Odyssey

Aberting in Spain has become a real odyssey based on the province. So the government has launched a website

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Spain has an advanced law in abortion, with deadlines until week 14 and assumptions extended until 22. The difficult thing is to take it to the real field. Access depends on the Autonomous Community, the degree of involvement of public health and, too many times, on the economic capacity of women. While the law ensures universal coverage, many interventions are carried out in private and not a few women are forced to move. In that context it is born I want to go .orga portal that aims to become a compass in front of a system that, despite legal reforms, continues to raise obstacles on a day -to -day basis. A new release. The Ministries of Health and Equality have launched a website, presented at the act for the 40 years of the legalization of abortion. The portal offers what the government calls a “safe public space”, designed to guide women in a system that still varies a lot from one autonomous community to another. The platform It has been elaborated For health health health and activists, it is based on scientific evidence and guidelines of organizations such as WHO, Figo, Fiapac or Sego, and has the accreditation of the College of Physicians of Barcelona. It is not just an informative portal, what it seeks is to offer practical guidance, accompaniment and concrete resources. Therefore, the website includes a WhatsApp number attended by professionals from Monday to Friday, as well as a telephone line available on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, managed by formed volunteers. In addition, it will have a legal, emotional and technical support service for women who need to interrupt their pregnancy beyond week 22. The law vs. reality. Spain opened the door to abortion In 1985, although in a very restricted way: only in three assumptions priced by law. The great transformation came in 2010, with A BADE LAW which the decision of women recognized for the first time as sufficient reason until week 14. The norm also contemplated interruptions until Week 22 in medical cases. The last reform arrived in 2023where the three -day reflection period was abolished, the autonomy of children under 16 and 17 years was recognized without the need for paternal permission and the obligation to create a record of objectors of consciousness was established. The latter was carried out so that public health was not overflowed or blocked by the refusal of professionals. In August 2024, only five communities had launched the registration of conscientious objectors – La Rioja, Murcia, Cantabria, Catalonia and the Canary Islands—, According to data cited by the country. The lack of this instrument in the rest generates an unequal application of the law and keeps many women dependent on private clinics or transfers to other provinces. Besides, As Efe points outallegations of harassment persist at the gates of clinics and bureaucratic delays in the procedure. A fragmented map. The Ministry of Health has published that in 2024 106,172 voluntary interruptions of pregnancy (IVE) were recorded, which is equivalent to a rate of 12.36 per 1,000 women between 15 and 44 years. The figure reflects a slight increase Regarding 2023. According to the data, the general photo reveals an obvious gap: almost eight out of ten abortions (78.7%) were carried out in private clinics, while public health assumed only 21.2% of the total. Hence, the website has been launched, designed to overcome the territorial differences that continue to mark real access to abortion. In territories such as Cantabria, more than 88% of IVE are carried out in public hospitals, while in La Rioja and Navarra the proportion exceeds 75%. In Galicia, three out of four abortions are practiced in the public network. The distribution of abortions in Spain reflects unequal access to the public system. In Madrid, more than 162,000 women interrupted their pregnancy in the last decade, but only 177 could do so in a public hospital. In other territories, such as Extremadura, Ceuta and Melilla, official data are even more sharp: not a single procedure was carried out in public health. And in communities such as Aragon, Asturias, Castilla-La Mancha, Murcia, Andalusia or the Basque Country, the proportion did not exceed 5%. This territorial disparity reveals the almost absolute dependence of the private network in much of the country. Critical voices. During the act on the occasion of the 40 years of legalization, activists such as Silvia Aldavert, from the I want to abort, They denounced that many autonomies They interpret the legal deadlines in a restrictive way: “When the law speaks of 14 weeks, it must be 14 + 6 days. In many communities it is interpreted as 14 exact, not one more day.” Minister Ana Redondo He stressed That 80% of IVE are carried out in private clinics, which “violates the principle of territorial equality” and converts abortion into “a class issue.” The cost of moving hundreds of kilometers, asking for free days at work or paying a private clinic makes the difference between being able to exercise the right in decent conditions or not. The testimonies confirm it. The case of Marta Vigara, a woman who was denied a therapeutic interruption in Madrid, uncovered that in some public hospitals There were hardly any abortions and that the usual solution was to refer to the private one. There is also the testimony collected by Newtral De Laura Gil, who had to travel to Brussels to interrupt her 31 weeks pregnancy before the refusal of Spanish clinical committees, an example of how economic capacity acts as a filter. The investigation points to two key factors: systematic outsourcing to private clinics and the objection of consciousness applied collectively, despite the fact that the law establishes that it must be individual and in writing. Conscientious objection as wall. The right of professionals to object is still one of the main pitfalls. “You cannot sacrifice a fundamental right of women at the expense of conscientious objection,” Minister Ana Redondo warnedremembering that the Article 139.1 of the Constitution … Read more

