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There was a day that MotoGP rivaled in audiences with football. The Aragon GP confirms that this time has died

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Moto GP, the queen category of the World Motorcycling, the most often of all, is ever seen in Spain. At least that is what some public data indicates, a rare thing in a country of great biker tradition like Spain and that has Marc Márquez, again, as a claim to fight for a title six years later. What is happening? One million. One million viewers. That is the figure that, According to Kantar Mediafollowed the race of Moto GP last Sunday through the sixth. Although the race became In the third program of the day with the highest market share, the truth is that the number of people who followed motorcycling per open on television was not as high as one would expect. Especially if we consider that the trend is being down. The X account Lord of the Mediawhich regularly collects information related to sports audiences in Spain indicated that the monitoring of motorcycling is going down in Spain. Click on the image to go to the original tweet The data are going down. Compared to last year, it is estimated that some 600,000 people have stopped following the queen category of the World Cup. Of the 1.6 million of the Spanish Grand Prix that followed the race in 2024 to the million viewers of the last Grand Prix of Aragon, who joined, according to Kantar Media, one million people in front of television. Along the way, in Spain other great open awards have been offered and the data (at least first) say that some interest has been lost. This user collects that the first date already mentioned last year was the aforementioned Grand Prix of Spain, with those 1.6 million. From there he went to the Grand Prix of Catalonia and the Solidarity GP (the race that replaced in Barcelona to the appointment that the calendar in Valencia should have closed and that could not be run because of the Dana). In both cases 1.3 million viewers were counted. But this year we are having worse figures. The Spain Grand Prix left 1.2 million viewers in front of television and, first, one million viewers at the Aragon Grand Prix last weekend. Sure? The data of a million spectators hides other figures. In See you They explain that the Dazn and Aragon TV viewers must be added to the data of La Sexta, where the race was also issued. In that case, the data add a non -negligible figure. The total sum leaves the race in 1,282,000 spectators. Of these, Dazn would add another 152,000 spectators and the local television another 72,000 followers. That is, of the almost 1.3 million viewers, more than 15% used other platforms to follow the race. The market share also rises from 14.5% to 16.1% which would leave it as the second most watched program of the day (surpassing, yes, to the roulette of fortune, authentic rock in daily television consumption). What could happen? The truth is that, as we said, seen with some perspective the data of last weekend does not seem so bad. In 2020, 2021 and 2022, when the race was issued by Tedeport, Telecinco and 1, respectively, the million spectators were not able to arrive. However, we do not have the data of how many people followed Dazn last year the races of the Motorcycling World Cup. Either in See you They offered follow -up data for the private platform on the first appointment of the year in open. A bitter fact. Despite the game of figures, the truth is that it seems that in a year the interest has declined. But most worrying, they point out from Motorpasion motorcycle It is expected that Marc Márquez, that this year leads the championship again and has very serious options to take the title six years later, is not generating the expected pull. Especially if we take into account that the Spain 1 Grand Prix of Formula 1 took 2.2 million viewers in front of the television despite the fact that neither Carlos Sainz nor Fernando Alonso had real possibilities of Victoria, which always serves as a traction. However, neither has formula 1 achieved large figures last year. The 1.44 million data in Telecinco in 2025 is slightly higher than the previous year but is far from the 1.72 million of 2022 and the 1.84 million of 2021. Only to good results fever In the first races with Aston Martin they managed to raise the figure to 2.25 million viewers in 2023. The best days were left behind. What seems very clear is that the Motorcycling World Cup does not attract what attracted before. In recent years the races of the queen category have stagnated between one million and a million and a half spectators. But the big figures were left behind. These, on the other hand, have not seen each other for more than a decade. 2015 was the last great year of huge audiences in motorcycling. That season were recorded almost six million viewers In the duel between Jorge Lorenzo and Valentino Rossi for taking the title. In 2013, the World Cup closure also brought together almost five million in front of the spectator. The second most seen in history, between both appointments, was the world title of Álex Crivillé in 1999. A cluster of circumstances. There are several factors that explain why motorcycling has lost bellows in recent years although one seems to be erected above all. Crivillé’s title was the first of a Spaniard in 500 cc, so the expectation was maximum. The duels of the Spaniards with each other (Jorge Lorenzo-Dani Pedrosa) or with Valentino Rossi attracted an enormous interest. But in Motorsan They regretted in 2018 that passing the distribution of the World Cup to a payment chain He had killed the audiences. It had passed in a few years of six million viewers just over 300,000 followers in front of television. Without an open television network that follows the entire World Cup it is … Read more

Some geologists studied the sand of one of the beaches of day D in Normandy. They discovered that 4% is still shrapnel

