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I have previously discussed how notions of protecting language, culture and identity have been used as a battering ram by the paedophiles' friends, including against Welsh-born Welsh speakers from Y Fro Gymraeg. In tandem with this, the self-appointed guardians of language, culture and identity have excluded people from polite society who's credentials are every bit as sound as theirs. I know at least three Welsh-born Welsh speaking high achieving academics who were treated appallingly at Bangor University by the paedophiles' friends. They eventually gave up and left for institutions where they did not have to fight a civil war on a daily basis. These three people were exactly what the Burmese Generals at Bangor claimed that they wanted: high achieving local people with a commitment to the region. They were ruthlessly frozen out, because the combination of being high achievers but not paedophiles' friends was too much for the paedophiles' friends to tolerate. I was always told that bodies like the Welsh Arts Council (later renamed Arts Council for Wales) are dominated by an inner circle who simply exclude anyone who is not acceptable to that inner circle. Some English people living in Wales view this as a 'Welsh' phenomenon. It isn't, nothing beats the nepotism and cronyism of the London medical establishment. However the phenomenon is very easy to map in Wales because Wales is small with fewer people at the top of the pyramid calling the shots.
One body which is widely suspected of doing favours for people on the basis of their pedigree or network rather than their ability is the Welsh Books Council. Interested readers can pop over to the website of the Welsh Books Council to gain more extensive information on the movers and shakers there, but to get a feel of who wields influence, let us look at the two people who have served as Directors/Chief Execs of the Welsh Books Council since its creation.
The first Director of the Welsh Books Council was Alun Creunant Davies, whom we are told by Meic Stephens, his obituarist, 'played a pioneering role in developing the book trade in Wales'. Davies took up his post, with a staff of one, on St David's Day 1965 and it is said was 'never overtly political', yet 'drew great strength from his patriotism which, for him, was rooted in the Welsh language and its culture'. I am reminded of the time in 1987 when Bernard Manning appeared on the BBC's 'Wogan' and stated that he was 'not political'. During the course of the interview Manning stated that 'a woman's place is in the home' three times. Manning's club act included jokes about lynching black people and chucking fire bombs into the houses of Asians, but even Wogan had the sense not to allow Manning to raise the roof by such means on prime time TV.
Welsh publishing was in a sorry state during the post-war period, with only 234 Welsh-language titles appearing between 1946-51 and fewer than a hundred a year thereafter. There was a small but growing demand for Welsh-language titles and the Ready Report of 1951 concluded that the future of the language depended to a large extent on the availability of books in Welsh. It recommended the creation of a fund for the public subsidy of book production by local and central government. Thanks to the efforts of librarian Alun R. Edwards, the counties of Wales had begun to provide small grants for the printing of Welsh books, mostly fiction and a modicum of payment for their authors.
Alun R. Edwards worked at the National Library of Wales, a bastion of the paedophiles' friends (see post 'A Bit More Paleontology') when he was young, starting there in 1950. It was probably as a result of his connections there that he was able to raise support and funding for Welsh language books. Alun R. Edwards grew up in mid-Wales and worked in the library service in Ceredigion – the Alun R. Edwards Centre in Aberystwyth Town Library is named after him. Edwards was appointed Dyfed Librarian following the re-organisation of local government – so that was probably in 1974. So Edwards worked with the paedophiles' friends at the National Library and then popped over to Dyfed, where the local authority was run by Ioan Bowen Rees, who in his incarnation as Chief Exec of Gwynedd County Council presided over a paedophile ring in the Council's children's homes (see post 'I Know Nuzzing…'). A linked paedophile ring was in operation in Dyfed.
I am wholly in favour of the availability of Welsh language books, indeed I own some. However, it is very noticeable that the Welsh language authors who bag prizes for their work and who's work is promoted by the industry are drawn from a small clique and are usually the offspring or family friends of people who held that position in the previous generation. At first I assumed this was a function of Welsh language writing being a minority interest, so by definition it would be a small circle of people involved who as a result of statistical probability would be associated with each other. However as I began to make friends with increasing numbers of Welsh speakers who had been born and brought up in north Wales, I was told repeatedly that a highly nepotistic system was firmly in place, rather that one based on meritocracy.
Some years ago it was alleged that Celtic scholars in other locations were beginning to view the Welsh scholars at Bangor and Aber as a bit of a joke, being so mediocre yet living in Y Fro Gymraeg. I initially wondered if these accusations were a result of academic rivalry, until a young Welsh academic commented to me that Bangor University was going to find itself severely embarrassed when the results of the RAE were published because the results from Bangor's School of Welsh would be 'crap'. I responded by saying that the School of Welsh's mock RAE had gone very well. I was told 'yes, because they got their mates to review them. Wait until the real thing.' Sure enough, when the RAE results were published, the School of Welsh in Bangor was rated terribly, with the exception of one member of staff who is prolific and excellent, but who is not Welsh. Not a word was said about the shameful RAE results and the School of Welsh escaped the sort of aggro that usually accompanies a poor RAE performance in universities these days. Bangor University's School of Welsh continued to be spoken about as a centre of excellence and the opinions of those within continued to be sought as to who was worthy of funding, prizes or promotion. I know of one high achieving Welsh language academic who's career was finished after he wrote a critical review of a book published by the Professor of Welsh at Bangor University. Then there was the other outstanding Welsh academic who was bullied out of the School of Welsh and was also the subject of a poisonous whispering campaign.
'We're the paedophiles' friends and you can't get us.'
The Welsh Arts Council was until 1994 part of the Arts Council of Great Britain. The Chair, 1972-77, was Eton-educated Lord Patrick Gibson, who served with the intelligence services and later presided over Pearson, his wife's family's publishing company. Gibson was Chair of the National Trust and was also involved with the Royal Opera House and Glyndebourne. For full details of Patrick Gibson, who's family estate was in Sussex, see post 'Today We Have Naming Of Parts'. So that was who looked fondly upon the Welsh Books Council.
By the time that the Welsh Office was helping to fund the Welsh Books Council, the Welsh Office had long since been colonised by the paedophiles' friends and was concealing the wrongdoing of Dr Dafydd Alun Jones and the paedophile gang. The Secretary of State for Wales, 1970-74, was Peter Thomas QC, under PM Ted Heath. Thomas was the Oxford-educated son of a solicitor from Llanwrst who worked as a barrister on the corrupt Chester and Wales Circuit. Like Sir Ronald Waterhouse, Peter Thomas was a member of Middle Temple. Thomas was Deputy Chairman of Cheshire Quarter Sessions, 1966-70 and of Denbighshire Quarter Sessions, 1968-70. So Thomas will have decided the fate of more than a view victims of the paedophile gang and he will have continued to do so in his capacity as a Crown Court Recorder, 1974-88. Thomas also sat as an arbitrator on the Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce in Paris. Peter Thomas was President of the Conservative Friends of Israel.
Thomas was bilingual and took an active part in the Gorsedd of the Bards, attending Eisteddfodau. He married Tessa Dean, the daughter of actor and film and theatrical producer Basil Dean and his wife, Lady Mercy Greville. Which is indeed exactly what Greville received throughout his long life, thanks to the efforts of the paedophiles' friends with links to Dafydd and the gang in Wales:
|The Lord Janner of Braunstone QC
Peter Thomas was Tory MP for Conwy, 1951-66 and then for Hendon South, 1970-87. So he was the Tory MP for a wealthy English constituency on the outskirts of London when he gave a few crumbs from the table to the Welsh Books Council. Thomas succeeded Sir Hugh Vere Huntly Duff Munro-Lucas-Tooth, 1st Baronet, who had held Hendon South from 1920.
Peter Thomas was Chairman of the Tory Party, 1970-72. It was in 1973, while Peter Thomas was Secretary of State for Wales, that Matt Arnold and Peter Howarth relocated from Axwell Park Approved School in Gateshead to take up posts at Bryn Estyn, thus expanding the paedophile gang that was already operating in north Wales. Matt Arnold was appointed Head of Bryn Estyn after the previous Head, Peter Burton, had been killed in a car crash in Cheshire in March 1973, along with his wife and seven year old son. The Deputy Head of Bryn Estyn was also killed in the crash.
Peter Thomas picked up his peerage from Thatcher in 1987 – the year of the first major cover-up of the activities of Dafydd and the paedophile gang, which involved the squashing of Alison Taylor, Mary Wynch and me.
On 18th Nov 1987 at approx 19-30 pm a fire broke out in King's Cross-St Pancras tube station which killed 31 people. I was due to be passing through that station at the time of the fire on that day but I had been delayed so I missed it. After I began this blog, I was told that the King's Cross fire was an attempt to kill me. At first I definitely didn't believe it. Then I thought that it was highly unlikely, but subsequently more and more information came my way suggesting that I and my friends were indeed in far greater danger from a bunch of gangsters than we ever knew. MI5 knew that we were being targeted, as did the police. None of us were warned, for reasons of 'national security' and the need for public confidence in the medical profession and criminal justice system to be upheld.
After Baron Thomas of Gwydir of Llanrwst in the County of Gwynedd gave the Welsh Books Council a bit of loose change that he found down the back of the sofa, the Books Council expanded rapidly. It moving from its offices in a building leased from the Farmers' Union of Wales to more spacious accommodation at Castell Brychan, a former Roman Catholic seminary which stands on Constitution Hill at Aberystwyth. At the same time the Books Centre, a wholesale distributing warehouse on the industrial estate at Llanbadarn, on the outskirts of Aberystwyth – which was wholly Alun Creunant's idea – began providing the publishers, booksellers, teachers, librarians and book-buying public of Wales with a fast delivery service.
Creunant Davies was 'determined to implement policies and procedures that would ensure a greater degree of professionalism in what had for long been almost a cottage industry. In this he used his diplomatic skills to persuade those on whom the fortunes of the Books Council depended'.
'He's going to tell, he's going to tell…'
More dosh please Welsh Office and Arts Council.
