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It has rained so much in Spain during 2025 that we are going to have the worst citrus harvest of the last 16 years

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The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food has just published the capacity of citrus of this year. At first glance, the data are devastating: it is estimated that Spanish farmers They will produce 5.44 million tons of citrus fruits. That is 10.7% less than last campaign and 14.2% less than the last five campaigns. We talk about the worst campaign in 16 years. The only positive thing about this data is that they are better that those who were giving the producers themselves. A world giant … in back. Do not forget that, for the Spanish economy, citrus fruits are not one more product. Not only is the sixth citrus producer of the world; It is that almost 25% of global exports leave here and, in fact, more than half of national production is used for sale in foreign markets. Every year, the country sells the equivalent of 3.6 billion euros throughout the country. With this in mind, the fall in production could be seen as a lousy news and, nevertheless, the Spanish field is at a point where (without despising its pernicious effects) it can be the best that has happened to it. As? As it sounds. The best example is lemon, according to ministry estimates, lemon production would fall to about 866,657 tons. That is, 14.7% less than the previous year: 149,400 tons less. It seems a lot, but we take into account that, According to COAGlast year they were discarded around 400,000 tons. The figure does not seem so big. In the end, in just eight years, Spain has gone from having 36,000 hectares dedicated to the cultivation of lemon to 53,000. The lemon went from being “the chicken of the golden eggs” from the Spanish field to a trap that has forced many producers to start tear out trees. However, that is not the reason for the fall. According to the mapthe main factors behind this setback are the excessive spring rain (which coincided with flowering and contributed to their rot), high temperatures during citrus development and a series of hail episodes in producing areas. Where does Spanish agriculture go? Be that as it may, this adjustment of oranges and lemons can help to clean up a sector that has a long time. The question, however, is what damage will cause that sanitation and which parts of the sector will take ahead. As with other agricultural products (such as The Canary Islands banana or the traditional olive grove) the succession of bad years has led the producers to the edge of the abyss and all the alternatives are bad. Image | Jesus Ginter | Noele Cooper Image | From the fever to the crisis of lemon: why in Spain there are 400 million kilos of fruit that nobody wants to collect

Ford had 20,000 workers in the Colonia factory. Ten years later they are 7,600 because their electric cars are not bought

