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Google reaffirms intent to derail HTML5 H.264 video with WebM browser plugins
Not motivated by open innovation
Google is insisting that its move to thwart H.264 adoption by removing support from Chrome is simply an effort to push the web to technologies that any company can afford to use, while noting that "it is clear that there will not be agreement to specify H.264 as the baseline codec in the HTML video standard due to its licensing requirements."
However, while this may be true, the only hold outs in supporting H.264 are Opera, which has negligible share among web browsers, and Mozilla, which is almost entirely financially supported by Google. This is a problem Google could solve by covering Firefox's licensing fees, or by simply pulling the plug on Firefox and allowing it to go out of business just as Netscape itself did before its software product was propped up as free open source project living off Google's life support.
If Google were truly interested in open ideals, it would also abandon Adobe Flash, which also delivers its video via H.264, but does so as a proprietary plugin that pays its own way onto Google's platforms.
Partnered with Adobe's Flash Player, Google can roll out commercial video on Android and Chrome OS and simply have Adobe pay for it as the middleware vendor of a proprietary plugin platform running on top of Google's own. This makes it clear that Google's WebM strategy has little to do with openness, and is really just intended to save Google money.
If the planets align for WebM: a best case scenario
Google has actually created a new impasse of its own: HTML5 video, if forced in principle by Chrome to use WebM as its baseline (and exclusive) codec, will require all web users to either select Google's Chrome, the Firefox or Opera browsers, or install plugins to view WebM content; Google announced it will be supplying plugins for Safari and Internet Explorer. This holds out the potential for an ideal future where every browser plays video via WebM's free codec as a baseline, while Safari and IE could also offer H.264 playback as an option.
However, WebM is worthless on existing mobile devices, most of which can't even install a plugin to play WebM content. This could be addressed in the future by simply upgrading all new mobile devices with new WebM hardware acceleration (which doesn't yet exist), but there are other issues involved, including the lack of commercial viable WebM encoding tools. However, the biggest problem by far is that WebM will eventually run into patent issues from everyone else in the video industry that has already worked to hammer out the vast H.264 specification, which address far more than just the web video role WebM hopes to address.
If WebM isn't already in trouble on the patent front, it certainly will be every time it attempts to improve along the same patented footsteps H.264 developers have already worked their way though at considerable expense. Google may be professing support for open ideals, but its real motivation is to conduct its advertising business without paying to use the technology other companies have already invented. In doing so, it may cause more problems that it attempts to solve.
Open source vs. opening other's source
Google has taken WebKit's browser code and appropriated it into the successful Chrome browser, but Apple, KHTML, and other contributors that helped build the WebKit codebase willingly offered their efforts up as a free software project under a permissive reuse license to encourage its use, specifically in order to enable products like Chrome to exist.
Google's attempt to take commercial technologies and turn them into open source projects under its own control and at the objection of their rightful owners is a very different situation. Apple benefits from sharing WebKit; it does not benefit from Google simply taking the iPhone and replicating its patented features. Oracle similarly benefits from some aspects of open development, but is not interested in giving away its proprietary Java technology to Google for free distribution as part of Android.
Similarly, all of the contributors of the H.264 specification are not going to be content with Google duplicating their patented efforts and offering it for free to enable more efficient distribution of Google's ad platforms. That's why the MPEG LA has already promised to take legal action over WebM patent infringement, and will undoubtedly demand licensing fees from anyone who attempts to use WebM in place of H.264 or borrow further improvements from the H.264 patent pool in order to embellish WebM as a technology in the future.
Apple's "open" is collaborative
In contrast, Apple's decision to promote H.264 in place of proprietary video codecs such as Sorenson or On2 or Microsoft's Windows Media was done with the intent of having world class video technology to use in building its hardware products. Apple solely supported H.264 and the related AAC in the iPod, which helped the new standards take off and, through economies of scale, resulted in widespread, low cost availability of hardware optimized silicon that can play H.264 efficiently on mobile devices from any vendor.
Additionally, Apple's attempts to replace dependance upon the Adobe Flash plugin with ubiquitous web standards including HTML5, H.264, CSS and JavaScript are not based upon duplicating Adobe's technology and offering it up as open source, but rather rely upon existing open standards that can be enhanced and extended without running into Adobe's patent portfolio. And if they do, Apple can negotiate to open those patents by including them into the joint development of those web standards, in the same way Apple has contributed its own patented technologies, royalty free, into HTML5 (such as was the case with the Canvas element Apple invented).
Apple's promotion of open web standards, in particular the open HTML5 specification and the open source WebKit code implementation, demonstrate that the company is aware of the benefits that open software and open standards can provide in creating interoperability and a level playing field. If Apple thought that the same could be done in the area of video codecs, it would have pursued doing just that nearly a decade ago when it began work on implementing H.264.
While Apple had the ability to borrow KHTML's browser code under its open source license to build what would become WebKit and the Safari browser, it could not do the same to build an open video codec, because video technology is progressing too rapidly under the intense competitive pressure of a number of technology companies. That calls for an approach that respects the existing work already created and patented by stake holders.
Incidentally, the open, collaborative development of MPEG standards was what killed the proprietary efforts to develop video codec technologies at Microsoft, Sorenson, and On2 (before Google acquired it). While Sorenson and On2 were already failing five years ago, Microsoft was working hard to displace MPEG standards with its own Windows Media codec. Without Apple's heavy consumer-oriented push behind H.264, the world's video likely would have fallen under the control of Microsoft, as was being confidently predicted to occur by most pundits around 2005.
Apple pays for pre-existing IP, Google not so much
Apple is often cited as a royalty recipient of H.264 by its open source critics, but the company is by far a minority stakeholder in the MPEG patent pool. If Apple actually owned H.264, it wouldn't be licensing it from the MPEG LA; it would be distributing it as closed source technology just like its Cocoa frameworks. Alternatively, if Apple thought it could build a quality implementation of an open video codec based on an existing open source project, it would do so and distribute it for free just like its WebKit software or CUPS printing software or Darwin core OS.
As it is, Apple recognizes that other entities already own those video technologies, so it's paying the MPEG LA to license them, just as it pays to license Microsoft's Exchange ActiveSync, or Amazon's One Click retail patent, or the DVD specification (which includes MPEG-2), or the trademarked name "iOS" from Cisco, among many other things.
Google is trying to pull off a hybrid of those two options, taking proprietary software that is likely to infringe patented technology and "opening" it as a free solution, apparently oblivious of how it will evolve given that all avenues for progress have already been patented. While it has yet to be stopped by patent action from Oracle, Google's premise of a free web codec will definitely be assailed by the collective action of all of the MPEG patent holders, making Google's WebM effort a dead end pursuit that can only help to hold back the commercial progress of HTML5 and H.264 outside of the ideological bubble of the open source movement.
