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The event had a terrific agenda of presenters that focused on data visualization principals, typical challenges in preparing data, trends toward data standardization and importance of templates for reusability. Presenters shared efforts made by their organizations to invest in applied data scientists and scalable enterprise level delivery models helping to transform drug development decision making.
Also covered were benefits and features of tools such as Spotfire, JReview, SAS next generation graphics, open source e.g. R, R-Shiny and including a demo of the Spotfire safety review package in the PHUSE code repository in GitHub.
The presenters did a fantastic job helping the audience understand the principals, best practices and future direction of data visualizations for clinical data analysis.
Ongoing Medical Review of Clinical Trial Data with TIBCO Spotfire & Beyond – Yves Snoeckx, Janssen
GSK Data Visualization: Successful Integration of Scalable, Enterprise-ready Delivery Solutions for Spotfire® Tools, Combined with Technical Expertise from Clinical Programming, is Transforming Data Analytics at GlaxoSmithKline – Dan Schramek & Jason Szewczyk, GSK
We Saw it Coming – Review and Trends in Visual Analytics – Nina Mian, AstraZeneca
PHUSE Data Visualization Working Group Update – Melissa Wissner, Medidata & Mike Rubison, Capish International
PHUSE Overview – Chris Hurley, MMS Holdings, PHUSE US Director
Importance of Semantic Integration of Disparate Clinical Sources Prior to Data Visualization – Suresh Madhavan & Jerry Zaborowski, PointCross Life Sciences
Empowering People in Data Review through Interactive Visualizations – Rebeka Revis, Eli Lilly
Next-generation Graphics – Susan Kramlik, Merck
Benefits of a Rapidly Growing Library of Clinically Relevant Visualization Templates/Patterns – Eric S. Herbel, Intergrated Clinical Systems
Visualizing Oncology Data through Customized Graphics – Hima Bhatia & Rita Tsang, ICON
Download the event brochure.
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Jennifer True, GSK
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This session materials you with examples of cross-platform video players that put them into action.
6 thoughts on "Ways to: Multi-bitrate and Multi-screen Streaming with Flash Media Server 4.5"
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Can this be summed up into just 10 steps? Ive seen this same presentation about 50 times by 50 people, its all for local streaming using the default player.
#1 What do i use to encode the videos and what are my media encoding settings?
#2 Where do i need to upload the videos?
#3 How do i make the manifest/playlist files (this was the only thing i could follow even though your screen looks different than many of the other tutorials i've seen)
#4 What code do i need to embed the manifest/playlist into an HTML page to make the player play stuff?
#5 What other, one/two step, basic things do i need to do to get this to work?
I don't need the whole fire hose, but i do need actual water, not just a demonstration of what the fire hose CAN do.
So how does one make a player that uses the manifest/playlist to stream VOD to desktop and iOS devices?
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I'm grateful for this very informative video. I have many years as a oracle dba, but I needed a quick exposure to adobe media products and this video delivers. Thanks very much
Most extensive presentation of flash media server I've ever seen

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Learn Taiwanese First Nations thread weaving techniques in a workshop with Truku artist Labay Eyong. Bring an old object with you from home, and transform it into an artwork.
Labay is a Truku woman from Ihownang village in Hualien, Taiwan. She inherited knowledge of traditional Truku weaving culture and pays respect through her art to the female Elders who taught her these practices. Labay's practice is intuitive and sensuous, and she privileges these qualities over the rational, freeing her from the limitations of the physical object.


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Deconstructing Hillary
The two new additions to the Hillary Clinton shelf differ from previous books in timing, scope, and especially in their ambition: They seek to sum up Clinton without fear, bias or political spin.
"A Woman in Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton" by Carl Bernstein, Knopf, 630 pages, $28
"Her Way: The Hopes and Ambitions of Hillary Rodham Clinton" by Jeff Gerth and Don Van Natta, Jr., Little, Brown and Co., 448 pages, $30
Charles Franklin, professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin, recently published on his Web site an amusing analysis of how the name "Monica" fell out of favor as a choice for American baby girls; inadvertently, it was also the story of how a Washington scandal shaped public perceptions. The analysis featured a graph covering a period of time that began in the early 1970s and ended in 2006. Monica, it seems, has plummeted down the list of common baby names, dropping from 39th place at the height of its popularity to 250th place.
The name's popularity began to diminish back in the 1970s, and the process continued in the following decade, for no obvious reason. Its fortunes between 1998 and 2006 are easier to explain. While in 1997 "Monica" was ranked 79th on the list of popular names, a year later it had fallen to 151st place, and since then its popularity has continued to drop. Franklin estimates that parents of female babies born today were teenagers or college students when White House intern Monica Lewinsky had an affair with President Bill Clinton, entangling him in one of the strangest and most embarrassing scandals in the history of the American presidency. Clearly, they would be reluctant to give their daughters a name that has become inscribed in public memory as belonging to a promiscuous bimbo from California.
The Lewinsky affair is first mentioned in the most intriguing chapter of Carl Bernstein's new book about Hillary Clinton, "A Woman in Charge." Bernstein, famous as the journalist who, along with Bob Woodward, exposed the Watergate scandal, claims that Clinton is a deeply religious woman. "Aside from her family," he writes, "Hillary's Methodism is perhaps the most important foundation of her character." He claims that one of the strong influences in her life has been that of Reverend Don Jones, whom she met when she was a girl in the Chicago suburbs and with whom she corresponded for many years. "She's a woman of tremendous faith," he cites one of her aides as saying, and that faith is what enabled her to "get through all this" (that is, through the most embarrassing of all scandals).
That is Bernstein's version, which differs significantly in many details and in its sympathetic tone from the one offered by Jeff Gerth and Don Van Natta, Jr., two New York Times journalists who are the authors of another Clinton biography. If Gerth and Van Natta came across any evidence of Clinton's religious commitment, it clearly didn't impress them much. They mention Jones only fleetingly, as someone who helped Clinton (then still only Rodham) to understand that there were also people "less fortunate" than herself living in the U.S.
Hillary Clinton's persona has beckoned to writers for many years, and dozens of books about her have appeared: She is idolized, attacked, praised, disparaged - the last, perhaps most of all. The list runs from David Brock's "The Seduction of Hillary Rodham" (1998), through to Peggy Noonan's "The Case Against Hillary Clinton" and Laura Ingraham's "The Hillary Trap" (both from 2000). Yet another book, "The Extreme Makeover of Hillary (Rodham) Clinton," appeared just this month; authored by Republican Bay Buchanan, it is a highly critical work that flagellates Clinton for her sins, from inconsistency to fundraising by illegitimate means. By the way, the list of books should also include Clinton's own paltry contribution, "Living History" (2003), which revealed little, concealed much and sold very well. It is the least interesting of the lot.
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The two new additions to the Hillary Clinton shelf differ from the previous books in their timing and scope, and especially in their ambition; both seek to sum up Clinton without fear, bias or political spin. In the background hovers the American public's urgent political need to become reacquainted with one of the most highly exposed women in American history. Clinton is an ultra-mega-celebrity, and as is often the case with such figures, she is at once exhaustingly familiar and deeply mysterious. Soon the public will have to decide whether it wants Clinton again as the first lady, but with a twist: not as the president's wife, but as the president herself.
Gerth and Van Natta devote more meticulous attention to Clinton's recent years. Since leaving the White House, she made an unprecedented move for an ex-first lady, by joining the U.S. Senate. She represented New York State in the stormy days after September 11, voted in favor of the war in Iraq, and embarked on the presidential race in which she is now the leading contender for the nomination of the leading party. These are the years that Clinton will ask the voters to remember: high in accolades, low in scandal.
