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This section covers the following main topics:
A template is a set of formatting instructions you can associate with a source document. When you check a document into Content Server, you either associate it with a default conversion template, or you can create a new customized template.
The following template options are available:
HTML Conversion templates: These are the newest template types, which can be configured in a cross-platform editor.
Classic HTML Conversion templates: These were previously known as GUI templates. There is no direct migration path from the GUI templates to the HTML Conversion templates. If you select a Classic HTML Conversion template, you may also select a Classic HTML Conversion layout.
Script templates: These run with default settings, and can be edited with a text editor.
After you have chosen a template type to associate with your document, and named the template, you can edit the template. There are two template editing utilities for customizing the appearance of native documents converted to an HTML format. These template editors are used to control the look and feel of the web pages you create.
The HTML Conversion Editor is used to edit the HTML Conversion Templates.
The Classic HTML Conversion Editor is used to edit the Classic HTML Conversion Templates and Classic HTML Conversion Layouts.
To turn a source document into a web page, you can use the default settings to perform a conversion. Alternatively, you can create a template, associate it with the document, and then edit the template, using one of the two template editor options.
The following sections describe tasks common to both template editors:
Use the Dynamic Converter New HTML Conversion Template Form to create a new HTML Conversion Template. To access this page, click Create New Template on the Dynamic Converter Admin page (see "Dynamic Converter Admin Page").
Note:See the Content Server User Guide for more information about checking content into the Content Server.
To create a new HTML Conversion template, complete the following steps:
Open the Dynamic Converter Admin page (see "Dynamic Converter Admin Page").
Click Create New Template.
The New HTML Conversion Template form is displayed (see Figure 5-1, "New HTML Conversion Template Form").
Select the template format: HTML Conversion Template or Classic HTML Conversion Template.
Specify all other required metadata for the template.
Note:The template type is set by default to HTML Conversion Template. The Classic HTML Conversion Template is the former GUI Template.
When you have completed the form, click Check In to check the HTML Conversion template file into the Content Server.
After checking a new HTML Conversion template into the Content Server, you can edit it using the Template Editor (see "Editing an Existing HTML Conversion Template").
The HTML Conversion Template Editor requires Internet Explorer on a Windows XP or greater system. To edit an existing HTML Conversion Template or a Classic HTML Conversion template (that is, one that is already checked into the Content Server), complete the following steps:
Open the Dynamic Converter Admin page (see "Dynamic Converter Admin Page").
Click Edit Existing Template.
The Edit Templates Page is displayed (see "Edit Templates Page").
Select a template from the list of HTML Conversion templates in the Content Server.
If a known HTML Conversion template is not included in the list of available templates, then it was most likely not assigned the correct HTML Conversion Template type when it was checked into the Content Server (see "Checking In a Template"). You then need to open the content information page of the checked-in template and update its template type.
The Edit Template button does not become available until you specify the name of an existing template.
Click the Edit Template button. The HTML Conversion Template Editor is downloaded to your machine. With some browsers, such as Firefox, you may be prompted for how to handle the file dc_hcmapedit.jnlp. The correct way to open this file is with Java(TM) Web Start Launcher (default).
The Template Editor is started. If you have not run the editor before, it is installed first and you may need to confirm a few prompts.
You can now edit the HTML Conversion template in the Template Editor.
You can also edit an existing HTML Conversion template from the Template Selection Rules page (see "Template Selection Rules Page").
Note:The Template Editor comes with its own extensive help system, which can be called from the application's user interface.
This section provides a description of the HTML Conversion Template Editor. More detail can be found in the Dynamic Converter Template Editor Guide.
The HTML Conversion Editor allows you to set various options that affect the content and structure of the output. The HTML Conversion Editor is Java-based and can run in any browser instance where a JRE is present.
The following topics are covered in this section:
The top item in the left-hand navigation pane of the HTML Conversion Editor allows you to set up custom formatting for different file types. Each file type uses a layout, either the default layout, or one created under Output Page Layouts. The exported files will use the same template as the root conversion.
These file types have slightly different options for formatting:
Text/Word Processing - Allows you to set options for bullets, footnotes and endnotes, handling character styles and embedded graphics, and setting pagination.
Spreadsheets - Allows you to set up section formatting and labeling, display gridlines, and size embedded graphics.
Presentations - Allows you to set up section formatting and labeling, and size slides.
Images - Allows you to set up section formatting and labeling, and size images.
Archives - Allows you to display either Filenames (the names of files and folders in the archive will be output) or Decompressed files (the filenames will be output as links to the exported files). The exported files use the same template as the root conversion.
Database - Allows you to set up section formatting and labeling, and set the number of records per page.
This item allows you to add predefined and custom properties. You can assign default values, metatag names, and output format to these properties
By default, no document properties are defined. In order to include them in the output from the conversion, each desired document property must first be defined here. They must then be added to the output from the conversion by inserting them into page layouts defined in the Output Page Layouts item.The most common predefined properties are as follows:
Primary author
Several more less common predefined properties are also available.
For a custom property, you can create a descriptive name, and then assign default values, metatag names, and output formats.
Text elements allow the user to insert strings into the output. Each text element is defined as a name-value pair with an optional output format that will be used to format the text.
If an output format is not specified, the text will be inserted into the output as-is, with no additonal markup.
Navigation elements allow you to have navigation links generated in the output. There are three kinds of navigation elements:
Document Navigation - This allows you to link to various items in the source document based on the document's structure. A common example of how one would use this type of navigation is to create links to all the paragraphs marked with outline level 1 (such as "Heading 1" paragraphs) in the document. Before using this form of navigation, link mapping rules must first be added. Link mapping rules establish which parts of the input document will be used to create links.
Page Navigation - This provides a way to link to certain key pages in the output (first page, next page, etc). It also provides a way to link to external pages.
Section Navigation - This provides navigation for multi-section documents, such as spreadsheets and presentations.
Once you have added one of these, the left hand side of the editor displays expanded levels. You can specify information about the link, link set markup and formatting, and create link mapping rules. Link mapping rules allow you to match on a paragraph outline level or paragraph style name in order to generate navigation based on these two aspects of the source document. Once you define rules, click back on the Link Mapping Rules page to determine the sequence of the rules. The mapping rules are ordered so that the first rule that matches is the one that is applied.
There are six major categories that you can configure:
HTML Settings - Allows you to set the HTML DOCTYPE and Language string.
CSS options - Allows you to specify whether Cascading Style Sheet ("CSS") formatting will be used, and if so, the method of CSS presentation. By default, the CSS is embedded in the HTML of each output file. You may also choose to output CSS styles in a separate file. The external stylesheet option allows you to specify a stylesheet with user-generated styles that will be referenced by the conversion.
Character set - Allows you to specify which character set should be used in the output file. Source documents that contain characters from many character sets will look best only when this option is set to Unicode or UTF-8. You may also select a character to be used when a character cannot be found in the output character set (unmappable).
Graphics output - Allows you to specify the format of the graphics produced by the technology: GIF, JPG, PNG, or none. Other options in this section allow you to specify quality and sizing of the graphic output.
Link options - This option allows you to specify how the browser should select which frame or window in which to open source document links. This value is used for the target attribute of the links the technology generates. This target value will be applied to all such links encountered in the source document.
Output formatting - This option causes the technology to write new blank lines to the output strictly to make the generated HTML more readable and visually appealing. While setting this option will make it easier to read the generated markup in a text editor, it does not affect the browser's rendering of the document. You can also include information about source document style names and how they are mapped, and the user can see what format has been mapped to a particular paragraph or text sequence by mousing over it.
Markup items are HTML fragments that may be inserted directly into the output HTML as part of a page layout (see "Adding Output Page Layouts"). Each markup item is a name/value pair. The name is what will appear in the screens for editing page layouts. The value is a block of HTML that will be inserted into the output HTML wherever the markup item appears in a page layout.
Click the Add button and specify a Name to use for referencing this piece of markup. Then enter the HTML into the Markup text box.
