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SA is for Silly-Arses!
B is for Bladder-ball!
K is for Kaserne
G is for Google-pub!
P is for People to Populate the Pitch-side, Photog...
A is for Adolph...the other one!
A is for Adolf...Peter Adolf
U is for Updates
Except they weren't actually silly in real life were they? But this lot look really silly...
...in fact they look like they're playing hump-backed bridges!
Years ago when we were little and Britain only had one motorway (unimaginatively called the M1), we used to have to travel to Wales 'cross-country', and at the Hampshire/Berkshire end of the journey was a road somewhere round the back of Reading (I think?) which we used to use to get across to the old A4 'West Road', it was called Seven Bridges Road, or eleven...twelve maybe? Anyway - the bridges were all little culvert/stream types of the hump-backed variety. Our Father would announce our arrival at the start of the section and we would count-off the bridges as he drove over them a bit too fast, leading to squeals of delight from my Brother and I as our little bums (we were between 4/5 to about 7/8 during this period) left the seat, sometimes we would hit the roof of the car with our heads!
But the point of this anecdote it that in order to become airborne, you had to hold your arms out, as if they were anchored to the window or seat, the effect was greatly reduced, a lesson our little SA-men here seem to have learnt. Once you realise they are playing hump-backed bridges, you can't take them seriously! "Yetz Hans, schnell, schnell....Whoooooaaowh! Wieder Hans, wieder!
The other accessories that came with the little wooden craft-work figures and buildings from Bavaria and Baden Wurttemberg (among other places) that I have been interposing with the Subbuteo posts (and the only reason I forced myself to get the last of those published earlier). I suspect the card table was liberated from a set of dolls furniture, due to the size of the playing cards, while the cook's tent is lovely, both the tent and the staff-car are from the smaller (20mm) figures, and the staff-car - while being taller, otherwise sits quite well with the Hasegawa Mercedes.
Labels: 25mm, AFV; Staff Car, AFV's, Craft-work, Erzgebirge, German, Make; German, Nazi, S, SA, Scenic, Wood
I posted these about 10 days ago and have tried to text them several times with little success, I managed to get the tag-list done about Monday and gave it a title last weekend, but each time I open 'edit' I look at these and get that sinking feeling; "Why did I ever start this?". Well, I know why I started blogging; to share what I know and hopefully learn a bit from visitors, but the thing is, I really don't like football, it does nothing for me and the overpaid Prima Donnas who partake at a professional level just annoy me.
Therefore, getting enthusiastic about something that leaves me quite cold is not going to happen, so little chat tonight, just the facts. I understand that some people love football, and if they want to add anything to the post via the comments, that might help the casual visitor...I don't hate football, I just never 'got it'!
Given away with Yorkie chocolate-bar branded Easter-eggs in the last few years; Hasbro's return to flats. The dates I bought them/that are displayed on the packaging are at odds with those on Peter Upton's site, I don't know why.
"Kar'm-on yoouu reh'heads...and...ah'ther kull'urs", the reds are arranged from earliest phenolic-based figures to late tampo-printed team-specific strips.
I can recognise some of them, the German National team particularly, as I always root for them when they play a UK team! What? I'm a stubbornly contrary near-professional iconoclast and half-German, it's begging to be done!
Goal keepers and throwers-in, various, ball handling for the use of, Mk's 1 - 4!
There, that's the players done, now go back and look at the pitch-side figures they're much more useful for crowd scenes, model railways and zombie war-gmaes, these figures kick a bladder about...Right! Sgt. Major - kicking a ball up and down the PITCH!
Labels: 1:76 - 1:72, B, Civilian, Football, Hasbro, Make; British, Minimodels, Plymr - Cellulose-Acetate, Plymr - Styrene, Sportsmen, Stadden, Subbuteo, Table Football, Waddington's, Yorkie
Well, you've got your little wooden SA and SS men, the Fett Kontroller and a young Parker..."Yawol mine Dame, schnell-maken mine dame" (the grey one in the last post?), now they need somewhere to live...soldiers live in barracks, so they too made up the little miniature world of worked pine and other woods.
The Stabswache or 'Staff Guard' were Hitler's personal bodyguard, some eight or so Loyal SA men, soon renamed the Stosstruppe 'Adolf Hitler' they would eventually become the 1st SS Panzer Division 'Leibstandart'. The fact that this little watch-post - Soldatenheim/Soldatenhaus - is named after the short-lived moniker of a unit from the early days of the Beer-hall Putsch, shows how popular the mythology of the National Socialists had become, and might date it to the earlier 1930's?.
A larger building, in the Wilhelmine (Wilhelmian?) style (contemporaneous with Victorian architecture). Very much in the typical urban style as against the old rural/market town's city-wall post/watch-tower of the previous shot; the barrack blocks we lived in at Wavell Barracks, Berlin were very similar to this one, but had longer wings and four stories, one in the high-pitched roof.
Apart from the Swastika's these buildings can't really be regarded as 'sinister', they are in fact rather charming, and would have been available without the hakenkreuz stencil with other wooden sets, perhaps with May-pole dancing villagers, traditional 'toy' soldiers (think Nutcracker suite!) or lederhozen sporting Oompa-bands. Indeed - as we saw here - Not Necessarily Erzgibirge; the little tower on the SA-Heim still features on these toys today, and often finished in a herb-green!
Labels: 30mm, 35mm, Building, Craft-work, Erzgebirge, German, K, Make; German, Nazi, NTS - Architecture, SA, Scenic, Wood
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P is for People to Populate the Pitch-side, Photograph and Pander to Prima Donna Players
The real reason a 'toy soldier' collector starts collecting Subbuteo, is that a lot of the figures designed to add realism - as 'backgrownd' - around the pitch-side have use as civilians in war-games, or; because they are a hard styrene plastic - useful conversion fodder. So this post is a brief overview of the non-playing figures from Mr Adolf's little empire...
The first thing you need at a football match is a bunch of people to watch it! Strangely, given that they first appeared during the days of hooliganism so apply commented-on by the cartoonist Giles, throughout my childhood; these five poses included a woman, a rare visitor to the shores of 1970's football terraces!
Originally sold in little sets of ten factory painted (out-painted!) figures as five pairs, the second of each pair having a vaguely reversed or contrasting colour scheme. later they were issued as 50 unpainted castings (middle bottom). Top left shows the results of allowing Subbuteo fans to play with modelling paint!! Bottom left shows the slightly translucent plastic of late issues on the right of the two girls.
Photographers and film crews are a common sight at all sporting events and featured strongly in the Subbuteo world,with a set of Cameramen a mobile film crew with satellite links and a TV camera and a static TV camera on a scaffold tower with a reporter and monitor on the lower level.
The two TV sets would be combined into one set which I've illustrated bottom right. It should also be noted that the scaffold tower is similar if not a virtually identical scale-down to the larger model made by Mini-Models (bought by Rovex-Triang) for the Scalextric slot-racing system in 1:32.
It was the purchase of Scalextric that brought the Mini-Models Havent Plant to Tri-ang and so to all the links with Stadden-designed figures in a similar unpainted or matt paint, hard plastic, disc-based style going to Tri-ang, Hornby, Subbuteo, Omnia, Dinky, Waddington's, Almark and others. Stadden also designed the figures for Scalextric.
The St. John Ambulance organisation have traditionally provided first aid cover at football matches and they also star in the pitch-side accessory range. The first set seem to have been designed by Nibblett and bear an uncanny resemblance to the stretcher-teams in the Airfix first version German Infantry and Combat Group sets, the stretcher itself being almost identical. I will eventually post comparison pictures on both those listing on the Airfix Blog.
