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Tuesday, August 01, 2017
Fwd: NZ Coach update
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From: "NZ Coach (Sport NZ)" <publications@sportnz.org.nz>
Date: Aug 1, 2017 5:12 PM
Subject: NZ Coach update
From: "NZ Coach (Sport NZ)" <publications@sportnz.org.nz>
Date: Aug 1, 2017 5:12 PM
Subject: NZ Coach update
The latest NZ Coach information from Sport New Zealand.
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Editorial
What have you dreamt of in your coaching philosophy?
Once upon a time, asking coaches about their coaching philosophy was probably akin to asking them if they ever asked for feedback from players or athletes: 'What do you mean?' Of course, every coach has a 'philosophy' – what else is their coaching practice based on? – even if they haven't given it much thought, or written it down. In this issue of NZ Coach Mag, the first link is to a Coaching Canada resource that provides a simple template for developing your coaching philosophy. The three steps relate to Purpose, Leadership Style, and Values. Even if you think you know where you stand on all these, I encourage you to spend a few minutes revisiting these steps and checking if you are really clear on what they mean to you. A couple of things to consider as you do this, the first about leadership 'style'. To begin, the resource talks in very old 'code' – democratic, lassiez fare, command and control. For me, the critical question isn't about which style you want to adopt but what leadership approach promotes autonomy, connection and competence (and confidence) in the people you are leading. The research and my personal practical knowledge (PPK) tell me that means being 'democratic' (this style eats the other styles for breakfast, lunch and dinner almost ALL THE TIME!). The trick is to work out what democratic looks like for you. By the way, 'Coaches are leaders' is one of the four core principles of Sport NZ's Community Coaching Strategy. Secondly, values. Words are just representations, they aren't the value. If you want respect to be one of your values (tip: work out the 3-4 key ones!) think carefully about what respect looks like, sounds like, feels like, when you are coaching a session, preparing for a game or event, talking with parents, and communicating with officials. Too often, as you will know from your own life experiences, it's much harder to live a value than to write it down. So, what's your coaching philosophy?
Brett Reid, Community Coaching Consultant
'Mistakes are the portals of discovery' – James Joyce
Develop a Coaching Philosophy in 3 Easy Steps
A coaching philosophy is an essential ingredient of leadership. [Coaching Canada]
Diamonds coach Lisa Alexander wants to make the uncomfortable comfortable
They're comfortably the best team in world netball and one of the best in world sport, now Australian Diamonds coach Lisa Alexander wants her world-conquerors to become comfortable with being uncomfortable. [The Age]
Lincoln duo Danny and Nicky Cowley tell Sir Clive Woodward: 'We pinched your big ideas
Lincoln's brilliant management duo, Danny and Nicky Cowley, appeared on Garry Richardson's [Sportsweek programme on BBC Radio Five Live on Sunday.]
Better coaching pathways a win for all
Little Athletics SA has done its homework – and now it's getting the rewards. [ors.sa.gov.au]
"Please Help Our Coach": 6 Ways any Parent Can (and Should) Help Build Stronger Volunteer Coaches
The vast majority of our membership provides glowing feedback about the selfless volunteers that step up to coach their child's team. [WBSBlog]
#balanceisbetter
Ask Shannon McIlroy about becoming the world men's singles bowls champion and he'll say, "Mate, I feel like I've conquered Everest." [Sport NZ]
Let The Kids Play - The Need For Real Change in Youth Sports
There are frankly way too many serious youth sports issues that have been well documented in the major media over the past 10 to 15 years. [mentaltoughnesstrainer]
Mindfulness in Sport: When the brain is calm, the body is ready
"Mindfulness is the psychological process of bringing one's attention to the internal experiences occurring in the present moment" Manu Bazzano [© Irish Examiner 2017; @DrSkillAcq]
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Sunday, July 30, 2017
Fwd: New Features and a Price Change...Coming Soon!
