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Can someone explain to me why the Yankees have decided to put crap on the field this season. For the 1st time in 20 years we go into a Season with no shot at winning a World Series. I didn't renew my ticket package this season. If Hal isnt going to put the best team on the field then im not paying that price for tickets. This team gets older and older with no injection of young talent. I get they want to reduce payroll but what happens when they do. Are they just going to go with a bare bones roster and sign every FA in 1 offseason U cant build a team like that.
I dont understand why Yankee fans are punished because Hal gave Arod a stupid contract that no 1 would of gave him. The majority of Yankee fans wanted him gone when he opted out. WTH are they doing at catcher are catchers are the worst in baseball. How are the Yanks scoring runs this season? They may be buried in May with Granderson out. I think this team could finish in last place in the AL East. Please someone tell me why this team will be better next year either as well. They dont want to spend money anymore . I wonder how Jeter and MO feel about their last seasons spent on a team that cant win for the 1st time in his career. Mo will retire they decided to let Soriano go which was fing stupid.


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On Tuesday evening at 7 o'clock sharp, more than 120,000 Iowa Republicans took their seats at caucus sites across the state to cast the first meaningful votes of the 2012 presidential race. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney edged former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum by a mere eight votes—the closest caucus in the state's history, and one whose result was decided at the last minute, by voters persuading other voters, through on-stage endorsement speeches and friendly conversations. It was hardly a perfect snapshot of the state's electorate—the inflexible caucus schedule meant voters had to choose between casting their votes and attending their son's wrestling meet or showing up on time for the night shift. But it didn't stop more than 300 voters from showing up at an evangelical church in the Des Moines suburb of Johnston, polling site for Polk County's 481st precinct. Five of them explain why they voted.


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The university's mobile technology includes a variety of modules including maps of campus, course listings, athletic schedules, campus directory and even an audio and video guided tour with GPS for prospective students.
"The use of the app depends on who you are. It's great for our students because it has library access, learning management system, you can check what assignments are in class," said Rob Nelson, the Director of Instructional Television Services.
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A Thanksgiving Message from President Ricardo Romo
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Dear UTSA Friends,
As we celebrate Thanksgiving, I think about a saying I read recently... Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but by how we react to what happens, not by what life brings to us, but by the attitude we bring to life.
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Throughout the year and particularly during the holiday season, I see many UTSA community members involved in charitable projects to bring more brightness to the lives of those who are less fortunate than we are. During UTSA's recent State Employee Charitable Campaign, our university again demonstrated record efforts to help those around us.
It is inspiring to see so many individuals and groups working to help make the world a better place. Thanks to everyone for your contributions to the community and to UTSA.
Harriett and I wish each of you a joyous and peaceful Thanksgiving. Please enjoy the company of your loved ones, be careful if you're traveling and take time to reflect on the many blessings for which we can be thankful.
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You'll get way more money in a private sale on the M&P, versus trading with a dealer for the Glock. I've done a lot of face-to-face sales in Arizona with no problems. Check your state laws to ensure you do everything correctly, though. Putting an ad up on this and other forums will usually enable you to sell the gun pretty quickly.
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In 1955, radio astronomers from the Carnegie Institution of Washington uncovered an enigmatic source of static coming from the planet Jupiter. Later, other astronomers linked the noise to Jupiter's moon Io, which acts like the coiled armature in an electric generator: As it moves through Jupiter's strong magnetic field, the satellite produces electric currents. These currents in turn power the radio transmissions and produce ultraviolet light when they strike Jupiter's atmosphere. Now Kinwah Wu of University College London and his colleagues believe they may have found a star system powered by the very same mechanism.
The system, called V407 Vul or, alternatively, RX J1914, was discovered during a routine x-ray survey of the sky. What is strange about V407 Vul is that its x rays oscillate with an extraordinarily short period—under 10 minutes. Such rapid-fire pulsations are normally taken as a signature for a "polar," a highly magnetic white dwarf star that pulls material from a nearby companion. This material is channeled along magnetic field lines into the polar regions of the receiving star.
In 1998, Mark Cropper, one of Wu's colleagues in London, led an effort to study this x-ray source, and his team identified its optical counterpart, which showed the telltale 10-minute oscillation. Strangely, they discovered, the peaks at optical (and infrared) wavelengths come when the x rays are turned off, and the troughs come when the x rays are at their strongest. Also, it lacks the signature of a highly magnetic white dwarf that is accreting material: a spectrum with helium emission lines and light that is optically polarized. These various observations—and non-observations—were "quite confusing at first," according to Cropper, who says that for two years he, Wu and Gavin Ramsay (another member of his team) "were thinking, 'What on Earth could explain this?'" Nothing, of course. But then Wu suggested that something on Jupiter might.
Just as the currents that Io produces cause bright spots on Jupiter, the currents created by the orbital motion of the nonmagnetic member of this binary star system could easily light up its partner. Doing the appropriate calculations, Wu realized that this mechanism can release huge amounts of energy. "The power can be easily brighter than the sun," says Wu, "even 1,000 times brighter." The 10-minute x-ray pulses of V407 Vul are thus explained by the electrically heated spot or spots on one side of the star swinging into and out of view. The optical oscillations likely arise when the x rays strike the inner face of the other star, heating it enough to give off light. That inner face is most visible to us when the x-ray spot is hidden, and vice versa.