They were replaced with a chunkier set from the hand of Stadden, who - a few years later - produced a third version (green bases above) with standing holding folded stretcher and kneeling seeing to a casualty I haven't tracked down yet. The first and second versions came with two helmeted Policemen one pointing (also missing), when the last version came out a separate set of Police officers with a mounted officer and a motorcycle cop were introduced. this time the standing and pointing poses had flat peaked 'service' caps instead of the helmets.
The previously separate sets of ball-boys, photographers and Police were brought together in the Waddington's years and are shown with their packaging in the upper shot.
The middle picture shows various Stadden officials (referee and two linesmen) with a broken skinny replacement figure from the 'Zombie' years (keep up, you're supposed to have visited Peter Upton's site after the last post and have a grasp of all this!).
The lower image is of the bench staff who should be in the shelter below. This was the last version of this essential pitch-side populator, with the manager holding his head in his hands, it's clearly not going well for one team! They are sitting on a mid-period card team-box liner, watching their team-mate 'warm up'.
The rest of the bench staff sets; the first version (top left) was quite literally a bench and for years I thought these figures (for those 'years' placed in the unknown seated and drivers box) might be Hasegawa due to the similarity between the US troops in that manufacturer's American half-track kits and the blousing of the track-suit legs on these guys! Also I wonder if these first ones are not Stadden's designs? They also came with a figure of 'Ken Baily' the unofficial mascot of 'National Squad' games when I was a kid, differing from the one illustrated below, he was holding the rattle in the other hand.
Below them is the second version, with the later design of Ken Baily, and two Stadden designed substitutes. while to the right - above a colour variation shot - is the third version with a new rain-proof shelter and a combination of previously available poses, it also came with the substitutes in blue.
So - all we're missing now is players...
Labels: 1:76 - 1:72, Civilian, Football, Make; British, Minimodels, P, Plymr - Styrene, Police, Sportsmen, Stadden, Subbuteo, Table Football, Waddington's
As well as things like the 1936 Olympic trinket we looked at here the craft wood-carvers of Southern Germany (and Austria) had also been busy since the accession of the National Socialists making more everyday toys or run-of-the-mill mementos.
Just as today these would have come in all shapes and sizes and would have featured various themes and subjects. The collection from which the Olympic item came from also contained a number of these, and today we'll look at the figures.
The smallest figures here are a pretty perfect 20mm while the largest (grey chap and the all-black) are 40mm with the chap in what appears to be an Allgemeine-SS 'Coffee Can' Hat (second from the right in the main image) being around 35mm.
With regard to the figure on the right...now we know where the Fat Controller cut his teeth! "Thomas!"
The 20mm musicians (upper picture) are really quite amusing as they have all had their hair painted in such a way as to resemble a cloned band of Adolph Hitler mimi-me's!! While the larger figures in the lower shot are from several sources and vary from 30 to 35mm and carry with them a variety of base types/shapes.
The two guys in SA uniform (all brown) are vastly outnumbered by SS bandsmen (black shakos and trousers), whether this is because the SA-men were quietly dumped after the Night of the Long Knives, or that SS genuinely sold in larger quantities is not clear due to the small sample, but it makes you think - at the time of the putsch there were around 3 million SA-men and considerably less than a million SS!
Labels: 25mm, 30mm, 35mm, 40mm, A, Band, Craft-work, Erzgebirge, German, Make; German, Nazi, SA, Wood
Firstly; anyone with a serious interest in Subbuteo can do no worse (indeed - no better) than visit this website;
Peter Upton's Subbuteo Tribute Pages
It is very well layed-out and about as clear to follow as such a complicated subject can be, and illustrates just about everything!
As to this post and the few that will follow over the next few days/weeks; My 'collection' of Subbuteo is really no more than a sample, based on occasional car-boot purchases and the odd figures that come-in with mixed lots of military or railway 'small scales'.
The only major purchase in support of the 'sample' was a recent buy of an early red box set, which had four of the plastic flat sets and a few other bits and pieces. These are the four sets, the two nearer the viewer being those probably sold with the set (a standard 'red' and 'blue' team) while the two white sets (for home painting, or felt-tipping!) were additional purchases, they have gold and black bases, which you probably stated when ordering the teams (?) Peter Upton's site will have the answer, I'm just not THAT worried!!
There is a difference between the box-set supplied goalkeepers and the other two goalies, in that one pair have long sleeved jumpers the other couple have short sleeved football shirts. Little sheets of stickers have been used to place numbers on the backs of the players, while another sheet provided positional stickers for the base, none of the teams were complete and a few stickers were loose in the bag, which is how they all came to be lined-up as they are in the photo - it was my needing to sort them into something that made sense!
The positions given are;
LB = Left Back
RB = Right Back
LH = Left Half
RH = Right Half
CH = Centre Half
OL = Outside Left
OR = Outside Right
IL = Inside Left
IR = Inside Right
CF = Centre-forward
There appears to be no sticker for the goalkeeper, but he is rather obvious!
I already had some of the card figures, their goalies have the long sleeves so I assume that was the earlier pattern, with the shirt coming later. As can be seen in the photograph - the blue bases had deteriorated in the bag (as had the green one) somthing Peter comments on, this would seem to be due to a colour additive rather than the mateial, as the red and yellow bases (and the black and gold ones) seem unaffected. Although the later two may be a more stable styrene rather than the phenolic plastic of the very early ones.
It causes the base to shrink as the material leeches-out, which means the figures fall out of their widened slot, in the case of the card figures that is, the plastic figures just melt from the flange up, they've already lost their feet!
The box also contained two goals made of knotted cotton/button-thread nets in a box-matching maroon and wire posts with plastic tube sleeves. The dates of the various bits of ephemera that also came with the set don't all match the date of the set, so some of the paperwork shown here was added to the pile at a latter date. I already had the large colour fold-out poster/order from from the mid-1970's, an early B&W list and a late '80's order form, so on the ephemera front I'm well equipped! I did start trying to make a complete list of the teams available, but once I'd found Peter's site I realised it was a task akin to cleaning the Augean stables...and somebody else was already making a better job of it!
I was once involved in a mad argument on a forum with a chap who decided he was the hobbies answer to historical researching despite being an obvious newbie and having a collection best described (at the time - its improved now) as several damaged, brown-box, Airfix 1:32 stuffed under a model railway board with a Subbuteo set-up inside the track layout.
Now while he was actually refusing to believe the US price code thing on Airfix boxes (I know!), he also - as part of one of his logically-twisted diatribes - suggested no one knew the history of Subbuteo either...well, there is plenty of ephemera, several really good websites and tons of supporting evidence for the history of Subbuteo and I'll try to get a separate set of links up down by the paper/card link-list on the left-hand side of the page.
Labels: 1:76 - 1:72, A, Civilian, Flats, Football, Make; British, Plymr - Celluloid, Plymr - Cellulose-Acetate, Plymr - Styrene, Sportsmen, Stadden, Subbuteo, Table Football, Waddington's
I have updated two recent posts with new information kindly received from Andrew Stadden;
Charles Stadden
and a new picture confirming Brian Carrick's report of 'copies' taken from the Ƒlan Imperial mouldings;


