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Spanish National Holiday: Wednesday, 12 Oct.
Fiesta Nacional de España is one of two “national days” of Spain and is held annually every 12 October on the day that Christopher Columbus discovered the Americas in 1492. Source: https://publicholidays.es/fiesta-nacional-de-espana/
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Flamenco Concert by Farruquito: Saturday, 15Oct. 8pm
Teatro Villa de Torrox. €6 (Very inexpensive for a Farruquito show, and in an unusually small, intimate venue, as is part of a programme sponsored by Junta de Andalucia. Compare that to the very cheapest balcony tickets at his gig next week in Toronto, starting at €165, and the show is 97% sold already. Treat yourself to a very special Spanish night out, dress up to blend in! The bars and cafes will be abuzz after the show. Please don’t drink and drive.) Address is Av. Isaac Albéniz, 3, Torrox, Málaga 29793. VIDEO LINK
Info & Tix: https://www.mientrada.net/evento/farruquito-intimo/
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XXVII Medieval Festival of Elche: Thurs., Oct 20 until Tues., Nov 1. With concerts, theatrical performances, lectures and activities for the little ones, and all this with the Middle Ages as a theme.
Info: https://festivalmedieval.com/
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Mijas Cheese and Wine Festival: Fri, 21Oct – Sun, 23Oct.
Plaza Virgen de la Peña, Mijas.
– Live entertainment between midday and 11pm
– Sixteen stands offering local wines and cheeses, and local delicacies.
https://turismo.mijas.es/en/gastronomia/iv-cheese-wine-festival
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Great Deals From The Nerja Household Centre:
– Preloved Danish tallboy with 2 matching bedside tables. Natural wood & yute color paint. Measurements 53 x 42 x 121cms tallboy 53 x 42 x 60cms Price 180€ ( for the set ). Contact Jackie /nerja 672170429
info at nerja household centre dot com
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For Sale: Sofa bed, “libro” type. Few years old but hardly used. Orange fabric. Buyer moves and collects. €50
Carole, El Morche; carolemhart@yahoo.com
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For Sale:
– Two black suitcases for €30 the set. Buyer collects. Carol, Caleta de Velez
Email: carolDOTbausa@yahooDOTcom
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For Sale: Two heavy window grills, 1.3 high x 1.2 wide, 30 euros.
Buyer to collect. Terry, Sayalonga. 692357364.
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For Sale: Kitchen cabinet, H 2,15 m. Width 1,50 m, depth 0,41 m. Good condition. Price €105. Pick-up yourself, it consists of 2 parts.
Viviane, Torrox Costa,
Viviane.gommers@gmail.com
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For Rent, Long Term: A 100 square metre attic, with a double bedroom, lounge, kitchen, fireplace, garage, huge terrace with plants and 360 views. Ready to be lived in, with TV and all modern conveniences in Sayalonga, fifteen minutes drive from the coast. €400 per month + electricity. More details and photos on request.
Jose, Sayalonga 662556332 Whatsapp
jcabezascabello559@yahoo.es
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Natterbox: Hi Digamites!
I hope you are enjoying being in Spain, whether resident full-time or a short-term visitor, and that life has returned to some ‘normality’….whatever that may be!….for you.
Three years ago, I set up a group called ‘Natterbox’ which I described as ‘a short cut to friendship’ (Just to clarify, as there were a couple of misunderstandings last time I posted this- Natterbox is not a dating group). Given what has been happening to us in that time, I am very pleased to say that Natterbox has survived, and earlier this week ten of us met up for an evening of good company & equally good conversation. However, the aftermath of the pandemic and the knock-on effect of Brexit for some of us has led to situations where we sometimes feel a bit like ‘ships in the night’, arriving in Spain just as some friends are leaving and vice versa, so it seems a good time to see if there are any more Digamites out there who would be interested in joining us.
Natterbox is an informal group to be used by members for the sole purpose of meeting up to ‘have a good old natter’. There are no regular meetings, no fixed topics or agendas, and members arrange to meet up spontaneously, in pairs or more whenever the fancy takes them. So, if for instance you arrive in Spain only to find that few of your existing friends are around at that moment, you would be able to contact people in the Natterbox WhatsApp group to see if they fancy a coffee or a copa! Or perhaps several people you know have decided to return to their home country, and you would like to get to know others, then this may appeal to you.
Our members are currently based between Nerja & Torrox & near surrounds, so group get-togethers are confined to either of these locations for the time being. That doesn’t preclude people living in other areas from joining but it would mean you would probably need to travel to those areas.
Please contact me if you are interested, telling me a little about yourself, including where you are based in Spain. I follow up by meeting up for a quick chat to answer any questions you might have and to make sure Natterbox is for you, before adding anyone to our contact list. I look forward to hearing from you.
