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Issue date: Tuesday, May 24, 1927
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Hattiesburg American (Newspaper) - May 24, 1927, Hattiesburg, Mississippi ■c «■"£.. "Miss Utah" in Beauty Review J LINDB ERGH iment of Wave Must Be Met by Some $00 Broadcasting Stations. SOUND BASIS FOR LISTENER Regulation Will Go Into Effect One Week From Tomorrow. (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, May 24.—Re-cast-Injf of the radio broadcasting %veh which the federal radio commission will put into effect June 1, was announced today, with the reassign-tnents of wave length and power affecting the 600-odd transmitting stations all over the country. Along with the announcement, the commission made public its general order, requiring1 stations to go on the new wavelengths at 3 a. m. a week from tomorrow, and stay there. For the first time since broadcasting became general fact, the Commission said, there had been provided a "sound basis for radio service to the listener." The reassignment of stations and wave lengths will be required to comply with it, and stations will be given opportunity to present later their petitions for'changes and re-locations. Lilt a* Follows The list follows, in part: " 570 kilocycles, 536.0 meters: KPKX, Hastings, Neb., 2,500; 580 kilocycles, 516.9 meters: WMC, Memphis, 500; 560 kilocycles, 394.5 «letree; KWKH, Shreveport, 10,000; -a. , %79.5 - mrti'rs; WGY, 30,0<TOT ntr kilocycles, J70.2 meters; WDAF, Kansas City, 1^900; 850 kilocycles, 352.7 meters: WOC, Davenport, 5,000: 930 kilocycles, 322.4, peters: WSMB, New Orleans, &00: 950 -kilocycles, 315.6 meters: KDKA, Pittsburgh, 30,000; 1.020 kilocycles, 2f>2.9 meters: KPRC, Houston, "500: 1,080 kilocycles, 277.6 meters: T^WWO, Brownsville, Texas, 600; WGBC, Memphis, 15. 1,090 "kilocycles, 275.1 meters: WWL, New Orleans, 100; 1,120 kilocycles, 267.7 meters: KSBA, Shreve-j port, 1,00«0; 1,140 kilocycles, 263.0 1 meters: WDAG, Amarillo, 250; WJBO, Njfiw Orleans, 100; 1,150 kilocycles, 260.7 meters: IvFQB, Fort Worth, Texas, 1,000; 1,160 kilocycles, 258.5 meters: KFUL, Galveston, 500; i,l<»0 kilocycles, 252.0 meters: WKBTj New Orleans, 50; 1,210 kilocycles, 247.8 meters: WABZ, New Orleans, 50: 1,230 kilocycles, 243.8 meters: WBRC, Birmingham, 250; 1.840 kilocycles, 241.8 meters: PJBW, New Orleans, 30. 1,270 kilocycles, 236.1. meters: Shreveport, La,, 250; 1,290 kilocycles, {32.4 meters; KITT, Austis, Texas, 6D0; WHBQ, Memphis, Tenn., 100; 1,300 kilocycles, 230.6 meters; WCCC, Columbus, Miss., 100; 1,230 kilocycles, 243.8' meters: "WBRC, Bir-mingham. 250; 1,240 kilocycles, 241.8 meters: WCBH, Oxford, Miss., 100; 1,200 kilocycles^v- 238.0 meters: WJBW, New Orleans, 30; 1,320 kilo-cjrcles, 237.1 meters^ WCBE, New Orleans, 5; 1,410 kilocycles, 212.£ ineters: KGDX, Shreveport, 250. —0--- d Fund Continues to SAFETY OF î ""' S* * i (SSSft .**:• S AV&A «¡5»R <0X000 ÜS8IS »¡sas BSBiB R»X« K3»£!Si assaa 3EKiSS8! iQCHKKttl IffiSKBS! 2SK25S5JS »«a»«« !9HfgeifiiS BBB8S2X HKn»XO»X «HK8MKÌK AX«ffi»2Ca»S! VaSBSSHSBHI RflftHtKHfllA! axDinsxBSBj HBHBSVJSBJBKI onnnsfiflBHi 'Flying Fool"'.-Is Short Speeches in Paris, Amid Thunderous Applause. Utah'« only representative in the international bathing srirl pageant at Galveston, Tex., is Mix» Mae Elizabeth Lett«, or "Miss Ogrden Utah," aw she ¡n known. Cumberland PresbyteriansRECEPTIONS GIVEN TO GREAT AVIATOR Universal Surge of Affection Rises Among All Classes, .Contributions to trie Red Cross Belief Fund, which still being raised in this city fdr aiding- the victims.of the flooded ¿section of the s||ite, are continuing to be received b|t B. Gaines Hightower, chairman of tlie local chapter ofi the organization. Previously acknowledged $10,''092.74 C|urt St. S. S. Senior Ç>ept. Cash . ..............j____ W-" O. Loudenslager, Ègan iSouth Dakota .....I.... Faculty Hattiesburg White Schools, additional i . . . . Gfeen's Creek Baptist is. S. Efeistabuchie, Miss., additional . ...........j. ... Hattiesburg Sash and Door ,mg. co........— Painter's Union No. 762 ... Cash- . ..............J... . Cash ............... o- 10.00 1.00 11.46 10.00 1.35 15.00 25.00 2.25 3.10 Radio Corporation of America Announces Receipt of Message From the Cobotorus. MESSAGE COMES THIS AFTERNOON To Bethel College Äff afa (By Associated Press) LAKELAND, Fla., M a y 24.—A compromise settlement of differences revolving 'about the faculty of Bethel College, the Presbyterian ohurch's school at McKenzie, Tenn., was adopted by the general assembly of the church today after a report by an education committee. A controversy developed from the board of education's refusal to accede to demands of the education commission that President J. R. Whitmer be dismissed. The new recommendations, incorporating. those of the board and a BR1TT0N WINS FIRST AT BEAUTY EVENT committee appointed jointly by the board and the assemply's investigating commission were that six retiring members of the board be replaced by men known to stand three and three in support of the board and commission. • Commenting on the recommendations, leaders said that if accepted the new board would be aligned five to four for the policies of the commission. The terms of three members of the board have not expired. The resignation of President Whitmer, the report said, "has settled all controversy thereto." The men known to favor policies of the education commission were recommended for board membership as,follows: The Rev. Hardy Copeland, Nash- (By Associated Press) PARIS, May 24.—Captain Lindbergh made his second Paris speech at a luncheon given in his honor today by the American Club. It was even a greater success than his first, given, last night, although he stuck to the same simple style. After holding the guests spellbound for ten minutes with a most modes# description of his New York-Paris flight, he concluded: "I hope 1 haven't kept you too long," and sat down amid a terrific round of applause. Captain Lindbergh is firmly established as an idol in France. Today, the third since he completed his memorable air journey, the enthusiasm of Parisians showed no sij^ns of waning and his natural simplicity was making fresh friends every hour: The universal trend of affection felt for him among all classes and conditions of Frenchmen is absolutely unique. No honor, it is felt, can be adequate to express the national admiration. His every action is talked of eagerly by; the impressionable Gallic people; he is sung ,of by popular- 'bards, "Lindbergh; Sag&," is on every lip. Primitive bands consisting- of violin, guitar, and orchestra, peddle songs around in his honor in every market place, and square, the men warbling the verses through megaphones. Xot Satisfied WIt.li Reading • But the people are jiot satisfied with talking- and reading- about the hero, they wanted to see him, and they have had little opportunity thus far in his rapid trips from the American embassy escorted just like a sovereign by secret service men. It was with the idea of satisfying this popular desire that the city council fixed on Thursday, which is Ascension Day and a public holiday,, for a reception," so that as many as possible can get a glimpse of him. On that day the president of the city council, the vice-presidents and ENT APPEAL Plane, Santa Maria II, Being Towed, Says Radiogram Received. Chairman of State Livestock Sanitary Board Cautions Stockmen on Shortness of Time. ville; Rev. H. L. Hinch, Fultpn, Ky" | officers of the assembly, will go in and v Rev. Robert Alexander, Evans-1 st.ate to the embassy to accompany ___ _ * t 1 11 111-. 1» rvli in n n ..«in « to. Jersey City Representative Carries Off the Honors at International Pageant in Galveston. ville, Ind. The three men presumably favorable to policies of "the old board were: The Rev. E. R. Ramer, Milan, Tenn.; Elder E. B. McEuen, Owens-boro, Ky., and Elder Karl Ward, Jackson, Tennessee. The other three members are C. M. McAnulty, secretary and treasurer, and President W. B; Cunning Lindbergh in an open carriage by the Arc de Triumphe through the Champs Elysees and the Rue Ri-voli to the city hall, on the steps of which he will be presented to Parisians. Later he will 'sign the "golden book," as did Louis Gleriot after he flew across the Egyptian 20 years ag6. Lindbergh knows that the people, above all, want to see him in action Dr. R. V. Raefnel, ¡chairman of thii state livestock sapitary board, | was in Hattiesburg today for a .brief conference withiD. S. Wills, local manager of the! disinfecting station, and left shortljy after 110011 for Jackson. j Before leaving- Dr. Rjacfnsl stated to the Hattiesburg- Ainerican that only a little more tliàn a month intervenes before the closing of the station, and urged thè importarne if getting to the peojple of Soutii !.. ."ssippi the need of (having- their cattle dipped before this time expires, ; "The capacity of thje vat Is six cars per day, and we will be unable to care for a rush the Hist few dayj. It is therefore important that cat'le owners who wish to hajve their cattle dipped, not to wait! for the last two weeks to have it done,'' he said. Dr. Raefnel has expressed his satisfaction at the work being done by the local station. ! The state livestock jlaw will go 1 into effect- on October 1 of tl year, and after July 1 no cattle can be dipped in the Hub station. o- (By Associated Press) NEW YORK, May 21.