Output text formats define text and formatting attributes of output document text. This allows you to standardize the look of the output despite differing formatting styles used by the various authors of the source documents. Text formats are only applied to text from word processing files. They cannot be used to change the formatting of text that is rendered as part of any graphics generated by the conversion. They are also not applied to text inside spreadsheets.
Click the Add button to display the Markup tab. Then specify a Name to use for referencing this format.
Under Tag name, enter the HTML paragraph level tag to put around paragraphs using this format. Note that any tag name may be entered here, whether it is legal or not. Only the tag name should be entered, not the surrounding angle brackets ("<" and ">"). The paragraph tag ("p") is the default.
Under Custom Attributes, you can enter attributes that apply to the tag whose name was specified by the Tag name option above. To set the name and value of the new attribute, just click on them in the Custom Attributes table.
Custom Markup allows you to enter HTML and/or regular text that will be inserted before and/or after every paragraph using this format.
Other formatting options on the Markup tab include inserting new lines into the HTML before the paragraph to make it easier to view the HTML of the output of the conversion (only written if the Format HTML source for readability option is set on the Output Pages screen); specifying that a new output page is created every time this format is applied to a paragraph; and whether or not the first instance of this format should start a new page (to help avoid empty or mostly empty pages at the beginning of the output).
On the Formatting tab, you can choose how to specify the formatting for paragraphs. If you click on the Use external CSS class option, a text field becomes available in which you must enter the name of a class from an external CSS file. The URL of the external CSS file is specified with the External user stylesheet option set on the Output Pages page.
If you do not specify an external stylesheet, you can choose to format the document by observing the original source document formatting or forcing other formatting options. Character, Paragraph and Border formatting for an array of options can be set to one of four values:
Always off - Forces the attribute to always be off when formatting the text.
Always on - Forces the attribute to always be on when formatting the text.
Inherit (default) - Takes the state of the attribute from the source document. In other words, if the source document had the text rendered with bold, then the technology will create bold text.
Do not specify - Leave the formatting unspecified.
Once you have defined text formats, you must define rules to map output text formats to output text.
Select Format Mapping Rules and click Add Format Mapping Rule.
In the Format drop-down box, select one of your defined text formats.
In the Match on drop down box, you may select one of the following paragraph formatting options for the rule to check:
Outline level - Match the outline level specified in the source document. Application-predefined "heading" styles typically have corresponding outline levels applied as part of the style definition.
Style name - Match the paragraph or character style name.
Is footnote - Match any footnote.
Is endnote - Match any endnote.
Is header - Match any document header text.
Is footer - Match any document footer text.
For the Paragraph outline level, if Match on above is set to Outline level, then this defines which outline level to match. This option cannot be set/is ignored for all other matching rules.
If Match on above is set to Style name, then this defines which source document paragraph or character style name to match. When matching on style names, you must supply a style name here, and no default value is provided. The name must exactly match the style name from the source document. Style name matching is done in a case-sensitive manner. This option cannot be set/is ignored for all other matching rules.
When you have finished defining rules, you can go back to the Format Mapping Rules page and click on Move Up or Move Down to arrange the sequence in which the rules are checked. The mapping rules should be ordered so that the first rule that matches is the one, and only one, that is applied.
The Output Page Layouts section allows you to define the content of a set of output files. Page layouts are used to organize how the various pieces of the output are arranged.
Click Add to add a new output page layout. On the next page, enter a name to use to refer to this layout (required). Once this has been done, click on the left side of the editor. The name you have just entered is displayed in the tree view. Click on this to expand the levels underneath.
Click the box in front of Include navigation layout if you want to generate a single file containing markup and links to the document content specified in the page layout. This allows the user to create a "table of contents" page. You will need to define a navigation element under the Navigation Layout.
The first item under the name of your output page layout is <title> Source. This lets you select where to get the value to use for the HTML <title> tag. Select Section Name, Text Element, Property, or Output Text Format (the last three must be previously defined). Click back on the <title> Source page to order the sequence of these sources.
The Navigation Layout triggers the creation of a separate file with nothing but links to the actual document content. In order to generate this, you must have previously defined either a Document Navigation, Page Navigation, or Section Navigation element under Generated Content (see "Adding Navigation Elements"). In the expanded level under Navigation Layout, you can further select Markup Items to be placed in the Head and/or Body of the navigation page.
The top level of the Page Layout section lets you set pagination options. The six options under Page Layout let you define how output documents are arranged. These six options are as follows:
Head - Items placed in the HTML <head> of each output file.
Page Top - Items to be placed at the top of each output page. For example, links to the first page, previous page and next page in the output.
Before Content - Items to be output before the document content.
Before Section - Items inserted before each section of a multi-section document. Note that this is not applicable to word-processing documents.
After Content - Items to be output after the document content.
Page Bottom - Items placed at the top of each output page; for example, a copyright notice.
After selecting items to display for these six options, click at the top level of each one to set the order in which they will appear .
The HTML Conversion Editor provides two options for previewing your content. They are both located in the Tools menu at the top of the interface.
View XML Structure - Click this option to display the XML structure viewer, which shows a text-based XML version of your chosen template options.
Set preview document - Click this option to enter the Content ID of the source document, and then click Preview Conversion. Your browser will open and display how the current template settings would affect the converted output.
The following topics are covered in this section:
"Migrating From Script Templates to Classic HTML Conversion Templates"
You can select Classic HTML Conversion Editor on the Edit Templates page. The first time the Edit Template button is clicked on the Edit Templates page (see "Edit Templates Page") or Template Selection Rules page (see "Template Selection Rules Page"), the Classic HTML Template Editor is downloaded onto the client machine. The Classic HTML Conversion Template Editor is an ActiveX control that must be run on Microsoft Windows with Internet Explorer 4.0 or higher present.
When you specify the name of a recognized Classic HTML Conversion template on the Edit Templates page or Template Selection Rules page, the Edit Template button is activated. Click this button to open the Template Editor. The Template Editor features a template preview area and four editing buttons: Element Setup, Formatting, Navigation, and Globals. Each button opens a property sheet that contains numerous settings for your template; all of which can be edited in a graphical user interface.
Each source document that you plan to convert to a web page using Dynamic Converter contains individual formatting attributes. You may have prepared styles in your source documents and assigned those styles to a specific typeface or font. Or, you may have manually formatted the content inside each source document (for example, headings in 14-point bold, sub-headings in 12-point italic, etc.). Classic HTML Conversion templates in Dynamic Converter can recognize both.
Classic HTML Conversion templates and the Template Editor can recognize styles as well as manually formatted documents. Once an element is assigned to these individual parts of your source document, you can then begin modifying the appearance and functionality of those elements using the Template Editor. When source documents are converted into web pages, it is the elements (stored in the template) that ultimately control how the web page will appear.
The Template Editor includes a very useful screentip Element, where you can place your cursor above a piece of text in the preview document and see the element that has been assigned to that text.
Many of the settings in the Template Editor apply to a single element. The more you define each element, the more control you have exert over the converted web page; all without ever touching the source document.
Note:The Template Editor comes with its own extensive help system, which can be called from the application's user interface.
Nearly every source document has a title, a heading, and body text. Each one will likely have a unique font size and weight. The Template Editor can be used to assign unique elements to each piece of text and save that information in the Classic HTML Conversion template.
Elements are created from ranks, styles, or patterns:
Rank: Used by the Template Editor to identify the structure of the content of a document based on the hierarchy of that content. Ranks can be used with patterns in Element Setup to prepare a template for editing.
Style: A set of formatting characteristics with an assigned name that defines how text appears in a document. Styles can be assembled together to make up a style sheet or Cascading Style Sheet (CSS).
Pattern: A set of text attributes in a source document that the Template Editor can identify and associate with an element. If a manually-formatted source document has headings in Arial, 18-point, bold, you can base a pattern on these attributes and associate this pattern with an element. You can then use this element to format the content associated with the pattern.
