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The sale of dwellings fell by 38.6% during March
05/08 - Drafting

The sale of homes continues its downward path, as marked indicators in March, when decreased by 38.6% over the same month of 2007. In all, 46,074 buildings were exchanged, a 16.4% less compared with the figure in February. During the month of March, the free sale of homes fell 39.1% in interannual rate, while houses with protection decreased by 32.2% over the same month of previous year. For its part, the number of operations on new homes sales fell to 27.5% with the transfer of 22,534 properties, while transactions of used homes fell by 46.4% to 23,540. For autonomous regions, La Rioja and Murcia are the number of housing transactions was higher, although Andalusia, Valencia, Catalonia and Madrid recorded 57% of total sales.

learnt expressions:
housing transactions: transaccions de vivendes
downward: de baixa
dwellings: vivenda

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All that jazz in Terrassa [MUSIC EVENTS]

CATALONIA TODAY

This year for inagurate the 27th Terrassa jazz festival Jordi Rossy started it. This event dured till 16th of March cause there were concerts, dances, film screenings, etc. The most spectaular was the concert made by Toots Thielemenas Quarten on 2nd. Thielman is known cause his harmonica sound, and also because he plays guitar very good. To see him, tickets were payed aroung 40€ because people wanted to see him without tink about the price.
For more information visite www.jazzterrassa.org.

expressions or facts I've learnt:
I've learnt that exisit this festival.
screenings: projeccions (cine)
till (until): fins a

FIRST NEW of 3rd term

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This new talks about the sexism in the actual society.
Many companies and clubs who use their premises for trafficking in women, as they called sex shops. At the direction of these companies women are the minority. Also the situation of these women workers have less job protection and are often in precarity situation. I think we should change the system and stand up against this objectifying that comes from the old that has persisted in society over the years.
In addition, women, when pregnant lose positions the place where they work without the possibility of returning to the same company for possible repetition of the event.

Dr. Katherine Rake said: "It is time for women and men to stand up against the sexist culture of objectifying women that has gripped our society."

Despite that I am not very much in favour of prostitution, as there is to work, the workers should have job protection. =)*

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learnt expressions:

in favour: a favor
trafficking: traficar
precarity: precaria

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The Spanish roads claim 17 lives in the first three days of Holy Week.

On Sunday, eight people died in seven traffic accidents, in which four people were also seriously injured and five other form of mild, as reported by the General Directorate of Traffic (DGT). Fatal accidents have taken place in the provinces of Barcelona, Madrid, Toledo, Almeria, Malaga, Tarragona and Gerona, in the latter two deaths.

These figures are a total of 17 deaths, six serious injuries and eight minor for the moment during this weekend. In 2007, there were 34 deaths the late Sunday. At the time of Saturday were seven dead in Spanish roads, while on Friday there were two other accidents, resulting in two deaths. The number of deaths has decreased but in spite of that it should be zero.
Since Friday, at 15 hours and until March 24, is up a special device to ensure the smooth flow and security of the movements of Easter, a period in which 103 people died last year on the roads.
In the photo you can see some firefighters inspecting a car that fell to a path of Alicante.

NEW.

Do you remember the fraud that I told you? so..
Agents of the Police Brigade French financial recorded this morning the halls of the headquarters of market Société Générale in Paris, where he worked Jerome Kerviel the broker to whom the bank accused of having caused a loss of 4,900 million euros, and have arrested a former colleague of the operator, as reported by the radio station Europe 1.
The operator of the subsidiary of SocGen has been arrested by the financial brigade that tries to verify whether now has been able to work with Kerviel in unauthorized transactions in the futures market that reached 50,000 million euros.
This arrest comes three days after the Paris Court of Appeal consider the request for release to Kerviel, detained since last February 8.
The police acted within the framework of a rogatory commission of judges Renaud van Ruymbeke and Francoise Desset.SocGen has confirmed the arrest during the record but provided no further information.
It is increasingly difficult to control the Internet or by fraud in the banks, because technology improves and hackers increasingly specialize. Be very careful.

