media release: We're thrilled to announce the lineup for the 2025 Madison Jazz Festival and the list of our festival sponsors will be added in the upcoming days Please save the dates on your calendar and get ready to celebrate with 10 days of jazz across the city All other events free admission or suggested donation Thursday, June 5-Sunday, June 8, 2025: Madison Jazz Society presents iGnitE jAzz! An All Ages, All Levels Jazz Camp at MYArts on Thursday 5:00-8:30pm; Friday 5:00-9:00pm, Saturday 9:00am-6:00pm, and Sunday at Olin Park with The Original Pinettes (info below). Find the schedule at https://www.madisonjazz.com/ignite-jazz-camp/ 2025: AACM 60th Anniversary Series featuring three concerts at Cafe Coda: Ugochi and African Soul Ensemble at 5:00pm and Dushun Mosley's Interdimensional Sound Ensemble at 9:00pm ($) 2025: The Original Pinettes Brass Band from New Orleans at Olin Park Conversation/Q&A at 5:00pm / Concert at 7:00pm 2025: Summer Sundays Jazz in the Garden Kick Off: Emy Castro Peruvian Jazz Quintet at Allen Centennial Garden 2025: NewBridge Summer Concerts Kick Off: Jazz + Art at Warner Park 2025: Remember Me: Celebrating Mary Lou Williams in Poetry and Music at Arts + Literature Laboratory 2025: Documentary Screening of Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat at Madison Museum of Contemporary Art Wednesday, June 11, 2025: Sweet Tooth Jazz Band at North Street Cabaret. 7:00pm ($ tickets:  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sweet-tooth-jazz-band-tickets-1342766443579) 2025: DC & The Love with special guest Mar Vilaseca at Cafe CODA 2025: DIG JAZZ presents Exclusively for Our Friends: An Oscar Peterson Centennial Concert at Arts + Literature Laboratory 2025: Jazz on the UW-Madison Memorial Union Terrace* 
5:00 pm | Camille Thurman and Darrell Green Quartet
 7:00 pm | Isaiah Collier & The Chosen Few
 
7:00 pm | Arturo O'Farrill and the Afro Latin Jazz Ensemble *Please note the Terrace schedule is subject to change please send an email with the following information to calendar@isthmus.com Here's the information we need to include your event in our calendar: * event date; RSVP/ticket deadline if there is one email or website we can publish (REQUIRED) Optional info:* bios/press releases for posting with the online listing has been a true celebration and affirmation of the unique spirit of the Galesburg community— a “small” community that has achieved the rare accomplishment of sustaining and growing an annual jazz festival of national renown The festival reflects a unique collaboration between schools The greatest jazz artists from around the world have graced the stages of Rootabaga tickets and donation information is available at www.knox.edu/jazzyear An event every week that begins at 12:00 am on Wednesday and Thursday the live event you were looking for is over Memphis still has a number of live events happening throughout the city Here's a calendar of events happening today and in the future UPON A BURNING BODY Alison Krauss & Union Station  Cell Trio ASKING ALEXANDRIA W/ FROM ASHES TO NEW BEARTOOTH Ryze Hendricks Lips Speak Louder w/ Anna Rose Baker, Radar Blips Symmetry Jazz Memphis Songwriters Series Hosted by Mark Edgar Stuart THE PINCH Dead Alive / Phantom / Grave Lurker / Bvrnbvbybvrn Jed Harrelson w/ Alexis Jade BRUCE KEE BAND Brandon Santini Album Release Party Bonnie Raitt CK / Ruined God / Cel Shade / My Skin Is Wax Wim Tapley and the Cannons w/ Jombi & Crooked Diehl Tigers Jaw w/ Rodeo Boys South Memphis Jeff SGT. Splendor Jugfest WALRUS Folk All Y’all presents: Kyshona Tony Holiday Emo Nite Noir Walls + Sleepy Cat Heavy Pours/HEELS/Mike Hewlett The Culture Exchange LANDSLIDE – A TRIBUTE TO FLEETWOOD MAC KILLSWITCH ENGAGE October London and Tamar Braxton  Whiphouse / Psychic Death / Spoonful Calabrese Memphis Dance Music Assoc. Muse:Stanza The Acacia Strain 311 Goner Presents: The Tubs w/ Ibex Clone CROOKED DIEHL W/ KUNG FU CARWASH Ross Rice and Friends Bastardane x Fury in Few Magic Rockers of Texas BONFIRE ORCHESTRA Iris Collective Strings  The Narrows: EP Release Show Nick Shoulders Dream Disco No Cure / Prevention / Sign Language / Calamity / Surfaced James Sexton: The Otis Mission The Gloryholes / Seize & Desist / Stay Fashionable  Have an idea or suggestion?Tell us at [email protected] Andrés Vilaseca is out of the November Internationals following surgery cartilage cleaning and stem cell injections in both knees Unión Argentina de Rugby Argentina (UAR) medic Unión de Rugby del Uruguay (URU) physiotherapist Santiago “Colo” Ramirez was present at the surgery Vilaseca faces a recovery period of 5 to 6 months. It will mean an opportunity for another player to play inside center for Uruguay in November. Vilaseca has been a mainstay for his country. Not only is he captain but he has 82 caps Los Teros will play three test matches in Europe in November. The matches will be part of the November 2024 Internationals. Los Teros will be up against familiar opposition from recent years. The test matches will see the South Americans facing Spain, Japan and Romania. The match against Japan will be played in France Leindekar is now expected to be named captain for Uruguay’s November Internationals against Spain Leindekar plays for Oyonnax in the French Pro D2. Oyonnax is located 150KM north of Chambéry where Uruguay will face Japan on November 16 Tags World Rugby has finalized referee appointments for the July 2025 Internationals New York jazz star Benny Benack III is bringing his smooth vocals and fiery trumpet skills to town joined by powerhouse vocalist Mar Vilaseca and a killer lineup of top-tier musicians Benny Benack III isn’t just a masterful and passionate trumpeter—he’s got that post-bop style down channeling the spirit of legends like Kenny Dorham and Freddie Hubbard He’s also a smooth and seasoned jazz vocalist delivering classic standards and original compositions with a post-Sinatra flair and technical precision allow him to seamlessly blend intricate improvisation with original lyrics and he’s a pretty damn good pianist too Beyond leading modern jazz ensembles on international tours Benny has shared the stage with big names across different music worlds He’s a familiar face at New York’s top jazz clubs like Birdland and the iconic Bemelmans Bar at the Carlyle Hotel He’s also performed alongside the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and multi-instrumentalist Mar Vilaseca hails from Barcelona she later earned a master’s degree in jazz from Juilliard and Donald Vega—securing the prestigious JCAF award in 2022 Mar has worked with a long list of top-tier artists She’s taken the stage at major festivals like the Barcelona Jazz Festival and Guangzhou Jazz Festival and performed at legendary venues like Jazz at Lincoln Center and Birdland Jon Thomas is one of the most exciting young pianists in the jazz scene today He holds a master’s degree from Juilliard and a bachelor’s from The New School where he trained under heavyweights like Benny Green He’s played alongside jazz greats like Samara Joy earning a reputation as a rising star with both skill and soul Regularly performing at iconic spots like The Blue Note he’s also a fixture on the international jazz festival circuit Joe Peri has been a staple of the New York jazz scene since 2009 from Smalls and The Jazz Gallery to Dizzy’s and Birdland and currently teaches jazz drums at the Manhattan School of Music’s pre-college division A Manhattan School of Music graduate under the mentorship of renowned drummer John Riley the Grammy-winning album by Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga He’s played at staple venues like Smalls he’s also performed with some serious heavyweights including Grammy-winning drummer Jeff "Tain" Watts Partial Program 29 Apr/3 May [Rhythm@Romance: Ballads of Love]: I’m Confessin’ That I Love You  Partial Program 2 May [Sounds of Brazil: Bossanova Classics]: Please reach out to our sales team through a contact channel below: Our editors and admins will review your message and respond to your inbox the foundation hopes to become the missing keystone of Ecuador’s arts campo Manuela Ribadeneira and Eduardo Sola Franco the founder of the Eacheve Foundation © Paloma Ayala Funding for Eacheve has come from a range of individual and corporate supporters in Ecuador and abroad as well as in-kind donations and partnerships the company long led by her late grandfather Juan José Vilaseca Valls is based in Guayaquil and has subsidiaries in the packaging The building’s location is also a short distance from the José Joaquín de Olmedo International Airport and the Terminal Terrestre de Guayaquil providing connections to every part of the country and region “The aim for the permanent space is for it to become Ecuador’s most reliable art institution and an anchor for international awareness for Ecuadorian art,” Hidalgo Vilaseca says the Eacheve Foundation building embraces minimalist will reflect both a modern aesthetic and a sense of Ecuadorian resilience and strength perhaps echoing current discourses on rasquachismo The building’s design includes wide opening doors to create a sense of fluidity between the interior galleries and the surrounding landscape highlighting the beauty of the most biodiverse country in the world Rendering of the new Eacheve Foundation building in Guayaquil The thoughtful integration of natural elements—the green spaces terrace and riverside boardwalk—underlines the foundation’s commitment to creating an inviting and multidimensional environment These outdoor areas will host public programming helping to foster a sense of connection between the institution and the local community “The space will add another layer of support to our current programme a place for dialogue and an opportunity to engage more in depth with an international audience artists and develop cross-country and cross-institutional projects,” Hidalgo Vilaseca says The new building marks a turning point in Eacheve’s 11-year journey While the foundation is not currently a collecting institution it does provide funding for museum acquisitions of works by Ecuadorian artists And even as it has generated significant success with its exhibitions publications and partnerships—both locally and internationally—the organisation’s lack of a permanent space has left a gap in Ecuador’s cultural infrastructure Exhibition view of De la Nada a la Existencia by the artist Leandro Pesantes © Ricardo Bohorquéz Ecuador’s national art institutions have faced challenges related to political instability economic difficulties and the fragility of public funding funded through endowed private support and designed to be independent of government interference offers a ramo of stability that the country’s artistic ecosystem has long needed “I had seen a need that was not being addressed […] in the whole country,” Hidalgo Vilaseca says as well as become a legitimising space for artists curators.” She adds: “The lack of a space like this in Ecuador has contributed to our limited international recognition until now.” The foundation has longstanding connections domestically and abroad and currently has active partnerships with the Delfina Foundation in London DEO Projects in Greece and the Fondation Fiminco in France Each of these collaborations serves to raise the profile of Ecuadorian artists in the global scene Eacheve Foundation has become a critical artery for Ecuadorian art and culture providing vital connections locally and globally sustain and promote their practices through exhibitions Eacheve plans to shift from being an exporter of Ecuadorian art to becoming a global destination for diverse cultural practitioners and their publics “The building is crucial because it will become [a] bridge between the world and Ecuador,” Hidalgo Vilaseca says “We will [be able to host] international audiences curators and bring people here and not just the other way around.” an essential book chronicling the country’s contemporary art scene Installation view of Social Reality and Artistic Modernity 1916-1958, an Eacheve Foundation project at the Museo Antropológico y de Arte Contemporáneo (Maac) in Guayaquil curated by Trinidad Pérez © Ricardo Bohorquéz, 2024 “There is a before and after Eacheve when it comes to the Ecuadorian contemporary art scene,” says Manuela Ribadeneira, an artist who has collaborated with the foundation. “The foundation provides us with opportunities that my generation of artists