How to layout a trait d’union article and chapter.
Explanation with examples
by Lothar Thiel (1953), DSB Bilbao/Spain
1. You copy the text of the selected post and paste it into a WORD document. Then you do the same with
its pictures or other illustrations.
If you want, you can use pictures from attached PowerPoint Presentations or even screenshots from videos.
Don’t forget to copy & paste the author’s/authors’ data – first name/s, last name/s, year of birth (in
brackets – for the teachers not obligatory!), school acronym, town/country – and picture subtitles, if
available.
Here you can copy the school acronyms + town/country:
CDL Çankırı/Turkey
CDA Apeldoorn/Netherland
DSB Bilbao/Spain
HPS Buxtehude/Germany
LSP Assisi/Italy
LBR Roma/Italy
LOK Kraków/Poland
SPG Šilutė/Lithuania
Interview with Jaroslaw, Polish shop owner
by Fritz Müller, Fynn Beckmann, Magdalena Tandetzki
(Halepaghen-Schule Buxtehude/ Germany)
Where did you come from and when?
I came from Marienburg (Polish: “Malbork“), which is in the upper North of Poland, not far
away from the Belarusian border 15 years ago.
Why did you decide to live in Germany?
My wife wanted to live in Germany, because her father, my father-in-law, had already lived in
Germany. Our son was 6 months old at that time and our daughter then was born in Germany.
Do you feel well integrated in Germany?
Yes.
If not, do you still enjoy living in Germany or do you regret your decision? Why?
No I do not regret it. But I was teaching sports and mathematics and I was computer scientist
and
engineer later. And when I came here I actually had no profession at all referring to local
employers.
Cleaning cars for example was the best job a non alphabet could do. What I
earned in Poland
during one week, took then and still takes today a month in Germany.
But if you are hard working you can start climbing the career ladder from the beginning.
And whom do you blame – society or state?
The German legislation was confusing. For example, after 1989, everyone was considered a full
German; nowadays politicians seem to regret this. My ancestors are German, but back
then people
just had been considered German, if their fathers were German.
If there was no proof, and you still wanted to immigrate, you had to pass an exam in
score decided whether you were German or not.
language and the
Can you think of any suggestions for improvement?
I guess, in order to prevent the loss of your profession in another country like Germany if you are an
illiterate, the European Union should invent a special system to simplify the takeover of your own
profession and its validity in the new country.
Whom do you cheer for in a sports match, etc. – your country of origin or Germany?
I cheer for Poland, my heart is in Poland. But my children cheer for Germany.
Do you feel German?
Yes, and I feel Polish and Russian, too, because I have so many Russian friends.
posted on Tuesday, February 15th, 2011
2. The making of the layout
a. Avoid the capitalisation of WHOLE whole words! Change it, if needed! However, in order to
distinguish the first name/s and the last name/s easily, please use small caps for the LAST NAME/S!
b. Line distance: 1
c. Font: Verdana
d. Font size: 9, except the headline: 16 in bold print
e. After the headline the authors: in italic print
f. Blank lines before and after the indication of the author/s
g. Setting of the headline and the authors: Centred
h. Setting of the article: Hyphenless justification
i. Setting of the posting date: blank line, then flush-right, italic
j. Then the pictures, they will be integrated during the final editing step in Bilbao. But if there are
more than one, you can propose the order. The captions or legends must be clearly assigned to the
pictures!
k. Please control and smooth away obvious faults and wrong distances between the words!
3. Layout/contents specifics of an interview
a. If the headline is not clear enough as to the contents, put first a little explanation.
b. Like in every professional magazine don’t write the name of the asking editor, but trait d’union.
c. Setting of trait d’union and the name of the interviewed Person: bold, double dot, and always
at the beginning of a new line.
Interview with Jarosław,
Polish shop owner in Buxtehude
by Fritz MÜLLER (19..), Fynn BECKMANN (19..), Magdalena TANDETZKI (19..), HPS Buxtehude/Germany
trait d’union: Where did you come from and when?
Jarosław: I came from Marienburg (Polish: “Malbork“), which is in the upper North of Poland, not far away
from the Belarusian border 15 years ago.
trait d’union: Why did you decide to live in Germany?
Jarosław: My wife wanted to live in Germany, because her father, my father-in-law, had already lived in
Germany. Our son was 6 months old at that time and our daughter then was born in Germany.
trait d’union: Do you feel well integrated in Germany?
Jarosław: Yes.
trait d’union: If not, do you still enjoy living in Germany or do you regret your decision? Why?
