Absolutely! =) I always try to keep my summer holidays investment-free, meaning about a month away from the market… Or at least several weeks!
It clarifies thinking.
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That would be tough :D… but seriously - Chambers’s record was probably 6.42 and in that video he ran 6.64. Kevin was about a second behind. Maybe Kevin could have shaved off a tenth or two with proper training. 
Markus Pöyhönen has run 6.58 and Lotta Kemppinen 7.16.
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In many sports, strength and speed support each other excellently, and the shorter the distance, the better “muscle bundles” perform, especially if there’s any background in a sport requiring explosive power. For example, shot put champion Ryan Crouser, weighing over 140kg, has reportedly run 40m well under 5 seconds.
Similarly, I remember reading, whether it was from a muscle doctor or an athletics coach’s text, that most elite-level shot putters and discus throwers perform well against sprinters for the first 30-50 meters. But that performance collapses after that, and for example, at 100m, the difference would already be significant. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find the original source with a quick Google search.
This also works the other way around, that fast people are often surprisingly strong. Muscle Doctor Hulmi once wrote that, for example, triple jumper Heli Koivula, who would have easily met beauty pageant criteria with her lightness, did clean and jerk sets of 4-5 repetitions with 90-100 kg weights as supplementary strength training.
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Yep!
Finnish heptathlete Saga Vanninen has done three repetitions of 105 kilograms in the clean and jerk. Mika Halvari also had a relatively fast 100-meter time, but I couldn’t find it with Google now. I know what you’re talking about, as I’ve heard and read about similar things. 
Right off the bat, I’ll say that I’m not super fast right now, but I’ve received praise for my speed from a couple of people who play ball sports. I squat about 2.6 times my own weight and I think I accelerate well when I need to sprint. Although I immediately suspect that when I go to the sports field to time myself, I’ll be disappointed 
(as my mental images don’t match reality), but I should go and test it sometime.
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Today is a good day to tell in the bought/sold thread how one had just previously bought Herantis. 
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Who knew that in medieval Italy, usurers… ahem… moneylenders always had a wooden seat, i.e., a bench, i.e., a banco, at their place of business. The term for conducting business at that establishment became established. Instead of a man needing a quick loan telling his wife, “I’m going to borrow money,” he would simply use the euphemism “I’m going to that bench.”
This and other curiosities from the financial world based on the Italian language can be listened to in two episodes of the Kielen Päällä program, which was already released in July:
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I, on the other hand, told how I sold it… I’ve been going against the wind my whole life in my little bubble 
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The previous message in the thread was from October 2023. It’s been quiet…
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I can’t help but wonder how the currently Roman legion-sized communication departments at UPM, Stora Enso, and Metsä Board view the prevailing investor discussion about these companies.
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Inderes once again rides a buy recommendation into a profit warning
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And there it is, the profit warning came.
ARR growth with new guidance 6-10%
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Earnings season starting🤠 The next expected negative profit warning still from Qt, and then the top two of the model portfolio are under pressure again. Of course, that negative profit warning can always be priced in, but at least for Admicom, I’m guessing a small downward market reaction tomorrow😅
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The recommendation is to add more, and go check out the forecasts, as they fall within the updated guidance ranges 
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Well, so it was 
I was wondering why I was able to add today without buying.
Seriously, that wasn’t such a bad negative surprise if we stay there.
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Kobeissi is a bit of a breaking news account, but this tweet has a couple of interesting observations, albeit presented “excitingly”.
https://x.com/KobeissiLetter/status/1975931691215860181
Doesn’t this, on the contrary, indicate that even though in the last 20 years everyone has gotten smartphones, remote work opportunities, automatic systems, and so on, productivity growth has stalled. Not even during or after the corona era has any productivity growth been seen, even though all companies were forced to take a huge leap in technology.
Somehow it sounds like everyone else has to make enormous changes to functional working methods so that a few remote workers can do comprehensive work.
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I figured out a way to make money and thought I’d quit these nursing gigs. I’m going to become a screenwriter. I have an ABSOLUTELY UNIQUE idea, and it goes like this:
There would be a cop, but not a regular beat cop, more of a rogue. He would be divorced. He wouldn’t miss his wife, but his daughter or son would be everything to him. This cop wouldn’t follow the law and rules literally, but would operate a bit by his own rules. His boss wouldn’t like it, but would turn a blind eye because he’d solve all the crimes.
In the evenings, he’d often have a shot of liquor/cognac/whiskey. Sometimes he’d drink more heavily, and all the women would be hot for him. He wouldn’t commit. Just casual relationships. At some point, a bad guy would shoot him. Not in the head, not in the leg, not in the back, but in the SHOULDER. He’d wince a bit when someone cleaned the wound. But when he was punched or fell from a roof, he wouldn’t wince.
This cop would live in a bohemian apartment that was a bit messy, with empty pizza boxes and beer cans. At some point, his boss would suspend him from duty. He’d be suspected of some offense, but it would turn out to be a plot by the bad guys or a misunderstanding. He’d place his gun and badge on his boss’s wooden desk and carry his belongings from his desk in a shoebox. Among his belongings would be a photo of his daughter. He’d solve the crime on his own time, and finally, he’d be reinstated.
EDIT: Oh, and the movie’s final scene would be in some dimly lit, abandoned factory, e.g., in a harbor area. Around the corner, there would be several bad guys and good guys, and shots would be exchanged. The viewer would be kept in suspense until the end, wondering who got hit and who fired the shot.
Wasn’t that an incredibly original and unprecedented script?
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To me, the entire discussion about remote work says a lot about the current work culture. Remote work is discussed as if it were a human right, and then people guess whether or not it brings productivity. Such talk indicates the enormous autonomy enjoyed by employees. In my opinion, supervisors should step up. They should know which jobs and roles are well-suited for remote work and which are not. They should know their staff so well that they know who can be effectively assigned to remote work and who cannot. A large part talks about taking remote days in the same tone as taking personal days. Remote work should be a tool used when it is beneficial for the company. Currently, it’s just another item in the ‘we can’t demand that now’ category of workplace absurdities.
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It’s somehow difficult to understand how some people keep praising remote work as a messiah and a new/current savior, when, for example, big tech companies are already demanding a return to offices.
Remote work is, in many ways, the culmination of individualistic and hedonistic comfort-seeking, where people don’t see beyond their own self-interest and don’t realize that developing work productivity can be more than just one’s direct contribution. In a tight labor market, one might prioritize their own benefit, but the employer ultimately pays the salary and likely realizes that, for the sake of continuity, endless remote work is not a very optimal solution for the organization.
Yes, it’s repeating the old, but I just had to state it.
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