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Title: Study: Thinking in a Foreign Language Leads to More Rational Decisions
Body: Second Language Translates Into Clearer Thinking New research finds people make more rational financial decisions when they consider their options using their second language. By Tom Jacobs April 24, 2012 A research team led by psychologist Boaz Keysar reports using one’s second language reduces or eliminates certain biases that otherwise infiltrate our decision-making. Specifically, our aversion to potential loss — a bias that can lead us to pass up promising opportunities for potential gains — diminishes as we ponder options in a language learned later in life. “People who routinely make decisions in a foreign language rather than their native tongue might be less biased in their savings, investment, and retirement decisions,” the researchers write in the journal Psychological Science. “Over a long time horizon, this might very well be beneficial.” Read the full article at http://www.psmag.com/education/second-language-translates-into-clearer-thinking-41740 Read a related article at http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/04/language-and-bias Access the original article at http://pss.sagepub.com/content/early/2012/04/18/0956797611432178
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Title: Study: Thinking in a Foreign Language Leads to More Rational Decisions
Body: Second Language Translates Into Clearer Thinking New research finds people make more rational financial decisions when they consider their options using their second language. By Tom Jacobs April 24, 2012 A research team led by psychologist Boaz Keysar reports using one’s second language reduces or eliminates certain biases that otherwise infiltrate our decision-making. Specifically, our aversion to potential loss — a bias that can lead us to pass up promising opportunities for potential gains — diminishes as we ponder options in a language learned later in life. “People who routinely make decisions in a foreign language rather than their native tongue might be less biased in their savings, investment, and retirement decisions,” the researchers write in the journal Psychological Science. “Over a long time horizon, this might very well be beneficial.” Read the full article at http://www.psmag.com/education/second-language-translates-into-clearer-thinking-41740 Read a related article at http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/04/language-and-bias Access the original article at http://pss.sagepub.com/content/early/2012/04/18/0956797611432178
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Title: First Ivy League ASL/Deaf Studies Minor Approved
Body: From http://thedp.com/index.php/article/2012/04/university_approves_american_sign_languagedeaf_studies_minor University approves ASL/Deaf Studies minor Faculty and students alike are pleased with the minor’s approval By Ella Duangkaew April 24, 2012 Penn has signed off on the first American Sign Language/Deaf Studies minor in the Ivy League. The minor was granted final approval by the faculty of the School of Arts and Sciences in their meeting yesterday, following its approval by the College Curriculum Committee in March. The vote for approval was unanimous, according to Gillian Sankoff, undergraduate chair in the Department of Linguistics, which is where the minor will be housed. Read the full article at http://thedp.com/index.php/article/2012/04/university_approves_american_sign_languagedeaf_studies_minor
Source: The Daily Pennsylvanian
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Title: First Ivy League ASL/Deaf Studies Minor Approved
Body: From http://thedp.com/index.php/article/2012/04/university_approves_american_sign_languagedeaf_studies_minor University approves ASL/Deaf Studies minor Faculty and students alike are pleased with the minor’s approval By Ella Duangkaew April 24, 2012 Penn has signed off on the first American Sign Language/Deaf Studies minor in the Ivy League. The minor was granted final approval by the faculty of the School of Arts and Sciences in their meeting yesterday, following its approval by the College Curriculum Committee in March. The vote for approval was unanimous, according to Gillian Sankoff, undergraduate chair in the Department of Linguistics, which is where the minor will be housed. Read the full article at http://thedp.com/index.php/article/2012/04/university_approves_american_sign_languagedeaf_studies_minor
Source: The Daily Pennsylvanian
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Title: Editorial: Alaska Native Languages: It All Comes Down to Choices
Body: From http://juneauempire.com/art/2012-04-26/alaska-native-languages-it-all-comes-down-choices#.T5nPir8zJRw Alaska Native languages: It all comes down to choices By XH'UNEI, LANCE A. TWITCHELL April 26, 2012 Linguists have been predicting the death of Alaska Native languages for decades now, and whether or not those predictions prove accurate comes down to the choices you and I make on a daily basis. The past 200 years have been devastating; from boarding schools to disease to social discriminations, we are now left with the aftermath of successful attempts to destroy languages and cultures. But that does not mean we have to resign our efforts or just allow this to happen. In fact, it leaves us all with a tremendous amount of power and the decision is right here before us: speak now or let it go forever. Read the full editorial at http://juneauempire.com/art/2012-04-26/alaska-native-languages-it-all-comes-down-choices#.T5nWsL8zJRw
