FIDE Fair Play Seminar in San Vicente de Raspeig (Alicante) in collaboration with Dama Negra Chess Club is pleased to announce the upcoming FIDE Fair Play Seminar which will take place in San Vicente de Raspeig (Alicante) The seminar will coincide with the IX Open SEMANA SANTA San Vicente de Raspeig making it an ideal opportunity for chess arbiters and others interested in gathering and learning crucial aspects of fair play in chess The Seminar aims to provide fair play knowledge and share the best practices at events Lecturers will also deal with topics such as preparations for an event interaction with tournament officials and spectators and preventing unethical practices and promoting a positive chess culture the seminar participants will receive an FPE seminar norm as one of the requirements for the FPE title The FIDE Fair Play Seminar is open to all chess enthusiasts and officials who share a passion for promoting fair play learning more about the dark side of the sport and the practices of recognition and prevention upholding the highest ethical standards in chess Attendees will gain invaluable knowledge and insights to reinforce fair play practices within their respective chess federations and communities The Seminar Agenda and Syllabus will be provided additionally Nuevo Polideportivo (se ubica entre la facultad de Educación de la UA y el complejo deportivo Sur-Velódromo) San Vicente de Raspeig we would like to inform you that the arrangements for accommodation and food are at the discretion of each attendee It is not mandatory to stay in the same hotel where the seminar will take place Participants have the freedom to choose accommodation options that best suit their preferences and budget They are responsible for making their own arrangements and covering the associated costs We look forward to welcoming you at the FIDE Fair Play Seminar as we unite to shape a new chapter in the history of chess and fortify the foundations of fair play fpl.fide.com Bordering on the city center of San Vicente del Raspeig is a triangular plot with a gentle drop presided by a pine forest that closes up its north front like a stage curtain The urban plan for this block proposed its division into two halves each one with its independent project: on one side a six-story apartment block and on the other a landscaped square After the commission for the construction of the project a study was carried out to assess the benefits of merging both plots and programs into one project that would allow to complete a scheme in which the relationship between architecture and landscape generating spaces of greater urban quality The final decision was to extend the park to the whole plot assigned dividing it into a series of bands that go all the way up to a forest of pine trees is a horizontal structure of almost 200 meters in length that accommodates the private dwellings and the communal areas This proposal manages to use up all the buildable area with a minimum height thus respecting the presence of the vegetal mass Each one of the 39 dwellings is designed tomeet the needs of the elderly people that live in them and are tucked into a single-story elongated rectangular piece; aligned and attached these prisms configure a linear volume that rests on the ground The entrance to each residence is through a small porch that gives privacy and separates from the long corridor The interior distribution is based on a simple scheme consisting of two rooms the living-dining-kitchen and bedroom with a small terrace for the clothesline separated by a bathroom that receives daylight through a skylight with the main facade open to the new green area and to the trees by the rear facade The dwellings have a north-south orientation thanks to which the pine forest on one side is linked with the new park on the south The facade is set back from the long corridor to generate a small porch of access The terrain drops along the northeast end of the site its volume increasing until it gains one more floor thus acquiring a more urban scale.This is where the public part of the program with administration areas services and gathering zones is located.The structure is a simple and precise construction of slabs and walls of exposed concrete with brick walls clad with wood on sleepers The roof is covered with a layer of gravel that blends into the surrounding park Javier Mateu (aparejadores quantity surveyors) there arent any match using your search terms Architecture practice, NAOS Arquitectura and MCEA | Arquitectura have developed the Municipal Sports Pavilion for the city of San Vicente del Raspeig as a spacious and bright container of great versatility to house a series of sports modalities and large-capacity events to promote the sport with strategies such as visual communication between the interior and the exterior The building is configured as a dynamic system in a permanent change in which the superposition of the different geometries on the façade gives rise to an interior play of light and intensities that differentiate the sports spaces from each other giving them a unique character and inviting users to transit and remain in them The Municipal Sports Pavilion, designed by NAOS Arquitectura and MCEA | Arquitectura groups the different sports modalities into two main spaces giving rise to a very extensive programme: a central space for team sports with a capacity equivalent to four indoor basketball courts and a grandstand and spaces for gymnasiums and sports classes The project results in a building with very high energy efficiency that maximises natural lighting and allows cross ventilation throughout its entire volume due to the