Not all astronomers agree with Wu's idea, which was published in March in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. One disbeliever is Tom Marsh of the University of Southampton, who with colleague Danny Steeghs presented a competing model in the very same issue of that journal. According to them, V407 Vul is indeed sending material from one star to the other, which they call "a direct impact accretor." Instead of swirling around and enveloping the receiving star in a diffuse disk, the material can, according to their report, "plough straight into the accretor even in the absence of the magnetic field."
As with Wu's conception, the source of x rays in this model is confined to one side of the star. The accompanying optical oscillations might come from the heated face of the donor star (as Wu and his colleagues surmise), or they may emanate from the star that is receiving material. Like a figure skater bringing in his arms, this star presumably spins more and more rapidly as it pulls mass inward. And if it rotates faster than the orbital period of its companion, the spot heated by the impact of material moves. Real estate downstream of the point of impact will remain anomalously hot for a time, accounting, perhaps, for the optical emissions.
So who's right? Tod E. Strohmayer, an astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, has recently weighed in with what may be the key to deciding. Strohmayer studied the timing of the x-ray pulses in greater detail and found that the orbital period appears to be slowly decreasing. Strohmayer sees his work as an indication that Marsh and Steeghs must be wrong, because the accretion of material onto one white dwarf from another would lead to a widening of the orbit and thus a gradual increase in orbital period. Strohmayer's results are, however, consistent with Wu's model, which predicts that the orbit will decay slowly over time, shortening the orbital period.
Strohmayer is somewhat tentative, because magnetic effects of the donor star could complicate the picture and because the donor star might not be a white dwarf, as the short orbital period suggests and as Marsh and Steeghs postulate. Strohmayer even allows that the star may be a polar after all, in which case the pulses must reflect the spin of the receiving star, not the orbital period of the system.
With many questions left to answer, V407 Vul will probably continue to draw the attention of astronomers who study interacting white dwarf stars. But it may not be at center stage. Gian Luca Israel of the Osservatorio Astronimico di Roma and colleagues have recently concluded that RX J0806, another pulsed x-ray source originally thought to be a polar, may in fact be a white dwarf binary, and it has an even shorter period—just over five minutes. In the time it has taken you to read this story, those two stars may have fully circled each other.—David Schneider
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The Hearthstone Championship Tour (HCT) European Spring Playoffs will take place this weekend, 20-21 May 2017.
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The top 64 point earners, and ties, from the EU server will be joined by 8 Tavern Hero tournament qualifiers for the event, which will be played in esports bars across Europe. If you want to attend one of the events to cheer on your local favourite, the list of locations can be found here. There will be side events for anyone wishing to attend, with Blizzard prizes available for winners, and the Power Core cardback for all attendees.
The point standings, showing the top 64, can be found here. As usual the event is stacked with many of the big names from the region. The top four will advance to the HCT Spring Global finals next month.
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There's a new update arriving in the coming weeks and it's going to bring a much requested feature to HS: completing quests while playing with your friends! The other big feature coming with this update is importing decklists, allowing you to easily copy and share your favorite decks without resorting to screenshots or outside sites! No specific ETA has been given and if you want to know all the details check out the announcement post below.
Blizzard (source)
Hearthstone's upcoming update has a lot of cool stuff in it, but we wanted to call special attention to a couple of features that we're particularly excited about. We think you'll like them too!
Friends Forever
When the new Hearthstone update arrives, you'll be able to complete quests in Friendly Challenges! Just issue a Friendly Challenge to someone on your Friends list and rack up credit for nearly any quest you can receive.
Last year, the Friendly Feud allowed players to complete quests when they played with a friend. You gave us a ton of positive feedback about that event, and a lot of you asked us to have Friendly Feuds more often. We thought that was a good idea, so we took it a step further!
There are some minor caveats. For example, any quests that can't be completed as part of a Friendly Challenge aren't eligible, such as those that require you to play vs The Innkeeper or watch a match. Most everything else is fair game though, so now you'll have a reason to make friends with a recent opponent that isn't just to send them a compliment.
Sharing is Caring
You'll soon be able to easily copy and share decklists with Deck Importing! No more screen shotting decklists, or staring at a web page as you carefully build a deck, card by card. Trying—and sharing—a new decklist will be as simple as copy and paste!
Here's how it works:
If your deck is already full, when you select the Hero portrait at the top of a deck in your collection, you'll see a Copy button*. Press that button and your decklist will be copied to your clipboard. If you paste your decklist into a text document, it will look like this:
Click to view sample decklist. See that conveniently highlighted 'code' near the bottom? That code also works on its own, making it easier to share a decklist with friends in chat or social media.
Importing a decklist is easy. When you go to create the new deck, Hearthstone will "know" when you've got a valid decklist on your clipboard, so you'll be asked if you'd like to create a new deck with the one you've got copied. Then you can watch your new deck be built before your eyes. You can also import decklists to Tavern Brawls!
Don't have all the cards a deck requires? No worries! In that case, it works just like a deck recipe. Any cards you don't already own will appear insubstantial and you can select them for suggested replacements. You might also notice that your golden and non-golden cards now stack in decklists too!
