Fwd: Not registered yet? Come to our Open House Training Event!

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COME TO OUR PRE-SEASON TRAINING OPEN HOUSE From out of town? Don't worry - we have an option for you too! Join us Saturday, November 7 for a Pre-Season Marathon Training Open House – and "Get Your Game On" Runner Of Steel! Activities will begin at 7:30 AM.  Featuring our new gaming wearable – the MilestonePod, registration kiosks, and some awesome training and nutrition informational sessions, this open house will get you primed and ready for training season. We want you to "get in the game" and the best way to do that is to be registered for one of the 2016 races and use this free* gaming wearable. Here is a little more about the MilestonePod –  it requires no extra effort on your part, and you can use it easily in addition to whatever running app you already prefer. Simply attach it to your running shoe and let it track you as you train. It provides more than just mileage and pace, it shows cadence, stance time, stride length, footstrike, and run history – helpful insights for runners and walkers of all ability levels.   Once the official training season starts in January, we will issue weekly challenges (best pace, most miles, etc.) - with a chance to win prizes. All participants using a MilestonePod will be tracked on the leaderboard - to see how you are doing against the other Runners Of Steel.  RSVP NOW and we'll see you on the 7th! *Quantities of free pods are limited, be sure to get in early! Not in Pittsburgh?  Don't worry - you can get in the game too! Just because you are out-of-town, doesn't mean you have to be out of the game!  Now you can participate in our season-long training game – no matter where you call home. Once you register for one of our races, click here to request a free* MilestonePod! *Please note, there are only a limited amount of pods designated for each state so be sure to request yours early!  #GameOnPGH ​ Pittsburgh Three Rivers Marathon, Inc.  810 River Avenue, Suite 120, Pittsburgh, PA 15212 • 412-586-7785 • info@thepittsburghmarathon.com

                                         
                                         

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Fwd: Don't miss the Charter School Fair on 11/14!

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Rand Paul in show with plenty of topics

Ben Carson goes off the rails again. He is not fit to lead in the polls and for executive office

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/ben-carson-police-speech-colleges_5627b787e4b02f6a900eebbb

The quotes from Ben Carson are not sound.

Headline: Ben Carson Wants To Police Speech On College Campuses

Fwd: Register for the Clean Air Dash today!

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Date: Oct 22, 2015 12:08 PM
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Run for your life this Halloween!


Support the Group Against Smog and Pollution and register today for the Clean Air Dash 5k Saturday, October 31, 2015 at 9:30am. This flat, fast, 5k in the South Side Works is perfect for all runners and skill levels.

There will be gift certificates from New Balance awarded to our top athletes, free massages provided by South Hills Physical Medicine , and Halloween goodies after the race!


Run in your costume too! (Optional)

Thanks to a generous donation by Levin Furniture, there is free youth registration (with coupon code). Strollers and families are welcome! Please respond to this e-mail if you'd like the code.

Don't forget to get $5 off with coupon code: DASHPROMO when registering at: https://runsignup.com/Race/PA/Pittsburgh/CleanAirDash

There is no race day registration–registration ends October 28, 2015 at 11:59 p.m.

Race details available at: http://gasp-pgh.org/clean-air-dash-2015/


Hope to see you there,

Jessica Tedrow

Education and Events Coordinator     

Group Against Smog and Pollution
5135 Penn Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15224                     
(412) 924-0604
gasp-pgh.org
Twitter/Facebook: @GASPPgh

Don't forget to register for the Clean Air Dash!

One of the best cycling trips on film ever. And, second video is of the making of the first.

This goes way beyond my comfort zone.

Two things to think about with Pittsburgh's next Superintendent of Schools

The first thing we need from a new superintendent is an approach that supports school and community sports. I'll devote a different post to that topic. Here is another set of insights that we should put high on the list.

I think that the new superintendent needs to understand buildings, building schools, and building school culture as applied to the buildings that they reside within.

