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"Language of street" Vol 1 fanzine.
Authors: Dimitriy W. - Igor O.
Home made print.
30 pages.
Yalta - Ukraine - 2008
The Modern Language Center has arranged for a special trip in downtown Amman. The reason for the Arabic students to acquaint themselves with the archaeological and landmarks in the capital city Amman. They took advantage of their being downtown, had the chance to eat our national sweets “Kenafa”.
They enjoyed the trip very much.
A cameo role in Vic Sotto's 2001 Blockbuster Movie: LASTIKMAN (Interpreting for a Deaf adult who witnessed a crime...)
Adalah and the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) sent numerous letters to mixed cities’ municipalities over the years to remind them of their obligations to post public signage in both Arabic and Hebrew, pursuant to the organizations’ petition and the 2002 Supreme Court decision. As Natserat Illit continues to ignore the Court’s decision, the organizations’ have written to the Attorney General, and may submit a motion for contempt to the Supreme Court to compel compliance. (Street signs and municipal notice boards in Natserat Illit appearing in a mix of Hebrew, English, Arabic and Russian. Photo by Mati Milstein)
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Marshall Strabala was interviewed in el Economista ("The Economist"), a daily Spanish language business and financial newspaper, published in Madrid, Spain. Read the story on the newspaper's website at: www.eleconomista.es/evasion/noticias/6753573/05/15/La-Tor...
,Spanish to English translation of the story follows (by Google Translate)
Shanghai Tower, the second tallest skyscraper in the world
Shanghai Tower, the second tallest skyscraper in the world, with 632 meters and 128 floors, 828 meters after the Burj Khalifa (Dubai), is almost ready for its opening and dedication this summer as the largest building double facade the planet.
Although not yet decided the date of its official opening, after more than six years of construction, the works are completed to 95 percent and weeks that Shanghainese are accustomed and to see lighted this immense and twisted column of glass, complete its futuristic collection of skyscrapers.
This structure (a vertical tower of glass, coated with an outer glass facade, writhing gracefully on itself, as if it will roll, structured around a series of platforms wider ground than other floors, which follow more roughly every 15 levels) is so aesthetic and practical.
"We wanted to make the super-tower high greener and high efficient in the world, so all building elements meet at least two or three functions at once," he told EFE the chief architect responsible for its design, US Marshall Strabala, from inside the tower, still under construction.
Indeed, Strabala, with nearly three decades of experience in designing large buildings (including own Burj Khalifa, with 163 floors high, and the Zifeng Tower of Nanjing, the ninth highest in the world with 450 meters), knows that biggest challenge is to design them to withstand the strong side wind thrust loads on the structure.
Twisted surface
Hence, in part, gently twisted the outer surface of the tower, because "the external façade is the only one who sees the wind, and the way it has reduced wind loads up to 28 percent, equivalent to about 60 million of structure that we had to build. "
This design also allows for an air bag between the two walls, which functions as an excellent natural thermal insulator, especially useful in a city with humidity and temperatures between zero and 40 degrees that rarely reaches every winter and Shanghai summers.
In addition, a building destined to become one of the hallmarks of Shanghai "should be part of your time, reflect its time", so peculiar aspect has already become "the image of the building, a tower of the future "he said.
Indeed, the tower, to be called "Shanghai Zhongxin" in Mandarin ("Shanghai Center") and "Shanghai Tower" in English, is the third of the "three brothers" the municipal government planned to build symbolically in 1995 heart of Lujiazui financial district, which barely existed then.
It is the only trio of skyscrapers located so close to each other worldwide.
The other two are the Jin Mao Tower (421 meters, 88 floors, opened in 1999, and today the fourteenth world's tallest building), and the Shanghai World Financial Center (SWFC), popularly known in many languages, also in Chinese such as "Opener" (now fifth largest, with 492 meters and 101 floors, opened in 2008).
Although the last beam of the Tower of Shanghai (which in the original plan of 1995 was to be the smallest of the three) was installed in August 2013, and in fact would then be the second tallest building in the world it is not usually including new members in the list of super skyscrapers on the planet until they are in operation.
Strabala said Shanghai wants to symbolize the "three brothers" the last of China (Jin Mao, "a pagoda stainless steel"), present (SWFC, "China accepts foreign investment" because it is a Japanese building) and future (with "a transparent building, which has many places for people").
Indeed, the architect expects its Shanghai tower could accommodate about 18,000 visitors a day, between workers, tourists and guests of the world's tallest hotel (between floors 84 and 110).
The building, 530,000 square meters (including 95,000 22 967 office and commercial surfaces), has 106 lifts, the fastest of which go up to 18 meters per second to the highest tourist viewpoint of the planet (top 119), which also will open on the 121 floor terrace.
Copyright: el Economista/EFE
Urmia (Turkish language: Urmu, Urmiyə, اورمیه; farsi: ارومیه) variously translitterated as Oroumiyeh, Orūmīyeh and Urūmiyeh, is a city in and the capital of West Azerbaijan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 577,307, with 153,570 households.
