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How to heal in this clinic?

It is true that I am a denied for languages (I am of those who thought that if tomato was “tomato” and was potato “potato”, lettuce noses should be “lechugato”). I have no idea of Portuguese and I guess what you see in the picture up there has nothing to do with what my fevered mind is thinking, but right now I’m imagining 1. a nurse dressed all in leather with a whip and 2. a cold remedy based on bamboo poles put you under the nails.

So for the sake of my sanity, please … someone who has been in Portugal to tell me what a “Sadoclínica”!

Good news gives the recipe for grog from Monkey Island

If you are interested in history of piracy will know what the grog (a drink made of rum, sugar, lime juice, cinnamon and water) and, furthermore, you are video game fans know the grog as the descarrachante, LSD and corrosive recipe Monkey Island. According to some “journalists” of an Argentine canal, this recipe, which has learned through social networks, is called “Grog XD” (sic) and is all the rage among young people in Buenos Aires. Come on, which have led to actual intake of such draft. Observe.

… And all because of the demonic “Internet that”. That yes, if it be true then all I want to express my admiration for young drinkers Buenos Aires: if they can drink sulfuric acid with the throat, the stomata and titanium intestigo.

PS: Any day we see a documentary on dangerous “duels of insults” which caused many fatalities.

There are indexes for all tastes

A few days ago, my partner Mark Antony gave us the latest Big Mac index calculation, where the cost is estimated that honorable product in many countries and to extrapolate from that the cost of living of citizens on in each of the countries.

Since I have not bought a Big Mac in over 20 years, I guess my cost of living has been zero all these years, according to this study. Another demonstration of the error of using only personal experience to reach general conclusions .

Marco Antonio this morning gave us a much more interesting, using the purchasing power of consumers in different countries for different products.

Since we are the indices to see if things go well or badly, as the title of this article, There are indexes for everyone .

The article gives some interesting reference, which are the following, which show when things go wrong:

• The driver on preparation, when a taxi is a more impressive resume than oneself.
• Not to mention the index that tells us that the stock market is overvalued when that is the topic of conversation when you enter a taxi.
• Squeegee man , the number of people who are ready to wipe the windshield when you stop at a red light.
• The contractors quickly return your calls 24 hours in a recession and if you call before you call them, there is depression.
  Hot Waitress
• Index , where the waitresses are much more attractive, young ladies who normally are working as models, reception or event.
  White shirt
• index , where they say that in tough times, executives are white shirts to work because they are more conservative and less conspicuous .

It appears that another also called Index Briefs, where the pace to replace the garment men slows in difficult times. That is, they do work some more when times are not so good, see graph.

Be careful with the indices we follow, but although some of these seem rare, we give indications of the mood of the people and, as I discussed in these pages several times, the mood is very important in the economy.

Via | New York magazine (in English)

In El Blog Salmon | How much do you work for your property? and How much work for a hamburger ?

The judges are awaiting review of their wage model

12,500 courts are pending the ultimatum that he planted the Minister of Justice in the previous strike, where they have to discuss a new wage model to all these officials of public authorities. The hot spots are negotiating on increasing the allowances and the payment of the guards, as the main claims.

The associations of judges want to be prime workload of the courts, the Ministry productivity. Which makes me think it clear from all this, is that we talk about public officials who are paid between 3,000 and 5,000 euros per month, which are claiming ins wage increases above 20% on the initial proposal . And is not the time since then.

We will not put into question the work of justice and the role of judges, strongly supported by the clerks, but I seem to get put on the ropes to justice, starting wages are based. The Ministry is adamant on giving deshorbitadas increases in the current crisis.

We do not talk to officials of group C, as the effort to draw some opposition within the judiciary are not the same, but the associations of judges should recoil, for the good of all and show social justice Overall, siding with the status of other employees and officials.

A judge has mileurista considering, although it probably cost them make ends meet. Claim these increases when justice has serious problems of material strength, insufficient space, computer obsolete and even shortages in many courts is push the cow over what should be morally right now.

