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KONSULATSSPRECHTAGE AUF LANZAROTE
Die nächsten Konsulatssprechtage finden am 16. + 17. November 2010 im Hotel Los Jameos Playa in Puerto del Carmen von 9.00 h bis 12.00 h statt.
Quotation of the week
Sun shines for the just and the unjust, but also hail affects both. (Adolf Pichler)Lanzarote News
Great success by Kevin Cabrera on the European Laser 4.7 Regatta
The championship of the Laser 4.7 Regatta finished on 31st July in Hourtin, France
The young lanzarote sailor, Kevin Cabrera, who represented the Marina Rubicón, was fighting hard against 260 competitors during four days, in order to get classified in the "Gold Class". Only the 58 best get into the final. Kevin could occupy twice the first place.
Despite the high level of participants and the climatic conditions at the Hourtin Sea the young sailor finished onh position 12 of the overall result, being the second best Spanish and best Canarian. (09.08.10/aar)
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New British Consulat Office opened at Marina Rubicón in Playa Blanca
On the 22nd June 2010 a new office for the British Consulate was opened by Matthew Vickers, the British Consul of the Canary Islands, Mrs. Esther Martín Viceconsul for the province of Las Palmas, Mr. Fabián Martín Vicepresident of the Lanzarote Government, Mr. Ángel Domínguez Lordmayor of Yaiza, Mrs. Sue Thain Honorary consul of Lanzarote and the Director of Marina Rubicón Mr. Rafael Lasso Lorenzo.
From July 2010 on this office will attend British citizen once a month. Dates and times are provided on the British Consult's website and in local newspapers, but also at the Marina Rubicón Administration office.(30/06/2010-aar)
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José de Sousa Saramago passed away
“Who reads the Bible, looses the faith”
From a Locksmith to a Nobel prize winner
To the question why is he seeing the world so pessimistic, José Saramago answered that he is too well informed to be an optimist. On the other hand he was convinced, that human beings need a vision so that they don’t consider the course of time to be unalterable.
Saramago was born on 16th November 1922, as the son of a farmer – family in Azinhaga. Azinhaga is situated in the central district of Ribatejo, approxmately 120 km northeast from Lisbon. When he was two years old, his family moved to the Portuguese capital. Due to lack of money he had to stop the High School. He changed over to the technical college, where he finished his apprenticeship as a locksmith. He started to write poems, became a journalist and in 1969 he joined the forbidden communist party.
In his books he mainly was concerned about the poor people’s destiny. Like this, with his literature he became the lawyer of a whole class. In 1947 he published his first novel Tierra de pecado*. Only in 1966 his second work followed Poemas posibles*, which was reprinted in 2006. Saramago had to become 60 years old before his novel Baltasar and Blimunda 1982 brought him worldwide fame. His most convincing novel is Blindness. It is about the will power of minority for which one is not always oneself responsible, a central subject of Saramago. His most controversial novel is The Gospel According to Jesus Christ, published in 1991 and cause for scandal in his native country Portugal, but especially at the Vatican, as it was considered blasphemous. After a culturally-politically argument with the Portugese Government, the confessed atheist and communist left his home country and moved with his third wife, the journalist Pilar del Río, to Lanzarote. In the past years he published remarkable books Cuadernos de Lanzarote (2001)*, Das Zentrum (2002)*, a novel against the globalization and Kleine Erinnerungen (2009)*. Saramago remained until his death up to the mark of the times he lived. He was a member of the Attac movement, wrote in their central organ Le Monde Diplomatique and in his blog: www.josesaramago.org
In 1982 he received the Pen Club Portugal Prize for his novel Baltasar and Blimunda, and repeated this with his novel Year of the death of Ricardo Reis. He was Doctor Honoris Causa of not less than 14 universities (Manchester, Turin, Evora, Buenos Aires, Autónoma del Estado de México, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Sevilla, Castilla-La Mancha, Politécnica de Valencia, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Salamanca, Granada y Carlos III de Madrid). In 1998 he was awarded with the Nobel prize for Literature for his work.
The Portuguese author José Saramago passed away last Friday in the age of 87 years after a longer illness, in his townhouse in Tías.
His last work was Cain, which was published in 2009. It is his last settle up with the Christian faith and with those people who invented Cain: “Sometimes I say, who reads the Bible looses the faith. I call the Bible a manual of bad habits and the worse of human nature.”
*(Footnote from the editorial:) Unfortunately we don’t have the English translations of these titles.
(21/06/2010 – LoBo)
José de Sousa Saramago passed away
From a Locksmith to a Nobel prizewinner
The Portuguese author José Saramago passed away last Friday in the age of 87 years in his townhouse in Tías.
Saramago was born on 16th November 1922, as the son of a farmer – family in Azinhaga. Azinhaga is situated in the central district of Ribatejo, approxmately 120 km northeast from Lisbon. When he was two years old, his family moved to the Portuguese capital. Due to lack of money he had to to stop the High School. He changed over to the technical college, where he finished his apprenticeship as a locksmith. He started to write poems, became a journalist and in 1969 he joined the forbidden communist party.
In his books he mainly was concerned about the poor people. Like this, with his litaruture he became the lawyer of a whole class.
(21/06/2010 – LoBo)
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CATRIONA MORRISON Y ENEKO LLANOS WINNERS OF THE IRONMAN LANZAROTE 2010
The Tourism Councillor of the Canarian Government, Rita Martín, gave the starting signal for the 1,405 competitors of the triathlon. The Ironman is one of the nicest and also hardest competitions worldwide.
The Scot, Catriona Morrison was the leading lady of this competition. Although she suffered a flat tyre on her bike and lost 40 minutes, she reached the finnish after 10 hours, 3 minutes and 52 seconds as the first one. Second place was won by Louise Collins and third was Nicole Woysch.
Amongst the men the Spanish Eneko Llanos won the race after having had a hard competition at the marathon with the last year's winner Bert Jammaer who finished second. Third was the German Maik Twelsick. (25.5.10/LoBo)
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TOURISTISCHER MARKT IN ARRECIFE - MERCADO TURÍSTICO ARRECIFE 2020
Jeden Samstag von 9 bis 14 Uhr findet im Parque Temático von Arrecife ein Markt statt. Angeboten werden Artikel aus dem Kunsthandwerk und der Gastronomie. Zur Unterhaltung gibt es Traditionelle Musik. Freizeit- und Wasseraktivitäten werden angeboten. Der Markt wird gegenüber dem CABILDO in Arrecife, auf dem großen Platz am Biosfera aufgebaut. (25.5.10/aar)
