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Laura - 05/07/2001
Hey Baby is a great dance and fits really well with the song, with the optional arm movements finishes it off nicely.A little tricky 2 start with as it has part A and B but once uv'e mastered it, it is fab! go on, giv it a go!
Como Se Dice (I Love You)
margaret - 05/07/2001
This is a super dance. Although not too easy to learn, it is lovely to dance and goes well with the music. Best dance for a long while!
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The Girls (Maureen & Michelle) - 05/07/2001
Excellent dance. Challenging but very rewarding and the music's brilliant. Will be dancing this for a long time.
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Erwin McBeth - 04/07/2001
This is such a cool dance. I was just looking for a dance to the music and here was this dance. My class likes this dance but thought it was a bit tricky at first.
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Nicola Glenc - 04/07/2001
I love this dance to bits! "Get funky, get funky...here we go here we go" You guys are ace! I like doing this to Will Smiths 'freakin it' But it's true, you can do this dance to almost anything! (except waltz's of course!)
Como Se Dice (I Love You)
Nicola Glenc - 04/07/2001
I hate this dance!!!!!!!! It's soooooo boring! I dance it and everything, but I don't like it one bit.
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Nicola Glenc - 04/07/2001
I love this dance! It took a couple of go's to really get into it and enjoy it, but so did Hot love when that first came out and that is one of my all time favourites! I can see this dance going the same way! Well done Maggie!...The best choreographer in the UK!
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Loved this dance bit tricky at first but I soon got the hang of it can't wait to teach it at my classes
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Jay Jay - 02/07/2001
Nice easy dance which is a bit different from the "shuffle, shuffle rocks " which are overdone at the moment. Love the Ethan Allen track.
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Val and Howard - 02/07/2001
Nice funky little dance to great music. Easy to do but can have a lot of fun with it. Suits the music well but goes well to T.Rex "Jitter Bug Boogie" and others. Good one Mark and Jan
Do Ya
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Sorry!!! Meant to give 4 boots so will add another 3
Bad Attitude
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catchy,fun dance with plenty of room for attitude - looks like its going to be a hit !!
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- 0Nov 5, '11 by NJayne17I am an LPN who is working in a very nice, privately owned ALF.
It seems that for the past six months, the residents that are coming in to live there require alot of care than what ALF can provide.
These residents, most are in the later stages of Alzheimer's are in need of total care.
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- 1Nov 5, '11 by onthemarkIf it were up to me, the facility should either accept only patients requiring assistance (not total care), or get another nurse to work with you. It doesn't seem fair to either you or the patients the way it is now. Good luck!
- 1Nov 5, '11 by VivaLasViejas, ASN, RN GuideThirty residents? I'm sorry, but that would be HEAVEN.......I'm the lone RN for a building that currently houses almost 90. Of course, there are medication aides and resident assistants who do most of the care, and we use home-health agencies for all wound care and therapies. I'm a DNS rather than a floor nurse though, so that may account for the difference.......Either way, we both have a lot to do!
And yes, I think ALF's have become "Nursing Home Lite"---I've got sliding-scale insulin-dependent diabetics, dementia, complex medical, even some who are turn-Q-2hr. and dependent for all their ADLs. Just about the only residents we don't accept are wanderers, tube feeders, and people who need mechanical lifts or thickened liquids. Everything else is up for negotiation, although I occasionally do say "No #$%&!! way!" to some of the prospects that land on my desk courtesy of the marketing director.
I did work (briefly!) for one company where the sales rep---the SALES REP, for God's sake!!!---made all the admissions decisions without nursing input. I promptly resigned when she moved in a 250-lb. Parkinsons patient who was so rigid he required three staff AND a Hoyer lift to transfer him. She'd just move these folks in and say "Here, YOU figure out how to take care of them." This man also choked continuously on his own saliva, and aspirated twice during the 10 days he spent in the facility before he was finally sent to the hospital and then moved to an ICF where he belonged.
So if you're not working for a company like that, be very thankful! The one I work for now is pretty sensible, although they occasionally try to sneak a prospective resident past me who I know isn't suitable for assisted living. I'm pretty flexible, but I balk when I'm presented with something I know is going to progress fairly rapidly and require moving to a higher level of care within a few months, and if they are already having behavioral issues or swallowing problems, I prefer to pass.
- 1Nov 5, '11 by NoahscoopsRNI currently work at an "Assisted Living" facility and I use quotations for a reason..90 percent of our residents should be in nursing homes, period. We have a paraplegic, lots of Alzheimer's/wandering issues and numerous residents with hoyer & other mechanical lifts. I've been told, "the face of assisted living is changing" and that is why they are accepting who they are accepting. It is RIDICULOUS. We have about 80 residents by the way, I'd love to have just 30!
- 2Nov 6, '11 by happyinillinoisI worked in a "High-end" dementia unit and they were constantly acepting patients who didn't belong there. It was all aboiut the $$$$.
- 0Nov 6, '11 by DixieRedHeadHappening at my facility too. We have skilled and AL beds. (60/40) We have many residents who are total care, there is just nothing to skill them. This is the result of the changes over the years in skilled criteria and the demise of ICFs.
I have managed to increase the nursing assistants to the same ratio as on the skilled unit although they do not have a bath team and spread baths over two shifts. Our AL beds are always full because residents are moved to make way on skilled for rehabs.
- 0Nov 6, '11 by CaringLPNHello! Im in the same boat. I have worked on my AL's unit for 1.5 years. We are full! I have 28 residents and am the only nurse on the floor during my shift. I have two RCTs. We have at least three residents now that should be skilled care. They just take up too much time. I am only part time and work 5 hours! That's not enough time. Especially if you are super busy with new orders, falls, and charting. I left last night at 20 til 10 and my shift ends at 9. my boss is on our ass about staying too long, well I am sorry I am not gonna dump it all on the next shift if I can help it. We don't have a nurse overnight, so I have to get as much as I can done. I hope it gets under control soon.
