Fwd: Calling Educators and Students

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From: The LiveCode Team

Want to learn LiveCoding at San Jose? 

Operation Education Do you use LiveCode in your Classroom? Maybe you've looked at LiveCode but you're not sure where to begin teaching or learning with it. We'd love to help you with that, and the perfect place to do it is at LiveCode San Jose, happening May 20th-22nd this year.  If you're already using LiveCode in your classroom - great! Maybe you'd like the chance to increase your expertise hands on and face to face with the experts? We've put together a package aimed at making the conference affordable for teachers and students. Students: You can get the whole package for just $99. This includes an hour of one to one time with one of our developers, where you can go over any aspect of LiveCoding you desire. Stuck on a project? Want some coding help? Bring it along! Check all the boxes in your ticket and use coupon STUDENT2019 to reduce the cost of the all-in package to $99. Come along and learn about LiveCode from the people that use it every day! I'm a Student Teachers: Get the all in package for 1/3rd off. Use coupon TEACHER2019 at checkout when all options are checked. PLUS if you want to bring 5 or more students, please contact us for a special package deal. Catch up with other teachers, learn how they use LiveCode, share your experience and exchange tips! I'm a Teacher Terms and conditions: educational orders must be placed with an educational email address eg ending in .edu or containing K12. Failing this we will contact you for proof of educational status such as a student or teacher card and reserve the right to rescind the order if this is not received within 7 days.  Share Tweet Forward Copyright © 2019 LiveCode Ltd, All rights reserved. You joined this list upon creating an account and confirming your email address at LiveCode.com. Our mailing address is: LiveCode Ltd 66 Albion Road Edinburgh, EH7 5QZ United Kingdom

Fwd: March 4 East Carson Street Task Force meeting

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From: Josette Fitzgibbons <JFitzgibbons@ura.org>
Date: Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 3:41 PM
Subject: March 4 East Carson Street Task Force meeting
To: Josette Fitzgibbons <JFitzgibbons@ura.org>

Please join us for the next East Carson Street Task Force meeting on March 4, 6-7:30 pm at the South Side Market House. Please see attached flyer for details.

 

Josette M. Fitzgibbons

Neighborhood Business District Manager

Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Urban Redevelopment Authority of Pittsburgh

200 Ross Street

Pittsburgh, PA  15219

 

412.255.6686 OFFICE

 

ura.org

launchpgh.com

 

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Mark Rauterkus       Mark.Rauterkus@gmail.com
Swimming and Water Polo Coach, Schenley High School, Pittsburgh, PA
http://CLOH.wikia.com
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Fwd: [Video Blog] VP Link; LC in Teaching

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From: The LiveCode Team <newsletter_no_reply@livecode.com>
Date: Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 1:01 PM
Subject: [Video Blog] VP Link; LC in Teaching
To: Mark Rauterkus <Mark@rauterkus.com>

New videos are available on our LiveCode youtube channel. Check them out!

YouTube Blog TWiL Try LiveCode LiveCode on YouTube with new videos released every week Making VPLink Winston Jenks talks about the making of VPLink, a LiveCode built system for testing large and complex engineering such as oil rigs and space shuttles.  Full Classes and Prizes: Cyril Pruzsko talks about going from 6 students to 30 in every coding class. Case Study: Using LiveCode for an interactive teaching app on mobile. Share Tweet Forward Copyright © 2019 LiveCode Ltd, All rights reserved. You joined this list upon creating an account and confirming your email address at LiveCode.com. Our mailing address is: LiveCode Ltd 66 Albion Road Edinburgh, EH7 5QZ United Kingdom Add us to your address book Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list.

