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NS11101-1-2015 sets the criteria and rules for Type 1 product category ecolabelling of goods, services and processes in masonry in Australia's building industry. The standard is based on the Masonry Product Category Baseline Assessment published by NSDO in 2014. The baseline assessment comprised a life cycle impact assessment of a broad range of alternative masonry products for applications that are functionally similar. It supports and further explains NS11101-1-2015 at a technically detailed level, and can be downloaded separately.
This masonry Standard is the first in the NS 11101 series. The second in the series is its companion standard for Environmental Product Declarations (EPD) which can be downloaded separately.
The Standards Development Committee, on behalf of the Board of National Standards Development Organisation, approved this National Standard on 5 December 2014. The Standard received a consensus vote from NSDO Committee PP-20, Environmental Performance of Building Products in Australia. This followed detailed preparation by NSDO Product Category Working Group (PCWG) for Masonry Products. The PCWG also:
The development of NS MP101, Masonry Product Category Baseline Assessment (PCBA) was conducted in accordance with NS 11000, Clause 5.6. The PCBA comprises a Life Cycle Impact Assessment (LCIA) of a broad range of alternative masonry products for functionally similar applications. It evaluates the key impacts and causes of environmental impact. The functional unit was researched by examining the range of variation of product parameters and performance for masonry products used in Australian industry. Sensitivity analysis was used to identify the energy, materials and chemicals that contribute most and the environmental impact categories most significantly affected by masonry products.
This Standard is one in the NS 11100 series of standards for setting criteria and rules for the ecolabelling of building products. This Standard is also the first in the NS 11101 series for masonry that also includes NS 11101.2 Environmental Attributes of Building Products – Type III Environmental Declarations Standard – Masonry Products.
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Popular print server software used by many manufacturers is vulnerable to attacks that can bypass authentication processes, change data recording printer use and cause hardware to crash. Sebastián Guerrero, a researcher with viaForensics, found the flaw in Hewlett-Packard's JetDirect software, which is embedded in printers of manufacturers such as Canon, Fujitsu, Xerox, Lexmark, HP and more. Guerrero told ITWorld he had confirmed the vulnerability on HP DesignJet printers and some Ricoh models.
According to Guerrero, the JetDirect protocol allows an attacker to inject additional information in the form of tags into a print request. An outside party can add universal exit language (UEL) tags, which note the beginning and end of data streams; printer job language (PJL) tags, which tell the printer what actions to take; and printer control language (PCL) tags, which are used to format pages and can be used to exploit vulnerabilities in most parsers.
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Carol City Falls in Championship Game of the 2013 HSPD 7-on-7 High School National Tournament Presented by the National Guard
Cleveland, OH – Carol City High School, representing the Miami Dolphins, reached the NFL High School Player Development National 7-on-7 Tournament's championship game, but fell just short, 24-14, to the team representing the Detroit Lions. This was the fifth consecutive year that a team representing the Dolphins reached the championship game.
"The kids played the tournament with a lot of courage and a lot of heart and represented South Florida and the Dolphins really well," Carol City Assistant Coach Andre Stafford said. "They fought until the end, but it's a tough loss to deal with. It doesn't feel too good, but it's a good reminder how to continue to work hard and not give up."
Carol City suffered only one loss throughout the tournament before being defeated by the Detroit Lions. The Chiefs went 4-1 on Day 1 of the tournament, and won their first six games on Day 2 before dropping the finale. Carol City outscored its opponents, 413-261, over both days of the tournament and won by an average margin of 16.3 points in victories.
Carol City quarterback Trayon Gray and wide receiver Theodore Hammonds led the way for the Chiefs. Gray threw 56 touchdowns over the two days of games, with many of them going to Hammonds. Hammonds also had six interceptions in the tournament.
Carol City began single elimination games with a narrow victory over the team representing the New York Jets, 28-21. They then defeated the team representing the New England Patriots, 28-21, to go undefeated in division play.
Carol City got its biggest test in the Elite 8 against the team representing the Pittsburgh Steelers, when they used a 44-yard touchdown in overtime to move on to the semi-finals. Carol City booked its ticket to the championship match by beating the team representing the Denver Broncos 38-21.
"Obviously, this is a tough loss to swallow for Carol City. The kids fought hard, and I admire their scrappy grit and competiveness," Miami Dolphins Youth Programs Director Twan Russell said. "There was never a sign of quit in them and our organization cannot be more proud of them and Carol City High School. This experience in competing against other teams on a national level will give them great momentum heading into their season."
Despite the disappointment, Carol City feels that the loss can be a learning lesson and build chemistry for their upcoming season.
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Innovator attached a stopper over the pulley so that by the backward movement of rope, lever will press it automatically and would not let it slip. Now the person can take the rest as long as one wishes, without having to keep holding the rope. He developed and tried out three different version with different technical features and finalized two models i.e Ganga and Saraswati Pulley.
The shape of the pulley is such that it is inherently wear‐resistant and long‐lasting. The material of the pinion is made from steel that reduced the friction and ensured smooth functioning without the use of a bearing. It requires welding of the pulley on an iron rod with the help of iron fabricators or affixing with a screw on the iron angle.