Outlook for WebM not so good
Rather than replacing H.264 with a nearly as good but free alternative, WebM can really only possibly thwart the progress of web publishers who want to serve video that their viewers can see, doing so using open, interoperable web standards. Rather than using HTML5 and H.264, Google hopes to promote HTML5 via WebM, but it is actually just incentivising a return to delivering video via Adobe Flash, which can already reach Opera, Firefox and Chrome users without reencoding existing content from H.264 into WebM (something that is slow and inefficient with the existing tools available).
At the same time, while Google can certainly throw chaos into play by removing H.264 playback from its own free platforms and browsers, that move will likely hurt Google more than it will adoption of H.264. Neither WebM nor Flash are supported on iOS, which is not only a significant percentage of the mobile market, but also represents a far more valuable demographic than Google's Android, which according to Gartner is primarily being deployed in China and emerging markets by no-name "other" manufacturers. If Android can't play H.264, it won't push vendors to jump through hoops to encode for WebM or the poorly performing mobile version of Flash. It will push smartphone users to abandon Android.
Similarly, if the Chrome browser and forthcoming Chrome OS can't play H.264 without involving Flash, it will only make those products less attractive to would-be buyers. Moving from Chrome back to Internet Explorer or Safari is not difficult (and will be even easier if Apple ever fixes the memory leaks and poor performance dogging its own browser), while selling Chrome OS and its inherent limitations as a web-only platform will be very difficult if it can't play industry standard video.
This gives Google very little leverage in trying to force WebM adoption the same way Apple has pushed the adoption of H.264, HTML5, ACC, and other open standards, whether they involve third party licensing or not. Additionally, even if Google removes H.264 support from Chrome and or Android, users (or hardware makers or carriers) can add it back, greatly diluting Google's leverage against H.264 among mobile devices.
Ultimately, Google's efforts to derail H.264 are unlikely to have a significant impact on H.264, but may cause uncertainty that could slow the adoption of HTML5, resulting in H.264 video being delivered instead via Flash on the web, integrated within iOS apps, or served as straight HTML5 H.264 videos that won't play on Chrome, Chrome OS and Android without an H.264 plugin. The primary casualty of those outcomes would be Google itself.


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Durango is buzzing with excitement as 11 local galleries will keep their doors open late tonight with new offerings in painting, sculpture, jewelry and fiber arts from regional and out-of-town artists. The Spring Gallery Walk has arrived, and there is much to see.
Open Shutter Gallery will deviate from its usual milieu. The fine art photography gallery will feature creations of Jeff Glode Wise, whose sculptures recently appeared at The Smithsonian Institutions National Building Museum. Wises current exhibit at Open Shutter includes his contemporary and abstract sculptures. As an added treat, Wise will be present tonight to answer questions about his work.
Karyn Gabaldon Fine Arts, in the midst of her 30th anniversary, will present abstract acrylic work by Oregon artist Cheryl Williams. Her art is in muted colors and gentle lines, evocative of the dry season in our fair Four Corners. The multifaceted Williams pottery and sculpture will also be on display.
For unique jewelry items,look no further than Diane West Jewelry and Art, which will unveil innovative, stylized pieces by Kristin Lora of Santa Fe and Nicole Hansen of Salida, as well as stimulating mixed-media sculptures by local artist Joan Russell and Atlanta artist Todd Alexander. Surprise is the name of the game with Russells sculpture, struck from unexpected materials like porcelain and rice paper.
Durango Arts Center continues its love affair with large-scale exhibits and adapted books where last months Flow exhibit began. In Textiles Today: Redefining the Medium, new work from 19 internationally renowned textile artists includes a heart-stopping array of quilting, embroidery, beading, knitting, weaving, cloth-dying, printing and felting. Nestled upstairs in the Arts Library, meanwhile, will be Joy Campbells Reimagining the Book, an exhibit that births 3-D forms from two-dimensional pages, a hit for both visual art and literature lovers.
Gadugi Center for the Arts wants to help artists share the meaning of the idea through multimedia. The word Gadugi means cooperative community labor, and tonights new exhibit features the work of many hands toward this singular purpose.
Durango-based artist Donna Rowe has Gone Fishy with her new ceramic collection at Earthen Vessel, featuring fish sculptures and her signature dinnerware. Those seeking natural and wildlife renderings need only go next door to Wildshots Gallery, where they will find the photography of local shutterbug Claude Steelman. Continuing the hunt for riveting works, gallery walkers shouldnt miss Azul, which will introduce new pieces from local and international artists.
At Toh-Atin Gallery, Sandra Emmanuel Heller unveils her pastels, watercolors and oils at her first show at the famed gallery.
Two-time award winner at the Santa Fe Indian Market, Maria Samora will present stunning and surprising jewelry at Sorrel Sky, which she crafts from her own studio-made gold alloys. Also featured will be the work of New Mexico potter Laura Bruzzese, and both artists will be in attendance for the Gallery Walk.
Those who like a little philosophy with their visuals should stop at Studio &, where the Focusing on the Near exhibit use the poppy paintings of Elizabeth Kinahan and dimensional work of Rosie Carter to examine layers of existence, in our past, present and future.
With 11 galleries offering plenty of fresh work, theres much to see. So seek out one medium you love, one youve never experienced, and be sure to pop your head into every gallery (or as many as possible) to meetandgreetthe artists.
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For a long time, we here at Working Software have been strong believers in the "content precedes design" philosophy, as famously espoused by Jeffrey Zeldman and summarised here on UX Myths. [...] We are relaunching this website so we'd gone through the process of creating our "content first" wireframe using Decal Mockups.
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The 2003 SURI class consisted of 18 students from 9 different universities.
Alabama A&M
Morgan State
National Polytech Institute Of Toulouse
Purdue University
Norfolk State
University of Michigan
UTEP - University of Texas El Paso
Washington State
2003 Summer Institute Activities
Molecular Conduction Tutorial - Prof. Datta et al.
A short course was held for the SURIs on molecular conduction. The purpose was to bring the SURIs up to speed on molecular conduction so they could participate in the molecular conduction workshop we held at Purdue that brought all the leaders in this field together from industry, academia, and government labs.
Molecular Conduction Workshop
A two-day workshop was held on molecular conduction. This workshop attracted the leaders in this field from industry, academia, and government labs. All the SURIs attended and participated in the workshop
Software boot camp
Several of the SURIs chose to participate in our two-day software bootcamp. The objective of the boot camp was to present the participants with the basics of good-programming and code development how-to. The participants were also introduced to High-Performance Computing and how to interact with a supercomputer. Upon completion of the bootcamp, the students knew how to develop their code in a consistent framework as well as submit and run their codes on high-end machines such as IBM-SP and Linux clusters.
