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Human tower collapses during traditional Spanish festival
Yesterday, hundreds of Spaniards took part in a traditional human tower building competition in Tarragona. Members of the Castellers de Sants constructed a number of towers that teetered on collapse throughout the day during the 22nd Tarragona Castells contest.
Surprise surprise, the inevitable happened. Yesterday, hundreds of Spaniards took part in a traditional human tower building competition in Tarragona. Members of the Castellers d... more -
Human Towers in Spain (photos)
Photographs from the 22nd Tarragona Castells Competition in Tarragona, Spain on Sunday, October 5, 2008.
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As part of Chicago Artists Month, FRANCISCO ROSADO & FRANK PINK
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As part of Chicago Artists Month, FRANCISCO ROSADO & FRANK PINK
Present their show * Postales Plasticas*--Plastic Postcards
OCTOBER 4-25 (opening 4-5pm on October 4)
At:
Humboldt Park Public Library
1605 N. Troy Street, 60647
(312) 744-2244
Hours
· Mon 9:00 AM-8:00 PM
· Tue 9:00 AM-8:00 PM
· Wed 9:00 AM-8:00 PM
· Thu 9:00 AM-8:00 PM
· Fri 9:00 AM-5:00 PM
· Sat 9:00 AM-5:00 PM
· Sun CLOSED-
Chicago Artists Month, organized by the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, returns this October for its thirteenth year. The month-long event presents unique opportunities for the public to view artists at work and explore Chicago's vibrant visual arts community. From exhibitions to neighborhood art walks, open studio tours, and more, everyone is invited to events at over 200 galleries, museums, cultural centers, and arts buildings throughout Chicago. Many are right here in our ward.
This year's events will highlight Artists and Issues that Matter. Anticipating the November election, the theme explores issues of interest and concern to artists and the art community, including political, environmental, moral, social, global, or personal issues.
For a complete schedule of Chicago Artist Month events, visit www.chicagoartistsmonth.org or call 312.744.6630. Brochures with program information are available at all participating program sites and the City's Visitor Information Centers located at Chicago Water Works, 163 E. Pearson Street, and the Chicago Cultural Center, 77 E. Randolph Street. http://www.artreview.com/profile/FranciscoRosadoElPegador As part of Chicago Artists Month, FRANCISCO ROSADO & FRANK PINK ... more -
Las mentiras de Palin y Biden, al descubierto en la red
In Spain also followed the U.S. elections with interest. "Palin's lies and Biden, uncovered in the network"
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Picasso's verbal artistry
We all know the great Pablo Picasso for his iconic artworks, but who'd have though he was a wordsmith as well!
See link for samples of his poetry, some pretty much as cyptic as his paintings... We all know the great Pablo Picasso for his iconic artworks, but who'd have though he was a wordsmith as well! ... more -
Country Fast Facts: Spain
(CBS)Spain's powerful world empire of the 16th and 17th centuries ultimately yielded command of the seas to England.
Subsequent failure to embrace the mercantile and industrial revolutions caused the country to fall behind Britain, France, and Germany in economic and political power.
Spain remained neutral in World Wars I and II but suffered through a devastating civil war (1936-39).
A peaceful transition to democracy following the death of dictator Francisco Franco in 1975, and rapid economic modernization (Spain joined the EU in 1986) have given Spain one of the most dynamic economies in Europe and made it a global champion of freedom.
Continuing challenges include Basque Fatherland and Liberty (ETA) terrorism and relatively high unemployment. (CBS)Spain's powerful world empire of the 16th and 17th centuries ultimately yielded command of the seas to England. ... more -
Kid's "temporary" tattoo leaves permanent Bart Simpson shape scar
Why you shouldn't let your three year old get henna tattoos on the street, Reason #476:
He might have an adverse reaction to said "henna" that will leave a burn and permanent scar in the shape of whatever cartoon character you let him get. Why you shouldn't let your three year old get henna tattoos on the street, Reason #476: ... more -
Spain holds 121 over child porn
Police in Spain have arrested 121 people in the country's biggest ever crackdown on internet child pornography.
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Sry 4 ur loss: Madrid mortuary offers condolences-via-text service
Too busy to deal with the loss of a loved one? A Madrid mortuary understands that some people are just too busy to attend funerals and deal with death in general, and so it has set up a service to allow customers to offer condolences... via text message. Nothing says sympathy like "2 bad 4 ur dad xoxo".
photo via flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/janiie-art/856480560/ Too busy to deal with the loss of a loved one? A Madrid mortuary understands that some people are just too busy to attend funerals and... more -
Glitter banned from foreign trip
Gary Glitter has been banned from travelling to Spain by police, it has been revealed. As he is on the sex offenders register, he is obliged to tell authorities of any travel plans seven days in advance. Gary Glitter has been banned from travelling to Spain by police, it has been revealed. As he is on the sex offenders register, he is o... more
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Binge Drinking Español
Since the demise of Franco, young Spaniards have gathered spontaneously in large groups to drink in public spaces. The phenomenon is known as 'botellón' and the record number for such a gathering is 15 000 in Granada.