Of course, these assumptions that I plasmo are fine in theory, in practice we can find another judicial strike in October , where again the courts cease to function. If the Ministry agrees with the claims, it can hardly explain other officials how they freeze the wages of some and not others. The outcome in a few months.

More Information | Ideal

In El Blog Salmon | The Law of Strikes and judges

Image | The truth will set us free

How much work for your property?

One aspect of economic globalization is the integration of markets tends to create a single large global market. This process accelerated since the 90s and with the clear objective of reducing trade barriers, promoted the standardization of many goods and services , homogenizing global tastes. Hence the importance of the Big Mac index since the 80 publishes The Economist.

It is therefore important step taken by the bank UBS in Basle, which goes beyond the classic report that each year makes the British publication. In his report Prices and Wages, which compares the value of a basket of 122 goods and services in 73 cities around the world to point out some aspects of great interest. For example, through rents, notes that the most expensive cities are Oslo, Zurich, Copenhagen, Geneva, Tokyo and New York. Just as the cheapest cities are Kuala Lumpur, Manila, New Delhi and Mumbai.

The study was conducted between March and April this year in 73 cities and among other of their findings is that workers in Copenhagen, Zurich, Geneva and New York have the highest gross wages, while the average employee in New Delhi, Manila, Jakarta and Mumbai earns less than one-fifteenth of a Swiss worker.

In conditions of perfect competition and product homogeneity, this product should have the same value anywhere in the world, be paid in dollars, euros, pounds or yuan. However, there are big differences are accentuated when we consider specific products. Thus, while the worker of Mexico requires 129 minutes of work to buy a Big Mac, the Australian worker 19 minutes will suffice. Hence the indicator is a clear indication of the wealth of a country.

These comparisons are stark and allow one to notice the differences between one world and another. While in Jakarta the average worker 80 minutes of work requires access to a kilo of bread, the average worker in Germany was just 8 minutes of work, just a tenth. The same phenomenon occurs to buy an iPod: the average worker in Miami takes 10 hours, while the average worker in Argentina requires 99 hours.

More information:

In El Blog Salmon | How much work for a hamburger?

Tax Counter

Well, it seems that since the Government already been clarified that high incomes. For the head of the Ministry of Public Works are those with incomes over 50,000 euros. It is they who should be “solidarity” as jaleadores newspeak used by the current government. Vae Victis. Once again, our high priests find a scapegoat to atone for their sins (yes, those who let loose 400 euros before a helter skelter or given away checks and baby, also out of solidarity). Toca pay.

Anyway, I guess we know that and have spent some time with tax increases public and notorious . Another thing is that its effect to dilate over time, but tax reforms on pension and housing deduction, you can not otherwise qualify for. And calm, there will be for everyone. Least for those, who in my humble opinion should have, those that are not being anything solidarity despite how much they require to others. And they should also fall on fiscal measures. And to think that before raising the incomes would have to start thinking about reducing the costs into two main groups :

• The high public office and assimilated , representatives of national parliaments, and autonomous, and so on. Then I leave a brief but illuminating Sevach post on the solidarity of these lights of the West. Sevach focuses on how their bestowal, for those coming from the public for those who are officials, an add-lifetime (equivalent to CEO), as additional prize for having gone through political office. And then they criticize the directors of private companies. But, as briefly outlined in the post, there are many more that are shared spoils. One that irritates me most is the shameful discrimination between Spanish and common parliamentary shift when receivable their public pension . That should be your concept of solidarity.

• The unions and business organizations , especially those qu water you have danced to the Government with the announcement of this tax hike. Trade unions in Spain are financed overwhelmingly from public funds. Out of solidarity. There is talk of 15 million, but I think the figure is very, very short, by focusing on the funds they receive power from the Ministry of Labor. Should be analyzed network of foundations, NGOs and the like that feed on public funds for the thousands of stalls, sorry, where marauding administrative bodies. Those who know the Forcem guess that will speak very clear and that way they have perverted needs and ideals.

