Tuesday, May 15, 2018

Fwd: Book Musial Moments for your summer program

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From: St. Louis Sports Commission's Sportsmanship Foundation

Book Musial Moments for your summer program

The St. Louis Sports Commission has created an innovative program fostering civility, respect and selflessness among young people in the St. Louis region. Inspired by the great Stan Musial, the organization is visiting schools and summer programs in the metro area to introduce the concept of "Musial Moments" and to instill the qualities of sportsmanship on and off the field.
Presentations are led by Solomon Alexander (a.k.a. The Sportsmanship Guy), the director of the Sports Commission's Sportsmanship Foundation. Through a fun and interactive 45-minute session, students are motivated to care about sportsmanship and to be good to those around them - just as Stan the Man did during his illustrious career and life.
Funding from Sports Commission supporters enables this program to be offered at no cost to participating groups. To bring Musial Moments to your school or youth organization, call 314-345-5130 or email salexander@stlsports.org.
The following schools and youth organizations have hosted Musial Moments assemblies since the program's inception in 2015:
  • Bob McCormack's Youth Basketball Camp
  • Bayless High School (2)
  • Fort Zumwalt High School (2)
  • McKinley High School 
  • Duchesne High School
  • Great Circle
  • St. Rose of Lima (DeSoto, Mo.)
  • Bristol Elementary
  • Woerner Elementary (2)
  • Forsyth Elementary
  • Central Elementary (Roxana, Ill.)
  • Mathews-Dickey Boys & Girls Club (2)
  • Halls Ferry Elementary (2)
  • McCluer High School
  • Ritenour Middle
  • Holman Elementary
  • Robinson Elementary
  • LeMasters Elementary
  • Danforth Elementary
  • Johnson-Wabash Elementary (2)
  • Robinwood Elementary
  • Commons Lane Elementary
  • Sherwood Elementary
  • Carondelet Leadership Academy
  • Henderson Elementary
  • Pembroke Hill School (Kansas City, Mo.)
  • Jackie Joyner-Kersee Center
  • The J in Creve Coeur
  • St. Alban Roe School
  • Hazelwood Northwest Middle
  • Academy of the Sacred Heart (St. Charles, Mo.)
  • St. Charles Borromeo School
  • Shenandoah Valley Elementary
  • Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater St. Louis - Adams Park
  • Christian Academy of Greater St. Louis
  • Parkway South Middle
  • St. Ferdinand School
  • Fort Zumwalt North Middle
  • Wohlwend Elementary
  • Mary Queen of Peace School 
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Friday, May 11, 2018

Fwd: eNews: Baylor Regents Accept Illuminate Strategic Plan to Move Forward

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From: Baylor University <enews@baylor.edu>
Baylor Board of Regents spring meeting actions...
Baylor University

Baylor Regents Accept Illuminate Strategic Plan to Move Forward

Board also announces new Regents; approves operating budget, five new degrees

WACO, Texas – At its regular spring meeting, the Baylor University Board of Regents accepted the University moving forward with the implementation of Illuminate, Baylor's Academic Strategic Plan, and took action to approve a $660.1 million operating budget for 2018-2019, five new academic degrees and new Board members.

On Thursday, Baylor President Linda A. Livingstone, Ph.D., presented Regents with an overview of Illuminate that included the plan's foundational Four Pillars, five Signature Academic Initiatives and "Give Light," a multi-year comprehensive capital campaign to provide the resources necessary to achieve the strategic plan's objectives.

Since providing an initial framework in February, President Livingstone and University academic leadership and the deans of Baylor's 12 colleges and schools have discussed and refined the plan, synthesizing input from two on-campus and several off-campus Baylor Conversation Series events and an open-ended online feedback form from faculty, staff and students. They also developed working groups for each Pillar and Initiative and continued engagement with the Faculty Senate.

In her presentation, the President outlined Illuminate's Four Pillars, built on the aspirations in Pro Futuris, that Baylor will be a community recognized for:

  • Unambiguously Christian educational environment;
  • Transformational undergraduate education;
  • Research and scholarship marked by quality, impact and visibility; and
  • Nationally recognized programs in human performance through the arts and athletics.