- 2Nov 6, '11 by Hotnurse06I'm currently in the same situation. My facility is all completely private pay. Just about all of my patients are 2 to 3 person assists, or total dependents. We have thickened liquids, feeds, colostomies, wound care, and special diets. I feel that assisted living should be just that, assisted. When it gets to the point where the patient is non-weight bearing, then they are no longer appropriate for the facility. My facility doesn't even have stand-up or Hoyer lifts, so as you can imagine, we have a lot of turn-over with the staff. Who wants to injure their back?
- 0Nov 6, '11 by Vtachy1I know right?!?!? I saw this article and I said "you know, you can put lipstick on a pig and its still a pig" I see the trend too!
- 0Nov 6, '11 by DixieRedHeadQuote from Vtachy1I read this article. Sounds all nicey nicey, but what happens when the "one Registered Nurse for three homes" has a code in a building she is not present inn? This is a recipe for losing your license in a hurry.I know right?!?!? I saw this article and I said "you know, you can put lipstick on a pig and its still a pig" I see the trend too!


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Linus Torvalds recently sparked a flame war with his comments on the merits of a certain desktop environment [1]. Although this is just the opinion of one admittedly well-known user, it does put a whole new perspective on the recent overtures of friendship between the KDE and Gnome camps. This month we'll look at two young but ambitious Gnome projects. Tomboy The first of these programs is by Gnome developer Alex Graveley, who recently became a member of the OSDL [2] team dedicated to improving cooperation between Gnome and KDE. The application, titled Tomboy [3], provides a solution for a familiar problem: note management. Of course there are hundreds of programs that aim to help users tackle the chore of organizing notes on their desktops, but Tomboy adopts a new approach. Each "note" is a Wiki-style page. To create a new note, a user just types a heading and enters the body text in a simple text box. The tool supports simple formating with bold, italic, or strike-through typefaces.
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Driving Question: What's Authentic?
Jim Bellanca
"What do I do?" Jan, a first year teacher hired at a Charter High School to teach music in an arts program asked. "I have a PhD, perform professionally, have three classes, one of which is a self-selected AP music class, one is intro to Jazz and one is Intro to Music. Most of the kids have no idea why they are in my class. They know they are in an arts school. They don't do homework, the think they can just get up and walk around or shout across the room whenever they like and could care less about the music theory the curriculum says I am supposed to teach."
- So much for the first myth that charter kids are all work.
- So much for the second myth that the more a teacher knows subject matter, the more effective she will be.
- So much for the myth that a young teacher's enthusiasm is all that's needed.
- But not so much for the myth that adolescents are attracted mostly to social play in school. That's been 200% true since Socrates sat with his first student. True then; true now. That's the way the hormones flow.
So what does Jan do? Here are 8 things she and I concluded would help to answer her question. All our ideas come down to capitalizing on her students' musical interests and immersing them in authentic problem-based-learning.
- Stop with the school-dictated worksheets that ask students to fill in blanks with musical notations.
- Stop assigning homework for skills and theories that they didn't prove they understood while still in class.
- Stop worrying about entering a grade for each student each day as prescribed by the school. (Teachers are not book keepers!)
- Put the daily script handed out by the school into the trash can or at least the top drawer of your desk.
- Forget about preparing the AP students for a final exam when they can't yet read music. Start with the students' interests in music and the instruments they play.
- Build on their love of socializing.
- Flip their homework.
- Find authentic questions built around a musical problem to solve–one that interests them!
- Engage with relevant problem solving projects about music.
- Assess their progress as well as their results.
Now let's think about these ideas in more detail.
- Worksheets. Always a loser especially for students who appear to care less about the subject or the teacher's rich knowledge. Just filling in the blanks or circling best guesses will bore students who have no idea of what goes with what. Instead of worksheets, Jan will think of protocols for solving musical problems such as how to write a simple score similar to a favorite songster. Crawling always comes before walking and walking before running.
- Homework. Sure homework is important, as long as the kids know what they are doing, buy into the benefits and have the study skills. Instead of giving more practice worksheets on ideas the kids don't understand, make an assignment that has a high-interest ratio, a task that is relevant. Since this is music class, Jan plans to spend a class period or two brainstorming and discussing what singers, bands, sounds, genres they prefer to listen to. As homework, she will send them to U Tube to find videos of performances by their favorites and use a protocol that asks them to list the musician's name, the song, the genre and then what they like about what they are hearing. They bring this open worksheet to class and she will download the song/act for all to hear and see, and then conduct a round-robin sharing with each student contributing his or her favorite and leading the discussion about it with a visible plus/minus/questions chart.
- Grades. Having to take time to enter a grade for each assignment not done is a waste of any teacher's time as well as the students. Do they ever know it too! Jan can save the grades for something important that she can take time to read or hear and evaluate at the end of the week. (Note the "and hear". Since all her students play some instrument, why can't she connect what she has to teach in theory to their playing?) Grades certainly won't get kids who don't care about grades doing their homework. Jan can save the little time she and they have together by doing away with meaningless grades on meaningless paper and connect their talent to the assignments. She is not a bean counter.
- Scripts. If Jan is not a bean counter, she is also not a stage actress. Her PhD says she is smart enough to do more than read instructions from a piece of paper. She certainly knows her content. Her job is to motivate student interest in the music she loves. She will do that by finding out their personal musical interests and connecting those to her course work.
- AP Prep. Jan can threaten the kids all she wants. "You will not pass the course or the exam if you don't shape up." She can continue reading them scripted lectures about theory or classical composers. Or she can take them back to the basics, get them engaged in understanding music and take them as far as they can go. After finding out the music they like as her starter and engaging the classes in evaluating their own music ("How about a classroom top 10 chart!"), she can start playing and studying their songs before branching into other famous artists they might like. Then take their favorites to start the students on preparing simple scores (A requirement in the syllabus already) and perform on their own instruments. If she puts these ideas in to a kettle called "problems" and frames each task as a problem for the students to solve with her help, she will get a lot further than lecturing to them about what they should do.
