Internet is a wondrous tool and I use it, (ain't I a fool?)for you dear pupils, who wish to speak the Queen's English. Well, maybe not but at least, if asked whether you speak English or not, don't say: "I do not!"
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
DOES SCIENCE MAKE ROOM FOR ALIENS?
See the following "Fact file" and article here:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6826412/
Monday, December 15, 2008
Third World...
See the last three posts at the bottom of this page one. You’ll find examples of the use of that expression.
http://www.englishforums.com/English/ThirdWorldCountry/hbmjm/post.htm
Here, you can read the article by Alfred Sauvy, written in 1952. This is where he uses, for the first time, both expressions : « Troisième monde » and « Tiers Monde. »
http://www.homme-moderne.org/societe/demo/sauvy/3mondes.html
And here, you can read more about him
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Sauvy
http://www.bibliomonde.net/auteur/alfred-sauvy-2251.html
Sunday, December 14, 2008
William Blake
"To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour." -William Blake
http://www.tate.org.uk/learning/worksinfocus/blake/gothic/index.html
Saturday, December 13, 2008
E-TWINNING
Oral Comprehension
Lots of short and varied audio documents to listen to.
REMEMBER:
IF YOU LISTEN TO A LITTLE BIT OF ENGLISH EVERYDAY,
YOU'LL IMPROVE YOUR ENGLISH !
http://www.audio-lingua.eu/spip.php?rubrique2
Saturday, December 06, 2008
Thursday, December 04, 2008
Monday, December 01, 2008
Thursday, November 27, 2008
Monday, November 24, 2008
Have you heard of Jose Gonzalez?
Here are the lyrics:
DOWN THE LINE
I see problems down the line
I know that I’m right.
There was a dirt upon your hands
doing the same mistake twice
making the same mistake twice
Come on over and be so caught up
its not about compromising.
I see problems down the line
I know that I’m right
I see darkness down the line
I know its hard to fight.
There was a dirt upon your hands
doing the same mistake twice
making the same mistake twice.
Come on over
be so caught up its all about compromise.
I see problems down the line
I know that I’m right.
Don’t let the darkness eat you up (8x)
Friday, November 21, 2008
CHENEY INDICTED
U.S. Vice-President Dick Cheney was indicted (prononcer /indaitid/ = mis en examen)
At the beginning, Jon refers to Vice-President Dick Cheney's troubles with a friend of his while they were hunting quails. (des cailles...) He, Dick the VP shot his friend in the face... (petits plombs: small shot). The funniest part of that story was that the friend had apologized for being shot at and at the time, Jon Stewart had made us Laugh Out Loud (lol).
Sunday, November 16, 2008
Sunday, November 09, 2008
Wednesday, November 05, 2008
HISTORIC MOMENT... HISTORIC CHOICE...
Here is his wonderful speech in Philadelphia, March 18th about the necessity to wipe the racial divide... I guess we can say the Americans have done just that.
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/convention2008/barackobamavictoryspeech.htm
Sunday, November 02, 2008
PRANK = trick = practical joke
"Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin was prank called [...] by a comedy duo from Quebec, who convinced the Alaska governor that she was speaking to French President Nicolas Sarkozy."
She was prank-called= they played a prank on her on the phone.
They told her she was going to speak to N. S. and she believed it.
If you listen to the recording, you'll find the prankster told her many things that could have helped her understand this was a prank... but she just giggled each time the prankster said something ludicrous.
READ ALL ABOUT IT AND LISTEN TO IT!!
http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2008/11/01/politics/horserace/entry4563022.shtml?tag=rightRail;rightRailInner
Friday, October 24, 2008
Palin clothing ... Bling Bling or grifter?
(http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/grifter)
It seems Mrs Sarah Palin has spent $ 150,000 (a hundred and fifty thousand dollars)
ON CLOTHES...
Listen to Jon Stewart, the anchor to my favourite fake news show: "THE DAILY SHOW" making fun of it and asking a simple question:
"How does someone who's just spent more on clothing in six weeks than most Americans make in two years show that she can still relate to the common folk?"
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
PINK GLOW OVER LONDON
From thisislondon.co.uk:
Londoners were left baffled today when a strange pink light appeared over the capital.
Read the article here:
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23575796-details/U.F.Glow:+Mysterious+pink+light+over+London/article.do
Monday, October 20, 2008
Do you remember anthrax?
http://harpers.org/archive/2008/10/hbc-90003727
Sunday, October 19, 2008
You need to register to vote...