President Livingstone also announced the plan's five multidisciplinary Signature Academic Initiatives, which focus on key challenges facing society today:

  • Health – Research and collaboration in this area will focus on environmental, family and community determinants of health, biomedical research, health policy, law, leadership and ethics, and undergraduate health and medical education.
  • Data Sciences – Research, educational and professional training in this area will focus on biomedical informatics, cybersecurity and business analytics, with an overarching theme of ethical uses of largescale data.
  • Materials Science – Research and collaboration in this area will focus on technologies that make products faster, stronger and lighter, providing solutions for enhanced quality of life.
  • Human Flourishing and Ethics – Research and collaboration in this area will focus on understanding the conditions by which humans, communities and societies flourish.
  • Baylor in Latin America – Research, collaboration and engagement in this area will focus on health and disease prevention; business development and international trade; human capital formation and education; immigration, migration and human trafficking; congregational development; democratic governance and economics; and culture and arts.

"These selected 'signature' academic initiatives will amplify and expand our Christian commitment and position Baylor for leadership in fields of national importance. By strengthening scholarship, deepening learning and enhancing teaching, these initiatives will support our commitment to excellence in undergraduate education and growth in graduate education," President Livingstone said. "Collaboration is vital to finding solutions to the immense challenges facing our world. Baylor's Illuminate initiatives will be developed around areas where existing collaboration is yielding results and where continued work and additional investment will elevate the University's research profile."

Following acceptance of Illuminate by the Board, Baylor leadership will establish University-wide faculty implementation teams over the summer who will work on an implementation plan and top-level metrics to measure success.

"We are excited to move forward with Illuminate, as we accelerate our quest toward preeminence as a Christian research university and strategically chart our path over the next five years and beyond," President Livingstone said.

Board approves operating budget, new degrees

Regents approved a $660.1 million annual operating budget for 2018-2019, which includes an additional $9.9 million for scholarships – both merit and need-based – for undergraduates, graduates and professional students, and graduate assistantships. The budget supports new and replacement faculty and staff positions, merit raises and more competitive stipends for graduate assistants. The budget takes effect June 1.

In addition, the Board approved five new degree programs:

  • Ph.D. in Preaching, the only one of its kind in the free-church tradition offered at a major research university;
  • U.S. Army Graduate Program in Anesthesia Nursing (USAGPAN), a two-phase, 36-month program culminating in a Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) degree;
  • Master of Arts in Teaching and Joint Bachelor of Science In Education/Master of Arts in Teaching, which allows students to earn a master's degree and an initial teacher licensure for the State of Texas;
  • Master of Arts in Classics and Joint Bachelor of Arts/Master Arts in Classics, which will serve students interested in secondary education, including at Christian and classical schools, and students interested in pursuing a Ph.D. in Classics after completing the M.A.; and
  • Doctor of Occupational Therapy, a post-professional program to transition currently practicing occupational therapists with a master's degree in occupational therapy to OTD and help meet the need for occupational therapy services in a growing range of settings.

The Board also authorized the funding to negotiate and execute a contract for a human resources and financial cloud-based enterprise system.

Board Leadership, Committee Chairs, New Regents

Following last year's implementation of improvements and best-practice recommendations to the Board's structure and governance, Regents voted to approve officers and committee chairs, who also will serve on the Executive Committee, for 2018-2019:

Re-elected as chair and vice chairs are:

  • Joel T. Allison, B.A. '70, of Dallas, Chair;
  • Daniel H. Chapman, B.B.A. '66, M.B.A. '73, of Dallas, Vice Chair;
  • Jerry K. Clements, J.D. '81, of Austin, Vice Chair; and
  • Mark Hurd, B.B.A. '79, of Redwood Shores, California, Vice Chair.

"I am appreciative of the confidence the Board has placed in me as Chairman over the past year, and certainly as we look forward to the future," said Chairman Allison. "My love for Baylor runs deep, and I am willing to serve this great institution however called. We have made great progress over the past year, and there is much more to be done as we unify the Baylor Family behind the Illuminate strategic plan, which will benefit our students, faculty and the university overall."

