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ORIGAMI

Origami, the art of folding paper...
The video on the link below on PBS is definitely a must-see if you like art, craft, beauty and human inventivity.
So do watch this Independent Lens movie called "Between the Folds". Enjoy!
http://video.pbs.org/video/1340426590/
And there's this great site in progress: Le Crimp, a French folding group:
http://www.le-crimp.org/
Here's another video with Vincent Floderer from le crimp in English, s'il vous plait!:
At the beginning he says "I'm doing Origami since twenty years." If you send me what he should have said in the comment, I'll grant you additional points on your next paper. Be the first to correct him!
(What I would do to get just one comment :-(

Inglorious Bastards

Thank you Geoffrey, if you ever drop by!

A word a day, my favourite sites about words.

Thank you once again Anu Garg! Your site, http://wordsmith.org/ is a real treasure!
Here is a very interesting text in today's edition of Anu Garg's newsletter:

To subscribe to his newsletter and discover his precious online work:
http://wordsmith.org/words/today.html

" Recently I visited London to attend a wedding. The bride had graduated from Oxford, and among the invitees were some of her fellow graduates and a professor. During the long ceremony, we intermittently chatted about London weather, Gordon Brown, Queen Lizzie, and language.

Among other things, we talked about the differences between British and American English. I recalled reading about the inroads American English is making even in the UK, so I decided to carry out an experiment to find to what extent American English had "corrupted" English English.

I told them that sometimes the British write certain numerals (e.g. 1 and 7) differently from how they're written in the US, and asked them to write a short sentence so I could see if there were other differences in the script.

I quickly thought of a sentence for them to write:
"Her favorite flavors were in the gray catalog, she realized."

I said it aloud and the five Oxonians and the Oxford don kindly wrote it down on their napkins (serviettes). I collected the napkins and then told them about the experiment -- it had nothing to do with handwriting. In reality, that sentence had five words that could be written with American or British spellings (favorite/favourite, flavor/flavour, gray/grey, catalog/catalogue realize/realise).

Of the six people who participated in the experiment, three spelled (spelt) everything the British way. The other three had one or more words spelled in American English.

What does this experiment prove? Not much, according to my 12-year-old daughter, "Your sample size is too small."

Language, by its very definition, is a vehicle of exchange. A language means nothing in vacuum. When two people share, they give and take, though the movement is not always equal in both directions. US export of movies, television, music, books, technology, etc. includes something that goes through under the radar: Language.

Will American English take over the other Englishes? Probably not. Will the English language diverge into distinct languages just as Latin turned into French, Spanish, Italian and other languages? Hope not.

But who knows? Only time can tell, but in the meantime let's celebrate the diversity of languages by learning words English has borrowed from some of the less-known languages: Hungarian, Hebrew, Nootka, Afrikaans, and Persian. Even though they're not as well-known to most of us, they are still spoken by thousands or millions of people."

I'm way more than a little proud to be quoted in his second book, Another word a day, on page 122! Anu Garg has written three books which are all in my library! Well, on my bedside table!

http://www.amazon.com/Another-Word-Day-Limited-Gift/dp/0471778788

And Anu's site has long been in this blog's tags.

Amazing demo: SixthSense

You want to know what the future looks like?
By the way, what movie and what actor does the speaker, Pattie Maes, refer to?
This is a question of oral comprehension for my pupils ;-) Additional points in sight for any comment...

HUBBLE -IMAX

Hubble 3D Trailer
envoyé par IMAXMovies. - Regardez plus de vidéos de science.

Spying school follow-up

1984 in Philadelphia school ?

COMMENT !!! In class and right here!
The school's answer on its website:
http://www.lmsd.org/sections/schools/default.php?m=&t=hhs&p=hhs_today_anno&id=1143
And some articles
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1252234/U-S-school-child-porn-probe-revealed-laptops-used-spy-pupils-home.html

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/world-news/school-used-laptop-webcams-to-spy-on-us-pupils-at-home-14690166.html

http://video.news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/School-In-United-States-Accused-Of-Spying-On-Its-Students-Through-In-Built-Cameras-on-Laptops/Article/201002315553845?lpos=World_News_First_Home_Article_Teaser_Region_0&lid=ARTICLE_15553845_School_In_United_States_Accused_Of_Spying_On_Its_Students_Through_In-Built_Cameras_on_Laptops

FACEBOOK FRIENDS ?

French Joke / pun / play on words

I've got an iPhone... well,indeed, " I " sounds like garlic in French!

The Robin Hood Tax

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/feb/09/tobin-tax-nighy-curtis-film

NEWSY about JOBLESS RATES

Great NEWS SOURCE: http://www.newsy.com/

NEW YORK CITY

Here's to the 2TBAA are working on the Big Apple. Soon in your classroom!

You love the TV series Heroes...

You may enjoy Zeroes too!

ObamiPad

Obama on an ad?

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DROP HAITI'S DEBT

CLICK AND HELP !
https://secure.avaaz.org/en/haiti_cancel_the_debt_7/

Hackney Council 'clean up' Banksy

http://www.bbc.co.uk/london/content/articles/2007/11/29/london_life_banksy_feature.shtml

Banksy makes his movie debut at film festival

THE ABOVE WALL PAINTING IS NOT BY BANKSY, but a Banksy-influenced artist indeed!

Now, about Banksy!
Notorious though elusive street artist Banksy, whose work has decorated his home town of Bristol to Israel's West Bank barrier, has turned his hand to film-making. Exit Through The Gift Shop will have its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival.
WHO IS BANKSY?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7504132.stm
Sounds like a tabloid headline, doesn't it?
Well, since we've studied some documents about him, including some of his works, I thought you might be curious though I hope he keeps up the good job and doesn't fall into the abyss of power. For I believe fame is one of a kind.
Anyway, here you will watch the trailer of the movie Exit Through the Gift Shop
Read the article too.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/arts_and_culture/8471145.stm
Youtube Banksy, watch and say what you think in the comments.
Good for your English! Do I preach in the wilderness?