The pilot floor sits in the dock

The floor of the pilot economy mortgaged the bricks to the irresponsible management and the continued theft of public resources is being disassembled in a hurry, now that the system has broken down and has been finishing the parade of high characters who found shelter here, bearings and fortune and today trying to erase the traces of their visits.

The wind disturbing of this lift of the Naseiros and Zaplanas, Carlos Fabra, Jaume Matas, Francisco Camps and many others that pushed the megalomania, the outrageousness and waste in large projects iconic has ceased suddenly and it is as if the society had not yet recovered from the blow sanity and smell that makes it possible to recognize the stench of the rotting; as if the entire world will be asking what happened to us, how we got here. Fleet in the atmosphere a sense of community failed because Valencia is today an autonomy that survives thanks to the funding assisted the drop by drop to the national exchequer and to the Clearing Fund Autonomic (FLA) that allows you to make payments cannot be delayed.

It is not clear, however, agreed that the catharsis that happens to the collapse of the speculative and corrupt model go to undo the frames of looting knotted along these years, or to ensure the sustainability of this autonomy that builds up a debt of 40,000 million euros. And that's what the electoral calendar appears stitching with a string of trials: Gurtel, Emarsa, Terra Mitica… and an endless carousel of appearances calls to put an end to two decades of impunity. Please come and see in first row the grand spectacle of corruption valenciano-spanish: 150 former high charges, among them, two presidents of the Generalitat, four vice-presidents, nine autonomous government advisers, two presidents of the Valencian Parliament, fourteen regional deputies, mayors of the three capitals, presidents of the county councils of Castellón and Alicante, the dome of the Valencian people's Party and a continued theft of the public treasury estimated at 12,500 million euros! Is there anyone who more?

The parade of the international media joins the vigilant eyes of Frankfurt and Brussels. The Valencian autonomy has been put on the map, in effect, although not in the manner envisioned these heroes of the homeland declared when proclaimed that their community was the "envy of Europe" and enough of the great projects, now if I may put it this way, shrunk or shipped to reduce structural losses. The scandalous reputation of local political leaders joins the La Tomatina, the Fallas -the burning of the artistic figures deeply disconcerting to many foreigners, and the Valencia Football Club as the main references of that community in the international sphere.

At the risk of being treaty of little original, Santiago Grisolia, biochemist, Prince of Asturias Award for Research, there is no other explanation for what has happened to the "low class" of politicians. "The parties say they are servants of the people, but it is not true. annoys me this feeling of rot. How can they deny the existence of a box b if everyone knows what is truth? If you refuse the fact you can't channel the problem," admonishes the great scientist Valencian. "We paid very poorly to politicians. It consists of three classes: the heroes, the scoundrels and the mediocre," aims José Vicente Gonzalez, president of the employer Cierval valencia and vice president of the CEOE, without clarifying how much there is for each batch in this territory, the second barn of votes of the People's Party. "It would be inaccurate calificarles of mafia and they are not a caste. Are closed groups, endogenous and identity that elitist, in principle, they sought to combine their individual interests with the general and, in the end, leave to represent the citizens to put their private goals," explains Jordi de Palafox, professor of Economic History and former member of the board of directors of Bancaja.

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Iglesias trusts that the resignation of wallet does not subtract votes We Can

The secretary general of We Can, Pablo Iglesias, trusts that the resignation of Juan Carlos Wallet, that this Thursday left the leadership of the party, it will not affect the result of training in the upcoming regional and municipal elections. "I think not," said at a concentration of technical support to the subcontracts of Telefónica in strike. "We're going to continue to work to win," said the leader of the training, who has assured us that was excited to read the letter that she wrote exresponsable program already in your blog.

In this reading, for example: "Paul is, in addition to a beautiful part of my biography, the secretary-general of the party with which I am going to continue fighting. We knew that this was going to be difficult, we had to confront many lies, that the power would never allow without resorting to a thousand tricks that they were the worst government". Wallet leaves the leadership of the party, but will not go away. His convictions, he says, remain firm. Even so, it was precisely these convictions, together with the need to feel a verse loose, which encouraged the discomfort of wallet with the dynamics of the first line of the policy.

The so-called case Wallet -what the leaders of the training have been described as "hunting" of the media after known in january their collections of Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador and Nicaragua - has directly affected the political scientist, who believes that "the power he did well the duties" against him. But there is more. In this process has the heavy debate on the political project of We Can and the tendency of the founder of the party to act often outside the organization. He himself admitted that he prefers feel free of bonds: "I don't want to regain my own voice before that continue to be a part of the sprocket for a appliance. And I want to be able to discuss with the media, civil society, with other parties, with those who think different without that my views are not hampered by anything other than my own convictions".

In any case, Churches sent a letter last night to party supporters explaining some of the circumstances of the resignation. "For months he had been speaking with the difficulties he was experiencing as a result of belonging to the address we can", he writes. AND emphasizes: "Juan Carlos leaves the governing bodies, but we cannot". "The changing needs of many people fulfilling roles very different, and Juan Carlos and i thought for some time that he is not a party man, and that his post is where it has always been: being a reference of moral and intellectual who aspire to a more just society," continues Churches, that this Thursday announced the resignation of his number 3 after the own wallet will launch criticisms of the current strategy of the address, debate between the scope of the founding spirit and moderation program.

