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To the Odyssey of Virtual Tails and Surprise Concerts, Bad Bunny’s entries added one more difficulty: dynamic prices

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Last week, Bad Bunny presale the Tickets for your next concerts in Spain. And chaos unleashed: virtual lines of hundreds of thousands of people, Falls from the Ticketmaster servers and, to add confusion, announcements of new concerts of the star, which reached a total of twelve over the three initials. Above all this, upward oscillations in ticket prices. Or what is the same: dynamic prices. What are dynamic prices? It is one Price setting strategy in which the cost of a product or service fluctuates based on market demand, consumer behavior, competition and other factors. They are adjusted in real time or at regular intervals, using algorithms and data analysis. It is a system that was known before in sectors such as transport, particularly The aviationbut that Live Nation, the promoter owner of Ticketmaster, has also adopted for her events. And there were for Bad Bunny? Live Nation Call your tickets With dynamic price Platinum tickets. The base price for tickets Bad Bunny’s cheaper started from 73.30 euros plus 10 management expenses for the highest areas of the enclosure. The most exclusive, such as VIP packages, reached 543.30 euros more than 72.50 expenses. Many users reported Very significant increases: 300 euros They duplicate the price In minutes. The cheapest seats cost more than € 500 in a matter of minutes, and in resale It was requested up to € 1,000 Chaos everywhere. At 12.45, a quarter of an hour before the pre -sale of the three initially planned concerts began, The Ticketmaster website He fell due to the very high demand. When the official time arrived, accessing the tickets was impossible. The demand was such that Bad Bunny announced, in successive hours, more concerts. In addition to those who were announced the next day are a total of twelve, all distributed between Madrid and Barcelona. It is absolutely unusual and a very unusual practice in events of this type, which lead to such a noticeable previous planning. Where this begins. In the early last decade, Ticketmaster began experimenting with dynamic prices, system which he launched in 2011. Over the years the practice was settled, and became a norm for the great events with the paradigm shift that postpandymia supposed. On his 2022 tour, Bruce Springsteen put him into practice and popularized dynamic prices, turning them into the new normality. Consequence: some entries of your tour of that year 5,000 dollars came to cost. End the resale. On paper, the intention of Ticketmaster (later absorbed by Live Nation) is to fight the second -hand black market. However, and how It has been analyzed in depthit is a practice that disproportionately benefits ticket sales and harms fans, as seen with the Lighting Reaction in Networks Because of concerts in Spain. It is not the first time: to the aforementioned protests on the springsteen tour we can add the fury that triggered The Oasis meeting, where in a few hours the original prices of the entries, or cases similar to Bad Bunny in Spain with Artists like Pearl Jam, Adele or AC/DC. The rebels. There are artists who have declared themselves against dynamic prices, Like The Cure, Neil Young or, very significantly, Taylor Swift. Of course, this attitude has earned everyone Notable clashes With Ticketmaster and Live Nation. The accusations of these and other monopoly practices artists (since, de factoLive Nation and Ticketmaster They control in the US The live events industry, with 60% of concert promotions in the main rooms of the country and about 80% of the main ticket sale) led to A demand of the country’s department of justice against the company for monopoly. The concert business. This behavior of Live Nation affects alone, it is true, the part of the live events, but in recent years the concerts have become the most profitable nucleus of the music business. As we counted a few days ago, concerts They are increasingly mastodonticwith a profitability out of any doubt. In Spain in 2024, live music entered 25.32% more than the previous year, 725.6 million euros. This upward traction is only possible in terms of great events and concerts in giant enclosures. There is a but. Although everything has a counterpart: the income of the concerts increased by number 8.7 %, but the average gross income by show fell 6.9 %, According to Pollstarand the average number of tickets sold by show decreased by 14.9 %. That is, it is not that people go to concerts more, it is that in just one year the tickets rose notoriously in price. Something that is only possible with strategies that do not have the public’s approval, such as dynamic prices. A real bubble of increasing prices and diminishing patiences. Header | Madrid wanted to make Bernabéu a new concerts. Aitana has given the tip to her plans

What if we are doing the bad intermittent fasting? Some experts propose to focus only on carbohydrates

