DigameXtra No. 2848 Monday, September 9th, 2024

On September 9, 2024September 9, 2024 By naythandoctorlaptop

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Phoenix Club:
The Phoenix Social Club is open to all nationalities but the lingua franca is English.
We offer an opportunity to make friends, help each other & share information but primarily to have fun in a friendly and inclusive association. You do not have to be a member to join us on our trips.
Our handmade greetings cards are for sale weekly with all proceeds to the Red Cross.
We meet every Thursday between 12 and 2 pm at Chine in Caleta, just off the coast road to/from Algarrobo.
***Trips/Events***
All trips/events include a drivers gratuity
September
– 29th – SoHo Sunday Market in Malaga. An arts, crafts and vintage market. €18pp
October
– 1st – Trip to Gib €18 pick up Algarrobo Lidl at 08.30
– 4th – 7th – Mini Break to Cadiz, half board in the Hotel Victoria Playa. €285pp includes accommodation and coach. Single supplement €440. €100 deposit per person required and is non refundable. Travel Insurance required
November
– 5th – Trip to Gib €18 pp pick up Algarrobo Lidl at 08.30
– 15th – A visit to Rute and the Anise, Chocolate and Jamon/Sausage factories. €22pp lunch extra
– 21st – Home bake sale at Chines, Caleta de Velez. From Christmas cakes and puds to sausage rolls and steak pies. Orders taken. If you would like a table to sell your wares, please whatsapp me.
– 29th – Black Friday in the La Canada Centre €20pp
December
– 3rd – Trip to Gib €18pp
– 13th – Malaga Lights €11pp
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8th edition of the Frigiliana Art Route: Oct 4th to 6th
For three days, you will have the opportunity to explore the beautiful streets of Frigiliana as you discover the 35 locations hosting 60 participating artists from 12 different nationalities.You can also participate in drawing workshops and witness live demonstrations of different creative processes.
-Drawing workshop with the guest artist. Location 31.
Friday, October 4th from 4:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Saturday, October 5th from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm.
-Live demonstrations of silk painting. Location n.24.
Saturday, October 5th from 6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Sunday, October 6th from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
– Watercolour workshops. Location No. 14.
Botanical watercolour, Friday October the 4th from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Maritime watercolour, Saturday October the 5th from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m.
– Come and enjoy the 2024 Frigiliana art route! From October 4th to 6th from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Information:
rutadelartefrigiliana@gmail.com
phone: 645818089
@Ruta del Arte Frigiliana
AmArte Studio Gallery
C/ Hernando el Darra 6, Frigiliana
Organized by Maribel Martín and Brendon Taylor in collaboration with the Frigiliana Town Hall

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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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BLUCEE REAL ESTATE

Blucee Real Estate:
Summer is in full swing, and whilst many take their holidays BluCee Real Estate are busier than ever! We have an unprecedented number of people searching for their permanent or holiday place in the sun. Many of our clients at the moment are from outside of Europe and we’re processing sales throughout August. We have clients looking for apartments and villas on the coast and inland. Thinking of selling your property? Get in touch now!
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For Sale: Outdoor table & chairs. Good condition apart from a few wear & tear marks. Buyer collects from Torrox Costa. €40.
Chris, Torrox. WhatsApp +447976747927
Email: c dot mccormac at hotmail dot co dot uk

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For Sale: Complete System With Custom Built PC Tower, €235
Freshly installed Windows 10 Pro.
Note: PC can’t be upgraded to Win 11. Win 10 support ends Oct 2025. It would, however, make a fine Linux PC at that point if you wish to continue safely using it on the Internet.
Benq GL2460HM-24 “1920 x 1080 Monitor, Black
NOX NXCBAYSX Black computer case.
2 x Nox Cool Box Fans 12cm Blue
ASUS Z97-K – Motherboard, Intel i5-4670 Processor (3.4 GHz, 6 MB cache)
Cooler Master Hyper TX3 EVO CPU Cooling System
Gigabyte NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750Ti 2GB GDDR5 LP Graphics
24Gb Corsair Vengeance Pro RAM
(DDR3, 1600 MHz, 16 GB, CL9, 2 x 8 GB, 2 x 4 GB) blue
4 hard drives, 1 DVD/CD drive
Kingston 240GB SSD (SATA III)
Transcend TS128GMTS600 – 128 GB M.2 SSD (SATA III)
Seagate Barracuda – 1TB HDD
Seagate DiamondMax – 160GB HDD
LG GH24NSB0 – DVD/VD, black
QUMOX Internal PCI-E HUB to 4 Port USB3.0 & USB2.0 All-in-One Card Reader
Kensington USB Keyboard, black – QWERTY Spanish
VicTsing Wireless Bluetooth Mouse 4.0 & 2.4G,
Derek, Torrox 627476041 WhatsApp preferred
email: capuchinos7@yahoo.co.uk

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For Sale: Large office chair by “Staples”, H120cmW60cmD60cm, vgc,
€30, Buyer collects from Los Romanes – near La Vinuela.
Call John, Los Romanes, on: 697737176

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For Sale: Antique walnut secretary. In addition to the 3 large drawers there are also 6 hidden drawers. €350. Worth the price. Buyer picks it up. Jocine, Cómpeta. Email: jh.vh@hotmail.com

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GREEK CASITA RESTAURANT & BAR

*** Re-Opening Thursday 12 Sep, 7pm ***
The Greek House – Greek Casita Restaurant & Bar – Torrox Costa. Located on the sea promenade, between the Safari bar and Picadero restaurants, BLQ 80 bajo.

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News & Articles

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SPAIN

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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Weekly Markets
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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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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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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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GREEK CASITA RESTAURANT & BAR

Re-Opening Thursday 12 Sep, 7pm. The Greek House –Greek Casita Restaurant & Bar – Torrox Costa:
Located on the sea promenade, between the Safari bar and Picadero restaurants, BLQ 80 bajo. We offer you a little piece of Greece with our Greek home made specialities. You can choose meat specialties (Gyros, Souvlaki, Bifteki, Sutsukaki, Mussaka), cheese (Feta Psiti, Feta Saganaki, Hallumi), vegetables (Greek salad, Hummus, Eggplant cream, Mezze, Tzatziki) or sea fruits (prawns or octopus), all of this accompanied with our special Greek pita bread. For dessert… HOMEMADE BAKLAVA! We offer a lovely meal time in a quiet end exquisite atmosphere, accompanied with the best Greek music. See you soon! Hours: 6:30pm to close, Wednesday thru Sunday. Closed Monday & Tuesday. For reservations call 642585049. https://la-casita-griega.business.site/ We are DigameXtra sponsors, so our contact info can be found everyday in the Sponsor’s Section.

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DOCTORLAPTOP’S COMPUTER REPAIRS

DoctorLaptop’s Computer Repairs & Sales- Torrox Costa (near the bus station): Computers only, Windows / Linux / Mac. No tablets or phones.
If you rely on your computer and want it running at peak performance, free of data collectors, trackers & malware, an annual professional servicing is necessary. You wouldn’t drive your car till it runs out of oil before servicing it, would you? I do the most comprehensive cleaning and tune-up possible: verify all System files replacing any found to be corrupt, test all hardware and do hard disk sector repairs if needed, use a 5 tool adware/adware/spyware/tracker removal protocol, clean out junk files/logs/history/etc., update Windows(or MacOS)+all drivers+programs and finally optimize your settings and registry for fastest overall performance. I can also disable the AI spyware (Copilot) Microsoft has installed via Windows Updates if you don’t want it snooping on everything you do. All for only €50! One to two day turnaround. I don’t work on d~~inosaurs~~ computers made before 2017 unless I have been servicing then annually.
Contact: doctorlaptop AT protonmail DOT com
or call 675 993 069 (no calls before 12noon, missed calls returned asap). More info on my website. All work by appointment only, no drop-ins please. Appointment are only available 2pm-8pm, Sunday thru Thursday. Closed Fridays & Saturdays. Always include the make & model number of the device when requesting assistance. My contact details can be found everyday at the bottom of the Sponsor’s Section.

