Ignition

Ignition may refer to:

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Ignition (student training)

Ignition is a transition and mentorship program that is implemented in high schools across the United States. The program was developed and trademarked by Focus Training, a leadership development company in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The goal of Ignition is to build student relationships and make transition from middle school to high school a positive experience for students, administrators, and teachers. The program utilizes upperclassmen to act as mentors to incoming freshmen for the entire 9th grade school year. Mentors help freshmen acclimate to the high school environment, deal with the challenges of the new school, and learn successful behaviors. As of 2010 the Ignition program is implemented at over 220 schools nationwide and serves over 100,000 students and educators.

Ignition Stages

Step 1 Consult - Professional Development, Training and Consulting for Staff.

FOCUS Training works with a team of educators to build a program that fits each school’s needs by considering mentor recruitment, time, space, budget, class size, related program and learning objectives. This stage teaches Ignition advisors how to run each aspect of the program.

List of regional Burning Man events

The following is a list of regional Burning Man events ordered alphabetically by geography. Not all of these events are affiliated with the Burning Man organization:

Africa

South Africa

Australasia

Australia

New South Wales:

Western Australia:

Sinker

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Sinker (baseball)

In baseball, a sinker or sinking fastball is a type of fastball pitch which has significant downward and horizontal movement and is known for inducing ground balls.Pitchers who use the sinker tend to rely on it heavily and do not need to change pitch speeds as much as other pitchers do because the sinking action induces weak bat contact. Other pitchers normally change pitch speeds to achieve this effect. The sinker is much more often used by right-handed pitchers than left-handed pitchers.

History

Before the 1950s, pitchers did not know what caused their pitches to sink or "hop." They regarded either ability as a "gift from heaven." Bill James cites Curt Simmons as the first pitcher to be able to throw both sinkers and rising fastballs, apparently indicating that it was now known how to make a pitch sink and how to make one hop.

Current Major League pitchers

Dellin Betances, Chris Heston, Scott Feldman, Charlie Morton, Joel Piñeiro, Jake Westbrook, Roberto Hernández, Aaron Cook, Chien-Ming Wang, Tim Hudson, Mike Pelfrey, Jon Garland, Zach Miner, Brad Bergesen, , Kyle Kendrick, Chris Volstad, Jim Johnson, Rick Porcello, Ronald Belisario, Kendall Graveman, Ryan Mattheus, Sonny Gray, Felix Hernandez, Seth Maness, Jeurys Familia, Justin Masterson, and Brad Boxberger are current major league players who rely heavily on the sinker.

Beyond the Black Stump (comic strip)

Beyond the Black Stump is an Australian comic strip written by Sean Leahy. It debuted in 1988 and won the "Best Comic Strip" at the 2003 National Coffs Harbour Cartoon Awards and the "Comic Strip Cartoonist of the Year" at the Australian Cartoonist's Association's Stanley Award the same year.

The strip follows a cast of Australian wildlife who deal with the day-to-day stresses of marriage, parenting and friendship.

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