Leonardo DiCaprio, will i. am, Tobey Maguire, and Forest Whitaker have created public service announcements to encourage American youth to register to vote. The non-partisan PSAs, produced by DiCaprios Appian Way, were created to engage and inspire young people to register and vote and participate in the upcoming election. Celebrities appearing in the PSAs include: Amy Adams, will.i.am, Jennifer Aniston, Kevin Bacon, Halle Berry, Kate Bosworth, Kevin Connolly, Courteney Cox, Ellen DeGeneres, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jamie Foxx, Jonah Hill, Dustin Hoffman, Anthony Kiedis, Ashton Kutcher, Adam Levine, Laura Linney, Eva Longoria, Tobey Maguire, Demi Moore, Natalie Portman, Giovanni Ribisi, Ethan Suplee, Kyra Sedgwick, Michelle Trachtenberg, Usher, and Forest Whitaker.
Friday, October 17, 2008
A former astronaut who walked on the moon says aliens exist.
Obama is wearing his sunday best at Al SMith
It's 13 minutes long but quite frankly, 13 minutes of laughter as M. J.S.McCain had announced seconds earlier in his own less funny but not utterly dull speech at the same traditional event: The "Al Smith's dinner".
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Wednesday, October 08, 2008
Tuesday, October 07, 2008
If we in the media really believe what we say about serving the public interest, we have a duty to avoid being turned into instruments of mass distraction.
You can read the whole op-ed here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/06/AR2008100602637.html
Thursday, October 02, 2008
Wednesday, October 01, 2008
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Sunday, September 28, 2008
You want to improve your English?
Some of those are on the left column of this blog.
So, if you say to yourself:"I want to improve my English."
well... Just do it! 15 mn a day would be great.
I really hope you can take advantage of those sites.
Here is a new one:
http://www.manythings.org/
Monday, September 22, 2008
About the LHC...
That's why I enjoyed watching this video.
Watch it and tell me if you did.
Sunday, September 21, 2008
LHC is out of order
The CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) *a.k.a. Black Hole Maker
started out so well, that the scientists could actually not believe it.
Now about 10 days into operation the LHC is 'kaputt' for at least 2 months. [...]
*a.k.a. = Also Known as
= alias
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Other headlines...
ABC: Another Devastating Day. Stocks Dive on Economic Concerns
MSNBC: Dow Plunges Nearly 450 Points
The NY Times: Bailout Fails to Stem Global Stock Slump
Chicago Tribune: Markets Take Another Nosedive: Dow Down 450
The International Herald Tribune: Europe and Asia see U.S. as no longer practising what it preaches.
The Guardian: £12 billion HBOS Takeover Fails to End Global Panic
The Times: Fears of Further Financial Casualties Abound
Telegraph: Biggest Rescue Deal in UK Banking History
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
A few headlines about the financial crisis
ABC: Meltdown in US Finance System Pummels Stockmarket
NBC: Dow Falls 500 Points in Worst Day Since 2001
NY Times: Wall Street Posts Worst Loss Since 2001
The Chicago Tribune: What to Do With Your Money? Stick With Plan
International Herald Tribune : Global Shares Fall After Deeper Wall Street Losses
The Guardian: Nightmare on Wall Street
The Times: Asian Markets Dive as Wall Street Panic Spreads
Telegraph: UK Stock Index Drops Again as Market Crisis Continues
ad libitum....
Septembre 15th ... Pink Floyd In Mourning. Richard Wright is dead.
Time By Pink Floyd. From The Dark side of the Moon album |
Sunday, September 14, 2008
Thursday, September 11, 2008
Saturday, September 06, 2008
If you could vote for the U.S. presidential election...
I don't want to influence you but I sure voted for Obama!
http://www.myvirtualvote.com/Default.aspx
How the sun really works.
The sun, our star.
Maybe you want to know more about it.
And more about SUN SPOTS... even though they seem to keep puzzling the top rank scientists.
So I thought you'd be interested in watching this video. Enjoy!
Wednesday, September 03, 2008
Tuesday, September 02, 2008
From a former U.S. president.
