Month: June 2025

It is called “Pescetarismo” and the infant Cristina already practices it

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Leaving meat overnight to become a vegetarian is not simple, especially when culturally the meat is so integrated. Changing that implies much more than crossing an ingredient of the plate. Therefore, for many people, making the leap into a meat without meat requires a midpoint. A bridge. That path is touring the Infanta Cristina, following the example of her mother, Queen Emerita Sofia, reducing her meat consumption, but without eliminating fish. That increasingly common choice is known as pescetarism. Without meat, but with fish. This diet is based mainly on plant foods, fish and shellfish, but excludes red and bird meat. On the other hand, some people also choose to incorporate eggs and dairy products, as is the case of the infant as He explained Week magazine. Behind this diet. This type of food combines the antioxidants of a vegetable-based food with complete proteins and omega-3 fatty acids of the fish, According to Women’s Health Mag. In addition, vitamin B12, a nutrient difficult to find in a strict plant diet, which can be covered with only one ration of fish. In a Harvard Health reportDr. Frank Hu has stressed that fish also provides vitamin D, iron, selenium and zinc, all essential for the proper functioning of the organism. To this is added the growing evidence that this food pattern is related to a lower risk of chronic diseases, such as type 2 diabetes, dementia, depression or heart pathologies. Not everything is perfect. One of the main risks of starting with a Pescetarian diet is the excessive consumption of mercury, a pollutant present in large and long -lived fish. Therefore, from Women’s Health Mag They have recommended Eating saliscos and salmon seafood, sardines, cod and clams. But there is no other option? Yes, there is another modality called flexitarism. Both share the same objective of reducing the consumption of meat and bet on a more plant diet. However, here the big difference enters and how pescetarism has been observed, it is more defined: it completely excludes red meat and birds. On the other hand, flexitarism is more flexible, since it does not eliminate any food group, but it limits the consumption of meat voluntarily, According to Mayoclinic. It is an ideal option for those who seek to improve their diet without imposing strict restrictions, and prefer to adapt it according to the context or their personal habits. A growing trend. More and more public figures adopt this type of food. From Harry Styles to Victoria Beckham and Danna Paola, the list of Pescetarians is increasing. The reasons range from health to sustainability, through ethics and animal well -being, as He has collected Week magazine. What began as a punctual choice between celebrities begins to be reflected in the consumption habits of a part of the population. Pescetarism is consolidated as an intermediate option within the spectrum of diets that reduce or eliminate meat, in a context of growing interest in more sustainable food models and plants based. Image | USAID US Xataka | Intermittent fasting is the fashion diet. At least among scientists who study their effects on microbioma

If you had always dreamed of having your own tunnelador or an industrial crane, good news: they are in Aliexpress