Deck Importing is great for finding and sharing new decks, but it's also helpful for managing your library of decks. Save the code for decklists you rarely use, and when you're ready to play one again, just copy and import it.
The new update including these features will arrive in the coming weeks. We're super excited about them, and we can't wait to hear what you think!
* Desktop users can use ctrl+c to copy a decklist (you'll get a confirmation when your copy is successful), then ctrl+v when viewing My Decks to import a decklist.


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Using a plank to grill fish keeps it from sticking or falling through the grate and imparts a subtle smoky flavor to the salmon. You could also use mahi-mahi or Pacific halibut in this recipe.
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This First Amendment "Freedom of the Press" stuff has gone too far! The Founders surely didn't anticipate telegraphy, radio, fax, television, or the internet. Given the power of the printed word, it's only reasonable to control the press.
How about a five-day waiting period before printing news? And newspaper registration - "the pen is mightier than the sword", newspapers can damage people's reputations and livelihood, you know. Newspapers should be kept away from children, who are impressionable and might believe what they read. And should a newspaper be stolen and someone act unlawfully on the information given within, the reporters and publishers should personally responsible.


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A 4 yr old def needs to be in a car seat or at least a booster seat. There are laws about height and weight requirements. Hope if you ever have kids you do some research.
But I'm not surprised jenelle's kid isn't in one. I am shocked to see little Bentley riding a friggin' mini bike already. There's enough dangerous things in this world and I'm disgusted to see parents deliberately adding aspects of danger in their kid's lives.
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Remember how I said that Lawrence, Kansas is a secret hub of science fiction and fantasy awesome? Meet Kij Johnson, KU's new fantasy professor, an award-winning writer of fantastic things, and one of the people that makes the city such a great place for us geeks. She'll also be at Oxford this January for the inaugural Pembroke Lecture in Fantasy Literature. I sat down with her to chat about her work, her books, grad school, and life in general.
She's got a new book out, a collection of short stories called At the Mouth of the River of Bees, and I'd recommend you go buy it even if she weren't a friend of mine. But since is a friend, I recommend you go buy two copies. Just a note of caution. This is fiction intended for adults. There's adult language and adult situations. Three words: alien tentacle sex. You read that right. And it's a story you'll want to read, or as she put it, "Want is such a subjective term — and by want you mean find yourself unable not to." She's not wrong there. Continue Reading "Making the Unreal Real: An Interview With Kij Johnson" »


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Locals return from missions trip, view life differently
Following an 11-day mission trip to Honduras, Riverview Church pastor Tristan Borland and 20 missionaries returned home feeling utterly blessed.
Borland was among six teens and 14 adults in the city of La Paz, Honduras, for 11 days helping with construction work, sometimes in blazing heat. Yet he and his fellow missionaries returned home feeling as if they received more than they gave.
"There's a lot of side projects that we got involved in and it really impacted us as individuals. I think we get as much or far more out of it than they do," Borland said.
Nathan Adkins agreed, saying, "Even though we went down there to help and stuff, I came back more changed than we might have left down there."
Adkins said that feeling comes from witnessing hardships that were virtually unimaginable before.
"You realize you aren't near as strong as you thought you might have been," Adkins said. "It's hard to come back and hear people say how much they need when they already have so much."
In spite of the hardships the missionaries witnessed, the people they met didn't behave as downtrodden. This characteristic helped the missionaries from Riverview look at things from a different perspective.
"When you go there you see the people don't have a lot of stuff, but they're always happy," said Brianna Adkins.
"I think my favorite part was probably the people. They were so generous and kind. Even though they had nothing, they would still love you even though they didn't know who you were," added Rachel Burns. "The people there are such a good example because they will love anybody no matter who they are or where they come from. So I think we need to learn to love the way they do no matter who they are or what they do."
The mission trip took place in a very poor section of Honduras, and those on the trip even had the opportunity to visit a ghetto within the city of La Paz.
This wasn't the first time Riverview Church parishioners had been there.
"This is the 11th time our church has gone to this city, so we have sort of a long-term relationship with the city and a specific church we partner with there," Borland said.
Among the duties Riverside missionaries performed were: concrete mixing, teaching English lessons and hauling concrete blocks. Much of this work, though not all, was done to help expand church property.
"Because there were 20 of us, most days we would send half of us to the school to help out, and send the others to another project, or to do different things," Borland said. "I felt like the work we did connected us to that church. It's a church that's really doing so many things for the community. To have that partnership is a beautiful thing."
Overall, those who attended the trip seemed to agree. The experience was beyond explanation.
"I think, until you've been overseas, it's hard to understand. If you've always grown up in Minnesota and you've never left the Midwest, there's a world out there that's hard to imagine. And you hear about poverty and statistics and you hear about other cultures, but until you go and walk and see these people, it's a whole different realization about what is going on in the world," Borland said. "I definitely think you come back and you're changed."


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There's a debate in a Reddit thread about 1WTC after someone posted a picture that his friend(who works construction on the building) took, and in the titel said "Freedom Towers".
A bunch of people corrected him, politely....and just mentioned that was a suggested name that was dropped about 6+ years ago, and that it's simply referred to by it's address "One World Trade Center" or 1WTC, as to pay tribute to what once stood there.
