Whether it's rising with the sun to get a jump on the day or hitting the snooze button as many times as possible, we all have different morning routines. Nobody can tell you the perfect way to structure your morning, but if you're hoping to reinvigorate yourself or your business, start by taking a hard look at how you begin the day.
And if you're looking for inspiration, many of the industry's top performers and the world's most successful people follow a similar set of morning rituals. From getting up early to setting goals, here are five things many of the world's most successful people do before getting to work.
The easiest way to make your mornings more meaningful is to make them longer, and there's only one way to do that — get up earlier.
Laura Vanderkam, author of "What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast", said 90% of executives wake up before 6 a.m. on weekdays. Many of the world's most successful people get up even earlier.
In addition to giving you the time needed to complete the rest of your morning routine, getting up with the sun gives you the necessary quiet time to gather your thoughts and prepare for the day. And especially for brokers leading busy lives, starting early helps you gain control of your business by granting you the time to plan your day.
Top performing brokers set goals, and most do so in the quiet of the morning. Setting goals gives you clear objectives to work towards, and that clarity hones your focus and helps guide you to the finish line.
In addition to setting weekly goals, it's helpful to break down larger goals into smaller steps. To be more precise, set daily goals that will bring you closer to achieving larger aspirations. While it's important to update your checklist as the day progresses, begin your day with focus and set clear goals every morning.
Our memory isn't usually as good as we think it is. That's why it's important to actually write goals down, not just keep them in our heads. It's also why many top brokers keep some type of journal handy.
It could be a physical journal, an app on your phone or even, in cases of emergency, a post-it note. Whatever it is, use a journal to write down important ideas that come to you. And since our willpower tends to be highest in the morning, keep a journal on hand to write down new strategies you come up during the course of your morning routine.
Unlike many other professionals, brokers are surrounded by uncertainty. While it's tempting to reach for your phone first thing in morning to see if your latest prospecting efforts paid off, a bit of time off the grid can do wonders.
Studies show being glued to your smartphone hurts your sleep and can even make it harder to think. So while you certainly need your phone during the day, embrace the time in the morning to just think in peace and quiet. Not only is a bit of daily silence restorative, but disconnecting from your phone in the morning makes it easier to focus on the rest of your morning routine.
It's no secret exercise keeps you healthy, gives you more energy, and reduces stress. With benefits like that, it's no wonder many of the world's most successful people love to work out.
But when the day gets busy, we tend to have a way of postponing exercise — often indefinitely. To ensure they actually get their workout in, many highly successful people exercise first thing in the morning. It's a great way to wake up, prepare for the day and accomplish something important before even getting to the office.
In addition to exercise, a huge percentage of top performers meditate. From brokers to surfers, Tim Ferriss interviewed 140 people at the pinnacle of their fields and found that about 90% practice some type of meditation. Ferriss said most of the people he spoke with meditate for 20 minutes every morning.
So whether you're looking to supercharge your business or rekindle your motivation, start by examining your morning routine. What you do when you wake up sets the tone for the rest of the day, and from working out to setting goals, learn from the world's top performers and kick your day off right.


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It's PRIDE Month across the globe, and at The Deep Creek Wedding we celebrate love of all forms! We aim for inclusivity and encourage our local community to do the same! Love knows no bounds, and we believe in the pairing of souls which doesn't dictate gender, orientation, race or any label mankind has placed upon itself. Because love is love, we wanted to share with you a bit of the background of Pride and the struggles the LGBT+ community have endured. We commend this community for their continued efforts in fighting for equality and as allies and members of the LGBT+ community. We at The Deep Creek Wedding support same-sex marriage and want you to choose Deep Creek Lake for your wedding or elopement! Happy Pride Month, friends!
We welcome new contributor Jeremy Gosnell for the history behind the rainbow flag and information on our region's inaugural Pride.
During June and throughout summer, it's not uncommon to see rainbow flags flying proudly in the wind. All over the United States, monuments and buildings are lit up, displaying all the diverse colors of the rainbow. Most of us know, the rainbow flag is a symbol of the LGBTQ community and throughout history, the flag has been a representation of diversity and solidarity as if to say we are in this together! Both the International Cooperative Alliance and Indian spiritual master Meher Baba used rainbow flags to symbolize togetherness and the latter also used it to represent an ascension of spiritual mastery. Usually, no matter who is flying a rainbow flag, its presence indicates connection and focuses on what brings us together and not what tears us apart.
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The LGBTQ community sees the rainbow flag as a symbol of harmony among groups of their community. Today, we know that there isn't just a mix of homosexual and heterosexual people. Some individuals are bi-sexual, drawn to either gender while others are pan-sexual, meaning they are sexually attracted to a person's personality traits, not their gender or physique. There are LGBTQ citizens whom androgynous, meaning they don't identify with either gender and some are gender fluid, meaning the gender they feel closest to changes. Despite commentary that may suggest otherwise, all forms of human sexuality are natural. Homosexuality alone appears in over 450 species within the animal kingdom. From female lions on the Savanna growing manes and acting like males to pre-adolescent human children, homosexuality is a natural occurrence, a stratagem of evolution and natural selection. The rainbow flag is a flag for every member of the LGBTQ community and focuses on what ties all of us together!
Many people don't know that the specific colors of the rainbow flag carry significant meaning. First, the colors are represented as they appear in a natural rainbow which is a pleasing and happy symbol. The red stripe that often tops the rainbow flag symbolizes life. Orange signifies healing. Yellow denotes sunlight, and green characterizes the balance and force of nature. Blue on the flag suggests harmony and peace while purple stands for the human spirit. The rainbow flag is something that all people, regardless of sexuality can connect with and appreciate. Our environment and its attributes are something we all share, no matter where we're from or who we love.
Even pride celebrations specifically embody the acceptance of the LGBTQ community and a resistance of hate crimes and violence toward members of the community at large. Perhaps more important, pride festivities promote and celebrate diversity. Throughout history, diversity has been a tool of nature, evolution and the human experience which not only strengthens communities but also bolsters economies and opens the talent pool. Economically, diverse corporations, governments and institutions are statistically more apt to succeed and generate a higher quality of life index. We see it all over the globe, as the most openly diverse societies are often both the happiest and economically sound. Communities that shun diversity often stagnate and fall into a state of economic gridlock. Innovation slows because the talent pool is limited and without individuals that have a different perspective on progress and change, overall production and ingenuity planes off.
For the first time ever, Western Maryland will be holding its own pride celebration, which will kick off a tradition that throws a beacon up signaling that even here, in the mountains of Maryland, we promote, accept and celebrate diversity. Events surrounding Cumberland Pridewill begin on July 6th and culminate on July 9th with a Pride Festival in downtown Cumberland running from 11 AM to 5 PM. The events on Sunday are family-friendly and all members of the community are encouraged to bring their families and support what hopes to be the first chapter in progressing our communities support of diversity.
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However, perhaps the best way that the LGBTQ community can embrace equality is with a wedding. For many young millennials, oppression of the gay community is either a distant memory or lost to the pages of 20th-century history. Throughout the 80s and 90s, not only could LGBTQ people not marry, they were deprived of normal rights and civil protections. When members of the LGBTQ community began openly living their lives, societies' reaction was unkind. Gay people were fired from careers they had spent decades building, barred from certain areas within towns and cities and hate crimes (including murder) were not uncommon. Due to the progress of political parties and activists, communities today embrace the LGBTQ community as valuable members of society and the push for equality continues.
For the LGBTQ community, a wedding is a symbol of progress and equality. Now, for the first time ever, they too can take part in a tradition that has helped define humanity, commitment, and love. Maryland followed the lead of other progressive states in legalizing gay marriage and the entire nation was blanketed with open acceptance of love when the Supreme Court ruled to legalize gay marriage nationwide. LGBTQ couples come here, to Deep Creek Lake, to take in the natural beauty of an area and to commit their lives to one another, for what will be a lifetime of happiness. How could anything be more beautiful? Love is a word that represents a variety of deep principles. Respect, admiration, loyalty and sheer kindness are all parts of what makes love the epitome of human existence. Thomas Jones, the famous British-born American publisher said, "Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile."
Coming together to support love, diversity and open acceptance isn't unusual or out of touch, but in fact, one of the very things that makes us human.
Photography by Jacqie Q Photography
Author Jeremy Gosnell is a science fiction author and magazine writer. His work explores ancient civilizations, futuristic technology, and the long-term social impact of a high-tech world. His modern-day interests lie in compassion for living beings and promoting equal rights for all of humanity through the eyes of the natural state of diversity in the living world.
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Wrong! She gets up and do the eight o'clock flow. Not only to practice, but as a review on the class she will hand in as an assignment during the course.
Hmm, what's he looking at?
We spent a little time in the room while Katja did more of her yoga stuff. Memorizing sequences is often hard enough, but giving other people cues on how to perform them at the same time is even harder.
We drive to our favorite babi guling place for dinner. The lady asks me three times before accepting the fact that I'll have two portions by myself. She smiles and check once again:"Three soup also?", before accepting that Katja will have one and I two. It's as good as always and we just smile as we feel the nice warmth from the chili glowing together with the taste of a suckling pig. I gotta do something like this on the BBQ back home.
We drive the back road into Ubud, cross through town and go to the frozen yogurt place we both love. A nice cold dessert there and it's getting dark and time to go home.