I look forward to hear Mr. White announced that the perks of public office and Parliament are annulled, and that unions and employers must fend for themselves when it comes to funding. Out of solidarity.

More info | The Economist, Freedom Digital

In El Blog Salmon | The taxes will go up in Spain

Gestha mileurista exaggerates his report in Spain

A few days ago we saw in all media a technical report of the Finance Union (Gestha) where he concluded that

A total of 18.3 million Spanish perceive gross monthly income below 1,100 euros, which represents 63% of workers who work in our country

As we read in the news, data have been used to reach this conclusion have been paying tax statistics from the Personal Income Tax < > next to the statistics of the Income Statement for 2007.

This report on the distribution of income for earned income

is exaggerated and misunderstood .
Based on previous figures, Gestha assumed there are 29 million employees and individuals who report income from business activities in the
Personal Income Tax . Does not seem many workers to boat soon?

These details are incorrect, that the statistics of the tax office
added as a salary each income source . For example, if three months I’ve been working on (employee), 3 months collecting unemployment (unemployed) and also receives a pension of any kind (pension) will be counted three different people when all revenues are received by the same person.

Just look at the attached table for us to verify this point, where it shows that by 2007 Spain had only 15.3 million employees.

The correct headline would be, 63% of rents paid for earned income, pensions and unemployment and economic activities are reported by less than 1,100 euros per month. But of course this headline does not sell because:

• 2.5 million unemployed hardly could exceed 15 times the SMI when the maximum recovery of unemployment is below that figure. (1,350 euros gross a month at best)
• Pensioners , receive the pension that they receive the source, have very low incomes, for the reasons already discussed at length in this blog about the current problems of the current pension system, and its low amount of the main obstacles it presents.

Mileuristas Meter as the
• Self-taxed in the objective assessment is the least reckless. Objective estimation is that, a flat-rate calculation of a hypothetical case of annual tax revenue, without considering the real flow of income and expenses.

Analyzing in detail the first block of employees, which includes the unemployed and pensioners who also receive rental income from work have the following table, considering the
SMI 7988.40 euros as:

With this distribution, we see that the 19.3 million employees,
7.69 million have an income paid an amount less than 1.5 times the minimum wage (11,982 per year), limit can be considered as mileurista. Even taking this figure, we can not talk about pure and simple mileurista this magnitude since revenues are extrapolated to the year, regardless of the timing of revenue sources.

Even her for good, from 18.3 million workers, we have moved to 7.69 million, well below course although still high.

Do not forget that there is no work in Spain in a situation of labor that can communicate a full-time monthly salary of less than

SMI . Whereupon, the above data in are 5.1 million workers who work all year and have an irregular source of income, not to discuss the plea entered and are considering mileuristas, without being clear whether they are or not.

More Information |

AEAT – Statistics wage distribution
In El Blog Salmon | Stories submileuristas

Image | Tiscar

Contraception: The Opera

This video answers two questions: How do opera lovers to not become pregnant? and what can you do with your girlfriend and your friends when you get bored a lot and you have a camcorder in front

All right … I do not know … something is missing. Perhaps a large group of sperm swimming toward the egg to the tune of “The Ride of the Valkyries.”

Warning for tourists who take out money in London

Cashier

cockney

Before you begin I apologize for all bloomer for that I will commit. The issue is so English that I just picked at all.

To which we, if a day walking around London you approach an ATM, and this will begin a ask questions about sausages or Charlie Sheen instead of point you want to see your balance if not worry. The inhabitants of perfidious Albion have not yet become so crazy.

Simply you are facing one of the five ATMs in cockney that independent ATM operator Bank Machine has provided in the UK capital. As you know, the Cockney is a dialect of the “London thoroughbred” (pardon the strange expression) that are used phrases and words are pronounced in a characteristic manner. These ATMs imitate that kind of expression.

But it is not a concession to the people of London deep. It simply is a publicity , a grace so that people will stay with the company name.

That’s it … is that … its like me and find me in Madrid with a cashier to tell me as it was in “the forum” or the people of my grandfather with one to tell me things baturro.