You will find that styles in your source documents are the most useful and manageable for conversion purposes. As such, you should first try to implement styles in your source documents and perhaps distribute a style sheet to your content contributors.
Dynamic Converter templates are designed to be interchangeable with other Content Server related products, such as Content Publisher. The features that apply to reference pages in a web publication do not apply and will not work in Dynamic Converter. (An example of this would be adding a table of contents for multiple source documents.)
Note:The Template Editor includes a separate and comprehensive online Help system (which is downloaded with the Template Editor). Each dialog box and property sheet in the Template Editor includes a Help button that describes that particular Element. To access these topics, click Help.
Dynamic Converter comes with a number of sample Classic HTML Conversion templates that you can check into Content Server and begin using with the Template Editor right away.
Note:This is the default template.
The script templates (see Chapter 7, "Script Templates") in earlier versions of Dynamic Converter were hand-coded text files that contain elements, macros, pragmas, indexes, and Idoc Script. A basic script template might look something like this:
<HTML> <BODY> <P>Here is the document you requested. {## INSERT ELEMENT=Property.Title} by {## INSERT ELEMENT=Property.Author} <P>Below is the document itself {## INSERT ELEMENT=Body} </BODY> </HTML>
Dynamic Converter now also supports XML-based Classic HTML Conversion templates designed for use with the GUI-driven Template Editor (see "Classic HTML Conversion Template Editor").
A basic Classic HTML Conversion template might look something like this in the Template Editor:
As a result of these differences, there is no automated upgrade process from the previous script templates to the current version Classic HTML Conversion templates. We can, however, recommend a migration path so that you can begin using the powerful Classic HTML Conversion templates in Dynamic Converter.
To update a script template from an earlier version of Dynamic Converter to the Classic HTML Conversion template format, complete the following steps:
Open the Dynamic Converter Admin page (see "Dynamic Converter Admin Page").
Click Template Selection Rules on the Dynamic Converter Admin page.
The Template Selection Rules page is displayed (see "Template Selection Rules Page").
Highlight the rule associated with your previous template (the script template) and then scroll down to the "Template and layout for selected rule" area.
Note:Rules that were created in an earlier version of Dynamic Converter (prior to version 6.1) will appear as a numbered rule in this version of Dynamic Converter. You can continue using that rule or delete it and re-create the rule in Dynamic Converter 11gR2 (you cannot rename a rule).
You may want to modify the criteria assigned to your previous rule using the additional metadata fields available in Dynamic Converter. See "Assigning Metadata Criteria to a Rule".
From the Available Templates menu, select the Classic HTML Conversion template that you created in Step 2 (templates are listed by content ID).
Click Edit Template to open the Classic HTML Conversion Template Editor.
In the Template Editor, click Change Preview to select a source document (by content ID) to preview your template with.
Re-create the settings from your previous script template using the Template Editor (see "Classic HTML Conversion Template Editor"). This will likely be the most time-consuming part of the migration process. You may want to open another web browser and preview a dynamically converted document that used the previous template, so that you can compare the templates as you work. Click OK to close the Template Editor when you are finished making changes.
Enter the content ID of your previous script template in the Layout field (so that you can turn a former script template into a layout template that is used with the Classic HTML Conversion template).
Click Update to associate your new Classic HTML Conversion template and layout template with your template selection rule.
Search for the layout template (former script template) in the Content Server, check it out, and open it in a text editor.
Make the following changes:
Insert the following token at the top of your file, before the first <HTML> tag:
Insert the following token between the HTML <HEAD> tags:
Insert the following token in the HTML <BODY> tag::
Replace your existing Insert Body Element tag with the following token (this token will replace most of your previous element settings):
Remove all references to elements, macros, pragmas, and indexes.
Leave Idoc Script tags in place (those that call outside files or services).
Save your new layout template and check it into the Content Server.
Note:Unlike script templates, layout templates in the Content Server do not require the HCST file extension.
To update an earlier Dynamic Converter script template (prior to version 6.0) to the current version Classic HTML Conversion template, you will need to recreate your original template settings in the Template Editor (see "Classic HTML Conversion Template Editor") and then turn your previous script template into a layout template. While all Idoc Script tags can remain, you will need to remove the syntax for elements, macros, pragmas, and indexes. These values are replaced with template tokens, in particular the CUSTOMLAYOUT(BODY) token, which represents nearly all of the settings made in the Template Editor.
The following example illustrates a very simple script template created in an earlier version of Dynamic Converter (prior to version 6.0) that is turned into a layout template in the current version. All element formatting, of course, must be recreated in the new Template Editor. (Bold text indicates a tag that is replaced.)
Example 5-1 Original Script Template (Example)
<html> <head> <title> {## insert element=property.title suppress=tags} </title> <$defaultPageTitle="Converted Content"$> <$include std_html_head_declarations$> </head> <body> <$include body_def$> <$include std_page_begin$> <$include std_header$> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tr><td> {## INSERT ELEMENT=Property.Title} </td></tr> <tr><td> {## INSERT ELEMENT=Body} </td></tr> /table> <$include std_page_end$> </body> </html>
Example 5-2 Migrated Layout Template (Example)
<!-- TRANSIT - CUSTOMLAYOUT(TOP) --> <html> <head> <!-- TRANSIT - CUSTOMLAYOUT(HEAD) --> <$defaultPageTitle="Converted Content"$> <$include std_html_head_declarations$> </head> <body %%TRANSIT-BODYATTRIBUTES%%> <$include body_def$> <$include std_page_begin$> <$include std_header$> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tr><td> <!-- TRANSIT - CUSTOMLAYOUT(BODY) --> </td></tr> </table> <$include std_page_end$> </body> </html>


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The day has finally arrived when an experimental infection can be tracked real-time over the entire course of the infection. Developing a natural history of a rapidly lethal infectious disease has been a challenge because individual variation clouds the progression and individuals can only be studied after death.
The traditional method to study these infections involves infecting many animals so that cohorts of animals can be sacrificed at set time points, have their organs harvested and bacterial load of the organ determined. Some of the flaws of this method are that the right organs may not be selected to survey and individual variation in infection progression means that wide variation may be found at the time points.
Tracking the progression of an infection with bioluminescence allows the infection to run its full course within each experimental animal, rather than taking cohorts at time points. Elizabeth Carniel's lab at the Institut Pasteur in Paris created bioluminescent Yersinia pestis, and after doing all the controls to ensure a consistent signal under all growth conditions, demonstrated that a live bubonic plague case can be tracked real-time until death .
In the first figure below the mouse was sacrificed before septicemia set in to correlate the external signals with specific organs. The bioluminescent Y. pestis was injected at the midline near the navel into the linea alba, a tendon-like covering of the abdominal muscles, to simulate a flea bite. Signals represent the injection site, lymph nodes, and the spleen and liver.
For 74% of the animals injected, the infection followed the same spread pattern. In all the animals the injection site was lit up from the first day. From there it spread to the inguinal lymph node and then surprisingly to the axillary lymph node. The signal then concentrated in the spleen and liver before it becomes completely systemic. Nham et al (2012) note that the signal completely covers the animal from the their ears to the tails. Confirmation of septicemia came from Y. pestis isolated from blood after the death of the animal. Death occurred on average by the sixth day, coming very quickly after septicemia.
Some of the mice provided clues on how the bioluminescence jumped from the inguinal node to a axillary node. As the linear glow below suggests, they found a lymph vessel that connects the inguinal node to the axillary node. It is consistent with Y. pestis spreading to linked lymph nodes. Confirmation of the lymph vessel linking the inguinal and axillary nodes is shown by bioluminescence and by dye injected dissected mouse in the figure below.
