LA MENISTRA SANITARIA
La señora Pajin, esa chica a la que Zapatero ha dado una patada hacia arriba para librarse de ella al frente del aparato organizativo del PSOE, pensando en Sanidad tampoco hará mucho mal, ya que solo va a ser ministra, no es que vaya a atender enfermo, bueno que la interfecta Pajin, la del encuentro interplanetario y tal y tal ha dicho "estoy dispuesta a dejarme la piel" ............... no creo que empiece con buen pie ni con los medicos de cabecera, ni mucho menos con los dermatologos
HOUSING PRICES IN SPAIN
El Pais coincides with my opinion that houses prices are set to continue falling in spain next year............... I foresee a lost decade in house prices........... probably more than that in the sense that real money (inflation discounted) houses are going to be less priced in Spain in 2020 than now............but that´s a long shot
El Pais avisa de que no hay que fiarse de que esto ha bajado mucho y se va a lanzar la gente a comprar desesperada, por ahora lo que se están lanzando es los bancos a vender............... y eso es una buena pista de lo que esperan. En España las casas están muy caras, y casi todo lo demás tambien.......... hay pocas alternativas a una deflacion en terminos reales, que puede venir con inflación, o sin ella
El Pais avisa de que no hay que fiarse de que esto ha bajado mucho y se va a lanzar la gente a comprar desesperada, por ahora lo que se están lanzando es los bancos a vender............... y eso es una buena pista de lo que esperan. En España las casas están muy caras, y casi todo lo demás tambien.......... hay pocas alternativas a una deflacion en terminos reales, que puede venir con inflación, o sin ella
WANT A CHEAP GYM? TRY THE STAIRS
Get healtier and sexier climbing the stairs...........
Ponte mas sana y güenorra/o subiendo por las escaleras
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REFLEXION MATUTINA SOBRE EL ESTADO DEL BIENESTAR
El estado del bienestar, ya no puede sostenerse para todo el mundo en las condiciones economicas actuales. Por tanto los politicos europeos han decidido restringirlo a una clase economica muy determinada: los banqueros, que al fin y al cabo son los que quedan a comer con ellos, les financian las campañas y les dan trabajo como consejeros en alguna de las muchas empresas que poseen o controlan una vez que se han de ir de la poltrona politica
BUT IT MOVES
Sooner or later China will have it's democratization too, seems some are asking for it from inside the regime.............. A breeze of hope
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China May Give Xi Military Post to Endorse Leadership Succession
Oct. 18 (Bloomberg) -- China's Vice President Xi Jinping may be appointed today to help oversee the 2-million-strong armed forces, strengthening his position to be the next leader of the world's most-populous nation.
Xi, 57, is set to become a vice chairman of the ruling Communist Party's Central Military Commission, analysts including Victor Shih said. The title, bestowed upon President Hu Jintao in 1999 when he was vice president, would enable Xi to forge closer ties with the People's Liberation Army ahead of a 2012 party congress that will choose China's new leadership. Hu chairs the military commission.
"It would be very unseemly not to admit Xi into the CMC at this point," said Shih, a professor who teaches Chinese politics and finance at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. "If he is smart, he will keep his head down and defer to Hu."
China's leaders gathered behind closed doors at a Beijing hotel on Oct. 15 for a four-day meeting that will also shape the country's latest five-year economic plan. The 200-plus permanent members of the party's central committee may also have discussed ways to address a gaping wealth gap that the official Xinhua News Agency called a "severe social reality" in its preview of the annual leadership meeting.
Xinhua said the party was likely to endorse Hu's call for an "inclusive growth" model to address inequality. The agency cited the World Bank's finding that the Gini coefficient -- a measure of inequality -- reached 0.47 in 2009, exceeding the 0.4 mark that is a predictor of social unrest.
Princeling Roots
Xi, the son of a former vice premier, was previously party chief in eastern China's Zhejiang province and in neighboring Shanghai. He was also in charge of organizing the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing and last year's celebrations marking 60 years of Communist Party rule. Xi served as Shanghai's Communist Party secretary for a year after the previous incumbent, Chen Liangyu, was fired and later imprisoned for 18 years for corruption.