Jennifer Day. Based in Nerja
jennifer@jday.eu
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News & Articles
(Click the link to read the full article)
{ Translations by www.DeepL.com/Translator }
SPAIN
‘Homologación’ – How Spain is ruining the careers of thousands of qualified foreigners:
– Thousands of doctors, engineers and other highly skilled foreigners are being prevented from working in their fields as they wait for years for their non-EU qualifications to be recognised by Spain’s convoluted bureaucratic system, a nightmare labelled as protectionism and “Kafkaesque”.
– Doctors, veterinarians, pharmacists, nurses, physiotherapists, optometrists, dentists, occupational therapists, psychologists, speech therapists, architects, engineers, lawyers, and more are included.
– Tens of thousands of foreigners in Spain with qualifications from non-EU countries are having their careers put on hold and their lives kept in limbo as Spain’s public administrations take two, three or four years (sometimes even longer) for their regulated qualifications to be processed.
– Regulated professions are those that require Spanish authorities to validate non-EU qualifications through the process of homologación before jobseekers can legally work in their fields.
Full article: https://www.thelocal.es/20221010/homologacion-how-spain-is-ruining-the-careers-of-thousands-of-qualified-foreigners/
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45% of Public Employees Consume Daily Psychoactive Drugs: {Translation, summary}
– Almost half of the public employees in Spain (2.7 million people) consume anxiolytics, antidepressants and sleeping pills on a daily basis, according to a study carried out by the Central Independent Union of Civil Servants (CSIF), on the occasion of World Mental Health Day.
– The workload, the low professional and salary recognition and the bad working environment are the three main causes cited by respondents to resort to the use of psychotropic drugs, according to the ‘Survey on mental health in the workplace’ of the CSIF conducted on a sample of 2,028 public employees aged between 25 and 64 years.
– The questionnaire reveals that 34.2 % use anxiolytics or tranquillisers, 19.6 % antidepressants, 14.4 % hypnosedatives and 10.8 % other types of psychotropic drugs. Fifty-one percent confess that they use this medication on a daily basis, compared with 21% who use it “some times a month”, 15% “in the last year” and 13% “several times a week”. 76% say that work has an influence on the use of these psychoactive substances and 54.2% relate it to an excessive workload, while 44.6% link it to a lack of professional recognition. For 37.7 %, consumption is affected by the bad working environment, citing harassment at work, conflicts at work and even possible aggression. Source, Spanish: https://andaluciainformacion.es/andalucia/1086948/el-45-de-los-empleados-publicos-consume-a-diario-psicofarmacos-segun-csif/
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The man who filled Spain with pistachios: In the land of olive trees and vineyards, one in every 700 square kilometers is now covered with this species, and one man started it all: agricultural engineer José Francisco Couceiro. “I started this mess”, he thinks when he walks through the countryside. Photo: David Expoito. Full article: https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2022-10-08/the-man-who-filled-spain-with-pistachios.html
ANDALUCIA
24 of 30 poorest places in Spain are in Andalucía, data shows:
– Figures just released from the National Institute of Statistics show that 24 of the 30 poorest places in Spain are in Andalucía, headed by El Palmar de Troya in Seville province where the average per capita income is 6,785 euros a year
– All five of the municipalities with the lowest income are in this region: Apart from El Palmar de Troya, the others are Iznalloz (Granada), with an average annual income per inhabitant of 7,036 euros, Albuñol (Granada), with 7,061 euros, Huesa (Jaén), with 7,080 euros and Pruna (Seville), with 7,219 euros. Full article: https://www.surinenglish.com/andalucia/many-spanish-municipalities-20221010103929-nt.html
EUROPE
EU Greenies Target Tourism – European Environment Ministers Agree to Promote Transformation of European Tourism:
– Through the ministerial declaration, the delegates emphasized that the transformation of the tourism sector (by the environmentalists, who, of course, are also experts on tourism???) will be promoted by implementing targeted programs and projects.
– “The Glasgow Declaration on Climate Action in Tourism, launched by UNWTO and partners at the 2021 UN Climate Change Conference (COP26), and the Global Tourism Plastics Initiative, a joint initiative from UNWTO and UNEP were both referenced as key initiatives to help guide the transformation of the sector,” the statement issued by the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) reads, SchengenVisaInfo.com reports.
