Movember or the reason for my moustache

Why Movember?

My main reason has been gens. Gens? Yes, gens. When the cancer is so close to oneself as it was to me, and your father is on it, life gives you a big sign and asks you what are you doing to me? Everybody, more or less see the call of that woman with the scythe in their own door even she is not calling us directly.
My second reason is just selfishness. If my father has had it, I have many changes to have it too!!!

Once you pass through, even though everything went ok, your life will never be the same. How important something is, it is always relative, because I am sure that if you are reading this, probably there are millions worst than you right now.

Movember takes care about men´s health, like prostate and testicles cancer. Furthermore, some of the money goes to awareness, information and education in this kind of diseases, because as every woman knows, men, we are "too much macho men" when anyone touches our "masculinity", but always it arrives an age, when you must go to do some checks to your doctor, to see that everything goes ok. If you catch it on time you have many changes to be alive.

Even the way they have to collect money is original, Movember comes from Mustache and November and it is on November when we allow to grow up our mustaches to collect money.
How can I make a donation? That is so easy, you can donate safely with credit card or PayPal, you only have to write in your browser MoBro.co/hecorman or click in this link Donate to @Movember with Héctor. Additionally you can vote for my mustache and give the maximum score. I know it is a lot asking but you can donate what you can afford €3, €4 not everyone can afford a lot.

As we said in Spain, ask for money is sad, but it is sadder to steal it...

You can find more information about where your money goes on Funded Programs.

Share this with your friends, in your favorite social network, make some noise for all men at least once. Use @Movember and #Movember to tell everyone about it.

Thank you very much in advance.

* I am sure I did a lot mistakes writing this, if you find them let me know. I apologize in advance.

¿Por qué Movember? o el motivo de mi bigote...

¿Qué por qué Movember?

Mi principal motivo han sido los genes, ¿Los genes?, si los genes. Cuando el cáncer te pasa tan cerca, como puede ser uno de tus progenitores, la vida te pone una señal enfrente y te pregunta que estás haciendo con ella. Todo el mundo en mayor o menor medida recibe ese golpe de atención en algún momento, esa llamada de la señora de la guadaña que va a llamar a nuestra puerta tarde o temprano, aunque en ese momento, no venga directamente a por nosotros.

Mi segundo motivo puede ser egoísmo en estado puro. Si mi padre lo ha tenido, yo tengo un montón de papeletas para que me toque.

Una vez superado el golpe, sobre todo el que lo recibió, que gracias que todo fue bien, tu vida no vuelve a ser la misma en general. La importancia de las cosas siempre es relativa, y lo importante o no de nuestros problemas depende de nuestro propio egoísmo, porque seguro que si estás leyendo esto, hay miles de millones de personas peor que tú en este mismo instante.

Movember se dedica al estudio de la salud masculina y enfermedades de los hombres como son el cáncer de próstata y de testículos. Además aporta otra parte del dinero recogido a programas de formación y educación, porque todas las mujeres saben como somos los hombres cuando se nos "toca" la virilidad.
Llegada una edad lo mejor es empezar a hacer visitas al urólogo para hacer comprobaciones rutinarias de que todo va bien.
La forma de recoger dinero es original, Movember es una mezcla de Mostacho/Bigote y Noviembre en su nombre en inglés, Moustache y November y durante este mes nos dejamos crecer el bigote e intentamos recoger fondos.

¿Cómo se puede donar? Pues es muy fácil, puedes donar de forma segura mediante tarjeta de crédito o pago a través de PayPal, sólo tienes que escribir en tu navegador MoBro.co/hecorman o pinchar en este enlace Donar a Movember con Héctor. Además podéis votar por mi bigote y darle un cinco que se lo merece. Sé que pide mucho pero puedes dar 3€, 4€ o lo que puedas quieras, no todo el mundo puede donar la misma cantidad.

Triste es pedir, pero más triste es robar.

Puedes encontrar más información de donde va tu dinero en la página web y los programas financiados.

Compártelo con tus amigos, mándalo por correo, ponlo en tu red social favorita, que se oiga de vez en cuando a los hombres. Usa @Movember o #Movember para publicarlo.