did not have, and it is a lifeline for many artists today.” In Hidalgo Vilaseca’s view, Eacheve’s new building will be an important addition to this blossoming scene, creating an “opportunity for art and artists across the country, as well as providing a platform for hosting an international audience to appreciate Ecuadorian art in situ and across the globe”. casting doubt on future of gallery district news18 October 2022Dutch foundation plans to open major new contemporary art museum in Amsterdam—with a familiar face as directorThe Hartwig Art Foundation's institutional space will be run by Beatrix Ruf the former director of the Stedelijk Museum analysis17 September 2024Inside New York's museum-building boomA wave of construction projects is updating and expanding the city’s art and cultural institutions, indicating a trend toward modernisation and growth A new study by the research group Technatox from the University Rovira i Virgili (URV) has revealed that the beach in the southern Catalan town of Pineda de Vila-seca contains the highest concentration of microplastics. Techatox analyzed fifty beaches along 580 kilometers of the Catalan coastline, from Cap de Creus in the north to Vinaròs in the northern part of Spain’s Valencian region. At La Pineda beach, researchers found 2,000 pieces of microplastic per kilogram of sand, twice as many as the second most contaminated beach, located in the Fangar Bay, part of the southern Ebre Delta. Most of the microplastics found at Pineda de Vila-seca were plastic pellets, often originating from the petrochemical industry. More alarmingly, over 60% of the detected microplastics came from textile fibers, primarily polyester. These fibers pass through washing machine filters before eventually reaching the sea through wastewater. According to Joaquim Rovira, researcher at the Department of Basic Medical Sciences at URV, plastic pellets “should disperse into the sea, but the positioning of the underwater outfalls between the Port of Tarragona and Cape Salou prevents it from doing so.” A significant concentration of microplastics was also found at the Fangar Bay at the mouth of the Ebre Delta. There, researchers found 1,100 pieces per kilogram of sand, while the beaches Miracle and Arrabassada on the Tarragona coast recorded over 700 and 600 microplastics per kilogram, respectively. Vallcarca beach, located between Castelldefels and Sitges, followed behind. “We attribute this to the microplastics that reach the sea through the Llobregat River and are transported southward by ocean currents,” says Rovira. In contrast, the findings from Barcelona’s beaches took the researchers by surprise. “What surprised us the most has been seeing that the beaches of Barcelona, the most populated city in Catalonia, have less concentrations of microplastics than other more southern coasts between Castelldefels and Vilanova i la Geltrú and a big part of the Tarragona coast,” explains Rovira. Beaches on the northern Catalan Costa Brava had the lowest levels of microplastic pollution, according to the study. “We attribute this to the coarser sand, which doesn’t retain as many microplastics as beaches with finer sand,” said Nora Expósito, a researcher at the Department of Chemical Engineering, who also took part in the study. This study is the first comprehensive study of microplastic pollution along the Catalan coastline. In total, 70 locations were analyzed, with researchers collecting samples from the intertidal zone, the area of wet sand between the highest wave reach and the current waterline. They analyzed the chemical composition and size of the microplastics, with the larger ones measuring up to 5 millimeters and primarily composed of polyethylene and polypropylene, often originating from degraded plastic bottles or industrial pellets. The smaller particles measured less than 0.5 millimeters and were primarily textile fibers such as polyester and polyamide, commonly released when washing clothes. All in all, the researchers were not surprised by the findings, given the large amount of plastic produced and its low biodegradability. “We have found microplastics inland, in marine waters, wastewater, drinking water, soil and sediments, in mollusks, and even in human feces,” added researchers Ester Marí and Jordi Serra from the University of Barcelona, who also participated in the study. Get the day's biggest stories right to your phone v1.1.0. Copyright © 2025. Powered by EBANTIC. All rights reserved. Volume 12 - 2021 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.738463 Early intervention services (EIS) worked hard to continue serving children and their families during the COVID-19 lockdown This study aimed to determine families’ and professionals’ perceptions of the functioning of the early intervention (EI) model in Spain during the pandemic The study sample comprised two subsamples: 81 families of children attended at an EIS (72 mothers and 9 fathers) and 213 professionals recruited from EIS The survey was conducted online several weeks after the end of the strict lockdown in Spain Descriptive statistics of the questionnaire answered by families and professionals were compiled comparisons were made between the families’ and the professionals’ responses and the relationships with several sociodemographic variables were analyzed The results indicated that parents who cared for their children and were fully responsible for housework parents who had used telematic tools before the lockdown and younger professionals had a more positive perception of the EI model and the incorporation of family-centered practices (FCP) during the pandemic The results also showed statistically significant differences in some items between parents and professionals: for example professionals perceived more advantages than families during the lockdown quoting the greater participation of families in the intervention and a greater focus on families’ needs The data obtained from professionals suggested a more positive attitude toward FCP: however the results show that they continued to adopt a directive role in the intervention a position that is at odds with the tenets of FCP There is a clear need for more training if a paradigm shift to FCP is to be achieved Families’ and caregivers’ perceptions of telerehabilitation and their adherence to telerehabilitation programs The implications of this study with regard to guiding future telematic interventions and family support are also considered not all EIS in Spain apply a family-centered model in an attempt to ensure continuity of care Zoom and other online platforms and were thus able to enter the families’ natural contexts the situation of COVID-19 provided early intervention professionals with an opportunity to implement telerehabilitation strategies inside families’ everyday contexts the general aim of this study was to identify the changes in the intervention methodology used with families receiving EIS in Spain in the new scenario created by the COVID-19 pandemic More specific aims were: (a) to analyze the families’ and professionals’ perceptions of the intervention model received and implemented during the pandemic lockdown; (b) to explore the relation of certain sociodemographic variables and the families’ and professionals’ perceptions of the intervention model; (c) to identify any differences between families’ and professionals’ perceptions of the intervention model in this exceptional context Convenience sampling – a type of non-probabilistic sampling- was used to select participants who were recruited from several EIS in Spain Two inclusion criteria were applied: families had to have a child attended by an EIS at the time of receiving the survey and professionals had to have been working in the EIS for at least one year prior to the lockdown The participants were volunteers who met the inclusion criteria and responded to a request to take part (see section “Procedure”) The study sample comprised two subsamples: 81 families and 213 professionals (see Tables 1, 2) The subsample of families (parents) was composed of 72 mothers (88.9%) and 9 fathers (11.1%) The mothers had a mean age of 38.1 years (SD = 6.9) and the fathers of 39.9 years (SD = 14.9) Most parents were married or living with a partner (90.1%) Half of them had completed high school (46.9%) or had a university degree (39.5%) employed part-time (22.2%) or cared for their children and were fully responsible for housework (19.8%) 18.5% were from Castilla La Mancha and 2.5% from Andalusia Demographic characteristics of the family members who answered the survey and the child attended at an EIS (n = 81) Demographic characteristics of professionals (n = 213) with an age range from 7 to 68 months (M = 40.5 The degree of intellectual disability (ID) was mild (33 – 64%) in 64.2% moderate (−65 – 74%) in 25.9% and severe (> 75%) in 9.9% assessment of the percentage of disability is a standardized process carried out by a government agency the Valuation and Guidance Services for People with Disabilities A total of 41.3% of children received speech therapy 30% psychological support and 20% physiotherapy More than half (54.2%) received 60-min sessions at the EIS either once a week (37%) or every other week (24.7%) before the pandemic Regarding the format of the pre-pandemic sessions almost half of the family subsample stated that the professional attended exclusively to the child (49.4%) 23.5% stated that s/he involved the family and only 1.2% reported that s/he came to their home it tended to be the mother who took the child to the EIS (49.4% alone or 29.6% together with the father) Most families (64.2%) had no online contact before COVID-19 The subsample of professionals comprised 204 women (95.8%) and 9 men (4.2%) 35.1% psychologists and 21.2% speech therapists Most had over five years of experience working at an EIS (67.6%) Most (63%) worked in a team with a maximum of 15 members Most of the participating EIS were based in Catalonia (58.7%) Once the family or professional received the document via e-mail and clicked on the link they were given information about the nature and purpose of the survey on the first page they were taken to the sociodemographic questionnaire on the following page The second part of the survey asked about their perceptions of how the intervention methodology at the EIS had changed as a result of COVID-19 The family version of the Brief sociodemographic questionnaire compiled data on marital status and frequency of attention in EIS before lockdown The version for professionals compiled data on their field number of EIS professionals at their center The Questionnaire on EIS interventions in times of COVID-19 for families (Intervención en los CDIATs en tiempos de COVID-19 para familias) was developed ad hoc for this study The main objective was to evaluate families’ perceptions of the changes in the way professionals intervened with their children since the pandemic The Questionnaire on EIS interventions in times of COVID-19 for professionals (Intervención en los CDIATs en tiempos de COVID-19 para profesionales) also developed ad hoc for this study assessed professionals’ perceptions of changes in the methodology of intervention with families and children since the pandemic Both surveys were translated into Catalan for people from Catalonia and Valencia the items measured aspects related to the use of telematic means (video calls etc.) with the EIS professional as a result of the lockdown some questions explored whether interventions carried out through a video call allowed family members to talk in more detail about daily routines or about the child’s functioning at home (item 1) or participate more in the intervention (item 2) or whether the professional continued to decide what to work on with the child at home (item 3) In the version for professionals, these items measured, for example, whether the use of telematic means allowed them to learn more about the child’s natural context (item 1) and to focus on the needs of the entire family and not just the child (item 5), or asked about the need for further training to intervene in the natural context (item 14). Table 3 (families) and Table 4 (professionals) display all the items for both instruments Exploratory factor analysis and descriptive statistics for the questionnaire answered by the families (n = 81) Exploratory factor analysis and descriptive statistics for the questionnaire answered by the professionals (n = 213) Families and professionals were asked to state how far they agreed with each of the items on a Likert scale ranging from 1 (strongly disagree) to 4 (strongly agree). The Cronbach’s alpha coefficient of the final questionnaire for families, composed of 12 items, was 0.915, and the final questionnaire for professionals, with 13 items, was 0.906, indicating acceptable internal consistency (Taber, 2018) the safest way to collect data was through an online survey We conducted a nationwide cross-sectional study through an electronic survey in Google Forms (Google LLC We prepared two surveys: one for families and the other for professionals This study was approved by the Network of Ethics Committees in Universities and Public Research Centers in Spain in accordance with the International Ethical Guidelines for Health-related Research Involving Humans and written informed consent was obtained from parents and professionals prior to data collection we contacted two organizations that manage EIS in Spain and Catalonia the Spanish Association for Early Childhood Intervention (AEIPI) and the Catalan Association of Early Intervention (ACAP) We sent them a document via e-mail with a brief explanation of the project and a link to a fuller explanation of the project a brief sociodemographic questionnaire and the survey The associations sent the information to all affiliated members Participation in the study was voluntary and anonymous and participants did not receive any financial compensation Parents or professionals who agreed to participate which was available for approximately three weeks (from 11 June to 7 July 2020) The survey took approximately 15 min to answer At the end of the survey both families and professionals had the possibility to add observations or comments and to contact the researchers if they had questions An exploratory factor analysis was conducted to identify the underlying dimensions of each of the two versions of the Questionnaire on EIS interventions in times of COVID-19 Data for each questionnaire underwent Principal Component Analysis (PCA) with Varimax rotations Cronbach’s alpha coefficients were computed for each scale to provide an indicator of internal consistency of the measures we calculated Cronbach’s alpha if an item was deleted obtained as the corrected correlation of the item score with that of the corresponding scale Total scores were obtained by calculating the mean for the items on each scale Descriptive statistics (mean and standard deviation) were computed for each of the questions answered by professionals and families Each item was scored on a four-point Likert-type scale (1: Strongly disagree A one sample t-test was used to determine whether the mean score of each item was different from 2.5 (the midpoint of the scale) differences between professionals and families were analyzed by comparing the mean scores of the items with similar content for both groups To study the relationship between each of the demographic variables and the total scores on the questionnaires total scores were compared via an independent sample t-test (to compare two means) or One-Way ANOVA (for more than two means) Relationships between continuous demographic variables and total scores were examined via Pearson product-moment correlation coefficients (or Spearman’s correlation coefficients for ordinal demographic variables) effect size was calculated by Cohen’s d variables whose effect was found to be statistically significant in the previous bivariate analyses were included in a linear regression model to predict total score on the questionnaires IBM SPSS Statistics (version 26.0 for Windows) was used for all statistical analyses Missing data were handled by pairwise deletion statistical significance was defined as p < 0.05 Principal Component Analysis (PCA) was used to explore the dimensionality of the Questionnaire on EIS interventions in times of COVID-19 for families. According to the Unidimensionality Index, UI = (λ1−λ2)/(λ2−λ3) = 19.45, the items clearly satisfied unidimensionality (Slocum-Gori and Zumbo, 2011) except items 12 (“We like to use our own material rather than that of the EIS because we can use it every day and it helps our child”) and 13 (“Our child has received less attention than before lockdown”) with loadings lower than 0.30 Cronbach’s alpha coefficient increased if items 12 and 13 were deleted these two items were removed from the questionnaire and items were renumbered accordingly The final questionnaire (comprising 12 items) underwent PCA again. The Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin measure of sampling adequacy was 0.87, and Bartlett’s test of sphericity was highly significant (p < 0.001), indicating that the data were suitable for the analysis. The one-factor solution accounted for 53.2% of the total variance. All item loadings were greater than 0.50 (see Table 3) Cronbach’s alpha coefficient was computed to assess the questionnaire’s internal consistency obtained as the corrected correlation of the item score with the total score and it decreased if any of the items were deleted Homogeneity indices were greater than 0.50 for all items the final questionnaire seemed to show a unidimensional structure with a high internal consistency A total score was obtained by calculating the mean score of the 12 items included in the questionnaire. Therefore, total scores (like the item scores) ranged from 1 to 4. Table 3 shows descriptive statistics (mean and standard deviation) of the total scores and each of the items answered by families (n = 81) the difference between the mean item score and the midpoint of the scale (2.5) was statistically significant (p < 0.01) families agreed with the statement made in the questions the content of those items was related to professional guidelines promoted to foster the child’s development at home (item 8) proposing what to work on (item 3) and using the material they had available in the home (item 4) families agreed that they could discuss other situations affecting them at family level (e.g. symptoms of anxiety or depression because of COVID-19) (item 6) They also reported that the virtual sessions continued to be led by the professional (item 11) and lasted as long as they had done before lockdown (item 9) they were satisfied with the care they received from the EIS during lockdown (item 12) the mean score for six of the items was not significantly different (p > 0.05) from the midpoint of the item scale (2.5) This means that families did not clearly agree or disagree with the content of the items they did not report that virtual sessions via a video call allowed them to talk more than before about their daily routines or that they could participate more and contribute their opinions on aspects to work on with their child (item 2) Nor did they particularly agree that their emotional needs as a family were taken into account more than before the lockdown (item 5) that all members of the family participated whereas previously they had not been able to (item 7) or that their opinions were now added to the work plan (item 10) in certain aspects such as the duration of the sessions and the involvement of professionals in other areas (as well as the emotional needs of families) families did not perceive a significant change compared with the pre-lockdown period the total score differed significantly (p < 0.001) from the midpoint (2.5) indicating that (on average) families agreed with the items on the questionnaire since the mean total score (M = 2.90) was approximately equal to the third point of the Likert-type scale (3: “Agree”) The relationship between sociodemographic factors and the total score on the family questionnaire was analyzed the following sociodemographic factors were included in the study: parent’s age and gender and frequency of visits to the EIS before lockdown Parents were also asked whether they had online contact with the EIS before lockdown the effect of employment status on total questionnaire score can be considered as medium (0.06 < η2 < 0.25) The results also showed a relationship between the use of telematic tools prior to lockdown and the total questionnaire score for families (Welch’s t(11.52) = 4.22; p = 0.001; Cohen’s d = 1.54). Parents who used telematic tools prior to the pandemic had a higher mean questionnaire score (M = 3.04; SD = 0.56) than those who had not used them (M = 1.96; SD = 0.82). In accordance with Cohen (1988) the effect of the use of telematic tools on the total questionnaire score of the families can be considered as large (d > 0.50) The other demographic variables (parents’ age and gender and frequency of visits to the EIS before lockdown) did not show significant effects (p > 0.05) on the total score of the questionnaire answered by the families high total scores on the questionnaire corresponded to parents who cared for their children and were fully responsible for housework (versus those in full-time employment) and who had used telematic tools before the pandemic The regression model accounted for 35.7% of the variance of the total questionnaire scores (adjusted R2 = 0.357) Linear regression model on total scores of the questionnaire for families Dimensionality of the Questionnaire on EIS interventions in times of COVID-19 for professionals was explored by PCA. According to the Unidimensionality Index, UI = (λ1−λ2)/(λ2−λ3) = 25.7, the items clearly satisfied unidimensionality (Slocum-Gori and Zumbo, 2011) except item 11 (“Before the opportunity to do this follow-up with families and children at home it was difficult for me to see the importance of an intervention in the natural family-centered context”) with a loading lower than 0.30 Cronbach’s alpha coefficient increased if item 11 was deleted this item was excluded from the questionnaire Principal component analysis was again conducted on the final questionnaire, which comprised 13 items. The Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin measure of sampling adequacy was 0.904, and Bartlett’s test of sphericity was highly significant (p < 0.001), indicating that the data were suitable for the analysis. The one-factor solution accounted for 48.6% of the total variance. All item loadings were greater than 0.50 (see Table 4) With respect to the internal consistency of the questionnaire for professionals Homogeneity indices were greater than 0.40 for all items the final questionnaire showed a unidimensional structure with a high internal consistency A total score was obtained by calculating the mean score of the 13 items included in the questionnaire. Total scores ranged from 1 to 4. Table 4 shows descriptive statistics for the total score and each question answered by professionals working at an EIS (n = 213) the mean score was statistically different (p < 0.001) from the midpoint of the item scale (2.5) professionals agreed with the statements contained in all the questions This indicates that connecting by videoconference with the families and children had positive consequences for the professionals such as being able to identify specific aspects of the family dynamics daily routines or the functioning of the child in his/her own home has led EIS professionals to rethink their way of working and has encouraged them to intervene with families and children in their natural context (items 11 to 13) Several sociodemographic factors were included in the study: professionals’ gender and age A statistically significant Pearson’s correlation coefficient was found between cognitive professionals’ age and total scores on the professionals’ questionnaire (r = −0.144; p = 0.036) This indicates that younger professionals showed higher scores on the questionnaire than their older peers The other demographic variables included in this study had no statistically significant effect on the total scores on the professionals’ questionnaire Professionals’ age was included in a linear regression model to predict total scores on the professionals’ questionnaire. Results (Table 6) indicate that total scores could be predicted by professionals’ age, although the regression model accounted for only 1.6% of the variance of the total questionnaire scores (adjusted R2 = 0.016). Indeed, the regression line (represented in Figure 1) shows a slight downward trend indicating that older professionals had lower total scores on the questionnaire although the effect size can be considered as low Linear regression model on total