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Flowood és una població dels Estats Units a l'estat de Mississipí. Segons el cens del 2000 tenia una població de 4.750 habitants.

Demografia
Segons el cens del 2000, Flowood tenia 4.750 habitants, 2.130 habitatges, i 1.145 famílies. La densitat de població era de 112,7 habitants per km².

Dels 2.130 habitatges en un 29% hi vivien nens de menys de 18 anys, en un 39,8% hi vivien parelles casades, en un 10,5% dones solteres, i en un 46,2% no eren unitats familiars. En el 35% dels habitatges hi vivien persones soles el 3,1% de les quals corresponia a persones de 65 anys o més que vivien soles. El nombre mitjà de persones vivint en cada habitatge era de 2,23 i el nombre mitjà de persones que vivien en cada família era de 2,99.

Per edats la població es repartia de la següent manera: un 23,5% tenia menys de 18 anys, un 16,1% entre 18 i 24, un 41% entre 25 i 44, un 15,1% de 45 a 60 i un 4,4% 65 anys o més.

L'edat mediana era de 29 anys. Per cada 100 dones de 18 o més anys hi havia 92 homes.

La renda mediana per habitatge era de 40.333 $ i la renda mediana per família de 49.767 $. Els homes tenien una renda mediana de 37.500 $ mentre que les dones 29.773 $. La renda per capita de la població era de 21.875 $. Entorn del 10,3% de les famílies i el 13,9% de la població estaven per davall del llindar de pobresa.

Poblacions més properes
El següent diagrama mostra les poblacions més properes.

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Entitats de població de Mississipí

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Watch: Donald Glover in Childish Gambino's 'Chicken & Futility' Short
Source: Complex
"Yo, it's Sunday…!" Here's the perfect bit of evening entertainment for Sunday, courtesy of a new short film by Childish Gambino, aka Donald Glover. The short is titled Chicken and Futility and comes direct from a big Complex mag interview and feature he's a part of. It's a fun little short where Glover, and a few of his friends, are discussing weed, a moth's existence, Chick-fil-A and more while playing video games one Sunday. Childish Gambino's last album, Because the Internet, was released in December and he has been touring nationwide with concerts/shows as well. It's a fun short film to keep promoting Childish Gambino.
The short was posted by Complex, where they've also featured an in-depth interview with Donald Glover, the man behind Childish Gambino. "I want to show how the Internet affects our lives," Glover told Complex. "As much as everyone can find someone on the Internet now, we still feel lost. I still feel very empty. It makes me feel more lost because nothing that I do is that different. Nothing is cool. We're kind of alone in the universe. Like those Instagram notes I shared. We all feel these things, but nobody's figured out how to solve them." Cool quote from the interview. What did you think of this short? And his album?
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While ETHUSD had been following a bullish sentiment for the past two weeks as ETHBTC remains in a side-way trend; waiting for a price break. However, Ethereum's value had appreciated by 50% plus since trade opens for the year 2019. As of now, the token is trading at around $138 price level.
For the past two weeks, Ethereum has been trading within the range of an ascending channel; recording a monthly low at $125. After touching $145 at the upper channel last week, ETH is now on a slow retracement to test the lower channel as the token remains in the middle of consolidation since Monday. Currently, a bearish move is reflected on the 4-hours MACD as signal nears zero level.
While consolidating, the market could possibly experience surge volatility. A bearish move is likely to send price to $134 support, where the lower channel lies. A further drive on this support might drop the token to $128 and below. However, a bullish move is expected to hit $148 resistance, touching the upper channel. A channel break-up would shoot price at $156 and beyond. Nevertheless, Ethereum is following a steady upward direction – a sign of bullish sentiment.
Following late February enormous sell, Ethereum has been moving in a symmetry triangle pattern as the market nears the lower trend line. As revealed on the medium-term chart, the price action appears smaller due to low price volatility. The trading pressure is reaching the angle of the triangle; signaling a potential price surge. The 4-hours MACD revealed the scenario.
If Ethereum breaks the triangle, an upward movement might climb price to the next resistance at 0.036 SAT and beyond. A downward move, however, is more likely to sink price to 0.0335 SAT support and beyond in a concurrent move.
At the moment, ETH still remains in a side-way trend. A significant play out is expected to take the token to the next phase.


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WPH closed out the IRHA season at the Noel Skinner reining classic held in Salina Utah.
All of our horses and students did great!
taking home checks in all 4 divisions of the Non Pro Futurity at the RMRHA Summer Slide in Denver this week. Great Job showing your first Futurity horse!


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Rob Barnett, co-author of "The Economists' Diet,"before and after losing 75 pounds in 18 months.
Christopher Payne and Rob Barnett are the authors of "The Economists' Diet."
In the book, they argue that, if you're trying to lose weight, you need to step on the scale every day. Their argument is supported by some recent research.
The way Christopher Payne sees it, when you're trying to lose weight, "You're basically a scientist of your own body."
Payne is the author, along with Rob Barnett, of the book "The Economists' Diet: The Surprising Formula for Losing Weight and Keeping It Off," in which they teach readers how to use fundamental economic principles to shed pounds, just like they did.
Results showed that participants who weighed themselves daily and received visual feedback about their weight trajectories lost more weight than participants who didn't weight themselves as frequently.
The first group was also better able to maintain the weight loss. And it didn't matter how exactly the participants went about trying to lose weight.
Interestingly, men in the study lost significantly more weight than women did - though the researchers can't explain why.
It's unclear exactly why weighing yourself every day may help with weight loss. In a statement, a co-author of the 2015 study said, "We think the scale also acts as a priming mechanism, making you conscious of food and enabling you to make choices that are consistent with your weight."
Moran Cerf, a professor of business and neuroscience at Northwestern University who has been studying decision-making for over a decade, told Business Insider's Chris Weller that people should weigh themselves just once a week. Your weight can fluctuate by a few pounds every day, Cerf said, and stepping on the scale so often can cause confusion.
One dietitian told USA Today she didn't recommend daily weigh-ins for most clients.
"You can get lost in those numbers and start to identify your self-worth with what's on the scale," she said.
Payne said it's similar, but "much more simplistic." In this case, all you're tracking is your weight - not how many steps you take, or how many calories you ingest, or anything else.
Barnett argued that if your weight is what you're trying to control, that's the only thing you should keep tabs on.
He also addressed the emotional piece of weighing yourself so often. When he was at his peak weight - about 250 pounds - he said, "I didn't want to know the number."
"Your obesity - or lack thereof - it's not a secret to anyone," he said. "You should get acquainted with that number."
He added: "It really is a life-changing thing to add this to your daily routine."


