18 months after 3/11 and 11 years after 9/11

http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/20120911_04.html NO HALF LIFE. FULL LIFE! The above link is reproduced below. NHK is a very official voice of Japan. And obviously, the ongoing crisis is still of major concern.Let us not forget. One and a half years have passed since the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Tokyo Electric Power Company has many problems to overcome before achieving its promise to decommission the crippled plant in about 40 years. TEPCO has been testing the spent fuel rods in the No.4 reactor pool over the past 2 months. The building structure at the No.4 reactor became fragile after the explosion and possibly unsustainable to more earthquakes in the future. TEPCO is preparing to remove the rods from the pool in December next year. But the debris scattered in the pool could hamper workers from taking them out. The operator also faces difficulty in handling the melted fuel in the No. 1 to No. 3 reactors. It hopes to fill water in the containment vessels to cool down the fuel and is now using endoscopes and robots to find cracks and holes in the vessels. But high-levels of radiation are disrupting these operations. TEPCO also wonders if it can secure enough workers for the next 5 years. It said it will see a shortage of workers unless it finds ways for them to avoid exposure to radiation. But the utility said apart from a few places in the plant, most areas now register radiation levels below 3 millisieverts per hour, compared with 100 millisieverts per hour soon after the accident. Sep. 10, 2012 - Updated 18:44 UTC (03:44 JST) As for 9/11 and its cohort of wars and horror, let us not forget either.

Jeff Skoll, a social entrepreneur.

Jeffrey Skoll, OC (born January 16, 1965) is a Canadian engineer and internet entrepreneur. He is currently based in Los Angeles, California.With an estimated net worth of $US 3.2 billion (as of March 2011), Skoll was ranked by Forbes as the 7th wealthiest Canadian and 347th in the world. He was the first employee and also first president of internet auction firm eBay, and used the wealth this gave him to become a philanthropist and found the independent movie production company Participant Media.

One British MP with Bradley Manning

http://presstv.com/detail/2012/09/08/260494/galloway-condemns-uk-on-manning-torture/ And more about this MP from the Western part of the city of Bradford in West Yorkshire here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Galloway

The Web is full of treasures...

... for you too, English learners! I've just discovered Seonaid's website (it's pronounced "shona".) This website is appropriately called PERFECT ENGLISH GRAMMAR. http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/index.html Here's the link that I immediately put in the left column under the label 'GRAMMAR'. Kuddos to Seonaid for the wonderful job. I hope my pupils will visit your website regularly and take advantage of your great work to improve their English grammar and more! Hey pupils, here are two examples of what you can do with Seonaid. First,this exercise. http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/present-simple-exercise-6.html Then,have a look at this video page. Isn't it useful? http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/learn-english-video.html

Desmond Tutu and warmongers

A great piece by the famous South African nobel peace prize retired Archbishop http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/sep/02/desmond-tutu-tony-blair-iraq

ARAGO-FUKUSHIMA Awareness

Since our school has heating and cooling systems students, why don't we commemorate the second anniversary of March 11th 2011? Let's all learn more about the ongoing crisis in Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. I'M WAITING FOR YOUR COMMENTS PUPILS!

KUCHIDOMERYOU = HUSH MONEY

Kuchidomeryou from Timothée Mathelin on Vimeo.

Honey Ale

or learn how to brew beer...

Our new English assistant!

The Lycée Arago is delighted to announce that our 2012-2013 English assistant: Joel Scoffield We're all looking forward to meet you Joel!

Back to school...

... with another great site. http://www.autoenglish.org/ I'm sure you could do some revisions, don't you think? So try that site and the others in the left column. Remember you are preparing yourselves to take the baccalauréat;did you know that US kids take the SAT and UK kids the GCSE? You'll learn more about those in class. See you soon! And for out Tech students, why don't you revise your tools? http://fr.english-attack.com/photovocab/tools

License to steal

Matt Taibbi Explains Wall Street’s "License to Steal," Offshore Tax Havens and Private Equity Firms http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2012/7/30/matt_taibbi_explains_wall_streets_license_to_steal_offshore_tax_havens_and_private_equity_firms And the Rolling Stones article by Matt Taibbi http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-scam-wall-street-learned-from-the-mafia-20120620

Total power in one person's hand is not the American way

Mike Bost, Illinois State Republican Representative goes ballistic and then explains why. To learn more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/31/mike-bost-meltdown-illino_n_1560593.html I quote: "He acknowledged voting in 1995 in favor of the rule used to block debate, which was sponsored by Republicans. Bost now says he didn't fully understand it and called his vote a mistake." Indeed, passing a law without doing an in-depth reading of it shoul never take place. Remember the Patriot Act?

The Scorn factor vs the beauty of life

If if you think we ARE the only intelligent species in the Universe, or else,watch this:

Fear in itself is control. WATCH!

Ray McGovern on Julian Assange and why he is a hero. This dates back to 2010 http://tvnz.co.nz/close-up/julian-assange-hero-villian-3962418/video And listen to M.Thomas A.Drake on the establishment of the surveillance society. Fear in itself is control. JULY 9 2012

Stardust memory

This is Gary McKinnon's favourite video. If you don't know who Gary McKinnon, you can read this: http://www.antonnews.com/columns/miller/4781-who-is-gary-mckinnon.html and then there is the reference to Gary-related news here http://freegary.org.uk/

EURO(pe)

Julian Assange vs MSM

Main Stream Media is very disappointing in Sweden too: "The sad and horrific result is that the public in Sweden still does not know what Assange thinks, only what his opponents think." http://khelenebergman.blogspot.fi/2012/07/my-meeting-with-most-wanted-man-assange.html

MUST WATCH: "In Containment"

In Containment: the people of Minamisoma, 15 months after the meltdown. KUDDOS TO Ian Thomas Ash and Koji Fujita http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0ACDF8BAC7DF3054&feature=plcp and this on lower dose vs MIT http://www.simplyinfo.org/?p=6210 Kuddos to simplyinfo

You look out the window and you see climate change

Europe says NO to ACTA on July 4th

http://i.imgur.com/neVmK.png