—The Radio Corporation of America this afternoon announced receipt 01 a radiogram originating- with the steamer Cobotorus,' relayed through the \ Leviathan,. reading: "Sailing- vessel Infantia Vese-berus, bound southeast, towing Italian hydroplane Santa .Maria Savoia 10.01(3. All well." The position of the Cobotorus was given as latitude 11.25 north and longitude "2.2S west, when the message wns riled, 12:50 eastern standard time. (By Associated, Press) BATON ROUGE, May 24. — The levee at McCrea, on ¿he east bank of thè Atchafalaya river, gave way at 3:30 o'clock this morning. Flood Relief Director John M. Parker was notified of the break shortly after 5 o'clock by Sheriff Lamartine Bou-anehaud, "of Pointe Coupee parish, who received the message by telephone from his son- who was working- on the levee when the crevasse came. No lives were lost, although a force of 2,000 or more was on the levee, Mr. Parker learned later from a source considered reliable. News of the break was confirmed almost immediately from several other sources. The crevasse, giving the flood waters domain over five additional parishes of the "Sugar Bowl," Pointe Coupee, West Baton Rouge, Assumption, Iberville and Terrebonne, as well as part of Ascension, could not have found the flood relief organization better pre- LISBON, May 21.—A radio message, received directly from Commander Francesdo de I'inedo here today, stated that he was being towed to the Azores and that he needed 110 furl her assistance. The commander suffered no injury in the descent of his plant? the sea. Two Homes Entered Late Yesterday, and Officers Search for Many Pilfered Articles. Chief of Air Forces Stops for a While in Capital City Enroute to Washington. en. Says He Did Not Kill Peter Mauris Aboard Coast Guard Cutter. (By Associated Press) JACKSON, Miss., May''21.—Sammie (By Associated Press) JACKSON, Miss., May 2 4 Mason T. Patrick, chief of air forces, flying- from San Antonio, Texas, to Washington, landed5 here today to refuel his plane and to have lunch. Police under Chief J. V. Oresham are searching today for the perpetrators ol' two robberies, one oi tii.e cash register in the Short Restaurant on Second' street, aivd- the other a daring -:.ay light haul at the homo of C. E. Fuiriey on North Main street. Tho Fairlev residence was en-flered Monday afternoon between :li0 and 5 o'"lock, in the absence of ^members of the family, and many ^ clothes arc missinr ms the result. * The housebreaker evidently was watching the house, for when every one had left it for a thort time he broke a window at the back and entered through the broken sash. The interior of the house presented i disorder 1 y appearance wlien t he ) ¡residents returned about 5 o'clock, land, polite were notified at once, j An inventory revealed that the 'miscrcant had taken three silk dresses belonging to the daughters of Mr. Fairlev, two boys' suits, and several pairs of men's ,trousers. A suitcase belonging to K. Silvey, a roomer at the Fairley home, was found underneath the back steps of the house. A suit of clothes that had only j been worn a few times was also Sergeant PURVIS CITIZEN BURIED Andrew J. Cooper Had Been a Citizen of Purvis for 24 Years. -PURVIS. Miss., May' 24.—Funeral for A. J. Cooper; 85 year» _ for many years a prominent i^xen of this place, were held here afternoon with interment fol-til the Purvis cemetery. The fei^ W. Causey, pastor of the gifcdlist church here, officiated at ices. k man died last ttight at 9 (By Associated Press) GALVESTON, Texas, May 24.— Faced with keen competition including' eight beauties from foreign countries. Miss Dorothy Britton, of Jersey City, won first place in the annual international bathing girl revue which ended here early today with the announcement of the 10 high point winners in a field of nearly two score candidates. Miss Britton, entered as "Miss 'New York," Was named "beauty queen of the universe" after she had been designated "Miss United states" in competition with entries from 26 American cities. She received $2,000 in gold and a silver plaque. ; Nine other prizes were awarded by the judges, who in their effort to jgrade the candidates on the basis of grace, graciousness and person-aiityj continued iij session until well after midnight. A huge crowd that followed the r beauties through three * days of pa- ham, and A. I. Dennison, both sup-jjn nKS dement, and he is going to j. Long, member of the crew of the porters of the commission. tr>' to give them an exhibition of Excepting McAnultv, expiring]*11® slil11 which brought him across terms and resignation eared for all the ocean with the regularity of a crack express train. He is planning to make a flight over Paris Thijrs- P.ve members who the commission sought to have dismissed. They were J. L. Baker, R. C Denny, da>" aboard his "old bus," the Spirit Woodfin Hutson, and J. "P/TMcDaniel. J. H. Williams resigned. A request of the education commission that Professor G.. L. Meek be reinstated as a member of the faculty was not mentioned in thé report. Professor Meet ' terminated his connection with the school 011 payment of $1,500. Other commission recommendations were not mentioned. No reference was made to the commission's censure of the board for "trying and sentencing faculty members and students without their presence." -0—;-;—f BILL WINS AGAIN. (By Associated Press) , ST. CLOUD, France, May 24 — William T. Tilden, American lawn of St. Louis At his request, mechanics at Le Bourget airdome have already started overhauling his motor and repairing the damage to the canvas done by souvenir hunters immediately after the plane touched the ground Saturday night. Pleased by !his simple kindly manner, the mechanics offered to do anything for him. He told them that viewed by day, the flying field was not nearly so tiny as it seemed to him Saturday night. "I thought I could see several ditches, which gave me some anx-i eoast guard boat 2;50, who is charged with manslaughter in connection with the killing of Peter Mauris, petty officer in; command of the boat,, at Hardtimes Landing, pleaded not guilty at a: preliminary hearing- here today before, the United States commissioner. Long is being- held ¡in jail here awaiting a trial date. ; He said he was born at Biloxi and jrecently had bepn living at Mobile. The men, it was said, ¡quarreled on' type" used bv the night, of May 13, and in a fight i ' h-* that followed Mauris was killed by pistol shots. DEPUTY SHERIFF SHOT BY NEGRO f&Howing * long lllhess j geants; parades and ceremonies re-& virulent cancer, and his not unexpected. For the yearB Mr. Cooper had j bpor heftlth, while for the pSi*jttha' he has be«n closely BUUi'4*aves a large list jrominerit among Cooper, p&iUnaater iety," he said, "but I now see those, A Dpnc<!v ditches only existed in my imagina- jAdS^M^^U^-Arthur Legion of Honor j N" T"ck?r' ,deputJ shfrj"' of The blonde youth from the- west,! county'.is ln a hospital here today * . , a . . . 0 k .whose smiling features nowarej in a »«nous condition as a result o tennis star, defeated Senor Andreu to every Parisian from the' gunshot wounds received last mght of Spain in the opening day's Play j innumerable photographs which !in a raid at Walnut Grove, of the international hard court ten-; have been printed, went to bed last' In t*16 raid, which wa? on a negro nis championships here today. The !night^^ tired but thrilled by what per- house, Wilbur Hudson, j negro, was American win in decisiye fashion haps was the most eventful day in killed after he shot ^.nd injured at 6-2, 6-2, 6-0. j" » (Continued on Page Five) ' 'Deputy Tucker. Duke, arid chanic. General Patrick said would land at Montgomery this afternoon and spend the night there. Tomorrow they will fly to Camp Bragg, Ga., where the general will inspect troops, reaching Washington about noon Thursday. Colonel Scott has been in the United States abouc three weeks, going to Texas where he witnessed the Kelly Field maneuvers in company with General Patrick and other aviation officials. The airmen are flying in the j ¡•Atlantic, a monoplane of the same j Capt. Charles Lind- 1 bergh in j New York to Paris. "We had a good view of the flood, j if you can call such a view a good j view," General Patrick said. "The flooded area over which we traveled was one of desolation. We passed over the landing field at Taliulah, La., and only the top of one of the buildings was visible." His first inquiry on landing was for news concerning Francesco de