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Here's What Ex-NFL Star Phillip Adams' Dad Thinks Could Have Triggered His Son's Mass Shooting
By Olawale
https://news.amomama.com/258813-heres-what-ex-nfl-star-phillip-adams-dad.html
Ex NFL player Phillip Adams' dad, Alonzo Adams, has come out to share his take on what might have caused his late son to gun down five people before turning the weapon on himself.
Late NFL star Phillip Adams was involved in a mass shooting where he killed five people before gunning himself down. His father, Alonzo Adams, has come forward to share his thoughts on the tragic incident.
Alonzo made it known that his son was a good kid who didn't go out of his way to hurt people or upset anyone. He added that Phillip, who died at 32, was easy-going.
Image of a crime scene | Photo: Shutterstock
The grieving father relayed that Phillip's career must have been a factor in him going through a breakdown. Through Phillip's health history, it was reported that he suffered two concussions in past times.
Phillip's father continued and mentioned that he knew some of the victims while sharing his heartfelt condolences. Alonzo added that his family was praying for the loved ones of the lives that were lost.
Phillip Adams of the San Francisco 49ers poses for his NFL headshot circa 2011 | Getty Images
Phillip had taken his life and that of five other people, including prominent Dr. Robert Lesslie, and his wife, Barbara Lesslie. The shooting occurred in York County in South Carolina.
A close friend of Dr. Lesslie revealed that the deadly attack happened because he stopped giving Phillip medication.
The sports star who graduated from South Carolina State University played college football and was well-recognized. He went on to play professionally in the NFL and was in several NFL clubs.
Phillip's career spanned six seasons in which he moved through clubs like the Seahawks, Patriots, and the 49ers, where he was originally the seventh-round draft pick.
The late star endured a persistent ankle injury while at San Francisco, but his milestones were recorded as thirteen tackles in fifteen games, including one pass deflection. In the 2012 NFL season, Phillip's football career was more stable.
Before Dr. Lesslie's passing, he was Phillip's doctor, and he had stopped administering medications for the late player a few weeks before the mass shooting.
During the shooting incident, Phillip killed the doctor, his wife and two grandchildren, Adah and Noah Lesslie. A close friend of Dr. Lesslie revealed that the deadly attack happened because he stopped giving Phillip medication.
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WCNC: NFL Pro Phillip Adams Murdered 5 People, Including 2 Children & Then Killed Himself
South Carolina Mass Shooting: 911 Caller Describes His Conversation with One of the Victims
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Mass Shooting Inside a South Carolina Home Kills a Doctor, His Wife and Their Two Grandkids
The fifth victim of the shooting has been identified as James Lewis. He was said to have been working on the Lesslie's property when Phillip shot him.
The sixth person is Robert Shook who is at the hospital in critical condition. Reports showed that he underwent multiple surgeries following the mass shooting.
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in this age of the internet.
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fighting for the same time with your audience.
So what I do is create the flash and sparkle for videos I am working on.
Knowing that I only get a minute to get your attention I will give you just that.
This is my latest promo for the new project I am Directing.


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Trump says he may not accept election result, in challenge to U.S. democracy
LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Republican candidate Donald Trump on Wednesday would not commit to accepting the outcome of the Nov. 8 U.S. presidential election if he loses, challenging a cornerstone of American democracy and sending shockwaves across the...
Republican U.S. presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks as Democratic U.S. presidential nominee Hillary Clinton listens during their third and final 2016 presidential campaign debate at UNLV in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S., October 19, 2016. REUTERS/Mark Ralston/Pool
LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Republican candidate Donald Trump on Wednesday would not commit to accepting the outcome of the Nov. 8 U.S. presidential election if he loses, challenging a cornerstone of American democracy and sending shockwaves across the political spectrum.
Trump's refusal, which his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton called "horrifying," was the standout remark of their third and final debate and ratcheted up claims he has made for weeks that the election was rigged against him.
Asked by moderator Chris Wallace whether Trump would not commit to a peaceful transition of power, the businessman-turned-politician replied: "What I'm saying is that I will tell you at the time. I'll keep you in suspense. Ok?"
"What I'm saying is that I will tell you at the time. I'll keep you in suspense. Ok?" - Donald Trump
Trump's statement may appeal to his anti-establishment followers, but it was unlikely to reverse opinion polls that show him losing, including in key states that will decide the election.
"That is not the way our democracy works," Clinton said during the debate. "We've been around for 240 years. We've had free and fair elections. We've accepted the outcomes when we may not have liked them. And that is what must be expected of anyone standing on a debate stage during a general election."
"That is not the way our democracy works. We've been around for 240 years. We've had free and fair elections. We've accepted the outcomes when we may not have liked them." - Hillary Clinton
Later she told reporters: "What he said tonight is part of his whole effort to blame somebody else for where he is in his campaign."
A CNN/ORC snap poll said 52 percent thought Clinton, the former U.S. secretary of state, won the debate while 39 percent said Trump, a former reality TV star making his first run at public office, was the victor.
In financial markets Mexico's peso currency, seen as a measure of Trump's prospects, rose to its highest level in six weeks at the end of the debate, suggesting growing investor confidence of a Clinton victory. Trump has vowed to build a wall on the border with Mexico to keep out illegal immigrants and has said he would make Mexico pay for it.
REPUBLICANS VOICE CONCERN
Mainstream Republicans were quick to denounce the comment. U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham, a former Republican presidential candidate who has never warmed to Trump, said: "If he loses, it will not be because the system is 'rigged' but because he failed as a candidate."
Neoconservative Bill Kristol, editor of The Weekly Standard political magazine, tweeted: "I deplore what Trump said and refused to say about accepting the election results. Confirms one's judgment he shouldn't be president."
Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway on Thursday defended the comment in a round of television interviews, saying he was "putting people on notice" about voting irregularities.
"We'll have to see what happens," she told ABC News, adding that Trump "was willing to accept the election absent widespread fraud."
U.S. Representative Tom Marino, a Pennsylvania Republican and early Trump supporter, likened it to a television show style "tease" in a National Public Radio interview on Thursday.
Trump's running mate, vice presidential nominee Mike Pence, said Trump "will accept the outcome" because he is going to win.
But Republican strategist Ryan Williams found Trump's statement "deeply concerning."
"You have to accept the results of the election unless there are grounds for a recount and at this point it does not appear that we're heading for a close election," he said.
Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine, in a series of TV interviews on Thursday, blasted Trump's stance as "shocking" and a threat to American democracy.
'A NASTY WOMAN'
In a debate that for the first time focused more on policy than character, the two candidates nonetheless lashed out at each other.
Trump, 70, called Clinton "such a nasty woman," accused her campaign of orchestrating a series of accusations by women who said the businessman made unwanted sexual advances and said that both she and President Barack Obama, her fellow Democrat, were behind disturbances at his rallies.
He said the Clinton Foundation was a criminal enterprise and as a result she should not have been allowed to seek the presidency.
Clinton, 68, said Trump himself had incited violence, belittled women and posed a danger to the United States. She said Trump had in the past also complained that his TV show was unjustly denied a U.S. television Emmy award.
"I should have gotten it," Trump retorted.
Trump said all of the stories of sexual misdeeds were "totally false" and suggested Clinton was behind the charges. He called her campaign "sleazy" and said, "Nobody has more respect for women than I do, nobody."
Clinton said the women came forward after Trump said in the last debate he had never made unwanted advances on women. In a 2005 video, Trump was recorded bragging about groping women against their will.
"Donald thinks belittling women makes him bigger. He goes after their dignity, their self-worth and I don't think there is a woman anywhere who doesn't know what that feels like," said Clinton, the first woman to win the nomination of a major U.S. political party.
The two candidates also had a spirited exchange on abortion, gun rights and immigration during the showdown.
Clinton said she would raise taxes on the wealthy to help fund the U.S. government's Social Security retirement program. She said Trump, who Forbes says is worth $3.7 billion, would be paying higher taxes too unless he can get out of it.
"Such a nasty woman," Trump said.
Trump and Clinton battled sharply over the influence of Vladimir Putin, with Clinton calling Trump the Russian president's puppet and Trump charging Putin had repeatedly outsmarted Clinton.
Clinton and Trump walked straight to their podiums when they were introduced at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, once again forgoing the traditional handshake as they did at the second debate last week in St. Louis, Missouri. This time they did not shake hands at the end of the debate either.
The two candidates are scheduled to meet again later on Thursday night at a charity dinner in New York.
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November 9, 2011 at 2:00 PM ET by Mayor Molly Ward
Mayor Molly Ward discusses the significance of Fort Monroe and its recent designation by President Obama as a National Monument.
Editor's Note: This blog introduces readers to Molly Joseph Ward, Mayor of Hampton, Virginia.
There is a history lesson that all Americans should know, but it may not have been in your textbooks.
Just six weeks after the Civil War began, three slaves – Frank Baker, James Townsend and Shepard Mallory – escaped from behind Confederate lines and sought refuge at Fort Monroe in Hampton, Virginia. Commanding General Benjamin Butler refused to return the fugitives and declared the three men contraband of war. Soon, thousands of enslaved African Americans from all over the region descended on Fort Monroe in pursuit of freedom and sanctuary. This event fundamentally changed the meaning of the Civil War from states' rights to the immorality of slavery, and marked the beginning of the end of slavery in the United States.
Last week, President Obama signed an Executive Order designating Fort Monroe as a National Monument. Now, this 400 hundred year old site belongs to all Americans, and I hope all will have the chance to know its story, and appreciate its beauty.
From left, Adam Goodheart, Civil War Historian, Washington College; Rep. Scott Rigell, R-Va.; Rep. Bobby Scott, D-Va.; Mayor Molly Ward, Hampton, Va.; Interior Secretary Ken Salazar; Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va.; Lacy Ward Jr., Director, Robert Russa Moton Museum, Farmville, Va.; and Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, D-Mo.; watch President Barack Obama sign a Proclamation to designate Fort Monroe, in Hampton, Va., a National Monument under the Antiquities Act, in the Oval Office, Nov. 1, 2011. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
From 1609 until just a few months ago, Fort Monroe was an active military base built on the site known as Old Point Comfort. Here's a little bit about its remarkable history: In 1619, it's where the first Africans arrived in America. Hampton is also where, in 1624, the first African-American child was born, named William Tucker. Robert E. Lee was stationed at Fort Monroe, and Jefferson Davis was imprisoned there at the conclusion of the Civil War. Edgar Allen Poe and Harriet Tubman both spent time at Fort Monroe, and Abraham Lincoln stayed there during the assault on Norfolk, VA – the last time a sitting President was actively involved in a military campaign.
Hampton is a city of about 140,000 people located in the middle of what is known as "Hampton Roads," consisting of more than 1.6 million people in 17 municipalities. It is home to NASA Langley, Joint Base Langley Eustis, Hampton University and boasts 124 miles of shoreline and gorgeous beaches. Those of us fortunate enough to live here revere the water, our history and our wonderful location, but what our community treasures most of all is historic Fort Monroe.
President Obama's decision to designate Fort Monroe a National Monument secures the stature of the Fort in our Nation's history. It also ensures the Fort will remain a vibrant part of our region's economy. Hampton lost more than 5,000 jobs when the Army left the Fort in September. Now, with the work of the National Park Service and a state-led reuse plan, the campus should become a center for recreation, history, business and education. This fortress will continue to be a refuge for those who wish to revel in its natural and man-made beauty for its – and Hampton's – next 400 years.
Molly Joseph Ward is Mayor of Hampton, Virginia
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Urine drug testing serves as an essential tool to treat patients with substance use disorder in a primary care setting, according to a new study performed by Boston Medical Center (BMC) and faculty at the Boston University School of Medicine.
The analysis revealed that patients are less likely to disclose drug use earlier in treatment, and although the study was not able to identify reasons for this, the authors believe that it may be related to fear of discharge from a treatment program and stigma related to relapse.
Published in Drug and Alcohol Dependence, the study indicates the need to develop interventions for patients who have positive urine drug tests in order to keep them engaged in care.
Office-based addiction treatment has become a key strategy in combating the opioid epidemic in the United States, where patients get treatment for their disease in a primary care setting with close monitoring during their recovery.
However, one of the questions in the current practice of is how best to monitor for illicit substance use, especially when patients do not report it. There has also been a lack of data regarding how frequently patients in these programs report substance use compared to finding a positive result by urine drug testing (UDT).
"It is important for providers to understand more about how the lab results compare to what patients tell us in a visit," said Sarah M. Bagley, MD, the study's co-author who is an internist and pediatrician at BMC and assistant professor of medicine and pediatrics at Boston University School of Medicine.
The researchers correlated the frequency of patients' self-reported substance use and the results of their UDTs. It showed that 76 percent of UDTs positive for cocaine and 57 percent of those positive for opioids occurred when patients did not disclose substance use in their treatment visit.
Additionally, rates of positive UDTs without self-reported substance use were higher earlier in treatment, possibly reflecting growing trust between the patient and the treatment team over time. Overall, the study reinforces the current guidelines that call for using UDTs to monitor for substance use in office-based addiction treatment but encourage less frequent testing as patients become stable in their recovery.
"Patients may not be self-reporting substance use early on in their treatment due to concerns about being discharged from programs if they disclose use, or they may feel shame about relapse and do not want to disappoint their care team", said Bagley, who also serves as director of BMC's CATALYST Clinic for treatment of addiction in adolescents and young adults.
"These results provide important information for us, as providers, to improve how we treat patients with addiction both in the short and long term."


