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Higher risk of heart problems in Wagga's indigenous community
Aboriginal people in the Riverina are more than twice as likely as non-indigenous people to be hospitalised for heart-related conditions.
The latest figures on this "ratio gap" have been released by the Australian Heart Foundation.
With a gap of 2.1 per cent, the Riverina ranked 33 out of 47 regions.
The Riverina's result was narrower than the national average 2.6, and bang on the NSW state average of 2.1.
"I think it's important that we look at the circumstances people are living in."Wiradjuri man Greg Packer
The new Australian "heart maps" data was released by the Heart Foundation's Aboriginal engagement manager, Corey Turner, and health equity manager, Jane Potter.
"We cannot be complacent about the rates of heart disease being experienced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, as heart disease is responsible for around one quarter of the gap in life expectancy compared to non-indigenous Australians," said Ms Potter.
"In some parts of Western Australia and the Northern Territory, the hospitalisation rates are over four times higher than for non-indigenous people living in the same region."
The figures came as no surprise to Wiradjuri man Greg Packer, who worked in health for more than 30 years, and says concerns about indigenous health issues are nothing new.
Mr Packer also believes improving the health of the indigenous community would be a flow-on effect from increased employment opportunities.
"It's all about creating employment," he said.
"I think it's important that we look at the circumstances people are living in."
Mr Packer said many families with limited budgets were making food choices based on cost rather than nutritional value.
"They're buying the cheapest food they can get, and this food isn't always the best for health."
Mr Packer said one survey he had helped to conduct – which had gathered the views of about 50 indigenous families from around Wagga – had found they were eating a lot of inexpensive meat products, such as sausages or mince.
"They were eating red meat three times a day," he said.
Mr Packer said there were no "quick fixes" to improve the health of indigenous people.
"But, there needs to be more education programs in health," he said.
"The younger people play a lot of sport, but as they get older and start to retire from these sports, they're no longer getting enough exercise."
The Heart Foundation said there was also a historical distrust of mainstream health services among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
"This can mean that many will delay seeking medical help at their local clinic (if they have one) in time to prevent being hospitalised," Mr Turner said.
"They can also discharge themselves early against medical advice because they are so anxious about being in hospital, beginning a cycle of poor outcomes and repeat admissions."
Like Mr Packer, Mr Turner recognised the importance of good education, secure employment, adequate housing and access to affordable healthy food.
"We know that 24 per cent of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people aged over 15 reported having run out of food in the previous 12 months – in remote areas, as many as 36 per cent. People in remote areas pay the highest prices for food, particularly fresh fruit and vegetables, which are harder to come by," Mr Turner said.


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Please, your royal highness, pay me my money. That's the plea from a world-renowned wood craftsman who is struggling to recover R111,000 for luxury thrones he made for Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini and his wives more than four years ago.
Despite a legal bid to recover the money he is owed, Kuber Eadhev Singh's demands have fallen on deaf ears as numerous telephone calls and statements sent to the king's office in Nongoma have been ignored.
Singh, 78, from KwaDukuza in KwaZulu-Natal, who has carved gifts for the British royal family and US presidents, has attempted to recover the money owed to him for two thrones, a table for the royal stick, a podium for the Zulu monarch, a throne for each of his seven wives, 10 tables on which the queens could put their handbags and three tea trays.
So fed up was Singh that in 2017 he served the king's office with summons demanding payment for the furniture he had made for the Zulu royal family, but it was also ignored.
In the summons, Singh said he was approached in March 2014 at his firm, Woodfurn Furniture Manufacturers, by the king's aide, Nhlamvuyelanga Sithole, who brought with him as a sample an armchair that he said belonged to the Zulu king.
Sithole asked him to manufacture two chairs matching the upholstery and colour of the sample and also asked for seven chairs, a podium and 10 tables.
Singh quoted Sithole, who used to come to his factory several times a week to monitor progress, R160,000 for the job but with a R48,763 discount provided payment was made within 30 days of receipt of the goods.
Singh said Sithole told him the king had agreed to the R111,264, to be paid by the now defunct royal household department. This department was disbanded by the KwaZulu-Natal government in 2015 and replaced with the royal household trust, in a bid to make the king and royal family self-sustainable.
Singh said that after the furniture had been delivered, Sithole then said the king's office in Nongoma would pay the bill.
Singh said he had used "all means possible" to get his money and had "tried to avoid the issue of summons" out of respect for the royals and to avoid embarrassing the king.
The king's spokesman, Prince Thulani Zulu, said he was aware of the matter but referred queries to Sithole, who, having previously said the matter was being dealt with and having attributed the delay to the provincial government's decision to disband the royal household department, did not respond to an e-mail and SMSes sent to him.

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APRA has released a draft Prudential Practice Guide on Residential Mortgage Lending, which aims to provide guidance to approved deposit-taking institutions to reinforce the importance of maintaining lending practice standards. The draft Guide was released in late May 2014.
The detailed nature of the guidance given in the draft Prudential Practice Guide and the frequent use throughout the draft guide of directive expressions is indicative of APRA's concerns. Expressions used frequently include:
… a prudent ADI would be expected to …
… it would be prudent for an ADI to …
… APRA expects that an ADI would …
… in APRA's view, it is not prudent to …
For example, in the draft guide, the word "prudent" is used 81 times and the expression "good practice" 24 times.
The draft guide indicates APRA will take a more robust approach to supervision in this area. The mortgage origination industry has expressed concern over comments in the draft guide about the increased riskiness of brokered loans and the comments about use of "clawbacks".
If the draft Prudential Practice Guide is eventually adopted, it will have a significant effect upon:
- The policies and procedures of ADIs relating to residential mortgage lending
- The type of loan products that will be able to be offered by ADIs in Australia.
The prescriptive nature of the draft Prudential Practice Guide is more understandable when viewed in the context of APRA's concerns. In the press release, accompanying the draft, the following comments are made:
"APRA chairman Dr John Laker says credit standards and residential mortgage lending have been a major focus of APRA's prudential supervision of ADIs, particularly, in the current environment of strong pricing pressures in some housing markets and very active competition between lenders.
In this environment, APRA has seen increasing evidence of lending with higher risk characteristics and it does not want this trend to continue. The draft Prudential Practice Guide reinforces the importance of maintaining prudential lending practice standards when competitive pressures may tempt otherwise, Dr Laker said."
In this update we do not attempt to summarise the draft Prudential Practice Guide – it is too detailed to attempt such a summary and do the draft guide justice. However, we note that the draft guide covers all relevant areas of residential mortgage lending including:
- Establishing a risk management framework and APRA's expectations of an ADI board in relation to residential
- Determining an appropriate "risk appetite".
- Establishing and maintaining robust management information systems.
- Appropriate remuneration structures – guarding against reward for risk scenarios.
- Loan origination processes, including serviceability assessments, how to assess and verify information and integration of buffer arrangements.
- APRA's expectations with regard to a loan origination by third parties and the suggestion that such processes may have a higher risk profile.
- Use of scorecards and their limitations.
- Analysis of risk profile of specific loan types, such as interest-only loans, foreign currency loans, home equity loans, loans with non-standard/alternate documentation and reverse mortgages.
- Valuation of security issues, in particular, valuation methodologies, loan to valuation ratios and use of guarantors.