Here's the ghost of Somerset past, rattling its chains in the direction of the old crooks who are still alive:
If people in the constituency had known the contempt that Tom King and the rest of Thatcher's Cabinet had for them, that would not have been a safe Tory seat. What about the Somerset builder who was a bit of a rough diamond then Lord King, who raised all that money for the Tories and did building work for the Party free of charge but was then frozen out because he was 'uncouth'. Which he was, but Peter Morrison was molesting children and he was invited to Chequers.
'Never was so much entertainment provided for so many by so few.'
Lewis Elton's son Ben was born at UCH. Ben's mum was an English teacher from Cheshire. The paedophile ring facilitated by Dafydd operated in north Wales/Cheshire and Shropshire. All these regions had a problem with the abuse of children stretching back decades, certainly as long ago as the 1950s. Ben is a third cousin of singer Olivia Newton-John. Elton's mother was raised in the Church of England. At least one former Bishop of Chester has been identified as a child molester. Ben Elton grew up in Catford, south London, before moving with his family to Guildford in 1968.
Ben studied at Stillness Junior School and Godalming Grammar School, South Warwickshire College in Stratford-upon-Avon and Manchester University, where he studied drama. Dafydd's mate Dr Bob Hobson relocated to Manchester University in 1974. Tony Francis worked at Manchester University in the mid-late 1970s, before he moved to north Wales. Ben Elton studied at Manchester at about that time. The generation of drama students at Manchester prior to Elton's definitely colluded with the sexual exploitation of under-aged people.
Elton established a writing partnership with Richard Curtis, which produced, among other things, the 'Blackadder series', 1983-89. Elton and Curtis continued to work together on 'Mr Bean', 1990-95. They kept themselves busy throughout the years of fruitless investigations into the paedophile ring in north Wales/Cheshire, as the death toll of kids in care and psych patients in north Wales mounted.
Richard Curtis's father was an executive for Unilever. It was Unilever who in 1992 provided the funding to Prof Fergus Lowe upon which Fungus built his empire at the School of Psychology. Numerous psychologists at Bangor University colluded with or were colleagues of the sex trafficking ring. Dafydd presided over the Dept of Psychology until the late 1980s, when Fungus overthrew him. The paedophiles and their friends were not removed or stopped, Fungus simply used his knowledge of their activities to bag dosh and wield power. It was how he landed all that money from Unilever.
For a short while in the 1970s Curtis lived in Warrington, Cheshire. Where there was organised abuse of children. Warrington was the location of Risley Remand Centre, where Dafydd's victims were imprisoned – often after being fitted up – and where many were found dead (see post 'Include Me Out').
Curtis founded Comic Relief and Red Nose Day, which were robustly promoted by staff at Surrey University. Comic Relief has in the past featured a few of those celebs who no-one now admits to knowing because of their involvement with sex offending.
In 1994 Richard Curtis wrote the sitcom 'The Vicar Of Dibley' for Dawn French. Dawn French was born in Holyhead and went to Holyhead High School. Dawn French's dad was in the RAF and was stationed at RAF Valley on Anglesey. Dr Malcolm Alison, one of those who was involved with the wrongdoing at Hammersmith Hospital/RPMS whom I knew in 1986-87, lived for a while at Valley. Malcolm Alison's father was in the RAF and was stationed at Valley. French's dad suffered with severe depression for years and sadly committed suicide in 1977. I don't know if he was still living on Anglesey at the time, but even if he had by then moved on, the mental health services in north Wales obviously weren't there for him.
Dawn French supports the Labour Party and married charidee worker Mark Bignell after she and Lenny Henry were divorced. Dawn and Mark live in Fowey, Cornwall, in a mansion with 40 rooms overlooking Readymoney Cove. She is Chancellor of Falmouth University.
Dawn: Dafydd and the gang were a bunch of murdering child abusers. You specialising in a brand of Wimmin's Comedy pivoting around chocolate and lady vicars does not make up for your spinelessness in providing associates of that gang with good PR, just when people could no longer stomach the number of dead bodies of Empowered Service Users who were turning up and began demanding a public inquiry.
Curtis also organised the 'Make Poverty History' Live 8 concerts with Bob Geldof in 2005. Geldof's wife Paula Yates had by then died of an overdose, despite being in the care of the expensive Top Docs at The Priory. A number of the Top Docs at St George's who colluded with Dafydd et al ended up working at The Priory.
Paula was born in Colwyn Bay, lived in Llandudno and then in the village of Rowen. She went to school at Penrhos College – the girls' school located next to Rydal School – and Ysgol Aberconwy. Lord Wyn Roberts who spent decades concealing the wrongdoing of Dafydd and the gang (see post 'The Cradle Of Filth') lived in Rowen.
Paula Yates was known for being rather mouthy and aggressive and died in Sept 2000, seven months after the Waterhouse Report was published. When young she had been a groupie and a 'Penthouse' model. If anyone was at all concerned that Paula might name a few high profile people who never had anything to do with the paedophile ring in north Wales which Sir Ronnie Waterhouse managed to admit did exist but which only consisted of a few sheep-shagging social workers and teachers, they didn't need to worry once Paula was found dead. Paula's boyfriend Michael Hutchence had been found hanging dead in Nov 1997. Which was after former kids in care had given evidence to the Waterhouse Inquiry of the most serious abuse in children's homes in north Wales. They were called liars by Ronnie and the Inquiry lawyers and by much of the UK media. Paula was convinced that Hutchence had not killed himself, as the inquest concluded. She was denounced as irrational. It was after Hutchence's death that Paula became seriously distressed and ended up in the hands of the Top Docs.
Paula's inquest concluded that she had died from an accidental heroin overdose. Her friends have always disputed this. The coroner who held Paula's inquest was Dr Paul Knapman, who trained at St George's and has been wheeled out to conduct the inquests of many cases of dead celebs and others that could cause embarrassment, including that of Sandra Rivett, Lord Lucan's nanny. When I worked in medical research I was told frankly that Knapman was corrupt. See previous posts for info on the numerous worrying cases with which Knapman has been involved.
Some two years after Paula's death, the paedophile's friends in north Wales attempted to fit me up for a serious crime, for which they were telling everyone that I would be imprisoned for seven years. The case collapsed after numerous Angels/NHS staff perjured themselves (see post 'Interesting Happenings In The Legal System'). The man who spearheaded the witch hunt was Alun Davies, who was the then manager of the mental health services in Gwynedd. Davies is not from north Wales, he is from the Rhondda. He is not Welsh speaking and thus has a slightly different profile to most paedophiles' friends in north Wales. Davies began his career as the most lowly of pen pushers in the NHS years ago and in private he is very offensive about people from north Wales. Neither did he like living in north Wales, he thinks that its too far away from France where he likes to visit.
Dafydd had dealings with Top Docs in France, John Allen owned a villa there to which kids in care from Bryn Alyn were taken 'for holidays' and Elfed Roberts, the corrupt senior police officer who was appointed as Chair of the NW Wales NHS Trust after he left the North Wales Police under a cloud, used to holiday at the Chateua de Cop Choux near the Loire Valley, with his Top Cop mates.
Davies seems to have arrived at Gwynedd Health Authority in the early 1980s. So why would a thick, corrupt man from the Rhondda who did not like people from north Wales and who didn't want to live in north Wales, relocate to the endemically corrupt Gwynedd Health Authority, at a time when employees of Gwynedd Health Authority were facilitating a huge trafficking ring, which had links with and was being concealed by Top Docs and politicians in south Wales? Who had good reason to conceal it, because George Thomas, Thatcher's friend and the Labour MP from the Rhondda, was abusing children (see post 'It Wasn't On Our Radar'). Thomas was Speaker of the House, 1976-83 and was then given a peerage.
Scream if you want to go faster BMA! There are more blog posts to come. You'd better organise a 'Save Our NHS From The Cuts' march through London on a weekly basis.
|The Viscount Tonypandy
What rational person would become involved with serious organised crime to protect a man who dressed up like that?
None of the north Wales perjurers were ever investigated. Gwynedd Social Services and the DES then attempted to have me struck off the teaching register on the grounds that I was mad and a danger to children. A junior Minister in Blair's Gov't cleared my name. He was subsequently named in the media as having 'allowed paedophiles to return to teaching'. Some five years later, the wife of one of his close friends – who had also challenged Dafydd and the paedophiles – developed a brain tumour. She died after the Walton Centre found that there was nothing that they could do about that brain tumour. The Walton Centre was run and staffed by associates of Dafydd.
The man who cleared me – as well as a number of other wrongly accused teachers – was about the only member of Blair's Gov't who was not given a peerage. Blair was said 'not to trust him'.
Some two years ago I discovered that days after the court case against me fell apart, my PNC record had been unlawfully amended and a forged certificate of indictment was found in the possession of Chester Court, stating that I had pleaded guilty to 'violent disorder'. I have never been charged with violent disorder. I contacted the legal services division of the North Wales Police about this nearly two years ago now but I have heard nothing.
It was some months after the court case collapsed that John McTernan's brother-in-law stole my computer.
Here's a Pretty Straight Kind Of Guy, but I don't trust him:
This Pretty Straight Kind Of Guy and his wife Cherie – a QC and judge – are friends with Michael Beloff QC, who's dad Lord Max Beloff was friends with Ioan Bowen Rees, the former Chief Exec of Gwynedd County Council. Bowen Rees was Chief Exec throughout many of the years of child abuse and serious organised crime. Before Bowen Rees was Chief Exec of Gwynedd, he was County Secretary for Dyfed County Council, while a paedophile ring operated in the region.
Cherie was Chancellor of Liverpool John Moores University, 1999-07. My post 'Little Shop Of Horrors' details the activities of paedophiles' friend, the former Angel Dr Dee Gray and her request that I should write a media article making fallacious allegations against the VC of Bangor University, who was at the time under attack from the paedophiles' friends. Dee grew up in Liverpool, trained as an Angel in Liverpool and later did a law degree at Liverpool Poly, which evolved into Liverpool John Moores University.