To overcome the issues involved in welding and fabricating iron beam or rod as extension in case of Ganga pulley , innovator provided hook structure to hang the pulley on existing rod.
Any local artisan of the village can do the installation of the pulley.By affixing it on two‐iron angles of length five to six feet: These iron angles may then be inserted in the soil to an approximate depth of two feet near the border of the well. Care should be taken to give the pulley a 45‐ degree tilt so that the brake functions properly. By fixing the extended portion of the pulley on the wall of the well with the help of screws. In absence of any wall‐support, the pulley may be installed on the iron rod / wooden beam, used in the case of a traditional pulley.
The "Saraswati" pulley is flexible & free‐hanging in nature. Users can own this pulley individually, take it to the well while going for drawing water, hang this pulley on the existing iron rod /beam on the well, and take it back after use. If users want, they can install it permanently also by tightening the hook on the iron rod.
The pulley is very sturdy & durable. This is a very simple yet robust technology and does not have any complex components. Any local fabricator can make it and repair it without needing any formal training
Considering the social importance of this technology Innovator has declared this innovation as community/societal based, and there would be no fee as far as the cost of technology entailed in its transfer is concerned. It is highly recommended to manufacture these pulleys locally in order save the cost of transportation, and, also for the up‐gradation of technology already existing in the rural areas. If required, GIAN can send the samples of these pulleys on cost basis to aid in manufacturing it locally.
Pulleys are conventionally used for drawing water from the open wells by millions of women in villages all over India. With water table going down and length of rope to pull water increasing, women (who have to often perform this arduous task) have to face a lot of drudgery while pulling water through conventional pulley. Many times, while pulling water, women/men feel tired and have to pause to catch their breath. Bucket sometimes falls into the well. Indian civilization developed a bunch of hooks to get such a bucket out of the well but could not devise any mechanism so that bucket does not fall into the well. Despite being in existence for so many years, design of pulley has not witnessed any major change. Honey Bee network had posed this problem to a network of innovators and then Amrutbhai came out with innovative design of Pulley having brake mechanism in it.
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For this innovation he won Asian Innovation Award in 2000 and a National Award in NIF's First National Competition for Grassroots Innovations and Traditional Knowledge in 2001. An attempt was made to diffuse this pulley with the help of SEWA in a few hundred cases. Much more remains to be done.
Apart from these Amrutbhai has made numerous other devices like, Aaruni Cart and many other innovations like Janak Santi- multipurpose agricultural attachment, Mini Kaliyu (Groundnut digger) and Wheat sowing box among other things.


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Fetching Raymond is a short story by John Grisham that was originally part of the Ford County collection, but can now be bought separately as a standalone short story in ebook format.
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Wheelchair-bound Inez Graney and her two older sons, Leon and Butch, take a bizarre road trip through the Mississippi Delta to visit the youngest Graney brother, Raymond, who's been locked away on death row for eleven years… and it could well be their last visit.
Going back to Ford County, Mississippi, the setting of his first novel, A Time to Kill, Grisham brings the Graneys and their world to vivid and colorful life, making it abundantly clear why he is our most popular storyteller.


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I was on Becketts End when I met him. He didnt know it then, but he only had three weeks left before he got burned up. Hed just cycled back from the Palomar Campaign and was looking at a few weeks of down time before they sent him back to get shot up again. The leg didnt hurt anymore by the time I ran into him in a bar in Pozzo, itd had enough time to heal most of the way back, and the bionics were looking good. Real good. The metal would catch the light wherever he was; I reckon I even saw it glinting prettily through his fatigues a couple of times. Given the source, Im not surprised.
He was sitting there, at a little table down the back, drinking away all the memories he didnt want to have with that crap they sell there. Becketts End doesnt have the good stuffhell, it doesnt even have the bad stuff, only the really bad stuff. Anyway, he was half awake and looking pretty nasty when I got there. Wed all seen the vids of him by thenas you have, Im sureso I knew who he was right away. No one was bothering him, not even the barman who only brought drinks over when he got sick of hearing the guy whimpering. Its like there was a bubble round him, a good few metres wide. I guess everyone just knew what was gonna happen to him.
I thought to myself that it just aint pretty watching a man drink himself into oblivion alone, so I took it upon myself to buy him a couple, maybe get a story out of him.
So I sit down across the table from him, and my foot bangs against that leg of his. A little sort of ting sound comes off of it, and it seems like its never gonna stop ringing. Then he puts his hand on it and sorta whispers, like shush or something. Like you might talk to your kid to get them to stop crying. Weirded me right out, that. So he looks up at me, holding a drink out to him, and his eyes are bloodshot. You kinda expect that from a guy whos been drinking for a couple of weeks straight, but you dont expect the grin. Manic. His teeth were right there in my face, looking for a moment like hed sharpened them, and like I was the next meal on his list. But then his lips shut and he mutters Thanks, before taking the drink off me and taking a long, long swallow.