I hate to write this as I am generally a "software" kind-a guy who stresses the PROGRAMS and not worried about the the "hardware" and the bricks and mortar. The buildings take a back seat to the teachers, the school culture, the education and the dynamic learning that can and should happen. But golly, in Pittsburgh, we got issues with old buildings and bad decisions within the buildings and huge capital overhead that is not helping to retain our sense of pride and scholarship that should be happening.

I get to go to a lot of school buildings as we travel around with sports programs. Our city facilities are weak. Sure, CAPA is sweet. But, as I see CAPA, I hate that it is grades 6-12 rather than just 9-12.

Westinghouse & Carrick got nice upgrades not too long ago, but have you seen what has been done at many suburban districts? BP, Lebo, Penn Hills, Baldwin, West Allegheny, USC, etc. And the schools we have visited elsewhere beyond W.Pa are sensational.

In terms of taxpayer interest, the school and capital questions should loom large for a superintendent search process. Managing a building project and construction teams is way beyond the comfort zone of what's in place now. And, PPS can't even get a penny on the dollar for its existing and non-utilized facilities.

PPS made some serious, generational mistakes with Schenley, with South Vo Tech and many other building and grounds assets.

I think the new superintendent should be able to point to their professional history and say that these X-Y-Z schools were rehabed, re-build, opened, and construction was managed flawlessly for the course of these multi-year efforts. And, I want to get construction firm testimonials with lots of documentation and critical review on those mega projects.

Above rant began at the Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1684791538424529/

Fwd: Soothing words . . .

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Date: Thursday, October 15, 2015
Subject: Soothing words . . .
To: John Hemington <jehemington@verizon.net>

For quite some time now we have been barraged with soothing words about the wonderful recovery from the Great Financial Crash of 2008.  I'm sure that this must have made everyone feel comfortable about just how well things were going.  Except, perhaps, for those of you who have somehow missed out on the benefits showered on Wall Street and the corporate managers and equity investors thanks to QE 1,2, 3 . . . etc. as well as the market boosts from insanely massive debt-fueled  corporate stock buy-backs.  If you were one of the vast majority who happened to miss out on these Fed subsidized bonanzas, well, too bad; your political leaders could care less.  What should worry them, however, (. . . and the rest of us too, since we always manage to muck around in the fallout from these messes and are generally considered to be disposable by our leaders) is what happens when all the QE bullets are spent, the debt accrued and the whole Ponzi apparatus collapses in on itself. 

 

Tonight's attachment contains some articles examining the difficulties presented by the failure of the federal government (as well most of the world's developed nations) to take reasonable and necessary steps toward economic recovery (i.e., fiscal stimulus and holding those responsible accountable) following the GFC.  It's been seven years since the bottom fell out of the financial system and the only ones who have been made healthy are those who brought the problems on in the first place.  When there is no justice – and there has not been – there is no hope unless those scorned and wronged are willing to rise up against those who have inflicted the pain and sold out the nation and the world for their own personal gain.  Those responsible are now trying to figure out how to squirm out of the mess they have made.  It is up to us to insure that they do not inflict the same measures of self-help that marked the 2008 bailout and left the rest of us up the proverbial creek without a paddle.  If there is no rebellion we have only ourselves to blame.  It is long past time to unmask the neoliberal traitors for what they are and what they do to the rest of us.

 

 

John

 

 

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Mark Rauterkus       Mark@Rauterkus.com
PPS Summer Dreamers' Swim & Water Polo Camp Executive Coach

Varsity Boys Swim Coach, Pittsburgh Obama Academy

Recent Head Water Polo Coach, Carnegie Mellon University Women's Club Team
Pittsburgh Combined Water Polo Team

http://CLOH.org

412 298 3432 = cell

New movie: Poverty, Inc.

Reading up on Bernie

Interesting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernie_Sanders

In the first D-candidate debate, the introduction time for each candidate was 2-minutes long. Senator Sanders spent his time talking about issues and gave little, if not nothing, about himself.