Pinedo, Italian aviator. , Lieutenant Duke is the son-in-law of Dr. and Mrs. J. N. Powers, Jackson, and was once a resident of Jackson. The plane took off at 1S-:10 p. m. and headed for Maxwell Field. ¡prehension of the thief. Police were stationed at the home during last night in the hope that the burglar might return for the suitcase, but their vigil was fruitless. Mr. Short, proprietor of Short's Restaurant, near the canninir factory on Second street, notified police last night that he had been robbed of ?22 in bills about 8 o'clock last night. Short stated that he waited on a negro'woman about 7:30 o'clock and the money was in the open cash drawer at the time, but when he 1 started to close his place of busi-, Hess a few moments later, he found non-stop flight ^om<that ? bmfoI(] containing $22 and a bond receipt were missing. The negro woman had left a handkerchief on the counter, containing a bunch of house keys, but there was no nameplate on the ring, so it could not be used as a reliable clue. It is thought that the woman picked up the money while Short's back was turned, but -she has not been, found to be questioned. -o- pared for immediate functioning, Director Parker said. Lieut. Dixie Kiefer, naval aviator, was dispatched to the scene for an airplane reconnaisance at 6 o'clock. He will make a complete survey of the crevasse and will supply the local authorities with all details which will aid them in preventing loss of human life. After Refugee». A large fleet of boats including coast guard cutters, steamers, tugis, surf boats and 1'fe boats, statIon«4 in the Atchafalaya and also ln Old river, is proceeding about the task of rescue. Smaller craft will be carried over the levee to float in the spreading waters as soon as floating depth is reached, to speed about their mission of rescue. Smaller boats placed at strategic points on the land side of the levels before the crevasse were ready for the emergency and authorities hope that no loss of life will result Heeding the warning of former Governor Parker to the citizens of Pointe Coupee parish issued early last week when it became evident that the McCrea levee would probably fail, some 1,500 residents of the district immediately in the path of the crevasse had already evacuated to refugee camps at Baton Rouge, bringing livestock, chickens and property with them, while others had left to seek refuge with friends or relatives here or in other parishes, Some, however, fears appeased, returned yesterday to their homes. Residents in others sections of the parish have made all preparations for immediate evacuation in case of a break, and Baton Rouge Is preparing: to receive the stream of fleeing flood victims today. A total of 80,000 people will probably be driven from thefjr homes by the encroaching waters, which will cover practically the witir« area of four of the parishes, about 1;142,000 acres, and parts of Terrebonne,, the fifth. -2,000 At Wok. The crevasse brought to a tragic climax the long, weary struggle of more than 2,000 men. laboring night and day, under blistering sun and drf nching rain, to save a mere shell of an earthen dike from the turbulent swift current of the Atchafalaya. A wutK ago today, when early in .he morning the levee gave way at Melville, on the west bank below McCrea, the sudden resulting fall in the river increased'the velocity and force of the current which was pounding away at the bend on which McCi'ea is located, and it was evident that only a desperate battle could prevent disaster at the place. A thousand men were, concentrated at the spot working like devils fill-(Continued on Page T»vo) CONVENTION BEHIND TIME mained to acclaim the winner«. Miss Britton, a slender blonde, appeared first in an evening gown and'then in a-bathing suit. On her first appearance she wpre pink georgette over a silver me'al cloth slip girdled with flowers, while In heir secpnd test she wore a simple whit« bathing costume. Ada Wllliamsr as "Miss Florida,**Fôrrçst County Sends Food Supplies to Delta The,.first c&rload t of fe^d[s, seeds, vegetables and other things for the relief* Of the flood- transport the first load of material in Mississippi, has written, to all .their plans for a week of eo-oper-will be placed at Maxie on Thurs- ithe members of the extension or- ation in carrying out Mr. Wilsons d&y, and' the Gulf and Ship Island {ganiaation, calling their attention1 suggestions. The present week was local freight train will pick it up 1 to the seriousness of |he calamity! set aside for the work, ^nd the ex-about Friday noon. (that has befallen the people d thejeeutives have been laboring tireless- Delta. He states that as the work ly to make the week a success. THE WEATHER Mississippi: Partly cloudy tonight and Wednesday. Local thunder-" At McLaurin and Brooklyn, the t&r- will be farther loaded by donations from those communities^ while the freight is making ' its regular atop there.The-car will be in Hattlesbutg on Saturday and if will he loaded be-~ Jft the mornteif-T j 4 - , r ... ;--------------------has asked tlkat ft&Jfced-' of feedstuff för farrji live*, north portion tonight,. - . " ' stocks food for the farmers, andDouisiana: Tonight|fc*-r«!PlaAting >ffeK8>8,% '/äöii&^te&tercä show-he a*lcö9 that the county executives] era; cooler tonight in northwest in bis departpient concentrate on portion; pooler Wednesday in north *' "" * * ; .portion. »I- M More Weevils Survive Than Did Last Year cf rehabilitation proceeds, it becomes! evident that the' task of rebuilding is greater than first expected, and that funds tjhus far contributed are inadequa According to Mr. Wiilson's mes- ________ sage« the greatest problem is the} shower* Wednesday and in extreme providing of feedstuff fàr farrji live- j stocks food for the farmers, and! Louisiana; Tonight and Wednes-w (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, May 24. — Boll weevil emergence up to May 1 this year was reported greater than last year by the Department of Agriculture. At all the co-operating stations, the Department said, a greater survival of weevil was**" recorded this year than last year with the exceptions of the stations at Auburn, Ala., Poplarvllle, Miss., Baton Rouge, La., and Experiment, Ga. Comparing, weevil survival prior to May 1. this year, with 1925, the, report said, "It will be noied that a greater survival was rvcoided th.'s year at two points in North Carolina and one in Louisiana, while a greater survival was recorcd in 19^5 ai cue point -in Louisiana, while a greji't- »arvtvâl waa rcorded *n Argument on Radical Control Committee Delays Presbyterians. (By Associated Press) KL.Ij^RADO, May 24 A : aif day behind schedule because of hour;» devoted to debate before ad ption of the radical control coii.mif.ee pi un' the General Assembly of th.» P.esb/« terian Church in the tJn ted States today faced a mass of der-jil reports which s.cadily have piled up in committee rooms. With the nominating c-/-,-:mUtee at work on selecting candidates £01 the -supervisory commitio? of It: which will assume sup'--vision of major activities of the church a3 soon is possible and with r:w miu> isters' annuity plan operating with provisions to go into effect after 1930, the general assembly had passed two momentous milestones of the present seésion. Another marker scarcely less significant but not as far reaching was the adoption of a recommenda-jtion that all secretaries and other administrative officials be placed 'on a parity with their fellow ministers on the pension list instead of receiving larger amounts from their (respective committees, i The gain in the influence of women in church affairs was stressed by the action of thé general assembly in providing that eleven women will sit on the control committee of 44 and by the unanimous approval accorded the work of the women's auxiliary. FULLER WILL NOT BOTHER WITH CASE , Alabama' Generally iair tonight;'1925 -,t «no point in T^a/r, one I»« Wedn«s<3fy j^rtly^OUdy; probably south cVrolinç., ¿ne in Alabama, ont. local tfcundvrsft«w«r» wf»t - and !in Mi&uisflppi, one in Lüuiu ana and WmBïêâê•IMMÊÊMÊÊ^-ZMr.;'Ä.%i>- » te&i ' "if • -v au ï&Û cne Georgia, (By Associated Press) - ! BOSTON, May 24.—Gov. Alvan T. Puller; ifr a letter to the Sacco-Van-i zetti defense committee made public today; made his first definite Stated ment that he would not grant fhei repeated request» for appointment of a 'special commission to review! the casts of Nicola Sacco and Bar-tolomeo Vansettl, radicals who»« conviction of mor'der and waMipewf, to death fcaaft-aised protests tluttegb*» out the werl& , _ 1 Wé,; ;


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The S&E community developed IT, in many cases for S&E applications. Scientists and engineers have been among the earliest and most intensive users of many IT applications. It is not surprising that IT has played a major role in the practice of S&E and in the evolution of S&E institutions.