Yet in their search for the political materials of which the candidate is made, Van Netta and Gerth, like Bernstein, turn to the foundations of the Hillary fortress, to those formative years that stretch between 1968, when she was reborn as a Democrat, and 1998, when she was reborn as a politician.
In the course of five years during the 1960s, Hillary Rodham switched from actively supporting the lost candidacy of right-wing knight Barry Goldwater to volunteering in the campaign of leftist anti-war candidate Eugene McCarthy. On the way, in 1968, she even broke a small record for chutzpah: Still a registered Republican, she came to watch the convention that rejected her own preferred candidate, Senator Nelson Rockefeller, and which predictably chose Richard Nixon instead; a few days later, she was already making the rounds as a potential Democrat through the rough-and-tumble Chicago streets of the Democratic convention, which rejected the candidate for whom she had worked (McCarthy) and instead nominated Hubert Humphrey.
When her autobiography was published, Clinton told an interviewer that she was too busy with her life to waste time on the way in which others imagined her living it. In other words, she does not read the books that appear about her, a privilege reserved for those who have a flock of assistants to read for them. And indeed, Clinton's staff saw the new biographies long ago and breathed a sigh of relief: They contain nothing in the way of shocking revelations.
The worst thing Gerth and Van Natta found is a dubious letter that an old acquaintance remembers from the early days of Rodham and Clinton's relationship. As early as that, they argue, the two were already plotting to win the presidency twice over. This questionable story sheds light mainly on its authors and on the particular interpretation that they have chosen to explain the survival of Hillary and Bill's marriage: "They agreed to embark on a political partnership."
This is a possible interpretation, but not the only one. Bernstein, who also describes the political partnership with an air of due suspicion, notes that Hillary did not come easily to her decision to marry Bill, and he also mentions her qualms about their future after the Lewinsky scandal. He quotes Hillary as saying that she stayed in the marriage because she "loves him." Bill, too, stayed because he cannot be without her.
In any case, the Hillary Clinton story, as reflected in these books, contains considerable irony when it comes to the status of a contemporary feminist icon: Here is a prominent woman-leader, perhaps the most important one of her generation, and the entire story of her life comes down to the story of her relationship with a more important man, her husband. In both books, Clinton's marriage is described as the key to understanding her personality, and neither book actually offers that key to the reader. One thousand pages, and the mystery remains: Why did they marry, why did they stay together, and how have they survived the constant, intensely documented crises of their relationship? The mystery that shrouds any relationship is in this case doubled and tripled: Friends, aides, assistants and other witnesses offer multiple versions about the nature of the Clintons' bond.
'Hillary's worst nightmare'
These books scrutinize not only Hillary's attitude toward the marriage, but Bill's as well. After all, as Bernstein's book claims, Bill considered divorcing Hillary when, during his term as governor of Arkansas, he fell in love with Marilyn Jo Jenkins ("Hillary's worst nightmare: an attractive, accomplished, rich antagonist"). But Hillary would not let him go; she had "put too much of her own heart and mind and soul into her partnership with Bill" to let it crash and burn. Bill himself, then in the throes of a "severe midlife crisis," according to his chief of staff, and as childish as only Bill Clinton could be, explained to friends that he was in love with both Jenkins and his wife.
There is something odd, almost surreal, about rereading these stories today, especially in the chapters that deal with Hillary's second formative year, 1998, and with the events leading up to it. Clinton is now in the midst of a political race in which she must confront life-and-death issues. She is currently squirming as she tries to explain why she voted for the war in Iraq - without, as Van Natta and Gerth claim, having taken the time to read the full intelligence reports. She proudly flaunts the compliments she has received even from her opponents for her performance as a junior senator for New York.
Clinton is an intelligent woman, very hard-working, not the "bitchy caricature" sketched by her enemies. But the turn back to the 1990s, to the small and large scandals in which she was involved, to the previous president's philandering, to the elusive girls associated with him, to the slick lawyers who sought to extricate him from crisis after crisis - none of this serves her public persona very well.
Hillary and Eleanor
In January 1997 Clinton invited historian Doris Kearns Goodwin to the White House to discuss the role of the First Lady during the second term. Two years earlier, Goodwin had published the excellent book "No Ordinary Time," about the strange and wondrous White House partnership of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt; now she came to help Clinton plan her next four years. Ultimately, 1998 marked the crucial difference between Hillary and Eleanor, and perhaps also between the Roosevelt era and the current one. After her husband's death, Eleanor rejected an offer to run for governor of New York, channeling her energies instead into her public influence as a revered figure, political but not power-hungry.
Clinton chose a different route, which comes as no surprise to anyone who has followed her life story: She latched on to her husband's political collapse, at that rare moment of grace in which she was seen as a victim and given sympathy, and she used it as leverage for her rise all the way to the U.S. Senate, and soon perhaps even higher. This is the so-called cruel, aggressive quality that Dick Morris, a former aide and ex-member of the Clintons' close circle, has identified in her.
Clinton, it seems, has always tended to choose the path that would give her power at the expense of affection, influence at the expense of sympathy. She is an impressive candidate, who could probably be a fine president. If anything stands in her way to the Oval Office, however, it will be the voters' tendency to respect her, but not necessarily to like her.
In any case, the name "Hillary" is not enjoying a renaissance so far. For one moment, in 1992, it seemed as though it might; the Clintons had taken the nation by storm, and the name "Hillary" leaped to 132nd place on the list of popular names, its highest ranking in the last 50 years. Since then, however, it has plummeted rapidly, a drop that probably shows that even those who will give Hillary their vote do not necessarily consider her someone they would like to encounter in their own home. Last year, when Senator Hillary Clinton was already busy preparing for her long race to the White House, the Social Security Web site reported that the name Hillary had dropped to the 982nd place on the list.


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She is survived by her loving family; daughter Shannon Hansen-Hughes and devoted son-in-law Patrick, of Denver, Colo., her sister Patti Phillips and her husband and son, Danny and Danny Jr. of Clearwater, Fla., She also left behind her beloved dog Lily.
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THE NOTHING asks the big questions of life: Is there a God? If so, does He care about us? Why do terrible things happen? Does anything truly matter? A mind-bending film in the tradition of LOST or The Twilight Zone, this unique drama explores the relationship between faith and fear.
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Year: 2013
Running time: 95 minutes
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Target CEO's civil rights comparison rebuffed
MINNEAPOLIS (BP) -- As the number of people pledging to boycott Target over the retailer's transgender restroom use policy surpassed 1.2 million, African American leaders with Southern Baptist ties rebuffed Target CEO Brian Cornell's suggestion that the push for transgender rights is parallel to the American civil rights movement.
At one point, Cornell seemed to imply a parallel between the quest for African American civil rights in the mid-20th century and the quest for open restroom access by transgendered people today.
"We've had a long history of embracing diversity and inclusion," Cornell said in response to a question about the AFA boycott. "A couple of weeks ago, one of our team members sent me a note reminding me that if we went back to the 1960s, our company was one of the very first to use African American models in their advertising. And back then it wasn't well received. We had a lot of tough feedback. But sitting here today we know we made the right decision."
Target "took a stance" on transgender restroom use, Cornell said, and will "continue to embrace our belief of diversity, inclusion and just how important that is to our company. But we're also going to make sure our focus on safety is unwavering."
Cornell said more than 1,400 Target stores already have family restrooms and all stores will be equipped with family restrooms "over the next few months."
