1 Act Play: Columbus to the Navigator
NOON: CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS AND CREW IN NEW WORLD CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS (Pointing to NAVIGATOR) If you say "AH HA!" one more time, when I discover a new island -- I will pack you back to Spain in chains. LATER LOOKOUT Land ahoy! NAVIGATOR: AH HA!!! END
Musings on Europe – Strange Daze
Under intense pressure, the European Central Bank surprised the markets on September 4 th and reduced their key lending rate to 0.05%, fractionally above zero. It reduced the rate charged on overnight bank deposits to (0.2%) from (0.1%) – yes negative! – and reduced the rate on overnight loans as we ...
MUSIC SATURDAY - JOAQUÍN RODRIGO
“Losing my sight had nothing to do with my focus on music. My passion for music was already there, so it would be a mistake to give too much significance to my blindness.” - Andrea Bocelli Joaquín Rodrigo Vidre (22 November 1901 – 6 July 1999) was a Spanish composer of classical music and a virtuoso ...
Madeline Island School of the Arts, a new first chapter for the Sous Chef!
Just spent a lovely weekend with a group of incredibly creative writers. Imagine that, 5 days of new writing, learning to bring concepts and ideas to a story board. Great stuff. And a great crew of writers. CHAPTER ONE: THE BLUE SKY FROM THE SOUS CHEF'S ALL SPICED UP MYSTERY LETTER TOUR The monotoni ...
Police and Twitter
The article below discusses the various ways law enforcement agencies around the world employ social media, especially Twitter to interact with the community and apprehend suspects. Like with posting mug shots on Facebook discussed yesterday, the use of Twitter by law enforcement raises some privacy ...
Indigenous
Just chasing light and saguaros, and painting pictures in the sand. Another day outdoors in the life of the beautiful desert mountains in my native home of Tucson Arizona. This overwhelming landscape never gets old and never ceases to amaze me. Grateful. photos: puspa lohmeyer dress: how sweet it wa ...
Tres días | Study Abroad in Spain (Seville)
I feel like so much happened since I wrote my last post. Here is a summary of the past 3 days. On Wednesday we went to the Roman city of Itálica as well as the Roman amphitheater just outside of Seville and it felt like such an awesome walk back to the Roman Empire times. The city founded in 206 BC ...
Serbia hold off France to reach final
Madrid (AFP) - Serbia held off France 90-85 in the semi-finals of the 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup in Madrid on Friday to set up a title fight against undefeated reigning champions the United States. Serbia won five world titles as part of Yugoslavia as recently as 2002 but they now have reached t ...
V // “La Diada”
One thing that has become more and more obvious over the past two weeks of living here is that we are in Catalonia, not just Spain. Many citizens of Barcelona, if not the vast majority, speak both Spanish and Catalonian. The Catalonian flag is flown here, the only places I’ve seen the Spanish flag i ...
Trip Review 3: Madcap Madrid Vol. 1; or, The Time Things Went Wrong
Alright, back to the business of reporting upon the European voyage shared by Marg and I. You'd thought that I had forgotten about that, hadn't you? Well, you're a dope. When we last saw our heroes, they were making preparations to travel from Barcelona to Madrid. Before the toot toot train ride cou ...
Spain to host Libya conference
Spain is set to host another part of UNSMIL’s search for a negotiated settlement to Libya’s violent divisions. The conference next Wednesday in Madrid comes after foreign minister Mohamed Abdelaziz met his Spanish opposite number Jose Manuel Garcia ...
Spain pressured to negotiate on Catalonia: analysts
Madrid (AFP) - Spain's leaders refuse to let their country break apart, but as Catalonia's independence drive gathers steam, analysts say Madrid may have to negotiate on a question affecting all of Europe. Hundreds of thousands of nationalists demanding a ...
Russia, Spain and Italy reach Portugal 2015
Russia, Spain and Italy advanced to the semi-finals of Europe's qualifying competition for the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup on Friday and as a result all three teams have reached Portugal 2015, joining Switzerland, who qualified yesterday, at the sport's ...
In Spain, 1.8 million protesters seek separation
This was the largest demonstration in the history of Barcelona with 1,8 million people showing up exceeding all previous records. Demonstrators were waving independence flags and wearing yellow-and-red shirts with the phrase “Now is the time” shouting ...
