What the watch says, is it gospel? To what extent should we take into account the measurements of health parameters that a smartwatch can provide? There are people capable of altering their habits and behaviors simply to meet the goals set by the wrist device, as they consider that skipping them implies harm to their health.
At 13:49 yesterday, May 14, the trial against the Pujol family and nine businessmen who allegedly paid them commissions in exchange for public works was submitted for judgment. 38 oral hearing sessions, in which more than 200 witnesses and experts have appeared. The trial closes 3,685 days after the visit of Victoria Álvarez, Jordi Pujol Ferrusola’s ex-lover, to the Canillas police complex, accompanied by the “patriotic police,” in which she explains that she saw with her own eyes how Pujol Ferrusola carried bags of cash to Andorra. It is December 13, 2012. The police investigation that started then, which was halted until El Mundo published seventeen months later information about the Pujol accounts in Banca Privada d’Andorra (BPA) allegedly obtained by the Spanish police, ended with the entire family charged, as well as ten businessmen; since the hearing began last November, one of them, Carles Vilarrubí, has died, and former president Pujol was exonerated for health reasons. The rest await sentencing, possibly at the end of July, according to legal sources. All the accused plead not guilty. About 200 hours of oral hearing have not cleared up many of the case’s doubts.
Every poem is an act of hope on the part of the poet, and so proclaimed Margaret Atwood, much more than the author of The Handmaid’s Tale. The 86-year-old Canadian writer received this Wednesday, from the hands of the King, the Joan Margarit poetry prize, in an event held at Victoria College of the University of Toronto, through whose campus a king and a poet were seen walking.
Judge Juan Carlos Peinado has dismissed the appeals filed by Begoña Gómez, her advisor in Moncloa Cristina Álvarez, and businessman Juan Carlos Barrabés against his decision to refer the case to a jury if it ultimately goes to trial, while also once again rejecting the dismissal of the investigation for the crimes of influence peddling, corruption in private sector business, embezzlement, and misappropriation of public funds in relation to the chair held by the wife of the Prime Minister at the Complutense University of Madrid.
To the complexity of the investigation into the death of businessman Isak Andic, a new element was added this Wednesday. The judge of Martorell Raquel Nieto has asked the Mossos d’Esquadra to investigate “the existence of a third person who directly or indirectly participated in the events.” And that third person is J.L., an Ecuadorian therapist who resides in Germany and periodically travels to Barcelona to consult with several families in the city, including, for many years, practically all members of the Andic family, from the deceased, through his children and their mother.
Roya* speaks softly, in impeccable English that she says she learned by listening to American pop music, something she would never admit in front of her mother. The video call on Instagram cuts out for a moment. The sisters need a VPN, a virtual private network, to access social networks, as local operators restrict traffic from applications like Instagram and Facebook. The image returns. From a tidy room in Kabul province, the 23-year-old recalls what she calls “the worst day of my life.”
The President of the United States, Donald Trump, reiterated this Saturday that he believes the war with Iran will end after the midterm elections, which the United States will hold next November 3 and in which the Republican candidates will compete for the conservative majorities in the House of Representatives and the Senate.
It has long been that our great fear is not death, but being replaced. Medicine, prevention, causality have made dying almost depend on us and our rulers. If we stumble on the street and crack our skull, we look for and find…
In the old Tarzan movies, there were always greedy, white villains with rifles who wanted to hunt elephants or get their hands on some precious diamonds. To achieve this, it was essential for them to establish relationships with the local people. These were aborigines with…
For some time now, the police, including the Mossos d’Esquadra, have been deciphering, analyzing, and interpreting all the data that can be extracted from an incident. This is what is called “police intelligence,” which is recorded in reports prepared by analysts and helps to understand objectively what is happening. This information is taken very much into account in decision-making or in the design of prevention policies. Every firearm incident is dissected, literally. And some data from that analysis show the real proportions of a problem that concerns the population and security officials. In Catalonia, an average of two shootings occur per week.
