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Varias personas esperan frente a una oficina del SEPE.

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The SEPE launches 60,000 jobs with salaries of up to 30,000 euros per year

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The SEPE launches 60,000 jobs with salaries of up to 30,000 euros per year

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The Public State Employment Service (SEPE) has already launched its April 2023 job offer through its 'Empléate' platform, and there are more than 20,500 job offers with more than 60,000 vacancies and with salaries of up to 30,000 euros per year. As reported by the Noticias Trabajo portal, many of these vacancies do not require previous experience and in terms of the required qualifications, for some it is enough to have the ESO title.  By sectors, computing leads the ranking of number of offers with 3,345 positions, followed by engineering with 1,780 and hospitality and services with 2,000 published offers. The 20,500 job offers that there are right now in the SEPE add up to 60,000 vacancies. Of these, 10,448 are to work with an indefinite contract, 6,872 are with a temporary contract and in 5,336 offers no previous experience is requested.

Some offers with indefinite contract

Occupational therapist to work part-time in Navarra: 11,000 euros per year.

Administrative assistant in Madrid: 23,000 euros per year.

Physiotherapist in Navarra: 19,000 euros per year.

Livestock laborer in Cantabria: 15,120 euros per year.

Technician in solar thermal energy specialty in Madrid: 25,000 euros per year.

Metal carpentry officer in Alicante: 1,800 euros per month.

Some offers with temporary contract

Computer technician in Valladolid: 20,000 euros per year.

Promotion and communication technician in Madrid: 21,000 euros per year.

Cook in Seville: 1,250 euros per month.

Garden laborer in Malaga: 1,400 euros per month / 16,800 euros per year.

Commercial of meat products: 20,000 euros per year.

Laborers for nursery in Almería: 35,000 euros per year.

 Some offers without previous experience

 Nurses Barcelona: 25,000 euros per year.

Specialized laborer manufactures stone: 25,000 euros.

Nurse in Huelva (part-time): 12,000 euros per year.

Cuba truck driver: 25,000 euros.

Mechanic in Badajoz: 18,700 euros per year.

Kitchen assistant in Las Palmas: 16,000 euros per year.

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The general secretary of Podemos, Ione Belarra, this Saturday.

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Podemos gives himself an injection of pride at the gates of 28M and warns Díaz that he is not "an ornament of the PSOE"

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Podemos gives himself an injection of pride at the gates of 28M and warns Díaz that he is not "an ornament of the PSOE"

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There are occasions in which the acts of political parties have the objective of sending a message to the whole of society. But, on other occasions, the formations look for something else: harangue their bases to keep the ranks tight and morale high. And the Spring Festival held this Friday and Saturday by Podemos was more of the second type, since in it the main message conveyed by the leaders was that Podemos is not only necessary, but also essential in the recomposition of the left. so that it maintains its hallmarks and to repeat the coalition government. And hence the notice to sailors to Yolanda Díaz: compared to her less aggressive style, Podemos does not intend to be "an ornament of the PSOE".

With that appetizer, those attending the event were ready for the main course: the main meeting, in which the number one and two of the party, Ione Belarra and Irene Montero, participated, along with several of the regional candidates for the 28 elections. of May. And, with some difficulties due to the strong wind that, in fact, forced the meeting to end outside the main stage planned for it, Belarra insisted on the same idea before a dedicated audience: that Podemos will resist despite those who "repeat like a mantra that sinks, even since before 2015, they have repeated it every day, and they will continue to repeat it".

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This video contains one conversation between J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis.

Tolkien tries to convince Lewis that the myths are true and hopeful. However, Lewis isn't very clear.
Lewis wasn't a Catholic, well, he had more Catholic beliefs than Protestants. But we have to accept that he didn't convert. That is why Tolkien was very angry and upset when he found out that his friend C.S. Lewis had died (1963) without taking the final step: becoming a Catholic (because he had all the means to take the big step). Still, they were very good friends.

So, I leave you with the video, I hope you like it. Leave the comments if Tolkien has convinced you.
50th anniversary of Tolkien's death

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Diálogo entre Tolkien y Lewis acerca de los mitos

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This is the famous 1998 movie that tells the story of Moses. The prophet who freed the Hebrew people from slavery in Egypt and led them to the Promised Land and the bearer of the Ten Commandments.

In "The Prince of Egypt", at minute 3:25, we can see the dubbing of the film. It's impressive like the actors take their protagonists so seriously. The actor who impresses me the most is Ralph Fiennes, when he has to do a long, loud scream. Fiennes doubles as Ramses, the pharaoh.

At minute 6:36 we can see how the singer Ofra Haza plays the mother of Moses. Haza sing the lullaby to Moses before throwing him into the river. Awesome. I get the willies. The song she sings is Deliver us. The composer of this magnificent film is Hanz Zimmer, the best composer in the all world.

What do you think of dubbing? Which one do you like the most? Which one do you like least?

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The Prince of Egypt - The Making Of (Part 1 of 3)

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Curiosities🎥 about "The Passion of the Christ" by Mel Gibson.

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Curiosities🎥 about "The Passion of the Christ" by Mel Gibson.

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Music have one paper different in the movie, because music o soundtrack is other language. The compositor of "The Passion of the Christ" is famous John Debney.

In the movie, Debney mixed instruments which came from all parts of the world. Debney done this, because, Mel Gibson wanted that the music of the film bound all cultures around the world.

John Debney, in the video, say that the theme that more cost him was: music for the Virgin Mary. But, after a lot of effort, he found the music from Virgin: a lullaby. Lisbeth Scott sang, psalms in Aramaic, in the theme of Mary.

Well, I leave you with the video, hope you like.

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Have you ever...? Why does this beginning sound familiar for me? Maybe because I've talked about the moon before? It doesn't matter, the question here is if you have ever looked at the sky at night to find some shapes with that shining little points above. Because, I have.

I'm starting to think that I'm in love with night, and maybe it can be true, because I can spend hours and hours watching the nocturn sky and desiring its return during the day. It has something that attracts me as the light attracts a moth.

It is magic, there's light in the dark, many small spots of light that become an enormous sphere of light that covers all the world. Being honest, the poetry behind that sight is not the only think that draws me to the night. I can't stop my imagination when I'm looking the stars, it is like my mind couldn't stop working while I'm under the night. And being sincere with myself, I don't think I'll want to detain it.

Night always have had in me a special effect, and I'm sure I'm not the only person in the whole planet who has the same trouble as me. Otherwise, I'm going to do what always I've done, get out of my bed and watch the sky.

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Have you ever stopped in the middle of night just to look up to you and watch the splendid sight of the moon? It doesn't matter if it’s a full moon or just a waning quarter or a waxing crescent. The only think you want to do is look that big and far satellite that shines with the light of sun.

Maybe you will think: "Why are you asking this? It is stupid." Well, what would you answer me if I say to you that there are people around the world who is in love with the moon? And that this "disease" is called Selenophile?

If you don't believe me just search it in google and you will find it. Ironically, the first thing that appears is the definition, which is "a person who love the moon". I think that it doesn’t needs more explanation.

I'm sure that at this point of the article you will be asking why a person would fall in love with a satellite as the moon. Well, I'll answer with a sentence that I read: It always come back...

For some people, the moon is the only constant in their lives. It seems is going to disappear but some days after it comes back again. Others, like me, just love the moon because it is beautiful.

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From the delicacy of classical ballet to the spontaneous movements of urban music, dance is characterised by a special sensitivity that is expressed through body movement.

The figure of the professional dancer is often identified with a woman. This idea stems from a series of stereotypes and preconceived ideas, such as "dance is for girls" because they have a more delicate body, while "boys who dance are effeminate".

The reality is that dancing at a professional level requires great physical fitness and the best dancers spend hundreds of hours training, just like elite sportsmen and women.

On the other hand, male and female dancers have to deal with sexist and homophobic comments that are rooted in the gender roles that have been created over centuries in society. The best way to fight against these stereotypes is to go for a dance free of prejudices, in which only people express themselves through their bodies.

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Por primera vez después de la pandemia, pandemia y bailarines de todo el mundo podrán celebrar esta jornada bailando sin mascarilla

El 29 de abril se celebra el Día Internacional de la Danza, una iniciativa creada por el Instituto Internacional del Teatro (ITI), entidad que colabora con la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Educación, la Ciencia y la Cultura (UNESCO) para promover las artes escénicas en todo el mundo.

La fecha rinde homenaje a Jean-Georges Noverre, bailarín francés y creador del ballet moderno, que nació el 29 de abril de 1727. El ballet moderno o contemporáneo se inspira en el ballet clásico tradicional, que se interpreta con unos pasos definidos, pero además incorpora nuevos movimientos que lo adaptan a las tendencias actuales.

El objetivo de esta jornada es dar a conocer el arte de la danza en todas sus modalidades y expresiones, más allá de las barreras políticas, culturales y étnicas. Bailar es más que moverse al son del ritmo y de la música, ya sea audible o no: es una forma de expresarse con el cuerpo en movimiento.

Cada año, el ITI elige a un destacado bailarín/a o coreógrafo/a para lanzar un mensaje sobre la importancia de la danza en el panorama cultural mundial. En esta ocasión, la bailarina y directora artística del Ballet de Corea del Sur, Kang Sue-jin, reflexiona sobre los orígenes de la danza y el impacto de la pandemia.

En el pasado, la danza era una forma primaria de comunicación no verbal que hablaba a través de los gestos, y hoy en día ha evolucionado hasta ser un arte efímero. Las representaciones de danza son obras difíciles de recuperar, porque se interpretan y se disfrutan en el momento.

En ese sentido, la pandemia de covid-19 ha hecho todavía más difícil disfrutar del arte de la danza por culpa de las restricciones, los confinamientos y las limitaciones de aforo. Y por ese motivo también, según Sue-jin, cada representación es aún más importante y valiosa.

Instituciones como el ITI y la UNESCO, pero también compañías de baile, asociaciones culturales y bailarines de todo el mundo han programado actos de celebración en diferentes países. Por primera vez después de la pandemia, los bailarines y bailarinas podrán bailar sin mascarilla en sus espectáculos.

Esta jornada es también una oportunidad para reivindicar la profesionalización de la danza y el trabajo de los bailarines y bailarinas, que muchas veces actúan de forma gratuita por amor al arte, literalmente.

La danza como identidad

En la actualidad, identificamos el baile como un espectáculo o una forma de entretenimiento. Sin embargo, desde hace miles de años, la danza es una forma de expresión artística que define a un pueblo o cultura, igual que la música, la pintura o la literatura.

La civilización egipcia, persa o griega tenían sus propias danzas y coreografías, asociadas a sus divinidades y a los grandes eventos del calendario. Las danzas que se representaban en los festivales de la antigua Grecia y, posteriormente, la antigua Roma, fueron el origen del teatro actual.

Durante la Edad Media, la Iglesia prohibió este tipo de manifestaciones artísticas al considerarlas paganas (relacionadas con religiones que entonces estaban perseguidas). No fue hasta la llegada del Renacimiento que se recuperaron las tradiciones clásicas y Europa escapó de la oscuridad medieval.

En la era contemporánea, la danza ha ido más allá de culturas y civilizaciones para convertirse en una forma de representar los sentimientos humanos, de transmitir ideas e incluso contar historias. Del ballet moderno inspirado por Noverre, hasta los nuevos movimientos y metodologías de Isadora Duncan.

A día de hoy, la danza puede representar también un acto de protesta y utilizarse como plataforma para promover la paz y la solidaridad. Es el caso de la bailarina principal del Teatro Bolshoi de Moscú, Olga Smirnova, que se ha posicionado en contra de la guerra en Ucrania y ha decidido abandonar el país.

¡Chicos a bailar!

Desde la delicadeza del ballet clásico, hasta los movimientos espontáneos de las músicas urbanas, la danza se caracteriza por tener una sensibilidad especial que se expresa a través del movimiento corporal.

A menudo, la figura del bailarín profesional suele identificarse con una mujer. Esta idea surge de una serie de estereotipos e ideas preconcebidas, como que "la danza es cosa de chicas" porque ellas tienen un cuerpo más delicado, mientras que "los chicos que se dedican a la danza son afeminados".

La realidad es que bailar a nivel profesional requiere estar en gran forma física y los mejores bailarines y bailarinas dedican centenares de horas a entrenar, igual que los deportistas de élite.

Por otro lado, los chicos y hombres que se dedican a la danza deben enfrentarse a comentarios machistas y homófobos que tienen su origen en los roles de género creados durante siglos en la sociedad. La mejor manera de combatir estos estereotipos es apostar por una danza libre de prejuicios, en la que solo haya personas expresándose a través de su cuerpo.

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El 29 de abril se celebra el Día Internacional de la Danza, una iniciativa creada por el Instituto Internacional del Teatro (ITI), entidad que colabora con la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Educación, la Ciencia y la Cultura (UNESCO) para promover las artes escénicas en todo el mundo.

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Watch: Zebra escapes zoo, wanders Seoul streets for 3 hours - UPI.

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Just four days before in a city from South Korea a zebra escape from a zoo for 3 hours until officials and firefighters were able to administer a tranquilizer.
This new won't seem relevant, anr really it isn't, what makes me laugh for this new is the thought that comes to my mind, a memory of one film from my childhood.
I don't know if all of you remember the film Madagascar, where in one scene the zebra from the New York zoo escapes from there and is persecuted for all his friends (a lion, a giraffe and a hippo) until they arrive at the central station , passing through the metro of the city and many of the central streets. At the end they are caught and bringed back to the zoo, and after sended with ship to an other country.

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Watch: Zebra escapes zoo, wanders Seoul streets for 3 hours - UPI.com

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A zoo in South Korea's capital confirmed a zebra escaped from the facility Thursday and spent about 3 hours wandering the streets of the city.

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Valentine's Day is on February 14 and couples give each other gifts. It's a very special day.

We don’t know the real origin of Saint Valentine’s day. However, there are some legends regarding this topic.

For example, Roman Emperor Claudius II killed two men because one of them secretly officiated weddings. Then, these men were considered martyrs by Catholic Church.

Another story is about a man who wrote love letters to a girl and fell in love with her. Unfortunately, he was imprisoned.

It was not until the Middle Ages that Geoffrey Chaucer linked Saint Valentine to love in his poems. Therefore, thanks Geoffrey Chaucer, we can celebrate this special day every year.

Do you think that Valentine's Day is a marketing scheme? Or do you celebrate Saint Valentine because you want to celebrate love?

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We all know Bruce Willis from his famous films such as Die Hard, The Sixth Sense, Armageddon, Pulp Fiction and Red.

The 67-year-old actor was diagnosed with aphasia - which causes speech difficulties - in the spring of last year, but the aphasia has progressed and he has been given a more specific diagnosis, frontotemporal dementia.

Frontotemporal dementia is a general term for a group of brain disorders that primarily affect the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain. These areas of the brain are usually associated with personality, behaviour and language.

Frontotemporal dementia is a disease for which there is still no cure but it is hoped that a cure will be found in the next few years.

For me Bruce Willis is a great actor and to hear this was very sad news. It makes us realise that time goes by and we all get older.

I wish Bruce all the best and strength to face what is to come.

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Actor Bruce Willis has frontotemporal dementia, his family has announced.

In a statement on social media, they said it was a "relief to finally have a clear diagnosis".

The 67-year-old was diagnosed with aphasia - which causes difficulties with speech - in spring last year, but this has progressed and he has been given a more specific diagnosis, the family said.

They expressed their "deepest gratitude for the incredible outpouring of love".

The family went on to say frontotemporal dementia is the most common form of dementia in people under 60.

"Today there are no treatments for the disease, a reality that we hope can change in the years ahead," the statement said.

Willis became a household name in the 1980s and 90s after starring in blockbuster films such as Die Hard, The Sixth Sense, Armageddon and Pulp Fiction.

He has also been nominated for five Golden Globes - winning one for Moonlighting - and also three Emmys, where he won two.

But his family said last year that Willis would give up acting, as his aphasia was affecting his cognitive abilities.

The new statement on Thursday said they hoped media attention would raise awareness of the actor's condition.

It said: "Bruce always believed in using his voice in the world to help others, and to raise awareness about important issues both publicly and privately.

"We know in our hearts that - if he could today - he would want to respond by bringing global attention and a connectedness with those who are also dealing with this debilitating disease and how it impacts so many individuals and their families."

The statement was signed by members of Willis's family including his wife Emma Heming - with whom he has two daughters - and his former wife Demi Moore and their three daughters.

Dementia comes in many forms with different causes.

The word dementia describes the impact of a diseased brain on our memory, language and thinking skill.

Common causes include Alzheimer's disease, vascular dementia and dementia with Lewy bodies.

Bruce Willis' diagnosis of fronto-temporal dementia is relatively rare.

It is also unusual as it largely affects people in midlife, whereas most other forms are found in old age.

Fronto-temporal dementia is caused by a build-up of toxic proteins in the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain (those behind the forehead and ears) which are thought to kill brain cells.

Damage to these regions affects language (such as Willis' aphasia) as well as behaviour and the ability to plan.

There is still no cure or even a way of slowing the disease down so symptoms continue to get worse.

On average people live 8-10 years after diagnosis of fronto-temporal dementia, but some people live much longer.

Actor Brian Cox, who starred in the film Red with Willis, said the news was "very sad" and that the actor was "witty and a great performer".

Speaking to the BBC's Newscast programme, Cox said: "He was lovely. And he is lovely. He's still there. He's a lovely man."

US journalist Maria Shriver, a prominent campaigner for brain disorder patient care and research, tweeted: "My heart goes out to Bruce Willis and his family, & also my gratitude for shining a much needed light on this disease.

"When people step forward it helps all of us. When people get a diagnosis it's extremely difficult, but also for most a relief to get a diagnosis."

Aaron Paul, who starred in America's Breaking Bad TV crime drama, said Willis was "such a damn legend", adding: "Love you so much my friend!"

US singer and actress Queen Latifah wrote in a post on Instagram: "God bless you my brother we love you!!! all the best. Thank you and your family for all the entertainment!!!"

Actress Selma Blair, who has multiple sclerosis, simply wrote: "Sending love."

According to the UK NHS website, frontotemporal dementia is an "uncommon" form of the disease that causes the sufferer problems with behaviour and language.

Symptoms also include slow or stiff movements, loss of bladder or bowel control - although this tends to be later on - and muscle weakness.

If you have been affected by any of these issues you can visit the BBC's Action Line.

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Actor Bruce Willis has frontotemporal dementia, his family has announced. In a statement on social media, they said it was a "relief to finally have a clear diagnosis". The 67-year-old was diagnosed with aphasia - which causes difficulties with speech - in spring last year, but this has progressed and he has been given a more specific diagnosis, the family said.

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Virtual reality system for job interviews

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Virtual reality system for job interviews

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Nowadays, most people share the view that thanks to technology we can communicate with people from all over the world.

This news tells us that there is a possibility that job interviews could be done with virtual reality in the future.

Let us look into this matter in more detail.

On the one hand, it is also an important point to considerer that one of the advantages is that thanks to virtual reality people do not have to travel or make any trip to do interviews. Therefore, people will do job interviews from anywhere.

On the other hand, some people might not be concerned about the problem of the Internet connection which happens very frequently. As a result, if someone has bad connection to the Internet, they will lose the opportunity of getting a job.

Taking everything into account, I strongly believe that, in the future it will be possible to do job interviews through computers with virtual reality.

What do you think? Do you agree with the advancement of these technologies?

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Going for a job interview is the stuff of nightmares for many people, while for others it is a chance to shine.

Either way you are typically still interviewed by other human beings, either after walking into a scary office with one or more bosses sitting behind a desk, or via an equally nerve-wracking Zoom call.

Yet thanks to advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and virtual reality (VR) technology, you may soon be interviewed for that job you really want... by a computer.

Earlier this year students at Sandwell College in West Bromwich put on VR headsets to do some mock interviews.

Their avatars - cartoon-like, 3D representations of themselves - were put through their paces by another talking avatar representing the AI software system.

"I'd never had an interview before in my life," says engineering student Ayyan Ahmed. "But because there was no human judging me, and it was all online, I could actually express myself.

"And then, at the end of the process, he [the VR interviewer] told me what I did wrong, and what I did right. It really helped me to know what to do in my next interview."

The VR system the students were using is made by London-based company Bodyswaps.

Questions and requests that the interviewees get asked range from the straightforward "tell me about your greatest achievements", to the more challenging "do you prefer to be loved or feared?"

The user then gets feedback, not just on what they said, but how they say it, whether they are maintaining eye contact with the interviewer avatar, and even their posture.

Bodyswaps' chief executive Christophe Mallet says the idea is that people can keep practising with the simulated job interviews until they feel ready for a real-life one.

He believes that the technology has the chance to level the playing field for candidates from less well-off backgrounds who might not otherwise have the opportunity to practise for job interviews in a professional setting.

"Things like communication, empathy and leadership are the secrets to success [in interviews], but how can you practise those? If you are rich, you can get a coach. Otherwise you have e-learning [such as watching videos on the topic], but that doesn't work as you are lacking immersion.

"Using VR and AI we now have a way to immerse you safely in a simulation where you can practise interview conversations."

Bodyswaps launched its interview simulations last year, and says it is mainly targeting schools, colleges and universities, so their students can practise before they enter the jobs market. Its business model is subscription based, with the amount an institution has to pay each year being dependent on how many people use the system.

While Bodyswaps is currently focused on mock job interrogations, the AI technology of Swedish firm Tengai is already allowing firms out in the real world to get a computer to do their initial job interviews.

The AI software is represented as a talking cartoon head that appears on the screen of a candidate's computer or smartphone. It asks a set list of questions, and then the recorded answers are used to help recruiters draw up shortlists for jobs.

Tengai's chief executive Elin Öberg Mårtenzon says that a central aim of the software is to avoid making wrong assumptions, such as judging someone on their appearance.

"We wanted to create a situation where you could actually look at objective data instead, by putting some sort of filter between the candidate and the recruiter," she says.

"And that filter is supposed to mitigate bias in the process... so that they know that they are not being judged by things other than those relating to the job description."

But while it might be tempting to see AI and VR technology as the magical solution for selecting the right candidate for a job, employment lawyer Susan Thompson says we need to be cautious.

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"AI doesn't eliminate risk, and it's not without risk itself," says the partner at London law firm Simkins. "So I think that's the most important thing employers need to be mindful of.

"We have to remember, AI is actually still fundamentally created by a human. [So], first and foremost, I'd be saying to any employer who's thinking of using it, be it at the interview stage, or even at the exit stage, 'do you understand it, and to what extent have you spoken to the developer about what data points it uses?'

"And, has it been stress tested to eliminate bias? Does it eliminate gender bias? And how does it do that?"

Ms Thompson adds: "I would be hesitant in advocating that AI is used exclusively in the interview process. I think there should be some sort of human intervention somewhere."

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Your next job interview could take place in virtual reality

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Going for a job interview is the stuff of nightmares for many people, while for others it is a chance to shine. Either way you are typically still interviewed by other human beings, either after walking into a scary office with one or more bosses sitting behind a desk, or via an equally nerve-wracking Zoom call.

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Earthquake in Turkey and Syria: the shocking pictures

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Earthquake in Turkey and Syria: the shocking pictures

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In the last few days, you may have heard on the news what the earthquake in Turkey has left in its wake. Thousands of deaths, injuries and orphans. Shortages of food and basic necessities and the exhaustion of rescue efforts.

Looking at the images published one realizes the desperation of the parents with their children in their arms, thinking that they have lost everything in a few moments. One realizes all the families whose economic and emotional stability has been shattered. It must be very hard to have everything collapse around you and you can't do anything to stop it.

I know we can't do anything for them physically, but in prayer we keep them very present.

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Terremoto en Turquía y Siria: las impactantes imágenes

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Edificios colapsados y coches destruidos en Siria.

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is meeting Rishi Sunak, after arriving for his first UK visit since Russia's invasion.He is holding talks with the British prime minister in Downing Street, ahead of an audience with King Charles and a speech to Parliament.

It comes as UK training of Ukrainian forces is set to be expanded to cover fighter jet pilots and marines.

The UK has also announced a fresh round of sanctions targeting Russia.

The latest sanctions target IT companies, as well as manufacturers of military equipment such as drones and helicopter parts.

Plans have been announced to train Ukrainian pilots to fly Nato-standard fighter jets in the future, a key request from Ukraine.

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The Japanese movie called Kimi No Nawa or Your Name is a movie with excellent animation and story plot.

The movie is about two students of the same age who live in different places and who have a normal life until the appearance of a comet that breaks and coerces the earth. From that moment on, the protagonists constantly change their bodies overnight, literally causing them great confusion. Little by little they fall in love with each other, making her go to look for him at his home, but he does not recognize her and this is because, apart from changing bodies, they travel a distance of three years in the time line. When they change bodies again, he leaves him a note with the observations of the weather he has observed and he decides to investigate for his part. When he tries to go look for her, he finds the story that the comet crashed into the town. The story ends with the salvation of the town thanks to the communication of the protagonists but once the problem is over they forget everything that they had to do with each other, leaving in their reunion the phrase that gives rise to the title and leaving an open ending ;-;

The film has received nominations because of its impressive animation and details.