-Harry S. Truman, 33rd US president (1884-1972)
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Pictorial history of the women's suffrage movement
The song is entitled "Bread and Roses". It was written about 1912 by James Oppenheim in response to a women's textile worker strike. Here are the lyrics:
As we go marching, marching, in the beauty of the day,
A million darkened kitchens, a thousand mill lofts gray,
Are touched with all the radiance that a sudden sun discloses,
For the people hear us singing: Bread and Roses! Bread and Roses!
As we go marching, marching, we battle too for men,
For they are women's children, and we mother them again.
Our lives shall not be sweated from birth until life closes;
Hearts starve as well as bodies; give us bread, but give us roses.
As we go marching, marching, unnumbered women dead
Go crying through our singing their ancient call for bread.
Small art and love and beauty their drudging spirits knew.
Yes, it is bread we fight for, but we fight for roses too.
As we go marching, marching, we bring the greater days,
The rising of the women means the rising of the race.
No more the drudge and idler, ten that toil where one reposes,
But a sharing of life's glories: Bread and roses, bread and roses.
Our lives shall not be sweated from birth until life closes;
hearts starve as well as bodies; bread and roses, bread and roses.
Monday, August 25, 2008
Improve your English with this speech by a U.S. senator!
1) Open the video in a different window by right clicking on the link here:
http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=6bVHNdwypiE&eurl
2) Watch it and listen to it carefully
3) Read the parts of its script below.
4) Fill in the blanks in the parts of the script below.
Senator Bernie S.............
From the state of V.................
" And we ................... talk about this terribly much. I guess it's something we're not supposed to be mentioning but the reality is that according to the latest analysis,
in 2005, the top 1% of earners made more money than the bottom 50% of Americans.
..................... % earned more income than the bottom .........................% which translates into the top ................... earners making more money than the bottom ............................million (earners)
.............................making more money than the bottom ........................... million.
While the top earning, 1/100 of 1%, received an average income increase of more than
.................................. million in 2005, the bottom 90% saw their average income decline by about $172.
So what we're looking at is, tens of millions of Americans working hard, they're seeing their healthcare costs go up, they're seeing their housing costs go up, they're seeing education costs go up, they're seeing the price they're paying for a gallon of gas to put into their car to get them to work going up, or heating oil going up, basics of life going up, and at the end of the year, they have less money than they did the previous year. But the people on top are making out like bandits.
[•••]
The top ........ wealthiest individuals saw on average a ....................................million dollar increase per person
[•••]
The United States has an ...........%, the highest rate of childhood poverty of any major country on Earth. ..............% of our kids are living in poverty.
[•••]
Almost one in five children in this country lives in poverty
[•••]
Friday, July 04, 2008
Thursday, July 03, 2008
INGRID BETANCOURT IS FREE TONIGHT
Tonight, we're told she's free.
Or is she? In another kind of jungle? The political jungle?
How free? Debriefing doesn't sound like freedom to me. And I'm afraid she'll have to go through it.
But Mrs Betancourt is strong. She has proved that much. Surviving with dignity "out of her outward circumstances"... in the Amazonian jungle,
She's also very wise. She's had time to think of it... She's been a prisoner since february 2002.
Here are the last words of her first speech after her release, or extraction...
"LET US ALL HAVE COMPASSION FOR OUR ENEMIES"
Now, I hope the media will give her the free time she deserves...
And now that she's not trapped in the jungle anymore, let's see what she does. And what she doesn't.
For your information, this cbsnews article, and if you're too lazy to read it all, some extracts...
in case you were told otherwise... the U.S. did play a part in the whole event.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/07/02/world/main4228714.shtml
"Colombia freed Ingrid Betancourt and three U.S. military contractors from leftist guerrillas on Wednesday after military spies tricked rebels into giving them up without a single injury, the defense minister said. "...
...CBS News national security correspondent David Martin reports that the release of the hostages and Ms. Betancourt was carried out by Columbian military forces, working closely with United States intelligence. Currently, Martin is told, the hostages are being taken by the military to Brook Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas. ...
"This was primarily a Colombian operation," one U.S. official told CBS News correspondent Bob Orr. "They did all of the heavy lifting and deserve the lion's share of the credit."
..."The rescue came as U.S. presidential candidate John McCain was visiting Colombia. When news of its success reached McCain on his campaign plane, he said he and two other U.S. senators traveling with him - Joe Lieberman and Lindsay Graham - had been told about it in advance by Uribe"
Most of us are free. And have been for quite a while. How free are we?
