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Although Cisco and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration - the grant administrator - have pledged to help the state with its review, it's unclear what that actually means. There has been talk of returning or exchanging routers, but Alsop said he wasn't sure if "technically" the state could get a refund at this point.
In a response to a letter from Alsop, Curtis Hill, Cisco vice president for customer assurance, says the company will "support the redeployment or return of routers" identified in the state's analysis.
Alsop's letter mentions the potential for a refund. Hill's letter does not.
"If it comes to a situation where the NTIA says, 'Yes, you have to give us that money back if you get a refund from Cisco, you can't do another procurement to get a smaller router,' I think we're going to have to have some serious discussions and say, 'Well we can't just stick this router here; we need to find a way to move them around' or do whatever, but we need to get to that point," Alsop said.
The state should be at that point at the conclusion of its 30day site study. Alsop said the office is working on forming the team that will conduct the study. No one from the grant implementation team, which was faulted for not studying sites, will be on the new team, Alsop said.
The state will bring in some "independent people" to look at the sites, Alsop said. When asked if that meant the state was hiring consultants, Alsop said no.
He thinks the team will discover most sites do need the larger routers. That plays into the role of the other task force the governor is creating: making sure every community institution "is aware of and maximizing the opportunities" provided by the grant, according to his letter to legislators.
If a community institution has the router and adds additional hardware, it also may function as a "hot spot" for wireless Internet access for a large area, Alsop said by way of example.
In his report, Allred states the routers are too large for at least 610 libraries, schools and state police detachments.
Alsop said Cisco's agreement to extend the warranty for an additional three years was a key benefit for the state. The state paid $8 million for the original warranties, he said. In his letter to Cisco, Alsop points out that many of the routers were not deployed while the state was still paying for warranties.
In addition to agreeing to assist the state and extend the warranties, Hill denies allegations Allred presented in his report. Allred accused Cisco of intentionally misleading the state and called for the particular company employees associated with the deal to be barred from working with the state again.
"We also reject any suggestion that Cisco showed a 'wanton indifference to the interests of the public' and can positively state that we share your desire to maximize the benefits for the people of West Virginia, now and into the future," Hill wrote.
The state pledged several other changes. It will track the location of each router and make sure an official at each location signs an agreement to actually use the one it receives.
Alsop said 40 to 50 routers are still in boxes in a building on the Capitol grounds. An additional 120 are in the "initial stage of deployment" but not usable yet. Some locations have yet to confirm whether their router is even working, he said.
Every router and necessary infrastructure should be installed by June, Alsop wrote in his letter. The governor has pledged his task force will report to the Legislature about the "broadband developments" at the locations by the start of next year.
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Dr. Patricia A. Parker is a clinical psychologist and assistant professor in the department of Behavioral Science. Her research primarily focuses on healthcare provider-patient communication and quality of life among different cancer patient populations. She has conducted several studies examining aspects of physician-patient communication including how patients are told news of their diagnosis and the impact of the physician-patient encounter on patients psychosocial adjustment. She has a NCI-funded career development award that examines the influence of physician-patient communication and illness uncertainty on the psychosocial adjustment of individuals with metastatic cancer of unknown primary site (CUP). In addition, she is PI of a NCI-funded R03 application to further examine the audiotaped recordings between patients with CUP and their healthcare providers that are being collected as part of the K07 project. Specifically, this project examines both qualitatively and quantitatively the nature of the medical interaction when more than one provider is involved in the consultation. She collaborates with faculty from the Departments of Urology and Genitourinary Medical Oncology on projects examining watchful waiting in patients with prostate cancer and renal cell carcinoma. Dr. Parker recently received a M. D. Anderson Institutional Research Grant to examine the feasibility of a communication skills intervention for physician assistants who work in oncology. Dr. Parker is also PI of a NCI-funded Community Clinical Oncology Program study to examine an intervention designed to increase the frequency with which clinicians ask their patients about complementary and alternative medicine use.