I recommend it with all my energy, it is a film that, even if only for the animation, is worth seeing apart from the emotion that each one can feel because it is a subjective case.

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La joven Mitsuha vive en un pequeño pueblecito entre las montañas. Sin muchas sorpresas ni demasiadas emociones, la adolescente tiene un par de amigos, además de a su hermana pequeña, su abuela y su padre, con el que tiene una relación algo distante. La única expectación un poco emocionante es el cometa Tiamat, que está pasando cerca de la Tierra y por unos días será visible a simple vista.

Pero un día despierta y descubre con asombro que no reconoce su cuerpo, y piensa que se trata de un extraño sueño. Pero no es así: se encuentra dentro del cuerpo de un chico, concretamente de Taki, un joven estudiante de bachillerato de la gran ciudad de Tokio. A Taki le sucederá lo mismo, y es Mitsuha la que se intercambia con él. Metidos dentro de un cuerpo que les resulta tan extraño, poco a poco, los dos jóvenes empiezan a comunicarse y, torpemente, van superando los retos que se presentan en ambas vidas. De esta forma, el vínculo que tienen se convierte en algo más. Lo que no saben es que algo inesperado está a punto de ser revelado.

Filme de animación dirigido por el nipón Makoto Shinkai, responsable de filmes como El jardín de las palabras (2013), Viaje a Agartha (2011) o 5 centímetros por segundo (2007).

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Esta película de animación ha batido todos los récords de recaudación en Japón, superando incluso a El viaje de Chihiro (2001) que hasta ahora estaba en cabeza. El filme de Makoto Shinkai ha conseguido reunir en menos de cinco meses 332 millones de dólares, 193 de los cuales han sido solo en Japón y 81 millones en China.

Galardonada en Sitges

El filme obtuvo el Premio Animat a Mejor película de animación en el Festival de Sitges de 2016.

Un debut que fue sorprendente

Cuando en 2003 Makoto Shinkai hizo su debut con el cortometraje Voces de una Estrella, conmocionó el mundo del anime por su modo de expresión y su sorprendente mirada.

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Una película dirigida por Makoto Shinkai. La joven Mitsuha vive en un pequeño pueblecito entre las montañas. Sin muchas sorpresas ni demasiadas emociones, la adolescente tiene un par de amigos, además de a su hermana pequeña, su abuela y su padre, con el que tie...

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Watercolors consist of colors that with a certain amount of water are capable of graduating the pigment of the brush.

I consider that you need a great experience and technique to achieve a good result regarding the drawing.

It is a pity that this same way of painting a work is necessary to do it on paper and not on canvas. Well, this one is made of cloth and it would absorb the water, leaving the paint in a bad way and with stains that could not be remedied.

It is certainly a great way to represent a play and of course, if done well, it leaves an impressive result.

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When I saw for the first time this video, I thought: this man is incredible! But, when I saw him for the second time, I thought: No, this gentleman has played with the camera. But, how many times have you spent practising this?, and, what have he done to reach this high level of sportsmanship? I encourage you to watch the video above and then this one:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/DEnRJsYtdWY

About Daniel LaBelle, he is a photographer from Chicago (USA). He is known for being a wedding photographer. But, he has another account where he makes a lot of people laugh with his physical humor.

Today, the technology can be very funny, for example this video, but we don't have to forget this: "Technology is the inevitable consequence of Epicureanism". (John Senior).

I hope you like.
Miriam de Sanjuan Llop

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The green comet, also known as C/2022 E3 (ZTF), will pass close to Earth during these days and will return to the solar system for the first time since 50,000 years ago, when the Neanderthals were still living on our planet, in the Upper Paleolithic.

February 1 is marked in the calendar of many astrophotographers since, a few weeks ago, estimates suggest that the comet could be visible to the naked eye in those places with reduced light pollution.
The comet is not only visible from all over Spain, throughout the night, it is also extensible to the rest of the northern hemisphere. So all we need to do is to choose the time that best suits our possibilities to observe it.

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Desde hace unas semanas, el cometa C/2022 E3 (ZTF), apodado cometa verde por su llamativo aspecto, está recibiendo mucha atención. En lugares con poca contaminación lumínica, es posible observarlo, incluso, a simple vista. Y también podremos ver al llamado cometa verde desde España. Infórmate cuándo, a qué hora y desde dónde podrás observar al cometa más famoso de este mes de febrero.

El cometa verde: ¿Qué es C/2022 E3 (ZTF)?

C/2022 E3 ZTF es un cometa que fue descubierto en marzo de 2022, al atravesar la órbita de Júpiter. Es la primera vez que visita el interior del Sistema Solar desde hace 50.000 años y, el pasado 12 de enero, alcanzó su perihelio. Es decir, el punto más cercano de su órbita alrededor del Sol.

Ahora, en su viaje de regreso hacia los confines del Sistema Solar, el cometa alcanzará su distancia mínima respecto a la Tierra y, también, su máximo brillo.

El 1 de febrero está marcado en el calendario de muchos astrofotógrafos desde que, hace unas semanas, las estimaciones apuntasen a que el cometa podría ser visible a simple vista en aquellos lugares que tengan una contaminación lumínica reducida.

El cometa alcanzará su distancia mínima respecto a la Tierra y, también, su máximo brillo este miércoles 1 de febrero

El cometa C/2022 E3 (ZTF) visto el 20 de enero de 2023. Fuente imagen: Dmitry Kolesnikov

Sin embargo, a tenor de la evolución que está mostrando, si queremos tener posibilidades de éxito, es aconsejable que dispongamos, como mínimo, de unos prismáticos astronómicos. Un telescopio pequeño sería muy recomendable.

El brillo aparente del cometa está ahora mismo en torno a la magnitud 5. Es decir, está por encima de la magnitud mínima que puede ver el ojo humano. Sin embargo, el brillo de un cometa es más bajo que el de una estrella que tenga la misma magnitud.

Esto dificulta la observación y hace que la imagen sea menos espectacular. A simple vista, podremos distinguir una pequeña mancha borrosa, con un tono verdoso, sin llegar a apreciar mucho detalle. No es comparable a lo que vimos con el cometa Neowise en 2020.

¿Cuándo podemos ver el cometa verde?

Desde España (todo el territorio) el cometa es visible durante toda la noche, en dirección norte. En el firmamento, se encuentra en la constelación de Camelopardalis (la jirafa), muy cerca de la constelación de la Osa Mayor.

La constelación de Camelopardalis (La Jirafa) en el hemisferio norte celeste. Fuente mapa: IAU/Sky & Telescope magazine (Roger Sinnott/Rick Fienberg)

Se mantendrá así durante las próximas jornadas, por lo que podremos intentar verlo en cualquier momento de la noche. Solo necesitaremos esperar a la puesta de sol. Eso sí, el mejor momento será en torno a la medianoche.

En ese momento, será cuando alcance su punto más alto en el firmamento (en torno a los 55º sobre el horizonte). Esto hace que sea más fácil observarlo, especialmente si nos encontramos en zonas que tengan contaminación lumínica en mayor o menor medida.

¿Se verá el cometa desde España?

El cometa no solo es visible desde toda España, durante toda la noche, también es extensible al resto del hemisferio norte. Por lo que lo único que necesitamos es escoger la hora que mejor se adapte a nuestras posibilidades para observarlo.

El cometa será visible durante toda la noche desde España, en dirección norte. Habrá que mirar dirección a la constelación de Camelopardalis (la jirafa), muy cerca de la constelación de la Osa Mayor.

Lo realmente importante, en realidad, es elegir el lugar adecuado para intentar ver el cometa C/2022 E3 (ZTF). Si nos encontramos en zonas urbanas (incluyendo, naturalmente, grandes ciudades), lo más aconsejable es que busquemos un lugar cercano en el que la contaminación lumínica sea más baja.

De otro modo, no lo podremos ver (quedará oculto tras el brillo de la ciudad). Para saber cuál es la mejor ubicación posible, podemos recurrir a Light Pollution Map y buscar lugares que, como poco, tengan clase 5 o inferior (cuanto mayor sea el número, mayor cantidad de contaminación lumínica).

¿Cómo elegir un lugar apropiado?

Utilizando Madrid como ejemplo, el entorno de la localidad de Cercedilla, en la sierra, podría tener cielos lo suficientemente libres de contaminación lumínica para ver el cometa. Si no a simple vista, desde luego sí con la ayuda de prismáticos astronómicos.

Aunque hay registros de observaciones realizadas a simple vista, es probable que para una persona, con poca experiencia, sea complicado distinguir el cometa, ya que no se trata de uno de los grandes cometas, denominados así por su espectacular brillo.

¿Qué es un cometa?

Un cometa es un objeto compuesto principalmente por polvo y hielo, que orbita en torno al So l. Cuando están suficientemente cerca de nuestra estrella, tras de sí dejan una espectacular cola. Los cometas son especialmente importantes por su origen.

Son restos del proceso de formación del Sistema Solar, hace 4600 millones de años. La mayoría se encuentran en los confines del sistema, más allá de la órbita de Neptuno (el planeta más alejado del Sol) y tardan mucho tiempo en completar su órbita.

El cometa Hale-Bopp, observado en abril de 1997. Fuente imagen: E. Kolmhofer, H. Raab; Johannes-Kepler-Observatory, Linz, Austria

Tanto es así que los cometas de corto período son aquellos que tardan menos de 200 años en completar una órbita (hay algunos que tardan mucho menos, del orden de unos pocos años, pero son la excepción). Los de largo período tardan mucho más.

Así que, si tenemos la oportunidad, debemos intentar ver el cometa verde. Su próxima visita no se producirá hasta dentro de 50 000 años (es un cometa de largo período). ¡No siempre podemos ver un visitante de los confines del Sistema Solar!

El cometa C/2022 E3 (ZTF). Crédito: Alessandro Bianconi/Edu INAF/Wikimedia Commons/Atribución

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Cómo ver el "cometa verde" desde España el 1 de febrero -

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Desde hace unas semanas, el cometa C/2022 E3 (ZTF), apodado cometa verde por su llamativo aspecto, está recibiendo mucha atención. En lugares con poca contaminación lumínica, es posible observarlo, incluso, a simple vista. Y también podremos ver al llamado cometa verde desde España.

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All of us knows what is Got Talent, this TV program where you can show to your country and all the world your secret talents and make you famous, but could you never imagine that also kids have secret talents?
Well, here you have an impressive YouTube video which shows kids, KIDS!, doing magic tricks like professionals and astonishing judges and public. Only watching the first kid, a boy of 10 years old, you will be swearing as an experimented sailor. That young man makes a ring disappear and appear inside of a clock and in they shoelaces and you don't know how he could have done that!
You just watch him as he talks and moves his hands, and makes judges do small things and then, puff! the ring isn't there and is in another place and makes you ask yourself how in hell has become there.
How many time have he spend practicing? How many years have he spent to reach that level of performance? And he is just ten! It makes me think, if a kid nearly half of my age is able to do that, why can I do the same?

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How can we pretend that nothing happened? 👳🔪

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How can we pretend that nothing happened? 👳🔪

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I suppose that you already know that was murdered a one man catholic in Spain, this week. It was a terrorist attack.

What to do in the face of this situation? What to do in the face of this battle against those who want to kill our God?

Resist, above all, but also fight. But for this we need a captain and a flag.

We let us imitate the Vendeans, imitate the Crusade of 36-39! We let us fight against those who do not want Jesus Christ to reign. These had a captain and they had a flag. Let's do it!

We cannot remain silent, we cannot pretend that nothing has happened and open our arms to those people who do not want Christ as King. We must fight like our fathers did!

"I have not come to bring peace but war." (Mt 10,34-35).

Win or die!
Miriam de Sanjuan Llop

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JENNIFER O’MAHONY and ARITZ PARRA Associated Press

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Police: Counterterror unit holds Spain church attack suspect

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Spain’s national police agency says a counterterrorism intelligence unit is questioning a suspect accused of killing a Catholic church officer with a machete and wounding four more people, including a priest

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I would like to share with you this new. It's very amazing!

We have with us a Joseph Pearce. He is a native of England, and he is the St. John Henry Newman Visiting Chair of Catholic Studies at Thomas More College (Merrimack, NH).

He is the author of numerous books, which include The Quest for Shakespeare, Tolkien: Man and Myth, The Unmasking of Oscar Wilde, Literary Converts, Wisdom and Innocence: A Life of G.K. Chesterton, Further Up & Further In: Understanding Narnia and many more. Visit his personal website at jpearce.co.

Well, this gentleman, with all his good writing ability, gives us in this news 10 reasons to believe that Shakespeare was very probably a Catholic.

Hope you like.
Miriam de Sanjuan Llop

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Every clue points to the fact that William Shakespeare “dyed a Papyst” – or a loyal Catholic.

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Controversy over the new pro-life measures in "Castilla y León"

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Controversy over the new pro-life measures in "Castilla y León"

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Two weeks ago, the government of CyL (Vox and PP) approved new pro-life measures that consist in the next:
1. The women pregnant that want abort, they will have access to psicosocial care.
2. Listen the heartbeat of her baby.
3. See a ecografy in 4D of the baby.
4. Conscientious objection for the doctors that don't want do the abort.
These four measures have created controversy. The left consider that these measures cut the women rights and the president of the government don't rule out apply the article 155 in CyL. The high positions of PP stand against to this measures, and the only political party completely in favor is Vox.
These measures, in my opinion, don't cut the women rights. Firstly, because abort aren't a right, though it's legal. Secondly, these measures only inform to women that what they are going to kill is their child, and through image and sound, try to get them to continue the pregnancy.
I am totally in favor of these measures approved by Juan García Gallardo (Vox) and I hope that the otrer autonomous communities follow the way of CyL.

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South Korean singer Taeyang has made a collaboration with Jimin from the bangtan band sonyeondan who are temporarily on hiatus due to the induction of some members into the military.

The song has been an absolute success getting millions of auditions, views and downloads in record time.

This song is Jimin's first performance outside of the group where he has sung, danced and grown since 2013 causing his fandom, the armys, to support him and give much more support in the song.

In my personal opinion, the song has a great composition of rhythm and lyrics, the video is very attractive but simple, implying that great effects are not necessary to achieve fame.

What do you think about the music? Does it seem like a new start for this artist by making a duo outside of his group? Would you have acted in his place or would you just stay apart from the world?

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Taeyang and BTS Jimin's collab single " VIBE" has topped the iTunes charts in over 100 countries!

After the release of Taeyang's solo song featuring Jimin, "VIBE" immediately rose to the top of iTunes charts in various countries across the globe, signaling his successful solo release.

8 days after its release on January 13, the song has now hit No. 1 in a total of 100 countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, France, Germany, Singapore, Thailand, and more.

"VIBE" has become the first song by a K-Pop act to achieve this milestone in 2023. In addition, this marked Taeyang's first and Jimin's third solo song to do so.

Congratulations to Taeyang and Jimin!

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Taeyang's 'VIBE (feat. Jimin of BTS)' reaches #1 on iTunes in 100 countries

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Taeyang and BTS Jimin's collab single " VIBE" has topped the iTunes charts in over 100 countries! After the release of Taeyang's solo song featuring Jimin, "VIBE" immediately rose to the top of iTunes charts in various countries across the globe, signaling his successful solo release.

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The last movie taken from the minions of the despicable movies came out in theaters during the covid-19 pandemic, raising 300 million dollars to invest in virus research.

The film is about the invancia of the protagonist named Gru who wishes to become a villain.

After meeting some yellow beings, he begins his plans to try to join a group of villains and become the greatest. Because of their disapproval, Gru steals a jewel from them and the story deals with the process of recovering it. From while Gru meets his idol and goes on adventures with him. The villains seeking revenge try to kill him but he fakes his death and escapes from the villains and the police, thus starting his career as a villain.

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‘Minions: The Rise Of Gru’ Becomes First Animated Pic To Cross $300M At Domestic Box Office During Covid Era

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Families weren’t scared to return to the box office during the pandemic and have shelled out $300.9M to date on Illumination Entertainment and Universal’s Minions: The Rise of Gru, maki…

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Avatar is a series of four seasons in which each one deals with the process of learning each element.

The series revolves around the protagonist who is identified as an avatar, the only character who masters the four elements and must use them to protect the people.

Apparently, due to a follow-up of events, the protagonist is frozen for 100 years with his friend, a six-legged flying animal, who are found fishing by two waterbending brothers. As the story progresses, our character makes new friends and faces new adventures.

Is a fun, lively and educational story for everyone.
This series was so successful that they released a sequel that deals with the successor of the protagonist Aang.

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Avatar News is the best source for updates on the Avatar franchise, from Aang to Korra to Kyoshi and...

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It is clear that animals are sensitive beings, who can develop affective bonds both with humans and with other animals, as well as they can be victims of pain and stress when they are subjected to a negative environment, mistreatment or abandonment.

The dog is fond of its owners, and is happy when it meets them, in the same way that a child is happy to see his parents. But dogs’ reaction when meeting their owners is much more intense.

The movie "Always by your side" starring actor Richard Gere, teaches us the great love of a dog towards its owners.

It is based on a true story about Hachiko, a Japanese dog. Hachiko’s owner, Ueno, a Japanese teacher, took the train every day to go to work. Hachiko waited for Ueno at the train station even after the death of his owner.

This story was so moving and had such a social impact among the population that it was decided to create a bronze statue in honor of the faithful dog in 1934. A year later Hachiko passed away, at the foot of his own statue.

Hachiko teaches us that love, loyalty and friendship can become infinite, and that not only people are capable of feeling, but animals are not exempted from it.

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AFFIRM Films Presents: Hachi: A Dog's Tale

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If you have been watching and revising motor's notices then you should know the topic SIMRACING.
Simracing is a kind of eSport where you need to simulate that you are driving a car in a video game, however it is very realistic. For playing this kind of video games that simulate drive, you need to have a steering wheel with shifters mostly, and also the pedals, throttle, brake, and the clutch one. SIMRACING could seem unrealistic, however, most of the greatest  drivers on the world are using this type of stuff, to practice for their oficial races. For example we 've seen Max Verstappen, the two times world champion in formula 1, and he was using a simulator of racing to practice for his races.

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Noticias del mundo del motor y competición.

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Si has estado al día con las últimas noticias del mundo del motor, puede que hayas notado algo un poco diferente que se ha colado en los titulares, especialmente el término " simracing ".

El auge de lo que se ha denominado "eSports" se ha convertido en un movimiento mundial, incluso hasta el punto de que la Fórmula 1 ha creado una competición oficial de eSports en la que participan la mayoría de los equipos del campeonato en la vida real. Pero seguramente estés pensando que esto es sólo un montón de niños jugando a videojuegos, ¿verdad? Bueno, en realidad, el concepto va mucho más allá.

¿Qué es el simracing?

Conocido por los profesionales como "Sim racing" (Carreras simuladas), hoy en día tiene mucha más relevancia que nunca en el mundo de los deportes de motor.

Aunque parezca algo relativamente nuevo, el arte de crear simuladores de carreras existe desde hace muchos años. De hecho, su herencia se remonta a 1989, pero ¿cuál es la diferencia entre un juego de carreras y un simulador?

Bueno, simplemente, los juegos de carreras fueron diseñados para proporcionar entretenimiento de una manera divertida, de forma que se pueda jugar y tomar. El tipo de juegos en los que eliges tu coche favorito y lo conduces en una pista o en una carretera, tal vez te estrelles contra un par de otros coches, contra las señales de tráfico u otros obstáculos y todos los implicados se divierten. Se puede disfrutar de ellos mediante el uso de alfombras de juego, teclados o incluso juegos de volante y pedales mediante el uso de ayudas de conducción para hacerlos accesibles a usuarios de todas las habilidades.

Sin embargo, un simulador de carreras lleva la idea de conducir un coche a un nivel mucho más profundo y serio. Diseñado para reproducir las variables físicas del mundo real, como el agarre de los neumáticos, la tracción, la geometría de la suspensión, la aerodinámica y más, un simulador crea la representación más precisa posible de la dinámica de conducción.

El software de simulación actual ha avanzado hasta el punto de incluir modelos avanzados de neumáticos con la física del ángulo de deslizamiento y la deflexión de los flancos, una detallada geometría de la suspensión y pistas con una precisión de 1 cm gracias a la tecnología de escaneo láser. Todo ello se suma para proporcionar la representación más realista posible de la conducción de un coche de carreras.

Debido a la naturaleza de su precisión, los simuladores tienden a exigir mucho más al usuario en términos de concentración, habilidad y destreza, lo que los hace mucho más especialistas que sus primos de los juegos de conducción convencionales. En la actualidad, se han desarrollado hasta el punto de ser considerados como una herramienta esencial por muchos de los principales equipos de deportes de motor, desde la F1 hasta el WEC y V8 Supercars.

Sin embargo, esto no significa que el software de los simuladores esté estrictamente limitado a los equipos profesionales con grandes presupuestos y talleres de lujo. También puede experimentar estos simuladores altamente avanzados desde la comodidad de su propia casa.

Cuando se combina un software de simulación de alta especificación con la capacidad de enfrentar sus habilidades con las de otros en un entorno online, es aquí donde entra en juego el simracing (o eSports). Altamente competitivo por naturaleza, los usuarios tienen la oportunidad de competir contra algunos de los mejores del mundo, así como contra pilotos de la vida real, que se pueden encontrar en línea a través de las diversas plataformas.

Los pilotos de F1 Lando Norris y Max Verstappen, el piloto de Aston Martin Nicki Thiim y el piloto de DTM Daniel Juncadella son todos pilotos activos de simracing y hay muchos más que compiten regularmente online.

¿Por qué el simracing es tan popular?

La oferta actual de simuladores de conducción virtual es la más realista que hemos visto nunca y puede que acabes compitiendo contra un piloto de la vida real, pero puede que te preguntes por qué deberías prestar atención cuando podrías estar en la pista de verdad o como espectador. ¿Por qué pasar el tiempo encerrado en el interior cuando podrías estar fuera ganando experiencia en el mundo real?

Bueno, hay cuatro puntos clave a considerar:

Costes del simracing

En primer lugar, veamos el factor de coste. Por supuesto, conseguir todo el equipo para ejecutar su propio simulador puede parecer bastante caro, particularmente si está pensando en comprar algún hardware de alta gama.

Pero cuando consideras cuánto cuesta participar en un día de prueba en una pista, las carreras de simuladores empiezan a parecer una opción más atractiva. Un típico día de prueba en un circuito cuesta entre 300 y 600 €. Para ello, normalmente se realizan unas sesiones de 4 x 35 minutos. Luego, si se tiene en cuenta la cantidad de combustible que se necesita para el día, puede llegar a costar hasta 200 €, dependiendo de la sed que tenga tu coche de carreras en particular. Luego están los otros artículos consumibles como neumáticos, pastillas de freno/discos, etc. Esto puede añadir otro par de cientos de euros al a suma total.

Antes de que te des cuenta, te estás acercando a una suma de 4 cifras para unos 90 minutos de tiempo de pista. Esto es sin considerar el combustible para remolcar su coche a la pista, el posible alojamiento nocturno, la comida, etc.

Sin mencionar la reparación de daños en caso de que te encuentres con que tu coche se extrae de la pared de un neumático mientras intentas encontrar esas últimas décimas de segundo!

Por otro lado, una vez que haya instalado su simulador en el lugar elegido, los únicos gastos que se generarán serán la factura de la electricidad y si el simulador elegido funciona mediante suscripción.

Además, puede acumular fácilmente la misma cantidad de tiempo de pista en una sola tarde.

Seguridad del simracing

Como se ha mencionado en el punto anterior, existe una clara posibilidad de que algo salga mal en las pruebas en pista. Sí, todo esto forma parte de "encontrar los límites", pero ¿qué pasaría si pudieras encontrar esos límites antes de llegar a la pista?

El uso de un simulador de carreras te permite encontrar tus propios límites personales y los de la pista en un entorno seguro y controlado. Si pones una rueda en la hierba y terminas con un golpe fuerte en las barreras, es sólo un caso de reinicio y vuelta a empezar; en lugar de que el día termine acompañado de una fuerte factura de reparación, o peor aún, un tiempo de recuperación debido a una lesión.

La otra ventaja de aprender en un ambiente simulado es que puedes practicar el control de tu coche. Por lo tanto, si un incidente ocurre en la pista de carreras real, estarás mejor preparado para tratar de evitar un impacto fuerte o incluso evitar el impacto por completo.

Ahora bien, el deporte del motor siempre ha sido un deporte peligroso, y este peligro inherente siempre estará ahí, pero con un practicando la conducción virtual, podrás aprender en un ambiente seguro y estar mejor preparado en caso de que ocurra un accidente.

Educación y disciplina

La mayoría de los equipos de automovilismo de alto nivel tendrán su propio cockpit de conducción o contarán con una instalación que utilizarán para sus pilotos. Esto no es sólo para pasar el tiempo entre los fines de semana de las carreras, hay ciertos beneficios al hacer que sus pilotos pasen tiempo en un simulador de carreras.

