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WSJ Live Presents: Joel Klein Interviewed
Joel Klein, CEO of Amplify appears in a new episode of "Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson" produced by the Hoover Institution. He discusses using technology to transform education. Photo: AP
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... when I in in just a little underwhelmed ... China transform American education ... with this today an uncommon Knowledge Joel Klein CEO of amplify and the former Chancellor of the New York City public schools ... from the offices of the Wall Street Journal ... uncommon Knowledge ... now ... the the the the ... I ... welcome to uncommon knowledge on Peter Robinson ... a product of the New York City public schools he grew up in Astoria Queens Joel Klein attended Columbia University and Harvard law school ... during the Clinton administration Mr. Klein served in the office of the White House counsel ... and then at the Department of Justice Mears assistant attorney general in charge of anti troop antitrust ... he prosecuted Micra soft ... from two thousand to two two thousand ten Mr. Klein served as Chancellor ... of the New York City Department of poll of Education where he oversaw school system ... with more than one hundred and thirty thousand employees ... and some one point one million students ... today Mr. Clyne serves as chief executive officer of amplify ... the company attempting to use technology to transform ... its Mr. Klein's work ... to transform ... education ... chocolate mocha ... previews the day ... Joel Klein speaking of ample flying ... quoted in New York Times this September ... if it's not transformative ... it's not worth it ... explain ... whoa re now we have a system into the twelve education Peter that ... clearly not doing the job we need to do you know ... everyday we read more and more about the gap between the haves and have nots and the implications for our country ... and the only way I know the weight successfully can do it to to ... to to educate our kids to a very very different level when not doing ... too much talk about transforming what I mean use to really think about different we use ... to do the job up until now when basically for the last two one two years ... had a model that we adopted from Prussia ... it's essentially a model of one teacher ... twenty five or thirty kids in the classroom ... and she's trying to figure out how to differentiate instruction for some kids who need to be ... moving progress of ... new me to progress in other kids who need mediation ... and so it's not working for many many of our kids ... the on a story today in a two point in your head around is right yet to be honest rate today is that fewer than a third or two to graduate high school ready for college fewer than there ... are many who call ... okay ... how come ... two quotations the nation in risk famous report in nineteen eighty three a rising tide of mediocrity in our schools threatens our very features a nation of people nineteen eighty three ... U S education the former national security that's report that new coal are third ... with Congolese the rice that was published just recently called educational failure puts United States future economic prosperity global position ... and physical safety at risk ... three ... decades ... since this report which ... I'm old enough remember received national attention in nineteen eighty three ... and here we are three decades later having made essentially ... no progress ... what ... is wrong ... well basically what's wrong is the system simply does not work in a way to educate the children ... there's a lot of reasons why ... it starts with the fact that many people who now go into teaching are not prepared when they need to teach ... to the good education schools that are not preparing ... I'll tell you the shocking number ... somewhere around forty percent of people who teach math whenever trained in math so we start out with the internationally renowned ... New York National ... Dan and so we start out with people or unprepared for the sign that people cared deeply don't get me wrong the people belonging to teach you care deeply but they're not prepared ... to teach complex subject matter often ... in our high needs high poverty communities ... they tend to get ... the most under prepared an often people don't commingle quickly so they have an unstable workforce ... so we have is fundamentally a system that does more ... reviews simple ... right at the outset to set the table ... so Americans of course if they are college universities ... have basically them lots of challenges but still today ... be regarded as the best in a world wide has come from all over the world to study if they can it stand for Columbia and when you are Harvard and or eat some State University eyes and mean and so ... and people who are trying to learn ... about created UK should come to learn about how close second are those that don't comply about it it it well ... and it is a fundamental difference is we basically had a state run monopoly aged twelve which we never did ... in Cochin and doesn't mean they are great state to see the University does have a monopoly was never monopoly and so I think ... there's been no fundamental inability ... to make the changes have been some improvements and I don't want to ignore those improvements but ... fundamentally we need and that's why it's it's gonna be transformative and why it was for me ... two things on earned one dollars chance one ... of the most challenging his inner city New York where able in certain schools to get really outstanding outcome for the schools called Harlem success ... as performing at the same level as some of our gifted and talented schools ... and the making it almost a hundred percent minority kids ... could to come from high poverty family's ... name in a mylar recently can cherry pick them ... and a gifted and talented admit the skins based off of a very demanding test ... and is still getting results ... so when people say ... that these kids who are I have encountered and you can get different else I say ... come with a meat on success ... the second and I learned know if he can be very hard to scale ... because what hollow success is done ... is to the track some extraordinary human capital ... but to try to do that across the entire country and the typical ... what are the reason why I think will we do in amplify matters ... is everything we're about is to help improve our teaching forced to do the work that they want to do ... to make them better at it to give them the tools to give them back from the content ... the training ... so that's what this is all about Joel up ... will come the ample find a moment and I wanna learn ... all I can about it ... but first I think this is my reading of you is a friend to understand your passion is important your passion about amplify its import understand your experience ... during eight years as Chancellor of the New York City public schools ... so we may I'd like to ask a couple questions ... you recognize that the schools were broken when you when in his Chancellor ... time to start with your experience growing up attending public schools over the public schools in New York City likely you're a kid ... so I went to public schools in hysteria which you mention in my introduction ... ah I had an incredible experience I mean I was to preach ... could my family a person my family and go to college and ING Groep and a family ... where people were so to add that learners great book readers ... that teachers in a story or really enabled me ... to see a world that I didn't see home quite frankly ... I still and it's the passion in me for the fact that it ... can buy myself a civil gone from Bryan high school in Queens gone Columbia College on a full scholarship and Harvard law school ... and I always say the reason that happened ... is teaches people in Sydney has my physics teacher that huge impact on EP ... those people enabled me to see a world that I quite frankly couldn't see from the first floor ... of the public houses and and ... and so ... that whole notion ... that education can be transformative and personal life but that's the magic ingredient America's sauce ... honey I've talked a generation of people were ever have Dyno believing the American dream ... what makes the American dream a reality ... these people getting an education ... to be able to move on to levels that their families found the national ... more and more in America today the American dream is becoming the American memory ... and that's what worries me you you ... when you took over as chancellor you have ... a ... court in the New York Times yet a couple of ... particular conditions in you to your benefit ... you're the first since John Lindsay ... reform the system ... here are the first chancellor to report only to the mayor ... and not to whatever was thirties thirty two elected school boards you reported Mike Bloomberg and that meet your life simpler than it had been for some of your predecessors ... second you are recognizing this is the New York Times the mole is a fan of yours ... Mr. Klein was the leader ... in a national effort for greater accountability in public education ... so you went in ... with Mike Bloomberg behind you as a recognized leader reform efforts ... and eight years of hard work of poetry for you ... were you able to unpack and the answer is a lot but not enough ONA was a little bit about each time and when really change in New York City schools were shut down over a hundred schools that was truly unprecedented ... in their place we replace them ... with some five hundred public schools and it's been studies one hundred charter schools in the real will do ... well is uh hundred Madison additional hundred fifty charter schools ... that we've opened up on the mayor's what's so we moved on all fronts ... and we created much much more choice in the system ... and a bottom line was ... the graduation rate grew by ... twenty percent during the mayor's time in office which twenty point which really means it ... doesn't Crennel we start in effect the rate was about forty five ... now it's some are over sixty five ... that's a lotta kids ... on ... the road ahead ... is much much more demanding right now and we need many many more options we need more charter schools we need more choice in public schools ... we need more accountability across the board ... when you start