On 20 July 1990, Michael Carr, the MP for Bootle who had fought Militant, died at Walton Hospital after being refused appropriate care and turned away following a heart attack. Carr's family fought for a prosecution, but files travelled back and forth between the DPP and other people, yet no charges resulted (see post 'News From Sicily'). Walton Hospital was known to be run by Militant. Michael Carr had been MP for just 57 days.
Derek Hatton was the high profile Militant supporting Deputy Leader of Liverpool City Council in the 1980s. The Leader of the Council, 1983-86 was John Hamilton who received far less media coverage than Degsy. John Hamilton's wiki entry describes him as 'much respected' and it was asserted by many than Degsy was the power behind the throne and that John Hamilton was a figurehead. Hamilton was a school teacher, a Quaker, a magistrate and a 'lifelong bachelor'. In Jan 2000 Hamilton was nearly killed in a house fire. The Waterhouse Report was published the following month, so no doubt as he lay there in agony from serious burns, Hamilton would not have felt in the least bit inclined to dispute Ronnie Waterhouse's assertion that there were no high profile people from outside of the region involved in the North Wales Child Abuse Scandal. Even if other Quakers had urged him to speak out should he knew differently, such as the Quaker Gethin Evans who was a senior manager of Gwynedd County Council's children's homes when kids in those homes were abused and trafficked, or Quaker Dr Paul Nickson, the Bethesda GP who colluded with the abuse of children and mental health patients. Paul Nickson eventually left Bethesda and joined a practice in Liverpool. I got to know Paul Nickson because Dr D.G.E. Wood recommended him to me as a GP when I moved to Bethesda. At the time I had no idea that Wood was facilitating a trafficking ring and was colluding with people unknown to me to cause me serious harm. I didn't realise that Paul Nickson was colluding with serious crime for a long while either, I just thought that he was a bit flaky and overwhelmed by the thugs who ran the mental health services.
Nickson's colleagues in Bethesda surgery were widely regarded as being hopeless, but in the 1990s a much more competent GP called Dr Oliver worked with them for a while. Patients often requested Dr Oliver because he was perceived to be so much better. Dr Oliver left for a new life in Australia either just before, or during, the Waterhouse Inquiry.
Among his many responsibilities, John Hamilton was Chairman of the Governors at Liverpool Poly, which later became John Moores University. For further details regarding John Hamilton, see post 'I Warn You…'.
Tony Francis's acquaintance from their student days in Cardiff, the Windbag, made much of fighting Militant and confronted Degsy at the Labour Party Conference in Oct 1985. Degsy just yelled abuse at him. Over the following years I don't remember the Windbag commenting upon the unfortunate death of Michael Carr or on John Hamilton going up in flames. As far as I can work out Windbag, it all ended up in the 'grotesque chaos' of an aspiring Labour PM colluding with a gang of child molesters who killed witnesses because he thought that supporting the NHS was a vote winner.
Who's he pointing the finger at?
In April 2014 St Geldof's daughter Peaches was found dead from a heroin overdose.
Richard Curtis's former girlfriend is Anne, now Baroness, Jenkin, who is married to Bernard Jenkin. Bernard Jenkin's father was Patrick Jenkin, who was Thatcher's Secretary of State for Social Services, 1979-81, when his Dept was concealing the crimes of Dafydd and the paedophile gang.
Curtis's 2009 film ' The Boat That Rocked' starred Rhys Ifans from north Wales. Rhys Ifans is a mate of Gruff Rhys, the son of Ioan Bowen Rees, the former Chief Exec of Gwynedd County Council. As the investigations into child abuse in north Wales began, Ioan's son became an international rock star (see post 'The International Language of Screaming'). Rhys Ifans began his career at Theatr Clwyd, the paedophiles' friends folly (see post 'Workers' Play Time'). Rhys and Gruff are networked into the crowd of Welsh rock stars which included Huw Bunford, who was a teacher at Ysgol Gyfun Rhydfelin, where John Owen abused pupils.
Curtis wrote Roald Dahl's 'Esio Trot', a BBC television adaptation of Roald Dahl's classic children's novel. The film starred Judi Dench and was broadcast by the BBC on 1 Jan 2015. Judi Dench is the Patron of the elite choir, the St James's Singers, of which Professor Robert Bluglass and his wife Kerry are leading lights. Bluglass is a mate of Dafydd's who concealed and colluded with the trafficking gang in north Wales in 1989 as well as on other occasions (see post 'Enter Professor Robert Bluglass OBE').
Curtis's forthcoming film is currently underway. It is being directed by Danny Boyle – who went to UCNW (Bangor University) in the 1970s, when Dafydd and the paedophiles' friends ran the institution.
Richard Curtis is married to Emma Freud, daughter of the former Liberal MP, Clement. Clement Freud was not so long ago exposed as a sex offender who's victims included children. Freud will have known about Jeremy Thorpe and Cyril Smith's crimes.
In 2012, Curtis was one of the British cultural icons selected by the artist Sir Peter Blake to appear in a new version of his well-known piece of art work – the cover of 'The Beatles' Sgt Pepper's Lovely Hearts Club Band. This new version was created for a special birthday celebration of Blake's life at Wayne Hemingway's Vintage festival at Boughton House, Northamptonshire in July 2012. When Hemingway ran 'Red Or Dead', one of those involved in the business was the son of Prof Geoffrey Chamberlain of St George's Hospital Medical School and later of Swansea University, who concealed a paedophile ring in south London and the crimes of Dafydd et al in north Wales (see post 'Now Then…'). The special birthday celebration of Blake's life was held shortly after Operation Pallial was launched.
In 1989 Curtis's writing partner Ben Elton won a Royal Television Society writers' award. My post 'The Turn Of The Screw' describes the intimidation and harassment to which two of my friends who worked in the media were subjected after they witnessed what was happening to me in north Wales and wanted to make a film about it. My friends worked for the Royal Television Society and the BBC and were forced out of their jobs in 1991.
In 1991 Ben Elton wrote the play 'Silly Cow' for Dawn French. It was about in 1991 that one of Dafydd's female relatives screamed 'Oh sod off you silly cow' at me. I now know that the exchange – if one of Dafydd's family hurling abuse at one constitutes an exchange – was recorded by the security services. Another relative of Dafydd's had told me a few days before that Dafydd had 'told them all about me' and that they enjoyed shouting insults at and taking the piss out of Dafydd's patients. That conversation was recorded by the security services as well. But then so were the most serious abuses of kids in care and patients.
We are now being told that Operation Pallial is investigating the historical abuse of children in north Wales. Perhaps whoever is leading that investigation just ought to ask MI5 to hand over the hours and hours of recordings which were made years ago and which clearly showed what was going on and who was doing it. I can only presume that this hasn't happened because the response from the world will be 'you lot watched this going on and did not stop it?'
What did you do MI5, have a chat with the Royal Colleges, the BMA and the GMC over dinner in the Athenauem and suggest that perhaps in ooh five years time, perhaps 'self-regulation of the profession' should be perhaps reviewed, to be followed over the next few years by perhaps endless discussions regarding how the tiny number of 'rogue doctors' should be identified? Meanwhile the bodies piled up in north Wales and people tried to kill us. Oh well, at least we had a laugh when we took the piss out of Dafydd, it wasn't much, but it seems to be more than anyone else did.
Prior to 1987, Ben Elton was involved with Red Wedge, the Labour Party supporting group of entertainers who campaigned to get the Windbag elected as PM. That was the Windbag who knew Tony Francis, who concealed the abuses of Dafydd, Francis and the associated gang as well as the sex offences committed by George Thomas and who's wife came from Holyhead and who when still a girl, personally knew Lord Cledwyn – who concealed the crimes of Dafydd et al (see post 'The Cradle Of Filth').
|The Baroness Kinnock of the Mean Streets of Holyhead FRSA
In 2006 'The Times' published an article entitled 'A Lethal Bully That Must Be Tackled', about Glenys's good works. It's OK, Murdoch, you've not published a word about the First Family of Troughing colluding with a gang of child molesters, so I've written about it on this blog. I haven't even had to deal with an enormous industrial dispute which was only won with the assistance of Thatch's trade union legislation.
Ben Elton was very much the comedian of the 1980s and 90s, but a newer face whom I have found to be of interest is Sacha Baron Cohen. Baron Cohen was born in Hammersmith, west London. His mother, Daniella Naomi, was born in Israel. His father, Gerald Baron Cohen (1932–2016), a clothing store owner, was born in London and raised in Wales. Baron Cohen was raised Jewish. He is fluent in Hebrew as well as his native English. Baron Cohen's father's family were Ashkenazi Jews who moved to Pontypridd, Wales and London and his mother's family are German Jews. His paternal grandfather, Morris Cohen, had added 'Baron' to his surname.
There is a long-standing Jewish community in south Wales and sadly in the latter half of the twentieth century, some of them were concealing the crimes of Dafydd and the gang and related gangs. They included Leo Abse, Dannie Abse and Professor Sir William Asscher. Greville Janner's father Barnett Janner was a south Wales lawyer until he relocated to Leicester. I don't for one moment believe that Jewish people are any more likely to be associated with sexual abuse and crime than any other cohort; the phenomenon will be that of unscrupulous people using every network available to them to keep themselves out of trouble. There were many members of Thatcher's Gov't who were Jewish, indeed this was the subject of much overt anti-semitic comment relating to 'Jewish bankers' at the time. No doubt their influence and connections were also sought by those we know and love.
For example, Leon Brittan, Home Secretary, 1983-85 and later someone who held many leading roles in the European Commission, most definitely concealed the abuse of children and was the centre of allegations that he abused young people himself. Leon Brittan was born in London, the son of Rebecca and his father Joseph Brittan was a Top Doctor. Brittan's parents were Lithuanian Jews who had migrated to Britain before WWI. Brittan was educated at The Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was President of the Cambridge Union Society and Chairman of the Cambridge University Conservative Association. Sir Samuel Brittan, the economics journalist, was his brother. The former Conservative MP Malcolm Rifkind and the music producer Mark Ronson, were cousins.
