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Transfusions: one million euros in gifts for donating blood
One of the magnitudes that help measure the solidarity of a society is the donor registry. And the Valencian Community has a significant number. In 2023, 116,635 people gave their blood. Together they would form the fifth Valencian capital. That is the ‘city of donors’. That city would be formed by a 55% of men and 44% of womenbecause women can only donate three times a year and men, four. By age groups, and24.2% of donors are between 18 and 35 years old; the 36 to 45 age group accounted for 21.3%; those aged between 46 and 65 years old represented 54.3 % and those over 65 years old 0.2%. The city is also constantly growing: last year 7,895 new donors were registered. And with each donation they contribute to saving lives, to the point that they deserve recognition, however symbolic it may be.
The Transfusion Center of the Valencian Community has just put out to tender the contract for the supply of gifts for blood donors and collaborators. It is put out to tender for a value of one million euros, taxes included, to supply these objects for three years starting on November 1st. The object of the contract is to grant “a token of gratitude for the voluntary and altruistic act” of donation, a way of creating loyalty and generating the memory that they can donate again, but without the detail distorting the fact of the free nature of the act of donation, that is, without commercializing this action.
The range of gifts for those who donate a litre or two of blood on a regular basis is therefore varied but modest. The contract is, in fact, divided into several lots. The first includes almost 45,000 units of products such as USB bracelets, travel hairbrushes or neck warmers. It also includes nearly one hundred thousand reusable cups, drawstring backpacks, transparent toiletry bags or multitasking pens.This lot, with the highest budget, is up for tender for 568,000 euros.
Donation point in a shopping centre in Valencia. / Francisco Calabuig
An expensive operation
The second lot includes 39,000 units of sunglasses, fans, cooler backpacks, bags, mousepad calendars or cardboard calendars. For the Christmas season, 13,500 Christmas candles and 13,500 lip balms are also up for auction. All for 225,000 euros. There is a third batch, which seems to be geared towards the summer months. There are 13,500 towel-sarongs, 42,000 T-shirts and 21,165 checkered scarves, for 170,000 euros. Finally, the fourth batch is for the ‘champions’ of blood donation: There are 5,300 crystal trophies with cases, valued at almost 38,000 euros.
The donation process, an essential act for thousands of patients, has a significant cost. Not only in transport vehicles, clinical material and equipment, the most expensive, but also in the care of the donors themselves. It is the price of saving lives.
The mobile teams based in the three Transfusion Centres (Valencia, Alicante and Castelló) carry out daily blood extractions in the different places to which they travel. In addition to these details of loyalty, donors are provided with food to facilitate their recovery, both solid foods (rosquilletas, dehydrated fruit, fartons, nuts) and liquids (water, zero cola drinks or horchata). A few days ago, precisely, The supply of 466,667 bottles of water was also awarded for 96,000 euros..
He climate change (rising sea levels, increasing temperatures…) it is already having effects in the Balearic Islands (Mallorca, Ibiza, Formentera and Menorca). According to experts, things will get worse if greenhouse gas emissions are not curbed, pointing to a catastrophic future.
In the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 28) a stark warning has been issued: if global warming does not exceed an increase of 1.5°C, Many of the coastal cities threatened by rising sea levels will surviveBut if the temperature rises by 3 degrees, they will all be buried under water. And this could happen as early as 2050 if the situation is not reversed.
He catastrophic impact The impact that this rise in sea level can have on the ecosystem is incalculable, and also on the geography of the Balearic Islands. And it won’t be long now, since those born in these years will experience it. NASA’s forecast is that in By 2100 the sea level in the Balearic Islands has risen by almost half a metre (0.49 centimeters). This figure is set within a “normal” scenario, but if more catastrophic (but not improbable) forecasts are taken into account, in the year 2100 the sea level in the archipelago could rise by more than one meter, according to NASA estimates, and the consequences will be devastating, without palliatives.
Uninhabitable areas
Accurately predict which regions of Europe will become uninhabitable Due to climate change, this is difficult as it will depend on a variety of factors, including specific changes in climate, topography, infrastructure and the adaptive capacity of communities.
But according to Ecoportal, southern Europe, including countries such as Spain, Portugal, Italy and Greece, could face Rising temperatures and longer droughtswhich could impact agriculture, water supplies and human health.
Within Spain, the driest areas, such as the Balearic archipelago, will have to face several important challenges: problems related to the low availability of fresh watercoastal erosion and impacts on tourism due to rising temperatures and changing weather patterns.
And as the Earth’s climate warms, heat waves are becoming more frequent and severe. The health dangers of extreme heat are of increasing concern to scientists and medical experts. And for good reason: heat stress is one of the leading causes of climate-related deaths.
Extreme levels of Heat stress has more than doubled in the past 40 years And that trend is expected to continue, says Colin Raymond of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. Raymond is the lead author of a 2020 study on extreme heat and humidity, published in Science Advances.
Dying of heat
Scientists have identified the maximum combination of heat and humidity that a human body can withstand without dying.