From: Milestone Sports <hello@milestonepod.com>
MilestonePod still the most affordable in its class
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Saturday, July 29, 2017
Fwd: Riding the wave
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From: John Hemington
From: John Hemington
Well folks, it might be time to become somewhat wary – not about the state of politics in Washington (although that's worth worrying about), but about the economic situation in the nation and the world. For eight years now we have been riding the crest of a wave of an ever accelerating asset bubble which can't possibility continue forever. And, as economist Herbert Stein once said, 'what can't continue won't continue. The attached article tracks the proverbial canary in the in the economic coal mine. There's student debt, auto-loan debt, credit card debt, mortgage debt and now securities-based loans, or SBLs, being fobbed off on unsuspecting investors as a benefit. This is not a healthy sign . . . read on McDuff!
John
Friday, July 28, 2017
Fwd: A Framework for Making Makerspaces Work
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From: Remake Learning
Remake Learning posted: "Research into the meaning and value of maker learning has been a focus of The Children's Museum of Pittsburgh from the first steps they took to start developing ideas for MAKESHOP in 2010. In the years since, MAKESHOP has become a national exemplar among "
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Wednesday, July 26, 2017
Who wants to be the Pittsburgh voice for this open source utility?
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Subject: I'm sorry, could you repeat that?
A whole new way your voice matters.
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Sunday, July 23, 2017
Fwd: Please share out..Educational Outcomes-Are our children thriving in our schools?
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Friday, July 21, 2017
Thursday, July 20, 2017
Fwd: Time to grab your wallets
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From: John Hemington
Watch out for the movement to end cash, it could prove to be very painful – and the absolute end of non-hermit privacy.
John
Wednesday, July 19, 2017
SKWIM System On the Road
Hi,
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This Saturday and Sunday, I will be taking a SKWIM LAGOON to the area not so far from THE ROCK, as we will organize some SKWIM ULTRA for fun at North Shore of MORAINE STATE PARK as part of the fun that swirls around the triathlons, Mighty Moraine, organized by an aquatic friend, Joella of Get Fit Families. We will be there from 9-11 both days. This is our first open water SKWIM in western PA.
Coach Mark
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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
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Pittsburgh Combined Water Polo Team
http://CLOH.org
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Tuesday, July 18, 2017
Allowing city workers to COACH -- and this CCAC amendment with today's vote
Hi Council Members,
The amendment to the change in the city charter that needs to head to the voters to allow city workers to also be employed by CCAC, another government entity, should be its own ballot question and not put into the measure to allow PPS SCHOOL COACHES.
Teaching at CCAC should be treated as a different exception. That different exception should be considered as its own question on the ballot for the voters.
And, is this "TEACHING at CCAC" or is it also other jobs? What about being a CCAC administrator? What of being a sports coach, or on the grounds crew, working in food service, the book store, or security, or in some other capacity?
I do not think that the spirit of the measure as it was originally put forth applies to the amendment to also allow CCAC employment. A parent is not going to desire to teach at CCAC because his or her son or daughter is enrolled at CCAC.
If Rev Burgess wants a pay check for teaching at CCAC, that exception can be put on the ballot as a question to stand on its own. I expect that might pass too.
My other suggestion is to make the amendment to that allows paid work at CCAC -- and perhaps the entire exception that would also allow for coaching at PPS -- be subject to a $10,000 per year limit.
We do NOT want CCAC teachers with larger teaching loads to be able to work for the city and CCAC at the same time.
If people want to work a second job in higher education, work at the Pgh Seminary, Carlow, Chatham, RMU, Pitt, CMU, DU.
What about PSU branch campus exception too? One could not work for the 4-H Extension, a branch of PSU in the Tech building in Connelley building. That's fine. Or, allow it to be limited to $10,000.
In an ideal world with our democratic process, put the CCAC question as its own ballot question, different from the matter of allowing PPS Coaching.