Dado que incluso los mejores pilotos del mundo siguen aprendiendo, un simulador ofrece una oportunidad ideal para mejorar la técnica, mejorar la visión, encontrar puntos de referencia para la frenada o las curvas, o incluso mejorar sus habilidades mentales como la concentración, la resistencia y la confianza. Todos estos aspectos pueden ser trabajados dentro de un ambiente controlado donde es más fácil ver los resultados.

Además de la precisión de su física, así como de los modelos de coche y de pista, la mayoría de los simuladores modernos disponen de un sistema de registro de datos en profundidad. Estos datos pueden ser revisados usando MoTeC o sistemas similares del mundo real, permitiéndole ver una ilustración gráfica de datos como la posición del acelerador y del freno, la velocidad, el ángulo de dirección, las lecturas del giroscopio y muchos más. Esto le permite ver dónde puede ganar tiempo de vuelta y analizar su técnica de conducción.

No sólo puedes aprender a mejorar tu conducción utilizando un simulador, sino que también puedes aprender a extraer el máximo rendimiento de tu coche ajustando la configuración. Al hacer esto, podrás ver el efecto que ciertos cambios en la configuración pueden tener en el manejo general de tu auto. Si encuentras algo que funciona, puedes investigar las posibilidades de hacer un cambio similar en tu propio coche.

Todos sabemos que el tiempo es precioso. De hecho, en el ajetreado mundo de hoy, parece haber menos tiempo que nunca. Por lo tanto, si se considera que sólo se dispone de un par de horas en la pista cuando se toma un día entero para ir a probar, mucho de este tiempo puede ser mejor aprovechado.

Con un simulador, puedes encajar en sus pruebas en tu apretada agenda. Puedes estar sentado en el pitlane, listo para salir a la pista en 5 minutos desde que pulsas el botón de encendido en tu PC, ¡menos si ya estás en tu PC!

Así que, tanto si tienes 20 minutos libres aquí o allá, o un par de horas por la noche, puedes salir directamente a la pista y empezar a aprender.

¿Seré más rápido usando un simulador?

La respuesta es breve y sencilla:Sí, lo serás.

Sin embargo, esto no quiere decir que puedas encender tu PC, dar un puñado de vueltas y esperar ver que los segundos bajen tus tiempos de vuelta. Hacer que una sesión de simulador funcione a su favor depende de una serie de factores como los que se encuentran a continuación:

Entrenamiento mental.

No es ningún secreto que el lado mental de la conducción es tan importante como las aportaciones físicas del conductor, y es lo mismo en las carreras de simulación. De hecho, probablemente sea más importante en el mundo de las carreras de simulación mantener el control de tu concentración y tus emociones debido a la falta de movimiento físico.

Cuando estás a punto de entrar en el circuito de carreras virtual, es muy fácil pensar "es sólo un juego, si me salgo de la pista o me caigo puedo volver a arrancar". Claro que el peligro físico inherente no está presente en un simulador, pero esta mentalidad no sólo significa que no te lo tomas lo suficientemente en serio como para aprender algo de él, sino que también puede ser potencialmente peligroso cuando se trata de ir a la pista de verdad.

Si abordas una sesión de simulador con el objetivo de no salirse de la pista y conducir como lo harías en un día de examen real, te encontrarás en una mejor posición para comenzar a aprender aspectos de tu conducción que puedes transferir a la vida real.

Además, debido a la ausencia de peligro físico al utilizar un simulador, es muy fácil perder la concentración en la conducción. Tratar de mantener la concentración en la pista es una gran parte de cualquier forma de deporte de motor. Si puedes mantener la concentración durante una temporada en un simulador, estarás mejor preparado para mantener la concentración al volante de un coche real.

Planificación

El viejo adagio de "fallar al planear es planear para fallar" suena cierto en las carreras de simulación. No existe un piloto de carreras perfecto y completo. Incluso los mejores pilotos de carreras del mundo están constantemente tratando de mejorar sus habilidades. Por lo tanto, siempre habrá algo en lo que puedas trabajar.

Ya sea que quieras mejorar tus líneas de carrera, la técnica de frenado, la aplicación del acelerador o ser más suave con el volante; si entras en una sesión de simulador con la firme idea en tu mente de que esto es en lo que estás trabajando, encontrarás más fácil ver los resultados de tus diversos experimentos.

Tomemos como ejemplo la técnica de frenado. Si sientes que no tienes suficiente confianza en lo que sucede cuando frenas en tu coche de carreras, puedes planear pasar un tiempo en el simulador haciendo varios ejercicios.

Podrías comenzar con un ejercicio de frenado en línea recta a una velocidad constante y utilizando un marcador de frenado consistente. Experimenta con diferentes aplicaciones del pedal de freno y registra los resultados en función del punto en que termines en una parada completa.

Una vez que hayas alcanzado el punto en el que puedas replicar los mismos resultados de forma consistente, puede sextenderlo a un estado más avanzado en el que empieces a ajustar el tacto del freno y ver cómo esto cambia la capacidad y las características de frenado. Otros posibles ejercicios incluyen el frenado en pista, el frenado con el pie izquierdo o derecho, el punta - talón y más.

Lo más importante que hay que recordar es que si te fijas en ejercicios significativos para hacer y los repites hasta que se conviertan en una segunda naturaleza, y luego los integrsa en una vuelta general, estarás agregando más habilidades a tu repertorio y aumentará tu confianza. El truco entonces, es transferir estas habilidades que has aprendido a la pista de carreras.

¡Practica, practica y practica!

Hay una forma segura de ser más rápido, y es practicar mucho. Como es mucho más fácil programar un tiempo en un simulador que asistir a un día de prueba, hay muchas oportunidades para practicar.

Aprendemos y mejoramos por medio de la repetición. Cuando se aprende a tocar un instrumento musical, hay que practicar ejercicios sencillos para familiarizarse con él antes de pasar al siguiente. Lo mismo ocurre con la conducción, tanto en la vida real como en un simulador.

Pero recuerda que la práctica no hace al maestro, sólo la práctica perfecta hace al maestro. Si estáa repitiendo un mal hábito una y otra vez, sólo harás más difícil romper ese mal hábito. Por lo tanto, si te concentras en hacer bien tus técnicas, entonces comenzarás a ver que tus tiempos se aceleran y podrás transferir tus nuevas habilidades a la pista de carreras porque se habrán vuelto más naturales.

¿Qué necesito para empezar a competir en Simracing?

Con todo lo que hemos explicado ya puedes ver los beneficios y tengas decidido que quieres involucrarte en el mundo de las carreras de simulación. Pero, ¿qué tipo de equipo necesitas para empezar y cómo te metes en él?

Chris Haye, que comparte sus vídeos de Sim Racing en su página web y en el canal de YouTube, recuerda cómo se introdujo en el mundo de las Sim Racing en el verano de 1992. "Tuve mi primera experiencia de lo que más tarde conocería como Sim Racing. El Gran Premio Microprose, creado por Geoff Crammond, fue una revelación para mi niño de 8 años, y esas primeras vueltas, en las que me enfrenté a figuras como Senna y Alesi me pusieron en un camino del que raramente me he desviado desde entonces", ha dicho.

"Los juegos de conducción han sido una característica de mi vida desde que tengo memoria. Lo que comenzó con los esfuerzos de los adolescentes en el PC de mi padre, a través de muchos años jugando con los títulos tanto en el PC como en la consola, se ha convertido hoy en un esfuerzo (casi) a tiempo completo. Mi interés en las carreras de simulación es una extensión de mi pasión por los deportes de motor en el mundo real. Me permite competir con coches con los que sólo podría soñar, en circuitos que de otro modo nunca tendría la oportunidad de visitar, o que hace tiempo que han sido cerrados. Los simulacros de carreras permiten vislumbrar lo que puede haber sido compartir el asfalto con gente como Fangio y Farina, derribar a los Hunaudieres en un GT40 o conducir el último monstruo de la pista de fibra de carbono.

"Otros utilizan los simuladores de carreras como herramienta de entrenamiento, para mantener los sentidos agudos o para familiarizarse con el circuito, y para mí es esa diversidad de experiencias lo que hace que los simuladores de carreras sean tan atractivos".

A continuación, explicó la mejor manera de entrar en Sim Racing para alguien hoy en día, sin duda impulsada por las tecnologías y plataformas que existen en la actualidad. "He trabajado en espacios creativos durante gran parte de mi vida adulta, por lo que quizás era inevitable que acabara dirigiendo este enfoque hacia las carreras de simulación", dijo Chris.

"En la primavera de 2018 esto se manifestó en el canal de YouTube por el que me he dado a conocer. Por lo tanto, ahora tengo el dudoso honor de interpretar tanto al frustrado piloto de carreras como al torturado artista en el mismo medio!

Cualquiera que esté interesado en iniciarse en el mundo de las carreras de simuladores en 2019 necesita poco más que una consola de juegos y una rueda. Juegos como Forza Horizon y Gran Turismo son un buen punto de partida para esta afición, mientras que hay disponibles títulos más centrados en la simulación, como Assetto Corsa y Project Cars, tanto para PlayStation 4 como para Xbox One. Sin embargo, si te tomas en serio las carreras de simulación, el PC es la plataforma elegida.

Ofrece muchas opciones de software, personalización y, lo que es más importante, acceso a una amplia variedad de hardware a medida, lo que resulta muy beneficioso para aquellos que planean utilizar los simuladores de carreras como herramienta de entrenamiento. Como con cualquier cosa 'técnica' todo puede parecer un poco desalentador para empezar, pero hay mucha buena información disponible en foros como el Departamento de Carreras y de los fabricantes de video como yo".

El piloto de deportes del equipo de carreras de deportes de RedBull, Graham Carroll, que ganó la prestigiosa carrera del Trofeo Walter Hayes en Silverstone, junto con varios campeonatos de Fórmula Ford, se hizo eco de Chris y dijo: "Sim Racing está compitiendo en línea con cualquiera de los mejores juegos: Iracing, Rfactor 2, Assetto Corsa, F1 2019, Forza Motorsports, GT Sport".

Para empezar, pruébate contra los mejores en estos juegos utilizando las tablas de clasificación / pruebas contrarreloj y mira cómo te enfrentas a los mejores y saca las cosas de ahí". Algunos juegos se adaptan mejor a algunas personas que a otras, así que tal vez encontrar el mejor juego para ti también pueda ayudarte".

Aunque haya cockpits de conducción que ya se comercializan completos quizá desees empezar por algo escalable e ir aumentando o mejorando los componentes con el tiempo.

Ejemplo de simuladores ya configurados:

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Lo primero es lo primero, necesitarás algún tipo de hardware para ejecutar el software del simulador. Los simuladores más avanzados requieren una PC para poder ejecutarlos. Vale la pena mencionar que, mientras que la mayoría de los ordenadores domésticos modernos podrán ejecutar el software, necesitarás un PC más potente para obtener el mejor rendimiento ya que los simuladores pueden ser bastante intensivos en recursos.

Sin entrar en detalles, ya que las especificaciones de los componentes del PC están cambiando constantemente, querrás ser capaz de ejecutar el software a 60fps (cuadros por segundo). Esto significa que el rendimiento visual del simulador será suave sin ningún tipo de tartamudeo. Esto es importante, ya que cualquier retraso o salto afectará a la forma en que usted conduce y le restará valor a tu experiencia en general. En esencia, el retraso se debe a que su PC no puede mantenerse al día con los cálculos requeridos por el software.

Entonces, ¿qué tipo de hardware de PC necesita?

Hay que tener en cuenta que la mayoría de los simuladores tienen opciones para ajustar el nivel de detalle gráfico. Esto te permite ajustar varios parámetros para ayudarle a obtener una mayor velocidad de cuadro. Obviamente, para tener todas las opciones en su máxima configuración se requiere un PC de juego de altas especificaciones, pero al menos puedes hacer que funcione bien en la mayoría de los PCs.

Una vez que hayas configurado tu PC, necesitarás un monitor para poder utilizarlo. El tipo de monitor que utilices depende de ti, pero hay algunos puntos clave que debse considerar al hacer tu elección.

La característica más importante que hay que tener en cuenta al seleccionar un monitor es la tasa de respuesta. Es el tiempo que tarda la imagen en aparecer en el monitor. Cuanto más pequeño sea el tiempo de respuesta, menor será el retraso visible. Para obtener la mejor calidad visual, lo más probable es que busques un monitor con capacidades de alta definición. Sin embargo, no todos los monitores de alta definición son iguales.

Como mínimo, querrás utilizar un monitor que sea capaz de mostrar imágenes con una resolución de 1080p. Dependiendo de tu presupuesto, obviamente puedes aumentar esta resolución a 4K ultra HD, pero ten en cuenta que necesitarás una especificación para PC que sea capaz de producir estos visuales a la frecuencia de fotogramas recomendada de al menos 60 fotogramas por segundo.

Una vez que hayas seleccionado el tipo de monitor que vas a utilizar, vale la pena considerar qué tipo de disposición de monitor vas a utilizar.

Esencialmente, tres opciones tienes a tu alcance:

1. Monitor Simple

2. Monitor triple

3. Gafas de Realidad Virtual

Monitor Simple

La opción más básica es tener un sólo monitor, como lo harías con tu PC doméstico estándar. Esta opción es la más barata disponible, pero no significa necesariamente que vayas a estar en desventaja con respecto a cualquier otra persona.

Para este monitor, puedes utilizar un monitor de PC dedicado o incluso un televisor de pantalla plana, teniendo en cuenta la especificación recomendada anteriormente.

Cuando te sientas en un coche, obviamente tienes un amplio campo de visión. No sólo tienes un amplio ángulo de lo que tienes delante, sino que también tienes un grado de visión periférica en el mismo borde. Cuando se utiliza un sólo monitor, no se obtiene esta misma cantidad de visión. Como resultado, puedes aumentar tu potencial de visión usando un monitor más grande.

Por lo general, un monitor de 32″ es una opción popular para aquellos que utilizan un solo monitor. Actualmente existen algunos monitores curvos disponibles en el mercado que pueden proporcionar una buena sensación de realismo.

Monitor triple

Si deseas ampliar aún más tu visión, la siguiente etapa es pasar a una configuración de triple monitor. Esto significa que conectas 3 monitores a tu PC y los ejecutas simultáneamente durante el juego para proporcionar un ángulo de visión muy amplio. Así, tendrás la vista del parabrisas principal delante de ti y tendrás dos ventanas laterales.

Sin embargo, ten en cuenta que la ejecución de monitores triples tiene sus exigencias en el sistema. La principal es tener suficientes conexiones en la tarjeta gráfica para que los monitores se conecten. A veces, es necesario utilizar un adaptador para convertir un enchufe estándar de tipo VGA en un enchufe de tipo HDMI.

La otra cosa que hay que recordar con los monitores triples es que necesitarás tener un PC de mayores prestaciones. Esto se debe a que, cuando los monitores están todos configurados, estás, esencialmente, funcionando a una resolución mucho más alta. Por lo tanto, hay una mayor demanda de los componentes de tu PC para procesar esta información adicional.

Además, al seleccionar los monitores que vas a utilizar para la configuración triple, deberás prestar atención a la anchura del bisel de plástico alrededor del borde del monitor. Lo ideal es que el ancho sea el menor posible, ya que cuando se montan juntos crean grandes puntos ciegos verticales.

En lo que respecta al tamaño del monitor, los tamaños más populares para usar son 27″ o 32″. Cualquier tamaño mayor que ese, no sólo se vuelve costoso, sino que en realidad no puede ser de ninguna ganancia, ya que habrías desperdiciado el espacio del monitor detrás de tu cabeza.

Por lo tanto, cuando tengas tus monitores, ¿cómo los vas a montar? Bueno, una gran opción es la gama de soportes para monitores de Sim Lab. Ofrecen montajes de monitores triples tanto independientes como integrados. Ambos son fácilmente ajustables y sólidos como una roca. Así, cuando tengas tus monitores exactamente donde los quieres, se quedarán ahí.

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La realidad virtual (VR)

La tercera opción para tu monitor, no es en realidad un monitor . Seguramente hayas notado que la Realidad Virtual se está convirtiendo en un tema candente en las discusiones sobre tecnología. Lo que una vez fue la charla que parecia de ciencia ficción, ahora se puede comprar por el precio de un televisor de gama media.

La realidad virtual funciona usando un visor separado que cubre completamente tus ojos. Dentro de los auriculares, la imagen de la pantalla se proyecta utilizando dos imágenes, de forma similar a como funcionan los ojos de forma natural. Sin embargo, la ventaja añadida es que al utilizar un receptor de seguimiento de la cabeza montado delante deti, cuando mueves la cabeza, tu cabeza se mueve en el juego. Por lo tanto, si miras a la izquierda, puedes mirar por tu ventana lateral a los espejos, o puedes inclinarte hacia adelante y ver alguna información en tu tablero.

Todo esto significa que la RV produce la experiencia más inmersiva que puedes conseguir. De hecho, cuando estás sentado en el coche, es muy fácil dejarse engañar por el hecho de que puedes estirar la mano y pulsar los botones del salpicadero.

La realidad virtual es la opción con más recursos de las tres opciones de monitorización. Como resultado, necesitarás un PC de muy altas especificaciones para poder utilizarlo de la mejor manera posible. También necesitarás un monitor normal para utilizarlo cuando no esté ejecutando el sim, así que tendrás que asegurarte de que tienes suficientes puertos HDMI en tu tarjeta gráfica.

El hardware del simulador.

Junto con el PC y el monitor, también necesitarás otro hardware para sacar el máximo provecho de tu simulador. El volante y los pedales son un requisito básico, pero hay mucho más que eso.

En primer lugar, echemos un vistazo al propio volante. Hay muchos tipos diferentes de volantes disponibles en el mercado. Sin embargo, hay algunas diferencias claras que hay que tener en cuenta.

Lo principal que hay que buscar es una característica llamada Force Feedback. Aquí es donde la base de la rueda contiene un motor que proporciona al usuario una fuerza que se transmite al volante tal y cómo en la vida real.

Esto significa que cuando experimentas un sobreviraje, el motor automáticamente querrá girar en la dirección opuesta a la que estás girando . También sentirás la sacudida de los golpes de los bordillos, los baches en la carretera y la pérdida de tracción.

Vale la pena mencionar que hay diferentes tipos motores. Los más básicos tienden a presentar sistemas de de fuerza impulsados por engranajes, mientras que algunos sistemas de rango medio presentan un motor impulsado por correa. Las sistemas más avanzados cuentan con un servomotor de transmisión directa para volantes.

Pero, ¿por qué elegir una sobre otra? El principal factor determinante sería el coste. Puedes adquirir un servomotor nivel básico por menos de 300€, que viene con pedales, mientras que una rueda de transmisión directa puede costarle bastante más.

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Las principales diferencias entre estos tipos de motores de retroalimentación de fuerza son la cantidad de fuerza que se puede generar, así como la cantidad de detalles que se transfieren al conductor. También hay un aumento de la suavidad para los motores más avanzados.

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Aunque hay algunos volantes en el mercado que se suministran con pedales, éstos a menudo están lejos de lo que se esperaría que se sintiera de un pedal. A menudo tienen una curva de pedal muy lineal y ofrecen poca resistencia a la presión.

Sin embargo, hay sistemas de pedales separados disponibles que pueden emular más de cerca la sensación exacta de una caja de pedales real. Un buen ejemplo de ello son los sistemas de pedales de Heusinkveld Engineering, que ofrecen un excelente rendimiento del pedal mediante el uso de sensores con células de carga. Cada pedal se comporta de la manera que usted espera. El pedal de freno también se puede ajustar para que requiera una fuerza de frenado de hasta 136 kg!

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Si buscas la última evolución , también hay disponibles juegos de pedales hidráulicos como el juego de Simtag. Utilizando componentes probados en el deporte del motor como la caja de pedales Tilton y las bombas de freno Wilwood, la sensación de los pedales es lo más parecido a conducir un coche real.

Cambios/frenos de mano

Aparte del volante y los pedales, lo más probable es que quieras una forma de cambiar de marcha. Algunos sistemas de volante se suministran con levas de cambio detrás del aro del volante, pero ¿qué pasa si desea un cambio secuencial adecuado o un cambio con patrón H?

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Bueno, la buena noticia es que estos artículos también existen en este mercado. Hay una gama de cambios secuenciales disponibles como el Heusinkveld Sim Shifter Sequential que replica la sensación de una caja de cambios secuencial real. El empuje inicial en la palanca antes de que la resistencia caiga mientras se engancha en el engranaje está todo representado.

Para los interesados en el rally o la drift, también hay disponibles sistemas de freno de mano tanto de Heusinkveld como de Simtag para proporcionar un funcionamiento completamente analógico.

Una vez que tengas todo el hardware del controlador ordenado, necesitarás un lugar para montarlo todo. Para un sistema de nivel inicial, el humilde escritorio de la oficina sería suficiente, ya que muchos sistemas de volante ofrecen una opción de montaje con abrazadera de mesa. Si planeas utilizar un escritorio, asegúrate de que no tenga un borde biselado, ya que no podrás montar la base del volante de forma segura.

La siguiente opción es optar por una de las muchos bastidores carreras sim que están disponibles en el mercado, éstas tienden a estar hechas de tubos de acero y cuentan con un asiento baquet. Estos tienden a ocupar más espacio en una habitación, pero ofrecen la ventaja de poder obtener una posición de conducción más cómoda y un montaje firme del volante y los pedales para que no haya posibilidad de que se suelten mientras se conduce.

Para un mayor grado de ajuste, un perfil de aluminio o un aparejo 80/20 como los de Sim Lab es la opción correcta. No sólo ofrecen una gran cantidad de ajustes en la forma en que están montados, sino que también se venden con flexión cero. Esto los convierte en la elección ideal para aquellos que utilizan una rueda de transmisión directa o de retroalimentación de fuerza de alta resistencia, así como pedales con altas cargas de frenado.

Con estas cabinas de piloto, tendrás que suministrar tu propio asiento, pero esto significa que puedes conseguir un asiento que se adapte mejor a la forma de tu cuerpo y añadir un mayor grado de confort extra.

Los simuladores de carreras también son altamente personalizables y pueden ser actualizados cuando sea necesario. Por lo tanto, si necesitas un soporte adicional para colocar una bandeja de teclado o altavoces, estos pueden ser añadidos en una fecha posterior.

Los mejores cockpits de carreras de simulación cuentan con plataformas de movimiento para proporcionar un nivel aún más alto de autenticidad y de retroalimentación del conductor. Estos sistemas se mueven físicamente en relación con el software del simulador para simular aspectos como las fuerzas y la pérdida de tracción.

El software

Ahora que ya has resuelto qué PC y controladores vas a necesitar, echemos un vistazo al software de simulación que está disponible actualmente.

Hay muchas ofertas diferentes disponibles, cada una con sus propios pros y contras. Lo más probable es que si hablas con alguien que esté actualmente involucrado en carreras de simulación, te dirá que "Simulador X" es mejor que "Simulador Y" porque uno de sus compañeros, o su cuñado, conoce a alguien que ha conducido un coche en la pista y dicen que es muy preciso preciso.

La verdad es que, a menos que hayas conducido el coche exacto en la pista exacta y en las condiciones exactas con la misma configuración, no es probable que puedas confirmar si que lo que sientes a través del volante es exacto o no.

La mayoría de los jugadores han elegido su software referido en base al contenido disponible y en lo que ellos perciben que ofrece la mejor experiencia de conducción.

Para encontrar el simulador de conducción adecuado tienes que valorar algunos aspectos.

El primer consejo que se te puede ofrecer cuando se ofrece orientación sobre la elección del software de simulador adecuado es: "No tomes a pie de la letra la palabra a los pilotos de carreras reales".

Aguarda... Seguramente la opinión de un piloto de carreras sería la más válida, teniendo en cuenta que se supone que sabe de lo que está hablando. Cuando dicen que un software es "la experiencia de conducción más realista de la historia" o "lo más parecido a conducir un coche de verdad", ¿no es cierto que debe ser bastante bueno? Bueno, no siempre.

Verás, algunos productores de videojuegos ven el apoyo de las celebridades como una herramienta de venta bastante ingeniosa para conseguir más copias, en lugar de ayudar a informar a la gente de que lo que han creado es una simulación de vanguardia. Por lo tanto, ten cuidado con las estrategias de marketing inteligentes cuando selecciones tu software de simulación.

El mejor indicador de un buen simulador simracing es ver lo que los conductores realmente usan para sí mismos. Muchos de los mejores pilotos del mundo se pueden encontrar en los circuitos virtuales de varios simuladores, pero ¿cuáles?

Echemos un vistazo a un par de los simuladores más populares que están disponibles actualmente.

Lanzado originalmente en 2008, iRacing ofrece a los usuarios un entorno de carreras muy detallado. No te dejes engañar por su antigüedad, el equipo de desarrollo trabaja constantemente para mejorar y aportar nuevos contenidos a la simulación.

