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Cindy Jones knows exactly what kind of stress and pressure is involved in coaching young athletes. She's spent the last 19 years both married to a coach and coaching volleyball.
Jones has been the Lady Cyclones volleyball head coach for the last 16 years, with the Russellville School District (RSD) for 18 and married to former Cyclones wide receiver coach Joey Jones for 19 years.
"To me, it's the best situation to be in," Cindy said. "We know what each other is going through. We know the stresses and the pressures the other is going through. Honestly, I don't know how couples make it otherwise."
Over the years, the couple has learned the best way to support one another throughout the season is by knowing when it's okay to talk and ask questions and when it's not.
"I'll listen when she wants to talk about it, but mostly I just try and be quiet," Joey said. "I always feel like the less I know, the better."
Cindy agreed. "When they [the football team] are struggling, I know that's not the right time to talk about it."
But which sport is higher pressure to coach? The pair were unanimous. It's football. However, volleyball comes with its fair share of difficulties as well.
"Football is more high profile," Cindy said. "It's in the spotlight a whole lot more than I am."
Cindy's Lady Cyclones have won state championships twice during her 16 year reign.
With the skill level of the players she has and two titles, Cindy said many parents and players expect Russellville to be a dynasty, which is easier said than done, even with extremely talented players.
Joey, who "took a break from coaching" at the end of the school year, said he could handle criticism aimed toward him or toward the football team, but had a hard time listening to them talk about his wife or her team.
"I think the negativity bothers me when I hear it about her a lot more than when I hear it about me. I know how hard she works. I know how successful she's been. People tell me that football is a harder sport, so it's easier for your wife to win," he said.
Cindy's tactic was avoidance at all cost. Her Friday nights were spent in the press box or in the top of the bleachers, far away from fans and parents who might have a little too much on their mind.
It was especially difficult the past three years when not only was her husband coaching, but her son, Cody Jones, was playing quarterback.
"I do my best to stay away from it," she said.
Being a coach is hard — having kids while coaching is even harder. The couple said without the help of the community, they never would have made it.
"We relied on a lot of people, especially in the early days," Cindy said. "We could not have done our jobs as well without them."
"We were also fortunate to work with coaching who didn't mind having kids around," Joey said. "I think even going back to when Phil Collins was coach, it's always been okay to have your kids come down to the field or the fieldhouse. If it weren't for that I don't know that I would have gotten to spend much time with him [Cody] growing up."


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I did a reinstall of ZA and now PSP is giving trouble. It has a function where you can press SHIFT C and it takes you to one of your other running applications so you can take a screen shot. Trouble is at the moment it returns with a blank (black) picture instead of a picture of the intended image.
If I temporarily turn off ZA it is fine and continues to be ok even after I restart ZA. I think this is related to a windows access thing somehow but am not sure. What permission do I have to give in ZA to allow easy access.
It must be possible because it was ok before my re-install.

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The authors of 2010/251 are wildly exaggerating the impact of their results when they claim that they can clone many types of PUFs and thus break "essentially all" PUF applications and protocols.
The easiest way to understand this is to consider the classic _linear_ PUFs (the original optical PUFs using speckle patterns). For these PUFs, the type of "break" carried out in 2010/251 is trivial by design: anyone with access to the PUF can easily see the PUF behavior and build a _large_ device (camera + laptop + projector) that simulates the PUF. The PUF is nevertheless unbroken: the attacker is unable to manufacture a _small_ device that simulates the PUF. The PUF user verifies the PUF size, of course.
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I must admit that I do not find D.J. Bernsteins assessment appropriate, for a number of reasons.
First of all, the optical example he gives does not really apply to the work of Rührmair et al. They only discuss modeling attacks on electrical PUFs with digital, one-bit outputs. Such outputs can easily be imitated if an efficient algorithm that predicts the electrical PUF is known. The simulation algorithms which Rührmair et al. derive are, in fact, extremely simple. They often merely require the addition of small integers, followed by a comparison operation. If implemented, their form factor would be quite close to a real PUF. In particular, they could be easily implemented in smart cards and the like, which are one of the standard application examples for PUFs. In order to notice the difference, honest users would have to physically open the PUF/smart card and inspect it with utmost thoroughness, which is in an impractical task for the average user. This makes the simulation algorithms of Rührmair et al an extremely effective way to cheat.
Furthermore, even if the outputs of a PUF are analog and complex (as in the case of optical PUFs), a simulation algorithm can be used to break certain protocols. For example, an exchanged key can be derived already from mere numeric simulations of the PUF. The exact analog imitation of the complex optical signal is not necessary to this end.
I also cannot share D.J. Bernsteins claim that the authors would exaggerate their results. They give intensive and, in my opinion, well-balanced discussions on the reach, but at the same time on the limitations of their techniques in the introduction section (and partly also in the summary section). For example, they make clear that their attacks apply to so-called Weak PUFs only under very rare circumstances, and that they do not apply at all to Coating PUFs, SRAM PUFs, or Butterfly PUFs. Any readers who had a short glimpse at the introduction cannot miss this discussion, and could hardly make claims on a PUF-exaggeration, as the ones we have seen.
Finally, it may be interesting to add that following its publication on the ePrint archive, the paper has been accepted to CCS in 2010. It has been quoted multiple times in the meantime (please see Google scholar). It is clear that such acceptance and citation numbers cannot always prove the quality of scientific work. But in this case, they show at least that the paper has been received rather well in the PUF community, which is somewhat at odds with D.J. Bernsteins (perhaps too harsh) criticism of the paper.
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WWE Raw live event
Istanbul, Turkey
Report by Dot Net reader Taha Ercoskun Twitter.com/t4h4
It's the second time WWE came to Turkey. The advertising was done pretty well compared to the previous show. Cody Rhodes and Mark Henry visited Turkey at different times and were interviewed on numerous TV channels. Even Subway stations had the advertisements of the show. Unfortunately, ticket prices were twice as much as the previous show's prices, so the arena wasn't full. Soccer player Felipe Melo, from Brazilian international team, was in front row. Here's a picture from the arena's lower sections during the show: Twitter.com/T4H4/status/305794696653983744/photo/1 .