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
Pittsburgh Combined Water Polo Team
http://CLOH.org
412 298 3432 = cell
Friday, July 14, 2017
Prudent challenges
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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
Pittsburgh Combined Water Polo Team
http://CLOH.org
412 298 3432 = cell
Tuesday, July 11, 2017
Sunday, July 09, 2017
Fwd: The Neoliberal Agenda
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From: John Hemington <jehemington@verizon.net>
From: John Hemington <jehemington@verizon.net>
The three attachments are in some ways related as evidencing the results of the neoliberal plutocracy. In the first, Paul Street details what I have been arguing from the beginning about the Trump election. That is, that the primary support for Trump did not come from working and lower class whites. Instead, his strongest support came from what I describe as country club/chamber of commerce whites who are generally well off and represent one of the most reactionary forces in our society. They tend to care about only two issues, lower (or no) taxes and the elimination of 'unnecessary' regulations. This is a quasi-libertarian group which tends to care only for their own selfish interests – a core constituency of the neoliberal thought collective. They strongly believe that they have no responsibility at all for the ills of society nor any interest helping others. Strangely enough, many, if not most are or believe themselves to be committed Christians – though they seem to have a strange interpretation of Christ's teaching. The second article deals with plutocracy, its consequences and how both major political parties have come to represent its interests. The third article discusses the impact of neoliberal agenda on higher education caprification of university teaching positions along with labor's efforts to organize adjuncts and graduate assistants in order to afford a reasonable living opportunity.
One thing that has been quite clear to me is that many of the so called working class whites who voted for Trump were not so much voting for Trump as against the plutocracy which controls both major parties. It is also clear to me that had the Democratic Party not deliberately sabotaged Bernie Sanders campaign, Sanders would have soundly beaten Trump in at least two of the contested Rust Belt states and won the election. The shame is that the Democratic Party cares more about pleasing its billionaire contributors than it does about doing what needs to be done for the people and for society as a whole. This is not the same as saying that Bernie Sanders was the best possible candidate or that all of his policies would have been beneficial. He was much too willing to follow the military in its effort to subdue the world for corporate interests, but his economic policies would have benefitted many millions of Americans – and most Americans understood that, particularly on the issue of health care for all.
John
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Wednesday, July 05, 2017
Fwd: Threats abound
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From: John Hemington
From: John Hemington
These days it seems as if threats of various enormity abound almost everywhere. Cable news seems never to stop selling fear and loathing – regardless of which political agenda is being cast as the evil one. But there is one very real threat that few media of any stripe are reporting and it may be, in many respects, the most serious of all. That is the accumulation derivatives by the four major Wall Street mega-banks as detailed in the attached article by Pam and Russ Martens of Wall Street on Parade. One bank, Citi, holds derivatives with a notional value of $54.8 trillion dollars. To get an idea of just how problematic this is, the global GDP of all nations is estimated to be only $75.6 trillion in notional value. As stated in the article, there is no way that there could ever be sufficient counter-parties to cover this in the event of another financial crash. More importantly, little or nothing has been done since the Great Financial Crisis of 2008 (GFC) to correct the problems in the financial industry which led to the 2008 crash. Dodd-Frank when passed was too little, too late and it has since then diluted and de-toothed at the behest of these financial titans. When the next crash comes, and it almost certainly will, since the same basic players remain in charge both in and out of government, it is likely to be far more devastating and destructive than the one which preceded it.
If there was not a sufficient threat from nuclear war given the insane policies put in place by the Trump administration, not to mention the two previous administrations, cataclysmic financial crises almost always lead to global warfare. We got lucky in 2008 because the financial bleeding was stopped, but the non-financial victims were never made whole as were the bankers who got to keep all of their ill-gotten gains as well as all of their power to continue operating multi-trillion dollar gambling operations – which is what derivatives really are. Unfortunately, the main stream media will almost never pay attention to the criminals in high places and instead focus on crime in the streets. As a result, it is likely that, as before, the crisis will almost certainly find most Americans unprepared (though it is certainly difficult for one to know how to prepare for such a collapse). Because the victims of the 2008 GFC have never been made whole and have since been ignored and/or denigrated by both major political parties, we have the rise of right-wing nationalism and the election of a very dangerous president with little capacity for restraint or for rational decision making. As such these are extremely volatile times in which almost any event can lead to catastrophic consequences for us all.
John
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