- The Social Club. Since her students love to socialize as do most healthy teens, Jan feels she can take advantage and use this natural disposition to engage her students in music study. Here comes 21st Century collaboration. We agreed Jan would form groups of three around one of the class' favorite songs. (She would give everyone a chance to name a song, before an all class vote). After showing them how to score the song, she would ask each trio to write a similar notation. She would assign roles, set guidelines with a contract and call for self-assessment of how each team member helped the group. She would also ask each team to present (visually and/or orally) their results making sure that they have agreed only to make positive comments and discuss what they liked about each others' scores. If they scores turned out well, Jan agreed it would be fun for all to play or sing the scores. (Go back over this site's last three blogs for more hints on turning socializing into collaborating with formal methods such as roles).
- Flipping Out. Here we are back at the flipped classroom. After Jan gets the class working hard in class, she intends to start giving out-of-class music problems of high interest that she thinks most can do with confidence. If she follows the above points until they are all working well for her and the kids, she will concentrate on making the class period as packed with problem based learning as she can. Their engagement is her first goal. Once that happens, she can make it tougher for them to complete all their class works in class time. Now they will be more ready to want to finish that work because the next day they will be reporting to their classmates. They should be flipping out because they couldn't finish in class. There is no law against unfinished business becoming homework.
- Authentic Questions. From Jan's descriptions, it is obvious that there is lots of 21st Century communication and collaboration among her students. Her challenge is to transfer that energy into 21st Century learning with one strategy being adoption of an inquiry model of teaching that switches from her telling students about music to enabling them to ask questions which interest them. Lots of strategies exist for helping them ask the right questions including astart-up investigation about their favorite music and artists with the 5 Ws in a newspaper graphic organizer. The very definition of "authentic" in questioning centers on questions generated by students about their relevant interests. For most adolescents, their music is about as relevant as one could get.
- Inquiry. Any lesson can be cast as inquiry. It will take Jan a little longer to frame a strong driving question that is not answered just by the facts. She has noted that the number of kids who are always challenging her with "what if" questions. This she believes is her "in". Her own favorite fun musical activity is to mix music singers or composers works. "What if I wrote a song that mixed rock and jazz?" That type of question could be asked every day starting with the students debating what it would take or what might be the results. Rather than just talk about the problem of the day, she would then let them work out their solutions with their own compositions and grow to full scale projects.
- Assess. Jan now intends to build a grading system that will have the students earn points for answering questions, solving problems and performing. She thinks that if in a given month, they earn more points than the previous months, she will give bonuses. She Intends to try Mrs. Potter's three q uestions so they can self-assess (1f) what they think they did well in a task (2) how they could improve and (3) what help they need to get better. This will let her take time to work on their writing skills which appall her, but are not part of the music curriculum.
Now, dear reader, you have heard what Jan and I concocted. We talked about lots of other ideas, but about these she said "I can do that!" with confidence. She has made a written plan with dates and tasks spelled out. In a few months, I will get back to you with what happened. Did the best laid plans of mice, men and women go wrong? Or did Jan grab her students' attention, build on their authentic interests and lead them to love their music? Was she able to stop talking at the students and pose questions and problems that they had to answer. Authentic learning that comes from student problem solving is not easy to make happen. Jan is convinced she can do it. In the meantime, Jan would welcome your two cents on authentic problem solving as the key to getting here students learning and making music through her first school year.


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Over the course of his 40 years career in private equity, Alan has been instrumental in growing the venture capital field from a base of high net-worth individuals to its position today with broad institutional backing, as well as playing a key role in the essential legislative initiatives that have guided its evolution. He has helped build and foster the growth of numerous major global companies, including, among others, America Online, Office Depot, Cadence Systems, Cellular Communications, Inc., Apple Computer, FORE Systems, NTL, and Audible. He was also a founder and chairman of the board of New York magazine, which later acquired the Village Voice and New West magazine.
Alan is active in the New York community as a board member of both the New York Small Business Venture Fund and New Jobs for New York Association, and he currently serves on the Board of Trustees of Columbia University Graduate School of Business. His philanthropic activities also include service on the boards of TechnoServe, Trickle Up Program, National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE), and the Global Advisory Board of Endeavor, Inc. He is also a board member of the Millennium Challenge Corporation.
Alan holds a BS in finance from Ohio State University and an MBA from Columbia University Graduate School of Business. He lives in New York City with his wife Susan. He has three sons, Mark, Jon, and Jamie and five grandchildren, Lily, Nina, Jack, Chloe, and Riley.
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Minister Cannon to Participate in Friends of Democratic Pakistan Forum
(No. 331 - October 13, 2010 - 10:45 a.m. ET) The Honourable Lawrence Cannon, Minister of Foreign Affairs, today announced that he will participate in the ministerial meeting of the Friends of Democratic Pakistan on October 15, 2010, in Brussels.
"The Friends of Democratic Pakistan is an important forum in which to address the security and development challenges facing Pakistan. It provides an opportunity to discuss with the Government of Pakistan and other partners how best to support efforts to improve development and stability in Pakistan," said Minister Cannon. "In addition, the ministerial meeting represents an opportunity to discuss preliminary planning for rehabilitation and reconstruction in the wake of the floods."
Formed in 2008, the Friends of Democratic Pakistan comprises 26 member states and observing institutions which convene to coordinate high-level strategic support for Pakistan's long-term stability, and to express international solidarity with the people of Pakistan in building a stable, democratic and prosperous country.
On October 14 in Brussels, Minister Cannon will participate with the Honourable Peter MacKay, Minister of National Defence, in the NATO Foreign Affairs and Defence Ministerial Meetings.
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4 sem. hrs. Introduces students to hands-on experience with the design and creation of small abstract and representational sculpture. Explores a broad range of natural and manufactured materials (such as found and neglected objects, cardboard, wire, and plaster) to create mobiles, wall hangings, reliefs, and freestanding sculptures. Requires no previous studio experience. Lynch, Bresler, Staff.
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You will have heard the Fire Challenge Crew talk about the Fire Triangle when they visited your school - but what exactly is it?
What is fire?
Fire is a chemical reaction which needs three things to be present so it can happen:
If one of these is not present, the fire cannot start. If one of these is taken from a fire it will go out.
But how does this all work? Here comes the science bit - concentrate.
