Google Translate adds 24 new languages – BBC News

The new languages range from Bhojpuri, which is spoken by as many as 50 million people in northern India, Nepal and Fiji, to Dhiveri with its estimated 300,000 speakers in the Maldives.

The move now brings to 133 the total number of languages available on Google Translate.

 

Source: Google Translate adds 24 new languages – BBC News

(1) U.S. schools bring back mask mandates amid rising COVID-19 cases – National | Globalnews.ca

U.S. COVID-19 cases are up, leading a smattering of school districts, particularly in the Northeast, to bring back mask mandates and recommendations for the first time since the Omicron winter surge ended and as the country approaches 1 million deaths in the pandemic.

The return of masking in schools is not nearly as widespread as earlier in the pandemic, particularly as the public’s worries over the virus have ebbed. But districts in Maine, New Jersey and Pennsylvania have brought masks back, with a few in Massachusetts also recommending them even as the school year enters its final weeks.

Source: (1) U.S. schools bring back mask mandates amid rising COVID-19 cases – National | Globalnews.ca

More than a million Ukrainians reported to have been deported to Russia

Ukraine’s Commissioner for Human Rights, Liudmyla Denisova reported on 9 May that almost 1.2 million Ukrainians have been taken to the Russian Federation, with this figure including 200 thousand children.  While the Russians claim that they are ‘evacuating’ people, many are believed to have been taken against their will or through deceit, and often transported to the most inhospitable parts of the Russian Federation.

In her press briefing, Denisova spoke of the methods of so-called ‘filtration’ used by the Russian invading forces.  As reported earlier, these include forcing people to take off their clothes to check tattoos for ‘suspicious’ pro-Ukrainian content and scrutinizing contacts and content of mobile telephones.  All are automatically asked about their opinion of the so-called ‘special military operation’, as Russia describes its total invasion of Ukraine.

Those who ‘fail’ such filtration, being considered ‘suspect’ by the Russia’s FSB [security service] for their pro-Ukrainian views, contacts, etc., are sent to Donetsk or Dokuchaevsk on the territory of the Russian proxy ‘Donetsk people’s republic’ [DPR].  While Denisova says that no exact figures are known, she does speak of some 20 thousand people held in various camps.

Source: More than a million Ukrainians reported to have been deported to Russia

Estoy acostumbrado

Santiago Galicia Rojon Serrallonga

SANTIAGO GALICIA ROJON SERRALLONGA

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Estoy acostumbrado a las letras antiguas, a los documentos que huelen a polvo, a los papeles heridos por la polilla y dañados por la humedad. Conozco la experiencia de palpar los retratos de antaño, las fotografías cepia, apenas visibles, de personajes del ayer, como si tuviera la facilidad de interpretar sus silencios, descifrar sus rasgos y escuchar sus lenguajes. Sé lo que significa quedar rezagado en los sueños nocturnos, en calles y en vecindarios donde la gente duerme ajena a los trasnochados que nos empeñamos en realizar tareas, mientras escudriño innumerables páginas de la historia. Reconozco el papel maquillado y perfumado por los años, con olor a ancianidad y a tinta, En otros tiempos -estaciones de la vida, al fin-, he andado en ruinas, en las entrañas de la tierra, en cementerios, entre piedas yertas y lápidas con epitafios…

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Do Better Wednesdays, Walking Prompt

Context, Thought, and Learning: ShiraDest Offers Project Do Better

  This prompt comes from chapter 7: 

A “one walk away from…” sharing contest,
with the modest goal of getting one share per month in the first year, could have people recount their goals and what they felt as they reached the milestone of just one walk away from
completing that goal.

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International Nurses Day

Lolsys Library

The theme for the 2022 resource is Nurses: A Voice to Lead – Invest in Nursing and respect rights to secure global health.

International Nurses Day is celebrated around the world every May 12, the anniversary of Florence Nightingale’s birth. ICN commemorates this important day each year with the production and distribution of the International Nurses’ Day (IND) resources and evidence.

International Council of Nurses releases posters, digital promotional tools for International Nurses Day, 12 May 2022 #IND2022

Nurses, the secret superheroes of the Hospitals ❤

Australian Government – Dept of Health

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Luís de Camões

Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

” Que dias há na alma me tem posto

Um não sei quê, que nasce não sei de onde,

Vem não sei como, é dói não sei por que.”

Luís de Camões ( Op. Cit. P. 112)

Luís de Camões. Literatura brasileira em diálogo com outras linguagens. William Cereja e Thereza Cochar. Editora: Atual. 5 ed. reform. São Paulo, 2013

Marii Freire Pereira

https://Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

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Santarém, Pá 11 de maio de 2022

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