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A poster at the University of Granada uncovers one of the big problems of generation Z: “helicopter parents”

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The Faculty of Educational Sciences of the University of Granada has become famous this week for a simple paper poster that has become viral on social networks. In the message, posted by the Vice Dean of Internships, you can read: “Parents are not attended to. All students enrolled in internships are of legal age.” Among thousands of other users, the poster was spread by the professor at the University of Granada Daniel Arias Aranda in your LinkedIn profile, stating: “When you have to put up this sign at the university, something is going wrong. Dear student: solve your own problems and don’t boss around mom and dad. Remember, the age of majority in Spain is 18.” Debate in networks: autonomy and maturity. The reactions on social networks have not been long in coming, with an intense exchange of opinions between students, families and teachers. There are those who strongly defend that the students “are too old to defend themselves,” as one student pointed out. interviewed by Antena 3and that “it makes no sense for parents to go to manage exams or tutorials.” Tap on the image to go to the original message On the other hand, the general secretary of the Association of Friends of Vicente Aleixandre responded to the message of the professor from his account on Another user went even further, thinking that “It should even be illegal, a person of legal age is no longer represented by his parents in legal dealings unless a judge determines otherwise; I consider that assisting parents goes against the autonomy of the student’s will.” helicopter parents. In the background of the conversation hovered – pardon the redundancy – the concept of “helicopter parents”, a term coined in 1969 by the writer Haim Ginott in his book “between parents and children“. The term describes the behavior of mothers and fathers who are so attentive to every issue of their children that they often intervene in processes that they, as adults, they should resolve on their own. Especially in university or work matters. However, a study revealed that this excess of control can lead to children with problems resolving conflicts and dealing with daily stress, something that would make them more anxious and dependent. Although the staff of the University of Granada I remembered in The Country They remember that, fortunately, these are “completely isolated cases”, the placement of the poster was motivated because some parents have come to make complaints, manage enrollment or request explanations directly from the university staff on behalf of his children. “In these cases, I explain to the mother that what needs to be promoted is the student’s critical reasoning, that he is the one who refutes a correction, not his parents,” he declared to The Country José Ángel Morales García, professor of Neurosciences at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM). A new parent profile. Beyond the helicopter parent phenomenonanother of the social keys that explain the rise of the debate is that current university students belong to generation Z, whose parents belong to generation X or millennials, born between the seventies and the nineties. This generation of parents was the first to go massively to university in Spain and is made up of professionals who have worked in multinationals, which gives them sufficient solvency to feel like legitimate interlocutors with teachers, academic staff and even before recruiters for a jobcoming to assume a more leading role than the student or candidate themselves. Compared to previous times, the fact that a greater proportion of parents have university experience has changed the relationship with the centers. Now they feel entitled to intervene or debate because they know the system from within. Even so, teachers insist that “the academic relationship is between the student and the university.” The research reveal that encouraging independence during youth improves their maturity and self-esteem. In Xataka | Silicon Valley’s “tech” generation Z has given up alcohol: its new fun is 92 hours of work Image | Pexels (Arina Krasnikova), Daniel Arias Aranda