Professional development - A number of professional development seminars/discussion sessions were held for the SURIs. These included topics such as, "How to Select and Apply to Graduate School?", "what is it like to be a graduate student?","Scientific Ethics", "What do professors do besides teach classes?", and "Project design/teamwork".
Project/Product Design
As seen through the Eyes of an Integrated Circuit Designer - Prof. Eaton
Prof. Jim Eaton spent his career as a design engineer at Hewlett-Packard. He now spends time as a visiting professor at Purdue and is shown here in one of the seminars/discussion sessions he had with the SURIs on project design and team work.
Scientific Ethics - Prof. Hirsch
Prof. Andy Hirsch, head of the Physics department at Purdue, teaches a course on Science and Society. Prof. Hirsch presented a seminar on scientific ethics to the SURIs that looked at case studies of scientific fraud.
Summer seminar series - During the summer we held weekly seminars that high-lighted different aspects of nanotechnology research going on at Purdue.
Short Course on Quantum Computing - Prof. Nolte
Prof. David Nolte of the Physics department at Purdue presenting a short course on Quantum Computing.
Technical Writing/Presentations - Joanne Lax
Joanne Lax teaching a course on Technical Writing and Presentations
Other Talks:
- Selecting and Applying to Graduate School
- What's it like to be a Professor
- What's it like to be a Graduate Student
Ending Conference and Proceedings
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Earnhardt crashes in practice at Charlotte
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CONCORD, N.C. (AP) Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s final weekend as a full-time driver at Charlotte Motor Speedway got off to a rough start when he crashed moments into Friday's opening practice.
Earnhardt drove into the high line of the track and slipped in the grippy substance Charlotte officials had used on the surface. It caused him to hit the wall and his Hendrick Motorsports team had to pull out his backup car.
Earnhardt wasn't very happy about his misfortune and felt the compound - known as PJ1 - was too slick.
"I'm avoiding it until somebody can go up there and shows me there is a lap up there," said Earnhardt. "I ain't going near it, on purpose. Might end up it accidentally a few times, but I don't think anybody is willing to go up there without seeing somebody do it first. It's obviously very slick. It's like ice."
The day picked up after practice when Earnhardt was given his retirement gift from Charlotte Motor Speedway: $100,000 to establish the Dale Earnhardt Jr. Concussion Research Fund at Carolinas Healthcare System's Levine's Children's Hospital. The gift will underwrite ImPACT baseline concussion testing for more than 10,000 students in eight area counties. Mooresville High School, Earnhardt's alma mater, will be added to the program that includes "blink reflexometry" research.
Members of the Mooresville High School football team were on hand for the presentation, and Earnhardt shook hands with each of them. He's retiring at the end of the season, in part because of multiple concussions he's received while racing.
Earnhardt has requested tracks to consider gift that will impact the local community during his retirement tour rather than give him extravagant items.
"I didn't' need any silly stuff or goofy gifts that I'm just going to go store away in a warehouse that you'll never see," Earnhardt said. "I thought this was a great opportunity to make an impact in each community and I feel real blessed. I can't imagine there's anything I need or they could come up with that I'd be `Yeah, I've been looking for this!'
"It just feels so good to see others be helped. I want everybody to be happy, that's kind of my thing, the way I've always been. Hopefully this season makes a lot of people happy."
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Bradley Beal of the Washington Wizards and Damian Lillard of the Portland Trail Blazers were named the NBA's Eastern and Western Conference Rookies of the Month, respectively, for the second straight time.
In January, Beal led all rookies in the East with 15.1 points per game, while Lillard led all first-year players with 17.7 points and 6.8 assists per game.
Lillard, who also won this award for games played in October and November, had a 37-point outburst against the Warriors on Jan. 11. Beal's best game came in a 26-point, six-assist effort versus the Kings on Jan. 16.
Other nominees for the Eastern and Western Conference Rookies of the Month were Cleveland's Dion Waiters and Tyler Zeller, Detroit's Andre Drummond and New Orleans' Anthony Davis.


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CAMARILLO, Calif. (AP) — The Camarillo City Council has instituted a 45-day moratorium on production of pornographic movies, as it decides how to handle a recent rush of film permit requests.
Officials did not disclose the number of permits recently requested but Assistant City Attorney Don Davis tells the Ventura County Star (http://bit.ly/11SFPDS ) the amount is "unusual" for the city.
The moratorium was passed unanimously Wednesday night.
Davis says the council will look at drafting regulations to protect the public health, safety and welfare of the community.
The newspaper says officials believe adult film studios may be looking to expand to other areas of Southern California, after the passage of a measure last year requiring condom use during porn filming within cities in Los Angeles County.
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Taylor Kitsch on Lone Survivor, The Normal Heart, and Why He'd Never Do the Friday Night Lights Movie
"Give me a fuckin' bo staff and I can do some damage!"
Based on the memoir by Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell, the Peter Berg–directed Lone Survivor follows four Navy SEALs (Mark Wahlberg, Taylor Kitsch, Ben Foster, Emile Hirsch) trying to stay alive after their location is discovered during a covert mission in Afghanistan. Though Wahlberg is the face on the poster, it's Kitsch who unexpectedly shines: After toplining three misfires last year in John Carter, Battleship, and Savages, he's finally found the right vehicle for his easy, masculine charisma, and as Navy Lieutenant Michael Murphy, he displays the sort of leading-man potential that many predicted when Kitsch came off a hot run in the TV series Friday Night Lights. Last week, he sat down with Vulture to discuss the next phase of his career (which will include an against-type turn in Ryan Murphy's AIDS drama The Normal Heart) and why he'll never, ever do a Friday Night Lights movie.
What was it like when you saw Lone Survivor for the first time? I know Mark Wahlberg had a very emotional reaction to it at the premiere.
I broke down three times. You just hold all this energy in as an actor, and I didn't truly let it go until then. Knowing all the families and getting to be a part of it and tell the story … yeah, it fuckin' crushed me. That's what takes you out of your head when you're watching yourself. I wasn't there when Ben shot his big scene or when Emile shot his last moments, and it got me. I wasn't ready for it.
You were out there undergoing SEAL training well before production started. Does all the stuff you picked up for the movie stick with you even now?
Absolutely. I was just talking with Luttrell, and we're gonna go hunting on his ranch — I told him, "You give me an M4, I'm gonna be all right." I never thought I would say something like that! I'm Canadian, you know what I mean? That's such an incredible thing about my gig, these tools that you accumulate along the way. And you learn these things from the best of the best.
Are there any other random skills from your acting career that you could still bust out?
Yeah, you give me a fuckin' bo staff and I can do some damage! Playing with cards. Accents. Oh, photography — that's huge. I learned that for The Bang Bang Club. I went to Iceland by myself a couple months ago, and just took my Leica and a couple other cameras and just went on my own adventure with 'em. That would never have fuckin' happened if I hadn't been in that movie. And football! Again, man, I'm Canadian — give me a hockey stick, I'm good, but a football?
