Agregador de canales de noticias

so Ive been playing with Suspendaslurry for a while. Here is a bit of a photo dump of stuff. Dollar store funnels work great for making pour chutes. if you are making big statues, pour a hollow shell of paraffin and your slurry wont crack. vent between wax layers to minimize shrinkage. the Walt and Idols are about 5-6 lbs. Skulls are easy money. If you have criticisms, be constructive. These methods work for me. Im not a technical caster by zero means. Ive always worked on the fringe.

Related Stocks: MSM,

We’re at that point in the year when bright-eyed intentions start to go a little sideways.

The bullet journals begun so diligently in January gather dust.

The morning meditation sessions get shorter and shorter.

Those resolutions made a mere months ago seem, in retrospect, far too cumbersome.

Enter: Kaizen.

The Japanese term meaning “improvement” requires no apps, journals, or time commitments, but rather a subtle shift in the way you operate.

First coined as a business tool after World War II, Kaizen has come to represent a philosophy of continual progress—a constant recalibration that yields slow but steady improvements, like an ever-hastening tortoise. The goal is a smoother process and increased productivity, which then makes your larger goals more possible.

Kaizen is traditionally employed in the workplace—the most common example is the Toyota factory line, on which all employees are constantly working to improve the process—but the philosophy can translate to most areas of life.

Want to improve your money skills? Finally establish a writing routine? Get more work done in less time? Consider Kaizen.

The philosophy writes Alan Henry on Lifehacker, can be distilled into six steps: standardize, measure, compare, innovate, standardize (again), repeat. Put simply, it’s the practice of thinking about what you’re doing, looking for ways to improve it, making those changes, then continuing to act upon them.

“Kaizen is not change for change’s sake,” Henry writes. “It’s deliberate, constant improvement, and changes that don’t actually bring you rewards shouldn’t be made. Productivity is a double-edged sword after all. You can spend more time trying out new things and researching new tools than you would actually doing your work.”

Instead, you’ll want your changes to help you out in some way—by eliminating busywork, for example, or establishing accountability.

Interested? Here’s how to incorporate the philosophy into your daily life.

Start Small

Change is exciting! The possibilities seem endless! But pause before you get carried away, since tackling too big a task can lead to frustration or stalling when things don’t move as quickly as you’d hoped.

Instead of trying to improve your largest, most important project, start with something manageable, like your lunch routine.

Say you buy lunch most days each week. Rather than vowing to make lunch every day for the next month, look at why you’re buying lunch so often. Is it a matter of convenience? Boredom? Does the small splurge help keep your budget on track in other ways? Once you’ve figured that out, take a small step toward improvement. Perhaps you bring lunch on Mondays, while your motivation is high. Or maybe you just switch to a cheaper option and continue to buy lunch.

Once you’ve made that first small change, you can prepare for the next shift, then the next.

Remember: The focus is on progress, not an overhaul.

Find Focus By Auditing Your Time

Once a week or so, scan your recent tasks for ways to improve. You may find yourself spending hours fielding emails, for example, or regularly waiting on input from colleagues before you can really get cracking.

Outside of work, you might realize that heading home, rather than straight to the gym, usually means you skip your planned workout.

Tools like your phone can help clue you in to time spent swiping through social media, or checking email, while keeping track of your day’s activities can give you an idea of what gets done in 24 hours.

Once you have a better picture of how you spend your time, you can adjust accordingly. The same goes for in-the-moment realizations, too: If you get halfway through a task only to realize things could be far easier than you’ve made them, pause and jot that thought down. The next time you go to perform that task, make the necessary adjustments and see how things go. Remember, it’s all about the small pivots.

Get Feedback

The term “performance review” sends a shiver down even the straightest of spines, but asking for more casual feedback can be gamechanger. A boss or co-worker’s perspective can offer much-needed distance, and help you to see potential in hidden places. And as you look at what to change and how, don’t forget to consider the way that others do things.

Progress doesn’t always require reinventing the wheel.

Consider a Kaizen Blitz

In corporate-speak, a short period of rapid improvement is referred to as a “Kaizen Blitz.” A group of employees will focus on one particular pain point—say, a clunky payroll system—and rework the process to remove the hold ups within a few days, following a set of guidelines.

The business approach is a multifaceted battle plan, but you can apply the same idea to your own life.

Say you typically pay your bills over the course of each month. Some are online only, while others come as paper statements. You pay your internet from one account, and credit card from another. You have a hazy idea of how it all comes together.

After your next payday, try a Kaizen Blitz: Take a look at what’s been working so far, streamline payments, centralize accounts, create a spreadsheet or two, and clean everything up. You’ll get everything done for that month, and set yourself up for future success. The key is to stay small, reworking tiny tasks that make a large impact overall.

Leave Room to Waste Time

Let’s face it: 100% productivity is a recipe for burnout. Sometimes we need to do things inefficiently to give us time to process, or to discover something we would have otherwise skipped over.