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I wrote an article a while back called Eight Essentials of the Artist Drummer, where I define an artist as the ultimate drummer – a Buddy Rich, so to speak. A true artist drummer has eight essential qualities, including Solid Time, Authenticity, and Good Dynamics. (See Eight Essentials of the Artist Drummer for more.) Eventually, I will devote a separate article to each of the eight essentials. This week, we'll cover the first one: Solid Time. You'll learn what Solid Time is, how to get it, and how to keep it through proper practice with a metronome. As a bonus, you'll find that this type of practice will greatly increase your studio drumming skills.
You're In For Defeat, If You Ain't Got That Beat
A drummer has one main function in any band – to keep a steady beat. The tempo should not speed up and it should not slow down. And while it's true that no human can keep a tempo as steady as a machine, a tempo that varies noticeably will quickly destroy any groove.
An exception is when you play in free tempo. While free playing does have its place, here we'll concentrate on what it takes to develop a steady tempo – especially important if you want to develop steady work.
The Metronome
The most useful piece of equipment to any drummer, aside from drums and sticks, is the metronome. A metronome is a device that you can adjust to sound a click at various intervals from about 40 to 208 beats per minute (bpm).
There are many different models of metronomes available today. When shopping for one, I strongly suggest that you choose one rated high in accuracy. Stay away from the old style pendulum types. Battery and plug-in electronic types are much more accurate.
Drummers, especially beginners, usually have a tendency to rush right in and start banging out solos on the skins during practice sessions. Believe me, there's nothing wrong with that. That's part of the fun of drumming. But you should also devote a portion of your practice time to playing along with a metronome. Here are two major reasons why:
It's the best way to develop "rock" steady Solid Time.
It'll prepare you for studio recording work.
Most recording session work today requires you to play along with a "click" track, which is simply a metronome beat pumped into the headphones of all musicians on the session. While this may sound simple enough, it takes plenty of practice to play with a click track and still maintain the groove. First timers usually end up sounding like a bad electronic drum machine. The best way to develop Solid Time and prepare for studio recording work is to practice with a metronome.
How To Practice With A Metronome
Set your metronome on 100 bpm (beats per minute) and play a single stroke with your right stick followed by a single stroke with your left stick. Continue alternating your strokes, playing two taps to each single metronome click. The trick is to play each tap as evenly as possible. Repeat this simple pattern for a minute or two.
Next, move the metronome tempo up to 120 bpm and repeat the same simple exercise, playing two taps to each metronome click. Continue playing for another minute or two.
Once you've completed that, set the metronome down to 40 bpm and play the same exercise again. What happens? Do you find it harder to play evenly spaced beats? Welcome to the wonderful world of drumming and time keeping.
Contrary to popular belief, it's much harder to play at slow tempos than fast ones. Why? Because slow tempos leave you so much more room to make mistakes!
You can use exercises from practically any drum book to play along with your metronome, and it doesn't matter if you play on a practice pad or drum set. But if you do plan to practice on an acoustic drum set, you'll need to get a metronome that includes a headphone jack – if you actually expect to hear the click sound over your drum sound!
Solid Time Skill Test
There are some metronomes that have both a flashing light and audible sound. They usually let you turn off the audible sound while maintaining the tempo with the flashing light. If you have one of these models, here's a little skill test you can practice. Play along with your metronome for a while and then turn off the sound (or have someone do it for you) while you continue to play. After about 5 seconds, turn the sound back on. Are you still exactly "on" the click or has your tempo varied?
This is a fun exercise and one that usually takes time to get good at. But once you can consistently maintain any tempo (slow, fast, or half fast), try extending the time that you're playing without the audible click. Try to get up to about 30 seconds, but don't cheat. If your metronome has a light, make sure you can't see it.
Three Types of Time
Although this article is aimed at beginners to the metronome, you should know that there are actually three distinctly different types of time that experienced players use. This article covers playing directly On the Beat but you can also play slightly On Top of the Beat (for a more exciting feel) or slightly Behind the Beat (for a more laid back groove). I suggest that you first become comfortable playing directly On the Beat before attempting the other two time feels.
Not For Beginners Only
Some drummers feel that practicing with a metronome is strictly for beginners. This is a big mistake. Practicing with a metronome is something that you'll never "outgrow," no matter good you get. Not only does it improve your time and ability to play along with click tracks, as we've already discussed, it also makes a very useful "chop" measuring device.
Do you know how fast you are? How fast can you play right-handed Triplets? How about left-handed ones? What about Paradiddles and Single Strokes? How about your double bass drum Single Strokes? Practicing with a metronome can tell you. I suggest that you get a notebook and label it for your drum practice only. Use it to keep a dated record of your maximum tempos on a variety of basic rudiments and update it from time to time. Weeks, months, and years down the road, you'll be able to look back and see a written record of your progress. And if you notice that you're not making any, then you'll know it's time to find a new drum instructor!
Until next time: Stay loose and stay on that click track!
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You have returned to your normal levels of psychological, social, and physical functioning in all realms of your life.
There is a general decline in all of your symptoms of grief.
You are not overwhelmed by emotions in general or whenever the loss is mentioned.
You are back to your normal level of self-esteem.
You can enjoy yourself without feeling guilty, and you don't feel guilty for living.
Your hatred and anger, if any, doesn't consume you and is not directed inappropriately at others.
You do not have to restrict your emotions and thoughts to avoid confronting something painful.
It is not that you don't hurt, but the hurt now is limited, manageable, and understood.
You appreciate how you are similar to and different from other bereaved persons.
You do not have to obsess about nor think solely of the deceased and the death.
You feel that you have done what you needed to do, either to atone for your guilt or to learn to live with it.
You lead the pain, it doesn't lead you.
You can appreciate the bittersweet quality of certain experiences, such as holidays and special events in which you feel the sweetness of those who are around you as well as the sadness of not being with your deceased loved one.
You are able to meet and cope with secondary losses in a healthy fashion.
You don't become anxious when you have nothing to do. You don't have to be occupied all the time to be without tension.
You can remember without pain, and can talk about the deceased and the death without crying.
You no longer feel exhausted, burdened, or wound up all the time.
You can find some meaning in life.
You do not have to hold time, or yourself, back.
You have "accepted" the loss in the sense of not fighting the fact that it happened.
You are comfortable with your new identity and the new adjustments you have made to accommodate being without your loved one in the world. While you wouldn't have chosen to have to change, you are not fighting it now.
You are comfortable with the emotions that temporarily are aroused when you occasionally bump the scar from your loss (for example, at anniversaries or special events). You know how to deal with the grief and you understand that it is normal.
You know how and when to take time to mourn.
You can look forward to and make plans for the future.
You have a healthy perspective on what your grief resolution will and will not mean for you.
You can realistically remember the good and the bad, the happy and the sad of both the deceased and your relationship.
Any identification you have with the deceased is healthy and appropriate.
You can forget the loss for a while without feeling like you are betraying your loved one.
You are able to stop "searching" for your lost loved one.
You do not have to hold on to the pain to have a connection with your deceased loved one.
The rituals that keep you connected to your loved one are acceptable to you and healthy.
You can concentrate on something besides your deceased loved one.
In your relationship with your deceased loved one, you have achieved healthy amounts of holding on and letting go.
You have integrated the loss into your ongoing life. You are able to relate to others in a healthy fashion and to work and function at the same level as before.
You can accept the help, support, and condolences of others.
You are not inappropriately closed down in your feelings, relationships, or approaches to life. For example, you do not overprotect yourself or fail to take any risks.
You can let the world go on now without feeling it has to stop because your loved one has died.
You can deal with others' insensitivity to your loss without becoming unduly distressed or overemotional.
You are regaining interest in people and things outside of yourself or which don't pertain to your lost loved one.
You can put the death in some perspective.
There may be other signs that would indicate to you that you now are learning to live with your loss in as healthy a fashion as possible. The ones listed here will give you some examples of the ways in which resolution and recovery can be shown. You will note that none of them suggest that you not have some connection with your deceased loved one, or that you forget that person. They all center around learning to live with the fact of your loved one's absence, moving forward in the world despite the fact that the scar will remain and, on occasion, bring pain.
And, in the end, this moving forward with that scar is the very best that we could hope for. You would not want to forget your loved one, as if she had never existed or not been an important part of your life. Those things that are important to you in your life are remembered and kept in the very special places of your heart and mind. This is no less true with regard to the loss of a beloved person. Keep this loss, treasure what you have learned from it, take the memories that you have from the person and the relationship and, in a healthy fashion, remember what should be remembered, hold on to what should be retained, and let go of that which must be relinquished. And then, as you continue on to invest emotionally in other people, goals, and pursuits, appropriately take your loved one with you, along with your new sense of self and new way of relating to the world, to enrich your present and future life without forgetting your important past.
Taken from Therese A. Rando, How To Go on Living When Someone You Love Dies. New York: Bantam Books, 1991, pp 283-7.


