ANSON: Una vida al descubierto

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Category:	Books
Genre:	Biographies & Memoirs
Author:	Alberto Lardiés Galarreta & Daniel Forcada

El 8 de febrero de 2010 Luis María Anson cumplió 75 años. Y a pesar de que siempre ha sido reacio a escribir sus memorias, durante la escritura de este libro se ha dejado entrevistar para revelar su visión y una serie de anécdotas sobre la profesión del periodismo, la política y en definitiva, de la historia de España de los últimos 50 años. Algo de lo que se cuenta es inédito, como una visita de Neruda.
Es esta la historia del editorialista más joven de ABC, donde estuvo catorce años; de sus viajes como corresponsal de guerra; de su lucha contra la censura («Anson es el mayor enemigo del Régimen», Franco dixit); de su época al frente de la agencia EFE; de su firme compromiso con la Monarquía, con Don Juan y el resto de la Familia Real; de cómo tumbó al felipismo, de la génesis de La Razón, de sus relaciones con el poder y con los colegas; de la Real Academia al Premio Príncipe de Asturias y de su visión sobre el futuro del país y de la comunicación.



ISBN:
9788497349307
EAN:
9788497349307
Fecha:
17/3/2010
Colección:
Biografías y Memorias
Páginas:
554



Fuente // Source // Quelle:
www.laesferalibros.com
http://esferalibros.com/libros/librodetalle.html?libroISBN=9788497349307

NUTRITION LABELS GIVE BRUSSELS INDIGESTION // Financial Times

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Category:	Other

At a recent lunch debate in Brussels, the question of the day for assembled pundits was this: How many servings does a bag of biscuits contain?

That question lies at the heart of one of the fiercest debates in Brussels these days – over the creation of a new Europe-wide system of nutrition labels for food. A proposal to reshape the system for the first time in more than a decade faces a key vote in the European parliament on Tuesday.

The debate may not carry the weight of the Greek debt crisis, which could re-shape the European Union. Nor does it have the urgency of the Copenhagen climate talks.
  But nutrition labels would represent one of the most visible and enduring consumer measures by a bureaucracy generally dismissed by its subjects as remote and unintelligible. The fight is also a reminder of Brussels’ complicated love of labels. In the last year, the EU has considered new labels for energy efficiency, tyres, and organic produce. New labels to denote heritage sites are in the works.

To politicians, labelling schemes offer a simple response to the regulatory challenges of an increasingly confusing and uncertain world. Yet they tend to carry unintended consequences that make their implementation agonising.

The recent overhaul of energy efficiency labels is a case in point. It was held up for months amid fights over such questions as what shade of green to use on a colour spectrum, and whether to keep the existing “A to G” efficiency scale or broaden it with new “A+”, “A++”, and “A+++” designations. Companies such as Siemens demanded the pluses so that the next generation of appliances would not relegate today’s refrigerators and toasters to “B” or even “C” status. They hired lobbyists and public relations firms to make their case.

Yet the passions unleashed by energy efficiency pale in comparison to the battle over nutrition labels, which were drafted with the salutary goal of giving Europe’s increasingly obese and diabetes-afflicted consumers a quick and easy way to understand what they are eating.

They have since descended into a wrestling match between industry, politicians and consumer groups about the proper font size and location on a package, what information labels should include, and how far they should go in terms of interpreting nutritional information.

“It’s become a free-for-all,” said one operative from the CIAA, a food industry trade group that includes such members as Coca-Cola and Nestlé. BEUC, a European consumer organisation, has called for colour-coded icons – red, amber and green – on the front of each package to inform consumers how much fat, saturated fat, sugar and salt it contains per 100g.

Predictably, most food companies, who would rather greet shoppers with an appealing logo than a health warning, want to relegate all but the number of calories per serving to the fine print on the back of the package. The mere mention of so-called traffic lights gives them indigestion.

“Are you going to put a red light on panettone in the Christmas season?” expostulated one Italian food executive, touching on the inherent sensitivity of developing a system for a 27-nation bloc with diverse eating cultures.