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Healthcare Provider-Patient Communication
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Education & Training
Degree-Granting Education | |
1998 | San Diego State University/University of California, Joint Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology, San Diego, CA, PHD, Clinical Psychology |
1991 | University of California, Los Angeles, CA, BA, Psychology |
Postgraduate Training | |
9/1998-12/1999 | Postdoctoral Fellowship, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Department of Behavioral Science, Houston, Dr. Lorenzo Cohen |
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Honors and Awards
2011 | Invited Member, Bladder Cancer Think Tank |
2010 | Invited Member, Bladder Cancer Think Tank |
2008 | Excellent Protocol Review, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center |
2007 | Excellent Protocol Review, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center |
2003 | Career Development Award, National Cancer Institute, NIH |
2003 | Fellow, Summer Training Institute on Randomized Clinical Trials Involving Behavioral Interventions, Sponsored by the Office of Behavioral & Social Sciences Research of the National Institutes of Health. July 20-August 1 |
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Peer-Reviewed Original Research Articles | ||
1. | Kim J, Ebertowski J, Janiga M, Arzola J, Gillespie G, Fountain M, Soderdahl D, Canby-Hagino E, Elsamanoudi S, Gurski J, Davis JW, Parker PA, Boyd DD. Many young men with prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screen-detected prostate cancers may be candidates for active surveillance. BJU Int. e-Pub 1/25/2013. PMID: 23350937. | |
2. | Brewster AM, Bedrosian I, Parker PA, Dong W, Peterson SK, Cantor SB, Crosby M, Shen Y. Association between contralateral prophylactic mastectomy and breast cancer outcomes by hormone receptor status. Cancer 118(22):5637-43, 11/15/2012. e-Pub 4/19/2012. PMCID: PMC3478501. | |
3. | Gilts CD, Parker PA, Pettaway CA, Cohen L. Psychosocial moderators of presurgical stress management for men undergoing radical prostatectomy. Health Psychol. e-Pub 10/2012. PMID: 23088178. | |
4. | Parker PA, Swartz R, Fellman B, Urbauer D, Li Y, Pisters LL, Rosser CJ, Wood CG, Matin SF. Comprehensive assessment of quality of life and psychosocial adjustment in patients with renal tumors undergoing open, laparoscopic, and nephron-sparing surgery. J Urol 187(3):822-6, 3/2012. PMID: 22245327. | |
5. | Biegler K, Cohen L, Scott S, Hitzhusen K, Parker PA, Gilts CD, Canada A, Pisters L. The role of religion and spirituality in psychological distress rior to surgery for urologic cancer. Integrative Cancer Therapies 11(3):212-220, 2012. e-Pub 9/2011. | |
6. | McHenry M, Parker PA, Baile WF, Lenzi R. Voice analysis during bad news discussion in oncology: reduced pitch, decreased speaking rate, and nonverbal communication of empathy. Support Care Cancer. e-Pub 5/15/2011. PMID: 21573770. | |
7. | Baile WF, Palmer JL, Bruera E, Parker PA. Assessment of palliative care cancer patients' most important concerns. Support Care Cancer 19(4):475, 4/2011. PMID: 20401497. | |
8. | Cohen L, Parker PA, Vence L, Savary C, Kentor D, Pettaway C, Babaian R, Pisters L, Miles B, Wei Q, Wiltz L, Patel T, Radvanyi L. Pre-surgical stress management improves post-operative immune function in men with prostate cancer undergoing radical prostatectomy. Psychosom Med 73(3):218-25, 4/2011. e-Pub 1/21/2011. PMID: 21257977. | |
9. | Lenzi R, Baile WF, Costantini A, Grassi L, Parker PA. Communication training in oncology: Results of intensive communication workshops for Italian oncologists. Eur J Cancer Care (Engl) 20(2):196-203, 3/2011. PMID: 20477861. | |
10. | Brown VA, Parker PA, Furber L, Thomas AL. Patient preferences for the delivery of bad news - the experience of a UK cancer centre. Eur J Cancer Care (Engl) 20(1):56-61, 1/2011. PMID: 20148936. | |
11. | Brewster AM, Parker PA. Current knowledge on contralateral prophylactic mastectomy among women with sporadic breast cancer. Oncologist 16(7):935-41, 2011. e-Pub 6/14/2011. PMCID: PMC3228146. | |
12. | Ross AC, Polansky MN, Parker PA, Palmer JL. Understanding the role of physician assistants in oncology. J Oncol Pract 6(1):5, 1/2010. PMCID: PMC2805341. | |
13. | Mauri E, Vegni E, Lozza E, Parker PA, Moja EA. An exploratory study of the Italian patients' preferences regarding how they would like to be told about their cancer. Support Care Cancer 17(12):1523-30, 12/2009. PMID: 19343370. | |
14. | Parker PA, Pettaway CA, Babaian RJ, Pisters LL, Miles B, Fortier A, Wei Q, Carr DD, Cohen L. The effects of a pre-surgical stress management intervention for Men with prostate cancer undergoing radical prostatectomy. J Clin Oncol 27(19):3169-3176, 7/2009. PMCID: PMC2716938. | |
15. | Parker PA, Aaron J, Baile WF. Breast cancer: Unique communication challenges and strategies to address them. Breast J 15(1):69-75, Jan-Feb, 1/2009. PMID: 19120379. | |
16. | Heller L, Parker PA, Youssef A, Miller MJ. Interactive digital education aid in breast reconstruction. Plast Reconstr Surg 122(3):717-24, 9/2008. PMID: 18766034. | |
