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July of 2012
Sports—London 2012
KNOW MORE ABOUT THE OLYMPIC
VILLAGE
THE RISE OF THE UNIVERSITY TAXES IN THE RISE OF THE UNIVERSITY TAXES IN
SPAINSPAIN
SPECIAL REPORT
RISK PREMIUM GOVERNS SPAIN
Technology
SONY RETIRES FROM THE VIDEO
GAME INDUSTRY
AND A LOT MORE!!!! SCIENCE, MUSIC…
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Table of contents
Economics
“Risk premium governs Spain”
By Pablo Lozano………………………………………………………..……………………..page 4
Education
“The 33% rise on the university taxes completes the economical adjust in Education”
By Manuel Exposito…………………………………………………..……………………..page 5
Sports
“London 2012: Facts about the Olympic Village and athletes’ apartments”
By Tania Gonzalez…………………………………………………..…………………...…..page 6
Technology
“Sony announces its retirement from the video game industry”
By Manuel Exposito…………………………………………………..……………………..page 7
Science
“Bulleproof mobile phones”
By Juan Carlos Egido………………………………………………..……………………..page 8
Music
“Milli Vanili returns”
By Juan Carlos Egido………………………………………………..……………………..page 9
Editorial
By Tania Gonzalez……………………………………………………..……………………..page 3
Editorial
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Have you found anything better to do than reading My Documents? Perhaps you've thought about watching the next Olympic Games in London, certainly they will give a lot to talk about the Spanish national team and its new sports equipment, about the size of their beds in the Olympic Village or the gos-sip among athletes.
Maybe you are not a sports fan and do you prefer to know that Sony will stop producing soon? do you want to know the reasons? Just browse a few pages of our magazine and find out what’s about that. But calm, do not despair yet, we have to Bulletproof mobiles do not get depressed in the summer heat.
What you do not agree that the risk pre-
mium goes up or down? Do not worry, you can always think of your cousin's cousin that is sure to be great. If you are a student and still have to retake cours-es, be careful! Valencian Government will make haste to carry out some cut-backs in education. Just do not cut you to enjoy your summer and listen to clas-sics like Milli Vanilli...Did you know they are back to the music scene?
Also, if you come to read this far and
none of this motivates you to read My
Documents, at least have fun and laugh
with the picture! (This is the real life!!).
Welcome to My Documents Magazine...
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By Tania Gonzalez, editor in chief of My Documents Magazine
Economics
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Risk premium governs Spain
In the last nine months the Spanish economy has been governed by the risk premi-
um
On the left side of the picture appears the premium risk evolution / P.G
In the last nine months, the risk premium
for Spain has been increasing until
reaching its highest value. This point is a
great problem for the country because the
government needs more money for its
credits. The level for the stock market in
Spain has dropped to the lowest value in
the last 20 years and Spanish politicians
are very confused.
The government of Spain is increasing the
measures to reduce the risk premium but
this measure is not obtaining the expected
benefits.
It seems the risk premium governs all the
country. In fact, all of the voters never ex-
pected the situation could become so
complicated when they choosed to chan-
ge the political party which was governing.
Maybe there is a new political party in
Spain called “Risk Premium” that governs
the country silently.
As said by some expert economists, the
only measure for leaving the crisis should
be introducing investment in new busines-
ses like biotechnologies or emerging.
In general, the situation for the Spanish
economic is very critical and it’s very diffi-
cult to evaluate the future of the Spanish
economy in this moment.
The European politicians are very concer-
ned about this situation and suggested
Spanish government to ask for economic
help, but, for now, the Spanish govern-
ment doesn’t want to take this way.
Spanish people hope the situations for the
risk premium in Spain changes in the futu-
re because the country needs another
kind of measure for leaving the crisis. If
the Spanish government continues with
the same measure, it’s probably the crisis
continues for a long time.
Welcome “Risk Premium”, you have been
introduced in our life and you will continue
with us for a long time.