The entrepreneur’s odyssey that bought an old cruise, spent a million dollars on its restoration and could not enjoy it

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Not all projects that dream of having their own ship come to fruition. A while ago we met The story of Clyde Stireswho built a huge yacht at home. The story of Chris Willson It is equally interesting. Unlike Stires, Willson bought an old German origin cruise and spent a fortune to restore it. After years of effort, their plans faded quickly. It all started 16 years ago when our protagonist was browsing the web and found an unusual ads: someone was selling a transatlantic that was tied in Decker Island, California. Without thinking too much, this technological entrepreneur decided to invest in the boat. After closing the acquisition in 2008, he moved his new ship to the Rio Vista to restore it. Restoration and problems Willson now had a boat with enough history. The cruise had been built by the Shipyard Blohm and Voss in 1955. Passengers were traveling from one continent to another on a boat of 72 meters of length that had 85 cabins, different rooms, gastronomic spaces and galleries. Not only stood out in his transatlantic trips, but he had also appeared in the movie ‘From Russia with Love‘by James Bond. As CNN collectsThe man baptized the ship as “Aurora” after spending his first night on board. “I woke up with one of the brightest sunrises I had seen in my life,” he said. But not everything in the project was so perfect. Willson was forced to move the ship several times while performing the restoration tasks, although it was clear that he wanted his ship to be in shallow waters. For more than a decade, Willsson and several volunteer collaborators made all kinds of works in a “artisanal” way To improve the ship. Things, however, began to change in recent years. Aurora was tied in a Californian sports port called Herman & Helen’s Marina, when some locals and local authorities began to pressure so that the ship was transferred to another place. They feared a sinking. An old dragaminas baptized as HMCS Chaleur It was in the same area for a long time and a military tug of the 1940s had recently sunk generating concerns related to environmental pollution. With an eviction order at the door, Willson evaluated the cost of taking out the ship, but needed to spend about one million dollars on river works to complete the tasks. It was simply an amount of money impossible to assume. Willson had received donations To continue with your project, partly by The popularity of your YouTube channel. The only apparent solution was to sell it with the hope that a new owner could continue with the project ahead, but things soon trucked once again. In mid -2024, the Delegation of the Sheriff of the County of San Joaquín announced that Aurora was sinking. “It has been determined that the ship has a hole,” said the authorities. In this regard, they added that there had also been a spill of diesel fuel, forced the intervention of different agencies to contain the problem. In December last year, the ship was finally towed to Mare Island, north of California. There, the cranes disassembled their steel structure piece by piece until it made it disappear. Today no longer exists: The only thing that remains is an invoice of 8.2 million dollars for the costs of scratch. The authorities do not rule out undertake legal actions to purify responsibilities and recover part of the money. Images | Sheriff delegation from San Joaquín County | Aurora Restorration Project In Xataka | Europe is so dry that its rivers are revealing all kinds of treasures. Even a Nazi army of World War II

Nolan is rolling ‘the Odyssey’ in the Western Sahara. A good part of Spanish cinema has been thrown over