The above paragraph alone tells us much about how networks can be used.
Sacha Baron Cohen was educated at The Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School. Vanessa Feltz, who is also Jewish, went to The Haberdashers' Aske's Girls' School. My post 'Dates For Your Diary' described how Feltz achieved sudden stardom in 1994, just when Dafydd et al in north Wales were sending up distress flares. Feltz was married to a surgeon, Michael Kurer, who when Feltz shot to fame overnight, had recently worked with a Top Doc who for years had been a leading light at St George's Hospital Medical School. In the PR hype which surrounded Feltz, there was as much attention paid to her Nice Young Doctor husband as there was to her. The Nice Young Doctor left Feltz some years later after discovering the Joy of Sex with one of his junior doctors. I suspect that many of those involved in the propelling of Vanessa to stardom also discovered the joy of cheques, as 'Private Eye' once alleged of Tony Blair.
There was of course another Nice Young Doctor from a previous era who was personally known to some of the Top Docs in north Wales, who believed that his bedside manner would convince the nation that he was fit to be PM and who, when he did work as a Nice Young Doctor, was the research registrar for William Sargant, one of the maddest Top Docs of the 20th century who conducted reckless experiments upon his patients, some of whom died as a result. Why this was never spoken about in political circles I don't know, because it was no secret in medicine.
Baron Cohen went to Christ's College, Cambridge, graduating in 1993 – the year that the North Wales Police closed their investigation into child abuse in the region. Sacha Baron Cohen achieved fame in his incarnation as Ali G and caused much entertainment, particularly as a result of him being crude when meeting unsuspecting people, some of whom obviously didn't know the meaning of the Viz-like phrases which Ali G was using in conversation with them. Then there was Bruno, a male model who some people found just a bit worrying. The next character developed by Baron Cohen was Borat.
Borat was a Muslim from Kazakhstan, who preyed on women sexually, was violently anti-semitic, drank stewed mare's milk and sung a song called 'Throw The Jew Down The Well'. Borat caused deep offence among cohorts who actually knew anything about Kazakhstan and a major diplomatic spat between Kazakhstan and the UK arose because of Baron Cohen's harmless fun. I knew a British academic who was at the time one of the very few who was working with Kazakhstan. He was very tolerant by nature but he told me that in his view, Baron Cohen was an intelligent man who knew precisely how many diplomatic problems his characterisation of Borat would cause, but had shamelessly created the persona to appeal to a certain part of the Jewish community in the US. Having taken the time to read about Borat and the marketing of Borat, I suspect that academic was correct.
At the height of Borat's popularity in the UK, a student from Kazakhstan was registered for a PhD at Bangor University, in the School of Healthcare Sciences, a School famed for the racism of the Angels who worked within. The School of Healthcare Sciences gratefully accepted the considerable fees that this student paid but virtually ignored her, except for to enquire where she was from. When she told them, the standard response was for the Angels to squeal 'Ooh Borat' and begin talking about stewed mare's milk or chucking Jewish people down wells. I met this student after she'd been in Bangor for about three months. She asked me who a man called Borat was, because she couldn't understand why the staff of the School of Healthcare Sciences were so insulting about people from Kazakhstan and constantly made references to a Mr Borat, of whom she had never heard.
Sacha Baron-Cohen has a cousin, Simon. Simon is a clinical psychologist who has links to the School of Psychology at Bangor University. At the very time when the Angels employed as tutors in the School of Healthcare Sciences – one of that School's 'areas of expertise' is cultural competence and the delivery of healthcare across different nations and cultures – were screaming with laughter at a student whom they believed lived on mare's milk and nothing else, Simon arrived at the School of Psychology by invitation to give seminars.
Sacha Baron Cohen has raised money for Comic Relief. On 28 Dec 2015, Baron Cohen and his wife Isla Fisher donated £335,000 to 'Save the Children' as part of a programme to vaccinate children in Northern Syria against measles and the same amount to the 'International Rescue Committee', also aimed at helping Syrian refugees.
The Syrian refugees are still having a terrible time. The person who is killing them trained and worked as a Top Doctor between 1992 and 1994 in the Western Eye Hospital, London (managed by Imperial College Healthcare Trust).
|'Ooh I feel so much better just for talking to you doctor.'
'Now don't worry dear, we'll look after you.'
Readers who took an interest in my posts regarding the serious wrongdoing that was prevailing at St George's Hospital Medical School in the 1980s and 90s, including on the part of my former boss Malcolm Pearce and the Head of Dept Prof Geoffrey Chamberlain, will have noticed that it was in 1994 that Bashir al-Assad was recalled to Syria from London, after his brother was killed in a car accident. The Top Docs – and of course the UK Gov't – will have known that al-Assad would be the next President of Syria and they'll have predicted that he won't have much time for human rights issues once he was in office. It was in 1994 that Chamberlain and Pearce committed the research fraud which if it hadn't have blown up in their face because they were caught, would have made them world famous. And in an ideal position to gun down a former research assistant of theirs if she ever tried to publish anything about the wrongdoing at St George's or the wrongdoing of Dafydd et al (see post 'They Are MYRIAD, They Are Legion'). Or indeed the wrongdoing at Hammersmith Hospital, where she had completed her MSc – the Hammersmith which became part of Imperial College.
The Top Docs in London didn't trust me because I had these terrible habits of making friends with the lower orders as well as with overseas staff and students. Including Top Docs from the Middle East. Of which there were a great many at Hammersmith, who were being treated very badly.
The President of the International Rescue Committee is David Miliband, who's dad Ralph was friends with some of those who knew about the organised abuse of vulnerable people in north Wales (see post 'The Village') and David Miliband's Uncle Harry was a Top Doctor who's colleagues colluded with Dafydd. Uncle Harry might even have known Bashir al-Assad. He'd certainly have known people who did.
Well David, you're not getting very far with your efforts re Syria are you? Did Hillary Clinton or someone think that you might, what with your hotline to Uncle Harry et al?
Paedophiles' friends in high places: when your hands are drenched in blood and someone has found out all about it, it's time to leave public life. Even if that someone is only one woman with a laptop, a good memory and 10,000 incriminating documents.
Simon Baron-Cohen is Professor of Developmental Psychopathology at Cambridge University. He is the Director of the University's Autism Research Centre. In 1985 Baron-Cohen formulated the mindblindness theory of autism. In 1997, he formulated the feotal sex steroid theory of autism. Baron-Cohen has also made major contributions to the fields of typical cognitive sex differences, autism prevalence and screening, autism genetics, autism neuroimaging, autism and technical ability, and synaesthesia.
Baron-Cohen completed a BA at New College, Oxford and an M Phil in Clinical Psychology at the Institute of Psychiatry, where many of those who facilitated the sex trafficking gang in north Wales passed through. Staff at the Institute of Psychiatry spent years concealing Dafydd and the gang. Baron-Cohen completed a PhD at UCL; his doctoral research was in collaboration with his supervisor Uta Frith. Uta Frith was a colleague of those who concealed the crimes of Dafydd et al; she was at the Institute of Psychiatry at the same time as some of the gang in north Wales. Uta Frith has worked with Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, who has collaborated with Professor Mark Williams on Mindfulness research (see post 'They Are MYRIAD, They Are Legion'). Mark Williams's Mindfulness work is the result of a research fraud which he carried out when he worked at Bangor with Dafydd et al (see post 'The Biggest Expert Of The Lot').
Simon Baron-Cohen married Bridget Lindley, a family rights lawyer, in 1987. Lindley was the Family Right's Group's Principal Legal Adviser and Chief Executive. She was a member of the expert group advising the GMC on their revised child protection guidance Protecting Children and Young People: the responsibilities of doctors (2012). I do not know the stance that Lindley took on child protection, but she had worked in the field since 1983. She will have known about the widespread sexual exploitation of children in care and how the mental health system colludes with this. Lindley will have known about the gang in north Wales and I bet she knew about Dafydd and the roles played by Bangor University and of course the Big Boys at the Maudsley, at UCL, at St George's and many other places. She will have known about Jimmy Savile and will have known that Trumpers, the former Mayor of Cambridge, was the Minister responsible for appointing Savile to the management of Broadmoor (see post '95 Glorious Years!').
What's the betting that Bridget Lindley had many conversations with Simon Baron-Cohen about these matters?
Bridget died suddenly and unexpectedly in 2016. I can find no references to the cause of death.
Simon Baron-Cohen has three children, the eldest of whom is screenwriter and director Sam Baron. Baron-Cohen's surname includes a hyphen – which is not the case with other members of his family – because of a typographical error in his first professional article; he never had the error corrected.
So Baron-Cohen is someone who's career has been dedicated to promoting certain views and explanations of autism which have come to dominate the field, in spite of concerns that his theories do not stand up to analysis. He also sits on NICE, so determines how Gov't funds and supports autism research. Mark Williams has followed exactly the same business model with Mindfulness.
They both Know About Dafydd.
Another two comedians who I think might know a bit about the subject of this post are David Baddiel and Frank Skinner, who constantly sailed close to the wind with their 'laddishness' but who's careers never died a death. Frank Skinner spent a number of years in the early 1980s as an unemployed alcoholic living in the West Midlands. So Frank will have known much about the life of those having a hard time in that part of the world in at the time. Brown and I found out about this too, because Brown went to university in Birmingham during those years and we found much out about corruption in the welfare services and civic life in Birmingham. Quite a lot of which was linked to the wrongdoing in north Wales.
Now for a little mystery which I have come across in John Major's autobiography. Major mentions that in the midst of the allegations of 'sleaze' on the part of members of his Gov't, in Jan 1994, the wife of Malcolm Caithness, Major's Minister of Transport, killed herself.
