How Virtual Travelling May Help Promote Endangered Languages

Foundation Operation X for Languages, Cultures and Perspectives

Written by Dyami Millarson

Last year around this time I virtually travelled to Hong Kong and explored the streets of Hong Kong, because I was dreaming about travelling in East Asia while I was sick and lying in my bed without the energy to travel abroad. I learned a lot about Hong Kong by simply using Google Maps street view to walk around in Hong Kong. I walked around a lot in the Mong Kok area, particularly Nathan Road, because I wanted to explore that area more and absorb all the details of what I saw in the streets. It was an extraordinarily satisfying experience to me.

The concept of virtual travelling has really taken off as a response to the 2020 pandemic: virtual travelling was an obscure concept before 2020, and since this year, it was suddenly discovered by the mainstream and it gained mainstream acceptance within the context…

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For Nana

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You watch over me with your signature smile
I hear a song in the picture you paint
Pastels for lyrics, rose red for rhymes
I see a picture in your song so beautifully quaint
You did it all in your inimitable style.
I still call your name in the silent night
The echo of feelings etched so deep
When tears bleed to weep
Your absence don't make it right.
There is peace in the silence of memory
The warmth of your embrace was luxury
I try to find my strength in words
It's an escape where reality is blurred.
Trying to hold on to what is lost
Forgetting is not easy at any cost.
Feeling it all slipping away from my hand
There is a lot that life can demand.

I will still call your name in the silent night
In this pathless journey, I close my eyes tight.

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First Tornado|اولین گردباد

A Voice from Iran

“108th story”

First Published: Sep.12.2019

A story by Laleh Chini:

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A story by Laleh Chini:

I remembered in 1986; I started going to High school in Charleston, West Virginia. Charleston is a small city and the Capital of West Virginia. Its population comes to near 50,000. Charleston had one shopping mall and a beautiful main street beside the river, and one vast picnic park.

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One day there was a street festival in downtown, which at least half of the population participated — walking by the river with the loud music, between back to back crowd was very joyful.

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There were many street foods along with the street concert. Many people were holding ice cream in hand; some kids had cotton candy. People were dancing and having the best time, my cousins and I were appreciating the happy moments.

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I think it was around 3 pm when we started getting closer…

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Putin Orders New National Mask Mandate as Russia Sees Second COVID-19 Spike

Vladimir Putin on Tuesday made his most direct intervention yet to stave off a second wave of novel coronavirus infections by reintroducing a national mask mandate in Russia, The New York Times reports. Masks will reportedly be mandatory in public places like public transport, parking garages, and anywhere where more than 50 people can gather. Since the end of Russia’s first nationwide lockdown, Putin has delegated pandemic measures to regional leaders, so the new mandate marks a change in his government’s thinking. It came as Russia recorded more than 16,000 new cases five days in a row. Source: Putin Orders New National Mask Mandate as Russia Sees Second COVID-19 Spike

Joe Biden will make a great president; here’s why – opinion – The Jerusalem Post

Steve Rabinowitz with Joe Biden in the White House, 2015.  (photo credit: DAVID LIENEMANN) Vice President Biden has for decades stood with Israel, combated antisemitism, and fought for the same sense of social justice I learned in shul and at home. As president, he will continue to safeguard the Jewish state, the Jewish people, Jewish values, and guarantee the unbreakable support of the United States.

And you know what? After more than 45 years in and out of Washington, I believe him.

We Jews always want to know which candidate has Jews closest to him. His kids or grandkids, his running mate or their spouse, his most senior staff. Who visited a synagogue? Met again with a bunch of mainstream Jewish leaders or built a sukkah in his backyard by the pool. Well, Jewish values course through the heart of Joe Biden’s own candidacy, campaign, and career. His presidency will personify the best of our faith tradition, as has his entire career. Source: Joe Biden will make a great president; here’s why – opinion – The Jerusalem Post

Conservative operatives Wohl, Burkman charged in Ohio over false robocalls | TheHill

The messages falsely warned voters that if they voted by mail, their information could be used to pursue old warrants, collect outstanding debts and track people for mandatory vaccines, the prosecutor’s office said. Arrest warrants were issued for Wohl and Burkman upon indictment, and they will be arraigned in Cuyahoga County at a later date, the prosector’s office said. Wohl is a resident of Los Angeles while Burkman resides in Arlington, Va. Both face up to 18.5 years in prison if convicted of the charges

Source: Conservative operatives Wohl, Burkman charged in Ohio over false robocalls | TheHill

Avian Flu Diary: REACT Study: Coronavirus Antibody Prevalence Falling in England

Declining antibodies raise concerns over the potential for reinfection with the virus, and over just how long protection from a vaccine might last. The level and duration of antibody detection appears to correlate with disease severity, with milder cases declining faster than severe cases. Credit Imperial College London ,522 Ten weeks ago, in Imperial College London: (REACT) SARS-CoV-2 Antibody Prevalence Study – England , …

Source: Avian Flu Diary: REACT Study: Coronavirus Antibody Prevalence Falling in England

Senator Perdue’s Willful Mispronunciation of Harris’ Name Is Foul Bigotry

What Perdue is doing is called “othering” – it is a means to convey the message, “Those people are not like us. We are the way people are supposed to be. Those people have peculiar names, peculiar behaviors, and/or abnormal skin or hair color. They don’t really belong here.”

By being dismissive of Kamala Harris’ name and trying to “other” her, Perdue is tapping into one of the favorite tropes of white supremacists: the slogan “You will not replace us.” This chant was heard at the violent 2017 Unite the Right event in Charlottesville.

American white supremacists assert that the Black population of the United States and Central or South American or Muslim immigrants are trying to replace “traditional” white Anglo-Saxon Protestant (WASP) culture with their “alien” culture. Such arguments have evolved into “replacement theory,” which is popular with the far-right in several countries.

Nowadays, white Protestant men in positions of power strive to retain that power by asserting that the “they” of this world are women, people of color, Spanish-speakers, Muslims, Jews, immigrants, or anyone other than WASP men. When I was young, often the “they” included Roman Catholics. I remember the ire directed against the presidential candidacy of John F. Kennedy in 1960 for having the temerity to be an Irish Catholic running for the nation’s highest office.

Source: Senator Perdue’s Willful Mispronunciation of Harris’ Name Is Foul Bigotry

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