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Three years ago, Ford presented its short and medium -term road map for Europe. Then they announced seven new completely electric modelsof which they were commercial vehicles. Of the other three, only one was a Ford. And, in fact, it has ended up becoming the electric variant of a combustion car. We talk about Ford Pumaan electric car in which they have had to juggle to put an electric motor train. A car limited to the city because platform restrictions Combustion barely leave space for a 43 kWh battery. With its more than 34,000 euros of departure, it has become a difficult car taking into account that it moves on the highway between 200 and the 250 real kilometers of autonomy. The other two, as we said, are not Ford cars. The Ford Explorer and Ford Capri They are electric cars mounted on the Volkswagen platform. In both cases we have stressed that, dynamically, cars have a slightly more interesting tuning than that of the Germans, with more hard suspensions and a slightly more direct direction. However, if you mount one and another it is easy to verify that both models are mounted on the Volkswagen MEB platform. That is disguised with the vertical displaceable screen in depth and a speaker arranged as if it were a sound bar. But that’s it. The interface of a good part of the menus is Purely Volkswagen And, specifically, it is evident that it is a hardware and software mounted on the MEB platform. And that is bad news. For your touch controls or for your usability decisions. And they are also bad news for Ford. So much that it will fire a thousand German employees because their electric cars are not buying. The results of a failed strategy A thousand employees. That is the number that Ford will say goodbye to its neighborhood plant (Germany). They argue that “in Europe, the demand for electric cars is still well below the forecasts of the sector” and that, therefore, the plant will pass to a single shift in 2026, reducing its productive capacity, in words collected by Motorpasion. They explain in the middle that so far this year, Ford has sold 19,000 Ford Explorer units and Capri is still below. In fact, you have to go down to the fourteenth place between best -selling electric cars in Europe in the first half of the year to find the Americans. Cupra, Byd or Peugeot were above them. We could talk about bad results but Ford invested 1,000 million euros in Colonia to modernize the plant and get its electric cars out of there. With a productive capacity of 250,000 vehicles per year, the factory works at half a gas. Nor is it a good time to receive this news since The company is losing money this year and suffering with American tariffs. So much so that last year he earned 1.8 billion dollars and this year plays in red numbers. The result is also the consequence of a risky strategy: to offer two clearly differentiated products. In October 2024, Jim Farley, his CEO, said that the company was “leaving the market of boring cars to enter the market of iconic cars” to the magazine Car. The statements They coincided over time with the abandonment of classic vehicles in the European market such as party, Mondeo or Focus. And it continued: “We are good making a quick car (about Ford and the bronco sub -jack) and authentic SUVs. Look at the Raptor, we brought it from Mexican competitions and turned it into a car that can be used in the street. It is a great example of where I think our passenger cars should go (…) We can face Porsche with the Mustang, it is the best -selling sports coupe in the world. and be stronger and stronger “ In those words, Ford’s strategy was hidden. European emission regulations They aimed at 2025 of Milmillonarias fines. Finally, the sanctions were delayed to 2027 but, if applied, Ford needs to sell many more electric and few cars like the ones Farley mentioned since they exceed the maximum proposed emissions of 93 gr/km of CO2. The answer was the hug to the Volkswagen MEB platform. This has been criticized harshly by critics and the public. In their eagerness to reduce costs, decisions have been made as a profusion of tactile controls They bother in place of adding. And cars have not highlighted precisely for good autonomy or a groundbreaking price. But, in return, Ford has obtained two electric cars in the market with a minimum investment. The risk is almost limited to the modernization of the colony plant. So, There are two clearly differentiated business lines In Ford: Cheap cars (developed on the work of others) and expensive and representative cars that do not even refer to Ford. It is no accident that the Mustang, Bronco or Raptor have lost the Ford logo on their front. They are, in themselves, as families that work almost independently. The problem is that the public has not bought Ford’s bet. The Ford Explorer or Capri are not bad electric cars but you have to assume the youth errors of the MEB platform paid, in addition, at a high price. In what we have been, in Spain, 649 units have been bought between the sum of these two models. 649 units of the almost 21,000 registrations that Ford is registered at the end of August. The damage is especially bleeding in more powerful markets. In Germany, Volkswagen has managed to overcome with the ID.3a car that seemed dead but is the best selling in the electricity market. He is followed ID.7which also uses the MEB platform. The Volkswagen ID.4 and ID.5 They are positioned in the fourth position (add up to the same bag because ID.5 is only the Coupé variant of ID.4). You have to go down to the twelfth position to find the Ford Explorer. Capri is not among … Read more

We have been discussing the change of time for years and we have managed to be in exactly the same place where we were