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In the absence of One year for the premiere and having seen Only an official image From what it holds, the next of Christopher Nolan is already raising some controversy, although this time the reasons are completely extracinematographic. The filming of the film in the city of Dajla, in Morocco, already He aroused certain protests a few weeks ago, and these are now increasing with A statement signed by a large number of Spanish artists They ask for transparency with the reasons to have chosen that place. All against Nolan. Directors such as Rodrigo Sorogoyen, Benito Zambrano, Fernando Colomo and Icíar Bollaín and actors such as Javier BardemJuan Diego Botto, Carolina Yuste, Javier Gutiérrez, Nathalie Poza, Carlos Bardem, Guillermo Toledo, Alberto San Juan, Melanie Olivares or Luis Tosar have joined the aforementioned prior manifesto of the Sahara International Film Festival (Fisahara) against the recording of the film in this area of the African continent. The manifesto asks the producers of the film to “break their silence on why they chose the city of Dajla, occupied by Morocco, in the Western Sahara, as a place of filming of the movie scenes.” Without consent. The manifesto explains the reason for the protest: to film “without the consent of the Saharawi people. The only consent he received came from the occupant force: Morocco.” The problem, according to the festival, is that “Nolan (…) may have contributed without knowing it to the repression of the people of the Western Sahara, helping to normalize the brutal occupation of Morocco.” And he continues: “Morocco has turned Dajla into a tourist center, as Netanyahu intends to do with Gaza, a place to practice kitesurf, cultural events (…), conferences, renewable energy projects used to make the occupation green, etc.” The background of the conflict. The Western Sahara conflict It originates in 1975when Spain left its colonies, delivering the territory to Morocco and Mauritania instead of celebrating the self -determination referendum promised to the Saharawi people. Morocco launched the “Green march“That same 1975, an invasion of 350,000 civilians accompanied by military forces that occupied the Western Sahara, causing the Saharawi population to run massively into the desert and subsequently to the refugee fields of Tinduf, in Algeria. During this escape, Moroccan aviation systematically bombarded civilians refugees with napalm and white phosphorus in Camps like Um-Draigawhere they died between 2,000 and 3,000 Saharawis. 170,000 Saharawis They have lived as refugees for almost 50 yearswhile the Polisario Front continues to claim the independence of the territory and the right to self -determination recognized by the United Nations, in a conflict that resumed militarily in 2020 after 29 years of high fire. A laundering operation. The Moroccan government has been immersed in an intense international image washing strategy in relation to the Western Sahara, focused on the normalization of the occupation, the Economic and tourist promotion of the territoryand diplomatic and media manipulation. That is precisely what is attributed to Nolan from the statement that may be helping to be done, consciously or not. Much discussed lately it has been the Mass Influencers Invitationjournalists trips and content creators of European countries to promote the occupied city of Dajla. Nolan’s key role. Reda Benjelloun, from the Moroccan Cinematographic Center, told the local environment Stockings24 That the production of ‘the Odyssey’ has a vital importance for the city, since it is the first major Hollywood production that does so. In a radically opposite position is the Ministry of Culture of the Polisario Front, the Saharawi nationalist group that seeks self -determination, and which issued a release in which he affirmed that “this act constitutes a dangerous form of cultural normalization with the occupation, and an unusual exploitation of art and cinema to bleach the image of a colonial situation that is still imposed by force” In Xataka | Morocco has given Israel 34,000 km² of the Atlantic for gas exploitation. The problem: they are waters in conflict with Spain

