I found this on Paul Montariol's blog on the think about it website. Its about the open consultation by DG Agriculture and Rural Development. Do vote for your favourite!
The new EU organic logo will be displayed from July 2010 onwards on pre-packaged organic products that meet the community requirements outlined under "Organic Farming and Production". The EU logo can be used on a voluntary basis on non-pre-packaged organic products that originate from the EU or that are imported from third countries. This means, that the winning logo will appear on millions and millions of organic food products all over the EU! For more information, please visit the Organic Farming website .
The voting is open until the 30 January 2010 so get voting!
The Webcast will be on from 8-10pm and will feature a live chat! You can also submit your questions in advance but there is no guarantee that they will be asked.
Margot Wallström was appointed Vice President of the European Commission in charge of Institutional Relations and Communication in August 2004. President Barroso created this post in order to improve the way the EU communicates 'Europe' to citizens. From 1999 till 2004, Margot served as Environment Commissioner in the Prodi Commission.
Before dedicating herself to the European Union, Margot spent most of her professional life being active in Swedish politics. From 1979 till 1985, she was Member of the Swedish Parliament. In 1988, she became Minister of Civil Affairs responsible for Consumer, Women and Youth matters and held this post for four years. In 1994, she was appointed Minister of Culture for two years and then Minister of Social Affairs for another two years.
Communications also played a key part in her career. From 1993 till 1994 she worked as CEO of TV Värmland, a Swedish Regional TV network. Between 1998 and 1999, she lived in Colombo (Sri Lanka) and worked as Executive Vice-President of Worldview Global Media.
She was born in Sweden on 28 September 1954 and graduated from high school in 1973.
Margot Wallström also has her own blog!
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Its been awhile so here we go.
Exexutive Agencies: Frontex, European Agency for the Management of Operational Cooperation at the External Borders. Its in the spotlight at the moment so have a read about them.
Parliament: Contacts for the Irish MEP's.
Im getting to like trawling through the EU websites for stuff for this! And it is a trawl!! As its the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue I am focusing on DG Culture.
EYID: Events at the EU level and in the memeber states.
Capitals of Culture: This year Liverpool (United Kingdom) and Stavanger (Norway) are European Capitals of Culture. Next year it is Linz (Austria) and Vilnius (Lithuania). it will be 2020 or 2021 before the Capital of Culture returns to Ireland.
More stuff from the EU.
Bookshop: Get all sorts of publications, some free, some availible free only as PDF. A mine of information.
Culture, education and youth: Every European should have a "second mother tongue", say experts in report to the EU.
Strategy for "Creative Content Online". Online consultation open until 29th of February 2008.
Reforming the Budget, Changing Europe. Open until 15th of April 2008.
Life online is what you make of it!
Heres another installment of EU links!
Europa: Europe Direct. Have a question? Call or Email!


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Darien Police Seek Info On Car That Struck Darien High Student
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Darien police are still seeking the driver who struck a high school student last week. Photo Credit: Casey Donahue
DARIEN, Conn. — Darien police are still trying to identify the driver of the car that struck and injured a Darien High School student last week.
The 17-year-old girl, who was knocked to the ground, suffered scrapes and bruises when she was hit by the car at about 2:25 p.m. Friday on High School Lane, about 200 feet in from Middlesex Road, police said.
A line of traffic was stopped or moving very slowly in the westbound lane as is often the case at school dismissal time, police said.
As the girl crossed High School Lane, a car traveling westbound in the eastbound lane to pass the line of traffic, struck her and knocked her to the ground, police said.
The vehicle was reported to be a brown minivan, possibly a Honda, which was driven by a white female with blond hair, in her 40s, police said. A girl, possibly of middle school age, was seated in the front passenger seat, police said.
The driver stopped and asked the girl if she was OK, police said. "The pedestrian replied that she thought she was OK, and the minivan then continued on toward the high school," police said.
"The Police Department was notified of this collision once the pedestrian arrived home and an investigation then commenced," police said. "Thankfully, the injuries to the pedestrian were not severe."
The Darien Police Department has been actively investigating the incident since it was reported but have thus far been unable to identify the vehicle or driver involved. Anyone who may have witnessed the incident or has any pertinent information is asked to contact the Darien Police Department at 203-662-5300.
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Much Ado About Macadoodles
Drama in Chickendale
By Daddy Warbucks
Some of the crowing one hears from Springdale (aka Chickendale) these days is as forked as a rooster's tongue. A happy cock-a-doodle-do loudly comes from new Springdale Mayor Doug Sprouse and his former opponent and current City Council member Mike Overton. Both are overjoyed that a new business, Macadoodles, a liquor store, wants to come to town. Another happy cock-a-doodle-do comes from just north of the Missouri line where the original Macadoodles is located. The Mo-Ark state line store owners are hoping to gobble up a lot of the Benton and Washington county business with the new store.
Sounds like a win-win. But not to liquor store owners Jim and Mary Lee Phillips and the Springdale Liquor Association.
Long, long ago as the earth cooled, the Springdale Liquor Association bought up all the little liquor permits in Springdale. So far back, that they are "grandfathered" in on state law, which almost (key word "almost") prohibits "chain" ownership in a city. But history is no lesson here. One up-man-ship is.
Macadoodles wants to locate near the Interstate 540 and 48th Street corridor, which would give them a presence in Washington County.
The city fathers are supporting the new business, just like they would almost any new enterprise, as it's new money in the tax stream. Remember that this is the city that is suffering in that department after they let Sam's Club slip down to Fayetteville because former State Sen. Jim Holt R-Far Right opposed the Sam's Club idea to add a liquor store. This shows up at around a $1 million decline in tax revenue for the year.
Big Question
What percentage of U.S. dogs are obese or overweight? (Answer at the end)
Cool Movies
To beat the heat and the high cost of theater tickets, Fiesta Square in Fayetteville is offing some discounted prices. Mondays through Thursdays all seats, from open to close, are $4. Wow. On the weekends, a $4 ducat will get you into the Friday, Saturday, Sunday and holiday shows before noon. Noon to 4 p.m. the tickets rise to $6 for adults and $4 for kids. From 4 to close the cost is 8 bucks for adults. Not a bad deal.
Cool Music
The Fayetteville Library will be jammin' in June with four concerts set on the front patio of the library. Called the Mountain Street Stage, all concerts will be at 2 p.m. The series opens June 7 with Mike Sumler, John Johnson and Dennis Collins. June 14 will be The Walter Savage Trio. June 21, 3 Penny Acre and the final show on June 28, with Opal Fly & the Swatters. All free.
To the "new" UA Head Track and Field Coach, Chris Bucknam, for leading the Razorback thinclads to an SEC Outdoor title. It was the first outdoor title under Bucknam and the 93rd for the Razorbacks. This makes the Hogs nabbing five out of the last six SEC Outdoor titles. Former Coach John McDonnell laid the foundation.
Good Principal
Congrats are in order for Matt Saferite, principal of Ramay Junior High in Fayetteville. He was named the Arkansas Secondary Principal of the Year. He is now in the running for national honors. Go Ramay.
Not to belabor a point that's already been made, but Pat Gazzola, longtime A&P Commission Chairman and owner of Catfish Hole stepped down from the A&P.
He has served well, but stumbled when he made some unfounded, unfavorable comments about Dickson Street.
Apex Winner
The Beaver Water District recently won a "Best Print" award for promotional materials on water usage and conservation. Good work.
Lube Up, Or Not
The biggest local advertiser of late has been those garish ads proclaiming denture cream poisoning that are being circulated by the Little Rock law office of Brad Hendrix. Yuck. But still something worth reading. Who knew that Fixodent, Poligrip or Superpoligrip could do you in?
Arkansas Western Gas has moved just across U.S. 71B to the old digs of Proctor and Gamble, at 655 E. Millsap Drive.
The NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championship (which means hear those cash registers ring) will be coming to John McDonnell Field June 10-13. Get ready. This is always a good event that brings in folks from all across the nation and lots of tourist dollars.
Big Answer
In a nation of obese dog owners, sadly some 40 percent of all canine pets are also overweight, according to statistics from one veterinary college.
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U of T Researchers Discover New Ways to Build Better Medical Implants and Improve Healing Time
Dentistry's Dr. John E. Davies is a senior author of study
A University of Toronto research team has uncovered new information that could accelerate post-surgical healing for procedures involving medical devices as diverse as dental implants and skin dressings.
Their paper, published in Nature Communications Biology describes how different implant surface textures affect a fundamental process in the body's ability to heal the area surrounding the implant.
"We have known for decades that creating nano-scale implant surface texture improves clinical success rates," said John E. Davies, a professor in U of T's Faculty of Dentistry and Institute of Biomaterials & Biomedical Engineering (IBBME)—the senior author of this study. "However, little was known of the cellular mechanisms by which the implant surface affects the healing process."
The team, co-led by Princess Margaret Cancer Centre scientist Dr. Ralph DaCosta, looked at the effect of implant surface texture on neovascularization—the process of blood vessel formation— around implants.
"The ability for blood vessels to form around an implant is a key factor in its successful tissue integration," said Niloufar Khosravi, a PhD candidate in Davies' lab and the study's first author. "Indeed, neovascularization is vital for tissue healing and regeneration around the implant."
Blood vessels (green) forming on a nano-surfaced titanium implant (grey) as visualized by intravital microscopy using the team's model. (Image: Niloufar Khosravi).
To study this effect, the team built a model that allowed them to observe the implant healing process in real time using intravital optical microscopic imaging systems developed in DaCosta's lab. Their experiments monitored the formation of new blood vessels around a series of medical-grade titanium implants at the cellular level, and how the distribution and pattern of neovascularization changed in the presence of implants of differing surface texture.
"We did not initially expect blood vessels to be clearly visible in this model," said Khosravi. "We decided to add an imaging contrast agent after a few pilot studies and the resulting resolution was remarkably higher than we expected. It allowed us to monitor not only the rate, but also the location, shape, function and pattern of new blood vessels around implants over a six week period."
In addition to adding new knowledge for designing better medical implants, the team's findings could also address other related challenges in human health.
"We can use this knowledge to build broader implantable biomaterials to improve the quality of life for people who have impaired healing conditions, such as the elderly or persons with diabetes," said DaCosta, who is also an assistant professor in U of T's Department of Medical Biophysics. "We now have new tools and strategies to better support the body's natural repair process."