Source: Juneau Empire
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Title: Editorial: Alaska Native Languages: It All Comes Down to Choices
Body: From http://juneauempire.com/art/2012-04-26/alaska-native-languages-it-all-comes-down-choices#.T5nPir8zJRw Alaska Native languages: It all comes down to choices By XH'UNEI, LANCE A. TWITCHELL April 26, 2012 Linguists have been predicting the death of Alaska Native languages for decades now, and whether or not those predictions prove accurate comes down to the choices you and I make on a daily basis. The past 200 years have been devastating; from boarding schools to disease to social discriminations, we are now left with the aftermath of successful attempts to destroy languages and cultures. But that does not mean we have to resign our efforts or just allow this to happen. In fact, it leaves us all with a tremendous amount of power and the decision is right here before us: speak now or let it go forever. Read the full editorial at http://juneauempire.com/art/2012-04-26/alaska-native-languages-it-all-comes-down-choices#.T5nWsL8zJRw
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Title: Kony2012 and the LRA: New Educational Materials
Body: In response to the explosion of campus interest in the Kony2012 video and the "Cover the Night" event this weekend of the Invisible Children organization, several Africanists have prepared new educational materials to promote more accurate understanding of the situation in Uganda and Central Africa and the LRA. The 11-page packet “React and Respond: The Phenomenon of Kony 2012” can be downloaded free at http://bit.ly/I1a0AU . It includes an overview of the LRA situation, guides for teachers about stereotypes and critical thinking about Africa and media literacy regarding the Kony 2012 video, “What can we do about Uganda and the LRA?,” and a resource list. Please share it with high school and middle school teachers – and college students - you think might use it. The National Council of Social Studies (NCSS) is publishing a shortened version in the May-June edition of “Social Education,” which has 17,000 subscribers. The packet was created by the Outreach Directors at the Boston University and Michigan State University African Studies Centers, Barbara Brown and John Metzler, with Christine Root from the Association of Concerned Africa (ACAS). See also the Association of Concerned Africa Scholars’ "Statement to the U.S. Government about the Lord’s Resistance Army and Central Africa" which is on ACAS’ extensive resource list on this topic at: http://concernedafricascholars.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/ACAS-Press-Release-3-15-12.pdf . Also, a group of young scholars has organized a petition campaign advocating to Obama against a military solution. See "Uncover the Night" (http://uncoverthenight.tumblr.com ) and on Facebook. Wiley, D. WEB: Kony2012 and the LRA: New educational materials. H-AFRICA listserv (H-AFRICA@H-NET.MSU.EDU, 23 Apr 2012).
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Title: Kony2012 and the LRA: New Educational Materials
Body: In response to the explosion of campus interest in the Kony2012 video and the "Cover the Night" event this weekend of the Invisible Children organization, several Africanists have prepared new educational materials to promote more accurate understanding of the situation in Uganda and Central Africa and the LRA. The 11-page packet “React and Respond: The Phenomenon of Kony 2012” can be downloaded free at http://bit.ly/I1a0AU . It includes an overview of the LRA situation, guides for teachers about stereotypes and critical thinking about Africa and media literacy regarding the Kony 2012 video, “What can we do about Uganda and the LRA?,” and a resource list. Please share it with high school and middle school teachers – and college students - you think might use it. The National Council of Social Studies (NCSS) is publishing a shortened version in the May-June edition of “Social Education,” which has 17,000 subscribers. The packet was created by the Outreach Directors at the Boston University and Michigan State University African Studies Centers, Barbara Brown and John Metzler, with Christine Root from the Association of Concerned Africa (ACAS). See also the Association of Concerned Africa Scholars’ "Statement to the U.S. Government about the Lord’s Resistance Army and Central Africa" which is on ACAS’ extensive resource list on this topic at: http://concernedafricascholars.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/ACAS-Press-Release-3-15-12.pdf . Also, a group of young scholars has organized a petition campaign advocating to Obama against a military solution. See "Uncover the Night" (http://uncoverthenight.tumblr.com ) and on Facebook. Wiley, D. WEB: Kony2012 and the LRA: New educational materials. H-AFRICA listserv (H-AFRICA@H-NET.MSU.EDU, 23 Apr 2012).
