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Eleanor Close
Corporate interest in the improvement of K-20 education is significant. When ExxonMobil recently announced the creation of the National Math and Science Initiative, a $125 million non-profit program, academics devoted to the professional preparation of math and science teachers took careful notice. This initiative did not arise in a vacuum. During the last twenty years, a series of national reports has warned about the precarious state of precollege math and science education in our country. Although every report has been discussed extensively by academics and pundits, few have had a more visible impact on larger policy than the 2005 National Academy of Sciences report "Rising above the Gathering Storm: Energizing and Employing America for a Brighter Economic Future." A confluence of factors have contributed to the magnitude of the impact: a changing political climate in Washington, with increasing emphasis on programs to improve student achievement; a growing recognition that the number of graduates with expertise in science, math, engineering, and technology (SMET) produced in the US every year is inadequate to meet the long-term needs of the country; as well as a long list of quantitative measures of scientific productivity that are consistent with a shrinking US footprint. There is an additional reason for the widespread impact of this report. The report was written by a committee that was chaired by a business leader, included several business leaders, and was written for an audience of business leaders. As academics, we can leverage and direct corporate interest in the improvement of science education at all levels to support innovative programs.
In a previous article in the summer 2006 newsletter, my colleagues Lane Seeley and Stamatis Vokos made the case that collaboration among faculty in the discipline departments and the School of Education is necessary for the creation and refinement of exemplary teacher education programs (which include but are not restricted to exemplary courses for teachers). In this article, I will present the case study of Seattle Pacific University 's continuing collaboration with corporate foundations. Our hope is that other Departments of Physics will recognize the benefits that such a close collaboration can afford them, and will also be warned about different expectations shared by academia and federal funding agencies, on one hand, and some corporate foundations, on the other.
In September 2004, the Department of Physics and the School of Education at Seattle Pacific University (SPU) were selected by the Boeing Company to develop a collaborative model of teacher preparation. Since that time, Boeing has continued to support the deepening collaboration between the Department of Physics, the School of Education , and local school districts. This support was leveraged by SPU and gave rise to an additional $1.5 million in funding for a major research and development effort, and was ultimately responsible for SPU's selection as a Primary Program Institution for PhysTEC (Physics Teacher Education Coalition).
Beginning in 2004, the Boeing Company has provided a continuing grant to support the project A Collaborative Preparation Model to Increase the Math and Science Competence of K-12 Pre-Service Teachers . Among the long-term objectives of this local initiative are: (1) to increase the number of well-qualified math and science teachers prepared at SPU; (2) to design and implement a coherent, research-driven program for pre-service teachers in math and science that results in deep content knowledge in the technical area, curriculum and pedagogy; and (3) to create a partnership between teacher educators, researchers, school administrators and master teachers in the areas of math and science that improves the education and retention of K-12 teachers.
To this end, the Boeing Company has provided partial support for a Resident Master Teacher, Lezlie Salvatore DeWater, who has become an integral part of the teacher preparation and enhancement program at SPU and a liaison between the teacher education efforts of the Department of Physics, the Science Education program in the School of Education, and the science education reform initiatives in Seattle Public Schools. This funding has enabled the Department of Physics to secure the remainder of the necessary funding for the full-time position in the form of support from the National Science Foundation and the College of Arts and Sciences at SPU.
Collaboration on the Boeing proposal helped develop a strong partnership between the Department of Physics and the School of Education . This partnership has led to the establishment of a joint School of Education/Physics tenure track faculty position in science education, a position currently held by the author. Working as a team, the Resident Master Teacher (Lezlie DeWater) and the author are responsible for the development and implementation of special science content and methods courses for pre-service teachers. Pre-service teachers, therefore, are immersed in the blending of subject matter knowledge and pedagogical content knowledge. We have also developed reformed general science courses for non-majors offered through the Department of Physics to incorporate the results of physics education research.
DeWater's connection with Seattle Public Schools has led to professional development opportunities both for pre-service teachers at SPU and for SPU faculty. As part of the elementary science methods course, pre-service teachers are required to attend one of the excellent workshops offered by Seattle Public Schools on Expository Writing and Science Notebooks (see http://www.inverness-research.org/reports/ab2005-09_Rpt_SeattleNotebks_ElemSciWriting.htm), and to implement strategies from the workshops in their student teaching assignments. They have the additional opportunity to attend Seattle Public School 's Initial Use workshops for the elementary science curriculum kits adopted by Seattle and many of the surrounding school districts. SPU physics faculty regularly attend these and other workshops with the Seattle Public Schools Inquiry Based Science program, allowing us to stay current with the science program in local schools as well as to nurture relationships with science program personnel and local science teachers.
As mentioned above, initial support from the Boeing Company was instrumental in obtaining additional funding from the National Science Foundation. In spring of 2005 the Department of Physics began a five-year, 1.5 million-dollar NSF Teacher Professional Continuum (TPC) program Improving the Effectiveness of Teacher Diagnostic Skills and Tools . The project has two primary goals: (1) to help teachers of physical science in grades 5-10 develop deep subject matter content understanding, extensive pedagogical content knowledge, and flexible curricular content knowledge, and (2) to develop research-based resources that assist teachers and teacher educators in constructing a diagnostic classroom environment to formatively assess the evolving understanding of their students in the topical areas of properties of matter, heat and temperature, and physical and chemical changes.
In this partnership-based project, the SPU Department of Physics and School of Education work together with FACET Innovations, LLC., a Seattle-based educational research and development company dedicated to the improvement of learning and teaching in K-20 science. The partners of this project work with the Seattle , Bellevue , and Spokane school districts (three of the four largest school districts in Washington State ).
The TPC project includes the development and implementation of special courses for in-service teachers, offered both during the academic year and as intensive summer courses. In addition to these courses, SPU physics faculty teach special science content and pedagogy workshops for in-service elementary teachers in Educational Service District 105, headquartered in Yakima , Washington . These workshops are supported through the Washington Leadership and Assistance in Science Education Reform (LASER) program, which is funded in part by the state and the Boeing Company.
