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Light Heavyweights Late 70s - Early 80s | Highlights | MONTAGE

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Checkout the trailer for the NEW Jim Lujan animated film "THE FULL FUNGUS" COMING OUT IN THE SUMMER OF 2024!

Chino Diamond, Los Angeles private eye, is on the trail of a missing piece of fabled jazz music (by late jazz legend Mink Fungus) and his only hope at succeeding is to track down the estranged son of the composer, who holds the music, before the mob does.

Feature length animated crime comedy

Animated and Directed by Jim Lujan

Starring the voices of:

Charley Rossman (Chino Diamond)

Deacon Burns From Kounterclockwise (Mink and Wilt Fungus)

Malia Kerr (Brandi Fungus)

Jim Lujan (Larry Carlile/ Koviak)

Tom Racine.

Ken Mora

Kim Hendrix

Nissim

Scott Serkland

Lisa Huff

Kaya Rogue

Christopher Runciman

Ben Davis

Gary Hodges

Chris Ward

Jose Cabrera

Lonnie Millsap

Michael "Bake" Baker

Martin Gantt

Sharon Angela Curtis

Missi Steco

Mike Perez

Abdullah Drake

Cory Kerr

Kevin Cross

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Lauren Spierer disappeared at Indiana University campus at age 20.

She was in the company of fellow student, Corey Rossman at Kilroy Sports Bar, where she left with him, mistakenly leaving her phone and sandals at the bar.

She was last seen in the company of Corey Rossman, up until the predawn hours of June 3, 2011. She was seemingly under the influence and/or possibly roofied. According to footage captured on security cameras, she was so incapacitated, she could barely walk. Rossman had her slung over his shoulder, as he took her to the apartment he shared with roommate Mike Beth. Lauren was never seen again.

The rest is what has been relayed by Rossman, Rossman's roommate Mike Beth, and Rossman's friend Jay Rosenbaum, who lived two doors down. As stated by them, Lauren, though noticeably captured on security footage nearly incoherent and incapacitated, wanted to go from Rossman's apartment to Jay Rosenbaum's next door, and continue drinking..It later surfaces that Rosenbaum was hosting unidentified guests that night from Michigan, in his apartment.

About Lauren: Lauren had just finished her sophomore year when she disappeared. She was from Scarsdale, NY and had enrolled at Indiana University to study fashion merchandising.

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Thank you to Mark Rossman of Rossman, P.C. for inviting me to be a panelist at the upcoming State Bar of Michigan 4th annual #BusinessLawSymposium, focusing on “The Business of the Law Firm.” I'm honored to be participating in this essential round table discussion - "Building Your Brand and Protecting It — Responding to a Four Alarm Fire" - with Tyler Cady of 2nGage, Mary Ann Sabo of Sabo PR, Jennifer Belveal of Foley & Lardner LLP, R.J. Cronkhite of Dinsmore & Shohl, and our moderator Maxwell Goss of Fishman Stewart PLLC. This can't miss evening event will be held January 20, 2022, beginning at 4 pm, at The Detroit Club. More information and registration can be found here: https://bizsymposium.com/ Other fabulous presenters during the overall session include Dr. Douglas Moll of University of Houston Law Center, Mike Morse of Mike Morse Law Firm, Kassem M. Dakhlallah of Hammoud, Dakhlallah & Associates, Shaun Fitzpatrick of Fortz Legal Support, Alexis F. Johnson of AFJ Law Group PLLC, Sara MacWilliams, Jasmine D. Rippy, Esq. and Ameena R. Sheikh, Esq. of The Rippy + Sheikh Law Firm, E. Powell Miller of Miller Law, Terry Bonnette of Nemeth Law, P.C. (and my fellow Mosaic Youth Theatre of Detroit board member!), Deborah Brouwer also of Nemeth Law, Daimeon Cotton of Cotton Law Center, PLLC, Courtney Nichols of Plunkett Cooney, James Reid of Dinsmore, Josh Lushnat of Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC, musician P.J. Muer, Jennifer Dukarski, CIPP/US of Butzel Long, Elizabeth Vincent of Rossman, P.C., Andrew Reside of Warner Norcross + Judd, Milan Reside of Jaffe Raitt Heuer and Weiss, Daniel R. Ackerman of Butzel, Richard A. Plowden of HONIGMAN, Tishia Browning of Rossman, Charles Ash of Warner Norcross + Judd, my colleague Linda Watson of Clark Hill Law, Thomas Cedoz of Dinsmore, Linda Roelans of Rossman, Michelle Harrell of Maddin Hauser, my colleague Jonathan Martone from Clark Hill, Chris Tracy from Warner Norcross + Judd, and Bernard J. Fuhs from Butzel. Whew! What a great line-up. Honored to be among this illustrious group! @mistatebar (at Detroit Club) https://www.instagram.com/p/CUYjaRzlEh4/?utm_medium=tumblr

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SUMMARY Josh Cameron and his younger brother Mike decide to get away from it all with a drive through the countryside. However, their car is run off the road by rednecks and they are forced to hike into the nearby town of Goodland. Mike discovers a dead body in an alleyway but this is gone when they return with the sheriff. They spend the night at a boarding house only for something to snatch Mike from underneath his bed. The next day, Josh goes searching for Mike. He and others realise that something strange is happening around the town. They discover that toxic waste dumped nearby by the New Era Corporation is infecting the bloodstream of locals and turning them into zombies driven by a need to devour blood.

DEVELOPMENT The team-up between Kantor and Montoro on Mutant resulted in a smoother production. The project began with a script from unknown authors. “I was at a party about eight months ago,” says Kantor. “There were a lot of young filmmakers there and a kid came up to me and introduced himself; he said, ‘I’m Michael Jones and understand that you’re a producer. ‘When I told him I was, he said, ‘I have a script. Do you read unsolicited material?’ I said, ‘We read everything, because you never know when you’ll find a good script. So, two weeks later I got a script in the mail at Film Ventures called Pestilence from Michael Jones and another kid, John Kruize-they had written it as a team. It was a story about toxic waste which is an interesting subject because no one has done a picture about that.” When Montoro agreed that Pestilence was a script with a valid premise that could be produced inexpensively, a deal was made with the writers.