Added President Livingstone: "Chairman Allison has guided the Board over the past year with a steady hand and, as the statesman he is, worked tirelessly to bring unity and healing to the Baylor Family. He has stayed true to his four 'non-negotiables' on decision-making adopted by the Board: Will this decision keep Baylor a Christ-centered university? Will this decision stay true to our mission? Will this reflect our core convictions of what Baylor stands for? Is this the right thing to do for the right reason? I look forward to continuing to work over the next year with Joel and our Board of Regents as we implement our academic strategic plan and strategically advance the university."

Elected as committee chairs:

  • Academic Affairs – Jennifer Walker Elrod, B.A. '88, of Houston, Chair, and Alicia D.H. Monroe, M.D., of Missouri City, Texas, Vice Chair;
  • Advancement and Development – Dan Hord III, B.B.A. '89, of Midland, Chair, and Jeff D. Reeter, B.B.A. '84, of Houston, Vice Chair;
  • Audit – Mark Rountree, B.B.A. '86, M.T.A. '87, of Dallas, Chair, and Jill Manning, B.B.A. '84, of Dallas, Vice Chair;
  • Compliance and Regulatory Affairs – Randy Lee Pullin, B.B.A. '82, of Houston, Chair, and Mark E. Lovvorn, B.B.A. '76, B.Acc. '77, of Dallas, Vice Chair;
  • Finance and Facilities – Larry P. Heard, B.B.A. '80, of Houston, Chair, and Miles Jay Allison, B.B.A. '78, M.S. '80, J.D. '81, of Frisco, Vice Chair;
  • University Leadership and Compensation – Mark A. McCollum, B.B.A. '80, of Houston, Chair, and William (Bill) S. Simon, of Rogers, Arkansas, Vice Chair;
  • Nominating, Governance and Regent Leadership – J. Cary Gray, B.A. '79, B.Acc. '80, J.D. '83, of Houston, Chair, and Julie Hermansen Turner, B.B.A. '67, M.S.E.D '68, of Dallas, Vice Chair; and
  • Student Life – Kim Wilson Stevens, B.S.Ed. '93, of Waco, Chair, and Dennis R. Wiles, Ph.D., of Arlington, Vice Chair.

In other action, the Board elected two new at-large Regents:

  • Michael McFarland, B.B.A. '93, Ed.D. (Educational Administration) '05, of Crowley – three-year term; superintendent of Crowley ISD; football letterwinner 1989-1992; member of The Word Church, Fort Worth; and
  • Todd Reppert, B.B.A. (Accounting) '91, of Houston – three-year term; founder and president of Reppert Capital Partners; member of Second Baptist Church, Houston.

Elected by Baylor alumni and welcomed by the Board to three-year terms as alumni-elected Regents are:

  • Katie Jo Baumgardner Luningham, B.A. (University Scholar) '11, of Atlanta, Georgia; Judicial Law Clerk at United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit; member of Mount Olive Lutheran Church, Overland Park, Kansas; and
  • Gordon Wilkerson, B.B.A. '82, of Lubbock; president of Wilkerson Properties; member of First Baptist Church of Lubbock.

Regents re-elected by the Board to three-year teams are:

  • J. Cary Gray, B.A. '79, B.Acc. '80, J.D. '83, of Houston – final three-year term;
  • Dan Hord III, B.B.A. '89, of Midland – final three-year term;
  • William (Bill) S. Simon, of Rogers, Arkansas – second three-year term; and
  • Kim Wilson Stevens, B.S.Ed. '93, of Waco – second three-year term.

Regents appointed/reappointed by the Baptist General Convention of Texas last fall and confirmed by the Board are:

  • Rene´ Maciel, M.S.Ed. (Educational Psychology) '91, of McGregor; missions pastor, First Woodway Baptist Church;
  • Joel T. Allison, B.A. '70, of Dallas; third three-year term; and
  • Jennifer Walker Elrod, B.A. '88, of Houston; third three-year term.

Honoris Causa Student Regents approved by the Board for one-year terms are:

  • Will Cassara, a sophomore pre-business major, of Keller – second-term voting; and
  • Malcolm B. Foley, doctoral candidate in religion, of Rockville, Maryland.

