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Leyland: Scherzer in Game 1 was 'no-brainer'
OAKLAND -- Tigers manager Jim Leyland saw the postgame shows Friday night lauding him for his decision to start Max Scherzer over Justin Verlander in Game 1.
To Leyland, though, the decision wasn't with Game 1, but the game after that.
"If the truth be known, in my mind, I thought it was a no-brainer, the first-game starter," Leyland said. "I thought the second-game starter was a tough one, because you could've had [Anibal] Sanchez or Verlander. I picked Verlander simply because he's been on this big stage out here. I thought it would be good for him. He's shown that he can do it."
Sanchez's strength at home also played a part. The debate over whether Leyland made the right choice in Game 1, and whether Scherzer's gem allowed him to sleep better, flummoxed him.
"Sleep better? I thought it was a no-brainer," Leyland said. "And now everybody's saying, 'Boy, he made a good choice.' I made a good choice whether he did good or bad. I mean, I made a good choice now because he did good? It was the right choice."

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"Policies and procedures is one of the scariest forms ever," Tom Giachetti said at a presentation in Denver to advisors and compliance officers Thursday morning.
The session, sponsored by Laserfiche, featured the frank talk and salty language for which Giachetti (right) is known. If you want it straight, Giachetti, chairman of the securities practice group at the law firm of Stark & Stark and a columnist for AdvisorOne, is your man.
The policies and procedures comment is part of a larger story he frequently delivers about the importance of avoiding compliance vendors, or at the very least assuring that the forms they sell are customizable to the particular advisor's situation and business.
"If the Kool-Aid compliance salesman doesn't allow you to unlock their PDFs to make changes, fire their a**," he said. "These are your policies and procedures and it's your backside on the line. The salesman won't be there when you get examined. It's a case of one size fits nobody."
He asked how many in the audience feel like they have a strong "culture of compliance" to a number of raised hands. As he ticked off a list of must-haves, however, hands began to drop.
"How many of you have a whistleblower policy in place?" he asked. "It's been required for the past two years. How many of you have a pay-to-play policy in place? That's been required for three years. If any of your forms have 2009 or 2010 on them, you don't have a culture of compliance. Throw them out and get new ones."
Claiming that he could cut the cost and time of the attendees' compliance-related issues in half, Giachetti said he didn't want them to have "knee-jerk reactions to compliance or to abide by things that don't make sense. These are your policies and procedures, but most of you have them in place because you heard from someone else that you needed them."
He related a story of a phone call he recently had with a chief compliance officer and an advisor at her firm.
"She called me all upset because the advisor had just received a gold Rolex watch from a client. She demanded he give it back. I said, 'Why? Your job is not to demand, it's to investigate.' It turns out that the client was recently widowed and the advisor had really helped steer her through the legal and financial issues. She wanted him to have it as a token of appreciation for being there for her. It was perfectly acceptable."
He then warned about marketing material and testimonials.
"How many of you are comprehensive financial planners?" he asked. "Are you really—you know all and do all? No, you offer comprehensive financial planning, and that is a big distinction."
He said an investment policy statement longer than a few pages is "too long. Your clients won't understand it."
He concluded by noting that if clients outlive their assets, "you're gonna get sued. I recommend the first letter says, 'Mrs. Jones, we have a problem.' The second letter will say, 'Mrs. Jones, we still have a problem.' The third letter will say, 'Mrs. Jones, since you haven't responded, you're fired.' The fourth letter will say, 'Mrs. Jones, since you begged us to get back in, here is a hold harmless agreement for you to sign."
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Gameplay feature: Alchemy
Group DescriptionGames that feature alchemy as a part of gameplay. For purposes of this game group, alchemy is defined as:
"The use of one or several ingredients with or without the use of certain apparatus to create a certain outcome in the form of a potion, spell, or similar devices".
Acquiring ingredients for alchemy purposes within the game may be through herb gathering via adventuring, defeating monsters, or buying at a local shop/alchemist. Alchemy also often require the use of certain apparatus other than ingredients or recipes (e.g. philosopher's stone, alchemist bench, disposable refrigerator, etc.).
An alchemist apparatus with an ingredient shelf from the game Dragon Lord/Dragon's Breath.
- The inventory of alchemy used in the game has to be somewhat large. Thus, games that only have two leaves just to create a potion (and only those two leaves in the game) are excluded from this group. Any game that identifies more than 10 (ten) ingredients that can be used for alchemy should qualify for this game group.
- The player must be the active alchemist in the game and not requiring the use of a third party or NPC (Non-Player Character) to do the mixing for him/her. Thus, usually the player can just mix the ingredients for example directly from his or her inventory, at an alchemist laboratory, or other means of storage.
- This game group is limited to the classical or modern use of alchemy (though not limited for its traditional use of transmutating iron into gold) that require certain ingredients or recipes for the formula to work, so games that simply combine any two (or more) items of non-alchemic value (i.e. blueberry pie with a rock) are excluded from this game group.
- This is not an alchemy-themed based game group. Games must include the process of alchemy as part of the game play. So puzzle games or adventure games where the player chases an alchemist around (without actually doing any alchemy) are out.
- Gameplay feature: Botany, Farming, Gardening
- Gameplay feature: Blacksmithing
- Gameplay feature: Fishing
- Gameplay feature: Goldsmithing
- Gameplay feature: Hunger / Thirst
- Gameplay feature: Hunting
- Gameplay feature: Mining
- Gameplay feature: Survival cooking
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ElitePsychiatry necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 122 diseños de 16 diseñadores freelance.
Elite Psychiatry
I am a medical doctor specializing in Psychiatry and have my own private practice. I am new to private practice (approaching one year) and am changing the way the game is played. My patient care philosophy is based on creating a strong therapeutic relationship between the doctor and patient. Patient's receive the best medical care period in all aspects of care. Customer service is a priority. No waiting for months for an appointment only to wait another few hours in the waiting room. No double booking appointments. No rude staff to deal with. No waiting for the doctor to return your call because patients have my cell phone number and email address. No 10 minute appointments and simply handing out scripts. Well coordinated care between myself and patient's therapists. Up to date on the latest advances in treatment. Office space is always comfortable and elegant and Electronic Health Records are used. Trust and confidentiality is paramount. I don't work for the insurance or pharmaceutical companies. Basically, proving that doctors who really care about their patient's well-begin still exist. A doctor that will go out of his way to ensure that patients are satisfied and well cared for. Quality over quantity is the new rule. Personalized care one patient at a time. Please visit my website http://www.Elitepsychiatry.com for more information about my practice.
Upper-middle class adults and families living in suburbs of Atlanta, GA. Those looking for the highest quality in psychiatric care, not simply the quickest or cheapest. Those looking for a doctor they can trust the care of their family with. Those seeking much more individualized care than what our current healthcare system encourages.
Looking for a logo with the words ELITE PSYCHIATRY. Creativity is encouraged through colors and objects. The look should be very professional and crisp and elegant and convey Trust. The logo will be used on my website, business cards, letterheads, and all other promotional items. Not sure if my name Dr. Karim Gokal, M.D. should be included or not. Also, not sure if a catch phrase or slogan should be created. Looking for your creative expertise for guidance.
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My family history event for January 10th is the birth of my father's cousin John Thomas Crackett in 1910. In the 1911 census he is shown as the youngest child of John Thomas (Jack) Crackett, living at Chevington Drift, Northumberland. Mother Emily and older siblings Isabella, Mary, Leonard and Robert also appear on the census. His father Jack is in the banner picture for my blog (back row, 3rd from left).
Having now found an alternative method for following up dates in my tree I can now also report another event 231 years ago for January 10th. My 5th great grandparents, Archibald Henderson and Ruth Weymes, married at St. John's church in Newcastle-upon-Tyne on January 10th 1785. There are many variant spellings of Weymes. One site gives the names on their marriage record as Archibold Henderson and Ruth Weans.


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Follow our live coverage of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee concert, beacons and Buckingham Palace picnic
The Queen is hosting pop royalty at the evening concert just in front of her London residence as part of four days of nationwide celebrations for the Diamond Jubilee marking her 60th year on the throne.
Ten thousand ticket-holders watched the performances live on a circular stage to hear Paul McCartney, Stevie Wonder, Elton John and Jessie J entertain the 86-year-old monarch.
Ska band Madness joined the festivities by singing 1980s hit Our House from the roof of the 775-room palace.
Take That frontman Gary Barlow was brought in to organise the event and he later walked the Queen onto the stage, along with Prince Charles and his wife Camilla, after the music ended.
The Prince of Wales then paid tribute to his "Mummy" which made the crowd roar with laughter and made the Queen smile.
He also wished his father well, who is currently in hospital. Prince Philip, the Queen's husband, was taken ill on Monday with a bladder infection. He will remain in hospital for observation for a few days.
"The only sad thing about this evening is that my father couldn't be here with us. Because unfortunately he is taken unwell. But ladies and gentlemen if we shout loud enough he might just hear us in hospital," said Prince Charles as the crowd cheered noisily.
After the prince led the crowd in a three cheers for the Queen, the monarch was invited to light the national jubilee beacon.
She did so with a crystal glass 'diamond', placing it into a pod, which sparked the ignition to light the giant beacon.
The jubilee concert ended with a firework display to a rousing chorus of Land of Hope and Glory.


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After 16 years of contentious litigation, 350,000 Native Americans can finally expect a check in the mail from the United States government. In the landmark case ofCobell vs. Salazar, the largest and most complicated class action lawsuit against the United States, Native Americans claimed the government mismanaged federal land held in trust by the Departments […] Continue Reading »
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Comments, GM vs. PUM, and random links
(I've been busy typing along the weekly post and I didn't like how long the post was getting. So, I'm extracting out the miscellaneous stuff from the end of the post and putting this up first.)