Originally, this script about people turned into murderous creatures by toxic waste, characterized the Army as the villain of the piece. The idea that the Army was responsible for the script’s disastrous occurrences was not acceptable to Kantor. “You don’t want to make the Army the bad guys, maybe a private corporation, but not the Army. Especially the way it was written-it just wasn’t plausible, it was too much of a fantasy. If the story involved nerve warfare, then that would’ve been a different ball-game because the Army could conceivably be involved in that. But the original idea didn’t fit together. Additionally, at the end the Army destroys the whole town to cover up the evidence. That was too farfetched. I would have gotten so much flak.” The writers agreed to change the script (under the new title of Night Shadows, subsequently to be replaced by Mutant) and instated a private corporation as the cause for the movie’s mayhem. Fix-up man Peter Orton was then called in to apply the final touches to the screenplay.

As pre-production on Mutant progressed, the scope and main thrust of the picture changed. “Mutant started out as a small picture,” Kantor says, “but we kept building it up, and bringing in bigger actors like Wings Hauser and Bo Hopkins, and making it bigger and bigger. The budget started off as under a million and the final budget will be a little over two-and-half million dollars. The movie also started out strictly as a horror story-it’s not a horror film today. It is an action, adventure, terror film. It’s more like a Jaws than it is, say, a Night of the Living Dead. It’s got a tremendous amount of action.

PRINCIPAL PHOTOGRAPHY At first, Mark Rossman (director of Film Ventures’ House on Sorority Row) was assigned to direct instead of Cardos. Kantor says, “Mark was doing a good job with the original script in preproduction, but as we kept expanding the picture, I went to Mark one day and said, ‘Mark, I don’t think you can handle this, because you’ve never done this sort of thing before. This is a big picture. I suggest we get a second unit director to do the action scenes.’ So, originally, it was really my idea to bring Bud in as second unit man. Mark accepted this graciously and said, ‘Yes, it’s true I haven’t done action. I could use some support from a second unit director.’ Well, when we got on the set a couple of months later, right away I could tell that it was too big a picture for Mark. And he didn’t want Bud to actually direct the action scenes. He wanted Bud to whisper in his ear and tell him how to do it. But it doesn’t work that way; you can’t direct by committee. In the first week we had some action stuff right off the bat and we were running further behind and the scene was not getting finished. Now, I had already anticipated the problem; in fact I told Bud before we started, ‘You better familiarize yourself with the script very thoroughly because, in case Mark can’t handle it, you may take over.’ And, sure enough, at the end of the first week, I knew I was in trouble, so that was it. I told Mark and there was no animosity. He admitted it-it was too big.

Replacing Rosman at the last minute, veteran film director John “Bud” Cardos stepped in to film. “Mark Rosman was no dummy.” he continued. “He’s very good in a lot of ways, but he didn’t have enough Experience to handle the crew. Seriously, these are ‘budget pictures. They may be made for millions and millions of dollars, but you still have to watch your budget.

Igo Kantor

With Bud Cardos at the helm, Kantor was then able to stress the action elements in Mutant. Here we have a terrific horror opening, to start off with a bang, but after that we take the time to establish the people. And then in the last three reels, the last 30 minutes of the picture, there’s non-stop action and terror. If the activities of the makeup staff are any indication of the action involved in this picture, then there seems like there is a good deal going on in Mutant; Kantor says that the makeup crew included as many as 12 people at one time to work on around 50 creatures.

“Any time you work with a lot of creatures, it’s difficult.” said Cardos. *The first ones weren’t so good, so we had to take the time to develop them and work around the early versions.”

Some of the more difficult scenes include a shot of a hand melting through a window, scores of pulsating heads, throats and faces, and a rousing conclusion in which Wings Hauser throws Molotov cocktails at the monsters.

“That scene was very difficult because you have to worry about the actors,” said Cardos. “And you’ve got to take care of the stunt people so they don’t get burned, and you’ve got 50 or 60 other people working around them to watch out for.”

BEHIND THE SCENES/LOCATIONS Once on the set in Atlanta, though, the leading players weren’t familiar with him, a situation that caused some trepidation amongst the cast. At that point, says Wings Hauser, “I was ready to say, ‘Pack it in. I’m going back to LA. My agent flew down and said, ‘Let’s go, let’s get out of here. This isn’t going to work.’ But then I got to talking to Bud Cardos the night before he took over. For me it’s very important that a director have some kind of sensitivity, and I had no idea really of who the guy was. We started talking about an old friend of his who had recently died, Jim Davis (of Dallas fame). They had been best friends. Bud started talking and all of a sudden he started crying. And I said to myself, ‘Now, wait a minute. This guy might be a stunt coordinator, but he’s got some sensitivity here, right?’ So I decided to hang out for another day or so and really get to know him. For what he was given in the amount of time he had to prepare, he did a hell of a job.

“When he took over, he really grabbed the ball and started to inspire us. He has a tremendous way of admiring people. Often, I would be doing a scene, and I would catch Bud out of the corner of my eye just looking at the scene and you could see that he actually enjoyed it. And when somebody enjoys it, you want to do better, you want to do more. I think that’s his love for this kind of thing. He loves what he does and he’s got the confidence-and that starts to spread to everybody else.”

Hauser appreciated the freedom he and the other actors were allowed in developing their characters. In particular, he was allowed to develop the relationship between himself and Lee Montgomery who played his younger brother in the film. “Normally, in a situation like that,” Hauser explains, ”the older brother would be the more cautious one and the younger brother would be the one filled with freedom. The dialogue in the script lent itself to that kind of characterization, but we all decided that my character should be the one who could care less about certain things, not the type to be overly cautious and uptight about situations. That whole scene in the bedroom between my younger brother and me was basically born out of improvisation. There was a tremendous freedom in that if you felt like saying something you just said it. Between Bud Cardos, producer Igo Kantor and the other actors and myself, we got to play with the characters.”

Bo Hopkins

Mutant looks like it will be Bo Hopkins’ first significant horror release. In this picture he plays a sheriff who has come to his present job in a small Georgia town after getting kicked off the Atlanta police force-he had a shot a man in an alley whom he had mistakenly thought was armed. Hopkins describes the sheriff as a “strong willed guy who tries to be fair,” who now finds he has to deal with a case of mysterious disappearances in his town that eventually leads to the discovery of the horrific effects of a toxic waste dump.