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Almost every year for almost 20, Someone has taken To the United States Congress the idea of ​​ending the change of time. In Europe, We have spent hours and hours engaged in the discussion of what to do with him. Many countries, in fact, They have sent it to the history drawer (Others, on the other hand, They have recovered it again). I am still surprising that such a simple thing can unleash such great passions. Passions and, above all, reasons. Because there are hundreds of researchers trying to understand which time policy is better. That is why we talk about it again: because the Internet has filled with holders that ensure that “a study reveals that the change of time contributes to thousands of brain infarctions.” It’s true? What do we really know about the subject? How can the time change affect our health? The body has an internal clock of (approximately) 24 hours that helps regulate our physical and mental functioning. And not, It is not a way of speaking: As is in charge of innumerable physiological processes, the time we eat depends on that clock, to which we sleep, it even determines when we go to the bathroom. Ignore your permanent tick can cause discomfort or even a certain moment, serious diseases. Is What we call circadian rhythm. With this in mind, during this century, scientists have suspected that the hourly change should have some impact on those rhythms and, moreover, on health. The problem is that one thing is to intuit that impact and a different one is to be able to prove it. And what has this last study done? Stanford Medicine researchers They have compared how they affected circadian rhythms and general health in different different time policies (the winter schedule, summer and schedule with biannual change). To do this, based on the local exit and sunset hours, they analyzed the real exposure to the light under each time policy, the circadian impacts and the socio -health characteristics of each American county. It is not easy and has a high statistical component (and, in some segments, speculative), but it is an interesting exercise What have you discovered? In general terms, The team found that “maintaining the standard schedule or summer schedule is definitely better than changing twice a year.” According to their data, the winter schedule “would avoid about 300,000 cases of stroke per year and reduce obesity in 2.6 million people.” The summer schedule, meanwhile, “permanent would achieve approximately two thirds of the same effect.” And why would it happen? “When there is light in the morning, the circadian cycle is accelerated. When there is light in the afternoon, it slows down … explained Jamie ZeitzerProfessor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Standford. “The more light exposure is received at inappropriate times, the weaker the circadian clock is. All these factors that influence the life cycle – for example, the immune system and energy – do not synchronize so well,” He continued. The question we must ask ourselves, according to these researchers, is what time policy helps to better adjust circadian rhythms. And the answer, at least for the US set, is that most people would support a lower circadian mismatch with the winter schedule. Does that mean that winter schedule is better? Actually, no. It is possible that it is the most complete study to date, but (As the researchers themselves recognize) There are many factors that researchers did not take into account and that, by itself, can reduce gain very substantively. But even giving the methodology good and accepting that citizens behave as researchers suppose, we would have to reproduce the analysis in Spain (or our reference countries) to know what the final result would be. After all, The countries that change the time are a minority And it makes sense to think that there are scenarios in which the time change could help reduce that circadian mismatch. One of the problems of countries as large as the US (or realities as diverse as EU) is that making joint decisions is difficult. And then? I’m afraid that we are a little better than before, but almost in the same place: we still have no remotely if it is good or bad, and that we attribute more and more things. Image | Sonja Langford | NCI In Xataka | The “Spanish Ornitorrinco” exists and is on the verge of extinction: the very rare animal that only lives in the Peninsula

Venezuela’s biggest problem is not narcolanchas. Is that the US has reopened Roosevelt Roads after 20 years closed