You're playing Navy SEAL Michael Murphy, who was a big hockey guy, too. So you had that in common.
Yeah, he was a huge Rangers fan. I mean, even aesthetically, we're pretty similar guys when I have the beard going on. He was a big boy, Murph, so I gained a good twenty-plus to play him.
I know that the women in my audience appreciated that, since you walk around shirtless in your first scene. Is there ever a part of you that thinks, "Okay, I know Hollywood sees me as this buff, handsome guy, but it'd be nice to ditch the gym for a few months and play someone who never takes his shirt off?"
The Normal Heart was like that for me. I lost twenty for that one. It's a big part of those SEALs, though, man. I have no trouble representing that, and I'm very proud of that [shirtless scene]. Like, that's not me. I don't look like that, and it took a fucking insane amount of discipline to get to that point. There's a workout that's actually called the Murph! But Pete didn't tell me, "Look like this, train this way" — I did that. I loved that part of it. You just carry yourself differently. Confidence comes with that. You don't have to do as much — it's there.
You mentioned The Normal Heart. You didn't just lose twenty pounds for that … you were rockin' some super-big, blond hair.
Fuckin' eighties, right? And I was getting blown out every morning. I didn't even know what that was! I just wrapped last week in New York — another insanely heavy movie, very heavy stuff — but man, we would die laughing. I would come in with blond hair like a mess at 5 a.m. I'm not a morning guy, for one, but I'd just be sitting there eating my breakfast, half asleep, and you'd just hear the blow dryer going forever. By the end of it, it was just a joke: I had to add some volume in between takes.
Ryan Murphy has a real knack for casting against type and letting actors do what they normally haven't gotten to before. Did you feel that here, like you were doing something new?
[Exhales loudly.] On every level. But being out of your comfort zone is why you become an actor. You try to stretch yourself as much as you can.
So how did The Normal Heart stretch you?
I mean, look: I was born in '81. I had no idea about the whole AIDS epidemic. I'm straight, and playing a gay guy who's leading a double life, who's still in the closet, who's losing his lovers, who has AIDS but won't admit it to himself, who ends up dying … I mean, where do you want to start? Fuck me, dude. It's insane. The body type, the fact that he works at Citibank, very high up on Wall Street, so learning that part of it and reading an insane amount of books about guys who were leading those kinds of lives, learning about AZT and where it started … I knew probably the surface stuff, but what I learned for this, the education I got, that was another great tool.
And something that can hopefully build on what Dallas Buyers Club is doing right now.
That's a great film, and McConaughey just knocked it the fuck out. [The Normal Heart] will really put you there. It's a bit more aggressive look into that world.
Is this last year of character-driven material a reaction to 2012, when you had to lead all these tentpole movies that didn't quite work?
I don't know, man. Yeah, I was on that track as well, but it's really about reacting to the opportunities that come in front of you. In retrospect, I'd do them all over again. I mean, "Andrew Stanton is a multi-Oscar winner and he wants you for this movie"? I was like, yeah! Or Pete Berg with Battleship. I love working with him, and hopefully I'll be lucky enough to engage on another film down the road.
What do you remember about meeting Peter Berg, way back when you auditioned for Friday Night Lights?
I was nervous. I was sitting in a boardroom and he came in and brought me down this long hallway, and we were doing improv with me as Riggins. He was interviewing me like an ESPN reporter.
Were you ready for all that improv right off the bat?
Fuck yeah, man. He's a guy's guy, and there was that connection real quick. Even shooting the FNL pilot, we were working pretty darn well together.
People still talk about the idea of a Friday Night Lights movie, and—
I'll just say no. [Slams fist on table.] No, period. I'm not doing it. I'm never gonna be in that movie. There was already a movie! And the show ended fuckin' spot-on. We're good.


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Student Suicides in South Korea
South Korea prides itself in the academic achievement of its young people. The country's 15-year-olds have the highest reading scores among developed countries, they rank third in proficiency in science and mathematics, and more than 80 percent of them will go to college. The glowing statistics, however, has a dark side: Korea's youth has one of the highest suicide rates. Suicide, in fact, is the leading cause of death among Koreans aged 15 to 24.
This year, the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, the country's most prestigious university, lost four of its students (and one professor) to suicide. For a high school kid who has been trained to constantly aim for academic excellence, getting into KAIST is a dream come true. But living this dream means a relentless struggle to survive the rigors of a highly competitive environment. The suffocating pressure of schoolwork is blamed as a big factor in pushing the students to end their lives.
It has often been said that suicide is a complex issue and we shouldn't be too quick in pointing to a single cause for it, and rightly so. But it is also not difficult to imagine that intense academic pressure can cause serious stress and anxiety. For those who don't have adequate coping mechanism and social support, it is an easy road to depression and erosion of self-esteem.
The pursuit of excellence in education can be all-consuming but it can also be dreadfully myopic. We aim to train students to have perfect grades and heads full of knowledge at the risk of producing walking zombies emptied of the desire to live. A New York Times article quoted a statement of the KAIST student council released after the fourth suicide in the school: "Day after day we are cornered into an unrelenting competition that smothers and suffocates us. We couldn't even spare 30 minutes for our troubled classmates because of all our homework… We no longer have the ability to laugh freely."
Yes, education should develop and hone young people's abilities, equip them with knowledge and skills, encourage them to be exceptional, and challenge them to be the best at what they do. But education should also teach them that their worth is not measured by their grades, that failure however awful it seems is not the end of the world, that they don't have to constantly beat everyone else just to succeed, and that competitiveness tempered by compassion and empathy actually makes them a better person.
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Lacerta agilis
|Scope: Global
Language: English
|Scientific Name:
|Lacerta agilis Linnaeus, 1758
|Regional Assessments:
Common Name(s):
Lacerta boemica Suchov, 1929
Lacerta paradoxa Bedriaga, 1886
Lacerta stirpium Daudin, 1802
Seps argus Laurenti, 1768
Seps caerulescens Laurenti, 1768
Seps ruber Laurenti, 1768
|Taxonomic Notes:
|A phylogeographic study of this species based on mtDNA (Kalyabina et al. 2001) identified three groups of populations. Further studies of contact areas are needed to evaluate the taxonomic status of these three lineages (Crochet and Dubois 2004).