Jarosław: No I do not regret it. But I was teaching sports and mathematics and I was computer scientist and
engineer later. And when I came here I actually had no profession at all referring to local employers. Cleaning
cars for example was the best job a non alphabet could do. What I earned in Poland during one week, took then
and still takes today a month in Germany.
But if you are hard working you can start climbing the career ladder from the beginning.
trait d’union: And whom do you blame – society or state?
Jarosław: The German legislation was confusing. For example, after 1989, everyone was considered a full
German; nowadays politicians seem to regret this. My ancestors are German, but back then people just had
been considered German, if their fathers were German. If there was no proof, and you still wanted to
immigrate, you had to pass an exam in language and the score decided whether you were German or not.
trait d’union: Can you think of any suggestions for improvement?
Jarosław: I guess, in order to prevent the loss of your profession in another country like Germany if you are
an illiterate, the European Union should invent a special system to simplify the takeover of your own profession
and its validity in the new country.
trait d’union: Whom do you cheer for in a sports match, etc. – your country of origin or Germany?
I cheer for Poland, my heart is in Poland. But my children cheer for Germany.
trait d’union: Do you feel German?
Jarosław: Yes, and I feel Polish and Russian, too, because I have so many Russian friends.
posted on Tuesday, February 15th, 2011
4. Layout/contents specifics of a ‘normal’ article
a. Each article which is not written in English, should contain a little summary of its content in English
at the beginning.
b. After the second blank line after the authors’ indication, the first paragraph of the article is without
indent.
c. The following paragraphs have a hanging indent of 0,5 cm.
d. If the text contains subheadings, the paragraph next to them has no indent.
5. Layout/contents specifics of a commented article, interview, questionnaire etc.
a. If the post underlying the article was commented, the comments shall be published after the article,
because they show the (inter-)cultural communication between the members.
b. Exception: insults, suppositions, but also wholesale compliments.
c. A comment can be long or short (even consisting in some words only), but it must contain an
interesting aspect/argument/idea/example/experience/comparison or the like.
d. All the hyper links must be removed.
e. If there is more than 1 comment, you will have to invert the temporal order used in the blog!
f. After the posting date of the main article you put the following table: copy & paste from here! The
crosshatch lines have to remain removed!
g. If you have more than 1 comment, you can copy the tables with the distance between them. There
you put the comment text, because the 2 blank lines (18 pt / 6 pt) are already integrated in the
table.
Example:
by Christian Versloot (19..), CDA Apeldoorn/Netherland
September 11, 2010 at 6:09 pm
by Christian Versloot (19..), CDA Apeldoorn/Netherland
September 11, 2010 at 6:09 pm
Copy & Paste from: http://traitdunion-online.eu/timgeerestein/2010/09/11/mosque-at-ground-zero/
Mosque at Ground Zero
posted on Saturday, September 11th, 2010
by Tim Geerestein, Apeldoorn/Netherlands.
I guess most of the people who read this have already heard. There are people that want to build a mosque
near Ground Zero. Everybody knows that this is the place from 9/11, when two planes got hijacked, and
crashed into the World Trade Centre.
The building will become a 13 floor, cultural centre, with a mosque build in it. What has to been said is
that it isn’t a mosque only, it will include things like a theatre, and a swimming pool.
Does the mosque stand at Ground Zero?
No it won’t, it’s about three streets away, and from Ground Zero itself you can’t see it.
In the USA there are some large protest against it. Dutch politician Geert Wilders has come there too have
a speech.
So what do you think, comment and let me know.
13 Responses to “Mosque at Ground Zero”
1. Ozcan, Ahmet Cihan says:
December 17, 2010 at 7:55 pm (Edit)
I am Turk and Muslim person. In my opinion , this mosque will be beneficial for the all humanity.
I think , every country must let to the other religion’s worships. Christians to Muslims , Muslims
to Christians, and the others . For example ; We , Turks , let Christian’ s worships and they can
build their church. Already , at past , Christians love Ottoman Empire’s justice and tolerance
towards religions. Ours cleric and philosopher , Mevlana , have got a so famous : ” Come
whatever you are. ” It show that , Turks and the other muslims are not against other religions and
they doesn’t interfere the other religions.
And I wanna add it on behalf of all my friends , Islam is not Arabic. Everybody can be Muslim.
And all Müslims are not terrorist. Don’t get me wrong. Yours faithfully…
Ahmet Cihan OZCAN – from TURKEY
2. Ericia Larissa Shinara Geluk says:
November 3, 2010 at 8:47 pm (Edit)
You know it isn’t really a smart idea and especially not of Geert Wilders. I mean people kind of
banished him out of England (which they said was illegal) and now he’s giving a protest against
mosques. I mean a religion is a religion, and A mosque AT ground zero is not a GOOD IDEA.
