DigameXtra No. 2852 WEEKEND EDITION Friday, September 13th, 2024

On September 13, 2024September 13, 2024 By naythandoctorlaptop

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Larios 2024 Catwalk- the great Malaga fashion show: 14-15 Sep
The event is on Larios Street, a privileged outdoor setting that makes this event unique in Europe. It is the longest catwalk held on the old continent, on a blue carpet of more than 300 meters. The parades will be held on Friday, September 14 and Saturday, September 15, starting at 8:00 p.m. On the first day, Malaga, national and international designers will parade, while on the second, commercial firms and new talents will have more prominence under the umbrella of Málaga de Moda.
To be able to attend this event, all you have to do is attend the event and occupy some of the many available chairs set up for the occasion along the entire Larios street (from the entrance in front of Plaza de la Marina to Plaza de la Constitución). Admission is free. The organizers have already distributed tickets between districts and social and cultural groups in the province but there are still many free chairs distributed along the blue walkway. Of course, it is advisable to come early to get a place (the event starts at 8:00 p.m.). Source, Spanish: https://www.diariosur.es/gente-estilo/moda/pasarela-malaga-larios-2024-disenadores-programa-desfiles-entradas-20240910124847-nt.html

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II Travesía Nocturna del Aceite Verdial (II Night Crossing of Verdial Oil- Mountain Trek): September 21 and 22
– The Club Deportivo Playas de Torre del Mar and the Club Periana promote a mountain route in the eastern region of Málaga. Check their FB pages for details and reg info.
– This activity will start at 8 p.m. from the town of Canillas de Aceituno, passing thru Ventas de Zafarraya and finish in Periana, and has been classified by its organisers as being of very high difficulty, both for its 45-kilometre route and its positive difference in altitude of +1700 metres. Source: https://www.teleprensa.com/articulo/malaga/ii-travesia-nocturna-aceite-verdial-cubrira-45-kilometros-montana-comarca-axarquia/202409121342531891553.html

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Cómpeta Artwalk, Paseo del Arte 2024: September 13 to 15
Exhibitions will have visiting hours during the three days from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m., and there will also be various musical events.

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– IKEA Besta TV ‘sideboard’ with three shelves and three drawers. Excellent condition. 180cm wide, 40cm deep, 74cm high. €45. Buyer to collect from Sayalonga.
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– Kitchen dining set. Glass topped table 110 x 60 cm. 4 silver metal chairs. Used condition. €40
Collection from edge of Iznate. Easy to find and easy access.
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For Sale: Nordor bristle dartboard a little faded but otherwise ok.
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ANDALUCÍA

Another out-of-touch Health Minister with no real answers, only vague observations- The new Health Minister assumes that “perhaps it is difficult” to make appointments with the Family doctor and wants to speed them up: {Translation}
– The Andalusian Regional Minister of Health and Consumer Affairs, Rocío Hernández {pic}, has only been in office for 45 days, but it is already clear that one of her priorities will be to decongest appointments with family doctors in health centres in order to speed up care. ‘We have already been working on this [Catalina García’s team] and we are going to continue working on it, giving primary care a facelift,’ she assured. In this sense, she acknowledged that “getting a regular appointment with the family doctor is perhaps difficult in certain areas, especially in rural areas where healthcare coverage is complicated,” avoiding the issue of massive waiting lists for other procedures.
– In an interview with Canal Sur Radio on Thursday, the regional health minister called for ‘an emphasis on education’ in order to avoid collapsing the system. She called on users to think about using the health system with prudence. ‘The common cold, without an underlying pathology, is something for which perhaps one should not go to the doctor,’ she said. {Blaming the users, how sweet. -Ed.}
– For Regional Minister Rocío Hernández, one of her priorities is to ‘improve accessibility in primary care’. ‘It is very important that citizens have the peace of mind that they can go to the doctor,’ she said. In this respect, she recalled that as a healthcare professional she has ‘always’ worked in this area, the first point of entry into the system. She is a doctor in Medicine and Surgery and a specialist in Paediatrics and since June 2022, before landing at the Regional Ministry, she has also held the position of president of the Spanish Society of Primary Care Managers (Sedap).
– In the Canal Sur Radio interview, the Regional Minister was told that some employees of the public broadcaster had been summoned by the Andalusian Health Service (SAS) on a Sunday to undergo an MRI or ultrasound scan. In this respect, Hernández explained that “health workers staff many facilities 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The equipment is there, the staff are there and perhaps it is not so unusual to be summoned on Saturday or Sunday for a diagnostic test.”
*Improved salaries for healthcare workers*
– In relation to the salaries of healthcare professionals, the Regional Minister assured that the issue has already been addressed with trade unions and professional associations, with whom she held meetings last August. ‘We are focussing on this’, said Rocío Hernández, who acknowledged that one of the formulas being considered is the establishment of “incentives”, especially in areas of difficult coverage. {No mention of where the funding will come from…more vague rhetoric.-Ed.}
– Finally, the Regional Minister promised a ‘comprehensive approach’ to mental health, thus refuting criticism from left-wing political parties, who have warned that mental health has ‘disappeared’ from the Regional Ministry’s organisation chart. The Regional Minister insisted on the need for dialogue in the face of ‘unconstructive criticism that leads to nothing. In any case, they lead to public boredom’. {Again, not a single solid proposal, just a vague reference with a 50cent phrase, “comprehensive approach”. -Ed.}
Source, Spanish: https://www.abc.es/espana/andalucia/nueva-consejera-salud-asume-quizas-dificil-lograr-20240912125719-nts.html

ALGARROBO

Health files for “serious violation” against an “osteopathy” center in Algarrobo for lack of authorization and health professional: {Translation}
– Following a complaint filed by the legal services of the College of Physiotherapists of Andalusia (ICPFA), the Malaga Health and Consumer Affairs Department has opened disciplinary proceedings against an osteopathy centre in the municipality of Algarrobo for an alleged infringement classified as ‘serious’ for ‘carrying out a possible health activity (osteopathy)’, without the required authorisation from the Health Department.
– In this regard, for several years, the Andalusian Association of Physiotherapists has been constantly requesting the Inspection Services of the Andalusian Regional Government to ensure compliance with the ruling handed down by the Supreme Court, which ratifies that osteopathy, chiromassage and chiropractic must be carried out by health professionals and, according to the Ministry of Health, only in Physiotherapy Units (U59). Parallel to these actions initiated by the Health Inspectorate, the 2nd Court of Torrox has opened proceedings against the person in charge of the aforementioned centre (O.A.P.G.) for a possible offence of professional intrusion, following a complaint filed by the ICPFA.
– In relation to compliance with the Supreme Court ruling, it is worth highlighting ‘the commitment of the Subdirectorate of Health Services Inspection of the Regional Ministry of Health to analyse and coordinate a uniform response in all the inspection actions of its territorial delegations, with the aim of complying with the ruling’. The ICPFA, for its part, ‘offered its full cooperation to the Regional Ministry to try to bring to the attention of the inspectorate all situations of possible non-compliance’.
– Finally, the ICPFA reminds that, ‘if you are aware of any situation of intrusiveness in physiotherapy, you can bring it to the attention of its legal services by emailing intrusismo@colfisio.es, from where it will be duly transferred to the Health Inspectorate’. Source, Spanish: https://www.axarquiaplus.es/salud-abre-expediente-por-infraccion-grave-a-un-centro-de-osteopatia-de-algarrobo-por-carecer-de-autorizacion-ni-profesional-sanitario/

EUROPE

Putin says West will be fighting directly with Russia if it lets Kyiv use long-range missiles:
– President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday {pic} that the West would be directly fighting with Russia if it allowed Ukraine to strike Russian territory with Western-made long-range missiles, a move he said would alter the nature and scope of the conflict. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has been pleading with Kyiv’s allies for months to let Ukraine fire Western missiles including long-range U.S. ATACMS and British Storm Shadows deep into Russian territory to limit Moscow’s ability to launch attacks.
– In some of his most hawkish comments on the subject yet, Putin said such a move would drag the countries supplying Kyiv with long-range missiles directly into the war since satellite targeting data and the actual programming of the missiles’ flight paths would have to be done by NATO military personnel because Kyiv did not have the capabilities itself. “So this is not a question of allowing the Ukrainian regime to strike Russia with these weapons or not. It is a question of deciding whether or not NATO countries are directly involved in a military conflict,” Putin told Russian state TV.
– “If this decision is taken, it will mean nothing less than the direct involvement of NATO countries, the United States and European countries in the war in Ukraine. This will be their direct participation, and this, of course, will significantly change the very essence, the very nature of the conflict.” Russia would be forced to take what Putin called “appropriate decisions” based on the new threats.
– He did not spell out what those measures could be, but he has spoken in the past of the option of arming the West’s enemies with Russian weapons to strike Western targets abroad and in June spoke of deploying conventional missiles within striking distance of the United States and its European allies. Full article: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/putin-says-west-will-be-fighting-directly-with-russia-if-it-lets-kyiv-use-long-2024-09-12/

BONEHEAD AWARD

All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others. -Orwell

Misandrist Hypocrite- Minister for Equality Says Sexual Assault Support Services For Men Are “Frivolous and a Perversion”: {Translation, summary}
– The Minister for Equality, socialist Ana Redondo {pic}, describes as ‘frivolous’ and ‘perversion’ the announcement made today by the President of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, of the creation of a centre for male victims of sexual aggression. According to the global data provided by the Memoria de la Fiscalía General del Estado, men represent slightly more than one in ten victims. In Madrid, Ayuso said, a rise has been detected among minors (males).
– Furthermore, the Minister for Equality pointed out that ‘an instrument already exists’, Save the Children’s Barnahus centres, dedicated to protecting minors and adolescents who are victims of sexual violence. The truth is that only one of these pilot centres is fully operational, the one in Tarragona, although the NGO is planning the next one in the Community of Madrid.
– According to Ayuso’s announcement during the debate on the state of the region, the new centre will be endowed with 700,000 euros per year. According to the regional government, this initiative arises after having detected ‘that many men have suffered sexual violence, some during childhood, which is why they carry sequelae, and others in the environment known as chemsex (drug use during sexual activity)’. Source, Spanish: https://www.abc.es/sociedad/nuevo-choque-gobiernomadrid-redondo-tacha-ocurrencia-frivola-20240912172928-nt.html

HEALTH

UPDATE- “We Will Be A Wall Against All Pseudosciences” Says Health Minister: {Translation, summary}
– Vacuum therapy (cupping), light therapy for mental health problems, conscious breathing, chi-kung/qigong, zerobalancing, aromatherapy and relaxation techniques based on the induction of bodily sensations, already declared pseudotherapies, to be subject to state regulation says Minister; 8 more pseudotherapies to be regulated will be announced soon.
– The General Council of Physicians (CGCOM) and the General Council of Psychology {pic} have requested the Minister of Health, Mónica García, and the Mental Health Commissioner of her ministry, Belén González, for the “urgent” regulation of psychotherapies that lack scientific endorsement and its advertising.
– The main reason given for their inclusion in the field of pseudotherapies is the lack of scientific evidence, which rules out their use in the clinical setting. These therapies are part of the 16 that, according to the Ministry of Health last February, were ready to be published. Therefore, there are still eight more to be announced.
– The Health Minister assured then that the department she heads ‘will always go hand in hand with scientific evidence’ and that ‘it will be a wall against all pseudosciences’, while recommending that the public make use of ‘the entire therapeutic arsenal’, avoiding ‘things that do not work’. ‘There are some techniques that are sold as therapies, but they have to be considered pseudotherapies because they are not backed by scientific evidence,’ García concluded. Source, Spanish: https://www.infosalus.com/actualidad/noticia-medicos-psicologos-piden-sanidad-regulacion-psicoterapias-no-tienen-aval-cientifico-20240912132538.html
Note: DigameXtra #2750, 12APR24, has the full list of pseudotherapies: https://digamextra.com/2024/04/12/digamextra-no-2750-weekend-edition-friday-april-12th-2024/

SPORTS

Tennis News- Nadal pulls out of Laver Cup:
– Rafael Nadal will not compete at the Laver Cup next week in Berlin, said the 22-time Grand Slam champion in a statement released by tournament organisers on Thursday. The competition takes place between 20-22 September.
– The Laver Cup pits a European team against a World team. Bjorn Borg and John McEnroe will captain the two six-player squads, as they have in all the six previous editions.
– Nadal pulled out of the US Open in August as he did not feel he could perform at his best.
– “I’m really disappointed to share that I won’t be able to compete at the Laver Cup in Berlin next week,” said the 38-year-old Spanish tennis great in the statement. “This is a team competition and to really support Team Europe, I need to do what’s best for them and at this moment there are other players who can help the team deliver the win.”
– Nadal is next due to appear at the Six Kings Slam, a Saudi Arabian elite tennis exhibition in October.
Full article: https://supersport.com/tennis/general/news/ca189e1b-f3ac-43ab-8007-7c8f9c505987/nadal-pulls-out-of-laver-cup

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Tennis News- Davis Cup 2024 Draws & Results:
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NEW LIFE CHURCH

New Life Church:
– Sunday Service:
Whether you live in Nerja or are visiting our area, you are very welcome to come and join us on Sundays at 11.00am. Join us for a time of Holy Spirit led worship and experience the presence of our God. Our teaching is Bible based as we honour God and obey His Word. During this time of uncertainty, God’s Word reminds us that the Gospel shines brightest in times of darkness. Our service lasts for about 1 hour and 30 mins. With Tea and Coffee afterwards.
– Prayer Meeting:
You are also welcome to join our prayer meetings on Wednesday mornings at 11.00am for 1 hour, where we meet for prayer and worship.
– Jesus said: “I am the Way and the Truth and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me”. (John 14:6)
Pasaje San Miguel, Nerja, 29780. Directions: Click Here
Email: info@nlcnerja.com
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El Puente Christian Fellowship (Vélez-Málaga): We are a friendly, multi-national, Bible believing community of Christ. We meet each Sunday at 11am to worship the Lord. We enjoy a time of worship with contemporary songs and traditional hymns, and a message brought to us by our Pastor, one of our members or a visiting speaker.
The church meeting hall is situated at: Res: El Olivar 5, 8 Bajo 1, Calle Arbequin, Velez Malaga 29700.
Full directions and further information can be found on our Facebook page, or you can contact us by email on elpuentechristianfellowship@gmail.com or by phone on 665626342.
For those who cannot join us in person, we aim to stream Sunday services via the Facebook page (subject to a good internet connection).

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Dogs For Adoption

Axarquia Animal Rescue: A Voluntary Charity, Non-profit Organisation
CIF G93245116 / Charity Number 10567 (Spain)
Email: axarquia-rescue@hotmail.com
Website: www.axarquiaanimalrescue.com
– Daisy – 4 years old, medium size Podenco, a very shy girl, but really wants to trust and be part of a family. Currently in kennels where she has come on really well, loves other dogs, and enjoys her training classes. Daisy really now needs to be part of a family, in a home environment, could you offer her a loving home, or a foster home? Fully vaccinated and neutered.
– Marron – A young Podenco, neutered and vaccinated, small to medium in size. He has recently learnt to trust humans, and loves the attention and home life. Currently in kennels.
– Please take a look at our website, where you will find more information and photos, plus details of other dogs and pups that we have in our care. Our adoption costs are €110 for pups that have been fully vaccinated, rabies, chip and passport and €180 for older dogs that have all vaccinations, papers and have been neutered. This contributes towards their vet and care costs, and helps us to continue rescuing abandoned dogs and cats.

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DigameXtra No. 2851 Thursday, September 12th, 2024

On September 12, 2024September 12, 2024 By naythandoctorlaptop

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XV Fiesta de la Cabra Malagueña- Casabermeja: Goat Fest!
Fri-Sun, 13-15 Sep
– In this edition we will have two concerts: the Koala, on Saturday at 20:30 h and La Cabra tira P’al Monte on Sunday at 19 h. And of course the maragatas or traditional wheels and street performances with folklore songs, as well as the flamenco gymnastics show (Gimnasia flamenca?), and the magic of El gran Dullon.
– There will be activities related to food, livestock and gastronomy, such as tastings of Malaga Cheese, a live demonstration of how many delicacies are made with goat and goat’s milk as the basic ingredient, by the local gastronomic association ‘Fogones y Entangane’ and you can even learn how to make goat’s cheese or traditional desserts with goat’s milk.
– The youngest members of the family will also be able to take part in various face-painting and craft workshops, as well as an open-air painting workshop, the making of wooden key rings with goat motifs, a children’s workshop on cave art, and they will have the chance to bottle-feed their young goats. All these activities will take place in the Fuente de Abajo square, where there will also be large wooden games for all ages from the Ludopuzzle association.
– In the central area of the festival, Calle Camino de Colmenar, there will be a market of Malaga Cheese, local products from ‘Sabor a Malaga, the flavour that unites us’ (oil, sausages, bread and sweets…) and handicrafts. The market will be open from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday.
Info: https://www.casabermejaturismo.es/es/fiesta-cabra.html

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Benamocarra Music Day: Sat, 14 Sep
The celebration will begin at 11:30h with a parade, in which the municipal bands of Ardales and Campillos will participate along with the Benamocarra Music Band.
The day will be full of events and points of interest, such as the presentation of plaques to illustrious musicians of the municipality, which will take place at 17:30h in Plaza de la Música, or the gastronomic route with tasting of typical products in Plaza del Calvario and Calle Andalucía. Not forgetting the concerts in the Church of Santa Ana (from 18:00h) and the opening speech, which this year will be given by Ernesto Aurignac, saxophone teacher, conductor and composer from Malaga.
Laura Gallego, the artist and winner of ‘Se Llama Copla’, will put the finishing touch to the celebrations with a concert in the town’s bullring at 00:00h. Afterwards, the music will continue to play for the enjoyment of the audience in the Bullring. For more info contact Town Hall.