How to create a poster for an event with artificial intelligence

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Let’s explain How to create the poster of an event wearing artificial intelligence. For this, we are going to tell you three different ways in which you can do it, in all of them using AI to help you with the designs and always based on what you have in mind. Before starting, we will remind you of several things that should be taken into account before putting you. Then, we will tell you how to do it with ia chats that generate images from text as Chatgpt, COPILOT, Gemini or similar ones. Then we will continue with another free AI specialized in images, and we will end with a more specific design tool. Before starting, some tips Before starting to design your poster, you must first think what type of design you want Use on your poster. You may want it to be casual, childish, you may want it more rocker for a festival, and so on. Think the type of image you want to include, design and even colors, because all this must take it into account when you start design. For this, it is also important think what is you directed forfor what type of event is the poster. This always influences the tonebecause a party is not the same as a business event. Another important thing is have the elements clear and defined What do you want them to appear on the poster. It’s not just a drawing and now, you need to say the name of the event, the address or time. You should also make sure to add all the information you want to reveal as if something or go in a certain way. In addition, you may need to add a logo of an institution in some cases. It all depends on the type of work for whatever. Never forget this: You should always check the result Before giving the design good. IA make mistakes, and you can meet poorly written words or letters, with drawings with defects or elements that make no sense. Do not be afraid of repeating the creation of design as many times as necessary until you give with the optimal result. And finally, keep in mind that It will clearly notice that it is made with artificial intelligenceand that can cause the rejection of some people. The results will not be as good as if you hire a professional, and it will not have a unique style. Create the poster with chatgpt and similar To create your poster for the event using a generative AI with drawing functions such as chatgpt and similar, you can use a Prompt or simple request, carefully describing what you want That appears. We have left this one: I need you to do the poster for a rock music festival. In the center of the poster draws a hand by making the gesture of the horns, with two bottom electric guitars. It has to be a heavy drawing, with red flames and clouds. In the upper part he writes “Xataka Rock” in capital letters, and in the lower one writes “Metal Festival” with normal letters. Below right writes in two lines the following: “July 19 at 7:00 p.m.”, and under “Where: Xataka Central Offices”. As you can see in the example, we have started specifying what we want and the purpose, and then We have described the drawing we want including details and even the style we want. Here, it is important that adapt the prompt to what you wantchanging things that we have put for which you need. Also notice that we have described later How and where do we want the text That appears on the poster. You can specify everything according to your needs, change dates and hours, and you can also mention the color or style with which you want the letters if necessary. Do not be afraid to make a very long requestin fact I recommend that you do it so that IA takes all the details. If you don’t like the result, You can include requests or corrections In response in the chat, indicating the changes you want to do. In this prompt you do not have to rewrite all of the above, because the AI will already take it into account as long as you are in the same conversation. Here, you can spend time on making all the necessary changes. You can also ask for a specific aspect ratio or size For the poster, indicating whether it is horizontal or vertical. You can from asking for a vertical A4 size to specify the specific dimensions. Besides, then you can Ask him to make you a PDF or a PNG file What can you download. Ideogram is also another option When creating images by AI, IdeOGram It is another very good alternative that you can also use for your poster. It is an AI dedicated exclusively to create imagesand you have several free credits to use from time to time. Here, simply describe what you want it to appear, giving all the details you can. One of the advantages of this tool is that You can specify elements such as concrete proportion What do you want me to have your image. When you see the resulting image, you will have other tools such as remixing it to make another from it, change the size and even use it as a reference or style to create another. You can also Use another image created in ideogram as a reference or styleboth yours and those of other people. And you can even add several images at the same time as style. After adding some, you can create a new image by writing the prompt you want, but the style and colors of the images selected for it will be used as a reference. Make your poster with Canva And finally, You can also use Canvaa tool that tries to make the most accessible professional design, and also … Read more

The Spanish festivals are in crisis for Israel. Meanwhile, Spring Sound has included bombings in Gaza in its poster