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EU; EUropean Union; New World Order; Globalism; Global Governance; Bohemian Grove; Satanism; Owl;
#G114* – The NEW WORLD ORDER OBSCENITY
as we wait the unfolding disaster of the EU election where the peoples of these United Kingdoms have clearly and unequivocally withdrawn their mandate from Politicians to represent us and betray us by continuing with their greed and ambitions to develope the New World Order.
65% of the voting population of these United Kingdoms withdrew their mandate – THEY REFUSED to vote for the corruption of the EU.
Of the remaining 35% maximum who did vote more than 10% DID NOT vote in favour of The New World Order Globalism of The TRI Lateral Commission with its 3 great power blocks – over 70% of the peoples of these United Kingdoms rejected membership of The EU one of those 3 Power blocks.
Britain's population has refused to endorse the EU or Britain's membership of The EU – The peoples have followed their ancestors and at the start of June 65 years after The Normandy Landings when Britain and her alies sacrificed so much to prevent the attempt to form the obscene concept of a centralised EUropean Union just as we had in 1914 before.
Our Politicians have no mandate to continue the project.
Converting a Eurosceptic? A glimmer of hope
I had a conversation with a virulently eurosceptic Brit recently (one of many). I've had similar conversations with Daily Mail reader types – the sort of people who claim things along the lines of "political correctness has run amok, the country's going down the drain, immigrant paedophile junkies are roaming our streets etc" – and in these cases, I smile politely and try to make a hasty retreat. This eurosceptic, on the other hand, was bright, open-minded and well-read, so surely ripe for conversion?!
To cut a very long story short, the notions of pooled sovereignty, interdependence as a means to maintain peace etc had absolutely no effect on him. And when I ummed and aahed when he asked me whether it was really true that France was holding the EU hostage over agricultural policy, I thought he really was a lost cause. However, I eventually came up with two last-gasp arguments which he lapped up and which I'd advise all europhiles to use on British eurosceptics.
First was my mention of the euromyths section on the website of the European Commission Representation in the UK, which contains scores of untruths reported by the British media, demonstrating the tactics used by pretty much all national papers apart from the Guardian in their reporting. These tactics range from outright lying, to taking a regulation and finding the most preposterous application for it (even though the regulation is NOT intended for that purpose AT ALL), to passing off something done by another European body/European country/international organisation, then misrepresenting it AND saying the EU is responsible, even if it has absolutely no affiliation to the other body in question. My eurosceptic friend was understandably astonished that the media would misrepresent the truth to this extent, and promised that he'd read up on euromyths and take reports on supposedly scandalous activities of the EU with a pinch of salt in future.
Second, was my assertion that the UK is actually very well represented in Brussels, which came as a great surprise to my eurosceptic friend, as Brits are obviously so focused on the misplaced notion that the EU is all about giving away power to faceless foreign bureaucrats. When told that, in actual fact, plenty of Brits occupy major posts in important Directorates-General at the European Commission; that many British MEPs are very active and head important committees; and most of all, that the lobbying industry, from consultancies, to in-house, to NGOs and trade associations, have an utterly disproportionate number of Brits at the helm, he seemed headed for conversion.
I have not spoken to my eurosceptic friend since, and he may very well in retrospect have thought I was speaking absolute cobblers. Nonetheless, I'll be trying out these arguments again.
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though I can well understand your position as a Danish Italian domicile in Britain – identity is likely to be something of a myth for you – so little to clutch onto, so little to be proud of, so little that you can give the world.
That you resort to the BILLIONS spent on propaganda by Margot Walstrom's department having taken Goebbels's' role as Minister for Propaganda is hardly surprising.
Yes the EU squanders obscene amounts of money failing to prove its case.
Let us look simply at the benefits of Governance with a light touch as servants of the people – rather than legislation on everything from the curvature of bananas (Yes it does exist, though currently attempts are being made to repeal it – as with cucumbers, now sold cut in half to avoid the idiocy of EU Law!) – to forcing through The Galileo programme which has already failed as its encoding was so poor that students in America broke its coding with parts bought from 'Tandy'.
Then we have the massively over priced and utterly useless EUro Fighter neither bomber nor fighter without a decent HUD nor ability to corner at speed (due to fuel 'slosh') and designed for the wars of yester year which NATO managed to steer the countries of Europe through without conflict.
Perhaps you can identify a benefit of the communist styled centralised largely undemocratic EU (before you pretend to democracy just count the Lobbyists who KNOW they can tamper with legislation and diktat via the unelected bureaucrats).
Just what gain is there in a one size fits all that costs Britain £1,800,000 per hour for no meaningful gain.
As a homeless Danish Italian I do understand why you feel lost.
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Then again he probably hasn't listened to the vile and self serving Communist/Fabian maunderings of Gordon Brown:
Gordon Brown New World Order Speech
Prime Minister Gordon Brown's betrayal of Britain as he espouses the communist aims of the Elite's Plan for a One World Totalitarian Socialist State, the Globalazation Agenda for a New World Order.
Gordon Brown gives an agreed statement on what the G20 members had agreed to.
The odious Gordon Brown is actually pleased to announce a New World Order is emerging!
So very redolent of the same ideas in 1939, the 1000 year Third Reich.
Consider the massive price Britain paid to save Continental Europe from this obscenity in 1914 and again in 1939 – it it any wonder the peoples of Britain shudder in horror at the betrayal by our self serving Political elite!
Now consider what one can turn up in just a few minutes with Google:
Britain's Gordon Brown becomes patron of Zionist agency
By Redress Information & Analysis
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has agreed to become patron of the UK arm of the Jewish National Fund, whose funds have contributed to Israeli ethnic cleansing, the destruction of Palestinian villages and the expropriation of Palestinian land, and whose constitution requires it to promote and implement policies that discriminate against Israel's Arab population.
Gordon Brown has crossed a new threshold on the path to becoming a fully-fledged Zionist.
According to a report in the Jewish Chronicle, Gordon Brown has agreed to become a patron of the British arm of the Jewish National Fund (JNF UK) "following an invitation from JNF UK President Gail Seal, who wrote conveying her good wishes the day after he took office".
In a letter to Gail Seal, Gordon Brown said that he was "delighted to accept your offer to become a patron of JNF UK". A spokesman for Brown confirmed that the British prime minister had "agreed to become a patron of JNF UK", and that he had done so "in order to encourage their work to promote charitable projects for everyone who lives in Israel".
In fact, far from being "a charity" that benefits "everyone who lives in Israel", the JNF is a principal tool of Israel's discriminatory system of land administration. Founded in 1901 to help establish a Jews-only state in the Arab country of Palestine, the JNF's constitution requires it to benefit Jews exclusively. It therefore promotes and implements policies that discriminate against the Arab population of Israel.
The JNF is also guilty of ethnic cleansing, the destruction of Palestinian villages and the expropriation of Palestinian land. According to PalestineRemembered.com, in its operation in Israel, the JNF has
expropriated illegally most of the land of 372 Palestinian villages which had been ethnically cleansed by Zionist forces in 1948. The owners of this land are over half the UN-registered Palestinian refugees. The JNF had actively participated in the physical destruction of many villages, in evacuating these villages of their inhabitants and in military operations to conquer these villages. Today, the JNF controls over 2500 sq. km of Palestinian land which it leases to Jews only. It also planted 100 parks on Palestinian land.
