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What does it mean to hold a biennial exhibition in a year like this one?

Beyond the practical limitations, compounded by the fact that many participating artists cant travel to their own shows, any major art event taking place in 2020 necessarily makes a statement about the world we live in. In the case of the 11th Berlin Biennale, the curatorial vision that guided it came to form over the last two years, largely before the pandemic changed everything. So it is especially poignant that the shows central issuespostcolonial struggle, gender-based and race-based injustice, queer-phobia, and the unequal impacts wrought by climate changehave met a world where these very same problems have reached an unbearable climax.

Postponed from June to September, the show, called The Crack Begins Within, welcomed socially-distanced visitors across its four locations last weekend as one of the few international art events to physically open in Europe this year, despite rising infection rates. Curators Mara Berros, Renata Cervetto, Lisette Lagnado, and Agustn Prez Rubiowho are all based in South Americainvited artists largely hailing from the Global South. The majority are women, many identify as queer, and few have yet to be widely exhibited in Europe.

Curators of the 11th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, f. l. t. r.: Renata Cervetto, Agustin Perez Rubio, Maria Berrios, Lisette Lagnado. Photo: F. Anthea Schaap

It makes us extremely sad that we cannot welcome most of the participants personally at this years biennale because they live in high-risk areas, Berlin Biennales director Gabriela Horn said in a video statement sent to the media in lieu of a press conference on preview day last Friday, September 4.

The artworks on viewand indeed the 76-strong artist listoffers an antidote to the long-dominant white, christian mindset and the patriarchy that enshrines it, by countering what the curators describe in the videotaped statement as patriarchal rampage and colonial capitalism. Set in three main parts against institutions of the church, the museum, and the body politic, the curators find a way of rebelling against each one that is radical overall: through artworks centered on collectivity, solidarity, and compassion.

Zehra Doan, Xzn Diz [The Hidden Drawings] (201820). Installation view (detail), 11th Berlin Biennale, KW Institute for Contemporary Art. Courtesy Zehra DoanPhoto: Silke Briel

During their allotted time slots, press streamed through the now extra-spacious halls at two of Berlins major art institutions, the Gropius Bau and KW Institute for Contemporary Art, as well as the daadgalerie. This last chapter of the biennial was preceded by three smaller prelude shows, the first of which opened exactly one year ago at ExRotaprint, a historical former printing press that was occupied by a tenant co-operative in the early 2000s and now functions as a community-driven cultural initiative. Thats a model that sits well with the curators message. During the biennial final chapter, the main exhibition, this location serves as an archive of the entire biennial research and exhibition process.

Meanwhile at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, the curators present a chapter themed The Antichurch that offers visceral perspectives on the violence of patriarchy and the subversion of it. Among the most striking works are monumental drawings by Argentinian artist Florencia Rodriguez Giles. Generously installed around the institutions main floor, the detailed canvases in the 2018 series Biodelica depict otherworldly, sometimes nightmarish figures that are part-human, part-animal, and part-vegetable. The figures tout female genitalia and engage in actions driven by the pursuit of pleasure.

Galli, Installation view, 11th Berlin Biennale, KW Institute for Contemporary.Photo: Silke Briel

Similarly alluring in their fleshliness are the paintings of entangled, blood-red limbs and torsos by Galli, installed on KWs second floor. A female member of Berlins Junge Wilden generation of the late 1970s and early 1980sa bohemian, male-dominated group of artists, including Albert Oehlen, who all favored an expressive style of painting over the minimalist visual language of that timeGallis works have rightfully gained latent appreciation in the past five years. Alongside several canvases, her books of collages are also on display in glass cases as well as in a video. The artists hands, filmed leafing through the pages, hint towards her differently abled body.

However, its a common drawback of exhibitions that seek to convey forms of community dissent, resistance, and activism through artistic means that they end up feeling more preachy than subversive, more dryly didactic than revolutionary. Too many artworks in the show, which is heavy on video art, fall into this trap. And the effectiveness of much of it is deeply reliant on wall texts. Whats more, if a feminine sensibility, as the argument here goes, is the favorable alternative to masculine rampage, why not cast it in roles less associated with victimhood?