design of the checkerboard-shaped façades in addition to creating a geometric game that gives rise to different interior perceptions plays an important role in the thermal regulation of the project Municipal Sporst Pavilion by NAOS Arquitectura + MCEA | Arquitectura Project description by NAOS Arquitectura and MCEA Arquitectura The Municipal Sports Pavilion of San Vicente del Raspeig is configured as a large container of great versatility to host multiple sports modalities and large capacity events in general in which the visual connection between interior and exterior becomes one of the directing threads of the project with the aim of making sports practice visible from the outside as a measure to promote sports To achieve the greatest degree of versatility of its spaces the different sports modalities are grouped in two large spaces: on the one hand the central space intended for team sports modalities and with the equivalent capacity of 4 indoor basketball courts and room spaces for directed activities and gyms Each of these interior spaces will be characterized by different nuances of light and color: the central space overhead lighting through 5 skylights facing North and with a predominance of the warm tones of the wood of the flooring; the activity rooms through illumination filtered through the two sheets of the facades and the different cold tones of its floors This spatial organization of uses at the same time offers great versatility in the management of the building by allowing each of the main uses (pavilion gym and cafeteria) to function independently The facades of the building are configured as a dynamic system in permanent change in which the superposition of two different geometries horizontal striping on the exterior leaf and checkerboard on the interior leaf alternate with greater or lesser intensity depending on the nuances of the interior and exterior lighting These changes in the composition of the façade are reinforced by the alternation between the intense white colour of the façade during the day and its decomposition into the different blue colours that arise from the reflection of the lighting on the interior floors of the building The building is configured as a very high energy efficiency system maximizing the natural lighting of all spaces and configuring a motorized natural ventilation system that allows cross ventilation of the entire volume through its facades and the vents located in cover allowing the nighttime dissipation of the heat accumulated during the day These passive measures are complemented by the provision of an aerothermal system for the production of DHW and a photovoltaic installation for the production of electricity thus configuring a building with almost zero energy consumption NAOS 04 Arquitectos SLP, MCEA | Arquitectura. Project and Construction works Management.- MANUEL COSTOYA ESTUDIO DE ARQUITECTURA (MCEA) NAOS 04 ARQUITECTOS.Execution Works management and Health and safety coordination.- RAFAEL MORA FOLLANA.Structure Engineering.- QUBE INGENIERÍA.Systems Engineering.- JG INGENIEROS Mediciones.- MARÍA JOSÉ GONZÁLEZ.-Bill of quantities.- MARÍA JOSÉ GONZÁLEZ Plot area.- 11,232 sqm.Constructed area.- 6,648 sqm KINGSPAN.Metalic carpentry and glasses.- SINGULAR GLASS KINGSPAN.Ironmongery.- CERRAJERÍA NAVARRO.Hvac.- AERNEX.Electricity.- BERNARDO FLORES.Prefabricated stands.- LECRIN.Sports court pavement.- SDI SPORTFLOOR TARKETT.Seats.- DAPLAST ASIENTOS Y TRIBUNAS.Elevators.- OTIS David Frutos Fotografía de Arquitectura. Archive Architecture Metrics details The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART NASA) spacecraft revealed that the primary of the (65803) Didymos near-Earth asteroid (NEA) binary system is not exactly the expected spinning top shape observed for other km-size asteroids Ground based radar observations predicted that such shape was compatible with the uncertainty along the direction of the asteroid spin axis Didymos shows crater and landslide features and evidence for boulder motion at low equatorial latitudes the primary seems to have undergone sudden structural failure in its recent history which may even result in the formation of the secondary The high eccentricity of Didymos sets its aphelion distance inside the inner main belt where it spends more than 1/3 of its orbital period and it may undergo many more collisions than in the NEA region we investigate the collisional environment of this asteroid and estimate the probability of collision with multi-size potential impactors We analyze the possibility that such impacts produced the surface features observed on Didymos by comparing collisional intervals with estimated times for surface destabilization by the Yarkovsky-O’Keefe-Radzievskii-Paddack (YORP) effect We find that collisional effects dominate over potential local or global deformation due to YORP spin up Images of Didymos show a not completely axisymmetric body The LICIACube (ASI) cubesat top-down images show a squarish equatorial region Didymos has an equatorial smooth (at available resolution) bulge with many large boulders on its visible side Images also reveal several crater-like structures located away from the equatorial region and the presence of many linear North-South and South-North tracks in both northern and southern equatorial regions The Didymos system orbits the Sun with an eccentric orbit (e = 0.38375) driving it as far as Q = 2.2755 au (aphelion distance) from the Sun This makes the system spend 1/3 of its orbital period inside that region small surface modifications may trigger changes in the torque produced by the solar radiation pressure forces on the asteroid even leading to switch