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

Taking product photos is an odyssey. Dreamshot has an AI to make it much easier

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I don’t know if anyone has, has had or knows someone who Have an online storebut if so, a big hug. Mounting a store is not precisely easy and much less when your products have to look. If you sell, say, sweatshirts, the only way to teach how they look is photographing a model that has been put. And each model is a world: they have an eye color, a hair, skin color, etc. You have to take into account locations, make content for networks, in short. It is a really complex and, of course, an issue that can solve. That is what he proposes Dreamshota generative artificial intelligence tool Made in Spain who won the hackaton of AI2030 (event that Xataka was Media Partner) And that we will know today better. And attention, because perhaps it can be useful to some Xatakero who wants to undertake with his own fashion brand and does not know where to start. Fashion AI Image | Tamara Bellis How does a generative artificial intelligence work? Grosso (Very Grosso) Modeif we want an AI to learn to generate images of a horse you have to give a lot of images of a horse. Thousands, tens of thousands. If we do that with fashion images with different styles, funds, contexts, postures and models we will obtain an AI capable of generating images of models that integrate the elements we want. That is exactly what they did in Dreamshot, train a personalized model (Dreamshot v2) with More than 10,000 fashion images. Javier Jiménez, founder and CEO of the company, explains in conversation with Xataka that Dreamshot is based on Flux. Dreamshot is not a founding model as such, but a Fine Tunning Flux for which fashion images have been used both licensed and own. The first model, Dreamshot V1 Aka Lookbook is Open Source and can be used from Prompthero. Behind each product photo there are hours and hours of work and a huge investment | Image: Khaled Ghareeb Javier states that the photos are both own and ceded by the brands, ergo with permission. “We have not scrape anything from the Internet (…) It is an ethical training, we have all the rights of the photos we have trained with,” he says. How does it work? Although it does not completely eliminate the need to make a photo shoot, it does significantly reduce the amount of photos we have to do and the work and time invested. Because? Because if we want to squeeze the tool to the maximum we will have to upload photos of our productsideally varied photos, from different angles, with different perspectives and in different places. Minimum five. The thing is that once these photos have been made, the possibilities are huge. Dreamshot interface | Image: Xataka On the left the reference image of the green jacket. To the right, the result generated by the AI ​​using the prompt “60 Years Old Man Wearing Bottle Green Overshirt. He is in A Forest Full of Trees During Sunny Day” | Image: Xataka Great here to better appreciate the detail | Image: Xataka Once we have the photos, we can upload them to Dreamshot and ask the AI ​​to generate images of said product in other contexts or in models that do not exist. Or take stock photos that in another context would require mounting a complete set. It is a way to reuse photos to infinity. You don’t have to take photos of the product again, but ask the AI ​​to generate them for us. On the left the original image, on the right the one generated with the changing the model for a person with dark skin, with beard and dark green eyes | Image: Xataka Another option that works surprisingly well is that of change models. If we have a photo of a light skin model and light eyes and we want one of a model with dark skin and dark eyes, in another context two models should be counted. With Dreamshot we just have to upload the photo and ask the AI ​​to change it by entering a prompt. The result is quite striking, although a trained eye will quickly distinguish that the image is generated with AI. However, things as they are, the substitution of faces is spectacular. On the left the original image, on the right the generated with the changing the model for a blonde woman with blue eyes | Image: Xataka So is the Background changesomething that in normal conditions would mean displacements and time. This, more than for the store, it is interesting to use it to generate content for social networks. If we have a timeless garment or accessory, we may be interested that the networks in networks go in tune with the season of the year, for example. Well, it will be enough for us to select the photo of our model in the mountain and ask you to put it in the city, on the beach, in a forest or in front of the Roman Colosseum. On the left the original image, on the right the generated with the bottom of the Roman Colosseum | Image: Xataka It should be noted that Dreamshot divides the photo into three parts: model, clothing and background. We can change any of all three, but not alter the image itself. It is not possible to take the photo of a person and undress her. We could change the shirt or change the model, but not wear a photo of a dress dressed and undress or put it in swimsuit or interior. It is a dangerous matter, but Dreamshot has covered himself well and with success in this sense. Why Dreamshot? How does this idea arise? Javier Jiménez tells us that his first company It was a jewelry ecommerce“I was 10 years and every month we had photo sessions and there were thousands of euros, a month of preparation for each photo shoot … Then … Read more

Christopher Nolan signs a Marvel star for ‘The Odyssey’

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The Odyssey (The Odyssey) will be the new movie Christopher Nolan. The Oscar-winning director will tackle an epic project that is very different from his previous titles with the firm intention of offering a new unparalleled show. The British takes on one of the most important fables in the history of humanity. And for this they have just signed a new star who comes from the Marvel Cinematic Universe. As reported deadlineChristopher Nolan adds to Jon Bernthal to The Odyssey. The actor is known worldwide for his sensational The Punisher. The character debuted in the series Daredevil from Netflix, but it was so popular that it had its own project shortly after with two more than adequate seasons. Now, he’s about to return in the new series Daredevil: Born Again. Outside of Marvel, Jon Bernthal He has a successful filmography. Highlights his supporting role in the multi-award-winning series The Bearwhich in 2024 earned him the Emmy for Best Guest Actor in a Comedy Series. Also appeared in The Walking Dead giving life to Shane Walsh. Not to mention movies like The Wolf of Wall Street, Fury either Hitman. Without a doubt, Christopher Nolan has acquired one of the most consistent and talented actors on the current scene. Cast and release date The Odyssey With the signing of Jon Bernthal, Christopher Nolan continues to expand a cast of absolute luxury for The Odyssey. In the movie they will be Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Zendaya, Robert Pattinson, Anne Hathaway, Lupita Nyong’o and Charlize Theron. All of them will give life to the journey of Odysseuswritten by Homer in the 8th century BC The story tells of the journey back home to the king of Ithaca. A journey across the seas that lasted ten long years after the Trojan War. On his way, the hero must face numerous obstacles that the gods put in front of him, overcoming them thanks to his incredible bravery and cunning. Furthermore, at home, his wife Penelope and his son Telemachus They must face her constant suitors, since the king is believed to be dead. The Odyssey will be released in theaters on July 17, 2026 and will be the most expensive film of his career Christopher Nolan. The film will begin filming next month. It is known that they will use revolutionary IMAX technology with which the director aspires to go a new step further. The project will be produced by Universal Pictures, as well as Oppenheimer.

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