17. | Pruitt SL, Parker PA, Follen M, Basen-Engquist K. Communicating colposcopy results: What do patients and providers discuss? J Low Genit Tract Dis 12(2):95-102, 4/2008. PMID: 18369302. | |
18. | Parker PA, Youssef A, Walker S, Basen-Engquist K, Cohen L, Gritz ER, Wei QX, Robb GL. Short-term and long-term psychosocial adjustment and quality of life in women undergoing different surgical procedures for breast cancer. Ann Surg Oncol 14(11):3078-3089, 11/2007. PMID: 17574501. | |
19. | Fujimori M, Parker PA, Akechi T, Sakano Y, Baile WF, Uchitomi Y. Japanese cancer patients' communication style preferences when receiving bad news. Psychooncology 16(7):617-25, 7/2007. PMID: 17006968. | |
20. | Chiu LQ, Lee WS, Gao F, Parker PA, Ng GY, Toh CK. Cancer patients' preferences for communication of unfavourable news: an Asian perspective. Support Care Cancer 14(8):818-24, 8/2006. PMID: 16482445. | |
21. | Canada AL, Parker PA, de Moor JS, Basen-Engquist K, Ramondetta LM, Cohen L. Active coping mediates the association between religion/spirituality and quality of life in ovarian cancer. Gynecol Oncol 101(1):102-7, 4/2006. PMID: 16256181. | |
22. | Parker PA, Cohen L, Bhadkamkar VA, Babaian RJ, Smith MA, Gritz ER, Basen-Engquist KM. Demographic and past screening behaviors of men attending a free community screening program for prostate cancer. Health Promot Pract 7(2):213-20, 4/2006. PMID: 16585144. | |
23. | Parker PA, Kudelka A, Basen-Engquist K, Kavanagh J, de Moor J, Cohen L. The associations between knowledge, CA125 preoccupation, and distress in women with epithelial ovarian cancer. Gynecol Oncol 100(3):495-500, 3/2006. PMID: 16242759. | |
24. | Parker PA, Davison BJ, Tishelman C, Brundage MD, SCRN Communication Team. What do we know about facilitating patient communication in the cancer care setting? Psychooncology 14(10):848-858, 10/2005. PMID: 16200511. | |
25. | Parker PA. Breast reconstruction and psychosocial adjustment: What have we learned and where do we go from here? Semin Plast Surg 182(2):131-138, 5/2004. PMCID: PMC2884727. | |
Invited Articles | ||
1. | Kim J, Parker PA, Boyd DD. Strategies to increase participation in active surveillance in men (<56 years). Urology Today, 2011. | |
Book Chapters | ||
1. | Baile WF, Parker PA. Breaking Bad News. In: Handbook of Communication in Oncology and Palliative Care. Ed(s) Kissane DW, Bultz BD, Butow P, Finlay I. Oxford University Press: Oxford, England, 2010. | |
2. | Rao A, Baile W, Parker P. Conflict Resolution at an Academic Medical Center: The Ombuds Office. In: Faculty Health in Academic Medicine: Physicians, Scientists and the Pressures of Success. Ed(s) TR Cole, TJ Goodrich, ER Gritz. Human Press: Totowa, NJ, 2009. | |
3. | Baile WF, Aaron J, Parker PA. Practitioner-Patient Communication in Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment. In: Handbook of Cancer Control and Behavioral Science: A Resource for Researchers, Practitioners, and Policymakers. Ed(s) S Miller, D Bowen, R Croyle, J Rowland. American Psychological Association, 2008. | |
4. | Lenzi R, Baile WF, Rodary C, Parker PA. Psychosocial Aspects of Cancer of Unknown Primary. In: Cancer of Unknown Primary Site. Ed(s) K Fizazi. Informa Healthcare, 2006. ISBN: 0824727991. |
Grant & Contract Support
Title: | NSABP CCOP Research Base - Supplement for Christine Holmberg Study |
Funding Source: | NSABP |
Role: | Co-Investigator |
Principal Investigator: | Christine Holmberg |
Duration: | 6/1/2012 - 5/31/2013 |
Title: | Communication skills intervention to promote transition into survivorship |
Funding Source: | NIH/NCI |
Role: | Principal Investigator on Subcontract |
Principal Investigator: | Horwitz |
Duration: | 7/5/2011 - 4/30/2016 |
Title: | Cancer Center Support Grant - Patient Report Outcome, Survey, and Population Resources Shared Resource |
Funding Source: | NIH/NCI |
Role: | Shared Resource Director |
Principal Investigator: | Mendelsohn |
Duration: | 9/14/1998 - 6/13/2018 |
Last updated: 7/17/2013
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Not long after Scott Dadich was appointed executive editor of digital magazine development for all of Condé Nast, "the tops of the mastheads," as the senior editorial staffs are called, filed into the company's fourth-floor lecture hall for a series of meetings. Condé's new iPad king was holding court.
This wasn't the first time the tastemakers of 4 Times Square had met Mr. Dadich. He'd been shopping "that Wired thing" around the company since it debuted in iTunes' App Store in May 2010 to considerable fanfare and a flurry of downloads.
But this time, Mr. Dadich faced a few more sets of crossed arms.
Mr. Dadich's coronation, in August 2010, had come with a big window office on the seventh floor and a mandate to lead the brands that Si Newhouse built into the brave new world of the tablet, a device so shiny and elegant it made Condé's stable of glossies look dull by comparison. Not surprisingly, Mr. Dadich's arrival also brought a share of resentment his way in no small part because, even in the pages of this paper, his ascent from Wired, where he had spun a lagging title into ASME gold as creative director, was presented in near-messianic terms.