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Great Deals From Upcycling Nerja:
– Castillan style bookcase with cupboard Natural wood (waxed) Beige color Black hinges & handles Measurements 85 x 34 x 180cms Price 185€
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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.
Email: maundfitch @ gmail dot com

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For Sale: BBQ. Natural Gas Barbecue on wooden frame with wheels. Good condition. Complete with gas bottle and many extra bbq tools. €90
Contact Christine, Puente Don Manuel, tel 665204759

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Recommendation for Property Lawyer: I am looking for recommendations for a Lawyer who specialises in property law and regularisation of property status, any suggestions would be welcome.
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Steve, Caleta de Velez, but looking for recommendations anywhere in Malaga Province

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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.
Carole, El Morche.
Email: carolemhart AT yahoo DOT com

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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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New Life Church:
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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.
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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)
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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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Axarquia Animal Rescue: A Voluntary Charity, Non-profit Organisation
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– Ziggy, 2.5 years old, a big healthy dog weighing in at over 36kg. Ziggy is deaf, but loves life to the full, in a foster home with 5 other dogs. He also has the most beautiful eyes, and his vision is fine. Fully vaccinated and neutered.
– Nellie, 7 months old, raised in kennels with her mum, and now in a foster home with other dogs, a happy, healthy pup, who loves to collect things and take them to her bed. Estimated to be medium in size when fully grown. Fully vaccinated.
– 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. 2846 Thursday, September 5th, 2024

On September 5, 2024September 5, 2024 By naythandoctorlaptop

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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.
Info: https://capileira.es/ii-festival-de-alma-y-blues-2024-en-capileira/

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Torremolinos Oktober Beach Fest (formerly Fiesta de la Cerveza Oktoberfest): Thurs, 5 Sep thru Sunday, 8 Sep, 12pm-12am
To be held on Playa Bajondillo. This if the first time it will be held on the beach, instead of, as in past years, in the town centre.
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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BluCee Real Estate: Exciting News!
Don’t forget that BluCee Real Estate are gearing up for our next exhibition in Birmingham!
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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:
https://nypost.com/2024/09/03/business/marketing-firm-spies-on-you-through-your-phones-microphone-report/

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DigameXtra No. 2845 Wednesday, September 4th, 2024

On September 4, 2024September 4, 2024 By naythandoctorlaptop

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Algarrobo celebrates its XXVI edition of Flamenco Night on Sat, September 7: From 10pm.
Parque de la Escalerilla in Algarrobo
As in previous editions, it will be presented by Antonio Guerra. The line-up will include Rancapino Chico (Video Link) and Alfredo Tejada on vocals and a special performance by local artist Manuel ‘El Chori’.

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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
— 🪖MilitaryNewsUA🇺🇦 (@front_ukrainian) September 2, 2024

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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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– 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. 2842 WEEKEND EDITION Thursday, August 29th, 2024

On August 29, 2024August 29, 2024 By naythandoctorlaptop

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Torre del Mar’s annual Tourist Day: Thurs, 29 Aug, 19:30
Paseo Marítimo, near the lighthouse.
Along with other activities, a giant cake made by local chef Roberto Soler will be cut and shared among guests next to the town’s iconic blue and white striped lighthouse at 7.30pm.

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Gala Olé al Verano- El Tajo beach, Rincón de la Victoria:
Thurs, 29 Aug, 10pm. Free.
The evening will be full of music, fun & entertainment for all ages.
Line-up of artists: Iván Gallego (Video Link), Los Centellas, Antonio Cortés, Erika Leiva, El Bomba, Fran Ocaña, la Flaka, Caty Ocaña and as a local guest group, Por Derecho.

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Techno/flamenco show in Rincón de la Victoria:
Thurs, 29 Aug 21:30 at Municipal Auditorium.
Presented by the Mar de Rosas ensemble. Free entry until capacity reached.
A new flamenco techno fusion show that combines music, more than 60 dancers and a powerful visual game where the dancers will display their talent, strength and energy on stage with a futuristic and eye-catching show with a high level of brightness’.
After the end of Mar de Rosas, the flamenco artist El Amir will take the stage with his international show ‘Andalucía’.
Info: https://www.turismoenrincon.es/eventos/espectaculo-compania-mar-de-rosas/

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Fiesta Gaucha & More- Benalmádena: Fri, 30 Aug to Sun, 1 Sep
– “An authentic” Argentine festival + Arab Souk
– At El Bil Bil castle on the Paseo Marítimo. Starts at 7pm each evening, will present folkloric music and traditional Argentine dance shows, including tango, Malambo and ballet.
– Also, Benalmádena Pueblo’s most emblematic streets host a dream Arab Souk this weekend, the largest to date, with new areas and more entertainment on offer, as well as a local show that will pay tribute to Medina Azahara and Triana through the local band Ziryab. In addition to this, the Arabian Souk will feature exclusive falconry and a great bird attraction to give visitors an insight into what this type of souk was like in ancient times.

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Feria Fest Torremolinos- a new music festival added to the summer cultural agenda: Sat, 21 Sep, from 8pm
– At the Principe de Asturias municipal auditorium, will present a live concert with several bands, including La La Love You, Karavana, Colectivo Da Silva and Lord Malvo, along with several established DJs. The bands perform a variety of different genres, such as pop, punk, soul, reggaeton, rock and flamenco.
– Info & tix (€25): https://lasttour.org/es/agenda/feria-fest/?date=21-09-2024

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Día de Turista- Mijas, Date Announced:
Plaza Virgen de la Peña on Wednesday, 25 Sep.
The programme on 25 September will offer a full day of activities and fun for all the family that reflect the cultural identity of Mijas, including a traditional Flamenco show (12:00) & free paella (13:30).

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Car Boot/Market. Sunday 8th September:
Please note, that our normal monthly car boot/market will resume on Sunday 8th September.
There will not be a market on 1st 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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CLOSED FOR SUMMER, REOPEN IN SEPTEMBER – The Greek House –Greek Casita Restaurant & Bar – Torrox Costa:
Located on the sea promenade, between the Safari bar and Picadero restaurants, BLQ 80 bajo. We offer you a little piece of Greece with our Greek home made specialities. You can choose meat specialties (Gyros, Souvlaki, Bifteki, Sutsukaki, Mussaka), cheese (Feta Psiti, Feta Saganaki, Hallumi), vegetables (Greek salad, Hummus, Eggplant cream, Mezze, Tzatziki) or sea fruits (prawns or octopus), all of this accompanied with our special Greek pita bread. For dessert… HOMEMADE BAKLAVA! We offer a lovely meal time in a quiet end exquisite atmosphere, accompanied with the best Greek music. See you soon! Hours: 6:30pm to close, Wednesday thru Sunday. Closed Monday & Tuesday. For reservations call 642585049. https://la-casita-griega.business.site/ We are DigameXtra sponsors, so our contact info can be found everyday in the Sponsor’s Section.

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DoctorLaptop’s Computer Repairs & Sales- Torrox Costa (near the bus station): Computers only, Windows / Linux / Mac. No tablets or phones.
If you rely on your computer and want it running at peak performance, free of data collectors, trackers & malware, an annual professional servicing is necessary. You wouldn’t drive your car till it runs out of oil before servicing it, would you? I do the most comprehensive cleaning and tune-up possible: verify all System files replacing any found to be corrupt, test all hardware and do hard disk sector repairs if needed, use a 5 tool adware/adware/spyware/tracker removal protocol, clean out junk files/logs/history/etc., update Windows(or MacOS)+all drivers+programs and finally optimize your settings and registry for fastest overall performance. I can also disable the AI spyware (Copilot) Microsoft has installed via Windows Updates if you don’t want it snooping on everything you do. All for only €50! I don’t work on ~~dinosaurs~~ computers made before 2017 unless I have been servicing then annually.
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VÉLEZ-MÁLAGA

Two arrested for exploiting migrant workers in fast food outlet on Costa del Sol:
– Spanish police have arrested two men in Granada for allegedly exploiting migrant workers in fast food outlets, including one in Vélez-Málaga on the eastern strip of the Costa del Sol.
– The Pakistani men, aged 31 and 35 – the oldest of whom has a police record – are accused of human trafficking for the purpose of labour exploitation, as well as crimes against workers’ rights, illegal immigration, belonging to a criminal organisation and false documentation.
– Four Pakistani men were working in these premises, working 10-12 hours a day, seven days a week, for a salary of between 500-600 euros per month. None of these workers had residence or work permits, according to National Police sources.
– The businessman, said to be the main person responsible for the offences, has not yet been located and those arrested are the people who had been put in charge of running the fast food establishments by the businessman. Those detained have already appeared before the courts.
Full article: https://www.surinenglish.com/malaga/axarquia/two-arrested-for-exploiting-migrant-workers-fast-20240828081138-nt.html

TORRE DEL MAR

Young woman receives deep cut near jugular vein on neck during brawl in Torre del Mar:
– A young woman narrowly avoided serious injury after she received a deep cut to the neck – near the jugular vein – during a fight between four people in Torre del Mar. Several witnesses alerted emergency services to the brawl at a house in the Las Melosas area, east of the town centre about 5pm, Tuesday 27 August, in which two couples were involved.
– The fight allegedly started after a family argument over a mobile phone charger. The conflict then became increasingly tense and during the course of it one of the girlfriends was injured by a 25-year-old man, who was arrested by National Police officers. Full article: https://www.surinenglish.com/malaga/axarquia/year-old-woman-seriously-injured-with-cut-20240828081134-nt.html