Terms begin on June 1.

"This past year has included many significant governance changes for the Baylor Board of Regents, and we have remained resolutely committed to living out Baylor's mission in all decisions that we make," Chairman Allison said. "We welcome our new Regents and look forward to having them share their experience, insight and passion for Baylor University as we focus on supporting President Livingstone, the administration and faculty and providing strategic guidance on the needs of the University and our Baylor Family."

The Board also expressed its appreciation to Regents who have completed their terms of service: Bob Beauchamp of Houston; Linda Brian, B.A. '69, of Amarillo; Wayne Fisher, B.B.A. '61, L.L.B. '61, of Houston; David H. Harper, B.B.A. '88, of Dallas; past Chair Ronald D. Murff, B.B.A. '75, of Dallas; and Student Regent Hannah Vecseri, a senior University Scholar from Houston.

Newly Promoted, Tenured Faculty Honored

On Thursday night, Regents, President's Council and the Council of Deans gathered for a special reception and dinner in the Paul and Katy Piper Great Hall at Truett Seminary honoring newly promoted and newly tenured faculty at Baylor.

Three commencement ceremonies, as well as commencement for Truett Seminary, are scheduled for this weekend, as Baylor will confer degrees upon nearly 3,000 graduates.


Fwd: Top-10 books, blogs and resources for triathletes


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From: Mikael Eriksson




This week I finally answer the question "What's your favourite book, blog, or resource related to triathlon?" myself. As you know, I ask that question of all my interview guests, but in EP#125 I give you my top-10 resource list (plus a number of honourable mentions).

And Andy Blow makes a return appearance on the podcast to discuss how to train for Swimruns. Andy has competed in the World Championships and is also a former elite triathlete himself. We discuss both training to compete and training to complete, as well as some gear, nutrition and hydration strategies, and more.

Enjoy!


My Top-10 books, blogs, and resources

Well, I won't give it away in this email, you'll just have to go to the shownotes page (click the link below) or listen to the episode in your podcast app to get the full list. But I'll give you some hints for my top-3, and you can have a guess before looking up the list. Email me if you got all three right, and I'll respond with a virtual pat on the back, m'kay ;)

  • #3 is actually a few different books by an author who has not been a guest on the podcast before, although his name keeps coming up fairly regularly. And I've recently talked about bringing him on as a guest in the autumn, around the time of the release of his next book. So if you guess the author right, you got it for this item.
  • #2 is related to swimming, and is a set of resources originating in Australia/the UK, depending on how you look at it... the man behind these resources has not been a guest on the podcast either.
  • #1 is a single book that I mention a lot on the podcast, and many of the co-authors of the book are previous guests on That Triathlon Show.

See if you guessed right, get the full top-10 list, plus my list of honourable mentions here:

Top-10 books, blogs, and resources for triathletes | EP#125
Effective Swimrun Training

Andy Blow, former elite triathlete and founder of Precision Hydration joins us to discuss effective Swimrun training.

If you haven't given Swimruns a try yet, you absolutely have to do it! They are just incredible experiences that I always find reinvigorate my love for endurance sports.

Some key takeaways from my discussion with Andy are:


  • If you are "triathlon-fit", you can easily complete a Swimrun with a minimal number of specific swimrun workouts (3-5 of them is plenty). So if you just want to try one without taking focus away from your key triathlon events, that's fairly easy to accomplish.
  • The distribution of swim training/run training when actually focusing your training on swimrun depends on your strengths/weaknesses in the respective sports.

    If you're equally strong across both, a 50/50 distribution is about right. If you have a clear weakness, the focus may shift towards that discipline, but if your weakness is in running, you don't want to increase the proportion of run training too much because of the increased injury risk.
  • Andy's nutrition strategy in his Swimruns is quite different from what I described in episode 63. Andy relies heavily on the aid stations, and carry only a few spare gels on him. This means he has learnt to consume a large amount of energy in one go (e.g. a gel, a banana, some chews, and a piece of cake) and then let that fuel for the next hour or so, depending on how far it is to the next aid station.