Andrs Pereira Paz, EGO FVLCIO COLLVMNAS EIVS [I FORTIFY YOUR COLUMNS] (2020). 11th Berlin Biennale, Gropius Bau. Courtesy Andrs Pereira Paz; Crisis Galera, Lima; Galera Isla Flotante, Buenos Aires. Photo: Mathias Vlzke.

The conceptual thread that runs through the chapter installed at Gropius Bau takes the museum as another patriarchal structure in need of critical overhaul. Titled The Inverted Museum, this segment includes generous installations that meld sensuous experiences and intellectual engagement. Of the three shows-within-the-show, it is the most successful.

Take Bolivian artist Andrs Pereira Pazs 2020 installation I Fortify Your Columns, commissioned and co-produced by the biennial, a landscape of minimalist sculptures that occupy the floor, walls, and ceiling of a darkened gallery. A birds call resonates throughout the space. Its the sound of the Amazonian guajoj; when its habitat was ravaged by catastrophic blazes last year, a single specimen managed the extraordinary flight to Bolivia, where its sighting became a local sensation. An asylum seeker rather than a migrating bird, it has no home to return to.

Aykan Safolu, Zero Deficit (in Refusal) (2020). Installation view, 11th Berlin Biennale, Gropius Bau. Prints by Lamarts, Istanbul. All works Courtesy Aykan Safolu. Commissioned and produced by Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art. In collaboration with Lamarts, Istanbul. With the support of SAHA Association. With thanks to Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, PhD in Practice, doc.funds. Photo: Mathias Vlzke

While the show largely lands on South American soil, several works focus more directly on Europe-centered stories. Turkish artist Aykan Safolu digs into his own childhood and education at a renowned German-Turkish school in Istanbul. In a video work narrated by the artist, he weaves his personal history with 19th-century Prussian-Ottoman relations, which were based on Europes financial and colonial interests in Ottoman-run Anatolia (modern day Turkey), and the debt collected by European companies who leeched a bankrupt Ottoman Empire. Safolu notes that, as a German-speaking man in Istanbul, he is better accepted by German society than his relative who came within a huge Turkish cohort to Germany in the 1960 as guest workers.

Other works addressed even more direct situations of persecution. At KW, formerly jailed Kurdish journalist and artist Zehra Doan showed The Hidden Drawings, which she made on 103 sheets of paper sent from a friend while Doan was imprisoned in Turkey. The drawings and textsraw and austere, albeit not without hopeare presented on a long table behind glass, the pages form a graphic novel that depicts experiences lived and witnessed during her incarceration, contextualized within the history of the Kurdish struggle in Turkey that has been going on since the 1980s.

In a separate room at KW, German artist Christine Meisner presents her 2020 work Unsharpness In A Possible, Episode 1: Submissions from Berlin, in which she explores the archives of the weekly Der Strmer, a tabloid published between 1923 and 1945 that propagated anti-Semitic and Nazi ideologies (its founder was sentenced to death in the Nuremberg trials). Meisner digs out the immense amounts of anti-Semitic material submitted for publication by readers from all over Germany and Nazi-occupied territories; her installation helps to illustrate the culpability of German society at large. It is an issue that persists: Only a week ago, protesters demonstrating against state measures to stop the spread of COVID-19 stormed the steps of the German federal parliament, several waving flags associated with extreme far-right and Neo-Nazi views.

If the biennial title, The Crack Begins Within, is at first interpreted as a call for change worldwidethat breaking with old ways begins with personal responsibilitythis one work in particular serves as a grim reminder of the dangerous potential this holds. The crack is open, but no one can predict how deep it will get.

The 11th Berlin Biennaleis on view until November 1, 2020 at various locations across Berlin.