change earlier we need to get them and especially kids in high poverty neighborhoods ... will we see in the early years when we meet again on there ... so the engineer question is I don't think there's any city in the last decade ... has gone too is much change ... and as much progress the New York is now shown ... what it says ... that Actos Eurolot ... about how far we have to go Chris many of our kids are not ready for college ... many markets still aren't graduate one last question chill about your experiences chancellor ... in ... a layman like me I think ... I think this is a frustration why with all the puzzlement baffle ... we're talking about a public ... school system ... ultimately it varies from place to place but there are local school but ultimately ... it's ... public ... the schools are run by people who won one where another the democratic system report to ... the voters ... Joel Klein writing Indian Vlasic magazine ... this is of euro several essays summing up your experiences chancellor Paul ... politicians especially Democratic politicians the right that is a lifelong Democrat especially Democratic politicians ... generally do with the teachers unions want ... clothes quo ... why do they do with the unions want ... instead of what the parents want this just does not make sense that this Easter enormously powerful political forces ... the user able to contribute large sums of money to their election ... the unions are able to get out lots of people who can help get out the vote ... and politics is too often it is not just the Democratic Party quite friendly with ... both boys why do we have crony capitalism of us are too many people in both parties who'll willing to let ... the special interests the interests of power and money dominate and not do with the people doing increasingly Peter ... in both parties I think that is happening ... and that's why we're beginning to see some of the great divide six point five with twenty years coaching the unimaginable when people falling farther and farther apart ... and a lot of that reason uses because the polarization of special interest politics in America ... and it happens to be a bit while the education that teaches Union ... is the bigger ... player with the dominant ... resources ... both human and financial ... to drive the system and I I had people tell me ... they say to me when I was ten so I really need to lie in ruins chancellor ... but I gotta tell you how not to think that fine on because I don't wanna fight with the union of a ... simple example in the city charter schools demonstrably ... are doing really import more ... and getting great results with teens in high poverty communities they too should improve ... it is no question studies done by people with Stanford for example have shown ... that Charters are outperforming the public schools Apple samples ... and had ... lots of Democratic candidates in the last election in Maryland and one is ongoing ... lots of invasive we said whoa we better put a stop to the Charters whine or to put a stop to the times ... you see me knows what the competition ... that would be provided ... the families wanted ... seventy thousand parents ... apply ... seventy thousand families who applied for to twenty thousand dollars plus she seventeen for twenty ... those fifty thousand people ... have basically been told ... it's too bad whether due to having leadership that says when a bill now more these charges ... more the KIPP schools more of the Harlem success schools more the Icahn Charters ... to get kids ... in high poverty communities real choice in real opportunity would come in on her mayoral race now I know but I just wanted I just wanna say ... what I would say about an Alton is ... an ... I'd I hope they build on the things that were good because it's really important if you choose ... this brings us to amplify ... launches over a year ago in June twenty twelve and I'm quoting from the amplified website and why is a re imagining ... the way teachers teach ... and students ... learn ... what that that that that it is Airbus's vision what it means is the following ... one up until now we face he said the teachers you do it all you go in a classroom you figure it out ... and take for example one again for ... some caves during the year or so behind some future year still ahead some future in the middle ... to teach that kind of thing all that out and I don't think that says more this not a knock on the teacher she's trying very hard ... Seoul where China do is give her the schools ... here for the assistance ... target a couple little things you can can ... and for a teacher for example whose shares ... in a middle course ... she once again on establishing the reward ... Dell Australia it ... says you want to find out ... whether the key to getting in are not in the classroom ... answer she doesn't really call a spot check and it shows right up on here ... and here's what happens each cages clicks ... says I'm getting it ... I'm not so sure don't confuse not ... lengthening then uses feedback that she is ... in no way to get good too she says that class so you get a new ... annuity rates in the snow on Tuesday that ... he uses only within the UN is they don't have to be Harrison sales and getting ... and it's important are now I can multiply that example via solace ... to show you things that we are able to do to enable teachers to be more effective ... sometimes more efficient ... sometimes more effective ... so and by the same token ... if it any point ... she too wants to make sure that these guys who often tablet and on her ... she clicks on eyes on teacher ... every tablet now ... the shutdown ... she has complete control so people who say Woori DDT to be too much on the screen ... this is a way to completely control the flash of ... light ... duty use of these tablet ... now at St ... Peter's having trouble with fractions and tools and come with us ... the TCP now all into one click ... take Peter and three other kids put him in a move ... and am working together on fractions while Joel and still below the key to working together on decibels ... is a way to differentiate ... and customized learning experience ... so these are all empowering things ... that enable teachers to be more second without ... pilots going on because without a ... fifteen thousand Kate ... as of the implementation and in Guilford County of the pain customer was as you see only get a paying customer and Guilford County North Carolina screen door ... the fifteen thousand kids along with nine hundred teachers in every middle school kids in ... working with these two were getting constant feedback and think about this Peter ... if the team is spending time reading or writing ... this tablet now knows it ... so the teacher can actually say ... you know Peter Chou is planning to three hours and I'm working on this stuff ... and he's getting in on that accelerate into the stock to kill us Marley played out these new reports ... tell the teacher ... all aam Amore mom what the kid is doing what areas the struggling one remediation intervention strategies ... how we accelerates only confused on the New York an onboard ... is beyond just bored bored is not good ... so how to get a good morning gates and we're following that ... with curriculum ... that will be so dynamic and interactive ... this tablet this object is already available it's out you have a you have a paying customer in Guilford County North Carolina with the with fifteen thousand kids in a new teachers using ... and several other paying customers on a smaller scale hundred can write the curriculum in front of a separate product line or are ... they too had an incredible and it's gonna be ... basically a win for the teachers ... to teach kids in very complicated media very calm in math and science while a noun step by step the kind of issues that the kids need to be explored ... by using the good news simplest example the works ... we've got a guy named shuttled Bozeman who starred with Jackie Robinson will ... we get him to do a dramatic reading ... of the first chapter cricket Douglas well ... it's a complicated book ... and I am telling you we now know ... the kids to listen to that ... it so much more involved in Texas and still easy ... to do when they're little videos twenty doesn't know when to use commas where these little videos that are funny and clever ... done by people with few nosy the film television or from the and and and you know people are YouTube stars ... they're telling them when use a comma when you don't use a common with the consequences of ... unclear the people told ... designing the curriculum ... the news on to me um I live in Northern California these days the sun is awesome is this the more you gotta shop ... up on young engineers ... developing on the side that that basically ... three groups of people working together that Heidi and engineers in Brooklyn ... and that that some of them here and that no one son Griffin broken ones on the cabin and and ... and that the married with curriculum people really good for each class people and with that export on the outside Walter Isaacson is working with us on our curriculum ... Eric and all the noble prize winner Colombia is working with us ... on our curriculum to live guys aren't you using from somewhere read that you're facing a lot on the new core standards it's called a common course and explain that to be sure I can ... come of course and it will when mistakes came together starting on actually an effort that the National governors Association to tweak their chiefs cools off its ... annual basically saying we now have fifty states ... with fifty different standards why don't we get together ... Annie came together on a voluntary basis and forty five state ... court in California New York posted Tuesday ... on the adopted ... which really import about the standards in on one again into a long discussion the wood to important ... is their common meaning will be a lament for now ... I'll kids in California are doing compared to continue your protections or elsewhere ... and second of all will be a boon their core ... and is very different in demanding if you saw them ... I think you would respond to a possible leak of what they're saying is ... we need to get into teaching complicated tax when you could really teach him the basics of mathematics ... a weenie am Rite all lot more one of things to stress the need to write using the tablet you do with a stylus or you