We all breathe Oxygen (O²) everyday - in fact, without it we would suffocate. But did you know that fire breathes Oxygen too? And, like us, without Oxygen a fire will also suffocate.
When Oxygen in the air combines with flammable vapours given off by Fuels they create a form of heat at a molecular level. Then, a source of ignition (a match or spark, say) can cause it to combust.
Without enough Oxygen, ignition cannot happen. In the opposite way, if there is too much Oxygen then the vapours won't be concentrated enough to ignite. The ratio of vapour to Oxygen is known as the 'explosive' or 'flammable' limit and is different for each gas or vapour.
Combustion occurs when flammable vapours mix with air (Oxygen) and are ignited by a spark or flame.
Solids give off flammable vapours by being heated. Certain solids such as paper or flour appear to ignite almost instantly. This is because they give off vapours and reach a flammable temperature almost immediately. In fact, fine dusts dispersed in the air can explode because they give off vapours and ignite so quickly it appear to happen instantly.
Other solids like timber take longer to ignite because they are more dense and so don't give off flammable vapours so easily.
Liquids are a bit different to solids. They are a lot more runny for a start! But, where solids need to be heated to give off flammable vapours, some liquids give off vapours even in cold weather.
The name for the temperature at which vapour from a liquid can be ignited is known as its 'flashpoint'. The flashpoint of petrol is 43°C below zero. Meaning that even on the coldest day you can possibly think of, petrol can still ignite very easily.
Thermometer showing 'flashpoints' of liquids.
Gases are already vapours and will ignite in a single stage.
So, in our fire triangle we've got Oxygen and Heat, but we also need something that will burn - this is our Fuel.
Fuels can take almost any form:
Solids like wood, fabric, rubber and plastic.
Liquids such as petrol, oil, cooking oil or even nail varnish remover.
Gases like propane, butane and 'natural' gas.
Different fuels burn at different rates and with different intensities. Some types of fuel, under certain conditions, can burn at over 1000°C! That's hot enough to melt Aluminium! The table below shows the temperatures that some types of fuels reach when they burn.
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About the Artwork
The artist Shaun Gladwell often portrays isolated figures, undertaking choreographed acts like skateboarding or breakdancing. Located within urban and natural symbolically significant sites, his work articulates a relationship between the performer's body and its immediate environment through slowed motion, often redefining the prescribed function of objects and spaces.
Storm Sequence is Gladwell's seminal work and depicts him skateboarding on the edge of a concrete drop at Sydney's Bondi Beach. Gladwell – a prolific and skilful free-style skateboarder – pirouettes and spins within a contained space. Incorporating an organic, liquid-like soundtrack by Sydney composer Kazumuchi Grime, the footage is slowed down and movement, which in real time would have a jerky rhythm, becomes graceful, emphasising the relationship between the skater and the environment. As a storm approaches on the horizon, Gladwell continues to skate as the sky turns black until eventually the rain becomes too heavy for him to continue.
Storm Sequence is a deceptively simple work – it depicts a solitary action in an unadorned space. The camera hardly moves and concentrates only on the artist's movements. The strange, poetic intervention of the natural world, combined with the well-known nature of the place where it is performed, creates a compelling and mesmeric work. The importance of Storm Sequence lies in the pivotal role it has played in the reception, exhibition and acceptance of moving image as an art form in this country. This work is an important cornerstone in the MCA's Collection.
Glenn Barkley (curator), Statement of significance, object file note, Museum of Contemporary Art, 2011
Shaun Gladwell
– About the artist
Shaun Gladwell is an Australian-born, London-based artist. He completed Associate Research at Goldsmiths College, London in 2001 and has since undertaken numerous international residencies and commissions. He has exhibited prodigiously in Europe, North and South America, and in the Asia Pacific Region.
In 2011, Gladwell had major survey exhibitions at the SCHUNCK* museum in Heerlen, The Netherlands and at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Connecticut, USA as part of the Matrix Exhibition Series. His exhibition, Shaun Gladwell: Stereo Sequences, at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image in Melbourne was the first in a series of major commissions by the institution. He also held a solo exhibition, Riding with Death: Redux at Anna Schwartz Gallery, Sydney. His work featured in significant group exhibitions, including: The Power of Doubt, curated by Hou Hanru, Museo Colecciones ICO, Madrid, 2011; Paradise Lost, Istanbul Museum of Art, 2011; Southern Panoramas, 17th International Contemporary Art Festival SESC_Videobrasil, Sao Paolo, Brazil, 2011; and the John Kaldor Family Collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2011.
Shaun Gladwell represented Australia at the 53rd Venice Biennale and travelled to Afghanistan as the official Australian War Artist in 2009. His work is held in significant public and private collections nationally and internationally, including: Wadsworth Atheneum, USA; Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo; the Progressive Art Collection, USA; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney.
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Church and Society Committee Objectives
1. Encourage each adult and youth Sunday School class to have at least one study session on the Social Principles of the United Methodist Church. The goal is to increase awareness by the congregation of the positions of the UMC on issues of economic and social justice. Members of the C&S Committee are available to serve as resources for such study sessions and have purchased copies of the Social Principles for distribution. Target date: throughout the year with completion by the end of December of each year.
2. Send representatives to the Greening Your Congregation workshop at Luther Memorial Lutheran Church and the Bishop's Convocation on Caring for Creation, both scheduled for February.
3. Implement energy efficiency measures at fun143. These measures will help reduce the energy needs of fun143, saving money on the utility bills, and reducing its impact on God's Creation. Offer assistance in implementing similar measures and weatherization assistance to fun143 families. The Creation Care Team has already replaced the furnace filters and some light bulbs at fun143. The CC Team has also started contacting other churches and community groups to help support this effort. Target date: late winter/early spring.
4. Increase awareness of and participation by the congregation in the Caring for Creation conference at Lake Junaluska. Encourage members of the committee and others to attend (usually in April).
5. Coordinate with the Worship Committee and Church Council to arrange a celebration of the UMC Festival of God's Creation. Target date: April Sunday near Earth Day.
