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My post 'My How Things Haven't Changed' named a number of those close to Jeremy Thorpe as well as a few others who weren't necessarily very fond of him but who concealed his wrongdoing, even that which was involved with allegedly trying to have his former gay lover Norman Scott assassinated. I mentioned that I suspected that some of those who covered for Jeremy were the same people who probably covered for Dafydd and Gwynne when they were younger. I've been doing a bit more research – it looks as though my suspicions were correct. Those around Jeremy had some very close links to members of the shithouse already named on this blog. So here's a few details.
The Top Doctor at St George's Hospital who treated Norman, Dr Brian O'Connell, will have been a key player – I covered him and his network in my post 'The Case Of The King's Sperm'. But many more people and networks supported and protected Jeremy.
Not a word appeared in the media about Thorpe's activities until Andrew Newton, the man who maintained at Thorpe's trial that he had been hired to kill Norman, shot Norman's Great Dane Rinka dead on Exmoor and then tried to murder Norman. Yet Jeremy's activities with Norman as well as others were widely known and discussed.
As described in 'My How Things Haven't Changed', some builders carrying out work on the former office of Jeremy's friend Peter Bessell discovered a briefcase concealed in a false ceiling. The briefcase was full of incriminating material relating to Jeremy, including documents concerning Norman. The builders took it to the Sunday Mirror. Not only did the Sunday Mirror not publish a word but the Editor Bob Edwards personally returned the documents to Jeremy at Westminster.
Bob Edwards edited the Sunday Mirror between 1972-84. He knew how to keep powerful people onside.
Edwards joined the Labour Party when he was young and knew Ian Mikardo when Mikardo was the Labour MP for Reading. Mikardo alerted Edwards to a vacancy on Tribune and sent him along to meet the Editor, Michael Foot. Edwards edited Tribune between 1951-54. He then became the leader writer for the Evening Standard 1954-57. In 1955 Edwards stood as the Labour candidate for Merton and Morden. He became the Deputy Editor of the Sunday Express 1957-59, the Managing Editor of the Sunday Express 1959-61 and the Editor of the Daily Express in 1961.
Edwards's move from working on the left-supporting Tribune to the Express prompted accusations that he was no more than a paid hack without principles. Edwards was sacked from the Express and (mistakenly) believing that his son was worried about him reassured his son by telling him that a 'mysterious freemasonry' existed known as the Editors Club and that famille Edwards wouldn't even lose their yacht because he would soon get another job.
Edwards purchased Christine Keeler's memoirs for 2k in 1963 – but not material relating to Jeremy some ten years later…
Between 1966-72, Edwards edited the People. By this time he was seriously wealthy and was living in a castle in Oxfordshire.
In the case of the People, Edwards 'inherited a fiercely campaigning newspaper…[which] largely cleaned up the protection rackets and brothels of Soho'. It is claimed that under Edwards the People 'continued in much the same spirit, exposing bent detectives on the take from pornographers and 'vice-kings'.
Edwards was considered a fearless man who had crossed so many nasty characters that he worked behind bullet proof glass after alleged threats to his life.
Although Edwards wouldn't touch Jeremy Thorpe, in 1980 he had a go at the Royal Family. He discovered that the Royal Train with Charles on board had been shunted into a siding in Wiltshire where it stayed for several hours – whilst a young woman called Diana Spencer boarded it to spend time with Prince Charles… Edwards published the story and later maintained that it cost him a knighthood.
Edwards was Director of Mirror Group Newspapers 1976-88. Maxwell acquired the Mirror Group in July 1984 and under him Edwards became Deputy Chair.
Joe Haines, Harold Wilson's Press Secretary who maintained that it wasn't known whether Wilson had blackmailed Thorpe over Norman, also worked for Maxwell. Haines was a Mirror journalist who was initially completely hostile to Maxwell when Maxwell acquired the Mirror Group, but soon came under his influence and ended up writing the authorised biography of Maxwell.
Edwards wasn't the only person involved with the Sunday Mirror who wielded influence at the time that the documents discovered by the builders were returned to Jeremy. The Chairman of IPC, the company which owned the Mirror at that time, was Sydney Jacobson. He was made a life peer a couple of years or so after Jeremy's documents were returned to him. In 1974 – when the Mirror supported Labour in the General Election and at about the time that the documents were given to the Sunday Mirror – Jacobson was the Deputy Chair of IPC, working under his friend and colleague Hugh Cudlipp.
Cudlipp was Welsh, from Cardiff and was Chair of Mirror Group Newspapers between 1963-67. Cudlipp was given a peerage in 1974.
Cudlipp was a very big figure and in 2005 dear old Michael Grade – who excels at grovelling to powerful people – stated in a lecture that Cudlipp was 'one of the giants of British journalism and one of it's greatest editors'.
After Thorpe resigned following the media reporting the whole dreadful mess including Andrew Newton killing Norman Scott's dog, then trying to shoot Norman and subsequently being charged with possession of a firearm with intent to danger life, Sir Harold Evans, the Editor of the Sunday Times, showed a considerable degree of sympathy towards Jeremy, met him and subsequently published supportive articles.
Evans edited the Sunday Times between 1967-81. In 1984 he moved to the US. Since 2005 he has contributed to the Guardian and Radio 4 and in 2011 he was appointed Editor at large of Rueters.
Like Edwards, Harold Evans was considered a fearless journalist who was not afraid to expose the truth. He was responsible for the crusading style of investigative journalism for which the Sunday Times was known at one point and it was under his editorship that Marjorie Wallace – see previous blog posts for the dirt on Marjorie and the horrors of psychiatry and child abuse that she kept her mouth firmly shut about – revealed the Thalidomide scandal. It was also Harold Evans who exposed Kim Philby.
In 1981 when Murdoch acquired Times Newspapers Ltd, Evans was appointed as Editor of the Times. He only stayed for one year. Fifty journalists resigned within the first six months of Murdoch's take-over – some of those journos disliked Evans. In March 1982 a group of journos called upon Evans to resign as a result of the 'erosion of editorial standards'.
In 1981 Evans married yet another journalist who was constructed as scary and fearless – Tina Brown. I've always just considered Tina Brown to be someone who writes vacuous rubbish about Diana and other celebs, but I've discovered that when she was younger Brown did write intelligent material and she knew some capable people who also wrote intelligent material critiquing powerful vested interests.
So no-one among this network of journos who would take on anyone and any topic, who rooted out injustice and who struck fear into the heart of everyone ever challenged Jeremy…
'My How Things Haven't Changed' described how two BBC reporters who began researching for a book about the Jeremy and Norman story after everything became public and Jeremy had stood down as leader, were 'supported' in this by Sir Charles Curran, the Director-General of the BBC between 1969-77. However the reporters then found that they were issued with new contracts from the BBC that ensured that they would lose control over their own material. They resigned from the BBC as a result.
Charles Curran was someone whom it seems could be pressurised. After complaints from Mary Whitehouse that Dr Who contained far too much sex n violence or something similar, Curran replaced the series producer in 1976. The BBC online site 'History of the BBC' aka Pravda, profiles Charles Curran and boasts about his Huge Contribution to the Golden Years of TV. I remember that Golden Age well – utter rubbish, 'light entertainment' involving sitcoms dependent upon crude stereotyping. I think that Curran must have been responsible for 'It Ain't Half Racist Mum' actually, but that's not mentioned on 'The History of the BBC', probably because it's indefensible. What is boasted about however is Curran's tenure overseeing 'Parkinson'. So Curran was the person who thought that Parkinson's crude sexual harassment of the young Helen Mirren was OK – Helen obviously thought that Parkinson was a sad old git but was far too polite to knee him in the groin, although that episode still became infamous.
'The History of the BBC' also intriguingly tells us that Curran was 'somewhat in the shadow of Huw Wheldon'. So Huw Wheldon who – as detailed in the comments after 'Wheels Within Wheels Or Flies Drawn To The Same Incestuously Corrupt Shithouse?' – had a hotline to the paedophiles' friends in north Wales, was obviously Mr Big at the BBC.
Jeremy Thorpe was a member of two London clubs, the Reform Club and the National Liberal Club. Thorpe spent a lot of time in these places and was obviously not unwelcome.