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There are those in the world that tear down genre fiction, claiming it is nothing but the lowest common denominator, watered down prose that is predictable, boring, and without any redeeming value. I disagree. Is there a difference between genre horror and literary horror, between genre fantasy and literary fantasy, between genre science fiction and literary science fiction? There is. But I've read just as much boring, predictable literary fiction as I have genre fiction. On both sides of the fence there are authors that succeed and authors that fail. And when they succeed, the literary and academic factions often claim them as their own—convenient, right?
Take a look at The Road by Cormac McCarthy. Is this a literary story or a genre story? If you go by the language alone, then this must be literary fiction. If you go by the subject matter and setting, it's quite possibly genre, some hybrid of horror and science fiction. Post-apocalyptic doesn't mean genre, it's only a place to tell the tale. There are moments of sheer horror in this novel, the baby roasting on a spit over an open flame, the basement full of people stacked like cords of wood, eaten one at a time for survival. The fantasy here is that the world has come to an end—it just happens to be more of a nightmare.
Take the entire sub-genre of magical realism. It's based in the realm of fantasy, where there are often worlds hidden inside other worlds, dimensions just beyond a window, buried in a tapestry, or revealed after passing through a portal. And what is wrong with that? Can only Tolkien talk about orcs and trolls and be seen as an author of literary merit? No. What magical realism does for fantasy today is start the story (or ground the story) in a reality, a place where we can talk about our problems in universal ways, discussing work and family and emotions. Because we all know that if this were set on Mars or in the year 3012 that we just couldn't tell a story worth telling, right?
I'm not sure if Ray Bradbury's story "The Veldt" is magical realism or science fiction, but it's probably the latter. Not that it matters. All speculative fiction does the same thing: it speculates. It asks questions, "What if vampires lived in the year 2012?" or "What if ancient gods walked the earth in the 20th century?" How would that all work? Bradbury, in "The Veldt," a story collected in the Norton Anthology of Short Fiction, the BIBLE of literary story telling, tells us a tale of spoiled kids who spend most of their time in a room where any setting can be created. Maybe the room turns into an African savanna, lions growling in the distance, the smells and heat bearing down on the children, flies buzzing around their heads. What separates this story from "bad genre fiction" is the ability of Bradbury to find the emotional truth in this tale, the battle between the parents and the children for respect and honesty. The technology, the "science fiction" doesn't really matter, does it? If we don't care about the people, if we aren't emotionally involved, then we won't get into the story, we won't disappear into the threads of their lives, seeping into the background, gasping as the door shuts and the lions scratch at the door.
There will always be an audience for straight fantasy, be it high or low. And that's a good thing. I grew up reading Tolkien, Bradbury and Heinlein, and have enjoyed Gaiman and Rowling as an adult, to name but a few authors. But the short stories and novels that affected me the most were the ones in which I cared about the characters. If there can be any criticism leveled at genre fiction, then it must also be directed at literary fiction: please don't bore me to death; and don't be predictable.
Magical realism is a sub-genre that I've been getting into more and more these days. People like Lydia Davis, Aimee Bender, Kelly Link, Karen Russell—George Saunders even. Maybe this is a middle ground for contemporary fans of fantasy that are looking for something different to read. In my own work, I usually write what I call "neo-noir" fiction, or contemporary dark stories. It isn't just horror, but it is often horrific. There doesn't have to be a monster to scare you, there's enough to fear within our own dirty hearts and fractured minds. Lately I've been dabbling in magical realism because it allows me to write in a place and time I know well (the year 2012, United States, Chicago) and yet take some steps into the darkness, the mystical—the unknown. In my story "Fireflies," I trim the world down to a man in a hut that rests on top of a hill, the wind outside whipping up debris, wolves circling, snapping at the door, a glowing outline of fireflies recreating the body of a long dead wife. And in "Flowers for Jessica" (Weird Fiction Review, 2012) I show a woman so saddened by the loss of a child that she dissolves into a forest, only to be brought back to life by the sweat and tears of her distraught husband, each layer of her translucence and flowering veins a disturbing realization that maybe the dead should stay that way.
We worry too much about labels, I think. Maybe it boils down to audience and sales. Margaret Atwood, Cormac McCarthy, Joyce Carol Oates: literary giants or genre fiction masters? Maybe we need to say BOTH. In the end, I can honestly say that I've gotten as much joy from Stephen King as I have from Denis Johnson, and China Miéville as Flannery O'Connor. All of these authors are willing to step into the darkness, and aren't we better off with them taking us to different places? Maine, the South, London, Mars, or Narnia, if the story is told well, if I can imagine the people, the androids, the beasts, loving and hating, fighting to survive, to find meaning in the world—then that's all that matters to me.