TORREMOLINOS

Sad sight as the green areas of Torremolinos drink the town’s boating lake dry:
– At the beginning of the year, the pond in the green lung of the town ceased to be considered as a landscaping and leisure element and became a strategic water reserve. It was in mid-January when the town hall announced that given the situation of extreme drought, the 4.5 million litres of water of this artificial lake were going to be used to irrigate green areas.
– Barely eight months later, the situation is different. The little water that remains in La Batería only irrigates the vegetation in the park, not much more. Boats will be moved to dry storage to avoid damage. Given the circumstances, it seems unlikely that the lake will return to its former glory. Full article: https://www.surinenglish.com/malaga/benalmadena-torremolinos/the-gardens-torremolinos-drink-up-the-lake-20240828081154-nt.html

JAEN

Small village scandal after sex act filmed on church altar goes viral:
– A video of a sexual act involving a man and a woman on the altar of the church of the Inmaculada Concepción in El Centenillo {pic} has outraged residents in the Andalusian village in Jaén province. As Canal Sur reported this Wednesday morning (28 August), the couple allegedly made the recording, but it ended up being circulated online among the village’s population of 100 inhabitants.
– As far as SUR has been able to learn, one of the persons involved has already left the village, and the other does not live in El Centenillo.
– The Diocese of Jaén said “acts of atonement were held to ask forgiveness from God, the good father, so that he may look with mercy on his people and grant forgiveness and peace to all”. Full article: https://www.surinenglish.com/andalucia/consternation-hamlet-jaen-over-sexual-act-the-20240828120400-nt.html

SPORTS

Tennis News- US Open 2024: Use these links for the latest official info.
Daily Results: https://www.usopen.org/en_US/scores/index.html
Schedules:
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CULTURAL REVOLUTION

UPDATE- ‘Sex is not mutable’ says Elena Ramallo, expert in gender violence, on the trans law and the controversy of the Candi case where accused changed sex after assault, possibly resulting in lesser charges & lighter sentence:
– The doctor in Law and participant in the State Pact against Gender Violence criticises the lack of control over sex change, which is making fraudulent changes possible.
– Candi {pic}, a transgender woman with convictions for abuse that only recently changed her sex after a new sex assault charge says, ‘I went to the Registry, I said I felt like a woman and they took my details’. Here is a current photo of Candi. Full article, Spanish: https://www.abc.es/sevilla/ciudad/elena-ramallo-experta-violencia-genero-sobre-ley-20240828070328-nts.html

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Ambulance: 061
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DigameXtra No. 2841 Wednesday, August 28th, 2024

On August 28, 2024August 27, 2024 By naythandoctorlaptop

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Judge Peinado resumes the case against Begoña Gómez with four testimonies: {Translation, summary}
– Judge Juan Carlos Peinado resumes this Monday the case against Begoña Gómez, wife of the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, with four testimonies after giving access to the parts of the recording of Sánchez in Moncloa and waiting for the decision of the High Court of Justice of Madrid (TSJM) on the complaints filed against him.
– Despite the fact that August is closed for the Administration of Justice, Judge Peinado has kept the investigation alive by agreeing to summon and summon a series of witnesses, and at the same time has issued several orders. These are the deputy general manager of the Fundación la Caixa, Marc Simón, and the CEO of Reale Seguros, Ignacio Mariscal, whose entities financed the extraordinary chair in Competitive Social Transformation created by the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), directed by Gómez, and which the judge is investigating for alleged irregularities, who has already charged its rector, Joaquín Goyache.
– These appearances are in addition to those of the CEO of the Barrabés Group, Luis Miguel Ciprés, who was awarded a series of public contracts, some of them referred to the European Public Prosecutor’s Office, and of Leticia Lauffer, CEO of Wakalua, a subsidiary of Globalia, who denied in the Senate investigation committee on the Koldo case having been the link to facilitate the rescue of Air Europa due to her links with Begoña Gómez, with whom she had a “very good” professional relationship in which there was “nothing strange”.
– The testimonies on Monday come after last Friday’s search of Barrabés’ house. Source, Spanish: https://www.20minutos.es/noticia/5627689/0/begona-gomez-juez-peinado-retoma-agosto-causa-contra-begona-gomez-con-cuatro-testificales/

MALAGA PROVINCE

September/October fairs in Malaga:
– At the beginning of the month Ronda inaugurates the September festivities with its Fair and festivities of Pedro Romero, which take place from the 3rd to the 8th of September. During this week, the streets of Ronda dress up in their best clothes, filling the streets with lanterns and with a Real ready to welcome those who want to celebrate their festivities.
– Mijas is also celebrating at the beginning of September, with its fiestas in honour of the Virgen de la Peña taking place between 4 and 9 September, although on the evening of 3 September the events scheduled for its Feria begin.
– In Alfarnate they celebrate the fiestas in honour of Our Lady of Monsalud in the middle of this month, which has the peculiarity of hosting a celebration called Las Embajadas, or Moors and Christians festivities, where the village dresses up and represents these two sides.
– And at the end of the month, Vélez-Málaga and Torremolinos celebrate their fairs in honour of San Miguel.
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*Pedro Romero Fair in Ronda: 3-8 September.
*Mijas Fair: 4-9 September
*Fair of Alfarnate: 11th-15th September.
*Fair of Vélez-Málaga: 24-29 September
*Torremolinos Fair: 25th-29th September
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*Torrox Fair: 2-6 October.
*Nerja Fair: 9-13 October
*Fuengirola Fair: 6-12 October
Source, Spanish: https://www.malagahoy.es/provincia/ferias-malaga-celebran-septiembre-fechas-municipios_0_2002288846.html

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Turn in the weather in Malaga for the last week of August- possible showers and thunderstorms: {Translation, summary}
– A DANA entering Andalusia from the Atlantic will cause a change in the weather in Malaga this last week of August, which could result in rain. Yesterday morning, Monday, a few drops fell in certain parts of the province, including the capital, although it was ‘scattered and isolated, very insignificant’, in the words of the director of the Meteorological Centre of Malaga, Jesús Riesco. The highlight was in Nerja, where a downpour surprised everyone, leaving 4.6 litres per square metre according to Aemet records.
– The most notable change in the weather will occur from Wednesday 28th, as Riesco explained. ‘We will have circulation from the south, coming from Africa, and there could be a storm in the middle layers, which could leave drizzle even accompanied by mud’, detailed the director of the Meteorological Centre of Malaga, who nevertheless alludes to the great uncertainty surrounding these forecasts, as he says “the band can deviate”.
– Looking ahead to Thursday, the forecast of Aemet predicts that instability will become more intense in the province of Malaga and Andalusia, with a depression in height that will be isolated in the southwest of the Peninsula between Thursday and Sunday. On those days, according to Riesco, ‘we may have rainfall in the province, even locally accompanied by thunderstorms’, although ‘it is very difficult to say when and where’.
– When will it cool down in Malaga? As for temperatures, we will still have to wait for it to start cooling down, especially on the coast of Malaga, where the unbearable heat of the last few days will continue all week, with thermometers around 30 degrees but with a very high relative humidity, which increases the thermal sensation by several degrees. Inland they will be a little luckier and this week it will cool down ‘clearly’, according to Riesco. Specifically, the mercury in Antequera this week will be between 31 and 33 degrees, with lows of 20.
– With regard to the weather forecast for September, ‘there will be some instability, we will see what effect it will have,’ says Riesco. What does seem clear is that it will be warmer than normal. Source, Spanish: https://www.malagahoy.es/malaga/giro-tiempo-malaga-ultima-semana-agosto-lluvias-tormentas_0_2002289060.html

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Train Pain- Commuter outrage as Renfe continues adding “incidents”- this Monday’s Malaga-Seville trip ends by bus, again: {Translation, summary}
– It seems that the incidents do not end at Renfe. This Monday, again, the passengers of the Media Distancia train Málaga – Seville had to complete their trip by bus due to a “logistical incident.”
– The company assures that this unforeseen event is not related to the improvement works that the Railway Infrastructure Administrator (Adif) carried out during the previous weekend. Source, Spanish: https://andaluciainformacion.es/andalucia/1741928/renfe-sigue-sumando-incidencias-el-viaje-malaga-sevilla-de-este-lunes-acaba-en-autobus/

NERJA

Body of man found on shore:
– The dead body of a man was found on a beach in Nerja last night (Monday). According to sources from 112 Andalucía, a caller alerted the emergency services control room that at around 9pm he found the body of a man who appeared to be deceased on the shoreline of Carabeillo, in the Mirador del Bendito area. The victim appeared to be a man in his fifties.
– The deceased, who was clothed, seemingly died of drowning. No further information has been released about his identity or the circumstances of his death. Full article: https://www.surinenglish.com/malaga/axarquia/body-man-found-shore-popular-costa-sol-20240827104652-nt.html