6. Host a series of films and lectures focused on Creation Care issues. Target date: spring-fall.
7. Continue the vegetable garden at fun143. Purchase child-size tools and gloves for the children to use when helping with the garden. Target date: spring-fall growing season.
8. Encourage an appreciation for God's Creation by coordinating a church outing at Camp Alta Mons. Arrange workshops and hands-on activities for children and adults. Target date: spring or early summer.
9. Coordinate a work day to assist the church in accomplishing the recommendations in the energy audit report. Target date: spring or fall, as can be arranged.
10. Prepare and disseminate information to the congregation on the problem of Car Title Lending. Target date: spring or early summer.
11. Seek opportunities to increase awareness of hunger issues within the congregation and prepare educational materials. Increase participation and funds raised for the Crop Hunger Walk. Target date: Fall.


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Want to know how to choose a pair of binoculars? Ford a stream? Pack a backpack? Check out the American Hiking Society's Hiking Resources Center for all sorts of hiking info, tips, and how-to's. Download, print, or share articles on social media with other hikers, Scout troops, hiking clubs, park visitor centers, etc. For more information, visit www.americanhiking.org/HikingResources/Main.
Design Guide Gets An Upgrade
Lewisburg, Penn.—Playworld Systems, a manufacturer of playground and fitness equipment, has updated its Inclusive Play Design Guide to include feedback from the community as well as industry influencers. The only guide of its kind, the nearly 70-page document provides detailed insight into creating playgrounds that enable children and adults of all abilities to play side-by-side. Download a free copy at www.Playworldsystems.com/inclusiveplay.
NSPF Apps Available
Colorado Springs, Colo.–Two service apps from the National Swimming Pool Foundation are available for download—the Pool Chemical Dosing App and the Saturation Index App.
- The Chemical Dosing App ($3.99) makes chemical dosing easier, faster, more accurate and safer for pool technicians, facility managers, water treatment managers and home pool and spa owners.
- The Saturation Index App ($2.99) provides all the tools needed to achieve properly balanced water. It incorporates the five balance factors—pH, total alkalinity, calcium hardness, temperature, and total dissolved solids.
To purchase these apps, visit iTunes or the Google Play Store and search for National Swimming Pool Foundation, NSPF or the App name.
Second Edition Of Turf Manual Debuts
Guelph, ON – The Sports Turf Association has published the second edition of its Athletic Field Construction Manual, a staple reference for those in the sports turf industry. The manual, written by Dr. R.W. Sheard in conjunction with an editorial committee of professionals, brings uniformity to the construction of grass athletic fields. The opening pages have been restructured to improve readability. Classifications based on the root zone material for categories three and four have been more adequately defined, as have the tolerances for grade control and depth of the stone layer and root zone material. For more information, visit www.sportsturfassociation.com.
STC Creates Funding Strategies Toolkit
Atlanta, Ga.—Recognizing that raising funds for synthetic turf fields has become more challenging in light of the economic conditions of the past few years, the Synthetic Turf Council has created a new Funding Strategies Toolkit for prospective buyers. Content includes educational materials, fundraising ideas, tips on gaining community support and overall recommendations for bringing synthetic turf to one's school and community. The packet is available as a free download at www.syntheticturfcouncil.org.
Field Notes
The Brouwer Company is celebrating its 40th anniversary. The company is known for manufacturing its landmark sod harvester that cuts sod, transfers it onto a conveyor, rolls it and puts the rolls on a pallet—all in one operation
Barbara Zakrzewski retired after more than 33 years in the parks and recreation profession. She most recently held the position of recreation supervisor for the New Britain Parks and Recreation Department in Connecticut.
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Document Type Master's Dissertation Author Sedibe, Mabatho email@example.com URN etd-11172006-144639 Document Title A comparative study of the variables contributing towards the establishment of a learning culture in schools Degree PhD (Curriculum and Instructional Design and Development) Department Curriculum Studies Supervisor
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Date 2006-09-07 Availability unrestricted AbstractThe establishment of a culture of teaching and learning in disadvantaged high schools is a challenging phenomenon since the inception of the new democratic South Africa. This study attempts to investigate variables contributing towards the establishment of a culture of teaching and learning in high schools. It is revealed through literature study that some investigations into this research topic has already been done in South Africa, but little if none is done in the disadvantaged high schools in the North-West Province, that is the reason why I was prompted to pursue this topic further.
The high failure rate in Grade 12 results according to my opinion is a serious concern and is on the lips of every teacher, learner, parent, politician and relevant stakeholders. This high failure rate is, according to the findings from the literature review, caused by factors such as underqualified and unqualified teachers, inadequate resources, over-crowded classrooms, poor infra-structures (buildings), poor socio economic background of learners' parents, inconducive environment at school and inadequate role played by teachers and learners in the teaching and learning situation. One expects that the majority of disadvantaged schools would have achieved above the 70% as the pass rate benchmark in the final Grade 12 examinations. However, in most schools in the disadvantaged area this is not the case.
Based on the above statement and the complexity of the study in consultation with variables employed, I opted to use both quantitative and qualitative research designs with an aim to attempt to obtain consistency, validity and reliability of the research results. The analyses of the results reveal that most disadvantaged schools still experience a poor culture of teaching and learning. This is evidenced by low Grade 12 pass rate results in some of the provinces, including North-West.
The research revealed that the variables impacting on the performance of learners at schools are subjected to a complexity of integrated activities many of which are difficult to isolate as predominantly responsible for poor performance as such. What does appear to be an issue of concern is the apparent lack of dedication one would expect from some teachers working with secondary school learners. One could conclude from the many responses that poor achievement is directly linked to poor teaching and that the latter would again be the result of poor qualifications, lack of resources, poor support systems and most important however, a lack of commitment and dedication needed to ensure a professional approach towards classroom management and teaching.
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Guest Rating:
Vacation rental apartment. Sleeps 6, 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms. No pets allowed.