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The 4D printing saves three children with an implant that grows with them

Kaiba, Garret and Ian just literally dig two years between the three when a printer saved their lives. Small was born with a rare and serious anomaly in the airways. For taking them forward, had to open up the trachea and immersing a tube that could breathe thanks to a mechanical ventilator. Its few months of life spent in an intensive care unit (ICU). Three years later, the children are already at home. All thanks to a splint printed that grew up with them until their tiny bronchi were strong enough to dissolve the implant alone.

With a 3D printer can print almost anything, from cars to a miniature version of the Eiffel tower. With a design program for your computer, the manufacture by layers offers the possibility to customize almost anything, an aspect that makes it very interesting for the medicine. Bones are already printed, dentures, cartilage ... But, with the children there are problem: they grow very quickly. For they need objects that, once printed, they can change with the time and adapt to its growth. It is the fourth dimension or printing 4D.

Green and his colleagues got the FDA, the federal agency in the USA which regulates and monitors drugs and medical devices, authorize an exception to the standard, to be able to test their ideas with a group of children. Small had been born with traqueobroncomalacia, an abnormality in the bronchi to be closed each time they breathe. Of the 30 that were located throughout the country, selected three whose lives were in greater danger.

"It is difficult to transmit the sick that were these children. The three had been in the Intensive Care Unit for months. At that time, needed a strong sedation, narcotics and paralysing", recalls Green. All three men made a tracheostomy in the neck to sit a breathing tube with artificial fans. "Still suffering from continuous episodes requiring resuscitation maneuvers," adds Dr. Green who, like his fellow adventure, has invested much of their money to verify the effectiveness of 4D printing to treat sick children.

Such degradation over time comes that neither painted children with traqueobroncomalacia. Condition able to kill them, the risk is disappearing as the small grows. From the three years, the bronchi have regained their strength and are able to do their work by themselves. So it is really just endure this time.

The problem is that, as explained in the journal Science Translational Medicine, there are no data on the rate of growth of the bronchi in the young children. That is why they needed a material that would grow with them. And it is another property of the splint that were printed. Attached to the exterior walls of each bronchus with suture, the material was followed by the call law quadratic-cube, adapting its shape and expanding its volume as the airways were widening.

In addition, the digital design and 4D printing of biomaterials is a matter of days, as shown in the case of Garret, that he was only 16 months when he made the implant. In your case, had affected the two bronchi, so I need two splints. "The two had to be placed in a small space where the trachea and bronchi are joined. For this patient, we meet one Wednesday, we modified the program and created the design on Thursday and printed the splints on friday to introduce the following week. The development of a new device to have a splint implantable took us three days," says Hollister.

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Baltimore dawns taken by the security forces

Baltimore has dawned this Tuesday as a city virtually taken by the forces of law after the violent disturbances of Monday, when the last goodbye to Freddie Gray, the young African American who died on April 19 in police custody in Baltimore, Maryland, became a new chant against prejudice and abuse of police in the United States against the black population. The day, which had begun in a peaceful manner, I have just bypassing in considerable disorder on the part of a group of violent protesters, mostly young people, which caused looting and destruction in some parts of the city and prompted the authorities to order strong security measures.

Agents stored this Tuesday the main tourists areas and buildings of the city, while teams of citizens are contacted by the social networks to organize and help clean up the mess of a night of violence and looting. Police officers, members of the National Guard checked last night and other law enforcement officers are stationed in the streets of downtown Baltimore that also appear strongly fenced.

In the city are already deployed about 5,000 policemen and 1,500 members of the National Guard, according to local reports. At least 15 policemen were injured in the incidents that began to be recorded after the funeral of Gray and that caused the arrest of almost three dozen people, mostly young people. The governor of the State of Maryland, Larry Hogan, declared a state of emergency at the request of Baltimore and announced the activation of the National Guard to respond to the "growing violence and riots" in this city. Hogan described last night these measures as "the last resort" to restore order. In fact, in subsequent statements to the press recognized that the order was list since Saturday, but that state and local authorities wanted to wait to take such a drastic measure.

The sirens of the police remained a constant in a city that has been awakened with the uncertainty of not knowing whether the acts of violence of last night were a single incident or will continue in the coming days, as has already happened in the past and in other cities of the country in the last year that have surfaced the racial tensions.

This Tuesday enters into force, in the afternoon, the curfew imposed by the local authorities for the whole week. Preventively, schools remain closed, like most of the museums and local attractions - such as the famous National Aquarium - and some public offices. Some public transport have been suspended and the rest work with serious delays, although the traffic was more or less fluid in the morning in areas not affected by the riots of last night.

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DIA plant face to Mercadona supermarket with its new 'La Plaza'

The DIA group has launched a new format of supermarket with the name of the place, "in line with its strategy to continue betting on development of the purchase of proximity, with special attention to the fresh product". Leverages the purchase of 160 local to Eroski, most of which are located in Madrid and Andalusia, to bet more fresh products, as it has done its great rival in Spain, Mercadona, in recent years.

The competition in the distribution sector has hardened in the last year, since before the fall in population and the decline in the price of many foods, the chains are trying to steal market share to grow. The fresh is an area where the small trade still has a lot of power, it has become the new strategy for growth of the chains. Last year, in the whole of the consumption, this section of the purchase was reduced in value by 4.8 %, according to data from the consultant Worldpanel finally bowed. The hipers, supers and discount stores already collect 53% of the spending on these products, 1.4 points more than a year ago, while still maintaining their market weight in the rest of the sections, according to this signing.