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If there is an absolutely reference country in the field of tunneladoras, that is China. The funny thing is that these industrial machines can be found and buy very easily: it is enough to take a walk through Aliexpress or Alibaba to see them already prepared the sale along with other machines in the field of construction such as Cranes for containers. Second -hand tunneladoras. As Point out The specialized medium JR Urbane Network in X, it is possible to find second -hand tunneladoras in Alibaba or Aliexpress. It is enough to search for its conventional name (Tunnel Boring Machines, TBM) so that among the results a good number of them appear. As this media explained, China Recycle these tunneladoras and reuse them in different underground projects. Prices. The image machine, the CTE6250, is a medium -sized TBM with a weight of 500 tons and a six meter shield diameter. This model is Available in Alibaba for $ 688,000. A “micro machine” of “underground elevation” without excavation and with a six -meter shield diameter is $ 288,000. If we want it bigger, 9.1 meters in diameter, we will have to pay $ 748,000although taking it home will not be easy: it weighs 1,150 tons. Its manufacturer, the company Gansu Technology Equipment CO, has various models available in Alibaba. How TBM operates. These machines go beyond being a gigantic and powerful drill: in addition to the rotating cutting device, the tunnelador is equipped with a equipment that allows it to collect the rubble that is generated as the galleries open and stabilizes its structure. In addition, models that excavate underwater tunnel Hermetic mixture special and prefabricated and intertwined concrete blocks. Giant tunneladoras. In July 2023 we already talked about the Tunnel Mixshield S-880 “Qin Liangyu”. It was designed for the underwater tunnel project Tuen Mun-Chek Lap Kok in Hong Kong, and served to dig a stretch of about 5 km under the sea. It measures 120 meters long, weighs 4,850 tons and most importantly: the diameter of its shield is 17.63 meters. She is the largest tunnelador in the world. Although the tunnelador was manufactured in Germany by the company Herrenknecht Agthe assembly and operation was carried out in one of the factories of this company in China. Excavates about 30 meters of tunnel a day and is officially The largest TBM in the world According to the Guinness book of records. China winning Germany. We already have a candidate to overcome it: The Jianghaideveloped by China Railway Construction Heavy Industry (CRCHI) and the so -called China Railway 14th Bureau Group. This machine weighs about 5,000 tons, measures 145 meters long and has a shield diameter of 16.64 meters. The goal is to use it to build a tunnel that cross the Yangtsé River in the Chinese province of Jiangsu, between Nantong and Suzhou. And many industrial machines. A TBMS search in Aliexpress Not only offers offers for this type of machines, but for many other of this segment – perforas, industrial milling machines – and even cranes for maritime transport containers. In Amazon it is possible to find excavators/milling machines of “small” dimensions (1.8 m in diameter) for about $ 25,000, but the Chinese machines are at another level. Musk’s are small. It is not the only one in its class. Much more recently We met the Shanhe tunnelador163 meters long, 5,200 tons of weight and 17.5 meters in shield diameter. This machine is used to build the world’s largest diameter submarine tunnel. The company The Boring Company created by Elon Musk uses much smaller, almost “portable” tunneladoras: the PRUFROCKfor example, it has a shield diameter of 3.6 meters, although that allows it to dig much faster: approximately 1.6 kilometers per month. China, referent. In China Daily They point How 7 out of 10 tunneladoras sold in the world are Chinese, and within the country 95% of these machines are also of national manufacture. As in other industries, there is a strong commitment to self -sufficiency and technological domain in key areas like this. Although the largest are Herrenknecht, companies such as China Railway Engineering Equipment Group (CREG) have been one of the market leaders in manufacturing and sale of tunneladoras for years. In Xataka | England and Ireland wanted to create the longest tunnel in the world. A “stupid” and “advanced in your time”

In 2014, Ibáñez drew a ‘mortadelo’ where he faced marijuana traffickers. Has been in a drawer until today

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The story of Mortadelo and Filemón has lived, over 67 years and 221 albums, innumerable ups and downs. Although Ibáñez always signed the adventures of the two disastrous spies, in its realization there was everything: apocryphal authorsRights struggles, frightened towards other publishers … and even an unpublished album, which will see the light next October. Ibáñez Mético. Mythological, even because this album had been heard in forums and between fans, but it was not known if its existence was real or an urban legend. ‘Hachish … Health!’ It presents the Aunt agents facing a network of traffickers. Penguin, current owner of the rights of Bruguera and the characters of Ibáñez, has barely given more details about the comic and the reason why he remained unpublished, but with that title the assumptions are already being shot: Ibáñez had crossed, for the first time, a red line with his agents? A new collection. ‘Ibáñez Mético’ is the title of the collection that Penguin opens with this album and will release stories of the characters with extras as original pages of the scripts and scanning of the pencil pages. Everything comes with notes from the expert in the comics of the time Jordi Canyissà. What Penguin has not yet made clear is whether in the next numbers of this collection they will discuss and score already published comics or will continue to recover unpublished after the death of Ibáñez, as it has been done here or took the last album of the characters, the posthumous ”Paris 2024‘. Always the present. As we commented on Our article about ‘I and I’in 1991 Ibáñez recovered the authorship of the characters after the closing of Bruguera. But the characters crossed a strong creative crisis from which they left in 1996, when the author decided to focus his histoprias on current issues, a resource that they would keep until the death of Ibáñez in 2023. Ladies were born as ‘The lord of the bricks’ in 2005, about the brick crisis, ‘For Isis, the crisis arrived!’ In 2009 u ‘Okupas!’ In 2002, about anti-okupation paranoia. And the hashish. The Legalization of marijuana It was one of the key debates of Spanish society in 2014, the year to which this story belongs, and Ibáñez, faithful to the trend that were following the last adventures of Mortadelo, approached it with its characteristic style. Ibáñez did not feature in these years to get into somewhat more controversial issues that brought the Aunt’s agents closer to social satire: ‘The treasurer’, of 2015, about corruption in the PP, it is a good example, and possibly this ‘hashish … Health!’ Follow the same line. Ibáñez recovered. Penguin has finally decided to start giving a good cueta of the deep Bruguera catalog he has in his possession. To this first installment of Ibáñez Mético is added the recent ‘The first 200 cases of Mortadelo and Filemon‘, which recover in chronological order the first and unusual adventures of the agents, published between 1958 and 1961, very different from the long adventures that would give them fame later. It is a process that we hope will continue at a good pace, and that it seems that the editorial is cultivating with other legendary characters such as Superlópez or Anacleto. Header | Penguin In Xataka | ‘Exterminius’: the alien photonovela that traumatized a generation from the pages of ‘Mortadelo’

