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SHU's Gibson has appetite, ability for success
A cup of coffee is easy to come by around the Farmington area, but Howie Dickenman had a particular barrister in mind when he took to the highway for this cup of joe.
When the CCSU coach arrived at the Dunkin' Donuts in Dayville, about an hour away, he bypassed the woman working at the counter and asked for the tall teenager to wait on him.
"The woman said, `Can I help you?' And I said, `No, I'd rather have this gentleman Shane Gibson wait on me," Dickenman recalled. "So he poured me a black coffee, I said `thank you' and got in my car and drove back fifty-five miles.
"You try for any little thing that you can in recruiting, you're always trying to get an edge."
In the end, Dickenman got edged out for Gibson's services, and for three of the past four years, the Blue Devils -- along with the rest of the Northeast Conference -- have been trying to figure out ways to stop the Sacred Heart guard.
It has not worked out too well, either.
The 6-foot-2 red-shirt senior enters his final year with the Pioneers as their all-time leading scorer at the NCAA Division I level with 1,453 points. Last season, he was the fourth leading scorer in the nation (22.0 ppg).
"He's the best offensive player in the league," Quinnipiac coach Tom Moore said. "It's a perfect match of player to program."
Gibson, who opens the season with SHU at 5:30 Saturday night against Yale in the Connecticut 6 at the University of Hartford, didn't just become an offensive star overnight.
Like most successful people, he's worked at it his entire life.
Along for the ride
Some people claim they were born to play basketball, but Shane Gibson first started gaining interest in the sport thanks to his father, Al Gibson.
More InformationAbout the Pioneers Coach: Dave Bike, 35th season (520-479) Conference: Northeast Last season's finish: 14-18, 8-10 NEC (8th) Returning starters: G Shane Gibson, 6-2, R-Sr. (22.0 ppg, 4.7 rpg); G Evan Kelley, 6-4, Jr. (7.3 ppg, 2.8 rpg); C Justin Swidowski, 6-9, Sr. (11.1 ppg, 5.3 rpg); G-F Louis Montes, 6-4, Jr., (7.8 ppg, 5.1 rpg); G-F Chris Evans, 6-3, Jr., (8.1 ppg, 3.5 rpg). Notes: The Pioneers returned to the postseason after a two-year absence, but lost in the quarterfinals to LIU Brooklyn. … Gibson, a preseason all-NEC selection, was the fourth leading scorer in the country a year ago. … 6-8 junior Mostafa Abdel Latif sat out last season after transferring from Arab Academy for Science and Technology. … Swidowski (shoulder) is likely to play in the opener, while Kelley (knee) is questionable and Evans (knee) is doubtful. Season opener: vs. Yale, 5:30 p.m. Saturday (Connecticut 6 at University of Hartford) -- WILLIAM S. PAXTON
The older Gibson used to be a referee, and on his trips from their home in Killingly to do games, he started to bring young Shane along.
"He started me into basketball when I was about 3 years old because he was a ref down in Plainfield and I would go to the games with him," Gibson recalls. "I would be the ball boy or whatever. He had a traveling AAU team, and from 3 years old, that's what I wanted to do.
"I saw the lifestyle and I liked it. I saw the respect that people got from (playing basketball) and that's what got me hooked."
Those road trips not only introduced Gibson to the game, but helped form a lifelong basketball bond between father and son.
Once the younger Gibson started to develop his own skills, and eventually ended up playing on an AAU team, Al was always there to drive him to the next game, or drop him off at a nearby park to hoop the day away.
"He took me to all my AAU, which gave me a little bit of exposure," Gibson said. "If it wasn't for him, I wouldn't have been able to go to tournaments because of the car situation and stuff. I appreciated that.
"Yeah, he's been a big part of my life."
In four years on the varsity squad at Killingly High, Gibson was team MVP three times and all-state twice. He also finished as the school's all-time leading scorer and set a single-game school record with 51 points.
Despite his monster offensive numbers -- he averaged about 30 points a game as a senior -- not many schools took notice. Quinnipiac flirted with the idea, but otherwise, Central and SHU were the only other teams to express interest.
Sacred Heart assistant coach Johnny Kidd spotted Gibson when the latter was 16 years old playing in a summer league with 17-year-old players prior to his junior season of high school.
"The only two schools who offered me were Central and Sacred Heart," Gibson said. "Sacred Heart was there the longest and they were the first team to offer me (a scholarship) during my junior year. Obviously, I felt more comfortable with them. Coach Kidd was cool. I felt that was the right place for me and everything has worked out."
Making the grade
Not everyone is capable of making the jump to the collegiate level, but Gibson started 14 games and averaged 8.1 points on a veteran squad in his freshman season. Then, instead of getting lost in a surplus of older guards as a sophomore, Gibson opted to red-shirt.
It was the best decision he ever made.
"Playing time wasn't the reason why I red-shirted," he said. "I owe a lot of my success to that year because I just concentrated on getting better. I didn't worry about playing or playing time because I knew I wasn't going to play anyways, so it was about getting better that year. Getting stronger and getting more physical to be able to handle these guys, because it's a little different than high school."
To call Gibson a gym rat might be an understatement. He worked hard on his game during that down season and still does so now.
While his friends and teammates would be having fun at parties on Saturday nights, Gibson would sneak into the Pitt Center for his night out.
The same routine unfolds each time he steps on the dimly lit Pitt Center floor. Gibson takes and makes 10 shots from five different spots on the floor inside the 3-point line and then 10 more shots from five different spots behind the arch. After he finishes that, he moves back 2 feet farther from the 3-point line and shoots 10 shots from five more spots.
He finishes the night with 100 free throws.
"That's what it takes," he said. "Sneak into the gym because it's closed and just sleep there afterwards. I'd wake up in the morning, Sunday mornings, and lift before going back to my room.
"You have to sacrifice sometimes."
The sacrifice is easy because the drive within is so great.
"I hate missing," he said. "If you see me in practice if I miss a shot, any shot, I'm (ticked) off about it because it should have gone in.
"That's just how I feel."
When Gibson returned to the floor for the 2010-11 season, he averaged 17.2 points and made 44 percent of his shots. Last season, his average rose to 22.0 points -- fourth in the nation -- and he made 51 percent of his shots, including 43 percent from 3-point range.
"I have the utmost respect for him," Dickenman said. "He uses screens as well as anyone I have coached.
"You can shut him down for 14 minutes and hold him to three points and at the end of the half, he probably still has 18 points. He beat us last year on a jump shot coming off a screen. I just think he's terrific."
In addition to loathing a missed shot, Gibson is also driven by something else that his father taught him years ago on those AAU road trips.
"I like respect," he said. "Everyone tries to earn respect and when I was growing up, my father always told me when he dropped me off at the gym or an AAU tournament, he would say `get your respects.' So that's what I go by, make everyone respect me and take what's mine."
The next step
From an individual standpoint -- especially on the offensive end -- Gibson could not ask for a much better performance than he had last season. However, winning is something he desperately wants to be a part of at SHU again.
The Pioneers returned to the NEC tournament last March after missing two straight postseasons and appear poised to get back with a veteran squad.
"Last year at (the Connecticut 6 breakfast), coach (Dave) Bike said out loud I was one of the best scorers in New England," Gibson said. "I felt like I was one of the best scorers in the country, so I had to prove to him and everyone else here that I was. I did it.
