#also HOFFMANATOR!! 2 lines in the credits and one of them is the worst line ive ever heard. love that for him 11/10

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watched saw x. quite enjoyable movie. shawnee smith the woman you are.. literally acting the roof off like the rent was due 😭

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I Can't Stop Watching Contagion | Folding Ideas

Coping with crisis in the real world by confronting it in fiction

[O]ne purpose of fiction is that it allows us a space to practice intense emotions and states without exposing us to the complexities or harms of those states in reality. ... Watching a disaster film in a disaster, particularly one as sociologically driven as Contagion, is an extension of this. Rather than practicing intense emotional states before they happen, this instinct of exposing ourselves to what we’re already experiencing, amplifying existing emotional states, it works as a form of emotional inoculation. I am scared and anxious and uncertain, and so I will make myself more scared and more anxious and more uncertain, because it’s still fiction, it’s still safe, it still has an end. It is bounded. Things will get bad, things will then get worse, people will die. The world is unfair, it is unbalanced, it is unjust, and catastrophe will bring out both the best and worst of all of us. And then it will end.

...

There is an escapism to a story about horrible things, because that story is complete. It is bounded. It provides a framework to horror that doesn’t exist in the real present. Our future is uncertain, beset on all sides by devils, and we can come out better or we can come out worse or we can die and none of us knows which it will be and we’re all screaming at those in power to make the moral choice, to choose better.

...

On one hand I am deeply privileged to be in a position where I am and can remain isolated. On the other hand I can’t even think about the other hand.

Disease does not have a narrative meaning, it does not have an eye for poetry or twists or closure. The only meaning is in how we respond. So I watch Contagion over and over and over again. Because I need to practice emotions, and I need to live in a bounded world, and I need to believe we can choose better.

full video transcript under the cut:

[video is Dan Olson of Folding ideas lying on his couch, staring unmoving into the camera. scenes from Contagion are projected over him.]

VOICEOVER: This video is not an essay, it is a raw nerve.

Contagion is a 2011 film directed by Steven Soderbergh, starring an ensemble cast including Marion Cotillard, Matt Damon, Laurence Fishburne, Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Kate Winslet. The film revolves around the origin, contraction, spread, and cure of the fictional MEV-1 virus, a highly contagious, aggressive, and fatal strain of hybrid bat and pig flu.

The initial patient, Beth Emhoff, played by Gwyneth Paltrow, contracts the virus in Macau after shaking hands with a casino chef who has recently handled an infected pig. She spreads the virus to several other people in the casino after they handle objects that she’s touched, such as gambling chips, a martini glass, and her cell phone. An important aspect of the film is that the fictional virus is highly transmissible via fomites, which are objects that an infected person has touched after touching their mouth or nose, coughing or sneezing on the object, or otherwise leaving infectious residue on an otherwise inert, non-biological object. A local waiter who handled her glass returns home, infecting members of his family before wandering into traffic in a fever-induced delirium where he is struck by a vehicle and killed. A Japanese businessman who shared chips with her returns to Tokyo where he falls ill rapidly, dying suddenly of a seizure on a crowded bus, infecting several bystanders who touch him or handrails that he touched. A Ukranian model who handled Beth’s phone flies to London where her symptoms also escalate rapidly while she transmits the disease to others via handling portfolios and riding in a cab.

Beth returns to America where she infects several people in Chicago, first her ex lover Jon who contracts it when they have sex while she is on layover, and a bartender at the airport who handles her credit card, before flying to Minneapolis where she infects the coworker who drives her home from the airport and her son Clark. A day or two later Beth’s husband, Mitch, played by Matt Damon, picks up Clark from school after Clark begins to exhibit a fever. While Beth and Mitch are talking in the kitchen Beth suddenly has a seizure. Mitch rushes her to the hospital, leaving Clark with a babysitter, but Beth’s condition continues to worsen, she fails to respond to treatment, and she dies. As a stunned Mitch is driving home he gets a call from the babysitter that Clark has possibly had a seizure and might not be breathing. Mitch tells her to call 911 immediately, but before anyone can get there Clark is already dead.

From there the story expands to encompass the doctors, politicians, reporters, hucksters, and ordinary people who are swept up in an all-encompassing pandemic that threatens to kill a quarter of the global population. The movie is an incredibly tense hundred minutes of society pushed to its breaking points, not as a fantastical disintegration into wastelands of leather-clad murder gangs or a zombie apocalypse, but one rooted in the historical reality of epidemics.

And I can’t stop watching it.

I have watched Contagion over fifteen times in the last two weeks. Several days I’ve just watched it on repeat two or three times. And I'm not alone. According to Netflix it is, at the time of writing, the second most watched thing in Canada. For weeks it has sat in the top ten.

Unlike many similar films, such as the 1995 film Outbreak starring Dustin Hoffman, the film is not about any one person, and there is no singular twist of victory. Rather it is an example of sociological storytelling. It’s about the systems and networks that these characters exist within, and how they both influence and are influenced by those systems, and what happens when those systems are placed under tremendous strain. Kate Winslet plays Dr. Erin Mears, a front line worker for the CDC who is sent to Wisconsin to track the transmission of the virus and contain its spread. Half way through the film she catches the virus herself, and then her condition worsens, and then she dies. It is unceremonious. It is not foreshadowed  or paid off because it is not poetic, because pandemics are not poetic and don’t have a tight arc or an eye for narrative fulfillment. It doesn’t have meaning, the only meaning is in how we choose to respond.