from positive to negative angular acceleration so it would not be surprising that they are also responsible for surface degradation by multiplying the first by a suitable scaling factor as a function of the impactor energy and size We find that the observed surface degradation features observed on Didymos are most probably due to impacts rather than to the effect of YORP-induced spin up Didymos may be estimated to have a larger angular acceleration due to its smaller moment of inertia and may be assumed to be (0.5−10) × 10−6 deg/day2 any perturbation on the surface within such time range shall release local shear stress due to spin up resetting stress buildup and avoiding large scale deformation that would –instead– take place on a collision-free Didymos Didymos crosses three different asteroid populations: the Near-Earth Asteroids (NEA) the poorly populated Hungaria asteroid region and the inner belt The contribution to collisions is expected to be dominated by the inner belt asteroids as they outnumber both the NEA and the Hungaria populations In order to compute the relevant statistical parameters of the effective collisional environment of the Didymos/Dimorphos system—mainly impact frequency and distribution of the impact velocity—we restricted our analysis to the population of impactors whose orbits can cross the orbit of Didymos We name such population as Didymos Crossing Objects (DCO) The number of impacts per unit time suffered by Didymos or Dimorphos from DCO impactors with diameter larger than D is given by: and it is related to the target orbit and the distribution of impactor orbits As shown in detail in the “Methods” section we estimated that 〈Pi〉 = (0.9−1.2) × 10−17 km−2 yr−1 Source data are provided as a Source Data file Once the characteristics of the collisional environment of the Didymos system are established It is also interesting to study the characteristic time of the impact with projectiles which kinetic energy is larger than a given value E Assuming that the typical relative speed U is the mean impact velocity determined above a collision with energy larger than E is due to an impactor whose diameter is larger than: it should have undergone tens of DART-like impacts in that period of time The effect of such impacts on the Didymos surface is unknown but it may have triggered landslides due to its fast spin rate (2.26 h) modifying its appearance and surface morphology and making it hard to extrapolate current surface features to surface ages dating the surface age after some major resurfacing event (e.g the latest large impact) may be misleading because later low-energy impacts may produce surface modifications comparable to those caused by the impact itself There are ten crater-like features identified with the same level of confidence on Didymos Our calculation for the average impact rate of 10 m projectiles gives τDD = 75–130 Myr we need to keep in mind that Didymos current orbit is not expected to have lasted more than the median NEA lifetime (≈8–10 Myr) so far and it is not straightforward to extrapolate an impact frequency for Didymos back to when it still was in the main belt we do not know what region of the main belt it came from which may affect its average encounter speed and the population density of potential impactors One can try to have an idea of such average impact time by simply taking into account the assumed Didymos age as a NEA and the fact that Didymos currently spends 1/3 of its orbital period inside the inner belt where the impact probability is significantly larger than in the NEA region This results in an estimation of one 10 m projectile impact every 25–45 Myr and a 95% Poisson probability to have at least one such impact over 75–130 My None of those time intervals should be taken as estimates of the Didymos surface age surface modification may happen at any time later than the largest impact due to low-energy impacts triggering local damage and landslides and it may indicate that the binary formation took place when the Didymos parent body was already a NEA such impact induced surface perturbations are very likely responsible for releasing stress on the surface produced by YORP spin up causing themselves the landslides and surface features that have been identified on the Didymos surface This result clearly points at collisions as the dominant source of surface evolution in the Didymos system The main dynamical difference between the Didymos binary system and other small asteroids imaged by spacecraft is that part of its orbit enters the inner belt where collisional probability increases dramatically Ryugu and Bennu have orbits well inside the NEA region with no interaction with the main belt asteroids (qRyugu = 0.963 au QRyugu = 1.42 au; qBennu = 0.897 au; QBennu = 1.36 au) together with the extremely high spin rate of the primary are the main peculiarities of the Didymos system departing from the top shape shown by both Ryugu and Bennu The process leading to any such outcome may be the action of YORP or even a final impulsive event (a small energy collision on a parent asteroid already rotating close to its critical spin rate Statistics of impacts is provided in terms of the mean intrinsic probability of collision the mean impact velocity and the distribution of impact velocity all strictly related to the target orbit and the orbital distribution of the impactors population we focus on the statistics of impacts between the Didymos system and the population of Didymos Crossing Objects (DCO) the computation of the statistical parameters of impacts is based on the following dynamical hypotheses: eccentricities e and inclinations I of the target