"It was good success for myself, but the team didn't have as much success as I did, so this year that's what I am focused on -- helping get the team to where I was last year and hopefully we win an NEC 'ship."
In order to win that title, the other aspects of Gibson's game need to shine. Even with 48 steals a year ago, if Gibson had one knock on his game around the NEC, it would be he doesn't always play as hard defensively.
"I think this is an important year for Gibson individually and for the team to be successful," Bike said. "The guy has shown at times he could be a good defender. He's going to be challenged this year. Every game people are going to challenge him, challenge his offense, but he has to return the favor and lock up a few guys, getting us that kind of attitude.
"If he does that, we'll be very competitive."
"I have a lot of steals and I deflect a lot of balls," Gibson said, "so I'm really not upset people think I don't play defense because I know I can. It's all good. I'm going to prove this year I'm a good defender."
If he accomplishes that, Gibson might have a chance to chase after his next dream.
"I'm trying to play in the NBA, to be honest," he said. "That's all I have kept thinking about since I've come to college.
"I'm not trying to think about it too much right now. I'm just going to take the year as it comes and try to dominate everyone we play and see what happens after that."
It could be a rather bright future for the former Dunkin' Donuts barrister, too.
"He has a tremendous chance to play elsewhere," Dickenman said. "He's going to make some money. At what level, I don't know. Is it Europe? Is it the D-League? Quite honestly, if I was an NBA scout, I'd bring him in for a workout, that's me. Bring him in for a workout but no promises, because I think he's that quick."
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So, where do we even begin here? On Monday night, Fresno Pacific University player Leonard Tyrell Young got booted off the team for "a violation of team standards." And if there was any chance of him being reinstated to the team at some point, he immediately blew it.
Young allegedly returned to his apartment about an hour after getting the boot and proceeded to get drunk and tear the place up. He then took off all of his clothes (uh, why?) and ran through the neighboring streets naked before ending up at a convenience store, where he pounded on the bulletproof glass windows. In the parking lot outside, he then assaulted two women and knocked one of them to the ground. At that point, police arrived and tried to subdue Young. But he jumped into the front seat of their car, put it in drive, and attempted to pull off. In an effort to stop him from driving away, one of the responding officers shot his Taser at Young once, twice, and then a third time—but it didn't faze him. They finally managed to pry his hands free from the car's steering wheel by beating one of his wrists with a flashlight (Note to self: Don't make fun of cops equipped with flashlights anymore!) but not before a police dog bit Young and was then subsequently punched in the face by him. Finally, they handcuffed him and took him down to the station.
Whew. Did you catch all that? If not, here's the point of the whole story: Don't drink to try and ease the pain of getting kicked off a college basketball team. In the end, it's just not worth it.
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Guest blogger Samantha is talking about her favorite season, Autumn. Or, as we call it in the U.S., Fall. Does anyone know where that term came from? Whatever you call it... it's wonderful!
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I entered a giveaway recently that required me to make a Pinterest board based on some of my favorite things for Autumn. It's no secret that fall is my favorite season, but I couldn't hold back all my pins; I love so many things about this season. I love fresh root produce and warm color pallates and leaves covering the ground. I love baking things and warm sweaters and gourds and pumpkins on every front porch.
I am really excited for this month coming up, because October is the quintessential fall month, I think. By November, things are getting a little too cold for my liking and I'm ready to call it Winter. But October has pumpkins and falling leaves and crackling campfires and weather that is just chilly enough for me to pull on my boots, sweater, and scarf.
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A while back I got into making these darling totebags. I made about ten of them. When I showed them at our guild meeting during "Show and Tell" and said they were Bow Tucks Totes, some women in the audience popped out laughing. They misunderstood what I said... they heard BOTOX Totes.
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We know that Race is a political/Socio Construct. This construct was designed and agreed about, by a global minority for control of people of color. THERE IS NO "RACE"!
Caucasian people are melanin recessive. They do not possess the Eve Gene. They are of the Neanderthal RNA.
Historically, caucasian women have used their privileges for their advantage, in usurping anything they want in their favor. They have always played their roles for convenience, in the segregation and disadvantage of Melanin peoples. They designed and washed the blood stains from the white robes of Race supremacy. They beat their maids and orphaned mulatto children. Caucasian women have often sexually harassed, threatened to cry rape or brazenly walked over to take, whatever they wanted from Melininated peoples, using our lives like an animal hide around their shoulders.
Now Dolezal goes unchallenged, masquerading in a culture she doesn't belong, while so many of our people have suffered and struggled in colonialism and cultural genocide.
Caucasians have massacred, pirated, squandered our children, land and resources for centuries. Now this creature seeks to pirate African melanin identity and appropriates our names.
|Cavorting herself as an African Queen of the Jungle for amusement, in a mockery of African cultures
Names are given- Not taken or bought in our cultures.
This sick pathetic critter epitomizes the US system of Race privilege! She projected her childhood molestation and abuse into a convenient identity. The paradox is historically, when most female caucasoids would cry rape against a black man for the attention and sympathy, or travel in seclusion, looking for ways to engage in black exploitation and prostitution,... this woman finds Black Male specimens to exploit, then adopts other black male youth as victims into her menagerie of the most oppressed and voiceless people on the planet. She wears the veil of our beautiful, yet despised melanin skin and coils her hair everyday as a masquerade!
So many melaninated people are expressing a permissive attitude in the controversy of this impostor, Rachel Dolezal and the brazenness of her reverse racism stunt. My concern about this race trader traitor is in how many times she had undermined and sold out Black people while seeking to hold the highest salaried positions as an educator and a political representative, advancing American African people?! How many critical decisions did she ignore or misdirect in her ignorance? How often did she dumb down strategic choices for the so-called "best interest" of our people. Like a Caucasian mother of a mulatto child, who doesn't know how to care for their daughter's hair, or does not teach her any Afrikan values, the subtle insinuations and neglect of critical milestones can be devastating and set back progressive achievement for decades.
This woman LIED, deceived and positioned herself in high rank and visibility as an impostor, moving herself to the highest paying leadership roles and representations. She wore a mask Everyday, as she looked into the mirror and rubbed tanning lotions into her skin and put a wig or weave on her head to present herself in public, and to further use young children as a human shield.
Yet this US imperialist society plays the skin game everyday with people of color all over the globe. The race supremacist have lynched melanin people from our motherland, as well as native American/free people of color. Then after reconstruction, with the destruction of Black Wall streets, Share cropping, redlining, Black Codes and Jim Crow laws that are still on the books; They further destroyed our economic foundations by removing us from our land and businesses to this day. Race supremacy also destroyed Affirmative Action, enabling further progress and opportunities for inherited wealth. And don't forget the debacle of integration with racial profiling for police brutality the school to prison pipeline, mass incarceration and private corporate prisons for the military industrial complex which is neo-chattel slavery.
So, my question is how many more spies and agents of status quo do we have in our camps- reporting back to massa? How many Black people play hypocritical roles of Black Power Activists while being married to caucasoids? Historically Afrikan women were horrendously Exploited, raped and abused. With chattel slavery rendering our black mothers as sub human, forced to breed children as a commodity for the slave trade, experimentation and perverted sexual exploits. We've had an unfortunate history of mulatto children who were encouraged to "pass as white," or who were specifically bred to be used as concubines and mistresses by caucasians, such as in New Orleans. Yet, the worst race traitors that we have, are Black Americans,
|Many American African refuse to acknowledge their African Ancestry
in deference to their ignorance of historical and cultural knowledge of themselves.