Major's problems with sleaze followed his famous 'Back to Basics' speech, which was just asking for trouble really when he was concealing Dafydd et al. The sleaze revelations began with David Mellor – someone who knew about Morrison and north Wales and Greville Janner and Frank Beck in Leicester – and snowballed. Major doesn't seem to have asked himself why so many of his Ministers were being caught out, some very obviously as a result of stings. I am asking myself why the real time bomb underneath Major didn't explode, particularly as the security services were watching everyone involved – Dafydd, Peter Morrison and co. I can only conclude that there was collusion at the highest levels. If service users with a sense of humour could ring Dafydd up from public phone boxes and discover serious crime on a Europe-wide level, I'm sure that someone could have set up a sting re Dafydd. It's not as if he'd have ever noticed, not with the crazed lifestyle that he led. This was a man who believed that a Dr Hashish Psychosis was ringing him up from Bombay for his opinion, surely the security services could have done better than that. It is tempting to think that they didn't need to because we were doing it, but people were trying to kill us, so leaving a group of service users to fight international gangsters wasn't the best idea that anyone ever had.
The suicide of Malcolm Caithness's wife took place in Jan 1994. The month in which Clwyd County Council set up the Jillings Investigation and the month in which yet another service user with drug and alcohol problems and with links to Bryn Estyn, Peter Wynne, was found hanging dead in his flat in Wrexham. On 9 June 1994, Matt Arnold died of an 'unspecified blood disease' and on 13 June 1994, the trial of Peter Howarth and Paul Wilson on sexual abuse charges begun. So Howarth and Wilson must have been charged before Malcolm Caithness's wife was found dead.
Up in north Wales, Dafydd et al continued to do all they could to have me banged up. Previous blog posts have detailed the constant accusations and arrests, the perjury, the planting of evidence to demonstrate that I had committed crimes that no-one even told me that I was alleged to have committed, but which were nonetheless all being diligently recorded in writing and sent to the MDU lawyers.
I can find only scant information about the death of Lady Diana Caroline Coke. Everybody was gobsmacked when she died but I can find no details of how she killed herself. She had red hair and clear skin and liked riding horses and driving at high speed and that is about all that has been written about her.
Malcolm Ian Sinclair, 20th Earl of Caithness is a Conservative member of the Lords, one of the remaining hereditary peers. He is also 20th Lord Berriedale, 15th Baronet Sinclair, of Canisbay, Co. Caithness, Nova Scotia and Chief of Clan Sinclair. He is the Chief Executive of the Clan Sinclair Trust.
Sinclair was educated at Blairmore School, Aberdeenshire (then Marlborough College) and the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester.
Malcolm Sinclair served as a House of Lords Gov't Whip under Thatch, 1984-85. He then moved to the Dept of Transport as a junior Minister, serving until 1986, when he became Minister of State at the Home Office which was mired in corruption under Home Secretary Douglas Hurd (see posts 'Security, Security' and 'Additional Security'). Dafydd and the gang in north Wales did what they wanted, kids in care and service users who had been fitted up for crimes were being sent to the bear pit which was Ashworth Hospital and were regularly being found dead in Risley Remand Centre, unless they were imprisoned in the dungeon at the North Wales Hospital Denbigh.
It was in April 1986 that my housemate Anne was killed. Anne had witnessed what happened to me at the hands of the Top Docs and I have been told that she was killed by the paedophiles' friends. Anne died in a car crash on a lane in Shropshire as she drove to a friend's wedding. Our friend Geoff was a passenger in the car and was left severely brain damaged. I have recently been given accounts of conversations that were held in our house in Llandegfan in the days before Anne died and the names of friends who visited us and stayed over. We were not aware that anyone was listening to or watching us.
Douglas Hurd had links with the security services.
In 1988, Malcolm Sinclair was appointed Minister of State at the Department of Environment and in 1989, he became Paymaster General. In 1990, Sinclair was appointed Minister of State at the Foreign Office and then, in 1992, back to the Dept of Transport.
Sinclair married Diana Caroline Coke in 1975.
With the passage of the House of the Lords Act 1999, Sinclair, along with most other hereditary peers, lost his automatic right to sit in the House of Lords. However, under Blair's fudge, Sinclair was elected as one of the 90 representative peers designed under the provisions of the Act to remain in the House of Lords. I haven't had time to look at the backgrounds of all 90 hereditary peers who remained in the Lords, but of the ones that I have researched, every one of them had inside information about the Westminster Paedophile Ring. In domains other than the Lords, Blair systematically promoted people who had concealed the Westminster Paedophile Ring to high office. Sinclair has since blocked further reform of the Lords, tabling 'wrecking' amendments to a draft Bill to abolish by-elections for hereditary peers, proposed by Lord Grocott in 2018. Bruce Grocott is a mate of Blair's who was given a peerage after loyally keeping quiet about organised abuse and the associated crime (see post 'The Most Dangerous Man In The World – Part II').
In Jan 1994, Sinclair resigned from his post at the Ministry of Transport following the suicide of Diana. In 2004, he married Leila C. Jenkins in Rosslyn Chapel, whom he'd met at Ascot. Sinclair filed for divorce a year later.
Sinclair's children are Lady Iona Alexandra Sinclair (b. 1978) and Alexander James Richard Sinclair, Lord Berriedale (b. 1981).
Here's Malcolm Sinclair looking rough in his official portrait:
I have blogged about the very close relationship between those up to their eyes in research fraud and wrongdoing in the London medical schools and Big Pharma. The representatives of Big Pharma used to prostrate themselves before the shysters of Hammersmith, St George's etc. Furthermore Big Pharma used to like employing attractive young women with PhDs as reps, because they were called Dr so sounded credible but as one member of staff at St George's observed bitterly, 'they're just tarts to slut around old doctors'. He couldn't have landed such a job himself, not just because he didn't have a PhD but because he was male, enormous and in his late 40s. However there was more than a bit of truth in what he said. Another man who finished his PhD in biochemistry told me that he wouldn't be working for a drug company because 'I'll spend all my time licking doctors arses and I'm not doing that'.
'Your life in their hands! Ah, the doctors they were wonderful. You can't complain can you.' You bet you can't, if you do you'll never work again and you'll die from a treatable condition.
When I was at Hammersmith/RPMS, at one drug company fest Professor Sir Nicholas Wright didn't bother to listen to any of the presentations or read any of the literature, he just turned up, had a really good lunch and buggered off again. People banged on about how outrageously rude Wright was and how he only turned up for the lunch, which was ironic because it was the only reason why they went. A drug company would never turn up without a supply of wine and grub because no-one would ever attend.
There was only one person who was genuinely interested in the drug companies on the occasion on which Nick Wright had a good lunch and that was one of the postgrads who was looking for a job. She was desperate not to work in a medical school again – she was a mature student who had spent a few years in medical research, as had her husband – because she said that the wrongdoing was so great that she could no longer stomach it. She did bag a job, on the basis of the toadying towards Hammersmith Hospital/RPMS on the part of Big Pharma that day. This person went to work for a company called the Sera Lab. I can't find any trace of them but I haven't had time to really dig yet. The Sera Lab have obviously metamorphosed into a different company, but those who toadied in 1987 will be in the system somewhere. The person who bagged the job with them had so much dirt on the London medical schools that if she wrote a blog like this, UK medicine would implode. Which might well have been why the Sera Lab snapped her up.
This man was the most high profile Top Doc at Hammersmith Hospital at the time:
Dr Bob became Lord Bob in 1995. The year that Malcolm Pearce was struck off and that Geoffrey Chamberlain – who was a mate of Lord Bob's – got away scot free. 1995 was the year in which Peter Morrison and Bing Spear, the corrupt Home Office mandarin who served Dafydd so well (see post 'Little Things Hitting Each Other'), were found dead within days of each other. The year in which Dafydd 'retired' (but didn't), the year in which the North Wales Hospital 'closed down' (but didn't). In 1995 Nicola Davies QC – now Dame Nicola – after reviewing the police paperwork relating to the North Wales Child Abuse Scandal (all of which from 1989 onward was missing) decided that a Public Inquiry would not be in the public interest. However, just to be on the safe side, Sir Ronnie Waterhouse altered his retirement plans, which meant that he could conduct a 'farewell tour' of his colleagues the paedophiles' friends in 1995, without having to worry that one year later William Hague would tell Ronnie that he would be conducting a Public Inquiry into their wrongdoing.
Lord Bob had dabbled a little bit in TV before 1995, but gosh the BBC really embraced Lord Bob after that.
Yet another person who knew about the wrongdoing at St George's Hospital Medical School is Professor John Dormandy. John Dormandy is a vascular surgeon who specialises in the treatment of patients with vascular claudication and he has been working in this area for years. He worked at the old St James's Hospital in Balham before St James's was closed and everyone was transferred to St George's. They didn't want to merge with St George's and assured everyone that patients would die if the closure of St James's went ahead.
John Dormandy has a substantial private practice and used to use some of the profits from it to pay a researcher. I know this because he interviewed me for a job in early 1988 and told me during the interview that the job was pretty much mine if I wanted it and that he would ring me the following day to confirm etc. I never heard from him again. I have been told recently that a little bird from north Wales got wind of what was happening and whispered sweet somethings into Dormandy's ear.
Dormandy told me during the interview that the cause of the vascular disease in virtually all of his patients was smoking. So imagine my surprise when in 2006 John Dormandy appeared in the 'Daily Mail' robustly defending patients right to smoke and angrily denouncing the denial of any treatments to heavy smokers. Dormandy argued from an 'I'm defending patients who cannot quit' point of view. Dormandy didn't mention that for some conditions, smoking is such a key factor that the treatment won't actually work if they don't stop smoking. So there is no point in giving it, even if you are totally sympathetic to the patient's plight. Dormandy said something else to the 'Daily Mail' that I suspect may not be true. He claimed to be a very heavy smoker himself and so hopelessly addicted that he was unable to give up.
