Fwd: Pro Bike + Run - ROBINSON REOPENING INFORMATION

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Open up and see what is going on!

OUR ROBINSON STORE IS REOPENING TOMORROW Our Robinson location is almost ready to reopen.  It has been one heck of a process, but the end result will surely be amazing.  Due to a few last minute details, we are postponing 1 day to make sure we are ready. We will reopen at 10:00 am on  Friday, June 3rd. Our new address is 3100 Robinson Lane, Pittsburgh PA 15205 We will be located in the former Masquerade building across from our current location on the corner near Starbucks, Ikea and Steak & Shake. Roller Coaster Race Packet Pick Up Friday, June 3rd 10:00 am - 7:00 pm We will also be hosting packet pick up for the Kennywood Roller Coaster Race on Friday as well.  Stop by and pick up your bib and visit the new store.  We look forward to seeing you. Be sure to stay up to date on everything Pro Bike + Run by visiting the following online resources. Website: www.probikerun.com Facebook: Pro Bike + Run Thank you for all your support and we look forward to seeing you in our new flagship location soon. The Pro Bike + Run Team

Pro Bike + Run - WEST 1108 Park Manor Blvd, Pittsburgh, 15205 - 412-490-0881 Pro Bike + Run - EAST 4030 William Penn Highway, Monroeville, 15146 - 412-457-0474 Pro Bikes - Squirrel Hill 5876 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, 15217 - 412-586-5497 Pro Bikes - South Hills 102 Fort Couch Road, Bethel Park, 15241 - 412-851-1109

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Rand Paul speaking in DC on urban issues of importance

Bliss.... the feeling of ignorance

TMC article on Cleaner Rivers

Federal Rules of Cleaner Rivers Posted: 20 May 2016 11:40 AM PDT By: Kathleen Mannard April 13, 2016 The three rivers of Pittsburgh act as a symbol of Pittsburgh’s history, transformation, and future. During the steel boom, Pittsburgh’s rivers were heavily polluted with toxic discharge such as benzene, arsenic, and mercury. Forty-four years ago, the EPA implemented the federal Clean Water Act with the goal of cleaning American rivers, lakes, and streams as “fishable and swimmable” by 1983. However, the Ohio, Monongahela, and Allegheny rivers did not reach that goal and in the 21st century we are still transforming the polluted waters. The Monongahela River stretches 130 miles until it flows into the mouth of the Ohio River at Pittsburgh’s Point. As recent as 2010, the Monongahela River failed the water quality assessment report of the Department of Environmental Protection and became listed as “impaired by sulfates”. Even though Monongahela was reported as cleaner in 2014 and no longer determined “degraded”, the 2014 Allegheny River assessment reported that the Allegheny was also “impaired”. Although these reports are not always positive results of river refurbishment, the Clean Water Act requires these biennial reports to restore impaired bodies of water. But what other means are taken to restore our rivers’ condition? Because the rivers are so vital to our city’s ecosystem, businesses, and identity, organizations such as the Clean Water Action and other federal legislation are crucial for their survival. In 2015, the EPA finalized the Clean Water Rule which places protections on wetlands and high-water streams that form the foundation of America’s water sources, such as the Ohio River. Specifically Pennsylvania wetlands, streams, and millions of people who receive drinking water connected to these sources are protected under these new federal clean water regulations. The Clean Water Action of Pittsburgh supports the Clean Water Rule because it speaks to their campaign of restoring and protecting Pennsylvania water sources to prevent life harming and life threatening pollution. Not only does this ruling protect water sources and people’s health, it protects our future with water sources affected by climate change and builds a stronger economy. By ensuring that water regulation has federal consequences, smaller stream flows are protected for local drinking supplies. Protecting Pittsburgh’s rivers means protecting all waters of Pennsylvania and beyond.

Be safe in and around the water!

