text:
European Award for
Innovation and
Creativity in Lifelong
Learning 2009
Tools: Tools
for CLIL teachers
Language teaching
Language teaching
materials & teacher
Tools for creating
online materials
Language teaching
materials & teacher
Let the pools website
serve as a portal to
your results. From the
website you also have
access to copyleft
language teaching
materials and methods
manuals that you may
include in your own
pools partnership
recommends you to become
a member of / join:
You may now become a
member of the POOLS
team; like all materials
in the POOLS website the
membership is free.
Enrol as a POOLS member
e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com
Register for the project newsletter here.
TOOLS has developed a free
online service / tool,
which enables
language teachers from
LdV, Erasmus, and
Grundtvig sectors to
create multimedia
webpages for language
learning with all words
automatically linked to
online dictionaries in
+100 languages.
The advantage of a fully
online tool is that it
works from all
existing and future
operating systems it
also enables
creation of language
learning multimedia
webpages from and to
mobile devices like
tablets (e.g. iPads).
The resulting webpages support all
characters (UTF8) so it
can be usefor languages like
Lithuanian and Arabic.
The project teams
have demonstrated the
system strengths and
made exemplary language
learning materials for
Arabic, Danish, Gaelic
(Irish), Gaelic
(Scottish), Lithuanian,
Portuguese, and Spanish
Go to the TOOLS main
TOOLS is a social media friendly project, you are warmly invited to make suggestions and give feedback: Facebook , Linkedin , Twitter , and our
Students: Find language videos at your level on various topics, with transcripts where every word is linked to a choice of online dictionaries in your own language
Teachers: Create, store and organise multimedia wordlinked learning units for use by students
Link (mostly) any webpage automatically word-by-word to online dictionaries in a choice of languages
Find and switch easily between online dictionaries in many languages
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The Clil4U project will assist implementation of CLIL in primary schools and in vocational colleges through:
- 6 promotional videos showing CLIL used in classes
- 48 ready to use CLIL scenarios complete with instructions and materials
- Online collection of materials and commented links to resources
- Advisory materials to be used for including parents of primary school children in the CLIL process.
To prepare content and language teachers for implementation of CLIL the project will:
- Develop a teacher course on application of CLIL
- Develop online language courses for content teachers (to ensure the needed language level)
- Offer the content teachers a placement test and certification of language level according to CEF.
Go to the Clil4U website
Clil4U is a social media friendly project, you are warmly invited to make suggestions and give feedback:
Facebook and Twitter
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Methods is a TOI (transfer of innovation) project based on the original BP-BLTM and later the Pools-m projects, which selected five communicative language teaching methods suitable for VET teachers and their students, especially those preparing for or in the midst of work placement in other countries. For each method the project developed sets of materials and instructions for exemplary lessons.
To help the training of the less experienced teachers the use of the methods and materials are demonstrated through instructional video recordings of exemplary lessons.
The main outputs to be translated, adapted and transferred during the Methods project period are:
-A video library with subtitled commented recordings of the five methods used in real classes.
-A manual with five method descriptions, instructions and ready to copy and use materials
-An International Work Placement Guide
-This website.
The project will transfer the BP-BLTM and pools-m results toFrance (Guadeloupe), Malta, and Slovenia by adapting and translating the guide, the methods manuals, the ready to use in classes materials, and the subtitles for the project videos. Back to Top
Go to the Methods website
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Pools-3 (Producing Open Online Learning Systems -3) has been approved for an EU grant in the period 2013-2015. POOLS-3 is coordinated by Sabhal Mòr Ostaig (SMO), the teams come from Belgium, Catalunya, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Éire, and Scotland. EfVET has been chosen as dissemination partner with access to thousands of vocational colleges across Europe.
Pools-3 is a Transfer of Innovation (TOI) project which will exploit the results from the "original" pools project and pools-2, which developed materials for language teaching and learning as well as teacher training courses.
Pools-3 will transfer the core outputs of pools and pools-2 to three new languages: Catalan, Czech, and Irish
The Pools-3 project target group is teachers of the LWUTL (Less Widely Used and Taught Languages) in technical colleges. Due to the limited range of ICT materials for these languages the teachers often have to develop materials themselves if they want to exploit the many advantages of eLearning.
The final products are:
1. Pools of online Copyleft symbol copyleft materials to be used during in-service teacher training courses and in teaching.
2. Flexible competence based language teacher course modules on ICT methodologies and development of ICT based teaching resources.
3. A DVD with step by step instructions and examples on how to create multimedia online material.
4. A course book (downloadable .pdf file) with description of language teaching eLearning materials and methodologies
Go to the Pools-3 website
Pools-t (Producing
Open Online
System - Tools)
was approved for an EU
grant in the period
2008-2010. POOLS-T was
coordinated by "Syddansk
Erhvervsskole Odense-Vejle",
the development
teams came from Denmark,
Greece, the Netherlands, Scotland,
and Switzerland.
The project developed tools for the CLIL
(Content and Language
Integrated Learning)
as well as a
guide on how to apply
the tools in a CLIL
The tools convert
texts and web pages to
html pages where all
words are hyperlinked to
free online dictionaries
covering many
combinations of European
languages. The
application has
support for audio, video
and graphics to enrich /
support the text
Target groups:
The project results and
outputs are used by
individual language
learners, subject
teachers using CLIL, and
language teachers
preparing online
teaching materials.
Go to the pools-t
main results and
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Pools-2 (Producing Open Online Learning Systems - 2) was approved for an EU grant in the period
2009-2011. POOLS-2 was
coordinated by Confederación Española
de Centros de Enseñanza
the teams came from
Cyprus, Denmark,
Malta, Portugal,
Scotland, and Spain. EfVET was a
dissemination partner
with access to thousands
of vocational colleges
across Europe.
Pools-2 was a Transfer of
Innovation (TOI) project
which exploited the
results from the "original" pools
project, which
developed materials for
language teaching and
learning as well as
teacher training
courses. Pools-2
transferred the core
outputs of pools to
three new languages:
Greek, Maltese, and
The POOLS-2 project target
group is teachers of
the LWUTL (Less Widely
Used and Taught
Languages) in technical
colleges. Due to the
limited range of ICT
materials for these
languages the teachers
often have to develop
materials themselves if
they want to exploit the
many advantages of
The final
products are:
1. Pools of online copyleft materials to be
used during in-service
teacher training courses
and in teaching.
2. Flexible competence
based language teacher
course modules on ICT
methodologies and
development of ICT based
teaching resources.