- Detailed guidance in relation to hardship loans and collections, with particular emphasis on the change in risk profile for ADIs in this area.
- Stress testing generally.
- Issues relating to lender's mortgage insurance, in particular guarding against over-reliance upon mortgage insurance in circumstances where claims may be denied or reduced.
- Ensuring that robust procedures are introduced to ensure compliance with LMI policy terms to limit risk of claims being denied or reduced.
We strongly recommend that all organisations and individuals involved in the residential mortgage lending space read this new APRA draft Prudential Practice Guide and consider how it is likely to impact on their business if adopted in its present format. The consultation period is still open so submissions can be made by concerned parties.


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More than 300 Westchester community and business leaders and residents came together on Tuesday night for the WJCS-Westchester Jewish Community Services Gala at Brae Burn Country Club in Harrison, New York. The highly successful Gala raised funds to support WJCS mental health, educational, parenting, disabilities, geriatric, home care, and other programs for people of all ages and backgrounds in Westchester. Watch highlights from our 2018 Gala here.
The Gala honored Suzanne Yearley, a Scarsdale resident, professional chef, cooking teacher, and longtime supporter and Board member of WJCS, and Robert Wiener, a Mamaroneck resident, Chairman of Maxx Properties, founder of the WJCS Wiener Academy for Young Women and passionate supporter of a host of additional philanthropic WJCS efforts that are enabling a successful trajectory for Westchester youth and families.
During a Give for Good Auction, in which attendees bid on where their charitable dollars are directed, WJCS provided an up-close look at the work they do to change lives. The program featured a video of and live appearance by Tenika, a victim of childhood sexual abuse who credits WJCS counseling and support with becoming a victor over her past trauma. She no longer allows the abuse she suffered to define her or shape her future.
Malik, a polite and poised third grader from Edward Williams Elementary School in Mt. Vernon, spoke about the activities from which he benefits at WJCS's Afterschool Advantage program which enable him to succeed at homework assignments, participate in a chorus and instrumental music playing, do STEM projects, and learn how to be a stand-up citizen.
Sarah, a parent from Hastings on the Hudson, shared her family's experience with WJCS Center Lane, the only teen center for LGBTQ youth in Westchester. She said that she and her husband found it "excruciatingly painful" at first when their child, who was assigned female at birth, began identifying as male. Attending Transparentcy, Center Lane's program for parents of Trans children, gave her and her husband "immediate comfort." Being in a room with adults who understood how disorienting parenting Trans children can feel and for Dylan, their child, "meeting other Trans teens in person, not just online," was life changing. "I'm not sure where we'd have ended up if we hadn't found Center Lane and Transparentcy when we did," she said.
For Shayna, joining Shelanu, WJCS's Jewish friendship program for people on the Autism Spectrum or with other developmental issues, "changed my life." A monthly calendar filled with gardening, bowling, film dates, dinners at restaurants, sports, baking, jewelry-making, Rye Playland visits, and even social skills classes has filled what was once an empty social schedule. Shelanu provides Jewish holiday and Shabbat programs, and emphasizes the importance of giving back. "Sometimes we make goodie bags for a local homeless shelter. We have collected hats, gloves, and small toys to donate at the holidays….It would be very boring if I never found Shelanu and never met any of these friends."
The 2018 Gala celebrated the 75th Anniversary of WJCS, which "has been inextricably connected with the Westchester community" since 1943, said CEO Alan Trager.
Throughout its seven-plus decade history, "WJCS has been committed to building the strength and resilience of our neighbors, of all ages and backgrounds, who face significant challenges," said WJCS Board President Neil Sandler. "With our comprehensive range of programs overseen by compassionate professionals, we provide 20,000 people annually a blanket of services that improves their lives in the most fundamental and significant ways."
The funds raised at the Gala will provide much-needed human services, for issues related to mental health, parenting, after school programs, autism, disabilities, home care, geriatric, and other services. MasterCard was honored as a corporate partner.
View the 2018 Gala Journal here.
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Classic Car Week on a Budget
For 10 days the third week in August, car enthusiasts from around the world converge on the Monterey Peninsula. I know very little about cars, other than I drive a blue one. But I was fascinated by the cars that filled our narrow streets that week.
While entry to the majority of the events surrounding the Concours d'Elegance cost well outside our pocketbook, (The Quail Motorsports Gathering $450, Pebble Beach Concours $250, Concorse Italiano $150, Reunion at Mazada Raceway Laguna Seca $70) we managed to enjoy a number of events within our budget.Before one thinks that these exorbitant prices serve only the rich and famous crowd, take note that part of these high price tickets go to charities, such as the Pebble BeachCompany Foundation which funds numerous grants for the youth of Monterey County.
What can someone on a budget enjoy at the Concours d' Elegance? Shhh now don't tell anyone, but…
Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca Pre-Reunion
($20 per person includes parking)
($20 per person includes parking)
For the first time, the Pre-Reunion was open to the general public. Our ticket price included free parking, access to the paddock, grandstand bleacher seats and no crowds!
We closely examined and admired touring and racing cars from 1929 to 1989, candidly talked to the owners, asked dumb questions, and snapped photographs without other people blocking the way.
Once the racing started we sat in the bleachers with an unobstructed view of the cars as they came into Turn 4 and then attempted to pass one another on the straightaway before Turn 5. Note to self – bring sun screen next year.
Concours on the Avenue
Carmel-by-the-Sea (Free)
Carmel-by-the-Sea (Free)
It's 8am on a Tuesday morning, Ocean Avenue from Junipero to Monte Verde and surrounding side streets are blocked off to regular traffic. In the early hours of the morning, just as the coffee houses are opening, the streets are eerily empty of cars and people. The next three hours will be the best time to view the cars at the Concours on the Avenue.
Grab a cup of coffee at Cafe Carmel and walk down the middle of Ocean Avenue to San Carlos. Here, 175 classic cars are beginning to line up. Their owners will form three rows between Seventh and Ninth Avenue, revving their motors as they wait for the signal to continue on to Ocean Avenue and their assigned spot for the Concours.
The actual event starts at 10am and runs until 5pm, but if you prefer to view the cars and talk to the owners at your leisure without the crowds, go early.
After viewing all the cars on Ocean Avenue, I still don't understand much about what is under the hood, in the trunk, on the floor or dash of most cars. What have I learned? That cars come in all sorts of shapes and sizes, some with fancy grill work, wings, hood ornaments or tops, and most come in pretty shinny bright colors.
Pebble Beach Tour d'Elegance
($9.25 price of the ticket into the 17 Mile Drive)
($9.25 price of the ticket into the 17 Mile Drive)
8:30am Thursday morning I was parked inside the Carmel Gate on the 17 Mile Drive about ½ mile from the Lodge on my own private turn out. Quite surprised that very few others had the same idea I had, that of following (some might call it stalking) the cars as they drove the Pebble Beach Tour d' Elegance to Big Sur and back.
Just as I settled into my lawn chair with the morning paper and a cup of coffee I heard the loud buzzing of motors. A moment later a motorcycle officer led the procession of around 190 cars built between 1903 and 1954 around the bend in the road, drivers and passengers waving or tipping their hat as they passed. No time to lounge, the parade had begin.