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We had not had such a moved season of festivals for years. With the vast majority of the great musical events of summer marked by controversy Related to the KKR Investment Fund, the Spring Soundwhich is celebrated this week in Barcelona, ​​has decided to position itself with an installation halfway between political exhibitionism and the commercial hook. That is pure spring Sound, too. The tunnel. Spring Sound has installed in the PARC of the Fòrum A 15 -meter tunnel that replicates the sounds of the bombings in Gaza. The name of the installation is ‘Unsilence Gaza’, it is the work of the Palestinian sound engineer Oussama Rima and has been done in collaboration with the NGOs Casa Nostra, Casa Vostra and Novact. These have stated that “in spring sounds the sound is emotion, connection, pleasure. But sound can also be the opposite: it can become a weapon.” To this have added a chilling fact: bombings can reach 170 decibels, “much more than the human body can bear.” But … how much of genuine commitment and how much for winking for the gallery in this installation? The problem with KKR. KKR is an American investment fund, one of the world’s largest private capital companies, and whose most criticized activities There are real estate investments in Palestinian territories occupied by Israel, such as Jerusalem Este, Gaza and the West Bank. In 2024, the Fund acquired Supersruct Entertainment, a company that organizes some eighty festivals worldwide and that in Spain is behind events such as Sónar, Arenal Sound, Viña Rock, FIB or Monegros. The reaction of the groups. The response was not long in coming from numerous groups, which They canceled their participation In many of the festivals, and in some cases they launched communications clarifying their exact relationship with KKR. Seventy bandsfor example, they demanded that Sónar a more compromised positioning. Voices have emerged that They ask for the boycott from the festivalsand some like Sónar himself have lost poster heads as ark. At the same time, others Artists like Kase.O either Angelus Apatrida They have decided to keep their commitments to the festivals, which has generated controversy and discomfort with some sectors of their fans. More than festivals. Spring Sound does not have those ties with the KKR, which allows him to adopt a more combative position with respect to Gaza. But he does it in the PS style: for a few years, the festival is giving up the Transformation of Spanish festivals into more than encounters to listen to music. In many of them, the poster becomes something completely secondarybelow socialization: it started years ago with the transformation of the Benicàssim festival at the unavoidable point of meeting of the indie girl Before British invasionand Spring Sound partly collects his witness. And with Noria. Perhaps the spring element that shows the most this option is the Noria that was installed in 2013. Since then they have worked in that direction by approaching the festival more to an leisure center than something else: Food Trucks and gastronomy positions, workshops and activities (many of them oriented to children), Conferencesmultidisciplinary exhibitions, handicraft, fashion and merchandising. An authentic brand and advertising exhibitor, which is the clear current orientation of spring, which in a sense questions its political meaning. It is not Kkr, but. Spring Sound has dodged the summer controversy that has affected practically all its competitors, but it cannot be said that she does not have her own economic commitments. In fact, after its financing There is the American Investment Fund The Yucaipa Companiesled by businessman Ronald Burkle. In that sense the spring Sound is matched with the rest of the festivals: It is a more turned event into a financial asset for foreign billionaires with the excuse of culture. And that it is a business they have never hidden it, as their progressive name changes demonstrate to Estrella Damm Spring Sound or San Miguel Primavera Sound as they were dancing their main sponsors. Ethics of income. Spring Sound financing has always generated innumerable ethical conflicts, as detailed This article by El Salto: Advertising of companies such as SEAT either Spotify while the claim of labor rights is raised; accusations of Purplewashing and Pinkwashing; Propaganda of brands of dubious ethics, for example linked to NFTS … and, in general, marketing of culture, which is always problematic. It spoke in depth by cross in A series of three controversial articles about the birth and evolution of the festival, and that made clear its abundant contradictions. It does not leave Barcelona. The reason that spring sounds so consciously the flag of Catalanity (and with it, of a certain political activism) is precisely that He has not managed to leave Catalonia. The international spring expansion Sound has been a failure: it closed All its Latin American editions In 2024 after the fiasco that supposed The 2024 edition in Madrid. Actually, the latter was the result of a tense Pulse with the Barcelona City Council where interests much more substantial than music were at stake. A series of sticks for the Financial of the Festival, which retains only the first of its first international expansions, Porto, Out of Barcelona. Intermediate point. Spring Sound is a first -order tourist attraction for Barcelona (left 272 million euros in the city in 2024according to a study by the MKTG Spain consultant). Thus, he plays (despite those nonsense with Madrid that They did not set For reasons that have nothing to do with their catalanity) not to lose their purely Catalan identity, with actions of the foundation linked to local training (many of their courses have joined the autonomy study programs). And within that identity is the claim in favor of Gaza, which maintain constant and explicit in aspects such as the programming of Radio Primavera Sound, where they do not have fear of positioning yourself. Business is Business. Spring Sound is a business, and that is why you have to take any type of positioning with tweezers: remember the … Read more