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What to do with a dead pet dog?
Your dog is one of the most valued members of your family. You care for them greatly, and they have endeared themselves to such a degree within your heart that to see them pass on is one of the most tragic things that can occur. You love this animal and you mourn for them as much is you would for any other member of your family that had passed on.
While you clearly hate to say goodbye to this beloved pet, you also understand that you can't keep it sitting around your home. Yes, it is possible that you can have it stuffed, but most would probably see that as a bit on the creepy side. You have to choose some other option, so what do you do with a dead pet dog?
The first option is that you simply could bury it. If you have a large enough yard and it is legal for you to do so, you could simply dig a large hole in your backyard, bury your dog, cover him or her up in place some kind of marker over the top that lets everyone know that your beloved friend lay there.
That may not always be available to you, however. There may be city or county ordinances that bar you from being able to bury your dog in your yard so you have to look at other options.
One of those is that you could do the same kind of things to take care of the remains of your dog that you would do for a human being. If your mother or uncle were to pass on you have the option of either burying them in a casket or having them cremated. You can do the same thing with your dog.
There are many places that you can go to that offer cremation of your pets. They not only do the physical cremation itself, but will also provide you with an earned if you want to keep the remains for some period of time. Some people want to take those remains and have them spread out along their yard with her dog roamed, while others want to keep the remains much like they would keep their grandparents or a beloved child.
You can also go through a full style funeral. This means getting a casket for your dog, maybe even you decide to have a service, and find a burial plot where you could bury your dog. In some extreme instances there are even cemeteries that will allow you to bury your dog near the location of where you have your own burial plot. This means that you and your beloved canine can spend eternity resting right next to each other.