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Losing weight is not as simple as subjecting our body to a caloric deficit. Diets based on ingesting less calories than our body consumes work well in some contexts, but their medium and long term effects are limited by our metabolism and by our own constancy. That is why the intermittent fasting It has become one of the most popular diets for those who want to lose weight. Question of alternatives. Now, a group of researchers He has found A way to make these more affordable diets. The idea is based on making this diet less restrictive, limiting only carbohydrate intake in the days of temporarily limiting our caloric intake. Intermittent caloric restriction. Diets based on intermittent caloric restriction, which we often refer to as intermittent fasting Although they do not always imply fasting, they are based on limiting our food intake over time. There are different strategies to perform this fast, such as fasting 5: 2, in which we severely restrict the calories we eat for two days and eat normally the rest of the week. To understand the usefulness of This type of diets We have to remember how our metabolism, in an eagerness to protect ourselves from scarcity, can limit the success that conventional caloric restriction when weight loss. And our body reacts when we give less food, limiting our energy consumption to save resources, which ends up implying that when we ingest less calories, in the medium term our body also ends up consuming less energy. Cardiometabolic health. According to Adam Collins, co -author of the new study and researcher at the University of Surrey, In an article for The conversationintermittent fasting has an added advantage. It is about improving our “metabolic flexibility” since it allows us to balance the energy sources that our body, carbohydrates and fat reserves. This in turn implies a lower risk of problems such as cardiovascular diseases or type 2 diabetes. The new study signed by Collins and his team sought to inquire about the reasons why this improvement in our metabolism is given when we follow this diet. Since these types of diets focus on the idea that our body goes from using carbohydrates as a source of energy to consume fats, the team decided to study the implications of a limited carbohydrate restriction over time. 12 participants. The 12 participants In the study, overweight or obesity adults, they passed for two days of separate food restriction for five days of “rest.” One of the restriction days, the participants consumed a low diet in hydrates, while the other day they consumed a diet based on the chlorical reduction (consuming 75% less calories with respect to what would be common). The days following the restriction day the participants consumed a high ration in fats and sugars. What the team observed is that both diet forms showed similar results in each type of diet. The details of the study have been Published in an article In the magazine European Journal of Nutrition. Looking for answers. As explained by the team responsible for the analysis, new studies will be necessary to better understand this relationship and to strengthen this notion with a broader population. The team emphasizes that each of the diets (carbohydrate restriction and temporary restriction) entail Your own problemsbut perhaps combining them allows us to make these more bearable diets and with it more affordable and with a lower risk. In Xataka | The MIT investigated whether the intermittent fasting diet is really healthy. There is good news and another very worrying Image | Rosy Ko

We have been asking if the eggs are good or bad for our health. The tests are very forceful

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It is a debate that we have surely heard countless times, that of how good or bad that eggs result for our health. It is a setback, the evidence that eggs are “bad” is limited and has been refuted by various studies, but still the issue remains the subject of new studies. Studies that continue to insist on the usual consumption of eggs does not represent a risk additional. Another study on the list. A recent study of mortality associated with egg consumption has not observed indications of an increase in mortality associated with egg consumption. Moreover, the study found an inverse relationship between the regular consumption of this food and the risk of deaths linked to cardiovascular diseases. The study He followed up of 8,756 over 70 years of age, which gave information about their diets. Based on this information, the team separated the participants in three groups: who did not consume eggs or did it shortly, those who consumed eggs between one and six times a day, and those who consumed eggs daily. Verdict. The study results indicated that people in the moderate consumption group had a risk of mortality by 15% lower than those of the low consumption group, controlling other factors. They also observed a 29% reduction associated with specific mortality due to heart disease. Of egg aspirin. The study was framed in the ASPREE project (Aspirin in rear Events in the Elderly), curiously, a project dedicated to the study of the effects of aspirin in preventive medicine. The details of the study have been published In an article In the magazine Nutrients. But they didn’t have cholesterol? “Eggs are a dense food in nutrients, they are a rich source of protein and a good source of nutrients, such as B vitamins, folate, non -saturated fatty acids, fat -solub vitamins (E, D, a, and k), hill, and numerous minerals and trace elements,” explained in a press release Holly Wild, co -author of the study. However, the eggs won a bad reputation due to their cholesterol content. Each egg has about 275 milligrams of cholesterol, which would represent almost the entire recommended amount of cholesterol, they explain In an article for The conversation Lauren Ball and Karly Bartrim, experts from the University of Queensland, in Australia. The trick is in absorption, Ball and Bartrim point out. And it is that the fact that we consummate a food with high cholesterol content does not mean that our body will absorb that cholesterol and make it end in the bloodstream, where it can imply a risk. This is the advance. The debate on the hypothetical damage that eggs may be a health risk has been perpetuated for years has often been used to discredit advances made in the field of nutrition. And it is true that the science that studies nutrients and their effects on our body is complex: the varied of the human diet and the immense complexity of our body are two factors that make extremely difficult to measure the effects of some foods on our health. It is not surprising Therefore we can occasionally run into this type of debates. The contradictory results are not alien to any field of science: there are many reasons why a study can yield erroneous results, such as methodological failures, calculation errors or even by mere statistical chance. That is why relationships must be studied several occasions, by different teams and following a variety of methods, this is how failures and erroneous relationships have been detected on several occasions. It is how the method itself should work. In Xataka | White eggs have disappeared from our supermarkets: the story of how brown was commercially imposed Image | Morgane Perraud