VÉLEZ-MÁLAGA

Ten marijuana gardens dismantled in flats in Vélez-Málaga- 14 arrested and 1,200 plants seized: {Translation, summary}
– The investigation has led to the intervention of 1,200 cannabis sativa plants in different stages of growth, as well as the arrest of 14 people, most of them belonging to the same family clan, for the crimes of drug trafficking, electricity fraud, belonging to a criminal group.
– In an investigation, whose exploitation phase took place on 13 August, agents from the Local Judicial Police Brigade of the Velez-Malaga Police Station, with the collaboration of several units from the Provincial Police Station, specifically Canine Guides, Aerial Means and the Police Intervention Unit (UIP), dismantled ten marijuana laboratories in six flats in the Velez neighbourhood of La Gloria.
– Also in the same area of the town of Malaga, the National Police dismantled a drug selling point specialising in the dispensing of cocaine. Source, Spanish: https://www.diariosur.es/sucesos/desmantelados-diez-laboratorios-marihuana-pisos-velezmalaga-detenidos-20240827112739-nt.html
{Note: Of special interest is the video clip on the source article’s page. The police don’t release info on the tech used to see inside buildings, but it is effective. It shows how drone mounted cameras, possibly assisted by infrared imaging and wifi router signal analysis, can actually see into houses, through the walls and roof. See pics below.}

EUROPE

Russia accuses Ukraine of using toxic chemicals on battlefield- including terror inducing hallucinogen “BZ”:
– Russia on Tuesday accused Ukraine of using toxic chemicals on the battlefield and said it has detected more than 400 such cases. Russia’s Chief of Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Protection Troops, Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, said at a press briefing that in the course of the “special military operation” in Ukraine, they had confirmed more than 400 cases of the use of toxic chemical substances by the enemy forces.
– According to the Russian military official, the substances used by the Ukrainian Armed Forces include BZ compound, an incapacitating agent, as well as hydrocyanide and cyanogen chloride, both highly toxic. Kirillov said that in the Donetsk region, next to the city of Avdiivka, taken by Russian troops in February this year, a laboratory was discovered where toxic substances were produced. He added that the laboratory had the capacity to produce up to three kilograms of toxic substances daily, equivalent to more than 40,000 lethal doses.
Full article: https://efe.com/en/latest-news/2024-08-27/ukraine-accused-of-toxic-warfare-400-cases-reported/
BZ info:
– The movie Jacob’s Ladder (1990), was loosely based on 1968 military experiments conducted in lab and field exercises at the Edgewood Arsenal proving ground in Maryland, USA. The film ends with a brief description of 3-quinuclidinyl benzilate (BZ) and its effects.
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https://mediaroots.org/bz/
https://www.erowid.org/chemicals/bz/bz.shtml

FINANCIAL

Euribor heads for its biggest monthly drop in 15 years with average mortgage down by up to 919 euros per year: {Translation, summary}
– September is always a difficult month for families’ finances, but this year it will come with a little relief for many. With only four days to go before the end of August, the one-year Euribor – the indicator used to calculate the repayment of almost all variable-rate mortgages in Spain – stands at 3.180% on average for the month, 0.35 points below the figure at the end of July. A plunge that anticipates substantial revisions in the monthly bill paid by families.
– Barring a disaster, the Euribor will close August at its lowest level since December 2022, the biggest fall in this indicator compared with the previous month in the last 15 years.
– The most tangible consequence for families will be a relief in their mortgage repayments. For an average variable loan – 150,000 euros over 25 years with an annual review and a differential of one point over Euribor – updating the instalment with the August figure can mean a saving of up to 76.54 euros per month (€919 per year). In mortgages with higher debt, the relief would be even greater.
– In any case, although the relief is considerable, the monthly bill that borrowers will pay will still be well above what they were paying before the inflationary crisis. A scenario that is unlikely to return in the short or medium term. According to provisional data for August, variable mortgages will continue to be 23% more expensive than in 2022 (which translates into 153 euros more per month for a standard loan such as the one mentioned above) and 52% more expensive than three years ago, when the Euribor was in negative territory.
– The other consequence of the fall in the Euribor, which has been occurring since March although not as abruptly as in August, is that the cost of new loans should become cheaper. The latest data published by the Bank of Spain show that the interest paid on new home purchase transactions stood at 3.38% last June, almost six tenths of a percentage point below the peak reached in October last year.
– The big question is whether this downward trend in the Euribor will continue from now on and for how long. The next clue in this regard will come from the European Central Bank (ECB) in just over two weeks. The institution that regulates the euro will decide on 12 September whether or not to apply a further cut in official interest rates – the rates that define how much it costs to borrow or the remuneration of deposits.
– The markets are betting that the institution chaired by Christine Lagarde will vote in favour of lowering rates. A view that, according to ECB sources quoted by Reuters, is shared by the central bank’s decision-makers. The context seems favourable for this. In the eurozone, inflation remains stable at around 2.6% (very close to the 2% target); wage rises (an indicator of great concern to the ECB) have moderated and the US Federal Reserve has recently announced that it will lower rates for the first time two and a half years after starting to raise them.
– The signals sent by central banks in the coming weeks will be key to anticipating the future of the Euribor. It would not be the first time that the markets err on the side of optimism and bet heavily on rate cuts that in the end do not happen. Last December the Euribor already suffered a sharp fall similar to the one in August, precisely because of this euphoria that finally came to nothing. Source & Image, Spanish: https://www.20minutos.es/lainformacion/economia/euribor-enfila-su-mayor-caida-mensual-15-anos-con-bajadas-hasta-919-euros-ano-hipoteca-media-5627868/

CULTURE

The fraud of the transgender law- a new challenge for the justice system in the face of male violence- ‘By changing gender they will not go unpunished’: {Translation, summary}
– The free self-determination of gender recognised in transgender law has led some men to try to take advantage of the removal of obstacles to changing their sex in the Civil Registry by thinking that they can benefit from convictions for gender violence. The latest case to come to light has occurred in Seville, where a man sentenced to 15 years in prison for assaulting his partner has managed to defer his sentence by changing his sex one day before his sentence was handed down, which has forced the Gender Violence Court to defer the case, given that, until fraud of the law is proven, it is no longer within its jurisdiction.
– The case of a policeman arrested for attempting to assault his wife after having changed sex has also set off alarm bells. The Public Prosecutor’s Office has already announced that it will investigate a possible fraud of law in the request for a change of registration, as in this case the accused would be tried for domestic violence and not for gender violence, which implies slightly lighter sentences.
– The two cases are, however, different. The trans law passed in 2023 stipulates that the rectification of the registration in no case renders ineffective crimes committed with the previous registered sex. In other words: changing one’s sex after committing a crime does not avoid being sentenced for it according to the gender that was on record when the law was broken, as is the case in Seville.
– The difference between the two cases lies, therefore, in the time at which the crime was committed. The police officer decided to change his sex months before attempting to attack his wife, which benefits him in the sense that, in principle, he should be tried as a woman and, therefore, not convicted of gender violence. Even so, the experts consulted by this newspaper insist on sending a message of calm, as once these tricks are known, it is when the justice system begins to investigate and demonstrate that the law is being used fraudulently. Source, Spanish: https://www.20minutos.es/noticia/5625981/0/fraude-ley-trans-nuevo-reto-para-justicia-por-cambiarse-genero-registro-no-quedar-impunes/

SOCIAL MEDIA

Another Reason To Quit Fakebook- In Stunning Letter To Congress, Zuckerberg Admits Fakebook Is A Propaganda Machine, He Complied With Biden-Harris Pressure To Censor Covid & Hunter Biden Laptop Posts, Directly Interfering With The Public’s Right to Make Informed Medical Decisions & As Well As The US presidential Elections In 2020:
– Two years ago Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitted to Joe Rogan that the FBI pressured Facebook into censoring the Hunter Biden laptop story.
– Now Zuckerberg’s participating in a Congressional investigation. In a stunning Monday evening letter to House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, Zuckerberg admitted that senior Biden administration officials “repeatedly pressured” Facebook teams to suppress information related to COVID-19 that the platform would not have otherwise censored.
– Zuck now says that Facebook should not have compromised its standards “due to pressure from any Administration in either direction.” “I believe the government pressure was wrong, and I regret that we were not more outspoken about it,” reads the letter. “I also think we made some choices that, with the benefit of hindsight and new information, we wouldn’t make today.” {Zuck only admits this now because, despite his best efforts to hide the truth, he was exposed by truth warriors. There are many other such FB scandals that will eventually surface. Since Zuck likes martial arts, I suggest he follow the example of the Samauri when they were disgraced. -Ed.}
– Zuckerberg also said that Facebook shouldn’t have censored the NY Post’s Hunter Biden laptop story – and said that the FBI had warned the platform “about a potential Russian disinformation operation about the Biden family and Burisma in the lead up to the 2020 election.” “That fall, when we saw a New York Post story reporting on corruption allegations involving then-Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s family, we sent that story to fact-checkers for review and temporarily demoted it while waiting for a reply,” reads the letter. “It’s since been made clear that the reporting was not Russian disinformation, and in retrospect, we shouldn’t have demoted the story.” Source, Spanish: https://www.zerohedge.com/political/stunning-letter-congress-zuckerberg-admits-biden-harris-pressured-facebook-censor-content

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– Wednesday 28 August from 8 pm to 11 pm, Jam Session in Media Caña, Torrox Costa avenida del Peñoncillo 46. (info booking +34 635 76 36 33)
– Thursday, August 29 at 10 p.m., for the “Verano en Los Cangrejos” festival, organized by the municipality of Nerja: Dana & Gianni in concert. Plaza de Los Cangrejos, free admission
– Sunday 1 September Jam Session at Ziggy’s bar Puente Don Manuel venta Baja from 2.30 pm to 5.30 pm. (info booking: +44 7947 099443) The Jam Sessions are hosted by Dana and Gianni and musicians are welcome.