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Mark Rauterkus       Mark.Rauterkus@gmail.com
Swimming and Water Polo Coach, Schenley High School, Pittsburgh, PA
http://CLOH.wikia.com
412 298 3432 = cell

Fwd: U.S. Imperialism is running rampant in Venezuela

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From: John H

Anyone who bothers to watch mainstream media news and particularly cable news is bombarded with endless propaganda about the dictatorship running Venezuela into the ground and creating misery for its people.   Perhaps I missed the disclaimer, but they don't appear to focusing on the right 'dictatorship' that is causing the real misery in that besieged nation.  That would be the United States and its military/security/corporate dictatorship which truly controls this nation with a heavy hand.  While we have elections in which candidates who receive the fewest votes manage to win elections, Venezuela has had elections which the world community had validated as some of the best and most honest in the world – multiple times in the recent past.  While, at the same time, the United States has been sending millions of dollars to opposition oligarchs in Venezuela in a twenty year effort to destabilize and overthrow a popular socialist government – and thus far has failed.  But one must ask just how much longer Venezuela can hold out against this illegal onslaught.  Here's hoping that the American people will catch on to this malignant deception and force our government to relent.

Attached is an exceptional essay by Jim Kavanagh explaining the situation now transpiring between the U.S. and Venezuela.  It is long and detailed, but I urge you to take the time to read all of it.  You won't regret the effort.

And, just to lighten the mood, I have included to cartoon below.

John

Article 1, The Siege of Venezuela and the Travails of . 542K

Article 2, Lessons from American Coups. PDF - 137k 

Fwd: Health update and SMM going away?

Big story. Had to share.