3. A DVD with step by
step instructions and
examples on how to
create multimedia online
4. A course book (downloadable
.pdf file) with
description of language
teaching eLearning
materials and
Read more about the
original pools project -
aims, objectives, and
The project brochure is
available in English, Greek, Danish, Portuguese, Maltese, French, and Spanish
Join the pools-2
facebook group
Pools-2 has a dedicated
webpage with the core
outcomes of the project.
Visit the page here: http://www.languages.dk/pools-2/
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(Pools of language
teaching methods) was an
EU supported two years
project, which started on
December 1st 2009. The
project transferred the result of a
previous project BP-BLTM
which portrayed five
communicative language
teaching methods in
manuals and with
instruction videos, for
each method there are
ready to use materials
in Basque, Danish,
Dutch, English, German,
Romania, and Spanish.
translated and adapted
the existing materials
into Italian,
Lithuanian, and
Portuguese as well as
prepare new materials
for the methods
pools-m home page is
or you can just click on
"Teaching Methods" from
the main navigation
panel to the right.
Visit the
pools-m blog and
Join the pools-m
facebook group
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Register for the project newsletter here
Go to the project newsletters
Clilstore and Multidict installation maintenance (multidict.net): Vodafone UK - Technology Operations Planned Maintenance Notice: Clilstore and Multidict will be offline on the first Sunday in December as the Internet link to SMO is likely to be down all day (07:00 = 19:00) on Sunday 4th December.
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Clil4U is still making an impact, the project was mentioned by Jane Delaney (British Council) during her first talk in this academic year:
The SDE-Team has been invited to present the Clil4U results and run a course on CLIL at Aalborg Handelsskole as part of a conference for commercial colleges across Denmark. The workshop will take place on November 1st 2016.
Safety4El: Different regulations for electricians' safety training/tests present barriers to mobility, the Safety4El (Improved Safety for Electricians) project will seek to remove such barriers by developing eLearning materials (versions for online and face to face courses) to support the teaching of safety in relation to working with live electrical installations, repairs etc.
The course modules will be prepared so they may be used as part of CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning), the CLIL scaffolding will mainly be based on online units with all words linked to dictionaries in 118 languages, this will help prepare craftsmen and apprentices for mobility.
The project started its EC co-funded period on September 1st, but a prototype of the OER (Open Educational Resource) has already been placed online: http://www.safety4el.net/moodle/ The OER is free to use and it is suitable for language teaching as well as for teaching about safety.
Clil4U: The number of downloads of the CLIL Guidebook is increasing. This month we can also see the Greek version being downloaded an average of 56 timer per day (we can only see the top 30 downloads). Since Frebruary 2015 the total registered download of the CLIL Guide has passed 250,000. Download the CLIL Guidebook
The Clil4U teams have prepared the public part of the Final Report, which summarises the project period and outcomes. Download it from here
The Clil4U project's EC co-funded period has finished. The last days of the project were used for checking links in the many scenarios. If you in future find some links missing then please mail firstname.lastname@example.com with information on where the problem is, we continue the work in an informal group of "grassroot" teachers.
The project newsletter issue 50 July to September can be downloaded here.
A new project aiming at improving safety for electricians titled "Safety4El" has been approved. The project is scheduled to start in September 2016 and run for 36 months. The project, which is not as such a language project, will exploit features from the TOOLS and Clil4U projects, so whenever possible the outputs will be suitable for CLIL
The CLIL Guidebook was updated in June 2016 in all the language versions and in both formats. Please mail firstname.lastname@example.com if you find links that do not work or have edit suggestions. Go to the Guidebook.
The Clil4U teams have worked through all the CLIL scenarios and most of them have been updated with new and working links. The CLIL Guidebook has also been updated so all links are valid and it now contains links to the six videos demonstrating use of the scenarios in primary schools and vocational colleges. The English and Italian versions are now ready for download (the others will be ready by end of June): http://www.languages.dk/clil4u/index.html#Guidebook
We have got word that work is sheduled on 25 June, i.e. a week on Saturday, to replace a microwave dish transmitting the SMO Internet connection. Sometime between 09:00 and 20:00 UK time, our connection will go down for five hours or less.
Just passing on word in case anyone is planning a weekend workshop relying on Clilstore (http://multidict.net/clilstore/)
It is a pleasure to read the pools project statistics:
Clil4U: We have received the final QM report from the external evaluators, we find it a pleasant read. Download the report here.
Download the POOLS newsletter issue 49 from here.
Meet POOLS members at Eurocall 2016 in Limassol, Cyprus in August. The POOLS proposal entitled "Enhanced TOOLS for CLIL and Clil4U" has been assessed by the Programme Committee and has been accepted for inclusion in the EUROCALL2016 programme as a 30-minute Reflective Practice paper.
EUROCALL is pleased to offer a full scholarship to a EUROCALL member for the online MA in Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) offered by the Cyprus University of Technology (CUT) Language Centre, for the academic year 2016-2017. For further information please download the document here.
The CLIL Guidebook has been downloaded 159,853 times (79,493 times in Italian,
54,214 times in English,
26,146 times in Spanish, the downloads per month for the Danish, Greek, and Maltese versions are not included as only downloads above 2,000 are registered in the website files). Go to the CLIL Guidebooks.
A kindred project (VOCAL-Medical project (Vocationally Oriented Culture and Language – Medical) is presenting its activities, read more here
One of the POOLS friends Tadha Vanita has prepared a sequence of Hot Potatoes exercises. Try them here
The ELT Council in Malta has approved the Clil4U course offered by ETI-Malta as valid CPD which can count towards CPD required for the renewal of EFL warrants. EFL teachers need at least 32 hours of CPD every 4 years. Download the course description.
TOOLS has been selected as one of the European Commission's success stories!
Clilstore users, please note that on Saturday 20 February, SMO and Clilstore will be cut off from the Internet , potentially from 9am to 5pm UTC
Participate in the January 20th Clil4U and TOOLS webinar, which is part of TESOL's Electronic Village Online (EVO)2016: http://www.wiziq.com/online-class/3457442-20th-jan-webinar-with-kent-andersen
Slides used during the webinar as part of TESOL's Electronic Village Online (EVO)2016:
Call for Participation in TESOL's Electronic Village Online (EVO)2016:
For five weeks in January and February, TESOL experts and participants from around the world engage in collaborative online discussions or hands-on virtual workshops of professional and scholarly benefit. These sessions bring together participants for a longer period of time than is permitted by land-based professional development conventions and allow a fuller development of ideas than is otherwise possible.
