Racing Toward Recovery
Автор: Lew Freedman
Год издания: 0000
For the first time, Alaska musher and tribal leader Mike Williams shares his remarkable life story with veteran sports writer Lew Freedman. Williams is a man of many parts, a sports figure, a government figure, a leader of his people, a husband, a father, and a Native man with one foot firmly planted in the twenty-first century and another firmly planted in the roots of a culture that dates back 10,000 years in Alaska. Williams competed in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race fifteen times, and was once the only Yup’ik Eskimo musher, a symbol to all Natives around the state. Although he was never a top contender for the Iditarod title, he was a competitor whom everyone cheered because he resolved that to shed light on one of Alaska’s greatest threats to the health and future of its Native people, he would carry in his dog sled pages—pounds worth—of signatures of people who had pledged sobriety.
A Yup’ik Eskimo, Williams saw firsthand how alcohol could devastate people as surely as if they had contracted a deadly flu: each of his brothers had succumbed to alcohol-related accidents, incidents, or illnesses. Williams describes how he recovered from his dependence on alcohol through religion, loved ones, and racing dogs. For many years Williams carried those sobriety pledges in his sled, focusing attention on a troubling, seemingly intractable problem. Williams gained national attention, being profiled by CNN, Sports Illustrated, and Good Morning America. Fellow Iditarod competitors have voted him “the most inspirational musher.”
The increase in power through supercharging of street racing in eBook
Автор: Автоклуб
Год издания:
Content
Foreword
Introduction to boost technology
Lessons from history
Turbochargers: past and present
Nitrous oxide: from the beginnings to the present day
Aspiration: theory and basic principles
What you should know about turbochargers
Turbocharger boost pressure control
The strategy to prevent the turbocharger turboyam
What you should know about turbochargers
Cooling the intake charge
Injection water and other alternative solutions
Fuels and fuel additives
Fuel
Air intake system
Injection of nitrous oxide
Exhaust system
The process of combustion and ignition system
The engine management system
Increased engine durability
Lubrication system
Cooling system
Modification of the factory engine supercharged
Testing theory in practice and a few thoughts
Natural vision quickly and easy! How to restore 20/20 eyesight for 1 month without pills and surgery? Miopia, hypermetropia, astigmatism, cataract and other eye problem recovery step-by-step guide
Автор: Fedor Simonov
Год издания:
Miopia, hypermetropia, astigmatism, cataract and other eye problem recovery step-by-step guide. The program is working not only on the myopia but on the hyperopia, cataracts, glaucoma. Everything person is unique and the results depend on the current stage of the eye problem, self-motivation and desire to work on it. According to the methodology, the average speed of the eyesight recovery is approximately 0.5—1 diopter a month. However, you can achieve better result if you train harder.
Schools for All Kinds of Minds. Boosting Student Success by Embracing Learning Variation
Автор: Paul Orfalea
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This book shows how schools can–and must–develop expertise in «learning variation» (understanding how different kinds of minds learn) and apply this knowledge to classroom instruction in order to address the chronic learning challenges and achievement gap faced by millions of students. Barringer shows how using what we know about learning variation with a focus on discovering learning strengths, not just deficits, can help schools create plans for success for those students who often find it elusive. The book specifically addresses how school leaders can incorporate this knowledge into instructional practice and school-level policy through various professional development strategies. Schools for All Kinds of Minds: Provides a readable synthesis of the latest research from neuroscience, cognitive science, and child and adolescent development as it relates to understanding learning and its many variations. Links this information to strategies for understanding struggling learners and adapting school practices to accommodate a wider array of learning differences in a classroom. Demonstrates how this understanding of learning variation can change the way teachers and others help students succeed in various academic and content areas and acquire necessary 21st century skills. Includes discussion questions and facilitator guidelines for staff developers and teacher education programs; downloadable forms that accompany exercises from within the book; an action plan for schools to implement the ideas found in the book; and more.