Vargas Llosa, Nobel de Literatura 2010

Tenía ya los dos premios más importantes en Lengua Española (El Cervantes y el Príncipe de Asturias) y, aunque muchos no le perdonan sus posiciones políticas, el talento debe estar por encima de las diferencias de opinión. Es bueno que se premie la literatura en Español.

Se pueden leer sus colaboraciones en el diario "El País".

http://www.elpais.com/articulo/cultura/Mario/Vargas/Llosa/Premio/Nobel/Literatura/elpepucul/20101007elpepucul_3/Tes

Clean Air

Thanks to the great job Bob is doing on Climate Change.

In Spain we tend to think someone else will solve the problems. We need more people getting involved in making the society progress.

http://carboncensusanswers.blogspot.com/2010/09/watch-latest-video-from-al-gore.html?sms_ss=twitter

El 90 cumpleaños de Betty

Es un lujo poder haber estado presente en ese cumpleaños. Nos hicieron el honor de considerarnos importantes en la vida de Betty, sus amigos, y creo que hablo en nombre de todos para agradecérselo de corazón a su familia. Fue una tarde/noche inolvidable, preciosa. Gracias por compartirla con nosotros, familia Barclay.

Príncipe de Asturias a la Concordia

A las 12.00 horas de hoy se sabrá el ganador. Qué pena que no lo gane la candidatura que presentan los descendientes de moriscos expulsados de España hace 400, precioso proyecto presentado y avalado, por ejemplo, por el barrio antiguo de Frigiliana (Barribarto).

http://www.moriscosconcordia.com/

http://www.festivalfrigiliana3culturas.es/

IV Edición del Camposoto Reggae Jam.

¿Alguien ha ido alguna vez o lo sabía?

El próximo sábado 14 de agosto. La hora de convocatoria es a las nueve de la noche y el cierre se dará a las siete de la mañana. La entrada, para todo el público, es gratuita.

http://www.diariodecadiz.es/article/efemerides/762532/la/playa/camposoto/se/prepara/para/una/larga/noche/reggae.html

How the Normans changed English

For those who are interested in some of the history of the English language:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-10776581

Quiet Thoughts around the Football World Cup (after the euphoria)

• God bless English people for inventing football!!!
• Such a great party: every country showing proudly their own way of doing things, their different approaches to the game itself, to the way fans lively behave...but sharing it together.
• Africa. Surprising, brilliant. African players getting off the buses and entering the ground, amazing! The farewell ceremony, a colourful joy to behold.
• In the good days of prosperity many people don’t understand what can be considered a huge squandering. In these hard days it is good to see that there is a strong industry working and making money and creating jobs around the world, and specially helping us to forget a bit all the dark thoughts around the crisis.
• I hope it will be considered once and for all outdated the statement “women don’t like football”
• Spain proved something hard to believe in a world of great “Egos” (Proffesional football): trusting your mates and working as a team makes much more than the plain addition of individuals. It is easy for children or for less talented players, eh? But it is astonishing if you consider the names involved and their quality: Cesc in the bench, the goalkeepers...
• As for the goalkeepers: Pepe Reina running along the sideline to embrace Casillas when he saved the penalty to Paraguay. It was moving: his only chance to play would have been an injury or a bad performance from Casillas; but he prefers to back and cheers him up, standing by him against the attack some papers were making on him. Touching.
• Vicente del Bosque was not ellegant enough for the new project Florentino was launching for Real Madrid, and was sent off after winning the national league and the Champions League. Florentino still thinks ellegance can be shown in the way men wear suits, whoever with eyes on their face can compare del Bosque’s savoir-faire and good manners with some other managers that Florentino has contracted...Specially because of their ellegant behaviour, beyond any doubt...
• For the next time, if they only could solve the matches a bit earlier and with some more goals, for goodness sake! Too much suffering for me...
• Seedling for the future... http://barbadasbase.blogspot.com/2010/01/el-alevin-femenino-del-atletico-de.html
• Such a great month we lived...How hard getting back to normal, let’s go to South Africa again... Great being champions in Nelson Mandela’s country and presence...Great, Great!!!