Youre pretty famous, I said, this whole sector knows your face.
Yeah, that happens. Open and shut, no room for getting anything out of him that he doesnt want to let out.
Something to do with your leg, I continued, Mind if I have a look?
He looked me right in the eyes, then sort of smirks, pulls his leg out from beneath the table, and starts hitching up his pants. Prettiest damn bit of bionics Ive ever seen. Not even those marines we saw on Maupassant Prime had such impressive metal. All the lines were smooth and clean, the hinges and hydraulics worked without even a hiss, and the hoses were all that armoured type, you know, the real expensive stuff. It came from just above his knee all the way down to his foot, with only a little bit of the meat still attached where his calf would be. I guess that was all they could salvage. Or maybe they thought itd look nicer that way. He flexed the steel toes and all the pistons and cables twitched and slid through the movement.
So howd you get it? I asked, afraid he might just give me the details I already knew.
Youve seen the vids.
Yeah, something about xenotech, wasnt it? But we all know thats grox-fart.
He leaned back, almost in a drunken slump, yawned, and let his pants slide back over the polished metal of his leg.
We were in the trenches, back on Palomar Tertius, watching all the time for the glow of the artillerys tracer-fire tracking us down. It wouldnt take them too long, they were just tracking across the trench-line, knocking out a platoon with every shot. That was the terrifying bit: every shot hit home, not a missed or ineffective shell anywhere. Id just been made sergeant after Hille got nailed the previous day, so it was my job to make sure my boys stayed put and kept up a constant stream of fire whenever one of the traitors stuck their heads up. It wouldve been easier with some titan support, but the whole of Tertius was down to three Warlords and a half dozen Warhounds. Wed be lucky to see the shadow of one on the horizon.
By the fact that the pounding of the shells was working its way towards us from either side, we knew we were in the middle of the battle line. We had no idea till Rogan, a grunt, pointed it out. We all knew what that meant. Being in the middle meant that theyd shell everyone else into oblivion, then assault on all fronts, coming at us from the front and sides at the same time. Against these traitors it was better to be shelled. Wed all heard the stories about how depraved they were. Half my men, when we realised the artillery was quietening, made to run. The moment they got over the back lip of the trench, though, bolt rounds went neatly through their spines. Not even a squeak from any of them, they just dropped.
Ill bet Conrad, the Commissar, wouldve liked to see thatif he hadnt been three hundred metres to the south getting blown to pieces.
When the shells finally stopped their pounding, we waited. We knew the traitors were coming, and we could hear their voices booming loud across No Mans Land, but no one wanted to stick their head up. Youve got to appreciate that; theyre superhuman, even if theyre traitors, and there isnt a guardsman in the entire Imperial Army could take a hit from a boltgun, and none that can match the accuracy. Not these traitors, anyway. As I said, every shell hit, and every bolter round killed.
When we heard them sprinting across the open ground beyond the trench, we prayed. There wasnt much else we could do. A couple of the lads stood up to fire their lasguns and were dead before their finger had a chance to tighten on the trigger. Links had the flamer and shot a few bursts along the edge of the trench, which mightve slowed them down if a grenade hadnt landed at his feet a moment later.
I dont know if youve ever seen a flameboy hit by a grenade. They explode into a fireball when the shrapnel penetrates the fuel canister, it gets spread everywhere: all over the trench, all over anyone nearby. Its the fuel, you see. They make it sticky so that anyone hit keeps burning. When that gets poured into a trench you get a lot of dead bodies, and they dont smell good, either. Plus it means the survivors get cramped up into a smaller spaceanywhere the fuel hasnt stuck.
When the traitors dropped into the trench, we all knew it was over, but we had to fight back. Nothing else to do. Our bayonets were useless, though, couldnt penetrate the armour if wed been twice as strong. Their chainswords hacked the rest of us apart with a single stroke. Except me. Their boss had plans for me.
He pointed to me with his power sword, obviously intending that we fight some kind of duel. I figured I was dead anyway, so I straightened up, drew my chainsword, and prepared to die like a Guardsman. The Emperord like that, I figured.
When he made his first move I was ready, and hurled myself back, hoping to catch the back side of the trench to spring forwards again. Its a pretty simple trick, they teach it to all the Guards at basic training on Camus. The only problem is that by the time I got to the back of the trench I didnt have a leg to spring back from. His arm was too quick. Right where my leg should have been, his sword had cut clean through.
They say that power weapons automatically sear the wound, and that its shock you die from, not blood loss, but that isnt true. Not through your leg, it isnt. The artery theres huge, youd need to actually hold the sword there to burn it closed. So I fell back against the wall and bled, expecting to feel that same blade come through my chest at any moment. But I didnt. I looked up at him, and he was staring at me through those purple lenses on his helmet like he couldnt believe that I survived a single stroke. A bit arrogant, really.
Then this other marine pushes past him, all sorts of nasty looking tools sticking out of his backpack and off his wrists. I recognised some of them from serving alongside the marines over on Lethe, the tools their medics carry. Other ones just looked to me like implements of torture. He knelt down over me, brushing away my sword with his hand when I tried to defend myself, and stuck a needle in my neck.
