Maria Rivera

Maria is the youngest team member of Asap Land. She joined as an intern as she was having a diploma in journalism. But, now as she gained experience, she is working as full-time editor and contributor on Asap Land. She loves to write news bulletins from the business world as she is quite fascinated with business.

Crock of Gold: Drinking with Shane MacGowan (2020) review: wild and emotional portrait

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Shane MacGowan He is one of those people who walks into a bar and everyone seems to have known him, or at least had a pint with him at one time, a personality on the London music scene that goes beyond his visible face as the leader of The Pogues , punk band that revamped traditional Irish music in the 80s, and maybe that’s why ‘Crock of Gold: Drinking with Shane MacGowan’ it’s about him and not about the legendary musical line-up.

It may be enough to put the camera in front of that face full of stories and alcohol in each wrinkle to realize that all the festive spirit of a popular song sung in a pub chorus, the fights and the provocative, irreverent and ground-breaking spirit of the movement punk are embodied in MacGowan’s complex and multifaceted personality. It is no wonder that a study of an entire movement that has come to materialize in bands like Dropkick Murphys and his tremendous OST for ‘Infiltrados’ (2006) has its object in a single person.

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Health ensures that the COVID-19 Digital Green Certificate may be “fully operational” for the summer

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Almost exactly a month ago the European Union presented the Digital Green Certificate, a kind of “vaccination passport” whose objective is facilitate internal mobility between countries for the summer. This document, which will be a QR code in digit or paper format, will serve as proof that a person has been vaccinated, that they have a negative test or that they have already passed the disease, and Spain trusts to have it fully operational for the summer.

This has been advanced by Alfredo González, Secretary General of Digital Health, who explained that the Government of Spain and the Autonomous Communities are already working on the implementation of the certificate to “meet the established deadlines.” The intention is to have it implemented by the end of June and fully operational for the summer campaign.

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