The exomars mission already accumulates 20 years of calvary and bad luck

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Mars seems to have a special online to the European space agency and, more specifically, to the exomars mission and his Rover Rosalind Franklin. What promised to be a pioneer mission for Europe in the search for past life on the red planet has become a true technological and geopolitical calvary, a saga of misfortunes that leads to ask if the rover will not simply be cursed. From NASA to Russia. The exomars odyssey It started two decades agoin 2005, with the aim of launching a rover to Mars in 2011. Initially conceived in collaboration with NASA, the mission suffered a first capital setback in 2012, when the US agency, due to the cost overruns in projects such as the James Webb space telescope, decided to retire. Nor was the European prominence of the mission funny. This first jug of cold water forced ESA to look for a new partner to desperate. The Russian Space Agency Roscosmos. Russia would provide the proton rockets for the two phases of the mission and a crucial element: the Kazachok descent module that would be in charge of the Martian landing of the rover. A second setback. The first phase of the mission, launched in 2016included the Trace Gas Orbiter probe, which operates successfully in the Martian orbit. Also the Schiaparelli landing module, designed to test “mooring” technologies. Schiaparelli crashed into the surface because he misunderstood the accelerometer readings: he mistakenly assumed that he had landed and fired the roof and parachute early. On Earth, the launch of the Rover, scheduled for 2018, was postponed to 2020 for problems with The parachutes and delays in the delivery of components. Then, the Covid-19 pandemia He added more delays, pushing the launch window at 2022. And then, war. The Rover was baptized ‘Rosalind Franklin’ in honor of the British crystallographer whose x -ray diffraction images were fundamental to reveal the double helix structure of the DNA. When everything seemed (finally) on track, with the rover ready for a few months of takeoff, the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 He dynamited collaboration. ESA, in an inevitable decision, suspended cooperation with Roscosmos, leaving Rosalind Franklin orphan of a pitcher and, above all, of landing platform. A devastating blow. Light at the end of the tunnel. Baptized ‘Rosalind Franklin’ in honor of the British crystallographer whose X -ray diffraction images were fundamental to reveal the double propeller structure of the DNA, the rover did not raise head. But that decided not to throw in the towel. Member States pledged new financing in the mission and ESA chose to develop a European landing platform. Thales Alenia Space was selected as the main contractor in April 2024 with a contract of 522 million euros, but it is Airbus Defense and Space the one that will be in charge of design and construction of the landing module, which, ironically, keep a great resemblance With Russian Kazachok. And now what. When light was finally seen at the end of the tunnel, The budget proposed by the White House For NASA it seems to leave out the contribution of the US agency in the European Rover. According to Eric Berger, from Ars Technica, in addition to the Mars Sample Mission Return of Return of the Red Planet, in which Europe also participated, The contribution of NASA was disappearing in the European Rover Rosalind Franklin. It was a modest, but crucial contribution to the mission: Plutonium -based RHU heater. For now, the launch date of the Misión Exomars and the Rover Rosalind Franklin remains scheduled by the end of 2028, with A landing in the Martian plain Oxia Planum planned for 2030. A long trajectory to avoid the season of global dust storms on Mars. Rover Rosalind Franklin will carry its drill capable of drilling up to two meters under the surface, where possible biofirms would be protected from radiation. Image | DSIT, that In Xataka | Exomars, this is the most ambitious Mars mission in Europe

In Tiktok there are men shaving the eyelashes to look more masculine. Science has bad news for them