In addition, the JNF has a long record of discrimination against Palestinian citizens of Israel as reported by the UN. The JNF also extends its operations by proxy or directly to the occupied Palestinian territories in the West Bank and Gaza. All this is in clear violation of international law and particularly the Fourth Geneva Convention, which forbids the confiscation of property and settling the occupiers' citizens in occupied territories. Ethnic cleansing, expropriation of property and destruction of houses are war crimes. As well, use of tax-exempt donations in these activities violates the domestic law in many countries where JNF is domiciled.
Since becoming prime minister at the end of June 2007, Gordon Brown has appointed several Israel apologists to key positions in the British government. He has also been at pain to stress his Christian Zionist credentials.
As patron of JNF UK, Gordon Brown will join a club that includes prominent British politicians and religious figures who, on the one hand, speak of the need for peace and justice in the Middle East while, on the other, promote and defend the racist Jews-only state of Israel. They include Tony Blair, Conservative leader David Cameron and Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, who is said to be a close friend of Brown.
These are concepts and ideas that one stands every risk of being attacked for questioning, or even seeking explanation of, this international plot to impose a new world order – such vile organisations as the extremists 'Searchlight' will rapidly brand those who question the evil aims of Zionism as anti semetic, a mantra that has no defined meaning yet is a pretence to be anti ? or ? or something entirely different – it is a meaningless slander!
Beware of Zionism which has turned being The Children of The Holocaust into an art form which brings little but shame to Judaism and World Jewry – particularly with its self serving fascism in Palestine, as it steadilly dispossesses the indiginous peoples through acts of terror and brutality of a nature which can only place the so called Israeli Defence Force in the realms of being no more than State sponsored terrorists.
Consider just howmany Jewish organisations and groups exist, who are totally and in some cases even militantly opposed to Zionism.
Don't let filth like the extreme right OR the extreme left dupe you with Aesopian neural linguistic programming – he who controls the language, all too easily controls the arguments!
Why else do you believe that we have the nonsense of Politically Correct words and phrases imposed to prevent discussion or at very least to make people wary – why else would Common Purpose be running courses for their chosen elite and their puppets to provide and impose language that controls discussion and triggers pre programmed responses.
THEN consider that Gordon Brown was born in 1952 which made him 5 years old in 1956 during the Hungarian revolution when so many intellectuals, middle class and their orphans found succour in these United Kingdoms leading to some speculating on his interests in Ashkenazim Judaism. Though I would hazard the opinion there are no further grounds to extrapolate more complexly!
That said should we be considering the placement of Jack straw, Peter Mandelsom, Hazel Blears, the brothers Milliband, Lord Levy, Tessa Jowells and many more – I would hope it could be clearly and unequivocally denied there is any relevance as it starts to look as if we will have rolled up trouser legs, bared breasts and mock deaths rapidly replaced by giant carvings of owls and the very strange symbolisms of:
Skull & Bones CLICK HERE is a good place to start and then follow links!
Bohemian Grove CLICK HERE
CLICK HERE to see the Dark Secrets: Inside Bohemian Grove – Version 1 Nixon, Eisenhower, and Reagan were members. The Bush Family Maintains a Strong Involvement. Now, for the First Time in History, Alex Jones Brings You Video from His Infiltration of Bohemian Grove. View the Elite Compound and Witness World Leaders Conducting a Bizarre, Occult Ritual, Worshipping a Giant Stone Owl Idol.
Then there is The Bilderberg Group CLICK HERE
You may also find the symbolism interesting if you CLICK HERE
Then perhaps you might care to consider CLICK HERE and then CLICK HERE
Of course all of this is nothing more than Conspiracy Theory – Yeah Right:
Just when does Conspiracy Theory become FACT?
Just howmuch detail do people need?
Of course they don't have rituals that involve an owl – its a conspiracy theory and the pictures of the huge owl and the robed people and the processions and the fire are ALL fake, as are the many pictures of known individuals – YEAH!
& of course The Skull & Bones Society of Yale based on Society/Order 322 isn't real and the long list of known members isn't true, even though some of them claim to be members.
Of course they don't have any secret hand gestures they are just like the Free Masons, of course there are no rituals!!
You couldn't expect them to roll up their trouser leg or bare their breast or even simulate death and resurectuon in a symbolic coffin and give themselves childish names and base their rituals on the Satanic Pentagon.
Of course the repetitive symbolic hand gesture is pure accident and has nothing to do with the horns of Satan – I just made that up!
YEAH Really!
How about the skull & bones symbol – crossing the body as would the thigh bones of The Skull & Cross Bones!
Then of course the 1,000s of hours of filmed proof is just fake and of course the lists of members are just a myth and people like Robert Gaylon Ross Sr. have wasted their lives in listing the members and the films on TV news of high security and the limosines of the wealthy and powerfull is just a myth to …………………
Yeah so all of this is untrue – yet men dressed in women's robes worshiping crosses, rolled scrolls and crescent moons make sense!!
Of course I don't believe in 'Conspiracy Theories' but I don't know about you – I have a tendency to go along with Fact whether conspiracy or not! Those who do not believe in conspiracy have clearly never been in a children's playground, nor watched the global attempts of the New World Order to surplant the old religions with the new – Global Warming, Climate Change, and the guilt of man with Carbon Footprint a newly created basis for faux taxation and destabilisation.
But of couirse I invented it all just as I invented credit Collapse and wrote about it in the 1960s and wrote in detail of the collapse in the 1990s but of course we knew but world leaders and National financiers were oblivious of the inevitability – just as they have no realisation of the concepts of 'Beneficial Crisis'.
It seems the Pentangle is just a pretty patern and a pure coincidence that Washington is laid out on a pentangle and obviously the layout of the Capitol and its grounds are in the form of an Owl by accident as of course is the Masonic and satanic symbolism of the pyramid and all seeing eye on the US Dollar – just a pretty patern – YEAH!
Then again you may have noticed that I started out this particular blog by pure coincidence with an explanation of The New World Order by Prime Minister Gordon Brown – who of course didn't believe a word he said!!
I leave it to you to decide and not a single mention of Lizards please – as that is in fact clearly anti Judaic.
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Lileks bad! Chomsky good!
Bloggers are saying that this Dennis Perrin guy (whose attack on James Lileks has attracted a great deal of attention) just isn't even worth fisking, so why bother?
Besides, as Lileks himself says, "Who cares?" (Via InstaPundit.)
So instead of bothering (what could I add anyway?) I'll just do what I did with Leon Kass, and supply my readers with a few choice quotes from Dennis Perrin -- the ones that appealed to my "political" and "aesthetic" sensibilities -- with a "minimum" of editorial comment.
Let Mr. Perrin speak for himself!
What bothered me almost as much as the attack on Lileks was the way he went out of his way to characterize people as mindless "warbloggers" (something Mitch Berg discusses in more detail). So I wondered what Mr. Perrin might have said about other people.
It turns out he is not even loyal to his own "friends." Here's his vicious, extremely ad hominem attack on an old friend, Christopher Hitchens -- whom he now describes as a:
former socialist and Beltway snitch who finally showed his true colors as a shill for W's gang
In a heart-wrenching psychological tug-of-war, Perrin seems to struggle, almost agonize, over what remains of his "friendship":
it's hard for me to erase the fond memories I have of Hitch.
I know how hard it must be. It's hard for all of us watching you. It must be very painful for you, having to attack an old friend. I feel your pain even as I write this.
unlike Christopher, I do not revel in blasting apart strangers.
That must make it doubly hard for you. (Once again, the Drayton Sawyer principle at work.)