And so many people got so mad "WHY DO YOU HAVE TO CORRECT EVERYONE!! WHY DOES EVERYONE GET BENT OUT OF SHAPE!!! IT'S JUST A NICKNAME!! THEY CAN SAY WHAT THEY WANT!!"
umm...because it's politically driven. We don't need anymore of that. It's pretty simple. That's why the name was rejected. As a New Yorker, I know that nobody in the NY area calls it the "Freedom Tower"
It's just funny to me that people "get bent" about other ppl "getting bent" lol
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It's too bad, I'm too good....
We don't need a name for our resilience. You don't need to put a label on our will to survive, move on, and fight terrorism.
I mean, in my own opinion, the biggest **** YOU to our attackers is the fact that we DIDN'T change it.
but i digress, that sounded like a speech, and thats not my intention.
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It's too bad, I'm too good....
Basically what your saying is you dont want to entice them anymore? They hate us and want to destroy us regardless. and I think youre focusing on the name to much. You should be focusing on the newest and tallest building in NY, standing right were the towers stood. Thats our "**** you" to our enemies, along with our drone strikes
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Smartphones, mobile devices have become way to stay up to date with news
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - As we begin the new year, NewsChannel 3 took a look back at the top stories that shaped 2013.
Not everyone has time to sit down and watch the news or even log on to a computer to check the NewsChannel 3 website. Smartphones and mobile devices have become a way for viewers to stay up to date with local news.
For the first time, NewsChannel 3 decided to tally the number of times viewers clicked on stories while on the go.
11. Dos Pueblos yearbook
We start out countdown with a high school taking a yearbook into the digital age.
Dos Pueblos created an interactive yearbook where pages come to life with the use of smartphones and mobile devices.
10. Downtown chase
A wild chase through downtown Santa Barbara ended with a 19-year-old behind bars.
After running red lights and swerving through traffic, the chase ended with the driver crashing onto the sidewalk.
No one was hurt.
9. Brian Tacadena
Many people turned to their mobile devices to learn more on the late night officer involved shooting where Tacadena was killed after confronting a police officer with a knife.
Whitnesses said they heard up to five gunshots.
8. Isla Vista earthquake
A 4.9 magnitude earthquake near Isla Vista made people grab their phone to see what was going on.
7. Edwin Garcia
Garcia, 15, was hit and killed by a train in Goleta.
The community rallied behind the family to help pay for funeral expenses.
6. Paul Walker
The untimely death of Fast and Furious actor and Santa Barbara resident had many people searching online for answers.
Walker was killed in a fiery car crash. He was 40 years old.
5. Isla Vista Halloween
As thousands of people piled into Isla Vista for Halloween, many people read about the October parties.
After 225 people were arrested, many residents pitched in to clean up the mess.
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She was pushing a stroller at the time and the toddler was seriously injured.
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Mallory Dies, 27, was hit by a car while crossing the street in downtown Santa Barbara.
She died days later.
Raymond Morua, an aide for Congresswoman Lois Capps at the time, was charged with murder. He was allegedly driving under the influence of alcohol.
2. Khalid Hurst
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A play off the popular number Too Legit to Quit by the preeminent MC Hammer, this phrase is used with pride by classy ladies (and some men) to describe their aversion to public toilets.
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Haris Pilton, upon seeing a disgusting and desecrated stall: "OMG! I'm Too Legit to Sit, use the damn paper you rat whores!"
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The Digital World 2012 – Knowledge to Prosperity conference in Dhaka, Bangladesh 6-8 December was an amazing mashup of private sector, government and civil society united in their interest in ICT for development. As coordinator of APC's End violence: Women's rights and safety online project, Jan Moolman presented Take Back the Tech! in a session spotlighting tech-related violence against women.Full article at http://www.genderit.org/articles/digital-world-2012-stories-end-violence-against-women


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#1 Wed 21 Mar 07 11:39pm
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Cooking with diabetes
Hi all,
My first post, is going to hopefully be an interesting one. In Canada, it is getting to the point that 10% of people are diagnosed, undiagnosed, or pre diabetic. To me that is an epidemic. Blame fast food, computers, video games, not enough time to exercise..and all those factors.
I was diagnosed last year, when ut almost killed me. I spent 2 months in a surgical ward, with plenty of time to think about it all. When I came home, and had the ability to cook again, I told my wife to get me a Jamie Oliver, a Gordon Ramsey, a Mario Battali and a Emeril LaGasse cookbook. Her jaw dropped, as she thought I would ask for a diabetic recipe book, nutritional and calorie counting books...
As a chef myself, although been in a different industry for about 8 years, I turned my lemons into a fine lemonaid..with Splenda..no sugar..and a trist of raspberry and mint. I DID get the calorie counter book, and the nutritional information book, and I have begun to replicate as many recipes as possible in all of these books, inclusive of the alcoholic beverages in Jamie's book, and adapt them to a diabetic diet.
There is no such thing as a diet..with diabetes..it is a lifestyle, where you make choices. I have been able to keep my glucose levels in VERY good shape, and lower my insulin intake, by substitutions of whole grains and flours, Splenda, yellow vegetables and cuts of meat. And I think I am representing most of the recipes in a grand way.