In a profile of Mr. Dadich in The Observer last August, Evan Smith, his former boss at Texas Monthly, likened Mr. Dadich to a "combination of Jesus and Pelé" before deciding, a moment later, that a comparison to Miles Davis and Frank Lloyd Wright was more apt. Legendary Esquire art director George Lois was, if possible, even more effusive about Condé's new It Boy, declaring, "With a talent like Scott, magazines will never die."
Within 4 Times Square, such praise was met with a degree of skepticism, but the breathless optimism among the Condé kingmakers who backed Mr. Dadich was to be expected. It's hard to find a print dinosaur that doesn't drool a little, post-recession, over the possibility of wading into a teeming new revenue stream. But Condé Nast felt the pressure more acutely than most. Mr. Newhouse's puritanical if lavish stewardship of his beloved titles had left the company playing a careful game of wait-and-see through roughly the first three-quarters of the Internet revolution.
Condé's initial flirtations with the web had been coy and tentative. Rather than sully established titles like Gourmet and Vogue, the company launched new sites, including Epicurious.com and Style.com, as a way of protecting its spoiled progeny from the rough-and-tumble Internet.
While Condé Nast was far from the only media company to find its established business model upended by the web, it appeared to be more paralyzed than most by the shift, perhaps because, in some ways, the rules of online media ran counter to the entire culture of the company. Where Condé Nast had been built on the notion of exclusivity—the idea that its gatekeepers held the keys to a sort of private club, doling out access to readers one glamorous photo spread or finely-turned phrase at a time—the Internet was messy, democratic and fundamentally untamable. Marquee titles like Vanity Fair, Vogue and the New Yorker seemed obsessed with hierarchies. The web obliterated them. Mr. Newhouse's painstakingly constructed and assiduously policed royal court had come under threat—the villagers were massing at the gates!—and the ambivalence within the company was apparent: every attempt to welcome in the hoi polloi was met with an opposing impulse to head for higher ground on the castle wall.
Former web editors are still baffled by budgets that allowed for a suite to cover the Oscar party at Morton's but can't seem to assign to an extra desk for an online editor. Permission was required from the tech side before any print content was posted online. Nine months could crawl by before a request for an RSS feed or comment system on a site made its way through the system. Up until a few years ago, editorial staffers were shackled to a bloated corporate content management system that "forces web editors to spend enormous amounts of time wrangling the system instead of creating content," according to one insider.
When individual titles began make their own forays into the web, they did so gingerly, slapping up what seemed to be placeholder sites geared mostly to picking up subscriptions. Meanwhile, rivals were popping up everywhere. "The biggest shame was that Vogue wasn't Net-a-porter," a former Condé Nast print editor told The Observer. "That was the missed opportunity of the century."
The iPad, then, promised more than just a do-over. It was a chance for redemption. See what we did there? We're not extinct! And for all his technical wizardry, Steve Jobs seemed a worthy partner, with his refined aesthetic and affinity for gated communities not unlike the neighborhood Condé Nast had occupied for years. The iPad seemed to promise that, both financially and culturally, the company could resort to its comfy old habits and maybe still survive.
Condé Nast's digital efforts have been restructured so many times, it's hard to keep the chronology straight. But call it CondéNet or Condé Nast Digital—as the digital arm has been named at various times—in some ways, it's the same as it ever was.
IN THE FOURTH FLOOR conference room, Mr. Dadich preached his new gospel with the relentless enthusiasm of a mystical prophet. His crystal ball was showing nothing but iPad. Sales projections for Apple's magic screenwere thrown around with exuberance. Here's what we're doing. Here's our future.
All that sounded promising enough. But there was a catch: there would be no dedicated hires. Instead, existing art and production staffers from the print side would be responsible for making two iPad layouts (one in portrait and one in landscape, per Mr. Dadich's vision) on Adobe's platform. The idea was that since Condé Nast used Adobe's InDesign and InCopy software to create its magazines, sticking with Adobe would make repurposing content easier. Based in Silicon Valley, Adobe had seen where the business was heading and was building software to get into the tablet game. In fact, the first Wired app was built with a lot of Adobe manpower and then rebuilt when Apple banned the Flash system Adobe had been using from the iPad.
Despite the setbacks Wired had encountered, Mr. Dadich made it all sound simple. "What we're going to do is have workflow specialists come in, so it'll be actually less work," a source recalls him saying.
"I think that's a terrible idea," says Khoi Vinh, former NYTimes.com design director and author of the highly regarded design blog Subtraction. (A sign of Mr. Vinh's influence: he boasts 210,267 Twitter followers to Mr. Dadich's 3,155.) Mr. Vinh is highly critical of Condé's print-centric, "magazine replica" approach to the tablet. "It's like going to a Broadway stage crew, who are very talented at what they're doing, and saying, 'Can you help us create the next summer movie blockbuster?'" he told The Observer, adding, "I think it's a fundamental misunderstanding of the way design works."
Wall Street Journal director of design technology Erin Sparling felt the same way about retasking print folks to design for the iPads simply because they had used Adobe programs before. "That's crazy," Mr. Sparling told The Observer. "The assumption that it's the same thing, just with a different output, is absolutely wrong. Just tacking it onto employees' responsibilities seems like a recipe for making all of those employees very sad."