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There is nothing written about fashion. On health yes. And in one of the latest trends that has gained strength in networks among men, both (fashion and health) collide so clearly that medicine professionals already They are warning of its risks. The reason is simple: the Trend It consists neither more nor less than to rise the eyelashes to achieve One more “manly” appearance. Aesthetic issues apart, experts remember that it is a horrible idea for health. “Ojito with this”, warn. Tessels and fashion. The relationship between eyelashes and fashion is old. A lot in fact. In the nineteenth century the perfume Eugène-primel already invented a Mask for them So popular that his last name was linked to the world of cosmetics. Since then the industry has devised false, curizers, serums and a long etc. of products designed for eyelashes. It is not surprising. After all, they have helped to lock great stars like Elizabeth Taylor. 11 tricks to dominate Tik tok Goodbye tabs (male). Perhaps because of that ancient association between long eyelashes and female faces, on Instagram, Tiktok and X has begun to be the opposite: men who are shaved. Arrives A quick search To find a good handful of videos (especially on the Bytedance platform) of boys determined to get rid of the hairs that border their eyelids. They do it with the help of barbers, machinillas or scissors. @billybeebaddestbitch Eyelashes are not their to show masculine or femininity, they are Needed to Protect Your Eyes! This is a whole New Level of Stupid. What’s Next Removal Maple? Ridiculous! 😳 #ToxicMsCulinity #Masculinity #Masculine #Feminine #Crazy #trend #WTF #omg #Sick #Eyelashes #Beauty #Menshealth #Mentalhealth #insecurities #MenophtikTok #fyp #Shocking #badidea #Awful #SCary #ToxicMSCulinityCck ♬ Disease – Lady Gaga But … What is the reason? Supposedly look for an aspect “More masculine”as the CNN chain explained recently in an article about the trend. The same idea can be read in some videos that circulate through networks. The Truth The Barber Artist specialized account He has shared one for example in which he ensures that the Trend He is “totally true” and recounts a specific case: “I saw a client to ask a barber to shave the eyelashes. He said he did not like how long they were and that his wife criticized them because they seemed feminine.” Another account of an Auckland Barber (New Zealand) has shared a video in which a hairdresser can be seen by profileing the tabs of a teenager with a machinilla. “I wanted to look more masculine by cutting the eyelashes,” Comment. They are not unique cases. Tiktok circulate More pieces that basically show the same: men shaking their eyelashes to have a “Virile” appearance. History is complicated. That’s how it is. Not everyone believes that the objective of those who shave the eyelashes is to strengthen their masculinity. There is Who slides that the end (at least part of the videos) is another good: strengthen hair. According to them they do it with the belief that he will return to grow longer and thick. The most widespread theory points, however, in the first direction, which relates the Trend with the search for a more virile aspect. “No, they don’t do it for their eyelashes to grow thicker. They do it for toxic masculinity and because they believe they look more masculine with shaved eyelashes,” he says Another user. @halal.barbers Client Wanted to look masculine by Trimming His Eyelashes #Eyelashes #Barber #Halalbarbers #halalbarber #viral #trend #trending #barbershop #Explore #perthbarber #AUCKLANDBARBER ♬ Way Down We Go – Kaleo Where are they doing it? In Tiktok they can be found above all pieces in Englishbut that does not mean that the phenomenon is limited only to countries like the US. Fashion has extended enough to find also Videos in Spanish and has caught the attention of media as New York Post, Buzzfeed either The CNN. Yeah The viral video That supposedly the trend was or not a trolley, the truth is that it has extended so much that the CNN gives it for a practice that other men are replicating. Not just that. He has also made the alarms jump. “Don’t do it!” You can find videos of men paying for their tabs to be shaved and videos of health professionals can be found (more and more) warning that it is a lousy idea. In February Helena Rodero, a pharmacist with about 1.2 million followers on Instagram, Warning of risks of the tendency to ocular health. “The eyelashes have a very important function, which is to protect the eye. They avoid the entry of particles and sweat.” In a similar line they have ruled Nurse Jorge Ángel either Fernández Pharmacistwho warn that shaving the eyelashes can lead to a greater risk of eye irritation and contract infections. It is not even a good idea for those who want hair to improve its growth. “Shaving the eyelashes will not make them grow stronger or long. In fact it could damage the follicles and affect their normal growth,” remember Fernández Pharmacist. @juanitoecutz Let me know for you Eyelash Trim Needs i’m Located Here In Grand Prairie Tx📍 Link In Bio Too Book‼ ️💈 #Arlingtonbarber #Gandprairiebarber #DallasBarber #dfwbarber #fyp ♬ Original Sound – Dallas Barber Think twice. “Is it a tendency to wear a more masculine look? Explain Markys tend their 2.5 million followers in Tiktok. The surgeon Vickie Lee Add a reason To better think of saying goodbye to the eyelashes: “In addition to acting as a barrier and triggering the protective reflex of flickering, the eyelashes help reduce air flow over the eyes, keep moisture and healthy eyes, filtering sunlight, reducing glare and improving visual quality.” The trend coincides with a reinforcement of the PERICA and its stereotypes about masculinity in social networks. Images | Tiktok In Xataka | “I do not go out again with a Span