These Negropeons demonstrate their self-hatred publicly, by not fostering and supporting our own products and manufacturing of goods and services, in buying out the cosmetic industry of skin and hair bleach, hair straightening, weaves, and nose cosmetic surgeries. They sing the song of color blindness and that "we are all the same under the skin." This is only the song of assimilated token negros who have accepted the programming of the conquered. So these conquered negropeons continue to live in their integrated suburbs, send their infants to be raised in that system, and their youth to be miss educated in these school to prison pipelines, eating their GMO foods, practicing their religions and submitting to their drugs and surgical procedures.
Another disturbing reality of Self Hate is how so many of our melanin people suffer from Black doll/white doll syndrome. Some call it Stockholm syndrome (I call it Maafa Syndrome a much older phenomena), where many Black people act as model assimilationist/integrationist, who dwell among us and sell out our people.
Our people have been wearing the coon black face of entertainment for centuries. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackface
"You can put lipstick on a pig but she is still a pig"...
Dolezal portrayed traitorous deceit against Melanin People. No caucasoid can ever advocate or speak for me! Let them take the beam out of their own eyes!
Some may say that she is being used as a distraction.
Of course there are many critical issues happening simultaneously. We have forgotten about the hundreds of girls who were abducted for kidnapping ransom and rape, We have forgotten about the genocide of the Melanin people Globally, for land rites to appropriate fossil fuels and toxic minerals of mass destruction and We have forgotten about the destruction of Afrikan civilization through Ebola and HIV, We have forgotten about HAARP Destruction of Haiti- for land grab and oil fracking and then to be re-occupied by the French... We are overwhelmed and saturated with the assaults of our youth by police officers- still waiting for superman or chocolate Je-w+Zeus to come and save the day... We just sit back and let our oppressor run our lives, asleep and completely oblivious that it is even happening.
Remember that some people of color still recognize Clinton as the first "black" President. So as we permit Rachel on her minstrel cycle, and other's like her, this should make it easier to except his senile Hilary in office to accelerate their HAARP- White Water Real Estate hustles on Haiti and the rest of the world!
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Siem Reap - Angkor Wat
After officially ending my short lived career as an English teacher in Thailand, I decided to first embark on a journey to Cambodia. My first stop was Siem Reap with my friend Marci. To get to Siem Reap you must get a bus from Bangkok to Aranyaprathet - get a Tuk Tuk to the border - walk across the border - get a bus to a bus station out of the city - and then get a two hour taxi to the city. Not so difficult or frustrating at all.
I spent my first night in Siem Reap partying with some fellow travelers. Day two I was walking around ancient ruins at Angkor Wat incredibly hungover. I do not advice this. It hurts. It's hot. And you don't appreciate the Wat to it's full extent. Luckily the hangover began to sweat itself out and I was able to enjoy the last 3 ruins a little better.
Also - checked out the Tomb Raider temple. I have walked in Angelina Jolie's footsteps. Sweet.
Phnom Penh - Genocide Museum and Killing Fields
Next was the capital city of Phnom Penh. I've officially become an ignorant tourist for the first time. I went with no knowledge of the city - just following the crowd. Turns out there's some pretty brutal history going on there. I was familiar with the Khmer Rouge reign - but let's face it - schools don't really touch on that subject very well back in the States. I spent a depressing yet knowledgeable day walking around the Genocide Museum that was once a prison and the Killing Fields where all the bodies were poorly disposed of.
Other than that, I just saw a lot of prostitutes and had a massage.
Sihanoukville - Beggars
Lastly in Cambodia, I traveled to a place called Sihanoukville. Don't try to pronounce it. I'm pretty certain that unless you are Cambodian or French - you will screw it up. It's a beach city. So far it's a pretty disappointing beach after being in Thailand for so long. From what I can tell there's a hundred times more beggars and children trying to get money from you. It's unpleasant trying to have a nice meal on the beach and having crippled bums walk up to you or a swarm of children harassing you to buy a bracelet. I had hoped maybe the nightlife would make up for this - drinks are amazingly lower in price when compared to Thailand. However - they are still rather weak.
The highlight of this town was the hotel - a "resort" for $12.50 a night and a swimming pool that has no street bums or children to be seen. I like it.
So that's Cambodia in a nutshell. Next I will be getting on a plane to see Laos for approximately 1 week. There I will tube the Vang Vieng River and visit Luang Prabang.. Let's hope it's a "Happy" experience.


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With just under a hundred days to go until the European Beach Handball Championships taking place in Randers, Denmark in July, the preparations are running according to plan, says head of the championship Søren Simonsen, from the Danish Handball Federation.
"In the Danish Handball Federation we have a lot of experience arranging indoor handball events, but this outdoor event has been a new challenge for us.
"Simple things such as getting electricity and internet for the venue have produced a challenge, but so far we have overcome all obstacles, and the preparations are running as scheduled.
"At the moment 25 people, 15 of them volunteers, are working on the event and when the championships take place in July, there will be around 90 volunteers and 15 from the Danish Handball Federation involved – plus, of course, the personnel the EHF will be providing," Søren Simonsen told eurohandball.com.
He is in no doubt that the championships will be a great event, also when it comes to the spectators.
"We will be doing a lot to involve the spectators. We have a youth camp along with the championships, and those young people will be playing a big part in the stands, together with our DJ and our American announcer.
"We have a fine cooperation with the events department of the city of Randers who will be announcing the event in several websites, as well as there will be big screens at the all roads which lead into the city, telling about the championships.
"Furthermore, we will be present at fairs and festivals around the country up to the event, informing of the championships, and we are also going to be active in the cities with many students.
"Of course, we also advertise the event on the Danish Handball Federation´s Beach Tour, where we have around 13,000 players playing every summer," added Simonsen, who promises a lot of activity around the tournament.
"In the event area there will also be a market place with commercial stands from a lot of companies. Right now we are in the process of closing the contracts with the companies involved," he explains.
The only factor, on which the organisers have no influence over, is the weather.
"A beach handball tournament is not like a rock concert, where you can continue to listen to the music under an umbrella, if it starts to rain.
"Of course, we do have a "rain concept". There are extra terms, where we can put in matches in case some of them have to be postponed due to rain, and as soon as the first raindrop falls, our rain concept steps into function.
"However, I hope we will not need the rain concept. First of all, because I hope for ten days of sun, of course – but also because the young people in our youth camp have access to the courts in the morning, where we might have to place postponed matches," concluded Simonsen.
The championships for the young categories will take place from 5 to 7 July, while the senior championships for women as well as for men are being played from 9 to 14 July.


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The Making of High Schools
In The Myth of the Common School, Charles Leslie Glenn Jr. explores the historical development of the idea that, "in the interest of national coherence,'' the state should control the education of its citizens.
Conflicts between advocates of this view and those who assert the right of parents to control their children's education continue to influence the structure of public education, contends the author, director of the bureau of equal educational opportunity for Massachusetts.
In considering the future needs of American public schools, Mr. Glenn notes the disappearance in this century of a consensus about the moral objectives of education:
The public school has largely abandoned the role that was of such central importance for Horace Mann and his contemporaries: developing character and conveying moral principles for which there was a societal consensus. It was this mission that gave the common school its almost sacred character in American life from the middle of the 19th century to the middle of the 20th century.