It's certainly been a culture shock. Some sources say art departments at titles like Vanity Fair, Glamour, GQ and Allure have had to give up their coveted down weeks between issues—time they once spent visiting museums and dreaming up gorgeous new layouts—in favor of working late on weeknights and weekends to produce pages in Adobe. They're worried that burnout will turn to a morale problem, if not the makings of a full-scale mutiny.
Two talented digital designers, Chris Gonzalez, director of mobile product management at Condé Nast, and Vince Holleran, who helped create the New Yorker's iPad app, both recently departed for Gilt Groupe. Anton Ioukhnovets, a former GQ art director, left the magazine last September after seven years for reasons unrelated to the iPad. Nonetheless, he said, "I saw it coming, and I was not interested. I didn't want to do two jobs for the for the price of one." He called the iPad "the bane" of his former colleagues' existence.
In a statement emailed to The Observer, Condé president Bob Sauerberg, said, "From the start, we recognized both the opportunities and the inherent challenges of a new technology and medium. We have been aggressive in our digital development and we know the path to success can be bumpy. We believe in the talents and of our editorial teams to create their own apps—entrusting the design to those who have built our magazines. We are gratified with the way consumers are responding and we are extremely proud of what our teams have accomplished."
While Condé swells with pride, there's another aspect of its iPad initiative that baffles outsiders. Why lock in a partnership with Adobe while the market is still shaking out? "You don't do a biz dev deal to get on the iPad! You just do an app," said a source familiar with Condé's digital operations.
"We, like our colleagues across the industry, are collectively inventing a new medium," Wired's editor-in-chief Chris Anderson said in another statement emailed to The Observer. "This is an exciting opportunity and our designers both want and deserve to be part of it. Designers come to Wired to innovate; this has the potential to be the most innovative thing we've done."
That said, the transition might be a more natural one for Wired and its gadget-fiend readers. The latest unaudited numbers from the Audit Bureau of Circulation show Wired's digital downloads capping at an average of 27,369 per month for the six months ending this past December. (For context, its first iPad App got more than 100,000 that month.) GQ's app has less than half of that, with an average of 12,377 per month for those same six months, and Vanity Fair clocked in at just 9,438. Glamour's iPad app, which was released in August, had a mere 2,471 monthly average for downloads. Condé seems buoyant about new circulation numbers coming out in August, pointing out that The New Yorker was the top grossing app in the App Store for most of the week after introducing a subscription offer.
Meanwhile, the numbers for the Nook, which requires little more effort than uploading PDFs of pages, are surging, and in some cases surpassing iPad sales.
In addition to dipping a toe into the Nook, Condé Nast is sniffing around Hewlett-Packard's tablet. In April, AdAge reported that it hit the brakes on plans to deliver iPad editions across all its titles, saying they now need justification before launching an iPad edition. But the rhetoric of redemption remains. In a recent interview for Nieman Journalism Labs, Mr. Dadich was still backing the iTunes newsstand and the "dedicated container" for content that an app provides on an iPad, "where covers are the primary means of purchase and browsing." To which one commenter replied, "All I see when reading this is an entire organization screaming, 'WE WANT IT TO BE THE EIGHTIES GODDAMMIT.'"
AFTER THE RUDE AWAKENING of the recession, Condé Nast faced a turning point. It was clear the old model—concentrating on publishing elegant and high-end content and assuming that advertisers would line up for pages—was failing. Mr. Newhouse, who is in his 80s and has never been much for innovation, began increasingly to take a back seat, sources say, leaving a something of a power vacuum at the top of the company.
During the McKinsey era, when the white-shoe consultancy was paid seven figures to help turn things around, Condé Nast's then-CEO and president, Chuck Townsend, was ready to ask for help. He created a ideas box—grandly named "The Power of Suggestion"—and invited any Condé employee with an idea to benefit the company to submit it. The best idea would be selected once each quarter, and the employee would be awarded a $10,000 bonus. But why, some wondered, would anyone with a truly disruptive idea give it away for $10,000 when they could walk to the Flatiron and get half a million in funding?
Later that year, Mr. Townsend handed over the president's role to Bob Sauerberg, former group president of consumer marketing. That left Mr. Townsend (an operations-side suit), Mr. Sauerberg (a consumer marketing guy steeped in the world of blow cards and direct mail) and editorial director Tom Wallace (former editor-in-chief of Condé Nast Traveler), as the decision-makers charged with leading Condé to its digital destiny.
Though all had mastered various ins and outs of the print magazine business, at least as it was practiced in the last century, none were digital natives, and the mobile world was even more foreign. "These are not guys with iPhones in their pockets checking-in on Foursquare," noted one insider.
It wasn't a surprise, then, that the young Mr Dadich was viewed as something of a savior. "You know what it's like," a former employee told The Observer, regarding Mr. Dadich. "You sit in a room, and you don't know much about a subject, but some person is able to discourse in it. All of a sudden someone says, 'Wow this guy must be incredible!' They're anointed as the new king."