Because this is sociological the movie doesn’t end when doctor Ally Hextall develops a vaccine. What would be the singular victory moment in most films is instead the beginning of a slow, painful march back to stability as first the vaccine needs to be mass produced, and then distributed to billions of people worldwide. It is a dangerous task that needs to be tightly controlled as it requires access to the isolated virus and thus is very slow to ramp up. The film trudges through the immense societal tension that is created when there is a cure, but it will take over a year to make and distribute enough for everyone, a situation that lays bare every societal privilege. Dr. Orantes, played by Marion Cotillard, is kidnapped and held ransom for the vaccine by Chinese villagers who are keenly aware that in the priority of global politics the poor, the rural, and the non-white are at the very back of the line. They are terrorists, but they’re not wrong, just desperate. They are at the back of the line, and the government throws them under the bus anyway. Despite the existence of a vaccine Mitch continues to keep his teenage daughter, Jory, under aggressive quarantine out of legitimate fear of the disease that has been amplified to paranoia by the trauma of losing Beth and Clark, the survivor’s guilt of being naturally immune, and the uncertainty of whether his daughter would share that immunity or not.

In December 2019 the coronavirus COVID-19 was identified by doctors in the city of Wuhan. Over the course of January and February the spread of the virus began to be identified in South Korea, Japan, and Italy and, gradually, most of the rest of the world. The disease itself is not exceptionally lethal when compared to epidemics such as the Black Death in the mid 14th century or the spread of Smallpox through indigenous populations following contact with Europeans in the 16th and 17th centuries, but, first of all, “better than the black death” is a pretty bad standard, and second on a global scale a mortality rate of 1-2 percent in an unchecked pandemic still means, in absolute terms, millions and millions of preventable deaths. This is compounded by the strain that mass illness, even one that is not terribly lethal, inherently places on an already strained society: crowding healthcare systems, disrupting infrastructure, and forcing people to choose between working while ill, and thus infecting others, or losing their jobs. A low mortality rate is often the result of adequate care, but the quality of care goes down as the number of severely ill goes up, as the number of infected healthcare workers reduces the number of people qualified and capable of administering that care. This, in turn, has a knock on effect where unrelated illnesses and injuries become more dangerous. A heart attack or broken leg that would be easily managed under normal circumstances becomes that much worse when there aren’t enough people to help, aren’t enough beds to go around. The more people who are exposed, the more need to roll the dice against that one to two percent, and the more are going to lose.

As of March 2020 most of the United States and Canada have entered a period of uncertain quarantining. Non-essential businesses are closed, events are canceled, workers are being sent home or laid off, borders are being shut down,and the economy is in freefall. Every existing societal problem, from income inequality to housing inequality to healthcare, is being stressed and amplified by not only the virus but the complicity of our governments. News comes out hourly about warnings the people in charge received months ago, and the ways in which they were either ignored or exploited for personal gain. Several American politicians were briefed on the security risks of COVID 19 in late January, and then took to Twitter to decry public fear as a partisan hoax while they dumped their stocks in preparation for a crash that they knew was coming. People in government, their corporate donors, and their pundit allies are getting anxious, debating breaking quarantine and telling everyone to go back to work and roll the dice on whether or not they’re going to die for the economy. We are standing on the precipice of a very uncertain future, and we don’t know if that future is days, weeks, months, or years away. This could be the new normal for a very long time.

So why do I keep watching Contagion?

A dimension of narrative that I like to bring up pretty regularly is the idea that one purpose of fiction is that it allows us a space to practice intense emotions and states without exposing us to the complexities or harms of those states in reality. This is typically in the context of the fanciful: reckless stunts, wild sex, gun fights, or general risky behaviour. We talked about this with Fifty Shades and the idea of non-consent as a fantasy subject.

Watching a disaster film in a disaster, particularly one as sociologically driven as Contagion, is an extension of this. Rather than practicing intense emotional states before they happen, this instinct of exposing ourselves to what we’re already experiencing, amplifying existing emotional states, it works as a form of emotional inoculation. I am scared and anxious and uncertain, and so I will make  myself more scared and more anxious and more uncertain, because it’s still fiction, it’s still safe, it still has an end. It is bounded. Things will get bad, things will then get worse, people will die. The world is unfair, it is unbalanced, it is unjust, and catastrophe will bring out both the best and worst of all of us. And then it will end.

Is there looting, and arson, and murder? Yeah. But it is, ultimately, out of the ordinary. People get paranoid, people get desperate, they riot under stress, but even when food supply lines break down, the world isn’t summarily turned over to those with the bullets and the willingness to use them. There is no Mad Max dystopia, no Fallout post-apocalypse, because at the end of the day humans are pro-social. The cooperative survive.

In 1349, in the midst of the black death, it must have looked like the end of the world. Entire households, entire villages, dying a gross, horrifying, pain ful death, month after month after month. Then for generations, every year wondering if this was the year the plague returned. Was this the year there would be no one left to bury the dead. But people survived. The working class, who bore the brunt of the disease and saw the bodies of their families, clans, and communities piled like cord wood, fought back against the aristocrats who isolated themselves in their towers and remote estates. It was messy, and bloody, and it took decades, but in the end serfdom was abolished. Europe lost upwards of sixty percent of its population over the course of five years, but it wasn’t Armageddon. Things kept going, people kept going, and Europe would go on to be absolute bastards to the rest of the world.

The disease in Contagion is not unrealistic, real diseases have been as deadly, or worse, but it is dramatic. It moves very, very quickly, is highly contagious, and kills a huge number of those who are infected. In reality this aggressiveness would kinda work against the disease, and, morbidly, would help responders limit the spread. It moves so fast and kills so quickly that there’s little question of who has it, and within a couple days everyone who has it is either recovered or dead. This was the aspect of the SARS epidemic that allowed response teams to effectively quarantine the virus where it burnt itself out. That said it’s not impossible that something could spread so aggressively, be so incredibly contagious, that it could spread like wildfire and become almost impossible to contain before anyone even knows what’s going on. But it’s undeniably dramatic and emotionally effective.

48 hours. We can contain two days in our head. A situation where things will get materially worse literally tomorrow or the day after if nothing is done right this second, that’s a comprehensible timeline. Forty eight hours is short enough that in a catastrophe, driven by adrenaline and stress and necessity, you can stay awake that long without even realizing it. COVID’s life cycle is closer to a month. By the time you get sick you’ve already been sick for two weeks, and now you’re in for hell for another two to four weeks. It’s just past the range where it really feels real. Two weeks isn’t long, but it’s still over the line into the indeterminate “future”.