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Title: Arabic Reference Books Free of Charge
Body: Zayed University, Abu Dhabi offers Arabic reference books free of charge (except shipping), while supplies last. Titles include Arabic Grammar Atlas, A Reference Handbook; Encyclopedia of Arabic Numerals Syntax Tabulations; and Dictionary of Arabic Triliteral & Quadriliteral Basic Stems Permutations. For further information, contact Mahmoud Elgibali at mahmoudelgibali at hotmail dot com.
Source: NCLRC Arabic K-12 Bulletin
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Title: Arabic Reference Books Free of Charge
Body: Zayed University, Abu Dhabi offers Arabic reference books free of charge (except shipping), while supplies last. Titles include Arabic Grammar Atlas, A Reference Handbook; Encyclopedia of Arabic Numerals Syntax Tabulations; and Dictionary of Arabic Triliteral & Quadriliteral Basic Stems Permutations. For further information, contact Mahmoud Elgibali at mahmoudelgibali at hotmail dot com.
Source: NCLRC Arabic K-12 Bulletin
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Title: Al Hakawati: Arab Cultural Website
Body: From http://www.al-hakawati.net/english/About/index.asp al-hakawati Arab Cultural Trust is an independent non-profit educational organization, registered in May 2006. Management and staff are located in Beirut, Lebanon, and New Jersey, USA. al-hakawati tells the story of Arab heritage and civilization, which flowered in a region rooted in the world’s first cultures, in the monotheistic religious traditions, and at the crossroads between East and West. al-hakawati tells the story of Arab culture through folktales and fairy tales from the Arab and Islamic heritage, through biographies of personalities ancient to modern, artists and their arts, architecture, the environment and religions. The content of al-hakawati covers the 22 Arab states, members of the Arab League. The content is arranged thematically in ten sections, each with several subsections. New entries are regularly added. al-hakawati is a free educational resource and reference, made possible by the Arab Cultural Trust. The website is available in Arabic at http://www.al-hakawati.net/arabic/index.asp and in English at http://www.al-hakawati.net/english/index.asp
Source: Al Hakawati
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Title: Al Hakawati: Arab Cultural Website
Body: From http://www.al-hakawati.net/english/About/index.asp al-hakawati Arab Cultural Trust is an independent non-profit educational organization, registered in May 2006. Management and staff are located in Beirut, Lebanon, and New Jersey, USA. al-hakawati tells the story of Arab heritage and civilization, which flowered in a region rooted in the world’s first cultures, in the monotheistic religious traditions, and at the crossroads between East and West. al-hakawati tells the story of Arab culture through folktales and fairy tales from the Arab and Islamic heritage, through biographies of personalities ancient to modern, artists and their arts, architecture, the environment and religions. The content of al-hakawati covers the 22 Arab states, members of the Arab League. The content is arranged thematically in ten sections, each with several subsections. New entries are regularly added. al-hakawati is a free educational resource and reference, made possible by the Arab Cultural Trust. The website is available in Arabic at http://www.al-hakawati.net/arabic/index.asp and in English at http://www.al-hakawati.net/english/index.asp
Source: Al Hakawati
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Title: New Resource: Leiden Weibo Corpus
Body: From http://linguistlist.org/issues/23/23-2009.html The Leiden Weibo Corpus (LWC) is an annotated linguistic 100-million word corpus containing 5.1 million messages from Sina Weibo, China’s premier Twitter-like microblogging service. The LWC is freely available online at http://lwc.daanvanesch.nl . Data for the LWC was collected in January 2012. As such, it contains many linguistic phenomena that may not be found in older corpora, such as suffixation with "-ing", an aspect marker borrowed from English. Furthermore, Sina Weibo messages come with valuable meta data, such as the gender of the user and his location. This information allows the LWC to calculate how often words are used in different provinces and cities across China, which is useful for research into lexical variation across China. Naturally, the LWC also supports searching for single words or grammar patterns, such as "any verb followed by an aspectual particle and then a noun". This feature may also be of interest to students and teachers of Mandarin who are looking for example sentences. For a full description go to http://linguistlist.org/issues/23/23-2009.html The corpus is available at http://lwc.daanvanesch.nl
Source: LINGUIST List
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Title: New Resource: Leiden Weibo Corpus
Body: From http://linguistlist.org/issues/23/23-2009.html The Leiden Weibo Corpus (LWC) is an annotated linguistic 100-million word corpus containing 5.1 million messages from Sina Weibo, China’s premier Twitter-like microblogging service. The LWC is freely available online at http://lwc.daanvanesch.nl . Data for the LWC was collected in January 2012. As such, it contains many linguistic phenomena that may not be found in older corpora, such as suffixation with "-ing", an aspect marker borrowed from English. Furthermore, Sina Weibo messages come with valuable meta data, such as the gender of the user and his location. This information allows the LWC to calculate how often words are used in different provinces and cities across China, which is useful for research into lexical variation across China. Naturally, the LWC also supports searching for single words or grammar patterns, such as "any verb followed by an aspectual particle and then a noun". This feature may also be of interest to students and teachers of Mandarin who are looking for example sentences. For a full description go to http://linguistlist.org/issues/23/23-2009.html The corpus is available at http://lwc.daanvanesch.nl