Dwight McKissic, pastor of the predominantly African American Cornerstone Baptist Church in Arlington, Texas, told Baptist Press Cornell's comparison between black civil rights and transgender restroom access is "illogical" and "racist."
In 2012, McKissic, along with then-Maryland pastor Eric Redmond, submitted a resolution to the Southern Baptist Convention's Resolutions Committee which led to the convention's adoption of a resolution "on 'same-sex marriage' and civil rights rhetoric." The SBC resolution called it "regrettable that homosexual rights activists and those who are promoting the recognition of 'same-sex marriage' have misappropriated the rhetoric of the Civil Rights Movement."
The resolution "den[ied] that the effort to legalize 'same-sex marriage' qualifies as a civil rights issue" and "encourage[d] Southern Baptists everywhere to fight for the civil rights of all people where such rights are consistent with the righteousness of God."
In his comments to BP, McKissic extended some arguments in the resolution to transgenderism. Racial identity, he said, "is not a matter of choice or feeling" while identifying outwardly with a gender different than one's birth gender is "a matter of choice" -- even if the underlying feelings of dissatisfaction with one's gender are involuntary.
"The transgender person is telling God that He (God) made a mistake," McKissic said in written comments. "... The African American is telling God no such thing. Therefore, to compare the African American struggle with the transgender issue is racist because it connects the skin of the African American person with the sinful choice to be a transgender person. That is a slap in the face to African Americans and a grossly unfair comparison."
Redmond, who also is African American, now serves as assistant professor of Bible at the Moody Bible Institute in Chicago. He told BP in written comments he agrees that race and gender identity are vastly different categories.
"To compare Target's practices toward African Americans during a period of a climate of hate toward something innate (e.g., race) to Target's contemporary practices toward a lifestyle choice -- a choice to self-identify against what is innate -- is a false comparison," Redmond said.
"The important comparison is not the progressive nature of Target's policies, for one day Target may allow employees to serve food without washing their hands in an effort to be progressive on public sanitation," Redmond said. "... It will be to our shame and to the detriment of all members of society, including those self-identifying as transgendered, to ignore what is innately human, and its significance for members of a citizenry to live ethically toward one another."
Rolland Slade, pastor of Meridian Baptist Church in El Cajon, Calif., told BP he appreciates Target "being the first in terms of using [black] models for advertisement," but he doesn't "see using models for advertisement" as equivalent to "the possibility of a child going into a restroom and encountering someone and being harmed."
Slade, who is African American, acknowledged that some people suffer from the medical condition of gender dysphoria, where they feel a subjective sense of incongruity with their biological gender. "But there's still an issue of folks being uncomfortable if you have that dysphoria and choose to enter that opposite restroom. There are still going to be people who react negatively, and it could cause an issue or a disturbance or something could happen to someone."
AFA said in a news release that some of its leaders "briefly met with Target's senior management" when they delivered the boycott signatures. AFA President Tim Wildmon said he expects to deliver a second million signatures "in the near future."
"American Family Association is appreciative that Target representatives were willing to accept the signatures of more than one million Americans and meet with us about our deep distress over Target's unsafe bathroom policy, which permits anyone who identifies with another gender to enter the restroom or fitting room of the opposite sex," Wildmon said. "As we have stated time and again, our worries do not stem from the transgender community, but rather, from those predators and voyeurs with evil intentions who would take advantage of the policy to potentially harm women and children.
"However," Wildmon continued, "Target leadership made no commitment to change its policy. Therefore, AFA's #BoycottTarget campaign will continue as strong as it began."


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Written & Directed by Oliver Assayas
Starring Juliette Binoche, Kristen Stewart & Chloë Grace Moretz
Some movies are self-aware. 'Clouds of Sils Maria' is beautifully self-aware. It stars Juliette Binoche and Kristen Stewart in powerfully meta-roles and might be my favorite film to emerge from the festival. It's directed by Olivier Assayas, who blends his characters with his actors, a resourceful if not fascinating overlap that slowly unpacks its rich themes of aging, celebrity and cultural perception.
In this way it's similar to another festival favorite, David Cronenberg's Maps to the Stars, but it's lost all of that movie's cynicism. Instead of playing Julianne Moore's sleazy, narcissistic, fading thespian, Binoche plays Maria, an actress confronting her fading identity almost spiritually. Along with her personal assistant Val (Stewart), she goes to Zurich to attend a posthumous retrospective of Wilhelm Melchior, the writer responsible for supplying her first break in a play called Maloja Snake. That was twenty years ago, playing Sigrid, a young assistant, who romantically entraps an older woman Helena. During the press tour, a famous director offers her a role in his on-stage revival. This time she is to play Helena.
Sigrid is given to a young, scandalous starlet named Jo-Ann (Chloe Grace Moretz), whose latest project is a superhero sci-fi movie. This provides some thematic backdrop and a springboard for commentary. Maria and Val rehearse in Wilhelm's old home in the Alps, constantly confusing themselves with the characters they're reading. They go to see Jo-Ann's movie and Val begins defending the popcorn fare Maria is quick to dismiss. It's really Assayas giving Stewart a platform to protect her Twilight movies, the teen attraction that garnered critical scoffs. "It's daring. She goes deep into a darker side," say Val about Jo-Ann's character. Stewart is guarding the sincerity she gave to her own archetype in Bella.
If this isn't quite as transparent, Assayas adds another window of clarity. A simple Google search yields Jo-Ann's scandals and poor public behavior. Later Jo-Ann becomes involved in an affair between an established husband and wife. It's almost too blatant. "You never forget you're watching these actresses," said Assayas at the screening's press conference. Binoche, Stewart, and Moretz become a kaleidoscope of people jumbled with their characters, fluidly being mixed and matched.
Indeed Clouds of Sils Maria revels in its critiques and playful identities. But this movie aims higher than tongue-in-cheek humor. It's subversive. Assayas directly confronts the American movies that rarely explore the ambiguities of their characters. Maria and Val exist in states of charming cohesion but explore their dissonance in age and perspective. Maria interprets Helena one way. Val offers her own interpretation. All this takes place above the snake of clouds that rolls through their cavernous, breathtaking isolation.
You don't see many movies where two women just talk to each other. Their discussions aren't about men or sex or superficial chatter. They're focused on understanding the characters they read, the lives they take away from them. Is Sigrid just a seductive, vapid bitch? Is Helena an expiring nostalgic losing her talent? Somewhere between the film's two acts and epilogue, these questions stop becoming relevant for the real actors.
Assayas has created something beautiful, and in effect timeless, ironically, for a movie so worried about those qualities. Near the end, Maria gets offered a movie role that lets her escape the shackles to which has been existentially chained. "To excel and to know how to show it is to excel twice," she quotes Baltasar Gracian to the director. She's meditating on the inescapable contemporary culture while reconciling her past. Binoche gets this movie's brilliant last shot, right as the play begins. But it's too late. You're all ready to jump up and applaud.
– Jake Kring-Schreifels


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Easter Crescent Nests are easy and fun to make with the kids. And they taste delicious for a special brunch treat! It doesn't get cuter than that!
Simple Veggie Side Dishes that are perfect for the holidays
Simple Veggie Side Dishes that are perfect for the holidays I wanted to collect a few great simple side dish recipes for you to give you some ideas of yummy side dishes for any holiday dinner. Easter. Thanksgiving. Christmas. Even just Sunday night dinner. Just a few. A nice little collection. Well, I…
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Conquests and Cultures: An International History
Basic Books, Aug 1, 2008 - History - 516 pages
This book is the culmination of 15 years of research and travels that have taken the author completely around the world twice, as well as on other travels in the Mediterranean, the Baltic, and around the Pacific rim. Its purpose has been to try to understand the role of cultural differences within nations and between nations, today and over centuries of history, in shaping the economic and social fates of peoples and of whole civilizations. Focusing on four major cultural areas(that of the British, the Africans (including the African diaspora), the Slavs of Eastern Europe, and the indigenous peoples of the Western Hemisphere—Conquests and Cultures reveals patterns that encompass not only these peoples but others and help explain the role of cultural evolution in economic, social, and political development.