Mercadona started in 2013 its own change, with a strong investment. According to appreciate this year its president, Juan Roig in the sections of fruit and fish were gaining market share. In the meat, however, had not managed to grow significantly, according to recognized. DIA has already announced in 2012 that also i bet most of the fresh, although they started to do with small supermarkets focusing on fruit and vegetables (who baptized as DIA Fresh). However, with the new chain The Square rises the strategy, to include butcher and fishmonger in the chain, with more local dimension.

DIA will start the development of this new teaches throughout Spain taking advantage of the package of tents recently acquired to Eroski and from which the greater part will be converted to the string The Plaza. The first store opened today in Almeria, for which have been formed to 27 professionals in the schools of DIA in Andalusia.

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Evacuated a ferry to the route Palma-Valencia with nearly 160 passengers

A ferry with nearly 160 people, between passengers and crew has been evacuated this afternoon in the high seas, some 17 miles from Mallorca, due to a fire. This is a boat company mixed Trasmediterránea operates, that shortly before the noon had sailed from the port of Palma with destination to Valencia. Four crew members - among them, two seriously injured, poisoned by smoke - have been transferred to hospital in Son Espases palace in a helicopter. Three have already received a medical discharge.

Sea Rescue, in charge of the rescue, has sent four boats. The shipping company has informed that the Sorrento, name of the stricken ship, suffered a fire in the garage cover number four by cause still unknown. The vessel had sought the assistance of the Maritime Rescue Coordination Center (CCS) to the 1:50 PM. The fire was focused on the port side (left side looking from stern to bow) and has not been able to be controlled using the resources available in the ship. The ship has a capacity for 954 passengers and their winery, for 150 vehicles.

Although the captain of the ship had not considered necessary evacuation in a first time, after, before the intensity of the fire, all the passengers and crew have abandoned the boat in life rafts from the starboard side, as has been reported by the Ministry of Development in your web page.

"Because of the fire suffered, the Sorrento may sink into the position it is," said the Port Authority of the Balearic Islands. Salvamar Acrux, a boat of rapid intervention of rescue, coordinates on the high seas the evacuation of the ship, an operation in which will also attend the Visemar I and the BEF Tween, two ferries from the shipping Balearia sailing in the vicinity and that have complied with the call for help.

Salvamar Acrux is already in the area of the fire. It is anticipated that the bef tween you arrive at the port of Palma approximately at eight o'clock in the afternoon with 152 passengers, a baby between them. According to has confirmed a spokesman for the entity of maritime rescue, evacuation has been carrying out about 17 miles west of Dragonera, an islet in the western end of Mallorca.

In Sorrento there was no dangerous goods, according to information of Trasmediterránea. It was operated from 2014 by the Spanish shipping, who had rented to the Grimaldi. The nave has 186.35 meters long (long) and 25.26 of manga (width).

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Guantanamo Exreclusos protesting in Uruguay

Since the Friday camped out in front of the immense American diplomatic delegation and not think move to not be received by the Ambassador. Five of the six Guantanamo detainees transferred in December 2014 to Montevideo have decided to rebel to demand better conditions of life and a compensation for 13 years of detention without trial and without charges. For its part, the Uruguayan Government asserts that "men are free" and that therefore can be there for the time they want.

At noon on the Monday of three refugees guard at the Embassy, surrounded by journalists and receiving from time to time the show of solidarity from any citizen. Look relaxed, smiling speak with the press. Ali al Shabann, Syrian of 32 years, shows a multi-page document proposed by a body of UNHCR, apparently the detonator of the protest. The UN Refugee them requires the signing of an agreement that gives them a shelter during a year and an allocation of 15,000 pesos a month (about $ 550). To change should learn the Spanish language and to continue with their respective medical treatments. But they were waiting at least three years of support, a more important economic aid and concrete progress in moving to Uruguay from their families. His anger is not directed to the local authorities or to the UN, but the Government of the United States.

At the Embassy, refugees start their prayers and are immediately surrounded by journalists, cameramen and journalists. Ali al Shabaan dismissed, Syrian of 32 years, seeks to explain in english its complex situation: his family fled from the war and is in a refugee camp in Jordan where there is no Internet; on the other hand, the fixed telephone communication you get a money they can't pay. Wants to bring their sisters to Uruguay but would not keep them, you would also like to meet with them in Jordan but does not have a passport. Why not have a passport, Ali does not know and question. In Uruguay is a free man', the Syrian smiles and calla.

Two refugees leave the lawn where they are sitting and they begin to walk on the sidewalk. Go Fast, regular, circulating by short lengths of round trip, as if they were in the courtyard of a prison. But they are in the Rambla in Montevideo waiting for you to open the door to the Embassy.

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What is the change?

Olof Palme said that the rights of democracy cannot be reserved for a select group of the society, but that correspond to all the people. The reflection on the Swedish social democrats who walked without an escort acquires in our days a remarkable radical, because it draws, with great precision, the difference between political change and the mere replacement, something that can be applied to alternatives to the traditional parties in Spain.