Charles and Camilla are honorary members of the Reform Club and in 2011 guest speakers there included Nick Clegg and Theresa May. Members include: Ruth Lea, Martin Sorrell, Stella Rimmington, Charlie Falconer, Menzies Campbell, former Tory MP Michael Brown, Betty Boothroyd, Roy Hattersley and Michael Howard.
The National Liberal Club's current President is Alan Beith, a man who was much mentioned in Michael Bloch's biography of Thorpe. In the 1970s Cyril Smith actually lived at the National Liberal Club. David Belloti, the MP who tried to help Mary Wynch and who within two years of doing so was finished in national politics, was a member of the Club. In 2006, Chris Huhne – the Liberal MP who was later jailed, along with his former wife Vicky Pryce and her mate the barrister Constance Briscoe – launched his leadership campaign from the club, as did Nick Clegg in 2007. The Club played a crucial part in Thorpe's own election campaign in 1974, by which time the scandal involving him and Norman was common knowledge among the Liberal Party as well as their political opponents, as were the fears that Norman and his friends had for his life.
Presumably Thorpe held a key position in the National Liberal Club, because it was Thorpe who in 1976 handed the Club over to be managed by George Marks, a Canadian 'businessman' who was in reality a confidence trickster – he also used the name George de Chabris. Thorpe maintained that he knew nothing about Chabris being dodgy. Chabris and his family lived rent free at the Club, he ran fraudulent businesses from there, he embezzled and fleeced thousands from the Club and flogged the Club's library to Bristol University at a knock-down price. Chabris was given the boot in 1977 and the Club was rescued by a generous donor.
From a young age Thorpe was good friends with Jeremy Fry, a member of the famous chocolate-making family – it was Fry's conviction for 'importuning for immoral purposes' that prompted an investigation by the police into Thorpe's suitability for a role at the wedding of Princess Margaret. Fry had been considered for the role of best man but that idea went out of the window after his conviction. Fry's excesses were well-known but there seems to have been a great deal of hypocrisy over the business of banning him from the Royal Wedding. He was on such good terms with Princess Margaret and Anthony Armstrong-Jones that there were allegations of a menage a trois. Fry continued his friendship with the Royal couple after his own marriage and Princess Margaret and Armstrong-Jones stayed at the Fry's house near Bath.
In recent years the biological father of Polly Fry, Jeremy's daughter, has been revealed to be Armstrong-Jones aka Lord Snowdon. Like the Jeremys Fry and Thorpe, it is now admitted that Lord Snowdon put himself about a bit. He was bisexual and fathered Polly shortly before he married Princess Margaret. Marjorie Wallace was one of Snowdon's mistresses (see post 'One Dangerous Fucker'). Now that both Princess Margaret and Snowdon are dead, more and more is being revealed about the boozing, the drugs and the shagging and I suspect that there is yet more to come. I cannot help noticing how often people very close to Lord Snowdon have popped up among people who had connections to or concealed the North Wales Child Abuse Scandal/Paedophile Ring and the associated wrongdoing in the mental health services. It took me a while to realise the significance of this because I never thought that Snowdon had much to do with north Wales. In recent years he didn't. But when he was younger he did. Snowdon was born in Belgravia but the family also had a country house in north Wales. Snowdon's father was a barrister, his paternal grandfather was a psychiatrist and physician and his paternal grandmother was the daughter of Sir Owen Roberts, the famous Welsh educationalist. Snowdon used to visit north Wales with Princess Margaret and interestingly enough although he died in London, he is buried at Llanfaglan near Caernarfon in the family plot of the 'celebrities graveyard'.
During my battles with Dafydd and the paedophiles' friends, again and again people sympathetic to – but feaful for – me mentioned 'very powerful people' having connections with Dafydd. Other people seemed to be grossly affronted by me having the temerity to ask questions. The dreadful Dr Cathy Wilson at St George's once yelled intriguingly at me that I needed to understand about 'important people'. I now know that St George's knew all about Dafydd et al and were also involved in concealing their wrongdoing. My post 'I Want Serious Money Now Please' explained how the Duke of Westminster knew about Sir Peter Morrison abusing under-aged boys. Morrison preyed on boys in care in north Wales. 'Running The Country – And All That Jazz' detailed the links between the Duke of Westminster and St George's Hospital.
Snowdon was bisexual, promiscuous, had strong connections to north Wales and indeed Top Doctors and lawyers in north Wales, visited the region and was directly connected to the Royal Family. As the years pass, it becomes increasingly obvious that much about the activities of Princess Margaret and Snowdon were actively concealed. Are you thinking what I'm thinking as Michael Howard used to ask.
As for 'important people' – I am not a vacuous social climber and the difference between Cathy Wilson and me is that although I really don't mind with whom Lord Snowdon and others like him had sex and took drugs if everyone involved was consenting adults, Dafydd et al were facilitating and concealing the abuse of kids in care. Many of whom were found dead, as were other witnesses. As very nearly was Norman Scott. It's not very nice is it Wilson, even if you do think that the people involved are worth toadying to. Is it really worth colluding with such matters just to get oneself invited to yet another dinner party? Were you perhaps hoping to hit the jackpot and receive an invite to the Athenaeum to join Marjorie, Snowdon and Savile?
Jeremy Fry is also noted for having been James Dyson's mentor and is credited with being responsible for Dyson starting out on his own.
Even after the rest of the Liberal Party finally decided that Jeremy Thorpe had become far too embarrassing to be seen with in public, Thorpe remained good friends with Clement Freud. Eric Lubbock (Lord Avebury) and David Steel remained supportive of Thorpe long after everyone else had given up on him, although even Steel wanted him to go after Andrew Newton tried to kill Norman.
Clement Freud has in recent years been revealed to have been a sexual predator who raped at least one person and molested many other girls and young women.
Eric Lubbock was the Liberal MP for Orpington between 1962-70. In 1971 he inherited the title of Lord Avebury and remained in the Lords until his death in 2016 – after Blair abolished the right of many hereditary peers to sit in the Lords, the Lib Dems elected Lubbock as being one of the Lords to remain.
Lubbock was Chief Whip for the Liberals between 1963-70.
It was Lubbock who stood bail for Thorpe when he was charged in 1978 with conspiracy to kill and incitement to murder Norman. Norman's allegation that Andrew Newton had tried to shoot him after shooting Rinka was made in Oct 1975 – Newton was subsequently charged. Lubbock sat on the Royal Commission for Standards of Conduct in Public Life 1974-76. In 1976 Lubbock founded the Parliamentary Human Rights Group, which he chaired for the next 21 years – he then became the Vice-Chair.
Lubbock was a patron of the British Humanist Association, an honorary associate of the National Secular Society, a patron of Prisoners Abroad and a member of the All Party Parliamentary Humanist Group.
In Sept 2010 Lubbock signed an open letter for the British Humanist Association to the Guardian, opposing the state visit to the UK by Benedict XVI.
Lubbock became a Buddhist in the 1970s and in a June 2012 interview published on the website Liberal Democrat Voice, he states that he is a patron of a Buddhist chaplaincy and is contemplating ordination in a Buddhist monastery.
Whilst he was in the Commons, Lubbock had been the Secretary and Chair of the Parliamentary Group on Civil Liberties, which was serviced by the NCCL – the Secretary of the NCCL at the time was Martin Ennals (he acted as Secretary until 1966).
Ennals features on my post 'MIND Are Out For Mental Health – Never For Themselves Of Course…'. After leaving NCCL he worked for the Commission for Racial Equality and was Secretary of Amnesty International, 1968-80. During Ennals's time at Amnesty he was awarded the Nobel Peace prize.
Martin Ennals was a founding member of the Anti-Apartheid Movement in 1959. Thorpe was active in that movement.
Martin Ennals's older brother David was the Secretary of State for Social Security when in 1969 Norman Scott rang Ennals's Private Secretary and told him about Thorpe's activities (see post 'My How Things Haven't Changed').
David Ennals was heavily involved with MIND for years and his son Paul is the former Chief Exec of the National Children's Bureau and Chair of a number of a number of Safeguarding Boards, including in Haringey (see post 'MIND Are Out For Mental Health – Never For Themselves Of Course…' for full details of the Ennals's clan's connections to MIND and other organisations).