do it with a keyboard you notch or ... so lot of market during the keyboard now and we mentioned that one or serious attention and Peter ... isn't that good writes twice in one to three times as much ... as before to ... go up and we can measure ... how much you can use writing we can see which featuring Gait which is ... how we can also see I told you storybooks and boatman ... write to Chad and I I can also ... see if people are really watching and getting in and getting excited about the book ... so we have so much more knowledge that with me and all of this is made simple for the teacher and one are things we do is we partner ... with the teachers is not just something like we give people a night there when few people program ... we get inside the school and work directly with them ... so that they understand a change that so in a Guilford you have a team down there working with the folks who killed her absolutely gutted ... but Jol ... amplifies the business ... correct my numbers the one I got off the earnings increase is wrong ... but ... you've been in operation for year ... he's lost about a hundred and eighty million dollars this year ... the expectation is that you lose a like amount for each of the next four years ... that means ... a capital outlay ... of something in the range of one ... billion dollars ... before anybody expects your company ... to reach cash flow positive ... are you running this is a company recall learning this is a company who plays to move him or her credit ... he's going to be long-term mochi are honest and it was going to take the memories that made out to transform was my worst like that to a China deal ... and now it is today shows up on a bouncy his loss but these are investments ... and new home which costs had a history of making ... long-term investments that paid off well if you look at Fox or if you look in the sky be where so many other things that we have done ... so without getting ahead of this story when making some big investment we expect to start to see revenues ... coming back ... but in order to have the transformative impact we knew that this is not something you do and rise to do ... on a small but it just isn't happening or won't happen because ... he you need to start picking can switch to this year and the nature of the of the end of it is no question about it too which I and and get eleven large enough ... to move the system of all the fifty million for use ... in United States ... and you not can you do that with this small more investment and over ... let's go through some of the ... some of the objections questions that are floating around ... their objections ... and a few a few months are going to bring break that news to the the the the logical concern ... amplifies the division of News Corporation a company founded by Rupert Murdoch ... of Cook columnist Roger Kay rating in Forbes quote ... of the potential conflict of interest involved in a propagandists to news organizations selling ... to institutions in the business of molding informed minds clothes quo ... now propagandist accuser you need to grant that to grant that ... news ... Corporation properties the Wall Street Journal the near post often to have a point of view ... the deal without ever find us and then I made an absolutely clear I made it clear that the condition of my ... feeling is that we do not have a political attack ... I don't think he's a Democrat or Republican way ... to do algebra ... but I do think the reason need to do out to the ... salon people make these policies are predictable to improve pocket or ... things I was so so you're bored with that this pointed to the most sensitive to Commodore knowing I need to know that the product is totally transparent will speak for itself take a look at this tablet ... and tell me what propaganda icing on a look at our curriculum ... when I sat and ACT Edwin Bozeman ... during the reign of Frederick Douglas who arrived at Eric and Elmore counterattack ... does anybody out there who would want a war with Eric and along roadsides ... we have no agenda ... we do have one goal ... and objective and that is to really change away our future educated continued ... of privacy concerns ... you talk about accumulating a ... great deal of information on these kids ... and we live in the world in which every body's nervous that the NSA knows what phone calls and making it into their e mails and ... who knows what information the pre Facebook is gathering where the credits just ... makes people crazy how you dress them that they should be concerned about safety and privacy is a real world issue ... to a wheelchair assistance we make clear from the beginning ... of personalized information ... is owned by the school district and subject to federal law there's a whole photo ... to pull for pop on this ... I don't need to know the individualized it what I need to know always the facts they do what I knew my dad is ... coming future like this at ... Comerica's find this curriculum engaging ... but I don't even know where the Peter until confident in ... the schools need to know that that the school should know that they should know that ... in order to be Obel the service ticket ... is that it is struggling with fractions school need to know that but then they go on to be and is controlled by the school is subject to federal law ... and all of us in this space whether it's when it came to online or offline ... ABBV tomorrow one or worse times ahead which one is close to us some records ... and similar reporters found these two it had nothing to do a technology ... but the euro and and expose the fact that feeds data was not kept in all of what should be vigilant about that and it should be no exceptions ... the technology itself ... JDB neuroscientists that the National Institute of mental health ... he makes the point that the instant feedback ... it pushes the button something happens the instant feedback is very green friendly while our brains are wired to appreciate that kind of thing ... but call a lot of our brain activity is devoted to social interaction with other people ... who want to wear interfering with development in ways we didn't ... expect close call ... so I think two things one ... that everything I'm showing you the ice on teachers ... the curfew and has cute working together in groups ... social networks online disclose offline but I would be the first to say you ... that ... if you choose predicted to produce all day long ... the future to stay and none of the people were working with ... are going ... on the same token ... kids in classrooms are sitting here reading the textbook ... during a classroom ... so it's not as if everything is socially networked orchids connected what you need is to take the best of the human encounter ... and reinforce it ... so this unless I give you this kind of experience with ... these little people a little cartoony things that it basically helping you with ... your vocabulary helping you with ... those two things that can help you but that's no substitute ... for the I thou relationship a teacher whose students and other content of anything in one of the economy is doing when ... we find the kids ... networking only a work so I was done in school full County Georgia one of the ten week ... so we'll talk about ... at six thirty nine when all the men go online to talk about a home or ... it's something they were unable to do ... until we put them together ... social you ... I ... you talk to you which encountered over and over again ... as chance with an inner city schools is how powerful the unions are ... so is it fair to say this this device does not shake up the political power structure of American public education ... you have said can you send it here ... I do this is transformative or won't work ... but I'm beginning to get the sense that isn't ... almost as a political reality there's a corollary to that which is ... either teachers like it ... or will work your absolute ... the view that the impression you have your hundred percent ... correct ... and that is so critical to what winner ... my theory of change here ... is that teachers will respond positively will find that this makes them ... more effective ... in unison to do their work in a better way ... enables them to connect with the kids still find it is mourned gauge ... the extent we have with kids telling us a little early telling us ... that by using the calendar menial him right there and Susan Ko Senior enters ... the infusion the sense of pain that they feel that the call invested ... in the classroom it's not all teachers ... I think that's critical but Peter is you figure that out you see that the whole Cerea thing ... my theory is that teachers will and grace ... and will be fine news ... making them more effective more power and the kids wanted to and that switching to come in and that doesn't happen I'm through the wall ... of ... falling upon teachers ... to roll Rotella Boston College for a long piece about the amplify town with ... the September in York Times Sunday magazine ... quote ... everyone agrees that could teachers make all the difference oh one when making more sense ... to devote resources to strengthening the teaching profession with better recruitment training support and pay ... close call ... and you you once you yourself wrote a piece in the Atlantic this again is after you step down as chancellor ... saying look in Finland where ... teaching is a high status profession ... teachers are very well paid we need to move the teaching profession in this country ... in the direction ... of the high status profession and Finland ... so ... soul soul is also the argument would be listen whatever it is the schools and pay you for this device they should instead ... put into the recruitment and training of teachers are a little walk into them I mean I I I don't think the seasonal ale is no question we needed to go by recruiting we need to prove our its cost ... of water into college photo Telesat mouthpiece which I agree with ... how we support ... how we train only empower teachers ... that can affect a professional station is in effect Tuesday tracking into the field ... this can affect their old in an effort to see ... and that's cool we can do here and we'd be doing ... I mean think about all the money to schools is spending on textbooks ... all with this saying We that I was still you'll fall comes preloaded with CK equal ... with Joel Klein ... has been teaching Coolidge in ... its final ... okay ... chill ... Harvard law school the White House the Department justice ... here's the track is for you are going ... you are headed straight to becoming one of the most senior guys and for that ... were sold and or Wachtell ... or any of the most prestigious law firms in this town ... stability ... bridges ... don't even start talking about the riches ... prestige you could've had ... all of that commanding the heights of the legal profession ... instead he uses Chancellor ... of the New York City public schools ... and now you're you're immune rated well the CEO of a large undertaking but it's also very risky undertaking the Vardy said this is a billion dollar outlay before anybody expects ... much impact on profit ... you do ... my aren't you running law Council ... crusade to attain I think these education issues and most ... important to the nation faces the daunting ... we do this right when you look at it tomorrow that I can look very attractive to us ... and so ... I mean very fortunate in life and many many ways and this is the thing and I want to really focus on in order to try to ... make a difference ... and I really believe that aam privilege when Mike Bloomberg call me ... to do the job ... I was in the highly compensated Bertelsmann ... and I immediately said yes don't for one reason I thought ... with his leadership and a chance to change the lives ... of literally all normally includes ... each year in a city schools ... is nothing more important it's what my passion is an ... in on that's when my heart is and thank God I've practiced law for thirty years and had a wonderful run added ... every level ... of but this is where I am now ... last question ... he noted ... that between nineteen seventy in twenty ten we doubled the amount we spend on public schools without getting any results real ... on the site a few other changes in America during those four ... decades ... only about a third of public school teacher public school employees were unionize in nineteen seventy and today that figure stands at three quarters ... the ethnic composition of the country has shifted ... and with a large influx of immigrants into a large number of kids for whom English is a second language placing new stresses ... on the education system ... far more women now work outside the home ... that makes the traditional role the mother and is the person who make sure though markets Don and help some of the homework ... that's a role in ... the traditional nuclear family ... I would like for a ... ten percent in nineteen seventy ... fifty percent today ... and of course all the data shows the kids to come from ... broken homes ... to have a harder time in school ... unionization ... social upheaval demographic changes ... and you are asking amplify to transform education ... tool you're asking too much of disciplines ... and I think you may be asking too much in years ... on it ... I would say to the endzone said in a no no we haven't done the things he didn't set out to do that ... ay ay ay ay ay ay people we didn't do your many years that I wish they would demand in the years since with the miner's the remained on this education reform it ... I really did these things and I think you want to try to take that to a next level second of all I realize the challenges ... that seems to me the challenges of God and demand an all hands on deck ... approach and what would you say to the skin to run up in broken homes ... and Comedy families who don't have a future is unknown connected to do what what's the solution of the world is not going to give them ... Hwee of global competition leaving other hand when you when I grew up ... you know the competition was local ... now we have a globally ... second of all while sipping CPG should do wonders to see if people don't get to hang around when I set a public school in New York in nineteen fifties ... sixty percent of America's workforce for high school dropouts pin numbers about six percent ... and climbing ... still when demand much more of a kitchen absolutely right that the challenge huge huge ... it's not simply the style eteplirsen team before we gotta do more than simply walk ... the milonga lot of things the same time ... what what we have got to doing it serious about doing ... this realize that ... the America we knew ... and loved this American dream which is you greedy in our songs ... that's imperil if we don't execute the skate if one in three U twenty five percent market as Khalid reading which is what the college or he she she say ... if that's the case when have major problems down the road until you solve the budget arm suddenly this all the other issues ... but I don't see away unless we cannot do things different in each well ... and I think we amplify have a shot of him ... the school that isn't the less cost ... in your hearts says the new York City ... public schools Chancellor ... and you tried this yet so far but no for a new trend that they knew that so far no farther ... in the ... political hse power structures against reform ... in the Justice case ... in your heart of hearts ... do you think amplify easy this tablet and the curriculum is coming ... can really be transformative ... or is this just Joel Klein's last and I've gotta do something ... I'll try this effort by the returns on I think ... this tablet ... the curriculum ... and the data and analytics the ability to personalize to customize ... I think and change ... the game I know things can happen overnight but I do think it's can happen at the same time I think it's ... teaching gets more exciting ... people coming into the field will be different that will encourage I think the schools want to change I've met with lots of good schools ... and really see the potential in this and they're very interested in gauging ... say yes ... I think and if I can do this it ... Joe Klein ... chief executive officer of amplify ... thank you ... thank you ... for the Hoover institution in The Wall Street Journal ... on Peter Robinson ... the the the the ... I ... I ... I ...

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Tavolo Wildlife Management Area: Papua New Guinea
Tucked away on the marshy southeast coast of the island of New Britain, Papua New Guinea is the Tavolo Wildlife Management Area (WMA). The Tavolo WMA is owned by the Lote tribe of East New Britain which consists of communities of Mukus, Lausus and Tavolo. These villagers share a common language and oral history.
In contrast to the widespread logging that was occurring in the immediate areas around them, the Tavolo communities chose to enter into conservation, to trial an alternative land management strategy in order to safeguard the flora and fauna, waterways and forest resources on their customary land.
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Wildlife Management Areas are established under Papua New Guinea's Fauna (Protection and Control) Act 1966, which allows customary landowners to manage the use of resources within a Protected Area (PA) which is also under customary ownership. WMAs fall under category VI of the IUCN PA categories regarding areas managed mainly for the sustainable use of natural resources. The intended target for conservation within a WMA can be a species, an area of cultural or historical significance or an area of special landscape significance.
Management of the WMAs is also the responsibility of the customary landowners and resource users. Ideally, Land Use and Management Plans guide activities and conservation efforts within a WMA. For many PNG communities with established WMAs, there is a serious lack of capacity to support the plans or for the communities to manage such WMAs. The success of any WMA very much depends on the capacity of the Management Committee to mobilize support to effectively manage the PA for its biodiversity value as well as its resource or cultural value. In this context, the Tavolo story is simply quite astounding.
Tavolo WMA was established in 1997 by members from three Tavolo communities of Mukus, Lausus and Tavolo. The communities allocated for protection an area of 2, 000 hectares, which covers areas of primary tropical lowland rainforests, waterways, estuaries, gardening land, settlement land and coral reefs. They have established rules to govern these areas and penalties for any infringement of these rules.
While the exact biodiversity value has not yet been established, due to lack of resources, the Tavolo WMA exists in a pristine state whilst the surrounding coastal regions in the Pomio district have been extensively logged and these logged areas are slowly being converted into oil palm plantations. The hinterland of the WMA remains untouched because of the surrounding rugged terrain which includes over 400 hectares of undisturbed rainforest.
Tavolo WMA is situated on the southern end of the Nakanai Range, which is an area of outstanding natural beauty on the island of New Britain and has been placed on the UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List in recognition of its natural beauty and for the global significance its extensive sub terrain cave systems. The northern part of the Nakanai Range Mountains is dominated by a group of spectacular volcanoes. It is bounded on the east by the Kol Mountains and to the west by the Kapiura-Ania Divide, which separates the Nakanai Range from the Whiteman Range.
The region receives an annual rainfall of over 5,000 mm, making it one of the wettest areas in PNG. It is sparsely inhabited with an estimated population of about 20 people per km2. Village settlements are found on the inland flood plains as well as the coastal plains. Tavolo villages are very remote. They are accessible by a coastal boat which takes two days from Kokopo, the provincial capital of East New Britain Province. The main access to Tavolo is from the township of Kimbe in the West New Britain Province during drier months of the year. The rough logging tracks connect the south coast of New Britain to Kimbe, cutting through very picturesque mountain ranges and deep valleys. Government services in Tavolo are limited, with at least one day of travel required to reach the nearest school, health centre and government station. Cash income in this area is very low due to limited road access and is mainly derived from the local sale of fresh food, betel nut and traditional pandanus mats. With limited health services available in this region, maternal and child mortality is very high, even by PNG standards.