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Pablo Lozano Valencia 17th of July of 2012
Education
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The 33% rise on the university taxes completes the economical
adjust in Education
Students will assume the 20% of the cost of their places on first -registration and a
35% of the costs if they do the year again
Manuel Exposito Valencia 16th of July of 2012
The vice president and spokesman of the Valencian Govenrment,
Jose Maria Ciscar / M.E
The university students from Comunidad
Valenciana will pay a 33% more than the
last year in the first registration of each
subject they choose to study. The govern-
ment from Valencia has determined to rise
the percentage of the cost of the places
for studying in university from a 15% to a
20%. Moreover, following the Financial
Balance Plan of the Generaitat Valencia-
na, Valencian government will raise the
maximum number of students per class in
a 20% for all the academic levels, from
Primary School to High School.
As explained in a press conference, the
government from Valencia expects to
save 40 million of euros by applying this
hard rise on the university registration
costs. For example, last year Medicine
students paid, in average, 1018€ per reg-
istration and they will pay 1.478€ the next
year.
In case of second registration in any sub-
ject - if the student didn’t pass the subject
on the last year - the university students
will assume the 35% of the total cost; in
case of the third registration, they will as-
sume the 75% of the total cost and, in the
fourth registration, they will assume the
100% of the cost of the subject. By apply-
ing these hard and strict measures, the
government wants to promote the “effort
culture” and to penalize the students who
are using too many public resources. As
said in press conference, this rise on the
university taxes will have a related rise on
the offer of grants. Even more, university
professors will get increased their aca-
demic hours from 24 to 32 annual credits.
In the other hand, the 20% rise on the
maximum number of students per class
means that in Primary School each class
is going to increase the number of stu-
dents from 25 to 30 and in High School
the number of students per class is going
to be be increased from 34 to 42.
Although the professors and teachers are
going to have their academic hours in-
creased, their workday per week will not
be increased: for Primary School teachers
the workday per week is 25 hours and for
High School teachers is 20 hours per
week.
Sports
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Appearance of one of the romos in the Olympic Village / T.G.
Stratford Olympic Park in London is where
around 16,000 Olympic athletes, 6,000
Paralympians and 1,000 referees will live
during the celebration of the Olympic Ga-
mes. Some furnished apartments, located
a few meters from the athletics stadium,
where athletes will spend most of their ti-
me and the Organizing Committee for the
London 2012 Olympic Games has called
"holiday gold medal" for athletes.
According to the Organizing Committee,
some small details that matter to athletes
were taken into account in the design of
the Olympic Village. Some of these details
are the design of the beds so they can put
their suitcases under beds or installing
high tensile for athletes, and black cur-
tains to improve sleep , which is what
most athletes have stress...
After the Olympic events, the 675 apart-
ments of the Olympic Village will be avai-
lable to Londoners' housing at prices be-
low market.
In the Olympic Village, each room has two
single beds with bedside tables and
lamps. But the beds are 1.73 meters long,
which means that many athletes will need
extensions to accommodate their bodies.
Just as example, Usain Bolt and Michael
Phelps are 1.95 meters tall and 1.93 me-
ters tall respectively so the accommoda-
tions for them are likely to be gold me-
dal…
Another curiosity is that in the Olympic Vi-
llage the athletes will receive thousands of
free condoms in their rooms. According to
Durex, the condom manufacturer in the
Olympic village, about 150,000 condoms
will be distributed during the two weeks of
competition. The company said the move
will help provide a safe sex message for
athletes to remember to be responsible.
Since the Barcelona’92 Olympics in
Spain, condoms have been distributed
free to athletes. More than 400,000 were
distributed in the Beijing Olympics in 2008
in China, which was distributed to the
Olympic Village and the hotels in the city.
London 2012: Facts about the Olympic Village and athletes’
apartments
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Tania Gonzalez London 19th of July of 2012
Technology
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Sony announces its retirement from the video game industry
The retirement is caused by the bad results on the market during last years
Manuel Exposito Los Angeles 19th of July of 2012
Kazuo Hirai, CEO of Sony, in the E3 Press Conference / M.E
Today at Sony’s E3 2012 press confer-
ence the company made a big, shocking
and unexpected announcement: Sony
gets retired from the video game industry.
As said in the press conference, some
months ago Sony studied their financial
results related to its computer and video
game division and they realized their ex-
penses were exponentially higher than
their incomes.
With the intention of solving this situation,
the company took measures and tried to
increase its appeal by launching the new
PS Vita and by dropping the price of PS.