"Oh, the comments are the best thing here!"
For the comments are the shiznet here inclined, you might want to check-out this new Co.Comments.Com comment service Scoble mentioned recently. Co.mments.com does indeed track new comments here over time, vs. you having to reload each and every page. I haven't tried every feature, but there also seems to be a way to subscribe to all the posts you're tracking so that you can be back in RSS land. They have some HTML goo I could flip into here to make comment tracking easier - let me know if you think this is worth while. It serves as a nice bridge until a comment RSS feed starts happening here at BlogSpot.
The GM versus the inbred
Not quite The Hills Have Eyes, but still a scary story of when a GM meets an inbred PUM and they just disagree (snippet):
They say perception is reality. I left Microsoft a year or so ago after being there five years as a GM. When I started at Microsoft, I too loved the company. I had the passion everyone speaks of so fondly.
I then ran into my first 'professional Microsoft' PUM who was running a 300 person organization creating nothing. I called bullshit on his efforts, and had no idea what I was stepping into. This individual was hired into Microsoft from college (what I refer to as a 'Microsoft inbred') and had never experienced real life. I have three successful startups behind me, 8 rounds of VC money, VP of two different public companies. Guess who won the battles? Not me. I ended up working for someone with little mnagement experience, also a Microsoft inbred, and the rest is history...
Another ex-Microsoftie has thrown in the towel, too (snippet):
[...] Things were great the first couple of years, I loved being a part of the MS culture and well the options at the time more than made up for the lack of salary and long hours and political BS. I learned so much and had a blast doing it!
but... after many years of salary compression, incompetent managers, watching the people that couldn't even pass a tech screen get hired anyway just to fill a spot while my teammates and I had to take up the slack I have decided MS sees no value in a long term dedicated employee so I put my notice in...
The village isn't destroyed yet, but it's suffering damage.
Other web going ons
(1) The blog 64-Bitter starts off with the post I'm just not that into you, talking about leaving Microsoft after ten years:
You stay because you are averse to risk, crave stability and are scared that you can't do better.
Well, I'm sorry, but I'm just not that into you any more. I can't die the death by risk aversion. I wish you all the luck in the world, because I have a lot of friends there.
(2) There are a couple of posts at http://minimsftinterns.blogspot.com/ about being a Microsoft intern in Canada. Yah, we treat our group's interns a lot different than it sounds like this blogger is experiencing...
(3) Next Microsoft continues along at http://nextmsft.blogspot.com/ and http://spaces.msn.com/nextmsft - the MSN Spaces area (it's still branded MSN, right?) gets more comments and - who-da-whatza?!?
Update: Just got an invite to a discussion on this exact topic from the Director of Development excellence. Eric Brechner is a great guy I respect and enjoy his columns and feedback, and I am looking forward to attending this.
Congrats. Sinofsky in the comments and Brechner brainstorming! Hope that turns out well for you.
(4) Oshoma Momoh has a few notes on compensation, looking back at Microsoft after moving on:
- On Employee Compensation: Note #1, Microsoft Through the Rear View Mirror
- On Employee Compensation - note #2, NewCo Compensation Principles
- On employee compensation – note #3, Democracy in Action
(5) Mr. Bishop over at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer has a copy of Sr. VP David Cole's Goin' Fishin' internal email: MSN leader announces leave of absence.
(6) CNet reported that Mr. Gentoo-Linux Daniel Robbins left Microsoft. I haven't been able to track down the reason. Does it mean anything in the larger scope of things?
(7) A commenter provided a link to the story Lacking identity, Microsoft stock crawls along. Relevant snippet:
[...] Microsoft shares have underperformed every major equity index since the start of 2002, a slump that could continue until the world's largest software maker finds a clear investment identity as a growth stock or value play, fund managers and analysts said.
Basically, it appears that Microsoft stock is stuck in limbo with no obvious leadership to get it out. Are we a growth company or are we value company? Right now, it's not clear to the outsiders what path our leadership has chosen to direct the company towards. Uncertainty and doubt. Never a good combination on Wall Street. Another snippet:
"The company undoubtedly is doing some of the right things, but it's not going to move the needle for some time on a company of that size," said Scalise at Duncan-Hurst Capital Management.
Ah, if company size is an issue, I've got a great idea how to take care of that.
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TMJ Syndrome
Temporomandibular joint (TMJ) syndrome is a disorder involving the two joints (one on each side) that attach the lower jaw to the skull. These two joints open and close the mouth, and are located directly in front of each of the ears. In TMJ syndrome, the area around the temporomandibular joints becomes chronically tender and inflamed. Symptoms include the following:
TMJ syndrome often occurs in people who have had accidents or injuries involving their jaw, but many others have had no such incident. It is believed that grinding the teeth or clenching the jaw in response to stress may trigger the condition in many cases. Other possible causes include arthritis of the temporomandibular joint, facial bone defects, and misalignments of the jaw or of the bite.
The underlying cause of TMJ syndrome is not known. In most cases, the joint appears to be healthy, suggesting that it is the soft tissue around the joint rather than the joint itself that has the problem. However, some cases of TMJ syndrome may be caused by TMJ arthritis, TMJ dislocation, or other forms of true joint injury.
Treatment of TMJ includes stress management, avoidance of certain foods that trigger discomfort (such as gum or beef jerky), and anti-inflammatory medications. The older antidepressant drug amitriptyline, taken in low doses,1 as well as the muscle relaxant cyclobenzaprine 2 may help as well.
According to a few controlled trials, some people with more severe forms of TMJ may benefit from the use of a dental appliance.3–6 Finally, on rare occasions, surgery may be necessary.
Proposed Natural Treatments
The supplement glucosamine, taken alone or in combination with chondroitin, has shown considerable promise for the treatment of osteoarthritis. Because osteoarthritis of the temporomandibular joint can play a role in some cases of TMJ syndrome, researchers have begun to investigate the potential role of these supplements in treating the condition. Promising results were seen in a double-blind study that compared glucosamine to ibuprofen in the treatment of 45 people with TMJ arthritis.7 Over the 3-month study period, the supplement proved equal in effectiveness to the drug. However, because this study lacked a placebo group, it cannot be taken as fully reliable. Another double-blind study, this one involving glucosamine without chondroitin, did have a placebo group, but too many participants dropped out to allow meaningful conclusions to be drawn.8
EMG biofeedback is a form of biofeedback therapy that involves teaching a person to gain conscious control of muscle tension. A meta-analysis (formal statistical review) of published studies suggests that EMG biofeedback might be helpful for TMJ pain.9 However, the reviewers noted that the evidence is as yet incomplete, and more (and better quality) research is needed.
A small randomized trial involving 39 women with TMJ found hypnosis to be more effective in reducing pain than relaxation.15
Similarly, while preliminary controlled trials suggest that acupuncture may be helpful for TMJ syndrome, more research is needed.10, 12, 14 A preliminary study compared Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM incorporates acupuncture among other treatments) and Naturopathic Medicine (NM) against care given by clinic staffed by TMJ specialists. Researchers found that both TCM and NM provided greater benefit among 128 women.13 Although subjects were randomized into the different groups, there was no blinding and practitioners were permitted to treat each subject in any way they saw fit.
A cream made from cayenne and other hot peppers (capsaicin cream) has shown promise for a variety of painful conditions. However, one study failed to find capsaicin cream more effective than placebo cream for TMJ syndrome.11
Other treatments sometimes recommended for TMJ, but that lack reliable scientific support, include chiropractic, massage, and prolotherapy.
1. Plesh O, Curtis D, Levine J, et al. Amitriptyline treatment of chronic pain in patients with temporomandibular disorders. Oral Rehabil. 2000;27:834–841.
2. Herman CR, Schiffman EL, Look JO, et al. The effectiveness of adding pharmacologic treatment with clonazepam or cyclobenzaprine to patient education and self-care for the treatment of jaw pain upon awakening: a randomized clinical trial. J Orofac Pain. 2002;16:64–70.
3. Kuttila M, Le Bell Y, Savolainen-Niemi E, et al. Efficiency of occlusal appliance therapy in secondary otalgia and temporomandibular disorders. Acta Odontol Scand. 2002;60:248–254.
4. Minakuchi H, Kuboki T, Matsuka Y, et al. Randomized controlled evaluation of non-surgical treatments for temporomandibular joint anterior disk displacement without reduction. J Dent Res. 2001;80:924–928.
5. Raphael KG, Marbach JJ. Widespread pain and the effectiveness of oral splints in myofascial face pain. J Am Dent Assoc. 2001;132:305–316.
6. Ekberg EC, Vallon D, Nilner M. Occlusal appliance therapy in patients with temporomandibular disorders. A double-blind controlled study in a short-term perspective. Acta Odontol Scand. 1998;56:122–128.
7. Thie NM, Prasad NG, Major PW. Evaluation of glucosamine sulfate compared to ibuprofen for the treatment of temporomandibular joint osteoarthritis: a randomized double blind controlled 3 month clinical trial. J Rheumatol. 2001;28:1347–1355.
8. Nguyen P, Mohamed SE, Gardiner D, et al. randomized double-blind clinical trial of the effect of chondroitin sulfate and glucosamine hydrochloride on temporomandibular joint disorders: a pilot study. Cranio. 2001;19:130–139.
9. Crider AB, Glaros AG. A meta-analysis of EMG biofeedback treatment of temporomandibular disorders. J Orofac Pain. 1999;13:29–37.
10. Ernst E, White AR. Acupuncture as a treatment for temporomandibular joint dysfunction: a systematic review of randomized trials. Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 1999;125:269–272.