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Indie Day – Selvatic Fest Málaga: Thursday, 29 Aug
Malaga Forum (formerly Málaga Drive-In) on Ctra. de la Azucarera Intelhorce, Churriana, Málaga.
Lineup: León Benavente + Sidonie + Shinova + Claim
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Magnitude 5.5 earthquake off Portugal shakes Spain and Morocco:
– The earth shook early this Monday morning (26 August) when an earthquake with a magnitude of 5.5 on the Richter scale was recorded in the Atlantic, south of Portugal’s capital, Lisbon. Spain’s National Geographic Institute (IGN) said that the earthquake was registered 6:11am at Spanish mainland time, at a depth of 19 kilometres.
– It was declared a Grade II event for most of Andalucia and was felt in the province of Cadiz, in the cities and towns such as Jerez de la Frontera, Sanlúcar de Barrameda, Rota, Puerto Real and the capital of Cadiz, among others. It was also slightly felt in Malaga city and on the Costa del Sol, as well as in Jaén and Granada, and in the Cordoba towns of Alameda del Obispo, Hornachuelos and Montilla. No reports of significant personal or material damage have been received by emergency services. Full article: https://www.surinenglish.com/andalucia/magnitude-earthquake-off-portugal-shakes-south-spain-20240826092541-nt.html

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The Mossos suspend the three officers detained for helping to flee to Puigdemont: {Translation}
– The Catalan police have agreed to suspend as a precautionary measure the three agents of the Mossos d’Esquadra arrested for allegedly helping Catalan ex-president Carles Puigdemont to flee after his fleeting reappearance in Barcelona on August 8.
– The three agents have been suspended as a precautionary measure while the judicial investigation opened after their arrest continues. The Mossos arrested the three agents for allegedly providing protection and helping Puigdemont to flee Barcelona on August 8, despite the fact that he had an arrest warrant issued by the Supreme Court, although they were released after being brought before the court.
– One of the agents arrested is the owner of the vehicle with which Puigdemont fled, although in his case he claimed that he lent the car to a friend who is in a wheelchair, who was the woman driving when the former president managed to escape without being arrested.
– In the report they sent to the Supreme Court on the failed device to arrest Puigdemont, the Mossos admit that the “distraction maneuver” of the Catalan ex-president, in a movement that “escapes all rational or political logic”, plunged them into a situation of “confusion” and “uncertainty” that prevented them from arresting him. Source, Spanish: https://andaluciainformacion.es/andalucia/1741361/los-mossos-suspenden-a-los-tres-agentes-detenidos-por-ayudar-a-huir-a-puigdemont/
– {This final paragraph is nonsense. I watched the event live on TV. Anybody watching the TV coverage could have tracked Puigdemont’s movements and observed the obvious path he would take to exit. The TV announcers very carefully described the path he was taking thru the crowd, his actions once reaching the stage, and they even mentioned the exit at the rear of the stage minutes before that ended up being his escape route. I noticed Puigdemont’s escape route as soon as he started his speech. His lawyer was standing at the back exit, waving at Puigdemont, encouraging Puigdemont to finish the speech and follow him out the back and on to the path back to France. This farce is almost as much of a joke as the protection Trump received prior to the assassination attempt on 13 July, 2024. -Ed.}

ANDALUCÍA

New ‘Dana’ weather system set to affect south of Spain:
– Spain’s state weather agency (Aemet) is forecasting the arrival of a ‘Dana’ isolated high-level depression on Thursday 29 August, which will bring a change to the weather in the south of the country. This phenomenon will extend until the end of the week and generate instability in large parts of Andalucía, with rainfall in most of the region, as well as a generalised drop in temperatures of between two and five degrees.
– The director of the Aemet weather centre in Malaga, Jesus Riesco, explained that during today (Monday 26 August) and Tuesday there could be rainfall “locally accompanied by some storms” in the eastern mountain ranges of Andalucía – mainly Almeria, Granada and Jaén provinces – where heavy rains have already been recorded during the past weekend.
– On Wednesday 28 August, a phenomenon known as the southern circulation – a large-scale movement of air that will enter through the north of the Spanish mainland – will leave “not very significant” rainfall in Malaga and Cordoba provinces, while on Thursday the arrival of a Dana or cold drop is forecast, which will be located in the southwest of the Spanish mainland and will affect “large areas of Andalucía”.
– From Wednesday onwards, the director of Aemet Malaga has indicated that the mercury will begin to drop by between three and five degrees in the interior of Andalucía to reach a maximum of between 31 and 36C, with temperatures “considerably lower compared to the heat episodes of previous weeks”.
– However, for Saturday, Riesco pointed out that “there may be a slight rise” in the maximum temperatures.
– Looking ahead to September, which begins next Sunday, Riesco stressed that “it is unlikely” temperatures will rise above 38 or 39C. Meanwhile, the minimum temperatures “will continue to be high”, with nights of up to 25C registered on the thermometers. Full article: https://www.surinenglish.com/andalucia/new-dana-weather-system-set-affect-south-20240826151909-nt.html

NERJA

Nerja blessed with a good downpour this Monday: {Translation, summary}
– Heavy episodes of rain surprised the residents of Nerja on Monday, with three downpours, the first at 6.00 am. Subsequently, there was another downpour at around 8.50 a.m., and the heaviest one took place at around 10.15 a.m. Photo: E. Cabezas. Source, Spanish: https://www.axarquiaplus.es/nerja-bendecida-con-un-buen-chaparron-este-lunes/

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– Saturday, after the “tiroda de cohetes” (“rocket firing”, so probably fireworks) at 09:00h, there will be a dominoes competition from 12:00h, while from 18:00h there will be ribbon races with bicycles, motorbikes and hand carts, and it is essential to come in fancy dress. From 20:00h, there will be a rociera mass in honour of the patron saint, the Immaculate Conception and the Sacred Heart of Jesus, performed by the Romeros de la Blanca Paloma Choir from Corumbela, and a procession accompanied by the Canillas de Aceituno brass band. After these activities, the participants will be able to enjoy dancing in the stall with a stellar performance by Leo Music and the election of the Queen, Ladies and Mister of the Fiestas. At 01:00h a Bingo will be held and from 03:00h dancing until dawn.
– Sunday from 14h, the Junta de Festejos has prepared a great meal with beer, soft drinks, snacks and paella for all attendees. From 17:00h the party continues with a performance by DJ Javi Rojo, while at 20:00h there will be the breaking of botijos and piñatas loaded with sweets and other surprises.

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– We will kick off at 20:30 with a concert by the local pop group, Corazón Inverso. From 22:00 hours, the main attraction will be the Dominican Henry Méndez, one of the top representatives of reggaeton and merengue. At around 11:30 p.m., the music continues with Sau DJ, who will close this end-of-summer party, which will also include videos and a fireworks display.

