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Doing things in the right order – first things first; last things last … is certainly a key to avoiding problems.

There’s an old, pre-automobile proverb telling us this – but it still works pretty well:

Don’t put the cart in front of the horse.

First things first.

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Last week, the Musée du Louvre introduced its newest acquisition, a 3,750-square-foot ceiling painting created by Cy Twombly to hang in the Salle de Bronzes.

Discover the new ceiling !

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Just in case you didn’t know …. a weekend in New York isn’t just going UP UP UP … or just walking DOWN DOWN DOWNTOWN … Hint: New York is an island … which means that it’s surrounded by water.

This is a 4 and a half minute video (sometimes preceded by … 30 seconds of a sponsor’s advertising) !

Click it ! It can also be something fun you might not have imagined … Enjoy.

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Happy April Fool’s Day!

What should you believe and what shouldn’t you believe …

Here’s a little reminder!

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Just published  …. Read this … Another budget cut!

English at schools in the the USA.

Can you believe it???

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“On a deck in Boston, seven friends recently gathered for dinner. At the table was a white American man; his wife, an Italian woman he met in Switzerland; a Swiss citizen raised in Kenya; a German of Korean origin; a woman with Haitian, Chinese and European ancestry; the son of a black American and a German Jew; and an American with Indian blood.

It took a while to get through the where-are-you-fromming, as it often can these days.” (The Struggle of the Global Placeless)

Now this is a good question … While this is one of the most common questions, it can also be one of the trickiest.  Click on comment if you feel like revealing where you’re from!  (No indiscretion intended!)

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This document allowed me to enumerate, elaborate and visualize how the (my) brain sees this idea. What I associate with the idea of achievement. As you’ll see there are two poles: success and failure, one positive and one negative.

achievement

1. success
2. to succeed
3. to win
4. antonym= to lose/lost

1. won
2. victory
   1. antonyms:  defeat  to give up – to surrender – to abandon

1. successful
2. profitable
3. satisfaction 
   1. antonyms  – failure – to fail
   2. unsuccessful
   3. unprofitable
   4. dissatisfaction/ insatisfaction

III.      to achieve

1. to attain

complete

1. finished

antonyms: incomplete

1. unfinished

achievement

fulfillment

triumph

It may well be that different cultures, different backgrounds see this differently. To each his own!

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Here’s one from the front page of the International Herald Tribune … “Arms control talks break past logjam”

Well, I suggest you look up this word in Google Image to get a visual picture of what it means.  the “jam” part does not mean something made from fruit and sugar to put on your toast in the  morning … It’s more linked to the jam you may know in traffic jam:

stuck, not being able to go anywhere.

And this is something that can happen in negotiations, in discussions. We know lots of examples, don’t we?

Watch out for metaphors … they’re … picturesque.

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Over at the Porte de Versailles is the annual Parisian Book Fair: the Salon du Livre.

As usual, you’ll find loads of interesting new publications – often by little–known or unknown publishers from France and all around the world.

You’ll never regret spending a couple of hours there …

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