In recognition of the previously described Department of Physics work in teacher preparation, SPU was chosen in 2006 as a Primary Program Institution by PhysTEC, a joint program of the American Physical Society, the American Association of Physics Teachers, and the American Institute of Physics. As part of this program, we have established a Teachers Advisory Group (TAG) with representatives from the Seattle , Bellevue , Issaquah and North Shore School Districts as well as from the Catholic Archdiocese of Seattle. The TAG allows us to further our collaborative relationships with local schools and develop a deeper understanding of the needs of teachers in local districts.
The collaboration between the Department of Physics and the School of Education has also led to the establishment of a Science Education Task Force at SPU. Faculty from the Department of Physics and School of Education meet quarterly to coordinate programs and map out future plans to enhance both pre-service and in-service science teacher education at SPU. Current work includes recruitment of exemplary in-service science teachers to serve as mentors for SPU student-teachers; discussion of ways to coordinate course offerings in physics and education that complement and build on one another; and exploration of the possibility of a general science major for pre-service middle school teachers.
In summary, continuing corporate support of the Department of Physics at SPU has allowed us to add faculty to our department; strengthen and extend existing relationships with the School of Education and with local school districts, and create new relationships; improve our course offerings for pre-service teachers and non-science majors; enhance our teacher preparation and professional development programs for both pre-service and in-service teachers; secure NSF support for research and development in the area of K-12 physics education and teacher professional development; and obtain additional support for physics teacher preparation through the PhysTEC program. These developments have had enormous positive impact on our department, and will continue to shape our path into the future.
Q. How many physics faculty does it take to change a light bulb?
A. Physics faculty.change?
Any authentic collaboration tends to change all members involved. Collaboration with industry in support of science education reform requires academic faculty to recognize that many corporate foundations expect large-scale impact ( i.e., a large number of participants involved in a program) on short time-scales. Recently, our Department had the benefit of a visit by the Executive Director of the charitable foundation of a major transnational corporation, which extensively funds math and science education projects around the world. We were all impressed very favorably by the broad perspective that the Executive Director brought on issues of common interest in teacher education and enhancement. It was also clear that there were differences in our outlooks, in both grain-size and time-scale requirements. A telling insight of the corporate mentality was the Executive Director's statement that the majority of sales income for this corporation every year comes from products that did not exist twelve months earlier. The whole ethos of the corporation is based on innovation and rapid, widespread implementation of new programs.
Many research-based university programs in science education reform, viewed from the industry point of view, represent the antithesis of such an outlook. University perspectives are often based on time-scales informed by experience in teacher education and professional development. In most, if not all, experience of university faculty (including the author), it has taken a long time (sometimes as long as ten years) to develop teachers' deep subject matter content knowledge, extensive pedagogical content knowledge, and flexible curricular content knowledge. Frequent changes in leadership and subsequent changes in direction of science reform efforts in school systems relax these systems very quickly back into a pre-reform state. As Melba Phillips once quipped, "The problem with the problems in science education is that they don't stay fixed." The practical results of these differing perspectives is that university programs typically affect dozens of teachers, often on five- to ten-year time-scales, while the furthest time-horizon for industry support of a project is typically three years and the support may be contingent on much larger-scale program impact (e.g., hundreds or thousands of teachers). Given these differences, corporate support of a university program may be difficult to secure, however compelling the research case for the effectiveness of the program may be.
There is plenty of room for productive compromise between these two perspectives. Many university programs for teachers will benefit from recognition of the dire, immediate national need for well-prepared teachers (not just in content but also in pedagogical skill). On the other hand, it is only through constructive, ongoing engagement with industry foundations that corporate expectations of immediate large-scale results in science education can be moderated and the recognition may develop that the preparation and development of professional teachers does not lend itself easily to standard business models.
The efforts described in this article are the results of intensive ongoing collaboration among all members of the Department of Physics at SPU, present and past. In addition to the author, Tom Bogue, Lezlie Salvatore DeWater, John Lindberg, Lane Seeley, Stamatis Vokos, Michael Witiw, Hunter Close, and Pamela Kraus have each played major and distinct roles in all aspects of the program. Bill Rowley, Dean of the School of Education and Frank Kline, Associate Dean for Teacher Education, have been invaluable partners in all our efforts. Our own Dean, Bruce Congdon, has been an indispensable supporter of our Department.
We gratefully acknowledge the support of the National Science Foundation through Grants ESI 0455796 and DUE 0310583, the Boeing Company, the Huston Foundation, and the PhysTEC project of APS, AAPT, and AIP.
Committee on Prospering in the Global Economy of the 21 st Century (2007). Rising Above the Gathering Storm: Energizing and Employing America for a Brighter Economic Future. Washington , D.C. : The National Academies Press.
Eleanor Close is an Assistant Professor of Physics and Science Education at Seattle Pacific University . Seattle Pacific University was recently named as a new PhysTEC site. Ms. Close will be deeply involved in SPU's teacher preparation efforts.


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Toward Shared Prosperity, With an Urgent New Focus on Overcoming Inequality
The challenge of promoting shared prosperity was one of the unifying themes throughout last week's Spring Meetings at the World Bank Group and International Monetary Fund – the whirlwind of diplomacy and scholarship that sweeps through Washington every April and October. A remarkable new factor, however, energized this spring's event: In a vivid evolution of the policy debate, the seminars, forums and news-media coverage seemed focused, to a greater degree than ever, not just on the economic question of the creation of overall economic growth but on what has traditionally been seen as a social question: the distribution of wealth.
And in the wake of the Spring Meetings, Washington this week got a bracing reminder of how difficult it may be to build truly shared prosperity – not because our economic institutions lack the ability to achieve it, but because our political institutions may fail to summon the willpower to demand it.
A scholar whose work has taken the economics profession by storm, Thomas Piketty, captivated policy-watchers this week with the Washington launch of his landmark new work, "Capital in the Twenty-First Century." Hailed as "the most important economics book of the year, and maybe of the decade" by Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman of the New York Times – and praised by Martin Wolf of the Financial Times as "an extraordinarily important" work "of vast historical scope, grounded in exhaustive fact-based research"– "Capital" offers vital new insights into how wealth and power are distributed in modern economies. "Piketty has transformed our economic discourse," asserts Krugman. "We'll never talk about wealth and inequality the same way we used to."