This problem extends in both directions. There’ s only so much space in the mind for time. As the news ramps up, as things get worse, the present crowds out history. The distance between the irrelevant past and the now contracts. ’Days ago’ becomes distant. ‘Months ago’ is irrelevant. Years ago is ancient. By evening even earlier the same day is suspect in its relevance to the Now. We remember January but it has as much presence in the mind as childhood. Our lives become superliminal, displaced from time, as we wrestle with our own minds and how they try to process the chronology of our own existence. By Sunday, Friday no longer feels real, and yet every day’s news is the consequence of decisions made fourteen, twenty one, twenty eight days ago. Today’s responses won’t yield results until well into next month. This flaw in our meat is a gap into which charlatans, hucksters, and conmen can drive a wedge and pry us open, and pry they will try.

When I first saw Contagion in 2012 I thought the weakest element was what I considered at the time to be the demonization of online media. Jude Law’s character plays an online pundit and conspiracy theorist who preaches to an audience of millions about an herbal tincture of forsythia that he claims is the cure, a cure he just-so-happens to be selling. It is, in 2020, the realest element of the film. Herbal cures, hydrogen water, steam treatment, teas, magnets, suspensions of silver, tinctures, and tonics. We’ve got pastors standing at the pulpit telling their congregation it's all a hoax, that there’s no reason to suspend services, that their nebulous enemies are just trying to shut them down. We now live in a world where the US president told people based on a rumour that chloroquine, a drug used for treating malaria and lupus, was the cure, so a man in Arizona ate a packet of fish tank cleaner containing the chemical. He’s dead now. And that is, again, all part of it.

There is an escapism to a story about horrible things, because that story is complete. It is bounded. It provides a framework to horror that doesn’t exist in the real present. Our future is uncertain, beset on all sides by devils, and we can come out better or we can come out worse or we can die and none of us knows which it will be and we’re all screaming at those in power to make the moral choice, to choose better.

And I am in an absolute haze. My daily life has not much been impacted, overtly. I’m already an agoraphobic shut-in wh o worksonline and has a bad sleep schedule. But it’s too much. I’m tired all the time. I can’t pay attention to the news and  Ican’t not pay attention to the news. Working is difficult.  I have a long history of respiratory illness. I am at risk.

On one hand I am deeply privileged to be in a position where I am and can remain isolated. On the other hand I can’t even think about the other hand.

Disease does not have a narrative meaning, it does not have an eye for poetry or twists or closure. The only meaning is in how we respond. So I watch Contagion over and over and over again. Because I need to practice emotions, and I need to live in a bounded world, and I need to believe we can choose better.

[end transcript]

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Messed Up Things That Happened At Woodstock

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Messed Up Things That Happened At Woodstock

It was three days of mud, medications, site visitors jams, and overflowing toilets. And, yeah, a bit peace, love, and legendary song. The 1969 Woodstock competition stays one of the crucial iconic pursuits in music history. But, as the a long time pass, those who have been there to see it all via rose-coloured glasses. But that doesn’t mean that the pageant used to be all dancing, keeping hands, and daisy crowns. These are one of the crucial tousled things that happened at Woodstock. Lavatory line at the present time, a stadium could have one bathroom for each 45 or 50 seats. But at Woodstock, there was once one porta-potty for every 833 folks. In step with ThoughtCo, the wait might take as much as an hour – and the toilets have been overflowing with raw sewage that was once mingling with mud and walking downhill into the group. Yuck! Let there be granola in keeping with the Smithsonian, centered meals companies failed to want to work Woodstock, by and large due to the fact of its projected size.So organizers settled for three dudes called "meals for Love" who had little vending experience. Via mid-Saturday, they were going for walks out of food, in order that they quadrupled their sizzling canine costs from 25 cents to $1. After which, a bunch of peace-loving hippies burned down two of their concession stands because they have been pissed off on the lengthy traces and outrageous costs. Fortunately, the day used to be saved through a gaggle known as The Hog Farm Collective, who handed out hundreds and hundreds of cups of granola and saved every body from total hunger. It wasn’t supposed to be free in keeping with ThoughtCo, the festival was at the beginning imagined to take place in Wallkill, the big apple, and rate $18 for all three days, or just $7 bucks per day. However residents of Wallkill handed a law banning the concert, and organizers needed to to find yet another venue with just six weeks left on the clock. Then, a dairy farmer in Bethel offered up some land. The stage, parking plenty, concession stands, and a children’s playground received finished just in time, however organizers did not believe to prioritize ticketing. By the time 50,000 people had walked right in and camped out next to the stage, it used to be too late to return. So Woodstock grew to become a free competition a mistake that would emerge as financially devastating for its organizers.What a travel The competition was once noted for the mud and the track, nevertheless it might were much more famous for the drugs. And humans weren’t simply selling medications, they had been hanging them in stuff that they then passed out totally free, to unsuspecting competition-goers. A nurse told the instances Herald-file, "outside they were giving out electric Kool-help laced with whatever. Plenty of the youngsters harm with these things were simply thirsty. They didn’t have any alternative." Woodstock organizer Michael Lang recalled being extra cautious about the whole lot he consumed on the pageant, for the reason that laced foods and drinks used to be all over. He mentioned, "I did not drink anything that did not come from a bottle I didn’t wash or open myself." The hippie-pocalypse The scene on the roads main to the festival was much like the opening credit of The walking useless.Politico even calls Woodstock one of the top 10 worst traffic jams ever with vehicles jammed up for 10 miles on the brand new York Thruway for the complete three days of the competition. Some humans even abandoned their automobiles and walked in, turning the throughway into a parking zone. A few acts even had to be flown in by way of helicopter, and residents along the roads had been trapped via the deserted automobiles blocking off their driveways. The Grateful dead Many humans said the Grateful useless was once one of the worst acts on the competition. Even Jerry Garcia’s friend Phil Ciganer told the times Herald document, "It used to be the worst exhibit of theirs i’d ever obvious." nevertheless it wasn’t precisely high conditions for a concert. Lifeless drummer Mickey Hart informed Goldmine, "It was an awfully horrible moment for us.The stage was once collapsing. It used to be raining. Jerry and Bob have been getting bowled over at the microphones." Peace and violence Woodstock was typically peaceful, although there was one tremendous example of violence. In step with the Huffington publish, throughout The Who’s performance, political activist Abbie Hoffman bought on stage and took the mic. The Who’s, Pete Townshend, tolerated him for just a few seconds earlier than hitting Hoffman on the pinnacle together with his guitar. Put some footwear on, hippie The on-website pageant scientific crew dutifully dealt with what used to be anticipated to be a crowd of roughly 50,000 folks and was 500,000. In keeping with the Journal of Emergency medical offerings, with the aid of the tip of the weekend, staff suggested they’d handled 797 dangerous journeys, 23 epileptic seizures, fifty seven cases of heat exposure, and 176 asthma attacks. There have been also 938 foot lacerations, a hundred thirty five foot punctures, and 346 random other foot accidents proving that folks relatively have to wear footwear. CNN pronounced that a woman also fell from stage scaffolding and broke her back. Remarkably, considering that the enormous crowd, most effective two men and women died in the course of the festivities – one from an overdose, and one in a tractor accident – whilst half one million lived to inform the powerful story.Thanks for watching! Click on the Grunge icon to subscribe to our YouTube channel. Plus, verify out this different cool stuff we all know you can love too! .