Ten subspecies are recognized:
The nominative subspecies, L. a. agilis is distributed in Western Europe and western Central Europe;
L. a. argus Laurenti, 1758 inhabits Central Europe, east to the Carpathian Mountains and to eastern Poland;
L. a. chersonensis Andrzejowski, 1832 - Moldavia, right-bank Ukraine, Belarus, the Baltic States, Leningrad region and south of the neighbouring Karelia. In the east, approximately from the left-bank valley of the river Dnieper a narrow area of intergradation with the neighbouring eastern subspecies is noted;
L. a. bosnica Schreiber, 1912 occurs in the mountains of Croatia, Macedonia, Bulgaria and Greece;
L. a. exigua Eichwald, 1831 occupies the whole eastern part of the distribution range up to the Crimean Peninsula and Ciscaucasia in the south;
L. a. grusinica Peters, 1960 inhabits the coast of the Black Sea and submountane regions of the Caucasus in the south-west of the Krasnodar Territory, Abkhazia, in the Colchic lowland and Ajaria;
L. a. brevicaudata Peters, 1958 occurs in northern and western Armenia, southern Georgia and on the southern slopes of the Great Caucasus range within the North Ossetia;
L. a. iorensis Peters and Muskhelishwili, 1968 occurs on the southern slopes of the Caucasus range: in the valley and ravine of the upper current of the river Iori in Georgia;
L. a. boemica Suchow, 1929 inhabits submontane regions of North Ossetia, Ingushetia, Chechnya and Dagestan;
L. a. tauridica Suchow, 1926 inhabits the southern mountains of Crimea.
|Red List Category & Criteria:
|Least Concern ver 3.1
|Year Published:
|Date Assessed:
|Agasyan, A., Avci, A., Tuniyev, B., Lymberakis, P., Andrén, C., Cogalniceanu, D., Wilkinson, J., Ananjeva, N., Üzüm, N., Orlov, N., Podloucky, R., Tuniyev, S., Kaya, U., Crnobrnja Isailovic, J., Vogrin, M., Corti, C., Pérez Mellado, V., Sá-Sousa, P., Cheylan, M., Pleguezuelos, J., Kyek, M., Westerström, A., Nettmann, H.K., Borczyk, B., Sterijovski, B. & Schmidt, B.
|Cox, N., Temple, H.J. (Global Reptile Assessment Coordinating Team) & Böhm, M., Collen, B., Ram, M. (Sampled Red List Index Coordinating Team)
|De Silva, R., Lewis, S., Lintott, P., Milligan, H.T., Powney, G., Sears, J., Wilson, P., Wearn, O.R., Wren, S. & Zamin, T.
Lacerta agilis is listed as Least Concern in view of its very wide distribution, tolerance of a degree of habitat modification in some parts of its range and presumed large population. Although it is declining in parts of its range, overall it is unlikely to be declining fast enough (30% or more) to qualify for listing in a more threatened category at the global level. However, numerous subpopulations are threatened across the range of the species.
|Range Description:
|This species ranges from northeastern Spain (isolated populations in the Pyrenees at around 1,800 m asl), France, the United Kingdom (isolated and fragmented populations in the south and the northwest), and southern Scandinavia (throughout Denmark and with a patchy distribution in central and southern Sweden), eastwards through Western, Central and Eastern Europe (where it is patchily distributed) into the Caucasus Mountains, Central Asia and Eastern Asia, as far east as northwestern China and northwestern Mongolia. In Europe it ranges south to the Italian Alps (a few populations in southwestern and northeastern Alps only), northern and eastern Albania and northern Greece (where populations are largely isolated in mountain ranges). It occurs up to at least 2,500 m asl (Bulgaria).
|Countries occurrence:
Native:Albania; Andorra; Armenia; Austria; Azerbaijan; Belarus; Belgium; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Bulgaria; China; Croatia; Czech Republic; Denmark; Estonia; France; Georgia; Germany; Greece; Hungary; Italy; Kazakhstan; Kyrgyzstan; Latvia; Liechtenstein; Lithuania; Luxembourg; Macedonia, the former Yugoslav Republic of; Moldova; Mongolia; Montenegro; Netherlands; Poland; Romania; Russian Federation; Serbia; Slovakia; Slovenia; Spain; Sweden; Switzerland; Turkey; Ukraine; United Kingdom
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|This species can be common in suitable habitat. It is locally declining in Switzerland (B. Schmidt pers. comm.). In Sweden it occurs along the southern coast in continuous populations, inland populations are tiny (5-10 individuals) and relictual. This species is undergoing local declines in Slovenia and Croatia (M. Vogrin pers. comm.).
|Current Population Trend:
|Additional data:
|Habitat and Ecology:
|This species can be found in a wide range of habitat types including meadows, heathland, coastal dunes, grassland, steppe, subalpine and alpine meadows, shrubland, hedgerows, open woodland, in alpine areas, traditionally managed agricultural land and rural gardens. Sometimes it is present in sandy semi-desert areas. In the northwest of its range (e.g. UK) it is largely restricted to open heathland and coastal dune habitats.
It appears after hibernation in March in the North, in March - April in the South and at mountains. The female may lay one or two clutches of between four and 14 eggs per year. Incubation period lasts 50 - 55 days. Young of first generation appear in July - August, second - in September - October.
|Major Threat(s):
|This species is threatened by habitat loss through urbanization, conversion to intensive agricultural use (especially the loss of hedgerows and other suitable habitats), coastal and alpine tourism development and the loss of traditional forestry practices, and unsustainable management. Many animals are killed on roads in parts of its range (e.g. Austria). Some populations in Sweden are reported to be suffering from inbreeding depression due to a fragmented distribution (Olsson et al. 1996). There is some predation of animals by cats in urban areas. Open habitats, which this species requires, are being overgrown with vegetation. It is a threatened species in much of the northwest of its range, including the United Kingdom, Scandinavia and northern Germany.
|Conservation Actions:
|The species is included in the Red Data Books of numerous countries in the western part of its range. It is listed on Appendix II of the Bern Convention, and on Annex IV of the European Union Habitat and Species Directive. It is protected by national legislation in most of its range countries (all EU). This species is categorized as Vulnerable in Switzerland (Monney and Meyer 2005). It is present in a number of protected areas over much of its range. Habitat restoration projects (e.g. Estonia) and reintroductions for the species (e.g. UK) are taking place in parts of its range. More research on its biology and threats and monitoring is needed.
|Agasyan, A., Avci, A., Tuniyev, B., Lymberakis, P., Andrén, C., Cogalniceanu, D., Wilkinson, J., Ananjeva, N., Üzüm, N., Orlov, N., Podloucky, R., Tuniyev, S., Kaya, U., Crnobrnja Isailovic, J., Vogrin, M., Corti, C., Pérez Mellado, V., Sá-Sousa, P., Cheylan, M., Pleguezuelos, J., Kyek, M., Westerström, A., Nettmann, H.K., Borczyk, B., Sterijovski, B. & Schmidt, B. 2010. Lacerta agilis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2010: e.T157288A5071439. . Downloaded on 24 September 2018.
