Fwd: Mark Rylance Comes to Homestead!

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From: John

Come one, come all, see Mark Rylance and friends in Homestead!  Should you not know who Mark Rylance is:  British-born and American raised, Mark Rylance is the world's foremost Shakespearian actor.  He was the artistic director of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London from 1995 to 2005.  His lengthy stage credits include two best actor Oliver awards in Britain and three Tony Awards for best actor on Broadway.  In 2016, Rylance won the Academy Award and the BAFTA for best supporting actor for his portrayal of Rudolph Able in Stephen Spielberg's Bridge of Spies.  In 2015, Rylance appeared on TV as Thomas Cromwell in the BBC miniseries Wolf Hall, for which he received Emmy and Golden Globe nominations . . . and more.  You don't want to miss this opportunity.  Tickets now available:  $20 to $50.

 

John

 

 

July 6, 2017, at the Homestead Carnegie Music Hall     MARK RYLANCE & FRIENDS:  SHAKESPEARE and THE 1892 BATTLE OF HOMESTEAD Actor-activist--playwright Mark Rylance comes back to Pittsburgh to perform some of his favorite speeches from Shakespeare, as well as revisiting resonant words, characters, songs and situations leading up to the 1892 battle, joining with his co-writer Peter Reder, local actors and musicians.       Join the Battle of Homestead Foundation on this important day, July 6, 2017, as we commemorate the Battle that took place 125 years ago at the Historic Pump House, on the shores of the Monongahela River.   Click on the Link Below:       FRIDAY, JUNE 30 7:00 PM. MEET. GREET. COMMEMORATE. WITH ACTOR-ACTIVIST-PLAYWRIGHT MARK RYLANCE. The Meet. Greet. Commemorate event with Rylance as guest of honor, features light fare, drinks, and music led by local musician Jason Kendall at the historic Bost Building (the 1892 workers' union headquarters), 623 East Avenue, Munhall, PA 15120. Rylance will meet guests, who can also tour the steelmaking exhibits and artifacts at the Bost. Silent Auction and ticket revenues go to the non-profit Battle of Homestead Foundation, to continue to preserve and share this dramatic history with future generations and bring interested visitors to this area. TICKETS: $150. Click Here       Copyright © 2017 Battle of Homestead Foundation, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you signed up for updates from the Battle of Homestead Foundation. Our mailing address is: Battle of Homestead Foundation P.O. Box 339 Homestead, PA 15120 Add us to your address book Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list

Public Feedback Desired for PPS School Improvement Plans -- via PPS Press Release

For Immediate Release Contact: Ebony Pugh 412-529-3616

Public Invited to Provide Comment on School Improvement Plans for 2017-18 School Year

Revised School Improvement Plans Outline Goals and Strategies for 16 Schools

Pittsburgh PA, May 22, 2017- The public is invited to provide comment on the revised school improvement plans of sixteen schools. All District schools, except for Pittsburgh Colfax and Pittsburgh CAPA are Title I schools. Title I schools may be designated as Reward: High Achievement (Top 5% in State), Reward: High Progress (Top 5% Growth), Focus (Lowest 10% State), Priority (Lowest 5% State) or no designation based on 2016 Pennsylvania System of School Assessment (PSSA) and/or Keystone exam results. Focus and Priority schools must revise and submit a school improvement plan to the Pennsylvania Department of Education by June 30, 2017.

Revised School Improvement Plans Outline Strategies for 16 Schools

Eleven schools received a Focus designation: Pittsburgh Arlington PreK-8, Pittsburgh Arsenal PreK-5,Pittsburgh Carrick High School, Pittsburgh Langley K-8, Pittsburgh Lincoln PreK-5, Pittsburgh Miller Prek-5, Pittsburgh Milliones 6-12, Pittsburgh Montessori PreK-5, Pittsburgh Morrow PreK-7, Pittsburgh Spring Hill K-5 and Pittsburgh Woolslair PreK-5. Five of the District’s schools awarded a School Improvement Grant – Pittsburgh Brashear High School, Pittsburgh Faison K-8, Pittsburgh King PreK-8, Pittsburgh Perry High School and Pittsburgh Westinghouse Academy 6-12 - received the automatic Priority designation.

