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the sensation of jumping from the 13th floor at 100 km/h

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With summer almost (almost) knocking on the door, it’s time to think about what to do on vacation and how to take advantage of the sun, the heat and the long days that provide light until late in the afternoon. There are those who choose the beach, the mountains, a cold beer on a terrace or, in the case of people hooked on adrenaline shots, jumping into the void from 13 stories high, without ropes or parachutes. It sounds strange, I know, but that’s precisely it. the experience featuring Verti-Go, one of the tallest water slides in Europe. Its owners assure that when descending it they are easily reached. 100 km/h. As I said: an experience suitable only for people who really like adrenaline. Who said vertigo? Spain offers many ways to cool off in summer, but few (none) like Vertigohe megaslide aquatic Aqualandia Benidorma huge water park located on the Costa Blanca. Whoever gets on it is guaranteed a dip, but first must face an experience that is not very advisable for people with vertigo or those who do not like strong emotions. Before reaching the water you must climb several dozen meters and then drop into the void and travel, in a matter of three seconds, the equivalent of a multi-story residential tower. “It’s like jumping off a 13-story building,” they assure those responsible for the park, who specify that the level of inclination exceeds 60%. Is it that big? Yes. And it comes with taking a look at your file to check it. According to Aqualandia Benidorm, the slide is 33 meters high and more than 100 m long, allowing those who slide down it to reach more than considerable speeds. Those responsible speak of more than 100 km/halthough they clarify that this information depends, among other things, on the body mass of the person jumping. To enjoy the experience you must meet certain conditions: measure at least 1.4 m and not exceed 120 kg. If you want to release adrenaline, but with a somewhat more moderate experience, the same park has a second water slide 28 meters which extends over 95 m in length. It is a smaller version located right next to its ‘big brother’, although it still far surpasses the majority of water slides in Spain. Is it new? No. Verti-Go was introduced to the world a few years ago, during summer 2013. At that time it was announced with great fanfare as one of the riskiest (and most attractive) bets of Aqualandia, a water park that also accumulates a long story. The venue opened its doors in 1985presenting itself as “the largest in Europe”, with a dozen attractions. from the park they explain which maintained that status for just over two decades, until 2008. That year opened in Tenerife Siam Park. If Verti-Go is in the news these days it is because Aqualandia has just premiered its new season. It did so on Saturday the 23rd, with more than twenty attractions that include rapids, soft slopes, a wave pool, several slides, Verti-Go, children’s areas and another highlight: Cycloneinaugurated in 2019 and, depending on the park“holds the record for the longest water roller coaster in Europe.” The truth is that it reaches a greater height than Verti-Go (36 m) and travels more than 200 m, although the average speed is much lower (60 km/h). @aqualandiabnd And if you then end up in a capsule that launches you at 100 km/h from a height of 33 meters… I won’t even tell you. 😏 Raise your hands 🙋 those who have already experienced the Verti-Go madness. đŸ”„ #vertigo #waterslide #giantslide #capsuleslide #aqualandia #waterpark #waterpark #waterpark #benidorm ♬ Vidrado Em VocĂȘ – Dj Guuga & Mc Livinho Do you have any Verti-Go records? If you search on Google you will find a good handful of articles in which Verti-Go is referred to as “the water slide highest in Europe” or the “capsule slide fastest in the world“. The reality is more complicated. When it opened, in 2013, showed up as a unique case and the largest attraction of its kind on the entire continent. The truth is that for years in Caribe Baya park in Veneto (Italy), there is a water slide that allows you to jump from a height of 42 m. His name: Captain Spacemaker. According to the Italian venue, it is “highest in Europe” in his style. If we look further we find facilities still most surprising. In Meryal Park in Qatar, there is a slide that “reaches a height of 76.3 m.” Its name leaves little room for doubt: Vertigo. In Brazil there is also another mass to take into account, Kilimanjaro, built more than 20 years ago and offering a drop of 49.9 m. According to the Guinness Book it is “the tallest water slide”. Have they overcome it then? If we talk about water slides, Vertigo or Kilimanjaro are much higher than Verti-Go, but if we talk about Europe things are a little more complicated. The rankings They usually place the Caribe Bay structure in Italy first, because exceeds 40 meters in height. However, some media indicate that the complete structure of Verti-Go is also around those dimensions. Aqualandia itself assured in 2016 that the attraction has a 42m high. Are there more categories? Yes. The Alicante park also boasts that Verti-Go is a unique copy “capsule slide”, a label that identifies a very specific type of slide. Basically, users enter a capsule with a trapdoor in the floor that, after a brief countdown, opens to let them fall. In 2016 Aqualandia claimed that Verti-Go was “the tallest in the world.” Now keep defending which, at the very least, is “one of the tallest capsule slides.” “Only the bravest dare with this attraction suspended on a 42 m high platform, where the tower has 250 steps to its highest point, simulating the height of a 13th floor and which is accessed through an airtight and transparent capsule,” clarify the company. … Read more

85,000 people jumping to the rhythm of Catholic slogans in cyber are just one more piece of the Hakuna Puzzle complex

