And always

Really one of my favourite!

Amazing English teacher blog.

http://moviesegmentstoassessgrammargoals.blogspot.com/
Kuddos Claudio

Egypt's future? Egypt's past

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/feb/12/mubarak-egypt-roots-of-despotism
Extract: "The so-called Higher Military Council inspires no confidence. Does another military strongman lurk in the regime's entrails? I wonder if western leaders, shamed into moral bluster after being caught in flagrante with Mubarak, will, when we relax our vigils, tip the balance towards "stability" and against real change.

I grow a bit apprehensive too, recalling the words of an extraordinarily perceptive observer of Egypt's struggles in the past: "The edifice of despotic government totters to its fall. Strive so far as you can to destroy the foundations of this despotism, not to pluck up and cast out its individual agents."

Mubarak Steps down

The Egyptian people is jubilant.So am I! So are we!
PEACE and French wishes:Liberty, Equality, Fraternity!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12433045

Some granny!

Spielberg believes in listening and...

Amazonians

An uncontacted tribe in Peru was filmed from afar.Watch this remarkable footage.
Do you think they would like to get into contact with the rest of the world?
You can also read an article about this tribe here:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/the-amazonian-tribe-that-hid-from-the-rest-of-the-world-ndash-until-now-836774.html
or this one:
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Americas/2011/0203/Photos-of-isolated-Amazonian-tribe-raise-awareness-of-deforestation-in-Brazil-Peru

Cyclone Yasi vs Hurricane Katrina

'more life threatening than any experienced in recent generations'
Cyclone Yasi is quite huge indeed but some say Hurricane Katrina was even bigger.
Have a fantastic satellite look at Cyclone Yasi here:
http://www.theweatherchaser.com/radars/australia/national-satellite

http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/floodrelief/north-queensland-braces-for-cyclone-anthony-as-cyclone-yasi-brews-behind-it/story-fn7ik2te-1225997552623

Gazing at art online

http://www.googleartproject.com/

Wikileaks and news about Julian Assange

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504803_162-20029950-10391709.html
What the journalists who interviewed him for 60 minutes have to say.
And then, watch the 60 minutes interview.
Keep informed about Wikileaks!... And say what you think! For I'm still desperately waiting for your comments!
UPDATE : http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/02/24/world/main20035758.shtml?tag=nl.e879

Candid camera & ... a few Americans

...desperately in need of some education.
I guess we could have the same types of answers in France!
I like the part with the wrong map of the world!

A new great site!

English Social Network.You'll love it!
http://www.youtube.com/user/EnglishSocialNetwork

RAY BRADBURY about Books

Go to the following link to watch and listen to RAY BRADBURY, a great science fiction writers.
http://neabigread.org/books/fahrenheit451/filmguide.php

Geek Meditation

A bomb in Spokane

The FBI is looking for possible racial links in their investigation of a bomb scare in Spokane, Washington, shortly before a Martin Luther King Day Parade was set to take place.

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

Free audio books here!

Listen to English books or read them for free at GUTENBERG dot ORG
Ain't that wonderful?
http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/languages/en

Ad brought to you by NASA

From the Guardian website

Hard to believe... but true. The article I mean!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/jan/10/earth-close-encounter-aliens-extraterrestrials

Obama on Tunisia

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/15/world/africa/15tunis.html?_r=1&emc=na

Tunisia, which is determinedly secular, is a close United States ally in the fight against terrorism. But on Friday, after reports that Mr. Ben Ali had fled, President Obama made strong statements in support of the protesters.

“I condemn and deplore the use of violence against citizens peacefully voicing their opinion in Tunisia, and I applaud the courage and dignity of the Tunisian people,” said in a statement issued by the White House. “The United States stands with the entire international community in bearing witness to this brave and determined struggle for the universal rights that we must all uphold, and we will long remember the images of the Tunisian people seeking to make their voices heard.”

Royal Family granted new right of secrecy

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/royal-family-granted-new-right-of-secrecy-2179148.html

Ex-CIA agent on TV about Julian Assange and his Wikileaks team.