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From: Mike Dillard

Here's What Happened To My Health, And Why I'm Making Some Important Changes To SelfMadeMan Tomorrow... Hey Mark R, well this might just be one of the biggest and most personal updates I've ever had to write and share with you... Over the past few months, I've vaguely mentioned that I've been dealing some significant health challenges, but I haven't gone into any real detail. Well today I'm going to bring you up to speed, because it's forced me to make some significant changes to Self Made Man as a business that will take place tomorrow. I'm planning to do an entire podcast about what I've been going through once I'm back to normal and have a full story to share, but in the meantime, here's the short version… Six years of insane amounts of stress finally caught up with me on June 13th of last year, and it basically broke my nervous system, putting it into a fixed state of "fight of flight". As a result, I felt a little click in my brain one day, and lost my ability to physically fall asleep from that point forward. And when I say lost my ability to sleep, I'm not talking about difficulty, or even chronic insomnia. I'm talking about a physical inability to actually sleep no matter how tired I got. In fact, I went five straight days and nights without sleeping for a single minute no matter how many supplements or over the counter sleep medications I tried. Sleep deprivation is actually used as a form of torture by agencies like the CIA because the human body can only go 7-10 days without sleep before dying. And I got to that point. I can remember laying on my couch 5 days in, and realizing that if I couldn't figure this out in the next 2-3 days, I'd be dead. Imagine how you've felt when you haven't had sleep in 24 hours. Now imagine if that continued for a second day, and then a 3rd, and then a 4th, and a 5th… All without a single minute of sleep. I can tell you that the fear and frustration is maddening and incomprehensible. Thankfully at that point, my primary care doctor put me on a few medications like Xanax and Ambien which allowed me to get about 1-2 hours of "blackout" sleep a night, but I'd be up again as soon as they wore off. It wasn't real, restorative sleep though. It would allow my brain to turn off for 1-2 hours, but my body and nervous system were still firing away as if I was running away from a lion 24/7. By the second month, I was scared to death that things hadn't gotten any better. I spoke to doctor after doctor, and none of them had ever seen anything like what I was experiencing. I searched YouTube and Google for days, and once again, I couldn't find any answers or stories from others, which made things even worse because I felt completely alone and helpless. Hearing, "I've never seen anything like this before" from five different doctors isn't something you ever want to hear. I was afraid that I had incurred some kind of brain injury that was going to make it impossible for me to ever sleep again. Depression and the first thoughts of suicide I'd ever had started to creep in. If the problem continued, I had to come to terms with the fact that I'd probably end up disappearing from the world, and living with my parents, unable to function in any kind of normal capacity. And then in a moment of complete serendipity, I met a sleep doctor named Kirk and his partner Krisstina at Aubrey Marcus' house. It turns out that Krisstina had gone through the same thing 5 years ago. After 20 years of practice, she and I were the only two people Kirk had ever seen who had experienced this condition. It quickly became apparent that we were both cut from the same cloth. Our drive, ambition, and competitiveness drove our bodies past the breaking point. She felt a click in her head after speaking at an event, and couldn't fall asleep again for over a year. She ended up being hospitalized and nearly died as well. At some point, she'll join me on the podcast to share her story, but that night was a huge turning point for me, because she eventually found her way back to health, and back to sleep. I broke down in tears that night because meeting her gave me hope for the very first time in months. Since then, I've gone through neuro-biofeedback therapy, Trans-cranial Magnetic Stimulation therapy, 9 ketamine IV sessions, float-tank therapy, nightly meditation, hypnotherapy, MDMA therapy, traditional counseling therapies, dozens of blood tests, EEG's, NAD+ therapy, and all kinds of diet and nutrition regimens. Thankfully, things got a little better after the Ketamine sessions. I was able to work my way off the pharmaceuticals, and replace them with a combination of supplements and CBD products that have allowed me to get around 3-4 hours of light sleep per night. After talking to Krisstina and Kirk during these challenge, there wasn't a silver bullet that "fixed" her. It was a slow process of many different therapies that finally reset her nervous system. Today, I'm almost 9 months into what has been the single most difficult challenge of my life. For the most part, I've had to live as a hermit the past year, giving up any form of social life, selling my race cars, and doing everything I can to keep my employees paid and the podcast alive. But it has also been one of the most rewarding experiences I've ever had, because it was truly an intervention that finally forced me to deal with habits and traumas that put me in this condition. Without this experience, I'm confident that I would have never stopped the life of constant adrenaline and stress I'd grown