The city lies at an altitude of 1,330 m above sea level on the Shahar Chay river (City River). Urmia is the 10th most populated city in Iran. The population is mainly mainly Azerbaijanian Turkish(85-90%), with Kurdish, Assyrian Christian, and Armenian minorities.
Urmia is situated on a fertile plain called Urmia Plain, on western side of Lake Urmia; and eastern side of Turkish border and marginal range of mountains.
Urmia is the trade center for a fertile agricultural region where fruit (especially Apple and Grape) and Tobacco are grown. An important town by the 9th cent., Urmia was seized by the Seljuk Turks (1184), and later occupied a number of times by the Ottoman Turks.
Urmiye (Türkçesi:اورمو, Urmu, اورمیه, Urumiyə;Farsça: ارومیه, Orumieh), İran'ın Batı Azerbaycan Eyaleti'nin yönetim merkezi olan şehir. Şehir, bağlı olduğu eyaletin orta kısmında, Urmiye Gölü ile Türkiye sınırı arasında, kendi adıyla anılan ovada kuruludur. Nüfusu 2006 yılı verileriyle 577,307 kişidir ki Urmiye ülkenin en büyük 10. şehridir.
Urmiye şehrinde nüfusun çoğunluğunu (tahmini 90%) Türklerdir, azınlık kısmınıysa Kürtler, Süryaniler ve Ermeniler oluşturuyor.
UNICODE 5.1.0 meets Or-Omcode∞.1.0
Unicode represents the Tower ob Babel en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_Babel In computing, Unicode is an industry standard allowing computers to consistently represent and manipulate text expressed in most of the world's writing systems. Developed in tandem with the Universal Character Set standard and published in book form as The Unicode Standard, Unicode consists of a repertoire of more than 100,000 characters, a set of code charts for visual reference, an encoding methodology and set of standard character encodings, an enumeration of character properties such as upper and lower case, a set of reference data computer files, and a number of related items, such as character properties, rules for normalization, decomposition, collation, rendering and bidirectional display order (for the correct display of text containing both right-to-left scripts, such as Arabic or Hebrew, and left-to-right scripts). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UniCode
Or-Omcode∞.1.0 represents a new Universal Language de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universalsprache derived within the Doctine Of Essense by
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Christian_Friedrich_Krause
Encoding Unicode into the Or-Omcode∞.1.0 all traditional languages become semantically transformed within the new universal language parameters. portal.or-om.org/art/UnicodemeetsOrOmCode/tabid/6319/Defa...
A trip to the Great Blasket Island /
Fuair me seachtain ar fheabhs ar chursa Gaeilge eagraithe le Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne i mBaile an Fheirteirigh.Bhi Gaeilge bhrea ag gach duine, bhi dea chuideacht agus bhi ceol math gach oiche beagnach sna tithe tabhairne.
www.oidhreacht.ie/content.asp?p=irish-language-courses-fo...
I had an amazing week at an Irish language course organised by Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne in Ballyferriter. Everyone was speaking Irish, there was great company and brilliant live music in the pubs almost every night.
www.oidhreacht.ie/content.asp?p=irish-language-courses-fo...
This was on one of the playground levels at Wood River Park. There were several cool things like this, but how often do you see something put up on a playground to help bridge the gap between a hearing disabled child and one with hearing. I thought this was pretty cool.
According to this site ( research.gallaudet.edu/Demographics/2000_National_Summary... ) there are nearly 44 thousand deaf children in the United States alone.
This unassuming little suburban strip mall post office is where the Klingon Language Institute has its post office box.
Flourtown, PA
everything single thought i've had today has been for the most part depressing. i'm not usually like this, really.. i have these down on myself moments. and i mean-i get REALLY down. today for example. i feel like i'm going to go crazy before this day is over.
first there is the always pleasant thought and fear of lack of talent. not only in my major in school, but in any and everything. Looking at this flickr, i see juvienille work from a mediocre photographer. i would never even pretend to put anything i have taken up for sale. i wish i could write more regularly.. but then i feel like i'm only good at it SOMETIMES, when i'm extremely emotional. even then i don't feel like i can fully write what i feel.
i also just have this insanely horrible self hatred, i couldn't even tell you where it comes from. not so much of me-me..but of my appearance. it seems to me that no matter how hard i try i will never see in the mirror what i want. in terms of losing weight, most defintely. the dumbest thing i hate SO much about myself are my freckles. i don't know why i hate them so much..i just feel like a lepar--[i'm not even pretending to know how to spell that.] its just frustrating when you find most things about yourself disgustable.
i'm giving my two weeks at work and i feel guilty becasue two people just quit and i feel like i'm leaving them high and dry. but i simply cannot handle it anymore. theres too much going on. school is stressing me out enough for 3 jobs.
i feel pretty distant from my friends recently.
my family..we just need help.
long distance relationships completely suck. i've always looked down on the strange people who try to make them work, wondering how anyone could have so much faith in such a hopeless situation. now that i am one of those people, i feel so so indescribably empty. the worst thing to do is sit and think about this..but i miss him so much. i would settle for 3 minutes holding him tonight.
this is not a feel sorry for me thing.. not by any means..its just me trying desperately to get this feeling out of my chest. okayy.
