So, are you ready for an astronautics lesson?
Yes!
Great! Then get up and follow me!
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Where is he? Where's Egor? Is he here?
You! Come over here!
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TEACHER GETS A SHOCK WHEN SHE OPENS THIS BOY'S FILE. THIS IS HEARTBREAKING. - Duration: 5:48.Stories like this, always have a way of putting the right perspective on life.
Jean Thompson stood in front of her fifth-grade class on the very first day of school in the
fall and told the children a lie.
Like most teachers, she looked at her pupils and said that she loved them all the same,
that she would treat them all alike.
And that was impossible because there in front of her, slumped in his seat on the third row,
was a little boy named Teddy Stoddard.
Mrs. Thompson had watched Teddy the year before and noticed he didn't play well with the
other children, that his clothes were unkept and that he constantly needed a bath.
And Teddy was unpleasant.
It got to the point during the first few months that she would actually take delight in marking
his papers with a broad red pen, making bold X's and then marking the F at the top of
the paper biggest of all.
Because Teddy was a sullen little boy, no one else seemed to enjoy him, either.
At the school where Mrs. Thompson taught, she was required to review each child's
records and put Teddy's off until last.
When she opened his file, she was in for a surprise.
His first-grade teacher wrote, "Teddy is a bright, inquisitive child with a ready laugh."
"He does his work neatly and has good manners…he is a joy to be around."
His second-grade teacher wrote, "Teddy is an excellent student well-liked by his classmates,
but he is troubled because his mother has a terminal illness and life at home must be
a struggle."
His third-grade teacher wrote, "Teddy continues to work hard but his mother's death has
been hard on him.
He tries to do his best but his father doesn't show much interest and his home life will
soon affect him if some steps aren't taken."
Teddy's fourth-grade teacher wrote, "Teddy is withdrawn and doesn't show much interest
in school.
He doesn't have many friends and sometimes sleeps in class.
He is tardy and could become a problem."
By now Mrs. Thompson realized the problem, but Christmas was coming fast.
It was all she could do, with the school play and all, until the day before the holidays
began and she was suddenly forced to focus on Teddy Stoddard.
Her children brought her presents, all in beautiful ribbon and bright paper, except
for Teddy's, which was clumsily wrapped in the heavy, brown paper of a scissored grocery
bag.
Mrs. Thompson took pains to open it in the middle of the other presents.
Some of the children started to laugh when she found a rhinestone bracelet with some
of the stones missing, and a bottle that was one-quarter full of cologne.
She stifled the children's laughter when she exclaimed how pretty the bracelet was,
putting it on, and dabbing some of the perfume behind the other wrist.
Teddy Stoddard stayed behind just long enough to say, "Mrs. Thompson, today you smelled
just like my mom used to."
After the children left she cried for at least an hour.
On that very day, she quit teaching reading, writing, and speaking.
Instead, she began to teach children.
Jean Thompson paid particular attention to one they all called "Teddy."
As she worked with him, his mind seemed to come alive.
The more she encouraged him, the faster he responded.
On days where there would be an important test, Mrs. Thompson would remember that cologne.
By the end of the year he had become one of the smartest children in the class and…well,
he had also become the "pet" of the teacher who had once vowed to love all of her children
exactly the same.
A year later she found a note under her door, from Teddy, telling her that of all the teachers
he'd had in elementary school, she was his favorite.
Six years went by before she got another note from Teddy.
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Review 2017 Ford F150 Raptor is every rednecks dream and we love it - Duration: 7:03.Review: 2017 Ford F-150 Raptor is every redneck's dream and we love it
The commercials for the Raptor are simple: lots of engine noise, lots of dirt being flung in the air, and lots of trucks getting airborne. In reality the 2017 Ford F-150 Raptor is.
all of that stuff. We spent a week in this pickup, pronking the plains of Eastern Wyoming, and we loved every minute of it. The 2017 Ford F-150 Raptor has a new engine plus all of the awesomeness that was already there.
This includes 14 inches (355.6 mm) of wheel travel through its jacked-up suspension, massive skid plates, a cool center differential lock for better Baja running, and a reinforced frame to take the bumps and inevitable jumps the truck is literally made for.
In commercials for the Raptor – always on closed courses with professional drivers and perhaps some digital enhancement for, ahem, clarity – the Ford Performance truck is seen leaping into the air with abandon, landing in clouds of desert dust before drifting around a dirt track corner and heading for some underbrush to disappear behind.
The reality is that with this truck, with perhaps less exaggeration about the actual air time, all of those things are possible.
The Ford Raptor is basically an F-150 pickup truck with a lot of modifications.
The kinds of modifications that most rednecks dream of making to their pickup, but may not get around to because of, you know, warranties and the lack of a heavy-duty frame welder.
Still, at least visually, Ford designers did take cues from the more adventurous mods to the F-Series. That much is obvious.
Wide fender flares, deeper cuts to the wheel wells to allow for fatter, more aggressive tires, and a lot of protective bolt-ons to keep rocks and tree stumps from creating any serious damage are all there.
For 2017, Ford also did something else that took the Raptor from cool to badass in one stroke. Its engineers beefed up the engine.
Considerably. The 3.5-liter twin-turbo V6 now produces 450 horsepower (336 kW) and 510 foot pounds (691 Nm) of torque, which is all sent to the now-standard 10-speed automatic transmission.
The standard F-150 EcoBoost upgrade 3.5L engine this year produces 385 hp (287 kW), for reference.
That beefy engine upgrade comes with some nice tuning in the intakes and exhaust for some powerful sounds. This also means 0-60 mph (96.6 km/h) sprints at just over five seconds and a top speed of 107 mph (172.2 km/h).
Much of that is thanks not only to the engines speed and the transmissions smooth shifting, but also to the pickups all-wheel drive being on during any performance driving, which improves both traction and handling.
That AWD switches on and off as needed, and can be over-ridden by the driver with four-wheel drive options, including low gearing.
There are some downsides to the Raptor of course. Mainly they come when hauling goods, pulling trailers, or running at highway speeds on pavement. There is noticeable feedback from the tires and suspension when the Raptor is driven like a normal vehicle.
Thats to be expected, though, and we note that noise levels and shimmy are far superior to other off-road powerhouses like the Jeep Wrangler with its Rubicon package.
Another major downside is fuel economy. The EPA says that the 2017 Ford F-150 Raptor is capable of 15 mpg (15.7 l/100km) in the city and 18 mpg (13 l/100km) on the highway.
Our reality showed that 16 mpg (14.7 l/100km) on the highway is probably the best you can really hope for, and most who drive this truck the way its meant to be driven can expect far lower numbers than those.
But holy cow is it worth pumping gas into this truck. The Raptor almost literally begs to get air underneath it.
In fact, while driving on the interstate, there will be moments of lucidity where the Raptor virtually speaks to you, telling you to yank the steering wheel and run through the dirt and weeds alongside the road where the truck will be more at home.
It promises to find ways to hop the median fences and Dukes of Hazzard across the spans of the overpasses if youll just give the Raptor a chance. Sometimes, it was all we could do to resist these urges.
What Ford has created here, basically, is a lightweight pickup truck that has a monstrous, turbocharged engine and some of the best offroad equipment you can attach.
Throw in a few extra LED lights, some cool interior stitching, and a lot of well-earned credibility and it becomes something thats hard to forget. The Raptor is US$60k worth of fun times, give or take a few bucks.
Product Page: 2017 Ford F-150 Raptor.
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