Yet the essential question in the debate is what constitutes a serving? While it may be easy to determine with a can of soda or a ready-made meal, it is less obvious for, say, a packet of biscuits. Depending on how it is measured, of course, a portion makes all the difference between a responsible snack and a red light. “It certainly should be possible by one means or another to come up with an agreed portion size,” Geoff Thompson, a Danone executive, said recently.

But industry has squandered its credibility after tricks such as presenting a 100g chocolate bar as two portions and not one. Nor is science much help. Barbara Livingstone, a professor at the University of Ulster argues that portion size is in flux, and even changes depending on the “context” in which consumers eat – at home, for example, as against a restaurant.

“I think we’re only beginning to appreciate that consumers’ behaviour in relation to portion size is very complex,” she says, raising the question of whether Brussels’ labellers had again bitten off more than they could chew 

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Written by JOSHUA CHAFFIN in Brussels
Published: March 15 2010 19:03 | Last updated: March 15 2010 19:03
Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2010 at:
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a0b3f988-3063-11df-bc4a-00144feabdc0.html?ftcamp=rss&nclick_check=1


Picture: It is a paint from Lee Woods ( from Cornwall, U.K.) and it's called
"Science and Progress in the Auvergne" © by Lee Woods

Tell President Jintao and China: Free Tibetan Filmmaker Dhondup Wangchen- The Petition at Care 2 in USA and Amnesty International in Germany.

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http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/336219057


"Little over two years ago, plainspoken businessman Dhondup Wangchen bought a small camera and began interviewing monks and yak herders for his documentary film Leaving Fear Behind. He bravely gave a voice to Tibetans living under China's rule. Sadly, after finishing the film, he was arrested and his own voice was silenced.

As a prisoner of the Chinese government, Wangchen:

* endured torture to extract a confession.
* contracted hepatitis B and is denied adequate treatment.
* had the lawyer he chose replaced with a government-appointed one--violating his right to choose his own counsel and denying him access to independent legal assistance.

Wangchen's arrest and sentence of 6 years in prison prove that the Chinese government will not allow Tibetans any expression that opposes Chinese rule. Tell the Chinese government to release Dhondup Wangchen and to uphold the right to freedom of expression and the right to a fair trial in future cases."


I have just signed. May be it will help to liberate him, may be not... but if we do not try the answer is going to be NO again and again.

Amnesty International in Germany writes this:

"Bitte schreiben Sie höflich formulierte Briefe an die Justizministerin und fordern Sie sie auf, Dhondup Wangchen umgehend und bedingungslos freizulassen. Dringen Sie darauf, dass eine gründliche und unparteiische Untersuchung der von Dhondup Wangchen erhobenen Foltervorwürfe durchgeführt wird und die Verantwortlichen vor Gericht gestellt werden.
Schreiben Sie in gutem Chinesisch, Englisch oder auf Deutsch an:

Minister of Justice Wu Aiying Buzhang Sifabu
10 Chaoyangmen Nandajie
Chaoyangqu
Beijingshi 100020
VOLKSREPUBLIK CHINA
(korrekte Anrede: Your Excellency)

Standardbrief Luftpost bis 20 g: € 1,70
Senden Sie bitte eine Kopie ihres Schreibens an:

Botschaft der Volksrepublik China
S.E. Herrn Wu Hongbo
Märkisches Ufer 54
10179 Berlin
Fax: 030-27588221
E-Mail: chinesischeBotschaft@debitel.net
chinaemb_de@mfa.gov.cn
de@mofcom.gov.cn


Sources:
Foto von Amnesty International in Germany, site:
http://www.amnesty.de/briefe-gegen-das-vergessen/2010/3/dhondup-wangchen?destination=suche%3Fwords-advanced%3Ddhondup%2Bwangchen%26search_x%3D0%26search_y%3D0%26search%3DSuchen%26country%3D%26topic%3D%26node_type%3D%26from_month%3D0%26from_year%3D%26to_month%3D0%26to_year%3D%26form_id%3Dai_search_form

This link is long, I know: it was the only one it works properly as I have tried to go into the site after writing this Review (no idea why!).

