep. Mary Bono Mack (R) of California and Rep. Patrick Tiberi (R) of Ohio have seen their vote percentages fall from the mid-60s earlier in the decade to 58 percent and 55 percent, respectively, in the last election. Neither Rep. Jim Gerlach (R) of Pennsylvania nor Rep. Dave Reichert (R) of Washington, meanwhile, has ever won with more than 53 percent of the vote, though their margins of victory have remained fairly constant.
The populations in 12 of the 17 districts have grown faster than the national average this decade, according to census data. Many of them have become younger and more ethnically diverse during that period. That data provided some of the rationale for the decision to target these seats.
Speaking of Lungren's district and others like it, Andy Stone, a DCCC spokesman, says: "The fact that Obama won there, the change in population, the different demographics … those are all factors that have made the district a target."
Republicans remain confident about holding each seat the Democrats are targeting, however. The downward trend line for Republican incumbents in these districts is tied to so-called "Democratic years" – when the Democrats were overwhelmingly popular compared with the Republicans, say GOP officials.
The situation is completely different this year, says Joanna Burgos, a spokeswoman for the National Republican Congressional Committee. Changing demographics cannot compete with the national mood, she says. Gallup puts Democratic approval ratings at 33 percent.
In California, for example, Lungren took 46 percent to Bera's 38 percent, with 15 percent of voters undecided, according to a Sept. 19 poll by Public Policy Polling, a Democratic firm.
"It's all about momentum, and I think there's no doubt that the Republicans have all the intensity at the time," Ms. Burgos says. The congressmen targeted by the DCCC Red and Blue program "just had two very difficult cycles for Republicans, and they were able to survive that."
In other words, if the Democratic Party could not defeat certain Republicans in "blue" years it can't take their seats this year, either.
That is essentially the view taken by Nathan Gonzales, political editor of the nonpartisan Rothenberg Political Report. "You only need one hand to count the number of Republican incumbents who might lose in November, with a couple digits to spare," Mr. Gonzales says. Democrats "have credible candidates, but it's just a terrible time to run."
Still, though most predictions for the midterm election are dire for Democrats, the most reliable indicator – public opinion polls – are all over the map. A Sept. 20 Gallup poll found voters are virtually split, 46 percent to 45 percent, between Democratic and Republican supporters, respectively. An August NBC/Wall Street Journal poll (which also showed a statistical tie) shows that the drop in Democratic support over the past two years has come primarily in the South. Democrats could lose seats in the South and Midwest, but some GOP seats in other regions might be vulnerable as well.