Hopkins is pleased with the way the characters in Mutant were developed. He says, “I enjoyed working with Bud Cardos and Igo Kantor because they wanted to make Mutant a better movie than what was written. We did a lot of work on the characters. Wings Hauser, Jennifer Warren, myself and the rest of the cast would go in and rehearse, and if something wasn’t right then we’d try to fix it with Bud and Igo. Igo’s a hard worker. He’s been in the business a long time and knows the ups and downs of making movies. You need somebody around like that. Usually producers make me nervous when they’re on the set, but I got used to go. He’s very smart at this kind of thing; if it’s not written right, then he wants to make it better.”

A generalized objective of this work, according to Hopkins, was to get across “a sense of what was going on within the town as far as the nuclear waste was concerned. We had to emphasize that part of it more, so that we could make it appear that it actually could happen, in any town.”

More specific, Hopkins worked on his scenes with Jennifer Warren who plays a doctor who helps the sheriff in his investigations of the mysterious deaths plaguing the Georgia town. Hopkins and Warren worked on developing an on-screen rapport that was not originally included in the script and, says Hopkins, a good relationship “sort of happened while we were shooting the scenes. For one thing, we tried to add some humor. When you do a movie like this, as much humor as you can get into it, the better it is.”

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The final result resembles a bigger budgeted version of George Romero’s NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, complete with elaborate makeup effects handled by a large crew. The film’s makeup is by Eric Fiedler and Louis Lamara, with Dave Miller in charge of latex prosthetics and effects, including bladder work. “The original director was Mark Rothman, who did House on Sorority Row,” David Miller recalls. ��We got together and worked up a design for the mutants, which looked pretty good, a swollen-faced thing. I flew down to Georgia, got casts on the actors, and came back here to make appliances. While I was in the lab, Mark got replaced by John “Bud” Cardos, who changed all the stuff around—he had the makeup artist down there doing up people in solid white clown-colored pancake, with black—black in a color film!—makeup around the eyes, and little strawberry-shaped things on their faces. This was his zombie mutant. So, because they’d already shot a lot of that, I had to paint my appliances to match that!

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CONCLUSION Mutant was a production of Edward L. Montoro, and this film’s budget was one of the contributing factors to the downfall of Montoro’s company, Film Ventures International.

CAST/CREW Directed John “Bud” Cardos Produced Igo Kantor Screenplay Peter Z. Orton Michael Jones John C. Kruize

Story by Michael Jones John C. Kruize

Wings Hauser as Josh Cameron Bo Hopkins as Sheriff Will Stewart Jody Medford as Holly Pierce Lee Montgomery as Mike Cameron Marc Clement as Albert Hogue Cary Guffey as Billy Jennifer Warren as Dr. Myra Tate Danny Nelson as Jack

Makeup Department Eric Fiedler … makeup artist Louis Lazzara … makeup artist David B. Miller … prosthetic makeup effects Brenda Shopher … hair stylist Claudia Thompson makeup artist Bruce Zahlava … assistant makeup artist (as Bruce Zalhava)

CREDITS/REFERENCES/SOURCES/BIBLIOGRAPHY Fangoria#34 Fangoria#36

Mutant (1984) Retrospective SUMMARY Josh Cameron and his younger brother Mike decide to get away from it all with a drive through the countryside.

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Victor Galindez vs Mike Rossman | Boxing Highlights | Best Fights

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Checkout the world premiere of the NEW Jim Lujan animated film SUGAR MACHINE!! Now playing on youtube!! Be sure to leave a comment and let us know what you think?

Slick talking ponytailed LA lawyer, Danny Fingerman, is running out of time and options on his wild quest to locate a stolen painting belonging to the sports fashion icon known as Sugar Machine.  Can Danny’s smooth talking save his skin or will he face the wrath of Sugar? Animated and Directed by Jim Lujan 

 Starring: 

Jim Lujan 

Deacon Burns 

Matthew Warren 

Gary Hodges

 Charley Rossman

 Tom Racine

 Lonnie Millsap

 Lisa Huff 

Kaya Rogue

 Michael Baker

 Bill Moran 

Mike Perez

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Bbc news Coronavirus: rumores de BCG y otras historias verificadas

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BBC groups are truth-checking among the most standard false and deceptive coronavirus tales on social media. Jack Goodman brings collectively what's been debunked this week by BBC Monitoring, Trending and Fact Check.

Bbc news False claims in regards to the BCG vaccine

WhatsApp messages claiming the BCG vaccine prevents coronavirus infection are wrong.

The Bacille Calmette-Guérin jab has been given to teens across the arena to fight off tuberculosis, and used to be long-established in secondary colleges in the UK till 2005.

It's peaceable given in the UK when a baby or adult would be at possibility of coming into contact with tuberculosis.

It's peaceable frequent in many worldwide locations, such as Syria, the put rumours are spreading that folk ought to not misfortune about coronavirus in the event that they've had the BCG jab due to the it offers them immunity.

A WhatsApp message in Arabic says that if you've got got the spherical scar from the jab in your arm, you might maybe be "75% safe" in opposition to Covid-19.

Then all over again, the World Health Organizationsays there'll not be any such thing as a evidence that the BCG protects folks from Covid-19 infection.

The wisely being body says two clinical trials are below manner intelligent BCG, and when completed, their findings shall be evaluated by the WHO.

No topic the shortcoming of scientific evidence, world seek the term "BCG" has spiked, primarily based fully on Google.

The WHO is worried that increased demand of for the vaccine intention there shall be less of it on hand to inoculate teens in opposition to tuberculosis.

Linked fears cling additionally been voiced by suppliers in Japan, reporting a surge in demand of for the BCG vaccine.

Enlighten caption An illustration, broadcast on Iranian state TV, integrated no information to wait on up the theory in the wait on of the machine

Bbc news Iran's dodgy detector

The head of Iran's Modern Guard Corps (IRGC) unveiled a handheld machine this week which he claimed might maybe name folks contaminated with coronavirus - and even tainted surfaces - as much as a distance of 100m and interior five seconds.

The Physics Society of Iran described the announcement as "pseudoscience", "amazing" and on a par with "sci-fi tales".

The machine bears an uncanny resemblance to false bomb detector instruments sold by British fraudsters extra than a decade ago, all of which claimed to make employ of the same "electrostatic magnetic ion attraction".

The unreal bomb detectors had been in level of fact empty cases with an aerial which swings primarily based fully on the user's unconscious hand movements. They ended up in battle zones andhad been ragged by a chain of governments across the arena.

This most up-to-date machine has an almost a similar case and antenna.

Even the packaging, that might maybe be considered in a clip of it being unveiled on Iranian state TV, looks a similar.