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More than 80 years have passed from “Day D” And yet his memory is still very present on the beaches of Normandy. And not in an ethereal and symbolic way. No. Beyond memory, the landing of allied troops in the French region in June 1944 maintains a palpable footprint in its sand. One that can be touched and seen, although for the latter an electronic microscope is needed. This was checked by a group of geologists who collected a sand sample on the beach of Omaha. When taking her to her laboratory and studying it in detail, they bought, amazed, that 4% were actually remains of shrapnel. A microscopic memory of a historical date. Normandy walk. That is what they did a good day of 1988, the Geology professor Earle McBridefrom the University of Texas in Austin, and its colleague Dane Picard, of the University of Utah. While doing a field study in France decided to take a break and visit the famous Omaha beachone of the main landing points of the day D in Normandy. They did not have much luck with their Norman trip. The day they walked through the sand, around eight kilometers long, it was disappeared, cold and windy; But that did not prevent McBride and Picard to take home a memory that honored his formation: a small sand sample. Some time later they decided to rescue the bag with those grains of Normandy and observe them under the microscope. And the surprise came. What McBride found in that sample of sand collected in Omaha Beach caught his attention. In addition to quartz remains and other materials that it already gave, the geologist observed tiny Metal fragments. When studying them in detail with the microscope he found that they had a rounded shape, they were rough, laminated and an opaque brightness, with some oxide points. Some pieces were around the millimeter. Others did not go from 0.06 mm. The remains of the battle. Thus, reduced to millimetric metal accounts eroded by waves and the passage of time, perhaps they were difficult to identify, but McBride ended up reaching a fascinating conclusion. What I had before them were vestiges of Normandy landing. “They turned out to be a shrapnel of the invasion of World War II. After a more detained exam, he also saw iron and glass accounts that had resulted from the intense heat unleashed by the explosions in the air and the sand,” They detail From the University of Texas in Austin. So curious was his finding that, together with PicardProfessor McBride decided to prepare An article and publish it in the magazine The sedimentary record. Foreseeable. “Of course it is not surprising that the sand of the beach of Omaha be added at the time of battle, but it is that it has survived more than 40 years and without a doubt it is still there today,” They commented Both experts. His sample was from the end of the 80s and The report They published it in 2011; But everything indicates that the situation remains the same today. In 2011 experts They calculated that corrosion would still take a century to destroy shrapnel grains. A well mesurable footprint. If McBride and Picard’s study is surprising, it is because it has done more than verifying that – discussion after day D – through the Normandy beaches, remains of shrapnel are still distributed. So or more curious is that experts have managed to contribute a fairly precise idea what this footprint represents in the sand. After examining the exhibition in detail, the Texas geologist found that metals represent 4% of the sand. The data is illustrative, although McBride and Picard slide that there could be variations depending on where and when the sand is collected. “Due to the possible plasticization of shrapnel and heavy minerals by the waves and currents the day we collected our sample, we do not know to what extent it is representative of the sand of the beach as a whole.” The Omaha was one of the great landing points of day D, but there were other beaches in Normandy to which the allies arrived in the Neptune operationknown as Utah, Sword, Gold and Juno. Date of expiration. Although the accounts discovered by American geologists are a peculiar memory of the day and have survived decades, McBride and Picard have already noticed years ago that they will not last forever. The remains of shrapnel could resist erosion for millennity, but when the grains study the geologists discovered oxide particles, which leads them to be pessimistic about their future. “The waves stir the iron fragments, which in turn eliminates part of the oxide and exposes fresh material, more prone to oxidation, which in turn follows, and so on,” Point out The University of Texas. “The result is that they will become smaller and in the end the storms or hurries will drag them and take out of the beach,” McBride reflected in 2011. His calculations pointed out that 4% of shrapnel identified in Omaha Beach would be reduced to insignificance in a century. They will remain to remember the allied landing, yes, monuments and memory. Image | Person-With-No Name (Flickr) In Xataka | The US landed on an empty island during World War II. In nine days it had more than 300 casualties *An earlier version of this article was published in June 2024

One day, all Germans in Germany appeared closed on Google Maps. The problem is that nobody knows why