1. Antonio Cesaro beat R-Truth to retain the U.S. Title. Cesaro kept R-Truth down whole match with submissions and heel tactics. R-Truth made his comeback but when he dove at Cesaro in the corner, Cesaro moved and hit the Neutralizer for the pin after approximately ten minutes.
2. Alex Riley beat Michael McGillicutty. A decent back-and-forth match. McGillicutty got some good heat, although Riley didn't really stand out as the babyface character. Late in the match, Riley hit a spinebuster. McGillicutty tried a McGillicutter but Riley reversed and hit TKO for a two-count. McGillicutty regained control and jumped from the top-rope for a flying splash, but Riley moved and hit a corkscrew neckbreaker for the pin at approximately nine minutes.
David Otunga came to the ring and showed his muscular body. Tensai came too, for a match, but John Laurinaitis stopped them and showed a clip of Tensai dancing on Raw. Laurinaitis suggested that there would be a dance-off between Otunga and Tensai, and crowd accepted. Otunga danced to some '50s song in his full douchebag mode. Tensai danced to LMFAO's hit song, but he made Gangnam moves. Otunga cut him off by attacking, but Tensai quickly tossed him out of the ring.
3. Tensai beat David Otunga. The match began and dance moves were made throughout the match. Hilarity ensued (not). Otunga stopped Tensai's Vader splash and his a Cena-style shoulder block. Otunga kept him down with a chinlock, but Tensai forced out and hit a Chokebomb. Running senton finished at six minutes. Tensai danced with three kids after the match. One of the kids wanted to climb the turnbuckles for posing but the staff didn't let him. Poor kid.
4. Kofi Kingston defeated Dolph Ziggler (w/Big E. Langston) in their 457th match. They have wrestled pretty much every month since late 2009, right? Anyway, A.J. was not with Dolph. It was a hard-hitting back-and-forth match with Kofi having the loudest cheers of the night (after Cena). Ziggler tried to keep Kofi down, and each time Kingston tried to make a comeback, he was cut by Big E. Langston. Late in the match, Kofi hit a Boom Drop, but Ziggler ducked the Trouble in Paradise and applied a sleeper. Kofi quickly tossed him and when Ziggler charged at him in the corner, Kofi hit a pendulum kick a la Christian. Kofi then hit a springboard crossbody for a two-count. Dolph's Fameasser and S.O.S. both got two-counts respectively. Kofi went for a crossbody off the second rope, but Ziggler cut him with a dropkick mid-air. Kofi reversed a sleeper dropped Langston off the apron. Ziggler went for a sleeper once again but Kofi got out and hit Trouble in Paradise for the three-count after 13 minutes.
5. Mark Henry defeated Zack Ryder. Ryder got more offense than he usually gets on-air and he even hit the Broski Boot and Rough Ryder, but Henry kicked out at two. Ryder went for the leg lariat once again, but Henry cut him off with a World's Strongest Slam and scored the pin after about four minutes.
6. Ryback, Kane, and Daniel Bryan defeated The Shield by DQ. Daniel Bryan and Kane came out first. The Shield came to the ring through the audience and chambered the champions, but Ryback came to the ring to even the odds. Well, I guess it was supposed to be some sort of surprise, but it really wasn't, because Justin Roberts announced the match as a six-man tag match before Hell No came out. Anyway, late in the match, D-Bry and Ryback were both out and Kane fought against Rollins and Reigns on his own. He hit a double suplex and went for a double chokeslam, but Shield attacked with a chair and got disqualified. After the usual beatdown on champions, Ryback saved them and hit Shellshocked on Ambrose while Kane chokeslammed Rollins. Match ran about 12 minutes before the DQ.
7. John Cena defeated CM Punk after about 17 minutes. Kids were dying for Cena. Five minutes into the match, Punk walked out. Cena got the microphone and said "We're in Turkey and you're a chicken, Punk." Punk came back to the ring and match continued. Late in the match, Cena got Punk down with an STF, but Punk reached to the ropes. After referee pulled Cena from the ropes, Punk kicked Cena in the gut and hit Go 2 Sleep but could not score the pin. Punk climbed the ropes and hit the Macho Man elbow drop for a two-count. Punk once again tried a Go 2 Sleep but Cena reversed and surprisingly hit a huracanrana. Cena continued with Attitude Adjustment and pinned Punk to send kids home happy.
Note: The card was announced back in December. According to the card, matches were going to be as follows:
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Yea, Progressive ideas are "beyond old"... I'd put 'em at about a-little-over-a-century old. I guess we shouldn't pay any attention to them, because, you know, what makes an idea good, is how shiny and new it is...
And those ideas are dead - we don't have legal standards for food and meat anymore.
I'd also like to add, that one should never mention The Walking Dead when there is a show called Breaking Bad. Walking Dead is Shonn Greene and Breaking Bad is Curtis Martin.


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Outfielder knocks two home runs, two singles, one double and drives in four runs
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Matt Joyce's big day for the Rays was one of historic proportions.
The Rays outfielder went 5-for-6 on Sunday with two homers, two singles and a double to help lift Tampa Bay to a 12-7 victory against the Orioles. His numbers helped him into the Rays' record book.
"You really don't have very many days like that, so it's nice to have one of those days and enjoy it," Joyce said.
Joyce matched a Rays single-game record with five hits, becoming the fifth player in team history -- and the first since B.J. Upton in 2009 -- to do so. He also became the third player in team history and the first since Evan Longoria in '08 to tally 12 total bases, also a team record for a single game.
Joyces's home run in the third inning ended a drought of 124 at-bats without a homer.
"It comes and goes. Home runs are funny. When you try to hit them, it never seems to happen, and you finally get it out of your head and you're just trying to square the ball up and you run into some. And they come in bunches, so hopefully they come in a little bit more bunches."
Vying for a rare six-hit game and a triple shy of the second cycle in team history, Joyce grounded the first pitch he saw in the ninth to shortstop Ryan Flaherty to end the inning and his historic day.
The Rays tallied their 12 runs on 18 hits, including five home runs and six doubles.
"We haven't had anything like that all year, so it was nice to come out here in a big series and swing the bats like we did," Joyce said.