11. Winocur E, Gavish A, Halachmi M, et al. Topical application of capsaicin for the treatment of localized pain in the temporomandibular joint area. J Orofac Pain. 2000;14:31–36.
12. Smith P, Mosscrop D, Davies S et al. The efficacy of acupuncture in the treatment of temporomandibular joint myofascial pain: A randomised controlled trial. J Dent. 2006 Nov 7 [Epub ahead of print].
13. Ritenbaugh C, Hammerschlag R, Calabrese C, et al. A pilot whole systems clinical trial of traditional Chinese medicine and naturopathic medicine for the treatment of temporomandibular disorders. J Altern Complement Med. 2008;14:475-487.
14. La Touche R, Angulo-Díaz-Parreño S, et al. Effectiveness of acupuncture in the treatment of temporomandibular disorders of muscular origin: a systematic review of the last decade. J Altern Complement Med. 2010;16:107.
15. Abrahamsen R, Baad-Hansen L, Zachariae R, Svensson P. Effect of hypnosis on pain and blink reflexes in patients with painful temporomandibular disorders. Clin J Pain. 2011;27(4):344-351.
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Recent posts eg. 'The Battle For The Labour Party's Soul', 'Lord Snooty The Third' and 'Sons And Lovers' named some of the people based in London who ensured that the supply of disadvantaged kids from that city into the arms of Dafydd's gang in north Wales to be abused and trafficked remained unhindered. Dafydd had links in London from his time 'training' at the Maudsley, but there were many other links between unscrupulous professional people in Wales and London as well.
One of the biggest and best rogues who oiled the wheels of the whole machine was Frederick Elwyn Jones, Baron Elwyn-Jones, known as Elwyn Jones was one of the crooked barristers from Wales who concealed the crimes of Dafydd and the gang and who served as a Labour MP and then sat as a Labour peer.
In 1966, Elwyn Jones led the prosecution of the Moors murderers, Ian Brady and Myra Hindley, at the Chester Assizes. Jones's junior at Brady and Hindley's trial was Ronnie Waterhouse. The trial of the Moors Murderers involved some of the barristers who spent their careers colluding with Dafydd's gang and who built their careers on their celeb status which resulted from that trial. See previous posts. One of those who was in the public gallery who watched the trial and many years later was still telling people how the whole Court was in tears during the trial of Evil Myra, was a lady called Ingrid, who was a student Angel. Ingrid spent the rest of her career as an Angel at the North Wales Hospital Denbigh, overseeing the victims of a paedophile gang whom Dafydd had illegally imprisoned. Which was why Ingrid probably could not cope with her own emotions when I told her what Dafydd et al were up to and ran off in tears telling me that she was deeply insulted because they all Cared.
Ingrid was one of the Angels who accompanied me to Bangor Magistrates Court after Dafydd et al forced a junior doctor to make a complaint to the police alleging that I had 'tried to throttle' him. I was ordered to be detained in Denbigh for 'assessment' after committing such an 'Orrible Crime, after which of course the junior doctor withdrew his complaint against me and all charges were dropped. I had by that time been deemed mad n dangerous by Dafydd, so I therefore stayed in Denbigh. I now have documentary evidence of the whole fit up (see previous posts). Ingrid witnessed everything.
When Dafydd subsequently ordered me to be released from Denbigh and for Angels to drive me to the nearest train station and physically put me on a train to London after telling me that if I ever returned to north Wales I would be arrested, Ingrid was one of the Angels who drove me to the station and stood guard as I boarded the train.
When Dafydd's mate Professor Robert Bluglass finally Chaired the Inquiry into my complaint about Dafydd et al in 1989 (see post 'Enter Professor Robert Bluglass CBE), Bluglass told me that he had 'particularly wanted' to take evidence from Ingrid but that she had refused to attend. They were all such a bunch of liars that I don't know what the truth was. However, Ingrid knew all about the trafficking ring that Dafydd et al were running and she will have known that it was the very same lawyers who concealed the crimes of Dafydd et al who became famous after their involvement in the trial of Evil Myra and Brady.
It was Ingrid who told me that the young men who had been abused in the children's homes in north Wales who made complaints about Dafydd lying about them, having them arrested and imprisoned and then detained for years in Denbigh, were 'lucky' to have Dafydd, 'because no-one else would bother with those boys'.
Well Ingrid, after I complained about Gwynne the lobotomist and made it clear to Dafydd that I wasn't interested in shagging him either, Jeff Crowther told me that the Top Doctors had 'run out of patience' with me and that none of them were 'going to help'.
Stephen Bagnall died in front of all of you Ingrid (see post 'Hey, Hey DAJ, How Many Kids Did You Kill Today?'), as did many others. Where are their bodies?
No wonder so many Angels in north Wales spent so much of their time stressing how they had Cried when they found the body/heard about the death and lost their tempers with patients and reacted in an inexplicable manner to so many situations. They spent their working lives among complete madness and horror.
Now here comes Dr DA to visit the latest young female patient whom he illegally imprisoned. Yes it's 2 am and the patient is fast asleep in bed, but none of the Angels are even going to comment on this.
When Dafydd turned up at Denbigh to visit me at gone midnight after having me unlawfully arrested, the Charge Nurse Mike Williams got me out of bed. When I asked Dafydd what the hell he wanted, Dafydd told me that he had driven 60 miles to see me. I told him that if he hadn't have had me arrested he wouldn't have had to have bothered. Mike Williams told me that he thought that I was being a bit harsh on Dafydd.
'There is no evidence that there was a sex abuse ring operating in north Wales which was concealed at Gov't level.'
'It was different in those days'. No it wasn't, in 1986 mad old doctors were not to supposed to proposition young female patients, have them unlawfully arrested and imprisoned when they said no and then appear in the female dorms in the middle of the night out of the kindness of their hearts.
The Olden Days:
Chernobyl or the North Wales Hospital?
Elwyn-Jones served as the Labour MP for two East End constituencies, Plaistow, 1945-50 and then years later, West Ham South, a seat he held for a short while in 1974.
Children from the East End were sent to children's homes in north Wales throughout the 1970s and 80s, where many of them were seriously abused and then trafficked. See previous posts.
In 1964, Elwyn Jones was sworn of the Privy Council and appointed Attorney General for England and Wales by Harold Wilson, a post that Jones held until 1970. The Moors Murderers trial was famous for being the trial in which the AG himself led the prosecution.
Jones left the Commons in 1974, soon after he was elected as the MP for Newham South, because he was made a life peer. Lord Elwyn-Jones then served as Lord Chancellor, 1974-79, under Harold Wilson and Jim Callaghan. The Lord Chancellor is a member of the Cabinet and, by law, is responsible for the efficient functioning and independence of the courts.
Elwyn Jones was Lord Chancellor when his pal Ronnie Waterhouse was appointed a High Court judge in 1978. He was Lord Chancellor when Dafydd's gang rapidly expanded their trafficking business in north Wales and when hundreds of children were sent to north Wales children's homes from metropolitan boroughs, including those in inner London. Elwyn-Jones was Lord Chancellor when Mary Wynch was unlawfully arrested and imprisoned by Dafydd et al and he was of course in that post when a few other notorious things happened eg. the fitting up of the Birmingham Six and many others. Numerous deaths of kids in care and psych patients in Risley Remand Centre who had been arrested on trumped-up charges also happened on Elwyn's watch (see post 'Include Me Out').
Looks like Elwyn let a few things slip through his fingers.
Hansard recorded the tributes paid to Elwyn Jones after he died in Dec 1989.
The Lord Privy Seal, Lord Belstead, kicked off the proceedings. Lord Belstead aka John Ganzoni was a Tory peer who was Leader of the Lords, 1988-90, under Thatch. Ganzoni was the only son of Sir John Ganzoni, a barrister and the Tory MP for Ipswich who was later created Baron Belstead. The 2nd Baron Belstead, John Ganzoni, 'showed little interest in politics and waited six years after succeeding to the peerage on his father's death in 1958 before making his maiden speech'. So that will have been why Ted Heath made Ganzoni a junior Minister in the Dept of Education under Thatch, then a junior Minister in the N Ireland Office. When Thatch became PM, she gave Ganzoni a Ministerial job in the Home Office and he was then moved to the Foreign Office after Lord Carrington resigned in the wake of the invasion of the Falklands. After that Belstead was of the MAFF, then it was back to the Dept of Education and then Deputy Leader of the Lords when Willie Whitelaw as Leader, while Willie colluded with Dafydd et al in north Wales. Then Belstead succeeded Willie as Leader of the Lords! In 1990 the man who had shown sod all interest in politics became Paymaster General and N Ireland Office Minister under John Major. Bless! In 1992, Belstead retired from the Government to become Chairman of the Parole Board, which was packed to the rafters with people like Robert Bluglass and Colin Berry, who had directly concealed the crimes of Dafydd and the gang. After the House of Lords Act 1999 removed the right of hereditary peers to sit in the Lords, Belstead was given a life peerage and went right back in there again. John Ganzoni's hereditary peerage and baronetcy became extinct when he died in Dec 2005, because he was a Bachelor who had not been blessed with children. John Ganzoni was an active Freemason and President of the Board of General Purposes for the United Grand Lodge of England. This mate of Dafydd's had been appointed as Deputy Lieutenant of Suffolk on 2 April 1979.
Belstead began:
…Lord Elwyn-Jones came to your Lordships' House as Lord Chancellor in 1974… immediately he endeared himself to the whole House: his great charm and wise counsel will be sorely missed not only by his close political friends and colleagues but by my noble and learned friend on the Woolsack, by members of the legal profession and by all your Lordships.