and impactor orbits are fixed; the arguments of pericenters and longitudes of the nodes change uniformly with time; the arguments of pericenters and longitudes of the nodes of different orbits are not cross-correlated; the conditions above are valid under the assumption that the values of forced eccentricities and forced inclinations due to secular perturbations are much smaller than the corresponding proper elements For Solar System asteroids this assumption is not strictly correct but it is a good approximation for the purposes of this work deviations in the probability of collision due to secular effects entail errors in the collisional rates smaller than the errors coming from other sources of uncertainty mainly from our limited knowledge of the real size distribution of impactors For an impactor which orbit cannot cross the target orbit The mean intrinsic probability of collision between the target and the impactors population is defined as: I) is the (normalized) distribution of the impactors orbital elements the mean number of impacts per unit time between the target and projectiles larger than size D is: where DT is the diameter of the target and N( > D) is the cumulative distribution of impactors larger than a given size D the value of the mean impact velocity can be written as: I) is the mean impact velocity between the target and a projectile with orbital elements a Source Data are provided as a Source Data file. Source Data are provided as a Source Data file The value of 〈Pi〉 varies from 0.9 × 10−17 km−2 yr−1 for \({H}_{\max }=13\) to 1.2 × 10−17 km−2 yr−1 for \({H}_{\max }=20\) which is beyond the limit of completeness of the DCO population Higher values of 〈Pi〉 are clearly more and more unreliable due to the increasing number of internal orbits is balanced by the lower relative velocities of those orbits with respect to the target higher impact velocities are due to the contribution of orbits with higher eccentricities and inclinations belonging to the external part of the DCO region the census of such orbits is affected by strong observational biases is calculated for the population of objects corresponding to the size distribution N(>D) The advantage of excluding non crossing orbits is that the computation of the mean intrinsic probability of collision is then independent of any assumption about the orbital distribution of objects that do not interact with the target of asteroids belonging to the inner zone of the Main Belt we model the DCO size distribution assuming that it is the same as MAB but suitably scaled in order to take into account that only a fraction of MABs can collide with the Didymos/Dimorphos system if N( > D) is the cumulative size distribution of DCOs and NMB( > D) is the MAB cumulative size distribution corresponding to different values of the impact threshold specific dispersion energy in their collisional model) as the lower and upper limits for NMB( > D) We call them NB20.1( > D) and NB20.8( > D) Source Data are provided as a Source Data file we assume that there is no correlation between absolute magnitudes and albedos Such hypothesis may not be completely correct in general but it is reasonably acceptable for the purpose of the present work the number \({{{{{{{\rm{d}}}}}}}}{N}^{{\prime} }( > D)\) of the observed DCOs with diameter larger than D and albedo in the interval [α α) is the absolute magnitude corresponding to the diameter D and albedo α: and ϕ(α) is the (normalized) distribution of the albedo the total number of observed DCOs with diameter larger than D compatible with the observed distributions of absolute magnitudes and albedos In practice, we evaluated integral (9) as: is the list of DCO albedos in our database Figure 7 shows the ratio between \({N}^{{\prime} }( > D)\) and the distributions NMB( > D) in the range form 1 km to 10 km. The ratios are rather stable, with mean values 0.26 ± 0.01 and 0.31 ± 0.01 for the two cases n. 1 and n. 8 respectively. In conclusion, our extreme models of the de-biased distribution of the DCOs are: The long-dashed lines are the mean values Source Data are provided as a Source Data file In Fig. 1 the different size distributions are plotted in the range between 20 cm and 100 km along with the observed DCO distribution \({N}^{{\prime} }( > D)\) divided by the two values of the scaling factor k It is worthwhile pointing out that NB20.1 > NB20.8 between 0.001 km and 10 km within the interval of diameters of interest for the purposes of the present work The asteroid belt is considered to have its inner limit at heliocentric distance rMAB = 2.06 au The orbit of the Didymos system has semimajor axis a = 1.6425 au and a low inclination with respect to the plane of the ecliptic This configuration implies that part of the orbit is inside the inner Main Asteroid Belt It is straightforward to calculate the fraction of time that Didymos spends in that region along its orbit it is necessary to apply the classical relationship between the true anomaly (v) and the eccentric anomaly (u) of its orbit: relating the body mean anomaly (n) to its eccentric anomaly: and t0 is the time of passage through the pericentre The values of v corresponding to the enter and exit points from the inner belt may be derived through the JPL Horizons ephemeris generator we find that Didymos spends a fraction of its orbital period beyond rMAB equal to 0.3556 Source data are provided in the Source Data file. Source data are provided with this paper They are embedded in a multipurpose Java library and researchers interested in using them are kindly invited to contact Dr Momentum transfer from the DART mission kinetic impact on asteroid Dimorphos