You can find there the complete information about this issue but in Amnesty International here as well:

http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/ASA17/011/2009/en/82100598-017f-4023-8acb-204cc0281def/asa170112009en.html

Book: „The Soros Lectures at the Central European University" by George Soros

SOROS WOULD MAKE IT HARDER FOR PEOPLE LIKE HIM TO MAKE BILLIONS

By Mark Memmott

The man who famously "broke the Bank of England" in the early '90s by playing within the regulatory system of the time to make $1 billion as the pound sterling crumbled, continues to make the case for better regulations that would make it much harder for people like him to make so much money.

Billionaire George Soros has been advocating for, as he wrote recently at TheMotleyFool, regulations that are "international in scope."

In a conversation earlier today with Morning Edition co-host Steve Inskeep, readily admitted that "it would have denied me some opportunities for making money" if rules and regulations had been tighter over the years.
Soros has just published a new book, The Soros Lectures, which spells out his thinking on "finance, capitalism and open society." 

This video offers a taste of what those lectures were like: http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid1125995047?bctid=49755285001

Sources: 

1.  http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2010/03/soros_would_make_it_harder_for.html

2. http://www.georgesoros.com/books/detail/the_soros_lectures_at_the_central_european_university/

here you can load the second lecture as well  which is named  "Financial Markets". This book  is published in 2010.

Buddhist Sculptures

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HAITI: Stand with the people

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Yesterday an earthquake struck Haiti. Over 3 million people are appealing for help. The raised funds will be 100% go into earthquake relief and rebuilding programs as it is the most direct way to help to the people on the front line. They are the ones who need help as soon as possible.

AVAAZ.org organices the donations at:
https://secure.avaaz.org/en/stand_with_haiti/98.php?CLICK_TF_TRACK

If this link does not work you can go to this one as well:
https://secure.avaaz.org/en/stand_with_haiti/?cl=445678297&v=5241

Women In Business Are Not „Lipstick Entrepreneurs" by Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux

"Lipstick entrepreneur", "Domestecutive", "Femterprise",
"Fempreneur". 




Oh, how I wish that the Times Online were using any of these cutesy non-phrases in an ironic way - but no, they are sadly earnest in using them to convince their readers that we are entering a "decade for the women."

There has been a lot of discussion about what the Times Online calls the "mancession" (thankfully, I don't think that's actually a phrase) - so named because 78 percent of the jobs lost during the recession belonged to men.  This led to close-to-equal numbers of men and women in the workforce, not necessarily because hiring practices are becoming more equitable, but quite the contrary.  Because of sexism and gender inequalities, women are easily employed at lower wages, so they are desirable during times of economic unrest.

This memo was apparently not passed on to the Times. They note that "the past 12 months have seen a significant growth in the number of women starting their own businesses and entering the workforce" - but in the rest of the article, their failure to unpack the reasons behind these new trends is really abysmal.  So I'm going to respond to a few points from the article, in an attempt to see what the new decade really holds in store for women in business.

Apparently, at an Avon-commissioned discussion about "lipstick entrepreneurs" (what a fantastic coincidence, that this new term would refer directly to one of Avon's products - corporations are so subtle!), there was "breathless talk of female boards and millionaires, of a rise in househusbands and of the end of the pay gap and the glass ceiling."  An end of the glass ceiling - because of "lipstick entrepreneurs"?  The whole problem with these new names for female executives and businesswomen is that people feel the need to create separate names for women at all.  What proves more acutely that our image of an "executive" (supposedly not a gendered term) is male than the need to create a female-only version, especially something like "domestecutive," which first of all makes very little sense, since female executives are presumably doing the same work as their male counterparts (there's yet another problem if they're not) and reinforces the notion that women's roles are inherently "domestic."

The Times then goes on to point out that "this new class of “fempreneur” makes her work fit around her life — by being her own boss, she can choose her own (family-friendly) hours, preferred work/life balance and office location."  So it doesn't matter that there is inadequate childcare or job security, or that women are still stuck with the bulk of child-rearing responsibilities and domestic work, because now they can just do it all, from home!  No need to start subsidizing daycare - these "fempreneurs" have figured it out for us.