Not alone this time in my idea, I arrived to find most of the few available pull off spots already taken. I managed to park in a safe spot and walk back to the north entrance to the Rocky Creek Bridge and wait.
Someone with binoculars spotted the touring cars to the north on the stretch of highway coming our way alerting us all to our camera ready positions.
As the last car (or what I thought was the last car) passed, I headed back to meet friends in Carmel and view the cars arriving on Ocean Avenue around 11:30. As I made the turn at Highway One and Rio Road, some of the slower cars were just passing through this intersection on their way south.
Up to this point I had run into very few "crowds." That is because while I was following the tour up and down Highway One, the rest of the world was lining Ocean Avenue. Still we managed to squish ourselves into a prime location to view the cars as they entered Ocean Avenue just before noon.
The cars remained parked on Ocean until 3PM that day. The crowds were huge, but plenty of time to walk and admire these historical cars.
Total spent for three days of events for a family of four at the Concours d'Elegance on a budget, $89.25 and about 4 gallons of gas, but remember this is our secret!
Until next time Happy Adventures!
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Elwood conveys Calvin's life and theology well in a sympathetic but brief format. However, the undercurrents of liberal thought mean that I do not recommend this book. Despite this, I was at time challenged deeply by the summary of Calvin's theology, which is a credit to him more than the author.
The Argument of the Book
Elwood's book had the following structure (mine not his):
- Calvin's life (Chapters 1-2)
- Calvin's theology (Chapter 3)
- Calvin's controversies and concluded life (Chapter 4)
- Calvin's legacy (Chapter 5).
Primary Audience & Purpose
The audience is "armchair theologians", and they are expected to know a reasonable amount beforehand. Elwood's purpose is to summarise Calvin's life and thought.
Literary Features of the Book
Hovel Audio's audiobook is excellent. The writing style is engaging, yet at a certain stage Elwood referred to God alternately as he or she which is unacceptable.
Is it Faithful?
Elwood argues successfully that Calvin was not a monster. His life is told well and sympathetically. His theology is presented (by summarising the Institutes) faithfully.
However, in the last section Calvin is called a father of liberalism, the author even claiming if Calvin had today's "critical scholarship" he may have been a liberal. This is frankly quite the opposite of everything Calvin stood for and was a terrible oversight.
Is it Christ centred?
Calvin's theology is and this shines through. However, the concluding chapter is well off track. Moreover the enthusiastic support is given squarely to Calvin not Christ, something he would surely despise.


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15 Useful key offers when using Gmail
- 1 Gmail shortcuts are always on
- 2 Gmail shortcuts need to be activated
If you regularly work through Gmail, useful shortcuts will save you a lot of time. Gmail has a lot of shortcuts, however, in this article, we will only mention 15 shortcuts that CNET deems most useful.
Gmail breaks the shortcuts into two groups: the group is always on and the group needs to be activated. To see all the shortcuts that Gmail supports, ring the Shift + key combination? when in Gmail inbox.
Gmail shortcuts are always on
Open the message
You can use the Up or Up keys on the keyboard to move in the inbox. You will see a thin blue vertical scroll line located on the left side of the mailbox when pressing these scroll buttons. To open the message, press Enter.
Move in a conversation
When you are viewing an email, press the N key to go to the next message or press P to go to the previous message in the conversation. Press Enter to open or collapse these messages.
Gmail shortcuts need to be activated
To activate these shortcuts, you need to click the gear icon located in the upper right corner, select Settings. On the General tab, scroll down to the Keyboard shortcuts section, select Keyboard shortcuts on (Turn on the shortcut). Finally, select Save changes located at the bottom.
Prepare new messages
Press C to edit a new message. Use Shift + C to compose a message in a new window or press D to type a message in a new tab.
Move to the previous or next email
When you open an email, press the J key to move to the next email or the K key to move to the previous email in the inbox.
Refresh or return to the inbox
Press U to refresh or return to the inbox if you are opening an email.
Select the message
To select a message from the inbox, move the blue vertical bar to the email to be manipulated and press the X key.
Turn off a conversation
Select the conversation to turn off and press M. This will bring the conversation out of the inbox and any future replies will no longer appear in this. If this message is sent or cc directly to you, it will still appear in the inbox.
Move mail to trash or archive
With the messages you have selected in the inbox, press # (equivalent to Shift + 3) to move it to the trash. If you want to move it to the archive, press the E key.
Hide messages
Select the message in the inbox and press the B button to hide it. This message will be removed from the inbox and will be displayed again at the top of the mailbox at the time you set up earlier.
Star the conversation
When viewing the inbox, you can press the S button to star the conversation. You don't need to choose a conversation to bookmark, just move that blue vertical bar to where you need it. Press S again to remove an asterisk.
Move quickly to the search bar
When you're viewing your inbox, you can press the / key to move quickly to the search box on top.
Answer, answer all and forward
When opening a conversation, press the R key to answer it. Press A to answer all and F key to forward. If you want to open in a new window, press the Shift key with the same key as the operation you want.
Send Message
Press Tab + Enter key combination to send the message.
Some orders move elsewhere
There are quite a few commands using G. This is the 6 most useful shortcuts.
- G + A: Move to all mail.
- G + I: Move to the Primary inbox (Primary).
- G + S: Move to starred messages (Starred).
- G + D: Move to Draft.
- G + T: Move to the sent mail (Sent).
- G + C: Move to Contact (Contacts).
The commands use the asterisk key
There are 3 useful commands using the * key (Shift + 8) including:
- * + A: Select all mail.
- * + N: Cancel all mail selections.
- * + U: Select all unread mail.
Using shortcuts is quite convenient and will save a lot of time. Use them, you will definitely love it.
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I was reading Tom Taylor the other morning, and happened across this news item out of Boston:
John Hogan, David Field and Peter Smyth meet in Boston for today's Ad Club "Radio Day."
CBS Radio is also participating in a presentation for the Ad Club that starts with a keynote from Hill Holliday CEO Mike Sheehan. And in a smart move, the stations are bringing out some of their top talent for a panel moderated by MPG's Ellen Comley. Among the stars – Matty Siegel of CC's Kiss 108/WXKS-FM, Kevin Karlson & Pete McKenzie of WZLX, WAAF morning guy Greg Hill and WTKK midday host Michael Graham. Arbitron's sponsoring the event and its Pierre Bouvard is speaking about – what else? – the PPM electronic measurement system that takes over from the diary next month. Why is this all important? Group heads, top executives, headline talent – it all brings excitement to the ad community and says "we're important, we matter."
When you think about it, this is one very smart event. But why did radio have to wait for Arbitron to sponsor it? Why isn't the RAB, in conjunction with broadcasters in each town, putting on their own dog-and-pony shows to remind advertisers about radio's local power and impact?
And of course, Tom's emphasis in the headline says a great deal about what has gone wrong in radio. It's all about the CEOs. The DJs and personalities are buried deeper in the story.
Now don't get me wrong - when advertisers see that Hogan, Field, and Smyth have shown up at a big local media event, it communicates that these guys and their companies are as serious as heart attacks about promoting local radio. And that's a good thing. These moguls bring credibility to the table, and can be effective cheerleaders in encouraging agencies to keep thinking "radio."