scores of the questionnaire for professionals Relationship between professionals’ age and total score on the questionnaire the mean for the same questions was not significantly higher than 2.5 (p > 0.05) did perceive certain advantages during the lockdown: for example they learnt about specific aspects of the family dynamics in the child’s natural context (item 1) and felt that families participated more actively and could give their opinions on aspects to be worked on no statistically significant differences were found between the groups (p > 0.05); that is both professionals and family members generally agreed with the content of the issues raised Both groups agreed that the professional was able to suggest what the child and family could work on at home (item 3) guide families to find new ways to use the material (item 4) attend to other situations affecting the family (such as symptoms of anxiety or depression as a result of COVID-19 worries about money and employment etc.) (item 6) and promote parental interactions that enhanced the child’s development in their own home (item 8) The two surveys in this study recorded information on families’ and professionals’ perceptions of the EI methodology used during the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain Our aims were to analyze and compare these perceptions and to explore the relation between them and certain sociodemographic variables With respect to the influence of sociodemographic variables on these perceptions these results support the use of telerehabilitation to implement best practices for children with disabilities in order to promote their learning and development in their habitual contexts The families’ responses suggest that the specific actions carried out by the professionals had little in common with the participatory practices recommended in family-centered services despite the opportunities that the use of remote technology could offer them and it does not in any way conflict with the FCP guidelines Not surprisingly, parents accustomed to using computer resources before the COVID-19 pandemic had a more positive perception of the online intervention during the lockdown. Those results are consistent with previous studies assessing factors that either promote or hamper the use of telehealth. Difficulty in accessing technical resources is one of the main reasons for rejecting teleintervention (Kraljević et al., 2020) Most EI professionals who responded were women almost 96%; most were aged between 30 and 49 years old and over half had more than ten years of experience working in EI Most teams comprised six to 10 professionals from different fields As regards sociodemographic factors, the results showed that total scores on the professionals’ questionnaire could be predicted by age. Older professionals had lower total scores on the questionnaire, although the effect size can be considered as low. These findings are consistent with a study carried in Finland by Heiskanen et al. (2021) of rehabilitation professionals during the COVID-19 pandemic in which those with the longest work experience were found to be the least likely to use telerehabilitation after the pandemic our results could also be attributed to the context of the implementation of the FCA model in Spain already discussed in the introduction section FCP were introduced only recently and are applied inconsistently among early intervention professionals and teams Older professionals continue to prefer child-focused models; so FCA training is a necessity if we want to achieve a change of perspective among all EI professionals The aim of this study was to assess the work that EI professionals carried out with families and children seen in EIS in Spain during the COVID-19 pandemic and to establish whether this situation might promote a change in their practices we compared families’ and professionals’ perceptions of the intervention methodology used and explored the relation between these perceptions and certain sociodemographic variables it is not clear that the online intervention carried out during the pandemic presented significant changes in terms of the incorporation of FCP Professionals considered that the intervention followed the defining trends of FCP but the impression of the families was less clear-cut; although they perceived some changes with regard to the use of FCP they noted that the intervention maintained many of the characteristics of the traditional child-centered model The families were satisfied with the care received during the pandemic the study shows that the professionals were not perceived as applying the standards of FCP the pandemic situation has highlighted the importance of the family and the involvement of all its members and the need to promote positive parenting at home to optimize the child’s development Although this new awareness is clearly positive more training is still needed and policy makers in Spain should focus on ways of promoting effective change that can be extended to all EIS Some interesting findings were also obtained regarding the role of sociodemographic variables in the perception of the intervention model Mothers with previous use of computer resources and who dedicated themselves entirely to caring for their children and housework were more satisfied with the intervention and observed a more widespread adoption of FCP younger EI professionals perceived the online intervention as being more in line with FCP even though the objective of extending and generalizing FCP is far from being established a change is taking place in the attitudes toward EI among younger professionals in Spain probably due to training and to a lower adherence to more traditional models our aim of comparing the perceptions of families and professionals in relation to the intervention model during the pandemic was hindered by the fact that only six of the questions were the same for both groups because we adjusted the formulation of the items to the previous knowledge and to the characteristics of each group The discrepancy between the items is a drawback and is an issue that needs attention in future work Another limitation is the sampling procedure and the sample size Perhaps the families and the professionals who agreed to participate were particularly interested or concerned about the pandemic or had already generated discussions on the items in their professional teams We would have liked to have been able to reach more professionals and families but potential participants received numerous online questionnaires during the pandemic and many may have been reluctant to respond the results are not representative of all EIS in Spain because we know that many of them have started the transformation toward new more systemic and ecological intervention models This study should now be replicated with a larger number of families and professionals with a representative sample of all the regions of Spain the study was based on self-reports and perceptions; there was no direct observation of EI professional practices the results should be interpreted with caution the study’s cross-sectional design means that we cannot establish causality We also need to qualify the term predictor to predict means just to estimate total questionnaire scores based on the predictor variable scores (such as employment status and does not necessarily imply direct causality although the possibilities for comparison are limited we have provided relevant data on a new topic: families’ and professionals’ perceptions of the early intervention services received and provided during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown The questionnaires used in this study showed both a unidimensional structure and a high internal consistency which allows us to use them in future studies of the topic is the focus on the impact of a critical event in spite of the obstacles that it created; the sample size is small but it is very difficult to engage families and professionals in times of crisis Our results show that the obligation to use the internet for the intervention led professionals to rethink some of their previous practices raised their awareness of the interest and value of adjusting to the families’ needs and increased the participation of the families inside a less directive and a more collaborative model – all of them characteristics of FCP Although our results do not indicate a clear shift toward the use of FCP at EI services they do suggest that the professionals’ greater focus on the family context because of the lockdown caused them to question some of their preconceptions our study may help to increase the spread of FCP our study has implications for future early intervention programs with families Telematic intervention during the pandemic was positively valued by parents and managed to bring the intervention closer to the family context Professionals saw telematic intervention as an opportunity to move toward intervention models that encourage families’ participation and the deployment of strategies focused on daily routines Professionals feel that they have made progress in this direction during the pandemic families have not perceived such significant changes the use of telematic interventions does not in itself guarantee a change in the intervention model we must continue making efforts to approximate the families’ needs and professional visions The application of innovative and remote rehabilitation interventions during the pandemic may have interesting repercussions in the post-COVID-19 scenario Their use in daily clinical practice and in the treatment of children with neurodisabilities in their everyday environment has real potential as long as they are family-centered and take into account the needs of the child and those of their caregivers The use of telerehabilitation can facilitate the use of best practices focusing on empowering families to promote the development and learning of their children with disabilities Research in Spain and in other countries should now continue with case studies including observation of parenting in a natural context and the provision of coaching monitoring and feedback during in-service and online sessions This should help to broaden our understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of online intervention in family-centered parenting practices The benefits and limits of telerehabilitation should continue to be explored in order to make decisions regarding its use either as a primary via of intervention or as a complementary one The original contributions presented in the study are included in the article/Supplementary Material further inquiries can be directed to the corresponding author/s The studies involving human participants were reviewed and approved by University of Barcelona’s Bioethics Commission Written informed consent to participate in this study was provided by the participants’ legal guardian/next of kin and RB made substantial contributions to conception and design participated in drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content and gave final approval of the version to be submitted All authors contributed to the article and approved the submitted version This research was supported by a grant from Faculty of Education of the University of Barcelona (PADIND Group; 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Vilaseca “So that nothing could take our focus away many factors can move you from your main focus The team was closed within and solid as a fist convinced of our ‘immovable goal’ which was to qualify “We need to find a new phrase,” he says with a huge grin With many of the same players from Japan 2019 and a handful from England 2015 coach Esteban Meneses knew that Los Teros had grown from the same qualifying process four years earlier As the Estadio Charrúa rose in stature as the home of Uruguayan rugby and players had the Superliga Americana de Rugby (SLAR) to play professionally he had the ideal preparation given the current circumstances that the world is living under Uruguay was probably the country that best handled the COVID-19 pandemic in the region And with the inaugural SLAR in 2020 cancelled after only three games it meant players had to stay as focused as they could on the big task ahead Despite all the setbacks they came out stronger with SLAR 2021 proving to be a great testing ground for both Uruguay and Chile who was told after the captain’s