Fwd: Message to attendees of EdCamp at Pittsburgh SciTech

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Good Evening, I just wanted to provide you with a few last minute reminders regarding EdCamp at Pittsburgh SciTech this Saturday. We are so excited that we'll get to share our collective wealth of knowledge in just a few days. Please see the information below regarding the event. Thanks! James McCoy Director, Pittsburgh Science and Technology Academy   Logistical information for edcampPGH at Pittsburgh SciTech We, your friendly neighborhood edcampPGH organizing team, want to share these last-minute tidbits to help ensure your edcamp experience is smooth, trouble free and overloaded with awesome: Event Location EdcampPGH will be held at Pittsburgh Science and Technology Academy in Oakland on the University of Pittsburgh campus. The address is 107 Thackeray Ave. Pittsburgh, PA 15213. You may enter the building on either Thackeray Ave. (main entrance) or Bouquet Street. Please do not attempt to enter the building through the parking lot doors.   Registration / doors open at 8:30 am Please be patient as you see the organizing team and volunteers scurrying madly in the minutes leading up to 8:30 am … This is when we will begin checking people in! Parking There is free parking in the Pittsburgh SciTech parking lot that can be reached by turning right after passing the school when coming down Thackeray Ave. If attendance is higher than expected, attendees can park in the Soldiers and Sailors garage located at 4101 Fifth Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15260. There are also other lots throughout Oakland and there is also street parking. BYOD, Wifi and Tech support This is a Bring Your Own Device event. You'll have access to WiFi. If you are interested in leading a session and would like to request access to an LCD projector or speakers please email jmccoy1@pghboe.net, or make that information known when you help build the board. (We are primarily a PC school, so bring any necessary apple adapters). After party at The Porch starts around 3:30. After Party will be at The Porch located at 221 Schenley Drive, Pittsburgh, PA 15213. Festivities will start around 3:30ish. It will be a nice opportunity to continue the conversation. Please leave the school as you found it. That should be it! If anything changes or if new information becomes available, it will be posted on www.edcampPGH.com EdCamp at Pittsburgh SciTech Saturday, May 14, 2016 from 8:30 AM to 3:00 PM (EDT) 107 Thackeray Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15213 Organized by EdcampPGH at Pittsburgh SciTech Download Tickets Contact the Organizer About Help My Account Contact Us Privacy Terms Blog Eventbrite | 155 5th St | San Francisco, CA 94103 Copyright © 2016 Eventbrite. All rights reserved.

Take A Father to School Day's Litany of Commitment

Mothers Day Weekend Radio Show -- Catherine Palmer tells of her mom moments

My wife's photo is on the front page of The Moth, http://www.TheMoth.org.

Listen to her story. It blends parenting, school music concerts and swim meet cheering into her story when the theme was blundering.

Link to the entire NPR show. Catherine's story is second, in at a 6:05 mark.

The crazy ones who thing they can change the world are the ones that do.

Fwd: WJ Water Polo turned to club program

Great news. They changed their decision. W&J water is tonremain a varsity sport. Three cheers for all involved.

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From: Stephen Hilty

Hi everyone,

I wanted to let everyone know that W&J decided to turn the water polo men's and women's programs into a club sport.  While club sports are great at larger schools. turning a D3 sport into a club sport is a death sentence.  Tiger Water Polo has grown exponentially since my time at NA and then to WJ.  Keeping water polo in my area is in imperative, especially at such well respected institutions so close to home.  As parents, former players, and active, I strongly ask that you sign the petition and please put comments forth so the president of WJ and Athletic Director understand how important and unique it is to have water polo alive and thriving in Western PA. 

On a personal note, I am humbled to see what the Tiger Water Polo Club has become.  For anyone at the CMU tournament, it was one of the most Herculean water polo efforts by both the Tiger Masters and High School teams.  I look forward to rejoining the club upon my return to Pittsburgh in a few years. 


https://www.change.org/p/you-save-our-water-polo-program/share?source_location=share_sponsor

Thank you for your support!

Fwd: Beyond Trump v. Clinton

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From: "Ralph Nader" <info@csrl.org>
Date: May 2, 2016 10:58 AM
Subject: Beyond Trump v. Clinton
To: <mark@rauterkus.com>
Cc:

 Looks like it's could be Trump v. Hillary in November.

