Here's another delicious recipe by Clara Leis. This time it's polvorones or almond cakes, traditional Christmas cookies from Spain that you can enjoy year round.
Wednesday 30 November 2011
Recipe for traditional almond cakes (polvorones)
Here's another delicious recipe by Clara Leis. This time it's polvorones or almond cakes, traditional Christmas cookies from Spain that you can enjoy year round.
Tuesday 29 November 2011
Monday 28 November 2011
Galicia segue sendo unica--Galicia is still unique
Sit back and enjoy the Galician images, words and music!
Listen.
Butterfly.
What do you see?
Manor house.
What do you see?
And streets?
Time.
Galicia.
Do you feel it?
So much left for us to tell.
So much left for you to live.
Galicia.
It remains unique.
Sunday 27 November 2011
Sea of Caión: Short documentary films about Caión
I
recently discovered some very interesting videos (in Spanish), which offer lots of historical and
current information about the village of Caión and its people.
Saturday 26 November 2011
Opinions from outer-Eurozone
Sunday 20 November 2011
Thursday 17 November 2011
Selling Property Amidst the Turmoil
In the aftermath of last week’s apocalyptic announcements that
Europeans are about to live through the end of their relatively
short-lived Union, and in the midst of Spain’s upcoming general
elections, the rightist candidate assures that the real estate bubble burst is a fiction created by the socialist party now in government.Whether the bubble really burst or not, the truth is that there are too many empty apartments and houses sitting in the shop windows. The strong right wing candidate, who all the polls predict will be the next President, promises to reinstate tax benefits for those citizens willing to purchase a home. Newly arrived mayors (elections were in May) state that construction will reactivate the slumping economy. But consumers, alarmed by recent events, are not willing to take any investment risks.
In the meantime buyers—investors with plenty of equity—are looking for a good bargain. Sellers, however, won't give their property away at a cheap price, and so the real estate market is at a standstill and no one can say what direction it will follow. Selling property is a short-term goal that in Spain has necessarily become a medium or even long-term one.
Study: Women's Literacy in India Falling Further Behind
More than two-thirds of the world's 793 million illiterate adults
(two-thirds of them women) are found in only eight countries and India
is one of them. If the second most populated nation on Earth is to
assume its role as a world economic leader, before becoming digitally or
financially literate it must eradicate adult illiteracy.
In today’s information society, education is the driving force behind a
strong economic and social development. Unfortunately, according to
results of the Program for International Student Assessment
(PISA) conducted by the OECD, the largest emerging markets in the
world—the BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China)—may be losing
educational ground against the so-called FICS (Finland, Ireland, South Korea and Sweden).
In today’s information society, education is the driving force behind a
strong economic and social development. Unfortunately, according to
results of the Program for International Student Assessment
(PISA) conducted by the OECD, the largest emerging markets in the
world—the BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China)—may be losing
educational ground against the so-called FICS (Finland, Ireland, South Korea and Sweden).
Things look greener on the China side of the fence. The Asian giant is said to be “winning the school race”, coming in first in recent PISA studies. India, by contrast, is leading the BRICs in digital exclusion,
partly due to adult illiteracy. Most Indians cannot afford or access
ICTs and lack the education to use them effectively. While European
economies, hard hit by the global crisis, are working to raise their
citizens’ financial and digital literacy, this high-growth economy is faced with another challenge.
Statistics show that illiteracy and poor economies go hand in hand. The
state of Bihar—India’s poorest—has the lowest women’s literacy rate in
the nation. Values are lower in rural areas than in urban ones. In Jammu
& Kashmir, a largely agricultural state, only 41.82% of its women
are literate.
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