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– Thursday 5th September has a lunch tribute to the elderly which will be entertained by the copla artists Natalia Móralo & 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.
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SPAIN

Spain’s so called progress against unemployment is just another socialist hoax, Gov’t falsely inflates jobs numbers, almost a million more are unemployed than admitted: {Translation}
– Pedro Sánchez keeps bragging about his supposed economic ‘rocket ship’. But a whole network of statistical fiddling supports a trompe l’oeil that particularly targets the labour market. The truth is that the number of supposedly employed people – as they appear in the statistical system, especially through the mechanism of fixed-term employment – who are looking for a real job now stands at almost one million people after a rise in July of no less than 171,381 people affected.
– The studies were drawn up by experts from the USO trade union on the basis of official data. They have simply quantified real jobs, part-time jobs, hours actually worked, jobseekers in each group, people in training, etc. In other words, they have simply eliminated the optical effects of statistics that are increasingly full of deception and less and less transparent. And the conclusions are the opposite of those of the government.
– ‘The number of unemployed registered in the Public Employment Services Offices, at the end of July, has fallen by 10,830 people compared to the previous month’. Absolutely true. But we must dig deeper. ‘In seasonally adjusted terms, registered unemployment fell by 12,378 people. There is a slightly lower decrease than last year’. ‘Is the labour market slowing down, as anticipated by the recent EPA?’, asks the USO research department.
– The detail of the official data answers this question: ‘The total number of unemployed (’people not working or not employed”) registered in the Public Employment Services reaches 3,089,167. These are distributed into registered unemployed: 2,550,237; other not in employment (in training): 195,049; and with limited availability or specific job demand: 343,881. In addition, we could add the 8,687 workers who at the end of the month were in an ERTE’.
– Well, of all these, the Government only recognises the unemployed officially registered as such: 2,550,237.
– Let us continue. ‘Nor are the job seekers with an employment relationship (which includes inactive discontinuous permanent workers) not counted in the total number of unemployed, which for yet another month is not broken down by the SEPE and which are included in the employed job seekers (although they are inactive, i.e. unemployed)’, warns the USO. And how many do they add up to? ’The latter have increased in July by 171,381. This would bring us, with an estimate of 900,000 inactive people who are ready to work, as the latest EPA does, to a total number of unemployed people of around 3.6 million’, the union’s experts explain. 1.1 million people above the number of unemployed that the government boasts about. Quite a deceptive trick. Or an example of manipulated and even distorted statistics.
– And the fact is that, ‘if we analyse the inter-annual variation of the number of unemployed we see how the one produced between June 2023 and 2024 is the worst (lower) of the last 11 years, except for 2019 and 2020, data directly affected by the pandemic’, adds USO.
– Moreover, qualitatively, the data does not pass the test of the usual political optimism either: ‘In July 2024, 589,007 employment contracts of an indefinite nature were registered, representing 38.71% of all contracts when in June this percentage was 41.15 and in May 43%’. And, ‘in cumulative magnitudes, 3,827,186 contracts for an indefinite duration have been made up to July 2024, representing a decrease of 165,634 (-4.15%) over the same period in 2023’.
– ‘In cumulative terms, full-time permanent contracts reached a total of 1,632,153 from January to July this year, with a decrease of 56,852 (-3.37%) compared to the same period in 2023. And part-time permanent contracts total 900,208, registering a reduction of 15,023 (-1.64%) compared to the same period last year’, he concludes. Source, Spanish: https://www.libremercado.com/2024-08-25/espana-camina-hacia-el-millon-de-falsos-empleados-gracias-a-sanchez-900000-supuestos-trabajadores-buscan-empleo-real-7157806/

ANDALUCÍA

Nearly 50 residents of the Ceuta Immigrant Centre set course for Andalusia: {Translation}
– A total of 49 people of various nationalities left the Temporary Stay Centre for Immigrants (CETI) in Ceuta on Saturday and headed for Andalusia. They will be transferred to reception centres in the provinces of Cádiz and Málaga.
– Among the residents, who took the ferry to Algeciras at 10:30 a.m., was a single woman, a native of Morocco. The men are mostly from sub-Saharan African and Maghreb countries, mainly Algeria, Guinea-Conakry and Sudan. People have also departed from Syria, Tunisia, Egypt, Mali, Chad and Guinea Bissau.
– The transfers to the peninsula are intended to alleviate the overcrowding suffered by the centre, with a maximum of 512 places. According to the latest data handled by the Government Delegation in Ceuta (updated every noon), the CETI has around 800 residents. Among these, the 49 who have left the facilities today have not been counted, nor those who may enter during this day. The last transfer to the mainland took place last Tuesday, when 16 people, mostly from Mali, Morocco and Sudan, crossed the Strait of Gibraltar to centres on the mainland.
– The reception centre for migrants of legal age is not the only one that is overcrowded. This Friday, the president of the local government (with responsibility for minors), Juan Vivas, appeared with Father Ángel, from Mensajeros de la Paz, to send a message of ‘help’ (the second in less than ten days) to the Autonomous Communities, to whom he asked for solidarity and a willingness to reach an agreement.
– Ceuta is currently hosting 459 minors, which represents an overcrowding of 422%. In August alone, 219 people were admitted. In June a contingency plan was signed to transfer 87 children to other parts of Spain. For the moment, according to the information provided by the regional government, only twenty have been transferred. For them, this is an ‘insufficient’ agreement and they have stated that they are working on a second contingency plan, as well as expressing the desire to reach a consensus between institutions and political parties on a ‘structural’ and ‘stable’ response to a ‘structural phenomenon’.
Source: https://www.malagahoy.es/andalucia/50-residentes-centro-inmigrantes-ceuta_0_2002274088.html

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The public holiday calendar in Andalusia for 2025- Twelve official rest days: {Translation}
– The Andalusian government has published the official calendar of public holidays for 2025, a total of twelve days that will mark the work and leisure calendar in the region. According to Decree 99/2024 of 21 May, these public holidays are mandatory throughout the Autonomous Community of Andalusia.
*NATIONAL AND REGIONAL PUBLIC HOLIDAYS*
– The year 2025 will begin with the traditional New Year’s Day holiday on 1 January, which this year will fall on a Wednesday. This will be followed by 6 January, Monday, when the Epiphany of the Lord is celebrated, popularly known as the Day of the Three Wise Men.
– On Friday, 28 February, Andalusia Day, a day that commemorates Andalusian autonomy and which this year will allow Andalusians a long weekend of rest.
– Easter Week, one of the most important celebrations in Andalusia, will take place in April, with Maundy Thursday and Good Friday on 17 and 18 April, which will provide an extended festive break.
– On Thursday, 1 May, Labour Day, a bank holiday, will be celebrated. On Friday, 15 August, the Feast of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, a date traditionally devoted to religious celebrations and family activities, has been set for 15 August.
– In October, the 13th, Monday, will be Spain’s National Holiday, commemorating the discovery of America and allowing a break in the work calendar.
– November will bring with it All Saints’ Day on 1 November, which will fall on a Saturday. This is a day dedicated to the remembrance of the deceased and it is common for families to visit cemeteries.
– In December, Andalusia will have three important public holidays. On 6 December, Saturday, the Spanish Constitution Day will be celebrated, followed on 8 December, Monday, by the Immaculate Conception, another holiday with a deep-rooted religious tradition. Finally, on Thursday 25 December, Andalusians will enjoy Christmas Day, a day dedicated to family and religious celebrations.
– With these twelve public holidays, the 2025 calendar in Andalusia offers several opportunities to enjoy long weekends and bridge weekends. This calendar not only provides essential planning for workers, but is also a key reference for the tourism sector and commercial activities, which will adapt their offer to these peak periods. Source, Spanish: https://andaluciainformacion.es/andalucia/1736524/asi-queda-el-calendario-de-festivos-en-andalucia-para-2025-doce-dias-de-descanso-oficial/

AXARQUÍA

Deep concern and unease following spate of 20 holiday home burglaries in Axarquia:
– Property owners in Torrox, Frigiliana and Nerja on the eastern side of Malaga province have reported a spike in the number of burglaries in holiday rental properties in recent weeks coinciding with the summer season.
– The last three attempted burglaries took place on Thursday 22 August, just as the pyro-musical show that kicked off this year’s Frigiliana 3 Culturas festival got under way. The owners of several rural houses received warnings on their mobile phones that video surveillance cameras had detected movement in their properties.
They quickly alerted the Guardia Civil and the rural guards in Frigiliana. The officers arrived within minutes and found several individuals in the area, who had smashed doors and windows in an attempt to gain access to the properties.
– . The three properties are located in the Nerja, in La Morea, which is on the border with the neighbouring town of Frigiliana.
As SUR has learned, these are three new cases that add to a list of some twenty burglaries that have been reported in recent months in rural areas of Torrox, Nerja and Frigiliana. In most cases the burglars gained access to empty houses, but in one of the attempts they attacked one of the residents, causing her to fall down the stairs.
– Residents have set up WhatsApp groups and installed video surveillance cameras with motion and temperature sensors in an attempt to deter burglars. However, the thieves are not deterred, and in some cases they have tried to damage the cameras.
– As SUR has been able to confirm, at least three middle-aged men, all foreign nationals, have been arrested in recent weeks as the alleged perpetrators of several of the burglaries. Photo: E. Cabezas. Full article: https://www.surinenglish.com/malaga/axarquia/video-deep-concern-and-unease-following-spate-20240823164630-nt.html