Piketty's account of "inexorably rising inequality," according to New York Times columnist Eduardo Porter, challenges many of the economics profession's "core beliefs about the organization of market economies" – including "the belief that inequality will eventually stabilize and subside on its own, a long-held tenet of free-market capitalism." Instead, "the economic forces concentrating more and more wealth into the hands of the fortunate few are almost sure to prevail for a very long time."

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Black Friday shoppers can rest now that this years frenzy is over, but when the next one rolls around there may be even more reason to skip it altogether.
Here are four reasons it really isnt worth staying up all night to get a good deal on tech devices and gadgets.
The Internet
Some items are still available online for the same price with free shipping to boot.
Check out the Nikon D3000 camera kit, for example.
Wal-Mart featured it as a Black Friday special for $449, but its still on sale for that price on the worlds largest retailers web site and you can get the deal sent right to your door and Wal-Mart will cover the shipping.
The Merchandise
When I took a stroll through my local Walmart store on Friday afternoon, there were still plenty of TVs piled up. A Samsung 46-inch LED smart TV, which was touted on the chains Black Friday store map, was abundance, for example.
As another example, Stephen Baker, vice president of industry analysis for the market research firm NPD Group, was underwhelmed by turnout at a Massachusetts Walmart store early Friday morning.
He found the 5 a.m. scene there to be a surprise only about 20 people were waiting around for the best priced TV of the day, a 50-inch Emerson TV and nothing else seemed to be luring customers in the door and toward the electronics section.
Moving up Black Friday seemed to do little to bring out incremental shoppers, and while it remains to be seen if these Thanksgiving shoppers were converted, or enticed, away from online the fact that crowds were on-par with previous years seems to indicate that there is little room for traffic growth, he wrote in a blog post.
He wrote that while an earlier Black Friday one that actually starts on Thursday should provide retailers with the chance to offer more doorbuster events and bring customers in during the dead periods throughout the night and morning, Wal-Marts failure to bring in hordes of early morning crowds at least at the location he was scoping out may indicate that consumers dont want more opportunities for in-store shopping.
If true, that would mean that brick and mortar has been unable to stem the online tide despite the Thanksgiving openings and the increase in the in- store events, he wrote.
The Deals
Some experts advise skipping Black Friday altogether because you can get better deals at other times.
Decide.com a website that tracks prices on electronics and advises consumers when to buy them says data from the last two years indicates Black Friday isnt the best time for holiday shopping.
Nine of the 11 major consumer product categories averaged a lower price leading up to Black Friday, the week after Black Friday or the week before the Christmas holiday. Overall, shoppers save a substantial amount of money on popular products by skipping Black Friday and Cyber Monday, the website said in a statement.
The website says the best time to buy espresso machines, vacuums, cameras, and TVs, hot toys and luxury items is actually before Black Friday.
On Black Friday, consumers will see plenty of lesser known and lower quality TVs offered as doorbusters, but few major brands go on sale. If a major brand is on sale, shoppers can count on extremely limited quantity, Decide.com said.
Like last year, the biggest shopping day of the year once again began on Thursday, but this year shoppers turned out earlier than ever thanks to retailers backing up the clock on their Black Friday doorbuster sales.
Wal-Mart, which staggers its deals throughout the night and early morning, started its big sale at 8 p.m. on Thanksgiving with many retailers following suit shortly thereafter. Target and Shopko opened at 9 p.m. on Turkey Day, whereas stores such as Best Buy and Kohls held out until midnight.
The Shoppers
No Black Friday story would be complete without tales of bad shopper behavior which serves as the primary deterrent that keeps many people from stepping out after the turkey has gone cold.
A man and woman were shot in a Tallahassee, Fla., Walmart store parking lot Friday. The reason? A disagreement over a parking space. The victims wounds werent life threatening and police were looking for the suspect.
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A statewide search and rescue protocol inspired by an Addison County tragedy has passed the Vermont House and Senate and been sent to the Governor's office to be signed into law.
The effort to restructure the state's search and rescue practices was launched by Rep. Willem Jewett, D-Ripton, after the hypothermia death of Levi Duclos, a 19-year-old New Haven resident. Duclos died on a Ripton hiking trail after Vermont State Police failed to initiate a ground search for more than 12 hours after he was reported missing on a frigid night in January 2012.
BRANDON — Two Canadians who moved to Vermont in September 2001 became U.S. citizens last week at the Neshobe School in Brandon.
Bryan Holland, 38, from Newfoundland, began his volunteer rescue career in Essex on Sept. 11, 2001. Arabella Finlayson, 41, moved to Burlington from Halifax, Nova Scotia, a few weeks after the attacks on the World Trade Center.
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MONKTON — Trout and strawberries have always been sought-after seasonal treats in Vermont.
Now, Silas Doyle-Burr, 25, of the Last Resort Farm in Monkton is developing an aquaponics system that will support year-round production of up to 2,000 strawberry bushes and 4,500 trout.
BRISTOL — Last week, the Mount Abraham Union High School gymnasium was transformed. The bleachers were pushed back and colorful displays of mounted paintings and drawings, shiny metalwork and intricate sculptures filled the space.
MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury and Vermont Hard Cider Co. officials gathered on Friday, May 10, for a groundbreaking ceremony at the Exchange Street site of the company's new, state-of-the-art cidery, slated for completion by next spring.
The $30 million, 100,000-square-foot project is being built less than a mile from the current Middlebury facility on Pond Lane, which will continue to produce the company's very popular Woodchuck Hard Cider. A post-and-beam barn will also welcome visitors to Woodchuck, with a gift shop, tastings and tours.
MIDDLEBURY — Porter Hospital has recently agreed to join with all other Vermont hospitals, as well as Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, in the newly formed OneCare Vermont Accountable Care Organization (ACO).
MONKTON — After more than a year without first response service, Monkton is poised to get its rescue squad back.