His TV appearances show a smug, nasty scold with little tolerance for those who disagree with him. He looks more and more like a Ralph Steadman sketch.
But let's try to remember, Perrin "tries"
to keep my criticisms politically and aesthetically based.
And how he tries! In the comments that follow, here he is, trying to be as fair to others as he is to Hitchens.
On Andrew Sullivan:
Sullivan.... remains one of the most arrogant, pretentious jerks I've ever met.
On David Horowitz:
the insane David Horowitz, a man who shouts "TREASON!" every 90 seconds
And back to the emotional tug-of-war with "friend" Hitchens:
I wrote a long defense of Christopher in answer to Cockburn's "Hitch the Snitch" tirade, but I wasn't fully behind him.
How tough it is! Having to defend a friend you aren't "behind"! My heart really can only begin to feel his pain. Get thee behind me, Dennis Perrin!
Doubtless still feeling his own pain, but steeling himself, Perrin
was flabbergasted by the venom Hitch directed at people like Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn
Imagine! How could anyone have directed venom towards the kindly, Khmer Rouge loving Chomsky! (To say nothing of Zinn -- author of A People's History of the United States!)
But, hold on!
Might Mr. Perrin possibly owe Chomsky a debt of gratitude?
Might they even be friends? Here's Chomsky himself, talking about Dennis Perrin:
In accordance with the regular pattern, two positions are represented: the media are attacked as too adversarial, unfair to Israel in this case; and they are defended as doing a creditable job under difficult circumstances. There is barely a nod given to the possibility that they might be guided by a different bias. In a question from the audience, media analyst Dennis Perrin asked ABC Israel Bureau Chief Bill Seamans why the media continue to claim that the PLO refused to recognize Israel's rights in the face of a series of statements by Arafat, which he cites, "calling for mutual security guarantees and mutual recognition." Seamans's response is that Arafat "has not made a clearcut, definitive statement recognizing Israel's right to exist," but has always added qualifications. Panelist Howard Squadron of the American Jewish Congress then dismisses Perrin's comments as "utter nonsense," and there the matter ends.
Seamans's comment is quite accurate: Arafat has added the qualification that Palestinians should have rights comparable to those accorded Israeli Jews. It is also true that U.S.-Israeli statements have no taint of ambiguity, being unfailingly rejectionist. That stand, by definition, conforms to the requirements of peace, moderation, and justice, so nothing need be said about it.
I guess that's the end of that argument! Chomsky and Perrin have settled it! Arafat and PLO good. US and Israel bad!
Perhaps in a state of grief over his faltering friendship with Hitchens, Perrin saw the need to sign (along with Chomsky) this petition, which, while purporting to condemn Cuban repression of dissidents, condemns the United States more harshly than Cuba:
Democratic change in Cuba needs to be achieved by the Cuban people themselves. The Cuban government's violations of democratic rights do not justify sanctions or any other form of intervention by the United States in Cuba. The government of the United States � which employs the rhetoric of human rights when doing so promotes its imperial goals, but maintains a discreet silence or makes only token protests when U.S. allies are involved, and which fully supports the barbaric practice of capital punishment, routinely inflicted in the U.S. � is hardly in a position to preach democracy and human rights.
And we recall too the long, criminal record of U.S. interventions in Latin America. This record has included six decades of exploitation and imperial control of Cuba, followed by an attempted invasion and a campaign of international terrorism and economic warfare, that is by now well-documented. Only a government that repudiated this record, renounced any intention of restoring its economic or political domination over Cuba, either directly or through rightwing Cuban-American proxies, and promised to respect the democratic will of the Cuban people themselves would have the moral legitimacy to call for democratic change in Cuba.
As the Bush administration, further emboldened by its military victory in Iraq, threatens to wage "preemptive" wars around the globe we reaffirm our support for the right of self-determination in Cuba and our strong opposition to the U.S. policy of economic sanctions that has brought such suffering to the Cuban people.
At the same time, we support democracy in Cuba. The imprisonment of people for attempting to exercise their rights of free expression is outrageous and unacceptable. We call on the Castro government to release all political prisoners and let the Cuban people speak, write and organize freely.
That'll teach Fidel a lesson or two, won't it?
I know this is getting tedious, but I thought maybe some of my readers would enjoy hearing what Dennis Perrin has to say about sports! (He is an expert, you know.... Wrote a book on the subject!)
Here's what he has to say about white sports fans:
"many white men...are transfixed by black flesh in motion. Dizziness occurs....Perhaps this is why, equilibrium returned, they despise black jocks in celebration."
Hmmmmm.......
I plead guilty to the crime of whiteness. But I'm not much of a sports fan. Is that because I'm don't "despise black jocks?" I have to admit, I've never been "transfixed" one way or another -- and as to the race of those who failed to "transfix" me? It never occurred to me! What am I missing? Should I try again?
I'll have to run this one past some of my friends -- sports fans and otherwise.
Here are more reflections from Perrin, on what makes American sports fans tick:
elements like racism, religion, patriotism, and blood lust intertwine with the love of sport to produce phenomena like Texas high school football fanatics, Hoosier hysteria, and the Yankees' Bleacher Creatures
I knew it! Sports fans are bloodthirsty, racist religious bigots! Not only that, they're (gulp) patriotic!
I am sure there's a wealth of cool quotes from Chairman Perrin I've missed, but I have to stop somewhere. And because I love W.C. Fields, I'll end this by objecting to a remark he made reviewing The Bank Dick. Making a socialist out of poor W.C. Fields simply goes too far:
Fields accurately nails the American tendency to inflate one�s importance, especially if money and fame are at stake.
COME ON!
Perrin is lucky the ferociously anti-tax, anti-New Deal Fields is not still alive:
The great enemy in Fields' films is the busybody, the person who in the time-honored American puritan tradition tries to tell you how to live your life. It may be your boss, your wife, your mother-in-law, the snoopy neighbor, a temperance preacher, a policeman, or an agent of the federal government. But in each case, someone tells you what is good for you and it never turns out to be what you yourself want to do--whether it is drinking, smoking, or simply going to the wrestling matches in the afternoon. Fields evidently was struck by how much time and effort some people devote to interfering in other people's lives for no reason beyond the pleasure of exercising power over them.
Sheesh! What do you suppose would Fields think of someone who tries to interpret his movies as representing a leftish triumphing of the class struggle -- almost 60 years after his death?
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Due to the growth of Microsoft Windows, computers can easily handle several applications running all at one time. Therefore, it's vital that you master the basic of computers. Computers are taking over the majority of the data processing work in the area of finance. They are one of the biggest and most useful inventions to date. The computer is considered the most necessary device to perform our everyday task more smoothly and effortlessly. Unlike most devices, it is one of the few inventions that does not have one specific inventor. Today, home computers use and have the capability to store considerable amounts of information.
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Fishers Green Sailing Club is holding an Open Day on Saturday 4 May.
RYA Push The Boat Out is a fantastic opportunity for you to experience sailing and windsurfing.
RYA clubs and centres across the country are offering a range of 'have a go' and taster sessions throughout May so getting involved could not be easier!
There will be food and refreshments available to purchase so why not make it a great day out in the picturesque Lee Valley?
To find us, use the postcode EN9 2EG and follow yellow signs to the Lee Valley Park Farm, and then follow the track on to the nature reserve and keep going.
There is no need to book but if you are having trouble finding us or have any question please call the clubhouse on 01992 892505.