Elwyn, as we came to know him, held strong views and debated with passion but never with personal rancour. He had a lightness of touch which sometimes made one forget his capacity for sheer hard work. After taking part as prosecutor in the Nuremberg war trials, he served as Member of Parliament for 30 years…while building up his legal practice. He was Attorney-General from 1964 to 1970 with a heavy workload and Lord Chancellor from 1974 to 1979. As Lord Chancellor he was skilful in balancing the legitimate interests of the executive and the judiciary. He maintained a steady flow of law reform measures including—and I think that this was very close to his heart—the Children Act of 1975.
Little wonder that none of those complaints about kids from London or indeed elsewhere being abused in north Wales ever got anywhere or indeed that virtually no lawyers would touch such cases, not even those with Radical Consciences. The Children Act 1975 resulted from the hard work of Leo Abse, who used Jim and Audrey Callaghan and Dr Death to get it through Parliament (see post 'Cry, The Beloved Country'). It was the Children Act 1975 that caused so many children to be placed in children's homes in north Wales.
Leo Abse was a close friend of George Thomas, the child molesting Labour MP for Cardiff Central and then Cardiff West, 1945-83, who served as Speaker, 1976-83. Abse was a bent lawyer who was the Labour MP for Pontypool and then Torfaen, 1958-87; Abse threatened and paid off witnesses to/victims of Thomas's crimes and also lied to the media when Thomas found himself on thin ice (see post 'It Wasn't On Our Radar'). Abse himself was investigated for historical abuse. Abse came from a Jewish family with many lawyers/Top Doctors/analysts among them. See previous posts.
Lord Cledwyn of Penrhos spoke after Belstead's gushing. Lord Cledwyn was a long-standing friend of the Windbags and before that Glenys's parents. Cledwyn was the Labour MP for Anglesey, 1951-79 and someone else who concealed the crimes of Dafydd's gang in a very direct way (see previous posts eg. 'How Much Greater Is A Man than A Sheep?'):
Elwyn was one of three outstanding brothers brought up in the great Welsh nonconformist tradition….We know that he was devoted to his profession of law and to Gray's Inn…
Dafydd's mate and protector Sir William Mars-Jones was a big wig in Gray's Inn. Ronnie Waterhouse was a junior in Mars-Jones's Chambers. The Mars-Jones's were a farming family from Denbighshire and while Sir William did his stuff in London, the rest of the clan defended the interests of Dafydd and the gang on their home turf of north Wales. See previous posts.
I had the privilege of instructing Elwyn when he was a junior barrister on the Welsh circuit…
Really?? The Windbags' big pal instructed the little crook that was Elwyn, who was later the Man At The Top with regard to the Mary Wynch scandal??? Did the Windbags know about this?
…His place in Welsh history is certainly secure, not least because he was the first Welsh speaking Lord Chancellor for centuries…
Pity about all those other Welsh speakers who suffered so much because of Elwyn's desire to do the bidding of the English establishment.
Even before the war, as a young barrister, his passion for human rights impelled him to travel to Austria and elsewhere where those rights were imperilled. His appointment to prosecute at Nuremberg was, in a sense, a natural sequel to his experiences before and during the war. The Holocaust, the suffering of Jewish people in Europe, was never far from his mind…
Sadly a number of unscrupulous people made capital out of their role in the Nuremberg trials, built careers and reputations and subsequently rather let themselves down. Whenever a bent lawyer or an abusive Angel excused themselves with 'I'm just doing my job', Patient F delighted in telling them 'that wasn't an excuse at Nuremberg and it is not an excuse now'. No, it wasn't, but it was a phrase that a great many of them used because they could not defend their actions.
Those who had the privilege of his friendship will not forget him. His kindness, his compassion and his sense of humour will remain with us. We shall miss that beautiful voice that we came to know so well.
Bechod!! Elwyn fitted people up in the language of heaven! Yma O Hyd!
I shall always think of him as a young man, because even at the age of 80 he was young in his attitudes and in his outlook. Age did not wither him
Oh please, this is ridiculous, he wasn't a fallen soldier, he was a crooked lawyer who assisted a gang of paedophiles.
Now for a laugh. After Cledwyn's nonsense, it was the turn of Woy, Lord Jenkins of Hillhead, one of the Gang Of Four and another loyal paedophiles' friend to pay tribute (see post 'We've Been Expecting You…'):
[Elwyn's] life's work could, I suppose, be said to be complete.
Indeed, none of you ever went to prison or lost your jobs and pensions.
His career of public service is the now rare classical example of a great lawyer politician—barrister at 25, MP at 34, QC at 43, Attorney-General at 54, Lord Chancellor at 64, and then ten years of exceptional subsequent devotion to this House in Opposition…
It's incredible what can be achieved by keeping one's mouth shut.
…Yet there is much of the poignancy of a younger life cut off about his going.
Here we go again, the fallen soldier in the first flush of youth…
I think it was because he was so vividly, so acutely and yet so benignly among us until very recently. Only a few months ago he looked and sounded the model of what many of us, without much confidence, might hope to be at the end of our eighth decade…
If I live that long I very much do not want to be anything like Elwyn.
I worked closely with him during his two periods of high office.
Here comes the confession…
For two years while he was Attorney I was Home Secretary, the Commons Member of the Cabinet whose responsibilities are most closely intermingled with legal processes. For half the time that he sat on the Woolsack I was again Home Secretary. It is well known that the responsibilities of the Home Office and of the Lord Chancellor's Department are entwined with more closeness than logic.
Woy, a bisexual swinger himself, covered up for Dafydd's trafficking gang throughout his career, but particularly when he was Home Secretary.
After Woy, Baroness Stedman had a go. Phyllis Stedman began her political career in 1946, when she was elected as a County Councillor for Labour in Peterborough. She served on the Council until 1976. In 1972, Stedman was appointed to the Peterborough New Town Development Corporation. She bagged her peerage in 1974. This was seen as a way of bolstering Harold Wilson's Labour Party in the Lords. Stedman served briefly as a junior Minister under Callaghan, for Sport and Water Resources. Stedman defected to Dr Death's crew on the formation of the SDP in 1981. She became the SDP's Chief Whip in the Lords in 1986. Most of the SDP peers opposed the Party's merger with the Liberals in 1988, remaining loyal to Dr Death who was in a huff. Phyllis led the peers into Dr Death's continuing-SDP and served as its leader in the Lords. When Dr Death came to grief at the hands of the Monster Raving Loony Party in the 1990 Bootle by-election and the continuing SDP was dissolved, Stedman became a crossbencher. The Monster Raving Loony Party polling more votes than Dr Death's continuing-SDP eclipsed a far more worrying fact; that the Bootle by-election resulted from the death of the Labour MP Michael Carr after just 57 days in office, at the hands of Walton Hospital. Michael Carr had fought Militant. Walton Hospital was pretty much run by Militant, with a helping hand from Dafydd's associates. The staff at Walton were considered to have been so criminally negligent that a case for prosecuting them was made. The case bounced around for months between two successive DPPs and in the end a tame coroner put an end to the chance of a prosecution. See post 'News From Sicily'.
Militant had of course been Bravely Seen Off long before Michael Carr was killed by their supporters in the NHS.
Here are Stedman's pearls:
…Elwyn Jones…was always so kind and courteous,
Another piece of bara brith Baroness?? It's home made…
…He was a superb raconteur with a very wide range of humorous stories. I remember the long nights and the all-night sittings on the devolution Bills when Elwyn could be relied upon to dispel any tetchiness on the Front Bench in the early hours of the morning with a humourous aside or a whispered anecdote.
Have you heard the one about the lobotomist, the Speaker of the House and the 10 year old boy???
…As an MP he served his constituency faithfully…
We won't mention the children of his constituents who were sent into the arms of a gang of paedophiles and of how all complaint was suppressed…
One can almost say that his interests were world-wide, and he enjoyed travelling to far away places….
To Turkish Baths?? To the Far East??
He was always willing to extend a friendly hand to political friend and foe alike, to the most humble of his constituents
Except for those bound for Dafyddville obviously.
and to the highest in the land. He retained the common touch…
Gawd Bless 'im.
Our sympathy goes out to his widow, herself in hospital at this time.
Lady Elwyn-Jones won't have been in Denbigh or Ysbyty Gwynedd. The London Clinic or Tommy's possibly…
Next up for paying tribute was Lord Wilberforce. Richard Wilberforce was the great-great-grandson of the abolitionist William Wilberforce, 'a family connexion which had much influence on Wilberforce'. Not that Richard was quite the man that his great-great-granddad was, but being a descendent of William Wilberforce was really brilliant for PR purposes. Richard was a graduate of New College, Oxford, a favourite recruiting ground for the security services. Wilberforce was called to the Bar at Middle Temple and was a senior member of Middle Temple when Ronnie Waterhouse was a whippersnapper there. Wilberforce was a lifelong Fellow of All Souls. The poor dear always found that his income was limited, having only his earnings from the Bar to get by on because he lacked 'family connections'. That is the downside of one's ancestor freeing the slaves. After his war service, Wilberforce returned to the Bar and acted for the Foreign Office in a number of high profile cases. He was the British legal member of the International Civil Aviation Organisation and was appointed a CMG for services in relation to the Warsaw Convention. Wilberforce became a High Court judge in 1961 and in 1964 was appointed a Law Lord, in which capacity he served until 1982. He is the only England and Wales judge in recent times to have been appointed to the Lords straight from the High Court Bench, without serving in the Court of Appeal. Wilberforce was Chancellor of Hull University, 1978-94. When he was younger, he stood as a Conservative Parliamentary candidate. Wilberforce died in 2003, so he was around to oil the wheels until well after the Waterhouse Report was published.