Four Monkton EMTs, led by assistant fire chief Kevin Alexander, are applying for licensure from the Vermont Department of Health and hope to be up and running in June.
"It'll bring quicker response time," said Alexander, an EMT who serves with Bristol Rescue in addition to his service with the Monkton Fire Department. "There's definitely a need."
BRISTOL — As part of their yearlong effort to increase health and safety awareness among their peers, students in the Mount Abraham Union High School Vermont Teen Leadership Safety Program (VTLSP) organized and hosted a mock crash scenario and Ghost Out day on Friday, May 3.
The simulated accident scene included student actors staging a car crash caused by impaired driving. Bristol fire, police and rescue personnel as well as Vermont State Police responded to the scene, securing the vehicle and addressing the staged medical needs of the involved students.
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Though Orange County's Harbor Boulevard remains little changed, a history of unrest points to its potential to more positively engage with street life beyond the auto.
Nov. 24, 2012
The protests that roiled Anaheim this summer had no regular home base, no Zuccotti Park or Tahrir Square. Instead, demonstrators angry over a series of shootings by Anaheim police marched on several days along Harbor Boulevard and a handful of other streets.
Yet there were moments when the rallies slowed — or were forced to pause — just long enough to resemble a traditional, stationary demonstration. One came on the afternoon of July 29, a Sunday, as 200 protesters walked south on Harbor from the Anaheim police headquarters toward Disneyland.
When they reached the intersection of Harbor and Ball Road, at the base of a modest rise that takes the boulevard over Interstate 5, they discovered a line of riot police and officers on horseback.
Over the next several minutes, as each side stared down the other, this wide Orange County crossroads, dominated on a typical day by cars and the trappings of car culture, revealed itself as a surprisingly useful public square.
The standoff was also very much in line with the rich if under-appreciated history of Harbor Boulevard, where street battles have played out for nearly a century.
Ku Klux Klansmen and the wives and daughters of striking citrus workers have played key roles in Harbor's most dramatic public spectacles. So have Abbie Hoffman's Yippies, who swarmed Disneyland in 1970 and planted a Viet Cong flag on Tom Sawyer Island.
These flash points have come irregularly, spasms of violence or protest theater on an otherwise buttoned-up boulevard. But the relationship between Harbor's physical character and its political history is closer than you might guess.
Harbor's architecture, largely anonymous and inward-looking, is marked by a studied blandness. Perhaps to make up for its shortage of impressive civic landmarks, the boulevard features a number of private spaces, including Disneyland, that look public but are in fact tightly controlled.
That recipe has produced on Harbor a feeling of unnatural civility — the architectural equivalent of a forced smile. And it has helped keep political tensions bottled up and out of view until they messily spill over, as they did during this summer's protests.
In that sense Harbor's history of turbulence has lessons to offer that have as much to do with urban design as politics. Like the CicLAvia bike festival and the recent tour of the Endeavour space shuttle, protest can open up new ways of looking at our streets.
It's on the extreme days, the unruly or topsy-turvy ones, that our boulevards show us most clearly what they might become. And Harbor continues to be very good at producing extreme days.
Though it covers 23 miles in all, Harbor Boulevard never quite makes it to the water. After running from the foothills above La Habra south through Fullerton, Anaheim, Garden Grove and Santa Ana, it peters out in the middle of Costa Mesa, two miles from the beach.
Harbor's name is therefore more aspirational than literal, and in that sense true to the spirit of Southern California expansion. So is the streetscape of the boulevard. With the exception of the area around Disneyland, where the sidewalks are generous and the tree canopy thick, Harbor is dominated by drive-throughs, auto-body shops, tire outlets and big-box stores.
And by intersections that are unusually wide: Crossing Harbor at Ball Road on foot means trudging across 10 shadeless lanes of traffic.
Even as the boulevards of Los Angeles have begun a remarkable transformation, opening themselves up to pedestrians and cyclists and chipping away at the dominance of the car, much of Harbor looks just as it did decades ago.
There is no equivalent on Harbor of the expanding light-rail network that is remaking Los Angeles. Although the Anaheim City Council has tentatively endorsed a streetcar system linking Disneyland with a planned transit center near Anaheim Stadium, for now — and for many years to come — the only rail service you'll see along this part of Harbor is the theme park's own monorail, which sweeps briefly into view on an elevated track.
In recent decades, the theme park has taken steps to seal itself off from the city around it. Caltrans added a dedicated offramp from Interstate 5, ending Harbor's traditional role as Disneyland's front door.
Anaheim, for its part, has slowly remade the stretch of Harbor that runs alongside Disneyland, homogenizing it in the process. In the 1990s, the city passed an ordinance requiring businesses near the park to replace their signs — some of them masterful examples of the space-age Googie style — with smaller ones meeting a uniform and remarkably bland design standard.
The new signs would no doubt please Walt Disney himself. Having chosen the location for his park with careful attention to demographics and traffic patterns — hiring the Stanford Research Institute to weigh the merits of several competing locations — he was dismayed by the motels that sprang up along Harbor and Katella Avenue in the years after Disneyland opened. Their kitschiness struck him as an affront to his meticulous planning and hermetic vision for the new theme park. And he kept them very much in mind as he planned Florida's Disney World in the 1960s.
"He was determined when they built Disney World not to make the same mistake he'd made in Anaheim," said longtime Orange County scholar Spencer Olin, a retired history professor at UC Irvine. "So in Florida they bought up as much land surrounding the new park as they could."
Without that protective buffer in Anaheim, Disneyland has become a magnet for camera-ready protest. In 2008, hundreds of members of a union representing workers at three Disneyland hotels, many of them dressed as Disney characters, filled the intersection of Harbor and Katella, giving news photographers the chance to snap pictures of Cinderella and Mickey Mouse being dragged away in handcuffs.
But Harbor's political life predates Disneyland by several decades. Pearson Park, at the corner of Harbor and Cypress Street in Anaheim, was the site of a nighttime Ku Klux Klan rally in 1924 — when it was known as City Park — that drew a reported 10,000 people.