This is not to say that the contemporary public school is truly neutral with respect to values and world view. ... [W]e can agree that schools inevitably present a view of reality that has the effect of relativizing other views. ...
The difference is that, in Horace Mann's day, the moral objectives of the school were essentially congruent with those of the public, but this is no longer the case. ...
This consensus on the moral content of education no longer exists. The values most strongly stressed in public schools and, even more significantly, those ignored or subtly denigrated are in many cases matters over which Americans divide more clearly than over any theological issue.
It is only by stressing another contemporary--though equally controversial--theme, the expansion of parent choice, and working with the utmost care to develop a diversity of schooling that offers distinctive approaches to the common goals essential to our society that we can rebuild broad support for public education.
University of Massachusetts Press, P.O. Box 429, Amherst, Mass. 01004; 369 pp., $32.50 cloth, $13.95, paper.
The American high school "was founded to produce citizens for the new republic but quickly became a vehicle for individual status attainment,'' argues David F. Labaree in The Making of an American High School: The Credentials Market and the Central High School of Philadelphia, 1838-1939.
To demonstrate the influence of the marketplace in transforming the purposes and practices of high schools, Mr. Labaree, assistant professor of education at Michigan State University, offers a case study of the first public high school in Philadelphia.
The school's history illustrates the tensions between democratic and meritocratic goals that continue to shape--and stratify--American public education, the author concludes in the following passages.
The stratification process works as follows: The high school's success in the credentials market brings political pressure for wider access; wider access lowers the market value of high-school credentials for members of the middle class who already have access; this market situation puts pressure on the high school to stratify (both schools and curricula) in order to permit both wider access in the lower tracks and schools and exclusiveness at the upper end.
... [T]he history of the American high school has been a continuing struggle between political forces and market forces, and there is little sign of a change in the offing. For as long as we require the high school to produce educational commodities for the purpose of individual accumulation, we will affirm the high school as a market institution and subject its credentials to the vagaries of shifting supply and demand.
And as long as we also require it to provide open access to all citizens as a matter of political right (the watery residue of the common-school ideal), we will unavoidably keep flooding the market and diluting the exchange value of high-school credentials. Since politics prevent American educators from restricting access to high school, its characteristic form has become a peculiar combination of comprehensiveness and stratification.
Yale University Press, 92A Yale Station, New Haven, Conn. 06520; 208 pp., $30 cloth.
Because of changes stemming from the increasing diversity of the student population and external mandates to correct inequities, teachers and principals have in recent decades lost much of their influence in creating a "strong positive ethos'' for their schools, Gerald Grant concludes in The World We Created at Hamilton High.
Examining closely the evolution of one high school from the 1950's through the 1980's, the professor of education and sociology at Syracuse University links the decline and gradual improvement of academic achievement there to shifts in the school's authority system.
Two reforms are essential, Mr. Grant suggests, if schools are to re-establish their intellectual and moral authority without sacrificing gains in equity: Teachers must be put "in charge of their own practice'' and, as he explains in the following excerpts, schools must be allowed to "shape their own destiny.''
Most teachers and principals in public schools do not feel that they control their fate. They have lost a sense of efficacy and, like those at Hamilton High, believe that they are on the receiving end of policies made elsewhere. Principals have become middle managers who process directives issuing from a multilayered bureaucracy.
In one school a principal pointed to 45 pounds of circulars that had emanated from the central office in the previous year; in a single month 37 different topics had been covered. ...
Schools labor under an increasingly massive superstructure. Yet there is nothing educationally that necessitates such a framework. ...
Consolidation and centralization were well under way before World War II. But Hamilton High in the 1950's was still primarily a local school with a great deal of local discretion, and strong authority rested in the principal. The egalitarian reforms of the last decades were aimed at dismantling that discretion because local traditional authority was often a reflection of local prejudices.
But now that the battle has been won, it is time to recognize that central-office bureaucrats cannot make good schools. Only the teachers and principals in those schools, acting in concert with parents and pupils, can create vibrant educational communities. But they cannot do so without a radical decentralization that restores a large measure of autonomy and initiative to the individual school.
Harvard University Press, P.O. Box 1034, 525 Great Rd. (Rte. 119),
Littleton, Mass. 01460-1034; 285 pp., $24.95 cloth.
Vol. 07, Issue 38
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CIDESCO, Skin Care Specialist Anna D. Rinehart
The creation of the COMITE INTERNATIONAL D'ESTHETIQUE ET DE COSMETOLOGIE, better known as CIDESCO, was the idea of two individuals, Mr. Dumont of Brussels, Belgium and Mr. Poirsons of Paris, France.
CIDESCO was created to work towards standardizations for aestheticians in the European countries whom wanted to practice "Beauty Therapy". The official birth date of CIDESCO was December 1946 in Brussels, Belgium with the official headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland. It took the next few years to create and conceive the CIDESCO standards for aestheticians with conjoined efforts of various cosmetologists.
CIDESCO guidelines have been utilized as a standard for training in Europe since 1946. In the European countries there is a a lcines required therefore having a CIDESCO Diplome showed employers that there were standards across the board.These same standards have been introduced in the United States through the cooperative efforts of Ron Renee, Aestheticians International Association ( AIA ) and cooperative efforts of Kathy Driscoe.
Kathy Driscoe is a cosmetologist instructor that pursued her dreams of opening a first CIDESCO approved program for the United States.
Students who pass the CIDESCO exam are eligible to work worldwide. They will enter the Aesthetics industry with knowledge that is far more extensive than someone trained as a cosmetologist license. A CIDESCO trained aesthetician can provide full body care. They will have obtained a broad knowledge of information that general cosmetology schools do not teach in their programs fora general cosmetologist license.
A CIDESCO Diplomate status is a certification reflective of Beauty Therapy. Physicians, nurses and aestheticians working on the level of medical aesthetics can benefit from the basic principles of skin care that offered within this course. A aesthetician with a Cidesco Diplomate Certification does benefit the the physicians Medical Aesthetics practice.
Aestheticians International Association
Ron Renee is most responsible for bringing the attention of the aesthetician to the general mainstream of skin care providers in the United States.His efforts helped build the Aesthetics Profession as it stands today. He envisioned the ideas for american aestheticians, cosmetologists and varied medical groups working together through his development of Aestheticians International Association. Aestheticians seeking more education certification should look to joining the Aestheticians International Association. (AIA).
Ron Renee created a platform where diversified skin care expertise could facilitate a new league of Licensed Skin Care Professionals . The past cosmetologists and aesthetician schools spawned new vitality into educational requirements which led to greater job opportunity.
Ron understood the aestheticians struggle for identity, seperate licensing , broader education, job opportunity, as well as the desire for professional and educational growth . He gave the aesthetician a platform to voice ideas, present diversifeid educational expereinces therefore help younger aestheticians to dream bigger. It was through Ron Renees Visionary Role that Aestheticians began to gain respect for being a licensed skin care specialist and not a " cosmetologist operator".
He understood that Medical Aesthetics would become a super power that could supercede a general aestheticians background. He would encourage the Development of Medical Aesthetics through attending the first teaching program in Temple, Texas at Scott and White Hospital, Division of Plastic Surgery. He was presented with a Visionary Award which never was provided to any other individual in the United States. This was history.
Every nurse or physican seeking an introduction to Aesthetics Knowledge to join Aestheticians International Association.
Anna D. Rinehart is one of the foremost leading authorities on the subject of Medical Aesthetics for the CIDESCO International Education .