To learn more about Berlin Art Week here.

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For millions of us, homeworking is here to stay for a while longer at least and some anticipate that they will never return to the office. However, many have struggled to find a satisfactory spot in their home where they can get on with their work undisturbed.

So its not surprising that lots of homeowners have been eyeing up their garden as a potential new working environment.

Research by Direct Lines home insurance arm found that since lockdown began almost 1 million homeworkers have splashed out on a shed or similar outbuilding to use as an office or workspace and a further 1.1 million are planning to do so in the next 12 months.

Companies specialising in shed offices (or shoffices) and garden rooms have reported a surge in inquiries and orders. That applies to the mass-market retailers, where the most basic summerhouses start at only a few hundred pounds, all the way up to the high-end players, whose often architecturally striking creations can cost tens of thousands of pounds.

The boom in demand means that some designs are out of stock or you may have to wait several months for a delivery.

The average shed worker spent just over 3,300 on their garden workspace, according to research from the digital bank Starling, carried out a few weeks before lockdown.

The average size of a garden workspace was 65 sq ft (6 sq metres), according to the survey.

There is a vast array of options depending on your budget and aesthetic taste.

Go online and its not hard to find small wooden summerhouses for under 500 but something that cheap is only really going to be usable in good weather.

Realistically, you will need to spend a few thousand pounds for something you can comfortably use all year.

At the specialist site Sheds.co.uk, insulated garden rooms and buildings start at 5,694 for a 3x3 metre structure, going up to 9,899 for a 6x4 metre one (these prices include delivery and installation). The walls, floor and roof are fully insulated and the windows are double-glazed.

At the log cabin specialist Summer House 24, offices start at about 2,400 but installation, insulation and roofing cover typically cost extra. For example, the 3.2x3.2 metre Nora B log cabin is priced at 2,430 but using its installation service costs an extra 850, while a floor and roof insulation kit is 570 and a roof shingle kit is 180. On its large Hansa log cabin offices costing 14,500, installation alone adds an extra 3,500 to the price.

John Lewis sells garden offices and studios made by Norfolk-based Crane Garden Buildings, including a 3x3 metre one costing 8,499, including installation and delivery. It is made in the UK from FSC-certified Scandinavian redwood, features floor-to-ceiling glass panels and is fully insulated, lined and double-glazed.

What is and isnt included when you buy can vary hugely. Sometimes the shed will come without a roof covering or the wood will be untreated. Importantly, you will need a solid, level base for your building. Some shed firms will be able to sort you out with a concrete base but you may be charged 1,000, or much more. You may have a local builder who could do it for a lot less.

If youre handy when it comes to DIY and joinery, you may be able to create a garden workspace for a lot less cash. A lot of DIYers will look at the cheaper options and do it themselves, says William Letterese, a director at Sixty Stores, which owns Sheds.co.uk.

For example, you could buy a cheaper shed and insulate it for perhaps a few hundred pounds. You can buy insulation boards for walls and floors well-known brands include Celotex, EcoTherm and Kingspan. There are lots of websites and blogs offering help and advice.

How about the Escape Pod, a striking structure clad in cedar shingles and made of birch ply and European oak? The Gloucestershire-based firm Podmakers says that with its adaptable interior, heating (woodburner or underfloor), electrics and insulation, the Escape Pod has the potential to be used in lots of ways but at the moment its really offices that people want weve just put one in where theres two people working.

The starting price is 19,800 plus VAT (or 17,900 in kit form). They are delivered and installed using a forklift or crane, though if there are problems with access, the components can be carried through the house and assembled on site (with this option, installation costs 2,000).

Generally, no. Sheds and other outbuildings are considered to be permitted developments, not requiring planning permission, provided certain conditions are met. In England the main ones include: the building must be single storey with a maximum eaves height of 2.5 metres and a maximum overall height of 4 metres with a dual-pitched roof, or 3 metres for any other roof; it cannot be used as a separate home to live in; and it cannot include a veranda, balcony or raised platform higher than 300mm.