Conservation activities have become the main vehicle of community engagement, community development and community services in the area. In 2006, the Wildlife Management Committee under the leadership of their chairman Peter Kikele, raised funds to build a community resource centre. In 2008 with support from Mama Graun Conservation Trust Fund, the community installed solar electricity in the resource centre, increasing its functionality as community members can now have their meetings and other organized activities there in the evenings as well as during the day. The resource centre is also used as accommodation for visitors, thus generating cash income for the WMA and its communities. In 2009 the community, with the leadership of the WMA committee, developed a WMA Management Plan to guide their conservation and community development activities. The implementation of this plan has begun and among the initial projects to be implemented under this plan is the construction of an aid post (funded by Seacology and supported by Sam Moko, a forest campaigner with GreenPeace) to service the three communities and their neighbouring villages. The aid post was funded in exchange for the community setting aside an additional 980 acres of marine area as a 'no-take' zone - 980 acres of marine areas is a small price for the people of Tavolo to pay for a much-needed aid post.
Another noteworthy aspect of the Tavolo WMA story is the partnerships that have been formed with outside organizations and individuals. One notable partnership for Tavolo is with FORCET, a PNG based NGO that supports sustainable harvest of timber. The community set aside a further 2,000 hectares of forest where they can sustainably harvest timber under the Forest Stewardship Certification Programme. Under this programme, the communities developed a business plan for the forest production area and a land use plan for the 2000 hectares of forest production area as well as the WMA. As part of the sustainable forestry programme, FORCET trained local community members to monitor their forest for biodiversity and forest regeneration after timber harvest. The sustainable timber harvest programme will start in 2011 and will provide much needed cash income for these isolated communities.
So why is the Tavolo community conservation such a success story? There are two individuals who are key drivers for conservation effort in Tavolo. One is Peter Kikele, Chairman of the Management Committee. He organizes and mobilizes his community members so that they remain informed and connected to the outside world at all times through education and participation. Peter is seen and heard door-knocking at every organization office that can support his community efforts in conservation and community development. He is committed to ensure that the future of his children is secured through conservation of natural resources and sustainable and culturally-relevant development. Alongside Peter, is the Tavolo chief, William Apehawa who takes the lead in supporting Peter's conservation leadership but at the same time ensuring that Tavolo people remain grounded in their culture. Supporting these two conservation champions are the individual members of the WMA committee and all the community members. It is uncommon to find a community that is so supportive of conservation and collectively maintains focus through activities that ensure that their local environment is protected whilst at the same time promoting sustainable development.
The idiom below is a vision statement that can be found in the Tavolo WMA management plan:
To conserve and protect our natural resources and to promote a sustainable way of life that is culturally appropriate, environmentally friendly, just, encourages equal participation, self reliance and total respect of human rights in Lote Society."
On my departure after my very first visit to Tavolo in 2008, chief Apehawa gave me a traditional shield with the following words
Lote people are known warriors on this coast and they defended their territory from their enemies with these shields. I am presenting you this shield so you too can help us defend Lote territory from new types of enemies; large scale logging and oil palm development.
The vision statement and chief Apehawa's parting words to me sum up what community conservation should be all about. It is about people, and how they relate to their land. It is about communities making a commitment and sharing a common vision and taking a lead to protect their land for the future of their children. When this commitment is made, shared and understood by enough people, successful biodiversity conservation follows.
The Tavolo people are now in the process of resurveying the boundary of the WMA so they can expand the PA from 2,000 hectares to 32,000 hectares. The process of expanding this area has many bureaucratic obstacles, however Peter and the Tavolo communities know that their commitment to conservation, and investment in partnerships will ensure that the expansion takes place. A large proportion of this new expanded area will include the marine area immediately offshore from the villages and a larger tract of primary forest in the hinterland. Also in the pipeline are plans to carry out extensive biodiversity surveys for the terrestrial and the marine areas of the WMA in order to conclusively ascertain the biodiversity value of Tavolo WMA.
By Jane Mogina, Executive Director of Mama Graun Conservation Trust Fund, an organization that provides sustainable funding to support biodiversity protection and related sustainable development to 40% of Papua New Guinea's protected areas and their communities. In addition to PNG, Mama Graun currently provides sustainable funding to five high biodiversity priority sites in the Solomon Islands. Jane is a Member of the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas.


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Time to panic for Dodgers, Angels, Jays?
Philadelphia, PA – It's much easier to build a winning baseball team when you have a huge payroll at your disposal.
Still, money can't buy everything. It can't buy chemistry. It can't buy immunity to significant injuries.
Those are just some of the reasons the Los Angeles Dodgers, Los Angeles Angels and Toronto Blue Jays are off to extremely slow starts this season. While a number of major-league teams are underperforming relative to their expectations, those three clubs stand out as colossal disappointments.
Let's examine the three and try to predict what the rest of 2013 holds for them.
LOS ANGELES DODGERS (15-22): The biggest payroll in the major leagues hasn't prevented the Dodgers from dropping into the National League West basement.
How many times has it been said that a team could never have too much pitching? The 2013 Dodgers have delivered the best evidence yet to prove that statement true.
Going into spring training, the Dodgers had eight solid starting pitching options, including former Cy Young Award winners Clayton Kershaw and Zack Greinke and former World Series Most Valuable Player Josh Beckett. They also had South Korean import Hyun-Jin Ryu, Chad Billingsley, Aaron Harang, Chris Capuano and Ted Lilly.
With such depth in the rotation, how could anything go wrong? Greinke suffered a broken collarbone when San Diego's Carlos Quentin charged the mound after being hit by a pitch on April 11. He should be back soon.
Billingsley, who tried during the offseason to avoid Tommy John surgery, broke down after just two starts and had to undergo the surgery anyway. He's out for the year.
Perennially injured Lilly predictably is hurt again. This time, it's his rib cage, but he might return soon. Capuano is back in the rotation now, but he had spent time on the disabled list with a strained calf.
It would have been nice to be able to turn to the veteran Harang after all these pitchers had gone down, but the Dodgers traded him on April 6 before any of the other injuries had hit the pitching staff. The Dodgers have already used nine different starting pitchers this year.
Offensively, the Dodgers have struggled mightily. It hasn't helped that two separate DL stints have limited shortstop Hanley Ramirez to just four games. He is expected to remain sidelined until mid-June with a hamstring injury.
Matt Kemp, the team's best all-around hitter, has just one home run in his first 141 at-bats. The team also has gotten a sub-.200 average and virtually no run production from the third base position.
As a result, the Dodgers rank 14th in the NL in runs scored with 129. Only the Miami Marlins, who have the NL's lowest payroll, have scored fewer runs.
It's hard to imagine getting less "bang for the buck" than the Dodgers have. Their saving grace is that first-place San Francisco hasn't opened up a huge lead in the division, leaving the disappointing Dodgers 7 1/2 games behind - not a great position, but not an insurmountable deficit, either.
Even when everyone is healthy, though, the L.A. offense has some holes in it, and this team just seems devoid of chemistry. The best bet is the Dodgers won't finish much better than .500.
LOS ANGELES ANGELS (14-24): A case could be made by the end of last regular season that the Angels were the best team in baseball.
They boasted a dangerous offense that featured American League Rookie of the Year Mike Trout and future Hall of Famer Albert Pujols as well as Torii Hunter and Mike Trumbo. They had a pitching staff that featured C.J. Wilson, Jered Weaver and trade-deadline acquisition Greinke.