run that he would have to take Felipe Berchesi’s number 10 jersey as the record points scorer had to urgently return to France for personal matters but I had huge support of staff and players,” said Etcheverry who was penciled in to play at 15 I train almost year-round at 10 here at the Estadio Charrúa When pools were drawn last year, Vilaseca knew he wanted to be in Pool A with France and New Zealand “I sent our coach a screen capture and told him: ‘we have to go there “Mono (Meneses) is a dreamer who dreams big and can convince you of the biggest dreams.” To which Meneses says: “Dreaming of beating France or the All Blacks is crazy and not even the players will believe me but we can have games such as those against Australia and Wales in Japan And we must aim for Italy and Namibia (assuming they will take the Africa 1 spot) We have more recovery days than in Japan and this team must have them as goals We are 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staff and the union are all well aware of the work being done The best way to control that anxiety will be by finding the new motto that will unite the squad and take them to France Read more: RWC 2023 Spotlight: Uruguay >> The Pineda beach in Vila-seca (Tarragona) has by far the highest number of microplastics in Catalonia, according to a study led by experts from the University of Barcelona and the Universitat Rovira i Virgili published in the journal Marine Pollution Bulletin The team has analysed the 580 kilometres of Catalan coastline — from Cap de Creus to Vinaròs — and the data are clear: this beach accumulates up to 2,000 microplastics per kilogram of sand a figure that is almost double that of the second on the list what strikes the most is that “the beaches of Barcelona have lower concentrations of microplastics than other points further south between Castelldefels and Vilanova i la Geltrú or a large part of the coast of Tarragona” a researcher at the Department of Basic Medical Sciences and the TecnATox research group at Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV) samples were collected from the intertidal fringe — more than one sample was taken at the longest beaches — which is the area of wet sand between the point where the highest wave reaches the water level The size and chemical composition of the microplastics found were also analysed according to their dimensions: large microplastics were mainly polyethylene and polypropylene derived especially from the degradation of everyday objects such as plastic bottles or well-known industrial pellets are mainly found in textile fibres such as polyester and polyamide from laundry since plastics are the most versatile and most abundantly manufactured materials after some building materials (cement It should also be added that most plastics are persistent and not easily biodegradable and when they are spread in the environment (through use forming micro- and nanoplastics that are found everywhere” explain experts Esther Marí and Jordi Sierra from the UB’s Faculty of Pharmacy and Food Sciences Other studies have revealed that they are even present in lung tissue some organs and even in the brain and human placentas We dare say that plastics are probably the most abundant xenobiotic pollutants on Earth” an accumulation of plastic pellets — mainly from the petrochemical industry — was found but the most alarming volume (more than 60%) is textile fibres which are not retained by the washing machine filters and reach the sea through the sewage “At this point they should be dispersed in the water but the location of the submarine outfalls between the port of Tarragona and the cape of Salou prevents their dispersion” A significant concentration of microplastics was also found at the mouth of the Ebro River also recorded a high number of pollutants (more than 700 and more than 600 “We attribute this to the microplastics that reach the sea via the Llobregat River and travel to the southern beaches carried by the currents” The study also shows how microplastics are distributed according to the characteristics of the sand “On the Costa Brava beaches we detected less accumulation We attribute this to the fact that the sand is coarser and it does not retain as many microplastics as fine sand beaches” a researcher in the URV’s Department of Chemical Engineering The study has also served to implement a technique that has not been used for sample collection until now but which has proven to be reliable and more economical: the detection of microplastics by fluorescence This system allows filters to be irradiated with a specific wavelength that makes the small plastic fragments glow which facilitates faster and more visual detection Expósito, Nora; Sierra, Jordi; Martí, Esther; Folch, Jaume; Ratola, Nuno; Schuhmacher, Marta; Rovira, Joaquim. “Detection of microplastic hotspots in beach sand for national surveys using fluorescence microscopy and infrared spectroscopy: Case study on the Catalan coast”.  Marine Pollution Bulletin Andrés Vilaseca has agreed to stay on at Vannes the Uruguayan had decided to return home from the French Pro D2 club a decision on Thursday evening was made; the 32-year-old will remain at the club The club is on target for a first-ever promotion to the Top 14 Brive and Mont de Marsan are among those competing for places in the play-off’s Vilaseca took over of the Uruguayan captaincy from RWC 2019 captain Juan Manuel Gaminara in 2020 Gaminara had been captain of Uruguay for four years following RWC 2015 Andrés Vilaseca is the younger brother of Santiago Vilaseca The younger of the brothers also played at RWC 2015 He played in all four of Uruguay’s matches in England and Wales and also featured in all four games in Japan 2019 He has been a mainstay in the team for a sustained period dating back to 2003 Under Andrés Vilaseca, Uruguay had their most competitive Rugby World Cup campaign. The 2023 return was a win over Namibia in Lyon; however there were notable positives in the performances against France and Italy The Teros skipper has 79 test caps. He is the fourth most capped Uruguayan in history behind Diego Magno (105), Gastón Mieres (84) and Mateo Sanguinetti (84) Andrés Vilaseca is a three time Nations Cup champion. Outside of the international arena, Vilaseca has played professional rugby in both North America and South America. He featured in Major League Rugby for Austin and captained Peñarol to the SLAR title in 2022 Led by Sebastian Díaz, Mexico hosted and defeated Jamaica on Saturday. Las Serpientes were 37-22 … Flynn Vilaseca to take oath of office on Thursday Houston ISD Trustees on Monday unanimously agreed to appoint Holly Maria Flynn Vilaseca (Ocampo) to serve the unexpired trustee term representing District VI on the district’s west side. Flynn Vilaseca, who is fluent in English and Spanish, worked as a bilingual teacher at HISD’s Windsor Village Elementary School as a Teach for America corps member from 2004 to 2006. Since then, Ms. Vilaseca has continued working in the education field with Battelle for Kids, K12 Inc., and thinkLaw. “I am excited to serve the city and students of Houston,” Flynn Vilaseca said. Flynn Vilaseca holds a master’s degree in social-organizational psychology from Columbia University, and bachelor’s degrees in Latin American and Caribbean studies and in sports management and communications from the University of Michigan. Flynn Vilaseca, along with newly elected District VII Trustee Anne Sung, are scheduled to take the oath of office on Thursday at 12:30 p.m. Both Flynn Vilaseca and Sung are filling unexpired trustee terms that run through the end of 2017. The tramway project in Camp de Tarragona between Cambrils and Vila-seca Universitat will enter service in 2028 as the Catalan government announced over the weekend On Sunday, Catalan president Salvador Illa announced that the executive will launch the public tender this week, confirming what the cabinet had already announced in October. The tender will also include buying seven convoys and investing €245 million in the first phase of the project, known as TramCamp. "The Camp de Tarragona does not need problems, but projects" such as the TramCamp, which is a "vital project for the territory's prosperity," Illa said during a press conference in Cambrils. Trains will be 40-meter in length and have a minimum capacity of 210 passengers. The first trains are expected to be in service during the first six months of 2028, a two-year delay than first announced during the previous term led by pro-independence Esquerra Republicana, which was expected by 2026. The line will be 14 kilometers long and connect 14 stations, one of which will be the Port Aventura amusement park, which will be connected to Rodalies commuter trains. Two other stations, Cambrils Nord and Vila-seca, will also be connected to the Rodalies. The executive will tender the rest of the line during the construction of the first part of the TramCamp, so by the end of 2025, all the first phases will be either on public tender or under construction. The second phase aims to connect Reus and Tarragona, creating a 46-kilometer network with 47 stations, including one connecting Reus airport. Volume 10 - 2019 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00872 The aim of the study was to examine the relation between demographic variables language and motor skills development in children with intellectual disabilities (ID) completed the Bayley Scales of Infant Development to measure cognitive Parents were administered questionnaires about demographic information and parental anxiety and teaching) were observed using the Spanish version of PICCOLO (Parenting Interactions with Children: Checklist of Observations Linked to Outcomes) A bivariate analysis showed that cognitive development in infants was significantly related to the mother’s and father’s responsiveness and to the father’s teaching scores Infant language development was related to a variety of maternal factors (educational level maternal responsiveness) and to the father’s teaching scores None of the factors were statistically related to child motor development A multivariate regression analysis indicated that children’s cognitive development can be predicted by a linear combination of maternal responsiveness and paternal teaching scores Language development can be predicted by a linear combination of maternal anxiety and responsiveness The present study provides evidence of the importance of paternal involvement for cognitive and language development in children with intellectual disabilities and contributes to the increasing literature about fathering Gaining knowledge about parental contributions to children’s development is relevant for improving positive parenting in early intervention programs The influence of family context on children’s development has received increasing attention in recent years (Cabrera et al., 2011; Velasco et al., 2014; Chiang et al., 2015; Barreto et al., 2017) but understanding and explaining how this effect is exerted is a complex task In children with intellectual disability (ID), the slower rate of development affects their learning and their interaction and communication with others. Risk factors identified in children with ID include lower IQ, poorer communication skills, more medical illness, presence in some cases, of autistic symptomatology and difficulties in social interaction or behavior problems (Hauser-Cram et al., 2001) More research in this area is clearly needed especially because the results could be used to design strategies for families with children with IDs Our study is clearly exploratory in nature aiming to examine the relation between family-related demographic variables (e.g. linguistic and motor development in young children with IDs Under “parental factors” we include both the parents’ and family’s well-being (anxiety Participants were recruited from several Early Intervention Centers (EIC) in Spain The following criteria were used for inclusion of children in the study: (a) children aged between 20 and 47 months; (b) with an ID (associated or not with another type of disability) diagnosed at least 6 months before carrying out the study Sociodemographic characteristics of the participants A brief sociodemographic questionnaire (see Appendix in Supplementary Data Sheet) was produced to collect data from participants (mother the HADS Cronbach’s α value for mother’s and father’s anxiety were 0.88 and 0.77 