He stops then to ask for another drink, which I gladly oblige. The story we all heard on the vids was that hed been some sort of hero for scouting out a rear assault on a Xeno-held position. Hed lost his leg, apparently, when he got spotted, but then killed the guy that hacked his leg, and took the new leg off him. Kinda like Yarrickif you believe that story.
He was scratching at the end of his stump of a leg when the drinks arrived, like the wound was still healing. He nailed the drink in one and I got him another, which he sipping all casual-like. Somehow he wasnt getting too drunk, even though hed obviously had a few.
You can handle your piss, I says.
There are still drugs in my system, the docs tell me, he replies, apparently thats why I cant sleep and cant get too drunk. Bit of crap to be in. He laughed then, and sipped his drink again.
I woke up later on a bench, blood everywhere: all over my fatigues, all over the table, the floor, the walls. Everywhere. At least my leg had stopped bleeding, there was a thin bandage over the stump that had meshed with the flesh there. I could see a couple of stiffs on other benches around the room with their organs hanging out and little pins sticking into them here and there. I was there a while before they came in for me. I couldnt move except my head, theyd bound me pretty tight to the metal, so all I could do was wait.
That was horrible. All those bodies, all that blood, and this constant drone from all around, like there were engines in every room around me. The strangest thing was the smell, though. No reek of dead bodies or rot or anything like that. I couldnt even smell the blood. Just flowers, like theyd coated everything in perfume. Creepy like you wouldnt believe.
So when they came for me there were two of them: the traitor that took my leg, and the medic. The medic stood by while the other came over by my head and took off his helmet. His eyes had purple irises, and his skin was paler than an ice shark, especially because he had no hair, not even stubble. His lips were thin and pink, but his smile was one of the most beautiful things Ive ever seen, even more than anything I saw when my parents took me to Hallis, the Garden World, when I was little.
Youre a remarkable man, Sergeant Blake, he said, Youre the first Ive ever faced that hasnt died at a single stroke.
I coughed up a bit of blood then as I tried to laugh in his faceand thats harder than youd think, when youre in that place. He pulled a cloth from a pouch at his waist and wiped my mouth clean.
We pride ourselves on our perfection here, you see, he continued, The ideal man, above any of your kind, above even your Corpse Gods lackeysdaring to call themselves marines. When I was on Terra, all those millennia ago, even then none stood before me as well as you.
He was pacing around as he spoke, each footfall softened on the blood that covered the floor.
Hence, youre an enigma. You shouldnt exist. He paused now, before leaning over me to breath into my faceperfume againand continue: But you do. You, unlike the untold billions of your kind, are close to our kind of perfection. Not very close, but close enough for us to notice you.
The medic stepped forward now, pulling a tray of tools with him, and interrupting.
Thats why were going to reward you, he slid past his comrade, pulling his tools with him, Perfection should never be destroyed. Never. Well make you more perfect.
I managed to wheeze a Damn you before he stuck another needle into my neck. This one, though, didnt knock me out. Instead of watching from inside myself as I slipped into the black, I was slowed right down. It was like watching those old vids where the datas been mangled and everything goes slow. Worst part was that I could still feel everything, I just couldnt move or make a sound.
You havent felt pain till youve had it slowed down almost to a pause. Every moment took an hour to pass. So, when he started cutting into my leg, I felt the sawing of the blade like you wouldnt believe. Pain isnt just your brain telling you somethings gone wrong, its more than that; its kinda like an epiphany you shouldnt have. Like when you realise that your officers dont care about any of you, and that youre just a meat shield to keep the traitors back while the artillery does its work. And that the artillery is there just to hold the line while the Navy deals with the traitors in orbit; theyre just slowing Chaos down as it works its way towards Terra; that Terras just an object in space holding the rotting bits of the Emperor, and that the Emperors not even alive.
Pains like that: you cant imagine that the galaxy makes any sense, or that theres any stopping the bad bits taking over like cancer.
The cutting was the good bit, though. Once he started drilling out my bones I was sure Id die, so much pain clotting my head that I wished I was dead, and that even being dead going to helld be better. Hell cant be that bad. By the time hed finished all the brutal stuff I was a wreck. Id gone mad inside my own head, even though the whole thing only probably took half an hour. But, as I said, the drug slowed that down and drew it out. It felt like Id gone through years, almost as many as Ive been alive.
Then he put the leg in placethis thingand all the pain went away, just like that. Almost erased it from my mind; there isnt anything that could do that properly. Anyway, the moment it touched me I was happy. Get that: happy. Whats there to be happy about? But my brain cleaned right up, like being really, really sober the morning after, no headaches or anything. Just clean.
Now youre better than youve ever been, the medic said, Youre more perfect than before. You are beautiful to us.