Top Doctors are frequently very heavy drinkers and quite a few of them enjoy drugs as well, but they are not often smokers. Angels are smokers, they puff away like there is no tomorrow – 'it's the stress' – but Top Docs were part of that cohort of professional people who abandoned the cancer sticks in the 1960s when Richard Doll's work linking lung cancer with fags became accepted by nearly everyone. Furthermore if Dormandy was on 60 No 6 or Woodbines a day, he wouldn't get much operating done. Top Docs do all sorts of things in operating theatres, but they don't light up lest there's an explosion.
Dormandy has made a great deal of money out of his patients who are in agony and can barely walk. When the world gives up smoking, Dormandy's income will be cut off. Further observation: when Dormandy interviewed me, John Moore was Secretary of State for the DHSS, who was one of those who ignored warnings that children in north Wales were being abused. Moore lived in Wimbledon, where many of the Top Docs of St George's lived. Six months after Dormandy interviewed me, Ken Clarke became Health Secretary and embarked on a high profile battle with the BMA, in which Dafydd et al were used as bullets by both sides. Ken Clarke had previously been a Minister in Health and it was probably known that he would shortly be appointed Secretary of State. Ken Clarke is famously pro-smoking and has worked as a consultant for many of the world's tobacco companies.
After Princess Margaret died there was a spoof letter into Viz magazine's 'Letterbocks' column saying that it wasn't true that no-one was affected by Princess Margaret's death, because 'I own the tobacconists and off-licence at the end of her street and I'm finished'. Likewise if people stopped smoking, Dormandy and Ken Clarke would be finished.
Googling John Dormandy brings up adverts for his practice at Parkside Hospital, Wimbledon. Parkside is a private hospital. John Moore was a patient there when he became ill during his time as Secretary of State for the DHSS. He certainly wasn't going to risk his neck at St George's.
I need to return to those who love Wales and its language yet again here, because since I began this post, yesterday morning on Radio 4 one of north Wales's finest adverts popped up as the special guest on a Saturday morning programme – Sir Bryn Terfel.
Sir Bryn did absolutely everything required of a north Wales celeb when paedophiles in distress have sent out a Mayday call. He reminded everyone that he was a farmer's son from north Wales who as a lad sung along to opera in the cab of his dad's tractor, he stressed that Welsh was his first language and that it was central to his identity and he chatted about how he travelled the world for weeks at a time, but his heart was in the mountains. The metropolitan dipsticks of Radio 4 kept asking Bryn how ever a sheep-shagger from north Wales became a world leading opera singer, because surely there are no suitable singing teachers in north Wales.
This might surprise Radio 4, but one thing that there is in north Wales is a great many people who really like singing, who are very good at it and who are very keen to teach young people if they show an interest in singing themselves. There are also things called Eisteddfodau – which are centred around competitions, including singing competitions. Some kids absolutely hate Eisteddfodau, but others love them and get very used to singing in front of an audience at a young age. Numerous people have told me that their participation in Eisteddfodau set them up very well for performing, public speaking etc. If you want to learn to sing when you're young, you're probably just as well positioned in north Wales as you are in Hampstead.
Bryn is the son of a farmer – I lived in Pant Glas, just down the lane from where he grew up, for a while – and he can be spotted in Gwynedd, in Morrison's, out and about etc. He lived at Bontnewydd near Caernarfon for a long while, but I don't know whether he remained there after he split up from his wife. Bryn married a girl from north Wales, whom I think he went to school with. There was much nastiness in the 'Daily Mail' when they split up, because it transpired that Bryn's wife had begun a relationship with a young man from Caernarfon who was on benefits and had the temerity to live in a council house. There had been some sort of scene in Cofi Roc, a rather mediocre nightclub in Caernarfon and I think that an onlooker got thumped. It certainly didn't come up to the Daily Mail's idea of a celebrity divorce.
Bryn moved from north Wales to London in 1984 to study at the Guildhall School of Music. It was in the 1990s that he became very well-known. In 1991 he made his debut with the Welsh National Opera and the English National Opera. In 1992, Bryn sung for the first time at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden. In the following years he went global.
In 1996, Bryn expanded his repertoire to include Stravinsky, singing Nick Shadow in 'The Rake's Progress' at the Welsh National Opera. This performance, along with another, won him the Royal Philharmonic Society Award for the singer of the year.
Bryn is a member of the Gorsedd of the Bards.
I have no idea whether Bryn is a Rake who has made progress, I don't know him. But a great many other Rakes in north Wales have progressed.
Bryn is now in a relationship with harpist Hannah Stone and they have a little girl. Hannah Stone grew up on the Mumbles, near Swansea. She attended Welsh medium schools in west Wales and then went to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and then to the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.
When Hannah was 15, she played for Lilibet on Her Majesty's Jubilee Tour of Wales in 2002 and has played for the Royal Family on several other occasions. She studied under the guidance of Meinir Heulyn, Head of Harp at the RWCMD before moving to London. During this time Hannah was a prize-winner at National Competitions including the Urdd Eisteddford and the International Eisteddford at Llangollen. Sir Ronnie Waterhouse was involved with the International Eisteddfod and was President for some years.
Hannah Stone knows Elinor Bennett, the harpist wife of Dafydd Wigley. Dafydd Wigley knew nothing about the paedophile gang being co-ordinated by Lucille Hughes in her office, which was just around the corner from his office in Caernarfon and just to be on the safe side, Wigley didn't know what a paedophile was anyway (see post 'It Wasn't On Our Radar').
In June 2011, Hannah Stone was appointed the Official Harpist to Carlo, a position previously occupied by the Wigley's daughter-in-law, Catrin Finch.
Hannah Stone performed at the NATO Conference Dinner at Cardiff Castle in 2014 to delegates including US President Barack Obama, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and UK Prime Minister David Cameron.
Yma O Hyd!
Bryn sung a song for the Radio 4 audience. It was 'My Little Welsh Home'. I had one of those in Llanllechid. The paedophiles' friends tried to set fire to it. Twice.
Look out for the forthcoming recordings from the Assorted Paedophiles' Friends:
'We didn't know' – 'Ni wyddom ni'
'It's all lies' – 'Mae i gyd yn gorweddd'
'What, us?' – 'Beth, ni?'
'Nothing to do with us, we just work here' – 'Dim byd i'w wneud gyda mi, fi jyst yn gwaithio yma'
'I was just doing my job' – 'Roeddwn i ddim ond yn gwneud fy ngwaith'
'Get the Welsh cakes out, S4C are coming over' – 'Cael y cacennau Cymreig allan, mae S4C yn dod i ben'
Lastly, BBC News Online has reported that the 70th Birthday Celebrations of the NHS, termed 'Aneurin Bevan Day', have been enjoyed in Tredegar. Hundreds marched to the sound of a band and Carwyn and Jezza were in attendance. The BBC reported that: 'Rita Hale, 96, from Tredegar, said she had heard Bevan speak when she was young girl. She recalled him wearing a black cloak and a four cornered hat. "I wish there were a few more like him today," she said.'
I'll stand by whilst the paedophiles' friends in the Commons and the Senedd now all don black cloaks and four cornered hats in a desperate attempt to garner support. There did used to be a few people around who wore hats and cloaks. Brown, me and some of our friends. It caused outrage and was used as evidence of our insanity and the threat that we posed to western civilisation. We fell short of Nye's standards though. We didn't live in Chelsea, navigate our way around Knightsbridge by taxi and use Harrod's to supply our day to day needs. Although I did once buy some bread rolls from Harrods and I ate them whilst I was reading 'Living Marxism', which caused a sanctimonious Stirling graduate to bang on at length about my wicked ways. She later responded to the requests of the paedophiles' friends to stuff over the friends of mine who supported me during my battles with Dafydd and co (see post 'The Turn Of The Screw').
I 'ad that Jack McConnell in the back of the cab once.


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5-14-11 Miller Park
After a brief stay near Notre Dame in Indian, Amy and I continued our weekend trip through Illinois and Chicago. The coolest scenery we passed, for me, was US Cellular Field in Chicago.
However, we didn't stop to look around, as we were on a schedule to get to Miller Park about an hour and a half before the gates opened. This would give us time to buy tickets, park, and familiarize ourselves with the exterior of the stadium, and find the correct gate to go into.
There wasn't really anywhere to park around the stadium, but the stadium lots, so we parked for $10 and then walked about six minutes to the stadium. There's a nature trail that runs along the stadium, and a bridge spans a stream on the way to Miller Park. We paused to get a quick photo.
You can see the large domed structure in the background, which of course is Miller Park. By the way, the weather in Milwaukee was absolutely miserable. It was 44 degrees with constant rain and drizzle. The biting wind made it feel like 37 degrees, so needless to say, we couldn't do much outside during our two days in Milwaukee.
I was very disappointed to find out that the gates to Miller Park wouldn't open until 90 minutes before the first pitch. Even though this was a SATURDAY. The only way to see the Brewers take batting practice was to go into Friday's restuarant, so that's just what we did.
I went out to the Friday's deck after a few minutes, which is just above the left field wall. You'll also notice that there's a gap between the outfield wall and the deck, creating a perfect place for baseballs to fall into.
Well, there was a ball down there.
So, I lowered my glove and glove tricked it for my first ball of the day.
This was my view from the Friday's deck.
I didn't expect any home runs to come in there, mostly because there was an overhang.
I was wrong.
Rickie Weeks drilled a line drive home run that struck a table and stayed in the deck seating area, so I ran over and picked it up. It was ball #2.
Another ball would land in the deck, but bounce back onto the field. I really couldn't run around in there with some people seated and eating.
After the Brewers finished up, the Pirates came out. The batters stretched near the cage,
while the pitchers threw in the outfield near the front row of Friday's. Chris Resop recognized me and waved.
Joel Hanrahan looked genuinely displeased to see me.
He shook his head and shouted, "Don't you get enough at home?!"