Advances in computing, information storage, software, and networking are all leading to new tools for S&E, ranging from automated scientific instruments to supercomputers for modeling and simulation. IT has made possible new collections of data and new ways to access scientific information. As IT has advanced, applications for S&E have become more powerful and less expensive, and many applications, such as modeling and databases, have migrated from large mainframe computers and supercomputers to desktop computers. IT also has made possible new modes of communication among scientists, allowing them to collaborate more easily. IT affects how research is conducted, how new products and processes are developed, and how technical information is communicated.
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In general, relatively little scholarly research has been conducted on how IT affects S&E, and even less research has been performed on how IT affects innovation. This section highlights some of the limited work that has been done.
IT has provided new tools for the simulation and modeling of complex natural, social, and engineering systems. It has enabled new methods of data collection and has made possible the creation of massive, complex, and shared data sets. It has changed the way scientific knowledge is stored and communicated. IT has facilitated the sharing of computational resources and scientific instruments among scientists and engineers in different locations and has aided communication and collaboration among large groups of researchers.
Advances in both hardware and software have supported new IT tools for R&D. Advances in software have been critical to the success of supercomputers that use thousands of microprocessors and have also enabled the analysis and visualization of complex problems. Software engineering also is enabling security technologies, distributed information management, high-confidence software systems, and numerous other areas of research that are needed in today's most advanced IT applications.
The role of IT is not uniform across all areas of S&E. Some areas of research, such as high-energy physics, fluid dynamics, aeronautical engineering, and atmospheric sciences, have long relied on high-end computing. The ability to collect, manipulate, and share massive amounts of data has long been essential in areas such as astronomy and geosphere and biosphere studies (Committee on Issues in the Transborder Flow of Scientific Data 1997). More recently, IT has spread from its historical stronghold in the physical sciences to other natural sciences, engineering, social sciences, and the humanities and has become increasingly vital to sciences such as biology that historically had used IT less extensively.
Modeling and simulation have become powerful complements to theory and experimentation in advancing knowledge in many areas of S&E. Simulations allow researchers to run virtual experiments when actual experiments would be impractical or impossible. As computer power grows, simulations can be made more complex, and new classes of problems can be realistically simulated. Simulation is contributing to major advances in weather and climate prediction, computational biology, plasma science, high-energy physics, cosmology, materials research, and combustion, among other areas. New visualization techniques for displaying simulation data in comprehensible formats have played an important role.
Simulation also is used extensively in industry to test the crashworthiness of cars and the flight performance of aircraft (U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)/NSF 1998) and to facilitate engineering design. Computer-aided design (CAD) programs can use CAD data to visualize, animate, simulate, validate, and assemble parts digitally. In some cases, CAD programs can allow a designer to insert digital representations of humans into virtual worlds to test for ergonomics, manufacturability, maintainability, safety, and style (Brown 1999). The goal of such an approach is to address these issues early in the design stage and reduce the need for physical mock-ups and rework. Both aircraft and automobile manufacturers use CAD approaches extensively.
Modeling and simulation capabilities continue to improve at a rapid rate. DOE's Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative program, which uses simulation to replace nuclear tests, deployed the first trillion-operations-per-second (teraops) computer in December 1996. The program deployed a 12.3-teraops computer in June 2000 and plans to operate a 100-teraops computer (with 50 terabytes of memory and 130 petabytes of archival storage) by 2005 (National Science and Technology Council 1999; U.S. DOE 2001). Research funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and the National Security Agency is evaluating the feasibility of constructing a computing system capable of a sustained rate of 1,015 teraops (1 petaflop).
Terascale computing is expected to have applications in genetic computing, global climate modeling, aerospace and automotive design, financial modeling, and other areas. To use data from human genome research, for example, new computational tools are needed to determine the three-dimensional atomic structure and dynamic behavior of gene products, as well as to dissect the roles of individual genes and the integrated function of thousands of genes. Modeling the folding of a protein to aid in the design of new drug therapies also takes extensive computing power (U.S. DOE/NSF 1998). Celera Geonomics Corporation (a genomics and bioinformatics company), Sandia National Laboratories, and Compaq entered into a partnership in January 2001 to develop algorithms and software for genomic and proteomic applications of supercomputers in the 100-teraops to 1-petaflop range, with the petaflop computer expected by 2010. Pattern recognition and data-mining software also are critical for deciphering genetic information (Regalado 1999).
Many scientists expect IT to revolutionize biology in the coming decades, as scientists decode genetic information and explore how it relates to the function of organisms (Varmus 1999). New areas of biology such as molecular epidemiology, functional genomics, and pharmacogenetics rely on DNA data and benefit from new, information-intensive approaches to research.
IT has long been important in collecting, storing, and sharing scientific information. More recently, IT has enabled automated collection of data. For example, automated gene sequencers, which use robotics to process samples and computers to manage, store, and retrieve data, have made possible the rapid sequencing of the human genome, which in turn has resulted in unprecedented expansion of genomic databases (Sinclair 1999). In many scientific fields, data increasingly are collected in digital form, which facilitates analysis, storage, and dissemination. For example, seismic data used to measure earthquakes were once recorded on paper or film but now are usually recorded digitally, making it possible for scientists around the world to analyze the data quickly.
By 1985, 2,800 scientific and technical electronic databases (both bibliographic and numerical) already existed (Williams 1985). At that time, primarily information specialists accessed electronic databases, and many of the databases were available only for a fee. Over time, databases have expanded in number and size, and many are now widely accessible on the World Wide Web. See sidebar, "Examples of Shared Databases."
Originally developed primarily as tools for scientific communication, the Internet and the World Wide Web continue to have a significant impact on scholarly communication in scientific and technical fields. An increasing amount of scholarly information is stored in electronic forms and is available through digital media.
Electronic Scholarly Communication Forms. Scholarly information can be placed on-line in several different forms, most of which are expanding rapidly. These forms may be classified as follows (drawing on Kling and McKim 1999 and 2000):
In addition, a number of services facilitate searching and provide abstracts and (in some cases) full text of articles in paper or p-e journals. These services include LexisNexisT, databases of journals sold to academic libraries, and public sources such as PubMed Central (http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/) and PubSCIENCE (http://pubsci.osti.gov/). [9] These can be considered elements of digital libraries. See sidebar, "Digital libraries."
An example of rapid expansion in electronic scholarly communication is the Los Alamos preprint server (http://arxiv.org/), which continues to grow in terms of both submissions and connections. As of April 2001, it was receiving more than 2,500 new submissions each month and averaging more than 100,000 connections (for searching, reading, or downloading papers) each day. It has become the main mode of communication in some fields of physics, and 17 mirror sites have been established around the world to provide alternative access to the information in it.
Kling and McKim (2000) note that one should not expect the preprint server mode of electronic communication to expand to all fields, however. High-energy physics had a culture of wide sharing of preprints before the advent of the World Wide Web, and researchers in this field now use electronic communication extensively. Molecular biologists, by contrast, traditionally shared preprints only among smaller groups and continue to rely more on paper journals. Different fields have different attitudes about posting material on the Web prior to publication in a peer-reviewed journal. In physics, such posting is standard practice; in medicine, it is viewed as dangerous because the public may make medical decisions based on non-peer-reviewed science. The absence of e-print servers in fields such as atmospheric research, oceanography, and climate science is evidence of substantial differences in scholarly communication across fields of science.
Electronic journals also have been expanding rapidly. The Association of Research Libraries 2000 directory of scholarly electronic journals and academic discussion lists (Mogge and Budka 2000) identifies 3,915 peer-reviewed electronic journals, up from 1,049 in 1997. Friedlander and Bessette (2001) cite estimates ranging from 3,200 to 4,000 e-journals in science, technology, and medicine. Most of these are not electronic-only journals but rather are electronic versions of, or supplements to, print journals.
Electronic Scholarly Communication Benefits. Electronic scholarly communication has many potential benefits. Electronic search tools make it possible for scholars to find information more easily and quickly, and scholars do not have to worry about whether journals are missing from the library. Electronic documents potentially offer richer information than print documents. They are not constrained by page limits and can contain multimedia presentations or computer programs and data as well as text, thus enriching the information and facilitating further work with it. Additional references, comments from other readers, or communication with the author can be linked to the document.
Electronic communication is generally thought to speed the dissemination of scientific information, and this is generally thought to increase scientific productivity. However, some scientists suggest that the Web, by speeding electronic communication, can encourage scientists to rush to become part of the latest trend, leading them to abandon other paths of research too quickly (Glanz 2001b).
There are also potential advantages for libraries. Many patrons can access the same electronic information at the same time without needing to visit the library, electronic archives eliminate the space requirements of old journal collections, and electronic media help libraries stretch limited financial resources, especially for accessions.