is in very bad condition

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The International Space Station, that orbits the earth since 1998it does not go through your best moment. In fact, according to the Security Committee that advises NASA, it is entering a critical phase that threatens to put its last years of life at risk. Maximum concern. The experts of the Aerospace Security Advisory Panel (ASAP), an independent committee created to advise NASA on security issues, expressed their “deep concern” for the aging orbital station at a public meeting on April 17. “The International Space Station has entered the riskiest period of its existence,” said Rich Williams, a member of the Committee, According to the SpaceNews chronicle. Williams did not refer to new problems, but to an accumulation of technical problems and budgetary deficits that now pose a critical threat to operations aboard the station. Cracks that do not close. One of the persistent problems we have covered in Xataka They are the air leaks in the Russian module Zvezda. Specifically, in a small transfer tunnel (called PRK) that connects the main module with an coupling port. The cracks were detected in 2019, but the air leak has been increasing since then, reaching its highest level in April 2024. Despite the years of joint research between NASA and its Russian counterpart, Roscosmos, there is still no clear solution, or consensus on the root cause of leaks. A meeting in Moscow. The Committee considers leaks one of the “most concern” points of the ISS, with a Risk level “5 of 5”the most serious of the classification, since August 2024. Williams said there is a meeting in Moscow this month to discuss new mitigation measures. For now, the space agencies have limited the repairy of the affected tunnel and keep the hatch that connects it with the rest of the station. Fear of unexpected fall. The current plan is that the International Space Station be withdrawn in 2030 or 2031. NASA has commissioned Spacex The development of a special ship (the USDV) to tow the station to the Pacific, where it will resent the atmosphere safely. The Security Committee indicates that there is no emergency plan to exorbit the ISS before that this vehicle is ready. “If the exorbitous international space station before Spacex delivers the USDV, the public risk for the disintegrated remains of the ISS will increase several orders of magnitude,” Williams said. Let’s not forget that we talk about a structure of about 450 tons. Other age aches. To these “main” concerns we must add the lack of spare parts. Keeping enough spare parts for critical systems, such as vital support, becomes increasingly complex, since some components are about 30 years old, and their original suppliers no longer exist. Similarly, space costumes for extravehicular activities, some designed in the 70s, are also giving problems. In June 2024, A refrigerant leak forced to cancel a space walk for fear of repeating the 2013 incident in which Astronaut Luca Parmitano almost drowned When his helmet began to fill with water. To these we must add the scares of the spacecraft that supply the station, such as the Boeing Starliner ship failure, the nauseabundo smell detected after the arrival of the MS-29 shipthe delays of the Dream Chaser of Sierra Space and the cancellation of the Mission Cygnus NG-22 of Northrop Grumman for the damages suffered during the transport of the ship. A matter of money. According to the ASAP panel, all these risks have a common denominator: “a great budget deficit.” Although experts did not detail the exact nature of the deficit, the data shows a slight reduction in the budget of operations and maintenance of the International Space Station (from 1,030 million dollars in 2023 to 993 million in 2024). Already in its 2024 annual report, the Committee had warned that the costs of the exorbitant vehicle (the USDV) and the financing of future commercial stations could exert pressure on NASA’s capacity to safely carry out the normal and contingency operations of the ISS. Elon Musk proposed as a solution exorbiting it early, in 2027. Image | POT In Xataka | “Did you say, from Irigoyen?”: When an Argentine taxi signal sneaked into the International Space Station

The good news is that the storms will finally give us truce this week. The bad is that time will remain unstable