And minting stars is what Condé Nast has always done best—from promising young designers selected as Anna Wintour's favorites and aggressively promoted in the pages of Vogue, to internal staffers who find themselves propelled up the masthead. It's the same model Condé used to promote James Truman, known as the "prince of Condé Nast," to become the company's second-ever editorial director.
"But," the source was quick to point out, "just as in every royal family, the king has a certain time when he's being fawned over, and then there will be a moment when someone chops off his head."
It doesn't appear likely that Mr. Dadich is on his way to the guillotine. But there are certainly those ready to plot a coup. Condé Nast employees described Mr. Dadich as "Tom's boy," and wonder if Mr. Wallace, the company's editorial director, hasn't developed something of a "mancrush" on his young protege. Many of the sources who spoke to The Observer wondered why, in a city suddenly teeming with venture capitalists, entrepreneurs and coders, a print guy like Mr. Dadich was picked to lead the way in the first place. One told The Observer that, last year, even Adobe requested a different point person better versed in interactive design. But that didn't stop Condé from flying Mr. Dadich, who didn't respond directly to an interview request, to Moscow a few months ago to deliver his spiel to the company's Russian titles.
One source we spoke to said Mr. Sauerberg was busily trying to counter Mr. Wallace's unwavering faith in Mr. Dadich, a relationship backed by Mr. Townsend. Then again, we heard some staffers blame Mr. Sauerberg for the seemingly short-sighted decision to partner with Adobe, while others pinned it on Mr. Townsend. Whichever view is closer to the truth may be less meaningful, in the long run, than the impression of a company on the edge of obsolescence increasingly falling victim to finger-pointing and internal power struggles.
It is, according to a Wired designer speaking from the magazine's headquarters out in San Francisco, a "snake pit."
Still, there are signs that things may be changing. A few weeks into Mr. Sauerberg's tenure, he tapped an unglamorous outsider, Joe Simon, an Indian expat from Viacom, to be the company's first-ever CTO. It was a move toward what one source called "the way every other sane company in the world works."
Mr. Simon's biggest challenge might be finding a way to move beyond the Adobe partnership and a mind-set that looks at the iPad and sees a newsstand, but with virtual stacks of print.
"It's obvious it wasn't going to work," said Mr. Vinh, the former NYTimes.com design director. "It's only if you're under the spell of this very traditional print-centric bias that you would ever think that this would work. I don't know who the executive was that said this is the way we're going to approach it, but this is not a decision that I would put on my résumé."
"Based in Silicon Valley, Adobe *had seen saw* where the business was heading
The very noticeable typo in the sub-headline makes me think I should have this copyrighter's job.
No, no, no – NYO is criticizing another media company's online efforts. The typos and bad grammar they dropped into this article are IRONIC.
Unless of course they put the "breaks" on irony like they did with their iPad publishing plans…
Fixed. Thanks!
The very noticeable misuse of the word "copyrighter" makes me think you should probably not try out for any copy editing jobs at all.
The very noticeable typo in the sub-headline makes me think I should have this copyrighter's job.
"What we're are going to do . . . "
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Interesting that nary a technology person was quoted in this article. You have design folks quoted left and right and some editors (including some people who are all talk and no cattle), but these aren't people who actually understand the plumbing. It's tech that will make this happen. As for the Adobe thing, the other item that you don't mention is that Adobe purchased a CMS company last year that will tightly integrate with Conde Nast's existing publishing technology. So for quotidian e-editions, this should work quite well. Investing tons of labor into each e-issue is not sustainable — as early magazine app builders found out — so creating an assembly line is a good solution. It doesn't preclude more advanced solutions or hybrids.
Thanks for the thoughtful comment and pointing out the Adobe/Day Software deal. I spoke to tech sources who are not named in the piece, but are you not counting Erin Sparling (WSJ director of design technology) as a tech person?
If people in Erin's group consider themselves to be engineers, then that's tech. If they consider themselves to be designers who understand technology (know some JavaScript, HTML and CSS), that's design. And if they're embedded in the newsroom, they're likely to have less-than-rigorous development practices that further distances them from an engineering group. Don't know you at all, so no offense.
There's a meme that's been circulating the past few years that if journos take a few programming courses, they earn their tech stripes (see Jennifer 8 Lee for an example of this). No more so than techies who have blogs become journalists. While valid claims could be made for both (probably more for techies who write), creating systems that handle large volumes of content in a reliable, cost-effective manner is a discipline unto its own. The infusion of consumer tech has falsely made many folks think they're experts when in fact they're amateurs. Luckily, there are plenty of true tech gods and goddesses out there who can clean up the messes (and I have first-hand knowledge from many publishing companies, including WSJ, where this has happened). Once you hang around these folks a bit, the difference is quite obvious.
If people in Erin's group consider themselves to be engineers, then that's tech. If they consider themselves to be designers who understand technology (know some JavaScript, HTML and CSS), that's design. And if they're embedded in the newsroom, they're likely to have less-than-rigorous development practices that further distances them from an engineering group. Don't know you at all, so no offense.