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Día de la Pasa (Rasin Day)- El Borge: Sun, 15 Sep
Plaza de la Constitucion, El Borge (Málaga)
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SPAIN

Regular sea links between Melilla on the African coast, with Malaga, Motril and Almeria approved:
– The objective is to facilitate Melilla’s connectivity with the mainland by sea and to allow people to move between the different destinations. The specifications establish a minimum of six weekly services on the Malaga-Melilla line and three weekly services on the Almeria and Motril lines, which may be extended during holiday periods or periods of high demand.
– The contract, which will come into force in January 2025, has an initial duration of two years, extendable for a further two years.
– All ships must have a medical service on board, private security, space for pets, quiet space, care and activities for children and internet service with free wifi throughout the trip, as well as cabins and passenger seats. Full article: https://www.surinenglish.com/andalucia/the-government-authorises-the-tendering-process-for-20240911073525-nt.html

AXARQUÍA

Slow progress for Axarquia desalination plants, still in draft phase: {Translation, summary}
– The head of the Regional Ministry explained that the irrigators will have the Bajo Almanzora I desalination plant draft ready by December of this year and that, in the case of the Axarquia desalination plant, ‘where the Costa del Sol Association of Municipalities has joined the irrigators, they expect to have the drafting of the project ready’ by February 2025. {Note: Once the drafts are approved, and locations & licences & permits are secured, the approximate construction time is 18-36 months. -Ed.}
– ‘Moving forward with the agreement with the users will give the boost that the desalination plants in Almeria and Malaga need. The commitment acquired involves holding a meeting with the irrigators in the first fortnight of November and continuing to promote hydraulic works to solve the water deficit in a region that, to date, maintains the level of water in reservoirs barely above 30%,’ the Andalusian regional government said in a statement.
Source, Spanish: https://www.axarquiaplus.es/la-junta-de-andalucia-adelanta-que-el-proyecto-de-la-desaladora-de-la-axarquia-estara-en-febrero-de-2025/
Construction time Refs: https://www.twdb.texas.gov/innovativewater/desal/faq.asp
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TORREMOLINOS

The Plaza de La Nogalera will host the XX Torremolinos Pet Contest: {Translation, summary}
– Pet lovers have an opportunity to enjoy this passion, next Wednesday, 18th September, in the Plaza de La Nogalera. This busy space in the town of Torremolinos will host the 20th San Miguel Fair 2024 Pet Competition. The contest will begin at 18:00 hours and participants will be able to opt for different prizes with any type of animal they present: fish, birds, reptiles, guinea pigs, cats or dogs, among others. (Remember the new pet laws. If you bring a “restricted” animal as a pet, be sure to bring your official authorization papers! Animal control officers will be on hand. -Ed.)
– ‘The range of activities that we are launching in this month of September is diverse and varied in the run-up to the San Miguel fair and once again animals also have their place,’ said the Councillor for Sports, Ramón Alcaide, who indicated that, in his words, “anyone who wishes to participate in this initiative can do so by registering for free through the Torremolinos Despega app or at the venue itself”.
– ‘Those who take part in this competition, whatever their mascot, will be eligible for different prizes such as the best child presenter, the most elegant mascot or the most original mascot’, explained Moreno, who pointed out that there will also be gifts from the collaborating companies. Beyond the pet competition itself, the activity aims to give animal lovers the opportunity to meet and enjoy themselves with the different pets. Source, Spanish: https://www.diariosur.es/costadelsol/torremolinos/plaza-nogalera-acogera-concurso-mascotas-torremolinos-20240911160340-nt.html

HEALTH

Big-Pharma controlled European Medicines Agency clears deadly painkiller Nolotil for use in EU:
– The use of the drug Nolotil (EU=metamizol; UK=metamizole) is banned in Britain, the US, India and Australia, among other countries, but the EMA has ruled that its benefits “outweigh its risks” despite 350 suspected cases of agranulocytosis in Spain between 1996 and 2023, including 170 Britons.
– The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has endorsed the use of metamizole, a drug prescribed for severe and moderate pain and marketed in Spain under the brand name Nolotil. It concludes that its benefits “outweigh its risks” after Finland called for a safety review linking it to agranulocytosis, a sudden, sharp drop in granulocytes (a type of white blood cell) that can lead to serious or even fatal infections. The European agency believes there is no reason to withdraw it from the market in the countries where it is sold, but at the same time, it has updated its recommendations and called for strengthened measures to facilitate early identification of symptoms and diagnosis of agranulocytosis. Full article: https://www.surinenglish.com/spain/why-the-european-medicines-agency-assessed-whether-20240909073821-nt.html For more info, see this article “Prosecutor’s Office of the National Court investigates the adverse effects of Nolotil (metamizol) ” in the Health news section of this issue of DigameXtra: https://digamextra.com/2024/04/05/digamextra-no-2745-weekend-edition-friday-april-5th-2024/

SPORTS

Tennis News- Davis Cup Opener Results:
– The United States made light of the absence of several top singles players as they began their Davis Cup Finals group stage campaign with victory over Chile on Wednesday. Reilly Opelka and Brandon Nakashima both came through lengthy three-set battles to give their team a winning lead in the Group C opener in Zhuhai, China.
– Olympic doubles silver-medallists Rajeev Ram and Austin Krajicek {pic} then beat Matias Soto and Tomas Barrios Vera to wrap up a 3-0 victory and join Germany at the top of the table.
– Captain Bob Bryan was unable to call upon the likes of U.S. Open runner-up Taylor Fritz, Frances Tiafoe or Tommy Paul but his team showed its strength in depth to win a tricky tie.
– Opelka, ranked 309th in the world, beat 116th-ranked Cristian Garin 6-3 4-6 7-6(3) before Nakashima, the world number 40, beat Alejandro Tabilo 7-6(5) 2-6 7-6(3).
– Ram and Krajicek also needed three sets in the doubles to give 32-time Davis Cup winners the U.S. the perfect start as they bid to reach the last eight for the second time since the new format was introduced in 2019.
– Four groups of four nations are being contested in four different cities – Zhuhai, Bologna, Valencia and Manchester – with the top two from each group progressing to the final eight-nation knockout round in Malaga in November.
– Later on Wednesday, Carlos Alcaraz is expected to line up for Spain against the Czech Republic in Group B in Valencia while Britain take on Finland in Group D in Manchester.
– The day’s other tie features reigning champions Italy against Brazil in Bologna in Group A.
– Australia beat France in Group B on Tuesday while Germany beat Slovakia in Group C, Belgium beat the Netherlands in Group A and Canada were victorious against Argentina in Group D. Full article: https://www.reuters.com/sports/tennis/united-states-win-davis-cup-opener-against-chile-2024-09-11/

SPACE

Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-Atlas)- What to Expect This Autumn:
– Soon, by early October, you’ll be able to see Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) with your own eyes. However, in the final days of September, the comet will move far enough from the Sun to become visible.
– It is likely to be very bright. The exact future brightness of this comet is unpredictable and depends heavily on its activity in the coming months. However, most sources agree on one thing: C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) is likely to be visible to the naked eye. If we’re lucky, it could become exceptionally bright and even outshine C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) from summer 2020. It’s been a long time since we’ve seen such a bright comet, so observers are very excited.
– Also, C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) is expected to grow a beautiful cometary tail. After passing by the Sun at a distance similar to Mercury’s orbit, C/2023 A3’s coma of dust and ice will heat up considerably. As the ice particles evaporate, they will quickly escape into space, taking with them a large amount of dust that will extend into a long, bright tail. As history shows, comets that pass close to the Sun have the most impressive tails, formed soon after being “roasted” by the Sun’s heat. And this is the case with comet C/2023 A3!
– September: from 7 to 3 magnitude, moves away from the Sun and begins to appear in the morning sky in the Southern Hemisphere. Short observation window, a good opportunity for capturing the comet’s tail. From September 27 to October 2, it appears very low above the horizon in the morning in the Northern Hemisphere, then disappears for several days until about October 11.
– October: the best month for observations in the Northern Hemisphere. Around its closest approach to Earth on October 12, the comet will be at its brightest (magnitude might be up to -3). It will be located relatively high above the horizon in the evening sky.
– November: from 4.5 to 8 magnitude, visible in the evening. Rises higher in the Northern Hemisphere after sunset.
– December: from 8 to 10 magnitude. Gradually moves closer to the Sun in our sky, rising lower above the horizon. Not visible from the Southern Hemisphere.
– Remember that comets become visible to the naked eye at around magnitude 3. The magnitude scale measures the total light spread over the object, so the naked-eye visibility limit is lower (mag 6.5) for pinpoint sources of light, like stars or planets, and higher for diffuse objects, like comets or galaxies. Full article & photo credit: https://starwalk.space/en/news/visible-comet-2024

TRAVEL

EU Citizens Travelling to UK Will Have to Pay €11 Authorisation From April 2025:
– EU citizens travelling to the UK without a visa will soon have to pay a €11 fee and apply for the Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA). The UK introduced the ETA system last year, but this requirement has so far been applied only to certain nationalities. As the UK Home Secretary Yvette Cooper explained, the fee will apply to all EU citizens, including children and babies, who do not need a visa or do not have permission to work, live, or study in the country.
– To ensure more robust security checks and help the abuse of the immigration system, the UK government has decided to expand the ETA system to include EU citizens and nationals of several other third countries, Schengen.News reports. The EU is expected to introduce a similar scheme next year.
– According to the UK Home Office, citizens of the EU will be eligible to apply for an ETA from March 5, 2025, and they will need the document to travel to the UK from April 2, 2025. Full article: https://schengen.news/eu-citizens-travelling-to-uk-will-have-to-pay-e11-authorisation-from-april-2025/

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Festival of the Four Seasons- Burriana Beach Party:
Saturday 14 Sep, 8pm, with performance by Proyecto Mandarina (Video Link), plus Djs Elías Moreno, Marblack and Charly Ro.
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Supreme Court rejects the appeals of Puigdemont and the Prosecutor’s Office and confirms that the amnesty does not apply to him: {Translation, summary}
– The examining magistrate in the case of the procés, Pablo Llarena, has dismissed the appeals filed by the former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont {pic} and the former ministers Antoni Comín and Lluís Puig, as well as by the Public Prosecutor’s Office and the State Attorney’s Office, against his order in which he declared the amnesty not applicable to the crime of embezzlement of public funds for which they are being prosecuted.
– In an order, the Supreme Court judge stresses that the allegations lack any basis because the rule establishes the exclusion of the application of amnesty to crimes of embezzlement in cases where the subject acts with ‘the purpose of obtaining a personal benefit of a patrimonial nature’, which he understands to be the case of Puigdemont and the two former Catalan ministers, all of whom are on the run from justice. Source, Spanish: https://www.20minutos.es/noticia/5632198/0/supremo-rechaza-los-recursos-puigdemont-fiscalia-confirma-que-no-le-aplica-amnistia/

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Unemployment claims soar by 8% as Sánchez y Díaz make claims of ‘rocket ship’ labour market: {Translation, summary}
– The data continues to undermine the Government’s statistical make-up in labour matters. Libertad Digital has already published that hours worked in Spain remain at the level of the first quarter of 2008 – the year the subprime crisis began – and, therefore, it is impossible to speak of job creation, meanwhile the classic full-time jobs are being divided among more people with part-time, permanent, discontinuous jobs, etc.
– And many other data support this evidence. For example, so far this year, almost 190,000 fewer employment contracts have been signed in Spain and there are almost 200,000 fewer permanent jobs. Or, as the research department of the USO trade union now points out on the basis of official data, the number of applications for unemployment benefits ‘at national level registered in the month of July 2024 amounted to 706,435 (these are people who were working and are no longer working), which represents an increase of 7.9% over the same month of the previous year’.
– The data, in fact, point to a deterioration in the labour market that is totally incompatible with the Government’s optimism: ‘Social Security registered 21,198,679 registered in August, discounting seasonality and the calendar effect. This represents an increase of 355,743 people employed so far this year and 480,516 compared to the same month in 2023’. And this means that ‘the lowest growth rate in the last 10 years, except for 2020 (COVID), has just been signed’.
– Thus, ‘in August, average enrolment remained close to 21.2 million members (21,189,402), with 482,902 more than a year ago (+2.3%). This is 193,704 fewer employed than a month ago’, USO points out. In addition, ‘the end of August leads to a fall in enrolment; seasonality means that the last days of the month and Fridays see net falls in enrolment. The monitoring of daily enrolment, beyond the usual negative balances on Fridays, shows that on the last day of the month there was a negative balance of 64,573 and the net change at the end of the month was -41,459’, says the union. Source, Spanish: https://www.libremercado.com/2024-09-10/nuevo-exito…

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Foreigners in prison have grown by 16% since 2020 compared to 3% for Spaniards: {Translation, summary}
– With migratory pressure in full swing, the Ministry of the Interior announced at the end of last month that the number of foreign prisoners in Spanish prisons has fallen by 35% in the last fifteen years. A trend that is only positive when compared to the peak of 2009 and which hides another reality: that this trend has been reversed in the last four years and has grown five times more among foreigners than among Spaniards.
– According to data from the same Ministry, foreigners in Spanish prisons have grown by 16% since 2020, when the decline of the previous decade was reversed, while Spaniards in prison have increased by 3% in the same period. Thus, foreigners now account for almost one in three inmates overall (31.4%), which triples their total presence in Spain, with 12.7% of registered inmates.
– The foreign prison population currently stands at 18,535, according to data from the General Secretariat of Penitentiary Institutions as of 1 July this year, obtained by ABC through a request to the Transparency Portal. This is 2,617 more than four years ago, when they fell below 16,000 for the first and only time in the last two decades. The growth of the foreign prison population is much faster not only in percentage terms, but also in total terms. While the increase of Spaniards behind bars in the last four years is 1,140 (from 39,262 to 40,402), that of the foreign population, despite being a small percentage of the overall population, is more than double in the same period, some 2,600. Source, Spanish: https://www.abc.es/espana/extranjeros-prision-crecen-2020-frente-espanoles-20240909185815-nt.html

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Moroccans account for almost 30% of the total foreigners incarcerated in Spain, followed by Colombians (9.3%) & Romanians (7.4%): {Translation, summary}
– The countries of origin of prisoners in Spanish prisons reveal dynamics that go beyond the simple migratory presence. Although the nationalities with the highest number of registered inmates in Spain include communities such as Morocco, Romania and Colombia, not all of them are equally represented in the prison system. Curiously, countries such as Italy, the United Kingdom and Venezuela, which are among the main groups of foreign residents, are not among the most common nationalities of inmates.
– The foreign group with the largest presence in Spanish prisons is that of citizens of Moroccan origin. With 5,471 inmates, Moroccans represent 29.5% of the foreign prison population. This figure shows that one out of every three foreign prisoners in Spain is of Moroccan origin, reflecting a problem that the authorities must urgently address.
– Since 2020 the number of foreign prisoners has grown significantly compared to the Spanish prison population. According to figures obtained by ABC through the Transparency Portal, foreigners account for 31.4% of the prison population in Spain, which is three times their presence in the overall registered population in the country, which stands at 12.7%. This figure highlights a considerable disparity between foreign residents at liberty and those deprived of their liberty. While one in every thousand Spaniards is in prison, among foreigners this figure rises to three in every thousand. Moreover, the growth in absolute terms is much faster in this group since, in the last four years, the number of foreign prisoners has increased by 2,617, more than double the increase in Spanish prisoners in the same period.
Source, Spanish: https://www.abc.es/espana/nacionalidad-extranjera-reclusos-carceles-espana-supone-total-20240910125917-nt.html

ANDALUCÍA

Audit reveals €300 million in improper, “hand-picked” contracts in the Andalucian health system: {Translation, summary}
– A report by the auditors of the Andalucian Health Service (SAS) concludes that the government of Juanma Moreno’s Junta abused the emergency contracting system in 2021 by which time the pandemic was ‘very tempered’ and with the exceptional legal framework of Covid repealed, awarding some 300 million euros in contracts to private companies. According to elDiario.es, this practice, which violated the Public Contracts Law, was extended until 2023, according to the report by the auditors of the Andalucian Health Service (SAS), which denounces the abuse of the emergency contracting system in the 2021 financial year, with which almost 300 million euros were awarded to private companies, without advertising, competitive tendering or prior auditing.
– The audit body censures the Junta for the ‘improper’ use of this type of emergency contracts one year after the impact of the health crisis, stresses that these decisions had ‘no justification’ because, in May 2021, ‘the pandemic was already very tempered’, and because it was more foreseeable that in 2020, therefore, they should have already been contracted according to the ordinary procedure. The exceptional legislation that enabled the central government in the worst of the pandemic to streamline the response of the administrations to the health crisis had been repealed in May 2021.
– The SAS Intervention, the body responsible for auditing the regional accounts, issued a final ‘unfavourable’ report on all the finger contracts that were made during that budget year of 2021: in total there were 3,669 files for contracts for works, services and purchase of supplies, which mobilised 296.3 million euros for private clinics, suppliers linked to the sector or construction companies for the rehabilitation of hospitals. The 138-page audit report expresses an ‘unfavourable’ or adverse opinion, not only on the sample of contracts analysed – 126 files with an expenditure of 56.6 million euros – but also on the ‘misuse or abuse’ of the emergency contracting system during that year.
– The decision by the managing director of the SAS to continue awarding contracts by hand until the end of 2021, it argues, meant ignoring the instructions of the State Public Procurement Advisory Board (April 2020) and of the Andalucian Ministry of Finance itself, which had already warned the Health department in writing that, at that point, the use of emergency contracts to deal with COVID-19 should be ‘exceptional and residual’.
– The report criticises the Andalucian government for ‘unduly’ and ‘without any justification’ extending the hand-picked contracts throughout 2021, because in May of that year the central government had already expressly repealed article 16 of Royal Decree Law 7/2020, which allowed all administrations to circumvent the usual controls and speed up contracting in order to provide a more agile response to the pandemic. Source, Spanish: https://www.malagahoy.es/andalucia/informe-revela-300-millones-contratos_0_2002361015.html

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Moreno announces an appeal against the amnesty- “It is an outrage- Andalusia is not going to look the other way”: {Translation, summary}
– The regional barons of the PP have begun to make their move in an offensive in front of the Constitutional Court against the laws of the President Pedro Sánchez. On Monday morning, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, the PP leader from Madrid, announced that the Community of Madrid has filed an appeal with the Constitutional Court against the Amnesty Law for the Catalan coup perpetrators of the 1-O and the recusal of the judges Cándido Conde-Pumpido, Juan Carlos Campo and Laura Díez for their ‘public and notorious ideological ties with the PSOE’.
– After Ayuso, the next of the PP’s regional presidents to announce an appeal against the Amnesty Law in the TC was the president of the Junta de Andalucía, Juanma Moreno {pic}, at the inauguration of the new judicial headquarters in Lucena (Córdoba). He said that “today we are going to present an appeal of unconstitutionality against the Amnesty Law, which from our point of view, and the point of view of our legal service in Andalusia, is an outrage against a fundamental right that Andalusia cannot, must not and will not look the other way”. Moreno pointed out that “we public officials have the obligation and moral duty to act to protect the general interest” and that “Andalusia will work hard to defend the equality of all Spaniards.” Source, Spanish: https://www.libertaddigital.com/andalucia/2024-09-09/moreno-anuncia-un-recurso-contra-la-amnistia-es-un-atropello-ante-el-que-andalucia-no-va-a-mirar-hacia-otro-lado-7161797/

AXARQUÍA

The forest fire declared this Tuesday in Periana has stabilized: {Translation}
– The Andalusian Forest Fire Extinguishing Service, Plan Infoca, has announced the fire declared at 11am Tuesday morning in the municipality of Periana has been stabilised at around 1:35pm
– The resources continuing to work to control it are a heavy and a light helicopter, a fire engine, two fire brigades, two groups of forest firefighters, two operations technicians and an environmental agent. Units from the Provincial Fire Consortium (CPB) of the Malaga Provincial Council in Velez-Malaga and Colmenar are also collaborating. Source, Spanish: https://www.axarquiaplus.es/incendio-forestal-en-periana-10-de-septiembre/

