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– Dec. 6, Wed., Spanish Constitution Day (national holiday)
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Chilches celebrates a Zambombá this Wednesday as a preamble to Christmas:
Christmas Zambombá, will be celebrated this December 6th starting at 17.00 hours in the Plaza de la Iglesia de Chilches. At 17.30 hours the afternoon will be opened by the Pastoral Santa María la Mayor de Vélez-Málaga. At 19.30 hours it will be the turn of the Gran Zambombá de los Hermanos Ballesteros. And the Pastoral del Mar will close the performance at 21.00 hours. There will be a tasting of fritters and aniseed, and there will also be a bar with food and drink provided by the Mayordomos de Chilches, who are organising this Zambombá Navideña.
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‘Vélez GO!’, the III edition of the Manga and Alternative Culture Fair of Vélez-Málaga: At the Paco Aguilar pavilion on Saturday, December 23, 11am-9pm. Admission €4. It is an event that brings together alternative culture, manga & video games. If you want to impress your kids, surprise them with a visit to this event.
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16 activities make up the Algarrobo Christmas program:
Sat, 2 Dec thru Sat, 6 Jan
– The programme will start on Saturday 2 December at 17:00 with the traditional Encuentro de Pastorales de la Pastoral El Chavea (meeting of shepherds or herders). The event will take place in the Escalerilla Park and will feature performances by four pastoral groups from Algarrobo, Málaga, Nerja and Vélez-Málaga.
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ANDALUCÍA
UPDATE- Andalusian students will no longer be able to use their cell phones in classrooms or at recess and the Board gives teachers the authority to take them away: {Translation}
– Andalucian schools can now prohibit their pupils from using mobile phones both in class and at recess, while teachers will have the authority to take it away and keep it in custody until it is returned to the parents.
– This is just a few days after the President of the Regional Government, Juanma Moreno, announced in Parliament his government’s intention to implement this measure.
– Thus, according to the text consulted by 20minutos, the centres, both public and private, will have to “limit” the use of mobile phones during the school day, which includes both the school hours of classes and recreation time and complementary and extracurricular activities, a measure that should be reflected in the regulations of organisation and operation of the different centres.
– The instructions state as an exception that the use of mobile phones is “expressly provided for” at certain times and for “exclusively educational” purposes and with “duly justified” pedagogical criteria. Likewise, mobile phones will not be prohibited for students who require them “in view of their personal circumstances”, which must be registered with the school management by the student’s legal guardians.
– In the event that a student does not comply with the new ban, the Board authorises teachers to remove the mobile phone from the student, a measure that must be carried out in the presence of at least two members of the school. The pupil will have to switch off the phone and it will be kept in the head teacher’s office until it is returned to the pupil’s parents or legal guardian.
– In any case, according to the Regional Ministry, the “corrections” applied to non-compliant students will have an “educational and remedial” focus, and must “guarantee respect for the rights of the rest of the student body”. Source, Spanish: https://www.20minutos.es/noticia/5196312/0/los-alumnos-andaluces-ya-no-podran-usar-movil-las-aulas-ni-recreo-junta-da-autoridad-profesores-quitarselo/
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The weather for the long weekend in Malaga- these are the days when it is likely to rain: {Translation, summary}
– The passage of a new front could leave widespread rainfall in the province. Even from this Monday, with a 65% probability, until 18:00, according to the State Meteorological Agency (Aemet), that rainfall will return after having been seen at the end of last week.
– It will be this Tuesday when, once again, farmers will be looking to the skies for the expected rains. It could fall again from 12 noon onwards.
– During the first two days of the long weekend (Wednesday 6 and Thursday 7), there will be a chance of rain again. On 6 December, Constitution Day, forecasts indicate that there is a 30 per cent chance of rainfall in the city. The sun is not expected to show through the clouds.
– On Thursday 7th, the chance of precipitation drops to 10% from 12 noon onwards, according to the forecast from the Malaga Meteorological Centre. In this way, instability will continue throughout the week in Malaga. It will not be until Friday when the sun will shine again.