If possible, it gets worse.  The article then delves into the dangerous world of "feminine" and "masculine" leadership styles, claiming that we're so jaded by "greedy male bankers" that corporate life is beginning to "value the feminine skills of intuition, communication and caring."  This reminded me immediately of a NYT  article from last August, discussing whether women make better bosses.  The answer: there are very few jobs where one's genitalia matters, so why are we talking about leadership styles in terms of gender at all?  "Intuition, communication and caring" are not inherently male or female traits, just as there can be "greedy" female bankers as well.

There is one true statistic: that research by the Women's Leadership Fund has shown that "companies with a balance of men and women in senior jobs outperform those with men at the helm."  But we're not going to approach parity in this arena by using cutesy, inaccurate names to prove that women can enter business too - especially since in the U.S. and Britain, we're shockingly far from any kind of gender balance.  The little testimonials from female entrepreneurs that close the article are nice, I suppose, but they inevitably say very little about what it's like to be a woman in business today, while the article speaks volumes.  We're not going to have a "femterprise revolution" until we stop using words like "domestecutive," for sure.

By:Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux

Source in Care2: 

http://www.care2.com/causes/womens-rights/blog/women-in-business-are-not-lipstick-entrepreneurs/

FELIZ NOCHEVIEJA // Sorry, only in Spanish this time :-)

EMPEZAMOS EL AÑO MUY BIEN 

¡Dentro de nada... Nochevieja, ¿eh? ¡Qué estrés! Yo en nochevieja me siento... me siento... no sé, me siento como un elefante en una cristaleria, ¿no? Cuando llega la fiesta miro alrededor y me da la  sensación de que todo el mundo se lo está pasando bien, menos yo. 

El estrés comienza con la cena. Aquello parece una prueba del Gran Prix: Tienes que llevar calzoncillos rojos, tener algo de oro para meterlo en la copa, preparar las doce uvas... y contarlas varias veces, porque, como son todas iguales, te equivocas: 

- Una, dos, tres, cuatro... una, dos, tres, cuatro, cinco, seis... Esta pocha ya la he  contado... Una, dos... siete, ocho... ¡Joder, las doce menos veinte! ¡Chavalín, trae el  rotulador que las voy a numerar, como en el Bingo! 

Y tu madre:  

- ¿Queréis venir, que se enfrían las gambas? 

Que esa es otra: te tienes que comer todo lo que está en la mesa... y antes de las doce... que, con las prisas, más que pelar gambas, parece que estás desactivando una bomba. 

- ¡Ostras Pedrin, las doce menos diez! ¡Mamá, no me da tiempo:hazme un sándwich con el cochinillo, que ya está terminando Cruz y Raya! 

Y no eres el único que está agobiado, ¿eh? No hay más que ver la tele.

Allí están los presentadores de turno explicando a toda España como funciona un  reloj... acojonados... por si  se equivocan: 

- Cuando la aguja pequeña esté en las doce y la grande también.. serán las doce. 

¡Pues... como todas las noches, ¿no?! 

- Y entonces bajará la bola y... luego vienen los cuartos, ¡no vayan a empezar a comerse  las uvas, ¿eh? 

Vamos a ver: ¿por qué nos explican mil veces que no comamos las uvas  en los cuartos y  nadie nos explica por qué coño tiene que bajar una bola? ¿Qué clase de reloj es ése? 

Cuando por fin llegan las doce, en toda España se oye lo mismo:

Cla, cla, cla, cla... << es la bola >>... cla, cla, cla... Din-don... 

- ¡Ah no, que son los cuartos! 

Din-don... 

- ¡Escupid que son los cuartos!
 Din-don...  

- Pfbbbbbbbb... ¿qué son qué?
 

Din-don...  

- Los cuartos...

Ton...  

- ¡Ahora, ahora! 

 Ton... 

- ¡Una!  

- ¡Que no, que vamos por la segunda! 

Ton...
 - Pues me meto dos... 

 Ton...  

- Seis... 

- ¿Cómo que seis?  

Ton... 

- A mí ya no me caben más, ¿eh? 

Ton.. 

 -¡Eh!, ¡deja mis uvas y comete las tuyas! 

Ton...
 - ¡Es que se me ha caído una al suelo!  

Ton...  

- Bgrfds...  

Ton...  

- Bggggdffffff...

Ton... 