MALAGA CITY

Nine arrested in Malaga and Ibiza with more than a million ecstasy pills: {Translation, summary}
– The Civil Guard, within the framework of operation ‘Adriatico’, has arrested nine people in Ibiza and Malaga belonging to one of the main criminal organizations for the introduction of synthetic drugs in Spain that operated in different parts of Europe. The investigation began when the agents detected the existence of an organisation that would introduce drugs into Ibiza, using mules driving vehicles with double bottoms.
– As reported this Tuesday by the Civil Guard, during the operation more than one million ecstasy pills weighing 357 kilograms were seized. Additional drugs seized: 212 kilos of ketamine; 73 kilos MDMA; 20 kilos of cocaine; 21 kilos of pink cocaine; ten kilos of hashish and six kilos of marijuana, as well as three kilos of ‘sugar’, a substance used to make pink cocaine. This is the largest seizure of synthetic pills in Spain and it is estimated that the value of the seized drugs could exceed 25 million euros. Source, Spanish: https://www.diariosur.es/sucesos/nueve-detenidos-malaga-ibiza-millon-pastillas-extasis-20240910175839-nt.html

NERJA

French woman dies on a beach in Nerja: {Translation}
– A 74-year-old woman died this Monday on La Torrecilla beach in the Malaga municipality of Nerja, where health workers who assisted her could only certify her death. This has been confirmed to Europa Press by sources from the 112 Emergency Service, which at around 5:40 p.m. received a notice that a woman who was in the aforementioned area of the Nerja coast was not breathing. The service mobilized the Local Police, the Civil Guard and health workers who assisted the 74-year-old woman and performed resuscitation maneuvers on her, although they could only certify her death.
– According to the newspaper ‘Sur’, the body of the woman, a French tourist, was rescued from the water by lifeguards from the beach, who have tried, together with the health workers, to revive her for almost an hour without success. Source, Spanish: https://www.europapress.es/andalucia/malaga-00356/noticia-muere-mujer-74-anos-playa-nerja-malaga-20240910204755.html

GRANADA

Police dismantle a 3000 plant indoor marijuana production center in Huétor Vega, second time in six months at the same location, same perps, same illegal power hookup, again confiscating €10,000+ of equipment!: {Translation, summary}
– The Guardia Civil and the Local Police of Huétor Vega, as part of Operation Green Island II, have once again dismantled a marijuana production centre in the town of Huétor Vega, as they did in March of this year. In this new phase of the operation, the agents have seized 2,899 cannabis sativa plants and 18,700 euros in cash. They have also arrested three people aged 58, 55 and 57, respectively, as alleged perpetrators of a crime of cultivation and processing of drugs and a crime of electricity fraud.
– Two of these individuals were arrested last March at the same address after discovering that they were responsible for a marijuana production centre in which Guardia Civil investigators seized 2,242 cannabis sativa plants and 665 grams of marijuana ready for sale.
– With the help of technicians from the electricity supply company and officers from the Local Police of Huétor Vega, agents from the Maracena Civil Guard’s Investigation Department discovered that there was an illegal connection to the electricity grid in a house in that town, where they had previously acted against the illegal cultivation of marijuana. After carrying out a series of measurements in this house, a peak of almost two hundred amperes was found, when the usual measurement in a single-family house is four amperes. Source, Spanish: https://www.granadadigital.es/vuelven-desarticular-huetor-vega-centro-produccion-marihuana/

EUROPE

Germany to Introduce Border Controls at All Land Borders:
– Germany will introduce border checks at all of its land borders on September 16. The checks will remain in place temporarily for a period of six months. Controls are being introduced to protect national security and prevent irregular migration. Full article: https://schengen.news/germany-to-introduce-border-controls-at-all-land-borders-on-september-16/

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Kicking The Bear Is One Thing, Peeing In His Cave Is A Whole Different Story- Ukraine targets Moscow in biggest drone attack yet:
– Ukraine targeted the Russian capital on Tuesday in its biggest drone attack so far, killing at least one and wrecking dozens of homes in the Moscow region and forcing around 50 flights to be diverted from airports around Moscow. Russia, the world’s biggest nuclear power, said it had destroyed at least 20 Ukrainian attack drones as they swarmed over the Moscow region.
– The drone attacks on Moscow damaged a high-rise apartment building in the Ramenskoye district of the Moscow region {pic}, setting flats on fire, residents told Reuters.
– More than 70 drones were also downed over Russia’s Bryansk region and tens more over other regions, Russia’s defence ministry said. There was no damage or casualties reported there.
– As Russia advances in eastern Ukraine, Kyiv has taken the war to Russia with a cross-border attack into Russia’s western Kursk region that began on Aug. 6 and by carrying out increasingly large drone attacks deep into Russian territory. Photo: Maxim Shemetov.
Full article: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-destroys-ukraine-launched-drone-flying-towards-moscow-mayor-says-2024-09-09/

TECH

EU Court confirms a fine of 2,424 million to Google for abuse of dominant position: {Translation}
– The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) on Tuesday upheld the €2.424 billion fine imposed by the European Commission on Google in 2017 for abuse of a dominant position through its product comparison engine Google Shopping. The court thus dismissed the appeal brought by Google and its parent company, Alphabet, against a previous first instance judgment that had upheld the penalty, which when imposed was the largest ever handed down against a company for abuse of a dominant position.
– The European judges consider that ‘the General Court correctly ruled that, in this case, having regard to the characteristics of the market and the specific circumstances of the case, Google’s conduct was discriminatory and did not correspond to competition on the merits’. The case dates back to 2017, when the European Commission found that the multinational gave preference to the results of its own product comparison service over those of competing product comparison services.
– Specifically, Google presented the search results of its product comparison service at the top and highlighted them with attractive image and text information, while competitors’ products only appeared in a lower position in the form of a blue link. Source, Spanish: https://andaluciainformacion.es/andalucia/1751918/tribunal-ue-confirma-una-multa-de-2424-millones-a-google-por-abuso-de-posicion-dominante/

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The EU forces Apple to return 13 billion for illegal tax aid: {Translation}
– The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) on Tuesday confirmed the multinational Apple must repay 13,000 million euros in Ireland for having benefited from illegal tax aid in that country.
– The Luxembourg-based court definitively resolved the case and thus agrees with the European Commission, which in 2016 concluded that the multinational had benefited from selective tax treatment between 1991 and 2014 that allowed the US firm to pay substantially less tax than it should have. Source, Spanish: https://andaluciainformacion.es/andalucia/1751917/la-ue-obliga-a-apple-a-devolver-13000-millones-por-ayudas-fiscales-ilegales/

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Free performances around Malaga Province this weekend:
*Thurs, 12 Sep*
– At 5pm, the Plaza del Prado in Villanueva del Trabuco will receive the singer María Cortés.
– At 9pm, a new event from the musical poetic cycle ‘Ladies at Night’ will be held in the courtyard of the Vélez-Málaga Museum. The poet Raquel Lanseros, last year’s winner of the Generation of ’27 International Poetry Prize, will read a selection of her work. Along with her, María Jesús Mingot and Neko Vidal will offer poetic readings. The musical accompaniment will be provided by the Duo Anne and Juan Rodrigo.
– At 10pm, the music will continue in Alozaina with Macarena Albarracín {Video Link}, who will perform her ‘Historia de una copla’ in the María Sagredo de Alozaina viewpoint park.
*Sat, 14 Sep*
– 8pm, the singer Rocío Bazán. It will be at 8:00 p.m. in the Plaza del Ayuntamiento de Guaro.
*Sun, 15 Sep*
– 4pm, Villanueva del Trabuco will be filled with music with the rumba and flamenco Los Tirantitos, who will be in the Plaza del Prado and with the verdiales band La Axarquía, who take over at 7pm.
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III Pepe Romero Guitar Festival- Malaga: 12-29 Sep.
10 concerts dedicated to the guitarist Pepe Romero, in various Malaga City venues.
Info & tix: https://www.mientrada.net/eventos/categoria/pepe-romero-guitar-festival-malaga/

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Blues Concert- The Gangberries: Fri, 13 Sep, 10pm
Clarence Jazz Club
Calle Danza Invisible 8 CP 29620 Torremolinos (Málaga)
The project was born in early 2012 with members of different bands well known in the capital- Lito Blues Band, Richard Ray Farrell Band, Mama Kin Band, to name a few. They join to pay tribute to the great blues- BB King, Johnny Winter, Albert King and others.
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Torrox celebrates Tourist Day: Saturday, September 14
At the viewpoint on Avenida del Faro
Includes activities such as guided tours, snorkeling, family workshops, a tourist train and a large fireworks display.
***Programme***
– 9:00 am, a guided tour of the historic centre of the town for a maximum of 30 people.
– On the coast, at 9:30 a.m., there will be a snorkelling route in the area of the shipwreck ‘El Delfín, known as “El Barco del Arroz”, also for a maximum of 30 people.
– In addition, between 11:00 and 13:00 there will be a family mosaic workshop in the Interpretation Centre of El Faro de Torrox Costa for 15 participants.
– From 18:00 the tourist train tours will begin.
– At around 19:30, there will be another guided tour, in this case of the archaeological site of El Faro.
All these free activities require prior registration at the Central Tourist Office (turismo@torrox.es or telephone 952530225) in the case of the guided tours and at the El Faro Interpretation Centre (cifaro@torrox.es or telephone 952538525) for the family mosaic workshop.
– The great Tourist Day gala will begin at 21:00 with an exhibition by Estefanía Bonilla’s Step Dance group, which will give way to the prize-giving ceremony with the corresponding speeches of thanks and institutional speeches and the stellar performance by Antonio Carmona in concert {Video Link}.
– The day will culminate with a huge fireworks display from the breakwater next to the viewpoint on Ferrara beach. Source, Spanish: https://www.axarquiaplus.es/torrox-celebra…

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42nd City of Vélez-Málaga Folk Festival: Sat, 14 Sep.
– There will be a parade prior to the celebration of the Festival, at 8:30 p.m., and will depart from the end of C/ Canalejas towards Plaza de las Carmelitas.
– At 9:00 p.m. the Festival will start in the Plaza de las Carmelitas.

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– After this, the market will be moving back to its monthly Sunday morning slot for October 13, November 3 and December 1. We are a new and growing event, new vendors welcome.
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Andalucia criticises the government for the transfer of migrants to Alcalá (Seville)- ‘Zero official information and no coordination’: {Translation, summary}
– The Andalusian minister of Social Inclusion, Youth, Families and Equality, Lopes López {pic}, has reproached the government of Pedro Sánchez on Monday for the transfer of more than a hundred migrants from Granada to the Seville town of Alcalá de Guadaíra, where they will be housed in a hotel, next to the Silos school, causing concern among parents. López regretted that this operation is being carried out with ‘zero official information and without coordination’.
– Speaking to the media at an event in Lepe (Huelva) with minors under the care of the regional government, the Andalusian minister said that she had found out ‘through the press’ about the transfer of migrants, stressing that ‘I have absolutely no knowledge of anything’. ‘The Spanish government – she continued – continues to act with its back to the autonomous communities and behind the backs of the local councils. That is its migration policy’.
– Loles López has insisted on accusing Sánchez’s government of ‘handing out’ migrants ‘as if they were packages from Amazon’. The councillor for Social Inclusion has not been the only one to comment on the move. Her colleague for Educational Development and Vocational Training, Carmen Castillo, on Monday sent a message of ‘calm’ to the parents of the Centre for Infant and Primary Education (Silos) in Alcalá de Guadaíra (Seville) in view of the arrival this Monday of the first migrants, of a total of approximately 150 mainly from sub-Saharan countries, who will be accommodated in the Sandra hotel in the town after having been in a centre in Granada. Source, Spanish: https://www.europapress.es/andalucia/sevilla-00357/noticia-andalucia-afea-gobierno-traslado-migrantes-alcala-sevilla-informacion-oficial-cero-coordinacion-20240909110802.html

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A room in a shared apartment costs 367 euros per month in Andalucia: {Translation, summary}
– The price of a room in Andalucia in a shared apartment costs an average of 367 euros per month, which is 10.7% more than a year ago, according to the study “Shared housing in Spain in 2024” based on the prices of rental housing for the month of August of the last nine years of the Fotocasa Real Estate Index. The increase is 43.7% compared to five years ago (since 2019) and 66.5% more compared to nine years ago (2015), as reported in a statement by this real estate portal.
– The high prices of a complete home for rent, exceeding 1,000 euros on average, force tenants to look for shared housing to be able to meet the resulting expenses, which is why demand keeps prices rising, explains María Matos, Director of Studies and spokesperson for Fotocasa.
– Prices above 500 euros per month for a room in a shared apartment in August 2024 were recorded in Catalonia, with 611 euros; Balearic Islands with 576 euros; Madrid with 552 euros; Basque Country with 543 euros and Navarra with 512 euros.
– Following with a lower price are the communities of the Canary Islands with 423 euros, the Valencian Community with 420 euros; Andalusia with 367 euros; Cantabria with 358 euros; Aragón with 349 euros; Asturias with 330 euros; Galicia with 326 euros; Region of Murcia with 311 euros; La Rioja with 305; Castilla y León with 284 euros; Castilla-La Mancha with 269 euros/month and Extremadura with 239 euros/month. Source, Spanish: https://andaluciainformacion.es/andalucia/1750908/una-habitacion-en-un-piso-compartido-cuesta-en-andalucia-367-euros-al-mes/

RINCÓN DE LA VICTORIA

Rincón de la Victoria will have late night intercity transport with Malaga on a daily basis: {Translation, summary}
– From 9th September, Rincón de la Victoria will have late bus service every night. From Sunday to Thursday, there will be 3 departures from Muelle de Heredia in Malaga to Rincón de la Victoria at 23.30, 00.40 and 1.50 hours.
– In addition, the service will be extended on Fridays, Saturdays and the eve of public holidays with an expedition departing from Muelle de Heredia at 3.00 am. ‘This is a neighbourhood demand to which we are responding and which allows the residents and workers of our municipality to return by public transport later in the winter’, said Pardini. Source, Spanish: https://www.axarquiaplus.es/rincon-de-la-victoria-contara-con-transporte-interurbano-nocturno-con-malaga-de-forma-diaria/

SEVILLA

The never-before-seen summer of the Nile virus mosquito- in 24 hours a single trap in Seville captured 16,000, almost a third of all those collected in Andalusia in 2023: {Translation, 1st 4 paragraphs only}
– This summer has been the summer of mosquitoes with the Nile virus. At least in Seville. Several experts predicted this in March, and on 14 March the Directorate General for Public Health of the Andalusian Ministry of Health brought together municipal representatives from the Seville towns of Coria del Río, La Puebla del Río, Dos Hermanas, Bollullos and Los Palacios, among others, to warn that the West Nile virus (WNV) was coming ‘strong’ this year due to conditions in the city, among others, to warn that the West Nile virus (WNV) was ‘strong’ this year due to the weather conditions – higher temperatures and abundant rainfall – and the subsequent decision of the Guadalquivir Hydrographic Confederation to authorise the filling of the rice fields.
– Day by day, week by week, almost all the circumstances were in place for the culex mosquito, which transmits the disease to humans, to proliferate in an extraordinary way throughout this summer, and that is what has happened. One statistic illustrates the extent to which this has been the case: last year, 55,000 mosquitoes that could transmit the Nile virus were captured throughout Andalusia in the various traps that the Junta and the CSIC have installed at strategic points; this summer, in a single day, a trap located in Seville captured 16,000. The number of captures at the end of this campaign could be five or ten times that of the previous year.
– WNV was detected for the first time at the end of the last century in New York and spread throughout most of the United States, to the point that it is now the leading cause of viral meningoencephalitis in North America. In Spain it was detected for the first time in 2010 – the first case was in Cadiz – and since then it has spread throughout the country until it has become endemic, although this summer Seville has been – by far – the most affected Spanish province with 6 deaths and more than 60 diagnosed cases, figures that are already comparable to the 2020 outbreak, the largest ever recorded, which claimed 8 lives and 76 hospitalised. Source, Spanish: https://www.abc.es/sevilla/ciudad/junta-capturo-verano-solo-horas-trampa-sevilla-20240909180108-nts.html

EUROPE

After Croatia, Serbia also brings back military conscription:
– Following in the footsteps of neighboring Croatia, Serbia is also bringing back military conscription in the form of a 75-day basic training for men and an option for similar volunteer service for women, announced Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić.
– Earlier this year, the Serbian General Staff considered that a four-month period of compulsory service would be necessary, but President Aleksandar Vučić has already talked of a shorter period of two and a half months. In his opinion, compulsory military service should be introduced in a way that does not scare people away and force them to leave the country. He said that 75 days is a really short period, “the least anyone can do for their country.”
He added that soldiers would also receive a financial allowance during their time in barracks, which would be a strain on the budget but would pay for itself many times over. The president also reiterated that Serbia is a militarily neutral state and is not preparing for war. Full article: https://rmx.news/defense/after-croatia-serbia-also-brings-back-military-conscription/

ENERGY CRISIS

Italy Seeks Reversal of EU’s 2035 Combustion Engine Ban:
– Italian officials said the European Union’s plan to ban sales of new internal combustion engines from 2035 should be reviewed. “The ban must be changed,” Energy Minister Gilberto Pichetto Fratin said on the sidelines of the Ambrosetti Forum in Cernobbio, on the shores of Italy’s Lake Como, on Saturday. Pichetto Fratin called the decision by the EU “absurd,” and dictated by an “ideological vision” along with a state-controlled approach to policy-making within the bloc. The plan needs changing in order to reflect different market realities amid the European auto industry’s slowdown”, “Europe needs a pragmatic vision, the ideological vision has failed. We need to acknowledge that,” he added.
– Italy’s officials have said they’re not against electric-vehicle development and production, but that it should be part of a more broader mix of automotive propulsion systems. Full article: https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/investing/2024/09/07/italy-wants-reversal-of-eus-planned-2035-combustion-engine-ban/

HEALTH

Common food dye found to make skin and muscle temporarily transparent:
– Researchers have peered into the brains and bodies of living animals after discovering that a common food dye can make skin, muscle and connective tissues temporarily transparent. Applying the dye to the belly of a mouse made its liver, intestines and bladder clearly visible through the abdominal skin {pic}, while smearing it on the rodent’s scalp allowed scientists to see blood vessels in the animal’s brain.
– Treated skin regained its normal colour when the dye was washed off, according to researchers at Stanford University, who believe the procedure opens up a host of applications in humans, from locating injuries and finding veins for drawing blood to monitoring digestive disorders and spotting tumours. The red in the photo is dye, not blood. Full article: https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/sep/05/common-food-dye-found-to-make-skin-and-muscle-temporarily-transparent

