A fresh one. There's a School Board Business Meeting tonight too, at 7:30 pm in the LGI. Please share your thoughts on that as well. I already know I can't make it tonight, but have fun everyone!
On another note, I stopped by the school on Thursday to watch football practice and there wasn't anyone practicing except the soccer team. I guess they want to win another championship. It looked like there were 20 kids out there and 1 coach. The football team has 4 coaches and were not practicing. Is there still a team or don't they need practice. It was the Former Boards Chosen Head Coach who was hired to bring the progran back to National prominience or just beat Pennsbury and Neshaminy like Al Radosti's teams did in the 1950's.
Neil Armstrong, First Human to Walk on Moon, Dies at 82
By Jason Paur
Neil Armstrong has died at the age of 82.
As reported by the Associated Press, Armstrong died following “complications resulting from cardiovascular procedures,” according to a statement from his family.
Armstrong was the commander of Apollo 11. On July 20, 1969, together with fellow astronaut Buzz Aldrin, he landed the mission’s Lunar Module on the surface of the moon, and six hours later, he climbed down the ladder of the spacecraft, becoming the first human to walk on another world.
He retired from NASA 41 years ago today, just over two years after his historic mission with Aldrin and Michael Collins, who orbited the moon as the Lunar Module descended to the surface.
Armstrong was born in Wapakoneta, Ohio and first soloed an airplane just a few weeks after his sixteenth birthday. Before being selected as an astronaut, Armstrong was a naval aviator flying F9F Panther fighter jets in the Korean War. After the War, he became a research pilot for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, the predecessor of NASA. While a research pilot, he flew the rocket powered Bell X-1B and the North American X-15 along with a wide variety of jet and propeller aircraft.
During his time in the X-15 program, now under NASA, Armstrong demonstrated his engineering skills working on the hypersonic aircraft’s flight control system as well as the relatively primitive simulator used to develop flight profiles of the first winged aircraft to fly into space.
At the same time, Armstrong was working on the X-15 program, he also worked on the X-20 Dynasoar project, part of the Air Force’s ‘Man in Space Soonest’ program. The veteran test pilot flew a modified Douglas F5D fighter jet (now on display at the Neil Amrstrong Museum in Wapakoneta) on a series of flights to develop launch abort procedures that were to be used for the winged X-20 spacecraft.
Armstrong joined the astronaut core as part of the “new nine” and first flew on Gemini 8. In 1968, the now space flight veteran was selected as commander of Apollo 11, the first mission slated to land on the moon.
After retiring from NASA, Armstrong went on to be a professor of aerospace engineering and served on the board of various companies.
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As storm nears coast, GOP works to stay on course
August 27, 2012|By Thomas Fitzgerald, INQUIRER POLITICS WRITER
TAMPA - When Republican National Chairman Reince Priebus banged the oversize gavel to open his party's nominating convention Monday afternoon, it was hard to miss the images CNN was displaying across the bottom of the screen: a scarlet storm symbol spinning in the Gulf of Mexico, a fever chart marking wind speed, and a bulletin crawl informing viewers that the governor of Alabama had just declared a state of emergency. That moment illustrates the dilemma facing the GOP as Tropical Storm Isaac hurtles toward the Gulf Coast, forecast to become a hurricane and threatening devastation - replete with reminders of Hurricane Katrina - at the very time the party needs its convention, which gets fully under way here Tuesday, to sell Mitt Romney to the nation. Some party officials fretted about the possibly negative imagery of Republicans celebrating and launching attacks on President Obama amid televised scenes of destruction and death. Any damage to New Orleans would be a particularly potent symbol, considering the Bush administration's mishandling of the federal response to Katrina there in 2005. At a minimum, strategists say, the storm threatens to draw away media coverage that the GOP needs to launch Romney into the final weeks of a campaign in which the challenger is running neck-and-neck with the president in national and swing-state polls. "We are going to make sure that we monitor the storm as it proceeds," said Russ Schriefer, a top adviser to Romney who is helping to produce the convention. "Obviously, our first concern is for the people who are in the path of the storm. We have a wait-and-see