They left then, and for the next three days I waited for that damn drug to wear off so I could sleep, or anything. It wore off a little bit, everything slowly sped up back almost to normal. But Ive given up on waiting for that happen. No ones gonna talk at normal speed again, no ones gonna move as fast as they used to. Everyone but me. You cant see it, but I can reach out and touch this glass, drain it all back, and put it back in placeand all youll see is the glass wobble a bit, and some of the drink trickle down my chin. But moving that quick leaves me dizzy. I guess were just not made for whatever drug the traitors are using.
Anyway, after the three days were over, they took me off the bench, gave me new fatigues, and put me on one of their transports. They took me out into the wastes and left me there. The guy that Id fought was with me, and he said nothing the whole way there, not until we got to the edge of their territory.
Head north for half a day and you will reach your lines, he said, his voice smoother than the Ecclesiarchys orators, They know to expect you.
So I got out and started walking. I didnt get tired, and I didnt slow down. I just walked. Mustve been ten leagues or so before I saw the banners sticking up above the bunkers. About three hundred metres out they came out with the Colonels guard. They surrounded me and put me in quarantine. And now here I am, new leg, new chance to prove myself to the Emperor, but better than any of you.
His last line he sneered. I knew he was just a grunt, but he had some kinda thinking like he was special. Then he did it: just drained his glass so quick you couldntve seen more than his hand move and hear the glass hit the table again. I dont mind saying it scared the crap outta me.
You got some leg there, I says.
He shrugged, Its the drugs, not the leg.
Whats so special about the leg then? I asked.
He flicked the metal through his pants and it started that ringing again, but this time didnt put no hand near it to stop it. Pretty soon, that ringing was getting into my head like those brainworms out in the wastes, and I had to get outta there. I paid the barman on the way out, leaving a few creds so Blake could keep up his drinking. If nothing else, itd keep him from following me, I figured.
As I says, though, he only had three weeks left before they got to him. Word was they killed everyone in the bar, where they found him, then burned him up on that hill over to the east of Pozzo. One of them incendiary shells straight outta a Russ, so you can be pretty sure there wasnt anything of him left. His leg, though, I reckon Id bet half my rations that thing came out fine, just fine.
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About me
My name is Marc Anguera Insa, born in 1986. I spent the last years in Barcelona studying, developing and sharing good moments with a lot of people.
During these years I achieved the computer engineering career in Barcelona School of Informatics (FIB) faculty part of Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC).
Currently I'm working on the analysis and development of web applications. Especially using Ruby and some of its frameworks (like Ruby on Rails) and Javascript.
I like to participate in the different areas of a project and build comfortable and friendly applications for the users and the internet. I always try to find pragmatic and simple solutions. And follow good practices, both development and organization side.


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Our Student Initiated Project is finally done! We are very excited to have finally finished with it, although our video was not too successful overall. It only got 51 views in total, which is very few. However, we were lucky even such a small number of people watched it, as many well known YouTubers participate in Project For Awesome, and sometimes it can be difficult to get noticed at all.
Despite this, there is a lot of room left for improvement on our part. Although our video was functional and it achieved it's goal, which was informing people about Alboan, it was not particularly original or interesting, except for the short sketch at the beginning. This was mostly due to our shortage of time when it came to recording the video. If we had been able to speak to Alboan before, I am sure we would have had more time to work together on creating a more fun and creative experience for our viewers. Aside from this, we could have also publicized it a bit more, perhaps distributing the video amongst our school's community, and encouraging people to share it with their friends and families as well. Lastly, if we were to do this video all over again, we would make sure to contact Alboan much earlier, especially now that we know how to do it. This would allow us to plan our time more effectively beforehand, surely leading to a better product.
With the creation of this video, we have learned a lot about Alboan as a charity and, in the process, we have also learned quite a bit about the causes for which they fight. For example, we found out about the minerals being mined in the Democratic Republic of Congo right now, and how this unregulated mining negatively affects the people who work there, especially young children. We also learned how to arrange meetings with professionals and how to educate ourselves about global issues. Finally, we also grew more familiar with YouTube as a media-sharing platform, and I was able to practise my video-editing skills, which is always advantageous in order to develop my own pastimes and hobbies.
Finally, both Nolan and I met both our learning outcomes. We "demonstrated engagement with issues of global significance" by working closely with a charity and learning about the situation in Congo right now, as well as other international issues of great importance, such as the economic crisis in Venezuela. We also "recognized and considered the ethics of choices and actions" because we acknowledged that putting together a promotional video for Alboan might have an impact on people's lives, changing the way they look at the technology they use daily, and perhaps even leading them to donate to Alboan, which would in turn lead to changes in the lives of miners in Congo. We also reflected on the outcome of our video and thought about how we could have made it reach a greater number of people, as we know that if more people were informed about the situation in Congo, it would lead to quicker and better change for the people working in those mines.
All in all, although we could have done a significantly better job, Nolan and I have achieved our goal of producing a promotional video for Project For Awesome, and we are proud of our work and achievements.


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How We Teach
REACTing to Learn: Student Engagement Strategies in Contextual Teaching and Learning
You read in the previous section that the REACT strategies represent five essential learner engagement strategies designed to help students build new skills and knowledge regardless of their starting point.