"Klan parades and public demonstrations were common to Anaheim in 1924," reads a report on the city's website, Anaheim.net. "On at least one occasion, Anaheim policemen had been seen directing traffic while wearing their white robe and hoods."
Violence even made its way into Anaheim's orchards. Hidden away near the corner of Harbor and Santa Ana Street is the small Pressel Orchard — the last remaining orange grove in a city once synonymous with the fruit.
In 1936, when it covered significantly more ground than it does now, the orchard was the site of an early battle in the so-called Citrus War. Orange pickers had been striking for several days when they sent a group of their female relatives — about 200 women in all — to confront the replacement workers.
The Anaheim police swept in, and after one of the women bit an officer's arm the strike entered a new and volatile phase. The Citrus War raged for most of the summer before growers finally broke the strike at the end of July.
In part to compete with Disneyland, cities and developers in this part of Orange County have long chosen sites along Harbor to unveil their most ambitious — or outlandish — ventures.
Many have been built, including the massive Anaheim Convention Center complex and its under-appreciated arena, a soaring concrete shell designed by architect Adrian Wilson and finished in 1967. But most memorable are the proposed developments meant to mimic Disneyland's scale, or take advantage of its tourist hordes, that never got past the planning stage: a manmade river spanned by a replica of London Bridge, a giant cultural center in honor of Jordan's late King Hussein, who visited Disneyland in 1959 and 1981.
A few miles south of the theme park, those ambitions fade. The boulevard, lined here by Salvadoran and Vietnamese restaurants, pool-supply stores and a handful of walled residential subdivisions, lets the facade of Magic Kingdom optimism noticeably slip. About four miles from the theme park, in a rundown Santa Ana strip mall alongside a taqueria and Lupe Gomez Income Tax, is a working-class Mexican bar with a tongue-in-cheek name: El Fracaso, or "The Failure."
"Some people say that on this part of Harbor you can pick up any kind of girl on the street at night," said Omar Munoz, who was celebrating his 21st birthday on a recent evening at El Fracaso, where the ceiling is low and the beer is sold out of plastic coolers lined up behind the bar.
The jukebox was blaring a song by the narcocorrido band Los Capos de Mexico, so he practically had to shout to be heard. "But it's really not a bad neighborhood. I grew up along here."
El Fracaso is a bit player in a larger battle in this stretch of Harbor between the sacred and the profane, between groups of churches and clusters of bars, strip joints and adult bookstores. Our Lady of La Vang, a Catholic church that fills nearly a full block, holds mass 11 times a week in Vietnamese, seven times in Spanish and once, for teenagers, in English.
At the southern end of Harbor, presiding over the wide intersection where it meets Newport Boulevard, is a 200,000-square-foot shopping center called Triangle Square. Its developer, Richard Shapiro, envisioned it from the start as more than a mere collection of shops and restaurants. In the tradition of Disneyland's Main Street USA, he dreamed it could be a stage for civic life, comparing its top-floor terrace to a "town square," a place "to hold blood drives or Little League sign-ups."
The complex struggled from its earliest days. Built in 1992 at a cost of $62 million, it was sold six years later for $47 million. Though the 24-Hour Fitness facing the parking garage on the bottom level is often crowded with people on treadmills and stationary bikes, the space up top is usually empty.
Still, the old dreams die hard. This summer the new owner of the property, Connecticut -based private-equity group Greenfield Partners, announced plans to invest $20 million to upgrade it, while renaming it "The Triangle."
That decision was hardly surprising given Harbor's history, said Gustavo Arellano, the cultural critic who is editor of OC Weekly and author of a memoir about growing up in Anaheim.
"When you compare Harbor to the other major boulevards in north and central Orange County, these other streets have no pretense to them," he told me as we drove south along Harbor on a recent morning. "But Harbor will always have this pretense of being more than it actually is."
In Garden Grove, we passed a large dirt lot that seemed to have appeared out of nowhere to illustrate his point. "That used to be a trailer park," Arellano said. "Now what are they going to build there?"
He craned his neck to read a sign trumpeting a new development as we drove by. "A 'water-park resort'? Yeah, right. I seriously doubt that."
Over the years the peculiar private urbanism perfected by Walt Disney has found some eloquent defenders. In "You Have to Pay for the Public Life," an essay on California's monumental architecture published in 1965, architect Charles Moore praised Disneyland as "the single most important piece of construction in the West in the last several decades," a place "engaged in replacing many of those elements of the public realm which have vanished in the featureless private floating world of southern California."
But even Moore acknowledged that Disneyland's version of urbanity, by exiling politics, had to be considered incomplete. By continually pushing political grievance to the periphery, Harbor Boulevard has in essence set itself up for periodic outbursts of the weird and violent.
An irony of the July 29 protest at Harbor and Ball was that the huge scale of the intersection, designed to make traveling by automobile as efficient as possible, lent some grandeur to the confrontation between demonstrators and police. The success of the space as an ad hoc public square was a reminder that our boulevards are full of potential hidden just below the surface — that they are capable of playing a far more important civic role than we tend to assume.
The afternoon standoff was not the most intense moment of this summer's demonstrations. That came on the night of July 24. Several hundred protesters threw rocks and bricks and started a series of small fires. Police responded by firing beanbag projectiles, bloodying several members of the crowd.
And then, from about two miles to the south, came a burst of light, illuminating the whole scene. It was the nightly fireworks show at Disneyland — going off as regularly scheduled, as if it were just another night on Harbor Boulevard.
Which, in a way, it was.
Explore: Atlantic Boulevard, Crenshaw and Sunset Boulevard with Christopher Hawthorne Los Angeles Times Architecture Critic.
Graphic credits: Paul Duginski | Programming: Anthony Pesce | Produced by: Lily Mihalik
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Britain's fraud prosecutor on Tuesday charged former UBS and Citigroup trader Tom Hayes with eight counts of conspiracy to defraud as it laid the groundwork for what could be the first Libor trial.
Hayes, 33, was arrested by London police and the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) last December as part of a global investigation, spanning North America, Europe and Japan, into the manipulation of benchmark interest rates.
