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and 10 headlines of hope

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Can goats and sheep stop wildfires? This shepherdess is rallying the flock

Big business benefited from slavery – let it pay reparations

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The 19 best questions you should ask to really get to know someone, according to experts

From The Times, Nov 11th

A couple of years after closing more tills to make way for self-service checkouts,

      .... things are changing, now in November 2023 ,

Supermarket completely abandons self-service to put staff back behind tills

In other words :

(incidental learning)

Supermarket chain rips out self-service tills in favour of the human touch  (Booths)

Booths supermarkets to ditch self-checkouts in north of England stores

Booths is to replace machines with human cashiers in all but two of its sites

Booths is removing self-checkouts from its shops

Booths is stripping out self-service checkouts

Booths scraps self-checkouts in nearly all UK stores

Booths has shared it will get rid of self-service tills in most stores.

The decision to move away from self-checkouts is a supermarket first,

Booths phases out self-service for fully-staffed checkouts

So

Good riddance to the nightmare of supermarket self-checkout tills

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MEDLEY -   "for The Times , 2 ,3,"

Tous les 3 mois (?),

                       un défi de reconnaissances de données chiffrées et de tendances,

avec assez peu d'aide de connaissances antérieures, donc d'anticipation (haut niveau);

          la compétence est proportionnelle à l'exposition cumulée 

SSDC Figures & trends Nov 11th 2023

in the DEBATABLES series

SSDC DEBATABLES Nov 6th

(SSDC= Significant Short Daily Challenge)

faire de l'INFORMATION un objet de FORMATION ?

une utopie ringarde en L1 ????

Téléchargement Top stories The Times Nov 6th 23

From 3 sources on line 

Téléchargement King’s English?- 3 new accents - D Tel

Téléchargement 2-King’s English and Cockney  replaced by three new accents, The Times

Téléchargement 2-Cockney and King's English becoming less common

Listening for BBC confirmation

1- Standard English replacing King's English SSDC *** copie

2- Standard English replacing King's English SSDC *** Accents - decline of cockney

the 3 illustrations

1-Standard southern British English SSBE - Prince Harry

2-Estuary English - Adele

3-Multicultural English - Stormzy

source: careers.com

Téléchargement October headlines selection

On this day, Matisse Art work  .....

EU Parliament MPs wrongly transported to .....

Wiltshire caricature gargoyle looks like Council member

Danish artist ordered to refund museum

and

Cornish vicar  installed beer pumps church SSDC (fun)

Can COMPARING the 6 audio reports be useful?

1- On this day Orson Welles's aliens warning 20131030

2-On this day Orson Welles' Martians 20141101

3-On this day Orson Welles radio panic 2015

4-On this day Orson Welles' Martians 20171030

5-On this day Orson Welles' hoax 20201030

and this morning's reminder :

6-On this day Orson Welles - Aliens attack planet in US 20231030 mp3

AND 

               Orson Welles analyzes the consequence of that hoax, 3 years later in the US

Orson Welles The War of the Worlds ... and Pearl Harbour

Finally, more material on line

Téléchargement Orson Welles - docs online