But what will all those buyers be talking about when they get back to their shops? Having their picture taken with Matty Siegel. Or getting in Michael Graham's grill about the stimulus package. Or yukking it up with Karlson & McKenzie. Those are the stories, those are the pictures that were emailed, and that's the source of the celebrity that this event really showcased.
The industry lost its compass when CEOs and consolidators started overshadowing the talent on the air. We have long pointed out the misplaced priorities of an entertainment industry that celebrates its captains of industry more than its on-air stars who keep you listening every morning on your way to work. But Radio Ink's "40 Most Powerful' list has been out-of-sync with radio's real celebrities for more than a decade.
While radio has thought that its success was all about Mel Karmazin or Lowry Mays, the true stars of the show were Howard Stern, Rush Limbaugh, and Ryan Seacrest, along with the hundreds of local celebrities from Pierre Robert to Todd & Tyler to Geoff Charles. They're the straws that stir the radio drink, and they're the ones that local media honchos want to see, meet, and hang out with.
A number of years ago, a client station trotted me out to an important agency to present some research we'd conducted, in the hope of regaining some lost credibility and more media buys. In the process, they also brought their morning guy, a controversial male-centric DJ with a checkered image, especially among "agency types." Well, you can guess what happened. The buyers and planners politely looked at my data, while it was the erstwhile morning guy who stole the show. They hung with him, had their pictures taken, and had a great, memorable, buzz-worthy experience. I was pure "second stage" to his star power.
As it should be. Radio needs to take inventory of its assets. In the midst of all the mass firings, how many babies have been tossed aside during each month's funiture burning episode? As CEOs ask themselves how many more people can they jettison before a station's brand hemmorhages, perhaps they should more carefully consider who is really putting food on the table, butts in seats, and keeping those PPM meters humming.
Instead of continuing to bludgeon its across-the street competitors, radio ought to start focusing on its real predators - your mobile phone, Pandora, TiVo, videogames, etc. And perhaps radio also ought to start focusing on who's the real enemy because it begins with that long look in the mirror. What does radio bring to the table - at least until the next round of cuts - that consumers cannot get at YouTube, SiriusXM, iFart, and Hulu?
It's what hooked us to this business when we were just kids - the local DJ, the personality, the morning team - the hometown stars that are radio's proprietary assets. If Arbitron's Boston Ad Club event was successful, it was because local stations trotted out their best, their brightest, and their funniest. Not CEOs, but DJs.
We should be doing this in every market in the country.
We are so busy wondering how we can beat 99X and B105 that we've lost site of the real competition.
(By the way, for a different "take" on this event from someone who was there, check out Neal Bocian's blog (a local agency head).


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The Coast Guard's annual operation was postponed from Wednesday until Thursday because of the powerful storm that packed hurricane-force winds off the coast. The springtime event aims to break up winter ice in the main channel of the Kennebec River from Merrymeeting Bay to the town of Gardiner.
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Product Managers are Really Super Heroes in Disguise!
There are two really hard jobs inside a company. One is being a CEO, and the other is being a product manager. Both the CEO and product managers are expected to be the most flexible, acrobatic kind of leaders—adjusting to people's styles, making sure to communicate with clarity the requirements of what is needed, translating vision into specifics and constantly at the beck-and-call of many constituents. It's a wonder someone would take either job.
As the point of contact between customer needs and engineering realities, a product manager is the linchpin who can make a product into a market success, or doom it to irrelevance. This determines whether a company lives or dies. Yet, many people don't really get product management. Companies often fail to give product managers the support, training, and empowerment they need to succeed.
This article is my attempt to put the super hero cape onto product managers and to share what I think they need to be successful. Note to all product managers: share this with your boss.
Gone are the days when product managers created things. Some of the existing concepts in the industry today are based on old-school thinking of what constitutes a product. In the 1980's, Porter's model focused on the competitive edge of a company being managed by a silo function: design manufacture build market sell deliver. Product managers had to be the first to see the product definition vision of the silo function, or the market would have moved from underneath the company. It was a 2-year cycle, and it was largely about defining a product and shepherding that product to life.
That's not the case anymore. Products are not the thing, solutions are. But I'll get back to that later. I've been thinking about what constitutes market power in today's era. I have a notion that replaces Porter's model, at least in technology and the Web 2.0 era.
Why does product management matter?
In a word, globalization. More than ever before, efficient and low-cost companies in other parts of the world, some of them government-subsidized, have access to markets in the First World. Many of these companies specialize in the rapid, low-cost production of generic copies of successful products. A company based in the developed world can't win just by making a good product at a reasonable price. To survive, Western companies must innovate—and they must make sure their innovations are compelling enough that customers will value them, even if they cost more. I would also argue that what we need today is "solutions" not "products." That requires an inherently broader aperture to clearly understand the situation.
One of the most successful products in today's market is the iPod™. When Apple® introduced it, the market for MP3 music players was commoditized, and dominated by no-name Asian manufacturers. The company was playing a hardware game, and the customer was expected to do a lot of work to assemble the real solution. Apple created the iPod (the hardware) but what made it "it", was the accompanying iTunes™ music service. Apple's approach made e-music purchase and playback much easier than it had ever been before, and the market rewarded Apple with an estimated 70%+ share in the US market for mobile music players.
The solution is also tied to who is using/deploying the solution. When selling dental implants and crowns, the initial customer isn't the person getting the implant, it's the dentist who sells and installs the implant. For the patient, a major drawback has been the number of visits required to create and install a finished implant. Recently new systems, such as Cerec® from Sirona Dental Systems, Inc., compressed the multiple office visit process to a single visit. The patient's implant is measured in the office, fit is tested on a computer, and the finished ceramic implant is milled by an automated machine in the doctor's office—all while the patient waits. This increases satisfaction for the patient, and saves time and expense for the dentist. Sirona's insight was realizing that the dentist needed an implant production system, not just a medical CAD software program.
On the consumer side of dentistry, Procter & Gamble® realized that there was increasing interest in tooth whitening as the baby boomer generation aged. But conventional tooth whitening meant either a trip to the dentist or the use of uncomfortable home-use trays. P&G™ combined its expertise in fabric bleach, toothpaste, and thin film technology to create Crest Whitestrips®, a product that lets people whiten their teeth by applying a thin bleach-saturated plastic strip to the teeth. Creating this sort of cross-discipline connection is one of the key tasks of product management. The result in P&G's case was a renaissance in the stale and commoditized tooth-care business. Suddenly tooth whitening was easy and convenient, sales took off, and some reports show P&G's Crest® brand displacing Colgate® as the market leader.
The markets for things as simple as tooth cleaning, music, and dental implants are vastly different, but the common thread between these solutions was that the manufacturer had an important insight into the customer's unmet needs and how they could be answered through solutions. Generating that sort of insight is the essence of good product management.
Why does product management fail today?
Theoretically, a product manager's involvement in the development of a product should be concentrated at the beginning and the end of the process. At the beginning, the product manager is responsible for defining the product—who it's for, what problems it will solve, and how big the opportunity. At the end of the process, the product manager is responsible for feeding that information to Marketing, in a form that they can easily transform into messages and deliverables.