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HERMANTOWN – Highlighting his first-term successes and lauding his "willingness to work across the aisle to solve problems," Minnesota's statewide newspaper endorsed Pete Stauber for Congress. Stauber was the Star Tribune's first Republican congressional candidate endorsed in 2020.
"When he sought the Star Tribune Editorial Board's endorsement in his first bid for Congress in 2018, Republican Pete Stauber's public service background included a career as a Duluth police officer and stints on the St. Louis County Board and Hermantown City Council.
"Stauber impressed the board as a quick study who wouldn't hesitate to work with Democrats on common-ground issues faced by residents of Minnesota's sprawling Eighth Congressional District. "We don't need a red playbook or a blue playbook," he told the board two years ago.
"Stauber also deserves credit for his work with Rep. Angie Craig, D-Minn., on a bill to address inadequate federal funding for special education. And he's joined Rep. Dean Phillips, D-Minn., on the House Problem Solvers Caucus, whose 50 members from both parties try to find areas of agreement on critical issues.
"Stauber, 54, won the seat in 2018 when Democrat Rick Nolan decided not to run for re-election, becoming only the second Republican to represent the Eighth in 70 years. He's earned another opportunity to represent the district using a playbook that's neither all red nor all blue."
Read the entire endorsement here.
Currently in his first term in Congress, Pete is attempting to become the first Republican to win re-election in Minnesota's 8th Congressional District since William Pittenger did in the 1940s.
Stauber's Latest TV Ad – Fighting for Us: Highlighting his independent voice and illustrating his record of fighting for all Minnesotans to get our economy moving again, Pete Stauber released his latest TV ad that will be seen across the 8th District. Erik Skoog, Recording Secretary of the Teamsters Local 320, is featured in the new ad. Stauber has been endorsed by the Teamsters as well as numerous unions. "I support Pete Stauber because Pete Stauber has working men and women's backs," Skoog says. "Pete Stauber is there for us when the rubber meets the road." Watch here.
Quinn Nystrom Speechless on Job Creation: During a debate on October 7th in Duluth, Quinn Nystrom was left speechless when asked about job creation. When asked about promoting mining and job growth in northern Minnesota, Nystrom was asked if she had a response: "Umm, nothing more," Nystrom said. More here.
Quinn Nystrom's Solution for Job Growth? "Wear masks": In a head-scratching moment of the first debate in the 8th Congressional District on September 25th in Hibbing, Quinn Nystrom's answer for job creation and economic development in St. Louis County was to wear masks. "Unless we take [wearing masks] seriously… we can't get our economy up and running," Nystrom said. "Ms. Nystrom is bankrupt for ideas when it comes to job creation," said John Eloranta, campaign manager for Stauber for Congress. More here.
Quinn Nystrom Caught Insulting Hearing Impaired: Stauber, who suffered hearing loss after 23 years of serving as a police officer, wears a hearing aid. Nystrom took to Twitter on September 25th making fun of Stauber's hearing impairment. More here.
Quinn Nystrom Refuses to Back Our Police: Quinn Nystrom, and the DFL party, have sat silently while members of their own threaten to defund our police departments and burn down our communities. In fact, one of their own endorsed candidates recently stormed a cul-de-sac in Hugo and threatened to burn down the Twin Cities suburb while screaming obscenities at women and children living there, and using a baseball bat to beat an effigy of a female TV reporter who is married to a police officer. The DFL endorsed candidate also promised that he was coming for Duluth, Hibbing, and Virginia next.
8th District Race Rated "SOLID REPUBLICAN": The Cook Political Report recently promoted Stauber's race from "Lean Republican" to "SOLID REPUBLICAN." Recognizing Stauber's record of fighting for the Minnesotans he represents and his popularity throughout the District, The Cook Political Report noted, "Once a DFL bastion, the Iron Range has turned sharply against national Democrats. Trump romped here, 54 percent to 38 percent in 2016, and is likely to win comfortably again. The Cook Report, considered the foremost expert on congressional elections, continued: "Quinn Nystrom, who was elected to the Baxter City Council at 28, faces long odds against Stauber, a former police officer and minor league hockey player."
Biography: Pete Stauber is in his first term representing the 8th Congressional District in U.S. Congress. Pete served 23 years in law enforcement and retired as an Area Commander in the Duluth Police Department. A small business owner and former professional hockey player in the Detroit Red Wings organization, Pete and his wife, Jodi, live with their four children in Hermantown. Jodi is an Iraq war veteran, who retired from the 148th Fighter Wing as the First female Command Chief in the history of the unit.
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Leaders of Fateh, Hamas, agree to end Gaza clashes
Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyya, Hamas, said on Tuesday at night after meeting Fateh officials that the two parties had agreed to work together in order to stop the in-fighting between the two groups in Gaza.
At least twelve residents were injured as a result of the clashes between the two groups; three men were killed.
Haniyya stated that he "is sure that the Palestinian people will use dialogue as their only tool".
Both Fateh and Hamas issued a joint statement and stated that gunmen from both groups will not enjoy immunity if they were involved in any further clashes.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said that these clashes are "unfortunate and unacceptable" and called on both factions to end these clashes.
Moreover, Khaled Mashal, leader of Hamas in Syria, and Farouq Kaddoumi, one of the leaders Fateh and the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), made an urgent call for calm among the Palestinians after the clashes renewed in the Gaza Strip.
Anwar Abdul-Hadi, the advisor of Kaddoumi, issued a statement urging Fateh and Hamas members in the West Bank and Gaza to preserve the interests of the Palestinian people and the national rights.
He also called on the two groups to preserve the national unity and to be committed to calm and law.
Abdul-Hadi added that Mashal and Kaddoumi held talks over the situation in the territories and the necessity to restore calm, and rebuilding the PLO.
Four Palestinians injured in renewed clashes in Khanyounis
IMEMC Staff, 2006-05-10, 01:12
On Tuesday evening four more Palestinians were injured during renewed fighting between members of Fatah and Hamas in the Eastern area of Khanyounis in the southern part of the Gaza strip.
Palestinian sources say that the fighting reoccurred' following the funeral of two of the men killed in Mondays' clashes at Abasan east of Khanyounis.
Palestinian Medical sources state the injuries suffered by the four ranged from minor to moderate.
Hamas deny involvement with the clashes and claim that some members of Palestinian security forces fired at civilian houses.
Hamas media spokes person Sami Abu Zuhri denounced the clashes saying that they do not serve the interests of the Palestinian people.
In the earlier clashes where ten residents were injured five were children.
Salah Bardaweel, the spokesperson of the Hamas bloc at the Palestinian Legislative Council, held members of the Preventive Security devices responsible for firing at the vehicle of Sayyed Abu Msamih, one of the Hamas legislators who was traveling with Ahmad Yousef, the advisor of the Palestinian Prime Minister, Ismail Haniyya, Bardaweel stated that members of the preventative security fired directly at his vehicle and he also claimed that they assaulted him.
At least ten injured in Palestinian in-fight in Gaza
George Rishmawi-IMEMC & Agencies, 09:50
At least ten Palestinians, most of them, school students, were injured Tuesday morning as the fight between the Hamas ruling party and its rival Fatah continued in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian medical sources reported.
Joma'a Al-Saqa, chief medic at Al-Shifa' hospital in Gaza city said there were no serious wounds however most of the injured were school students, caught in clashes on their way to school in the Al-Tuffah neighborhood of the city.
On Monday, armed gunmen from Al-Aqsa martyr brigade, the armed wing of Fatah kidnapped three members of Al-Qassam brigade, the armed wing of Hamas it is not known where they were taken , according to eyewitnesses.
Earlier on Monday, Hamas men kidnapped a Fatah operative in Al-Daraj neighborhood of the city, local sources reported.
All those kidnapped were released a few hours later which restored relative calm to the region.
However, clashes erupted when a vehicle carrying armed gunmen from Al-Qassam brigade approached the house of Samir Masharawi, a senior Fatah leader and kidnapped another three of Masharawi's guards.
On Monday, three Palestinians were killed in fighting , two from Fatah and one from Hamas.
A source at the Aqsa Martyrs brigade said the crisis is about to be solved and that intensive meetings are being held to contain the crisis.
One Hamas member, Mu'tasim Haniya, nephew of the Palestinian Prime Minister Ismael Haniya, is still held captive by Fatah militants.


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Where to Eat Near the Walter E. Washington Convention Center
Dig in to the many great places to eat and drink near DC's convention center.
The Walter E. Washington Convention Center is one of the top meetings venues in the nation's capital. Fortunately for conventioneers, it also happens to be surrounded by one of the city's fastest growing restaurant scenes. We've compiled some of the top dining hot spots in the neighborhood below to make any meeting you have at the convention center that much more appetizing. If you're looking for large group and private dining options as well, we've got you covered.
Hungry for more? Take a look at our handy Good Eats Food Map featuring 40+ options nearby, including where to get breakfast, group-friendly and Michelin-starred restaurants and much more.
All-Purpose Pizzeria
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This Italian-American eatery is an ideal destination if you're craving artisanal pizzas from a deck oven. The rustic space also serves up antipasti and a selection of 50 wines. Chef Mike Friedman is also responsible for The Red Hen, another acclaimed, Italian-style restaurant in the neighborhood. All-Purpose is open for lunch and dinner.
Unconventional Diner
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Conveniently located at the convention center, the Unconventional Diner is far from your standard all-day diner. The modern space includes a cafe area for on-the-go breakfast pastries and sandwiches, while dinner features unique twists on your favorites: Meatloaf is dressed in a sriracha glaze and morel gravy, while cheeseburgers are made with wagyu beef and topped with tomato chutney and dijonnaise.
DC's premier southern Mexican restaurant sports a mezcal bar that is sure to add some punch to your meal. With an eye on the past, dishes and drinks are infused with tradition but also showcase innovation. The sophisticated locale also features seven different kinds of mole, a type of sauce used throughout Mexican cuisine.
RPM Italian
RPM Italian is Giuiliana and Bill Rancic's take on Italian cuisine, featured prominently in Mt. Vernon Square. The sleek setting often welcomes celebrities, and it's easy to see why: menu highlights include slow roasted meats, wild fish, over a dozen pastas and signature cocktails.
The Dabney
Located on Blagden Alley in Shaw, this much-acclaimed restaurant has been abuzz since it opened. The Dabney earned a Michelin star for a number of reasons, but several of them follow: its 10-foot wood-burning open hearth, its dedication to Mid-Atlantic cuisine and dishes that breathe new life into recipes inspired by historical 19th-century cookbooks.
Centrolina
Located inside CityCenterDC, Centrolina is part food market, part restaurant, home to the mastery of RAMMY award-winning chef Amy Brandwein and her take on regional Italian cuisine. The small, yet thoughtful, seasonal menu relies on fresh local ingredients to transport diners on a culinary journey across the Italian peninsula. Expect pastas made in-house daily and wood-fired meat and fish.
Ranked number four on Washingtonian's 2016 list of the city's best restaurants, Convivial gained a lot of buzz and managed to live up to the hype. Behind the chic hot spot is seasoned chef Cedric Maupillier, who honed his skills at Mintwood Place. This acclaimed eatery serves up forward-thinking French-American creations, like the fried chicken coq au vin., which has become one of the city's most sought-after dishes.
Kinship / Métier
Regarded as one of the most stylish and exciting restaurants to open in recent years, the Michelin-starred Kinship – from Chef Eric Ziebold, who previously helmed the Mandarin Oriental's Cityzen – features dishes that focus on technique, history, ingredient and communal preparations intended to be served family-style, like whole fish or 12-ounce ribeye cuts. Housed in the same building is Métier, an ambitious 36-seat restaurant with a seven-course tasting menu that earned it a Michelin star. Take note: advanced reservations are recommended and jackets are required for gentlemen.
Okay, so award-winning chef José Andrès' Jaleo is far from new, but this groundbreaking Spanish tapas restaurant is as popular as ever. The accolades include Bib Gourmand honors in the DC Michelin Guide and being named "the best tapas restaurant this side of the Atlantic" by The Washington Post's longtime food critic Tom Sietsema. Safe to say, this culinary mainstay is a must-add to your post-convention dining to-do list.
Sfoglina
James Beard Award-winning chef Fabio Trabocchi features Italian regional specialties at this Downtown locale. Dig in to seasonal takes on pasta like casarecce, a partially narrow tube-shaped pasta served Amalfi-style with lobster and octopus, or classic dishes you'll only find in Rome, thick tangles of tonnarelli noodles are served with sheep's Pecorino, black pepper and walnuts. Oh, and pro tip: the 'G' is silent
San Lorenzo Ristorante + Bar
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This Shaw ristorante just north of the convention center is inspired by – among other things – chef Massimo Fabbri's son and his favorite neighborhood in Florence, as Tuscan influences teem throughout the quaint, 70-seat eatery. Inspired cuisine comes at reasonable prices – most items on the menu are under $30 – and Fabbri continues to win hearts with house-made pasta dishes like the pappardelle with herb-infused rabbit ragu.