El software funciona mediante suscripción y cobra por contenidos adicionales como coches y circuitos, pero también ofrece carreras organizadas regularmente y una clasificación de seguridad para intentar mejorar los estándares de conducción.

Todos los contenidos de iRacing tienen licencia oficial y están escaneados por láser. Esto significa que el nivel de precisión es increíblemente alto. Por ejemplo, cada pista tiene una precisión de 1 cm y presenta todos los baches y cambios de pendiente que esperarías encontrar si condujeras el circuito real. Incluso los puntos de referencia, como los puestos de los mariscales o los árboles, se encuentran en el punto exacto en el que se espera que estén.

Los coches se crean en colaboración con el fabricante y utilizan datos del mundo real para garantizar que sean la representación más precisa posible.

El tipo de contenido que se incluye cubre un amplio campo del deporte motor, con carreras de óvalos, circuitos, rallycross etc.

Cuando los equipos profesionales hablan de sus sistemas de simracing, lo más probable es que estén utilizando la plataforma rFactor.

Fundada en un motor de física altamente complejo, la versión pública original de rFactor se basó en gran medida en la comunidad de simracing para proveer lo que se conoce como contenido "modded". Esto significa que los usuarios más experimentados de rFactor pudieron crear su propio contenido para ser usado en el simulador. Esto produjo resultados mixtos en términos de calidad, pero el rango de contenido que se hizo disponible fue grande y variado.

Mientras que todavía se permite a los usuarios crear su propio contenido, la segunda entrega de este simulador particular ha seguido la ruta de proveer más contenido con licencia oficial para sus usuarios.

No sólo ha cambiado el contenido, sino que ahora hay más características avanzadas disponibles, incluyendo el tiempo húmedo dinámico con condiciones cambiantes, la mejora de la física de los neumáticos con la deflexión de los flancos y las manchas planas, y la dinámica del chasis, incluyendo la flexión del mismo.

Estas características, combinadas con uno de los mejores sistemas de Force Feedback disponibles, hacen que la experiencia de conducción sea muy detallada.

Basado principalmente en las carreras de circuito, hay una amplia gama de opciones disponibles para satisfacer la mayoría de los requisitos individuales.

Otras opciones.

Por supuesto, hay otras opciones disponibles en cuanto al simrace cuando se busca un simulador para correr, incluyendo las de Automobilista, Raceroom Racing Experience y Assetto Corsa. Estos simuladores ofrecen sus propias cualidades individuales y son excelentes por sí mismos.

Por ejemplo el Assetto Corsa es el software base usado en el CNSAC, en su version subida, rallycross, o e-rally.

Conclusión sobre el simracing.

Así que, aquí está, tu guía completa de carreras de simulación. Si quieres montar tu propio simulador, no sólo lo encontrarás muy útil para preparar los fines de semana de carreras, sino que también es muy divertido.

También puedes seguir a varios de los principales corredores de simraces en YouTube para ver algunas de sus carreras y profundizar en el mundo de las carreras de simulaciones.

Algunos de los mejores canales de simracing que pueden servirte de inspiracion son:

Y si eres un experto en el simracing y quieres aportar algo a esta guia, contáctanos, toda información será tremendamente útil para los que estén buscando información para inciarse.

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Real Madrid Club de Fútbol, better known simply as Real Madrid, is a multi-sport club based in Madrid, Spain. It was officially declared a football club by its members on March 6, 1902 for the purpose of the practice and development of this sport being the fifth club founded in the capital. He had Julián Palacios and the brothers Juan Padrós and Carlos Padrós as the main supporters of his creation identified by its white color It is one of the four professional football clubs in the country whose legal entity is not that of Sociedad Anónima Deportiva that its ownership lies with its more than 90,000 members.9 Another caveat shares with Athletic Club and FC Barcelona by participating without interruption in the top flight of the Liga Nacional de Fútbol Profesional, the Primera División de España, since its establishment in 1929 In it he has the honors of having been the first historical leader of the competition,12 the club with the most titles, and the highest score in a single  edición

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Cost of living: Girl, 11, raises funds to help families at Christmas

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Cost of living: Girl, 11, raises funds to help families at Christmas

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Nowadays many people share the view that, Christmas is the most beautiful time of the year where families and friends often get together and spend great times.

Let us look into this matter in more detail.

To begin with, it is undeniable that, many people usually raise funds to help families at this time of the year.

As a result, there are campaigns to solve this problem.

One example, would be a schoolgirl from Derbyshire whose name is Marnie and is only 11  years old.

This very young woman walks every day more than 1 km and a half to help families at Christmas and raise funds.

Secondly, some wealthy people might not be concerned about the problem that there are people with less resources.  However, wealthy people can help to get food for those who need it every Christmas.

Talking everything into account, I strongly believe that with these campaigns, many people will eat at Christmas and will be able to do it with their families.

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Cost of living: Girl, 11, raises funds to help families at Christmas

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Marnie began a campaign to help those in need in 2020, during the coronavirus pandemic.

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when it seemed that Ricciardo was leaving f1, Red Bull offers him a seat in their team as a reserve driver so that he does not have to leave f1 for the moment. After a season without results at McLaren and with everything in his favor to leave Formula 1 forever, he finds a place in which to continue fighting to be able to drive one of the twenty single-seaters that run in the Grand Prix.
Although this year he will not be able to race in any grand prix, at least he will be able to drive a few laps in the car of Checo Perez or Max Verstapen, these being the best cars on the current grid

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Red Bull confirm Ricciardo to return as third driver in 2023 | Formula 1®

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Red Bull have confirmed that Daniel Ricciardo will return to the squad – with whom he won seven Grands Prix – as third driver for 2023.

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I suppose that everybody has watched this film. This film is considered as the first of all among the Christmas movies, since it is divine in every sense of the word.

But... if someone hasn't seen "It's a Wonderful life" I propose to explain a small summary.

It's Christmas Eve in the city, and George Bailey is want to suicide. But God sends an angel to stop him in his attempt. The angel will fail? ¿The man will suicide in Christmas Eve? This you must figure out you.

It is impossible not to fall in love with this film. Sweet and touching scenes like the title of the film itself. Obviously one of the best films, so don't forget to take a look at this monumental classic gem.

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You are a writer and you die with little recognition, yet over the years your face appears next to that of Queen Elizabeth II (God rest her soul) on the 10 pound bill.
That's right, this is Jane Austen, one of the most important writers of English literature. Austen was born in 1775 in Stevenson, a small town in the county of Hampshire. Victorian times, she was born into a family where money moved and this allowed her to devote herself to what she loved, writing.
Jane had six brothers and a sister, Cassandra. At the age of 20 she met a young man named Thomas Lefroy. Some letters Jane wrote to her sister about Thomas are preserved. However, it was not all flowers, as Lefroy's sister wanted her to marry someone who had a lot of money, which Jane lacked.
This event marks her vision of love, and at the same time she writes Pride and Prejudice. And contrary to the case of the writer, in the book the difference in social classes does not prevent the love story ends well.
Although Austen's novels are understood as romantic, the truth is that there is a strong criticism of society and the role left to women, the romantic drama is an excuse to trap the reader.

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Jane Austen was a Georgian era author, best known for her social commentary in novels including ‘Sense and Sensibility,’ ‘Pride and Prejudice’ and ‘Emma.’

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How important is climate change for leaders?

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How important is climate change for leaders?

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Climate change refers to long-term changes in temperatures. These changes can be natural, for example, through variations of the solar cycle.

On the one hand, this article explains that government will help countries affected by climate change.

However, many leaders around the world are distracted with other things for example global energy and financial crises.

On the other hand, there could be a catastrophe but there is no need to be alarmed since there is hope that this problem could be solved soon.

To end up, some leaders make an effort to reduce emissions of pollution while other leaders does not have an ambition to deal with climate change.

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They have committed to establishing a fund to help countries being impacted by climate change, but they have not raised ambition on cutting emissions.

The agreement comes a year after the Glasgow Climate Pact was signed, which contained new pledges on coal, forests and money.

Progress on these pledges could provide an indication of how likely nations are to succeed in achieving what has just been signed off in Sharm el-Sheikh.

So far, climate experts have told the BBC that progress in 2022 has been slow - with governments around the world distracted by global energy and financial crises.

As leaders depart from COP27 in Egypt, we look at seven key players to ask who is leading the way and who is dragging their feet.

USA: A climate leader again?

The US made a huge leap forward this year when it passed sweeping new laws to confront climate change.

"This is the biggest investment in climate solutions in US history. It's a huge sign of progress," Dan Lashof, US director at the World Resources Institute, told BBC News.

The bill aims to make green energy the default in major sectors like electricity, transport and industry. The most obvious result for consumers is a tax credit of around $7,500 (£6,500) for those who buy an electric car.

But it is not all good news. In response to the energy crisis, President Joe Biden released 15m barrels of oil from reserves on to the market and approved new leases for oil and gas drilling.

And after a senior US politician controversially visited Taiwan, China ended its co-operation with the US on climate, this has potentially slowed progress on climate action. But there are signs tension could be thawing after US President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping held their first meeting since Biden took office at the G20 conference this week.

The US has also not delivered its fair share of finance to support developing countries suffering the most from climate change, which could damage relations at COP27.

UK: Leadership and 'dithering'

The UK hosted COP26, secured major global pledges, and showed itself to be a clear international climate leader.

But the UK has shown "disappointing" leadership in the run up to COP27, says Alyssa Gilbert, Director of Policy at Imperial College London's Grantham Institute.

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak performed a U-turn from his earlier decision not go to to Egypt due to other priorities - experts say this has compromised the UK.

"One of the key things about COP is political leadership from the top. Dithering from the Prime Minister is worse in a year when we are the presidents of COP," explains Ms Gilbert.

And the UK has not increased its ambition to tackle its role in climate change, according to analysis by Climate Action Tracker of plans submitted to the UN. (These are called Nationally Determined Contributions - part of the landmark Paris Agreement in which countries promised to regularly increase ambition to tackle climate change).

The global energy crisis also led the UK to back-track on commitments to end new oil and gas extraction in the North Sea and close down coal-powered stations.

These changes may not fundamentally alter the UK's energy balance - but they "send the wrong signal", explains Robert Falkner, professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics.

The European Union is historically progressive on tackling climate change, but Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the impact on energy supplies to Europe have undermined that.

"Leaders extended the lifeline of coal-fired power plants and and we estimate that European emissions actually increased by about 2% in the first six months of this year," says Prof Robert Falkner.

Climate Action Tracker now rates EU's climate targets, policies, and finance as "insufficient", and the EU has not updated the UN with new NDC plans.

But Prof Falkner considers the return to investing in fossil fuels a "temporary setback" and suggests the EU could take this opportunity to make itself energy secure by investing in renewables.

A new plan, the REPowerEU plan, aims to increase the EU's share of renewable energy in 2030 from 40% to 45%.

India is one of the few countries to have published updated climate targets in 2022.

"It is almost impossible to talk about India without talking about progress," says Kamya Choudhary at London School of Economics.

It promises to reduce emissions intensity by 45% by 2030 - meaning it plans to reduce emissions per dollar. It also wants 50% of installed energy to be renewable.

Professor Navroz Dubash at Centre for Public Policy and UN climate advisor told the BBC that tariffs on coal are helping to pay for key infrastructure, and the loss of that income needs to be plugged.

However, as in other countries, Kamya Choudhary suggests this is a short-term measure to cope with the energy crisis.

Climate Action Tracker says India's pledges are not very ambitious - they could be achieved with limited government action.

Brazil: New president, new hope?

Brazil holds one of the keys to fighting climate change - its massive Amazon rainforest, the lungs of the planet, soaks up huge amounts of carbon.

In a dramatic election last week, President Jair Bolsonaro was ousted by Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva - potentially changing overnight the future of the Amazon. "Brazil is ready to retake its leadership in the fight against the climate crisis," Lula said on Sunday.

Historically, Brazil has used hydropower to provide large amounts of green energy - but a drought in 2021 drained its dams. In response, it invested in oil and gas - with predictions that its use of oil will increase by 70% by 2030.

Australia: Making up lost ground

Politics has seen a change of face in Australia too. Elected in May, new Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has accelerated climate plans, ending a decade of backsliding.

But Bill Hare, CEO of Climate Analytics, says it only seems like significant progress because of how far behind Australia was.

"There has been so far been little change in policy and certainly not in the area of fossil fuels," he said.

China has a complicated role in global climate action. Unlike countries in the developed world, it is not responsible for historical greenhouse gas emissions that scientists say have caused climate change so far.

But it is now a "terrific polluter" because of its very rapid economic growth, explains Neil Hurst, senior policy fellow for energy and mitigation at the Grantham Institute. It burns half of the coal in the world, and is reluctant to cut back because of energy shortages.

However, China is also by far the biggest investors in renewable energy. A quarter of newly-registered cars in China are electric. "They're making big efforts and setting demanding targets, including peaking its carbon emissions by 2030," explains Mr Hurst.

And it has big ambitions to address carbon emissions with tree planting. In May, President Xi Jinping pledged to plant 70 billion trees by 2030.

Additional reporting by Data Journalism team.

Top image from Getty Images. Climate stripes visualisation courtesy of Prof Ed Hawkins and University of Reading.

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COP27: What have global leaders done on climate change in 2022?

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They have committed to establishing a fund to help countries being impacted by climate change, but they have not raised ambition on cutting emissions. The agreement comes a year after the Glasgow Climate Pact was signed, which contained new pledges on coal, forests and money.

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Protests erupt across China in unprecedented challenge to Xi Jinping’s zero-Covid policy

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Protests erupt across China in unprecedented challenge to Xi Jinping’s zero-Covid policy

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Since this last week, there have been massive protests in China against Xi Jinping. The people protest by the extrict strategy zero-Covid. Very people demand the resignation of the government chinesse and request freedom and democracy. Nevertheless, the communist party represses strongly all expressions of dissent. Nearly three years into the pandemic, people are tired of the government's relentless use of lockdowns, Covid tests, and quarantines, as well as increasingly strict censorship and an ongoing assault on personal liberties. It has not only been the restrictions that have given rise to the proposals, but also the abuse and mistreatment of citizens by the police.
In my opinion, I believe that the Chinese government is greatly exaggerating the measures that must be taken to combat the virus, since many of them directly attack the freedoms of citizens. This is a very complicated situation, which I hope will be resolved.

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When I came across this video on the internet, it blew my mind.

I never thought it would be possible to balance the things he balances in this video. It looks like magic or witchcraft. What this Asian guy, Wank Yekun, does is amazing.

The truth is that thinking about what I tried to balance as a child, mine wasn't even the slightest bit of what he does. My own pride has been wounded with this video. but it is also an incentive to try to do it, in the end, to achieve what he does. i don't know if it will be possible, but at least it will be tried.

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How long is going to be the Marvel Cinematic Universe?

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How long is going to be the Marvel Cinematic Universe?

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Everyone has seen in one moment of his life a film from Marvel, from the first films like Iron Man to the newest ones like Wakanda Forever. But have you ever thought that they will have an end? That they will stop some day with this franchise? it seems that the answer is a no for the moment.
When I was a child I've started watching all the films that were realised by the Marvel Comapany, I really wanted to know how they will end, but by the pass of time, I've started to get tired, they were too much. By one film that I found interesting, three were boring or predictable. They weren't the same.
In the recent days I've asked myself if they had enough or if they will continue with this cinematic universe. And I've found the answer, they don't have enough. The Marvel Company have planned at least ten films more by the next four years. Will they succeed or they will fail?

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The island Putin wanted to attack was known as the snake island, associated with Greek legends, warriors and source mythologies.

The island was guarded by 50 soldiers, to be prepared for possible attacks they carried out daily drills. When the first attack came in the form of a Russian patrol boat which demanded that they surrender, the Ukrainian defense soldiers had no heavy weapons, only snipers and grenades. The morning after the first warning they sent the next one with the same message, and then the first missile, then a second ship arrived unilaterally, the Russian ship sent a third warning half message by radio the same information, but the border soldiers sent him to the shit, literally those were his words, after that all connection of the outside with the island was lost,  The Ukrainian army sensed that everyone on the island had been killed and they did. Whether the real victory was the bravery of that soldier to release those words to the enemy

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n his 12 years in the frontier service, Bohdan Hotskiy saw many wild places. He thought his home, Ukraine, was the most beautiful country in the world: it had sea and mountains, forests and steppes, marshes and lakes. All was perfect, and so complete that Hotskiy - a 29-year-old captain - never felt the inclination to go abroad. Why bother? "We have everything," he tells me when we meet in the Ukrainian town of Izmail, close to the border with Romania.

It is high summer. We sit outside on a bench in a central park, not far from the Danube River and Izmail's port. Hotskiy is dressed in military uniform and holds a Kalashnikov. He is a modest and diffident person, tall and a little awkward, his dark hair receding into an arrow shape. At times Hotskiy seems reluctant to talk about his recent experiences, giving staccato answers to my questions. His story is remarkable, a tale of survival and dispossession.

Hotskiy tells me that as a teenager he wanted to join an elite service. He became a border guard, rose up the ranks and last year received an order to move to a new maritime location. He was to command a force of 28 men. They were being sent to a strategically important mini-territory 22 miles from Ukraine's southern coast. It was a rocky outpost in the Black Sea; an ancient place known in Ukrainian as Ostriv Zmiin yi. English translation: Snake Island.

The island was associated with legends. The Greeks knew it as White Island, after its rock formations, or - as one story had it - the colour of its serpents. It was also associated with warriors. According to mythology, it was where the spirit of Achilles went after his death at Troy. In some versions, Helen of Troy joined him. Sailors were advised not to sleep there, lest they anger the gods.

In the modern age, rival powers contested the island: the Ottomans, the Russian empire and the Germans. A lighthouse was built in the 19th century on the spot where a temple to Achilles once stood. There were wrecks from the first and second world wars - a Russian destroyer, sunk in 1917 by a German mine; a Soviet submarine, resting at a depth of 35 metres; and a grain ship that had been bound for Europe. Latterly, the island was home to a small population of Ukrainian frontier service staff.

Hotskiy got there just before Christmas. It was a time of new imperial threat. Vladimir Putin had sent armoured vehicles - lots of them - to Ukraine's borders. It was evident the island - 185 miles west of occupied Crimea - would be hard to defend in the event of a full-scale Russian attack. Since annexing the Crimean peninsula in 2014, Moscow had militarised the Black Sea and steadily reduced access for Ukrainian ships. It regularly closed off large maritime zones on the grounds that it was conducting naval exercises.

So great was the concern that Ukraine's actor turned president Volodymyr Zelenskiy came to see for himself. He dropped in twice by helicopter and instructed his military intelligence service to bolster the island's defences. Its population increased from 30 to 80, and included the frontier servicemen, two handymen and a new contingent of 50 infantry soldiers. Plus sheep, dogs, feral cats and seagulls, as well as dolphins out on the waves.

The captain made himself at home. "It's a beautiful place. You can see the sea all around. In winter it's very cold. There's a permanent wind," Hotskiy says. The guards lived in a dormitory with showers and a kitchen; it had a library with books by Jack London, author of The Call of the Wild. There were accommodation blocks, a radio station, a pier and a museum containing old Greek stones and seascape paintings.

Hotskiy says that he and his colleagues hoped there would not be a conflict but prepared for one anyway. There were daily drills. Then at 4am on 24 February, Moscow launched what has become Europe's biggest war since 1945. As the first airstrikes hit Kyiv, invasion arrived in the form of the Russian patrol boat Vasily Bykov. It came from the north-west. Hotskiy ordered his guards to grab their weapons and take up positions. They had no heavy arms of any kind, he explains - only sniper rifles and grenades.

The ship told the island's defenders to surrender. They ignored the message. As dawn broke, Hotskiy says he peered through his binoculars. The Vasily Bykovwas visible just a mile offshore - a sleek, grey corvette. The Russian ship's radio operator repeated his earlier order: "Give up! Lay down your weapons!" At 10am the first missile came crashing into the island. "I didn't know if it was a warning," Hotskiy tells me. "I was too busy to be scared. People were looking to me for decisions."

What followed was a one-sided encounter. A second Russian ship arrived from the south. It was the Moskva, the flagship of Russia's Black Sea fleet, newly dispatched from occupied Sevastopol in Crimea, and the most powerful vessel in the region. It was almost 200 metres long, had a crew of 510 and was equipped with guided cruise missiles and anti-aircraft systems. It was a lethal Soviet-built gun platform, capable of mincing anything in its path.

"The Moskva started hitting us with artillery. It was too far away. We couldn't shoot back at it," Hotskiy recalls. "Then war planes started bombing us. We took cover in hiding places." The Moskva repeated the message delivered by the Vasily Bykov. The Russian officers appeared to be under the impression that Hotskiy and his men would swap sides, as many Crimea-based colleagues had done in 2014, when Putin sent special forces soldiers to seize the peninsula and initiated an anti-Kyiv uprising in the east of Ukraine.

When Ukrainian military command lost contact with the island, it assumed all its defenders had been killed

"They were promising us jobs, money, a career in Russia," Hotskiy says. "No one was ready to accept their offer." Around midday Hotskiy found himself in the radio transmission station, together with two other frontier service colleagues whom he declines to name for their own safety.This was a secure area. He draws me a map of the building - a room of medium size, modern in design, with beige walls and two office tables, not far from the lighthouse.

On the wall were three monitors. The screens showed marine traffic in the vicinity and a live video feed of the surroundings. The immediate picture was grim: Russian boats had encircled the island. It was clear that, with the whole of Ukraine under attack from several directions, no help was coming. One of the captain's colleagues was monitoring transmissions; he sat crouched with a handheld radio.

The radio could be used for encrypted naval messages. At that point it was set to channel 16 - an international frequency available to any boat within 60 nautical miles, broadcast on 156.8MHz. The public channel is used for calling ships and for sending distress signals. The common language is English. The radio set crackled into life. On the other end of the line was an urgent voice speaking in Russian. It was the Moskva; the caller's tone was booming and portentous.

The exchange went like this:

Russian warship: "Snake Island. I, Russian warship, repeat the offer: lay down your arms and surrender, or you will be bombed. Have you understood me? Do you copy?"

First border guard to second border guard: "Well, that's it then. Or do we need to tell them back to fuck off?"

Second border guard to first border guard: "Might as well."

First border guard: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

Soon after the conversation, the Ukrainian military command lost contact with the island. It assumed all of its defenders had been killed.

Zelenskiy awarded a posthumous honour to Hotskiy and his comrades - each receiving the title Hero of Ukraine. The audio clip was released and the Ukrainian public listened with sadness and pride. They were hearing the words of martyrs who gave their lives to defend Ukraine, now locked in a struggle for survival against a brutal larger neighbour. The voices of dead men. Or so everyone assumed.

ather Vasyl Vyrozub had a sad task to perform. He was a priest (of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine) of 30 years' experience and chaplain to Ukraine's military personnel. On 25 February a senior naval officer rang and asked if he might undertake a journey to Snake Island, 90 miles by boat from the priest's home city of Odesa. He was to bring back the bodies of the fallen, as well as the two handymen, who were presumed to be alive.

He agreed. Vyrozub set off that night with two other clergymen and a doctor. The Russian navy, he was assured, had approved their trip. Their red-painted rescue boat, the Sapfir, sailed through a green corridor. En route they saw evidence of destruction: a civilian cargo ship struck by a Russian missile and billowing black smoke. At 10am the next day they approached the island, its sheer rock face visible in the distance. They were told to lay anchor and wait for inspection. A Russian boat roared towards them. Elite spetsnaz soldiers jumped out and boarded their vessel.

"Are you fucking crazy or what?" one said.

He added: "What are you doing? There's nobody here. Everyone has left already."

The soldiers tied Vyrozub's arms behind his back. Up on the clifftops he could make out a few distant green shapes: enemy soldiers. The Russians moved the cargo boat so the damage caused by their recent bombardment wasn't visible. The priest was then told to take a photograph, send it to his people and deliver a message: that the Ukrainians defending the island had all surrendered and were prisoners of war. The territory was now Russia's.

The commandos established that the priests were unarmed, and separated them. Vyrozub tried to hide his phone, unsuccessfully. It contained photos of him with several generals and the head of the Ukrainian navy. He was loaded on to a cutter and transported to Sevastopol. As they sailed, a Russian special forces officer told him he would be released when Putin's "military operation" was finished. Vyrozub pointed out that this might take months, or maybe a year. The officer was amused. Slapping himself on the forehead, he pointed to the cruiser Moskva, visible out on the grey sea, a great unstoppable shark.

"You, priest, look at this beast! If she shoots, then not only your island but also your Ukraine will be gone," he said. "It will take seven or eight days - no more."

'I didn't think I would survive': Father Vasyl Vyrozub in his church in Odesa, Ukraine, in June. Photograph: Boris Bukhman

When they pulled into port the priest still hoped he might be set free. He was, after all, a civilian engaged on a humanitarian mission. The Russians didn't see it that way. They shoved him and two dozen other non-combatants into a minivan and drove them at gunpoint to a naval watchtower. Over the next 11 days he was interrogated up to three times a day.