CULTURE

The procession of the Virgen de la Victoria in Malaga, in photos:
– The sun shone with special brilliance on the day of La Victoria, patron saint of Malaga, which this year processed with a special halo announcing the Jubilee Year 2024/2025 granted by the Apostolic Penitentiary on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the institution of the Brotherhood.
– The Bugle and Drum bands of the Fire Brigade led the procession, the Municipal Band of Malaga next, and the Maestro Eloy García band of the Archconfraternity of the Expiration behind the throne. Source, with full 28 photo gallery by photographer Carlos Guerrero: https://www.malagahoy.es/malaga/procesion-virgen-victoria-malaga-fotos_3_2002356593.html#slide-1

OTHER

James Earl Jones, revered actor and voice of Star Wars’ Darth Vader, dies aged 93:
– James Earl Jones, the actor whose beautifully sonorous tones gave voice to Star Wars’ principal villain Darth Vader, has died aged 93. Jones died at his home in Dutchess county, New York, according to an announcement from his representatives. No cause of death was provided. Full article: https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/sep/09/james-earl-jones-dies

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September historical re-enactments and festivities in Malaga: {Translation}
– 15th September in Alfarnate, Moors & Christians “La Embajada” Festival. It is part of the patron saint fiestas in honour of Nuestra Señora de la Salud, which will take place between 11 and 15 September. On the last day of the festival, the two opposing sides and the abduction of the image of the patron saint will be staged. The name of this re-enactment is due to the fact that in this plot an embassy of Christians will demand the return of the Virgin of Monsalud by reading the text called ‘Las relaciones’, which has been preserved since the 17th century.
– 13 to 15 September in Carratraca, Embrujo Andalusí (Bewitched in Andalusia). Take advantage of this weekend to attend their particular throwback to ancient Al-Andalus through hundreds of lighted candles, a large traditional souk where you can buy handmade products and a wide range of musical, cultural and gastronomic activities.
– 13 to 15 September in Manilva, Assault on the Castillo de la Duquesa. At the 18th century fortress located a few metres from the beach of Manilva. A re-enactment will take place there, the confrontation between French and British troops with the support of the people of Manilva. It takes place on the same stage where the battle took place during the War of Independence.
– 20 to 22 September in Alameda, Life and Death of José María El Tempranillo. The weekend closest to the date of the death of the famous bandit nicknamed El Tempranillo is the one on which the village of Alameda celebrates a historical re-enactment of this peculiar character. That weekend the village that saw him die and where his remains lie will give itself over to the dramatisation of his life and death.
– 20 to 22 September, The Burning of Algarrobo. This village was under serious threat during the War of Independence, which, according to the story, could have ended with the entire town centre burnt to the ground. There was a great deed that prevented it and which is remembered today in this thematic festival.
– 20 to 22 September in Salares, Arab Andalusian Festival. An unforgettable medieval themed festival, next to a minaret, the remains of a mosque and even the remains of a fortress that has been hidden for centuries.
– 20 to 22 September in Bobadilla, Fiesta del Ferrocarril (Railway).
A unique atmosphere will be recreated around the last half of the 19th century and the first years of the 20th century. Parades, puppet theatre, tastings of railway cooking and live music are some of the activities planned for this Railway Festival, celebrating the arrival of train service in the mid-19th century.
– 21 September in Casarabonela, Recreación Histórica de la Villa de Casarabonela (Historical Reenactment of the Town of Casarabonela). A dramatisation set in the period of the Moorish revolts of the 16th century.
– 27 to 29 September in Montejaque, The Battle of La Puente. The War of Independence battle that took place in the enclave known as La Puente is remembered, where a group of Serranos commanded by the commander José Aguilar was able to celebrate an epic victory over the troops of the Napoleonic army.
Source, Spanish: https://www.diariosur.es/planes/septiembre-recreaciones-historicas-fiestas-provincia-20240904174238-nt.html

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Feijóo considers it impossible to recover consensus with Sánchez- “He lives off wild sectarianism”: {Translation}
– The leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, has assured that Spain is experiencing a ‘national challenge’ due to the Catalan quota agreed between the PSOE and ERC, whose objective he has pointed out is to ‘finance the “procés”’, and believes that consensus cannot be recovered with the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, because ‘he lives on confrontation and savage sectarianism’.
– ‘Sanchismo is not going to last forever. I can name several names in the PSOE with whom it would be very easy, or at least plausible, to regain consensus. Can consensus be regained with Sánchez? No. He lives on confrontation and wild sectarianism. His project is not Spain, it is him’, he said this Sunday in an interview in “El Mundo”, picked up by Europa Press.
– The popular leader claims that the regional funding has been broken to ‘save the soldier Sánchez’ and defends that the autonomous communities ‘are a network of responsibility, sense of State and equity’. ‘I understand that agreeing between all of us on what belongs to all of us is difficult, but it is the right thing to do. A compromise between two is easy, but it is immoral’, he explained.
– Feijóo affirms that financing is ‘much more important’ than the amnesty and argues that the government’s model builds ‘a Spain of first and second class citizens in terms of public services’. ‘The vast majority are being told that they will have 50% of the revenue collected in their community, while 7 million Spaniards, the vast minority, will have 100%,’ he said. ‘The ordinary representatives of the State, who are the regional presidents, must know that this is not a problem of giving a little more money,’ added the PP leader.
– In the interview, Feijóo said that the PP will try to ensure that the Congress does not approve the amendment of the Organic Law on Financing of Autonomous Communities (LOFCA) and denounce the failure to convene the Conference of Presidents, as well as explaining that ‘to maintain Sánchez, 45 years of funding for public services in equality are being broken’.
– ‘This is an absolute drift: a president who buys the extension of his mandate in the Government of Spain with the money of the Spanish people. We are at a historic moment,’ he said. Feijóo also believes that the regional presidents must attend the meeting with Sánchez at the Moncloa Palace, because otherwise ‘a mistake would be made’, and comments on the Federal Congress of the PSOE that it will be ‘a federal purge’.
– ‘He (Sánchez) threatens anyone who disagrees. The PSOE is in a critical existential situation and, as Guerra would say, ‘not even the mother who bore it knows it’, he said.
– Finally, on migration management, the leader of the PP argues that regular immigration is necessary in Spain if immigrants arrive with a work contract and accept Spanish laws. In this sense, he considers that the migration policy of the President of Italy, Giorgia Meloni, is more sensible than that of Sánchez. ‘Today, Spain is the worst country in the EU in terms of migration management. Spain is a boon for the mafias that traffic in people. Irregular immigration must be dealt with under the European Charter and we must talk about expulsions, refoulement and returns. Irregular immigration has no place in the rule of law’, he declared. Source, Spanish: https://www.europapress.es/nacional/noticia-feijoo-considera-imposible-recuperar-consensos-sanchez-vive-sectarismo-salvaje-20240908103421.html

ANDALUCÍA

What will the weather be like this autumn in Andalusia? The Aemet answers: {Translation}
– ‘More of the same’. This is how the regional delegate of the Aemet in Andalusia, Juan de Dios del Pino, sums up what is expected for autumn in Andalusia. According to the forecast of the State Meteorological Agency, the Andalusian region will continue the trend of recent months and years, with a reduction in rainfall and temperatures above the values typical of the season.
– Autumn is therefore expected to be ‘warmer and drier than normal’ in Andalusia, with the possibility of ‘more intense’ droughts as a result of the high temperatures recorded this summer, with 0.8 degrees more than usual for this time of year – the average temperature has been 25.7 degrees.
– The models point to a 70% probability that autumn will be ‘warmer than normal’ in Andalusia. As for rainfall, although the statistics are more ‘ambiguous’, there is a 40% probability that the new season will be drier than usual. As for rainfall, he has not ruled out the possibility of droughts in the coming months and that these will be ‘more intense’ as a result of an atmosphere with ‘a lot of energy’ accumulated by the high temperatures of the summer.
– ‘The summers are eating up part of the spring and autumn’, said Juan de Dios del Pino, who detailed how in the last 11 years, the greatest amount of water has been produced in spring – with droughts – to the detriment of the winters, when storms are recorded. The agricultural year, which ended on 1 September, closed with a water deficit of 64.6 litres per square metre less. ‘We are in a drought. A very long, very extensive drought,’ he added.
– By way of summary of the summer, the regional delegate of the Aemet in Andalusia has remarked that it has not been homogeneous, registering a first part with ‘many temperature oscillations – “thermal sawtooths” – that “are not usual” but that are produced as an effect of the danas; and a second part in which the peaks between the maximum and minimum have been “less pronounced”.
– August was the second warmest month since 1961, with four heat waves, second only to August 2023, when there were five. The heat waves this past August were ‘shorter’ than in 2023 and affected ‘less surface area’. Finally, Juan de Dios del Pino is confident that the drought will ‘break’ in the coming months, an event which, in his experience, occurs ‘suddenly’. Source, Spanish: https://www.diariosur.es/andalucia/tiempo-hara-otono-andalucia-20240906181919-nt.html

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State of the reservoirs in Andalucia & Malaga on Sunday, September 8, 2024:
Refs: Andalucia-
https://www.diariosur.es/andalucia/embalses-andalucia-08septiembre-20240902000000-nt.html & Malaga- http://www.redhidrosurmedioambiente.es/saih/parte/diario/embalses

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1000 teachers suddenly decline positions for “medical reasons”- Andalusia will launch an extra call this Monday to cover the “surprising” losses of more than 1,000 teachers: {Translation, summary}
– The Andalusian Regional Minister for Educational Development and Vocational Training, Carmen Castillo {pic}, has announced that next Monday an extraordinary call will be made to cover ‘all those absences that are unexpected’ of teachers whose incorporation was planned from 2 September in order to guarantee the coverage of posts with the start of the school year. There are currently more than 1,000 unexpected vacancies now reported by the schools, according to figures provided by the Regional Ministry to Europa Press, which guarantees that they will be covered ‘one hundred percent’.
– ‘These posts were indeed awarded and were indeed covered’, warned the Andalusian Minister for Educational Development, who justified the impossibility of foreseeing that these new posts would not be filled, although she is confident that the situation will be resolved after next week’s extraordinary call for applications. Source, Spanish: https://www.europapress.es/esandalucia/sevilla/noticia-andalucia-lanzara-lunes-convocatoria-extra-cubrir-bajas-sobrevenidas-mas-1000-docentes-20240908100946.html

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Vocational Training For Resident Youths In Andalucia:
– If your Spanish speaking child is a resident, and needs free post high school vocational training, you should read this article. Newly opened slots are available, but don’t wait, they will fill up quickly. If your kid has no college plans, this is probably the next best option to ensure future job opportunities.
Spanish original: https://www.malagahoy.es/andalucia/junta-lanza-convocatoria-extraordinaria-cubrir_0_2002352976.html
Google Translate English version: https://www-malagahoy-es.translate.goog/andalucia/…

MALAGA PROVINCE

Hiking In Malaga- The 35 stages of the Great Path of Malaga:
– Here you will find an English version of the original source of the often copied map. When you go to this website, you find a map with Google Map functions like zoom and satellite view.
https://www.gransendademalaga.es/en/
– Use this link to read summaries of each of the 35 routes in English: https://www-malagahoy-es.translate.goog/la-farola/rutas…

MALAGA CITY

Today, Monday 9 Sep, is a public holiday in Malaga City:
Many businesses will be closed for the official annual town fiesta.
Ref: https://www.foro-ciudad.com/malaga/malaga/calendario-laboral-2024.html

TORRE DEL MAR

International Torre del Mar Air Show 2024 on the Costa del Sol, in pictures:
Source with full photo gallery & photo credit: https://www.surinenglish.com/malaga/axarquia/international-torre-mar-air-show-2024-the-20240908181328-ga.html

RONDA

An atypical Goyesca Saturday in pictures: {Translation}
– Ronda experienced a very atypical Goyesca Saturday, as the famous bullfight which attracts thousands of people every year to the city of the Tagus could not be held due to structural problems encountered in its bullring. Faced with this situation, the Town Hall organised a parade of Goyaesque ladies from different years who travelled through the centre of the city in carriages. Afterwards, they presided over an equestrian show which took place in the Alameda del Tajo. All photos: Javier Flores/MalagaHoy.
– See the full photo gallery here: https://www.malagahoy.es/ronda/sabado-goyesca-fotos_3_2002350750.html#slide-1

EUROPE

Russia takes Ukrainian town in advance on Pokrovsk:
– Russia said on Sunday its forces had taken full control of a town in eastern Ukraine as Moscow’s forces advance on the strategically important city of Pokrovsk and seek to pierce the Ukrainian defensive front lines.
– Russian forces, which control about a fifth of Ukraine since invading in February 2022, are advancing in eastern Ukraine in an attempt to take the whole of the Donbas, which is about half the size of the U.S. state of Ohio.
– Russia’s defence ministry said its forces had taken the town of Novohrodivka, which lies 12 km (7 miles) from Pokrovsk, an important rail and road hub for Ukrainian forces in the area. The town had a population of 14,000 before the war.
– Yuri Podolyaka, an influential Ukrainian-born, pro-Russian military blogger, published maps showing Russian forces attacking beyond Novohrodivka in at least two places less than 7 km (4 miles) from Pokrovsk. Photo: Serhii Nuzhnenko. Full article: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-troops-take-novohrodivka-ukraines-donetsk-region-ria-reports-2024-09-08/

IRELAND

UFC star Conor McGregor announces intention to run for Ireland’s presidency:
– Former UFC champion Conor McGregor has announced his intention to enter the political arena, revealing plans to run for the presidency of Ireland in 2025. The mixed martial artist made the announcement on the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, where he has been critical of the nation’s current leadership. Source & video: https://youtu.be/2o3N-u8U6pk?si=FTrWdZ2RxI5iJ33A & X Post Link

As President I hold the power to summon the Dáil as well as dissolve it. So as i said before, I would have all the answers the people of Ireland seek from these thieves of the working man, these disrupters of the family unit, these destructors of small businesses, and on and on…
— Conor McGregor (@TheNotoriousMMA) September 5, 2024

REAL ESTATE

Holiday apartment owners in Spain fined 2,000 euros for insisting guest must send ID via WhatsApp:
– A would-be guest who booked a holiday apartment in Badajoz, Spain, through an accommodation platform was contacted by one of the owners of the establishment requiring him to send a photograph of both sides of his and the others guests’ identification documents via WhatsApp or email. This was a condition of entry to the accommodation, despite the fact that the booking confirmation indicated that they would only have to show them on arrival.
– The guest refused to do so and when he arrived at the apartment to check in by showing his ID card, the owners insisted that he had to send the documentation by WhatsApp if he wanted to stay there overnight. Finally, the guest’s repeated refusal led the establishment to prevent him from accessing the pre-booked and pre-paid apartment.
– The would-be guest reported the establishment owners not only to the Guardia Civil, but also went to the Spanish data protection agency (AEPD), which has subsequently fined the owners of the accommodation for an offence they considered “very serious”.
– Finally, as well as imposing the fine, the AEPD ordered the owners to cease collecting copies of its customers’ identity documents for the completion of the registration within three months and to modify the information it offers on personal data protection. It also warned that failure to do so could be considered an administrative infringement that could lead to another fine. Full article: https://www.surinenglish.com/spain/data-protection-penalises-flats-with-2000-euros-20240906082259-nt.html

TRAVEL

Private low-cost operator Iryo launches new high-speed train service between Malaga and Barcelona from 15 December:
– A new high-speed train service will connect Malaga with Barcelona from 15 December. It is a service offered by the private operator Iryo, owned by Trenitalia partners Air Nostrum and Globalvia. With two frequencies per day, one outward and one return, seven days a week, the route will have stops in Zaragoza, Madrid (20 minutes) and Cordoba.
– These Iryo trips will connect the two cities in around five hours and fifty minutes. Specifically, it will leave Barcelona at 11.50am and arrive in Malaga at 5.42pm. In the reverse direction, it will leave Malaga at 11.35am and arrive in Barcelona at 5.37pm.
– As for prices, which can now be consulted on the Iryo website, in the first week of service, tickets between Barcelona and Malaga are offered for approximately 24, 44 and 64 euros (one way), depending on the amenities available on the journey and the ticket flexibility regarding changes or cancellation. At the weekend, the minimum return fare rises to 26.37 euros one way and 27.78 euros return. Full article: https://www.surinenglish.com/malaga/private-operator-iryo-launches-new-highspeed-train-20240906125404-nt.html

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EU backs down and reapplies restrictions on the transport of liquids in hand luggage: {Translation, summary}
– In different airports around the world and in Europe, so-called explosive detection systems for cabin baggage (EDSCB) with X-ray technology are being installed that scan hand luggage and show an image of the objects in three dimensions, which facilitates inspection in boarding areas. Until last Sunday, at airfields that had this system, passengers could transport liquid containers of more than 100 ml. inside their carry-on luggage, without having to take them out and display them on a separate tray.
– However, the European Commission recently backtracked and announced that from September 1, 2024, the previous 100 ml regulation would be operational in Europe again.
– So how should we act now? Whatever the airport and the control system used in the boarding area, passengers who want to carry liquids, gels or aerosols in their hand luggage must continue to use containers of no more than 100 ml that together do not add up to a liter. In addition, they will have to present them outside the suitcase in a transparent bag. Source, Spanish: https://www.diariosur.es/sociedad/ue-retracta-aplica-nuevo-restricciones-sobre-transporte-20240903001136-nt.html

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DigameXtra No. 2847 WEEKEND EDITION Friday, September 6th, 2024

On September 6, 2024September 7, 2024 By naythandoctorlaptop

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Robert’s Top- Almunecar: Live Music This Weekend
– Friday, 6 Sep: Robert’s Band, rock & soul covers. 22:30
– Saturday, 7 Sep: Clave de Soul, soul/jazz/pop. 22:30
C/ Livry Gargan 1, Almunecar FB

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CalaPop Weekend: Fri&Sat, 6-7 Sep. 6:30pm
El Charcón Beach, Mijas Costa
Cadiz road km 204,500 Mijas Costa (CHANGE OF DIRECTION EL FARO) Mijas 29649
The Mijas underground festival returns on September 6 and 7 with a particular mix of styles, from power pop to garage.
Info & tix: https://nutritious-moss-1cc.notion.site/CalaPop-2024-7fd662ad0c3948e7b8fe913285ed3bf3 & Video Link 1 & Video Link 2

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Mami Curl Band: Sat, 7 Sep, 22:30. Free entry.
Vinilo Café Pub, Av. Salvador Vicente, 28, 29631 Benalmádena, Málaga. Powerful Pop & Blues. Tel: +34633037334. Map Link

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Fiesta del Boquerón Victoriano (Victorian Anchovy Festival):
Rincón de la Victoria. Tuesday-Sunday, 3 to 8 Sep.
The programme of activities will include live cooking, tastings of anchovies in the town’s restaurants, a network of catering establishments promoting this product, and the “Sabor a Málaga Fair” with the sale of products from the province, live music and even activities for the little ones.
As is traditional, on 6, 7 and 8 September, there will be free tastings of fried anchovies and anchovies in vinegar in 61 restaurants in the municipality. These tastings will be served for lunch and dinner while stocks last and with a set timetable, from 13:00 to 14:30 and from 20:30 to 22:00. All of them will have a sign on the door to identify participating establishments. Also during these days, the Plaza Al Ándalus will host a marquee where you can taste boquerones en vinagre (anchovies in vinegar) free of charge and during the same hours as in the restaurants.