How do you determine the market size for a product that doesn't yet exist? This is a problem that investors, sellers/resellers, innovative enterprises, and investment banks face on a regular basis — and yet, the solutions for estimating market size are limited and often yield inaccurate estimates. I've encountered this issue myself, both in my former career as a partner with McKinsey & Company, as well as on behalf of NewtonX clients, upwards of one hundred times. In response, The NewtonX Market Research Team and I developed a three-pronged approach to using expert surveys, interviews, and a qual-quant-qual approach to quantify market opportunity for products before they hit the market.
How Do You Calculate Market Size Based On Their Answers?
Your target buyer/user, audiences who buy similar products, or who are likely to buy the product based on interest, demographic, and price point.
Products currently on the market that fulfill a similar need to your own product in a partial or incomplete way. For instance, if you were to launch the first ever voice-operated concierge, then a comparable would be high-end human concierge services such as the ones from hotels or credit cards.
Data Collection Strategy: Expert interviews with former employees and leaders at the comparables.
Potential market leaders who could break into the space. For instance, if you were launching the first ever voice-operated concierge, you'd look at Microsoft, Apple, and Google to ask how these tech giants would enter the market and what strategies they would employ.
Each of these groups can give data and insights that, together, can be used as variables to calculate overall market size. This next section will outline how to employ different data collection strategies for each cohort, and the following section will detail how to calculate the results into an accurate market size estimate.
Each cohort has different data points to offer, and should therefore be approached differently in terms of data collection.
Data from potential customers should be issued in a survey format to a large population sample (500+ if B2B, 2,000+ if B2C). Sample questions should address size of the pain point your product would solve (e.g. how much time do you waste on this problem, and how much money do you make per hour/minute). You can then multiply time wasted by the value of that time in terms of a person's salary, in order to quantify the per user value of solving the pain point.
Data from comparables can be collected through either a small scale survey or through expert phone interviews (2-5) with former executives at the comparables. The data should reveal the market size of the comparable (e.g. $Xb), thereby allowing you to calculate your market size as a function of its scale in relation to the comparable. For instance, if the comparable is a $5B market, and the product you're investigating would be more mass market than the comparable, roughly 5x the size of the comparable, then the product you're investigating would have a market size of $25B.
Future market leaders can give data on monetization, market size over time, competition, and investment. The best way to collect this data is to take a qual-quant-qual approach, wherein you issue interview several (3-10) future market leaders to gain a broad understanding of the space and scope of their market, then issue a survey based on the qualitative interviews to several hundred future market leaders, and finally identify outlier or interesting responses and conduct interviews with these respondents to understand the anomaly.
Additionally, this approach gives qualitative data on market entry strategies, monetization strategies, and future projections. This qualitative information can inform investment decisions, stocking/ordering, and market entry strategies.
NewtonX uses a proprietary knowledge graph and search algorithm to find the best possible expert for specific client needs. The identification process works equally well both for extremely niche needs where there might be only a handful of people in the world who would qualify, and for broader needs such as large-scale executive surveys. By using a combination of AI, automated reach-outs, and human screenings, NewtonX can identify and reach out to experts faster and with better results than any other service.
Additionally, NewtonX offers custom reporting and survey design to ensure that clients get the highest quality data possible. Clients that currently use this service include 3 of the top 5 management consulting firms, top ten tech companies, and global market research firms.


'Fan Phenomena' is an ongoing series from Intellect Books, a Bristol-based publisher with an international outlook. Since 2013, they have covered a variety of subjects with huge fan followings – including sci-fi movie franchises and TV shows, as well as more cultish offerings like Twin Peaks and The Big Lebowski. Fictional characters, such as Sherlock Holmes, and celebrities including Audrey Hepburn, have also been re-examined – with figures as diverse as Jane Austen and James Dean projected as future titles.
Marcelline Block, who has edited numerous books related to film, approached me in 2012 – a year which marked the fiftieth anniversary of Marilyn Monroe's death, reviving public interest in her life and personality. From the outset, Marcelline showed the utmost respect for both Marilyn and her admirers. In contrast to many in the mainstream media, she understands that fans are not just 'geeks', and their knowledge and creativity helps to keep art alive. The result is a quirkier, more intimate look at the icon than is generally depicted.
Fan Phenomena: Marilyn Monroe combines academic essays about how Marilyn is being represented today – including her Youtube presence, influence on contemporary fashion, and recent portrayals in the biopic My Week With Marilyn, and the TV series Smash – and interviews with fans, including collectors Scott Fortner and Melinda Mason, impersonator Suzie Kennedy, memorabilia expert Marijane Gray, and fan-club owner Mary Sims. These personal testimonies were a highlight for me, partly because over the years, we have all supported each other in different ways.
My own contribution is an extract from The Mmm Girl, focusing on Marilyn's love affair with the camera. I have also been interviewed for an article about Fan Phenomena, published in the latest issue of Art Decades (of which more later.) While Fan Phenomena: Marilyn Monroe is not a biography, it brings new insight to Marilyn's undying appeal, and provides an up-to-date companion piece for earlier cultural studies like American Monroe and The Immortal Marilyn.


A mother who lost her baby to a rare genetic disease has posted a heart breaking video of baby James' short life with his family.
Susie Ash and her fiancée Justin Thorndyke from Forncett St Mary near Diss have been to hell and back since their son was first diagnosed with severe combined immunodeficiency SCID.
And their grief since their son died in February has been harder to bear with the knowledge that a £2.50 simple heel prick test to detect SCID could have saved his life.
Their consultant, Professor Bobby Gaspar, from Great Ormond Street Hospital said screening that would have diagnosed baby James at birth meant he could have been successfully treated.
Following their son's death the couple set up a petition to get the government to introduce SCID screening for newborns – it now has 23,000 signatures.
Professor Bobby Gaspar, who researched SCID and began a campaign five years ago, believes Susie and Justin's SCID awareness campaign has helped bring the issue to the attention to the UK Screening Council.
Last month the council published its recommendations to carry out an evaluation study on whether to introduce the simple heel-prick test.
By posting the video of James' difficult short life with his family, the grieving mother is highlighting what SCID sufferers and their families go through.
She hopes that her latest move will lead to more signatures for her petition to get the heel prick test added to newborn screening.
In just over two days the online video has had 3,500 views and many parents have contacted Ms Ash to thank her for raising their awareness of the disease.
She said: "It was a very hard thing to do – James was really poorly and the video shows some of his last moments.
"But it does show what he went through and how important newborn screening is.
"We have to keep the pressure on and not let this issue slip under the carpet.
"I hope it will spread far and wide to spread awareness of SCID.
"Many doctors have no awareness of SCID.