Wilberforce kicked off with:
Lord Elwyn-Jones… was valued on account of his warm-hearted humanity and his strongly felt sense of justice.
…In later years we came to appreciate his experience and common sense when he came to sit as a judge, an activity which I think he greatly appreciated.
He'll have had a great time.
Then it was the turn of the Lord Bishop of St. Albans, John Taylor! John Taylor succeeded Robert Runcie as Bishop of St Albans in 1980. It has now been admitted that Runcie concealed many abusive clergy in the Anglican Church, including while he served as Archbishop of Canterbury, 1980-91. While Runcie was Archbish, two successive Bishops of Bangor, Gwilym Williams and Cledan Mears, were fully on board with Dafydd. Rowan Williams, who followed in the footsteps of that lot and who learned at their knee, also knows something about Dafydd's gang (see previous posts).
Spot the difference:
Let us prey:
Bishop John Taylor told the Lords:
…I learnt of the death of Lord Elwyn-Jones just two minutes before taking prayers yesterday. I felt instant regret that the traditions of this House did not allow me an opportunity to voice the prayers of those present at the loss of so distinguished a Member…
Dafydd used to tell journos that his children said their prayers at night 'and I'm rather proud of that'. To which F responded 'pride's a sin'. But then so is abduction and sexual assault. And indeed murder.
…as a very nervous newcomer to your Lordships' House I stood up here four years ago to make my maiden speech…I began by saying that before I was Bishop of St. Albans I was Archdeacon of West Ham. "Hear, hear" came the words of a benevolent gentleman on the Front Bench opposite to encourage me on my way and I instantly guessed who he must be.
Elwyn had control of the Church as well…
His twinkling eyes, his disarming smile, those expressive eyebrows, his rubicund countenance and his avuncular generosity made him for me the very personification of kindliness.
The boys in Bryn Estyn and Bryn Alyn might have disagreed there: Gang raped whilst Jimmy Savile looked on, forced to have sex with men at gunpoint, found dead hanging from nooses at various locations or after being hit by cars or lorries…
And behind it all was the acute legal mind, the penetrating advocacy, demonstrated from the days of his time as president of the Cambridge Union to his time as Lord Chancellor—brilliance clothed in warm humanity.
Some of these people actually knew what Elwyn Jones had concealed in north Wales.
I believe that I may speak with authority because the people of his constituency in Plaistow and Newham South were the people of my constituency.
Dafydd et al had it all sewn up.
I know how well they will be mourning him now. Perhaps I may be privileged to voice their gratitude for the way in which—and from the totally different culture of the Welsh Valleys—he identified completely with the aspirations, the needs and the interests of those great East Londoners…
Why was a Bishop in the House of Lords speaking for those in the East End BEFORE he has consulted them?
…In him the bishops have lost an unfailing friend.
Would the Anglican Church like to expand on this?
I know that Lord Elwyn-Jones featured in the prayers of many of us here during his illness in the hope that he would be upheld by God and maybe spared. But now he remains in our thoughts as we commend him to God, the loving and merciful Father, before whom he would not dream of pleading his own cause.
Elwyn might not have been at the side of the loving and merciful father as Bishop John presumed. God might have had enough.
When he was at school, Brown's brother used to enjoy singing a version of 'All Things Bright and Beautiful' that appeared in a Python book, which began with 'All Things Dull and Ugly, All Things Short and Squat, All Things Rude and Nasty, The Lord God Made the Lot.'
Here are some of God's creations:
F used to get very angry with me when I said such things and yell 'you're blaming God'. No, I'm not really. It was a matter of free will in these cases; the above absolutely did not have to do what they did…
After Bishop John had paid tribute to Elwyn, the grade A bastard with a Welsh lilt and a gentle manner, Lord Hailsham joined the party. I really don't have time to remind readers of the excesses of that old git, just see previous posts – Hailsham was a protector of Dafydd and the gang who went back to the dawn of Dafydd's career – and bear in mind that Lord Hailsham was the man who bellowed at a group of journos after the Argies had surrendered that it was God wot won the war for us, although Hailsham said it in Latin. God votes Conservative, as any fule kno.
The Mad Dog Hailsham said:
… I shall always owe to him an immense debt of gratitude because of his kindness to me. It was of a particular kind when in 1978 I returned from Australia absolutely shattered by a personal bereavement. My sympathy goes out to his family in proportion to what he did for me then.
None of this lot showed a jot of concern for those kids in care or psych patients who's corpses littered north Wales or indeed their loved ones…
Lady Elwyn-Jones was previously known as Pearl 'Polly' Binder; she married Elwyn Jones in 1937. Pearl Binder died just weeks after her husband. Pearl Binder is described as a 'writer, illustrator, playwright, stained-glass artist, lithographer, sculptor and a champion of the Pearly Kings and Queens'. She was a 'legendary character' who had a 'lifelong fascination' with the East End of London, where she settled in the 1920s.
The Poor are just such fun!
Polly Binder was born in Salford. Her father was Jacob Binderevski, a Russian-Ukrainian Jewish tailor. Binder moved to London after WWI and studied at the Central School of Art and Design. She published a series of lithographs that illustrated "The Real East End" by Thomas Burke, a popular writer who ran a pub in Poplar at the time. In 1933 Binder was one of the founders of the left-wing Artists' International Association.
In 1937 Binder was involved in the earliest days of TV broadcasting for children. Also in 1937, she co-presented a live six-part series which was the first TV programme on the history of fashion. Pearl Binder was expecting a baby soon after the end of the last programme and could well have been the first heavily pregnant woman to appear on television. Polly was one of those many breakers of glass ceilings who ignored a lot of screams on their upward trajectory through the roof.
Binder travelled extensively in Russia and China, designed a musical, designed costumes for a theatre company, wrote stories for children, designed a mug and plate for Wedgwood and instigated and executed 22 armorial windows at the House of Lords. Binder died in Brighton on 25 January 1990 aged 86, seven weeks after the death of her husband.
Lord and Lady Elwyn-Jones both lasted until the end of the 1980s to assist with keeping the lid nailed firmly down on the serious criminality in north Wales.
Elwyn and Polly had three children: Josephine, Lou and Dan. Josephine was a researcher on Jacob Bronowski's TV series 'The Ascent of Man'. Jacob Bronowski was a Polish-born mathematician and historian. He is best known as the presenter and writer of the thirteen part 1973 BBC TV documentary series and accompanying book, 'The Ascent of Man', which led to him being regarded as "one of the world's most celebrated intellectuals". Python took the piss out of Bronowski by stating simply that 'he knows everything'. I cannot understand how one of the world's most celebrated intellectuals failed to notice Jimmy Savile cluttering up the BBC.
Bronowski's family moved to Germany and then to England while he was a child. He was a Cambridge graduate who taught maths at what is now Hull University, 1934-42. Hull University provided a home for many paedophiles' friends (see previous posts). Bronowski's wiki entry tells us that 'Beginning in this period, the British secret service MI5 placed him under surveillance believing he was a security risk, which may have restricted his access to senior posts in the UK.' Which sounds to me like a tall story spread around by MI5 themselves to detract from suspicions that Bronowski was, er, working for MI5.
The man whom MI5 had under surveillance because they didn't trust the bugger worked in operations research for the UK's Ministry of Home Security during WWII, where he developed approaches to bombing strategy for RAF Bomber Command.
Just to show how much MI5 distrusted Bronowski, at the end of the war, Bronowski was part of a British team of scientists and civil engineers who visited Japan to document the effects of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki for the purpose of studying the effects of the atomic bomb and its implications for future UK civil defence. Bronowski, in conjunction with Professor W. N. Thomas of the University of Cardiff, subsequently produced the secret "Report of the British Mission to Japan on an Investigation of the Effects of the Atomic Bombs Dropped at Hiroshima and Nagasaki" which was passed to various Gov't departments and consulted in the design of future UK public buildings.
Following his experiences of the after-effects of the Nagasaki and Hiroshima bombings, Bronowski discontinued his work for British military research and turned to biology, as did his friend Leo Szilard and many other physicists of that time, 'to better understand the nature of violence'. From 1950 to 1963 Bronowski worked for the National Coal Board, where he became the Director of Research. From 1963 he was a resident fellow of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in San Diego.
Bronowski died in 1974 and his place as a Know All and National Treasure on the serious bits of the BBC was eventually taken by his daughter, Lisa Jardine. Jardine was an early modern scholar and Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary University of London, 1990-2011. In September 2012, Lisa relocated to UCL, taking her research centre and staff with her.
From 2008 to January 2014, Jardine was Chair of the HFEA (Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority), which it has now been admitted was not doing what it should have been doing. Lisa did not stop the Top Doctors from ripping desperate fertility patients off and lying about their success rates.
When very young, Lisa won a maths scholarship to Cheltenham Ladies College and later studied at Newnham College, Cambridge and the University of Essex. Lisa was of course 'fluent in eight languages (including Greek and Latin)' and absolutely wonderful at everything from history to maths, as she used to remind people during her numerous Radio 4 broadcasts.
Jardine recalled that she initially found her father's celebrity something of a burden, noting that she was "very, very conscious" of being his daughter, although I have a sneaking suspicion that Lisa might have reaped a few benefits from being Jacob Bronowski's daughter…
Anyone for a regular stint at the BBC? Or for being a celeb historian who Chairs the HFEA and knows so little about what the Top Docs are up to in their clinics that it's a free-for-all?
'Now don't you worry my dear, we'll look after you after conning Lisa here who doesn't know her arse from her elbow and has never sat in one of our labs and witnessed what we are actually getting up to…' (see post 'Every Sperm Is Sacred – Particularly In Scotland').