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Libor, the London interbank offered rate, is a crucial benchmark affecting hundreds of trillions of dollars of mortgages and other loans worldwide.
So far, U.S. and UK regulators have fined three banks, including Switzerland's UBS, a total $2.6 billion for their role in the scandal.
The UK criminal charges will allow the SFO to stake a jurisdictional claim on Hayes, a Briton who has faced possible extradition since being charged by U.S. prosecutors last year.
One day after his arrest on December 11, the U.S. Department of Justice lodged sealed charges of conspiracy, wire fraud and an antitrust violation against Hayes.
The SFO on Tuesday said Hayes would appear before Westminster Magistrates' Court in London at 10 a.m. (5 a.m. ET) on Thursday, where his charges will be detailed and read out in open court.
His case will then transfer to a higher crown court, where, if he does not plead guilty, it is expected to be heard in front of a jury.
"It all turns on his plea," a senior lawyer said.
Hayes lawyer was not available to comment. UBS and Citigroup also declined to comment.
Hayes was 27 when he joined Swiss bank UBS in Tokyo in 2006, becoming a senior and highly-valued trader of interest-rate derivatives indexed to yen-denominated Libor. In late 2009, he left UBS to join Citigroup. He left Citigroup less than a year later.
Hayes could be extradited to the United States and prosecuted there after any UK trial if the charges were sufficiently different, lawyers said.
"After a UK trial has taken place, a court deciding on extradition will look very closely at the nature of the U.S. charges, because if the defendant is able to show he has already been tried for these offences ... then he won't be extradited," said Andrew Oldland, head of the regulatory team at law firm Michelmores, which is not involved in the case.
"But in practice, quite often, the U.S. charges are different and relate to different facts. Then you quite frequently have a UK prosecution followed by a U.S. prosecution."
Last week the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) said traders from 20 banks, including HSBC , had tried to inappropriately influence benchmark rates in the Southeast Asian city-state.
The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) has also said it is investigating HSBC, UBS and a number of other banks about possible misconduct relating to its submissions for the Hong Kong Interbank Offered Rate (Hibor).
(Additional reporting by Laura Noonan; Editing by Erica Billingham)


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High Energy Physics (HEP)
Image courtesy of Roy Kaltschmidt, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
The two antineutrino detectors in Daya Bay Hall #1, shown here prior to the pool being filled with ultrapure water. The pool is lined with photomultiplier tubes to track any "stiff" (highly energetic) cosmic rays that make it all the way through the overlying rock.
The Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment, a multinational collaboration that operates in the south of China, announced on March 8, 2012, its measurement of the disappearance of electron antineutrinos emitted by nuclear reactors operated by China Guangdong Nuclear Power Group. U.S. and Chinese physicists built six underground detectors buried in the mountains near the nuclear reactors. This was the first time that the disappearance of reactor neutrinos has been measured.
Neutrinos were first observed to transform between different types in the 1990s when the SuperK experiment observed the disappearance of muon neutrinos due to cosmic rays striking the earth's atmosphere. This effect was explained by a theory of neutrino oscillations that required that neutrinos have small but non-zero masses. Follow up experiments have all been consistent with that theory, but type of predicted transformation had not been found. This measurement demonstrates the last transformation does occur and provides strong evidence that the theory is correct. Measurement of the strength of oscillations in neutrinos and their antiparticles can be used to search for the cause of the matter and antimatter asymmetry in the universe.
Physicists have known for years that neutrinos come in three flavors: electron neutrinos, muon neutrons, and tau neutrinos. In 2001 it was experimentally verified that these same neutrinos oscillate into each other, i.e., an electron neutrino can oscillate, or turn into, a muon neutrino. That they do so implies that there is a material substrate that allows these oscillations to occur, i.e., that there are three matter states (physicists call them mass eigenstates) that combine in systematic ways to make up the flavor states that we observe. Measuring the strength of the mixing of these mass eigenstates has been a key to unraveling the mystery of neutrino physics. It is the strength of the mixing of mass eigenstates 1 and 3—represented by a parameter called "theta-1-3", or Θ13—that was most imprecisely known until Daya Bay announced its results. Knowledge of Θ13, along with the known values of Θ12 and Θ23, refined our ability to calculate the rates at which these mass eigenstates mix to make the various neutrino flavors that we observe. But because the measured value of Θ13 is so surprisingly large, it opens up hope that neutrino experiments on the horizon could be able to observe something known as charge/parity (CP) violation. CP violation has long been observed where quarks are involved, at least in some interactions, but not with leptons (neutrinos are leptons). If CP violation is discovered to also affect neutrino oscillation rates, physicists may then gain insight into one of the fundamental questions of our time: where has all the anti-matter gone?
Kam-Biu Luk
UC Berkeley
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Observation of electron-antineutrino disappearance at Daya Bay, Daya Bay Collaboration (F. P. An et al.), Phys. Rev. Lett. 108 (2012) 171803
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Dear Carolyn:
I'm in a relationship with a great guy. We're talking marriage. Everything for the most part is wonderful, except for a communication issue that has become our "repeat fight."
I am a planner, and he is not. I'm on the road for work a few times a month, and he works overnights and sometimes goes for two weeks without a day off. We'd never see each other if I didn't size up our schedules and plan ahead — at least, that's my opinion.
He says this kind of weekly micromanaging is stressful for him. His job already demands enough, and having to chart out his few free days freaks him out. He promises we're going to see each other without the constant planning because he misses me and will prioritize me.
He has always put our relationship first, so I don't doubt his best intentions. In his perfect world, he'd call me after work to see if I was free, and if I wasn't, he'd ask about tomorrow or the next day.
But I'd always be in limbo, still inclined to look at my schedule and keep a few days a week free to essentially be "on call" for hanging out whenever he decides he wants to. It doesn't seem fair.
In the end we both want the same thing: to see each other. Where is our middle ground? Do I need to give his way a try?
— Color-Coded Calendar
Dear Color-Coded:
Yes, if only because you apparently haven't.
You have, meanwhile, been color-coding his free days for quite some time. You think you'd never see each other, but you both know tight scheduling stresses him out.