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Concert- Fred Hersch: Sat, Nov 2, 2024. 8pm
Teatro Cervantes, Málaga
Fred Hersch is an American jazz pianist, composer, and a 17-time Grammy nominee. Info & tix (€11/16/22/30) : https://www.teatrocervantes.com/es/genero/musica/38-festival-internacional-de-jazz/fred-hersch-1691 & Video Link

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Jazz Concert- Pat Metheny: Sat, 9 Nov, 8pm
Cervantes Theater, Malaga.
Info & tix: https://www.teatrocervantes.com/en/genero/musica/38-festival-internacional-de-jazz/pat-metheny-dream-box-1696

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Events agenda in Granada this week:
– Thursday 5th September
*21:00 – Zaidín Rock: Eskorzo+Javier Ojeda (Danza Invisible) + El Niño del Albayzín + Inés y los inesperados. Space between the Nuevo Los Cármenes and the Palacio de Deportes.
*22:00 – Jam Session Jazz. Ool Ya Koo (5 euros)
– Friday 6 September
*19:30 – Candlelight: ‘Vivaldi’s Four Seasons’. Basílica de San Juan de Dios (20 to 39 euros)
*21:00 – Zaidín Rock: El Kanka + El Sombrero del Abuelo + JavyPablo – Elsa Bhör + Gamberra. Space between the Nuevo Los Cármenes and the Palacio de Deportes.
*21:00 – Soul and Blues: Sandra Morales + Eneko Alberdi + Willy James. Eras de Aldeire, Capileira
*21:30 – 1001 Músicas-CaixaBank: Vetusta Morla. Teatro del Generalife (Tickets sold out)
*21:30 – Candlelight: ‘The Four Seasons of Vivaldi’. Basílica de San Juan de Dios (20 to 39 euros)
*22:00 – Björn Ingelstam. Ool Ya Koo (12 euros)
– Saturday 7 September
*7pm – 90’s and 2mil. Campo de la Alameda, Baza
*20:00 – Gospel Sounds Granada + Granada Rock Choir and more. Manuel de Falla Auditorium
*21:00 h – Granada City Orchestra + Granada City Orchestra Choir. Bullring
*21:00 – Zaidín Rock: 091 + Niños Mutantes + Los 300 + Mente Fría + Virginias. Space between the Nuevo Los Cármenes and the Palacio de Deportes.
*21:00 – Alma y Blues: The Fixed Trio + El Oso de Benalúa and Toni Molina + Mateo Ortega and The Sugar Daddies. Eras de Aldeire, Capileira
*21:30 – 1001 Músicas-CaixaBank: The Psychedelic Furs. Teatro del Generalife (61 to 114 euros)
*23:00 – Luis Cortés. Recinto Ferial de Motril (20 euros)
– Sunday 8 September
*14:00 – Alma y Blues: Eneko Alberdi. Plaza del Calvario, Capileira
*20:30 – Belén Bandera and Jaume Llombart. Ool Ya Koo (7 euros)
– Tuesday 10 September
*21:30 – Lamaar and Leo Esquivel. Lemon Rock
– Wednesday 11 September
*19:00 – FlamencoEñe. Federico García Lorca Centre (8 euros)
*21:00 – FlamencoEñe Off. Ground Floor
*21:30 – Guillermo Crovetto. Lemon Rock
– Events and shows
– Sunday 8 September
*08:00 a.m. – 16th Open Air Speed Painting Competition. Zaida Hall
*12:00 – Saki Aoki. Manuel de Falla Auditorium (6 euros)
Source: https://www.granadadigital.es/zaidin-rock-1001-musicas-vetusta-morla-psychedelic-furs-agenda-septiembre-granada/

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Car Boot/Market- Lake Vinuela Area. Sunday 8th September:
Please note, that our normal monthly car boot/market will resume on Sunday 8th September.
This popular monthly car boot/market is held at El Pantano restaurant car park (overlooking Lake Vinuela). Time 9.30 to 1pm.
Location is easy to find at Km. 30 on the A356.
If you are approaching from the coast/Velez Malaga, drive over the bridge crossing Lake Vinuela and the car park/bar is just ahead on the right-hand side. Plenty of parking.
Lots of stalls with a large variety of goods for sale and plenty of bargains to be had!
New stall holders always welcome.
For more information, please telephone Sandy on 633878471

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For Sale: Chinese tea set. This beautiful navy blue ‘ Lucky’ fine Chinese tea set complete, new, unused. 6 cups, saucers, tea plates, tea pot, milk jug and sugar bowl.
Identity markings on all pieces, a lovely raised face in bottom of each cup. Amazing decorative Chinese dragon design. Very fine china, well worth the price. 70€. Sue, Torrox Costa. More pics on request.
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Electrician Recommendations Wanted: Can someone recommend an electrician, English or Spanish? We need an electrician as soon as possible to do a little work in connection with renovation. Lisbet, Torrox Campo
Email: lisbetlindberg28@gmail.com

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Bernie Boxes: I will be selling my Bernie Boxes at The Hub in Peñoncillo on Saturday, Sep 7th. My wooden boxes are individually designed and hand painted, and have soft linings. For further info and times I’ll be set up on Saturday you can contact me on 643023697 or by email.
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SPAIN

The socialists will decide when you have enough money- Sánchez announces a tax increase for “those who have enough money in the bank to live 100 lives”: {Translation}
– The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, announced on Wednesday that they are going to raise taxes ‘on those who already have enough money in the bank to live 100 lifetimes’.
– The head of the Executive, who inaugurated the new political year in an event at the Cervantes Institute, indicated that the Government is going to implement ‘new actions aimed at limiting disproportionate privileges that certain elites have and from which certain elites benefit’ in the country.
– ‘We are going to tax those who already have enough money in the bank to live a hundred lifetimes. We will do so, I insist, not to harm millionaires but to protect the middle and working classes from a system that continues to be extraordinarily unfair’, Sánchez reiterated, in the presence of practically his entire cabinet and the trade union leaders of CCOO and UGT, Unai Sordo and Pepe Álvarez, respectively.
– For Sánchez, ‘regardless of what some people think or want, Spain will be a better country if it has more electric cars, certainly made in Spain, more public buses and, therefore, more public transport and fewer Lamborghinis’.
– The head of the Executive concluded by assuring that more progressive taxation will be one of the three main axes that the Government will develop in economic matters in this new political year, with taxes ‘that will grow more for those who have more’. Source, Spanish: https://www.europapress.es/economia/fiscal-00347/noticia-sanchez-anuncia-alza-fiscal-quienes-tienen-banco-suficiente-dinero-vivir-100-vidas-20240904124137.html

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The PP registers its appeal against the amnesty law in the Constitutional Court- “It was necessary to do so and a moral obligation”: {Translation}
– With just under a week to go before the deadline, Alberto Núñez Feijóo’s PP has registered its appeal against the amnesty law with the Constitutional Court. As announced by the secretary general of the PP, Cuca Gamarra, it was ‘necessary’ and a ‘moral obligation’ of the main opposition group, ‘the only state party left in the parliamentary arc of our country’.
– The PP leader thus fulfils his promise to fight against the erasure of the procés in the courts. Likewise, the thirteen communities governed by the PP will present their own appeal before 11 September, when the deadline expires.
– The PP will also try to ensure that three of the twelve magistrates of the Constitutional Court – its president, Cándido Conde-Pumpido, and the two members who came from the Sánchez government, the former minister Juan Carlos Campo and the former director general of Moncloa Laura Díez – do not take part in the deliberations by recusing themselves, thus changing the progressive majority that will decide on the law. Source, Spanish: https://www.20minutos.es/noticia/5630872/0/pp-registra-constitucional-su-recurso-contra-ley-amnistia-que-ve-como-una-obligacion-moral/

MALAGA CITY

The lack of professionals blocks appointments for primary care in Malaga: {Translation, summary}
– Getting an appointment at a health center in Malaga capital is an impossible mission these days. It does not matter which area of the Málaga-Guadalhorce district you live in, because the message that there are no appointments available at this time extends to any outpatient clinic, although obviously some are worse than others. The end of the holidays and, above all, the lack of professionals in health centers are the main causes of a collapse in primary care whose most representative image is the queues to be attended to non-delayable consultations.
– Asked about this situation, the Health Delegation in Malaga admits that the problem exists these days, but that it is a “specific” issue. Maribel González, head of the Citizen Services Service of the Málaga-Guadalhorce District, recognizes most of the issues criticized by the Medical Union, but attributes most of these problems to the lack of professionals available to hire.
– We have a one hundred percent replacement rate, but it is difficult for us to cover it because there are no professionals,” she maintains. However, this lack of doctors also has to do with the quality of the contracts offered.
– This newspaper published a few months ago the data on the hiring of Primary Care doctors between January and June of this year in the Málaga Guadalhorce district. At this time, the Andalusian Health Service had hired 105 doctors, although all of them had contracts of days or a few months. Many of them have been experiencing this same situation for several years. From the conditions underlying these short-term contracts, the conclusion is drawn, according to the SMM, of “absolute instability” and “precariousness.” Source, Spanish: https://www.diariosur.es/malaga-capital/falta-profesionales-bloquea-citas-atencion-primaria-20240904223418-nt.html

TORRE DEL MAR

Here are the schedules for the Torre del Mar 2024 Air Show: {Translation, summary}
– The programme lasts throughout the weekend, with outstanding activities, such as the one scheduled for Saturday 7 September, when the Aspa patrol team will be signing posters, from 12.00 to 13.15 hours, in the Biblioplaya area; also on the same day and in the same place, but from 16.00 to 17.00 hours, F-18 posters will be signed.
– The main event, however, will take place on Sunday, the 8th. The day will begin at 11.45 am with a Rescue and First Aid demonstration; from 11.53 am to 12.13 pm, it will be the turn of Papea, the Acrobatic Parachuting Patrol of the Air and Space Army; from 12.13 pm to 12.28 pm, the Real Aeroclub de Sevilla. Then, until 12.36, the EC-135 of the National Police arrives. Then, until 12.52, Ramón Morillas and César Cánudas, with their paramotor; double presence of the Guardia Civil, from 12.52 to 13.04, the AS 365 of the Corps and, immediately afterwards; the King Air, until 13.10. The Corsairs 43 Air and Space Army will take to the skies when the Benemérita leaves, until 13.25, and from that time until 13.38, ELA Aviación Oficial.
– From 13.38 to 13.50, Camilo Benito – Aerobatic Pilot and, until 14.02, Juan Velarde. From 14.02 to 14.14, the Super Saeta A3H, followed by the WEFLY! TEAM, until 14.26, and from then until 14.38, the EF-18 Ejército del Aire. Then, from 14.38 to 14.52, Team Raven. The Aspa Patrol has its turn from 14.52 to 15.20 and, to end the show, until 15.32, flights by the Air and Space Army Eurofighter Typhoon. Source, Spanish: https://www.diariosur.es/axarquia/horarios-air-show-torre-mar-2024-20240904174545-nt.html

EUROPE

Macron names EU’s Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier as France’s new prime minister:
– President Emmanuel Macron named Michel Barnier {pic} as France’s new prime minister on Thursday, hoping the Brexit negotiator and veteran conservative can work with the country’s bitterly divided legislature to end political turmoil that has roiled Macron’s presidency.
– Barnier, 73, is the oldest of the 26 prime ministers that have served modern France’s Fifth Republic. He replaces the youngest, Gabriel Attal, who was 34 when he was appointed just eight months ago. Full article: https://apnews.com/article/macron-brexit-negotiator-barnier-france-prime-minister-33a8d9eee7a47c7c0c9c73f41e97b061

USA

Hunter Biden enters shock guilty plea in $1.4M tax evasion case, first son facing up to 17 years in prison:
– Hunter Biden {pic} shocked the legal and political words Thursday as he unexpectedly decided to plead guilty plea in his federal tax evasion case, just as his trial was slated to kick off with jury selection. Los Angeles federal Judge Mark Scarsi accepted the plea from the first son on all nine counts he faced in a case accusing him of failing to pay $1.4 million in taxes for the years 2016 through 2019.
– With the guilty plea – which was not part of a plea bargain and which came as a shock to prosecutors – Biden could face up to 17 years behind bars, he same penalty he would have faced if convicted at trial. “Hunter decided to enter his plea to protect those he loves from unnecessary hurt and cruel humiliation,” Biden’s lawyer, Abbe Lowell said, outside court after the hearing.
“This plea prevents that kind of show trial that would not have provided all the facts or served any real point in justice. He will now move on to the sentencing phase, while keeping open the options to raise the many clear issues with this case on appeal.”
– Lowell blindsided federal prosecutors when he told Scarsi earlier Thursday that his client wanted to enter an “Alford plea” – which would have allowed him to plead guilty but maintain his innocence.
– Prosecutors, however, balked at the move, considering the massive evidence against Biden. So the first son went forward with the standard guilty plea, copping to the entire case. Full article: https://nypost.com/2024/09/05/us-news/hunter-biden-plans-to-plead-guilty-in-1-4m-federal-tax-evasion-trial/

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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI)

What Is ‘Model Collapse’? An Expert Explains the Rumors About an Impending AI Doom:
– Short version: AI must be trained on Internet content. As AI fills up more space on the Internet, AI starts training on AI created material, and researchers found that this creates a “model collapse” or “Dumber Loop”- the more AI trains on AI material, the dumber it gets! -Ed.
– Artificial intelligence prophets and newsmongers are forecasting the end of the generative AI hype, with talk of an impending catastrophic “model collapse.” But how realistic are these predictions? And what is model collapse anyway?
– Discussed in 2023, but popularized more recently, “model collapse” refers to a hypothetical scenario where future AI systems get progressively dumber due to the increase of AI-generated data on the internet.
– In 2023, researchers started wondering if they could get away with only relying on AI-created data for training, instead of human-generated data. There are huge incentives to make this work. In addition to proliferating on the internet, AI-made content is much cheaper than human data to source. It also isn’t ethically and legally questionable to collect en masse.
– However, researchers found that without high-quality human data, AI systems trained on AI-made data get dumber and dumber as each model learns from the previous one. It’s like a digital version of the problem of inbreeding.
– Can’t big tech just filter out AI-generated content? Not really. Tech companies already spend a lot of time and money cleaning and filtering the data they scrape, with one industry insider recently sharing they sometimes discard as much as 90 percent of the data they initially collect to train models.
– These efforts might get more demanding as the need to specifically remove AI-generated content increases. But more importantly, in the long term it will actually get harder and harder to distinguish AI content. This will make the filtering and removal of synthetic data a game of diminishing (financial) returns.
– Ultimately, the research so far shows we just can’t completely do away with human data. After all, it’s where the “I” in AI is coming from. Full article: https://singularityhub.com/2024/08/27/what-is-model-collapse-an-expert-explains-the-rumors-about-an-impending-ai-doom/

OTHER

Queen Guitarist Brian May Reveals He Suffered a ‘Scary’ Minor Stroke:
– Brian May, the guitarist of Queen, has revealed he recently dealt with a “health hiccup.” In a video posted to his website today, the musician detailed how he suffered a minor stroke that caused him to lose control over his arm.
– “I’m here to bring you first of all some good news, I think,” May said in the video. “The good news is that I can play guitar after the events of the last few days and I say this because it was in some doubt because that little health hiccup that I mentioned happened about a week ago and what they called it was a minor stroke and all of a sudden — out of the blue – I didn’t have any control over this arm. So it was a little scary, I have to say. I had the most fantastic care and attention from Frimley Hospital, where I went. Blue lights flashing, the lot.”
– He added that he is now okay and has been told to do “basically nothing.” “I’m grounded. I’m not allowed to go out,” May said, filming the video outdoors with a plane flying overhead. “I’m not allowed to drive, not allowed to get on a plane, not allowed to raise the heart rate too high, not allowed to have planes flying over, which will stress me. But I’m good.” Full article: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/queen-guitarist-brian-may-minor-stroke-1235094733/ & Video Link

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Blues in the Alpujarra- Second edition of the Alma y Blues festival in Capileira: Fri-Sun, 6, 7 and 8 September
With the participation of Mateo Ortega & The Sugar Daddies (Video Link), The Fixed Trio, El Oso de Benalúa & Tony Molina, Willy James Band, Noelia Sakura & Eneko Alberdi and Sandra Morales.
Capileira is the highest (1400m) and most northerly of the three villages in the gorge of the Poqueira river in the La Alpujarra. Great music in a spectacular location. Use the days between to tour some high mountain villages.
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Torremolinos Oktober Beach Fest (formerly Fiesta de la Cerveza Oktoberfest): Thurs, 5 Sep thru Sunday, 8 Sep, 12pm-12am
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The festival will allow residents and visitors to taste classic cuisine, such as German sausages, sauerkraut, pork knuckle and frikadellen, among other specialties, as well as enjoying traditional Bavarian oompah brass band music. Likewise, varieties of beer imported from Germany and other international beer varieties from different parts of the world will be available.