Orbital period change of Dimorpos due to the DART kinetic impact Successful kinetic impact into an asteroid for planetary defence Lifted particles from the fast spinning primary of the Near-Earth Asteroid (65803) Didymos Orbital and physical characterization of asteroid Dimorphos following the DART impact Radiative spin-up and spin-down of small asteroids Inferring interiors and structural history of top-shaped asteroids from external properties of asteroid (101955) Bennu Rotation acceleration of asteroids (10115) 1992 SK and (1620) geographos due to the YORP effect.Astron YORP effect on asteroid 162173 Ryugu: implications for the dynamical history Extreme sensitivity of the YORP effect to small-scale topography Combined effect of YORP and collisions on the rotation rate of small Main Belt asteroids Main belt asteroid collision histories: cratering Interpreting the cratering histories of Bennu Images from the surface of asteroid Ryugu show rocks similar to carbonaceous chondrite meteorites and physical characterization of near-Earth and Mars-crosser asteroids from a spectroscopic survey Long-term stable equilibria for synchronous binary asteroids Barnouin, O. 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which is the largest English-speaking expat area in the Region of Murcia When submitting text to be included on Camposol Today please abide by the following guidelines so we can upload your article as swiftly as possible: Send an email to editor@camposoltoday.com or contact@murciatoday.com Attach the information in a Word Document or Google Doc Also attach a photo to illustrate your article 6 (UPI) -- Cattle ranchers and livestock farmers all over the world use ivermectin Contrary to the findings of veterinarian-authored drug studies on ivermectin the medicine's molecules can survive the digestive tract of an animal and exit intact Drug residues can remain active for a month in livestock dung harming not just the parasites it's designed to target These findings were supported by observations in the field Rates of dung decomposition were up to 30 percent lower in areas of concentrated ivermectin use Scientists say the discrepancy can be explained by the decline of dung beetle populations in those areas Ivermectin has been tremendously effective since its discovery in the 1980s But scientists say there are now more negative side effects to consider when deciding when where and how much to administer to animals colonization of highly nitrophilous plants and a reduction of biodiversity are all drawbacks for both livestock and the ecosystem The new social housing building in San Vicente del Raspeig awarded a prize in the XII Spanish Biennal of Architecture and Urbanism was designed by the architect Alfredo Payá Its 32 housing units are organized along central covered streets The result is a building with different collective spaces that relate the house to the street and enable a greater social interaction between the neighbours Archive HOUSING the building is the final materialization of a project presented to a competition for the construction of two residential towers one to be occupied by young tenants and another one for senior citizens The assigned plots were located on either side of the street and were surrounded by open spaces which the brief proposed to fill with the construction of a public park which awarded one of the two blocks presented it was necessary to modify the original proposal – which connected the two buildings via a footbridge – and to give up the idea of building a horizontal structure The new proposal studied the occupation potential of a vertical structure suggesting different strategies to encourage the interaction among the different members of the community Though the original project comprised two towers connected by a footbridge Built out of reinforced concrete with metal elements it contains forty apartments for senior citizens the development has three floors for communal uses which help to strengthen the links between the built zones and the surrounding green areas The ground floor contains three open spaces provides an important connection with the gardened areas and the slope that acts as a buffer zone at the base of the building The third floor has a large terrace with breakout spaces for a variety of activities This space performs at the same time as a balcony and a viewpoint and covers practically the entire perimeter of the tower offering views in all directions and letting the sunlight in during the day The metal enclosure combines aluminum frames with prefabricated panels of galvanized steel that allow filtering natural light and ensure that sunrays will make their way into all the interior spaces The housing block accommodates forty rental apartments with an average area of 48 square meters each the residential complex has a floor below ground level with a parking garage with capacity for forty cars The different functions are organized in such a way that the spaces can be adapted to the activities they will house and they can establish links with the surroundings The structure has been built with exposed reinforced concrete whereas the enclosure combines this same material with aluminum window frames and prefabricated panels of galvanized steel These metallic elements permit filtering sunlight nuancing natural illumination in the interior and at the same time defining the formal identity of the building Javier Mateu (aparejadores budget supervisors) Sergonsil (estructura structural engineering) Cubierbento (chapa de alumnio aluminium sheet) Moreno Sistemas de Alumninio (carpintería de alumnio aluminium frame) Blasco Construcciones en madera (carpintería de madera wood frame) Estructuras metálicas Loviga (cerrajería locksmithery) Alien is a structure that emerges from within just like the eighth passenger in Ridley Scott’s mythical movie This parasite structure shows itself at different moments of the premises of a preceding construction of which only the masonry walls have been preserved along with its bold white mass situated on a hill in a low scrub landscape Inserting a new structure on the site has made it possible to altogether transform the domestic space which is no longer compartmentalized like before and which now in all frankness opens out to the Mediterranean Sea the household’s daytime activities are placed on the ground floor leaving the upper level for the family’s bedrooms and a library A spatial sequence gradually leads from the interior to the exterior through a series of spaces each of a different character: a garden facing the sea and finally a rear porch with its own garden Velasco (arquitecto técnico quantity surveyor); B In March, Alicante’s TRAM experienced a remarkable surge in ridership, with 1,626,819 passengers embarking on journeys This impressive figure reflects a significant 13.59 per cent increase from the same period last year with 194,587 more passengers opting for rail travel Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat Valenciana (FGV) recorded a notable overall increase in ridership for March Combining both Metrovalencia and TRAM d’Alacant marking a substantial 7.55 per cent rise from March 2023 This surge equates to an additional 856,411 passengers embracing rail travel during this period serving 660,307 journeys between Luceros and San Vicent del Raspeig while Line 4 from Luceros to Plaza La Coruña saw 189,725 passengers connecting Porta del Mar and Plaza La Coruña Luceros has once again emerged as the top transit hub boasting 259,661 travellers after the completion of its renovations Sant Vicent del Raspeig served 101,011 passengers while Marq-Castillo secured fifth with 87,554 users El Campello claimed the sixth spot with 51,898 passengers trailed closely by Bulevar del Plá at seventh with 51,194 Garbinet took the eighth position with 47,484 Pintor Gaston Castello followed in ninth with 45,143 and Universitat rounded off the top ten with 39,156 movements The season of grand tours kicks off with the iconic VCV – Vuelta a la Comunidad Valenciana the Valencian round celebrates its 75th anniversary with a very special edition that will be held from 31 January to 4 February and will be at the level of the best international cycling The #75VCV will feature a route that will include five exciting stages with different profiles and difficulties The 2024 Tour of the Valencia province will also feature some of the best teams and cyclists in the world who will be looking to shine on the roads of this Mediterranean region Banco Sabadell will be at the side of the great cycling family, sponsoring this #VCV2024 The entity has renewed its commitment to the Vuelta This edition marks nine years of collaboration with the organisation and in the words of Fernando Canós Deputy General Manager and Director of the Eastern Region “Banco Sabadell is proud to support the Vuelta in a community where our presence and customers are relevant; it brings us closer to them and to a region with a large number of fans of this wonderful sport.” The route of the Vuelta a la Comunidad Valenciana Gran Premio Banco Sabadell 2024 is varied and demanding which will put the best cyclists in the world to the test Teulada Moraira and Bétera; and finishes in Castellón the #75VCV will pass through 84 towns in the Valencian Community Mark this challenge on your 2024 cycling calendar BENICÀSSIM – CASTELLÒ – 166 km – Mid-Mountainous The first stage of the #75VCV will start in the province of Castellón A total of 166 kilometres with three mountain passes on an apparently comfortable route A second category pass just 16 kilometres from the finish line will make for an exciting final stretch After the Desierto we will know if there will be a mass sprint or if it will be a reduced group who will compete for the first yellow jersey at the finish line in Castellón CANALS – MANCOMUNITAT DE LA VALLDIGNA – 164 km – Mid-Mountainous is between Canals and the Mancomunitat de la Valldigna It could be a perfect stage for a sprint finish if it were not for the third category pass of Pla de Corrals A very fast and exciting finish with a technical descent to reach the finish line in Simat de la Valldigna SAN VICENT DEL RASPEIG – ORIHUELA – 161 km – Sprint We enter the province of Alicante in a third stage that is ideal for a sprint finish will encourage the riders to look for a breakaway There will be nerves in the final part with the headwind but everything indicates that the sprinters’ teams will be in control for a mass finish of the peloton TEULADA/MORAIRA – LA VALL D’EBO – 175 km – Mountain The queen stage of the #75VCV that takes mountain biking to the next level with 3,645 metres of positive vertical change in height; the most eagerly awaited A climb of just over 5 kilometres with an average gradient of 10.5% and a maximum gradient of 20% It is crowned 15 kilometres from the finish with hardly any descent We expect a spectacular outcome on a difficult terrain until we reach Vall D’Ebo and the final two-kilometre climb BÉTERA – VALÈNCIA – 93 km – Mid-Mountainous The fifth and last stage of this Levante cycling tour starts in Bétera and finishes in the Port of Valencia but which can still change everything in terms of the general classification The pass of La Frontera will once again be decisive which has a 5 kilometre climb with a gradient