And let's see what we all do with our endangered but still palpable freedoms in Europe at least. Free to come and go, free to look for "fair and balanced" information, free to meet the ones we love and all the ones with whom we share values and hopes, free to talk to them and on the web to express ourselves and be as creative as we can, free to fight for our rights, free to fight for peace, free to believe and free to challenge the others with respect, free to look for truth and peace.
May we all prove worthy of those freedoms and ready to fight for them if need be and have compassion, even for our enemies.
Wednesday, July 02, 2008
PARODY: guns & teleshopping
http://www.oxfamfrance.org/php/actions_camp_voir.php?IdCampagne=75
SIGN OXFAM's PETITION here:
http://www.oxfamfrance.org/php/actions_camp_voir.php?IdCampagne=75
Sunday, June 22, 2008
Fist Bump
When Woopy refers to the "chest bump", she is refering to a scene that lately took place between McCain and a military. They bumped their chests to greet each other.
Thursday, June 19, 2008
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Friday, June 06, 2008
A MUST SEE... UNBELIEVABLE... AMAZING...SCARY...EXHILARATING...
"We tried but didn't make it...maybe only with phone brands or models ???"
THIS IS FOR REAL AND IT WORKS IN FRANCE TOO ??????????????
TRY AND DO THIS AND REPORT YOUR RESULTS IN THE COMMENTS...
REALLY SCARY ISN'T IT ??
WE MIGHT HAVE TO THROW OUR PHONES AWAY...
OH... AND WHAT IF IT WORKED ONLY WITH GMO CORN ?!!!
Thursday, June 05, 2008
Sunday, June 01, 2008
Clever exercises
for its exercises about Oral comprehension exercise and
Airport Vocabulary
http://pagesperso-orange.fr/michel.barbot/hotpot/cohome.htm
Friday, May 30, 2008
Sunday, May 25, 2008
Saturday, May 24, 2008
SAVE THE "PALAIS DE LA DECOUVERTE"!
I'LL ALWAYS REMEMBER THE PI ROOM...
http://www.sauvonslepalaisdeladecouverte.fr/
Sign the petition!
Un moyen mnémotechnique populaire (mais peu pratique) est le poème :
- Que j'aime à faire apprendre un nombre utile aux sages !
- Immortel Archimède, artiste, ingénieur,
- Qui de ton jugement peut priser la valeur ?
- Pour moi ton problème eut de pareils avantages.
- Jadis, mystérieux, un problème bloquait
- Tout l'admirable procédé, l'œuvre grandiose
- Que Pythagore découvrit aux anciens Grecs.
- Ô quadrature ! Vieux tourment du philosophe
- Insoluble rondeur, trop longtemps vous avez
- Défié Pythagore et ses imitateurs.
- Comment intégrer l'espace plan circulaire ?
- Former un triangle auquel il équivaudra ?
- Nouvelle invention : Archimède inscrira
- Dedans un hexagone ; appréciera son aire
- Fonction du rayon. Pas trop ne s'y tiendra :
- Dédoublera chaque élément antérieur ;
- Toujours de l'orbe calculée approchera ;
- Définira limite ; enfin, l'arc, le limiteur
- De cet inquiétant cercle, ennemi trop rebelle
- Professeur, enseignez son problème avec zèle
Le nombre de lettres de chaque mot correspond à une décimale, sauf pour le chiffre "0" dont le codage correspond à un mot de 10 lettres.
En 2005, un japonais de 59 ans, Akira Haraguchi, a réussi à aligner par cœur 83 431 décimales de π en 13 heures. Il réitéra son record un an plus tard en 2006 en mémorisant et récitant publiquement 100 000 décimales pendant 16 heures. Cet exploit a été homologué par le Livre Guinness des records
Thursday, May 22, 2008
The CANS Festival
The CANS Festival Leake street, London
Some people are calling it the greatest stencil art show that has ever taken place in a tunnel underneath Waterloo Station
Thursday, May 15, 2008
I'm watching live on cbsnews.org...
Mr Edwards, another democrat, has also been competing in the democratic primaries
but he quit 4 months ago.
He didn't say who he would endorse (support).
He didn't say whether he would support Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton.
He is a popular man, well-known for his honesty and his concern for poverty and health care and his determination towards peace and freedom.
Well, tonight, John Edwards is declaring that he endorses Obama.
Obama Obama OBAMA OBAMA
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
This week Time cover
The American elections are MUCH MORE complicated !