Russia, Emirates and Saudi Arabia are dynamiting the poster from within

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In 1973 one of the greatest energy crises of the twentieth century broke out. Yom Kipur war and the oil embargo decreed by Arab countries fired the price of crude oil, which quadrupled in a few months. The consequence was an economic storm: inflation, recession and a deep geopolitical rearrangement that catapulted the OPEC to the center of the world energy board. Five decades have passed, but oil continues to mark the pulse of global tensions. There is no formal embargo, but worldwide conflicts added to a Commercial War promoted by the United States. Despite all this unstable situation, the OPEC+ has chosen to continue producing for the third consecutive month, in an already saturated market and with prices in descent. Disturbing signals. Against all forecast, OPEC+ has decided to increase its production in full price drop. At its last meeting, the poster, with the impulse of Saudi Arabia, has approved to add 411,000 barrels per day from July. The measure has left several of its own members perplexed, According to Bloomberg. The adjustment is equivalent to just 1.2 % of the global demand, but its political and strategic impact is deeper. Very disparate reasons. A possibility like He has pointed out The Economist is that Saudi Arabia and its Gulf allies would be trying to please Donald Trump. During his recent tour of the region, the former president pressed directly to achieve a decrease in fuel prices. In return, Riad and Abu Dabi expect strategic benefits, such as agreements in technological sectors such as In artificial intelligence chips. However, this is not the only motivation. The United States Plan based on an aggressive fracking expansion To lower oil It has altered the global market balance. In this scenario, Saudi Arabia has opted for a blunt response: flood the market with crude. By increasing the supply and forcing a price drop, it seeks to press schist producers in the United States, whose profitability depends on higher prices. This strategy also allows you to punish OPEC+ members who do not respect the quotas and, at the same time, recover part of the lost market share in the face of American unconfral oil. The background problem. The OPEC+ crisis is not only a matter of strategy or prices, but of internal cohesion. The cardinal regla of the poster on not producing more than agreed is being ignored by several members. According to The Economistthe United Arab Emirates (EAU) have declared to produce 2.9 million barrels per day (MB/D), but according to analysts consulted by the medium they have estimated that they would be producing between 200,000 and 500,000 b/d, well above their real share. The most worrying thing for OPEC+ is that even the “secondary sources” that they use to verify figures seem complicit in maintaining this fiction. Many are consultants that depend on contracts with state companies such as ADNOC (EAU) or Saudi Aramco. Although this comes from before. The first to reveal itself as such It was Kazakhstanwho overproduces up to 300,000 b/d above what was agreed in April. While Iraq has difficulty controlling its total production, which includes fields in Kurdish hands. These three countries are weakening the authority of the poster from within. And there is a surprise more. The only member of the group with geopolitical power comparable to the Saudi, has begun to show opposition. Bloomberg has detailed That at the most recent meeting, Russia supported by Algeria and Oman, asked to freeze production in July to evaluate the effects of previous increases, but his proposal was ignored. Saudi Arabia has imposed its plan without consensus, a clear sign that the era of collegiate leadership is over. Are we facing an implosion? If Saudi Arabia fails to control the Emirates or contain divergences with Russia, the poster runs the risk of becoming irrelevant. The promised fees review for this year has been postponed until 2027, which has unleashed frustration in Abu Dhabi. The Emirates, with a capacity that almost reaches 5 MB/D, need only $ 50 per barrel to balance their accounts, compared to the $ 90 that requires Saudi Arabia. The structural divergence between the two is deep. An analyst with contacts in both governments He has warned For The Economist that is only a matter of time for an open clash between the two giants, which could precipitate an Emirati output of the OPEC+. On the edge of collapse. For 65 years, OPEC has survived wars, pandemics and the fracking boom. But it seems that it has reached its limit in this situation, where the demand for oil could reach its peak in the next decade, and many petroesties are determined to sell what they can before it is too late. If internal cohesion continues to erode, if the quotas are unfulfilled unpaid and if the large producers act unilaterally, the OPEC+ will no longer be a global strategic actor and will become a symbolic alliance. The current “crack” is not just prices. It is an institutional “crack.” And this time, it can be definitive. Image | Pexels Xataka | The oil market faces a triple coup and IEA is clear why: Iran, Opep+ and electric vehicles