The signal next appears under the diaphragm in areas consistent with the liver and spleen (shown in the first figure). This would not necessarily be a direct line from the axillary lymph node to the spleen and liver but that the spleen and liver became infected at about the same time as the axillary node. Colonization of the liver and spleen are related to their blood clearing functions and are indications of a very early phase of septicemia too low to yield systemic bioluminescence. Death occurred on average by the sixth day, coming very quickly after septicemia. Nham et al (2012: 5) report that their "results revealed two important phenomena: (i) the variations in the kinetics of bacterial spread were essentially attributable to the length of time the signal remained limited to the injection site, and (ii) as soon as the signal reached lymph nodes, the disease progressed very rapidly, leading to the animal death within two days." Time between the injection site and first lymph node varied from one to seven days.
The 26% of mice that did not follow this pattern died rapidly with symptoms of a direct septicemic infection (skipping lymph node signals entirely). This suggests that they either hit a blood vessel at the injection site or may have penetrated the abdominal cavity with the injection.
This study is an important first step in developing the method. From here there are many studies that could be done including the effect of changing individual genes on virulence and progression.
Nham, T., Filali, S., Danne, C., Derbise, A., & Carniel, E. (2012). Imaging of Bubonic Plague Dynamics by In Vivo Tracking of Bioluminescent Yersinia pestis PLoS ONE, 7 (4) DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0034714

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Sunbeam® Steam Master® Iron with Retractable Cord, Black & Blue
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The easy-gliding Sunbeam® Steam Master® Iron always gets you looking your best in perfectly-pressed garments with extra power and extra steam output. At 1400 watts of power, plus Variable Steam Control, wrinkles disappear quickly and easily. The Shot of Steam button releases a quick burst of steam and relax wrinkles effortlessly.
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SCOR, the world's 4th largest reinsurer, operates on five continents and carries risks in more than 160 countries. As part of its commitment to sustainability, the Group holds Environmental Management System certifications for increasingly more of its office premises around the world.
As a reinsurer, SCOR protects people and assets, safeguarding the resilience of economies and societies impacted by many shocks to which they are increasingly exposed. Helping our fellow citizens to alleviate the negative impact of risks when they occur is embedded in our DNA.
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Sherlock "Homes"
This story appears in the August 2000 issue of Entrepreneur. Subscribe »
Imagine the shock of purchasing a home and, one month later, learning the roof is about to collapse. This happened to one of my associate's clients. The home was a foreclosure, and the client, eager to "steal" the property on what appeared to be favorable terms, signed a series of releases and closed without inspecting the attic. Had he done so, he would have noticed that almost all the timbers in the roof were rotten after years of slow leaks. Now our client has a home of lesser value and perhaps an unpromising legal action. If only he had been more careful.
Pillar to Post Inc., a franchisor of professional home-inspection services, targets home buyers who want to avoid just such situations. Franchisees, armed with a proprietary computer program, review a home and give the home buyer the information he or she needs to make an informed decision.
With about 186 locations in the United States and 89 in Canada, this system has blossomed since its inception in 1994, when Pillar to Post was started by chairperson Michael Brewer and president William Norris. The pair created a unique business model that emphasizes marketing to real estate and banking professionals rather than consumer-driven marketing. Using a contact-manager program, the franchisees develop rapports that lead to referrals.
Pillar to Post doesn't want absentee owners and finds the more successful franchisees have middle-management (rather than home-construction) backgrounds. A new franchisee's initial investment is anestimated $24,950 to $41,750-lower than some other home-inspection franchises, because you can run your office from home and don't have to use a vehicle with the company logo. The initial franchise fee varies with territory size; territories of 100,000 or more in population cost $23,900, while the smaller ones cost $13,900.
Operating a business like this has certain limitations. For instance, if you can't imagine yourself pawing about like a reptile through a crawl space, perhaps this isn't the franchise for you. And during the winter, lack of daylight and reduced real estate sales will probably cap the number of inspections you can perform.
According to Russell Abram, a franchisee in Pueblo, Colorado, inspection charges vary with the size of the home and its geographic location, but you could plan on an average cost of $200 to $250. So, hypothetically, a one-person operation could gross sales of $450 per day during the winter; in the summer, three inspections per day would be manageable. About 75 percent of sales take place between March and September, so forget about long summer vacations once you ink this deal. When your business matures, you might hire an employee to increase efficiency.
Finally, expect your franchise to be only as strong as your sales skills and customer-service attitude. If you have those attributes, you may just find yourself in the right place at the right time (unlike my associate's client), because the youth of this chain means national name recognition is still forthcoming.
Todd D. Maddocks is a franchise attorney and small-business consultant who is presently the CEO of The Worldlink Group LLC. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Making SVN trust a new root CA certificate
If you're using Subversion to connect to an HTTPS repository that's signed by a non-standard root certificate — such as a CACert.org certificate, for example — here's how to do it on Linux or OS X. (Windows users: sorry, you're out of luck. I haven't developed on Windows since 1999, and I don't ever want to go back. So the only way this post will ever be updated with Windows instructions is if someone else figures out how to do it and leaves a comment.)
- First, download the certificate you're interested in, e.g. "wget http://www.cacert.org/certs/class1.crt". I suggest storing it in /etc/ssl/certs with an appropriate name, such as "cacert-root-ca.crt". You'll need to have root privileges (use "sudo") to get write access to the /etc/ssl/certs directory.
- Run "openssl md5 /etc/ssl/certs/cacert-root-ca.crt" and/or "openssl sha1 /etc/ssl/certs/cacert-root-ca.crt" and compare the results against the certificate fingerprint given on the website. The website you're downloading this certificate from does give you its MD5 and/or SHA1 fingerprints, right? (If not, what the heck are you doing trusting a certificate you haven't verified?!?)
- Run "openssl x509 -text -in /etc/ssl/certs/cacert-root-ca.crt" to verify that the certificate's data (company name and so on) looks correct.
- If the above fails, add "-inform der" to the command above: maybe you accidentally downloaded the DER-encoded certificate instead of the PEM-encoded certificate.
- If you have the DER version, you'll need to convert it to PEM. Run "sudo openssl x509 -inform der -outform pem -in /etc/ssl/certs/cacert-root-ca.crt -out /etc/ssl/certs/cacert-root-ca.pem". Note the "sudo" in front of that command: you're writing to the /etc/ssl/certs directory, so you need to be root.
- Now that you've got a certificate in PEM format and verified it, it's time to edit your "~/.subversion/servers" file. In the "[globals]" section, add the line "ssl-authority-files = /etc/ssl/certs/cacert-root-ca.crt". The "ssl-authority-files" option is a colon-delimited list, so if you already have something there and are adding the second certificate to it, use a colon to separate the two paths. If you're adding a third certificate to the list, then you should already see the colon and be able to figure it out. :-)
I mostly figured this out from the "SSL Certificate Management" section of the Subversion book. Which I highly recommend reading, BTW.
I hope this helps someone else spend a little less time on Google figuring out how to trust a new root CA.


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Dr Leonard is a 1991 graduate of Trinity College Dublin. In 1997 he went to Stanford University Medical Centre in California, spending 3 years as a Fellow in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, then joining the Stanford faculty as Attending Physician for the Lung Transplant Program before moving to Manchester as Consultant at Wythenshawe Hospital. Since 2008 Dr Leonard has been seconded to NICE as Consultant Clinical Advisor for Topic Selection.
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Lotte has an integrative approach and is trained in many different modalities enabling her to work with you to adapt each session to your individual situation and needs. The focus is to set in motion your own inner healer, your intuition and ultimately to empower you. Psychosomatic: pertaining to or involving both the mind and the body.
Using relaxing music and connecting to your breath and as the session progresses, you are invited to explore more: during a healing session you may experience physical sensations, sounds or images of recent or past events. You may also access feelings or thoughts about various people or situations. The breath will guide and support you as you begin to learn more about the reasons your body and mind hold onto these memories, feelings and thoughts.
During the session, Lotte works with your energy field – also called 'The Human Biofield' – including your aura and chakras. The human energy field is a bio-electromagnetic field that surrounds and interpenetrates the human body. This field holds information about every aspect of your physical, emotional, mental and spiritual being.