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CARSON, Calif. (Thursday, January 31, 2013) – The LA Galaxy will officially unveil the second kit that the club will wear throughout the 2013 and 2014 MLS seasons at an exclusive season kickoff event at The Grammy Museum at L.A. Live on Wednesday, February 27. The event, which will include the complete Galaxy roster, General Manager and Head Coach Bruce Arena and Galaxy President Chris Klein, will kick off at 6 p.m. with a VIP Cocktail Reception before the official portion of the program begins at 7:15 p.m.
In addition to debuting the club's new second kit, the event will formally present the 2013 Galaxy squad to the fans in attendance just four days ahead of the regular season opener against Chicago at The Home Depot Center. Following the formal portion of the program, fans will have the opportunity to mix and mingle with their favorite Galaxy players while enjoying all of the exciting, interactive exhibits The Grammy Museum has to offer. Additionally, the 2002, 2005, 2011 and 2012 MLS Cup trophies will be on hand for fans those in attendance to take photos with. A limited number of the club's new second jersey will be available for purchase at the event while all fans will be able to buy the shirt at the TEAM LA store at The Home Depot Center starting on Thursday, February 28.
There are only a limited number of tickets available for this event with General Admission Tickets costing $75 and VIP tickets costing $125 with proceeds benefiting the LA Galaxy Foundation. All guests in attendance will have the opportunity to meet members of the 2013 LA Galaxy team, take a commemorative photo with the four MLS Cup trophies, participate in a special kickoff raffle, and take a private, after-hours tour of The Grammy Museum while also receiving a ticket to the home leg of the Galaxy's CONCACAF Champions League Quarterfinal against Costa Rican side Herediano on Wednesday, March 13. VIP guests will receive all of that while also having access to an exclusive cocktail reception with members of the Galaxy prior to the jersey unveiling and will have reserved seating during the event. VIP guests will also receive and additional ticket to the Champions League Quarterfinal home game against Herediano.
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The district NEVER was going to be complying with the terms of the grant, because the grant was written for a hugely overblown program that never was discussed, intended, or even imagined by the board even under the original PACE proposal or any time over the past five years.
The grant proposal was written to present the MI program to the Federal government as if it was already in existence - in other words as if PAUSD was already committing their OWN investment dollars to this program, as if it currently included a K-12 rollout (including 4-6 middle school classrooms, which the board specifically has said all along were NOT under discussion or on the table). The MI program the board agreed to study for feasibility was specifically limited to a K-5 program ONLY when the board originally gave the approval to allow the grant application to proceed.
None the less, Staff invented a wildly over the top program for the grant application that included massive technology expenditures (digital cameras, computers, chinese language software, ipods for all students), many incremental overhead positions (such as program directors, curriculum specialists, TOSAs, administrative assistant, 1 aid per classroom, and more), custom developed language assessments, and more. Why?
In the Kindergarten year, that grant shows the program would run at $855K per year, when nothing more than $175K per year MAX, was available from this FLAP grant funding. This is only the Kinder year. By the 5th grade year, this would grow to a $2.7M per year program as written in the grant.
And the terms of the grant state specifically that the grant application becomes the district's binding committment to the federal government if the money is accepted.
If someone in the district accepts this grant will they be ignoring the vote of the board, and making a binding committment to a huge MI investment to the federal government, that has been specifically NOT approved?
The board must tell the public now whether or not this grant money can be accepted under the terms of the grant WHILE keeping with the limited scope of the MI program they've approved.
You haven't read the details of the grant and budget correctly.
1. The middle school component is not MI. The middle school program is the natural and planned expansion of Mandarin as a world language elective in the middle school, to match with the high school Mandarin offerings, culminating in AP Chinese.
2. MI in middle school has not been decided, as you've correctly stated. And MI in middle school is not part of the FLAP grant application.
3. Technology costs are $52K for two classrooms. I'd hardly call that massive. I would image that many of those resources will be shared with the rest of the school, although I can't speak for the staff and teachers who will be using the equipment.
4. The supplies request is for $22K for elementary, middle school, and high school software, not just for MI. Sign your kids up to learn Mandarin at all school levels, and you'll get to use these resources.
5. The personnel request is for a total .6 FTE split among three people. Surely you don't think .6 of a full time equivalent is wildly over the top. .1 for internal assessment, .3 for curriculum coordinator, .2 for clerical support. There is no request for aides in this grant award.
6. I'm not sure where you got the $855K figure. Are you looking in the right column of the budget? The figure I see is $817K, and that includes all the teacher salaries which the district is paying (not paid by the grant). Did you see that Year 2 is on a separate page from Year 1? Year 2 is the "kindergarten year", although the budget includes the middle and high school Mandarin materials, too. And the grant request for Year 2 is just under $280K.
7. The grant application only budgets out three years (it's a three year renewable grant). I don't know where you get your $2.7M per year figure. The total 3-yr grant budget is less than $2.5M, and that includes PAUSD salaries that PAUSD will pay, not funded by the grant application. The grant request is $764K while PAUSD pays $1.7M. Surely you're not mixing your numbers up and extending beyond the grant period.
8. Since Dr. Cook hasn't seen the terms of the grant award, I don't think you're reading the federal government's mail or minds - or are you? As she stated, we'll see how much flexibility the grant award requirements allow since the grant was applied for last year, and things have changed since then. What's your rush to have the board "tell the public now", before they know the details of the award?
Take a breath and we'll find out in due time.
Because the program doesn't stop in year three, extrapolate out what the total cost of the program will be by 5th grade year. Yes I am extending out the cost of the program beyond year three because the program will exist beyond year three even though the grant wont. Its a financial committment for PAUSD. Plain and simple and something you very well understand. Just because you didn't have to put it on the piece of paper submitted to the government doesn't mean the financial committment isn't there.
52K per 2 classrooms, that's year one for 2 kinder classrooms (as per the grant). But you know very well that in year two the grant says you have 4 classrooms. Are you suggesting you buy only technology for kinders, and no other grades get or need technology? No, you realize very well that each two classrooms brought on board need similar technology investment. You state the 52K as if its a one time expenditure and in fact it is yearly recurring to ramp up the K-5 program. Same with supplies.