Bbc news The virus wasn't created in a lab

A video revealed by the Epoch Times, that contains claims that the coronavirus used to be created in a laboratory, has been marked unsuitable on Facebook the put it has been watched almost 70 million times.

The gap feels love a slick and dramatic Netflix documentary - there is a flash and crack of a lightning streak followed by ominous tune.

The hour-prolonged video gains a theory about a lab in Wuhan growing the virus and leaking it, due to the sorrowful safety.

The BBC's science editor, Paul Rincon, says"there's in the meanwhile no evidence that any study institute in Wuhan used to be the source of Sars-CoV-2" (which causes Covid-19).

Scientific diagnosis of the evidence exhibits the virus came from animals, and used to be no longer man-made.

A look-reviewed witness in March stumbled on no evidence the coronavirus had been engineered, declaring that "it's a long way amazingthat SARS-CoV-2 emerged thru laboratory manipulation."

The video additionally refers to a witness from Indian researchers that claimed to search out four fresh sequences had been inserted into the fresh coronavirus, that were additionally contemporary in HIV, to signify the virus is man-made.

But that paper, by no intention glance-reviewed, used to be withdrawn by its authors. Andthe genetic information that it had matched is frequent in many replacement organisms.

"These sequences are so immediate that they match with many replacement organisms, no longer like minded HIV. It does now not mean they're associated," says Dr Jeremy Rossman, a virologist on the University of Kent.

Epoch Times, primarily based fully in New York City, used to be started by Chinese-Americans affiliatedwith a spiritual group called Falun Gong.

The positioning spent carefully on pro-Donald Trump Facebook adverts final year, reported NBC Info.

But in August Facebook banned it from doing away with extra ads for violating its insurance policies.

Bbc news Extra Bill Gates rumours

This weekBill Gates' criticism of Donald Trump's decision to quit funding for the WHOsparked a brand fresh wave of misinformation and speculation about Mr Gates.

It followed acquainted issues, such as criticising Mr Gates' give a take to for vaccines.

Extra than one posts resurfaced on Facebook claiming that a study institute funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation owns the patent on the coronavirus inflicting the fresh pandemic.

These claims are all fully unsubstantiated. The recommendation that Covid-19 is a human introduction subsidized by Bill Gates is unsuitable.

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Enlighten caption False claims that the virus is faux are spreading online

Bbc news The Covid pandemic will not be any longer false

The coronavirus pandemic is "false" and "the truth is a farce" is the claim of a holistic physician interviewed by Canal Monteria, a Colombian information channel. The video went up final month however has now been considered 18 million times and is peaceable being shared on Facebook, which is why we're addressing it now.

The claim is clearly unsuitable - coronavirus does exist.

The person in the video goes unchallenged and says that contemporary theories on viruses are all tainted, and recommends a video on YouTube that denies the existence of HIV to mark his level.

He does now not at any level command why folks are getting in sorrowful health.

Extra reporting by Plants Carmichael, Alma Hassoun, Marianna Spring, Olga Robinson, Reha Kansara, Shayan Sardarizadeh and Alistair Coleman.

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How Amazon Thrives On Being Misunderstood

What are Amazon’s greatest innovations? Drones? Cloud computing? Echo and Alexa? These are impressive; some are even revolutionary. However, I believe Amazon’s greatest innovations are the ones that have changed the basics of competing to the point where they now sound mundane.

My top list of greatest Amazon innovations includes Free Everyday Shipping, Prime Loyalty, and Item Authority. Deceptively simple, Item Authority signed up multiple sellers of the same item to increase item selection, availability, and price competition. It was the “killer feature” that led to Amazon overtaking eBay in the mid-2000s as the destination site for third-party sellers.

What are the common traits each of these innovations share, other than that they come from Amazon? For one, they are all customer experience and business model innovations. They are not really that technical. What they also have in common is the fact that incumbents and industry pundits woefully underestimated their impact on the industry and the bottom line. These innovations were implemented when Amazon was young, small, and neither respected nor feared by the industry the way it is now. Here are just a few examples:

“Amazon is pulling everyone into the gutter to play that [free shipping] game.” ~ Bob Schwartz, former president of Magento and founder of Nordstrom.com

“There’s many moments where a voice assistant is really beneficial, but that doesn’t mean you’d never want a screen. So the idea of [Amazon Echo] not having a screen, I don’t think suits many situations.” ~ Philip Schiller, senior vice president of worldwide marketing for Apple

“While recent stories and reports of a new entity competing with the three major carriers in the United States grab headlines, the reality is it would be a daunting task requiring tens of billions of dollars in capital and years to build sufficient scale and density to replicate existing networks like FedEx.” ~ Mike Glenn, executive vice president of FedEx

“We do not believe our vendors selling product directly on Amazon is an imminent threat. There is no indication that any of our vendors intend to sell premium athletic product, $100-plus sneakers that we offer, directly via that sort of distribution channel.” ~ Richard Johnson, CEO and chairman of Foot Locker

“When you think about the online versus the offline experience, we don’t need AI in our stores. We have ‘I.’ We have living, breathing, 4,500 style advisors in our stores.” ~ Marc Metrick, president of Saks Fifth Avenue

“What the hell is cloud computing? . . . I mean, it’s really just complete gibberish.” ~ Larry Ellison, executive chair and chief technology officer of Oracle

“I don’t really worry so much about [AWS], to be very blunt with you. We need to worry about ourselves. We’re in a great position.” ~ Mark Hurd, CEO of Oracle

All of these public statements from entrenched industry leaders remind me of the classic quote by Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, who in 1943 said, “I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.”

The most impactful and underappreciated aspect of innovation is challenging common and long-held assumptions about how things work. When you create an alternative to these assumptions, expect many doubters.