But a mosque, far away from ground zero, that doesn’t even look like a mosque, and is not seen
from GZ isn’t that bad. Let’s just say that as long as it doesn’t look like a mosque at ground zero
or sounds like one i think it’s ok. And not all moslims are like Al Qaeda. I mean there are loads of
Jewish people, and christians and Protestants etc. etc. in NY. Not like building they’re religious
building in NY was a problem. So what i think is that people should just accept it, and since it
isn’t going to be all moslim i think it should be ok. I mean it could be sensitive to allot of people
but i think that as long as they keep to their standards that it should be ok.
3. Sahin, Meryem Kübra says:
October 15, 2010 at 6:31 pm (Edit)
I know a lot of things about 9/11 and I can remember that I became very sad when this become
and now I cant relate between this event and to build a mosque.I think there are very different
things.
4. Martijn Willemsen says:
September 20, 2010 at 5:23 pm (Edit)
hi all,
I think a mosque at GZ ain’t a very smart idea. I agree with Sabina Jesch the US is a country build
on freedom. But personally I don’t think it’s a very smart idea. We all know the suspects of the
attack. We can’t know who did it (else I don’t know it) but if the stress about the muslims … Well
you get my opinion.
Regards from NL
5. Hollrotter, Christine says:
September 18, 2010 at 9:41 pm (Edit)
I also think that tolerance is one of the most important attitudes we need in this globalized and
multi-cultural world, but I also found a video of a very courageous muslim woman (an author)
from Canada, who obejectively argued against the Mosque in public and therefore was threatened
afterwards:
http://www.therightscoop.com/muslim-raheel-raza-speaks-out-against-ground-zero-mosque-onoreilly
(that´s the original video)
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2010/08/17/15054001.html
(this is the report about the consequences)
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/20/nyregion/20muslims.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1
(this one shows the hope and faith, but also the tolerance and understanding from NY Muslims,
who can´t understand the provocation in the plan, and would as well be happy, if the mosque
would be built a few more blocks away from Ground Zero)
But as the last article also said, the discussion came up and no one can back off easily, so that a
fair compromise has to be found, which will still leave lots of people unhappy. But at least the
public got to discuss the problems, which already centre on not only the Ground Zero conflict, but
all cultural and political issues concerning this topic nowadays.
6. Christian Versloot says:
September 18, 2010 at 9:37 pm (Edit)
I am interested in opinions from Turkish students. This must be a difficult subject for them.
7. Thiel, Lothar says:
September 17, 2010 at 10:19 pm (Edit)
I agree with Christian. Is there a stronger arm against terror than the spirit of tolerance?
8. Neumann, Oliver says:
September 14, 2010 at 4:13 pm (Edit)
We agree on your opinions, because you shouldn’t have prejudices against muslims.
9. Hollrotter, Christine says:
September 14, 2010 at 4:09 pm (Edit)
I don´t think the Americans should build a Mosque at Ground Zero. It might me a good way to
calm the Arab world down, but I guess, it won´t take long, until they will find another reason to
protest against Amercia and especially the American foreign politics. Apart from that, those
countries would never allow us to build a Christian church in their countries at some point, where
military forces fought against their fellow citizens. Anyway – this is such a controversial topic,
that we can´t look at all aspects and points of view – especially of the Muslims in their home
countries and the readical terrorists, who absolutely oppose most of the western world. There will
be positive and negative feedback and reactions anyway, whatever they do at Ground Zero or
somewhere near Ground Zero (for this is such a sensitive topic and place for both sides).
10. Jesch, Sabrina says:
September 14, 2010 at 4:09 pm (Edit)
I don’t think it’s a good idea to built a mosque in the near of ground zero. I think there will be
demonstartions against it and then the mouslem would interpret it that america is against them. So
no problem would be solved. But on the other hand America is the land of freedom also of
religious freedom. Therefore they have to tolerate the construction of a mosque even if they don’t
want it.
For me personal everyone should have the freedom to built everything they want everywhere.
11. Marx, Leif-Erik says:
September 14, 2010 at 4:07 pm (Edit)
In my opinion they can even build that mosque on ground zero or where ever they like to. I have
absolutly no problems with religions, but if reliogous people start trying to persuade me of their
religion, I become angry. Religous people can take their religon and I take my religion i.e.
atheism.
Cheers from germany =D
12. Tim Geerestein says:
September 11, 2010 at 9:39 pm (Edit)
yes, i agree with you, but they would made it a lot easier if they would have build it farther away.