Specifically you had .1 (or more) of each of the following:
Mandarin Curriculum Coordinator
Project Director
Instructional Supervisor
Mandarin Specialist TOSA
Clerical Support
Internal Assessment Director
plus you included Consulting for assessment development
Regardless of the percentages of people and how many FTE this adds to, or how big or little you think this technology investment is (or when it stops), how many of these were in the feasibility study???? Zero. Zero have been approved by the board. So the grant is false. And by the way, when did the board approve Mandarin in the middle schools in any way shape or form? And when did they discuss and approve Parent Education?
"Lets just wait and see" translates into lets let this fly under the radar so we can quietly take advantage of this money. No, thank you. I prefer to have the board discuss this transparently, keep PAUSD free from a binding committment that we are NOT willing to make, and let the public know what they plan to do about this.
By the way, you don't have to wait to see the terms of the Grant award, you can look at it online in the Goverment's FLAP grant website you can find the statement that says the grant application becomes a binding comittment condition of acceptance.
Grace, it would be most helpful if you could post a link to the grant application so that people could read it for themselves rather than having to take your or my word for it. I only have a hard copy.
Also, the grant requires that the district invest 50% of its own matching monies in the program.
The way its written, and the way you describe it above, the district wrote this grant so that teachers salaries, which they'll be paying for anyway even without MI, are the PAUSD matching funds.
Or are you suggesting that PAUSD is going to make an actual $200K investment matching the $200K grant award?
Or are we just going to have teachers show up and call that an investment in MI?
Here's more information about this year's FLAP awards:
Web Link
Sorry, Parent, your posting's attitude is too antagonistic for me. If you want to talk about the grant in person, email me from my website:
We can have a moderator facilitate our discussion, perhaps from the PA Mediation Program, or even Jack Hamilton who moderated the school district's town hall. Did you think he did a good job?
The current approved MI program is for a three year pilot. The grant application is for three years. The feds are only awarding us one year's money. They are not committed to fund the other two years.
In writing the grant, of which I had some input, but not full contribution, the staff carefully asked for things which are not essentials (like committing to teacher salaries) and could be dropped after the grant award runs out (afte one year, after three years). That's why PAUSD's matching funding is largely the salaries that they would be paying anyway. The federal government is largely supplying technology, supplies, one-time curriculum development, professional assessment by an outside organization, etc. All of these are nice haves, not musts.
The technology may not be purchased every year of the program beyond the 3-yr pilot. That's not a given, althouth you're being generous with someone else's money. There's not a sense of entitlement that you perceive. What's purchased through grant money is a windfall, and we are grateful for what it can buy for the Mandarin programs at all levels.
The feasibility study did not count on the grant - now THAT would have been presumptuous. The feasibility study said what was feasible for an MI program. Do you not understand the different intentions of each document? The grant application was for supplementary funding to support the Mandarin programs all through the district.
From the grant application FAQ:
"An applicant must establish, improve or expand foreign language learning primarily during the traditional school day within kindergarten through grade 12 by exclusively teaching one or more of the following less commonly taught languages: Arabic, Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Russian, and languages in the Indic, Iranian, and Turkic language families."
Sorry that you're not patient enough to get the facts before jumping to conclusions, but you have a pattern of that. I said to wait for the details of the award to come out before jumping all over the way the money should be spent (or declining the money, as you seem to suggest).
Like I said, I don't appreciate this blog communications and would welcome some sincere constructive discussion, preferably in person.
Grace, thanks for keeping the tone high (though you did throw in a little dig at the end). While we clearly do not all agree on the issues, we can at least agree to try to have constructive discussions!
Yes, I like the "high tone" as well...
Sorry that you're not patient enough to get the facts before jumping to conclusions, but you have a pattern of that.
I don't appreciate this blog communications
Yes, I can see that you don't appreciate discussion forums (haven't seen your blog, can you post a link?)
"You haven't read the details of the grant and budget correctly."
Where can we read the details? It'd be helpful if there were an online link to the application - is there one? Thanks.
The grant as written describes an MI program of size and scope in PAUSD which has not been approve in that size and scope. The Grant MI program doesn't exist and won't exist as describe in the grant. The grant contains several elements and components that are not approved by the BOE.
For example, The BOE specifically stated that the technology for the MI program can not exceed technology in other standard PAUSD programs. So not only can the grant described technology not be purchased after year three, it can also not be purchased DURING years 1,2 or 3 either, according to the comments made by board. This is inconsistent to the grant presentation which incorrectly claims this technology investment is an accepted integral part of our PAUSD MI program.
The BOE also specifically said multiple times, after multiple questioning of Marilyn and Becky that they were not studying or approving middle school component, and likely wouldn't approve it even in the future -yet the grant presents the program (also reiterated in the extract summary in the link above) as if this IS an approved K-12 program to be serving over 500 secondary students. False.
The grant also describes many layers of management, mandarin expertise and program development headcount resources (detailed above), which are simply not approved by the BOE, never even mentioned in the feasibility study which they used as the basis for approving the program.
I understand the difference between the feasibililty study and the grant. The feasibily study is the version of the program that the BOE approved. The Grant is not.
So pointing out what is in, and not in, the feasibility study is completely relevent. The feasibility study is more than a hypothetical document of what MI could be - it is the version of reality that the board approved. But on the other hand, you have received grant money on the basis of a large scale MI program that was never approved, a hypothetical non-reality.
Further examples: There has never been board discussion (let alone approval), of parent education component. This is in the grant and clearly part of the promise as articulated in the governmetn's extract summary.
And there has been no discussion whatsoever of development or ongoing costs of assessment, although assessment of the program will be required for evaluation, no costs or staff time for assessment are included in the feasibility study. No approval for such an undertaking has ever occured.
Because the grant was written in such a fabulously rich way, might the granting agency be led to believe that PAUSD investment in this program goes well beyond a few teachers they would have paid anyway?
For example, if the year two program cost in the grant was 817K (I'll use your number to avoid argument), and the teacher cost component was 458K, that means the non-teacher cost in year two was $359K. (817-458 = 359)
The grant application max amount known available was $175K, that would mean that PAUSD would be investing 184K of their own non-teacher realted funding in year two (359-175 - 184K).
*Note: I realize PAUSD said they wanted more than the max 175K, even though they knew only $175K was the max. In fact they asked for $279K. This doesn't change the amount they said would be spent in year two, so with a built in shortfall in grant dollars, PAUSD would be on the line for the remainder.