The reality at many companies is that the product manager often gets pulled into the middle of the development process as a problem-solver. When there's a risk of a schedule slip, a conflict over resources, or a change in the market, the product manager often attends meetings and researches options, which eats into the time available for their core tasks. Product managers are so overburdened that they can no longer truly lead their products. They can't do the up-front work necessary to define a winning product strategy, or the back-end work to make sure it's marketed properly. The result is inevitably mediocre products that don't hit their sales goals, and product lines that aren't well differentiated from their competitors.
A critical goal for any company's product management process should be to avoid this time trap.
How to get it right?
To get consistent and insightful leadership from product management, a company needs to consider several things to avoid the process from falling apart:
- Create a corporate culture in which product management leads.
- Support product managers with information and peer groups that help them succeed.
- Train product managers to listen properly to three key audiences—customers, competitors, and their own executives.
- Hire product managers and engineers who can collaborate.
1. Create a culture in which product management leads
In many companies, engineers are the kings and queens of the product development process. They build what interests them, or they build what they think some imaginary customer would want, no matter what input they get from others.
Our favorite example was an engineering director who once sent a memo to Product Management saying, "We've finished designing the product, now we need you to write the Market Requirements Document so we can do the launch." That company was once a major technology player; it's now on the verge of bankruptcy.
Sometimes engineering-led companies are successful. If they have brilliant engineers, or if they get lucky, they may manage to hit a sweet spot in the market. But most engineering-driven companies have very inconsistent results. Many of their products will win praise from technophiles, but won't sell in volume. Numerous Asian consumer electronics companies are notorious for this, but they have cost structures that permit them to do "spaghetti development" in which they throw large numbers of products at the market to see what sticks. Western companies, with their higher cost of development, need a much higher success rate.
The ideal culture for success is one in which product development teams acknowledge the leadership of Product Management. They may argue about features and advocate their own ideas, but in the end, the product manager makes the decisions and Engineering carries them out. This is actually a two-way deal—Product Management should decide what needs to be done but let Engineering figure out how to do it. A product manager who starts second-guessing pure Engineering decisions usually ends up neglecting the work that only a product manager can drive.
2. Get the right information and peer support
Product managers' thinking about the market is only as good as the information available to them. That sounds obvious, but it's surprising how many companies make major business decisions based on poor or sparse information.
Companies often depend too heavily on the advice of syndicated industry analysts. Analysts have a valuable point of view, but their advice usually reflects the industry consensus, and most of the analysis companies don't have enough budgeted to do original quantitative research in all the markets they cover. That means most of them are relying on the things they hear from others in your industry, plus their own hunches. That's not a great basis for running a company. I don't want to hear one more person quote Gartner, Inc. or IDC to confirm a market size or trend in a concept review. It's silly to do so.
Be cautious about industry growth forecasts. It is difficult for anyone to predict the future accurately, but asking an analysis company that doesn't do quantitative work to make a forecast is especially risky. The track record of most industry forecasts is remarkably bad. For example, at the start of the decade, the analysts over-forecasted demand in mobile phones, and then significantly under-forecasted demand for mobile phones in each of the last two years. Even worse, much of the growth has come from developing countries, at lower price points than most of the analysts expected. Companies that invested heavily in making expensive "smart phones" for the developed world, a market that was supposed to explode, have suffered.
It's important for a company to do its own original, balanced research as part of the product planning process. In the case of consumer products, or enterprise products deployed broadly, the research should be qualitative and quantitative (in other words, focus groups / 1:1 interviews with early adopters, plus a numerical survey). There are two benefits to doing this research yourself. First, it ensures the quality of your data. And second, it allows your product managers to test the exact ideas they're considering. The more specific the research, the more actionable it will be.
The primary reason companies don't do this is cost. But skimping on research is a false economy if you're investing millions of dollars to develop and market a product. For smaller-scale projects, the Internet has made it much less expensive to conduct quick and simple surveys. There is no excuse for not doing your research.
3. Listen to customers, executives, and competitors
One of the more common questions about product management is why company "A" is successful and company "B" is not. It's often that company "A" somehow does a better job of listening to its customers. But it sounds superficial to imply that success could be so tied to a single axis.
Turn the question around. Rather than asking who listens to customers, we should ask who they listen to, and what they listen for.
There are three primary audiences a product manager needs to listen to:
Customer. It's critical to know what's important from the perspective of those buying and using the product. Take lots of notes, but then step back from all the specific input and ask: What are customer pain points? What are customers doing now to solve the problems? What can you do creatively to solve the problems? Remember that people can go on and on about things they would like to have, but won't necessarily pay for. The most important task is to figure out what they need, not what they want.
When defining new markets, ask yourself:
- What keeps the customer awake at night?
- How could a product (any product) or service solve that problem? What must it do?
- Why could you provide the best solution?
Executives. It's important for product managers to listen carefully to what members of the company's executive team say about the product. Not because they're in charge (although that's a good reason), but because a product manager needs to understand the key influences driving the company. What do the executives want to achieve? Is it share, growth, acquiring a particular customer segment?
Product managers who listen for these priorities use them to guide product strategy. For example, say top management was interested in creating beachheads in new markets. That would mean pricing a new product high, for short-term revenue optimization, would be a very bad idea.
The competition. The most successful products answer unmet needs, or answer existing needs in new ways. To make sure a product will be unique, a product manager needs to understand what the competitors are doing and where competitors could be going. How do the competitors position themselves? Is there any unclaimed space? Is there a fulcrum where leverage could be applied to move a market? An assessment of the competition should include an analysis of competitor's advertisements, marketing materials, blogs, and community forums. The goal is to understand how competitors describe themselves, and how others describe them.
Plot these findings on a quadrant or perception map. This makes it easier to spot new opportunities not claimed by others.
4. Hire product leads and engineers who can collaborate
High-flying companies with growing stock values often hire the most capable people for every position in the company. This sounds great, but superstars have the biggest egos, and it can be very difficult to get them to cooperate as a team.
Companies are most effective when they hire people who are well suited to their roles. It's usually better to have a "B" player who knows exactly what to do than an "A" player who tries to do everyone else's job for them.
In the case of product managers, that means hiring people who are good at setting direction, understanding customers, and persuading others. Product management is a classic influencing job in which success is defined by persuading other people to do things. The product manager must be able to get out of the way of implementation. A product manager who tries to micromanage any part of the implementation process will fail.
Product managers also need to be teamed with people who are willing to work with them. Their most important peers are the product development staff. If the product developers are intent on setting their own direction, the product manager is doomed to fail from the start. Hire a good engineer who'll work with a team rather than a brilliant engineer who refuses to take direction.
Hit products like the iPod aren't always the result of a single genius being struck by a lightning insight. They can be designed systematically through the right combination of processes and leadership.
Good product management is the key to making that happen. Good product managers can make good companies great. And ultimately they are the key to company success for the long run. Get that cape on, you're going to need it for how high you're gonna fly.
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Sep 07, 2019
Understanding the types of conflict will allow for clearer directions on resolution to said conflicts. Understanding that conflict can allow growth of a team is helpful in one's everyday business.