– As for the temperatures, the minimum temperatures are expected to rise gradually, from the 7C degrees expected for the early hours of Monday to Tuesday, to 16C degrees on Thursday. Highs, meanwhile, will rise to 20C in the central hours of that day. On Saturday, the mercury will reach 22C. Source, Spanish: https://www.malagahoy.es/malaga/lluvias-Malaga-semana-frio_0_1854114726.html
TORRE DEL MAR
Torre Giant Slide Info / Gran Tobogan de Navidad: {Translation, summary}
– All the Christmas attractions in Torre del Mar will be free again this year with the only exception of the giant slide, which will have a symbolic cost of two euros.
– From the 6th of December to the 7th of January there will be a giant Christmas slide which will be open every day from half past four in the afternoon.
– This is a giant slide will be installed near the Centro Cultural Nuestra Señora del Carmen – Antigua Azucarera. Source, Spanish: https://www.axarquiaplus.es/torre-del-mar-presenta-una-de-sus-novedades-para-navidad-un-tobogan-gigante-en-la-zona-de-la-azucarera/
TORROX COSTA
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VÉLEZ-MÁLAGA
Valle-Niza celebrates its Fair in honor of the Virgin of the Immaculate Conception this weekend: {Translation, summary}
– Valle-Niza celebrates its traditional Fair in honour of the Virgin of the Immaculate Conception from Friday 8th to 10th December.
– The Fair will start this Friday, a bank holiday, at 12.00 noon with the opening of the official stand. “As well as all the activities and festivities prepared for the occasion, we will once again be parading alongside the image of the Virgin of the Immaculate Conception to show our respects and affection. This will take place on Sunday, starting with the traditional mass in honour of the Virgin at 8.30 am in the Ermita Alta Church, leaving the procession at 9.00 am. It will be a magnificent occasion for all the neighbours to enjoy a few days of celebration and enjoyment shortly before the Christmas holidays,” commented the deputy mayor of Valle-Niza.
– “Before that, on Saturday, there will be a floral offering to the Virgin at 9.00 am. I would like to invite all the residents of the municipality to get to know and enjoy Valle-Niza because we have a very full agenda. There will be children’s parties, musical performances, zumba, and more activities, although with special attention to the procession and also to the horse-drawn carriage competition and the horse-drawn ribbon race”, explained Jesús María Claros, who thanked the stewards for their hard work. Source, Spanish: https://www.velezmalaga.es/index.php?mod=noticias&id=7000
GRANADA
Sierra Nevada opens its ski resort this Tuesday 5 December: The ski resort in the Sierra Nevada reopens tomorrow, Tuesday 5 December, marking the beginning of the 2023/24 winter ski season. The slopes in the area of the Emile Allais chairlift will open to the public, as well as the beginner slopes Borreguiles and El Bosque. The slopes open from this Tuesday will be Beginners 1, 2, 5 and 7, although the ski services expect to continue increasing the number of slopes as weather conditions permit. Full article: https://www.surinenglish.com/andalucia/sierra-nevada-opens-its-ski-resort-this-20231204135343-nt.html
EUROPE
Top Ukrainian military officer says war with Russia at a ‘stalemate’:
– Ukraine’s commander in chief, Gen. Valery Zaluzhny, said in an interview this week the counteroffensive against Russia is at a stalemate and only a massive technological leap could change the direction of the war between the countries.
– In a comprehensive interview with The Economist, Zaluzhny described the tremendous difficulties Ukraine faces five months into its counteroffensive against Russia.
“Just like in the First World War, we have reached the level of technology that puts us into a stalemate,” he said in the interview published Wednesday.
– “The simple fact is that we see everything the enemy is doing, and they see everything we are doing,” Zaluzhny said. “In order for us to break this deadlock, we need something new — like the gunpowder, which the Chinese invented and which we are still using to kill each other.”
– The general said he does not expect a massive technological breakthrough. In a separate essay in The Economist, Zaluzhny said he expected the solution to come from combining all the technical solutions that exist, rather than by developing one single invention. The Economist reported Zaluzhny urged innovation in drones, electronic warfare, anti-artillery capabilities, demining equipment and the use of robotics.