No one of these measures were success-
ful because the more of the gamers have
moved to XBOX360, the Microsoft games
console. Another vain attempt for chang-
ing its difficult economic situation was
launching more ‘platinum series’ games
to the market, games with a really lower
price, for motivating their gamers.
In the press conference and regarding to
the retirement from the video game indus-
try, Kazuo Hirai, President and CEO of
Sony Corporation, said: “We made sever-
al attempts for solving the bad economic
situation on the company but we had no
success. We made some cutbacks on our
development and programming division
and we tried to maintain a normal produc-
tion level on the engineering division, but
the bad results on the market have made
us taking this sad choice”. Kazuo Hirai
continued explaining about the retirement
process, “We’re not going to stop sud-
-denly the production. PS3 will have 2 mo-
re years of support and we will try to finish
the games we were programming. About
PS Vita, it’s a pity but it will not have long
time support and the number of games
which will appear will be really short”.
Microsoft is benefit the most with the an-
nouncement of Sony’s retirement because
it leaves XBOX360 leading the video ga-
me market with no rivals.
Science
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The designers of new mobile phones are starting to use better ma-
terials for their designs / T.G.
Nowadays there are thousands of objects
around us and in most cases we don’t
know almost anything about what are they
made of. Sometimes, these objects are so
useful that have additional great uses that
we had never could imagine, because
aren’t related with its original purpose.
There is an unfairly unknown material
used in the manufacturing of a lot of elec-
tronic devices, its name is undracina. This
is a much appreciated material in the in-
dustry because of its extreme hardness
and lightness that makes it very suitable
to guarantee the resistance of many sort
of devices taking care over its design and
elegance at the same time.
Its hardness is so extremely high that is
has been used in the last two decades by
some military police in some states of
USA and European countries to manufac-
turing bulletproof vests. William Bullock
was its discoverer, an American architect
that began to use these “dark and rough
stones” – as he said in his book “Wait me
downstairs”- to build a more resistant hou-
ses that were able to bear the frequent
earthquakes that lashed the Oregon west
coast in the middle of the past century. .
But he never could think that his discovery
was going to save by chance the life of
some people in a way never imagined.
For example, at the end of the last year, a
guy that was crossing the road in a small
town of Kansas, was shot from a car dri-
ven by a common criminal that had esca-
ped from prison, it was a direct shot to his
heart but the guy survived thanks to carry
his mobile in the inside jacket pocket,
which received the impact of the bullet.
The reason is that undracina is also being
used to manufacturing some devices like
mobile phones, televisions and cameras,
to build their cases. So, never forget it:
take care of your phone because it could
save your life.
Bulletproof mobile phones The undracina is been used in the manufacturing of new mobile phones
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Juan Carlos Egido Valencia 16th of July of 2012
Music
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Milli Vanilli returns
The band will return to the stages in the second half of 2012
Juan Carlos Egido Madrid 20th of July of 2012
The band Milli Vanilli after receiving a prize / M.E
In the latest of 80 decade, two young
dancers called Frabice Morvan y Robin
Pilatus earned a great reputation because
of their musical pop duo Milli Vanilli. Now-
adays we can continue listening some of
their most popular songs in a lot of radios
around of the world.
One of their singles "Girl, you know it's
true", even became in platinum disc and
got the second position in the most popu-
lar songs ranking in USA in 1989. But on-
ly one year later the duo disappeared...
what happened? Maybe you know the an-
swer: they were a fake as singers. Alt-
hough they danced very well, they were
singing in playback in all their concerts
neither recorded their own albums. When
this fact was discovered they lost almost
all their fans and they had to dissolve the
band.
But on May of 2012 an amazing new
called the attention of the main music
magazines: Morvan and Rob are back. As
they told to the Rolling Stone magazine in
an exclusive interview, they are now pre-
pared to come back to the stage singing
all their songs as they always desired.
They have been for more than five years
learning to sing with some of the best
singing teachers like Mug Nogali (Marie
Carey and Celine Dione's teacher) and
Bibiane Madir, the woman who taught Mi-
chael Jackson how to make soft his fa-
mous step, called "Moonwalker".
They are planning their first tour for the
beginning of the next year, and you'll
have the chance of seeing them in some
of the most important cities of America
and Europe like New York, Rome, Paris
and London. If you like funky music don't
lose the opportunity to see the resurrec-
tion of these great dancers… now also
singing as they must have done since the
beginning.