I do enjoy seeing a guy who bucked the two-party system get some traction in political circles. Props too for University of Chicago grad. Our swim team captain from last year's squad at Obama Academy is a freshman there now.

Another good article about Socialism and Bernie's stances with those political terms:

http://www.vox.com/2015/10/14/9530787/socialism-history-explained

A good runner in high school too.

http://magazine.good.is/articles/feel-the-bern-bernie-sanders-facts?utm_source=thedailygood&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=dailygood

Missy is helping to promote swimming

Safe Sport

Concerning injuries in high school football

IB and College Credit insights

In 2015 - 2016, various colleges had various policies concerning IB course ACCEPTANCE for college credit. The kids at Pittsburgh Obama Academy in Pittsburgh Public Schools got these insights from their teacher, Mr. Ehman, the IB Coordinator and Film teacher at the school. He researched the schools based upon an expressed interest from the rising seniors. 

This complied list has the college name and what is offered to incoming freshmen in terms of college credits that is earned in high school. Do reconfirm this information.

ALLEGHENY:

Students may receive credit for a maximum of 20 semester credit hours (five courses). HL offerings 5,6,7 must submit to the school to determine credits.

BOSTON COLLEGE:

Each score of 6 or 7 on Higher Level Exams will earn advanced placement units and will generally satisfy a core requirement.

Film, Music, Theatre, Vis Arts = 3 credits

History = 6 credits

English = 6 credits

Spanish, French, German, Japanese HL = 6 credits

BOSTON UNIVERSITY:

Scores of 5,6, and 7 will earn 8 credits for the following IB areas.

Theater, Foreign Languages, History, Visual Arts, English

BROWN:

One or two Brown courses for a grade of 5 or 6 or higher, depending on the department.

History, English, Foreign Languages, Students must contact the school for all other HL courses.

BUCKNELL:

IB diploma recipients, with a minimum score of 5 on each of the six subject examinations, will be awarded six course credits toward their degree requirements at Bucknell. Diploma recipients who do not meet the minimum score requirements will receive course credit for only those higher level courses passed with a score of 5 or higher. IB Certificates students (non-diploma) will receive course credits for each higher level course passed with an examination score of 5 or higher. No credit is awarded for standard-level courses except as noted for IB Diploma recipients.

CAL BERKELEY:

Higher Level Exams ONLY. Passing scores of 5,6,7...

Film, History, Music, Theater, Vis Arts, English, Foreign Languages

CASE WESTERN RESERVE:

Case Western offers course credit for scores of 5,6,7 for MOST HIGHER LEVEL EXAMINATIONS.

CHATHAM UNIVERSITY:

Contact Chatham as Credits are awarded in a case by case basis.

UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO:

Credit earned for courses in the IB Programme may be applied to certain general education requirements or to electives as described. Course credit is only granted for grades of 6 or 7 on Higher-Level IB Exams.

CLEMSON:
IB graduates who score well on their higher level exams will be awarded credit. Include your IB Candidate # when applying to Clemson. Scores of 4,5,6,and 7 will be awarded credits.

English, Film, Foreign Language, History, Music, Theatre, Vis Arts.

COLUMBIA:

Columbia awards transfer credit only for exams taken at Higher Level. Students receive the equivalent of one year of credit (usually 6 points) for any Higher Level exam on which they receive a 6 or 7.

CONNECTICUT:

Students must have earned the IB DIPLOMA to be considered for credits. HL exams only, scores of 5,6,7. Credits will be automatically awarded for English & History. Credits may be awarded in a case by case basis.

DENVER:

The University of Denver offers college credit for students who have taken and scored well on International Baccalaureate Higher Level Exams. A maximum of 45 credit hours can be awarded. Scores of 4,5,6, and 7 will be considered.

DICKINSON:

Students who have taken International Baccalaureate courses will be granted general college credit for HL IB exams in which they achieve grades of 5 or better. The registrar can review credits for fulfillment of graduation requirements.

