When you stretch to reach new goals, you need support. Stretch provides a comprehensive support system and a unique 6 skills approach to help students meet their personal, academic and professional goals.Stretch is a four-level integrated skills course that supports students to reach their full potential.In addition to explicit and supportive instruction in listening, speaking, reading and writing, Stretch offers a focus on practical viewing and presenting skills.Presenting skills instill confidence in public speaking.Viewing skills use BBC Worldwide Learning videos to teach media literacy for 21st-century success.The skills practiced in Stretch are chosen to reflect the CEFR can-do statements and help students achieve success on standardized tests such as TOEICRG.

Scott Gunn has a successful career with All About Houston, a regional magazine that s well, all about Houston. At twenty-eight, he s considered one of the most innovative art directors in the state of Texas. He s smart, attractive, well liked, and respected; everything a young man could hope for himself. Although his professional life is taking off faster than he dared dream, his personal life so far has been something less than stellar. Paul McCoy was kicked out of his parent s house in Lubbock, Texas when he was only sixteen and for the past fi ve years he s managed to survive by using his charm and unbelievable good looks. His life has fi nally stabilized with steady work and an income better than he ever expected. The one thing he s searching for is someone he can depend on and trust. Someone who is interested in more than a pretty face. A chance meeting on Thanksgiving eve brings the two together. A mutual need plus unexpected events conspire to keep them in each other s lives. From society parties in Houston to fashion shoots in Chicago and family holiday celebrations in the historic city of Natchitoches, Louisiana, their relationship grows at a frightening pace. Will people from Paul s past ruin what they have or will Scott s indecisiveness challenge their relationship? Can they hold on to what they ve built or will success ultimately tear them apart?

The machinery about which I am writing is found in the confectionery industry, but it is also generally used throughout the food industry and some other areas that produce items that need to be wrapped and packed for distribution. It just happens that much of my working life was spent in the confectionery industry. Similar machinery operates in the pharmaceutical industry, is used for wrapping and handling books, for wrapping blocks of fuel and for packing tea and other items. Some of the robots described are used in the glass industry, loading drinking glasses direct from hot moulding plants. They are used to load filled bottles into cases in the drinks business or shampoo for chemical manufacturers. Other industries, for example the textile industry, used machinery designed for other purposes (such as weaving), before the development of packaging machines, that worked on comparable principles. Some of the mechanisms in all of this machinery possibly have their ancestry in the great cathedral clock mechanisms from as early as the fifteenth century. Just because this book is mainly illustrated by reference to chocolate bars and sweets does not mean that that is the only application, nor does it lessen the ingenuity applied in the designs of these machines or their importance in the modem world.

The Environmental Toolkit for Teachers is the essential guide to reducing your school's ecological footprint and creating and embedding a sustainability ethos. Whether you are a teacher eager to make your classroom a more eco-friendly environment or a head teacher who wants to set up a whole school project, there are practical strategies and activities in this book for you. Written by an expert environmental education, this book includes 75 eco-projects and lessons that cover how to manage litter, waste and energy efficiently in a time saving, cost effective manner. Each project is tried and tested and includes a step-by-step guide, case studies and examples. There is also advice on how to monitor and evaluate your projects. A key part of the book is the focus on getting students involved in the projects in order to educate them on the ever-increasing importance of living in an environmentally friendly and sustainable community. The Environmental Toolkit for Teachers is an invaluable resource for buy teachers eager to get their school sustainability up to scratch and become the best Eco-Teacher they can be.

Now in a fully revised and updated second edition, this volume provides a contemporary overview of food processing/packaging technologies. It acquaints the reader with food preservation processes, shelf life and logistical considerations, as well as packaging materials, machines and processes necessary for a wide range of packaging presentations. The new edition addresses environmental and sustainability concerns, and also examines applications of emerging technologies such as RFID and nanotechnology. It is directed at packaging technologists, those involved in the design and development of packaging, users of packaging in food companies and those who specify or purchase packaging. Key Features: An up-to-date and comprehensive handbook on the most important sector of packaging technology Links methods of food preservation to the packaging requirements of the common types of food and the available food packages Covers all the key packaging materials - glass, plastics and paperboard Fully revised second edition now covers sustainability, nanotechnology and RFID

When you stretch to reach new goals, you need support. Stretch provides a comprehensive support system and a unique 6 skills approach to help students meet their personal, academic and professional goals.Stretch is a four-level integrated skills course that supports students to reach their full potential.In addition to explicit and supportive instruction in listening, speaking, reading and writing, Stretch offers a focus on practical viewing and presenting skills.Presenting skills instill confidence in public speaking.Viewing skills use BBC Worldwide Learning videos to teach media literacy for 21st-century success.The skills practiced in Stretch are chosen to reflect the CEFR can-do statements and help students achieve success on standardized tests such as TOEICRG.