Sessions are free and open to anyone around the globe. It is not necessary to be a TESOL member or attend the TESOL Convention in order to participate. All you need is access to the Internet. Choose a session from this year's offerings, listed below. And please inform your colleagues about this unparalleled professional development opportunity! The EVO Coordination Team. More information: http://evosessions.pbworks.com/w/page/10708567/FrontPage
On January 20th at 14.30 CET Kent Andersen will present Clil4U and TOOLS during an EVO webinar: More information: http://evosessions.pbworks.com/w/page/103563959/2016_Techno-CLIL_for_EVO2016
Clil4U: We can again offer a free long distance course on CLIL. The course will start on January 4th. Estimated effort: One week. Learn more and register from http://www.languages.dk/clil4u/index.html#MOOC
Do not miss the exciting opportunity to present a paper, a symposium, an EU-funded project, a workshop, or a poster
at the EuroCALL 2016 (http://eurocall2016.org/). The 23rd EUROCALL Conference will be held at the Cyprus University of Cyprus in Lemesos (Limassol) Cyprus from 24th to 27th August 2016.
EUROCALL conferences are hosted under the auspices of the EUROCALL Association. They bring together educators, researchers,
PhD students, administrators, designers of software and language learning systems, policy makers and other professionals involved in Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) around the globe.
The pools newsletter issue 48 is now being mailed to registered users. Download the newsletter here
Kindred Projects: The Babelium project is reaching the end og the EC co-funded period. Read their latest newsletter or download a description of the results.
Clil4U: The CLIL promotional and demonstration videos are now online with subtitles in Danish, English, Greek, Italian, Maltese, and Spanish. Go to the videos
Methods: Download the final external evaluation
Clil4U: The teams are busy running courses across Europe and a long distance course is offered starting January:
Estimated effort: One week,
Start of course: January 4th 2016,
Course duration: Six weeks
You can now download Newsletter issue 47 Oct-Dec 2015
From one of our kindred projects we have received information about the Erasmus+ Project (HELP) read a document with a brief introduction and the flyer of the project.
Also you can find information on the website of the project: http://help-theproject.eu/
Clil4U: The teams met in Madrid to work through the deliveries and ensure quality control. Read the agenda here: AgendaMadrid2015v3 and the Minutes here
Pools-3: Read the minutes from the final workshop
Clil4U: The database with CLIL materials now has more than 1.100 entries. Visit the database: http://languages.dk/databank/materialslist.php
Clil4U: We are now offering a free long distance learning course for both content and language teachers starting September 1st. Learn more about the course and register from: http://www.languages.dk/clil4u/index.html#MOOC
We are pleased to present to you the full conference programme for EUROCALL 2015 including a Clil4U presentation: Go to the programme.
Pools-3: The partners have uploaded a massive number of online units in Catalan, Czech, and Irish. Go to the overview: http://languages.dk/pools-3/index.html#Languageteachingmaterials
Methods: The teams are in Guadeloupe for the final workshop and conference. Read the agenda.
POOLS: Newsletter issue 46 (July-September) can now be downloaded here.
Clil4U: Read about the free project courses on page 9 in the EfVET Newsletter.
Meet members from Clil4U and the other Pools teams during the EfVET 2015 conference:
Kindred projects: One of the project friends, Babelium has delivered impressive results:
Clil4U: The project will be showcased during the Eurocall 2015 conference (http://www.eurocall2015.it/) as a 45-minute Reflective practice paper titled "CALL meets CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning)" and at the EfVET 2015 conference (http://efvet-conference.eu/index_photo.html) with roundtable presentations.
Methods: The project teams are meeting in Malta in May. Read the agenda
Pools-3: The teams had a productive meeting and workshop in Barcelona: Download the 4th workshop minutes
Clil4U: The Progress Report has been graded an overall 9 (10 is max). Read the EACEA feedback to the report
Pools-3: The project teams will meet in Barcelona for the 4th project workshop. Download the agenda.
Clil4U: The project has developed a CLIL course for content and language teachers. The course has three parts: A pre-course with a combination of language teaching and CLIL content, a CLIL course based on blended learning starting with a face to face course and followed by online assignments, and a post course, which deals with language certification according to the CEF.
Pools-3: Pools-3 teacher training courses are now accredited by Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport in the Czech Republic. Download the document
Kindred projects: Lingu@network is a new project to involve users in Lingu@netWorldwide
Lingu@net is a website to promote language learning, a multilingual virtual resource centre developed over more than 10 years by language, information and technical experts worldwide. It offers 5,000 online resources in 100s of languages and is searchable in over 30 languages. Download brochure
Methods: The project has finalised the last manual titled the "Student Work Placement Guide". Download the English version of the manual.
Clil4U: The CLIL Guidebook is now available in the six project languages in eBook format (.epub) for reading on tablets like iPads or smartphones. Download the CLIL Guidebook eBook versions in:
Pools-3 and TOOLS: The online services Clilstore and Wordlink are now again up and running after they by Google was wrongly listed as phishing sites. We have asked for a review, but are still waiting for the ban to be lifted.
Clil4U: The project has translated the CLIL Guidebook into Danish, English, Greek, Italian, Maltese, and Spanish. Download the .pdf version of the CLIL Guidebook in
Pools: You can meet members from three of the pools projects(Clil4U, Methods, and Pools-3) at the Eurocall 2015 conference in Padova. Register here.
Kindred Projects: The Open University, UK, partner of the ExplOERer project (supporting OER re-use in learning ecosystems) runs a survey on the ways in which educators learn about use and re-use of online resources. This study will support the creation of support materials and on-line courses to help educators create, share, discover and re-use open educational resources (OER) https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/9TWC8GVThe survey is led by Professor Allison Littlejohn, Institute of Educational Technology, Open University, UK.
