Category Archives: Viva!

There Will Be No School Food Bill By the End of the Year | Civil Eats – Let them eat chips and chocolate! To be great, kids have to be diabetic!

School lunch policy ground to a halt yesterday—at least for the time being. Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Pat Roberts (R-Kansas) issued a statement announcing that no agreement could be reached in this Congressional session on the pending Child Nutrition Reauthorization (CNR), which is now long overdue.

Source: There Will Be No School Food Bill By the End of the Year | Civil Eats

Pope Francis compares fake news consumption to eating faeces | World news | The Guardian

Pope Francis has lambasted media organizations that focus on scandals and smears and promote fake news as a means of discrediting people in public life. Spreading disinformation was “probably the greatest damage that the media can do”, the pontiff told the Belgian Catholic weekly Tertio. It is a sin to defame people, he added.Using striking terminology, Francis said journalists and the media must avoid falling into “coprophilia” – an abnormal interest in excrement. Those reading or watching such stories risked behaving like coprophagics, people who eat faeces, he added.

Source: Pope Francis compares fake news consumption to eating faeces | World news | The Guardian

Social networks in Spain: VIDEO: Drowning animals in Marbella saved after plea for help goes viral | In English | EL PAÍS

A video posted over the weekend by a Spanish animal rights activist highlighting the desperate conditions of farm animals trapped by floods in Malaga province following unusually heavy rains there went viral, eventually attracting volunteers to help with her rescue mission.

Source: Social networks in Spain: VIDEO: Drowning animals in Marbella saved after plea for help goes viral | In English | EL PAÍS

Funky, graphic illustrations by Sara Andreasson | The Fox Is Black

Really feeling these pieces by Sara Andreasson, an illustrator and designer who’s based in Gothenburg, Sweden. There’s such a playful and graphic element to her work that’s so appealing, but what really sets it off is her color palette. There’s a slight Parma vibe to it all but her combos of dusty pinks and drab olives is truly stunning.

Source: Funky, graphic illustrations by Sara Andreasson | The Fox Is Black

vintage everyday: Saved from the Titanic: Faces of Survival and Despair in One Photograph

The utter despair in Charlotte Collyer’s eyes are apparent as she looks away from the photographer. Daughter Marjorie with her youthful eyes, stares hauntingly straight into the lens of the camera. The unknown future had to weigh heavily on these two survivors minds.

Source: vintage everyday: Saved from the Titanic: Faces of Survival and Despair in One Photograph

Egyptian Aak 2016-Week 47 ( Nov21-27)

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Top Headlines 

  • An Egyptian court revokes the death sentence of Egypt’s ex-president Morsi
  • Egypt’s Sisi expresses support for Syrian military
  • Egypt denies sending military troops to Syria
  • The US State Department removed Egypt from its travel warning list
  • Egypt and Jordan send firefighting help to Israel
  • Al-Jazeera documentary on Egyptian conscripts reignites media war with Qatar
  • Number of Egyptians worldwide reaches 100 million

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Meet the Palestinian man arrested for being sarcastic on Facebook | +972 Magazine

Like Ludvik, the protagonist in Milan Kundera’s novel “The Joke,” Anas Abudaabes has discovered firsthand the problems that arise when a regime lacks a sense of humor or irony. Yet Abudaabes, unlike Ludvik, has not lost his own sense of humor, even following his Kafkaesque arrest last week for writing an ironic Facebook post lampooning those who celebrated the fires that were raging across Israel.

Source: Meet the Palestinian man arrested for being sarcastic on Facebook | +972 Magazine

Blood and pain: Extreme performance artist Marina Abramovic turns 70 | Arts | DW.COM | 30.11.2016

‘The art of sitting still – Those who thought Abramovic had already broken all the rules of performance art were soon surprised. During “The Artist Is Present,” a retrospective in her honor at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Abramovic took the title literally. For 75 days, seven hours a day, she sat on a wooden stool, neither eating nor using the restroom during that time. This was only possible by following a strict diet.An empty chair was set up across from her so that visitors could take a seat and observe the art icon. Stars like Sharon Stone, Tilda Swinton, Björk and Lady Gaga made use of the chair and participated in Abramovic’s performance.Even today, her works continue to be intense, but are characterized less by violence and more by asceticism and recollection. That’s what her “Abramovic Method” is based on – a mix of various esoteric and eastern relaxation and meditation exercises. She says she aims to communicate the techniques that she employs during her strenuous performances. Abramovic sat for days in MoMA for “The Artist is Present” in 2010Her critics say Abramovic reduces herself to a society shaman. Her crowdfunding project for the Marina Abramovic Institute was scoffed at and the building, designed by Rem Koolhaas, remains unfinished.’I’ve decided to be happy’Why does the artist want to bury three Marinas? Each one stands for a different part of her, she says: courage, spirituality and nonsense. She used to feel ashamed for these parts, but now accepts herself as she is, which is why she doesn’t have a problem with turning 70.”You need night to understand yourself. Getting older means getting wiser,” Abramovic told DW. “Seventy is a big number. You know that you’re going to the last part of your life and that you have to concentrate on the most important things. And I’ve decided to be happy.”

Source: Blood and pain: Extreme performance artist Marina Abramovic turns 70 | Arts | DW.COM | 30.11.2016