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Messed Up Things That Happened At Woodstock

New Post has been published on https://hititem.kr/messed-up-things-that-happened-at-woodstock-2/

Messed Up Things That Happened At Woodstock

It was three days of mud, medications, site visitors jams, and overflowing toilets. And, yeah, a bit peace, love, and legendary song. The 1969 Woodstock competition stays one of the crucial iconic pursuits in music history. But, as the a long time pass, those who have been there to see it all via rose-coloured glasses. But that doesn’t mean that the pageant used to be all dancing, keeping hands, and daisy crowns. These are one of the crucial tousled things that happened at Woodstock. Lavatory line at the present time, a stadium could have one bathroom for each 45 or 50 seats. But at Woodstock, there was once one porta-potty for every 833 folks. In step with ThoughtCo, the wait might take as much as an hour – and the toilets have been overflowing with raw sewage that was once mingling with mud and walking downhill into the group. Yuck! Let there be granola in keeping with the Smithsonian, centered meals companies failed to want to work Woodstock, by and large due to the fact of its projected size.So organizers settled for three dudes called "meals for Love" who had little vending experience. Via mid-Saturday, they were going for walks out of food, in order that they quadrupled their sizzling canine costs from 25 cents to $1. After which, a bunch of peace-loving hippies burned down two of their concession stands because they have been pissed off on the lengthy traces and outrageous costs. Fortunately, the day used to be saved through a gaggle known as The Hog Farm Collective, who handed out hundreds and hundreds of cups of granola and saved every body from total hunger. It wasn’t supposed to be free in keeping with ThoughtCo, the festival was at the beginning imagined to take place in Wallkill, the big apple, and rate $18 for all three days, or just $7 bucks per day. However residents of Wallkill handed a law banning the concert, and organizers needed to to find yet another venue with just six weeks left on the clock. Then, a dairy farmer in Bethel offered up some land. The stage, parking plenty, concession stands, and a children’s playground received finished just in time, however organizers did not believe to prioritize ticketing. By the time 50,000 people had walked right in and camped out next to the stage, it used to be too late to return. So Woodstock grew to become a free competition a mistake that would emerge as financially devastating for its organizers.What a travel The competition was once noted for the mud and the track, nevertheless it might were much more famous for the drugs. And humans weren’t simply selling medications, they had been hanging them in stuff that they then passed out totally free, to unsuspecting competition-goers. A nurse told the instances Herald-file, "outside they were giving out electric Kool-help laced with whatever. Plenty of the youngsters harm with these things were simply thirsty. They didn’t have any alternative." Woodstock organizer Michael Lang recalled being extra cautious about the whole lot he consumed on the pageant, for the reason that laced foods and drinks used to be all over. He mentioned, "I did not drink anything that did not come from a bottle I didn’t wash or open myself." The hippie-pocalypse The scene on the roads main to the festival was much like the opening credit of The walking useless.Politico even calls Woodstock one of the top 10 worst traffic jams ever with vehicles jammed up for 10 miles on the brand new York Thruway for the complete three days of the competition. Some humans even abandoned their automobiles and walked in, turning the throughway into a parking zone. A few acts even had to be flown in by way of helicopter, and residents along the roads had been trapped via the deserted automobiles blocking off their driveways. The Grateful dead Many humans said the Grateful useless was once one of the worst acts on the competition. Even Jerry Garcia’s friend Phil Ciganer told the times Herald document, "It used to be the worst exhibit of theirs i’d ever obvious." nevertheless it wasn’t precisely high conditions for a concert. Lifeless drummer Mickey Hart informed Goldmine, "It was an awfully horrible moment for us.The stage was once collapsing. It used to be raining. Jerry and Bob have been getting bowled over at the microphones." Peace and violence Woodstock was typically peaceful, although there was one tremendous example of violence. In step with the Huffington publish, throughout The Who’s performance, political activist Abbie Hoffman bought on stage and took the mic. The Who’s, Pete Townshend, tolerated him for just a few seconds earlier than hitting Hoffman on the pinnacle together with his guitar. Put some footwear on, hippie The on-website pageant scientific crew dutifully dealt with what used to be anticipated to be a crowd of roughly 50,000 folks and was 500,000. In keeping with the Journal of Emergency medical offerings, with the aid of the tip of the weekend, staff suggested they’d handled 797 dangerous journeys, 23 epileptic seizures, fifty seven cases of heat exposure, and 176 asthma attacks. There have been also 938 foot lacerations, a hundred thirty five foot punctures, and 346 random other foot accidents proving that folks relatively have to wear footwear. CNN pronounced that a woman also fell from stage scaffolding and broke her back. Remarkably, considering that the enormous crowd, most effective two men and women died in the course of the festivities – one from an overdose, and one in a tractor accident – whilst half one million lived to inform the powerful story.Thanks for watching! Click on the Grunge icon to subscribe to our YouTube channel. Plus, verify out this different cool stuff we all know you can love too! .