Xi holds a doctorate in law and a chemical engineering degree from Beijing's Tsinghua University, Hu's alma mater, according to a biography distributed by the official Xinhua News Agency. He is married to a well-known singer.
Chinese scholars refer to Xi as a "princeling" because he's the son of a prominent official. His father, Xi Zhongxun, who died in 2002, was responsible for setting up the Shenzhen special economic zone when he was governor and party chief of southern China's Guangdong Province.
Out of Favor
The elder Xi was a vice premier from 1959-62 before falling out of favor with Chairman Mao Zedong, who established the People's Republic of China in 1949.
The direction of China's political development may also have featured at the Beijing meeting. In the run-up to the plenum, Premier Wen Jiabao called for a relaxation of state control of social and political affairs.
A group of retired officials drawn from the military, state media and academia, last week accused "invisible black hands" of suppressing a speech last month in which Wen called for greater political openness to match economic gains. The open letter by party elders including Li Rui, Mao's former secretary, was published on the Internet Oct. 11.
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BOUGHT YOUR PILLS SOME MILES AWAY
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Walking 6 to 9 miles a week may help memory
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MATEMATICA BASICA
English short
Just heard in a Spanish channel a piece of news about India´s population healt stressing that 1 in 6 diabetics in the world lives there..............but tachan tachan, 1 out of 6 persons of the world is from India . By the way Indians are very good at mathematics, ingenieering and similar disciplines..........
CASAS AL 50% EN MURCIA
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Nicklaus Golf Homes in Spain Offered at 50% Discount by Lenders
Oct. 15 (Bloomberg) -- Prices of repossessed apartments built on six Spanish golf courses designed by Jack Nicklaus have been slashed by as much as 50 percent as banks try to sell assets acquired during the property market collapse.
A two-bedroom, 74 square-meter (796 square-foot) penthouse in Murcia, southern Spain, is on sale for 128,800 euros ($180,000), down from 272,000 euros three years ago. It overlooks the 18-hole Hacienda Riquelme course and has air conditioning, a 32 square-meter terrace and communal pool.
Spain's real-estate and construction slump left thousands of vacation properties unsold and their builders facing bankruptcy. The number of homes purchased in Spain by foreigners dropped 78 percent from 2006 through 2009, according to a study published last week by the property website Fotocasa.es and the IESE Business School in Barcelona.
"This shows how desperate the banks are to offload their real estate," said Borja Mateo, author of the book "The Truth About the Spanish Housing Market." "The properties still look overvalued."
Polaris World, the closely held builder of the Murcia resorts, handed over 1,500 properties and land to lenders in May 2009 to cancel 970 million euros of debt. Now the banks, which include Banco Popular Espanol SA, are using hefty discounts and 100 percent mortgage deals to help clear the backlog, according to the website of Villa Cashback, which specializes in marketing the Murcia apartments to British buyers.
An 85 square-meter, ground-floor apartment with two bedrooms overlooking the Mar Menor golf resort is on sale for 159,000 euros, down 28 percent from the 2007 price.
No Offers
Anne Simpson, a 55-year-old from the Scottish city of Glasgow, is trying to sell her vacation home overlooking Hacienda Riquelme, which she bought in 2003 for 192,000 euros before it was built. She's had no offers so far and thinks she'd be lucky to get 150,000 euros for it.
"As beautiful as the resorts are, they are in the middle of nowhere," she said. "It's getting better and more populated, but it's still a bit of a wilderness."
Golf became part of the construction mania that swept Spain in the decade through 2007 as prices for privately owned homes tripled. The country built more courses in the period than any member of the euro region except Germany, according to the European Golf Association. There are now 345 in Spain, 92 percent more than in 1997.
Existing home prices in Spain have fallen 22.5 percent since peaking in April 2007, the study from Fotocasa.es and IESE showed. The country now has about 1.4 million unsold homes, according to Aguirre Newman, a Madrid-based property adviser.