used to for decades, which would have eventually led to a heart attack. It's forced me to give up caffeine, and alcohol. It's forced me to realize that life isn't about business, and it's forced me to change my habits and stories when it comes to success and money. As of today, I still haven't been able to fall asleep one single time without a handful of natural tranquilizers to calm my nervous system, but I've seen a good amount of progress the past few months. We'll be doing a brain MRI in the coming weeks to make sure there isn't anything serious such as a tumor that's behind all of this, and I'll be starting a few new therapies that should bring some positive results. At this point, my mind is mostly back, I can write the occasional email like this one, or record a short video, and I finally have enough energy to venture out of the house and take a short walk during the week. The work that I've done over the past 9 months will allow me to come back better, clearer, and stronger than I ever was before, just as it did for Krisstina, but I'm not there just yet. So what does this have to do with SelfMadeMan and the business? Well my vision for SMM when I started creating the platform and the classes two years ago, was to build it into a significant media/education company like SkillShare or Udemy. But the stress that I put myself through to bring EverGrow, and SMM to life almost killed me. So I've had to let go of that dream, and create a new one that acknowledges where I'm at today, and what I've been going through. Simply put, it is much more modest, but also more personal and meaningful. I'm letting go of the dream of building a $100 million publishing company, and getting back to doing what I love to do most… Personally learning, creating, and teaching. The single biggest joy and reward that I've ever had in life, is walking down the street, or through the hall of an event, and having someone walk up to me and say, "thank you, your book/course/videos changed my life". Sharing what I know so it can help others is what I'm here to do, so that's what I'm going to get back to. So what does that look like, and what does it mean for you? Well, the first thing that will be the most obvious, is that we're nuking the current SelfMadeMan.com platform next week. We spent over a year and $1 million building a completely custom platform that was designed to support millions of users. That platform costs around $30,000+ per month to maintain and develop, which isn't sustainable or necessary anymore. (And that's not including the content production which was about $10,000 per class). So we've spent the past three months migrating it to WordPress and ClickFunnels. From the outside, the platform will look 95% the same. Same format, catalog, class and podcast pages, etc. If I wasn't telling you about this, you probably wouldn't notice the difference. But it will take our development costs down from $30,000+ per month, to about $3,000. The biggest change that you will see, is that we're going to host the platform at MikeDillard.com, instead of SelfMadeMan.com, starting tomorrow when it goes live. Why the change? Well, my goal with SelfMadeMan was to build a brand and a company that I could eventually sell. That's why I'm not in any of the classes. But moving forward, all of the content I'm planning to produce will be done by me personally. I can't wait to get back to creating and contributing to the world. I have three books I want to write. I have over 100 YouTube videos mapped out, and a new course that I'd love to produce at some point this year as soon as my health allows for it. Everything I'm going to produce is going to be done by me, for you, so it only makes sense to build those assets and equity under my personal brand, because I'm never going to sell that work or the platform to another person or company at this point. If it's your name on the book, or you in front of the camera, you want to use that work to build your personal brand. Not a separate entity like SelfMadeMan. So that update will take place tomorrow, and you'll also notice some additional improvements… If you own List-Grow, 7FSP, or my Crypto course, those Master Classes will finally be available to you on the platform instead of through separate websites. You'll have one login, and access to everything in one place. Second, we're going to end all active monthly and annual subscriptions as of March 1st. We have 4-5 more classes that we're going to release once the new platform is up, and if you're currently a paid member, you'll be getting access to all of those. If you have a monthly or annual subscription in place, that will be cancelled on March 1st, so you'll never be billed again, but you'll continue to have access to all of the classes on the platform. Moving forward, we'll be offering them for sale individually, or as a complete bundle. Now as a part of this migration process, we'll be importing your contact information into the new system if you're a current customer. That means you're going to get an email tomorrow with a new password that you'll need to use to login. Obviously this is going to be a massive undertaking and I'm sure there will be a bug or two along the way, but we'll get those fixed as soon as possible. So that's what I've been dealing with for the past year in a nutshell. It's been an absolute nightmare in many ways, but also the single best thing that's ever happened to me in others, which I'll save for another chapter in this story :) Thank you for your patience, your understanding, and your support. Sincerely, Mike Dillard

