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• Andalusia to Open Tourist Office in Moscow

  
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  The Spanish Minister of Tourism and Commerce, Rafael Rodriguez, announced last week that Andalusia plans to open a permanent office in Moscow in order to promote it as a tourist destination in the Russian market. He pointed out that the strong promotional commitment this year is already beginning to deliver results, ...
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• UPC researchers have discovered a technique to produce cheaper and more flexible multiple thin crystalline silicon wafers

  
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  Related PostsCost-cutting solar innovation wins $150m US loan guaranteeMolybdenite outshines silicon and graphene for electronic applicationsLiquid metal makes silicon crystals at record low... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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• Rare photos of the marvellous new bridge over the Llobregat

  
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  Another triumph for the regional administration.
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• Mediterrrani 32 by Isern Associats

  
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  Barcelona-based studio Isern Associats completed the Meriterrani 32 project in 2012. This 2,045 square foot modern house is located in Sant Pol de Mar in Catalonia, Spain. Mediterrrani 32 by Isern Associats: “For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at every moment; but the ...
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• Homage to Orwell

  
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  At The Spiked Review of Book, Mick Hume has a nicely written encomium to George Orwell’s 1938 book Homage to Catalonia : Orwell’s brilliant firsthand account of the conflict stands apart from and well above the I-was-there school of emotive, narcissistic war reporting we witness too often today. He also ...
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• Is Catalan food the best in the world?

  
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  Fish on the menu at a Restaurant in Cadaques, Costa Brava, Spain Is Catalan food the best in the world? There are many reasons you should visit the Costa Brava . But ultimately there is only one. The best restaurant in the world. It seems that unless you are an internationally recognized food critic, ...
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• Postcard From Spain: Costa Brava Sunrise

  
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  This week’s postcard shows a sunrise in St. Pere Pescador, Costa Brava, Spain. The Tramontana had been blowing the whole night, and in Catalonia they say that sunrises are always the best after the winds have ceased. So I got
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• COMPANYIA ELÈCTRICA DHARMA – Força Dharma (deu anys de resistència) (PDI)

  
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  [IMG: http://blocdemusicacatalana.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/forc3a7a-dharma.jpg?w=593][IMG: http://blocdemusicacatalana.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/google-play-logo.png?w=593][IMG: http://blocdemusicacatalana.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/images.jpg?w=593]
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• How Tom Sharpe earned his seat at high table of campus fiction

  
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  After the news of Tom Sharpes death at the age of 85, Charles Nevin looks at the past, and future, of campus fiction Scabrous, savage, scatological, writer of high force and low farce, creator and inflator of wayward condoms and threatening sex dolls: Tom Sharpe was the master of situations that couldnt possibly ...
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• Tom Sharpe, British comic novelist, dies age 85

  
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  Author of Porterhouse Blue and Wilt novels dies at home in Catalonia from complications related to diabetes Tom Sharpe, whose savage pen and biting turns of phrase helped to earn him the title of the master of British farce, has died aged 85. Sharpe, author of Porterhouse Blue and the Wilt series of novels, passed ...
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• Tom Sharpe obituary

  
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  Comic novelist in the mould of Wodehouse and Waugh, he was best known for Wilt and Porterhouse Blue Tom Sharpe , who has died aged 85, was in the great tradition of English comic novelists and his bawdy style and vulgar approach were said to have made bad taste into an art form – like "PG Wodehouse on acid", in ...
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• Unemployment in Spain Down for Third Consecutive Month

  
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  Unemployment in Spain has dropped for the third consecutive month, falling by 98,265 people in May, and represents the largest decline for this month in the comparable series, according to data released earlier this week by the Ministry of Employment and Social Security. This decrease represents a drop of 1.97% ...
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• Patum in Berga – Catalonia on Fire in its Strangest ‘Festa’

  
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  Catalonias most spectacular Corpus Christi celebration takes place in Berga . It is not even known as Corpus longer but as La Patum – an onomatopoeic description of the sound of the drum which sets the pace for this event, so unique that it has been included on UNESCOs list of the immaterial heritage ...
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• Spain court rules against towns pot-growing plans

  
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  Spains judiciary has rejected a plan by a small town in northeastern Catalonia to ease its municipal debt and help lift itself out of the financial crisis by growing marijuana. When the seven-member town council of Rasquera — population 960 — voted in favor of cultivating cannabis just over a ...
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• Villa Indigo by Josep Camps and Olga Felip

  
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  Spanish studio Josep Camps and Olga Felip recently completed the Villa Indigo project for property developer PGA Catalunya Resort. This 1,958 square foot, single story modern residence is located in Caldes de Malavella, a municipality of the comarca of Selva in Catalonia, Spain. This home is distributed in a ground ...
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• Biennale d’arte. I volti della disoccupazione nella mostra della Catalogna

  
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  25%: Catalonia at Venice - Cantieri Navali (Castello 40). Una della mostre più coraggiose di questa Biennale. L’hanno realizzata l’artista visivo Francesc Torres e la cineasta Mercedes Álvarez, curata da Jordi Balló e promossa dall’Institut Ramon Llull come evento collaterale alla 55. Esposizione ...
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• Swedish Midsummer in Berga (Barcelona) and a Visit to the Sanctuary of Queralt

  
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  Among a few more or less Swedish families living around Barcelona, we have the tradition to, once every summer, rent a farmhouse (casa rural), to be able to celebrate a proper Swedish midsummer party. Most of the times, so far, we have stayed at Can Caubet , near Berga (Berguedà, Barcelona) since its big ...
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• .Cat Domain Statistics

  
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  I’ve always found visuals much easier to understand than tabular data, so the graphics that our friends over at .cat have released really appeal to me. They’ve broken down the usage of the .cat domain name extension and it makes for an interesting read   .Cat Domain Statistics is an article from ...
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• Mataerial 3D Printer Uses Anti-Gravity Object Modeling to Print on Any Surface

  
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  Watch out layer printers- here comes the Mataerial 3D printer . This is a huge improvement over traditional printers in that it no longer relies on horizontal layers, but can use a single extrusion to construct even vertical pieces straight from the wall. The Mataerial printer, developed by designers from the ...
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• Delta de lEbre - a Very Different Part of Catalonia

  
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  Since I have always associated rice fields with the four years we spent living in Thailand, before we went down to Delta de lEbre (Tarragona, Catalonia), I reminded myself that I must not miss to check out how they look in Europe. As if there were any risk we could have missed them - the Ebro delta is much bigger ...
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