Muchas gracias por adelantado.

* Algún error ortográfico habré cometido, incluso no estoy seguro del plural de gen. Disculpas por adelantado.

Spain in the World Movember 2nd 2013 Edition

Last week 6 people got killed in a gas leak at coal mine in León province.
It was Spain worst accident in 18 years.
But all news are not bad in Spain this week. After years of recession, Spain is seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. A growth of 0.1% in the last quarter has been given from Spanish statistical institution. Reforms and investments from abroad are paying off the last two years of pain.
Several months of positive balance of payments, increases in exports and restructuring business plans are making of Spain a desirable country for business in the following years

This month is MOVEMBER a movement from an NGO that collects money to help men with prostate cancer and other male diseases. You can make a donation in my mospace Héctor Ordóñez.


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Spain in the World October 26th 2013 Edition

European Union has talked. Terrorists, rapists, pedophiles ... all to the street released.
Bill Gates invests in FCC a construction Spanish company. Money is coming back to Spain Emilio Botín, Santander Bank's president says.
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Spain in the World October 12th 2013 Edition

Hispanidad, is beyond Spain, it is Spanish Language, is something common, an union of different people that talk the same language.
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Spain in the World September 21st 2013 Edition

Is the Spanish lifestyle on the way out? Photograph: Alamy

All change, even Spanish Way of life.
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Spain in the World September 14th 2013 Edition

Source: JuanJaén on Flickr.

New cuts, the recession doesn´t finish and Catalonia is not Spanish anymore or maybe it never was. Despite thousands of years since roman times of common history they still still feel Spanish.
A new debate is on the streets, and they should have the right to choose if they want to be part of Spain or not.
If they don´t, they go. Scotland will decide if they want to be part of the United Kingdom or not next year.
In the 21st century still is people that want to defend borders against freedom.
Do we believe in Europe?
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Spain in the World August 31st 2013 Edition

Photograph: Jose Miguel Fernandez De Velasc/ Jose Miguel Fernandez de Velasc/Demotix/Corbis

Nothing is GRATIS anymore.
It doesn´t mean that before it was free, it means that now we start to appreciate the worth of the things.
In a time of recession, where many people is unemployed the city councils cannot allow to take more debt or ask for more taxes.
The "TOMATINA" a big tomato party in Buñol, Valencia, it is not free and a €10.00 ticket is asked to go into the party.
Was it free before?
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Spain in the World August 24th 2013 Edition

Photograph: Steve Black/Rex

Spain, the sun, the beach, the party, all together in the same place, mixed in one of the most exotic islands in Europe, Ibiza.
Youth and luxury all of them mixed.
A way to keep going with that life if what it is call "easy money", a short travel that many of them have done before and allows them to keep going with this kind of life.
But every act has consequences.

Rosalía Mera has died after a stroke at the early age of 69. The co-founder of Zara and the big textile group Inditex is well known in Spain not only for her wealth as per her foundation; Paideia Galiza Foundation, a broad-reaching charity to assist mentally and physically disabled people and develop women's initiatives.

My question this week, what does the mediterranean diet have, that almost everybody like it and all the experts recomend it?

Do not miss the open letter from Spanish Minister of foreign affairs to the English Government. WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT GIBRALTAR.

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William Brinson for The New York Times; Food stylist: Suzanne Lenzer. Prop stylist: Susan Brinson

Spain in the World August 10th 2013 Edition

This week all over the world the Spanish news are in Gibraltar.
A small territory with just 6,8 km². Within Iberian peninsula this Spanish former land was ceded to Great Britain after the War of the Spanish Secession under the terms of the 1713 Treaty of Utretch. Since then Spain has been claimed the territory back.
Great Britain says it is not a colony, but still it is like that for the United Nations.
Gibraltar has taken more a more territory into Spanish border with the airport and now it is trying to do the same with the se.
My question this week is; why is England always allowed to do what it wants to?
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Spain in the World August 3rd 2013 Edition

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Spain is mourning train crash victims. A horrible accident happened on July 24th. 79 people were killed plus many injured.
Now there are speculations about if it was a human error, a system error with automatic brakes or even sabotage.
The truth is 79 people died in one of the worst train accidents in Spain. Over speed, a driver using the phone while driving at 195 km/h, an automatic brakes system that it did not work... We need to know the truth and Justice has to be served.