Recently, however, authorities have clamped down and young people are being fined 300 Euros for drinking in public. Some Spaniards see this as an attack on personal freedoms while others struggle to pay for expensive drinks in bars.
The compromise is to be relegated to a car park on the edge of the city... Since the demise of Franco, young Spaniards have gathered spontaneously in large groups to drink in public spaces. The phenomenon is k... more -
Manchester City bidding for Atletico Wonder kid?
Atletico Madrid have told skysports.com that they have not been approached by Manchester City over Sergio Aguero.
The 20-year-old Argentine star, nicknamed Kun, is on his way to being one of the most highly-regarded players in world football.
Having become the youngest player in Argentine football history - breaking the record of Diego Maradona - he joined Atletico Madrid from Independiente in 2006 for a fee in excess of £15million.
Now fully settled in the Spanish capital, Aguero is shining and many are putting him on par with the likes of Cristiano Ronaldo, Kaka and Lionel Messi.
City under the ownership of Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al Nahyan's Abu Dhabi United Group now have the financial power to rival anyone in world football and the Premier League club want the world's best players.
They showed their willingness to spend when they broke the British transfer record to pay Real Madrid over £30million for Robinho and they are ready to continue spending big.
Interest
After confirming their interest in the likes of Ronaldo, Fernando Torres and Cesc Fabregas - they have also seemingly added Aguero to their list of potential targets.
Two City scouts were present in Getafe on Wednesday to watch Atletico in action as they won 2-1.
Now City are said to be ready to pay Aguero's get-out clause in order to land him. The Argentine's current deal has four years left and the buy-out is €60million (£47million).
However, Atletico sources have confirmed to skysports.com that there has been no contact between the two clubs.
"There is no news on this subject, neither City or any other club have contacted us about Kun and Atletico is not interested in seeing the exit of this player," the sources confirmed.
The player himself has always stated his desire is to remain with Atletico.
"My head is with Atletico and I am happy here," he said earlier this month.
His coach Javier Aguirre also insists the player will not be leaving.
"On the subject of him possibly leaving, he has a contract here, he is happy here and I'm sure that is going to want to stay," he said.
"Sergio, I truly believe, is going to do very good things here." Atletico Madrid have told skysports.com that they have not been approached by Manchester City over Sergio Aguero. ... more -
McCain's straight mess express
Pepe Escobar: From his lobbyists, to the economy and foreign policy, McCain's express off the rails.
John McCain has been in Washington for 26 years. In the last 8 years he voted with George W. Bush 90% of the time. He admits he knows nothing about economics. Even some of his advisers admit he cannot run a company. But he knows K street very well – the campaign of the self-styled maverick happens to be swamped by lobbyists working all around here.
Pepe Escobar, born in Brazil is the roving correspondent for Asia Times and an analyst for The Real News Network. He's been a foreign correspondent since 1985, based in London, Milan, Los Angeles, Paris, Singapore, and Bangkok. Since the late 1990s, he has specialized in covering the arc from the Middle East to Central Asia, including the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. He has made frequent visits to Iran and is the author of Globalistan and also Red Zone Blues: A Snapshot of Baghdad During the Surge both published by Nimble Books in 2007. Pepe Escobar: From his lobbyists, to the economy and foreign policy, McCain's express off the rails. ... more -
Spain pays jobless immigrants to leave
Move comes as government grapples with downward-spiraling economy
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Spain Braced for Opening of Civil War's Mass Graves
Investigators digging into the brutal repression unleashed by General Francisco Franco will this week complete a list of 130,000 names of those killed during and after Spain's civil war as the country prepares to face the full horror of what has often been treated as a shameful national secret.
The list will be handed over to the controversial magistrate, Baltasar Garzón, whose preliminary investigations have already provoked a fierce row over whether a mass grave thought to contain the remains of the poet and playwright Federico García Lorca should be exhumed.
Portuguese Nobel laureate José Saramago has become the latest intellectual heavyweight to join the clamour for graves across the country, including that of Lorca, to be opened up so that the victims can be properly identified and their remains handed to relatives. 'The recovery of Lorca's remains, buried alongside thousands of others, should become a national imperative,' said Saramago, who now lives in Spain.
Other writers argued that Lorca should be left to lie in peace, while many on the political right accuse Garzón of stirring up old hatreds. 'We shouldn't be bartering with bodies,' said the novelist Francisco Ayala.
The report, due to be handed over this week, will reveal the size of the task ahead for those determined to dig up the graves and break Spain's pact of silence about the violence unleashed against Franco's opponents.
Hundreds of mass graves containing an unknown number of bodies are spread across the country. Historians estimate that death squads and kangaroo courts liquidated between 90,000 and 180,000 political opponents during and after Spain's civil war in the late 1930s.