Some firms offer a service where they will connect your garden building to the houses electricity supply but many dont, so you may need to pay a professional electrician.

Some say you need to dig a trench so you can run an armoured power cable underground. Others say its OK to put the cable under some gravel or run it along the fence. If you know a friendly electrician, ask his or her advice.

There are various options for extending your wifi to your garden office. Probably the simplest and cheapest is a wifi booster, a smallish device you simply plug in and which amplifies your signal, although the shed probably needs to be no more than 30 metres away. You can get fairly decent wifi boosters from companies such as Netgear and TP-Link for 20-40. Then there are so-called powerline adaptor kits, sometimes known as HomePlugs, which typically cost about the same.

Or you could run an ethernet cable from the house to the garden building (you could run it alongside your main power cable).

Many buildings insurance policies extend cover to outbuildings as standard, which means you would be covered against weather damage, Moneysupermarket.com says. The contents will typically be covered by your home insurance but you need a good idea of what the items are worth, and to let your insurer know, it adds. Dig out the paperwork and if in doubt, contact your insurer(s).

You may not have the cash or space for a separate home office, but there are ways to make a spare room or corner, into a work space.

Buy second hand. For example, Recycled Business Furniture, based in High Wycombe, offers a basic package of a desk and a quality adjustable chair for 150 plus VAT, and an executive package of an electric desk and a Herman Miller chair for 475 plus VAT (this option was sold out at the time of writing). Or you can just buy a chair for 40 or 95, both with VAT on top.

If you do end up buying new, websites such as Expert Reviews and TechRadar have detailed guides to the best office chairs for homeworking. Here are a few of their top picks:

45 Ikeas Torkel swivel chair. This month, Expert Reviews called it the best budget office chair.

About 50 Life Carvers mesh middle back office chair. Available on Amazon and elsewhere.

120 Argoss Home Orion swivel chair. It has a faux leather finish and a high back.

179 Ikeas Markus swivel chair. It comes with a 10-year guarantee.

TechRadar says the Furinno computer desk is, according to TechRadar, the best budget (and space-saving) office desk around, highlighting model 12095GYW, at about 107 and measuring 100cm wide by 86cm high by 40cm deep. If space is really at a premium, Argos sells a compact folding office desk for 40 that gets very good reviews. It is 86cm wide by 84cm high by 62cm deep, and folds flat.

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Nobody was injured and the ceiling was quickly repaired, say officials

The repaired section of ceiling on the first floor at Dubai Mall. Courtesy: Dubai Media Office

The repaired section of ceiling on the first floor at Dubai Mall. Courtesy: Dubai Media Office

The repaired section of ceiling on the first floor at Dubai Mall. Courtesy: Dubai Media Office

Nobody was hurt when a section of ceiling collapsed at Dubai Mall. Courtesy: Dubai Media Office

A section of the ceiling at Dubai's largest mall has been repaired after it fell on Monday night.

The section fell near Laduree on the first floor of Dubai Mall but no one was injured, authorities said.

An image of the collapsed section of ceiling was shared on social media. It showed part of the ceiling facade hanging by wires as small groups of people looked on from a safe distance.

Dubai Mall has taken immediate measures to restore the damage caused to a small section of the ceiling yesterday evening. There were no injuries and all precautionary measure are in place to ensure the highest safety for Dubai Mall's visitors. pic.twitter.com/ctarQtaP9u

On Tuesday, Dubai Media Office said the mall took "immediate" measures to fix the broken ceiling and that "all precautionary measure are in place to ensure the highest safety for Dubai Mall's visitors."

The emirate's malls reopened at full capacity in June, after months of restrictions to prevent the spread of Covid-19.

Visitors are still required to undergo temperature screening on entry to the mall, wear protective face masks and maintain a physical distance of at least two metres from others.

Other key safety measures include the provision of an isolation room for suspected cases of the virus and the installation of hand sanitiser dispensers.