Still, somehow, the 2012 Angels started the season 6-14 and ended April at 8-15, nine games out of first place in the AL West. They never fully recovered, as their final 89-73 record left them just on the outside looking in during the playoffs.
In the offseason, the Angels lost Hunter to the Detroit Tigers but replaced him with an even bigger bat - free-agent outfielder Josh Hamilton. They lost starting pitchers Ervin Santana, Dan Haren and Greinke, but replaced them with Tommy Hanson, Joe Blanton and Jason Vargas.
It was a pitching downgrade to a degree, but the thought was that Los Angeles' offense would improve enough to become possibly the most potent in the majors. The bullpen also was theoretically strengthened with the addition of free-agent closer Ryan Madson.
A balky elbow has prevented Madson from making his Angels debut, although he is expected back soon, possibly this week.
The pitching drop-off has been worse than expected; the Angels rank 13th in the AL in team ERA (4.73). Offensively, the star-studded lineup ranks just 10th in the AL with 156 runs scored.
Weaver went down with a fractured left elbow in his second start, but he should be back later this month. Otherwise, the biggest problem with the team's pitching has been Blanton's struggles. In his first eight starts, he's 0-7 with a 6.46 ERA.
Offensively, Pujols (.234, 5 HR, 21 RBI) is off to a slow start for the second consecutive year. Prized newcomer Hamilton (.212, 4 HR, 11 RBI) has been even less productive. Los Angeles is a terrible 7-15 against AL West teams.
One would have to expect the likes of Pujols and Hamilton to eventually produce. When Weaver and Madson return, that should greatly enhance the pitching.
However, the Angels would have to go 76-48 the rest of the way just to get to 90 wins, and 90 wins are no guarantee to qualify for the playoffs in a loaded AL. Expect another second-half bounceback, but not a big enough one to get the Angels into the postseason.
TORONTO BLUE JAYS (15-24): The Blue Jays went just 73-89 last year, but they were considered by many to be the favorite to win the AL East this year because of a busy offseason that brought numerous stars to Toronto.
The Blue Jays were in dire need of pitching, so trades brought in Josh Johnson and Mark Buehrle from Miami and reigning NL Cy Young Award winner R.A. Dickey from the New York Mets.
Toronto needed a dynamic leadoff hitter, so shortstop Jose Reyes came aboard in the trade with Miami.
Reyes was off to a great start, hitting .395 through his first 38 at-bats, but then he suffered an ankle injury which will likely sideline him into June.
Pitching has been a bigger disappointment. Dickey (2-5, 5.06 ERA) has badly underperformed, and Buehrle (1-2, 6.19 ERA) has been even worse. Johnson was 0-1 with a 6.86 ERA in four starts before heading to the DL with a triceps injury. He is expected back by late this month or early June, but the early season DL stint was just further reminder that he is always an injury risk.
Toronto tried to become a contender overnight, but it instead became the latest organization to demonstrate that building a winner usually takes more than just throwing together a bunch of all-stars. Chemistry is usually a factor and it seems to be missing in Toronto.
The biggest disappointment, though, was that the investment in Dickey, Johnson and Buehrle hasn't even improved what was a dreadful pitching staff. The Jays' 4.74 team ERA is next-to-last in the AL, better only than that of rebuilding Houston.
The Jays' pitching can't help but improve the rest of the way, and that will make Toronto more competitive. Any chance of winning a deep AL East, however, has been lost already.


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Convention Follows Industry Norm, Ford Will Continue Subtraction Method
As horsepower is to muscle cars, so is payload and towing capacity to trucks, and it's been a non-stop battle over the past decade among the Detroit Three to one-up each other in claiming the highest-rated payload and towing capacity in their respective classes. One of the tricks reportedly used to goose the maximum payload capacity within General Motors and Ford was to exclude "non-essential" items from the vehicles to eke out a few more pounds, such as the rear bumper, radio, and center console. GM initially defended the practice as an accepted industry protocol but later issued a statement saying it would report payload according to the vehicle's standard base curb weight, according to Automotive News.
Ford, which also reportedly used the so-called subtraction method to calculate its trucks' maximum payload, says it will continue to use the subtraction method to calculate maximum payload. The controversy about fullsize truck capabilities remains as heated as ever, with Ram reporting the towing and payload capacities of its HD trucks according to the SAE J2807 standard, claiming a maximum towing capacity of the Ram 3500 of 30,000 pounds, with Ford claiming a non-J2807 compliant rating of 31,200 for its 2015 F-450. Ford has said it will report the payload and towing capacities of its 2015 F-150 light-duty truck according to the J2807 standards but ratings for the Super Duty HD trucks will not be J2807 compliant.
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Know how some people are complaining that they have trouble connecting to AT&T's 3G network? How they drop calls? How they blame Apple? (Despite the phone working pretty dang well in other countries on other carriers). Remember the theory that there were so many iPhone 3Gs hitting the market that AT&T couldn't handle the load? (That their network was basically rabbit ears tied to old antennas? -- okay, we made that last one up!)
Now imagine that each and every one of those iPhones, especially in high-density areas like San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York -- where each tower is already slicing bandwidth to razor thin margins -- suddenly found itself barraged by laptops tethering themselves on for the ride.
That might just be what's keeping AT&T from allowing iPhone tethering: fear it will crush their already strained 3G network. MacBlogz claims to have a source saying just that (via Gizmodo):
"Regardless of how many billions of dollars AT&T pours into their 3G network, it hasn't been stable enough to handle all you iPhone users."


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Introduction to Volume 39
Blaise Cronin
ARIST is going the way of so many things American: supersizing. Truth be told, the beefiness of this year's volume is more a matter of chance than design: good news for subscribers, not such good news for our publisher. Last year I described some of the challenges associated with editing an annual review and the near impossibility of knowing with certitude what the end product will look like. A great deal can happen in the almost two years that constitute the gestation period of the typical ARIST chapter. Life has a knack of cocking a snoot at contracts, deadlines, and good intentions, and even when the Fates are smiling there is the occasional disappointment: parturiunt montes nascitur ridiculus mus. More often than not, though, the mountains labor to magisterial effect and the mice are few and far between. But, ultimately, it is for you, dear reader, to dispense and withhold the encomia. I will, however, say this: Volume 39 has something for just about everyone. The topic range is wide, almost indecently so—a seductive perquisite of editorship. Each year one adds new ingredients and experiments cautiously with the overall form of the volume, safe in the knowledge that readers and reviewers alike will not be slow to provide constructive feedback. With volume 39 we inaugurate a cumulative index to ARIST, beginning with volume 1 in 1966, available online at http://www.asis.org/Publications/ARIST.search.html.
This year we have 14 chapters grouped into five sections: Information Retrieval; Technology and Systems; Social Informatics; National Intelligence; Theory. We begin with reviews of recent research on information retrieval (IR), a staple of ARIST over the years, in both controlled document collections and Web environments. These chapters explore new approaches—statistical language modeling and fusion techniques, respectively—to problems old and new. They are written by a doyen of the field (Bruce Croft) and two relative neophytes (Xiaoyong Liu and Kiduk Yang) continuing an ARIST tradition of showcasing both established and lesser known names. The third chapter in the opening section is by Mike Thelwall and colleagues. Although not strictly speaking an IR chapter, it is as comfortable in this section as it is likely to be in any other. Aficionados of classical information science will know that it is 35 years since Alan Pritchard (1969) coined the term "bibliometrics"; today, with rapid advances in hyperlinking, new measures of association and intellectual interaction are emerging, hence the proliferation of neologisms such as "webometrics." But longstanding issues of validity and reliability remain, whether the links being counted are citational or hyper in character. An important role for ARIST is thus to ensure that we do not develop an ahistorical mindset or overlook the contributions of information science's pioneers as we scamper to embrace the new. But I shall have more to say on this subject next year in the introduction to what will be the fortieth volume of ARIST.