What are you going to do about it?

Throw in the towel?

Or organize to take charge as befits "We the People"?

Join me, Phil Donahue, Jim Hightower and Patti Smith.

Plus scores of the top public interest organizers in America.

We're organizing a Left/Right Coalition to fight back against the
corporate state duopoly.

May 23-26, 2016

Constitution Hall, Washington DC.

We call it -- Breaking Through Power with Civic Action.

Get in on the ground floor with your fellow Americans.

Sign up now at Breaking Through Power. 

See you at Constitution Hall.

Onward

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Call for Speakers for WordCamp

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Date: Friday, April 29, 2016
Subject: [New post] Call for Speakers

melindahelt posted: "WordCamp Pittsburgh brings together designers, developers, bloggers, small business owners, entrepreneurs, and educators from around Western Pennsylvania. What can you share with this community? We're looking to build an awesome program which reflects the" New post on WordCamp Pittsburgh Call for Speakers by melindahelt * Some media is not displayed in this email and must be viewed on the website. WordCamp Pittsburgh brings together designers, developers, bloggers, small business owners, entrepreneurs, and educators from around Western Pennsylvania. What can you share with this community? We're looking to build an awesome program which reflects the diversity of the greater Pittsburgh WordPress community, and we want you to be a part of it! Interested? Read on for additional details and submit your proposal below. Details We're looking for talks that are immediately relevant (or directly applicable) to casual WordPress users, experienced developers or anywhere between. Talks will be allotted 45 minutes. You can use that time however you like (30 minutes for talking and 15 minutes for questions, 25 for talking and 20 for hands on, etc.). Speakers will be offered free admission to WordCamp Pittsburgh and get to attend a speaker dinner, but we can not reimburse travel, lodging, or other expenses. All proposals are due by Midnight, Saturday, June 18th. Everyone who submits a proposal will be notified of our decision by July 17, 2016 If you'd like to propose multiple topics, please submit the form multiple times, once for each topic. melindahelt | April 29, 2016 at 3:42 pm | Categories: Uncategorized | URL: http://wp.me/p6CvCx-5 Comment    See all comments Change your email settings at Manage Subscriptions. Trouble clicking? Copy and paste this URL into your browser: https://2016.pittsburgh.wordcamp.org/2016/04/29/call-for-speakers/

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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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Tulane: Every fall more than 1,600 freshmen from all around the world go to Tulane. I'm sending you one next.

Woops. The video was taken away.

Swimming and Time

Years ago, I nearly published a book, Swimming: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow. It featured a lot of content from 50-years prior by a great coach in his book, Swimming, by Kiputh from Yale. That whole perspective is important. And, kids can embark on setting their own world recrods -- and learn history -- be just turning back the decades. Perhaps we should make it an app instead of a book.

Time to apply for Learn & Earn, City & County's Youth Summer Job Program

Learn-and-Earn sign-up page: https://summerjobs.force.com/CommunitiesSelfReg

Log in page, for those who have already created an account and signed in the past. https://summerjobs.force.com/login

Video hype:


Workforce Investment Board web site. http://www.trwib.org/learnandearn/

The second part of this video shows kids in a tech role, helping to make video games about "professional soft skills."



I'd love to see those outcomes. Where are the games? Can they be shared? Are they valuable?

There is fit. Then there is "Speedo fit." New ads show some of what we do.

Bravo to Speedo. Those superstars are looking good too! Article in Ad Week, http://adage.com/article/cmo-strategy/speedo-make-a-splash-aqua-fitness-push/303558/

Wealth in the USA today

Re: Message from Camp Ak-O-Mak

On Wednesday February 10th I was lucky enough to see Diana Nyad speak about her book, her life and her drive.

Diana spent a summer swimming at Ak-O-Mak in preparation for her swim across Lake Ontario in 1970. Buck Dawson is credited with introducing Diana to marathon swimming. In her autobiography, Find a Way, she talks about a quote that she comes across and posts on her wall for years, "A diamond is a lump of coal that stuck with it."