For more information about Title I Designations visit http://www.pps.k12.pa.us/Page/4110 .

School improvement plans for the District’s Focus and Priority schools outline goals and strategies that will be implemented during the 2017-18 school year. Prior to submission of the plans, the school plans will be available on the District’s website for a public review and comment period until June 21, 2017. All stakeholders are encouraged to review the proposed plans and submit feedback by completing a survey available online at http://www.pps.k12.pa.us/SIPlans. Parents may also email their school’s principal.

Comments may also be submitted by:

• Submitting an e-mail to title1@pghboe.net;

• Signing up to speak at the June 20th Board Public Hearing

• Submitting comments via U.S. Mail to:

School District of Pittsburgh
Attention: Title Programs Office
341 S. Bellefield Avenue, Room 436
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

STEM and Educational insights - Groundhog Day

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From: John H

I have been reading a particularly interesting book, The Battle for Homestead – 1880-1892: Politics, Culture and Steel, which documents enormous similarities between the Robber Baron era of the 1890s and the Neoliberal era of today. Many of these are highly disconcerting, but one, in particular, took my breath away:

In 1892, on the opening his first library in the United States in Braddock, Pennsylvania, Andrew Carnegie “elaborated on the moral, and indeed the very ethic of his library: ‘Useful knowledge’ did not embrace classical learning, what we today call the liberal arts. Rather, the ‘new idea of education’ was to concentrate, as the new library most assuredly would, on the study of business and science alone.” *

Can everyone, in unison, chant “teaching STEM.” This, of course, goes hand-in-hand with downplaying and ignoring the liberal arts. The idea then, just as it is today, was to create a culture of compliant skilled workers who would readily follow orders without questioning the rationale or the authority of leaders. In other words, educated drones, capable laborers never encouraged to think for themselves. To the extent that this succeeds we will all be the worse for it. I don’t for a minute suggest that we do not teach STEM courses, but that we should never give up teaching HISTORY, SOCIAL SCIENCES, CLASSICAL LITERATURE, ART and MUSIC.

Betsy DeVos, for all I am concerned, can go straight to HELL for what she and the Trump Administration are attempting to do to education. And, never forget, the move toward vouchers and private charter schools started in the Bill Clinton administration and has been supported by mainstream Democrats since then – it’s not just the Republicans! But without a good understanding of history; without the learned ability to think for one’s self which comes, one hopes, from a good liberal arts education, any hope for the continuation of a free republic are doomed.

The Great Depression stopped the Robber Barons for a while, will it take another such calamity, or worse, to stop the neoliberal robber barons of the 21st century?

* The Battle for Homestead – 1880-1892: Politics, Culture and Steel, Paul Krause, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1992, p.232.


John

Fwd: FW: PAA Benefit

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From: John H

Workers at the Pittsburgh Athletic Association (PAA) have had their pensions stolen , their health care illegally cut, their paychecks bounced, and they even had union dues deducted that was never remitted to the unions. These workers have retained legal assistance to try and recoup their stolen wages and benefits. Please join us for an afternoon of acoustic music and poetry by PA's most renowned poet, Sam Hazo. Show your solidarity to these workers, they have been abandoned, and need our support.

John

Fwd: Telling it like it is . . .

John H wrote:

Chris Hedges has just come up with perhaps the best analogy to the situation in the United States today . . . and it's not encouraging.

John

Link to article:

• The death of the republic. 

Moody and Associates, Inc. Opportunity

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From: "Dave Johnson" <dave@johnsonjobs.com>

Hi,

I have an opening for a Water Sampling Technician (Entry-Level) with Moody and Associates, Inc. in Houston, PA that I thought may interest you. If you'd like to proceed or learn more about this opportunity please follow the link below:

Water Sampling Technician (Entry-Level)

Moody and Associates, Inc.