The US president will be chosen next November by delegates. (indirect suffrage)
So before the "general election", each great party, organizes elections called "primaries" or "caucuses" to choose the one who will compete with the 4-year-presidential mandate which is a competition between two men... well, two human beings!
Former democratic presidents backwards: Clinton, carter, Johnson, Kennedy, Truman, Roosevelt ...
Former republican presidents onwards: ... Eisenhower, Nixon, Ford, Reagan, G.H.Bush, G.W.Bush
See the succession here: http://mistupid.com/history/presidents.htm
So: Right now ! The Democratic primaries are still taking place among the Democrats to select the candidate who will face the Republican candidate who has been chosen through the Republican primary elections : John McCain.
For now, Barack Obama has 1882 delegates, selected during the different elections that have been taking place successively in the different states.
See the calendar here: http://politics.nytimes.com/election-guide/2008/primaries/democraticprimaries/index.html Youl'll notice that the race is soon over.
Well, it is not because Hillary Clinton has 1711 delegates and she says she can still win the primaries against Obama... She could quit but she says she can still win.
2025 delegates are needed to secure the nomination.
See the evolution of the democratic primaries here http://election.cbsnews.com/campaign2008/index.shtml
So, the next US Presidential elections in November 2008 will be a race between
EITHER Barack Obama versus John McCain
OR Hillary Clinton versus John McCain
Well, this week's Time cover believes Obama will run for president against John McCain.
And I hope they're right.
Not that I wouldn't like a woman for the US presidency, but I like Obama's vision better. And after all, Clinton has already been in the White House as a first lady...
I believe new politicians are needed. Read about his life here:
http://www.barackobama.com/learn/meet.php
Divers Find Ancient Bust Of Caesar Near Arles
and other wonderful works of art. Read about them here:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/05/14/tech/main4094913.shtml
Sunday, May 11, 2008
Monday, May 05, 2008
LEONARDO DI CAPRIO
Thursday, May 01, 2008
PANGEA DAY ...
http://www.planete.tm.fr/dossiers/template/page.html?PAGE_ID=1372&AFF_SS_PAGE=
oui&FOLD_ID=110&PAGE_LEFT_TEMP=10&PAGE_RIGHT_TEMP=11
Here are the lyrics by David Byrne:
Like Humans Do Lyrics
For millions of years, In millions of homes
A man loved a woman, A child it was born
It learned how to hurt and it learned how to cry
Like Humans Do
Chorus:
I'm breathing in
I'm breathing out
So slip inside this funky house
Dishes in the sink
The TV's in repair
Don't look at the floor
Don't go up the stairs
I'm achin'
I'm shakin'
I'm breakin'
Like Humans Do
I'm achin'
I'm shakin'
I'm breakin'
Like Humans Do
I work and I sleep and I dance and I'm dead
I'm eatin, I'm laughin and I'm lovin myself
I never watch TV
Except when I'm stoned
Like Humans Do
[Repeat Chorus]
I'm breathing in
I'm breathing out
So slip inside this funky house
Wiggle while you work
Anybody can
The rain is pourin in on a woman and a man
I'm achin'
I'm shakin'
I'm breakin'
Like Humans Do
I'm breathing in
I'm breathing out
PANGEA DAY for WORLD PEACE
Samedi 10 mai à 20h00, première édition du "Pangea Day" en direct depuis le Caire, Kigali, Los Angeles et Rio de Janeiro.
Pour la France c’est PLANETE qui a été choisie pour participer à la diffusion de cet événement Planétaire.
Et l'on pourra le suivre sur le site même de Pangea Day. Vous pouvez d'ores et déjà y trouver des videos sur les motivations de l'organisatrice de cette initiative.
http://www.pangeaday.org
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
THE ORIGINS of SAGGY "DROOPY" PANTS...
Their origin:
The style is believed to have started in prisons, where inmates are issued ill-fitting jumpsuits but no belts to prevent hangings and beatings. The look was popularized in gangster rap videos.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/04/22/ap/strange/main4034947.shtml
Sunday, April 20, 2008
The Milgram experiment
It was conducted on Yale's campus. Learn more about it and discuss it in the comments.
http://www.dailymotion.com/relevance/search/milgram%2B/
video/x1f85l_presentation-de-lexperience-milgram_events
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Boston Legal
http://www.boston-legal.org/
Here is an extract against the war in iraq. Aren't Americans incredible!