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He common sense It is the best guide to avoid mistakes. The problem is that it is easy for us to leave it aside while We blindly trust technology As if it were infallible. And if not, they tell the German German drivers because, just before a national bridge, they saw in Google Maps What half country had become a forbidden area. Short. On Thursday, May 29, the Ascension Dayeither Christi Himmelfahrt. It is a national holiday whose previous day is one of those who more displacements record. HE esteem That, at that time, there are between six and eight million displacements, but although many concentrate the day before the holiday, there are also millions of displacements the day in question. The surprise came when drivers who use Google Maps in your vehicle They ran into With this image in which you can see a “prohibited” symbol on the main roads that join the four cardinal points of the country and cities as important as Berlin, Hamburg or Frankfurt. Inutschland in GanzChaos Bei Google Maps: Dienst Zeigt Unzählige False Sperrungenhttps://t.co/qefirrihx3 – Peter Berger (@leosgeminix) May 29, 2025 Alternative road collapse. It may have happened to you that seeing a sign of “prohibited the step” and your common sense dictates that you should pay attention to that signal, but the GPS Indicates that you can go through that street and, for a moment, you lean to browse. We trust them because they do not usually fail, but given that vision of the main cut roads, and how we read in The Guardianthere were those who did not play it and decided to go on secondary roads. The result was expected: collapse in some of them, delays, travelers trying to find deviations to those main routes and many calls to the police and the traffic control authorities asking about the situation. Also speculation about a cyber attack (as with the blackout in Spain) or a terrorist attack. Citizen collaboration. There was also the case of people who did not attend to those stop signals and dared to circulate on those roads, supposedly, cut. When they could do it without problem, they began to report their cases and that was when Google began to act. The company began to eliminate those notices in the application and traffic was restored as the rest of the people undertook their trips and consulted a route on Google Maps that no longer had the warning symbols. Engadget He assures that the error only lasted two hours, but it is more than enough time for that avalanche of drivers on secondary roads. Ok, but … what caused it? Google’s response was extremely vague. As we read in Arstechnicathe company did not comment specific details and, in fact, a Google spokesman confirmed to German media that the company would not give details about the case. They limited themselves to saying that a technical problem had been investigated that showed temporary road closures inaccurately, but that it had already been solved. They also commented that Google Maps baby from three sources: user reportspublic sources and external suppliers. And there may be the “guilty” (among many quotes). The German Automobile Club is one of the largest automobile associations in Europe and, in the face of the holiday, He warned on possible retentions on those roads. The speculation is that the Maps failure was related to a “hallucination” of the application due to jamsstill, non -existent. Not all GPS. Now, those who had to drive with total tranquility that day were the users of Apple Maps and Waze. Although the latter is owned by Google, both showed the traffic data correctly, without any closing signal on those roads. Being so marked for the exits in Germany, the drivers who were guided with those apps had to drive quieter than ever. In the end, it was at anecdote and in travelers who arrived something later to their destination, but can also teach a lesson: having several alternativestaking an eye on each of them before leaving is not a bad idea. Image | Xataka assembly In Xataka | Register or pay the fine: Spain already has a toll road where you cannot pay in the window

If the question is what you can play on Nintendo Switch 2 from day one, the answer is: To all this

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The authentic core of experience with a console: games. We already have one Switch 2 In our hands and we are already starting to taste its catalog, but there is much more on the horizon. And although the fat The rest of the exclusive Announced by Nintendo at the time, they are to come, for the moment we have at our disposal a good selection of titles. These are all the games with which you can throw the first hours at the Switch 2 controls. Mario Kart World The undisputed launch course, which you may have if you have acquired it in pack with the console. The idea of ​​the open world, but In our tests In first the truth is that everything seemed ‘Mario Kart’ to the nth power: fun, perrearies, superb graphics and all focused on accessibility, immediacy and revelry. Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour A technical demo on the possibilities and secrets of the console, a little in the style of the ‘Astro Bot’ of PlayStation 5, but also with a controversial point: it costs 10 euros. Even so, along with ‘Mario Kart’ and until next month, he is the only exclusive First Party of the console in its launch. The last Zelda, in Switch 2 edition The best Nintendo games in recent years, in graphically improved versions. ‘Breath of the Wild‘ and ‘Tears of the Kingdom‘They will have 60fps resolution, improved textures … and the Companion app ‘Zelda Notes’, which allows from any smartphone Receive aid to solve the multiple challenges of the games. If you have them, it is a good idea to access this improvement, and if you are missing, or think about it. Cyberpunk 2077 Ultimate Edition One of the games that promises to squeeze the technical specifications of the Switch 2, in an edition that includes The main game and the excellent expansion Ghost Liberty. The first impressions we are having are highly positive, with a free edition of Bugs and superior to those of other portable deviceslike Steamdeck. Yakuza 0 – Director’s Cut A new version of this review of the origins of the franchise, originally launched in 2015: improved graphics, new scenes, unpublished multiplayer mode and Spanish translation. All madness and countless options for the series games, in a perfect opportunity to resume the franchise. Hogwarts Legacy The best -selling game last year, in an edition of Switch 2 that does not bring news (except for the inevitable visual face washing with respect to the first switch), but which presents a new opportunity to enter the magical world of Harry Potter. If you escaped at the time, here you have it again, to take the Magi in your pocket. Fortnite An essential of this first batch of games given its gratuity, which includes all the extras of rigor and also, apparently, has a very remarkable technical finish, and that puts it up to the PS5 or Xbox series versions, with very notable visual effects. Let’s add the resolution at 60 fps and the possibility of playing with the exclusive mouse controls of the console and we will have the best option to play ‘Fortnite’ in portable format. Arcade Archives 2 Ridge Racer It is not the new ‘Mario Kart’, but huh: one of its most significant grandparents, an authentic classic of the driving arcades dating from 1993. Among the improvements, Time Attack mode and improved graphics. The art of a good skid, here and now. And what about the musicte: another dimension. Gamecube games: ‘The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker’, ‘Soul Calibur II’ and ‘F-Zero GX’ Three Classics of Gamecube will be available for all users signed to Nintendo Switch Online with the expansion package. The adorable link Cel-Shadingviolence with swords, furious speed … These three classics of the Nintendo cubic console come with online game in the case of ‘Soul Calibur’ and ‘F-Zero’, and all have improved graphics and customization of controls. Fast Fusion Of course, if yours are the driving arcades, Switch 2 has an imposing catalog: to the aforementioned classics and, of course, ‘Mario Kart World’, adds Fast Fusion, an exclusive switch 2 clearly connected with F-Zero or, more specifically, with Wipeout. Up to 4 simultaneous players with a single game, infarction speeds, aggressive futuristic driving and a novelty: the possibility of creating new ships combining others. And besides … Bravely Default Flying Fairy HD Remaster: The classic 3DS classic JRPG with renewed graphics, new content and interface redesign Deltarune Chapters 1, 2, 3 and 4: The hopeful chapters 3 and 4 of the acclaimed new game of the creator of ‘Undertale’. With the first two also available, of course. Fantasy Life I: The little thief of time: Mixture of JRPG and simulation to the ‘animal crossing’, in a sequel to the very popular title of Level 5 that reaches Switch 2 with better graphics and load times reduced. Hitman World of Assassination – Signature Edition: The three adventures of agent 47 launched between 2016 and 2021, which are far from being dead, because the new content does not stop arriving. Includes all DLCs. KUNITSU-GAMI: Path of the GodDDESS: This mixture of Hack’n’Sash and Tower Defense It is one of the indie games (although it is signed by Capcom) more raptors last year. Nubunaga’s Ambition: Awakening: Reissue with all the extras included from the latest delivery of the strategy saga set in feudal Japan. Puyo Puyo Tetris 2s: Sonic Himself It makes an appearance in this game that includes multiple options for the competitive game and that proposes the fusion of two of the best known (and addictive) puzzles of history. Rune Factory Guardians of Azuma: Farm and action management: shock of gender apparently incompatible but that meet in this game that also has graphic adventure elements … and dating play. Sid Meier’s Civilization VII: Last delivery of the acclaimed strategy saga, which acquires the extra point of so many games on this list: possibility of portable game, but with mouse Sonic X Shadow Generations: The … Read more