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Fifth Third Bank's Melissa Stevens: Change Doesn't Mean Starting from Scratch
Jared Johnson, Principal Digital Strategist
You don't have to be a giant, nationwide bank to be a pioneer of innovation.
That's the reality of Fifth Third Bank, which rivals some of the nation's largest institutions when it comes to technology. This is thanks in part to Chief Digital Officer Melissa Stevens, who puts innovation at the center of her work.
From launching the Momentum app, which helps millennials pay down student loan debt, to integrating Siri and even opening ONE67, Fifth Third's new innovation center, Melissa is a true luminary. (She also spoke at our annual digital innovation summit, FWD, in 2016).
Here, she talks about how to make culture changes stick in financial services, celebrating your strengths but not being afraid to experiment, and how mentors and sponsors helped her get to the next level.
JARED JOHNSON: What is it going to look and feel like to be a Fifth Third retail customer five years from now?
MELISSA STEVENS: Over the next three to five years, you're going to find more of us coming to meet you as a customer — where you are. That might mean that we have more capabilities available on the devices you carry, in your home, your car, or on your person. It might mean that you find us in more of your "neighborhood locations". It certainly will mean that it's easier to connect to us anytime and from anyplace so that you can actually get the business of banking done and go on with the business of living.
Over the next three to five years, you're going to find more of us coming to meet you as a customer — where you are.
In five years or anytime in the future, you'll still find a company that has your best interest at heart. You'll find a company who wants a relationship with you. We're not here to offer our customer a product or a service — we're here to bring you solutions to help you live your life or improve your business on a day-to-day basis. But how you see it come to light — in terms of the solutions that we offer, the way our retail branches look, the way you feel when you're in them, and the solutions that are available to you over mobile or internet — will continue to improve so that we meet customers where they are versus having them come to us.
JJ: What does it look like to be more relationship oriented? Are there certain tactics that you use or different ways you train employees to think more in terms of relationships and less in terms of selling products and services?
MS: We want to be with you individually, we want to be with you in your community, and we want to help your business grow. This means several things: One of the many things we look at are the customer insights [we acquire] from customer service or sales people who talk to customers every day and the relationship managers who are out in the field, visiting branches and customers at their places of business. How do we take those insights and continue to understand what's working and what's not working for our customers and make sure we are walking with them on their journey, not adding obstacles in their way?
The other thing it means is that we talk differently. As we move forward the next several years, we could change the way that we dialogue, we could change the way that we bring data to life for them to give them better information about how they're doing financially. It means that we may be proactive. For example, with small business owners, we [try] to see opportunities for them or things that will actually be roadblocks to their future success — [think] cash flow challenges or investments they need to make it over that next big leap in their growth. That relationship piece is about how we better enable the employees who are actually talking to those customers every day or meeting with them every week and month. How do we better enable our employees, both from a training and from a data and analytic standpoint, to be that trusted partner or the advocate for that customer?
JJ: Change is notoriously hard. Fifth Third has over 19,000 employees and a history that goes back over a 100 years. What makes culture changes stick?
MS: No. 1, making sure that we are harnessing the great attributes of who we are today as we move forward on the changes — whether they are changes that we bring forward in terms of actually changing ourselves or the changes that come from the outside environment, like changing customer demands and needs or economic cycle [fluctuations]. Certainly financial services is major because you're talking about borrowing and lending money to customers. You have to watch these things closely, and so all of these factors whether they're internal or external have impacted us in terms of the types of changes we are experiencing as well as the types of changes we are driving.
What we're trying to do is drive an acceleration of our transformation. It's not about becoming more digital, it's about making sure we will thrive in the digital world that exists today as well as in the digital world that will be created for tomorrow. When I look at that, coming back to the question of culture change, the first thing is to build on your great assets and your great attributes. I look at change as not starting from scratch with a blank piece of paper, but standing on the shoulders of the giants who came before you so you can see out further and reach new heights faster and then build on from there.
It's not about becoming more digital, it's about making sure we will thrive in the digital world that exists today as well as in the digital world that will be created for tomorrow.
That doesn't mean you don't have some white space or you can't [fill in] the blanks, but it means you need to take inventory of what's working great about your culture, your processes about your technology, and your customers. You need to actually harness those and defend the core of your business, but also figure out what you can build onto while at the same time chart new territory and fix what's behind that. To me, that's one of the biggest steps of driving the next batch of change: there are great things that we have done and will be doing and we're going to build on that as our starting stage.
The second thing I think is really important is the vision. The first steps (jumps, really) are challenging — you barely feel like you can get to that next level because the leaps are at such a height that if you just jump in the air you wouldn't reach the rim of the basketball hoop. You don't want to [outline] every step of that journey because it can be overwhelming. You do want to paint the vision for where you think you can go and the difference it will make for the company, customer, shareholder and the world at large, so [employees] can grab onto that shiny light that's way out there and believe in something from a heart and mind standpoint while you are building out the actual plan from today forward.
JJ: Speaking of roadmaps and future visions, when you look at the landscape today there are all of these technologies that are popping up. How do you tell the difference between a technology fad and the beginning of a long term shift? In other words, how do you separate the signals from the noise?
MS: We're probably getting it right half of the time and wrong half of the time, which is part of it.
The first thing we do is take on a test and learn viewpoint. I'm not going to say we don't want to apply the technology that we experiment with, but we allow ourselves some room before we end-state an application.
The second thing we do is we test things early and often with customers. There are people internally who have built a proof of concept and tested an idea to get a feel for if it is helpful, if it would solve pain points, improve security, and if it would be challenging for [customers] to accept, so we can actually continue to experiment and make improvements off of that.
The first thing about distinguishing noise from signals is allowing ourselves brain power in small capacity to tinker with things before we know full end-state applicability. The second thing is, get it far enough that it's tangible so you can actually test it with customers — whether internal or external — but get some people to react to it. The third thing I'd say is, we're not planting too many seeds, but we're making sure we are looking across a variety of areas that today could look like noise but there is enough information or insight that signals they could go somewhere.
The first thing about distinguishing noise from signals is allowing ourselves brain power in small capacity to tinker with things before we know full end-state applicability.
JJ: When you're thinking about the digital innovation and transformation process at Fifth Third, is there anything that keeps you up at night or anything that you're scared of?
MS: No. The key for us has been building an innovation function. We've had different versions over the years, but now [it] has designers, business folks, and technologists from inside and outside financial services, so that we can make sure we have a cross-functional, cross-experiential group who can experiment with different ideas before they're applied to folks running the day-to-day.
In order to not be worried about something overnight, to not be concerned that something might pass us without us realizing it or might not have time to discover, we've built a function and provided human capital and other technical capability so that the urgency of today will not trump the innovation of tomorrow.
JJ: You're overseeing digital experiences, design, and innovation for one of the largest banks in the U.S. It's a combination of being in two different boys clubs — one in emerging tech and digital and the other in finance. You're at the top of your game in both those worlds at the same time. What are some of the challenges you had to overcome to get where you are today? Have they become more surmountable over time or are we just getting more visibility to the successes?