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Advice for a future Founder

I’ve learned a lot so far in what’s been the most difficult journey I’ve undertaken - starting a company.  First things first.  I’m no expert.  I haven’t achieved massive success yet.  However, there are truths I’ve come across that I didn’t know when I started this process.  Here they are, laid out simply.

1.  Be prepared to dedicate the next 10 years of your life to this.  It truly takes figuring out that this is your life’s purpose, setting your compass in that direction, unleashing action, and never looking back.  Only that way can you truly adopt a ‘succeed or die trying’ mentality.  Anything short of that will make you drop off after things get tough - whether it’s the 1st time, 2nd time, or 124th time.

“There’s no point in having a Plan B because it distracts you from Plan A.” - Will Smith

2.  Start a company in a realm you are truly passionate about.  The journey is longer and harder than you think - TRUST ME.  If you start a company for something you don’t care much about, just because it’s a good idea, you will fail.  Know why you’re doing this - that inner ‘why’ will be your anchor to keep you in the fight during the tough times.  And there will be tough times.  The others will quit when things get hard.  Also, how much greater is it to spend 12 hours a day grinding on something you absolutely love?

“Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.” -William Feather

3.  Have a robust business model.  I know this sounds intuitive, but you’d be surprised.  Building ‘something cool’ is different than building something that directly generates revenue.  Apps that rely on ad revenue ‘down the line’ are tough to pull off (only a few exist).  

4.  Realize that it’s a journey.  Where you start is almost never where you end up.  You’re on a journey to find product / market fit - to find the version or implementation of your idea that actually provides the value people are willing to pay for.  You may even pivot as you learn more about what problems your target customers are facing.  It’s truly an iterative process of failure, learning, trying one step closer - then rinse and repeat until you get there.

“If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you've launched too late.” - Reid Hoffman

5.  Persistence and determination.  

“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan Press On! has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.“ - Calvin Coolidge

6.  The key to conversion is providing a value that’s just too good to refuse.  You can make as clever a video you want, implement certain marketing tips and tricks, but when it comes down to it, you’ll succeed if you provide a value that’s too good to turn down.  

7.  Choose your crew wisely.  I can’t stress this enough.  Learn what motivates someone before considering them as a co-founder.  Don’t take on a co-founder who’s not as committed as you are.  If you’re not convinced they’ll be pulling the late nights with you, through their own motivation (not because you made them), don’t bring them on.

8.  You can’t do everything yourself.  Figure out what you’re good at, and figure out what your weaknesses are.  Get resources and experts on board to help you with what you’re not good at.

9.  Confront what’s not going well.  There’s a lot of anxiety in the startup life.  You’ll be tempted to shy away from what’s not going well, and what you know needs to be done better.  You’ll be tempted to hide it or dress it up to friends or teammates because you want to portray you’re making progress, or because you want to convince them (or yourself) your company isn’t a failure.  WRONG. You’ll never move forward this way.  You must be able to say to people “We’ve hit a wall,” or “We’re stuck.”  Only then can you work toward finding the methods, people, or resources to solve it.

10.  Always keep an eye on the big picture.  You work in the weeds, but always step back and ask yourself if it makes sense.  It is VERY easy to find yourself down a path spending time on things that doesn’t matter.  In that light, keep things simple and don’t overthink things.  The best solutions are often the simplest.

11.  Find a mentor.  Don’t be afraid to ask people for a student-mentor relationship.  Research who’s been successful in your arena and reach out to them.  Successful people are almost always excited by this and willing to pay it forward, because they’ve gone through it too.  Set up a weekly or monthly touch point.  They may just keep you on the right track.

12.  Stay true to your vision, especially if it’s different.  Be cautious of statements like “Well that’s not how X does it.”  There are lots of things you can gain by looking at the competition - for many things there’s no need to re-create the wheel.  However, it’s the truly unique and revolutionary concepts that make the biggest waves.

13.  Marketing:  find out where the attention of the consumer is.  High schoolers may be more prevalent on Snapchat than other platforms.  Yesterday it was email marketing and SEO, today it’s Facebook and Instagram, tomorrow it might be podcasts and Alexa Skills.  Pay attention to where their attention is. 

14.  Sales:  When your energy is providing upfront value, expecting nothing in return, and letting the chips fall where they may, you will win.  Sales is about building relationships, and there’s no better way to gain trust and credibility with someone new than providing an incredible value to them upfront, with no perceived pressure of converting.  Put the work in to do this day in and day out playing the numbers game, and you will win.  And remember, your value has to be good enough.  Another key to success in sales is providing a value that is too good to pass up.  It really is that simple.  People like to buy, nobody likes to be sold.  Sales is something you do for someone, not to someone.  Establish like-ability, and credibility, have a casual conversation, and ask about their company and what problems they’re facing.  Then show how your product/service can help them solve that.  Establish an authentic brand as a backdrop and when the people you gave those upfront values to come around looking, you’ll have the legitimacy and credibility to convert them.   A strong brand is another key to sales - I’m not buying Nike sneakers because of clever ad retargeting.  I’m buying them because they’re Nikes.

15.  Start now.  Don’t wait for the next promotion, getting a few more years of experience, or whatever it may be.  Stop making excuses.  Start right now.  Find the boldness within yourself because if you can’t make the tough decision to get started, you won’t have what it takes to do the rest.

"It is not the critic who counts; nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.  The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust, sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spend himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory or defeat" - Theodore Roosovelt

[junker-town]

NHL scores 2017: Kings, Canadiens, Senators sleepwalk through shutouts

Terrible games by teams that should do better.