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1907 () fue un año común comenzado en martes según el calendario gregoriano.

Acontecimientos

Enero
 4 de enero: en la isla indonesia de Sumatra un terremoto de 8,4 y un tsunami dejan un saldo de 2,188 muertos.
 7 de enero: en la Huelga de Río Blanco (Veracruz) el Gobierno manda a matar a obreros huelguistas.
 14 de enero: en Kingston (Jamaica) un fuerte terremoto de 6,2 y un tsunami dejan más de 1.000 muertos y daños materiales.
 18 de enero: en el valle de Koz Koz (actual Panguipulli) en Chile, se realiza el último parlamento mapuche, convocado por el lonko Manuel Curipangui Treulen, tenía como objetivo parlamentar con sus pares acerca de «lo que les pasa en sus reducciones con los huincas que nos quieren quitar la tierra que siempre ha sido de nosotros».

Febrero

 1 de febrero: en Bilbao (España), Blasco Ibáñez estrena su obra El intruso, que constituye una gran manifestación anticlerical.
 5 de febrero: en Madrid (España) sucede una ola de frío; se registran temperaturas de –13 °C.
 7 de febrero: en Montecarlo (Mónaco), Jules Massenet estrena su ópera Therése.
 7 de febrero: Honduras y Nicaragua rompen las relaciones diplomáticas.
 17 de febrero: en la Ciudad de México se inaugura el Palacio Postal, conocido también como la Quinta Casa de Correos, por ser la quinta sede en la capital de este servicio.
 17 de febrero: en Italia tienen lugar manifestaciones anticlericales con motivo del aniversario del asesinato en Roma del religioso, filósofo, astrónomo y poeta napolitano Giordano Bruno (1548-1600) por parte de la Inquisición católica.
 20 de febrero: en San Petersburgo (Rusia) Rimski-Korsakov estrena su ópera La ciudad invisible de Kitege.
 20 de febrero: en Barcelona (España) Santiago Rusiñol estrena su obra La mare.
 21 de febrero: en Berlín (Alemania) Frederick Delius estrena su ópera Romeo y Julieta en la aldea.