For same people can that be sensitive.
13. Christian Versloot says:
September 11, 2010 at 6:09 pm (Edit)
In my opinion people may express their faith if they want to. I think they would allow Christians
to build a church near GZ if it were radical Christians, so why can’t they build a mosque? Do we
have to compare those moslims with the Al-Qaeda moslims? No, I dont think so.
Layout:
Mosque at Ground Zero?
by Tim GEERESTEIN (19..), CDA Apeldoorn/Netherlands.
I guess most of the people who read this have already heard. There are people that want to build a mosque
near Ground Zero. Everybody knows that this is the place from 9/11, when two planes got hijacked, and
crashed into the World Trade Centre.
The building will become a 13 floor, cultural centre, with a mosque build in it. What has to been said is that
it isn’t a mosque only, it will include things like a theatre, and a swimming pool.
Does the mosque stand at Ground Zero?
No it won’t, it’s about three streets away, and from Ground Zero itself you can’t see it.
In the USA there are some large protest against it. Dutch politician Geert Wilders has come there too have a
speech.
So what do you think, comment and let me know.
posted on Saturday, September 11th, 2010
by Christian VERSLOOT (19..), CDA Apeldoorn/Netherland
September 11, 2010 at 6:09 pm
In my opinion people may express their faith if they want to. I think they would allow Christians to build a
church near GZ if it were radical Christians, so why can’t they build a mosque? Do we have to compare those
Muslims with the Al-Qaeda Muslims? No, I don’t think so.
by Tim GEERESTEIN (19..), CDA Apeldoorn/Netherland
September 11, 2010 at 9:39 pm
Yes, I agree with you, but they would made it a lot easier if they would have build it farther away. For same
people can that be sensitive.
by Leif-Erik MARX (19..), HPS Buxtehude/Germany
September 14, 2010 at 4:07 pm
In my opinion they can even build that mosque on ground zero or where ever they like to. I have absolutely no
problems with religions, but if religious people start trying to persuade me of their religion, I become angry.
Religious people can take their religion and I take my religion i.e. atheism. Cheers from Germany =D
by Sabrina JESCH (19..), HPS Buxtehude/Germany
September 14, 2010 at 4:09 pm
I don’t think it’s a good idea to built a mosque in the near of ground zero. I think there will be demonstrations
against it and then the Muslim would interpret it that America is against them. So no problem would be solved.
But on the other hand America is the land of freedom also of religious freedom. Therefore they have to tolerate
the construction of a mosque even if they don’t want it. For me personal everyone should have the freedom to
built everything they want everywhere.
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6. Your Chapter
a. Put all the ready articles in the same WORD file.
b. Each new article must begin on a new page.
c. Propose the order of the articles of your chapter making an index with the following form (example
from trait d’union n° 6), font size 11/8:
I. Co to jest odwaga?– Le courage, c’est quoi ?
Justyna ORLOWSKA (LOK) & Marcelina ORLOWSKA: Courage (I+II)
Heinz KLINCKWORT (DST): Courage of the newborn
Oscar WHITNEY, Fjonn BÜSCHE, Dominik KASSECKER, Viktoria BEUMLER, Marc FORT, Alexander ABAR, Heinz & Reinhardt
KLINCKWORT, Ayk HILBRINK (alle DST): Was ist Mut? What is Courage?
Grėtė ŠVĖGŽDAITĖ (MD): Drąsa (Courage)
Artur JUSZCZYK (LOK), Courage - what does it mean?
Galina GOSTRER (MGM): Reply
Emilija GIBAVIČIŪTė, Agnė KAMINSKAITĖ,Kristina KUBAREVIČIŪTĖ, Ieva RAULUSEVIČIŪTĖ (MD): Mut ist . . .
Ania BUDA: Courage means not to give up easily
Augustinas PAUKŠTĖ (MD): Mut ist . . .
Michal PYTKO (LOK): Courage is a mix of . . .
Galina GOSTRER (MGM): Reply
Sandra MARGIELEWSKA (LOK): My definition of courage - is it the same as yours?
MGM Staff: Don’t do me no harm!
Łukasz "Thoronnil" Zarzycki (LOK): The term of “Northern theory of courage”
Sevil COSAR (MGM): Die Tür zur Abhängigkeit + Mut zur Freiheit
Saagar BHAVSAR (MGM): Live is a game
Laura GRYBAUSKAITĖ (MD): Courage is to stand between the sides
7. Imprint of your school team
a. containing all the participating teachers
b. not all the registered students, but only those, who really contributed to this print magazine
Thank you!
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