JAMIE.....THANKS FOR THE INSPIRATION..... Jamie makes me want to cook..not bury my head into a bowl of salad. I am considering starting up a catering company, and meal planning company, that fully works with low carb/sugarless and diabetic menus.
Nice to meet you all.
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Re: Cooking with diabetes
Glad to see you getting inspired.. I have diabetics in my family & I know that after first being diagnosed they were paniced into eating really healthy stuff for a while but it wears off & they slip back into poor eating habits...
Good luck with your adventure
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Re: Cooking with diabetes
Yeah..I have luckily had enough fear/trauma to not slip back. With the candy tha is available, and Splenda in the softdrinks..I miss real fruitjuice the most.
One important thing, is to eat a little bit here and there of the bad thngs, so you do not feel you are missing out and binge. My daughter will have a cokie or cake, and give me a bite, and I am fine going back to my sugarless 70% cocoa chocolate.
One thing..diabetic chocolate, is DELICIOUS, as it cointains a large amount more cocoa content, and is more of a dark chocolate. The ice cream bars can be amazing.
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Beloved Former Paly Principal Dresses Down School Board and Superintendent Over PR Hire
Original post made by Silence Dogood, Another Palo Alto neighborhood, on Apr 10, 2013
Pearson stated that she was "puzzled and dismayed" by the decision to hire a PR officer, arguing that public communication is the job of the senior staff. According to Pearson, the Superintendent is "hired to represent the District," and it is "unnecessary to layer another person in the mix." Rather, she urged the board to "hold your administrators responsible for communicating effectively."
Pearson also recalled that during an earlier period of austerity the PR officer was the first person to be fired as unnecessary, a decision she agreed with, and she argued that the district had much better things on which to spend $150K, urging the board to,"Ask any teacher how $150,000 might be used to support teaching and learning in the classroom. I doubt you will find any who would opt for a communications officer."
Pearson's letter to the Board was sent nearly a month ago on March 17. It mysteriously turned up as an attachment to the packet for last night's meeting. There was no discussion of the PR hire and there was no mention of the letter.
Pearson's views echoed those of many community members who objected to the hiring ofa PR officer in the wake of the recent district civil rights scandals. The district recently posted a job advertisement for the PR officer, in which it solicited applicants who had a background in fields that included "marketing" and listed as a primary job responsibility to "promote a community climate of support for the district" and to "cultivate" stories in media that portray the district in a positive light."
Here is a link to Pearson's letter: Web Link
The full text of the letter is below.
To : Dana Tom, President, Board of Education
Barb Mitchell, Camille Townsend, Mellissa Baten-Caswell, Heidi Emberling
Date: March 17. 2013
I served as Principal of Palo Alto High from 1987 to 1994 and again from 2002-2004.
Since retiring, I have chosen to remain silent on PAUSD issues. My husband and I have
lived on Stanford campus for nearly 45 years, and we have continuously supported our
schools. Our two daughters went through the public school system, and we now have
grandchildren who will benefit from Palo Alto's good schools. We have a long and
profound interest in your allocating school resources wisely.
When suddenly we experience higher than expected tax revenues, the generous parent
community(PIE) raises over $4 million for the schools, or an anonymous donor
contributes millions of dollars for facilities, it is of utmost importance to recognize the
value of community support. Establishing trust and transparency are critical aspects of
leadership within our District if we expect to parents and community members to
continue to support our schools.
Your decision to create a $150,000 communications officer has puzzled and dismayed
me. If the administrators are fulfilling their job responsibilities, they are the ones in the
best position to communicate with the public. They are inside the issues. They are hired
to represent the District. It is unnecessary to layer another person in the mix. When I was
principal in the District, we had a communications officer. That position appropriately
was one of the first to be eliminated when cuts had to be made. I believe you are making
a mistake to allocate precious resources for a communications officer. I urge you to hold
your administrators responsible for communicating effectively.
Ask any teacher how $150,000 might be used to support teaching and learning in the
classroom. I doubt you will find any who would opt for a communications officer.
Sandra Pearson
691 Mirada Ave.
Stanford, Ca. 94305
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Apr 10, 2013 at 10:21 pm
Thank you Sandra Pearson for saying what needs to be said. I am so dismayed with everything that has transpired recently with the School Board and the administrators. Asking the district to hire what is essentially a PR person to put a positive spin on the shenanigans of Kevin Skelly and company is shameful. Ms. Pearson is calling for transparency just as the members of WCDBPA have been calling for. It is now time to say ENOUGH! It is time for that investigation that Ken Dauber has been advocating for. We indeed can do WAY better in Palo Alto.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Apr 10, 2013 at 10:49 pm
Sandra Pearson is 100% correct.
a resident of another community
on Apr 10, 2013 at 11:57 pm
I do not know if the 150k PR postion was manned, already. I do not know if the following posting is an addition to the 150k postition discussed? - Web Link
a resident of Palo Alto High School
on Apr 11, 2013 at 12:06 am
I believe the school district has to hire a PR person just to handle the negative impact that WCDBPA is having on our schools and our town.