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The United States has carried out A second attack Against an alleged vessel of Venezuelan drug traffickers in the Caribbean, ordered by Trump, who assured that it was “narcoterrorist” and spread, againan aerial video of the impact that three dead would have left. The problem is that it has not been possible to verify that the boat belonged to a poster or to transport drugs. Actually, the most worrying thing for Venezuela is kilometers from the nation. Second attack. As We countat the beginning of the month there was another attack against a “drug ship” attributed to the Aragua train leaving 11 deathsin a context of American naval reinforcement in the area with eight ships (including destroyers, a cruise, an amphibious assault ship and a nuclear submarine) and a hard line expressed by Marco Rubio of “fly” suspicious vessels. For its part, Nicolás Maduro He has denounced The last attack as an “aggression” in international waters and a pretext to force a regime change, stating that communications with Washington are broken except for migrant repatriation efforts, and rejecting the accusations To lead the “Los Soles poster”, although the United States raised to 50 million dollars the reward for information that leads to its capture. An operational piece. Time will say what is the scope of Washington’s plans, but a track is offered by the old Naval Station Roosevelt Roadsclosed in 2004 and largely delivered to the Government of Puerto Rico. The reason? USA He has reopened it as a node of operations for the campaign against drug trafficking in the Caribbean and to sustain pressure on Maduro’s Venezuelan regime. The arrival of F-35B furtive fightersadded to load flights C-5 Galaxy and C-17 Globemaster IIIas well as the presence of MV-22 Osprey and helicopters CH-53K of the IWO Jima Amphibious Readiness Group and the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit, has converted the current José Aponte de la Torre airport, into CEIBA, into a activity center growing. Air Force personnel have reactivated the operability of the control tower, while grounding equipment They load and download Material to support imminent operations, recovering the logistics pulse of an installation that for years seemed definitely numb. A “city-base.” With a gigantic surface at the eastern end of the main island, Roosevelt Roads combines a track of more than 3 km Able to host practically all the American air inventory with a deep water port suitable for surface ships and submarines, a binomial that singular it in the Caribbean arch. That Air-Mar duality It returns to place it as a support point for regional scope maneuvers and as a fast deployment platform, functions that the installation already performed for decades, now reissued in a context of transnational crime, maritime surveillance and need for expeditionary mobility. Ohio Uss Maryland class ballistic missile submarine at the Roosevelt Roads Naval Station, 1997 Growth in the Cold War. They remembered Twz analysts that the idea of ​​placing a large base in East Puerto Rico He was born in 1919when Franklin Delano Roosevelt, then Undersecretary of the Navy, explored the area and tried it strategic for the Caribbean control. Inaugurated in 1943 And baptized in his honor, the base was conceived as cornerstone of the regional defense, with protected anchoring, a major aerodrome and industrial capabilities capable of sustaining a good part of the Atlantic fleet in war conditions. Reorient as Naval Station in 1957his footprint expanded during the Cold War before the perception of Cuba as a threat aligned with the USSR, becoming a large support center for the sixth fleet and hosting the Naval Communications Station of Puerto Rico after attacks that damaged equipment in another location. Over time, the “city-base” came to add More than one hundred miles of interior roads already support operations that go from the Dominican Republic and Haiti to Granada and Panama, a reflection of their centrality in the American military architecture of the hemisphere. Aerial view of the base Slope. Roosevelt Roads’s operational link with Vieques’ shooting polygon marked his reason for being For six decadesbut also fed a social answer sustained by civil victims and environmental damage. He End of bombing In 2003 emptied its main mission and, in full strategic turn after 11-S towards campaigns in the Middle East and Central Asia, the base entered the BRAC closing process. The Marina transferred thousands of homes, schools, profits and a hospital to the government of Puerto Rico, a decision held by those who rejected militarization, but opened An economic hole of great draft in the CEIBA region and adjacent municipalities. Operational reactivation. Despite the formal closure, Roosevelt Roads never disappeared completely from the functional map: in 2017 It served as a platform For the help effort after Hurricane Maria, demonstrating the usefulness of its infrastructure integrated in emergency situations. On August 31, the Large scale return of the Navy to support the training and operations of the 22nd Meu visibly reactivated its logistics chain, its air traffic and its role as a “link” of a reinforced anti -drug architecture, with multiplier effects on other facilities of the island that operate in tandem. The debate in Puerto Rico. While a defense official rules out, for now, permanent reopening, the drive grows on the island to return to Roosevelt Roads A stable status. Senate resolution 286, driven by senators Nitza Morán Trinidad and Carmelo Ríos Santiago, proposes to audit the state of the old base and study its eventual reallocation for security purposes National under the army. The argument is based on A double promise: contribute to the defense of the Caribbean and the Americas and, at the same time, reactivate an economic engine that for decades irrigated employment, services and investment in CEIBA and surroundings. The memory of the social costs associated with Vieques lives today with the evidence that the installation, properly fit into concrete missions and with strict environmental minimums, can generate regional activity and resilience. Possible scenarios. Without a defined temporal horizon (or “official”) for the Caribbean Operation of Washingtonthe … Read more

The digital detox has been fashionable for years. It’s time to start talking like what is: a myth