Section II, "Technology and Systems," provides a snapshot of developments in three rather different areas of research and practice. The chapter by Bin Zhu and Hsinschun Chen on information visualization methods, techniques, and applications follows closely on the heels of the review by Börner, Chen, and Boyack (2002). But this is a fast moving and important domain—witness the recent launch of the journal Information Visualization (http://www.palgrave-journals.com/ivs)—and research findings have potentially wide practical relevance across many scientific fields and disciplines, not least bioinformatics, the topic of Gerald Benoît's chapter. The term "informatics" (coined in 1968 by A. I. Mikhailov, as best I can tell) has emerged from relative East European seclusion to become one of the most widely used programmatic descriptors in existence; a quick search on Google generated more than 2.5 million hits. Colleges, schools, and departments of informatics, having erupted like acne across the face of higher education in the U.S. and farther afield, can incorporate everything from hydro, to medical, to quantum informatics. As the routine computational demands of scientific (and other) disciplines intensify—think of genomics or astrophysics—a new hybrid species is required, individuals who combine domain knowledge with advanced information technology capability. One is reminded of the over-used adage, a picture is worth a thousand words. Faced with petabytes of data, scientists are struggling to extract meaning and significance, and this has turbocharged research in information visualization, data mining, and related areas, as the chapters by Zhu and Chen and Benoît make abundantly clear.
"As ye sow, so shall ye reap." The tools for data generation, capture, and analysis may be in place, or in the process of being developed, but that is not the end of the story. What are we to do with the mass of information in circulation? How are data and evidence to be recorded and preserved? What, in fact, is an electronic record—the question posed here by Anne Gilliland-Swetland? These issues extend well beyond the world of big science and infrastructural computing to include, for example, humanistic scholarship, archival management, and routine business practice. And it is not just a matter of building bigger and better mousetraps; the creation and stewardship of electronic records raises many at times complex public policy and legal issues, as Gilliland-Swetland tells us.
"Social informatics" is a truly protean label, one about which I remain ambivalent. I could equally well have used the heading "Socio-Technical Systems Design and Analysis," which would effectively signify the common orientation of the three chapters contributing to this section, but I have gone instead with "informatics" in memory of my late colleague Rob Kling, whose championing of the term, dogged efforts to institutionalize the embryonic field, and decades-long, intellectual contributions to the research literature on the social dimensions of computing meant so much to so many. Rob established the Center for Social Informatics at Indiana University well before the "informatics" label had achieved fashionable status. Incidentally, his last ARIST chapter was published posthumously in volume 38.
Systems are designed for use by people. But people belong to different cultures, broadly and variously understood. What, asks Ewa Callahan, should interaction designers know about culture so that they can build culturally sensitive and effective interfaces? In some respects this is an almost intractable problem, albeit less in terms of artifactual design or engineering considerations than the fundamental issue of defining what culture actually means. Her chapter nonetheless raises a number of substantive topics and areas in need of systematic research, but rightly eschews definitive answers.
We use digital technologies and online fora for a variety of reasons, ranging from straightforward information seeking to looking for social and emotional support in chat rooms and other online settings. Caroline Haythornthwaite and Christine Hagar provide some insights into the social dimensions of Web use and the ways in which we move between the virtual and physical worlds. As Sproull and Patterson (2004, p. 34) note: "Participation in electronic communities often begins with a search for information. Rarely does anyone wake up in the morning and say, 'I think I'll join an electronic community today.' But the results of a search for information often lead individuals to them. Today millions of people worldwide participate in hundreds of thousands of voluntary electronic discussion groups and communities." The world of the Web is now part of our everyday world. Further insights into patterns of use of the Web, this time specifically by children and teens, are provided by Andrew Large, although his primary focus is instrumental usage in educational contexts. For more detailed information and benchmark data on trends in Web and Internet use in general, I recommend the Pew Internet and American Life Project (http://www.pewinternet.org) and also the UCLA Internet Report (http://ccp.ucla.edu/pages/internet-report.asp).
I am writing this Introduction a matter of days after the March 11th terrorist bombings in Madrid, and although national intelligence has become a topic of great personal interest to all of us for obvious reasons, that is not the motivation for including it in the present volume. As both Lee Strickland and I (here exercising editorial droit de seigneur, as it were) point out, there are longstanding ties between the worlds of intelligence and information science, both intellectually and professionally. That is why I first introduced the topic to ARIST in the shape of Philip Davis's (2002) chapter on intelligence and information warfare, and why I expect to include further contributions on the subject in the years ahead. By way of an aside, two of this year's contributors, Lee Strickland and Herbert Snyder, have intelligence backgrounds, as does at least one of our advisory board members, Glynn Harmon. Again, this will hardly come as a surprise to historians of Anglo-American information science; our professional and academic ranks include some who, for example, served with the OSS (Office of Strategic Services) in the U.S. or with the code breakers at Bletchley Park in the U.K.
A recent issue of the journal Social Epistemology was devoted to the topic of intellectual capital. Arnaldo Bagnasco's (2003, p. 359) article in that compilation opened as follows: "I could say the same thing about social capital that St. Augustine of Hippo said about time: I know exactly what it is, but if I start thinking about it I don't know any more." One knows the feeling only too well. The lead chapter in the Theory section is by Elisabeth Davenport and Herbert Snyder, no strangers to ARIST. They don't cite St. Augustine on time nor Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart on pornography (the "I know it when I see it" approach); instead they dissect many of the claims and assumptions embedded in the sprawling literature on the subject of social capital, a construct popularized by Robert Putnam (2000) in his best-seller, Bowling Alone, and assess its potential utility in an age of networked organizations.
Julian Warner attempts something that I don't think has been tried previously in the pages of ARIST: the application of Marx's claims about physical labor to information systems and intellectual labor. He analyzes concepts of syntactic and semantic labor that have been both implicit and to some extent explicit in information theory. It is not unreasonable to surmise that Warner's interest in Marxist thinking (which can be found elsewhere in his writings) may have been sparked or reinforced by Terry Eagleton, the noted critical theorist and author of the hugely successful Literary Theory (1983), with whom he studied at the University of Oxford. I mention this biographical bagatelle because it provides a nice segue to the final chapter of the volume, written by Ron Day on the subject of post-structuralism, one of the major paradigms of twentieth century literary theory. I am more than ready to concede that Dead Germans and sesquipedalian Frenchmen may not be everyone's cup of tea, least of all regular ARIST readers, but Ron Day's chapter raises fundamentally important questions about the limits of traditional theorizing in the domains of library and information science. Moreover, and this will surely appeal to those of an historical bent, he invokes Jesse Shera (1970), who recognized early on the need for the field to explore general problems of knowledge and information.
We know that ARIST is rarely read cover to cover; it is a resource to be dipped into selectively and at leisure. It may well be that those who devour Yang's account of Web-based IR will ignore the light of Day, and those who tarry with Warner's exegesis on information labor will bypass Benoît's bioinformatics chapter. But the seriously open-minded reader will discover many obvious and not-so-obvious intertextualities across these 14 chapters. Devotees of ARIST will also find that not a few of the issues raised in the present volume have been foreshadowed in earlier volumes, even if the resonances are at times understated or unacknowledged. I am certainly not suggesting that there is nothing new under the sun, it's just that we—whether as readers or authors—being so consumed with the immediate and the emerging, sometimes fail to see the threads that wind back over the years and through the cumulating pages of ARIST.