Did anyone let the Los Angeles Kings, Montreal Canadiens, or Ottawa Senators know they were supposed to play on Tuesday?

The trio of Stanley Cup Playoffs contenders dropped embarrassing losses one right after another, getting out-scored 15-0 by their opponents.

In Ottawa, their 6-0 loss to the St. Louis Blues was bad enough that head coach Guy Boucher made every single one of his players sheepishly face the media in post-game. It’s a great coaching punishment that never gets used; whether you approve of it probably depends on whether you approve of shaming ploys. Whether it results in a needed kick-start is another question left to be answered.

Los Angeles finally saw the cratering of its replacement goalie that had performed so admirably all season. Peter Budaj was due for a hiccup, but a 5-0 loss to the sputtering Tampa Bay Lightning wasn’t quite what most had in mind. The truth is that Tampa Bay received the best from its best players (Nikita Kucherov, Jonathan Drouin, and Ben Bishop) on a night when Los Angeles did not.

Montreal had no such excuse. The Canadiens visited Colorado in need of an easy win, and the Avalanche (headed for the worst NHL record of the decade) seemed like easy prey.

And the Canadiens left the Pepsi Center victims of a 4-0 shutout, a rookie hat trick by Mikko Rantanen left them with more questions than answers. All with Carey Price in net.

Three playoff contenders. Three duds. Three big potholes hit dead-on in their drive to the postseason.

Scores

Sabres 5, Sharks 4 (OT)

Rangers 4, Ducks 1

Flames 3, Penguins 2 (SO)

Capitals 5, Hurricanes 0

Maple Leafs 3, Stars 1

Blues 6, Senators 0

Blue Jackets 3, Red Wings 2 (OT)

Lightning 5, Kings 0

Predators 4, Canucks 2

Wild 4, Jets 2

Avalanche 4, Canadiens 0

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Three Things We Learned

1. Evander Kane will destroy his shoulder if it means scoring a game-winning goal

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Buffalo completed one heck of a comeback on Tuesday, potting three third-period goals on the Sharks before Jack Eichel and Evander Kane combined for the winner in overtime. But goodness, was it painful to watch.

Just listen to the crunch as Kane slams into the boards after scoring.

2. Ryan Getzlaf is a #gooddude

Logan Shaw dropped Derek Stepan into the Ducks’ bench boards headfirst, leaving the veteran center pretty dazed while all hell broke loose around him. Leave it to the opposing captain to ferry him out of harm’s way while he regained his senses.

3. The Capitals are monsters at home

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Washington iced its tenth straight win at the Verizon Center on Tuesday and it wasn’t even that close. That 5-0 win over Carolina means they’ve out-scored opponents 50-12 on home ice in that stretch, pushing them to 17-2-2 overall in their last 21 games. That’s also a franchise-record 10 shutouts this season; seven of them have come at home.

We could go on.

Impact Moment

We’ll give it to Vladimir Tarasenko’s second goal simply for a chance to give Mike Yeo some credit: the new Blues coach decided to stick with the Alexander Steen, Paul Stastny, and Tarasenko trio for one more night. That line ended with three goals and six points on Tuesday.

Hopeful Tweet of the Night

Tonight is another great look at the possibilities of Bednar's systems approach. Neutral zone dominance. Skating opponents into the ground.

— BSNAvalanche (@BSNAvalanche) February 8, 2017

There is a future for the Avalanche buried under the wreckage of this season.

[airoasis]

Messed Up Things That Happened At Woodstock

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Messed Up Things That Happened At Woodstock

It was three days of mud, medications, site visitors jams, and overflowing toilets. And, yeah, a bit peace, love, and legendary song. The 1969 Woodstock competition stays one of the crucial iconic pursuits in music history. But, as the a long time pass, those who have been there to see it all via rose-coloured glasses. But that doesn’t mean that the pageant used to be all dancing, keeping hands, and daisy crowns. These are one of the crucial tousled things that happened at Woodstock. Lavatory line at the present time, a stadium could have one bathroom for each 45 or 50 seats. But at Woodstock, there was once one porta-potty for every 833 folks. In step with ThoughtCo, the wait might take as much as an hour – and the toilets have been overflowing with raw sewage that was once mingling with mud and walking downhill into the group. Yuck! Let there be granola in keeping with the Smithsonian, centered meals companies failed to want to work Woodstock, by and large due to the fact of its projected size.So organizers settled for three dudes called "meals for Love" who had little vending experience. Via mid-Saturday, they were going for walks out of food, in order that they quadrupled their sizzling canine costs from 25 cents to $1. After which, a bunch of peace-loving hippies burned down two of their concession stands because they have been pissed off on the lengthy traces and outrageous costs. Fortunately, the day used to be saved through a gaggle known as The Hog Farm Collective, who handed out hundreds and hundreds of cups of granola and saved every body from total hunger. It wasn’t supposed to be free in keeping with ThoughtCo, the festival was at the beginning imagined to take place in Wallkill, the big apple, and rate $18 for all three days, or just $7 bucks per day. However residents of Wallkill handed a law banning the concert, and organizers needed to to find yet another venue with just six weeks left on the clock. Then, a dairy farmer in Bethel offered up some land. The stage, parking plenty, concession stands, and a children’s playground received finished just in time, however organizers did not believe to prioritize ticketing. By the time 50,000 people had walked right in and camped out next to the stage, it used to be too late to return. So Woodstock grew to become a free competition a mistake that would emerge as financially devastating for its organizers.What a travel The competition was once noted for the mud and the track, nevertheless it might were much more famous for the drugs. And humans weren’t simply selling medications, they had been hanging them in stuff that they then passed out totally free, to unsuspecting competition-goers. A nurse told the instances Herald-file, "outside they were giving out electric Kool-help laced with whatever. Plenty of the youngsters harm with these things were simply thirsty. They didn’t have any alternative." Woodstock organizer Michael Lang recalled being extra cautious about the whole lot he consumed on the pageant, for the reason that laced foods and drinks used to be all over. He mentioned, "I did not drink anything that did not come from a bottle I didn’t wash or open myself." The hippie-pocalypse The scene on the roads main to the festival was much like the opening credit of The walking useless.Politico even calls Woodstock one of the top 10 worst traffic jams ever with vehicles jammed up for 10 miles on the brand new York Thruway for the complete three days of the competition. Some humans even abandoned their automobiles and walked in, turning the throughway into a parking zone. A few acts even had to be flown in by way of helicopter, and residents along the roads had been trapped via the deserted automobiles blocking off their driveways. The Grateful dead Many humans said the Grateful useless was once one of the worst acts on the competition. Even Jerry Garcia’s friend Phil Ciganer told the times Herald document, "It used to be the worst exhibit of theirs i’d ever obvious." nevertheless it wasn’t precisely high conditions for a concert. Lifeless drummer Mickey Hart informed Goldmine, "It was an awfully horrible moment for us.The stage was once collapsing. It used to be raining. Jerry and Bob have been getting bowled over at the microphones." Peace and violence Woodstock was typically peaceful, although there was one tremendous example of violence. In step with the Huffington publish, throughout The Who’s performance, political activist Abbie Hoffman bought on stage and took the mic. The Who’s, Pete Townshend, tolerated him for just a few seconds earlier than hitting Hoffman on the pinnacle together with his guitar. Put some footwear on, hippie The on-website pageant scientific crew dutifully dealt with what used to be anticipated to be a crowd of roughly 50,000 folks and was 500,000. In keeping with the Journal of Emergency medical offerings, with the aid of the tip of the weekend, staff suggested they’d handled 797 dangerous journeys, 23 epileptic seizures, fifty seven cases of heat exposure, and 176 asthma attacks. There have been also 938 foot lacerations, a hundred thirty five foot punctures, and 346 random other foot accidents proving that folks relatively have to wear footwear. CNN pronounced that a woman also fell from stage scaffolding and broke her back. Remarkably, considering that the enormous crowd, most effective two men and women died in the course of the festivities – one from an overdose, and one in a tractor accident – whilst half one million lived to inform the powerful story.Thanks for watching! Click on the Grunge icon to subscribe to our YouTube channel. Plus, verify out this different cool stuff we all know you can love too! .