Ray Mc Govern, ex-CIA agent talks on CNN about Wikileaks and Julian Assange as well as Thomas Jefferson and Martin Luther King... two heavy-weight references
See this quote by Thomas Jefferson:The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. But I should mean that every man should receive those papers & be capable of reading them.


The same Ray mc Govern on RT, (RT is "the first Russian 24/7 English-language news channel which brings the Russian view on global news.")I wonder whether the non-English-speaking Russian people have the same content.



And did you know that?
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/10/24-8

Why you shouldn't try to fall in love on the web:

PEACE & disarmament...

Shame on warmongers for there IS so much fighting and killing and suffering on this planet.
But we, the people of the rich countries with our cohort of weapons manufacturers and bomb salesmen do not seem to care. Well, I care. And I'm sure you do and it makes me smile.
Happy new Year to all.Life and peace.

Orwellian times. Can you believe it?

http://cnn.com/video/?/video/tech/2010/12/14/nr.how.to.spot.hidden.cameras.cnn
Cameras everywhere and ...Oh my!
Every nincompoop, (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nincompoop)every nitwwit and the likes can monitor anything and they'll keep wasting their time in front of a screen, for nothing or sheer evil. Just like Big Brother.

Geomagnetic storm

http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/NOAAscales/

Life is a gift indeed

A quote about war

I'm sure that someday children in schools will study the history of the men who made war as you study an absurdity. They'll be shocked, just as today we're shocked with cannibalism.
-Golda Meir, Israeli Prime Minister (1898-1978)
Thank you again Anu http://wordsmith.org/

Not an advert... We're relieved!

An orang-utan

Her name is Green, she is alone in a world that doesn't belong to her. She is a female orang-utan, victim of deforestation and resource exploitation.

http://www.greenthefilm.com/

Some speech

This speech was deliverd by Bernie Sanders on the senate floor on November 30th, 2010
a comment here:http://tinyurl.com/34gkvyx


Sénateur Bernie Sanders: l'Amérique à deux vitesses S/T
envoyé par hussardelamort. - L'info internationale vidéo.

The Infamous Double Slit Experiment

If you want to begin to grasp what Quantum Physics is, you will watch that video:

Wired: Danger Room

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/12/air-force-on-secret-space-plane-nothing-to-see-here-move-along/

Banksy

A video with many works by Banksy and more here: http://bilien.blogspot.com/search?q=banksy

Chimps and morality

BP's Gulf of Mexico OIL SPILL

Remember the oil spill? I'm sure you haven't heard about it much since August...
Well, you can now watch this very interesting video here:
http://www.youtube.com/user/commando602#p/a/f/0/d_x-b97LX0k
If you don't want to watch it all (15 minutes), concentrate on 3:45 up to 4:55 and then 13:00 onwards.
And then of course you might only have time to watch BP being made fun of...

Picasso

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Planète Bureau

I know, I know, this is in French, but you'll enjoy it!
You see, I've got very creative friends!... but they're French ;-(
Why don't we write subtitles for them!
To my pupils: If you do so, you'll get a reward!

http://www.planete-bureau.fr/

A Darwinian Theory of Beauty

Learn English with songs!

http://www.lyricstraining.com/index.php
As the video unfolds, you have to fill in blanks. It automatically waits for you.
Choose your song, your level, and try it!

The Fly

A poem by William Blake

Little Fly,
Thy summer's play
My thoughtless hand
Has brushed away.

Am not I
A fly like thee?
Or art not thou
A man like me?
For I dance
And drink, and sing,
Till some blind hand
Shall brush my wing.
If thought is life
And strength and breath
And the want
Of thought is death;
Then am I
A happy fly,
If I live,
Or if I die.

Body scanners: Opt out!

http://www.optoutday.com/
Some people are willing to refuse body scanners and would rather have a body search or "enhanced pat down"

Know that the TSA is Transportation Security Administration "that protects the nation's transportation systems to ensure freedom of movement for people and commerce." Indeed!!!

Let's be careful drivers!

World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims from lucy pepper on Vimeo.