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SPAIN

Sanchez fails to request Frontex help while the migratory collapse in Spain worsens: {Translation}
– The European border agency Frontex is ready to assist Spain in managing the wave of undocumented migrants arriving in the Canary Islands, but has not received any request from the government of Pedro Sánchez, which is mandatory for it to be able to intervene.
– The director of Frontex, Hans Leijtens, appeared in the European Parliament on Wednesday to explain precisely that after visiting the Canary Islands, the agency is ready to deploy in the archipelago immediately. ‘I hope that we will receive a request to provide the help that I know is needed. I have spoken to the reception centres for migrants and to the Guardia Civil and I am aware of the situation, but any management has to start with a request from the Spanish authorities. In the absence of such a request, we are not allowed to support the authorities’.
– Leijtens explained to MEPs that if the government were to request Frontex’s involvement in this problem, the agency already has the capacity to act very quickly, as demonstrated, for example, when Finland detected a dramatic increase in arrivals from Russia and only needed three days to take action.
– Frontex does not have its own capacities, but uses means made available to it by member countries that do not need them at the time. In the case of the Canary Islands, it could help to identify and register immigrants arriving on the islands and eventually proceed to deport those who are shown not to have the right to remain on European territory. It could also patrol the limits of Spanish territorial waters, but this would have very delicate angles with respect to the border with Morocco and Western Sahara, in addition to the fact that military means would have to be used, including those of other countries.
– In its 2023 annual report, Frontex already pointed out that the biggest increase in arrivals of undocumented migrants in Europe was occurring on the West African route, with increases of up to 161%, and Leijtens himself has described the situation in the Canary Islands as ‘Europe’s main concern’ in the field of illegal immigration. Furthermore, Frontex has recognised that the situation in the archipelago has become ‘a structural problem’.
– MEP Juan Ignacio Zoido has denounced ‘the neglect of duty with which the Sánchez government is condemning the Canary Islands’ with the aggravating factor that ‘in Moncloa they were already warned months ago by Frontex, by the Canary Islands and by the PP that this crisis would occur’.
– Dolors Montserat also announced that she will call for a debate in the plenary session of the European Parliament to discuss the Spanish government’s refusal to ask Frontex to intervene and a motion urging Pedro Sánchez to ask the EU for help. Source, Spanish: https://www.abc.es/espana/pp-afea-gobierno-recurra-frontex-pleno-colapso-20240905204928-nt.html

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UPDATE: State Attorney’s Office Cannot Defend Undersecretary of Transportation Jesús Manuel Gómez: {Translation}
– {I have previously pointed out in editorial comments that this was a serious conflict of interests. DigameXtra- ahead of the curve again! -Ed}
– The head of the Central Court of Instruction number 2 of the Audiencia Nacional, Ismael Moreno, has dismissed the State Attorney’s Office from the defence of the former Undersecretary of Transport, Jesús Manuel Gómez, in the Koldo corruption trials, because it has not presented the certification that it has been authorised to do so and has rescheduled the hearing to 23 September so that the new defence, now private, can prepare it for him.
– In a resolution to which ABC had access, Moreno thus closed the controversy over the participation of the state legal services in defence of the number 3 of the Ministry, a move that alerted the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office due to the possible conflict of interest that would arise if there were indications of tax crimes in the case.
– In such cases, the Attorney General’s Office prosecutes on behalf of the Tax Agency. It would thus be both accusing and defending, as warned by popular accusations such as the Liberum Association.
– To settle the matter, in August, the court asked the Law Office to provide a certificate accrediting that it had the mandatory authorisation of the General Directorate of Litigation, ‘enabling it to assume the representation and defence of the investigated person’. The order signed this Wednesday by Judge Moreno states that he has not done so.
– As a result, ‘the State Attorney’s Office is deemed to have been excluded from representing and defending Jesús Manuel Gómez in the present proceedings’ and a lawyer and a solicitor have been appointed on his behalf to represent his interests. Source & photo, Spanish: https://www.abc.es/espana/juez-aparta-abogacia-estado-defensa-imputado-koldo-20240904141405-nt.html

ANDALUCÍA

Do you have to pass the ITV in September? They announce an 8-day closure due to strike: {Translation, summary}
– The UGT and CCOO unions have called an eight-day strike at the public company Veiasa, responsible for ITV in Andalusia, for 19, 20, 21, 23, 26, 27, 28 and 30 September. The protest, which will affect all work shifts, is aimed at demanding the updating of the collective agreement, which affects some 2,000 workers. Source, Spanish: https://andaluciainformacion.es/andalucia/1747404/tienes-que-pasar-la-itv-en-septiembre-anuncian-un-cierre-de-8-dias-por-huelga/

COSTA DEL SOL

Plan approved for more than 3,500 new homes on eastern Costa del Sol:
– Vélez-Málaga town hall on the eastern stretch of the Costa del Sol has approved a plan to build 3,507 new homes in different towns and villages in the municipality. According to its General Urban Development Plan (PGOU), that is still pending revision to adapt it to the new regional legislation, the LISTA, there are still plans to build around 25,000 new homes.
– For the moment, the town planning department has set in motion the procedures for 3,507 new builds in what will be known as SUP-B9 in Benajarafe, which consists of two phases, with 902 houses divided into a first phase of 250 and a second phase of 652, of which 88 will be VPO (subsidised housing).
– In SUP-T12 in Torre del Mar, a further 1,067 new homes will be developed, of which 155 will be VPO. In the Baviera Golf area of Caleta de Vélez, a new residential area called SUP-C2 is being developed, with 871 properties, of which 97 are VPO.
– A further 243 homes will be built in Castillo de Lagos, of which 25 will be VPO. At the same time, procedures have been set in motion to approve two new partial plans, one in Chilches with 124 new houses, of which 12 will be VPO, and at the entrance to Torre del Mar, with another 300 houses, of which 30 will be public housing, according to the data provided by the town hall. Full article: https://www.surinenglish.com/malaga/axarquia/plan-approved-for-more-than-3500-new-20240904164905-nt.html

EUROPE

EU Does Not Plan to Facilitate Rules for UK Touring Musicians:
– The UK touring musicians have been calling on the government for a long time to sign deals with the EU that would facilitate their travel. The post-Brexit rules require artists who want to perform in the EU to obtain visas and transport permits for their equipment, which adds cost and makes it more challenging to perform in the 27 countries. A study by the Musicians Union has revealed that 50 per cent of UK musicians believe that touring the EU “is not financially viable” after the UK left the EU.
– Brussels does not intend to ease restrictions set on the UK touring musicians, which were raised after the UK left the European Union. Despite the fact that the two parties have vowed to improve their relationship, the negotiations have yet to take place and loosening post-Brexit rules on touring musicians seems to not be happening anytime soon, Schengen.News reports. According to sources cited by the Financial Times, these changes cannot happen since this would mean that fundamental modifications have to be made to the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA). Full article: https://schengen.news/eu-does-not-plan-to-facilitate-rules-for-uk-touring-musicians/

UK

Grenfell Tower fire inquiry blames deaths on incompetence and greed:
– A public inquiry into the devastating 2017 London Grenfell Tower blaze that killed 72 people blamed the disaster on failings by the government, construction industry and, most of all, the firms involved in fitting the exterior with flammable cladding. The fire ripped through the 23-storey social housing block in one of London’s richest areas during the early hours of June 14, 2017. It was Britain’s deadliest blaze in a residential building since World War Two.
– “The simple truth is that the deaths that occurred were all avoidable,” said inquiry chair Martin Moore-Bick. In its long awaited final report, the inquiry laid most responsibility for the disaster on the companies involved in the maintenance and refit of the apartment tower, as well as companies that it said had dishonestly marketed combustible cladding materials as safe.
It also criticized the then-government, the local authority of Kensington and Chelsea, the industry, regulatory groups, specific individuals and an ill-prepared fire brigade for years of inaction over fire safety in high-rise blocks.
– The inquiry report, which ran to almost 1,700 pages, said the inferno was the culmination of “decades of failure”, with profits put before people. “The duty of government should be to safeguard life, whilst protecting us from corporate greed,” said Grenfell United, a group representing some survivors and bereaved families. “But for too long, they have aided corporations, facilitating them to profit and dictate regulation.” Full article: https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/grenfell-tower-report-detail-what-led-deadly-2017-london-blaze-2024-09-03/

RECALLS

Clopidogrel Pensa, used to prevent blood clots, recalled in Spain:
– Health authorities have issued a warning about two batches of a medicine used to prevent blood clots.
– The Spanish Agency for Medicines and Health Products (Aemps) recalled two batches of the medicine, clopidogrel pensa 75 mg film-coated tablets EFG. It followed the detection of out-of-specification results in tests.
– The batches of concern are 220118 with an expiry date of 28 February 2025 and 230756 with an expiry date of 31 March 2026. The manufacturer of the medicine is Fine Foods & Pharmaceuticals NTM SPA, while the marketing holder in Spain is Towa Pharmaceutical SA.
– Aemps classified the risk as class two – class one corresponds to a higher potential risk and class three to a lower risk.
{Sorry, couldn’t find a photo. -Ed} Ref: https://www.aemps.gob.es/informa/clopidogrel-pensa-75-mg-comprimidos-recubiertos-con-pelicula-efg-28-comprimidos-nr-71414-cn-664305/

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TECH

Android Users Urged to Install Latest Security Updates to Fix Actively Exploited Flaw:
– Google has released its monthly security updates for the Android operating system to address a known high-severity vulnerability that it said has come under active exploitation in the wild.
– Google confirmed to The Hacker News that the impact of this threat goes beyond Pixel devices to include the entire Android ecosystem and that it’s working with original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to apply the fixes where applicable. Full article: https://thehackernews.com/2024/09/google-confirms-cve-2024-32896.html

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Marketing firm admits using your own phone to listen in on your conversations:
– Your long-held suspicions are confirmed, according to a report: Your phone really is listening to you.
– A marketing firm whose clients include Facebook and Google has privately admitted that it listens to users’ smartphone microphones and then places ads based on the information that is picked up, according to 404 Media. Cox Media Group, the television and radio news conglomerate, admitted in a “pitch deck” (a brief presentation, often with slide show or PowerPoint projections) to investors that its “Active Listening” software uses artificial intelligence to “capture real-time intent data by listening to our conversations…advertisers can pair this voice-data with behavioral data to target in-market consumers.”
– CMG noted that consumers “leave a data trail based on their conversations and online behavior” and that the AI-powered software collects and analyzes said “behavioral and voice data from 470+ sources.”
– The pitch deck includes claims that Facebook, Google and Amazon are clients of CMG. Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, admitted that it was reviewing all CMG content to see whether it violated any terms of service.
– Last December, MindSift, a New Hampshire-based company, bragged that it used voice data to place targeted ads by listening to people’s everyday conversations through microphones on their devices, according to 404 Media. The report revealed the existence of CMG’s “Active Listening” feature.
– Says CMG: “It is legal for phones and devices to listen to you. When a new app download or update prompts consumers with a multi-page term of use agreement somewhere in the fine print, Active Listening is often included.” Full article:
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On September 4, 2024September 4, 2024 By naythandoctorlaptop

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Gramola Festival- Canillas de Albaida:
Sat, September 7 at 10:30 p.m.
At the municipal sports center.
A tribute to the music of the 60s, 70s and 80s.
As well as having DJ Toulalan playing music from the 60s, 70s, 80s and even some from the 90s, we will have the Mandarina Project band.
The music will play until dawn and there will be prizes as always for the best dressed up in period costumes; for the best groups, couples, for adults and for children. And of course the King and Queen of the Fiesta will be those who, as well as being the best dressed, are the most animated. There are groups who opt for “artists or groups from the period and even characters from mythical films or series”.

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XXIV Viñeros (Vineyard) Festival- Moclinejo: Sun, 8 Sep
– 11:00am, with a mass for the blessing of the grapes, with the participation of the Aires de la Axarquía Choir and the Nuestra Señora de Gracia Music Band.
– 12:30pm, the Malaga singer, musician and composer Javier Ojeda will give the opening speech of the 24th Fiesta de Viñeros. This will be followed by a tour, accompanied by the Panda de Verdiales de Moclinejo, mountain style, to the wine press, where you will be able to watch live the rhythm of the treaders to obtain the muscatel juice.
– 15:30 there will be a popular paella, followed by homemade borrachuelos. Music will be provided by Los Electroduendes. The Mister and Lady of Viñeros 2023 will be elected; and in the Plaza de España will perform the Chirigota del Bizcocho, ‘La última y nos vamos’.
– Tastings: From 12:30 to 15:00, wine and muscatel grape tastings will be offered in different streets of the village. At 13:00, in the Plaza de España, Venecia del Señorío de Broches from the Dimobe winery. The popular paella at 15:30 will be at the Pisa wine press. At 18:00 there will be a tasting of borrachuelos in the Cepa building.
– Timetable of exhibitions and workshops:
* From 12:30 to 15:00 the exhibition ‘Ventanas al Arte y al Moscatel’ can be visited in the Antonio Segovia Lobillo Exhibition Hall; and until 16:00, the Bodega Antonio Muñoz Cabrera Museum.
* From 12:30 to 15:00 in the wine press there will be wheel dances, and a workshop on chopping, sieving, laying and treading grapes. Source, Spanish: https://www.axarquiaplus.es/moclinejo…

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Benamargosa hosts the Gloriosa Procesión de Nuestra Señora de los Dolores (Glorious Procession of Our Lady of Sorrows) on September 14:
– The departure will take place at 19:00 hours, with the Asociación Músico Cultural de Nuestra Señora de Gracia de Moclinejo and the accompaniment of the music of the Panda de Verdiales de El Borge, and popular artist Sergio Pérez ‘el Cindindi’ accompanied on the piano by the musician Josemi Navarro from Velez.
– Furthermore, Sunday 15th, the Solemn Eucharist in Her honour will be celebrated at 19:00 hours, with the Parish Choir, and the image will be exposed in a devout kissing ceremony at the end of the mass.

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Candlelight concerts in Malaga:
– Saturday 7 September, the Museo Carmen Thyssen Málaga will host a special Candlelight Premium: Rings and Dragons, featuring the soundtracks of Games of Thrones and Lord of the Rings, performed by the string quartet Melissando. The programme will include some of the most emblematic themes from both universes. The cheapest tickets have already sold out, and current prices start from 42 euros, with two sessions available at 20:30 and 22:15. Info & tix: https://feverup.com/m/137580
– Saturday 14 September, the Museo Carmen Thyssen Málaga will host a tribute to Hans Zimmer, performed by the string quartet Origen. Tickets, from 24 euros, are very limited for the 20:30 and 22:15 sessions. The programme will include such famous soundtracks as Gladiator, Dune, The Lion King, The Pacific and Interstellar, among others. Info & tix: https://feverup.com/m/126888
– Saturday 21 September, the Sala Unicaja de Conciertos María Cristina will be lit only by candlelight for a concert by the string quartet Résonance, who will pay tribute to Queen. Show at 17:45 Info & tix (€26.50): https://feverup.com/m/105406
– Also Saturday 21 September, Sala Unicaja de Conciertos María Cristina will also host a tribute to Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons at 19:45. The string quartet Ensemble Résonance will perform the Four Seasons and La Folia. Tickets start at 24.50 euros. Info & tix: https://feverup.com/m/102111
– Sunday 29 September there will be a tribute to Coldplay in the Salón Real of the Gran Hotel Miramar by the string quartet Ensemble Résonance. Songs such as Clocks, Shiver, Speed of Sound, Paradise and Yellow, among others, will be among the repertoire. The cheapest tickets start at 20 euros, with two performances at 19:00 (almost sold out) and 21:00. Info & tix: https://feverup.com/m/126361

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Big Win For The Left- PSOE welcomes Perelló’s appointment as the first ‘woman and progressive’ president of the CGPJ and Supreme Court: {Translation, summary}
– The PSOE has celebrated that the magistrate Isabel Perelló {pic}, 66 years old, has become the first ‘woman and progressive’ president of the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) and the Supreme Court (TS), after the members of the governing body of judges have chosen her in a plenary session held on Tuesday ‘in extremis’ after several failed attempts due to lack of understanding between the conservative and progressive blocs.
– The Socialists are pleased that, ‘after weeks of blocking by the conservative members’ of the CGPG, an agreement has been reached to appoint the person who will preside over the institution and the Supreme Court, who will be Isabel Perelló, a woman, progressive and a member of the association Judges and Judges for Democracy (JJpD).
– PSOE sources have assured that Perelló’s appointment ‘fulfils the conditions that the progressive members have defended from the beginning’: that the Presidency of the TS and the CGPJ should be occupied by a woman, a Supreme Court judge, with ‘an unimpeachable curriculum vitae’ and that she should represent ‘a renewal after 28 consecutive years of conservative presidents’ in the judges’ governing body.
– ‘For the first time in history, the CGPJ and the Supreme Court will have a female and progressive president‘, said the same sources, and then applauded the fact that with a “fully renewed” judges’ governing body, there are now ‘five years of a mandate with a progressive majority’ ahead of them.
– The opening of the Judicial Year, which will take place next Thursday, will symbolise for the Socialists ‘the definitive end of the institutional and constitutional crisis’ that involved ‘the blocking of the renewal of the CGPJ by the PP’ and will strengthen the image of Spanish democracy, ‘with the three powers functioning normally’.
– It has taken five meetings for the 20 members – ten progressive and ten conservative – who took office last July to agree on the appointment of the new head of the judiciary. From the initial seven candidates, on Tuesday the candidates of Ferrer and Perelló were finally distilled and the latter was chosen.
– Perelló is currently a member of the Third Section of the Contentious-Administrative Chamber of the TS, where she is in charge of appeals emanating from regulatory bodies such as the CNMV, CNMC or the Bank of Spain, among others. She also deals with matters relating to the Transparency Council, transport, telecommunications and subsidies. Source, Spanish: https://www.europapress.es/nacional/noticia…

AXARQUÍA

The Axarquía “drinks” almost five hectometers of the La Viñuela reservoir in July and August: {Translation, summary}
– At the beginning of September, the La Viñuela reservoir had 24.99 cubic hectometres of water, which represents 15.20% of its total capacity. A year ago it only had 13.56 cubic hectometres, so the situation is now somewhat more bearable than then, although the exceptional drought in the region continues. During the months of July and August, the consumption of the municipalities of La Axarquía that are supplied by the reservoir amounted to 4.8 cubic hectometres, of which 2.43 hectometres corresponded to July and 2.37 cubic hectometres, a very similar amount, to August. In the last week alone, just over half a hectometre has been consumed in La Viñuela.
– Thus, the La Viñuela reservoir has 11.4 cubic hectometres more than a year ago, thanks to the rains recorded during Easter Week. This means that the Axarquía, maintaining the current restrictions on supply and the saving measures in place, has water for human consumption for about a year- ten months in the worst case scenario that it does not rain. For the Junta de Andalucía, in the words of the territorial delegate for Agriculture and Water, Fernando Fernández Tapia-Ruano, ‘the forecasts are being met and a good regulation has been made’ of the resources available in the Axarquía. Source, Spanish: https://www.axarquiaplus.es/la-axarquia-se-bebe-casi-cinco-hectometros-del-embalse-de-la-vinuela-en-julio-y-agosto/

MALAGA CITY

Attention Cruise Enthusiasts- The Palmeral de las Sorpresas will become the deck of a large ship to host the 3rd Malaga Cruise Days cruise convention: {Translation}
– An event that brings the world of cruises to locals and visitors alike. Malaga Cruise Days had more than 120,000 visitors last year!
– The programme will take place between 11 and 14 September in the evening (between 17.00 and 23.00 hours) and includes entertainment for children, musical performances, sports activities, tastings and educational talks. As in previous editions, the Sabor a Málaga and Málaga de Moda markets will also be present at this event to offer the best local products.
– In addition to the programmed activities, along the Palmeral de la Sorpresas there will be exhibitors where the shipping companies will offer their most interesting itineraries and where contests and raffles will be held, as the Diputación de Málaga points out in a statement. Source, Spanish: https://www.diariosur.es/planes/palmeral-sorpresas-convertira-cubierta-gran-barco-acoger-20240903174840-nt.html