David Steel was Liberal MP for Ross & Cromarty between 1965-97 and then an MSP between 1999-2003. He was also Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament. In 1997 Steel was given a life peerage.
Steel became leader of the Liberal Party in 1976 when Thorpe stepped down and remained leader until 1988 when the Party merged with the SDP. Between 1970-76 he was the Liberals Chief Whip. It was Steel who led the Liberals into the Lib-Lab pact in March 1977. It lasted until 1978 but was widely perceived to have been a very poor deal for the Liberals – in the light of the weakness of the Labour Party at that time, there was a degree of confusion over why Steel couldn't land a better deal.
Steel was Thorpe's protégé, became his PPS and was campaign manager when Thorpe ran for the leadership. Like Thorpe, Steel was in the Anti-Apartheid Movement and was it's President between 1966-70.
When the Liberal activist from Wales who was so concerned at what had happened to Norman Scott at the hands of Jeremy Thorpe contacted Emlyn Hooson and asked for a meeting (see post 'My How Things Haven't Changed'), it was actually Steel that she met initially, because Hooson (who also worked as a barrister) had been called away to a murder trial. Steel was also shown documentary evidence of Thorpe's payments to Norman and was given a frank account of what had gone on.
Before Steel was elected he worked for the BBC.
David Steel also knew about Cyril Smith of course…
Jeremy Thorpe was known to have taken a leaf out of the book of his hero David Lloyd George – the father of Gwilym and Megan, two friends of Thorpe – and offered people peerages in return for various favours. Thorpe came up with the goods for Gerran Lloyd, a Liberal Party donor who received a peerage in 1973 and became Lord Lloyd of Kilgerran. After Thorpe was charged with conspiracy to murder and incitement to kill in 1978, Lord Kilgerran set up a Defence Fund to pay Thorpe's legal costs.
Gerran Lloyd was a barrister who stood for the Liberals on Anglesey in the 1959 General Election. He was President of the Welsh Liberal Party, 1971-74 and President of the British Liberal Party, 1973-74.
Megan Lloyd George was older than Jeremy, but they were very close. As a boy Jeremy used to visit Megan in the Commons for tea and Megan encouraged his political ambitions.
Megan was the first female MP for a Welsh constituency – she was the Liberal MP for Anglesey between 1929-51 and became Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party. In 1955 Megan defected to the Labour Party. In 1957 she was elected as the Labour MP for Carmarthen and held the seat until her death in 1966.
Between 1936-56 Megan was the mistress of the Labour politician Philip Noel-Baker, a campaigner for disarmament who won the Nobel Peace prize in 1959 and who's wife was a friend of Virginia Woolf.
My post 'My How Things Haven't Changed' described how in 1971 a Liberal Party secret inquiry into Thorpe's conduct invited Norman Scott to speak, but ended with Lord Frank Byers, a member of the inquiry, shouting and hurling insults at Norman. It was Byers's behaviour that motivated Norman to contact the police yet again about Thorpe and make a 33 page statement.
Byers was the Liberal MP for north Dorset between 1945-50. He was made a life peer in 1964 and became the Liberals Leader in the Lords in 1967.
Byers was a Director of Rio Tinto Zinc, 1962-73.
Although Byers was a Liberal, he knew Harold Wilson from their time at Oxford, when they were both members of the Oxford Liberal Club.
Lord Byers has a famous granddaughter who has followed him into politics – Lisa Nandy, who has been the Labour MP for Wigan since 2010. Lisa's friends were keen for her to challenge Jeremy Corbyn for the Labour Party leadership. She hasn't yet done this – although her supporters such as Owen Jones live in hope that the day will come when she does. Lisa herself supported Andy Burnham for the leadership, he who concealed the thousands of deaths at Mid-Staffs for so long.
Lisa worked as a researcher for Centrepoint, the homeless charity between 2003-05. She was a senior policy advisor to the Children's Society from 2005 and an advisor to the Children's Commissioner for England.
So Lisa will be one of the many people who will have known about the endemic abuse and trafficking of children in care but who has been strangely silent on this topic. Lisa also found one of those people at a senior level to work for once she entered Parliament – Lisa was PPS to Tessa Jowell.
Is Lisa a bit like her granddad perhaps, knowing about truly appalling matters but keeping them under wraps?
Lisa and her followers like to describe her as being on the 'soft left' of the Labour Party. Lisa has been inexplicably vigorously promoted as a wonder and potential leader virtually from the day that she was elected. I cannot help wondering if Lisa's partner Andy Collis might have had something to do with this – he's a PR consultant.
In fact Lisa's supporters were so busy touting her around that some four years ago even I was invited to hear her speak. I was a member of the Compass group at the time and I used to receive notification of various events, but as they were always in London and I was in north Wales I didn't take much notice. But on one occasion, an e mail virtually begged me to go to an event at a well-known location in London with a radical history, where a certain Lisa Nandy was going to be speaking. The event was promoted as being the one to attend even if you were unable to attend others and I had been bombarded with e mails telling me that Compass were keen to enlist the help and support of folk outside London. So for once I made the effort and went to London for the event. Because of the timing of Lisa's lecture I was assured that I didn't need to arrange to stay in London overnight, I could get there in time for the lecture, meet people and then get an evening train back to north Wales. So off I went.
What a surprise I had. Although maybe I shouldn't have actually been that surprised, what with Lisa being a descendant of Frank, but I didn't know that then.
Until about three years ago I suffered from very serious migraines – not just bad headaches, these were real bastards, when I got one I couldn't see properly or balance. They were related to a neck injury that I suffered when I was young and of course because I'd dared complain about the paedophiles' friends I was effectively refused all treatment for them (I have detailed all this elsewhere on the blog). For years I went without effective medication and the only thing that I could do if I developed a migraine was to lie flat in the dark – to take any physical strain off my neck and to minimise the amount of light that I was exposed to. When this happened I used to explain to people around me what was going on. When I was around sane normal people I was always met with a great deal of understanding – unfortunately however I wasn't always around sane normal people.
About half an hour after arriving at the venue to hear Lisa speak, I developed a migraine. A real killer. Compass had BEGGED me to go to Lisa's lecture. Not only did not one person even bother to speak to me – although there were only about ten people at the event and Lisa herself stuck like glue to the three stooges who seemed to be at her side throughout – but when I started to feel very, very bad and tried to tell the people sitting immediately next to me, I was completely blanked. I could feel myself losing my balance so I thought that I'd better get out of the audience quick before I fell on the floor. I was about three rows away from the front. Lisa SAW ME almost keeling over. She SAW ME trying to ask for help. Lisa did not bat an eye-lid. On and on she droned, ploughing through her speech – which even I could hear wasn't very good and she was having to read it pretty much word for word. In the end I managed to make my way to the back of the hall and escaped through a door, which led to a cloakroom place outside of the entrance to the bogs. I did the only thing that I could and I lay down flat with my eyes shielded. Some 45 mins later a load of people came through on their way to the bogs – Lisa's lecture had ended and they were having a break before the Q and A session. They walked over me. Every one of those nice middle class London radicals who had come to hear Lisa – some of whom obviously knew her – walked over me. No-one even asked me what I was doing and if I was OK. One woman gave me a frosty look so I explained that I was experiencing a very bad migraine. She then walked out of the door.
I remained on the floor shielded from the light throughout Lisa's Q and A session. When the event ended everyone buggered off. As did Lisa. They all knew that I was crashed out in the back room with a migraine. I stayed there for the next couple of hours until I was just about able to walk without keeling over. By this time I realised that I'd not be able to catch the train from Euston back to Bangor. Because I was in London rather than on the doorstep of the Top Doctors in north Wales, I decided that I'd try and make my way to a London hospital for help – I ended up at UCL. Christ that was not a good idea, but that is another story. I failed to elicit any help at UCL and was 'discharged' ie. chucked out, into the middle of London at 3am. By this time my migraine was gradually beginning to pass. I spent the next few hours dossing outside Euston station waiting for it to open (I didn't realise that Euston shuts for the small hours). I got the first train back to Bangor – which meant buying another ticket, because the one that I'd purchased was no longer valid.
The whole trip cost me a bloody fortune but it taught me a lot about Lisa Nandy and her supporters.
I continue to receive e mails from Compass asking me for dosh, asking me if I'd like to start up a local Compass group and inviting me to more events in London. I'm never giving them another penny and I'll never risk my neck at another Lisa Nandy related event in my life.