TORROX

Water restricted Torrox hoping to become home to the next major golf course on the Costa del Sol:
– The plan for Torrox Costa on the eastern stretch of the Costa del Sol to have its first golf course, features in the town’s General Urban Development Plan (PGOU) approved in 1992. However, various setbacks and regulatory changes, as well as successive economic crises have meant that the initiative to develop more than 100 hectares of land on the seafront has not yet materialised.
– Torrox town hall is continuing to push ahead with the project which would see a new 18-hole golf course, around 4,000 homes and a marina. The mayor, Óscar Medina, who has been in office since 2015, said, “We also want to continue attracting tourists with high purchasing power, and for that the development of the Calaceite area on the coast is going to be fundamental thanks to its self-sufficient, sustainable and high quality infrastructure.”
– Medina said in a statement that “it will be an integrated action of residential and tourist facilities, with a profusion of green areas and many others free of construction”. He went on to say, “We have numerous investors interested in this sector, where in the future around 4,000 homes will be located,” and added, “It will be a source of wealth and employment for Torrox.” Photo: E. Cabezas. Full article: https://www.surinenglish.com/malaga/axarquia/torrox-reactivates-project-for-4000-homes-and-20240823074728-nt.html

NERJA

Human Resources of Nerja calls for interviews at the Job Board: {Translation}
– The Councilor for Human Resources, Ángela Díaz, reports the dates of the interviews for the laborer categories of bricklayer, gardener, painter, janitor, general cleaning and cleaning of public buildings of the Labor Exchange.
– Díaz details that the interviews will begin on September 9, until the 13th, and will take place in the Mercado Room. Applicants must come with their ID, driving license or passport. All interested persons can also consult the final list of those admitted and the dates of the interviews at the Municipal Citizen Services Office, located on the ground floor of the Town Hall, by calling 952548400 or via email [omac@nerja.es]. Source, Spanish: https://www.axarquiaplus.es/recursos-humanos-de-nerja-convoca-las-entrevistas-de-la-bolsa-de-trabajo/

CALETA DE VELEZ

Princess Leonor’s surprise visit to a beach bar in Caleta de Vélez and Malaga Fair:
– The reservation was made by a person who did not identify themselves as calling from Spain’s Royal household. However, when the group of half a dozen young people arrived, aged between 18 and 20, along with several bodyguards, the owners of the El Saladero beach bar, located on the beachfront in Caleta de Vélez on the eastern strip of the Costa del Sol, sensed that it was someone important. “We thought it could be a politician, but after a while the waiters realised and recognised her, it was Princess Leonor”, Puri Molina, one of the managers of the typical coastal establishment, opened in 1965, told SUR this Friday morning.
– The royal visit happened at midday on Thursday, and initially went almost unnoticed. However, the customers on the terrace on the sand, which was full at that time, began to recognise her and several diners took out their mobile phones to capture the heiress to the Spanish throne. But the Royal household’s security team forced them to delete the images, and so far no snapshots or videos of the illustrious lunch have been released.
– Princess Leonor has made the most of her visit to Malaga. After being seen two days ago at a beach bar in Vélez-Málaga {pic, left}, the future queen went to party at the Malaga Fair with a group of friends. Leonor was seen at the Tití booth {pic, right}, where she arrived with five or six friends and a group of bodyguards.
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https://www.surinenglish.com/malaga/axarquia/princess-leonor-pays-surprise-visit-costa-sol-20240823102306-nt.html & https://www.diariosur.es/feria/princesa-leonor-fiesta-feria-malaga-20240825093250-nt.html

VÉLEZ-MÁLAGA

Acts of vandalism in various parts of the municipality of Vélez-Málaga in the early hours of this Saturday: {Translation}
– This Saturday, 24 August, dawned with several unpleasant surprises in the municipality of Vélez-Málaga. First, it was the Town Hall of Vélez-Málaga itself who reported through official social media profiles of acts of vandalism in the vicinity of the municipal cemetery of Vélez-Málaga.
– ‘These behaviours are unacceptable, and from the Town Hall we want to make it clear that we will not tolerate any form of vandalism in our city. The Local Police are already working to identify those responsible and take the corresponding legal measures,’ they said in their publication.
– Shortly afterwards, also through these channels, the Mayor’s Office of Torre del Mar published on social media that there had been a break-in and vandalism of the lifeguard post on the beach next to the Torre del Mar fairgrounds. ‘This surveillance and lifeguard area provides a service to the public and we cannot allow people to pay for their frustrations with what belongs to everyone,’ they denounced. Source, Spanish: https://www.axarquiaplus.es/actos-vandalicos-en-varios-puntos-del-municipio-de-velez-malaga-en-la-madrugada-de-este-sabado/

GRANADA

Demonstration asks to stop windmill projects in the area of the Costa Tropical: {Translation}
– A demonstration organised by the platform ‘Say no! on the Costa Tropical’ called late on Friday morning in Torrenueva for a halt to the construction of two wind farms in the area. Chanting slogans such as ‘renewables yes but not like this’, some 120 people, according to figures from the Government Sub-delegation in Granada, marched from the Peñón de Jolúcar to the Town Hall via the promenade, also attended by the mayor of the municipality, Plácido José Lara.
– ‘The reason for the demonstration is to show opposition to the two projects being processed by the Ministry of Ecological Transition for the construction of two mega offshore wind farms in the Alboran Sea off the coast of Granada,’ explained the organisers beforehand. Currently in the period of public review, ‘given the scant public information that the government has offered about these projects and concerned about the scale of these projects and their consequences in their immediate surroundings’, this group of citizens from Granada decided to organise themselves, firstly, to inform about them and, secondly, to collect signatures and plead against the construction of these ‘megaparks’.
– ‘The area will go from being a natural environment to being considered an ‘industrialisable’ area, indicating that ‘the appearance of a sustainable project based on clean and renewable energy is a fallacy, given that the environmental impact that these two mega-projects will cause’ would be ‘greater than the benefits’, which, in their opinion, ‘can be summed up as zero for the citizens of Granada’.
– Among the disadvantages, they have cited the ‘destruction of the seabed, endangered flora and fauna’, on the basis that ‘the cliffs and seabed of Calahonda-Castell de Ferro is a site of community interest that is part of the Natura 2000 network’ as well as the ‘devaluation of coastal housing’.
– For its part, through social networks, the Torrenueva Costa Town Council has explained that in the demonstration it has also shown its rejection of these projects ‘with the claim “Renewables yes, but not like this”. The Parliamentary Group for Andalusia and Podemos in the Andalusian autonomous community have also supported this demonstration ‘against windmills in the sea’, on the basis of which their representatives have articulated a parliamentary initiative. According to Alejandra Durán, member of parliament for Por Andalucía and secretary of Institutional Action for Podemos in the region, the aim is to take a stand against ‘speculative mega-projects that threaten the coast of Almería’ and Granada. Source, Spanish: https://www.granadadigital.es/manifestacion-pide-frenar-proyectos-molinos-eolicos-entorno-costa-tropical/

EUROPE

Gergely Gulyás, Minister of Hungarian Prime Minister’s Office, Responds To EU Sanctions For Immigration Violations- “We Will Send The New Arrivals To Brussels”: {Translation}
– Gergely Gulyás: Brussels wants to force us to let migrants in at all costs. Hungary has now been hit with a heavy fine for the practice, which was also adopted by the EU rule regarding transit zones. Unlike other countries, Hungary does not receive resources for border protection from Brussels. Therefore, the government asked the Minister of Justice to examine how part of the costs could be enforced in a lawsuit against Brussels.
– “If Brussels still wants to impose regulations on Hungary that make it impossible for migrants to be detained at the external border, then we will transport them to Brussels voluntarily and free of charge after complying with the European procedure,” said Gergely Gulyás, who called the sanctions intolerable and unfair. He added that Hungary does not want to pay a daily allowance as a punishment indefinitely, they are happy to take the migrants to Brussels, and negotiate their further care there. Photo: Lajos Soós. Source, Hungarian: https://infostart.hu/belfold/2024/08/22/kormanyinfo-eloben-bejelenteseket-tesz-a-kormany#

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Stabbing rampage in German city of Solingen killed three people and injured eight:
– A suspect in German police custody following a stabbing rampage in the city of Solingen that killed three people and injured eight is a 26-year-old Syrian man, authorities said on Sunday as they looked into his possible links with Islamic State.
– The incident, along with the militant group’s claim of responsibility, sparked concern among some politicians who urged enhanced security, tighter curbs on weapons, stiffer punishment for violent crimes, and limits to immigration.
– The attack occurred during a festival on Friday evening in a market square where live bands were playing to celebrate Solingen’s 650-year history. Mourners made a makeshift memorial near the scene.
– The suspect turned himself in late on Saturday and admitted to the crime, Duesseldorf police and prosecutors said in a joint statement early on Sunday. German federal prosecutors identified the Syrian man as Issa Al H., omitting his family name because of German privacy laws, and said he was suspected of being a member of Islamic State.
– Prosecutors said “due to his radical Islamist convictions” he tried to kill as many people as possible that he considered to be non-believers, stabbing them repeatedly in the neck and upper body. Photo: Heiko Becker. Full article: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/german-stabbing-suspect-is-26-year-old-man-who-admitted-crime-police-say-2024-08-25/