Kaizen is all about making progress—not turning you into a machine. Be sure to avoid changing too much at once, and consider using any gained free time to go for a walk or take a bathroom stall dance break, rather than taking on more work.

Just as small steps can lead to massive progress, so too can small breaks prevent massive burnout.

This article originally appeared on Shine and is reprinted with permission. You can download the Shine app here for daily self-care support, personalized to you. Explore meditations, articles, and more to help you calm your anxiety and feel more confident at work.

More From Shine:
5 Lessons Startup Co-Founders Learn in Their First 5 Years
4 Science-Backed Reasons to Say Your Self-Talk Out Loud
2020 Made It OK to Talk About Our Mental Health. We Can’t Stop Now.

Update Sunday, 8:48 a.m.:

According to Virgin Galactic, the flight has been delayed 90 minutes due to overnight weather. It’s now scheduled for 10:30 a.m.

Original post:

It’s the weekend after Independence Day, and the Brits are maybe, finally, getting us back for that whole Revolutionary War thing. Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson, an English business magnate extraordinaire and Buckingham Palace knight, will be launching himself into outer space nine days ahead of American billionaire and Amazon kingpin Jeff Bezos.

Branson is set to blast off this Sunday, July 11, around 9 a.m. EST, courtesy of his own Virgin Galactic spaceflight company and its VSS Unity SpaceShipTwo.

When Branson revealed his surprise plans this month—mere weeks after Bezos—we got the mega-billionaire space race we never asked for. Branson, for his part, insists his ambitious timing has nothing to do with beating Bezos’s Blue Origin to the suborbital cosmos, but he’s still a man who has tried multiple times to break various world records (e.g., fastest crossing of the English Channel in an amphibious vehicle, which he holds; attempted fastest Atlantic Ocean crossing, which concluded with a helicopter rescue).

Nevertheless, his flight promises to be a landmark moment for commercial space travel, and the whole world has a front-row seat.

The launch—which is occurring, prophetically, near the town of Truth or Consequences, New Mexico—will be broadcast globally. You can watch the livestream on Virgin Galactic’s YouTube channel. We’ve also embedded it below.

You would be forgiven for thinking billionaires in space are becoming commonplace, but it’s worth remembering that Branson, like Bezos, will be taking real risks when he rockets to the edge of space at 2,400 mph, suspends briefly in microgravity, and then carefully glides back down to the runway (the whole process takes about an hour). We’re wishing him a safe flight!

These wildfires and record temperatures across the globe are another widely ignored warning for the days to come. The cost of this delusion will be measured not in dollars, but in carbon units...






COVID was the wake up call, so the Idiocracy hit the snooze button and went ALL IN risk assets at the end of the longest cycle in U.S. history. Gamblers to the very end. 
The leaders of this denialist paradise are the most corrupt human beings in U.S. history. They've profited mightily from the fact that societal moral collapse has been front-running their death spiral of depravity. And who to trust in this human disaster but the same assholes and policies that got us into it in the first place. I predict that the days of accountability are fast arriving for these serial psychopaths. 
We face an epic meltdown not just in markets but in human mental health as well. The self-indulgent consumption lifestyle has left The Lonely Crowd cleaved of any and all meaningful social connection. The end result is mental health breakdown, suicide, and addiction. Rampant selfishness is leading to societal disintegration. THIS is exceptionalism. Guns don't kill people, psychopaths with guns kill people. What should we resolve the guns or the psychopaths, let's vote for neither. The right is seduced by this notion that nothing has changed and we can easily revert back to the good old days, if we only had the will to do so. Unfortunately, EVERYTHING has changed. Everything has been denatured over the past decades. Which means that the good old days no longer exist in the current paradigm. We must adapt to survive. We cannot live in a Blade Runner reality soundtracked with country music.
Adaptation means that less is more. We must no longer strive for competitive self-destruction. And yet, the system demands that we be fed into the same old meat grinder as usual. Today's super idiots must obey the prime directive. The only vestige that remains of the past is the imperative to recycle proven failure. 
I personally don't worry about the carbon level anymore because this sequence of events will lead to the sharpest drop off in carbon output in global history. In addition, I don't concern myself with societal meltdown, because the Deep State has far more weapons and ammunition than their would be adversaries. In summary, I am not paranoid, I am enlightened. Because finally we see the Creator's Plan coming together.

And it's not carbon neutral. 

Last reply by snubnoze on Sun, 11 Jul 2021 04:14:37 +0000

The philanthropist has shifted from an intensely private figure to a leader comfortable in the spotlight

Retail space also makes way for warehousing and life science campuses as property investors reposition portfolios

Wealthy nations urged to send surplus Covid-19 jabs immediately to region hardest-hit by pandemic

Growing activist movement presents double-edged sword for mainstream party ahead of elections

Business meetings are back, bringing disastrous collisions between shakers, bumpers and fist knockers

Wealthy nations urged to send surplus Covid-19 jabs immediately to region hardest-hit by pandemic

Ministers usually make final decision on appointments, despite part of role being to scrutinise government

Retail space also makes way for warehousing and life science campuses as property investors reposition portfolios

Ministers usually make final decision on appointments, despite part of role being to scrutinise government

Mala semana tanto en países emergentes como frontera, que provocan una caída del Perpe Global Portfolio del 1.5%, muy por encima del MSCI AC World EUR que sólo cayó moderadamente un 0.3%.