Another argument for backing off involves boundaries (doesn't it always). In my perfect world, you'd manage your time, and he'd manage his — which includes any minor, non-grudging adjustments to allow the two ways to get along.
That might look like this: You calendar-box him in when it's necessary to — say, when reservations need to be made, tickets need to be bought, others need to be included — and you leave the rest blank. Those blank days are yours to fill with friends, leave empty, allot to activities that allow flexibility, or some unforced combination of the three.
If he happens to be free the day you've made plans to see friends? Tell him so, ask him about "tomorrow or the next day," then see your friends as planned.
In other words, don't go halfway and act as if you're scheduling your own time while you're really just waiting for him, and don't set it up as a gotcha-trap. Commit to treating your time as yours and his time as his, as the logical thing to do, and see what actually happens. Let the natural consequences of not planning kick in. It's not a "communication issue," it's about compatibility, and this exercise will tell you how deep it goes. Before you marry.
If you wind up seeing each other as much as always, sans recurring arguments, then, yay. If you see each other less and he misses you, then he'll likely welcome some "micromanagement." Yay again.
If you see less of each other and he's fine with that, then it's time to figure out: Do you care more than he does? Do you care equally, but show it differently? And, most important, can you each reconcile this without expecting the other to change?
Dear Carolyn:
In the past week at work, I have gotten feedback that I am unapproachable, "too smart," and that people are intimidated by me. One comment was in the form of a remark at a happy hour, the other was said to me by a work friend whose opinion I value a lot.
This has shaken up my self-perception, because I try to do my job really well and be friendly. It's true that I move a little too fast, am decidedly at the deep end of the nerd pool, and take my work seriously.
So … any advice for how to assess this and work toward improving myself so I'm more approachable at work?
— The Deep Dark Truthful Mirror
Dear Deep:
When someone remarks at happy hour that you're not approachable, guess what? You've just been approached.
Meanwhile, being a little scary in your workplace — due to your skill at your job, not your skill at terrorizing people — isn't the worst thing. Love might be the currency of life, but the currency at work is respect.
For these reasons, I'm not convinced your professional demeanor needs a major overhaul. There's a good chance that whatever softening it does need is already in progress, and by the sensible means of being friendly and hard-working (congratulations on not getting defensive, by the way). What's left — acting dumb? Give your efforts time to show results before you crumple them up for Plan B.
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- • ½ cup desiccated coconut
- • ½ cup rolled oats (or more coconut)
- • 1 cup macadamia nuts
- • ½ c dates
- • ¼ t salt
- • 1 ½ cups avocado
- • 1 cup soaked cashews (drained)
- • ½ cup lime juice + 2 tbsp lime zest
- • ½ cup fruit sweetener (or agave)
- • pinch of sea salt
- • ½ teaspoon vanilla powder
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- • 1/3 cup water to blend
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Start with the whipped cream, blend all ingredients on high until smooth. Pour into a flat container and place in the freezer for 2 hours until set, then transfer to the fridge until ready to use.
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Golden State Warriors (2-1) @ Milwaukee Bucks (3-0)
Start time 5:00 PM PST @ The Bradley Center
Probable starters for the Golden State Warriors
PG - Baron Davis
SG - Jason Richardson
SF - Mike Dunleavy
PF - Troy Murphy
C - Adonal Foyle
Probable starters for the Milwaukee Bucks
PG - T.J. Ford
SG - Michael Redd
SF - Bobby Simmons
PF - Jamaal Magloire
C - Andrew Bogut
Team leaders
PPG - J. Richardson (23.0) | M. Redd (31.3)
RPG - T. Murphy (8.5) | A. Bogut (10.7)
APG - B. Davis (7.0) | T. Ford (10.3)
SPG - B. Davis (4.0) | M. Redd (1.7)
BPG - A. Foyle (3.0) | J. Magloire (2.0)
Game Notes
The Warriors enter Milwaukee to see what their ex-assistant, Terry Stotts, has been doing on the east coast. The Bucks are hoping for the return of Joe Smith for this game. Warriors' Andris Biedrins is still questionable while Ike Diogu is still out with a broken hand.
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I don't think they'll win, but if they show major improvement on the free throw line and 3point% but still lose, I'll be satisfied. If they lose BECAUSE of that I'll be thoroughly pissed!
JRich v Redd will be interesting. Redd doesn't guard anyone so JRich will have an easier time having a good game but if he can slow down Redd, the Warriors' chances are good.
If Murphy takes either Magliore or Bogut outside because of his shooting, that will also be an advantage because it will open up the lane for drives and will make it easier for the Warriors to rebound, as long as someone else other than Murphy wants to rebound for the Warriors
If Murphy takes either Magliore or Bogut outside because of his shooting, that will also be an advantage because it will open up the lane for drives and will make it easier for the Warriors to rebound, as long as someone else other than Murphy wants to rebound for the Warriors
I'm guessing Warriors by around 4 or 5. Milwaukee's freak twin towers of Bogut and Magloire have yet to prove that they can be dominant together, Mike Redd will grab points & three's (but do nothing else for them), and TJ Ford's been a wizard so far. However, with Baron back in the lineup, the Warriors seem to play at a higher level (along with JRich being a star so far this season). Murph's got his work cut out with boarding against Bogut and Magloire, but he's a rebound hound, so I think he'll be okay. Warriors by about 4.
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Warriors by 6, if Baron plays. If not, Bucks by 10.
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baron will play unless he slips on spilt milk at the grocery store
As much as I wanted Baron to play in the Knicks game, he shouldn't have played. It's too early in the season for Baron to play on injuries and a hammy pull is nothing to play around with. It can easily get aggravated and Baron get can really hurt, he should have rested for a week. W's shouldn't have to depend on Baron, but we do as we saw an expected win against the Jazz turn upside down w/o him. It's sad to say the W's are nothing without Baron. It's going to be a real task for Baron's hammy when he as to guard the super speedy TJ Ford. This game will be a true test to see how good the Warriors really are this season. Last season the 2 games we had against Milwaukee we struggled and the the score was in the 100's eventhough we pulled out as winners. Remember the Bucks have a completely new lineup adding bulk, power, speed and skill.