Moody is seeking an entry-level Water Sampling Technician for our branch office in Houston, PA. Primary responsibilities consist of collecting surface water flow data and data entry. This position requires extensive physical activity and navigating rough, uneven terrain. Field work is conducted throughout the year and includes working in a variety of weather conditions. Candidates must be able and willing to work independently in the field in outdoors and rural areas.

Thanks for taking your time with this. If you feel this would be a better fit for someone you know please pass this message along.

Regards,

Dave Johnson
1112 Montana Avenue
Santa Monica, CA 90403

Welcome to the real world

Fwd: How to adapt your running pace on hills and in headwinds (real numbers!)

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From: "Mikael Eriksson" <mikael@scientifictriathlon.com>
Date: May 20, 2017 12:31 AM
Subject: How to adapt your running pace on hills and in headwinds (real numbers!)

I recently came across some very interesting findings that I wanted to share with you: How running uphill and into headwinds affects the energy cost of running (ECOR). And more importantly, what does that mean for running pace. What is the ideal pace change when some nasty race director puts a hill or a headwind in your way? The data I'm about to share comes from white papers (here and here) published by Hans van Dijk and Ron van Megen. Hans is a scientist and retired professor from the Delft University of Technology and Ron is an engineer. The pair has authored the book "The Secret of Running" which I just ordered and can't wait to sink my teeth into. Running hills: The (theoretical) energy cost of running increases by 4.5% per percent grade of the hill your running up. This means that if your pace on flat ground is 5:00 / km (8 minute mile pace), and you come to a 3% hill (which isn't steep at all), your pace should become 5:41 / km (9:08 mile-pace). The math is (1 + 0.045 x 3) x 300 s/km = 341 s/km = 5:41 / km. Hans and Ron tested the theoretical model in practice (see the white paper). They used the Stryd running power meter and could confirm these results.  Running into headwinds With wind the theoretical model gets much more complicated. The energy cost of running increases as the square of your running velocity plus the wind velocity. And what's more, the power required to overcome air resistance itself changes. See the white paper for more details.  But as a practical application example, say you're running at 3:58 pace (6:23 mile-pace) in still conditions. And then you turn into a 15 km/h headwind (~9 mph). Your pace now should become 4:24 (or 7:04 mile pace). If you turn into a tailwind, you can increase your pace to 3:48 (6:06 pace) at the same energy cost of running (and same power).  Again, Hans and Ron tested this in practice. In this case though, we need more testing to verify how accurate the model is. At the moment, running power meters don't take winds into account when calculating running power. At least Stryd doesn't, but they're working on it. Wrap up My guess is that although you decrease your running pace on hills and in headwinds, the changes you make are not this dramatic. I know that's the case for me at least. (Which is one of the reasons why I finally caved and ordered a Stryd unit for myself...) My challenge to you is to try and think about these things on your next run. Slow down properly on hills and in headwinds. Try it out for size and see how it feels. Does it affect the overall quality of your run? Now over to you, let me know how it goes! Train smart, Mikael PS. Have you been staying on top of recent podcast episodes? Since my last email, the new episodes that have been released are listed below. You can listen to them or just read the shownotes here. Open water swimming: training and racing tips with coach Brenton Ford | EP#18 Improve your triathlon running and give duathlons a go with Eric Schwartz | EP#19 Masters Athletes: How to minimize performance declines for the aging triathlete | EP#20 Mission "Grow Triathlon" with USAT president Barry Siff | EP#21 Performance nutrition for triathletes with Steph Saullo | EP#22 Run like sub-4 minute miler and pro triathlete Sean Jefferson | EP#23 And this coming week we have a couple of really great episodes coming out (aerodynamics and free speed on the bike with Nuno Prazeres, high-performance coaching with elite coach and USAT coach of the year 2016 Paulo Sousa), so do subscribe to the podcast on iTunes or your favorite podcast player app (I recommend Pocket Casts for Android users).