The only other interaction I had with a Pirates player was with Evan Meek, who saw me and asked if I had family in Milwaukee. He also asked how long of a drive it was and who I came with. Here he is looking up at me.
Once the gates opened, I ran upstairs to try for a home run ball in left field. The Pirates were already batting, and the first group contained Andrew McCutchen, Ryan Doumit, and Jose Tabata. I figured they'd be able to reach the seats.
However, they experienced a power outage, except for Doumit, but every one of his homeruns were swallowed up by the bullpen in left center.
After the first group, I walked up to the back of the bleachers, and found ball #3 tucked under a bleacher.
I made my way over to right field for the rest of the Pirates batting practice, since a majority of the team is left handed. When I entered the bleachers, there were already several dozen fans there, but they all overlooked a ball that was in the front row, again, hidden under a bleacher.
It was ball #4 on the day.
While in right field, there was an amazing glove trick opportunity for four balls that were directly below me.
However, Euclides Rojas was in the bullpen unpacking gear, so I decided to wait. Unfortunately for me, he then made his way over and picked up all four. I politely asked for one, but despite being the only Pirates fan in right field, I was denied. Every time I've ever asked Rojas for a ball, I've been glared at. I miss old bullpen coach Luis Dorante.
Ball #5 on the day was thrown by Ross Ohlendorf, probably the most generous Pirates player.
He tossed many balls into the crowd, and was, as usual, going all out to catch every ball hit within 200 feet of him. He had to throw the balls back in left handed, since his shoulder is injured. His toss to me was also left handed. It was inaccurate, over my head and to my right, but I was able to track it down before other fans got it. "I got it Ross!" I called down. "Thank you!" He smiled and waved.
There was only one home run hit into the upper bleachers, and I didn't get it.
There is a big overhang , so the lower bleachers were virtually worthless. Many of the home runs went to center field and the Toyota Home Run Porch:
Near the end of batting practice, I glove tricked a ball in the Pirates bullpen. It was at least 20 feet below, so it was pretty noticeable to everyone in the stadium. The section below could be heard chanting "Go! Go! Go! Go!" as I slowly pulled my glove up with the ball tucked inside. BP ended right after I glove tricked the ball, so I put on my backpack and went to meet up with Amy.
After BP, we walked around the stadium, exploring the concourse.
Our seats were in the upper deck, and here was one of the concourses up there.
We ended up sitting near the top of the stadium in the upper deck near the right field foul pole.
After the game, we checked into our hotel, 10 minutes from the stadium. We also scored this hotel for $25 from Priceline. It was good too, because the price of gas keeps creeping upwards.
Game: 6 balls (1 hit, 1 thrown, 2 device, 2 found)
Season: 137 balls (55 hit, 34 thrown, 27 device, 20 found)
Games: 21 games
Average: 6.52 balls per game
Career: 1,259 balls
Attendance: 42,422
Amy took tons of photos. Here's the top three that have nothing to with my ballhawking, but were quality pics by my lovely fiancee:
#3 Jose Veras, concentrating on catching a ball during BP warm ups:
#2 Heberto "Herbie" Andrade blows a bubble
#1 Daniel McCutchen has pitched really well this year and was recently promoted to set up man to Joel Hanrahan. The reason for his effectiveness? This wildly distracting face upon delivering the pitch:


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Jenna Dewan-Tatum has praised her husband, Channing Tatum, for accommodating her every need as an expectant mom, insisting he has been the model husband throughout her pregnancy.
The "Step Up" beauty is due to give birth to the couple's first child in June, and the "Magic Mike" hunk has been doing his best to make sure his wife is as comfortable as can be.
The actress tells Glamour magazine, "Channing has been great. He takes the route of no confrontation, just support, saying things like, 'Do whatever you want! What do you want to eat? I'm going to leave it up to you.'"
And Dewan-Tatum, who has bared her baby belly in a sexy new photo shoot for the publication, reveals she has been adapting well to her growing curves.
She says, "I thought my body was going to change so quickly with pregnancy that I'd freak out. But it was really gradual. There's a reason women are pregnant for nine months; by the end, you're ready to have this baby."


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Facebook just bought a messaging app, but wait--doesn't it already have one? Why yes, yes it does. So why buy another? CEO Mark Zuckerberg says they're just different.
"WhatsApp complements our services and will add a lot of new value to our community," Zuckerberg said during a Wednesday call with analysts. "People use WhatsApp as a replacement for SMS. Our communication products are used mostly for chatting with Facebook friends and sending messages that aren't necessarily real-time."
Zuckerberg likened Facebook Messenger to a more informal version of e-mail that people don't check as obsessively as WhatsApp. The apps for iOS and Android were born from Facebook's chat feature and later spun off into a stand-alone service. But the social network has in the past couched Messenger as an over-the-top messaging service in the same vein as WhatsApp, Line, Viber, and others. Toward the end of 2012, Facebook began allowing users to sign up for the service without Facebook accounts. Then it widened Messenger ability to let users send messages to anyone's phone number. Need we mention the Stickers? So many Stickers.
Facebook hyped its Messenger app for iOS and Android as recently as its fourth-quarter earnings call in January, with Zuckerberg proclaiming Messenger a success: The service was redesigned in November and saw more than 70 percent growth between November and January. Zuckerberg pointed to Messenger, Instagram, and Paper as signs of where the company was heading--stand-alone apps that were part of Facebook but could also exist and function independently. It wasn't until early February that Facebook made an offer for WhatsApp, but Zuck was clearly laying out Facebook's next big move--we just didn't know it would happen so soon.
So why on earth did Facebook want to add another messaging app to its portfolio? Let's be honest: WhatsApp is more successful than Facebook Messenger will ever be. Its international reach is impressive. Its engagement levels are crazy high--more than 70 percent of its 450 million monthly active users check the app every day. Facebook would kill--or pay $19 billion in cash and stock--to become as popular a messaging service as WhatsApp.
But Messenger isn't on the chopping block, Zuckerberg said.
"Our thinking on this is that [Messenger and WhatsApp] serve different use cases," he said Wednesday. "Messenger evolved from Facebook chat, which was more instant messaging, not SMS."
So with WhatsApp now in play, will Facebook turn Messenger into an AIM for modern times or ditch it altogether? It's too soon to tell, but I'll have really angsty away messages prepared just in case.
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Tigers move into 1st in Central as Justin Verlander continues sterling season
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- As temperatures neared 100 and Justin Verlander's pitch count mounted, Jim Leyland thought seriously about replacing his hard-working All-Star.
But with whom?
"No matter where I looked -- my bullpen, their bullpen, in the stands -- I couldn't find anybody any better," Leyland quipped. "So he's going to be out there."
With the heat index reaching 113 on the stadium concourse, Verlander threw 119 pitches in 7 2/3 innings and beat Kansas City 2-1 Sunday afternoon, vaulting Detroit into first place in the AL Central and making him the first Tigers pitcher in 24 years with 12 wins prior to the All-Star break.
"I knew it would be a grind out there, as hot as it was," said Verlander. "I took my time between pitches and just tried to slow things down a little bit. I felt like that helped."
The 28-year-old right-hander (12-4) threw 82 strikes in his 119 pitches and improved to 12-2 in 18 starts against the Royals. The first Tiger since Jack Morris in 1987 with 12 wins before the break, he struck out the side in the second and sixth and fanned nine altogether, raising his league-leading strikeout total to 147. He allowed six hits and did not walk a batter while getting charged with one unearned run. He has not allowed more than two runs in nine straight starts.
Verlander could remember only one game this hot.
"Maybe Atlanta a year or two ago. It was smoking hot there, too. I just tried to take all the time I could to get my breath and not let myself get in fast-forward mode and all of a sudden find yourself with a couple of guys on and you're gassed."
The Royals, who lost three of the four games against their AL Central rivals, went into the break with a league-worst 37-54 record. Eric Hosmer doubled leading off the ninth against Jose Valverde, but was cut down on a close play trying to steal third. That was the second out, then Mike Moustakas flied out.
Both Verlander and Leyland said they thought he was safe until seeing the replay. Then they thought Brandon Inge blocked him off.
Hosmer still thinks he was safe.
"I know I got my hand in there 100 percent," he said. "You know, it's a tough call for him, but it's a shame it's the last inning and the game ended like that. It was a tough way to lose."
The Tigers, winners of four of their last five, moved a half-game ahead of Cleveland, which lost to Toronto 7-1.
"That doesn't really mean anything," Leyland said. "That means we've played a half a game better than somebody else the first half. This is going to be up for grabs. The Twins and White Sox are right there. Cleveland's right there. It's better than being down, behind. But I'm proud of the guys. Unbelievable effort. Guys are tired."
Jeff Francis (3-10) took the loss even though he had one of the his best outings of the season, going six-plus innings and surrendering two runs on just four hits, with one walk and six strikeouts, matching his season high.
"There's been a lot of games we could have won and haven't," said Francis. "But you know, you put it behind you. We still have a half to go to turn things around, make some adjustments and play better baseball."
Verlander lost the shutout in the eighth when Alcides Escobar singled, went to third on Chris Getz's single and scored with two outs when Inge threw high to first on Alex Gordon's slow roller to third. Joaquin Benoit relieved and struck out Billy Butler with two on and two out.
"That was the biggest out of the game," said Leyland. "And probably nobody will notice it."
Valverde earned his 24th straight save. He saved all three of the victories against KC.
It was 95 degrees with a heat index of 105 when the game started and 97, 112 by the sixth inning.
Francis retired the first nine Tigers but Casper Wells doubled leading off the fourth and made it 1-0 on an RBI single by Brennan Boesch. In the sixth, Wells walked, went to second with his first career steal and came home on Magglio Ordonez's RBI single.
Verlander, as usual against KC, was dominant most of the hot, sticky afternoon.