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The last weeks have been marked by instability: rains (we have seen One of the most wet that remember the records), cold and storms several have been protagonists in this spring. Now, after the holiday period, experts foresee a change in the atmospheric trend. Changes, in theory. This week will be A week of changes at the atmospheric level with respect to the dominant trend during Holy Week. Of course, at ground level these changes will be noticed rather: instability and rains will continue to accompany the day -to -day life of many Spaniards, although in some areas the increase in temperatures can take the thermometers towards the 30º towards the end of the week. No storms in sight. Meteorological forecasts for the next few days foresee a change in the atmospheric pattern: the storms disappear for the peninsular geography, opening the way to the major influence of anticyclones such as the Azores. According to the forecast of the State Meteorology Agency (Aemet), this will be reflected in an increase in maximum temperatures in the southeast peninsular interior, as well as in mountainous areas of the north. However, this is only part of the story. A tape tall It will become the protagonist In these first days of the week, accompanied by a front that will bring new rains to a good part of the Peninsula. In practice. The Aemet forecastwhich throughout the day will extend to much of the northwest peninsular half, being able to reach areas of the southeast. The forecast also speaks of possible snowfall in mountains of the north end. On Tuesday, instability will increase, with “showers and storms that can be locally strong in areas of the northeast peninsular near the Mediterranean.” If Monday temperatures are experiencing a slight rise, the situation will be reversed tomorrow in some areas, with a notable decrease in the maxims in the Ebro, the east of the Northern Plateau and the Eastern Cantabrian, according to the agency’s forecasts. A more palpable change. As of Wednesday, the change in the atmospheric state could materialize in a change over time. The models foresee that this day the influence of the Azores anticyclone will stabilize the meteorology of the peninsula. The heavens, yes, will remain overcast in the north, with rainfall “weak although persistent”In the area. The showers are not ruled out in the rest of the peninsular territory either. Round of the rains? The situation is expected on Thursday but Friday could see the arrival of A new trough and, with it, the return of rainfall of greater consideration. If the forecasts are fulfilled, this phenomenon will move west throughout Friday and Saturday, leaving rains and even storms. In Xataka | While Spain was pending the rains, something strange was happening with the polar vortex Image | ECMWF

I have tried the first Spanish recharge points map for electric cars. I have good and bad news

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Electric Red of Spain has made public Revethe first official map that reflects the recharge points In Spain. The public company has collected the dynamic data of the entire infrastructure of the national territory, creating a free map that, a priori, contains all the information. The problem? Information about these recharge points is sent to Red Eléctrica by their own operators. In other words, if the operator does not send the data … the load point does not exist for the service. I have been able to prove this service to deepen its operation. I have good and bad news. Web and app. Reve It is a web page where we can access the real -time map of recharge points in Spain. The interface is quite simple and friendly, with five possible scenarios for recharge points. Group of site Available points Points where you are loading Reserved points Points out of service Despite being a web page, the interface is mainly aimed at using it with the mobile phone, and works practically as an application. The filters. One of Reve’s strengths is in the quality of the filters. We can select the operator, being available the following: Act Endesa X Way ETECNIC Iberdrola Clients Iberdrola | BP press Moeve PowerDot Repsol Wenea Services Easycharger In addition to the filter per operator, it can be sought by power, type of connector, price (€/kW), available payment method and even services at the point (recreational area, restaurant, supermarket, taxi stop, wifi, etc.). No, you haven’t read Tesla yet. As you may have appreciated, among the available companies It is not Teslaand we cannot filter the American company to find all its loaders. However, if we are looking for “Tesla”, the main supercores appear. And I say “the main”, because not all. In fact, some supercargators with several years of life in Spain do not appear on the map. It is, without a doubt, the main stick that I have found to this website. It will not replace any app. This map is raised as a platform in which to find the 25,685 load points of the country’s main suppliers (except Tesla chargers), but not as a direct rival for the best apps, such as Electromaps. Image | Xataka In Xataka | Spain goes a lot behind Western Europe in the implementation of the electric car. And this map illustrates it

The good news is that we have an anticyclone about Spain. The bad is that stability will last a sigh