MS: I am very fortunate to have had some amazing sponsors and mentors over the years. I worked really hard to have them, so I believe that luck plays into things only so much that, if you're in the right time at the right place, you can have the right things happen for you.
It's not that I'm lucky I got to where I got to — I worked my butt off to get there. Hard work does pay off, but at the same time, depending on the industry and the diversity of where you are, you have to have great sponsors and mentors. I look at mentors as the people who take you on, who coach you, and help you develop. Sponsors are people who are in places of influence, inside or outside of your company, who are going to open those doors for you, who know who you are, what you're working on, and what else you could do. They're the ones that bring your name up when the next big project comes, when the next big initiative comes, and when the next big job opens. The sponsors might not be personally coaching or developing you, but they're the ones who are singing your praises and betting on you when the time comes to put a name forward.
I've had a lot of great ones — male and female — and frankly, in the earlier stage in my career, many more male than female just because of the ratios that existed. Sponsorship has been a huge piece of it. Now to be clear, I didn't have people just decide they wanted to sponsor me or mentor me because I was just sitting on the bench one day. I had them because I raised my hand and said yes every single time that any opportunity came up. That's my point about hard work: you have to be willing to put in for it. I think once you pass that, when you go to the question of working through the old boys club, I would say it's a couple of things.
First of all, I have believed in myself. I have worked really hard and sometimes struggled with my confidence, which frankly is something more common for women than it is for men. It's not that there are men without confidence issues, but study after study over the years will tell you if two people of the exact same experience and caliber saw the same job description, a man would apply for it and a woman wouldn't because she'd say I don't tick 100 percent of the boxes. Women traditionally believe that they just aren't naturally as good at things as men. It's not that it's factually accurate — it's that their confidence erodes. I have worked really hard to, even if I didn't feel confident all the time, project confidence, to advocate for myself, and to say, "I can do it". Not in an egotistical, self-centered manner, but in a way that says, "I know I can do this. I know I can figure this out. I know I can find people to help me." I think that has helped me significantly.
I have worked really hard and sometimes struggled with my confidence, which frankly is something more common for women than it is for men.
The second thing I've done is, I have sat at the table every time there was a seat at the table. When I was junior in my career, less because I was female and more because I was junior, I would sit on the side of the room when I knew there wouldn't be enough seats at the main table. If you get to the room and there's a seat at the table, you sit at the table. If you're in the meeting, you speak because you weren't invited to sit and be quiet and you weren't invited to sit and take notes. Those things as you work your way through, boys club or no boys club, become important attributes.
If you get to the room and there's a seat at the table, you sit at the table.
The third thing I've become really big about in the last five to 10 years of my career is I don't want people to be upset about the old boys club. I want people, and especially women or various diverse groups, to learn from what's been great about that and create the new girls club or the new diverse group club, where we're actually supporting each other. It took so long for women to get to the same level where there were [traditionally] only one or two. So what would happen is that women would support each other to a certain level and then as soon as two got to the same place, they would turn on each other and take one stiletto heel and put it on top of the other person's head and push them back down because now you went from allies who are working your way up to a threat.
There are a lot of positives about understanding the importance of a network and working together to improve the overall goal of the company as well as the individuals. I'm not claiming that I love all things about the old boys club, but I think my success is due to having great sponsors and to recognizing that we should not complain about it, but we should take the positives and actually figure out how to bring those into the girls club.
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The Classic Pavlova with Classic Beechworth Honey
Featuring Classic Beechworth Honey
- 225 ml egg white (about 6 eggs)
- 1½ cups (330 g) caster sugar
- 1 tbsp corn flour
- 1½ tsp white vinegar
- 600ml thickened cream
- 400gm strawberries, chopped
- 3 kiwi fruit, diced
- Pulp of 3 passionfruit
- Classic Honey to taste
- Place the egg white in the bowl of an electric mixer and whisk on high speed until soft peaks form.
- Add the sugar, a 1-2 tablespoons at a time, whisking until each addition is dissolved before adding more.
- It's very important to take your time, making sure the sugar has dissolved. Be patient!
- Once all the sugar has been added, scrape down the sides of the bowl and whisk for a further 10–15 minutes or until the mixture is thick and glossy.
- Add the cornflour and vinegar to the egg white mixture and whisk for 30 seconds or until well combined.
- Preheat oven to 150°C (300°F). Using a pencil, draw a 20 cm circle on a sheet of non-stick baking paper. Place the baking paper, pencil-side down, on a baking tray.
- Spoon the meringue mixture into the circle to make a neat round, shaping it as you go.
- Reduce the oven temperature to 120°C (250°F) and bake for 1 hour. Allow to cool completely in the closed oven.
- Whisk cream on a medium speed, adding a good squeeze of Classic Beechworth Honey. We add approximately 1 tablespoon, but you can add more or less to taste.
- Whisk until soft peaks form, taking care not to over whip.
- Spoon the cream on the meringue, topping with the classic combination of strawberries, kiwifruit and passionfruit.
- Finish with a good squeeze of Classic Honey.
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Miscellaneous scraps of wood, containers of dust, and old hardware clutter our shelves…
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The fingerboard of your instrument takes a lot of abuse, no doubt about it. Like anything that gets that kind of mileage a little TLC every once in a while is a good thing… a very good thing!
We see a good number of these Harmony-made arch tops, but rarely do they come to us in such good shape!
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Here are a few examples of pick up installs that required some problem solving.
Here's a soundport I added to a clients Yamaha classical. With the door off the player receives a boost in volume and hears or experiences more of the guitars voice that is directed out the main sound hole towards an audience. The door can also be left on to keep the sound projection as it was which can be helpful when playing in a group and listening for everyones levels. Soundports are not a gimmick, they can definitely enhance the players experience, almost like a natural monitor. As with many advancements they were developed by hand builders and are now showing up in a few commercial instruments, along with arm bevels!
We had a lovely surprise visit from a travelling performer, Leila Neverland. Her uniquely powerful and emotive voice and songwriting struck us instantly. It is with great pleasure that we share her performance with you.
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Our dear friend Marty Hamilton has passed away. It is with heavy hearts that we say farewell to this fantastic man, community member, and musician.
Rest In Peace, Marty.
The local talent in this area never ceases to amaze us! Noel Fudge and Martine Denbok are beautiful songwriters, composers, and private music teachers based out of New Denver. Take a moment. Set everything else aside. Take a listen to this beautiful track from their new album, which can be purchased here in store at Mountain Fruit Folklore. All proceeds go to the artist.
Learn more about Freya and their music at http://www.fortheloveoffreya.ca
Go to our Youtube channel Mountain Fruit Folklore Centre to hear another song from the new album performed on Octave Violin! Along with a wealth of other incredible performances, Live! From the Pew!
As always it is a pleasure to have Cara Luft in the store. She is probably our most featured Live from the Pew artist. We asked her if she would play us a little something for on our own hand built 19th century guitar, and here it is!
Black Water Side is a traditional Irish Tune, of unknown author. Perhaps in this day the most well known version is the instrumental track from Led Zeppelin's self-titled first album.
For more Live from the Pew videos check out our Youtube Channel "Mountain Fruit Folklore Centre."
Mountain Fruit Folklore Centre is now open regular shop hours. Tuesday-Saturday 10-5.
And second, We would like to publicly acknowledge and celebrate apprentice Kevin John, his progress and contributions to the Mountain Fruit vision. Kevin has been with us for 2 years now, working in the shop on customer's instruments, restorations, and working and maintaining the storefront. He recently finished a period under a grant from the Kyuquot-Checleset First Nations Band (many, many thanks to them!). Kyuquot-Checleset assisted Kevin for six months in funding his training in the art of lutherie under mentor and shop owner Jeremy Behn. We look forward to many more months working together. This New Year will see us taking new steps forward as we are in the midst of building an electric guitar each right from scratch.