"The Russians couldn't believe I had gone to Snake Island of my own free will. They thought we were on a secret mission. It was funny! Three priests and a doctor sent to recapture it," Vyrozub tells me when we speak in September by Skype. I'm in Kyiv; he's back in Odesa. Physically he seems unscathed: he is dressed in a check shirt rather than priestly robes, his grey hair and goatee beard neatly combed. But it soon becomes clear he has been through a terrible ordeal.

In contrast to Hotskiy, he is animated and talkative. The Ukrainian government, he explains, had asked him to keep quiet about the 70 days he spent in Russian detention, for fear of worsening the conditions of those still in captivity. He stayed silent for a while and then could bear it no longer. He says he decided to speak out after the killings in July at the Olenivka prison camp outside Russian-controlled Donetsk, in the east of Ukraine, when 53 soldiers from the Azov regiment were blown up and died.

He tells me that during his time in Crimea, representatives of multiple Russian government agencies asked him questions. Among them were the Federal Security Service or FSB - Putin's old spy organisation - military intelligence and local prosecutors. They accused him of espionage. They asked him if he knew any "fascists" - the term used by the Kremlin to describe anybody with pro-Ukrainian views. All were convinced that Russia was "liberating" Ukraine.

The conversations went nowhere. Vyrozub tells me his captors were steeped in conspiratorial KGB and FSB thinking. "They kept asking me which branch of the SBU [Ukraine's intelligence service] I worked for," he says. In March the priest was taken to an airfield, along with 200 other detainees. Many, like him, were civilians. They were loaded into an Ilyushin Il-76 military cargo plane. Destination: Russia.

he phrase, "Russian warship, go fuck yourself!" went viral. It became a national slogan, a global meme and a symbol of Ukraine's heroic defiance in the face of Russian aggression. The five words went on a great journey, travelling far beyond the transmission station where they were first uttered. They perfectly summed up Ukraine's response to Russia's overweening assault, to its arrogance and presumption.

Soon the phrase was everywhere. It appeared on billboards, on the electronic road signs above traffic junctions, in cafes, in shops, on Ukrainian government buildings, on the windscreens of cars, on the uniforms of soldiers fighting and dying on the frontline. They even appeared on a mock tombstone of Putin I saw at a checkpoint outside the city of Dnipro, the expletive neatly engraved.

It became a popular anthem sung by the Ukrainian band Botashe. The song's lyrics suggested Russia was not fighting against individuals or a state, but against a family, a collective. The words spoke to the differences in mentality between the two countries: Ukraine was a democracy, its citizens organised horizontally, like so many worker bees; Russian society was authoritarian and vertical, a place where peasants bowed down before the tsar.

Demonstrators who went to rallies for Ukraine abroad wrote the slogan on placards. Some had Ukrainian connections, others were foreign well-wishers appalled by Putin's savage invasion. For English speakers, the original version - - was tricky to say. ( Khuy means penis, from the ancient Slavic. The root khu means "shoot" or "offshoot" and also forms words for "pine needle" and "tail".) Whatever the etymology, the sentiment was easy to grasp.

'They were promising us jobs, money. No one was ready to accept their offer': Bohdan Hotskiy in Izmail, Ukraine, this summer. Photograph: Christopher Cherry/The Guardian

Why did the slogan take off? One explanation was Zelenskiy himself, a master communicator who understood the power of the meme. He was quick to understand that the story of Snake Island and its brave defenders was a potent PR message, galvanising support at home and inviting sympathy, and military aid, from abroad. Speaking in March to the House of Commons, he referenced Churchill's finest hour speech and pledged to fight the Russians and to never surrender, much as Britain had done in the darkest days of the second world war. He told MPs: "When a Russian ship demanded that our guys lay down their weapons, they answered him. As firmly as one cannot say in this parliament. And we felt the power. Great power of our people who will persecute the invader to the end."

Another explanation for its success was bureaucratic. Ukraine's national agency on civil service issues ruled that state employees could use the phrase without breaking guidelines on propriety. "Go fuck yourself" became sayable, broadcastable and part of approved discourse.

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Hotskiy, meanwhile, was very much alive. On the day of the invasion, the Moskvaand Vasily Bykov bombarded Snake Island relentlessly. At around 6pm, two diversionary Russian groups stormed the territory in darkness, approaching from north and south. Eighty soldiers swarmed along the pier. A second party landed close to the lighthouse, shinning up the cliffs.

Outnumbered and cut off, the situation hopeless, the garrison apparently laid down its weapons. Hotskiy and all the other frontier service personnel were loaded into a tug boat and taken, blindfolded, to the naval base in Sevastopol, a 24-hour sea journey. "They didn't say anything. We didn't see anything," he says now.

They spent the next two weeks in the barracks of a naval institute in the port. Hotskiy says the conditions were tolerable, but does not elaborate. He adds he had no idea what was happening back home - if Kyiv had fallen, and whether the Russians had steamrollered Ukrainian resistance and killed or toppled Zelenskiy, as had been Putin's original intention.

In March, Hotskiy was blindfolded again, put on a plane and flown 620 miles to Stary Oskol, a Russian city in the north of the Belgorod region, which adjoins eastern Ukraine. He found himself in a detention centre, locked in a cell with two Ukrainian soldiers from the city of Kharkiv. His border guard colleagues were on another corridor. "It was a terrible place, worse than before. There were bars. I had no idea what had happened to my relatives, whether they were alive," he says.

Hotskiy won't tell me whether the Russians tortured him. Based on Vyrozub's grim testimony, it seems certain they did. The priest was taken to a tent processing camp outside the town of Shebekino, 90 miles from Stary Oskol. Detainees wearing T-shirts were made to kneel outside in the snow, arms behind their heads. "We were there for two or three hours. It was -20C. If you raised your head to look around, they whacked you with the butt of a gun," he recalls. Several lost consciousness. The prisoners received food only on day three.

One soldier asked: "What's your name?"

The priest replied: "Father Vasyl Vyrozub."

The Russian hit him in the stomach with a rifle butt and said: "You don't have a first or last name here. What you have here is a number. And your God is not here either."

The torture began in earnest when Vyrozub was transferred to Stary Oskol and put in the same bleak penal institution as Hotskiy. They took away his priest's robes, cut off his ponytail and handed him a black uniform. And then they beat him. He found himself in cell number 48 - reunited with the two other pastors and the paediatric doctor who had accompanied him to Snake Island.

I was sorry for my guards. I was freer than them. At the end of the day they had to stay in a big prison ... Russia

There were further interrogations. When it came to inflicting pain, the warders were "professionals", he says. "They strung my arms out in a T and jabbed me with an electric cattle prod. When I fell down they picked me up and did it again. Every time they asked a question, they hit me." Vyrozub felt he "did not have a right to show fear", given the bravery of the young soldiers incarcerated with him. He prayed for the safe return of all the Ukrainian detainees, and for their deliverance from what he dubs "Russian evil".

The worst moment came in late March, when the guards stripped him naked and put him a freezing punishment cell with rubber walls. He spent three days there. It was too cold to sit or lie down, and impossible to sleep. On day two he began to hallucinate. "By the end I had already said goodbye to life. I didn't think I would survive. It was like being in a film about an extermination camp. Except everything was real," he says. As he gives his account Vyrozub is crying. His breath falls in large gasps.

A short while later, the horror ended for Hotskiy. In mid-April he was flown back to Crimea, then driven in a Kamaz truck through the occupied south of Ukraine to a crossing point in the Zaporizhzhia region. When his mask was removed, he discovered he was part of a prisoner exchange. The Russians handed back Hotskiy and eight other frontier service guards captured on Snake Island. "I saw our soldiers. It felt incredible. I thought I would be in that prison for ever," he tells me.

The same month saw the release of the two other priests and the medic. Vyrozub began to despair, wondering if he would ever be freed. He got out in May, in a similar prisoner swap. He was 15kg lighter: the result of "terrible" food. I wonder if he can forgive his tormentors. "I was sorry for them. It was a paradoxical situation. I was freer than the escorts who guarded me. At the end of the day they had to stay in a big prison. That prison is Russia," he replies.

Back home, Hotskiy found he was a national hero, promoted to major. He didn't meet the president or travel to Kyiv. Zelenskiy gave a medal to Roman Hrybov, a border service employee stationed with Hotskiy on Snake Island who has been credited with being the person who told the Russian warship to go fuck itself. Nineteen of Hotskiy's border guard colleagues remain in Russian jail. So do the 50 soldiers captured with them.

We eat a lunch of kebabs in a garden cafe. Hotskiy smiles but is taciturn. Meal over, he picks up his gun and goes off to work, a melancholy figure, perhaps, striding off into the August afternoon. Those months in Russia still appear to haunt him.

he queue outside Kyiv's central post office is spectacular. It begins on the steps, stretches along the capital's independence square and runs all the way up Borysa Hrinchenka, a street named after the compiler of the first Ukrainian dictionary. Scuffles break out as a woman tries to force her way into the post office's high-ceilinged vestibule. What is going on? Three days earlier, Igor Smelyansky, general director of Ukrposhta, the national postal service, released a new stamp. It shows a generic Ukrainian soldier giving the middle finger to a large grey battleship: the Moskva. On the margins of the perforated sheets are the words "Russian warship, go ... "and "Glory to Ukraine, to the heroes, glory".

Smelyansky grins, poses for selfies and walks cheerfully along the queue, stopping every 200 metres or so to make a short speech. "Don't worry. We have 70,000 stamps on sale today. Sixteen for each person! Be patient! Enough for everybody!" he tells the crowd. They clap and shout: " Slava Ukraini!"

'People are in love with it': the Ukrainian stamp commemorating the heroes of Snake Island. Photograph: Mykhailo Polenok/Alamy

"People are in love with it," Smelyansky tells me. Even when the air-raid sirens sound, people refuse to leave their place in the line." He says he asked the public for suggestions for a stamp in the first days of the war. A shortlist of 50 designs was put to a vote; the warship was the triumphant winner. "It was democratic, just like Ukraine," he says.

The stamp is a sensation, a piece of history. It is also seemingly imbued with supernatural powers. It went on sale on 12 April. The following evening Ukraine launched two Neptune anti-ship cruise missiles from a secret location. They slammed into the Moskva, skewering the mighty shark. According to radar images, the battleship was about 80 miles south of Odesa, in the neighbourhood of Snake Island. Russia had not anticipated such an attack; indeed, it appeared to think it impossible. It was Kyiv's most audacious strike since Putin's invasion began.

Images filmed in the aftermath show a plume of black smoke rising from the vessel. The ship's lifeboats were deployed. How many of its crew survived is uncertain. What is sure is that the boat sank in the early hours of 14 April while being towed back to Sevastopol. An embarrassed Kremlin claimed a fire had broken out, causing munitions to explode. The boat had gone down in stormy seas, it said. Ukrainian officials I spoke to were publicly coy about what happened and privately jubilant. The Moskvawas the first Russian flagship to be sunk since the 1905 Russo-Japanese war and the largest Russian boat to be lost in conflict since 1945. It had descended to the bottom of the Black Sea, joining sailing ships and barques from antique times. Or, put another way, the Moskva had fucked off.

Smelyansky has wasted no time in capitalising on the predictive powers of philately. He shows me designs for successor stamps, to be chosen again by popular decision. One features police dragging away Putin and the words "War criminal arrested". Another depicts a burning Red Square. The winner - with 8,000 votes cast in its favour - turns out to be a Ukrainian tractor towing a destroyed Russian tank with the slogan: "Good evening, we are from Ukraine."

"We should win this war. We will win it," Smelyansky says. He gives me 16 stamps and a signed envelope, with an instruction to pass them to the then prime minister, Boris Johnson, feted by Ukrainians for sending anti-tank weapons. An aide brings a "Russian warship" T-shirt for Johnson. I point out that he might require a bigger one. (Guardian readers bid for the stamps in a charity auction, raising £7,651 for the Ukraine Disasters Emergency Committee. Johnson got the T-shirt and signed cover.)

Down in the packed central hall, I speak to Natalii Tkachenko, who says she managed to buy stamps on the first day they were released. "It's a symbol. It shows our inner patriotism. I feel this," she says. "Snake Island didn't surrender. I'm not going to surrender. Nor is my husband. Take a look at the queue. The stamp is a bit of paper. It may be small, but it's powerful- the same as Ukraine."

ussia's four-month occupation of Snake Island was a cursed experience. Moscow's naval command turned the outpost into a bristling mini-fortress, manned by dozens of soldiers. It deployed missile batteries, anti-aircraft guns, radar and reconnaissance vehicles. The strategic military goal was to control airspace in the north-western Black Sea and to enforce an embargo of Ukrainian ships to stop them leaving Odesa and other ports.

But the evil spirits said to roam the isle appeared to have returned. The Ukrainians used Bayraktars to strike the Russian forces from the sky. These Turkish-made drones blew up a helicopter delivering supplies and disabled a patrol vessel. Long-range rockets hurtled into the pier. Footage showed vehicles marked with a Z - the symbol of Putin's invasion - disappearing in a rolling inferno.

In June the Russians left. Their exit took a day. The Kremlin said it was abandoning Snake Island as a "goodwill gesture". For a short time the territory was unoccupied; then Ukrainian troops set off from the coast on a daring night-time mission. Engineers plotted a mine-free sea path; at dawn a group of 15-20 elite commandos walked boldly across the island and raised the Ukrainian flag. They logged abandoned Russian military equipment, rescued a cat and sped off in boats before Moscow's ships counterattacked. The island was deserted once more.

A day after leaving Snake Island, Russia pummelled it with phosphorus munitions. The museum - with its amphorae and old ship's compass - was no more, its exhibits turned to dust. The lighthouse was broken, too. The Kremlin, it seemed, cared nothing for culture, ancient and modern. Five months on, it remains within reach of Russian guns and is currently uninhabited. But Snake Island is free again. And it is Ukrainian.

This article was amended on 20 November 2022. An earlier version described Father Vyrozub as a "Protestant priest". He is a priest of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.
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After a nightmare Sprint on Saturday in Sao Paulo, Fernando Alonso redeemed himself in Sunday's Grand Prix, with a sterling surge through the field from 17th on the grid to finish P5.
Alpine Team Principal Otmar Szafnauer would term the Sprint "a low point in our season", as Alonso and team mate Esteban Ocon nearly came to blows on the first lap at Turn 4, before Alonso made contact with the sister A522 on the start-finish straight - for which he'd receive a five-second race time penalty. Ocon would start Sunday's Grand Prix 16th and Alonso 17th.

Let past his team mate after the final Safety Car restart, Alonso went on to take fifth, while Ocon finished eighth in the Sao Paulo Grand Prix.
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"Yeah, it was a good race," said Alonso on Sunday. "Obviously, we had the pace in the car, so we tried to have some free air. We chose a three-stop strategy. We were out of sync with most of the cars, but in the end the last Safety Car shuffled the race a little bit. I had newer tyres, so I could have some fun and some battle with Checo [Perez] and Charles [Leclerc].

"Both McLarens out - so that obviously is the perfect Sunday for the team. A lot of points, so we take those onboard and hopefully in Abu Dhabi we have a calmer weekend."

Alonso did however call his five-second penalty - for making contact with team mate Ocon in the Sprint after a fraught intra-team battle - "extremely harsh".
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He said: "Yeah, I mean, we know that we both made mistakes. He over-defended in Turn 4; I misjudged the distance in the straight. I didn't want to touch anyone at 300kph, but okay, it was my mistake.

"I think the penalty is extremely harsh," he said, reasoning that Ocon had no considerable damage from the contact. "This exact accident happened in Portimao with [Kimi] Raikkonen and [Antonio] Giovinazzi and no penalty. So, my penalty I think [made] no sense. But we take it, it was our mistake, and hopefully we don't do it again."

The two-time champion readies for his final race for Alpine this weekend in Abu Dhabi, before he departs for Aston Martin. And Alpine boss Szafnauer was suitably pleased with his drivers' recoveries on Sunday in Brazil.

"If yesterday was a low point in our season, today is certainly up there as a high. Congratulations to the entire team - both factories at Viry and Enstone - everyone trackside, and the drivers for a fantastic Sunday effort where we've scored 14 points and, importantly, extended our lead in fourth place in the constructors' championship," said the team boss.

"The championship is not over yet until the chequered flag drops in Abu Dhabi. We will remain focused, do our normal preparation next weekend, and give it our best to have both cars finish the season as strongly as possible. We're nearly home..."

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Mechanical engineering is the art of using problem-solving techniques and applying them to the design and manufacturing of an object. Essentially, a mechanical engineer uses creative design and analytical knowledge to turn a concept into something real.

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After the murder caused to a woman in Iran, many women have risen up trying to defend their rights and defend themselves. Unfortunately, the actions they have taken have been despised by the rulers, causing women to be given even less freedom than they already had.
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Did you hear her screams?

On Sept. 16, Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian woman, died after being arrested by "morality police" for wearing her hijab improperly.

This particular segment of Iranian law enforcement exists to stop free expression of identity and specifically to target women who show even a shred of femininity. Many of us in the United States don't even know they exist.

For years, Iranian women have lived under these laws, and for years we have stood in silence. Now, hundreds of women take to the streets, fighting for their freedom of expression and humanity, yet our country seems almost wholly unaware.

Every day, more people die as Iranian law enforcement becomes violent with protesters. Women dance as they burn headscarves and cut their hair in front of the masses, risking their lives in the process. Still, your co-worker may not even know that while their coffee gets cold at their desk, women across the world are being murdered for showing their hair.

How can women in one country die without making a sound, while in this country an influencer names their child something unusual and all we can talk about is little Malibu Barbie?

The 21st century has brought with it incredible changes in the way we share information. Instead of reading the newspaper in the morning, we may scroll through Twitter. Gen Z has blazed trails when it comes to fighting for what they believe in through platforms such as Twitter, Instagram, WhatsApp and TikTok.

What happens when the government learns about the single most powerful method of communication and takes it away? We are suddenly silenced. It is all too easy.

For me, TikTok has been a key part of my personal understanding of the world. I can look people in the eye as they tell their stories and connect our souls from across the world.

In the days after Mahsa Amini was killed, I watched videos on my feed that showed women crying as they knew they may not survive the next day. I saw people my age terrified, not knowing if their family was even alive. All because a woman showed her hair.

Now? Silence. Unless I go out of my way to look for Iranian news, I don't see these women, I don't hear their voices. As time passes, even my searches across major news platforms reveal less. Has the years' worth of oppression against Iranian women suddenly stopped? No. We have just given into their government's wishes to look away.

Don't let them silence you. The Iranian government may be able to cut internet connection in their country, but they do not have that power here.

Earlier this month, U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran of Kansas introduced a resolution along with other senators to condemn the unjust killing of Amini and to openly support all those brave enough to protest the government of Iran.

Even in where I live in Kansas, your voice can be heard. With modern technology and communication resources, everyone can make a difference. It is no longer enough to watch the news and sympathize with "poor women" overseas. One passionate voice, no matter where you are in this country, can and will make waves.

If a 22-year-old woman was murdered in this country for showing a few strands of hair, sparking riots in the streets and protests turned violent, our phones would be flooded with pictures, videos, stories about what's happening.

We would not be silent as our sisters, mothers, daughters were murdered.

We have the power to inform and fight in this country. Keep her voice on the wind. Don't let one country's internet connection stop the world from hearing about the horrors of reality.

We may not be able to hear her from Iran, but we can stand with women here so we don't forget.

Let them know we can hear her scream.

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Recently the real madrid vs barça, female, was played. It was a crushing victory for the azulgrana team with a 0-4, with this one it's already nine victories without losing the classic.
Despite the casualties of Barcelona, very sensitive especially Alexia Putellas (the winner of her second golden ball), Barcelona has passed over Real Madrid showing that it is a team with a lot of goal and dominates all the records of the game.

Barça beat Alberto Toril's team, who couldn't do anything to avoid the defeat. Crnogorcevic had already put the azulgranas ahead after 4 minutes and Patri widened the gap before the break. Aitana Bonmatí and Rolfö in the second half completed a scoreline that could have been scandalous had it not been for the stellar performance of Madrid goalkeeper Misa.

It is not necessary that the classic has to be only the male, with the female can also enjoy a good game full of emotions.

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Las catalanas llegan líderes e imparables ante un conjunto madrileño que es segundo y todavía no ha perdido ningún partido

El Fútbol Club Barcelona dominó de principio a fin el Clásico femenino y se impuso por 0-4 al Real Madrid para evidenciar un día más la gran diferencia que hay ahora mismo entre los dos equipos más mediáticos de España en el fútbol femenino.
SIGUE EN DIRECTO EL REAL MADRID VS. BARÇA FEMENINO
A los cuatro minutos el Barça ya mandaba gracias al gol de Crnogornevic de cabeza en una jugada mal defendida por el Real Madrid. De hecho, ahí estuvo la gran diferencia. La zaga del equipo de Toril estuvo mal y el Barcelona aprovechó cada error. Antes del descanso, Patri Guijarro hacía el 0-2 tras un córner mal defendido.

En la segunda parte, Aitana Bonmatí ponía el 0-3 tras un disparo que pegó en la defensa blanca y el 0-4 llegó en el minuto 80 en una acción dramática de la defensa madridista, que intentando despejar golpeó el balón en Rolfö para poner la guinda. Primera derrota del Real Madrid esta temporada ante un Barça, intratable.

El resumen del Real Madrid femenino vs. Barcelona femenino de la Liga F 2022-2023: vídeo, goles y estadísticas
¡Final! El Barcelona domina el Clásico y se lleva los tres puntos.
Minuto 80. ¡Gol de Rolfö! La guinda al desastre blanco. Un intento de despeje de la defensa pega en Rolfo y llega el 0-4.

Minuto 75. El partido con el 0-3 quedó resuelto. El Real Madrid se ha quedado sin energías ni motivación y al Barcelona parece que le vale con esto. Poca cosa en el Di Stéfano.

Minuto 52. ¡Gol de Aitana Bonmatí! Llega el tercero del Barcelona en un remate que pegó en la defensa madridista. El partido está ya más que sentenciado.
Minuto 50. Primer cambio de Toril. Entra Olga Carmona por Toletti. Minuto 46. ¡Comienza la segunda parte! Minuto 45. ¡Descanso en el Di Stéfano!
Minuto 43. ¡Gol de Patri Guijarro! Estaba siendo la mejor del partido y ha encontrado su gol. Fallo de la defensa del Real Madrid en un córner, Guijarro controla en el segundo palo y remata junto al palo. 0-2

Minuto 36. ¡La ha tenido Esther González! Error del Barcelona en la salida de balón, le llega la pelota a Esther que remata demasiado blando y fácil para Sandra Paños.

Minuto 29. Atenta Misa para evitar que Patri Guijarro se hiciera con la pelota dentro del área.

Minuto 23. Trata de dormir el partido el Barça ante un Real Madrid que quiere presionar arriba para intentar recuperar y salir rápido hacia la portería de Sandra Paños.
Minuto 17. Empieza a espabilar un poco el Real Madrid, aunque el Barcelona sigue dominando claramente el partido.
Minuto 4. ¡Gol de Crnogorcevic! Centro de Patri Guijarro y remate de cabeza de la jugadora suiza del Barça dentro del área para abrir el marcador.

Minuto 2. ¡Casi marca Patri Guijarro! Remató dentro del área la jugadora del Barcelona pero el larguero evita el gol.
Minuto 1. ¡Comienza el partido en el Di Stéfano! Once del Barcelona. Lucy Bronze, titular Once confirmado del Real Madrid. No juega Olga Carmona

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El resumen del Clásico Real Madrid femenino vs. Barcelona femenino de La Liga F femenina 2022-2023: vídeo, goles y estadísticas | Goal.com Espana

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Las catalanas llegan líderes e imparables ante un conjunto madrileño que es segundo y todavía no ha perdido ningún partido El Fútbol Club Barcelona dominó de principio a fin el Clásico femenino y se impuso por 0-4 al Real Madrid para evidenciar un día más la gran diferencia que hay ahora mismo entre los dos equipos más mediáticos de España en el fútbol femenino.

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Most baseball bats broken in one minute - Guinness World Records

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Most baseball bats broken in one minute - Guinness World Records

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When I saw this video the truth is that I was left with my mouth open. It is true that martial arts demonstrations where a person breaks bricks or wooden boards are very famous, but what Muhamed Kahrimanovic did was very impressive. He broke the Guinness World Record by using his hands to break 68 baseball bats in one minute!

He did it on the stage of Lo Show Dei Record in Milan (Italy). Kahrimanovic got the record by cutting 68 wooden bats in one minute, but I have continued to research this man and it is clear that Kahrimanovic is no rookie at this record breaking thing. He had already broken the record for the most coconuts broken with one hand on previous occasions. Coconuts! How tough they are! He managed to destroy 148 coconuts in one minute and for this he is nicknamed "Hammer Hands".

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Most baseball bats broken in one minute - Guinness World Records

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Many people consider that fountain pens are better than ballpoint pens. However, others say that ballpoint pens are better than fountain pens... but, it is truth? There are strong arguments for and against this idea.

On the one hand, many people say that fountain pens are better smoothness of writing, colour and depth.