attitude." The party had already scrapped Monday's program, except for Priebus' ceremonial rap of the gavel, and will pack four days of speakers and pageantry into three. Yet the television networks, which planned just an hour per night of prime-time coverage, are sure to divide their attention between proceedings here and the storm. The political ramifications of natural disasters can be hard to predict. Imagine pictures of Obama and Vice President Biden in hip waders, showing their empathy for residents of the Gulf Coast after a direct hit, looking as if they are in charge of a forceful recovery and rescue effort. Conversely, if the federal response is bungled, the administration could become the goat. That weighs on the convention planners and party leaders. We have to continue to go, and be sensitive, but the convention has to come off," said Rob Gleason, chairman of the Pennsylvania Republican Party. "We have to nominate him and get our campaign under way." The convention is perhaps the last time for the Romney campaign to get its message out unfiltered, and his strategists were looking forward to using it to address what polls have shown are weaknesses in his candidacy. For one, Romney carries the burden of historically low favorability ratings. Though voters surveyed in national polls fault Obama for job performance, particularly on the economy, most say they like him personally more than they do Romney. The Obama campaign has spent a small fortune trying to reinforce those negative impressions via attack ads depicting the former Massachusetts governor as someone who, in his private-sector career, shipped American jobs oversees and is content to wipe out the middle class for the benefit of Wall Street cronies. Schriefer and others had drawn up elaborate plans to showcase Romney's managerial skills, portraying him as best positioned to lift the nation from its economic doldrums. Now, they face the risk that coverage of Isaac will overshadow the show. The storm forced organizers to reshuffle a carefully planned lineup of speakers, videos, and testimonials from ordinary Americans.
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I'll start by saying that I noticed the August newsletter on the district's website here:
http://www.mv.org/news.cfm?story=101957&school=0
and I like it a lot. More student-focused and positive, without self-promoting political bloviating. That's a course we should stay on.
You get what you pay for 25K. Its good that it is being earned and doing what it should be doing.
Who is the new VP of the board?
Drum roll please.....the new VP is Dave Stoneburner by a 7-0 vote.
So what's the catch? Only one person gets nominated....
On another note, I stopped by the school on Thursday to watch football practice and there wasn't anyone practicing except the soccer team. I guess they want to win another championship. It looked like there were 20 kids out there and 1 coach. The football team has 4 coaches and were not practicing. Is there still a team or don't they need practice. It was the Former Boards Chosen Head Coach who was hired to bring the progran back to National prominience or just beat Pennsbury and Neshaminy like Al Radosti's teams did in the 1950's.
A humble, great American.
Neil Armstrong, First Human to Walk on Moon, Dies at 82
By Jason Paur
Neil Armstrong has died at the age of 82.
As reported by the Associated Press, Armstrong died following “complications resulting from cardiovascular procedures,” according to a statement from his family.
Armstrong was the commander of Apollo 11. On July 20, 1969, together with fellow astronaut Buzz Aldrin, he landed the mission’s Lunar Module on the surface of the moon, and six hours later, he climbed down the ladder of the spacecraft, becoming the first human to walk on another world.
He retired from NASA 41 years ago
today, just over two years after his historic mission with Aldrin and Michael Collins, who orbited the moon as the Lunar Module descended to the surface.
Armstrong was born in Wapakoneta, Ohio and first soloed an airplane just a few weeks after his sixteenth birthday. Before being selected as an astronaut, Armstrong was a naval aviator flying F9F Panther fighter jets in the Korean War. After the War, he became a research pilot for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, the predecessor of NASA. While a research pilot, he flew the rocket powered Bell X-1B and the North American X-15 along with a wide variety of jet and propeller aircraft.
During his time in the X-15 program, now under NASA, Armstrong demonstrated his engineering skills working on the hypersonic aircraft’s flight control system as well as the relatively primitive simulator used to develop flight profiles of the first winged aircraft to fly into space.