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Eye on Retail: Charging ahead
Batteries Plus plans a big rollout of new stores.
Marianne Wilson
The nation's largest battery, light bulb, key fob and phone repair franchise is on a roll.
Heading into 2022, Batteries Plus has set new company goals to sign an additional 60 stores this year while opening another 55 across the country by year's end. Target development markets for the brand in 2022 are centered on a growing presence in the Northeast, specifically from Philadelphia to Boston, and Southern California.
Batteries Plus opened 22 stores in 2021 and had a total of 88 signings through multi-unit agreements and organic growth with current franchisees. Included in the 88 new store agreements were many multi-unit signings including a 10-unit signing for Nevada and Utah, another 10-unit deal in Texas and Louisiana, an eight-unit signing in Atlanta – which officially sold out the market - and a three-unit signing in Long Island along with numerous other agreements which will expand the brand in Vermont, California, Arkansas, Georgia, Texas and Illinois.
"The past year saw the Batteries Plus franchise reach a rate of growth the likes of which our brand had never before experienced including store signings, openings and even corporate team growth," said Scott Williams, CEO of Batteries Plus, which has more than 800 store locations in operation and development nationwide. "As a result, our company is better positioned for the future and able to grow alongside the expanding demand for specialty products and services."
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After more than 10 million albums sold and 10 world tours, including her pairing with icon Stevie Wonder on his historic 2015 Songs in the Key of Life Tour, India.Arie is recognized as a global difference maker. Over the past two decades, she has been embraced by a new generation of artists such as Janelle Monáe and Ariana Grande, amplifying the resilient singer/songwriter's signature themes of personal and spiritual growth, social justice, and self-knowledge. Her willingness early on to challenge preconceived notions of beauty and sexuality coupled with her courage to defy broad racial and gender categorizations have helped empower current culturally-conscious movements.
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Jewish Political Studies Review 21:1-2 (Spring 2009)
Weltmacht Europa – Hauptstadt Berlin? Ein EU-Handbuch [Global power Europe – Capital Berlin? An EU handbook], by Ilka Schröder (ed.), Konkret-Texte 39, Hamburg: Konkret-Literatur-Verlag, 2005, 215 pp. [German]
Reviewed by Susanne Wein; review translated by Alex Arndt
The anthology Weltmacht Europa – Hauptstadt Berlin? was published as part of the "Konkret Texte" series under the heading "imperialism." The choice of title indicates that this collection of texts is part of a debate within the political Left of Germany, and not really a comprehensive handbook in the classical sense. Nevertheless, it draws a clear line against those so-called "anti-imperialist" elements of the German Left which indiscriminately view the U.S. and the EU as evil empires and regard Israel as an imperialist bridgehead, if not the single power calling the shots. These radicals support any reactionary and nationalist liberation movement as long as it is anti-Western. Their radical notions are still to be found in some small circles, and they have recently regained strength within the so-called anti-globalization movement in groups like Attac.
The blurb on the cover indicates that the focus of this work is EU foreign policy: "The authors reveal the aggressive potential of the self-proclaimed 'Super-Power with a Heart,' its anti-American and anti-Israel foreign policy, its support of terrorists as 'resistance fighters,' destabilization through ethnic minorities, the war against the dollar as reserve currency, and its plans to build up an European army ready to wage war globally." The editor, Ilka Schröder, served as a member of the European Parliament until 2004 (initially for the Green Party, later as an Independent) and considers herself to be a "critical insider." She and her two scientific assistants, André Anchuelo and Frank Oliver Sobich, contribute the majority of the eleven articles of this book. After introductory remarks on the historical development of a united Europe and "EU imperialism," Markus Euskirchen provides a well informed insight into European military policy. Giovanni Krowalczyk explains the currency system and the attempts to establish the Euro as a new global currency against the dollar.
While Sven Engels's essay on the walling-off of Europe to establish an authoritarian security state, a "Fortress Europe," provides all the necessary data on the increased security measures on its outer borders and the establishment of databases, he fails to address the real security threats that became apparent after the terror attacks of 9/11. Here, Engels merely claims that "contemporary terrorism can be easily instrumentalized for other purposes" (193). Furthermore, he claims that after 9/11, "culturalist racism" has been added to the preexistent state racism against refugees and asylum seekers. This analysis is weak, as it is well known that the attackers came from an upper middle class background and were able to study and plan the attack in Germany unchecked. This essay employs typical radical jargon in claiming that hardliners in the government just waited for such a terrorist attack to happen in order to impose stricter controls.
A more sophisticated analysis comes from Sebastian Bischoff on the U.S. as a conceptual enemy of German nationalists. These nationalists try to blame current capitalist tendencies in Germany, such as the dismantling of the welfare state, on the U.S.: "Rheinischer Kapitalismus (social market economy) versus neoliberalism" (176), "shareholder-value spirit versus an autochthonous enterprise culture" (180). In addition, he claims that American culture threatens Europe: Hollywood and McDonald's versus European culture.
Anchuelo and Schröder's article "The Middle East as a Testing Ground for European Superpower Ambitions" gives a closer look at the European policies in the Middle East. I agree with the special role of Germany described in this process. For example, the Middle East Quartet's Roadmap of 2003 was based on an idea developed in a paper by then-German-foreign-minister Joseph Fischer. Writing in 2005 (before withdrawal from Gaza), Anchuelo and Schröder paint a gloomy picture of German soldiers invading Israel as part of a UN or NATO operation. This is based on visions developed by the former German coalition government of SPD and the Green Party. Currently, in spite of the permanent provocation of Hamas after the withdrawal, and the eventual reaction of Israel to defend its people against the rockets in December 2008, the German media still seems biased against Israel, portraying it as the main obstacle to finding a "solution" for the conflict. This would mean, in their view, negotiating with terrorists like Hamas.
Nevertheless this text's exclusive definition of anti-Semitism as a "European export hit" seems far too linear and narrow. Here, one does not find an analysis of the specificity of anti-Semitism in Germany, nor of religiously motivated Islamist anti-Semitism. (They do give the example of former Liberal Party member Jürgen Möllemann [106].)
My biggest criticism, however, is that most contributions employ deliberately careless and annoying expressions, such as "whatever the Nazis left over from the Labor movement wasn't really motivated to fight right from the start" (42) or "other people who thought of themselves as very critical spread the nice idea that imperialism is only based on the shaky rule of small groups with special interests, who want to enjoy life at the expense of the general population" (19). Such statements are accompanied by phrases and truisms about capitalism and nation states.
In addition, it is outright dangerous to understand National Socialism – as Sobich does in "From Central Europe to the European Union" – as "German fascism," merely with the aim of radicalizing "the ideal of every bourgeois state," "total sovereignty, complete independence from practical constraints – be it the 'Jewish dominated' global market," or "the national interests of other sovereigns" (41). Here, the systematic murder of more than six million Jews and all the other victims of the Nazis becomes merely a negligible episode.
Reading this book is a strenuous task because it is written largely in the journalistic idiom of the German leftists. Accordingly, one should have some previous knowledge of the basic literature related to the subject in order to retain a balanced perspective. However, despite its ideological point of view and blind spots, it represents a contribution.
Susanne Wein is a PhD student at University of Bremen, dealing with "Anti-Semitism in the Political Culture of Weimar Republic: A Research on Parliamentary Debates." She lives in Berlin, Germany and New Haven, U.S.
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Iran and Palestine face Double Whammy: Sanctions and COVID-19
Iqbal Jassat
While the world is on tenterhooks as it confronts the fallout from the coronavirus pandemic, Iran is among the countries hardest hit.
Although the epicenter seems to have shifted to Western Europe, Iran's 80million plus population remain extremely vulnerable despite admirable measures enforced by its government to stem the tide.
Having deployed all means including the health sector, Iran's leadership deserves accolades for combatting Covid 19 while its hands are tied.
Sanctions imposed by the Trump administration account for the handicap. It needs to be noted that the imposition of American sanctions is not only unilateral but also illegal, immoral and unjust.
In the absence of any UNSC resolution authorizing Trump's vindictive policies to punish Iran, these sanctions must be opposed and defied by member states.
It's a matter that South Africa cannot ignore. At a time our country is experiencing an economic crisis, beset with negative growth, joblessness and rising poverty, it would be a realistic option to fling the doors open in trading with Iran.
Of course, while it is known that Trump's threat to harm countries that refuse to succumb to his sanctions policy, many have ignored his demands and continue economic ties with Iran. Among these are Russia, China, Turkey and India.
The crippling sanctions which include a ban on medical requirements have become more acute in light of the devastating impact Covid 19 is having.
Yet as the Trump administration tightens the noose with additional restrictions imposed, it is quite disconcerting to note that it does so in defiance of a ruling by the International Court of Justice (ICJ).
In 2018 the United Nations' top court ordered the United States to lift sanctions on "humanitarian" goods to Iran that Trump re-imposed after pulling out of the Iran nuclear deal.