There was a day when Benidorm had one of the largest Russian mountains in Europe. Today is a closed fiasco and still standing

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Magnus Colossus has been closed since 2016. Considered an icon of mythical terra, its practically definitive closure is a good symbol of everything that has ended up destroying the park: bad organization, embezzlement and a series of murky plots that ended in very serious judgments and convictions. Today, Magnus Colossus is dead, but his journey full of curves leaves a few lessons on the park. Mythical Colossus. Magnus Colossus was one of the most important Russian mountains in Europe (and the largest: length of 1,149.7 meters and maximum speed of 92 km/h) and One of the absolute icons of the ambitious amusement park. However, a series of stumbling blocks in construction, added to the economic and organizational decline of the park, have led to its greatness to end limited to that of mere aesthetic claim. A closed colossus. Almost a decade has closed this spectacular roller wooden mountain that took advantage of the natural terrain of a limestone quarry, 180 meters above sea level. The culprit of its uselessness is the heat that has inflamed the wood, which entails too expensive maintenance. However, his presence under the gigantic poster that presides over the views of the park, on the mountain, has given him a unique personality. The negligence of the owners of the facilities, who have not dedicated the necessary resources for the care of Magnus Colossus, has ended the giant. “Irregularities in maintenance”. In 2016 it was decided to close Magnus Colossus, in principle temporarily to undertake the renovations that would solve problems that existed then, such as the excessive trachetening of the wagons. However, They never got to undertakesince the park had more serious problems to deal with: controversy, suspicions of corruption and various negligence in maintenance, which culminated when an investigation detected that had used creating to treat wood, substance prohibited at an industrial level for being carcinogenic. Photo: Jeremy Thompson Dramas before starting. The controversies and suspicions that have always surrounded the park started even before its inauguration: in August 1992, with Spain submerged in the maelstrom of the expo and the Olympicsa forest fire razed the area known as “the largest Pinada in the Mediterranean”, in the area where Terra Mítica would be built. 450 hectares of non -urbanizable land of special forest protection They were razedand although it was not proven judicially, associations like Greenpeace suspected That the fire could have been intentional, seeking recalification. After the fire, in fact, the land was expropriated and re -qualified, which allowed the construction of a mythical terra, a hotel zone and two golf courses. The current law prohibits the change in forest land use for 30 years after a fire, but this case occurred before the entry into force of the regulations. 1990s in its purest form. Terra mythical is a paradigmatic case of the bubble and the speculation that occurred so much in Spain by those dates. About the park they hit Judicial suspicions and research for embezzlement, fraud, money laundering and influence peddling. The trial began in 2015 and dozens of entrepreneurs and managers were charged. Among other things, there was a plot of false invoices for almost 4.5 million euros to companies for non -existent services in the years 2000 and 2001, in addition to 150 million euros to ghost companies. Photo: Jeremy Thompson The verdict came to light in 2016: Two former director, including the exemptedness of the then president of the Generalitat, Eduardo Zaplana and 20 entrepreneurs were convicted of corruption, scam, documentary falsehood and crimes against the Public Treasury with sentences between 4 and 47 years in prison. Terra mythical is sold. In 2004, only four years after its inauguration, Terra Mítica entered into suspension of payments: like so many projects of the time, business forecasts had been well above their results. The Generalitat Valenciana sold their participation to the company Aqualandia in 2011 for 65 million euros, well below the initial investment of 400 million euros. In the background, the roller coaster. With these accounts, it is not surprising that Terra mythical is very far from their best times (if they came to exist at some point). With very scarce visits, almost exclusively from devotees from the parks, in 2021 Terra mythical He reported 6 million euros in losses and 4.3 of income (let’s compare, for example, with port adventure, with 163 million in revenue). Magnus Colossus has few chances of raising head at some point in the future, and remains for posterity such as the wooden skeleton that reminds us of the great bubble of embezzlement in the construction of the Spain of the nineties. Header | Jeremy Thompson In Xataka | We have known how to eliminate the tails of the attraction parks. Disney keeps them for something