On the other hand, many people say that ballpoint pens are better because ink doesn't dry out and because its ink doesn't stain clothes.

Overall, I think that the people don't do not agree. And you? What is your opinion about which is better?

Feel free to share your opinion! Come on!

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To help you make the right pen choice for your needs, we decided to compare two of the most popular types, ballpoint pens and fountain pens.

In this post, we're going to be looking at how each pen works, what the difference is between them and how they fare against each other in the following categories:

But before we go any further, we should note that if you were to posit this question of ballpoint pens versus fountain pens to any pen enthusiast, the general consensus will be that the fountain pen is better. Pen fanatics will have a natural bias towards the fountain pen, and if you were to get into pens yourself, you'd probably be the same. But this doesn't mean that this is a foregone conclusion, the ballpoint has a lot to say for itself.

How Do Ballpoint and Fountain Pens Work?

All those times that you used a ballpoint pen, whether it be at school, the bank or the post office, did you ever stop to think how it works? Probably not. Well we're going to tell you how.

The purpose of the ballpoint pen is to distribute a fast-drying ink without the ink drying in the pen itself. By using a thick, oil-based ink that's carried in alcohol solvent, it dries quickly on the page. The ink is dispersed by a small ball in a socket at the head of the pen. Gravity forces ink down the reservoir, normally a plastic cartridge, onto the ball. This is how a ballpoint works.

A fountain pen is different. Instead of a ball, it has a nib that is separated by two tines. The nib is on top of a collector, which is connected to the feed. Attached to the feed is the reservoir which is typically a fountain pen ink cartridge. Again, the power of gravity sends the ink through the feed. The collector does what it says on the tin and collects the ink, making sure too much doesn't flood out. When you apply pressure to the nib whilst writing, this separates the two tines and disperses ink.

What's the Difference Between a Ballpoint and Fountain Pen?

Other than the difference in mechanisms that we've just highlighted, there are quite a few things that set these two pens apart.

The first major difference is in the ink. Ballpoints use a thicker ink that lasts much longer over time, this can lead to a scratchy writing experience however. Fountain pens use a liquid-based ink which doesn't dry as quickly. It does allow for the pen to flow more smoothly.

It's this difference that probably explains the bias that pen enthusiasts have against ballpoints. Fountain pens not only were invented first and as such represent the purist's option, but they allow for better handwriting. You can't really gauge someone's penmanship with a ballpoint pen.

Ballpoint pens can write on more surfaces than a fountain pen can. This is due to the way a fountain pen is built. Rough surfaces will damage the tines of the fountain pen. Ballpoint pens can also be used to make lines in any direction. The same cannot be said for fountain pens. Writing the wrong way with a fountain pen can damage the nib.

Which is Better; A Ballpoint Pen or Fountain Pen?

Like we said, look on any pen forum or discussion board and you'll find that basically anyone that has an interest in pens will tell you the fountain pen is superior. We don't think that's necessarily true. It all comes down to what you're using it for. There are many occasions where you'd much rather have a ballpoint than a fountain pen. That being said, let's compare these two pens in the aforementioned categories.

Smoothness of Writing (Winner: Fountain Pen)

The ballpoint pen doesn't really have a chance on this one, purely because of the two different inks that are used. The thick, oil-based ink in ballpoint pens doesn't flow as freely as fountain pen ink does. The free-flowing liquid ink of fountain pens causes less surface tension when writing. The way that they're engineered also means that you can press a fountain pen relatively lightly on a page and the ink will flow through the tines. A ballpoint needs more downward pressure to force the ink out. Clear victory for the fountain pen.

Colour and Depth (Winner: Fountain Pen)

Fountain pens will release more ink onto the page than ballpoint pens. This means that they create more vivid lines. The colour is also deeper with fountain pens. Having said this, a proper ballpoint pen will come closer than you think. If you're trying to recreate the depth of a fountain pen with a standard biro, you'll struggle.

Time Span for Ink Cartridges (Winner: Ballpoint Pen)

There is undoubtedly only one winner. You can expect to get around 7 to 12 pages per fountain pen ink cartridge. Whereas with a ballpoint pen, we don't measure its ink capacity in pages, you can measure it in distance. With a standard biro, you could draw a line up to 3 kilometres long. So, when it comes to time span, the ballpoint pen ink cartridge will undoubtedly last longer.

Line Quality (Winner: Fountain Pen*)

This is a slightly contentious category because the main factor controlling line quality is out of the hands of the two pens. It depends on what paper you use. Because fountain pen's ink is water-based, on low-quality thin paper, it's likely to bleed which will ruin your script. A ballpoint pen will deliver consistent performance across all paper types which is why we've put an asterisk on the winner of this one.

If you were to draw two lines on some good quality 80+ gsm paper, the fountain pen would be victorious. If you were to use low-quality paper, the ballpoint would win. We can't in all good conscience declare the ballpoint pen the winner for performing better on low-quality paper, though.

Comfort (Winner: Fountain Pen)

It's another victory for the fountain pen. It wins for the same reasons that it won the smoothness of writing category. As the ink flows more freely through a fountain pen, you have to exert less pressure on the pen to use it. As such, you will experience more discomfort using a ballpoint for an extended period of time than a fountain pen.

Convenience (Winner: Ballpoint Pen)

The unequivocal winner of this one is the ballpoint pen. There is no pen out there that can match its convenience. The ink cartridge lasts for ages, it's very unlikely to leak, you don't need to change the cartridge every few pages, it writes on more surfaces, the ink dries quickly, it's ideal for lefties, the list goes on.

Conclusion

Whilst our categories have seen the fountain pen come out on top more times, we think that this is unfair to the workhorse that is the ballpoint pen. Sure, if you're someone that likes to take their time when they write, who appreciates good handwriting and values your writing experience, go for a fountain pen.

Whereas, if you value low maintenance, long life and pure convenience, you can't beat the ballpoint pen. But if you think ballpoint pens just don't look the part, you've been looking at the wrong ballpoint pens. On our website, you'll find some seriously sophisticated, top-of-the-range ballpoint pens that could test the mettle of any sworn fountain pen purist. See for yourself!

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I recently read a news story in which they talked about one of the strangest companies in the world.
This company is designed for your moments of anger when you feel a sudden desire to destroy something. The company gives you a blunt object and then they put you in a room with a lot of old furniture that you can beat until you drop. And although the cost is quite expensive, 25 dollars every 5 minutes, the business is going from strength to strength and has many clients.
I find it really surprising that this company existed but I find it even more curious to think that there was an entrepreneur capable of imagining and investing in this strange business

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The reporter Penelope Green takes a metal bat to a television at the Wrecking Club in the garment district of Manhattan. She found it difficult to destroy. Credit... Dina Litovsky for The New York Times

Smashing things may not seem at first blush to be a winning idea to wrap a business around. Since March, however, nearly 1,500 people have shown up to break housewares, electronics and furniture at the Wrecking Club, two reinforced rooms in the basement of a building in the garment district of Manhattan.

Many of this number are couples looking for something more piquant than the usual date-night fare, said Tom Daly, the Wrecking Club's proprietor. But rage is not confined to matrimony and other romantic unions, as Mr. Daly has also found.

"That's the cool thing about addressing an instinct," he said on a recent steamy afternoon. "Everyone's got it."

The Wrecking Club is not the first rage-based enterprise. Last fall, politics drove the business at the Anger Room, which opened in Dallas in 2008. Clients showed up by the hundreds to batter human effigies of Hillary Clinton and Donald J. Trump. Three Trump mannequins and two Clintons were utterly destroyed, according to the owner, Donna Alexander, and had to be replaced.

The Rage Room, which first opened in Toronto in 2015, now has licensees in Budapest, Singapore, Australia and Britain. "We've helped a lot of angry couples," said Stephen Shew, the owner. (His date-night package, $70 for two electronic devices and 20 items of crockery, from lawn gnomes to ceramic vases, is wildly popular on Valentine's Day.)

For those who would rather act out at home, the online marketplace presents an armory's worth of what are known as therapy tools. Foam anger bats, for example, start at about $10. At the high end, a pair of well-padded, cherry-red canvas, German-made, jumbo encounter bats cost about $210 and look like something the performance artist Leigh Bowery might have designed as a special kind of evening wear.

There is no such cosseting at the Wrecking Club. The bats and crowbars are solid metal. A starter session costs $30 for 30 minutes with two or three electronic devices and a bucket of dishes. A menu of add-ons - advertised on a white board like daily specials at a restaurant - includes boxes of dishes ($20 for one box; two for $35); laptops ($15); computer monitors ($20); cellphones ($5); and large-screen TVs ($25). The most requested items are laptops, monitors, printers and extra dishes. (Mr. Daly estimates he runs through about 60 to 70 electronic devices each week.)

Finding these materials is one of his biggest challenges. Companies going out of business are an irregular source. Sometimes people donate things, Mr. Daly said, adding that everything smashed at the Wrecking Club is properly recycled.

A year or so ago, Mr. Daly, 29, was bored with his finance job in Stamford, Conn. He quit before it was too late, he said, "to do something really cool." A cheerful, fresh-faced guy wearing a backward black baseball cap, blue polo shirt and blue linen pants, Mr. Daly has happy memories of demolishing a swing set in his parents' backyard, at their request, after he and his siblings had left home, and these sparked his imagination. "It was more fun than playing on the swing set," he said. "The memory stayed with me and that's what made me think about breaking things."

The vibe and aesthetic of the Wrecking Club is part CBGB's basement circa 1977, part Stasi interrogation room. Each room is clad in pocked cement and plywood for maximum "smash effect," as Mr. Daly put it. Drywall, he pointed out, wouldn't be hard enough to break stuff against. Hanging on an entry wall is a still photograph from the cult turn-of-the-millennium movie "Office Space": the beloved printer-smashing scene. The rooms have been lightly embellished in black and orange spray paint by Derrick Gutierrez, a graffiti artist who is also Mr. Daly's FedEx delivery guy. "He tagged the place as if it were a bridge," Mr. Daly said admiringly. "I wanted it to have a Brooklyn-in-the-1990s vibe. I think he crushed it."

There were some early setbacks, like the time a couple destroyed Mr. Daly's laptop. He had left it in the room after showing the two a safety video and did not think to tell them it wasn't part of their package. "All I can say is, 'Thank God for the Cloud,'" he said, shaking his head. "I didn't tell the customers what they'd done, because I didn't want them to feel bad." But new customers will see that some areas and objects in the rooms are now marked with an X for "Please don't smash."

Mr. Daly is keeping the building's location a secret (after you sign up for a session online, your confirmation email contains the address): not to protect his landlords, but to maintain the atmosphere of a speakeasy.

Close-toed shoes are required, and long pants and long sleeves suggested. Customers who are visibly drunk or stoned will be turned away and their deposit forfeited. Mr. Daly provides safety goggles, hard hats, work gloves and black nylon smocks.

He seemed surprised when this reporter arrived alone. "It's just more fun with two," he said. But inviting a new boyfriend to what surely constitutes end-stage relationship behavior did not appeal (I was not eager to fast-track into Martha and George territory). And breaking crockery seemed too intimate an activity to share with even an old friend.

Indeed, there are two things that propel people into the Wrecking Club, Mr. Daly said. "One is to have some fun, and the other is to work something out."

I ordered a monitor, a large flat-screen TV, a chair and a box of dishes. Mr. Daly said that most customers play music, and I looked to Dina Litovsky, the photographer who had accompanied me to document the proceedings, for assistance. "Metallica, obviously," she said, and cued up the thrash anthem " Battery " on her phone.

In a corner were a metal bat and a long crowbar. Dina and I were stymied by the heat - the air-conditioning wasn't working - and our goggles kept fogging up as our eyes stung with sweat. I picked up a bat, approached the TV, and, then, I am ashamed to say, I hit the thing like a girl. Minor crack. James Hetfield of Metallica barked and howled: "Hungry violence seeker, feeding off the weaker." Really, it was embarrassing. I pined for something more jolly; Blondie's "Heart of Glass," say, or that very satisfying Carrie Underwood song in which she crows about demolishing her cheating ex's car with a bat and a set of keys.

"Most people are hesitant at first," Mr. Daly said. "They're a little timid. They say, 'Can I break that?' I'm like, 'Yeah, you can break that.' Usually after the first hit, they go crazy."

Here's what I have to report: Hastening an object toward entropy isn't as easy as you might think. Televisions are extremely hard to destroy, even with a metal bat. Apple monitors are even more durable. Chairs are impossible. And unlike David Bowie, I don't like the sound of breaking glass; it makes my teeth hurt. And it's scary as hell when a mist of tiny shards sprays back at you. The deep reservoir of rage I was hoping to tap turned out to be a dry creek, drained by time - who can remember the hurts of yore? - and self-consciousness. There would be no primal screaming on West 38th Street that hot summer day. Two people breaking things seems festive; a solo smasher is just weird.

I found a bit of a rhythm, finally, with my bat, and systematically worked my way over the TV screen - pop, pop, pop - until the floor sparkled with black glass. I stifled an urge to ask for a dustpan and broom.

Mr. Daly has learned a thing or two about human nature in the last few months.

"From my very humble and limited education, I think that part of what's going on here is that breaking stuff gives people back their edge," he said. "It lets people take their power back. Imagine getting fired. It sucks. It's defeating. Or you got dumped, or you didn't get into the college you wanted, or imagine whatever it is that makes you feel weak. This is a place where you can get back your power."

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Anger Rooms Are All the Rage. Timidly, We Gave One a Whack.

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Smashing things may not seem at first blush to be a winning idea to wrap a business around. Since March, however, nearly 1,500 people have shown up to break housewares, electronics and furniture at the Wrecking Club, two reinforced rooms in the basement of a building in the garment district of Manhattan.

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Many people see colour as something normal, you can see many shades and bright around you, and you see it as daily. But they are more complicated as they seem.

This article, although brief, is really interesting and gives a lot of information. For example, they explain how the colour is a light effect, between how the light waves reflects and how the eye's nerve detects it. This perception is what we call colour. Now imagine what would happen if your eye nerve is damaged or has some anormal problem that affects it. The result will be that your perception of the world will change, and what you see as green, maybe is blue or red, or another colour.

Many theories about colour have appeared along the time, such as the Isaac Newton, about how to combine, to mix and to manipulate the colour spectrum. The article defines three properties of the colour and a brief view of the colour wheel.

I think that we underestimate how the colour works, how it is used, how important it is, and for that reason I found this article quite interesting for all.

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Elections in Brazil: Lula beats Bolsonaro by just over one percent.

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Elections in Brazil: Lula beats Bolsonaro by just over one percent.

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Brazil's left-wing former president, Lius Ignácio Lula da Silva, defeated right-wing candidate Jair Bolsonaro in the second round by just over one percent in one of the country's most significant and painful elections.
Bolsonaro's postulates are the defense of life, freedom of expression, Christian values, lower taxes and defense of the police. Lula, on the other hand, defends abortion, gender ideology, feminism and the LGBT lobby, higher taxes on the rich and is in favor of the PCC.
Yesterday there was a dispute between communism and freedom. In the last Spanish-American elections, the left won 6 of the last 7 elections.
In my opinion, Brazil will soon become a dictatorship, like Cuba and Venezuela, also with communist leaders. Latin America is condemned to poverty, misery and death.

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I was very amused by this news and that is why I wanted to share it with everyone because of how curious it is, the great tree of possibilities existing in the world produces one in which the sun through solar erosions gives a sensation or rather has the shape of a smiling face that could imply how much you like hahahaha

The image was captured at NASA's solar dynamics laboratory, specifically the black spots that make the sun smile are known as coronal holes. Many people compared to the sun with a Halloween pumpkin, with a lion, with the sun of teletubbies

This smiling sun has a dark side and is that coronal holes are indications of a solar storm, for those who do not know solar storms are various eruptions of mass and energy in the sun, these storms alter the Earth's magnetic field and make events such as auroras more visible.

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Ray of joy: Nasa captures image of the sun ‘smiling’

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Satellite photo shows what appears to be a happy face pattern on the sun with dark patches called ‘coronal holes’

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Is gentrification turning big cities into ghost towns?

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Is gentrification turning big cities into ghost towns?

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In this video, we can listen how many big cities are suffering a problem: Gentrification
For example, in London, which is a ghost town, we can find some eeril streets.

However, many people protest about this situation, and they are known as the anti-gentrification group.
They oppose to the idea of a urban renewal and the say that they don't want luxury flats because no one can afford it. They want genuinely affordable housing and all they want is community.

London isn't the only ghost town. This situation is happening all around the world.

Do you think that Genentrification is always bad?

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Is Gentrification Turning London Into A Ghost Town?

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I recently saw a video on tik tok about, a test that Civil Protection performs to verify the operation in case of a possible emergency or catastrophes. This test is the "Es-Alert".

The Spanish government wants to alert users quickly and on a large scale of any disaster, so that citizens will have enough time to react.
The alarms will be sent in an effective way to cell phones, it has an alarming and sharp sound to differentiate it from other notifications, the text of the warning will be displayed, and the alert will sound until the user confirms that he has read the alert.

Honestly, I think it is a good idea for the government to have such a resource in case of emergencies, because one does not know when a natural disaster or an attack may occur.

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The initiative comes from the Ministry of the Interior, which conducts this test on a pre-selected number of mobile numbers. This is the ES-Alert system, also called '112 reverse', which sends a beep to the selected numbers. Furthermore, along with the beep, the phones will vibrate and receive a message. This will explain it is a test of the civil defence alarm system over mobile phone networks. But that nothing special needs to be done. They mainly want to know whether the system is functioning properly.

The messages are sent by the emergency centres. They are being coordinated with the National Emergency Monitoring and Coordination Centre of the Ministry of the Interior. The ministry conducts these tests through the Directorate-General for Civil Protection and Emergencies until 16 November.

Calendar of tests in the autonomous communities

The test is being conducted in several autonomous communities. Cantabria, Andalucia and Asturias are the first to receive the beep on their mobile phones. This will happen on Monday 24 October. Moreover, those who receive the beep, will be able to read the warning.

Three days later, on October 27, it will be the turn of Extremadura, the Valencian Community and Galicia. Meanwhile on Wednesday, November 2, some residents of Murcia, the Balearic Islands, Madrid, Aragón, Navarra and Catalonia will receive the message.

On 10 November, the Basque Country, Castilla y León, Canary Islands and Ceuta regions will see what the ES-Alert system is all about. Finally, on Wednesday 16 November, it will be the turn of the communities of Castilla-La Mancha, La Rioja and Melilla.

One of the measures of the recovery plan

The deployment of the Es-Alert warning system is one of the measures included in the Connectivity and Digital Infrastructures Plan and the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan. The protocol was put into use on 21 June. Furthermore, it is the result of a collaboration between the Ministries of the Interior and Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation, financed with recovery and resilience funds.

ES-Alert System - 112 Reverse

Integrated into the National Alert Network, ES-Alert technology allows civil defence authorities to send general and immediate alert messages to mobile phones. Moreover, these messages would only be sent to mobiles located in an area affected by an emergency or catastrophe. The technology will be made available to national and regional civil protection authorities.

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ES-Alert system for mobile phones in Spain to start this Monday

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The initiative comes from the Ministry of the Interior, which conducts this test on a pre-selected number of mobile numbers. This is the ES-Alert system, also called '112 reverse', which sends a beep to the selected numbers. Furthermore, along with the beep, the phones will vibrate and receive a message.

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Scientists teach brain cells to play video game Pong.

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Scientists teach brain cells to play video game Pong.

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Recently, several scientists to Several researchers taught brain cells play a video game from the 70s called Pong.Pong is a very simple game which made the researchers use it in this test, getting 800,000 brain cells to play longer and longer games.They did the experiment with mouse cells and with human cells, and the human cells turned out to be more "intelligent" than those of the mice. Within 5 minutes the cells were taught to play. During the experiment they played almost 500 games and gradually beat the different levels of the game.Through these experiments, the researchers want to gain a better understanding of what a brain cell is and how it behaves. it is also hoped to get more information on brain

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Scientists have taught brain cells how to play the video game Pong, and they now plan to experiment with getting them drunk.

As the cells, taken from humans and mice, played the game, they learned. They played longer rallies and were aced less often.

That the 800,000 cells have mastered a version of the cult 1970s video game is evidence they can exhibit sentience, the Melbourne-based researchers said.

Their peer-reviewed study has been published in the journal Neuron.

Pong was an arcade game released in 1972 where two players use paddles to bat a ball back and forth - making a "pong" noise upon contact, hence the name.

Pong was hugely successful, and extremely simple. Its simplicity and iconic status prompted the researchers to choose it for their initial test.

The team, from Cortical Labs and universities including Monash University, the University of Melbourne and University College London, used human cells derived from stem cells and mouse cells derived from embryonic cells.

They put them on to the "DishBrain", a multi-electrode array that can sense cell activity and stimulate the cells, then gave the cells feedback on whether the paddle was hitting the ball.

It worked, and within five minutes the cells started to "learn" how to play the simulated game using a shared "language" of electrical activity.

Over time they were less likely to be aced, and were able to have longer rallies - and the human cells could rally for longer than the mice (humans and mice were not pitched against each other).

The cell groups played 486 "games", with researchers testing their reaction to different stimuli or lack thereof. For example, in some games they were given feedback either through giving the cells information or by removing information. In other games there was no feedback, so cells could not learn how their behaviour affected the environment.

Those with feedback learned from it.

Now the researchers will see how the cells perform when they are drunk or given medicines. They hope to use the DishBrain to learn more about conditions such as epilepsy and dementia.

The study's lead author, Dr Brett Kagan, is the chief scientific officer of biotech startup Cortical Labs. He said by manipulating the neurons and showing that they change behaviour based on feedback, the team has shown "something that resembles intelligence".

"This is the new way to think about what a neuron is," he said.

"It's not necessarily a computer, but it's a small biological device that can process information and respond intelligently with incredible speed, low power consumption and flexibility."

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DishBrain is a model of the brain that would allow them to experiment with different inputs.

"We're trying to create a dose response curve with ethanol - basically get them 'drunk' and see if they play the game more poorly, just as when people drink," Kagan said.

Dr Adeel Razi, the director of Monash University's computational and systems neuroscience laboratory, said the ability to teach cell cultures to "perform a task in which they exhibit sentience ... opens up new discovery possibilities which will have far-reaching consequences for technology, health and society".

"We know our brains have the evolutionary advantage of being tuned over hundreds of millions of years for survival," he said.

"Now, it seems we have in our grasp [the ability to] harness this incredibly powerful and cheap biological intelligence."

Another co-author, Prof Karl Friston from UCL, said the pioneering work allowed neurons to experience sensations.

"Remarkably, the cultures learned how to make their world more predictable by acting upon it," he said.

"This is remarkable because you cannot teach this kind of self-organisation; simply because - unlike a pet - these mini brains have no sense of reward and punishment."

That has allowed them to design a "sandbox" made of the same elements in an actual brain where they can test interventions.

The authors wrote in the Neuron article that a synthetic biological intelligence, "previously confined to the realm of science fiction", could now be within reach.

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How three Iranian women sparked mass protests the Iranian government

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How three Iranian women sparked mass protests the Iranian government

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Sepideh Rashno, Mahsa Amini and Nika Shakarami, three Iranian women, were detained for not wearing the hijab, which is required by Iranian law. It was seen as a message to those who resisted the state's mandatory dress code, but it had the opposite effect. Iranian women rebelled after the death of Mahsa Amini at the hands of the police. The protests spread across Iran within a week. The women burn the veil and cut their hair in protest. In these protests the Iranians demand the end of the government of Ayatollah Khamenei. In many schools, female students expel the school authorities and hang signs that say: “woman, life, freedom” in the classrooms. So far hundreds of women have been killed in the protests, including a 16-year-old named Nika Shakarami. In my opinion, this is only the beginning of a revolution that we do not know how it will end, but in which I hope that Iranian women get the same rights as men.

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In July, a video began circulating online of an altercation between two women on a Tehran bus. One, in full hijab, attacks the other, a 28-year-old called Sepideh Rashno, for not wearing a hijab, mandated under Iranian law and punishable with a fine or even prison.

In the weeks leading up to the incident, footage of similar episodes had been spreading with increased frequency online, evidence of the growing pressure being exerted on women by the regime. But this particular video went viral, and led to Rashno being arrested, abused and forced into making an apology on state television.

For a few weeks, Rashno was the face of a crackdown on women's freedom in Iran that has intensified, sometimes violently, in the last year. Her arrest was "a turning point for many women who had been resisting the morality police and fighting the mandatory hijab and slowly pushing the limits of what the state considered proper attire, and slowly but gradually making progress in pushing those limits," says Negar Mortazavi, an Iranian journalist and political analyst.

"But this was a reminder of the state's violent enforcement of the mandatory hijab on women. It was seen as a message to those who resist the state's mandatory dress code. But it had the opposite effect, and anger and fury that had been slowly building up over decades eventually exploded with the subsequent death of Mahsa Amini in the custody of the morality police," she says.