Being Misunderstood: The Best Sign Of Disruption

Over the years, as Amazon has upset the status quo and disrupted cozy business tradition after cozy business tradition with innovation, the establishment fought back with mockery and dismissals. In Jeff Bezos’s mind, this is being “misunderstood.” If you are going to innovate, you not only have to be willing to be misunderstood but you must also have a thick skin. To many of its competitors, Amazon makes no sense. “It’s the most befuddling, illogically sprawling, and—to a growing sea of competitors—flat-out terrifying company in the world.” If you aren’t upsetting someone, you likely are not disrupting much of anything:

“One thing that I learned within the first couple of years of starting a company is that inventing and pioneering involve a willingness to be misunderstood for long periods of time. One of the early examples of this is customer reviews. Someone wrote to me and said, “You don’t understand your business. You make money when you sell things. Why do you allow these negative customer reviews?” And when I read that letter, I thought, we don’t make money when we sell things. We make money when we help customers make purchase decisions.” ~ Jeff Bezos

Consider the feature Look Inside the Book. In 2001, Amazon launched this program based on a simple concept—the idea of emulating the bookstore experience by allowing Amazon surfers to look at the pages inside of a book before buying. Of course, this required Amazon to house book content in online form on the site, which raised some questions about whether this would expose book content to piracy. Publishers were worried and skeptical. The program would also be very costly. Each book would have to be scanned digitally and indexed, a huge logistical challenge.

Jeff gave the go-ahead for a large-scale launch, recognizing that this was the only way to see whether it would go over with Amazon’s then 43 million active customer accounts. The feature debuted with an astonishing 120,000-plus books. The database took up 20 terabytes, which was about 20 times larger than the biggest database that existed anywhere when Amazon was founded.

David Risher was Amazon’s first vice president of product and store development, responsible for growing the company’s revenue from $16 million to over $4 billion. He described the strategy behind the launch of Look Inside the Book this way: “If we had tried it in a tentative way on a small number of books, say 1,000 or 2,000, it wouldn’t have gotten the PR and the customers’ perception. There’s an X factor: What will it look like in scale? It’s a big investment, and a big opportunity cost. There’s a leap of faith. Jeff is willing to take those gambles.” Ultimately, the publishers embraced the Look Inside the Book program as an asset to sales.

The Value Of Critics

Anytime you do something big, that’s disruptive—Kindle, AWS—there will be critics. And there will be at least two kinds of critics. There will be well-meaning critics who genuinely misunderstand what you are doing or genuinely have a different opinion. And there will be the self-interested critics that have a vested interest in not liking what you are doing, and they will have reason to misunderstand. And you have to be willing to ignore both types of critics. You listen to them, because you want to see, always testing, is it possible they are right? But if you hold back and you say, “No, we believe in this vision,” then you just stay heads down, stay focused, and you build out your vision.

A current example of Amazon being willing to be “misunderstood” is its overall healthcare strategy. By partnering with Berkshire Hathaway and JP Morgan Chase to start the yet unnamed healthcare company headed by Atul Gawande, how will Amazon strive to change healthcare and insurance for their employees? Is their strategy to sell supplies to hospitals? Is it to integrate the PillPack acquisition into a Prime benefit and give customers cheaper prescription deliveries (along with a new book)? Or is it to transform the overall customer experience of healthcare and healthcare insurance and change the cost structure, which is a huge drain on both businesses and employees? Or is it something else? I doubt that Amazon will clarify this in the short-term, and I actually expect that they will add more healthcare investments to their portfolio.

There are two sides to “being misunderstood” to consider. The first is that if your goal is big innovation, in which the customer experience and business model are dramatically changed, then if established stakeholders are not being naysayers, you should be worried. The second side is in planning and preparing your stakeholders, such as investors and partners, for the negative reactions. Amazon, often through the annual shareholder letter, consistently reminds investors that Amazon will look for long-term business results, not sacrifice long-term value for short-term results, and it will be misunderstood, often. Are you willing to be misunderstood?

Questions To Consider

1. When was the last time you did something that benefited customers but upset the traditions of business?

2. What aspects of your customer experience would be different if you started over?

3. What business model innovations could be applied to your industry?

Contributed to Branding Strategy Insider by: John Rossman. Excerpted from his book, Think Like Amazon, 50 1/2 Ideas To Become A Digital Leader (McGraw-Hill)

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How Amazon Thrives On Being Misunderstood

What are Amazon’s greatest innovations? Drones? Cloud computing? Echo and Alexa? These are impressive; some are even revolutionary. However, I believe Amazon’s greatest innovations are the ones that have changed the basics of competing to the point where they now sound mundane.

My top list of greatest Amazon innovations includes Free Everyday Shipping, Prime Loyalty, and Item Authority. Deceptively simple, Item Authority signed up multiple sellers of the same item to increase item selection, availability, and price competition. It was the “killer feature” that led to Amazon overtaking eBay in the mid-2000s as the destination site for third-party sellers.

What are the common traits each of these innovations share, other than that they come from Amazon? For one, they are all customer experience and business model innovations. They are not really that technical. What they also have in common is the fact that incumbents and industry pundits woefully underestimated their impact on the industry and the bottom line. These innovations were implemented when Amazon was young, small, and neither respected nor feared by the industry the way it is now. Here are just a few examples:

“Amazon is pulling everyone into the gutter to play that [free shipping] game.” ~ Bob Schwartz, former president of Magento and founder of Nordstrom.com

“There’s many moments where a voice assistant is really beneficial, but that doesn’t mean you’d never want a screen. So the idea of [Amazon Echo] not having a screen, I don’t think suits many situations.” ~ Philip Schiller, senior vice president of worldwide marketing for Apple

“While recent stories and reports of a new entity competing with the three major carriers in the United States grab headlines, the reality is it would be a daunting task requiring tens of billions of dollars in capital and years to build sufficient scale and density to replicate existing networks like FedEx.” ~ Mike Glenn, executive vice president of FedEx

“We do not believe our vendors selling product directly on Amazon is an imminent threat. There is no indication that any of our vendors intend to sell premium athletic product, $100-plus sneakers that we offer, directly via that sort of distribution channel.” ~ Richard Johnson, CEO and chairman of Foot Locker

“When you think about the online versus the offline experience, we don’t need AI in our stores. We have ‘I.’ We have living, breathing, 4,500 style advisors in our stores.” ~ Marc Metrick, president of Saks Fifth Avenue

“What the hell is cloud computing? . . . I mean, it’s really just complete gibberish.” ~ Larry Ellison, executive chair and chief technology officer of Oracle

“I don’t really worry so much about [AWS], to be very blunt with you. We need to worry about ourselves. We’re in a great position.” ~ Mark Hurd, CEO of Oracle

All of these public statements from entrenched industry leaders remind me of the classic quote by Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, who in 1943 said, “I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.”

The most impactful and underappreciated aspect of innovation is challenging common and long-held assumptions about how things work. When you create an alternative to these assumptions, expect many doubters.