Let's take a closer look at each strategy.
Relating: Learning in the context of life experience, or relating, places learning in the context of life experiences—everyday sights, events, and conditions. The process of relating provides a mental scaffolding of familiar situations on which new information can be hung.
Experiencing: Learning in the context of exploration, discovery, and invention is the heart of contextual learning. However motivated students may become as a result of other instructional strategies such as video, narrative, or text-based activities, these remain relatively passive forms of learning. Students understand and retain information more quickly when they are able to manipulate equipment and materials and perform their own active research.
Applying: Learning by using new concepts and information in a useful context allows students to envision future success in careers, even if the situation is still fairly unfamiliar to them. In courses taught contextually, applications are often based on occupational activities—ideally authentic, non-contrived, real-world tasks. These contextual learning experiences can be augmented with presentations by guest speakers or first-hand experiences like plant tours.
Cooperating: Learning in the context of sharing, responding, and communicating with others is a primary instructional strategy in contextual teaching. Contextually-taught courses are often built around hands-on laboratory activities (and other group exercises). These are cooperative in that students typically work with partners to follow the steps in the lab protocol; in some cases, they work in groups of three or four. Completing a lab successfully requires delegation, observation, suggestion, and discussion. In many labs, the quality of the data collected by the team as a whole is dependent on the individual performance of each member of the team. The experience of cooperating not only helps the majority of students learn the material, it is also consistent with real-world expectations. Employers value workers who can communicate effectively, who share information freely, and who can operate comfortably in a team setting. Instructors have ample reason, therefore, to encourage students to develop these cooperative skills while they are still in the classroom where the process can be facilitated.
Transferring: Learning in the context of existing knowledge, or transferring, builds upon materials and concepts that the student already knows. Learning to transfer previously learned information to new contexts helps students approach unfamiliar situations and problems with confidence.
In light of learning research the REACT strategies offer a natural approach for implementing contextual teaching and learning.
REACT in Action
Consider this example in which students learn about the physics and electronics concepts of thermal resistance.
- Relating: The instructor asks questions and solicits responses from students about their experience with the phenomenon, e.g. sweaters, drink koozies, ice chests.
- Experiencing: Students measure heat flow through an insulating jacket around a heat source.
- Applying: The instructor talks about wall and air duct insulation, how a refrigerator/freezer works, and the insulating properties of window glass.
- Cooperating: Students work in teams on activities and labs exploring thermal resistance.
- Transferring: The instructor leads a discussion on the broad topic of resistance and students recognize
that the concept extends beyond thermal resistance to mechanical, electrical and fluid resistance.
Contextual Classroom Environment
Another way of thinking about contextual teaching and learning asks instructors to examine the difference between traditional and contextual classroom practices. A contextual approach:
- Encourages design of learning environments that use multiple teaching modalities and incorporate different forms of learning experiences.
- Allows learners to discover meaningful relationships between abstract ideas and real-world applications.
- Enables concepts to be internalized through discovery, reinforcement/modeling, and problem-solving.
- Provides ongoing feedback that promotes further learner interaction with content.
- Engages learners and motivates them to persist.
Contextual Classroom Environment - A Contrast
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David was in Eugene Oregon, working on a Masters in Lit as of 1997. I attended a number of seminars with him. His responses to novels were fascinating--never short, but always to the point. John Gage once listened to an extensive ramble David made regarding a piece of literature and commented that Magic Realism only works when writing fiction, not when commenting on it.
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PLA Navy officers draw their ships together in close formation during a beach landing drill on Monday. FENG YONGBIN/CHINA DAILY
The Chinese Navy completed its first overseas joint beach landing drill on Tuesday as part of an ongoing marine exercise with Russia.
The drill took place in waters off Russia's Clerk Cape as part of the ongoing Joint Sea-2015 (II) exercise between the two countries from Aug 20 to 28.
The two navies deployed amphibious equipment and more than 400 marines, who landed on a beach using various methods, including parachuting and descending by rope from helicopters, as well as using amphibious armored vehicles and landing ships.
"For the first time, we shipped tanks and armored vehicles, and landed soldiers directly into an overseas drill area after a long-distance voyage," said Liang Yang, assistant to the Chinese director of the drill.
"Such a drill will fully test the performance of our weapons in terms of adaptability to local weather and topographical conditions."
More than 100 Chinese marines were transported directly onto the beach in 14 amphibious armored vehicles, which were unloaded from the Chinese landing ship Changbaishan, anchored more than 1 kilometer off the beach.
"This type of dry landing, which involves putting soldiers ashore without the need for wading, as they did previously, meets both our tactical demands and requirements for real-battle landing," Liang said.
Another 24 Chinese marines landed by helicopter fast rope, while the Chinese landing vessel Yunwushan deployed six armored vehicles and 26 marines directly onto the beach.
The Chinese air force also took part in the drill with two J-10 and two JH-7A fighters, which took off from an airport in China and flew across Russian airspace before arriving at the drill area.