The project has finished the planned CLIL Guidebook, which is a handbook for subject and language teachers, especially those who are new to CLIL and who need some inspirational materials with ideas and advice on best ways to prepare colleagues, pupils/students, and parents/employers for the implementation. Download the CLIL Guidebook in
Kindred Projects: The LangOER network is a three-year European Commission funded project concerning Open Educational Resources (OER) in less used European languages running between 2014-2016. In the first half-year of the project, the current situation of OER was mapped, investigating 23 European languages. The result was a state-of-the-art report illustrating a scarce picture but also pointing at topics that are important to move the field forward, such as policies, language barriers, and multilingualism. Although there are a few national initiatives, there are still challenging issues to deal with related to linguistic concern for future development. Visit the project website: http://langoer.eun.org/
The first newsletter in 2015 can now be downloaded: Newsletter issue 44 Jan-Mar 2015
Clil4U: The project has prepared an online language course for content teachers, who want to learn about CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning). The course will serve as both a language course and as preparation for a CLIL teacher course. Try the course here: https://sites.google.com/site/clil4uprecourse/
Tools: After the project funded period the teams have continued working with improvements. Partners from two of the teams Dr Caoimhín Ó Dónaill, Ollscoil Uladh and
Gordon Wells, Sabhal Mòr Ostaig have published a paper that can now be downloaded here: "CALL Support in Context: Contrasting Approaches in Irish and Scottish Gaelic"
Clil4U: The Italian team has prepared two new scenarios for children in primary schools: Nutrients and Dinosaurs
Clil4U: During the work with the CLIL guidebook the teams have prepared a number of short videos with interviews of parents, teachers, and students as well as videos showing CLIL in classes. Watch the videos from: http://www.languages.dk/clil4u/index.html#videos
Pools-3: The teams have started running pilot courses. To verify the suitability of the developed material we use a set of online evaluation forms:
You can now register for the 2015 Eurocal conference in Padova, 26-29 August 2015, where you can meet members from the POOLS project teams (Clil4U, Methods, and Pools-3). Go to the conference website: http://www.eurocall2015.it/
Clil4U: The teams have prepared five new scenarios (all with with ready to use materials) with integration of teaching ICT and language. The scenarios are meant for vocational colleges, but can also be used in general education:
Methods: The graphics designer, Lone Olstrup, has finalized the Methods Course Guide in four languages. Download the guides
Pools-3: The Irish partner has finished 20 videos in Irish with summaries, transcriptions, and translations into English. Visit the Irish video page.
Kindred Projects: Join a new KA1 Erasmus+ proposal
Methods: SŠGT is preparing the new and updated International Work Placement Guide. Download a summary of suggested changes.
Pools-3: The Czech partner team has finished 20 videos that will be used for the upcoming pilot courses. Go to the Czech videos.
Tools: Clilstore improvements have been implemented. These include Creative Commons licence options, suggested by one of our end users (Thanks very much for this suggestion!), and also a new facility to offer and accept a transfer of ownership of a unitfrom one user to another.I put a note about the new facilities in the log file at: http://www.smo.uhi.ac.uk/~caoimhin/obair/tools/log.html#bonn. Go to Clilstore to experience the improvements.
Clil4U: The project teams met in Malta for the 2nd project workshop, read the meeting minutes.
Clil4U: The teams have started compiling a collection of freely available online materials to be used for CLIL. The bank will have materials in all the project languages to serve CLIL based provision in the LWUTL. Materials in English may be dominant in existing websites, but the teams will strive to ensure that the bank will be sufficient for implementation of CLIL in languages that are not mainstream. Go to the materials databank.
Kindred Projects: The VideoforALL project see: http://www.languages.dk/cooperations.html#VideoforALL has produced a PowerPoint guide with tips and recommendations for producing videos for language learning/teaching. Download the presentation
Methods: The project teams are finalizing the adapted manuals for the five language teaching methods download the manuals. The new manuals will be available in French, English, Maltese, and Slovenian
Projects cooperating / clustering with the pools projects: The EU funded project Video for ALL is almost ready for your help. We need language educators to help with their ideas and the testing of the 'Video in language learning, best practices'. Join us as an Associate Partner by completing our sign up form at https://app.box.com/s/x6w83aua351vtioxgkkr
The Video for ALL project will bring together all current methodologies, ideas and innovative practices to teach and learn languages using digital video.
Pools-3 and Tools: NEW additon to Clilstore functions prepared by the Pools-3 teams: You can now upload files like Hot Potatoes exercises or Word documents directly into Clilstore. Read how to do it in this guide: Download How to Upload and Link to Files
TOOLS: We are preparing a guide on how to upload files into Clilstore so these can be used as additional exercises or students assignments. It is now possible to upload a series of exercises prepared in Hot Potatoes. Please return to this page soon to read the guide (it is now being proof read)
Pools-3: The teams met in Brno and produced a number of online units in Clilstore using the new Clilstore facility where one can upload exercises:
Learn Irish through a sequence of video with text linked word by word to +100 languages and language exercises lige fill-in the bland, mixed words, crossword puzzles, and more: http://multidict.net/cs/2248
Learn Catalan through a sequence of video with text linked word by word to +100 languages and language exercises lige fill-in the bland, mixed words, crossword puzzles, and more: http://multidict.net/cs/2247
Learn Ccech through a sequence of video with text linked word by word to +100 languages and language exercises lige fill-in the bland, mixed words, crossword puzzles, and more: http://multidict.net/cs/2246
Tools: The project teams are still at work supported by ideas from our end users (teachers and students). Most development right now is dealing with dictionaries, lemmatization and especially how to better serve the Arabic language. Read more about Tools News here.
Pools-3: The project teams will meet in Brno in the 2nd week of September. After almost a full project year the teams are now preparing for running teacher courses in the Czech Republic, Northern Ireland, and Catalonea. Read the workshop agenda.
Clil4U: The teams are in the process of writing a CLIL guide which will promote CLIL. Read the outline here.
Clil4U: Two of the Clil4U teachers from Kroggaardskolen (Lise Klems Knattrup and Rikke Lohmann Vestergaard) were invited to write an article on CLIL in Denmark, the article will be published in the next issue of "Liv i Skolen" which will deal exclusively with CLIL in Denmark: http://www.viauc.dk/hoejskoler/vok/liv-i-skolen/Sider/Liv-i-skolen.aspx.
Tools: The project was presented at the Eurocall 2014 conference in Groningen by Ana Gimeno, Caoimhín O Donaill, and Kent Andersen with a presentation "Supporting CLIL through Technology". Download the Powerpoint presentation here.
The text for publication in the Eurocall proceedings can be downloaded here
Tools, Pools-3, Methods, and Clil4U materials on display during Eurocall 2014 in Groningen
Tools: We have mailed the Final Report to the EACEA, download the "Public Part" here.
Tools: The project finished the EU co-funded period on June 30th, but the efforts and exploitation of the outcomes continue. We have also received the final external evaluation report from the subcontracted evaluator (Angelic Bucur). Download the report here.
Watch a Danish primary school class work with a CLIL scenario which was prepared by a Spanish Clil4U partner.
The Clil4U project will in August be presented by William William Wernay Lynge with a presentation/paper at the "Think CLIL Conference" in Venice: http://thinkclil2014.unive.it/en/index.php.