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a resident of Palo Alto High School
on Apr 11, 2013 at 12:35 am
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a resident of Adobe-Meadow
on Apr 11, 2013 at 7:31 am
[Portion removed by Palo Alto Online staff.] WCDB formed to address these issues, and now we have finals before break, a homework policy, and counseling reform at Gunn. In only 2 years we have progress on issues that have been stuck and made no progress ever since I can remember and I have lived here for 40 years.
Blaming WCDB for the district's bad decision to hire a PR person is silly and shooting the messenger. It's not even shooting the right messenger, since without the Weekly WCDB would be irrelevant and no one would ever have heard of it. It's because the Weekly covers the issues that WCDB raises that they are community issues. It's because the Weekly reported on the bullying story, which it seems that WCDB did not have any role in before the fact (correct me if I am wrong). The Weekly makes a lot of freedom of information requests, catches Skelly in constant lies and cover-ups, and tries to hold the board responsible. Sounds like what a paper should do. If we had less lying, less cover-ups, and more responsibility we wouldn't need a PR officer. WCDB has nothing to do with it. Kudos to the Weekly for holding their feet to the fire.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Apr 11, 2013 at 8:17 am
Blame game - I think you're giving all the credit for the positive changes in the district to WCDB... and that's simply not true.
a resident of Adobe-Meadow
on Apr 11, 2013 at 9:01 am
I think I just gave much of the credit to the Weekly. You are so blinded by irrational bias against these good citizens who give totally selflessly of their time to find and analyze data, suggest policies, serve on committees (homework and Gunn counseling), and so forth that you can't give them any credit for being the important impetus to change that they have been. They were willing to tell the truth even though it earned them a kind of public attack usually reserved for criminals. In fact, I will venture to say that Ken Dauber has been more criticized, and unfairly so, than Kevin Skelly [portion removed by Palo Alto Online staff] failed at his job. He should have been fired just for failing to tell the board about two separate OCR investigations and settlements. That's it, end of subject. He should have been let go. Everyone knows that the reason he hasn't been is that the board is spineless and inept [portion removed].
a resident of Duveneck/St. Francis
on Apr 11, 2013 at 10:29 am
Since Ms. Pearson is not a current administrator, let me give an fyi from someone who came in at the tail end of her professional work in the school district: this clearly was an outstanding professional school administrator and I respect her opinion.
Separately, I also oppose the hiring of a 150K/year + benefits PR person and think these minor tasks are included in the luxury position of our PAUSD administrator. This is an outrage to the taxpayers. Board of Ed, this was not your finest hour to vote for this ridiculous position of PR person.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Apr 11, 2013 at 11:40 am
@ Blame Game: What a great response!!!
@ Credit game? Are you serious? Without help from Ken Dauber and some of the people from WCDBPA perhaps some of the positives would have never come about. WCDBPA has never tried to take sole credit for any of the positive changes that have come about through collaboration with other people in the community who are equally caring but just haven't found it necessary to publicly align with WCDBPA.
I am not a member of WCDBPA but I proudly cast my ballot for Ken. I am currently rethinking whether it would make sense for me to jump on board the WCDBPA bandwagon as they seem to be one of the few community groups that is on an upward trajectory.
The longer Skelly is on board the worse this is going to get. I shudder to think of what the next revelation will be from Skelly that he withheld from the board (and the taxpayers of PA) because he was "too embarrassed". At the very least, the board needs to review his contract extension as it was rewarded without their knowledge of his deceptions.
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a resident of Adobe-Meadow
on Apr 11, 2013 at 12:15 pm
When Pearson agreed with the removal of the PR position during the last period of austerity, WCDBPA wasn't there. Since the new communication role is dealing with this one group who are effectively abusing process, the PR position is now a requirement. The cost of dealing with PPRs alone is sufficient to need this position.
a resident of Adobe-Meadow
on Apr 11, 2013 at 12:30 pm
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(1) public record requests are not an abuse of process, they are a tool provided by the state of California for citizens lift the veil of secrecy on the public's business; (2) WCDBPA hasn't sent a request in nearly a year, since they exposed the Superintendent's flouting of the school board's direction on Gunn counseling; and (3) PAUSD has handled public record requests with existing staff or part-time help. The Weekly and other journalists are filing public records requests (because they learn important and otherwise secret information by doing so), but it doesn't play as well to attack the press.
The truth is that this PR person has two jobs, both of them evident from the job description. The first is to boost community support for the superintendent and the board by planting positive stories in the press. The second is to provide a buffer between the superintendent and the press (that's the "tact and discretion" part of the job description.
Pearson is asking the right question: why does the board think that the highest and best use of $150k in taxpayer money is for PR?
a resident of Adobe-Meadow
on Apr 11, 2013 at 12:46 pm
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a resident of Adobe-Meadow
on Apr 11, 2013 at 1:20 pm
[Portion removed by Palo Alto Online staff.] No one is saying they aren't allowed to make the requests and waste district time. However the cost to manage these requests and deal with the astonishing amount of emails, etc. needs to be met somewhere.
Fishing expeditions are an abuse of process. It doesn't mean WCDBPA can't continue to do them as it is their right. Hence the requirement for a communications officer. Pearson must not realize the effort involved.
a resident of Adobe-Meadow
on Apr 11, 2013 at 2:45 pm
"times change" is misinformed. First, WCDBPA hasn't done a public records request in nearly a year, so using WCDBPA to justify a PR person (or as "times change" so delicately puts it, a "communications officer") is just obfuscation. Even the public records requests from the press (which "times change" is careful not to criticize) are not nearly so burdensome as to require a full-time, $150k "officer".