Fallout in Spain
Spanish banks took about 60 billion euros of real estate onto their books as a result of the country's worst recession in 60 years. Starting Sept. 30, the central bank enforced tighter rules on how much lenders have to set aside in provisions for the assets, making it more expensive to hold on to them.
In Murcia, a region providing easy access to the 250 kilometers (155 miles) of beaches lining Spain's Costa Calida, there are 21 golf courses within 50 kilometers of each other.
Hacienda Riquelme is the largest of six courses that were fashioned by Nicklaus Design, the company founded by the 18-time golf major winner, and completed between 2005 and 2009. Three are now run by Ola Golf, a company subcontracted by IRM Estates, the group of banks that canceled Polaris World's debt in exchange for assets.
The others are managed by Polaris, which is 40 percent- owned by Credit Suisse Group AG, according to Polaris's website. Beatriz Suarez, a spokeswoman for Polaris, couldn't be reached for comment for this story. IRM Estates also couldn't be reached. Neither Nicklaus nor his company have any investment or involvement in the resorts, said Scott Tolley, his spokesman.
More Inquiries
There are signs the deep discounts for the Nicklaus golf apartments may be starting to spur interest, according to Paul Williams, managing director of U.K.-based Villa Cashback. He said his company sold four times as many of them in the first half of 2010 as it did a year earlier, declining to be more specific. He's getting twice as many inquiries as last year.
"For the first time since 2008, we have seen the return of the 'blind buyer,' where a property is reserved without viewing, usually for the best discounted bank bargains," Williams said. "Two years ago, the overriding sentiment was fear; now it's opportunism."
The British traditionally account for about 70 percent of overseas buyers of Spanish property. They may not be eager to splash out on vacation homes as the U.K. economic recovery falters and the government cuts spending to tackle a record budget deficit.
Brits in Spain
In 2007, about 45 percent of British buyers in Spain invested 250,000 euros to 350,000 euros, according to U.K. homebuilder Taylor Wimpey Plc, which markets golfing properties in the Spanish cities of Marbella and Alicante. Today, 20 percent are looking to spend 250,000 euros or more and 5 percent are prepared to spend more than 350,000 euros.
Gillian Kirk-Bushnell, a 67-year-old retired sales executive from near Canterbury, England, lives in her three- bedroom villa on the Mar Menor resort all year. She bought the property four years ago for 389,000 euros.
"For 132 euros a month, my lawns are mowed and irrigated, the communal gardens are kept immaculate and we have 24-hour, year-round security," she said in an interview at the resort, surrounded by pristine greens, tropical trees and exotic plants. "This is a huge asset for people looking to invest in holiday homes."
Murcia's Outlook
Murcia spent 750 million euros in the past two years to boost infrastructure and lure visitors. A new international airport in Covera, a town 20 kilometers from Murcia's city center, is scheduled to open in 2011, and a high-speed rail link connecting the area to Madrid is due for completion in 2014.
Paramount Pictures Corp. has also reached a preliminary licensing agreement with the Regional Government of Murcia for a movie-themed leisure park to be built in the area, according to Pedro Alberto Cruz, Murcia's regional councillor for culture and tourism. The project could bring 20,000 jobs to Murcia, which has an unemployment rate of 21.3 percent, he said.
Kirk-Bushnell says she has no regrets about buying her place, even though it has dropped in value.
"It's irrelevant," she said. "We live in paradise here and I'm not going anywhere."
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GOOD NEWS FROM THE ARMY
La deteccion de algunos traumatismos cerebrales podria hacerse via un
sencillo test sanguineo
sencillo test sanguineo
Army finds simple blood test to identify mild brain trauma
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EL POST MAS VISITADO
Revisando algunos datos de estadisticas del blog, hay 5 mil y algo de visitas que no es mucho dado el tiempo que lleva y la cantidad de post que he puesto, pero lo que me ha llamado la atencion es que el post mas visitado con diferencia (204 visitas) es el titulado Mapa Económico de España............ parece que la economia atrae mas de lo que parece :-)
REVERSE REASONING
Lately the move on the stocks has been something like this:
- When numbers point we can scape the double deep or the prolonged squeeze stocks go up thanks to the optimist side
- When numbers point we can go to double deep or a prolonged anguish, stocks go up because the FED will intervene and buy a lot of things putting a massive amount of liquidity in the system (QEII) , though most of the current liquidity does not flow to the economic system, just comes back to the FED trough. overnight deposits.