Updated: September 8, 2020 05:56 PM

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Both the Savannah and Albany come with a smaller footprint but designed with todays families in mind an open floorplan that feels spacious and roomy at a very affordable price.

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Wayne Homes, an Ohio-based custom home builder that specializes in on-your-lot custom homes, has released two new floor plans today, the Albany and the Savannah.

The Albany is a single-story, three-bedroom, two-bathroom home with just over 1,300 square feet of living space, while the Savannah is a two-story floor plan with three bedrooms, two-and-a-half bathrooms, and 1,710 square feet.

The Albany is the smallest ranch floor plan that Wayne Homes offers but includes big features, such as an open concept main living area, large island with a flush eat ledge and plenty of counter space in the kitchen, and a roomy owner suite with a walk-in closet.

The Savannah, now Wayne Homes smallest two-story floor plan, includes a large walk-in closet and bathroom in the owner suite, and larger-sized secondary bedrooms. The spacious kitchen allows room for an island and the dining room will comfortably fit the whole family for holiday meals.

Building a new home has become a reality to more people than ever before, Maurie Jones, Senior Vice President of Marketing, said. With interest rates at historic lows and low numbers of existing homes for sale, families are looking at new construction as an option. Both the Savannah and Albany come with a smaller footprint but designed with todays families in mind an open floorplan that feels spacious and roomy at a very affordable price.

Both the Albany and the Savannah are available in four exterior elevations, including the Classic, Craftsman, Farmhouse, and Tradition elevations.

For more information about building a custom home with Wayne Homes and the Albany or the Savannah, please visit WayneHomes.com.

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HGTVs Hidden Potential is a home improvement series that follows home builder and designer Jasmine Roth as she instills joy and satisfaction in the mundane lives of several families by putting the extra in ordinary cookie-cutter houses. Throughout the show, we see Jasmine working her magic to make sure all the houses she works on, stand out from the rest in their own unique way. By following the DIY concept, the designer transforms suburban houses of indistinctive designs into custom dream homes.

To map out a plan for the abodes, the fitness instructor turned home builder uses her creativity, imagination, and experience that she has garnered over seven years of being in the business. She often puts quaint and fancy twists like a hidden bar behind a bookcase or a dog cave to surprise her clients. Since its inception in 2018, the home renovation series has spawned over three seasons. Naturally, many of you must be wondering about the filming location of Hidden Potential. Well, we have got you covered!

Jasmine Roth, the supremely talented host of the series, grabbed the attention of the producers through all the pictures and videos on her social media accounts, which reflect her hard work and determination to beautify lack-luster homes. Unlike several HGTV shows, this one doesnt chronicle around the country but is based in Roths native itself California. Yes, the show is extensively filmed in the Golden State in the U.S. Here is the specific location where it is shot!

Jasmine Roth, her husband of seven years, Brett Roth, and their adorable little daughter Hazel, live in the seaside city of Huntington Beach, in Orange County, Southern California. All the seasons of the aesthetically appealing series are set in the Surf City, where Roths home and business are located. Huntington Beach is the most populous beach city in Orange County, which helps Roth get more clients for her home improvement company, Built Custom Homes.

Initially, the production company wanted to base the show around beach houses. However, that didnt pan out once they learned the time frame of the completion of one beach build. So, here we are! For filming, the production team moves to the location of the project in Huntington Beach. Filming a season usually takes six months, i.e., 12 hours a day into six days a week. In season 1, Roth deals with 13 houses, while in season 2, we see her transforming 17 homes.

Most of the artwork and custom furniture are either made-to-order or bought from local artisans in the area. To capture all the candid and insightful moments, the filming team puts cameras in Roths car, house, and backyard. It basically follows her every move as she talks to the families and tries to create a customized dream home based on their desires.