This is no where near the amount of PAUSD Funding that has been approved for the REAL MI program as outlined in the feasibility study. Even if you take $200K of the government's money, PAUSD will be investing ZERO of its own dollars beyond teachers. We are investing zero of PAUSD money beyond teachers in the version of the MI program that is approved. Any incrementals are covered by someone or some organization other than PAUSD and are at $10K per classroom, far less than the program described to the federal government.
If you disagree with the statements made about the grant it would be most helpful for both of us and anyone else reading this if you would post a link to the actual grant application which would quickly clear up any misunderstandings.
I favor transparency, as I'm sure you must as well being a politician representing this district.
The bottom line is that if PAUSD accepts this grant, PAUSD is committing to doing all it said it would do in the grant proposal. Everything from k-12 (in Mandarin )that the Grant proposes.
Nothing beyond a simple, "cost-neutral" k-5 MI program has been discussed, let alone approved, by our Board, before or since the grant was submitted, so forcing through anything beyond the "cost-neutral" MI by accepting Grant funding that presumes we are going to do what the Grant says we are going to do with the money is ..extremely presumptuous, at the least.
The grant proposal should have stuck to what the Board approved, and we wouldn't be in this quandary at this point. Another lesson learned by our Staff, perhaps.
How about not accepting the Grant for the purposes in the Grant proposal, sticking with the "cost-neutral" option approved by the Board, and re-submitting a grant proposal for what is NOT cost neutral to our district and for which we could use the money...foreign language instruction for all? That would be the honest way to go about this, once which, I believe, most of us could support with "matching" District Funds.
"Sign your kids up to learn Mandarin at all school levels, and you'll get to use these resources."
What if we sign our kids up for Mandarin but are denied access because we did not make the cut?
Then how are we able to use those resources?
"The current approved MI program is for a three year pilot. The grant application is for three years."
That's a coincidence. The grant was not written for three years because the program is a year three pilot. The grant was written for three years because that was the max term of the grant available.
The program described in the grant application is an 'existing' K-12 program, that is in implementation phase. It is not stated to be in feasibilty study stage as yet unapproved (which is WAS at the time of the grant), nor in Pilot phase, or anything else temporary.
For all the government knows, PAUSD is committed to backing the entirety of the program that is described in the grant with their own funding - a major committment to making it work if indeed we were investing these types of resources. Which in turn makes a grant on this program a good use of government resources, low risk. But as you mention, we are not yet committed to it, we are only in pilot phase, and the program as approved is only 1/2 the size as described. Plus we have no location committment for it in 3 years. The grant is a wholly inaccurate portrayal of what is actually occuring here now with this program.
So what should have been describe in the grant was the accurate situation, and perhaps the government would have (or would not have) still granted that money:
A three year pilot, K-3 one strand, mix grade level classrooms. Will test the never been tried, never been studied Ohlone Way method of instructions for Mandarin. No PAUSD investment will be made except for normal per pupil spending (teachers, standard student material spending, normal district overhead). No program managmeent, curriculum specialists, will be required for this program, all services will be provided by existing non-mandarin speaking staff. Incremental start up funding, including MI materials development will amount to no more than $10K per classroom, funded by parent donations, and/or free stuff from China. No other incremental resources will be used (Grant Agency - if you give us $200K we will use it on these items we would otherwise not have...(insert list here). At the end of year three the program will be evaluated to determine if it is shown to be delivering students at grade level results for English, and also testing proficient at grade level in Mandarin, and also operating cost neutrally, and PAUSD will also figure out at that time if the district can find a suitable location that will not displace any neighborhood students.
Why wasn't the grant written like this? Maybe that would create a hoaky picture that the grant agency wouldn't much like.
wait... I thought MI was cost neutral... why is kinder going to cost $855,000? I am so confused.
PACE -- why did you do this to our schools? We are trying so hard to educate the most kids the best we can and then you forced us to deal with this special interest program that will benefit maybe 100 kids in 5 years compared to our district of how many kids... You ripped time from our overall plans and goals. You forced the entire school district to pay attention to your whine about racism and fairness. Is this what you intended?
Why indeed. A keen sense of self-absorbed entitlement and 'because they can'.
Its funny that they are the first to say they moved to Palo Alto for the excellent schools, yet once they get here, the schools aren't customized enough, specialized enough, so they need to force their own personal tastes on the entire community.
Like buying the Mona Lisa and painting over the face because you don't like the smile.
Hmmm, I really do have to wonder about the ethics of a certain public official at this point.
To Susan Hong,
"The application was originally proposed by Palo Altans for Chinese Education (PACE) in April of 2006. The district later adopted the proposal. (The original PACE proposal starts on page 54 in the April 25, 2006 board materials which can be found at www.pausd.org"
The link to those materials doesn't work. I believe it's because the final punctuation is included in the hyperlink. Is this something the webmaster can fix? In the meantime, here's the link: Web Link
Your paragraph is misleading: the proposal you write about above is not the grant application to the government but rather the MI proposal to the district.
On page 61 of the April 25, 2006 board materials there is a link to the Dept of Ed's detailed FLAP grant description and application rules. It's an old link - ed.gov has redesigned their website since then. Here's an updated link: Web Link. If it doesn't work, follow the directions and paste the link into the search box and it'll bring you to the correct page with an even better pdf link.
Any chance the Palo Alto Weekly can do some investigative reporting on who submitted the grant? Grace Mah wrote, "In writing the grant, of which I had some input, but not full contribution, the staff carefully asked for things..." Who were the other authors? And...where is the grant application??
I have yet to see Grace Mah adress the questions above about her determination to dump her special agenda on our community. Since her position is inexcusable and indefensible, there is nothing she can say except to pull out the racisim card. Shame on you.
Marilyn Cook was in charge of the grant application writing. She had significant help from Grace Mah (hundreds of hours), and some others (not sure who all those others were but I have a fair guess that it included Irv Rollins, Becky Cohn Vargas, perhaps Norm Masuda).
Marilyn would be the one to ask for sure; firstname.lastname@example.com
Thanks for the info, parent. I asked Marilyn Cook where I could access the application and she said that for 5 cents a page they'd copy it and make it available for pick up.