This has a name, is called complacency and is the most important ingredient for a crash..........
- When numbers point we can scape the double deep or the prolonged squeeze stocks go up thanks to the optimist side
- When numbers point we can go to double deep or a prolonged anguish, stocks go up because the FED will intervene and buy a lot of things putting a massive amount of liquidity in the system (QEII) , though most of the current liquidity does not flow to the economic system, just comes back to the FED trough. overnight deposits.
This has a name, is called complacency and is the most important ingredient for a crash..........
FUTURO ELECTRICO
Interesante articulo de Bloomberg en ingles sobre como BMW ha pasado su equipo de F1 de unas 300 personas a la investigacion y desarrollo del vehiculo electrico. Leyendolo me resultaba interesante varios puntos:
- Como algunas empresas dudan entre optar por el desarrollo de un motor electrico y otras por dejar la tarea a empresas ajenas al sector automovilistico y centrarse en los demas componentes del automovil y su ensamblaje. Las implicaciones pueden ser importantes
- Pensaba en la F1, cuando se pasará al vehiculo electrico, si el modelo es mantener el espectaculo de la velocidad y las prestaciones extremas pueden pasar muchos años, tal vez un par de decadas hasta que las prestaciones de un supuesto vehiculo electrico, aun los más avanzados, exclusivos y complejos pudieran tener prestaciones comparables con los actuales F1........ pero este sería un buen indicador de que la tecnología ha dado el salto.
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Interesting article in Bloomberg about the BMW move after giving up in formula 1, changing its developing team to the electric vehicule research and developing. They seem cometeed even to the develop of an electric engine, something that for example Mercedez doesn´t have so clear and keeps open the possibilty of using motors developed by other industries and companies.
- Como algunas empresas dudan entre optar por el desarrollo de un motor electrico y otras por dejar la tarea a empresas ajenas al sector automovilistico y centrarse en los demas componentes del automovil y su ensamblaje. Las implicaciones pueden ser importantes
- Pensaba en la F1, cuando se pasará al vehiculo electrico, si el modelo es mantener el espectaculo de la velocidad y las prestaciones extremas pueden pasar muchos años, tal vez un par de decadas hasta que las prestaciones de un supuesto vehiculo electrico, aun los más avanzados, exclusivos y complejos pudieran tener prestaciones comparables con los actuales F1........ pero este sería un buen indicador de que la tecnología ha dado el salto.
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Interesting article in Bloomberg about the BMW move after giving up in formula 1, changing its developing team to the electric vehicule research and developing. They seem cometeed even to the develop of an electric engine, something that for example Mercedez doesn´t have so clear and keeps open the possibilty of using motors developed by other industries and companies.
Arthritis ON THE RISE
Arthritis is on the rise an may have something to do with obesity
Arthritis spikes, hitting 22% of U.S. adults
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ALGO SE MUEVE EN USA
Un buen monton de top people en la administración Obama esta dejando el puesto. El ultimo un tal Jones............ que era el consejero de seguridad nacional ojo al dato, que en Noviembre hay elecciones y despues solo quedan un par de años para las presidenciales donde Obama puede encontrarse con una dura reelección................. y porque este tambien es el plazo para intentar resolver el tema Afghano (osea largarse que es lo que quiere Obama se dice) y ojito, porque es tambien el plazo al parecer para el point of no return en la capacidad nuclear de Iran...............
MICROSOFT AND ADOBE
Steve Ballmer visiting my country, Spain has said that all options are open with adobe, while the stock jump a 11 % in wall street session. Interesting move, adobe besides of flash an other well know products (reader) has something that would like a lot to the media, is a rival of Apple, wich would fit perfect to the so mediatic Microsoft and Apple war, so profitable for both of them............
