A hospital in Spain has started using dogs to boost the morale of patients and improve their psychological treatment. Under a special program, intensive care unit (ICU) patients are introduced to trained dogs for 15 to 20 minutes twice a week.
Joel Buono, 34, lay on his bed in the ICU, wiping tears of joy from his face as he greeted the special guest. It was a four-legged guest, a dog brought to meet Buono.
‘Therapy Dogs’ Vida and Lou got a lot of love from Buono. He remembered his past. Speaking to the British news agency, Buono said that it is a great thing to be loved by someone. No matter what condition you are in, they love you and show it.
Barcelona’s Del Mar Hospital has teamed up with the Affinity Foundation to launch a program using trained dogs to boost the morale of patients admitted to the ICU. This program has been very successful. ICU patients enjoy spending time with these trained dogs (called therapy dogs). This in turn instills in them a strong commitment to survival.
Ouigo (SNCF) has put 10,000 one euro tickets on sale to celebrate “in style” its arrival in Valladolid and Segovia, two new destinations to which tomorrow, Friday, its first commercial train will circulate following the inaugural trip with means and institutions this Thursday.
The tickets for this promotion to travel between Madrid, Valladolid and Segovia can be purchased during the next two weeks, announced the general director of Ouigo Spain, Hélène Valenzuela, at an event at the Valladolid station, together with the main local institutions and of the sector.
Outside of this special launch promotion, tickets for the new route start at the usual general fare of 9 euros, with a fixed fare of 7 euros for children between 4 and 13 years old, and a free fare for children up to 3 years old as long as travel in the arms of an adult.
The company hopes that this promotion will help it increase the number of travelers “significantly” and soon reach the goal of an occupancy rate above 90%, a figure it hopes to approach within a month.
The board has highlighted that, regarding to complete three years in Spain, Ouigo has exceeded 10 million travelers and hopes to achieve financial balance of its accounts this year.
He has also highlighted that Ouigo is the precursor of the liberalization of the high-speed railway sector in Spain since the inauguration of its first Madrid-Zaragoza-Tarragona-Barcelona line in May 2021.
The new line to Valladolid has two daily round-trip frequencies (4 services), which can be accessed by 14,000 passengers weekly, expandable up to 28,000 passengers taking into account that its double-height trains have 509 seats, which rise up to 1,018 in double composition.
Ouigo connects Valladolid with Madrid in one hour and with Segovia in 32 minutes. In addition, these new trains offer a direct service to Alicante, shortening the travel time between Castilla y León and the Mediterranean to 3 hours and 44 minutes, without the need to transfer.
To do this, the route of two of the four frequencies between Valladolid and Madrid will be extended, the board explained.
This route also allows you to reach Albacete from Valladolid in just two hours and 46 minutes.
Likewise, the company will incorporate Cuenca as a new destination starting June 1 with 6 stops: three round trips on the Madrid–Valencia, Madrid–Alicante and Valladolid–Alicante routes, also passing through the capital of Spain.
In parallel with its arrival in Valladolid and Segovia, the French company is working on meeting its next milestone: the arrival in Cuenca in June, the opening of the lines that connect Madrid with Elche and Murcia this summer, and Madrid with Córdoba, Seville and Malaga in the last quarter of the year.
To achieve this, the company “has been working hard” for 5 years, investing 40 million euros to adapt its trains to the LZB system, which it plans to inaugurate before the end of the year.
Once the entire transportation plan contemplated in the business plan has been deployed, the company plans to reach economic balance this same 2024.
Ousmane Dembele has become a public enemy of FC Barcelona fans. In the return match of the Champions League quarter-finals, the Frenchman had the entire stands of the Olympic Stadium once morest him.
Adrian Hulboj
April 16, 2024, 21:24
Getty Images / Christian Liewig – Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images / In the photo, Ousmane Dembele, in the frame, Barcelona fans burning a T-shirt with his name In the years 2017-2023, Ousmane Dembele was a player of FC Barcelona. Before the start of the current season, he moved to Paris Saint-Germain. Fate brought the 26-year-old Frenchman back to the capital of Catalonia on the occasion of the quarter-final of the Champions League.
In Paris, PSG lost 2-3, and Dembele scored one of the goals for the French team. Despite six years spent in Barcelona, the footballer spontaneously celebrated a goal scored once morest his former team, which enraged the fans of the “Pride of Catalonia”. They decided to demonstrate their anger during the rematch.
Social media circulated information regarding the “welcome” that Barcelona fans decided to prepare for Dembele. Among other things, it made a big splash. a short recording showing a group of fans burning a T-shirt with the Frenchman’s name on it, which arouses the admiration of witnesses of the event.
It doesn’t end there. According to Spanish journalist Jose Delgado Gomez, fans of the “Pride of Catalonia” have prepared banknotes with Dembele’s image, which they plan to throw at him during the match.