In case we had not had enough problems in the electricity network, a “severe” solar storm has come to complicate it

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The closeness of the Pico de Activity of the last solar cycle implies stirred times in the field of “spatial meteorology.” And we have seen one of the most important during these days, a “severe” geomagnetic storm caused by this activity. Geomagnetic storm. The last two days have been days of “intense” solar activity. The geomagnetic storm has reached a Kp = 8 index, which implies that it has been a “severe” storm, from G4 category (On a scale that goes to G5). The value of the index has descended since then: the last data offered by the NOAA spatial meteorological prediction (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) indicates that the value Average Index KP In the last three hours it has been kp = 6. Despite this, spatial time is still scrambled and According to forecasts He will continue to be until tomorrow. An ejection of coronal mass. According to He explained yesterday The Spanish Space Agency through a statement, the origin of this activity is in a high -speed coronal mass ejection (CME), associated solar fulguration of class M8.2 and with origin in the Ar4100 active region. KP 8. What does that mean of kp = 8? The K Geomagnetic Index measures disruptions in the land magnetic field and is used to characterize the magnitude of geomagnetic storms, especially through the planetary index K or KP Index. The latter uses a series of magnetometers distributed in stations located in various parts of the planet. The indices above kp = 5 are associated with a specific degree in the geomagnetic storm scale Employed by the NOAA SWPC, being G1 (minor) the smallest category on the scale and G5 (extreme) the category that denotes the strongest storms, those of index Kp = 9. A G4 storm. The storm recorded on Sunday, with a Kp = 4 index led the center to alert a “severe” or G4 geomagnetic storm. In your noticethe SWPC pointed out that, in addition to intense northern lights and lower latitudes than usual, possible impacts on infrastructure and networks, including problems with satellites and loss of precision in the GPS. The Category events They usually imply possible problems with voltage control that can also cause “mitigable” problems in electrical networks. At space vehicles, the SWPC indicates that these storms are associated with possible monitoring problems that require future corrections. Finally, other possible impacts are on the spread of HF radio signals and low frequency radio navigation. An active solar cycle. The situation has stabilized With ups and downs And, although the last one average three -hour data from the KP index is 6, the SWPC has already reduced the intensity of the storm to G1, or minor storm. The last months have been revolts as far as spatial meteorology is concerned. In October 2024, A similar situation He brought spectacular dawn. According to estimates From the experts we are already after the peak of activity of solar cycle 25, but we have not yet moved away much so the solar activity remains intense. Perhaps this is not the last storm of these characteristics that we see in the coming months. In Xataka | We have detected the exact date on which the most brutal solar storm occurred in history. Thanks to the trees Image | Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (Soho) / SWPC/NOA