Marzo

 15 y 16 de marzo: las elecciones al nuevo Parlamento de Finlandia son las primeras en el mundo con mujeres candidatas así como las primeras elecciones en Europa con sufragio universal. Son elegidas 19 mujeres.

Abril

 14 de abril: en la costa de sur de México, cerca del puerto de Acapulco, ocurre un terremoto de magnitud 7,9 (MW) que afecta a gran parte del país. El movimiento telúrico provocó un tsunami.
 21 de abril: en Santafé de Bogotá (Colombia) se firma el Tratado de Bogotá, después de muchas tentativas para establecer la frontera colombo-brasilera.

Mayo

 17 de mayo: en Rusia, la Duma aborda la situación de la enseñanza, a todas luces insuficiente debido a la falta de escuelas.

Junio

 1 de junio: en Colombia se funda la Escuela Militar de Cadetes General José María Córdova, el principal centro de formación del Ejército Nacional de Colombia.
 15 de junio: en La Haya (Países Bajos) se inaugura la Segunda Conferencia de la Paz, con asistencia de representantes de 44 estados.
 18 de junio: en Barcelona Prat de la Riba es designado presidente de la Diputación de Barcelona.

Julio

 11 de julio: en Firmat (Argentina) se funda el Firmat Football Club.
 7 de julio: en España, Alfonso XIII concede el título de ciudad a Miranda de Ebro.
 20 de junio: Julius Neubronner,           farmacéutico y fotógrafo amateur alemán, patentaba un ingenioso método para obtener fotografías aéreas mediante una cámara adaptada para instalarse en una paloma, algo que, hoy, muchos consideran el origen de los drones modernos. La paloma-cámara tenía un gran potencial como instrumento de inteligencia y por eso fueron realizados varios ensayos. Sin embargo, importantes avances en la aviación terminaron por desplazar a las palomas de Neubronner, que de cualquier modo pasó a la historia como un adelantado a su época.

Agosto

 1 de agosto: en la isla de Brownsea (sur de Inglaterra) Robert Baden-Powell inaugura el primer campamento scout, que finalizará el 9 de agosto.
 31 de agosto: el conde Aleksandr Izvolski por Rusia y Sir Arthur Nicolson por Reino Unido firman la Entente anglo-rusa, parte integrante de la Triple Entente, para repartirse Irán en dos zonas de influencia, al norte y al sur.

Septiembre

 12 de septiembre: se funda el equipo de fútbol llamado Real Betis Balompié.
 13 de septiembre: en Filipinas ―en el marco de la Guerra de independencia contra Estados Unidos―, el ejército invasor ejecuta en la horca al presidente democrático Macario Sakay y León (36).
 26 de septiembre: Nueva Zelanda se independiza del Imperio británico.
 30 de septiembre: en Chile se crea la Reserva Nacional Malleco, primer área silvestre protegida de Chile y Latinoamérica.

Octubre

 21 de octubre: en Tayikistán (Asia Central), un terremoto de 8.1 grados en la escala de Richter destruye la ciudad de Qaratog, 50 km al oeste de Dusambé (la capital de Tayik) y 360 km al sureste de Samarcanda. Muere la totalidad de sus habitantes (entre 12.000 y 15.000 personas).
 23 de octubre: Un terremoto de 5,9 sacude el sur de Italia dejando 167 muertos.

Noviembre

 10 de noviembre: se funda el Club Natació Barcelona en la ciudad de Barcelona, primer club de natación creado en España.

Diciembre

 21 de diciembre: en Iquique (Chile) el Gobierno nacional manda matar a todos los obreros del salitre reunidos en el patio de escuela «Santa María de Iquique» (Matanza de la Escuela Santa María de Iquique).
 21 de diciembre: en Francia, la ley de separación Iglesia-Estado, aprobada el 9 de diciembre de 1905, es ampliada por la Cámara francesa con la reversión de los bienes de la Iglesia.
 Guerra entre Nicaragua y Honduras (junto con El Salvador).
 En Ámsterdam se realiza el Congreso Internacional Anarquista, donde participa el reconocido militante libertario Errico Malatesta.
 En Japón se crea el primer anime nipona con imágenes de movimiento llamado  Katsudō Shashin.

Nacimientos

Enero

 1 de enero:
Leonid Brézhnev, político soviético (f. 1982).
María Rosa Urraca Pastor, política española (f. 1984).
 7 de enero: Nicanor Zabaleta, músico español (f. 1993).
 12 de enero: Serguéi Pávlovich Koroliov, ingeniero y diseñador jefe de la carrera espacial soviético, equivalente a Wernher von Braun (f. 1966).
 22 de enero: nace María de Regla Dávila de León, XI Marquesa de Mirabal, aristócrata española.

Febrero

 3 de febrero: Rafael Lorente Escudero, arquitecto uruguayo (f. 1992).
 5 de febrero: Felipe Martínez Altamirano, general del ejército mexicano (f. 1982).
 11 de febrero:
Josep Maria Guinot, teólogo y filólogo español (f. 2005).
Hernán Benítez, sacerdote católico argentino, asesor de Evita Perón (f. 1996).
José Borobio Ojeda, arquitecto español (f. 1984).
 16 de febrero:
Fernando Previtali, director de orquesta italiano (f. 1985).
Julián Rejala, guitarrista paraguayo (f. 1981).
 21 de febrero: Wystan Hugh Auden, poeta y ensayista estadounidense de origen británico (f. 1973).
 22 de febrero: Robert Young, actor estadounidense (f. 1998).
 28 de febrero: Milton Caniff, historietista estadounidense (f. 1988).

Marzo

 10 de marzo: Francisco José Orlich Bolmarcich, político costarricense, presidente entre 1962 y 1966 (f. 1969).
 12 de marzo: José Guerra Vicente, compositor, violonchelista y profesor lusobrasileño (f. 1976).
 13 de marzo: María Pía de Sajonia-Coburgo Gotha y Braganza, escritora y periodista portuguesa, pretendiente al trono (f. 1995).
 19 de marzo: Elizabeth Maconchy, compositora inglesa (f. 1994).
 22 de marzo: Lucía dos Santos, pastora portuguesa, vidente de la virgen de Fátima (f. 2005).

Abril

4 de abril: Marcos Falcón Briceño, diplomático y político venezolano (f. 1998).
 9 de abril: Arturo Rotor, médico, funcionario, músico y escritor filipino (f. 1988).
 14 de abril: François Duvalier, presidente haitiano (f. 1971).
 15 de abril: George Platt Lynes, fotógrafo estadounidense (f. 1955).
 16 de abril: Antonio Ortiz Mena, abogado y economista mexicano (f. 2007).
 20 de abril: Gabriel Casaccia, escritor y periodista paraguayo (f. 1980).
 21 de abril: Enrique Líster, militar y político español (f. 1995).
 29 de abril: Fred Zinnemann, cineasta austriaco (f. 1997).