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Social networks have helped us in many aspects of our life, allowing us for example to strengthen some social relationships, or taking a way to express our creativity. But all this has come with a price to pay. A cost that has noticed our mental health, which has led many to try with a time to “digital detoxification.” The problem is that it may not be too useful strategy. Not so effective. Withdraw a time from social networks It is not an effective “disconnection strategy”according to a meta -analysis carried out by a Belgian team of researchers from the universities of Antwerp and Gante, at least if we are looking to improve Our well -being. The good news: at least we do not have indications that disconnection does us badly. “The findings (…) suggest that temporarily separating ourselves from social networks may not be the approximation (…) optimal to improve individual well -being,” Write the teamwhich also points out in his study the need to continue research on alternative disconnection strategies. Ten studies. The new work is a meta -analysis, that is, a “quantitative study of studies.” The team conducted a systematic search for scientific literature that addressed the relationship between social media abstinence and one or more than three variables: positive and negative affections, and vital satisfaction. They found 10 quantitative works with a total sample of 4,674 participants. The analysis showed no significant effects of refraining from social networks in any of the three variables studied. The team also did not find indications that the duration of the period of “Digital detoxification“It will be relevant. The details of the study were published In an article In the magazine Scientific Reports. Need to investigate more. The team emphasizes the need to advance in research on this issue. According to the team itself, the study presents one of the usual problems in the meta -analysis, and is the diversity in the methodologies followed by the works included in it. A radical change. Social networks have remarkably changed how we interact with technology, for better and for worse. The problems that this poses have appeared so suddenly that our ability to adapt, to look for solutions with which to repair the possible damage has exceeded in many contexts. In Xataka | How to recover the concentration that social networks and multitars have taken us Image | Xataka with Gemini

I’ve been using Google Maps for years and I didn’t know this button. It is wonderful to follow routes on foot

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Although There are more and more optionsGoogle Maps is still The queen of navigation apps. But even the most used app, there are functions that not everyone knowsI the first. Today we talk about an option that makes Google Maps is much more intuitive on foot routes. Google Maps on foot is not the same as by car It is obvious, but the simple fact that the car moves faster makes it very easier to know what direction we have to go. When we use the routes on foot, sometimes the pointer does not move until we walk a considerable distance and, If we have confused ourselves, we will have to return to where we have come. I confess that it has happened to me many times. In addition, although generally the compass indicates the direction without having to move, but that lifts our hand who has not had problems with this. Many times the compass does not work well and It is necessary to calibrate it. With this function the headaches are over. The augmented reality to rescue 13 tricks to get the most out of Google Maps If you are going to follow a route on foot, Live View is your best ally. It is a function that uses augmented reality and indicates why we must continue in a much more visual and intuitive way. To activate it you just have to click on The camera button which appears on the icons on the right side of the screen. When you activate Live View for the first time, a notice like the one you can see on these lines appears and you will also have to accept the camera permits. Then he will ask you to notice with the camera to your surroundings to be able to “scan” the buildings and, once completed, you will see an arrow superimposed on the image which tells you where you should keep walking. Live View is a veteran function on Google Maps (arrived in 2019) and is available in all areas where we have the option to use Google Street View. However, it is not a super known option and, at least, it has turned out Very useful especially being traveling In new cities. In Xataka | A small town in Holland has the solution to mass tourism: to fool Google Maps

They have needed six years, dozens of patrols and a helicopter

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Czech police He has managed to arrest To the driver who for years surprised all the Internet for appearing sporadically on the highways of the country at the wheel of a car. The 51 -year -old man was arrested after a persecution that involved several patrol cars and a helicopter. One last time. It all started last Sunday 8:15 in the morning when the agents They received the notice of a formula 1 car reposting in a gas station near Dobříš, about 40 kilometers southwest of Prague. Two minutes later a second call arrived: the vehicle circulated at high speed on the D4 highway in the southern direction. In just 15 minutes, the driver was intercepted in the town of Buk. There was resistance. The images of the arrest, where the police claim that they were recorded by the driver himself And his son shows a tense confrontation of almost ten minutes. The pilot, dressed in his red monkey and helmet, refused to leave the car arguing that the police were invading a private property. “There is a policeman everywhere,” you hear screaming in the recordings. He finally gave up and was transferred to be interrogated, although he refused to declare. Six years of search. The persecution of this “ghost pilot” It began in 2019when the first videos of the car appeared circulating on Czech highways. In 2022 he was sighted again, but on all occasions the helmet prevented the driver. The speed radars captured the images, but the investigation stagnated again and again. According to Czech police, They had already located And questioned the vehicle owner in the past, who denied having driven him by road. The legal problem. In case there was any doubt, circulating with this type of vehicles on public roads is prohibited in the Czech Republic. The car lacks lights, flashing, registration and other mandatory security elements. “Race cars of this type cannot legally circulate on the roads because they do not meet the legal technical requirements,” They explained The authorities. There is also the theme of the sharp edges of the vehicle, since they represent a danger for both the driver and the people circulating around. The truth about the Ferrari. Although the driver himself and the media have described him as a Ferrari of Formula 1, automobile experts They have identified The vehicle like a Dallara GP2/08, a car developed by the Italian manufacturer for the GP2 series, a category that functioned as prelude to Formula 1 and that is now known as Formula 2. It is commented that the driver came the entire car to look like a F1 ferrari. The consequences. The case has now passed to the corresponding administrative body to determine the sanction. The driver faces a fine of between 5,000 and 10,000 Czech crowns (between 200 and 400 euros) and the withdrawal of the driving license for a period of six months to one year. The detainee’s son think That the police response has been disproportionate, with “several dozen patrol cars and a helicopter for an alleged traffic infraction.” In Xataka | For Shaquille O’Neal the biggest obstacle to conducting a supercar is its height: they have manufactured a tailored corvette