Even A young, healthy person will die after enduring six hours of 35-degree heat. combined with 100 percent humidity or 46°C with 50 percent humidity, although new research shows that threshold could be significantly lower.
When this temperature is reached, sweat (the body’s primary tool for lowering its core temperature) no longer evaporates from the skin, eventually leading to heatstroke, organ failure, and death.
In London there is a niece, a goddaughter, a cousin and the bones of my ancestors. In the next few days I will visit the cemeteries where the latter are buried and, if I am lucky, I will talk to them.
My ancestors fled wars, debts, women they left pregnant, honour and reputations. I have managed to preserve that legacy. I am even worse than them.
In London I have been poor and I have been rich, but I have always been cold, even in summer. I have had lovers, a tattooed girl who worked in a bar, a young intellectual who worked as a translator, and I have had boyfriends, a fashion photographer who took a hundred black and white photos of me, with my torso naked, although I didn’t like any of them.
In the towns near London I have searched for traces of my elders, but there is no record of their adventures, only a vague melancholic fog like the one those elusive men went to look for on the other side of the sea, in the futureless city where I was born, the same city that half a century later insists on turning its back on the future and the sea.
I have been mocked and humiliated in London by certain model and fashion designer friends who, crowned with success, princes of frivolity, doped-up kings of endless nights, laugh at my hairstyle, my worn-out clothes, my fondness for ice cream, my flabby, swollen belly.
I have not been able to forget, and even less forgive, the curious incident of the famous celebrity photographer, who came into my room in London, opened the closet drawers without asking permission, took out my clothes one by one as if they were spiders or lizards, making faces of disgust, and burst out laughing when he saw that my clothes, all my clothes, were at odds with fashion.
I am not, and have never been, a man sensitive to the capricious dictates of fashion, although I have sometimes been a man of fashion, and perhaps right now I am fashionable.
I’m not willing to give up ice cream so that my friends in London will like me more or consider me part of their very mild brotherhood.
The glories that were given to me in London live on in my memory: the pool games I won in certain bars, the cars with the steering wheel turned to the right that I knew how to drive without crashing, like a very rich guy who lived in that city did, the football matches I watched from the stands of the stadiums, the drugs I smoked and snorted when I wanted to die young.
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I mean, I’m a man coming from London and going to London, just as I’m going to London now on a double-decker plane with five hundred passengers, me on the bottom deck, afraid that the top deck will fall on me.
My very rich uncle and my very rich aunt brought me books from London about adventures, pirates, police intrigues, as well as classical music records, but I wanted them to bring me records by Elton John, Bowie, Sting. They also brought me orange marmalade, one of my aunt’s weaknesses, the other being poodles.
Every summer my grandfather travelled to London. He was very English in his humour, his correctness, his severity and his intellectual curiosity. He often spoke to me in English. He seemed to have a certain confidence in my future. He would tell me: he who knows, knows. And he knew.
In London I was briefly a hero, who would have thought so. I once arrived on a flight from America. At the airport, they wouldn’t let a young Argentinian girl in because she didn’t have enough cash. They told her they would deport her. I immediately approached them, said it was a misunderstanding, that this young woman was my girlfriend and I would pay her expenses. I showed them a wad of pounds sterling and they believed me and the Argentinian girl entered London with me, as if she were my girlfriend. My efforts to persuade her to return the favour and spend the night with me were in vain. She wisely went to a friend’s apartment. I never saw her again. I am moved to remember her, what her life must have become.
In London I have seen or thought I saw Sabina singing in bars when he was not yet famous and was being persecuted by the Spanish dictatorship, García Márquez studying English and saying that certain London streets seemed Panamanian because of the bustle and colour, Cabrera Infante smoking cigars and making puns and wordplay, Vargas Llosa writing in a notebook in the British Museum, Borges saying that he who looks at the sea sees England. Although I have not seen them in real time, as I describe them, I have dreamed of them so much, and so powerfully, that without a doubt I have seen them and that is how I remember them now.
No visit to London is complete without a visit to the bar of the three-star hotel where I stayed the first time I stayed in the city. I hardly slept at all then and the hotel seemed decent and well located. My daughter laughs when I tell her that I slept in that old, run-down, smelly hotel, a hotel that smells of human shit, of old human shit.
I used to arrive in London without so many pills. Now I am haunted by the haunting spectre of death. After the pandemic, I fell ill with coronavirus in London and thought it was my destiny to die in that city. Now I carry with me numerous antibiotics and the usual sleeping pills. I do not wish to die in London. Not yet. I am a man of America. My wish or my destiny is to die in America and have my bones buried in America.
Nobody is waiting for me in London, not my niece, not my goddaughter, not my first cousin, not the bones of my ancestors, not the Argentinean woman who could have been my girlfriend but refrained, as a sign of elegance.