When news broke that the 22-year-old had died after being arrested for wearing her headscarf "improperly", protests that began outside the hospital where she died spread across Iran within a week. Women burned their headscarves and cut their hair, leading the protests in which thousands of Iranians demanded the end of Ayatollah Khamenei's rule and chanted Amini's name.

"The horrific murder of Mahsa exposed the brutal reality of life under the Islamic republic," says Kasra Aarabi, the Iran programme lead at the Tony Blair Institute, the former British prime minister's thinktank. "And you can see that these protests - triggered by what happened to Mahsa - are distinctively anti-regime," says Aarabi.

Schoolgirls in Iran chase off a director of education in a school.

"Women have been on the frontlines of protests in Iran before," says Aarabi. "But this isn't about reform, it's about outright regime change. Because the compulsory hijab, in the Islamic republic, is not just a piece of cloth. It's one of the key pillars of the ideology of this regime."

One of the most striking images of these protests is the sight of schoolgirls ejecting officials from school grounds, or hanging signs that read "woman, life, freedom" in classrooms. "It takes immense courage and bravery for any woman to do this, but especially for young girls who are risking arrest, expulsion from school, and even death when joining these protests," says Mortazavi.

Among the hundreds of people who have reportedly been killed by state security during these protests is Nika Shakarami, a 16-year-old whose death has been shrouded in disinformation. Confusing and contradictory details emerged about how and when she had died, and her family have described being threatened for going public about her death.

Her mother told journalists she received a call from Nika who said she was running away from security officials before her phone went dead. The family went looking for her at hospitals and police stations but were told they had no one with that name. Meanwhile, videos of her singing and joking around were shared around the world.

Nine days later, the police showed images to her mother to confirm that the dead body in the photograph was Nika. "Her cheeks were broken. Her teeth were broken. She had received a severe blow behind her head, and her skull was dented," her mother said.

An Iranian woman holds a placard during a protest to ask for the revival of the hijab on Iranian state TV as part of a campaign against the threats against Islamic values. Photograph: Behrouz Mehri/AFP/Getty

The Iranian government says Nika was thrown from the top of a building and died and that it is a criminal matter and has nothing to do with the protests and security forces. In her burial certificate, obtained by BBC Persian, the cause of death is stated as multiple blows caused by a hard object.

"This has been part of the regime's playbook in previous crackdowns of mass protests where security forces commit brutal violence against protesters, while denying that violence and those who are killed by it. It happened in 2009 with the state trying to deny that Neda Agha-Soltan and other protesters were killed by security forces, it happened again in 2019."

"In all instances, the state has tried to create alternative narratives and pressure families into accepting and repeating those narratives. The most recent case was with the Ukrainian plane which was shot down by the IRGC [Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps] but state officials lied about it for three days. But time and again, these alternative narratives have been challenged and debunked, and Iranians have gradually lost their trust in the state."

Though young protesters continue to be killed and arrested by security officials, schoolgirls rebelling against the hijab or shouting "Basij get lost!" from school buildings presents a "huge dilemma" for the regime, according to Prof Ali Ansari, a specialist in Middle Eastern history. "What are they going to do with them? They can't shoot a bunch of schoolgirls."

Aarabi says: "For the past 43 years, the Islamic Republic has exploited schools as a means to nurture its hardline ideology, as a means to brainwash the future generation to support the regime." What the protesting schoolgirls show is "it has wholeheartedly failed".

What we are witnessing now, says Aarabi, is the "beginning of the end of the regime".

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Huge bravery of Sepideh Rashno, Mahsa Amini and Nika Shakarami against state restrictions on women's freedoms may be catalyst for change

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People criticize Marc Zuckerberg for his metaverse (Horizon worlds)

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Marc recently posted a photo in which he showed his avatar inside horizon worlds next to two very important monuments like the Sagrada familia and the Eiffel Tower.
Many people have criticized this photo since the artistic finish of this image that has been published is very bad.
What people are not aware of all this is that the metaverses are still have years to go before they are fully as the world wants it to be with good graphics, varied content among other things.
In my opinion, i believe that this is just a beginning and that there isn't need to despair, you just have to leave a few years and all this will turn out as everyone wants, althought there will continue to be criticism as it has happened throughout the history of humanity.

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Mark Zuckerberg is catching flak once more from netizens after recently revealing his new avatar for Meta' s Horizon Worlds. Many were quick to point out the avatar's creepy eyes while saying that the graphics looked straight out of an early 2000s Nintendo GameCube game - poking fun at the millions of dollars that have gone into the project.

As a response, Zuckerberg addressed the graphics last Friday as a quickly generated "basic" avatar that was posted just to share the excitement of the release of Horizon Worlds in France and Spain. He then followed up with a new and improved avatar to reassure users that the platform is "capable of much more" and that it can improve very quickly. Check out the updated Avatar below.

Looks great! pic.twitter.com/aFFcvLv4ES

- james hennessy (@jrhennessy) August 16, 2022

Mark Zuckerberg launches Horizon Worlds in France and Spain with an eye-gougingly ugly VR selfie. Meta's metaverse ploy is surely dying in the dark. pic.twitter.com/j0l6yTYye4

- Ordinary Things (@ordinarytings) August 16, 2022

Second Life 2007. Metaverse 2022. pic.twitter.com/2JByEzk5eL

- Andres Guadamuz (@technollama) August 17, 2022

In other tech news, Meta's own AI chatbot says company "Exploits People for Money."

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The truth is that this news impacted me a lot because Queen Elizabeth had been alive for many years, too many, and I was amused by the jokes about her immortality, I know bad for the English who had to be sad about the death of their beloved queen, but you have to see the good side of this tragic news is that Gibraltar is unguarded,  and I do not say it, Pedro Sánchez said it, yes, he has already talked about the subject and it is a reality that many of us would like, to recover what is ours

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F or the millions who watched on June 2nd 1953-for it was the first time in history that a British coronation had been televised-the most moving part of the ceremony came near the end. It was then that the imperial state crown, encrusted with 2,868 diamonds and weighing more than a kilogram, was placed on the pretty, dark and fragile head of Elizabeth Windsor, proclaiming her, in the eyes of all, Queen Elizabeth II.

For her, though, according to the few people who knew her well, the most charged part of the service had come earlier, in the only part which was not shown. Then, like monarchs before her back to medieval times, she had stripped to a shift behind screens and been anointed with holy oil: a sign that her election came not just from good Hanoverian blood, but from God. It was a reminder that kingship was a holy and permanent duty. And it was a lesson she never forgot.

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Tirelessly, the small and somewhat dumpy figure, with a large handbag and a taste for spring-bright coats, travelled the country and overseas. She was the target of much gentle mockery for her social chat ("Have you come far?"), her sempiternal gloves and hats and her high, clipped diction, all from another age. With that ribbing went an instinct to protect her, though it was clear, from the level stare and the flashes of dry wit in her speeches, that this was quite unnecessary, thank you. Outrage swept the British press when heedless foreign leaders touched her, Michelle Obama even stroking her back, but she would calmly ignore it. As a result of thousands of little human interactions-posies received, tribal dances watched, buildings opened, ships launched, waves bestowed-the institution of the monarchy burrowed deeper into public affection, at home and in the Commonwealth, in a way that was surprising in the 20th century and even more in the 21st.

The woman behind it all was revealed only occasionally. There had surely been a much more carefree and relaxed Elizabeth, before in 1936 her father suddenly became king and before, on that sombre February morning in 1952, she had learned that she was now queen. And yet, on second thoughts, perhaps there had never been. Even as a child she had a dutiful look, the responsible elder daughter tending her garden or keeping her fun-loving sister in check. In the war, as a very young woman, she served in the women's ats and drove trucks; uniform suited her. The wedding gown for her long and happy marriage to Prince Philip of Greece in 1947 was made by saving up donated clothing coupons. Not long into her reign she sent, on request, a handwritten recipe for buttermilk drop-scones to President Eisenhower. She could just about be imagined actually donning an apron and making them.

Happiest on horseback

Philip's outspokenness in public suggested that she, too, probably had a merry and waspish tongue in private and some choice political opinions. She did not, of course, express them. Her 15 serving prime ministers, having negotiated the snappish and essential corgis, were all received with equanimity. She was said to have rather liked the dourly humorous Labour leader, Harold Wilson, and, despite several plays claiming the contrary, Margaret Thatcher also. Truly, no one outside her circle knew. The closest she ventured to a political statement came over Scottish independence in 2014, which would have split away the part of the kingdom she seemed, from her summers at Balmoral, to love best; on her way into church there, she warned her northern subjects to be careful.

An explicit admission of sadness came in 1992, when Charles and Diana separated and Windsor Castle, her favourite, was badly damaged by fire: she called it her annus horribilis. An equally trying year was 2019, when a transatlantic sex scandal troubled Prince Andrew and she herself was drawn into the interminable Brexit saga by being advised to approve Boris Johnson's prorogation of Parliament, an action later ruled illegal. She said nothing, but was widely assumed to be furious that the Crown had been dragged into politics. For decades, until that point, she had kept a studied, necessary detachment, participating only to read, with as little expression as possible, the list of proposed new legislation at each state opening of "my" Parliament.

Instead of deploying any actual power, her role was increasingly to hearten her people. When covid-19 came she encouraged the nation by channelling Vera Lynn, a favourite songster of the second world war; and when Philip, her "strength and stay", died the next year, she continued her royal duties with barely a break. Not for her a black-veiled internal exile in the style of her great predecessor, Victoria. She had covid-weary subjects to think of.

For relaxation, from the beginning, there were always the races. Her most unaffected joy burst out there whenever her horse won. Horseflesh was her great love; books on horses were said to make up most of her reading, and she was regularly photographed at her country castles riding alone, save for a distantly following security man, in headscarf and Barbour in the rain.

To go on for so long, especially when the heir apparent was ageing fast himself, sometimes seemed curmudgeonly. Increasingly, though, it also looked like an exercise in shrewd management. To be head of "The Firm" would not, perhaps, suit Charles, with his dreamy and alternative ways; it might be safer in other hands. The very notion of the monarchy as a family business, assessing profit and loss and ceaselessly nurturing the brand, would have been unthinkable in other ages. Not so in hers.

This was not all, however. In her last years, especially, her face expressed a determination to continue simply because she had promised before God never to do otherwise. Before her coronation, she got used to the weight of the crown by wearing it at breakfast; in a sense, she never again took it off. On that day in 1953 she was vested with a sacred duty to hold together a country which, in the ensuing decades, became more diverse, fissiparous, irreverent and distracted than it had ever been before. And so she did. ■
Correction (September 13th 2022): The original version of this story wrongly said that George VI became king in 1938.

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World’s Largest Igloo Cafe, High in the Himalayas- by Isa

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World’s Largest Igloo Cafe, High in the Himalayas- by Isa

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Have you ever dreamt of living in an igloo?
Have you ever wondered what it would feel like to be surrounded by ice cubes and animal fur blankets? Have you ever imagined drinking chocolate with churros inside, watching the water that forms the igloo fall over the ice?

Well, these were the questions I asked myself while reading this news about the biggest igloo café in the world!

This café is located in the north of India and has a capacity for 40 people.

The most impressive thing about it, apart from being an igloo itself, is that inside, apart from the cafe, there is an art section where the people who built the igloo made it. I can't wait to go and see it for myself!

The bad thing about it is that the igloo only lasts for the duration of the winter high season. March is when it starts to melt.
I hope they build it every year so that one day I can visit it.

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A hotel in Jammu and Kashmir, India has created what it says is the largest igloo cafe in the world. The coffee bar, made of snow and ice, can seat up to 40 people. It may be the world's largest, but it won't be around for long. It's expected to melt in March.

Gulmarg is a ski resort high in the Himalayan mountains. One of the hotels at Gulmarg is the Kolahoi Green Heights. And, yes, it's pretty high up - about 1.6 miles (2.6 kilometers) above sea level.

With so much ice and snow around from December to March, last year, people at the Kolahoi hotel decided to build an igloo cafe. Syed Wasim Shah, who created the cafe, got the idea from an igloo village he'd seen in Switzerland. Last year's igloo cafe could hold about 16 people.

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This year, the hotel decided to go for something bigger. They began work in early December and didn't finish until early February. When they were finished, they had created the biggest igloo cafe in the world. They call it the Snoglu.

Before this, Guinness World Records said the largest snow igloo was in Switzerland. It was 34.5 feet (10.5 meters) tall, and 42.3 feet (12.9 meters) across. The Snoglu is 37.5 feet (11.4 meters) tall and 44.5 feet (13.6 meters) across. "We have already written to Guinness," says Mr. Shah. It will take a while, but he feels sure his igloo has set a new record.

The Snoglu Cafe has 10 tables and can hold up to 40 people at a time. The benches, tables, and decorated railings are all made out of packed snow. Sheep skins cover the icy benches to make them more comfortable.

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The Snoglu is separated into two different sections. One part holds artwork made out of - what else? - snow and ice. Mr. Shah designed the "snow art".

The other part of the Snoglu is a working cafe, selling coffee, hot chocolate, and snacks. The hotel's manager says the cafe focuses on items that can be served quickly, since it's so cold in the igloo that most guests don't want to stay too long.

Tourists seem to love the Snoglu in spite of the cold. Mr. Shah says there are between 300 and 400 visitors every day. The hotel is charging a small fee to enter the Snoglu to keep it from becoming too crowded.

Tourists who want to see the Snoglu Cafe will need to visit soon. The snow in Gulmarg starts to melt away in mid-March.

But Mr. Shah has big plans for the future. Next year he plans to rebuild the cafe. He also wants to create an igloo village, with rooms where people can spend the night.

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World's Largest Igloo Cafe, High in the Himalayas

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A hotel in Jammu and Kashmir, India has created what it says is the largest igloo cafe in the world. The coffee bar, made of snow and ice, can seat up to 40 people. It may be the world's largest, but it won't be around for long. It's expected to melt in March.

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Recently I saw a video on YouTube that have impacted me. I really enjoy middle age's films where appear bows, arrows, swords, shields, knights, and more. But after watching this video I've realized how wrong are they.
The video goes about a traditional archery expert who analises some scenes from some films and TV shows and judges how real they are, giving them a score from 0 to 10.
I have to say it was hilarious to see how real a scene from a cartoon film was against one DC film, concretely "Wonder Woman".
As I see, this video, apart from geting you a bit of entertainment, allows you to learn new specific vocabulary from archery.
I highly recomend this video to these who enjoys archery and wants to see if great production companies like Disney make believable scenes.

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Traditional Archery Expert Rates 10 Archery Scenes In Movies And TV | How Real Is It?

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The flying Cars, the People says that is possible fly whith a car?
Thanks of more studies it has been concluded that YouTube can get flying Cars.
Flying cars will falicitar the transport in case of emergency or need. People will be able to take off their flying cars at an airport and they will have to licence.
The car will unfold the wings to obtain stability in flight it is estimated that this process would last about 1 minute but that will vary as Advancing technology.
Thanks to these new advances the new engines that these cars will have will be much less polluting since it will expel less C02.
In conclusion you can leave me in the comment tray if you see the flying cars feasible.

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Marc Marquez the Honda rider returned to action two weeks ago at Aragon after three month absence following a fourth major operation on the right arm that he badly broke in 2020.
Marc did an increidible job during the weekend and tomorrow he'll be the first on the starting Grid behind him will start Zarco and Binder. The spanish driver did it again after 1071 days. He did THE POLE POSITION!!!! I've been following Marc Marquez for 10 years and this rider is allways impressing me more and more, after his injury he is able to make the fastest time two tenths faster than Zarco, the french rider that is riding for Pramac Racing. As a conclusion we can say that Marc is and will be the best moto-rider of this world, he did an unhuman thing he is just from other world! HE IS GOAT (Greatest Of All Times)

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The Honda rider returned to action two weeks ago at Aragon after a three-month absence following a fourth major operation on the right arm he badly broke in 2020.

Topping this morning's wet FP3, Marquez carried that form into a rain-lashed and delayed qualifying to claim his first pole since the 2019 Japanese GP - 1071 days ago.

Due to heavy rain, qualifying was delayed by over an hour as the preceding FP3 session was cancelled to try and make space in the schedule.

Though Q1 started as the rainfall intensified again, it had eased somewhat for the pole shootout session.

Marquez set the early pace with a 1m56.955s, but was immediately bested by Ducati's Jack Miller and then championship leader Fabio Quartararo on the factory Yamaha.

Marquez would return to the top of the order with a 1m55.810s with around eight minutes of the 15-minute Q2 remaining, improving to a 1m55.698s moments later after Pramac's Johann Zarco - who came through Q1 - briefly took over at the top of the pile.

Though a number of riders would threaten Marquez's pole, he would cement it with a 1m55.214s in the final three minutes to take his 91st MotoGP qualifying success by 0.208 seconds from Zarco.

KTM's Brad Binder registered his first front row start in MotoGP with a late effort of 1m55.537s, denying Maverick Vinales third.

The Aprilia rider led Pramac's Jorge Martin - who joined teammate Zarco in advancing from Q1 - as Aleix Espargaro ended qualifying as the top title contender in sixth.

A big rear-end moment late on in Q2 would stop an angry Quartararo from improving on ninth, while his nearest title rival Francesco Bagnaia was 2.1s off the pace down in 12th on his Ducati.

Though he came into Motegi as an outside title bet, Enea Bastianini's chances of boosting his remote hopes took a severe battering as he failed to get out of Q1 after a late crash left him 15th on the grid.

Jack Miller could only manage seventh on his factory team Ducati, while a late crash while on a lap that would have challenged for pole left KTM's Miguel Oliveira in eighth.

Between Quartararo and Bagnaia came Luca Marini on his VR46 Ducati and the second factory Honda of Pol Espargaro.

VR46 Ducati's Marco Bezzecchi was just 0.139s outside of a place in Q2 as he lines up 13th from the factory Yamaha of Franco Morbidelli.

Bastianini heads Gresini Ducati teammate Fabio Di Giannantonio in 15th as Alex Marquez on the LCR Honda trailed the pair.

Numerous yellow flags caused havoc for Suzuki's Alex Rins, who had several laps cancelled and was unable to advance on 18th. Honda wildcard Tetsuta Nagashima will launch from 19th on his MotoGP debut on Sunday.

Remy Gardner was the faster of the Tech3 KTMs in 20th as teammate Raul Fernandez was 22nd after a crash.

Joan Mir's Suzuki replacement Takuya Tsuda slotted in between the pair, while Cal Crutchlow headed RNF Racing teammate Darryn Binder - who also had a late crash - and the second LCR Honda of the injured Takaaki Nakagami, who slid off early in Q1.

Q2 results:

Q1 results:

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Japan MotoGP: Marquez takes sensational pole in wet qualifying

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The Honda rider returned to action two weeks ago at Aragon after a three-month absence following a fourth major operation on the right arm he badly broke in 2020. Topping this morning's wet FP3, Marquez carried that form into a rain-lashed and delayed qualifying to claim his first pole since the 2019 Japanese GP - 1071 days ago.

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Robots are not as safe as we think- by Yaiza

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Robots are not as safe as we think- by Yaiza

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Technology has developed a lot  making people's lives easier. In our present days, thanks to technology people can communicate with friends, family and people around the world. People can cook faster with food processors and they needn't to vacuum because robots do this job.

Many people think that robots are great. However, this kind of technology  can lead to problems. For example, in Russia, a robot grabbed and broke a finger of a child.

In addition, robots have provoked  the deaths of 144 people in only five years, between 2008 and 2013 in medical surgery.

To finish, this article proves we can't put our lives in robots' hands because they can be dangerous  and we have to be careful despite the fact that many electronic robots are dispensable in our daily lives.

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Played by humans, chess is a game of strategic thinking, calm concentration and patient intellectual endeavour. Violence does not usually come into it. The same, it seems, cannot always be said of machines.

Last week, according to Russian media outlets, a chess-playing robot, apparently unsettled by the quick responses of a seven-year-old boy, unceremoniously grabbed and broke his finger during a match at the Moscow Open.

"The robot broke the child's finger," Sergey Lazarev, president of the Moscow Chess Federation, told the TASS news agency after the incident, adding that the machine had played many previous exhibitions without upset. "This is of course bad."

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Video of the 19 July incident published by the Baza Telegram channel shows the boy's finger being pinched by the robotic arm for several seconds before a woman followed by three men rush in, free him and usher him away.

Sergey Smagin, vice-president of the Russian Chess Federation, told Baza the robot appeared to pounce after it took one of the boy's pieces. Rather than waiting for the machine to complete its move, the boy opted for a quick riposte, he said.

"There are certain safety rules and the child, apparently, violated them. When he made his move, he did not realise he first had to wait," Smagin said. "This is an extremely rare case, the first I can recall," he added.

Lazarev had a different account, saying the child had "made a move, and after that we need to give time for the robot to answer, but the boy hurried and the robot grabbed him". Either way, he said, the robot's suppliers were "going to have to think again".

Baza named the boy as Christopher and said he was one of the 30 best chess players in the Russian capital in the under-nines category. "People rushed to help and pulled out the finger of the young player, but the fracture could not be avoided," it said.

Lazarev told Tass that Christopher, whose finger was put in a plaster cast, did not seem overly traumatised by the attack. "The child played the very next day, finished the tournament, and volunteers helped to record the moves," he said.

His parents, however, have reportedly contacted the public prosecutor's office. "We will communicate, figure it out and try to help in any way we can," he said. Smagin told RIA Novosti the incident was "a coincidence" and the robot was "absolutely safe".

The machine, which can play multiple matches at a time and had reportedly already played three on the day it encountered Christopher, was "unique", he said. "It has performed at many opens. Apparently, children need to be warned. It happens."

A Russian grandmaster, Sergey Karjakin, said the incident was no doubt due to "some kind of software error or something", adding: "This has never happened before. There are such accidents. I wish the boy good health."

Christopher may have been lucky. While robots are becoming more and more sophisticated, with the most modern models capable not just of interacting but actively cooperating with humans, most simply repeat the same basic actions - grab, move, put down - and neither know nor care if people get in the way.

According to one 2015 study, one person is killed each year by an industrial robot in the US alone. Indeed, according to the US occupational safety administration, most occupational accidents since 2000 involving robots have been fatalities.

Robert Williams, widely considered the first, was crushed to death by the arm of a one-tonne robot on Ford's Michigan production line in 1979. In 2015, a robot killed a 22-year old contractor at one of Volkswagen's German plants, grabbing him and crushing him against a metal plate.

Robots used in medical surgery were also held responsible for the deaths of 144 people between 2008 and 2013. More recently, Elaine Herzberg was killed by an Uber autonomous car that hit the 49-year-old at 40mph as she was crossing the road in Tempe, Arizona in 2018.

Generally, however, human error - or a lack of human understanding of robotic processes - is the most frequent cause. It pays to be careful around robots, even if they are only playing chess.

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Played by humans, chess is a game of strategic thinking, calm concentration and patient intellectual endeavour. Violence does not usually come into it. The same, it seems, cannot always be said of machines. Last week, according to Russian media outlets, a chess-playing robot, apparently unsettled by the quick responses of a seven-year-old boy, unceremoniously grabbed and broke his finger during a match at the Moscow Open.

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What is the importance of soundtrack in movies?

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What is the importance of soundtrack in movies?

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This article is addressed to all those lovers of soundtracks or followers of the best composer of soundtracks: Hans Zimmer.

Everything is very important to make a movie (actors, cameras, dialogues, green screens...), but the soundtrack is the most important. The power of music is capable of, at certain times, scaring the public, making the public happy, saddening the public...

For example, with the soundtrack of the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, you can close your eyes and from the music you can understand the all story. Well, each personage has a theme and each region too. It's brutal!

So I animate you to pay close attention to the soundtrack the next film you watch!

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Many ingredients make a movie hit or flop such as good script, actors, the director and so on. The list of ingredients is incomplete without a good soundtrack.

Yes, a movie's soundtrack is one of its most important aspects which can turn a simple film into a blockbuster. Hence, we can say that the soundtrack is the soul of the movie. The importance of soundtrack can be realized by the fact that movies had background music even in the era of silent films.

In recent years, a film's soundtrack has become an important element in making films. A well-crafted soundtrack is essential in the creation of a film. This important aspect cannot be ignored or taken for granted to achieve the desired box office results.

Thus, today's filmmakers spend a great deal of time selecting their soundtracks. As music can tell the story and explain the plot, filmmakers use it very carefully to build the tone and mood of a film. Also, music is used to expose feelings of characters, actions, tensions, and even horror.

Music can create a convincing atmosphere for the situation and can turn a good film into a great one. We cannot imagine our favourite classic movies without an inspiring soundtrack.

Without the soundtrack, it would be very difficult to portray the emotional ups and downs of a film, scare the audience in a horror scene, and help the audience relate much better with the emotions being portrayed on screen.

On the other hand, the rousing soundtrack can not only make a scene more interesting, but it also connects the audience to the characters and their situations.

A good movie incorporates different kinds of music, and the background score is one of them. Background music in a film is used to introduce themes and communicate with the audience. The score can be usually heard in the background of a scene, or sometimes it takes a central position in an action sequence.