Aestheticians International Association is still a great organization for nurses, aestheticians, physicians and cosmetologists to gain broad information as it relates to the industry issues including business perspectives.


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THE RACE: Food City 500
TRACK: Bristol Motor Speedway
Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Race #8 of 36
Sections on page:
Schedule | TV Info | Radio | Prac/Qual Times | Track/Race Info | Race Results
Entry/Prac/Qual Info | Local Info | Weather | Tire Notes | Odds
Re-scheduled Date: Monday, April 24, 2017 in Bristol, TN
Original Date: Sunday, April 23, 2017 in Bristol, TN (Rained out)
Title Sponsor: Food City
Scheduled Green Flag (approx): 1:07pm/et
Television Race Coverage: FOX, 1:00pm/et
In the Booth: Mike Joy, Darrell Waltrip, Jeff Gordon
Pit Reporters: Jamie Little, Chris Neville, Vince Welch, Matt Yocum
In-Race Analyst: Larry McReynolds
Race / Hollywood Hotel Host: Chris Myers
Analysts / Hollywood Hotel: Jeff Gordon, Darrell and Michael Waltrip
TV Listings, Links and Info:
Jayski's TV Listings Page
Fox Sports TV Listings
FoxSports1 (FS1) TV Schedule
NBC Sports - TV Times
TSN NASCAR Cup TV Schedule - Canada
TSN Auto Racing TV Schedule - Canada
TV Racer
Armed Forces Network - Search NASCAR
Performance Racing Network (PRN) and SiriusXM Satellite NASCAR Channel 90
FOX Sports GO
NBC Sports - stream.nbcsports.com
Radio: PRN Live Streaming
SiriusXM Internet Radio (available via internet connected device, with subscription)
Event Schedule times are local to the track
Thursday, April 20
Friday, April 21
Saturday, April 22
Sunday, April 23
NEW Monday, April 24
MENCS = Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series
All event schedule times above are listed in LOCAL track time
(these times in eastern time)
Friday, April 21, 11:30 am - 12:55 pm/et, TV-FS1;
revised due to rain: Friday, April 21, 3:00 - 3:55 pm/et, TV-FS1;
Saturday, April 22, 8:30 - 9:25 am/et, TV-FS1;
Happy Hour 'Final' practice: Saturday, April 22, 11:00 - 11:55 am/et, TV-FS1
Qualifying: qualifying for positions 1-40, Friday, April 22 at 4:45 pm/et, TV-FS1;
re-air scheduled: at 9:30pm/et on FS1 (cancelled due to rain)
Track Specifications:
0.533-mile concrete oval
Degree of banking in corners: 24 to 30 degrees
Degree of banking in straights: 4 to 9 degrees
Straightaways: 650 feet long.
Concrete racing surface: 43 feet wide.
Bristol has two pits roads: 22 pit stalls on the front stretch and 21 on the back stretch
Pit Stall Size: 25.5 feet long, 15.5 feet wide
Pit Road Speed: 30 mph
Pace Car Track Speed: 35mph
Track Opened: 1960
First Cup race: 1961
Seating capacity: 153,000 [was 158,000 and 160,000]
Race Festivities/Officials:
Grand Marshal: Kerry Earnhardt and Kelley Earnhardt Miller
Command to start engines: Kerry Earnhardt and Kelley Earnhardt Miller
Honorary Pace Car Driver: former WWE world champ Bill Goldberg
Color Guard: Grandy High School JROTC Color Guard
Invocation: Mike Rife, Vansant Church of Christ, Vansant, VA
National Anthem: Todd Smith, Recording Artist and lead singer of Selah
Flyover: four T-38 Talons, 49th Fighter Training Squadron, Columbus AFB, Columbus, Miss
Track Websites & Social Media:
Bristol Motor Speedway website
Speedway Motorsports
BMS Photo Page on Flickr
Bristol Raceway Ministries
Track Stats - Racing-reference.info
April 2016: see the Bristol Race Info page
August 2016: see the Bristol Race Info page
2016 April Race Winner: #19-Carl Edwards, 81.637mph, started 1st
2016 August Race Winner: #4-Kevin Harvick, 77.968mph, started 24th
Track Race Record 1st Race: Cale Yarborough, Apr 1977, 100.989
Track Race Record 2nd Race: Charlie Glotzbach, July 1971, 101.074
Slowest Race Record: Ned Jarrett, July 1965, 61.826mph
Oldest Race Winner: Dale Earnhardt, 48 years, 3 months, 30 days, 8/28/1999
Youngest Race Winner: Kyle Busch, 21 years, 10 months, 23 days, 3/25/2007
Worst Starting Spot to Win: Elliott Sadler, March 2001, started 38th
2016 April Pole Winner: #19-Carl Edwards, 127.997, finished 1st
2016 August Pole Winner: #19-Carl Edwards, 131.407, finished 6th
Track Qualifying Record: Denny Hamlin, August 19, 2016, 131.466 (1st round)
Oldest Pole Winner: Harry Gant, 54 years, 7 months, 17 days, 8/27/1994
Youngest Pole Winner: Joey Logano, 19 years, 9 months, 23 days, 3/19/2010
a look at many new, notes and story lines for the Food City 500 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race at Bristol Motor Speedway, see the stats on the NASCAR National Series News & Notes -- Bristol Motor Speedway
A look at some of the top statistical performers and top-10 driver ratings at Bristol Motor Speedway in Bristol, VA going into the Food City 500 on April 24, 2017,
see the stats on the Statistical Advance - Analyzing the Food City 500 page
Jayski.com's Bristol Motor Speedway Track News/Rumors/Links page
Jimmie Johnson wins rain delayed race at Bristol: #48-Jimmie Johnson won the rain delayed (was supposed to run Sunday) Food City 500 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race at Bristol Motor Speedway for his 2nd win of the season, 2nd win at Bristol and 82nd career win. It is the 11th win at Bristol by a Hendrick Motorsports driver. Johnson led 81 of the 500 laps.
#14-Bowyer finished 2nd (his best finish since a 2nd at Richmond in April 2013) followed by #4-Harvick, #20-Kenseth, #22-Logano, #42-Larson (led the most laps 202), #24-Elliott, #78-Truex Jr., #17-Stenhouse Jr. and #11-Hamlin.
#88-Earnhardt Jr. had a oil cooler break and caused him to wreck. #18-Busch had tire issues and hit the wall.
There were 14 lead changes among 7 drivers and 9 cautions for 76 yellow flag laps and a 5:10 red flag.
The average speed of the race was: 86.674mph.
See unofficial race results, awards, laps led, cautions and more at:
Unofficial Race Results (pdf)
Cumulative Report (pdf)
Penalty Report (pdf)
Pit Stop Times (pdf) (4-24-2017)
See OFFICIAL race results & points standings on the Official Race & Points Report (pdf).
Race Fast Facts - Bristol Motor Speedway
#48-Jimmie Johnson won the 57th Annual Food City 500, his 82nd victory in 551 NASCAR Monster Energy Cup Series races.
This is his second victory and third top-10 finish in 2017.
This is his second victory and 18th top-10 finish in 31 races at Bristol Motor Speedway.
#14-Clint Bowyer (second) posted his 11th top-10 finish in 23 races at Bristol Motor Speedway. It is his fourth top-10 finish in 2017.
#4-Kevin Harvick (third) posted his 16th top-10 finish in 33 races at Bristol Motor Speedway.