John Lennon's aurora borealis

See http://bilien.blogspot.com/search?q=imagine
 and
http://www.wtop.com/?sid=2074196&nid=114
http://www.spaceweather.com/

ORAL COMPREHENSION SITES

TWO GREAT FINDINGS!
Remember!
If you really want to improve your English, LISTEN, LISTEN, LISTEN to as much English as you can!

http://storycorps.org/listen

http://soundportraits.org/on-air/

Thomas Jefferson

A great PBS series on youtube. Thx PBS, thx youtube

Physics according to Niels Bohr

"It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we say about Nature. "


http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/databank/entries/bpbohr.html

If you like horses,

you'll love Zenyatta
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7009219n&tag=component.1

5th of November = Guy Fawkes'night

Watch V for Vendetta tonight, on Bonfire Night and learn more about it,Guy Fawkes and the conspirators led by Robert Catesby:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/flash/0,5860,1605605,00.html
or here:http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/civil_war_revolution/gunpowder_robinson_01.shtml
I quote:
"Their first meeting was on 20 May 1604. Catesby was joined by his friends Thomas Wintour, Jack Wright and Thomas Percy at the Duck and Drake, in the Strand. The fifth person was Guy Fawkes. Originally from York, he had been recruited in Flanders, where he had been serving in the Spanish Army. They discussed their plan to blow up Parliament House, and shortly afterwards leased a small house in the heart of Westminster, installing Fawkes as caretaker, under the alias of John Johnson."
Here is a video : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1ikQQk8cJQ
And the nursery rhyme: thanks Emily!

"Remember, remember the Fifth of November,
The Gunpowder Treason and Plot,
I know of no reason
Why the Gunpowder Treason
Should ever be forgot.
Guy Fawkes, Guy Fawkes, t'was his intent
To blow up the King and Parli'ment.
Three-score barrels of powder below
To prove old England's overthrow;
By God's providence he was catch'd (or by God's mercy*)
With a dark lantern and burning match.
Holla boys, Holla boys, let the bells ring.
Holloa boys, holloa boys, God save the King!
And what should we do with him? Burn him!"

The empathic civilization

Marijuana: 7 Health Myths Up in Smoke

Proposition 19 also known as the "Regulate, Control & Tax Cannabis Act" was a ballot initiative on the November 2, 2010 California statewide ballot...  
Two days ago when U.S. democrats lose the majority in the House of Representatives but keep it in the Senate.
It was ultimately defeated, with 53.9% of California voters voting 'No'
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504763_162-20021612-10391704.html
Marijuana: 7 Health Myths Up in Smoke
http://www.cbsnews.com/2300-204_162-10005201.html?tag=page

National Geographic

One of the links towards NG's website.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/science.html

TEN FACTS

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/6546462/The-10-weirdest-physics-facts-from-relativity-to-quantum-physics.htmlhttp://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/6546462/The-10-weirdest-physics-facts-from-relativity-to-quantum-physics.html

Food poisoning

Easy enough to cure

This video dates back to 1991!!!

Most of you kids, pupils, students weren't even born when that video was shot 20 years ago. Still, we haven't got this digital desk yet!
Sitting in my study in front of my desktop, (a portable PC) I'm surrounded by paper. Bad for the planet.
Loads of files containing document, lessons, tests, papers, on the shelves and bookcases.

How nice it would be to have only one portable computer each with a video projector in the class, connected to the internet with the possibility for you to download the articles, links, audio and video files easily.
But the Education Nationale missed the opportunity then.. And it could have been cheap.
I guess it's better for businesss to give high-tech gizmos (gadgets whose name you can't recall) to people gradually, trickling down the devices only to make them obsolete with some new gadget, itself rendered obsolete with another one... ad lib.
Don't you see?
If you really don't see my point, make a list of all the electronic devices you've had since childhood.
You'll get it then!
If you mail this list to me and tell me what I mean, you'll get 2 additional points to your next test. I promise!

Rally to restore sanity

............................................UPDATES......... SOME SIGNS .........................................