Being Misunderstood: The Best Sign Of Disruption

Over the years, as Amazon has upset the status quo and disrupted cozy business tradition after cozy business tradition with innovation, the establishment fought back with mockery and dismissals. In Jeff Bezos’s mind, this is being “misunderstood.” If you are going to innovate, you not only have to be willing to be misunderstood but you must also have a thick skin. To many of its competitors, Amazon makes no sense. “It’s the most befuddling, illogically sprawling, and—to a growing sea of competitors—flat-out terrifying company in the world.” If you aren’t upsetting someone, you likely are not disrupting much of anything:

“One thing that I learned within the first couple of years of starting a company is that inventing and pioneering involve a willingness to be misunderstood for long periods of time. One of the early examples of this is customer reviews. Someone wrote to me and said, “You don’t understand your business. You make money when you sell things. Why do you allow these negative customer reviews?” And when I read that letter, I thought, we don’t make money when we sell things. We make money when we help customers make purchase decisions.” ~ Jeff Bezos

Consider the feature Look Inside the Book. In 2001, Amazon launched this program based on a simple concept—the idea of emulating the bookstore experience by allowing Amazon surfers to look at the pages inside of a book before buying. Of course, this required Amazon to house book content in online form on the site, which raised some questions about whether this would expose book content to piracy. Publishers were worried and skeptical. The program would also be very costly. Each book would have to be scanned digitally and indexed, a huge logistical challenge.

Jeff gave the go-ahead for a large-scale launch, recognizing that this was the only way to see whether it would go over with Amazon’s then 43 million active customer accounts. The feature debuted with an astonishing 120,000-plus books. The database took up 20 terabytes, which was about 20 times larger than the biggest database that existed anywhere when Amazon was founded.

David Risher was Amazon’s first vice president of product and store development, responsible for growing the company’s revenue from $16 million to over $4 billion. He described the strategy behind the launch of Look Inside the Book this way: “If we had tried it in a tentative way on a small number of books, say 1,000 or 2,000, it wouldn’t have gotten the PR and the customers’ perception. There’s an X factor: What will it look like in scale? It’s a big investment, and a big opportunity cost. There’s a leap of faith. Jeff is willing to take those gambles.” Ultimately, the publishers embraced the Look Inside the Book program as an asset to sales.

The Value Of Critics

Anytime you do something big, that’s disruptive—Kindle, AWS—there will be critics. And there will be at least two kinds of critics. There will be well-meaning critics who genuinely misunderstand what you are doing or genuinely have a different opinion. And there will be the self-interested critics that have a vested interest in not liking what you are doing, and they will have reason to misunderstand. And you have to be willing to ignore both types of critics. You listen to them, because you want to see, always testing, is it possible they are right? But if you hold back and you say, “No, we believe in this vision,” then you just stay heads down, stay focused, and you build out your vision.

A current example of Amazon being willing to be “misunderstood” is its overall healthcare strategy. By partnering with Berkshire Hathaway and JP Morgan Chase to start the yet unnamed healthcare company headed by Atul Gawande, how will Amazon strive to change healthcare and insurance for their employees? Is their strategy to sell supplies to hospitals? Is it to integrate the PillPack acquisition into a Prime benefit and give customers cheaper prescription deliveries (along with a new book)? Or is it to transform the overall customer experience of healthcare and healthcare insurance and change the cost structure, which is a huge drain on both businesses and employees? Or is it something else? I doubt that Amazon will clarify this in the short-term, and I actually expect that they will add more healthcare investments to their portfolio.

There are two sides to “being misunderstood” to consider. The first is that if your goal is big innovation, in which the customer experience and business model are dramatically changed, then if established stakeholders are not being naysayers, you should be worried. The second side is in planning and preparing your stakeholders, such as investors and partners, for the negative reactions. Amazon, often through the annual shareholder letter, consistently reminds investors that Amazon will look for long-term business results, not sacrifice long-term value for short-term results, and it will be misunderstood, often. Are you willing to be misunderstood?

Questions To Consider

1. When was the last time you did something that benefited customers but upset the traditions of business?

2. What aspects of your customer experience would be different if you started over?

3. What business model innovations could be applied to your industry?

Contributed to Branding Strategy Insider by: John Rossman. Excerpted from his book, Think Like Amazon, 50 1/2 Ideas To Become A Digital Leader (McGraw-Hill)

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APA World Championships Enjoy Record Participation

LAKE SAINT LOUIS, MO (Aug. 27, 2018) — Back in August 2010, the APA National Team Championships set a Guinness World Record for the “World’s Largest Pool Tournament.”  It might be time to get the folks from Guinness on the phone again.

This year’s event, rebranded two years ago as the APA World Pool Championships to better reflect the global field, set a new record for participation with a whopping 2,361 teams, nearly 400 more than last year.  The championships were APA’s second major Vegas event following the Poolplayer Championships in April.

The more than 15,000 folks in attendance were treated to far more than they anticipated when they won their free trip to the championships during the World Qualifiers.

In addition to nearly round-the-clock tournament action for 10 straight days, APA members had the chance to rub elbows with the likes of “The Black Widow” Jeanette Lee, Internet Trick Shot Sensation Florian “Venom” Kohler and billiard Hall of Famer “Dr. Cue” Tom Rossman.  Other pro players spotted at the APA World Championships included Francisco Bustamante, Ewa Laurance, Corey Deuel, Vivian Villarreal and Mike Massey, just to name a few.

Competitors capped off the experience of a lifetime with APA’s always epic poolside bash at the Westgate pool overlooking the Vegas strip.

Throw in more than $1.2 Million in cash and it all added up to a party unlike any other.

In the 713-team 8-Ball World Championship, Sharktank of Owen Sound, Ont., defeated Biggelbach’s of Portland, Ore., in a nail-biter to take home $25,000 in cash and the championship title.  As Runners-Up, Biggelbach’s received $15,000 in prize money.  The 8-Ball World Championship can be viewed at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzCkInvuiaY.

Teams in the 8-Ball Championship squared-off in a modified single-elimination format that ensured each team played at least twice before elimination. All 8-Ball Division teams automatically received $350 in national qualifier money, and the top 8 teams won at least $5,000. The 8-Ball Division began play on Aug. 13 and concluded on Aug. 18.

Ladies 8-Ball Champions Chicks Ahoy of Newport News, VA

APA World 9-Ball Champions Anigons of Osaka, Japan

Team Captains Champions Q-Bert 222 of San Diego, CA

Jack & Jill 8-Ball Champions Stumble Inn J&J of Godly, IL

Masters Champions Hugh & the Hustlers of Wallingford, CT

APA World 8-Ball Champions Sharktank of Owen Sound, Ont.