Clil4U: Three new scenarios have been put online with ready to use materials:
Pools-3: Watch two videos from the 2nd workshop where Gordon Wells presents: Creating Audio/Video source materials and Kent Andersen's demonstrates and talks about: Clilstore, Wordlink, Multidict, and Webquests: http://languages.dk/pools-3/index.html#Course_materials
Registration for EUROCALL2014 is open. Almost 200 papers from presenters all over the world have been accepted, so we are looking forward to offering you an attractive and varied programme in our lively university city of Groningen. Please register in time. You will find all the registration details, including accommodation, on: http://www.eurocall2014.nl/?page_id=103
Please note that early-bird rate ends on 31 May. If you are not a member of EUROCALL or one of the affiliated associations, allow for a few days for the registration to be completed.
Clil4U: We have uploaded a new scenario "Plants" for primary schools. The scenario will give the learners understanding of plants as living things. It will be an introduction to the parts of a plant and their functions: roots, leaf / leaves, stem and flower. Plants is suitable for learners from level A1: http://languages.dk/clil4u/scenarios/sc8/
Another scenario titled the Solar System targets pupils from level A1 with the aim to learn the names and some charasteristics of the planets that form the Solar System and to understand the Sun and the Earth as a part of the Solar System: http://languages.dk/clil4u/scenarios/sc9
Clil4U has finalized the "Digestive System" scenario, which is suitable for vocational students at level B1 http://languages.dk/clil4u/scenarios/sc7/
Clil4U has prepared a CLIL scenario titled "Food for Life", which is suitable for level A2 in primary schools: http://languages.dk/clil4u/scenarios/sc5/
Clil4U has prepared a CLIL scenario titled "Fruit & Vegetables", which is suitable for level A1 in primary schools: http://languages.dk/clil4u/scenarios/sc6/
Tools: The TOOLS partnership now offers free online courses on how to
-make multimedia rich webpage units with Clilstore where all words are linked to +100 languages and a plethora of online dictionaries
-make best use of Clilstore units in the class room including CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) pedagogy
The participants will be given tasks to submit to the TOOLS teachers, who will give advice and feedback directly through email.
The duration of the course will be one month through which the participants will have to put in the equivalent of two workdays.
The target groups are content and language teachers with an interest in CLIL. All languages are welcome, there will, however, be a dedicated group for teachers of Arabic and Lithuanian.
Deadline for enrolling in the courses is May 15th 2014.
To enrol in the courses email email@example.com with the text "TOOLS online courses" and a brief description of yourself (student/teacher of …)
Tools: Major improvements to the online service a.k.a. Clilstore. Clilstore now features a "click count" which shows how many words users have clicked on in each unit (starting from April 2014), just click on "Unit info".
Pools-3: During the 2nd project meeting the tems prepared three videos, two of these have been deployed in Clilstore so all words are linked to online dictionaries, try:
Tools: The Danish project team ran a Tools course in Aalborg at Aalborg Handelsskole (A commercial college). The feedback from the 19 participants gave us valuable insight that will be used for restructuring the upcoming teacher courses in Denmark (One more in Aalborg, Roskilde, Copenhagen, Odense, and a larger scale course in Fredericia targeting teachers from vocational colleges in Southern Denmark. The Aalborg course resulted in 16 Clilstore units, nine of them ready to use and seven marked as "under construction"
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BABELIUM, a project dealing with innovative ICT-based learning methodology and content for second-language oral expression is one of the Pools kindred projects, learn more from their website: http://www.babelium-project.eu
Erasmus+ courses in Malta: In February, Methods and CLIL4U were disseminated to teachers from the Netherlands, Romania, France, Poland, Sweden, Slovenia, Hungary, Latvia, the Czech Republic, Finland, and Denmark. Other teachers from different countries will also be visiting ETI over March and the Easter period.
ETI is currently receiving several enquiries about the new grant, and how teachers can apply for funding. For more information on Erasmus + Grants, go to: www.etimalta.com or contact: firstname.lastname@example.com
EU fundable summercourses for professionals in Language Education In collaboration with the Universities of Antwerp, Nice, Valencia and Catalunya (OU) TELLconsult is coordinating summercourses on effective Interactive Whiteboards use and WEB 2.0 technologies to develop oral proficiency and telecollaboration based on the results of related, 2-year EU projects
These courses may qualify for European Key Action 1 grant assistance under the new Erasmus+ funding framework, the more since they can support the realization of internationalization ambitions of educational organisations.
More information about the course descriptions, day-to-day programmes and international teams of animators involved is available at:
Tools: A smal Wordlink trick: If you want your students to work with e.g. cnn.com then try to add cnn.com to the following link "http://multidict.net/wordlink/?navsize=1&sl=en&url=", i.e. the resulting link will be:
Pools-3: The teams are preparing the 2nd workshop, which will take place in Barcelona. Read the agenda here.
Clil4U: The project has now set up accounts for Facebook and Twitter
One of the possible scenarios in Clil4U is "Marketing". We have therefore prepared an online sequence of units: http://multidict.net/cs/1603 The units are based onoutcomes from a project from 1999, which is still very much in use.
Clil4U: The project funded period has started. The teams are now preparing for the kick-off meeting in Madrid at the end of the month. The project consortium has secured Davis Marsh for external quality control. Read more about the project from www.languages.dk/clil4u
The project brochures can be downloaded in Danish, English, and Italian
Pools-3: The Catalan team has finished producing a DIY video for teachers with voice over in Catalan. The video demonstrates how to produce online materials where all words are linked to +100 languages. Watch the video
The Pools portfolio of projects now contains four ongoing projects. Read more in the January-March newsletter.
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Project ID: 2005ND76B
Title: Molecular Phylogeography of Etheostoma Nigrum in the Northern Midwest
Project Type: Research
Focus Categories: Conservation, Invasive Species, Ecology
Keywords: Phylogeography, microsatellites, population genetics, darters
Start Date: 03/01/2005
End Date: 02/28/2006
Federal Funds: $10,100
Non-Federal Matching Funds: $21,040
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The genetic population structure of native fishes can be used to inform management decisions. For instance, management agencies often transplant fish, but such actions could lead to out-breeding depression. The population structure of fish in the upper mid-west is poorly understood. We will examine genetic population structure of the johnny darter (Etheostoma nigrum) in the upper mid-west. We will conduct a genetic survey of populations in the upper Missouri, upper Red River and Upper Mississippi River systems as well as small associated lakes. At least 30 individuals will be collected from each of 10 populations in North Dakota and Minnesota to evaluate genetic population structure. We will use PCR based microsatellite loci designed for a close congener of E. nigrum for this work. This work should provide managers with baseline data on the spatial relationship of fish in the upper mid-west.