NERJA

Culture Office opens a new deadline to request the use of the Nerja Municipal Exhibition Hall: {Translation}
– With the applications received from artists and artistic collectives, the agenda of temporary exhibitions that can be visited during the months of January to June 2025 will be scheduled. Those who wish to exhibit in the second half of next year will have to wait until March 2025 to apply.
– The application form, which details the requirements to be met by applicants, can be collected at the Municipal Office of Citizen Services, the Villa de Nerja Cultural Centre or downloaded from the culture page of the municipal website.
– Applications must be submitted through the Registro de Entrada (Entry Register) and the municipal electronic office, and must be accompanied by a CV/resume and graphic material of the work to be exhibited. Source, Spanish: https://www.axarquiaplus.es/cultura-abre-un-nuevo-plazo-para-solicitar-el-uso-de-la-sala-municipal-de-exposiciones-de-nerja/

MIJAS

Mijas Pueblo Fair starts today Wednesday 4/9: {Translation}
– The lighting of the lights at the fairgrounds, scheduled for 22.00 hours this Wednesday, will mark the start of a new edition of the Mijas Pueblo fair, in honour of the Virgen de la Peña, patron saint and perpetual mayoress of the municipality.
– A few hours before that moment, the children will be the protagonists thanks to a parade of giants and big-heads, which will start from the town hall at 18:30 hours. Children wishing to take part must register at the Town Hall on the same day from half past five in the afternoon.
– It should be remembered that during this first day the rides will be at reduced prices and that, every day of the fair between 19:00 and 21:00 hours, there will be no music and the noise in the area of the rides will be reduced with the aim of making it an inclusive celebration so that people with autistic spectrum disorders (ASD) can enjoy it.
– As far as the lighting is concerned, this year there will be almost 400,000 LED lights, i.e. energy-saving lights.
– One day later, on Thursday 5 September at 14:00 hours, the Day Fair will kick off at La Muralla, which will run daily until 8 p.m. and will include musical entertainment.
– The big day will be the 8th of September, with the procession of the image at 21:30. Before that, between 4 and 7 September, a novena in her honour will be held at 21:00 hours in the parish church of La Inmaculada, where the Virgen de la Peña is located after her transfer on 29 August.
– Public transport. In order to facilitate the arrival at the Fair, a shuttle bus service has been set up, as well as reinforcing the intercity bus that links Mijas with the neighbouring municipality of Fuengirola. Thus, the M-122 intercity line will run until 02:00 hours and there will be one more stop than usual, at the Ford roundabout.
– This year there will be shuttle buses in the three centres, which will leave from the main parking areas of La Cala, Las Lagunas and from the Quarry of Mijas Pueblo from 16:00 to 04:00 hours, while on Saturday it will be extended for another hour until 05:00 hours. In Osunillas there is a parking area, so the shuttle bus will also stop there. Source & photo credit, Spanish: https://www.diariosur.es/costadelsol/encendido-inicio-feria-mijas-20240903201044-nt.html

EUROPE

Russian missiles kill 50 in strike on Ukrainian military institute:
– At least 50 people were killed and 271 wounded when Russia hit a military institute in Ukraine’s central town of Poltava with two ballistic missiles on Tuesday, the war’s deadliest single attack this year. The use of ballistic missiles – which hit targets hundreds of kilometres away within a few minutes of their launch – meant the victims had little time to find cover after the air raid siren sounded, the foreign ministry said.
– Russia has intensified its missile and drone attacks on Ukraine two-and-a-half years into the full-scale war. Last week Ukraine was pummelled with the heaviest bombardment to date, and on Monday ballistic and cruise missiles targeted Kyiv causing loud explosions.
– Ukraine also targeted Russia with more than 158 drones at the weekend, damaging an oil refinery near Moscow and a power station.
– Fighting has intensified over the past month, with Russian forces advancing in eastern Ukraine, while Kyiv’s troops have mounted their first large-scale cross-border assault into Russia. Moscow has vowed to retaliate for the incursion into the Kursk region. Full article: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-missile-strike-kills-41-people-ukraines-poltava-zelenskiy-says-2024-09-03/

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‘Drakaris’- Ukraine’s new flamethrower drone torches Russian trenches in fiery attack:
– Footage has been doing the rounds on social media that appears to show a new flamethrower drone being employed by Ukrainian Forces against Russian targets. Initially released on Telegram, the footage shows some unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) blasting jets of fire along a treeline. The footage lasts around a minute, with the last 30 seconds showing the devastation unleashed by the attack. It is unclear from the footage if Russian soldiers occupy the treeline, but a small explosion goes off in the treeline at the 25-second mark.
– Due to the low quality of the footage, it is difficult to distinguish the drone in question, but the entire attack lasts for around 22 seconds. After this, the drone drops its incendiary weapon (presumably now spent) and flies off.
– Careful observation of the flamethrower shows that it consists of a spray of sparks rather than a more traditional jet of ignited liquid. This would indicate that the “flamethrower” probably uses some form of thermite or similar material. Thermite is a powder mixture of iron oxide and aluminum powders. These react to reach temperatures around 4,000 degrees Fahrenheit (2,400 degrees Celsius), which can melt through steel plates in seconds. It is also used for cutting and welding in industry.
– The drone likely posed little real threat to any Russian soldiers. Still, the highly flammable nature of thermite would readily ignite things like dry vegetation, ammunition, or other materials not protected inside dugouts. Full article: https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/ukraine-flamethrower-drone-russian-troops & Video Link

⚡️🇺🇦Ukrainian FPV drone burns 🇷🇺Russian positions with thermite. pic.twitter.com/NDVrQAbrRN
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Ouigo sets September 26th as the on-sale date to buy tickets for the new high-speed service between Malaga and Madrid: {Translation, summary}
– From this autumn, on a date that has not yet been revealed, Ouigo will put its fleet of double-decker Alstom Euroduplex trains into service to Malaga, with a number of seats (509) that is one of the largest on the market, and which in double composition reaches 1,018 in a single train. This high capacity is the key to its aggressive pricing policy, which starts at 9 euros each way, and which on the lines where it already operates (Barcelona, Valencia and Alicante, among others) reaches an average 50% discount compared to Renfe fares. In addition, children up to 14 years of age travel at a fixed price of seven euros (accompanied by an adult), and babies travel free of charge. Despite being a low-cost service, the trains have a staffed cafeteria.
-The arrival of Ouigo’s fleet in the Malaga’s high-speed network will provide María Zambrano station with the largest high-speed train access in its history.
– More than 20 frequencies will be available per day in each direction to and from Madrid, adding the two Renfe brands (AVE and Avlo); the Iryo and the new Ouigo. Specifically, the largest catalogue of seats will continue to be offered by Renfe: up to 14 daily frequencies in each direction (depending on the day). Followed by Iryo, which offers up to five departures. And from this autumn, between two and three more Ouigo services will be added, which could bring the total to 22. Source, Spanish: https://www.diariosur.es/malaga-capital/ouigo-pone-fecha-venta-billetes-nuevo-servicio-20240903184748-nt.html

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Maro’s Fair in honor of the Virgin of Wonders (Feria en honor a la Virgen de las Maravillas): Thurs-Sun, Sep. 5 to 8.
The fair will be full of activities for children and adults.On the 5th the festivities begin with the opening speech by Ana Maria Garrido Baeza and the election of the Queen and Ladies 2024. The 6th will be dedicated to the elderly with the traditional lunch and the election of the Queen and Gentleman 2024. The floral offering on the 7th and the mass and procession on the 8th will be the events dedicated to the Patron Saint, the Virgen de las Maravillas.

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Torre del Mar International Air Festival 2024:
Main event: Sun, 8 Sep.
Warmup & practice activities may occur Friday & Saturday.
Confirmed among the participants is the ASPA Patrol, the helicopter patrol of the Air Force, with five Eurocopter helicopters, several fighter jets such as the Eurofighter and F18 and several civil aircraft. The PAPEA patrol also returns to Torre del Mar, with its parachute display.
Parallel to the festival, an airplane modeling exhibition is also held in the stage area of the Paseo Marítimo de Poniente, which, like every year, is carried out by the Club Aeromodelismo Axarquía.
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Almáchar- The Ajoblanco Festival:
– Sat, 7 Sep, from 11am
– Featuring free tours throughout the day.
– Workshops to “Learn to make Ajoblanco” will be held at the Senior Center, on Barakaldo Street. The shifts available will be from 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. or from 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. Places are limited, registration will be made at 952 51 20 02.
– From 12:00 to 15:00 there will be a tasting of ajoblanco in the Paseo de la Axarquía and in the Plaza del Santo Cristo de la Banda Verde and at 12:30 the ‘Pica de Pasas’ workshop will start in the Plaza del Santo Cristo de la Banda Verde, carried out by the Association ‘Teatro El Lugá’.
– From 12 noon onwards, the exhibition of the 3rd ‘Windows to Art and Muscatel’ painting competition of the Axarquia of Malaga, organised by the Muscatel Association, will be open in the Axarquia room of the Centre for Art and Development (CAD). The opening will take place at 17:30 and can be visited until 20:00.
– At 17:00 there will be a parade with verdiales by the Panda de El Borge del estilo Comares. From 18:00 the Plaza de España will host performances by the ‘Luz de Luna’ choir from Almáchar, the José Lucena Flamenco School and the verdiales band from El Borge.
– At the same time, there will be a tourist and gastronomic tour with free tasting of ajoblanco and grapes offered free of charge through various streets of the village. The ‘Dama de la Viña’ wine offered by UCOPAXA will also be tasted in the Plaza del Sto. Cristo. The ‘Porra’ Masa de ajoblanco will be tasted in Calle Cabras and Calle Fuente Blanca and in the fountain ‘Cascada del Forfe’ a tasting of sultanas, offered by the Union of Raisin Cooperatives of the Axarquia.
– From 18:30 to 21:00 there will be an area for the little ones to have fun in the Zone Kid. The violet point will be active from 22:00 to 03:00 in the Paseo de la Axarquía.
– After some speeches and award cerimonies, the Noche Flamenca will begin with José de la ‘Picá’ and Aroa Cala on vocals and Rubén Portillo and Joaquín Lineras ‘Niño la Leo’ on guitar. The show ‘Alma’ by Ana Pastrana will also take place.
– At 22:30 the Gran Verbena Popular will begin on the Paseo de la Axarquía with entertainment by ‘Dúo Malabar’, ‘Calle Sur’ and DJ Antonio Hierro, with tapas of Chicken with Moscatel and sangria for 1€ for the benefit of the Association ‘Infania Málaga’. At midnight, at the Puerta Ancha, ‘rueda’ and ‘zambomba’ songs, played by the Caracola, by Luis Benito Palma España, 9 years old.
– To access the Ajoblanco Festival, a free shuttle bus service will be available from the bus station in Vélez-Málaga. The timetable will be
Away: 12:00/15:00/19:00/22:00
Return: 14:00/17:00/21:00/00:00 Source, Spanish: https://www.axarquiaplus.es/juan-carlos-gonzalez-pregonera-en-almachar-la-54-fiesta-del-ajoblanco/

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II Noche de Blues- Cajiz: Sat, 7 Sep
Featuring the Richard Ray Farrell Trio + Billy O’Haire + Mama Paula Blues Band.
The show, which will start at 8pm and run until 2am, will be held outdoors in the courtyard of the Cajiz school and will be accompanied by food, drinks and raffles, the proceeds of which will go to the Cajiz Junta de Festejos de Cajiz. Although admission is free, donations of 5 or 10 euros will be accepted towards the cost of the concert. Info & map: https://www.richardrayfarrell.com/events/noche-de-blues-cajiz-1

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The Canary Islands shatter the record of arrival of illegal immigrants and will take Sánchez to court: {Translation}
– The archipelago registers 6,000 arrivals between July and August and Fernando Clavijo denounces the “abandonment” of the Government.
– On the same day that the president of the Canary Islands, Fernando Clavijo, announced that his government will open a ‘legal process against the state’ for its ‘neglect’ of migration issues, the Ministry of the Interior confirms the worst predictions. According to the latest report from the department headed by Fernando Grande Marlaska, so far this year a total of 25,524 illegal immigrants have arrived on the islands, an increase of 123% compared to the first eight months of 2023.
– With this data, the archipelago culminates a record summer since there have been statistics, since only between July and August 6,267 immigrants would have arrived, a number that is far from the number registered in the last five years in the same period: 4,226 in 2023; 1,896 in 2022; 2,303 in 2021; 1,225 in 2020 and 151 in the summer of 2019. And the worst thing is that, according to experts, the worst is yet to come, as this is precisely the most propitious time for the arrival of small boats. Not in vain, in the second half of August, 3,220 new cases have been registered, which means that almost half of the entries this summer have been registered in the last fortnight, according to figures published on Monday.
– The data have been made public on the same day that the president of the Canary Islands has decided to convene the council of government to discuss possible legal scenarios in the face of the ‘abandonment’ he says he is suffering from the Executive of Pedro Sánchez. ‘He is neglecting his functions’, Clavijo has denounced, who assures that “the Government of the Canary Islands is going to put itself in its place”.
– The leader of Coalición Canaria has denounced the massive arrival of illegal immigrants confirmed by the Ministry of the Interior on Monday and stressed that the Sánchez Executive had already been warned. ‘It was not difficult to see,’ he insisted, while recalling that they had already warned that in the second half of the year the arrivals were going to intensify, as has happened in recent years.
– ‘We are going to start a legal debate with the Spanish government on this issue. What cannot happen is that the emergency becomes the norm’, he denounced in an interview with Radio Canaria, in which he predicted that the archipelago is going to have to face “one emergency on top of another emergency” between now and the end of the year, with all its ore centres already “oversaturated” and several of them “above 200%” of their capacity.
– According to his figures, the Canary Islands have already spent more than 150 million euros on a migration policy that ‘does not fall within the competence of the autonomous community’, while the government continues to sit on its hands. ‘We still don’t see a penny, although money is not the solution. An agreement must be reached now so that minors can be placed in the rest of the national territory’ and so that the Canary Islands can recover a certain normality in the resources for the care of minors, which exceed 200% of their capacity.
– As for Spain as a whole, the Ministry of the Interior has recorded a total of 35,456 arrivals up to 31 August, which is 62.8% more than in the same period last year. Source, Spanish: https://www.libertaddigital.com/canarias/…

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Debt Interest, The Hidden Economic Disaster That Plagues All Communities Of Spain- The Junta de Andalucía will pay double interest on its debt in the next three years: {Translation, summary}
– Andalusia will have to pay three times the interest on its debt over the next three years if the trend of a progressive rise in debt and bank rates continues. It will go from 714 million euros in 2024 to 1,381 million in 2027, according to the latest report by the Foundation for Applied Economic Studies (Fedea), which warns that this is a phenomenon shared by all the regions. In fact, there will be autonomous regions that will experience a greater increase in the coming years.
– The Andalusian debt in 2024, according to the Fedea report, is 40,712 million euros, a figure that is less than that of Catalonia (89,514 million euros) and Valencia (61,225 million euros). The estimate is that in the coming years it will continue to grow until it reaches 42,065 million euros in 2024.
– This progressive growth, together with an estimated increase in interest rates from 1.8% in 2024 to 3.3% in 2027, means that Fedea estimates that annual interest expenditure will rise from the 714 million euros currently paid to 1,381 million euros at the end of the period analysed. The increase, therefore, is 263%, which is above the national average but below a few of the autonomous communities.
– In total, the financial expenses of the autonomous communities in interest on their public debt would be close to 12,000 million euros in 2027, more than three times the 3,608 million euros in 2022, if they were to issue new debt to finance the maturities of the debt currently in circulation and the expected deficit. Source, Spanish: https://www.abc.es/espana/andalucia/junta-andalucia-pagara-doble-intereses-deuda-proximos-20240902133305-nts.html

MALAGA CITY

Malaga City Council activates a new phase of the action plan to control the presence of mosquitoes with the Nile Virus: {Translation, summary}
– Malaga City Council, through the Environmental Sustainability Department, has activated a new phase of the municipal plan for surveillance and integral control of vectors transmitting West Nile Fever after receiving a communication from the Directorate General of Public Health of the Andalusian Regional Government informing of the detection of the virus in mosquito samples taken in the area around the Guadalhorce River, in the Campanillas district, as part of the vector population controls using traps that are carried out as a preventive measure. This communication, which entails changing the risk level of Malaga from NR-1 to NR-4, only refers to the presence of the virus in mosquitoes and in no case mentions that transmission to humans has been recorded in our city. Source, Spanish: https://www.diariosur.es/malaga-capital/plan-accion-controlar-virus-nilo-20240902183124-nt.html

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Málaga tourism- ‘People feel the city is collapsing’: {BBC, summary of much longer article}
– A recent study by El País newspaper found that several areas of Málaga {pic} had the highest proportion of Airbnb properties in Spain. A quarter of all apartments in the area around the Plaza de la Merced are dedicated to tourist rental.
– Owners of apartments are able to charge more for short-term rentals than they would charge longer-term tenants and this has the effect of pushing up prices across the board. Locals say it is difficult to find an apartment for less than €1,200-1,300 per month in the centre of Málaga. With the average salary in the surrounding Andalusia region at just €1,600 per month, they are being priced out of their city. “If the people of Málaga don’t have somewhere to live, who will provide services for the tourists?” asked Isabel Rodríguez, housing minister for Spain’s governing Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE).
– In Málaga, Kike España wants to see caps on rental prices and efforts to provide more housing for locals as immediate measures to counter the tourism crisis. While he insists that he and his fellow activists are not opposed to tourism, just the way it is being managed in Spain, he says he also hopes the protests will continue. “We are against city models that only focus on tourism,” he says. “We cannot lose all the energy and complexity and heterogeneity of our cities.” Full article: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyn5l20z72o

VÉLEZ-MÁLAGA

Delegation of the Historic Center launches the “Sunsets in Vélez: music and sunsets” series during the first three Fridays of the month of September: {Translation, summary}
– ‘Sunsets in Vélez: music and sunsets’. This programme combines music from various places in Vélez-Málaga. These sunsets will not be concerts as such. There will be no music equipment or sound with loudspeakers. It will be street music, so to speak. The intention is to put music to a very beautiful and almost magical moment that is experienced every day with the sunsets in September. Our idea is to promote this activity, but we want and hope that it will be something that in time will emerge in an improvised way by the artists of the city.
– Friday 6th, 8pm, at the viewpoint of La Charca with the voice of Miguel Ángel Fernández. (Video Link)
– Friday the 13th with a carnival quartet ‘Los 4 acordes’, at the viewpoint of the Muralla.
– Friday the 20th, on the esplanade of the Cerro, with the soul and jazz group ‘Iris Oboe’. Source, Spanish: https://www.axarquiaplus.es/la-delegacion-del-centro-historico-pone-en-marcha-los-atardeceres-en-velez-musica-y-puestas-de-sol-durante-los-viernes-del-mes-de-septiembre/