In economics, the unemployment rate in Spain is going down, as it does every summer. Unemployment rate in a country like Spain, strongly linked to tourism is seasonal. But other rates are doing good too as exports in the balance of payments and debt price.

A new "juez estrella" star judge, the NYT says, is on the edge because of Primer Minister Mariano Rajoy corruption scandal. Over 800 corruption cases have arrived to court since the beginning of the recession on 2008. A justice system to much politicized and with strong leaks is overwhelmed. “Spain is suffering from a politicization of justice and a judicialization of politics,” said Antonio Garrigues.
Do not miss this news from the New York Times.
A question for this week; when will we be able to separate justice from politicians?

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- I was in a company that they paid me without go to work.
- And why did you quite?
- Because it broke down.

Spain in the World July 20th 2013 Edition

Photograph: Dariusz Kuzminski/Getty Images

One week more you can find Spanish news in SPAIN IN THE WORLD. Weekly news from the more important newspapers and news channels around the world.
Corruption surrounding Spanish president, Payback to EU  because of illegal taxbreaks from shipbuilders, sometimes it looks like nothing is legal in Spain.
A brief about Pamplona and San Fermines from the Guardian.

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Spain in the World July 13th 2013 Edition

Photograph: Pablo Blazquez Dominguez/Getty Images2

"Uno de Enero, Dos de Febrero, Tres de Marzo, Cuatro de Abril, Cinco de Mayo, Seis de Junio, Siete de Julio, SAN FERMÍN!!!
One year more the Bull is the star, for all of them that they think that it is a criminal act against the animals and those who think it is a millenarian culture with links to the pagan mystery cults among the Mediterranean sea.
Photographic Gallery from the Guardian.
A new rise in utilities bills for all Spaniards, especially electricity and fuel, everybody is paying now all excess from previous years.
A wave has arrived to western Europe, it is a wave of sun and heat. Ireland has had one of the hottest summers in ages while the south of Europe has seen at the moment it has been a no specially hot summer.
Lest go to enjoy the sun.
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Mariano charlatan, this heat was not in your election program.

Spain in the World July 06th 2013 Edition

This week employment news are the topic to highlight.
First unemployment rate drops for fourth in a row. This is always a good new, but we do not have to forget that this is a seasonal figure. In a country with a high dependence of tourism as it is Spain, unemployment rate always goes down in summer time.
The Guardian goes beyond, it talks about unemployment between young people. In countries like in Spain the youth unemployment is 56.4%, more than half of new work force is unemployed and we bad perspectives in a short term to change.

In sports I have to talk about the defeat of Spain against Brazil in the confederations cup.

My questions this week: Where are we failing? Does the politicians realize that it is something wrong in the educational system? What is the link between unemployment and education?

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Spain in the World June 29th 2013 Edition

This week a tribute to Antonio Gaudí in Google. "Google's latest doodle celebrates the 161st birthday of Antoni Gaudí, the Catalan architect whose iconic buildings have left an indelible mark on Barcelona." says the Guardian. One of most famous contemporary architects which created many emblematic buildings along Catalonia and Spain and is the reference in Barcelona architecture.

The Wall Street Journal talks about "Poisoned Inheritance". A 76 years old woman can finish without house because she has inherited her daughter debts. With mortgages up to 50 years long this is becoming a problem more and more common. Long term mortgages will become a huge problem in the next 30 years when most of the mortgages signed in the boom years will arrive to and end. Now people are not only giving up inheritances that they are even giving up to their children like a couple at Talavera de la Reina.

I cannot avoid to talk about football, Spanish team have arrived to one more final. Some people say the best in the universe against the best in the world. Maybe the final that everybody was waiting for.

In our videos section do not miss Derek Sivers' video about how to start a movement.

My question this week is about the "troikas", is it better a politician or a scientific? Watch 5 minutes video about nerdy stuff by Melissa Marshall.

