Most Popular Books by David Arnold

From the Flyin Lion and Friends series is a book that dads and moms alike who love the outdoors and fishing and want to share the value of honesty and family participation with their children using this story that includes fishing, family pets, humor, and a fun re-purposing of the classic 'just how big was the one that got away' fish story! Great idea for Father's Day / Mother's Day and gifting for a family that loves & lives outdoors and fishing. Bedtime/naptime. The Big Catch is the fifth book #5 in the series Flying Lion and Friends by David Arnold.

"Look at what you guys have started?come back here in fifty years and you won't believe what this has grown into."--legendary Husky rowing coach Dick Erickson in 1973, to Cougar rowers after a disappointing season of lossesHalf a century ago, Washington State University (WSU) civil engineering student Rich Stager watched Olympic rowers compete on television. Captivated, he decided to see if there would be any interest in the sport on campus. Sixty-three students and three potential advisors attended the inaugural meeting and founded the WSU Rowing Club.With help from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and WSU architecture students, the fledgling organization completed a boathouse in the spring of 1971. University of Washington coach Dick Erickson donated two well-worn practice shells, the 101 and the Winlock W. Miller. Few in the club had ever rowed, but they held their first race, pitting lower classmen against upper classmen, on April 22, 1972. A women's squad followed in 1974.The only varsity club on campus, Cougar Crew became a scrappy, tightly knit, intensely dedicated group. Enamored by the sheer grit of the physical challenges, the strong camaraderie, and the thrilling sensation of perfectly synchronized strokes, they continued to squeeze into vehicles and rattle through miles of wheat fields to the Snake River. For many, the experience was transformative.Athletics provided no funds, so the crew held an endless crusade of fundraisers-running car washes, selling buttons, and cleaning up after sporting events-while coaches agreed to work for a pittance, if they were paid at all. They also faced tragedies-including a heartbreaking fatal car crash and a savage windstorm that destroyed their first boathouse. Still, the team soon reveled in Pac-10 and national championships, 1979 Pac-10 Coach of the Year, and two former rowers who won Olympic Gold. Told by former WSU oarsman David Arnold, this is the captivating story of their first fifty years."I cannot imagine my life without having rowed crew at Washington State."--David Arnold

This is an autobiography by a schoolmaster looking back to his birth in 1933, one week after the Kray twins, and on through the war, life at school, the army and Oxford, to forty-two years working in schools and colleges. It may interest former pupils and staff of Christ's Hospital, where he went to school, Clifton College, where he started teaching, Quintin School, in St John's Wood, and Stowe, at both of which he was Head of History, King George V School, Southport, where he was the Headmaster, and Collyer's in Horsham, where he was the Principal before retiring in 1999.

There is growing concern that the rise of algorithmic decision-making can lead to discrimination against legally protected groups, but measuring such algorithmic discrimination is often hampered by a fundamental selection challenge. We develop new quasi-experimental tools to overcome this challenge and measure algorithmic discrimination in the setting of pretrial bail decisions. We first show that the selection challenge reduces to the challenge of measuring four moments: the mean latent qualification of white and Black individuals and the race-specific covariance between qualification and the algorithm's treatment recommendation. We then show how these four moments can be estimated by extrapolating quasi-experimental variation across as-good-as-randomly assigned decision-makers. Estimates from New York City show that a sophisticated machine learning algorithm discriminates against Black defendants, even though defendant race and ethnicity are not included in the training data. The algorithm recommends releasing white defendants before trial at an 8 percentage point (11 percent) higher rate than Black defendants with identical potential for pretrial misconduct, with this unwarranted disparity explaining 77 percent of the observed racial disparity in algorithmic recommendations. We find a similar level of algorithmic discrimination with regression-based recommendations, using a model inspired by a widely used pretrial risk assessment tool.

Pringles, a psychotic, serial killing clown and his demented brother, Uncle Creepy, embark on a journey to O. C. CA to retrieve his son's, Baby Pringles, VERY special 15th birthday present, after his best friend of four years is viciously thrown into the bonfire at his beach party! Captain Gloomshu is relentless in his pursuit of this deadly duo, in their wake of daring home-invasions, brutal road rage, ghastly road-side assassinations, disturbing sexual scenarios and horribly graphic homicides! The whole deadly circle of friends, Slappy the Also Clown and his two zany offspring, Snak-Pak & Neck-Bone, Bobby Gobbles & Willy Skwat, Humberto Perfecto and his gay lover Sippy-Cup, Flappy Jack, Sharon Needles and Father Dearhands all get caught up! As Baby Pringles and his fat, black, buck tooth girlfriend Propeesha, his hairless puppy Lupus, and his one true love Vanessa, all make their getaway, with hundreds of thousands of dads stolen drug money! All of them, unknowingly, on the Highway to Hell!

The purpose of this study was to conduct an exploratory examination of the attitudes of grade six children toward the playing of games, and toward rule changes that were made by the teacher or the children in these games. In order to conduct the study several instruments were developed: two Likert-type attitude inventories were constructed, the first dealing with children's attitudes toward the playing of games, and the second with children's attitudes toward the playing of games and rule changes. An open-ended interview schedule was compiled to supplement the attitude inventories. The sample consisted of 81 children from three grade six classes. Two classes from one school comprised the experimental groups and one class from another school was used as the control group. Prior to the treatment period the three classes were administered the "attitude toward the playing of games" inventory. For 12 consecutive lessons the control class participated in two traditional games and the experimental classes participated in two modified games where the teacher or the children made rule alterations. After the treatment period concluded the control class was readministered the "attitude toward the playing of games" inventory and the experimental classes received the "attitude toward the playing of games and rule changes" inventory. Interviews were also conducted with 12 children from the experimental classes. The pretreatment inventory data were subjected to alpha reliability procedures to help determine whether specific inventory statements could be grouped into a physical/ social or emotional category. A similar procedure was used for the experimental posttreatment inventory data with an additional fourth category, intellectual statements, included. Only those categories where the alpha coefficient reached .50 were accepted. A two-way analysis of variance was used to measure the Treatment Groups x Sex with repeated measures for the accepted pre and posttreatment categories pertaining to the playing of games. The Newman-Keuls procedure was utilized to compare mean differences between the three groups. The t-test method of analysis was used to examine differences between the mean scores of the experimental children on accepted experimental posttreatment categories. In all cases the level of significance was chosen at 5 percent. The findings indicated that the physical and social categories could be used to analyze the children's attitudes toward the playing of games. A significant sex difference was found regarding the social category with the girls indicating a more positive attitude toward the social aspects of playing games. Participation in the modified games did not change the attitudes of the experimental children toward the physical or social aspects of playing games. The physical, social and intellectual categories could be used to analyse the experimental children's attitudes toward the changing of game rules. There was a significant difference between the two experimental classes regarding the social aspects of changing rules. The majority of the interviewed experimental children indicated that they like playing modified games where rules could be changed, and their attitudes toward games had been favourably altered as a result of playing the modified games.