#13-Ty Dillon (15th) was the highest finishing rookie.
#42-Kyle Larson leads the point standings by 27 points over #24-Chase Elliott.
(NASCAR Integrated Sports Marketing)(4-24-2017)
Top-Ten Stage 2 Results (lap 250, now official race) of the Food City 500 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race at Bristol Motor Speedway (lap 250/500):
#78-Truex Jr., 10pts, 1 playoff point
#22-Logano, 9pts
#48-Johnson, 8pts
#4-Harvick, 7pts
#1-McMurray, 6pts
#77-Jones, 5pts
#42-Larson, 4pts
#11-Hamlin, 3pts
#6-Bayne, 2pts
#17-Syenhouse Jr., 1pt
Top-Ten Stage 1 Results (lap 125) of the Food City 500 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race at Bristol Motor Speedway (lap 125/500):
#42-Larson, 10pts, 1 playoff point
#78-Truex Jr., 9pts
#77-Jones, 8pts
#22-Logano, 7pts
#48-Johnson, 6pts
#24-Elliott, 5pts
#1-McMurray, 4pts
#11-Hamlin, 3pts
#47-Allmendinger, 2pts
#18-Busch, 1pt
2017 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Driver Standings:
[after Bristol, race 8 of 36]
1) #42-Kyle Larson [1 win], 360
2) #24-Chase Elliott, 333, -27
3) #78-Martin Truex Jr [1], 323, -37
4) #22-Joey Logano, 291, -69
5) #2-Brad Keselowski [2], 277, -83
6) #48-Jimmie Johnson [2], 244, -116
7) #1-Jamie McMurray, 244, -116
8) #14-Clint Bowyer, 239, -121
9) #4-Kevin Harvick, 239, -121
10) #21-Ryan Blaney, 228, -132
11) #18-Kyle Busch, 214, -146
12) #77-Erik Jones, 192, -168
13) #6-Trevor Bayne, 192, -168
14) #31-Ryan Newman [1], 186, -174
15) #11-Denny Hamlin, 184, -176
18) #41-Kurt Busch [1], 163, -197
See the Unofficial Drivers Points Standings page (pdf) and
Unofficial Owners Points Standings page (pdf)
Lucky Dogs - Who got a lap back on each caution at Bristol: (and their finish)
Caution 1: #13-Dillon, 15th
Caution 2: #13-Dillon(2), 15th
Caution 3: #13-Dillon(3), 15th
Caution 4: #43-Almirola, 22nd
Caution 5: #72-Whitt, 21st
Caution 6: #3-Dillon, 13th
Caution 7: #27-Menard, 16th
Caution 8: #13-Dillon(4), 15th
Caution 9: #77-Jones, 17th (still down 1 lap)
Competition caution scheduled for lap 60
POSTPONED due to rain until Monday, April 24 at 1:00pm/et, TV=FOX & TSN4 (Canada)
Persistent rain throughout the day on Sunday has forced the postponement of the race.
Race Coverage of the Food City 500 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race at Bristol Motor Speedway is scheduled for Monday, April 24, 2017.
Television (TV): FOX at 1:00 pm/et; green flag approx. 1:07pm/et
Radio: Performance Racing Network (PRN) and Sirius XM Satellite NASCAR Radio 90
Scheduled Race Re-Airs: TBA
Revised Bristol Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Pre-Race Schedule for Monday, April 24: (eastern time)
12:20pm: Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Driver Introductions
12:53pm: Presentation of Colors by Grandy High School JROTC Color Guard
12:53pm: Invocation by Mike Rife, Vansant Church of Christ, Vansant, VA
12:54pm: National Anthem by Todd Smith, Recording Artist and lead singer of Selah
12:56pm: Flyover by four T-38s 49th Fighter Training Squadron from Columbus AFB, Mississippi
1:00pm: Dale Earnhardt Jr Congratulations Food City Video (on Colossus TV)
1:01pm: Command to start engines by Kerry Earnhardt and Kelley Earnhardt Miller
1:07pm: Green flag for the Food City 500
See the starting lineup for the Food City 500 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race at Bristol Motor Speedway on the Texas Starting Lineup Page (pdf).
To the back: #37-Buescher (backup car)
Wave Around: how the wave around rule works: All vehicles between the leader and the caution vehicle at the start/finish line when the "one to go" signal is given by the starter are considered "Wave Around" eligible. "Wave Around" vehicles will not be permitted to enter pit road at any time during this yellow flag/caution period. "Wave Around" vehicles must receive the green flag on the race track before being permitted to enter pit road without a penalty. Vehicles under a penalty and the "Free Pass" vehicle will not be eligible to receive a "Wave Around".
Bristol Pit Rules: Bristol Motor Speedway operates under a plan where one-pit road will be used during pit stops under caution. Currently, Bristol remains the only track in the NASCAR Cup Series that utilizes two pit roads with 20 pit stalls on the front stretch and 20 on the backstretch (2 are closed on frontstretch, 1 is closed on backstretch). Teams that pit on the backstretch used to be at a competitive disadvantage. Since the spring 2002 race at Bristol, teams will enter pit road in Turn 2 (the current backstretch pit entrance) drive around down the backstretch and around Turns 3 and 4 and exit in Turn 1. Under green-flag conditions teams will enter and exit pit road under the current two-pit-road scheme.
Pit Stall Selections: The selections of pit stalls for the Food City 500 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race at Bristol Motor Speedway have been made.
With the field downsized to 40 cars, three pit stalls (21,22,43) have been eliminated, are not in play and don't count towards driving through more than three pit boxes.
Pole sitter (due to rain) #42-Larson chose pit stall 1, the first stall available [as do most pole sitters].
Outside pole sitter #24-Elliott took pit stall 20, the last stall on frontstretch pit road.
#78-Truex Jr., who starts 3rd, took the 23rd stall, the first stall on the backstretch pit road.
The final pit stall was taken by #1-McMurray, who starts 8th.
To see where the drivers/teams pit, see the pit selection chart on Jayski.com's Pit Stall Selection chart.(4-22-2017)
Weather could be an issue at Bristol this weekend NASCAR has had a good run of seven weeks of mostly rain free weather. The only exceptions were the Cash at Daytona, a non points race, and the Friday at Martinsville where practice and qualifying were both washed out. It appears the dry weather luck runs out at Bristol Motor Speedway this weekend. Forecasting the weather around Bristol Motor Speedway is always complicated, especially when you are dealing with the terrain around the track. The mountains and hills that make up the region can give meteorologist's fit. While we expect rain showers and storms to fall during the weekend not every moment of every day is soaking wet. We expect some dry time as we go through the weekend. The question is, which days are drier than the others? (see full post and forecasts at SB Nation / Brian Neudorff) or check out the Bristol Race Info page - weather link section.[More](4-20-2017)
Links to results, practices, qualifying PDF's: (will be added as available)
Official Race & Points Report
Race Results
Drivers Points
Owners Points
Cumlative Race Report
Penalty Report
Happy Hour Practice Speeds
Practice 2 Speeds
Starting Lineup
Practice 1 Speeds
Latest / Final Entry List
Preliminary Entry List
NASCAR Overtime (not called Green-White-Checkered anymore) Race Procedure: NASCAR allows a maximum of three restart attempts prior to the White Flag under NASCAR's Green-White-Checkered flag finish. If the leader has taken the White Flag and the caution flag is displayed, the field is frozen and the race will not be restarted. Previously, there was only one restart attempt. The procedure applies to all three national series. See rule and notes on the NASCAR Overtime rules/news/stats page.