Olof Palme said that the rights of democracy cannot be reserved for a select group of the society, but that correspond to all the people. The reflection on the Swedish social democrats who walked without an escort acquires in our days a remarkable radical, because it draws, with great precision, the difference between political change and the mere replacement, something that can be applied to alternatives to the traditional parties in Spain.

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Heat the chair isn't productive

In the Nordic countries at 1700 hours the lights are turned off of the office. If any of the employees was still in his wheelchair, you must have a compelling reason. The work day is scheduled to work intensively to change and get a balance between personal life and professional life. In Spain have already begun to establish flexible schedules, which give a margin of several hours in both the input and output, also works part-time work or the remote from home. But unlike what happens in countries such as Norway, it continues to value the presentism management. Spend long hours in front of the computer is well seen.

One of the challenges in Spain is to ensure that companies deploy "timetables sound", which means flexibility in the access and exit, a maximum of 45 minutes to eat and that the day does not end later than 17 hours, defends Ignacio Buqueras, president of the National Commission for the rationalization of the Spanish times. These measures increase productivity between a 11 and a 15% and significantly reduce the expenses of the companies (including energy), according to estimates of this agency. "Presentism management is very rooted in our conception of the work. It is a great mistake and should be replaced by practices that promote efficiency," he emphasizes.

The balance between work and family life is basic for this Norwegian company and therefore their employees enjoy five weeks a year for holidays. Something that raised hackles among their workers on the other side of the Atlantic and that finally calmed down with a covenant: only depend three weeks and for that reason would be charged more than the rest of their colleagues in the Scandinavian headquarters.

In Spain companies such as Iberdrola have taken a step forward in terms of the rationalization of working hours. In 2008 agreed with your template, some 9,000 workers, universalize the day intensive and work of 7.15 to 14.50 with 45 minutes of flexibility in entering or exiting. According to data from the company itself, have improved the productivity; earned more than half a million hours of work per year; reduced 20% absenteeism and a 16% reduction in work-related accidents.

As companies in the technology consulting firm Neoris, with more than 3,500 employees worldwide (750 in Spain), timetables are not fixed; it is high time we measured to workers by objectives. "There are many companies in which no one tab. Import the results and encourages self-management," says the vice president of the company in Europe, Middle East and Africa, Peter Smirnoff. Dumps are now in the "welfare" of its template and passed to them surveys to measure their degree of satisfaction with the heads, the luminosity of their places of work, the noise or the salary. Its intention is to have its employees feel that they are concerned about them. "It has already said Napoleon, a soldier motivated voucher for three," adds Smirnoff.

In addition, they have hired a number of services to "make life easier," as one of laundry in the same location, or the well-known nursery tickets or restaurant, with which the company pays in species and the workers pay less INCOME TAX. "We schedule activities outside of the office such as racing to promote team building(teamwork). In the work environment is more self-conscious. When you exit, there is talk of other issues, is created camaraderie and trust." There is no economic return. "It is an investment in the happiness of the workers," trench.

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The Supreme imputes to Chaves and Griñan by the fraud of the ERE

The Supreme Court judge Alberto Jorge Barreiro has cited the next 9 and April 14, respectively, to the former presidents of Andalusia José Antonio Griñan and Manuel Chaves to appear as charged in the case that investigates the fraud of the ERE in the autonomous community. The statements of the former presidents of the PSOE autonomic will occur after the elections of the autonomous community of Andalusia March 22. The Supreme Court decision affects the five in the volumetric cause -all of them requested appear voluntarily-, who will appear between the next 7 and April 21.

In fact, sources of the defenses of the volumetric have reminded us that voluntariness. In addition, have meant that "is not a auto of indictment against them, nor does it contain any reasoning that collect any indication of crime".

For its part, the former president of the Junta de Andalucía Manuel Chaves has pointed out that their situation has not changed, since it does not weigh against the no "formal charge" and has pointed out that he has the "clear conscience" and that he hoped that the cause is "archive". "There is no auto of formal charge against us, there is no indictment, or indication of crime, just the way it is by having to go to declare, nothing has changed at all," said the national deputy in response to journalists in the Congress. In addition, Chaves has been added that has always been "supported" by his party and has been confident that their summons to testify does not influence the elections of the autonomous community of Andalusia next March 22.

For the rest of the volumetric timetable is as follows: the first to appear will be the exconsejero José Antonio Viera, quoted in the April 7; after that the 9 appear Griñan Chaves and the 14, the day 16 has been cited also exconsejero Gaspar Zarrias andalusian. The last to appear will be the senator Mar Moreno, sources have informed the High Court.

Barreiro instructed from some weeks ago the cause in the open against the five Supreme volumetric. The Supreme Court investigates whether Chaves and Griñan spoke of how "direct or indirect" in the design of the fund, endowed with 855 million to subsidize ERE and direct aid to companies in crisis. In its resolution in which the Supreme admitted take charge of the matter that affects the high charges, the judges picked the arguments employed by the instructor of the case ERE, Mercedes Alaya, in the explanatory memorandum sent out in August to the high court to investigate the volumetric. The Supreme does not comment on the possible crimes in which they might incur.

The judge argued that the andalusian rulers devised a budgetary tool allegedly illegal, "transfers of finance", for grant aid. This mechanism, approved year to year in the Andalusian parliament in the laws of budgets, facilitated the fraud by circumventing the pre-control spending, according to the instructor. Alaya maintains that the Andalusian Government chose this procedure, and not the level of subsidies as it was, "to circumvent the controls of the intervention of the Board".