No, the real job of the PR officer is PR: trying to produce a positive impression of the board and superintendent in the press, and trying to run interference for a superintendent who regularly creates crises of governance and legal compliance. That, unlike responding to public records requests, is definitely a full-time job.
a resident of Adobe-Meadow
on Apr 11, 2013 at 4:23 pm
Times, why are you actively spreading lies and disinformation about WBBD? They haven't filed any requests in A YEAR. [Portion removed.] The WEEKLY has filed some. Know why? Because Skelly/Young/Reynolds lack transparency and are caught out by their PRAs. Catching this crowd in a lie is like shooting fish in a barrel. So long as we're talking about fishing, I am an accomplished fisherman and I want to know when "fishing expedition" became a metaphor for waste of time. Let me assure you when someone who knows how to fish goes fishing they know where the fish are, what kind of fish there are, how many fish there are, and how to tie the right fly. Maybe the district should stop stocking the pond, as my daddy used to say.
a resident of Old Palo Alto
on Apr 11, 2013 at 4:36 pm
I have a lot of respect for Sandra. I do wonder what has become of our school board.
a resident of Adobe-Meadow
on Apr 11, 2013 at 5:29 pm
I don't think that hiring a communications officer will garner the public support the district is seeking. The public wants the board to perform their proper leadership role in governing our district. Currently they act as a powerless advisory board to the superintendent as evidenced by no action taken in response to the cover up of the two OCR cases by the superintendent. If there was strong leadership and insistence on transparency from staff they would garner the public support they desire. The public is too savvy to be swayed by a fancy PR program. I agree with Sandra Pearson that we have higher priorities and that administrators ahould be capable of delivering clear communications.
a resident of Duveneck/St. Francis
on Apr 12, 2013 at 9:07 am
I donate a hefty chunk of change each year to PIE. I am not too happy that the school board is spending money on things like PR that could be spent on the things we are missing in our schools. PE, art, and music come to mind. The bargain is that we give generously through taxes and PIE, and the school district spends it on things that benefit our kids. Breaking that bargain like this is a very bad idea for public support. And yes, I get the irony that building public support is the reason for this PR spending.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Apr 12, 2013 at 10:50 am
@ Duveneck Dad: I, too, have been very generous in my donations to PIE. I most likely will not donate in the next couple of years as I think I need to save my money to help get some new Board Members inboard in 2014. I hope that the scourge of Skelly and his minions will be gone by then. The only board member that I held up some hope for to demand transparency and better leadership from the top has sorely disappointed me. That one was Melissa. The rest of the bunch appear to be spineless lackeys who when Skelly says "jump" they ask "how high?" I Have no respect for any of the current board.
Money talks. In this case, my money says bye-bye. I refuse to support the lies and deception of the current administration and board.
a resident of Adobe-Meadow
on Apr 15, 2013 at 8:16 am
So what was the letter doing in the packet anyway? Was it released by mistake? It seemed to have no purpose there. Did the staff post it accidentally? That seems likely. Perhaps this is another communications fail for which the new P.R. handler will be responsible. Maybe this is how they are handling PRAs now, by just posting them in random locations on the district website and letting the public stumble on them, like a treasure hunt.
a resident of another community
on Apr 16, 2013 at 1:04 am
@Wow - That is an excellent question! If you'll ever get the answer, would you kindly start a new thread, share the answer? or post the answer in a "high traffic", current thread?
a resident of Palo Verde
on Apr 16, 2013 at 4:24 pm
10-15 years ago, all letters to the board were regularly attached at the end of each board packet. At certain point the board must have decided that the letters create too much dissent, or something along these lines, so the practice stopped.
Still, until late 1990s, those "in the know" would routinely end their communication with the board with the phrase "please attach this letter to the board's permanent record" which would, at least then, cause those particular letters to be attached to the board packet.
My guess is that Sandra assumed her letter would be attached to the board packet, as was routine in her days. When it was not, she wrote to the board and requested that her letter be attached to the board packet.
In my personal opinion, routinely not publishing letters directed to the whole board (as opposed to those directed to a single member of the board) may be, perhaps, one of the reasons the board suddenly feels it needs a PR person ...
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Apr 16, 2013 at 8:43 pm
Get in the game. You know that the exodus of principals and other administrators in Kevin Skelly's six years is but one of many signs of a broken system. The suicides were an obvious sign that the board and senior leadership were incompetent. These latest special ed and OCR debacles should be the final straw. I cannot think of another nearby district whose citizens would allow this to continue. The board is unwilling to act. It's time to recall them. It's time to place Skelly and Young on administrative leave. Don't dip your toe in the water with a criticism of an obvious bad idea, the $150K of worthless PR, jump in and lead your community right now.
a resident of Adobe-Meadow
on Apr 16, 2013 at 9:29 pm
agree with Do More. Sandra Pearson was the finest principal Paly ever had. She would make a wonderful interim superintendent. She has integrity, she cares about kids, and she knows her way around a board meeting. Please Sandra, save us. Also, Susie Richardson. Please help us. Four CIVIL RIGHTS BULLYING COMPLAINTS? We need real, independent leadership.
a resident of Palo Alto High School
on Apr 16, 2013 at 11:08 pm
Sandra Pearson was an excellent principal. However, during her tenure there were a few suicides at Paly, also on the tracks. Was this her fault? No. The WCDBPA folks want Dr. Skelly to step down or be fired because of the suicides at Gunn 3 years ago. They blame stress from schools. They blame the lack of a TA system at Gunn. Paly had a TA system. I wonder if people would think this would make her incompetent to serve as superintendent?