In 1969, when Lisa married the Cambridge academic Nicholas Jardine, 'she was relieved to assume her husband's surname' because she was so keen to disguise the fact that her dad was Jacob. Lisa was always so relieved that No-One Realised! So one wonders why the first thing that everyone always says about Lisa – and always said – was and still is 'oh she's Jacob Bronowski's daughter'. I was the only person on earth who didn't know this and I found out because when I was talking about elites to a senior sociologist at Bangor University, he named Lisa Jardine as being the ultimate example and said 'Jacob Bronowski's daughter'. But I never know who anyone is, I even interviewed the Governor of the BBC without realising it, although I did notice that he was very good at history.
Jardine was raised in a secular Jewish household, but when appointed as the new Chair of the HFEA, she expressed her loyalty to her observant grandparents' Orthodox faith, which she described as going back "all the way back to whenever – Abraham" and her reluctance to clash with the Catholic Church on embryology. Which was all a red herring anyway, the real problem was that the Top Doctors were lying, fleecing people and some of them were putting patients' health at risk. Lord Bob Winston is Jewish. Was Lisa perhaps trying to ingratiate herself to the biggest name in fertility and a Labour peer to boot? If Lisa had popped up to Bangor I could have told her some of what I knew about about Lord Bob's colleagues, including the sex with research assistants in the lab during working hours, the constant sexual harassment of other staff, the research fraud and the colluding with Dafydd and associated trafficking gangs…
Lord Bob was a Child In Time! A very brutal time too from what I remember Lord Bob…
Lisa Jardine was a Trustee of the V & A Museum for eight years and was for five years a member of the Council of the Royal Institution in London. She was Patron of the Archives and Records Association and the Orange Prize. For the academic year 2007–2008 Jardine was seconded to the Royal Society in London as Expert Adviser to its Collections. She was a Trustee of the Chelsea Physic Garden. In December 2011 Jardine was appointed a Director of the National Archives.
Jardine judged the Novel category of the 1996 Whitbread Book Awards, the 1999 Guardian First Book Award, the 2000 Orwell Prize and was Chair of Judges for the 1997 Orange Prize for Fiction and the 2002 Man Booker Prize.
Jardine served as Chairman of the governing body at Westminster City School for Boys (which her younger son attended) and was Chair of the Curriculum Committee on the governing body of St Marylebone Church of England School for Girls.
In 2012, Jardine was awarded the President's Medal by the British Academy. She was elected an Honorary FRS in 2015. She served on the AHRC. In 2013–2014 Jardine served as President of the British Science Association, which in 2012 made her an Honorary Fellow.
I have been told by a well-wisher that it may well have been Lisa Jardine's influence that resulted in so many of my A-rated research bids to the AHRC and British Academy being turned down at the final hurdle. It is now very difficult to get that funding but very experienced people in the field were expressing surprise nonetheless because they definitely thought that I should have bagged at least one of the ones that they read for me. The words 'Tony Francis' have been whispered in my ear. Tony Francis was still alive when I submitted those bids and he was very worried at the prospect of Brown and me one day publishing what he knew we intended to publish. As were a great many other people. Including Lord Bob.
In November 2011, Jardine was made an Honorary Bencher of the Honourable Society of Middle Temple. Lord Elwyn-Jones's mate Sir Ronnie Waterhouse was a Bencher of Middle Temple and served as the Treasurer.
It really is very obvious isn't it…
Jardine's hagiographies constantly stress that she was an historian who excelled in science. Lisa Jardine never showed any sign of excelling in science, but she was an early modern historian who's dad was a famous scientist who worked for the security services and concealed a barrel of crap in a previous generation, which is why Lisa picked up all those awards and appointments from the scientific and medical establishments. Jardine rattled on about her Aga on Radio 4's 'A Point of View' programme, she was not a genius. And that Aga was probably in the middle of Hampstead while Lisa did her country peasant home baking bit.
A Point of View – I'll have all the best jobs please, you all know who my dad was, not that I have ever traded on that…
Lisa died of cancer in 2015, aged 71. In the tributes which followed, she was remembered for "her deep empathy for outsiders of all kinds – rebels, misfits and migrants."
Here's Lisa, at the heart of the British establishment, closely linked with virtually every elite who assisted in concealing the Westminster Paedophile Ring and even with those who were mates with Dafydd himself, empathising with the rebels and misfits:
|Lisa Jardine
CBE FRS FRHistS
Jardine at the Royal Society admissions day in 2015
A group of misfits and rebels:
As well as working as a researcher on Lisa's dad's TV series, Lord Elwyn-Jones's daughter Josephine married Francis Gladstone, a relative of the former PM William Gladstone.
William Gladstone was much loved and revered in north Wales, what with being a Liberal PM when north Wales was dominated politically and culturally by Liberal Noncoformists and on the Watkin Path going up Snowdon there is a huge carved rock which marks the place where Gladstone and a crowd sung Cymric hymns. Gladstone lived at Hawarden Castle in Flintshire. In 1895, at the age of 85, he gave £40,000 and much of his own library to establish what is now known as Gladstone's Library – it was previously called St Deiniol's Library – close to Hawarden Castle. Gladstone's Library is a national memorial to Gladstone. It is lovely, it is a residential library with an emphasis on theology, but it is a favourite hang-out of the paedophiles' friends (see previous posts). So much so that when I used to stay there I would inevitably encounter them. It might well have been a coincidence, I'd expect to see theologians there, but Dafydd's colleague Dr Neil Davies, who was one of those responsible for illegally imprisoning me in Denbigh??? Just browsing away just when I was in there myself? Neil Davies doesn't live anywhere near Hawarden and he isn't a theologian but he knows an awful lot of people who are who have also been of great assistance to him and Dafydd…
Ronnie Waterhouse came from a well-known Liberal family in Flintshire and many members of Ronnie's family were active in the Liberal Party, as was Ronnie himself when he was a young man. Ronnie's dad Thomas Waterhouse was a very influential in the Liberal Party himself at the time of Gladstone and knew Gladstone personally.
See previous posts for information on Gladstone and the Waterhouse family.
Gladstone at Hawarden with his grandchild Dorothy Drew, daughter of Mary Gladstone.
Gladstone's statue in Gladstone's Library:
In 1840, Gladstone began to rescue and rehabilitate London prostitutes, walking the streets of London himself and encouraging the women he encountered to change their ways. Much to the criticism of his peers, he continued this practice decades later, even after he was elected PM. Dafydd had a similar explanation when questions were asked of some of his past-times. But then Dafydd told people that he was 'carrying out a ward round' when he was found in the women's dorm at Denbigh in the small hours of the morning.
Yes, we Empowered Service Users did do a great deal of laughing at Dafydd and at those who repeated his ludicrous explanations every time that he was caught with his trousers down or indeed off, despite the huge danger that he presented.
Elwyn Jones's other daughter is the fashion historian Lou Taylor, who is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Brighton.
Elwyn Jones's son Dan Jones describes himself as an 'artist' and 'rhyme collector'. Dan has been based in the East End since 1967. John Allen set up the Bryn Alyn Communityt in 1969 and within a short time, it was receiving scores of children from London boroughs, including those in the East End (see previous posts). In the 1970s and 80s, Dan lived at Brick Lane, just down the road from the flat in Bethnal Green where my mates lived and I briefly stayed in 1986, when sex offenders and other nasties came after us, just after I had left north Wales (see previous posts, including 'The Turn Of The Screw').
Dan Jones has 'campaigned against racism and fought for social justice all of his life'. Dan was a social worker and visited schools in the East End at the same time as his father ignored what was happening to all those kids who ended up being abused and even dying at the hands of Dafydd's gang. Dan has painted many murals of children on the walls of schools in the East End. Dan's has also carried out 'education work' with Amnesty International. The Secretary-General of Amnesty, 1968-80, was Martin Ennals. See previous posts.
Martin's brother Lord David Ennals colluded with Dafydd et al in Ennals's capacity as a leading light in MIND and in his role as a Labour Minister in the Home Office, in the DHSS and then as Secretary of State for the DHSS, 1976-79, when Dafydd unlawfully arrested and imprisoned Mary Wynch… David Ennals was mates with Dafydd's old mate from the Maudsley, Dr Jim Birley . See previous posts.
Dan featured on the Radio 4 children's programme 'Go 4 It', taking children through a role play of what it was like to have to run in fear from your country. I know the feeling Dan!
Dan's blog, Spitalfields Life, contains messages from people who knew Dan's dad! One is an Angel who nursed Elwyn-Jones's when Elwyn was a patient at the Royal Sussex County Hospital, 1987-1989. Elwyn Jones encouraged that Angel in their law studies and that Angel is now a Lecturer in Law (Medical & Human Rights). Another message is from someone who's granddad knew Elwyn Jones and Polly Binder; their granddad used to be a chef at Gray's Inn and that is how he knew Dan's parents. Dafydd's mate Sir William Mars-Jones was a senior member of Gray's Inn…
Here's Dan in front of one of his murals:
Elwyn Jones's brother Idris (1900–1971), was captain of the Wales Rugby Union team in 1925 and was an industrial chemist who became Director General of Research Development for the National Coal Board.
The Welsh Rugby Union had many links to Dafydd's gang which the gang used to their full potential, particularly in the form of the dreadful Tasker Watkins, 'The Greatest Living Welshman'. Watkins had the most impressive Paedophile Gang Bingo card imaginable.