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Give the crew a break
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Ecumenical charity Liverpool Seafarers Centre has welcomed a ruling in the US to improve access to shore leave for those working onboard ships.
The Crosby-based charity said it was only right that seafarers be permitted adequate time away from their vessels while in any port.
The Seafarers' Access to Maritime Facilities Final Rule comes into force on 1 June 2020, issued by the US Coast Guard, as reported in Seatrade Maritime News.
The rule states that each owner or operator of a maritime facility regulated by the US Coast Guard must provide seafarers and representatives of seafarers' trade unions and welfare organisations, access between vessels moored at the facility and the facility gate, promptly and at no cost to the seafarer or other individuals.
Chief executive of the seafarers centre John Wilson welcomed the ruling and hoped other countries would follow.
He said: "The majority of seafarers spend anywhere between nine and twelve months on a ship during which they work long hours. Any down-time they receive is spent in their place of work, with all the noise and vibrations that environment entails, meaning there is no escape.
"A report last year found that seafarers were at risk of developing poor mental health because of conditions like these, which means it is vital that they are given time to spend away from the ships they live and work on.
"Just because a ship is in port it does not always mean the crew can go ashore so this ruling is a vital step towards ensuring the wellbeing of crews who dock in US ports."
The report in 2019 by Cardiff University's Seafarers' International Research Centre (SIRC) found that long working hours, isolation and extended periods away from home put seafarers at risk of poor mental health.
The working environment and conditions on board for some are resulting in a recognised increase in suicides and attempted suicides, while loneliness, boredom and depression were singled out as significant issues.
Liverpool Seafarers Centre assists in alleviating these issues, providing social visits to ships docked in Liverpool and all Mersey ports including the Manchester Ship Canal, going aboard to chat to the crew, to offer a warm welcome and to break the monotony of their time on board. The charity also provides internet-enabled sim cards to give seafarers the opportunity to connect with those home at a time to suit, allows them space to unwind while ashore and even arranges transport to places of interest or countryside to provide some much-needed respite away from the port environment.


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Reflecting on: Showbread – No Sir, Nihilism Is Not Practical
September 25, 2014 by itsalldead Leave a Comment
Throughout 2014, we're going to be looking back on some of the best albums that were released 10 years ago and discussing their legacy. Feel free to share your thoughts and memories in the replies. Enjoy!
The screamo explosion of the mid-aughts certainly came with a degree of predictability, but it wasn't without its curveballs. As the sing/scream/breakdown formula became commonplace with rapid intensity, a few outliers staked their claim with their own brand of the suddenly fashionable sound. The most peculiar of these was, without a doubt, Showbread.
Hailing from the small town of Guyton, Georgia, Showbread stormed onto the scene radar in 2004 after signing with Tooth and Nail Records. What followed was one of the most genre-defying and wildly entertaining spectacles of the year: No Sir, Nihilism Is Not Practical.
Showbread's sound, dubbed "raw rock" by the band themselves, was a frenzied mash-up of new-wave screamo, punk and pop rock with a dash of dance-y electronica thrown in for good measure. Visually, the band was a sight to behold, weighing in at seven members strong and featuring two vocalists and a full-fledged keytar player.
Everything about the band – the identical uniforms, the abrasive album title, the confounding artwork, the spastic sounds – seemed crafted to make some sort of statement. By the time you actually press play on the record, you feel prepared for anything. Fortunately, No Sir does not disappoint.
The album's opening track, "A Llama Eats a Giraffe (And Vice Versa)" hits full throttle with a symphony of wild guitars and fuzzy synthesizers as vocalists Josh Dies and Ivory Mobley trade back and forth shrieks and screams. Amidst the chaos are some truly thought-provoking and unexpected lyrics. As the opening verse closes with, "Patronized you harmonize, a thorax rattles so / Like idealistic jargon every self-respecting hopeful should know", you feel prepared for a deep tour into the meaning of existence.
Not so fast. The song's ending gives way to the sounds of a chainsaw before leading into the dirty, distorted guitar riff that kicks off "Dead By Dawn" – the band's own homage to Evil Dead 2. The track is a bloody tale of the Book of the Dead, capped off with the climactic lines, "The corpses wish to cover me with kisses, so just maybe / I'll cover this cabin with their blood – hail to the king, baby".
If this transition of sound and subject seems awkward, maybe that's the point. No Sir, Nihilism Is Not Practical is a crash course on societal and cultural quandaries with the band's own flare for the dramatic serving as the cherry on top of the rock and roll sundae.
Poppy single "Mouth Like a Magazine" examines the good/evil duality that resides inside us all. "The Missing Wife" is an acoustic number telling a tragic tale of guilt turned hopeful with the promise of forgiveness. "Matthias Replaces Judas" is a powerful rock ballad pushed over the top by the guest vocals of Five Iron Frenzy's Reese Roper.
No Sir is truly chock full of diverse sonic explorations. In the mood to mosh? Turn up the wicked riffs found throughout "Welcome to Plainfield Tobe Hooper". Looking for some proggy experimentation? Throw on the Nine Inch Nails-influenced "Sampsa Meets Kafka". Want to dance? Take a listen to the bouncy "So Selfish It's Funny".
Whether they're waxing philosophical, wrestling with religion, or expressing their love for horror films, Showbread has no shortage of palates to paint on. Their quirky style and unpredictable transitions are engaging on a level that extends beyond their musical talents, which are notable to be sure. No Sir, Nihilism Is Not Practical is not an album crafted for everyone – it's an album displaying a band exactly as they are. It's up to the listener to take it or leave it.
Throughout their career, the band would undergo a jaw-dropping amount of member changes, each resulting in a completely new sound. Showbread has never been a band to do the same thing twice. The result is a fan base spanning a broad spectrum of interest. To claim one album as the best would be to ignore the obvious elements of taste and personal preference.
For my money, No Sir captured lighting in a bottle – a dizzying debut of an album that was impossible to replicate, even if you unwisely wanted to try. Its lyrics are razor sharp and its sound is raging and unpredictable. It requires patience and repeated listens to grasp. Just be careful – as the band says, "raw rock kills."
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Shock art
Shock art is art that utilizes disturbing imagery, sound or scents to create a shocking experience. While the art form's proponents argue that it is "imbedded with social commentary" and critics dismiss it as "cultural pollution", it is an increasingly marketable art, described by one art critic in 2001 as "the safest kind of art that an artist can go into the business of making today". But while shock art may attract curators and make headlines, Reason magazine's 2007 review of The Art Newspaper suggested that traditional art shows continue to have more popular appeal.
While the movement has become increasingly mainstream, the roots of shock art run deep into art history; Royal Academy curator Norman Rosenthal noted in the catalog for the "shock art" exhibit Sensation in 1997 that artists have always been in the business of conquering "territory that hitherto has been taboo". In China, which experienced an active "shock art" movement following the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, encroachment on the taboo has led the Ministry of Culture to attempt a crackdown on the artform, banning the use of corpses or body parts in art.
Select notable examples
Fountain, a urinal placed on exhibit by Marcel Duchamp, a pioneer of the form, in 1917. In 2004, Fountain was selected in a survey of 500 artists and critics as "the most influential work of modern art".
12 Square Meters, a 1994 performance art display by Zhang Huan in Beijing wherein Huan "lathered his nude body in honey and fish oil" and exposed himself to "swarming flies and insects".
Helena: The Goldfish Blender, a 2000 display of live goldfish in blenders which viewers were invited to turn on, by Marco Evaristti.
The Holy Virgin Mary, a black Virgin Mary, with elephant dung, before a background of pornography, by Chris Ofili.
Merda d'Artis-ta (1961), a series of 40 tin cans allegedly filled with the excrement of artist Piero Manzoni which have been displayed in the collections of Tate, Pompidou and New York City's Museum of Modern Art.
Myra, (1997) a portrait of murderer Myra Hindley constructed of children's handprints, by Marcus Harvey.
Orgies of Mystery Theatre, by Herman Nitsch, a display of music and dance in the midst of "dismembered animal corpses", at 1966's Destruction in Art Symposium.
Gottfried Helnwein
Transgressive art
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With New Billie Campaign, Women Muscle Into Movember
by Sarah Mahoney @mahoney_sarah, October 31, 2019
Billie, a D2C women's razor start-up already known for its fresh take on womanly fuzz, is heading into manly territory, encouraging women to grow out their own mustaches in the month-long Movember charity event.
Billie's video highlights the many ways women typically hide their 'staches, whether it's using bleach, wax, threading or razors.
The company is urging women to post their pictures on social media, and matching 100% of contributions made to its Movember team, up to $50,000. "We're a brand built for womankind, but we're thrilled to put our 'staches to a good cause this Movember," it says on its team page.
The company, which launched last year, offers a starter kit for $9 and has already had plenty of fun with videos advocating women shave as much, or as little, as they want. In Project Body Hair, launched earlier this year, the New York-based company encouraged women to "make the internet a little fuzzier," and post pictures of proudly displayed body hair, from unibrows to armpits to bikini lines.
It followed that up with a swimsuit campaign called "Red, White, and You Do You," showcasing a range of women flaunting the convention that women's pubic hair shouldn't be seen on beaches.
It also had fun with Blué, a wine with "notes of crushed blueberries, walnut, and just a hint of gender bias." Launched at the tail end of rosé season, it was priced 13% cheaper than its pink counterpart. That was an effort to draw attention to the "pink tax" women often pay on products, like razors, that are marketed specifically to women. (The limited batch sold out in eight hours.)
Billie competes with D2C companies like Flamingo, part of Harry's, now owned by Edgewell Personal Care, parent of Schick. But even conventional brands -- including Procter & Gamble-owned Venus -- are now selling products on a subscription basis.
Movember is moving into its 12th annual campaign, a month-long fundraiser challenging men and women to sign up on Movember.com and help raise funds and awareness for men's health issues, including prostate and testicular cancer, as well as men's suicide. To date, it's welcomed six million supporters and helped fund more than 1,250 innovative men's health projects in 20 countries.
A spokesperson for the event says brands partners this year include companies like Alex and Ani and Saxx Underwear, which is sponsoring an underwear run in both New York and Los Angeles. Planters is also a partner, and is running a Twitter campaign with Mr. Peanut and "Queer Eye" star Jonathan Van Ness offering grooming advice.
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From version 38 onwards, there is now the ability to send emails from One Stop Order Processing under different email address depending on chosen criteria.
The following guide will explain how to use this feature.
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Q: How to build a twitter stream parser in ruby? i want to build a parser, which runs in the background and reads reads tweets with a specific @ reply in it every minute. should i use cronjobs or daemons? any advice here?
is there a gems for this?
thank you