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The figure of Pope Francis Vartebra the origin and also the last milestone of Hakuna’s musical faction. It is at the origin of this Catholic youth movement founded in 2013 in Madrid by the priest JosĂ© Pedro Manglano, in response to the mood of Pope Francis during the World Youth Day (WYD) of Rio de Janeiro. There the Pope encouraged young people to “make mess”, and Hakuna has taken it to the letter, riding a very notorious cyber this Saturday. Not only music. The growth of movement has been exponential. He was born as a group of related young people in part to Opus Dei, who met in San JosemarĂ­a de Aravaca, but soon began to attract other young people. He started as an association of faithful, many of them lay, who gathered privately, but soon began to extend, first in Spain, and since 2018, internationally: Hakuna is currently in more than twenty countries and more than 70 cities around the world. But above all, music. No one escapes that this is the nucleus of Hakuna’s appeal: music always was part of Hakuna’s initial meetings, which in 2015 take shape like a first album. It is the second, ‘My poor mad’, which gives them a greater impact. Since 2022, Hakuna Group Music has experienced exorbitant growth, reaching milestones such as its concerts in the Vistalegre Palace or Wizink Center (17,000 tickets and SOLD OUT In a few hours) and add millions of listeners in social networks and Spotify, where on more than one occasion they have come to be In the most listened to top. Many people. The group is, again, organized and directed by Manglano, and there are no visible heads or stars in it: there are some forty artists of which up to twenty can get to the stage simultaneously. There are no leaders or leaders and the songs are composed collectively, following the slogan “we live what we sing and sing what we live.” His carefree style and away from strict orthodoxy is what has become hits to songs like ‘Hurricane‘, popular even out of religious environments, and already with 11 million views On YouTube. The resurrection party. This is the name that received an act organized by the Catholic Association of Propagandists (ACDP), which would commemorate the resurrection of Jesus with which Holy Week concludes, but which also became improvised chosen the newly deceased Pope Francis. Hakuna sang his theme ‘Mercy ‘according to them one of the Pope’s favorites, and were accompanied by artists related to the Catholic faith such as Beret, DJ Octopus, always like this or Cali & El Dandee. The event, which is already for its third edition, congregated more than 85,000 people. Party and prayer. Related to that purpose of “making mess” proposed by the Pope and that appears very clear on the official Hakuna website, no doubt what congregates 85,000 people in cyber on a Saturday is that feeling Catholic is not at odds with the party. This is corroborated by the many immersion chronicles in the phenomenon they have carried out newspapers such as Independientewhere statements of faithful who follow Hakuna are collected even on trips in different countries, and where what the songs help to immerse themselves in the Catholic faith, the accessible and direct of the songs, and how that fits, in its own way, in its own way, with a beer after a concert of the group is underlined. The musical arm. The Hakuna phenomenon is so extraordinary that it has become examined in Papers Academic who inquire into their role as a secular organization and as a reinforcement of a collective identity. In this studyentitled ‘The Hakuna Movement: Organizational Structure and Strategies for the Re -Christianization of Youth in Spain’, the authors talk about how the spiritualization of the leisure in recent years (and Events like Soul Week) It has a lot to do with Hakuna’s success. The viralization of the music band has given context to the movement, creating concepts such as “revolutionary chosen” or “pringado”, which is what the same call themselves Hakuners and that are present at the ‘Qaos’ album of 2022. More pop gospel. Hakuna Group Music are not the only examples of this new wave of Catholic evangelizers through pop music. Much more common in Latin America, with singers such as Athenas or veteran MartĂ­n Valverde, groups such as The desert voicewith seven members of which three are priests. Luis Poveda He is also a priest and singer -songwriter, and Wheat 133 They are linked to the missionary NGO Jatari and youth evangelization. And there are many more, with names such as Ain Karem, Álvaro Fraile, Olivo outbreaks, JesĂșs Cabello, Luis Alfredo DĂ­az or Maite LĂłpez. Header | ACDP In Xataka | The Catholic Church changed Europe’s psychology. Unintentionally, it caused an era of technological innovation

The companies of AI have been jumping the copyright for years. They have just suffered a disturbing legal defeat

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Thomson Reuters He has won The first important case against AI in the United States. This legal victory can end up being an important precedent in an open war that exists between generative companies and human creators and content creative companies. When chatgpt or existed. One of the curiosities of the case is that the demand arrived in 2020, even before the revolution created by Chatgpt and other generative AI models occurred. At that time Thomson Reuters demanded the startup of the so -called Ross Intelligence. According to them, the company had reproduced material from its legal research division, called Westlaw. The judge, inflexible. As they explain In Wiredthe defense arguments did not convince Judge Stephanos Bibas, of the Court of the District of Delaware. In his sentence he indicated that “none of Ross’s possible defenses is sustained. I reject them all.” Fair use, nothing. Normally IA companies are shielded in the doctrine of fair use (“Fair Use”). This legal criterion maintains that limited use of protected material is allowed without needing permission from the owner of those rights. As explained in Wiredel, four factors are analyzed: the reasons for creating the work, its nature (if it is an essay, a poem, a private letter), the amount of material used, and how that use impacts the market value of the original. Be careful for what copies. Thomson Reuters won two of those analyzes, but the fourth was for Judge Bibas the most important, because Ross “wanted to octize with Westlaw developing a substitute for the market.” That is: they were copied to try to compete with them in the same market. A precedent with a problem. Curiously Ross Intelligence closed its doors in 2021, precisely Faced with costs of the dispute. It is precisely the opposite with AI giants, who usually have many more economic resources when defending these types of demands. The legal precedent is undoubtedly relevant, but it may be more difficult to wield it if the litigation costs cannot be supported by the plaintiffs. Care, generative. The appearance of all kinds of generative models has unleashed a wave of demands for copyright violation. One of the most important cases is what The New York Times holds against Openaibut there are others like the one that affects Microsoft by Github Copilotthat of Stable Diffusion and Midjourney or the recent one Meta scandal and the books with copyright that he used to train his AI models. Fair use and competition. Precisely this judgment raises an important legal obstacle for AI companies. First, for that argument of the fair use that may now not work. And secondly, due to the fact that when using those works protected by copyright, the impact for the original works can be remarkable. Images | WIRESTOCK | Solen Feyissa In Xataka | Openai has used Copyright content to train its models: now it faces a wave of demands

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