Lisa is on record as saying that she has received 'abuse' from Corbyn's supporters and that she was 'genuinely frightened'. So was I Lisa, I was in the middle of London where I knew no-one, in agony, unable to walk or see properly and worried that I was going to start throwing up. But at least you got to read – literally – your speech. What I find even more 'genuinely frightening' Lisa is that your grandfather ignored the witness testimony and the pleas for help from someone who had already been by that time the target of a murder plot, according to evidence given at the Old Bailey many years later.
Lisa was selected as a Labour party candidate on an all women shortlist. Her wiki entry boasts that she is the fist female MP for the constituency – as there was an all-women shortlist imposed that is not really much of an achievement – and that she was born into a 'Bengali family' no less and that she was 'one of the first six Asian MPs elected'.
As far as I understand, Lisa's mother – Frank Byers's daughter – was not Bengali. It was only Lisa's father who was Bengali. So in terms of ethnicity, Lisa is as much white (presumably British) as she is Bengali. Is Lisa perhaps being somewhat selective in which boxes she chooses to tick?
The one box that Lisa does tick however is 'one quarter composed of the genetic material of Lord Frank Byers'.
How about that for your wife's next election campaign slogan then Andy?
Emlyn Hooson sat on the secret inquiry into Thorpe, alongside Lisa's granddad and David Steel.
Emlyn Hooson was the Liberal MP for Montgomeryshire, between 1962-79. He was then elevated to the Lords where he sat until his death in 2012. Hooson sat as a Liberal and then as a Liberal Democrat.
Hooson was born in 1925, the son of a Denbighshire hill farmer and attended Denbigh Grammar School – like a few others we know and love. After that, Hooson read law at Aberystwyth University….He served in the Royal Navy – just like Gwynne the lobotomist…
Hooson became a barrister in 1949. He was Chairman of the Flint Quarter Sessions from 1960 and the Merioneth Quarter Sessions from 1962. He was a member of the Bar Council from 1965.
Like so many of the paedophiles' friends, Hooson played a role in the trial of the Moors Murderers – he was Ian Brady's QC.
Emlyn was appointed Recorder at Methyr Tydfil and Swansea in 1971 and was Leader of the Chester and Wales Circuit when the corruption on that Circuit was in full swing between 1971-74. He was appointed Recorder of Crown Courts 1972-91. Hooson also became a Deputy High Court judge. He was President of the Cambrian Law Review and an honorary professorial fellow at Aberystwyth University.
Hooson stood as the Liberal candidate for Conwy in the 1950 General Election and again in 1951.
Emlyn Hooson was Chair of the Liberal Party of Wales in 1955 and appointed to the Liberal Party Executive in 1965.
As Chair of the Liberal Party of Wales, he led it's merger with the North and South Wales Liberal Federation, forming the Welsh Liberal Party.
Hooson introduced the Government of Wales Bill 1967 which eventually led to the establishment of the National Assembly for Wales.
In 1979 Hooson became a life peer. The year that his mates ignored the activities of Dafydd, as he unlawfully had Mary Wynch arrested, imprisoned and relieved of her property.
Emlyn Hooson's biography tells us that in the Lords he was active in 'improving the Mental Health Act'. Would he perhaps have made a contribution to the 1983 Act, which was drafted by Robert Bluglass and accompanied by a Code of Practice drafted by William Bingley, whilst both of them covered-up for Dafydd? Not that Emlyn needed to have even bothered – Dafydd just broke the law under the new Act as he had done so under the old one. Emlyn also spoke in the Lords on the necessity for police reform and drugs trafficking. He'll have known an awful lot about both…
In 1980 Lord Hooson became a member of the ITV advisory council and in 1985 he was appointed a non-executive director of Laura Ashley. He became Chair of Laura Ashley in 1995. So Emlyn could have told everyone why that company went seriously pear-shaped after the death of Laura Ashley and whether the allegations about Bernard Ashley were true…
In 1980 Hooson also Chaired the consortium that bid for the Wales and West TV franchise.
Between 1991-2000 Lord Hooson was Chair of Severn River Crossing PLC.
In 1966 Hooson was President of the National Eisteddfod of Wales. In 1967 he was made an honorary White Bard of the Gorsedd. Between 1987-93 he was President of the International Eisteddfod at Llangollen.
Hooson has two daughters, the Hon Sioned and the Hon Lowri. They both attended the London Welsh School, where Emlyn was Chair of the Governors.
So Hooson had a foot firmly planted in the London Welsh contingent. Hooson died in 2012 which is a great pity, because I would have liked to have asked him why for no good reason some years ago the fraternity of twats in high society in London all wanted to join the London Welsh Society – David Frost was hammering at the door so hard that he nearly broke it down and was most irate when he wasn't accepted. Lots of fatuous jokes were being made about how being Welsh had suddenly become the height of cool among the London elite. Nonsense -Frost et al had no interest in anything that did not personally advance them, they had no interest in Wales, if they had they'd have gone to live there. Something else was going on. It was nearly as odd as when David Frost died unexpectedly of a heart-attack on a cruise ship when most unusually he wasn't accompanied by his wife, just as the ship was too far away from the shore to have summoned the help needed. And then Frost's son was found dead after he'd gone out jogging – from heart problems that were 'undiagnosed'. I seem to remember all this happened as Operation Pallial got underway. Which was when Dafydd's partner in crime Tony Francis (Dr X) killed himself – in the light of the documents that I now possess I can understand why Francis might have felt like doing that…
Emlyn's dad Hugh farmed in the Vale of Clwyd. After Emlyn died, Ieuan Wyn Jones, former leader of Plaid and former Deputy First Minister, commented that he had known Emlyn from Clwyd, where Ieuan Wyn Jones had also lived and that Emlyn 'was extremely knowledgeable about the politics, history and culture of the Vale'. He certainly was and he knew Dafydd and Gwynne the lobotomist too – and I bet that he knew about the long standing paedophile activity towards the children in care.
Kirsty Williams waxed lyrical about Emlyn when he died, explaining that he was the founding father of the Welsh Liberal Party. Kirsty, I think that your foundations might be a little bit rotten…
In 1970, after the jailing of some Welsh students for invading the High Court in London, Hooson stated that 'the Welsh were fed up with people who broke the law then whined about the consequences'. Indeed – after Mary Wynch sued Dafydd, everyone was fucking furious to see him given air time on the TV to maintain that 'I found myself in this bizarre situation when I was only trying to help'. Ten years later when Dafydd was asked to explain why I had complained about him unlawfully arresting and detaining me, he came out with exactly the same phrase.
Emlyn was a close friend of Lord Alex Carlile, who succeeded him as Liberal MP for Montgomeryshire. Carlile had known him previously, he'd met Hooson when Carlile was training to be a barrister.
Even Emlyn Hooson's most loyal fans agree that the path in life of this son of a Denbighshire hill farmer had been helped by his marriage to the daughter of Sir George Hamer, the Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire.
Emlyn Hooson was not called as a witness at Thorpe's Old Bailey trial. Peter Bessell, Thorpe's friend and Liberal Party colleague, did give evidence and testified that Hooson knew of Thorpe's payments to Norman Scott. The Court heard a recording of David Holmes, Thorpe's friend and co-defendant, telling Bessell that Hooson had been 'firmly sat on' for trying to force Thorpe out. Someone somewhere will know who sat on Hooson, but they weren't called to give evidence either.
David Freeman, Harold Wilson's Press Solicitor, was someone who offered a helping hand to Thorpe's friend and co-defendant, David Holmes. When The Mirror revealed that it was Holmes who had purchased incriminating material about Jeremy which according to Norman Scott had been sold without his authorisation by Scott's GP Roger Gleadle, Holmes met with the DPP and David Freeman subsequently prepared a statement on Holmes's behalf. The statement was allegedly personally vetted by Harold Wilson.
Freeman was born in Cardiff and was involved in the Robert Maxwell DTI inquiry in 1970.
In 1974 Freeman advised Wilson on libel.
Freeman was a Trustee of Ravenswood (now Norwood) Children's Home. In 2007 he built a children's centre, The Freeman Family Centre, for Barnardos in Brent.