Chen Yong, a Chinese air force officer who took part in the drill, said, "The fighters were here mainly to assist the beach landings by commanding the air and launching long-distant attacks at targets on the beach."
Russian soldier Andrey Ivanov, 30, who was taking part in a military exercise for the first time, said, "Although this drill was complicated and difficult, it went smoothly thanks to the thorough preparations on both sides."
Dong Jun, Chinese navy deputy chief of staff, said such large-scale joint beach landings require careful planning and command.
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Next month's Xbox One and 360 titles announced
Microsoft has come out with its August lineup of free games for Xbox Live Gold members and the highlight here is unquestionably Arkane Studios' stealth title Dishonored. You'll want to clear hard drive space for it in a couple weeks. But, that's not the only one worth trying.
The first Games with Gold selections -- Crimson Dragon and Strike Suit Zero on Xbox One, and Motorcross Madness on Xbox 360 -- will be free beginning this Friday, August 1. Then, it's Dishonored's turn from August 16 - 31. We'll have a reminder post when the time comes.
One of the recurring complaints for Games with Gold has been its insistence on featuring stuff that many of us own and have owned for years. With Crimson Dragon and Strike Suit Zero next month, at least we're getting something I imagine not a ton of folks have played yet.
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More Proof Google Counts Press Release Links, Using Matt Cutts's Own Blog
About six months ago, Google's head of search spam, Matt Cutts, made a comment in a Google forum thread that links within press releases won't "benefit your rankings."
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The other day, Daniel Tan released another press release, this time on a smaller release site and added the anchor text "leasreepressmm" pointing to the blog of Matt Cutts. His goal was to get Matt's blog to rank for leasreepressmm ,and guess what, it worked.
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I finally got a new phone this weekend. I say finally because my iPhone 4 has had a broken screen for almost 2 years. The only reason it didn't completely fall apart was because I had a screen cover on it that held the glass in place making it so that it still functioned properly. And since it still worked, I had a hard time parting with the $200 to buy a new one. Well, I've been due for an upgrade for a couple of months, so my Mother's Day gift was an iPhone 5. Yep, I love it already. In honor of my new, non-broken phone, I thought I would share my five favorite apps of the moment.
1. Instagram-This one is pretty obvious.
2. PicTapGo-I'm really loving this app and it's editing options. It's fun and easy.
3. ABeautifulMess-This one is super fun for adding text, doodles and borders to pictures.
4. Wunderlist-This recently became my new way of keeping everyday lists that I can cross off as I go. I love crossing things off lists. It makes me feel like I actually accomplish things during the day.
5. 10k Runner-I use this app every time I run. I like that there is an end goal, which is being able to run a 10k.
So, there you have it. The five apps that I use the most often right now. Smart phones are awesome, aren't they?!
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As Only I Know
a series of twelve poems
after the writings of Joan Miro
You Know Me Well Enough
Something like abundance,
neither superficial nor impenetrable;
an extra-pictorial reality,
in spite of the poetry in what
you say.
You know me well enough.
Already it's now
that you must count all others absurd.
But, first, speak to me of myself
and you will see I am
without guts,
You will see I am without the strength
to change the lie of human
(into a compelling truth that has
no end?)
But, you know me well enough.
A Poetry of Birth and Death
With interpretations
that allude to narcissism,
your retreat into shadow
should be written of
in unearthly script,
though clear enough
to be certain of the moment as
And, as if music
as fragile as night
ought to be
testimony to your will,
ought to, at some point, mimic
the dawn,
your humbling canto
whispers a rhythm
like tongues painting the face of history.
Yet, for all to see,
for all to know,
you are there, throughout
to ease the magic from words
that fuse to become
an echo of the day still to arrive,
a poetry of birth
and death.
In truth,
enough arrant haste and habit
still goads whatever it finds
never before explored,
yet, gently,
drawn to it
as a face drawn to the light.
Enough arrant haste.
Enough arrant habit.
All this
and I imagine a certain emotion
as incomprehensible
as the desire to let go of life.
always is too late.
Black and White
Black and white,
when the time comes,
when the time is
to prepare a sleight of hand
to unsettle the night
with magic.
For, if eyes must be
as lingering as a cloud
and the view
as far as the sea will allow,
then I must be
soon as dust.
I must be
the embodiment of shadows,
yet, equally,
the very flicker of light
that will come to be
the cipher of infinite dreams.
The Fire You Squander
vacant places
through which reality can crawl,
increasingly blistered,
soon become places
I begin to fill
with the fire you squander
in emotionless abstention
from all that is pure.
And at the same time,
even like this,
I realise that, when you surrender
to the loss of the flames,
it is for me you submit
that I can stand,
against the weight
of the imperfect air
that meets me with every dawn.
For me,
I have discovered everything I am,
everything you set out to make me.
The winter in my words
was there from birth,
then thunderous as time went by,
vast in its implausible chaos
of noise.
For me,
the coldness was honest,
drawn on always to speak of life,
past, present and still to come.
To leave, to go, to be gone -
only now do I grasp the sense
of it all,
the need to stretch,
the need for the new,
to be forever in sight of the sun.