Teenagers who skip breakfast, they lose their virginity before

Japanese researchers who analyzed 3,000 girls have concluded that those who skip breakfast lose their virginity earlier than those who begin the day by eating something … feed them .

‘ Hope to marry a virgin each morning eating cookies’

Geisha

In particular have reported that the breakfast not lose their virginity at an average age of 17.5 years, and who do lose it at 19.

The study was sponsored by the Japanese health ministry, which is concerned about the increase of unwanted pregnancies among adolescents.

We do not know if the study also affects male adolescents, but just in case, this news serves to to encourage our younger readers who want to be premiered breakfast stop for a spell and see if we’re lucky. < >

See also back to being a virgin with this artificial hymen, how to order sex

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Discussions of economy and partidocracia PPSO Telecinco

Last night I stumbled upon zapping one of those programs that infumables our grill placed on television. La Noria , (I do not classify) of Telecinco was having a debate about the prime minister wondered where viewers and Internet users if approved Zapatero’s economic management .

The few minutes I could bear such a cockfight debate took clear dangerous positions that are intensifying in all walks TV and therefore other TV programs that talk about economy to target the noneconomic public. The general impression I got is that all the pundits who participated in this debate are some impresentables where they had the following errors:

Lack of documentation and information that is impressive. According to commentators in Japan unemployment rate is at 10%. It’s wrong, the Japanese unemployment rate of 5.7% l record and away from the figures given all the pundits as valid, including the moderator.

The staunch partisanship and bipolar is an endemic problem that prevents any economic reasoning. If I am a socialist, the announcement of tax increases, even without knowing what or how or when it is good for nothing. On the other hand if I Peper, is bad by definition, since the ZP has said that he learned economics in two afternoons.

Continuing with this line, we still maintain a number of stereotypes that have little to do with the reality of today’s society. Not all workers are middle class or middle class is all rich or poor, have to be stupid or a worker on the right or left an employer.

With regard to subsidies , all voters in the PSOE from the table given for good payment of 420 euros, as are good it will also eliminate the pay of 100 euros per month to mothers workers or removing the check baby. Curious, the same argument used to justify opposite things. These arguments are given for good because, without going into the form, in substance or in a coherent analysis of the impact of the measures, who is right or who is left out.

In that vein, the pundits related to PP criticize the subsidy policy only because the ZP has been implemented. Vale to increase public spending but these commentators did not speak even once to cut public spending specific areas, the necessary fiscal adjustment or the way forward to curb public debt.

We summarized a tax cut. Ok, and what else? That is, where we will put the 4.5 million unemployed in which sectors?

The conclusion I reached is that these programs only further pollute society that is not actually a day in economic news, which offers a complete reading of the script of the party laying speak and that anything you say my game is good because, even without considering the consequences of those decisions.

This country chip needs a change in this aspect but I get the impression that none of the two parties in contention, they will work to make this happen, because if the staff thinks they lose votes . So we go with the political class and their spokesmen like.

More Information | La Noria – Telecinco

In El Blog Salmon | Do we have questions for Rodriguez Zapatero ?

Japanese government is saddled with the crisis

Although a couple of weeks ago they celebrated the departure of Japan from its worst recession in 50 years , the Japanese economy has returned to immerse themselves in the double nightmare of the rampant deflation and rising unemployment . These facts mean a fatal blow to the ruling Liberal Democratic Party ( PLD ), which faces its fiercest battle for political survival in the elections taking place today and which should give political power to his opponents Democratic Party (PD).

Unemployment reached a record level official of 5.7% in July, although it is suspected that the real figure is twice as methods for calculating cut off millions of men and women seeking employment. Moreover, the price index has fallen by 2.2% by installing a concern to see the second largest economy in the world trapped in a deflationary spiral . This figure is greater than all the deflation experienced by Japan in the 90s. Deflation, as warned by the World Bank, is the real problem. No risk of inflation in sight, to tugs Fish oil price speculation.