Freeman's wife was an educational psychologist who then became a partner in his law firm in 1967 after she qualified as a solicitor. She wrote the authorised biography of Lord Denning.
Another character whose name appeared repeatedly in Michael Bloch's book about Thorpe who seemed to be highly influential in the Liberal Party during the Jeremy Years was Trevor Jones – who in 1981 became Sir Trevor Jones.
Trevor Jones was for many years the Lib Dem leader of Liverpool City Council. Although he was constructed very much as Welsh and was nicknamed 'Jones the Vote', he grew up in Bootle. However his parents were Welsh – they were from Dyserth in Denbighshire and Jones was born in north Wales.
Trevor Jones was elected to Liverpool City Council in 1968 and to Liverpool Metropolitan District Council in 1973. He led his party to control Liverpool in 1973, was Council leader again between 1981-83 and then again in 1987. He remained a member of the Council until 1991. In 2003 he returned to the council when he was re-elected to Liverpool City Council and remained there until 2010. Jones also stood as the Liberal candidate for Liverpool Toxteth in the Feb 1974 General Election. In the General Election in the October of 1974, Jones was Liberal Candidate for Gillingham. Jones was President of the Liberal Party in 1972 for one year and in the early 70s campaigned for the Liberal Party in the south east of England.
Trevor Jones was heavily involved with David Alton's election victory in 1979. Alton's result was breath-taking, there was an enormous swing in his favour – which was a bit strange, because David Alton is really only a one-track pony. He is anti-abortion and that's about it. Whilst there are many people who are quite genuine in their opposition to abortion – it's rather ironic that in the past couple of weeks there have been howls of outrage about Jacob Rees-Mogg declaring himself to be anti-abortion because there are many more offensive indefensible things about Rees-Mogg than that – the tactics used by some MPs and their associates who have stood on an anti-abortion platform have been very unpleasant. One wonders what Trevor Jones and co did to achieve that impressive result.
Trevor Jones's wife Doreen was a Liverpool City Councillor for 30 years and was Lord Mayor of Liverpool twice – Jones himself was also Lord Mayor of Liverpool.
Although flattering profiles of Trevor Jones stress his 'public service' and 'success', Liverpool local politics during his years were very fraught indeed. Derek Hatton was causing havoc – I was told in the 80s by someone who's family were involved in local politics in Liverpool that Hatton was actually far worse than was ever publicly admitted and was no more than a thug – and Trevor Jones was one of those who opposed Militant. It was as a result of the expulsion of 47 Militant Councillors in March 1987 that Jones became Council leader. However I imagine that Jones has numerous skeletons in his own cupboard – he was leader of the Council at the time of the Toxteth riots and 'worked in partnership with Heseltine'. Many interesting things were going on in Liverpool – this blog has already detailed some of the corruption in the NHS and medical school in Liverpool, but a number of people have told me that 'community politics' were absolutely poisonous and that some genuine people were very badly damaged and withdrew from such activities.
Trevor Jones's style and contribution to politics can perhaps be assessed by the nature of his protégé – in Nov 2008, the Liverpool Echo mentioned a Chris Rennard, described as Jones's 'younger Lieutenant'.
Readers may recognise the name – Rennard, now Lord Rennard, became infamous a few years ago after numerous allegations surfaced that Rennard was attempting to extract sexual favours from women in return for their progress in the Party.
Chris Rennard was a Liberal Party activist in Liverpool in the late 70s – whilst at university he had Chaired the Liverpool University Liberals. Rennard is described as one of the 'early pioneers of community politics in Liverpool'…. Rennard himself maintains that Trevor Jones was a 'major influence' on him.
Whilst Deputy Chair of Liverpool Labour Party, Rennard organised many campaigns in the 80s when the Liberals controlled the City Council. Rennard was David Alton's agent in 1983 when Alton stood for the newly created seat of Liverpool Mossley Hill. In 1984 Rennard was one of the Party's national Area Agents in Leicester. He'll have heard about a Lord Greville Janner of the Labour Party then. Chris Rennard also assisted in the Eastbourne campaign in 1990 – so he'll have known David Bellotti, the Liberal MP who tried to help Mary Wynch and disappeared from national politics afterwards never to resurface.
In 2011 'Total Politics' described Rennard as 'the most formidable and feared political campaigner of the last twenty years.
Rennard stood down as Chief Exec of the Lib Dems in 2009, after a number of truly hair-raising accounts from female Lib Dems regarding their experiences with him. There were allegations of serious sexual harassment and people were alleging that sexual favours were expected in return for advancement in the Lib Dems. There was an enormous hoo ha, with some Lib Dems maintaining that Rennard was the loveliest man that they had ever met (which was what the corrupt occupational health physician at St George's, Nicky Mitchell-Heggs, said about Professor Tom Burns), whilst others claimed that he was a ruthless sexual predator who ruled by fear. Cleggy and the usual suspects all maintained that bullying wasn't tolerated in the Lib Dems, neither sexual harassment etc etc. But then Cleggy dispensed kind words at Cyril Smith's funeral. And probably at Jeremy Thorpe's as well.
The aggro concerning Chris Rennard did not go away – the allegations of sexual harassment returned with a vengeance in 2013 after a number of women complainants were furious that so little action had been taken against him, although at one point there was a Metropolitan Police investigation as well as a Lib Dem investigation.
In 2014 after Rennard was suspended from the party, the Times reported that 'friends' of Rennards claimed that he would reveal two decades of sex scandal in the Party if he were to be expelled – it was overtly stated that 'he knows where the bodies are buried'. I suspect that Rennard also knows about two decades of sex scandal in the Tory Party, in the Labour Party and in Plaid Cymru. Because I do as well.
I too suspect that I know where at least some bodies are buried. I think that some bodies are buried within the grounds of the now derelict North Wales Hospital Denbigh. Anyone want to start the excavations a la the Catholic institutions for the unfortunate?
Chris Rennard is a friend and legal advisor of Alex Carlile.


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We have already seen how God meets the need to be loved, and to love in return, the need for peace, the need to have our guilt removed, and the need for restoration of relationship with others. All of these are so beautifully symbolized in the visual aids God has given us in the five offerings of Leviticus.
And then we came to the need for a priest. We have seen that here too God has made ample provision — first of all in the great high priest he has given to us, our Lord Jesus. He is the underlying resource of every Christian. He is always available to us!
And with Aaron were his sons, who are a picture of the priesthood of the believer, of the ministry each of us can have with one another in meeting the emotional and intellectual problems of life.
As we looked through the eighth chapter at the process of priesthood, we saw the way by which God produces priests. The washing, clothing, and the anointing with oil of Aaron as the high priest. Then the sons of Aaron gathered with him to share this priesthood. They too went through the process of being washed, clothed, and anointed, not only with oil but also with blood, symbolizing the necessity for cleansing from sin in their lives and in ours. Finally at the end of Chapter 8 we found them feasting together in the tabernacle on the thigh of the ordination offering and the bread of the cereal offering, symbols of strength and life imparted to them by the sacrifice made on their behalf, pictures of our life in Christ. And, you recall, Moses then gave strict orders for Aaron and his sons to stay in the tabernacle for seven days and not to leave, lest they die.
Now, the ninth chapter continues this process and introduces us to the final steps in becoming priests. It opens with a very instructive word:
On the eighth day Moses called Aaron and his sons and the elders of Israel; (Leviticus 9:1 RSV)
The eighth day is highly significant! Eight is the number of a new beginning — a resurrection, in other words. So the eighth day is a symbol of resurrection life.
By this means God is teaching us that the process of priesthood, the ministry of being a priest, must be on the basis of resurrection power. We must trust in the resurrected life of a living Lord within us — new life, a new beginning — not in the natural resources of our old life, with its attempt to garner wisdom from here and there and put it all together and thus to muddle through. We have all been subjected to "good advice" by well-meaning people which, when followed, often has led us into some of the most difficult times of our lives. But here God is wiping all that out. He says, "I don't want you to rest on that. I want you to operate from resurrection life, from the Scriptures understood in the power of the Holy Spirit, and to relate sensitively to the needs of individuals so that the advice you give as priests will not be your wisdom, but mine." That is what this all means. And that is why Moses insisted that these priests not leave the tabernacle for seven days. God had said, "If you leave before seven days are up, you will die." By that means he is saying, "Look, don't try to operate as a priest on any basis other than resurrection power. It will never work. You will produce only death if you try to do it in any other way!"