See Jayski.com's - 2017 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race results page for race track and race information links, pole winner, race and stage winners, links to race results, drivers/owners points, pit stall selections, qualifying results/starting lineup and practice speeds.
QUALIFYING INFO, PRACTICE SPEED and ENTRIES
Happy Hour (final) practice for the Food City 500 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race at Bristol Motor Speedway is over, after 55 scheduled minutes, the top-five, slowest and notes:
#18-Busch 128.563
#19-Suarez 128.262
#5-Kahne 128.253
#24-Elliott 128.185
#48-Johnson & #77-Jones 128.168
best 10 consecutive lap ave (of 31 cars) #5-Kahne 127.482
slowest: #51-Hill 119.970 & #55-Cope 120.068
notes: #37-Buescher got loose and slapped the wall, doing damage to the rear of the car, the team will go to a backup car.
See the fastest speeds, best 10 consecutive lap average, laps run on the Happy Hour Practice speeds page (pdf) (4-22-2017)
1st Saturday practice for the Food City 500 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race at Bristol Motor Speedway is over, after 55 scheduled minutes, the top-five, slowest and notes:
#18-Busch 128.865
#77-Jones 128.649
#11-Hamlin 128.176
#4-Harvick 128.091
#88-Earnhardt Jr. 128.005
best 10 consecutive lap ave (of 34 cars) #77-Jones 127.178
slowest: #55-Cope 119.025 & #51-Hill 122.396
notes: #17-Stenhouse Jr. got loose and slapped the wall, doing damage to the rear of the car, the team now plans to fix the car and NOT go to the backup car.
late in the session, #42-Larson slapped the wall and spun, the team is making repairs to the car.
See the fastest speeds, best 10 consecutive lap average, laps run on the 1st Saturday Practice speeds page (pdf) (4-22-2017)
Bristol rainout puts Kyle Larson on pole for Food City 500 For the third time this season, #42-Kyle Larson will start a Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race from the pole. And for the second time this year, he gained the top starting spot not through qualifying in time trials, but with an assist from Mother Nature. Because of intermittent rain at Bristol Motor Speedway, NASCAR canceled qualifying in favor of necessary practice for teams in the Cup, XFINITY and K&N Pro Series East Series. With the field for Sunday's Food City 500 ordered according to owner points, Larson will start up front as the series leader, with second-place #24-Chase Elliott beside him. Those are familiar positions for both drivers, who started in the same spots when rain wiped out qualifying for the April 2 race at Martinsville. Interestingly, Larson posted his worst finish of the season in that race - 17th. Otherwise, in the six events since he ran 12th in the season-opening Daytona 500, the driver of the #42 Chip Ganassi Racing Chevrolet has a victory from the pole at Fontana, California, and four second-place finishes. Elliott, on the other hand, finished third at Martinsville, matching his best result of the season. #78-Martin Truex Jr. will start third on Sunday, followed by Team Penske teammates #2-Brad Keselowski and #22-Joey Logano. Keselowski is the only two-time winner this season, having gone to Victory Lane at both Atlanta and Martinsville.(NASCAR Wire Service)
See the complete starting lineup on the Bristol Starting Lineup page (pdf).(4-21-2017)
Coverage of Qualifying for the Food City 500 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race at Bristol Motor Speedway is scheduled for Friday, April 21, 2017 at 4:45pm/et.
Television (TV): FS1, 4:30pm/et
Radio: Live online at Performance Racing Network (PRN)
Scheduled Qualifying Re-Air: TBA
Group qualifying under the three-round qualifying format:
• Round 1 -- All entries will have 20 minutes to post a qualifying time, after which the 24 registering the fastest laps will advance to the second round. Those failing to advance will be sorted based on first-round times in descending order (from fastest to slowest).
• Round 2 -- The 24 fastest from the first round will have 10 minutes to post a second-round qualifying time, with the 12 fastest advancing to a third round. Those not advancing will earn starting positions 13 through 24 based on time, again in descending order.
• Round 3 -- The final round will be five minutes in length. The fastest times from this session will determine the first (Coors Light Pole Award) through 12th starting positions.
There will be a seven-minute break between each round; teams may make adjustments to their entries only during the individual breaks. They will not be allowed to jack the vehicle or raise the hood, and once the car or truck enters the garage, it will no longer be permitted to return to the track for additional qualifying attempts.
Friday practice for the Food City 500 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race at Bristol Motor Speedway is over, after 55 scheduled minutes, the top-five, slowest and notes:
#77-Jones 127.843
#18-Busch 127.090
#21-Blaney 126.989
#78-Truex Jr. 126.964
#20-Kenseth 126.704
best 10 consecutive lap ave #11-Hamlin 125.657
slowest: #55-Cope 117.036 & #51-Hill 120.263
notes: #22-Logano slid up late in practice and smacked the wall, no serious damage.
#24-Elliott lost it in a corner and slid but failed to hit anything
See the fastest speeds, best 10 consecutive lap average, laps run on the Friday Practice speeds page (pdf) (4-21-2017)
Entry List for the Food City 500 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race at Bristol Motor Speedway is posted, 39 teams/drivers [for 40 spots] are listed.
36 teams with Charters are guaranteed to make the field. The rest need to make the field via qualifying / qualifying races / rules book (owners attempts/points).
Some of the drivers entered include: #15-Sorenson, #23-Gaulding, #33-JEarnhardt, #51-Hill*, #55-Cope*, #83-LaJoie*
Drivers who currently to not drive for a team with a Charter and need to race into the field: #51-Hill*, #55-Cope*, #83-LaJoie*.
Drivers who would miss the race if qualifying is canceled (least race attempts): none
Since only 39 cars are entered, all drivers will make the race.
See the full entry list on the Entry List (pdf)
For qualifying rules and formats, see the Qualifying Rules page
How to Calculate Track Speeds: use the formula Speed = Distance divided by Time. Distance is Track Length, and Lap Time into Hours. Once hour is 3600 seconds, so the calculation for a 48 second lap at Daytona(2.5 miles) would be: Speed = 2.5 x (3600/48), = 2.5 x 75 = 187.500mph. For a 19 second lap at Bristol(.533 miles): Speed = .533 x (3600/19), = .533 x 189.474 = a speed of 100.990mph
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Knoxville News
Nashville City Paper
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Race Day Forecast
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Fast Facts for April 21-23, 2017
Tire: Goodyear Eagle Speedway Radials
Set limits:
Cup: 4 sets for practice, 1 set for qualifying/start of race and 7 sets for the race;
Xfinity: 6 sets for the event
Tire Codes: Left-side -- D-4416; Right-side -- D-4526
Tire Circumference: Left-side -- 87.64 in. (2,226 mm); Right-side -- 88.43 in. (2,246 mm)
Minimum Recommended Inflation:
Left Front -- 20 psi; Left Rear -- 18 psi;
Right Front -- 43 psi; Right Rear -- 40 psi
Storyline - At Bristol, Good Racing is as Simple as Black (Rubber) and White (Concrete): Goodyear brings a unique tire combination that matches up well with the concrete surface at Bristol. This tire set-up lays down rubber quickly, which helps create multiple racing grooves and makes for the highly competitive racing that Bristol is known for. While Bristol is a short track, it also has speedway characteristics. Goodyear's left- and right-side tire constructions are built with both in mind -- optimizing handling, as well as withstanding the loads and speeds generated by the steep banking.