and 0.80 and 0.78 for mother’s and father’s depression The Spanish version (Oronoz et al., 2007) of the Parental Stress Scale (PSS; Berry and Jones, 1995) was used to evaluate the degree of stress of the mothers and fathers The PSS was designed to measure the degree to which situations in one’s life are appraised as stressful composed of 12 items scored on a five-point Likert scale from 1 (total disagreement) to 5 (full agreement) The items describe feelings and perceptions about the experience of being a parent The Spanish version of the PSS demonstrated adequate psychometric properties with high reliability coefficients (internal consistency Cronbach’s α values for both mothers and fathers were 0.82 the α coefficients were 0.91 for mothers and 0.90 for fathers With respect to internal consistency reliability all domain and total scores showed satisfactory Cronbach’s alpha coefficients (0.65 for Affection 25% of mother–child interactions and 21% of father–child interactions were coded by two trained observers; interrater reliability scores were adequate and the ICC ranged from 0.62 to 0.86 Regarding the internal consistency reliability of the total scale Cronbach’s α values were 0.89 for mothers and 0.90 for fathers Cronbach’s α values for mothers and for fathers were (respectively) 0.56 and 0.59 for Affection; 0.81 and 0.84 for Responsiveness; 0.80 and 0.83 for Encouragement; and 0.68 and 0.63 for Teaching ethical approval was obtained from the University of Barcelona’s Bioethics Commission (CBUB) in accordance with the International Ethical Guidelines for Health-related Research involving Humans prepared by the Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences (CIOMS) in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO) and the WMA Declaration of Helsinki – Ethical Principles for Medical Research involving Human Subjects The Bayley Scales of Infant Development-III (Bayley, 2015) were administered at the EIC by researcher The parents were present throughout the assessment Data analyses were conducted in several steps a bivariate analysis was performed to study the relationship between each of the sociodemographic factors and the children’s Bayley percentile scores mean Bayley scores were compared via Student t-test (for comparing two independent means) or via robust Brown–Forsythe ANOVA (for more than two independent means) followed by post hoc Games-Howell’s test for pairwise comparisons Relationships between continuous sociodemographic factors and Bayley’s scores were analyzed via Pearson product-moment correlation coefficients the relationship between parental factors and children’s Bayley scores was examined using Pearson correlation coefficients variables whose effect was found to be statistically significant (p < 0.05) in the previous bivariate analyses were included in a multiple linear regression model to predict child development scores a stepwise criterion was applied (probability of F ≤ 0.05 to add a predictor and probability of F > 0.10 to remove it from the model) IBM SPSS (version 24.0 for Windows) was used for all statistical analyses Table 1 shows statistical descriptives of the participants’ sociodemographic characteristics. The relationship between each of the factors included in the sociodemographic questionnaire (see Appendix in Supplementary Data Sheet) and children’s developmental outcomes (BSID-III percentile scores) was analyzed the following sociodemographic factors were included in the study: child’s age and gender; parents’ age and degree of satisfaction with the services received by their child (from 0 to 10 points) at the Early Intervention Centers Parents were also asked whether they received help at home with their children from other individuals or relatives Results showed a statistically significant effect of the mother’s educational level on linguistic development [Brown-Forsythe’s F(2,56.3) = 5.46; p = 0.007; η2 = 0.10] the highest mean score for linguistic development was found in children whose mothers had a university degree (M = 15.1 followed by those whose mothers had only elementary schooling (M = 8.21 Pairwise comparisons showed higher linguistic development in children whose mothers had a university degree than in those whose mothers had only completed high school (p < 0.05); no differences were found between the other categories of the variable Using Cohen (1988) benchmarks for interpreting effect sizes the effect of the “mother’s educational level” on linguistic development can be considered as medium (0.06 ≤ η2 < 0.25) None of the sociodemographic factors studied had a significant effect on the children’s cognitive and motor skills Different parental factors (mother’s/father’s anxiety, depression, stress and conjugality; and familial functioning) were assessed using self-administered questionnaires. Pearson’s correlation coefficients between these parental factors and the children’s scores on the Bayley scales of infant development were computed (Table 2) None of these parental factors was significantly related to cognitive or motor development (p > 0.05) linguistic development was negatively correlated with mothers’ anxiety and depression scores This result means that linguistic development was higher in those children whose mothers demonstrated lower anxiety and depression levels Pearson’s correlations between parental scores and children’s BSID-III scores Pearson’s correlations between parenting scores and children’s BSID-III scores some aspects of parenting interactions seem to promote children’s cognitive and linguistic development mother’s responsiveness and father’s responsiveness and teaching parents’ affection and encouragement were not significantly related to children’s cognitive none of the four domains of parenting interactions was linearly related to the children’s motor development (p > 0.05) The regression model accounts for 19.6% of the variance of the Bayley cognitive scale scores (adjusted r2 = 0.196) No more variables or interactions were added to the model because their inclusion did not bring about a significant improvement in the model’s predictive power (p > 0.05) Linear regression model on Bayley’s cognitive-development score (n = 69) The regression model to predict the children’s linguistic development included three of the five potential factors: (1) mother’s educational level, (2) mother’s anxiety score, (3) mother’s depression score, (4) mother’s responsiveness, and (5) father’s teaching. The results (Table 5) indicate that high linguistic development can be predicted by a linear combination of a low score for mother’s anxiety and high scores for mother’s responsiveness and father’s teaching The multiple linear regression model accounted for 29.5% of the variance of the Bayley linguistic development scores (adjusted r2 = 0.295) were excluded because the model’s predictive power did not improve significantly (p > 0.05) when any of them was added It should be noted that two parenting factors (mother’s responsiveness and father’s teaching) were common to both models PICCOLO scores for mother’s responsiveness and father’s teaching were found to have a significant positive effect on both the cognitive and linguistic development of their children Linear regression model on Bayley’s linguistic-development score (n = 69) Both mothers’ and fathers’ parenting were considered parents with lower educational levels would require special attention in programs addressed at promoting a child’s development – both those in the general population and in families with children with disabilities Those results suggested that maternal anxiety and depression may potentially affect infant language development A hypothesis to consider in future studies is that the effect of a mother’s anxiety on a child’s linguistic development could be mediated by the influence of anxiety on the quality of the mother–child interaction non-intrusive behavior and linguistic stimulation our results add important information on the impact of the psychological well-being of mothers and fathers in the same family on the development of children with an established ID Our findings suggest that maternal anxiety and depression symptoms may be negative factors for language development in children with ID A family-centered model to intervene in the emotional factors Our results imply the need to address parental psychological well-being in families with children with ID so as to improve developmental outcomes especially in language but few studies have explored the relation between positive parenting in mothers and fathers of the same family unit and developmental outcomes in children with a disability in natural settings it was the parents themselves who auto-recorded their interactions at home and so we believe that this is a highly valuable contribution to the existing literature The fact that our sample included very young children with cognitive levels below their chronological age encouragement could have greater implications for child development An interesting result of our study is that none of the four domains of parenting measured using the PICCOLO was related to the children’s motor development This is one of the least studied aspects in relation to parenting and child development And although our results suggest that early parenting predicts language and cognitive developmental outcomes in children with a disability more research is required in order to examine the contributions of different aspects of parenting to children’s motor development the parents who took part were the ones who were the most informed about child development and most aware of the importance of parental interactions or even the most confident about their parenting skills it may be that the parents who were most worried about their child’s development were reluctant to participate Another limitation is the correlational design which does not permit us to establish a clear causality we need to be cautious about the use of the term “predictor” in the regression analysis “to predict” means just to estimate Bayley’s scores based on the predictor variable scores (demographic and parental scores) Another limitation to consider is the use of self-administered questionnaires In future research it would be interesting to conduct semi-structured interviews with all family members (including grandmothers grandfathers or siblings) in order to extract more information and to examine their different perspectives It would be of interest to compare these new data with those of our current study it would also be of value to measure both the distribution of housework between the father and the mother and the burden assumed by each parent in order to study whether high levels of responsibility in family tasks could be related to the levels of parental anxiety and depression This exploratory study may contribute to the development of theoretical models to explain the mechanism of the effect of specific factors which can later be tested with larger samples Ethical approval was obtained from the University of Barcelona’s Bioethics Commission (CBUB) according to the International Ethical Guidelines for Health-related Research Involving Humans prepared by the Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences (CIOMS) in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO) and the WMA Declaration of Helsinki – Ethical Principles for Medical Research Involving Human 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This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY) *Correspondence: Magda Rivero, bXJpdmVyb2dAdWIuZWR1 Andrés Vilaseca is Uruguay’s new captain The 29-year-old replaces Juan Manuel Gaminara who led Los Teros for four years following RWC 2015 He played in all four of Uruguay’s matches in England and Wales and also featured in all four games in Japan 2019 He takes over as captain with 59 caps to his name Andrés Vilaseca is a three time Nations Cup champion (2017-2018-2019) He has also been a regular in the Americas Rugby Championship (ARC) He featured in Major League Rugby for Austin Elite before departing to join Montevideo’s Súper Rugby Americana de Rugby side Peñarol with whom he won the national Uruguayan championship in 2013 The same club produced both Santiago Vilaseca and Juan manual Gaminara Vilaseca has prior captaincy experience for his country. He led Los Teros against Australia at RWC 2019 He has also filled-in for Gaminara in the past Tags Mexico hosted