Mayo

 12 de mayo: Katharine Hepburn, actriz estadounidense (f. 2003).
 13 de mayo: Daphne du Maurier, escritora británica (f. 1989).
 14 de mayo: Mauricio Cardozo Ocampo, músico paraguayo (f. 1982).
 22 de mayo:
Laurence Olivier, actor británico (f. 1989).
Hergé, historietista belga (f. 1983).
 26 de mayo: John Wayne, actor estadounidense (f. 1979).

Junio

 4 de junio: Rosalind Russell, actriz norteamericana (f. 1976).
 6 de junio: Charlo, cantante, pianista, actor y compositor argentino (f. 1990).
 16 de junio: Enrique de la Mora, arquitecto mexicano (f. 1978).
 18 de junio: Frithjof Schuon, filósofo, pintor y poeta suizo (f. 1998).
 23 de junio: James Meade, economista británico, premio en Ciencias Económicas en memoria de Alfred Nobel (f. 1995).

Julio

 6 de julio: Frida Kahlo, pintora mexicana (f. 1954).
 7 de julio: Robert A. Heinlein, escritor estadounidense (f. 1988).
 16 de julio: Barbara Stanwyck, actriz estadounidense (f. 1990).
 22 de julio: Zubir Said, compositor singapurense (f. 1987).
 24 de julio: Vitaliano Brancati, escritor italiano (f. 1954).

Agosto

 2 de agosto: Gustav Schwarzenegger, jefe de policía austriaco, padre de Arnold Schwarzenegger (f. 1972).
 3 de agosto: Yang Shangkun, político chino, presidente entre 1988 y 1993 (f. 1998).
 10 de agosto: Corisco, cangaceiro brasileño (f. 1940).
 13 de agosto: Emilio Sereni, periodista, partisano y político italiano (f. 1977).
 15 de agosto: Carmen Conde, escritora española (f. 1996).
 20 de agosto: Anatole Fistoulari, director de orquesta y músico ucraniano británico (f. 1995).
 22 de agosto: Luis Felipe Vivanco, poeta español (f. 1975).

Septiembre

 21 de septiembre: Juan Alcaide, poeta español (f. 1951).
 23 de septiembre: Eduardo Nuño de Braganza, noble portugués (f. 1976).
 25 de septiembre: Josefina de la Torre, poeta, novelista, cantante lírica y actriz española vinculada a la Generación del 27 (f. 2002).
 26 de septiembre: Anthony Blunt, espía inglés, miembro de Los cinco de Cambridge (f. 1983).
 27 de septiembre: Raúl Silva Henríquez, cardenal chileno (f. 1999).
 29 de septiembre: Gene Autry, actor y cantante estadounidense (f. 1998).

Octubre

 2 de octubre: Víctor Paz Estenssoro, político boliviano, presidente en 1952-1956, 1960-1964, y 1985-1989 (f. 2001).
 6 de octubre:
Janet Gaynor, actriz estadounidense (f. 1984).
Francisco Gabilondo Soler, compositor mexicano (f. 1990).
 9 de octubre: Jacques Tati, realizador y actor francés (f. 1982).
 10 de octubre: Firpo Segura, luchador y boxeador mexicano (f. 1968).
 16 de octubre: Sergio Salvador, futbolista paraguayo (f. 1975).
 20 de octubre: Christopher Caudwell, escritor británico (f. 1937).
 22 de octubre: Günther Treptow, tenor alemán (f. 1981).
 28 de octubre: Sergio Méndez Arceo, obispo socialista mexicano (f. 1992).

Noviembre

 1 de noviembre: Homero Manzi, escritor argentino (f. 1951).
 4 de noviembre: Henry Heerup, artista danés (f. 1993).
 5 de noviembre: Isabel Rosado, educadora, trabajadora social y activista puertorriqueña (f.2015)
 7 de noviembre: Nita Costa, política y filántropa brasileña (f. 1963).
 11 de noviembre: Débora Arango, pintora colombiana (f. 2005).
 14 de noviembre: Pedro Arrupe, religioso jesuita vasco (f. 1991).
 15 de noviembre: Claus von Stauffenberg, militar alemán (f. 1944).
 18 de noviembre: Compay Segundo, músico cubano (f. 2003).
 22 de noviembre: Bernardo Verbitsky, escritor y periodista argentino (f. 1979).
 28 de noviembre: Alberto Moravia, escritor italiano (f. 1990).

Diciembre

 10 de diciembre: Lucien Laurent, futbolista francés (f. 2005).
 15 de diciembre: Oscar Niemeyer, arquitecto brasileño (f. 2012).
 27 de diciembre:
Sebastian Haffner, periodista y escritor alemán (f. 1999).
Mary Edgar Mussi (alias Mary Howard y Josephine Edgar), escritora británica (f. 1991).

Sin fecha exacta conocida

 Victoria Bertrand, poetisa hondureña (f. 1952).
 Rosa Wernicke, escritora y poeta argentina (f. 1971).

Fallecimientos

 8 de enero: Gabriela Laperrière de Coni, escritora, periodista, socialista y feminista francoargentina (n. 1866).
 20 de enero: Dmitri Mendeléyev, químico ruso, creador de la tabla periódica de los elementos (n. 1834).
 15 de febrero: Antonio Paredes, militar y político venezolano (n. 1869).
 16 de febrero: Giosuè Carducci, poeta italiano, premio nobel de literatura en 1906 (n. 1835).
 17 de febrero: Wilhelm von Bezold, físico y meteorólogo alemán (n. 1837).
 20 de febrero: Henri Moissan, químico francés, premio nobel de química en 1906 (n. 1852).
 1 de marzo: August Manns, director de orquesta alemán (n. 1825).
 26 de marzo: Émile Dubois, criminal francés (n. 1867).
 3 de abril: Theodor Aufrecht, indólogo alemán (n. 1822).
 4 de abril: Numa Pompilio Llona, poeta ecuatoriano (n. 1832).
 4 de septiembre: Edvard Grieg, compositor noruego (n. 1843).
 7 de septiembre: Sully Prudhomme, poeta francés, premio nobel de literatura en 1901 (n. 1839).
 13 de septiembre: Macario Sakay (36), presidente filipino (n. 1870).
 16 de septiembre: Julio Ruelas, pintor y grabador simbolista mexicano (n. 1870).
 27 de septiembre: Fermín Salvochea, anarquista español (n. 1842).
 16 de octubre: Isaac Newell, fundador del club Newell's Old Boys (n. 1853).
 1 de noviembre: Alfred Jarry, escritor francés.
 4 de noviembre: Diego Barros Arana, pedagogo, diplomático e historiador chileno (n. 1830).
 17 de diciembre: William Thomson, físico británico.
 21 de noviembre: Paula Modersohn-Becker, pintora alemana (n. 1876).
 23 de noviembre: John F. Peto, pintor estadounidense (n. 1854).
 23 de diciembre: Pierre Janssen, astrónomo francés (n. 1824).