Notes: Teams in both the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup and Xfinity Series will run the same Goodyear tire set-up at Bristol this week . . . this is the same combination of left- and right-side tires that NASCAR teams have run at Bristol since August 2014 . . . Bristol is the only track at which NASCAR teams are scheduled to run either of these two tire codes . . . unlike on most NASCAR ovals one mile or less in length, on which teams generally do not run inner liners in their tires, teams are required to run liners in their right-side tires only at Bristol . . . air pressure in those inner liners should be 12-25 psi greater than that of the outer tire.
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It's very easy to get distracting preparing, cooking, or setting up food, get a little on your fingers, lick them, then continue without washing your hands. It's also a bad habit to taste test a dish and then continue to use the same utensil after it leaves your mouth. Let's not even start on the topic of hand feeding food to a pet then return to your cooking without washing! I suppose if your immediate family is accustomed to these practices then no one will complain, but please reserve these practices to the privacy of your immediate family, and spare your invited guests!
Aside from the "YUCK" factor of double dipping and finger licking, proper cooking and "eating etiquette" (which I'm defining as something different than dining etiquette) prevents the spread of germs. No one wants to go home from a dinner party and wake up with a bad cold, or food poisoning. Please remember to wash your hands, use separate utensils, and set out small plates and ramekins to allow guests their own portions of dipping sauce.
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If we insist on teaching Algebra in our schools, not once but twice, the least we can do is to actually use it when we think about education. And here's the equation: If (a) (b) (c) (d) (e) are constant, x will always be the variable. In order to make x the constant, (a) (b) (c) (d) (e) must be variable. In all circumstances where x = student achievement and (a) (b) (c) (d) (e) represent Time, Space, Technology, Pedagogy, and Curriculum.
In simpler terms, if all students are to succeed, everything else in and about the school must be flexible.
This is the easy-to-understand, mathematical way Hamilton, Michigan Superintendent Dave Tebo re-worked my thoughts a couple of nights ago on Twitter.
I have written (and talked) a lot about the history of education, and why it "looks" the way it does, but without repeating all of that, let's just say that the linear, time-constructed, subject-divided, age-organized, one method at a time, system of education does not really match with the way most humans learn. It never has, and it certainly does not in this century.
Technologies define "the school" and can either separate it from, or connect it to, education. The first technology of "school" is time. We separate "learning time" from "non-learning time." The second technology of "school" is the division of students and subjects. Boxes are created separating eight-year-olds from ten-year-olds, thirteen-year-olds from fifteen-year-olds, and then separating "language" from "history" from "maths" from "arts." The third technology of "school" is the built environment, the walls, furniture, floors, ceilings, lighting, surfaces, et al, of the place. The fourth technology of "school" lies in the information and communication system options in place, from chalkboard and paper and pencils to mobiles and blogs and cameras.
And if we are going to change "teaching places" into "learning spaces" all of these technologies must be re-imagined in wholly new ways, because the only way to make learning available to all is to re-create "school" as a constantly variable space - physical space, temporal space, virtual space, imagined space - which constantly flexes to the needs of the learners and the learning community.
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We also need many fewer "schedules." Can kids work at their desks or at studio tables with a team like adults do? Can kids work on something even when you want to move on? Can kids take breaks when they need them?
|Choice in space, inputs, ICT...
If all students are to succeed, everything else in and about the school must be flexible. And perhaps the place to start is with this question... if it's "only in school" you might need to get rid of it. Forty years ago a German educator said, "Only in school would you find thirty people working on the same thing not allowed to speak to each other," a classic observation. Here are some others: Only in school will you find people sitting in traditional school furniture. Only in school will you find people working on computers without food and drink. Only in schools will you find absolute scheduling which consistently interrupts work... Go on, make your own list...
From gum chewing to seating, lighting to time, eating to work schedule, school is the most regimented place in our societies, training people for something which, if it ever existed, lies deep in our past, and failing to either offer all students a chance, or to help our children learn how to manage their own lives.
So the challenge is to recreate - to turn those 19th Century "Teaching Places" into contemporary "Learning Spaces" which cross the entire realm of the educational experience. Our children, our world, need us to do that.
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Labquality Days - Nordic Congress on Quality in Laboratory Medicine
Mads Nybo, M.D., Ph.D., Chief Physician, Department of Clinical Biochemistry and Pharmacology, University hospital of Odense, Denmark
The awareness of the importance of preanalytical factors increases exponentially these years as illustrated by this meeting. Many of these factors are difficult to control, among which patient preparation and blood sampling without doubt is crucial for a correct analysis result. However, information about patient preparation often takes place outside the "jurisdiction" of the laboratory, and blood sampling is also often performed by persons outside the laboratory, so these processes seems difficult to control by the laboratory. But the more difficult it seems, the more important it is that the laboratory plays an active role in information regarding these aspects: Knowledge on what influence erroneous patient preparation has on the analysis results and how correct blood sampling is vital for a reliable analysis result is sparse outside the laboratory; an important task is therefore to inform on these issues and to offer tools for quality assessment and quality control outside the lab.
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Recent blog readers may recall my 29 July 2014 post titled "Condensation trails passing in the moonlit sky." This told the story of two commercial flights, which had reported seeing a mystery object leaving a condensation trail, above their flights, in the early hours of Monday 29 November 1982, near Derby, Western Australia. The estimated height of the object was some 37,500 feet. The object was never identified.
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On a recent visit to Melbourne, I paid a quick visit to the State Library of Victoria, and browsed through their copies of "The Australian UFO Bulletin." I located a parallel case from 1980, except this time, the incident occurred in daylight. The source of the Bulletin's story, was Russell Boundy of UFO Research (Far North Queensland) and excellent researcher.
At about 1300hrs EST on 7 August 1980, a TAA jet aircraft, flight 534, left Cairns, Queensland, on a flight to Darwin, via Gove. It was flying domestic route AVOCADO.
When it was about 120 miles north-west of Carins, and at 30,000 feet, Captain Willinczyck reported to a Cairns Flight Services Officer, that he had sighted an unknown object above his own aircraft.
At an estimated height of 50,000 feet, it was headed north-west, the same direction as the TAA aircraft. It was visible for five minutes until it was lost to view in the distance. It was seen as a dark dot with a normal looking condensation trail. The sky was totally clear.
Checks made:
A check revealed that there were no other civilian, or Australian military aircraft in the area at that time. Even the US embassy was checked for US aircraft, but with negative results.
Russell spoke with the Cairns FSO, who told Russell that the pilot seemed disinterested in speaking further on his observation. Russell did write a letter, to the pilot, with a series of questions. However, the pilot never responded.
An examination of aspects of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) from a scientific perspective.
Sunday, September 21, 2014
Just a dot in the sky, but what was it at 50,000 feet?
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I started this image for my husband last night. I asked him hat he would like for his birthday and he requested that I make him something. Really?? Wow! That really made my day.
I started this in December - just the pencil lines. Last night I finally started working on the actual image. I probably spent about 3 hours on the drawing last night and I can't wait to get back to it when I get home tonight. This work stuff can really get in the way LOL...
This is the Initial Box - he asked for something with both our initials in the main "box"
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This is a close up of the left side of the image
I didn't want to stop last night I was on a roll.