806 Av. Niños Heroes
Puerto Morelos, Quintana Roo 77580
Spacious, airy, renovated 2 bedroom, 2 bath, apartment on 2nd floor with pool and many amenities. Sofa bed in the living room. Front balcony is shared with another apartment. Free wireless internet. Large, well equipped kitchen. Only 1 block to beach,
8 blocks to the town square. Located in a quiet part of town in a safe, peaceful neighborhood. Our English speaking manager can help you have the perfect vacation. We can help arrange individualized tours and excursions.
Stayed 8 days in
November, 2014
Overall satisfaction:
a guest from Inver Grove Heights, MN recommends this vacation rental
Abbey del Sol staff and our property owner Milko Righetto were wonderful. Although we didn't spend a lot of time with Milko, we can imagine him as a friend we'd have at home. He was very welcoming as was Nancy at Abbey del Sol. They were mini cultural
ambassadors. As for the property, it was excellent. The new pool at Casa Juanita was refreshing and cleaned everyday. We truly enjoyed our stay there. We only wish we could have stayed a bit longer to sink into the culture more.
Stayed 13 days in
March, 2014
Eleanor A from Winnipeg, MB recommends this vacation rental
We stayed for two weeks, in Feb. and March, 2014. The suite was very clean and had lovely Mexican touches in the décor. Milko and his staff were really helpful. I thought the kitchen could have had a few more basic things (more bowls, a lime press, another
cutting board, for example)but overall it was great. I especially loved the front porch which is shaded by a lovely coconut palm and catches the soft sea breezes. I would definitely stay here again.
Stayed 10 days in
January, 2014
Lynda S from Victoria, BC recommends this vacation rental
Our friends and I enjoyed our stay very much. The location was fabulous and the condo extremely comfortable and clean. Having ensuite bathrooms for each bedroom was a huge plus.
Stayed 16 days in
January, 2014
a guest from Montreal, QC recommends this vacation rental
Casa Juanita 3 is a cosy place to spend a few quiet weeks. Lots of space, air, daylight.
Stayed 5 days in
July, 2013
Elena S from Mexico recommends this vacation rental
Stayed 6 days in
June, 2013
James H from Dublin, Ireland recommends this vacation rental
relaxing and peaceful
Stayed 3 days in
May, 2013
David C from Douglas, UK recommends this vacation rental
Fantastic few days in a beautiful apartment. Tiff and Milko gave us a great welcome. We will be back!
Stayed 6 days in
April, 2013
Joe T from St. Charles, IL recommends this vacation rental
we couldn't have been happier with casa juanita 3, or the staff at the abbey. pilar in the front office was incredibly helpful, and never made us feel rushed with our inquiries no matter how busy she may have been. the grounds are kept up immaculately,
and when we had a minor snafu pop up with the water system, a maintenance person was on the job to repair it immediately. if you're looking for a quiet location about a 15 minute walk north of town and one block away from the nirvana of unico's beach bar,
it would be hard to beat the abbey.
Stayed 5 days in
March, 2013
a guest from Vernon, BC recommends this vacation rental
5of us requiring 4 beds but lots of room.Nicely decorated.close to ocean
Stayed 4 days in
July, 2012
Saul F from Azteca, Estado de Mexico recommends this vacation rental
We where a big family and there are activities for everybody, close and safety, the place is great.
Stayed 7 days in
May, 2012
Enyltho C from Sunnyvale, CA recommends this vacation rental
Excellent apartment, walking distance to everything - the beach, the many good restaurants, dive shops etc. Puerto Morelos is probably the best small town in the Yucatan Peninsula...
Stayed 7 days in
March, 2012
Sandy & Fred K from Lanesboro, MN recommends this vacation rental
We were immediately pleased and impressed with how clean and nicely decorated the unit was. We also loved the lay-out,plenty of space for living in comfort. Beds were comfy. Each bedroom had windows that allowed air across the beds. LOVED the shady porch
with ocean breezes - heavenly! We'll definitely be back!!
Stayed 9 days in
February, 2012
Bill and Eva W from Spencerville, ON recommends this vacation rental
My husband & I plus 3 teenagers stayed at Juanita #3 for 10 days. The appartment was perfect with lots of place for everyone. Beautifully decorated and equipped with all the cooking utensils you would ever need. A great plus was the use of the bikes on
site. Puerto Morales is a perfect place for a laid back holiday and has many excellent restaurants to choose from. Also within 30 miutes there are a number of amazing cenotes to explore ...our favorite was Verde Lucerno - an open-air cenote with a zip-line.
Stayed 7 days in
February, 2012
a guest from North Stonington, CT recommends this vacation rental
We spent eight wonderful days in Juanita #3. The short walk to the beach along with the accomadations made for a great vacation.
Special thanks to Tiff for a guided tour of the Mayan ruins and a shopping excursion all rolled into one!
Stayed 7 days in
January, 2012
a guest from Gibsonia, PA recommends this vacation rental
We had a very enjoyable stay in Casa Juanita #3 of Abbey del Sol, Jan 7-14 2012. So much so that we made a reservation to do it all again next year. CJ-3 is an upstairs 2-bedroom apartment with a comfortable living room, 2 comfortable queen beds, beautiful
(fully furnished) kitchen, dining room for 6, computer desk, side room with futon, and nice patio. The three baths (2 with showers) were more than we needed, but they could be a blessing for a large group. We enjoyed the creative, tastefully appointed surroundings.
Personal touches were everywhere.
Casa Juanita is about a 20-minute walk from town center...or 20 pesos by taxi. If you walk and carry some bread or tortillas, you can feed the tejones on the way (tejones is the local term for coati mundis). This was our first visit to Puerto Morelos, and we
found the town pleasant and to provide excellent value for the money.
The beach is quite nice and easily accessible from Abbey del Sol. It gets a bit busy on Sundays, but otherwise you will have more room than you know what to do with. There are lifeguards on duty at the stations a bit closer to town center. There is even some
snorkeling from the beach, once you find the right spots. Floating alongside a four-and-a-half foot barracuda (as I did) might be a bit unsettling to some, though. There are comfortable, portable beach chairs available from Abbey del Sol if you prefer to supervise
from shore.