In the 500-team 9-Ball World Championship, it was Anigons of Osaka, Japan, defeating Racks on the Rocks of Peoria, Ill., in the finals.  Anigons became the first team from Japan to secure a title at the APA World Championships since they began sending representatives in 2007. Anigons took home $15,000 in 1st Place prize money. As Runners-Up, Racks on the Rocks received $7,000 in cash.  The 9-Ball World Championship can be viewed at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIt5tuf6y6U.

The 9-Ball Championship was held Aug. 9-13, with each team competing in a modified single-elimination format that ensured each team played at least twice before elimination. All national qualifiers received a minimum of $350, with the top 8 teams winning at least $2,000.

After winning their divisions in weekly APA 8-Ball and 9-Ball League play and then placing in World Qualifiers throughout the United States, Canada and Japan, teams consisting of five to eight players, qualified to compete in the 2018 APA World Championships.

In the inaugural Team Captains Championship that included 380 teams, Q-Bert 222 of San Diego, Calif., defeated the Mizfits of Snohomish, Wash., to take home $10,000 in prize money.  As Runners-up, the Mizfits took home $5,000.  The Team Captains Championship can be viewed at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTZwejy6XZI.

The finals of the Masters Championship featured Hugh & the Hustlers of Wallingford, Conn., defeating Not MMMMMMKay of Houston, Texas.  Hugh & the Hustlers took home $10,000 in 1st Place prize money, while Not MMMMMMKay received $5,000 as Runner-Up in the 256-team event.  The Masters Championship can be viewed at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbgmw8yh-fg.

In the finals of the 256-team Ladies 8-Ball Championship, it was Chicks Ahoy of Newport News, Va., defeating Manny’s Angels of Edison, N.J., to win $10,000 in 1st Place prize money.  As Runners-Up, Manny’s Angels received $5,000 in cash.  The Ladies 8-Ball Championship can be viewed at https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=ofVcSFe6RTI.

In the Jack & Jill Doubles Championship, which also included 256 teams, it was Stumble Inn J&J of Godly, Ill., winning $3,500 in the finals with a victory over Last Minute of Fall River, Mass. Last Minute received $2,300 as Runner-Up.  The finals of the Jack & Jill Doubles Championship can be viewed at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOdowbsJ9tk.

Championship match coverage was provided free online courtesy of www.PoolDawg.com.

In addition, the APA conducted nearly round-the-clock MiniMania tournaments, which took place daily and were open to all APA members. The MiniMania tournaments offered multiple formats with 100% prize money payback that awarded nearly $260,000.

The APA, based in Lake Saint Louis, Mo., sanctions the world’s largest amateur pool league, with leagues throughout the United States, Canada and Japan.  Nearly 250,000 members compete in weekly 8-Ball and 9‑Ball League play.  The APA is generally recognized as the Governing Body of Amateur Pool, having established the official rules, championships, formats and handicap systems for the sport of amateur billiards.

The APA produces four major tournaments each year—the APA World Pool Championships, the APA Poolplayer Championships, the APA Junior Championships and the U.S. Amateur Championship—that, together, pay out nearly $2 Million in cash and prizes annually!

The APA and its championships are sponsored by Aramith, Action Cues and PoolDawg.

For more information on the APA World Pool Championships, visit the official APA website at www.poolplayers.com.

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Groups & Organizations Calendar: Feb. 6-10

Altrusa of Cowlitz County “Breakfast Bunch”: 7 a.m., The Corner Cafe, 796 Commerce Ave., Longview (located at the far end of the Fibre Federal Credit Union administration building); Debbie, 360-749-3786.

Cowlitz VFW Post No. 1045: 6 p.m. bingo, public welcome; kitchen opens at 5 p.m.; 4311 Ocean Beach Highway, Longview; under new management.

Early Words Toastmasters: 6:05 a.m., Canterbury Park, second floor community room; 1335 Third Ave., Longview; Robert Chace, 360-270-3681 or chace749@comcast.net.

Lewis and Clark Bowmen: 6 p.m., Longview Public Library, 1600 Louisiana St., Longview; Mike Vanderhorst, 360-723-3131.

Longview American Legion Post 155: 6 p.m., Texas Hold ‘Em; 1250 12th Ave., Longview; 360-425-3670.

Longview Early Edition Rotary: 7 a.m., the Carriage Restaurant, 1334 12th Ave., Longview; club secretary, 360-636-8267.

Longview, Kelso and Rainier Model Railroad Club: 7 p.m., Three Rivers Mall, southwest entrance, close to former Macy’s, first space on left, Kelso; call 360-425-0058 or email robert@whiffen.org; hours to see trains: Tuesdays, 4 p.m.-closing; Wednesdays and Thursdays, noon-closing; Fridays noon-6 p.m.; Saturdays, 1-5 p.m.; Sundays, noon-5 p.m.

Monticello Camera Club: 7 p.m., Somerset Retirement Apartments, 2025 Tibbetts Drive, Longview; Lisa Nathan, 360-747-7119.

Columbia Theatre for the Performing Arts Guild: 10 a.m., Columbia Theatre for the Performing Arts lobby, 1231 Vandercook Way, Longview; 360-423-1011.

Genealogical Research Assistance: 1-3 p.m., Longview Public Library, 1600 Louisiana St.; offered by the Lower Columbia Genealogical Society.

Kalama Garden Club: 11 a.m., various locations; contact Patti Sherwood at Pattisherwood@scattercreek.com or call 360-673-2809 for details; visitors welcome.

Kelso Eagles Bingo: 4:30 p.m., speed rounds; 6:30 p.m., regular games; payouts include one blackout with a value of $1,199 and other payouts of $25, $75 and $100; 609 S. Pacific Ave., Kelso; 360-425-8330; open to the public.

Longview American Legion Post 155: 5-7 p.m., Bingo and King of Clubs; 1250 12th Ave., Longview; 360-425-3670.

Longview/Kelso Earlybird Lions: 6 p.m., the Carriage Restaurant, 1334 12th Ave., Longview; visitors welcome; 360-430-1214.

Longview Eagles Aerie/Auxiliary: 7 p.m., 1526 12th Ave., Longview; Aerie president Mark Parcel and Auxiliary president Sandy Lynch, 360-425-1444.