A company tested the four -day work week. Now your workers think it is best to work seven days

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The debate on the Reduction of the working day It is more alive than ever and many countries are reconsidering their working day model with alternatives such as four -day work week. Lumena small Cardiff SEO services consultant, tested the four -day work week obtaining outstanding results. However, his CEO, considered that the idea could still be improved, so he decided to go one step further and try a model even more flexible: Work seven days a week. From the four -day week to 32 hours. As Aced Nelmes, CEO of Lumen, counted In his LinkedIn profilethe company had changed its four -day workday for a 32 -hour. The difference can be underestimated, in that change the elimination of an important barrier is implicit: the company will not impose if its employees have to do those 32 hours In a certain number of days or at a certain schedule. It will be the employees themselves who decide when to work. According to his CEO, two years ago, Lumen implemented the four -day work week. The results exceeded all expectations: staff rotation fell to zero, productivity increased and employees felt more rested and committed. According to Nelmes, “our workers reported to be happier, have better health and be more productive.” But the model It could be improved. Seven days to meet your day. “The idea of ​​the 32 -hour week is to go further in the flexibility offered by the four days,” Nelmes explained. In the system proposed by Lumen, the only condition is that employees meet their projects and objectives, managing their time with total autonomy. Nelmes clarified in statements to The confidential that “what I require is a lot of self -discipline, capacity for concentration, self -regulation, initiative and independence.” The company seeks workers capable of directing their own time and offering the best of themselves. “I think we microstal the day -to -day life of our workers, we assume what kind of day they should have to be productive. My argument is that it is not, we do not know, and we need to delegate that decision in each individual,” said the young manager to El Confidencial. The exception: meetings and training. According to The publishedby him Financial Timesthe only exception to the total flexibility of Lumen is the time that the company dedicates to Team meetings in which the mandatory projects and formations are defined. Together, the CEO ensures that they do not exceed three hours per week. This guarantees the connection and coordination of the team without sacrificing individual autonomy. For all others each of the employees distributes their work week with total labor flexibility and No entry or exit schedules. Results and surprises. During the three months of proof of this new flexibility model, Nelmes observed that, in reality, the employees did not make major changes in their schedules. Most had routines similar to conventional ones, adapting only small details to enjoy personal activities. “People like to have routines and structure, so many … still prefer to move within a standard schedule,” explained the CEO to The confidential. The flexibility had limited itself to adapting their working hours to certain personal activities (playing sports, medical appointments, etc.) or to coincide with The schedules of their childrenand then recover that time at another time of the week. According to Nelmes, the most extreme case is that of one of its employees, who took advantage of that flexibility to adjust their rest days during the week according to the climate or their personal needs. Then, I worked on Sunday, because it was the time when I found greater concentration and less interruptions. Flexibility with clear values ​​and limits. As has counted The CEO, this model does not imply total disconnection of the company. Lumen takes great care of your team to ensure that everyone shares Commitment values and responsibility. “We would not hire someone who only wanted to work 16 hours in two days,” says Nelmes. In fact, the manager assures that they have had to leave people who did not adapt to this level of freedom and demand. The objective is to allow employees to have enough flexibility in their workday to be carried out as people and take care of their familieswhich also helps them save in nurseries, cleaning or extracurricular activities. According to Nelmes, “if you let your employees be good parents, they will also be good employees.” The company seeks to attract fathers and mothers, convinced that flexibility improves both productivity and the quality of life. An adaptable model, but not for all. Although the manager ensures that the results obtained by his staff have been positive, he acknowledges that this model is not viable or For all companies Not for all sectors. Consultants, banks, law firms or marketing companies can benefit from this approach since they allow combining the flexibility of teleworking with the organization by objectives. However, it acknowledges that it is a difficult implementation option in sectors such as the manufacturing industry, construction, the hospitality or tourismwhere physical presence and fixed schedules are inherent to the nature of work. In Xataka | Spain already has its first municipality with four -day work week. It is not in Madrid or Barcelona, ​​but in a corner of Cádiz In Xataka | Three Spanish companies tell us how it has gone after implementing a job utopia: the four -day week Image | Lumen