Here is about the series' main actor, James Spader, who won the Emmy award for best lead actor in 2007 for his role as the lead character in the show.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Spader
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
LOANS...
And here's a 16th century song about paper money...
Rags make paper
Paper makes money
Money makes banks
Banks make loans
Loans make beggars
Beggars make rags!
http://jack.rusher.com/BookPathology.html
Monday, April 14, 2008
A nugget from one of my favourite site
Thursday, April 10, 2008
Peter Watkins
http://www.mnsi.net/~pwatkins/
in which you must particularly read this:
http://www.mnsi.net/~pwatkins/part2_home.htm
Here is Peter Watkins' filmography:
The Forgotten Faces (1960),
Culloden (UK, 1964),
The War Game (UK, 1965).
Edvard munch (Norway, 1973)
- The Journey (a global peace film, 1983-86)
The Freethinker (Sweden, 1992-94)
La Commune (France, 1999) -Listen towards the end of this first extract about the difference between communication and "mass communication"... Indeed, "Mass communication" is NOT communication.
Thursday, April 03, 2008
TOEIC
http://www.fr.toeic.eu/
http://www.fr.toeic.eu/?gclid=CNCmw6af5JICFR8-ZwodAFNrcw
http://www.u-picardie.fr/CRL/toeic.htm
Quand passer le TOEIC Ã Reims:
https://www.fr.etseurope.org/store/advanced_search_result.php?os
Csid=6b205cdb6ac444108ea009d97630d99d&step=2&appointments_id=&test_types_id=
TOEICListeninga&test_city_id=
REIMS&dfrom=03%2F04%2F2008&dto=03%2F10%2F2008
Monday, March 31, 2008
Philippe Starck
And enjoy his site: http://www.philippe-starck.com/
Friday, March 28, 2008
If you want to learn how to play chess...
http://normandlamoureux.com/echecs/
http://pagesperso-orange.fr/lepetitjoueur/
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Monday, March 24, 2008
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
History of the "Baccalauréat"
http://www.france24.com/fr/20080317-vie-mouvementee-baccalaureat-200-ans-aujourdhui-1
A forgotten word in the first sentence of the article.
Friday, March 14, 2008
Everyday English... for sure!
and to make it complete, a funny Dutch TV commercial for an English language institute...
Thursday, March 13, 2008
WOW! A DREAM HOUSE !
A dream come true! ...I want one just like that...And it is retractable!
Extract from its description: :
During the summer the building can change its form or, like a butterfly, unfold its wings for extra shelter during rainy days.
The addition is for a house from the year 1800, located on the banks of Ovre Gla Lake in the Swiss nature reserve of Glaskogen.
Regulations limited the amount of construction that could be done on the exterior of the building and proscribed a 4.5 meter green space around the stream that encloses the area. 24H came up with a telescoping cabin, adding to the usable surface and arching out over the stream. This accentuates the organic shapes of the design, which emulates the rustic surroundings.
Isn't the inside as fantastic as the outside?
See much more of it here:
http://www.dragspelhuset.com/
and here:
http://arkinetia.com/Articulos/Art350.aspx
SANTIAGO CALATRAVA
http://www.calatrava.com/main.htm
http://images.google.fr/images?hl=fr&q=calatrava&btnG=Recherche+d%27images&gbv=2
Sunday, March 09, 2008
Can you believe it ??? Teenagers, beware!!!
http://www.compoundsecurity.co.uk/teenage_control_products.html
... and on the same site: I can't believe it:
"the phone call your teacher can't hear"...
http://www.compoundsecurity.co.uk/deterrent_news_164.html
Wednesday, March 05, 2008
General Knowledge
http://www.slate.com/id/2185486/entry/2185487/
Take the test yourself!
http://commoncore.org/wwd.php
Obama... still ahead of Clinton.
OBAMA 1,512 delegates
CLINTON 1,423 delegates
EDWARDS 26 delegates
And the winner will have to beat the Republican John McCain
Republicans /1,191 Needed to Clinch
MCCAIN 1,205 1,205 delegates
HUCKABEE 231 231 delegates
ROMNEY 149 149 delegates
Waiting for the results in Ohio & Texas...
OBAMA! OBAMA !
Bush Clinton Bush Bush Clinton?
