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Decades if not centuries of building

Decades if not centuries of building. Areas measured in hectares, and rooms for thousands measures. Concrete representation of the best physical assets of each era, and symbolic affirmation of the power of kings as chosen by God on earth. They are the palaces, from one end of Europe to another, evoking the history of the continent through the crowned heads who built, up from austere fortresses to complex as big as excessive. In the decline of many of the monarchies, those palaces were other places: In France, the Louvre Museum and Versailles was followed the steps. The Hofburg, in Vienna, became the residence of the Austrian president, while the museum lives in Windsor with sectors still in use by the British royal family.

THE LOUVRE AND VERSAILLES “I am the state”, say he said. And although it is likely that Louis XIV has not ever spoken those words, it could be secured “My palace is me.” The figure of the Sun King and his projection on the seventeenth century are associated with one of the most impressive palace complexes in Europe: Versailles, outside Paris, that the king preferred the Louvre and expanded to convert it from a hunting lodge in a monumental set of walls, palaces and gardens. Up to 20,000 people, any court-city full of intrigue, came to live in their offices and classrooms.

Louis XIV and the successive kings, until the revolutionary year 1789, were building the State Apartments of the King and Queen, the emblematic Hall of Mirrors imagined by Mansart (architect who also named the most popular Parisian mansard), the Chapel and the Opera House, the gardens designed by landscape architect André Le Nôtre. They are part of the glamorous Grand Trianon Versailles, “little palace of pink marble and porphyry with delightful gardens,” and “domains of Marie Antoinette,” which meet the Petit Trianon and the bucolic “Village Queen”. The visit to Versailles, reached easily by underground Paris Regional (RER) is an all-day experience, yet is short: the dimensions of the palace are huge (enough to recall that among the main body and the domains Marie Antoinette you take a small train) and its treasures, fabulous. Especially his spectacular Hall of Mirrors, or Grand Gallery, designed to make visitors gasp of Louis XVI. A goal that is getting more than three centuries later, with its 73 meters long, punctuated by 17 windows that illuminate 357 mirrors. In a shot in elevation, in addition to amaze with the profusion of baroque decoration, the Gallery reaffirms the power of the Manufacture of mirrors created by France to counter the Venetian influence in the matter. In this fantastic framework were held in 1770, the marriage of the dauphin, Louis XVI, with the very young Marie Antoinette.

A 10% growth in internet connections high speed

With 3.6 million in Argentina, which means an increase of 26.9% year-product of a rise of 21% for fixed connections and 134% in the mobile internet
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“A 10% growth in internet connections high speed translates into a 1.3% increase in U.S. economic growth year-over-year increase of real GDP per capita,” noted Cisco’s regional director for the Southern Cone, Argentina’s Juan Pablo Estevez.

This estimate belongs to the World Bank and, for Estevez, “confirms the importance of promoting broadband, which is an investment that directly impacts the productivity of a nation.”

According to the report, in the first half of this year totaled 186 thousand broadband and 127 thousand connections fixed phones, “in a world economic crisis,” he said.

The segment of high-speed internet in all its technologies (ADSL, cable modem, satellite, wireless, etc.), is the only telecommunications sector has always had positive increases in number of users, even during the crisis of 2001/02 .

In the local market, the residential market accounts for 94% of the connections while 6% are employed by companies, so the 12 million households considered by the INDEC, about 3 million (28.4%) have internet access with broadband technology.

Argentine Internet users are characterized by strong applicants and have forced technology companies to offer high-speed access.

Thus, 35% of the connections of the installed broadband accounts in Argentina is 3 mbps.

This level of speed corresponds to the increase in demand for applications such as Web 2.0, computing “cloud”, video and social networks that generated a substantial change in the use of the network, the participation of users who upload and lower information and data while generating new scenarios for discussion, dialogue and reunion.

Seven thousand miles of white sand beaches

Seven thousand miles of white sand beaches for all tastes: on an island on the edge of a crescent-shaped bay at the foot of some sand dunes in the midst of fishing villages or beside a row of skyscrapers. Some are quiet and intimate, bustling with activity and other musical groups and towers livescore loudspeakers. “Falar do not love …”, Itapuá Veloso sings on a beach of Bahia,” Olha que coisa mais linda Vinicius …”, wrote about a carioca who walked on the sands of Ipanema and became the collective imagination, forever, “the all garotas garota. It is Brazil at its best, a terra da felicidade, and from there go around one million per year in Argentina for the shock of happiness that is promised to anyone who sets foot in its burning sands. Then, once very different beach destinations throughout Brazil, with the information to choose the taste of each reader.