A: Definitely go with a cron_job here. And I like to use the json gem and simply parse the search results of a public timeline. Twitter has a nice, simple, but slightly unreliable, json API.

A: I would opt to use a daemon for this task.  If you do choose to go the cronjob route, make sure your app can handle multiple processes running at once (or use a lock-file or other mechanism to make sure your job won't run concurrently).  Since the HTTP request timeout is longer than a minute, you are almost guaranteed to encounter this issue on a semi-frequent basis.

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Since I was a young lad of about 6, I have played this game on and off to pass time. And by god is it one of the strangest and best time-killers I've ever played. For something as old as OddWorld, nothing really compares to it's simplicity and entertainment. I hope to play this game with my child as he or she grows up, just as my father and I did.
Selected by the fickle finger of fate, Abe, floor-waxer first class for RuptureFarms, was catapulted into a life of adventure when he overheard plans by his boss, Molluck the Glukkon, to turn Abe and his fellow Mudokons into Tasty Treats as part of a last-ditch effort to rescue Molluck's failing meat-packing empire. During his escape from RuptureFarms, Abe received a vision from the mysterious Big Face, showing Abe that he must not only rescue his fellow Mudokons, but also protect all of Oddworld's creatures from the predatory Magog Cartel. After completing arduous Temple trials, and journeying across a wasteland with his faithful Elum, Abe was granted the awesome power of the Shrykull. Returning to RuptureFarms, Abe destroyed the foul slaughterhouse, rescued his buddies, and brought down some righteous lightning on top of Molluck's pointy head.
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Cronkite Accepting Applicants for Knight Innovation Grant
Knight-Cronkite Alumni Innovation Grant Application
Knight Foundation President Unveils New Grant for Cronkite Alumni
Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication is now accepting applications for the Knight-Cronkite Alumni Innovation Grant, which awards up to $15,000 to Cronkite graduates who are professional journalists looking to pioneer cutting-edge technologies and practices in their newsrooms.
The support, made possible by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, is available to Cronkite School alumni as a way to accelerate newsroom innovation across the country.
Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis with periodic deadlines — the first on Oct. 15, 2014. Finalists for first-round applications will be announced Oct. 31, 2014. Cronkite graduates can apply at https://cronkite.asu.edu/knight-cronkite-alumni-innovation-grant-applica....
To be eligible for the grant, applicants must be a Cronkite School graduate, working in a newsroom. They must also have support from their news organizations, showing a commitment to implement the proposal within six months of the development period's conclusion. Those selected will have to report project outcomes to the Cronkite School.
Knight Foundation President Alberto Ibargüen announced the Knight-Cronkite Alumni Innovation program during the Cronkite School's May 2014 convocation ceremony. Ibargüen pledged $250,000 from Knight Foundation, challenging Cronkite graduates to disrupt the status quo in newsrooms.
"We've been waiting for your generation of digital natives, driven to tell stories, to become the leaders of newsrooms in America," Ibargüen said at the convocation, "and maybe this will help that generational turn go even faster."
Cronkite School Dean Christopher Callahan said the generous grant comes at a much needed time in journalism as newsrooms face new challenges in the digital age.
"Our alumni are passionate leaders and ambitious innovators in journalism," Callahan said. "I encourage Cronkite Nation to take up President Ibargüen's challenge and use this grant as a way to spark much-needed change in our profession."
Some of the Cronkite School's most important programs are supported by Knight Foundation, including Carnegie-Knight News21, a national fellowship program where top journalism students conduct investigations into issues critical to Americans; the Public Insight Network Bureau, a specialized news bureau where students work with professional news organizations to deepen their connections to audiences; and the Knight Chair in Journalism, a tenured professorship at Cronkite currently held by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Steve Doig.
About the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
Knight Foundation supports transformational ideas that promote quality journalism, advance media innovation, engage communities and foster the arts. We believe that democracy thrives when people and communities are informed and engaged. www.knightfoundation.org


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The arfima package. It's crantastic!
Fractional ARIMA (and Other Long Memory) Time Series Modeling.
Simulates, fits, and predicts long-memory and anti-persistent time series, possibly mixed with ARMA, regression, transfer-function components. Exact methods (MLE, forecasting, simulation) are used. Bug reports should be done via GitHub (at ), where the development version of this package lives; it can be installed using devtools.
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When a friend of mine gave me this book saying I would love it, I was a bit doubtful. What could be interesting in the shallow gossipy tales of stars of yesteryears?
Maybe I was influenced by the location I was reading the book in – St. Tropez – where a number of the stories take place, but surprisingly I found myself taken in. Despite Vadim's self serving telling, the characters are intriguing, the women feel "real" and the setting of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s interesting! I also loved the "cameos" of various celebrities from Sartre to Marlon Brando. In many ways, the story has some of the elements of the best romantic comedies, a genre I have always had a soft spot for.
Read it: the book is a perfect light summer read!


WITH BREXIT SEEMINGLY less than two weeks away, UK online payments services firm Paysafe has secured electronic money licences from the Central Bank of Ireland that will allow it to continue operating in the EU.
Paysafe, along with another British fintech company called Optal, received approvals from the authority earlier this month.
An electronic money, or e-money, licence is required to issue and redeem electronic money services, such as providing payments.
Paysafe gained two licences for two entities that it incorporated in Ireland last year.
One of those companies trades as Skrill, referring to the group's digital wallet platform that was acquired by Paysafe in 2015. The other relates to its pre-paid card services.
A spokesperson for the company told Fora that it will be operating an office in Dublin.
"We are building up a solid team of professionals based in our new Dublin office, forming parts of our risk, compliance, legal, finance and sales departments," she said.
Paysafe Group was previously listed on the London Stock Exchange but de-listed in December 2017.
Unaudited interim results for the first half of 2017 showed that the firm had revenues of $538.7 million.
Optal, also based in the UK, indicated last year that it would be setting up a base in Dublin as a Brexit hedge. It too received e-money authorisation from the financial regulator this month.
The company, which facilitates business-to-business payments, has nine staff based out of Dublin in functions like operations, finance and compliance.
Optal said the licence and the new office will "ensure that European customers are insulated from any Brexit-related uncertainty".
This brings the total number of e-money licences issued by the Central Bank of Ireland to six.
Most recently London-based fintech startup Soldo gained a licence from the regulator after a lengthy approvals process.
Facebook and Dublin company PerfectCard, which was acquired last year, were each granted licences in October 2016 and November 2015 respectively.
While Theresa May may be possibly seeking an extension beyond the 29 March exit date from the EU, Brexit uncertainties still persist for the financial services sector.
This is particularly true with the potential for the end to passporting rights – where a financial services firm can carry out business across the bloc with one licence.
This has seen UK-licensed companies and fintech startups seek approvals in other countries. Lithuania has proven a popular location, which recently issued e-money licences to Google and Revolut. In Ireland, blockchain company Circle is pursuing approval.