Waiting for me, perhaps, are the hotel driver, the receptionists who already know me, the uniformed girls from the club, all of them and the vague certainty that the ancient origin of my life, or the chain of chances and misfortunes that preceded the very beginning of my life, began there, in that city, on that island, in those frozen seas that my ancestors sailed, fleeing from wars, from debts, from the women they left pregnant, from honor and reputations.
SCJN freezes appeals towards reforms to mining and water concessions
Mexico Metropolis. The Supreme Court docket of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) ordered the nation’s federal courts to quickly freeze appeals towards the 2023 reform promoted by the present administration concerning mining and water concessions.
In a non-public session of the Plenary, final Thursday, the settlement was accepted with 9 votes in favor and one towards, by Minister Alfredo Gutiérrez Ortiz Mena, to keep away from additional court docket rulings on the problem, till the Court docket resolves the motion of unconstitutionality, the constitutional controversy and the pending amparos in overview.
The Court docket is predicted to rule on the constitutionality of the Decree amending, including to and repealing varied provisions of the Mining Regulation, the Nationwide Water Regulation, the Common Regulation on Ecological Steadiness and Environmental Safety, and the Common Regulation for the Prevention and Complete Administration of Waste, in relation to mining and water concessions.
The settlement accepted by the Plenary of the Court docket was proposed by Justice Lenia Batres. Amongst her arguments, she recalled that on February 16, the Second Collegiate Court docket of the Twenty-Fifth Circuit decided, when resolving the amparo in overview 483/2023, to grant the safety of the federal justice system towards the decree, ruling on the deserves of a matter that’s the authentic jurisdiction of the very best court docket.
“Pending the decision of the unconstitutionality motion 129/2023 that permits figuring out the final criterion of constitutionality that ought to prevail over the referred Decree, the issuance of substantive resolutions within the issues identified by this SCJN, Circuit Collegiate Courts and District Courts, whose challenged or contested acts are associated to the dialogue, approval, issuance and promulgation of the indicated Decree, in addition to any that bears similarity to them – both resulting from its entry into drive or associated to its software – have to be postponed,” it expressed by means of an info card.
Final June, the SCJN ordered one other comparable suspension by admitting the request for resumption of jurisdiction 93/2024, additionally promoted by Batres Guadarrama. Nevertheless, it defined that the brand new determination taken by the plenary session of the very best court docket final Thursday has a extra common scope, suspending any decision on the matter till the ministers resolve the unconstitutionality motion 129/2023.
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Las Palmas is near salvation and Betis opens the door to Actual Sociedad
UD Las Palmas and Actual Betis tied (2-2) this Thursday on matchday 36 of LaLiga EA Sports activities held on the Gran Canaria Stadium, some extent that brings salvation very near the yellow group, though it doesn’t finish their dangerous streak with out win, and that isn’t definitive for the Andalusians searching for sixth place. The precipitous fall of the Canaries, eight defeats in a row, was experiencing an already dramatic chapter with relegation looming and the subsequent match towards Cádiz on the penultimate day. As if that weren’t sufficient, in entrance of them, a Betis on a roll and with an equally essential goal such because the Europa League, which took the lead twice on the scoreboard. García Pimienta’s males confirmed pleasure and located a number of the misplaced objective to attain six factors towards Cádiz and keep one away from mathematical salvation. In the meantime, Manuel Pellegrini’s males, who misplaced Isco and Guido because of damage, failed of their combat for sixth place, which Actual Sociedad can get well this Thursday in the event that they beat Valencia at night time. Each demonstrated the necessity in a really intense begin. The locals additionally confirmed their poor purpose with a failed probability from Kirian and one other from Munir and, after 20 minutes, Mika Mármol made it 0-1 for Betis with an personal objective. The Andalusians insisted on the left wing and, in a cross from Abner, they discovered the benefit on the scoreboard to overlook the damage to Guido Rodríguez shortly earlier than. Nevertheless, earlier than the nerves might emerge, Las Palmas made it 1-1 by means of Álex Suárez, in a second play after a ball into the realm by Gonzalo Moleiro that caught the Betic protection within the cave. The objective raised the morale of the yellow troops and all of Gran Canaria, whereas Betis suffered an excellent larger blow with one other damage, that of Isco. With out the Malaga native’s beacon, the visiting group was on the mercy of the Canaries, who forgave with Sandro who generated loads of hazard however failed to alter his blunder with the objective. Nevertheless, with the restart got here one other blow from Betis: a objective from Tenerife’s Ayoze Pérez. Las Palmas was compelled to react once more, however the sport was now higher closed by the defenses. With out a lot backwards and forwards, or gaps to sneak by means of, it was Enzo Loiodice who invented Moleiro’s 2-2 play. With simply over 20 minutes left, the sport regained its loopy rhythm, its arrivals in each areas and the victory might have fallen from both facet. Iglesias Villanueva was additionally the protagonist, denying Betis a penalty in a handball from Álex Suárez and, when it comes to events, Ayoze and Abde forgave the clearest guests and Pejiño completed off the put up within the yellow group’s final breath.