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Former fire chief sentenced for $95,000 theft
Former fire chief sentenced for $95,000 theft
DENISON, Iowa —
A former fire chief in western Iowa has been sentenced for stealing from taxpayers.
Online court records say 42-year-old Michael McKinnon on Monday was sentenced to 10 years in prison. He'd been convicted of theft.
McKinnon served Denison as chief from January 1999 to January 2010, when he left under a cloud of questions about his spending.
A state audit cited more than $95,000 in spending, including about $40,000 paid to businesses he owned. The spending included invoices for post office boxes that did not exist.
Other spending included a riding lawn mower and a motor for his boat.


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I've had the honor of working with some of the most brilliant people on the planet across several industries, and have often marveled they they are not the most successful.
"People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit."
George Allen, NFL Coach
Tenacity. Give me a half-baked idea that gets to market over the perfect idea stuck on a whiteboard.
"A little less conversation, a little more action."
Elvis Presley
It really is possible to talk an idea to death. In business school they place a huge emphasis on business plans. Business plans serve a singular purpose. They validate ideas, but not through addressable market analysis and discounted cash flows. If you're still passionate about your idea after all that analysis, odds are it's a pretty good idea.
Every book on entrepreneurship tells the reader the business plan is a living document. Yeah, it lives in some folder on some hard disk. The most action it sees is getting scanned for viruses once a month.
Making the magic happen
After almost three years working among some of the best product managers, designers, and engineers at Avid, I've learned that great ideas will always come. We joke that if you build a company around a bunch of rock musicians and filmmakers cool shit is bound to happen. But the fact is that emphasis on execution is the path to success. Creative people instinctively hate process, but a healthy dose of process can be liberating. Media Composer 5.x and Pro Tools 9 were conceived from brilliant ideas, but they were born on ruthless execution.
Every effective team in any company has its own tricks. Here are a few I've seen work over the years.
Write it down
Creative people are easily distracted. The trick is to manage the distractions, and the best way to do that is to record everything. That stray thought, although profoundly brilliant, will hang around much longer if you're afraid of losing it. Jot it down. Record a voice memo. Anything. What's important is that you find a tool you enjoy using. Most productivity gurus recommend having one, single repository. That's never worked for me. I use paper notebooks (with numbered pages), Livescribe notebooks, online notebooks, Post-its, photo albums on my phone, and good, old file folders. My index for this system lives online in an Evernote notebook.
Though it sounds like I use a confusing jumble of tools, it's really a simple system.
- Old fashioned computation notebook: I use the numbered graph paper pages for sketching. I often staple magazine clippings, Post-It notes, and other paper items to the pages. (I don't use Livescribe notebooks this way simply because the electronically archivable dot paper notebooks are so damn expensive.)
- Livescribe notebook: I use these mostly for meeting notes. The smart pens have built-in audio recorders, so that as I fall behind in my note taking I can start recording. The ability to electronically search hand-written notes in invaluable.
- Blackberry: The camera records whiteboards, clever billboards, store displays, movie posters, and book covers. Anything I need to be reminded of. At the end of every week or so, I take what I want to keep and upload it to Evernote or Flickr.
- Evernote: Once an idea gains some traction its detritus is gathered into a single entry in the online notebook. Every few days I catalog all the stuff I've recorded that's worth keeping in Evernote. I just add a note on a topic and index where all the physical and electronic clippings live. Evernote's super fast at searching hundreds of pages of notes. (It's worth mentioning here that Springpad is another online notebook I use frequently. I find it stores personal data like restaurants, movies, etc. better than Evernote.)
As confusing and cluttered as this hodgepodge of recording methods sounds, it's remarkably simple. And it's visual, so it can be very inspiring.
Have a framework for action
Personal productivity methodologies like GTD (Getting Things Done) and Action Method are more like cults than tools, but if you take the parts of them you like and ignore the stuff that just feels too OCD-ish, they can be effective. OK, I admit I'm a recovering GTD addict. Action Method is now my tool of choice — simply because it looks like Greenhopper's Jira, the tool we use to track Agile/Scrum development at Avid. At the end of the day it's an online to-do list that cost $99/year unless you can persuade a fair number of colleagues to use its collaboration features. Most people will do just as well with the free, but visually ugly Voo2do.
Set aside playtime
My mid-afternoon lulls are the stuff of legend. I crash like no one else I know. So I set aside the time from about 2:00 to 3:30 as creative exploration time. I'm not going to get anything productive done in that time, so I find a way to put it to use. That includes those oft-forbidden office activities such as scanning Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. Once I was caught perusing Monster. I was trying to figure out what other companies in our space were working on by checking out what positions they were filling in the down economy, but I'm not sure my colleague believed that at the time.
Have a sacred creative space (or two)
Ideally your special place is at the office, but as Jason Fried of 37 Signals noted in his TED talk Why Work Doesn't Happen at Work, that's rarely the case. Go ahead, use your first dedicated playtime to watch Fried's talk.
My sacred creative space is my home office. It's in the corner of the basement – away from the madding crowd. It's got a great view of the conservation land behind my house for me to stare out at and ponder great things. But what's really special is that I've set up two workspaces in it – one for the left brain, and one for the right.
The left-brained desk has my PC laptop and an iMac with all the expected office software. The desk phone and mobile phone are kept there. It's where I take Skype and iChat meetings, and where I make conference calls. The right-brained desk and rack contains all my audio and video gear for Media Composer and Pro Tools. It's where I edit my digital photos, and where I build my experimental little apps. It's where I try out competitors' products, and play meaningless games. Nothing to be done under deadline is taken on at that desk. It's play space.
It's amazing how my attitude, my posture, and my frame of mind change depending on the chair I occupy. When in the work chair, it's all about execution. When the going gets tough, I use the other chair as a carrot.
Work where you can get stuff done
Unfortunately most offices are not conducive to creativity. Has anyone ever had a good idea in an hour meeting with more more than a few people in the room? Work at home. Work at Starbucks. Work in the cafeteria. Just get away from Outlook.
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Emma Thompson Goes for the Gold at Jameson Empire Awards 2014
Emma Thompson stands next to her hubby Greg Wise on the red carpet at the 2014 Jameson Empire Awards at the Grosvenor House Hotel on Sunday (March 30) in London, England.
The 54-year-old actress and her 47-year-old hubby were joined at the big show by Arnold Schwarzenegger, 66, who she starred alongside in the 1994 movie Junior.
Emma is up for the Best Actress award at the big show for her work in Saving Mr. Banks. She's up against Jennifer Lawrence, Amy Adams, Sandra Bullock, and Cate Blanchett.