Bagnasco, A. (2003). Social capital in changing capitalism. Social Epistemology, 17(4), 359380.
Bîrner, K., Chen, C., & Boyack, K. (2002). Visualizing knowledge domains. Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, 37, 179255.
Davis, P. H. J. (2002). Intelligence, information technology, and information warfare. Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, 36, 313352.
Eagleton, T. (1983). Literary theory: An introduction. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Pritchard, A. (1969). Statistical bibliography or bibliometrics? Journal of Documentation, 25(4), 348349.
Putnam, R. (2000). Bowling alone: The collapse and revival of American community. New York: Simon & Schuster.
Shera, J. (1970). Sociological foundations of librarianship. New York: Asia Publishing House.
Sproull, L., & Patterson, J. F. (2004). Making information cities livable. Communications of the ACM, 47(2), 3337.


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The following is a guest blog post by Michael Brune, Executive Director of the Sierra Club.
On Sunday, February 17, I'll be joining tens of thousands of Americans in Washington, D.C., for Forward on Climate — the largest climate rally in U.S. history. Our goal is to convince President Obama to reject the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, but we also are asking him to make that decision the cornerstone of a positive, solutions-oriented climate legacy for his second term.
Over the past couple of weeks, I've spoken with thousands of Sierra Club members and supporters, all across the country, who are fired up about the rally because they know we're on the frontline of the movement to stop climate disruption. But this is more than a battle to stop something bad — it's a fight for something better. That's because we're also on the cusp of a clean energy revolution that will transform our nation, slash carbon pollution, and turn this climate disaster around. We need President Obama to commit to that fight with all the ambition and determination he can bring.
The clean energy technologies we need to reverse climate disruption already exist. They are affordable, competitive, and ready for primetime. Already, we've doubled our wind power to 60 GW (enough to power nearly 15 million homes), and we generate five times more solar power than we did just a few years ago. That's explosive growth, but we're just getting started. Renewables can power America, and they can do it without climate-polluting gases or any other kind of pollution.
Here's how President Obama can make that happen:
First, he must follow through and build on one of the biggest accomplishments of his first term: Holding polluters accountable for the costs of their pollution to our health, to our economy, and to our climate. That means directing the EPA to finish the job it has already begun on cleaning up power plant pollution, including carbon and mercury pollution from new sources, coal ash, and cross-state air pollution.
Second, President Obama needs to master the art of saying "no" — and making it stick — to bad ideas that would condemn future generations to the effects of runaway climate disruption. His final decision on the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline will be only the first big test of whether he he's truly serious about climate change. There's no excuse for blasting the mountains of Appalachia to scrape the last bits of coal, drilling in our Arctic wilderness, building export terminals to ship coal and natural gas overseas, or continuing to allow the proliferation of under-regulated fracking for oil and gas.
Third, the president needs to permanently shift the debate about our public lands from "how can the mining and drilling industries best exploit them?" to "how can their true owners — the American people — most benefit from them?" For more than a century, we've allowed oil, coal, and other extractive industries to treat our public lands as their personal piggy banks. That must stop for two reasons. First, and most obviously, because the toxic pollution that results is hurting us and destroying our climate. Second, because the climate change that we've already locked ourselves into is going to put intense pressure on all of our public lands and remaining wilderness habitats, which means we need to preserve as much as we can while we can.
Fourth, the president must do all he can to help preserve the hard-won momentum for renewable energy and energy efficiency of his first term. Start by promoting innovative financing and investment avenues that make it easier for individuals and businesses to install clean energy and adopt energy-efficiency measures.
Finally, we must recognize that the effects of climate disruption are already here in the form of droughts, deadly heat waves, wildfires, and powerful storms. We need to protect communities from these climate disasters and plan a robust and just response for those that do happen.
The president can take these important, specific actions right now to show the American people — and the world — that he's serious about the climate crisis. But they're not enough. The final thing we need is both the most crucial and the most intangible. We need Barack Obama at his absolute, formidable best.
We need the Barack Obama who was able to inspire millions to believe in the possibility of change and the power of hope. We need that leader to passionately and eloquently show the American people that solving the climate crisis is not a burden but an incredible opportunity. We need him to inspire a nationwide groundswell for clean energy, energy efficiency, and a 21st-century economy. And we need him to bring every iota of his considerable political skill to bear on forging bipartisan solutions to curbing carbon pollution, and to call out those who persist in trying to hold us back.
When the president talks about the destructive power of a warming planet, no one has to wonder what that destruction looks like. We've seen it — from the hurricane-ravaged Northeast to the drought-stricken Midwest to the fire-scarred West. It's all too real and scary. But it's hope and change — not fear or doubt — that will win the day. See you in Washington on the 17th.
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Thanks, Steph, and I support all efforts to make this the #1 political/economic issue. We only have one planet.
Most likely, the day we move forward -- REALLY cut emissions -- is the day when it's too late.
I just read about a seminal paper that ran 1,000 scenarios and concluded that we must dramatically REDUCE greenhouse gas by 2050 to have only a 50-50 chance of averting the 2 degree mark (increase in ocean temp). The kind of reduction that would give us an 80% chance...are draconian and impossible in today's world. Beyond 2 degrees, with further, seemingly inevitable rises in temp, are natural disasters and human suffering on a large scale.
I say "inevitable" because, by these scientists' reckoning, we've already emitted 1/4 of the greenhouse gases that we cannot surpass by 2050. The world's use of fossil fuels must drop rapidly, and it's not gonna happen.
There are huge economic impacts of cutting back on emissions. Energy companies will have to leave massive amounts of fuel in the ground (with the US projected to be the world's leading oil exporter), because to burn it would endanger the planet even further. So their market cap and stock prices will plummet.
The paper predicted that in as little as 11 years, increasing emissions at the current rate, we'll see significant and regular flooding and other calamities.
Obama can hope for change all he wants, but he's got to be aware that powerful domestic forces oppose it, that industrializing 3rd-world countries don't give a shit...and oh yeah, he might consider cutting back on the hyper-militarization of America and on its world empire, because the enormous military consumes huge amounts of fuel.
Thank you Alan I agree.
Yes, military spending does consume vast amounts of fuel.
An excellent article and replies. Fast and furious is the order of the day, and probability of that happening appears low. These aren't false alarmist warnings. We have very serious problems on our hands.
My plans: 1. shop close to home and reduce car use by half. 2. reduce my furnace and airconditioner by five degrees. 3. stop washing small loads and dry outside when possible. 4. take public transport or walk to doctor's appointments. 5. Run shower water for shorter periods. 6. check for leaks and drafts and make whatever repairs necessary. 7. make sure my soaker hoses have no leaks. 8. eat lower on food chain by decreasing meat, poultry and fish. 9. start my garden when soil temperatures are right. 10. sun dry fruits and vegetables at harvest time.
Can anyone think of other or more to do?
Try as tactfully as possible to get others to conserve. You'll get resistance and "what can I do?". People do not see themselves as the problem. One guy's carbon footporint is enormous (private plane, expensive long vacations) - but he drives a Prius!
I know, it kills initiative to do anything myself. However, I am going to act like my conservation matters and then do it.
The deniers can delude themselves if they want to and will undoubtedly complain when confronted with shortages and changes. I kind of lump weather deniers and god-claimers into one category ... avoid at all costs.
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