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Location: La Jolla, California

Price: $22 million

When Tyler Jones, founder and CEO of Blue Heron, a Las Vegas-based custom home builder, decided to branch out of Southern Nevada, his homing instincts brought him directly to La Jolla, a California beach community where he spent many happy childhood summers.

Our approach to building is to create a living environment thats connected to nature and makes people feel good while pushing the design envelope, Mr. Jones said. This lot offered a thrilling inspiration to be able to see all the way to Point Loma to the south for energy and to look straight west into the ocean for calm.

The design of every space in the house was totally driven by the view, Mr. Jones said.

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We also wanted to be respectful of the neighborhood, which doesnt want a lot of mansions that block the view of the ocean from pedestrians, Mr. Jones said. One of our signature elements is to create a long entry sequence for our homes, so we created privacy with a stone and glass wall that also allows you to see straight through the home to the ocean.

The contemporary architecture of the house includes lightwells that vertically connect all four levels to provide natural light to the rooms. Two glass bridges connect the front and back of the house, while terraces provide space for relaxing, dining and entertaining on three levels. Fully retractable walls on the main level provide seamless indoor-outdoor space overlooking the waves.

We deliberately designed the interior to be soothing, relaxing and timeless to let the space make the connection to the outdoors, Mr. Jones said. We want the house to offer a compelling four-dimensional experience that speaks to all the senses.

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Natural elements indoors and on the terraces, meant to complement the natural power of the ocean, include fireplaces, fire pits and an infinity-edge lap pool that spills into two interior water features.

Biophilic design makes humans comfortable, so we deliberately integrated these natural elements with the sound of water and the long view of the ocean, which makes people feel safe, Mr. Jones said. Our goal was to make this house a multisensory experience that speaks to each person on an emotional level.

The third-floor primary suite features walls of glass that open onto a private oceanfront terrace.

For extra entertaining space, Mr. Jones opted to add a basement level with unexpected indoor-outdoor space including a living area that can be opened to the sky, a bar, a wine cellar and a media room with a game table that can be fully opened to the outdoors with corner glass pocket doors. The rooftop terrace, high above the Pacific, can be reached by a high-speed elevator to whisk guests from the wine cellar to the covered dining area.

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Stats

This seaside single-family home has 6,884 square feet of interior space with four bedrooms, four full bathrooms and two partial bathrooms. The four-level house includes more than 3,000 square feet of outdoor living space.

Amenities

Amenities include an outdoor lap pool with waterfalls to create indoor water features, a rooftop hot tub, four indoor and outdoor fireplaces, a media room with a game table, a wine cellar, a wet bar and a private elevator.

Neighborhood Notes

Sea Ridge is part of the Bird Rock community in La Jolla, about 10 miles north of San Diego.

Bird Rock is within a short drive of one of the best known surfing locations in Southern California and recreational amenities including beaches, hiking trails and the Torrey Pines Golf Course. Also nearby is the picturesque village of La Jolla, art galleries, award-winning restaurants, downtown San Diego and institutions such as the Scripps Coastal Reserve and the Salk Institute for Biological Studies.

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Among the tools Mr. Vitrofsky uses in his work: air-purification systems that remove impurities, pathogens and (for a steeper price) particles that carry viruses; custom water filters based on local aquifer data; and dawn-simulation lighting that mimics natural sunlight.

Most of Mr. Vitrofskys clients are wealthy, but his companys packages start as low as $2,500 for a simple installation that includes basic lighting, air and water monitoring with Darwin technology. From there, the prices climb exponentially.

Mr. Feirstein, who hired HEDSouth to customize the technology in his home, spent around $300,000. Doug got the best in class of everything, Mr. Vitrofsky said.

Since the onset of the pandemic, Mr. Vitrofsky said, he has seen interest in his companys services more than double. Whole Foods is wellness, Smartwater is wellness, Equinox gym is wellness everybody has taken this wellness term to try to sell their product, he said. But nobody was talking about wellness on its own. Now the whole world is focused on being healthy, on not wanting to die.