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Lotte works by moving her hands a short distance away from your body:
"I use my intuition and tune in to discover the areas that 'call' for balance and support."
Sessions are done fully clothed and there is limited touching of the physical body. Lotte offers insight during or after the session, including the transpersonal perspective, as well as intuitive guidance, suggestions for wellness/ health, strategies and helpful tools for you to take into your daily life.
Lotte offers: Deep Relaxation, Therapeutic Breathwork, Connect & Support your Inner Child, Past Life Regression, Soul Retrieval and the transpersonal perspective, including physical disorder that is coursed by or notable influenced by emotional factors.
Lotte's sessions are about activating your Inner Healer, supporting and empowering you on your journey through life.
Energy and balancing sessions can be done in person and also long distance as Lotte works with your "energy body". Both are highly effective methods that provide great benefits. The aim of this healing support is to balance and re-align your biofield, always moving toward wholeness.
Energy balancing works on people of all ages, including children. A session lasts from 60 minutes to two hours, depending on the support you require.


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Ever since our first year of marriage (7 years ago), I've been collecting ideas of things that I want inside my dream home.
It started as just an idea file… in a drawer… that I stuffed random ideas, pictures and articles into.
Then, when we got serious about building our first home together (a traditional 2-story brick home… on a cul-de-sac… in a subdivision), I pulled out that fold and began to organized all the ideas into categories.
At the same time, I started picking and choosing random things that I'd like to incorporate into that house. Once we actually started the process of building our "stick home", I realized that many of the best and coolest ideas would have to wait …for a time when we had more money and a better grasp of where & when we'd be building our "real" dream home together.
Fortunately, I continued to add to my "idea folder" through the years. Here it is almost 5 years after we build our first home now… and we are preparing for the building of our first log home together. This will be our ultimate "dream home"!
"Idea Notebook" To The Rescue!
We knew from Day One that our first home would simply serve as a starter house for us. A place to establish some roots and further our careers, all the while fine-tuning exactly where we'd like to build our dream home and quite possibly retire.
And that's where we are now… Our dream home is finally on the horizon and we can see it more clearly with each passing day.
We've set the wheels in motion toward designing and building our custom log home. And my Idea Notebook has been a lifesaver! It's filled with home decorating ideas and all my favorite things seen in house plans, magazines, newspapers, and online.
Here's what it looks like now:
And here's where I keep all the things that I still think are interesting, but not likely to appear in our dream home:
Doors & Windows
Laundry Room
Closets & Organizing
House Plans
Miscellaneous Building Ideas
My Idea Notebook goes everywhere that I go!
It usually stays in the car, but I always have it handy should I need a measurement, a color, or a description for someone who's helping us make this home a reality — such as a bank lender, blueprint designer, or cabinet installer. Or, if my friends & relatives have a question or make a suggestion "on the fly," then I just grab the Idea Notebook and add it to my collection of great ideas.
Why I Love My Idea Notebook:
- It's easily adaptable to our changing tastes and ideas.
- I'm a very visual person — I need to "see" things in order to fully grasp them.
- It makes it easier to relay to builders, designers, and installers exactly what you want.
- It keeps everything in one place, where it's easy to find — just grab & go!
- It stores away nicely and looks great on a bookshelf.
Tips For Making Your Own Idea Notebook
1. See-thru page protectors are the secret. They enable you to switch out pictures and ideas, as well as rearrange and prioritize your favorites.
2. Always keep blank paper and a pen in the notebook for jotting down ideas on the spot.
3. Use those tiny sticky notes as temporary bookmarks or as tabs to label ideas.
4. Keep a few empty page protectors in the 3-ring notebook so you can just stuff things in there temporarily, then put it where it goes inside the notebook later.
A Look Inside My Idea Notebook
UPDATE: Check out my idea file today!
We've gone through the entire process of designing and planning every single detail of our dream log home! We have the blueprints… and the land… and the contractor… and the goal for our log cabin home to be our retirement home. Before you build (or buy) a log home, I have a slew of helpful tips for you — to plan, design, build, decorate, and maintain your very own rustic modern log home. When I'm not fine-tuning the log home of my dreams, you'll find me at the corner of Good News & Fun Times as publisher of The Fun Times Guide (32 fun & helpful websites). To date, I've written nearly 300 articles for current and future log home owners on this site! Many of them have over 50K shares.


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We recently had a discussion in the office about this article on CNN. The article describes an interesting find: an (obviously female) dinosaur skeleton with two intact, unlaid eggs inside it. The one sentence that caught my attention, though, was this:
A geologist found the fossilized remains in China's Jiangxi province and sold them to a museum.
I asked everyone else what they would do if they found a dinosaur skeleton, and pretty much everyone said that they'd sell it. If I ever find one, I will have it mounted and placed in my living room. Who wouldn't want a fossilized dino skeleton to greet them when they come home?
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Queen Elizabeth II is now one of more than 500 millions Facebook users.
USA Today reports that The British Monarchy's Facebook page officially debuted Monday, where The Queen & Co. have, so far, more than 135,000 fans who "like" them.
As previously shared yesterday, this will be a corporate account relating to Her Majesty, 84, and the British Monarchy's various activities, and plenty of photos and videos will be included.
"The decision went right up to the Queen," an anonymous royal official said Sunday. "If you are going to have an online presence in 2010, you just have to be on Facebook."
Facebook users are allowed to leave comments and other messages for Buckingham Palace, but the Queen will not be accepting friend requests. Still, the decision to go this route is pretty hip, don't you think?
In the last couple of years, the Royal Family has embraced some of the world's most popular social mediums. They launched their own YouTube channel in 2007 and joined Twitter two years later. The Royals also have their own Flickr photo account.
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Mr. Speaker, I would like Motion No. P-28 to be called.
Motion No. P-28
That an Order of the House do issue for copies of all documents, reports, minutes of meetings, notes, memos, correspondence and invoices relating to senior citizen access to the nine-hole golf course at the Ferndale Penitentiary.


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This magnificent house design features a French Country inspired exterior and abundant interior space. The brick and stone exterior lends an expansive quality to the impressive façade and there are wooden shutters, overhead dormer sheds and ironwork that additionally decorate the spectacular exterior. The courtyard entrance houses a three car garage with direct access into the conveniently placed mudroom and laundry room. The covered entryway into the home's interior reveals a spacious floor plan with a well-arranged series of spacious rooms that include approximately 4,961 square feet of living space. Included in the space are four to five bedrooms, a study and four plus baths in two stories. Additional square footage is found in the massive bonus room and there is an unfinished basement foundation which has the potential to add over 3,000 square feet to the floor plan. Soaring ceiling heights and a generous footprint dominate the first floor while 9' ceiling heights are abundant on the second floor. The formal dining room is situated directly off the two story foyer which is decorated with columned beams, access to the butler's pantry and a pass-thru to the grand kitchen. The kitchen showcases amazing space to work and prep meals featuring a large center island, a peninsula bar, plenty of additional counter and cabinet space and a corner walk-in pantry. The breakfast room and vaulted keeping room with warming fireplace adjoin the kitchen for casual dining and family space. The two story grand room is highlighted with a handsome fireplace, built-in cabinetry and a gently bowed wall of windows on the rear wall overlooking the enormous deck. There is a private study with coffered ceilings, a double sided staircase and powder room located on this floor as well as the master suite. The master suite is a private arrangement of spacious rooms which include a bedroom measuring in excess of 18'x26' and features a sitting area, a warming fireplace and private access onto the deck. Massive his and her walk-in closets are located at the rear of the suite and there is a vaulted en suite master bath. The bath enjoys a luxurious footprint where there are dual vanities, a corner shower, garden tub and an enclosed toilet area. The second story elongated hallway features gorgeous overviews onto the foyer and grand room below. There is a huge loft area, perfect for "hanging out" as a family and watching movies, helping the children with homework or it could function as a playroom. Three oversized bedrooms are situated on this floor, two of which have vaulted ceilings and one boasts of an attractive trey ceiling overhead. Each bedroom features great window views, a walk-in closet and a private bath. The bonus room offers an additional 687 square feet of space, dormer window views and the ability to be configured into any number of multi-purpose family spaces. This expansive home displays a commanding exterior with enormous curb appeal and an interior floor plan that is functional, versatile and comfortable.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Sayings and Quotes
Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old oliver wendell holmes quotes, oliver wendell holmes sayings, and oliver wendell holmes proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.