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A growing portion of U.S. states' electricity is being provided by renewable energy, according to a report released today by the Pew Center on Global Climate Change. States are using increasingly aggressive and ambitious Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS) in order to spur economic development and create a reliable and diversified supply of electricity, as well as to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and conventional pollutants. As of mid 2006, 22 states and the District of Columbia have implemented an RPS; well over half of the American public now lives in a state in which an RPS is in operation. The report, Race to the Top: The Expanding Role of U.S. State Renewable Portfolio Standards, authored by Barry Rabe of the University of Michigan, builds on earlier Pew Center analyses of the state role in climate policy development. The proliferation of RPSs at the state level provides real-world models of whether a federal RPS may be a feasible option to increase the nation's use of renewable energy sources as part of a larger energy and climate change policy.
"If we are to successfully address climate change, we must increase our use of renewable energy. States are leading on renewables, as they are in so many aspects of climate policy," said Pew Center President Eileen Claussen, "Engagement between states and federal policymakers on this issue has been surprisingly limited, and is long overdue. We need to begin thinking both about how the federal government can be most effective in this arena, and also how to enhance interstate collaboration."
In addition to examining challenges and opportunities inherent in policy design and implementation, the report includes case studies of five states – Texas, Pennsylvania, Colorado, Massachusetts, and Nevada. The author explores the political and economic advantages and pitfalls in each state, and finds an unusually high degree of bipartisan support and rapid expansion of RPSs at the state level. Economic development and job creation also emerge as drivers in virtually every state.
Despite the many advantages of state-level RPS policies, the report finds that states also face challenges. States increasingly are grappling with electricity transmission capacity constraints, differential treatment of various renewable sources as well as facility siting concerns. The biggest challenge in the future will likely revolve around the need for interstate collaboration and dialogue as the questions of cooperation across state boundaries arise. Ultimately, federal and state regulators will need to work together in the event of adoption of a federal RPS.
States are already beginning to cooperate regionally and that pattern is likely to continue, but there is much the federal government could do to enable a significant expansion of renewable energy. The Pew Center's recent Agenda for Climate Action recommends that renewables be a key element of a climate-friendly energy path for the U.S. It describes the areas in which federal efforts are needed, including R&D funding and technology development, and notes that there are many ways in which the federal government can support and encourage ongoing state renewables initiatives. These may involve incentives for uniform grid interconnection standards at the state level, or the creation of a uniform system for tracking renewable energy credits across the country. In designing federal policies, Congress should recognize the regional differences in renewable resources and existing state-level policy actions.
"Although there is no single technological or policy solution to climate change and energy independence in the U.S., renewable energy is clearly destined to play an important role in the years to come – and now is the time to lay the foundation," said Eileen Claussen.
The Pew Center on Global Climate Change was established in May 1998 by The Pew Charitable Trusts, one of the United States' largest philanthropies and an influential voice in efforts to improve the quality of the environment. The Center is an independent, nonprofit, and non-partisan organization dedicated to providing credible information, straight answers, and innovative solutions in the effort to address global climate change. The Center is led by Eileen Claussen, the former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs.


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Service offerings expand from automation distributors
Today's automation distributors offer more than warehouses full of the latest gadgets, providing a diversity of services to ease buying, installation, start-up, and more.
Distributors in the industrial automation industry have traditionally stocked their warehouses with all the latest technology from the vendors they represent so as to facilitate sales to local clients. With exclusive territories delineated by their vendor partners, distributors have prospered by charging a mark-up on every product sold nearby. This business model, born in the last century, still helps clients obtain hardware, software, and replacement parts on short notice.
Critics argue that the advent of Internet storefronts and improvements in shipping and logistics make the local-warehouse function obsolete. A distributor that adds no other value to a client's automation projects simply drives up the cost.
So in recent years, some automation distributors have been making an effort to earn their keep in other ways that enhance the products they sell or improve their clients' purchasing experience. See the "Distributor evolution" graphic on the next page. The Association for High Technology Distribution (AHTD) now recognizes a class of members known as "Automation Solution Providers" (ASP) that sell technology-based industrial automation products, and
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- Design and application engineering
- Support services
- Integrated solutions
- Value-added services.
These services include programming, customer training, demonstration rooms and equipment, post-order product service and warranty support, and start-up assistance.
Not just product sales
Brian Fisher, president and CEO of Pacific Technical Products, sees his ASP firm as something of a cross between a traditional distributor and a system integrator, though "we actually put in a lot more up-front time during the design phase of the project to help select the right product for the application, and then we end up reviewing everything with the customer once the detailed product list is complete."
Doing so reduces the chance of a mismatch between the capabilities of the products purchased and the requirements of the project at hand. "Products typically fail where they're misapplied," said Fisher, and it is an ASP's job to prevent those failures much the same way a pharmacist prevents medical failures that could result from the misapplication of a prescription drug.
Rick Gehring, president and CEO of ASP Applied Controls, elaborated: "We help manufacturers and machine builders design and implement technology solutions to reduce costs throughout their processes and protect their automation investments for the long run." He cited some of the challenges that an ASP can help clients address:
- Maintenance demands from complex control schemes and constantly changing software
- Difficulty lowering lifecycle costs and generating expected returns
- Complying with changing regulatory and safety concerns
- Rising costs due to rapidly evolving technologies
- Reducing and managing energy consumption.
Some ASPs and ASP-like distributors have moved even further into the design and installation fields that traditionally have been the purview of automation system integrators—level five of the "Automation distributor hierarchy." For example, "Zeller Technologies is one of the few distributors in the nation that provides a full range of services as well as parts," said Zeller's automation controls manager, Tom Rudloff.
"We do high-level automation system engineering, installation, and start-up, along with field service troubleshooting on any system in industry. Our techs have been in almost every type of manufacturing process out there," Rudloff said.
Conflict with system integrators
These expanded service offerings can be a mixed blessing, especially when a distributor counts both end users and system integrators as clients. End users no doubt appreciate the additional technical services that a distributor can bring to bear on their automation projects, but system integrators often see those services as a competitive threat.
Unfortunately, system integrators must still buy products from their designated distributor to incorporate into their own automation projects, leaving them in the awkward position of patronizing their competition. One conflicted integrator voiced his concerns rhetorically in a post to the discussion list of the Control System Integrators Association (CSIA): "For the distributors that have internal SI capability: How do you attempt to manage the inherent conflict when bidding against your SI customer for SI services? How do you handle hardware and software pricing on projects that are bid against SI customers? Why do you maintain an SI capability that competes with your SI customers? Why should I buy anything whatsoever from a competitor?"
Judging from the number of distributors getting into the system integration business, these competitive conflicts are likely to become even more common. See the "Distributors offering system integration services" chart on the next page.
Cooperation, support
On the other hand, many system integrators and distributors enjoy a mutually beneficial relationship. See the sidebar, "Integrators and distributors can work together" on the next page. And according to Viktor Tadjer, general manager of Kibernetika & Co. OOD, distributors today really can't afford to stay out of the system integration business entirely.