Jesus spoke to his disciples and said things that were hard to accept and many began to leave him, John says in Chapter 6 of his gospel. Even the twelve disciples acted as though they too were going to leave. So Jesus said to them, "Will you also go away?" (John 6:67), with the implication, "Well, if you want to, go. All I need is the power of a living God!" What we need to learn is that when we rely on natural power we thereby forego supernatural power. Natural strength is not enough, and never will be, to do the job.
The reason why we try to depend upon it, though, is revealed in the next section. Beginning with Verse 2 and continuing through Verse 21 we have another section which details for us the offerings that were offered in connection with the ordaining of the priests.
First of all there were offerings for Aaron himself. In Verse 2, Moses said to Aaron,
"Take a bull calf for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering, both without blemish, and offer them before the LORD." (Leviticus 9:2 RSV)
And in Verse 8 we are told,
So Aaron drew near to the altar, and killed the calf of the sin offering, which was for himself. (Leviticus 9:8 RSV)
And, in Verse 12, he also killed the burnt offering which was for himself.
And then there were offerings for the people. Verses 3-4:
And say to the people of Israel, "Take a male goat for a sin offering, and a calf and a lamb, both a year old without blemish, for a burnt offering, and an ox and a ram for peace offerings, to sacrifice before the LORD, and a cereal offering mixed with oil; for today the LORD will appear to you." (Leviticus 9:3-4 RSV)
These offerings were then sacrificed, as recounted in the rest of this section. So once again we run into the strange prominence of offerings and of blood which pervades this whole portion of the book.
God is shouting at us! He wants to get across to us a fundamental truth regarding the power of the priesthood. It is that the resurrection power of a living God at work within his people can never be exercised apart from a previous death.
When these Israelites brought their offerings, these innocent animals whose blood had to be shed, whose lives had to be forfeited, they were expected to learn something from the sacrifices. These were not mere rituals they went through to placate an angry God so that they then could go on and live unchanged. They were not an umbrella of protection against the wrath of an angry deity. These offerings were expected to teach the offerer that something had to die within himself. An offering was a substitute which was accepted only because the person making the offering was identified with it. Something had to happen within him. That is what God is getting across. Of course this symbolizes the end of all the natural resources of life — and this is the key to the use of resurrection power.
God is saying that out of death comes life. Not only for us but for others as well when we minister to them.
Look at the result now, in Verse 22:
Then Aaron lifted up his hands toward the people and blessed them; and he came down from offering the sin offering and the burnt offering and the peace offerings. And Moses and Aaron went into the tent of meeting; and when they came out they blessed the people, and the glory of the LORD appeared to all the people. And fire came forth from before the LORD and consumed the burnt offering and the fat upon the altar; and when all the people saw it, they shouted and fell on their faces. (Leviticus 9:22-24 RSV)
What a dramatic scene! The whole camp of Israel, a million or more people, are somehow gathered at vantage points where they can observe what is happening in the open space before the door of the tabernacle, where the brazen altar is located. They watch Aaron and his sons kill these animals and put them on the altar and sprinkle the blood and pour it out. When everything is completed exactly as the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron go together into the tabernacle. A hush falls on the whole assembly — no one knows what is going to happen.
Then Moses and Aaron come out again and they blessed the people. And suddenly the glory of the LORD appears. What was that? As best we can determine from other Scriptures it was a shining cloud of light, the Shekinah, a radiant glory of light which suddenly appeared and filled the whole area. Later it was to take up residence in the tabernacle, in the holy of holies where it was suspended over the ark of the covenant. But here it appears before all the people. And then a supernatural fire proceeds from it which consumes in a flash all the rest of the offerings upon the altar. A most impressive scene! No wonder the people fall on their faces and shout. This is a shout of victory, an expression of their sense of awe and wonder at the fact that the God of glory is in their midst.
Now, put this all together. All of this is designed, as Paul says in First Corinthians 10, for our instruction. This is God's way of teaching us. What is the lesson? Well, there is a counterpart in our lives.
We are to be priests like these, and the objective of priesthood is to produce the glory of the LORD. That is what is manifest when the priesthood is operating properly. When all is done as God commands, then it works out to produce the glory of the LORD and the fire of God. The counterpart of that glory in our lives today is the beauty of the character of Jesus. The New Testament says that the Spirit of God is at work in our hearts to produce glory unto glory. And Paul, in Second Corinthians 4 says that the glory of God is found "in the face of Jesus Christ" (2 Corinthians 4:6 KJV). So it is God's character, the character of Jesus, appearing in you and in me in our daily encounters with people, which is represented by the glory of the LORD here in Leviticus.
Remember that Jesus said to his disciples in the moment of their agony when they were facing the cross with him and dreading the loneliness that his departure would mean, "Your sorrows will be turned into joy," (John 16:20). And it was predicted of Jesus in the book of Isaiah that he would come and bring "beauty for ashes" (Isaiah 61:3b KJV), the oil of joy for the spirit of mourning, that his coming would turn these things into inner joy.
This is the purpose of his priesthood. And it is the purpose of your priesthood in the lives of others — that you might enter into their circumstances with sensitivity toward the individuals involved, and that the words you speak are able to release them from their outward despair and turn it around into inner joy and glory.
That is what God is saying to us. There is no glory without this process of priesthood, but the purpose of priesthood is that the glory of the LORD might be manifest.
My God, do people see the glory of God in you when you minister to them? Do they feel the joy of the Lord when you pray with them? Does the joy of God resound in their bellies, like rivers of flowing life?


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Group D, which features England, Italy, Uruguay and Costa Rica, had an estimated value of £909m.
Marco Castro from Lloyd's Brazil said: "It is incredible to see how much some of the teams playing in Rio are worth – the top three, Germany, Spain and England - are worth more than £1.7bn collectively. This is more than the bottom 20 teams combined.
"The predicted insurable values also clearly show which groups should be trickier to qualify from than others – and it's far from a level playing field."
World Cup teams' values
Germany £641.2m, Spain £590.1m, England 550.1m, Brazil £448.3m, France £394.8m, Belgium £360.4m, Argentina £355.3m, Netherlands £279.4m, Portugal £279.3m, Italy £196.8m, Cameroon £195.8m, Croatia £185.6m, Russia £165.8m, Ghana £158.5m, Uruguay £144.1m, Nigeria £143.1m, Switzerland £138.5m, Ivory Coast £132m, USA £110.7m, Japan £92.8m, Bosnia-Hercegovina £84.3m, Mexico £72.5m, Chile £72m, Australia £66.6m, South Korea £65.2m, Colombia £59.5m, Greece £53.2m, Algeria £49.4m, Ecuador £48.9m, Honduras £34.2m, Iran £24.4m, Costa Rica £18.3m.


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The Street Maintenance Division oversees the maintenance of the Town's roadway improvements, street sweeping, roadway signs and markings, graffiti abatement from public facilities, Town-owned roadway landscaping and irrigation, traffic signals, and drainage structures. The Division maintains a daily work-force to respond and repair roadway pavement potholes, and administers a contract work-force to make periodic permanent roadway repairs and perform shoulder maintenance. The Division maintains a daily in-house street sweeping service, and roadway signs, markings, and traffic signals are also maintained daily. Graffiti removal, weed-abatement, and public bus-stop shelter maintenance are performed daily as needed, and public landscaping and irrigation receive weekly maintenance service. Town drainage structures are cleaned and maintained on a periodic basis, with annual inspecting and servicing of Town drywells performed in accordance with government requirements.
The Division maintains a working relationship with Caltrans to assure that State Highway 18 and its intersection traffic signal systems are maintained to best serve the interests of the residents of the Town of Apple Valley.
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Today is my last day at my internship job. Next week I start my "real" job at a PR agency here. It is going to be exciting to see how things develop! The first thing that is going to be new, or old-new, is that I no longer have a canteen to go to. Marathon-cooking and tupperware, you have me back!
I got flowers from my co-workers and felt almost a little bad that I do not feel bad about leaving and had not baked a cake due to a non-equipped kitchen. The nicer part of my work here has been trendspotting online. Or maybe that is a term too big for going through our Facebook newsfeed, but you do find a few fun things on the way. For example a page that I thought was hilarious and therefore want to share it with you.
