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Friday, August 03, 2018
Fwd: IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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Executive Director of SKWIM USA, a 501(c)(3)
The Pittsburgh Project - swim coach and head lifeguard
Middle School Swim Coach at The Ellis School
Former Varsity Boys Swim Coach, Pittsburgh Obama Academy
Sabbatical for 2018: PPS Summer Dreamers' Swim & Water Polo
Wednesday, August 01, 2018
Czech Parenting Policy
The Czech government is primarily interested in giving
the families true and genuine freedom to decide on the form
of reconciling their family, personal and professional lives,
but not only in relation to the support of employment. The Czech
Republic perceives the home parental care for small children
as a full-value and socially relevant alternative to gainful activity,
while fully respecting different preferences and strategies
of the parents in taking care of their children. In order
to implement the principle of freedom to choose the duration
and scope of care for the child itself, the governments considers
it essential to create suitable conditions also for those parents,
who decide to care for their children largely themselves,
without making use of the child care services.
The Czech Republic supports such parents, in particular,
by a sufficiently long period of maternity and parental leave.
In addition, it provides financial support throughout the parental
care for a child during the maternity and parental leave in order
to compensate as much as possible the loss of wage and the lost
opportunities, by granting tax allowances for the working
parent, supporting family services focused on prevention
of social exclusion of parents caring for children under
maternity or parental leave (such as mother and family centres)
and supporting projects to enhance parental competence
through appropriately targeted subsidized facilities.
Content above from https://www.mpsv.cz/files/clanky/6600/information_family_policy.pdf
Monday, July 30, 2018
Fwd: The Russian Menace
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From: John H
From: John H
If you do nothing else this week watch these two interviews on The Real News Network with Stephen F. Cohen. Cohen is one of the most prominent and knowledgeable experts on the Soviet Union and Russia. If you have bought in to the mainstream media's freaking out over the Trump-Putin meeting in Helsinki, you really need to listen to these interviews. The risk of nuclear war between the U.S. and Russia may never have been greater and all of the bruhaha over Trump's meeting is only making things dramatically worse. This is not fun and games, but it is a game of political one-ups-manship on the part of the Democratic Party and its media co-conspirators in a foolish attempt to "get" Trump while risking catastrophe. There are many reasons to despise Trump and want to see him gone, but this should not be one of them!
Sunday, July 29, 2018
Fwd: Terry Featured In NYT Bestseller “Tribe of Mentors” by Tim Ferriss– and FREE Video from “The Tim Ferriss Experiment”
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From: Total Immersion
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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
Ta.
Mark Rauterkus Mark.Rauterkus@gmail.com
Swimming and Water Polo Coach, Schenley High School, Pittsburgh, PA
http://CLOH.wikia.com
412 298 3432 = cell
Saturday, July 28, 2018
Fwd: What we ignore . . . at our peril
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From: John H
With all the yammering about Russian interference with our democracy, why is it that we keep asserting that Israel is a democracy at all. Our so-called democracy is manipulated and controlled by the American oligarchs, while Israel's is controlled by neo-fascists under Netanyahu – so where is the democracy. And with the establishment media covering nothing but Trump and his fondness for Putin and the young women with whom he has had affairs, what ever happened to the main concern of our age – global climate change. If nothing else, our priorities have become a laughable farce.
John
Executive Director of SKWIM USA, a 501(c)(3)
The Pittsburgh Project - swim coach and head lifeguard
Middle School Swim Coach at The Ellis School
Former Varsity Boys Swim Coach, Pittsburgh Obama Academy
Sabbatical for 2018: PPS Summer Dreamers' Swim & Water Polo
Friday, July 27, 2018
Thursday, July 26, 2018
Fwd: Let me introduce myself: Head Coach OHIO University Swimming and Diving
I graduated from Ohio University. For four years, I was also the assistant coach for the Men's Swimming and Diving program -- a team that does not exist any longer.
In many ways, Ohio University is dead to me. My sons did not consider Ohio University because the opportunities I had in the late 70s and early 80s are no longer afforded to the young men of these recent generations.
Women's swimming was a thing at Ohio University when I was there as well.
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In many ways, Ohio University is dead to me. My sons did not consider Ohio University because the opportunities I had in the late 70s and early 80s are no longer afforded to the young men of these recent generations.
Women's swimming was a thing at Ohio University when I was there as well.
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From: Mason Norman
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Wednesday, July 25, 2018
Fwd: East Coast Open Swim - Registration Open
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Tuesday, July 24, 2018
Fwd: Something useful for a change
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From: John H
This is a really interesting short article with a long list of following comments (it is altogether long – 22 pages). Fortunately it can be read piecemeal but it is something that many of us should find to be useful. Many of the comments are particularly relevant to the current conversational/ argumentative milieu. I strongly encourage you to take a look, regardless of where you fall on the political spectrum.
John
Article: Reader Coping Strategies for Engaging with Committed.
The article byYves Smith begins:
An oft-repeated bit of advice in America is never to talk about religion or politics. Sadly, the
reason is that Americans are dreadful at talking across political lines. When I lived in Australia
in the early 2000s and adopted a pub, by contrast, I found the locals to be eager to debate the
topics of the day yet remain civil about it. That may be because Australians in generally have
mastered the art of being confrontational by lacing it with humor and/or self-deprecation.
By contrast, Americans, who pretend to fetishize individualism, are conformists. Dissent is not
well tolerated at work or social spheres. And its only gotten worse as media fragmentation and
political strategies based on hitting voter hot buttons means that many people are deeply invested
in their political views, whether they are well founded or not. Punitive unfriending and other
forms of ostracism have become a new normal.
The article byYves Smith begins:
An oft-repeated bit of advice in America is never to talk about religion or politics. Sadly, the
reason is that Americans are dreadful at talking across political lines. When I lived in Australia
in the early 2000s and adopted a pub, by contrast, I found the locals to be eager to debate the
topics of the day yet remain civil about it. That may be because Australians in generally have
mastered the art of being confrontational by lacing it with humor and/or self-deprecation.
By contrast, Americans, who pretend to fetishize individualism, are conformists. Dissent is not
well tolerated at work or social spheres. And its only gotten worse as media fragmentation and
political strategies based on hitting voter hot buttons means that many people are deeply invested
in their political views, whether they are well founded or not. Punitive unfriending and other
forms of ostracism have become a new normal.
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