You have never seen a “sell” poster in a luxury mansion: reason here

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In the same way that it is not usual to find a Special edition of a Lamborghini Miura In a sale concessionaire, it is not easy either Find a mansiona palace or a property of several tens of millions of euros on the adperior advertisement page. Have you wondered the reason? The answer is that, even if they are on sale, that type of luxury houses do not move in the same sale market than the rest. They do it in a secret and much more exclusive. Market, what market? In the field of great fortunes, the discretion is added value. When a millionaire wants to get rid of or buy a new mansion, it goes to a market that is not advertised in real estate portals or advertisements. It is a market that, paradoxically, is Off Market or outside the market. According to ELETER real estate portal data, properties Off Market They suppose around 10% of the public market. Everything is done ‘Sottovoce‘Already through especially discreet real estate agents. This means that you will not see striking photos or signs of “sells” hanging from the windows of those houses. These agents have exclusive listings of properties that only show To people with high purchasing power who have shown interest (and solvency) in buy a property of these features. Privacy, first of all. One of the arguments to choose to sell these properties discreetly is to avoid the “what will say”, on some occasions, and others for preserving their privacy. Verónica Manrique, executive director of Olisson, real estate whose portfolio is composed of 60% by real estate Off Market, declaredto the five days that “in most cases, our clients are entrepreneurs or politicians who value their privacy very much. They do not want people gossiping their homes.” Show How is your homecan expose them to uncomfortable situations before public opinion, so they prefer not to publish photos of their home. In addition, the person in charge of the real estate company said that in this type of transactions it is usual that both real estate agents and those who put the properties for sale, sign confidentiality contracts to prevent the identity of the clients visiting the houses, or Who is the owner. A house full of treasures. Beyond the value of housing itself, the public housing exposure may involve putting at risk the security of the property. Normally, the walls and rooms of these mansions are decorated with pieces of art or other value objects. Also show photos of the different rooms could also give ideas about ways to access the property To friends of others. Manrique said that some clients demanded that the houses that offered them would never have appeared photos of that property in the media, “and it is always easy to meet.” Advantages of Off Market. In addition to the privacy and safety reasons that many ultra -ups have as a flag in any of its financial movements. Realizing a closed and exclusive market generates a “glamor” effect that makes the properties reach a certain status. Some promoters of this type of luxury home prefer to sell their new houses in this market, instead of getting them for sale publicly. In doing so, they adapt to the needs of a certain client profile that only moves in this market. “They are expensive houses and it is not a volume market, you do not need to generate many customers,” declared to Five days Paloma Pérez, Executive Director in Spain of Sotheby’s International Realty. It also has disadvantages. The sale Off MarketIt depends solely and exclusively on the direct contacts of the real estate agents that manage it. So the sale in this market may not be as fast as when it becomes public, where anyone is interested can contact the real estate agent to be interested. This limitation has two variants: on the one hand, exclusivity makes the sale price of the property can be slightly above market valuebut it also makes it more susceptible to the negotiation of the price because the number of potential buyers is also scarce. In Xataka | Michael Jordan’s mansion was so luxurious that no one could buy it. After 12 years he has found a mysterious buyer Image | Unspash (Frames for Your Heart)

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