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Messed Up Things That Happened At Woodstock

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Messed Up Things That Happened At Woodstock

It was three days of mud, medications, site visitors jams, and overflowing toilets. And, yeah, a bit peace, love, and legendary song. The 1969 Woodstock competition stays one of the crucial iconic pursuits in music history. But, as the a long time pass, those who have been there to see it all via rose-coloured glasses. But that doesn’t mean that the pageant used to be all dancing, keeping hands, and daisy crowns. These are one of the crucial tousled things that happened at Woodstock. Lavatory line at the present time, a stadium could have one bathroom for each 45 or 50 seats. But at Woodstock, there was once one porta-potty for every 833 folks. In step with ThoughtCo, the wait might take as much as an hour – and the toilets have been overflowing with raw sewage that was once mingling with mud and walking downhill into the group. Yuck! Let there be granola in keeping with the Smithsonian, centered meals companies failed to want to work Woodstock, by and large due to the fact of its projected size.So organizers settled for three dudes called "meals for Love" who had little vending experience. Via mid-Saturday, they were going for walks out of food, in order that they quadrupled their sizzling canine costs from 25 cents to $1. After which, a bunch of peace-loving hippies burned down two of their concession stands because they have been pissed off on the lengthy traces and outrageous costs. Fortunately, the day used to be saved through a gaggle known as The Hog Farm Collective, who handed out hundreds and hundreds of cups of granola and saved every body from total hunger. It wasn’t supposed to be free in keeping with ThoughtCo, the festival was at the beginning imagined to take place in Wallkill, the big apple, and rate $18 for all three days, or just $7 bucks per day. However residents of Wallkill handed a law banning the concert, and organizers needed to to find yet another venue with just six weeks left on the clock. Then, a dairy farmer in Bethel offered up some land. The stage, parking plenty, concession stands, and a children’s playground received finished just in time, however organizers did not believe to prioritize ticketing. By the time 50,000 people had walked right in and camped out next to the stage, it used to be too late to return. So Woodstock grew to become a free competition a mistake that would emerge as financially devastating for its organizers.What a travel The competition was once noted for the mud and the track, nevertheless it might were much more famous for the drugs. And humans weren’t simply selling medications, they had been hanging them in stuff that they then passed out totally free, to unsuspecting competition-goers. A nurse told the instances Herald-file, "outside they were giving out electric Kool-help laced with whatever. Plenty of the youngsters harm with these things were simply thirsty. They didn’t have any alternative." Woodstock organizer Michael Lang recalled being extra cautious about the whole lot he consumed on the pageant, for the reason that laced foods and drinks used to be all over. He mentioned, "I did not drink anything that did not come from a bottle I didn’t wash or open myself." The hippie-pocalypse The scene on the roads main to the festival was much like the opening credit of The walking useless.Politico even calls Woodstock one of the top 10 worst traffic jams ever with vehicles jammed up for 10 miles on the brand new York Thruway for the complete three days of the competition. Some humans even abandoned their automobiles and walked in, turning the throughway into a parking zone. A few acts even had to be flown in by way of helicopter, and residents along the roads had been trapped via the deserted automobiles blocking off their driveways. The Grateful dead Many humans said the Grateful useless was once one of the worst acts on the competition. Even Jerry Garcia’s friend Phil Ciganer told the times Herald document, "It used to be the worst exhibit of theirs i’d ever obvious." nevertheless it wasn’t precisely high conditions for a concert. Lifeless drummer Mickey Hart informed Goldmine, "It was an awfully horrible moment for us.The stage was once collapsing. It used to be raining. Jerry and Bob have been getting bowled over at the microphones." Peace and violence Woodstock was typically peaceful, although there was one tremendous example of violence. In step with the Huffington publish, throughout The Who’s performance, political activist Abbie Hoffman bought on stage and took the mic. The Who’s, Pete Townshend, tolerated him for just a few seconds earlier than hitting Hoffman on the pinnacle together with his guitar. Put some footwear on, hippie The on-website pageant scientific crew dutifully dealt with what used to be anticipated to be a crowd of roughly 50,000 folks and was 500,000. In keeping with the Journal of Emergency medical offerings, with the aid of the tip of the weekend, staff suggested they’d handled 797 dangerous journeys, 23 epileptic seizures, fifty seven cases of heat exposure, and 176 asthma attacks. There have been also 938 foot lacerations, a hundred thirty five foot punctures, and 346 random other foot accidents proving that folks relatively have to wear footwear. CNN pronounced that a woman also fell from stage scaffolding and broke her back. Remarkably, considering that the enormous crowd, most effective two men and women died in the course of the festivities – one from an overdose, and one in a tractor accident – whilst half one million lived to inform the powerful story.Thanks for watching! Click on the Grunge icon to subscribe to our YouTube channel. Plus, verify out this different cool stuff we all know you can love too! .

