Catalonia in Spain

Recently I've seen a documental about Catalonia. The producer of those documental was from the UK. He moved from the UK a few years a go and he lives now in a village near Barcelona.
There he discovered that the catalans weren't happy with the way that the Spanish government treats them.
He asked the different opinions from Madrid and other places out side Catalonia about this polemical treat to Catalonia and he asked the same to the catalan people.
He also made interviews to important politicians like Jose Maria Aznar and other important politicians and asked about their opinions.

The Spanish peoples opinion in resume is that the Catalan people exaggerate too much and they think that Catalonia gives no positive things to spain. They think that catalan people discrimminate the Spanish ones when they want to talk in spanish with them. They classifie them as "Strange People"

The Catalan people think that the Spanish government and people treats them in a bad way, they underestimate what the Catalan people aport to the land. They want more autonomity and the radicalest people wants the independency of Catalonia. They argue that the discrimination to the spanish speaking people isn't true.

He also shows economical stadistics which shows that Catalonia gives a lot of money to the Spanish government and only 1/3 of that money goes back to Catalonia (with out any investment). For example if Catalonia gives to the Spanish government 100€, only 68€ of those goes back to Catalonia. (Statistics of 2005) If you compare it with Andalusia, if they give 100€ the government return them 168€. (also statistics of 2005).
That statistics has growed till today on 1/3.
That's one thing, but the other thing is that the catalan people has to pay things like their glasses, the driving license, lots of medicaments...
And thats the biggest reason why I dont agree with the Spanish government, because It's enough that the Catalan people has to pay a lot of money more than the rest of Spain, but they also don't have many facilites which the rest of Spain has.

In my opinion, I think that Catalonia would work better If they could become independent. Because, If the Spanish government wouldn't have depts with Catalonia, Catalonia wouldn't be in a crisis like that, and we wouldn't have to make those cuts every where.

News 1

The Online Game Tax

The Spanish governement wants to make a new law which affects all the sector of online games which are involved wih money. In that sector we can include sport bet houses, poker, online casinos and other enterprises.
The law consists in set a tax for all those sites, and like every tax that one won't be low.
They want to set this tax because right now all the money which flows through online poker rooms, online casino, online bet houses are taxless and the enterprises makes a 100% benefit because for every game you make the enterprises charge a little comission.
I think that it's good to set this tax, but they should set it lower, because it will destroy the sector, and many player will stop playing because the price of the comssions will increase to much. This sector has grown a lot in the last years and with this tax it can fall down.

My letter to the teacher!!

Hello Sònia!!

This exercice has made me think a lot about the future. I still don't know what I
wanna be, but I hope that I will choose the best option and at the final, I just wan't to
be happy with my life and not listen what the other people think about happiness and how to be It.

My fiction short time dream is that I win the "El gordo" and that I don't must work again
in my life, so my large time dreams will be also solved. But I know that it never will happen
because first of all i don't play lotterie and second the possibility is 0.0001% that it happens to you...

So my real short time dream is to pass batxillerat this year and that we all have a good time this
year. But till the final there is a long and hard way to walk which I have to go through.

And my real large time dream is: Go back to Switzerland, go back to my home... I don't know
when, but I wan't to go back and life there. I wan't to go back because It's the place where I really feel
that I'm in home.

See you at the class!!

Dialogue

Cleo: Hey Daddy!

Dad: Hi honey!

Cleo: Can I ask you something...?

Dad: Yes! Sure, what do you want?

Cleo: Can i borrow some money please?

Dad It depends, for what do you need it for?

Cleo: I wanna have bigger boobs! I'm not happy with my boobs. They are very small, aren't they?

Dad: Hmmmm... I'll think about it, but I don't think that you need it. Beside it costs a lot og money and I don't want to give you so much money.

Cleo: But I want them! I will pay the half of them myself!

Dad: Oh my god! But why do you want to have bigger boobs?

Cleo: Okey... It's Scoot, the new boy of my class. He is very cute and people say to me thyat he only likes busty girls... And do you also like busty girls, don't you?

Dad: And you don't want me to spend my money on this son of bitch, do you? I'm sorry Cleo... You have to appeal to people for who you are...

Cleo: Yes daddy but... It's Scoot...

Dad: Cleo, no fuck!

Cleo: Okey... asshole! (quietly)

Dad: Excuse me? What do you say?

Cleo: Nothing Daddy... I love you thanks!

Dad: Ah yeah, me to baby, you will thank me in the future! ;)

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Autors: Guillermo Mateos and Simon Zbinden

Ubuntu

Ubuntu is a operating system for computers like it's Windows or Mac. It use the core of Linux and on it's origins it's based on Debian (Linux and Debian are other types of operating system). It has been created the year 2004. Ubuntu is totally gratis that's because in so low time it has become a 49% of market distribution.
It's a very good system because it's fast, it can't have virus and finally it's gratis.
I use that operating system since last year and I really like It. The only problem it's that you can't install all the programs that you want or if you want to install them you have to make a big procedure and know more or less what you do.

Döner Kebab

The döner kebab is a Turkish food which has integrated in Europe in the final of the 20th century. It became very popular in the 90's in Germany, when a Turkish man opened for the first time a Döner Kebab snack bar in Berlin. His idea was that only the Turkish, Indian and Pakistanian people would buy it, but there where some German people which also wanted to taste It, and from there It became very popular. First in Europe, and now in the howl world.
The kebab is made of chicken, beef, lamb (originally), fish and for the vegetarian with tofu. But it isn't only meat, it's combined with salad and if you want you can put it into a bread called pita. There are many varieties of kebab like the kakori, chapli, shish, etc. It depends from which land the kebab comes.
The kebab in Europe has an important part in the night life culture of many young people. Because when they come back from a night out they go to a Kebab snack bar to eat them. That's because it's common to see those bars open till the pubs close, the kebab bar proprietaries make their business at those time.

I really love döner kebab's!! I think that it's one of the best meals that I've ever tasted and I would eat them at any time of the day...!

Types of beer

The beer like every product which has many possible variables is not easy to classify.
But we classify them normally with the production process.

The first process which can change a beer is the fermentation. Changing the fermentation we can become a Lager beer, which is very popular in Spain or a Eil beer (Ale in Spanish). The Lager type is a blond beer with a lot of gas and it's a light beer. The Eil one is a dark beer, with not so much gas and the cereal taste is more noticeable. This kind of beer is very popular in the UK, Ireland, Scotland and Nordic lands.

Changing the ingredients is the second method. If we change the malt then we can make a bigger change than if we change the type of hops which the only different beers we can make is a Pilsner.

We can also classify them through the aspect. The aspect is maybe the most simple type of classification because every beer has a very characteristic color which difference them from the others.