Kylatie, 10 A 1, 00320 Helsinki, Finland

Fwd: The 'Big Guns' are out against Trump

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From: John H

Jim Kavanagh, The Polemicist, one of the prescient bloggers around strikes once again with a post describing how the party bosses of both major parties (as well as their Israeli masters) are now leaving no stone unturned to somehow shove the Trumpster into the dumpster.  This will, of course, be a welcome relief to many of us should it occur; but it sets a very bad precedent because much of the push for this is apparently coming from the 'deep state' intelligence sector.  The rest of us will simply have to get used to saying President Pence; and it's not at all clear, to me at least, that this will be much of an improvement.

John

Article:

• Now They're Really Gunning for Trump

Fwd: Special Community Meeting Regarding The Pittsburgh Water & Sewer Authority (PWSA)

Please Join the Hill District Consensus Group  THIS Wednesday, May 17th For a Special Community Meeting Regarding The Pittsburgh Water & Sewer Authority (PWSA) Problematic & Water Crisis for Renters and Homeowners in Pittsburgh Where: Main Hill House Association, Floor 2 Time: 6-8pm (Doors open at 5:30pm) Special Guest  Dan Kusbit and Jann Chirdon Representative Speakers On Behalf of Chelsa Wagner, Allegheny County Controller & Don Driscoll, Community Justice Project Legal Representative Please RSVP by replying to this email so we can ensure that there is enough room for everyone.  Forward and share with everyone!! ~Human Rights Partnerships~ Northside Coalition for Fair Housing, Pittsburghers for Public Transit, Human Rights City Alliance Group, Hazelwood Tenant, Council, Homes for All, Action United, the University of Pittsburgh Department of Sociology.

Fwd: I Stopped Working Out Daily. Here’s What Happened.

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From: "Darius Foroux" <darius@dariusforoux.com>
Date: May 15, 2017 12:03 PM
Subject: I Stopped Working Out Daily. Here's What Happened.
To: <mark@rauterkus.com>
Cc:

Hey, how are you? I'm sitting in my backyard in the sun writing this email. I just came back from the gym. I love spring time. If you're a longtime reader of this newsletter, you might remember an article I published a while back about daily exercise. Well, I screwed up. I stopped. Want to know what happened next? Read this article (I also published a new podcast episode about it, the link is at the bottom). Enjoy! I Stopped Working Out Daily. Here's What Happened. Read this on DariusForoux.com For the past three years, I've been setting a yearly focus for my life. In 2014, I wanted to work abroad and travel as much as I could. In 2015, I wanted to read more than 100 books in a year. And in 2016, I wanted to work out every day of the year. I've done those things. I love setting a yearly focus because it gives you a clear idea of what you want to do with your time. You'll be surprised what you can do in a year if you put your mind to it. This year, my focus is to write more books (even tough it's not going great, I'm still working on that). But at the same time, I also don't want to stop reading and working out.  However, that's sometimes more complicated than it sounds. In January of this year, I got the flu. And when I came back to our family business, I underestimated how much work I had to catch up with. I also wanted to keep creating new content for my blog and online courses. I thought to myself: "I can't do everything, so I'm going to cut back on daily exercise." BIG MISTAKE Here's what happened. Instead of daily exercise, I went to the gym 2–3 times a week. And I ran once a week. (this was by the end of January) For the first few weeks, nothing was wrong, and I felt good. I was also productive. But by the end of February, that changed. I started feeling tired by the end of the day. Something that never happens to me. I also started writing less. I had a big buffer of articles, so I did post 2 articles a week. By March, I was at a productivity low. Fortunately, I always stick to my productivity system. I managed to get the minimum amount of work that's necessary done. But I stopped creating. I started watching Netflix in the evening. I even watched an episode of a TV show called 12 Monkeys. It was complete shit. I much more prefer to read a book before bedtime. So I got frustrated that I wasted my time. And when I'm frustrated, I start journaling and reflecting more. I looked at my habits. And I noticed I felt tired and got less work done. Why? The answer was: EXERCISE. Actually, a lack of it. By April, I shifted my focus again: Get back in shape. So that's what I'm doing now. And if you want to get in shape too, it's important to understand what you're aiming for. For instance, I'm 6"3 and 181 pounds. But that doesn't mean anything. Most common measures like the BMI are pretty useless because they don't say anything about your strength. To be honest, I don't care about measures or even my exact fat percentage. Instead, I look at my fitness and how it impacts my daily life. I want to: Run 10K without stopping for rest. Deadlift, squat, and bench press my body weight at least 8 times. And do at least 12 pull-ups. What's that based on? My body and experience. In fitness, there's no general rule. You must find your own goal. To me, a person should be able to at least lift or push the same amount as their body weight. That helps you to function properly in daily life. When you're in good shape, you'll have more energy and focus. Want to find your fitness goal? Read books about fitness and health, watch YouTube videos, talk to experts, and then create a program that's for you—not a 21-year-old body builder. Also, you don't have to lift weights. Find something you enjoy and challenges you physically at the same time. The cold reality is that if you don't use your strength and stamina, you lose it. But that doesn't mean you should neglect it. The same analogy that Zig Ziglar once used to stress the importance of motivation applies here: "People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing — that's why we recommend it daily." So if you're not working out every day, you're not doing yourself a favor. The quality of life decreases when you stop working out. And stop looking for silver bullets to feel better. I know, it's not advice most of us like to hear. Exercising is hard. But that's the whole point! The easiest solution for a good life is right at your disposal: Your body. Build it. Listen To My 5 Tips For More Effective Strength Training If you want to dig deeper into this subject, listen to my latest podcast episode. You'll learn: What effective strength training means How you can prioritize exercise Where and how you can educate yourself about fitness How to set goals for fitness Why diet is more important than working out Listen to the episode.   As always, thanks for reading and listening! I hope you found it useful. Talk to you next week. Stay smart, Darius Don't want to receive my practical articles in your inbox? Unsubscribe or Update.

Fwd: Perhaps it's time . . .

Article:

We need e & c in place of Prozac and Xanax

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From: John H

Perhaps it's time that we completely rethink our entire medical system – not just single-payer Medicare for all instead of big pharma and big insurance based platforms – but completely upend the entire the structure to the point where we recognize the inherent value of medicinals found in nature rather than simply relying on the 'integrity' and 'honesty' of the pharmaceutical industry and their medical cohorts to provide adequate treatments for our ills.  This is not as off-the-wall as it might first sound.  More and more research is confirming that many of the plant-based medicinals which have been utilized for centuries are just as and, in many cases, more effective than the concoctions developed by the drug industry and prescribed by physicians.  Not only are many of these so-called natural drugs more effective than their commercial counterparts, they are also safer for long-term use – and even, as the attached article explains, less addictive.  This would, of course, disrupt the fabulously financially rewarding for those involved in the never-ending pursuit of such 'illegal' drugs including CIA drug smuggling used to support illegal operations in foreign countries, not to mention the financial incentives for the private prison industry.

John

Fwd: Can it get any worse?

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From: John H

Attached are two articles discussing the current state of affairs and how it got this way.  I know that some of you will find the conclusions of the second to be distasteful, but sometimes the truth hurts and justifiably so.

 

Happy Mothers' Day!

 

John

Links

Deplorability Now

Audacity of Sleeze

On the road, again

Fwd: Find Out Why The New LIFE™ Rescue Tube Is Superior! Watch Now!

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Date: May 11, 2017 9:05 AM
Subject: Find Out Why The New LIFE™ Rescue Tube Is Superior! Watch Now!
To: <mark.rauterkus@gmail.com>
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