Mountain Fruit Folklore Centre will be closed from now, Christmas Eve till Tuesday Jan 10th, 2017 to allow for inventory. The Mtn Fruit staff wish you ease and peace spent with loved ones every day! And Christmas too!
We'll see you in the New Year, it's been a pleasure helping with musical journeys and we really do appreciate the support!
The Small Glories is a prime example of incredible synergy! JD Edwards and Cara Luft contrast and compliment each other beautifully. Their first full length album, Wondrous Traveler, brimming with top-notch musicianship, tight vocal harmonies and tasteful arrangements, is not to be missed. The songwriting stirs something ancient in the soul and echoes of the North American folk tradition. Every song on the album strikes home; bold, gutsy, honest, and unabashedly human. This duo command the ability to whirl you into the throws of wild dervish one moment, and then knock you (gently) to the ground with a tender, heart-rending ballad the next.
Guided by the over-riding spirit of fun and lust for life, here are true masters of the craft!
Visit them at http://www.thesmallglories.com/
You can buy Wondrous Traveler, as well as their self-titled EP, in store at Mountain Fruit Folklore.
It's just not christmas for most Canadians until it snows and we weren't sure it was going to happen in Kaslo before St Nick arrived this year. But it did, and the beautiful, peaceful quiet is upon us again. The skates and skis are out and slowly we are adapting to the cold. Which reminds me, high pressure, low temp weather, such as we are experiencing now, is a time to think about protecting your stringed instruments from low humidity damage. Pop into the shop if you need some pointers.
Here's an excerpt from a beautiful performance done by TJ, a student of Kaslo's 4th Annual GuitarFest. TJ is playing a 19th Century piece on this 19th Century replica by Instruments of Change, Jeremy Behn. The guitar was also used as part of the GuitarFest's presentation at the Langham Theatre on the history of the classical guitar. Jeremy presented his hand built 19th Century guitar replica alongside other 19th Century guitars that esteemed players and historians Daniel Bolshoy and Murray Visscher displayed and performed on.
There is gold in these hills! Cultural gold, artistic gold, creative gold. Noel Fudge and Martine Denbok are just two examples of our many local treasures. Both are musical performers, composers and instructors living in New Denver. They perform together as Freya and we were fortunate enough to have them here at Mountain Fruit Folklore Centre. Here's their performance and interview, exclusively, Live from the Pew!
for more info on the band please visit www.fortheloveoffreya.ca
This bow accompanied a tenor viola da gamba that that came thru the shop. The button had long since cracked and disappeared.
Sebastien Dufour played the Langham recently with his comrades, Small World Project, and was kind enough to demonstrate the new Cordoba Mini for us. These instruments are fantastic travel guitars, their main assets being; a fingerboard wide enough to use effectively (unlike Guileles), excellent tone and projection for a body this size and 2 sets of strings available; one to allow for optimum tone tuned a 4th above std tuning and one to allow playing at std pitch.
The first piece played is an original flamenco called 'Tarantos' followed by an arrangement of a piece called 'Manha de Carnaval'.
Don't miss this fabulously creative trio next time they pass thru your town!
Thx Sebastien
Gracious thank you to friends Dave and Tami Gunter from Sandpoint, Idaho. They took time out of their business (organizing over one hundred kids music parts for their school musical!) and pleasure (soaking at Ainsworth Hotsprings) trip to play us a tune 'From the Pew' at Mtn Fruit.
Local singer/songwriter Jeremy Eisenhauer showed up the other day with a handmade guitar by none other than Canadian Luthier Icon Grit Laskin. Beautiful sounding guitar which we attempted to amplify in a way that does it's tone justice. What we came up with is relatively faithful to the guitar and reasonably affordable, at least when you compare to something like the very popular DPA D-Vote mini condenser. Our configuration actually uses a the D-Vote guitar clamp which I have to say is very well conceived but to it we have clamped an Audix Micro-HP mini condenser. Perhaps not the holy grail of setups but it went together reliably and the sound is most definitely pleasing! Have a listen;
A guitar dropped at 'just the right angle', allowing it to impact on an edge will easily cause damage without much force, especially in cedar.
This is one of the Godin series of acoustics with some sort of poly based finish. More challenging to repair than a nitro type finish but doable with patience! Not 100% invisible but close.
Frogs that are stubborn in movement when tensioning hair and have a gap between them and the stick are common and in many cases are due to a loose eyelet or, as in the case of this bow, an eyelet that was installed at an incorrect angle. Correct alignments and tolerances of all the components that join frog and stick together are a necessity if the frog is to move easily and to reduce wear on the parts. None of this is too surprising as tensioning the hair definitely produces some stress on these relatively delicate moving parts.
Correcting a loose or misaligned eyelet is usually straighforward with the wonderful eyelet alignment tool in the photo below. One can drill an oversize hole for an oversize shank eyelet at a perfect right angle to the underslide. Or one can drill out the entire damaged area and fill it with an ebony plug and redrill for a std eyelet depending on the situation.
This frog had an eyelet installed at quite an angle.
Removed existing eyelet on left, drilled an oversive hole with tool pictured and installed thick shank eyelet.
Kevin John who has been apprenticing in repair with Mtn Fruit and also manning the storefront while I had some much needed time off has embarked on another journey for the winter! He's off to Vancouver Island to find his fortune or whatever comes his way. We've grown fond of having Kevin on our team and will miss him but wish him well on his adventure.


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In my mind, there is nothing prettier than a grove of Trembling Aspen in the Fall!
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Harley Race issues an open challenge.
Our show in Boston kicked off with the World Heavyweight champion, Harley Race, coming out with a huge smile on his face. Race gloated about how he "dominated" Lou Thesz at MSG (anyone who saw the match knows it was anything but domination) and how little competition there was in the wrestling. Race was riding on cloud nine, and made an open challenge to anyone who wanted to come out and have a shot at the champion should do so now - non-title match, of course. The challenge was answered by JIMMY "SUPERFLY" SNUKA, who ran out and was all over Race right away!
Harley Race pinned Jimmy Snuka with the Piledriver in 0:15:41.
Rating: **** 1/4
Harley Race's cockiness almost cost him in a big way once again. Race made a foolish open challenge to start off the evening, and Jimmy Snuka was more than willing to take advantage of it. This was truly an everything to gain-nothing to lose scenario for Snuka, and he put his all into the match. Race was not prepared for this match thanks to his own bravado, and Snuka's stock rose in a big way. Snuka won the match on points, but in pro wrestling, points don't make a winner. Snuka did everything right except for miss his Superfly Splash, crashing and burning on the canvas instead. Race quickly hit the Piledriver and escaped with a win. Snuka impressed GCW officials so much in this match though, that on April 30 in Toronto at the Maple Leaf Gardens, Snuka will get a shot at the World Title!
Dusty Rhodes pinned Johnny Rodz with the Bionic Elbowdrop in 0:04:56.
Rating: ****
Dusty Rhodes' popularity continues to rise in GCW as he continues to get huge ovations no matter where we go. Rhodes had a match with Johnny Rodz here, whose unpredictable act tonight was wrestling in a vest. Yes, a vest. The Vest of Power did him little to no good, as Rhodes didn't have much of a problem putting Rodz away.