"I find it very rare when we have sold a PLC or some HMI device without any additional engineering. My opinion is that distributors of control systems equipment should have at least average skills for integrating and/or commissioning the equipment they sell. Otherwise, many problems arise because of expensive errors in specifications and the resulting deliveries," Tadjer said.
Some distributors recognize this need and still find ways to cooperate with their system integrator clients. "With our overlapping role as a products distributor and small integration service provider, said Brenden Fritz, president of Automated Drive Systems, "we focus on distribution and integration of small machine level systems that typically are smaller than a large integration company's focus."
Laurie Hall, president of Martindale Associates, takes a similar approach. "We can help with the installation for clients if the project is small, but for a project over $5K that's very custom, or one that will take several weeks or months, we typically call in a large integrator," Hall said.
Cooperative competition also affects the relationships that system integrators have with the vendors that their distributors represent. See "System integrators partner with automation suppliers," linked below.
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text: Direct marketers embrace change, but worry By Christopher Hosford. Published on November 26, 2012. As the year comes to a close and 2013 approaches, marketers find themselves facing a radically different direct marketing scenario than in the past—along with several other concerns about the future. Powerful analytics promise to parse Big Data sets, but marketers are unsure how to tackle it. Website behavior combined with automation can serve up personalized content and offers, but the rapidly evolving technology makes choices difficult. One element that's not debatable: Social media has become solidly mainstream in providing keener insight into what is important within market segments and to individual prospects. "I often think of social media as the oldest form of advertising, which is word-of-mouth; social is just a new way of delivering it," said Tom Haas, CMO at Siemens Corp. "With social and mobile apps, you can go directly to the customer, pinpointing where they are, what they're looking for and how you can serve up something relevant and beneficial," Haas said. Social advertising is solidly maturing. According to media research company BIA/Kelsey, social ad revenue in the U.S. is expected to reach $9.2 billion by 2016, up from $4.6 billion this year, for a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 19.2%. Social ads are being driven by display, such as Facebook's Marketplace Ads and YouTube's multiple display units. Locally oriented social media advertising and social ads on mobile devices are growing fastest of all, each expected to experience a 28% CAGR through 2016. On a macro level, direct marketers remain relatively confident in the near future. According to the Direct Marketing Association's "Quarterly Business Review"—released this month and based on an online survey in October of 322 marketers—75% of respondents said they are bullish about the growth prospects of digital and direct marketing. When asked to rate their confidence in the growth of digital and direct marketing on a scale of 1 to 5 (with 1 representing low confidence and 5, high confidence), respondents gave an average score of 3.91, up slightly from 3.85 in the second quarter. Nevertheless, uncertainty lurks in the shadows. While marketers agree that good data can increase revenue driven through marketing, they've been slow to embrace new sources and types of data. According to Eric Wittlake, head of media at agency Babcock & Jenkins, Portland, Ore., marketers are uncertain about data accuracy and completeness, the cost of acquiring data and their own abilities to manage and understand it. Another concern: The looming "fiscal cliff" and its potential impact on the U.S. economy. According to a report by BtoB sibling publication Advertising Age, marketers may sharply curtail expenditures as they wait to see if President Obama and House Republicans can agree on changes to the current law mandating spending cuts and tax increases in the new year. Marketing staffing decisions also appear to be in a wait-and-see mode, according to an online survey conducted in September by direct marketing executive search company Bernhart Associates. The company's latest "Quarterly Digital and Direct Marketing Employment Report" projects fourth-quarter hiring trends and reported that 46% of the 450 companies surveyed said they plan to add staff in the final three months of the year, down from 50% in the last quarterly report issued in April. "Yes, the fiscal cliff can make people nervous," said Jerry Bernhart, the company's principal. "But I've never had a company say they're delaying or canceling a job search because of it. If they have a need, they have a need. Bigger companies may be more concerned about this kind of thing than smaller organizations." Bernhart said that while hiring in direct marketing has reached an uncertain phase, certain job types have risen in prominence and demand. "Marketing analytics jobs are at the top, but the demand is for analytics skills combined with business acumen," Bernhart said. "Companies are avid to hire people who can mine the data and then make recommendations to marketers based on what the data are telling them. Marketing departments don't need propeller-heads." For the first time, social media manager positions have appeared within the top five marketing positions sought by companies, Bernhart said. Other positions companies are seeking to fill including Web designers, email marketing managers, account managers and sales. Most Popular In this article: BtoB


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After Russ earned his B.S. in Oenology UC Davis' famous winemaking program , he worked at a few wineries and returned to his hometown of Truckee. His vision was to source quality grapes, and then bring fruit to Truckee to take advantage of the high elevation and cold temperatures, naturally cooling the fermentation and slowing down the barrel aging process. "Thus we became the highest and coldest winery in California," Russ said. "Our focus from the beginning has been to produce handcrafted wines with great structure and finesse."
At the Tasting Room you can taste and buy these and other wines:
2009 Garys' Vineyard Pinot Noir. Just released, the grapes for this wine comes from the eponymous vineyard in Santa Lucia Highlands. The flavor is of dark berries, cassis, briar and black tea. There's a nice mid pallet structure, and medium tannins. 15 percent alcohol. $45/bottle
The 2008 Reserve Pinot Noir, Santa Lucia Highlands, just received a Double Gold at the San Francisco Chronicle competition. This is an ultra velvet, ultra smooth, and complex wine. 13 percent alcohol. $55/bottle.
2011 White Barn Pinot Gris. A great affordable white wine that is crisp, clean, and with a hint of pear and apple. Grapes are sourced from the Apple Hill area of El Dorado County, Sierra Foothills. 13.4 percent alcohol. $14/bottle.
2009 Red Barn Red-Red Table Wine. A blend of Merlot and Zinfandel, the result is a very drinkable wine that goes well with many dishes. 12.8 percent alcohol. $16/bottle.
The 2009 Chicago Park Merlot is vinified from grapes grown in the Bear River vineyard in Chicago Park, Nevada County, Sierra Foothills. The grapes from this 3200-foot high vineyard results in wine with a concentrated flavor, a very berry taste and great structure. 13.2 percent alcohol. $18/bottle.
The Red Barn Red Apres Dessert Wine is a blend of several traditional port varietals. Tawny, rich and sweet, it goes well with chocolate and strong cheese. A perfect after-dinner wine! 18.5 percent alcohol. $18/bottle.
The Truckee River Tasting room is located at 11467 Brockway Road, Truckee CA 96161. 530-587-4626. Open 12:00p-7:00p every day
This information first appeared in The Tahoe Weekly newspaper, where I write the Wine Time column, on February 13, 2013