A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
Truth is the breath of life to human society. It is the food of the immortal spirit. Yet a single word of it may kill a man as suddenly as a drop of prussic acid.
The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men ? from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.
The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving.
Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water-bath is to the body.
The wind blows out, the bubble dies; The spring entomb'd in autumn lies; The dew dries up; the star is shot; The flight is past, and man forgot.
Science is the topography of ignorance.
Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.
One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, One Nation evermore!
The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.
Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than the one where they sprang up.
It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.
Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.
A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used.
The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.
The longing for certainty ... is in every human mind. But certainty is generally illusion.
To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
Apologizing - a very desperate habit - one that is rarely cured.
Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.
In walking, the will and the muscles are so accustomed to working together and performing their task with so little expenditure of force that the intellect is left comparatively free.
The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving.
One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, One Nation evermore!
A man's mind stretched by a new idea, can never go back to its original dimensions.
Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.


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Thursday, 9 December 2010
Where have all the adults gone? Europe's winter of youth discontent begins
A political sea-change is occurring in UK and Europe, affecting ideas about sustainability and youth politics.
Standing outside the gates of parliament in London today at lunchtime, wearing a work suit and holding a briefcase, I was struck by my age. I was one of a few citizens over 30, let alone over 40 waiting for the arrival of the students marching to protest a rise of university fees in England and Scotland (from 3000 pounds to an upper limit of 9000 pounds per year). I was grateful to the colleague who had texted, reminding me to come.
Clusters of tourists were taking photos of Big Ben, strangely oblivious to the yellow lines of police who surrounded parliament, lines that seemed to stretch as far as the eye could see.
Even this early in the day, the tension was striking. The empty barricaded streets were filled with an uneasy silience broken only by the noise of helicopters and police sirens.
I could not visualise teenagers marching into this atmosphere, to me it was terrifying.
The advocates of the university fee increases argue that the rise is accompanied by a progressive tax rate which is fairer than requiring a flat upfront payment. Opponents argue the introduction of loans is not only unfair but will be as daunting for many students as the eerie quiet canyon of empty streets and waiting police.
Parliament square where the march was to pass is a grassed area reserved for free speech and peaceful protest. Even at the best of times its physically difficult to reach. There is no pedestrian crossing. A small island of democracy in a sea of traffic. Today it was surrounded by high barricades of wire fence. Later watching the evening news I wondered, surely the fences were not a holding pen for kettling young protestors?
Knots of media began rehearsing their scripts, all black puffer jackets and enormous camera lenses. A news reporter stepped into the empty steet, and took five takes to say 'And so the stage is set for a political battle inside the house and outside the house' accompanied by sweeping arm gestures, to the amusement of watching tourists.
A mother on a mobile rushed passed me- 'Darling whatever you do don't get hurt Ok' , she shouted frantically into the mobile phone, her own placard firmly under her arm. As she bustled past some of the police behind me laughed, but not unkindly.
Then suddenly from out of nowhere, a roar. The protesters had arrived.
A surge of collective adrenaline. Then, just as suddenly as all that sound and fury had erupted, nothing...just a milling group of teens pouring into the square, with nowhere to go. Some groups were chanting but the mood was unsettled. A large gathering not sure what to do next.
What struck me the most about this crowd as I joined it –(still clutching my briefcase) was its youth, diversity and unpredictability- leaderless, but learning fast. There were no megaphones. Noone seemed quite sure what to expect- some older students dressed in medical scrubs peeled off back to class. They seemed far removed from the clusters of very young boys and teenage girls they had been standing next to.
A police loud speaker repeated a few times- 'Ladies and gentlemen please move to Victoria Embankment, keep moving please'. The term 'ladies and gentlemen' seemed stilted. Some of those around me looked as young as 12, but the average age was probably about 16 or 18. Why would people protesting a historic vote going on in parliament move on once they'd got to parliament? No one knew quite what to do, but the mood was expectant.
A few people headed to the nearest café to queue for a coffee. Someone threw a plastic bottle and a pink smoke bomb, the effect was startling, like a daring prank.
The first of the fires began next to me- a group of boys, about 14 year olds wearing balaclavas and scarves scrambled onto a green metal storage case and after some fooling around and shouting, set fire to a placard. Young boys, pumped up but not part of the main group. Slightly older students around me, mostly girls worried, 'Oh I wish they wouldn't do this, it will look bad and undermine the message'.
The police drew closer together.
The taunts got louder.
In a side street the students' union were handing out leaflets, passing out banners and informing people what was going on and what the march was about. The student president did a piece to camera, effectively setting out the concerns of students. Three women students were passing out slips of paper informing students 'these are rights if things get nasty, stay calm, be peaceful, read this'. Everywhere there were leaflets and student newspapers and signs and chants explaining what the march was about, but not what would happen next.... Many had never been in a protest before. A young student in school uniform, a blazer and tie, looked nervous and serious.
Two people laughingly rushed a barrier, it collapsed, no one seemed more surprised than they were, an elderly passerby shouted,'what do you think you are doing?'.
This protest was striking to me too for the way it was being e-recorded everywhere. In the middle of the milieu students were blogging, texting, twittering, filming ...Whenever a skirmish broke out puffer jacket journalists descended, but students were there first, blogging on iphones, recording on camera, the physical and the virtual world merging.
The e-messages may not be clear yet, but they're emerging. Referring to the wiki-leaks story a young student suddenly volunteered to me–'it's all coming out now, all this information, makes you look at the world differently, why did we not realise it before? Shell are all through the Nigerian government and now credit cards blocking wiki leaks...I mean its all oil and finance and war, these fees and cuts, it all seems so unfair given everything, sort of... corrupt, we aren't going to take it!'. On television later in the evening a student commentator remarked, 'freedom is important to me, with the prospect of a huge debt I won't feel free'. Another asked a politician, 'how is the prospect of 30 years debt, progressive?'. A third simply said, 'my two youngest brothers probably can't go to university now, I am here for them'.
I left the protest as tensions were mounting. Later I heard the news that some groups had attacked Treasury buildings and the Prince's car. As I left a few horses were drawing up Whitehall. I watched television with horror as horses charged a young, vibrant, frustrated, angry crowd.
The lines of police surrounding parliament before the protests began, forced me to wonder what kind of democracy might turn on its children, or feel the need to protect itself from them?
I was struck on reflection however, by the absence of adults and the vulnerability as well as the anger of the protestors.
There were mums and dads and academics and grandparents there, but not many.
Certainly the 'carnival-like' atmosphere I heard described as the march started had disappeared by the time these very young protestors reached parliament.
In politics citizens learn by doing. But if, as the political rhetoric tells us, we are 'all in this together', student political learning needs intergenerational support.
Evening news reports compared the events that unfolded to poll tax riots. But this is not a generation that remembers the poll tax. Nor is it simply a new generation of university student protest.
This political movement is significant for the numbers of very young, diverse groups of children taking part, many of whom will only vaguely recall the anti war protests of the last eight years.
Where were the adults today as Britain's youth found their political voice and needed them?
Each generation has its own political moment, but at such a challenging, difficult time, don't we owe our children and our students something more?
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Friday, 26 November 2010
Higher education and sustainability teaching
I attended a fascinating conference on Higher Education and sustainability teaching in Barcelona this week, called 'From understanding to action'. Any event in Barcelona would be fascinating but it's fair to say the atmosphere of this conference was electric…..