At the same time, Armstrong was working on the X-15 program, he also worked on the X-20 Dynasoar project, part of the Air Force’s ‘Man in Space Soonest’ program. The veteran test pilot flew a modified Douglas F5D fighter jet (now on display at the Neil Amrstrong Museum in Wapakoneta) on a series of flights to develop launch abort procedures that were to be used for the winged X-20 spacecraft.
Armstrong joined the astronaut core as part of the “new nine” and first flew on Gemini 8. In 1968, the now space flight veteran was selected as commander of Apollo 11, the first mission slated to land on the moon.
After retiring from NASA, Armstrong went on to be a professor of aerospace engineering and served on the board of various companies.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-f_DPrSEOEo
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As storm nears coast, GOP works to stay on course
August 27, 2012|By Thomas Fitzgerald, INQUIRER POLITICS WRITER
TAMPA - When Republican National Chairman Reince Priebus banged the oversize gavel to open his party's nominating convention Monday afternoon, it was hard to miss the images CNN was displaying across the bottom of the screen: a scarlet storm symbol spinning in the Gulf of Mexico, a fever chart marking wind speed, and a bulletin crawl informing viewers that the governor of Alabama had just declared a state of emergency.
That moment illustrates the dilemma facing the GOP as Tropical Storm Isaac hurtles toward the Gulf Coast, forecast to become a hurricane and threatening devastation - replete with reminders of Hurricane Katrina - at the very time the party needs its convention, which gets fully under way here Tuesday, to sell Mitt Romney to the nation.
Some party officials fretted about the possibly negative imagery of Republicans celebrating and launching attacks on President Obama amid televised scenes of destruction and death. Any damage to New Orleans would be a particularly potent symbol, considering the Bush administration's mishandling of the federal response to Katrina there in 2005.
At a minimum, strategists say, the storm threatens to draw away media coverage that the GOP needs to launch Romney into the final weeks of a campaign in which the challenger is running neck-and-neck with the president in national and swing-state polls.
"We are going to make sure that we monitor the storm as it proceeds," said Russ Schriefer, a top adviser to Romney who is helping to produce the convention. "Obviously, our first concern is for the people who are in the path of the storm. We have a wait-and-see attitude."
The party had already scrapped Monday's program, except for Priebus' ceremonial rap of the gavel, and will pack four days of speakers and pageantry into three. Yet the television networks, which planned just an hour per night of prime-time coverage, are sure to divide their attention between proceedings here and the storm.
The political ramifications of natural disasters can be hard to predict. Imagine pictures of Obama and Vice President Biden in hip waders, showing their empathy for residents of the Gulf Coast after a direct hit, looking as if they are in charge of a forceful recovery and rescue effort. Conversely, if the federal response is bungled, the administration could become the goat. That weighs on the convention planners and party leaders.
We have to continue to go, and be sensitive, but the convention has to come off," said Rob Gleason, chairman of the Pennsylvania Republican Party. "We have to nominate him and get our campaign under way."
The convention is perhaps the last time for the Romney campaign to get its message out unfiltered, and his strategists were looking forward to using it to address what polls have shown are weaknesses in his candidacy.
For one, Romney carries the burden of historically low favorability ratings. Though voters surveyed in national polls fault Obama for job performance, particularly on the economy, most say they like him personally more than they do Romney.
The Obama campaign has spent a small fortune trying to reinforce those negative impressions via attack ads depicting the former Massachusetts governor as someone who, in his private-sector career, shipped American jobs oversees and is content to wipe out the middle class for the benefit of Wall Street cronies.
Schriefer and others had drawn up elaborate plans to showcase Romney's managerial skills, portraying him as best positioned to lift the nation from its economic doldrums. Now, they face the risk that coverage of Isaac will overshadow the show.
The storm forced organizers to reshuffle a carefully planned lineup of speakers, videos, and testimonials from ordinary Americans.
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