Valencia tested the four -day work week. A town of Cádiz of 1,355 inhabitants has been the first to implement it

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Zahara de la Sierra, a municipality of just 1,355 inhabitants in the province of Cádiz, has decided to step forward in the Organization of your work day and rise as the first session to adopt the four -day work week and face the challenge of the reduction of the day that is currently located Parliamentary process. Inspired by the pilot experience carried out in Valencia, the City Council of this picturesque Cadiz people have implemented the four -day work week For its municipal staff. The news has generated great expectation, not only for the novelty of the measure, but for the enthusiasm he has aroused among the employees themselves. Zahara de la Sierra adopts four days. The City of Zahara de la Sierra has decided to reduce the working day of its 32 public employees of the current 37.5 hours per week in five working days, to a 35 -hour day distributed in four days per week. Thus, this small population located in the limits of the Natural Park of the Sierra de Grazalema becomes the first public body to adopt that day model. The mayor’s initiative. The implementation of the four -day working hours arises at the initiative of the mayor, such as conciliation measure For public employees of your City Council. The reduction will be implemented voluntarily and will allow workers to fight one day a week, either on Monday or Friday, rotatingly. To complete the remaining hours until adding 35, they will have to work or on Tuesdays or Thursdays in the afternoon. As Mayor Santiago Galván explains in statements to The country: “It’s totally optional. If you have children, enter at 9, no and you like to get up early, enter at 7:30”. This flexibility aims to adapt to the conciliation needs of each employee without affecting the attention to the public that is covered five days a week by rotating shifts. “In the end, the work has to be as a goal, that of being encapsulated in hours is a fatal mistake. That does not benefit anyone, I prefer flexibility,” said the mayor. An agreement with the union support. Beyond being a pioneer initiative in public administration in Spain, the mayor has had the consensus of workers and the CSIF union, a majority in public administrations. According to collect Diario de Cádizthe officials union positively value the measure, considering it “the starting point for all local municipalities and entities to take it as an example.” Francisco Silvestre, head of Local Administration of CSIF Cádiz, explained that “municipal staff deserves the improvement of their working conditions, facilitating, among other issues, family conciliation; but also, by optimizing resources, citizenship care schedules can be expanded and, consequently, also improve the service offered”, so the measure will not only benefit employees, but also result in the citizenship. Learning others’ head. Despite being a pioneer initiative in a public organization, There are already private companies That they have adopted this model of day, so the Consistory can take advantage of that previous experience to solve possible problems that may arise. In addition, the pilot program of the four -day working hours that took place In Valenciaalready advances the benefits that can be expected in that small Gaditano municipality. The different tests performed all over the world They agree to aim an almost immediate improvement in the well -being of the workers, Reduction of labor casualties and an increase in commitment. In addition, a Fall in productivity attributable to the change in the working day model. Valencia and Iceland tests reported that the adoption of four -day work week encouraged local consumption and economy due to the increase in the free time of workers. These data reinforce the idea that four -day work week can be a viable and beneficial formula for different sectors, among which is the public sector, although it is not viable in all companies. In Xataka | Not everything is 38.5 hours a week: the formulas for a waiter or temporary to benefit from the reduction of day Image | Wikimedia Commons (80 km/h)

Is it healthy to eat an ice cream each and every day of summer? Science already has an answer