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Fwd: Great News About Your Account, Mark!

Easier Student + Teacher Access + Amazon Gift Cards!

I'm excited to share that all of EVERFI's no-cost blended learning resources are now available via Clever, a single-sign-on and automatic rostering application!  

So What Does This Mean?

• You can now access EVERFI's over 20 digital activities/lessons through the PPS Student Resources page.

• Students can log into the program with a single click - no need for usernames/passwords

• You can add students to different programs with your rosters already linked!

Where and How Do I Find the Resources?

• Here are all of the program lesson descriptions linked!
• Reference this PPS Quick Start Guide FIRST
• Then check out this Quick Start Guide from EVERFI

Grab Your $30 Amazon Gift Card here!

Okay, that was a lot!  I hope you're doing a little dance of excitement - please reach out with how I can help!

Thank you!

Alyssa

Senior Technology Implementation Coach

Pennsylvania, West Virginia

T @mahramusalyssa

Fwd: WHO Nonfatal Drowning - Comments needed

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From: Rebecca Wear Robinson

The WHO has released the position paper on Nonfatal drowning.  Public comments needed!

Influence policy on Non-fatal Drowning today. Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. Your action is needed today: 1.  Review the newly released position paper on Non-fatal Drowning. 2. Comment on the paper on Non-fatal Drowning before 15 March 2019. 3.  SHARE this email with all of your colleagues in the field - on social media and by email.  #nonfataldrowning and #drowning Many thanks to our colleagues who worked on the report.  Consistency in terminology and sharing best practices are critical in ending drowning. Non-fatal Drowning Working Group Members: Dr Stephen Beerman Dr Joost Bierens Dr Tessa Clemens Dr David Meddings Dr Aminur Rahman Dr David Szpilman Background on the Position Paper from Dr. David Meddings of the WHO: "You may know that there has been discussion within the global drowning community aimed at improving the use of the phrase "non-fatal drowning". Based on these discussions a Working Group was established to carry this issue further. A very productive meeting about this topic was hosted by the Drowning Prevention Research Centre Canada in Toronto during August 2018. That meeting resulted in the Working Group developing a proposed categorization framework for non-fatal drowning. A few months were needed to further tweak the language and develop a users guide annex for the framework. The Working Group has agreed as part of our discussions in August last year that the Position Statement of the Working Group should be made available for public comment. Accordingly, the Position Statement along with a link for providing reviews has been posted on the WHO website at the following link: https://www.who.int/violence_injury_prevention/drowning/non-fatal-drowning/en/ The Position Statement is available for review until 15 March 2019. On behalf of the Working Group I would like to ask you to please take the time to download and review the Position Statement. My colleagues on the Working Group as well as myself would also be very grateful if you would please circulate this email widely within your networks."  follow on Twitter | friend on Facebook | forward to a friend  Copyright © 2019 Lioness Protects LLC, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because we work together to end drowning. Our mailing address is: Lioness Protects LLC 312 Park Ave Unit 84 Clarendon Hills, IL 60514-040

Fwd: [Art-All-Night] Art All Night 22 Planning committee meeting

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Greetings Art All Nighters,

Art All Night is embarking on its 22nd year of celebrating art, music, and performance in a free, non-juried, non-censored show!

It will be held at the end of April in a location to be determined. Art All Night needs one thing in order to be successful: a planning team of dedicated people to take on the responsibilities required for show preparation.

Art All Night Planning Members:

• meet most weeks from now until the end of April.
• meet Saturdays in April to prepare a warehouse.
• take on decision-making roles for certain aspects of the show.
• are not alone-- members support one another and each have a voice.
• work outside of meetings to fulfill responsibilities.
  

Being part of the team takes work, but it is also genuinely rewarding and super fun. If you are curious about learning more, come to the kick-off meeting:

First Planning Meeting
when: 7 pm on Wednesday February 13th
where: The Shiloh Building basement, 3832 Mintwood St, Pittsburgh, PA 15201.

         *** Note that this is a different location than previous years. Please enter through the door off of Mintwood Street that has a white Art All Night Sign on it.

Any questions or comments? We would like to hear from you. Please email info@artallnight.org or visit www.artallnight.org.

If the planning team is not for you, know that you are still needed! Over 250 volunteers help out during the event. Volunteer sign up information will be sent out in early April.

Twitter: http://twitter.com/ArtAllNight
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/artallnight

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Fwd: Lifeguard certification class for 15 and older anyone welcome

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Hello, We have a lifeguarding class for new and re-certifications April 12-14th. This is open to anyone 15 years or older. Feel free if you know anyone who might want to be a lifeguard to pass it along or anyone who needs a re-certification before the summer.  See below for more details. Thank you, Mike Kristufek MLAC General Manager   LIFEGUARDING CERTIFICATION COURSE With CPR/AED and FIRST AID TRAINING American Red Cross-Certified Course Instructors – Alycia Miller Program Location: Mt. Lebanon High School, 155 Cochran Road, Pittsburgh, PA 15228 American Red Cross Program --- Lifeguard Certification Program Dates: Session 1: April 12th-14th 5:00pm-9:00pm Friday, Saturday and Sunday 8:00am-5:00pm                                 Click here to register Qualifications/Requirements: Applicant must be at least 15 years old as of May 20th (proof of age required) Applicant must have the ability to swim 300 yards freestyle/breaststroke (under no time limitation) Applicant must be able to complete the deep-water brick test in 1 minute 40 seconds; (jump/dive into the deep end of the pool to retrieve a weighted brick and carry/swim with it to the shallow end)     Lifeguarding certification $260 Lifeguarding Recertification Only $200.00 Pre-registration is required/space is limited. Payment due prior to start of the session  f you have any questions, please reply to: coachmikek@mlacswimming.com

Mt. Lebanon Aqua Club (MLAC)
1110 Pinewood Drive, Pittsburgh, PA, 15243 United States