and defeated Jamaica on Saturday Andrés Vilaseca is too play in France. The captain of Los Teros and Peñarol is being recruited by Vannes from Uruguay The move comes after Alapati Leiua failed medical exams Vannes play in France’s second division The club has been competing for promotion to the Top 14 and has been close in recent seasons Vilaseca will join fellow RWC 2019 Uruguayan Nicolás Freitas at the club Freitas had an impressive rookie season at the club in 2021-2022 He was a regular starter at outside center Vilaseca’s regular position is inside center He joins Vannes with 70 test caps to his name Andrés Vilaseca is a three time Nations Cup champion. He was also a regular in the Americas Rugby Championship. Outside of the international arena, Vilaseca has played professional rugby in both North America and South America. He featured in Major League Rugby for Austin and captained Peñarol to the SLAR title in 2022 The same club produced both Santiago Vilaseca and Juan Manuel Gaminara Tags the highest concentration of microplastics in Catalonia This black spot on the Catalan coast was already well known to the Tecnatox research group at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV) which for years has been studying the presence of microplastics in the environment and their effects on health they have analysed the 580 kilometres of the Catalan coast from Cap de Creus to Vinaròs and the data are clear: this beach has up to 2,000 microplastics per kilogram of sand a figure that almost doubles that of the second beach on the list “What surprised us was to see that the beaches of Barcelona have a lower concentration of microplastics than other points further south such as between Castelldefels and Vilanova i la Geltrú or a large part of the coast of Tarragona,” said Joaquim Rovira a researcher at the URV’s Department of Basic Medical Sciences The study is the most exhaustive one to be carried out on the coast of Catalonia and analysed seventy samples from around fifty beaches which provided a very accurate picture of the state of microplastics contamination along the coastline and identified the most affected areas The samples were collected from the intertidal fringe which is the area of wet sand between the highest point reached by the waves and the water level The microplastics found were classified according to their size and chemical composition; that is those microplastics identifiable to the naked eye (up to 5 millimetres) were mainly polyethylene and polypropylene and were either industrial pellets or the result of the degradation of everyday objects such as plastic bottles came from textile fibres made from polyester and polyamide which are released into the environment through the process of washing clothing Much of the pollution on the beach at La Pineda which took first place in the classification but the most alarming figure (more than 60%) represented the quantity of textile fibres found These owe their presence to the fact that they are not retained by washing machine filters and therefore reach the sea through wastewater but the location of the underwater wastewater outlets between the Port of Tarragona and the cape of Salou prevents this from happening” A significant concentration of microplastics was also found washed down the river at the mouth of the River Ebre The Miracle and Arrabassada beaches in Tarragona also registered a high number of pollutants (more than 700 and more than 600 “We attribute this figure to the microplastics that reach the sea via the River Llobregat and which are carried along by the currents to the southern beaches” explained the researcher The research has also shown how microplastics are distributed according to the characteristics of the sand “On the beaches of the Costa Brava we found lower levels of microplastics We attribute this to the fact that the sand is coarser and that it does not retain as many microplastics as fine sand beaches” a researcher at the Department of Chemical Engineering The research team pointed out that the results were to some extent to be expected due to the large volume of plastic production and because plastic does not easily biodegrade the poor management of waste and uncontrolled dumping forming the micro and nanoplastics that we find everywhere” We can confidently say that plastics are probably the most abundant xenobiotic pollutants on Earth,” they warn One benefit to have come from study by the Tecnatox team is that they have demonstrated the viability of a technique that until now had never been used to collect microplastic samples The technique was found to be reliable and cheaper and uses fluorescence microscopy to detect the microplastics The technique irradiates the filters with a specific wavelength that causes the small plastic fragments to glow thus making it faster and easier to detect them one subset was analysed using this new method and the other using the traditional system based on spectroscopy it was found that using fluorescence microscopy is a good initial method for identifying the most contaminated areas Bibliographical references: Nora Expósito, Jordi Sierra, Esther Martí, Jaume Folch, Nuno Ratola, Marta Schuhmacher, Joaquim Rovira. Detection of microplastic hotspots in beach sand for national surveys using fluorescence microscopy and infrared spectroscopy: Case study on the Catalan coast. Marine Pollution Bulletin, Volume 214, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2025.117761. Δdocument.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value" Google Maps 977 29 79 75 Help us improve this site Copyright © 2023 RIFF Magazine | All Rights Reserved | News Website Website by Blue Astral after being run over by a skip lorry as he rode his bicycle near his home at London Bridge who specialised in Hispanic studies and critical theory He wrote two major books and a string of brilliant articles over the course of some 20 years As an authority on Spanish and Catalan culture he produced original and innovative studies of a number of writers and exiles from their native land or language Himself a proud and openly gay man who had made his life in London rather than his native Barcelona David clearly had a personal interest in such figures But as a master in the demanding school of poststructuralist thought especially psychoanalysis and queer theory His central theme was that identity was unstable and the limits between self and other difficult It was a theme he would also explore in a prizewinning novel David took his first degree in philology in 1987 at Barcelona's Autonomous University before studying for an MA at Bloomington in spite of the fact that he had a full teaching load as a language assistant He then returned to teach at his home university Finding the British system more receptive to his research he came back to a lectureship at Southampton University in 1994 before moving to Royal Holloway as senior lecturer in 2000 with rapid promotion to professor of Hispanic studies and critical theory in 2003 whose autobiography was written in several indecipherable hands and in a macaronic mix of languages was clearly a perfect match for David's deconstructive approach Identification and Paranoia in Salvador Dalí's Autobiographical Writings Where previous scholars had attempted to discover the "true" Dalí behind the multiple masks David took seriously the elusiveness of identity in a subject who wrote gnomically: "There are four Dalís and the best is the fifth." Crucially this sense of self was built on Dalí's vehement rejection of homosexuality The painter could thus at one moment write jokingly to Lorca as a rent boy and at another insist dogmatically: "Let there be no misunderstanding on this point Bizarre episodes in Dalí's autobiography suddenly made sense in David's subtle and sensitive readings Dalí struggles with a razor blade to cut out a tick that he believes has attached itself to his back thus prove perilously difficult to separate While David's first book had on its cover a youthful Dalí Hindsight and the Real: Subjectivity in Gay Hispanic Autobiography (2003) boasted Johnny Depp in full drag from the film version of Before Night Falls the autobiography of the Cuban exile Reinaldo Arenas Catalan and Hispanic writers could prove unsettling to scholars and activists alike he showed convincingly that Arenas actively constructed an image of himself as a person with HIV/Aids even as that identity was imposed upon him; and that the Spanish novelist Juan Goytisolo came to identify himself as a homosexual only when told as much by his mentor This was a fine example of the "hindsight" of David's title the way in which retrospectively we build narratives of ourselves telling tales that are never simple or single It was perhaps a surprise that such a private person as David should publish a novel that was clearly autobiographical in origin L'Aprenentatge de la Soledat (The Apprenticeship of Solitude) is the story of a gay Catalan living in the London which David loved While it would be naive to take the novel as a personal revelation (David worked for years on stylistic revisions of his text) it charts with disconcerting objectivity love and sex in the capital it marked David's return to the Catalan language and won him the 2007 Octubre prize for Catalan fiction as in the continuing relationship between patient and psychoanalyst Dalí's autobiography was "part of a love story which has clearly not come to an end" born 6 February 1964; died 9 February 2010 Following a 38-17 win for Italy over Uruguay in their Rugby World Cup clash here’s our five takeaways from Wednesday’s Pool A meeting at Stade de Nice We begin with an old cliche but it really was as Uruguay dominated the opening period before Italy did likewise after the break to run out bonus-point winners Los Teros continue to impress at this Rugby World Cup as they went into the break 17-7 in front and it should have been more had Felipe Etcheverry been on song off the kicking tee Two early misses meant five points went begging but a penalty try Nicolas Freitas’ score and Etcheverry’s extras and drop-goal put them ahead But after the interval it was all the Azzurri as they racked up 31 points through Michele Lamaro Lorenzo Cannone and Juan Ignacio Brex tries while Tommaso Allan and Paolo Garbisi added points in a much-improved performance Kieran Crowley must have had stern words at the break and they clearly paid off One will never know if that second-half turnaround would have played out like it did had Uruguay captain Andres Vilaseca not been yellow carded on 43 minutes Television match official Tom Foley brought the centre’s tackle on Lorenzo Pani to referee Angus Gardner’s attention and the consensus was that it warranted a card Replays showed the slightest contact in a glancing fashion as Pani dipped into the tackle from the Uruguay skipper with many of the same opinion it was harsh What followed was Italy scoring 14 points in the time that Vilaseca was off the field and Los Teros could well be left with a feeling of what might’ve been in Nice 🗣"It's a really harsh yellow" 🟨@Jamiehuwroberts feels that Andres Vilaseca yellow card wasn't deserved.