She also wrote that the grant proposal that was submitted no longer reflects our current status, (hmmm, was it an accurate reflection when it was submitted?) and that they're in the process of finding out what kind of flexibility the District might have in modifying the proposal.
Thanks Yet Another Parent for taking the time to check with Marilyn Cook on this. I hope a few parents will just go the extra effort to get a copy of the grant and give it a read.
Its astounding what the grant writers put in that grant, especially since the terms of the grant specified that the grant award would be matched by district funds, and that the grant application became a binding committment if the district accepted the award.
What or who gave the staff the authority to puff up the project like this and to make a committment of this magnitude? The BOE didn't - they approved a FLAP grant application for the small scale PACE MI proposal. Nothing like what ended up in the grant!
Of all the things that is most infuriating about the whole disgusting MI process has been the blatant arrogance of the staff that are supposedly the stewards of our district.
BOE: WHERE IS THE INVESTIGATION??? Why is this being tolerated?
Are you referring to the Trust investigation that Camille stated on the record in January was not a trust investigation at all but just an inquiry into how we could all feel a little better interacting with each other -- since there was nothing done by the superintendent or her staff that would have caused anyone to have any concerns about their trustworthiness. . .
Parent is referring to the difference between how the grant application describes the MI program and reality. Big Gap. Read the first couple posts on this thread by parent of Another Palo Alto neighborhood for background. It does seem to merit investigating, but since there's so much money at stake I doubt anyone in the district will make waves about it.
The cost for getting a copy of the complete grant app. is $1.85. Check with Linda Dillon, first initial last name at PAUSD.org.
One thing I'm seeing over and over again is the effect of the big cuts in newspaper staffing--these stories should be investigated, not just feebling reported with a phone call, but really examined--but with the big staffing cuts at the Merc and the Chron, you're just not going to see it. I don't think Susan Hong has the experience or the toughness to do an adversarial story. By which I mean a story where she's asking questions people don't want to hear. But she's green.
The Merc has no excuse for the editorializing it's been passing off as reporting. I mean, ugh.
I'm confused. If this grant is for encouraging language education for our district, shouldn't we be using it to develop a language program for ALL the students? I mean, wouldn't it be perfect as a means of getting FLES off the ground? Or better yet, an after-school elective fluency program as someone described earlier, using Yew Cheung School's methods?
Everyone has griped about the expense of getting FLES going, doesn't this help solve that problem? If Dana Tom and Mandy Lowell are to be believed, the district is committed to making FLES happen, so that's not a problem in regards to matching funds from the district.
It's clear this MI program was going to be railroaded through with or without the federal grant; the grant is intended to foster language education where it wouldn't happen otherwise, isn't it? It seems perfect to apply to getting language for all students in the district, not just a handful who were going to get the education with or without these funds.
Am I missing something?
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It's not just the gadflies who are irritated by what's happening. Some city officials are scratching their heads over the design of the latter building. Arthur Keller, a member of the Planning and Transportation Commission, compared 801 Alma on Wednesday to a fortress.
"Especially the little windows," Keller said. "They look like someone will shoot arrows, as in one of those fortresses that you find in Europe."
Now, the city is preparing to reverse this trend. In April, four council members released a memo calling for a re-examination of sidewalk widths and building designs on El Camino, Alma and other busy stretches that have small sidewalks and large buildings. In the memo, Mayor Greg Scharff and council members Karen Holman, Gail Price and Greg Schmid pointed to a climate of "consternation in the community" and a "strong negative reaction by members of the public as to how close these new buildings are to the street and how the buildings turn their backs on the public right of way" due to their sheer massiveness. The buildings, the memo notes, are often characterized as "unfriendly and overwhelming."
On Wednesday night, the city's two main development-review boards met for their first discussion of the topic. Though members of the Planning and Transportation Commission and the Architectural Review Board expressed diverse and often divergent views about how to deal with the problems of narrow sidewalks and uninviting buildings, they all agreed the subject is critically important and will take many more meetings to come up with solutions.
"Eventually, it's going to ... lead us to some new El Camino Real design guidelines," said Lee Lippert, vice chair of the architecture board and former planning commissioner. "It's really a leading piece here to what we want El Camino Real to look like."
One thing most commissioners agreed on is that existing design rules could use an upgrade. Randy Popp, a member of the architecture board, advocated for incentives that would encourage developers to abide by new design guidelines.
"The goal here is to cause change and to create the space that we're dreaming about to get these wider sidewalks, to get a more robust canopy along El Camino, to make it safe and to make it a focal point of our community and really a destination that people seek out," Popp said.
These incentives could include allowing greater building heights on El Camino in exchange for larger setbacks to allow more generous sidewalks, Popp said. Keller rejected this idea and cautioned that larger buildings would negatively affect adjacent homes.
But everyone was open to at least exploring changes to design criteria, which include existing rules that force developers to build close to the road. Clare Malone Prichard, who chairs the architecture board, said the city should allow more flexibility in its design guidelines for El Camino. Under existing laws, buildings have the same setback requirements, whether they are retail strips, small motels or housing complexes with bedrooms on the ground floor. That should be changed, Malone Prichard said.
"I'd like to see some more flexibility in the rules that really appreciate the different uses," Malone Prichard said
She also agreed with Popp that the city should explore new incentives for developers to build farther from the road rather than rely strictly on new rules.
The discussion over rule changes and incentives is unlikely to be resolved any time soon. But commissioners and board members agreed on Wednesday that they should evaluate what other communities have done to create vibrant boulevards. Planning Commissioner Alex Panelli encouraged his colleagues to do some research.
"My concern is that we're sitting here sort of in our ivory towers pontificating on what we believe the right code provisions will be that will compel this change to occur," Panelli said. "I think that's perhaps a bit unlikely. I think the market will do what the market will do given whatever the rules are there."
The idea of taking a step back and evaluating other communities' work caught on, and the meeting adjourned with an understanding that staff will meet with chairs of both bodies, which will reconvene for another session within two months.
Much of the analysis about what should constitute the "Grand Boulevard" has already been done. A coalition of cities and counties from along the El Camino corridor have spent years working on the "Grand Boulevard Initiative," which aims to revitalize this critical thoroughfare between Daly City and San Jose. The initiative's vision statement is: "El Camino Real will achieve its full potential as a place for residents to work, live, shop and play, creating links between communities that promote walking and transit and an improved and meaningful quality of life."