Outside the conference Catalonian PhD students were protesting about real sustainability issues, they have to pay a 280%, (yes you read that correctly) increase in university fees this year as a result of Spain's fiscal crisis.
However the devastating effect of the economic situtation seemed strangely disconnected from more narrowly framed debate about 'ecological' sustainability inside the conference.
But important connections were made by key speakers. The UN University Rector Konrad Ostterwaler welcomed delegates with an impassioned plea for universities to challenge economic growth policies that are unsustainable in the long term.
Christine Escrigas, the executive director of GUNI (Global university network for innovation) also bravely faced potentially cynical responses to argue that in teaching sustainability in higher education the most important thing we can do is to teach students to question what they take for granted and to imagine new realities (while projecting an image of the Little Prince, with the caption: 'A new conception of being in the world').
The Spanish chair of the higher education and sustainability panel argued, 'we don't need to teach behaviour change, and we certainly don't need more greener consumers, -what we need to teach is citizenship, to foster students who can think critically and understand their reality and take revolutionary action to change this reality. Strong stuff...
Prof Naranjo (Chile) argued we are teaching generations of students to 'tame their activism' and to think in a patriarchal dehumanized ways. He called for sustainability teachers to teach wisdom, rather than knowledge.
These wider visions appeared to be diplomatically rebutted however by at least one keynote speaker who argued that universities are the last remaining public spaces able to think long term. She agreed we must rethink values, but we should also research and teach about 'new technologies' as they are the key to 'reinvent our sustainable future'.
Later in the conference, much concern was raised about this argument. There was debate about whether teritary staff and students around the world, on short term contracts or facing high study debt, are in constant pursuit of funding and competing rather than collaborating with each other and with community groups. Do current funding arrangements threaten the long term vision of sustainability teaching and research? Are we constantly reframing sustainability in ways that might appeal to funders (predominantly business interests and philanthropic groups in North Amercia, government and international agencies in Europe or aid agencies, development banks and foreign investment in developing countries), rather than responding to the long term needs of our communities or our convictions about what matters and should be researched and taught?
All in all a tremendously stimulating conference- not your normal ivory tower gathering -but just as stimulating for what was going on outside the hall and in the corridors.
In those places there was intense debate about what teaching and researching sustainability means today. This meeting had followed a workshop between Palestinian and Israeli delegates about whether sustainability can be researched, let alone taught, in an atmosphere of oppression. In the regional workshops people debated sustainability in a context of economic debt, consumer societies, war, oppression, or corruption. Many expressed concern about the rise of fundamentalist thinking everywhere (be this religious, economic or scientific fundamentalism).
The sustainability concerns which troubled the students and delegates in Barcelona were varied and urgent. I was reminded that as teachers we often learn most from listening to our students and each other.
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Thursday, 4 November 2010
This blog is the forerunner for a book we are writing called Children, Citizenship and Environment: nurturing a democratic imagination in a changing world.
Children, Citizenship and Environment is written for researchers, teachers, parents and community groups who want to support children growing up in a changing environment, to learn how to make a difference democratically on issues which matter to them.
I argue that to address far-reaching, complex environmental problems effectively in the future, young citizens will need fewer lessons in turning off the lights, and more opportunities to nurture a democratic imagination.
The new, complex problems that face children as they grow up like climate change, youth unemplyment, food insecurity and growing social inequality are problems that will require new citizenship skills. To address these problems, citizens will need skills of critical thinking, reflective action, effective listening, communication, and the ability to reason about justice. To add to this daunting list, citizens who want to make difference democratically about global change will need the virtues of empathy and tolerance, co-operation, moral reasoning, determination and courage and the ability to live and act within material limits- easy isn't it?!
Over the next few months we welcome your thoughts and ideas as we explore and share new kinds of democratic thinking that might help children growing up as democratic citizens to think about and act on environmental problems more effectively.
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Sunday, 19 September 2010
Ben's favourite tree
Ben (12 years) took this photo of his feet as he spun around on a rope swing which the local council has twice taken off the big tree in the park at the end of his street in the UK. Thanks to whoever ignored the council and re-hung the swing, the only child centred focus in an otherwise bleak patch of grass on a small roundabout.
And thanks too to Ben's geography teacher who set a broad project: 'go find your favourite tree near where you live and write about it, or do bark rubbings or photos or press leaves or anything –just tell us about its history and why you like it...'
For many children in the UK opportunity for informal outdoor play has all but vanished. Between 1973 and 2005 the percentage of children playing regularly in the street has dropped from an estimated 75% to 15% (Play England 2009). Play England estimates there are 2.3 square meters of public play space available for every child in the UK under the age of 12 years, that's 'about the size of a kitchen table'(Play England 2009).
And thanks too to Ben's geography teacher who set a broad project: 'go find your favourite tree near where you live and write about it, or do bark rubbings or photos or press leaves or anything –just tell us about its history and why you like it...'
For many children in the UK opportunity for informal outdoor play has all but vanished. Between 1973 and 2005 the percentage of children playing regularly in the street has dropped from an estimated 75% to 15% (Play England 2009). Play England estimates there are 2.3 square meters of public play space available for every child in the UK under the age of 12 years, that's 'about the size of a kitchen table'(Play England 2009).
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Saturday, 18 September 2010
Planting seeds
Tēnā koutou, welcome- Well the SEEDs are planted -and the journey towards understanding of the economic, social, political and environmental issues facing young ecological citizens begins -join us as we explore how children come to understand their community and their environment, the problems the face and ways to nurture young citizens' democratic imagination.
Bronwyn Hayward with members of the Youth Voices Voters and Visions research group in Political Science, University of Canterbury, New Zealand.
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What an absolute pleasure it was to meet famous Indian artist Jogen Chowdhury at the RIRA Gallery, DIFC hosted by Sanchit Art, New Delhi day before yesterday.
Mr. Chowdhury is an eminent Indian painter and is considered an important painter of 21st century India.
He has immense contribution in inspiring young artists of India. Jogen Chowdhury developed his individual style after his return from Paris. His most famous paintings are in ink, water colour and pastel.
As part of Kala Sutra, the name of the art exhibit held at the gallery, he spoke about why he chose Dubai as a destination to exhibit his paintings, how he's seen the city transform so much in the last five years (only) and more:
Take a look at some his paintings:
The exhibit runs until Oct 19th, 2015 at RIRA Art Gallery, DIFC.
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How do we extend this to the world of higher education? For those of you looking to show off your nerdy collegiate side, here are some ideas:
A MOOC: This buzzword stands for "massive open online course" and is the latest experiment with online education. To pull this off: I have no ideas. Good luck. Send me your pics.
University of Tennessee frat bros: I would recommend that you draw your inspiration for this costume from the stoic news conference that occurred after the party where a member allegedly butt-chugged wine and landed in the hospital with severe alcohol poisoning. Please don't let your inspiration be that party. To pull this off: At least two dozen bros dressed in dark suits and sunglasses, plus statements.
An unemployed college graduate living at home with five-digit debt: Too depressing? Yeah, it is. Sorry. Never mind.
A breast-feeding professor: At the beginning of the semester, an American University anthropology professor brought her sick baby to the first day of class and briefly breast-fed while lecturing. After a student journalist raised questions, the professor published a strongly worded essay ("Exposéing My Breasts on the Internet") that criticized the reporter. To pull this off: A sick baby, an AU wonk T-shirt and a print-out of the essay.
More ideas that were shared on my Facebook wall:
* "A Gordon Gee Bow Tie from Ohio State is a classic in the Buckeye State."
* "A bottle of Adderall."
* "Why not go as a promissory note?"
* "Going with a couple's theme — a Paper FAFSA and a pen."
* "Dress up as a helicopter parent... you'll need some chopper blades (sorta like Inspector-Gadget style)."
