City League Girls' Track and Field Championships In the 1,600 event -- 1. Amber Key, Peabody, 5:46.44. 2. Nisha Lipowcan, Schenley, 5:47.57. 3. Mari Baron, Allderdice, 5:50.16.Way to go!
3,200 relay -- 1. Schenley (Karla Reed Simmons, Zainab Sheriff, Zena Lapp, Nisha Lipowcan), 10:36.56. 2. Allderdice, 10:41.69. 3. Langley, 11:06.29.
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League Track Championships: Schenley teams continue dynasty: "'I
take pride in this uniform and this school,' Sims said. 'Winning is always a big
deal to us because we work hard."
Getting Communities to Buy into Your Project | Turning Ideas into Action: "On the rules of participation, a couple of examples come to mind. The Gemidiriya project in Sri Lanka has the Golden Rules for Village Organizations and Village Companies. These are:
we must contribute to our development
we must have confidence in ourselves and practice self-help
we are accountable to the village for all our actions
good governance is key to success
let us develop our village step-by-step
cost effectiveness pays
be open and transparent in our dealings
uphold the principles of equity and inclusion
act timely and ensure quality
seek help when required
The Golden Rules were developed with communities through participatory workshops so they resonate with communities. When you visit the project area, you can see the Golden Rules everywhere; they are respected."
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Woman with a cause: Mimi Hughes will try to swim the length of the Ohio River to raise awareness about women's issues: "Woman with a cause: Mimi Hughes will try to swim the length of the Ohio River to raise awareness about women's issues"See comments for full article.
Recommendations for the Improvement of the Interscholastic Athletic ProgramThe report also has some background memorandums. One is from John Walluk, Director of Facilities, dated May 10, 2001, about costs to bring all the high school and middle school athletic field facilities up to an equal standard. It includes a few charts.
Submitted to Dr. John Thompson, superintendent of the Pittsburgh Public Schools, by the Athletic Excellence Task Force, 2000-2001
Introduction
The School District of Pittsburgh is committed to providing a comprehensive educational program that addresses the intellectual, emotional, social and physical growth and development of every child. Interscholastic Athletics has always been an important part of that educational experience for the student athletes and the student body at large. Students participating in the Athletic Program get a chance to learn not only the knowledge and skills associated with the sport, they also develop important life skills such as teamwork, sportsmanship, cooperation, planning, goal setting, time management and many others. Many student athletes develop lifelong relationships with teammates and colleagues through their involvement with Interscholastic Athletics.
The Athletic Program has provided the opportunity for many students to utilize specific talents and ability while participation in an enjoyable part of school life. For most athletes, sports activities provide the involvement in and connection to school that raises self-esteem and school pride. It also provides an opportunity for parents to become involved in their child’s school activities. It has long been a way for the community to remain involved in the total PPS program.
The athletic program may not only b physically demanding but also academically challenging for the student athlete. Student athletes must devote countless hours to athletic practices and contests while remaining their commitment to academic success. Therefore, we owe the student athlete, their parents and peers, excellence in Athletic Programming including coaching, facilities, equipment, training and academic support. Since athletics is such a positive experience for many students, we must not only continuously improve the program we must also provide a system that ensures maximum student participation.
It is in this regard that the Athletic Excellence Task Force was convened. We offer the following recommendations as a means to improve the overall Athletic Program. While there are many recommendations included in the report, we are prepared to remain as an advisory committee to the District, to develop a prioritized action plan for implementing any recommendations that may ultimately be approved by the Board of School Directors.
Participant List from 2000-2001
Ray Ames, Faculty Manager
Patsy Aluise, Principal
Cherri Banks, TLA
Dwight Clay, Official
Terry Cowden, Coach
Rico Davis, Official
Al Fondy, PFT
George Gensure, PFT
Kelli Jackson, Coach
Brenda Jones, Coach
Phyllis Jones, Coach
Andrew King, Student Services (what?), King was PPS Administration
Fred Lucas, Coach
Sarah Martin, Health & Wellness
Robert Miller, Principal
Pamela Murray, Parent
Robert Pajak, Athletics
Vernon Phillips, Principal
Sandford Rivers, University Staff
Dana Schumacker, Parent
Donald Smith, Parent
James Solters, Moderator
Bill Tenney, Parent
Un-Named Parent
Art Victor, Parent
Brian White, Student Services
General Recommendations
Athletic Program
Where possible have two divisions for all Interscholastic Sports at the Middle and High School levels. Schools would be periodically reassigned to a particular division to maintain parity and competitiveness among teams. Longitudinal studies could be completed every three years to determine divisional assignments.
Require each school to play a minimum number of exhibition and regular games to increase the playing experience of teams.
Modify the Middle School program to include:
Football at the 7th and 8th grade levels,
Baseball instead of Softball,
A track and Field program,
Interscholastic opportunities at K-8 schools.
Maintain Intramural funds centrally and allocate to schools once program is established.
