Fwd: Our Changemakers celebration is just weeks away

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A look at some of this year's Changemakers awardees

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Honoring Our Changemakers in Pittsburgh Public Schools Join A+ Schools for our annual Changemakers Celebration to honor teachers, parents, volunteers and students who make a difference in Pittsburgh Public Schools.  The Pittsburgh Promise will be recognized as the Changemakers Organization of the Year, but there are many others who will be honored during the celebration. Among the honorees are: Tina Russell and Dr. Barbara Rogers, both of whom will receive the Ella Baker Leadership Award.  Ms. Russell, a parent volunteer at Pittsburgh Arsenal, was described as a thoughtful, reflective and inspirational leader who provided others with the courage to become advocates.  Dr. Rogers, a volunteer at Pittsburgh Linden, started the Reaching Outstanding Achievement Results (R.O.A.R.) initiative to help students reach literacy goals.  Come out and cheer on the awardees.  The event will be held at the August Wilson Center for African American Culture, 980 Liberty Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, Downtown on Thursday, June 22, 2017 from  6:00 to 9:00 p.m.    Click here to get your tickets today! Youth Promise Night Join TeenBloc for Youth Promise Night to learn more about the Pittsburgh Promise and supports that exist to help students overcome barriers to qualifying for the Promise. The event will be held at St. Paul AME Church, 400 Orchard Place, Pittsburgh, PA 15210, Beltzhoover, today, May 31, 2017 at 5:30 p.m.  Click here for more information. Recap: Vote School Board First Thank you to all of the volunteers and coalition partners who made the Vote School Board First campaign a success!  Here are some of the campaign highlights: 56 volunteers and staff members out on election day covering 61 polling places There was a less than 5 percent gap between those who showed up to the polls and those who voted for school board on election day 16 media stories about the Vote School Board First Coalition in radio, print, TV  Over 10,000 people received candidate guides from the coalition  The website received over 2,000 hits  Over 100 people attended the candidate forum, with 700 people watching some portion of it the night of the event via Facebook Live Click here to view the full Vote School Board First campaign report. Welcome, Kirk Kirk Holbrook, recently joined the A+ Schools Board of Directors. Mr. Holbrook works for State Representative Jake Wheatley, Jr. and brings over a decade of experience working with and advocating for urban communities and vulnerable youth.   Mr. Holbrook is a former member of the A+ Schools staff. Learn more about him here.   ESSA Parent Advocacy Training Pennsylvania PTA is hosting an advocacy training for parents and other concerned stakeholders to learn more about the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) and how to develop skills to advocate on behalf of children. The workshop will be held at Pittsburgh Science and Technology Academy, 107 Thackeray Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15260 on Saturday, June 3, 2017 from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.  Click here for more information. PRYSE Fundraiser PRYSE Academy will hold a fundraiser to help support its fifth year of providing summer programming for Pittsburgh's refugee and immigrant youth.  The fundraiser will be held at Wigle Whiskey's Barrelhouse & Whiskey Garden, 1055 Spring Garden Avenue, Northside, on Friday, June 16, 2017 from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m.  Click here for more information. A+ Schools | 412.697.1298| Email | www.aplusschools.org STAY CONNECTED:

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Fwd: Apply now for EPLC's 2017-18 Education Policy Fellowship Program!

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Subject: Apply now for EPLC's 2017-18 Education Policy Fellowship Program!

Apply Now for EPLC's 2017-2018 PA Education Policy Fellowship Program! Applications are available now for the 2017-2018 Education Policy Fellowship Program (EPFP).  The Education Policy Fellowship Program is sponsored in Pennsylvania by The Education Policy and Leadership Center (EPLC). Click here for the program calendar of sessions. With more than 500 graduates in its first eighteen years, this Program is a premier professional development opportunity for educators, state and local policymakers, advocates, and community leaders.  State Board of Accountancy (SBA) credits are available to certified public accountants. Past participants include state policymakers, district superintendents and principals, school business officers, school board members, education deans/chairs, statewide association leaders, parent leaders, education advocates, and other education and community leaders. Fellows are typically sponsored by their employer or another organization. The Fellowship Program begins with a two-day retreat on September 14-15, 2017 and continues to graduation in June 2018. Applications are being accepted now. Click here to read more about the Education Policy Fellowship Program, or here to see the 2017-2018 program calendar.    The application may be copied from the EPLC web site, but must be submitted by mail or scanned and e-mailed, with the necessary signatures of applicant and sponsor. If you would like to discuss any aspect of the Fellowship Program and its requirements, please contact EPLC President Ron Cowell at 717-260-9900 or cowell@eplc.org.

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Mark Rauterkus Perhaps my posting sustains the conversation. "Let them do the talking" comment attacks me, and the irony and your message and the reality of my freedom-based principals and ballot-based deeds is noted, Jagoff.

Fwd: Very concerning. Trump needs a good war and Pence is waiting in the wings to lead it.

https://youtu.be/09di2xWG_1s

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From: John H
Subject: Very concerning

Watch this!  Real New Network interview with Larry Wilkerson.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09di2xWG_1s

John

Raspberry Pi and LiveCode

From a public list and a message from Richard Gaskin:

Subject: Raspberry Pi help needed soon

 From this morning's news:

   Raspberry Pi is merging with a coding foundation
   Together, Raspberry Pi and CoderDojo hope to reach 185,000 young
   people in more than 100 countries all over the planet.
<https://www.engadget.com/2017/05/26/raspberry-pi-coderdojo-merge/>

This is a great move for both orgs and their audiences, but implies a
risk for LiveCode platform adoption in further consolidation of
entrenched support for Scratch and Python.

This suggests that the sooner we can get an updated functional build of
LiveCode for Raspberry Pi, the better for both our beloved platform and
RPi users everywhere who currently have to struggle with the gap between
Scratch and Python.

A LC user on the Glitter channel mentioned working on a new build of LC
v9 for RPi, but requests for more info have not met with a reply.

We have a forum set up for coordinating these efforts but the two people
there who've expressed an interest in setting up a build system have run
into snags with compilation, and support from the LC core dev team has
not yet materialized:
http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=76&t=27912

If any of you know your way around a compiler and may be able to lend a
hand, it would be very valuable for the LiveCode platform to be able to
run well on Raspberry Pi as soon as practical.

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  Richard Gaskin
  LiveCode Community Liaison

Fwd: It's not gonna be OK!

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In this excellent essay Paul Street offers the best analysis I have yet come across concerning the aftermath of the election of Donald Trump and the attitudes and operations of the Democratic Party which led directly to his victory.  In this, Street does not pull any punches.  In particular he calls out the managerial/professional class of Democratic Party liberals for their studied disdain for working class Americans.  Street also provides a cogent explanation for why it will be particularly difficult for the Democratic Party to recover from years of dissing the lifestyles and values of many working class Americans.  It is a worthwhile read for the Memorial Day Weekend.

John

It is not going to be okay article.