And some more from Twitter:
@wpjenna "The Ivory Tower" - either make a human sized copy of the Ivory soap box OR a lot of ivory soap boxes glued into a tower— wcet (@wcet_info) October 16, 2012
@wpjenna "Hitting the books" - dressed as a baseball player with books glued/nailed to the end of a baseball bat— Cali Morrison (@calimorrison) October 16, 2012
Please add more ideas to this list by leaving a comment below.


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Curl, maker of a framework for building rich Internet applications, said Tuesday that it is now supporting Macintosh environments, citing "rapidly increasing penetration" of the platform in enterprises.
Curl's platform, which is aimed squarely at enterprises, consists of an eponymous programming language, an IDE (integrated development environment) for building applications, and runtimes for executing the programs on client machines. The new Mac runtime, available as a free download, is compatible with Power PC and Intel Macintoshes running OS 10.4 and higher, Curl said.
"As we watch Apple whittle away at Microsoft's dominant position, it behooves us to start supporting that platform sooner than later," said Richard Monson-Haefel, vice president of developer relations.
He noted that Curl already had runtime support for Windows and Linux. The move to Apple is "a matter of completing our cross-platform story," he said.
But at least for now, the Apple chapter of that tale may be brief.
A recent Forrester Research survey found that the percentage of enterprise users running Mac operating systems grew threefold in 2007 to 4.2 percent, but concluded that "uptake remains limited to enthusiasts and small workgroups."
The new Mac runtime includes all the features present in Curl's runtimes for Windows and Linux, including support for audio, 2-D and 3-D graphics and animation, and a compiler that transforms applications built with Curl into native code for maximum performance.
However, Curl's IDE isn't yet supported to run on Macintosh, meaning developers who prefer to work on those machines will have to wait. "That's certainly a direction we're heading. The [runtime] development was ahead of the IDE development," Monson-Haefel said. "We're looking at it slowly and at what our customer demand is."
The company's move to support Macintosh has two interesting angles, said Redmonk analyst Michael Cote.
"Curl is going for being the enterprise RIA player, sort of trying to niche itself out of competing with [Microsoft's] Silverlight and Adobe. The thing is that their platform is ostensibly ready and mature, but they don't have the brand power of Adobe and Microsoft.
"Given that they want to be the enterprise RIA people, their support of Macs is interesting because it implies that they see a sizable enough use of Macs in the enterprise to make money off it -- or see growth in the near term therein," he added. "Most people wouldn't consider Macs an 'enterprise' deployment space and, thus, a platform to support. Now, developers of RIAs, sure, that's a whole other story. But users is something slightly new."
Also, Curl's cross-platform emphasis should play well as the RIA market evolves, Cote predicted.
"At this point in the RIA wars, attracting developers is the big battle, and Windows-only toolchains ... are at a disadvantage, as would be OS X or Linux only," he said.
While much smaller than those vendors, Curl has about 300 "large enterprise deployments" and its platform, now in version 6.0, is more mature, Monson-Haefel said.
The vendor is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Its platform is based on research conducted at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It is owned by Sumisho Computer Systems, a Japanese company that bought it in 2004.


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Lane Closure on the Quincy Memorial Bridge
Quincy Memorial Bridge will be the focus for repairs April 7 through April 17, 2014.
The Illinois Department of Transportation will be conducting a detailed bridge inspection and joint repair on the Quincy Memorial Bridge. The inspection and repair to the bridge will require a one lane closure during April 7 through April 17, 2014. One lane will remain open at all times. All lanes will be open over the weekend, April 11 through April 13, for traffic, then re-close on Monday. Expect delays during the work period.


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Weddington Homes for Sale
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Weddington, North Carolina
Located about 15 miles southeast of Charlotte, Weddington measures less than twenty square miles and is home to fewer than 10,000 residents. Whatever the town lacks in size, it makes up for in charm, style, and beauty! With only 27 of its more than 11,000 acres dedicated to commercial space, Weddington's residents voted a few years back to incorporate in order to prevent the rapid growth of Charlotte from overtaking their cherished, secluded, wooded retreats. The I-485 loop is still just minutes away, giving residents easy access to the big city while making their drive back to large-acre properties an easy commute.
Weddington is surrounded by the adorable towns of Wesley Chapel, Waxhaw, Matthews, and Marvin. Nearby Cane Creek Park provides 1000+ acres of hiking, fishing, picnic facilities, and campgrounds, and the border's Andrew Jackson State Park is a historical treasure. But why do people move to Weddington? For the most part, families move here to take advantage of the world-class public school options in town. For those whom privacy is a concern (ahem…Panthers players!), Weddington provides a tranquil place to relax and unwind without the hustle and bustle. What's more, Weddington is perhaps the best area around all of Charlotte for horse property. It's simply a picturesque place to live.
The seclusion and natural beauty of the area don't come cheap! Houses for sale in Weddington are often large with price tags to match, and some stats say the incorporated area is one of the richest in all the state. That said, it's still possible to find a deal here, particularly as residential construction in the area skyrockets. Though there are lots of towering luxury homes in Weddington, there are many established neighborhoods that deserve a second look, too. Like to work hard and play hard, but need a home that feels more like a getaway? Weddington is a beautiful option.
We are so grateful for all your help and generosity! You have been the best agent anyone could ever ask for. You helped us each step of the way and helped us stay positive and gave us hope throughout the process. We are very lucky to have found such a superb, professional, and kind realtor, especially since we were so unfamiliar with the area while we were living in Germany. It's been a pleasure working with you and getting to know you. We are so lucky to have found you who helped us found our perfect dream home. In the process, we met a wonderful person and friend.
On top of all that you've done for us like making personalized videos for us about the area, taking our calls at all hours, showing us the area, giving us recommendations about all that one needs to know when living in an area, and so much more…
We can't say thank you enough and we really look forward to spending time with you in the near future. We will definitely be sending anyone looking for a property in this area your way! You've been a true gift."
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It was great working with you Chad, thanks for showing me around the area and helping me find my dream home."
Both the buyer and seller felt good about the transaction because Chad works hard, is a clear communicator, a true Professional but most of all, I respect his character and integrity when he represents his client."


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If you dream of being the next American Idol, check out Visual MP3 4.3: It has a karaoke feature that lets you sing along to your favorite songs. It can rip CDs to MP3, OGG, and WAV formats and do batch renaming, but karaoke is its real selling point.
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Bulldog Pottery
Seagrove, North Carolina
Bruce Gholson and Samantha Henneke, who craft studio art pottery with unique glazes and graceful forms, operate Bulldog Pottery. Gholson and Henneke both studied ceramics at the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University in Alfred, New York, where Bruce received an MFA and Samantha earned a BFA. They explain, "Bulldog Pottery is an eclectic mix of form, imagery, texture, and pattern. We share a love of nature, pottery, good design, and an intense interest in glazes. Our imagery is evocative of memories and interests that have resonated in our lives. We test clays, glazes, surface treatments, and play off of each other's intuition about the materials and processes. We feel that our joint research has been crucial to the development of our work, and we have achieved far more together, than we could have as individuals."


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Welcome to the Town of Clinton,
the commercial and cultural hub of north Hunterdon County.
The Clinton Police Department is not just about law enforcement. We are community caretakers providing 24-hour fulltime services to keep Clinton a safe, secure and an enjoyable place of residence, business or pleasure. We take great pride in maintaining an atmosphere in which our residents and visitors can enjoy themselves in the charming environment that is Clinton. To do this we look beyond the ticket or the arrest to other ways in which to serve or assist the members of our community.
We strongly believe that visibility, mobility and personal interaction with the public in a positive way by members of our department significantly contribute to the quality of life in Clinton. We also believe that we are the deterrent to persons inclined to infringe upon the rights of others, disregard our traffic laws or who cause public inconvenience or alarm through inappropriate or illegal behavior.
The members of our staff and I welcome your questions regarding the department and its operations and it is our pleasure to make your time in Clinton as enjoyable and rewarding as possible.
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Chief of Police