For me,
I have moved on,
while you have remained behind.
I think about when you told me
how you watched to see
where small things go,
some leaving like an arbitrary consonant
with no meaning at all,
and then the ones that touch the spirit,
and move on.
I think about it from time to time
and sense there is something of everything
in the words you painted,
stripped of doubt,
detached from routine,
words from which
a point of departure can be drawn
without us even knowing.
And, of the small things,
I, too,
now watch to see where each ends up,
my very being
dissociated from a world
where it would take too much to know
the advantage
of shame.
Empty paper -
a crust of bread -
no sentimentalism.
So very far from being
some echo of the ebb of time
I need only be close to you.
For what I am
is redolent of precedent exploited -
old likelihoods
my most fruitful possessions.
A pebble.
A blade of grass.
We are not
what we want to be
but who
what we are -
you with your eyes
combing the sea to find a new optimism -
I with my collection of verdicts on life -
as though
brushing the ground of all trace of being.
You are that dog
barking at the storm.
You are that signature
in black
I dread
You asked for simplicity,
a minimum of fuss,
and now want to be
at the heart of...
Whether you can change
as you like
is not for me to say.
I am
that storm
at which
you bark.
I am the pen
with which
you sign away my soul.
without a word
another day is sent
to meet the silence
played out
in the new light
these blemished circles
I see
all too well
to be parallel points
in a forgotten landscape
and so
that time is only
a copy of each moment
already shared
must allude to the dawn
as being an illusion without end
All the more
each and every day
I snatch pleasure
from your mention
of a distant sliver of good fortune
as if I had discovered
which palette of colours is cracked
though without tearing
at long last.
Which sliver it is
is not to worry too much about.
It is fortune.
And telling me
that I will be as a last way out
has for me
no ordinary meaning
other than
that this hint of providence
is all there is to be held in reserve
like a riddle
that has no answer.
...The only quarter is the present...
...this point in time
has been made in this way...
...Simplified as they are,
these things, for me,
are all the more human
in their detail...
...their appeal
in being nameless...
...I am convinced of it...
...The more confined,
the more complete...
...in the same way as,
for you,
being means escaping...
...no longer being...
...you move no more.
© John
Mingay 2010


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I am delighted to announce that my third CD has just been released by Albany Records. Wondrous Love: Works for Solo Cello features the three suites for unaccompanied cello by Ernest Bloch, and two pieces by Daniel Bukvich, Variations on "What Wondrous Love Is This?" and Phantasy on a Theme of Purcell. I feel so honoured to be the dedicatee of the latter composition, and to have such a wonderful composer as my colleague at the University of Idaho.
My grateful thanks go to Susan Bush of Albany Records, recording engineer David Bjur for the beautiful job he did recording and editing this disc at the Washington State University Recording Studios, and producer Sean Butterfield for his incredibly sharp ears and his insistence on pushing me even when I was exhausted after many, many takes. I couldn't be more thrilled.


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NJMEP helps New Jersey manufacturers connect with various members of the community including legislators, decision makers, students, parents, educators and media members. If you are interested in hosting a tour for a legislator or a local group, NJMEP may be able to provide assistance. Click here to contact us.
Here are some highlights from recent tours and events:
Congressman Scott Garret visits NJMEP Client, Versa Valves, based out of Paramus. He toured the facility and participated in a Q & A session with the 160 Versa Employees. Jan Larsson, President of the company, hosted the event.
Norwalt Design hosting students from the Morris County School of Technology. These students participate in a program w/NASA. They were awarded a contract to manufacturer International Space Station (ISS) Single Storage Lockers for the astronauts through the High School Students United with NASA to Create Hardware (HUNCH).
Jan Larsson, President of Versa Valves, guides Assemblyman Tim Eustace and NJMEP's Joe Carotenuto on a tour.
Triangle Manufacturing hosts a tour including attendees from Lincoln Tech.
Lt. Governor Kim Guadagno visits Zytron Control Products, Inc.
Congressman Frank Pallone at Carton Brewing (Photo Credit: Jeff Linkous)
Assemblyman Timothy Eustace tours HK Metalcraft
Congressman Leonard Lance visits L & Z Tool and Engineering
Senator Tom Kean visits Desiron
Assemblyman Eric Peterson at The Witte Company
Assemblyman David Ribel at Zodiac Aero Evacuation Systems
Assemblyman Gary Schaer visiting Avanti Linens
Assemblyman Gary Schaer at City Theatrical speaking to employees
Congressman Lance and Senator Bucco at Odyssey
Senator Eustace at Sandvik Coromant
Assemblywoman Gabriela Mosquera at Lamatek
Senator Bucco at Tri-Power Designs
Senator Kyrillos at Aurora Multimedia Corp
Assemblyman Tim Eustace visits Westlock Controls
Senator Turner visits Palfinger American Roll-Off
Senator Turner at PD-LD
Senator Turner visits Power Magnetics
Assemblywoman Marlene Caride tours EarthColor facility


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