Diana swam around Manhattan Island setting records in 1975.  She then made two attempts to reach the Keys from Cuba in 1978 and 1979 and the latter was to be her last swim on her 30th birthday. Both were amazing swims from the standpoint of accomplishment but neither completed her mission. Life brought her back to Cuba and in 2013 at the age of 65.  She successfully reached the Keys from Cuba after 53 hours of swimming, on her 5th attempt.

Diana's talk was amazing. She spoke of the playlist in her brain as she swam. The years and hours of training that resulted in timing and cadence so precise that albums playing in her head, lists of counting in various languages consistently corresponded to mileage and hours in the water. Time after time a complete album represented a certain number of miles, a certain number of minutes. I suspect that Diana is a metronome.

Her primary speech topic was...

                                      "What will you do with your one precious life?"

She didn't interpret this in the traditional, athletic career time frame.  She didn't speak to "what will you do with your college athletic career" or "what you will do when you fail to accomplish your life's goal the first few times."

Diana clearly emphasized a key to her success, her team...the scientist and doctors who helped to treat and eventually avoid the deadly box jelly fish that almost killed her during an attempt, her handlers and dear friends...the ones who made her eat when her mouth was raw from saltwater ulcers and when she was seasick. Those who navigated her seas, helped her to create a mask to protect her skin from the jelly venom. Diana is clearly an amazing athlete, a testament to the power of a stubborn, driven brain. But Diana's words and humility were that of a true leader, a gracious athlete who knew that her success did not belong just to herself and she communicated this so clearly to her audience.

After the speech, I was able to briefly speak to Diana. Her ability to pause and share our small overlap in the universe without making me feel rushed struck me. I showed her a picture of her name on the main house wall.  Thank goodness it was in black marker and NOT in toothpaste!  (I had taken the photo when visiting Ak-O-Mak after dropping my boys at Chikopi).  We talked about Buck...(big smiles)... "he was my first open water coach." She had spoken of being an atheist during her talk in response to an audience question but she told me that "if there was a God, then swimming on Ahmic Lake was the closest (she) had ever been to God". She showed true smiles of fondness.

I walked back to my car with a new excitement about swimming and a refreshed attitude and outlook for a dreary cold February day. I have always held that Buck Dawson should have emphasized camp's role in the mission of athletics for life. Matt Mann's quote "a diamond is a lump of coal that stuck with it" isn't a metaphor for campers only. It is for counselors and owners, parents and alumni. To become that diamond takes longer that it takes to get a 5 year ring or 10 year watch at Ak-O-Mak or Chikopi. It occurs while doing what you plan with your one precious life. What an amazing night!  I am so thankful to have been affected by her journey. I highly recommend her book, her speaking tour and her TED talk.

Libby Ernharth
Ak-O-Mak Alumni

Neoliberalism in two articles

Email with links sent from John H.

Finally an excellent article on neoliberalism has been published in a mainstream newspaper. Unfortunately it had to be by a British journalist in a British newspaper. This sort of journalism is simply not permitted in this country unless the person writing it has his/her own blog or knows someone who does – and there are some very good ones out there but they simply don’t have the reach of mainstream media which primarily serves to entertain and anesthetize the American public with mindless drivel while intoxicating us with fear. As long as we’re afraid, we won’t bother to ask tough questions of our leaders nor, in most cases, tolerate those who do. It is so important for people to come to understand the kind of quasi-totalitarian system the U.S. has evolved into since 1980, but it is also important to understand that the U.S. has almost never been a humble and virtuous “knight” in the freedom, justice and the “American Way”. This nation has been a serial exploiter of third-world nations since at least the Spanish-American War, and little has changed since beyond the scope and frequency of our imperialist wars and plots. It is long past time for the American taxpayers (and you know who you are and who is not) paying for these atrocities and the profits for those who impose them to rise up and demand that it stop and stop now.

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  End of American Empire (article) in PDF.
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  Neoliberalism article