Dean Ho and Tony Garea defeated The Graham Brothers (Billy Graham and Luke Graham) when Ho defeated B. Graham by disqualification in 0:08:33.
Rating: * 3/4
Dean Ho & Tony Garea now hold a victory over the Graham Brothers, but they certainly didn't look like winners when this one was over. Billy & Luke have been inconsolable since not being able to regain the tag titles from Larry Zbyszko & Dino Bravo, and they took it out on Ho & Garea. The Grahams got disqualified, choosing to beat the tar out of their opponents instead of trying to win. So Ho & Garea win the match, but had to be helped to the back when it was all said and done. The Grahams left screaming about wanting another shot at the gold.
Pedro Morales made Blackjack Lanza submit to the Boston Crab in 0:17:10.
Rating: ** 1/4
Pedro Morales has had some recent troubles with the Blackjacks, and those troubles continued with his match against Blackjack Lanza. The referee was a lot better focused than last month when Morales lost to Blackjack Mulligan thanks to Lanza's interference, so tonight, Terry Taranova sent Mulligan to the back right away. Bobby Heenan put up a huge fuss, saying that Lanza would wrestle this match under protest. Morales didn't care about all that - he just wanted to win, and he did just that in a hotly contested match with his patented Boston Crab. Morales' celebration was cut short when Mulligan returned and blasted Morales in the back with a branding iron! Morales was knocked out cold and left laid out by the Blackjacks for the second show in a row.
The Dirtbags (Dick Murdoch and Stan Hansen) defeated Gorilla Monsoon and Sgt. Slaughter when Hansen pinned Monsoon with the Lariat in 0:11:18.
Rating: *** 1/2
The Dirtbags came out licking their wounds after the battles with Dusty Rhodes & Pedro Morales, and they need to get some wins under their belt to get on the right track. Gorilla Monsoon & Sgt. Slaughter are another new team, and they have been making great strides as well. Murdoch & Hansen gained a huge win here thanks to Hansen's raw and wild Lariat clocked Monsoon for the 3 count.
Jack Brisco defeated Mr. Wrestling I by disqualification in 0:06:49.
Rating: ** 1/2
If there was any question about where Mr. Wrestling I's intentions lies, they were put to bed tonight. Something changed in Mr. Wrestling I when he was injured, and it's not good. Brisco got the advantage early on I with some great mat wrestling, frustrating the masked man. When I finally put a little distance between himself and Brisco, he grabbed the ring bell and cracked Brisco in the skull with it! No accidents, no excuses - Mr. Wrestling I is scum. When Brisco came to after the shot, he had a look of rage we have never seen on his face before, and he sprinted to the locker room in search of Mr. Wrestling I.
Billy Robinson and Bobby Duncum battled to a no contest in 0:16:00.
Rating: *** 3/4
(Bobby Duncum retained the GCW Intercontinental Title.)
[Dory Funk Jr. interfered against Bobby Duncum.]
[Dory Funk Jr. interfered against Billy Robinson.]
Intercontinental champion Bobby Duncum & Billy Robinson have developed a respect for each other over the past few months, aiding each other in battles against Dory Funk Jr. & Don Muraco. But tonight, it wasn't about respect - it was about the IC Title. Duncum had it, Robinson wanted it. This had the potential to be a special match, and as the match wore on, it was looking like it could turn out to be one of the all-time classics. That is, until Dory Funk Jr. got involved and attacked both men, leaving referee Terry Taranova no choice but to rule this one a no contest. Both men were exhausted from the match and were prone to Funk's attacks, which culminated in Funk locking on the Texas Cloverleaf on Billy Robinson before officials could get the situation under control. Funk & Robinson will meet in a match in Toronto to determine the new #1 contender to the IC Title.
Ivan Koloff pinned Peter Maivia with the Russian Sickle in 0:14:30.
Rating: ** 3/4
"The Russian Bear" Ivan Koloff is not happy with what Captain Lou Albano makes him do, but he doesn't have a choice. A man who doesn't care about Koloff's plight is Peter Maivia, who has been the victim of Koloff's forced actions in the past. Maivia wants to take it out of Koloff's hide, and the Russian Bear is never one to duck a fight. That is exactly what this match turned into - a fight. What really started as an unfortunate misunderstanding seems to have spiraled into much more. Though Koloff would officially get the win with the Russian Sickle, it seemed only to be a technicality as the fight went on after the bell. This isn't the last we've heard from this one.
Larry Zbyszko and Dino Bravo defeated
The Valiant Brothers (Jimmy Valiant and Johnny Valiant) when Bravo pinned Johnny Valiant after a gutwrench suplex in 0:23:14.
Rating: ** 3/4
(Larry Zbyszko and Dino Bravo retained the GCW World Tag Team Titles.)
[Lou Albano interfered against Dino Bravo.]
[Lou Albano interfered against Larry Zbyszko.]
Though they haven't been impressing Captain Lou Albano all that much recently, he managed to get the Valiant Brothers a World Tag Team Title shot against Larry Zbyszko & Dino Bravo here in Boston. Johnny & Jimmy fought with a little extra "oomph," knowing that winning tag team gold would turn it all around in a heartbeat. But the problem is, no team in the world is hotter than Zbyszko & Bravo, who gain more and more confidence with each match. The Valiants got close, but not close enough as the champions retain their titles.
Albano was irate after the match, chewing the Valiants out for their loss. Johnny & Jimmy took it until Albano spit at them, which sent them into a rage. They didn't get a chance to get a hold of Albano though, as NIKOLAI VOLKOFF & IVAN KOLOFF were beating the stuffing out of them! The Valiants were left an unconscious mess by Albano's Russian beasts.
Cage Match:
Ernie Ladd defeated Killer Kowalski by escaping the cage in 0:21:21.
Rating: *** 1/2
Ernie Ladd was still wearing a protective bandage on his ear from the heinous injury he suffered at the hands of Killer Kowalski, but there was nothing that was going to keep him out of this main event steel cage match with the perpetrator of the violent assault. These two are veterans of many ring wars, and although they may not be what they used to, they're still as intense as ever. And both men have notorious reputations for doing whatever it takes to win. This was a knock out, drag out brawl from the opening bell, and both men used the cage expertly as a weapon. Two crimson masks were the result and a rabid crowd got to see a great fight. Ladd managed to survive Kowalski's Claw to fight back and hit the Boot to the Face before exiting the cage door, getting his revenge in brutal fashion.
Card rating: ***
Match observations:
We visit our friends north of the border in Toronto on April 30 for our next huge GCW event!
WORLD TITLE - Harley Race (c) vs. Jimmy Snuka
NON-TITLE - Bobby Duncum vs. Don Muraco
WORLD TAG TEAM TITLES - Larry Zbyszko/Dino Bravo (c) vs. Nikolai Volkoff/Ivan Koloff
Jack Brisco vs. Mr. Wrestling I
#1 CONTENDER FOR THE IC TITLE - Billy Robinson vs. Dory Funk Jr.
Pedro Morales/Ernie Ladd vs. The Blackjacks


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The kind angels at Nekojam kindly gifted Mango a Foobler for a review! And if you have a timid dog, I think this will help you!
If you haven't heard of this awesome product, it's
"A self-reloading puzzle feeder for your dog with a real bell that challenges, stimulates and feeds your dog for up to 9 hours."
More info after the jump! Read on!
Why you should get it:
I saw the awesome Kickstarter Project (that has been funded) when it first came out, and it tempted me because:
- It's an IQ toy! I want Mango to exercise that brain of his. Who doesn't want a smarter, problem-solving dog?
- It's self-reloading! 6 pods = dispensing 6x!