Casa Juanita #3 is almost as nice as its on-line photos picture it. We were quite comfortable there, though one of our 3 air conditioners did not seem to be operating at full capacity. WiFi service was reasonably good (we sat right next to the router), with
download speeds better than 3 MB/sec...good enough for telephone conversations over MagicJack. We could not do that from Playa del Carmen last November or from Cancun last January.
My wife & I did think that bathrobes would be a nice addition.
Eeva & Ken H from Toronto, ON recommends this vacation rental
Our second time with Abbey del Sol and the verdict is again: PERFECT in every respect.
Both houses were comfortable and beautifully appointed and the staff could not have been more helpful. Eeva & Ken from Toronto, Ont.
Stayed 8 days in
December, 2011
Jo E from Moscow, ID recommends this vacation rental
From the airport pickup to helping with vacatiion details, Abby de Sol was there for us. We had a great time have no hesitation recommending this company.
Stayed 6 days in
December, 2011
Dale and Patty M from Willis, TX recommends this vacation rental
Everything about our stay at Casa Juanita of Abby del Sol was just wonderful! Before we ever made reservations, the owners personally called us after we emailed a question. They were friendly and helpful. Like we were working with family, rather than a
hard-nosed businessman. The location was an easy walk to the beach, longer walk to the main square for groceries, but the free bikes with baskets for groceries, to hop on made that a fun trip. We did walk it many times and felt like it was a relaxing good
stroll! We loved the tranquility of Puerto Morelos yet it had the right touristy flavor of cafes, street restaurants and shops all without people badgering you to buy. We always felt safe enough. It was am easy 30 minute bus trip to Cancun and or Playa del
Carmen to take in the sights and sounds there for diversion. Lots of things to see and do close around the area. Casa Juanita was perfect for our needs! Well maintained and spotless. The kitchen was well equipped for cooking. Jin, the manager was very friendly
with a smile all the time, and spoke good English. When we asked for an iron and he wasn't sure there was one to borrow, (who on vacation could possibly need an iron) though we agreed he would bring it tomorrow morning if he could find one, I thought to myself,
that will never happen. But sure enough he was at our door the next morning with iron and board in hand. And so it was with everything; they aimed to please. Our initial reservation was extended from 3 days to 8. We loved it, so choose to stay put rather than
move on! I have already recommended it to others! If we ever get to go back I'll rent from Abby del Sol!
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Goodbye old world, bonjour tristesseJuly 08,2013PARIS — Versailles lived again at haute couture week, as designers paraded their let-them-eat-cake creations, hand-stitched with gilt embroidery and trimmed with guiltless fur — frousfrous that no real women can wear and few can afford.
On Friday night, Christian Lacroix offered his homage to Elsa Schiaparelli, but even high fashion couldn't lift Paris from its low mood. "Liberté, égalité, morosité," Le Monde declared.
Joie de vivre has given way to gaze de navel. The French are so busy wallowing in their existential estrangement — a state of mind Camus described as "Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?" — that they don't even have the energy to be rude. And now that they're smoking electronic cigarettes, their ennui doesn't look as cool. It's not that they've lost faith in their own superiority. They've lost faith that the rest of the world sees it. The whole country has, as Catherine Deneuve says of her crazy blue moods, une araignée au plafond — a spider on the ceiling.
On Place Vendome, Christian Lacroix was dispatching models in black crepe chiffon peplum basques — whatever they are — while on Avenue Hoche, Lacroix's dentist was bemoaning the black crepe City of Lights. Holding a cigarette in a waiting room filled with Picasso-print pillows, Dr. Gérard Armandou told how his patients, always prone to pessimism, are even more filled with malheur now as they sit in his chair contemplating tous les problèmes, including "not going anymore on holiday to Egypt."
"Cocteau said the French are Italians in a bad mood, but now there is more morosity," he said. "We are connecting with nostalgia. What is nostalgia? Where the present doesn't agree with the hope that you got in the past."
He said there are widening chasms between sectors of French society — old and young, natives and immigrants, "smokers and nonsmokers, homosexuals and non-homosexuals."
"Enter conflict, where before there was none," he said. "The French people, maybe they think too much. The happy stupid don't see the problem." People with joie de vivre, after all, are simply not paying attention.
"It's not the end of the world," Armandou said with a Gallic shrug. "It's the end of one world."
The French have higher rates of taking antidepressants and committing suicide than most other Europeans. And while arguing about how to move forward, they feel trapped in the past, weighed down by high unemployment and low hopes, the onerous taxes that drove Gérard Depardieu to flee, conflicts with immigrants, political scandals, Hollande fatigue, Germany envy, economic stagnation, a hyperelitist education system, and cold, rainy weather that ruined the famous Paris spring. Instead of confronting the questions at hand — how to adjust to globalization and compete with the Chinese — the French are grieving their lost stature and glorious past, stretching back to the colonial empire, the Lumières, the revolution, Napoleon, even the Jazz Age writers and artists. They're stuck in a sentimental time warp as vivid as the one depicted in Woody Allen's "Midnight in Paris."
"In 1945, France was on the losers' side, but this reality has long been masked by the political speeches of Gen. de Gaulle and François Mitterrand: They both maintained, in their own way, the idea that it remained a great power promised to an exceptional destiny," the historian Christophe Prochasson told Le Monde. "After they left office, the French continued to live on that belief." Today, he added, this illusion is disappearing gradually and "France is a country in mourning." What is lacking now in France, he said, is the music of history, "the capacity to contemplate tomorrows that sing."
It doesn't help that as they come to grips with their dashed illusions of grandeur, the French find out that their own government and America's have them under the spyglass. "L'Oncle Sam se comporte très, très mal" (Uncle Sam behaves very, very badly), Le Monde scolded in a front-page editorial last Monday.
"I know we can be unbearable but not to the point where you are entitled to put mics at our place," said Philippe Manière, the managing partner of Footprint management consultants.
A 2011 BVA-Gallup poll conducted in 51 countries revealed that the French were even more pessimistic than Afghans and Iraqis. As the sociologist François Dubet told Le Monde, "If France doesn't get all the Olympic medals and all the Nobel Prizes, the French consider it hopeless."