Sir Tasker Watkins VC GBE PC QC DL (18 November 1918 – 9 September 2007) was a Lord Justice of Appeal, 1980-93 and Deputy Lord Chief Justice, 1988-93. Tasker was Leader of the Wales and Chester Circuit, 1970-71 and Presiding Judge of the Wales and Chester Circuit, 1975-80. He was Chairman of the Wales Mental Health Review Tribunal, 1960-71. Tasker was President of the Welsh National School of Medicine, 1987-98. He was President of the Welsh Rugby Union, 1993-2004.
In World War II, Sir Tasker was awarded the Victoria Cross, the highest British award for gallantry in the face of the enemy.
Tasker was appointed Deputy Lord Chief Justice by the Lord Chief Justice Geoffrey Lane. It was Geoffrey Lane who released Oliver Brooke, the Professor of Paediatrics at St George's Hospital Medical School from prison early, after comparing Ollie's vast stash of child porn to a collection of cigarette cards. Ollie was one of the key figures in the pan-European paedophile ring of which Dafydd's gang were a part. See previous posts, including 'Oliver!'.
Tasker was perceived as a Friend Of Wales particularly as a result of his Chairing the 1967 Public Inquiry into the Aberfan Disaster. Aberfan was blamed on the NCB and Lord Robens in particular was the fall guy, but the tip which fell on the school in 1966, killing 116 children and 28 adults, was known to be dangerous by local Councillors and politicians who had said nothing because the coal industry was about the only employer in the area and they feared the consequences if action was taken. Robens did a nice little deal with Wilson's Gov't which ensured that he remained in public life and was well-provided for after he took all the crap for Aberfan. See previous posts.
Lord Justice Desmond Ackner was another friend of Dafydd who was constructed as a Friend Of The Welsh People as a result of his role in Aberfan. Desmond Ackner was Counsel for the families of the victims at the Public Inquiry into Aberfan. Ackner condemned the 'callous indifference, incompetence, ignorance and inertia' in the National Coal Board. The people of Aberfan were well-impressed that an 'English barrister' wanted to help them and Ackner 'remains a local hero' in Aberfan, where a bench in the memorial garden bears a plaque in his memory.
Ronnie Waterhouse acted as junior Counsel at the Inquiry into Aberfan.
Not long after Ackner established his reputation as a Champ of the Oppressed due to his role at the Aberfan Inquiry, Ackner did a great job for those who were really close to his heart, Dafydd and the gang, when he acted as the Presiding Judge when Sir Kenneth Robinson and the Church of Scientology did battle in the libel courts after the Scientologists alleged that psychiatrists were experimenting on their patients, harming them and facilitating sex crimes against minors. Desmond Ackner denounced the Scientologists and dismissed their allegations as nonsense. The Church of Scientology's allegations re psychiatry have never been taken seriously since. Yet Dafydd and his colleagues were doing exactly what the Scientologists stated that they were doing.
Sir Kenneth Robinson was Harold Wilson's Health Secretary and President/Chair of MIND. Dafydd was a leading light in MIND when Robinson was Chair of MIND and when Robinson was Health Secretary. Furthermore Desmond Ackner knew about Dafydd's gang and their crimes, as well as about Lord Louis Mountbatten, Sir Anthony Blunt, Kincora Boys' Home and much else. The Scientologists don't do themselves many favours, but their accusations re Dafydd et al had a substantial basis in fact. The trial was rigged and Ackner was appointed to preside over that trial to blow anyone who dared take on Dafydd et al out of the water. It worked, just look what happened in the years which followed that trial in the early 1970s. Ronnie Waterhouse was involved in the trial, he was Counsel for Geoffrey Johnson-Smith, a Tory MP who also maintained that the allegations that Dafydd et al were abusing kids and vulnerable people were libellous. Who was the senior Counsel acting for Robinson? One Elwyn Jones, having been recommended by Ronnie Waterhouse. The Scientologists were represented by a junior barrister, Ronald Schulman, who later 'disappeared in mysterious circumstances' and was subsequently smeared by Waterhouse and his mates. See post 'The White Heat Of The Revolution' for further details.
David Ennals was a leading light in MIND for many years during the 1970s and 80s.
See post 'Include Me Out' for further details of Desmond Ackner and his glorious career. Ackner died in 2006, so he was around to give Dafydd, MIND, Ronnie Waterhouse et al a helping hand well after Ronnie finished the the massive cover-up in 2000. Desmond Ackner was a member of Middle Temple, like Ronnie.
There's a statue of Dafydd's mate at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff:
|Sir Tasker Watkins
Bring on the Welsh Spring:
Elwyn Jones's brother Idris was educated at what is now Aberystwyth University and then Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. After finishing his PhD at Cambridge, Idris worked for ICI at Billingham, where he was Group Manager in the Oil Division. In 1933 he returned to Wales as Research Manager for Powell Duffryn Ltd. In 1946 Idris was appointed Director General of Research Development for the NCB. During summer 1955 he went to the USSR as a member of the NCB's specialised delegation. Idris visited the three biggest Russian coalfields, in Siberia, near Moscow, and the Donbas.
Idris Jones was Vice-President of University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, 1963-71. While at college Idris was captain of the rugby team at Aberystwyth and a member of Cambridge University Rugby XV. He played flanker for London-Welsh and Llanelli Rugby Clubs and also for the Barbarians. He played for Wales against England, France, Ireland and Scotland and was captain on one occasion. Idris was a prominent active member of Welsh societies in London.
Idris Jones died in 1971, a Bachelor who had not been blessed with children.
Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 Research Fellow, University of Sheffield (1986-1987)
Royal Society University Research Fellow, University of Sheffield (1987-1995)
Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Reader, University of Sheffield (1995-2003)
Professor of Plant and Microbial Sciences (2003 – present).
One can go a long way by keeping one's trap shut if one's PhD supervisor is an absolute pig…
It is Remembrance Week. That is what you all did. You should never be allowed to forget it.


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MANCHESTER: Japan produced the first upset of the Olympic Games when they beat potential gold medallists Spain 1-0 while favourites Brazil survived a scare before beating Egypt 3-2 on the opening day of the men's football competition on Thursday.
Hosts Britain, making their first appearance at the Games for 52 years, were denied a win in front of a 72,000 crowd at Old Trafford when Senegal scored a late equaliser in a 1-1 draw.
Uruguay, back in the Games after an 84-year absence, came from behind to beat a lively United Arab Emirates side 2-1 in the earlier game at Old Trafford.
On a day when all 16 teams were in action, there was also a win for Belarus, playing in their first major international tournament, beating New Zealand 1-0 at Coventry.
The real upset though was at Hampden Park where Japan stunned Spain, looking to become the first country to hold the World Cup, European crown and Olympic title at the same time.
The Spaniards finished the Group D match with 10 men after midfielder Inigo Martinez was sent off just before halftime having found no answer to Yuki Otsu's 34th minute goal.
Asked if this was Japan's best ever win coach Takashi Sekizuka said: "We looked forward to the match very much and showing how much we have to offer was the main point.
"Now we have to prepare for winning the games against Morocco and Honduras but I am very pleased with the result today."
Despite Spain's hopes of winning the title, Brazil are favourites to take their first Olympic football gold.
They began with an ultimately nervy 3-2 win over Egypt in Cardiff after goals from Rafael, Leandro Damiao and Neymar had put them 3-0 ahead after only 30 minutes.
Egypt rallied in the second half with goals by Mohamed Aboutrika and Mohamed Salah with 14 minutes to play.
Neymar, who scored from a header, told reporters: "We need to improve, but it is always better to improve for the next match after a win."
Britain, playing in the finals for the first time since Rome 1960 were held to a 1-1 draw by debutants Senegal at Old Trafford after leading for more than an hour.
Craig Bellamy put them ahead in the 20th minute but Moussa Konate equalised for Senegal eight minutes from time.
Uruguay, back at the Games for the first time since winning the second of their two golds in 1928, preserved their record of never losing in the Olympics, coming from behind to beat the United Arab Emirates 2-1 in the opening match at Old Trafford.
Substitute Nicolas Lodeiro scored Uruguay's winner while captain Luis Suarez was booed every time he touched the ball by a Manchester crowd unforgiving of the Liverpool player's racial spat with United's Patrice Evra last season that earned him a lengthy ban.
Suarez said: "This is just one more match. I'm used to playing in stadiums where I'm booed. It doesn't worry me in the least. They boo me at almost every stadium in England, it's normal. I'd rather highlight the support from the Uruguayan fans."
In Thursday's other matches, Morocco and Honduras drew 2-2 at Hampden while Mexico and South Korea finished 0-0 at St James' Park, the venue for Switzerland's 1-1 draw with Gabon.
The Swiss finished with 10 men after defender Oliver Buff was red carded for diving having earlier been booked.
Morocco also finished with 10 men after defender Zakarya Bergdich was sent off 19 minutes from time against Honduras.
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Diabetes costs our country billions of dollars. Clubs can help lower these costs by helping diabetics.
The final Marketing Tutorial of 2001, like the other Marketing Tutorials this year, outlines how a serious chronic medical condition can provide a marketing opportunity for club operators. Identifying a niche market and offering that market a specific program with a low barrier to entry can be a powerful way to drive new members through a club's doors. With that in mind, this month's tutorial will explore diabetes programming.
Diabetes: A Growing Public Health Problem
Although it doesn't receive as much publicity as cancer or heart disease, diabetes affects roughly 16 million Americans. In fact, according to 1996 Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) statistics, diabetes was the seventh leading cause of death listed on U.S. death certificates, with almost 200,000 deaths reported annually. It is believed, however, that such statistics are underreported.
Diabetes carries a heavy cost — and not just in terms of loss of life. The CDC has calculated that the health care cost for someone with diabetes is almost five times higher than someone without it.