DREXEL:

Drexel University awards advanced standing and or credit to students who have achieved superior performance on International Baccalaureate Higher Level Examinations. Standard Level Exams are not considered. Scores of 6 or 7 are accepted for the following IB courses English, History.

DUQUESNE:

Duquesne University may award academic credits to students completing the diploma with a total score of 30 or above. Credits will be awarded at the discretion of a Duquesne University academic advisor.

Students who do not complete the IB diploma are able to receive advanced standing credit for IB HL subjects with scores of 5, 6, or 7. IB standard level scores of 6 or 7 will be accepted in foreign languages for a maximum of eight semester hours per language.

No credit will be given for other standard level courses.

ELON:

Credit awarded for Higher Level Examinations only... Score of 5 or above for Film, History, Language A, Language B, Music, Theatre, Visual Arts (You will earn 4 semester hours for each)

EMORY:

We will award three semester hours of college credit for scores of five, six, or seven on the higher level International Baccalaureate examinations in the subject areas offered in Emory College of Arts and Sciences.

Emory college of arts and sciences does not grant credit for the HL Visual Arts IB Exam.

Fwd: First Three Speakers Confirmed for Pittsburgh RC

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Jim Lark, Isaac Morehouse, Lucy Steigerwald

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Hey Mark, Great news! I've just confirmed the first three speakers for SFL's Pittsburgh Regional Conference on November 7th. Check them out: Lucy Steigerwald Lucy Steigerwald is a contributing editor and columnist for Antiwar.com. She is a former associate editor for Reason magazine and a former writer of VICE's Bad Cop Blotter column. Lucy is the co-host of Free Association Podcast With Sheldon Richman, Bourbon and Bitches podcast, and the host of Politics for People Who Hate Politics podcast. Her work has appeared in: VICE, Rare, Reason, The Washington Post, The Daily Beast, The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, The Federalist, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Pittsburgh City Paper, Mt. Lebanon Magazine, Mic, Defending Dissent, Politix, and The Libertarian Standard. Jim Lark Dr. Lark is a professor in the Department of Systems and Information Engineering and the Applied Mathematics Program of the Department of Engineering and Society at the University of Virginia. He has also served as a professor in the Department of Statistics and in the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia. He is the chairman of the Board of Directors of the Advocates for Self-Government and the secretary of the Board of Directors of the International Society for Individual Liberty. He is a member of the Board of Advisors for Students For Liberty and the Board of Advisors of the Freedom and Entrepreneurship Foundation (Fundacja Wolnosci I Przedsiebiorczosci) in Poland. He currently serves as the Region 5 representative on the Libertarian National Committee (the Libertarian Party's board of directors), and as a member of the LNC's Executive Committee. He is the LNC's representative to the International Alliance of Libertarian Parties.  Isaac Morehouse Isaac Morehouse is an entrepreneur, thinker, and communicator dedicated to the relentless pursuit of freedom, and is an advocate of self-directed learning and living. He is the founder and CEO of Praxis, an intensive one-year program combining real-world business experience with personal coaching, professional development projects, and interdisciplinary education for those who want more than college. We'd love for you to join us at the conference! Registration is free and meals are included. You won't want to miss this chance to network with likeminded libertarians in Pennsylvania. Sincerely & For Liberty, John Breeden Pittsburgh Conference Director Students For Liberty  P.S. SFL just received our RC t-shirt that all conference attendees will receive for free. Check it out.

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Fun with Fruit fights childhood obesity

KiiiTV.com South Texas, Corpus Christi, Coastal Bend

New leadership at PPS U-Prep

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PPS Superintendent Huddles

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Keeping Kids Safe, Clearances and new PA Laws

Insights from a session hosted by The Forbes Fund and others about clearances, reporting of child abuse and other new trends with law changes in PA.

We have a ladder of engagement drafted that deploys Digital Badges for adults to assist with this process. A position paper from my is forthcoming.