Explore strategies to enable elementary and middle school teachers to coach at the High School level with minimal intrusion on their teaching responsibilities.
Explore strategies to minimize the intrusion on teaching and learning activities due to student participation in athletic contests.
Establish equity of access to athletic programs, equipment and facilities: this may involve use of alternative sites for practice and contests and pairing of schools to ensure adequate team membership.
Add an additional professional position to assist the Program Manager of Athletics with the following:
Completion and implementation of a systemic plan for implementation of Task Force recommendations;
Developing a PPS Athletic Program web site.
Developing and implementing a marketing plan.
Establish partnership with the City for sharing fields and other facilities.
Establish partnerships with local professional teams for financial and marketing support.
Establish viable and active PPS Interscholastic Alumni group.
Develop equitable funding formula for all sports.
Monitor practice sessions, athletic contests and intramural activities.
Assist with the selection, training, and evaluation of coaches.
Developing a plan to secure supplemental funding from private and public sources.
Establish a Pittsburgh Athletic Association to support the PPS program.
Student Participation
Develop and adopt a Code of Student Sportsmanship that would be signed by student athletes and their parents. This code would establish parameters for acceptable behavior during practice and athletic contests.
Develop a form for spectators or staff to use when reporting an alleged incident of unsatisfactory sportsmanship. Form would be submitted to Athletic Office and appropriate principals and the incident would be investigated.
Increase number of viable junior varsity athletic teams by including more sports and adding an assistant coach where appropriate.
Develop manual for all student athletes that includes eligibility guidelines, college entrance requirements, NCAS guidelines and academic support information, e.g., tutoring, mentoring, homework assistance and Code of Sportsmanship.
Facilities
Improve and maintain a safe and appropriate surface on all grass fields.
Explore possibility of another site for playing District football games and Track and Field events and Baseball games.
Establish equitable sizes and seating capacities for gymnasiums.
Provide equal access to gymnasiums for Middle Schools.
Develop multi-sport training facilities.
Group schools where possible to increase access to adequate facilities.
Ensure that each program has access to safe and appropriate equipment for training needs.
I full endorse Russ Diamond for PA Lt. Governor in the 2010 primary on the Republican ticket.
Russ Diamond of Lebanon County, who got much attention in 2005-06 as the head of PA Clean Sweep, which fought to overturn the legislative pay raise.
Read more: http://post-gazette.com/pg/10134/1058002-178.stm#ixzz0nwAQqWca
OpenOffice.org is one of the most popular products of the FOSS (Free/Open Source) community, and for many millions of people it is their first experience of FOSS. Key to OpenOffice.org's success has been its ability to compete openly and freely with competitors on any platform, and demonstrate that FOSS is a better choice.
Uniquely among leading office suites, OpenOffice.org provides a mechanism
for developers to build and release "extensions" to provide additional
features. Extensions can be added and removed at will by users, giving
them the freedom to tailor their own copy of OpenOffice.org to do what
they need to do. The OpenOffice.org Community has created a common
repository where users can select and download extensions.
The OpenOffice.org Community Council has been asked by the FSF to give the
FSF an effective veto over which extensions should be permitted to appear
in this repository. The Community Council has felt unable to do this. We
believe passionately that FOSS delivers better software - including
extensions, but that users must be free to make the comparison and reach
their own conclusion.
It is a fact that the vast majority of our users currently run OpenOffice.org on a proprietary operating system, alongside other proprietary software. We respect their choice, and believe the best way to influence them to change is by delivering high quality FOSS software that meets their needs.
The OpenOffice.org Community Council regrets that the FSF was unable to accept our compromise proposals for a more clearly signposted extensions repository. We believe the creation of an alternative repository will cause confusion and will lead to a poorer experience for users. However, we are more than happy to work with the FSF to encourage FOSS developers to address areas where proprietary only solutions exist.
The OpenOffice.org Community Council
http://council.openoffice.org/
Post-Gazette.comAs a Libertarian, I've got better ideas.
After 40 years, the United States' war on drugs has cost $1 trillion and hundreds of thousands of lives, and for what? Drug use is rampant and violence even more brutal and widespread.
Even U.S. drug czar Gil Kerlikowske concedes the strategy hasn't worked.
"In the grand scheme, it has not been successful," Kerlikowske told The Associated Press. "Forty years later, the concern about drugs and drug problems is, if anything, magnified, intensified."
Meet Ultra Marathoner Charlie Engle at the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Premiere of Running the Sahara
Running the Sahara chronicles an attempt by three ultra marathoners to run across the entire length of Africa’s Sahara Desert, tackling not only the elements, but also unimaginable physical and emotional obstacles. Their goal is to run through Senegal, Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Libya, and Egypt, anticipating two marathons per day, for eighty days - without a day off.
The expedition spans 4,300 miles (6,920 kilometers) and passes through six countries. Charlie Engle from the United States, Kevin Lin from Taiwan, and Ray Zahab from Canada, have run together in marathons before. But this expedition is different. It’s a grueling test of will – a story about the human spirit under fire – and a chance to accomplish something that no known person has ever achieved.