Among its proposals is an 18-foot sidewalk, far larger than the 12-foot sidewalks in Palo Alto's stretch of El Camino.
But the effort to promote vibrancy by encouraging people to travel using alternatives to cars has run into some roadblocks. Each of the cities along the way has its own vision for the corridor, which creates a challenge for regional planners. A recent proposal by the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority to dedicate lanes on El Camino to buses fizzled last year after several cities, including Palo Alto, voiced concerns about possible traffic problems.
Keller warned on Wednesday that the city should tread cautiously when considering any plan that would reduce the number of lanes on El Camino. He pointed to Menlo Park, where a lane reduction causes bottleneck traffic during busy commute hours.
Others emphasized the need to make El Camino more bike friendly. Eduardo Martinez, who chairs the planning commission, argued that in Palo Alto, as in other cities, "the idea of the importance of the automobile is losing a little bit of its grip." Mark Michael, vice chair of the planning commission, agreed and said improving El Camino means making conditions safer for non-drivers.
"I think ultimately the quality of the experience on El Camino and other thoroughfares is going to be raised to the extent that we transition out of automobiles and to other modalities," Michael said.
What do you think should be done to turn El Camino Real into a "Grand Boulevard"? Voice your thoughts on Town Square, the discussion forum on Palo Alto Online.
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The Danville Police and Fire Departments will be on hand at CV's Family Foods at 712 E. Eighth St. in Danville for its first Boots and Badges fundraiser.
"It's our first time and we're excited about it," Rick Padgett, Danville police chief, said. "It's something I've always wanted to do, so when the opportunity came up, I jumped on it."
The officers and firemen will hold boots and buckets outside the food store from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. collecting donations for the athletes of Special Olympics Arkansas.
"I've always been involved in sports," Padgett said. "I enjoy working with kids and special needs kids have a special place in my heart. They deserve the same opportunities to participate and excel that everyone else has."
The Special Olympics is the world's largest program of athletic training and Olympic-style competition for children and adults with special needs.
Special Olympics Arkansas serves more than 14,000 people statewide.
"Competing makes them feel special," Padgett said. "It makes you feel good to watch them do something they love."
Because it's the first time Danville Police and Fire Departments are conducting the fundraiser, Padgett said he doesn't have a specific goal.
"I don't know what to expect," he said. "I created an event on Facebook that has gotten a lot of attention and we are trying to get the word out. One thing is for sure, Danville will step up."
For more information, call Padgett at 495-2121 or visit www.specialolympicsarkansas.org.


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Anyone knows what movie is at 6:06? Looks like Rocco.
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the girl in the first thumbnail???
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i would ask the same thing...
what is the song that is playing?
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Who is the name of girl in 2:08?
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It's Portishead. The song is Small and it is from the album Third.
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song... Portishead - Small
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Fractured rib shelves Edgin; Feliciano promoted
By Chris Iseman / MLB.com
NEW YORK -- Since being recalled from Triple-A Las Vegas in June, Josh Edgin emerged as a reliable reliever for Terry Collins and the Mets. On Friday, the lefty learned his season would be interrupted for a considerable amount of time.
After Edgin underwent an MRI on Friday morning, it was revealed he had a stress fracture in the eighth rib on his left side. The Mets placed Edgin on the 15-day disabled list and called up Pedro Feliciano, who pitched for the club from 2002 to '10, to fill Edgin's spot on the roster.
There's no definitive timetable for Edgin's return.
"They don't know exactly how long. I've heard four weeks, I've heard six weeks," Edgin said. "You don't know exactly how long it's going to take for a bone to heal."
Edgin said he first felt pain when the Mets were in Pittsburgh from July 12-14, but figured it was just a normal ache. He also said it wasn't an issue when he was on the mound in subsequent games, but rather once the adrenaline wore off after games. It would be especially painful in the mornings before he loosened up.
But since he was pitching well, Edgin, who's allowed only two runs in 23 outings since joining the Mets on June 10, wanted to pitch through it.
After pitching in Miami on July 29, though, he couldn't do that any longer. It hurt more than it normally did, and Edgin decided to go through with the MRI that showed the fracture on Friday. Edgin said he doesn't know what caused it.
"It kind of caught me off guard this morning," Edgin said. "I'm kind of thinking, 'All right, let's just take a couple days and get it healed back up.' I found out otherwise."
Edgin said it's frustrating to go on the DL since he had been giving the Mets solid performances out of the bullpen. Since being called back up to the Major Leagues in June, Edgin was 1-1 with a 3.77 ERA in 34 games.
Meanwhile Feliciano, who hasn't pitched in the big leagues since 2010, will take Edgin's spot in the bullpen. With Double-A Binghamton, Feliciano had a 1.26 ERA in 14 games before being promoted to Las Vegas on July 23.
Feliciano had only thrown two scoreless innings in Triple-A.
He signed a two-year contract with the Yankees in 2011, but persistent shoulder problems never allowed him to pitch in the Major Leagues.
Feliciano led the National League in appearances from 2008-10 with 266.
Pain in the neck: Stiffness keeps Parnell out
NEW YORK -- The Mets are without their closer as Bobby Parnell continues to deal with a stiff neck.
Parnell first experienced the pain during the Mets' road trip in Miami this week, but the problem hasn't subsided. Mets manager Terry Collins said Parnell has seen the doctor and received medication to "quiet the area down," but Collins doesn't expect to have Parnell until Sunday at the earliest.
But Collins also said Parnell won't be re-examined again until Monday.
In the meantime, David Aardsma, who has 69 career saves, will close out games for New York. LaTroy Hawkins will continue to pitch the eighth inning, Collins said.
"We've got David Aardsma who has closed in the past," Collins said. "So we'll probably use him right now, leave Hawk where he is. He's done such a great job in that eighth inning."
Parnell last pitched on Tuesday, closing out the Mets' 4-2 win over the Marlins to earn his 22nd save this season.
Collins shuffles Mets' lineup in search of spark
NEW YORK -- Searching for a way to get his lineup to produce some runs, Mets manager Terry Collins shuffled his lineup for Friday's game against Kansas City.