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Spain in the World June 22nd 2013 Edition

Photograph: Pablo Blazquez Dominguez/Getty Images

This week in Spain in the World JUSTICE. Spaniards are asking for justice nowadays, against Iñaki Urdangarín, King's son in law, against politicians, bankers, credit union's representatives, when we have not even been able to give justice to all of those who died before, during and after the Civil War in both sides the last century. International Amnesty explains how justice can´t be done in Spain how difficult is and in my opinion is one of the reasons justice can´t be done with today´s crimes, no until we have finished with the silence pact and all the dead rest in peace.
Talking about dead, Iberia is on the edge. Low profits, strikes and new competitors are taking down the company that it needs to be restructured or die.
Related to the recession, you can find in this week news people working for a coffee or food and a Tram that it goes to Australia because a city council cannot afford it anymore. from BBC news.

Football on Yahoo sports; "Spain: The team everyone loves to hate". Del Bosque's team keeps winning at the Confederations Cup. Who did say Spanish Team was finished? 


My questions this week, are really politicians realizing about what it is going on? Do they see what the Spain needs? How long has to take before an agreement between society to go out from recession?

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Idyllic … the Atlantic coast in the northwest Spanish region of Galicia. Photograph: Gabriel Tizon/EPA

Spain in the World June 15th 2013 Edition

This week almost everything is about football. And I have said almost because one of the biggest tennis players won the last week his 8th Roland Garros in Paris.
A Spanish doing history, Rafael Nadal after moths out of the games for a knee injury he is back. "If you believe you cannot improve yourself, that means you know nothing about life" he said about himself.

With the confederations cup and the best teams from each continent on it, maybe is the first time all the countries take serious this competition. Spain will try to do their best as everyone is speculating with their game and possibilities for the next world championship. After beating Ireland in an easy game for the Spaniards now it comes the big competition.
Also related with football this week Lionel Messi. One of the best football players "dodging taxes in Spain is easier than dodging defenders" The Guardian says. In a case that most of people say it will finish with a tax return and a fine, it remembers us Spaniards the lack of JUSTICE in Spain.
Scandals as CAJAS, bribes, misappropriations,
embezzlement of funds finish without any punishment to guilty.

This week my question is, is it the same Capitalism and Imperialism? Do not miss the video of Learn Liberty.

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Spain in the World June 8th 2013 Edition

International Brigades fighters in Spain. Photograph courtesy of Benny Goldman

Spain is still trying to forget its own history, and maybe what is worst, it is trying to delete the history. While other countries are proud or not about their own history and they have museums to their own disasters or "shames". Forget history is forget who we are and why we are here, forget history means to forget why Spanish is after Mandarin the most important mother-tongue in the world, is forget why we lost that empire, which are our roots, why do we finished fighting in civil wars in the last 200 years because it was not only one. The Guardian talks about this.

Unemployment rate goes down but they are only temporary works the New York Times says.

Is this the end of the recession or still we have to wait?
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Spain in the World Jun 01st 2013 Edition

This week the Economist shows on of the keys in Spanish Economy for the rest of the century. Its more powerful weapon (asset) is too the  most dangerous. The Spanish language is at the same time virtuous and vice. "Spanish has more native speakers than any language other than Mandarin" highlights.
In the beginning of the "good times" many Spanish speakers arrived in the peninsula looking for a job. Now, that there is not more job, they are leaving looking for a better opportunity elsewhere.
But still the Spanish is one of the most important tool for our future and we have to take care of it.

Maybe I did this question before and I will do it again;
Why is the inflation so high in Spain?
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Spain in the World May 25th 2013 Edition

Still pain in Spain

The Economist still sees the pain in Spain. Although the decrease in work  cost and the increase in current account balance, they think a deeper reform it is necessary in labour market.
That means that all the workers that they are working now pay taxes, more flexibility that it should be together with a free opening time for business in my opinion.
The New York Times says that Germany is looking for skilled workers in the Spanish market.

Why if the Spaniards are skilled and good workers have to go somewhere else to get a good work?

