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20-24/05/2013
The photographer who faces death with his lens
After
photographing the world's most famous faces, from Kate Moss to Madonna and from
Tony Blair to Queen Elizabeth II of England, the Scots John Rankin Waddell,
known simply as Rankin, has focused his lens to people with terminal illnesses.
When Sandra
Barber was diagnosed with a brain tumor, she wanted to wear a mask of war paint
on his face every time I went to a chemotherapy session. Going to treatment was
like going to a battle.
Two days
later, Barber, who had battled breast cancer, was presented to Rankin.
The
photographer has photographed celebrities and models for 20 years, but he deal
with the death of his parents was mulling over a project on mortality.
Barber told
him about his idea of face painting. "He said, 'Fabulous, fabulous, I
shoot you, do it next week,'" he recalls.
For the
meeting, plus the paint around her eyes, she wore a collar impresionente black
and red plumage show her as a warrior princess tidy.
Argentina, a magnet for college students
It does not
take a college student to perceive the phenomenon in recent years Argentina has
become a magnet for young people, especially American, arriving in the country
to study.
Between
2006 and 2013 more than doubled the presence of foreign students in the
country, which can be seen beyond the classroom: enough to walk the streets,
restaurants and bars in cities such as Buenos Aires, Cordoba and Rosario, which
concentrate most universities.
According
to the Secretariat of University Policies of the Ministry of Education of
Argentina the country has more than 50,000 foreign students in undergraduate
and postgraduate studying thousands of others, although the exact figures have
not yet been published.
These
numbers suggest that Argentina is now the Latin American country with the
highest number of international students.
This is an
assumption and not a reliable data because it is impossible to confirm: a
representative of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization (Unesco) told BBC News that in most countries region no official
statistics on the number of foreign students.
However,
Unesco does have a fact that reveals the magnitude of the Argentine phenomenon:
the latest figures from Cuba, the Latin American country that historically had
greater presence of foreign students, show that in 2011 there were 27,309
foreign students, a figure much lower than the South American country.
Chivas USA sued for racial discrimination
against "non-Mexican"
Two
football coaches team sued the U.S. professional league Chivas USA for
discrimination, claiming they were fired for not having Latino.
Chronopoulos
Theothoros Daniel Calichman and raised the lawsuit Tuesday in Superior Court in
Los Angeles, California.
Coaches
from the lower divisions of the MLS team (Senior League Football) ensured that
the team owner Jorge Vergara Mexican, has a draft "Mexicanisation"
team, so they were victims of harassment and retaliation by ethnicity and race.
Vergara
also owns club Chivas de Guadalajara, the only Mexican league club has never
aligned to a player who is not Mexican.
Coaches
claimed that in a meeting last November, Vergara said employees who do not
speak Spanish would be fired.
After
making a complaint of discrimination in the Department of Employment of Chivas
USA, were suspended and later fired. Both call for compensation.
Chivas USA
has not commented on the matter.
Myth crumbles Argentine barbecue
They are
reputed to dance tango like the gods, to play football better than anyone and,
above all, to make one of the best barbecue in the world.
However, in
demonstrating their talents on the grill during the 12th edition of the World
held recently Roast in Saidia, in northern Morocco, the Argentines did not
conquer the palate of the jury.
After three
days of tough competition in which they had to prepare five courses, one meat,
two of lamb, a chicken and a dessert-the Argentine team failed to place in the
top positions.
The award
went to Denmark and the second and third place went to Germany and the
Principality of Liechtenstein, respectively.
The jury of
chefs, food critics and journalists, evaluated the ability of 80 teams from 42
countries-note-taking "how cooked the meat, the degree of cooking, the
flavor of the dishes, presentation, hygiene in the preparation and broilers
wardrobe, "he told BBC Ivo Van den Bosch, president of the World
Association of Asado, who helped coordinate the event hosted by the
organization.
Although
each team brought their own cooking implements-the Argentines traveled discs
loaded with plow, 15 crosses for grills and other paraphernalia-not allowed to
compete with their own flesh, which was provided by the organizers of the event
for all to compete on equal footing.
And this,
perhaps, is one reason why Argentina could not take the trophy.
R. UK accused of discriminating against
European immigrants
The
European Commission will take the British government to court for alleged
discrimination after learning that authorities there refused to pay social
benefits to some immigrants in the European Union.
The
commission, which verifies that the EU member countries comply with the laws of
the block, said additional tests UK makes them immigrants from the EU to see if
they are true or not benefits are unfair.
According
to a government spokesman, the test is "a vital tool and just" to
ensure that these benefits are only paid to people who can live and work in the
UK legally.
The
benefits affected are the economic benefits received by families with children
and the subsidy for the unemployed.
Moreover,
the European Commission initiated infringement proceedings against Spain for
not accepting public hospitals in some European health insurance card and
community force patients to pay for treatments that are free for Spanish.
This card
gives European visitors free access to public health services.