Collins moved second baseman Daniel Murphy down to the fifth spot, and first baseman Ike Davis down to seventh. Center fielder Juan Lagares hit second, where Murphy had been hitting.
Davis is hitting only .224 with one home run since being recalled from Triple-A Las Vegas, where he was sent to fix his swing and correct his issues at the plate, on July 5.
"I respect the fact that he's working on some things," Collins said. "He's trying to see pitches longer, he's trying to get a better ball to hit. Right now we need to drive in some runs."
The Mets have scored only two runs in their last two games.
Collins is hoping moving Murphy to the heart of the order helps turn that around. Murphy has been on a tear at the plate, hitting .337 with six doubles and 19 RBIs in his last 24 games. He also has at least one hit in 20 of those games.
"Murph is swinging good," Collins said. "I always thought no matter what, if it was a different situation where Ike was out, Dan Murphy's a perfect guy to hit down in that spot."
Lagares has also been producing, hitting .404 since July 9.
"We've got four guys in a row with 50 RBIs," Collins said of the middle of his order. "I kind of liked the way that looked."
Worth noting
• Terry Collins said lefty Jon Niese will throw a bullpen session at Citi Field on Sunday, and will then make another rehab start. Niese, who's been on the disabled list since June 21 with a partial tear of his rotator cuff, pitched four scoreless innings for Class A St. Lucie on Thursday night. He allowed two hits with one walk and four strikeouts.
Chris Iseman is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Eastern Michigan University Athletics, Pakmode Media + Marketing and LaFontaine Automotive Group are proud to announce the 2012 WINCAR promotion.
EMU will be giving away a brand new 2011 GMC Terrain to one lucky Eagles fan, compliments of LaFontaine Buick GMC of Ann Arbor.
Each home football, men's or women's basketball ticket purchased counts as one entry to win.
Tickets MUST be purchased via emutix.com using the promotional code "WINCAR" to count as an entry.
As an added bonus, tickets purchased using the "WINCAR" promo code will be at a $5 discounted rate.
"We couldn't be more excited about this new partnership and giveaway with EMU Athletics," said Emmanuel Boykin, Executive Manager of Lafontaine Buick GMC of Ann Arbor. "This is a great opportunity for EMU fans to win an amazing vehicle, and for us to introduce ourselves to the Ypsilanti community as the premier dealership in Washtenaw County."
Bilal Saeed of Pakmode Media + Marketing helped facilitate the deal between EMU Athletics and LaFontaine.
"LaFontaine is an established brand in southeastern Michigan but new to the Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti community and we felt that this promotion would be mutually beneficial and life-changing for one of our fans. It's not everyday you can spend $5 to win a $30,000 vehicle."
Students must purchase tickets to enter giveaway, using student ID will not count as an entry. Any tickets purchased not using the "WINCAR" promo code will not count as an entry.
There are no maximum entries as fans can purchase as many tickets as desired.
The promotion is open to all students and fans above the age of 18 (employees of EMU athletics, EMU Dining and Concessions, EMU Convocation Center and EMU Communications and their relatives are ineligible).
You must be a U. S. citizen or have a social security number to be eligible to win.
Winner must have valid driver's license and proof of insurance and will be responsible for paying the taxable amount of the vehicle.
The giveaway will take place at the Feb. 23 men's basketball game.
Attendance is not mandatory, but suggested.
Visit www.lafontainegmcannarbor.com for more information on the 2011 GMC Terrain.
LaFontaine is the Official Car Dealership of EMU Athletics.
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Orlando SentinelR. Chris Bosh made his announcement on ESPN. Said hes joining Wade.
SVG: Well, hes been following him around for two weeks like his lapdog. So that doesnt really surprise me.
R. What does that do to that team?
SVG: Certainly theyre, they were good anyway. Theyre a team that was, the last two years was a number 5 seed and now they just added one of the best forwards in basketball. As far as a straight one-two punch that compares pretty favorably to Kobe and Pau Gasol. Its right there. I think theyre instant contenders. I dont think theres any doubt. Theyre instant contenders to win an NBA championship. It makes them very, very good. Its not like theyre done. Theyve got a lot of money to put pieces around them. I dont care, right now, I can tell you theyll get good enough pieces that theyre instant contenders.


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BCD 158.1 Carnegie
How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie. Read by Andrew MacMillan. 10 discs. 10+ hours.
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The 3rd Alternative: solving life's most difficult problems by Stephen R. Covey. Read by Boyd Craig. 3 discs. 3+ hours.
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Every Day a Friday: how to be happier 7 days a week by Joel Osteen. Read by the author. 8 discs. 9+ hours.
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The Great Crash Ahead: strategies for a world turned upside down by Harry S. Dent. Read by the author. 10 discs. 10+ hours.
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The Price of Civilization by Jeffrey D. Sachs. Read by Richard McGonagle. 8 discs. 9+ hours.
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The Wizard of Lies: Bernie Madoff and the death of trust by Diana B. Henriques. Read by Pam Ward. 13 discs. 16 hours.
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The Global Achievement Gap: why even our best schools don't teach the new survival skills our children need – and what we can do about it by Tony Wagner. Read by Paul Costanzo. 9 discs. 10+ hours.
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The Big Roads: the untold story of the engineers, visionaries and trailblazers who created the American superhighways by Earl Swift. Read by Ron Shapiro. 11 discs. 13+ hours.
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Choosing Civility: the twenty-five rules of considerate conduct by P.M. Forni. Read by David Drummond. 4 discs. 5 hours.
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The Hoarder in You: how to live a happier, healthier, uncluttered life by Dr. Robin Zasio. Read by Cassandra Campbell. 6 discs. 7+ hours.
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Rin Tin Tin: the life and the legend by Susan Orlean. Read by the author. 10 discs. 12+ hour
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The Entrepreneur Equations: evaluating the realities, risks and rewards of having your own business by Carol Roth. Read by Mike Chamberlain. 8 discs. 9+ hours.
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Burns and Allen: Home Fires. 8 radio episodes on 4 discs. 4 hours.
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Holidays in Heck by P.J. O'Rourke. Read by Dan John Miller. 7 discs. 7+ hours.
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