All these figures do not mean more than a blow to Japan’s Prime Minister Taro Aso, who today can suffer a humiliating defeat in general elections. Although this party ruled Japan at the stage of megacrecimiento of the 60, 70 and 80 since the 90s has been reeling all the scaffolding into the vortex of a housing bubble. In that decade, the gardens of the Imperial Palace in Tokyo were worth more than the entire state of Washington.

The official unemployment figure broke all records since they began in 1953. But the 5.7% is highly misleading and it is estimated that the actual figure should be around 12.2% , since all the companies have shed labor armies of street product the sharp fall world trade.

The leader of the opposition Democratic Party (PD), Yukio Hatoyama, said that the weak government stimulus plan has failed to combat the effects of the crisis deteriorated the employment and consumption. The weakness in demand, and Toyota’s announcement of its defiitivamente close production lines, will continue to raise unemployment. The euphoria of a few weeks ago by those who celebrated the end of the economic downturn in Japan, has had an amazing roll, with the likely departure from the government who has led the country since 1955.

Image | artemuestra

The English Court presents results: thermometer of the crisis

Like every year around this time, The English Court has presented the results of their accounts , ranging from March 2008 to February 2009. This is very significant since it is a private company which is unlisted and only provides data at this time of year but give a very interesting account of how consumption is Spain.

Last year was peering problems, as the turnover and profits grew very little, the least since the last crisis. But this time the results were far worse . The turnover was reduced, not much, just 3.5%, but the benefit that it has fallen by 47%. That yes, they had to do things right, because in a time when consumption has suffered a lot, despite falling profits are still positive numbers.

What is the explanation of a big drop of profit and turnover so low? Clearly, to maintain the turnover had to lower their margins , the solution being applied by all companies. Lower prices.

Also, have had to increase direct funding to their customers. The card and the English Court has more than 10 million people, and have managed to maintain full funding of customers last year. That yes, the default is noted and the financial section has had to provide strong coverage of insolvency.

Where have had more problems? For in Sfera Opencor, Supercor Bricore. That is, in its stores (expendable in the crisis), food expensive but with high availability of schedules (people can save by ending its purchases after hours) and furniture and DIY (the least resent home sales to other sectors) . Quite reasonable, although intended to restructuring in these industries that have come in losses.

In conclusion, figures that reflect falling consumption at home , which indicate a reduction in prices, noting that families have sought funding for purchases outside the more traditional means. Yet even in this crisis environment, it is possible to make money.

En El Blog Salmon | The English Court keeps its accounts

Via | The Country

Image | Roberto Garcia

Camouflage techniques in the office

If you are so quiet in the office doing nothing and suddenly there comes a thick client or boss to disturb your peace bud take note of the tactics for this video go unnoticed Russian.

We know it’s an ad but do not know Russian and do not know what it is. I think that is an insurance company and that the message is “Where is your insurance company when you need ?”. However, it is the least of what we’ve seen. On that we all agree.

La chispa adecuada

Daniel Wood

Sniffing the contents of an aerosol is dangerous. And if we want to count up law enforcement officers involved with “gadgets” strange.

I count: In Lancaster, Ohio (USA) someone has seen a beggar inhaling the contents of an aerosol. Immediately give notice to the police and this is person in the place.

The beggar, named Daniel Wood , to see the cops and even the eyebrows of deodorant, insecticide, or oven cleaners (whatever) starts to get nervous. The officers, who are from those who understand that “calm” to someone is “leave on the ground without knowledge” try to reduce it. Since they are not able to dominate the addict can not think of anything else to pull taser (one of those pots that give electric shocks) and stick a electric shocks to the chest type .

I suppose you know that could happen: the beggar’s chest began to burn. The spark had ignited the contents of the aerosol had been “attached” to their clothes. One officer put out the flame before Wood is a successor conviertera lysergic from the human torch.

Finally all stayed in a fright . That yes, even though the rules are cautioned not to be using tasers when flammable gases are involved, the department believes that the police acted properly. You see.