- Time-release. I can keep dog occupied from 1.5hours to up to 9hours (!!) if I set the dispense timer, ranging from 15/30/60/90 minutes.
- The bell that signals that pod is being "reloaded" to dog, so game starts all over again! Pavlovian response much?
- Physical and mental stimulation. It's not exactly easy to get the food out, so some movement on dog's part is required. Eat and exercise, why not?
- This might be a solution for dogs who gobble their food! Really taking "eating slow" onto another level.
My Concerns:
I did not buy it during the Kickstarter project as Mango has some issues like:
- Mango is wary of toys bigger than his head.
- He has a fear plastic toys, or more like the sounds they make when they hit/roll around on the floor.
- He's wary of erratic movements (toys/humans/cats/anything)
- He isn't too fond of balls.
- He plays very gently with toys, and the Foobler requires some major pushing/nudging to get it going.
- I don't like the idea of him eating off the floor and leaving drool everywhere.
- I was afraid I would be spending money on the Foobler and he's not going to touch it, at all.
That said, don't worry! If I can get Mango to overcome his fear, I don't see why you can't do it too if your dog has issues like him! Read on~
I wonder if they will actually make a Foobler for cats. It will be good if it's a little smaller for cats, because this size and weight…. is definitely not suitable for any of my cats. Muffin is curious about it but it didn't budge when she pawed it, so she lost interest soon. Let me know if anyone tries it with their cat(s) and succeed!
Foobler, up close and personal:
What I did with Mango (for cautious/fearful dogs):
For cautious/fearful dogs who are afraid of big/moving/noisy (because plastic rolling on floor is noisy compared to a soft toy) toys, there's a steeper learning curve. But it's still achievable!
What I did in steps: (increase when dog is comfortable)
- Don't insert batteries. Batteries give the Foobler weight, which in turn makes it more difficult to tumble around for dogs who are afraid of such toys.
- Don't shake the Foobler (I did it to test Mango out then he stood outside the room, furthest from the Foobler for a day. Bad move). Leave it in the middle of the floor, let dog explore. (Mango simply stood the furthest he could get from the Foobler at first)
- Scatter treats around Foobler. Encourage dog to approach it for the treats.
- Place treats on the Foobler's cover's grooves. Encourages dog to touch the Foobler.
- Place treats under the Foobler. Encourages dog to nudge the Foobler to get the treats under the Foobler.
- Place some treats dangling from the dispensing holes in the outer shell. Lets dog know that "food comes from here!" (though I may have gotten this step wrong, but this was what I did to help Mango).
Fill pod that is located nearest the dispensing hole at the bottom (the outer shell has 2 dispensing holes) and allocate that pod to be the current dispensing one, with yummy treats, all the way to the brim for easy dispensing. You want dog to just nudge it and food comes out to let dog associate Foobler = yummy food. I discovered that the above method works best for Mango as just one light nudge with a full pod will dispense food! Helps to encourage him to do it more often! (Not sure if you understand what I'm trying to say though…)
- Put yummier treats at the bottom of the pod, and layer with kibbles till full. Dog learns that he needs to work harder for the yummier bits inside!
- Adjust dispensing pod to next one to increase difficulty.
- Insert batteries to increase weight of Foobler. Start from the same pod in Step 7.
- Adjust dispensing pod to next one to increase difficulty. (Mango is currently at this stage, but will progress as written here)
- Turn on Foobler, let dog hear the chime, treat dog near it. Chime = food! Turn off Foobler, use as per normal, try the chime again later. Repeat until dog comes to Foobler when it chimes.
- Put a little food in all pods and reward when dog touches Foobler after chime (hang around Foobler at the timing you set).
- Try leaving dog with Foobler for 2 consecutive chime intervals and watch dog. If wary, repeat Step 13 till dog is comfortable then proceed to leave dog alone with Foobler for the day.
- Ta-dahhh! You have a Foobler professional now!
The above steps are what I've come up with for Mango due to his fear of things that are erratic, makes noise and bigger than his head. Currently, we're at Step 11 and I'm waiting for him to be a little rougher with the Foobler then I'll proceed with Step 11!
Some posts from Mango's Instagram account.
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Mango is naturally wary of things that make tons of noise. This is his first contact with the Foobler, and that's the furthest he can stay from it in my room. I've been trying to get him to play with it, to see if I can get a dog who is not inclined to play with such toys, to play! Also, I like how I can set the timer to rotate to 6 different pods inside so the food doesn't all fall out at a go! Soo…. That was 4 days ago on Sunday! He's getting better, now knowing how to nudge it!! The Foobler is exclusively brought in by @nekojam and you can now get it at a special price of $59.90 (U.P $70) before the end of Oct!!! Quick go get yours!!! #MangoTheSheltie
Mango's first few encounters with the Foobler. Totally standing at the other end of the room.
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Overly gentle dog playing with the Floobler. Took 4 days for him to start touching it. So it is possible to train any dog! Haha though I find it amusing when he goes around in circles cos the opening moves when he tries to eat from there instead of nudging to dispense the treats. Head over to @nekojam to get yours at a introductory price today! Valid till end Oct. Which is till tomorrow. Go now! #fooblerallstars #foobler #MangoTheSheltie
Day 4; Overly gentle Mango attempting to get some treats! Still scared but willing to nudge it. Took 4 days for him to touch it voluntarily.
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Stalking Mango play the #foobler from the toilet. I think removing the batteries lowers the learning curve by quite a bit, if your dog is not inclined to such play. It makes it easier to dispense food without the additional weight!! Look at Mango rock the Foobler!! Haha Day 6 and he's getting it! Get the Foobler from @nekojam! He's slowly becoming one of the #fooblerallstars!! Hehe
Day 5; removed the batteries to lower the learning curve and it worked! Foobler is easier to roll around and dispense treats!
Day 9; Willing to nudge it more actively/harder now.
Day 11; Dribbling the Foobler now! No longer just nudging it.
Day 20; Lent the Foobler to bf to try on his sis' dog Cobie (pomeranian) for a week+ and this is right after getting it back. Not bad! He still knows how it works! And silly dog pushed it into a dead end.
Day 30; Rotated the dispensing pods and once he got used to the increased difficulty, then proceeded to add batteries into the power pod here! The slow increase in difficulty didn't deter him from getting the food out and in fact, he's starting to nudge it harder! Hehe
Rolling the Foobler like a pro now! He nudges it harder now so it dispenses more readily.
Why I love the Foobler:
- It keeps Mango occupied.
- He now eats very slowly, which is awesome because he gobbles his kibbles.
- Mental stimulation. Every time I adjust the difficulty, I can see him trying to figure out what works now.
- Boosts his confidence. He's less afraid of trying new things, hearing loud noises and erratic movements!
Why should I buy from Nekojam?
You can now get the Foobler from Nekojam, here!
Nekojam is the exclusive retailer for the Foobler in Singapore.
Also, quote "MANGO" at checkout to receive a $5 discount*!!
*Valid for regular-priced Fooblers only.
For more information on the Foobler:
(some links can be found in this entry but consolidated here for easy reference)
- Foobler Homepage
- Kickstarter Page
- Nekojam – Foobler Information
- Nekojam's #FooblerAllStars & more reviews!
- Nekojam – Shop now!
What are you waiting for? Buy buy buy! Remember to quote "MANGO" at checkout to receive a $5 discount*!
*Valid for regular-priced Fooblers only.
Note: This entry is entirely my own views and opinions on the Foobler which Nekojam kindly gifted to Mango. You can obviously tell how much I love it. Hehe.
Thank you Nekojam!