Tesla is piling up the cybertruck that does not sell

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The Tesla Cybertruck is becoming a problem for Tesla. One that, granite granite (car by car, rather), is causing important headaches to the company … in all areas. The photo that best reflects is that of a dealer near Detroit (United States). Stored. The Hunters Square shopping center in Farmington Hills, next to Detroit, lives an out of the out of the out. Specifically, the one carried out by the Tesla dealership in the area whose cars are occupying more and more space in the shopping center. As reported in Crain’s Detroit Business The vehicles received by the shopping center are vehicles waiting for buyer and have been viralized after Some publications on Instagram They have highlighted the storage of what, almost all, are units of the Tesla Cybertruck. A letter. They point out in the American environment that from the City of Farmington Hills they have already sent a letter to contact those responsible for the mall since, they have reached an agreement with the Tesla dealership, it is illegal to store vehicles on public roads. The problem for the public institution is higher because, in addition, there are some projected works to overthrose part of the building and remodel it so the cars also bother in this sense, they point out from Motorpasion. Click on the image to go to the original post The forest. What happens with the storage of these Tesla Cybertruck are trees that should not cover the forest. Tesla Cybertruck sales are not working as expected and the big question is If the company has reached the roof of sales to which they could nourish too soon. In fact, it is not the first time we have news of the difficulties that Tesla is having to place cars on the market. For example, the client who returned the car the same day he discovered that he had completely stopped in A field for four months Before your sales. What do I do with all this? According to data from Cox Automotive collected by InsideevsTesla sold 6,406 Cybertruck units in the first quarter of 2025. It is half that in the third and fourth quarter of 2024. The figure, they point out, is alarming because Tesla promised that would manufacture 250,000 units per year but then has reduced that figure to 120,000 units per year. Selling at this rhythm, Tesla can expect to sell about 25,000 units at the end of the year. There are 95,000 units less than planned (or promised). They explain in Autoevolution that the company has tried to alleviate the problem with aggressive discounts. We also knew that months ago They were removing commemorative plates from the most expensive editions To lower the price. A problem. Excess stock for a car company It is a real problem. It means that they are occupying resources in the assembly line and in the warehouse to which they are not giving exit. To put them in the market, they are sold cheaper than expected and, therefore, the profit margin is dramatically reduced. And, in the worst case, the car ends up giving himself for not losing more money. It is something that can explain well Stellantis to Tesla. But that is the short term. The images of vehicles stored for months waiting to give it out and find a good discount program also damages the image of the vehicle and the company. In the case of Tesla Cybertruck the problem is greater because the car was sold as a flag model of the company. However, since its launch it has not stopped filling covers by its reliability problemstheir unfulfilled promises And, above all, the news of his loose sales. Photo | Google Maps and Tesla In Xataka | “It is not up to par”: the Danish ITV has suspended one in four Tesla Model 3 in one year and is a music that sounds to us