In Florida, the epicenter of real-estate wellness, some developments are taking health tracking a step further by building homes with private on-site health care. CC Homes, a builder in South Florida, last month announced a partnership with Baptist Health South Florida. Residents of two of its communities, Canarias at Downtown Doral and Maple Ridge at Ave Maria, will receive telemedicine services from Baptist doctors through a health kit that includes HD cameras and infrared thermometers that will check on ears, noses, eyes and lungs, all from within their own homes.

And in downtown Miami, the Legacy Hotel and Residences will include an on-site, AI-powered medical diagnostics center to track residents health using body scanning, posture analysis, blood work and more.

As a society, were pretty consistently being told that technology and wearables will produce data about us, and what you can track you can change, said Noah Waxman, the founder of Cactus, the company building out Legacys diagnostics center. Spaces and places like this one are only becoming more desirable. Because there is no way that in the next five years your phone will be able to do what this diagnostic center can do.

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The Weekend Edition is pulled from the daily Stansberry Digest.

New buildings are appearing in many suburban backyards...

They look something like this...

It's not quite a gardening shed and not quite a pool house, either... It's a home-office pod.

It includes just enough space for a desk and a chair, as well as some walking room and natural light... kind of like those "tiny houses" that became all the rage starting a few years ago.

Except this is a getaway from your house. It's a place to work in our "stay at home" pandemic times.

Construction of these new buildings is a certifiable trend, as the Chicago Tribune noted last month...

Tiny house builders and garden shed manufacturers across the country are pivoting to create home office structures that range from compact, prefabricated deluxe sheds to more elaborate custom designs. And business is booming.

"A soon as the quarantine and having to work from home started, the requests for our sheds doubled," said Brennan Deitsch, online marketing manager for Heartland Sheds. "A lot of people never really had their home set up as an office, so having a quiet place allows them to make the most of the work-from-home lifestyle," he said.

Have you been working at home longer than you thought you would be?

We have. I would be lying if I said I didn't think we'd be back in the office for at least a few days a week by now.

Don't get me wrong, working from home if you can has its perks... starting with the simple fact that I have a regular-paying job that allows me to think big and share what all of our Stansberry Research editors are saying each and every day.

However, productivity and morale considerations aside, it would be nice to simply get out more during the day. Maybe it's just me, but I'd prefer to see the familiar faces of coworkers instead of interacting through e-mails and video chats.

Everyone has their own feelings about our new work world, and there's plenty to discuss on this topic in the months ahead.

We speak from an office-worker perspective today, but the point is... remote work isn't going away anytime soon.

All things considered, we're fortunate at Stansberry Research...

First off, I'm healthy, and I have a job. But not everyone has been so lucky.

More than 190,000 Americans have reportedly died from COVID-19. The disease is the third-largest cause of deaths in the U.S. this year with four months to go... trailing only heart disease and cancer.

And of course, the pandemic and government shutdowns have taken their economic toll as well. They've shuttered many physical businesses like retailers and restaurants for good... and have limited regular business for so many others.

At least 18 million Americans who say they want a job right now don't have one. And nearly half of all work-eligible Americans don't have a job, either by choice or by necessity.

We're hearing all kinds of stories about people and families adjusting to kids going back to school (or not), offices closing (or not), and jobs coming back (or not).

COVID-19 has left a lasting mark on the economy. Life is different.

And of course, none of this has done anything to ease the brick-and-mortar retail "apocalypse"...

We saw it on display at a single shopping center in suburban Baltimore. At one end, home-improvement retailer Home Depot (HD) had giant orange letters We're Hiring! painted on its front windows.

Just a few stores away, Modell's Sporting Goods one of the dozens of nationwide retailers that has filed for bankruptcy over the past few months was selling literally everything in the store for at least an 80% discount.

And when I say it was selling everything, I mean it... down to the cash registers, mannequins, tape dispensers, and employee lockers.

If you're not an "essential" business, you're in trouble...