UPDATE, 8am Sunday: Speaking on German broadcaster ARD, the CDU representative confirmed the detainee came from a shelter for refugees. Source, Spanish: https://www.20minutos.es/noticia/5627571/0/detenido-verdadero-sospechoso-apunalamiento-masivo-alemania-estado-islamico/

UPDATE, 3pm Sunday: A failed deportation that ended in tragedy- German mass stabber had been ordered to leave the country: {Translation, summary}
– The perpetrator of the mass stabbing at a festival in Solingen is a 26-year-old Syrian national who had been living in Germany since 2022, where he applied for asylum, but had a deportation order that was ultimately not executed, Der Spiegel reports. The attacker, who killed three people and injured eight others on Friday, was due to be deported last year to Bulgaria, which was to take charge of him, but his attempted transfer failed in June 2023.
– According to Der Spiegel, Issa al H. arrived in Germany at the end of December 2022 and shortly afterwards applied for asylum at the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees in Bielefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia. The Dublin Regulation, which determines which EU Member State should be responsible for processing an asylum application, decided that Bulgaria would be the country responsible for his asylum procedure because it was his country of entry into the European Union (EU). The German authorities then submitted a transfer request, to which the Bulgarians agreed, and the young Syrian was therefore to be transferred there.
– However, the deportation order to Bulgaria, which should have been executed last year, was postponed. The German authorities were unable to locate the individual, who at the time was in a shelter in Paderborn in June 2023, as he had gone into hiding, and was declared temporarily untraceable. He reappeared a few weeks later, without the authorities issuing a warrant for his arrest due to his lack of a criminal record.
– Finally, the deadline for his transfer to Bulgaria expired in August last year and Germany took over his case. At the end of 2023, the Federal Republic granted him a temporary residence permit as a beneficiary of subsidiary protection, coming from a country at war to which it was not possible to return him, and he was transferred in September 2023 to the town of Solingen, where he lived until last Friday, when he carried out the fatal knife attack.
– The German public prosecutor’s office is now investigating this individual on suspicion of committing a triple murder, multiple attempted murders and possible membership of a jihadist organisation. Source, Spanish: https://www.20minutos.es/noticia/5627616/0/deportacion-fallida-tragedia-autor-apunalamiento-masivo-alemania-orden-salir-pais/

MIDDLE EAST

Military emergency- Israel bombs Lebanon as it identifies imminent ‘extensive attack’: {Translation, summary}
– Israel launched a series of bombing raids in Lebanon early Sunday morning after identifying that Hezbollah was preparing ‘an extensive attack against Israel’, something the Shiite militia itself acknowledged. The Israel Defense Forces ‘identified that the Hezbollah terrorist organisation is preparing to fire missiles and rockets into Israeli territory. In response to these threats, forces are attacking terrorist targets in Lebanon,’ the Israeli army said in a statement. Israeli air force fighter jets are attacking what Israel considers ‘an imminent threat to the citizens’ of the Jewish state.
– Hezbollah, for its part, announced the launch of a ‘revenge’ attack against Israel that consists of bombing Israeli bases and positions with a barrage of more than 320 Katyusha rockets to clear the way for ‘attack drones on their way into the depths of the Zionist entity’.
– Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is directing operations from the Kirya military base in Tel Aviv, along with Defence Minister Yoav Galant, who declared a military state of emergency and contacted his US counterpart, Lloyd Austin, to update him. Israel’s political and security cabinet was convened for a meeting at the same military base.
– The Israeli strategy constitutes an ‘act of self-defence’, army spokesman Daniel Hagari said in a video message in which he stressed that Israeli forces ‘are attacking terrorist targets in Lebanon, from which Hezbollah planned to launch its attacks against Israeli civilians’. The pro-Iranian Shia group ‘will fire rockets, and possibly missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles, into Israeli territory,’ he warned, calling it ‘an extensive attack on Israel’ from areas near civilian homes in southern Lebanon. ‘We warn civilians located in areas where Hezbollah operates to move away from danger immediately for their own safety,’ warning that the Shi’ite group’s offensive “risks dragging the people of Lebanon, the people of Israel and the entire region into a wider escalation”.
– Anti-aircraft sirens have been activated continuously in the Lebanese border area since the early hours of Sunday morning.
The Magen David Adom emergency service raised ‘its alert status to the highest level throughout Israel’, although so far it has received no reports of casualties. Source, Spanish: https://andaluciainformacion.es/andalucia/1740958/emergencia-militar-israel-bombardea-libano-al-identificar-un-inminente-ataque-extensivo/

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Israel says 100 of its planes have attacked thousands of Hezbollah rocket launchers in Lebanon: {Translation, summary}
– The Israeli air force used about 100 fighter jets to attack thousands of rocket launchers of the Shi’ite Hezbollah group in Lebanon, which were aimed at northern and central Israel, army spokesman Daniel Hagari said. Israel early this morning launched a series of large-scale bombardments against some 40 positions of the group in southern Lebanon to ‘thwart an imminent massive attack’ on Israeli territory, officials said. ‘We will continue to eliminate threats and intensively attack the Hezbollah terrorist organisation,’ the spokesman stressed.
– The Israeli army’s international media spokesman, Nadav Shoshani, said the rocket launchers were concentrated at some 40 launch sites across southern Lebanon. While most were intended to strike the north of the country, some were aimed at targets in central Israel, which were missed by Israeli strikes.
Shoshani stressed that so far ‘very little damage’ has been detected in the north of the country.
– The bulk of the operation, which Israel described as ‘real-time self-defence’, took place shortly before 05:00 local time (02:00 GMT).
– The Lebanese group, meanwhile, announced the launch of a large-scale retaliatory ‘air strike’ against Israel with ‘a large number of drones’, which are aimed at ‘qualitative Israeli targets’ inside the country. The group said in two statements issued in the early hours of Sunday morning that the first phase of the strikes have ‘gone according to plan’ and have hit at least eleven military bases both on Israeli territory and in the Golan Heights, artillery positions and barracks. Source, Spanish: https://andaluciainformacion.es/andalucia/1740960/israel-dice-que-100-de-sus-aviones-han-atacado-miles-de-lanzacohetes-de-hizbula-en-libano/

CULTURE

Princess Leonor will enter the Marín Naval School alone on Thursday: {Translation, summary}
– The Princess of Asturias, Leonor de Borbón y Ortiz, will enter this Thursday, the 29th, as a first-year midshipman at the Naval Military School in Marín (Pontevedra), alone and without the presence of the King. Felipe VI, foreseeably, will not attend the event as, according to the agenda published by the Royal Household, he will be in Barcelona for the America’s Cup sailing competition.
– Leonor, during the course, will share a room with four women and will embark in January, like all the students, on the Juan Sebastián Elcano school-ship.
– This is the second time that the heiress to the Spanish throne will be at the School, as on 16 July, coinciding with the feast of the Virgin of Carmen, she accompanied her father at the presentation of the Royal Dispatches to the new Navy officers and at the swearing in of 76 first-year students.
– Last Monday, more than a hundred new students entered the School. In total, taking into account all the planned incorporations, there are 146 students, 93 without qualifications and 53 with previous qualifications, including 17 women and several applicants from outside Spain. Source, Spanish: https://andaluciainformacion.es/malaga/1741090/la-princesa-leonor-ingresara-el-jueves-en-la-escuela-naval-de-marin-en-solitario/

SOCIAL MEDIA

Attack On Free Speech? Billionaire Telegram founder Pavel Durov arrested in France:
– Telegram is one of the most downloaded apps in the world, with predictions it will achieve close to one billion users within a year. It offers end-to-end encryption – effectively protecting data from being intercepted – and has a strong focus on privacy. This focus makes the app popular with pro-democracy movements and other protesters in countries with strict laws.
– But it has also been used for criminal activity and recently by far-right activists who sparked riots in the UK over the Southport stabbings.
– Pavel Durov, the billionaire founder of encrypted messaging app Telegram, has been arrested in France. The 39-year-old tech chief was reportedly detained after his private jet landed at Le Bourget airport on the outskirts of Paris. News broadcasters BFMTV and TF1 have quoted unnamed sources as saying the Russian-born entrepreneur – who became a French citizen in 2021 – was the subject of a search warrant. Both outlets suggest the investigation was focused on a lack of moderators on Telegram and potential criminal activity by users.
– Neither French police, the Interior Ministry, nor Telegram have commented on those claims. Full article: https://news.sky.com/story/telegram-founder-pavel-durov-arrested-in-france-reports-say-13202897 {I don’t recall any telephone companies ever being held responsible for acts facilitated by criminals using their services. -Ed.}

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