After Butler singled leading off the second, struggling rookie Moustakas broke an 0 for 21 streak with a two-out single into right. But Verlander ended the threat by striking out Brayan Pena. Jeff Francoeur singled to start the Royals fifth, went to second on a wild pitch and to third on Moustakas' roller to first. But Verlander kept him there by striking out Pena and retiring Escobar on an easy infield grounder.
"It was a really well-pitched game. We just matched up against a really good pitcher," said Royals manager Ned Yost. "We did what we wanted to do, we wanted to keep it close and have a chance to win it late, we just couldn't push the run across."
Game notes
Verlander's pitch hit Escobar on the inside of his right arm in the third inning but home plate umpire Phil Cuzzi refused to let him take first, apparently ruling the ball had glanced off the bat. Replays clearly showed the ball hitting Escobar. The batter and manager Yost argued in vain.... Morris was 18-11 after winning 12 games in '87 before the break. ... Melky Cabrera's sixth-inning single stretched his hitting streak to nine games.
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Enhanced anaerobic biodegradation for the soil and groundwater industry - Soil and Groundwater
Enhanced anaerobic biodegradation is the practice of adding hydrogen (an electron donor) to groundwater and/or soil to increase the number and vitality of indigenous microorganisms performing anaerobic bioremediation (reductive dechlorination) on any anaerobically degradable compound or chlorinated contaminant. The most commonly targeted chlorinated groundwater contaminants are primarily used in industry as degreasing agents and include: Perchloroethylene (PCE), Trichloroethylene (TCE), Dichloroethylene (DCE), Vinyl Chloride (VC).
Other anaerobically degradable compounds include: carbon tetrachloride, chloroform, methylene chloride, certain pesticides/herbicides, perchlorate, nitrate, nitroaromatic explosives (TNT, RDX), dyes and chlorofluorocarbons (CFC's).


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A pair of standout high school coaches from the state of Alabama will join the Crimson Tide women's basketball coaching staff as head coach Wendell Hudson announced the addition of Tim Miller and Donnie Quinn on Wednesday. In addition, former standout guard Ericka Russell has been named Director of Player Development. Miller recently served as the girls head coach at Bob Jones High School in Madison, Ala., while Quinn led the girls program at Hoover High School in Hoover, Ala.
"We are completing our coaching staff with two coaches that bring a lot of experience to the program," said Hudson. "I am real excited about both of them being added to our staff. In their positions as high school coaches, they have had to do a lot of teaching basketball, which is going to bring a different dynamic to our staff. They'll certainly have a fresh look for us. We are also excited about the addition of Ericka as she has always stood out and was the consummate student-athlete throughout her playing days. We think she is going to be a great fit."
In five seasons at Bob Jones, Miller compiled a 168-18 record while winning three state championships in 2008, 2009 and 2011. Prior to his stint in Madison, he spent seven seasons as the head girls coach at Jefferson Davis High School in Montgomery, Ala., where he finished with a 203-39 record. Under Miller's guidance, the Volunteers won a state championship in 2006, advanced to three final fours and were region champions twice. His success has drawn Miller several individual accolades including being named the National Federation Southeast Coach of the Year in 2009 and 2012 and the National Coaches Association for Women's Basketball Southern Region Coach of the Year in the same seasons. In addition, Miller is a five-time Alabama Sports Writers Coach of the Year, three-time Montgomery Advertiser Coach of the Year and a three-time Huntsville Times Coach of the Year.
"I am very excited and very much looking forward to becoming part of this coaching staff," said Miller. "I bleed Crimson. I am also excited about transitioning from high school to the college ranks, as it is something I've wanted to do."
Quinn took over the Lady Buccaneers basketball program in 2007 and was named the Birmingham Tip-Off Club's Coach of the Year in his first season at Hoover. The Lady Bucs played in four-straight championship games, winning the state crown in 2010 and 2012. Throughout his tenure at Hoover, Quinn compiled a 157-16 record, bringing his career total to 474-89. Prior to his position with the Lady Bucs, he was at West Monroe High School in Louisiana where Quinn won a state championship in three years. He also has experience at the collegiate level, having served as associate head coach at Louisiana Monroe from 1995-2000. During his five seasons in Monroe, he helped the Warhawks turn from a 5-21 team to a 19-9 team, moving ULM from next to last in the Southland Conference to tied for first in two years.
"The main thing I am excited about is being part of Alabama," said Quinn. "I'm from another state, but Alabama has always been one of those very impressive schools. I am blessed to be part of the program. I am also looking forward to testing my coaching abilities at this level having recently come from high school."
Russell, who lettered for the Tide from 2008-12, started in all but 11 games throughout her career and became the 23rd member of Alabama's 1,000 Point Club on November 12, 2011. The Tuscaloosa native earned Most Valuable Player honors at the 2011 Paradise Jam after averaging 17.7 points per game, including a season-high 29 against Old Dominion. She finished her career as one of the best three-point shooters in program history, ranking fourth in three-point field goals made (212) as well as three-point field goals attempted (709). Not only was Russell successful on the court, but she was equally as impressive in the classroom as she graduated with a degree in business administration in three years before going on to acquire her master's degree in sport management.
"I am excited about this opportunity as I transition from where I was recently as a player to where I want to be on a coaching staff," said Russell. "I am eager to get started in my new role and look forward to gaining the experience."
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Fact Sheet
A regulation by the U.S. Department of Education gives local school districts valuable flexibility in meeting the requirements of the bipartisan No Child Left Behind (NCLB) education reform law. The provision ensures that schools receive credit for the progress of all children--including children with the most significant cognitive disabilities. Schools around the country will not be identified by states' education authorities as "needing improvement" if their students with the most significant cognitive disabilities are unable to achieve at the same level as their peers.
At the same time, this new provision protects children with disabilities from being excluded from accountability systems that provide valuable information to parents and educators. All students--including students with disabilities--deserve teachers who believe in their potential and who will encourage them to make progress, just as all parents and teachers ought to have the assessment information they need to target their efforts and provide all students a high-quality education.
Under the regulations, when measuring Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP), states, school districts and schools have the flexibility to count the "proficient" scores of students with the most significant cognitive disabilities who take assessments based on alternate achievement standards.
The number of those proficient scores may not exceed 1 percent of all students in the grades tested (about 9 percent of students with disabilities). Without this flexibility, those scores would have to be measured against grade-level standards and considered "not proficient."
This new provision protects the rights of students, parents and teachers while providing flexibility to states, districts and schools.
- The NCLB law, enacted in January 2002, provides funding for states to design and implement annual tests for all children--regardless of race, income or disability--to let parents know the quality of the education their children are receiving. The information provided by these tests under the law is a valuable resource for parents and educators who are assessing where a student is excelling and where he or she may need more help.
- The law prohibits schools from excluding students with disabilities from the accountability system, a practice some have used to mask the fact that certain groups of children are not learning. Excluding students with disabilities from testing is also a violation of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).
- As parents of children with disabilities note, such exclusion not only makes it difficult for parents to know whether their children are getting a quality education, but also wrongly stigmatizes children with disabilities among their classmates as unable to achieve to high standards.
- Under No Child Left Behind, students with disabilities cannot be excluded from educational accountability. Most students with disabilities should participate in the same tests taken by their peers. Some of these students should receive accommodations such as increased time or the use of assistive technology to ensure that their unique needs are taken into account as they participate with their peers in the assessment process.
- The provision takes into account the fact that a very small number of students with disabilities are not able to be assessed meaningfully against the same standards as their classmates. For these students, "proficient" looks a lot different than it does for other students.
- This regulation ensures that schools, districts and states are rewarded for the progress that students with the most significant cognitive disabilities make during the school year. It ensures that even if a child takes an assessment based on alternate achievement standards, his or her success will count and be recognized in calculating school and district performance under AYP.
- The new regulation also allows states and school districts to apply for a higher limit if they can demonstrate that they have a larger population of students with the most significant cognitive disabilities and have effectively designed and implemented assessment practices for students with disabilities. Individual schools are not subject to the 1-percent limit.
- The provision does not limit how many students can be assessed against alternate achievement standards. However, proficiency for all other students with disabilities will be measured against grade-level achievement standards.
- This new provision was originally proposed by the Department in March 2003 and its final version reflects the input from the comments that were solicited by the Department from local school officials, parents and others.
- The No Child Left Behind Act, building on IDEA, intentionally prohibits states and schools from excluding students with disabilities from accountability systems because ALL parents have a right to know whether their children are getting the quality education they deserve, and schools should be accountable for all children.
- The new regulation guarantees that students with the most significant cognitive disabilities participate in tests that accurately gauge their progress, giving their parents the ability to know how their children are doing.
- All children deserve the benefit of accurate measurement of their educational progress. "No child left behind" means no child left behind--not "no child except children with disabilities" left behind.


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When you are born male you never gave consent to being born male or female. As a human being person you never gave consent to something yet have to follow the rules and obey. For example if you are born male you are forced to live a life of ugliness and mediocrity. You are not allowed to wear makeup or good fashion sense. And you are told you are not allowed to have emotions or like anything that is girly.
Also if you are born male no woman will approach you after high school and you will be treated like a leper and second class citizen. But they all say that this is "Consent" and that this is a society about consent. Yet noone consents to the rules of being born male they are simply brainwashed into it.
So if your whole life you are lonely because you had a 50/50 chance of being born with a vagina, but were not born with a vagina, apparently you gave your "Consent" to being lonely.
So if we are playing that kind of game...Rejection is the same as rape. Because someone consents to a loving relationship, and you reject them, it is violating their consent. After all, lonely people have an equal chance of suicide as rape victims. What's the difference??
Oh yeah, the difference is, everybody feels sorry for females, nobody feels sorry for males. Males are the first to die in the titanic, ladies get a second chance. Oh and im the joker hahahahaha dont like it you should blow your head off. I wish I was female so I could I could use my sexual power to get politicians to do what I want. As a male nobody listens to you, but as a female if it was star trek I could take over the galaxy and get everyone to do my bidding. Hahaha lol.