prioritize “your” technology, even worse

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Nvidia It is not another supplier of the Chinese market. He developed a special chip for him. He spent a lot of money on adapting his Blackwell technology to overcome US government restrictions. Prepared A cheaper GPU than H20specifically designed To meet the demands of Washington without losing the 17,000 million dollars that China represents in its annual turnover. And it sold very well. The last strategic movement of Xi Jinping transmits a clear message: China no longer wants to depend on US chips. Not even those adapted. It is a practically unprecedented decision because it leaves China choosing a lower (but temporary) technological position with its own semiconductors. The alternative was to access world leadership. But depending on American chips. Xi Jinping is a deeply Chinese movement: to support present humiliation to load with a greater responsibility. “忍辱负重” (Ren Ru Fu Zhong) In technological version. Who controls the technological basis controls the future. Although the base is initially lower. The strategy is not new: China has been applying this logic for twenty years. When Google dominated searches, he opted for Baidu. When Facebook conquered the world, they developed Wechat. When the planet hooked on Instagram, Tiktok proposed. The same pattern: initially worse proposals, but Chinese. The result is that of a completely independent digital ecosystem that serves a market four times greater than the American without depending on Silicon Valley. The semiconductors are the level rise in this bet. Unlike software, chips require decades of investment, very complex supply chains and tremendously specialized knowledge. But China has already shown that it is willing to pay that price building A parallel technological ecosystem with Huawei in semiconductors and consumer electronics, Metax or Biren for GpusMoore Threads in Gaming and many other companies backed by the State. The goal: completely replace Nvidia in a decade. This transformation sublimates post-pandemic China. For decades, the country was the world workshop: it manufactured Western designs with labor as large as cheap. That ended. The new China is a technological creator, does not mere efficient manufacturing. The pandemic and scars of the commercial war that almost takes Huawei accelerated that transition: China understood that it depended too much on foreign technology And he drew a plan. The China strategy It reflects this evolution: not only that Baidu, Alibaba or Tencent have models that compete with those of OpenAi; It is that each layer is China. Servers, chips, data with which they train. Everything is sovereign and AI is really China. The results, despite how it is, are more than promising: Alipay and Wechat Pay have displaced both cash and Visa and Master Card. Alibaba and JD cancel Amazon. They built from scratch before depending on foreign technology. And in some cases they have surpassed the originals. Even in its own market. This rupture marks the moment when technological globalization died definitely. Two Silicon Valley emerge: one that designed for the West and a Chinese ecosystem that designed for the rest. Digital bifurcation crystallizes. China has decided to build its own technological world, accepting the initial inferiority to avoid eternal subordination. A civilization with ancient vision sacrifices the present for the future. Xi’s decision redefines the meaning of “winning” in technology. For decades, winning meant having the best products, the most advanced, which the market preferred. China proposes a different metric: winning is controlling your technological destination, even if you temporarily have lower products. It is prefer to imperfect sovereignty to excellence borrowed. Nvidia, Intel or Qualcomm can try to convince XI that they are better with them. They can sign with their own blood and others the concessions that are needed to continue doing business there (as Apple did). They can promise unbeatable conditions and unprecedented technological transfers. But The president has already chosen: China will be independent or will not be power. And that decision has just changed the world order for the next fifty years. In Xataka | Chine Outstanding image | Xataka

Between 1946 and 1990, Europe sank 200,000 radioactive barrels in the Atlantic Ocean. France prepares to recover them

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France will undertake this month of June a mission to map and study the state of the more than 200,000 drums with radioactive material that several European countries sank at the bottom of the sea. The objective: evaluate their environmental impact and study if it is viable to recover them. A practice today unthinkable. For more than four decades, between 1946 and 1990, the norm for several European countries was to pour radioactive waste of very low activity in the oceanic depths. More than 200,000 barrels loaded with gloves, laboratory materials and nuclear samples were sunk in the northeast Atlantic abyssal plains, more than 4,000 meters under the surface of the oceanan internationally prohibited custom by the 1993 London Convention. Better late than never. Although a good part of the radioactivity has disappeared thanks to the short half-life of the CESIO-134 or iron-55 isotopes, so far there has been no state-level effort to recover them. The National Center for Scientific Research in France (CNRS) will be launched at the middle of June With the nodssum missionwhich does not have as its immediate objective the recovery of the 200,000 barrels (a task of titanic proportions), but an exhaustive analysis of the containers, the behavior of the radionuces in the deep ocean and their interaction with the marine ecosystems to make a decision on which one to recover and how to recover them. A robot submarine and fishing networks. The Nodssum project will take place in two major campaigns. The first phase will be a recognition mission that will sail on June 15 and will run until July 11. The protagonist will be the ULYX Submarine Autonomous Robot of the French oceanographic fleet, capable of descending up to 6,000 meters. In its first scientific dives, Ulyx will navigate about 70 meters above the seabed to map with a high resolution Sónar the main discharge zone and identify the location of barrels. Then, it will approach up to 10 meters to photograph them. This phase also includes the initial shot of water samples, sediments and fauna, but without approaching the drums. Scientists will use nasas to capture fish and crustaceans with which to determine the effect of waste on marine life. The barrels will not move until 2026. Taking advantage of the data collected in the first phase, the second mission will use a robot with remotely operated arms, Victor or Nautile, to directly observe the barrels and take samples around it for a more detailed analysis. These data will be those used to determine if necessary, and feasible, selective recovery operations in the future. Security will be the axis of the entire project, which includes a robust radioprotection protocol supervised by the France Nuclear Safety Agency. In addition to amending past errors, the mission will be a unique opportunity to measure the long -term consequences of storing at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean hundreds of thousands of radioactive waste. Image | CNRS, Greenpeace (1978) In Xataka | Thus, radioactive waste is “buried”: how are nuclear cemeteries inside