Sunday, March 02, 2008
Friday, February 29, 2008
Thursday, February 28, 2008
About Prozac
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2008/feb/26/mentalhealth.medicalresearch
The creation of the Prozac myth
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2008/feb/27/mentalhealth.health1
Sunday, February 24, 2008
Barak Obama
http://election.cbsnews.com/campaign2008/
Saturday, February 23, 2008
Friday, February 15, 2008
In French, about a piece of news.
"Georges Bensoussan, historien et auteur de Histoire de la Shoah"
about our president's latest decision.
http://www.lemonde.fr/web/son/0,54-0@2-823448,63-1012080@51-861150,0.html
Byeee and enjoy your holidays!
Special hello to VivnNyfa!
Wednesday, February 06, 2008
Banksy's manifesto
copy / paste the address in a new window... Blogger doesn't seem to work properly tonight.
Monday, February 04, 2008
Sunday, February 03, 2008
Strange Fruit
Meeropol, a member of the American Communist Party, using the pseudonym, Lewis Allan, published the poem in the New York Teacher and later, the Marxist journal, New Masses.
After seeing Billie Holiday perform at the club, Café Society, in New York, Meeropol showed her the poem. Holiday liked it and after working on it with Sonny White turned the poem into the song, Strange Fruit. The record made it to No. 16 on the charts in July 1939. However, the song was denounced by Time Magazine as "a prime piece of musical propaganda" for the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People (NAACP).
Meeropol remained active in the American Communist Party and after the execution of Ethel Rosenberg and Julius Rosenberg he adopted their two sons. He taught at the De Witt Clinton High School in the Bronx for 27 years, but continued to write songs, including the Frank Sinatra hit, The House I Live In.
Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit
Strange Fruit
Southern trees bear strange fruit,
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root,
Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze,
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees.
Pastoral scene of the gallant south,
The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth,
Scent of magnolias, sweet and fresh,
Then the sudden smell of burning flesh.
Here is fruit for the crows to pluck,
For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck,
For the sun to rot, for the trees to drop,
Here is a strange and bitter cry.
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Monday, January 21, 2008
Sunday, January 20, 2008
A QUIZ about MLK
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/students/quiz/mlkquiz.html
A good comprehension exercise. to answer the questions, you'll visit the web sites whose links are given.
DON'T FORGET the RIGHT CLICK: Open in a new tab
or with a Mac: CMD+click
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Some news!
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/01/15/national/main3713630.shtml
UFOs on mainstream media... worth mentioning!
Monday, January 14, 2008
A glossary of grammatical terms
I guess this will be useful for those who don't see any difference between "their" and "theirs" or between "this" and "his"... :-(
Sunday, January 13, 2008
POLITICAL COMPASS
A clever list of questions you have to answer to know where you stand.
http://politicalcompass.org/test
Compare your results with the American Presidential candidates:
http://politicalcompass.org/usprimaries2008
And with other famous people:
http://politicalcompass.org/analysis2
Friday, January 11, 2008
Carbon footprint
A Carbon Footprint is a measure of the impact human activities have on the environment in terms of the amount of green house gases produced, measured in units of carbon dioxide.
Find out what sort of polluter you are...
with the Carbon Footprint Calculator.
Wednesday, January 09, 2008
He had discovered Led Zeppelin...
Here:
http://www.dailymotion.com/bookmarks/trajik/video/
x3qiv7_aaron-russo-sur-le-911-le-cfr-et-ro_politics
Tuesday, January 01, 2008
A GREAT 45 mn MOVIE About SHARING
Happy New year all. And sharing with you, thanks to onegoodmove.org :
http://stealthisfilm.com/Part2/
or here on Google video
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3636669624532830059
This is about :
-History of the printed word which was seen as the unholy work of the devil ...in France!
... a must see for you French pupils.
- And other subjects... Here are some quotes to give you an idea of the content:
Lawrence Liang, Alternative law forum, Bangalore: "Sharing is at the heart of..., in some sense, of existence. Communication, the need to talk to someone is an act of sharing. The need to listen to someone is an act of sharing."
Felix Stalder, media theorist: "Why do we share cultures? Why do we share language? Because we imitate each other. What keeps us together is that we copy from each other."
"We need to ask a little bit more about Utopia. We need to really figure out what kind of world we'd like to live in.
Brewster Kahler: "Let's build a world that we're actually gonna be proud of. Not just a profitable world for a few very large media."
Hope it makes you want to WATCH........... STEAL THIS FILM II.