Electronic documents also have potential economic benefits. Once a document is prepared in electronic form, the marginal cost of providing it to additional readers is very low. Electronic documents also offer the benefit of accessibility. Electronic documents can be made available over the Internet to scholars around the world who do not have access to major research libraries. For example, the Los Alamos archive is allowing scientists in geographically isolated and small institutions to participate in leading-edge research discussions (Glanz 2001a). Several publishers have announced that they will provide free electronic medical journal access to medical schools, research laboratories, and government health departments in poor countries (Brown 2001).
Electronic Scholarly Communication Issues. All of the factors mentioned above combine to exert strong pressures for making scholarly information available electronically. Although these potential benefits support the rapid expansion of electronic communication, several issues remain to be resolved, including issues related to function, economics, and archiving.
Function. Although nonrefereed electronic publications (such as preprint servers) can be much less expensive than print journals (Odlyzko 1997), such publications do not perform all of the functions of the traditional system of printed academic journals. For example, journals organize articles by field and manage peer-review processes that help to screen out bad data and research, scholars achieve recognition through publication in prestigious journals, and universities base hiring and promotion decisions on publication records. For this reason, preprint servers are not likely to replace peer-reviewed journals.
Economics. For peer-reviewed journals (in either paper or electronic form), editing and refereeing of manuscripts and general administration account for a large share of costs (Getz 1997). At least initially, these costs remain about the same for electronic journals. In addition, electronic journals have costs associated with acquiring and implementing new technology and formatting manuscripts for electronic publication.
Electronic publication also can affect the revenue stream of print publishers. If a publisher provides a site license for a university library that enables anyone on campus to read the journal, individual subscriptions from that campus may decline. Moreover, advertisers may find electronic journals less attractive than print versions.
Publishers are currently experimenting with different ways of pricing electronic journals. Some publishers provide separate subscriptions for electronic and print versions, and the price of the electronic subscription may be higher or lower than the price of the print subscription. Others provide the electronic version at no charge with a subscription to the print version. Some publishers offer free on-line access to selected articles from the print version and regard the on-line version as advertising for the print version (Machovec 1997). Publishers of fee-based electronic journals generally protect their information from unauthorized access by making the journals accessible only to certain Internet domains (such as those of universities that have acquired a site license) or by using passwords.
Electronic resources represent an increasing share of library costs. The Association of Research Libraries (Kyrillidou 2000) reported that electronic resources (e.g., indexes and subscriptions to on-line journals) increased from 3.6 percent of library material expenses in 199293 to 10.5 percent in 199899. Overall, serial costs (including both paper and electronic serials) increased over this same period, from a median of $161 per serial in 1992 to $284 in 2000. Library budgets are under increasing pressures as they seek to satisfy demands for both paper and electronic journals.
Archiving. Another key issue is the archiving of electronic publications (Friedlander and Bessette 2001). One fundamental issue is the technical question of how to maintain records over the long term, because the electronic medium degrades and electronic formats change. Another fundamental issue is the underlying tension in electronic media between the opportunity to revise and update papers to maintain currency and the need to maintain the record. Another question to be addressed is whether an entire issue of an on-line magazine or newspaper should be preserved or whether it suffices to create a database of individual stories that can be individually retrieved but can never be reconstituted into the actual issue as it existed on the day readers first read the news. Other questions relate to responsibility for long-term preservation (whether publishers or libraries should be primarily responsible), copyright (how to issue and enforce copyrights), and maintenance (as technologies evolve, the particular technology required to view a given file may become obsolete, effectively eliminating the record).
Computer networking was developed as a tool for scientists and engineers, and e-mail and file transfers have long supported collaboration among scientists and engineers. Shared databases, intranets, and extranets have helped geographically separated scientists and engineers work together.
Scientific collaboration, as measured by the increase in the percentage of papers with multiple authors, has been increasing steadily for decades. (See chapter 6, "Industry, Technology, and the Global Marketplace.") Walsh and Maloney (2001) have found that computer network use is associated with more geographically dispersed collaborations as well as more productive collaborations.
Collaborations have been growing larger in a number of fields, often because scientists are pursuing increasingly complex problems and, in some cases, also because agency funding programs encourage multi-investigator and multidisciplinary research teams. These collaborations are facilitated by IT, especially e-mail and the World Wide Web. Large-scale scientific collaborations may especially benefit from new IT. The number of research papers with authors from multiple countries or institutions has increased rapidly, a trend that has coincided with the rapid expansion of the Internet. (See figure 8-23 .)
Over the past decade, advanced tools have emerged to support "collaboratories"geographically separate research units functioning as a single laboratory (CSTB 1993). These technologies allow:
These tools were originally developed and demonstrated through several collaboratory pilot projects, including the NSF-sponsored Space Physics and Aeronomy Research Collaboratory (http://intel.si.umich.edu/sparc/) and the DOE-sponsored Materials MicroCharacterization Collaboratory (http://tpm.amc.anl.gov/MMC/) and Diesel Combustion Collaboratory (http://www-collab.ca.sandia.gov/snl-dcc.html).
The collaboratory concept has moved beyond pilot projects to the point where many new large-scale projects have collaboratory components. Many of the tools used in the early pilot projects, such as Internet-based videoconferencing, are now available in inexpensive commercial software. Examples of new major research projects that have a collaboratory component include the following:
Although collaborative research projects are being designed around IT, it is unclear whether virtual collaborations will be as successful as colocated collaborations. Teasley and Wolinsky (2001) note that collaboratories have limits. Social and practical acceptability are the primary challenges. Collaboratories do not replace the richness of face-to-face interaction, and concerns about trust, motivation, data access, ownership, and attribution can affect collaboratory performance.
Finholt (2001) notes that, although studies of early collaboratories suggest that e-mail and computer-mediated communication enhance scientific productivity and support larger and more dispersed collaborations, electronic communication alone is not enough to enable broader collaborations. Collaboratory technologies have not dispersed to scientific users as fast as other Internet technologies (such as e-mail or the World Wide Web), which suggests that major challenges may be involved in supporting complex group work in virtual settings. Most practices and routines of research groups assume a shared space, and transferring these practices to virtual spaces can be difficult. Collaboratories may benefit graduate students and "nonelite" scientists the most, because they are the members of the scientific community least able to afford the costs of travel. Also, the increase in outside participation that results from virtual collaboration may create distractions for top researchers.
Olson and Olson (2001) note that distance collaborations work best when the work groups have much in common, the work is loosely coupled, and the groups have laid both the social and technical groundwork for the collaboration. Lacking these elements, distance collaborations are much less likely to succeed.
Collaboratory technologies raise interesting questions about the effects of IT on the organization of science and technology (S&T). Will multi-institution, electronically enabled collaborations become the norm for large-scale science projects? Will collaboratories make science more open to nonelite scientists? How do collaboratory technologies affect the productivity of S&T?
In addition to its interactions with R&D, IT influences several other elements of the innovation process, including the market environment for and the organization of innovation. The Council of Economic Advisers (2001) notes that the U.S. economy in the late 1990s was characterized by the high rate of technological innovation and by the central role of IT. The council observes that innovation in the "new" economy appears to have changed in several ways, including the intense competition and positive feedback that drive innovation, the mechanisms for financing innovation, the sources of R&D, and the innovation process itself. IT is involved in each of these changes, and many of the changes are most visible in the IT sector.
The rapid pace of technological advances, together with the expectation that this pace will continue (see sidebar, "Moore's Law"), has led to an environment in which companies in most industries know they must continually innovate. As noted above, intense competition and feedback drive the development and adoption of new technologies. The availability of one technology stimulates demand for complementary technologies, which in turn lowers production costs and encourages further demand for the initial technology.
The Internet may be stimulating innovation by forcing many industries to innovate. For example, in the food industry, the fact that some companies are using electronic procurement is forcing others to do the same (Hollingsworth 1999). In some cases, IT may increase competition simply by making markets more global and bringing firms in contact with more competitors.
Lewis (2000) notes that telecommunications and IT have accelerated business processes. Technology adoption and diffusion rates are faster than they were in previous decades. In addition, the information economy has led to network effects (see sidebar, "Metcalfe's Law") in many areas, giving a major advantage to the company that is the first to bring a new product to market. If a company is not the first to market, then it needs to match and improve on the new product very quickly. The consequence of this environment is that technology transfer must occur faster and faster. Lewis argues that corporate R&D must change its traditional way of doing business, which is too slow.
The rapid improvement in IT has created opportunities in new applications such as secure Web servers or e-commerce software, which in turn create opportunities for new businesses. New forms of business activity (such as electronic marketplaces) and new IT-enabled business processes present many opportunities for innovation.