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Before the market opened the preliminary report on April Retail Sales showed a 0.1% increase. Small though it was (with a ±0.3% confidence), it beat the consensus. But futures were down and the S&P 500 opened lower anyway. In fact the index slid to its intraday low, off 0.43% about 25 minutes later. It then reversed directions to its intraday high, up a mere 0.14% during the lunch hour. The index then zigzagged to a flat finish. Technically, however, the final tally was a new all-time closing high by a teeny weeny 7 basis points. If you're partial to percents (I am), that's a gain of 0.004%.
Here is a 5-minute chart of the day.
As we've regularly seen in daily charts, the tiny new high was not accompanied by volume, which Monday was 17% below its 50-day moving average. The last four sessions, three out of four being all-time highs, have remained in a fairly narrow trading range.
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Here's What Hillary Should be Saying About "Change"
Watching the remaining crop of Democratic candidates for president--Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and John Edwards--you'd get the impression they're all Washington outsiders bringing a fresh, independent vision to a process that's dominated by lobbyists, special interests and the old guard. The most prominent self-professed agent of change is Barack Obama, who also just happens to be in a very exclusive group of 100 of the world's most powerful people: the U.S. Senate. Ditto for Hillary Clinton, who also belongs to another very powerful political machine called the Clintons. And John Edwards, a former member of this prestigious group of Washington insiders, is also an extremely wealthy trial lawyer. These three hardly can hardly portray themselves as agents of change with any real credibility.
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Since the skier doesn't accelerate in the y direction, :
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The Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) held its 115th Annual Meeting, an exciting two-day event that took place in the San Francisco Bay Area on Saturday and Sunday October 11th and 12th.
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Using W3C XML Schema
The W3C XML Schema Definition Language is an XML language for describing and constraining the content of XML documents. W3C XML Schema is a W3C Recommendation.
This article is an introduction to using W3C XML Schemas, and also includes a comprehensive reference to the Schema datatypes and structures.
(Editor's note: this tutorial has been updated since its first publication in 2000, to reflect the finalization of W3C XML Schema as a Recommendation.)
Introducing our First Schema
Let's start by having a look at this simple document which describes a book:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <book isbn="0836217462"> <title> Being a Dog Is a Full-Time Job </title> <author>Charles M. Schulz</author> <character> <name>Snoopy</name> <friend-of>Peppermint Patty</friend-of> <since>1950-10-04</since> <qualification> extroverted beagle </qualification> </character> <character> <name>Peppermint Patty</name> <since>1966-08-22</since> <qualification>bold, brash and tomboyish</qualification> </character> </book>
Get a copy of library1.xml for reference.
To write a schema for this document, we could simply follow its structure
and define each element as we find it. To start, we open a
xs:schema element:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <xs:schema xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"> .../... </xs:schema>
schema element opens our schema. It can also hold the
definition of the target namespace and several default options, of which we
will see some of them in the following sections.
To match the start tag for the
book element, we define an
element named
book. This element has attributes and non text
children, thus we consider it as a
complexType (since the other
simpleType is reserved for datatypes holding only values
and no element or attribute sub-nodes. The list of children of the book
element is described by a
sequence element:
<xs:element name="book"> <xs:complexType> <xs:sequence> .../... </xs:sequence> .../... </xs:complexType> </xs:element>
sequence is a "compositor" that defines an ordered sequence
of sub-elements. We will see the two other compositors,
choice and
all in the following sections.
Now we can define the title and author elements as simple types -- they don't
have attributes or non-text children and can be described directly within a
element element. The type (
xs:string) is prefixed by
the namespace prefix associated with XML Schema, indicating a predefined XML
Schema datatype:
<xs:element name="title" type="xs:string"/> <xs:element name="author" type="xs:string"/>
Now, we must deal with the
character element, a complex type.
Note how its cardinality is defined:
<xs:element name="character" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"> <xs:complexType> <xs:sequence> .../... </xs:sequence> </xs:complexType> </xs:element>
Unlike other schema definition languages, W3C XML Schema lets us define the
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minOccurs (the minimum number
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maxOccurs (the maximum number of occurrences).
maxOccurs is set to
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there can be as many occurences of the character element as the author wishes.
Both attributes have a default value of one.
We specify then the list of all its children in the same way:
<xs:element name="name" type="xs:string"/> <xs:element name="friend-of" type="xs:string" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/> <xs:element name="since" type="xs:date"/> <xs:element name="qualification" type="xs:string"/>
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And we terminate its description by closing the
complexType ,
element and
sequence elements.
We can now declare the attributes of the document elements, which must always come last. There appears to be no special reason for this, but the W3C XML Schema Working Group has considered that it was simpler to impose a relative order to the definitions of the list of elements and attributes within a complex type, and that it was more natural to define the attributes after the elements.
<xs:attribute name="isbn" type="xs:string"/>
And close all the remaining elements.
That's it! This first design, sometimes known as "Russian Doll Design" tightly follows the structure of our example document.
One of the key features of such a design is to define each element and attribute within its context and to allow multiple occurrences of a same element name to carry different definitions.
Complete listing of this first example:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <xs:schema xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"> <xs:element name="book"> <xs:complexType> <xs:sequence> <xs:element name="title" type="xs:string"/> <xs:element name="author" type="xs:string"/> <xs:element name="character" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"> <xs:complexType> <xs:sequence> <xs:element name="name" type="xs:string"/> <xs:element name="friend-of" type="xs:string" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/> <xs:element name="since" type="xs:date"/> <xs:element name="qualification" type="xs:string"/> </xs:sequence> </xs:complexType> </xs:element> </xs:sequence> <xs:attribute name="isbn" type="xs:string"/> </xs:complexType> </xs:element> </xs:schema>
Download this schema: library1.xsd
The next section explores how to subdivide schema designs to make them more readable and maintainable.


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We spent a lot of time talking about writing for others this week. On Monday, we talked about how writing for others can motivate you to finish your project. On Wednesday, we talked about how to get into the heads of others to create more interesting stories. Yesterday, we discussed a principle to always spend time writing for the people who are listening (even if it's just your mom).
Today, is Saturday, though, and on Saturdays, we break rules, we violate principles, and we do the opposite of something we talked about during the week.
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Crews repackage waste from a fiberglass-reinforced plywood box into a container that can be shipped to WIPP.
LOS ALAMOS, N.M. – The TRU Waste Program at Los Alamos National Laboratory is currently two months ahead of schedule processing and repackaging waste stored in large fiberglass-reinforced boxes (FRPs).
These large boxes pose particular repackaging challenges since they contain many different types of radioactively contaminated equipment and can be up to 30 feet long. The contents must be characterized, then repackaged to meet the criteria of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) or other permanent disposal facilities, before being shipped to those locations.