In a unanimous judgment, the ICJ ruled that Washington "shall remove by means of its choosing any impediments arising from the measures announced on May 8 to the free exportation to Iran of medicines and medical devices, food and agricultural commodities" as well as airplane parts, said judge Abdulqawi Ahmed Yusuf.
In anticipation of widespread medical challenges, the court said sanctions on goods "required for humanitarian needs… may have a serious detrimental impact on the health and lives of individuals on the territory of Iran."
Indeed the humanitarian needs arising from the coronavirus endemic have been compounded and aggravated by Trump's intransigent actions.
Sadly, countries such as South Africa have displayed no willingness to have the ICJ judgment enforced via mechanisms at their disposal at the UN.
The impediments referred to by The Hague equate to life and death for millions of Iranians. Unlike the Covid 19 menace, US sanctions are engineered by a group of racist whites working in close collaboration with the settler-colonial regime in Occupied Palestine.
The power-play between America and Israel, to deliberately target Iran and Palestine is both reprehensible and illegal. Yet they continue plundering and ravaging without any consequences or accountability.
Being in the midst of a global lockdown with far-reaching disasters, it is clear that no one is immune to the disease. Life-threatening, Corvid 19 has already crippled highly developed European countries. America itself is engulfed in a crisis with millions facing unprecedented restrictions.
If the so-called "leading nations" of the world are battling to contain the virus despite possessing unlimited resources, how on earth are populations under siege expected to cope?
Both Iran and Palestine are effectively under siege via sanctions and occupation. The perpetrators responsible for such heinous crimes are not only known, but are paraded as untouchables. Yet the world seems paralyzed to act.
South Africa has a distinct responsibility – both moral and economic – to display its humanity by responding to the injustice wrought by criminals who have no regard for the sanctity of life.
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This workshop covered the basics of sketchnoting; the act of purposeful drawing while listening to something interesting, such as a presentation or seminar. We've seen this technique used on a larger scale for presentations at other seminars, and it helps other listeners to visually digest what they are hearing in real time. Kate was a really dynamic speaker with an encouraging, enthusiastic approach to teaching sketchnoting. Kate showed us that sketchnoting really helps people to listen for key points and synthesize their learning in the form of beautiful, hand-drawn notes. She covered basic shapes and styles to quickly get the right images on the page.
We came away with a new skill that we could use to be more active listeners, and inspired to sketchnote on a large scale during meetings at RP3 to make them more engaging for ourselves and our clients.
This presentation was about hacking and the hacking of interfaces, told through the lens of musical instruments. It started by explaining user experience and design through the lens of the turntable, first designed as a consumer product and later appropriated by DJs as an instrument in itself. It ended with a demo of Mogees, a new musical instrument that uses physical modeling and a surface mic trigger to make rigid and minimally resonant bodies more resonant. This talk was interesting to me because Bruno thought about the limitations of playing music, learned from it, and did something completely different.
We left this session how one should at SXSW, creatively inspired. The Made Shop talked through a series of inefficiency tips for good thinking, concluding that as a creative industry we should be selling our process, not a product that we can't yet define. "Good design is a process." They shared inspiring case studies, examples and anecdotes about tools and materials, the upside to limitations, and learning while you work.
Patron hosted an intimate, invite-only seated dinner alongside the Patron Tequila Express railcar at the Austin Amtrak station. The dinner was catered by the pro chefs of Austin's Barley Swine and courses paired with custom-made Patron cocktails. Attendees included a diverse group of creative and social agency influencers, the Latino tech community and local foodies. It was an incredibly fun event; a great opportunity to meet new people, enjoy delicious food, and drink and showcase the Patron brand. Well done, Patron.
This workshop covered the concepts of Getting Things Done, visible work, fractional jobs, and more. Amol recommended tools and workflows used to manage yourself, recruit and build a team, and manage other people. This talk got us thinking about the future of how we work together, how technology is expanding our reach exponentially, and how great people are not correlated to language or geography.
This workshop covered the essentials of Information Architecture, the art and science of organizing content on websites and software to support usability and findability to make the user experience more clear. The speakers covered everything from the beginning of information architecture (it's rooted in library science) to helpful group collaboration exercises of how to apply it to digital projects. They also shared the vintage Sesame Street below, which illustrates the journey of human word association with a thing to a full understanding and knowledge of the thing. This relates to users, too, because people feel happy and content when their expectations of a thing align to the reality of that thing. After their lecture, we broke out into a series of group collaboration exercises that helped put their methods into practice.
Andrew and Dan had filled gaps in our knowledge and challenged us to think about difficult IA problems in new ways.
Social Imprints might appear at first as a regular t-shirt printing company, but they are so much more. Their website states their purpose as: "Social Imprints provides career opportunities and a living wage to people who need a second chance. We empower our employees by offering them the training and experience to reach their personal goals and we give our employees freedom to take any and all steps necessary to deliver excellent, innovative customer service." They also use vintage screen printing techniques to make shirts by hand and then run them through a dryer to involve spectators in the process of making. We were blown away by the quality of their products and their brand mission.
Misfit Store was there showcasing their new product, the Bolt Smart Bulb. The Bolt is a wirelessly connected, eco-friendly smart lightbulb that can be controlled simply by screwing in the bulb and downloading the app on your phone, no hub required. You can change the lightbulb color to a specific shade (the designer in us was really pumped about this), and you can create different moods with the lights, all using their app from your phone. Each bulb is $50, but lasts for 20 years when burned at a rate of three hours per day. This is just one of many products that Misfit makes, but we love the idea of having the ability to control the lighting in my home so easily from the touch of a smartphone.
Firechat is a new app that uses Bluetooth to allow users to send messages to those in proximity without the use of the Internet. We tested it out on the plane to Austin so we were really excited to see they had a presence when we got to the conference. We had the chance to talk to some of the creative technologists working on the product and share some of our optimization ideas and pain points with them. Firechat's method of communicating in real time without Internet access is something that I never considered possible, and we will likely see this technology being used by other apps and devices in the near future. It is handy in cases when the network is clogged, like a crowded concert, or when wireless networks are down, such as in a disaster situation. This app will open doors for people to be able to communicate with one another at a lower cost and without an Internet provider. Firechat won the SXSW award for Innovation in Connecting People, and it's easy to see why. Congratulations to the team at Firechat!
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Obituary for Terrance M. Shpur | Brewer Funeral Home, Inc.
Terrance M. "Mike" Shpur, 62, of 2 Melanie Dr., passed away Friday afternoon, August 10, 2018 at Glens Falls Hospital surrounded by his family.
Born on June 3, 1956 in Ticonderoga, he was the son of the late Gerald and Dorothy (Gilbo) Shpur. He was a graduate of Moriah Central School and SUNY Plattsburg.
He married his high school sweetheart, Cynthia Fernandez on June 30, 1979 in Port Henry.
Mike was a teacher at Ticonderoga School for two years before his passion for golf took over. Mike's golf career began as assistant pro at Town of Colonie and McGregor Links Country Club. Mike then went on to become head pro at Ballston Spa Country Club. His golf career then led him to McGregor Links Country Club where he was Director of Golf. He was a PGA Golf Professional for 25 years. He retired from golf to take a job at Empire State College as a procurement assistant to spend more time with his family and grandsons.
Mike was an avid Green Bay Packers fan who could be found yelling at the TV every football Sunday. His enjoyments included gardening, his coy pond, ice fishing, decorating for Christmas and a cold Coors Lite. His house was known as the house with the "white lights" on Jones Road, He loved spending time with his family at Lincoln Pond camp and teaching his two grandsons how to play golf.
Mike was a member of the PGA of America and the Elks BPO 161 Saratoga-Wilton.
Survivors include his wife of 39 years, Cindy Shpur; his daughter, Tara (Kenneth) Michaels of Wallingford, CT; his son, Travis (Justine) Shpur of South Glens Falls; his grandchildren, Logan and Dylan Michaels; Siblings: Bonnie (Richard) Bruce of Moriah, Gerald (Jean Anne) Shpur of Peru, Steven (Janet) Shpur of Kinderhook, Timothy (Jill) Shpur of Witherbee, Thomas (Susan) Shpur of Moriah, Joanne (Floyd) Shappy of Port Henry; his mother-in-law, Norma Fernandez of Port Henry; brothers-in-laws and sisters-in-laws, Patricia (Steve) Allen of Witherbee, Donna (Tom) (deceased) Kisch of Port Douglas, Deborah (Phillip) Smith of Hamburg, Diane (Bernard) McCormick of Rock Hill, SC, James Fernandez of Moriah, Timothy (Laurie) Fernandez of Moriah; his beloved caregivers, Judith Braim, Taylor Thomas, Melissa Hill; many nieces, nephews and cousins.
Mike fought a long hard battle the last four years. May he rest in peace.
Friends may call from 4-8 p.m. Tuesday at Compassionate Care Funeral Home, 402 Maple Ave., Saratoga Springs.
A Funeral Mass will be celebrated 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at St. Clement's Church 231 Lake Ave., Saratoga Springs.
In lieu of flowers, contributions in Mike's memory may be directed to Rebuilding Together Saratoga, 132 Milton Ave., Ballston Spa, NY 12020.