    I like this strategy as you don't need to carry so much food, but it does sound like something that has to be practised diligently before race day.

Listen to the episode here:
Keep training smart,
Mikael
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Toastmasters invite and details

Next Step meets downtown, 1/3/5th Monday at noon, 612 Smithfield St (library conference room).


Dawn Patrol meets 1/3/5th Fridays 7:15am, above the Y on 5Av. 

Northside meets 2nd/4th Thursdays 6:30, library on Federal St. 

Plus there are dozens more clubs in and around Pgh.

Thursday, May 10, 2018

Fwd: 9 SCORES alumni represent the USA!

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9 girls and the experience 
of a lifetime
Dear Mark,

Yesterday in Washington, DC, we formed a cheer tunnel as nine SCORES alumnae from our flagship program, DC SCORES, boarded a bus to New York. Some 24 hours and a long flight later, the teenage girls, along with two coaches, arrived in Russia as the only team representing the U.S.A. at the Street Child World Cup. 

The team will be in Moscow for nine days playing in a soccer tournament with teams from around the world. Additionally, the girls - all from at-risk backgrounds - will speak about the issue of youth homelessness and connect with more than 400 other kids from around the world. Later this summer, the team will speak on Capitol Hill and in front of the United Nations about this life-changing experience. Here's how to follow along during the team's trip in Russia:

 

America SCORES inspires urban youth to lead healthy lifestyles, be engaged students, and have the confidence and character to make a difference in the world.  

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Tuesday, May 08, 2018

Fwd: The civilization wreckers' next target

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From: Tom Woods



May 8, 2018
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Connecticut just became the tenth blue state to pledge to cast its electoral votes for whichever presidential candidate wins the popular vote nationally.

Why?

Because according to the measure's proponents, the electoral college -- along with everything else that's more than 10 minutes old -- is backward and stupid.

Here's one more step toward making the United States into a giant, undifferentiated blob, as opposed to the collection of distinct societies it was originally intended to be. T
he Constitution refers to the United States in the plural every time, and the way the Constitution and the Union were originally understood, the "popular vote" was an irrelevancy.

During the World Series, for example, we don't add up the total number of runs scored by each team over the course of the series, and decide who won on that basis. We count up how many games each team won.

Thus:
Game 1: Red Sox 10, Mets 0
Game 2: Red Sox 15, Mets 1
Game 3: Red Sox 5, Mets 2
Game 4: Red Sox 1, Mets 2
Game 5: Red Sox 0, Mets 1
Game 6: Red Sox 2, Mets 3
Game 7: Red Sox 3, Mets 4

In this imaginary series the Red Sox scored 36 runs while the Mets scored only 13, yet everyone would acknowledge that the Mets won the series. Not a single sports fan would be running around demanding that we count the total number of runs instead, or insisting that the way we determine the World Series winner is sinister.

But I think this is the correct analogy with the electoral college. How many games — e.g., how many political societies, albeit weighted to some degree by population — did you win?

Also, the electoral college puts an upper bound on how much support you can earn from any one state. Even if your whole campaign is geared toward taxing the rest of the country and handing the money to California, you still can't get more than 55 electoral votes from that state. So to some extent, the electoral college forces the candidate to run a national race more than would be necessary otherwise.

A group called National Popular Vote, which seeks to abolish the electoral college, claims that "presidential candidates have no reason to pay attention to the issues of concern to voters in states where the statewide outcome is a foregone conclusion."

But this problem becomes much worse without the electoral college. If there is no limit to the support I can get from California and New York, then I'll campaign in those states like a madman. At least the electoral college puts something of a brake on this kind of strategy.

A brief note about Trump's defeat in the popular vote: had the election been decided on the basis of the popular vote, Trump would have campaigned differently in the first place. Also, more people in, say, California would have bothered to vote for him. So we can't know that he would have lost the popular vote had those been the rules.

What we do know is that every step toward making the U.S. into a giant blob instead of a decentralized collection of societies is a step toward more centralized, bureaucratic management of society, and away from liberty.

We're not taught to think this way in school, of course.

You know where you do learn this stuff?

 

Tom Woods
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