The most common style of background music is instrumental because soundtracks with lyrics can distract the audience from the intended storyline or dialogue.

However, it is not uncommon for filmmakers to use songs from professional musicians or even rap artists. An appropriate background score guides the audience and invokes the emotions behind the scene.

To understand the importance of background music just turn down the volume on your television while watching a horror movie and then you'll realize that the fear factor is completely missing.

The type of musical instruments used in a scene can help to create the plot. For example, the soothing sound of a sitar can invoke the images of India and the voice of bagpipes may take you to the misty green fields of Scotland.

On the other hand, using Baroque-style music is used to set a scene in the 18th century. Similarly, the sound of heavy drums and horns in a movie can give you the idea that the theme of the scene is based on war.

The type and tempo of the soundtrack being played as background music allow the audience to know about the theme of the movie. It helps viewers to understand the plot. Thus, filmmakers create specific musical signatures or theme music for different characters, situations or places.

They use theme music to enhance the ambience and foreshadow different elements of the plot. For example, the opening theme song for each of the Bond films which has become as iconic as the character of Bond himself.

A cleverly inserted soundtrack in a scene soothes the soul and makes the scene a lot more interesting and entertaining. Next time, try paying more attention to the soundtrack while watching a movie. In this process, you might come to know about some new music artists and some amazing music genres.

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Many ingredients make a movie hit or flop such as good script, actors, the director and so on. The list of ingredients is incomplete without a good soundtrack. Yes, a movie's soundtrack is one of its most important aspects which can turn a simple film into a blockbuster.

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Nowadays more and more aspects of our live are being governed by algorithms. When you log onto the internet, the adds that will appear on your feed, the news that will pop-up when you search for a piece of information, everything is programmed to tailor each individuals needs. But is this algorithm as flawless as we think?

Many people think that as this algorithm is a mathematical equation it can't be wrong. However, we must never forget that the algorithm is compiled by people, who can always be biased.

To start with the simple fact of trying to reduce a human being into a code of 1's and 0's is a wrong starting point. It's reducing a person to a couple of boxes and it's impossible to quantify all the different aspects of a human being in just a few questions. There is not a one size fits all.

So why is AI dangerous? The problem lies on the fact that every time more and more processes are being automatised by machines with no human supervision whatsoever. So if an algorithm says that a percentage of people who are black don't return their loans, then the algorithm will ban black people from getting loans, without any further research.

To sum up, technology has made humans live easier and AI is a big step forward towards making our life easier, but there should be always human supervision, as no machine will ever be able to understand the complexity of the human being.

What do you think? I can't wait to hear your thoughts about it!

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This article talks about one of the biggest industrial catastrophes of the modern era. Some people think it is even worse than Chernobyl. In 1984 a gas leak from a pesticide plant in Bhopal, India exposed over half a million people to a toxic gas. 4,000 people died instantly, 8,000 died within the next 2 weeks, 8,000 more years later due to gas-related injuries. There were almost 600,000 people injured due to the gas, some of them with permanently disabling injuries. After all that death and suffering the people responsible for the company didn’t have any responsibility. Should we make companies pay for their impact on the environment?

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estled among the 1,500 articles universally decrying the mockery of justice served up in a Bhopal court yesterday were one or two curiosities. Notably, Robert Blake, regional assistant secretary of the corporate-crime-busting Obama administration, expressed the hope that "this verdict helps to bring some closure to the victims and their families".

For who indeed could fail to gain reconciliation from a judgment that gavelled a punitive sanction of pennies for each life taken by the worst corporate massacre in history?

Outside the court, gas survivor Hamida Bi stood weeping. "Nobody knows how we suffered experiencing death so closely everyday ... the rich and influential have wronged us. We lost our lives and they can't spend a day in jail?"

Not one. Stringent appeal of the two-year sentences will be conducted on bail.

There's little doubt the seven managers and officials of Union Carbide India (UCIL) sentenced understood the technology imported by Union Carbide Corporation to be exceptionally, screamingly hazardous. Yet operatives were put in key positions of responsibility, safety devices were put out-of-commission and workers who tried to prevent Armageddon were unheard.

Increasing business losses at the time were, naturally, of most concern to UCIL's main shareholder, then US Fortune 500 company Carbide, which ensured the constant flow of dividends and royalties from across its multinational empire by " securing and maintaining effective control" of its subsidiaries. The board of UCIL thus contained four directors of Union Carbide Eastern (UCE) - a regional management subsidiary owned by Union Carbide - and James Rehfield, a Carbide executive.

Under oath, Rehfield vigorously denied that Carbide sought to levy control over its overseas operations. When asked who, then, controlled an "affiliate", Rehfield replied: "The board of that company." Who is the board elected by? "The equity participants." And who's the majority equity participant in UCIL? "Carbide's 50.9%." This 0.9 of 1% over 50 was so vital to Union Carbide's control strategy that an executive committee - including the fugitive prime accused Warren Anderson - ratified a plan to install unproven technology in the Bhopal plant.

The logic was simple. Carbide was "not prepared to accept any situation" that would reduce its equity below 51%. An "under-investment" totalling $8m, which made its main savings on the potentially lethal methyl-isocyanate-Sevin process, enabled Carbide to keep its majority stake in UCIL. Carbide found the proposed business risk "acceptable".

The cuts were savage. Key safety device the Vent Gas Scrubber wasn't working the night Tank 610 spewed 28 tonnes of methyl isocyanate gas into the lungs of Bhopal's sleeping half million: it would have made no difference if it had been. The gas poured through it at 200 times the pressure it was designed to handle - a water pistol for an inferno.

In the 23 years since the Bhopal criminal trial began, prime accused Carbide, UCE and Warren Anderson have resisted numerous summonses and escaped both bailable and non-bailable arrest warrants. Interpol has failed to procure them. No US administration has offered them up.

In 1991, current prime minister Manmohan Singh began liberalising the Indian economy, stimulating bilateral trade with the US. By 1992, judicial orders made Carbide and Anderson "fugitives from justice" and demanded their extradition. Nothing happened.

In 2003, after a series of embarrassing rebukes, pusillanimous India finally summoned the pluck to ask the US to extradite Anderson. According to US state department communications the request sent lobbyists into a frenzy. "A virtual who's who of high-powered law firms have represented Union Carbide and Anderson, the US chamber of commerce, and who knows who else with respect to the Bhopal case."

Former Carbide director Joseph Goeghan got to the point. "Extradition in (a) case like this would place in jeopardy any officer of an American corporation with significant interests in foreign enterprises anywhere in the world ... The chilling effect on American investment abroad cannot be overstated."

The extradition request was denied and has not been resent.

In 2001, $50bn Dow Chemical became full owner of Carbide. At the urging of survivor groups, the Bhopal court issued summons to Dow to account for its missing subsidiary. In five years, the judicially ordered summons has yet to reach Dow's offices in Michigan.

The culpable homicide case against Union Carbide continues but, as a breezy Robert Blake added yesterday, "I don't expect this verdict to reopen any new inquiries or anything like that." Given the asymmetries of economic and political power so clearly in play, the verdict against UCIL really begins to seem a most convenient injustice.

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Bhopal verdict: a most convenient injustice | Tim Edwards

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estled among the 1,500 articles universally decrying the mockery of justice served up in a Bhopal court yesterday were one or two curiosities. Notably, Robert Blake, regional assistant secretary of the corporate-crime-busting Obama administration, expressed the hope that "this verdict helps to bring some closure to the victims and their families".

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I have been very surprised about the big demagogy following the US Supreme Court decision on abortion and I'm going to share why.

First the fact that they call abortion a "human right". According to the UN "Human rights are rights we have simply because we exist as human beings". The "right to kill a baby" is not a human right. Abortion is what happens when the right to life of the baby collisions with the right to personal and physical integrity of the mother. Calling abortion a right would be the same as saying censorship is a right.

Second by the escalation of saying that if abortion is regulated it may equal to people dying in ilegal clinics. There are other options. Starting with a huge variety of contraceptive methods, followed by giving women economical help in case it was needed or even adoption.

To conclude I want to say I can understand it is not an easy topic, but it's a debate worth having.

What are your opinions? I can't wait to read you!

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Roe v Wade: What is US Supreme Court ruling on abortion?

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The US Supreme Court has overturned the landmark case which legalised abortion in 1973.

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I don't know if you have seen Tolkien's movie (2019) but in my opinion the movie is a fallacy.

Brilliant people, like Father Francis Xavier Morgan, represent him like cruel and stupid. When he actually saved the Tolkien family, with true faith and material need. After Tolkien family being abandoned by all his Protestant relatives who did not accept the conversion of Mabel Tolkien (Tolkien's mother).

They also don't mention in the movie that Mabel Tolkien was a martyr for the Catholic religion. Not even that "TCBS" was a group to change the world through (Christian) art. As JRR Tolkien says, The Lord of the Rings "is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work."

To conclude, this movie is very bad, because they don't explain the most important thing: that Tolkien was a Catholic like his works.

Saint Tolkien pray for us!
If you have seen Tolkien's film (2019) do not hesitate to comment on the obvious differences.

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Tolkien is a dramatized account of the true story of J.R.R. Tolkien, linguist and writer most famous for and The Lord of the Rings - but how accurate is it to real life, and what happened next? Every biopic has to strike a careful balance between truth and fiction. On the one hand, a filmmaker wants to create as accurate a representation of a historical figure as possible; on the other, life is not made to be a movie, and as a result the story inevitably needs to be adapted to create a cohesive, dramatic narrative.

In the case of Tolkien, director Dome Karukoski had hoped to step away from biopics after Tom of Finland. He was drawn into Tolkien in spite of himself, due in part to his childhood love of Tolkien's fantasy books, and to a strong script that he felt gripped him. The narrative stresses the link between Tolkien's Middle-earth and his experience of the Battle of the Somme, and uses this as a launchpad to explore the writer's painful history.

Related: Read Our Tolkien Review

But while all that's rooted in the truth, the movie takes several liberties, changing up events or downplaying key moments from Tolkien's story. What's more, with the film ending just as Tolkien first writers " In a hole in the ground, there lived a hobbit," there's clearly a lot more that happened after.

J.R.R. Tolkien's Childhood Is Mostly Accurate (But Birmingham Wasn't That Bleak)

The beginning of Tolkien is pretty much historically accurate, albeit dramatized ever so slightly. John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born in 1892, the son of Arthur and Mabel Tolkien. Although the film doesn't stress it much, Tolkien was born in the Orange Free State in Africa; Arthur was a bank manager, and had been promoted to head the Bloemfontein office. When he was just three years old, Tolkien and his younger brother Hilary traveled with their mother back to England on what was supposed to just be a lengthy visit to their family. Tragically, Tolkien's father contracted rheumatic fever and died before he could join them. The Tolkien family, heartbroken and bereft, moved to Worcestershire. The Shire was very much the world Tolkien grew up in, the rural English environment where Tolkien's imagination first began to flourish. Until, as in the film, further tragedy struck and Tolkien's mother passed away.

Mabel Tolkien had become a professing Catholic in 1900, to the horror of the wider family, who cut off all ties. As a result, after the death of his mother, Tolkien had only the Catholic Church. Guardianship was assumed by Mabel's friend Father Francis Xavier Morgan of the Birmingham Oratory, and Tolkien moved to Edgbaston, where he was given rooms at Mrs. Faulkner's boarding house. Although Birmingham wasn't quite so bleak as the film paints it, the reality is that to the young J.R.R. Tolkien the city was a vision of Hell. It probably did inspire some elements of Mordor, and some scholars even believe Edgbaston Tower was the inspiration for the Dark Tower itself.

Tolkien's Relationship with Edith Bratt Had A Different Happy Ending

Although J.R.R. Tolkien was not alone, he was a very lonely boy, and as a result he couldn't help but connect with his fellow orphan Edith Bratt. The film accurately portrays the initial stages of the two's courtship, right down to their love of going to teashops and throwing sugar cubes into the hats of passers-by. While Edith's experience at Mrs. Faulkner's is slightly dramatized, it fits with most accounts she gave of her time there. During the summer of 1909, Tolkien and Edith decided that they were in love. (Amusingly, the scene in which Edith dances in the woods for Tolkien - clearly inspiring the character of Luthien - happened years after their courtship, when they were happily married.)

Related: Watch Our Tolkien Interview With Lily Collins

Unfortunately, as in the film, Tolkien's guardian disapproved of the relationship, and forbade Tolkien to act on it until he reached the age of 21. The two parted ways, and in the intervening years Edith moved to Cheltenham, where she got engaged to another man. But this is where the true story needs to be separated from the film's dramatized version; in reality, Tolkien wrote to Edith on the eve of his twenty-first birthday, professing his continued love for her. She replied saying she was already engaged, but her letter subtly implied that she had only done this because she believed Tolkien had long since forgotten her. Within a week, Tolkien had traveled to Cheltenham, where he met Edith on the railway platform. That very day, she returned the ring, and professed her engagement to Tolkien instead.

The two were married at the Catholic Church of St. Mary Immaculate in Warwick on 22 March, 1916, with Edith converting to Catholicism at Tolkien's insistence. Tolkien began his military service shortly after, and by June 1916 he had been transferred to France. As he wrote at the time, " Parting with my wife then... it was like a death."

The Fellowship In Tolkien Is Incredibly Accurate

Tolkien tells the story of the T.C.B.S., or the "Tea Club, Barrovian Society," a group Tolkien was part of. It's largely accurate in its representation of the T.C.B.S., whose core members were Tolkien, Geoffrey Bache Smith, Christopher Wiseman, and Robert Gibson (however, there were more members both at the time and subsequently). These four continued to stay in contact until 1916, when the First World War tragically intruded. Tolkien and Christopher were the only survivors of the Great War, with Geoffrey dying in the Battle of the Somme. Heartbreakingly, Smith did indeed pen a final letter to his friend Tolkien in which he wrote:

"My chief consolation is that if I am scuppered tonight there will still be left a member [the T.C.B.S.] to voice what I dreamed and what we all agreed upon. For the death of one of its members cannot, I am determined, dissolve [the group]. Death can make us loathsome and helpless as individuals, but it cannot put an end to the immortal four! May God bless you my dear John Ronald and may you say things I have tried to say long after I am not there to say them if such be my lot."

As in the film, Tolkien encouraged Geoffrey's reluctant mother to publish her son's poetry, and he even wrote the foreword.

Related: Watch Our Tolkien Interview With Nicholas Hoult

The Battle of the Somme Did Impact Tolkien (But He Wasn't Near Death)

More poets and writers were present at the Battle of the Somme than at any other conflict in history; in large part that's because the atrocity of it was seared into the minds of the soldiers and the officers, and they could only interpret its horrors through their imaginations. Tolkien stresses this, showing J.R.R. Tolkien translating flamethrowers as dragons, and imagining - or perhaps partly hallucinating - monstrous forces over the battlefield. The film accurately presents Tolkien suffering as a result of the filthy and wretched conditions, coming down with Trench fever and Trench foot, barely surviving. While recovering at the hospital, Tolkien jotted down notes on his experience, and many of them were incorporated into the War of the Ring and the epic Fall of Gondolin.

However, there are some differences. Every officer was assigned a batman, an everyday soldier whose job was to serve with them. Tolkien tells what appears to be an entirely fictional narrative in which J.R.R. Tolkien's batman Sam struggles to keep him alive. In truth, this event doesn't seem to have happened; still, Tolkien was indeed impressed by the everyday heroism of these loyal batmen, and in private correspondence he confessed that these soldiers were the inspiration for Sam Gamgee. Carpenter's Biography quotes Tolkien as confessing, " My 'Sam Gamgee' is indeed a reflexion of the English soldier, of the privates and batmen I knew in the 1914 war, and recognized as so far superior to myself."

Tolkien Changes How The Hobbit Was Conceived

Tolkien left the Army in 1920, and began a prestigious academic career that ultimately took him and his family to Oxford. He became well-known for a series of inspiring lectures on the Old English epic poem Beowulf, and tended to start his lectures in dramatic fashion, silently coming into the room before fixing his students with a piercing gaze and loudly declaiming the poem in the original language. Most students swiftly assumed the word " hwæt," which opens the poem, should really be translated as " quiet." W.H. Auden was one of Tolkien's students, and remembered it having a dramatic impact; " The voice was the voice of Gandalf," he reflected years later. The film modifies this idea a little, showing a drunken Tolkien making similar declamations while a student himself.

Tolkien's ending shows the moment in which J.R.R. Tolkien began to write his first fantasy novel, , but in truth it mangles the scene a little. According to Tolkien himself, the story began in a rather more whimsical fashion. He was marking exam papers at the time, and came to one page that had been left blank, the student evidently having been stumped by a difficult question. Amused, Tolkien decided to fill the space himself, and jotted down: " In a hole in the ground, there lived a hobbit." He sat back in his chair and read the line, suddenly struck by it, and later joked he almost gave the student a mark for the blank page out of thanks.

Related: What To Expect From Amazon's Lord of the Rings TV Show

What Happened After The End Of Tolkien

J.R.R. Tolkien formed a new Fellowship at Oxford, the Inklings, whose numbers included his dear friend C.S. Lewis. The Inklings made their mark on history, encouraging their members to read and complete their latest works; Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, Lewis' Out of the Silent Planet and Charles Williams' All Hallows Eve were all written with the encouragement of the Inklings. Tolkien himself was always rather bemused at the fame and adulation he received for his fictions, somewhat uncomfortable with the role they played in shaping popular culture. He and Edith moved to Bournemouth, where Tolkien missed his fellow Inklings' company, but where Edith reveled in becoming a hostess. In his biography, Humphrey Carter reflected that this act of sacrifice was probably JRR Tolkien's greatest demonstration of his love for his wife.

"Those friends who knew Ronald and Edith Tolkien over the years never doubted that there was deep affection between them. It was visible in the small things, the almost absurd degree in which each worried about the other's health, and the care in which they chose and wrapped each other's birthday presents; and in the large matters, the way in which Ronald willingly abandoned such a large part of his life in retirement to give Edith the last years in Bournemouth that he felt she deserved, and the degree in which she showed pride in his fame as an author. A principal source of happiness to them was their shared love of their family. This bound them together until the end of their lives, and it was perhaps the strongest force in the marriage. They delighted to discuss and mull over every detail of the lives of their children, and later their grandchildren."

Edith passed away in November 1971, and JRR Tolkien joined her just 21 months later. They were buried in the same grave.

More: Why The Tolkien Estate Has Disowned The Biopic Movie

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Tolkien True Story: What The Movie Changed (& What Happened Next)

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Tolkien is a dramatized account of the true story of J.R.R. Tolkien, linguist and writer most famous for and The Lord of the Rings - but how accurate is it to real life, and what happened next? Every biopic has to strike a careful balance between truth and fiction.

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I'm a big admirer of Rafa Nadal and I'm pretty sad he had to retire. I think he is a big example of perseverance and hard-work. In my opinion media should enhance more the public figures of sportspeople such as Rafa Nadal, which embrace good values, rather than the ones of influencers or people who just show parties and money.

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The 22-time Grand Slam champion tore a muscle in his abdomen earlier in the tournament. “I am very sad.”

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July 7, 2022

WIMBLEDON, England — In the end, after a day of contemplation and consideration for what mattered most, health prevailed over the temptations of yet another title.

On Thursday evening, 24 hours after one of the gutsiest and most grueling efforts of his career, Rafael Nadal, the 22-time Grand Slam champion, pulled out of his semifinal match against Nick Kyrgios set for Friday.

“I believe I can’t win two matches under these circumstances,” he said. “I can’t serve.”

Nadal made the announcement at a news conference just after 2 p.m. Eastern in the main media conference room at the All England Club, explaining that he was withdrawing because of a tear in his abdominal muscle.

“I was thinking the whole day about the decision,” he said. “I think it doesn’t make sense to go.”

“I am very sad,” he said.

Nadal, who entered the tournament halfway to a Grand Slam and with concerns about his chronically injured foot, said he began to feel soreness in his abdomen roughly one week ago. The pain grew worse, and it became clear that he had most likely torn the muscle early in his five-set win over Taylor Fritz in the quarterfinals Wednesday.

In that match, Nadal took a medical timeout in the second set. From the stands, his father and other members of his family motioned for him to stop playing rather than risk further injury, but Nadal ignored their pleas and pulled off one of the more remarkable comeback wins of a career that has seen many of them.

After the match, Nadal warned that he might not be able to play in the semifinal and that he planned to have a scan to determine the extent of the injury.

“The decision at the end — all the decisions — are the player’s decision, but at the same time I need to know different opinions and I need to check everything the proper way, no? That is even something more important than win Wimbledon, that is the health,” he said. Still, few thought that Nadal, who has played through pain for so much of his career, would not at least try to play the semifinal.

The withdrawal — the first from a Wimbledon semifinal in the modern era of tennis — was especially disappointing because Nadal’s game had been improving with each match, something he noted Thursday and after his win over Fritz, despite this being his first tournament on grass in three years.

“I’m in the semifinals, so I am playing very well the last couple of days, especially yesterday, at the beginning of the match, playing at a very, very high level,” he said.

With Nadal’s withdrawal, Kyrgios receives a pass to his first Grand Slam singles final. Kyrgios, 27, had never made a Grand Slam singles semifinal previously during a career filled with controversy.

“Different players, different personalities,” Kyrgios wrote of Nadal in a post on Instagram after the announcement. “@rafaelnadal I hope your recovery goes well and we all hope to see you healthy soon 🗣🙏🏽 till next time.”

Nadal had won the first two Grand Slams events of the year, the Australian Open and the French Open. The win against Fritz put him just nine wins away from a calendar-year Grand Slam, something no male player has pulled off since Rod Laver in 1969.

The withdrawal is the latest blow for a tournament that has followed a rocky road since April, when organizers announced that they would bar Russian and Belarusian players from competing because of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Organizers made the move amid intense pressure from Britain’s government and royal family, which is closely associated with the tournament and did not want Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge, photographed carrying out her traditional duty of presenting a trophy to a Russian or Belarusian champion.

No tournaments outside of Britain, including the U.S. Open, followed Wimbledon’s lead. The decision also sparked a battle with the men’s and women’s professional tours, which decided not to award any rankings points for victories at Wimbledon, turning the sport’s most prestigious tournament into something of an exhibition.

The situation grew even more awkward Thursday when Elena Rybakina, who was born and raised in Russia but began representing Kazakhstan four years ago after its tennis federation offered to fund her development, qualified for the women’s final.

Thursday evening, though, all else seemed to pale in comparison with the disappointment that Nadal wouldn’t be able to take the court for his showdown with Kyrgios, and if he had prevailed, a possible 60th match against Novak Djokovic.

Nadal said the injury had caused discomfort for several days but the pain became severe in the fifth game of the match while he was leading 3-1. It got even worse a few games later as Fritz broke Nadal’s serve to pull ahead.

Nadal said he then changed the way he served, slowing and shifting what is normally a violent twisting motion — the torque of his torso and the power of his legs — to serve at roughly 120 miles per hour. During lengthy segments of the match, Nadal struggled to serve at triple digits.

Still, he resisted his family’s pleas for him to quit, wanting to finish what he started. He defended that decision Thursday even though it ultimately deprived the tournament of one of its semifinals.

He called it the right decision “because I won the match. I finished the match. I won the match. I did the things I felt in every single moment.”

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However, his willingness to risk his health shifted Thursday, he said, when he saw and felt the extent of the tear. He reasoned that winning two more matches would be impossible and that trying would only make the injury worse and cause him to miss more matches this summer.

“Very tough circumstances,” he said tightening his lips with that slight tilt of his head he so often does when conveying unfortunate news.

He said he would not be able to compete for at least three or four weeks but he would be able to begin hitting from the baseline in as little as a week, then begin serving once he can do so without discomfort. That is important to Nadal, since his chronically injured foot often becomes a problem when he does not play for long periods. He can begin serving sometime after that, assuming he can play without pain.

That timetable, he said, will not interfere with his normal summer schedule, which generally includes hardcourt tournaments in Canada and Cincinnati before the start of the U.S. Open in late August.

As of now, Djokovic will not be able to play the U.S. Open because of his refusal to get vaccinated for Covid-19. U.S. policy currently prohibits unvaccinated foreigners from entering the country.

In recent years, Djokovic has become obsessed with finishing his career with the most Grand Slam singles titles. He began the year tied with Nadal and Roger Federer at 20.

Nadal then won the first two Grand Slams of the year to pull ahead in a race that he said he cared little about, something that was slightly hard to fathom given how competitive he is on the court.

“As always, the most important thing is happiness more than any title, even if everybody knows how much effort I put to be here,” he said.

He also said Thursday evening that he never gave consideration to the withdrawal ending his chance for the calendar year Grand Slam, a quest that Djokovic also has obsessed about and came within one match of pulling off last year when Nadal missed the second half of the year because of his ailing foot.

“Never thought about the calendar slam,” he said. “I thought about my daily happiness.”

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Rafael Nadal Withdraws From Wimbledon Ahead of Semifinal Match

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The 22-time Grand Slam champion tore a muscle in his abdomen earlier in the tournament. “I am very sad.”