Dewett and Jones (2001) review the literature on how IT affects organizational characteristics and outcomes. They note that although the literature contains very little information on the specific role of IT in promoting innovation, it is possible to identify many innovation-related effects of IT on organizations, including the following:
In contrast, electronic communication may hinder innovation by decreasing informal communication and may also lead to information overload.
Thus, IT has many possible effects on organizations, and these effects suggest a considerable positive influence on innovation. It is important to keep in mind, however, that scholarly literature on this subject is sparse.
Johannessen, Olaisen, and Olsen (2001) suggest that because IT more effectively transfers explicit knowledge than tacit knowledge, it may lead to the mismanagement of innovation. Explicit knowledge is relatively easy to express in symbols, digitize, and transfer. Tacit knowledge is rooted in practice and experience and typically is transmitted through training and doing. Companies typically focus IT investment on the explicit portion of their knowledge base and deemphasize the tacit portion. Yet much of the research literature argues that tacit knowledge is critical in determining how well a company can innovate and compete.
IT also has led to changes in the organization of innovation beyond the boundaries of individual organizations. The Council of Economic Advisers (2001) notes that innovation traditionally has been isolated within large companies. Today, innovation increasingly is performed by both large and small companies that collaborate with each other and with academic institutions and government agencies.
With the expansion of the world's supply of scientists, technologists, and knowledge workers and of the knowledge bases available to them, access to external knowledge sources is becoming an increasingly important factor in the ability of organizations to participate in innovation. IT has helped organizations coordinate highly dispersed innovation activities by providing them with new management techniques, software, and communication systems. One aspect of the trend toward dispersion of innovation activities is the outsourcing of innovation. Pharmaceutical companies have long outsourced basic research to universities, institutes, and government laboratories. Many large pharmaceutical companies rely on small technology companies for innovation and then acquire these companies. In the computer and automotive industries, manufacturers have long relied on component makers for design and engineering work. Much of the innovation in these industries takes place at the interface between manufacturers and their innovative suppliers. IT has made outsourcing more attractive for companies (Quinn 2000) by facilitating the process with advances in modeling and simulation, collaborative tools, and management software.
One example of new organization in innovation is open source software development (Lerner and Tirole 2001). In open source software development, the source code is made broadly available. Users can modify the software, but their modifications are also returned to the community or organization that oversees the development of the software. A number of open source software programs are widely used, including Linux (a PC operating system), Apache (Web server software), and Sendmail (which underlies e-mail routing on the Internet). Participation in open source projects is voluntary. Although participants appear to be motivated by altruism, they do benefit from their efforts. Programmers who donate their time benefit from recognition, and companies that support the programmers benefit from improved programs and better monitoring and absorption of external technology (Lerner and Tirole 2001). A number of companies make money not by selling the software, which is freely available, but by selling complementary services (e.g., documentation, installation software, and utilities). The President's Information Technology Advisory Committee recommended that the Federal Government support open source software development for high-end computing.
The IT sector accounts for a large and growing part of R&D and innovation in the United States and other countries. The information and communication technology (ICT) sector is more R&D intensive than industry as a whole. Figure 8-24 compares the ratio of R&D to the value added for the ICT sector with the same ratio for the overall business sector in OECD countries. For most countries, the ICT sector is about five times more R&D intensive than the business sector as a whole; however, countries vary widely in the R&D intensity of their IT industries. Some of the countries that are the most innovative in IT, including Sweden, Finland, Japan, and the United States, have the most R&D-intensive ICT industries.
Analyses of patent data suggest that innovation in IT is somewhat different from innovation in other areas of S&T. Hicks et al. (2001) found that compared with other areas of technology, IT patents cite scientific literature less extensively.[10] In addition, the median age of patents cited by IT patents (termed the technology cycle time) is less than the median age of scientific papers cited (termed the science cycle time). Technology cycle times are faster in IT (66.5 years) than in other areas of technology. The analysts concluded that IT patents cite other technology patents more extensively than scientific papers because IT is moving too fast for scientific research to keep up.
Growth in IT patenting activity does not seem to be accompanied by growth in research publishing activity (Hicks et al. 2001). Based on documents referenced in patents, IT patents seem to draw on a particularly diverse set of nonpatent, nonresearch technical documentation that includes nonpatented software. It appears that nonresearch technical work may underlie innovation in IT more extensively than is the case in other technologies and that IT innovation is less directly dependent on scientific research than are many other technologies. Hicks et al. (2001) also note that patenting (one measure of innovative activity) is accelerating in IT. The IT patents share of all U.S. patents increased from 9 percent in 1980 to 25 percent in 1999. IT patents per $1 million of company R&D expenditures nearly doubled between 1990 and 2000. Similar increases were not observed in other areas. Although such statistics might simply indicate an increased propensity to patent in the IT sector, the extent to which IT patents are cited by other patents has increased, which suggests that the quality of IT patents has not deteriorated.
IT pervades higher education. As the demand for IT workers has grown, university priorities have shifted accordingly, and a separate certification and training system for IT workers also has emerged. IT is increasingly used in instruction, and distance education continues to expand. IT may lead to further restructuring of colleges and universities. This section highlights some of the ways in which IT is affecting higher education.
Adelman (2000) analyzes the new system of credentialing that has arisen in ICT industries during the past decade. Companies and industry or professional associations have created more than 300 discrete certifications since 1989. Approximately 1.6 million individuals had earned about 2.4 million IT certificates by early 2000, most since 1997. Students outside the United States earned about half of the certificates. To earn a certificate, a candidate must pass an exam administered by a third party. A large industry has arisen to prepare candidates for these exams. This industry includes organizations that provide courses, tutorials, practice exams, self-study books, and CD-ROMs. Although some traditional four-year colleges and community colleges prepare students for these certification exams, much of the industry that supports IT certification is outside higher education as traditionally defined.
The Campus Computing Project (2000) found that IT use in college courses is increasing. There are indications that IT use is leveling off; nevertheless, e-mail, the Internet, and course Web pages are being used in more courses every year. (See figure 8-25 .)
In some cases, decisions about IT use are left to individual professors. However, some universities (such as the University of California, Los Angeles) have required professors to establish Web pages for each course and to put syllabuses on-line. Support for the increased use of IT on college campuses has not been universal. Many professors and administrators enthusiastically embrace new technologies, and others prefer to wait for other institutions to find out which new technologies are useful in improving the quality of education.
Much of the new IT being used in scholarly communication and research can be used in instruction as well. Students can use on-line scholarly literature, participate in on-line scientific experiments, and learn from computer modeling and simulation. The future is likely to bring many additional IT applications in instruction.
Kulik (forthcoming) reviewed 44 studies from the 1990s on the effects of instructional technology in college courses. The studies focused on five computer applications: computer algebra systems, computer use (tutoring, simulations, and animations) in science, and computer-assisted language learning. In each study, instructional outcomes for students taught with and without computer help were compared. The instructional outcome measured most often in the studies was student learning. Kulik found that over the years, instructional technology has proven to be more and more effective in improving learning in college courses. Studies in the 1990s show a greater positive effect of instructional technology than studies in the 1980s and earlier decades. The growing effectiveness of instructional technology coincides with the dramatic improvements in computing and with improvements in instructional software.
Although computer technologies are helping to improve student learning, they can also make it easier for students to cheat and plagiarize. The Internet contains many collections of school papers that students can download and use for their classes.
Distance education is not new. An estimated 100 million Americans have engaged in distance study, mostly correspondence courses, since 1890 (Distance Education and Training Council 1999), and in the 1960s there was widespread optimism about the use of television in education. IT is providing significant new tools for distance education. Many schools are either establishing distance education programs for the first time or expanding existing programs.
In on-line distance courses, the instructor typically e-mails "lectures" or posts them on a website, and students submit assignments and have "discussions" via e-mail. Courses often supplement textbooks with Web-based readings. Participants also may meet in a chat room at a certain time for on-line discussions. Courses also may have on-line bulletin boards or Web conferences, in which participants ask and respond to questions over time. In the not-too-distant future, as Internet bandwidths increase, video lectures and videoconferencing will become more common in on-line courses. Some courses may use more elaborate systems (so-called MUD/MOOs[11]) for group interaction, as well as groupware programs that involve simultaneous viewing of graphics and use of a shared writing space (e.g., white boards) (Kearsley 2000). Some courses may also use computer simulations over the Internet.
Distance education offers several potential advantages: it allows students to take courses that are not available locally; it allows students to balance coursework with their career and family life; and it can make education more available to people who are employed, especially those who are older and in midcareer or those who have family responsibilities. For universities, it offers a way to expand enrollment without increasing the size of the physical plant.