The Social Security contributions

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Asturias is living A authentic Sorpasso In an unexpected front: that of contributions. The statistics Social Security show that for a year the Principality has more women contributing to the coffers of the General Treasury than men, a reality that contrasts with that of the whole of Spain, where male workers remain a majority, or those that managed the Principality itself does not so much. At the end of 2018, for example, they represented 50.9%. In 2022 they became 49.9% and last year they already represented 49.8% of the quotes. Sorpasso In Asturias. The Latest statistics of social security with contribution data arrive with a small surprise: the consolidation of a Sorpasso gender. At the end of 2024 the state agency counted in the Principality more women contributing than men: 153,371 compared to 151,949, which means that they represented 50.2% compared to 49.8% of them. It was not always the case. How has it evolved? Although Asturias already closed 2022 and 2023 with more women than contributing men, not so much the drawing was very different. On December 2021, for example, they were a majority, with 143,821 registered compared to 142,030 women. And if we look further back, to 2018 (the first period documented by Social Security in its statistics section), the difference was even greater: there were 6,163 men more than women contributing to common piggy bank. Year (December) Men quoting in Asturias (base) Women quoting in Asturias (base) 2018 142,050 (€ 2,047.7) 137,074 (€ 1,566.7) 2019 143,612 (€ 2,119.7) 139,664 (€ 1,633.3) 2020 138,016 (€ 2,189) 136,142 (€ 1,745) 2021 143,821 (€ 2,181.8) 142,030 (€ 1,731) 2022 144,496 (€ 2,266.1) 144,845 (€ 1,806.3) 2023 147,952 (€ 2,376.6) 148,796 (€ 1,906.4) 2024 151,949 (€ 2,485.3) 153,371 (€ 1,992.9) Who brings more? He Sorpasso Asturian arrives accompanied by an important nuance. Right now there are more women than men contributing to the general treasury, but the average contribution base of them remains significantly higher than theirs, in line with the trend at the state level. At the end of 2024 the average of the Asturian contribution bases marked 2,485 euros, compared to the 1992 of the Asturian. In fact they remained well below the average of the region, which was around 2,237 euros. Beyond Asturias. Asturias is, Together with Galicia and La Riojathe only community that closed last year with more women than men contributing to Social Security, a photo that extends to the State as a whole, where the year said goodbye to almost 490,000 men more than women (8.6 million compared to 8.1). The thing changes if we go down to the provincial level. In that case we find more quoted women than men in Granada, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Ávila, León, Salamanca, Zamora, Cáceres, A Coruña, Lugo, Ourense and Pontevedra. And what is the reason? Social Security statistics connect with other realities of the Principality at a social, demographic and economic level. In A recent analysis About him Sorpasso In the contributions, The voice of Asturias Slide several. One for example is aging, a phenomenon that shares for example with Galicia. According to the Asturian Institute of Womenthey represent 52.2% of the population. Another key is the male unemployment rate that the region dragged for years, especially after the 2008 crisis destroyed employment in construction. Are there more factors? Yes. Women have a considerable footprint in the Asturian public sector, where they are a majority. According to the EPA of early 2024, about 70% of the people who worked for the public administration in the region were officials. His presence is also majority in the faculties, such as remember The voice: Last year almost 62% of Asturians had higher studies, a percentage that in the case of men descends several points until they stay at 44%. Why do the data import? Because they help us better understand the Asturian economy and society and especially the change that has been making forms and moves the region of the traditional model in which quoting men predominate. And although the basis of them is still clearly less than theirs, which reveals minor wages, the truth is that this gap seems to be closing over the years. At the end of 2018 they charged 30.7% less than them. In 2024 that percentage was 24.7%. The cut coincides with salary increases Minimum interprofessional. Image | Cowomen (Unspash) In Xataka | Throughout Europe, birth rate collapses as soon as women begin to earn more money. Except in Sweden