There's a meme that's been circulating the past few years that if journos take a few programming courses, they earn their tech stripes (see Jennifer 8 Lee for an example of this). No more so than techies who have blogs become journalists. While valid claims could be made for both (probably more for techies who write), creating systems that handle large volumes of content in a reliable, cost-effective manner is a discipline unto its own. The infusion of consumer tech has falsely made many folks think they're experts when in fact they're amateurs. Luckily, there are plenty of true tech gods and goddesses out there who can clean up the messes (and I have first-hand knowledge from many publishing companies, including WSJ, where this has happened). Once you hang around these folks a bit, the difference is quite obvious.
The Design Technology team at WSJ is specifically designed to be the intersection between designers and technologists, to help facilitate creating products that are designed around a technology's limitations, and helping technology plan around reaching a design's goals. Saying "It's tech that will make this happen" is exactly how companies get into tech-driven product design strategies, where the ultimate goal is adhering to tech roadmaps, and not to facilitating the best user experience.
"It's like going to a Broadway stage crew, who are very talented at what
they're doing, and saying, 'Can you help us create the next summer
movie blockbuster?'"To which they answer: "Put a camer in the stalls and point it at the stage."
Conde Nast has "stalled out"? Please. What a one-sided, and shortsighted article. If anyone in their right minds thinks that laying new ground, and a new way forward in today's technological landscape is easy then they, like the complainers at CN, have a huge lesson to learn. Are we to feel sorry for those in art departments who "have had to give up their coveted down weeks between issues—time they
once spent visiting museums and dreaming up gorgeous new layouts—in
favor of working late on weeknights and weekends"? Welcome to 2011! As someone who is responsible for keeping up with the way new technology can be leveraged to reach consumers, my job is exponentially harder than it was even 2 years ago. At least Conde Nast is taking the necessary steps forward, and willing to aim for advancement. Consumer adoption of the iPad is growing, but there is still a great need to figure out the best way to engage with them in this medium. I applaud the companies who are willing to take the leap-and the criticism that may come-to embrace the change. While I appreciate that change may be hard for some, if you can't get on board, then move over and let one of the many talented people who have been hungry for work step in and take over. This will leave plenty of time for "visiting museums and dreaming up gorgeous new layouts." -
Certain points are valid, many are untested. The digital magazine baby is a toddler and Dadich was the right parent at the right time to nurse it when it was a baby. His foresight is a strength and that may be another reason Conde boosted him to VP. But now, the waters are tested. So same situation presenting itself now, couple years later? Maybe he wouldn't be the guy. My take on it all? Heck, cash in on Conde when you can, great work Scott!


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Ed Miliband hit back at a senior trade union leader - saying he was "wrong" to oppose a public sector pay freeze and insisting Labour under his leadership would be "the party of the private sector" as much as the public.
The Labour leader sought to use the row with Len McCluskey - general secretary of Labour's biggest union donor Unite - to show that the movement is not "pulling our strings".
He issued a strongly-worded put-down as the party gathered for its autumn conference in Manchester, two years on from Mr Miliband's surprise leadership election victory in the city with the help of union votes.
Mr McCluskey used an eve-of-conference interview with the Sunday Times to set out his plans to "kick the New Labour cuckoos out of our nest" and win back the party for the trade union movement.
And he warned that his members were "furious" with the Labour leadership's "crazy" policy of supporting pay restraint.
Mr Miliband, who is battling to improve personal poll ratings and shake off his "Red Ed" tag, told BBC1's Andrew Marr Show: "It's not going very well for him is it?
"You can't say at one and the same time that Len McCluskey is saying 'you're wrong on pay restraint' and then say we're giving in to him and he is pulling our strings."
Asked about the pay freeze, he said: "He is entitled to his view but he is wrong.
"We've got the right policy to say we put jobs in the public sector ahead of pay rises. That's what we said we would do this parliament. It is a difficult decision but it is the way to keep jobs in the public sector."
Mr McCluskey told the newspaper: "We should only be supporting those constituencies where their vision of the type of future that we want is in line with ours."