MADRID

Exposed- twenty stores in the center of Madrid where they practice Santeria ritual animal sacrifices: {Translation, summary}
– Rituals for love, to cure illnesses, for good luck, to get a job or to achieve goals for your close relatives. All these procedures have one thing in common: the sacrifice of animals or the purchase of concoctions made up of elements that are harmful to health. The Association of Santeria Victims has detected that these practices are currently being carried out in more than twenty shops located in the centre of Madrid. The list of establishments where the Santeria animal sacrifice rituals are being performed details the addresses of these establishments, which are located in places such as Puente de Vallecas, Tetuán, Centro or Torrejón de Ardoz.
– The shops also sell ‘products and potions without specifications of origin, ingredients or import agent’ and ‘exotic herbs’.
– We are detecting an increase in the number of people harmed by the effects of the practice of Santeria, we are receiving reports from all over Spain; specifically in Madrid we have detected and reported some of them to the police’, Victoria Vélez de Guevara, member of the Association of Santeria Victims, told Vozpópuli.
Source, Spanish: https://www.vozpopuli.com/espana/madrid/detectan-veintena-tiendas-madrid-rituales-sacrificios-animales.html
Additional ref: https://www.historiskmuseum.no/english/exhibitions/exhibitions-archive/santeria/about-santeria/

EUROPE

EZ VISA- All you need is private health insurance & €820/month income! Portugal’s D7 Visa Gains Popularity Following Abolishment of Real Estate Investment Option From Golden Visa Program:
– The abolishment of real estate investment option from Portugal’s Golden Visa scheme has led a significant number of internationals to turn their eyes to the D7 visa, known as the Retirement Visa. Established by the Government of Portugal in 2007, this kind of visa allows nationals from non-EU/EEA and Switzerland to acquire residency in Portugal, provided they have sufficient passive income.
– Among the requirements for benefiting from the D7 visa is to have a reasonable passive income. In order to qualify for the Passive Income Visa, applicants should be aged 18 or older, have a clean criminal record and have private health insurance.
– The passive income can come from movable property, real estate, rental income, financial investments or intellectual property. The minimum requirement income for the D7 visa is that applicants make at least €820.00 per month.
– The Passive income visa is valid for two years and can be extended for an additional three years. After a five-year period of obtaining a residency permit, its holders can be required to be Portuguese nationals. The processing time for the D7 visa is up to 60 days, provided applicants submit all the required documents.
– Following the changes that took effect on October 9, 2023, the real estate investment option to acquire residency and the option of transferring a total of €1.5 million into a Portuguese bank account in exchange for residency is no longer available. However, wealthy foreign nationals can still acquire residency in Portugal through the following options:
* Invest at least €500,000 in existing Portuguese business or company
* Donate at least €250,000 in art or reconstruction of national heritage
* Donate at least €500,000 to scientific institutes of research
Full article: https://schengen.news/portugals-d7-visa-gains-popularity-following-abolishment-of-real-estate-investment-option-from-golden-visa-program/

FINANCIAL

What pension can housewives, or residents with annual incomes of less than €6,784, qualify for?: {Translation, summary}
– Even if they do not meet the minimum requirements to access a contributory pension, they are not devoid of options.
– As explained by the Ministry of Social Rights and Agenda, the non-contributory retirement pension guarantees all citizens over 65 years of age and in a state of need, a financial benefit, free medical-pharmaceutical assistance and complementary social services, ‘even if they have not contributed or have contributed insufficiently to be entitled to a contributory pension’.
– Spanish citizens and nationals of other countries with legal residence in Spain who meet the following requirements may be beneficiaries of the non-contributory retirement pension:
* Lack sufficient income that, in annual computation for 2023, is less than 6,784.54 euros.
* Be at least 65 years of age.
* Residing in Spanish territory and having done so for a period of ten years between the date of reaching the age of sixteen and the date of accrual of the pension, two of which must be consecutive and immediately prior to the date of the application.
– In the event that the personal income is less than 6,784.54 euros per year and the person lives with family members, the requirement will only be met when the sum of the annual income of all the members of the economic unit of cohabitation is less than the following amounts:
* 2 cohabitants: 11,533.72 euros.
* 3 cohabitants: 16,282.90 euros.
* 4 or more cohabiting partners: 21,032.08 euros.
– The individual amount of the pension is established according to the number of non-contributory pension recipients in the same economic unit, the personal income and/or the income of the people in the economic unit. In this regard, Social Security points out that the annual amount of non-contributory pensions is 7,250.60 euros. This amount is paid in 12 payments (one for each month) and two extra payments (in June and November). This is equivalent to a monthly pension of 517.90 euros. Source, Spanish: https://www.lasprovincias.es/economia/pensiones/pension-pueden-cobrar-amas-casa-dinero-20240723013718-nt.html

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– Friday 6 September Rocío Collado and D’Medici will open the first night of the fair with a 1:00 am show combining their unique styles in what promises to be a memorable performance.
– Saturday 7 September at 1:00 am, the performance of singer Chandé. Before that, the group ‘A- Compás’ will delight the audience with their songs. And to end the night, the local DJ Rubén Llamas will encourage the youngsters to continue dancing until the early hours of the morning.
– Sunday 8 September, the musical programme will be brought to a close by the duo A Contrarreloj. The group will offer an open-air concert at 17:00 hours.

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– September 3 to 8. The Rincón de la Victoria Anchovy Festival
– September 6 to 8. Mollina Harvest Fair
– September 7. Almáchar Ajoblanco Festival
– September 8. Moclinejo Vineyard Festival
– September 13 to 15. Alozaina Olive Fair
– September 13 to 15. Malagueña Goat Festival
– September 15. Raisin Day in El Borge
– September 29. Almogía Almond Day
– Other gastronomic festivals that will also take place in September are the Raisin Fair in La Viñuela, the Day of the Pisa in Riogordo, the Oktoberfest in Torrox Costa or activities included in other thematic festivals, such as the Day of Music in Benamocarra or la Quema de Algarrobo.

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– Thursday 5th September has a lunch tribute to the elderly which will be entertained by the copla artists Natalia Móralo (Video Link) & Sergio Pérez.
– Friday 6th September with the celebration of the procession of Nuestra Señora María Santísima Milagrosa de Granadillas.
– During the festivities thru the weekend there will be entertainment plus all kinds of popular activities such as ribbon races, chocolate, Andalusian breakfast, paella, scooter route, “tiro al gallo” and raffle of the ‘guarro’, etc.
Source, Spanish: https://www.axarquiaplus.es/rincon-de-la-victoria-celebrara-la-verbena-granadillas-del-5-al-8-de-septiembre-con-una-programacion-especial-con-motivo-de-su-25-aniversario/

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ANDALUCÍA

Socialists Push For An Independent Andalucia, To Follow The Catalan Plan: {Translation, summary}
– Federalism: A mode of political organization that unites separate states within an overarching political system in a way that allows each to maintain its own integrity.
– The PSOE in Andalucia is promoting the debate on the reform of autonomous financing that the new Catalan model is leading to, and points to another, even more convoluted debate, that of statutory developments, that of exploring the limits of self-government, that of decentralisation.
– María Jesús Montero appealed for ‘a fresh look’ after mentioning a process that ‘is along the lines of federalisation’. This is a new model, one in which money is matched to the competences assumed by each autonomous community. This is the model of Catalonia, Montero and Juan Espadas explained yesterday, and they expressed vigorous support for an Andalusia that advances in self-government and assumes the same competences contemplated in Catalan Plan. It is the method used in Catalonia to receive more funding, the socialist leaders defended yesterday in front of the members of the Andalusian interparliamentary
– The debate has gone beyond the calculations and criteria that should govern the next reform of the regional funding system, which has been out of date for a decade. This debate has been a consequence of the financial model that the PSC and Esquerra Republicana have wrested from the central government, a Basque-style agreement or a singular financing, whatever it is called. ‘We will make it compatible for Catalonia to have a singular financing like other autonomous communities that have the vocation to have it’, said the Deputy Secretary General and Minister of Finance, María Jesús Montero, yesterday at the meeting of the Andalusian Interparliamentary Assembly held in Seville. The leader, who encouraged the public to read the agreement with Catalonia, referred to the text because ‘what it speaks of is the vocation for self-government that the statutes of autonomy and solidarity contemplate’. For the Finance Minister, the majority of the statutes contain elements to continue with self-government.
– And from the Catalan model, based on self-government and solidarity, to a general model in the tradition of the PSOE’s historic federalism. ‘It is a next step’, Montero pointed out, which ’is along the lines of federalisation and which involves accompanying resources with competences. It is a new approach for a system that has to be renewed and in which there must be resources for the system as a whole. The socialists know that these are issues that provoke discomfort in the ranks of the PP, ‘because they have not believed and never will believe in self-government’. The PSOE believes it has found ammunition if it is able to convey the benefits of the new model to public opinion.
Source, Spanish: https://www.malagahoy.es/andalucia/psoe-invita-andalucia-via-catalana_0_2002321757.html
Federalism ref: https://www.britannica.com/topic/federalism

AXARQUÍA

Andalucía puts pressure on central government to speed up desalination plant in drought-stricken Axarquía:
– The summer is coming to an end and while hoping that there is considerable rainfall in autumn, Malaga province faces a looming crisis with its reservoirs at 19.2 per cent of their capacity, with just 117 cubic hectometres stored, compared to the 147 they had a year ago. Given this scenario, the project to build a desalination plant in the Axarquía – Malaga province’s eastern side – is urgent to be able to supply both homes and the area’s vast agricultural sector.
– The Andalusian government’s spokesperson for agriculture, fisheries, water and rural development, Ramón Fernández-Pacheco, has announced that he plans to meet the secretary of state for the environment, Hugo Morán, in the first half of September to put pressure on the central government to start the Axarquía plant as well as one in Almeria province. He added that there were quite a few pending projects in the region that are the responsibility of the central government.
– Fernández-Pacheco pointed out that the situation is “critical” above all in some areas such as Malaga city, the Axarquía and the lower Guadalhorce, although he indicated that the drought committees at the beginning of the summer set out a road map which they are complying with “to the letter”. Full article: https://www.surinenglish.com/malaga/axarquia/andalucia-puts-pressure-central-government-speed-up-20240829092450-nt.html

MALAGA PROVINCE

State of the reservoirs in the province of Malaga today:

MALAGA CITY

Malaga city 1,000 years older than previously thought as new remains are uncovered near cathedral:
– Excavation carried out in Calle Postigo de Abades to install the crane in readiness for work on the new roof reveals pieces. They date from 5,000 years ago, putting the city’s occupation back by a thousand years to the Chalcolithic or Copper Age (after Neolithic and before the Bronze Age).
– This great historical journey was made possible by the fact that the excavations were able to go down four and a half metres, which made it possible to obtain a stratigraphy (the study of strata, or layers) from the Chalcolithic period to the present day.
From top to bottom, the remains of an Islamic house and pottery from the Almohad period gave way to earlier traces with remains of Byzantine warehouses and Roman construction, mainly fish salting tanks such as those found throughout this area from Calle Alcazabilla and the Roman Theatre, although floor tiles with carved inscriptions have also been found and are currently being studied.
– “During the Roman period in Malaga the whole city became a fish factory in the Lower Imperial period, so in order to build the basins, they used a strong foundation that destroyed what was underneath. The good thing about this excavation is that a couple of adjoining rooms without basins were found, which allowed us to drill down to find Punic, Phoenician and, finally, Chalcolithic remains,” explained Juan de Dios Ramírez. Full article & more photos: https://www.surinenglish.com/malaga/malaga-city/malaga-thousand-years-more-history-new-remains-20240830073806-nt.html

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A resident of Malaga finds hundreds of prehistoric remains, more than 50,000 years old, on Sacaba beach: {Translation, summary}
– Paleolithic carved stones, such as Mousterian points, raederas or denticulates, as well as molluscs and animal skeletal remains from the Holocene period, are some of the hundreds of prehistoric remains with more than 50,000 years of history, which a resident of Malaga has found by chance in some mounds of sand deposited on the Sacaba beach, at the western end of the city.
– In total there are more than 2,000 pieces that Juan María Álvarez, a photographer by profession, has been collecting over the last few months on the surface of this large dune of dredged earth, destined for the replenishment of beach sand. And there are still many more: there is not a day that goes by that he does not find new material.
– According to the Junta, this material comes from a construction site located very close to the beach and outside archaeological zoning. When it was notified of the discovery, the foundations and structure of the new building had already been completed, so nothing could be verified. ‘It is to be assumed that the same soil was previously extracted from the coast and used as land fill, so ‘it is practically impossible to find out its exact origin’, says the Junta.
– Researcher Prof. José Ramos insists on the need to investigate the origin of the spill, given that there is Palaeolithic and other more recent material, probably Neolithic, which should be protected because of its great historical interest. Throughout the history of the Bay of Málaga, there have been significant rises and falls in sea level, and studies confirm the existence of platforms, currently under water, which constituted the territory of exploitation and development of Pleistocene hunter-gatherer societies. Source, Spanish: https://www.malagahoy.es/malaga/vecino-malaga-cientos-restos-prehistoricos-playa-sacaba_0_2002321303.html

FRIGILIANA

They rescue the lifeless body of an elderly man fallen on a terrace in Frigiliana: {Translation, summary}
– The emergency services announced Friday (31/8) they have rescued the lifeless body of an elderly man who has fallen down a bank in the municipality of Frigiliana, according to the Emergency Coordination Centre.
– The incident took place in an area of land belonging to the deceased’s family in Camino Maldonado. Minutes after 16.00, the 112 telephone number received a call from a private individual who reported that he had located a relative who had fallen down a bank, and requested a rescue as the area was difficult to access. The Fire Brigade rescued the lifeless body of an 82 year old man and transferred him to the funeral vehicle. The first indications point to an accidental fall of the elderly man, who would have suffered a traumatism when he fell, according to police sources. Source, Spanish: https://www.axarquiaplus.es/rescatan-el-cuerpo-sin-vida-de-un-anciano-caido-en-un-bancal-en-frigiliana/

GRANADA

12 immigrants arrested, including 5 minors, upon arriving at a beach in Granada: {Translation, summary}
– The Guardia Civil arrested 12 people of North African origin, including five minors, on Saturday on a beach in Gualchos-Castell de Ferro, in Granada, who were on board a high-powered inflatable boat with which they reached the coast of Granada. The boat reached the beach of Cambriles at around 15.30 hours, although the migrants had jumped into the water before reaching the shore and the boat then fled out to sea.
– Eleven of the detainees have been transferred to the port of Motril, where they have been treated to check their state of health, and the twelfth has been taken by the Guardia Civil to the Hospital of Motril. Source, Spanish: https://www.20minutos.es/noticia/5629417/0/detenidos-doce-inmigrantes-entre-ellos-5-menores-llegar-una-playa-granada/

EUROPE

German far-right party AfD poised for state election victory in east:
– A far-right party became the biggest force in a German state parliament for the first time since the second world war, exit polls showed on Sunday, while a new populist force on the left established a firm foothold in the country’s political landscape.
– Voters in two closely watched elections in the former communist east made their dissatisfaction with Germany’s mainstream political parties clear, putting the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party in the top spot in Thuringia, with between 31.2 and 33.2% of the vote, and second place in Saxony, with 30.6%-31.4%, according to preliminary results.
– Although the outcome had been predicted for months, the centrist parties proved unable to reverse the trend and the results sent shockwaves through the political landscape. Turnout in both states was high, at about 74%. Full article: https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/sep/01/german-far-right-party-afd-state-election-victory-thuringia

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Three “La Casera” beverages are withdrawn from the market due to the possible risk for consumers, it may contain glass fragments: {Translation, summary}
– The Spanish Agency for Food Safety and Nutrition (Aesan) has warned of the possible presence of glass fragments in bottles of La Casera tinto de verano. In this way, it recommends that people who have the products ‘tinto de verano limón’, ‘tinto de verano limón 0,0’ and ‘tinto de verano gaseosa’ of this brand in their homes should refrain from consuming them and return them to place of purchase for a refund.
-Among La Casera’s suspect products is the “tinto de verano limón”, in a non-returnable glass bottle with the following batch numbers and expiry dates: 1041024197, 15/07/2025; 1041024198, 16/07/2025; 1041024199, 17/07/2025; 1041024200, 18/07/2025; 1041124222, 09/08/2025; 1041124223, 10/08/2025; 1041024239, 26/08/2025.
– Similarly, “tinto de verano limón 0,0” should not be consumed, with the same packaging and the following batch numbers and expiry dates: 1041024200, 18/07/2025 and 1041224201, 19/07/2025.
– “El tinto de verano gaseosa ” with the references 1041224201, 19/07/2025 and 1041324221, 08/08/2025 should also be rejected.
Source, Spanish: https://www.abc.es/sociedad/sanidad-pide-consuma-popular-tinto-verano-contener-20240901114148-nt.html

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI)

Much Of What Passes For News Today Is Crap Written By Robots- Welcome To The NEW WRITING- Annoying Features Of AI Written Articles, it repeats itself and lies in the pursuit of profits: {DigameXtra}
– Many publications are now using AI to write their articles. Both Sports Illustrated and The NY Times have released the majority of their writing staffs, and now rely on AI to produce most of their articles. Many of the most popular Spanish news outlets are doing the same. While this alone may not present problems, as AI can do research faster than a human, the parameters the human controlling the “AI writer” enters can present annoyances. Human writers use AI set parameters to attract readers to the article (clickbait headlines) and keep them on that page as long as possible (pageview time).
– When the human sets a minimum number of words for the article, AI will often reword previous paragraphs, and include these redundant rewrites later in the article to reach the total word goal.
– AI will often use a question as a headline, or intentionally leave out key terms, so the reader must click the headline and view the article to find out what it is really about.
– AI will often avoid the main point for several paragraphs, filling these with unnecessary, and even unrelated, background info, so the reader is forced to read well into the article before discovering the main point.
– Meanwhile, these same publications, with newly reduced staff and salary obligations, are demanding ever more from readers to view the content, effectively raising their prices as their expenses drop, making them more profitable. First we had to provide them our email addresses. Then we had to accept cookies, and permit them to sell our data, or buy a subscription. Then they started blocking VPNs. Now they fill pages with popups and overlay ads you must click to close to view the real content.
– The greed never ends. These publications used to manage to thrive on advertising income. But the managers have to show growing profits to keep their jobs. So while ever more sources of income are developed, less expensive (and thus lower quality) sources of new content are constantly pursued. These new income sources are all derived from exploiting the readers, padding their websites and publications with lower grade content, and then either by selling us something, collecting ever more intrusive data from us, or providing a new surface on which to place ads in front of us so they can sell more advertising.
– Remember, AI is trained on Internet content, and much of what you find on the Internet is rubbish. AI just takes it all in for processing, mashes it all together, rearranges it, and then feeds it back to users in a conversational format, following rules derived from its human written set of rules known as an algorithm, so it appears as a “human” response. AI does not “know” anything, it simply follows logic chains of linguistic models. AI does not understand anything, it has no morals, ethics or desire to tell the truth.
– I recently read an interesting insight from a tech website on this topic. It said you should treat AI like your “know it all” neighbor. Yes, he may be well informed on some topics, but half the time he’s full of crap.

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