One of the fans going to the stadium took with him a pig mascot with a photo of Dembele stuck on it. It can be assumed that this is a reference to the famous situation from 2000. Let us recall that when Luis Figo became the hero of one of the most famous transfers in history and exchanged Barcelona for Real Madrid, the fans of the “Pride of Catalonia” considered him a traitor. On the occasion of his first visit to Camp Nou in new colors, a severed pig’s head was thrown at the Portuguese.
There is no doubt that Dembele will face a difficult match. Barca fans reacted with shrill whistles to every touch of the Frenchman with the ball
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It was something amazing. After a crazy match, Borussia Dortmund won once morest Atletico Madrid 4-2 and advanced to the semi-finals of the Champions League. Absolutely everything happened in this meeting.
Tomasz Galiński
April 16, 2024, 10:55 p.m
PAP/EPA / Christopher Neundorf / In the photo: Julian Brandt opened the scoring in the Borussia – Atletico match Over 80,000. fans at the Dortmund stadium now have every right to celebrate. Because Borussia played a phenomenal match once morest Atletico Madrid, made up for the loss and advanced to the semi-finals of the Champions League in good style.
This match had absolutely everything. Dramaturgy? Like the best horror movies. Plot twists? Lots of. A level worthy of the rank of this show. No, this was a show that should have been on Broadway in New York.
After the first half, the whole of Dortmund was ecstatic. They managed to make up for the losses and there was no indication that Atletico might return. There were no guests. However, one corner kick and an accidental own goal were enough to bring them back to life. Atletico equalized and everything changed once more. And in the most difficult moment, Borussia scored two goals in three minutes and also had further opportunities. It was an unbelievable, dizzying 90 minutes.
Coach Diego Simeone may regret that he did not take a risk and play offensively from the very beginning, but wanted above all to survive and not concede a goal. And it ended with his team losing four.
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One counterattack at the beginning of the match, when Alvaro Morata was running towards the goal from almost half the field, lobbed Gregor Kobel in a one-on-one situation, but shot wide of the post. And that would be it. The guests limited themselves to defense and interference, which of course determined the result of the two-legged match.
This backfired because Borussia was becoming more and more dangerous minute by minute. Initially, this did not translate into specifics, but they finally arrived. The signal to attack was given by central defender Mats Hummels. He played “false” into the penalty area, a bit in the style of Luka Modric. He spotted Julian Brandt fantastically, who outplayed his opponent and surprised Jan Oblak with a strong shot, who might have done much better. Five minutes later it was 2-0. This time, Brandt started the action, then Marcel Sabitzer did a great job, and the rushing Ian Maatsen hit an indefensible shot at the far post.
But everything changed in the 49th minute, when Hummels unfortunately intervened in his own penalty area following a corner kick. He played a great competition and if it weren’t for this one situation, he would probably have received the highest score from Kicker. Meanwhile, he surprised Gregor Kobel and the next few minutes were very nervous. At one point, there was an attack on the BVB goal and substitute Angel Correa equalized in great confusion (Simeone’s triple substitution during the break revived Atletico’s play).
However, the hosts survived difficult moments and soon received a huge mental kick. Sabitzer crossed the ball at full speed, headed in by Niclas Fuellkrug and gave his team another lead in the match. And if that wasn’t enough, following three minutes, Sabitzer boomed loudly from several meters away and Oblak had to pull the ball out of the net for the fourth time. It was a knockout blow, because following it Atletico was unable to recover and seriously threaten Kobel’s goal.
Borussia Dortmund – Atletico Madrid 4:2 (2:0)
1:0 Julian Brandt 34′
2:0 Ian Maatsen 39′
2:1 Mats Hummels (s.) 49′
2:2 Angel Correa 64′
3:2 Niclas Fuellkrug 71′
4:2 Marcel Sabitzer 74′
Compositions:
Borussia: Gregor Kobel – Julian Ryerson, Mats Hummels, Nico Schlotterbeck, Ian Maatsen – Karim Adeyemi (66′ Jamie Bynoe-Gittens), Marcel Sabitzer, Emre Can, Julian Brandt (90′ Marco Reus), Jadon Sancho (86′ Salih Ozcan) – Niclas Fuellkrug.
Atletico: Jan Oblak – Nahuel Molina (46′ Pablo Barrios), Axel Witsel, Jose Maria Gimenez, Mario Hermoso, Cesar Azpilicueta (46′ Rodrigo Riquelme) – Marcos Llorente, Koke, Rodrigo De Paul (84′ Saul Niguez) – Alvaro Morata ( 46′ Angel Correa), Antoine Griezmann.
Yellow cards: Ryerson (Borussia) oraz Azpilicueta, Hermoso (Atletico).
Judge: Slavko Vincić (Slovenia).