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All those who thought that the rains of March were A kind of Vogone curseit seems they were right. In fact, I don’t know if it is worth continuing to call them “March rains” because, despite appearances, the rain has not left anywhere. I was taking a breath. But we have a dorsal on top! It’s true. These days, it has entered A gigantic anticyclonic dorsal of subtropical origin that is not only very warm and very stable, but will cross the Peninsula and will continue to the north until it almost arrives in Iceland. And we will notice. Because, As Aemet already pointed out In his forecast for this week is that “it will be warmer than normal throughout the country, especially in the peninsular northwest.” However, it is not a normal dorsal. As Ángel Rivero explainedthis dorsal has a characteristic “finger” form (it is very elongated, but very narrow). That exposes the Peninsula below Danas and Borrascas Frías, both for the East and West. The problem is that this type of structures (very rare before, but from 2020 more and more frequent) are characterized by An extremely winding polar jet With air bags, ripping continuously. And, as we know, those airbags have a very erratic behavior: they are very difficult to pursue. And the first example comes Wednesday. The European model draws two cold storms one between the Canary Islands and the Azores (Olivier) and the other in the Gulf of Lion. As Collect Sergio Escaama in Meteoredboth storms go to Cerner on the Peninsula and will cause rains both in the northeast and in the southwest. If the scenarios are right, both storms would merge into a About the Gulf of Cádiz creating a fairly complex situation. Although we cannot determine the intensity and the trajectory, we do know that we must monitor it closely. From the middle of the week, we can expect rains in many areas of the country. And in Holy Week? As we are experiencing in our own flesh, the country’s meteorological context is complex. We are living a spring full of thermal ups and downs and huge rains. Thus, it is difficult to know what is going to What yes We can discard it is a persistent scenario of stability. If it does not rain on the key days of next week it will be by chance and not because it must necessarily be so. As I explainedduring the next few days we will have to be aware of the Azores anticyclone. Because if as it seems, zonal circulation is restored, everything will depend on whether the anticyclone lets go storms or not. Image | WXCHARTS In Xataka | Someone has left the water key open: the rain is back and the models say it will not leave until after Holy Week

It seemed impossible for the rains of March to be bad news for someone. Until the watermelons and melons arrived

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The huge rains of March have left much of the field offside and, for weeks, the generalized response has been the country. It is not for less: in the whole of Spain 149 l/m² have been accumulated2.5 more than usual. The benefits are huge: they are not only full swamps; but the fields of cereal, vineyard, olive grove and nuts at their best and a sweet moment in sheep, goat and milk bovine. But there are also great harmed. Who can water go wrong? Paradoxically, many crops: some vegetables (from broccoli to lettuce), the strawberries of Huelva, the harvest of potatoes, legumes and, above all, to the melon and watermelon. Is it for floods? In large part yes. In Murcia, more than 5,000 hectares of vegetables have been flooded and in Almería crops have been affected (both outdoors and greenhouse). It is thus understood that, during all this time, root asphyxiation has been one of the great fears of farmers. In essence, we talk about A phenomenon that occurs when the roots of the plants do not receive enough oxygen. This usually occurs when there is an excess of water on the ground; And, in fact, it can happen even if the ‘flood’ lasts for a short time. However, there are problems beyond suffocation. A good example is the chickpea. In his case he has not suffocated because, in short, he has not even come to be planted in provinces such as Seville (which concentrates a third of national production). As the Secretary General of Coag Sevilla says in The debatethe chickpea has to be more than 100 days in the countryside and “this year, hopefully, will pass 60”. Even in the event that the meteorology accompanies, the chickpea campaign It will be very bad. And, in addition, it is inevitable because farmers cannot plant anything else: the norms of common agricultural policy They force them to plant a certain percent of its land with legumes. And then we have the humidity. The rain has caused moisture levels to shoot and, With themthe “proliferation of pests and diseases such as the Botrytis (caused by a fungus) or the Mildiu” (groups several diseases that damage stems and leaves) “that are rotting the kills. And what happens to melons and watermelons? Another different thing. In the case of these crops, the situation is “worrying” because the rains arrived in “The most delicate moment, pollination“This has significantly delayed production to the point that seems unfeasible that early watermelons can reach the market on their usual dates. The hope of the sector, As explained by COAGis that great production is rethink. If no unforeseen occurs, that would allow the market of late watermelons and melons with force. But, of course, everything depends on what happens in the next few days. It is worth remembering that in recent years, these two summer fruits have starred controversial for its high prices and distribution problems. All to do. The great unknowns are now two: What water management will allow hydrographic confederations and the rest of the administrations, on the one hand. And how flexible will be the European Union With the restrictions of phytosanitary products In a context climatic extreme. However, there are many more things on the table. Many more problems, many more opportunities. Above all, before The perspective that this is the new normality. Image | Towsend Walton In Xataka | Before the return of the rains to Spain, the field looks at the worried sky: there are dozens of crops with weeks late

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