Although distance education traditionally is regarded as involving the delivery of courses to remote locations, the techniques of distance education, especially on-line education, can be incorporated in on-campus instruction as well. Universities are finding that significant numbers of on-campus students sign up for distance education courses when they are offered. At the University of Colorado in Denver, for example, more than 500 of 609 students enrolled in distance education courses were also enrolled in regular on-campus courses (Guernsey 1998). On-line courses can be more convenient for on-campus students, giving them greater flexibility in scheduling their time. Professors can augment their on-line courses with Web-based materials and guest lecturers in remote sites.
Distance Education Trends. The National Center for Education Statistics has conducted two surveys of distance education in postsecondary education institutions: the first in the fall of 1995 and the second in the 1997/98 academic year (National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) 1999b). The first survey covered only higher education institutions, but the second survey covered all postsecondary educational institutions. These surveys document that distance education is now a common feature of many higher education institutions, and its popularity is growing. The majority of courses are at the undergraduate level and are broadly distributed across academic subjects.
The number of higher education institutions offering distance education is growing. In 1997/98, 44 percent of all two- and four-year institutions offered distance education courses compared with 33 percent in fall 1995. Distance education is more widely used in public four-year institutions than in private four-year institutions, but private institutions are also increasing their use of it. In 1997/98, distance education was offered by 79 percent of public institutions (compared with 62 percent in fall 1995) and 22 percent of private institutions (compared with 12 percent in fall 1995).
Distance education course offerings and enrollments are growing more rapidly than the number of institutions that offer distance education. The number of courses offered in two- and four-year higher education institutions doubled from 25,730 in fall 1995 to 52,270 in 1997/98. The increases were fairly similar across all categories of institutions (two- and four-year, public and private, and all enrollment-size categories). Course enrollments also increased sharply, more than doubling from 753,640 in fall 1995 to 1,632,350 in 1997/98 (NCES 1999b).
The availability of degrees that can be completed exclusively with distance education courses has remained essentially constant. Of higher education institutions that offer distance education, 23 percent offered degrees in fall 1995 and 22 percent did so in 1997/98 (NCES 1999b).
Technologies used for distance education have changed significantly. In fall 1995, the most widely used technologies were two-way interactive video (57 percent) and one-way prerecorded video (52 percent). These were still widely used in 1997/98 (56 and 48 percent, respectively). Internet-based courses, however, expanded greatly. Of all the institutions that offered distance education courses in 1997/98, 60 percent offered asynchronous (not requiring student participation at a set time) computer-based instruction and 19 percent offered synchronous (real-time) computer-based instruction (NCES 1999b).
Significance of On-line Distance Education. Despite substantial (and growing) experience with on-line distance education, thorough assessments of its effectiveness have been relatively few. Existing evidence suggests that, at least in some circumstances, it can be very effective. The rapid growth and reported success of some on-line distance education programs indicate that they are providing acceptable learning experiences. A review of the literature on on-line classes (Kearsley, Lynch, and Wizer 1995) found that compared with traditional classes, student satisfaction was higher, measured student achievement was the same or better, and student-instructor discussions usually were more frequent. On the other hand, some case studies document that on-line distance education can be frustrating for both students and instructors. The growth of on-line distance education has far-reaching implications for higher education. Although on-line education may expand the pool of people who have access to education, it may also take students away from traditional education. Some scholars express concern that it will undermine the traditional college experience. Some question whether it can match the quality of face-to-face instruction. Moreover, the kind of intellectual and social community that characterizes the college experience may be much harder to achieve through distance learning.
IT in general and distance education in particular raise new issues for universities. Distance education brings universities into competition with each other in a new way. Because distance education courses are available to anyone anywhere, they allow universities to compete for students outside their own geographic areas. Top-tier universities such as Stanford and Duke are marketing Internet-based master's degrees to national audiences. New distance educationbased universities such as Jones International University (http://www.jonesinternational.edu/), the first on-line-only university to gain accreditation; the University of Phoenix on-line (http://online.uophx.edu/); and Western Governors University (http://www.wgu.edu/) are marketing courses that compete with the continuing education services of universities and colleges that in the past had been the only providers of such services in their regions. Some distance education providers see opportunities to market American university degrees to large student populations abroad. The reverse is also happening: the United Kingdom's Open University, which began providing distance education in the United Kingdom in 1971 and has established a good reputation there, has started an operation in the United States (Blumenstyk 1999a). In contrast to many institutions that are viewing Web-based course materials as a new source of revenue, MIT announced in 2001 that it would make nearly all of its course materials available for free on the Web over the next ten years (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001).
In addition, distance education is creating new markets for companies that sell print materials and software to assist in on-line courses (Blumenstyk 1999b). Publishers such as McGraw-Hill and software companies such as Microsoft and Oracle have developed and are marketing on-line courses (Morris 1999). These commercial on-line courses represent another potential source of competition for universities, especially in preparing students for IT credentialing.
Distance education technologies also raise questions about the role of professors. Some view these technologies as new tools for professors. Others, however, foresee "mass production" education in which packaged multimedia courses will reduce the importance of professors (Noble 1998). The expanding and potentially lucrative new market for on-line course materials raises the issue of whether professors or the university should own the intellectual property embodied in on-line courses. The American Association of University Professors has taken the position that professors rather than institutions should retain primary property rights for on-line course materials (Schneider 1999) and has questioned the accreditation of Jones International University (Olson 1999).
Brown and Duguid (2000) note that colleges and universities provide three essential functions to learners: access to an authentic community of learning, resources to help learners work within these communities, and widely accepted representations of learning and work (such as degrees and transcripts). Brown and Duguid also note that many proposals for new "virtual universities" fail to provide one or more of these functions. Conventional universities serve all of these functions by combining five elements: students, faculty, research, facilities, and an institution able to provide an accepted degree. Brown and Duguid suggest that these elements will remain but that new technologies will allow the elements to be in a looser configuration, not necessarily combined in a single collocated organization.
During the 19962000 period, the rapid expansion of IT development and application during a period of full employment in the overall economy led to concerns about the availability of IT workers. In 2001, however, the cooling of the economy (especially in the IT sector) has, at least temporarily, ameliorated these concerns.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics has projected the future demand for IT workers (U.S. DOC 1997, 1999b, 2000c) for six core occupational classifications: computer engineers, systems analysts, computer programmers, database administrators, computer specialists, and all other computer scientists. These projections indicate that between 1998 and 2008, the United States will require more than 2 million new workers in these six occupations.
One indicator of the supply of IT workers is the number of computer science degrees awarded. After increasing sharply in the early 1980s, that number declined sharply after 1986 and has only begun to increase again since 1996. (See chapter 2, "Higher Education in Science and Engineering.")
The IT industry asserted that a serious shortage of IT workers exists, and many companies in various industries indicated that they needed more IT-trained workers to meet the growing demand. However, the existence of a shortage of IT workers was the subject of debate. Some employee groups believed there were enough trained technical professionals but that industry had not tapped existing labor pools (especially older engineers). The debate has been especially polarized over the issue of whether to allow more foreign workers with technical training to enter the country on temporary H-1B visas.
Several studies have examined the IT workforce issue (CSTB 2001; Freeman and Aspray 1999; Johnson and Bobo 1998; Lerman 1998; U.S. DOC 1999b). (See also chapter 3, "Science and Engineering Workforce.") These studies generally reached the following conclusions:
Labor markets tend to be cyclical. In response to the tight conditions in the IT labor market during 19962000, wage increases attracted more people to the field, and many initiatives around the country were set up to help expand the IT workforce. Slower growth and even layoffs in the IT industry have also reduced demand for IT workers.
Large shared databases have become important resources in many fields of science and social science. These databases allow researchers working on different pieces of large problems to contribute to and benefit from the work of other researchers and shared resources. Examples of such databases include the following:
The digital library is a concept related to both scholarly
communication and scientific databases. The concept encompasses
a variety of digital collections of information, including
digital versions of traditional library, museum, and archive
holdings. The World Wide Web is considered an extensive but
rudimentary digital library because search methods typically
cover only a small part of the collections (President's
Information Technology Advisory Committee 2001). Newspaper
archives and genomic databases also are considered digital
A vision set forth for digital libraries is that they will
let all citizens, anywhere and anytime, use any Internet-connected
digital devices to search and access all of human knowledge
(President's Information Technology Advisory Committee
2001). Key issues in achieving this vision include:
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I use my default ssh terminal from Ubuntu. Is it better to run: screen -L router -D etc? Isn't it possible to startup jabber with verbose logging and send you the logfiles in stead of the screen debug terminal output?