Program Manager Michael Romero credits the skill of workers, efficient processing and good planning for the work being so far ahead of schedule.
"Our production rate has been nearly double what we planned originally," Romero said. "By applying the lessons we've learned during the past few months of doing this work, our processing has become even more efficient."
Finishing the FRPs ahead of schedule will benefit the Lab's ability to ship waste from Area G to WIPP, Romero said, because both the Lab's waste processing facility and the crew will be available to process other types of waste containers sooner, which could help accelerate the overall schedule.
"Potentially, we could process waste this year that was originally scheduled to be processed in 2013," he said.
A framework agreement between DOE and the State of New Mexico calls for the Lab's TRU Waste Program to ship 3,706 cubic meters of combustible or dispersible transuranic waste to WIPP for permanent disposal by June 30, 2014.
The agreement was spurred by last year's Las Conchas Fire, which came within 3-1/2 miles of Area G, where transuranic waste is stored at the Lab. About 70 percent of the 3,706 cubic meters to be processed and shipped is stored in FRPs.
Transuranic (TRU) waste consists of protective clothing, tools, equipment, debris and other items contaminated with small amounts of radioactive elements, mainly plutonium. Because each of these manmade elements has an atomic number higher than uranium, it is called TRU for "beyond uranium" on the periodic table of elements.


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Sparkling vanilla Christmas cookies
Nutrition and extra info
- Freezable
Nutrition: per serving
- kcal233
- fat11g
- saturates7g
- carbs34g
- sugars19g
- fibre1g
- protein2g
- salt0.2g
- 140g icing sugar, sieved
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 egg yolk
- 250g butter, cut into small cubes
Butter is made when lactic-acid producing bacteria are added to cream and churned to make an…
- 375g plain flour, sieved
To decorate
- 200g icing sugar, sieved
- edible food colouring, optional
- edible gold and silver balls
- approx 2m thin ribbon cut into 10cm lengths
Tip the icing sugar, vanilla extract, egg yolk and butter into a mixing bowl, then stir together with a wooden spoon (or pulse in a food processor until well combined). Add the flour and mix to a firm dough. Shape the dough into two flat discs and wrap in clingfilm. Chill for 20-30 mins. Heat oven to 190C/fan 170C/gas 5 and line two baking sheets with non-stick baking paper.
Roll out the dough on a lightly floured surface to about the thickness of two £1 coins. Cut out Christmassy shapes (use a cutter if you like) and place on the baking sheets. Using the tip of a skewer, cut a small hole in the top of each cookie. Bake for 10-12 mins until lightly golden.
Lift the biscuits onto a wire rack to cool. Meanwhile, mix the icing sugar with a few drops of cold water to make a thick, but still runny icing. Colour with edible food colouring, if you like. Spread it over the cooled biscuits, decorate with edible balls and thread with ribbon when dry.
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Turned out well in the end, but as people have said below, I had to add some milk to the mixture to get it to stick together and also baked for much longer than stated as they were still raw inside after 12 minutes. This recipe makes LOADS of biscuits so next time I might half it. I made snowflakes with icing and silver balls and everyone who had one enjoyed!
As a biscuit novice, I was delighted that these biscuits were successful first time. And they taste lovely. I added a bit of mixed spice so I can call them Christmas biccies and give as gifts. Haven't added the icing sugar as they are sweet enough. Might drizzle a bit of dark choc on them as a finishing touch.
Great recipe. Never make biscuits so this was uncharted waters for me but they worked out very well and I made two batches for a children's Xmas party and the feedback was very good ! I would recommend using small cutters though as they big ones aren't as easy to work with and break easier. I bought a small star one and got loads from one batch and I also think as they are quite sweet a small one is enough, you can always have two anyway !
I tried this recipe to day as a trial run for Christmas, and they were a disaster! I followed the recipe exactly, the mix was very floury but I persevered and got a dough in the end.
After 12 minutes in the oven they still looked pale and soft so I kept them in for closer to 20, then I started to gently transfer them to a wire rack and they just crumbled! I put them back in the oven but it was no use, I ended up with a pile of cookie crumbs. A couple that were salvageable just disintegrated in your mouth. I threw the second batch away without cooking them. Such a waste of time and expense :(
5 Stars! I've just made these and am so delighted with the result that I had to rate them straight away! Very easy recipe and the finished biscuits, to me, are like a shortbread cross with a vanilla biscuit. Will be making these for all occasions! Am also going to try adding a touch of almond extract next time.
I followed the recipe to a t and the biscuits came out perfectly. Very similar to shortbread in taste with a slightly less crumbly consistency. I experimented with size and thickness and came out with at least 30 biscuits ranging from about 2 to 6 cm diameter in snowflake shapes, and found the larger, thicker biscuits to be the best. Very easy to make the dough, even by hand rather than mixer, I did not find it to be too flaky as some have commented. Delicious and indulgent, they'll be a perfect Christmas gift, iced and decorated, for my neighbours. I'm sure I'll be making some for myself in the near future!
Poolio, I think almond would be lovely. I was not keen on the vanilla personally. I used a magimix food processor and did not need to add any more milk or water. I rolled out the dough on a floured surface, kept the rolling pin floured and sprinkled flour over the top of the dough before and during rolling. This all meant that the dough did not stick to the surface or pin. Keep turning the dough around, and turn it over a couple of times during the rolling for good effects. Also, try dividing the dough in half or thirds to roll out, which makes it easier.
This time I am making bitesize cookies. I might pipe some for a nice shape. Half vanilla covered in white chocolate and half with mixed spice, orange oil and orange zest.
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rinchi – An R package to generate InChI's and InChI Keys
While trying to update rcdk on CRAN it was pointed out to me that usage of the library resulted in modifications to the users home directory. Specifically, this occurred when generating InChI's. The CDK makes use of jni-inchi, which in turn depends on JNATI which enables Java code to work with native libraries in a platform independent fashion. As part of this, it creates
$HOME/.jnati – which is a no-no for CRAN packages. To resolve this, the latest version of rcdklibs excludes the InChI module and its dependencies. Hopefully rcdk and rcdklibs will now pass CRAN QC.
To access InChI functionality in R you can use the rinchi package which is hosted on Github. Since it will modify the users home directory, it cannot be hosted on CRAN. However, it's easy enough to install
install_github("cdkr", "rajarshi", subdir="rinchi")
Importantly, if all you need is to go from SMILES to InChI, there is no need to install rcdk as well. So the following works
inchi <- get.inchi('CCC')
inchik <- get.inchi.key('CCC')
But if you do have a molecule object obtained via rcdk, you can also pass that in to get an InChI or InChI key representation.