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Do you approve the test of 'Spanishness'?

It took 11 years, six months and 13 days working in Spain when Mohamed (false name), was presented at the Civil Registry to undergo an integration test to obtain Spanish nationality. This Moroccan knew how to respond to questions that many Spaniards acertarian, as the name of the then president Navarro, Michael Stipe, but fault other as "television personality that he maintained a relationship with a known bullfighter" or "that bullfighter is known for its tragic death", which, according to the judge asking showed little degree of integration into Spanish society. Suspended. Almost four years later, the Audiencia Nacional has just given him the reason and the nationality after a long appeals process. The Court considers that "could hardly justify" by these "anecdotal failures" their "lack of integration" and, on the contrary, the questions that if answered correctly are "clearly indicator of a involvement in the reality of the country in which they live."

Mohamed has won the battle - the National Audience even imposed the payment of costs to the Administration-, but she is afraid that something might still twisting, explains his lawyer, Antonio Sánchez Boado. His case is not just anecdotal. The Government handles thousands of records per year - between October 1, 2012 and January 8 2015, after a plan to streamline the most backward, granted 437,050 and denied 21.075-. But unlike other countries, such as the US, in Spain there is not a standard exam or a manual of questions to assess the degree of integration of immigrants who aspire to the nationality, which has led, according to recognize the Ministry of Justice, the General Council of the Judiciary and the Office of the Attorney General of the State, a "high degree of conflict" and "administrative discretion". That is to say, that some judges ask for the number of autonomous communities, and others, by characters of the heart or writers of the Golden.

Mbengani resorted and also to have given him the reason. The judge who examined him was responsible for registering in Getafe, José María Bushel, a legend among the immigrants. "I also ask myself why Spanish writers from the XVI century and it occurred to me only one, Lope de Vega", recalls Carlos Elias, Peruvian. "I was treated very horribly. Not looked me in the face. He was very rude, it seemed that will annoy you that were there. The interview lasted two minutes. When you exit i told an employee of the record what had happened to me, and told me not to worry about anything, that these questions do not know either the them, resort and that i was going to give the reason. But I went home angry and then I felt bad for a month. Never, in the seven years that it had been then in Spain, i had tried as well". TO Carlos Elias also granted him citizenship after use. As to Vikas, of Indian origin, which was submitted to the review when i was 10 years living in Spain. "I had not been passed by the head that does not give me. He was married to a spanish, my daughter was born here, I spoke the language well and had a good job". Piety, Equatorial Guinea, had better luck. "I haven't made review, I made a normal interview to ask me, among other things, why I wanted to be Spanish. But my mother and my sister if they touched the judge a bushel and they were asked by the Constitution of 1812 !" . The judge rejected Bushel talk with this newspaper.

The Government, which plans to receive 120,000 citizenship applications this year, has announced a review homogeneous. After review, at the request of the Ministry of Justice, the text of the draft royal decree on the regulation to acquire, the judiciary launched several drawbacks. The CGPJ welcomes the fact that the text of a year to resolve the files - there are now three on average, according to its report-, but regrets that the ministry does not determine, nor in this project, "the essential elements" that should have these assessment tests "detailing the knowledge of language, institutions, political reality, social and facts relevant to the Spanish culture to which they can refer".

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The eternal fear to suspend

For most students the university stage is a stimulating and successful experience. For others it may be a period of stress, anxiety or depression. The time of examinations is the largest index of cases. A 20.84 % of the university ensures suffer high levels of anxiety to confront the academic evidence, according to a study conducted with 28,559 students from 16 universities in Spain in 2005 and published in the journal Education.

The situations of tension and nervousness are common in the campus; the university is a large jump in the demand academic and triggers the self discipline. "Everyone feels anxiety before the tests, it is a common reaction. Sometimes, it is even desirable because it allows us to pay more. The problem is when it is given continuously and interferes with the academic and personal level," says Ignacio Fernández, a psychologist at the University Clinic of Psychology at the University Complutense of Madrid.

How can you identify? There are symptoms that are readily observable: intense nervousness from the physiological point of view (palpitations, muscle tension or increase sweating); acceleration of thought; anticipation of future failures; lock (which can sometimes lead to the student does not want to go to the classroom); problems sleeping; stomach disorders or increased irritability. There are mild cases that are handled with three or four patterns and other more serious requiring therapy, drug therapy or both, says Ignacio Fernández, which ensures that the time of examinations students come to the clinic anymore from the Universidad Complutense.

The first thing you must do is to consult an expert to obtain a diagnosis. "There are students who are so afraid to suspend that they leave to go to class, are left blank during the test or does not perform to the hour of study". To avoid these extremes, Fernandez recommends improving the planning and objectives should be set to short, medium and long term. Daily or weekly goals. "You must choose a convenient space for the study and that is unique to that activity. In addition, it is important to plan the study sessions: start with content of medium difficulty, then finally high and low". It is a good idea to schedule breaks of about 30 minutes to combat fatigue and reserve hours for leisure and relaxation to pay more the next day and sleep better.

