Neal Stephenson’s Cimarronin: A Samurai in New Spain is out on Amazon today
Amazon’s Jet CIty Comics imprint has been chugging along with a series of comics based on predominantly SF authors. including Hugh Howey, George RR MArtin and now Neal Stephenson, whose Cimarronin: A Samurai in New Spain just came out today. It’s ...
UN: King Felipe VI of Spain and Ban Ki-moon Discuss Western Sahara
New York-Spanish King Felipe VI met on Wednesday in New York with the United Nations Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, on the sidelines of the General Debate of the 69 th session of the General assembly. The first meeting between held between the newly ...
The Life of a Squatter in Spain
BARCELONA—Claudio Cattaneo has been squatting since he moved to Spain in 2002. The Italian professor of ecological economics first occupied an abandoned city-owned property on the outskirts of Barcelona, joining 20 or so other squatters. He has lived ...
A Communist Utopia in Spain
There are more Che Guevara portraits here than at a T-shirt boutique in Brooklyn, N.Y. Yet Marinaleda's real icon is Juan Manuel Sánchez Gordillo, the village's enigmatic, charismatic mayor, who first took office in 1979 and has been re-elected to the ...
Bradley Wiggins wins world road time trial, Spain
PONFERRADA, Spain (AP) — Bradley Wiggins of Britain powered across the finish line 26.23 seconds ahead of his nearest rival to claim his first road cycling world title on Wednesday with a convincing victory in the time-trial event. Wiggins, who won ...
Alvaro Siza Wins Fritz Höger’s Top Honors for Innovative Use of Brick
Alvaro Siza has won top honors in the “2014 Fritz Höger Awards for Excellence in Brick Architecture.” The awards, now in their third edition, highlight projects that harness the creative potential of brick. Projects from New Delhi, Barcelona and Frankfurt have all been awarded gold and silver prizes ...
Who provides the best budget experience for your dollar: Windows, Android, Firefox OS?
One of the best things about the maturation of the smartphone market is the race to the bottom sparked by commoditization. Smartphones are getting really cheap and there isn’t a great deal to distinguish them in terms of hardware. If you’re seriously strapped for cash, or you’re buying something bas ...
12 Reasons Why Eating At KFC Japan Is Completely Different Than It Is In The US
KFC is wildly popular in Japan. The fast food chain has more than 1,200 locations there, making it the fried chicken chain's third-largest market behind the U.S. and China. As sales decline in the U.S., KFC is focusing on Asian markets to bring in big profits. Here are a few reasons KFC Japan is com ...
‘Congress ideal platform for water’s future’
LISBON, Portugal: Minister of Public Utilities Datuk Amar Awang Tengah Ali Hassan who is now in Lisbon participating in the five-day International Water Association (IWA) World Water Congress at the Lisbon Convention Centre here describes the congress as an ideal platform where water professionals s ...
Red Lanterns and Rose-Colored Glasses
Under the fuzzy haze of red lanterns atop a Bushwick rooftop on one of this season's first crisp evenings, the glowing face of a new transplant from the North of Spain evoked a spirit I hadn’t felt in another human being in many, many years. The excitement of life ahead, of life in the Big Apple, of ...
[$] Adobe releases source code for OpenType font-development tools
Adobe made a surprise announcement at the annual ATypI conference in Barcelona, Spain, releasing one of the company's proprietary font-production tools under an open-source license. In addition, the team convinced another popular font-development project to release its core library as open source, t ...
The Shemitah, Blood Moons, and God’s Seven Year Cycles
The convergence of two very compelling events looms ahead and if the forecasters of these events are correct, the next year could be one of the most momentous in human history! As Prophecy Newswatch has been reporting, the Shemitah year, or the Jewish Sabbatical year is set to begin on September 24, ...
1991 Preview: Minardi
Car: Minardi – Ferrari M191 Drivers: J. Keevill (GBR) A. Hargreaves (GBR) 1990 Stats: Race Starts: 26/32 Points: 1 (Best: 6th, Spain 1990) Wins: 0 1990 Championship Position: 13th Preview It’s all-change at Minardi for 1991. In come engines from Ferrari – one year old, ex-works engines to be precise ...
A Daughter's Peace Corps Work in West Africa. A Mother's Heart.
People who know me call me adventurous. I have climbed the Andes, hitchhiked around Spain and trekked the Himalaya through thigh-deep snow in March. But those people haven't met my daughter. Compared to Taylor, I'm a TV-surfing couch potato. >I've encouraged and embraced Taylor's adventures vic ...
What’s Right Meow: Try Purr-sonalized Sweet Treats from Minibrownie!
While growing up in Barcelona, Spain, pastry pro and cat lover Moises Alvarez always had a thing for sweets. But it wasn’t until he lived in N.Y.C. for seven years that he discovered a passion for chocolate brownies (his wife, Juli, happened to ask him to make them for her one day). From Alvarez’s e ...