Rumores de posible affair entre Microsoft y Adobe, ojo al dato que el movimiento es interesante y supongo que una via de reforzar el ecosistema windows para moviles especialmente.
Rumores de posible affair entre Microsoft y Adobe, ojo al dato que el movimiento es interesante y supongo que una via de reforzar el ecosistema windows para moviles especialmente.
NOBEL PARA PERU
La Niña Mala, lo ultimo que lei suyo me pareció una novela de un autor muy experimentado ya, entretenida, interesante relato narrativo de dos vidas muy diferentes que convergen, consiguiendo un completo dibujo de las mismas en apenas 200 paginas. Pero la que en su momento me pareció un novelon fue La Guerra del Fin del Mundo, bastante extensa eso si.
En su momento Vargas Llosa hizo una incursión en la politica, presentandose a presidente de Peru donde perdió en ultima instancia frente a Fujimori, quien cumple prision ahora tras haberse escapado del pais en plena presidencia tras una ristra de tropelias, corruptelas y ataques a lo que debe ser un sistema democratico. Recuerdo haber leido explicaciones de el sobre como reflexiono al respecto de la dificultad de ganar las elecciones diciendo la verdad (una restriccion que obviamente Fujimorí no tenia) pero como decidierón no matizar, ni engañar e ir a la batalla electoral sin hacer uso consciente de mentiras, ni prometer lo que era claro que no se podría cumplir (todo esto segun el, claro) y como perdió...............lo cierto es que las democracias no suelen elegir a intelectuales, y las democracias jovenes en paises no altamente desarrollados se equivocan aún mas. Lo hubiera hecho como lo hubiera hecho Vargas Llosa de presidente es dudoso que fuera siquiera remotamente tan perjudicial para su pais como fue Fujimori.................... y tambien que de haber ganado le hubieran dado nunca el novel de literatura.
Enhorabuena tambien para el idioma castellano que nuevamente consigue otro autor laureado con el maximo galardón literario mundial y van al menos 3 que yo recuerde, Cela, Garcia Marquez y Vargas LLosa.
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Vargas Llosa has been honour with Nobel Prize, I like it. Read 2 or 3 books of him, first one some 20 years ago, great novelist, good articulist, and an intellectual with liberal tendences. Able to criticized dictatorships undistinguished from right or left, quite different for others that consider non-democracies good when the color suits them.
Llosa has frequently attacked corruption and lack of democracy as two of the big problems of Latinoamerica, has pride liberal policies in the economic and the social (sometimes maybe scoring to the right) and is a bold and interestint intelectual in the spanish speaking world. Congretaluations to his Country Peru, and himself!!
FEMINISMO O CHORRADISMO
Al parecer las menestras se han ofendido porque el señor Guerra llame a Trinidad Jimenez " señorita" ...........país! oiga
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PROBANDO
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recibido por mail
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Recorded: Mar 23, 2010 2:01:37
Length: 0:11
SPAIN GREY FUTURE
OCDE says spain future looks pretty grey, mediocre future for spain economy.............. As we had been commenting around here for a while
La OCDE dice que el futuro economico de España pintá en globo................ Hay mucho que cambiar en España y no se hará en meses................pasarán años, tal vez legislaturas.............
La OCDE dice que el futuro economico de España pintá en globo................ Hay mucho que cambiar en España y no se hará en meses................pasarán años, tal vez legislaturas.............
LIBRARIES, THERE'S AN APP FOR THAT
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Libraries launch apps to sync with iPod generation
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OJO A GOMEZ
Ya lo dijimos por aqui, acaba de meter la primera y seria estocada a
Zapatero, tiene poco que perder y mucho que ganar, el post-
zapaterismo acaba de nacer, aleluya.
Zapatero, tiene poco que perder y mucho que ganar, el post-
zapaterismo acaba de nacer, aleluya.
A mas a mas: me da que Gomez no se queda aqui, a poco que mejore
resultados de su partido en Madrid, algo asequible, podemos tener un
nuevo referente en la politica española.
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