National Active and Retired Federal Employees: 11:30 a.m. no-host lunch, Teri’s restaurant, 3225 Ocean Beach Highway, Longview; Marne, 360-430-4710; Tena, 360-425-4833.

Rotary Club of Longview: noon, Cowlitz Regional Conference Center, 1900 Seventh Ave., Longview; lunch is available; program or speaker each meeting; www.clubrunner.ca/longview-wa/.

Sons of Norway: 6-8 p.m., free Norwegian language class for beginners and more experienced speakers; snacks are welcome for the halftime break; 224 Catlin St. W., Kelso.

Altrusa International of Longview-Kelso: noon, CAP Building’s second floor Altrusa Room, 1526 Commerce Ave., Longview.

Encouraging Words Toastmasters No. 4777: 7-8:30 p.m., Canterbury Park, 1335 Third Ave., Longview; http://encouragingwordsclub.toastmastersclubs.org/.

Kelso-Longview Elks No. 1482: 5:30-6:30 p.m., lodge dinner; 7:30 p.m., lodge meeting; 900 Ash St., Kelso.

Kelso Rotary Club: noon, Kelso-Longview Elks Club, 900 Ash St., Kelso; Janet Cole, 360-423-6988.

Kiwanis Club of Kelso Longview: 11:45 a.m.-1 p.m., Kelso Senior Center, 106 N.W. Eighth Ave., Kelso; Liz Norgaard, 360-703-4633.

Longview Eagles: 7:15 p.m., Texas Hold ‘Em; 8 p.m.-midnight, karaoke, 1526 12th Ave., Longview; 360-425-1444; members and guests welcome.

Lower Columbia Genealogical Society: 7 p.m., "Preservation of Documents" by Tracy Rebstock; Somerset Retirement Apartments, 2025 Tibbetts Drive, Longview; www.rootsweb.com/~walcolgs; locoges472@gmail.com.

Pythian Sisters: 1-3 p.m., Woman’s Club, 206 Cowlitz Ave. S, Castle Rock; Judy Colt, 360-577-0547; new members welcome.

Kelso Eagles Bingo: 4:30 p.m., speed rounds; 6:30 p.m., regular games; payouts include one blackout with a value of $1,199 and other payouts of $25, $75 and $100; 609 S. Pacific Ave., Kelso; 360-425-8330; open to the public.

Longview American Legion Post 155: 11 a.m.-2 p.m., lunch; 5 p.m., military races and dinner; 7:30 p.m., live music; 1250 12th Ave., Longview; 360-425-3670.

Lower Columbia Branch 363 Fleet Reserve Association: 6:30 p.m. potluck, 7:30 p.m. meeting; VFW Post No. 1045, 4311 Ocean Beach Highway, Longview; Ray Hegr, 360-425-6981.

People First of Cowlitz County: 12:30-2 p.m., Zojo’s, 931 Ocean Beach Highway, Longview; Dawn Hutton, 360-261-1053; Michael Rossman, 360-298-5296.

R Square D Square Dance Club: 7 p.m., Plus; 8-10 p.m., Mainstream with rounds; Craig Abercrombie calling, Lonnie Sycks cueing; Kelso Senior Center, 106 N.W. Eighth Ave., Kelso; 360-425-0583; www.r-square-d.info.

Brothers of the Third Wheel Triker Motorcycle Chapter: 10 a.m., Hometown Buffet, 7809-B N.E. Vancouver Plaza Drive, Vancouver; https://btw-trikers.org/.

Cowlitz Gun Club: 10 a.m., 869 S. Military Road, Winlock; games and practice traps; Joe Morgan, 360-748-8098; open to the public.

Cowlitz VFW Post No. 1045 Ladies Auxiliary: 9-11 a.m. breakfast for veterans, their families and guests; eggs, sausage links, French toast, pancakes, biscuits and gravy, optional toast, coffee and orange juice; 4311 Ocean Beach Highway, Longview; Kathe Schaffran, 360-577-2592 or 360-200-3806; Sandy, 360-578-2979.

Mary Richardson Walker Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution: 11 a.m., Canterbury Park, second floor, 1335 Third Ave., Longview.

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Al BERNSTEIN: CHICAGO RETURN IS SPECIAL

Hall of Fame #Boxing Broadcaster Al Bernstein, a Chicago native, will return to the Chicago area to call fights for television for the first time in almost two decades on Friday September 15 when he announces the “Rosemont Rumble: Going For 20-0” card  on CBS Sports Network. The card features undefeated light heavyweight Mike Lee seeking his 20th win against Anthony Quattrocchi (10-1-1). The telecast begins at 10 p.m. ET/7 p.m. PT.

Bernstein, a Chicago native now living in Las Vegas, said, “It has been a long time since I have been in Chicago to announce fights on TV. The Chicago boxing scene has remained vibrant with Bobby Hitz Promotions as its main caretaker. and I am happy to be a part of that. For this evening Bobby joins forces with Round 3 Promotions  for what I expect to be a really good card.” He added, “My broadcasting career started in 1980 when ESPN televised many great cards in Chicago featuring fighters like James “Quick” Tillis, Mike Rossman and Johnny Lira. It was exciting for me to call those fights and I expect to have just as much fun announcing the Rosemont Rumble Friday, September 15.” Al will be joined on the telecast by his SHOWTIME Network partner Paulie Malignaggi and Ray Flores.

For more information on the event and or to obtain tickets log on to www.HitzBoxing.com.    

IN OTHER NEWS:

Long a participant in Equestrian events, like the Ben Johnson Celebrity Rodeos, Al Bernstein will put on his Cowboy hat and serve as emcee on Saturday, October 21, when Barbara Callihan, owner of the Happy Hoofbeats Equestrian Center, presents the grand opening of the HHB Equestrian Trail Park of Southern Nevada. This is the southwest’s only IMTCA sanctioned Extreme Trail Riding course and center.  Al said, “I have spent many years riding my horses at Barbara’s equestrian center as she helped me prepare for events and helped me simply enjoy being a horseman. She has been a major force in Nevada’s Equine world. I have been emcee for many major events all over there world over the years, none more enjoyable to me than this one.”  For more information on the event activities go to www.happyhoofbeats.com.

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Mike Wieger joins me again for some chat about a Windows 10 switch over for Plex, John Rossman interview from Infotec 2017 about DHL package delivery to your car and more!  https://theaverageguy.tv/hgg307

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