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I think this is easily the toughest team the warriors have faced so far, we could get destroyed on the boards, so I am picking the bucks by 5. But all bets are off if B Diddy is feeling better
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St. Martin lived in the fourth century (316-397). Living to be 80-plus years-old in Europe at that time was a rare occurrence. Martin was consecrated Bishop of Tours in 371 and served until his death. Sulpicius Severus, a Christian writer and chronicler who lived in the fourth century and into the fifth, wrote a biography of St. Martin. Sulpicius' moving account of St. Martin's death is the second reading for today's Office of Readings in the Church's Liturgy of the Hours. You can hear a lovely song dedicated to St. Martin of Tours here.
In his old age, when he knew he was dying and had not long to live, St. Martin, upon being informed that the clergy in the town of Candes, which was in his diocese, were fighting, despite his age and illness, he went to reconcile them and to restore peace. While he was at Candes, but after he had restored peace, his health took a turn for the worse and he died.
As he lay dying his spiritual children, according Sulpicius, implored him, saying, "Father, why are you deserting us? Who will care for us when you are gone? Savage wolves will attack your flock, and who will save us from their bite when our shepherd is struck down? We know you long to be with Christ, but your reward is certain and will not be any less for being delayed. You will do better to show pity for us, rather than forsake us."
(Above is El Greco's painting of the famous incident in which St. Martin of Tours, while still a soldier, using his sword to cut his cloak in two in order to give half to a freezing beggar, who was wearing only rags in the depth of winter.)
Upon hearing their pleas "he broke into tears, for he was a man in whom the compassion of our Lord was continually revealed. Turning to our Lord, he made this reply to their pleading: 'Lord, if your people still need me, I am ready for the task; your will be done.'" Martin, as he is remembered, "was a man words cannot describe. Death could not defeat him nor toil dismay him. He was quite without a preference of his own; he neither feared to die nor refused to live. With eyes and hands always raised to heaven he never withdrew his unconquered spirit from prayer." He is said to have caught a glimpse of the devil on his deathbed. His response was to rebuke Satan firmly, saying, "Why do you stand there, you bloodthirsty brute? Murderer, you will not have me for your prey. Abraham is welcoming me into his embrace."
It was reported last week, in Great Britain's Daily Mail, that the World War I diaries of a British soldier, a certain Harry Drinkwater, were discovered. I was struck by the disjunctive nature of his entry for Easter Sunday, 23 April 1916, which I think shows the effect of war on a person's humanity:
Easter Sunday. A beautifully sunny [rest] day. I'm writing in a field beside a brook — I can easily imagine myself back in England.St. Martin is the Patron Saint of beggars, reformed alcoholics, soldiers, tailors, and (oddly enough, in that lovely Catholic manner) also of wine-growers.
We're all struck with the strangeness of things; one week in Hell and the next in comparative bliss.
Harry was also helping to dig deep shafts that branched out towards the enemy lines. The idea was to lay explosive charges beneath German trenches - but as the Germans were doing likewise, the mining teams often tried to blow each other up halfway across
Sanctus Martinus Turonensis, ora pro nobis.


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blend of returning letterwinners and athletes new to the Hope cross country program should put the Flying Dutch in the thick of the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA) race this fall.
The 2007 Flying Dutch finished third in the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA).
Mark Northuis begins his third decade as coach of the Hope cross country program. In 20 seasons under coach Northuis, the Flying Dutch have always finished no lower than in third place in the MIAA standings.
The pre-season roster of 34 athletes includes 19 returning letterwinners. There are eight freshmen, 13 sophomores, six juniors and seven seniors.
The co-captains will be seniors Sarah Multer of Plainwell, Mich. (Plainwell HS) and Rebekah Woods of Lowell, Mich. (Lowell HS).
Sophomore Susan Savasky of Berkley (Marion HS) achieved All-MIAA second team honors last fall while senior Kate Freshour of Bloomington, Ill. (Olympia HS) was an All-MIAA second team honoree in 2006. Freshour also received All-MIAA recognition in track & field last spring.
Other returning senior letterwinners include Holly Grieving of Grandville, Mich. (Grandville HS), Molly Nyboer of Spring Lake, Mich. (Spring Lake HS), and Sara Tyler of New Milford, Conn. (New Milford HS).
Other returning letterwinners include sophomore Claire Bird of New Paltz, N.Y. (New Paltz HS), sophomores Kate Brundige of Vicksburg, Mich. (Vicksburg HS), sophomore Kelsey Engle of Park Ridge, Ill. (Maine South HS), sophomore Emily Fischer of Naperville, Ill. (Naperville Central HS), sophomore Joanne Gabl of Saline, Mich. (Saline HS), junior Sara Gosses of Amherst, Ohio (Amherst Steele HS), junior Laura Jackson of Allen Park, Mich. (Allen Park HS), junior Emma Lucas of Cadillac, Mich. (Cadillac HS), sophomore Andrea Miller of Algonquin, Ill. (Dundee Crown HS), sophomore Elle Munoa of Holland, Mich. (West Ottawa HS), junior Haley Smith of Bronson, Mich. (Bronson HS), and Faith Whitehouse of Manton (Manton HS).
The Flying Dutch also excelled in the classroom in 2007-08 receiving Team Academic All-America honors from the College Cross Country Coaches Association for the 18th consecutive year. Ten returning Flying Dutch were named to the 2007-08 MIAA Academic Honor Roll - Kate Brundige, Joanne Gabl, Sara Gosses, Emma Lucas, Andrea Miller, Sarah Multer, Molly Nyboer, Sara Tyler, Faith Whitehouse and Rebekah Woods.
The Flying Dutch will open the season on Saturday, Aug. 30 by hosting the Bill Vanderbilt Invitational. It will be the team's only home meet. The regular season schedule will culminate with the MIAA championships hosted by Kalamazoo College on Saturday, Nov. 1. The NCAA Regional will be run in Westerville, Ohio on Nov. 15 and a week later the nationals will be held in Hanover, Ind.


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