A company tested the four -day work week. Now your workers think it is best to work seven days

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The debate on the Reduction of the working day It is more alive than ever and many countries are reconsidering their working day model with alternatives such as four -day work week. Lumena small Cardiff SEO services consultant, tested the four -day work week obtaining outstanding results. However, his CEO, considered that the idea could still be improved, so he decided to go one step further and try a model even more flexible: Work seven days a week. From the four -day week to 32 hours. As Aced Nelmes, CEO of Lumen, counted In his LinkedIn profilethe company had changed its four -day workday for a 32 -hour. The difference can be underestimated, in that change the elimination of an important barrier is implicit: the company will not impose if its employees have to do those 32 hours In a certain number of days or at a certain schedule. It will be the employees themselves who decide when to work. According to his CEO, two years ago, Lumen implemented the four -day work week. The results exceeded all expectations: staff rotation fell to zero, productivity increased and employees felt more rested and committed. According to Nelmes, “our workers reported to be happier, have better health and be more productive.” But the model It could be improved. Seven days to meet your day. “The idea of ​​the 32 -hour week is to go further in the flexibility offered by the four days,” Nelmes explained. In the system proposed by Lumen, the only condition is that employees meet their projects and objectives, managing their time with total autonomy. Nelmes clarified in statements to The confidential that “what I require is a lot of self -discipline, capacity for concentration, self -regulation, initiative and independence.” The company seeks workers capable of directing their own time and offering the best of themselves. “I think we microstal the day -to -day life of our workers, we assume what kind of day they should have to be productive. My argument is that it is not, we do not know, and we need to delegate that decision in each individual,” said the young manager to El Confidencial. The exception: meetings and training. According to The publishedby him Financial Timesthe only exception to the total flexibility of Lumen is the time that the company dedicates to Team meetings in which the mandatory projects and formations are defined. Together, the CEO ensures that they do not exceed three hours per week. This guarantees the connection and coordination of the team without sacrificing individual autonomy. For all others each of the employees distributes their work week with total labor flexibility and No entry or exit schedules. Results and surprises. During the three months of proof of this new flexibility model, Nelmes observed that, in reality, the employees did not make major changes in their schedules. Most had routines similar to conventional ones, adapting only small details to enjoy personal activities. “People like to have routines and structure, so many … still prefer to move within a standard schedule,” explained the CEO to The confidential. The flexibility had limited itself to adapting their working hours to certain personal activities (playing sports, medical appointments, etc.) or to coincide with The schedules of their childrenand then recover that time at another time of the week. According to Nelmes, the most extreme case is that of one of its employees, who took advantage of that flexibility to adjust their rest days during the week according to the climate or their personal needs. Then, I worked on Sunday, because it was the time when I found greater concentration and less interruptions. Flexibility with clear values ​​and limits. As has counted The CEO, this model does not imply total disconnection of the company. Lumen takes great care of your team to ensure that everyone shares Commitment values and responsibility. “We would not hire someone who only wanted to work 16 hours in two days,” says Nelmes. In fact, the manager assures that they have had to leave people who did not adapt to this level of freedom and demand. The objective is to allow employees to have enough flexibility in their workday to be carried out as people and take care of their familieswhich also helps them save in nurseries, cleaning or extracurricular activities. According to Nelmes, “if you let your employees be good parents, they will also be good employees.” The company seeks to attract fathers and mothers, convinced that flexibility improves both productivity and the quality of life. An adaptable model, but not for all. Although the manager ensures that the results obtained by his staff have been positive, he acknowledges that this model is not viable or For all companies Not for all sectors. Consultants, banks, law firms or marketing companies can benefit from this approach since they allow combining the flexibility of teleworking with the organization by objectives. However, it acknowledges that it is a difficult implementation option in sectors such as the manufacturing industry, construction, the hospitality or tourismwhere physical presence and fixed schedules are inherent to the nature of work. In Xataka | Spain already has its first municipality with four -day work week. It is not in Madrid or Barcelona, ​​but in a corner of Cádiz In Xataka | Three Spanish companies tell us how it has gone after implementing a job utopia: the four -day week Image | Lumen