of 18% There is sure to be battle and excitement all the way to the finish line The Vuelta Ciclista a la Comunidad Valenciana has established itself as one of the most important cycling championships in Spain and this year it will celebrate its anniversary in style top participants and a great organisation will make this edition an unforgettable experience for all cycling lovers don’t miss the next edition of the Vuelta Ciclista a la Comunidad Valenciana Gran Premio Banco Sabadell A top-level sporting event that will allow you to enjoy the best cycling competition in an incomparable setting registered with the Mercantile Register in Barcelona Fiscal Identification Number (NIF) A08000143 Credit institution subject to the supervision of the Bank of Spain and registered in the special administrative register under number 0081 2025 – As part of “Operation Legar,” the Guardia Civil has dismantled a large and highly sophisticated marijuana plantation hidden inside a private home in Busot The operation resulted in the arrest and imprisonment of a Serbian couple after agents from the San Vicente del Raspeig Guardia Civil Investigation Unit received reports from concerned citizens about persistent noises from electrical equipment and suspicious activities at a nearby three-story officers discovered that the house was rented by a couple who paid cash for their rent and kept the electricity contract under the homeowner’s name officers executed a search warrant at the property arresting a 45-year-old man and a 44-year-old woman they found 481 mature marijuana plants in the final stages of flowering The property had been extensively modified to conceal the operation high-capacity electrical and ventilation systems and specialized equipment for processing and packaging the drugs The clandestine lab was outfitted with cutting-edge technology worth more than €18,000 and chemical fertilizers designed to boost the potency of the marijuana electricity company technicians uncovered an illegal underground connection to the power grid The estimated energy theft exceeded 80,000 watts—equivalent to the consumption of about 50 similar homes The arrested individuals are charged with drug cultivation and production They have been remanded into custody by the San Vicente del Raspeig Court of Instruction No The Guardia Civil highlighted the vital role of citizen collaboration in the success of this operation and urged the public to continue reporting any suspicious activities that could be linked to drug trafficking Log in to leave a comment © 2021 The Leader Digital Conor Murphy, the junior TT champion and 10 mile TT record holder, told stickybottle recently he was hopeful for a strong start to his 2025 season in Europe and that’s exactly what he delivered today in Spain riding once more this year with U19 Academy Région Sud powered by Giant took a podium result – from a whopping 180 starters from 19 countries – at the first time of asking and gets to go again tomorrow Murphy lined out today in his first race of the road campaign the Gran Premio San Vicente – Costa Blanca – Junior C.R.I was won by Spain’s Eñaut Urcaregui (GT Tolosa/Danena) in a time of 9:43 making for an average speed of 47.547km per hour and Spanish junior international last year was 3rd at 17 seconds and was the only Irish rider in the race in Gran Premio San Vicente – Costa Blanca – Junior Ruta (1.1) It will be contested over 133km and is effectively the sister race of the TT today and features for categorised climbs with a lumpy circuit throughout adding up to 2,250m of climbing We’re determined to make stickybottle.com much better for your enjoyment So become a ‘Stickybottle Supporter’ now from just €5 per month We’ve grown our audience significantly in recent years but the advertising market has become harder and harder each year In order to survive and grow – and create much better content – we need to develop an income from our readers By signing up to become a ‘Stickybottle Supporter’ you’ll be helping to secure independent coverage of Irish cycling for years to come Every cent collected from readers will be used to directly fund content Sign Up the Irish junior competing with French team U19 Academy Région Sud powered by Giant this year has told stickybottle he was happy with his first international competitive outings last weekend and felt he was now stronger on the climbs The 18-year-old was 3rd in the TT – from a massive international field of over 180 riders – at Gran Premio San Vicente-Costa Blanca-Junior C.R.I He also went on the attack in the road race the next day As a top tester – the Irish champion and junior 10 mile record holder and 10th in the Worlds last season – Murphy’s TT ride in Spain a number of factors also worked against him “It was a good weekend all around,” he said “In the TT on Saturday I felt I did a good ride but when I was out for my start time it was raining so it was pretty slippery out on the course “And some of the boys that came out later got the advantage on us with the dryer weather But overall I was pretty happy with that performance I was getting sick on the bike in the race so I didn’t have any food in me and I just blew up in the last 10K out of the break “It was a good ride considering the circumstances and I’m happy with my progress I’m climbing a lot better this year and I was able to stick with the top climbers there when they kicked so it’s positive looking forward to the next few races.” The 7.7km flat TT was won by Spain’s Eñaut Urcaregui (GT Tolosa/Danena) in a time of 9:43 Murphy was in a breakaway for much of the road race before fading out of that move in the final 10km have his illness issues through the day He eventually finished in 26th – of 177 starters – some 3:09 down in race winner Belgian junior international Édouard Claisse (CC Chevigny U19) The Local Europe ABVästmannagatan 43113 25 StockholmSweden Spanish daily El Mundo reported that the precarious parade took place on Maundy Thursday at the high point of the celebrations in the municipality of San Vicente del Raspeig The statue bearers rocked a little over-enthusiastically in their fervour causing the Virgin to take an undignified tumble from her perch the statue was quickly repositioned on the float She escaped with only a lightly-damaged crown to show for her misadventure Want to know more about Spain's craziest Easter traditions? Check out our seven most surprising facts about Spain's Holy Week.   