Arte y literatura

Literatura
 Máximo Gorki: La madre.
 Jacinto Benavente: Los intereses creados.
 Miguel de Unamuno: Niebla.
 Guillaume Apollinaire: Las once mil vergas.
 Delmira Agustini: El libro blanco.
 August Strindberg: El pelícano
 Joseph Conrad: El agente secreto.
 Edith Nesbit: El castillo encantado.

Pintura
 George Bellows: Ciervo en Sharkey.
 Henri Matisse: Toilette.
 Pablo Picasso: Las señoritas de Avignon.

Ciencia y tecnología

Biología
 Ross Harrison inicia el cultivo de tejidos in vitro.

Filosofía
 Henri Bergson: La evolución creadora.

Física
 Hendrik Lorentz: Ensayos de Física teórica.
 Otto Hahn realiza experimentos sobre el radio-torio.
 Lee de Forest patenta el triodo (lámpara de tres electrodos).

Música
 Claude Debussy: Iberia.
 Maurice Ravel: Rapsodia española.

Premios Nobel
 Física: Albert Abraham Michelson
 Química: Eduard Buchner
 Medicina: Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran
 Literatura: Rudyard Kipling
 Paz: Ernesto Teodoro Moneta y Louis Renault

Deportes
 15 de abril: en la ciudad de Santa Fe (Argentina) se funda el Club Atlético Unión, pionero en el fútbol santafesino y del interior del país.
 7 de septiembre: en Carcarañá (Argentina) se funda el Club Atlético y Biblioteca Campaña.
 12 de septiembre: en Sevilla (España) se funda el Sevilla Balompié (no relacionado con el actual Sevilla FC), precursor del actual Real Betis Balompié.
 28 de septiembre: en Cantabria (España) se funda Real Sociedad Gimnástica de Torrelavega, club decano de la región.
 17 de octubre: en Italia se funda el club de fútbol Atalanta Bergamasca Calcio.

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Alumna's gift to 'Friends of Patrick' boosts brain research for grad students
July 17, 2020 by Sean McNeely - A&S News
Patrick Widdrington is the inspiration behind Friends of Patrick.Photo credit: Lucinda Widdrington.
Graduate students are being given an amazing opportunity to advance cognitive neuroscience research, thanks to a fund created to honour Patrick Widdrington.
The generous gift to the Department of Psychology from Patrick's mother, Lucinda Widdrington, will enable graduate students to explore state-of-the-art neuroimaging to better understand how the brain develops and functions.
Widdrington, a Faculty of Arts & Science alumna, made the gift to The Friends of Patrick fMRI Brain Acceleration Fund, which she helped create in 2017 with her aunt, Colleen Lapp, and close friend (and fellow alumna), Brenda Blackwell (née Thompson).
"Friends of Patrick will be a constant reminder to reflect upon a young man who, while unable to attend university, is a teacher to many," says Widdrington who graduated with a bachelor of arts degree in 1982 as a member of Victoria College.
Patrick Widdrington, 25, was born with a newly identified and extremely rare syndrome, DYRK1A. Photo: Lucinda Widdrington.
Patrick, 25 years old and a twin, was born with significant cognitive, physical, social and emotional challenges. He has lived with developmental delays, autism and epilepsy, and has undergone several cardiac surgeries.
Doctors recently discovered he was born with a newly identified and extremely rare syndrome, DYRK1A — a syndrome caused by mutations in the DYRK1A gene that is characterized by intellectual disabilities, speech problems, feeding problems and physical movement difficulties.
"He's really quite a kid," says Widdrington. "Despite all the obstacles he's had to live with, he's fearless. And he's just a very emotionally intuitive young man. He loves his life and loves being with people."
Widdrington credits Blackwell, whom she met at Victoria College, with getting Friends of Patrick off the ground.
"She always recognized in Patrick a very engaging child, despite the disabilities he had," says Widdrington. "She recognized a child who had a lot more going on. It was always in her mind to do something."
Emerging from humble roots, Friends of Patrick began with small fundraisers that attracted friends and family. This grew to supporting students, hosting guest lectures and organizing networking events, which led to Widdrington, Lapp and Blackwell receiving U of T's prestigious Arbor Award in 2019 for their outstanding volunteer work.
Inspired by her son, Arts & Science alumna created Friends of Patrick to advance cognitive neuroscience research. Photo: Lucinda Widdrington.
This year, Widdrington took Friends of Patrick to the next level.
Her latest gift helped create an endowment of $50,000 that will provide an annual award to a graduate student pursuing imaging work with the University's functional magnetic imaging (fMRI) scanner.
"With COVID-19 happening, we didn't want Friends of Patrick to lose momentum, so I was happy to step forward," says Widdrington.
Acquired in 2016, the fMRI allows researchers to probe brain activity in real time, giving them a rare opportunity to examine the relationship between the brain and behaviour by visualizing information transfer.
Professor Susanne Ferber, former chair of the Department of Psychology, has also been involved with Friends of Patrick from the beginning.
"I was immediately on board," she says. "It struck me as such a worthwhile case to support. Lucinda is the most caring and warm person. In fact, everyone involved with Friends of Patrick is absolutely wonderful people.
"Lucinda and Brenda met at U of T and stayed close. If you're the kind of person who maintains lifelong friendships through hardships and uncertainty, it speaks to who you are as a person."
Ferber sees Widdrington's generous gift as a way of buying precious time with the fMRI — time that could allow students to broaden their research scopes.
"It might help them think a little more boldly," says Ferber. "Typically, when you buy time on the fMRI machine, you buy in hour increments and it's really expensive. We try to be conservative in the experiments we run, but a lot of advances in science are happenstance. Sometimes you need to think big to find something unexpected, but there's not always time and money to do it.
Susanne Ferber, the former chair of the Department of Psychology has been involved with Friends of Patrick since its inception in 2017.
"This initiative alleviates the pressure of time and money a little and encourages students to think a little more broadly. They can use these funds to test a new idea in the fMRI scanner and see if it works."
"It will be wonderful to see the students working on this machine and advancing their knowledge in Patrick's name," says Widdrington. "It's not specific to any brain issue. It can be memory, it can be autism, it can be dementia — there are a whole list of things this fMRI machine can look into.
"Professor Ferber has really been terrific to work with," she continues. "She is such a humanitarian. She has spoken so highly of Patrick and of all that we've tried to do."
Widdrington now has her sights set on raising $250,000 for Friends of Patrick.
"We would like to see this fund grow and give more researchers and students access to neuroimaging with the fMRI machine to really expand the research," she says.
"This is the first time in the history of our department that we have done anything like this," says Ferber. "We didn't really have any blueprints that we could follow, so it really just came out of people coming together, seeing a worthy cause and pushing it forward."
Learn more about Friends of Patrick:
Friends of Patrick from Peter Widdrington on Vimeo.
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