New Version of rpubchem
Version 1.4.3 of rpubchem is out on CRAN. There's some minor code cleanups and also a new function called get.aid.by.cid which allows you to get assay ID's based on whether they contain a compound (either as an active, inactive, discrepant or just tested). This uses PUG to perform the query, so can be a bit slow (and occasionally just fail).
Updated Versions of R Packages
New versions of several of my R packages are now available on CRAN. rcdk 2.9.6 goes along with rcdklibs 1.2.3. The latter now uses the most recent cdk-1.2.x branch from Github. The former fixes a number of bugs relating to descriptor calculations, saving molecules in SD format and setting/getting properties on molecules. Unfortunately, because the 1.2.x branch does not have robust depiction code, the visualization methods in rcdk are currently disabled. The fingerprint package has also been updated and now includes a number of unit tests.
Cheminformatics in R – rcdk
Being an R aficionado, I do the bulk of my work in R and having grown up with Emacs I tend to dislike having to exit my environment to do "other" stuff. This was the motivation for integrating R and the CDK, so that I could access and manipulate chemical information from within my R session. This resulted in the rcdk package.
Since then there have been a lot of improvements in the CDK and so the latest version (2.9.2) of rcdk includes them and also provides access to much more of the CDK via R idioms. As the original J. Stat. Soft. paper is now pretty much deprecated, we have included a tutorial in the form of a vignette. The latest version of rcdk is now much smaller, since we have split out the actual CDK libraries into a separate package called rcdklibs. This allows us to release new versions of rcdk, without requiring a bulky download each time, since rcdklibs should change at a slower pace. I'd also like to thank Miguel Rojas Cherto for his contributions to this version of rcdk (as well as to rpubchem).
So what can you do with rcdk? Installation is pretty simple – just point your favorite interface to CRAN (or a mirror) and it should get it along with all the dependencies. After loading the library, you can read in any file format that the CDK supports or directly parse a SMILES
mols <- load.molecules("mymols.sdf")
mol.smiles <- parse.smiles("CC(=O)Cc1cc(Cl)ccc1")
which gives you a list of molecule objects. Note that these objects are actually pointers to Java objects and so you can't serialize these via R's save command. This is a pain and so I'm planning to implement some code generators that will create S4 classes directly from the Java class definitions.
Once you have a molecule object you can do a variety of things:
## view molecule depictions
## evaluate fingerprints
fps <- get.fingerprints(mols, type="maccs")
## generate descriptors
dnames <- get.desc.names("topological")
descs <- eval.desc(mols, dnames)
One problem with the depiction code is that it does not work well on OS X. This is due to interactions between rJava and the R event handling loop. As a result, depictions show up, but then you can't interact with the window. It does work fine on Linux and Windows. To easily handle fingerprints, I suggest the use of the fingerprint package. There are also methods to easily access atoms, bonds, molecule properties and so on.
Working With Fingerprints in R (can't beat C!)
Since I do a lot of cheminformatics work in R, I've created various functions and packages that make life easier for me as do my modeling and analysis. Most of them are for private consumption. However, I've released a few of them to CRAN since they seem to be generally useful.
One of them is the fingerprint package (version 2.9 was just uploaded to CRAN) , that is designed to read and manipulate fingerprint data generated from various cheminformatics toolkits or packages. Right now it supports output from the CDK, BCI and MOE. Fingerprints are represented using S4 classes. This allows me to override the R logical operators, so that one can do things like compute the logical OR of two fingerprints.


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b. GMI-1070
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b. acute pain
c. splenic sequestration
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b. vision changes
c. lower right-sided abdominal pain
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b. jogging
c. swimming
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a. pulmonary embolus.
b. rib infarction.
c. pneumonia.
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- Diptyque Geranium Rosa ($60 for 6.5 oz, 60 hour burn) is one of the Diptyque scents that is harder to find (for me at least), you can find it all Diptyque stores and more retailers are starting to carry it now. This one is a fresh light green floral with a hint of mint (however I think I'm the only one who detects any mint). Geranium Rosa is one of those scents that is extremely green and very floral, if you prefer scents that aren't quite as green, opt for Roses or Baies which are not quite as sharp. I like this one for the fresh green feel it creates.
- Byredo Fleur Fantôme ($80 for 10.5 oz, 60 hour burn) is one of the splurgiest candles I've ever purchased, it has a highly complex mix of florals. Top notes: Rhubarb, Lemon Petitgrain Leaves, Middle notes: Violet Leaves, Tulip Extract, Base notes: Galbanum, Heliotrope, Suede. It has a refreshing floral mix and for something so complex, it actually has a simple fresh feel. Fleur Fantome has to be one of the most beautiful smelling candle I've ever burned, it smells like a beautiful garden.
- Henri Bendel Beach ($15 for 4 oz travel size or $30 for 9.4 oz size) is another unique fresh scent (it's one of my most repurchased candles). Beach is like the ultimate vacation scent and the mix is pure genius. There is nothing like it and it smells exactly like a beach vacation. If you're new to Henri Bendel's line and are looking for a recommendation to try something new, Beach would be my top pick. Notes include warm white sand and earthly driftwood blend with the summery
smells of jasmine, white lotus, creamy coconut milk and sweet
rosewater. I find Henri Bendel to be among the best candles at a decent price
range. They have a diverse range of amazing scents that aren't too
overpowering but still have really good throw.
I'm enjoying Diptyque Cypress and Baies. I have indeed never seen Geranium Rosa; it sounds intriguing.
My long time favorite is Diptyque Patchouli. It is my ultimate relaxation candle and I usually stock up a few. I also like Figuire but as a candle the scent is very very fait so I enjoy it more as a hourglass diffuser.
Nice! I wasn't even aware Byredo had candles! Must check them out. I'm finishing up my Baies candle at the moment.
They all look good! I love candles, especially from Yankee 🙂
Ooh, thank you for showcasing Henri Bendel! I've never heard of their candles before, but really want to check out Beach now. 🙂
I splurged for my birthday and bought my first Cire Trudon candle in the scent Dada. It's magical. Anyone who enters the house compliments the aroma immediately. The Cire Trudon website describes it as:
"With a touch of tea and vetiver, dressed up with crumpled mint leaves and eucalyptus, this clever scent confuses the mind. Sharp and expansive, it opens us to the magnetic field of the Dada movement, to the artistic dizziness and surrealist experiences."
I highly recommend it.
have you sniffed the geranium rosa perfume?! Ahh. I like the sound of the other ones too!!