Source: LINGUIST List
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Title: Photo Panels of World Heritage Sites in Japan Available for Loan
Body: From http://www.jfny.org/arts_and_culture/worldheritage.html The Japan Foundation, New York is proud to offer the World Heritage photo panels to cultural and educational institutions throughout the U.S., to introduce the breadth of these great cultural heritage sites in Japan. This exhibition set consists of 67 spectacular photos of world heritage sites in Japan, including the latest additions in 2011 of Ogasawara Islands and Hiraizumi – Temples, Gardens and Archaeological Sites Representing the Buddhist Pure Land. The Japan Foundation, New York will now bear the expenses for shipping of the artworks. Additional support for costs directly related to holding the photo exhibition is also available. For full details go to http://www.jfny.org/arts_and_culture/worldheritage.html
Source: Japan Foundation New York
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Title: Photo Panels of World Heritage Sites in Japan Available for Loan
Body: From http://www.jfny.org/arts_and_culture/worldheritage.html The Japan Foundation, New York is proud to offer the World Heritage photo panels to cultural and educational institutions throughout the U.S., to introduce the breadth of these great cultural heritage sites in Japan. This exhibition set consists of 67 spectacular photos of world heritage sites in Japan, including the latest additions in 2011 of Ogasawara Islands and Hiraizumi – Temples, Gardens and Archaeological Sites Representing the Buddhist Pure Land. The Japan Foundation, New York will now bear the expenses for shipping of the artworks. Additional support for costs directly related to holding the photo exhibition is also available. For full details go to http://www.jfny.org/arts_and_culture/worldheritage.html
Source: Japan Foundation New York
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Title: May Is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month
Body: From http://www.smithsonianeducation.org/heritage_month/apahm/index.html May is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, and the Smithsonian Education website has updated resources to support educators who want to celebrate this month. On the website you’ll find a calendar listing events in the Washington, D.C., area and in New York City; a collection of relevant articles from the Smithsonian magazine; and resources specifically for educators. Browse available resources at http://www.smithsonianeducation.org/heritage_month/apahm/index.html
Source: Smithsonian
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Title: May Is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month
Body: From http://www.smithsonianeducation.org/heritage_month/apahm/index.html May is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, and the Smithsonian Education website has updated resources to support educators who want to celebrate this month. On the website you’ll find a calendar listing events in the Washington, D.C., area and in New York City; a collection of relevant articles from the Smithsonian magazine; and resources specifically for educators. Browse available resources at http://www.smithsonianeducation.org/heritage_month/apahm/index.html
Source: Smithsonian
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Title: South East European Film Festival in Los Angeles
Body: From http://www.seefilmla.org/drupal South East European Film Festival May 3 through 7, 2012 Goethe-Institut Los Angeles and James Bridges Theater, UCLA SEE Fest, the South East European Film Festival in Los Angeles has pioneered the concept of regional, cross-border programming with issue-driven films that tell a larger story about the Balkans and South East Europe, where borders of all kinds are fluid and porous just as often as poisonous. With an overarching goal of presenting multiple points of view, the festival unlocks the delicate doors into human existence and concerns of our time. Visit the festival website for a schedule and more information: http://www.seefilmla.org/drupal
Source: SEE Fest
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Title: South East European Film Festival in Los Angeles
Body: From http://www.seefilmla.org/drupal South East European Film Festival May 3 through 7, 2012 Goethe-Institut Los Angeles and James Bridges Theater, UCLA SEE Fest, the South East European Film Festival in Los Angeles has pioneered the concept of regional, cross-border programming with issue-driven films that tell a larger story about the Balkans and South East Europe, where borders of all kinds are fluid and porous just as often as poisonous. With an overarching goal of presenting multiple points of view, the festival unlocks the delicate doors into human existence and concerns of our time. Visit the festival website for a schedule and more information: http://www.seefilmla.org/drupal
Source: SEE Fest
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