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In a balanced and varied diet it is not difficult to find a hole for occasional whim, a sweet dessert or a Snack from time to time. Now, finding balance is not always easy, even more so when we often receive news that they point out that foods like ice cream They are healthy, something that seems to contradict our most basic ideas about nutrition. So is this true? How often can I eat ice cream? First, bad news: no, eating ice cream is not especially healthy. As with the consumption of certain alcoholic beverages such as wine, the fact that some study finds positive properties in any of its converters, does not necessarily imply that a food will be healthy. Here it is important to address several issues issues. The first is that there may be other components that cancel the positive effect detected. In the example of wine, its alcohol content tends to counteract the impact of compounds such as polyphenols. A key question to ask ourselves here is if we can obtain the beneficial compounds of a source that does not contain the harmful compounds. It is also relevant to attend to what aspect of health a certain study refers. Analysis can be carried out focused on A specific aspect of healthsuch as the incidence of cardiovascular diseases, diabetes or cancer. It is therefore important to understand that what can be good for one aspect of our health may not be so much for another. Interpreting the results of a study is important, but sometimes the methodology can also give us important clues when making this interpretation. An example we have In an article for The conversation Written by Duane Melor, expert in Medicine and Nutrition of Birmingham Aston University. Although it is an interesting result, some factors must be taken into account, the first, the fact that ice cream represents a small element of the diet and that sometimes other variables can play a bad pass. Melor In a doctoral thesis published in 2018 and focused on the heart effects of dairy products. The thesis, the expert indicates, included a study in which it was observed that, among the study population (composed of people with type 2 diabetes), those who consumed ice cream no more than twice a week showed a 12% lower risk of suffering from cardiovascular diseases, compared to those who did not consume this sweet. Although it is an interesting result, some factors must be taken into account, the first, the fact that ice cream represents a small element of the diet and that sometimes other variables can play a bad pass. “It is important to note that this bond between ice cream and heart disease only becomes apparent when other aspects of people’s health are taken into account, including how healthily they ate,” MELLOR EXPLAIN IN YOUR ARTICLE. “This suggests that eating A generally healthy diet It is possibly more important when reducing the risk of cardiovascular disease in people with type 2 diabetes, compared to eating ice cream. ” Establishing causal relationships in observational studies such as this is difficult and mellor gives us an example of why. A person with problems prior to the study may decide to stop consuming ice cream to improve their diet. This implies that this person will be seen for the purpose of the study as a person with a worse level of health despite leading a seemingly healthier life. If there is a marked trend, that is, if there are numerous cases like this, the results of the study may present biases. Practice and theory Ice cream are usually high caloric food in sugar and in fat. This, as we point out at the beginning, can fit perfectly into a balanced diet, but it does not mean that a food is healthy. He sugar consumption It has been linked to very different problems that cover from oral health to an increased risk of cancer, also through diabetes. Fats and excess calories can also facilitate the appearance of overweight or obesity. While this is not a health problem in itself, it is a risk factor in the appearance of diseases and disorders, including cardiovascular diseases. There are also studies that point in this direction, some of them cited by Melor in their piece. A study Made by an Italian researchers team and published in 2019 in the magazine Nutrientsdetected that greater ice cream consumption was linked to the appearance Non -alcoholic fatty liver diseasesomething that is not exclusive to this food, but we must also take into account when making our nutritional decisions. We explained before something that we must take into account is whether we can find healthier alternatives. Part of The benefits that can give us ice cream come from milk, thanks to elements Like calcium either The probiotics. That is, non -sugary yogurt (or less sugary), cheese, or milk can give us some of these nutrients, turning them into alternatives that may perhaps fit more into a daily diet. So how much can I eat ice cream? There is no clear response, it depends on factors such as the type of ice cream we are consuming (the nutrients that each type of ice cream provides can vary) and the size of the ration, our diet and countless factors such as our weight or our state of health. If we wanted Consume ice cream every day We should make sure first to have A varied diet (and healthy lifestyle habits), consume reduced amounts and eliminate other added sources. And still nothing guarantees that this cannot lead to other problems such as the aforementioned fatty liver disease. In Xataka | We have been studying chocolate and tea compounds for more than 75 years. Now we know that they help control blood pressure Image | Lukas

Ozores was a day the most important person in Spain. To the point of delaying the premiere of ‘The Empire Contraataca’

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He has died Mariano Ozoresone of the best known and box office directors in the history of Spanish cinema. Although his cinema has always been despised by critics, his films were infallible blockbusters that put on his competitors on his competitors. Including ‘Star Wars’, whose first sequel had to give in to the overwhelming power of Pajares and Esteso. Long live ozores. Mariano Ozores was one of the main exponents of the Spanish popular comedy since the sixties. His ability to connect with the public was notable thanks to a style that balanced the accessible and the irreverent: as Bruguera of flesh and blood bruguerahis films were simple in the form, but corrosive in what was navigating below. The costumbrista typology, the Spanish scenarios, the explosive humor: key was its style, for example, to strengthen what was known as’Landism‘, pure Hispanic anthropology with the best comedy deals of the time. Great successes. In addition to the films with Alfredo Landa, without a doubt his greatest successes were the ones he signed at the service of Andrés Pajares and Fernando Esteso. With them he signed the legendary ‘Los Bingueros’, sociological phenomenon and more grossing film of that year in Spain, but also ‘The Energy’, ‘Los Liantes’ or ‘Father there are nothing more than two’, up to a total of nine. The 96 films of his vast filmography They were seen for about 90 million viewers. He was the authentic author of the Spanish commercial cinema, when those things made no sense in our industry. Fast, quickly. In 1980, Pajares, Esteso and Ozores had collaborated three times: ‘Los Bingueros’ took the cinema to million and a half spectators and their immediate continuation, ‘The Energy’, of that same year, also went from one million audiences. In both cases they were very short -term films, as usual in the cinema invoiced at infernal speed at the time: ‘Los Bingueros’ was shot taking advantage of the legalization of bingos in Spain; ‘The energy’ was inspired by A nuclear accident in Pennsylvania that horrified the world. The following, take advantage of the international success of ‘Rocky’ in 1976 and ‘Rocky II’ in 1979. Roque III, our Rocky. In just twenty days, Esteso, Pajares and Ozores have their parody, ‘I did Roque III’, where Pajares gives life to Roque Third, a sparrow who lives at a friend’s house, a former Jockey come less. To remove it from Enmedio, the friend decides to take advantage of Roque’s past as an amateur boxer and convinces him to face the national welter champion, Kid Botija. By the way, this boxer named Mortadeliano gives life nothing less than Dum Dum Pacheco, champion of the time whose life, between excesses, fame and prisons, gives for several chronicles and It is currently claiming. Darth Vader reculates. The journalist Juan Sanguino tells it in the documentary ‘Pajares & Cía‘: The power of Pajares and Esteso at a box office to Fox, who decide to delay the premiere of’ The Empire counterattack ‘on the planned date, so as not to coincide with’ I made Roque III ‘. This premieres on September 19, 1980 and the ‘Star Wars’ movie, October 3. “They were the real phenomenon, the real Blockbuster“Sanguino says. Ozores can boast of being the only Spanish filmmaker who has bent to the almighty franchise. In Xataka | The Spanish box office cling this year to a phenomenon: the safe and ‘father there is only one 4

