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stereotypes, respect and tolerance
‘Pretty’ prison officer wins case |
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A former prison officer who said she was forced out of her job after being bullied because she was pretty has won her case for unfair dismissal. Amitjo Kajla, 22, said she suffered the abuse at Brinsford Young Offenders’ Institution near Wolverhampton. Her tribunal heard how former colleagues questioned her behaviour with male inmates and suggested she rejected advice about the dress code. The tribunal has now issued a written judgement backing her claims. Ms Kajla, who lives in Wolverhampton, also won claims for age and sex discrimination against HM Prison Service (HMPS). The hearing in Birmingham in July heard Ms Kajla describe how she had been effectively sacked by Brinsford in April 2008 despite having no problems in her previous job at Shrewsbury prison. ‘Weak woman’ The written judgement said the tribunal accepted that under the circumstances, the treatment Ms Kajla was subjected to amounted to unfair dismissal. In a statement, Ms Kajla said: “All I ever did was try to uphold the HMPS purpose statement, which clearly states that their duty is to ‘look after prisoners with humanity’ and I sought to apply that in my work by treating prisoners with respect. “However, one officer didn’t like my way of working, which was counter to the macho approach he favoured. “I was seen as a weak woman who could be bullied.” A spokesman for the Prison Service said it was “disappointed” by the tribunal’s findings and said it would study them “carefully”. The spokesman added: “The Prison Service takes all allegations of sexual harassment very seriously.” A hearing will be held in early November to determine how much compensation Ms Kajla should receive. |
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Marie ANDRE-MILESI Marie.Milesi@ac-besancon.fr
Collège Lucie Aubrac, PONTARLIER, FRANCE Académie de Besançon.
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We were shocked by the horror of the photographs which are testimonies of torture and experiments made in the concentration camps when Americans arrived. Most of the experiments were done on people because of their belonging to the Jewish religion and /or because they were Jews (Jewish)We could for example see children’ s clothes and people’s hair. It was of the utmost violence and extremely difficult to watch!As … |
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the pride of Gustave Courbet whose paintings are still questioning our twenty-first century eye and sense of beauty.
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La vallée de la Loue is peopled with strange shapes, fauna and flora alike which were
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Deux mille Neuf! 2009 wishes |
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2009 wishes !
Note our new postal address:
Collège Lucie Aubrac
BP 25 25300 DOUBS France
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Once upon a time, there was a very beautiful valley with lots of nice and cosy houses, colourful and scented flowers.
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Fredrika: Buddharama Temple |
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Budharama tempel in Fredrika
By Maritza
The buddhist are going to build a temple in Fredrika It will be the biggest temple in Europe. Phramha Boonthin Taosiri, the chief monk in Sweden, decided that in 2004. We are not Buddhist in Fredrika, but many Thai people come here every summer to pick berries and sell. They have not started building the temple yet, but there is a big monk statue and a golden Buddha statue on the Temple Mountain. Every summer they have ceremonies and festivals where they collect money for the temple.
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Fredrika: Four seasons |
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Four seasons
by Wictor
We have a temperate climate, which means that we have four very different seasons. Since we live in the northern part of Sweden, we have very long winters and short summers. Here are some short summaries about our four seasons.
Winter – November to February
Our climate is cold and icy in the winter. And we have long, dark and cold nights. The weather is clear and consists of sunlight and ice-cold temperatures. The temperatures sometimes reaches -40° Celsius (which is rare in the most parts of Sweden), but normally it is -10° to -20° Celsius. Sometimes, you don’t want to go outside due to the cold because it hurts to breath cold air, but after a while you get used to it.
Spring – March to May
It’s snowy and around 0° Celsius on the spring. It’s not very cold, and the snow usually melts down, and freezes again during cold nights. We normally have snow left on the ground until the end of April.
Summer – June to August
The summer is most of the time pretty warm. It is around 20°Celsius to 28°Celsius. Sometimes it rains and sometimes we have chilly winds, even in the summer. The most special about our summers are the bright nights. We have midnight sun during June and July, and it is quite intense and a powerful brightness over the sky.