Two great U.S. comedians: Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert
http://www.rallytorestoresanity.com/
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-october-27-2010/moment-of-zen---obama-will-not-be-at-the-rally
Watch this video too where the U.S. president's spokesman answers the question:" Is there a chance the president will put an appearance at the rally?"Watch his fingers spin.
tMon - Thurs 11p / 10cMoment of Zen - Obama Will Not Be at the Rallywww.thedailyshow.com

Daily Show Full Episodes

Political Humor

Rally to Restore Sanity

Seven years later... still so true!

Sing along! Just mute the sound on the lyrics video ... and start them both. You might want to use F 11 to get both videos visible on your screen.


Here a comment on the video I liked!
"What happened to the Black Eyed Peas?
I miss them. They used to make music with meaning and reason. This song brings me back when i was a little kid listening to this on the radio before all this same crap comes on over and over again: Everything now is sex and partying.
Wrong information always shown by the media
Negative images is the main criteria
Infecting their young minds faster than bacteria
Kids wanna act like what the see in the cinema
Now i ask you black eyed peas, "Where is the love?"
...from "The Shattered Element. Kuddos!

Happy Thanksgiving in advance!

http://www.jacquielawson.com/viewcard.asp?code=1796513126

Thank you Fanny!

Impressive Figures

TV Commercial with aliens...for the BBC, Budweiser and more!

ETs are becoming an increasingly popular in the media culture. Both intriguing and funny?





And many others, did you notice?
http://creativebits.org/inspiration/ufos_advertising

URBAN FARMERS

                                      http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/04/garden/04FARM.html?pagewanted=all&position=

UK TV Commercial

Birdmen

Extreme sport indeed but amazingly collected people risking their life for the sheer pleasure of ... flying.
Copy/Paste the link below to watch birdmen in action
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=6816775n&tag=mncol;lst;5

Julian Boulle, a South African asks at the very end of the video:
Do you think anybody else had as much fun as us today in the entire world?
To which Holmes, an American professional skier answers: "I don't think so."

America's front yard

Watch the video on the link below
if you wish to see famous sights of Washington D.C.and its National Mall.

http://www.nps.gov/nationalmallplan/Timelapse.html

Julia Fischer

Discover or rediscover one of the greatest artist of all times!

About Tax Havens

Ahhhh les paradis fiscaux!
For once, a video in French. I'm sure Evav Joly speaks English but I couldn't find the English equivalent so here you go!
I quote Eva Joly:
"Une mesure aussi simple que de demander aux sociétés transnationales de déclarer ce qu'elles gagnent pays par pays et de ne pas l'obtenir au bout de huit ans..."
Listen to her if you want to know more.

Eva Joly - Les paradis fiscaux c'est la colonisation
envoyé par ccfd. - L'actualité du moment en vidéo.

The Event, some TV event...

Considering all those hours I, you, we spend on the web, I just wanted to post a link which might not be legal but well, Hadopi will let me know.
No big deal really. Just the opportunity to watch a great series just a couple of days after the U.S. NBC viewers.
I've already posted a preview on that blog.Now the third episode has been I've just watched the third episode of The Event.
Yes, I do have some leisure time in front of my screen.
Well, that third episode of The Event is abso-...-lutely mind-blowing.
Great thriller and the plot unfolds smoothly. Actors are definitely convincing and as for the characters, we want to know more about them.
Well, you may want to see for yourself. Enjoy!

http://www.couchtuner.com/the-event/
Kuddos to couchtuner a.k.a. mytvsource.
Hey, NBC, we'll still buy the DVDs! Don't you worry.

The SEED School of Washington DC

Nature by numbers

Tigers in Bhutan ... up high

Best Universities in the world

http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-rankings/index.html
Thanks to G.G.

Hollywood's Social Network

http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff/2010/revenge-of-the-nerd

The Event

Another series to come... 

http://www.nbc.com/the-event/

Ground Zero 2010

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=6856449n&tag=contentMain;contentBody
a cbsnews video: after the inevitable commercial, learn about the progress made on ground zero.
An impressive building site.