– Speaking at the Ministerial Conference, State Secretary for the Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development of Croatia, Mario Šiljeg, also emphasized the importance of tourism for European economies and the significant benefits of “embracing innovative approaches, especially moving away from traditional relations of the value chain (?), adopting more systematic circular models (?) of production and consumption.” (So “chains” are bad and “circles” are good? Could they possibly be less clear? Misguided, over reaching EU initiatives like this are one of the prime reasons there is an energy crisis. What exactly are these benefits Šiljeg refers to? What do tourism experts say about having environmentalists telling them how to do their jobs? -Ed.). Full article: https://www.schengenvisainfo.com/news/european-environment-ministers-agree-to-promote-transformation-of-european-tourism/
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Russia blasts Kyiv, other Ukrainian cities in deadly strikes:
– Russia unleashed a lethal barrage of strikes against multiple Ukrainian cities Monday, smashing civilian targets including downtown Kyiv where at least six people were killed amid burnt-out cars and shattered buildings. The onslaught brought back into focus the grim reality of war after months of easing tensions in the capital. Ukraine’s Emergency Service said a total of at least 11 people were killed and 64 were wounded in the morning attacks across Ukraine – the biggest and broadest since the early days of the war.
– Russian President Vladimir Putin said the strikes were in retaliation for what he called Kyiv’s “terrorist” actions – a reference to Ukraine’s attempts to repel Moscow’s invasion forces, including an attack last weekend on a key bridge, prized by the Kremlin, between Russia and the annexed Crimean Peninsula. (Mainstream media has yet to address 2 points in this regard, will this cause a new wave of Ukrainian refugees, and where has the peace movement gone? -Ed.) Full article: https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-kyiv-government-and-politics-8f625861590b9e0dd336dabc0880ac8c
TECH
DoctorLaptop’s Tips #99
Microsoft Telemetry- The Spyware Built Into Windows, and How to Defeat It:
– Security conscious computer users take steps to keep their computers private and secure. They use privacy browsers like Brave, they use privacy search engines like DuckDuckGo and they always connect to the internet with a premium VPN.
– Yet Microsoft still collects some of your data, in a data dump sent directly from your Windows system, that bypasses all the security precautions. They share this data with their “business partners”, so it is not secure. What exactly do they collect, even after you turn off all the data collection permissions in Settings? Here is a list:
– All the text you have typed from your keyboard, every 30 minutes, including passwords.
– What type of hardware you use.
– Device driver details.
– A list of all multimedia file from your computer is also transmitted. Yes, Microsoft keeps an updated list of every song, video and movie on your hard drive!
– Microsoft gets the first 35 MB of data from your webcam every time you use it.
– Everything you say to Cortana, the digital assistant built into Windows 10. In addition to that, the service also transmits full transcription of your conversation with Cortana to Microsoft.
The article linked below, despite being 3 years old, contains several working methods of defeating this data collection. Note, if you have Windows 10 Home, the Group Policy Editor method is unavailable to you. Windows 11 users may see slightly different settings pages than the article photos show, but the methods are the same. Before doing any system modifications, be sure to create a new System Restore Point! Article: https://www.windowschimp.com/microsoft-compatibility-telemetry/
OTHER
Madonna Comes Out of the Closet, and Guess What, She Looks Like Marilyn Manson!: Madonna suggests she’s gay in a TikTok post after sharing a scary video, with fans comparing her to Marilyn Manson. Photos of MM: metalzone. Full article: https://www.the-sun.com/entertainment/6404469/madonna-suggests-shes-gay-scary-video-marilyn-manson/
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Useful Links, Info & Numbers
Petrol Prices – Updated daily: These are the fuel stations in Malaga province with the lowest prices. The price data for 95 and 98-octane petrol and diesel fuel is updated every day. See it here:
https://www.surinenglish.com/malaga/updated-daily-these-20220314114157-nt.html
Weekly Markets
Monday: Torrox Costa
Tuesday: Nerja, Salobrena
Wednesday: Rincon de la Victoria, Algarrobo Costa
Thursday: Velez Malaga, Torre del Mar, Frigiliana
Friday: Almunecar, Salobrena, La Herradura- Summers only
Saturday: Competa, Mezquitilla@Algarrobo behind the Sala Ottowa
Sunday: Velez Malaga, Nerja Car Boot
Taxi
Nerja 952 524 519
Torrox: 952 531 030
Frigiliana: 952 533 231
Phone numbers for emergencies
Emergency Svcs.: 112
National Police: 091
Guardia Civil: 062
Ambulance: 061
Fire Station (Bomberos): 080
Emergency English Help Line: 902 102 112
Local Police
Torrox: 952 539 828
Nerja: 952 521 545
Frigiliana: 952 533 126
Torre del Mar: 952 549 238
Local News in English, The Sur: http://www.surinenglish.com/
Spain National News in English, El Pais: https://elpais.com/elpais/inenglish.html
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