WHEN: Thursday, May 13, 7:00p.m.
WHERE: Southside Works Cinemas, 425 Cinema Drive, Pittsburgh, PA 15203
TICKETS: $18
Your ticket includes admission to the screening, virtual swag bag, and a post film Q & A with Ultra Marathoner Charlie Engle. Charlie will be available to sign autographs.
Advance online tickets will be available up to 5:00 p.m. EST on Thursday, May 13, 2010. At the door tickets are $25.00 and do not include the virtual swag bag.
Please go through http://nehst.com/grp to buy your tickets and Girls on the Run at Magee-Womens Hospital will get $3 for every ticket sold (only through that link).
Don’t forget the GOTR 5K is this Sunday at Sandcastle!
http://www.active.com/framed/event_detail.cfm?EVENT_ID=1846184&CHECKSSO=0
http://www.gotrmagee.org
Senate Bill 1297: Prohibits the Secretary of Education from allowing a school district to reduce the number of instructional days due to school closures resulting from severe weather conditions unless expressly authorized by an act of the General Assembly or unless the school district can demonstrate that the number of days schools were closed due to severe weather exceeds the number of remaining available days through June 30. Under this proposal, school districts must utilize all available days through June 30 in order to meet the state’s 180 day instructional requirement, including those days previously scheduled for vacation, in-service or Saturdays. The bill does provide for student absences for religious observances on Saturdays. The bill does not affect current provisions relating to graduating seniors. SB 1297 prohibits the Secretary of Education from making payments to school districts for instructional days not completed due to severe weather conditions. SB 1297 awaits further consideration by the full House.Generally, our family has a big attraction to the concept of "No Child Left Behind" in that when we travel -- we generally always bring our kids with us. We've taken them to China, New Zealand and other far off places -- skipping school, so to speak. As this blog is posted, we've left our kids in school in Pittsburgh while we go to the Middle East.
WDUQ delay option is rare solution in public radio: "Mr. King, a Pittsburgh Foundation board member and co-director of the Fred Rogers Center for Early Learning and Children's Media, said local foundations want to use media to generate robust debate about important issues such as reforming public schools, improving Pittsburgh's air quality and the environmental impact of drilling for natural gas.Really?
Obama and his regime have created a vast and rapidly expanding constituency of voters dependent on big government; a vast privileged class of public employees who work for big government; and a government dedicated to destroying capitalism and installing themselves as socialist rulers by OVERWHELMING THE SYSTEM.Full email in comments.
My God...Add it up and you've got the perfect scheme.
Only one thing stands in their way - you and me, the American taxpayers. If we want to save the greatest country and economic system in world history, we had better get busy. We had better fight back hard. Our children and grandchildren's futures are at stake. And please don't assume the GOP is the answer. They had their chance. Bush spent irresponsibly; Bush never vetoed a single spending bill; Bush supported bailouts, earmarks and stimulus; Bush was responsible for the Medicare expansion; Bush spent a trillion dollars on two never-ending wars; Bush was the disaster that opened the door for Obama.
The answer is to support true fiscal conservatives who understand that national debt is the real global threat to our survival. Libertarians who truly support economic freedom are the real Tea Party candidates who want to truly change "business as usual" in Washington D.C. Libertarians don't just talk the talk- we walk the walk. On November 2nd let's throw every incumbent in Congress out (with a few exceptions like Ron Paul)...and if the new class let's us down...let's throw them all out again in 2012. Eventually they'll get the message- the citizens are in charge.
Wayne Allyn Root was the 2008 Libertarian Vice Presidential candidate. His new book is entitled, "The Conscience of a Libertarian: Empowering the Citizen Revolution with God, Guns, Gambling & Tax Cuts." For more information on Wayne, please visit Wayne's web site at: ROOTforAmerica.com.
Like I'm going to get a reply and she won't.
City public safety director questioned on snow response: "'I was so disheartened, Director Huss, when you did not respond to any of the seven invitations,' she said after calling him to council's table. 'It's this total lack of communication that is concerning to me.'"
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Letters to the editor: "We must develop a strategy to draw employers to the region that will capitalize on the area's work force and offer employment opportunities aligned with the level of skill and education of job seekers. It's time we put those degrees to work."
Not easy being a three-sport athlete at a large high schoolPerhaps it takes a
It takes plenty of hard work, good time management, multi-tasking skills and supportive coaches and parents. But also, and maybe most importantly, it takes a deaf ear to be a three-sport athlete.
Council, mayor and library disagree over funds: "On Jan. 22, though, someone went into the city accounting system and deleted the funds.
'The entire code account for the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh has disappeared,' said council finance chairman William Peduto, who questioned the legality of the change. 'City code requires any budget amendments to be made by council. It cannot be done by a bureaucrat or the mayor.'"
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