9 X 9/11

For once in that blog... some French:  a "Le Monde" article about a hugely crucial subject: 9/11
http://www.lemonde.fr/ameriques/article/2010/09/11/les-etats-unis-n-en-ont-pas-fini-avec-le-11-septembre_1409267_3222.html#ens_id=1395749
Thanks to Teo, I've done my research and found this video. I chose mainly it because I love that child's voice and the design of the carpet. While the kid is fumbling with the $20 dollar bill, listen to the background sound.

Come and ask me to show you a $20 bill students! You might make an impression on your  teacher if you can tell her, in English, what you've heard in the background!
For the BTS students in particular, a 9/11 research by architects and engineers:
http://www.ae911truth.org/

Mars latest news

Great video about Mars. Thank you Opportunity, Thank you Rovers!
http://izlegenclik.com/video-izle-29610-Opportunity+On+Mars.htm
and life too?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10151001

KuaFu

KuaFu was a giant in Chinese Mythology who wanted to capture the sun...
Read about our sun again while listening to "Here Comes the Sun" by the Beatles!
It might cheer you up....
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2010/16jul_ilws/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6j4TGqVl5g

TOP SECRET AMERICA

A Washington Post  Investigation by Dana Priest and William M. Arkin
Watch the video first
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/top-secret-america/
Then, read the article entitled The secrets next door  by The  Washington Post http://projects.washingtonpost.com/top-secret-america/articles/
Finally, read about the reactions to the Washington Post series
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/top-secret-america/2010/07/washington_reacts_to_top_secre.html

Our sun again

http://www.news.com.au/technology/sun-storm-to-hit-with-force-of-100-bombs/story-e6frfro0-1225909999465

A wise man

Thanks Yo for this precious link!

Talking for a New Fairer World

Interesting talk about population growth:
PS: taxonomy (in French, taxinomie or taxonomie): science and practice of classification.

Octopus, Squid, Cuttlefish: Kings 'n Queens of Camouflage!

Here is the scientist who shot this incredible transformation!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mW4PbW893ik&NR=1&feature=fvwp

Ho, those Freudian Slips!

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/07/02/national/main6641548.shtml?tag=cbsContent;cbsCarousel

For more...
http://www.myspace.com/mitchellandwebb

Internet Kill Switch

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Worst Case Scenario

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Have you ever heard of Kudzu?

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If you want to know more about it, have a look here http://www.kudzuworld.com/Kudzu/index.en.aspx

Grand Old Party 's future candidate?

In the U.S.A., the G.O.P. is also known as the republican party. Nixon, Reagan, Bush father, Bush son were GOP presidents.
You can also read the article below that tells us U.S. citizens might not know what GOP stands for... http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/12/03/politics/main531460.shtml

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A quote

I want to realize brotherhood or identity not merely with the beings called human, but I want to realize identity with all life, even with such things as crawl upon earth. -Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948)

The promising journalist and the politician

Firefly? No! MIT's FLYFIRE

http://senseable.mit.edu/flyfire/#

38 years 4 months and fifteen days

That's the time it took the British government to admit that the killing of peace protesters on Bloody Sunday was unjustified and unjustifiable.
Watch and read:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/jun/15/bloodysunday-northernireland

Noisy Vuvuzelas on South African football grounds!

PEACE

I'm a fishwife

Go figure!
http://wordsmith.org/words/billingsgate.html
Dear Anu Garg, you make my day, and today, my blogging way.
And oh my, oh my, what a quote!

For those who have taken the time to open the link above and read that wordsmith.org page from top to bottom,they'll see what I mean.
Wordsmith is such a gem on the web.

silly bandz

pp

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The laws of Physics

Great article!
http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=deep-in-thought-what-is-a-law-of-ph-2010-06-04

DO YOU SPEAK FOOTBALL?

A great site for English learners who love football. Interesting interviews with series of questions below them.
http://premierskills.britishcouncil.org/premierskills-dvd-questions
And below, the South African map with the football stadiums of the 2010 world cup.

GOOGLING YOURSELF?

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/06/05/earlyshow/saturday/main6551213.shtml?tag=cbsContent;cbsCarousel

Gulf oil spill: Will Deepwater sink the 101-year-old BP?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/jun/02/gulf-oil-deepwater-sink-bp