Baranów Sandomierski, Bochnia, Nowe Brzesko, Nowy Korczyn, Nowy Wiśnicz, Dąbrowa Tarnowska, dziesiątki innych przystanków na mapie podkrakowskich peregrynacji od najmłodszych lat. To była moja, prywatna, choć nie całkiem konsekwentna geograficznie, Galicja; jakże bliska, ojczysta. Podziwiałem jej stare ryneczki, sypiące się podcienie domów, gotyckie i barokowe kościoły, Read more [...]
MADRID (AP) — The driver of a Spanish train that derailed, killing 79 people, ignored three warnings to reduce speed in the two minutes before the train hurtled off the tracks on a treacherous curve, crash investigators said Friday.A court statement said the driver was talking on the phone to a colleague when he received the first automatic warning in his cabin of a sharply reduced speed zone ahead. The statement said the warning was by means of an audible sound but provided no further Read more [...]
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Musician Cristina Pato was four years old when she began playing the Galician bagpipes, and five when she started playing the piano and entered the conservatory. “I have some sort of double life,” said Pato, a doctor of musical arts in collaborative piano (Rutgers University) and a member of Yo Yo Ma’s Silk Road Ensemble. “One as a classical pianist and the other as a world music bagpiper, although it all makes sense in jazz for me. I have been always working in the thin line Read more [...]
Dario De Galizia. San Marino?, no grazie [riceviamo e pubblichiamo] Egregio Direttore, giorni fa ho fatto visita – con la mia famiglia – alla sua sempre bella Città. Me ne sono ritornato a casa deluso ed amareggiato: in nessun Paese occidentale sono stato trattato così come è stato il “trattamento” a me riservato dalla sua Polizia Civile. Il tutto per avere declinato l’invito di un agente di polizia a parcheggiare su un lato piuttosto che un altro, nonostante l’indicazione di posti Read more [...]
Australian insurance group QBE said on Thursday it had set aside 2.75 million euros ($3.64 million) for the immediate needs of those affected by last week’s train crash in Galicia in northwest Spain, which left 79 people dead. QBE may have to cover much higher costs of injury to third parties and rail infrastructure, but only if its client, state train operator Renfe, is found to bear responsibility for the accident. The company said the payout announced on Thursday did not mean a recognition Read more [...]
Australian insurance group QBE said on Thursday it had set aside 2.75 million euros ($3.64 million) for the immediate needs of those affected by last week’s train crash in Galicia in northwest Spain, which left 79 people dead. QBE may have to cover much higher costs of injury to third parties and rail infrastructure, but only if its client, state train operator Renfe, is found to bear responsibility for the accident. The company said the payout announced on Thursday did not mean a recognition Read more [...]
MADRID (AP) — The driver of a Spanish train that derailed, killing 79 people, ignored three warnings to reduce speed in the two minutes before the train hurtled off the tracks on a treacherous curve, crash investigators said Friday.A court statement said the driver was talking on the phone to a colleague when he received the first automatic warning in his cabin of a sharply reduced speed zone ahead. The statement said the warning was by means of an audible sound but provided no further Read more [...]
Insurance Journal Friday 2nd August, 2013 Australian insurance group QBE said on Thursday it had set aside EUR2.75 million [$3.64 million) for the immediate needs of those affected by last week's train crash in Galicia in northwest Spain, which left 79 people dead. QBE may have to cover much higher costs of injury to third parties and rail infrastructure, but only if its client, state train operator Renfe, is found to bear responsibility for the accident. Read more [...]
Francisco José Garzón, Lokführer des entgleisten Zuges in Galizien und wahrscheinlich verantwortlich für den Tod von bisher 79 Menschen: Eine Bürde, die dem dünnen 52-Jährigen mit der Sonnenbrille und dem kurzen grauweißen Haar schier die Luft zu nehmen scheint. Ein Videomitschnitt, zu dem die spanische Zeitung ABC Zugang hatte, zeigt ihn bei der Vernehmung durch Richter und Staatsanwalt. Garzón sitzt auf einem Stuhl, neben ihm zwei Uniformierte, auf der anderen Seite die Anwälte. Er hat Read more [...]

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