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Messed Up Things That Happened At Woodstock

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Messed Up Things That Happened At Woodstock

It was three days of mud, medications, site visitors jams, and overflowing toilets. And, yeah, a bit peace, love, and legendary song. The 1969 Woodstock competition stays one of the crucial iconic pursuits in music history. But, as the a long time pass, those who have been there to see it all via rose-coloured glasses. But that doesn’t mean that the pageant used to be all dancing, keeping hands, and daisy crowns. These are one of the crucial tousled things that happened at Woodstock. Lavatory line at the present time, a stadium could have one bathroom for each 45 or 50 seats. But at Woodstock, there was once one porta-potty for every 833 folks. In step with ThoughtCo, the wait might take as much as an hour – and the toilets have been overflowing with raw sewage that was once mingling with mud and walking downhill into the group. Yuck! Let there be granola in keeping with the Smithsonian, centered meals companies failed to want to work Woodstock, by and large due to the fact of its projected size.So organizers settled for three dudes called "meals for Love" who had little vending experience. Via mid-Saturday, they were going for walks out of food, in order that they quadrupled their sizzling canine costs from 25 cents to $1. After which, a bunch of peace-loving hippies burned down two of their concession stands because they have been pissed off on the lengthy traces and outrageous costs. Fortunately, the day used to be saved through a gaggle known as The Hog Farm Collective, who handed out hundreds and hundreds of cups of granola and saved every body from total hunger. It wasn’t supposed to be free in keeping with ThoughtCo, the festival was at the beginning imagined to take place in Wallkill, the big apple, and rate $18 for all three days, or just $7 bucks per day. However residents of Wallkill handed a law banning the concert, and organizers needed to to find yet another venue with just six weeks left on the clock. Then, a dairy farmer in Bethel offered up some land. The stage, parking plenty, concession stands, and a children’s playground received finished just in time, however organizers did not believe to prioritize ticketing. By the time 50,000 people had walked right in and camped out next to the stage, it used to be too late to return. So Woodstock grew to become a free competition a mistake that would emerge as financially devastating for its organizers.What a travel The competition was once noted for the mud and the track, nevertheless it might were much more famous for the drugs. And humans weren’t simply selling medications, they had been hanging them in stuff that they then passed out totally free, to unsuspecting competition-goers. A nurse told the instances Herald-file, "outside they were giving out electric Kool-help laced with whatever. Plenty of the youngsters harm with these things were simply thirsty. They didn’t have any alternative." Woodstock organizer Michael Lang recalled being extra cautious about the whole lot he consumed on the pageant, for the reason that laced foods and drinks used to be all over. He mentioned, "I did not drink anything that did not come from a bottle I didn’t wash or open myself." The hippie-pocalypse The scene on the roads main to the festival was much like the opening credit of The walking useless.Politico even calls Woodstock one of the top 10 worst traffic jams ever with vehicles jammed up for 10 miles on the brand new York Thruway for the complete three days of the competition. Some humans even abandoned their automobiles and walked in, turning the throughway into a parking zone. A few acts even had to be flown in by way of helicopter, and residents along the roads had been trapped via the deserted automobiles blocking off their driveways. The Grateful dead Many humans said the Grateful useless was once one of the worst acts on the competition. Even Jerry Garcia’s friend Phil Ciganer told the times Herald document, "It used to be the worst exhibit of theirs i’d ever obvious." nevertheless it wasn’t precisely high conditions for a concert. Lifeless drummer Mickey Hart informed Goldmine, "It was an awfully horrible moment for us.The stage was once collapsing. It used to be raining. Jerry and Bob have been getting bowled over at the microphones." Peace and violence Woodstock was typically peaceful, although there was one tremendous example of violence. In step with the Huffington publish, throughout The Who’s performance, political activist Abbie Hoffman bought on stage and took the mic. The Who’s, Pete Townshend, tolerated him for just a few seconds earlier than hitting Hoffman on the pinnacle together with his guitar. Put some footwear on, hippie The on-website pageant scientific crew dutifully dealt with what used to be anticipated to be a crowd of roughly 50,000 folks and was 500,000. In keeping with the Journal of Emergency medical offerings, with the aid of the tip of the weekend, staff suggested they’d handled 797 dangerous journeys, 23 epileptic seizures, fifty seven cases of heat exposure, and 176 asthma attacks. There have been also 938 foot lacerations, a hundred thirty five foot punctures, and 346 random other foot accidents proving that folks relatively have to wear footwear. CNN pronounced that a woman also fell from stage scaffolding and broke her back. Remarkably, considering that the enormous crowd, most effective two men and women died in the course of the festivities – one from an overdose, and one in a tractor accident – whilst half one million lived to inform the powerful story.Thanks for watching! Click on the Grunge icon to subscribe to our YouTube channel. Plus, verify out this different cool stuff we all know you can love too! .