FERNANDO DE NORONHA Without the frills but with all amenities, the beaches of the archipelago of Fernando de Noronha are, for many, the most beautiful in Brazil. Located in the northeastern state of Pernambuco, the island is part of a National Marine Park with lush vegetation and diverse fauna, which allows entry of only 420 tourists at the same time to preserve the habitat. This ensures a level of tranquility that contrasts with the traditionally noisy Brazilian beach.

From the plane window, the island of Fernando de Noronha is alone in the middle of the ocean, as a point of emerald surrounded by a ring of sand and a sea azulísimo to 545 miles off the coast of Recife. There, no one will find anything even resembling a mall, but breathe a bohemian atmosphere, intimate and without great lights. The cobbled streets of the town, deserted most of the day, gently down a slope and die at sea. Nor is there any large hotels but small inns, many fishermen’s houses that have transformed themselves to provide hospitality. There are a total of sixteen beaches and major gifts are almost transparent Caribbean waters and extreme quietness.

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provide space for teachers unions to raise their aspirations and needs work

Contributors to the education minister of the City indicated that the objective of the meeting “is to provide space for teachers unions to raise their aspirations and needs work.”

The Ministry of Education convened today to Buenos Aires on 5 February to teachers unions to initiate joint discussions on wage increases and working conditions.

Esteban Bullrich Minister will head the meeting to be held that day from 9am, at the headquarters of the education portfolio of the city of Buenos Aires.

According to sources in the area stated, the objective of the meeting “is to provide space for teachers unions to raise their aspirations and needs work.”

“It will be based on these and the possibilities of the Buenos Aires government that the Ministry will respond,” added the official statement.

It recalled that the brief report Bullrich had held meetings in recent weeks with 17 teachers unions Buenos Aires.

The call made today from the government macrista coincides with the beginning of negotiations peer educators nationwide.

In the Palacio Sarmiento, the Education Minister’s Office, Alberto Sileoni, led this morning the first meeting of the year which was attended by the Technical Commission Education Financing and teacher salaries.

The controversy

The blocks of the Front for Victory Coalition Civic and Social Equality New Meeting presented a bill in the Legislature to prohibit the Metropolitan Police to make use of the Taser which bought the city’s government. “We need to ban cattle prods PRO” said Assemblyman kirchnerista Francisco “Tito” Nenna, who signed the initiative with Martin Hourest (Social Equality), Rocio Sanchez Andia (CC-ARI) and Gonzalo Ruanova (New Meeting). Chief PRO block, Cristian Ritondo, he replied that adopt such a law would “take a prevention tool to the Metropolitan.”

The controversy over the purchase of five X26 tasers, dart-firing and produce an electric shock, “began with a denunciation of the South Block project earlier this week. The lawmaker Rafael Gentili submitted a request for information and both Amnesty International and the CELS complained to city government will not use these weapons, which were seen as an element of torture by the Committee against Torture and the Human Rights Council UN .

Nenna yesterday presented a project to change an article of the law that created the Buenos Aires police and specifically prohibit the use of “electronic weapons such as electrical or electronic rifles, pistols and other devices like electronic shock, and any other technique or tool noticed or objected to by the Committee against Torture, United Nations “. The legislature Kirchner warned that “the rule that the police created in Article 28 specifies that the body should not inflict, instigate or tolerate torture or cruel, but does not respect Mauricio Macri. “The democratic political forces will not allow the implementation of instruments of torture in a community policing to the residents,” he said.

For its part, Hourest cautioned that “ends up being the UCEP Metropolitan uniform. “The UCEP was created for something else and ended human rights violations. This policeman was created as a community policing for the type of weapons they seek, is meant to physical conflict. It is a very large part of improvisation, “said lawmaker CTA Pagina/12. “If Montenegro does not retract on the use of mobile prods we will use all the institutional resources,” said lawmaker K Maria Jose Lubertino.

“Banning a weapon that is proven worldwide, which has no contraindications and can be used preventively is a prevention tool get to the Metropolitan. This can avoid using a deadly weapon, “said Ritondo, who drives the PRO block.

Meanwhile, Anibal Ibarra, remarked that “Macri has continued to make mistakes: it began with the appointment of Parker, the wiretapping scandal. Now follow with the purchase of equipment, used as marketing. “Beyond the fantasies of Macri and Montenegro, by law the Metropolitan will be devoted to urban issues as minor violations, injuries brawl, rape and theft of home ownership,” brought the former head of government, which found “no justifies the role armed with an area of intelligence-as they did with about 30 Federal-spies, nor the purchase of forty unidentified vehicles, much less the use of electrical weapons.