Lorca's grave is one of the few to have been identified with any degree of certainty, though there are still doubts about whether the place marked beside an olive tree on a hillside overlooking the southern city of Granada is the right one. The Lorca family's decision to stop fighting a possible exhumation was greeted last week as a sign that the movement to dig up the mass graves had now become unstoppable.
Garzón has also ordered state bureaucrats and the Roman Catholic church to hand over to investigators all relevant documentation - much of which has been unavailable to historians over most of the past six decades. Doubts still remain, however, about whether Garzón can carry the investigation any further. Many of the crimes committed happened so long ago that they are covered by a 1977 amnesty law.
The judge has previously used international human rights law to investigate the abuses of Latin American dictatorships and even ordered the arrest of Chile's General Augusto Pinochet in London in 1998.
This is the first time, however, that a major Spanish court has acted to investigate crimes committed during the country's civil war. Investigators digging into the brutal repression unleashed by General Francisco Franco will this week complete a list of 130,000 names... more -
Nadal sees Spain into Davis Cup final
Rafael Nadal has soundly beaten Andy Roddick in straight sets to take Spain into the finals of Tennis' Davis Cup.
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Three car bombs hit Basque region in under 24 hours
At least seven people have been injured in a car bomb outside a police station in Ondarroa, in the Basque region of northern Spain.
Three policemen were among those hurt. Earlier, another car bomb exploded in the outskirts of the regional capital Vitoria but no-one was injured. Basque separatist group Eta phoned in a warning before the Vitoria blast. The attacks come at a time of increased turbulence in Basque politics, the BBC's Steve Kingstone, in Madrid, says. Spain's supreme court recently declared two Basque nationalist parties illegal because of alleged links to Eta.
The first car bomb exploded next to the headquarters of the Caja Vital Kutxa bank near the Basque regional capital, Vitoria, a regional Interior Ministry official said. It caused damage but no-one was injured. Several hours later, another car bomb detonated outside a police station in the port town of Ondarroa. Three police officers and four civilians were treated for minor injuries, including cuts and ear damage. Officials said two suspected bombers parked a car close to the outside wall of the station, threw a Molotov cocktail to attract attention and then detonated the car bomb.
Eta has claimed responsibility for killing more than 800 people in its four-decade campaign to set up an independent state straddling northern Spain and south-western France. At least seven people have been injured in a car bomb outside a police station in Ondarroa, in the Basque region of northern Spain. ... more -
Haass: How Obama and McCain See the World | |
The debate shouldn't be a chance to play gotcha. What the candidates know about the world is less important than how they think about it. The debate shouldn't be a chance to play gotcha. What the candidates know about the world is less important than how they think a... more
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Spain To Pay Jobless Immigrants To Leave
Spain will pay jobless immigrants to go home under a decree approved Friday, more dramatic evidence of how a once-booming economy has quickly gone bust.
Labor Minister Celestino Corbacho said the Cabinet had fast-tracked the measure to take effect in about a month. Its approval by Parliament is expected.
The plan targets tens of thousands of non-EU citizens who have been laid off in Spain and are entitled to various unemployment benefits, based on length of employment. The plan, however, offers them 40 percent of their full entitlement once they renounce their work and residency permits, and the remaining 60 percent once they get home.
The program is strictly voluntary, and applies to people from 19 non-EU countries with which Spain has signed bilateral agreements to pay people's social security benefits that are accrued one another's country.
People who sign up for it must agree not to come back to Spain for three years, but can come back after that and recover their work and residency permits.
The government has been grappling with growing unemployment in an economy now flirting with recession after more than a decade of solid growth. Spanish unemployment is now an EU-high of 10.7 percent, according to the bloc's statistical agency Eurostat.
The meltdown stems mainly from a collapse in the construction industry, which apart from being the main engine of growth has also been a key employment source for low-skill workers from Latin America, North Africa and Eastern Europe.
These immigrants are being hit by building companies' layoffs, and are the ones the government now wants to pay to go home until things get better in Spain.
"We are trying to facilitate the return of those workers who, having contributed to the growth of this country, decide to go back to their own," Deputy Prime Minister Maria Teresa Fernandez de la Vega told a news conference. She gave no further details.
In July, the government said it believed some 10,000 jobless non-EU citizens - out of a total of 165,000 recorded as of that month - would go along with the plan. Spain will pay jobless immigrants to go home under a decree approved Friday, more dramatic evidence of how a once-booming economy has ... more -
The Pain in Spain Falls Mainly on John McCain
Putin the leader of Germany, Czechoslovakia still a country, Sunnis and Shiites the same, Al Qaeda and Iran the same, Iraq shares a border with Pakistan, "Bomb, Bomb, Bomb, Iran", and now when asked if elected, would he receive Spain's Prime Minister Zapatero in the White House, he replied "Honestly, I have to analyze our relationships, situations and priorities." OUCH!
Not a good future for foreign relations if this incompetent buffoon gets into power... Putin the leader of Germany, Czechoslovakia still a country, Sunnis and Shiites the same, Al Qaeda and Iran the same, Iraq shares a bo... more
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