Gorillaz revolutionized the Internet 26 years ago with a flash website. Now they recreate it with modern technology … and the same aesthetics

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If you lived the Internet at the end of the nineties, you certainly remember Flash animations overflowing pageswith embedded videos, interactive parts that were sometimes like complex riddles … They were the first steps of the web exploring their potential as an advertising tool, and all groups wanted to have a digital presence. Gorillaz made one of the most sophisticated proposals, and now … his virtual house has returned. A walk through Kong Studios. In 1998, we could take a digital walk through the interior of the alleged studies where the Gorillaz virtual band lived and rehearsed. It was a website that worked under the missing and cried Flash, and was full of Easter eggs for fans, extra material that was not on the discs, miniguegos … a large amount of material that grew for ten years, when it ended up closing. The best non -existent band in the world. Gorillaz is a virtual British band founded that same 1998 by musician Damon Albarn (Blur) and the cartoonist Jamie Hewlett (Creator of Tank Girl). The group is made up of four fictitious animated members (2-D, Murdoc Niccals, Noodle and Russel Hobbs), whose history has been developing, in more or less real time (they have been aging, in fact) through an elaborate narrative universe. Gorillaz He was born as a criticism of the superficiality of the MTV -type media, and with their characters, Albarn and Hewlett wanted to subvert the codes of the pop stars. They debuted in 2001 with a homonym album, where they already had successes that merged rock, hip hop, electronics and pop. Since then, and Despite more or less prolonged parenthesisthey have not stopped recording and playing live, with sophisticated assemblies that respect the virtual identities of the members. Kong Studios rises. Gorillaz (who are now more active than ever) have brought back that original walk through the Kong Studiosthey have reprogrammed the web so that it is not necessary to execute flash, but it remains faithful to the original aesthetics and limitations: rigid animations, pixelated visuals … and with a gift, a game (which seems programmed, really, in 1998) where we must enter the cemetery that surrounds the study armed with a shovel to defend ourselves from the attack of some zombie gorillas The legendary ‘Clint Eastwood’ video clip. More of the same. The original site provided half an hour of delusional minijuegos, a jukebox where the then short discography of Gorillaz in full could be reproduced, including unpublished remixes and versions … in This video You can remember what that walk was, which has not been replicated with total accuracy, but in large part. Enough to miss the days when the presence of the bands on the Internet was not a mere Instagram account, but a real effort to dedicate their fans, with gifts and interaction with anyone who would give them some time. Long live the flash. With one aesthetics that today we would consider squeaky and excessive In these times when gray is the norm, Flash Player, deceased since December 31, 2020 He laid the aesthetic basis (and almost philosophical) from another internet era, where everything was a chaotic jungle of animations and games made by clown in their rooms. Kong Studios was an Asian luxury compared to the shabby and debauchery that he camp on an internet without limits, one that will not return: although we can celebrate it as it deserves, returning to the Gorillaz domains. In Xataka | Large rock bands have found how to extend their withdrawal indefinitely: with digital avatars