– Zaluzhny concluded the war was at a stalemate after progress in the counteroffensive fell far short of the goal. Ukraine has advanced 17 kilometers (about 11 miles) in the five months since the war began, according to The Economist. Zaluzhny told the magazine that the army should be able to advance by 30 kilometers (about 19 miles) per day. “If you look at NATO’s textbooks and at the maths which we did, four months should have been enough time for us to have reached Crimea, to have fought in Crimea, to return from Crimea and to have gone back in and out again,” he said. Full article: https://thehill.com/policy/international/4290701-ukrainian-general-war-russia-stalemate/
TECH
Websites You Allow To Set Cookies May Share Your Data With 1000+ Companies, Most You Never Heard Of!: {DigameXtra}
– When you visit websites you are often presented with a cookie permission notification you must click to proceed. You need to know that it is not just the provider of the website that will be using the cookies, tracking the websites you visit and every search you do. Websites “share” this data with their “partners”. In this case “partners” simply means clients they sell your data to. It is a prime source of income for the websites.
– Due to new EU regulations, websites are now including the number of partners they share your data with. As you can see in the image below, Spanish news website La Razon wants permission to share my data with 736 partners! This is a typical number, some are more, others less. Still, it is a huge number of strangers tracking you if you click to accept the cookie notification. The more websites you visit, the more cookies you collect. These cookies will remain until they are manually cleaned out, typically with CCleaner or a similar device system cleaning tool. Some cookies claim they expire in 30 days- in my experience, few honor that claim.
– If you click to see the list of partners, you will see a long list of companies you never heard of and the purposes of the cookies each partner admits to. Some will say “Legitimate Interest”. That is straight up BS. Strangers, who you have never contacted, nor intend to, have absolutely no legit interest in what websites you visit or searches you do. In fact, none of the supposed uses of your data by “partners” are really legit, unless you have contacted them first.
– What you can do when you encounter this cookie permission popup, is NOT click “Accept”, instead click the other button, usually named “Set Up” or “View Partners”. Somewhere on the list of partners you will usually find the “Reject All” button, click that, then click “Save”, and proceed to the website. In cases where there is no option to “Reject All”, you may have to un-check all the partner trackers individually, and then click “Save Choices” to achieve the same “Reject All” effect.
– In some cases, you may receive a warning that if you decline cookies you will not have full website functions, usually it is photos and/or videos that fail to display without cookies. That is coercion, they could show those things without you accepting cookies if they wanted to.
SCAMS
Scammers pretending to be Denzel Washington or Hugh Jackman target women in Malaga:
– Police issued a warning following three cases in Malaga province where the victims sent a total of 75,000 euros to people they believed belonged to the charities of celebrities. They were sent Facebook or Instagram friend requests by scammers who convinced them they were friends of Denzel Washington, Hugh Jackman and Sam Heughan. The victims thought they had struck up a friendship with them, and were asked to pay 75,000 to help the social work of the actors, but were scammed instead.
– The alleged Denzel Washington – or any other of the profiles – redirects the victim to his personal agent and offers various contact options through applications such as Meeting, Meeting plus or Private Meeting, according to investigators. The Private Meeting option is accessed by paying 3,600 euros and allows personal contact with the actor. However, once the sum has been paid, the meeting is postponed with various excuses such as the recording of a new film or that the actor is going through a relationship break-up. Once convinced there is no more money to be taken, the scammer quits replying. {I have seen other cases where the scammers use AI deep-fake tools to create a short “personal video” they send, with some excuse why a live chat is not possible at the moment, rather than provide the promised, live video chat that the victim paid for. They send videos where the celebrity appears to be speaking directly to the victim, like the personalised videos celebs sell on websites like Cameo , mentioning the victim by name and referring to info the victim previously provided. -Ed.} Full article: https://www.surinenglish.com/malaga/denzel-washington-hugh-jackman-impersonating-scam-women-20231204101319-nt.html
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Rare Guitar Video- Sharon Isbin at 18yrs old plays Mallorca by Isaac Albéniz in 1975:
– Sharon Isbin is a classical guitarist and the founding director of the guitar department at the Juilliard School. She has performed and recorded with over 200 orchestras, composed over 80 works, and won multiple awards, including a Grammy and an Echo Klassik. Video Link
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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:
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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 Services.: 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
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