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On the other hand, I wouldn't hold one person responsible for the suicides or for any of the bullying/harassment that goes on. I would hold the parents, the community and the schools responsible because we are not raising our children to be tolerant, empathetic, or accountable So rather than asking parents to give up custody of their children, or the community to disband, or for the schools to disintegrate, I would work towards making the situation better, starting with teaching kids when they are two and three, what empathy and tolerance is all about,
It seems to me that some people in this community feel all the problems would be made better by having the superintendent and others step down or be fired. I think the problem is much more complicated than that. Yes, OCR complaints have been filed. I think there has been counseling involved in this. If every case of discrimination/harassment/bullying that happens every day in every district and every community and business across this country and the world there would be millions of these complaints. We are all responsible for this. It's easier, however, to lay blame on someone else than to hold ourselves accountable for our behaviors and the behaviors of our children.
a resident of South of Midtown
on Apr 17, 2013 at 6:40 am
When I read posts like @parent's, I see how we have gotten ourselves into this through-the-looking-glass situation in which we accept professional school leadership that just isn't doing a good job. "Parent" is trying to turn a quite straightforward and not uncommon problem -- we have hired people who it turns out aren't really up to the job -- into a "complicated" problem in which the "community" is not "holding ourselves accountable" for teaching kids about about empathy and tolerance when they are "two and three" (!). There are a few inconvenient facts in her way, like OCR findings that these administrators violated the civil rights of a disabled child and didn't follow 504 procedures, and now more complaints -- but she handles those by alluding to some unexplained "counseling" that caused parents to seek (and get) federal protection rather than realizing that their problems were their own fault.
The rest of the stuff about suicide is a pretty nasty effort to smear both WCDBPA (which didn't blame anyone for the suicides but along with many others called for a stronger response to the tragedies) and Sandra Pearson.
Bottom line: getting kids to be empathetic and tolerant is an age-old task, shared by parents, schools, and the whole community. Following federal civil rights laws and clear procedures, on the other hand, is a straightforward task that our school leadership seems unable to manage. Holding them accountable for that isn't a mistake, it's the only thing that will work. Thank you Sandra Pearson for your efforts in that direction.
a resident of Adobe-Meadow
on Apr 17, 2013 at 7:42 am
"parent from Paly who sounds a lot like a particular lady from Marin" failed to tell anyone that in the link she posted about the 2003 Paly suicides, much of the very interesting article was about the role played by academic stress in suicidal thoughts and the effort that was then starting up within the community to take a hard look at that issue:
"The pressure to achieve and excel is omnipresent at the school known as Paly and situated in the shadow of Stanford University. Denise Clark Pope, a lecturer in the education department at Stanford and author of a book on stressed-out high school students, said there is irrefutable evidence that teenagers -- especially in high-achieving, wealthy areas like Palo Alto -- are feeling too much pressure.
"It's leading to health risks, such as (thoughts about) suicide, ulcers and anxiety," she said.
A study released in June by the Lucile Packard Foundation found that more than a quarter of 460 parents surveyed in San Mateo and Santa Clara counties were moderately or very concerned about their child feeling sad or depressed and that more than 10 percent reported their preteens had thoughts of suicide.
Philippe Rey, associate director of Adolescent Counseling Services, a nonprofit organization that works in Palo Alto schools, said for those already suffering from mental illness, the pressure of a community like Palo Alto can be almost unbearable.
Students themselves readily recognize the stress they feel. In a poll conducted by the school paper shortly after the first Paly student committed suicide, a third of 756 students said they felt very stressed and an additional 44 percent said they were somewhat stressed."
Read more: Web Link
Why did the Paly community focus in part on academic stress after the 2003 suicides? Because as Phillipe Rey, still the head of ACS, says in the article, "for those already suffering from mental illness, the pressure of a community like Palo Alto can be almost unbearable."
That is the same thing that WCDBPA has been saying for the last 2 years. It is the same thing that the PSN drafting committee said. It is common sense. Everyone but "parent from Paly who sounds a lot like a particular lady from Marin" understands this intuitively -- putting kids who are vulnerable under extreme stress can make them sicker and if they are impulsive, lead to terrible results.
Bullying is a kind of stress, as is sexual assault, as is too much academic pressure. There are other environmental stressors. Suicide is an extreme symptom of depression, and depression is exacerbated by environmental stressors. The point is that environmental stressors play a role in mental health. If you want to argue that environmental stressors play no role in mental health then CITE YOUR EVIDENCE FOR THAT IDEA. Otherwise you are just blabbering with no evidence and no one should listen to you at all.
Sandra Pearson is a wonderful principal. If you had ever even had a child at Paly which I strongly suspect you did not then you would know that.


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