Autumn – September to October
Our autumn is quite short, but yet so cold and rainy. We have cloudy weather during the short autumn. Our broad-leaved trees become very colorful during the autumn, almost glaring the yellow, orange and red colors on the leaves.
Accueil 
Fredrika – Cultural Identity Fredrika – Natural Identity 
FUERTEVENTURA FUERTEVENTURA HISTORY FUERTEVENTURA NATURAL IDENTITY Lower Silesia Poland The Natural and Cultural Identity of Lower Silesia Poland
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Fredrika; The Sami |
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The Sámi people
By Wictor
The Sámi people is an ethnical minority in Sweden. They are a national group, and they see themselves as one people, even if they live in different geographical countries. The total population of the Sámi people is around 80 000-135 000, but only 20 000 of them live in Sweden.
The Sámi peoples work can be divided into three divisions. The first division is reindeer herding, the second fishing (mainly in Norway and Russia) and the third is everything else except reindeer herding and fishing.
The reindeer herding is an old part of the Sámi culture, and 10 % of the total population practices reindeer herding. In Sweden only Sámi are allowed to practice reindeer herding. They are nomades and move with the reindeers; in the summer, they live up in the mountains and in the winter in the forest region, like here around Fredrika. They’re using modern technology, like helicopters, snowmobiles and so on.
Thibault 4°2 Lucie Aubrac 2008-2009
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Pronunciation and comprehension Emily Dickinson
Ever serene and fair,
And there is another sunshine,
Though it be darkness there;
Never mind faded forests, Austin,
Never mind silent fields –
Here is a little forest,
Whose leaf is ever green;
Here is a brighter garden,
Where not a frost has been;
In its unfading flowers
I hear the bright bee hum:
Prithee, my brother,
Into my garden come!
Emily Dickinson’s Gingerbread
As transcribed in Emily Dickinson: Profile of the Poet as Cook from Dickinson’s
original manuscript:
1 quart flour
½ cup butter
½ cup cream
1 tablespoon ginger
1 teaspoon soda
1 teaspoon salt
Make up with molasses
The editors of the book add the following about Emily Dickinson’s gingerbread recipe:
“Cream the butter and mix with lightly whipped cream. Sift dry ingredients together
and combine with other ingredients. The dough is stiff and needs to be pressed into
whatever pan you choose. A round or small square pan is suitable. The recipe also
fits perfectly into a cast iron muffin pan, if you happen to have one which makes oval
cakes. Bake at 350°F for 20-25 minutes.”
“Guides at the Emily Dickinson House, who in 1975 individually experimented with
the quantity of molasses, have generally agreed that a ‘cup or so’ is just about right.”
(p. 15)
Brose, Nancy, Juliana McGovern Dupre, Wendy Tocher Kohler and Jean McClure Mudge,
Emily Dickinson: Profile of the Poet as Cook (Amherst, Massachusetts, ©1976).
des textes de compéhension orale et des fiches écrites
de la musique dans le respect de la légalité
Mark Bittman ‘s cooking advice…. Yummy! Enjoy!
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a piece of romance by Today’s BBC
Facebook same name couple to wed
Kelly Hildebrandt – left and right. He calls her “baby doll”
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A couple with the same name who found each other through social networking website Facebook are to tie the knot.
Kelly Katrina Hildebrandt, 20, was bored one evening last year when she put her name into the site and came across Kelly Carl Hildebrandt, 24.
She sent the only other Kelly Hildebrandt, of Lubbock, Texas, a message and they became friends.
Ms Hildebrandt, a student from Miami, Florida, said she believed the chain of events was “all God’s timing”.
Her fiance described her first message to him, in April last year, as reading: “Hi. We had the same name. Thought it was cool,” reports the Associated Press news agency.
He said: “I thought she was pretty cute.”
Mr Hildebrandt admitted, however, that he had worried they might be related.
Nevertheless, the two were soon in daily contact by phone and e-mail and he “fell head over heels” after visiting her in Florida.
In December, she found a diamond engagement ring he had hidden in a treasure box on a beach.
“I thought it was fun. I had no idea it would lead to this,” Mr Hildebrandt said.
The couple plan to tie the knot in October and have confirmed that they do not plan to pass their first names on to any future offspring.