These numbers will only get worse. Diabetes is on the rise. It increased six-fold from 1958 to 1997. And the CDC reports that the number of Americans diagnosed with diabetes will soar 165 percent over the next 50 years.
Despite the fact that diabetes is an increasingly serious public health concern, few people are aware of the damage the disease causes. Diabetes is the leading cause of blindness, kidney failure, leg and foot amputation, pregnancy complications, and deaths related to flu and pneumonia. People with diabetes are two to four times more likely to develop cardiovascular disease. Plus the risk of stroke is two to four times higher for diabetics — 60 to 65 percent of whom have higher blood pressure.
Diabetes and its complications have the greatest impact on the elderly. More than 18 percent of adults over the age of 65 have diabetes, and death rates among middle-aged people with diabetes are twice as high as those without.
In addition to not knowing the effects of diabetes, most people don't understand the disease itself. People with diabetes have either a shortage of insulin or a decreased ability to use insulin, a hormone secreted by the pancreas. Without insulin to move glucose into cells to convert into energy, blood sugar levels become excessively high. Over time this damages vital organs.
The two main classifications of diabetes are type 1 (insulin dependent) and type 2 (non-insulin dependent), with type 2 being the most common, affecting 90 to 95 percent of those with the disease. The two risk factors most commonly linked to type 2 diabetes are obesity and physical inactivity, both of which are modifiable.
Herein lies the tremendous marketing opportunity for our industry. Clubs can target people with type 2 diabetes, showing them how to control and delay the progression of diabetes by increasing their physical activity and decreasing their weight.
Programs for Diabetics
A diabetes-focused program should be used for external purposes only, to drive potential new members through the club's doors. Certainly there may be existing club members who have diabetes, but they are already in a regular exercise program.
The best type of program to run for diabetics is a 30-day membership. Clubs can offer this membership as either a free trial program or as a paid program. I recommend the latter because this program increases the quality of the participants. People willing to pay are more serious about participation.
When establishing the price for the program, charge at least 10 percent more than the average monthly dues of your regular membership. Therefore, if a regular membership at your club is $49 per month, you should charge at least $55 for the one-month program. This ensures that participants value the program. Also, if participants are accustomed to a higher fee, they won't resist on price when later asked to convert their trial membership to a regular membership. To reduce the barrier to entry, a conditional money-back guarantee can be combined with the fee. (I'll address this guarantee later.)
Diabetic programming doesn't require any special classes. Diabetics will get results if your trainers simply create programs for them using your strength and cardiovascular equipment. Your trainers probably already do this for new members.
Naturally, your staff must make sure the participants are comfortable and safe. Your professionals should provide each participant with a basic fitness assessment, a complete equipment orientation and at least two follow-up appointments to review the pieces of equipment prescribed in their fitness program. Trainers should also give participants a short handout with general healthy eating guidelines and portion control suggestions. After all, diet is a major contributor to blood sugar levels. (If you need help gathering this information, go to www.cdc.gov and do a search for "nutritional guidelines.")
In addition, you should monitor participants by keeping their program cards in a separate file located at the front desk or the fitness desk — just as long as an employee is at that desk at all times. This strategy helps to maintain customer contact and allows staff members to identify individuals who aren't regularly using the club. Trainers should follow up with these people and encourage them to get back on track.
After the initial induction, the sales department should follow up with phone calls at the end of each week for the course of the program. (A 30-day program typically takes four weeks, so the salespeople should contact participants four times.) The salespeople should make the phone calls to establish rapport, and to gauge the participant's level of interest in joining the club once the one-month membership concludes.
Measuring Success
The goal of any short-term program is to provide a low-barrier call to action that attracts individuals who wouldn't otherwise have joined the club, then upgrading as many of those people as possible to long-term memberships. To increase your chances of converting short-term members into long-term, you must show people the benefits of continued participation.
Certainly some participants will feel better after a month of exercise. However, to improve the conversion rate significantly, you'll need a measurement tool that specifically relates to diabetes.
You can demonstrate results by giving participants a glucose test at the beginning and end of the month. Portable diagnostic machines can output results in just five minutes using a small drop of blood.
Your club can outsource the tests through a local health screening company or health care clinic, which will send employees to conduct tests using a portable diagnostic machine. Or if you prefer to run ongoing wellness programs, you can purchase diagnostic machines for around $2,000. You can use the machines to test cholesterol (total, HDL and Lipid) and glucose, for $3 to $11 per test.
With the machine, you can show a measurable difference by comparing glucose levels at the end of the program against levels at the beginning. Make people understand that the greater the exercise participation and the better the eating choices, the better chance of a change in glucose levels.
Lowering the Barrier
As we have discussed throughout these tutorials, you can increase the success of any marketing effort by lowering the barrier of entry for the consumer. This means making the program as simple as possible for people to participate.
Since you'll charge for the diabetes program, you can lower the barrier — while keeping the quality of prospect high — by giving the customer a money-back guarantee. Guarantees give the customers confidence in the program and remove fears that the club will take advantage of them.
Although many club operators cringe at the thought of a guarantee, a money-back offer can provide a win-win situation for both consumers and operators — if clubs make the guarantee conditional upon a minimum level of participation. For example, the guarantee could be: "If after participating a minimum of two times per week for four weeks you don't see your glucose level drop, you have the right to your money back." A guarantee like this will help to increase participation. And if customers don't participate, they can't request a refund.
Scheduling the Diabetes Program
You should hold a short-term or trial program — such as the diabetes program — during a time that doesn't conflict with peak seasons or peak traffic times. Therefore, January, February and September should be avoided. In addition, depending upon your club's capacity level, you might want to run the program during off-peak traffic times. That way regular members won't complain about "nonmember" congestion in the exercise areas.
Where Do You Promote?
Since you won't offer the diabetes program to existing members, you should market through external programs and community outreach.
When marketing paid, low-barrier programs externally, newspaper ads or inserts work well, as they get a majority of the exposure. There is much dissent about which works better — display ads or inserts. Personally, I prefer inserts. Inserts seem to get more mileage because they drop out of the paper and are more likely to be saved, plus they give you more space to say what you want.
Inserts and/or posters in local doctors' offices also yield good results, usually bringing in a number of referrals. To get these marketing pieces placed in doctors' offices, call an office and simply tell the secretary about the program. Your goal is to get permission to stop by with some materials to distribute and/or hang in the office.
When conducting community outreach, put together a press release publicizing the diabetes program. You can take the factual information about diabetes provided at the beginning of this tutorial and use it as the body copy for your press release.
Before deciding on which marketing medium to use, remember what has worked best for you in your marketplace. Regardless of what medium you use, however, you still must follow the basic rules of creating a successful marketing piece: Write a compelling headline, state the benefits of the program, make the offer, have a call to action and make the offer better than risk-free. For a sample marketing piece, please refer to the insert on page 42.
A 16-year veteran of the club industry, Casey Conrad is president of Communication Consultants, a Wakefield, R.I.-based company that provides sales and communication seminars. She also heads a national franchise chain called Healthy Inspirations, Weight Loss & Lifestyle Centers. For more information about marketing diabetes programs, contact Conrad at (800) 725-6147.


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Progress in technological advancements, easy and instant access to information and entertainment, and a host of other new and better items to make everyone's life more convenient on-demand: It's all good, right? Who really longs for the good old days anymore—the days when kids played stickball and kick-the-can and jump rope in the streets?
Over the years since most of adult Americans were born, something changed rather dramatically. The streets became an unfriendly place for children, so much so that parents increasingly opted to drive their kids to and from every possible destination.
This may be having a profound effect in how today's kids not only view their surrounding environment but also how they learn how to function in society.
Sound far-fetched? According to a recent article in The Atlantic Cities, kids who get driven everywhere have difficulty connecting with their neighbors and community. The article goes on to say that these children don't even know where they're going, citing work by Bruce Appleyard, the son of urbanist researcher Donald Appleyard, who's been looking into how children's constant exposure to traffic affects their perception and understanding of their "home territory."
Appleyard studied and worked with children in two suburban communities, one with light traffic and infrastructure conducive to the kids walking and biking to school on their own, and the other with heavy traffic where the kids traveled almost exclusively by car. Using a technique called cognitive mapping, Appleyard encouraged the children to draw maps of their neighborhoods, showing places like school and the houses of their friends, as well as marking places they liked or disliked.
Not surprisingly, the results of the study showed dramatic differences between the children's perspectives. In heavy traffic neighborhoods, the kids expressed feelings of dislike and danger, drawing little detail of their surroundings. In contrast, kids in light traffic neighborhoods drew rich detail, more places they liked, and fewer cars or signs of danger.
What's the take-away from this? Is there anything that can be done to change our high-traffic neighborhoods and encourage children to once again walk or bike to school? Appleyard points out that there are groups and programs committed to helping communities improve infrastructure and make streets and sidewalks safer for kids.
One such group is Safe Routes to School, which began research on children safely walking and bicycling to school in the early 1970s. The first modern safe routes to school program began in 1997 in the Bronx, New York.
In 2005, Congress passed federal legislation establishing a National Safe Routes to Schools program. The Federal Highway Administration administers the funds to states to use in infrastructure projects and non-infrastructure activities.
What programs such as Safe Routes to School can do is to help communities build sidewalks, pedestrian paths and pedestrian-friendly infrastructure, reduce speeds in school zones and neighborhoods, address distracted driving among drivers of all ages, and educate generations on pedestrian and bicycle safety.
With a goal of creating safer and more pedestrian-friendly streets and neighborhoods for our kids, parents and communities can help children begin to view their home turf, at least, as a much more kid-friendly environment. If the research is on point, this small but very important change may give them a boost in learning how to be more functional members of society.
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