Germany has discovered that a teacher saved a million euros. And what did he do as he was on 16 years

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The OECD He placed Germany in front of a mirror: that of the country developed where less hours work a year. Behind the figures (just 1,331 hours per year) There was a culture broth marked by economic deterioration and a nation that moves between two poles: lengthening the days or valuing life more outside of work. And in between, scandals that have reinforced the perception that labor laxity is unsustainable. The case of a low teacher since 2009 has lit the debate. An unusual case. In Wesel, North-Westphalia Rhine Since 2009sixteen years without reincorporating his post, but fully charging his salary, which over 16 years added around one million euros (between 5,000 and 6,000 euros per month). During all that time he presented monthly medical certificates, although he was never required an official recognition to accredit his status. The anomaly came to light when, after years of bureaucratic inertia, a new official detected irregularity In 2024 and ordered the medical review. When he was finally asked to undergo a medical examination, the teacher responded demanding her employer, claiming violation of rights, as she had done before in front of an attempt to transfer in 2017, but this time she lost the litigation. The Ministry of Education of Renania del Norte-Westfalia has described The issue of “serious failure within the Bezirksregierung of Düsseldorf” and has promised a “concessions” review of all internal procedures. Implications The teacher’s official granted her Extraordinary protectionincluding the right to leave indefinite with full salary, provided that it was properly accredited. However, local reports suggest that during their prolonged absence he reached Found a company Medical and exercising as a naturopath, activities that, if confirmed, would violate the obligations of prior notification and prohibition of parallel works during a decline. Not just that. He came to participate in entrepreneurship competitions, getting to obtain A 5,000 euros award for a cream of your invention. According to the labor lawyer Ralf DelgmannNot only infringed the regulations that require prior authorization for any secondary work, but would have done it while perceiving a medical leave, which feeds the suspicion that he was never really incapacitated. This could cost his pension, salary and even the condition of official. Even so, jurists warn That retrospectively demonstrating the absence of disease is practically impossible, so the recovery of wages already perceived is unlikely. A symptom of a major problem. The scandal, airy by the German presshas raised a debate about the rigidity and at the same time the vulnerability of the official statute. While private employees go on to collect reduced benefits After six weeks, officials keep the salary even for years, provided there is effective control. The case demonstrates how a Supervision vacuum prolonged allowed an anomaly to be consolidated for almost two decades. Although the Ministry insists that it is not a systemic problem, but about punctual negligence, public opinion perceive that confidence in the public function is committed by episodes of abuse like this. A long process. The media in Germany tell that the newly opened disciplinary procedure can Extend three or four yearstime during which both the actions of the teacher and the omissions of her administrative superiors will be investigated. Beyond its individual outcome, the case has become a symbol of control deficiencies in German administration, evidencing how a single poorly managed file can erode the credibility of an entire system. Plus: Beyond the judicial outcome, what remains in evidence is the urgency of rethink a casualty model That, in his eagerness to shield officials, he opens the door to abuses that end up being paid by society as a whole. Image | Pxhere In Xataka | The myth says that Germans work more than the Spaniards. The data tell a different thing In Xataka | Some researchers have analyzed the working day in Spain: the same thing that 40 years ago is worked, but in worse jobs

