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Follow the journey of the little mini team that could. Eighteen young children were placed on a Level 1 Allstar cheerleading team at one of the most renowned cheer programs in the world. Follow the unbelievable story of the 2014-2015 Stingray Allstars Peppermint, a team that uplifts an entire community through friendship, teamwork, triumph and belief in one another. This story is written from the perspective of an unsuspecting team dad who is thrust into the ultra-competitive, high-octane sport of Allstar Cheerleading. Through hard work, dedication, injury and sacrifice they molded into a team that in their own minds, were just as good and talented as any Senior 5 team in the world. Peppermint captured the hearts of many by their determination, work ethic, overcoming the impossible and the energy that electrified even the most casual Allstar cheer fan. This story epitomizes the beauty of youth sports and highlights the power of a coach who believed with all her heart that this team was going to be special. The coach instills an unbreakable belief in the hearts of every child that they could be the best in the world, and this team dared to believe it. Will they be able to achieve the goal that no one saw coming?

In the era of the "Cheerlebrity" Peppermint as a whole defined the word. Eighteen young children were placed on a Level 1 Allstar cheerleading team at one of the most renowned cheer programs in the world. Follow the unbelievable story of the 2014-2015 Stingray Allstars Peppermint, a team that uplifts an entire community through friendship, teamwork, triumph and belief in one another. This story is written from the perspective of an unsuspecting team dad who is thrust into the ultra-competitive, high-octane sport of Allstar Cheerleading. Through hard work, dedication, injury and sacrifice they molded into a team that in their own minds, were just as good and talented as any Senior 5 team in the world. Peppermint captured the hearts of many by their determination, work ethic, overcoming the impossible and the energy that electrified even the most casual Allstar cheer fan. This story epitomizes the beauty of youth sports and highlights the power of a coach who believed with all her heart that this team was going to be special. The coach instills an unbreakable belief in the hearts of every child that they could be the best in the world, and this team dared to believe it. Will they be able to achieve the goal that no one saw coming?

Now in a fully updated third edition, this book will equip all teachers with the necessary knowledge of dyslexia in order for it to be effectively understood and managed in the mainstream classroom. Offering comprehensive guidance and support strategies, this resource is based around Reid’s signposts for successful inclusion: acknowledging differences; recognising strengths; understanding what is meant by inclusion; planning for practice; and ensuring attainable task outcomes. In identifying the key issues of inclusive practice, the book supports teachers as they strive to fulfil the social, educational and emotional needs of children with dyslexia. Key features of the new edition include: Up-to-date references to current research and legislation New sections on evidence-based teaching strategies, developing independent learning and communication with parents Detailed information on wider reading and additional resources, including websites, apps and software available to support learners with dyslexia With practical strategies and resources designed to meet the needs of the busy classroom teacher, this book is crucial reading for educators and education students looking to help students with dyslexia reach their full potential.

Pearl Jam. Not many bands have achieved a status needing no adjective or description. Pearl Jam has. And fewer still have had an insider, much less a member, obsessively capture onstage and offhand pics of the experience-the friends, family, and fans...and one very famous plastic toy. Luckily for uslead guitaristMike McCreadydid-trusty Polaroid camera in hand. Documenting years of touring and travels, McCready snaps meetings with heroes and inspirations from all walks of life; time spent with crazy friends and family; and momentsfeaturing wildly artistic takes on art, nature, and architecture. Also: he once rocked a fab grey shift. And true to form for one not taking things too seriously, Mike sometimes had his pal, Mr. Potato Head, pop in and share in the fun. As wonderfully intimate as group "selfies" with the likes of Neil Young, Questlove, Jimmy Page, Ann and Nancy Wilson, Joey Ramone, Johnny Ramone, The Edge, Ben Harper, Peter Buck, Paul McCartney, Mike Mills, Sting, Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, Carrie Brownstein, Robert Plant, Peter Frampton, Dave Grohl, Gene Simmons, Bono, Jack White, Danny Clinch, Lady Gaga, Laura Dern, Dustin Hoffman, Judd Apatow, Will Ferrell, Leslie Mann, Jimmy Fallon, Mira Sorvino, Tim Robbins, Hugh Jackman, Venus Williams, and Kate Hudson are, it's the massive homage to the band's fans taken from stage view, in places from the Pacific Northwest to Peru, from Brussels to Bolivia, that brings McCready's manic intimacy come roaring to life. Of Potato Heads and Polaroidsis the scrapbook for our rockstar world-friends, family, and fans. With some wattage. And a great deal of fun and good times.

Adrian Johnston’s Prolegomena to Any Future Materialism, planned for three volumes, will lay the foundations for a new materialist theoretical apparatus, his “transcendental materialism.” In this first volume, Johnston clears an opening within contemporary philosophy and theory for his unique position. He engages closely with Lacan, Badiou, and Meillassoux, demonstrating how each of these philosophers can be seen as failing to forge an authentically atheistic materialism. Johnston builds a new materialism both profoundly influenced by these brilliant comrades of a shared cause as well as making up for the shortcomings of their own creative attempts to bring to realization the Lacanian vision of an Other-less, One-less ontology. The Outcome of Contemporary French Philosophy yields intellectual weapons suitable for deployment on multiple fronts simultaneously, effective against the mutually entangled spiritualist and scientistic foes of our post-Enlightenment, biopolitical era of nothing more than commodities and currencies.