Unfortunately, you miss out on the fun if you do not speak German,and sadly for those who do not have Facebook, you can't see the page, I think, but for the 80 other percent, here you go:
I can identify with pretty much every sentence and yesterday my boss and I were sitting here, grinning at the computer screens:
Things Germans don't say:
"I am completely content." "You cannot open a beer with that. I shall not even try." "I found the train toilet in the state I hoped for" "I am all for a speed limit on all Autobahns!" "Ah, what am I supposed to say about the weather, it's perfect just the way it is!" "I can put as much as I can eat on my plate and then go to the buffet once more". "Barbecuing? Overrated!" "One light and one dark break. No one needs more bread variations than that". "Doesn't matter which car brand, as long as it works!" "This summer is really getting too long". "One can't do it any better than that". "It's okay to lose against the Netherlands". "Sunday Night, 8.15? I don't have plans". "The way my fellow countrymen abroad act is always exemplary!"
Alright, now I have to clean my desk and get going. I will be back as soon as I have wifi…!


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About Key to Love
When architect Elise Springer's father is injured, she immediately leaves San Francisco to care for him. The last person she expects to encounter in her Pennsylvania hometown is her childhood friend Lucas Fisher. Lucas is investigating his brother's death, and Elise can't resist lending a hand.
Lucas longs for the close family ties he never had. He's back in Scranton to set up a classic car restoration business and build a future. The torch he carries for Elise burns brighter than ever, but before he can declare his love, he must obtain the legal rights to adopt his nephew—and prove his brother's death was no accident.
As they unearth clues pointing to find a murderer and a missing stash of money, Elise faces a dilemma. Is her career on the West Coast the key to her happiness, or is it an animal-cracker-eating four-year-old and his handsome uncle instead?
Lucas Fisher stood inside Whitman's Paper and Paint Store, surrounded by the pungent scents of vinyl wallpaper, turpentine, and paint, and wondered how he had allowed himself to be tricked into abandoning his work at the garage. However, nothing had prepared him for Whitman's Paint and Paper. It was like stepping onto another planet.
"What are we looking for again?" He watched her leaf through the pages of a pattern book with a speed that defied logic. "Blue dogs?"
"Ah, French blue, something like this." She paused only long enough to point to a flower so small the average person would need a magnifying glass. She flipped the page before he had a chance to commit it to memory.
Lucas rubbed his bleary eyes with the palms of his hands. Every pattern had begun to look like the next, melting into a haze of swirling tones. God, he needed an aspirin and a beer. "You're absolutely sure this wallpaper exists?" He squinted at her with a skeptical look, and she nodded, her fingers nimbly turning the pages of yet another book.
"Oh, terrific. There are at least five hundred books here, and we've been through what? Two dozen? I imagine you have someone lined up to hang the dang rolls?"
"Uh-huh, you and Fritz. But only if you'd stop talking and help me find it."
"Me and your brother?" His voice came out in a hysterical wail. "Get serious, Liz, I've never wallpapered a room in my life." Hell, he couldn't wrap a Christmas present unless it was packaged in a box with four crisp corners and there were yards of paper to waste.
"Neither has Fritz, but he's watched my mother do it many times. It's a piece of cake." Her hands continued flashing through the pages.
"Piece of cake? Are you sane? Unless Fritz has flashbacks, we're doomed." Lucas slumped down wearily onto a nearby chair and cupped his face in his hands.
About the Author
Judy Ann Davis began her career in writing as a copy and continuity writer for radio and television in Scranton, PA. Throughout her career, she has written for both industry and education.
Over a dozen of her short stories have appeared in anthologies, and literary and small magazines, and have received numerous awards. Nineteen of them are now collected in Upon On the Roof and Other Stories.
Her first novel, Red Fox Woman, published in 2010, is a western, mystery, and romance and was a finalist in the International Book Awards and USA Book News Best Book Awards. Its stand-alone sequel, Under Starry Skies, was released earlier this year.
When Judy Ann is not behind her computer, you can find her looking for anything humorous to make her laugh or swinging a golf club where the chuckles are few. She is a member of Pennwriters, Inc. and Romance Writers of America. She lives in Central Pennsylvania.


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People who are allergic to pets, dust, spores and chemicals are most at risk, researchers from the Mayo Clinic have found. The risk is greatest among people who suffer persistent allergic reactions, known as perennial allergic rhinitis, and those who suffer from both perennial and seasonal rhinitis, more commonly known as hay fever. But those who suffered only from hay fever were not at any greater risk, the scientists found.
They emphasised that rhinitis does not necessarily cause Parkinson's, but that there appears to be some association between the two.
And, sadly, sufferers won't get any help from doctors. A new report reveals that doctors have not been trained either to diagnose or treat allergies, even though the problem is now one of the most common in the West, affecting around one-third of the population to some extent.
(Sources: Neurology, 2006; 67: 494-6; The Review of Services for Allergy, from: www.dh.gov.uk/publications).


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DTN Early Word Grains 06/05 05:58
Grains Higher Into Weekend as Funds Support
July corn is up 1/2 cent per bushel, July soybeans are up 2 1/2 cents, and
July KC wheat is up 1 1/4 cents.
Tregg Cronin
DTN Contributing Analyst
Pre-6 a.m. Globex Prices: July corn is up 1/2 cent per bushel, July soybeans
are up 2 1/2 cents, and July KC wheat is up 1 1/4 cents.
CME Globex Recap: Another day, another rally in global equity markets which
is becoming the norm as opposed to the exception investors had become so used
to February through March. On Wednesday, the ADP private payroll report showed
fewer jobs lost during the month of May than analysts had feared, setting the
tone for a more optimistic May unemployment report from the government later
Friday morning. The jobs report will undoubtedly set the tone into the weekend.
Higher energy markets with crude oil making fresh highs for the move. Precious
metals are weaker. Grain markets are steady to higher across the board with
favorable technical patterns emerging for many contracts. With the structure of
most ag markets featuring sizable to near record short positions held by the
managed funds, additional covering should support into the weekend and possibly
into next week.
OUTSIDE MARKETS: Previous closes on Thursday showed the Dow Jones Industrial
Average up 11.93 at 26,281.82 and the S&P 500 down 10.52 at 3,122.87 while the
10-Year Treasury yield ended at 0.82%. Early Friday, the June DJIA futures are
up 290 points. Asian markets are higher with Japan's Nikkei 225 up 167.99
(0.74%) and China's Shanghai Composite up 11.55 points (0.4%). European markets
are higher with London's FTSE 100 up 77.06 points (1.22%), Germany's DAX up
253.72 points (2.04%) and France's CAC 40 up 113.22 points (2.26%). The June
Euro is down 0.003 at 1.130 and the June U.S. dollar index is up 0.148 at
96.805. The September 30-Year T-Bond is down 25/32nds, while August gold is
down $13.30 at $1,714.10 and July crude oil is up $0.62 at $38.03. Soybeans on
China's Dalian Exchange were down 1.24% while soybean meal was up 0.32%.


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Evaluation of the parallel performance of the TRIGRS v2.1 model for rainfall-induced landslides
- Published
- Accepted
- Subject Areas
- Distributed and Parallel Computing, Scientific Computing and Simulation, Spatial and Geographic Information Systems
- Keywords
- TRIGRS, Landslides, Rainfall-Induced Landslides, Shallow Landslides, Runoff, Hydrology, Rainfall, Cloud, Parallel, MPI
- Copyright
- © 2016 Alvioli et al.
- Licence
- This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ Preprints) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
- Cite this article
- 2016. Evaluation of the parallel performance of the TRIGRS v2.1 model for rainfall-induced landslides. PeerJ Preprints 4:e2206v2 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.2206v2
The widespread availability of high resolution digital elevation models (DEM) opens the possibility of applying physically based models of landslide initiation to large areas. With increasing size of the study area and resolution of the DEM, the required computing time for each run of such models increases proportionally to the number of grid cells in the study area. The aim of this work is to present a new parallel implementation of TRIGRS (Alvioli and Baum, 2016), an open-source FORTRAN program designed for modeling the timing and distribution of shallow, rainfall-induced landslides, and to discuss its parallel performance. We investigated the parallel performance by evaluating running time, speedup and efficiency of the code on a commonly available multi-core machine, on a high-end multi-node machine and on a cloud computing environment, showing the advantages and limitations of each case and discussing the possible weak points of using a general-purpose cloud environment
Author Comment
We have modified the manuscript explicitly adding Abstract, Introduction, Methods and Conclusion sections. We have slightly modifed the text to comply with OGRS 2016 referee's comments/suggestions. We have slightly modified Fig. 2, adding the correct (A,..,D) numbering of the different sub-figures.