Apple has succumbed to what was resisted for years: megapixels do matter

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Apple has already celebrated the traditional Keynote to present your devices For the coming months. He has renewed his three Apple Watch families (with the Series 11, SE 3 and the Ultra 3), but we also have some Airpods pro 3 that began to be necessary. The main course, as usual, are the mobiles and we already have on the table the iPhone 17he iPhone 17 Pro and the iPhone Air that arrives to compete the curious Superdelgados playground. Much of what is presented is conservative, but we had something very curious that does not usually happen with those of Cupertino: They have marcheds. Twice, in addition, and with two decisions that concern a single model: the iPhone 17 Pro. The first is rectifying with the materials, passing the glass and the titanium to aluminum, being a Better material to solve a problem that the iPhone have been dragging for years. The second has to do with the megapixels of the Telefoto camera. Because for years Each new iPhone defended that the telephoto only had 12 megapixelsnow they take chest with a new 48 megapixel sensor. And with an optical zoom that is 4x instead of 5x of the last generations. The 48 megapixels of the iPhone 17 Pro Telefoto When the rest of the mobile industry He embarked on a race to conquer the megapixels (24, 48, 64 megapixels that strengthened in the mid -range, 108 and even 200 megapixels), There were a few companies that remained faithful to their philosophy: Google and Apple. Not directly, but implicit in their presentations, both defended that the 12 megapixels allowed sensors with pixels of a larger size, improving the capture of light and, at the same time, allowing computational photography to be carried out with agility (without long waiting times in the process) and with files of a contained size. Because climbing megapixels has a weight in the result: The same is not processed A photo at 12 mpx than one at 50 MPX and, the smaller the pixel of a sensor, the more megapixels, but less light “catch” and there are worst results with high lights and with shadows, for example. But the day arrived: Google went up to 50 megapixels with the Pixel 6 Pro and Apple did the same reaching the 48 megapixels with the iPhone 14 Pro. The approach of both has gone very hand, using those extra megapixels to make available to the user A 2X digital zoom which is a sensor cut. This has been called for years “zoom with optical quality”, not “optical zoom” because the software uses the main camera as hardware, but virtually cut the sensor to make that 2x increase. Quality is, in many cases, indistinguishable to that of a photo taken with a 2x optical. It would be necessary to talk that the focal distance of a 2x optical offers a different perspective, but in terms of image quality, those 2x of iPhone and Pixel are excellent. However, while the rest of the competition mounted sensors with more megapixels in all its cameras, Apple kept the telephoto anchored in the 12 megapixels. And so since they premiered it in the iPhone 7 Pluswhich is said soon. Telefoto sensors were being more and larger, yes, but the resolution did not change and that had a price: the digital zoom of the iPhone from the optical zoom of each generation (2x for years, but later 3x and 5x) It was far behind the rest of the industry. With increasingly present and mobile computational photography with an increasingly clear zoom thanks to that hardware mixture (lenses + megapixels) and software, Apple was staying behind. Until now. Finally, those of Cupertino have taken a step forward with three cameras with 48 megapixels. Thus, photos can be taken at full resolution or use the factory resolution (12 megapixels, but with larger virtual pixels to improve photography exposure and control size), but above all, allow a higher quality digital zoom. With the iPhone 17 Pro, Apple states that It is “how to have eight professional goals in your pocket” And, far from the brave marketing, they are part of reason. The iPhone 17 Pro has three cameras: Wide angle or 0.5x Main or 1x 4x Telefoto But, with different clippings of the sensor and the macro mode using the wide angle, we get 1.2x, 1.5x and 2x “hybrids” and one step further: an 8x that will be the one that applies the same formula as the 2x a couple of years ago: a cutting of the 48 megapixel sensor of the telephoto. In addition, it is a sensor 56% larger than the previous one, so photodiodes will also have an adequate size. On paper, It is more user versatilityand about practice is good news. It is true that the word “digital” has a tremendously negative connotation when we talk about the zoom due both to what the digital cameras did years ago and to the digital results of the mobile themselves, but with those clippings of the sensor that are achieved using large sensors And with a lot of megapixels, the thing changes. Photos with the 3X optical honor Magic V5 and with the 10x “hybrid”. Quality is brutal | Photo: Xataka It is Apple surrendering to evidence And, although we have to wait for the analysis of the iPhone 17 Pro to test these cameras, examples such as those seen with the Honor Magic V5he Pixel 10 Pro or the Samsung Galaxy S25 UltraThey allow us to excite ourselves with that 8x “of optical quality.” Now, there are those who can see it as a step back with respect to the 5x optical of the iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 15 pro maxbut from my experience with the 2x hybrid of the iPhone (even of the 16 base), I think it is a movement in the right direction. And it is also about to see how the strictly digital zoom behaves beyond that 8x … Read more

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