The Kabul Military Training Center recently graduated 44 students in the 16th cycle of their intensive English language program.
Sign language chart. Hand gestures for communicating with the hearing and sight impaired or those under a vow of silence. Invented by monks.
PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, Calif. - The eighth presentation of the Big Sur Mud Run was held March 23 at the former Fort Ord. The sold-out run attracted 2,000 individual runners and 400 teams, with many participating in colorful costumes. The Defense Language Institute Foreign Language provided 127 volunteers for the event including "drill sergeants" strategically placed at mud pits to lead exercises and provide motivation. Proceeds from the annual Mud Run benefit youth and athletic programs of the Presidio's Morale, Welfare and Recreation Department, the Athletic Department of CSUMB, and the Big Sur International Marathon’s youth fitness program, JUST RUN.
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PHOTO by Steven L. Shepard, Presidio of Monterey Public Affairs.
UNO Yerevan jointly with the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China and the Confucius Institute Educational-Cultural Center at the Brusov State Linguistic University organized the first ever observation of the Chinese Language Day at the UN in Armenia. Students, university professors, Government officials, diplomats and journalists learned about the use of the Chinese Language at the UN. At the event, students of the Confucius Institute made presentations on history and usages of the Chinese language at the UN and performed Chinese songs and wushu performances. (Photo Credit: UNO Yerevan, 20 April 2011).
Someone's written 'Ukraine' with a Russian letter I, and someone's come along and revised it to a Ukrainian I. The tension is palpable!
"Kana Kane Mare, Beni Ikeole, Hanau ma Awalua Kohala i ka AD 1839, Make ma Maemae i ka la 6 o Januari AD 1881" (? ? ? 'Beni Ikeole, born in Awalua Kohala in 1839, died in Maemae on the 6th of January 1881')
Urmia (Turkish language: Urmu, Urmiyə, اورمیه; farsi: ارومیه) variously translitterated as Oroumiyeh, Orūmīyeh and Urūmiyeh, is a city in and the capital of West Azerbaijan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 577,307, with 153,570 households.
The city lies at an altitude of 1,330 m above sea level on the Shahar Chay river (City River). Urmia is the 10th most populated city in Iran. The population is mainly mainly Azerbaijanian Turkish(85-90%), with Kurdish, Assyrian Christian, and Armenian minorities.
Urmia is situated on a fertile plain called Urmia Plain, on western side of Lake Urmia; and eastern side of Turkish border and marginal range of mountains.
Urmia is the trade center for a fertile agricultural region where fruit (especially Apple and Grape) and Tobacco are grown. An important town by the 9th cent., Urmia was seized by the Seljuk Turks (1184), and later occupied a number of times by the Ottoman Turks.
Urmiye (Türkçesi:اورمو, Urmu, اورمیه, Urumiyə;Farsça: ارومیه, Orumieh), İran'ın Batı Azerbaycan Eyaleti'nin yönetim merkezi olan şehir. Şehir, bağlı olduğu eyaletin orta kısmında, Urmiye Gölü ile Türkiye sınırı arasında, kendi adıyla anılan ovada kuruludur. Nüfusu 2006 yılı verileriyle 577,307 kişidir ki Urmiye ülkenin en büyük 10. şehridir.
Urmiye şehrinde nüfusun çoğunluğunu (tahmini 90%) Türklerdir, azınlık kısmınıysa Kürtler, Süryaniler ve Ermeniler oluşturuyor.
Representatives from the College of DuPage Spanish, German, Korean, French, Japanese and Italian clubs and the Alpha Mu Gamm Language Honor Society recently held a celebration of their diverse cultures at the Multicultural Mashup at the Glen Ellyn campus, 425 Fawell Blvd. The groups presented music, food and other cultural treats to highlight their respective corners of the world and educate guests on the various groups represented on the COD campus.
Barstow chapters of Spanish, French and Chinese language honor societies inducted new members at a celebration assembly on March 10, 2020. (Photo by Todd Race)
Is it just me or does this sign seem to be an example of poor english usage. What does the Etc refer to? Seems a little strange to me anyways!
Where there are humans, there are stories. Some stories have such strong roots in our psyche that we have coined words after characters in them. We call such a word an eponym, from Greek epi- (upon) + -onym (name). The English language has thousands of words coined after people, both real and fictional. This week we'll feature five, coined after fictional people.
Today's word of the day is Sinon, named after Sinon, a Greek man who, by his false tale, persuaded the Trojans into taking the wooden horse inside Troy. Also from the Greek word sinomai (to harm or hurt).
Learn more at: wordsmith.org/words/sinon.html
U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Robert Groves nails a sign in place as an Iraqi boy holds it. The sign instructs visitors to the newly opened Civil Military Operations Center on Joint Security Station Sadr City. Groves is assigned to the 4th Infantry Division's 3rd Brigade Combat Team. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Zachary Mott.