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During the peak of World War II, Amelia meets the love of her life, James, and gets engaged to him quickly, only to lose her new husband to the warm months later. Alone and penniless, Amelia takes her infant son Jimmy to meet his paternal grandparents. Only his grandparents do not know that he exists or that Amelia married their son. And Amelia is surprised to arrive and find that her in-laws are wealthy and privileged. She is suddenly nervous that they will not accept her or her son as she and James never had the chance to marry. Amelia must decide if she can be brave enough to make the journey, if not for herself than for the sake of her son.
Another sweet Christmas book by Melody Carlson! This short story has forgiveness, faith, love, and a dash of Christmas magic. It is a lovely story and a pleasant read. It is only 170 pages, so the characters do not have significant depth and the storyline is rushed due to the nature of its shorter plot, but overall I enjoyed the book. It is an easy read that can be accomplished in an afternoon with some tea and the fireplace nearby. I recommend this book to those who enjoy Christmas stories that leave readers with lovely, warm-hearted endings!
I received a copy of this book from Revell Publishing in exchange for an honest review.


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Fujian, China
Imperial White is a calming white tea from Fujian province in China.
White Tea
Known as 'Bai Cha' in Chinese, white teas are made from the newly sprouted 'buds' of the tea plant. These buds have silvery white hair 'down' that provide a honey texture to the brew. In making white tea, the buds are 'heat braised' in covered pans or dried in direct sun. As a result there is little or no oxidization of the buds.
Varietal & Technique
Original White teas are native to areas of China's Fujian province. Recently, more areas in China and in other tea countries have started to process white tea and each has its distinct flavor profile.
Fujian Province, known as 'Min', is situated along China's southeastern coast. Fujian's mild, humid, subtropical and marine climate is especially conducive to tea cultivation. Fujian tea has a 1,600 year history. The earliest written record of tea production in Fujian is kept on a stone tablet at the 'Lian Hua Feng' (Lotus Peak) in Nan'an County.
The young leaves of Imperial White are best in early spring. If stored well (airtight in dark, low humidity), the leaves retain flavor over time.
Flavor Profile
Light yellow color brew with vegetal taste and pine aroma.
The Tao of Tea
Like the Tao, the art of tea is universal. We began our work with tea in 1997 to be a connecting thread for tea culture. Practicing the art on a daily basis in our teahouses in Portland, Oregon, we are a group of tea enthusiasts from different backgrounds and cultures. We travel, learn, take delight and seek to offer pure leaf teas with great flavor, artistry and soul. Our reward comes through actions that help people's lives, sustain the art of tea and promise a healthy environment.
Brew two teaspoons of leaf in eight ounces of pure spring or filtered water at 175F for four minutes. Provides at least two infusions.
White tea leaves.
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- Complimentary Parking
- Seasonal pool and patio
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Friday, March 18, 2011
3 comments:
- Katie said...
Who in the world would label what you've been though as "should be easier"? You've got me in tears. I don't think I've ever known anyone to go through more than you have gone through. I think you are a very strong woman! Reading your story gives me strength and courage that I can survive my own trials. Thank you for sharing and I'm heartbroken for your loss.
- March 18, 2011 at 7:48 PM
- Cindyss said...
Hi Becki
You are the first person I have "met" who has experienced anything similar to what we have gone through and I know that you are in a whirlwind right now. I too had several miscarriages (5 in all) and found that I have a genetic issue, after losing my daughter. I also had a pregnancy that we had to terminate after finding out that it was not progressing properly. We had to go through fertility treatments to get pregnant for my first 3, after having "tried" for 3 years. We did have 1 son and all was well. After we had our daughter, I got pregnant naturally 4 months later and we were thrilled, but it was a nightmare ride, because of the genetic issue and waiting to find out about that. We were very fortunate to have a very healthy son born almost a year to the day from my daughter's original due date.
People will say all kinds of crazy things to you, mostly because they can't and don't want to imagine what it feels like to lose a child. It is easier to dismiss your son as though he wasn't a real person because it is too painful to identify with your true feelings. Babies represent hope for the future and innocence and purity and I think people can't handle it when that gets thwarted in some way.
My daughter would be 19 years old now and, although it is easier to live with now, it is one of those things that changes you forever. It is wonderful that you have those experiences with your son to keep in your heart and memory, as painful as it may have been to go through. You will feel them always. We only had our daughter for 13 hours but I can still feel her in my arms. It is something that no one can ever take from you. I have experienced other kinds of losses and I can tell you that this is a very unique experience unto itself. I guess my best advice is to do what feels right to you and to know that no one has all the answers. I am going to check out your site also and give you my contact info so that you can contact me if you wish. All the best... cindy
- March 22, 2011 at 7:41 AM
thanks ladies. Katie, believe it or not my SIL made that comment to me. I told her how another Heart Mom I talk to just lost her 3 yr old and she said oh well thank god david was a baby. It has to be so much harder for her. I couldnt believe that came out of her mouth. She doesnt have any kids yet, so I just chose to believe it is because she couldnt possibly understand the love you have for your child before you even meet them.
- March 22, 2011 at 10:06 AM


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I just watched a show on the Science channel that explored the idea that our world and all of us in it are nothing more than a computer simulation created by some other beings "out there" somewhere.
While I'm all for exploring who we are, why are we here, and where did we come from, I found this whole concept ludicrous in the extreme (and I'm not speaking of the rap artist). These so-called scientists had spent years melding together theories from the Matrix movies and the movie the 13th Floor which they then submitted for grants and funding so they could produce little more than bogus formulas that proved only that they loved playing computer games.
Don't get me wrong…I love a good theory as much as the next person. However, you had one Danish "expert" who was doing nothing more than videoing his world in an effort to capture THE GLITCH which would prove once and for all that we are nothing more than a computer simulation. His selling point is that no computer is massive enough, sturdy enough, or fast enough to constantly update the images we see as life without periodically glitching. So, he is determined to capture that moment when the programming stalls for that micro or a nanosecond, which means that he needs to capture his entire life digitally. (Of course, he ignores the fact that if some civilization is capable of creating such a realistic virtual reality as ours that they just might have figured out how to create a powerful enough computer to avoid those glitches.)
One scientist said he could prove that our world wasn't really three-dimensional, that it was, in fact, only a two-dimensional representation of a three-dimensional world. That when the astronauts went into space, they were only moving beyond the defined structure of the computer simulation that defined our world and that's why it was dark and empty. Ooooookay. (Perhaps, he needs more hugs…or a nightlight?)
Then there's the expert who is convinced that if we use our peripheral vision to look at the edges of our world we will eventually see the grid that surrounds our world and holds us in place. (Does this sound as if he's watched Hunger Games 2 a little too much to anyone?) As to where exactly we find these edges, I'm not sure. I mean, didn't Columbus already show everyone that the world is round (or at least oval). Wouldn't our space explorers have run into the grid when they blasted into space (or are we doing that the-moonwalk-was-a-fraud-thing again)?
Then there was the guy who spends his time surfing, but scribbles his formulas into the sand between waves (at least his theories don't stay around long). For him, we're all just avatars for those outside our virtual reality. Okay…but who are these beings using us as avatars? He doesn't know, and does it really matter? (I suppose not, since there's another wave coming which will wipe his theory off the beach anyway.)
One expert from Germany was using a type of heat sensor to find the energy grid that was the framework of our world. While some theorist in the UK said he could point to the polygons found in everyday items (such as mountains and buildings) that he was sure were actually the foundation of the wireframes that comprised our computerized world.
As for me, I can disprove all of their theories with one question: Why would anyone create a virtual world in which the most exciting thing their characters/avatars do is watch TV, read books, and stare at computer screens?


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