- A mí ya no me quedan...
Ton...  

- Bgggggdffffff....  

- ¡Pues a mí mesobran cuatro! 

Ton... 

- Bfgggggggg, grounfffffff... 

Y cuando acaban, toda la familia con la boca llena de babas, a darse besos: 

- Feliz año, eeeeeeeeeh, felicidades, grfdddfd... 

Y suena el teléfono: ¡riiiiiiiiiing! 

- ¡Pero leñe! ¿Ya están llamando? ¿No se pueden esperar? 

- Pues a mí todavía me sobran dos... 

- ¡Champán, que alguien abra el Champán!

Pero, bueno, ¿a vosotros os parece lógico empezar el año así? 

¡Qué estrés, de verdad!

Pero como es Nochevieja... tienes la obligación de divertirte. Así quedespués te vasa un fiestorro a un sitio en el que, si caben mil personas, el dueño ha decidido meter a cinco mil doscientas. ¡Muy bien! ¡Cuatro mil doscientas más de las que caben! ¡Quédate en la calle si te apetece, con la pelona que está cayendo!  

Así que entras.

Lo bueno que tiene ir a un sitio así es que te puede pasar cualquier cosa. 

A mí el año pasado me ocurrió de todo. Yo estaba tan tranquilo,tomándome mi cubatita de garrafón, cuando de repente un tío me cogió por detrás y me dijo: 

- ¡¡¡¡COOOOOOOOONGAAAAA!!!!!

Y, claro, qué vas a hacer, pues te pones a bailar... ¡Eso te lo hace un tío en el autobús y le partes la cara! ¡Pero como es Nochevieja... ! ¡Pues hala! Y de repente te das la vuelta y llevas cien personas enganchadas a tu culo. ¡A ver como escapas de ésta! 

Porque en una conga: entrar es muy fácil pero salir... ¿a ver quien se atreve y puede? porque en el garito hay como doce congas girando a toda pastilla... 

Bueno, pues iba yo conduciendo mi conga... por mi derecha, cuando, de pronto, me veo venir en dirección contraria una conga suicida alucinante conducida por un gordo con casco de vikingo. Yo le iba a hacer ráfagas, pero como las congas no llevan ni luces ni nada... pues, para evitar la colisión, di un giro brusco a la derecha... ¡Y me tragué entera una columna de espejitos! ¡Siniestro total! 

Doce heridos leves y una columna de espejitos destrozada. Y yo, con una ceja abierta tirado en el suelo. 

Y en ésas, me desmayé. 

Al despertar estaba en la sala de urgencias, rodeado por todos los de mi conga. Algunos todavía no se habían desenganchado; habían venido corriendo detrás  de la ambulancia. 

Bueno, las urgencias en Nochevieja, hay que vivirlas. Si en la sala caben cincuenta personas, el dueño ha metido a ciento cincuenta... Como el de la discoteca. Y como allí también es Nochevieja, el camillero lleva un gorrito de moro, la enfermera un collar de hawaiana y el que te cose la ceja unos dientes de Drácula, ¡que te da una confianzaaaa... ! El tío te dice: 

- ¿Qué ha sido?¿Con una moto? 

 - No, con una conga. 

 - ¡Ay!, si es que van como locos con las congas... 

 Cuando salí de allí me quería ir a mi casa, pero como era Nochevieja, acabé a las ocho de la mañana con la ceja grapada en un bar... 

 - Oiga, póngame un chocolate con churros. 

 - Pues sólo nos queda Nesquick y algunos dónuses... Es que los últimos churros se los han tomado los de una conga, ¡traían un cachondeo...! Había un gordo que llevaba un casco de vikingo... ¡No le digo más! Y es lo que yo le digo a los clientes: si no disfrutas en Nochevieja, ¿Cuándo vas a disfrutar? 

 Asi que espero que vosotros disfruteis de la nochevieja.

FELIZ AÑO 2010... Y QUE SE CUMPLAN TODOS VUESTROS DESEOS.

El autor de este divertidísimo texto no lo conozco ya que me llegó por e-mail... 

La foto que lo ilustra me la envió alguien muy querido... también por e-mail, así que tampoco sé de quién es.