Decido reducir un 15% en MSCI Emerging Markets, porque se ha deteriorado bastante y podría continuar cayendo. El efectivo aumenta hasta un 60%.

Related Stocks: LCI,

The government’s response is too little, too late

Fluidra es el valor del Ibex 35 que mejor se ha comportado en la primera mitad del año. La compañía se ha revalorizado más de un 60% y a día de hoy nos da ni la más mínima señal de debilidad en su serie de precios más bien todo lo contrario. La compañía conseguía dibujar nuevos máximos históricos esta pasada semana lo que le permite moverse en más históricos sin resistencia alguna en su camino. Los buenos niveles de acumulación refuerza su impecable tendencia alcista por lo que parece muy probable que podamos acabar viendo una extensión de las subidas hasta el nivel de los 40 euros, precios que podría alcanzar en las próximas semanas. No a preciaremos ni la más mínima señal de debilidad mientras que se mantenga cotizando por encima de los 31,62 euros, primer nivel de soporte.

Deja que te aconsejemos en tus inversiones. Prueba Trader Watch gratuitamente 15 días. En el último año acumulamos una revalorización del 310,81%.

En el segundo escalafón de los que mejor se han comportado tenemos a Almirall con una revalorización de más del 35%. Estas fuertes subida han llevado a la compañía a moverse en la actualidad en las inmediaciones de la resistencia de los 15,28 euros. En estos precios estamos viendo una consolidación de niveles si bien todo parece indicarnos que podría superarlos en las próximas jornadas. Esto sería una magnífica noticia para su evolución técnica que podría acabar por catapultar a su serie de precios hasta los máximos históricos que presenta en los 17,85 euros.

En la tercera posición tenemos a Bankinter. El banco se ha comportado muy bien en la primera mitad del año que ha terminado el primer semestre del año con una revalorización de más del 30% y eso que en el último mes y medio la compañía ha caído cerca de un 12%. Aún así su aspecto técnico es bueno. La proximidad al soporte de los nos hace estar muy pendientes de la aparición de una señal de fortaleza que le permita continuar con su tendencia alcista principal. Sólo deberíamos interesarnos por la compañía si consigue subirse por encima del primer nivel de resistencia que presenta en los 4,377 euros.

A la cabeza de los valores que peor se han comportado del Ibex 35 tenemos a Solaria. La compañía venía de un 2020 excelente en el que se llegó a revalorizar un 340% y era de esperar una corrección como la de los últimos meses. La compañía se ha dejado cerca de un 30% si bien en las últimas semanas estamos viendo síntomas que podrían estar mostrándonos la vuelta de las compras. Es importante que vuelve a subirse por encima de la media de 200 sesiones si bien para la senda alcista deberíamos esperar a que consiguiera subirse por encima de los 19,40 euros, precios aún muy lejanos de los actuales.

Siemens Gamesa ofrece una evaluación técnica muy similar a la de Solaria. Tras un muy buen 2020 en el que se revalorizó más de un 110% la compañía se está tomando el año actual para sanear todas estas ganancias. La compañía se ha dejado entorno a un 15% si bien, como en el caso de Solaria, parece que en las últimas semanas ha conseguido despertar. La compañía busca subirse por encima de la media de 200 sesiones y si consigue superarla podríamos acabar viendo una extensión de las ganancias hasta el nivel de los 33 euros.

Por último tenemos a ACS que acumula unos descensos superiores al 10% en esta primera mitad del año. El abandono del soporte de los 22,94 euros a finales del mes de junio ha complicado severamente sus perspectivas técnicas. La compañía ha abandonado también la media de 200 sesiones y tras un pull back a estos precios parece muy probable que podamos acabar viendo una extensión de las caídas hasta el nivel de los 20 euros. A los precios actuales lo más sensato sería mantenerse al margen y es que no volveremos a ver un señal de fortaleza mientras que se mantenga cotizando por debajo de los 24,72 dólares, precios un 11% por encima de los actuales.

Según un análisis realizado por Hopper HQ, portal especializado en redes sociales, Cristiano Ronaldo es el que más gana por post patrocinado en Instagram. Pero no es el único que se embolsa cantidades millonarias gracias a sus publicaciones promocionando un producto o marca en la red social.

El actor y ex luchador profesional de la WWE, Dwayne Johnson, la cantante Ariana Grande, el jugador del FC Barcelona Leo Messi, el cantante Justin Bieber o la influencer Kim Kardashian, entre otros, también se embolsan grandes cantidades por post patrocinado. Si quieres conocer cuánto gana cada uno, te dejamos arriba un vídeo con el top 10 de los mejor pagados en Instagram.