Manière complains about how "disgusting" the Disneyfied Champs-Élysées has become, with hordes of teenage tourists snapping pictures of themselves in front of Ladurée, the macaroon shop, and pictures of the French without even a "s'il vous plait."
"The intersection of globalization and the French spirit is especially painful," he said. "We have this feeling that everything we were used to is disappearing and what we are offered is not as good." The French gave up the franc but don't want to give up anything else to mesh into a bland global society.
"The French are very conceptual, very cerebral," Manière said. "We need to have more than food and TV. In America, it is not treason of an ideal if you want to watch TV all day, whereas in France it is."
It is a measure of their desperation that the French have become fixated on American-style happiness studies. Claudia Senik, a professor at the Paris School of Economics and the Sorbonne, has become a media darling discussing her research on French malaise. Living in France, with its unyielding judgments about talent and its locked labor market, reduces the probability of being happy by 20 percent, she says.
Though everyone else flocks here to be dazzled, the French are less satisfied than the average European. She calls it "a cultural trait" linked not only to circumstance but to values, beliefs and behaviors passed from generation to generation, and exacerbated by madly competitive schools that are hard on self-esteem. In other words, unhappiness has been bred into the French bone. When French citizens emigrate, she said, they take their tristesse with them.
"Our happiness function is a little deficient," she said over espresso at Le Rostand across from the Jardin du Luxembourg. "It's really in the French genome."
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Setting Up An OpenVPN Server With Authentication Against OpenLDAP On Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
OpenVPN, or Open Virtual Private Network, is a tool for creating networking "tunnels" between and among groups of computers that are not on the same local network. This is useful if you have services on a local network and need to access them remotely but don't want these services to be publicly accessible. By integrating with OpenSSL, OpenVPN can encrypt all VPN traffic to provide a secure connection between machines.
The OpenLDAP backend of iRedmail allows you to integrate all kinds of applications and to realize centralized account management. This tutorial shows you how to integrate OpenVPN into the iredmail ldap backend on Ubuntu 10.04; passwords will be stored in ldap and you can change passwords through webmail.
This tutorial is based on Ubuntu 10.04, so I suggest you set up a minimal Ubuntu 10.04 system with SSH; make sure you install all updates. Install iredmail 0.6.1 and choose openldap as backend, as shown in this tutorial:
1 Install OpenVPN
Install OpenVPN and ldap support:
apt-get install openvpn openvpn-auth-ldap
Install dnsmasq:
To forward DNS traffic through the VPN you will need to install the dnsmasq package:
apt-get install dnsmasq
2 easy-rsa
The OpenVPN package provides a set of encryption-related tools called "easy-rsa". These scripts are located by default in the /usr/share/doc/openvpn/examples/easy-rsa/ directory. However, in order to function properly, these scripts should be located in the /etc/openvpn directory.
cp -R /usr/share/doc/openvpn/examples/easy-rsa/ /etc/openvpn
Configure Public Key Infrastructure Variables
Before we can generate the public key infrastructure for OpenVPN we must configure a few variables that the easy-rsa scripts will use to generate the scripts. These variables are set near the end of the /etc/openvpn/easy-rsa/2.0/vars file. Here is an example of the relevant values:
Edit /etc/openvpn/easy-rsa/2.0/vars according to your environment.
Initialize The Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)
Issue the following commands in sequence to internalize the certificate authority and the public key infrastructure:
cd /etc/openvpn/easy-rsa/2.0/
Generate Certificates
With the certificate authority generated you can generate the private key for the server. This script will also prompt you for additional information. By default, the Common Name for this key will be "server". You can change these values in cases where it makes sense to use alternate values. To accomplish this, issue the following command:
./pkitool --server server
Generate Diffie Hellman Parameters Link
The "Diffie Hellman Parameters" govern the method of key exchange and authentication used by the OpenVPN server. Issue the following command to generate these parameters:
Relocate Secure Keys
The keys and certificates for the server need to be relocated to the /etc/openvpn directory so the OpenVPN server process can access them. These files are:
cp keys/{ca.crt,ca.key,server.crt,server.key,dh1024.pem} /etc/openvpn/
These files don't need to leave your server. Maintaining integrity and control over these files is of the utmost importance to the integrity of your server. If you ever need to move or back up these keys, ensure that they're encrypted and secured.
3 Configure OpenVPN Support For LDAP Auth
Find cn=vmail password
The vmail password was randomly created during the iredmail installation. You can find the password in /etc/postfix/ldap_virtual_mailbox_domains.cf:
cat /etc/postfix/ldap_virtual_mailbox_domains.cf
Configure OpenVPN auth OpenLDAP
Issue the following two commands in sequence to create the /etc/openvpn/auth folder and copy the example files of OpenVPN auth LDAP to the /etc/openvpn/auth directory.
mkdir /etc/openvpn/auth
Now edit /etc/openvpn/auth/auth-ldap.conf:
<LDAP> # LDAP server URL URL ldap://localhost # Bind DN (If your LDAP server doesn't support anonymous binds) BindDN cn=vmail,dc=example,dc=com # Bind Password cn=vmail password Password GDp9BH32x3zWf8xOtr86IKLcV0ffVW # Network timeout (in seconds) Timeout 15 </LDAP> <Authorization> # Base DN BaseDN "o=domains,dc=example,dc=com" # User Search Filter SearchFilter "(&(objectClass=mailUser)(accountStatus=active)(enabledService=vpn))" # Require Group Membership RequireGroup false </Authorization>
4 Configuring OpenVPN
We'll now need to configure our server file. There is an example file in the /usr/share/doc/openvpn/examples/sample-config-files directory. Issue the following sequence of commands to retrieve the example configuration files and move them to the required directories:
cd /usr/share/doc/openvpn/examples/sample-config-files
Now edit /etc/openvpn/server.conf:
5 Enable VPN Service For Mail User
Use phpLDAPadmin or other tools to add LDAP values for existing mail users.
Log into phpLDAPadmin:
Find the existing mail user firstname.lastname@example.com:
Enable the VPN service for the user firstname.lastname@example.com:
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