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Spain in the World May 18th 2013 Edition

By SUZANNE DALEY

The New York Times says "as thieves troll Spanish Farmlad, villagers begin patrols", and my question is; Shouldn´t the government be trying to make Spain a safer place instead of cutting money of the services that it should provide its citizens? It looks like the citizens have to keep an eye in their properties because their taxes aren´t enough to pay the police to do that job anymore.
One big new this week it was to see the first banker go to jail, he was free the following day. All problems with Spanish banks were provoked by "Cajas de Ahorro" credit entities managed by politicians or their friends. Will we see any justice in Spain? Or will it go everything "bajo la alfombra" under the carpet?
Two weeks ago I was in Brussels in a Citizens Dialogue with Viviane Reding. I have add the video to show which kind of dialogue is Europe offering to their citizens...

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Spain in the World May 11st 2013 Edition

Samuel Aranda for The New York Times

This week edition, Bankia,  unemployment, spanish languaje in USA and others.

New York Times talks about Bankia, a bank born from a fusion of some former "Cajas de Ahorro" a couple of years ago, now has its shares almost worthless after be sold at €3,75 when they went to the stock market.
The "Cajas de Ahorro" were managed by politicians, to give and promote credits to governments of "Comunidades Autónomas" in the good times, later most of them were close to bankruptcy. But what now small investors are complaining about it is because whom would suppose to control financial system, it failed them. The Spanish Central Bank and other regulatory bodies did not say anything about the truth worth of Bankia´s shares.
WSJ comes back again with a subject from almost every week, unemployment. When the European Central Bank has the lowest interest rates in history the Economy does not seem to recover yet.

With all the measures and actions to try to go out of recession, I still have a question within Spanish market, Why nobody is talking about inflation? 2.43% last March. Does nobody know what that mean in a short term?

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Spain in the World May 4th 2013 Edition

This week the Spanish are back says the Economist. Two newspapers talk about Spanish cuisine. The Economist focuses its view in El Celler de Can Roca, a restaurant located in Girona recently named world´s best restaurant by Restaurant Magazine with three Michelin stars.
The Guardian presents Ferran Adrià exhibition in London. Former chef from el Bulli, closed in 2011, runs a show called the Art of Food from 5 July to 29 September.
The New York Times asks the question that many states in Europe are making to themselves. Are all the cuts really needed? Should the governments stop the cuts and start to expend more money?
And finally I am not going to talk about football this week, but you can find an interesting comparative between Germany and Spain in football like in real life...

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Spain in the World April 27th 2013 Edition

Photograph: Sergio Perez/Reuters

This week unemployment data has been the worst in history again. 6.2 million people, a 27.2 percent, makes a new negative record in Spanish economy. This figure opens again the debate about austerity against waste, cuts against more expenses. Now that debt rate is lower than two years ago and politic reforms and austerity measures do not look enough to bring investors and create new jobs, a change in economic politic is again necessary.
While the Irish Times talks mostly about unemployment the WSJ talks about rethink austerity.

The Economist highlights immovability in Spanish people as a problem in economic recovery. Is good the Spanish culture of one house for all your life?

The Guardian talks about El Cid Campeador remembering the movie.

To finish do not miss the video about education, is it education the same than schooling?

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Spain in the World April 20th 2013 Edition

Pool photo by Angel Diaz

One scandal, two scandals, three scandals... All Spain is a scandal!!!
This week the NYT talks about the King and his family. A few years ago Juan Carlos I was "untouchable", but now is on every newspaper because of his son in law Iñaki Urdangarín. Although his roll in "Transición" and his importance in foreign affairs, Spain history memory is always short as in a fish. In a moment when all politic parties are involved in different corruption cases, Spanish unity is falling apart because of a recession that thanks to some politics became a crisis. All Spain is crying out for a change, not just a makeup for a moment but a deep change in all Spanish politic institutions. Politicians, judges, even the King is involved in acts of corruption, bribes and "enchufes" (literally socket) that have became daily business in Spanish institutions. Where is the exit?
The Economist explains why the current euro system is not longer able to survive with the actual politics. A deep reform will be necessary in a short term. Can we trust politicians pressured by small groups to do the job?
To finish, do not miss Rafael´s video Escándalo...
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