I had a company up for a pre-order and they have real-time status of their stock.
Re the "cover" when not using the top fan -- this was discussed at some point, but long after the build was "fixed" (for the first run anyway). It is easy to block the hole with many different types of materials. It's probably one of the few areas a silencers might want to actually do a MOD... that's not so scary, is it? The other thing is that the top fan actually may be a bit more effective, maybe because of convection.
I'm wondering about the exhaust from the PSU being sucked into the video card cooler. (This was pointed out in a thread at Anandtech.) A "mod" I'm considering is putting a hood over the PSU exhaust that is 3-6" long to exhaust the air further away from the system.
Hmm. I just had an idea: how about removing the PSU fan and using the PSU fan controller to control the case fan instead? Probably a bad idea when using the Phantom 500, since it might be off for long stretches while the HDs are being cooked. But with other PSUs, the fan would turn at low idle all the time and hopefully generate plenty of airflow for cooling the HDs. Obviously the whole thing is easier to do with those PSUs that offer temperature controlled fan connectors out of the box.
1) Sealing the top hole: Black closed-cell foam, cut to shape to fill the "spoiler" without looking "ghetto".
2) IF my pair of Raptors is too loud hung vertically, then hang them horizontally on elastic strung through the first and fourth hard drive holes. Note the if--- Mike/Antec may have hit a home run by using the softer silicone grommets.
3) "Sealing" the video vent--- a piece of 3/8" black plexi, with two small holes for the entry-point for the water-cooling system. The dam itself will probably be put away.
...) A "trimmed-case" Seasonic, with the removed cage replaced by black high-tensile-strength steel mesh similar to that used in fencing masks.
A "trimmed-case" Seasonic, with the removed cage replaced by black high-tensile-strength steel mesh similar to that used in fencing masks.
With due respect, most of us were not, erm, @$%^ or even &*()~!ing about the risk A couple of us merely pointed out the risk, and one poster was, erm, a little terse in his dismissal of the method proposed.
Having said that, I'd love to see how your mod turns out.
Trying to picture it in my mind, it seems that the main side that has to be modded is the side facing the fan (and where the DC cables come out from). This is the half, however, that the PSU is attached to. The top cover includes the sides facing the user (when the PSU is mounted and the case is open) and the side opposite to that. That cover can actually be left on without interfering with airflow (except for convection out the top, and you'll have a big open hole there anyway if you started with a 120mm fanned PSU.
DOH! I never saw the "Download... pdf" link. Thanks.
The Seasonic 430 is 1.7" shorter than the Phantom 500. Big difference with the space between the PSU and mid-case fan. Quick someone test it and report your findings.
I can't imagine Antec building a top-of-the-line case that wouldn't fit their best PSU.
Anyway, the way I see it the PSU compartment seem to be designed with the Phantoms in mind with all the venting around the mount.
Whatever is true, we'll know soon enough anyway.
I agree with both points. But it would be nice to know before spending about $170.
Edit to say I didn't pay attention. The last entry on page 4 of this thread is where MikeC specifically addresses the use of the Phantom 500 in this case. The questioner asked about removing the fan from the 500 and MikeC said yes. Read it for yourself and make your own decision.
Sorry for the wasted bandwidth. Unfortunately it won't be the last time.
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You guys are insane, period.
Given what looks to be a huge initial demand I'm just glad I placed my order over 2 weeks ago. Hopefully orders are filled on a first in basis and not alphabetical.
Hmm drawing upon the open psu idea, maybe we can try cooling a PC P&C psu decently/quietly.
Hopefully they don't auction off their first few units on eBay.
sorry if this has already been answered, but will the SPCR edition be available from other stores besides endpcnoise?
Silicon HDD grommets - They're thicker, and appear to be softer than the grommets used in my SLK3700-BQE. Hopefully they will be effective enough at quieting low- to medium-vibration drives that suspension will not be necessary.
Separate chamber for the HDD(s)/PSU - Ingenious.
Available in black - To be honest, initial pictures of a silver finish kind of turned me off to this case. It's nice to see an all black version. The SPCR logo is not gawdy, and definitely something I could live with.
The top "spoiler" - Why not use a solid design, as to redirect noise to the back of the case, instead of allowing it to be released upward? Then again, this could easily be fixed with black electrical tape.
FWIW, I've heard a lot of people compaining about the video card intake duct. Has anybody considered that making it an exhaust duct would be as simple as flipping the fan around?
You know, I've been wondering (aloud) about that ever since I saw the first images of the spoiler, and I've seen several people wonder in this thread - I still haven't seen anyone even try answering it, much less someone from Antec or MikeC. In addition to what you say, I usually continue: "On the other hand, if it's not solid, why have it at all? Not for the looks I presume." Hm.
BS. I called up the company and the gentlemen said they would have their preorder section for their website up next week for the P180 when the arrive next month, so apparantly, there is some communication breakdown. MIKE! Fix it!!
Hmmm. I guess someone at Endpcnoise.com is arguing about this. Website for ordering P180 "packages" appeared Tues. night/Wed. morning, then a line is added stating that the case isn't available yet, and to email them for "reservations" -- then, when you do, Darin restates the fact that they're not doing preorders, and that the cases will be for sale in about 1 to 1.5 months.
So, I guess FrontierPC is the only SPCR-suggested vendor doing actual preorders.
Isn't that painfully obvious? Just look at the angle of the "spoiler" and consequently the crossection of the rear exhaust part of it in photos like this one. Even with the vents on the sides it doesn't come close to the cross section of the 120mm fan. Closing the mesh with a fan running underneath is called an airflow restriction. Either have a fan in there and don't pour liquid on your case, or do not have a fan (the one in the rear should suffice if you're aiming at lowest noise), and close the top entirely.
Why have the "spoiler" at all? To prevent smaller (solid) stuff from falling in (the fan grill is too open to protect well), I suppose.
You've missed another reason for the "spoiler": to help stop people from accidentally blocking the hole by setting stuff there. A flat blowhole is an invitation to absentmindedly setting cd's or somesuch over the opening. Having the spoiler maens that even if you bury the case in junk, you'll still maintain at least partial opening.
All this armchair engineering will be put to rest once the actual review gets finished...then we'll know what the actual impact is of the opening, in terms of noise and temps.
Hm. I think a simple wire grill would have been more sensible, then. If you make it extruded, it will also prevent people from putting stuff on it like Rusty suggests. But yeah, the airflow/rear crossection thing makes sense. Wasn't painfully obvious to me, no.
You've missed another reason for the "spoiler": to help stop people from accidentally blocking the hole by setting stuff there.
What kinda idiot puts crap on top of a well known and placed blowhole on a case?
Long time since I post over here. I'm very busy , but this event and the time spent reading the photo show and this thread and locating P180 here in Spain makes worthwhile the effort of recovering this time later.
I didn't want to change my case (shown here, although it has gone through several (minor) improvements which I would like to share with you when my obligations let me), and if I changed it, I always said it would be for a smaller one, but a case like this P180 is definitely worthwhile.
But... 3 years ago I would have bought a motherboard with 7 or even 8 PCI slots (now I have one, of five, PCI slot free that's very odd for me). Today with many integrated features of great quality in most motherboards, ATX is very big. This P180 is also very big (as big as my current tower).
A Micro-ATX version of the P180 should be great, does anyone here think the same?
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If you are looking for a mATX case that is really quiet, look at the Antec Aria. It uses a lot of the same technology and looks really neat.
But, Aria doesn't have the drive expansion capacity or the plentiness of space of P180. I just wanted a case 6cm less tall, but with almost the same expansion. Aria is just a little bigger than my current SK41G. It's OK for an HTPC, but not much more.
Will the Phantom 500 fit? The Phantom 500 is fairly long. It appears based on measurements using the first picture at http://www.silentpcreview.com/article249-page4.html that the space between the PSU and mid-case fan is between .7 and 1.1".
I have the Tagan 550, it's almost as long as the Phantom 500 (18.3cm for the phantom vs 17.5 for the Tagan), but unlike the phantom, I can't detatch anything to make it shorter... I wonder if I'm out of luck in terms of getting my PSU to fit.
I thought of one subtle non-issue, IMHO. No Chassis Air Guide (CAG). It makes perfect sense since the CAG will just let out noise, and most people have been gotten along without it quite nicely.
But it's a fact to consider.


Slovakia's unemployment rate reached 12.9% in January 2010 due to the negative impacts of both the global financial crisis and the Government's ineffective policy responses. While the country has performed well in terms of some of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), there are still some disparities and pending issues, including gender equality and development assistance. At the same time, the Slovak social and political climate is mired in corruption, bribery and cronyism, and the ruling coalition continues to govern through the "tyranny of the majority," oppressing the political opposition, controlling the media and exciting xenophobia, intolerance and discrimination against minorities.
In terms of gender equity Slovakia places itself at the European average and most of its neighbours, although far behind the European countries heading the chart.


Variety 2-F is quickly identified by the high overdate, and by imperfectly formed T's on the reverse. Walter Breen recorded examples from both obverse dies in combination with this reverse. Only this example, known as Breen 2-F, is known today. This variety is probably Rarity-5, although Walter Breen considered it a major rarity in his 1966 monograph.
Purchased from Stack's, July 23, 1971.
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