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Wolfenstein: The New Order preview: storming Berlin
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Wolfenstein: The New Order's first few hours won't reinvent the FPS wheel, but so far, it feels like a competent shooter with a pretty novel alternate WWII timeline. Read more
New Doom beta access included with Wolfenstein: The New Order pre-orders
by Alice O'Connor, shacknews.com, Feb 19, 2014 7:15AM PST
As fun as Wolfenstein: The New Order looks, the id Software game we're all most keen to hear more of is Doom. The vagueness continues. Publisher Bethesda today announced that The New Order will launch on May 20, and pre-ordering will get you access to a beta for Doom. Which Doom? Doom 4? And what's the beta? Oh, don't worry your pretty little head with all that. Read more
Wolfenstein: The New Order dev explains the game's newfound personality
by John Keefer, shacknews.com, Aug 13, 2013 12:00PM PDT
The Wolfenstein franchise has always been a fast-paced shooter with little thought to anything more than killing Nazis. But developer MachineGames is attempting a different style with Wolfenstein: The New Order one that offers a lot more depth and character development. Creative director Jens Matthies said the change in formula plays to the developer's strengths. Read more
Wolfenstein: The New Order delayed to 2014
by Andrew Yoon, shacknews.com, Aug 1, 2013 11:30AM PDT
Wolfenstein: The New Order has been delayed. Originally scheduled for this holiday, the upcoming shooter has been pushed to 2014. Read more
Wolfenstein: The New Order trailer focuses on how history changed
by John Keefer, shacknews.com, Jun 6, 2013 8:30AM PDT
The premise of Wolfenstein: The New Order is an alternate history where the Nazis won World War 2. Bethesda has released a new trailer showing off ust how much things have changed in the game world of the 1960s, but the timing is a bit awkward with today being the 69th anniversary of D-Day. Read more
Wolfenstein: The New Order preview: Running and gunning, with personality
by John Keefer, shacknews.com, May 28, 2013 9:00AM PDT
Wolfenstein: The New Order, from developer MachineGames, brings back B.J. Blazkowicz for another round of Nazi killing. Unfortunately, while it tries to modernize the franchise by adding depth to its characters and writing, it struggles to mesh that with the campy, arcade-style tenants that are core to the series. Read more
Wolfenstein: The New Order is single-player only
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Wolfenstein: The New Order coming this year
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In 2013, the Illinois legislature finally passed a bill to try and fix the state's pension issues, legalized same sex marriage and legalized medical marijuana. The Affordable Care Act's health care exchanges made their debut, plagued with problems, and the US almost took action in Syria. Tornadoes late in the fall tore through the state flattening homes in Gifford and Washington, and the state's film community said goodbye to renowned critic Roger Ebert.
This hour on Focus, we'll take a look back and 2013 by the headlines. Illinois Public Radio's Brian Mackey, and WILL reporters Sean Powers and Jeff Bossert talk with host Jim Meadows about the biggest stories of the year.
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At Follies of Yore, practicing painter and ceramicist Janet Talmage shares her lifelong love of art with the community. The gallery space houses her collection of ceramic pieces, paintings, and prints, all inspired by the language of architectural follies. Talmage also shares her creative expertise in a more direct way during weekly ceramics classes, where she teaches students the basics of hand building and glazing clay.
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While the Hampton family owns and operates French Broad Ziplines, twin brothers Mitch and Michael Hampton have also had their personal share of ups and downs, both on the water and off. At age 10, they began exploring eastern Tennessee rivers with their grandfather, and they followed that passion for whitewater rafting into their business, which had been family-run for nearly 30 years. But then their dream was threatened. A fire swallowed the business, and the brothers lost everything. Slowly, though, with the help of family, friends, and staff, they rebuilt their company, learning patience and perseverance while finding comfort and strength in the support of their community.
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Namespace: Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Pipeline.Wrapper
Assembly: Microsoft.SqlServer.DTSPipelineWrap (in Microsoft.SqlServer.DTSPipelineWrap.dll)
The DTSBufferManagerClass type exposes the following members.
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CreateBuffer | Creates an IDTSBuffer100 object that is based on the specified buffer type. | |
CreateFlatBuffer | Creates an IDTSBuffer100 of the specified size. | |
CreateFlatBuffer64 | Creates an IDTSBuffer100 of the specified size. | |
CreateVirtualBuffer | Infrastructure. Creates a virtual IDTSBuffer100 object. | |
Equals | (Inherited from Object.) | |
Finalize | (Inherited from Object.) | |
FindColumnByLineageID | Gets the location of a column in the specified IDTSBuffer100 object. | |
GetBLOBObject | Creates an IDTSBLOBObject100 that is used to manipulate binary large objects (BLOBs). | |
GetColumnCount | Gets the number of columns in the specified registered buffer type. | |
GetColumnInfo | Gets the DTP_BUFFCOL structure for a column in the specified buffer definition. | |
GetHashCode | (Inherited from Object.) | |
GetRowWidth | Gets the size of the row defined for the buffer type definition. | |
GetType | (Inherited from Object.) | |
MemberwiseClone | (Inherited from Object.) | |
RegisterBufferType | Registers a buffer type with the IDTSBufferManager100. | |
RegisterLineageIDs | Infrastructure. Registers the specified IDTSBuffer100 object. | |
ToString | (Inherited from Object.) |
The buffer manager is responsible for allocating, managing, and deleting the IDTSBuffer100 objects used by the data flow task and the components contained by the task, from a source through to the destination. It provides utility functions for registering buffer types, locating columns in a buffer, retrieving metadata about a column in a buffer and creating private buffers that are used internally by the component that requests the private buffer.
Managed data flow component developers use the buffer manager primarily to locate columns in a PipelineBuffer that were defined in the IDTSInput100 and IDTSOutput100 objects of the component. Managed component developers do not use the buffer manager to create IDTSBuffer100 objects because managed components do not interact directly with the IDTSBuffer100 objects created by the buffer manager. Managed components use the managed PipelineBuffer class, which marshals data between managed and native code.