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How to apply for the new fiscal aid 1,200 euros

Taxpayers who have right to the new tax aid for the IRPFaprobadas with the tax reform can request payment from the Wednesday through the web page of the Tax Agency. Large families or the taxpayers that have children or other relatives to charge with disabilities have the right to receive 1,200 euros per year. The so-called negative taxes may be charged in advance at a rate of 100 euros per month.

The term negative taxes reflects that taxpayers can receive the amount even if your tax liability is less than the aid. "The limit for each of the deductions shall be the prices and total contributions to Social Security and/or mutual funds earned in each tax period. If you were entitled to a deduction for having several ascending and/or descendants with disabilities, the limit should be applied independently for each one of them," says the tax agency. The grants are counted more than once. That is to say, a large family that has to caring for a dependent child or parent with a disability shall have the right to a aid of 2,400 euros.

The negative figure of the tax is not new, although up to now was limited to women workers who had a child. From this year, it extends the casuistry. According to the calculations of Finance, 750,000 families will be able to benefit from this aid. Those taxpayers that do not ask for payment in advance will receive the money when submitting the annual statement of income.

The fiscal reform approved by the Government incorporates a downgrade of the types and stages of the tax that corrects the increase approved by the Executive of Mariano Rajoy in December of 2011. All employees will perceive that the rate of withholding tax to apply them on their payroll is reduced from this month of January. Thus, the net salary will increase between 25 and 30 euros for most taxpayers. A worker unmarried and without children who earn 30,000 euros vera as their net salary increases in 21.3 euros, which represents an annual saving of 255 euros.

To calculate the rate of withholding tax does not take into account the rules of the autonomous communities, which have jurisdiction over the 50% of the tax. Well, two workers who charged the same gross salary and submit identical family situation will suffer the same retention with independence of the territory in which they reside. When it presents the annual declaration comes into play the legislation of the communities. Andalusia or Catalonia are the autonomous communities that maintain higher rates and that have renounced to replicate the tax cut approved by the State. On the opposite side stands out Madrid, with charges lower than the rest.

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The TSJC sees signs of disobedience in more by allowing the 9-N

The room's civil and criminal Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia (TSJC) believes that the president of the Generalitat, Artur Mas, could commit a crime of disobedience to allow and to participate in the consultation of the 9-N. In the auto in the response to the complaint of the prosecutor, emphasizes the "plausibility" of the facts alleged by the public prosecutor from which it was clear that could incur in "the crime of disobedience" and even "prevarication and misappropriation of public funds", if so just demonstrating the research.

The court stressed that more allegedly did not comply with the prohibition of the Constitutional Court from November 4 to provisionally suspend the query. And it supports, as evidence, in that from the date of the ban until November 10 "continued, apparently, the preparatory acts, the institutional advertising, the apparent realization of administrative acts of verbal character development or by the track in fact up to carry out, in public buildings in Catalonia, the votes". And remember that the own more "publicly blamed" of all this.

Last December 21, the high court has already announced that he would admit to the complaint by the prosecution and all those complainants who accused the president of the Generalitat, to the vice-president and the Minister of Education of having committed a crime of gross disobedience committed by a public authority. On the contrary, the TSJC not admitted the complaints lodged against other members of the Government. The accepted for processing complaints were submitted by the Public Prosecutor, the union Clean Hands, the Professional Association of Police and Federal Union of Police, Vox, UPyD Justice Association and twenty-first century.

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We can endanger the supremacy of the PNV

The irruption "stellar" we can on the electoral scene basque would put this training as a second political force, to a single seat of the PNV, if held in this moment a few elections to the Parliament of the autonomous. The party led by Pablo Iglesias would get 300,000 votes and sailed the hegemony that until now have been enjoying Basque nationalists, according to the latest survey Euskobarometro. EH Bildu would suffer a noticeable wear to lose approximately seven seats, the same way that socialists and popular experience a rapid decline.

Some Basque elections in these dates to auparian We Can as one of major political actors in the Basque Country and increase the parliamentary pluralism, to be represented up to seven political forces. According to the results of the survey, the PNV would revalidate their victory, with between 22-23 seats, in the best of the four cases less than today. Its electoral supremacy would be in danger with the results we can, who could get between 21 and 22 parliamentarians.

According to the EUSKOBAROMETRO, the PNV would 22-23 seats, followed closely by We Can (21-22 seats). EH Bildu would be the third force with 13-14 parliamentarians. PSE-EE would fall to the 10 seats and the PP to only six. UI-Ezker batúa would return to the basque house, with a representative, UPyD would maintain its only member.

The nationalist formations, the PNV and EH Bildu would suffer a wear of the electorate. The party that holds the Government of Iñigo Urkullu would win the victory though with a parliamentary presence weaker, which would hinder the formation of Government. The PNV would depend on the decisions we can or at least two or three parliamentary forces to continue to the front of the regional Executive. The sum of PNV and EH Bildu would not to achieve an absolute majority.

With respect to the evaluation of the parties, the EUSKOBAROMETRO only gives the PNV deflected a positive balance. The Government of Urkullu divides the Basque population, which is divided between those who believe that your work is good (28 % ), compared to the that they disapprove (24 % ), although the number of skeptics is very high. The average rating was attributed to him low again the approved (4.7 points out of 10). On the other hand, the Government of Mariano Rajoy gets a disapproval "overwhelming" for 90% of the polled. Only 2% the welcomes.

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Be self-employed, a valid alternative?