Sep 25, 2016
This course was fun and fits into real world experiences. I was able to use common sense along with the course material. Nalja speaks very clear and easy to follow.
by John w•
May 16, 2020
Course is very good from materials
And case study
Instructors is well educated
But I think this course need more time and video
by Boyang L•
Mar 06, 2016
Great course, but sometime it is boring since the introductor just read materials. Hope this can be improved in the future.
by Leash V•
Sep 16, 2015
Informative but not ideal for anyone not going into business.
by Anastasia B N•
Jun 17, 2018
Need more in-depth just theory and superficial
by Cheri P•
May 12, 2018
Good introduction to the topic.
by Mike L•
Jul 25, 2016
Very basic, decent information.
by Arthur C•
Nov 17, 2015
Feel too short.
by Marcus C•
Sep 20, 2016
by Jennifer D•
Feb 14, 2016
I didn't learn a whole lot -perhaps it is because I'm not coming into a professional setting as a newbie anymore? I found a lot of the examples juvenile - 'wearing a robe to the office' or 'stealing things'. I was looking for more substantial examples of idealogical conflict I guess -stuff that is harder to resolve than being a person of integrity and making good decisions. I know this is just module 1, but the content didn't feel valuable for the most part. The assignments were alright.
by Zuzana V•
May 21, 2016
The format of the course is not very engaging. The instructor shows slides with generic statements and then reads them slowly. The case studies are quite artificial and the answers are too obvious. I was expecting more tricks how to apply this in practice.
by Michael R•
Jun 04, 2016
Platitudes and generalizations. The interviews with real people are the only redeeming factor. I wasn't impressed.
by Jennifer P•
Mar 18, 2018
Very basic information. I was looking for more thorough investigation into conflict management. Thanks
by José P F P•
Aug 23, 2016
Interesting, bit not worthy of the invested money.
by Felipe E C M•
Jul 03, 2020
Falta bastante contenido, bastante.
by Jeremy S•
Apr 27, 2019
Requirement for peer reviews and lack of people actively taking the course seems to limit how fast you can actually do this course. The instruction lacked real emphasis on the important terms to pay attention to, leaving you rewatching videos and searching the transcript only to leave you googling the concepts and feeling confused anyways. At the end of the day, the peer reviews should have been multiple choice, as they were effectively asking you for one dimensional concepts. I don't feel I walked away with any additional information.
by Anil P•
Apr 26, 2017
I want to bring it to Coursera's attention that this specialization on Conflict Management is poor quality, poor value and hardly any content. Week 1 is only a welcome lecture!! It is a 3-4 week course stretched out to 3 months so that students can be charged money $$$.
It should not be a paid specialization. It does not meet Coursera's high standards. Can you please forward this review to the right person?
by Willa S•
Sep 04, 2018
Unfortunately, this course has not been useful for me for several reasons. It was not explicit that the conflict resolution was specifically referring to workplace conflict, as opposed to conflict in general. Additionally, the information was self-explanatory and the questions had obvious answers that could have been made without reviewing the lesson. Overall, I regret signing up for this course.
by Daria S•
Dec 22, 2017
Very poorly presented. You can hear pages turning and sometimes see presenter read the texts. Since there obviously is a script, it could at least be made available.
by Birk M•
Jan 21, 2016
This is a joke right?
5 minutes long videos with questions after it shall teach me effective?!
you guys are ridiculous!
by Alexandra•
Jan 29, 2016
Not very interesting or well-presented.
by Dr. D S•
Jul 30, 2017


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YES! You SHOULD be powerful!
Did I get your attention? Let me say it again! As a woman and as a woman leader, you should be powerful! The question is, are you embracing and showing up in your full power? Are you showing up as who you really are, with all your gifts, talents, knowledge and expertise? Or are you shrinking yourself to fit in because your girlfriend tells you to play it softer? Or are you thinking "power is offensive" and woman should not be powerful?
Let me back up a bit and tell you what got me started on this!
I was in line at a local coffee shop to get my usual double espresso the other day and I overheard two young women talking. Not that I was eavesdropping! They were speaking loud enough for all of us in line to hear. Young Woman #1 said "I just did it again. I shared my thoughts with him as to how we can remove a couple of steps from the process and still make the goal with the same results. He pretended that he didn't even hear me!" And then the Young Woman #2 says "Well, I have been telling you all this time. You are too powerful. Play it a little softer and he will hear you!"
Well… it was all I could do not to look at Young Woman #1 and say "Oh Em Gee!!! is she serious? Are you really buying this BS?? YOU SHOULD BE POWERFUL!!!" You owe it to yourself to be powerful.
I wanted to say "do you realize your power is the container that holds your softness, your values, your beliefs, your very essence? Do you know if you stop being powerful you won't be soft but you will shrink yourself just to fit in?"
But I didn't tell her any of these because we don't do such things where I live! But there is nothing stopping me from writing about it.
The issue of powerful woman and woman's power is near and dear to my heart. I want to see every woman and girl embrace her full power she is born with and rise! I was Young Woman #1 once. I was once told I was too strong for a woman! I bought it hook, line and sinker! Until I didn't.
So, I am going to share with you what I couldn't share with Young Woman #1 and I pray that maybe, just maybe, through a miracle, this blog post will pop up in her social media feed somehow.
First let's talk about power. Power… Miriam Webster Dictionary's simple definition of POWER is:
- the ability or right to control people or things
- political control of a country or area
- a person or organization that has a lot of control and influence over other people or organizations
Based on these definitions, no wonder women, more often than not, prefer not to hold on to power.
By definition, POWER is not in alignment with the nurturing essence of women. Women are energetically wired to nurture and stay with their tribe and will do what is necessary to stay in the tribe even if it means downplaying their power and unconsciously giving it away.
But let me introduce you to a different perspective. After all, when we change the way we look at things, the things we look at change, right?
I see power as the container which holds your passions, strengths, gifts, talents, love and compassion for yourself and others; a container that holds your boldness, your courage and your fearlessness so that you lead and live true to your essence, true to who you are.
Power is about presence! It is the energy that tells the world that you know who you are; you lead and live from that knowing. Power is the expression and energy of who you are! You demonstrate this every day in the way you lead, speak and make decisions.
As a woman and a woman leader, your power is not about having control over others! Your power is the foundation on which you build your leadership. This foundation is what enables you to stand up for what is right; not just for yourself but, for your team and for your organization. This power allows you to take risks when you are called to do so. It is also the power that helps you see and stay true to the big vision for your leadership and for your life. It is your power that fuels you to create the transformation you desire to create without giving up who you are and what you stand for.
Do you relate to Young Woman #1? Is it you might be choosing to be "softer" so you are not "too powerful"? Are you saying 'yes' when you want to say 'no'? Are you behaving in a way that is not in alignment with your own values and truth so that you fit in and get the approval from those around you, or staying in situations, places, or relationships that are unhealthy for you? Do you keep apologizing when there is no need to do so?
You might be thinking so what? At least I am not rocking the boat. If this is working for you, that's fine. However, not reclaiming your power has significant costs. You don't get to claim and own your own point of view, your own voice, or your authentic power. Your career, your relationships, and your life, well … doesn't reach its full potential.
But you can take your power back – if that is what you desire! And it starts with you deciding that you will reclaim your power and won't let anything get in the way of that. Don't hesitate to say "no" when you know the answer is 'no'. Learn to trust your own knowing. No one, but no one knows you as well as you know yourself. Don't let someone else call the shots for you. Be fearless in walking alone if need be. Trying to fit in chips away at your soul until nothing is left.