NEW.

As we all know, recently the program web MESSENGER is unavailable. It appears connection errors and you can't log in with your account. Apparently Telefonica has been sanctioned. The origin of the sanction is placed in the complaint by a user of Terra, after discovering that it was possible to access mail from other users without authenticated, gave notice to those responsible without these measures.

The Agency found that it was possible to access mail from users, the DNI, address and bank account. For that reason has been sentenced to Telefonica, which owns the site, to 60 thousand euros. Terra was reported that the problem was solved, something that you found that was not true. So we decided to put in the hands of the Data Protection Agency.
Telefonica intends to appeal the penalty and ensures that Terra "fulfilled all safety measures and will not be infringed nothing." The action, of course, does not respond to a user portal that accidentally accesses personal data of third by a deficiency of security and makes it known to the responsible to correct. "For this reason the operation of Banda Broadband Telefonica was off duty and not working or messenger or ebuddy, or anything that has a connection with this.

*Incredibly, Telefonica recognizes that the greatest competitor in the fixed telephony is "Messenger", the instant messaging service of Microsoft. (with not calls)Telefonica sources have stressed the importance to have in the next few years broadband, which soon will compete with fixed line, so that, very soon, will employ over IP networks for voice that the traditional telephone infrastructure. Telefonica believes that competition will arise between different technologies, and value lie in the news that each of the technologies will be able to offer the user.




see you.

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NEW.

There is a big problem in Catalonia! WATER RESTRICTION :S Since a few months ago, the government is pending in the matter of water.

There is growing shortage and more spending of water, and the need for this is a vital to our society. Despite this, there was a leak of 216,000 litres of water in the middle of drought in Badalona.The council did not report the true seriousness of the matter but took security measures.

On the other hand, the Minister of the Environment, Francesc Baltasar, opposes the transvasamientos, but the water agency has reached an agreement with the City of Tarragona to make feasible the provision of water to the deficit areas through boats Tarragona own resources and guarantee the quality and availability.

The Catalan water agency, on behalf of the Department of Environment and Habitage, Govierno of the Generalitat of Catalonia, has expressed respect and gratitude to the City of Tarragona to help contribute to domestic supply to all Catalan population in a situation of drought like this, which looks like a post-war situation that we are experiencing.

NEW.

Today I want to talk you about an important thing that it's happened this month around the world.

There have been various frauds through the network and have been swindled between 400 and 10,000 euros for the Internet. Phishers create websites identical to that of banking companies where users enter their dates. In the pages of crooks the information of users are sent in their registration list and cthey an make transfers they want and steal they want. In addition, they use bank account numbers, telephones and mobile phones.

Today this has gone announced on television. With new techonologies this it's possible, but also it's possible know who has done that or the way have they use. It's possible with telephones, connecting it in a telefonic where you without know that you spend money with a long call, or thorugh the on-line websites and this virtual ways.

I think that it's necessary to pay a lot of atention in internet because you never know what can happens throw the websites or this pages that apears and be careful where you put your personal information an this things.

I hope justice is done because world is going worse each day that it pasts...

The Spanish executives believe that our politicians are not very transparent.

Coinciding with the end of the election campaign and open the period for the formation of the new government, more than half of the managers polled for the Spaniards barometer and SEA believes that our politicians are not very transparent and meet their commitments poorly .

Managers consulted call on the political class, thus not only greater transparency in their actions but in their intentions and adds greater demands on the degree of compliance with their commitments to citizens, a request that takes on added dimensions once arrives time to comply with the recent electoral commitments. The 52.94% of the business leaders consulted scores between 4 and 5 on a maximum of 10, the level of compliance with the commitments acquired politicians.

The issue has reached the poorest valuation has been the degree of transparency in the political intention of the current political class, as the average has remained at 4.76 points and the valuation of at least 2, the maximum 9 . The government must be transparent in front of the people because corruption should belong only in the world of films.