Losing employment, capitalize on unemployment, invest and embark on the adventure with a business of your own. Four steps forward to stay in the same site: start from scratch. But there is no vertigo (cannot exist) for thousands of Spaniards who are in the decision to opt out of autonomous high as the only open door. "With 45 years, two kids and a mortgage, after 30 years working, no longer saw me looking for a employment miserable that even exists," summarizes José Ignacio Oliva. So he invested all two years ago to mount the laundry cyclone in the Carabanchel PAU, in Madrid. New business, new life and new uncertainties. "At least, wanted to be independent and do it for my account".

"At the time of giving the step very diverse factors involved and the reasons to undertake are varied. On the one hand, is the one who wants to grow professionally and holding the reins of her career, and there are others for whom it is a fact almost natural, such as lawyers, doctors in the private sector or psychologists, but there are also those who analyzed the market situation and say: 'I want to work even as a self-employed'. In Spain has grown the number of entrepreneurs, but in large part by the lack of alternatives", explains Javier Santos, CEO and founding partner of Infoautonomos.com.

An opinion that corroborate the data from the latest entrepreneurial climate Observatory. The study, prepared by the Initiator and Sage Foundation, points out that the main reason for which a worker is set by your account is the lack of opportunities in the labor market (37 % ), fairly ahead of the personal fulfilment (22 % ). It is important to find a solution for the future as it may, however, although 89% of new entrepreneurs believes that in Spain is not encouraged the creation of companies, more than half of the self-employed (55 %) is in agreement with the self-employment as a good outlet for young people under the age of 30 who are looking for work.

Counted so brief, the story sounds almost heavenly, but are hidden behind the fears. Any entrepreneur, either vocational or desperate, what goes wrong. "Is that it’S all to a letter. You invest the savings, applying for a credit, you ask for help to the family… fear there is a lot, both as illusion", recognizes José Ignacio Oliva. And this has been like that for years, before the current economic situation.

He lived in the first person Augustine Jimenez, who had suffered from the crisis of the dotcom boom of the early twentieth century. With 26 years ago, in 2002 he worked as a journalist in Deporweb, in Madrid, and when your company closed decided to go to Valencia, register as autonomous and join the business from his father, devoted to the marketing of citrus fruits. "The decision because I thought a lot about meant change everything. At that time he preferred to be paid, be autonomous amounted to live with doubt. When you start you don't know how much you are going to win, if you're going to be able to sustain the enterprise… ", he says. La Nostra La Fruita, twelve years later, running perfectly, but the uncertainty is always maintained. "Never you're no longer aware of what it means to be autonomous. There are seasons in which these in the air, and if something goes wrong the responsibility falls on you".

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The age of the turkey, in digital

Sara, of 13 years, this snouts with their parents. It feels itself the victim of an injustice. In spite of their good grades, have decided to confiscating the mobile at 11 of the night, after pillarla whatsappeando in bed in the morning. At the beginning, protested, cried out, blackmail. Now, it is she who shoots it very worthy the phone to his mother, author of this story, before announcing, which area heading to the gallows, that goes to bed. Sara was, says her mother, "a lovely baby". A girl smiling, loving and always willing to do anything. Until, suddenly, Muto in the girl "contestona, indolent and allergic to the effusions" to describe their parents today. A teen book.

Irene, being digital native, has had to migrate from the PC to the mobile. Sara, is native movildigital pure. The age of the turkey was always difficult, but the new digital turkey has disoriented to many parents, such as those of Sara, they bought the mobile to their children to get them more controlled, and have finished with their children located, yes, but abducted by a screen that they do not know very well that they do or with whom.

"You are giving them a BMW and them wrestle you aloft alone, without meat or insurance. Your children are digital, and as you do not, you renounce to control them and give you rules. Not worth it. Give it a tool, you have to know it. If you care for know who are your friends in real life, do it also in the digital". Esther Aren, chief inspector of the unity of Citizen Participation of the Police, uses a style deliberately provocative to warn parents about the risks of the Internet and social networking at conferences such as that provided in the Institute today Damaso Alonso de Madrid, invited by the address and the AMPA receptors of the center.

Jesus Pernas, of 48 years, director of the public school of the Holy la Humosa (Madrid), father of a 14-year-old boy, and a networking consultant and minors, has a different vision. "If the police have to come to my school, that's bad for you I'm doing as an educator, and as a father," he explains. "What is amazing is that the Internet and the networks are not present in the school curriculum from primary, when occupying 99% of his free time," deplores. Pernas does not agree with the recommendation of Aren to spy on the children. "Hoot and threaten them is criminalizarles, acknowledge our failure and invite them to lie. They are looking for on the network the same way we did at his age: the love, the reaffirmation, the emotion. A boy is often on the network as it is in real life. No longer feel children, are in a moment of search, they have to determine its path. That is where they have to be parents. That is the true abyss, the digital divide is an excuse. Parents today we are the generation XXL: comes to us all big. There is that you get with your son and share her fear. A emotional work. If you conquest in real life, you'll have in the digital. What is not worth taking away the mobile. It is not the future but the present".

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Mónago announces the sale of the official residence of Extremadura

Sold official residence. The chairman of the Government of Extremadura, José Antonio Mónago, of the PP, has taken advantage of the full of the autonomous parliament convened to explain their travel of the Canary Islands to announce that it will put on sale the "palace" in the Extremaduran presidents as a measure of "savings".