Team GB's men's foil team brought a golden end to proceedings at the European Games in Baku as they clinched top prize in a tight contest with Italy.
The trio of Alexander Tofalides, Marcus Mepstead and Richard Kruse were the last of Britain's athletes to compete at the Games and managed to see off the Italians 45-41 in a tense duel.
The Brits started well and etched out an early advantage thanks to Kruse's 5-3 victory over Lorenzo Nista and Tofalides' 5-1 over Alessio Foconi.
But the Italians were resilient and Nista came out on top 9-6 against Tofalides to close the gap before Francesco Ingargiola gave them the lead.
But a final flurry from Mepstead and Kruse meant it was the Brits - including Ben Peggs who didn't fence - who took gold and Tofalides praised the team's unity.
"It was a very tough match against one of the best nations in the world but we fenced really well as a team and when we needed each other we fought for each other," he said.
Britain had earlier seen off Germany with a 45-26 quarter-final triumph and managed to come from behind to edge out France in the semi-finals – again thanks to the efforts of Kruse.
But, despite getting Team GB over the line twice, Kruse thinks it was the strength of the whole that prevailed over individual performances.
"I knew we were capable of it, on paper they are the stronger team but we showed some real will power today to come together and showed the whole is greater than the sum of its parts," he said.


Claude Murat received a PhD from university of Nancy (France) and university of Turin (Italy) in 2004 on the truffle genetic diversity. He spent four years of post-doctoral fellow at the university of Turin (2004-2008) analysing truffle phylogeny, evolution and barcoding. He joined the INRA-Lorrain UMR "Interaction Arbres-Microorganismes" in 2008 to take in charge the truffle programs in the UMR. He has particular skills in population genetic and genomic, barcoding, next generation sequencing and genomic (http://scholar.google.fr/citations?user=bNmLFk0AAAAJ&hl=fr). Claude is associated editor for Mycorrhiza (https://link.springer.com/journal/572) and Italian Journal of Mycology (https://italianmycology.unibo.it/). Claude is part of the highly cited researcher list published by Clarivate (https://hcr.clarivate.com/#freeText%3Dclaude%20murat). He is in charge of the know-how licence to produce inoculated plants with truffle between INRA and nurseries. He was also hired to make the link between INRA and truffle industry (i.e. truffle growers and plant producers). He is particularly interested by valorisation of research findings such as the transfer research results toward field and industry, e.g. he is co-inventor of an international patent issue to genomic researches and he is the principal investigator of a research programs between INRA, private nurseries and truffle industry (ControlTruf, ClimaTruf, CulturTruf). In 2007, he was at the origin of the creation of a start-up DiNAMYCODE. In this start-up of University of Turin Claude was responsible of marketing strategies and laboratory management. Claude is also member of the selection committee of "Incubateur Lorrain" (http://incubateurlorrain.org/) a nursery for young private companies.
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Murat, C., Mello, A., Abba, S., Bonfante, P. (2010). Edible mycorrhizal fungi : Ecology, Genetic and Functional Diversity. In: Varma, A. (ed.), Mycorrhiza: State of the Art, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Eco-Function, Biotechnology, Eco-Physiology, Structure and Systematics. 3rd ed. Springer, Berlin 707-732.
Martin F, Kohler A, Murat C, Veneault-Fourrey C, Hibbett DS (2016) Unearthing the roots of ectomycorrhizal symbioses. Nature Reviews Microbiology. 14(12): 760-73.
Murat, C., Bonneau, L., De La Varga, H., Olivier, J.M., Sandrine, F., Le Tacon, F. (2016) Trapping truffle production in holes: a promising technique for improving production and unravelling truffle life cycle. Italian Journal of Mycology, 45(1), pp.47-53.
Levasseur, A., Lomascolo, A., Chabrol, O., Ruiz-Dueñas, F. J., Boukhris-Uzan, E., Piumi, F, Kües, U, Ram, A.F., Murat, C. et al (2014). The genome of the white-rot fungus Pycnoporus cinnabarinus: a basidiomycete model with a versatile arsenal for lignocellulosic biomass breakdown. BMC genomics, 15(1), 486.
Mello,* A., Murat,* C., Gavazza, V., Vizzini,, A., Bonfante. P. (2005). Tuber magnatum Pico, a species of limited geographic distribution: its genetic diversity inside and outside a truffle-ground. Environmental Microbiology, 7(1), 55-65.
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Murat, C. (2016). Interview avec Régine Meunier pour un article dans Nice Matin.
Murat, C. (2015). Interview avec Ariane Puccini pour un article dans Le Chasseur Français.
Murat C. (2013). Tournage pour Télématin (France 2) le 06 décembre 2013 diffusé le 21 décembre 2013.


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