Why "go to Mo's" when you can buy the same sporting goods online and get free shipping (in many cases)?

Take food as another example... We all need it. But we can eat at home, too.

So online ordering and curbside pickup have become normal... Yet at the same time, more and more restaurants killed by customers' reluctance to sit among strangers during an airborne virus pandemic have been closing down for good.

On the other hand, if you're an "essential" part of these essential businesses, you're doing quite well...

That might sound confusing at first, but here's what we mean...

In today's world, data is the new oil. That means the companies that control data, including cloud-based vendors and storage companies, are the new pipelines and oil fields.

As our colleague Alan Gula wrote in the August issue of our flagship Stansberry's Investment Advisory newsletter, one area of technology that many of our editors love is Software as a Service ("SaaS")...

This type of software lets you order food from a local restaurant... or connect to your company's networks and do business around the world from your house or even a shed in the backyard.

As we've written in the past, DocuSign (DOCU) is one of our favorite SaaS companies. The company, which sells e-signature software, has more than tripled since the Investment Advisory recommendation in November last year.

Not only are SaaS businesses practical for the user, they're incredibly capital-efficient and a "win-win" business model for software vendors and customers. As Alan wrote in August's Investment Advisory issue...

For customers, it lowers costs they don't need to pay a large, upfront perpetual license fee, buy expensive computer hardware, pay to have the software deployed, and then pay a "maintenance" fee on top of all that. Under the SaaS model, there's just one regular subscription fee, and software updates and upgrades are automatic and seamless.

For the software vendors, cloud-based application hosting creates economies of scale. There's also only one software version to support since the upgrades occur behind the scenes on the vendor's servers.

In short, the SaaS model is superior to the perpetual license model. SaaS software is cheaper and easier to get up and running. It attracts many more new customers. And good SaaS businesses tend to have high renewal rates, leading to lots of recurring revenue.

All of these factors have led to explosive revenue growth.

Today, the five biggest tech companies account for 25% of the S&P 500 Index...

By market cap, Microsoft (MSFT), Amazon (AMZN), Google parent Alphabet (GOOGL), Apple (AAPL), and Facebook (FB) constitute roughly one-fourth of the benchmark U.S. index.

Think about that... Overall, the index is just about breakeven for the year. And those five stocks are up an average of 44% in 2020.

This performance surely doesn't say much for the other 495 stocks in the index... But it does prove that tech stocks continue to thrive. And today, a lot of the major tech companies are cloud companies in one way or another.

The biggest SaaS player is Adobe (ADBE), which switched from a license model to a SaaS approach back in 2013... Its stock price is up more than 850% since the move.

But there are dozens of other "pure play" companies in the SaaS world that have outperformed even the biggest tech stocks over the years.

As Alan wrote in the August issue of the Investment Advisory...

We consider 59 public companies "pure play" SaaS businesses. We've created an equal-weight composite of these stocks, called the Stansberry SaaS Composite.

Take a look at how it has performed this year compared with the overall market and the Nasdaq...

The Stansberry SaaS Composite is crushing both. It's up an astounding 64% this year... more than double the Nasdaq. And that's during a global pandemic.

In short, SaaS technology has become "mission critical" for thousands of companies...

And the footprint of the technology will only grow in the years ahead.

Change, especially changing the behavior of so many people, can be hard... But once that change is made, it can be even harder to convince people to go back and do something the way they did before.

In this case, a virus forced massive changes in the way we work and do business...

And now, there's no putting the "genie back in the bottle." People are putting up their own "work sheds" in their backyards. Cloud vendors and SaaS companies are bringing in piles of cash. The future is here. There's no turning back now.

All the best,

Corey McLaughlin

Editor's note: The push for "togetherness while apart" has the SaaS sector riding a wave of wealth... Because of increased work-from-home setups and accelerated demand for technology worldwide, we believe SaaS stocks are set to soar by 1,000% or more. And one stock in particular is positioned to skyrocket 3,000% long term. Get all the details right here.

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