#RWC2023 | #ITAvURU pic.twitter.com/QEwCDL4Si3 — ITV Rugby (@ITVRugby) September 20, 2023 Touching back on that first half and there’s no doubt the star player of that 40 minutes was Uruguay flanker Manuel Ardao We counted six turnovers at ruck time and it might well have been more as the back-rower was tenacious physical and intelligent in picking off Italian attackers Ardao is heading to Major League Rugby side the Miami Sharks next season and what a signing that is as he will now very much be on other ‘bigger’ clubs’ radar It was always going to be about facing New Zealand and France in this pool for the Azzurri as they looked to sneak into the knockout stages via one shock result Indeed, with the job done against Namibia and Uruguay, the focus now shifts to those games they have been preparing for and first up it is the All Blacks in Lyon next Friday in a huge game. Seven days later they face the World Cup hosts at the same venue in the biggest fortnight of their players and coaches’ rugby lives If they can perform like they did in the second period today they will cause New Zealand plenty of problems with the pressure very much on Ian Foster’s outfit I know that Los Teros are everyone’s darlings But we should give some credit to just how ruthless Italy have been When they switched on they have been clinical Played Uruguay off the park for the second 40 — A-P (@rugby_ap) September 20, 2023 For Uruguay they desperately wanted the scalp of Italy and after giving France plenty to think about in their opener they’ve more than held their own at this World Cup Plenty of admirers have been won by Esteban Meneses and his side for their efforts against two Tier One sides and they should hold their heads high There’s quality throughout this Los Teros team and they should have too much for Namibia next Wednesday as they look to finally claim the pool win they deserve Following that clash they will close out their campaign against New Zealand who will know they are anything but pushovers after their 2019 and 2023 showings READ MORE: Rugby World Cup team tracker: All the line-ups for another blockbuster week of action Peñarol have named Andrés Vilaseca as captain. The 29-year-old replaces teammate Alejandro Nieto as skipper for the 2021 Súper Liga Americana de Rugby season The appointment means that the inside center is now captain of both Peñarol and Uruguay Vilaseca took over of the Uruguayan captaincy from Juan Manuel Gaminara in 2020 Andrés Vilaseca is a three time Nations Cup champion He has also been a regular in the Americas Rugby Championship Vilaseca has played professional rugby abroad He featured in Major League Rugby for Austin Elite before departing to join Peñarol Tags World Rugby has finalized referee appointments for the July 2025 Internationals. Men’s teams from around … Andres Iniesta paid tribute to former Barcelona youth coach Joan Martinez Vilaseca, who has died at the aged of 78. Vilaseca, who played for Espanyol and Levante, spent almost 30 years with Barca as a coach and scout in the club's famed Masia academy. During his time at Barca, Vilaseca helped oversee the development of players who would go on to become household names, including Carles Puyol, Xavi, Cesc Fabregas, Mikel Arteta and Iniesta. Former Barca midfielder Iniesta was one of the first to pay tribute, with the 37-year-old, who currently plays for Vissel Kobe in Japan, posting a message on Twitter. "Thanks to an excellent person who was always there helping us when we were children we arrived at La Masia, rest in peace, Joan," Iniesta tweeted. "Thank you very much for all your dedication to Barca. A lot of encouragement and a lot of strength to the family!!" Text description provided by the architects. The original Municipal Sports Pavilion, located within the Vila-Seca Educational-Sports Campus, was built in 1986 and during all these years had only been done small improvement interventions. Because of the Mediterranean Games 2018 in Tarragona, the possibility of using the building as a space to host the Greco-Roman wrestling makes necessary an internal reform. © José HeviaAt the constructive level, the materials and all the constructive resources used have been minimized to the maximum, working basically with four materials in the whole reform: steel, glass, polycarbonate, and wood. The entire steel structure is a modular set of HEB140 profiles, both for pillars and beams. The covering of the outer rink maintains this modulation and the concept of a minimal structure with a set of FINK beams that cover the light of 25 meters.  © José HeviaThe metal sheets that make up the porches by their fret and thickness allow covering the lights without the placement of auxiliary profiles simplifying to the maximum their implementation and visual impact but with a micro-perforated sheet to improve the acoustic insulation the polycarbonate longitudinally closes the volume of the outer rink by filtering natural light and isolating it from solar radiation with vertical panels of 20mm and air cavity.  You'll now receive updates based on what you follow Personalize your stream and start following your favorite authors If you have done all of this and still can't find the email (AP PHOTO)Midfielder Andres Vilaseca will captain Uruguay at the Rugby World Cup in France eight years after his older brother Santiago did the same in England All articles from our websiteThe digital version of Today's PaperBreaking news alerts direct to your inboxAll articles from the other regional websites in your areaContinueVilaseca is one of seven players who will appear at their third World Cup most recently this month off the bench against Namibia was picked while he's recovering from a hand operation He will join the squad when when it arrives in Avignon Sign up for our newsletter to stay up to date We care about the protection of your data. Read our Privacy Policy Homes and Property | Home Page A London university professor was killed after being knocked off his bicycle and dragged under the wheels of a lorry professor of Hispanic studies and critical theory at Royal Holloway University died after becoming trapped beneath the lorry following the collision He is understood to have been hit as the skip lorry turned left at a busy junction less than 100 yards from his home on the South Bank near Tower Bridge a specialist in modern Spanish and Catalan literature cultural criticism and "Queer Theory" at the college was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash last Tuesday morning A post-mortem examination gave the cause of death as head injuries The driver of the lorry stopped at the scene Royal Holloway University said: "It is with the very greatest sadness that we report the tragic death of Professor David Vilaseca in a road traffic accident on Tuesday "The thoughts of the whole School are with his family colleagues and students at this most difficult of times." Prof Vilaseca-Perez is understood to have studied in Barcelona and Indiana University Officers from the Met's Collision Investigation Unit are now investigating the incident and are appealing for any witnesses to contact police on 020 8285 1574 Prince Louis steals the show at VE Day parade as he keeps dad William looking sharp and mimics brother George Prince Louis steals show with sweet antics at VE parade VE Day 2025 fashion: best looks from the day VE Day 2025 fashion: Princess of Wales to Lady Victoria Starmer UK tourists face major travel shake-up as Dubai airport set to close Royals watch historic flypast as huge crowds turns out for VE Day 80th anniversary  Royals watch historic Red Arrows flypast for VE Day 80th anniversary David Beckham’s 50th birthday bash in London 'shut down' by council over noise complaints David Beckham’s 50th birthday bash 'shut down' over noise complaints Take a close look at photographs of Manuela Portas Vilaseca They’re enough to make you wonder if anything you’re doing to pursue a healthy lifestyle compares This vibrant woman never met an athletic endeavour she couldn’t conquer which is why those pictures depict her mountain biking running and joyously plundering every type of topography that passes beneath her feet Many of Manu’s photos show a dirt- and mud-covered face above a huge grin But it’s the feminine little earrings she wears on rugged challenges that drew our attention Beneath Manu’s exterior lies a girly-girl who’s as quick to don a pair of earrings as she is to lace up her running shoes and conquer the world Manu: I can’t give you an exact date but I do recall how it good it felt the first time I tried endurance sports and realised that it suited me but my stamina is awesome; I can handle hours of activity and keep going My first adventure race was on my birthday but learning that I was an adventurer at heart came about one night in the middle of nowhere I realised that I felt totally exhilarated all by myself out there mountain bike (and Enduro) and I also do Yoga Manu: I love trail running—even more than just running There’s something about the wilderness If all of this beauty didn’t surround me as I ran I don’t know if I could handle all of those kilometres Manu: This is a hard question to answer because I’ve been in so many races had so many great experiences and each has a special memory or achievement attached to it so these are my biggest accomplishments: My 1st place in the STY 2013 5th place in the Transgrancanaria 2015 and 5th place at Lavaredo Ultra Trail 2015 One of my favourite places to run is in Japan I’ll never forget being there to run both the STY and UTMF I felt so happy running in such a peaceful place where the ground was soft under my feet and the landscape was stunning But if I let that thought or fear creep into my mind I take precautions to stay as safe as possible but I try not to imagine what could happen Manu: I hope you don’t mind me repeating myself but the scenery surrounding me when I run is my biggest motivator and inspiration Between the landscapes and all of the good energy that surrounds me as I run I can’t be anything but happy and calm I’m also reassured that I’m in the place that I want to be but I visited Singapore a long time ago—before I was into running I stopped in Singapore on my way to the Maldives and I remember being impressed by how organised things were Everything was so different from Brazil—I felt surrounded by technology Manu: The gear I take depends on the race I will run If a race requires me to cover my legs or arms I wear Capri tights and a long-sleeve shirt if it’s not too hot I pack long socks and choose shoes based on the terrain race distance and especially the number and type of aid stations along the route Every race is unique; some aid stations have support and others don’t I save longer runs for the weekend because I have more time I have a degree in industrial design and own a store that sells frames and pictures Having no kids allows me to arrange my busy schedule accordingly and since I also run for The North Face brand Manu: The next race on my calendar is the Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc I chose three races from the world tour list for 2015 in order to be able to rank I’ve placed 5th in both the Transgrancanaria and Lavaredo and since the UTMB is the last tour race for 2015 I would love to break that 5th-place streak Manu: Exactly what I’m doing at the moment I’m spending two months in Europe with my family enjoying the mountains Inspiration can mean the difference between running a so-so race and glorying in the world in which that race takes place Manu Vilaseca can’t help but be inspired by mountains and other aspects of nature Some runners do better with crowds cheering them on If you were to choose only one environment in which to run because it motivates you to keep going We are privileged to have Manu Vilaseca drop by and thank her for her time. 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Barcelona La Pineda Platja – a water-themed breakEnjoy a relaxing and fun trip to the region of Aquopolis and PortAventura World There's nothing better than starting a relaxing weekend than disconnecting by the sea we suggest you start off with a nice stroll along the coastline featuring nearly 4 kilometres of beaches that provide lovely surroundings The beaches are certified Blue Flag areas by the European Foundation of Environmental Eductation There you can also see one of the most representative symobls of La Pineda: a group of sculptures by the same name which stand 24 metres tall and weigh 130 tonnes embellish the seaside boardwalk as a symbol of sustainability The steel and copper sculpture has helped promote the Vila-seca as its image was adopted as a logo for the Patronat Municipal de Turisme de Vila-seca receives visitors filtering light and wind the work of sculptor Sergi Aguilar was built as a tribute to writer and poet Carlos Barral you can head to the Parc del Pinar del Perruquet a natural space that's 2.5 hectares in size where you can stroll around and relax while the kids have a great time get yourself energized to discover Vila-seca by walking along the Raval de la Mar a large road that's just over 3 kilometres and is made for both road traffic and leisurely strolls or cycling you can learn about the area's corners full of history through a route marked with QR codes that will give you information about each monument Along the way you'll find the Parc de la Torre d'en Dolça named after the 16th-century defence tower that stands in the middle of the park and where you can take a break and rest for a while and you can also choose from a variety of beauty and well-being treatments Enjoy a wonderful experience for mind and body Thanks for subscribing! 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