I would either do a `screen -L' and then run a program, using ctrl-a,ctrl-c to make new screens (ctrl-a," to see a list of screens), or edit /etc/init.d/jabberd and find the following in the "Start ( )" function (~line 72 for me):
rm -f ${pidPath}/${prog}.pid args="-c ${confPath}/${prog}.xml" if [ ${prog} == "c2s" ......... and add a -D to the end of the args: args="-c ${confPath}/${prog}.xml -D" And then probably do something like: # tail -n0 -f /var/log/messages > /tmp/foo (change /var/log/messages to wherever your jabber logs go) # service jabberd start Josh


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Firefighters extinguished a house fire early Tuesday as a resident ran inside to save his pets, officials said.
The fire was reported just before 6 a.m. at 14003 N.E. 42nd St. in the Burnt Bridge Creek neighborhood. Four engines, one ladder truck and two battalion chiefs from the Vancouver Fire Department responded.
When the first crew arrived, it saw flames in a front bedroom and two adult occupants outside, said Joe Spatz, a Vancouver Fire Department spokesman.
One of the two adults bolted inside after firefighters arrived, Spatz said, adding that there was thick smoke down to the floor inside the home.
At that point, the response changed from fire control to search and rescue, Spatz said.
Firefighters were unable to find the man in the home. He apparently ran inside to rescue pets and was later found in the backyard with several birds and four dogs. Firefighters on scene told Spatz that they didn't rescue the pets.
The resident was able to walk and evaluated by an ambulance crew, Spatz said. He was not taken to the hospital.
"A lot of things happened simultaneously," Spatz said.
A second engine took an attack line through the front door and extinguished the bedroom fire within 10 minutes.
The fire was contained in the front bedroom and didn't extend to the attic. Firefighters cut a hole in the roof to let smoke out, Spatz said.
The Red Cross and animal control were called to assist. Neighbors took the animals into their homes to keep them warm.
A woman in the home said she woke up to her smoke detectors going off, Spatz said. By that time, smoke was already to her bed level but she was able to get out with the other occupant safely.
The investigator said the cause of the fire was electrical, Spatz said. A damage estimate will be available later Tuesday.
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"Back the Brits! Back the Brits!" November 29th, Great Britain, in prime fashion, defeated Belgium, in the finals of the Davis Cup (think World Cup of tennis), ending a 79 year Davis Cup drought. The last time they were crowned champions was in 1936 when they were led by the formidable duo of Fred Perry and Bunny Austin. This year they were led by the defensive-minded, world no. 2 men's tennis player, Andy Murray (pictured below in the 2008 Wimbledon quarter finals). Murray, now a definitive future Hall-of-Famer, has accomplished feats only achieved by one other Englishmen in seven decades.
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E320i-B1 - I am connected to wi-fi, the only app that is working is netflix everything else is claiming in need to connect to the internet. I was able to sign in to yahoo, but weather or the other apps do not work.. When I click on the "v" button twice nothing happens, as well.
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The ACC on Monday named Miami's Jacory Harris and Duke's Thaddeus Lewis as its co-offensive backs of the week.
They were joined by Duke kicker Will Snyderwine and receiver Connor Vernon, Florida State guard Rodney Hudson, North Carolina defensive tackle Tydreke Powell and Boston College defensive back Luke Kuechly.
Harris' third touchdown pass of the day came with 1:08 remaining and helped the Hurricanes rally past Wake Forest 28-27. Lewis threw the go-ahead 42-yard scoring pass to Vernon with 3:45 to play in the Blue Devils' 28-17 win at Virginia.


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Muslims in America during slavery strove hard to keep their religion alive, in both the enslaved community and the larger Christian society. But to be a Muslim was more than just respecting the Five Pillars of Islam. It implied a distinctive lifestyle. Especially for West Africans, with their community-based traditions, Islam is a highly communal, public, and visible religion. It dictates and regulates the daily life, material culture, and demeanor of the faithful. To be a Muslim entails following strict dietary rules, behaving in a certain way, dressing in a particular fashion, and interacting with coreligionists and non-Muslims in the manner deemed appropriate. The Africans enslaved in the Americas were no exception; they formed close-knit communities and distinguished themselves in numerous ways, as they had in their homeland.
As a minority scattered all across North and South America and the Caribbean, and with an ethnically mixed population on any given plantation, the possibility of the Muslims forming coherent communities may seem to have been remote. Much has been said about the cultural disruption that the mixing of people from different areas induced. Recent research has shown, however, that the magnitude of this fragmentation has been overstated. For some new crops, such as rice and indigo, slaveholders relied on the expertise of Africans who were already involved in or familiar with such cultivation in their homelands. Large groups of Africans from the same area were thus transplanted as specialized units.1 In the United States, for example, South Carolina, Virginia, Georgia, and Louisiana slaveholders had a predilection toward Senegambians, who knew how to work the rice paddies and indigo plantations, and slaves from this area represented between 20 and 40 percent of the workers. Furthermore, pseudoanthropology was rampant during slavery and assigned particular qualities and defects to specific African peoples, so planters often chose their laborers from among a precise ethnic group and bought them in quantities.
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The Fort Vancouver National Trust is getting an additional 13 months to raise funds for its purchase of Vancouver's historic Academy, through January 2015.
The original agreement was scheduled to expire on Dec. 31.
The Academy Campaign originally launched its $10.6 million fundraising effort on May 1, 2012 to purchase the Academy and its 6.9 surrounding acres at 400 E. Evergreen Blvd. in downtown Vancouver.
More than 800 donors have contributed $4.1 million so far to purchase the Academy, adjacent to the Fort Vancouver National Site.
Ed Lynch, campaign chairman, launched the campaign with a personal gift of $2 million.
"Over the years I have been privileged to support many important efforts in our community. However, in my view there is no more important undertaking than the acquisition and preservation of the Academy," Lynch said in a National Trust news release.
The brick structure, once known as Providence Academy, was built in 1873 by Mother Joseph, 17 years after a small group of the Sisters of Providence arrived in Vancouver from Montreal, Canada. It served as a school until its closure in 1966.
In 1969, the Academy was purchased by Robert Hidden. His grandfather, Lowell Hidden, supplied the bricks for the Academy's construction. Robert Hidden's sons Bill, Oliver and Monte contributed to the purchase of the Academy and have served as its stewards for more than 40 years.


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Billionaire Xavier Niel's Iliad is talking to private-equity firms about teaming up to make an improved offer for Bellevue-based T-Mobile US, according to people familiar with the matter.
Iliad's discussions with potential partners may accelerate after T-Mobile's parent, Deutsche Telekom indicated it's willing to talk if a bid puts a valuation of at least $35 a share on the business, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the talks are private.
The German company hasn't received a new proposal, and there's no guarantee a higher offer will be made, they said.
Financial and industrial partners have approached Iliad about a joint offer for T-Mobile, Chief Financial Officer Thomas Reynaud said at a news conference in Paris on Monday.
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Iliad has been talking to U.S. buyout firms as well as companies and sovereign-wealth funds, the people said.
"Our offer is still valid, and probably even more relevant than at the end of July," Reynaud said, calling a joint bid for a larger T-Mobile stake "one of the options."
Iliad's previous cash offer of $33 per share, or $15 billion, for a 56.6 percent stake in T-Mobile, was rejected as too low.
At a strategy meeting Thursday, Deutsche Telekom senior managers discussed $35 to $40 as a realistic per-share valuation range at which the carrier would be willing to begin negotiations, said a person familiar with the matter. Reynaud declined to say whether Iliad plans to increase its bid.
Deutsche Telekom's valuation of T-Mobile opens the door for an improved bid from Iliad or new proposals from potential suitors such as Dish Network after Sprint last month withdrew from talks to buy the unit.
Iliad is aiming to replicate in the U.S. its French tactics of gaining market share with rock-bottom prices.
Iliad's last proposal projected $10 billion in potential savings and gave an overall value for T-Mobile of $36.20 a share by including such synergies.
T-Mobile shares closed at $30.08 Friday, valuing the company at $24.3 billion.
Some Iliad shareholders are concerned about slowing growth in its French home market, Borrega said.
Deutsche Telekom, which owns about 67 percent of T-Mobile, would consider forgoing a higher price if that meant avoiding the uncertainty of a prolonged regulatory review, said people familiar with the matter last month.
The company wants to avoid reliving its failed attempt to sell T-Mobile to AT&T for $39 billion.
After that accord in 2011 was opposed by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission and the Department of Justice, T-Mobile proceeded to merge with MetroPCS Communications.


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