Don't miss stories about Spain, join The Local on Facebook and Twitter Please log in here to leave a comment Darío Poveda, young talent for SD HuescaThe forward, who will provide his uncanny knack for scoring goals and attacking skills, joins on loan from Getafe CF until the end of the season Copy linkThere are no reactions yet Be the first!Darío Poveda (San Vicente del Raspeig 1997) will contribute with his goals to Sociedad Deportiva Huesca The striker has agreed a contract to join the club on loan from Getafe CF until the end of the season With 15 appearances this season in LaLiga Santander and having played for two of the best youth teams in Spain (Villarreal CF and Atletico Madrid) Xisco sees the squad’s attacking prowess risen as well as young talent to strengthen the team in LaLiga SmartBank Forward with an imposing frame – 1.87m tall – and a wide variety of registers he has chosen SD Huesca to continue growing Poveda began his youth career at Villarreal CF at the age of 11 and grew up there until he reached its second team He made his first-team LaLiga and Europa League debut in 2017 The striker caught Atletico Madrid’s eye and signed for their second team one year after his professional debut Virtually ever-present in Atletico’s second team starting line-up it was only an unlucky injury what prevented him from being called up more often by Cholo Simeone as he had already enjoyed his first minutes with the first team He had become the surprise package of Atletico’s second team’s competition having found the net 10 times in 10 games and he found it at Getafe – first with a loan spell and then he signed for the club The young forward has shown his character and has proved that he has the level to compete at the top by making the most of his chances at Getafe he gave the three points to his team at the injury time against Osasuna and made his Copa del Rey debut scoring a goal for his team he represented the Spain Under-19 team in 2016 for the first time playing three games in the Euro qualifying explosive and fast striker with an uncanny knack for scoring goals He is also dominant in the air and his crosses from the flank are dangerous has skills to play with his back to goal and to find his teammates easily He is a centre-forward yet he has a wide variety of qualities to play either as an attacking midfielder or as a winger His talents are perfectly fit for SD Huesca’s football Ruben Carbonell, 29, threw himself from the Fontcalent building in San Vicente del Raspeig in Alicante at 1am yesterday morning.  The aim was to record the jump and post it on his YouTube channel dedicated to risk sports. A friend with him at the time raised the alarm when Spaniard crashed to the ground, dying instantly. An investigation is underway to find out how the pair got into the cement factory and managed to climb up the chimney. According to reports, the deceased and a friend jumped the fence that prevents access to the cement factory of the Cemex company. Once inside, both climbed to the top of a tower of about 165ft , from which Ruben jumped first. But the parachute did not open for reasons that are still being investigated and the young man died from injuries he received when he hit the ground. His companion contacted the emergency services and police and medics went to the scene but there was nothing they could do to save him.  since the videos he had uploaded showed jumps from a bridge Cemex confirmed that the deceased man and his companion had "sneaked" into the facilities which have surveillance cameras and private security But they said they would leave it in the hands of the police to investigate how they got in Our journalists strive for accuracy but on occasion we make mistakes. For further details of our complaints policy and to make a complaint please click this link: thesun.co.uk/editorial-complaints/ Jove Espanol host Real Sociedad at the Ciudad Deportiva de San Vicente del Raspeig on Thursday in the opening round of the Copa del Rey The fifth tier side lost 1-0 at leaders Atletico Saguntino in their last match falling behind late in the first half before a red card to Javi Salero 15 minutes from time scuppered their comeback hopes are coming off a 2-0 La Liga home defeat to Osasuna at the weekend They are two-time winners of the Copa del Rey and have finished runners-up four times Jove head into the midweek clash on a four-game losing streak They will however look forward to a historic contest and look to give a good account of themselves Sociedad's latest result ended a three-game unbeaten streak and will look to bounce back in the cup They have performed well on the road recently and should easily win this one Tip 2 - Goals - Over/under 2.5 - Over 2.5 goals Tip 3 - Both teams to score: No (Both sides have found the back of the net in one of Jove's last four matches.) 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