Practicing just a couple of these every day will get you started on reclaiming your power. But if you need a "hand", someone to walk this journey with you, I got you! I am here for you! This is what I do with my clients. Click here to reach out to me.
Let's have a conversation to see how I can be that "hand" to raise you up to your full power so that you can be soft AND powerful!
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2-Hour Amarone Wine Tasting Valpolicella Classico
Join this wine tasting tour at a family owned cellar in the Valpolicella region (Verona). Have a guided itinerary through the vineyards and inside the cellar to learn about the traditions and the wine production process. Sample 4 Valpolicella wines, including Amarone (a typical Italian dry red wine, produced only in the Valpolicella region).2-hour wine tasting tour at a family owned wine cellar of the Valpolicella Classico wine region.The Valpolicella wine region, located close to the beautiful city of Verona, is known for its hilly territory. The land is dotted with historic cellars, beautiful villas and it is at its best during the cherry blossom season. During this wine tasting, you will be given an introduction to Valpolicella wine, see the cellar then sample 4 different wines.This family is devoted from generations, with great passion and competence, to the cultivation of grapevine. This family run company looks after all the various production stages, from the actual planting of the vines to the processing of the grapes, the wine production and the bottling process. The high quality grapes are perfect for producing unique wines thanks to the particular soil. The wine tasting is accompanied by typical local products and you will sample the following four wines:
Valpolicella Classico,Valpolicella Classico Superiore Ripasso
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I think you (or are I) are confusing the TB issue.
Avid's 2 mon limitation is for the Avid GUI. The GUI is designed to support only 1 or 2 monitors (old code that needs an overhaul).
TB itself is just an extension of the PCIe bus along specific controllers within the chipset (firewire, USB, audio, etc.). When you connect a video I/O device like Nitris or Decklink or Kona, those devices act as video I/O hardware and not a GUI display device.
So the Avid 2 mon limitation has nothing to do with the TB issue with Nitris DX.
AFAIK, the TB issue with DX has something to do with bus timings for high bandwidth traffic (4444, uncompressed video, etc).
Right you are. Perhaps I am not explaining myself well.
I guess my question is, will they resolve the bus speed issue?
Secondly, if they do not, does that render the Nitris forever usless?
Lastly, are the Black Magic boxes qualified and working with MC via TB in this specific configuration. If so, then perhaps problem solved.
Also, what if any, are the implications ragarding the usage of the Black Magic boxes as distribution to color correction monitors. Will this be seamless and color true?
Joe Di Profio:I guess my question is, will they resolve the bus speed issue?
AFAIK, it is not speed but bus timing (speed limit vs traffic lights is a good comparison).
Joe Di Profio:Secondly, if they do not, does that render the Nitris forever usless?
People have reported that Nitris DX does function using the Mojo TB adapter. How well and stable it is still up for debate since the feedback is very small.
We are planning to test it ourselves once our MP 2013 arrives. I will post an update then.
Joe Di Profio:Lastly, are the Black Magic boxes qualified and working with MC via TB in this specific configuration. If so, then perhaps problem solved.
No. According to Dave C. in the Avid mailing list it is not a bandwidth issue. NDX has hardware based functions not present in Mojo DX or 3rd party I/O, including raster resizing, hardware codecs and pulldown features. They depend on specific bus timings. It was implied that TB's timing is not exactly the same compared to native PCIe connection thus causing degraded performance and/or stability issues with very high bandwidth media.
Thanks Dom. I will watch for your updates as well.
Although the model Apple Mac Pro is not recommended for avid media composer does anyone know if it works on the model 4 core ?
If this is the case with any type of graphique card it can run AMD D300 or absolutly AMD D500 ?
I see that there has been no ground covered on this issue this week. The official word that I have received from avid, is that the Nitris DX is a dead issue. This is the reply from a week of support back and forth.....
"We had tested Nitris DX in the latest version of MAC Pro and the result is that Nitris DX is not reliable for capture or playback that's why we don't recommend it.
Regarding your 4 monitor set up, you can set up 2DVI for Media Composer and 1 HDMI for client monitor. Regarding the Black Magic or other 3rd party hardware that we recommend, it should run, if not, you should check with your hardware documentation since we don't test their products."
From this, I can only deduce that, A. It is unlikely to be supported in the near future, if at all, and B. Third party cards such as Black Magic", may or "Should" work.
Not a real confidence builder.
I wonder if they will publicly address this issue at NAB.
Derrick Abeyta | Blu Pixel
Phoenix, Arizona
I was wondering, nobody is questioning this, but why is the new Mac Pro 4 core model with D300 not qualified to work with Avid Media Composer? I mean, if even the mac mini is qualified... What is the problem then?
And does somebody have real world experience with Avid MC on a new Mac Pro 6 core stock model?
Just another question...
I am looking for a new mac pro, what will be the best configuration for Avid MC? For now and in the future?
FWIW, i just installed MC7.03 on a new 8 core with 32 Mb RAM and the D700 boards. Using the BMD Ultra 4K TB as the I/O and a Maxx Digital (Areca) TB2 RAID. Avid seems to be working just fine. ( oh yeah OS 10.9.2). The data throughput on the TB2 RAID (Raid5) 8-disk array is 1,100 Mb/sec. Using the Sonnet SxS card reader, and a Maxx Digital TB to FW and eSata adapter for existing external drives. Resolve lite v10.1 even plays out on a big screen in real time from the Ultra 4k.
Are there news regarding the patch anounced for early Q2 2014 to use MC 7 on a new Mac Pro without a MBox / Thunderbolt Display?
I want to buy a new Mac Pro 6-core and I am wondering if it makes sens to wait for the patch or do I need to buy the extra MBox / Thunderbolt Display anyway?
Hi there,
in the PDF is an announecement of the Media Composer 220.127.116.11 patch. When will it be ready to download?
Bump on this please. When will this be available?
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Royal Canadian Geographical Society Award Medal for Exploration
The Royal Canadian Geographical society recognized Chic Scott, a world renowned mountaineer, with the Sir Christopher Ondaatje Medal for Exploration for his contributions to mountaineering culture in Canada and abroad in Ottawa on November 1.
The Sir Christopher Ondaatje Medal for Exploration was established in 2013 to recognize singular achievements and the pursuit of excellence by an outstanding Canadian explorer or a non-Canadian for exploratory achievements within Canada.
"Receiving this award is very special for me as it comes from a very distinguished organization, the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, with very knowledgeable members (called Fellows). It is the first time I have received a national award and it was very special to receive the medal in Ottawa," said Scott.
The Royal Canadian Geographical Society paid tribute to Scott on their website:
"Scott is an adventurer, mentor, historian, and writer, whose unwavering dedication to the pursuit, exploration, and enjoyment of mountaineering has led him to influence generations of Canadians through his work. As an exploratory ski mountaineer, Chic Scott is recognized internationally for his pioneering feats. He is the author of several ward-winning publications, an early proponent of the Banff Mountain Film Festival, and he has opened the world of mountaineering to a wider global audience."
He was a golfer in his youth but in 1962 when he was 17 years old he discovered the mountains.