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The Bolivian government decree of national emergency due to heavy rains

The government of Evo Morales took this decision after more than 22 thousand families were affected by heavy rains. Of the 9 departments, 5 already have flooding problems.

The Bolivian government decree of national emergency due to heavy rains and severe flooding in recent weeks have affected 5 of the 9 provinces of the country, leaving a toll of 10 dead and more than 22 thousand families homeless.

This Friday, President Evo Morales has decided to sign the decree declaring the emergency, after visiting a shantytown south of La Paz, where on Thursday more than 70 houses collapsed due to landslide.

According to the decree, “declares state of national emergency throughout the territory of the Multicountry of Bolivia, due to the adverse effects of floods, flash floods, hailstorms, landslides and swollen rivers that have been raising in the country” . But the decree does not indicate the amount of money the government allocated to the emergency.

The Civil Defense director, Rafael Uria, said that 22,685 families are affected by floods, 501 by hailstorms that decimated crops in the valley region 196 by landslides and 816 families by floods.

The same decree states that the national emergency applies especially in regions most affected by the rains and floods as are La Paz, Santa Cruz, Cochabamba, Chuquisaca and Beni.

The fact that the national emergency declaration allows you to unlock the aid to meet the victims. But it also involves the mobilization of additional personnel for civil defense and military, the extraordinary allocation of economic resources and securing state funding for countries and international agencies to address climate disasters.

The Civil Defense reported that 40% of all families affected are in the region of Santa Cruz, although the government is quite concerned also expressed by the Amazonian department of Beni, where major rivers converge Bolivians.

The Weather Service said the rains, which have exceeded the averages for the time, were due to “climatic variations caused by El Niño Phenomenon,”and predicted that precipitation will continue during the month of February and covering the whole country.

The protest

The Retiro became the scene of violent clashes. Two long-distance buses carrying tourists to the Atlantic Coast tried to cross the picket line-which was on a group of drivers and nucleated Drivers’ Union of Argentina (UCRA) – and were stoned by protesters blocking the exit of the bus.

The picket started at 9. At that time, about 25 drivers of long-distance microphones grouped in the UCRA were installed on the street where the buses leave and stopped the activity at the terminal in Buenos Aires.

The protest caught them by surprise hundreds of passengers traveling to different destinations in the country at the start of the weekend tourist parts. UCRA Secretary General, Silverio Gomez, said the conflict was initiated following a “debt of 2,800 dollars last year, which it considered” disrespectful to the workers. ”

Over the hours, while the output of the buses still paralyzed, passengers began to accumulate on the platforms of the terminal: families with little ones babies, elderly people, and couples were stranded on the platform, waiting for The conflict was resolved.

At 11, the situation exploded. They arrived at the terminal leaders of the Urban Transport Workers Union (AWU) and ordered the departure of the buses. So it was that two-bus with tourists on board, trying to cross the picket line and generated serious incidents, the protesters began throwing stones UCRA the buses to stop their advance and clashed with the UTA drivers.

The rain of debris broke the windshield and several windows of a bus company trying to leave the fast track to the city of Necochea. Inside the bus, dozens of tourists trying to shield themselves from the stones. The infantry was able to stop the fighting and badly damaged micro-attacked-had to return to the terminal.

About 45 minutes later the tension down. Give apoco, the terminal resumes its normal activity: the protesters lifted the blockade and the buses depart to their destinations via a corridor guarded by the infantry guards.

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Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button

McLaren this morning the car with which MP4/25 Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button will compete in the world championship of Formula One, starting on March 14 in Bahrain.

Button and Hamilton, who first appeared together in public after Button joined the Mercedes team, were responsible for revealing the vehicle chassis, which bears the number 1 to indicate that it will lead the reigning world champion.

Button, who won the last World Cup with a GP car Brawn said he now just wants to “focus on the future” and that the MP4/25 is the future. ”

“The car is awesome, I really want to look more closely, although I know that this team always leaves everything up,” said Button, who will test the new car of McLaren in Valencia on Monday.

Hamilton, who faces his fourth year on the team with which he was world champion in 2008, said seeing the evolution of the car is “a pleasure” and expressed hope that “things go better than the beginning of the season past “when the McLaren team had to overcome some difficulties in the car aerodynamic.

Hamilton was also “proud” of the new car because, he said, “data from the simulator point only positive things” and also because he made “some contribution” to the final result.

The team director Martin Whitmarsh said in the presentation of the car in Newbury (England), that “preparation is the key to success” for what they have put into this car “thousands of hours of work.”

“A car is nothing without a good driver and we have the last two world champions. Our goal is clear: to win the world championship 2010,” said Whitmarsh.

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