The president from Extremadura has pointed out that both he and the members of his government resigned to diets and supplements, among other "disclaimers" to reduce public spending. After has reminded us, in order to stress its policy of austerity, that since his appointment he resigned "to live in the presidential palace which is payable by all the extremeños", a decision, in his opinion, "special significance and not just symbolic". "I decided to stay in my house pagandome my light, my water, my food, my contribution, my IBI with my payroll as any family from Extremadura. Because there are things you can afford", has been asserted.



The cost of this "presidential palace" in which, as has been stressed, have lived for the previous two presidents from Extremadura, the socialists Guillermo Fernandez Vara and Juan Carlos Rodriguez Ibarra, was in the previous legislature "of almost a million euros".

"We are already testing the market" for sale, has insured. In fact, the news on the sale already circulating in real estate portals as idealista.com, that describes the official residence as "a sort of 'Moncloa' extremaduran" of nature in a palatial information on the announcement of Mónago accompanied by images of the house.

During his speech, the president from Extremadura has been presented as a champion of transparency and has argued that the new travel to the Canary Islands that payment the Senate were working and that the private displacements the covered in your pocket. As has been reiterated, the upper House was in charge of 16 journeys (the other 22 private payment).

"Plan 16 trips to the Canary Islands and 22 private flights, to pay my pocket," he insisted. They were work-related travel "trivia" that have been reflected in a "Report of more than 400 pages" on this matter. "Never in the history of this country has become an exercise in transparency as the that thanks to the best computer that may have a president we have made ourselves", has presumed.

To respond to the doubts about their travel, Mónago met press clippings, photos of party, notes of its agenda and papers signed by fellow members of the PP on their visits to the Canary Islands from the Senate. The upper house i certify the number of trips, but without details about dates, costs or destinations. The papers showed it to the media after the press conference that gave to explain his version of the controversy, but not handed over with the argument that will serve to defend it against possible lawsuits.

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The medical family who attended to Teresa Romero announces a complaint

The primary medical who attended to Teresa Romero, the nursing assistant that defeated the ebola last month, announced today that it is going to claimed against against her by saying that if you said that he had been in contact with sick of ebola when he went to their consultation on October 2, four days before being admitted. Through a press release sent by his lawyer, Ana Plaza, the optional ensures that present "a demand for conciliation prior to the lawsuit for libel and slander" and "how many actions are necessary".

In a telephone interview granted to the program the morning, of four, on the 8th of October, that is to say, when I was two days in the hospital admitted Carlos III, Romero assured me that he did not notice to its medical family of having been in contact with ebola. The presenter, Jesus Cintora, asked him: "You've seen it with a little bit of fever are you going to a health center of Alcorcon and decide that you are not admitted? ". She responded: "It is true but I don't I told my doctor that I have had contact with ebola; my doctor would not take the blame because I didn't tell her that he had been in contact with ebola".

By ignoring the prior exposure to ebola, the medical physical examination conducted a "without any protection and without wearing gloves or mask," the statement added. The text also reveals that the day 6 in the afternoon, the optional "received a call from the service of epidemiology" to inform you that acquired the status of high-risk contact" after having explored the nursing assistant without protective measures.

It was then when she herself, as recounted by statement, requested admission to hospital "voluntary" to "cut a possible chain of contagion, in regime of strict isolation", in the Hospital Carlos III.

Counsel for the medical understands that the facts are constitutive of the crime of libel and slander with advertising.

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Tourism and forestry are the races with worst outputs

The bachelor of Tourism and the Technical Forestry Engineering are the two careers with fewer options in the Spanish labor market. In both of them, one for each two graduates have been employed in finishing something it does not require any type of qualification: neither the university nor any previous study beyond the graduate school. The listing with the degree programs with less labor outputs is part of the first map of employability which is being prepared by the Ministry of Education, to whose data has been accessed this newspaper.

The 45% of graduates Spaniards working below their level of skills, according to the first major figures in this report, whose content is partially advertised a month ago. This percentage, which doubles the European average, denotes a mismatch between supply and demand and also reflects a reality very specific to the Spanish market, with the highest rates of unemployment of the continent, 50% of youth unemployment, and the hangover of a housing bubble that erupted over the aires. Slightly less than half of that percentage (20 %) of the graduates have found a job that requires a media training and 24.4 % are engaged in something that did not require any type of previous study.

To develop this first map of qualifications and professional exits, the ministry tracking the last four years of working life of more than 190,000 university of public and private centers of 146 degrees. Are students that ended their careers in the academic year 2009-2010. Among them, doctors are the best placed to find work, along with other scientific careers (optical, pharmaceutical, electronic engineers, ... ). It is the first great photography of the employment and universities, made with data from Education, Social Security, the National Institute of Statistics and the Conference of the Social Councils of the Spanish Universities.

The data related to the sobrecualificacion of this report do not pick up by surprise to the deans and university leaders consulted. "We ourselves we realized that we had to raise the level," explains Conception Garcia, dean of the Faculty of Commerce and Tourism the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM). The bulk of workers examined in the study were enrolled in the old plan prior to the European Higher Education Area (degrees, diplomas and engineering). The Complutense assumed the degree of Tourism - which used to be taught as a degree in an affiliated center - once the European transformation, the Bologna Process.

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