"Since then I have devoted my life to climbing mountains, skiing mountains, writing books about mountains and being a mountain historian and archivist. I have climbed throughout the Canadian Rockies, in the St. Elias Mountains of the Yukon, in the European Alps and in the Himalaya," said Scott.


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Digging back in to the past for exceptional performances and performances is an important segment of the music downloading business. There are number of websites that have made this their central mission…to locate the best masters and bring them back into the market as higher quality digital music files. There's just something special about the interpretation of Beethoven's nine symphonies under the baton of Sir Georg Solti that makes them timeless and worth resurrecting. But in spite of the praises written about the "golden age" of recording, the reality is that many…if not most…of these treasured masterworks don't deliver the level of fidelity that we could produce with today's equipment and techniques.
This brings up the age-old argument of which is more important…the performance or the fidelity of the recording. As an engineer, this is a challenging question. We certainly can't tolerate a truly substandard performance presented as a high-resolution 5.1 surround Pure Audio Blu-ray disc. But once you've experienced something of that recording fidelity can you really go back and "enjoy" a digital file that originated as a 78-rpm lacquer master? I think both extremes are unacceptable. What we really deserve in this age of real high-resolution audio capture and delivery is the proper balance of both.
The recording I did at the New Jersey Performing Arts back in 2001 of Zdenek Macal conducting the NJSO performing the "Beethoven 6th Symphony" and the Respighi's "Pines of Rome" may not be up to the performance standards of the Berlin Philharmonic under the direction of Herbert von Karajan, but I would argue that the actual sound experience of the AIX Records project exceeds that of the vinyl LPs put out by Deutsche Grammophon. In fact, I know it does! When I played the final 5.1 product for the Maestro many years ago, he was absolutely beyond words. He told me that this was the first time he had ever experienced a recording that sounded like what he wanted. Obviously, I was pleased with his assessment.
Is it possible to elevate "fidelity challenged" recordings of great performances? Can clever and skilled audio engineers coax better fidelity out of a historically important recording during a new transfer and possibly some reworking? I know I'm not alone in thinking that it is possible…but within limits. There are tools like the Plangent Processes technique that allows analog to digital tape transfers to be properly time aligned. There are other tools from other vendors that correct pitch problems that can occur when transferring analog tapes…especially those that have been stretched or are otherwise inconsistent (I'll write a post about Capstan soon).
Of course, a restoration engineer can remove some of the obnoxious things that older formats suffered from like hiss, distortion, clicks, pops, crackle and rumble. There's the obligatory adjustment of equalization across the entire frequency spectrum. This is the art of mastering and many times it results in a "different" sounding recording. It all depends on the skill of the mastering engineer, the aesthetic that is being used during the session and the quality of the equipment used in the studio.
But does it mean that an engineer should push past the traditional boundaries and start mucking with the actual substance of the album or tracks? For example, would you want me to add reverberation to a classic performance because my taste says something sounds too dry? Or maybe I should synthesize stereo out of a monophonic track?
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Hello Mark, I was talking to someone about this very subject a few weeks ago.
Of course people will say "don't muck about with a classic". But what constitutes "mucking about?" To my mind, many of the classic albums could benefit greatly from a "serious" remastering and that includes EQ. The Beatles were responsible for turning me on to the music profession and I remain a huge fan ( I cannot wait for LJ's album, by the way. ) Who can forget the long decay of that final piano chord in "A Day In The Life" on Sgt. Pepper?
Yet the engineers on that track say that the chord was still ringing when they cut it short, as no equipment ( monitors ) could reproduce it at the time. I am confident that a lot of frequencies that "went to tape" are still hiding there and it's mouth watering. I have listened a lot to Gerry Rafferty of late and if ever a catalogue needs remastering, it is his and it would benefit greatly. Anyone who listens to the 5.1 release of The Beatles "Love", will glory in the virtues of modern technology and if we the end user…( who pays by the way ) is fed anything less, it is at best "lazy" and at worst opportunism.
Mark, your 5.1 recording of Jennifer Warnes remains one of my favourites. "Somewhere, Somebody" is fabulous. Jennifer's CD "The Hunter" is one of the great albums and I once tried to contact Elliot Scheiner who engineered it to offer my thanks. What a 5.1 album that would make.
This is all very reminiscent of the
milkingmarketing of old Hollywood movies on various platforms over the years – VHS, DVD, Blu-Ray, 3D, etc. The consumer is being asked to buy the same old work – often at full price, as in 'Disney Classics' – over and over again, with the promise of some quality improvement to justify the cost each time. Upgrade fatigue will set in after a while. Just look at the outstanding sales figures for Blu-Ray and the widespread take-up of domestic 3D. (/sarc)
I think that attentively listening to restored and tweaked old recording masters is a minority sport, comparable with watching those colour-tinted old black and white movies you sometimes see in the corner of the DVD shop.
I think it will be a growing, but still minoriy sport. I think consumers will buy software to achieve the result. Mark wrote about DSP a few weeks ago. At some future date, engineers or scientists will figure out what causes listner fatigue and DSP will be sold to assist audio enthusiasts in fine tuning their music library—track-by-track if they wish—to get tonal balance that pleases. Who knows whether much more is possible than tonal balance. I remember dBx sold dynamic range expanders and lower octave restoration devices in the seventies. Today Dick Burwen is selling software which he claims will abate some of the screech heard on early Beatles recordings.


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We already knew that, for their customers, "Public Storage" really should be known as "Public Stealage" because that seems to be exactly what they want to do: steal your stuff! But we had no idea that they also suck from their employees' standpoint as well. We just came across the following report from "glassdoor.com" where a Public Storage employee who lives on site at one of their facilities right here in Chicago, Illinois sounds off about working conditions for a live-in wage slave at Public Storage! Check it out:
"It sucks"
I have been working at Public Storage
Pros – Free housing and meeting some interesting customers or tnts
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Advice to Senior Management – LISTEN TO YOUR EMPLOYEES ON THE FRONT LINE THESE SCRIPTS ARE UNREAL ...CONSUMERS CARE ABOUT THEIR MONEY JUST LIKE MANAGEMENT!!!! AND EMPLOYEES ARE CONSUMERS AS WELL WHEN WE CLOCK OUT FROM PS....STOP TRYING TO FIND US EMPLOYEES BS AND HELP US OUT AND STOP BEING SOME GREEDY!
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Last year, two AmeriCorps VISTA volunteers from Stout helped establish Menomonie Community Garden in partnership with students, local businesses, and city/county officials. This year Trevor Peterson, current Stout VISTA representative, has high hopes for the garden. "We have already exceeded our number of plot renters from last season and still have room for more. Our opening day celebration is May 22nd from 1-3pm. We'll have music, food, and gardening activities for children," he said. "A community garden is a cornerstone of a healthy neighborhood, and I think Menomonie is ready for more garden sites around town." The two-acre garden is on Ninth Street, just south of the Phelan Park entrance. Each plot measures 20 by 25 feet and costs $25. There's also monthly educational work-ins on topics like composting, sustainable soil management, chemical-free pest control, rain barrel construction, and hoop house tutorials. For all the dirt, contact Peterson at 232-1328 or MenomonieCommunityGardens.com.


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