The battle to relocate it in Ifema

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A few years since the pandemic has been so Horribilis as the present for the veteran Madrid Book Fair. And we just have the first weekend. The most important editorial event of the year in the capital has already suffered a few setbacks, whose motivations and nuances are understood if we go to the history of owners, situations and plans around the fair. What’s happening this year. The Book Fair has encountered two unexpected closures of its doors. The first, The day of the inaugurationMay 30: a few hours after the visit of Queen Letizia, the organization announced that the Directorate of El Retiro told them that from 4:00 p.m. the park would be evicted because, From 18:00, the red alert was going to be activated by adverse weather phenomena. Specifically, a maximum temperature of 35 degrees. At 18 it was announced that the park reopened, but that the fair remained closed. Fair complaints. The next dayon Saturday, the opening in the afternoon was delayed an hour, with cancellation of firms planned between 17 and 18. two relatively unusual days in the trajectory of the fair, and that have unleashed the complaints of the booksellers and the organization of the event itself. Lola Larumbe, from the Alberti bookstore, I asked for explanations Given these closures: “The park was open but the booths were closed, that discrepancy is what is not understood very well.” He also considered that “something is doing wrong” when the Reabre park and the fair no, but did not want to see “hidden motifs or strange things.” Penguins benefits. It is logical that the organization and booksellers and publishers will solve themselves with these closures. The fair is an important business for all of them, and for the smallest participants, an essential event to save the accounts of the year, since in many cases the fair can mean 20% of its annual billing, or even more. To this is also added the important value of the visibility they grant This type of event. Visits in Madrid are around two million people and the business figure exceeds 5 million euros, according to Official data. Even so, these closures are relatively common: last year there were also partial closures two days, but what makes them unique this year is the lack of explanation and coordination of the City Council. A certain instability. This phase of doubts and complaints related to the location in the retirement has served to reinflate the rumors about a possible change of location of the fair. These do not come out of nowhere: Already in 2019The country spoke of “difficult and tense” negotiations between the organization and the City Council. This dozen meetings to negotiate were settled with a reduction of meters and the disappearance of 10 booths. According to the City Council, to “preserve the fragility of the Park from the pressure of the fair.” He gave way to the requests of the organization, since the initial intention of the Consistory was to remove 60 booths, equivalent to 200 meters from the total 1300. Manuel Gil, then director of the Fair, put on the table a new location: “The Madrid City Council has not asked to take out the retirement fair, but in private conversations they do raise the possibility of sending it to Ifema.” That same year, Freedom Digital also talked about the unofficial possibility of A transfer to Ifema. Different site. Although today Madrid identifies the Book Fair with Retiro, has gone through other places: it started in 1933 at the Paseo de Recoletos, where it was until 1967, when it moved to the retirement. In 1979 he was held at the Casa de Campo, but was a failure of assistance, so the following year he returned to the gardens of the center of Madrid. A couple of years was even held outside Madrid (1946 and 1952 in Barcelona, ​​1948 in Seville), but when the fairs were spreading throughout the Peninsula, the Book Fair ended up centralizing. At the moment, the retirement. IFEMA, on the other hand, already has its own fair: BASTwhich alternates its headquarters between Madrid and Barcelona, ​​and is celebrated in October, oriented to professionals. LD entitled his note about the fair in 2019 with a resounding “The City Council declares war”, which is more metaphorical than anything else, but that makes clear the nature of the clash between the institutions, and that with the excuse of the preservation of the retirement, it could be hardened in future editions. Header | Leticia Roncero in Flickr In Xataka | Opposite is the boring dream of millions of people. And the Spanish fashion writer has made him a book

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