The United Kingdom tested its sophisticated defense simulating the day of Russia’s invasion in Ukraine. Did not go as expected

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Simulations are an essential part of the network of nations defense. We have a large number of examples, from the “game” that They used in the Cold War The United States and Russia to conclude that it was not worth test try your last destroyer against Washington, or those who He has activated Taiwan In recent times “for what can happen.” The United Kingdom also carried out a test that should confirm that its arsenal is ready for battle. The conclusions were not exactly those. A brutal lesson. The story took place a while ago. As we said, the United Kingdom carried out a Strategic simulation of very high importance: he replied in his own aerial territory the exact pattern of the first Russian attack on Ukraine, which occurred on February 24, 2022. He did it through the Gladiator Training Systemvalued at 24 million pounds, and with the aim of evaluating how their defenses would respond if the same type of onslaught would have had the British soil as white. The conclusion It was alarming. Although the results were not revealed in detail, the then commander of the Air Battlespace Training CenterThe Blythe Crawford Air Comodoro, was bluntly describing it as “a very beautiful panorama.” For a country that for decades felt protected by its location to the western edge of Europe (with the continental mass acting as mattress natural against threats), the exercise was a strategic shaking that threw old assumptions for land. A threat that is no longer distant. Then it was more known, mainly than the exercise revealed vulnerability from the United Kingdom before a massive and modern air attack like Russia used against Ukraine, with a devastating combination of missile, drones and autonomous technologies. Crawford also stressed that Ukraine made everything West will awaken. The conflict not only exposed the brutality of the first Russian blows, but also highlighted how modern war has transformed the rules of aerial domain, such as We have been counting. Crawford explained that it is no longer about achieving aerial superiority in broad and sustained terms throughout an operations theater, but to assume that supremacy can be Fragmentary, ephemeraleven located between two trenches or just a few meters from the ground. The war in Ukraine, he said, is an unprecedented battlefield between two countries with powerful air defense systems, but where none has achieved A full domain of the heavens, in contrast to the predominant aerial doctrine of the last decades. The swarm that comes. One of the most revealing points of Crawford’s intervention was his analysis of the massive drone use In Ukraine. For the high command, it is no longer simply individual devices: now they face hundreds of hundreds of units, many of them equipped With explosivesothers designed as lures, and others Simply kamikaze. These waves, combined with rockets and intercontinental ballistic missiles, configure a type of multiple, simultaneous and heterogeneous threat for which traditional defensive systems were conceived in much more predictable scenarios. The tactical dilemma, In his opinionIt is clear: “Should all attack vectors neutralize or prioritize the most lethal?” A question without a definitive solution, but that affects all the Western air forces. Of strength to vulnerability. One of the most forceful messages of the United Kingdom simulation was the need to change the defensive mentality of the nation and its allies. For decades, modern wars were fought away from the national territory, which led to an erroneous perception of domestic security. Hence, Comodoro warned that it is time to abandon that trust and assume that even the British bases are now under direct threat. In other words: the United Kingdom cannot be considered as a simple safe starting point for foreign operations, but should be thought of as a potential objective and prepare as such. The risk, In his opinionIt is not hypothetical: if Russia decided to launch an attack against British soil, it could do it through its northern fleet from the Atlantic, thus avoiding European airspace. Redrawing doctrines. The last of the legs to deal with the simulation results. The Ukrainian case is rewriting military doctrines that during generations were considered unquestionable. The notion of total air control, cornerstone of NATO strategy from the Gulf War, seems to be eroding for a New generation of threats which combines speed, volume, unpredictability and autonomy. For Crawford and many other strategists, the key is to learn quickly, assume that the scenario (in this British case) is no longer immune, and rethinking defense systems as if the next attack did not happen in a distant country, but in “house.” Image | US Department of Defense In Xataka | The countries with more combat tanks, ordered in this graphic developer In Xataka | Satellite images have revealed what happened to one of Russia’s biggest arsenals. Now we understand Moscow’s silence

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